Patent ID: 11903085
Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A method of operation of a first mobility management entity in a cellular communications network, the method comprising:
when said first mobility management entity is serving a first User Equipment, UE, obtaining information about a second UE that is being used as a relay by the first UE or that may be used as the relay by the first UE;
obtaining further information in the event that there is data to be sent to the first UE; and
responsive to there being data to be sent to the first UE:
sending a request to a second mobility management entity serving the second UE to forward a paging message to the first UE, in response to determining that the first UE is in an idle mode, and
sending downlink signalling to the first UE via the second UE.