Patent ID: 11902036
Assignee: APPLE INC.
Field: Telecommunications (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 9:
10. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein:
the at least one processor is further configured to:
decode another ICN interest packet of another UE from another base station, the other ICN interest packet comprising another indicator and the type field indicating that the other ICN interest packet is the interest packet, the other indicator being the same as the indicator;
determine, prior to transmission of the ICN interest packet to a network entity, that the other indicator is the same as the indicator; and
remove a type of service (TS) field from the ICN interest packet and the other ICN interest packet, the TS field of the ICN interest packet indicating the identity of the UE and the TS field of the other ICN interest packet indicating the identity of the other UE,

the ICN interest packet transmitted to a network entity is for both the ICN interest packet and the other ICN interest packet, and
the ICN data packet received from a network entity is for both the ICN interest packet and the other ICN interest packet.