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

Claim 11:
12. A method of operation of a second mobile management entity in a cellular communications network, the method comprising:
when said second mobile management entity is serving a second User Equipment, UE, that is being used as a relay by a first UE or that may be used as the relay by the first UE, receiving a request from a first mobile management entity serving the first UE to one of forward a paging message to the first UE;
determining that the second UE is in an idle mode; and
if the received request is a request to forward the paging message to the first UE, sending a message to a radio access node serving the second UE, requesting said radio access node to page the second UE, in response to determining that the first UE and the second UE is in an idle mode, wherein the message to the radio access node serving the second UE is a paging message comprising identities of the second UE and of the first UE in a linked list.