Patent ID: 9532357
Filing Date: 2016-12-27
CPC Classification: H04B,H04L,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A wireless communications system, comprising: a base station; a relay device; and a terminal device; wherein the terminal device is configured to: wherein the base station is responsive to an access request message of the first type received from the terminal device to transmit an allocation of uplink resources to the terminal device; wherein the relay device is responsive to an access request message of the second type received from the terminal device to transmit a relayed access request message to the base station to request the base station to allocate uplink resources to the terminal device, wherein the relayed access request message includes a timing advance offset for a subsequent transmission from the terminal device to the relay device; and wherein the base station is responsive to the relayed access request message from the relay device to transmit an allocation of uplink resources to the terminal device.