Patent ID: 9532363
Filing Date: 2016-12-27
CPC Classification: H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method of wireless communications between a wireless communications network and a wireless user equipment, comprising: identifying, by the wireless communications network, a first node of the wireless communications network as a serving node for the wireless user equipment, the serving node supporting transmissions in a first direction between the wireless user equipment and the wireless communications network; identifying, by the wireless communications network, a second node of the wireless communications network as a supplemental node; using, by the wireless communications network, the supplemental node for transmissions in a second direction between the wireless communications network and the wireless user equipment, wherein transmissions in the first direction are downlink transmissions from the serving node to the wireless user equipment, and transmissions in the second direction are uplink transmissions from the wireless user equipment to the supplemental node; and wherein the serving node is responsible for determining a data rate or a transmission power for the transmissions in the second direction, the determining comprises: