Patent ID: 9439130
Filing Date: 2016-09-06
CPC Classification: H04B,H04L,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method for controlling relay in a group communication, comprising: a) transmitting, by a originating mobile computing device (OUE) to a set of recipient mobile computing devices (RUE b) receiving the communication message by at least some of said recipient mobile computing devices that individually send an acknowledge message to the rest of the mobile computing device members of the communication group, wherein each acknowledge message includes the identifier of the originating mobile computing device (OUE) and an own identifier corresponding to each mobile computing device sending the acknowledge message; c) receiving, by one of the recipient mobile computing devices (RUEi) which has not received the communication message from the originating mobile computing device (OUE) but has received at least two acknowledge messages from potential relaying mobile computing devices, a first parameter from each of the corresponding potential relaying mobile computing devices indicative of the link quality between the originating mobile computing device (OUE) and the corresponding potential relaying mobile computing device; d) applying, by the recipient mobile computing device (RUEi), an algorithm that takes into account said first parameter to select which of said potential relaying mobile computing devices should relay the communications initiated by the originating mobile computing device (OUE), characterized in that: