Patent ID: 9655094
Date: 2017-05-16
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A method for between a wireless network and a plurality of user equipments (UEs), the method comprising: receiving, at a cooperating UE (CUE), downlink information from the wireless network, at least some of the downlink information being destined for a target UE (TUE), the downlink information carrying a group identifier (ID) associated with a virtual multi-point (ViMP) node that includes the TUE and the CUE; decoding, by the CUE, control information in the downlink information using the group ID, the control information indicating that a portion of the downlink information is associated with the TUE; and sending, by the CUE, the portion of the downlink information to the TUE using device-to-device (D2D) communication after decoding the control information.