Patent ID: 9699817
Date: 2017-07-04
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A method for uninterrupted device-to-device communication, comprising: establishing, by a user equipment, a first device-to-device connection with a first peer device, wherein the first device-to-device connection is established to access a service offered by the first peer device; triggering a search to discover at least one alternate peer device offering the service offered by the first peer device based at least in part on a transmit power used on an uplink to the first peer device exceeding a threshold value; discovering, by the user equipment, while the first device-to-device connection is active, the at least one alternate peer device offering the service offered by the first peer device; and establishing, by the user equipment, a second device-to-device connection with the at least one alternate peer device to access the service via the at least one alternate peer device in response to loss or degradation of the first device-to-device connection.