Patent ID: 9042938
Filing Date: 2015-05-26
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method in a first user equipment, the method comprising: wirelessly communicating with a network element on a carrier in accordance with a first capability partitioning configuration of the first user equipment; and engaging in direct wireless communication on the carrier with a second user equipment in accordance with a second capability partitioning configuration of the first user equipment and a capability partitioning configuration of the second user equipment; wherein the first capability partitioning configuration of the first user equipment comprises a first buffer partitioning configuration; wherein the second capability partitioning configuration of the first user equipment comprises a second buffer partitioning configuration; and wherein the second buffer partitioning configuration comprises at least one of: the size of a soft buffer that the first user equipment will use for communicating with the second user equipment and a number of soft channel bits that the first user equipment will use for communicating with the second user equipment.