Patent ID: 8442542
Filing Date: 2013-05-14
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
1. A method, comprising: in response to a determination that a radio path between a first user equipment and a base station device serving the first user equipment does not satisfy a defined criterion, directing, by the first user equipment comprising a processor, a message to the base station device that requests the base station device to instruct a set of user equipment served by the base station device to direct ping signals to the first user equipment; selecting, by the first user equipment, a second user equipment from the set of user equipment, in response to determining, based on analysis of the ping signals received by the first user equipment, that the second user equipment is closer to the base station device than a third user equipment of the set of user equipment; and facilitating, by the first user equipment, a communication with the base station device via the second user equipment, in response to determining that a first signal quality of a first signal transmitted between the first user equipment and the base station device is lower than a second signal quality of a second signal transmitted between the second user equipment and the base station device.