Patent ID: 7583619

Claim:
A method in a telecommunications network comprising a base station, an intermediate end user equipment, and an other end user equipment, the intermediate end user equipment having a frequency division duplex (FDD) transceiver for communicating directly with said base station over a FDD channel, a time division duplex (TDD) transceiver for communicating with the other end user equipment over a TDD channel and an interface for interfacing said FDD channel and TDD channel to establish a communication link between the base station and the other end user equipment, the method comprising the other end user equipment establishing a relationship with the intermediate end user equipment by the steps of: the intermediate end user equipment scanning an available TDD channel for an ‘Anyone out there message?’ from the other end user equipment; the intermediate end user equipment receiving the ‘Anyone out there message?’ sent by the other end user equipment and sending an acknowledgement to the other end user equipment over the available TDD channel; and the intermediate end user equipment sending a message to the base station via the FDD channel for registering the other end user equipment with the base station.