MUMBAI, India, Sept. 12 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517080527 A) filed by Lenovo (BEIJING) Limited, Beijing, on Aug. 25, for 'method and apparatus for failure handling, path addition and path switch in a multipath scenario.'

Inventor(s) include Wu, Lianhai; Yue, Ran; Han, Jing; and Hu, Jie.

The application for the patent was published on Sept. 12, under issue no. 37/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to method and apparatus for failure handling, path addition and path switch in a multipath scenario. According to some embodiments of the disclosure, a UE may: connect to a BS via multiple paths comprising an indirect path through a relay node and a direct path; and receive a notification message or a PC5-S release message from the relay node, wherein the notification message or PC5-S release message is transmitted by the relay node due to a Uu link failure, a handover, a cell reselection, a connection establishment failure of the relay node. In addition, the UE may receive the notification message or the PC5-S release message from the relay node when the UE performs an indirect path addition or an indirect path switching."

The patent application was internationally filed on Sept. 27, 2023, under International application No.PCT/CN2023/122289.

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