US 11,659,552 B2
Time division duplex (TDD) slot format configuration indication for sidelink communications
Shuanshuan Wu, San Diego, CA (US); Sudhir Kumar Baghel, Hillsborough, NJ (US); Kapil Gulati, Montgomery, NJ (US); Gabi Sarkis, San Diego, CA (US); and Tien Viet Nguyen, Bridgewater, NJ (US)
Assigned to Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US)
Filed by QUALCOMM INCORPORATED, San Diego, CA (US)
Filed on Sep. 23, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/948,557.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/907,497, filed on Sep. 27, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0099988 A1, Apr. 1, 2021
Int. Cl. H04W 72/04 (2009.01); H04L 5/14 (2006.01); H04W 72/02 (2009.01); H04W 92/18 (2009.01); H04W 72/0446 (2023.01)
CPC H04W 72/0406 (2013.01) [H04L 5/143 (2013.01); H04L 5/1469 (2013.01); H04W 72/02 (2013.01); H04W 72/042 (2013.01); H04W 72/0446 (2013.01); H04W 92/18 (2013.01)] 24 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of wireless communication, comprising:
receiving, by a first user equipment (UE), a time-division-duplexing (TDD) configuration;
transmitting, by the first UE to a second UE in a physical sidelink broadcast channel (PSBCH), an indication of a first TDD configuration including a number of uplink (UL) slots in a TDD configured period of a TDD pattern or a parameter indicating the number of UL slots in the TDD configured period of the TDD pattern, wherein the first TDD configuration is different from the TDD configuration; and
communicating, by the first UE, a sidelink communication based on the first TDD configuration.