US 11,722,876 B2
Resource allocation for D2D discovery transmission
Joachim Loehr, Wiesbaden (DE); and Prateek Basu Mallick, Langen (DE)
Assigned to Sun Patent Trust, New York, NY (US)
Filed by Sun Patent Trust, New York, NY (US)
Filed on Feb. 25, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/681,621.
Application 17/681,621 is a continuation of application No. 17/032,383, filed on Sep. 25, 2020, granted, now 11,297,483.
Application 17/032,383 is a continuation of application No. 16/695,823, filed on Nov. 26, 2019, granted, now 10,827,343, issued on Nov. 3, 2020.
Application 16/695,823 is a continuation of application No. 16/142,884, filed on Sep. 26, 2018, granted, now 10,524,111, issued on Dec. 31, 2019.
Application 16/142,884 is a continuation of application No. 15/308,331, granted, now 10,123,201, issued on Nov. 6, 2018, previously published as PCT/EP2015/053927, filed on Feb. 25, 2015.
Prior Publication US 2022/0303750 A1, Sep. 22, 2022
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H04W 8/00 (2009.01); H04L 67/51 (2022.01); H04W 72/21 (2023.01); H04W 72/04 (2023.01); H04W 72/1268 (2023.01); H04W 76/14 (2018.01)
CPC H04W 8/005 (2013.01) [H04L 67/51 (2022.05); H04W 72/04 (2013.01); H04W 72/1268 (2013.01); H04W 72/21 (2023.01); H04W 76/14 (2018.02)] 8 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An integrated circuit configured to control operation of a base station, the integrated circuit comprising:
reception circuitry, which, in operation, receives from a communication apparatus a request message including a resource request, the resource request indicating a number of discovery messages used for a discovery announcement; and
transmission circuitry, which is coupled to the reception circuitry and which, in response to the request message, transmits to the communication apparatus a resource scheduling message indicating which one of dedicated resources assigned to the communication apparatus and non-dedicated resources assigned to non-specific communication apparatuses are used for the discovery announcement;
wherein, in response to the resource scheduling message, the communication apparatus transmits the discovery announcement using the dedicated resources or the non-dedicated resources.