US 11,722,971 B2
Techniques for determining sidelink resources for multiple transmission and reception points enabled user equipments
Sourjya Dutta, San Diego, CA (US); Kapil Gulati, Belle Mead, NJ (US); Shuanshuan Wu, San Diego, CA (US); and Sudhir Kumar Baghel, Hillsborough, NJ (US)
Assigned to QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US)
Filed by QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US)
Filed on Feb. 18, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/179,247.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/001,206, filed on Mar. 27, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0306961 A1, Sep. 30, 2021
Int. Cl. H04L 5/00 (2006.01); H04W 52/36 (2009.01); H04W 72/044 (2023.01); H04L 1/00 (2006.01); H04L 1/08 (2006.01); H04J 99/00 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 52/36 (2013.01) [H04J 99/00 (2022.08); H04L 1/0003 (2013.01); H04L 1/0009 (2013.01); H04L 1/08 (2013.01); H04L 5/0023 (2013.01); H04W 72/044 (2013.01)] 30 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for sidelink communications at a user equipment (UE), comprising:
transmitting a first power control request message to a first peer UE using a first transmission and reception point of at least two transmission and reception points associated with the UE and a second power control request message to a second peer UE using the first transmission and reception point or a second transmission and reception point of the at least two transmission and reception points associated with the UE;
receiving, in response to the transmitting, a first power control response message from the first peer UE using the first transmission and reception point of the UE and a second power control response message from the second peer UE using the first transmission and reception point or the second transmission and reception point of the UE; and
determining time and frequency resources for the sidelink communications with the first peer UE and the second peer UE based at least in part on the received first power control response message, the received second power control response message, and a resource grid, wherein the resource grid is associated with the first transmission and reception point of the UE, the second transmission and reception point of the UE, or both.