US 11,838,230 B2
Access point assisted sidelink communications
Aleksandar Damnjanovic, Del Mar, CA (US); Xiaoxia Zhang, San Diego, CA (US); Jing Sun, San Diego, CA (US); Yisheng Xue, San Diego, CA (US); Tao Luo, San Diego, CA (US); and Juan Montojo, San Diego, CA (US)
Assigned to QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US)
Filed by QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US)
Filed on Jan. 7, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/143,982.
Prior Publication US 2022/0216962 A1, Jul. 7, 2022
Int. Cl. H04L 5/00 (2006.01); H04W 76/14 (2018.01); H04W 16/14 (2009.01); H04W 52/22 (2009.01); H04W 72/10 (2009.01); H04W 72/23 (2023.01)
CPC H04L 5/0048 (2013.01) [H04W 16/14 (2013.01); H04W 52/228 (2013.01); H04W 72/23 (2023.01); H04W 76/14 (2018.02)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for wireless communications at a first user equipment (UE), comprising:
transmitting one or more reference signals to a first access point;
receiving, from the first access point on a first channel and based at least in part on transmitting the one or more reference signals, a sidelink configuration for sidelink communications with a second UE on a second channel, wherein the sidelink configuration is received based at least in part on both the first UE and the second UE being in communication with an access point, wherein the first channel and the second channel comprise a same channel, and wherein communications with the first access point are associated with a first operation mode and the sidelink communications are associated with a second operation mode; and
communicating with the second UE on the second channel in accordance with one or more power parameters from the sidelink configuration and further in accordance with the second operation mode, the one or more power parameters being for the sidelink communications and being based at least in part on signaling on the first channel, wherein the signaling on the first channel comprises the one or more reference signals.