US 12,193,074 B2
Methods and apparatuses for handling conflict between sidelink data transmission and uplink small data transmission
Yung-Lan Tseng, Taipei (TW); Mei-Ju Shih, Taipei (TW); and Hung-Chen Chen, Taipei (TW)
Assigned to SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Sakai (JP)
Filed by SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Sakai (JP)
Filed on Jul. 6, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/858,871.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/219,758, filed on Jul. 8, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0015859 A1, Jan. 19, 2023
Int. Cl. H04W 74/08 (2024.01); H04W 72/23 (2023.01); H04W 74/0833 (2024.01); H04W 76/20 (2018.01); H04W 92/18 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 74/0841 (2013.01) [H04W 72/23 (2023.01); H04W 74/0875 (2013.01); H04W 76/20 (2018.02); H04W 92/18 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method performed by a user equipment (UE), the method comprising:
initiating a Small Data Transmission (SDT) procedure for transmitting a first set of data packets to a base station (BS) via an uplink (UL) transmission; and
determining, while the UE is in a Radio Resource Control (RRC) Inactive state, whether to prioritize the UL transmission over a sidelink (SL) transmission when there is a conflict between the UL transmission and the SL transmission during the SDT procedure,
wherein the SL transmission is for transmitting a second set of data packets to another UE.