US 11,889,585 B2
Forming a virtual user equipment group and enhancing communication using joint reception and transmission mechanisms
Xiaoxia Zhang, San Diego, CA (US); Jing Sun, San Diego, CA (US); and Mostafa Khoshnevisan, San Diego, CA (US)
Assigned to QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US)
Filed by QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US)
Filed on Mar. 16, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/203,472.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/047,046, filed on Jul. 1, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0007173 A1, Jan. 6, 2022
Int. Cl. H04W 8/18 (2009.01); H04L 5/00 (2006.01); H04B 7/06 (2006.01); H04B 7/08 (2006.01); H04W 72/23 (2023.01)
CPC H04W 8/186 (2013.01) [H04B 7/0626 (2013.01); H04B 7/0842 (2013.01); H04L 5/0035 (2013.01); H04W 72/23 (2023.01)] 25 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of wireless communication performed by a user equipment (UE), comprising:
establishing sidelink channels for communications between the UE and one or more other UEs, wherein the UE and the one or more other UEs form a virtual UE group;
exchanging information with the one or more other UEs in the virtual UE group to enhance communications between at least one of the UE or the one or more other UEs of the virtual UE group and a network entity, wherein the information exchanged depends on at least one of a joint reception mechanism or joint transmission mechanism used by the virtual UE group, wherein the information exchanged comprises at least one of in-phase and quadrature (I-Q) samples taken for downlink transmissions, logarithmic likelihood ratios (LLRs) for the downlink transmissions, or decoded bits generated for downlink transmissions; and
communicating with the network entity based, at least in part, on the exchanged information.