	US 12,238,767 B2
	Channel occupancy information multi-access reporting
Lior Uziel, Hod Hasharon (IL); Gideon Shlomo Kutz, Ramat Hasharon (IL); and Gabi Sarkis, San Diego, CA (US)
Assigned to QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US)
Filed by QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US)
Filed on Oct. 28, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/513,602.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/107,868, filed on Oct. 30, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0141873 A1, May 5, 2022
Int. Cl. H04W 74/08 (2024.01); H04W 72/02 (2009.01); H04W 72/04 (2023.01); H04W 72/20 (2023.01); H04W 74/00 (2009.01); H04W 74/0816 (2024.01)

CPC H04W 74/0816 (2013.01) [H04W 72/02 (2013.01); H04W 72/20 (2023.01); H04W 74/002 (2013.01)]

30 Claims

1. A first user equipment (UE) for wireless communication, comprising:

a memory storing computer-executable instructions; and

at least one processor coupled with the memory and configured to execute the computer-executable instructions to:

receive a sidelink configuration message identifying the first UE and one or more other UEs as members of a multicast group and a resource to be used for sidelink communications amongst the multicast group;

receive channel occupancy information (COI) from at least one of the one or more other UEs within the multicast group, the COI indicating that the resource is occupied by another UE, as determined by the at least one of the one or more other UEs during a sensing operation performed with respect to the resource; and

select a period of time to transmit a sidelink communication based at least in part on the COI.