US 12,245,106 B2
NR sidelink group communication
Zhuo Chen, Claymont, DE (US); Pascal M. Adjakple, Great Neck, NY (US); Qing Li, Princeton Junction, NJ (US); Guodong Zhang, Woodbury, NY (US); Yifan Li, Conshohocken, PA (US); Joseph M. Murray, Schwenksville, PA (US); and Rocco Di Girolamo, Laval (CA)
Assigned to InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc., Wilmington, DE (US)
Appl. No. 17/628,761
Filed by InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc., Wilmington, DE (US)
PCT Filed Aug. 13, 2020, PCT No. PCT/US2020/046052
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jan. 20, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/030520, PCT Pub. Date Feb. 18, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/886,622, filed on Aug. 14, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0386081 A1, Dec. 1, 2022
Int. Cl. H04H 20/71 (2008.01); H04W 4/08 (2009.01); H04W 72/30 (2023.01)
CPC H04W 4/08 (2013.01) [H04W 72/30 (2023.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) comprising:
a processor configured to:
receive a groupcast packet;
receive information about a first upper layer group of devices for transmission of the groupcast packet;
map the first upper layer group of devices to one or more other groups of devices;
select one or more second access stratum groups of devices from the one or more other groups of devices; and
transmit the groupcast packet to the selected one or more second access stratum groups of devices.