US 11,943,832 B2
UE assistance information report for sidelink DRX
Kyeongin Jeong, Allen, TX (US); and Hongbo Si, Plano, TX (US)
Assigned to Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si (KR)
Filed by Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si (KR)
Filed on Jun. 17, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/350,927.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/087,639, filed on Oct. 5, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/042,198, filed on Jun. 22, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0400762 A1, Dec. 23, 2021
Int. Cl. H04W 24/10 (2009.01); H04W 76/28 (2018.01); H04W 4/40 (2018.01)
CPC H04W 76/28 (2018.02) [H04W 24/10 (2013.01); H04W 4/40 (2018.02)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A base station (BS) comprising:
a processor configured to generate a first indicator requesting a report of a set of sidelink (SL) discontinuous reception (DRX) configurations for SL communications among user equipments (UEs); and
a transceiver operably connected to the processor, the transceiver configured to:
transmit, to a UE among the UEs, a downlink signal including the first indicator; and
receive, from the UE, an uplink signal including the report of the set of the SL DRX configurations based on the first indicator indicating that the report of the set of the SL DRX configurations is requested,
wherein the processor is further configured to configure, based on the report of the set of the SL DRX configurations, a network DRX configuration for an interface between a UE and a network entity including the BS.