US 12,266,949 B2
Base station (GNB)-assisting-energy harvesting (EH) from nearby user equipments (UES)
Ahmed Attia Abotabl, San Diego, CA (US); Ahmed Elshafie, San Diego, CA (US); and Muhammad Sayed Khairy Abdelghaffar, San Jose, CA (US)
Assigned to QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US)
Filed by QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US)
Filed on Dec. 22, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/645,624.
Prior Publication US 2023/0198317 A1, Jun. 22, 2023
Int. Cl. H02J 50/80 (2016.01); H02J 50/00 (2016.01); H02J 50/20 (2016.01); H04L 5/00 (2006.01)
CPC H02J 50/80 (2016.02) [H02J 50/001 (2020.01); H02J 50/20 (2016.02); H04L 5/0048 (2013.01)] 26 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of wireless communication performed by a user equipment (UE), the method comprising:
receiving, from a base station, a message including an indication of one or more resources available to the UE for energy harvesting (EH) and additional information to assist in determining whether to harvest energy, wherein the additional information includes:
an estimated pathloss associated with an uplink transmission from one or more neighboring UEs of the UE over at least one of the one or more resources available to the UE for EH; and
determining whether to harvest energy or to forgo harvesting energy from the uplink transmission from one or more neighboring UEs of the UE over at least one of the one or more resources available to the UE for EH based on the additional information, wherein determining whether to harvest energy or to forgo harvesting energy includes:
determining, based on the estimated pathloss, whether the uplink transmission provides enough energy to make EH profitable to the UE.