US 11,950,196 B2
Distributed synchronization mechanism
Kapil Gulati, Belle Mead, NJ (US); Shailesh Patil, San Diego, CA (US); Sudhir Kumar Baghel, Fremont, CA (US); Naga Bhushan, San Diego, CA (US); Tien Viet Nguyen, Bridgewater, NJ (US); and Arjun Bharadwaj, Cupertino, CA (US)
Assigned to QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US)
Filed by QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US)
Filed on Dec. 6, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/543,155.
Application 17/543,155 is a continuation of application No. 16/534,770, filed on Aug. 7, 2019, granted, now 11,228,995.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/716,714, filed on Aug. 9, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2022/0095259 A1, Mar. 24, 2022
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H04L 12/28 (2006.01); G01S 19/04 (2010.01); H04W 56/00 (2009.01); H01J 1/16 (2006.01)
CPC H04W 56/0045 (2013.01) [G01S 19/04 (2013.01); H04W 56/0035 (2013.01); H04W 56/0065 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for wireless communications, comprising:
receiving, at an unsynchronized user equipment (UE), a data packet from a synchronized UE, wherein the unsynchronized UE lacks sidelink synchronization capability to support transmission and reception of sidelink synchronization signals;
determining an adjusted timing offset value based on reference signals included in the data packet from the synchronized UE;
adjusting a timing of the unsynchronized UE based on the adjusted timing offset value to define an adjusted timing; and
transmitting or receiving, at the unsynchronized UE, a signal based on the adjusted timing.