US 11,956,795 B2
Techniques for forwarding an unscheduled communication
Navid Abedini, Basking Ridge, NJ (US); Ashwin Sampath, Skillman, NJ (US); and Junyi Li, Fairless Hills, PA (US)
Assigned to QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US)
Filed by QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US)
Filed on Jul. 28, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/387,604.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/706,181, filed on Aug. 4, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0046695 A1, Feb. 10, 2022
Int. Cl. H04W 72/23 (2023.01); H04B 7/155 (2006.01)
CPC H04W 72/23 (2023.01) [H04B 7/155 (2013.01)] 30 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of wireless communication performed by a forwarding node, comprising:
receiving, from a first wireless communication device and during a receipt occasion, an unscheduled communication for forwarding to a second wireless communication device or a control node,
wherein the unscheduled communication is a communication about whose transmission the forwarding node is not aware, and
wherein the forwarding node determines whether the forwarding node has received the unscheduled communication using a signal quality of a signal associated with the unscheduled communication; and
transmitting an indication of receipt of the unscheduled communication to the second wireless communication device or the control node in association with determining that the forwarding node has received the unscheduled communication during the receipt occasion.