US 11,991,715 B2
Techniques to support user equipment based relaying for coverage enhancement
Ahmed Elshafie, San Diego, CA (US); Yi Huang, San Diego, CA (US); and Seyedkianoush Hosseini, San Diego, CA (US)
Assigned to QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US)
Filed by QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US)
Filed on Sep. 20, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/480,068.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/081,450, filed on Sep. 22, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0095362 A1, Mar. 24, 2022
Int. Cl. H04W 4/00 (2018.01); H04L 1/08 (2006.01); H04W 72/23 (2023.01)
CPC H04W 72/23 (2023.01) [H04L 1/08 (2013.01)] 28 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for wireless communications at a first user equipment (UE), comprising:
receiving, from a network device, a transmission that includes a first grant for a first set of resources for the first UE and a second grant for a second set of resources for a second UE, wherein receiving the transmission comprises receiving the first grant for the first set of resources that includes a sidelink resource and an uplink resource, wherein the first UE communicates with the second UE using the sidelink resource and the network device using the uplink resource;
determining that the received transmission assigns the first set of resources for a source data transmission by the first UE and assigns the second set of resources for the second UE to use for relaying the source data transmission from the first UE to the network device; and
transmitting the source data transmission to the second UE and the network device using the first set of resources.