US 12,328,663 B2
Resource allocation in joint communication and sensing
Saeed Reza Khosravirad, Mountainside, NJ (US); Junfeng Guan, Champaign, IL (US); Harish Viswanathan, Basking Ridge, NJ (US); and Jakub Sapis, New York, NY (US)
Assigned to Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy, Espoo (FI)
Filed by Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy, Espoo (FI)
Filed on Mar. 2, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/116,424.
Claims priority of application No. 20225198 (FI), filed on Mar. 4, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0284122 A1, Sep. 7, 2023
Int. Cl. H04W 48/16 (2009.01); H04L 5/00 (2006.01); H04L 25/02 (2006.01)
CPC H04W 48/16 (2013.01) [H04L 5/0048 (2013.01); H04L 25/0224 (2013.01)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus, comprising:
at least one processor; and
at least one memory storing instructions that, when executed with the at least one processor, to cause the apparatus to:
transmit one or more reference signals to one or more user devices;
perform preliminary sensing over a sensing area of interest based at least partly on the one or more reference signals;
detect, based on the preliminary sensing, a presence of one or more objects in the sensing area of interest;
determine, based at least partly on the one or more reference signals, a confidence level for detecting the presence of the one or more objects in the sensing area of interest;
trigger, based at least partly on the confidence level, sensing with a higher resolution than a resolution of the preliminary sensing;
allocate, based at least partly on the triggering, radio resources for performing the sensing with the higher resolution; and
perform the sensing with the higher resolution over the sensing area of interest using the allocated radio resources.