US 12,335,819 B2
UE groups, UE group manager UEs and UE group member UEs
Thomas Fehrenbach, Berlin (DE); Thomas Wirth, Kleinmachnow (DE); Cornelius Hellge, Berlin (DE); Robin Thomas, Berlin (DE); Thomas Schierl, Berlin (DE); Lars Thiele, Berlin (DE); and Eiko Seidel, Munich (DE)
Assigned to Koninklijke Philips N.V., Eindhoven (NL)
Filed by KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V., Eindhoven (NL)
Filed on Jul. 27, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/815,553.
Application 17/815,553 is a continuation of application No. 16/672,297, filed on Nov. 1, 2019, granted, now 11,438,736.
Application 16/672,297 is a continuation of application No. PCT/EP2018/061391, filed on May 3, 2018.
Claims priority of application No. 17169604 (EP), filed on May 4, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2022/0408226 A1, Dec. 22, 2022
Int. Cl. H04W 4/08 (2009.01); H04W 4/46 (2018.01); H04W 36/00 (2009.01); H04W 36/08 (2009.01); H04W 68/00 (2009.01); H04W 76/27 (2018.01); H04W 92/10 (2009.01); H04W 92/18 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 4/08 (2013.01) [H04W 4/46 (2018.02); H04W 36/00692 (2023.05); H04W 36/08 (2013.01); H04W 68/005 (2013.01); H04W 76/27 (2018.02); H04W 92/10 (2013.01); H04W 92/18 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A User Equipment (UE) for a cellular network, the UE comprising:
a first interface for UE-to-Basestation communication configured to communicate with a base station of the cellular network; and
a second interface for UE-to-UE communication configured to communicate with one or more other UEs of a first UE-Group,
wherein the UE belongs to the first UE-Group,
wherein the UE is configured to receive via the first interface configuration data for configuring the second interface,
wherein the UE is configured to communicate control information to the one or more other UEs for configuration of their respective second interface,
wherein the UE is configured to communicate the control information via its second interface,
wherein the configuration data includes physical resources for inter-group communication between the UE and a second UE, and physical resources for the intra-group communication between two or more UEs associated with the first UE-Group,
wherein the second UE is associated with a second UE-Group,
and wherein the first UE-Group is different from the second UE-Group.