US 12,015,953 B2
Early resource reservation
Tien Viet Nguyen, Bridgewater, NJ (US); Sudhir Kumar Baghel, Pleasanton, CA (US); Shailesh Patil, San Diego, CA (US); Arjun Bharadwaj, Cupertino, CA (US); and Kapil Gulati, Belle Mead, NJ (US)
Assigned to QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US)
Filed by Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US)
Filed on Mar. 6, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/179,173.
Application 18/179,173 is a continuation of application No. 15/930,144, filed on May 12, 2020, granted, now 11,601,851.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/847,178, filed on May 13, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2023/0284097 A1, Sep. 7, 2023
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H04W 28/26 (2009.01); H04W 4/40 (2018.01); H04W 72/0446 (2023.01); H04W 72/56 (2023.01)
CPC H04W 28/26 (2013.01) [H04W 4/40 (2018.02); H04W 72/0446 (2013.01); H04W 72/56 (2023.01)] 29 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of wireless communication performed by a user equipment (UE), comprising:
determining whether sufficient resources are available to perform a transmission in a current slot or a subsequent slot and whether sufficient resources are available to transmit an early reservation signal for a future resource in the current slot; and
transmitting, based at least in part on whether sufficient resources are available to perform the transmission in the current slot or the subsequent slot and whether sufficient resources are available to transmit the early reservation signal, at least one of:
the transmission in the current slot or the subsequent slot, or
the early reservation signal for the future resource.