US 12,382,433 B2
Multiple prose group communication during a sidelink control period
Joachim Loehr, Hessen (DE); Prateek Basu Mallick, Hessen (DE); and Lilei Wang, Beijing (CN)
Assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America, Torrance, CA (US)
Filed by Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America, Torrance, CA (US)
Filed on Jun. 17, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/745,583.
Application 18/745,583 is a continuation of application No. 18/315,358, filed on May 10, 2023, granted, now 12,052,692.
Application 18/315,358 is a continuation of application No. 17/098,910, filed on Nov. 16, 2020, granted, now 11,690,046, issued on Jun. 27, 2023.
Application 17/098,910 is a continuation of application No. 15/567,055, granted, now 10,869,296, issued on Dec. 15, 2020, previously published as PCT/CN2015/076867, filed on Apr. 17, 2015.
Prior Publication US 2024/0340857 A1, Oct. 10, 2024
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H04W 72/02 (2009.01); H04W 72/0453 (2023.01); H04W 72/23 (2023.01); H04W 76/14 (2018.01); H04W 88/04 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 72/02 (2013.01) [H04W 72/0453 (2013.01); H04W 72/23 (2023.01); H04W 76/14 (2018.02); H04W 88/04 (2013.01)] 6 Claims
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1. A user equipment comprising:
a receiver, which, in operation, receives sidelink grants;
circuitry, which is coupled to the receiver and which, in operation:
associates the sidelink grants with sidelink processes;
determines radio resources allocated to the sidelink grants;
uses a logical channel prioritization (LCP) procedure in common for all the sidelink grants to select one sidelink destination group including a logical channel associated with a highest priority, out of a plurality of sidelink destination groups including logical channels having data available for transmission and not previously selected within one transmission control period, as a destination of one of a plurality of direct communication transmissions; and
generates sidelink control information that identifies the selected destination group and that identifies the radio resource allocated to the corresponding sidelink grant; and
a transmitter, which is coupled to the circuitry and which, in operation, performs the plurality of direct communication transmissions including the direct communication transmission destined to the selected sidelink destination group, wherein the plurality of direct communication transmissions of sidelink control information and data over a plurality of direct sidelink connections use the sidelink grants for the sidelink processes, respectively, within said one transmission control period, wherein a maximum number of the sidelink processes executable in parallel is configured for the user equipment by a base station;
wherein the sidelink grants indicate time resource patterns, which define radio resources in a time domain, with different bitmap patterns between the plurality of direct communication transmissions.