US 12,464,515 B2
Method and apparatus of group-based resource allocation
Jie Hu, Changping District (CN); Jing Han, Chaoyang District (CN); Haiming Wang, Xicheng District (CN); Lianhai Wu, Chaoyang (CN); Jie Shi, Haidian District (CN); and Ran Yue, Haidian District (CN)
Assigned to LENOVO (BEIJING) LIMITED, Beijing (CN)
Appl. No. 17/793,212
Filed by LENOVO (BEIJING) LIMITED, Beijing (CN)
PCT Filed Feb. 14, 2020, PCT No. PCT/CN2020/075339
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jul. 15, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/159491, PCT Pub. Date Aug. 19, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0069615 A1, Mar. 2, 2023
Int. Cl. H04W 72/121 (2023.01)
CPC H04W 72/121 (2013.01) 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A base station for wireless communication, comprising:
at least one memory; and
at least one processor coupled with the at least one memory and operable to cause the base station to:
transmit a scheduling user equipment (S-UE) qualification criterion to a group of UEs, wherein the S-UE qualification criterion comprises at least a threshold number of reachable member UEs (M-UEs);
receive at least one request for being a first S-UE from at least one M-UE in the group that satisfies the S-UE qualification criterion, wherein the request comprises at least a cell identity (ID) associated with the first S-UE;
transmit a signal indicating the first S-UE based on the at least one request; and
transmit, to the first S-UE, group-based resource information for the group of UEs.