US 12,136,967 B2
User-equipment-coordination set for a wireless network
Jibing Wang, San Jose, CA (US); and Erik Richard Stauffer, Sunnyvale, CA (US)
Assigned to Google LLC, Mountain View, CA (US)
Appl. No. 17/311,996
Filed by Google LLC, Mountain View, CA (US)
PCT Filed Dec. 23, 2019, PCT No. PCT/US2019/068265
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jun. 8, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/139811, PCT Pub. Date Jul. 2, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/785,949, filed on Dec. 28, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2022/0006493 A1, Jan. 6, 2022
Int. Cl. H04W 4/00 (2018.01); H04B 7/024 (2017.01); H04B 7/06 (2006.01)
CPC H04B 7/024 (2013.01) [H04B 7/0617 (2013.01)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for using a user-equipment-coordination set (UECS) by a base station, the method comprising the base station:
specifying a set of user equipments (UEs) to form the user-equipment-coordination set for joint transmission and joint reception of communications intended for a target user equipment, the user-equipment-coordination set specified to include the target user equipment and at least one other user equipment;
selecting a user equipment within the user-equipment-coordination set to act as a coordinating user equipment for the user-equipment-coordination set;
transmitting a request message that directs the coordinating user equipment to coordinate the joint transmission and joint reception of the communications intended for the target user equipment; and
transmitting a downlink signal, that is intended for the target user equipment, to the user-equipment-coordination set for joint reception, by multiple UEs in the UECS, by sending a same signal to each user equipment within the user-equipment-coordination set.