US 12,471,060 B2
User equipment and method with improved critical communication notification in wireless communications
Khaled Shawky Hassan, Erlangen (DE); Elke Roth-Mandutz, Erlangen (DE); and Benjamin Sackenreuter, Erlangen (DE)
Assigned to Koninklijke Philips N.V., Eindhoven (NL)
Filed by KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V., Eindhoven (NL)
Filed on Feb. 1, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/163,853.
Application 17/163,853 is a continuation of application No. PCT/EP2019/071380, filed on Aug. 8, 2019.
Claims priority of application No. 18188596 (EP), filed on Aug. 10, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0160822 A1, May 27, 2021
Int. Cl. H04W 72/02 (2009.01); H04W 4/40 (2018.01); H04W 4/90 (2018.01); H04W 68/00 (2009.01); H04W 72/0446 (2023.01); H04W 72/0453 (2023.01)
CPC H04W 72/02 (2013.01) [H04W 4/40 (2018.02); H04W 4/90 (2018.02); H04W 68/005 (2013.01); H04W 72/0446 (2013.01); H04W 72/0453 (2013.01)] 28 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A user equipment for wireless communications, wherein the user equipment comprises:
a transmitter circuit; and
a receiver circuit;
wherein a first resource pool is defined by a first resource pool configuration,
wherein the first resource pool comprises a first plurality of resources
wherein the first plurality of resources are provided for first transmissions,
wherein the first transmissions have a first priority
wherein a second resource pool is defined by a second resource pool configuration,
wherein the second resource pool comprises a second plurality of resources,
wherein the second plurality of resources are provided for second transmissions,
wherein the second transmissions have a second priority,
wherein the second priority is lower than the first priority,
wherein the transmitter circuit is configured to transmit a first critical communication notification,
wherein the first critical communication notification is a first message in the first resource pool,
wherein the first critical communication notification has the first priority,
wherein the first critical communication notification indicates that a second message is to be transmitted by the user equipment in the second resource pool,
wherein the transmitter circuit is configured to transmit the second message in the second resource pool after transmitting the first critical communication notification or at a same time when transmitting the first critical communication notification,
wherein the transmitter circuit is configured to transmit a fifth message in the second resource pool,
wherein the fifth message has the second priority,
wherein a third resource pool is defined by a third resource pool configuration,
wherein the third resource pool comprises a third plurality of resources,
wherein the third plurality of resources are provided for third transmissions,
wherein the third transmissions have the first priority,
wherein a fourth resource pool is defined by a fourth resource pool configuration,
wherein the fourth resource pool comprises a fourth plurality of resources,
wherein the fourth plurality of resources are provided for fourth transmissions,
wherein the fourth transmissions have the second priority,
wherein the transmitter is configured to transmit a sixth message in the fourth resource pool,
wherein the receiver circuit is configured to receive a third message,
wherein the third message is a second critical communication notification,
wherein the second critical communication notification is transmitted in the third resource pool,
wherein the second critical communication notification has the first priority,
wherein the second critical communication notification indicates that a fourth message is to be transmitted in the fourth resource pool,
wherein the second message is a critical communication message,
and
wherein the transmitter circuit is configured to refrain from transmitting the sixth message in the fourth resource pool in response to the receipt of the second critical communication notification by the receiver circuit.