US 12,490,280 B2
User equipment aggregation for downlink communications
Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian, San Diego, CA (US); Chunhai Yao, Beijing (CN); Chunxuan Ye, San Diego, CA (US); Dawei Zhang, Saratoga, CA (US); Haijing Hu, Los Gatos, CA (US); Haitong Sun, Cupertino, CA (US); Huaning Niu, San Jose, CA (US); Wei Zeng, Saratoga, CA (US); Weidong Yang, San Diego, CA (US); and Yushu Zhang, Beijing (CN)
Assigned to Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Appl. No. 17/802,136
Filed by Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
PCT Filed Sep. 24, 2021, PCT No. PCT/CN2021/120389
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Aug. 24, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2023/044775, PCT Pub. Date Mar. 30, 2023.
Prior Publication US 2024/0237029 A1, Jul. 11, 2024
Int. Cl. H04W 72/25 (2023.01); H04L 5/00 (2006.01); H04W 72/21 (2023.01); H04W 88/04 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 72/25 (2023.01) [H04L 5/0055 (2013.01); H04W 72/21 (2023.01); H04W 88/04 (2013.01)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. One or more non-transitory, computer-readable media having instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, cause processor circuitry to:
identify an assistant user equipment (UE);
generate information to be transmitted to the assistant UE, the information to enable the assistant UE to receive a downlink communication from a base station to a target UE;
generate a first request, to be transmitted to the base station, to enter an aggregation mode, wherein the first request includes an indication of a time required to process physical downlink shared channel transmissions received directly from base station and received from the assistant UE and provide an acknowledgment;
receive the downlink communication from the base station via the assistant UE; and
generate a second request for the downlink communication to be transmitted to the assistant UE, wherein the second request is to be transmitted as sidelink control information on a physical sidelink control channel or as negative-acknowledgment information on a physical uplink control channel.