US 12,490,306 B2
Communications within a user equipment—initiated channel occupancy time
Oghenekome Oteri, San Diego, CA (US); Huaning Niu, San Jose, CA (US); Hong He, San Jose, CA (US); Haitong Sun, Cupertino, CA (US); Chunxuan Ye, San Diego, CA (US); Wei Zeng, Saratoga, CA (US); and Dawei Zhang, Saratoga, CA (US)
Assigned to Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed by Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed on May 19, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/748,884.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/196,623, filed on Jun. 3, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0394769 A1, Dec. 8, 2022
Int. Cl. H04W 72/0446 (2023.01); H04W 72/1263 (2023.01); H04W 74/00 (2009.01); H04W 74/08 (2009.01); H04W 74/0816 (2024.01); H04W 72/23 (2023.01)
CPC H04W 74/0816 (2013.01) [H04W 72/1263 (2013.01); H04W 74/002 (2013.01); H04W 74/0866 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of operating a base station, the method comprising:
processing information received from a first user equipment (UE), to indicate the first UE has acquired a channel for a channel occupancy time (COT);
obtaining a portion of the channel during the COT for transmitting signals having user plane data to, or receiving signals from, a second UE; and
generating, for transmission to the first UE, an indication that the portion of the channel within the COT is obtained.