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Granted Patent B2
US 12,156,281 · App. 17/265,702 · Granted Nov 26, 2024

Terminal for assigning transmission resource scheduling priority

Inventors: Ryosuke Osawa (Tokyo, JP); Huan Wang (Beijing, CN); Xufei Zheng (Beijing, CN); Xiaolin Hou (Beijing, CN)
Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
H04W8/005H04W12/009H04W28/021H04W72/0446H04W72/12H04W74/0808H04W74/0816H04W84/18H04B17/382H04L47/76H04W4/40H04W92/18
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Patent No.
US 12,156,281
App. No.
17/265,702
Granted
Nov 26, 2024
Kind
B2
Abstract

A user equipment includes a receiving unit that executes sensing for a part of candidate resources to be used for transmission of inter-terminal direct communication, a control unit that determines a resource to be used for transmission based on a result of the sensing, and a transmitting unit that transmits a message to another units of user equipment using the determined resource.

Claims (17)

1. A terminal comprising:

a processor that selects a first operation to determine a resource to be used for a transmission based on scheduling information received from a first terminal or a second operation to autonomously determine a resource to be used for a transmission and that executes the first operation or the second operation that is selected; and

a transmitter that transmits a message to the first terminal or a second terminal by using the resource determined by the processor in the first operation or the second operation,

wherein the processor is configured to assign a first degree of scheduling priority to the first operation and a second degree of scheduling priority to the second operation,

wherein the first degree of scheduling priority has a higher priority than the second degree of scheduling priority and the processor assigns the higher priority to the first operation to determine the resource based on the scheduling information than the second operation to autonomously determine the resource,

wherein the autonomously determining the resource includes autonomously sensing the resource, and

wherein the terminal is configured as a header terminal of a semi-distributed Media Access Control (MAC) wireless communication system.

2. The terminal according to claim 1 ,

wherein the processor determines whether the first operation or the second operation is allowed in a resource pool,

wherein, upon determining that the first operation is allowed in the resource pool, the processor selects and executes the first operation, and

wherein, upon determining that the second operation is allowed in the resource pool, the processor selects and executes the second operation.

3. The terminal according to claim 1 ,

wherein the processor determines that the first operation and the second operation is allowed in a resource pool, and

wherein, upon executing the second operation, the processor executes a predetermined operation related to the first operation.

4. The terminal according to claim 3 , wherein the predetermined operation is to attempt to receive information related to the first operation to be transmitted from the first terminal and to avoid selecting a resource indicated by the scheduling information upon receiving the information related to the first operation.

5. The terminal according to claim 1 , wherein the processor selects the first operation or the second operation based on a predetermined condition.

6. The terminal according to claim 5 , wherein the predetermined condition is in response to a scheduling command being not received until a predetermined time period elapses after the transmitter transmits a scheduling request, or in response to a period during which the scheduling command is not received exceeds a predetermined threshold value based on a latency requirement.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Apr 8, 2021
From: OSAWA, RYOSUKE; WANG, HUAN; ZHENG, XUFEI; HOU, XIAOLIN
To: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
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Continuity (1)
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