IP Library Granted Patent US 12,666,450
Granted Patent B2
US 12,666,450 · App. 18/219,141 · Granted Jun 23, 2026

Resource selection method and apparatus and system

Inventors: Pengyu Ji (Beijing, CN); Jian Zhang (Beijing, CN); Lei Zhang (Beijing, CN); Xin Wang (Beijing, CN)
Assignee: 1FINITY Inc.
H04W72/40H04W72/0446H04W76/28
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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 12,666,450
App. No.
18/219,141
Filed
Jul 7, 2023
Granted
Jun 23, 2026
Kind
B2
Examiner
PEZZLO, JOHN
Art Unit
2465
USPC
370/329
Abstract

A resource selection apparatus, configured in a first terminal equipment, the resource selection apparatus includes a transmitter configured to transmit sidelink data to a second terminal equipment, the second terminal equipment being configured with sidelink discontinuous reception (SL DRX), and processor circuitry configured to generate a first candidate resource set and a second candidate resource set, the first candidate resource set being a set of one or more candidate resources within an overlapped time period of a selection window of the first terminal equipment and at least one continuous SL DRX active time of the second terminal equipment during the selection window, the second candidate resource set being a set of all candidate resources within the selection window of the first terminal equipment, and determine candidate resources in the first candidate resource set available for sidelink data transmission to obtain a first candidate resource subset.

Claims (37)

1 . A resource selection apparatus, configured in a first terminal equipment, the resource selection apparatus comprising:

a transmitter configured to transmit sidelink data to a second terminal equipment, the second terminal equipment being configured with sidelink discontinuous reception (SL DRX), and

processor circuitry configured to:

generate a first candidate resource set and a second candidate resource set, the first candidate resource set being a set of one or more candidate resources within an overlapped time period of a selection window of the first terminal equipment and at least one continuous SL DRX active time of the second terminal equipment during the selection window, the second candidate resource set being a set of all candidate resources within the selection window of the first terminal equipment;

determine candidate resources in the first candidate resource set available for sidelink data transmission to obtain a first candidate resource subset; and

determine candidate resources in the second candidate resource set available for sidelink data transmission to obtain a second candidate resource subset.

2 . The resource selection apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein

the processor circuitry is further configured to select resources for transmitting a first predetermined number of times of transmission of sidelink data in the first candidate resource subset, and select resources for transmitting a remained number of times of transmission of sidelink data in the second candidate resource subset.

3 . The resource selection apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein,

the first candidate resource set is one of the following:

a set of one or more candidate resources within an overlapped time period of the selection window of the first terminal equipment and all continuous SL DRX active times of the second terminal equipment during the selection window; or

a set of one or more candidate resources within an overlapped time period of the selection window of the first terminal equipment and a first continuous SL DRX active time of the second terminal equipment during the selection window or a next continuous SL DRX active time of the second terminal equipment after the selection window starts; and

the second candidate resource set is one of the following:

a set of remaining candidate resources within the selection window of the first terminal equipment other than the first candidate resource set;

a set of remaining candidate resources within the selection window of the first terminal equipment other than the first candidate resource set and candidate resources before a predetermined time unit within the selection window of the first terminal equipment; or

a set of remaining candidate resources within the selection window of the first terminal equipment other than candidate resources before a predetermined time unit,

wherein the predetermined time unit refers to an overlapped first slot of the selection window of the first terminal equipment and a first continuous SL DRX active time of the second terminal equipment during the selection window or a next continuous SL DRX active time of the second terminal equipment after the selection window starts.

4 . The resource selection apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the continuous SL DRX active time of the second terminal equipment during the selection window is at least one continuous slot, the at least one continuous slot being at least one of the following:

an operating period of a discontinuous reception duration timer (drx-OnDurationTimer) on a sidelink of the second terminal equipment;

an operating period of a discontinuous reception inactivity timer (drx-InactivityTimer) on a sidelink of the second terminal equipment; or

an operating period of a discontinuous reception retransmission timer (drx-RetransmissionTimer) on a sidelink of the second terminal equipment.

5 . The resource selection apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein an RSRP threshold used by the processor circuitry in determining the first candidate resource subset is less than an RSRP threshold used thereby in determining the second candidate resource subset; and/or, a value of a transmission priority used by the processor circuitry in determining the first candidate resource subset is less than a value of a transmission priority used thereby in determining the second candidate resource subset; and/or, a reporting proportion for first candidate resource sets with identical priorities determined by the processor circuitry is greater than or less than a value to which the second candidate resource set corresponds.

6 . The resource selection apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the resource selection apparatus further comprises:

a receiver configured to, at a physical layer of the first terminal equipment, receive a transmission parameter for the first candidate resource set and a transmission parameter for the second candidate resource set notified by a higher layer of the first terminal equipment,

wherein a value of a transmission priority in the transmission parameter for the first candidate resource set is less than a value of a transmission priority in the transmission parameter for the second candidate resource set, and/or, the number of sub-channels for transmission of sidelink data in a slot in the transmission parameter for the first candidate resource set is greater than or less than the number of sub-channels for transmission of sidelink data in a slot in the transmission parameter for the second candidate resource set.

7 . The resource selection apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the resource selection apparatus further comprises:

a receiver configured to, at a physical layer of the first terminal equipment, receive a parameter for indicating discontinuous reception configuration of the second terminal equipment, notified by a higher layer of the first terminal equipment.

8 . The resource selection apparatus according to claim 7 , wherein the parameter for indicating discontinuous reception configuration of the second terminal equipment includes at least one of the following:

an operating period, an offset and a size of the discontinuous reception duration timer (drx-OnDurationTimer) on the sidelink;

a size of the discontinuous reception inactivity timer (drx-Inactivity Timer) on the sidelink;

a size of a discontinuous reception hybrid automatic retransmission round-trip time timer (drx-HARQ-RTT-Timer) on the sidelink; or

a size of the discontinuous reception retransmission timer (drx-RetransmissionTimer) on the sidelink.

9 . The resource selection apparatus according to claim 2 , wherein the number of transmission resources selected by the processor circuitry in the first candidate resource subset is predefined, or determined by at least one of the following factors:

a total number of times of transmission of the sidelink data and/or a length of a time of the second terminal equipment in a discontinuous reception active state in a PDB to which a current transport block corresponds or a ratio of the length to a total length;

a priority of packets of the sidelink data; or

a measured channel busy ratio (CBR) result.

10 . The resource selection apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the processor circuitry is further configured to control to perform partial sensing, and the overlapping refers to overlapping of the continuous SL DRX active time and a candidate slot set selected by the physical layer of the first terminal equipment in the selection window of the first terminal equipment.

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Nov 3, 2025
From: FUJITSU LIMITED
To: 1FINITY INC.
Reel/Frame 073477/0445 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jul 7, 2023
From: JI, PENGYU; ZHANG, JIAN; ZHANG, LEI; WANG, XIN
To: FUJITSU LIMITED
Reel/Frame 064178/0739 →
Continuity (2)
Continuation PCTCN2021071945 · Jan 14, 2021
Related Publication 20230354388A1 · Nov 2, 2023
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