Granted Patent B2

US 12,425,141 · App. 18/745,653 · Granted Sep 23, 2025

Inventors: Kai Xu (Great Falls, VA); Esmael Hejazi Dinan (McLean, VA); Hua Zhou (Vienna, VA); Yunjung Yi (Vienna, VA); Bing Hui (Nanjing, CN); Alireza Babaei (Fairfax, VA); Hyukjin Chae (San Diego, CA)

Assignee: Ofinno, LLC

H04L1/1896H04W72/02H04W72/0446H04W72/0453H04W72/20

Abstract

Claims (58)

1. A destination wireless device comprising:

one or more processors; and

memory storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the destination wireless device to:

receive, from a base station, configuration parameters of physical sidelink feedback channel (PSFCH) radio resources;

receive, from a source wireless device, sidelink control information comprising an identity (ID) of the source wireless device; and

transmit, to the source wireless device, an acknowledgement for a transport block via a PSFCH radio resource having an index that is based on:

the ID of the source wireless device;

an ID of the destination wireless device; and

a modulo operation performed on a quantity of the PSFCH radio resources.

2. The destination wireless device of claim 1 , wherein the instructions further cause the destination wireless device to receive one or more radio resource control (RRC) messages comprising the configuration parameters of the PSFCH radio resources.

3. The destination wireless device of claim 1 , wherein the configuration parameters of the PSFCH radio resources indicate the quantity of the PSFCH radio resources.

4. The destination wireless device of claim 1 , wherein the configuration parameters indicate one or more resource pools of the PSFCH radio resources.

5. The destination wireless device of claim 4 , wherein the index of the PSFCH radio resource is further based on the one or more resource pools of the PSFCH radio resources.

6. The destination wireless device of claim 4 , wherein each of the one or more resource pools comprises one or both of:

a contiguous resource block in a frequency domain; or

a noncontiguous resource block in the frequency domain.

7. The destination wireless device of claim 1 , wherein the ID of the destination wireless device comprises one of:

a cell radio network temporary identifier;

an international mobile subscriber ID;

a zone identification of the destination wireless device; and

a temporary mobile subscriber ID.

8. A method comprising:

receiving, by a destination wireless device from a base station, configuration parameters of physical sidelink feedback channel (PSFCH) radio resources;

receiving, by the destination wireless device from a source wireless device, sidelink control information comprising an identity (ID) of the source wireless device; and

transmitting, by the destination wireless device to the source wireless device, an acknowledgement for a transport block via a PSFCH radio resource having an index that is based on:

the ID of the source wireless device;

an ID of the destination wireless device; and

a modulo operation performed on a quantity of the PSFCH radio resources.

9. The method of claim 8 , further comprising receiving one or more radio resource control (RRC) messages comprising the configuration parameters of the PSFCH radio resources.

10. The method of claim 8 , wherein the configuration parameters of the PSFCH radio resources indicate the quantity of the PSFCH radio resources.

11. The method of claim 8 , wherein the configuration parameters indicate one or more resource pools of the PSFCH radio resources.

12. The method of claim 11 , wherein the index of the PSFCH radio resource is determined further based on the one or more resource pools of the PSFCH radio resources.

13. The method of claim 11 , wherein each of the one or more resource pools comprises one or both of:

a contiguous resource block in a frequency domain; or

a noncontiguous resource block in the frequency domain.

14. The method of claim 8 , wherein the ID of the destination wireless device comprises one of:

a cell radio network temporary identifier;

an international mobile subscriber ID;

a zone identification of the destination wireless device; and

a temporary mobile subscriber ID.

15. A source wireless device comprising:

one or more processors; and

memory storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the source wireless device to:

receive, from a base station, configuration parameters of physical sidelink feedback channel (PSFCH) radio resources;

transmit, to a destination wireless device, sidelink control information comprising an identity (ID) of the source wireless device; and

receive, from the destination wireless device, an acknowledgement for a transport block via a PSFCH radio resource having an index that is based on:

the ID of the source wireless device;

an ID of the destination wireless device; and

a modulo operation performed on a quantity of the PSFCH radio resources.

16. The source wireless device of claim 15 , wherein the instructions further cause the source wireless device to receive one or more radio resource control (RRC) messages comprising the configuration parameters of the PSFCH radio resources.

17. The source wireless device of claim 15 , wherein the configuration parameters of the PSFCH radio resources indicate the quantity of the PSFCH radio resources.

18. The source wireless device of claim 15 , wherein the configuration parameters indicate one or more resource pools of the PSFCH radio resources.

19. The source wireless device of claim 18 , wherein the index of the PSFCH radio resource is further based on the one or more resource pools of the PSFCH radio resources.

20. The source wireless device of claim 15 , wherein the ID of the destination wireless device comprises one of:

a cell radio network temporary identifier;

an international mobile subscriber ID;

a zone identification of the destination wireless device; or

a temporary mobile subscriber ID.

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