Granted Patent B2

US 12,238,686 · App. 18/531,176 · Granted Feb 25, 2025

Inventors: Chunxuan Ye (San Diego, CA); Dawei Zhang (Saratoga, CA); Haijing Hu (Los Gatos, CA); Haitong Sun (Cupertino, CA); Wei Zeng (Saratoga, CA); Zhibin Wu (Los Altos, CA)

Assignee: APPLE INC.

H04W72/02H04W72/0473H04W72/51H04W72/542H04W72/56H04W92/18

Abstract

Claims (32)

1. A method of a user equipment (UE) for prioritizing a subset of a plurality of pending physical sidelink (SL) feedback channel (PSFCH) transmissions, comprising:

determining that a number of the plurality of pending PSFCH transmissions is greater than a number of PSFCH transmissions that can be sent by the UE;

determining the subset of the plurality of pending PSFCH transmissions to transmit using a plurality of rules; and

transmitting the subset of the plurality of pending PSFCH transmissions;

wherein the plurality of rules comprises:

a distance rule that prioritizes PSFCH transmissions of the pending PSFCH transmissions for inclusion in the subset that correspond to data from a peer UE for which there is a long distance between the UE and the peer UE; and

a data priority rule that prioritizes PSFCH transmissions of the pending PSFCH transmissions for inclusion in the subset according to a priority of data to which the PSFCH transmissions correspond; and

wherein determining the subset of the plurality of pending PSFCH transmissions to transmit using the plurality of rules comprises applying the distance rule prior to applying the data priority rule.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the plurality of rules further comprises a Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ) acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) rule that prioritizes PSFCH transmissions of the pending PSFCH transmissions for inclusion in the subset that contain HARQ-ACK messages.

3. The method of claim 2 , wherein determining the subset of the plurality of pending PSFCH transmissions to transmit using one or more priority rules comprises applying the distance rule and the data priority rule prior to applying the HARQ-ACK rule.

4. An apparatus of a user equipment (UE) for prioritizing a subset of a plurality of pending physical sidelink (SL) feedback channel (PSFCH) transmissions, the apparatus comprising:

one or more processors; and

a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the UE to:

determine that a number of the plurality of pending PSFCH transmissions is greater than a number of PSFCH transmissions that can be sent by the UE;

determine the subset of the plurality of pending PSFCH transmissions to transmit using a plurality of rules; and

transmit the subset of the plurality of pending PSFCH transmissions;

wherein the plurality of rules comprises:

a distance rule that prioritizes PSFCH transmissions of the pending PSFCH transmissions for inclusion in the subset that correspond to data from a peer UE for which there is a long distance between the UE and the peer UE; and

a Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ) acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) rule that prioritizes PSFCH transmissions of the pending PSFCH transmissions for inclusion in the subset that contain HARQ-ACK messages; and

wherein determining the subset of the plurality of pending PSFCH transmissions to transmit using the plurality of rules comprises applying the distance rule prior to applying the HARQ-ACK rule.

5. The apparatus of claim 4 , wherein the plurality of rules further comprises a data priority rule that prioritizes PSFCH transmissions of the pending PSFCH transmissions for inclusion in the subset according to a priority of data to which the PSFCH transmissions correspond.

6. The apparatus of claim 5 , wherein determining the subset of the plurality of pending PSFCH transmissions to transmit using one or more priority rules comprises applying the distance rule and the HARQ-ACK rule prior to applying the data priority rule.

7. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium including instructions that, when executed by one or more processors of a user equipment (UE) for prioritizing a subset of a plurality of pending physical sidelink (SL) feedback channel (PSFCH) transmissions, cause the UE to:

determine that a number of the plurality of pending PSFCH transmissions is greater than a number of PSFCH transmissions that can be sent by the UE;

determine the subset of the plurality of pending PSFCH transmissions to transmit using a plurality of rules; and

transmit the subset of the plurality of pending PSFCH transmissions;

wherein the plurality of rules comprises:

a data priority rule that prioritizes PSFCH transmissions of the pending PSFCH transmissions for inclusion in the subset according to a priority of data to which the PSFCH transmissions correspond; and

a Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ) acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) rule that prioritizes PSFCH transmissions of the pending PSFCH transmissions for inclusion in the subset that contain HARQ-ACK messages; and

wherein determining the subset of the plurality of pending PSFCH transmissions to transmit using one or more priority rules comprises applying the data priority rule prior to applying the HARQ-ACK rule.

8. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 7 , wherein the plurality of rules further comprises a distance rule that prioritizes PSFCH transmissions of the pending PSFCH transmissions for inclusion in the subset that correspond to data from a peer UE for which there is a long distance between the UE and the peer UE.

9. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 8 , wherein determining the subset of the plurality of pending PSFCH transmissions to transmit using the plurality of rules comprises applying the data priority rule and the HARQ-ACK rule prior to applying the distance rule.

Continuity (3)

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