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US 12,369,157 · App. 18/525,755 · Granted Jul 22, 2025

Reduced sensing schemes for sidelink enhancement

Inventors: Chunxuan Ye (San Diego, CA); Dawei Zhang (Saratoga, CA); Haijing Hu (Los Gatos, CA); Haitong Sun (Cupertino, CA); Hong He (San Jose, CA); Jia Tang (San Jose, CA); Oghenekome Oteri (San Diego, CA); Weidong Yang (San Diego, CA); Zhibin Wu (Los Altos, CA); Wei Zeng (Saratoga, CA)
Assignee: Apple Inc.
H04W72/20
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Patent No.
US 12,369,157
App. No.
18/525,755
Granted
Jul 22, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods to provide reduced sensing schemes to facilitate sidelink transmissions.

Claims (18)

1. A method comprising:

generating configuration information to configure a sidelink resource pool for vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communications and to enable a user equipment (UE) to perform resource selection for a sidelink transmission within the sidelink resource pool based on a first sensing mode in which the UE is to perform periodic partial sensing and a second sensing mode in which the UE is to monitor all slots within a sensing window, wherein the configuration information is to further configure the sensing window for which the UE is to operate in the second sensing mode after operating in the first sensing mode, wherein the sensing window starts a predetermined time after a resource selection trigger; and

generating one or more signals to include the configuration information, the one or more signals to be transmitted to the UE.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the sidelink resource pool is to accommodate both periodic-reserved resources and aperiodic-reserved resources.

3. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

determining a length of the sensing window based on information that is to be transmitted within the sidelink resource pool.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the configuration information is to configure the sensing window specifically for the UE or for all UEs that use the sidelink resource pool.

5. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

determining a length of the sensing window based on a power capability of the UE.

6. One or more non-transitory, computer-readable media having instructions that, when executed, cause processing circuitry to:

generate configuration information to configure a sidelink resource pool and to enable a user equipment (UE) to perform resource selection for a sidelink transmission within the sidelink resource pool based on a first sensing mode in which the UE is to perform periodic partial sensing and a second sensing mode in which the UE is to monitor all slots within a sensing window, wherein the configuration information is to further configure the sensing window for which the UE is to operate in the second sensing mode after operating in the first sensing mode, wherein the sensing window starts a predetermined time after a resource selection trigger; and

generate one or more signals to include the configuration information, the one or more signals to be transmitted to the UE.

7. The one or more non-transitory, computer-readable media of claim 6 , wherein the sidelink resource pool is to accommodate both periodic-reserved resources and aperiodic-reserved resources.

8. The one or more non-transitory, computer-readable media of claim 6 , wherein the instructions, when executed, further cause the processing circuitry to:

determine a length of the sensing window based on information that is to be transmitted within the sidelink resource pool.

9. The one or more non-transitory, computer-readable media of claim 6 , wherein the configuration information is to configure the sensing window specifically for the UE or for all UEs that use the sidelink resource pool.

10. The one or more non-transitory, computer-readable media of claim 6 , wherein the instructions, when executed, further cause the processing circuitry to:

determine a length of the sensing window based on a power capability of the UE.

Continuity (3)
Continuation 17364674 · Jun 30, 2021
Provisional Application 63062303 · Aug 6, 2020
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