IP Library Granted Patent US 12,413,342
Granted Patent B2
US 12,413,342 · App. 17/912,717 · Granted Sep 9, 2025

Terminal and communication method

Inventors: Shohei Yoshioka (Tokyo, JP); Satoshi Nagata (Tokyo, JP)
Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
H04L1/1671H04L1/1812H04W92/18
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Patent No.
US 12,413,342
App. No.
17/912,717
Granted
Sep 9, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

A terminal includes a receiving unit configured to receive control information from at least one of another terminal and a base station, and to receive data from the another terminal; a transmitting unit configured to transmit, to the base station, a response relating to a retransmission process corresponding to the data; and a control unit configured to determine the response, based on at least one of the control information received from the another terminal and the control information received from the base station.

Claims (17)

1. A terminal comprising:

a receiver configured to receive control information from another terminal, and to receive data from the other terminal;

a transmitter configured to transmit, to a base station, a response relating to a retransmission process corresponding to the data; and

a control unit configured to determine the response, based on the control information received from the other terminal,

wherein the control unit determines that the response is an affirmative response based on the control information of the other terminal not including a request relating to the retransmission process.

2. The terminal according to claim 1 , wherein

when the response relating to the retransmission process is requested by the other terminal according to the control information, the control unit determines that the response is an affirmative response in a case where the data is successfully decoded and determines that the response is a negative response in a case where decoding of the data is unsuccessful.

3. The terminal according to claim 2 , wherein

the receiver receives information relating to a configured grant from the other terminal, and

the control unit determines that the response is an affirmative response when the receiver receives nothing in a resource according to the configured grant.

4. The terminal according to claim 1 , wherein the transmitter transmits the response relating to the retransmission process to the other terminal.

5. The terminal according to claim 1 , wherein the control unit determines a codebook to be applied to the response relating to the retransmission process, based on a counter configured to count values in an order of subchannels in which sidelink transmissions are performed in a slot, and a counter indicating a total number of the sidelink transmissions in the slot.

6. A communication method executed by a terminal, the communication method comprising:

receiving control information from another terminal, and receiving data from the other terminal;

transmitting, to a base station, a response relating to a retransmission process corresponding to the data; and

determining the response, based on at least one of the control information received from the other terminal,

wherein the response is determined to be an affirmative response based on the control information of the other terminal not including a request relating to the retransmission process.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 26, 2022
From: YOSHIOKA, SHOHEI; NAGATA, SATOSHI
To: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
Reel/Frame 061218/0521 →
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20230246744A1 · Aug 3, 2023
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