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US 12,574,998 · App. 19/300,235 · Granted Mar 10, 2026

Multi-consecutive slots transmission with sidelink discontinuous reception

Inventors: Nazanin Rastegardoost (McLean, VA); Hyoungsuk Jeon (Centreville, VA); Esmael Hejazi Dinan (McLean, VA); Jongwoo Hong (Vienna, VA); Bing Hui (Nanjing, CN); Taehun Kim (Fairfax, VA)
Assignee: Ofinno, LLC
H04W76/28H04W92/18
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Patent No.
US 12,574,998
App. No.
19/300,235
Granted
Mar 10, 2026
Kind
B2
Abstract

A wireless device initializes a candidate resource set, comprising one or more first multi-slot resources of a sidelink resource pool, for a plurality of sidelink transmissions to at least one destination wireless device. Each of the one or more first multi-slot resources comprises a number of consecutive slots, and the number of consecutive slots is larger than 1. The wireless device determines to include, in the candidate resource set, a second multi-slot resource of the sidelink resource pool. The second multi-slot resource comprises the number of consecutive slots within a sidelink discontinuous reception (DRX) active time of the at least one destination wireless device. The wireless device transmits, to the at least one destination wireless device, the plurality of sidelink transmissions via the second multi-slot resource.

Claims (50)

1 . A wireless device comprising:

one or more processors; and

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

receive one or more configuration parameters of a sidelink resource pool;

initialize a candidate resource set, comprising one or more first multi-slot resources of the sidelink resource pool, for a plurality of sidelink transmissions to at least one destination wireless device, wherein:

each of the one or more first multi-slot resources comprises a number of consecutive slots; and

the number of consecutive slots is larger than 1;

determine to include, in the candidate resource set, a second multi-slot resource of the sidelink resource pool, wherein:

the second multi-slot resource comprises the number of consecutive slots within a sidelink discontinuous reception (DRX) active time of the at least one destination wireless device; and

determining to include the second multi-slot resource is based on none of the one or more first multi-slot resources remaining within the sidelink DRX active time in the candidate resource set; and

transmit, to the at least one destination wireless device, the plurality of sidelink transmissions via the second multi-slot resource.

2 . The wireless device of claim 1 , wherein each of the one or more first multi-slot resources and the second multi-slot resource comprises a plurality of consecutive single-slot resources.

3 . The wireless device of claim 1 , wherein at least a first single-slot resource of the second multi-slot resource is within the sidelink DRX active time of the at least one destination wireless device.

4 . The wireless device of claim 1 , wherein each of a plurality of consecutive single-slot resources, of the second multi-slot resource, are within the sidelink DRX active time of the at least one destination wireless device.

5 . The wireless device of claim 1 , wherein the plurality of sidelink transmissions comprise a plurality of physical sidelink shared channel transmissions.

6 . The wireless device of claim 1 , wherein the plurality of sidelink transmissions comprise a plurality of transport blocks for the at least one destination wireless device.

7 . The wireless device of claim 1 , wherein the at least one destination wireless device is associated with a plurality of destination identifiers (IDs), comprising:

a first destination ID configured with a first sidelink DRX configuration indicating a first DRX sidelink active time; and

a second destination ID configured with a second sidelink DRX configuration indicating a second sidelink DRX active time.

8 . The wireless device of claim 1 , wherein the plurality of sidelink transmissions comprise a multi-consecutive-slot transmission (MCSt).

9 . The wireless device of claim 1 , wherein the number of consecutive slots are within a maximum duration of a Channel Occupancy Time (COT).

10 . The wireless device of claim 1 , wherein the instructions further cause the wireless device to determine the candidate resource set based on a set of parameters associated with a plurality of logical channel data of the plurality of sidelink transmissions.

11 . A method comprising:

receiving, by a wireless device, one or more configuration parameters of a sidelink resource pool;

initializing a candidate resource set, comprising one or more first multi-slot resources of the sidelink resource pool, for a plurality of sidelink transmissions to at least one destination wireless device, wherein:

each of the one or more first multi-slot resources comprises a number of consecutive slots; and

the number of consecutive slots is larger than 1;

determining to include, in the candidate resource set, a second multi-slot resource of the sidelink resource pool, wherein:

the second multi-slot resource comprises the number of consecutive slots within a sidelink discontinuous reception (DRX) active time of the at least one destination wireless device; and

the determining is based on none of the one or more first multi-slot resources remaining within the sidelink DRX active time in the candidate resource set; and

transmitting, to the at least one destination wireless device, the plurality of sidelink transmissions via the second multi-slot resource.

12 . The method of claim 11 , wherein each of the one or more first multi-slot resources and the second multi-slot resource comprises a plurality of consecutive single-slot resources.

13 . The method of claim 11 , wherein at least a first single-slot resource of the second multi-slot resource is within the sidelink DRX active time of the at least one destination wireless device.

14 . The method of claim 11 , wherein each of a plurality of consecutive single-slot resources, of the second multi-slot resource, are within the sidelink DRX active time of the at least one destination wireless device.

15 . The method of claim 11 , wherein the plurality of sidelink transmissions comprise a plurality of physical sidelink shared channel transmissions.

16 . The method of claim 11 , wherein the plurality of sidelink transmissions comprise a plurality of transport blocks for the at least one destination wireless device.

17 . The method of claim 11 , wherein the at least one destination wireless device is associated with a plurality of destination identifiers (IDs), comprising:

a first destination ID configured with a first sidelink DRX configuration indicating a first DRX sidelink active time; and

a second destination ID configured with a second sidelink DRX configuration indicating a second sidelink DRX active time.

18 . The method of claim 11 , wherein the plurality of sidelink transmissions comprise a multi-consecutive-slot transmission (MCSt).

19 . The method of claim 11 , wherein the number of consecutive slots are within a maximum duration of a Channel Occupancy Time (COT).

20 . A non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising instructions that, when executed by one or more processors of a wireless device, cause the wireless device to:

receive one or more configuration parameters of a sidelink resource pool;

initialize a candidate resource set, comprising one or more first multi-slot resources of the sidelink resource pool, for a plurality of sidelink transmissions to at least one destination wireless device, wherein:

each of the one or more first multi-slot resources comprises a number of consecutive slots; and

the number of consecutive slots is larger than 1;

determine to include, in the candidate resource set, a second multi-slot resource of the sidelink resource pool, wherein:

the second multi-slot resource comprises the number of consecutive slots within a sidelink discontinuous reception (DRX) active time of the at least one destination wireless device; and

determining to include the second multi-slot resource is based on none of the one or more first multi-slot resources remaining within the sidelink DRX active time in the candidate resource set; and

transmit, to the at least one destination wireless device, the plurality of sidelink transmissions via the second multi-slot resource.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 15, 2025
From: RASTEGARDOOST, NAZANIN; JEON, HYOUNGSUK; DINAN, ESMAEL HEJAZI; HONG, JONGWOO; HUI, BING; KIM, TAEHUN
To: OFINNO, LLC
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Continuity (3)
Continuation PCTUS2024016007 · Feb 15, 2024
Provisional Application 63446283 · Feb 16, 2023
Related Publication 20250374372A1 · Dec 4, 2025
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