Granted Patent B2

US 12,604,362 · App. 18/256,006 · Granted Apr 14, 2026

Inventors: Prateek Basu Mallick (Dreieich, DE); Karthikeyan Ganesan (Kronberg im Taunus, DE); Joachim Loehr (Wiesbaden, DE); Ravi Kuchibhotla (Chicago, IL)

Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.

H04W76/28H04W72/25H04W92/16

Abstract

Claims (45)

1 . A method performed by a receiver User Equipment (“UE”), the method comprising:

determining a discontinuous reception (“DRX”) configuration that is to be used towards a peer transmitter UE, the DRX configuration comprising an active time during which sidelink data is exchanged with the peer transmitter UE;

determining a set of resources for sidelink communication by performing a sensing procedure;

identifying an intersection of the active time and the set of resources, wherein the intersection comprises a modified set of resources; and

transmitting an indication of the identified intersection to the peer transmitter UE.

2 . The method of claim 1 , wherein determining the set of resources further comprises performing a sidelink resource selection procedure, wherein the determined set of resources comprises one or more of: a preferable resource based on a sensing result, a non-preferable resource based on the sensing result, or a resource having a potential collision.

3 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the active time comprises a common active period aligned between the receiver UE and the peer transmitter UE.

4 . The method of claim 3 , further comprising receiving a higher layer parameter that indicates the common active period.

5 . The method of claim 3 , wherein an amount of intersecting candidate resources in the common active period is less than a predetermined amount, wherein transmitting the indication of the identified intersection comprises transmitting a preferred resource outside the common active period.

6 . The method of claim 1 , wherein determining the set of resources comprises receiving at a MAC layer a candidate report from a physical layer, wherein the MAC layer identifies the intersection of the active time and the set of resources.

7 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

determining an additional modified set of resources when indicating a negative acknowledgement (“NACK”) on a physical uplink control channel (“PUCCH”) to request a re-transmission grant; and

sending an inter-UE coordination (“IUC”) report to the peer transmitter UE, wherein the IUC report comprises the additional modified set of resources.

8 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

determining an additional modified set of resources when performing one of:

transmitting a sidelink scheduling request to a serving RAN,

transmitting a sidelink buffer status report to the serving RAN, and

receiving a request for a sidelink channel state information (“CSI”) report from the peer transmitter UE; and

sending an inter-UE coordination (“IUC”) report to the peer transmitter UE, wherein the IUC report comprises the additional modified set of resources.

9 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising receiving a request for inter-UE coordination (“IUC”) from the peer transmitter UE, wherein the indication of the identified intersection is transmitted in response to the IUC request.

10 . A User Equipment (“UE”), comprising:

at least one memory; and

at least one processor coupled with the at least one memory and configured to cause the UE to:

determine a discontinuous reception (“DRX”) configuration that is to be used towards a peer transmitter UE, the DRX configuration comprising an active time during which sidelink data is exchanged with the peer transmitter UE;

determine a set of resources for sidelink communication by performing a sensing procedure;

identify an intersection of the active time and the set of resources, wherein the intersection comprises a modified set of resources; and

transmit an indication of the identified intersection to the peer transmitter UE.

11 . A User Equipment (“UE”), comprising:

at least one memory; and

at least one processor coupled with the at least one memory and configured to cause the UE to:

receive, from a peer receiver UE, an indication of an intersection of a set of resources for sidelink communication and a discontinuous reception (“DRX”) configuration active time during which sidelink data is to be exchanged with the peer receiver UE, wherein the set of resources for sidelink communication are determined by performing a sensing procedure and the intersection comprises a modified set of resources;

perform resource selection from the set of resources for an initial transmission to the peer receiver UE, said resource selection based on the DRX configuration active time of the peer receiver UE; and

transmit sidelink data to the peer receiver UE during the active time using the selected resources.

12 . The UE of claim 11 , wherein the DRX configuration active time comprises a time where a sidelink DRX timer is already running or is to run in the future.

13 . The UE of claim 11 , wherein the at least one processor is further configured to cause the UE to send a request for inter-UE coordination (“IUC”), wherein the indication of the intersection is received in response to the IUC request.

14 . The UE of claim 11 , wherein the at least one processor is further configured to cause the UE to update a DRX configuration of the UE based on the received indication of the intersection of the set of resources, wherein the DRX configuration active time comprises a common active period aligned between the UE and the peer receiver UE.

15 . The UE of claim 11 ,

wherein the at least one processor is further configured to cause the UE to:

determine an additional modified set of resources when requesting a sidelink channel state information (“CSI”) report from the peer receiver UE, and

transmit an inter-UE coordination (“IUC”) report to the peer receiver UE, wherein the IUC report comprises the additional modified set of resources.

16 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the set of resources comprises resources within the active time and resources outside of the active time.

17 . The method of claim 16 , wherein the modified set of resources comprises the resources within the active time.

18 . The UE of claim 10 , wherein the set of resources comprises resources within the active time and resources outside of the active time, and wherein the modified set of resources comprises the resources within the active time.

19 . The UE of claim 11 , wherein the set of resources comprises resources within the active time and resources outside of the active time.

20 . The UE of claim 19 , wherein the modified set of resources comprises the resources within the active time.

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