Granted Patent B2

US 12,659,890 · App. 18/132,537 · Granted Jun 16, 2026

Inventors: Jinhua Liu (Chang'an, CN); Xiaodong Yang (Chang'an, CN)

Assignee: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.

H04W56/001H04W40/22

Abstract

Claims (56)

1 . A wireless communication method, comprising:

receiving, by a relay device, a configuration parameter of Uu interface of a base station;

determining, by the relay device based on the configuration parameter, time information of a cell corresponding to the relay device; and

transmitting, by the relay device, a message carrying the time information to a remote device;

wherein the message is used for determining a system frame number of the Uu interface, and the time information comprises an offset, the offset being a difference in number between the system frame number of the Uu interface and a frame number of a PC5 interface of the relay device.

2 . The wireless communication method according to claim 1 , wherein

the time information further comprises at least one of the following: identity information of the cell, the system frame number of the Uu interface, slot number of the Uu interface, OFDM symbol sequence number of the Uu interface, or subcarrier spacing of the Uu interface.

3 . The wireless communication method according to claim 2 , further comprising:

determining, by the relay device, an initialization mode for the frame number of the PC5 interface of the relay device; and

configuring, by the relay device, the frame number of the PC5 interface according to the initialization mode; wherein

the initialization mode comprises: configuring an initial value of the frame number of the PC5 interface to be a value of the system frame number of the Uu interface, or initializing the frame number of the PC5 interface according to a preset offset between the system frame number of the Uu interface and the frame number of the PC5 interface.

4 . The wireless communication method according to claim 3 , wherein the initialization mode comprises initializing the frame number of the PC5 interface according to a preset offset between the system frame number of the Uu interface and the frame number of the PC5 interface number, and before the configuring, by the relay device, the frame number of the PC5 interface according to the initialization mode, the wireless communication method further comprises:

receiving, by the relay device, a first input to the relay device, and determining the preset offset in response to the first input; or

receiving, by the relay device, first configuration information transmitted by the base station, and determining the preset offset according to the first configuration information.

5 . The wireless communication method according to claim 2 , further comprising:

configuring, by the relay device, a subcarrier spacing of the PC5 interface of the relay device to be the subcarrier spacing of the Uu interface.

6 . The wireless communication method according to claim 1 , wherein the transmitting, by the relay device, a message carrying the time information to a remote device comprises:

transmitting, by the relay device, first request information for the time information to the base station; and

transmitting, by the relay device, the message to the remote device according to second configuration information returned by the base station;

or,

wherein the transmitting, by the relay device, a message carrying the time information to a remote device comprises:

receiving, by the relay device, second request information transmitted by the remote device for the time information; and

transmitting, by the relay device, the message to the remote device according to the second request information;

or,

wherein the transmitting, by the relay device, a message carrying the time information to a remote device comprises:

determining, by the relay device, a propagation mode of the message; and

transmitting, by the relay device, the message to the remote device according to the propagation mode; wherein

the propagation mode comprises unicast mode or broadcast mode.

7 . The wireless communication method according to claim 6 , wherein

the second configuration information comprises at least one of the following: time configuration message, permission information, or rejection information.

8 . The wireless communication method according to claim 6 , wherein the propagation mode comprises the broadcast mode, and before the transmitting, by the relay device, a message carrying the time information to a remote device, the wireless communication method comprises:

receiving, by the relay device, third configuration information transmitted by a network device; and

configuring, by the relay device, a broadcast message identifier according to the third configuration information.

9 . The wireless communication method according to claim 1 , wherein

the message comprises at least one of the following: sidelink master information block, sidelink signalling radio bearer, or discovery signal.

10 . The wireless communication method according to claim 9 , wherein the message comprises a sidelink signalling radio bearer, and before the transmitting, by the relay device, a message carrying the time information to a remote device, the wireless communication method further comprises:

configuring, by the relay device, the sidelink signalling radio bearer.

11 . The wireless communication method according to claim 1 , wherein

the cell comprises at least one of the following: primary cell, secondary cell, or primary secondary cell.

12 . The wireless communication method according to claim 11 , wherein the determining, by the relay device based on the configuration parameter, time information of a cell corresponding to the relay device comprises:

determining, by the relay device, time information of the primary cell and/or the secondary cell based on the configuration parameter;

or,

wherein the determining, by the relay device based on the configuration parameter, time information of a cell corresponding to the relay device comprises:

determining, by the relay device, time information of the primary cell and/or the primary secondary cell based on the configuration parameter.

13 . A relay device, comprising a processor, a memory, and a program or instructions stored in the memory and capable of running on the processor, wherein when the program or the instructions are executed by the processor, the steps of the wireless communication method according to claim 1 are implemented.

14 . A wireless communication method, comprising:

receiving, by a remote device, a message transmitted by a relay device;

determining, by the remote device based on time information of a cell corresponding to the relay device in the message, a transmission time window position of a discovery signal of the cell and/or a neighboring cell of the cell; and/or

parsing out, by the remote device, cell measurement configuration information based on the time information of the cell corresponding to the relay device in the message;

wherein the message is used for determining a system frame number of a Uu interface of a base station, and the time information comprises an offset, the offset being a difference in number between the system frame number of the Uu interface and a frame number of a PC5 interface of the relay device.

15 . The wireless communication method according to claim 14 , before the receiving, by a remote device, a message transmitted by a relay device, further comprising:

transmitting, by the remote device, second request information for the time information to the relay device.

16 . The wireless communication method according to claim 14 , further comprising:

reading, by the remote device, a slot number of the PC5 interface of the relay device, and determining a slot number of the Uu interface of the base station based on the slot number of the PC5 interface; and/or

reading, by the remote device, the frame number of the PC5 interface of the relay device, and determining the system frame number of the Uu interface of the base station based on the frame number of the PC5 interface.

17 . A remote device, comprising a processor, a memory, and a program or instructions stored in the memory and capable of running on the processor, wherein when the program or instructions are executed by the processor, the steps of the wireless communication method according to claim 14 are implemented.

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