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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 14, 2019
Filed:
Nov. 23, 2016
Xuemin Shen, Waterloo, CA;
Miao Wang, Hamilton, CA;
Qinghua Shen, Waterloo, CA;
Osama Aboul-magd, Ottawa, CA;
Yan Xin, Ottawa, CA;
Kwok Shum AU, Ottawa, CA;
Sheng Sun, Ottawa, CA;
Xuemin Shen, Waterloo, CA;
Miao Wang, Hamilton, CA;
Qinghua Shen, Waterloo, CA;
Osama Aboul-Magd, Ottawa, CA;
Yan Xin, Ottawa, CA;
Kwok Shum Au, Ottawa, CA;
Sheng Sun, Ottawa, CA;
HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CANADA CO., LTD., Kanata, CA;
Abstract
Methods and systems for device-to-device (D2D) communication between a first device and a second device. The first device receives a communication transmitted by the second device, where the communication is intended for another recipient other than the first device. The communication provides information for the first device to determine a preferred transmit sector to be used by the second device for the D2D communication. The first device transmits a communication to the second device that provides information indentifying the preferred transmit sector to be used by the second device. As a receiver in the D2D communication, the first device receives data from the second device, transmitted on the preferred transmit sector. As a transmitter in the D2D communication, the first device transmits data to the second device on a preferred transmit sector identified in another communication received from the second device.