The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document.
The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 07, 2020
Filed:
Mar. 31, 2016
Nec Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Kazushi Muraoka, Tokyo, JP;
Hiroto Sugahara, Tokyo, JP;
NEC CORPORATION, Minato-ku, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A base station () is configured to schedule radio resources to device-to-device (D2D) transmissions (A,B andC) performed by D2D communication pairs (A,B andC) in accordance with an allocation rule that permits two D2D communication pairs (A andC) that are not in proximity to each other to share an identical radio resource but prohibits two D2D communication pairs (A andB) in proximity to each other from sharing an identical radio resource. Each D2D transmission () includes wirelessly transmitting from one radio terminal () directly to the other radio terminal () in each D2D communication pair () without passing through the base station (). It is, thus, possible to enable efficient spatial reuse of radio resources in D2D transmissions performed by D2D communication pairs.