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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.

Date of Patent:
Sep. 22, 2020

Filed:

Oct. 01, 2018
Applicant:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Inventors:

Andrey Chervyakov, Nizhny Novgorod, RU;

Dmitry Belov, Afonino, RU;

Alexey Khoryaev, Nizhny Novgorod, RU;

Tobias Scholand, Essen, DE;

Assignee:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 56/00 (2009.01); H04W 4/40 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 56/0015 (2013.01); H04W 4/40 (2018.02);
Abstract

Apparatuses, systems and methods associated with asynchronous synchronization reference source selection and reselection for wireless communication devices are disclosed herein. In embodiments, one or more non-transitory, computer-readable media having instructions stored thereon, wherein the instructions, in response to execution by a user equipment (UE), cause the UE to establish a sidelink connection with a first synchronization reference (SyncRef) UE, and monitor for physical sidelink broadcast channel (PSBCH) synchronization signals from a second SyncRef UE, wherein the UE is to drop one or more subframes of data reception of the sidelink connection with the first SyncRef UE when the UE monitors for the PSBCH synchronization signals. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.


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