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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:
Aug. 30, 2022

Filed:

Oct. 01, 2020
Applicant:

Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (Publ), Stockholm, SE;

Inventors:

Qianxi Lu, Beijing, CN;

Zhang Zhang, Beijing, CN;

Marco Belleschi, Solna, SE;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 72/12 (2009.01); H04W 72/04 (2009.01); H04W 72/14 (2009.01); H04L 67/104 (2022.01); H04L 67/61 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 72/1289 (2013.01); H04W 72/0413 (2013.01); H04W 72/121 (2013.01); H04W 72/1242 (2013.01); H04W 72/1247 (2013.01); H04W 72/14 (2013.01); H04L 67/104 (2013.01); H04L 67/61 (2022.05);
Abstract

Embodiments of the present disclosure provide methods, apparatuses and computer programs for scheduling a transmission. A method implemented at a terminal device comprises receiving, from a network device, a scheduling configuration for a device to device, D2D, transmission of the terminal device; receiving, from the network device, an uplink scheduling grant for a cellular uplink transmission in a same time resource overlapping with the D2D transmission; determining a scheduling priority for the D2D transmission relative to the cellular uplink transmission based on at least one of: a first comparison between an associated priority of the scheduling configuration and a first priority threshold, and a transmission restriction; and performing at least one of the D2D transmission and the cellular uplink transmission based on the determined scheduling priority. With embodiments of the disclosure, D2D transmission and cellular uplink transmission from a terminal device can he well coordinated.


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