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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 23, 2024
Filed:
Sep. 22, 2022
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Ajit Nimbalker, Fremont, CA (US);
Debdeep Chatterjee, San Jose, CA (US);
Jeongho Jeon, San Jose, CA (US);
Fatemeh Hamidi-Sepehr, Milpitas, CA (US);
Sergey Panteleev, Nizhny Novgorod, RU;
Gang Xiong, Beaverton, OR (US);
Alexey Vladimirovich Khoryaev, Nizhny Novgorod, RU;
Mikhail Shilov, Nizhny Novgorod, RU;
Sergey Sosnin, Zavolzhie, RU;
Andrey Chervyakov, Nizhny Novgorod, RU;
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
Embodiments of a User Equipment (UE), Generation Node-B (gNB) and methods of communication are disclosed herein. The UE may attempt to decode sidelink synchronization signals (SLSSs) received on component carriers (CCs) of a carrier aggregation. In one configuration, synchronization resources for SLSS transmissions may be aligned across the CCs at subframe boundaries in time, restricted to a portion of the CCs, and restricted to a same sub-frame. The UE may, for multiple CCs, determine a priority level for the CC based on indicators in the SLSSs received on the CC. The UE may select, from the CCs on which one or more SLSSs are decoded, the CC for which the determined priority level is highest. The UE may determine a reference timing for sidelink communication based on the one or more SLSSs received on the selected CC.