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Date of Patent:
Jun. 03, 2025

Filed:

Aug. 13, 2021
Applicant:

Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);

Inventors:

Sony Akkarakaran, Poway, CA (US);

Jingchao Bao, San Diego, CA (US);

Tao Luo, San Diego, CA (US);

Assignee:

QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 76/18 (2018.01); H04W 36/30 (2009.01); H04W 76/14 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 76/18 (2018.02); H04W 36/305 (2018.08); H04W 76/14 (2018.02);
Abstract

Techniques are provided for utilizing sidelink communications in response to a timing source outage. An example method for utilizing sidelink communications in response to a timing source outage according to the disclosure includes detecting the timing source outage associated with a first node, determining a second node experiencing a loss of services due to least in part on the timing source outage in the first node, determining a third node with a valid timing source, determining one or more relay nodes based at least in part on a location of the second node and a location of the third node, and providing one or more services to the second node via the one or more relay nodes.


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