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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 17, 2025
Filed:
Feb. 11, 2021
Sony Group Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Martin Warwick Beale, Basingstoke, GB;
Kazuyuki Shimezawa, Basingstoke, GB;
SONY GROUP CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A communications device including a receiver configured to receive signals from one or more of a plurality of other communications devices within sidelink communications resources of a plurality of instances of a resource pool of a sidelink interface, the resource pool being formed of a plurality of time-divided slots and a plurality of frequency-divided regions, and a controller. The controller is configured in combination with the receiver to monitor for one or more first current signals transmitted by at least a first transmitting communications device in a first subset of the time-divided slots and the frequency-divided regions of the resource pool during a first of the resource pool instances.