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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 29, 2025
Filed:
Aug. 03, 2022
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Sharad Sambhwani, San Diego, CA (US);
Dirk Nickisch, Oberpframmern, DE;
Madhukar K Shanbhag, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Rohit U Nabar, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Sanjeevi Balasubramanian, San Jose, CA (US);
Shiva Krishna Narra, San Jose, CA (US);
Sriram Subramanian, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Tarik Tabet, San Diego, CA (US);
Vishwanth Kamala Govindaraju, Mountain View, CA (US);
Yakun Sun, San Jose, CA (US);
Parvathanathan Subrahmanya, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
User equipment in close proximity may transfer data and control information. For example, the user equipment may exchange data or data sets between each other. Each user equipment can receive and transmit data using radio access technologies. A group of user equipments may include active user equipment and passive user equipment. Active user equipment connects with one or more base stations and transfers data on a wireless communication network via the base station. The active user equipment may communicate with other active user equipment and passive user equipment. Passive user equipment may not connect to any base station and/or the wireless communication network and may communicate with other passive user equipment and active user equipment (e.g., via a sidelink, peer-to-peer, or device-to-device channel).