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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:
Jul. 29, 2025

Filed:

Aug. 22, 2023
Applicant:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Inventors:

Chunhai Yao, Beijing, CN;

Chunxuan Ye, San Diego, CA (US);

Wei Zeng, Saratoga, CA (US);

Yushu Zhang, Beijing, CN;

Oghenekome Oteri, San Diego, CA (US);

Weidong Yang, San Diego, CA (US);

Hong He, San Jose, CA (US);

Haitong Sun, Cupertino, CA (US);

Yang Tang, San Jose, CA (US);

Jie Cui, San Jose, CA (US);

Yuchul Kim, San Jose, CA (US);

Dawei Zhang, Saratoga, CA (US);

Jia Tang, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 72/20 (2023.01); H04L 5/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 72/20 (2023.01); H04L 5/0055 (2013.01);
Abstract

Systems, methods, and circuitries are provided for performing sidelink communication. An example method generates SCI stage 1 and stage 2 for transmitting a transport block (TB) to a user equipment device (UE). The method includes determining the type of sidelink communication for transmitting the TB. An SCI stage 2 format is selected based on the type of sidelink communication. An SCI stage 2 payload is encoded in accordance with the selected SCI stage 2 format. The selected SCI stage 2 format value is encoded in an SCI stage 1 payload. The SCI stage 1 payload and SCI stage 2 payload are transmitted to the UE.


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