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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 16, 2025
Filed:
Aug. 01, 2022
Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Chih-Hao Liu, San Diego, CA (US);
Giovanni Chisci, San Diego, CA (US);
Jing Sun, San Diego, CA (US);
Yisheng Xue, San Diego, CA (US);
Xiaoxia Zhang, San Diego, CA (US);
Qing Li, Princeton Junction, NJ (US);
Jae Ho Ryu, San Diego, CA (US);
QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. In some cases, a first user equipment (UE) may perform a listen-before-talk (LBT) procedure to identify a channel occupancy time (COT). The COT may include some slots for transmitting a sidelink message and some sidelink synchronization signal block (S-SSB) slots for transmitting S-SSBs. In some examples, to fill a gap created by the S-SSB slots within the COT and thus maintain the COT across the S-SSB slots, the first UE or the second UE may transmit some signaling to provide transmissions in the S-SSB slots. For example, the first UE may transmit a padding signal, the second UE may transmit S-SSBs, or the UEs may use a gap control procedure. Upon filling the gap, the first UE may transmit a sidelink message to the second UE in slots of the COT excluding the S-SSB slots.