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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 28, 2025
Filed:
May. 03, 2022
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Huaning Niu, San Jose, CA (US);
Wei Zeng, Saratoga, CA (US);
Dawei Zhang, Saratoga, CA (US);
Chunxuan Ye, San Diego, CA (US);
Oghenekome Oteri, San Diego, CA (US);
Hong He, San Jose, CA (US);
Haitong Sun, Cupertino, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
Techniques described herein include solutions for enabling NR sidelink (SL) communications by using radio resource control (RRC) to provide ser equipment (UEs) with grant configuration (CGs) for unidirectional and/or bidirectional SL communications. These techniques also include solutions for UEs to obtain channel occupation times (COTs) for SL communications, and procedures for sharing COTs with other UEs, and procedures for CG uplink control information (UCI) of physical uplink shared channels (PUSCH) transmissions for NR in the unlicensed spectrum (NR-U). The techniques described herein also include solutions for channel state information (CSI) feedback for CGs of SL in the unlicensed spectrum (CG-Sidelink-U). Also described herein are SL techniques for transmission power control of SL communications and clear channel assessment (CCA) procedures.