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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 15, 2026
Filed:
Mar. 02, 2021
Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Huilin Xu, Temecula, CA (US);
Kapil Gulati, Belle Mead, NJ (US);
Hong Cheng, Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Peng Cheng, Beijing, CN;
QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. In some systems, a user equipment (UE) may support cellular communications (e.g., Uu signaling) in a first frequency range and may support sidelink communications in a second, higher frequency range. To reduce the processing overhead and latency involved in sidelink discovery in the second frequency range, the UE may use Uu signaling in the first frequency range to assist with the sidelink discovery. For example, the UE may determine, based on a configuration, an uplink message supporting UE detection in the first frequency range to support sidelink discovery. The UE may monitor for the uplink message in the first frequency range and may detect a second UE based on the monitoring. The UEs may establish a sidelink connection for sidelink communications in the second frequency range based on the detection of the second UE in the first frequency range.