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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 03, 2026
Filed:
Mar. 30, 2022
Sony Group Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Yuxin Wei, Basingstoke, GB;
Vivek Sharma, Basingstoke, GB;
Hideji Wakabayashi, Basingstoke, GB;
Yassin Aden Awad, Basingstoke, GB;
Sony Group Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A method of operating a communications device for transmitting signals to and/or receiving signals from an infrastructure equipment of wireless communications network and transmitting signals to and/or receiving signals from one or more other communications devices in accordance with Device-to-Device, D2D, communications is provided. The method comprises determining that the communications device is to transmit one or more reference signals in accordance with one or more reference signal characteristics, transmitting the reference signals to the infrastructure equipment and/or one or more of the other communications devices in accordance with the determined reference signal characteristics, and performing measurements on the basis of signals received in response to the transmitted reference signals and/or other reference signals received from one or more of the other communications devices.
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