Methods and devices for performing proximity discovery

JB Kim, N Choi, C Koo, Z Cai - US Patent 9,549,394, 2017 - Google Patents
A method for use in a first user equipment (UE) includes receiving, from a base station,
control information and a resource assignment for uplink transmission; and transmitting …

Methods and devices for performing proximity discovery

Z Cai, JB Kim, N Choi, C Koo - US Patent 10,645,680, 2020 - Google Patents
A method for use in a first user equipment (UE) includes receiving, from a base station,
control information and a resource assignment for uplink transmission; and transmitting …

Methods and apparatus for opportunistic offloading of network communications to device-to-device communication

J Zou, S Vasudevan - US Patent App. 13/523,521, 2013 - Google Patents
In one embodiment, the method for offloading communica tions of a first base station
includes determining that a first user equipment (UE) and a second UE are candidates for …

Methods and device for performing device-to-device communication

M Narasimha, V Nangia, R Nory - US Patent 9,325,480, 2016 - Google Patents
Disclosed are methods for carrying out device-to-device (“D2D”) communication. In one
implementation, a user equipment (“UE”) communicates D2D with another UE using uplink …

Methods And Networks For Device To Device Communication

S Vasudevan, I Broustis, V Cakulev… - US Patent App. 13 …, 2013 - Google Patents
At least one example embodiment discloses a method of controlling communications
between first and second user equipments (UEs) by a base station in a network. The method …

Methods and devices of assigning resource for sidelink communication system

M Wu, F Sun, Z Miao, Y Wang - US Patent 11,297,604, 2022 - Google Patents
A resource assignment method performed by a user equip ment (UE) is provided. The
resource assignment method includes determining a target resource set for data transmis …

Sidelink quality of service management in autonomous mode of wireless communications systems and related methods and apparatuses

C Zhang, SA Ashraf, M Belleschi - US Patent App. 17/280,119, 2021 - Google Patents
A method is disclosed for operating a user equipment (UE) for device-to-device (D2D)
communications. The method includes receiving booking information from another UE. The …

Improving device to device communication

A Klatt, G Wannemacher - US Patent 10,531,271, 2020 - Google Patents
(57) ABSTRACT A method for at least one of device to device proximity detection and device
to device communication between a first user equipment and a second user equipment …

Enabling device-to-device discovery

S Patil, SR Tavildar, SK Baghel, K Gulati - US Patent 9,668,232, 2017 - Google Patents
Methods, systems, and devices are describe for signaling protocols for device-to-device
discovery operations in a wireless communication system. A user equipment (UE) may be …

Methods and apparatus for transmitting and/or controlling device-to-device discovery signals

SJ Hakola, M Pikkarainen, V Vartiainen… - US Patent …, 2016 - Google Patents
A wireless device transmits a device-to-device discovery signal using the same transmission
resource that is used for transmitting uplink retransmissions to a base station by a second …