Patent ID: 11956850
Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 13:
14. A base station comprising:
a wireless transceiver;
a processor; and
instructions for a base station manager application that are executable by the processor to configure the base station to:
specify a set of multiple user equipment to form a disengaged-mode-user-equipment coordination set, for joint transmission and reception of data intended for one or more of the multiple user equipment included in the disengaged-mode-user-equipment coordination set, each of the multiple user equipment being in a disengaged mode;
select one of the multiple user equipment within the disengaged-mode-user-equipment coordination set to act as a coordinating user equipment for the disengaged-mode-user-equipment coordination set;
transmit a request message that directs the coordinating user equipment to coordinate the joint transmission and reception of the data intended for the one or more of the multiple user equipment; and
transmit a downlink signal to each user equipment within the disengaged-mode-user-equipment coordination set effective to:
enable each user equipment within the disengaged-mode-user-equipment coordination set to:
demodulate and sample the downlink signal, and
forward the samples to the coordinating user equipment; and

enable the coordinating user equipment to:
combine the samples from each user equipment, and
jointly process the combined samples to provide decoded data.