Patent ID: 11917458
Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 24:
25. A first user equipment (UE) comprising:
means for communicating with a second UE using a first frequency resource selected from a first resource pool for device-to-device communication using a first radio access technology (RAT);
means for determining, at the first UE, that a second resource pool for device-to-device communication using a second RAT is being underutilized;
means for transmitting a scheduling assignment after determining, at the first UE, that the second resource pool for the device-to-device communication using the second RAT is being underutilized, the scheduling assignment indicating that the first UE is reserving at least one resource of the second resource pool; and
means for communicating with the second UE via the at least one resource of the second resource pool after transmitting the scheduling assignment.