Patent ID: 11910234
Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 25:
26. A method for wireless communications at a fourth user equipment, comprising:
identifying, for a sidelink connection, a frame comprising a control portion and a data portion that is associated with the control portion, the control portion comprising a plurality of control regions, each control region comprising a first transmission time interval for channel reservation requests for a group of UEs and a second transmission time interval for channel reservation responses for the group of UEs;
transmitting, in the first transmission time interval of the frame, a channel reservation request to a third UE;
receiving, from a first UE, a signal indicating that the first UE is receiving data from a second UE during at least a part of the control portion of the frame; and
determining to refrain from transmitting a data signal to the third UE in response to the received signal indicating the first UE is receiving data from a second UE.