Patent ID: 11943832
Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 7:
8. A method of a base station (BS), the method comprising:
generating a first indicator requesting a report of a set of sidelink (SL) discontinuous reception (DRX) configurations for SL communications among user equipments (UEs);
transmitting, to a UE among the UEs, a downlink signal including the first indicator;
receiving, from the UE, an uplink signal including the report of the set of the SL DRX configurations based on the first indicator indicating that the report of the set of the SL DRX configurations is requested; and
configuring, based on the report of the set of the SL DRX configurations, a network DRX configuration for an interface between a UE and a network entity including the BS.