Patent ID: 11877314
Assignee: APPLE INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A method, comprising:
a base station,
allocating a resource pool of physical resource blocks (PRBs) and sub-frames for sidelink transmissions;
decoding, from a user equipment (UE), an uplink control message that indicates that the UE requests a sidelink transmission of a prioritized message in a transmission period;
selecting, for the sidelink transmission of the prioritized message, one or more PRBs of the resource pool and one or more sub-frames of the resource pool; and
encoding, for transmission to the UE and to at least one other target UE in a cell area, a downlink control message that indicates selected PRBs, selected sub-frames, and a mute operation for the transmission period for the at least one other target UE to enable the sidelink transmission of the prioritized message.