Patent ID: 11929952
Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 18:
19. A method of operating a second user equipment (UE), comprising:
determining a sidelink positioning reference signal (PRS) pattern for a sidelink position estimation procedure, the sidelink PRS pattern including at least one PRS transmission occasion for each of a group of UEs on a shared communication medium; and
monitoring a first PRS transmission occasion for receipt of a first PRS from a first UE in accordance with the sidelink PRS pattern,
wherein the group of UEs comprises the first UE and at least one other UE,
wherein the sidelink PRS pattern includes N PRS transmission occasions associated with the first UE, and
wherein the sidelink PRS pattern includes N PRS transmission occasions that are split between the first UE and the at least one other UE, with each of the N PRS transmission occasions associated with the first UE being paired with one respective PRS transmission occasion from among the N PRS transmission occasions that are split between the first UE and the at least one other UE.