Patent ID: 11956846
Assignee: APPLE INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 7:
8. A method comprising:
at a user equipment (UE) configured with a sidelink:
transmitting a signal over the sidelink to a further UE;
receiving an instance of hybrid automatic repeating request (HARQ) feedback;
determining whether the instance of HARQ feedback is to be utilized to generate a radio link metric associated with the sidelink, wherein the instance of HARQ feedback is a type of HARQ feedback;
when the instance of HARQ feedback is to be utilized to generate the radio link metric associated with the sidelink, generating the radio link metric associated with the sidelink based on the type of HARQ feedback;
identifying the instance of HARQ feedback as nothing received (DTX) feedback;
determining whether the DTX feedback was received adjacent to further DTX feedback or negative acknowledgement (NACK) feedback; and
when the DTX feedback was received adjacent to the further DTX feedback or the negative acknowledgement (NACK) feedback, omitting the DTX feedback from being a factor that provides a basis for generating the radio link metric.