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

Claim 20:
21. A method for wireless communications at a third user equipment (UE), 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;
receiving, in the first transmission time interval of the frame, a channel reservation request from a fourth 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 channel reservation response to the fourth UE in response to the received channel reservation request based at least in part on receiving the signal indicating that the first UE is receiving data from a second UE.