Patent ID: 11917605
Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 23:
24. An apparatus for wireless communications, comprising:
a memory storing computer executable code; and
one or more processors coupled with the memory and configured to execute the computer executable code and cause the apparatus to:
configure one or more user equipments (UEs) of a group of UEs, including a first UE, with a configuration of resources, wherein the resources include one or more sidelink channels between the UEs in the group of UEs and the first UE and include an uplink channel between the apparatus and each of the UEs in the group of UEs;
output a group physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) message,
wherein the group PDCCH message comprises one or more control messages,
wherein each of the one or more control messages includes a UE identifier of a UE of the group of UEs, other than of the first UE, to retransmit data of the first UE, received via a sidelink channel, of the one or more sidelink channels, between the UE and the first UE, to the apparatus, and
wherein at least one of the one or more control messages includes a UE

identifier of a second UE of the group of UEs; and
obtain the data of the first UE from the second UE via the uplink channel between the apparatus and the second UE.