Patent ID: 11956850
Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A method for using a disengaged-mode-user-equipment coordination set by a base station, the method comprising:
specifying, by the base station, a set of multiple user equipment to form the disengaged-mode-user-equipment coordination set, for joint transmission and reception of data intended for one or more of the multiple user equipment included in the disengaged-mode-user-equipment coordination set, each of the multiple user equipment being in a disengaged mode;
selecting one of the multiple user equipment within the disengaged-mode-user-equipment coordination set to act as a coordinating user equipment for the disengaged-mode-user-equipment coordination set;
transmitting a request message that directs the coordinating user equipment to coordinate the joint transmission and reception of the data intended for the one or more of the multiple user equipment; and
transmitting a downlink signal to each user equipment within the disengaged-mode-user-equipment coordination set effective to:
enable each user equipment within the disengaged-mode-user-equipment coordination set to:
demodulate and sample the downlink signal, and
forward the samples to the coordinating user equipment; and

enable the coordinating user equipment to:
combine the samples from each user equipment, and
jointly process the combined samples to provide decoded data.