Patent ID: 11882535
Assignee: APPLE INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 16:
17. A user equipment (UE) comprising:
a transceiver to receive one or more component carriers (CCs);
one or more antennas coupled to the transceiver; and
processing circuitry in communication with the transceiver and configured to perform operations including:
decoding one or more sidelink synchronization signals (SLSSs) received on the one or CCs via the transceiver;
for each of the one or more CCs on which the one or more SLSSs are decoded, determining a priority level for a CC based on an indicator in one or more respective SLSSs received on the CC;
selecting, from the one or more CCs on which one or more SLSSs are decoded, the CC for which the determined priority level is highest; and
determining a reference timing for sidelink communication based on the one or more SLSSs received on the selected CC.