Patent ID: 11877314
Assignee: APPLE INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 18:
19. An apparatus comprising:
a memory; and
at least one processor in communication with the memory and configured to cause a user equipment (UE) to:
determine that a prioritized message is to be transmitted to another UE over sidelink in a transmission period;
select one or more physical resource blocks (PRBs) and one or more sub-frames to be used for transmission of the prioritized message over the sidelink, wherein the PRBs and sub-frames are included in a resource pool of candidate PRBs and candidate sub-frames;
encode, for transmission to at least one other target UE in a cell area, a sidelink control message that indicates selected PRBs, selected sub-frames, and a mute operation for the transmission period for the at least one other target UE to enable sidelink transmission of the prioritized message; and
encode the prioritized message for transmission in the selected PRBs in the selected sub-frames.