Patent ID: 11895591
Assignee: ASUSTEK COMPUTER INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 8:
9. A User Equipment (UE), comprising:
a control circuit;
a processor installed in the control circuit; and
a memory installed in the control circuit and operatively coupled to the processor;
wherein the processor is configured to execute a program code stored in the memory to:
obtain or be configured with a sidelink DRX configuration applied for a the sidelink groupcast communication associated with a group, wherein the sidelink DRX configuration comprises at least one of an on-duration timer length used for determining an on-duration at the beginning of each sidelink DRX cycle or a cycle length used for determining a length of each sidelink DRX cycle;
determine an identifier associated with the group;
derive or determine a time to start of on-duration for each sidelink DRX cycle or start of each sidelink DRX cycle based on (i) a derived value of “(part of the identifier) mod (the cycle length)” or (ii) a derived value of “(the identifier) mod (the cycle length)”; and
transmit a sidelink control information associated with the group on a sidelink control channel in a period, wherein the period is determined based on the sidelink DRX configuration and the time to start of on-duration for each sidelink DRX cycle or start of each sidelink DRX cycle.