MUMBAI, India, June 13 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517051398 A) filed by Interdigital Patent Holdings, Inc., Wilmington, U.S.A., on May 28, for 'channel access with assistance information for sidelink mode-1 with uu-u and sl-u.'

Inventor(s) include Li, Yifan; Adjakple, Pascal; Salim, Umer; Garcia, Virgile; Zhang, Guodong; Pan, Kyle Jung-Lin; and Pragada, Ravikumar.

The application for the patent was published on June 13, under issue no. 24/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "A WTRU monitors a sidelink (SL) channel for communicating with a second WTRU in unlicensed SL mode-1 and collects SL assistance information relating to the SL channel. The WTRU transmits to a base station, over an unlicensed Uu band, one or more of a SL scheduling request (SR) or a SL buffer status report (BSR) and the SL channel assistance information. The WTRU receives downlink control information (DCI) from the base station indicating SL resource scheduling, performs listen-before-talk (LBT) on the SL channel associated with the indicated SL resource scheduling and sends a transmission: (1) to the base station, on a condition LBT is unsuccessful, at least one of indication of LBT failure or a request for new SL resource scheduling; or (2) to the second WTRU, on a condition LBT is successful, SL data using the indicated SL resource scheduling. Additional embodiments are disclosed."

The patent application was internationally filed on Nov. 15, 2023, under International application No.PCT/US2023/079826.

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