US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Oct. 14 for "Discontinuous reception in sidelink communication based on a direct frame number" (California, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,960, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Discontinuous reception in sidelink communication based on a direct frame number" was invented by Gabi Sarkis (San Diego), Seyedkianoush Hosseini (San Diego) and Qing Li (Princeton Junction, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An effective approach for a user equipment (UE) to perform a sidelink communication with another UE in a discontinuous reception (DRX) mode is disclosed. For example, a UE may determine a direct frame number (DFN) timing, and configure a sidelink DRX mode using one or more sidelink DRX parameters based on the DFN timing. The UE may perform a si...