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AssigneeQUALCOMM Incorporated
InventorsXinzhou Wu, Junyi Li, Rajiv Laroia, Thomas J. Richardson, Saurabh Tavildar
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Methods and apparatus related to the communication of traffic in peer to peer communications are described. A peer to peer communications system includes traffic slots, and for a pair of devices (first and second) having a connection a first transmission request resource and a second transmission request resource are associated with a traffic transmission interval of the traffic slot, the first request resource preceding the second request resource. The first device can utilize the first resource to transmit a request to transmit traffic to the second device, and when it does, it also uses the second resource to transmit additional information corresponding to the request and/or traffic. If the second device doesn't detect a request on the first resource, then it can use the second resource to transmit a request to first device to transmit traffic to the first device.
A method of operating a first communications device to communicate with a second communications device in a system having a plurality of transmission units, each transmission unit communicating at least one symbol, a first pair of said transmission units corresponding to a first pair of communications devices, said first pair of communications devices including said first and second communications devices, the first and second communications devices having an existing connection, said first pair of transmission units including a first transmission unit corresponding to the first device and a second transmission unit corresponding to the second device, the first and second transmission units being non-overlapping in time, the first transmission unit preceding the second transmission unit, the method comprising:
A first communications device for use in a system including a second communications device, said system having a plurality of transmission units, each transmission unit communicating at least one symbol, a first pair of said transmission units corresponding to a first pair of communications devices, said first pair of communications devices having a connection, said first pair of communications devices including said first and second communications devices, said first pair of transmission units including a first transmission unit corresponding to the first device and a second transmission unit corresponding to the second device, the first and second transmission units being non-overlapping in time, the first transmission unit preceding the second transmission unit, the first communications device comprising:
A first communications device for use in a system including a second communications device, said system having a plurality of transmission units, each transmission unit communicating at least one symbol, a first pair of said transmission units corresponding to a first pair of communications devices, said first pair of communications devices having a connection, said first pair of communications devices including said first and second communications devices, said first pair of transmission units including a first transmission unit corresponding to the first device and a second transmission unit corresponding to the second device, the first and second transmission units being non-overlapping in time, the first transmission unit preceding the second transmission unit, the first communications device comprising:
A computer readable medium embodying machine executable instruction for controlling a first communications device to implement a method of communicating with a second communications device in a system having a plurality of transmission units, each transmission unit communicating at least one symbol, a first pair of said transmission units corresponding to a first pair of communications devices, said first pair of communications devices including said first and second communications devices, the first and second communications devices having an existing connection, said first pair of transmission units including a first transmission unit corresponding to the first device and a second transmission unit corresponding to the second device, the first and second transmission units being non-overlapping in time, the first transmission unit preceding the second transmission unit, the method comprising:
An apparatus comprising:
A method of operating a second communications device to communicate with a first communications device in a system having a plurality of transmission units, each transmission unit communicating at least one symbol, a first pair of said transmission units corresponding to a first pair of communications devices, said first pair of communications devices including said first and second communications devices, the first and second communications devices having an existing connection, said first pair of transmission units including a first transmission unit corresponding to the first device and a second transmission unit corresponding to the second device, the first and second transmission units being non-overlapping in time, the first transmission unit preceding the second transmission unit, the method comprising:
A second communications device for use in a communications system including a first communications device, said system having a plurality of transmission units, each transmission unit communicating at least one symbol, a first pair of said transmission units corresponding to a first pair of communications devices having a connection, said first pair of communications devices including said first and second communications devices, said first pair of transmission units including a first transmission unit corresponding to the first device and a second transmission unit corresponding to the second device, the first and second transmission units being non-overlapping in time, the first transmission unit preceding the second transmission unit, the second communications device comprising:
A second communications device for use in a communications system including a first communications device, said system having a plurality of transmission units, each transmission unit communicating at least one symbol, a first pair of said transmission units corresponding to a first pair of communications devices having a connection, said first pair of communications devices including said first and second communications devices, said first pair of transmission units including a first transmission unit corresponding to the first device and a second transmission unit corresponding to the second device, the first and second transmission units being non-overlapping in time, the first transmission unit preceding the second transmission unit, the second communications device comprising:
A computer readable medium embodying machine executable instructions for controlling a second communications device to implement a method of communicating with a first communications device in a system having a plurality of transmission units, each transmission unit communicating at least one symbol, a first pair of said transmission units corresponding to a first pair of communications devices, said first pair of communications devices including said first and second communications devices, the first and second communications devices having an existing connection, said first pair of transmission units including a first transmission unit corresponding to the first device and a second transmission unit corresponding to the second device, the first and second transmission units being non-overlapping in time, the first transmission unit preceding the second transmission unit, the method comprising:
An apparatus comprising:
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