# US 2025/0168616 A1 · Method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving a signal in a wireless communication system

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- Number: US 2025/0168616 A1
- Document ID: US20250168616A1
- Status: Published application
- Kind: A1
- Application number: 19/029,527
- Filed: 2025-01-17
- Published: 2025-05-22
- Earliest claimed: 2014-08-08
- Assignees: Innovative Technology Lab Co., Ltd.
- Applicants: Innovative Technology Lab Co., Ltd.
- Inventors: Dong Hyun PARK
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20250168616A1

## CPC

- H04W 8/005: {Discovery of network devices, e.g. terminals}
- H04W 48/12: using downlink control channel
- H04W 74/0833: Random access procedures, e.g. with 4-step access
- H04W 72/23: in the downlink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards a terminal
- H04W 76/14: Direct-mode setup
- H04W: WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS (broadcast communication H04H; communication systems using wireless links for non-selective communication, e.g. wireless extensions H04M1/72)

## Abstract

A method includes receiving, by a user equipment (UE) and through Radio Resource Control (RRC) signaling, information of a resource pool for a D2D communication, wherein the information of the resource pool comprises information of a discovery subframe in which a D2D discovery signal is to be communicated, determining that in the discovery subframe, the D2D discovery signal is prioritized over a communication with an evolved NodeB (eNB) unless the communication with the eNB is associated with a random access (RA) procedure, transmitting a RA preamble through a Physical Random Access Channel (PRACH), determining whether the discovery subframe corresponds to a RA subframe in which a RA response for the UE is to be monitored, and in response to determining that the discovery subframe corresponds to the RA subframe, monitoring, by the UE, the RA response during the discovery subframe.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A first wireless user device comprising:
a wireless transceiver comprising at least one antenna;
one or more processors; and
memory storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the first wireless user device to:
determine a time period associated with device-to-device communication between wireless user devices, wherein the time period comprises one or more of:
a transmission time period configured for the first wireless user device to transmit a first device-to-device signal to a different wireless user device; or
a reception time period configured for the first wireless user device to monitor reception of a second device-to-device signal;
determine that in the time period, device-to-device communication between wireless user devices is prioritized over communication with a base station unless communication with the base station is associated with a random access (RA) procedure;
transmit a RA preamble via a Physical Random Access Channel (PRACH);
determine a monitoring period for monitoring a RA response associated with the RA preamble; and
based on determining that at least part of the monitoring period overlaps in time with the time period, monitor the RA response during the overlapped time period.