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COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE AND METHODS

  • US 20160338103A1
  • Filed: 12/24/2014
  • Published: 11/17/2016
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/31/2014
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of communicating using a communications device via a wireless access interface to perform device-to-device communications, the method comprisingidentifying one or more sections of a plurality of predetermined sections of shared communications resources of the wireless access interface for transmitting signals representing data to one or more other communications device, the plurality of predetermined sections of the shared communications resources of the wireless access interface being divided into time-units,transmitting signals in the identified one or more predetermined sections of the shared communications resources for at least one of the time divided units,after a collision avoidance time, detecting for at least one subsequent time unit whether another of the one or more communications devices transmits signals in one or more of the identified sections of the shared communications resources, andif signals transmitted by another of the communications devices are not detected for the at least one subsequent time unit, transmitting signals in the one or more identified sections of the shared communications resources, the signals representing the data being communicated to the one or more other communications devices.

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