Sony patents method to split vehicle-to-vehicle data for faster reception

1. A communication device that performs sidelink communication with a transmission device, the communication device comprising: a transceiver configured for sidelink communications; and control circuitry configured to perform a process for processing sidelink control information (SCI) related to a configured grant (CG), wherein the process comprises: determining whether a first part of the SCI is stored in the communication device to generate a determination result; transmitting the determination result to the transmission device; based on the determination result indicating that the first part of the SCI is stored in the communication device, performing a first resource allocation process that includes: receiving a second part of the SCI, without the first part of the SCI, from the transmission device; performing a first resource allocation process for the sidelink communications based on the stored first part of the SCI and the received second part of the SCI; and performing the sidelink communications to receive transmission data from the transmission device based on the first resource allocation process, or based on the determination result indicating that the first part of the SCI is not stored in the communication device, performing a second resource allocation process that includes: receiving the first and second parts of the SCI from the transmission device: performing a second resource allocation process for the sidelink communications based on the received first and second parts of the SCI; and performing the sidelink communications to receive the transmission data from the transmission device based on the second resource allocation process.