US Patent 10462807 Methods, apparatus, and systems for determining communication priority

A method includes determining, by a network device, a priority for communicating data. The method further includes determining a priority indicator based on the determined priority. The method further includes communicating, by the network device, the priority indicator included within a scheduling assignment (SA) to a data transmitter. The method further includes communicating, by the network device, the data. The data has a priority level that exceeds a predetermined priority threshold.