Granted Patent B2

US 12,471,091 · App. 17/996,675 · Granted Nov 11, 2025

Inventor: Yanhua Li (Beijing, CN)

Assignee: Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co., Ltd.

H04W72/20H04W72/12

Abstract

Claims (53)

1 . A method for a wearable device to acquire a communication resource, the method comprising:

sending a first request message for acquiring the communication resource to a handheld user equipment;

receiving the communication resource allocated by the handheld user equipment for the wearable device; and

communicating with a base station based on the communication resource;

wherein the communication resource is allocated by the handheld user equipment in response to the first request message by:

sending a communication resource change request to the base station;

receiving a communication resource change response from the base station; and

determining to change at least a part of communication resource acquired by the handheld user equipment to the communication resource allocated for the wearable device according to the communication resource change response.

2 . The method according to claim 1 , further comprising:

establishing a binding connection with the handheld user equipment by a predetermined communication manner through a predetermined application layer protocol.

3 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein the request message comprises at least one of follows: a wearable device identifier, an amount of data to be transmitted, an estimated transmission time, a service characteristic, a logical channel identifier, and a requested timing advance (TA);

wherein, the service characteristic comprises at least one of a packet interval and a packet size.

4 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein the communication resource comprises at least one of a time domain resource, a frequency domain resource and a space domain resource for communicating with the base station.

5 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein the communication resource comprises a TA value for communication with the base station; and the communicating with the base station based on the communication resource comprises:

communicating with the base station based on an acquired TA value of the handheld user equipment.

6 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein the communication resource further comprises a preconfigured uplink resource (PUR), and the communicating with the base station based on the communication resource comprises:

transmitting data with the base station in an idle state and/or an inactive state according to the PUR resource.

7 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein the receiving the communication resource allocated by the handheld user equipment for the wearable device further comprises:

receiving an applied communication resource sent by the handheld user equipment, wherein the applied communication resource is a communication resource applied by the handheld user equipment to the base station for the wearable device.

8 . A method for a handheld user equipment to allocate a communication resource, the method comprising:

receiving a first request message for acquiring the communication resource from a wearable device;

allocating the communication resource for the wearable device in response to the first request message; and

sending the communication resource to the wearable device;

wherein allocating the communication resource for the wearable device comprises:

sending a communication resource change request to the base station;

receiving a communication resource change response from the base station; and

determining to change at least a part of communication resource acquired by the handheld user equipment to the communication resource allocated for the wearable device according to the communication resource change response.

9 . The method of claim 8 , further comprising:

allocating the communication resource for the wearable device in response to detecting a binding connection being established with the wearable device.

10 . The method of claim 8 , further comprising:

sending a communication resource acquisition request applied for the wearable device to the base station, and receiving the communication resource allocated for the wearable device returned by the base station.

11 . The method according to claim 8 , wherein the allocating the communication resource for the wearable device further comprises:

changing at least a part of grant-free resource acquired by the handheld user equipment to a PUR resource allocated for the wearable device.

12 . The method of claim 8 , wherein the change request comprises at least one of follows:

a wearable device identifier, an amount of data to be transmitted, an estimated transmission time, a service characteristic, a logical channel identifier ID, a requested TA, and a changed communication resource;

wherein, the service characteristic comprises at least one of a packet interval and a packet size.

13 . The method according to claim 10 , wherein the sending the communication resource acquisition request applied for the wearable device to the base station comprises:

sending a second request message for acquiring the communication resource to the base station, wherein the second request message at least comprises an indication representing that the communication resource requested to be acquired is for the wearable device, and an ID or index of the wearable device;

receiving a first response message from the base station; and

sending a second response message to the wearable device based on the first response message.

14 . The method according to claim 13 , wherein the second request message further comprises at least one of follows: an amount of data to be transmitted, an estimated transmission time, a service characteristic, a logical channel identifier ID, and a requested TA;

wherein, the service characteristic comprises at least one of a packet interval and a packet size.

15 . The method according to claim 8 , wherein the communication resource comprises at least one of a time domain resource, a frequency domain resource and a space domain resource for communicating with the base station.

16 . A wearable device comprising:

a memory, storing a computer-executable instruction thereon; and

one or more processors, coupled to the memory, when the computer-executable instruction is executed by the one or more processors, a method for a wearable device to acquire a communication resource is implemented, wherein the method comprises:

sending a first request message for acquiring the communication resource to a handheld user equipment;

receiving the communication resource allocated by the handheld user equipment for the wearable device; and

communicating with a base station based on the communication resource;

wherein the communication resource is allocated by the handheld user equipment in response to the first request message by:

sending a communication resource change request to the base station;

receiving a communication resource change response from the base station; and

determining to change at least a part of communication resource acquired by the handheld user equipment to the communication resource allocated for the wearable device according to the communication resource change response.

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