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US 12,362,862 · App. 17/111,046 · Granted Jul 15, 2025

Information transmission method and communications device

Inventors: Ruixiang Ma (Beijing, CN); Shengyu Li (Beijing, CN); Lei Guan (Beijing, CN)
Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
H04L1/1812H04L1/1671H04L1/1861H04L5/0055H04W72/21
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Patent No.
US 12,362,862
App. No.
17/111,046
Granted
Jul 15, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

This application provides an information transmission method and a communications device. The method includes: generating, by a terminal device, a hybrid automatic repeat request-acknowledgment HARQ-ACK codebook corresponding to an ith time domain interval, where the ith time domain interval is any one of N time domain intervals of one slot, i is less than or equal to N, i is a positive integer, and N is a positive integer greater than 1; determining, by the terminal device, a physical uplink control channel PUCCH resource corresponding to the HARQ-ACK codebook; and sending, by the terminal device, the HARQ-ACK codebook on the PUCCH resource.

Claims (54)

1. A method performed by a communications apparatus, comprising:

generating a hybrid automatic repeat request-acknowledgment (HARQ-ACK) codebook corresponding to an i th time domain interval, wherein the i th time domain interval is a time domain interval of N time domain intervals of a slot, i is less than or equal to N, i is a positive integer, N is a positive integer greater than 1, the N time domain intervals form the slot, each of the N time domain intervals corresponding to a different HARQ-ACK codebook of N HARQ-ACK codebooks, the N HARQ-ACK codebooks including the HARQ-ACK codebook; and

sending the HARQ-ACK codebook in the slot.

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

receiving first downlink information; and

determining, based on a time unit in which the first downlink information is received and a first indicator value, a first time unit in which feedback information corresponding to the first downlink information is instructed to be sent, wherein the first indicator value indicates a quantity of time units between the time unit in which the first downlink information is received and the first time unit; and

wherein when the first time unit belongs to the i th time domain interval, the HARQ-ACK codebook that corresponds to the i th time domain interval comprises the feedback information corresponding to the first time unit.

3. The method according to claim 2 , wherein the time unit in which the first downlink information is received is the time unit in which a last symbol at a time domain position occupied by the first downlink information is received.

4. The method according to claim 2 , wherein a length of the first time unit is M symbols, a ½ slot, a ¼ slot, a 1/7 slot, or a ⅛ slot, and M is a positive integer less than 14.

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

receiving second indication information from a network device, wherein the second indication information indicates the first indicator value, and the second indication information is carried in higher layer signaling.

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

receiving first downlink control information from a network device, wherein:

the first downlink control information indicates the first indicator value; or

the first downlink control information indicates a value in a set of first indicator values to indicate the first indicator value, and the set of first indicator values is predefined, or indicated by higher layer signaling.

7. The method according to claim 1 , wherein a time domain length of the i th time domain interval is Q symbols, a ½ slot, a ¼ slot, a 1/7 slot, or a ⅛ slot, and Q is a positive integer less than 14.

8. A communications apparatus, comprising:

a processor;

a non-transitory memory storing a program comprising instructions, the instructions being executable by the processor to cause the communications apparatus to:

generate a hybrid automatic repeat request-acknowledgment (HARQ-ACK) codebook corresponding to an i th time domain interval, wherein the i th time domain interval is a time domain interval of N time domain intervals of a slot, i is less than or equal to N, i is a positive integer, N is a positive integer greater than 1, the N time domain intervals form the slot, each of the N time domain intervals corresponding to a different HARQ-ACK codebook of N HARQ-ACK codebooks, the N HARQ-ACK codebooks including the HARQ-ACK codebook; and

send the HARQ-ACK codebook in the slot.

9. The communications apparatus according to claim 8 , the instructions being further executable by the processor to cause the communications apparatus to:

receive first downlink information; and

determine, based on a time unit in which the first downlink information is received and a first indicator value, a first time unit in which feedback information corresponding to the first downlink information is instructed to be sent, wherein the first indicator value indicates a quantity of time units between the time unit in which the first downlink information is received and the first time unit; and

wherein when the first time unit belongs to the i th time domain interval, the HARQ-ACK codebook that corresponds to the i th time domain interval comprises the feedback information corresponding to the first time unit.

10. The communications apparatus according to claim 9 , wherein the time unit in which the first downlink information is received is the time unit in which a last symbol at a time domain position occupied by the first downlink information is received.

11. The communications apparatus according to claim 9 , wherein a length of the first time unit is M symbols, a ½ slot, a ¼ slot, a 1/7 slot, or a ⅛ slot, and M is a positive integer less than 14.

12. The communications apparatus according to claim 9 , the instructions being executable by the processor to further cause the communications apparatus to:

receive second indication information from a network device, wherein the second indication information indicates the first indicator value, and the second indication information is carried in higher layer signaling.

13. The communications apparatus according to claim 9 , the instructions being executable by the processor to further cause the communications apparatus to:

receive first downlink control information from a network device, wherein:

the first downlink control information indicates the first indicator value; or

the first downlink control information indicates a value in a set of first indicator values to indicate the first indicator value, and the set of first indicator values is predefined, or indicated by higher layer signaling.

14. The communications apparatus according to claim 8 , wherein a time domain length of the i th time domain interval is Q symbols, a ½ slot, a ¼ slot, a 1/7 slot, or a ⅛ slot, and Q is a positive integer less than 14.

15. The communications apparatus according to claim 8 , the instructions being further executable by the processor to cause the communications apparatus to:

receive first indication information from a network device, wherein the first indication information indicates a time domain length of the i th time domain interval, and the first indication information is carried in higher layer signaling.

16. The communications apparatus according to claim 8 , wherein each HARQ-ACK codebook of the N HARQ-ACK codebooks includes a different feedback information bit generated by jointly encoding acknowledgment (ACK) information and negative acknowledgment (NACK) information intended to be fed back in a time unit.

17. A communications apparatus, comprising:

a processor; and

a non-transitory memory storing a program comprising instructions, the instructions being executable by the processor to cause the communications apparatus to:

receive a hybrid automatic repeat request-acknowledgment (HARQ-ACK) codebook from a terminal device, wherein the HARQ-ACK codebook is a HARQ-ACK codebook corresponding to an i th time domain interval, the i th time domain interval is a time domain interval of N time domain intervals of a slot, i is less than or equal to N, i is a positive integer, N is a positive integer greater than 1, the N time domain intervals form the slot, each of the N time domain intervals corresponding to a different HARQ-ACK codebook of N HARQ-ACK codebooks, the N HARQ-ACK codebooks including the HARQ-ACK codebook, and the HARQ-ACK codebook is received in the slot.

18. The communications apparatus according to claim 17 , the instructions being further executable by the processor to cause the communications apparatus to:

send first downlink information;

determine a first indicator value; and

determine a first time unit in which feedback information corresponding to the first downlink information will be received, wherein the first indicator value indicates a quantity of time units between a time unit in which the first downlink information is sent and the first time unit; and

wherein the first time unit belongs to the i th time domain interval, and the HARQ-ACK codebook corresponding to the i th time domain interval comprises the feedback information corresponding to the first time unit.

19. The communications apparatus according to claim 18 , the instructions being executable by the processor to further cause the communications apparatus to:

send second indication information to the terminal device, wherein the second indication information indicates the first indicator value, and the second indication information is carried in higher layer signaling.

20. The communications apparatus according to claim 18 , the instructions being further executable by the processor to cause the communications apparatus to:

send first downlink control information to the terminal device, wherein:

the first downlink control information indicates the first indicator value; or

the first downlink control information indicates a value in a set of first indicator values to indicate the first indicator value, and the set of first indicator values is predefined, or indicated by higher layer signaling.

21. The communications apparatus according to claim 17 , the instructions being further executable by the processor to cause the communications apparatus to:

send first indication information to the terminal device, wherein the first indication information indicates a time domain length of the i th time domain interval, and the first indication information is carried in higher layer signaling.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jan 15, 2021
From: MA, RUIXIANG; LI, SHENGYU; GUAN, LEI
To: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 054930/0023 →
Priority Claims (1)
CN 201810566032.6 · Jun 4, 2018 · national
Continuity (2)
Continuation PCTCN2019089329 · May 30, 2019
Related Publication 20210091893A1 · Mar 25, 2021
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