US 11,968,620 B2
Timer processing method and terminal device
Yiru Kuang, Shenzhen (CN); Haibo Xu, Beijing (CN); Zhenzhen Cao, Boulogne Billancourt (FR); and Bingzhao Li, Beijing (CN)
Assigned to HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD., Shenzhen (CN)
Filed by HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD., Guangdong (CN)
Filed on Dec. 7, 2022, as Appl. No. 18/076,556.
Application 18/076,556 is a continuation of application No. 16/959,411, granted, now 11,553,419, previously published as PCT/CN2019/071294, filed on Jan. 11, 2019.
Claims priority of application No. 201810028302.8 (CN), filed on Jan. 11, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2023/0164692 A1, May 25, 2023
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H04W 52/02 (2009.01); H04W 72/04 (2023.01); H04W 72/044 (2023.01); H04W 74/02 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 52/0216 (2013.01) [H04W 72/044 (2013.01); H04W 74/02 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method, comprising:
receiving a first message, on a first carrier or a first serving cell, wherein the first message indicates a downlink assignment or an uplink grant and is scrambled using a first scrambling identifier, and the first message includes a carrier index indicating a second carrier or a second serving cell;
in response to the first message being scrambled by using the first scrambling identifier, starting or restarting a timer associated with the second carrier or the second serving cell; and
in response to the timer associated with the second carrier or the second serving cell expiring, switching from an active downlink bandwidth part (BWP) to a default downlink BWP, wherein the active downlink BWP comprises a downlink BWP of the second carrier or the second serving cell.