US 11,723,020 B2
Method, terminal, and network device for communication using grant-free mode and grant mode
Xiuqiang Xu, Shanghai (CN); Yan Chen, Shanghai (CN); and Yinggang Du, Shenzhen (CN)
Assigned to Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Shenzhen (CN)
Filed by Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Shenzhen (CN)
Filed on Mar. 22, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/208,835.
Application 17/208,835 is a continuation of application No. 16/262,611, filed on Jan. 30, 2019, granted, now 11,019,646.
Application 16/262,611 is a continuation of application No. PCT/CN2017/090375, filed on Jun. 27, 2017.
Claims priority of application No. 201610652562.3 (CN), filed on Aug. 10, 2016.
Prior Publication US 2021/0212093 A1, Jul. 8, 2021
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H04W 72/12 (2023.01); H04W 72/14 (2009.01); H04W 72/04 (2023.01); H04W 72/1268 (2023.01); H04W 72/23 (2023.01)
CPC H04W 72/1268 (2013.01) [H04W 72/04 (2013.01); H04W 72/23 (2023.01)] 17 Claims
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1. A communications apparatus, comprising:
a memory for storing instructions;
one or more processors, coupled to the memory, wherein the instructions, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the communications apparatus to:
send, in a grant-free mode to a network device, first data by using a grant-free resource;
receive an acknowledgement for the first data from the network device, the acknowledgement comprising an instruction; and
in response to the acknowledgement comprising the instruction being received in a resource that is a preset instruction resource, determine that the instruction indicates the communications apparatus to switch from the grant-free mode to a grant mode, and send, in the grant mode after receiving the instruction, second data by using a grant resource to the network device, the preset instruction resource configured for indicating switching to the grant mode.