US 12,261,702 B2
Timer control method, apparatus, and system
Jun Li, Shanghai (CN); Zhihu Luo, Beijing (CN); Hong Wang, Beijing (CN); and Baokun Shan, Shenzhen (CN)
Assigned to Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Shenzhen (CN)
Filed by Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Shenzhen (CN)
Filed on Feb. 15, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/672,379.
Application 17/672,379 is a continuation of application No. PCT/CN2020/109599, filed on Aug. 17, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 201910755801.1 (CN), filed on Aug. 15, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0173842 A1, Jun. 2, 2022
Int. Cl. H04W 4/00 (2018.01); H04L 1/1829 (2023.01); H04L 5/00 (2006.01); H04W 72/23 (2023.01); H04W 76/28 (2018.01)
CPC H04L 1/1848 (2013.01) [H04L 5/0055 (2013.01); H04W 72/23 (2023.01); H04W 76/28 (2018.02)] 20 Claims
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1. A timer control method, comprising:
monitoring a physical downlink control channel;
obtaining downlink control information on the physical downlink control channel; and
in response to the downlink control information indicating data transmission of N hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) processes, and a terminal device being configured with the N HARQ processes, wherein N is an integer greater than or equal to 2, stopping a discontinuous reception inactivity timer; and
in response to the downlink control information indicating data transmission of M HARQ processes, data of at least one HARQ process in the data transmission of the M HARQ processes being newly transmitted, and the terminal device being configured with the N HARQ processes, wherein M is an integer greater than or equal to 1, N is an integer greater than or equal to 2, and M is less than N, starting or restarting the discontinuous reception inactivity timer.