US 12,302,369 B2
Control method, control apparatus, and storage medium
Tetsuya Yamamoto, Kanagawa (JP)
Assigned to CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on May 23, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/750,462.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-097466 (JP), filed on Jun. 10, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0400491 A1, Dec. 15, 2022
Int. Cl. H04W 72/53 (2023.01); H04L 5/14 (2006.01); H04W 72/044 (2023.01)
CPC H04W 72/53 (2023.01) [H04L 5/14 (2013.01); H04W 72/044 (2013.01)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A control method to be executed by at least one control apparatus, the method comprising:
in a case where, in a first network, a first pattern, in which each of time division duplex (TDD) time slots is assigned to uplink or downlink which is a direction of communication between a base station and a terminal, is used and, in a second network that is different from the first network, the first pattern and a second pattern that is different from the first pattern in assignment of the direction of communication to the time slots can be used for communication by TDD between another base station and a terminal, and the base station operates using the first pattern and the another base station operates using the second pattern,
controlling the another base station belonging to the second network so as to use time slots in which the direction of communication that has been assigned coincides between the first pattern and the second pattern and not to use first time slots in which the direction of communication that has been assigned does not coincide; and
controlling the base station belonging to the first network so as to limit use of second time slots, in which the direction of communication that has been assigned is same as the direction of communication assigned to the first time slots, among time slots different from the first time slots in the first pattern.