US 12,328,715 B2
Communication method and apparatus, computer-readable medium, and electronic device
Xin Zuo, Shenzhen (CN); Jianbo Xu, Shenzhen (CN); Dan Zhang, Shenzhen (CN); and Binhui Ning, Shenzhen (CN)
Assigned to TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED, Shenzhen (CN)
Filed by Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Company Limited, Shenzhen (CN)
Filed on May 20, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/326,164.
Application 17/326,164 is a continuation of application No. PCT/CN2020/117063, filed on Sep. 23, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 201910936481.X (CN), filed on Sep. 29, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0274516 A1, Sep. 2, 2021
Int. Cl. H04W 72/121 (2023.01); H04W 72/0446 (2023.01); H04W 72/30 (2023.01); H04W 76/11 (2018.01)
CPC H04W 72/121 (2013.01) [H04W 72/0446 (2013.01); H04W 72/30 (2023.01); H04W 76/11 (2018.02)] 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A communication method, executed by an electronic device, the communication method comprising:
generating a second message frame, the second message frame comprising identifier information of a plurality of device groups, each device group including two or more access devices and at least one access device being a member of both a first device group and a second device group of the plurality of device groups, and resource allocation information of each access device in the each device group for respective data transmission to be performed subsequently, further including (i) generating the identifier information of the device group according to an association identifier of each access device comprised in the device group registered with the electronic device and (ii) splicing partial bits of the association identifiers of the two or more access devices in the device group, to obtain bits of the identifier information of the device group;
after transmitting the second message frame to the each access device in the each device group, generating a first message frame, the first message frame comprising group indication information of the two or more access devices, and the group indication information being configured for indicating information about the each device group that performs respective data transmission after a transmission of the first message frame, wherein the group indication information comprises (i) a first field, (ii) one or more second fields and (iii) at least one third field, the first field is configured for indicating a quantity of the plurality of device groups that perform data transmission after the transmission of the first message frame, and the quantity is equal to the number of the one or more second fields and each of the one or more second fields is configured for indicating the identifier information of a respective one of the plurality of device groups that performs data transmission after the transmission of the first message frame and a value of the at least one third field is configured for indicating information about at least one device that performs data transmission after the transmission of the first message frame, wherein the at least one device indicated by the at least third field and each device in the device group indicated by the second field immediately preceding the at least third field have a same channel access order during the data transmission;
transmitting the first message frame to the plurality of device groups, to trigger the two or more access devices in each of the plurality of device groups indicated by the group indication information to perform the respective data transmission; and
receiving, in accordance with an order of the respective identifier information of the each device group within the one or more second fields of the group indication information, the respective data transmission from the two or more access devices in the each device group, the respective data transmission from the two or more access devices in the each device group being in conformance with the resource allocation information in the second message frame and the respective data transmission including first data transmission by the at least one access device as a member of the first device group and second data transmission by the at least one access device as a member of the second device group, respectively.