Patent ID: 11963142
Assignee: BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO., LTD.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A method for slot format indication, comprising:
sending, in response to detecting that a target channel is in an idle state, slot format indication information to User Equipment (UE) through the target channel, wherein the slot format indication information is configured to indicate link formats of each of N symbols comprised in a target partial slot, and N is a positive integer less than 14, wherein the N symbols comprised in the target partial slot are a subset of 14 symbols comprised in a full slot;
wherein the target partial slot is located in a time period during which a base station occupies the target channel, and the target channel is located on an unlicensed spectrum,
wherein the target partial slot is a last slot in the time period during which the base station occupies the target channel, and
the slot format indication information is configured to indicate that the link formats of each of the N symbols comprised in the target partial slot are the same as link formats of each of first N symbols in 14 symbols comprised in a last full slot.