Patent ID: 11924846
Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A method, comprising:
receiving, by a user equipment (UE), a first downlink control information (DCI), the first DCI including a first hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) process identifier (ID);
calculating a first HARQ process number based on the first HARQ process ID and on a slot number associated with the first DCI, wherein the calculating includes assigning one or more first bits of the HARQ process ID as one or more first bits of the first HARQ process number, and assigning one or more second bits of the slot number as one or more second bits of the HARQ process number; and
processing a first data block via a HARQ process associated with the first HARQ process number.