Patent ID: 11968047
Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 2:
3. A terminal device, comprising:
a receiver, configured to receive association relationship indication information for an association relationship from a network device, wherein the association relationship indication information indicates a plurality of transmission units having the association relationship or a plurality of hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) processes having the association relationship, wherein the receiver is further configured to receive, from the network device and in accordance with the association relationship indication information, data of the plurality of transmission units or the plurality of HARQ processes, wherein each transmission unit of the plurality of transmission units or the plurality of HARQ processes carries same data, carries different redundancy versions of same data, or carries a same part of data;
a processor, configured to determine that the receiver successfully receives one of the plurality of transmission units or data of one of the plurality of HARQ processes; and
a transmitter, configured to send a positive acknowledgement to the network device in response to a determination that the receiver successfully receives one of the plurality of transmission units or data of one of the plurality of HARQ processes irrespective of whether any others of the plurality of transmission units or data of one of the plurality of HARQ processes are successfully received by the receiver.