Patent ID: 11924682
Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A response sending method, applied to a first communication device, comprising:
receiving a transport block sent by a second communication device through a pre-configured periodic resource; and
sending an acknowledgement (ACK) message corresponding to the transport block to the second communication device on a pre-configured ACK resources;
before the receiving the transport block sent by the second communication device through the pre-configured periodic resource, the method further comprises:
configuring a maximum number K of processes for the second communication device, and configuring a corresponding transmission period P for the periodic resource configured for the second communication device, wherein K is an integer greater than or equal to 1, and P is greater than 0; and
wherein the sending the ACK message corresponding to the transport block to the second communication device on the pre-configured ACK resource comprises:, sending the ACK message to the second communication device within K*P time after the transport block is detected.