Patent ID: 11916663
Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 11:
12. The communications apparatus according to claim 9, wherein the type of each symbol in each of the slots is selected from a plurality of possible types of symbols, the plurality of possible types of symbols further comprise a flexible symbol and/or a silent symbol, the flexible symbol is configured using the first configuration information, the flexible symbol refers to a symbol whose transmission direction is not determined, the silent symbol indicates that the communications apparatus does not communicate with the third node, the subset of slots are one or more slots each has at least one flexible symbol, and the slot formats of the subset of slots are modified by modifying one or more flexible symbols in the subset of slots to one or more uplink symbols, one or more downlink symbols, and/or one or more silent symbols.