Patent ID: 11936596
Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  Y | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. An apparatus, comprising:
a memory, configured to store a computer program; and
at least one processor, configured to execute the computer program stored in the memory, to perform operations comprising:
responsive to expiration of an inactivity timer corresponding to an active first bandwidth part (BWP), determining whether a carrier in which the first BWP is located comprises a second BWP in an active state, wherein the carrier comprises at least two BWP groups, each BWP group comprises at least one BWP, and a quantity of BWPs in the active state in each BWP group simultaneously is 1 or 0; and
responsive to determining that the carrier comprises the second BWP in the active state, deactivating the first BWP,
wherein the determining whether the carrier in which the first BWP is located comprises the second BWP in the active state comprises:
responsive to determining that a first BWP group does not comprise a default BWP, determining whether the second BWP in the active state is comprised in a second BWP group; or
responsive to determining that the first BWP group does not comprise the default BWP and an initial BWP, determining whether the second BWP in the active state is comprised in the second BWP group,
wherein the first BWP group is a BWP group that is in the at least two BWP groups and that comprises the first BWP, and the second BWP group is a BWP group that is in the at least two BWP groups and that does not comprise the first BWP.