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

Claim 0:
1. A method for receiving feedback information, comprising
sending, by a network device to a terminal device, association relationship indication information of an associating relationship, 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;
sending, by the network device, data of the plurality of transmission units or the plurality of HARQ processes to the terminal device, 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;
receiving, by the network device, a positive acknowledgement sent by the terminal device, wherein the positive acknowledgement indicates that one of the plurality of transmission units or data of one of the plurality of HARQ processes is successfully received by the terminal device, 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 terminal device; and
in response to said receiving the positive acknowledgement sent by the terminal device, releasing, by the network device, all HARQ processes associated with said data of the plurality of transmission units or the plurality of HARQ processes.