Patent ID: 11956661
Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 3:
4. A communication method performed by a terminal, comprising:
receiving an uplink data sending announcement from a network side device, wherein the uplink data sending announcement is used to determine a sending time for feeding back the buffer information that enables one or more terminals to simultaneously feeding feed back the buffer information, wherein the buffer information comprises a backoff timer value;
sending, the buffer information to the network side device based on the sending time in response to determining that data needs to be sent, wherein the buffer information comprises a sending level indicating an access priority of the data, wherein the buffer information is used to determine scheduling information; and
in response to receiving a frame that carries the scheduling information from the network side device, sending the data to the network side device according to the scheduling information.