Patent ID: 11895684
Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 6:
7. A network device, comprising: a memory storing instructions, a processor, an input interface, and an output interface; wherein the processor is configured to execute the instructions stored in the memory and cause the network device to:
determine one or more Slot Format Indicators corresponding to one or more Bandwidth Parts (BWPs) configured for a terminal device, wherein the Slot Format Indicator is used to indicate a slot structure within at least one slot; and
control the output interface to send configuration information to the terminal device, wherein the configuration information is used to configure the one or more Slot Format Indicators corresponding to the one or more BWPs;
wherein the Slot Format Indicator is used to indicate a slot structure corresponding to each slot of N slots for the terminal device to take N slots as a cycle and perform data transmission within every N slots according to the slot structure corresponding to the each slot of the N slots, wherein a same slot structure is repeated for every N slots, N is a positive integer greater than 1.