Patent ID: 11895696
Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  Y | IPC H

Claim 12:
13. A communications apparatus, comprising:
a processor; and
a memory coupled to the processor and configured to store a computer execution instruction that, when executed by the processor, enable the communications apparatus to:
determine, based on a format configuration indicated by a network device and information about surroundings of the communications apparatus, available time units in the format configuration; and
send, to the network device, an uplink control information (UCI) on a preset frequency domain resource in an unlicensed spectrum,
wherein the preset frequency domain resource is configured by the network device via higher-layer signaling,
wherein the UCI comprises second indication information of the available time units, and
wherein the second indication information indicates to the network device to perform scheduling for data transmission.