Patent ID: 9306721
Filing Date: 2016-04-05
CPC Classification: H04L,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method on a first UE, the method comprising: receiving, from a network entity via broadcast signaling, a first uplink-downlink configuration, the first uplink-downlink configuration designating a first set of one or more subframes of a series of subframes as uplink subframes; receiving, from the network entity via dedicated signaling, a second uplink-downlink configuration, the second uplink-downlink configuration designating a second set of one or more subframes of the series of subframes as uplink subframes; wherein the first set of uplink subframes and the second set of uplink subframes differ from one another by at least one uplink subframe; comparing the first set of uplink subframes with the second set of uplink subframes; determining, based on the comparison of the first set of uplink subframes and the second set of uplink subframes, which subframe or subframes of the series are device-to-device subframes and which subframe or subframes of the series are HARQ-ACK subframes; transmitting directly to a second UE and receiving directly from the second UE on one or more of the device-to-device subframes; transmitting one or more uplink HARQ-ACK messages to the network entity on one or more of the HARQ-ACK subframes of the series; and adjusting a number of HARQ processes based at least on a number of the subframes determined to be device-to-device subframes and the first uplink-downlink configuration.