Patent ID: 9496990
Filing Date: 2016-11-15
CPC Classification: H04J,H04L

Claim Text:
1. A method of remapping Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ) timeline in Time Division Duplex (TDD) uplink-downlink (UL-DL) reconfiguration, for a communication device in a wireless communication system, comprising: being reconfigured from a first TDD UL-DL configuration in a first radio frame to a second TDD UL-DL configuration in a second radio frame on a carrier; determining a TDD UL-DL reference configuration according to UL subframe allocations of the first and second TDD UL-DL configurations in the first radio frame, wherein the TDD UL-DL reference configuration has the least number of UL subframes among all TDD UL-DL reference configurations which include all UL subframes both in the first and second TDD UL-DL configurations; performing HARQ processes of the first TDD UL-DL configuration according to a HARQ timeline of the TDD UL-DL reference configuration during the first and second radio frames on the carrier; and performing UL HARQ processes of the second TDD UL-DL configuration according to a HARQ timeline of the second TDD UL-DL configuration during the second radio frame on the carrier.