Patent ID: 9485762
Filing Date: 2016-11-01
CPC Classification: H04L,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A communication device, comprising: a receiving circuit configured to operably receive an uplink-downlink (UL-DL) reconfiguration message from a communication station; an uplink control information generating circuit configured to operably generate a plurality of uplink control information (UCI); a transmitting circuit configured to operably transmit the UCI in a plurality of data frames, wherein each of the data frames comprises a plurality of subframes; and a control circuit configured to operably determine the subframe of the data frame to be an uplink subframe, a downlink subframe or a special subframe according to the UL-DL reconfiguration message; wherein the UL-DL reconfiguration message configures the communication device to operate in one of a plurality of valid UL-DL configurations; a first subframe of the subframes of the data frame is not configured to be the downlink subframe in the valid UL-DL configurations; and the control circuit configures the transmitting circuit to transmit the UCI in the first subframes of the data frames.