Patent ID: 9337989
Filing Date: 2016-05-10
CPC Classification: H04B,H04L,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method for configuring a transmission resource, the method comprising: notifying, by an access device, a user equipment (UE) of an uplink-downlink configuration change period, wherein the uplink-downlink configuration change period is less than a system message change period, wherein the system message change period is a change period of a System Information Block-1 message; and sending, by the access device, a first message to the UE, wherein the first message carries an uplink-downlink configuration indication corresponding to the uplink-downlink configuration change period, so that the UE updates, according to the uplink-downlink configuration indication, an uplink-downlink configuration used by the UE, wherein the uplink-downlink configuration defines which one or more subframes are downlink subframes, which one or more subframes are uplink subframes, and which one or more subframes are special subframes in a time division duplex system, wherein the uplink-downlink configuration change period is 1/N of the system message change period, wherein N is a positive integer greater than 1.