# US 11,445,488 B2 · Control information transmission method and device > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 11,445,488 B2 - Document ID: US11445488B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 16/728,971 - Filed: 2019-12-27 - Published: 2020-04-30 - Granted: 2022-09-13 - Earliest claimed: 2017-06-30 - Assignees: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. - Applicants: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. - Inventors: Bai Du; Jinlin Peng; Peng Zhang; Toufiqul Islam - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US11445488B2 ## CPC - H04L 47/245: {using preemption} - H04W 72/23: in the downlink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards a terminal - H04L 5/0005: {Time-frequency} - H04L 5/0048: {Allocation of pilot signals, i.e. of signals known to the receiver (allocation of control signalling H04L5/0053; use of control signalling H04L5/0091)} - H04L 5/0053: {Allocation of signalling, i.e. of overhead other than pilot signals} - H04L 5/0092: {Indication of how the channel is divided} - H04W 72/0446: Resources in time domain, e.g. slots or frames - H04W 72/0453: Resources in frequency domain, e.g. a carrier in FDMA - H04W 72/569: {of the traffic information} - H04W 76/27: Transitions between radio resource control [RRC] states - H04L 1/0026: {Transmission of channel quality indication} - H04L 5/0044: {Allocation of payload; Allocation of data channels, e.g. PDSCH or PUSCH} - H04L 5/0062: {Avoidance of ingress interference, e.g. ham radio channels} - H04L: TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION (arrangements common to telegraphic and telephonic communication H04M) - H04W: WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS (broadcast communication H04H; communication systems using wireless links for non-selective communication, e.g. wireless extensions H04M1/72) ## Abstract This application provides a control information transmission method and a device, and relates to the wireless communications field, to improve data transmission efficiency. The method includes: determining, by a network device, first indication information, where the first indication information is used to indicate whether information transmission on a first time-frequency resource is affected; sending, by the network device, the first indication information through a physical downlink control channel; and receiving, by a terminal device, the first indication information, and determining, based on the first indication information, whether information transmission on a third time-frequency resource is affected, where the third time-frequency resource is a time-frequency resource that is used for downlink information transmission between the terminal device and the network device. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A method, comprising: receiving, by a terminal device via radio resource control (RRC) signaling, an indication indicating a segmentation method in a plurality of segmentation methods for a first time-frequency resource, the segmentation method being a first segmentation method or a second segmentation method, the first segmentation method indicating that the first time-frequency resource comprises a pre-configured number of subsets of time-frequency resources grouped in a time domain, and the second segmentation method indicating that the first time-frequency resource comprises the pre-configured number of time-frequency resources grouped in both the time domain and a frequency domain, wherein the pre-configured number is m, and m is an integer greater than 1; receiving, by the terminal device, first indication information through a physical downlink control channel, wherein the first indication information comprises second indication information with a length of m bits, and each bit of the second indication information corresponds to a subset of the pre-configured number of subsets of time-frequency resources and indicates whether no transmission to the terminal device is present in a corresponding subset; and determining, by the terminal device based on the segmentation method and the first indication information, a first subset from the pre-configured number of subsets of time-frequency resources, with no transmission to the terminal device present in the first subset. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The method according to claim 1, wherein the segmentation method is the first segmentation method, each subset comprises a first time domain unit, and a time domain length of the first time domain unit is less than a time domain length of the first time-frequency resource, and the first time-frequency resource comprises n second time domain units which are grouped into m first time domain units, wherein n=k*m+r, m, n, and k are positive integers, r is an integer greater than or equal to zero and r is less than m, each of first r first time domain units of the m first time domain units comprises k+1 second time domain units, and each of rest of m−r first time domain units of the m first time domain units comprises k second time domain units. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The method according to claim 1, wherein the segmentation method is the second segmentation method, and each subset comprises a first frequency domain unit and a first time domain unit; wherein the first time-frequency resource comprises n second time domain units that are grouped into m1 first time domain units, and the first time-frequency resource comprises f second frequency domain units that are grouped into n1 first frequency domain units, and wherein m1*n1=m; wherein n=k1*m1+r1, m1, n, and k1 are positive integers, r1 is an integer greater than or equal to zero and r1 is less than m1, each of first r1 first time domain units of the m1 first time domain units comprises k1+1 second time domain units, and each of rest of m1−r1 first time domain units of the m1 first time domain units comprises k1 second time domain units; and wherein f=k2*n1+r2, n1, f, and k2 are positive integers, r2 is an integer greater than or equal to zero and r2 is less than n1, each of first r2 first frequency domain units of the n1 first frequency domain units comprises k2+1 second frequency domain units, and each of rest of n1−r2 first frequency domain units of the n1 first frequency domain units comprises k2 second frequency domain units. ### Claim 4 (depends on 3) The method according to claim 3, wherein m1 is equal to 7 and n1 is equal to 2. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The method according to claim 1, wherein m is equal to 14. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) The method according to claim 1, wherein a time domain length of the first time-frequency resource is equal to a monitoring period of the first indication information. ### Claim 7 (depends on 6) The method according to claim 6, wherein when the first indication information is received at a time represented by an Nth first time domain unit, and a sending interval of the first indication information is equal to a span of T first time domain units, the first time-frequency resource is located in the time domain from an (N−T)th first time domain unit to an (N−1)th first time domain unit, wherein N and T are positive integers, and T is less than or equal to N. ### Claim 8 An apparatus comprising: a processor; and a non-transitory computer readable medium storing a program to be executed by the processor, the program comprises instructions for: receiving, via radio resource control (RRC) signaling, an indication indicating a segmentation method in a plurality of segmentation methods for a first time-frequency resource, the segmentation method being a first segmentation method or a second segmentation method, the first segmentation method indicating that the first time-frequency resource comprises a pre-configured number of subsets of time-frequency resources grouped in a time domain, and the second segmentation method indicating that the first time-frequency resource comprises the pre-configured number of subsets of time-frequency resources grouped in both the time domain and a frequency domain, wherein the pre-configured number is m, and m is an integer greater than 1; receiving first indication information through a physical downlink control channel, wherein the first indication information comprises second indication information with a length of m bits, and each bit of the second indication information corresponds to one subset of the pre-configured number of subsets of time-frequency resources and indicates whether no transmission to the apparatus is present in a corresponding subset; and determining, based on the segmentation method and the first indication information, a first subset from the pre-configured number of subsets of time-frequency resources, with no transmission to the apparatus present in the first subset. ### Claim 9 (depends on 8) The apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the segmentation method is the first segmentation method, each subset comprises a first time domain unit, and a time domain length of the first time domain unit is less than a time domain length of the first time-frequency resource. ### Claim 10 (depends on 9) The apparatus according to claim 9, wherein the first time-frequency resource comprises n second time domain units which are grouped into m first time domain units, wherein n=k*m+r, m, n, and k are positive integers, r is an integer greater than or equal to zero and r is less than m, each of first r first time domain units of the m first time domain units comprises k+1 second time domain units, and each of rest of m−r first time domain units of the m first time domain units comprises k second time domain units. ### Claim 11 (depends on 8) The apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the segmentation method is the second segmentation method, and each subset comprises a first frequency domain unit and a first time domain unit. ### Claim 12 (depends on 11) The apparatus according to claim 11, wherein the first time-frequency resource comprises n second time domain units that are grouped into m1 first time domain units, and the first time-frequency resource comprises f second frequency domain units that are grouped into n1 first frequency domain units, wherein m1*n1=m; wherein n=k1*m1+r1, m1, n, and k1 are positive integers, r1 is an integer greater than or equal to zero and r1 is less than m1, each of first r1 first time domain units of the m1 first time domain units comprises k1+1 second time domain units, and each of rest of m1−r1 first time domain units of the m1 first time domain units comprises k1 second time domain units; and wherein f=k2*n1+r2, n1, f, and k2 are positive integers, r2 is an integer greater than or equal to zero and r2 is less than n1, each of first r2 first frequency domain units of the n1 first frequency domain units comprises k2+1 second frequency domain units, and each of rest of n1−r2 first frequency domain units of the n1 first frequency domain units comprises k2 second frequency domain units. ### Claim 13 (depends on 12) The apparatus according to claim 12, wherein m1 is equal to 7 and n1 is equal to 2. ### Claim 14 (depends on 8) The apparatus according to claim 8, wherein m is equal to 14. ### Claim 15 An apparatus comprising: a processor; and a non-transitory computer readable medium storing a program to be executed by the processor, the program comprises instructions for: determining a segmentation method for a first time-frequency resource in a plurality of segmentation methods, the segmentation method being a first segmentation method or a second segmentation method, the first segmentation method indicating that the first time-frequency resource comprises a pre-configured number of subsets of time-frequency resources grouped in a time domain, and the second segmentation method indicating that the first time-frequency resource comprises the pre-configured number of subsets of time-frequency resources grouped in both the time domain and a frequency domain, wherein the pre-configured number is m, and m is an integer greater than 1; sending an indication indicating the segmentation method to a terminal device via radio resource control (RRC) signaling; determining first indication information, wherein the first indication information comprises second indication information with a length of m bits, and each bit of the second indication information corresponds to a subset of the pre-configured number of subsets of time-frequency resources and indicates whether no transmission to the terminal device is present in a corresponding subset; and sending the first indication information to the terminal device through a physical downlink control channel. ### Claim 16 (depends on 15) The apparatus according to claim 15, wherein the segmentation method is the first segmentation method, each subset comprises a first time domain unit, and a time domain length of the first time domain unit is less than a time domain length of the first time-frequency resource, and the first time-frequency resource comprises n second time domain units which are grouped into m first time domain units, wherein n=k*m+r, m, n, and k are positive integers, r is an integer greater than or equal to zero and r is less than m, each of first r first time domain units of the m first time domain units comprises k+1 second time domain units, and each of rest of m−r first time domain units of the m first time domain units comprises k second time domain units. ### Claim 17 (depends on 15) The apparatus according to claim 15, wherein the segmentation method is the second segmentation method, and each subset comprises a first frequency domain unit and a first time domain unit; wherein the first time-frequency resource comprises n second time domain units that are grouped into m1 first time domain units, and the first time-frequency resource comprises f second frequency domain units that are grouped into n1 first frequency domain units, and wherein m1*n1=m; wherein n=k1*m1+r1, m1, n, and k1 are positive integers, r1 is an integer greater than or equal to zero and r1 is less than m1, each of first r1 first time domain units of the m1 first time domain units comprises k1+1 second time domain units, and each of rest of m1−r1 first time domain units of the m1 first time domain units comprises k1 second time domain units; and wherein f=k2*n1+r2, n1, f, and k2 are positive integers, r2 is an integer greater than or equal to zero and r2 is less than n1, each of first r2 first frequency domain units of the n1 first frequency domain units comprises k2+1 second frequency domain units, and each of rest of n1−r2 first frequency domain units of the n1 first frequency domain units comprises k2 second frequency domain units. ### Claim 18 (depends on 17) The apparatus according to claim 17, wherein m1 is equal to 7 and n1 is equal to 2. ### Claim 19 (depends on 15) The apparatus according to claim 15, wherein m is equal to 14. ### Claim 20 (depends on 15) The apparatus according to claim 15, wherein a time domain length of the first time-frequency resource is equal to a monitoring period of the first indication information.