# US 2019/0173715 A1 · Resource configuration method and apparatus > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 2019/0173715 A1 - Document ID: US20190173715A1 - Status: Published application - Kind: A1 - Application number: 16/272,748 - Filed: 2019-02-11 - Published: 2019-06-06 - Earliest claimed: 2016-08-11 - Assignees: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. - Applicants: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. - Inventors: Junchao Li; Chi Zhang; Zhengwei Gong - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20190173715A1 ## CPC - H04L 27/2656: {Frame synchronisation, e.g. packet synchronisation, time division duplex [TDD] switching point detection or subframe synchronisation} - H04L 1/0013: {Rate matching, e.g. puncturing or repetition of code symbols} - 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 5/0094: {Indication of how sub-channels of the path are allocated} - H04L 27/2621: {Reduction thereof using phase offsets between subcarriers} - H04W 24/02: Arrangements for optimising operational condition - H04W 56/0035: {detecting errors in frequency or phase} - H04W 56/0045: {compensating for timing error by altering transmission time} - H04J 11/005: {of intercell interference} - H04L 5/0073: {Allocation arrangements that take into account other cell interferences} - 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) - H04J: MULTIPLEX COMMUNICATION (transmission in general H04B; peculiar to transmission of digital information H04L5/00; systems for the simultaneous or sequential transmission of more than one television signal H04N7/08; in exchanges H04Q11/00; stereophonic systems H04S) ## Abstract A resource configuration method and an apparatus are provided. The resource configuration method includes: receiving, by user equipment, configuration information sent by a network device, where the configuration information is used to indicate at least one time interval and at least one time-frequency resource unit within the time interval, and the time-frequency resource unit includes a first time-frequency resource subunit and/or a second time-frequency resource subunit; and reconfiguring, by the user equipment, a resource mapping manner and/or a rate matching manner based on the configuration information, so that no downlink receiving or uplink sending is performed by the user equipment on the first time-frequency resource subunit, and adjusting a timing offset of the second time-frequency resource subunit to perform downlink receiving or uplink sending on the second time-frequency resource subunit obtained by adjusting the timing offset. Resource utilization can be improved while ensuring that the user equipment correctly receives data. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A method of resource configuration, comprising: receiving from a network device configuration information used to indicate at least one time interval and at least one time-frequency resource unit within the time interval, and the time-frequency resource unit comprises a first time-frequency resource subunit and/or a second time-frequency resource subunit; and reconfiguring a resource mapping manner and/or a rate matching manner based on the configuration information, so that no downlink receiving or uplink sending is performed by user equipment on the first time-frequency resource subunit, and adjusting a timing offset of the second time-frequency resource subunit to perform downlink receiving or uplink sending on the second time-frequency resource subunit obtained by adjusting the timing offset. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The method according to claim 1, wherein the configuration information is dynamic signaling or semi-static signaling in a specific format. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The method according to claim 1, wherein the first time-frequency resource subunit is located on a time domain resource on which an index of a start basic time domain unit is M and an index of an end basic time domain unit is N, and one basic time domain unit is corresponding to one index; and the second time domain resource subunit is located on a time domain resource on which an index of an end basic time domain unit is M−1 and an index of a start basic time domain unit is M−A; or the second time domain resource subunit is located on a time domain resource on which an index of a start basic time domain unit is N+1 and an index of an end basic time domain unit is N+A, wherein A is a preset quantity of basic time domain units comprised in the second time domain resource subunit. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The method according to claim 1, wherein the second time-frequency resource subunit obtained by adjusting the timing offset is used to transmit a measurement signal between the network device and another network device; or the second time-frequency resource subunit obtained by adjusting the timing offset is used to transmit a measurement signal between the user equipment and user equipment in a cell adjacent to a cell to which the user equipment belongs. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The method according to claim 1, wherein the receiving configuration information sent by a network device comprises: receiving first configuration information sent by the network device, wherein the first configuration information is used to indicate the at least one time interval; and receiving second configuration information sent by the network device, wherein the second configuration information is used to indicate the at least one time-frequency resource unit within the time interval. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) The method according to claim 1, wherein a time domain resource of the time-frequency resource unit comprises at least one basic time domain unit; and the configuration information comprises the index of the start basic time domain unit on the time domain resource of the first time-frequency resource subunit within the time interval and a total quantity of basic time domain units on the time domain resource of the first time-frequency resource subunit within the time interval; or the configuration information comprises the index of the start basic time domain unit on the time domain resource of the first time-frequency resource subunit within the time interval and the index of the end basic time domain unit on the time domain resource of the first time-frequency resource subunit within the time interval. ### Claim 7 (depends on 1) The method according to claim 1, wherein a frequency domain resource of the time-frequency resource unit comprises at least one basic frequency domain unit; and the configuration information comprises an index of a start basic frequency domain unit on a frequency domain resource of the first time-frequency resource subunit within the time interval and a total quantity of basic frequency domain units on the frequency domain resource of the first time-frequency resource subunit within the time interval; or the configuration information comprises an index of a start basic frequency domain unit on a frequency domain resource of the first time-frequency resource subunit within the time interval and an index of an end basic frequency domain unit on the frequency domain resource of the first time-frequency resource subunit within the time interval. ### Claim 8 (depends on 1) The method according to claim 1, wherein a time domain resource of the time-frequency resource unit comprises at least one basic time domain unit; and the configuration information comprises the index of the start basic time domain unit on the time domain resource of the second time-frequency resource subunit within the time interval and the total quantity of basic time domain units on the time domain resource of the second time-frequency resource subunit within the time interval; or the configuration information comprises the index of the start basic time domain unit on the time domain resource of the second time-frequency resource subunit within the time interval and the index of the end basic time domain unit on the time domain resource of the second time-frequency resource subunit within the time interval. ### Claim 9 (depends on 1) The method according to claim 1, wherein a frequency domain resource of the time-frequency resource unit comprises at least one basic frequency domain unit; and the configuration information comprises an index of a start basic frequency domain unit on a frequency domain resource of the second time-frequency resource subunit within the time interval and a total quantity of basic frequency domain units on the frequency domain resource of the second time-frequency resource subunit within the time interval; or the configuration information comprises an index of a start basic frequency domain unit on a frequency domain resource of the second time-frequency resource subunit within the time interval and an index of an end basic frequency domain unit on the time domain resource of the second time-frequency resource subunit within the time interval. ### Claim 10 (depends on 1) The method according to claim 1, wherein the configuration information comprises a preset format identifier corresponding to the first time-frequency resource subunit within the time interval; and/or the configuration information comprises a preset format identifier corresponding to the second time-frequency resource subunit within the time interval, wherein one time-frequency resource subunit is corresponding to one preset format identifier. ### Claim 11 (depends on 1) The method according to claim 1, wherein the configuration information is carried in dynamic signaling or semi-static signaling; and when the user equipment receives the dynamic signaling and the semi-static signaling, the user equipment selects the dynamic signaling or the semi-static signaling based on a preset priority, and obtains the configuration information from the selected signaling. ### Claim 12 A method of resource configuration, comprising: sending to all user equipments in a cell of the network device configuration information used to indicate at least one time interval and at least one time-frequency resource unit within the time interval, and the time-frequency resource unit comprises a first time-frequency resource subunit and/or a second time-frequency resource subunit. ### Claim 13 (depends on 12) The method according to claim 12, wherein the configuration information is dynamic signaling or semi-static signaling in a specific format. ### Claim 14 (depends on 12) The method according to claim 12, wherein the method further comprises: transmitting a measurement signal with another network device on the second time-frequency resource subunit obtained by adjusting a timing offset. ### Claim 15 A method of resource configuration, comprising: receiving from a network device configuration information used to indicate at least one time interval and at least one time-frequency resource subunit within the time interval; and reconfiguring a signal on the time-frequency resource subunit onto a predefined time-frequency resource based on the configuration information, and skipping performing downlink receiving or uplink sending on the time-frequency resource subunit. ### Claim 16 (depends on 15) The method according to claim 15, wherein the signal on the time-frequency resource subunit comprises at least one of data information, a control signal, and a reference signal. ### Claim 17 (depends on 15) The method according to claim 15, wherein the predefined time-frequency resource is a basic time domain unit that comprises a preset index; or the predefined time-frequency resource is a time-frequency resource that differs by a preset quantity of basic time domain units from the time-frequency resource subunit in time domain; or the predefined time-frequency resource is a time-frequency resource that differs by a first preset quantity of basic time domain units from the time-frequency resource subunit in time domain and that differs by a second preset quantity of basic frequency domain units from the time-frequency resource subunit in frequency domain. ### Claim 18 (depends on 15) The method according to claim 15, wherein the time-frequency resource subunit is used to transmit a measurement signal between user equipment and user equipment in a cell adjacent to a cell to which the user equipment belongs; or the time-frequency resource subunit is used to transmit a measurement signal between the network device and another network device. ### Claim 19 A method of resource configuration, comprising: sending to user equipment configuration information used to indicate at least one time interval and at least one time-frequency resource subunit within the time interval, so that the user equipment reconfigures a signal on the time-frequency resource subunit onto a predefined time-frequency resource. ### Claim 20 (depends on 19) The method according to claim 19, wherein the time-frequency resource subunit is used to transmit a measurement signal between a network device and another network device; or the time-frequency resource subunit is used to transmit a measurement signal between the user equipment and user equipment in a cell adjacent to a cell to which the user equipment belongs.