Communication method and apparatus

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12309713-B2
Application number	US-202418643308-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 23, 2024
Priority date	Feb 1, 2019
Publication date	May 20, 2025
Grant date	May 20, 2025

Abstract

A communication method includes determining, by a terminal device, first in-device coexistence (IDC) interference adjustment information, where the first IDC interference adjustment information includes frequency bandwidth information, and sending, by the terminal device, the first IDC interference adjustment information to a network device to adjust IDC interference based on the first IDC interference adjustment information.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method implemented by a communications apparatus and comprising:
determining that first in-device coexistence (IDC) Interference adjustment information exists in the communications apparatus, wherein the first IDC interference adjustment information comprises:
a first frequency and a first bandwidth at which the communications apparatus is interfered with by a first communications system of the communications apparatus in a second communications system of the communications apparatus when the first communications system is an interference source, wherein the first communications system is different from the second communications system; or
a second frequency and a second bandwidth at which the communications apparatus is interfered with by the second communications system in the first communications system when the first communications system is an interfered source; and

sending the first IDC interference adjustment information.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first frequency is a center frequency of the first bandwidth.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the second communications system is a cellular communications system.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first communications system is a WI-FI communications system.

5. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
determining that second IDC interference adjustment information exists in the communications apparatus, wherein the second IDC interference adjustment information comprises port information indicating that the communications apparatus interferes with, in the first communications system, a transmit antenna of the second communications system; and
sending the second IDC interference adjustment information.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the communications apparatus comprises a user equipment (UE) or a chip in the UE.

7. A method comprising:
receiving first in-device coexistence (IDC) interference adjustment information from a communications apparatus, wherein the first IDC interference adjustment information comprises:
a first frequency and a first bandwidth at which the communications apparatus is interfered with by a first communications system of the communications apparatus in a second communications system of the communications apparatus, wherein the first communications system is different from the second communications system; or
a second frequency and a second bandwidth at which the communications apparatus is interfered with by the second communications system in the first communications system; and

performing an IDC interference adjustment based on the first IDC interference adjustment information.

8. The method of claim 7 , wherein the first frequency is a first center frequency of the first bandwidth or the second frequency is a second center frequency of the second bandwidth.

9. The method of claim 7 , wherein the second communications system is a cellular communications system.

10. The method of claim 7 , wherein the first communications system is a WI-FI communications system.

11. The method of claim 7 , further comprising:
switching, based on the first IDC interference adjustment information, a first transmit frequency and a third bandwidth in the first communications system to a third frequency and a fourth bandwidth that are not interfered with by the second communications system; or
switching, based on the first IDC interference adjustment information, an uplink bandwidth part (BWP) of the communications apparatus in the first communications system to a second transmit frequency and a fifth bandwidth that do not interfere with the second communications system; or
decreasing a transmit power of the first communications system based on the first IDC interference adjustment information.

12. The method of claim 7 , further comprising:
receiving second IDC interference adjustment information from the communications apparatus, wherein the second IDC interference adjustment information comprises at least one of:
first port information indicating that the communications apparatus interferes with, in the first communications system, a transmit antenna of the communications apparatus in the second communications system;
second port information indicating that the communications apparatus does not interfere with, in the first communications system, the transmit antenna;
first uplink sounding reference signal (SRS) resource information indicating that the communications apparatus interferes with, in the first communications system, the transmit antenna; or
second uplink SRS resource information indicating that the communications apparatus does not interfere with, in the first communications system, the transmit antenna; and

determining the transmit antenna based on the second IDC interference adjustment information.

13. A communications apparatus comprising:
one or more memories configured to store instructions; and
one or more processors coupled to the one or more memories and configured to execute the instructions to cause the communications apparatus to:
determine that first in-device coexistence (IDC) interference adjustment information exists in the communications apparatus, wherein the first IDC interference adjustment information comprises:
a first frequency and a first bandwidth at which the communications apparatus is interfered with by a first communications system of the communications apparatus in a second communications system of the communications apparatus when the first communications system is an interference source, wherein the first communications system is different from the second communications system; or
a second frequency and a second bandwidth at which the communications apparatus is interfered with by the second communications system in the first communications system when the first communications system is an interfered source; and

send the first IDC interference adjustment information.

14. The communications apparatus of claim 13 , wherein the first frequency is a first center frequency of the first bandwidth or wherein the second frequency is a second center frequency of the second bandwidth.

15. The communications apparatus of claim 13 , wherein the second communications system is a cellular communications system.

16. The communications apparatus of claim 13 , wherein the first communications system is a WI-FI communications system.

17. The method of claim 1 , wherein the second frequency is a center frequency of the second bandwidth.

18. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
determining that second IDC interference adjustment information exists in the communications apparatus, wherein the second IDC interference adjustment information comprises port information indicating that the communications apparatus does not interfere with, in the first communications system, a transmit antenna of the communications apparatus in the second communications system; and
sending the second IDC interference adjustment information.

19. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
determining that second IDC interference adjustment information exists in the communications apparatus, wherein the second IDC interference adjustment information comprises uplink sounding reference signal (SRS) resource information indicating that the communications apparatus interferes with, in the first communications system, a transmit antenna of the communications apparatus in the second communications system; and
sending the second IDC interference adjustment information.

Assignees

• Huawei Tech Co Ltd

Inventors

• Ding rentian
• Kuang Yiru
• Shen Li
• Peng Bingguang

Classifications

• H04W72/541 Primary

  using the level of interference · CPC title

• H04W72/0473

  the resource being transmission power · CPC title

• H04W72/0453 Primary

  Resources in frequency domain, e.g. a carrier in FDMA · CPC title

• H04W36/06

  Reselecting a communication resource in the serving access point · CPC title

• H04L5/0073

  Allocation arrangements that take into account other cell interferences · CPC title