CN113286365A

CN113286365A - Time interval determination method and device and communication equipment

Info

Publication number: CN113286365A
Application number: CN202010102906.XA
Authority: CN
Inventors: 吴凯; 沈晓冬; 潘学明
Original assignee: Vivo Mobile Communication Co Ltd
Current assignee: Vivo Mobile Communication Co Ltd
Priority date: 2020-02-19
Filing date: 2020-02-19
Publication date: 2021-08-20
Anticipated expiration: 2040-02-19
Also published as: CN113286365B

Abstract

The embodiment of the invention discloses a method and a device for determining a time interval and communication equipment, and belongs to the technical field of communication. The method for determining the time interval is applied to the terminal and comprises the following steps: determining the first time interval T based on at least one of: whether the terminal is configured with a secondary cell Scell or not; whether a network side is configured with indication information indicating whether the Scell is dormant or not through an energy-saving Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH); activating the subcarrier interval of the uplink or downlink bandwidth part BWP of the SPcell of the special cell; activating uplink or downlink BWP subcarrier intervals of the Scell; whether a network side configures a plurality of discontinuous reception groups (DRX groups); and whether the network side configures the transmission of the terminal out-of-band carrier aggregation inter-band CA. The technical scheme of the invention can determine the time interval between the monitoring energy-saving PDCCH and the starting time of the DRXOndurationtimer.

Description

Time interval determination method and device and communication equipment

Technical Field

The present invention relates to the field of communications technologies, and in particular, to a method and an apparatus for determining a time interval, and a communication device.

Background

In the related art, a network side may configure a terminal (User Equipment, UE) with a monitoring time of multiple Physical Downlink Control Channels (PDCCHs), where a time interval between the monitoring time of the PDCCH and a starting time of a Discontinuous Reception (DRX) duration timer (Discontinuous Reception timer) operation needs to be greater than a set time interval, and the set time intervals are different corresponding to different subcarrier intervals.

In the prior art, a method for determining a time interval is not provided when Bandwidth part (BWP) subcarrier intervals in multiple serving cells (serving cells) are different, and when a network side configures different functional characteristic combinations of UEs and indication information functions carried by an energy-saving PDCCH are different.

Disclosure of Invention

The embodiment of the invention provides a method and a device for determining a time interval and communication equipment, which can determine the time interval between the monitoring energy-saving PDCCH and the starting time of a DRXOnduratTimer.

In a first aspect, an embodiment of the present invention provides a method for determining a time interval, which is applied to a terminal, and includes:

determining the first time interval T based on at least one of:

whether the terminal is configured with a secondary cell Scell or not;

whether a network side is configured with indication information indicating whether the Scell is dormant or not through an energy-saving Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH);

activating the subcarrier interval of the uplink or downlink bandwidth part BWP of the SPcell of the special cell;

activating uplink or downlink BWP subcarrier intervals of the Scell;

whether a network side configures a plurality of discontinuous reception groups (DRX groups);

whether a network side configures the transmission of the terminal out-of-band carrier aggregation inter-band CA;

wherein, the first time interval is the time interval between the terminal monitoring the energy-saving PDCCH and the starting time of the DRXOndurationtimer.

In a second aspect, an embodiment of the present invention further provides an apparatus for determining a time interval, which is applied to a terminal, and includes:

a processing module configured to determine the first time interval T according to at least one of the following information:

whether the terminal is configured with a secondary cell Scell or not;

activating uplink or downlink BWP subcarrier intervals of the Scell;

In a third aspect, an embodiment of the present invention further provides a communication device, where the communication device includes a processor, a memory, and a computer program stored in the memory and running on the processor, and the processor implements the steps of the method for determining the time interval when executing the computer program.

In a fourth aspect, the embodiment of the present invention provides a computer-readable storage medium, on which a computer program is stored, and the computer program, when executed by a processor, implements the steps of the method for determining a time interval as described above.

In the foregoing solution, the terminal may determine, according to subcarrier intervals of bandwidth portions in multiple serving cells, different function combinations of the UE configured by the network side, and/or indication information carried by the energy-saving PDCCH, a time interval between start times at which the terminal monitors the energy-saving PDCCH and the drxonductivitimer, so that the time interval between start times at which the terminal monitors the energy-saving PDCCH and the drxonductivitimer can be determined under the condition that BWP subcarrier intervals in multiple serving cells are different and under the condition that different function characteristic combinations of the UE are configured by the network side and under the condition that the indication information functions carried by the energy-saving PDCCH are different.

Drawings

In order to more clearly illustrate the technical solutions of the embodiments of the present invention, the drawings needed to be used in the description of the embodiments of the present invention will be briefly introduced below, and it is obvious that the drawings in the following description are only some embodiments of the present invention, and it is obvious for those skilled in the art that other drawings can be obtained according to these drawings without inventive labor.

Fig. 1 shows a block diagram of a mobile communication system to which an embodiment of the present invention is applicable;

figure 2 shows a timeline diagram of a wake-up signal before the duration of DRX in the connected state;

fig. 3 is a flowchart illustrating a method for determining a time interval of a terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 4 is a schematic block diagram of a terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 5 is a schematic diagram illustrating a terminal assembly according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Detailed Description

Exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in more detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings. While exemplary embodiments of the invention are shown in the drawings, it should be understood that the invention can be embodied in various forms and should not be limited to the embodiments set forth herein. Rather, these embodiments are provided so that this disclosure will be thorough and complete, and will fully convey the scope of the invention to those skilled in the art.

The terms first, second and the like in the description and in the claims of the present application are used for distinguishing between similar elements and not necessarily for describing a particular sequential or chronological order. It is to be understood that the data so used is interchangeable under appropriate circumstances such that the embodiments of the application described herein are capable of operation in sequences other than those illustrated or described herein. Furthermore, the terms "comprises," "comprising," and "having," and any variations thereof, are intended to cover a non-exclusive inclusion, such that a process, method, system, article, or apparatus that comprises a list of steps or elements is not necessarily limited to those steps or elements expressly listed, but may include other steps or elements not expressly listed or inherent to such process, method, article, or apparatus. In the description and in the claims "and/or" means at least one of the connected objects.

The techniques described herein are not limited to Long Term Evolution (LTE)/LTE Evolution (LTE-Advanced) systems, and may also be used for various wireless communication systems, such as Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA), Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA), Frequency Division Multiple Access (FDMA), Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA), Single-carrier Frequency-Division Multiple Access (SC-FDMA), and other systems. The terms "system" and "network" are often used interchangeably. CDMA systems may implement Radio technologies such as CDMA2000, Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (UTRA), and so on. UTRA includes Wideband CDMA (Wideband Code Division Multiple Access, WCDMA) and other CDMA variants. TDMA systems may implement radio technologies such as Global System for Mobile communications (GSM). The OFDMA system may implement radio technologies such as Ultra Mobile Broadband (UMB), evolved-UTRA (E-UTRA), IEEE 802.11(Wi-Fi), IEEE 802.16(WiMAX), IEEE 802.20, Flash-OFDM, etc. UTRA and E-UTRA are parts of the Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS). LTE and higher LTE (e.g., LTE-A) are new UMTS releases that use E-UTRA. UTRA, E-UTRA, UMTS, LTE-A, and GSM are described in documents from an organization named "third Generation Partnership Project" (3 GPP). CDMA2000 and UMB are described in documents from an organization named "third generation partnership project 2" (3GPP 2). The techniques described herein may be used for both the above-mentioned systems and radio technologies, as well as for other systems and radio technologies. However, the following description describes the NR system for purposes of example, and NR terminology is used in much of the description below, although the techniques may also be applied to applications other than NR system applications.

The following description provides examples and does not limit the scope, applicability, or configuration set forth in the claims. Changes may be made in the function and arrangement of elements discussed without departing from the spirit and scope of the disclosure. Various examples may omit, substitute, or add various procedures or components as appropriate. For example, the described methods may be performed in an order different than described, and various steps may be added, omitted, or combined. In addition, features described with reference to certain examples may be combined in other examples.

Referring to fig. 1, fig. 1 is a block diagram of a wireless communication system to which an embodiment of the present invention is applicable. The wireless communication system includes a terminal 11 and a network-side device 12. The terminal 11 may also be referred to as a terminal Device or a terminal (UE), where the terminal 11 may be a Mobile phone, a Tablet Personal Computer (Tablet Personal Computer), a Laptop Computer (Laptop Computer), a Personal Digital Assistant (PDA), a Mobile Internet Device (MID), a Wearable Device (Wearable Device), or a vehicle-mounted Device, and the specific type of the terminal 11 is not limited in the embodiment of the present invention. The network-side device 12 may be a Base Station or a core network, wherein the Base Station may be a 5G or later-version Base Station (e.g., a gNB, a 5G NR NB, etc.), or a Base Station in other communication systems (e.g., an eNB, a WLAN access point, or other access points, etc.), or a location server (e.g., an E-SMLC or an lmf (location Manager function)), wherein the Base Station may be referred to as a node B, an evolved node B, an access point, a Base Transceiver Station (BTS), a radio Base Station, a radio Transceiver, a Basic Service Set (BSS), an Extended Service Set (ESS), a node B, an evolved node B (eNB), a home node B, a home evolved node B, a WLAN access point, a WiFi node, or some other suitable terminology in the field, as long as the same technical effect is achieved, the base station is not limited to a specific technical vocabulary, and it should be noted that, in the embodiment of the present invention, only the base station in the NR system is taken as an example, but the specific type of the base station is not limited.

The base stations may communicate with the terminals 11 under the control of a base station controller, which may be part of the core network or some of the base stations in various examples. Some base stations may communicate control information or user data with the core network through a backhaul. In some examples, some of the base stations may communicate with each other, directly or indirectly, over backhaul links, which may be wired or wireless communication links. A wireless communication system may support operation on multiple carriers (waveform signals of different frequencies). A multi-carrier transmitter can transmit modulated signals on the multiple carriers simultaneously. For example, each communication link may be a multi-carrier signal modulated according to various radio technologies. Each modulated signal may be transmitted on a different carrier and may carry control information (e.g., reference signals, control channels, etc.), overhead information, data, and so on.

The base station may communicate wirelessly with the terminal 11 via one or more access point antennas. Each base station may provide communication coverage for a respective coverage area. The coverage area of an access point may be divided into sectors that form only a portion of the coverage area. A wireless communication system may include different types of base stations (e.g., macro, micro, or pico base stations). The base stations may also utilize different radio technologies, such as cellular or WLAN radio access technologies. The base stations may be associated with the same or different access networks or operator deployments. The coverage areas of different base stations (including coverage areas of base stations of the same or different types, coverage areas utilizing the same or different radio technologies, or coverage areas belonging to the same or different access networks) may overlap.

The communication link in the wireless communication system may include an Uplink for carrying Uplink (UL) transmission (e.g., from the terminal 11 to the network side device 12) or a Downlink for carrying Downlink (DL) transmission (e.g., from the network side device 12 to the terminal 11). The UL transmission may also be referred to as reverse link transmission, while the DL transmission may also be referred to as forward link transmission. Downlink transmissions may be made using licensed frequency bands, unlicensed frequency bands, or both. Similarly, uplink transmissions may be made using licensed frequency bands, unlicensed frequency bands, or both.

The network side may explicitly notify a terminal (User Equipment, UE) through a Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) whether a next Discontinuous Reception (DRX) Cycle (Cycle) starts a DRX duration timer (onduration timer) or skips the DRX, that is, the network side may not start the DRX OndurationTimer. The UE indicates whether the UE needs to start a DRX (discontinuous reception) Onductivitiontimer or not according to a received awakening instruction of the energy-saving PDCCH (physical downlink control Channel), if the DRX Onductivitiontimer is started, the UE needs to monitor the PDCCH controlled by the DRX, report periodic and semi-continuous Channel State Information (CSI) and send periodic and semi-continuous Sounding Reference Signals (SRS); if the UE does not start the DRX OndurationTimer, the UE does not need to monitor the PDCCH controlled by the DRX function, report periodic and semi-continuous CSI or send periodic and semi-continuous SRS.

Fig. 2 is a time line diagram of a Wake-up signal before the duration of a Connected DRX (CDRX) in a Connected state, where drxinaftivetimer denotes a discontinuous reception inactivity timer, Ramp-down denotes a falling edge, Ramp-up denotes a rising edge, Sleep denotes a Sleep period, and WUS denotes a Wake-up Service.

In a 5G New Radio (NR), an energy-saving PDCCH is a PDCCH scrambled with a Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) using a Power Saving (PS) -Radio Network Temporary Identifier (RNTI), and has a format of 2-6, that is, a Downlink Control Information (DCI) format 2-6.

The UE needs to monitor the capability of the power saving control signal and the capability of the time interval T between the power saving PDCCH and the starting time of the DRX OnDurationTimer operation, i.e. the power saving PDCCH is received at least a time T ahead of the starting time of the DRX OnDurationTimer operation. The time T is different for different subcarrier intervals. The monitoring of the power saving control signal is not performed for a time T before the starting time of the DRX OnDurationTimer operation.

The network side may configure the UE to perform Carrier Aggregation (CA) transmission, that is, configure a plurality of serving cells (serving cells) of the UE. On each serving cell, the UE may configure a different sub-carrier spacing (SCS) active Bandwidth part (BWP).

In the PDCCH for transmitting the wake-up indication, whether active BWP of the secondary cell (Scell) is dormant BWP may also be indicated. If the active BWP is dormant BWP, no or less transmission or reception operations are required on the Scell, such as only CSI reporting and SRS transmission.

In the prior art, a determination method of different time intervals is not provided when BWP sub-carrier intervals in multiple serving cells are different, and when a network side configures different functional characteristic combinations of UEs and indication information functions carried by an energy-saving PDCCH are different.

An embodiment of the present invention provides a method for determining a time interval, which is applied to a terminal, and as shown in fig. 3, the method includes:

step 101: determining the first time interval T based on at least one of:

whether the terminal is configured with a secondary cell Scell or not;

activating uplink or downlink BWP subcarrier intervals of the Scell;

In this embodiment, the terminal may determine the time interval between the start times of the terminal monitoring the energy-saving PDCCH and the drxonductivitimer according to the subcarrier intervals of the bandwidth portions in the multiple serving cells, different function combinations of the UE configured by the network side, and/or the indication information carried by the energy-saving PDCCH, so that the time interval between the start times of the terminal monitoring the energy-saving PDCCH and the drxonductivitimer can be determined under the condition that the BWP subcarrier intervals in the multiple serving cells are different and under the condition that the indication information carried by the energy-saving PDCCH is different in function when the network side configures different function characteristic combinations of the UE.

Wherein, the special cell (SPcell) comprises Pcell and PScell. inter-band CA, that is, the network side configures scells belonging to different frequency bands (frequency bands) for the terminal.

In an exemplary embodiment of the invention, the first time interval T may take at least one of:

a first time interval capacity value corresponding to a subcarrier interval of activating downlink BWP of the SPcell;

and activating a second time interval capability value corresponding to the subcarrier interval of the uplink BWP of the SPcell.

In a specific example, the first time interval T may employ any one of:

a maximum of the first time interval capability value and the second time interval capability value;

a minimum of the first time interval capability value and the second time interval capability value.

The time interval capability value corresponding to the subcarrier interval may be a supported time interval capability value reported by the terminal.

In an exemplary embodiment of the invention, the first time interval T employs any one of:

the minimum value of time interval capability values corresponding to the subcarrier intervals of the BWPs of the SPcell and the Scell;

and the maximum value of the time interval capability values corresponding to the subcarrier intervals of the BWPs of the SPcell and the Scell.

Wherein the subcarrier spacing may employ at least one of:

subcarrier spacing of activated downlink BWP;

subcarrier spacing of active uplink BWP.

the minimum value in the time interval capability values corresponding to the subcarrier intervals of the BWP of the Scell;

and the maximum value of the time interval capability values corresponding to the subcarrier intervals of the BWP of the Scell.

Wherein the subcarrier spacing may employ at least one of:

subcarrier spacing of activated downlink BWP;

subcarrier spacing of active uplink BWP.

In the exemplary embodiment of the present invention, the terminal reports and supports a plurality of time interval capability values, and the time interval capability values correspond to a function combination configured by a network side device through a high-level signaling. The time interval capability values may correspond to the functional combinations configured by the network side device through the high-level signaling one to one, or the network side device may correspond to a plurality of time interval capability values through one functional combination configured by the high-level signaling.

In a specific example, the combination of functions may include at least one of:

whether a network side configures a plurality of DRX groups or not;

whether the network side configures the transmission of the terminal inter-band CA.

In the exemplary embodiment of the present invention, the terminal may report and support a plurality of time interval capability values, where the time interval capability values correspond to the functional combinations indicated by the energy-saving PDCCH. The time interval capability values may correspond to the functional combinations indicated by the energy-saving PDCCH one to one, or one functional combination indicated by the energy-saving PDCCH may correspond to a plurality of time interval capability values.

whether the energy-saving PDCCH indicates the terminal to wake up;

whether the energy-saving PDCCH indicates the Scell to enter the sleep state or not;

whether the energy-saving PDCCH indicates other terminals to enter an energy-saving state.

Wherein, the time interval capability values corresponding to different function combinations can be different.

In the above embodiment, after determining the first time interval T, the terminal does not monitor the energy-saving PDCCH within the first time interval T before the starting time of the drxonductivitimer.

In the embodiment of the present invention, a terminal reports one or more supported time interval capability values to a network side, where different time interval capability values exist corresponding to different subcarrier intervals, and in a specific example, a basic format of the report is as follows:

mu is a subcarrier interval of BWP, NR Slot length is a time Slot length of a new air interface, T1 is a time interval capability value supported by the terminal, Type 1 is Type 1, Type 2 is Type 2, the terminal can determine a first time interval T according to subcarrier intervals of bandwidth parts in multiple serving cells, different function combinations of the UE configured on the network side, and/or indication information carried by the energy-saving PDCCH, and the UE does not monitor the energy-saving PDCCH in the first time interval T before the start time of the drxondusiontimer.

In a specific embodiment, if the network side configures multiple serving cells, the UE may use a maximum T1 value corresponding to a subcarrier of a currently activated BWP in the multiple serving cells as the first time interval.

In another embodiment, if the network side configures the indication of Scell dormant (dormant), since the transition of Scell dormant state is performed according to the indication of the energy-saving PDCCH, the transition between dormant BWP and non-dormant BWP is completed, that is, BWP handover is involved in the process, the time interval including BWP handover is different from the time interval not including BWP handover. And if the Scell enters a dormant state, namely the activation BWP of the Scell is dormant BWP, and if the Scell enters a non-dormant state, namely the activation BWP of the Scell is non-dormant BWP.

And the UE reports a function combination indicated by the energy-saving PDCCH corresponding to the time interval capability values T1, if the network side is configured with the function combination indicated by the energy-saving PDCCH for indicating the Scell to sleep, the UE uses T1 corresponding to a first function (the energy-saving PDCCH indicates whether the Scell enters the sleep), and if the configuration is not carried out, the UE uses T1 corresponding to a second function (the energy-saving PDCCH does not indicate whether the Scell enters the sleep).

In another specific embodiment, the UE reports a function combination configured by a higher layer signaling by a network side device corresponding to multiple time interval capability values T1, if the network side configures multiple DRX groups, uses T1 corresponding to a first function (the network side configures the multiple DRX groups), and if the network side does not configure the multiple DRX groups, uses T1 corresponding to a second function (the network side does not configure the multiple DRX groups).

Wherein, the configuration of the DRXOnDurationTimer and the discontinuous reception inactivity timer (drxinactytimer) in each DRX group is configured separately. .

In another embodiment, if the network side configures an inter-band CA, the inter-band CA configures a serving cell on a plurality of different frequency bands, which relates to the switching of the transmitting or receiving states of the plurality of frequency bands, and the switching time is different from that in the case of an intra-band CA.

The UE reports a function combination configured by a high-level signaling by network side equipment corresponding to a plurality of time interval capability values T1, if the network side is configured with the inter-band CA, the T1 corresponding to the first function (the network side configures the transmission of the terminal inter-band CA) is used, and if the configuration is not carried out, the T1 corresponding to the second function (the network side does not configure the transmission of the terminal inter-band CA) is used.

Preferably, the T1 value corresponding to the first function may be used only in the case of some band-combined inter-band CAs.

In another embodiment, the UE reports a plurality of time interval capability values T1, where:

the third time interval capacity value corresponds to the energy-saving PDCCH to indicate that the Scell enters a dormant state;

the fourth time interval capacity value corresponds to the energy-saving PDCCH to indicate that the Scell enters a non-dormancy state;

and if the Scell enters a dormant state, namely the activation BWP of the Scell is dormant BWP, and if the Scell enters a non-dormant state, namely the activation BWP of the Scell is non-dormant BWP. And (4) force value. Then different time interval capability values are used as the first time interval T when the Scell enters different states.

It should be noted that, a time interval between the time when the network side transmits the energy-saving PDCCH and the starting time of the DRX onDurationTimer operation should be greater than or equal to a time interval capability value reported by the UE, that is, the time interval corresponding to the capability value is a minimum value of a time interval between the time of the energy-saving PDCCH and the starting time of the DRX onDurationTimer operation.

As shown in fig. 4, the terminal 300 according to the embodiment of the present invention includes a time interval determining apparatus, which can implement the method for determining a time interval applied to the terminal in the foregoing embodiments and achieve the same effect, and the terminal 300 specifically includes the following functional modules:

a processing module 310, configured to determine the first time interval T according to at least one of the following information:

whether the terminal is configured with a secondary cell Scell or not;

activating uplink or downlink BWP subcarrier intervals of the Scell;

To better achieve the above object, further, fig. 5 is a schematic diagram of a hardware structure of a terminal implementing various embodiments of the present invention, where the terminal 40 includes, but is not limited to: radio frequency unit 41, network module 42, audio output unit 43, input unit 44, sensor 45, display unit 46, user input unit 47, interface unit 48, memory 49, processor 410, and power supply 411. Those skilled in the art will appreciate that the terminal configuration shown in fig. 5 is not intended to be limiting, and that the terminal may include more or fewer components than shown, or some components may be combined, or a different arrangement of components. In the embodiment of the present invention, the terminal includes, but is not limited to, a mobile phone, a tablet computer, a notebook computer, a palm computer, a vehicle-mounted terminal, a wearable device, a pedometer, and the like.

Wherein, the processor 410 is configured to determine the first time interval T according to at least one of the following information:

whether the terminal is configured with a secondary cell Scell or not;

activating uplink or downlink BWP subcarrier intervals of the Scell;

It should be understood that, in the embodiment of the present invention, the radio frequency unit 41 may be used for receiving and sending signals during a message sending and receiving process or a call process, and specifically, receives downlink data from a base station and then processes the received downlink data to the processor 410; in addition, the uplink data is transmitted to the base station. In general, radio frequency unit 41 includes, but is not limited to, an antenna, at least one amplifier, a transceiver, a coupler, a low noise amplifier, a duplexer, and the like. In addition, the radio frequency unit 41 can also communicate with a network and other devices through a wireless communication system.

The terminal provides wireless broadband internet access to the user via the network module 42, such as assisting the user in sending and receiving e-mails, browsing web pages, and accessing streaming media.

The audio output unit 43 may convert audio data received by the radio frequency unit 41 or the network module 42 or stored in the memory 49 into an audio signal and output as sound. Also, the audio output unit 43 may also provide audio output related to a specific function performed by the terminal 40 (e.g., a call signal reception sound, a message reception sound, etc.). The audio output unit 43 includes a speaker, a buzzer, a receiver, and the like.

The input unit 44 is for receiving an audio or video signal. The input Unit 44 may include a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) 441 and a microphone 442, and the Graphics processor 441 processes image data of still pictures or videos obtained by an image capturing device (such as a camera) in a video capturing mode or an image capturing mode. The processed image frames may be displayed on the display unit 46. The image frames processed by the graphic processor 441 may be stored in the memory 49 (or other storage medium) or transmitted via the radio frequency unit 41 or the network module 42. The microphone 442 may receive sound and may be capable of processing such sound into audio data. The processed audio data may be converted into a format output transmittable to a mobile communication base station via the radio frequency unit 41 in case of the phone call mode.

The terminal 40 also includes at least one sensor 45, such as a light sensor, motion sensor, and other sensors. Specifically, the light sensor includes an ambient light sensor that adjusts the brightness of the display panel 461 according to the brightness of ambient light, and a proximity sensor that turns off the display panel 461 and/or a backlight when the terminal 40 moves to the ear. As one of the motion sensors, the accelerometer sensor can detect the magnitude of acceleration in each direction (generally three axes), detect the magnitude and direction of gravity when stationary, and can be used to identify the terminal posture (such as horizontal and vertical screen switching, related games, magnetometer posture calibration), vibration identification related functions (such as pedometer, tapping), and the like; the sensors 45 may also include fingerprint sensors, pressure sensors, iris sensors, molecular sensors, gyroscopes, barometers, hygrometers, thermometers, infrared sensors, etc., which are not described in detail herein.

The display unit 46 is used to display information input by the user or information provided to the user. The Display unit 46 may include a Display panel 461, and the Display panel 461 may be configured in the form of a Liquid Crystal Display (LCD), an Organic Light-Emitting Diode (OLED), or the like.

The user input unit 47 may be used to receive input numeric or character information and generate key signal inputs related to user settings and function control of the terminal. Specifically, the user input unit 47 includes a touch panel 471 and other input devices 472. The touch panel 471, also referred to as a touch screen, may collect touch operations by a user (e.g., operations by a user on or near the touch panel 471 using a finger, a stylus, or any other suitable object or accessory). The touch panel 471 can include two parts, a touch detection device and a touch controller. The touch detection device detects the touch direction of a user, detects a signal brought by touch operation and transmits the signal to the touch controller; the touch controller receives touch information from the touch sensing device, converts the touch information into touch point coordinates, sends the touch point coordinates to the processor 410, receives a command from the processor 410, and executes the command. In addition, the touch panel 471 can be implemented by various types, such as resistive, capacitive, infrared, and surface acoustic wave. The user input unit 47 may include other input devices 472 in addition to the touch panel 471. Specifically, the other input devices 472 may include, but are not limited to, a physical keyboard, function keys (such as volume control keys, switch keys, etc.), a track ball, a mouse, and a joystick, which are not described herein again.

Further, the touch panel 471 can be overlaid on the display panel 461, and when the touch panel 471 detects a touch operation on or near the touch panel 471, the touch panel transmits the touch operation to the processor 410 to determine the type of the touch event, and then the processor 410 provides a corresponding visual output on the display panel 461 according to the type of the touch event. Although the touch panel 471 and the display panel 461 are shown as two separate components in fig. 5, in some embodiments, the touch panel 471 and the display panel 461 may be integrated to implement the input and output functions of the terminal, and are not limited herein.

The interface unit 48 is an interface for connecting an external device to the terminal 40. For example, the external device may include a wired or wireless headset port, an external power supply (or battery charger) port, a wired or wireless data port, a memory card port, a port for connecting a device having an identification module, an audio input/output (I/O) port, a video I/O port, an earphone port, and the like. The interface unit 48 may be used to receive input (e.g., data information, power, etc.) from external devices and transmit the received input to one or more elements within the terminal 40 or may be used to transmit data between the terminal 40 and external devices.

The memory 49 may be used to store software programs as well as various data. The memory 49 may mainly include a program storage area and a data storage area, wherein the program storage area may store an operating system, an application program required by at least one function (such as a sound playing function, an image playing function, etc.), and the like; the storage data area may store data (such as audio data, a phonebook, etc.) created according to the use of the cellular phone, and the like. Further, the memory 49 may include high speed random access memory, and may also include non-volatile memory, such as at least one magnetic disk storage device, flash memory device, or other volatile solid state storage device.

The processor 410 is a control center of the terminal, connects various parts of the entire terminal using various interfaces and lines, performs various functions of the terminal and processes data by operating or executing software programs and/or modules stored in the memory 49 and calling data stored in the memory 49, thereby performing overall monitoring of the terminal. Processor 410 may include one or more processing units; preferably, the processor 410 may integrate an application processor, which mainly handles operating systems, user interfaces, application programs, etc., and a modem processor, which mainly handles wireless communications. It will be appreciated that the modem processor described above may not be integrated into the processor 410.

The terminal 40 may further include a power supply 411 (e.g., a battery) for supplying power to various components, and preferably, the power supply 411 may be logically connected to the processor 410 through a power management system, so as to implement functions of managing charging, discharging, and power consumption through the power management system.

In addition, the terminal 40 includes some functional modules that are not shown, and are not described in detail herein.

The embodiment of the present invention further provides a communication device, which includes a processor 410, a memory 49, and a computer program stored in the memory 49 and capable of running on the processor 410, and when being executed by the processor 410, the computer program implements each process of the above-mentioned method for determining a time interval, and can achieve the same technical effect, and in order to avoid repetition, details are not described here again.

The communication device may be a terminal, and the terminal may be a device providing voice and/or other service data connectivity to a user, a handheld device having a wireless connection function, or another processing device connected to a wireless modem. Wireless terminals, which may be mobile terminals such as mobile telephones (or "cellular" telephones) and computers having mobile terminals, such as portable, pocket, hand-held, computer-included, or vehicle-mounted mobile devices, may communicate with one or more core networks via a Radio Access Network (RAN), which may exchange language and/or data with the RAN. Examples of such devices include Personal Communication Service (PCS) phones, cordless phones, Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) phones, Wireless Local Loop (WLL) stations, and Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs). A wireless Terminal may also be referred to as a system, a Subscriber Unit (Subscriber Unit), a Subscriber Station (Subscriber Station), a Mobile Station (Mobile), a Remote Station (Remote Station), a Remote Terminal (Remote Terminal), an Access Terminal (Access Terminal), a User Terminal (User Terminal), a User Agent (User Agent), and a User Device or User Equipment (User Equipment), which are not limited herein.

The embodiment of the present invention further provides a computer-readable storage medium, where a computer program is stored on the computer-readable storage medium, and when the computer program is executed by a processor, the computer program implements each process of the method for determining a time interval at a terminal side, and can achieve the same technical effect, and is not described herein again to avoid repetition. The computer-readable storage medium may be a Read-Only Memory (ROM), a Random Access Memory (RAM), a magnetic disk or an optical disk.

Those of ordinary skill in the art will appreciate that the various illustrative elements and algorithm steps described in connection with the embodiments disclosed herein may be implemented as electronic hardware or combinations of computer software and electronic hardware. Whether such functionality is implemented as hardware or software depends upon the particular application and design constraints imposed on the implementation. Skilled artisans may implement the described functionality in varying ways for each particular application, but such implementation decisions should not be interpreted as causing a departure from the scope of the present invention.

It is clear to those skilled in the art that, for convenience and brevity of description, the specific working processes of the above-described systems, apparatuses and units may refer to the corresponding processes in the foregoing method embodiments, and are not described herein again.

In the embodiments provided in the present application, it should be understood that the disclosed apparatus and method may be implemented in other ways. For example, the above-described apparatus embodiments are merely illustrative, and for example, the division of the units is only one logical division, and other divisions may be realized in practice, for example, a plurality of units or components may be combined or integrated into another system, or some features may be omitted, or not executed. In addition, the shown or discussed mutual coupling or direct coupling or communication connection may be an indirect coupling or communication connection through some interfaces, devices or units, and may be in an electrical, mechanical or other form.

The units described as separate parts may or may not be physically separate, and parts displayed as units may or may not be physical units, may be located in one place, or may be distributed on a plurality of network units. Some or all of the units can be selected according to actual needs to achieve the purpose of the solution of the embodiment.

In addition, functional units in the embodiments of the present invention may be integrated into one processing unit, or each unit may exist alone physically, or two or more units are integrated into one unit.

The functions, if implemented in the form of software functional units and sold or used as a stand-alone product, may be stored in a computer readable storage medium. Based on such understanding, the technical solution of the present invention or a part thereof, which essentially contributes to the prior art, can be embodied in the form of a software product, which is stored in a storage medium and includes several instructions for causing a computer device (which may be a personal computer, a server, or a network side device) to execute all or part of the steps of the method according to the embodiments of the present invention. And the aforementioned storage medium includes: various media capable of storing program codes, such as a U disk, a removable hard disk, a ROM, a RAM, a magnetic disk, or an optical disk.

Furthermore, it is to be noted that in the device and method of the invention, it is obvious that the individual components or steps can be decomposed and/or recombined. These decompositions and/or recombinations are to be regarded as equivalents of the present invention. Also, the steps of performing the series of processes described above may naturally be performed chronologically in the order described, but need not necessarily be performed chronologically, and some steps may be performed in parallel or independently of each other. It will be understood by those skilled in the art that all or any of the steps or elements of the method and apparatus of the present invention may be implemented in any computing device (including processors, storage media, etc.) or network of computing devices, in hardware, firmware, software, or any combination thereof, which can be implemented by those skilled in the art using their basic programming skills after reading the description of the present invention.

Thus, the objects of the invention may also be achieved by running a program or a set of programs on any computing device. The computing device may be a general purpose device as is well known. The object of the invention is thus also achieved solely by providing a program product comprising program code for implementing the method or the apparatus. That is, such a program product also constitutes the present invention, and a storage medium storing such a program product also constitutes the present invention. It is to be understood that the storage medium may be any known storage medium or any storage medium developed in the future. It is further noted that in the apparatus and method of the present invention, it is apparent that each component or step can be decomposed and/or recombined. These decompositions and/or recombinations are to be regarded as equivalents of the present invention. Also, the steps of executing the series of processes described above may naturally be executed chronologically in the order described, but need not necessarily be executed chronologically. Some steps may be performed in parallel or independently of each other.

While the preferred embodiments of the present invention have been described, it will be understood by those skilled in the art that various changes and modifications may be made without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as defined in the following claims.

Claims

1. A method for determining a time interval is applied to a terminal, and is characterized by comprising the following steps:

determining the first time interval T based on at least one of:

whether the terminal is configured with a secondary cell Scell or not;

activating uplink or downlink BWP subcarrier intervals of the Scell;

2. Method for determining a time interval according to claim 1, characterized in that the first time interval T is at least one of the following:

3. Method for determining a time interval according to claim 2, the first time interval T being any one of:

4. Method for determining a time interval according to claim 1, characterized in that the first time interval T is any one of the following:

5. Method for determining a time interval according to claim 1, characterized in that the first time interval T is any one of the following:

6. Method for determining a time interval according to claim 4 or 5, wherein the subcarrier spacing is at least one of:

subcarrier spacing of activated downlink BWP;

subcarrier spacing of active uplink BWP.

7. The method of claim 2, 4 or 5, wherein the time interval capability value corresponding to the subcarrier interval is a supported time interval capability value reported by the terminal.

8. The method according to claim 1, wherein the terminal reports and supports multiple time interval capability values, and the time interval capability values correspond to a function combination configured by a network side device through a higher layer signaling.

9. The method according to claim 8, wherein the combination of functions comprises at least one of:

whether a network side configures a plurality of DRX groups or not;

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the terminal reports and supports multiple time interval capability values, and the time interval capability values correspond to functional combinations indicated by an energy-saving PDCCH.

11. The method according to claim 10, wherein the combination of functions comprises at least one of:

whether the energy-saving PDCCH indicates the terminal to wake up;

12. The method according to claim 8 or 10, wherein the time interval capability values corresponding to different combinations of functions are different.

13. The method for determining a time interval according to any one of claims 1-5 and 8-11, further comprising:

and in a first time interval T before the starting time of the DRXOndurationtimer, the terminal does not monitor the energy-saving PDCCH.

14. An apparatus for determining a time interval, applied to a terminal, comprising:

whether the terminal is configured with a secondary cell Scell or not;

activating uplink or downlink BWP subcarrier intervals of the Scell;

15. A communication device, characterized in that the communication device comprises a processor, a memory and a computer program stored on the memory and running on the processor, the processor implementing the steps of the method for determining a time interval according to any one of claims 1 to 13 when executing the computer program.

16. A computer-readable storage medium, characterized in that a computer program is stored on the computer-readable storage medium, which computer program, when being executed by a processor, carries out the steps of the method for determining a time interval according to any one of claims 1 to 13.