US Patent Issued to NTT DOCOMO on Jan. 13 for "Terminal, base station and communication method" (Japanese, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,787, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to NTT DOCOMO Inc. (Tokyo).

"Terminal, base station and communication method" was invented by Shinya Kumagai (Tokyo), Satoshi Nagata (Tokyo), Qiping Pi (Beijing), Jing Wang (Beijing) and Lan Chen (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A terminal includes: a reception unit configured to receive data according to SPS (Semi persistent scheduling) from a base station; a control unit configured to determine HARQ-ACK (Hybrid automatic repeat request Acknowledgement) feedback information corresponding to the data, wherein transmission of the HARQ-ACK feedback information is required to be postponed unti...