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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 29, 2025
Filed:
Jan. 06, 2021
Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha, Osaka, JP;
SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Sakai, JP;
Abstract
The present disclosure provides a method performed by user equipment, and user equipment. The method performed by user equipment includes: if a medium access control (MAC) entity is configured with a configured uplink grant and if the configured uplink grant is activated, then determining whether the MAC entity is configured to use the configured uplink grant to transmit a MAC PDU, namely a MAC protocol data unit, obtained for a de-prioritized configured uplink grant; and if the MAC entity is configured to use the configured uplink grant to transmit the MAC PDU, then delivering the configured uplink grant to a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) entity. In this way, the problem involving transmission of a de-prioritized MAC PDU stored in a HARQ process buffer can be solved, thereby improving the communication efficiency and reliability of a wireless communication system.