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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 29, 2025
Filed:
Dec. 23, 2022
Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Shenzhen, CN;
Peng Guan, Shenzhen, CN;
Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd, Shenzhen, CN;
Abstract
This application discloses a beam indication method and a communications apparatus. The method includes: sending configuration information to a terminal device, wherein the configuration information is used to indicate to determine, based on a unified beam indicator, beams used by the terminal device to transmit a plurality of physical channels and/or physical signals; and sending first information to the terminal device; wherein the first information is used to indicate the unified beam indicator; the unified beam indicator is associated with at least one downlink transmission configuration indicator (TCI) state identifier and at least one uplink TCI state identifier; and the downlink TCI state identifier is used to indicate a receive beam of a downlink physical channel, and the uplink TCI state identifier is used to indicate a transmit beam of an uplink physical channel. It can be learned it is helpful to reduce beam indication signaling overheads.