Communication method and corresponding apparatus

Abstract

The present application provides a communication method, which can be applied to wireless charging scenarios. The method comprises: a terminal device receiving a first request sent by a network device, the first request comprising first information and second information, the first information being used for indicating a wireless charging mode, and the second information comprising information related to the wireless charging mode; and on the basis of the first information and the second information, performing charging according to the wireless charging mode. In this way, the power consumed by a terminal device for sending a reference signal is reduced, transmission resources used for transmitting the reference signal are also reduced, and the complexity of performing channel estimation and precoding by a network device on the basis of the reference signal is reduced.

Description

A communication method and corresponding apparatus

[0001] The present application claims priority from the Chinese Patent Application No. 202411273661.1 filed on September 11, 2024, and entitled "A communication method and corresponding apparatus", the content of which is incorporated herein by reference in its entirety. TECHNICAL FIELD

[0002] The present application relates to the field of communication technology, and in particular to a communication method and corresponding apparatus. BACKGROUND

[0003] With the development of wireless networks and the evolution of service requirements, there are a large number of internet of things (IoT) nodes in the network. These IoT nodes are low in cost and small in size, and cannot carry large-capacity batteries, facing the problem of short standby life.

[0004] Therefore, the problem of charging IoT nodes needs to be solved urgently. SUMMARY

[0005] The present application provides a communication method for reducing the complexity of wireless charging. The present application also provides corresponding apparatus, computer-readable storage medium, and computer program product, etc.

[0006] The first aspect of the present application provides a communication method, which can be applied to the terminal device side, such as a terminal device or a communication module in a terminal device, or a circuit or chip responsible for communication function in a terminal device (such as a modem chip, also known as a baseband chip, or a system on chip (SoC) chip or system in package (SIP) chip containing a modem core). Taking the case of applying the method to the terminal device, in the method, the terminal device receives a first request from a first communication apparatus; wherein the first request includes first information and second information, the first information is used to indicate a wireless charging mode, and the second information includes information related to the wireless charging mode; according to the first information and the second information, charging is performed in the wireless charging mode.

[0007] In the present application, the first communication device can be a network device, or a component or device (such as a processor, a chip, or a chip system, etc.) applied to a network device, or a logic module or software (such as a central unit (CU), a distributed unit (DU), or a radio unit (RU), etc.) capable of realizing all or part of the functions of a network device. Of course, the first communication device can also be a terminal device, or a component or device (such as a processor, a chip, or a chip system, etc.) applied to a terminal device, or a logic module or software capable of realizing all or part of the functions of a terminal device.

[0008] In the present application, the first request can be a query request sent by a reader of an electronic tag to the electronic tag. Of course, the first request can also be other types of requests or messages, which are not limited in the present application.

[0009] In the present application, the first information can be indication information indicating different contents in the form of a bit or multiple bits. The first information is used to indicate a wireless charging mode, which can be one or more. When there are multiple wireless charging modes, different bit sequences can correspond to different wireless charging modes, and different wireless charging modes correspond to different wireless charging processes.

[0010] In the present application, the second information can include one or more information (also referred to as parameters), which can be understood as indication information of specific contents related to the wireless charging mode. "Related" means that the second information corresponding to different wireless charging modes can be the same or different, where different includes partially different or completely different. Moreover, the number of information related to different wireless charging modes can be different, such as: the information related to wireless charging mode 1 has 5, and the information related to wireless charging mode 2 has 7, of which 5 information can be the same as the 5 information related to wireless charging mode 1. Of course, the 5 information can also be partially the same, or all different.

[0011] In the present application, the process of charging according to the wireless charging mode according to the first information and the second information means that the charging process is determined according to the wireless charging mode indicated by the first information, and the charging process is completed according to the specific content of one or more information in the second information.

[0012] In the first aspect, the first communication device sends a first request to the second communication device, the first information and the second information in the first request are used to indicate the wireless charging mode and information related to the wireless charging mode, and the second communication device can perform wireless charging according to the first information and the second information after receiving the first request. The second communication device or the first communication device does not need to send a reference signal related to channel measurement to the other party in advance, and the first communication device can complete wireless charging without channel estimation and precoding according to the reference signal. In this way, the power consumed by the second communication device or the first communication device due to sending the reference signal is saved, the transmission resource for transmitting the reference signal is saved, and the complexity of the first communication device performing channel estimation and precoding according to the reference signal is reduced. Moreover, not all second communication devices have channel measurement capability, and therefore, the wireless charging process provided in the present application also expands the types of second communication devices that can perform wireless charging.

[0013] In a possible implementation, the first information is used to indicate the wireless charging mode in which beam sweeping is activated, and the second information includes a time at which the first communication device starts to perform beam sweeping and an open-loop beam sweeping type. The step of performing charging according to the wireless charging mode indicated by the first information and the second information includes the following steps: activating a function of sweeping a beam according to the wireless charging mode in which beam sweeping is activated; and collecting energy from the beam transmitted by the first communication device after the first communication device starts to perform beam sweeping to perform charging according to the time at which the first communication device starts to perform beam sweeping and the open-loop beam sweeping type.

[0014] In the present application, the first communication device transmits one or more beams after sending the first request, and the one or more beams carry energy. The second communication device can activate the function of sweeping the one or more beams according to the wireless charging mode in which beam sweeping is activated indicated by the first information after receiving the first request.

[0015] In the present application, the time at which the first communication device starts to perform beam sweeping refers to the time at which the first communication device transmits the one or more beams, so that the second communication device can determine the start time of sweeping the one or more beams.

[0016] In the present application, the open-loop beam sweeping type refers to a sweeping type in which the second communication device does not need to feed back a measurement result of the one or more beams, and can also be understood as a beam sweeping type in which energy is directly collected from the one or more sweeping beams to perform wireless charging.

[0017] In the possible implementation, the first information indicates to activate the wireless charging mode of the beam scanning, and when the second information includes the open-loop beam scanning type, the second communication device directly collects energy from the beam to perform wireless charging after the first communication device sends the beam, so that the efficiency of the wireless charging of the second communication device can be improved.

[0018] In a possible implementation, the method further includes: receiving a second request from the first communication device; and sending feedback information indicating the charging result to the first communication device, where the second request is used to request feedback for the wireless charging.

[0019] In the possible implementation, the first communication device can inquire the charging result from the second communication device through the second request. After the second communication device sends the feedback information indicating the charging result, the first communication device can determine the time for the next charging of the second communication device according to the feedback information, so that the accuracy of the charging management can be improved.

[0020] In a possible implementation, the first information is used to indicate to activate the wireless charging mode of the beam scanning, or the first information is used to indicate to activate the wireless charging mode of the beam feedback, the second information includes the time for the first communication device to start the beam scanning and the closed-loop beam scanning type, and the step of performing the charging according to the wireless charging mode according to the first information and the second information includes: activating the function of the beam feedback according to the wireless charging mode of the activated beam scanning or the wireless charging mode of the activated beam feedback; and measuring the energy in the beam transmitted by the first communication device after the first communication device starts the beam scanning according to the time for the first communication device to start the beam scanning and the closed-loop beam scanning type, to determine the first feedback information, where the first feedback information is used for the charging.

[0021] In the present application, the wireless charging mode of the activated beam scanning refers to activating the scanning function of one or more beams transmitted by the first communication device. The wireless charging mode of the activated beam feedback refers to needing to measure the energy of one or more beams transmitted by the first communication device, feed back the measurement result, and then perform the wireless charging according to the further indication of the first communication device.

[0022] In the present application, the closed-loop beam scanning type refers to needing the second communication device to feed back the measurement result of one or more beams.

[0023] In the present application, the first feedback information includes at least one of the information of the target beam, the charging capacity information of each beam in the beam transmitted by the first communication device, or the sorting information of the charging capacity of each beam, where the target beam is a beam in the beam transmitted by the first communication device and the charging capacity of the target beam meets the charging demand, such as the target beam being the beam with the best charging capacity or charging effect.

[0024] In a possible implementation, the first information indicates a wireless charging mode in which beam sweeping is activated or a wireless charging mode in which beam feedback is activated, and when the second information includes a closed-loop beam sweeping type, the second communication device measures the beam sent by the first communication device first to determine the first feedback information, such as a beam with the best charging capability or charging effect. In this way, the first communication device can subsequently perform wireless charging on the second communication device with higher efficiency according to the first feedback information.

[0025] In a possible implementation, the method further includes: receiving a third request from the first communication device, where the third request includes feedback resources of the first feedback information, and the feedback resources include at least one of a time domain resource or a frequency domain resource; and sending the first feedback information to the first communication device according to the at least one of the time domain resource or the frequency domain resource of the first feedback information.

[0026] In a possible implementation, the first communication device can notify the second communication device of the feedback resources of the first feedback information through the third request, so that the first communication device can receive the first feedback information on the corresponding time domain resource or frequency domain resource, thereby improving the accuracy of feedback.

[0027] In a possible implementation, when the first information is used to indicate the wireless charging mode in which beam feedback is activated, the second information further includes feedback resources of the first feedback information, and the feedback resources include at least one of a time domain resource or a frequency domain resource; and the method further includes: sending the first feedback information to the first communication device according to the at least one of the time domain resource or the frequency domain resource of the first feedback information.

[0028] In a possible implementation, when the first information is used to indicate the wireless charging mode in which beam feedback is activated, the second information can include time domain resources or frequency domain resources used to feed back the first feedback information. In this way, the first communication device does not need to send a third request to the second communication device to feed back the first feedback information, and the occupation of transmission resources by the indication of the first feedback information can be reduced.

[0029] In a possible implementation, the method further includes: receiving a target beam; and collecting energy from the target beam for charging.

[0030] In a possible implementation, in the case where the second communication device needs to send the first feedback information first, receiving the target beam for charging can improve the efficiency of wireless charging.

[0031] In a possible implementation, the second information further includes at least one of a number of beams transmitted by the first communication device, a time length of each beam sweeping, or an end time of each beam sweeping.

[0032] In the possible implementation manner, the different information in the second information can indicate different content, and the charging efficiency of the first communication apparatus for wireless charging of the second communication apparatus can be improved through the multiple information.

[0033] The second aspect of the present application provides a communication method, which can be applied to a network device side, for example, a network device or a communication module in the network device, or a circuit or chip responsible for communication function in the network device (such as a modem chip, also known as a baseband chip, or a system on chip (SoC) chip or a system in package (SIP) chip containing a modem core). For example, the method is applied to the network device, in which the network device sends a first request; wherein the first request includes first information and second information, the first information is used to indicate a wireless charging mode, and the second information includes information related to the wireless charging mode; and a transmission beam, which is used for wireless charging.

[0034] In the present application, the first request can be sent by the first communication apparatus to the second communication apparatus, and the related introduction of the first communication apparatus, the second communication apparatus, the first request, the first information and the second information can be understood by referring to the introduction in the first aspect.

[0035] In the above-mentioned second aspect, the first communication apparatus sends the first request to the second communication apparatus, the first information and the second information in the first request indicate the wireless charging mode and the information related to the wireless charging mode, and the second communication apparatus can perform wireless charging according to the first information and the second information after receiving the first request. The second communication apparatus or the first communication apparatus does not need to send the reference signal related to channel measurement to the other party in advance, and the first communication apparatus does not need to perform channel estimation and precoding according to the reference signal to complete the wireless charging. In this way, the power consumed by the second communication apparatus or the first communication apparatus due to the transmission of the reference signal is saved, the transmission resource for transmitting the reference signal is also saved, and the complexity of the first communication apparatus for channel estimation and precoding according to the reference signal is reduced. Moreover, not all second communication apparatuses can have channel measurement capability, therefore, the wireless charging process provided by the present application also expands the types of second communication apparatuses that can perform wireless charging.

[0036] In a possible implementation, the first information is used to indicate a wireless charging mode in which beam sweeping is activated, the second information includes a time at which the first communication device starts to perform beam sweeping, and a beam sweeping type in an open loop; and the wireless charging mode in which beam sweeping is activated is used for the second communication device to activate a function of sweeping beams; and the time at which the first communication device starts to perform beam sweeping and the beam sweeping type in the open loop are used for the second communication device to collect energy from beams transmitted by the first communication device for charging after the first communication device starts to perform beam sweeping.

[0037] In a possible implementation, the method further includes: the first communication device sending a second request; and the second request is used to request the second communication device to feed back for wireless charging; and receiving feedback information from the second communication device, the feedback information being used to indicate a charging result.

[0038] In a possible implementation, the first information is used to indicate a wireless charging mode in which beam sweeping is activated, or the first information is used to indicate a wireless charging mode in which beam feedback is activated, and the second information includes a time at which the first communication device starts to perform beam sweeping and a beam sweeping type in a closed loop; and the wireless charging mode in which beam sweeping is activated or the wireless charging mode in which beam feedback is activated is used to indicate that the second communication device activates a function of feeding back beams; and the time at which the first communication device starts to perform beam sweeping and the beam sweeping type in the closed loop are used to indicate that the second communication device measures energy in beams transmitted by the first communication device to determine first feedback information after the first communication device starts to perform beam sweeping, and the first feedback information is used for charging.

[0039] In a possible implementation, the method further includes: the first communication device sending a third request; the third request includes feedback resources of the first feedback information, and the feedback resources include at least one of a time domain resource or a frequency domain resource; and the first feedback information is received according to the at least one of the time domain resource or the frequency domain resource.

[0040] In a possible implementation, when the first information is used to indicate the wireless charging mode in which beam feedback is activated, the second information further includes feedback resources of the first feedback information, and the feedback resources include at least one of a time domain resource or a frequency domain resource; and the method further includes: the first feedback information is received according to the at least one of the time domain resource or the frequency domain resource.

[0041] In a possible implementation, the method further includes: sending a target beam, and the target beam is used for the second communication device to perform wireless charging.

[0042] In a possible implementation, the first feedback information comprises at least one of information of a target beam, charging capability information of each of the beams transmitted by the first communication device, or ranking information of the charging capability of each of the beams; and the target beam is a beam of the beams transmitted by the first communication device and having a charging capability satisfying the charging demand.

[0043] In a possible implementation, the second information further comprises at least one of a number of the beams transmitted by the first communication device, a time length of scanning each of the beams, or an ending time of scanning each of the beams.

[0044] The third aspect of the present application provides a communication device, comprising: a transceiver and a processing unit; wherein,

[0045] The transceiver is configured to receive a first request from the first communication device; wherein the first request comprises first information and second information, the first information is used to indicate a wireless charging mode, and the second information comprises information related to the wireless charging mode.

[0046] The processing unit is configured to charge according to the wireless charging mode according to the first information and the second information.

[0047] In a possible implementation, the processing unit is configured to, when the first information is used to indicate the wireless charging mode of activating beam scanning, the second information comprises a time at which the first communication device starts to perform beam scanning, and an open-loop beam scanning type, activate a function of performing beam scanning according to the wireless charging mode of activating beam scanning; and collect energy from the beams transmitted by the first communication device to charge after the first communication device starts to perform beam scanning according to the time at which the first communication device starts to perform beam scanning and the open-loop beam scanning type.

[0048] In a possible implementation, the transceiver is further configured to receive a second request from the first communication device; wherein the second request is used to request feedback for wireless charging; and send feedback information used to indicate a charging result to the first communication device.

[0049] In a possible implementation, the processing unit is configured to, when the first information is used to indicate the wireless charging mode of activating beam scanning, or the first information is used to indicate the wireless charging mode of activating beam feedback, the second information comprises a time at which the first communication device starts to perform beam scanning, and a closed-loop beam scanning type; activate a function of performing beam feedback according to the wireless charging mode of activating beam scanning or the wireless charging mode of activating beam feedback; and measure energy in the beams transmitted by the first communication device to determine first feedback information used for charging according to the time at which the first communication device starts to perform beam scanning and the closed-loop beam scanning type after the first communication device starts to perform beam scanning.

[0050] In a possible implementation, the transceiver is further configured to receive a third request from the first communication device; the third request comprises feedback resource of the first feedback information, the feedback resource comprises at least one of time domain resource or frequency domain resource; and the processing unit is configured to send the first feedback information to the first communication device according to the at least one of time domain resource or frequency domain resource of the first feedback information.

[0051] In a possible implementation, the processing unit is further configured to, when the first information is used to indicate that the wireless charging mode of the beam feedback is activated, and when the second information further comprises feedback resource of the first feedback information, the feedback resource comprises at least one of time domain resource or frequency domain resource, send the first feedback information to the first communication device according to the at least one of time domain resource or frequency domain resource.

[0052] In a possible implementation, the transceiver is further configured to receive a target beam.

[0053] The processing unit is further configured to collect energy from the target beam for charging.

[0054] In a possible implementation, the first feedback information comprises at least one of information of the target beam, charging capability information of each of the beams transmitted by the first communication device, or ranking information of the charging capability of each of the beams; and the target beam is a beam whose charging capability meets the charging demand among the beams transmitted by the first communication device.

[0055] In a possible implementation, the second information further comprises at least one of the number of the beams transmitted by the first communication device, the time length of scanning each of the beams, or the end time of scanning each of the beams.

[0056] The fourth aspect of the present application provides a communication device, comprising: a transceiver and a processing unit; wherein,

[0057] The transceiver is configured to send a first request; the first request comprises first information and second information, the first information is used to indicate a wireless charging mode, and the second information comprises information related to the wireless charging mode.

[0058] The transceiver is further configured to transmit a beam, and the beam is used for wireless charging.

[0059] The processing unit can be configured to generate the first request.

[0060] In a possible implementation, the first information is used to indicate a wireless charging mode in which beam sweeping is activated, the second information includes a time at which the first communication device starts to perform beam sweeping, and a beam sweeping type in an open loop; and the wireless charging mode in which beam sweeping is activated is used for the second communication device to activate a function of performing beam sweeping, and the time at which the first communication device starts to perform beam sweeping and the beam sweeping type in the open loop are used for the second communication device to collect energy from beams transmitted by the first communication device for charging after the first communication device starts to perform beam sweeping.

[0061] In a possible implementation, the transceiver is further configured to send a second request, where the second request is used to request the second communication device to feed back for wireless charging, and receive feedback information from the second communication device, where the feedback information is used to indicate a charging result.

[0062] In a possible implementation, the first information is used to indicate a wireless charging mode in which beam sweeping is activated, or the first information is used to indicate a wireless charging mode in which beam feedback is activated, and the second information includes a time at which the first communication device starts to perform beam sweeping and a beam sweeping type in a closed loop; and the wireless charging mode in which beam sweeping is activated or the wireless charging mode in which beam feedback is activated is used to indicate that the second communication device activates a function of performing beam feedback, and the time at which the first communication device starts to perform beam sweeping and the beam sweeping type in the closed loop are used to indicate that the second communication device measures energy in beams transmitted by the first communication device to determine first feedback information after the first communication device starts to perform beam sweeping, and the first feedback information is used for charging.

[0063] In a possible implementation, the transceiver is further configured to send a third request, where the third request includes feedback resources of the first feedback information, and the feedback resources include at least one of a time domain resource or a frequency domain resource, and receive the first feedback information according to the at least one of the time domain resource or the frequency domain resource.

[0064] In a possible implementation, when the first information is used to indicate the wireless charging mode in which beam feedback is activated, and the second information further includes feedback resources of the first feedback information, and the feedback resources include at least one of a time domain resource or a frequency domain resource, the transceiver is further configured to receive the first feedback information according to the at least one of the time domain resource or the frequency domain resource.

[0065] In a possible implementation, the transceiver is further configured to send a target beam, and the target beam is used for the second communication device to perform wireless charging.

[0066] In a possible implementation, the first feedback information includes at least one of information of a target beam, charging capability information of each of beams transmitted by the first communication device, or ranking information of charging capability of each of the beams; and the target beam is a beam of the beams transmitted by the first communication device and having charging capability satisfying the charging requirement.

[0067] In a possible implementation, the second information further includes at least one of a quantity of the beams transmitted by the first communication device, a time length of scanning each of the beams, or an ending time of scanning each of the beams.

[0068] The fifth aspect of the present application provides a communication device, which includes a processor. The processor is configured to invoke and run a computer program stored in a memory, so that the processor implements the method described in the first aspect or any of the implementation manners of the first aspect.

[0069] Optionally, the communication device further includes a transceiver, and the processor is further configured to control the transceiver to transceive signals.

[0070] Optionally, the communication device includes a memory, and the memory stores the computer program.

[0071] The communication device of the fifth aspect can be a device or a chip (system) in a device.

[0072] The sixth aspect of the present application provides a communication device, which includes a processor. The processor is configured to invoke and run a computer program stored in a memory, so that the processor implements the method described in the second aspect or any of the implementation manners of the second aspect.

[0073] Optionally, the communication device further includes a transceiver, and the processor is further configured to control the transceiver to transceive signals.

[0074] Optionally, the communication device includes a memory, and the memory stores the computer program.

[0075] The communication device of the sixth aspect can be a device or a chip (system) in a device.

[0076] The seventh aspect of the present application provides a communication device, which can be the first communication device, or a module or unit (for example, a chip or a chip system or a circuit) corresponding to the method / operation / step / action described in the first aspect or any of the implementation manners of the first aspect.

[0077] The eighth aspect of the present application provides a communication device, which can be the second communication device, or a module or unit (for example, a chip, or a chip system, or a circuit) in the second communication device corresponding to the method / operation / step / action described in the second aspect or any of the implementation manners of the second aspect.

[0078] The ninth aspect of the present application provides a computer readable storage medium, including computer instructions, when the computer instructions are run on a computer, causing the computer to execute the first aspect or any of the implementation manners of the first aspect.

[0079] The tenth aspect of the present application provides a computer readable storage medium, including computer instructions, when the computer instructions are run on a computer, causing the computer to execute the second aspect or any of the implementation manners of the second aspect.

[0080] The eleventh aspect of the present application provides a computer program product including instructions, when the computer program product is run on a computer, causing the computer to execute the first aspect or any of the implementation manners of the first aspect.

[0081] The twelfth aspect of the present application provides a computer program product including instructions, when the computer program product is run on a computer, causing the computer to execute the second aspect or any of the implementation manners of the second aspect.

[0082] The thirteenth aspect of the present application provides a chip device, including a processor, configured to invoke a program stored in a memory, so that the processor executes the first aspect or any of the implementation manners of the first aspect.

[0083] Optionally, the memory is located inside or outside the chip device.

[0084] The fourteenth aspect of the present application provides a chip device, including a processor, configured to invoke a program stored in a memory, so that the processor executes the second aspect or any of the implementation manners of the second aspect.

[0085] Optionally, the memory is located inside or outside the chip device.

[0086] The fifteenth aspect of the present application provides a communication system, including a first communication device and a second communication device, the first communication device is configured to execute the first aspect or any of the implementation manners of the first aspect, and the second communication device is configured to execute the second aspect or any of the implementation manners of the second aspect.

[0087] The technical effects brought by the second aspect, the third aspect, or the fourth aspect, or any possible implementation manner of the second aspect, the third aspect, or the fourth aspect, and the fifth aspect to the fifteenth aspect can refer to the technical effects brought by the first aspect or different possible implementation manners of the first aspect, which will not be described here. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS

[0088] FIG. 1A is a schematic diagram of a communication system according to an embodiment of the present application;

[0089] FIG. 1B is a schematic diagram of an O-RAN system according to an embodiment of the present application;

[0090] FIG. 1C is a schematic diagram of a chip architecture of an O-RAN system according to an embodiment of the present application;

[0091] FIG. 1D is a schematic diagram of a scenario of an Internet of Things according to an embodiment of the present application;

[0092] FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram of an embodiment of a communication method according to an embodiment of the present application;

[0093] FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram of another embodiment of a communication method according to an embodiment of the present application;

[0094] FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram of another embodiment of a communication method according to an embodiment of the present application;

[0095] FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram of another embodiment of a communication method according to an embodiment of the present application;

[0096] FIG. 6 is a schematic diagram of another embodiment of a communication method according to an embodiment of the present application;

[0097] FIG. 7 is a schematic diagram of another embodiment of a communication method according to an embodiment of the present application;

[0098] FIG. 8 is a schematic diagram of another embodiment of a communication method according to an embodiment of the present application;

[0099] FIGS. 9 to 13 are schematic diagrams of structures of communication apparatuses according to embodiments of the present application. DETAILED DESCRIPTION

[0100] The embodiments of the present application are described below with reference to the accompanying drawings. Obviously, the described embodiments are only a part of the embodiments of the present application, but not all the embodiments. Those skilled in the art can know that the technical solutions provided by the embodiments of the present application are also applicable to similar technical problems as technology develops and new scenarios appear.

[0101] The present application provides a communication method for reducing the complexity of wireless charging. The present application also provides corresponding apparatuses, computer-readable storage media, and computer program products, etc. The following are described in detail.

[0102] First, some terms in the embodiments of the present application are explained and described to facilitate understanding by those skilled in the art.

[0103] (1) Terminal device: can be a wireless terminal device capable of receiving network device scheduling and indication information, the wireless terminal device can be a device that provides voice and / or data connectivity to a user, or a handheld device with a wireless connection function, or other processing devices connected to a wireless modem.

[0104] The terminal device can communicate with one or more core networks or the Internet through a radio access network (RAN), and the terminal device can be a mobile terminal device, such as a mobile phone (or called "cellular" phone, mobile phone), computer and data card, for example, it can be a portable, pocket-sized, handheld, computer built-in or vehicle-mounted mobile device that exchanges voice and / or data with the radio access network. For example, personal communication service (PCS) phones, cordless phones, session initiation protocol (SIP) phones, wireless local loop (WLL) stations, personal digital assistants (PDAs), tablets, wireless transceiver-enabled computers, and other devices. The wireless terminal device can also be called a subscriber unit, a subscriber station, a mobile station, a remote station, an access point, a remote terminal, an access terminal, a user terminal, a user agent, a subscriber station, a customer premises equipment, a terminal, a user equipment, a mobile terminal, etc.

[0105] By way of example and not limitation, in embodiments of the present application, the terminal device can also be a wearable device. The wearable device can also be referred to as a smart wearable device or a smart wearable device, etc., which is a general term for devices that can be worn by applying wearable technology to the smart design of daily wear, such as glasses, gloves, watches, clothing, and shoes, etc. The wearable device is a portable device that can be worn directly on the body or integrated into the user's clothes or accessories. The wearable device is not only a hardware device, but also a powerful function through software support and data interaction, cloud interaction. The general wearable smart device includes a full function, large size, and can realize complete or partial functions without relying on a smart phone, such as smart watches or smart glasses, etc., and focuses on a certain application function, and needs to cooperate with other devices such as a smart phone, such as various smart wristbands, smart helmets, smart jewelry, etc. for monitoring vital signs.

[0106] The terminal can also be a drone, a robot, a terminal in device-to-device (D2D) communication, a terminal in vehicle to everything (V2X), a virtual reality (VR) terminal device, an augmented reality (AR) terminal device, a wireless terminal in industrial control, a wireless terminal in self driving, a wireless terminal in telemedicine or telehealth services, a wireless terminal in smart grid, a wireless terminal in transportation safety, a wireless terminal in smart city, a wireless terminal in smart home, etc.

[0107] In addition, the terminal device can also be a terminal device in a future communication system (such as a 5G Advanced communication system, etc.) after the 5th generation (5G) communication system or a terminal device in a future evolved public land mobile network (PLMN), etc. For example, the 5G Advanced network can further expand the form and function of the 5G communication terminal, and the 5G Advanced terminal includes but is not limited to vehicles, cellular network terminals (with satellite terminal functions), drones, internet of things (IoT) devices, such as electronic tags or radio frequency tags.

[0108] In the embodiments of the present application, the terminal device can also obtain an artificial intelligence (AI) service provided by the network device. Optionally, the terminal device can also have AI processing capability.

[0109] (2) Network device: can be a device in a wireless network, for example, the network device can be a RAN node (or device) for accessing the terminal device to the wireless network, which can also be referred to as a base station. At present, some examples of RAN devices are: base station, evolved NodeB (eNodeB), base station gNB (gNodeB) in 5G communication system, transmission reception point (TRP), evolved Node B (eNB), radio network controller (RNC), Node B (NB), home base station (for example, home evolved Node B, or home Node B, HNB), base band unit (BBU) or wireless fidelity (Wi-Fi) access point (AP) and the like. In addition, in one network structure, the network device can include a central unit (CU) node, or a distributed unit (DU) node, or a RAN device including a CU node and a DU node.

[0110] Optionally, the RAN node can also be a macro base station, a micro base station or an indoor station, a relay node or a donor node, or a wireless controller in a cloud radio access network (CRAN) scenario. The RAN node can also be a server, a wearable device, a vehicle or a vehicle-mounted device, etc. For example, the access network device in vehicle-to-everything (V2X) technology can be a road side unit (RSU).

[0111] In another possible scenario, multiple RAN nodes cooperate to assist a terminal to implement wireless access, and different RAN nodes respectively implement part of functions of a base station. For example, a RAN node can be a CU, a DU, a CU-control plane (CP), a CU-user plane (UP), or a radio unit (RU), etc. The CU and the DU can be separately configured, or can be included in the same network element, for example, in a baseband unit (BBU). The RU can be included in a radio frequency device or a radio frequency unit, for example, in a remote radio unit (RRU), an active antenna unit (AAU), a radio head (RH), or a remote radio head (RRH).

[0112] In different systems, the CU (or CU-CP and CU-UP), the DU, or the RU can also have different names, but those skilled in the art can understand their meanings. For example, in an open RAN (O-RAN or ORAN) system, the CU can also be referred to as an O-CU (open CU), the DU can also be referred to as an O-DU, the CU-CP can also be referred to as an O-CU-CP, the CU-UP can also be referred to as an O-CU-UP, and the RU can also be referred to as an O-RU. For the convenience of description, the CU, the CU-CP, the CU-UP, the DU, and the RU are taken as examples for description in this application. Any one of the CU (or the CU-CP, the CU-UP), the DU, and the RU in this application can be implemented by a software module, a hardware module, or a combination of a software module and a hardware module.

[0113] The communication between the access network device and the terminal device complies with a certain protocol layer structure. The protocol layer can include a control plane protocol layer and a user plane protocol layer. The control plane protocol layer can include at least one of the following: a radio resource control (RRC) layer, a packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) layer, a radio link control (RLC) layer, a media access control (MAC) layer, or a physical (PHY) layer, etc. The user plane protocol layer can include at least one of the following: a service data adaptation protocol (SDAP) layer, a PDCP layer, an RLC layer, a MAC layer, or a physical layer, etc.

[0114] For the correspondence between the network elements in the ORAN system and the protocol layer functions that can be implemented by the network elements, refer to Table 1-1 below.

[0115] Table 1-1

[0116] The network device can be another device that provides a wireless communication function for the terminal device. Embodiments of the present application do not limit the specific technology and specific device form adopted by the network device. For the convenience of description, embodiments of the present application do not limit.

[0117] The network device can also include a core network device, for example, a mobility management entity (MME) in a fourth generation (4G) network, a home subscriber server (HSS), a serving gateway (S-GW), a policy and charging rules function (PCRF), a public data network gateway (PDN gateway or P-GW), a network element such as an access and mobility management function (AMF) in a 5G network, a user plane function (UPF), or a session management function (SMF). In addition, the core network device can also include other core network devices in the 5G network and the next generation network of the 5G network.

[0118] In embodiments of the present application, the network device described above can also be an AI-capable network node, which can provide AI services for terminal devices or other network devices, for example, AI nodes, computing power nodes, AI-capable RAN nodes, AI-capable core network elements, etc. on the network side (access network or core network).

[0119] In embodiments of the present application, the device for implementing the function of the network device can be a network device or a device capable of supporting the network device to implement the function, such as a chip system, which can be arranged in the network device. In the technical solutions provided in embodiments of the present application, the device for implementing the function of the network device is taken as an example to describe the technical solutions provided in embodiments of the present application.

[0120] (3) The terms "system" and "network" in the embodiments of the present application can be used interchangeably. "Multiple" means two or more. "And / or" describes the association relationship of the associated objects, which means that there can be three relationships, for example, A and / or B can represent the following three cases: A exists alone, A and B exist together, and B exists alone, where A and B can be singular or plural. The character " / " generally represents an "or" relationship between the associated objects. "At least one of the following" or similar expressions means any combination of these items, including any combination of single or multiple items. For example, "at least one of A, B, and C" includes A, B, C, AB, AC, BC, or ABC. In addition, unless otherwise specified, the ordinal numbers "first", "second", etc. mentioned in the embodiments of the present application are used to distinguish multiple objects, and are not used to limit the order, time sequence, priority or importance of the multiple objects.

[0121] (4) In the embodiments of the present application, "sending" and "receiving" represent the direction of signal transmission. For example, "sending information to XX" can be understood as that the destination of the information is XX, which can include direct sending through the air interface, or indirect sending through the air interface by other units or modules. "Receiving information from YY" can be understood as that the source of the information is YY, which can include direct receiving from YY through the air interface, or indirect receiving from YY through the air interface by other units or modules. "Sending" can also be understood as the "output" of the chip interface, and "receiving" can also be understood as the "input" of the chip interface.

[0122] In other words, sending and receiving can be between devices, such as between network devices and terminal devices, or within devices, such as between components, modules, chips, software modules or hardware modules within a device through a bus, wire or interface.

[0123] It can be understood that the information may be processed as necessary between the source and the destination of the information transmission, such as encoding and modulation, but the destination can understand the valid information from the source. Similar expressions in the present application can be similarly understood, and will not be repeated here.

[0124] (5) The communication or energy charging in the embodiments of the present application can include wireless communication or energy charging between a network device and a terminal device, wireless communication or energy charging between network devices, and wireless communication or energy charging between terminal devices. In the embodiments of the present application, the communication can also be described as data transmission or information transmission. The wireless energy charging can also be referred to as energy charging, energy transmission, or charging. Conversely, the energy charging can also be described as wireless energy transmission, wireless charging, wireless energy transmission, radio frequency energy transmission, radio frequency energy transmission, radio frequency energy charging, or radio frequency charging.

[0125] (6) In the embodiments of the present application, the indication can include direct indication and indirect indication, and can also include explicit indication and implicit indication. The information indicated by certain information (indication information described below) is referred to as to-be-indicated information. In the specific implementation process, there are many ways to indicate the to-be-indicated information, for example, but not limited to, the to-be-indicated information can be directly indicated, such as the to-be-indicated information itself or the index of the to-be-indicated information. The to-be-indicated information can also be indirectly indicated by indicating other information, where the other information and the to-be-indicated information have an association relationship. The to-be-indicated information can also be indicated only by a part, and the other part of the to-be-indicated information is known or agreed in advance. For example, the indication of a specific information can be achieved by means of the arrangement order of each information agreed in advance (for example, protocol predefined), thereby reducing the indication overhead to a certain extent. The present application does not limit the specific manner of indication. It can be understood that the indication information can be used to indicate the to-be-indicated information for the sender of the indication information, and the indication information can be used to determine the to-be-indicated information for the receiver of the indication information.

[0126] In the present application, the same or similar parts of each embodiment can be mutually referred to, unless otherwise specified. In the various embodiments of the present application, and the various methods / designs / implementation manners in each embodiment, the terms and / or descriptions of different embodiments, and the various methods / designs / implementation manners in each embodiment are consistent and can be mutually referred to, unless otherwise specified and logically conflicted. The technical features of different embodiments, and the various methods / designs / implementation manners in each embodiment can be combined to form new embodiments, methods, or implementation manners according to their inherent logical relationship. The implementation manners of the present application described below do not constitute a limitation on the protection scope of the present application.

[0127] The present application can be applied to a long term evolution (LTE) system, a new radio (NR) system, or a future communication system after 5G. The communication system includes at least one network device and / or at least one terminal device.

[0128] Referring to FIG. 1A, a schematic diagram of an architecture of a communication system to which embodiments of the present application are applied is shown. As shown in FIG. 1A, the communication system can include a radio access network 100, and optionally, the communication system can further include a core network 200 and an Internet 300. The RAN 100 includes at least one RAN node 110 (e.g., 110a and 110b in FIG. 1A, collectively referred to as 110) and at least one terminal device (e.g., 120a-120j in FIG. 1A, collectively referred to as 120). The RAN 100 can further include other RAN nodes, such as a wireless relay device and / or a wireless backhaul device (not shown in FIG. 1A). The terminal devices 120 are wirelessly connected with the RAN nodes 110, and the RAN nodes 110 are connected with the core network 200 through wire or wireless. The core network devices in the core network 200 and the RAN nodes 110 in the RAN 100 can be independent and different physical devices, or can be the same physical device integrated with the logical functions of the core network devices and the logical functions of the RAN nodes. The terminal devices and the terminal devices, and the RAN nodes and the RAN nodes can be connected with each other through wire or wireless.

[0129] The above communication system can be an O-RAN system. As shown in FIG. 1B, the access network device communicates with the core network (CN) through a backhaul link, and communicates with the terminal device through an air interface. The access network device includes a baseband unit (BBU) and a radio unit (RU). The BBU communicates with the CN through the backhaul link, and the RU communicates with at least one terminal device through the air interface. The BBU communicates with at least one RU through a front-haul link. The BBU and the RU can be co-located or not.

[0130] The BBU includes at least one control unit (CU) and at least one distributed unit (DU). The CU and the DU can communicate through at least one mid-haul link.

[0131] The chip architecture of the CU, the DU and the RU can be understood with reference to FIG. 1C. As shown in FIG. 1C, the CU is a platform that performs upper layer L2 and L3 functions. The mid-haul interface and the backhaul interface are used to carry traffic between the CU and the DU, and between the CU and the core network. The DU performs L1 and part of L2 functions, and the RU performs L1 computation and radio frequency digital part functions. The front-haul interface and the mid-haul interface are used to carry traffic between the RU and the DU, and between the CU and the DU. If the DU is integrated, the integrated DU includes the above-mentioned DU and RU functions.

[0132] The CU or DU hardware includes a chassis platform, a motherboard, peripherals, and cooling equipment. The motherboard contains processing units, memory, internal I / O interfaces, and external connection ports. Its hardware accelerator design has interfaces, and the hardware functional components include storage of software, hardware, and system debugging interfaces, and a single-board management controller.

[0133] The DU system is usually implemented using a multi-core processor and one or more hardware accelerators. Part of the DU protocol stack can be implemented in software running on the multi-core processor, and the computationally intensive L1 and L2 functions can be offloaded to hardware accelerators based on field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) or graphic processing units (GPUs); or all L1 functions are offloaded to hardware accelerators based on FPGAs or GPUs, while other protocol stack contents are implemented in software running on the processor; or all the protocol stack is implemented in software running on the processor. The hardware accelerator supports interconnection with an x86 or non-x86 processor. Similarly, the accelerator has a multi-lane peripheral component interconnect express (PCIe) interface pointing to a central processing unit (CPU), and is externally connected through a gigabit Ethernet (GbE) connection.

[0134] The RU includes three parts: an O-RAN processing unit (OPU), a digital processing unit (DPU), and an O-RAN radio frequency processing unit (ORFDU).

[0135] The OPU receives enhanced common public radio interface (eCPRI) frames from the O-RAN fronthaul and performs the fronthaul interface, the lowest layer L1 (encoding, scrambling, modulation, layer mapping, precoding), synchronization, beamforming, and resource unit mapping.

[0136] The OPU can be implemented as a CPU, FPGA or application specific integrated circuit (ASIC). The DPU is used to perform synchronization, digital down convert (DDC) in uplink (UL), digital up convert (DUC) in downlink (DL), crest factor reduction (CFR) and digital pre-distortion (DPD) to improve power amplifier efficiency by reducing the peak to average power ratio (PAPR) or adjacent channel leakage ratio (ACLR) of the radio frequency front end; the DPU can be implemented as an FPGA or ASIC.

[0137] The RF processing unit (ORFDU) of the O-RU includes a transceiver module, an upconverter, a downconverter, a power amplifier (PA), a low noise amplifier (LNA), a transmission (Tx) filter and a receive (Rx). The transceiver module is used to perform conversion between the analog domain and the digital domain, such as digital to analog conversion (DAC) and analog to digital conversion (ADC), RF sampling, frequency conversion using RF in upconversion and downconversion, intermediate frequency (IF), and local oscillator (LO) mixing for frequency conversion. It should be noted that the physical and logical partitions within the RF processing unit do not require specific boundaries.

[0138] The communication system can be an Internet of Things (IoT), which refers to real-time collection of objects or processes that need to be managed, connected, and interacted through various information sensors, radio frequency identification technology, global positioning systems, infrared sensors, laser scanners, and other devices and technologies, collecting various information such as sound, light, heat, electricity, mechanics, chemistry, biology, and location, and achieving ubiquitous connection of objects and people through various possible network access, and achieving intelligent perception, identification, and management of objects and processes. The Internet of Things is an information carrier based on the Internet, traditional telecommunications network, etc., allowing all ordinary physical objects that can be independently addressed to form an interconnected network.

[0139] The Internet of Things takes the scenario of identifying information as an example, as shown in FIG. 1D, the access network device can communicate with the Internet, and the way in which the access network device communicates with the Internet can be understood with reference to the foregoing introduction in FIG. 1A. The access network device can perform wireless communication with a terminal device (such as the electronic tag in FIG. 1D). In the process of wireless communication between the access network device and the terminal device, the terminal device can be wirelessly charged. Of course, the wireless charging process of the present application is not limited to charging the terminal device by the network device, but can also be wireless charging of the network device by the network device, or wireless charging of the terminal device by the terminal device.

[0140] The communication process provided by the embodiments of the present application can be used for wireless charging. The communication process includes a first communication device and a second communication device. The first communication device can be a network device, a component or device (e.g., a processor, a chip, or a chip system) applied to the network device, or a logic module or software (e.g., a central unit (CU), a distributed unit (DU), or a radio unit (RU)) capable of implementing all or part of the functions of the network device. Alternatively, the first communication device can be a network device or a communication module in the network device, or a circuit or chip (e.g., a modem chip, also known as a baseband chip, or a system on chip (SoC) chip or a system in package (SIP) chip containing a modem core) responsible for the communication function in the network device. Of course, the first communication device can also be a terminal device, a component or device (e.g., a processor, a chip, or a chip system) applied to the terminal device, or a logic module or software capable of implementing all or part of the functions of the terminal device. Alternatively, the first communication device can be a terminal device or a communication module in the terminal device, or a circuit or chip (e.g., a modem chip, also known as a baseband chip, or a system on chip (SoC) chip or a system in package (SIP) chip containing a modem core) responsible for the communication function in the terminal device.

[0141] As shown in FIG. 2, the communication method provided by the embodiments of the present application includes the following steps.

[0142] S201. The first communication device sends a first request to the second communication device. Correspondingly, the second communication device receives the first request from the first communication device.

[0143] The first request includes first information and second information. The first information is used to indicate a wireless charging mode, and the second information includes information related to the wireless charging mode.

[0144] In the present application, the first request can be a query request sent by a reader of an electronic tag to the electronic tag. Of course, the first request can also be other types of requests or messages, which are not limited in the present application.

[0145] In the present application, the first information can be indication information indicating different contents in the form of a bit sequence formed by one bit or multiple bits. The first information is used to indicate a wireless charging mode, which can be one or more. When there are multiple wireless charging modes, different bit sequences can correspond to different wireless charging modes, and different wireless charging modes correspond to different wireless charging processes.

[0146] In the present application, the second information can include one or more information (also referred to as parameters), which can be understood as indication information of specific contents related to the wireless charging mode. "Related" means that the second information corresponding to different wireless charging modes can be the same or different, where different includes partial or complete difference. Moreover, the number of information related to different wireless charging modes can be different, for example, the information related to wireless charging mode 1 has 5, and the information related to wireless charging mode 2 has 7, of which 5 information can be the same as the 5 information related to wireless charging mode 1. Of course, the 5 information can also be partially the same, or all different.

[0147] For the relationship between the first information and the second information, please refer to Table 1-2 for understanding.

[0148] Table 1-2

[0149] In Table 1-2, the information corresponding to field 1 can be the first information, and the example shown in Table 1-2 is to represent the first information by a bit sequence of A bits. Different values of the bit sequence can indicate different wireless charging modes, for example, if A = 4, there will be 0000, 0001, 0010, 0011, 0100, 0101, 0110, 0111, 1000, 1001, 1010, 1011, 1100, 1101, 1110 and 1111, of which each value can indicate a different wireless charging mode. Of course, if there are not 16 wireless charging modes, A can have a smaller value, for example, if there are two wireless charging modes, A can be equal to 1, and only one bit "0" is needed to indicate one wireless charging mode, and one bit "1" is needed to indicate one wireless charging mode. If there are more than 16 wireless charging modes, A can have a larger value, and the specific value of A can be set according to the demand.

[0150] In Table 1-2, the information corresponding to field 2 and the information corresponding to field 3 both belong to the second information. If there are other fields, the information corresponding to the other fields also belongs to the second information. The information corresponding to field 2 can indicate information 1 related to the wireless charging mode by B bits, and the information corresponding to field 3 can indicate information 2 related to the wireless charging mode by C bits.

[0151] A, B, and C can be positive integers.

[0152] Taking a communication scenario of a tag reader and an electronic tag as an example, the first request can include the content shown in Table 2.

[0153] Table 2:

[0154] In Table 2, the command field (command) can be a field corresponding to the first information. Different bit sequences of 4 bits indicate different meanings, such as: 1000 in Table 2 can indicate an inventory communication mode, which is used to indicate inventory management. The information corresponding to other fields after the command, such as: DR, M, TRext, Sel, Session, Target, Q, and CRC fields, can be referred to as second information. Among them, the bit value of the DR field represents the value of the DR register, wherein 0 represents DR = 8, and 1 represents DR = 64 / 3; the bit value of the M field represents the value of M, such as: 00 represents M = 1, 01 represents M = 2, 10 represents M = 4, and 11 represents M = 8. The bit value of the TRext field represents whether a pilot tone is used, such as: 0 represents no pilot tone, and 1 represents use of a pilot tone. The bit value of the Sel field represents a selected range, such as: 00 represents selection of all, 01 also represents selection of all, 10 represents selection of a specified part, and 11 represents selection of a non-specified part. The bit value of the Session field represents different session modes, such as: 00 represents session mode S0, 01 represents session mode S1, 10 represents session mode S2, and 11 represents session mode S3. The bit value of the Target field represents a corresponding target, such as: 0 represents a corresponding target A, and 1 represents a corresponding target B. The bit value of the Q field represents a time slot count value of a tag, and 4 bits represent a time slot count value from 0 to 15. The bit value corresponding to the cyclic redundancy check (CRC) field represents a CRC-5 algorithm, that is, a cyclic redundancy check is performed using the CRC-5 algorithm.

[0155] In different wireless charging modes, the relationship between the first information and the second information in the first request can be represented in the form of Table 3 or Table 4.

[0156] Table 3:

[0157] In Table 3, field 1 indicates wireless charging mode 1 by A fields, if wireless charging is completed by a query request (query) of a communication scenario of a tag reader and an electronic tag, field 1 can be a command field, the number of bits A can be equal to 4, the first information can be 1110, which can indicate wireless charging mode 1. Of course, wireless charging mode 1 can also be indicated by other bit sequences except the bit sequence 1000 occupied by the inventory communication mode. The bit sequence 1110 here is only an example. The second information can include one or more information, such as: field 2 can indicate the beam scanning start time by X bits, such as: time indication 1 can indicate the time to start beam scanning. The time to start beam scanning can be calculated by time indication 1. Time indication 1 can be a time offset, such as: offset by one or more time slots, sub-slots, etc. Field 3 can indicate open loop or closed loop by 1 bit, such as: 0 indicates open loop, and 1 indicates closed loop. The open loop beam scanning type refers to a scanning type that does not require the second communication device to feed back the measurement result of one or more beams. It can also be understood that the open loop beam scanning type is a beam scanning type that directly collects energy from one or more beams for wireless charging. The closed loop beam scanning type refers to a scanning type that requires the second communication device to feed back the measurement result of one or more beams. Of course, the second information in Table 3 can also include other information, such as: at least one of the number of transmitted beams, the time length of each beam scanning, or the end time of each beam scanning.

[0158] If Table 3 is used as an example to illustrate the format of the query request (query) of the communication scenario of the tag reader and the electronic tag, the first information can indicate wireless charging mode by borrowing the idle bit sequence of the command field. When the indication function of the command field changes, other fields on the query need to change accordingly. Among them, field 2 indicates the beam scanning start time, which can be set as the ST field, i.e., the acronym of start time. Field 3 indicates the open loop or closed loop beam scanning type, which can be set as the Ring field. Of course, this indicates an exemplary description, and does not limit the specific representation form of field 2 and field 3.

[0159] Table 4:

[0160] In Table 4, field 1 indicates wireless charging mode 2 by A fields, if wireless charging is completed by a query request (query) of a communication scenario of a tag reader and an electronic tag, field 1 can be a command field, the number of bits A can be equal to 4, the first information can be 1111, which can indicate wireless charging mode 2. Of course, wireless charging mode 2 can also be indicated by other bit sequences other than the bit sequence 1000 occupied by the inventory communication mode. The bit sequence 1111 here is only an example. The second information can include one or more information. The second information corresponding to different wireless charging modes can be the same or different. Different scenarios will be further introduced in subsequent embodiments.

[0161] In the above introduction of Table 3 and Table 4, although the relationship between the first information and the second information is introduced by using the structure of the query of the communication scenario of the tag reader and the electronic tag, the present application is not limited to the communication scenario of the tag reader and the electronic tag. In other communication scenarios, new signaling can be added or existing signaling can be used to realize the contents introduced in Table 1-1, Table 1-2, Table 3 and Table 4.

[0162] S202. The first communication device transmits a beam. Correspondingly, the second communication device receives the beam.

[0163] S203. The second communication device charges according to the wireless charging mode according to the first information and the second information.

[0164] In the present application, the process of charging according to the wireless charging mode according to the first information and the second information refers to determining the charging process according to the wireless charging mode indicated by the first information, and completing the charging process according to the specific content of one or more information in the second information. Charging refers to collecting energy in the beam for charging, or measuring the beam to determine the beam (such as the optimal beam) that meets the charging requirement in multiple beams, notifying the first communication device to transmit the corresponding beam (such as the optimal beam), and then collecting energy from the corresponding beam for charging.

[0165] The communication method provided by the embodiments of the present application, the first communication device sends a first request to the second communication device, the first information and the second information in the first request are used to indicate a wireless charging mode and information related to the wireless charging mode, and the second communication device can perform beam scanning on the beam sent by the first communication device according to the first information and the second information, and complete wireless charging. The second communication device or the first communication device does not need to send a reference signal related to channel measurement to the other party in advance, and the first communication device does not need to perform channel estimation and precoding according to the reference signal to complete wireless charging. In this way, the power consumed by the second communication device or the first communication device due to the transmission of the reference signal is saved, the transmission resource for transmitting the reference signal is saved, and the complexity of the first communication device performing channel estimation and precoding according to the reference signal is reduced. Moreover, not all second communication devices have channel measurement capability, and therefore, the wireless charging process provided by the present application also expands the types of second communication devices that can perform wireless charging.

[0166] The above communication scheme for wireless charging can include a plurality of different implementation processes, which are related to the content indicated by the first information and the content contained in the second information, which will be introduced below.

[0167] I. The first information is used to indicate a wireless charging mode in which beam scanning is activated, and the second information includes a time at which the first communication device starts to perform beam scanning and an open-loop beam scanning type.

[0168] As shown in FIG. 3, the communication method in this case includes:

[0169] S301. The first communication device sends a first request to the second communication device. Correspondingly, the second communication device receives the first request from the first communication device.

[0170] The first information is used to indicate a wireless charging mode in which beam scanning is activated, and the second information includes a time at which the first communication device starts to perform beam scanning and an open-loop beam scanning type.

[0171] Of course, the second information can also include at least one of the number of beams transmitted by the first communication device, the time length of each beam scanning, or the end time of each beam scanning.

[0172] The first request in this case can be understood with reference to Table 5.

[0173] Table 5:

[0174] In Table 5, the first information corresponding to field 1 can indicate a wireless charging mode 1, which can be a wireless charging mode with activated beam sweeping, referring to a function of activating scanning of one or more beams transmitted by the first communication device.

[0175] The meanings and functions of fields 2 and 3 can be understood by referring to the introduction of Table 3, wherein field 4 can be used to indicate the number of beams transmitted by the first communication device, such as the bit sequence of P bits in Table 5 indicating the number of beams, for example, if P = 4 and the bit sequence is 0011, it means that the number of beams is 4. Field 5 can be used to indicate the time length of each beam scanning, such as the Y bits in Table 5 indicating the time length of beam scanning. Field 6 can be used to indicate the end time of each beam scanning, such as the Z bits in Table 5 indicating the end time, for example, the end time of beam scanning is indicated by time indication 2, which can be calculated by time indication 2. Field 5 and field 6 can only have one, if field 5 is included, the start time of beam scanning is calculated by time indication 1 of field 2, and the end time of beam scanning can be calculated by the time length of beam scanning of field 5. If field 5 is included, the end time of beam scanning can be calculated according to the time indication 2 of field 6.

[0176] If the start time of beam scanning is represented by t1, the end time of beam scanning is represented by t2, and the time length of beam scanning is represented by L, then the relationship among them is t2 = t1 + L.

[0177] The second information in Table 5 is described by including multiple information, in fact, the second information can also include part of the information in Table 5.

[0178] The first communication device can determine to activate the beam scanning function according to the first information according to the first request.

[0179] S302. The first communication device transmits a beam.

[0180] S303. The second communication device collects energy from the beam transmitted by the first communication device for charging according to the time when the first communication device starts to perform beam scanning and the open-loop beam scanning type.

[0181] Of course, if the second information also includes other information, such as the number of beams, the first communication device will collect energy from the corresponding number of beams for charging. If the second information also includes the time length of beam scanning, the first communication device will collect energy from the beam within the time length for charging. If the second information also includes the end time of beam scanning, the first communication device will collect energy from the beam before the end time of beam scanning arrives.

[0182] S304. The first communication device sends a second request to the second communication device. Correspondingly, the second communication device receives the second request.

[0183] The second request is used to request feedback for wireless charging.

[0184] S305. The second communication device sends feedback information indicating the charging result to the first communication device. Correspondingly, the first communication device receives the feedback information indicating the charging result.

[0185] In the scheme provided by the embodiments of the present application, when the first information indicates the wireless charging mode of activating beam scanning and the second information includes the open-loop beam scanning type, the second communication device directly collects energy from the beam to perform wireless charging after the first communication device sends the beam, so that the speed of wireless charging of the second communication device can be improved.

[0186] II. The first information is used to indicate the wireless charging mode of activating beam scanning, and the second information includes the time when the first communication device starts to perform beam scanning and the closed-loop beam scanning type.

[0187] As shown in FIG. 4, the communication method in this case includes:

[0188] S401. The first communication device sends a first request to the second communication device. Correspondingly, the second communication device receives the first request from the first communication device.

[0189] The first information is used to indicate the wireless charging mode of activating beam scanning, and the second information includes the time when the first communication device starts to perform beam scanning and the closed-loop beam scanning type.

[0190] Of course, the second information can further include at least one of the number of beams transmitted by the first communication device, the time length of each beam scanning, or the end time of each beam scanning.

[0191] The first request in this case can be understood with reference to Table 6.

[0192] Table 6:

[0193] The difference between this Table 6 and Table 5 is that the bit information of field 3 is 1, indicating closed loop, and the second communication device needs to feedback the measurement result of one or more beams. The other fields are the same as those in Table 5 and can be understood with reference to the introduction of Table 5.

[0194] S402. The first communication device sends a beam.

[0195] S403. The second communication device activates the function of scanning the beam according to the wireless charging mode of activating beam scanning.

[0196] S404. The second communication device measures the energy in the beams transmitted by the first communication device to determine the first feedback information according to the time at which the first communication device starts to perform the beam sweeping and the closed-loop beam sweeping type.

[0197] In this application, the first feedback information includes at least one of the information of the target beam, the energy capability information of each of the beams transmitted by the first communication device, or the ranking information of the energy capability of each of the beams; wherein the target beam is the beam in the beams transmitted by the first communication device that meets the energy charging demand, such as the target beam is the beam with the best energy charging capability or energy charging effect, and the first feedback information can be the index of the beam with the best energy charging capability or energy charging effect.

[0198] S405. The first communication device sends a third request to the second communication device. Correspondingly, the second communication device receives the third request.

[0199] The third request includes the feedback resource of the first feedback information, and the feedback resource includes at least one of the time domain resource or the frequency domain resource.

[0200] S406. The second communication device sends the first feedback information to the first communication device according to at least one of the time domain resource or the frequency domain resource of the first feedback information. Correspondingly, the first communication device receives the first feedback information according to at least one of the time domain resource or the frequency domain resource of the first feedback information.

[0201] In this application, the first communication device receives the first feedback information on the corresponding feedback time or feedback resource, which is conducive to improving the accuracy of the feedback.

[0202] In this application, the first feedback information can be represented in the form of Table 7 as follows.

[0203] Table 7

[0204] The table 7 lists the case of using a 16-bit random number (RN) 16 to indicate the first feedback information. RN (0-7) in Table 7 indicates that the first 8 bits are used to indicate the identifier of the terminal device, and RN (8-15) indicates that the last 8 bits are used to indicate the index of the beam, such as the index of the target beam.

[0205] Of course, the first feedback information can also have other forms of representation, which are not limited in this application.

[0206] S407. The first communication device sends the target beam according to the first feedback information. Correspondingly, the second communication device receives the target beam.

[0207] S408. The second communication device collects energy from the target beam for charging.

[0208] In the scheme provided by the embodiments of the present application, when the first information indicates the wireless charging mode of activating beam scanning and the second information includes the open-loop beam scanning type, the second communication device first measures the beam sent by the first communication device to determine the first feedback information, such as the beam with the best charging capability or charging effect, after the first communication device sends the beam. In this way, it is beneficial for the first communication device to subsequently perform more efficient wireless charging on the second communication device according to the first feedback information.

[0209] III. The first information is used to indicate the wireless charging mode of activating beam feedback, and the second information includes the time when the first communication device starts to perform beam scanning and the closed-loop beam scanning type.

[0210] 3.1: The second information does not include the feedback resource of the first feedback information, and the feedback resource includes at least one of the time domain resource or the frequency domain resource.

[0211] As shown in FIG. 5, the communication method in this case includes:

[0212] S501. The first communication device sends a first request to the second communication device. Correspondingly, the second communication device receives the first request from the first communication device.

[0213] The first information is used to indicate the wireless charging mode of activating beam feedback, and the second information includes the time when the first communication device starts to perform beam scanning and the closed-loop beam scanning type.

[0214] Of course, the second information can also include at least one of the number of beams transmitted by the first communication device, the time length of each beam scanning, or the end time of each beam scanning.

[0215] The first request in this case can be understood with reference to Table 8.

[0216] Table 8:

[0217] The difference between this Table 8 and Table 6 is that the first indication information in field 1 indicates the wireless charging mode 2, which represents the wireless charging mode of activating beam feedback, and the second communication device needs to feedback the measurement result of one or more beams. The other fields are the same as Table 6 and can be understood with reference to the introduction of Table 6.

[0218] S502. The first communication device sends a beam.

[0219] S503. The second communication device activates the function of feeding back the beam according to the wireless charging mode of activating beam scanning.

[0220] S504. The second communication device measures energy in the beams transmitted by the first communication device to determine the first feedback information according to the time when the first communication device starts to perform the beam sweeping and the closed-loop beam sweeping type.

[0221] The first feedback information can be understood in the description of the foregoing embodiments.

[0222] S505. The first communication device sends a third request to the second communication device. Correspondingly, the second communication device receives the third request.

[0223] The third request includes feedback resources of the first feedback information, and the feedback resources include at least one of time domain resources or frequency domain resources.

[0224] S506. The second communication device sends the first feedback information to the first communication device according to at least one of the time domain resources or the frequency domain resources of the first feedback information. Correspondingly, the first communication device receives the first feedback information according to at least one of the time domain resources or the frequency domain resources of the first feedback information.

[0225] In this application, the first communication device receives the first feedback information on the corresponding feedback time or feedback resources, which is conducive to improving the accuracy of feedback.

[0226] S507. The first communication device sends a target beam according to the first feedback information. Correspondingly, the second communication device receives the target beam.

[0227] S508. The second communication device collects energy from the target beam for charging.

[0228] In the scheme provided by the embodiments of the application, when the first information indicates the wireless charging mode of the activated beam feedback and the second information includes the open-loop beam sweeping type, the second communication device will first measure the beam transmitted by the first communication device to determine the first feedback information, such as the beam with the best charging capability or charging effect, after the first communication device transmits the beam. In this way, it is conducive to the first communication device to subsequently perform more efficient wireless charging on the second communication device according to the first feedback information.

[0229] 3.2. The second information includes feedback resources of the first feedback information, and the feedback resources include at least one of time domain resources or frequency domain resources;

[0230] As shown in FIG. 6, the communication method in this case includes:

[0231] S601. The first communication device sends a first request to the second communication device. Correspondingly, the second communication device receives the first request from the first communication device.

[0232] The first information is used to indicate a wireless charging mode of activating beam feedback, the second information includes a time at which the first communication device starts to perform beam sweeping, and a closed-loop beam sweeping type.

[0233] Of course, the second information can further include at least one of a number of beams transmitted by the first communication device, a time length of each beam sweeping, or an ending time of each beam sweeping, and the second information further includes a feedback resource of the first feedback information, the feedback resource including at least one of a time domain resource or a frequency domain resource.

[0234] The first request in this case can be understood with reference to Table 9.

[0235] Table 9:

[0236] The difference between Table 9 and Table 8 is that Table 9 adds fields 7 and 8. Field 7 indicates a time domain resource of feedback by G bits, for example, the first feedback information is transmitted on the time domain indicated by the time domain indication information. Field 8 indicates a frequency domain resource of feedback by H bits, for example, the first feedback information is transmitted on the frequency domain resource indicated by the frequency domain resource indication information.

[0237] It should be noted that in the embodiments of the present application, X, Y, Z, P, G, and H are positive integers, and the number of bits of each field listed in Table 1-1 to Table 9 is only an example and should not be understood as a limitation on the number of bits of each field. Moreover, the meanings of each field described in the information description can also be represented in other forms, and are not limited to the forms listed in Table 1-1 to Table 9.

[0238] S602. The first communication device transmits a beam.

[0239] S603. The second communication device activates a function of feeding back the beam according to the wireless charging mode of activating beam sweeping.

[0240] S604. The second communication device measures the energy of the beam transmitted by the first communication device after the first communication device starts to perform beam sweeping according to the time at which the first communication device starts to perform beam sweeping and the closed-loop beam sweeping type, to determine the first feedback information.

[0241] S605. The second communication device transmits the first feedback information to the first communication device according to at least one of the time domain resource or the frequency domain resource of the first feedback information. Correspondingly, the first communication device receives the first feedback information according to at least one of the time domain resource or the frequency domain resource of the first feedback information.

[0242] S606. The first communication device transmits a target beam according to the first feedback information. Correspondingly, the second communication device receives the target beam.

[0243] S607. The second communication device collects energy from the target beam for recharging.

[0244] In the solution provided in this application embodiment, when the first information indicates the activation of the wireless charging mode with beam feedback, and the second information includes an open-loop beam scanning type, the second communication device will measure the beam sent by the first communication device after the first communication device sends the beam to determine the first feedback information, such as the beam with the best charging capability or charging effect. This allows the first communication device to subsequently perform more efficient wireless charging on the second communication device based on the first feedback information. Furthermore, the second information may also include feedback time or feedback resources. This eliminates the need for the first communication device to send a third request to the second communication device to complete the feedback of the first feedback information, reducing the occupation of transmission resources required to instruct the first feedback information.

[0245] The communication method described in this application can also be applied to O-RAN systems. As shown in Figure 7, the communication method in an O-RAN system includes:

[0246] S701. The core network sends beam scanning commands to the CU via the backhaul link. Correspondingly, the CU receives the beam scanning commands.

[0247] The beam scanning command includes a request message, the number of iterations, and the feedback time-frequency position.

[0248] Of course, S701 can be skipped, and the CU can send the beam scanning command directly.

[0249] S702.CU sends a beam scanning command to DU. Correspondingly, DU receives the beam scanning command.

[0250] The S703.DU sends a beam scan command to the RU via the fronthaul link. Correspondingly, the RU receives the beam scan command.

[0251] The S704.RU sends a beam to the terminal device. Correspondingly, the terminal device receives the beam.

[0252] S705. The terminal device sends feedback information to the RU. Correspondingly, the RU receives the feedback information.

[0253] The feedback information can be the feedback information used to indicate the charging result as described in the embodiment of Figure 3 above, or it can be the first feedback information described in Figures 4 to 7 above.

[0254] S706.RU sends feedback information to DU. Correspondingly, DU receives the feedback information.

[0255] The RU can perform down-conversion processing on the feedback information before sending it to the DU.

[0256] S707. The DU sends the feedback information to the CU. Correspondingly, the CU receives the feedback information.

[0257] The DU can perform baseband processing on the received feedback information and transmit the processed feedback information to the CU through the middle transmission link.

[0258] In the present application, the CU can continue to scan the next beam, repeat the steps of S702 to S707, until the specified number of iterations is reached, and the CU will finally obtain the optimal beam.

[0259] The optimal beam here can also be replaced by the optimal frequency point, or the optimal beam and the optimal frequency point.

[0260] S708. The CU instructs the DU to inform the RU to perform wireless charging on the terminal device according to the information of the optimal beam.

[0261] Of course, the CU can also return the optimal beam to the core network. Of course, the CU can also not return specific scanning information to the core network, but directly return an indication that the scanning has been completed, or not return any information to the device of the core network, but directly perform charging on the terminal according to the optimal frequency point and / or the optimal beam.

[0262] In the present application, if the core network receives the information of the optimal beam from the CU, the core network can send a charging instruction to the CU according to the optimal beam fed back by the CU, and after receiving the charging instruction, the CU transmits a charging signal through the RU to charge the terminal device.

[0263] The above communication process in the O-RAN system can complete the wireless charging of the terminal device through the cooperation of multiple devices or units, and can improve the efficiency of wireless charging.

[0264] The communication method of the present application can also be applied under the chip architecture of the O-RAN system. As shown in FIG. 8, the communication method under the chip architecture of the O-RAN system comprises:

[0265] S801. The core network sends a beam scanning instruction to the CU through the backhaul link. Correspondingly, the CU receives the beam scanning instruction.

[0266] The beam scanning instruction includes request information, the number of iterations, and the feedback time-frequency position.

[0267] In the present application, the CU includes a CPU of an X86 architecture or an advanced reduced instruction set computer machine (ARM) architecture, and a chip of a type such as FPGA / GPU / other accelerator; the X86 type chip or the chip based on the ARM architecture processes an instruction from a core network, some logical operations involved, for example, a simple summation and other underlying operation modules are processed by the FPGA / GPU / other accelerator, and the result is fed back to the CPU after processing, and the CPU performs further control operations, for example, determining whether to send a control instruction to the DU. The interface between the CPU and the FPGA / GPU / other accelerator can be a function of PCIe.

[0268] Of course, S801 can not be performed, and the CU directly sends the beam scanning instruction.

[0269] S802. The CU sends a beam scanning instruction to the DU. Correspondingly, the DU receives the beam scanning instruction.

[0270] In the present application, the DU also includes a CPU of an X86 architecture or an ARM architecture, and a chip of a type such as FPGA / GPU / other accelerator; the X86 type chip or the chip based on the ARM architecture processes a request instruction from the CU, some logical operations involved, for example, a simple summation and other underlying operation modules are processed by the FPGA / GPU / other accelerator, and the result is fed back to the CPU after processing, and the CPU performs further control operations, for example, determining whether to send a control instruction to the RU. The interface between the CPU and the FPGA / GPU / other accelerator can be a function of PCIe.

[0271] S803. The DU sends a beam scanning instruction to the RU through a fronthaul link. Correspondingly, the RU receives the beam scanning instruction.

[0272] In the present application, the RU includes a fronthaul processing unit for processing an indication signaling from the DU, and the fronthaul processing unit can be a CPU or a special chip such as an FPGA / ASIC type chip; the fronthaul processing chip schedules a digital signal processing module to process a signal from an RF processing module based on an instruction from the DU; the digital signal processing module performs operations related to fast Fourier transform (FFT), modulation and demodulation, etc.; and the RF processing chip mainly processes operations such as frequency down-conversion, spectrum splicing / moving, and sends the processing result to the digital processing chip.

[0273] S804. The RU sends a beam to a terminal device. Correspondingly, the terminal device receives the beam.

[0274] The radio frequency unit will perform beam scanning, poll each frequency point and each beam.

[0275] S805. The terminal device sends feedback information to the RU. Correspondingly, the RU receives the feedback information.

[0276] The feedback information can be the feedback information for indicating the charging result introduced in the above-mentioned embodiment of FIG. 3, or the first feedback information introduced in the above-mentioned FIG. 4 to FIG. 7.

[0277] S806. The RU sends the feedback information to the DU. Correspondingly, the DU receives the feedback information.

[0278] The RU can perform down-conversion processing on the feedback information before sending it to the DU.

[0279] S807. The DU sends the feedback information to the CU. Correspondingly, the CU receives the feedback information.

[0280] The DU can perform baseband processing on the received feedback information, and transmit the processed feedback information to the CU through the intermediate transmission link.

[0281] In this application, the CU can continue to perform scanning of the next beam, repeat the steps of S802 to S807, until a specified number of iterations is reached, and the CU will finally obtain the optimal beam.

[0282] The optimal beam here can also be replaced by the optimal frequency point, or the optimal beam and the optimal frequency point.

[0283] S808. The CU instructs the DU to inform the RU to perform wireless charging on the terminal device according to the information of the optimal beam.

[0284] Of course, the CU can also return the optimal beam to the core network. Of course, the CU can also not return specific scanning information to the core network, but directly return an indication that the scanning has been completed, or can not return any information to the device of the core network, but directly perform charging on the terminal according to the optimal frequency point and / or the optimal beam.

[0285] In the embodiments of the present application, the internal access network device cooperates with each other between different chips, for example, the CPU mainly controls logical decision, the accelerator processes parallel simple operation, and the digital processing chip is specially used for digital signal processing operation, which is beneficial to improve the efficiency. Through the mutual cooperation between the chips, the efficient beam scanning process is realized, so as to improve the energy transmission efficiency.

[0286] The above introduces the communication system and the communication method in the embodiments of the present application, and the communication device provided by the embodiments of the present application is described below.

[0287] Please refer to FIG. 9, the embodiment of the present application provides a communication apparatus 900, which can realize the functions of the first communication apparatus or the second communication apparatus in the above-mentioned method embodiments, and thus can also realize the beneficial effects possessed by the above-mentioned method embodiments. In the embodiment of the present application, the communication apparatus 900 can be the first communication apparatus or the second communication apparatus, or an integrated circuit or element etc. inside the first communication apparatus or the second communication apparatus, for example, a chip, a baseband chip, a modem chip, an SoC chip (such as an SoC chip containing a modem core), a SIP chip, a communication module, a chip system, a processor, etc.

[0288] It should be noted that the transceiver unit 902 can include a sending unit and a receiving unit, which are respectively used for performing sending and receiving.

[0289] In a possible implementation, when the apparatus 900 is configured to perform the method performed by the first communication apparatus in FIG. 2 and related embodiments, the apparatus 900 includes a processing unit 901 and a transceiver unit 902; the transceiver unit 902 is configured to send a first request; wherein the first request includes first information and second information, the first information is used to indicate a wireless charging mode, and the second information includes information related to the wireless charging mode. The processing unit 901 is configured to generate the first request or generate a beam; and the transceiver unit 902 is further configured to transmit the beam, and the beam is used for wireless charging.

[0290] In a possible implementation, when the apparatus 900 is configured to perform the method performed by the second communication apparatus in FIG. 2 and related embodiments, the apparatus 900 includes a processing unit 901 and a transceiver unit 902; the transceiver unit 902 is configured to receive a first request from the first communication apparatus; wherein the first request includes first information and second information, the first information is used to indicate a wireless charging mode, and the second information includes information related to the wireless charging mode. The processing unit 901 is configured to charge according to the wireless charging mode according to the first information and the second information.

[0291] In a possible design, when the communication apparatus 900 is a communication module in a terminal device or a terminal, the function of the processing unit 901 can be implemented by one or more processors. Specifically, the processor can include a modem chip, an SoC chip (such as an SoC chip containing a modem core) or a SIP chip. The function of the transceiver unit 902 can be implemented by a transceiver circuit.

[0292] In a possible design, when the communication apparatus 900 is circuitry or a chip responsible for communication functions in a terminal device, such as a modem chip or an SoC chip or an SoC chip including a modem core or a SIP chip, the function of the processing unit 901 can be implemented by circuitry including one or more processors or processor cores in the chip. The function of the transceiver unit 902 can be implemented by interface circuitry or data transceiver circuitry on the chip.

[0293] It should be noted that the information processing process and the like of the units of the communication apparatus 900 are described in the foregoing method embodiments of the present application, and thus are not described here again.

[0294] Referring to FIG. 10, another schematic structural diagram of a communication apparatus 1000 is provided, which includes logic circuitry 1001 and input / output interface 1002. The communication apparatus 1000 can be a chip or an integrated circuit.

[0295] The transceiver unit 902 shown in FIG. 9 can be a communication interface, which can be the input / output interface 1002 in FIG. 10. The input / output interface 1002 can include an input interface and an output interface. Alternatively, the communication interface can be a transceiver circuit, which can include an input interface circuit and an output interface circuit.

[0296] In a possible implementation, when the apparatus 1000 is configured to perform the method performed by the first communication apparatus in FIG. 2 and related embodiments, the input / output interface 1002 is configured to send a first request, and the first request includes first information and second information. The first information is used to indicate a wireless charging mode, and the second information includes information related to the wireless charging mode. The logic circuitry 1001 is configured to generate the first request or generate a beam. The input / output interface 1002 is further configured to transmit the beam, and the beam is used for wireless charging.

[0297] In a possible implementation, when the apparatus 1000 is configured to perform the method performed by the second communication apparatus in FIG. 2 and related embodiments, the input / output interface 1002 is configured to receive a first request from the first communication apparatus, and the first request includes first information and second information. The first information is used to indicate a wireless charging mode, and the second information includes information related to the wireless charging mode. The logic circuitry 1001 is configured to charge according to the wireless charging mode according to the first information and the second information.

[0298] The logic circuitry 1001 and the input / output interface 1002 can also perform other steps and achieve corresponding beneficial effects performed by the first communication apparatus or the second communication apparatus in any of the embodiments, which are not described here again.

[0299] In a possible implementation, the processing unit 901 shown in FIG. 9 can be the logic circuit 1001 in FIG. 10.

[0300] Optionally, the logic circuit 1001 can be a processing device, and the functions of the processing device can be partially or entirely implemented through software.

[0301] Optionally, the processing device can include a memory and a processor, where the memory is configured to store a computer program, and the processor is configured to read and execute the computer program stored in the memory to perform the corresponding processing and / or steps in any one of the method embodiments.

[0302] Optionally, the processing device can only include the processor. The memory for storing the computer program is located outside the processing device, and the processor is connected with the memory through a circuit / wire to read and execute the computer program stored in the memory. The memory and the processor can be integrated together, or can be physically independent of each other.

[0303] Optionally, the processing device can be one or more chips or one or more integrated circuits. For example, the processing device can be one or more field-programmable gate arrays (FPGA), application specific integrated circuits (ASIC), system on chips (SoC), central processing units (CPU), network processors (NP), digital signal processors (DSP), micro controller units (MCU), programmable logic controllers (PLD) or other integrated chips, or any combination of the above chips or processors, etc.

[0304] Referring to FIG. 11, the communication device 1100 involved in the above embodiments is provided by the embodiments of the present application, and the communication device 1100 can be specifically the communication device as the terminal device in the above embodiments. The example shown in FIG. 11 is implemented by the terminal device (or components in the terminal device).

[0305] Optionally, the communication device 1100 can include but is not limited to at least one processor 1101 and a communication port 1102.

[0306] The transceiving unit 902 shown in FIG. 9 can be a communication interface, which can be a communication port 1102 in FIG. 11, and the communication port 1102 can include an input interface and an output interface. Alternatively, the communication port 1102 can also be a transceiving circuit, which can include an input interface circuit and an output interface circuit.

[0307] Further, the apparatus can further include at least one of a memory 1103, a bus 1104, and in the embodiments of the present application, the at least one processor 1101 is configured to control and process the actions of the communication apparatus 1100.

[0308] In addition, the processor 1101 can be a central processing unit, a general purpose processor, a digital signal processor, an application specific integrated circuit, a field programmable gate array, or other programmable logic device, transistor logic device, hardware component, or any combination thereof. It can implement or execute the various exemplary logical blocks, modules, and circuits described in connection with the disclosure. The processor can also be a combination of implementing computing functions, such as a combination of one or more microprocessors, a combination of a digital signal processor and a microprocessor, and the like. Those skilled in the art can clearly understand that, for the convenience and brevity of description, the specific working processes of the above-described system, apparatus, and unit can refer to the corresponding processes in the foregoing method embodiments, which will not be described here.

[0309] It should be noted that the communication apparatus 1100 shown in FIG. 11 can be specifically used to implement the steps implemented by the terminal device in the foregoing method embodiments, and achieve the corresponding technical effects of the terminal device. The specific implementation of the terminal device can refer to the description of the first communication apparatus or the second communication apparatus in the foregoing method embodiments, which will not be described here.

[0310] Please refer to FIG. 12, which is a structural schematic diagram of a communication apparatus 1200 involved in the foregoing embodiments according to an embodiment of the present application. The communication apparatus 1200 can be specifically a communication apparatus as a network device in the foregoing embodiments, and the example shown in FIG. 12 is implemented by a network device (or a component in the network device), wherein the structure of the communication apparatus can refer to the structure shown in FIG. 12.

[0311] The communication device 1200 comprises at least one processor 1211 and at least one network interface 1214. Further optionally, the communication device further comprises at least one memory 1212, at least one transceiver 1213 and one or more antennas 1215. The processor 1211, the memory 1212, the transceiver 1213 and the network interface 1214 are connected, for example, through a bus, which can comprise various kinds of interfaces, transmission lines or buses in the embodiments of the present application, and the embodiments of the present application do not limit the connection. The antenna 1215 is connected to the transceiver 1213. The network interface 1214 is configured to enable the communication device to communicate with other communication devices through a communication link. For example, the network interface 1214 can comprise a network interface between the communication device and a core network device, for example, an S1 interface. The network interface can comprise a network interface between the communication device and other communication devices (for example, other network devices or core network devices), for example, an X2 or Xn interface.

[0312] The transceiver unit 902 shown in FIG. 9 can be a communication interface, which can be the network interface 1214 in FIG. 12, and the network interface 1214 can comprise an input interface and an output interface. Alternatively, the network interface 1214 can be a transceiver circuit, which can comprise an input interface circuit and an output interface circuit.

[0313] The processor 1211 is mainly configured to process communication protocols and communication data, and control the whole communication device, execute software programs, process data of the software programs, for example, to support the communication device to perform the actions described in the embodiments. The communication device can comprise a baseband processor and a central processor. The baseband processor is mainly configured to process communication protocols and communication data, and the central processor is mainly configured to control the whole terminal device, execute software programs, and process data of the software programs. The processor 1211 in FIG. 12 can integrate the functions of the baseband processor and the central processor, and those skilled in the art can understand that the baseband processor and the central processor can also be independent processors interconnected through a bus. Those skilled in the art can understand that the terminal device can comprise a plurality of baseband processors to adapt to different network modes, and the terminal device can comprise a plurality of central processors to enhance the processing capability. The various components of the terminal device can be connected through various buses. The baseband processor can also be referred to as a baseband processing circuit or a baseband processing chip. The central processor can also be referred to as a central processing circuit or a central processing chip. The function of processing communication protocols and communication data can be built in the processor, or stored in the memory in the form of software programs, and the processor executes the software programs to realize the baseband processing function.

[0314] The memory is mainly used for storing software programs and data. The memory 1212 can exist independently and be connected to the processor 1211. Alternatively, the memory 1212 can be integrated with the processor 1211, for example, integrated in a chip. The memory 1212 can store program codes for implementing the technical solutions of the embodiments of the present application and be controlled to execute by the processor 1211. Various computer programs executed can also be regarded as a driver of the processor 1211.

[0315] FIG. 12 only shows one memory and one processor. In actual terminal equipment, there can be multiple processors and multiple memories. The memory can also be referred to as a storage medium or a storage device, etc. The memory can be a storage element on the same chip as the processor, that is, an on-chip storage element, or an independent storage element, and the embodiments of the present application do not limit this.

[0316] The transceiver 1213 can be used to support the reception or transmission of radio frequency signals between the communication device and the terminal. The transceiver 1213 can be connected to the antenna 1215. The transceiver 1213 includes a transmitter Tx and a receiver Rx. Specifically, one or more antennas 1215 can receive radio frequency signals, the receiver Rx of the transceiver 1213 is used to receive the radio frequency signals from the antenna and convert the radio frequency signals into digital baseband signals or digital intermediate frequency signals, and provide the digital baseband signals or digital intermediate frequency signals to the processor 1211 for further processing of the digital baseband signals or digital intermediate frequency signals by the processor 1211, such as demodulation processing and decoding processing. In addition, the transmitter Tx in the transceiver 1213 is also used to receive modulated digital baseband signals or digital intermediate frequency signals from the processor 1211, and convert the modulated digital baseband signals or digital intermediate frequency signals into radio frequency signals, and transmit the radio frequency signals through one or more antennas 1215. Specifically, the receiver Rx can selectively perform one or more levels of down-mixing and analog-to-digital conversion to obtain digital baseband signals or digital intermediate frequency signals. The order of the down-mixing and analog-to-digital conversion can be adjusted. The transmitter Tx can selectively perform one or more levels of up-mixing and digital-to-analog conversion to obtain radio frequency signals. The order of the up-mixing and digital-to-analog conversion can be adjusted. The digital baseband signals and the digital intermediate frequency signals can be collectively referred to as digital signals.

[0317] The transceiver 1213 can also be referred to as a transceiving unit, a transceiver, a transceiving device, etc. Optionally, a device in the transceiving unit for implementing a receiving function can be regarded as a receiving unit, and a device in the transceiving unit for implementing a sending function can be regarded as a sending unit, that is, the transceiving unit includes the receiving unit and the sending unit, the receiving unit can also be referred to as a receiver, an input port, a receiving circuit, etc., and the sending unit can be referred to as a transmitter, a transmitter, or a transmitting circuit, etc.

[0318] It should be noted that the communication apparatus 1200 shown in FIG. 12 can be specifically used to implement the steps implemented by the network device in the foregoing method embodiments, and achieve the corresponding technical effects of the network device. The specific implementation of the communication apparatus 1200 shown in FIG. 12 can be referred to the description of the first communication apparatus or the second communication apparatus in the foregoing method embodiments, which will not be described here.

[0319] Please refer to FIG. 13, which is a structural schematic diagram of the communication apparatus involved in the foregoing embodiments provided by the embodiments of the present application.

[0320] It can be understood that the communication apparatus 1300 includes, for example, modules, units, elements, circuits, or interfaces, etc., which are properly configured together to execute the technical solutions provided by the present application. The communication apparatus 1300 can be a terminal device or a network device as described above, or a component (such as a chip) of these devices, to implement the methods described in the following method embodiments. The communication apparatus 1300 includes one or more processors 1301. The processor 1301 can be a general-purpose processor or a special-purpose processor, etc. For example, it can be a baseband processor or a central processing unit. The baseband processor can be used to process communication protocols and communication data, and the central processing unit can be used to control the communication apparatus (such as a RAN node, a terminal, or a chip, etc.), execute software programs, and process data of software programs.

[0321] Optionally, in one design, the processor 1301 can include a program 1303 (which can also be referred to as code or instructions at times), which can be run on the processor 1301, so that the communication apparatus 1300 executes the methods described in the following embodiments. In another possible design, the communication apparatus 1300 includes a circuit (not shown in FIG. 13).

[0322] Optionally, the communication apparatus 1300 can include one or more memories 1302, which have a program 1304 (which can also be referred to as code or instructions at times) stored thereon, and the program 1304 can be run on the processor 1301, so that the communication apparatus 1300 executes the methods described in the foregoing method embodiments.

[0323] Optionally, the processor 1301 and / or the memory 1302 can include an AI module 1307, 1308 for implementing AI-related functions. The AI module can be implemented in software, hardware, or a combination of software and hardware. For example, the AI module can include a radio intelligence control (RIC) module. For example, the AI module can be a near-real-time RIC or a non-real-time RIC.

[0324] Optionally, the processor 1301 and / or the memory 1302 can also store data. The processor and the memory can be separately arranged or integrated together.

[0325] Optionally, the communication device 1300 can also include a transceiver 1305 and / or an antenna 1306. The processor 1301 can also be referred to as a processing unit, which controls the communication device (e.g., a RAN node or a terminal). The transceiver 1305 can also be referred to as a transceiving unit, a transceiver, a transceiving circuit, or a transceiver, etc., which is used to realize the transceiving function of the communication device through the antenna 1306.

[0326] In the figure, the processing unit 901 can be the processor 1301. The transceiving unit 902 can be a communication interface, which can be the transceiver 1305 in the figure 13. The transceiver 1305 can include an input interface and an output interface. Alternatively, the transceiver 1305 can be a transceiving circuit, which can include an input interface circuit and an output interface circuit.

[0327] The embodiments of the present application also provide a computer readable storage medium for storing one or more computer execution instructions, when the computer execution instructions are executed by a processor, the processor executes the method described in the possible implementation manners of the first communication device or the second communication device as described above.

[0328] The embodiments of the present application also provide a computer program product (or computer program), when the computer program product is executed by the processor, the processor executes the method of the possible implementation manners of the first communication device or the second communication device.

[0329] The embodiments of the present application further provide a chip system, which comprises at least one processor for supporting the communication device to implement the functions involved in the possible implementation manners of the communication device. Optionally, the chip system further comprises an interface circuit for providing program instructions and / or data for the at least one processor. In a possible design, the chip system can further comprise a memory for storing the necessary program instructions and data of the communication device. The chip system can be composed of a chip, or can comprise a chip and other discrete components, and the communication device can be the first communication device or the second communication device in the foregoing method embodiments.

[0330] The embodiments of the present application further provide a communication system, which comprises the first communication device in any of the foregoing embodiments.

[0331] Optionally, the communication system further comprises the second communication device.

[0332] In the several embodiments of the present application, it should be understood that the disclosed system, device and method can be implemented in other ways. For example, the device embodiments described above are only schematic. The division of the units is only a logical function division. There can be another division manner in actual implementation. For example, a plurality of units or components can be combined or integrated into another system, or some features can be ignored or not executed. In addition, the displayed or discussed mutual couplings or direct couplings or communication connections between the units can be indirect couplings or communication connections through some interfaces, devices or units, and can be electrical, mechanical or in other forms. The specific implementation method of the function is selected depending on the specific application and design constraints of the technical solution. Those skilled in the art can use different methods to implement the described functions for each specific application, and such implementation should not be considered beyond the scope of the present application.

[0333] The units described as separate components can or can not be physically separate, and the components shown as units can or can not be physical units, i.e. can be located in one place, or can be distributed on a plurality of network units. Part or all of the units can be selected according to actual needs to achieve the purpose of the embodiments of the present application.

[0334] In addition, each of the functional units in the various embodiments of the present application can be integrated in one processing unit, or each unit can exist physically independently, or two or more units can be integrated in one unit. The integrated unit can be implemented in the form of hardware or in the form of a software functional unit. When the integrated unit is implemented in the form of a software functional unit and sold or used as an independent product, it can be stored in a computer readable storage medium. Based on this understanding, the technical solutions of the present application, essentially or in the form of a contribution, or all or part of the technical solutions can be embodied in the form of a software product. The computer software product is stored in a storage medium, and includes several instructions for causing a computer device (which can be a personal computer, a server, or a network device, etc.) to execute all or part of the steps of the methods described in the various embodiments of the present application. The foregoing storage medium includes: a U disk, a mobile hard disk, a read-only memory (ROM), a random access memory (RAM), a magnetic disk or an optical disk, and various media that can store program codes.

Claims

1. A communication method characterized by comprising: The method comprises: receiving a first request from a first communication device; wherein the first request comprises first information and second information, the first information is used to indicate a wireless charging mode, and the second information comprises information related to the wireless charging mode; charging according to the wireless charging mode according to the first information and the second information.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein, The first information is used to indicate a wireless charging mode in which beam scanning is activated, and the second information comprises a time at which the first communication device starts to perform beam scanning, and an open-loop beam scanning type; The charging according to the wireless charging mode according to the first information and the second information comprises: activating a function of scanning beams according to the wireless charging mode in which beam scanning is activated; collecting energy from beams transmitted by the first communication device after the first communication device starts to perform beam scanning to charge according to the time at which the first communication device starts to perform beam scanning and the open-loop beam scanning type.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein, The method further comprises: receiving a second request from the first communication device; wherein the second request is used to request feedback for wireless charging; sending feedback information indicating a charging result to the first communication device.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein, The first information is used to indicate a wireless charging mode in which beam scanning is activated, or the first information is used to indicate a wireless charging mode in which beam feedback is activated, and the second information comprises a time at which the first communication device starts to perform beam scanning, and a closed-loop beam scanning type; The charging according to the wireless charging mode according to the first information and the second information comprises: activating a function of feeding back beams according to the wireless charging mode in which beam scanning is activated or the wireless charging mode in which beam feedback is activated; measuring energy in beams transmitted by the first communication device after the first communication device starts to perform beam scanning to determine first feedback information used for charging according to the time at which the first communication device starts to perform beam scanning and the closed-loop beam scanning type.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein, The method further comprises: receiving a third request from the first communication device; wherein the third request comprises feedback resources of the first feedback information, and the feedback resources comprise at least one of time domain resources or frequency domain resources; sending the first feedback information to the first communication device according to the at least one of the time domain resources or the frequency domain resources of the first feedback information.

6. The method of claim 4, wherein, When the first information is used to indicate the wireless charging mode in which beam feedback is activated, the second information further comprises at least one of the time domain resources or the frequency domain resources of the first feedback information; The method further comprises: sending the first feedback information to the first communication device according to at least one of a feedback time or a position of feedback resources of the first feedback information.

7. The method according to any one of claims 4-6, characterized in that, The first feedback information comprises at least one of information of a target beam, charging capability information of each of beams transmitted by the first communication device, or ranking information of the charging capability of each of the beams; wherein the target beam is a beam of the beams transmitted by the first communication device and whose charging capability meets the charging demand.

8. The method according to any one of claims 2 to 7, characterized in that, The second information further comprises at least one of a number of beams transmitted by the first communication device, a time length of scanning of each of the beams, or an ending time of scanning of each of the beams.

9. A communication method characterized by comprising: Comprise: sending a first request; wherein the first request comprises first information and second information, the first information is used to indicate a wireless charging mode, and the second information comprises information related to the wireless charging mode; transmitting a beam, the beam being used for wireless charging.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein, The first information is used to indicate a wireless charging mode in which beam scanning is activated, and the second information comprises a time at which the first communication device starts to perform beam scanning, and an open-loop beam scanning type; Wherein, the wireless charging mode in which beam scanning is activated is used to activate the function of scanning beams by the second communication device; The time at which the first communication device starts to perform beam scanning and the open-loop beam scanning type are used for the second communication device to collect energy from the beams transmitted by the first communication device for charging after the first communication device starts to perform beam scanning.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein, The method further comprises: sending a second request; wherein the second request is used to request the second communication device to feed back for wireless charging; receiving feedback information from the second communication device, the feedback information being used to indicate a charging result.

12. The method of claim 9, wherein, The first information is used to indicate a wireless charging mode in which beam scanning is activated, or the first information is used to indicate a wireless charging mode in which beam feedback is activated, and the second information comprises a time at which the first communication device starts to perform beam scanning, and a closed-loop beam scanning type; Wherein, the wireless charging mode in which beam scanning is activated or the wireless charging mode in which beam feedback is activated is used to indicate the function of feeding back beams by the second communication device; The time at which the first communication device starts to perform beam scanning and the closed-loop beam scanning type are used to indicate that the second communication device measures energy in the beams transmitted by the first communication device to determine first feedback information after the first communication device starts to perform beam scanning, the first feedback information being used for charging.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein, The method further comprises: sending a third request; wherein the third request comprises feedback resources of the first feedback information, the feedback resources comprising at least one of time domain resources or frequency domain resources; receiving the first feedback information according to at least one of the time domain resources or the frequency domain resources.

14. The method of claim 12, wherein, When the first information is used to indicate the wireless charging mode in which beam feedback is activated, the second information further comprises feedback resources of the first feedback information, the feedback resources comprising at least one of time domain resources or frequency domain resources; The method further comprises: receiving the first feedback information according to at least one of the time domain resources or the frequency domain resources.

15. The method according to any one of claims 12-14, characterized in that, The first feedback information comprises at least one of information of a target beam, charging capability information of each of beams transmitted by the first communication device, or ranking information of the charging capability of each of the beams; wherein the target beam is a beam whose charging capability meets the charging demand among the beams transmitted by the first communication device.

16. The method according to any one of claims 10-15, characterized in that, The second information further comprises at least one of a number of beams transmitted by the first communication device, a time length of scanning each of the beams, or an end time of scanning each of the beams.

17. A communications device, characterized by The computer program product comprises a computer program or instructions, and when the computer program or instructions are executed by a computer, the computer program or instructions realize the method of any one of claims 1 to 8, or realize the method of any one of claims 9 to 16.

18. A communications device, characterized by The computer program product comprises a computer program or instructions, and when the computer program or instructions are executed by a computer, the computer program or instructions realize the method of any one of claims 1 to 8, or realize the method of any one of claims 9 to 16.

19. A computer-readable storage medium, characterized in that, The computer program product comprises a computer program or instructions, and when the computer program or instructions are executed by a computer, the computer program or instructions realize the method of any one of claims 1 to 8, or realize the method of any one of claims 9 to 16.

20. A computer program product, characterised in that, ​

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