Patent 11178687 was granted and assigned to LG on November, 2021 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A user equipment (UE) starts a downlink (DL) discontinuous reception (DRX) retransmission timer for a DL hybrid automatic repeat and request (HARQ) process of the UE. The UE monitors a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) while the DL DRX retransmission timer for the DL HARQ process is running. The UE stops the DL DRX retransmission timer for the DL HARQ process when the UE receives a PDCCH indicating a uplink (UL) transmission.