Patent 11564213 was granted and assigned to Huawei on January, 2023 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
This application discloses communication methods and apparatuses. One method includes: receiving, by a terminal device, a reference signal from a beam of a network device; determining, by the terminal device, availability of the beam based on a threshold and the reference signal; and sending, by the terminal device, feedback information to the network device, wherein the feedback information indicates the availability of the beam.