An apparatus includes: a receiver configured to receive a configuration message from a network device; and processor circuitry configured to determine whether a configured uplink grant in a multi- Physical Uplink Shared CHannel (PUSCH) Configured Grant (CG) is going to be used according to the configuration message via a MAC entity of the terminal equipment, and notify a lower layer of information on whether the configured uplink grant is going to be used, wherein the configuration message is a first configuration message, comprising a first information element, the first information element comprising a first field, the first field providing the number of consecutive slots allocated in one multi-PUSCH CG period, wherein, if the first field is configured, fields in a sub-information element rrc-ConfiguredUplinkGrant in the first information element are used to determine a time-domain resource configuration of a first configured uplink grant in the multi-PUSCH CG period.