Patents by Inventor Guohua Zhou

Guohua Zhou has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20220393928
    Abstract: A signal demodulation method, a signal transmission method, and a related apparatus. The signal demodulation method includes: a terminal device receives a first tracking reference signal from a first transmission reception apparatus of a single frequency network cell; a second tracking reference signal occupying different time-frequency from the first tracking reference signal from a second transmission reception apparatus of the single frequency network cell; and receives indication information indicating tracking reference signals from the first transmission reception apparatus or the second transmission reception apparatus; determines, based on the one or more tracking reference signals for receiving the downlink signal, a first carrier frequency on which the downlink signal is to be received; receives the demodulation reference signal and the downlink data based on the first carrier frequency; and demodulates the downlink data based on the demodulation signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2022
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Applicant: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zijie XU, Yu GAO, Guohua ZHOU, Jinlin PENG, Shengyue DOU, Yubo YANG
  • Publication number: 20220393822
    Abstract: A communication method and apparatus improve accuracy of correcting a frequency offset. Configuration information received from a network device provides for configuring one or more uplink reference signal resources each including a first time unit and a second time unit. The first time unit includes a first antenna port. The second time unit includes a second antenna port. An uplink reference signal is sent to the network device based on the configuration information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2022
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Applicant: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zijie XU, Yu GAO, Guohua ZHOU, Jinlin PENG, Shengyue DOU, Xueru LI, Xianda LIU
  • Publication number: 20220385505
    Abstract: A carrier frequency tracking method, a signal transmission method, and a related apparatus. The carrier frequency tracking method includes: a terminal device receives a first tracking reference signal from a first transmission reception apparatus of a single frequency network cell; the terminal device receives a second tracking reference signal from a second transmission reception apparatus of the single frequency network cell, where the first tracking reference signal and the second tracking reference signal occupy different time-frequency resources; and the terminal device performs carrier frequency tracking based on at least one of the first tracking reference signal and the second tracking reference signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2022
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Applicant: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zijie XU, Yu GAO, Guohua ZHOU, Jinlin PENG, Shengyue DOU, Yubo YANG
  • Patent number: 11483815
    Abstract: Embodiments provide an information processing method and a terminal device, so that a network device can indicate a reserved resource, and the terminal device can process the reserved resource. In these embodiments, configuration information of a reserved resource sent by a network device can be received by a terminal device. The terminal device can determine, based on the configuration information of the reserved resource, that a resource type of the reserved resource is a first-type reserved resource or a second-type reserved resource. The terminal device can determine a radio frequency processing manner on the reserved resource based on the resource type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yubo Yang, Guohua Zhou, Yinan Zhao
  • Patent number: 11330634
    Abstract: A method for receiving a random access preamble includes: sending, by a network device, a broadcast message, where the broadcast message is used to configure an NR uplink resource and an SUL resource, and the NR uplink resource and the SUL resource are used to send a random access preamble; sending, by the network device, first indication information and second indication information to a terminal device, where the first indication information is used to indicate the NR uplink resource or the SUL resource, and second indication information is used to indicate a first random access preamble; and receiving, by the network device, the first random access preamble on the resource indicated by the first indication information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhe Liu, Hao Tang, Fan Wang, Guohua Zhou
  • Patent number: 11265892
    Abstract: This application discloses a data transmission method and device to improve transmission efficiency of terminal data. The method of the embodiments of this application includes: receiving, by a second base station, a first message from a first base station, where the first message is used to request the second base station to allocate a radio resource for a specific bearer, and the first message includes resource scheduling information; determining, by the second base station, based on the resource scheduling information, a resource location of the radio resource and scheduling the radio resource; and sending, by the second base station, a first response message in response to the first message to the first base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xiaoli Shi, Yada Huang, Yaqi Zhao, Guohua Zhou
  • Patent number: 11252755
    Abstract: An uplink resource grant method includes receiving, by a terminal, configuration information from a network device, where the configuration information includes information about a first uplink resource and information about a second uplink resource, and searching, by the terminal, a search space for a downlink control channel to obtain grant information. The search space includes a first control channel candidate set when the downlink control channel carries grant information of the first (or the second) uplink resource, and the search space includes a second control channel candidate set when the downlink control channel carries grant information of the second (or the first) uplink resource or grant information of a downlink resource. The first control channel candidate set is the same as the second control channel candidate set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhe Liu, Chaobin Yang, Yong Wang, Quanzhong Gao, Hao Tang, Fan Wang, Guohua Zhou
  • Publication number: 20220038529
    Abstract: A method, apparatus, and system is disclosed. The method includes: A first terminal obtains a first update request. The first terminal sends a first message to a remote processing center, or the first terminal sends a second message to a local processing center, where both the first message and the second message carry information corresponding to the first update request. The first terminal obtains a fourth message sent by the local processing center, where the fourth message carries second update information obtained after the local processing center performs a preset processing operation on first update information, and the first update information is information obtained by the remote processing center in response to the first message or the third message. The first terminal updates output information of the first terminal based on the second update information carried in the fourth message.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2021
    Publication date: February 3, 2022
    Inventors: Feng WANG, Guohua ZHOU, Shengyue DOU, Jian WANG
  • Publication number: 20220022123
    Abstract: A network access management method and apparatus for a terminal device. The access network device determines a second access network device based on a current location of a terminal device and network access planning information, where the network access planning information has an identifier of a cell on a movement path of the terminal device, sends a handover request message to the second access network device, the handover request message having a context of the terminal device and the network access planning information, receives handover configuration information used for searching and selecting a cell of the second access network device, and includes an identifier of the cell that belongs to the second access network device and that is in the network access planning information, and sends the handover configuration information to the terminal device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2021
    Publication date: January 20, 2022
    Inventors: Jingwang Ma, Qufang Huang, Guohua Zhou
  • Publication number: 20210400467
    Abstract: A capability configuration method and an apparatus are provided. The method includes: sending, by a network device, capability configuration information to a terminal device, where the capability configuration information is used to indicate a capability corresponding to an air-interface slice supported by the terminal device, and the capability corresponding to the air-interface slice supported by the terminal device is determined from a capability candidate set reported by the terminal device; and communicating, by the network device, with the terminal device by using the air-interface slice supported by the terminal device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2021
    Publication date: December 23, 2021
    Inventors: Junchao LI, Hao TANG, Guohua ZHOU, Zhenfei TANG
  • Patent number: 11184139
    Abstract: This application discloses a resource configuration method, a method for determining a bandwidth part, a method for indicating a bandwidth part, and a device. The method for indicating a bandwidth part includes: determining, by a base station, the bandwidth part based on a mapping relationship between a first carrier bandwidth and a first bandwidth part set and/or a mapping relationship between a capability bandwidth of a terminal device and a second bandwidth part set, where the first bandwidth part set includes a plurality of bandwidth parts, the first bandwidth part set includes the bandwidth part, the second bandwidth part set includes a plurality of bandwidth parts, and the second bandwidth part set includes the bandwidth part; and indicating, by the base station, the bandwidth part to the terminal device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xinxian Li, Wenwen Huang, Hao Tang, Zhenfei Tang, Zhongfeng Li, Guohua Zhou
  • Publication number: 20210297201
    Abstract: Embodiments of this application disclose a wireless communication method and an apparatus, to improve robustness of data transmission between a terminal device and a node device. The method in the embodiments of this application includes. A terminal device incorrectly receives first data in a first cell, where the first cell is a first primary cell. The terminal device sends first indication information in a second cell, where the second cell is a secondary cell or a second primary cell, and the first indication information is used to indicate that the first data is incorrectly received in the first cell, or is used to request transmission of the first data in the second cell. The terminal device receives the first data in the second cell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2021
    Publication date: September 23, 2021
    Inventors: Junchao LI, Hao TANG, Guohua ZHOU, Zhenfei TANG
  • Patent number: 11129165
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of wireless communications technologies, and provides a method for transmitting a carrier, a base station, user equipment, and a system. The method discloses: sending, by a base station, a second carrier, where the second carrier at least partially shares a same resource area with a first carrier, the resource area includes a plurality of resource elements, and the first carrier and the second carrier occupy different resource elements; and sending, by the base station, blank resource element indication information to user equipment that receives the second carrier, where the blank resource element indication information is used to indicate a position of a resource element occupied by the first carrier in the shared resource area. According to the solutions provided in the embodiments, a resource utilization rate of a communications system is improved, and interference between carriers is avoided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Guohua Zhou, Zhenfei Tang, Yueying Zhao, Hao Tang, Peng Zhang, Dongdong Wei
  • Publication number: 20210273756
    Abstract: This application provides a wireless communication method and apparatus. The method includes: A second network device sends, to a first terminal device and at least one network device, first indication information used to indicate to send a common pilot signal on a common transmission resource, so that the first terminal device sends the common pilot signal to the at least one network device on the common transmission resource, and each network device receives and demodulates the common pilot signal, and adjusts a receive beam in a direction of the first terminal device based on the common pilot signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2021
    Publication date: September 2, 2021
    Inventors: Guohua ZHOU, Junchao LI, Hao TANG
  • Patent number: 11102757
    Abstract: This application discloses a resource mapping method and an apparatus. The method includes the following steps: receiving, by user equipment, a first resource message sent by a base station, where the first resource message includes a transmission time unit and an offset value corresponding to the transmission time unit; and determining, by the user equipment, a time-frequency resource location of a physical channel or a physical signal in the transmission time unit based on the transmission time unit and the offset value. The technical solutions provided in this application have an advantage of avoiding interference between two carriers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hao Tang, Guohua Zhou, Zhenfei Tang
  • Publication number: 20210250966
    Abstract: This application provides a data transmission method and a related apparatus. The method includes determining, by a first node, a transmission periodicity, where the transmission periodicity includes a first time unit and a second time unit. In the transmission periodicity, data of a first service is transmitted in only the first time unit, and a physical signal is transmitted in the second time unit. The method further includes transmitting, by the first node, the data of the first service in the first time unit, and/or transmitting the physical signal in the second time unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2021
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Inventors: Xinxian LI, Jinlin PENG, Hao TANG, Guohua ZHOU, Zhenfei TANG
  • Publication number: 20210243706
    Abstract: Embodiments of this application provide a synchronization signal block transmission method and a communications apparatus. The method includes: A network device sends an SSB to a terminal device in a resource position of the SSB. Correspondingly, the terminal device receives the SSB. In this process, a symbol included in the resource position of the SSB does not overlap with an uplink symbol in a plurality of self-contained slot structures as much as possible. This method can reduce a probability that the symbol included in the resource position of the SSB conflicts with an uplink symbol in as many self-contained slot structures as possible, to avoid cross interference, and therefore can support reliable transmission in as many self-contained slot structures as possible.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2021
    Publication date: August 5, 2021
    Inventors: Zhe LIU, Hao TANG, Jinlin PENG, Guohua ZHOU
  • Patent number: 11076402
    Abstract: Embodiments of this application provide a data transmission method, an apparatus, and a system, and relate to the field of communications technologies, to resolve a problem that two carriers cannot be deployed overlapping with each other. The method includes: determining a transmission time unit pattern corresponding to a slot set, where the transmission time unit pattern is used to indicate a symbol location at which a transmission time unit in a slot in the slot set is located, and a quantity of symbols included in the transmission time unit is less than a quantity of symbols included in the slot; and sending a notification message to a terminal device, where the notification message includes information about the slot set and information about the transmission time unit pattern, and the information about the transmission time unit is used to indicate the transmission time unit pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hao Tang, Guohua Zhou, Zhenfei Tang
  • Patent number: 11051298
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a message feedback method and apparatus for carrier aggregation. The method includes: receiving, by a terminal in a first downlink subframe on a carrier aggregation group, a data packet sent by a base station, where the carrier aggregation group includes a first carrier and a second carrier; determining a first timing, based on a subframe configuration for the carrier aggregation group and a mapping relationship between subframe configurations for carrier aggregation groups and timings; determining a first uplink subframe from subframes on the carrier aggregation group based on the first timing; and sending, to the base station, a feedback message in the first uplink subframe. In this way, the first uplink subframe is determined on the entire carrier group for sending the feedback message, and a selectable range is larger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hua Li, Zhongfeng Li, Jiehua Xiao, Guohua Zhou
  • Patent number: 11019499
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a signal transmission apparatus and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, and relate to the field of communications technologies. The apparatus comprises a memory storing program instructions and a processor coupled to the memory, wherein the program instructions, when executed by the processor, cause the apparatus to obtain configuration information for use to transmit a signal of a second carrier in coverage space of a first carrier, a spectrum occupied by the first carrier and a spectrum occupied by the second carrier overlap, and a subcarrier of the first carrier and a subcarrier of the second carrier are orthogonal; and transmit the signal of the second carrier according to the configuration information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Guohua Zhou, Zongjie Wang, Jiyu Ye