Patents by Inventor Jiafeng SHAO

Jiafeng SHAO 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).

  • Patent number: 11937281
    Abstract: This application discloses a communications method and apparatus. The method includes: obtaining one or more candidate time domain resources for transmitting a reference signal in one or more time units; and receiving downlink control information, where the downlink control information includes first indication information and transmission information of a first channel, and the first indication information is used to indicate different situations about time domain reference signal resources in the one or more time units. A network device can accurately indicate a flexibly configured time domain resource for transmitting a reference signal by using relatively low overheads, and a terminal device can accurately determine information about the flexibly configured time domain reference signal resource, thereby improving system transmission efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jiafeng Shao, Lei Guan
  • Publication number: 20240089989
    Abstract: This application provides a communication method and a communication apparatus. The communication method includes: a network device sends downlink control information (DCI) to a terminal device, where the DCI indicates a first time domain resource in a first slot, the first time domain resource includes M time domain sub-resources, at least two adjacent time domain sub-resources in the M time domain sub-resources are at an interval of a first time period, and M is an integer greater than or equal to 2. The network device sends a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) on the first time domain resource. This method is used in a harmonized communication and sensing system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Jian Yu, Jiafeng Shao, Wenqi Zhao, Yiran Li
  • Patent number: 11863492
    Abstract: A communications method, and apparatus are provided, to reduce a transmission latency when a plurality of HARQ-ACKs are transmitted in one time unit. The method includes: determining, in N groups of time-frequency resources based on the grouping relationship, the ith group of time-frequency resources corresponding to a first parameter related to the first DCI, receiving first DCI, and determining a first uplink channel that carries a first HARQ-ACK on a first time-frequency resource in the ith group of time-frequency resources, where the grouping relationship represents a correspondence between a first parameter and N groups of time-frequency resources, the N groups of time-frequency resources are obtained by grouping time-frequency resources in one time unit, each group of time-frequency resources corresponds to one or more first parameters, and the first parameter is related to DCI, a time-frequency resource in each group of time-frequency resources is for an uplink channel carries a HARQ-ACK.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Dan Hu, Jiafeng Shao, Lei Guan, Ruixiang Ma
  • Patent number: 11848808
    Abstract: This application provides an information processing method and a communications apparatus. In embodiments of this application, when a time-frequency resource, for a first DMRS, indicated by first information overlaps a time-frequency resource, for a second DMRS, indicated by second information, but another parameter indicated by the first information is different from that indicated by the second information, a terminal device may discard the second information, to avoid a behavior error or behavior unpredictability of the terminal device. A parameter indicated by each of the first information and the second information includes at least one of the following parameters: bandwidth part indication information, antenna port information, and DMRS sequence initialization information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jiafeng Shao
  • Patent number: 11818066
    Abstract: This application provides a method and an apparatus for sending an SRS. When receiving first indication information indicating to send an SRS, a terminal device may determine a first time interval in a plurality of candidate first time intervals, where the first time interval is used to determine whether the first indication information is valid, and the terminal device may send the SRS based on the first time interval.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jiafeng Shao, Yongxia Lyu
  • Patent number: 11777575
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to channel state information (CSI) reporting methods and apparatus. When receiving first indication information used to trigger reporting of CSI, a terminal device determines a first time interval from a plurality of candidate first time intervals. The first time interval is used to determine whether the first indication information is valid. The terminal device reports the CSI based on the first time interval.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jiafeng Shao, Yongxia Lyu
  • Publication number: 20230308207
    Abstract: A method, and related apparatuses are disclosed, to provide an MCS corresponding to a lower code rate. The communication method includes: sending a first CQI number to a network device, wherein the first CQI number is determined based on a first CQI table; and receiving an MCS number in a first MCS table from the network device, wherein the first MCS table comprises an entry that is not comprised in the first CQI table, and at least one entry whose modulation scheme is 64QAM in the first CQI table, wherein a BLER corresponding to the first CQI table is 10e-5, and values obtained by multiplying code rates by 1024 in the first CQI table comprise 30 and 50.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2023
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Inventors: Jiafeng Shao, Lei Guan, Yongxia Lyu, Dan Hu, Xinghua Song
  • Patent number: 11705981
    Abstract: A communication method, and related apparatuses are disclosed, to provide an MCS corresponding to a lower code rate, so as to better adapt to a requirement of a URLLC service. The communication method includes: determining N MCS indexes in an MCS table, where a value that is obtained by multiplying a code rate by 1024 and that corresponds to an MCS index X in the N MCS indexes is less than or equal to a first threshold, where X is an integer greater than or equal to 0, N is a positive integer, and N is greater than or equal to X; and sending at least one of the N MCS indexes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jiafeng Shao, Lei Guan, Yongxia Lyu, Dan Hu, Xinghua Song
  • Publication number: 20230139850
    Abstract: This application provides a method to improve resource utilization efficiency of an uplink control channel that carries feedback information. A terminal device receives one or more downlink channels carried in one or more first time units, the first time units belonging to in a time unit set; determines a second time unit for carrying feedback information corresponding to the downlink channels according to a first association relationship between the time unit set and the second time unit; determines a first codebook; and sends uplink control information including the first codebook in the second time unit. When one of the downlink channels is received in first time units that belong to a subset of the time unit set, and there is a second association relationship between the subset of the time unit set and the second time unit, the first codebook includes only feedback information corresponding to the downlink channel carried in the first time units in the subset.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2022
    Publication date: May 4, 2023
    Inventors: Jiafeng Shao, Lei Guan, Xinghua Song
  • Patent number: 11595978
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an information processing method and apparatus. A terminal device encodes uplink control information (UCI) to obtain coded bits of the UCI, and encodes data to obtain coded bits of the data. The terminal device multiplexes the coded bits of the UCI and the coded bits of the data to obtain a multiplexed bit sequence. The terminal device then transmits the multiplexed bit sequence to a network device via a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH). A length of a transmission time interval of the UCI is less than or equal to 0.5 millisecond. In this way, data transmission latency can be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chaojun Li, Zuomin Wu, Jiafeng Shao, Yunji Zhang, Sha Ma
  • Patent number: 11588585
    Abstract: This application provides an information transmission method and apparatus. The solution includes: determining, by a terminal device, at least two transport blocks; and decoding, by the terminal device, first information transmitted by using the at least two transport blocks, where the first information includes at least one of control information and data. This solution is applicable to a scenario in which same information or information with a same information source is transmitted by using a plurality of transport blocks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jiafeng Shao, Yongxia Lyu, Lei Guan
  • Publication number: 20220408288
    Abstract: A channel state information measurement method includes receiving, by a terminal device, configuration information from a network device. The configuration information includes first indication information and second indication information. The first indication information indicates K channel measurement signal resources, K is greater than or equal to 2, the second indication information indicates the terminal device is to measure aggregated channel state information (CSI) based on N channel measurement signal resources, and N is less than or equal to K. The method also includes measuring, by the terminal device, the N channel measurement signal resources based on the configuration information. The method further includes obtaining, by the terminal device, the aggregated CSI through calculation based on N measurement results. The aggregated CSI is CSI of M antenna ports, and M is a sum of quantities of antenna ports of the N channel measurement signal resources.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2022
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Inventors: Jian YU, Jiafeng SHAO, Yang DING
  • Patent number: 11533153
    Abstract: This application relates to the field of communications technologies, and provides an information sending method, an information receiving method, and an apparatus. The method includes: determining, by a terminal device, at least two transport blocks; and sending, by the terminal device, first information to a network device by using the at least two transport blocks, where the first information includes at least one of data and control information, and the at least two transport blocks carry the first information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jiafeng Shao, Yongxia Lyu, Lei Guan
  • Patent number: 11533150
    Abstract: This application provides a method to improve resource utilization efficiency of an uplink control channel that carries feedback information. A terminal device receives one or more downlink channels carried in one or more first time units, the first time units belonging to in a time unit set; determines a second time unit for carrying feedback information corresponding to the downlink channels according to a first association relationship between the time unit set and the second time unit; determines a first codebook; and sends uplink control information including the first codebook in the second time unit. When one of the downlink channels is received in first time units that belong to a subset of the time unit set, and there is a second association relationship between the subset of the time unit set and the second time unit, the first codebook includes only feedback information corresponding to the downlink channel carried in the first time units in the subset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jiafeng Shao, Lei Guan, Xinghua Song
  • Patent number: 11528734
    Abstract: An uplink control information transmission method and a device, the device including a processor, and a memory storing a computer program for execution by the processor, the computer program including instructions for receiving physical downlink control channels (PDCCHs), where the PDCCHs are used to schedule physical downlink shared channels (PDSCHs), and where the PDCCHs comprise a PDCCH in a first PDCCH set and a PDCCH in a second PDCCH set, generating a first codebook and a second codebook, where the first codebook corresponds to the first PDCCH set, where the second codebook corresponds to the second PDCCH set, and where the first PDCCH set and the second PDCCH set correspond to different values of codebook identification information of the PDCCHs, and sending one or both of the first codebook and the second codebook.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shengyu Li, Lei Guan, Ruixiang Ma, Jiafeng Shao, Yongxia Lyu
  • Patent number: 11483850
    Abstract: An uplink information transmission method and apparatus are disclosed. The uplink information transmission method includes: receiving, by a terminal device, downlink control information DCI sent by a network device, and determining, based on the DCI, a transmission resource of a physical uplink shared channel PUSCH scheduled by using the DCI, where the transmission resource of the PUSCH overlaps a transmission resource of a physical uplink control channel PUCCH in time domain, and the PUCCH is used to carry to-be-transmitted uplink control information UCI; and when a first condition is met, sending, by the terminal device, uplink data on the PUSCH, and skipping sending the UCI on the PUSCH.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shengyu Li, Jiafeng Shao, Yongxia Lyu, Dan Hu, Xiuqiang Xu, Yan Chen, Yi Wang
  • Patent number: 11483104
    Abstract: This application provides a channel state information report transmission method and a communications device. The method includes: determining N channel state information reports; and sending M of the N channel state information reports based on priorities of the N channel state information reports, where both N and M are positive integers greater than or equal to 1, and M is less than or equal to N; and a priority of a channel state information report in the N channel state information reports.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jiafeng Shao, Yongxia Lyu, Xinghua Song
  • Patent number: 11476972
    Abstract: An uplink control information transmission method and a device. The method includes obtaining a first modulation and coding scheme offset value used to multiplex first uplink control information on a physical uplink shared channel, where the first modulation and coding scheme offset value is less than 1, and mapping, according to the first modulation and coding scheme offset value, the first uplink control information to a resource for the physical uplink shared channel, to transmit the first uplink control information to a network device using the resource for the physical uplink shared channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shengyu Li, Yongxia Lyu, Jiafeng Shao
  • Patent number: 11469867
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and an apparatus for transmitting a reference signal and a method and an apparatus for receiving a reference signal. The method includes: determining, by a terminal device, sequence information of a first sequence set corresponding to a first reference signal and information about a first resource used for transmitting the first reference signal, where the first sequence set includes at least one sequence, the information about the first resource includes time domain information of the first resource and/or frequency domain information of the first resource, and a first mapping relationship exists between the sequence information of the first sequence set and the information about the first resource; and transmitting, by the terminal device, the first reference signal based on the sequence information of the first sequence set and the information about the first resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jiafeng Shao, Chaojun Li, Zuomin Wu
  • Patent number: 11452125
    Abstract: This application relates to the field of wireless communications, and in particular, to an information sending method and apparatus, and an information determining method and apparatus. This application provides an information sending method, including: determining, by a terminal device, a first time length corresponding to first information, where the first information is information about a data transmission resource; and sending, by the terminal device, a scheduling request on a first resource, where a time length of the first resource is equal to the first time length, and the scheduling request is used to request the data transmission resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jiafeng Shao