Patents by Inventor Leiming Zhang

Leiming Zhang 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: 20210385113
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention disclose a reference signal transmission method, including: sending, by a terminal, a first reference signal and a second reference signal; and correspondingly, receiving, by a network device, the first reference signal and the second reference signal, where the first reference signal is mapped to a plurality of symbols and is used for estimation of channel state information, the second reference signal is mapped to at least two of the plurality of symbols and is used for phase tracking, and a subcarrier to which the second reference signal is mapped on one of the at least two symbols has a same frequency-domain location as a subcarrier to which the second reference signal is mapped on the rest of the at least two symbols. With the foregoing solution, accuracy of channel state information estimation can be improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2021
    Publication date: December 9, 2021
    Inventors: Yu SUN, Yi QIN, Zhongfeng LI, Leiming ZHANG, Shengyue DOU
  • Patent number: 11190312
    Abstract: Embodiments of this application disclose a parameter configuration method and apparatus, relate to the field of communications technologies, and specifically provide a method and an apparatus for setting a resource unit bundling size, to help improve accuracy of a channel estimation result. The method may include: generating parameter configuration signaling, and sending the parameter configuration signaling. The parameter configuration signaling is used to indicate the resource unit bundling size. The resource unit bundling size may be applied to at least two inconsecutive time-frequency resources in frequency domain, and each time-frequency resource includes at least one consecutive resource unit in frequency domain; or may be applied to at least two inconsecutive time-frequency resources in time domain, and each time-frequency resource includes at least one consecutive resource unit in time domain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yong Liu, Xiaoyan Bi, Leiming Zhang
  • Publication number: 20210352596
    Abstract: This application provides a communications method and apparatus, to improve uplink transmission performance. The method includes determining, by a terminal device, capability indication information and sending the capability indication information to a network device. The capability indication information is used to determine a power scaling factor, the power scaling factor is a ratio of a sum of actual transmit power of n non-zero antenna ports to channel transmit power, and a maximum value of the channel transmit power is a rated maximum transmit power of a system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2021
    Publication date: November 11, 2021
    Inventors: Xianda LIU, Kunpeng LIU, Leiming ZHANG
  • Patent number: 11153134
    Abstract: A reference signal transmission method includes: sending, by a terminal, a first reference signal and a second reference signal; and correspondingly, receiving, by a network device, the first reference signal and the second reference signal, where the first reference signal is mapped to a plurality of symbols and is used for estimation of channel state information, the second reference signal is mapped to at least two of the plurality of symbols and is used for phase tracking, and a subcarrier to which the second reference signal is mapped on one of the at least two symbols has a same frequency-domain location as a subcarrier to which the second reference signal is mapped on the rest of the at least two symbols. With the foregoing solution, accuracy of channel state information estimation can be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yu Sun, Yi Qin, Zhongfeng Li, Leiming Zhang, Shengyue Dou
  • Publication number: 20210266208
    Abstract: This application discloses a sequence generating method and apparatus, and relates to the field of communications technologies, to resolve a problem that a PAPR of a DMRS symbol is higher than that of a data symbol. An initialization factor of a first sequence is obtained, where the initialization factor is associated with a first parameter; and the first sequence is generated based on the initialization factor. In addition, the first parameter is a port number, or the first parameter is a code division multiplexing CDM group identity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2021
    Publication date: August 26, 2021
    Inventors: Kunpeng LIU, Mingxin GONG, Leiming ZHANG
  • Patent number: 11057867
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a signal transmission apparatus, system, and method. A first network device detects, in a first resource group, a first signal sent by a second network device, and the first network device determines an mth resource in a second resource group according to an nth resource in the first resource group and a first correspondence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kunpeng Liu, Leiming Zhang
  • Publication number: 20210204260
    Abstract: This application provides an example communication method and an example apparatus. The method includes a first network device generates first indication information to indicate a first downlink resource. Second indication information indicates a second downlink resource. Because the first indication information may indicate whether the second indication information exists, if a terminal device detects the first indication information in the first time unit, and the first indication information indicates that the second indication information does not exist in the first time unit, the terminal device may stop a blind detection process on the second indication information in advance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2021
    Publication date: July 1, 2021
    Inventors: Xianda LIU, Kunpeng LIU, Xu ZHANG, Leiming ZHANG, Xiang GAO, Yongxing ZHOU
  • Patent number: 11012948
    Abstract: An uplink measurement reference signal power control method, a network device, and a terminal device are provided. The method includes: generating, by the network device, power control information of an uplink measurement reference signal, where the power control information includes at least one of a transmit power target value, a transmit power adjustment value, or path loss information; and sending, by the network device, the power control information to the terminal device. According to the method provided in the embodiments of this application, the network device generates the power control information, and the power control information includes at least one of the foregoing three types of information and is indicated to the terminal device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: Huawei Teclinologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Leiming Zhang, Ming Lei, Yifan Liu
  • Patent number: 11013039
    Abstract: Embodiments provide a method for generating a random access channel ZC sequence, and an apparatus. A method for generating a random access channel ZC sequence includes: generating, by a base station, notification signaling, where the notification signaling instructs user equipment (UE) to generate a random access ZC sequence by using a second restricted set in a random access set; and sending, by the base station, the notification signaling to the UE, so that the UE generates the random access ZC sequence by using the second restricted set, where the random access set includes an unrestricted set, a first restricted set, and the second restricted set; and the second restricted set is a random access set that the UE needs to use when a Doppler frequency shift of the UE is greater than or equal to a first predetermined value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Qiang Wu, Zhiheng Guo, Jianqin Liu, Jianghua Liu, Leiming Zhang
  • Patent number: 10999038
    Abstract: A method for configuring a resource of a downlink measurement reference signal and an apparatus are disclosed. In the method, the base station may notify a terminal device of a resource pool by using configuration information of the resource pool that is determined based on the basic pattern or available resources, so that resource configuration of a downlink measurement reference signal is implemented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Leiming Zhang, Yifan Liu, Ming Lei
  • Patent number: 10972245
    Abstract: A method for measurement pilot signal is provided. The method includes: determining, by a first device from a plurality of subbands included in system bandwidth, a first subband that is used to transmit a measurement pilot signal, where one subband includes at least one physical resource block; sending, by the first device, identifier information of the first subband to a second device; and transmitting the measurement pilot signal in at least one physical resource block corresponding to the first subband to the second device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Leiming Zhang, Yifan Liu, Ming Lei
  • Patent number: 10951276
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a channel measurement and feedback method, a network device, and a system, and relate to the field of communications technologies. The method includes: receiving, by a first network device, pilot port configuration information sent by a second network device, where the pilot port configuration information is used to describe at least two pilot ports; measuring, by using the at least two pilot ports, a pilot signal sent by the second network device, and determining first information, where the first information includes at least one of second information of the first network device or third information of a third network device when it is assumed that the first network device and the third network device communicate with the second network device by performing spatial multiplexing on a same time frequency resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kunpeng Liu, Jianghua Liu, Leiming Zhang
  • Patent number: 10938528
    Abstract: Embodiments of this application provide a communication method, a base station, and a terminal device. The communication method includes: determining, by a base station, a resource mapping manner of data to be sent to a terminal device, where the resource mapping manner is one or more of a resource mapping manner in time domain first then frequency domain, a resource mapping manner in frequency domain first then time domain, and a resource mapping manner with interleaved mapping in at least one of time or frequency domain; and sending, by the base station, indication information to the terminal device, where the indication information indicates the resource mapping manner. According to the embodiments of this application, the resource mapping manner of the data can be flexibly configured, thereby dispersing interference as much as possible and improving a rate of correct decoding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yifan Liu, Ming Lei, Leiming Zhang
  • Patent number: 10917146
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a channel measurement and feedback method, a network device, and a system, and relate to the field of communications technologies. The method includes: receiving, by a first network device, pilot port configuration information sent by a second network device, where the pilot port configuration information is used to describe at least two pilot ports; measuring, by using the at least two pilot ports, a pilot signal sent by the second network device, and determining first information, where the first information includes at least one of second information of the first network device or third information of a third network device when it is assumed that the first network device and the third network device communicate with the second network device by performing spatial multiplexing on a same time frequency resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kunpeng Liu, Jianghua Liu, Leiming Zhang
  • Patent number: 10912036
    Abstract: Embodiments of this application provide a downlink transmission method, a base station, and a terminal device. The method includes: dividing, by a base station, to-be-transmitted data into at least two sets, and configuring a transmit power for each of the at least two sets; and sending, by the base station, data in each set to a terminal device at the transmit power configured for each set. In the embodiments of this application, the to-be-transmitted data is divided into the at least two sets, a transmit power is configured individually for each set, and the data in each set is sent to the terminal device at the transmit power configured for each set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yifan Liu, Ming Lei, Leiming Zhang
  • Patent number: 10897300
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention disclose an interference coordination method and apparatus. The method includes: receiving direction restriction information, where the direction restriction information includes angle restriction information, and the angle restriction information is used to indicate a restricted transmission direction; determining a signal preprocessing manner, where a transmission direction formed based on the signal preprocessing manner does not include the restricted transmission direction; and feeding back the signal preprocessing manner. According to the embodiments of the present invention, signaling overheads can be reduced, and an interference coordination application scenario can be expanded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Leiming Zhang, Yifan Liu, Ming Lei
  • Patent number: 10892865
    Abstract: A method includes: obtaining, by UE, a reference signal resource mapping diagram, and obtaining a reference signal according to the reference signal resource mapping diagram; performing, by the UE, channel measurement according to the reference signal to determine channel state information, and feeding back the channel state information to a base station, where the reference signal resource mapping diagram is a location to which a time-frequency resource of the reference signal is mapped, the reference signal resource mapping diagram is a second reference signal resource mapping diagram which comprises at least two first reference signal resource mapping diagram.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kunpeng Liu, Leiming Zhang, Qiang Wu
  • Publication number: 20200403681
    Abstract: A base station, user equipment, and communication signal transmitting and receiving methods. A communication signal transmitting apparatus includes a transmitter; a processor, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program for execution by the processor, the program including instructions to determine at least two different resource element groups to use to transmit a synchronization signal, each different resource element group of the at least two different resource element groups used to separately transmit the synchronization signal, and transmit the synchronization signal to user equipment on each of the resource element groups, where, for each resource element group, the synchronization signal transmitted on the respective resource element group carries at least one piece of same information, the same information is cell specific information, and the synchronization signals transmitted on the at least two resource element groups using different beams.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2020
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Inventors: Yongxing Zhou, Jianguo Wang, Leiming Zhang, Jianghua Liu
  • Publication number: 20200389217
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods for feeding back channel state information, user equipment, and base stations. One example method includes receiving a reference signal sent by a base station, selecting a precoding matrix W from a codebook according to the reference signal, where a column vector of the precoding matrix W is expressed as ?[v ej?v]T, v=[1 ej?], and sending a precoding matrix indicator (PMI) to the base station, where the PMI corresponds to the selected precoding matrix W.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2020
    Publication date: December 10, 2020
    Inventors: Jianguo WANG, Yongxing ZHOU, Leiming ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20200389840
    Abstract: A wireless access method and apparatus, the method including sending N first signal sets on N first resources, where N is an integer greater than 1, receiving Z response signals from a terminal for the N first signal sets, where each response signal of the response signals comprises indication information of a resource on which the respective first signal set of the N first signal sets is located, Z is an integer greater than or equal to 1, and Z is less than or equal to N, and sending M second signal sets on M second resources according to the Z response signals, where M is an integer greater than or equal to 1, and each second signal set of the M second signal sets corresponds to at least one of the N first signal sets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2020
    Publication date: December 10, 2020
    Inventors: Kunpeng Liu, Yongxing Zhou, Leiming Zhang