Patents by Inventor Lixia Xue

Lixia Xue 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: 20220095286
    Abstract: This application relates to the wireless communications field, and provides a method for obtaining a control resource set. The method includes receiving, by a terminal device, at least one piece of indication information from a network device, where the at least one piece of indication information is used to indicate a first time domain resource position, and the first time domain resource position is unavailable for transmitting control information, obtaining, by the terminal device, a second control resource set based on the at least one piece of indication information, and detecting, by the terminal device, the control information on the second control resource set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2021
    Publication date: March 24, 2022
    Applicant: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Lixia Xue, Xu Zhang
  • Patent number: 11283660
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to mobile communications methods for obtaining a reference signal in a wireless communications system. In one example method, a network device obtains a demodulation reference signal sequence corresponding to position offset information, maps the demodulation reference signal sequence to a resource element in a control channel resource set, and sends demodulation reference signal corresponding to the demodulation reference signal sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Lixia Xue, Xu Zhang, Yongxing Zhou
  • Patent number: 11283564
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a method for transmitting and receiving information, user equipment, and a base station to better support dynamic TDD and keep forward compatibility. A method in an embodiment of the present disclosure includes: determining, by a first device, a location of a reference signal; and transmitting or receiving, by the first device, the reference signal based on the determined location of the reference signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yan Cheng, Lixia Xue
  • Publication number: 20220078770
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to communication methods and communication apparatus. One example method includes determining a quantity and a position of control channel element (CCE) used by a control channel of user equipment, where each of the CCE corresponds to a plurality of resource element groups (REGs), the plurality of REGs form at least one REG bundle, and any REG bundle in the at least one REG bundle includes a plurality of resource blocks (RBs) that are consecutive or adjacent in at least one of time domain or frequency domain, and receiving, from a network device, the control channel by using the CCE.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2021
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Inventors: Jianguo WANG, Xu ZHANG, Lixia XUE
  • Publication number: 20220070841
    Abstract: A control information transmission method, apparatus, and systems are disclosed. An example method includes: determining configuration information of a control channel, wherein the configuration information comprises at least one of frequency domain information or time domain information, the at least one of frequency domain information or time domain information indicates a time-frequency resource occupied by the control channel, and the configuration information further comprises indication information indicating a quantity of at least one resource element set, wherein the time-frequency resource occupied by the control channel comprises the at least one resource element set; mapping control information to one or more of the at least one resource element set based on the configuration information; sending the configuration information to a terminal device; and sending the control information to the terminal device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2021
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Inventors: XU ZHANG, Jianguo WANG, Lixia XUE, Zheng CHEN
  • Patent number: 11265741
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention disclose a link re-establishment method and a device, and relate to the communications field: When detecting that a first downlink beam pair set is invalid, UE sends a first uplink signal to a base station at a moment n by using a first uplink beam pair set through a first uplink channel, where the first uplink signal is used to notify the base station that the first downlink beam pair set is invalid; and the UE detects, at a moment n+k, a first downlink signal sent by the base station by using a second downlink beam pair set through a first downlink channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kunpeng Liu, Xueru Li, Lixia Xue
  • Publication number: 20220060992
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses an example signal transmission method and an example terminal device. One example signal transmission method includes monitoring, by a terminal device and based on a size of first downlink control information (DCI), the first DCI and second DCI that are sent by a network device, where the first DCI is carried on a power saving signal shared by a plurality of terminal devices including the terminal device, and the second DCI is carried on a terminal device specific power saving signal. It is determined by the terminal device and based on at least one of the first DCI or the second DCI, whether to monitor a data channel in a first time period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2021
    Publication date: February 24, 2022
    Inventors: Lixia XUE, Zheng CHEN
  • Publication number: 20220053470
    Abstract: A downlink control channel monitoring method includes determining a first search space (SS) set and a second SS set. The method also includes determining, based on a first priority of the first SS set and a second priority of the second SS set, whether to monitor a first physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) on a first downlink control channel candidate resource of the first SS set, and whether to monitor a second PDCCH on a second downlink control channel candidate resource of the second SS set. The first priority of the first SS set is equal to the second priority of the second SS set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2021
    Publication date: February 17, 2022
    Inventors: Zheng CHEN, Lixia XUE, Xiaolei TIE
  • Patent number: 11251910
    Abstract: A method, an apparatus, a UE, and a base station for transmitting a HARQ-ACK are disclosed. The method includes: determining a channel for transmitting a HARQ-ACK; determining a HARQ-ACK feedback bit; and sending the HARQ-ACK feedback bit on the channel. According to this application, transmission of a HARQ-ACK between a UE and a base station can be implemented in a scenario where carrier aggregation is performed between base stations having a non-ideal backhaul.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yan Cheng, Sha Ma, Lixia Xue
  • Patent number: 11252601
    Abstract: Example resource allocation methods and apparatus are described to resolve a problem of resource congestion and collision occurring in a communications system when virtual resource blocks (VRBs) scheduled for different terminal devices are mapped to physical resource blocks (PRBs). In one example method, system bandwidth of the communications system is divided into a plurality of fixed interleaving regions. Therefore, a network device can indicate a type of a virtual resource unit in a form of a frequency domain range occupied by one interleaving region. Using the foregoing solution can enable the network device to set the type of the virtual resource unit more conveniently.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Lixia Xue, Zheng Chen, Yan Cheng
  • Publication number: 20220030561
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a detecting method, a transmitting method and an apparatus for a common control channel. The detecting method includes: determining a candidate resource set within virtual downlink resources of a current cell. The candidate resource set can include at least one candidate resource carrying a common control channel of the current cell. A detection is performed on at least one candidate resource in the candidate resource set, so as to acquire the common control channel of the current cell. In the embodiments of the present invention, a selection range of resources for transmitting a common control channel is extended, so that inter-cell interference of the common control channel can be coordinated, and a detection performance of the common control channel can be improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2021
    Publication date: January 27, 2022
    Inventors: Lei GUAN, Lixia XUE, Yongxing ZHOU, Qiang LI, Jingyuan SUN
  • Patent number: 11234229
    Abstract: Embodiments provide resource scheduling method, user equipment, and an access network device. The method includes: receiving, by user equipment over a first control channel, first indication information corresponding to a transport block, where time-frequency resources occupied by a data channel in which the transport block is located include a first resource set and a second resource set, and the first indication information is used to indicate the first resource set and a time-frequency resource of a second control channel; receiving, by the user equipment, second indication information over the second control channel, where the second indication information is used to indicate the second resource set; and determining, by the user equipment, the transport block based on the first resource set and the second resource set. This can reduce control signaling overheads and improve flexibility of control channel resource scheduling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xu Zhang, Lixia Xue, Jianqin Liu
  • Publication number: 20220022137
    Abstract: A communication method includes receiving monitoring information, where the monitoring information comprises information of a search space set corresponding to a wake-up signal (WUS); determining at least one of a monitoring periodicity of the WUS or a monitoring occasion in the monitoring periodicity based on the information of the search space set; receiving the WUS from the network device, where the WUS comprises wake-up information of at least one terminal device; and performing PDCCH monitoring based on wake-up information of the terminal device in on duration of at least one discontinuous reception DRX cycle corresponding to the WUS, where the wake-up information of at least one terminal device comprises the wake-up information of the terminal device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2021
    Publication date: January 20, 2022
    Inventors: Lixia XUE, Jing DAI
  • Publication number: 20220022174
    Abstract: This application provides a wireless communication method, a terminal device, and a network device. The wireless communication method includes: A terminal device selects, based on a first parameter, a value set from a first value set and a second value set that are of slot offsets and that are configured by a network device, wherein all slot offsets in the first value set are greater than a first threshold, and at least one slot offset in the second value set is equal to the first threshold; and receive DCI, wherein a slot offset carried in the DCI belongs to the selected value set, and the slot offset is used to indicate an offset in a quantity of slots of a PDSCH scheduled by the DCI relative to the DCI. According to the technical solutions in this application, the different value sets correspond to different data channel scheduling mechanisms.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2021
    Publication date: January 20, 2022
    Inventors: Lixia XUE, Zheng CHEN
  • Patent number: 11229026
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a carrier switching method, a base station, and user equipment, where the method includes: determining, according to carrier switching capability information of user equipment UE, a carrier switching policy according to which the UE performs carrier switching; and sending carrier switching indication information to the UE, where the carrier switching indication information is used for indicating the carrier switching policy, so that the UE performs carrier switching according to the carrier switching policy. In the carrier switching method, the base station and the user equipment according to embodiments of the present invention, the UE having no carrier aggregation capability is enabled to dynamically perform switching between at least two carriers, so that quality of service of a service of the UE can be improved, user experience can be improved, and system performance can be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Lixia Xue, Lei Guan, David jean-marie Mazzarese, Yongxing Zhou
  • Patent number: 11218999
    Abstract: Example methods and apparatus for sending an uplink control channel and receiving an uplink control channel are described. One example method for sending an uplink control channel includes determining a resource set to be used for an uplink control channel by a terminal device, where the uplink control channel carries uplink control information and a demodulation reference signal (DMRS). The resource set includes N resource subsets, each of the N resource subsets includes a plurality of consecutive symbols in time domain, and N is greater than or equal to 1. The terminal device determines, for each of the N resource subsets, a quantity of symbols used to carry the DMRS, where the quantity of symbols is one of at least two candidate symbol quantities. The terminal device sends the uplink control channel by using the resource set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hao Sun, Fan Yang, Lixia Xue, Jianguo Wang
  • Patent number: 11212789
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to information sending methods and devices. One example method includes determining, by a network device, a physical downlink control channel, where the physical downlink control channel includes at least one control channel element (CCE), the at least one CCE is mapped to a resource element group (REG) bundle set, the REG bundle set includes N REG clusters that are discrete in frequency domain, each REG cluster includes a plurality of consecutive physical resource blocks in frequency domain, N is less than M, M is a quantity of REG clusters included in a control resource set, and both N and M are positive integers, and sending, by the network device, downlink control information by using the physical downlink control channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xu Zhang, Lixia Xue
  • Patent number: 11206054
    Abstract: A communication method and a communications device are provided, to improve flexibility of transmitting a physical uplink shared channel resource. In at least some embodiments, first indication information is generated by a network device, where the first indication information is used to indicate one or more frequency hopping bandwidths used by a terminal device to send a physical uplink shared channel resource to the network device. The first indication information is sent by the network device to the terminal device. The methods provided in the embodiments may be applied to a communications system, e.g., vehicle to everything (V2X), vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V), internet of vehicles (IoV), to improve an autonomous driving capability of a vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zheng Chen, Lixia Xue
  • Publication number: 20210392582
    Abstract: This application provides a reference signal receiving method, a reference signal sending method, and an apparatus. The reference signal receiving method includes: when a terminal device is out of a first time period, detecting, by the terminal device, a first signal, and determining, based on a detection result of the first signal, whether to use a first reference signal to perform time-frequency tracking and/or channel measurement; and receiving, by the terminal device, a second reference signal when the terminal device is in the first time period, where the first reference signal and the second reference signal are reference signals used for time-frequency tracking and/or channel measurement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2021
    Publication date: December 16, 2021
    Inventors: Zheng Chen, Lixia Xue
  • Publication number: 20210392631
    Abstract: Embodiments of this application provide a control channel configuration method, a base station, and a terminal device. The method includes: determining, by a base station, a configuration of a time-frequency resource unit from at least two configurations of a time-frequency resource unit of a control channel; and sending, by the base station, indication information to a terminal device, where the indication information is used to indicate the configuration of the time-frequency resource unit, and the at least two configurations of a time-frequency resource unit include a first configuration and a second configuration. In the embodiments of this application, the base station can flexibly configure the time-frequency resource unit of the control channel. In addition, flexibly configuring a time-frequency resource unit can reduce a probability that time-frequency resource units of different structures are blocked, thereby reducing complexity of detecting the control channel by the terminal device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2021
    Publication date: December 16, 2021
    Inventors: Zheng CHEN, XU ZHANG, Yan CHENG, Lixia XUE