Patents by Inventor Qimei Cui

Qimei Cui 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: 10462824
    Abstract: A base station side and user equipment side device and method in a wireless communication system, and a wireless communication system. The base station side device includes a processor configured to: respond to a random access request of the user equipment and determine that an access process initiated by the user equipment is a contention-based or a non-contention-based access process; and with respect to the contention-based access process, to prepare auxiliary access information for potential user equipment that has failed to access so that the user equipment that has failed to access and the base station can complete the access process based on interaction of auxiliary access information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yanzhao Hou, Yuxin Wei, Qimei Cui, Qinyan Jiang, Shiyu Zhang, Hui Liang, Shiwei Cao, Xin Guo, Chen Sun, Jinhui Chen
  • Patent number: 10455427
    Abstract: A frequency allocation method and device for an unauthorized frequency band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Qimei Cui, Jiahui Liu, Xiang Zhou, Xiaofeng Tao
  • Patent number: 10455596
    Abstract: A communication apparatus, communication system and communication method. The related communication apparatus is used for aggregating, at a base station side, communication resources at different frequencies and/or different transmission time, wherein a scheduling resource among the aggregated communication resources is used for transmitting control information about the scheduling resource and scheduled resources. The communication apparatus includes: a grouping unit configured to divide the communication resources into groups based on characteristics of the communication resources, wherein the same group of the communication resource is indicated by the same piece of control information; and a sending unit configured to send the control information to a corresponding communication terminal side by the scheduling resource. The communication apparatus, communication system and communication method improve communication performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Qimei Cui, Liang Zeng, Jiang Han, Yingni Zhang, Ningyu Chen
  • Patent number: 10420111
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a wireless communication device and a wireless communication method. The wireless communication device according to one embodiment comprises one or more processors, wherein the processor(s) is/are configured to acquire the type of information to be transmitted via device-to-device communication, wherein the type is one of a plurality of types at least including a first type and a second type; and the processor(s) is/are also configured to determine a resource use manner and a power control manner which are used for transmitting information at least according to the type of the information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yanzhao Hou, Qimei Cui, Shiwei Cao, Hui Liang, Qinyan Jiang, Shiyu Zhang, Xin Guo, Chen Sun
  • Patent number: 10412563
    Abstract: Disclosed are a wireless communication device and a wireless communication method. The wireless communication device according to one embodiment comprises one or more processors. The processors are configured so as to: on the basis of auxiliary dissemination limitation information about a source device as an information dissemination source, acquire device information about candidate devices capable of establishing direct communication with the source device; on the basis of the locations of the source device and the candidate devices, select a target device for establishing direct communication with the source device from the candidate devices; and determine a transmission resource for direct communication with the target device and generate a transmission resource scheduling indication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yanzhao Hou, Qimei Cui, Hui Liang, Shiwei Cao, Qinyan Jiang, Xin Guo, Chen Sun
  • Publication number: 20190274123
    Abstract: Disclosed are a communication method and device in a wireless communication system, the communication method comprising: a base station in the communication system determines, according to the current system configuration of the communication system, the category of an enhanced control channel element configuration in an enhanced physical downlink control channel, the enhanced control channel element configuration comprising the number of resource elements in each enhanced control channel element, and the number of enhanced control channel elements in each physical resource block pair, and the enhanced control channel element configuration is classified into a plurality of categories respectively corresponding to the different system configurations of the communication system; and notifying a terminal node in the communication system of the information related to the determined category of the enhanced control channel element configuration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2019
    Publication date: September 5, 2019
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Qimei CUI, Yingni ZHANG, Hui WANG, Xiaona LI
  • Publication number: 20190239084
    Abstract: A base station side device and method and user side device and method for wireless communication. The device includes: a sending unit configured to send instruction on an unauthorized frequency band detection to a user equipment (UE) served by the cell where the device is located; a receiving unit configured to receive from the UE a signal representing occupancy status of the unauthorized frequency band; and a determination unit configured to determine based on the signal received by the receiving unit whether to use the unauthorized frequency band for communication, the unauthorized frequency band occupancy status includes occupied/idle status and the type of the occupying system, and the type of occupying system includes one of an unauthorized communication system and an authorized communication system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2019
    Publication date: August 1, 2019
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Qimei CUI, Xiaodong XU, Jiahui LIU, Ningyu CHEN, Xiang ZHOU, Yu SUN
  • Publication number: 20190229858
    Abstract: A method, base station, and terminal for dynamic uplink configuration in a wireless communication system, the method including: determining reconfiguration information including a reconfiguration point of time, to employ first uplink and downlink subframe configuration in the first configuration period before the reconfiguration point of time, and to employ second uplink and downlink subframe configuration in a second configuration period after the reconfiguration point of time; and in the last transmission period before the reconfiguration point of time, employing an uplink scheduling timing sequence of a reference uplink and downlink subframe configuration according to an uplink data timing sequence, the reference uplink and downlink subframe configuration including the second uplink and downlink subframe configuration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2019
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Qimei CUI, Mingliang TAO, Ting FU
  • Publication number: 20190222269
    Abstract: A method and device for feeding back downlink channel feedback information, and a method and device for user pairing. The method for feeding back downlink channel feedback information includes: calculating the multi-user channel quality indication error of a user, which error is used to reflect the difference in channel quality indication between the situation of multi-user multiple input multiple output transmission and the situation of single user multiple input multiple output transmission; adding the multi-user channel quality indication error into the downlink channel feedback information which includes a pre-coding matrix indication and a channel quality indication, and feeding the same back to a base station for scheduling. Therefore, the bit error rate of demodulation in the MIMO system can be reduced and the system performance can be improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2019
    Publication date: July 18, 2019
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Qimei Cui, Shiyuan Li, Xiaofeng Tao, Chao Wang
  • Publication number: 20190223112
    Abstract: A wireless communication device, a wireless communication method and a wireless communication system. The wireless communication device includes: a classification unit, used for, based on the channel qualities of downlinks of a target cell and other cells in a cell cluster on a specific resource block, classifying the overall condition of the channel quality; and a control unit, used for controlling, so as to determine the target transmitting power of the target cell on the specific resource block by using a power distribution method adapting to the classification. According to the scheme, the system throughput of a wireless network on the specific resource block under dense cell distribution can be maximized.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2019
    Publication date: July 18, 2019
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hui TIAN, Qimei CUI, Meng WANG, Zhilin LI, Yang LIU
  • Publication number: 20190200346
    Abstract: A device and method controlling working state change of a small cell and a base station including the device. The device includes: an information acquiring unit that acquires interference between a small cell to be controlled and an adjacent small cell and/or load of the small cell to be controlled; and a state change determination unit that determines working state change to be performed by the small cell to be controlled according to the acquired interference and/or load. The working state includes multiple sleep levels from low to high. A sleep degree of the small cell to be controlled in a low sleep level is less than a sleep degree of the small cell to be controlled in a high sleep level, the working state change being performed among multiple sleep levels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2019
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Qimei CUI, Ningyu CHEN, Jiahui LIU, Yingni ZHANG, Liang ZENG, Zhongbin QIN
  • Patent number: 10313985
    Abstract: A wireless communication device, a wireless communication method and a wireless communication system. The wireless communication device includes: a classification unit, used for, based on the channel qualities of downlinks of a target cell and other cells in a cell cluster on a specific resource block, classifying the overall condition of the channel quality; and a control unit, used for controlling, so as to determine the target transmitting power of the target cell on the specific resource block by using a power distribution method adapting to the classification. According to the scheme, the system throughput of a wireless network on the specific resource block under dense cell distribution can be maximized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hui Tian, Qimei Cui, Meng Wang, Zhilin Li, Yang Liu
  • Patent number: 10305642
    Abstract: A method, base station, and terminal for dynamic uplink configuration in a wireless communication system, the method including: determining reconfiguration information including a reconfiguration point of time, to employ first uplink and downlink subframe configuration in the first configuration period before the reconfiguration point of time, and to employ second uplink and downlink subframe configuration in a second configuration period after the reconfiguration point of time; and in the last transmission period before the reconfiguration point of time, employing an uplink scheduling timing sequence of a reference uplink and downlink subframe configuration according to an uplink data timing sequence, the reference uplink and downlink subframe configuration including the second uplink and downlink subframe configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Qimei Cui, Mingliang Tao, Ting Fu
  • Patent number: 10298297
    Abstract: A method and device for feeding back downlink channel feedback information, and a method and device for user pairing. The method for feeding back downlink channel feedback information includes: calculating the multi-user channel quality indication error of a user, which error is used to reflect the difference in channel quality indication between the situation of multi-user multiple input multiple output transmission and the situation of single user multiple input multiple output transmission; adding the multi-user channel quality indication error into the downlink channel feedback information which includes a pre-coding matrix indication and a channel quality indication, and feeding the same back to a base station for scheduling. Therefore, the bit error rate of demodulation in the MIMO system can be reduced and the system performance can be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Qimei Cui, Shiyuan Li, Xiaofeng Tao, Chao Wang
  • Patent number: 10299137
    Abstract: A base station side device and method and user side device and method for wireless communication. The device includes: a sending unit configured to send instruction on an unauthorized frequency band detection to a user equipment (UE) served by the cell where the device is located; a receiving unit configured to receive from the UE a signal representing occupancy status of the unauthorized frequency band; and a determination unit configured to determine based on the signal received by the receiving unit whether to use the unauthorized frequency band for communication, the unauthorized frequency band occupancy status includes occupied/idle status and the type of the occupying system, and the type of occupying system includes one of an unauthorized communication system and an authorized communication system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Qimei Cui, Xiaodong Xu, Jiahui Liu, Ningyu Chen, Xiang Zhou, Yu Sun
  • Publication number: 20190149967
    Abstract: Disclosed are a wireless communication device and a wireless communication method. The wireless communication device according to one embodiment comprises one or more processors. The processors are configured so as to: on the basis of auxiliary dissemination limitation information about a source device as an information dissemination source, acquire device information about candidate devices capable of establishing direct communication with the source device; on the basis of the locations of the source device and the candidate devices, select a target device for establishing direct communication with the source device from the candidate devices; and determine a transmission resource for direct communication with the target device and generate a transmission resource scheduling indication.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2019
    Publication date: May 16, 2019
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yanzhao HOU, Qimei CUI, Hui LIANG, Shiwei CAO, Qinyan JIANG, Xin GUO, Chen SUN
  • Patent number: 10278162
    Abstract: A device and method controlling working state change of a small cell and a base station including the device. The device includes: an information acquiring unit that acquires interference between a small cell to be controlled and an adjacent small cell and/or load of the small cell to be controlled or load distributed by other small cells and to be borne by the small cell to be controlled; and a state change determination unit that determines working state change to be performed by the small cell to be controlled according to the acquired interference and/or load. The working state includes multiple sleep levels from low to high. A sleep degree of the small cell to be controlled in a low sleep level is less than a sleep degree of the small cell to be controlled in a high sleep level, the working state change being performed among multiple sleep levels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Qimei Cui, Ningyu Chen, Jiahui Liu, Yingni Zhang, Liang Zeng, Zhongbin Qin
  • Patent number: 10251183
    Abstract: An apparatus and a method for a wireless communication network. The apparatus includes circuitry configured for acquiring the first information associated with an indicator indicating communication quality of user terminals served by an interfering base station; acquiring second information associated with an indicator indicating interfered degree of user terminals interfered by the interfering base station; configuring, based on the first information and the second information, transmission of the interfering base station for inter-base station coordination. The technical solution improves the overall performance of the wireless communication heterogeneous network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Qimei Cui, Hui Tian, Meng Wang, Peng Tian, Liqi Gao
  • Patent number: 10243708
    Abstract: A method performing dynamic downlink configuration in a wireless communications system, a base station, and a terminal. The method includes: setting a reconfiguration point to enable a first uplink and downlink subframe configuration to be adopted in a first configuration period before the reconfiguration point and enable a second uplink and downlink subframe configuration to be adopted in a second configuration period after the reconfiguration point; and adopting a reference uplink/downlink subframe configuration adapted for an uplink subframe intersection of respective uplink/downlink subframe configurations for a time sequence of a downlink HARQ process during the predetermined change of the dynamical downlink configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Qimei Cui, Ting Fu, Mingliang Tao, Zhongbin Qin
  • Patent number: 10244387
    Abstract: A device and method in a wireless communication system, the device including an access determination unit configured to determine an access requirement of a user equipment (UE); and a control unit configured to switch a target small cell of the device from a closed state to an open state based on the access requirement of the UE, and reallocate to the target small cell a new physical cell identifier different from the physical cell identifier used in the closed state. A physical cell identifier can be dynamically allocated in accordance with the open/closed state of the small cell, reducing the burden of cell planning and maintenance cost, and having greater flexibility.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Qimei Cui, Qinyan Jiang, Weijuan Gao, Zhongbin Qin, Tong Zhang, Hui Liang