Patents by Inventor Qinghai Zeng

Qinghai Zeng 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: 20240056966
    Abstract: The technology of this application relates to an energy saving method and an apparatus. The method includes an AI device receives first data from a first network device and a second network device; the AI device performs an AI inference based on the first data to obtain an energy saving policy, and the AI device separately sends the energy saving policy to the first network device and the second network device. According to the method and the apparatus in embodiments of this application, accuracy and robustness of the energy saving policy can be improved, and in a scenario in which network traffic fluctuates, a quantity of times of frequently switching on or switching off a cell of the second network device can be reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2023
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Inventors: Yu ZENG, Tingting GENG, Qinghai ZENG
  • Patent number: 11895617
    Abstract: Embodiments of this application provide a message identification method and apparatus. The method includes: receiving, by user equipment UE, a paging message sent by an access network device; determining, by the UE, a core network entity to which the paging message belongs in a plurality of core network entities serving the UE; and establishing, by the UE, a data connection to the core network entity to which the paging message belongs. According to the message identification method and apparatus provided in the embodiments of this application, the UE can connect to different core network entities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mingzeng Dai, Qinghai Zeng
  • Publication number: 20240040450
    Abstract: This application provides an information transmission method and an apparatus. A core network device obtains second public land mobile network (PLMN) information of a second cell before a cell handover of a terminal device. After the terminal device is handed over to a first cell, the core network device obtains first PLMN information of the first cell. When a second PLMN does not belong to a PLMN list and a first PLMN belongs to the PLMN list, the core network device sends first information to a first access network device corresponding to the first cell, where the first information includes the PLMN list, and the PLMN list includes a PLMN set that allows the terminal device to perform minimization of drive test.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2023
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Inventors: Yu Zeng, Xingxing Hu, Tingting Geng, Qinghai Zeng, Lian Li, Qing Pan
  • Publication number: 20240031944
    Abstract: This application provides a communication method and a communication apparatus. The method includes: A first network entity obtains first information, where the first information includes any one of the following: signal measurement results of a terminal device in at least two cells, and a relationship of the signal measurement results of the terminal device in the at least two cells, where the at least two cells include a first cell and a second cell; and the first network entity determines, based on second information, an adjustment manner for adjusting transmit power of the first cell. According to this application, even if signal quality of the first cell cannot be accurately measured, the adjustment manner for adjusting the transmit power of the first cell can be determined.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2023
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Inventors: Xingxing Hu, Tingting Geng, Qinghai Zeng
  • Patent number: 11864239
    Abstract: A communication method is described that includes a terminal device receiving a first message sent by a network device to which the terminal device expects to be handed over, and the first message indicates at least one target manner of the air interface technology determined by the network device from at least one optional manner of the air interface technology. Thereafter, the terminal device communicates with the network device by using the at least one target manner of the air interface technology.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tingting Wang, Qinghai Zeng, Yi Guo
  • Patent number: 11864131
    Abstract: This application provides a measurement configuration method and an apparatus. The method includes: determining that a serving cell changes from a first cell to a second cell; and updating or deleting a current measurement window configuration. The measurement window configuration is used to indicate a time domain position at which a terminal device measures a downlink reference signal. According to the solution provided in this application, when the serving cell of the terminal device changes, the current measurement window configuration of the terminal device is updated or deleted, so that a problem that the measurement window configuration of the terminal device is not applicable to measurement can be resolved to some extent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lili Zheng, Hongping Zhang, Qinghai Zeng, Le Yan, Xingxing Hu
  • Patent number: 11864144
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to wireless communication methods, terminal devices, and network devices. In one example method, a network device sends timing advance timer (TAT) configuration information to a terminal device, where the TAT configuration information is used by the terminal device to configure duration of a TAT. The terminal device receives the TAT configuration information sent by the network device. The terminal device configures the TAT based on the TAT configuration information, and asynchronously sends uplink data to the network de vice based on a running status of the TAT. The network device receives the uplink data sent by the terminal device based on the TAT configuration information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xiaoying Xu, Yi Wang, Qufang Huang, Xing Liu, Qinghai Zeng
  • Publication number: 20230422124
    Abstract: A cell handover method and an apparatus are provided. The method includes: determining an AI target cell, where the AI target cell is a predicted serving cell to which a terminal device can be handed over; and sending a first request message, where the first request message is used to request a network device corresponding to the AI target cell to allocate, to the terminal device, a resource corresponding to the AI target cell. The first request message indicates at least one of the following: identification information of the AI target cell, a type of the handover being AI handover, activation time information, expiration time information, prediction accuracy of the AI target cell, or the like. The activation time information indicates an earliest moment at which the terminal device is handed over to the AI target cell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2023
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Applicant: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tingting Geng, Yu Zeng, Qinghai Zeng
  • Publication number: 20230413116
    Abstract: A mobility load balancing method and apparatus are disclosed. The method includes: obtaining first network status information of a first network device; obtaining information indicating a network status of a second network device; obtaining a to-be-effective first mobility load balancing MLB policy based on the first network status information and the information indicating a network status of the second network device; and sending the first MLB policy to the second network device. The first MLB policy includes at least one of the following content: a configuration parameter used to adjust a load of the first network device and time information corresponding to the configuration parameter, a configuration parameter used to adjust a load of the second network device and time information corresponding to the configuration parameter, or reliability information of the first MLB policy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2023
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Inventors: Yu ZENG, Tingting GENG, Qinghai ZENG
  • Patent number: 11849385
    Abstract: Embodiments of this application disclose a cell access method and a device, to provide a network slice service area identifier and network slice configuration information for a terminal device, so that the terminal device accesses a target cell. The method in the embodiments of this application includes: obtaining, by a terminal device, a network slice service area identifier from a serving access network device corresponding to a serving cell in which the terminal device is located, where the network slice service area identifier is used to indicate an area served by a network slice; determining, by the terminal device, a target cell based on network slice configuration information and the network slice service area identifier, where the network slice configuration information includes a correspondence among a network slice, an area, and a service; and accessing, by the terminal device, the target cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chong Lou, Rui Wang, Mingzeng Dai, Qinghai Zeng
  • Patent number: 11838792
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to data transmission methods, network devices. One example data transmission method includes: a first network node sends a first indication information to a second network node, the first indication information includes information about an uplink data volume of a buffer of a terminal device, or the first indication information indicates a relationship between an uplink data volume of a buffer of a terminal device and a predefined data volume threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xiaoying Xu, Jun Chen, Qufang Huang, Qinghai Zeng
  • Patent number: 11831448
    Abstract: Embodiments of this application provide a communication processing method. A data volume report reported by a terminal device includes a data volume on one of at least two paths in a radio bearer in a duplication mode, so that signaling overheads in a data volume reporting process of the terminal device can be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xiaoying Xu, Qufang Huang, Xing Liu, Chunhua You, Qinghai Zeng, Haiyan Luo, Mingzeng Dai
  • Patent number: 11818707
    Abstract: Embodiments of this application provide a communication method, apparatus, a terminal, a network device, and a storage medium. After the terminal receives, from the network device, indication information used to indicate the terminal to report traffic pattern information of a first logical channel, a first PDU session, a first application, a first radio bearer, or a first QoS flow, the terminal reports the traffic pattern information of the first logical channel, the first PDU session, the first application, the first radio bearer, or the first QoS flow based on the indication information. In this manner, the terminal reports, based on the indication, the traffic pattern information of only the logical channel, the PDU session, the service, the radio bearer, or the QoS flow that is indicated by the network device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xiaoying Xu, Qufang Huang, Chong Lou, Qinghai Zeng, Zhenzhen Cao
  • Patent number: 11812434
    Abstract: A method for reporting a channel status and a device, where the method includes: a terminal receiving configuration signaling for semi-persistent channel state information (CSI) reporting, wherein the configuration signaling comprises one or more reporting periods of CSI of N cells, wherein the N cells are used for data communication of the terminal, and wherein N is an integer greater than or equal to 1; the terminal receiving channel status request signaling, wherein the channel status request signaling indicates to the terminal to report the CSI of the N cells; and the terminal transmitting, according to the one or more reporting periods, the CSI of the N cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Qufang Huang, Yuanjie Li, Qinghai Zeng
  • Patent number: 11805482
    Abstract: Embodiments of this application provide a data transmission method and apparatus. The method includes: receiving data sent by a terminal in an inactive state, where the data includes to-be-sent data sent by the terminal and identification information of the terminal; determining an anchor base station of the terminal based on the identification information; and sending the data to the anchor base station, so that the anchor base station sends the data to a core-network device. The uplink data of the terminal is forwarded to the anchor base station by using a serving base station and through an interaction between the anchor base station and the serving base station that currently provides an air interface resource for the terminal, and is then transmitted to a core network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiaoying Xu, Qinghai Zeng, Qufang Huang, Xiaoxiao Zheng
  • Patent number: 11777629
    Abstract: A reference time determining method and apparatus are provided, to prevent aberrations in a control instruction execution time caused by inconsistency between a reference time of a terminal and a reference time of a control device in the conventional technology. In this application, the terminal may receive a plurality of pieces of time reference information sent by the network device. When the terminal receives indication information from the network device, the terminal may select, based on the indication information, one piece of time reference information from the plurality of pieces of time reference information as first time reference information. The indication information indicates the first time reference information. After determining the first time reference information, the terminal may determine the reference time of the terminal based on the first time reference information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiaoying Xu, Qufang Huang, Qinghai Zeng, Chong Lou
  • Patent number: 11778681
    Abstract: Various embodiments provides a data transmission method and an apparatus. In those embodiments, at least two frequency domain resources are configured for transmission of a connection resumption request, a connection establishment request, or a connection reestablishment request, and the connection resumption request, the connection establishment request, or the connection reestablishment request is sent by using the at least two frequency domain resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiaoying Xu, Xing Liu, Chong Lou, Qinghai Zeng
  • Patent number: 11758591
    Abstract: A communication method and a communications apparatus, the method including receiving, by a second network device, from a third network device, first identification information of a first radio access network area to which a first cell corresponding to the third network device belongs, and sending, by the second network device, second identification information of the first cell and the first identification information of the first radio access network area to a first network device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tingting Geng, Hongping Zhang, Qinghai Zeng, Le Yan
  • Patent number: 11758516
    Abstract: A data transmission method is provided. The method includes: receiving, by user equipment, first information from a radio access device, where the first information indicates different transmission classes corresponding to a plurality of logical channels; determining, by the user equipment based on the first information, a transmission format of uplink data on at least one logical channel corresponding to at least one transmission class in the different transmission classes, and determining a transmission resource in the transmission format; and sending, by the user equipment, the uplink data by using the transmission format and the transmission resource in the transmission format. In this application, different transmission resources are allocated to uplink data on logical channels (LCHs) of different transmission classes, so that different requirements of different uplink data can be met.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Lifeng Han, Jian Zhang, Qinghai Zeng
  • Publication number: 20230284064
    Abstract: This application provides a communication method and a communications apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2023
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Inventors: Hongping Zhang, Qinghai Zeng