Patents by Inventor Xiaoan Fan

Xiaoan Fan 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: 10148406
    Abstract: A method and device for transmitting a multimedia broadcast multicast service are disclosed. A base station sends to a user equipment device position information of specific radio frames in a time unit, and position information of a specific subframe in each of the specific radio frames in the time unit. The time unit includes 2M radio frames, and the specific radio frames are two or more of the 2M radio frames comprised in the time unit, where M is a nonnegative integer. The base station sends the multimedia broadcast multicast service carried in the specific subframe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO.,LTD.
    Inventors: Junwei Wang, Xiaoan Fan, Jianghua Liu
  • Patent number: 10045316
    Abstract: A method and device for sending a synchronization signal and a method and device for synchronization between base stations, include: determining, by a synchronization source base station according to a synchronization level of the synchronization source base station, a resource for sending an NLRS for clock synchronization between base stations, and according to the determined resource. In this way, one NLRS for clock synchronization between base stations is configured on each synchronization source base station, and the NLRS is sent on a resource determined according to a synchronization level, so that a synchronization base station that acquires the NLRS can determine the synchronization level of the synchronization source base station according to a resource for sending the NLRS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuan Xia, Juan Zheng, Xiaoan Fan, Sha Ma, Qiang Li
  • Patent number: 10028231
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method and an apparatus for controlling uplink power of a user equipment, where the method includes: separately acquiring first maximum transmit power of the user equipment corresponding to a first subframe and second maximum transmit power of the user equipment corresponding to a second subframe; and when the first maximum transmit power and the second maximum transmit power are different, using a minimum value of the first maximum transmit power and the second maximum transmit power as first configured maximum transmit power, and performing power control over transmit power of multiple carriers in an overlap region according to the first configured maximum transmit power, so that total transmit power of the multiple carriers in the overlap region after the power control is lower than or equal to the minimum value of the first maximum transmit power and the second maximum transmit power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xingwei Zhang, Xiaoan Fan, Lixia Xue
  • Publication number: 20180007690
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide an information transmission method, including: determining, by a user equipment (UE), a first subframe; configuring the UE to send a first uplink signal in the first subframe; determining, by the UE, that the first uplink signal is a first type of uplink signal, where the first type of uplink signal occupies a first part of symbols of the first subframe, and the number of symbols included in the first part of symbols is less than the number of symbols included in the first subframe; and detecting, by the UE, a downlink control channel on a second part of symbols in the first subframe, where the first part of symbols and the second part of symbols do not overlap in time domain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2017
    Publication date: January 4, 2018
    Inventors: Bo Li, Lei Guan, Xiaoan Fan
  • Publication number: 20170346613
    Abstract: The application relates to radio communications and discloses a method and apparatus for feeding back and receiving acknowledgment (ACK) information of semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) data packets. The method includes receiving downlink data packets and an uplink data assignment indicator (UL DAI) from a base station, wherein a value of the UL DAI indicates a number (N) of all scheduled downlink sub-frames which scheduled by the base station for the user equipment, the number N is greater than 1, and a number k (k<N) of the downlink data packets is/are semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) data packets; forming a feedback signal comprising N acknowledgements/negative acknowledgements (ACKs/NAKs) acknowledging the N downlink data packets, k ACKs/NAKs of the k SPS data packets is/are placed from (N-k+1)th to Nth positions of the N ACKs/NAKs; and sending the feedback signal to the base station starting from the ACK/NAK at the first position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2017
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Applicant: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiaoan Fan, Guang Liu, Bo Li, Yunzhe Hou
  • Publication number: 20170332332
    Abstract: An uplink transmission power control method and a user equipment are provided, where the method includes: determining, by a UE, whether uplink channels are simultaneously transmitted over adjacent subframes between multiple carriers; where the adjacent subframes between the multiple carriers are partially overlapped; and timing advance values of the multiple carriers are different; and if uplink channels are simultaneously transmitted over adjacent subframes between multiple carriers, processing, by the user equipment, an uplink channel transmitted over the last symbol on a partially overlapped subframe of another carrier except a carrier having the greatest timing advance value, so that total transmission power of the uplink channels is lower than the maximum transmission power or an interference level of the user equipment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2017
    Publication date: November 16, 2017
    Inventors: Xingwei ZHANG, Junren CHANG, Yuhua CHEN, Xiaoan FAN, Bo LI, Yan CHENG, Yuanjie LI
  • Patent number: 9788319
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide an information transmission method, including: determining, by a user equipment (UE), a first subframe; configuring the UE to send a first uplink signal in the first subframe; determining, by the UE, that the first uplink signal is a first type of uplink signal, where the first type of uplink signal occupies a first part of symbols of the first subframe, and the number of symbols included in the first part of symbols is less than the number of symbols included in the first subframe; and detecting, by the UE, a downlink control channel on a second part of symbols in the first subframe, where the first part of symbols and the second part of symbols do not overlap in time domain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Bo Li, Lei Guan, Xiaoan Fan
  • Patent number: 9756581
    Abstract: An uplink transmission power control method and a user equipment are provided, where the method includes: determining, by a UE, whether uplink channels are simultaneously transmitted over adjacent subframes between multiple carriers; where the adjacent subframes between the multiple carriers are partially overlapped; and timing advance values of the multiple carriers are different; and if uplink channels are simultaneously transmitted over adjacent subframes between multiple carriers, processing, by the user equipment, an uplink channel transmitted over the last symbol on a partially overlapped subframe of another carrier except a carrier having the greatest timing advance value, so that total transmission power of the uplink channels is lower than the maximum transmission power or an interference level of the user equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xingwei Zhang, Junren Chang, Yuhua Chen, Xiaoan Fan, Bo Li, Yan Cheng, Yuanjie Li
  • Publication number: 20170237544
    Abstract: A method and device for transmitting a multimedia broadcast multicast service are disclosed. A base station sends to a user equipment device position information of specific radio frames in a time unit, and position information of a specific subframe in each of the specific radio frames in the time unit. The time unit includes 2M radio frames, and the specific radio frames are two or more of the 2M radio frames comprised in the time unit, where M is a nonnegative integer. The base station sends the multimedia broadcast multicast service carried in the specific subframe.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2017
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Applicant: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO.,LTD.
    Inventors: Junwei Wang, Xiaoan Fan, Jianghua Liu
  • Publication number: 20170142715
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide an information transmission method, including: determining, by a user equipment (UE), a first subframe; configuring the UE to send a first uplink signal in the first subframe; determining, by the UE, that the first uplink signal is a first type of uplink signal, where the first type of uplink signal occupies a first part of symbols of the first subframe, and the number of symbols included in the first part of symbols is less than the number of symbols included in the first subframe; and detecting, by the UE, a downlink control channel on a second part of symbols in the first subframe, where the first part of symbols and the second part of symbols do not overlap in time domain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2017
    Publication date: May 18, 2017
    Inventors: Bo Li, Lei Guan, Xiaoan Fan
  • Patent number: 9634818
    Abstract: The application relates to radio communications and discloses a method and apparatus for feeding back and receiving acknowledgment (ACK) information of semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) data packets. The method includes receiving downlink data packets and an uplink data assignment indicator (UL DAI) from a base station, wherein a value of the UL DAI indicates a number (N) of all scheduled downlink sub-frames which scheduled by the base station for the user equipment, the number N is greater than 1, and a number k (k<N) of the downlink data packets is/are semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) data packets; forming a feedback signal comprising N acknowledgements/negative acknowledgements (ACKs/NAKs) acknowledging the N downlink data packets, k ACKs/NAKs of the k SPS data packets is/are placed from (N?k+1)th to Nth positions of the N ACKs/NAKs; and sending the feedback signal to the base station starting from the ACK/NAK at the first position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiaoan Fan, Guang Liu, Bo Li, Yunzhe Hou
  • Publication number: 20170111869
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method and an apparatus for controlling uplink power of a user equipment, where the method includes: separately acquiring first maximum transmit power of the user equipment corresponding to a first subframe and second maximum transmit power of the user equipment corresponding to a second subframe; and when the first maximum transmit power and the second maximum transmit power are different, using a minimum value of the first maximum transmit power and the second maximum transmit power as first configured maximum transmit power, and performing power control over transmit power of multiple carriers in an overlap region according to the first configured maximum transmit power, so that total transmit power of the multiple carriers in the overlap region after the power control is lower than or equal to the minimum value of the first maximum transmit power and the second maximum transmit power.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2016
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Inventors: Xingwei Zhang, Xiaoan Fan, Lixia Xue
  • Patent number: 9591506
    Abstract: This application provides a processing method for channel measurement, a base station, and a user equipment, where the method includes: receiving an interference report from a user equipment; and determining, according to the interference report, at least two measurement sets for the user equipment, and notifying the at least two measurement sets to the user equipment. In this application, a measurement set is determined according to an interference report reported by a user equipment, so that the determined measurement set is more adaptive to a current interference situation of the user equipment, and then channel quality of a subframe of the user equipment can be measured accurately.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xiaobo Chen, Qiang Li, Xiaoan Fan, Weimin Xiao
  • Patent number: 9584254
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method and a device for data transmission. The method includes: according to a preconfigured second table, selecting a TBS value, where the second table is used for describing a corresponding relationship among a TBS value, the number of RBs and a TBS index, the number of RBs corresponding to the selected TBS value is smaller than or equal to a specific value, a modulation mode corresponding to a TBS index which corresponds to the selected TBS value is QPSK, and the selected TBS value is capable of satisfying the rate requirement required during transmission time interval TTI bundling transmission; and according to the selected TBS value, transmitting data carried by a PUSCH using bundled TTIs. The embodiments of the present invention can improve the coverage at a PUSCH medium data rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Fang Nan, Qiang Wu, Xiaoan Fan
  • Patent number: 9572153
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide an information transmission method, including: determining, by a user equipment (UE), a first subframe; configuring the UE to send a first uplink signal in the first subframe; determining, by the UE, that the first uplink signal is a first type of uplink signal, where the first type of uplink signal occupies a first part of symbols of the first subframe, and the number of symbols included in the first part of symbols is less than the number of symbols included in the first subframe; and detecting, by the UE, a downlink control channel on a second part of symbols in the first subframe, where the first part of symbols and the second part of symbols do not overlap in time domain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Bo Li, Lei Guan, Xiaoan Fan
  • Patent number: 9560599
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method and an apparatus for controlling uplink power of a user equipment, where the method includes: separately acquiring first maximum transmit power of the user equipment corresponding to a first subframe and second maximum transmit power of the user equipment corresponding to a second subframe; and when the first maximum transmit power and the second maximum transmit power are different, using a minimum value of the first maximum transmit power and the second maximum transmit power as first configured maximum transmit power, and performing power control over transmit power of multiple carriers in an overlap region according to the first configured maximum transmit power, so that total transmit power of the multiple carriers in the overlap region after the power control is lower than or equal to the minimum value of the first maximum transmit power and the second maximum transmit power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xingwei Zhang, Xiaoan Fan, Lixia Xue
  • Publication number: 20170026944
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method, a base station and a user equipment for subframe configuration in a time division duplex system. The method comprises: a base station determining a subframe number of a flexible subframe in a radio frame; the base station determining a feature of the flexible subframe corresponding to the subframe number, where the feature indicates that the flexible subframe is an uplink subframe or a downlink subframe; and the base station sending to a user equipment a first signaling via a downlink control channel, where the first signaling includes the feature of the flexible subframe corresponding to the subframe number.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2016
    Publication date: January 26, 2017
    Inventors: Chaojun LI, Yongxia LV, Xiaoan FAN
  • Patent number: 9554382
    Abstract: A method and device for service time division multiplexing as well as a method and a device for transmitting service are disclosed. The method for service time division multiplexing includes selecting a part or all of radio frames in one time unit as specific radio frames; and selecting a part or all of subframes in the specific radio frames as specific subframes for sending a specific service. The specific service is a multimedia broadcast multicast service, or a unicast service, or one or more than one kind of services transmitted in broadcast or multicast mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2017
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD
    Inventors: Junwei Wang, Xiaoan Fan, Jianghua Liu
  • Publication number: 20170013581
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus are used to configure a position of a transmission frequency resource according to a synchronization relationship between devices, includes: adjusting, by a first device, synchronization according to synchronization information of a second device, in a case in which the first device is synchronous with the second device, or the second device can adjust a configured frequency resource, configuring a frequency resource close to an edge of a frequency band, where the frequency resource is used to transmit data, and notifying first user equipment; in a case in which the devices are synchronous, adjusting, by the first device and the second device, a start moment or an end moment of transmitting or receiving a signal; and using, by the first device in a manner of extending a bandwidth of a carrier frequency or a manner of carrier aggregation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2016
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Inventors: Xizeng Dai, Xiaoan Fan, Jie Cui, Juan Zheng
  • Publication number: 20170005848
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a network listening method and device, where the method includes: determining, by a first device according to a type of a network listening resource, a time-frequency pattern that is of a first sequence and is corresponding to the network listening resource of this type; and then transmitting the first sequence to a second device by using the time-frequency pattern of the first sequence, so that the second device performs network listening according to the first sequence. The time-frequency pattern of the first sequence determined in this process is a time-frequency pattern obtained by transforming a time-frequency pattern of a base sequence, and a network listening signal obtained therefrom, that is, the time-frequency pattern of the first sequence, is simple, which can achieve a purpose of reducing complexity of generating a network listening signal and computational complexity of parsing a network listening signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2016
    Publication date: January 5, 2017
    Inventors: Juan Zheng, Xiaoan Fan, Yongxia Lyu, Brian Classon