Patents by Inventor Zhongbin Qin

Zhongbin Qin 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: 20170265068
    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: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2015
    Publication date: September 14, 2017
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Qimei CUI, Qinyan JIANG, Weijuan GAO, Zhongbin QIN, Tong ZHANG, Hui LIANG
  • Patent number: 9743366
    Abstract: An uplink synchronization processing method, a user equipment (UE), and a base station are provided. The method includes: receiving a component carrier (CC) uplink synchronization indication message sent by a base station, where the uplink synchronization indication message carries identification information of one or multiple newly configured CCs; sending synchronization signaling to the base station when knowing that the uplink synchronization needs to be executed on all or a part of the one or multiple newly configured CCs corresponding to the identification information; and receiving a time advanced (TA) adjusting message that is sent by the base station according to the synchronization signaling, and applying a TA value carried in the TA adjusting message to the CC on which the uplink synchronization needs to be executed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Junren Chang, Yajuan Li, Weiwei Song, Liangliang Zhang, Wei Quan, Zhongbin Qin, Jian Zhang
  • Publication number: 20170230884
    Abstract: An electronic device including processing circuitry configured to establish a first wireless communication channel with a user equipment (UE). The device also determines whether a second communication channel of at least a predetermined quality exists between the UE and a non co-baseband basestation (BS) while the first communication channel between the UE and the electronics device is maintained. The first communication channel and the second communication channel use different carrier resources.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2017
    Publication date: August 10, 2017
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Zhongbin QIN
  • Publication number: 20170223696
    Abstract: A method, device and system for performing wireless communication in a wireless communication system. The wireless communication system includes a low power node and a macro base station with common baseband and user equipment, and the user equipment communicates with the low power node and the macro base station via a plurality of component carriers. The method includes: receiving, by the user equipment, a downlink signal transmitted by the low power node and the macro base station; and transmitting uplink signals to the low power node and the macro base station, wherein the method further includes: transmitting all first uplink signals of the uplink signals to the low power node as a receiving node. According to the method, device and system, it is possible to improve the efficiency of uplink power control of a terminal and/or reduce the burden for uplink control channel transmission of a macro cell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2017
    Publication date: August 3, 2017
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Zhongbin QIN
  • Patent number: 9717030
    Abstract: A wireless communication system, and method, including: first, second, and third base stations, and user equipment, the first base station and the second base station performing wireless data connections with the user equipment by adopting different carriers, and a trigger node triggers a transfer procedure in the case of judging a preset transfer condition of transferring a service to the third base station is satisfied. The service is provided by the second base station to the user equipment, so that the user equipment releases the wireless data connection with the second base station and establishes the wireless data connection with the third base station, and thus the first base station and the third base station perform wireless data connections with the user equipment by adopting different carriers, wherein at least part of the service provided by the second base station initially is transferred to the third base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2017
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Zhongbin Qin
  • Patent number: 9713103
    Abstract: A wireless communications system and a method for performing wireless communication in a wireless communications system. The wireless communications system includes: a first base station node; a second base station node; and a wireless communications apparatus, performing communication with the first base station node and the second base station node. The first base station node and the second base station node perform scheduling coordination, to reduce a probability that the wireless communications apparatus sends an uplink signal to the first base station node and the second base station node simultaneously. The system and method can reduce a probability that a wireless communications apparatus sends an uplink signal to a first base station node and a second base station node simultaneously, thereby effectively ensuring uplink/downlink transmission performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Zhongbin Qin, Yuxin Wei, Chen Sun, Xin Guo
  • Publication number: 20170202041
    Abstract: A wireless communication device and a wireless communication method. The wireless communication device which is used for a user equipment side includes a signal transceiving apparatus and a control apparatus. The signal transceiving apparatus is configured to transmit a device-to-device communication signal, and receive a feedback signal of other wireless communication devices for the communication signal. The control apparatus is configured to determine receiving quality of other wireless communication devices for the communication signal based on the feedback signal, and adjust the signal coverage range of a user equipment based on the distribution of the receiving quality of other wireless communication devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2015
    Publication date: July 13, 2017
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Zhongbin QIN
  • Publication number: 20170202048
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to an electronic apparatus in a wireless communications system, and a mobility measurement method. The electronic apparatus comprises a communications device and a mobility measurement device. The communication device is configured to separately perform dual-connection communication with two connection nodes by means of different carriers. The mobility measurement device is configured to perform mobility measurement, for determining a connection switching mode, on the connection nodes in the dual connections in a case in which connection service quality of at least one of the current dual connection nodes is lower than a preset level. The mobility measurement device is further configured to determine a reporting mode of a mobility measurement result according to the measurement condition of at least one of the current dual connection nodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2017
    Publication date: July 13, 2017
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Zhongbin Qin
  • Patent number: 9681353
    Abstract: An electronic device including processing circuitry configured to establish a first wireless communication channel with a user equipment (UE). The device also determines whether a second communication channel of at least a predetermined quality exists between the UE and a non co-baseband basestation (BS) while the first communication channel between the UE and the electronics device is maintained. The first communication channel and the second communication channel use different carrier resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Zhongbin Qin
  • Publication number: 20170134913
    Abstract: A communications apparatus, a base station, and a communications method. The communications apparatus includes processing circuitry configured to: group users in a 3D beam-forming space of a current cell into multiple space user groups; determine group configuration information of the users in the 3D beam-forming space of the current cell; notify a neighbor cell of the group configuration information of the users in the 3D beam-forming space of the current cell to assist inter-cell interference coordination, wherein the current cell is configured with an antenna array having multiple physical antennas to achieve 3D beam-forming.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2015
    Publication date: May 11, 2017
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Qimei CUI, Tong ZHANG, Zhongbin QIN, Weijuan GAO, Hui LIANG, Qinyan JIANG
  • Publication number: 20170118669
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus in a wireless communications system, and a mobility measurement method. The electronic apparatus includes a communications device and a mobility measurement device. The communication device is configured to separately perform dual-connection communication with two connection nodes by different carriers. The mobility measurement device is configured to perform mobility measurement, for determining a connection switching mode, on the connection nodes in the dual connections in a case in which connection service quality of at least one of the current dual connection nodes is lower than a preset level. The mobility measurement device is further configured to determine a reporting mode of a mobility measurement result according to the measurement condition of at least one of the current dual connection nodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2015
    Publication date: April 27, 2017
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Zhongbin QIN
  • Patent number: 9591663
    Abstract: A scheduling request method, network side device, terminal device and system, belong to the field of communications technologies. The method includes: configuring a first shared resource used for a scheduling request (SR), and sending first information to multiple terminal devices to notify of the first shared resource (101); receiving the SR on the first shared resource (102); allocating a second shared resource of uplink data to the multiple terminal devices, or allocating a dedicated resource of uplink data to at least one of the multiple terminal devices (103). The network side device includes: a configuration module, a receiving module and an allocation module. The terminal device includes: a receiving module, a request module and a sending module. The present invention avoids the waste of the uplink data resource, and improves a utilization rate of the uplink data resource and a transmission success rate of the uplink data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wei Quan, Yi Jiang, Jian Zhang, Arnaud Meylan, Qiao Zhang, Zhongbin Qin, Guanglin Han
  • Publication number: 20170048721
    Abstract: A base station control method for a wireless communication system, a base station control apparatus, a wireless communication system and an electronic device. The wireless communication system includes a small cell. The base station control apparatus includes an upper limit determination unit and a frequency band control unit; wherein the upper limit determination unit is configured to determine the upper limit of the estimated number of small cells using unlicensed frequency bands in a target region according to available unlicensed frequency band resources and estimated service volume in the target region; and the frequency band control unit is configured to control one or more small cells to use or stop using the unlicensed frequency bands according to the upper limit of the estimated number, so that the number of small cells operating at the unlicensed frequency bands is not greater than the upper limit of the estimated number.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2015
    Publication date: February 16, 2017
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chen SUN, Xin GUO, Zhongbin QIN, Yuxin WEI
  • Publication number: 20170041849
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a wireless communication system and method therein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2016
    Publication date: February 9, 2017
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Zhongbin QIN
  • Publication number: 20170013670
    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: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2014
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Qimei CUI, Ningyu CHEN, Jiahui LIU, Yingni ZHANG, Liang ZENG, Zhongbin QIN
  • Patent number: 9532319
    Abstract: A power control method includes obtaining power headroom information of an aggregated carrier of a User Equipment (UE). The aggregated carrier includes at least one component carrier group and at least one first carrier, or includes at least one component carrier group, or includes at least two first carriers. The component carrier group includes at least two second carriers, and the first carrier and the second carrier are single carriers, The method also includes adjusting transmit power of the aggregated carrier according to the power headroom information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Guanglin Han, Wei Quan, Yi Jiang, Qiao Zhang, Wurong Zhang, Zhongbin Qin
  • Publication number: 20160330010
    Abstract: A method, base station, and user equipment (UE) for radio communication in a radio communication system including a base station and a UE, the UE communicating with the base station in carrier aggregation mode over plural component carriers. The method includes: the base station assigns a priority to each component carrier according to at least one of the following rules to enable the UE to select, on overlapped uplink subframes, the component carrier having highest priority for uplink signal transmission, the rules including: desired power loss of uplink signal transmission over the component carrier, burden of uplink signal transmission over the component carrier, number of uplink subframes of the component carrier, and primary/secondary attributes of the component carrier for transmission of a downlink signal corresponding to the uplink signal transmitted over the component carrier. The method, base station, and UE can flexibly adjust the transmission carrier of a PUCCH.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2015
    Publication date: November 10, 2016
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Zhongbin QIN
  • Publication number: 20160295522
    Abstract: A wireless communications system and a method for performing wireless communication in a wireless communications system. The wireless communications system includes: a first base station node; a second base station node; and a wireless communications apparatus, performing communication with the first base station node and the second base station node. The first base station node and the second base station node perform scheduling coordination, to reduce a probability that the wireless communications apparatus sends an uplink signal to the first base station node and the second base station node simultaneously. The system and method can reduce a probability that a wireless communications apparatus sends an uplink signal to a first base station node and a second base station node simultaneously, thereby effectively ensuring uplink/downlink transmission performance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2014
    Publication date: October 6, 2016
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Zhongbin QIN, Yuxin WEI, Chen SUN, Xin GUO
  • Publication number: 20160157295
    Abstract: A wireless communication system, a method, a base station, user equipment and a device. An electronic device for a user equipment in a wireless communication system, wherein the user equipment simultaneously performs wireless data connections with a first base station and a second base station over different carriers, the electronic device including: circuitry configured to, acquire a notification to release the wireless data connection between the user equipment and the first base station from the second base station, if a release triggering node judges that a release condition is satisfied; and release the wireless data connection with the first base station based on the notification, wherein the release triggering node is either the first base station or the second base station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2014
    Publication date: June 2, 2016
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Zhongbin QIN
  • Patent number: 9357561
    Abstract: A CB resource feedback method is disclosed. The method includes: receiving, by a network device, uplink information that is sent by a sending device on a CB resource; when the uplink information is decoded, feeding back, by the network device correct reception of the uplink information to the sending device through a first physical downlink control channel, where the first physical downlink control channel is masked with an identifier of the sending device. Through the technical solutions provided in embodiments of the present invention, the sending device may be enabled to accurately know that the uplink information sent by the sending device is received correctly or is received incorrectly, and the sending device may be enabled to know a receiving status more quickly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Wei Quan, Qiao Zhang, Guanglin Han, Yi Jiang, Jian Zhang, Zhongbin Qin