Patents Assigned to Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
  • Network management method and related device
    Patent number: 11258667
    Abstract: Example network management methods and network devices are described. One example method includes obtaining a configuration parameter by a first network device. The configuration parameter includes a network slice instance identifier and an access and mobility management function identifier corresponding to the network slice instance identifier, and/or a network slice subnet instance identifier and an access and mobility management function identifier corresponding to the network slice subnet instance identifier. The first network device sends the configuration parameter to a second network device. According to embodiments of the present disclosure, a unique access and mobility management function corresponding to a network slice instance and/or a network slice subnet instance can be selected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shuigen Yang, Wei Lu, Wenqi Sun, Wei Tan
  • Mobile terminal and display method thereof
    Patent number: 11257466
    Abstract: A mobile terminal and a display method are disclosed. The mobile terminal, including an enclosure, a display module, and one or more devices. The display module includes a first display region and a second display region. Both the first display region and the second display region are capable of displaying information. At least one of the one or more devices is disposed between the display module in the second display region and the enclosure. At least one of the one or more devices is capable of transmitting and/or receiving an optical signal through the display module. At least one transparent display region is disposed, so that a device disposed in the region is allowed to transmit and receive an optical signal through the display module. The mobile terminal integrates non-transparent display and transparent display functions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Bo Huang, Yufei Sun, Haiming He, Hongchao Leng, Peng Ding
  • Network architecture and information exchange method and apparatus
    Patent number: 11259344
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus for information exchange are provided. In one aspect, an information exchange method includes establishing a link setup between a centralized unit-control plane (CU-CP) and a centralized unit-user plane (CU-UP) by at least one of sending a first link setup request to the CU-UP using an address of the CU-UP and receiving a first link setup response returned by the CU-UP; or receiving a second link setup request sent by the CU-UP based on an address of the CU-CP and returning a second link setup response to the CU-UP based on the second link setup request. The first and second link setup requests each carry at least one of an identifier of the CU-UP or a name of the CU-UP. The first and second link setup responses each carry at least one of an identifier of the CU-CP or a name of the CU-CP.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yanglai Shuai, Yu Zhou
  • Method and apparatus for storing and retrieving information in a distributed database
    Patent number: 11256676
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for interacting with a distributed database is provided. The database includes plural storage devices. Plural keys are generated and associated with a data item. Plural operations, such as storage or retrieval operations are then initiated on the distributed database. Each operation specifies a different key acting as an index for a corresponding data record. The keys can be generated using functions operating on an initial descriptor. For example, the characters of the descriptor can be reordered to produce new keys. As such, a data item can be stored in multiple different storage devices to provide redundancy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Peter Ashwood-Smith
  • Multicast forwarding method and related device
    Patent number: 11258698
    Abstract: A multicast forwarding method applied to a BIER multicast network includes establishing, by a head node device, a first tunnel; generating a first entry; obtaining bit string information of a first multicast stream, where the bit string information includes an identifier of a tail node device that the first multicast stream is expected to reach; determining whether first bit string map information includes the identifier, in the bit string information, of the tail node device that the first multicast stream is expected to reach; and forwarding, by the head node device, the first multicast stream to a first intermediate node device through the first tunnel when the head node device determines that the first bit string map information includes the identifier in the bit string information, of the tail node device that the first multicast stream is expected to reach.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jingrong Xie
  • Downlink control information transmission method, apparatus, and system
    Patent number: 11258571
    Abstract: This application provides a downlink control information transmission method, an apparatus, and a system. The method includes: sending, by a gNB, downlink control information (DCI) to UE on a first bandwidth resource, where the DCI is used for data transmission between the gNB and the UE on the first bandwidth resource or data transmission between the gNB and the UE on a second bandwidth resource; and if the DCI is used for data transmission between the gNB and the UE on the first bandwidth resource, a size of the DCI is L1_1, or if the DCI is used for data transmission between the gNB and the UE on the second bandwidth resource, a size of the DCI is L1_2, where L1_1 is equal to L1_2, and L1_1 and L1_2 are integers greater than or equal to 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hua Li, Hao Tang, Yi Wang, Zhenfei Tang
  • Management of discontinuous reception (DRX) for a terminal having a voice service
    Patent number: 11259357
    Abstract: Embodiments of this application provide a discontinuous reception DRX management method, including determining, by a base station, that a terminal has a voice service, and setting up, by the base station, a voice bearer for the terminal, and activating a DRX function of the terminal when setting up the voice bearer for the terminal. It can be learned that, in the method, the terminal does not activate the DRX function before setting up the voice bearer, and does not activate the DRX function until the voice bearer is set up, to effectively reduce a voice paging connection delay.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhendong Wang, Lianfang Wu, Yinghua Huang
  • Communication method, communications apparatus, and storage medium
    Patent number: 11258650
    Abstract: A communication method, a communications apparatus, and a storage medium are disclosed, to reduce a probability that consecutive bit errors occur in a communications system. A received to-be-sent signal is modulated to obtain a modulated signal, and N rounds of operations are further performed on the modulated signal to obtain an encoded signal. An output of the 1st-round operation in the N rounds of operations is determined based on the modulated signal and an output that is of the Nth-round operation and that is processed by a first delay circuit, and an output of the ith-round operation in the N rounds of operations is determined based on an output of the (i?1)th-round operation and an output that is of the Nth-round operation and that is processed by a second delay circuit, where i is an integer greater than 1 and less than or equal to N.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tianjian Zuo, Sen Zhang
  • Motion vector determining method and apparatus
    Patent number: 11259042
    Abstract: A motion vector determining method includes a first matched distortion value between a forward prediction block and a backward prediction block of a current block is calculated. A matched distortion value between a first prediction block and a fifth prediction block, a matched distortion value between a second prediction block and a sixth prediction block, a matched distortion value between a third prediction block and a seventh prediction block, and a matched distortion value between a fourth prediction block and an eighth prediction block are calculated. A target forward prediction block and a target backward prediction block are determined based on a value relationship between the matched distortion values. A target motion vector of the current block is determined based on the target forward prediction block and the target backward prediction block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xu Chen, Jianhua Zheng
  • Multicast method and apparatus
    Patent number: 11259149
    Abstract: Embodiments of this disclosure relate to the communications field, and provide a multicast method and apparatus, to transmit multicast data in a wireless network. An example method includes: receiving, by a multicast function network element, multicast data from a multicast source and that includes a multicast address; obtaining, by the multicast function network element based on a preset correspondence, terminal information or connection information that corresponds to the multicast address; and sending, by the multicast function network element, the multicast data to a terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hualin Zhu, Huan Li, Weisheng Jin
  • Mobile terminal, peripheral device, and charging method thereof
    Patent number: 11258280
    Abstract: A mobile terminal, a peripheral device, and a charging method thereof that relate to the field of electronic device technologies, where the mobile terminal and the peripheral device are separately powered, and when coupled by a connector, the mobile terminal and the peripheral device charge each other. The mobile terminal includes a first switch, a second switch, a first charging port, a first charging circuit, a first connector, a first battery, and a first electronic controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tao Li
  • Method, apparatus, and system for managing label of access network
    Patent number: 11258705
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of network communications. An Optical Line Terminal (OLT) allocates a Pseudo Wire (PW) label of an access segment PW for a port, and establishes a corresponding relationship between the port information and the PW label; and carries the corresponding relationship between the port information and the PW label in a label management message, and sends the label management message to an Optical Network Unit (ONU) so that the ONU updates a forwarding table, in which the label management message adopts an access network management protocol. As a consequence, a problem of supporting Pseudo Wire Emulation Edge-to-Edge (PWE3) on a data plane of an access segment of an access network is solved under the conditions that device complexity of the ONU is not increased and a configuration of the ONU is slightly changed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Ruobin Zheng
  • Flex on board anisotropic conductive adhesive interconnection
    Patent number: 11259414
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a printed circuit board and a flexible printed circuit. A rigid structure component is on a first side of the printed circuit board. An interconnection interface is on a second side of the printed circuit board opposite to the rigid structure component and is configured to interconnect the flexible printed circuit and the printed circuit board. A conductive interconnection material is at the interconnection interface between the flexible printed circuit and the printed circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: David Powney, Ilkka Saarinen, Mikko Kylkilahti, Lei Han
  • Method for selecting a plurality of carriers and related device
    Patent number: 11259278
    Abstract: This application discloses a method for selecting a plurality of carriers and a related device. The method includes: obtaining, by a first terminal, first configuration information, where the first configuration information includes at least one piece of first carrier information and corresponding first channel congestion parameter information; obtaining first data; selecting at least one direct link transmission carrier for the first data according to the first carrier information and in a priority sequence based on the first channel congestion parameter information; and sending the first data on the direct link transmission carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hang Liu, Mingchao Li, Zhenwei Lu, Zhenzhen Cao, Xiao Xiao
  • Navigation method, navigation terminal, and server
    Patent number: 11255694
    Abstract: A navigation method, a navigation terminal, and a server is disclosed. The method in the embodiments of the present disclosure includes: obtaining, by a navigation terminal, first navigation information; generating, by the navigation terminal, a first navigation route according to the first navigation information; sending, by the navigation terminal, information about the first navigation route to a server; receiving, by the navigation terminal, second navigation information sent by the server, where the second navigation information includes a real-time route parameter of the first navigation route; and when the real-time route parameter of the first navigation route satisfies a preset condition, effectuating, by the navigation terminal, a navigation window to pop up or automatically adjusting content presented in a navigation window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Heng Liao, Guoyao Wen
  • Processor and instruction scheduling method
    Patent number: 11256543
    Abstract: A processor and an instruction scheduling method for X-channel interleaved multi-threading, where X is an integer greater than one. The processor includes a decoding unit and a processing unit. The decoding unit is configured to obtain one instruction from each of Z predefined threads in each cyclic period, decode the Z obtained instructions to obtain Z decoding results, and send the Z decoding results to the processing unit, where each cyclic period includes X sending periods, one decoding result is sent to the processing unit in each sending period, a decoding result of the Z decoding results may be repeatedly sent by the decoding unit in a plurality of sending periods, wherein 1?Z<X or Z=X, and wherein Z is an integer. The processing unit (32) is configured to execute the instruction based on the decoding result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shorin Kyo, Ye Gao, Shinri Inamori
  • Path switching method and related device
    Patent number: 11259234
    Abstract: A path switching method and a related device, where the method includes receiving, by a base station, a first message from a first user equipment requesting to switch the first user equipment from a non-direct path for communicating with the base station using a second user equipment to a direct path communicating with the base station, and sending, by the base station, a second message to the first user equipment instructing the first user equipment to perform path switching. The second message includes at least one of a timing advance, a closed-loop power control value or an uplink grant configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Haibo Xu, Nathan Edward Tenny, Yiru Kuang, Jian Wang
  • Method for repeatedly transmitting data and device
    Patent number: 11259362
    Abstract: This application provides a method for repeatedly transmitting data and a device. The method includes: separately sending, by a terminal device, one piece of data in a PDCP entity to N logical channels, where a direct link transmission manner is used on at least one of the N logical channels, and N is a positive integer greater than or equal to 2; obtaining, by the terminal device, a resource; and sending, by the terminal device, the data on the N logical channels by using the obtained resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hang Liu, Zhenzhen Cao, Mingchao Li, Yinghui Yu
  • Counting method and communications apparatus
    Patent number: 11258545
    Abstract: A counting method and a communications apparatus are provided. The method includes: determining to retransmit a first protocol layer data packet; and if the retransmission is retransmission for the first time, initializing a retransmission counter associated with the first protocol layer data packet; or if the retransmission is not retransmission for the first time and the first protocol layer data packet is not pending for retransmission, updating the retransmission counter or keeping a value of the retransmission counter unchanged. In this way, RLF can be correctly triggered, to reduce a quantity of times of unnecessary RLF triggering and reduce overheads.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xing Liu, Qufang Huang
  • Virtual disk file format conversion method and apparatus
    Patent number: 11256445
    Abstract: A virtual disk file format conversion method and an apparatus that relate to the field of virtualization technologies and to resolve a service interruption caused by offline conversion of a virtual machine disk image file format when a virtual machine is migrated between different types of VMMs. The method and apparatus include establishing a mapping table between a virtual address of a virtual machine (VM) disk image file and a physical address of a disk image file that is compatible with a virtual machine monitor (VMM), converting, according to the mapping table, the virtual address used when a user performs reading/writing on the VM disk image file, into the physical address mapped to the virtual address, and performing data reading/writing on the VM disk image file based on the physical address.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tianyu Wo, Junbin Kang, Xin Bai