Patents Assigned to Lenovo (Beijing) Limited
  • Publication number: 20240155493
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present application relate to methods and apparatuses for discontinuous reception (DRX). According to an embodiment of the present application, a method may include: receiving configuration information for a plurality of search space sets (SSSs); in the case that one or more SSSs of the plurality of SSSs are associated with at least one SSS group (SSSG), determining at least one SSS from each SSSG; in the case that the plurality of SSSs include a set of SSSs outside any SSSG, determining at least one SSS from the set of SSSs; and detecting downlink control information (DCI) in a determined SSS, wherein the DCI includes a field indicating a power saving operation for physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) monitoring. Embodiments of the present application can efficiently indicate a power saving operation for PDCCH monitoring during the DRX active time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2021
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: Lenovo (Beijing) Limited
    Inventors: Yuantao Zhang, Hongmei Liu, Zhi Yan, Yingying Li, Haiming Wang
  • Patent number: 11979027
    Abstract: A control method. The control method includes determining whether a second electronic device is placed on a touch panel of a first electronic device, the touch panel including a first electrode layer, the second electronic device including a second electrode layer, the second electrode layer being configured to form a charging capacitor unit with the first electrode layer; controlling the first electrode layer and the second electrode layer opposite to the first electrode layer to form the charging capacitor unit when it is determined that the second electronic device is placed on the touch panel; and controlling a first power module of the first electronic device to provide power to the first electrode layer to supply power to the second electronic device through the charging capacitor unit; or, controlling the first power module to receive power transmitted by the second electronic device through the charging capacitor unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: LENOVO (BEIJING) LIMITED
    Inventors: Qihua Xiao, Zhijian Mo
  • Patent number: 11977724
    Abstract: An information processing method includes determining a target area associated with a plurality of widgets that are different, determining a target display mode of the target area, and displaying the plurality of widgets in the target area based on the target display mode. Each of the plurality of widgets obtains a display content based on a target address, and the plurality of widgets are displayed differently in the target area under different display modes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: LENOVO (BEIJING) LIMITED
    Inventor: Xiao Liu
  • Patent number: 11977897
    Abstract: An information processing method includes, when an electronic apparatus is booted, obtaining current parameter information of a target hard disk drive and sending the current parameter information to a baseboard management controller (BMC). The current parameter information of the target hard disk drive indicates current mounting position of the target hard disk drive on a backplane (BP).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: LENOVO (BEIJING) LIMITED
    Inventor: Tai-Yu Chiu
  • Publication number: 20240147332
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present application relate to methods and apparatuses for deactivating and activating a secondary cell group (SCG) in a multi-radio dual connectivity (MR-DC) scenario under a 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) 5G New Radio (NR) system or the like. According to an embodiment of the present application, a method can include: in response to determining to activate a SCG, transmitting state information for one or more secondary cells (SCells), wherein the one or more SCells are associated with the SCG; and in response to determining to deactivate the SCG, transmitting the state information for the one or more SCells and transmitting configuration information regarding a behaviour of a user equipment (UE).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2020
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: Lenovo (Beijing) Limited
    Inventors: Congchi Zhang, Mingzeng Dai, Lianhai Wu, Le Yan
  • Publication number: 20240146396
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to methods and apparatuses for coverage extension and wireless communication. According to some embodiments of the disclosure, a method may include: receiving from a base station (BS) a message comprising an indication that a drone-based relay or vehicle-based relay is supported by the BS, wherein the mobile terminal is allowed to serve as a relay node between the BS and a user equipment (UE); and in response to receiving the indication indicating that a drone-based relay or vehicle-based relay is supported by the BS, performing a random access procedure with the BS. In addition, the mobile terminal may report the assistant information, e.g., the remaining power information, to the BS.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2021
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: Lenovo (Beijing) Limited
    Inventors: Lianhai Wu, Yibin Zhuo, Haiming Wang, Le Yan, Mingzeng Dai
  • Patent number: 11973720
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for efficient cross-carrier scheduling of multiple slots. One apparatus includes a transceiver and a processor coupled with the transceiver, the processor configured to cause the apparatus to transmit a first control signal to a remote unit, the first control signal indicating a maximum number of HARQ processes, and to transmit a second control signal to the remote unit, where the second control signal is transmitted on a first carrier and where the second control signal schedules a first number of slots on a second carrier. The processor aggregates every two or more of the scheduled first number of slots to a single HARQ process in response to the first number being larger than the maximum number of HARQ processes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Lenovo (Beijing) Limited
    Inventors: Haipeng Lei, Xiaodong Yu, Zhi Yan, Lianhai Wu, Robert Tristan Love, Ravi Kuchibhotla
  • Publication number: 20240137892
    Abstract: A method performed by a first communication device includes transmitting, to a second communication device, a request to assist in a ranging between the first communication device and a third communication device. The method also includes receiving, from the second communication device, a response to the request. The method further includes based on ranging information comprised in the response, wherein the ranging information is associated with the second communication device for assisting with the ranging between the first and third communication devices, providing a first ranging with the third communication device via the second communication device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: Lenovo (Beijing) Limited
    Inventors: Min Xu, Haiming Wang, Jing Han, Jie Hu
  • Publication number: 20240137183
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) feedback transmission. According to some embodiments of the disclosure, a method may include: receiving, from a base station (BS), configuration information for a sub-group of UEs, wherein the sub-group of UEs comprises the UE; receiving, from the BS, a downlink control information (DCI) format for scheduling a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH), wherein the PDSCH is received by a plurality of UEs which are divided into a plurality of sub-groups of UEs comprising the sub-group of UEs; determining a time domain resource for transmitting HARQ-ACK feedback for the PDSCH; and transmitting, to the BS, the HARQ-ACK feedback for the PDSCH on the time domain resource.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2021
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: Lenovo (Beijing) Limited
    Inventor: Haipeng Lei
  • Patent number: 11963207
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for sidelink communication are disclosed. One method of a Tx/Rx UE comprises reserving resources for one or more sidelink (SL) data transmissions and resources for decoding result feedbacks corresponding to the one or more SL data transmissions; transmitting sidelink control information (SCI) to a second apparatus, which indicates the resources for the SL data transmissions; and receiving at least one of the decoding result feedback and a pre-emption indicator. Another method of a Tx/Rx UE comprises receiving SCI, which indicates resources for the SL data transmissions, from a first apparatus; and transmitting at least one of the decoding result feedback and a pre-emption indicator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Lenovo (Beijing) Limited
    Inventors: Xiaodong Yu, Haipeng Lei, Zhennian Sun, Lianhai Wu, Jing Han
  • Patent number: 11961501
    Abstract: Noise reduction method and device are provided. The method includes: obtaining different audio signals respectively collected by two audio collection devices, where one of the two audio collection devices has a specific positional relationship with an effective audio source; at least according to the different audio signals respectively collected by the two audio collection devices, determining effective signals corresponding to the effective audio source and noise signals corresponding to a noise source and obtaining determination results; and performing a noise reduction process on the audio signals collected by at least one of the two audio collection devices to retain the effective signals and reduce the noise signals, according to the determination results.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: LENOVO (BEIJING) LIMITED
    Inventors: Xueli Ban, Qihua Xiao, Yanbo Ni, Zhou Yu
  • Patent number: 11962536
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for data block transmissions. One method (1000) includes transmitting (1002) a data blocks frequency multiplexed in a time duration to a device, wherein: the data blocks are transmitted based on spatial information and a redundancy version sequence; each data block of the data blocks carries the same data varied based on a redundancy version indicated by the redundancy version sequence and occupies a same number of virtual resource blocks in a frequency domain; the data blocks are scheduled by a control channel, wherein the control channel is used to transmit information that indicates the redundancy version sequence of redundancy version sequences configured by high layer signaling; the spatial information is indicated in the control channel or is configured by high layer signaling; and a total number of data blocks of the data blocks is configured by high layer signaling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Lenovo (Beijing) Limited
    Inventors: Wei Ling, Chenxi Zhu, Bingchao Liu
  • Patent number: 11960696
    Abstract: A display method. The method includes dividing at least one underlying graphics sub-resource corresponding to a parameter of a split-screen instruction in an underlying graphics resource; generating at least one virtual display screen based on the parameter corresponding to the split-screen instruction and attribute information of a default virtual display screen of an electronic device; and displaying content in the at least one underlying graphics sub-resource on a display screen of the electronic device based on the attribute information of the at least one virtual display screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: LENOVO (BEIJING) LIMITED
    Inventor: Ke Wang
  • Publication number: 20240121797
    Abstract: The present application relates to a method and an apparatus for monitoring DCI. The method includes: receiving a DCI from a BS, wherein the DCI includes an indicator; determining one or more sensing beams used by the BS to perform a LBT procedure according to the indicator and a higher layer signaling; and determining one or more transmission beams used by the BS to transmit PDCCH according to the indicator and the higher layer signaling, wherein the one or more transmission beams are within a spatial region of a CO initiated by the BS after completing the directional LBT with the one or more sensing beams.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2021
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Applicant: Lenovo (Beijing) Limited
    Inventors: Yu Zhang, Haipeng Lei
  • Publication number: 20240121829
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods and apparatuses for small data transmission in random access. One embodiment of the subject application provides a method performed by a user equipment, including determining an association among a first random access channel (RACH) occasion (RO), a preamble, and a second RO, and receiving an random access response (RAR) in an Msg2 at least according to the second RO in response to transmitting the preamble in the first RO.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2020
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Applicant: Lenovo (Beijing) Limited
    Inventors: Yuantao Zhang, Hongmei Liu, Zhi Yan, Yingying Li, Haiming Wang
  • Publication number: 20240121832
    Abstract: A method for performing random access includes: performing a 2-step RA procedure with a BS (S401); receiving a fallback RAR from BS (S404); performing a 4-step RA procedure with BS (S405); and associating a 2-step RA information of the 2-step RA procedure with a 4-step RA information of the 4-step RA procedure (S407).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2020
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Applicant: Lenovo (Beijing) Limited
    Inventors: Le Yan, Haiming Wang, Mingzeng Dai, Lianhai Wu, Congchi Zhang
  • Patent number: 11956285
    Abstract: An information processing method, an electronic device, and a storage medium are provided in the present disclosure. The method includes performing communication based on a communication group, and obtaining a first sharing operation of a target identification (ID) for data corresponding to a first hardware resource, where the first hardware resource belongs to an electronic device corresponding to the target ID, and the target ID belongs to the communication group; based on the first sharing operation, determining at least one sharing ID from the communication group, where the at least one sharing ID is a part of IDs in the communication group; and in response to the first sharing operation and in a process of performing the communication based on the communication group, sharing the data corresponding to the first hardware resource with a terminal device corresponding to the at least one sharing ID in real time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: LENOVO (BEIJING) LIMITED
    Inventor: Liang Zhang
  • Publication number: 20240114372
    Abstract: The present application relates to a method and an apparatus for performing cell measurement process. One embodiment of the present disclosure provides a method performed by a method performed by a User Equipment (UE) in a wireless network with a variable coverage, comprising: performing a cell measurement process of one or more cells of the wireless network; and in response to a variation in the coverage of the wireless network in relation to the UE, disabling the cell measurement process of the one or more cells of the wireless network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2021
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Applicant: Lenovo (Beijing) Limited
    Inventors: Min Xu, Haiming Wang, Lianhai Wu, Jie Shi, Jing Han, Ran Yue, Jie Hu
  • Patent number: D1020734
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Lenovo (Beijing) Limited
    Inventor: Jen-Ting Wei
  • Patent number: D1024053
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Lenovo (Beijing) Limited
    Inventor: Zhaochun Pang