Patents Assigned to ZTE Corporation
  • Publication number: 20250261247
    Abstract: A wireless communication method includes receiving RA (Random Access) request preambles in one or more ROs (PRACH occasions) associated with a same SSB or associated with different SSBs, and transmitting corresponding one or more RA responses in response to the RA request preambles received by a BS.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2025
    Publication date: August 14, 2025
    Applicant: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Yu LIU, Xing LIU, Jing LIU, Junfeng ZHANG, He HUANG
  • Patent number: 12389437
    Abstract: Method, systems and devices for determining spatial relation and power control parameter for uplink signals. The method for use in a wireless terminal comprises determining at least one of at least one power control parameter or spatial relation for a first uplink signal on a first component carrier, and transmitting, to a wireless network node, the first uplink signal on the first component carrier based on at least one of determined at least one power control parameter or determined spatial relation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2024
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2025
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Bo Gao, Zhaohua Lu, Yu Ngok Li, Ke Yao, Shujuan Zhang
  • Patent number: 12388469
    Abstract: Provided is a rate matching method and device for a Polar code. The method includes: concatenating K information bits and (N?K) frozen bits to generate a bit sequence of N bits, and encoding the bit sequence of N bits by means of a Polar code encoder with a generator matrix of size N×N to generate an initial bit sequence {S0, S1, . . . , SN?1} of N bits, where K and N are both positive integers and K is less than or equal to N; dividing a circular buffer into q parts, selecting bits from the initial bit sequence {S0, S1, . . . , SN?1} in a non-repeated manner, and writing the bits into the q parts of the circular buffer according to a predefined rule, where q=1, 2, 3 or 4; and sequentially selecting a bit sequence of a specified length from a predefined starting position in a bit sequence in the circular buffer and taking the bit sequence of the specified length as a bit sequence to be transmitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2024
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2025
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Mengzhu Chen, Jin Xu, Jun Xu
  • Patent number: 12382345
    Abstract: This disclosure generally relates configuration of transmission profile of data flows in communication networks and particularly relates to configuration of Quality of Service (QoS) profile for QoS flows. In some implementations, a first network element in the communication network may be configured to determine a plurality of transmission profiles for a data flow and transmit these profiles to a second network element. The second network element may adaptively select an active transmission profile from the plurality of transmission profiles for configuring the transmission of the data flow. The second network element may further modify the active transmission profile from the plurality of transmission profiles during an active transmission of the data flow without involving additional decision by the first network element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2025
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Yan Xue, Feng Xie
  • Patent number: 12381663
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes methods, system, and devices for configuring hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) feedback for physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) transmission. The method includes receiving, by a user equipment (UE), a radio resource control (RRC) parameter to configure an enhanced dynamic HARQ-ACK feedback mode; and receiving, by the UE, a first downlink control information (DCI) comprising a first K. The first DCI corresponds to a first PDSCH. The method also includes receiving, by the UE, a second DCI for a second PDSCH, the second DCI comprising a second K with an applicable value; and transmitting, by the UE, an enhanced dynamic HARQ-ACK feedback according to a preset rule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2025
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Xincai Li, Li Tian, Yajun Zhao, Wei Lin
  • Publication number: 20250247895
    Abstract: Method, systems and devices for improved random access resource configuration and resource selection in a random access procedure. Multiple common resource pools are configured to increase random access resource capacity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2025
    Publication date: July 31, 2025
    Applicant: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Zhihong Qiu, He Huang, Xiaojuan Shi
  • Publication number: 20250247311
    Abstract: An information processing method, a network device, a storage medium, and a program product are disclosed. The information processing method may include: receiving a Bit Index Explicit Replication (BIER) flow flowing through a current node; and collecting statistics on the BIER flow to obtain node statistics information of the BIER flow.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2023
    Publication date: July 31, 2025
    Applicant: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Zheng Zhang, Haidong Zhu, Qiang Li
  • Patent number: 12376156
    Abstract: Systems and methods for determining a mapping that associates a plurality of preambles to a plurality of channel resource units used to carry a plurality of payloads associated with the plurality of preambles, including but not limited to, determining that the plurality of channel resource units is carrying the plurality of payloads, determining that a set of preambles of the plurality of preambles is associated with a same beam, and prioritizing mapping the set of preambles to reference signals of the plurality of channel resource units corresponding to different code division multiplexing (CDM) groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Yuzhou Hu, Li Tian, Ziyang Li, Weimin Li, Junfeng Zhang
  • Patent number: 12375970
    Abstract: Described are techniques for providing, a quality of service (QoS) update from a control plane of a base station to a user plane of the base station based on a QoS event, wherein the QoS update includes information indicative of a mapping between a QoS flow and corresponding radio resources for user data transmission, storing, at the user plane, the mapping between the QoS flow and the radio resources, receiving, at the user plane, a downstream data packet of the QoS flow from a core network, and transmitting the downstream data packet in a downlink direction using the corresponding radio resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Jianmin Fang, He Huang, Yin Gao
  • Patent number: 12375957
    Abstract: Disclosed in this patent document are, among other things, techniques, and apparatuses for improving the efficiency of wireless communication. In one aspect, a method of wireless communication is disclosed. The method includes determining, by a wireless node, a control channel monitoring constraint based on a first condition. The method further includes monitoring, by the wireless device, one or more control channel candidates at a control channel monitoring occasion, wherein a maximum number of the control channel candidates within a resource unit or a maximum number of non-overlapped control channel elements within a resource unit satisfies the control channel monitoring constraint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Mengzhu Chen, Xiaoying Ma, Qiujin Guo, Xuan Ma, Jun Xu, Qiang Fu
  • Publication number: 20250240464
    Abstract: A media information processing method and apparatus, a media information playback method and apparatus are disclosed. The media information processing method may include: acquiring media of a plurality of viewpoints, the plurality of viewpoints include at least one real viewpoint and at least one virtual viewpoint, and the media of the at least one virtual viewpoint is generated according to the media of the at least one real viewpoint; generating a media stream according to the media of the plurality of viewpoints, the media stream is a media file including media information; and performing segmentation and packing of the media stream, and generating a Media Presentation Description (MPD) text of the media, the MPD text includes a description of the real viewpoints and a description of the at least one virtual viewpoint, and the MPD text is used for acquiring media stream information of a viewpoint to be played.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2023
    Publication date: July 24, 2025
    Applicant: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Ping Jiang, Qiuting Li
  • Publication number: 20250240829
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to wireless communication formats that avoid conflicts in message transmissions. In one implementation, conflicts are avoided by determining that transmitting the uplink message according to a first transmission format will result in a conflict, and responsively determining to transmit the uplink message according to a second transmission format. In another implementation, conflicts are avoided by waiting to transmit a message part until a next time unit of a physical channel that is not conflicted. In another implementation, conflicts are avoided by configuring time units of a second physical channel relative to time units of a first physical channel according to an uplink time unit offset.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2025
    Publication date: July 24, 2025
    Applicant: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Li TIAN, Jianqiang DAI, Junfeng ZHANG, He HUANG, Yuzhou HU
  • Patent number: 12369145
    Abstract: A wireless communication device may receive a configuration of at least one radio resource control (RRC) parameter for X channel measurement reference signal (CMR) resource sets or X CMR resource subsets of CMRs from a corresponding set of CMR resources. The parameter X can be an integer greater than 1. The wireless communication device may measure channel quality for at least one CMR resource of the X CMR resource sets or the X CMR resource subsets according to the configuration. The wireless communication device may send a report including at least one of a CMR index or channel quality to the wireless communication node. The report may include at least one of: a CMR index, or a channel quality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Shijia Shao, Bo Gao, Shujuan Zhang, Zhen He, Zhaohua Lu
  • Patent number: 12369169
    Abstract: Presented are systems and methods for indicating phase tracking reference signal-demodulation reference signal (PTRS-DMRS) association. A wireless communication device may receive a scheduling grant to trigger a first group of physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) transmission occasions and a second group of PUSCH transmission occasions from a wireless communication node. The scheduling information carried by the scheduling grant may at least include port association information of PTRS-DMRS. The port association information may comprise a first port association for the first group of PUSCH transmission occasions and a second port association for the second group of PUSCH transmission occasions. The second port association may be at least associated with a portion of the scheduling information which is at least for the first group of PUSCH transmission occasions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Meng Mei, Chuangxin Jiang, Zhaohua Lu, Yu Pan, Yang Zhang
  • Patent number: 12368693
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices relate to digital wireless communication, and more specifically, to techniques relate to dynamic change MAC address of the station for subsequent transmissions. In one exemplary aspect, a method of dynamic change MAC address includes specifying a MAC address change mode and a new MAC address to be used by the station. In another exemplary aspect, a method of dual MAC address change mode in the dynamic change MAC address mechanism includes separating the unchanged MAC address of the station from the changeable MAC address of the station, and keep the mapping between them. In another exemplary aspect, a method includes transmitting a MAC address change request message from the station (or the access point) to initiate the MAC address change procedure. In another exemplary aspect, a method includes receiving a MAC address change response message from the access point (or the station).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventor: Yonggang Fang
  • Patent number: 12369167
    Abstract: Provided are methods and apparatuses for transmitting and receiving control signaling. The method include determining second information according to first information, where the second information includes at least one of: the number N of bits used in first control signaling to notify a first transmission parameter, a correspondence mapping table between an index value referenced by the first transmission parameter in the first control signaling and the value of the first transmission parameter, the type of the first transmission parameter notified by a predetermined indication field in the first control signaling, or position information of the bits used in the first control signaling to notify the first transmission parameter; and where the first information includes a relationship between a transmission time interval between the first control signaling and a first signal and a predetermined threshold K, where N and K are non-negative integers; and transmitting the first control signaling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Shujuan Zhang, Yu Ngok Li, Bo Gao, Chuangxin Jiang, Nan Zhang, Hao Wu, Zhaohua Lu
  • Patent number: 12369126
    Abstract: Methods and systems for controlling a transmit power of a wireless communication device are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a method includes: determining one or more reference signals transmitted by a wireless communication node; maintaining one or more path loss estimates for the one or more reference signals; associating at least one path loss estimate with an uplink (UL) signal; calculating a transmission power of the UL signal according to the at least one path loss estimate; and transmitting the UL signal in accordance with the calculated transmission power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Bo Gao, Zhaohua Lu, Ke Yao, Shujuan Zhang
  • Patent number: 12369160
    Abstract: A system and method for providing receiving shared channels during multi TRP transmission are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, an example wireless communication method comprises: determining, by a wireless communication node, a plurality of sets of rate matching configurations. The method further comprises: associating, by the wireless communication node, the plurality of sets of rate matching configurations with respective group identifiers, and transmitting, by the wireless communication node to a wireless communication device, a signal indicating the plurality of sets of rate matching configurations and the group identifiers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Chuangxin Jiang, Zhaohua Lu, Yu Ngok Li, Shujuan Zhang, Huahua Xiao
  • Patent number: 12369182
    Abstract: A system and method for reference signaling design and configuration are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, the system and method are configured to receive, by a first wireless communication device from a wireless communication node, configuration information of a sidelink medium access control (MAC) control element (CE). The system and method are also configured to transmit, by the first wireless communication device according to the configuration information, the sidelink MAC CE to a second wireless communication device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Wei Luo, Boyuan Zhang, Lin Chen
  • Publication number: 20250234426
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to methods and devices for sidelink communication between user equipments in a wireless communication network. The method may include transmitting a discontinuous reception configuration assistant information and receiving a discontinuous reception configuration parameter for a sidelink communication between a first user equipment and the second user equipment. The method may further include applying the discontinuous reception configuration parameter to a discontinuous reception configuration scheme for the sidelink communication. The method may further include, in response to receiving, from the first user equipment, a sidelink control information including a retransmission interval or a resource reservation period, waking up the second user equipment at a next new transmission or retransmission position indicated by the sidelink control information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2025
    Publication date: July 17, 2025
    Applicant: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Wei LUO, Lin CHEN