Patents Assigned to ZTE Corporation
  • Publication number: 20260239172
    Abstract: Provided are a channel transmission method, a communication device, and a storage medium. A channel transmission method applied to a terminal device includes receiving a synchronization signal and a physical broadcast channel sent by a base station, where the synchronization signal and the physical broadcast channel are transmitted in at least one of the following manners: transmitting the synchronization signal and the physical broadcast channel on a collectively occupied time domain resource in a first slot, and transmitting the synchronization signal or the physical broadcast channel on a separately occupied time domain resource in a second slot; or transmitting the synchronization signal and the physical broadcast channel on a first collectively occupied time domain resource in a first slot, and transmitting the synchronization signal and the physical broadcast channel on a second collectively occupied time domain resource in a second slot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2024
    Publication date: August 13, 2026
    Applicant: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Bo DAI, Guanghui YU, Liujun HU
  • Publication number: 20260239047
    Abstract: A performance monitoring method for a functional module, a communication device, and a storage medium are disclosed. The method may include: monitoring performance of a functional module that is running according to a received reference signal resource set and monitoring indication information, and generating monitoring result information of the functional module; and sending the monitoring result information to a first communication device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2023
    Publication date: August 13, 2026
    Applicant: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Wenfeng Liu, Zhaohua Lu, Guozeng Zheng, Yuxin Wang, Huahua Xiao
  • Publication number: 20260239342
    Abstract: Provided are a transmission method and apparatus, a first communication node, a second communication node, and a medium. In the method, indication information is sent, where the indication information is used for indicating that a second communication node sends an uplink signal or receives a downlink signal; and signal transmission with the second communication node is performed according to the indication information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2026
    Publication date: August 13, 2026
    Applicant: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Yuxin WANG, Yu Ngok LI, Zhaohua LU, Chuangxin JIANG, Hao WU, Shujuan ZHANG
  • Patent number: 12707433
    Abstract: A method of wireless communication includes making a first determination, by a wireless device, that the wireless device is configured for a discontinuous reception operation in an idle state with a first cycle duration value that is above a threshold, and in an inactive state with a second cycle duration value equal to or below the threshold, making a second determination, based on the first determination, of a first paging frame value to be used inside a paging time window using a first formula, wherein the first formula is based on the second cycle duration; and performing a paging operation according to the first determination and/or the second determination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2026
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jianxun Ai, Xiubin Sha, He Huang, Jing Liu
  • Patent number: 12706716
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods, apparatuses, and systems for wireless communications including techniques for improving the performance of multiple transmission-reception points. In one aspect, a method of wireless communications is disclosed. The method includes receiving, at a wireless device, a report configuration associated with a reference signal (RS). The method further includes determining channel state information, wherein the channel state information comprises at least one of: a RS indicator, a rank indicator (RI), a precoding matrix indicator (PMI), or a channel quality index (CQI), and reporting the channel state information to a network node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2026
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Bo Gao, Zhaohua Lu, Shujuan Zhang, Wenjun Yan, Minqiang Zou
  • Patent number: 12707474
    Abstract: Example implementations include a method of receiving, by a wireless communication device from a wireless communication node, a downlink signalling indicating a single Configured Grant (CG) for uplink transmission, where the downlink signalling comprises a plurality of first parameters, each first parameter having a plurality of values associated with a plurality of Sounding Reference Signal (SRS) resource sets, respectively. Example implementations also include a method of sending, by a wireless communication node to a wireless communication device, a downlink signalling indicating a single Configured Grant (CG) for uplink transmission, where the downlink signalling comprises a plurality of first parameters, each first parameter having a plurality of values associated with a plurality of Sounding Reference Signal (SRS) resource sets, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2026
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yang Zhang, Chuangxin Jiang, Shujuan Zhang, Hao Wu, Zhaohua Lu
  • Patent number: 12706793
    Abstract: This patent application discloses methods, apparatus, and systems that relate generating, configuring, and transmitting a chirplike signal in communication systems. In one example aspect, a method for wireless communication includes transmitting, by a first wireless device, a sensing signal with frequency as a continuous function of time over a period of time in a range of [?B/2, B/2], wherein B is a transmission bandwidth of the sensing signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2024
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2026
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Yihua Ma, Zhifeng Yuan, Shuqiang Xia, Guanghui Yu, Liujun Hu, Chuangxin Jiang, Zhiqiang Han
  • Patent number: 12706648
    Abstract: In one aspect, a channel state information reporting method includes: receiving configuration information; receiving a channel state information-reference signal (CSI-RS) according to the configuration information; and reporting channel state information (CSI) according to the CSI-RS, the CSI including a precoding matrix indicator for indicating a precoding matrix, where the precoding matrix is determined according to set vectors, the set vectors includes a first group of vectors, the first group of vectors includes L first vectors, each first vector of the L first vectors corresponds to a port of the CSI-RS, and L is a positive integer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2026
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Yong Li, Hao Wu, Zhaohua Lu, Yuxin Wang
  • Patent number: 12706710
    Abstract: A method for wireless communication includes detection, by a wireless communication node from a network device, of a reference signal or a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH). The reference signal or the PDCCH is used to indicate at least the paging information to the wireless communication node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2026
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mengzhu Chen, Focai Peng, Yuzhou Hu, Jun Xu, Qiang Fu
  • Patent number: 12707521
    Abstract: The present application relates to methods, systems, and devices related to digital wireless communication, and more specifically, to techniques related to data transmission in an inactive state. In one exemplary aspect, a method for data communication is disclosed. The method includes identifying, by a terminal, that a data transmission with a network node has failed while the terminal is in an inactive state. The method also includes transmitting, by the terminal, a set of information relating to the failure of the data transmission to a network node responsive to the terminal transitioning to a connected state in which the terminal is connected to the network node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2026
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Jianmin Fang, He Huang, Zhihong Qiu
  • Patent number: 12706709
    Abstract: Disclosed are a determination method, a determination apparatus, a communication node and a non-transitory computer readable storage medium. The determination method may include determining a comb and an orthogonal cover code of a positioning reference signal; and determining a pattern of the positioning reference signal based on the comb and the orthogonal cover code.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2026
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Huahua Xiao, Guozeng Zheng, Chuangxin Jiang, Shujuan Zhang, Zhaohua Lu
  • Patent number: 12706715
    Abstract: Techniques are described to transmit sounding reference signal (SRS). An example wireless communication method includes transmitting, by a communication device, a sounding reference signal (SRS) using one or more resource elements, where the SRS is determined by the communication device according to one or more parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2026
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Bo Gao, Zhaohua Lu, Shujuan Zhang, Meng Mei, Yang Zhang
  • Patent number: 12706815
    Abstract: A method for use in a container cluster management element is disclosed. The method comprises generating a container cluster instance based on a container cluster descriptor, CCD, template, wherein the container cluster instance comprises at least one master node and at least one work node, and transmitting, to a management element, the container cluster instance for use in a life cycle management operation of at least one virtual network function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2026
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Baoguo Xie, Wei Yan, Manchang Ju
  • Patent number: 12707472
    Abstract: System, methods and apparatuses for initializing HARQ-ACK procedure by a specific DCI for beam indication can include a wireless communication device receiving, from a wireless communication node, a downlink control information (DCI) indicating one or more beam states. The wireless communication device may determine specific information comprising hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) information, according to the DCI. The wireless communication device may transmit, to the wireless communication node, an uplink channel that carries the HARQ-ACK information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2026
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Bo Gao, Zhaohua Lu, Ke Yao, Chuangxin Jiang, Shujuan Zhang
  • Patent number: 12707529
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes methods, system, and devices for configuring a sidelink discontinuous reception (DRX). One method includes obtaining, by a first user equipment (UE), a DRX profile information of a second UE from an upper layer of the first UE; and sending, by the first UE based on the obtained DRX profile information of the second UE, a PC5 message to the second UE or receiving the PC5 message from the second UE. Another method includes sending, by the first UE, DRX configuration assistance information to a second UE; and receiving, by the first UE, a DRX configuration sent from the second UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2026
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Wei Luo, Lin Chen, Weiqiang Du
  • Patent number: 12706656
    Abstract: Presented are systems and methods for uplink frequency selective precoding. A wireless communication device may receive a first signaling from the wireless communication node. The first signaling may include a plurality of precoding information associated with a plurality of port groups. The wireless communication device may determine signals precoded according to the plurality of precoding information. The wireless communication device may transmit the signals to the wireless communication node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2026
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Bo Gao, Zhaohua Lu, Ke Yao, Minqiang Zou, Chuangxin Jiang, Meng Mei, Yang Zhang
  • Publication number: 20260231104
    Abstract: Presented are systems and methods for sidelink positioning enhancement. A first wireless communication device (e.g., UE) can determine information regarding a Sidelink Positioning Reference Signal (SL PRS) transmission, in response to the first wireless communication device receiving a positioning request. The first wireless communication device can transmit an SL PRS and a Sidelink Control information (SCI) corresponding to the SL PRS based on the information regarding the SL PRS transmission.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2026
    Publication date: August 6, 2026
    Applicant: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mengzhen LI, Chuangxin JIANG, Yu PAN, Qi YANG, Cong WANG, Junpeng LOU
  • Publication number: 20260230361
    Abstract: This document generally relates to wireless communication that includes a user device that determines a grant of one or more grants for a reference signal (RS) resource allocation. The user device determines one or more RS characteristics in each RS transmission opportunity of one or more RS transmission opportunities in the grant. Additionally, the user device transmits a RS on each RS transmission duration corresponding to a respective one of the one or more transmission opportunities.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2026
    Publication date: August 6, 2026
    Applicant: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Yu PAN, Chuangxin JIANG, He HUANG, Jing LIU, Weiqiang DU, Mengzhen LI, Qi YANG
  • Patent number: 12701414
    Abstract: Presented are systems, methods, apparatuses, or computer-readable media for authenticating remote wireless communication devices. An authentication server function (AUSF) may send, to a unified data management (UDM), a request for authentication vectors (AV) in association with a remote wireless communication device seeking authorization to access a network via a relay wireless communication device. The request may include an indicator to indicate to the UDM to bypass storing information related to the AUSF. The AUSF may receive, from the UDM, the AV in response to the request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2024
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2026
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Yuze Liu, Shilin You, Jin Peng, Zhen Xing, Zhaoji Lin
  • Patent number: 12701467
    Abstract: A wireless communication method for use in a target wireless network node is disclosed. The method comprises receiving, from a network function, an area identifier of the target wireless network node in a multicast broadcast service, MBS, session during a handover of the MBS session to the target wireless network node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2026
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Zhendong Li, Jinguo Zhu