Patents by Inventor Chan Zhou
Chan Zhou 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).
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Publication number: 20210377993Abstract: Example methods and apparatus for multihop transmission are described. One example method includes receiving a scheduling request by a network device from a User Equipment (UE) for a multihop transmission. The network device sends a first message to one or more UEs in response to the scheduling request, wherein the first message indicates one or more sidelink resources and/or sidelink resource allocation information for the one or more UEs to perform a multihop transmission.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 10, 2021Publication date: December 2, 2021Inventors: Serkan AYAZ, Ömer BULAKCI, Richard STIRLING-GALLACHER, Jian LUO, Zhongfeng LI, Chan ZHOU
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Patent number: 11140573Abstract: A configuration module allows for the establishment of a local end-to-end (E2E) path connecting at least one source node and at least one target node via at least one radio access network (RAN) node. The configuration module is configured to select data radio bearers (DRBs) per quality of service (QoS) flow based on inter-node information from the at least one source node, the at least one target node, the at least one RAN node and all other nodes involved in establishing the local E2E path, and is also configured to initiate, after selecting the DRBs per QoS flow, a radio resource communication connection configuration using an identification of the local E2E path to be established. Thereby, a localized traffic between the at least one source node and the at least one target node can be exchanged with QoS guarantees.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2020Date of Patent: October 5, 2021Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventors: Emmanouil Pateromichelakis, Apostolos Kousaridas, Chan Zhou, Xueli An, Chenghui Peng
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Publication number: 20210274387Abstract: The present disclosure relates to providing a quality of service (QoS) function for communication services in communication networks. The disclosure presents a device for providing a QoS function, for a communication service of an application entity in a communication network comprising a plurality of network entities. The device is configured to transmit a monitoring request to one or more of: the application entity, a network entity, and a user equipment (UE), obtain a monitoring response from one or more of: the application entity, the network entity, and the UE, determine a change in QoS of the communication service of the application entity, based on the obtained monitoring response, and transmit the determined change in the QoS to the application entity and/or at least one of the network entities in the communication network.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2021Publication date: September 2, 2021Inventors: Apostolos KOUSARIDAS, Emmanouil PATEROMICHELAKIS, Chan ZHOU
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Patent number: 11083048Abstract: A gateway device configured to transform user plane information/packets/signaling related to the control of sidelink communication services and/or resources of a mobile communication network from a remote sidelink control server into control plane signaling and to provide the control plane signaling to a terminal device and/or one or more further network entities of the mobile communication network.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2020Date of Patent: August 3, 2021Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Panagiotis Spapis, Chan Zhou, Chenghui Peng, Serkan Ayaz
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Publication number: 20210219110Abstract: Example mobile communication methods and devices for transmitting a message over a wireless communication system are described. One example device is configured to select one of an assisted mode, an ad-hoc mode, or a combined assisted and ad-hoc mode, and transmit the message over the selected mode. To support bi-directional transmission, an example device for receiving a message over a wireless communication system is provided, where the device is configured to select one of an assisted mode, an ad-hoc mode, or a combined assisted and ad-hoc mode, and receive the message over the selected mode. An example management device is provided for supporting a device for transmitting or receiving a message over a wireless communication system.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 8, 2021Publication date: July 15, 2021Inventors: Apostolos KOUSARIDAS, Chan ZHOU
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Publication number: 20210168569Abstract: The invention relates to a control plane network entity for providing a multicast/broadcast service to one or more user equipments in a cellular communication network using one or more user plane functions of a plurality of selectable user plane functions. The network entity is configured to: receive a request for a multicast/broadcast service for the one or more user equipments, wherein the request comprises one or more identifiers identifying the one or more user equipments) and/or one or more spatial regions the one or more user equipments are located in; select one or more user plane functions of the plurality of selectable user plane functions on the basis of the one or more identifiers for providing the multicast/broadcast service to the one or more user equipments; and provide the one or more selected user plane functions with information about the multicast/broadcast service.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 16, 2021Publication date: June 3, 2021Inventors: Serkan AYAZ, Ishan VAISHNAVI, Riccardo TRIVISONNO, Chenghui PENG, Chan ZHOU
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Patent number: 11012196Abstract: The present disclosure refers to base stations, user equipment and a system for wireless communication, as well as the corresponding wireless communication methods implementing mechanisms enabling fast, reliable and resource efficient retransmissions between a base station and one or a plurality of user equipment. The present disclosure is specifically directed to an uplink unicast case and a downlink multicast case and cooperates a proactive allocation of resources for a retransmission of the initial data in case that the initial data transmission fails, and a new data transmission if the initial data transmission successes.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2019Date of Patent: May 18, 2021Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventors: Chan Zhou, Alexandros Kaloxylos, Ramya Panthangi Manjunath
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Publication number: 20210120627Abstract: A control plane network entity for providing a multicast/broadcast service for one or more user equipments in a cellular communication network is provided. The control plane network entity is configured to: receive a session setup request for a multicast/broadcast session for the user equipments, wherein the session setup request comprises one or more identifiers identifying the user equipments and/or one or more spatial regions the user equipments are located in; select one or more access and mobility management function entities of the cellular communication network based on the one or more identifiers for providing the multicast/broadcast session to the user equipments; and send a user plane session setup request to the selected one or more access and mobility management function entities. Moreover, the disclosure relates to a user plane network entity and a radio access network node for anchoring and providing a multicast/broadcast service respectively.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 28, 2020Publication date: April 22, 2021Inventors: Serkan AYAZ, Ishan VAISHNAVI, Riccardo TRIVISONNO, Chenghui PENG, Chan ZHOU, Dario Serafino TONESI, Patrice Michel, Christophe HÉDÉ, Wangqian ZHANG, Meng LI
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Publication number: 20210092575Abstract: A transmitting device includes a plurality of antenna ports. Each antenna port is configured to transmit signals and is arranged at a different location, and each antenna port is assigned, depending on its location, a unique resource from a set of resources for signal transmission. Further, a receiving device, preferably on a vehicle, includes at least one antenna element configured to receive signals, and at least one processor configured to determine position and/or orientation information of the transmitting device of a received signal based on a resource from the set of resources for signal transmission.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 7, 2020Publication date: March 25, 2021Inventors: Richard STIRLING-GALLACHER, Zhongfeng LI, Mario CASTANEDA, Jian LUO, Chan ZHOU, Konstantinos MANOLAKIS
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Patent number: 10945178Abstract: A device is provided for operating in a communication system that comprises a plurality of individual networks. The device comprises one or more subscriber modules for assisting the device to attach to a network. The number of those one or more subscriber modules is fewer than the number of the plurality of networks. The device being configured to initiate a pre-attach procedure to attach itself to all of the plurality of networks before it establishes a connection with one of those networks. It is also configured to connect to one of the plurality of networks for communicating data with that network while remaining attached to the others of the plurality of networks. The advantage of a device that pre-attaches to more than one network is that it significantly reduces the time needed for the device to switch later from being connected to one network to another network.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2019Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Panagiotis Spapis, Chan Zhou, Alexandros Kaloxylos, Chenghui Peng
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Patent number: 10911914Abstract: A method for estimating transmitted signals transmitted from a plurality of transmitters, the method comprising: simultaneously receiving at each of a plurality of receivers a respective received signal resulting from the transmitted signals; determining for each receiver a set of equation coefficients; forming for each received signal a characterisation of that received signal composed of elements weighted in accordance with the equation coefficients determined for the receiver at which that received signal was received; and processing the characterisations to estimate the transmitted signals; wherein the equation coefficients are determined such that the characterisations are substantially linearly independent.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2019Date of Patent: February 2, 2021Assignees: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e. V.Inventors: Chan Zhou, Alexandros Kaloxylos, Jan Schreck, Slawomir Stanczak, Peter Jung, Miruna Raceala-Motoc
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Patent number: 10904726Abstract: A transmitting device includes a plurality of antenna ports. Each antenna port is configured to transmit signals and is arranged at a different location, and each antenna port is assigned, depending on its location, a unique resource from a set of resources for signal transmission. Further, a receiving device, preferably on a vehicle, includes at least one antenna element configured to receive signals, and at least one processor configured to determine position and/or orientation information of the transmitting device of a received signal based on a resource from the set of resources for signal transmission.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2020Date of Patent: January 26, 2021Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Richard Stirling-Gallacher, Zhongfeng Li, Mario Castaneda, Jian Luo, Chan Zhou, Konstantinos Manolakis
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Publication number: 20200413235Abstract: Controlling a vehicle-to-everything, V2X, service for one or more user equipments is described. An apparatus is, for example, configured to determine a requirement for the V2X service based on a network parameter of a network and/or an application requirement of a V2X application of the V2X service. The requirement includes at least one of the group consisting of: a quality of service (QoS), a mode of operation, and a resource requirement. The apparatus is configured to transmit an adaptation request message comprising the requirement for an adaptation to the requirement.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 19, 2020Publication date: December 31, 2020Inventors: Emmanouil PATEROMICHELAKIS, Chan ZHOU, Konstantinos SAMDANIS, Markus Martin DILLINGER
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Patent number: 10856287Abstract: The application relates to a frame structure for network communication, in particular for device-to-device (D2D) network communication, comprising a control channel, wherein the control channel comprises a first control channel portion associated with a network-assisted communication mode and a second control channel portion associated with an ad-hoc communication mode, and a data channel, wherein the frame structure is configured to communicate control data within the control channel over a first communication resource, the first communication resource being associated with the first control channel portion, wherein the frame structure is configured to communicate control data within the control channel over a second communication resource, the second communication resource being associated with the second control channel portion, and wherein the frame structure is configured to communicate payload data within the data channel over a further communication resource.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2018Date of Patent: December 1, 2020Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Liang Hu, Chan Zhou, Markus Martin Dillinger
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Publication number: 20200344643Abstract: The present application relates to a global communication management entity for managing vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication parameters of a plurality of vehicular user equipments of a V2X communication network, the corresponding V2X communication network and vehicular user equipment.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 14, 2020Publication date: October 29, 2020Inventors: Chan ZHOU, Serkan AYAZ, Ke ZHANG, Fan WU, Supeng LENG
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Patent number: 10805873Abstract: A set of functions, which comprises one or more access function and at least one network function, is provided in a telecommunication network. The telecommunication network is configured to provide compositions of functions based on the access function and the network function. Each composition of functions is uniquely identified by an identifier. The telecommunication network is further configured to provide to a terminal equipment one or more composition of functions based on the access function and the network function. The telecommunication network is further configured to make available the identifier of each composition of functions to the terminal equipment.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2018Date of Patent: October 13, 2020Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventors: Xueli An, Chan Zhou, Riccardo Guerzoni, Riccardo Trivisonno, Alexandros Kaloxylos
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Publication number: 20200322763Abstract: A control device configured for determining a data format for data to be sent via a V2X communication link between a vehicle and at least one device, wherein the control device is configured for receiving information regarding communication capacity and computation capacity of the vehicle and/or of the at least one device, the control device is configured for analyzing the received information based on the communication capacities and the computation capacities, the control device is configured for selecting, based on the analysis, a data format from a set of data formats for the V2X communication link, wherein the data formats of the set are differentiated with regard to the data volume of the data to be sent, and the control device is configured for sending to the vehicle and/or the at least one device an indication of the data format to be used for the data to be sent.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 19, 2020Publication date: October 8, 2020Inventors: Chan ZHOU, Panagiotis SPAPIS, Ke ZHANG, Fan WU, Supeng LENG
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Patent number: 10798019Abstract: A context information processor for a communication network, comprising a determination unit configured to determine a context information of a user, an evaluation unit configured to evaluate whether the context information of the user complies with an active behavior profile of the user, and a transmitter configured to transmit the context information if the context information does not comply with the active behavior profile.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2018Date of Patent: October 6, 2020Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventors: Panagiotis Spapis, Alexandros Kaloxylos, Chan Zhou, Athanasia Alonistioti, Sokratis Barmpounakis
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Publication number: 20200280830Abstract: A transmitting device includes a plurality of antenna ports. Each antenna port is configured to transmit signals and is arranged at a different location, and each antenna port is assigned, depending on its location, a unique resource from a set of resources for signal transmission. Further, a receiving device, preferably on a vehicle, includes at least one antenna element configured to receive signals, and at least one processor configured to determine position and/or orientation information of the transmitting device of a received signal based on a resource from the set of resources for signal transmission.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 18, 2020Publication date: September 3, 2020Applicant: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Richard STIRLING-GALLACHER, Zhongfeng LI, Mario CASTANEDA, Jian LUO, Chan ZHOU, Konstantinos MANOLAKIS
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Patent number: 10764930Abstract: A random access (RA) scheme exhibiting a non-isometric frame duration and a low latency. The RA and data messages have a duration with a different time unit and the time slot of the RA message is much shorter than the duration of one data frame. A specific signature, which is designed to be robust against the collisions, is transmitted during the RA request, the signature being either a unique sequence or a compressed signature. The user equipment device transmits the data message immediately after receiving its resource through a frame structure showing a time misalignment between adjacent data frames located in different or identical frequency sub-bands. A frequency guard band is inserted between its resource and an adjacent resource assigned to another user equipment device, the frequency guard band having an adaptive size according to the level of time misalignment and its impact on the distortion.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2018Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventors: Chan Zhou, Liang Hu, Malte Schellmann