Patents by Inventor Fang-Chen Cheng

Fang-Chen Cheng 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).

  • Publication number: 20200344703
    Abstract: The present application discloses an association method, instruction method, and device for a synchronization block and a paging-scheduling signaling message. In the present application, a terminal performs beam sweeping on received synchronization blocks to obtain a target synchronization block; and the terminal, according to a correspondence between a synchronization block and a paging-scheduling signaling message, determines a paging-scheduling signaling message corresponding to the target synchronization block.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2018
    Publication date: October 29, 2020
    Applicant: China Academy of Telecommunications Technology
    Inventors: Zheng Zhao, Ren Da, Fang-Chen Cheng, Qiubin Gao, Bin Ren, Tie Li
  • Patent number: 10798686
    Abstract: The present application provides a frequency domain spreading and de-spreading method and apparatus. In embodiments of the present application, user equipment acquires indication information of an orthogonal sequence used by a transmission physical uplink control channel (PUCCH); the user equipment spreads, according to an orthogonal sequence corresponding to the indication information of the orthogonal sequence, a frequency domain for uplink control information borne by the PUCCH; and the user equipment transmits, over a frequency domain resource corresponding to the PUCCH, the uplink control information of which the frequency domain is spread. The present application can spread a frequency domain for uplink control information borne by a PUCCH.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: CHINA ACADEMY OF TELECOMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Xuejuan Gao, Fang-Chen Cheng
  • Publication number: 20200296751
    Abstract: The present application discloses a processing method, device, terminal and apparatus for partial bandwidth deactivation timer, including: receiving an instruction related to the uplink transmission sent by the network side; starting or restarting the partial bandwidth deactivation timer according to the received instruction. The present application clarifies the specific working mechanism of the partial bandwidth deactivation timer, so that the terminal and the base station can perform signaling and data transmission on the correct resources, thereby avoiding signaling and data transmission errors and resource waste.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2018
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Inventors: Li CHEN, Bertrand PIERRE, Fang-Chen CHENG
  • Patent number: 10771224
    Abstract: Disclosed in the present application are a method and device for transmitting feedback information, used to define new feedback timing for downlink data using a dynamic and variable TTI length during transmission, so as to ensure that ACK/NACK feedback information of downlink data is fed back on an earliest uplink transmission resource meeting a processing delay requirement, thereby reducing system delay.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: CHINA ACADEMY OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Xuejuan Gao, Xueming Pan, Fang-Chen Cheng, Qianqian Si
  • Patent number: 10772133
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method and device for determining a preamble sequence of a physical random access channel. The method includes in a previous stage, receiving respective preamble sub-sequences, and determining instances of time at which the respective preamble sub-sequences are detected in a detection window; in a current stage, receiving respective preamble sub-sequences, and determining instances of time at which the respective preamble sub-sequences are detected in the detection window; and determining preamble sub-sequences belonging to a same preamble sequence according to the instances of time at which the respective preamble sub-sequences are detected in the current stage, and the instances of time at which the respective preamble sub-sequences are detected in the previous stage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: CHINA ACADEMY OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Bin Ren, Ren Da, Fang-Chen Cheng, Ekpenyong Tony
  • Patent number: 10772055
    Abstract: A first base station synchronizes with one or more second base stations by transmitting, from the first base station, a first timing reference signal and receiving, at the first base station, one or more second timing reference signals transmitted by the one or more second base stations. The method also includes determining one or more first timing offsets between the first base station and the one or more second base stations based on the one or more second timing reference signals. The method further includes adjusting a timing associated with the first base station based on the one or more first timing offsets and one or more second timing offsets determined based on the first timing reference signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Ren Da, Fang-Chen Cheng
  • Publication number: 20200280921
    Abstract: Disclosed in the present invention are a method, equipment and an apparatus for indicator and downlink control channel detection, comprising: determining data which must be transmitted to a terminal in one or more transmission time intervals by means of a downlink control channel; a base station sending a command to the terminal, used to indicate that the terminal determine according to the command whether it is necessary to detect a downlink control channel in the one or more transmission time intervals. On the terminal, determining according to the command whether it is necessary to detect a downlink control channel in the one or more transmission time intervals. After using the present invention, when a base station has not scheduled a terminal, this objectively causes a terminal side to not have excess power consumption, and lowers terminal-side power consumption.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2018
    Publication date: September 3, 2020
    Inventors: Lei WANG, Fang-Chen CHENG
  • Publication number: 20200275419
    Abstract: A method for determining and configuring a resource used for transmitting downlink data, a terminal and a base station: the base station configures, for each terminal, resource collections or resource collection subgroups used for receiving downlink data, and then the base station notifies the terminal, by means of an explicit signaling, whether all of the resource collections or each resource collection of the configured resource collections are available, or whether all of resource collection subgroups or each resource collection subgroup of the resource collection subgroups are available, thus allowing the terminal to determine, according to the notification, the time-frequency resource position of a resource used to receive downlink data, so that the terminal may carry out rate matching on the determined resource.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2018
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Inventors: Lei WANG, Ekpenyong TONY, Fang-Chen CHENG, Xuejuan GAO
  • Publication number: 20200275491
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method and apparatus for determining an RA-RNTI. In the present application, a base station receives a random access preamble sent by a terminal; the base station determines an RA-RNTI according to a time-frequency resource occupied by the random access preamble, wherein the time-frequency resource is a time-frequency resource of an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbol level; and the base station sends a random access response message, wherein the random access response message comprises downlink control information allocated, by the base station, for the terminal, and the downlink control information is scrambled using the RA-RNTI. By means of the present application, an RA-RNTI can be determined during a random access process of an NR system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2018
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Inventors: Bin REN, Zheng ZHAO, Ren DA, Tie Li, Fang-Chen CHENG
  • Publication number: 20200235847
    Abstract: A polarized coding method and apparatus, an electronic device, and a storage medium are disclosed. The method comprises: determining fragmentation policies corresponding to sequences to be coded according to the lengths of the sequences to be coded and transmission rates; and performing corresponding processing on the sequences to be coded according to the segmentation policies, and performing polarized coding on the processed sequences to be coded. In embodiments of the present invention, fragmentation policies corresponding to sequences to be coded are determined according to the lengths of the sequences to be coded and transmission rates; and corresponding segmentation polices are determined according to the to-be-coded sequences having different lengths and different transmission rates, thereby ensuring performance of an uplink control channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2018
    Publication date: July 23, 2020
    Inventors: Jiaqing WANG, Di ZHANG, Fang-Chen CHENG, Shaohui SUN
  • Publication number: 20200187169
    Abstract: Disclosed in the present application are a data transmission method and a device, comprising: dividing a time unit into DL areas, a time unit including at least two DL areas; notifying a terminal of the divided DL areas by means of configuration signaling. The terminal receiving the configuration signaling; according to said configuration signaling, determining DL areas into which a time unit is divided. Using the present application, defining at least two DL detection areas in a time unit, a terminal detects a downlink transmission in each detection area, and, when one is detected, performs ACK/NACK feedback in an uplink area corresponding to said downlink area. In the present invention, each downlink area has a defined feedback and scheduling relationship, respectively, by means of dividing a time unit into multiple downlink areas, thereby increasing scheduling flexibility and system resource utilization.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2017
    Publication date: June 11, 2020
    Applicant: China Academy of Telecommunications Technology
    Inventors: Xuejuan GAO, Xueming PAN, Fang-Chen CHENG
  • Publication number: 20200187172
    Abstract: Disclosed are downlink control information transmission and reception methods and devices, for solving the technical problem of excessive high power consumption caused by high workload of terminal monitoring in the case of higher frequency. The method comprises: a base station determines at least one beam direction for transmitting downlink control information of a terminal, and generates first downlink control channel configuration information according to at least one determined beam direction, the first downlink control channel configuration information being used for indicating the beam direction of the downlink control information transmitted by the base station to the terminal; after transmitting the first downlink control channel configuration information to the terminal, the base station transmits the downlink control information to the terminal in the at least one beam direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2018
    Publication date: June 11, 2020
    Inventors: Lei WANG, Ekpenyong TONY, Fang-Chen CHENG
  • Publication number: 20200177310
    Abstract: The present application relates to the technical field of wireless communication, and particularly relates to a channel encoding method and device, for use to solve the problem that at present, there is no physical broadcast channel polar encoding method in a 5G scene. Embodiments of the present application relate to determining a polar mother code length according to transmission resources of a channel; performing polar encoding, according to the polar mother code length, on data needing to be transmitted over the channel to obtain target encoding data; processing the target encoding data according to the length of an actual bearer of the transmission resources; and determining, according to the processed target encoding data, encoding data needing to be transmitted over the channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2018
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Inventors: Jiaqing WANG, Fang-Chen CHENG, Di ZHANG, Shaohui SUN
  • Publication number: 20200178187
    Abstract: Disclosed in the present application are a radio link monitoring method and apparatus, the method comprising: when a UE performs radio link monitoring, the UE monitors a downlink signal of a primary serving cell to obtain monitoring results; and the UE compares the monitoring results with an required synchronization threshold to determine whether the UE is in a synchronized state; the synchronization threshold is determined on the basis of preset parameters. The present invention solves the problems in the prior art of the complexity of defining RLM performance requirements, and being unable to provide the needed flexibility for supporting different specific systems by means of adjusting thresholds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2018
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Applicant: China Academy of Telecommunications Technology
    Inventors: Ren Da, Bin Ren, Fang-Chen Cheng, Zheng Zhao
  • Publication number: 20200170018
    Abstract: Disclosed are a data transmission method, a terminal, and a base station. Determined is that a TB needs to be divided into M CBG; grouping, according to a preset grouping scheme, multiple CB produced when the one TB is code block segmented, thus diving the one TB into the M CBG; and transmitting data according to the M CBG, where M is a positive integer. The technical solution of the present invention solves the technical problem of low data transmission efficiency and low resource utilization rate in an LTE system found in the prior art.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2018
    Publication date: May 28, 2020
    Applicant: China Academy of Telecommunications Technology
    Inventors: Xuejuan GAO, Ekpenyong TONY, Fang-Chen CHENG
  • Publication number: 20200170033
    Abstract: Embodiment of the present application provides a transmission method, a terminal device, and a base station, used to solve the technical problem in the related art that there is no method supporting CBG-based retransmission and ACK/NACK feedback. The transmission method comprises: receiving by the terminal device a downlink control channel; and acquiring by the terminal device a first indication field from the downlink control channel, the first indication field being used to indicate whether each code block group (CBG) in the corresponding CBGs in an initial transmission of TB needs to be retransmitted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2018
    Publication date: May 28, 2020
    Applicant: China Academy of Telecommunications Technology
    Inventors: Xuejuan GAO, Ekpenyong TONY, Fang-Chen CHENG
  • Publication number: 20200146036
    Abstract: Disclosed in an embodiment of the present application are a method and device for determining whether data is damaged, the method comprising: a terminal receiving a downlink control channel which is used for scheduling retransmission; according to the downlink control channel, the terminal determining whether damaged data is present during N previous transmissions of a retransmitted data packet, which are scheduled by the downlink control channel, N being an integer greater than or equal to 1; hence, the terminal receives the downlink control channel which is used for scheduling retransmission, and determines, according to the downlink control channel, whether damaged data is present during the N previous transmissions of the retransmitted data packet, which are scheduled by the downlink control channel, thereby improving transmission performance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2018
    Publication date: May 7, 2020
    Inventors: Xuejuan GAO, Ekpenyong TONY, Fang-Chen CHENG
  • Publication number: 20200120712
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method and device for determining a preamble sequence of a physical random access channel. The method comprises: includes in a previous stage, receiving respective preamble sub-sequences, and determining instances of time at which the respective preamble sub-sequences are detected in a detection window; in a current stage, receiving respective preamble sub-sequences, and determining instances of time at which the respective preamble sub-sequences are detected in the detection window; and determining preamble sub-sequences belonging to a same preamble sequence according to the instances of time at which the respective preamble sub-sequences are detected in the current stage, and the instances of time at which the respective preamble sub-sequences are detected in the previous stage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2018
    Publication date: April 16, 2020
    Applicant: CHINA ACADEMY OF TELECOMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Bin REN, Ren DA, Fang-Chen CHENG, Ekpenyong TONY
  • Publication number: 20200036586
    Abstract: Disclosed in the present application are a data transmission method and device, solving the problem of using a dynamic uplink-downlink resource division manner for data transmission in a new wireless communication system. The method comprises: a terminal determining the start position of a time unit of the terminal, and determining the division of an uplink region and a downlink region in the time unit; the terminal detecting a downlink control channel in the downlink region of the time unit; and according to the detection result, the terminal performing an uplink transmission in the uplink region corresponding to the downlink region. As a terminal uses a time unit specific to the terminal for transmission, time units of different terminals may have different start positions, and the number and lengths of the uplink regions and/or downlink regions included in the time units of different terminals may also be different. Thus, the invention can support flexible and variable resource division.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2017
    Publication date: January 30, 2020
    Inventors: Xuejuan GAO, Xueming PAN, Fang-Chen CHENG
  • Patent number: 10512040
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for on-demand access. An example network on-demand access method implementable by a device may comprise receiving a wakeup signal by an antenna of the device, deriving power from the received wakeup signal, determining, using the derived power, if the received wakeup signal corresponds to the device, and in response to the determination that the received wakeup signal corresponds to the device, setting the device to an active power mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: CHINA ACADEMY OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY
    Inventor: Fang-Chen Cheng