Patents by Inventor Feng Bi

Feng Bi 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: 20160020382
    Abstract: A structure includes an electronically controllable ferromagnetic oxide structure that includes at least three layers. The first layer comprises STO. The second layer has a thickness of at least about 3 unit cells, said thickness being in a direction substantially perpendicular to the interface between the first and second layers. The third layer is in contact with either the first layer or the second layer or both, and is capable of altering the charge carrier density at the interface between the first layer and the second layer. The interface between the first and second layers is capable of exhibiting electronically controlled ferromagnetism.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2015
    Publication date: January 21, 2016
    Applicant: University of Pittsburgh - Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education
    Inventors: Jeremy LEVY, Feng Bi, Patrick R. Irvin
  • Patent number: 9241324
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a mapping and resource allocation method for R-PDSCH, including: when resources allocated for an R-PDCCH overlap with resources allocated for the R-PDSCH, data of the R-PDSCH is not mapped or sent on over-lapped resources, or the data of the R-PDSCH to be sent on the over-lapped resources is punctured; the data of the R-PDSCH is mapped and sent on all or partial resources which are not occupied by the R-PDCCH; a receiving end receives data according to the mapping method for the R-PDSCH; wherein a resource allocation mode corresponding to a shared channel in an LTE system is reused or a grouping-tree resource allocation mode is used to allocate resources for the R-PDSCH.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2016
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Feng Bi, Jin Yang, Ming Yuan, Feng Liang, Shuanshuan Wu, Jing Jiang
  • Patent number: 9179325
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a transmission method and system for a Relay Physical Downlink Control Channel (R-PDCCH). The method comprises the steps of: an eNB bearing downlink grant information of a relay node onto an available Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex (OFDM) symbol of a first slot of a pre-allocated Physical Resource Block (PRB) pair used for bearing the R-PDCCH, wherein available OFDM symbols in the PRB pair, other than the OFDM symbol used for the downlink grant information, are used for bearing a Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH) of each relay node; the eNB transmitting the PRB pair bearing the downlink grant information and the PDSCH to the relay node. The present invention is well applicable to a link between an eNB and a relay node, and meanwhile enables backhaul resources to be used adequately.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ming Yuan, Feng Bi, Feng Liang, Jin Yang, Shuanshuan Wu, Bo Dai, Shuqiang Xia, Yifei Yuan
  • Patent number: 9137795
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a method and system for allocating resources of a Relay link-Physical Downlink Control Channel (R-PDCCH). The method includes that: a network side configures a resource allocation way of the R-PDCCH (400); a relay node receives control information carried in the R-PDCCH in accordance with the configured resource allocation way (401). The disclosure provides a specific solution for implementing the resource allocation of the R-PDCCH.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2015
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Feng Bi, Ming Yuan, Feng Liang, Jin Yang, Shuanshuan Wu, Bo Dai, Yifei Yuan
  • Patent number: 9119191
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a method and a device for feeding back Acknowledgment (ACK) information during switching of backhaul link subframe configuration, and the method includes during the switching of the backhaul link subframe configuration, if Uplink (UL) ACK/Negative ACK (NACK) information, which corresponds to a last transmission before the switching of one or more Downlink (DL) Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ) transmissions, is not fed back on a UL subframe which is before the switching, feeding back the ACK/NACK information on an available UL subframe which is after the switching since Nms after the last transmission, wherein N is an integer. The disclosure achieves the effect of correctly feeding back the ACK information during switching of the backhaul link subframe configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2015
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Feng Bi, Jin Yang, Feng Liang, Ming Yuan, Shuanshuan Wu, Yifei Yuan, Wei Gou
  • Patent number: 9084258
    Abstract: The present application discloses a dynamic sub-frame configuration method in the TDD system. The method includes: in the case that the uplink and downlink sub-frame configuration of a cell and the uplink and downlink sub-frame configuration of its neighboring cell are different in the configuration of a sub-frame, a part of resources on the sub-frame are made to be silent for the cell, and the resources on the sub-frame corresponding to the resources not silenced on the sub-frame for cell are made to be silent for the neighboring cell; or, a part of resources on the sub-frame are made to be silent for the neighboring cell, and the resources on the sub-frame corresponding to the resources not silenced on the sub-frame for the neighboring cell are made to be silent for the cell. The present application further provides a dynamic sub-frame configuration apparatus in the TDD system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2015
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Liujun Hu, Feng Bi, Changqing Zhu
  • Patent number: 9060332
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method and device for selecting a resource processing manner, wherein the method is applied to a communication system including a user terminal, a relay station and a base station, and comprises the following operations: a configuring step of configuring a dedicated pilot, wherein the dedicated pilot is configured to measure parameters of a link from the relay station to the user terminal; an acquiring step of acquiring a first parameter value of a common pilot and a second parameter value of the dedicated pilot; a comparing step of comparing the first parameter value with the second parameter value; and a selecting step of selecting a resource processing manner according to the comparison result, wherein the resource processing manner comprises: a cooperation manner and/or a non-cooperation manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2015
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Feng Bi, Wei Gou, Nan Zhao, Changqing Zhu, Yunfeng Sun, Feng Liang
  • Patent number: 9001726
    Abstract: A method for implementing relay station downlink retransmission and a relay station are disclosed by the present invention. According to the situation of the least available radio resource number for retransmission data on a retransmission sub-frame, the relay station of the present invention performs corresponding physical layer processing in advance for the data to be retransmitted until the OFDM signal is generated, and retransmits the OFDM signal on the retransmission sub-frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Feng Liang, Feng Bi, Jin Yang, Ming Yuan, Shuanshuan Wu
  • Patent number: 8982872
    Abstract: A transmitting method and device for scheduling information, wherein the method includes: scheduling information of the MBMS controlling signaling is borne in a designated system information block to be transmitted, wherein the designated system information block is a system information block 2, a system information block 3, or a new added system information block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Wei Gou, Bin Wang, Feng Bi
  • Publication number: 20150055579
    Abstract: Provided are methods and apparatuses for device-to-device (D2D) communication. The method includes: configuring dedicated subframe(s) according to cellular uplink hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) process(es), the dedicated subframe(s) being used for D2D communication (S302); generating indication signaling according to the configuration of the dedicated subframe(s), wherein the indication signaling is used for indicating the dedicated subframe(s) (S304); and transmitting the indication signaling to user equipment (S306). The technical solutions can ensure the reliability of data transmission and the compatibility of cellular transmission and D2D communication that are performed simultaneously, and improve the user experience.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2013
    Publication date: February 26, 2015
    Inventors: Shuanshuan Wu, Ming Yuan, Feng Liang, Yifei Yuan, Feng Bi
  • Patent number: 8917652
    Abstract: The disclosure discloses a method, system and RN for processing UCI on a backhaul link. The method comprises that: the RN determines Q? which is the number of the coded modulation symbols of the backhaul UCI according to the number of SC-FDMA symbols occupied by a GP, wherein the GP comprises RN state switch time deltaT and/or the time interval deltat which is reserved for avoiding the interference caused by RN uplink transmission, and deltaT is the switch time required by the RN to switch from an uplink reception state to an uplink transmission state and/or from the uplink transmission state to the uplink reception state; and the RN codes the backhaul UCI into a Q=Q?×Qm bits sequence, wherein Qm is the number of bits comprised in each coded modulation symbol in the modulation order of the backhaul uplink subframe. The disclosure improves the performance of the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2014
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Jin Yang, Feng Bi, Yifei Yuan, Ming Yuan, Shuanshuan Wu, Feng Liang
  • Publication number: 20140369292
    Abstract: The embodiments of the present invention disclose a wireless communication method and apparatus. The method includes: a first communication device receiving first grant from a network node, the first grant at least comprising first resource allocation information for allocating resources; the first communication device receiving second grant from a second communication device, the second grant at least comprising a modulation and coding scheme of service data; the first grant and the second grant being used for scheduling service data transmission between the first communication device and the second communication device; and the first communication device receiving, according to the scheduling, service data transmitted by the second communication device; and/or the first communication device transmitting, according to the scheduling, service data to the second communication device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2012
    Publication date: December 18, 2014
    Applicant: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shuanshuan Wu, Yunfeng Sun, Feng Bi, Feng Liang, Yifei Yuan, Ming Yuan
  • Publication number: 20140301338
    Abstract: Provided are a PUCCH resource configuration method, transmission method, device and system. The method includes: allocating dedicated PRBs for UEs configured to transmit uplink control information using an enhanced PUCCH, which step comprising: taking the UEs configured to transmit the uplink control information using the enhanced PUCCH as a first type of UEs, and taking UEs other than the first type of UEs as a second type of UEs; and reserving a designated number of PRBs according to the number of UEs in the first type of UEs, wherein the designated number of PRBs are located between SR/semi-static ACK/NACK resources of the second type of UEs and dynamic ACK/NACK resources of the second type of UEs, and taking the designated number of PRBs as dedicated PRBs for the first type of UEs; and allocating orthogonal resources for UEs located in different cells among the first type of UEs based on the dedicated PRBs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2012
    Publication date: October 9, 2014
    Applicant: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Liyuan Zhong, Yunfeng Sun, Senbao Guo, Feng Bi, Yuhong Gong
  • Patent number: 8855042
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a Time Division Dual (TDD) system and a downlink feedback method for a relay link thereof. A relay station and a network side of the TDD system transmit uplink data and downlink feedback through relay subframes, wherein: one or more uplink subframes are selected from uplink subframes of a wireless frame as uplink relay subframes used for uplink data transmission, a downlink subframe is determined for each uplink relay subframe from downlink subframes of the wireless frame as a downlink relay subframe used for downlink feedback or new data indication, wherein the uplink relay subframes and the downlink relay subframes have a fixed timing sequence relationship; the relay station transmits uplink data to the network side through the uplink relay subframes, and receives the downlink feedback or new data indication from the network side through the downlink relay subframes corresponding to the uplink relay subframes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Ming Yuan, Feng Bi, Jin Yang, Feng Liang, Shuanshuan Wu
  • Patent number: 8842594
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a multicast broadcast single frequency network subframe. The multicast broadcast single frequency network subframe is used as a physical resource of a user transmission data channel; in the multicast broadcast single frequency network subframe, except symbols of a physical downlink control channel, other symbols adopt the same cyclic prefix as subframe 0 in a local cell. The present invention also discloses a user data channel transmission method and device, and a user physical resource determining device. By using the subframe, the transmission method and device, and the determining device, the performance of the LTE-A system can be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2014
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Jing Jiang, Feng Bi, Yunfeng Sun
  • Patent number: 8804641
    Abstract: A method and a device for detecting downlink control information. The method includes: a Relay Node (RN) receiving control information born in a Relay Physical Downlink Control Channel (R-PDCCH) sent by an evolved Node B (eNB) to acquire a control resource; the RN performing detection on the control resource according to an index of the control resource to acquire own control information; wherein the control resource is a Relay Control Channel Element (R-CCE) or a Physical Resource Block (PRB). System overhead can be saved and system transmission efficiency can be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Ming Yuan, Feng Bi, Feng Liang, Jin Yang, Shuanshuan Wu
  • Patent number: 8792422
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for transmitting relay link uplink feedback information, a relay station and a base station, and the method comprises: determining timing relationship for transmitting the uplink feedback information according to relay subframe configuration (S202); a relay station determining an uplink relay subframe for transmitting the uplink feedback information according to the timing relationship (S204), and transmitting the uplink feedback information via the uplink relay subframe (S206). The present invention ensures the reliability of downlink communication between the base station and the relay station, and the transmission of this feedback information would not cause effect on user equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Shuanshuan Wu, Feng Bi, Jin Yang, Feng Liang, Ming Yuan
  • Patent number: 8780854
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a method and apparatus for multiple frequency point multiple access, which method comprises: in the situation that a system comprises a plurality of working frequency points, configuring a multi-access mode for the sending of uplink information and the sending of downlink information of each working frequency point in a plurality of working frequency points respectively; and each working frequency point performing the sending of the uplink information and the sending of the downlink information according to the configured multi-access modes. By way of the above technical solution, a simple multi-access mode is provided, which ensures the link performance of the working frequency point, improves the throughput of the entire network, and at the same time takes the problem of system peak average power ratio into account.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Feng Bi, Wei Gou, Ming Yuan, Dezhong Mi
  • Patent number: 8767611
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a method for indicating and determining relay link boundary and a base station thereof, wherein, the method for indicating relay link boundary includes: the base station indicates the relay link boundary where the relay node is located to the relay node; the relay node determines the relay link boundary according to the indication of the base station. Through the present invention, the utilization rate of the relay link resource can be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Feng Bi, Feng Liang, Ming Yuan, Jin Yang, Shuanshuan Wu, Yifei Yuan
  • Patent number: 8654781
    Abstract: The invention discloses a method and apparatus for relay station downlink cooperative retransmission, wherein said method comprises: a relay station carrying out physical layer processing in advance on data which requires retransmitting according to different scenarios associated with different possible number of available wireless resources for retransmitting data in a retransmission subframe, generating corresponding OFDM signals, and monitoring the PCFICH of the retransmission subframe, and according to the monitoring result, selecting an OFDM signal which is corresponding to the determined number of available wireless resources from said OFDM signals to carry out retransmission transmitting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Feng Liang, Feng Bi, Ming Yuan, Jin Yang, Shuanshuan Wu