Patents by Inventor Han Zhou

Han 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).

  • Publication number: 20180278518
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention disclose a signaling packet processing method and an entity. The method may include: obtaining, by a gateway user plane entity, processing information of a target signaling packet; and receiving, by the gateway user plane entity, the target signaling packet, and processing the target signaling packet based on the processing information. Network costs can be reduced in the embodiments of the present invention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2018
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Inventors: Yixu XU, Han ZHOU, Zhongping CHEN
  • Publication number: 20180255481
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose example service flow transmission methods and apparatus. One example method includes where a first gateway device determines a target service currently performed by UE, performs a bearer processing operation to obtain a target bearer corresponding to the target service, and binds a service flow of the target service to the target bearer. The first gateway device anchors the target bearer to a target gateway, and implements, by using the target gateway, service flow transmission between the UE and a network that corresponds to the target service. In some instances, a service flow can be bound to a bearer obtained after performing a bearer operation and the bearer can be anchored to an appropriate gateway.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2018
    Publication date: September 6, 2018
    Inventors: Zhongping Chen, Han Zhou, Yuan Xia
  • Publication number: 20180254921
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a packet processing method, apparatus, and system. A policy library is deployed on a gateway control device in a centralized manner, and packet identification and policy execution are deployed on each gateway forwarding device. The solution includes: receiving, by a gateway control device, packet characteristic information that is of a first packet and that is sent by a gateway forwarding device, where the packet characteristic information is obtained after the gateway forwarding device performs packet inspection on the first packet; searching, by the gateway control device according to the packet characteristic information of the first packet, a prestored policy library for a first processing policy corresponding to the packet characteristic information; and sending, by the gateway control device, the first processing policy to the gateway forwarding device, so that the gateway forwarding device executes a packet processing action in the first processing policy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2018
    Publication date: September 6, 2018
    Inventors: Yixu XU, Han ZHOU, Zhongping CHEN, Yuan XIA
  • Publication number: 20180249364
    Abstract: The present invention provides a bearer processing method and system, and a related apparatus. A GW-U is configured to: receive a data packet and match the data packet with a rule; and send bearer processing indication information to a GW-C if a rule matching result of the data packet meets a trigger condition for bearer processing, where the bearer processing indication information is used to trigger the GW-C to perform bearer processing according to quality of service QoS information of a data service corresponding to the data packet. The GW-C is configured to: receive the bearer processing indication information from the GW-U, determine, according to the bearer processing indication information, the QoS information of the data service corresponding to the data packet, and perform bearer processing according to the QoS information of the data service corresponding to the data packet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2018
    Publication date: August 30, 2018
    Inventors: Zhongping Chen, Han Zhou, Aijin Jin
  • Publication number: 20180249377
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a service data flow packet transmission method, apparatus, and system. The method includes: determining, by a first gateway device after receiving a service data flow packet sent by a second gateway device, whether the service data flow packet enables a local data flow offload policy; and if can, sending, by the first gateway device according to the local data flow offload policy, the service data flow packet to a service network corresponding to the service data flow packet; or if not, sending the service data flow packet to the second gateway device, so that the second gateway device performs an operation corresponding to the service data flow packet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2018
    Publication date: August 30, 2018
    Inventors: Zhongping CHEN, Han ZHOU, Yuan XIA
  • Publication number: 20180248792
    Abstract: This application discloses a gateway configuration method and a gateway device, so as to resolve problems of a relatively heavy configuration workload, update inflexibility, and low configuration efficiency that exist when an OM entity is used to uniformly configure gateways in an LTE system. The method includes: configuring, by a control plane gateway, a parameter for a user plane gateway, and sending, by the control plane gateway, a configuration message to the user plane gateway, where the configuration message carries the configuration parameter configured by the control plane gateway for the user plane gateway. In this application, the control plane gateway configures the parameter for the user plane gateway, so that the control plane gateway implements configuration of the user plane gateway, and configuration flexibility and configuration efficiency are improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2018
    Publication date: August 30, 2018
    Inventors: Han ZHOU, Runze ZHOU
  • Patent number: 10064085
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a congestion/overload control method and apparatus. The method includes: learning, by a gateway device, information about network access time of a User Equipment (UE) or UE group; and rejecting or discarding, by the gateway device, session management request messages of the UE or UEs in the UE group beyond the network access time of the UE or UE group; or discarding, by the gateway device, data of the UE or the UEs in the UE group beyond the network access time of the UE or UE group. Embodiments of the present invention can perform congestion/overload control differentially on the UE or UEs in the group, implement congestion/overload control on the gateway device, avoid congestion/overload caused by a large number of UEs on the gateway device, and improve the efficiency of congestion/overload control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Han Zhou, Wenfu Wu
  • Publication number: 20180236948
    Abstract: A bracket assembly four securing a hydraulic jack in a vehicle. The bracket assembly including a base and two support walls opposite each other and extending outwardly from the base to support the hydraulic jack. The assembly includes a base band having a first end and a second end. The base band is disposed between the two support walls and is connected to the base. A first strap partially made from sheet metal has a fixed end and a free end with the fixed end of the first strap pivotably connected to a first end of the base band. The free end thereof detachably coupled to the second end of the base band via a locking device. The first strap and the base band secures the hydraulic jack on the two support walls.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2018
    Publication date: August 23, 2018
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Han Zhou, Brenna Liu, Jackie Xu, Zhuang Xu
  • Publication number: 20180227905
    Abstract: The present application discloses an air interface resource determining method and apparatus. The method includes: obtaining a second index parameter sent by a network side device; generating a first index parameter according to a preset mapping rule, where the first index parameter is used to indicate an index of at least one air interface resource in an air interface resource set configured by the network side device; determining actual index information p according to the first index parameter and the second index parameter, where the actual index information is used to indicate an index of a target air interface resource in the air interface resource set; and obtaining the target air interface resource from the air interface resource set according to the actual index information, and using the target air interface resource as an air interface resource to be used by the user equipment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2018
    Publication date: August 9, 2018
    Inventors: Han ZHOU, Xiaolei TIE, Meng HUA
  • Publication number: 20180205732
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a user data processing apparatus and method, and a system. In the user data processing apparatus disclosure, an interface management unit receives user data; at least two service units process the user data, where the at least two service units include a session unit and at least one of a bearer unit, a service flow unit, or a content unit; the interface management unit determines the session unit configured to process the user data, and sends the received user data to the determined session unit; and the session unit determines another service unit configured to process the user data. After receiving the user data, the GW-U determines the service unit configured to process the user data, and processes the user data by using the service unit determined by the GW-U. This improves processing flexibility of the GW-U.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2018
    Publication date: July 19, 2018
    Applicant: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jin ZHANG, Han Zhou, Zhongping Chen
  • Patent number: 10028286
    Abstract: A network communications method includes receiving, by a user equipment (UE), instruction information sent by a radio network controller (RNC) in an access network, where the instruction information is used to instruct the UE to perform uplink and downlink service transmission with a macro base station and perform uplink service transmission with a micro base station in a first area, and/or perform uplink and downlink service transmission with a micro base station and perform downlink service transmission with a macro base station in a second area, and performing, by the UE, service transmission according to the instruction information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Han Zhou, Meng Hua, Peng Zhang, Xiaolei Tie
  • Publication number: 20180192394
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a paging method and apparatus for a distributed gateway. The method includes: obtaining, by a gateway user plane, downlink data; sending downlink data report information to a gateway control plane, where the downlink data report information is used to trigger the gateway control plane to send a downlink data notification to a mobility management entity, and the downlink data notification is used to trigger the mobility management entity to initiate a paging to a terminal; obtaining downlink data channel information sent by the gateway control plane, where the downlink data channel information indicates information about a downlink data channel between a base station and the gateway user plane, and the base station is a base station to which the paged terminal belongs; and forwarding the downlink data by using the downlink data channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2018
    Publication date: July 5, 2018
    Inventors: Aijin Jin, Zhongping Chen, Han Zhou
  • Publication number: 20180145868
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of mobile communications technologies, and in particular, to a gateway system, so as resolve a technical problem of a complex network structure caused due to that different network architectures need different gateways. The gateway system provided in the present invention separates a control plane from a forwarding plane. A gateway controller is configured to complete a control function, and may control respective generation of control information for data packets of multiple different protocol types. A gateway forwarding device is responsible for forwarding, and may be controlled by the gateway controller to receive and send data packets of various protocol types. In a multi-standard access architecture, only one or few such gateway systems may need to be accessed instead of accessing multiple different gateways, thereby simplifying a network topology structure, and facilitating network maintenance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2018
    Publication date: May 24, 2018
    Inventors: Yixu XU, Han ZHOU, Zhongping CHEN
  • Publication number: 20180098297
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention disclose a paging method, a core network device, a base station, and user equipment. The method includes: determining, by the core network device, reference frame information when the core network device determines that a synchronization occasion arrives, where the reference frame information includes a radio frame number; and sending, by the core network device, the reference frame information to a base station in a paging area, so that the base station synchronizes a radio frame in the base station according to the reference frame information. The embodiments of the present invention can reduce problems that UE cannot listen for a paging message.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2017
    Publication date: April 5, 2018
    Inventors: Feng Yu, Yinghui Yu, Lei Liu, Han Zhou
  • Patent number: 9932240
    Abstract: The present invention pertains to a method for producing zeolite or zeolite-like crystals using a composition comprising one or more fluorine-containing compounds as a mineralizing agent. Crystals produced by such a method are smaller in size than crystals available in the art and contain few defects. The invention also relates to zeolite and/or zeolite-like crystals obtainable by a method as provided herein as well as crystals defined by any of the structural characteristics provided herein, and the usage thereof such as in the manufacture of thin films and membranes, absorbents, catalysts etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Inventors: Jonas Hedlund, Allan Holmgren, Han Zhou
  • Patent number: 9832130
    Abstract: The present invention provides a data packet routing method and device. When a Switch receives, form an SE, a traffic flow on which service processing is performed, the Switch can determine a forwarding rule of a corresponding service chain according to the traffic flow received from the SE, and route, according to the forwarding rule, a data packet received from the SE. Compared with a case in the prior art in which an SPC needs to deliver a forwarding rule corresponding to each traffic flow to a Switch, the embodiments of the present invention adopt the technical solutions in which the SPC only needs to deliver a forwarding rule corresponding to each service chain to the Switch, thereby reducing signaling interaction between the SPC and the Switch and saving a network overhead.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Weihua Hu, Han Zhou, Yan Wang
  • Patent number: 9821729
    Abstract: The present invention, in one or more embodiments, provides a jack-positioning device of jack including a seating bottom and a loading table, where the jack-positioning device includes a base portion to support the seating bottom of the jack, an arm portion to connect the base portion, and a top portion to press against the loading table of the jack, and where the top portion along with the arm portion is to position the jack at a holding position, and the arm portion is rotatable relative to the base portion and the top portion. The jack-positioning device of the present invention may be employed to position the jack within a tight space in a relatively time efficient manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Han Zhou, Brenna Liu, Jack Xu
  • Publication number: 20170325205
    Abstract: An uplink information sending method and apparatus is provided. The method includes obtaining, by user equipment, downlink control information DCI and downlink data, the DCI carries a portion of uplink scheduling information of the user equipment, the uplink information is used to indicate whether the user equipment receives the downlink data correctly, the portion of the uplink scheduling information is specifically indication information excluding a specific parameter of the user equipment, and the specific parameter includes at least one of an uplink modulation and coding scheme MCS or information used to indicate duration for sending the uplink information. The method also includes sending, by the user equipment, the uplink information according to the portion of the uplink scheduling information and the specific parameter, where the specific parameter is a parameter preset in the user equipment or a parameter received by the user equipment from a system message.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2017
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Inventors: Han Zhou, Meng Hua, Xiaolei Tie, Gengshi Wu, Yiling Wu
  • Publication number: 20170208532
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a service path generation method and apparatus. The method includes: receiving a downlink service path request sent by a classifier, where the downlink service path request carries an identifier of a downlink service chain; obtaining uplink service path information, and obtaining, according to the uplink service path information, identifiers of service devices on the uplink service path; selecting, from the identifiers of service devices on the uplink service path, an identifier of a service device according to the identifier of the downlink service chain; and generating a downlink service path according to the selected identifier of the service device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2017
    Publication date: July 20, 2017
    Inventor: Han Zhou
  • Publication number: 20170201466
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a data packet processing apparatus located in a value-added-service (VAS) network. A transceiver module of the data packet processing apparatus receives a first data packet; a processing module determines, according to a load status of each VAS instance corresponding to each VAS type in a service chain that the first data packet is to go through, a service path that the first data packet is to go through the transceiver module sends the first data packet carrying a service path identifier to a data packet routing apparatus in the network, to instruct the data packet routing apparatus to route the first data packet according to the service path identified by the service path identifier. Load on each VAS instance is considered to avoid that load on devices in a same VAS type is uneven.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2017
    Publication date: July 13, 2017
    Applicant: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wei LU, Han Zhou, Tao Qian