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).

  • Jack bracket and vehicle
    Patent number: 11267409
    Abstract: A jack bracket is provided. The jack bracket comprises a bracket base including a first side and a second side opposite the first side, a flexible strap having a first end portion coupled to the first side and a second end portion opposite the first end portion, and a lock assembly configured to couple the second end portion of the flexible strap to the second side of the bracket base. The flexible strap further includes a connection member disposed between the first end portion and the second end portion. The connection member is selectively attached to a vehicle part and selectively released from the vehicle part. The jack bracket of the present disclosure allows for removal and installation of a jack in a simple and fast manner in a limited space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Han Zhou, Liu Ming, Zhuang Xu, Ge Zhenhong
  • Gateway configuration method and gateway device
    Patent number: 11271853
    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: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Han Zhou, Runze Zhou
  • WELDING METHOD OF CONNECTOR AND CONNECTION TUBE, CONNECTION STRUCTURE AND HEAT EXCHANGER
    Publication number: 20220065560
    Abstract: A welding method for a connector and a connection tube of a heat exchanger are proposed. The method includes: forming a diffusion layer on a surface of the connector, a corrosion potential of the diffusion layer being less than a corrosion potential of the connector; inserting a connection tube into the connector; brazing the connection tube to the connector by a brazing filler metal, a corrosion potential of a weld metal formed after brazing of the brazing filler metal being higher than the corrosion potential of the connector and less than a corrosion potential of the connection tube.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2019
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Inventors: Yuzhang LIU, Han ZHOU, Yuke ZUO, Chuanting WANG
  • Communication Method And Device
    Publication number: 20220070780
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses an example communication method and device. One example communication method includes detecting first downlink control information (DCI) by a terminal device. It is determined, by the terminal device and based on a detection result of the first DCI, whether to receive a reference signal, where the reference signal is used by the terminal device to perform time and frequency synchronization with a network device, and the detection result of the first DCI is further used to indicate whether to detect a first downlink control channel within a first time period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2021
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Inventors: Xiaolei TIE, Han ZHOU, Meng HUA
  • TERMINAL DEVICE WAKEUP METHOD AND APPARATUS, NETWORK DEVICE, AND TERMINAL DEVICE
    Publication number: 20220060986
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to terminal device wakeup methods and apparatus, network devices, and terminal devices. One example method includes receiving, by a first terminal device, configuration information of a first wakeup indication from a network device, where the first wakeup indication is used to indicate whether the first terminal device is to wake up, detecting, by the first terminal device, the first wakeup indication based on the configuration information, and in response to that the first wakeup indication is not detected, waking up, by the first terminal device, when the configuration information comprises first indication information. The first indication information is used to indicate the first terminal device to wake up when the first wakeup indication is not detected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2021
    Publication date: February 24, 2022
    Inventors: Xiaolei TIE, Han ZHOU, Meng HUA
  • COMMUNICATION METHOD AND COMMUNICATIONS APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20220053597
    Abstract: This application provides a communication method and a communications apparatus. The method includes: determining, based on a receiving status of a first power saving signal, that a PDCCH is not detected within a first DRX cycle; and performing, in a first time period within the first DRX cycle, RRM measurement on a CSI-RS sent by a network device. This application can ensure sufficient RRM measurement opportunities for a terminal device, ensure accuracy of RRM measurement, and prevent introduction of a concept “power saving signal” from affecting mobility RRM measurement performed by the terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2021
    Publication date: February 17, 2022
    Inventors: Zhanzhan ZHANG, Xiaolei TIE, Han ZHOU
  • COMMUNICATIONS METHOD, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20220052955
    Abstract: In a method for network communications, a session management network element receives an identifier of a session of a terminal device, an identifier of a port corresponding to the session, and a processing policy of a data flow for the port. The session management network element determines, according to the identifier of the port, a type of a first device corresponding to the port. The session management network element then sends, according to the determined type of the first device, processing policy information to the first device. The processing policy information comprises the identifier of the port and the processing policy of the data flow.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2021
    Publication date: February 17, 2022
    Applicant: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO.,LTD.
    Inventors: Han Zhou, Hancheng Li
  • Congestion/overload control method and apparatus
    Patent number: 11246053
    Abstract: A congestion/overload control method and apparatus are provided. 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: August 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Han Zhou, Wenfu Wu
  • Service Continuity Implementation Method, Device, and Service Continuity Implementation System
    Publication number: 20210368397
    Abstract: A service continuity implementation method, a device, and a service continuity implementation system, to ensure service continuity in a handover process, where the method includes: selecting, by a session management function entity, a target user plane function entity to serve a terminal; sending, by the session management function entity, a first message to a control device; receiving, by the session management function entity, indication information of a first application server (AS) from the control device; and sending, by the session management function entity, a first routing rule to the target user plane function entity based on the indication information of the first AS, where the first routing rule specifies that data whose destination address is an address of the first AS is to be sent to the first AS.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2021
    Publication date: November 25, 2021
    Inventors: Dekui Sun, Han Zhou
  • REFERENCE SIGNAL TRANSMISSION METHOD AND COMMUNICATIONS APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20210367731
    Abstract: This application provides a reference signal transmission method, a terminal device, and an access network device. By receiving first indication information from the access network device, the terminal device can determine, based on the first indication information, whether N1 resource blocks that are in a rate matching pattern group and that have an intersection with a time-frequency resource for transmitting a downlink data channel can be used to transmit the downlink data channel, and further determine a position of a reference signal of downlink data channel, to implement reference signal transmission.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2021
    Publication date: November 25, 2021
    Inventors: Meng HUA, Shurong JIAO, Han ZHOU, Fei GAO
  • Method and Apparatus for Communication between User Equipments
    Publication number: 20210352457
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for communication between user equipment (UEs) is disclosed. The method comprises: receiving a data packet from a first UE, the data packet including data and an IP address of a second UE; obtaining a context record for the second UE, the context record including the IP address of the second UE and an identifier of a second user plane; sending the data packet to the second user plane according to the identifier of the second user plane in order to enable the second user plane to send the data packet to the second UE.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2021
    Publication date: November 11, 2021
    Inventors: Han Zhou, Yuan Xia, Qi Yao
  • CHANNEL INFORMATION SENDING METHOD AND APPARATUS AND CHANNEL INFORMATION RECEIVING METHOD AND APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20210344462
    Abstract: Channel information sending methods or channel information receiving methods are provided. One example method includes that a network device configures for a terminal device Q DMRS ports used for measurement, where the Q DMRS ports used for measurement include M DMRS ports that can carry downlink data, and Q is greater than M; and selects, based on channel information of P DMRS ports that is sent by the terminal device, an appropriate DMRS port to send the downlink data, where the P DMRS ports belong to the Q DMRS ports used for measurement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2021
    Publication date: November 4, 2021
    Inventors: Shurong JIAO, Meng HUA, Han ZHOU
  • Data distribution method, apparatus, and system
    Patent number: 11115871
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to data distribution methods. One example method includes receiving an access policy, where the access policy includes flow description information, quality information of at least two links, and a data distribution policy on the at least two links, receiving a service data flow, and in response to determining that the access policy includes flow description information of the service data flow, determining link quality information of a link used for transmitting the service data flow, and distributing the service data on the link according to the data distribution policy, where the data distribution policy is a data distribution policy that is determined based on the access policy and that is corresponding to the link quality information and the flow description information of the service data flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Qing Xu, Youyang Yu, Han Zhou
  • Service continuity implementation method, device, and service continuity implementation system
    Patent number: 11115876
    Abstract: A service continuity implementation method, a device, and a service continuity implementation system, to ensure service continuity in a handover process, where the method includes: selecting, by a session management function entity, a target user plane function entity to serve a terminal; sending, by the session management function entity, a first message to a control device; receiving, by the session management function entity, indication information of a first application server (AS) from the control device; and sending, by the session management function entity, a first routing rule to the target user plane function entity based on the indication information of the first AS, where the first routing rule specifies that data whose destination address is an address of the first AS is to be sent to the first AS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Dekui Sun, Han Zhou
  • Traffic offloading method and related device in roaming scenario
    Patent number: 11115801
    Abstract: Embodiments of this application disclose an offloading method and a related device in a roaming scenario, to prevent traffic of a subscribed service of a roaming subscriber from looping back to a home location, thereby reducing inter-network traffic consumption. The method in this embodiment of this application includes: receiving, by a visited core network control plane V-CP, a first message from a home core network control plane H-CP, where the first message includes a local breakout LBO policy based on a subscribed service, and the subscribed service is a service on which local breakout needs to be performed and that is of a user; and sending, by the V-CP, the LBO policy to a visited core network user plane V-UP, so that the LBO policy is installed on the V-UP to implement local breakout processing for the subscribed service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiang Hu, Yuan Xia, Han Zhou, Quan Zhu
  • Information Transmission Method and Apparatus
    Publication number: 20210274418
    Abstract: An information transmission method and an apparatus, where the method includes: determining, by an application function network element, an association relationship of a port pair corresponding to a protocol data unit (PDU) session; determining delay information of the port pair; and sending port pair information to a time sensitive networking (TSN) system, where the port pair information includes the association relationship of the port pair and the delay information of the port pair. In the embodiments of this application, attribute information of a virtual switching node can be obtained and reported in a 5th generation (5G) system, such that a TSN system plans a transmission path of a TSN flow on the virtual switching node and a network resource for the transmission path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2021
    Publication date: September 2, 2021
    Inventors: Han Zhou, Hancheng Li
  • Time-Sensitive Networking Communication Method and Apparatus
    Publication number: 20210274375
    Abstract: A time-sensitive networking communication method and an apparatus, where the method may include: receiving, by a policy control network element, forwarding policy information of time sensitive networking (TSN) traffic; triggering the policy control network element to manage a quality of service (QoS) flow corresponding to the TSN traffic; determining a user terminal corresponding to the TSN traffic; determining, in a QoS flow corresponding to the user terminal, the QoS flow corresponding to the TSN traffic; creating or updating, according to the forwarding policy information, a QoS policy of the QoS flow corresponding to the TSN traffic; and sending the QoS policy to a session management network element, where the forwarding policy information includes traffic information of the TSN traffic and an identifier of a port that transmits the TSN traffic.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2021
    Publication date: September 2, 2021
    Inventors: Hancheng Li, Han Zhou, Wenfu Wu
  • CHANNEL STATE INFORMATION TRANSMISSION METHOD AND APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20210266926
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to channel state information transmission methods and apparatus. One example method includes receiving first higher layer signaling sent by a network device, where the first higher layer signaling is used to indicate a first physical uplink control channel, and the first physical uplink control channel is a channel used to periodically report channel state information (CSI), receiving downlink control information sent by the network device, where the downlink control information is used to schedule a physical downlink shared channel, and sending the CSI by using the first physical uplink control channel and a second physical uplink control channel, or sending the CSI by using a second physical uplink control channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2021
    Publication date: August 26, 2021
    Inventors: Fei Gao, Shurong Jiao, Meng Hua, Han Zhou
  • Method and apparatus for communication between user equipments
    Patent number: 11076275
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for communication between user equipment (UEs) is disclosed. The method comprises: receiving a data packet from a first UE, the data packet including data and an IP address of a second UE; obtaining a context record for the second UE, the context record including the IP address of the second UE and an identifier of a second user plane; sending the data packet to the second user plane according to the identifier of the second user plane in order to enable the second user plane to send the data packet to the second UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Han Zhou, Yuan Xia, Qi Yao
  • Lid
    Patent number: D941086
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: UZ TECHINOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventor: Han Zhou