Patents by Inventor Hong Tang

Hong Tang 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: 20250056485
    Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods to identify resources for body position sensing and utilize the resources for body position sensing operations via user equipment of a wireless communication system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2024
    Publication date: February 13, 2025
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Huaning Niu, Yushu Zhang, Yang Tang, Wei Zeng, Jie Cui, Manasa Raghavan, Haitong Sun, Hong He, Chunhai Yao, Weidong Yang, Sigen Ye, Oghenekome Oteri, Chunxuan Ye, Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian, Dawei Zhang, Haijing Hu
  • Publication number: 20250055627
    Abstract: User equipment (UE) operation in a single frequency network (SFN). The UE may receive one or more transmission configuration indication (TCI) states corresponding to one or more downlink resources, receive a demodulated reference signal (DMRS) wherein the DMRS is quasi co-located (QCLed) with one or more channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) from multiple cells of a SFN and quasi co-location (QCL) information is included in the one or more TCI and determine a time and frequency offset corresponding to each of the multiple cells based on the CSI-RS.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2024
    Publication date: February 13, 2025
    Inventors: Yushu ZHANG, Chunhai YAO, Chunxuan YE, Dawei ZHANG, Fangli XU, Haijing HU, Haitong SUN, Hong HE, Jie CUI, Oghenekome OTERI, Wei ZENG, Weidong YANG, Yang TANG, Yuchul KIM, Yuqin CHEN
  • Publication number: 20250056565
    Abstract: A wireless communication method is disclosed. The method comprises: receiving, by a wireless communication terminal from a wireless communication node, indication information of one or more downlink, DL, signal transmissions, wherein the indication information indicates one or more transmission patterns for the one or more DL signal transmissions; and receiving, by the wireless communication terminal from the wireless communication node, one or more DL signals according to the one or more patterns for the one or more DL signal transmissions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2024
    Publication date: February 13, 2025
    Applicant: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Qiujin GUO, Mengzhu CHEN, Bo DAI, Jun XU, Youjun HU, Xuan MA, Xiaoying MA, Hong TANG, Jianqiang DAI
  • Publication number: 20250055628
    Abstract: Methods to enhance the coverage of NR systems for coverage-limited wireless devices are disclosed. A user equipment (UE) may receive, from a base station, information indicating that a coverage enhancement mode is supported. The UE may determine whether to enter the coverage enhancement mode based on a downlink signal synchronization block (DL SSB). In response to determining to enter the coverage enhancement mode, the UE may transmit a reserved preamble to the base station to initiate random access for the coverage enhancement mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2024
    Publication date: February 13, 2025
    Inventors: Chunhai Yao, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Fangli Xu, Haijing Hu, Haitong Sun, Hong He, Jie Cui, Oghenekome Oteri, Shu Guo, Wei Zeng, Weidong Yang, Yang Tang, Yuchul Kim, Yuqin Chen, Yushu Zhang
  • Publication number: 20250055544
    Abstract: A wireless communication method for use in a wireless terminal is disclosed. The method comprises receiving, from a wireless network node, a high layer signaling including channel state information (CSI) report configuration information, receiving, from the wireless network node, a first signaling including a CSI report trigger state indication or a pattern indication, and reporting CSI according to the high layer signaling and the first signaling.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2024
    Publication date: February 13, 2025
    Applicant: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Xiaoying MA, Bo DAI, Jun XU, Mengzhu CHEN, Hong TANG, Qiujin GUO, Cheng GUO
  • Publication number: 20250056406
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, system for wireless communication are described and include a method of wireless communication. A method of wireless communication, comprising receiving, by a communication device, an indication of a discontinuous transmission (DTX) operation by a network node; and operating the communication device according to the indication of the DTX operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2024
    Publication date: February 13, 2025
    Inventors: Qiujin GUO, Mengzhu CHEN, Bo DAI, Jun XU, Xuan MA, Youjun HU, Xiaoying MA, Hong TANG, Jianqiang DAI
  • Publication number: 20250056449
    Abstract: Some aspects of this disclosure relate to apparatuses and methods for implementing downlink transmission and interlace uplink transmission. For example, some aspects of this disclosure relate to a base station including a transceiver configured to communicate over a wireless network with a user equipment (UE) and a processor communicatively coupled to the transceiver. The processor divides a plurality of candidate Synchronization Signal Block (SSB) positions in a time window into a plurality of groups and communicates, using the transceiver, information associated with the plurality of groups of candidate SSB positions to the UE. The processor further performs a listen-before-talk (LBT) procedure. In response to the LBT procedure being successful, the processor determines a first group of the plurality of groups and transmits, using the transceiver, one or more SSBs on one or more candidate SSB positions of the first group to the UE.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2024
    Publication date: February 13, 2025
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Hong HE, Chunhai Yao, Chunxuan YE, Dawei ZHANG, Haitong SUN, Jie CUI, Oghenekome OTERI, Pengkai ZHAO, Wei ZENG, Wei ZHANG, Weidong YANG, Yang TANG, Yuchul KIM, Yushu ZHANG, Zhibin WU
  • Publication number: 20250056451
    Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods for carrier aggregation operations in wireless communication systems.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2024
    Publication date: February 13, 2025
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jie Cui, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Hong He, Huaning Niu, Manasa Raghavan, Qiming Li, Xiang Chen, Yang Tang, Yushu Zhang
  • Publication number: 20250056536
    Abstract: A wireless communication method for use in a wireless terminal is disclosed. The method comprises receiving, from a wireless network node, a first signaling comprising a first configuration signaling, wherein the first configuration signaling is used to configure a first resource set for a configured grant (CG) transmission, and transmitting, to the wireless network node, a second signaling associated with a first transmission resource set on a second transmission resource set, wherein the first resource set includes the first transmission resource set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2024
    Publication date: February 13, 2025
    Applicant: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jiajun XU, Jun XU, Hong TANG, Mengzhu CHEN, Bo DAI, Jianqiang DAI, Xiaoying MA
  • Patent number: 12225521
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and circuitries are provided for configuring HARQ feedback for semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) communication. In one example, a method includes identifying a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resource in a first slot for communicating a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) codebook. The method includes determining a set of SPS PDSCH receptions for which feedback is multiplexed in the HARQ codebook based on SPS PDSCH configurations for each component carrier and each slot, a UE capability for number of SPS PDSCH receptions per slot, and a prioritization protocol. The method includes selecting a codebook type based on whether a PDSCH is scheduled by way of a dynamic grant for any of the plurality of slots, constructing the HARQ codebook based on the set of SPS PDSCH receptions and the selected codebook type, and transmitting the HARQ codebook to a next generation node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yushu Zhang, Weidong Yang, Jie Cui, Haitong Sun, Chunhai Yao, Hong He, Chunxuan Ye, Wei Zeng, Dawei Zhang, Oghenekome Oteri, Yang Tang, Sigen Ye
  • Patent number: 12224830
    Abstract: Embodiments include a computer readable storage medium, a user equipment, a method and an integrated circuit that perform operations. The operations include receiving a downlink channel information (DCI) format 2_0 from a g-NodeB (gNB) connected to the 5G NR network, wherein the DCI format 2_0 includes channel occupancy time (COT) duration and a gap threshold value, determining if a nonzero power channel state information reference signal (NZP-CSI-RS) resource is valid, wherein the NZP-CSI-RS resource is valid if the NZP-CSI-RS resource is within the COT duration and if a gap between a last symbol of the DCI format 2_0 and a first symbol of the NZP-CSI-RS resource is greater than the gap threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Hong He, Chunhai Yao, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Jie Cui, Wei Zeng, Yang Tang, Yushu Zhang
  • Patent number: 12225416
    Abstract: A first network device determines a first cell. The first network device sends a first message, where the first message includes an identifier of the first cell, and the identifier of the first cell is used to indicate a terminal device to perform cell reestablishment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Lei Chen, Bingzhao Li, Xun Tang, Hong Wang
  • Publication number: 20250042091
    Abstract: A method for generating a 3D printing file includes: layering a 3D model into a plurality of sliced layers, and obtaining contour data of each of the sliced layers; determining a straight line X=X0 corresponding to an abscissa X0 of an intersection point of a preset seamline on the current layer of the sliced layers; determining coordinates of a seam point in accordance with the straight line X=X0 and contour data of the current layer, adding the coordinates of the seam point into the contour data of the current layer to update the contour data of the current layer, and setting the seam point as a start printing point of the current layer; and generating the 3D printing file of the 3D model in accordance with updated contour data of each of the plurality of layers. A 3D printing device, a computer device, and a storage medium are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2022
    Publication date: February 6, 2025
    Inventors: Danjun AO, Jingke TANG, HONG LIU
  • Publication number: 20250048159
    Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods to configure a synchronization signal block (SSB)-less secondary cell (SCell) for layer 1 measurement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2024
    Publication date: February 6, 2025
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jie Cui, Yang Tang, Qiming Li, Haitong Sun, Hong He, Dawei Zhang
  • Patent number: 12213091
    Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods to determine availability of a reference cell for determining a timing of an uplink transmission in a user equipment transmission occasion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jie Cui, Qiming Li, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Hong He, Manasa Raghavan, Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian, Xiang Chen, Yang Tang
  • Patent number: 12213144
    Abstract: Techniques discussed herein facilitate generation of uplink control information for Enhanced Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH) Format(s) (EPF(s)). One example embodiment employable in a User Equipment (UE) is configured to: determine Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest-Acknowledgment (HARQ-ACK) information; generate a PUCCH for a BandWidth Part (BWP) based at least in part on the HARQ-ACK information, wherein the PUCCH has an EPF; determine a PUCCH resource for the PUCCH and a first PRB index for the PUCCH, wherein the PUCCH resource is determined based at least in part on an index of a first Control Channel Element (CCE) of an associated Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) and a number of CCEs in a Control Resource Set (CORESET) of the associated PDCCH; and map the PUCCH to at least one PUCCH interlace based on the PUCCH resource and the first PRB index for the PUCCH.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yushu Zhang, Hong He, Chunhai Yao, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Jie Cui, Wei Zeng, Wei Zhang, Weidong Yang, Yang Tang, Yuchul Kim, Zhibin Wu
  • Patent number: 12212995
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) supports an independent measurement gap configuration. The UE transmits an indication to a currently camped cell indicating that the UE supports an independent measurement gap configuration for new radio in an unlicensed spectrum (NR-U), receives measurement gap configuration information from the currently camped cell, configures a measurement gap pattern based on the measurement gap configuration information and receives a signal from a cell during a measurement gap of the measurement gap pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jie Ciu, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Hong He, Manasa Raghavan, Wenshu Zhang, Yang Tang, Yushu Zhang
  • Publication number: 20250031236
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure are related to a method performed by a user equipment (UE). The method includes selecting a candidate resource set with a plurality of candidate resources from a resource selection window. The plurality of candidate resources includes a reserved resource that is reserved by at least one other UE. The method includes determining that the reserved resource is associated with a priority level PRX that is higher than a transmission priority level PTX associated with the UE. The method further includes excluding the reserved resource from the candidate resource set based at least in part on the determining.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2024
    Publication date: January 23, 2025
    Inventors: Hong He, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Wei Zeng, Yuchul Kim, Haitong Sun, Weidong Yang, Oghenekome Oteri, Chunhai Yao, Yushu Zhang, Yang Tang, Jie Cui
  • Patent number: 12206502
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) is disclosed. The UE comprises a processor configured to perform operations comprising receiving a hybrid automatic repeat request process group (HPG) configuration signal from a base station associated therewith, wherein the HPG configuration signal comprises information of a plurality HARQ process groups (HPGs), each HPG comprising one or more HARQ processes of a set of HARQ processes configured for the UE. The operations further comprise receiving a downlink control information (DCI) from the base station, wherein the DCI comprises information that identifies one or more HPGs of the plurality of HPGs, the HARQ-ACK feedback information of which are to be included in a HARQ-ACK feedback signal that is triggered by the DCI. In addition, the operations comprise generating the HARQ-ACK feedback signal comprising the HARQ-ACK feedback information of HARQ processes associated with the one or more HPGs and sending the HARQ-ACK feedback signal to the base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yushu Zhang, Hong He, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Jie Cui, Manasa Raghavan, Wei Zeng, Yang Tang
  • Patent number: 12206603
    Abstract: A method and apparatus of a device that determines a physical downlink shared channel scheduling resource for a user equipment device and a base station is described. In an exemplary embodiment, the device selects a plurality of component carriers from a pool of available component carriers associated with a wireless link established between the user equipment device and the base station. In addition, the device selects a virtual component carrier from the plurality of component carriers. Furthermore, the device determines a physical downlink shared channel scheduling resource based on at least the virtual component carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Hong He, Dawei Zhang, Wei Zeng, Chunhai Yao, Haitong Sun, Yuchul Kim, Yushu Zhang, Chunxuan Ye, Oghenekome Oteri, Weidong Yang, Yang Tang, Jie Cui, Zhibin Wu, Haijing Hu