Patents by Inventor Hongping Zhang

Hongping Zhang 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).

  • Communication Method and Apparatus
    Publication number: 20200120592
    Abstract: This application provides a communication method and apparatus. The communication method includes: detecting that a terminal in an inactive state is in an out-of-service state, and determining a target cell of the terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2019
    Publication date: April 16, 2020
    Inventors: Tingting Geng, Hongping Zhang, Jun Chen, Qinghai Zeng
  • Terminal, base station, cell access method, and data transmission method for reconfiguring a wireless connection to communicate with a secondary cell
    Patent number: 10616817
    Abstract: A cell access method includes determining, by a terminal in communication with a first cell, to communicate with a second cell, establishing a wireless connection by which the terminal communicates with the second cell in response to the determining to communicate with the second cell, accessing the second cell on the wireless connection by the terminal, and receiving, by the terminal, a reconfiguration message sent by a first base station of the first cell. The reconfiguration message is sent by the first base station to the terminal. The method further includes reconfiguring the wireless connection according to the reconfiguration message, and communicating with the second cell on the reconfigured wireless connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Qinghai Zeng, Hongping Zhang
  • BASE STATION, USER EQUIPMENT, AND MEASUREMENT METHOD FOR INTER-BASE STATION CARRIER AGGREGATION
    Publication number: 20200100199
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a base station, a terminal device, and a communication system for inter-base station carrier aggregation. A primary base station of the terminal sends a message including indication information to request the terminal device to report a timing offset between the primary base station and a secondary base station of the UE. The secondary base station calculates a corrected measurement gap information according to a measurement gap information and the timing offset. In a second measurement gap period indicated by the corrected measurement gap information, the terminal device is not scheduled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2019
    Publication date: March 26, 2020
    Applicant: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hongping Zhang, Qinghai ZENG
  • Communication Method and Related Device
    Publication number: 20200068630
    Abstract: A communication method and a related device, the method including receiving a radio access capability of a terminal device, detecting whether a target radio access capability the same as the received radio access capability of the terminal device exists in a terminal device access capability set, where the terminal device access capability set is a set of radio access capability information corresponding to radio access capabilities, and, when the target radio access capability exists in the terminal device access capability set, indexing second access capability indication information in a context of the terminal device to radio access capability information corresponding to the target radio access capability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2019
    Publication date: February 27, 2020
    Inventors: Hongping Zhang, Qinghai Zeng
  • COMMUNICATION METHOD, TERMINAL, AND BASE STATION
    Publication number: 20200068457
    Abstract: This application provides a communication method, a terminal, and a base station, so that communication is performed between a terminal and a cell during cell handover. The method includes: receiving, by a terminal from a first base station, a cell identity of a first cell, at least one beam parameter of the first cell, and a resource associated with the at least one beam parameter, where the first cell belongs to a second base station; further, determining a target beam parameter, and sending information on a resource corresponding to the target beam parameter; and receiving a response to the information by using a receive beam associated with the target beam parameter, so that communication can be performed between the terminal and a cell during cell handover.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2019
    Publication date: February 27, 2020
    Inventors: Chunhua YOU, Hongping ZHANG, Qinghai ZENG
  • Communications Method, Apparatus, and System
    Publication number: 20200068407
    Abstract: This application discloses a communications method. The method may include: receiving, by a receiving party, indication information sent by a first device, where the indication information is used to indicate at least one intermediate sequence number; receiving a data packet of the bearer sent by the first device; and skipping the at least one intermediate sequence number based on the indication information, deciphering, by using the old key, a data packet that is located on the bearer and whose sequence number is followed by the at least one intermediate sequence number, and deciphering, by using the new key, a data packet that is located on the bearer and whose sequence number follows the at least one intermediate sequence number.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2019
    Publication date: February 27, 2020
    Inventors: Hongping Zhang, Le Yan, Li Zhao
  • Method For Sending Paging Message And Related Device
    Publication number: 20200022104
    Abstract: Example paging message sending method and apparatus are described to notify each UE of a paging cause. In one example method, a first network node sends a paging message to a second network node. The paging message carries indication information, which is used to indicate a paging cause.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2019
    Publication date: January 16, 2020
    Inventors: Tingting GENG, Hongping ZHANG, Qinghai ZENG
  • Communication Method, Network Device, and Terminal
    Publication number: 20200022055
    Abstract: This application provides a communication method, a network device, and a terminal. The communication method includes: determining, by a first network device, at least one candidate target cell and first configuration information, where the first configuration information is used to trigger a terminal to determine one of the at least one candidate target cell as a to-be-handed-over-to cell; and sending, by the first network device, a first message to the terminal, where the first message includes first cell indication information and the first configuration information, and the first cell indication information is used to indicate the at least one candidate target cell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Publication date: January 16, 2020
    Inventors: Le Yan, Hongping Zhang, Qinghai Zeng, Min Xu, Wenjie Peng, Xiaoying Xu
  • DATA FORWARDING METHOD, DEVICE, AND COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20200015143
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a data forwarding method, device, and communications system, which relate to the field of communications and can achieve accuracy and continuity of data transmission during carrier aggregation for cells between base stations. The method includes: sending, by a primary base station, a first message to a secondary base station, where the first message is used to instruct the secondary base station to perform handover, and the first message includes an identifier of a target base station; confirming, by the primary base station, that the secondary base station forwards data to the target base station; and sending, by the primary base station, a second message to a user equipment, where the second message is used to instruct the user equipment to acquire the data from the target base station. The embodiments of the present invention are used for data forwarding.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2019
    Publication date: January 9, 2020
    Applicant: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO.,LTD.
    Inventors: Mingzeng Dai, Yi Guo, Qinghai Zeng, Hongping Zhang
  • Communication method and communications device
    Patent number: 10531439
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a communication method and a communications device. The method includes: generating, by a first communications device, a MAC PDU data packet, where the MAC PDU data packet includes at least one first-type MAC CE, each first-type MAC CE is used to carry information about multiple secondary serving cells, and the first communications device determines a location of the first-type MAC CE in the MAC PDU data packet according to a secondary serving cell corresponding to the first-type MAC CE; and sending, by the first communications device, the MAC PDU data packet to a second communications device, so that the second communications device obtains the first-type MAC CE, and determines, according to the location of the first-type MAC CE in the MAC PDU data packet, the secondary serving cell corresponding to the first-type MAC CE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hongping Zhang, Wenji Liu, Wei Quan, Xiaodong Yang, Qinghai Zeng, Yi Guo
  • Communication Method and Communications Apparatus
    Publication number: 20200008245
    Abstract: Embodiments of this application provide a communication method and a communications apparatus. The method includes: receiving identification information of N beams of a target cell and random access channel configurations of M beams in the N beams, where N and M are positive integers; and determining a beam for accessing based on signal quality or signal strength of L beams in the N beams, the identification information of the N beams, and the random access channel configurations of the M beams, where L is a nonnegative integer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2019
    Publication date: January 2, 2020
    Inventors: Le Yan, Qinghai Zeng, Hongping Zhang
  • Communication Method and Device
    Publication number: 20200008092
    Abstract: Embodiments of this application relate to the field of communications technologies and disclose a communication method and a device. The method includes: obtaining, by an apparatus, signal quality of at least one beam in a cell; and determining, by the apparatus, the highest signal quality of a beam in the at least one beam as signal quality of the cell in a case that the highest signal quality of the at least one beam below a preset threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2019
    Publication date: January 2, 2020
    Inventors: Tingting Geng, Hongping Zhang, Qinghai Zeng
  • Reflective QOS Flow Characteristic-Based Communications Method And Apparatus
    Publication number: 20200008118
    Abstract: This application provides a reflective QoS flow characteristic-based communications method and apparatus. In the method, an access-network network element sends first information to a core-network network element, where the first information is used to indicate whether a data packet has a reflective QoS flow characteristic; and the access-network network element determines, based on the first information, whether there is a need to send a QoS flow identifier to a terminal. In this way, signaling overheads are reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2019
    Publication date: January 2, 2020
    Inventors: Lifeng HAN, Hongping ZHANG, Qinghai ZENG, Qufang HUANG, Yinghao GUO
  • Base station, user equipment, and measurement method for inter-base station carrier aggregation
    Patent number: 10524221
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a base station, user equipment, and a measurement method for inter-base station carrier aggregation. The method includes: a primary base station of the UE sends a message include indication information to request the UE report a timing offset between the primary base station and a secondary base station of the UE; the secondary base station calculates a corrected measurement gap information according to a measurement gap information and the timing offset; the secondary base station stops scheduling the UE in a measurement gap period indicated by the corrected measurement gap information. In the embodiments of the present invention, the secondary base station does not schedule user equipment in a measurement gap period of the UE, which avoids waste of an air interface resource and improves the network transmission efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hongping Zhang, Qinghai Zeng
  • Data Transmission Method And Data Transmission Apparatus
    Publication number: 20190394669
    Abstract: This application provides a transmission method and a data transmission apparatus. The method includes: sending, by a source access network device, data packets of a QoS flow and a first end marker packet to a first core network user plane device over a first data tunnel, wherein the first end marker packet indicates an end of sending data packets of the QoS flow to the first core network user plane device, and the first data tunnel is corresponding to a first PDU session; sending, by the first core network user plane device, the data packets received from the source access network device and a second end marker packet to a second core network user plane device over a second data tunnel; and sending, by the second core network user plane device, the data packets received from the first core network user plane device to a target access network device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2019
    Publication date: December 26, 2019
    Inventors: Lifeng HAN, Rui WANG, Mingzeng DAI, Hongping ZHANG, Qinghai ZENG
  • Radio access network device, data processing method, and IP packet processing method
    Patent number: 10506644
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to wireless communications technologies, and in particular, to a radio access network device, a data processing method, and an IP packet processing method. The method includes receiving, by a first device in a radio access network, first data sent by a terminal by using an air interface; processing, by the first device, the received first data at a first-part air interface protocol stack; and sending, by the first device, the processed first data to a second device in the radio access network for processing at a second-part air interface protocol stack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Qinghai Zeng, Hongping Zhang
  • METHOD AND DEVICE FOR SENDING SYSTEM INFORMATION
    Publication number: 20190364485
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention relate to the communications field, and provide a method and device for sending system information. The method comprises: a terminal receives a broadcast message from a network device, the broadcast message comprises indication information for an system information (SI) and wherein that the indication information is for indicating that whether the SI is being broadcasted or not, in case that the indication information indicating that the SI is not being broadcasted, the terminal sends a system information request to the network device for acquiring the SI.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2019
    Publication date: November 28, 2019
    Inventors: Tingting GENG, Hongping ZHANG, Yalin LIU
  • COMMUNICATION METHOD AND COMMUNICATIONS APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20190356376
    Abstract: A base station configures, for a terminal, a contention-free random access resource for a beam failure recovery request. After determining that a beam failure has occurred, the terminal performs random access, and retains the contention-free random access resource after the random access succeeds, so that a beam failure recovery latency and signaling overheads can be reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2019
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Inventors: Chunhua YOU, Le YAN, Hongping ZHANG
  • Communication method, base station and user equipment
    Patent number: 10484997
    Abstract: The present invention provides a communication method to solve a problem of a failure in data receiving that arises. The method includes: sending, by a first base station, first data to UE according to first data allocation information that is determined according to a radio access capability of the UE; and sending, by a second base station according to second data allocation information that is determined by the first base station according to the radio access capability of the UE, second data to the UE; where the first base station performs carrier aggregation with the second base station, and a total amount of data that is sent by the first base station and the second base station to the UE in a same TTI does not exceed a total amount of data that can be received according to the radio access capability of the UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jian Zhang, Qinghai Zeng, Hongping Zhang
  • Communication Method, Terminal, and Access Network Device
    Publication number: 20190342832
    Abstract: This application provides a communication method, a terminal, and an access network device. The method includes: sending, by a terminal in an RRC inactive state, first information to a first access network device, where the first information is used to indicate that the terminal is located in a wireless network area in which the terminal is in the RRC inactive state, and the first access network device is an access network device to which a cell in which the terminal is currently located belongs; receiving, by the terminal, a first message sent by the first access network device; and remaining, by the terminal, in the RRC inactive state based on the first message, or entering an idle state from the RRC inactive state based on the first message. According to the technical solutions of this application, performance of a communications system can be improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2019
    Publication date: November 7, 2019
    Inventors: Hongping Zhang, Qinghai Zeng, Mingzeng Dai, Tingting Geng