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).

  • Patent number: 11877178
    Abstract: Embodiments of this patent application provide a data transmission method and an apparatus for determining, by a core network (CN) device, a length of a quality of service flow identifier (QFI) used when a protocol data unit (PDU) session is established or modified for a terminal device; and sending, by the CN device, a first message to a radio access network (RAN) device, where the first message includes length information of at least one QFI. After receiving the first message from the core network CN device, the access network RAN sends a second message to the terminal device, where the second message includes the length information of the at least one QFI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xingxing Hu, Hongping Zhang
  • Patent number: 11864131
    Abstract: This application provides a measurement configuration method and an apparatus. The method includes: determining that a serving cell changes from a first cell to a second cell; and updating or deleting a current measurement window configuration. The measurement window configuration is used to indicate a time domain position at which a terminal device measures a downlink reference signal. According to the solution provided in this application, when the serving cell of the terminal device changes, the current measurement window configuration of the terminal device is updated or deleted, so that a problem that the measurement window configuration of the terminal device is not applicable to measurement can be resolved to some extent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lili Zheng, Hongping Zhang, Qinghai Zeng, Le Yan, Xingxing Hu
  • Publication number: 20230300927
    Abstract: Embodiments of this application provide a communication method, a communications apparatus, and a storage medium. The communication method includes: sending, by a new master network device, a request to an original master network device, to request context information of a terminal device on the original master network device and an original secondary network device; and receiving the context information of the terminal device on the original master network device and the original secondary network device from the original master network device. This application can effectively simplify implementation steps of resuming a multi-connectivity mode by the terminal device, reduce signaling procedures, and shorten a delay, thereby improving network transmission efficiency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2023
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Inventors: Tingting Geng, Yinghao Jin, Hongping Zhang, Le Yan
  • Patent number: 11758591
    Abstract: A communication method and a communications apparatus, the method including receiving, by a second network device, from a third network device, first identification information of a first radio access network area to which a first cell corresponding to the third network device belongs, and sending, by the second network device, second identification information of the first cell and the first identification information of the first radio access network area to a first network device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tingting Geng, Hongping Zhang, Qinghai Zeng, Le Yan
  • Publication number: 20230284064
    Abstract: This application provides a communication method and a communications apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2023
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Inventors: Hongping Zhang, Qinghai Zeng
  • Patent number: 11696191
    Abstract: Embodiments of this application provide a data transmission method and device. The method includes: obtaining, by a first access network device, a first message from a second access network device, where the first message requests context information of a terminal device; and sending, by the first access network device, a data packet to the second access network device. The first access network device is a corresponding access network device of the terminal device before the re-establishment procedure, and the second access network device is a corresponding access network device when the terminal device initiates the re-establishment procedure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tingting Geng, Hongping Zhang, Le Yan, Yinghao Jin
  • Patent number: 11690116
    Abstract: Embodiments of this application provide a communication method, a communications apparatus, and a storage medium. The communication method includes: sending, by a new master network device, a request to an original master network device, to request context information of a terminal device on the original master network device and an original secondary network device; and receiving the context information of the terminal device on the original master network device and the original secondary network device from the original master network device. This application can effectively simplify implementation steps of resuming a multi-connectivity mode by the terminal device, reduce signaling procedures, and shorten a delay, thereby improving network transmission efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tingting Geng, Yinghao Jin, Hongping Zhang, Le Yan
  • Patent number: 11683730
    Abstract: This disclosure discloses methods, apparatuses, and systems for performing handover. One method comprises: receiving, by a target access network device after a mapping relationship between a quality of service (QoS) flow of a terminal device and a data radio bearer (DRB) changes, a handover request from a source access network device, wherein the handover request comprises indication information for requesting to establish a tunnel; and sending, by the target access network device to the source access network device, information about the tunnel for the target access network device to receive one or more data units from the source access network device after the mapping relationship between the QoS flow and the DRB changes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xingxing Hu, Hongping Zhang
  • Publication number: 20230171635
    Abstract: Embodiments of this application relate to the field of communications technologies and disclose a communication method and a device. The method includes: determining an offset based on a first quantity, wherein the first quantity is a quantity of beams that are used to determine signal quality of a first cell; and determining the signal quality of the first cell based on the offset.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2023
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Inventors: Tingting Geng, Hongping Zhang, Qinghai Zeng
  • Publication number: 20230156767
    Abstract: This application provides a communication method and a communication apparatus. The communication method includes: An access stratum of a terminal device receives a quality of experience QoE measurement result and first indication information from an upper layer of the access stratum. The access stratum of the terminal device determines, based on the first indication information, to send the QoE measurement result to a master node or a secondary node of the terminal device. Therefore, in this application, the upper layer of the access stratum of the terminal device sends, to the access stratum, the QoE measurement result and the first indication information corresponding to the QoE measurement result, so that the terminal device in the MR-DC architecture can send the QoE measurement result to the correct access network device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2023
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Inventors: Xingxing HU, Hongping ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20230133425
    Abstract: This application provides a configuration method and an apparatus, and relates to the field of communications technologies, so that in a scenario in which an SCG is deactivated, a network side can activate the SCG or a cell in the SCG by using a MAC CE. The method includes: A terminal receives a MAC CE from a first node, where the MAC CE is for activating or deactivating one or more cells in a cell group managed by a second node; and then the terminal activates or deactivates, based on the MAC CE, the one or more cells in the cell group managed by the second node.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2022
    Publication date: May 4, 2023
    Inventors: Huiming SUN, Tingting GENG, Hongping ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20230109703
    Abstract: A communication method for a dual connectivity system and a communication apparatus are disclosed, to support relaxing radio resource management (RRM) measurement. The method includes: A first network device determines that a terminal device is to deactivate a secondary cell group (SCG) of the terminal device; the first network device sends first information to the terminal device, where the first information indicates the terminal device to deactivate the secondary cell group SCG of the terminal device, to enable the terminal device to relax SCG RRM measurement after deactivating the SCG; and the terminal device relaxes the SCG RRM measurement after deactivating the SCG based on the first information. The first network device is a master node or a secondary station of the terminal device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2022
    Publication date: April 13, 2023
    Applicant: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Huiming Sun, Tingting Geng, Hongping Zhang, Xingxing Hu
  • Publication number: 20230115085
    Abstract: This application discloses a communication method and apparatus for sending a quality of experience measurement result. Embodiments of this application disclose that the QoE measurement result corresponding to the secondary access network device is sent by using the first radio bearer, and the first radio bearer may be configured by the master access network device or the secondary access network device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2022
    Publication date: April 13, 2023
    Inventors: Xingxing Hu, Hongping Zhang
  • Patent number: 11616625
    Abstract: Embodiments of this application provide a wireless communication method, a terminal, and a network device. In the embodiments of this application, an operation on a wideband that includes a plurality of bandwidth parts can be supported.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chunhua You, Hongping Zhang, Le Yan, Qufang Huang
  • Publication number: 20230080089
    Abstract: This application provides a communication method and a communication apparatus. The communication method includes: An access network device receives first configuration information, where the first configuration information indicates a terminal device to perform application layer quality of experience QoE measurement; the access network device generates second configuration information, where the second configuration information indicates the terminal device to report measurement result of at least one measurement metric obtained through the QoE measurement; and the access network device sends the first configuration information and the second configuration information to the terminal device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2022
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Inventors: Xingxing HU, Hongping ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20230030697
    Abstract: Embodiments of this application disclose an information transmission method. The method in embodiments of this application includes: A core network device receives indication information and delay information, and the core network device may determine, based on the indication information, whether the delay information includes a terminal side delay or whether the terminal device supports measurement of the terminal side delay.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2022
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Inventors: Xingxing Hu, Jun Chen, Hongping Zhang, Hongzhuo Zhang
  • Publication number: 20230031500
    Abstract: In a measurement method, a terminal device receives a first measurement configuration from a first network element, where the first measurement configuration indicates that the terminal device is to measure a first cell corresponding to a first frequency. The terminal device then sends a measurement report to the first network element, where the measurement report includes a first measurement result of measuring the first cell and a second measurement result of measuring a second cell corresponding to a second frequency, and the second frequency is at least one non-serving frequency different from the first frequency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2022
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Inventors: Xingxing Hu, Hongping Zhang, Rui Wang
  • Patent number: 11570647
    Abstract: Embodiments of this application provide a communication method and a communications apparatus. The method includes: generating a log record, where the log record is recorded by performing MDT log measurement when a terminal is in an inactive state; and when the terminal is in a connected state, sending the generated log record to a network device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hongping Zhang, Tingting Geng, Qinghai Zeng
  • Patent number: 11570670
    Abstract: Embodiments of the application provide a communications method and apparatus. A target cell is determined based on measurement results of N measured cells and a preset value when there is a first cell satisfying a report trigger condition. A measurement result of the target cell is sent to a base station. A terminal may not only send the measurement result of the cell satisfying the trigger condition to the base station, but also send a measurement result of another cell to the base station. In this way, a quantity of cells that can be selected during determining of handover can be increased, to help the base station select a suitable cell for the terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lili Zheng, Hongping Zhang, Qinghai Zeng
  • Patent number: D981023
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: SHENZHEN UMIONE TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hongping Zhang