Patents by Inventor Hui Tong

Hui Tong 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: 20190380058
    Abstract: There are provided a wireless communication method of configuring a measurement resource and a wireless communication device therefor. The method comprises determining a measurement resource to be disregarded when the number of measurement resources configured in one subframe exceeds the maximum number of measurement resources that a user equipment is able to measure in one subframe, wherein the measurement resource with lower priority is determined to be disregarded, and the measurement resource is not disregarded A times within the duration of N subframes, where A is an integer larger than 1, N corresponds to one plus B*periodicity of the measurement resource, and B is an integer equal to or larger than 1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2019
    Publication date: December 12, 2019
    Inventors: Hui Tong, Masayuki Hoshino, Akihiko Nishio, Ming Xu
  • Patent number: 10498505
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a method of transmitting transmission channel state information, and device, base station and terminal utilizing the same. The method comprises: transmitting, by 16 channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) ports, CSI-RSs, wherein the CSI-RSs are mapped to a resource element (RE) set in CSI-RS pilot patterns, the RE set comprises REs mapping to 2 sets of 8 CSI-RS ports, a first set of CSI-RS port serial numbers and a second set of the CSI-RS port serial numbers in the 16 CSI-RS ports are mapped to REs mapping to a first set of the 8 CSI-RS ports in the 2 sets of the 8 CSI-RS ports, and a third set of CSI-RS port serial numbers and a fourth set of the CSI-RS port serial numbers in the 16 CSI-RS ports are mapped to REs mapping to a second set of the 8 CSI-RS ports in the 2 sets of the 8 CSI-RS ports; and measuring, by a receiving end, according to the CSI-RSs, channel state information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: China Mobile Communications Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jing Jin, Hui Tong, Dan Wu, Fei Wang, Qixing Wang
  • Publication number: 20190356437
    Abstract: A signal configuration method, device and storage medium are provided. The method includes: acquiring at least one type of reference information, wherein the reference information is used to characterize a configuration status of a communication network; and configuring time domain and/or frequency domain resources for a phase-tracking reference signal based on the at least one type of reference information, and obtaining configuration information of the time domain and/or frequency domain resources for the phase-tracking reference signal, wherein the configuration information includes a density or a pattern corresponding to the time domain and/or frequency domain resources.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2018
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Inventors: Ke Zhong, Hui Tong
  • Patent number: 10457568
    Abstract: The invention discloses a method of removing dissolved elements from a liquid. The method comprises a first heating step for heating the liquid using a first heat source, a plurality of distillation steps for purifying the liquid heated by the first heating step, each of the plurality of distillation steps comprising at least one evaporation step and at least one condensation step, and a second heating step, using a second heat source to heat a plurality of flashing chambers, each generating a volume of vapor; wherein the vapor from at least one of the plurality of flashing chambers of the second heating step is introduced into at least one of the plurality of distillation steps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: MURDOCH UNIVERSITY, National Centre of Excellence in Desalination Australia
    Inventors: Bijan Rahimi, Hui Tong Chua, Alexander Christ
  • Patent number: 10433202
    Abstract: There are provided a wireless communication method of configuring a measurement resource and a wireless communication device therefor. The method comprises determining a measurement resource to be disregarded when the number of measurement resources configured in one subframe exceeds the maximum number of measurement resources that a user equipment is able to measure in one subframe, wherein the measurement resource with lower priority is determined to be disregarded, and the measurement resource is not disregarded A times within the duration of N subframes, where A is an integer larger than 1, N corresponds to one plus B*periodicity of the measurement resource, and B is an integer equal to or larger than 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: Sun Patent Trust
    Inventors: Hui Tong, Masayuki Hoshino, Akihiko Nishio, Ming Xu
  • Patent number: 10419180
    Abstract: A Demodulation Reference Signal (DMRS) port indication method, device and a base station are disclosed. A provided DMRS port indication table covers all cases of transmission maximally supporting 8 layers, and 4 bits defined by DMRS port indication information may indicate all the cases in the DMRS port indication table in combination with single-codeword transmission and double-codeword transmission cases of a related standard, so that bit overhead of the DMRS port indication information may be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: China Mobile Communications Corporation
    Inventors: Jing Jin, Hui Tong, Qixing Wang, Fei Wang, Xiaodong Shen
  • Patent number: 10390336
    Abstract: A base station and a related method are provided. The base station includes a transmitter which, in operation, transmits, to a user equipment (UE), values configured for different base station coordination types, respectively, wherein each of the base station coordination types defines which base stations among multiple base stations perform coordinated transmission in that base station coordination type. The base station further includes a receiver which, in operation, receives a channel quality indicator (CQI) reported from the UE, wherein the CQI is calculated at the UE in reference to the values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: Sun Patent Trust
    Inventors: Hui Tong, Masayuki Hoshino, Daichi Imamura, Ming Xu
  • Patent number: 10320543
    Abstract: Provided are a method, device, and system for indicating a channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) resource. A base station can configure one or more channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) resources for a plurality of terminals within a cell covered by the base station, and can indicate a CSI-RS resource that can be used by each terminal in the plurality of terminal and belongs to the one or more CSI-RS resources, thereby enabling each terminal to perform measurement and feedback of channel state information according to the CSI-RS resource indicated by the base station by using a physical layer signal or a media access layer signal. In the present scheme, CSI-RS configuration of terminals can be quickly and flexibly changed by introducing a physical layer signal or a media access layer signal, thereby reducing overheads of CSI-RS without affecting system performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: CHINA MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Fei Wang, Hui Tong, Jing Jin, Qixing Wang
  • Publication number: 20190149212
    Abstract: Disclosed are a CSI-RS configuration and CSI feedback method and apparatus, and a relevant device, which are used for implementing 16-port CSI-RS configuration and performing CSI feedback based on a 16-port CSI-RS. The CSI-RS configuration method comprises: determining 16-port channel state information-reference signal (CSI-RS) configuration information configured to a user equipment (UE), wherein the CSI-RS configuration information comprises information about a resource element (RE) occupied by a 16-port CSI-RS configured to the UE, and the RE occupied by the 16-port CSI-RS comprises an RE other than REs occupied by a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH), a cell-dedicated reference signal (RS) and a UE-dedicated RS; and sending, to the UE, the 16-port CSI-RS configuration information configured to the UE.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2016
    Publication date: May 16, 2019
    Inventors: Fei WANG, Jianjun LIU, Hui TONG, Qixing WANG
  • Publication number: 20190110221
    Abstract: There are provided a wireless communication method of configuring a measurement resource and a wireless communication device therefor. The method comprises determining a measurement resource to be disregarded when the number of measurement resources configured in one subframe exceeds the maximum number of measurement resources that a user equipment is able to measure in one subframe, wherein the measurement resource with lower priority is determined to be disregarded, and the measurement resource is not disregarded A times within the duration of N subframes, where A is an integer larger than 1, N corresponds to one plus B*periodicity of the measurement resource, and B is an integer equal to or larger than 1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2018
    Publication date: April 11, 2019
    Inventors: Hui Tong, Masayuki Hoshino, Akihiko Nishio, Ming Xu
  • Publication number: 20190089430
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method of generating codebook in a wireless communication system with multiple antenna arrays, as well as a wireless communication system, base station and terminal using the codebook for communication. The method comprises steps of: providing a basic codebook which contains multiple pre-coding matrices; and assigning phase offsets to certain pre-coding matrices in the basic codebook to form a codebook with phase offset. The feedback overhead from a client to a base station side is reduced and a good precision of feedback for multi-antenna array is kept by applying the method of generating codebook and using the generated codebook in the wireless communication system, base station and terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2018
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Inventors: Hui Tong, Masayuki Hoshino, Ming Xu, Seigo Nakao, Daichi Imamura
  • Publication number: 20190033940
    Abstract: An electronic device proof against surge currrents arising from hot-swapping components comprises a platform controller hub chip, an electronic component, a serial peripheral interface, and a power supply unit. The power supply unit comprises a power supply and a Zener diode, the power supply outputs a first voltage to the Zener diode, the diode converts the received first voltage to a second voltage and outputs the second voltage to one or more electronic components and the platform controller chip.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2017
    Publication date: January 31, 2019
    Inventors: MING-HUI TONG, TAI-CHEN WANG, JUN SUN
  • Patent number: 10182366
    Abstract: There are provided a wireless communication method of configuring a measurement resource and a wireless communication device therefor. The method comprises determining a measurement resource to be disregarded when the number of measurement resources configured in one subframe exceeds the maximum number of measurement resources that a user equipment is able to measure in one subframe, wherein the measurement resource with lower priority is determined to be disregarded, and the measurement resource is not disregarded A times within the duration of N subframes, where A is an integer larger than 1, N corresponds to one plus B*periodicity of the measurement resource, and B is an integer equal to or larger than 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2019
    Assignee: Sun Patent Trust
    Inventors: Hui Tong, Masayuki Hoshino, Akihiko Nishio, Ming Xu
  • Publication number: 20190013916
    Abstract: A demodulation reference signal (DMRS) indication method includes: a base station allocating designated DMRS ports, numbers of layers and orthogonal cover code (OCC) lengths to a user equipment (UE) according to a DMRS configuration parameter indication table, wherein a plurality of DMRS configuration parameter indication entries with a plurality of OCC length combinations of at least two OCC lengths are recorded in the DMRS configuration parameter indication table; according to DMRS configuration parameter information allocated to the UE, generating corresponding DMRS indication information, and sending the DMRS indication information to a corresponding UE. Also disclosed are a base station, a UE and a DMRS indication system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2016
    Publication date: January 10, 2019
    Applicant: CHINA MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jing Jin, Hui Tong, Fei Wang, Qixing Wang
  • Patent number: 10148328
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method of generating codebook in a wireless communication system with multiple antenna arrays, as well as a wireless communication system, base station and terminal using the codebook for communication. The method comprises steps of: providing a basic codebook which contains multiple pre-coding matrices; and assigning phase offsets to certain pre-coding matrices in the basic codebook to form a codebook with phase offset. The feedback overhead from a client to a base station side is reduced and a good precision of feedback for multi-antenna array is kept by applying the method of generating codebook and using the generated codebook in the wireless communication system, base station and terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: Sun Patent Trust
    Inventors: Hui Tong, Masayuki Hoshino, Ming Xu, Seigo Nakao, Daichi Imamura
  • Patent number: 10128877
    Abstract: The disclosure discloses Network Assisted Interference Cancellation and Suppression (NAICS), methods and devices for controlling the same, which are configured to reduce processing complexity of User Equipment (UE) in NAICS under the condition of no excessive high-layer signalling overhead and no waste of a Carrier Aggregation (CA) capability of the UE in a CA scenario. The method for NAICS includes that: the UE receives an Interference Cancellation (IC) indication message sent by a Node B, and the IC indication message includes an Identifier (ID) of a Component Carrier (CC) which is targeted when the UE performs NAICS. The CC is a CC which performs CA transmission on the UE; and the UE performs NAICS on the CC according to the IC indication message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: China Mobile Communications Corporation
    Inventors: Jing Jin, Hui Tong, Fei Wang, Qixing Wang, Zhenping Hu
  • Publication number: 20180323924
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a method of transmitting transmission channel state information, and device, base station and terminal utilizing the same. The method comprises: transmitting, by 16 channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) ports, CSI-RSs, wherein the CSI-RSs are mapped to a resource element (RE) set in CSI-RS pilot patterns, the RE set comprises REs mapping to 2 sets of 8 CSI-RS ports, a first set of CSI-RS port serial numbers and a second set of the CSI-RS port serial numbers in the 16 CSI-RS ports are mapped to REs mapping to a first set of the 8 CSI-RS ports in the 2 sets of the 8 CSI-RS ports, and a third set of CSI-RS port serial numbers and a fourth set of the CSI-RS port serial numbers in the 16 CSI-RS ports are mapped to REs mapping to a second set of the 8 CSI-RS ports in the 2 sets of the 8 CSI-RS ports; and measuring, by a receiving end, according to the CSI-RSs, channel state information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2016
    Publication date: November 8, 2018
    Inventors: Jing Jin, Hui Tong, Dan Wu, Fei Wang, Qixing Wang
  • Publication number: 20180324039
    Abstract: The disclosure discloses a method of indicating channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS), comprising: when transmitting a CSI-RS via a downlink pilot time slot (DwPTS), generating, by a base station, a radio resource control (RRC) signaling indicative of a CSI-RS resource configuration state; and transmitting, by a base station, the RRC signaling to user equipment (UE); wherein the step of generating the RRC signaling indicative of the CSI-RS resource configuration state includes configuring a first field of the RRC signaling to be a special time slot, and configuring a second field of the RRC signaling to be a CSI-RS pattern in the special time slot; the configured special time slot is configured to instruct the UE satisfying a predefined condition to obtain the CSI-RS pattern indicated in the second field; the first field indicates a CSI-RS subframe configuration state; and the second field indicates a CSI-RS configuration of channel state information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2016
    Publication date: November 8, 2018
    Inventors: Jing Jin, Hui Tong, Qixing Wang
  • Publication number: 20180309555
    Abstract: Provided are a method, device, and system for indicating a channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) resource. A base station can configure one or more channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) resources for a plurality of terminals within a cell covered by the base station, and can indicate a CSI-RS resource that can be used by each terminal in the plurality of terminal and belongs to the one or more CSI-RS resources, thereby enabling each terminal to perform measurement and feedback of channel state information according to the CSI-RS resource indicated by the base station by using a physical layer signal or a media access layer signal. In the present scheme, CSI-RS configuration of terminals can be quickly and flexibly changed by introducing a physical layer signal or a media access layer signal, thereby reducing overheads of CSI-RS without affecting system performance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2016
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Inventors: Fei Wang, Hui Tong, Jing Jin, Qixing Wang
  • Publication number: 20180309558
    Abstract: A Method of scrambling reference signals, device and user equipment using the method are provided. In the method, a plurality of layers of reference signals assigned on predetermined radio resource of a plurality of layers of resource blocks with the same time and frequency resources are scrambled, the method comprising: an orthogonalizing step of multiplying each layer of reference signal selectively by one of a plurality of orthogonal cover codes (OCCs) with the same length wherein the OCC multiplied to a first layer of reference signal can be configured as different from those multiplied to other layers of reference signals; and a scrambling step of multiplying all of symbols obtained from the OCC multiplied to each of the other layers of reference signals by a symbol-common scrambling sequence wherein the symbol-common scrambling sequences can be different from each other for reference signals multiplied by the same OCC.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2018
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Inventors: Hui Tong, Masayuki Hoshino, Ming Xu, Daichi Imamura