Patents by Inventor Huiling JIANG

Huiling JIANG 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: 11184896
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for allowing user terminal to acquire information about paging physical resource blocks (PRBs), a method of allowing a base station to indicate information about paging PRBs to UE, a method of allowing UE to determine allocation of paging PRBs, a method of allowing a base station to allocate paging PRBs, a base station and UE. The above method of allowing user terminal to acquire information about paging physical resource blocks (PRBs) includes detecting an anchor PRB, reading information carried by the anchor PRB, and acquiring information about the non-anchor paging PRBs associated with the anchor PRB based on the information carried by the anchor PRB. By this method, non-anchor paging PRBs can be specified to the UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Kazuaki Takeda, Naoto Ookubo, Jiahui Liu, Qin Mu, Liu Liu, Huiling Jiang
  • Patent number: 11178679
    Abstract: The present invention is designed so that, even when communication is made using a plurality of transmission time intervals (TTIs), scheduling requests are transmitted adequately. According to one aspect of the present invention, a user terminal has a transmitting/receiving section that transmits and/or receives using a plurality of transmission time intervals (TTIs) of different durations, and a control section that determines a resource to use to transmit a scheduling request (SR) based on at least one of a first TTI and a second TTI having a shorter TTI duration than the first TTI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Kazuki Takeda, Satoshi Nagata, Lihui Wang, Liu Liu, Huiling Jiang
  • Publication number: 20210345298
    Abstract: A terminal is disclosed including a selection unit that selects first resource candidates for sidelink transmission based on monitoring in a sensing window, and specifies second resource candidates by excluding specific periodic resources that are reserved by another terminal from the first resource candidates; and a transmission unit that performs sidelink transmission using a resource selected from the second resource candidates. In another aspect, a transmission method executed by a terminal is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2021
    Publication date: November 4, 2021
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Shinpei Yasukawa, Satoshi Nagata, Qun Zhao, Jing Wang, Huan Wang, Liu Liu, Anxin Li, Huiling Jiang
  • Publication number: 20210337580
    Abstract: An apparatus is disclosed that includes a receiver that receives downlink control information that is used for scheduling of a downlink shared channel, via a downlink control channel in a control resource set. The apparatus also includes a processor that determines a starting location in a time domain of the downlink shared channel based on the downlink control information. The apparatus further includes an output device that performs output based on downlink data signal in the downlink shared channel. When the downlink shared channel overlaps with the control resource set, a resource to which the downlink control information is mapped is not available for the downlink shared channel and wherein a field value in the downlink control information indicates an index for designating one of a plurality of starting locations that are provided in advance. In another aspect, a system is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2021
    Publication date: October 28, 2021
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Kazuki Takeda, Satoshi Nagata, Qin Mu, Liu Liu, Huiling Jiang
  • Publication number: 20210328735
    Abstract: The present invention is designed so as to communicate adequately even when a number of TTIs having varying time durations are used in the same carrier. A user terminal communicates by using a second transmission time interval (TTI) which has a shorter TTI duration than a first TTI, and this user terminal includes a receiving section that receives a second downlink control channel, which is transmitted in the second TTI, and a control section that controls reception of the second downlink control channel depending on a time field to which a first downlink control channel transmitted every first TTI is allocated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2017
    Publication date: October 21, 2021
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Kazuki Takeda, Satoshi Nagata, Lihui Wang, Liu Liu, Huiling Jiang
  • Patent number: 11146366
    Abstract: The present invention is designed so that retransmission control is executed appropriately in smaller units than TBs (for example, in units of CBs, in units CBGs, etc.). A user terminal according to one aspect of the present invention has a receiving section that receives a downlink (DL) signal including one or more code blocks (CBs), and a control section that controls transmission of delivery acknowledgment information for the DL signal per CB or per code block group (CBG) including or one or more CBs, and a CB or a CBG where a negative acknowledgment (NACK) is indicated by the delivery acknowledgment information is retransmitted by using a numerology that is the same as or different from that of initial transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Kazuki Takeda, Satoshi Nagata, Lihui Wang, Xiaolin Hou, Huiling Jiang
  • Patent number: 11140658
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method for information transmitting, receiving and controlling, a transmitting device, a receiving device, and a base station. An information transmitting method according to an embodiment of the present invention is performed by the transmitting device, the transmitting device transmits information to a receiving device by using resource block in a resource pool which includes a plurality of resource blocks, and the information transmitting method includes: determining an information transmitting manner; transmitting scheduling information for one unicast transmission by using single resource block of the plurality of resource blocks when the information transmitting manner is unicast; transmitting scheduling information for one multicast or broadcast transmission by using a resource block pair of the plurality of resource blocks when the information transmitting manner is multicast or broadcast.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Huan Wang, Liu Liu, Qin Mu, Qun Zhao, Huiling Jiang
  • Patent number: 11139881
    Abstract: Beam failure detection and/or beam recovery are performed properly. A user terminal according to the present invention has a receiving section that receives a downlink (DL) control channel, and a control section that configures at least part of one or more beams configured for monitoring a beam failure, for monitoring the DL control channel, and the control section configures at least part of one or more beams configured for channel state information (CSI) measurement and/or reporting, for receiving a downlink (DL) data channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Hiroki Harada, Satoshi Nagata, Jing Wang, Liu Liu, Huiling Jiang
  • Patent number: 11140669
    Abstract: The present invention is designed so that the transmission of A/Ns can be controlled properly when the reference value for the timing for transmitting signals is controlled in radio base stations and/or user terminals. A user terminal, according to the present invention, has a receiving section that receives a downlink (DL) shared channel, and a control section that controls transmission of retransmission control information in response to the DL shared channel. The control section controls the transmission of the retransmission control information based on a reference value that is configured for timing for transmitting the retransmission control information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Kazuki Takeda, Satoshi Nagata, Shaozhen Guo, Lihui Wang, Liu Liu, Xiaolin Hou, Huiling Jiang
  • Publication number: 20210306894
    Abstract: A terminal is disclosed that includes a receiver that receives a measurement configuration including an information on a number of reports. The terminal also includes a processor that, when reporting of a cell-level measurement result is triggered, controls reporting of a beam-level measurement result based on the information on the number of reports, where the measurement configuration includes a maximum number of beam-level measurement result reports. In other aspects, a radio communication method, a base station, and a system are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2021
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Hiroki Harada, Satoshi Nagata, Jing Wang, Liu Liu, Huiling Jiang
  • Patent number: 11134517
    Abstract: Provided are a method for indicating and determining a start transmission timing of a subframe of a physical uplink shared channel, and a base station and a user equipment. The method includes: receiving downlink control information from a base station, the downlink control information comprising indication information about the start transmission timing, and a listen before talk (LBT) type; determining the structure of the previous subframe to the current subframe; and determining, from four timings different from one another, the start transmission timing of the current subframe based on the indication information, the LBT type, and the structure of the previous subframe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Jing Wang, Liu Liu, Huiling Jiang, Hiroki Harada
  • Publication number: 20210297137
    Abstract: The present invention provides a user terminal that reports channel state information to base station apparatus in order to reduce the overhead of signaling required in beam measurements and to lower the complexity of beam measurements and calculation, and, in this user terminal, a receiving section that receives basis beam reference signals, each included in one or a plurality of basis beams transmitted from the base station, a determining section that determines a leading beam and a secondary beam to combine with the leading beam, based on the basis beam reference signals received, and a transmission section that transmits combination information about combination of the leading beam and the secondary beam to the base station apparatus, are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2017
    Publication date: September 23, 2021
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Satoshi Nagata, Huiling Li, Chongning Na, Huiling Jiang, Yuichi Kakishima
  • Publication number: 20210298078
    Abstract: A terminal is disclosed that includes a processor that controls transmission of a random access preamble based on at least one of information related to one or more PRACH transmission occasions in a time domain and information related to one or more PRACH transmission resources in a frequency domain. The terminal further includes a transmitter that transmits the random access preamble. In other aspects, a base station, radio communication method, and system are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2021
    Publication date: September 23, 2021
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Hiroki Harada, Satoshi Nagata, Lihui Wang, Liu Liu, Huiling Jiang
  • Patent number: 11128396
    Abstract: Provided are a user terminal, a feedback method at the user terminal, a base station and a method at the base station. The feedback method at the user terminal includes steps of: calculating first information related to receiving signal quality; combining the first information and a response signal to a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) to be transmitted to a base station to generate a combined signal; carrying out signal processing on the combined signal to generate second information; and transmitting the second information to the base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Xin Wang, Xiaolin Hou, Chongning Na, Huiling Jiang, Yuichi Kakishima, Kazuaki Takeda, Satoshi Nagata
  • Patent number: 11129197
    Abstract: A user apparatus and a control information detection method executed by a user apparatus are disclosed. The user apparatus includes a memory that stores a preamble and identification information of the user apparatus; a processor that detects control information, addressed to the user apparatus, by monitoring a candidate area of a common candidate area where a plurality of user apparatuses commonly perform monitoring and an individual candidate area for the user apparatus; and a transmitter that transmits the preamble to a base station. The processor monitors, during a period when the user apparatus monitors a random access response, the individual candidate area using the identification information of the user apparatus to detect control information that is scrambled by the base station using the identification information of the user apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Tooru Uchino, Kazuki Takeda, Lan Chen, Huiling Jiang, Liu Liu
  • Patent number: 11128406
    Abstract: This application provides data transmitting method, a data receiving method, a user equipment, and a base station, which can realize early acknowledgment of uplink data reception. The data transmitting method for a user equipment includes: transmitting uplink data to a base station with an initial retransmission times; determining, within a predetermined interval, whether an acknowledged signal of the uplink data is received from the base station, wherein in the case where the acknowledged signal is received within the predetermined interval, transmission of the uplink data is stopped; and in the case where the acknowledged signal is not received within the predetermined interval, the uplink data is transmitted to the base station in a subsequent retransmission mode, until the acknowledged signal is received from the base station or a maximum retransmission times is reached.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Jiahui Liu, Qin Mu, Liu Liu, Huiling Jiang, Lan Chen, Naoto Okubo
  • Patent number: 11122605
    Abstract: Provided are a transmitting method, a receiving method, a relay device, a base station and a mobile station. According to embodiments of the present invention, the method for transmitting grant information performed by the relay device includes: receiving the grant information for inter-device transmission and a transmitting device identification and a receiving device identification corresponding to the grant information; generating first control information according to the grant information, the transmitting device identification and the receiving device identification; and transmitting the first control information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Huan Wang, Liu Liu, Qin Mu, Qun Zhao, Huiling Jiang
  • Patent number: 11108504
    Abstract: A user terminal includes: a transmitter that transmits delivery acknowledgement signals (HARQ-ACKs); a receiver that receives downlink control information including: in one or more predetermined subframes of the downlink control information, first information that indicates a total number of cells to be subjected to downlink (DL) transmission scheduling, and second information that indicates a cumulative number of cells; and a processor that performs control so that the HARQ-ACKs are transmitted in predetermined uplink (UL) subframes based on the first information and the second information. The HARQ-ACKs are transmitted in response to DL signals transmitted from a plurality of cells. The plurality of cells include cells that use Time Division Duplex (TDD). A value of the first information is the same in each of the one or more predetermined subframes, and the processor updates the first information on a per subframe basis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Kazuki Takeda, Satoshi Nagata, Lihui Wang, Liu Liu, Huiling Jiang
  • Patent number: 11089623
    Abstract: The present invention provides a user terminal and a radio communication method, whereby data communication processes can be performed adequately even when downlink control channels that are different from those of existing LTE systems are configured. A user terminal has a receiving section that receives downlink control information, which is transmitted via a downlink control channel in a control resource set configured in a predetermined resource block, and a control section that controls receipt of downlink data scheduled in a predetermined frequency field, based on the downlink control information, and the downlink data is allocated over the predetermined frequency field from the same time location, or allocated to the predetermined frequency field from varying time locations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Kazuki Takeda, Satoshi Nagata, Qin Mu, Liu Liu, Huiling Jiang
  • Publication number: 20210235436
    Abstract: A terminal is disclosed that includes a receiver that receives first downlink control information (DCI) for scheduling initial transmission and second DCI for scheduling retransmission and a processor that controls transmission of a first uplink (UL) shared channel that is scheduled by the first DCI and transmission of a second UL shared channel that is scheduled by the second DCI. The processor controls the transmission of the first UL shared channel and the transmission of the second UL shared channel based on a reference value that is configured for timing for transmitting a UL shared channel based on information provided through higher layer signaling. The processor also controls transmission of the second UL shared channel in response to information included in each of the first DCI and the second DCI that indicates whether the UL shared channel includes initially transmitted data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2021
    Publication date: July 29, 2021
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Kazuki Takeda, Satoshi Nagata, Shaozhen Guo, Lihui Wang, Liu Liu, Xiaolin Hou, Huiling Jiang