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).

  • Publication number: 20200029307
    Abstract: The present invention is designed to allow communication based on appropriate numerologies even when multiple numerologies are used. According to one aspect of the present invention, a user terminal has a receiving section that monitors downlink control information by assuming a plurality of communication parameters that relate to a frequency domain and/or a time domain, and a control section that judges that at least part of parameters that relate to a search space for monitoring the downlink control information is different, for each of the communication parameters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2017
    Publication date: January 23, 2020
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Kazuki Takeda, Kazuaki Takeda, Satoshi Nagata, Qin Mu, Liu Liu, Lihui Wang, Huiling Jiang
  • Publication number: 20200022177
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a downlink control information transmission method, including generating more than one downlink control information (DCI) according to scheduling information of a user equipment (UE); determining a detection order of the more than one DCI and positions of the more than one DCI in a searching space; adding a position indication field to a respective DCI according to the detection order of the more than one DCI and the positions of the more than one DCI in the searching space; wherein, the position indication field is used to indicate a position of a next DCI of the respective DCI in the detection order; in which, a position indication field in a last DCI in the detection order is used to indicate a position of a first DCI in the detection order; and transmitting the more than one DCI in the searching space according to the positions of the more than one DCI in the searching space. The present disclosure also provides a UE-side method, a corresponding base station and a UE.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2018
    Publication date: January 16, 2020
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Liu LIU, Qin MU, Jing WANG, Lihui WANG, Huiling JIANG, Xiaohong ZHANG, Yong LI
  • Patent number: 10536963
    Abstract: A user terminal is disclosed that is configurable with a plurality of component carriers. The user terminal has a receiver that receives at least one of downlink control information and Radio Resource Control (RRC) signaling, a transmitter that transmits uplink control information (UCI), which includes at least delivery acknowledgment information, in a specific resource, by using a specific Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH) format (PF), and a processor that executes control to select the specific PF and the specific resource based on a payload size of at least a part of the UCI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Kazuki Takeda, Satoshi Nagata, Lihui Wang, Liu Liu, Huiling Jiang
  • Publication number: 20200015119
    Abstract: The present invention is designed to prevent communication performance from dropping in long TTI when preemption of long TTI by short TTI occurs. According to one aspect of the present invention, a user terminal has a receiving section that receives downlink (DL) data based on downlink control information (DCI) in a first transmission time interval (TTI), a transmission section that transmits delivery acknowledgement information in response to the DL data, and a control section that controls timing of transmitting the delivery acknowledgement information when indication information regarding preemption of the first TTI by a second TTI shorter than the first TTI is received in the receiving section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2017
    Publication date: January 9, 2020
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Kazuki Takeda, Satoshi Nagata, Qun Zhao, Xiaohang Chen, Xiaolin Hou, Huiling Jiang
  • Publication number: 20200015235
    Abstract: The present invention is designed to reduce the deterioration of communication quality and so on even when communication is performed by applying different configurations than in existing LTE systems. A receiving section that receives a downlink control channel, and a control section that controls receipt of the down link control channel, are provided, the downlink control channel is transmitted using downlink control channel elements including a plurality of resource element groups (REGs), and the control section controls receiving processes per REG group comprised of a plurality of REGs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2018
    Publication date: January 9, 2020
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Kazuki Takeda, Satoshi Nagata, Qin Mu, Xu Zhang, Liu Liu, Huiling Jiang
  • Publication number: 20200015261
    Abstract: The present invention is designed to prevent communicating directions from conflicting with each other. According to one aspect of the present invention, a terminal has a receiving section that receives downlink control information to schedule transmission and/or receipt of data in a predetermined slot, and a control section that judges the direction of communication in the predetermined slot and that controls transmission and/or receipt.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2017
    Publication date: January 9, 2020
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Kazuki Takeda, Satoshi Nagata, Lihui Wang, Xiaolin Hou, Huiling Jiang
  • Publication number: 20200014517
    Abstract: According to one aspect of the present invention, a terminal has a receiving section that receives configuration information for multiplexing a short uplink control channel having a short time length and a long uplink control channel having a longer time length than the short uplink control channel within a predetermined period, and a control section that decides whether or not to multiplex the short uplink control channel and the long uplink control channel in the predetermined period based on the configuration information. According to one aspect of the present invention, uplink control information can be reported properly even when multiple uplink control channels of varying time lengths are used.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2017
    Publication date: January 9, 2020
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Kazuki Takeda, Satoshi Nagata, Lihui Wang, Xiaolin Hou, Huiling Jiang
  • Publication number: 20200014491
    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: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2018
    Publication date: January 9, 2020
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Kazuki Takeda, Satoshi Nagata, Lihui Wang, Xiaolin Hou, Huiling Jiang
  • Publication number: 20200008232
    Abstract: The present invention is designed to transmit and/or receive data adequately even when data scheduling methods that are different from those of existing LTE systems are applied. a receiving section that receives downlink control information, and a control section that controls receipt and/or transmission of data scheduled by the downlink control information, where data that is transmitted in the same slot as and/or a different slot from that of the downlink control information is scheduled by the downlink control information, and the control section identifies the position in the time direction where the data is allocated, based on the downlink control information and/or common control information that is common to predetermined user terminals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2018
    Publication date: January 2, 2020
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Kazuki Takeda, Satoshi Nagata, Lihui Wang, Xiaolin Hou, Huiling Jiang
  • Publication number: 20200007213
    Abstract: A method of Channel State Information (CSI) reporting in a wireless communication system includes performing, with a user equipment (UE), advanced CSI reporting based on a high resolution CSI feedback scheme. The advanced CSI reporting includes a beam index that identifies each of beams and amplitude of the beam corresponding to the beam index. The performing performs the advanced CSI reporting using a Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH) format 3/4/5. The beam index and the amplitude are located in the PUCCH format 3/4/5. The performing performs first advanced CSI reporting and performs second advanced CSI reporting after performing the first advanced CSI reporting. The first advanced CSI reporting includes one of the beam index and the amplitude. The second advanced CSI reporting includes the beam index or the amplitude that is not included in the first advanced CSI reporting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2018
    Publication date: January 2, 2020
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yuichi Kakishima, Chongning Na, Huiling Li, Huiling Jiang, Satoshi Nagata
  • Patent number: 10524238
    Abstract: According to the present invention, periodic CSI reporting that is suitable for use when the number of component carriers that can be configured per user terminal is expanded more than in existing systems can be implemented. According to the present invention, a user terminal has a transmission section that transmits channel state information periodically, and a control section that controls the transmission of the channel state information, and the control section controls the transmission of a plurality of channel state information using a PUCCH format which can use a plurality of resource blocks and/or which has a smaller spreading factor than the spreading factor of PUCCH format 3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Kazuki Takeda, Tooru Uchino, Satoshi Nagata, Lihui Wang, Liu Liu, Huiling Jiang
  • Patent number: 10516437
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide a signal transmission method of a wireless communication system, the method comprising: selecting a phase compensation value for a k-th layer of user data of the wireless communication system, performing, according to the phase compensation value, phase rotation on a reference signal in the k-th layer user data, so that a signal power of the reference signal, after performing interference mitigation thereon at a transmission end, does not exceed a predetermined power threshold, wherein, k is selected from 1 to M, and M is less than or equal to K, and K is the total number of layers of user data of the wireless communication system; and transmitting, through a wireless channel, the reference signal after the phase rotation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2019
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Xin Wang, Xiaolin Hou, Huiling Jiang
  • Publication number: 20190387552
    Abstract: The present invention provides an on-demand processing method performed in a communication system, and a corresponding user equipment and a base station, wherein the method for performing on-demand processing performed by the user equipment includes: transmitting an on-demand signaling trigger signal, and the on-demand signaling trigger The signal is used to trigger the base station to send the on-demand signaling, receive the on-demand signaling sent by the base station; perform on-demand processing according to the on-demand signaling sent by the base station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2018
    Publication date: December 19, 2019
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Jing Wang, Liu Liu, Huiling Jiang, Hiroki Harada, Satoshi Nagata
  • Patent number: 10506633
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method for determining a size of a contention window, a wireless base station and a mobile station. An information transmission method according to an embodiment of the present invention is performed by the wireless base station, and comprises: obtaining a contention window parameter regarding at least one mobile station; determining a size of a contention window to be used by the at least one mobile station according to the obtained contention window parameter; and generating backoff information according to the determined size of the contention window, and notifying the at least one mobile station of the backoff information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, INC.
    Inventors: Jing Wang, Liu Liu, Huiling Jiang, Hiroki Harada, Satoshi Nagata
  • Publication number: 20190373567
    Abstract: The present invention is designed so that transmission power is controlled adequately even when communication is performed using a plurality of transmission time intervals (TTIs) of varying lengths. According to one aspect of the present invention, a user terminal has a transmission section that transmits signals using a plurality of transmission time intervals (TTIs) of varying lengths, and a control section that controls the transmission power of a first signal that is transmitted in a first TTI, and the transmission power of a second signal that is transmitted in a second TTI having a shorter TTI duration than the first TTI, and, when the total transmission power of the first signal and the second signal that are transmitted in an overlapping manner exceeds the maximum transmission power, the control section exerts control so that transmission power is preferentially allocated to one of the first signal and the second signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2018
    Publication date: December 5, 2019
    Applicant: NTT Docomo, Inc.
    Inventors: Kazuki TAKEDA, Satoshi NAGATA, Lihui WANG, Xiaolin HOU, Huiling JIANG
  • Publication number: 20190373613
    Abstract: The present invention is designed so that uplink control channels can be transmitted adequately even in carriers in which listening is required prior to transmission. According to one aspect of the present invention, a user terminal has a transmission section that transmits an uplink control signal in an uplink control channel in a given carrier, and a control section that exerts control to map the uplink control channel to a plurality of frequency resources which are discretely distributed in a frequency direction, at a same timing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2017
    Publication date: December 5, 2019
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Hiroki Harada, Satoshi Nagata, Jing Wang, Liu Liu, Huiling Jiang
  • Publication number: 20190372743
    Abstract: The present invention is designed to control monitoring of DL control channel candidates in sTTIs adequately. A user terminal, according to the present invention, has a receiving section that receives downlink control information (DCI), and a control section that controls monitoring of DL control channel candidates in sTTIs based on the DCI. When the DCI is not detected, the control section assumes that the monitoring of DL control channel candidates in the sTTIs is activated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2018
    Publication date: December 5, 2019
    Applicant: NTT Docomo, Inc.
    Inventors: Kazuki TAKEDA, Satoshi NAGATA, Lihui WANG, Liu LIU, Xiaolin HOU, Huiling JIANG, Can LI, Yong Li
  • Publication number: 20190364557
    Abstract: The present invention is designed so that uplink control information such as delivery acknowledgment signals can be transmitted properly, even when UL/DL configurations are changed, in a communication system that is configured to use listening. According to one aspect of the present invention, a user terminal has a receiving section that receives downlink control information and downlink data, a transmission section that transmits a delivery acknowledgment signal in response to the downlink data, and a control section that controls transmission of the delivery acknowledgment signal based on a result of UL listening which is executed before transmission of the delivery acknowledgment signal, and based on information that is contained in the downlink control information and/or timing that is configured in advance on a per DL burst basis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2017
    Publication date: November 28, 2019
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Hiroki Harada, Satoshi Nagata, Jing Wang, Liu Liu, Huiling Jiang
  • Publication number: 20190356373
    Abstract: The present invention is designed to suitably mitigate the decrease in communication throughput even when type-II feedback is used. According to one aspect of the present invention, a user terminal has a control section that determines a beam pattern that shows a fixed set of beams, and determines at least one beam that is not included in the beam pattern; and a transmission section that transmits feedback information related to the beam pattern and the at least one beam that is determined.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2018
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Kazuaki Takeda, Satoshi Nagata, Chongning Na, Huiling Li, Huiling Jiang, Yuichi Kakishima
  • Publication number: 20190356378
    Abstract: The invention is designed to switch beams quickly. A user terminal, according to the present invention, has a receiving section that receives a downlink (DL) signal, and a control section that controls a beam to use to transmit and/or receive the DL signal. When the DL signal is transmitted and/or received using one or more candidate beams, the control section selects the beam based on the measurement results of the demodulation reference signals of one or more antenna ports that respectively correspond to the one or more candidate beams.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2018
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Kazuaki Takeda, Satoshi Nagata, Chongning Na, Min Liu, Huiling Jiang, Yuichi Kakishima