Patents by Inventor Jie NIU
Jie NIU 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).
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Patent number: 12294455Abstract: A base station is configured to receive channel state information (CSI) from a user equipment (UE). The base station transmits configuration information including one or more interference measurement resources (IMRs) allocated for measurement by the UE, receives a reference CSI report from the UE, receives a new CSI report including interference and noise power fluctuation feedback from the UE and selects a modulation and coding scheme (MCS) for the UE based on at least the interference and noise power fluctuation feedback and the reference CSI report.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2020Date of Patent: May 6, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Weidong Yang, Chunhai Yao, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Hong He, Huaning Niu, Jie Cui, Manasa Raghavan, Oghenekome Oteri, Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian, Sigen Ye, Wei Zeng, Yang Tang, Yushu Zhang
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Patent number: 12289610Abstract: A network may transmit either beam deployment information or beam number information to a user equipment (UE) carried on a train and configured for operation in the millimeter wave band. The deployment information may include deployment related distance parameters or azimuth angle spread parameters. The beam number information may indicate a number of network beams associated with a current cell. The UE may determine a number of UE receive beams based on deployment information or the network-indicated number of network beams. The UE may transmit feedback to the network, indicating the number of UE receive beams. Alternatively, the network may send a configuration message indicating a first number of UE receive beams to the UE, which the UE may treat as an upper bound or lower bound in its determination of a desired number of UE receive beams. The UE may transmit the desired number to the network.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2021Date of Patent: April 29, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Huaning Niu, Jie Cui, Dawei Zhang, Yang Tang, Manasa Raghavan, Qiming Li, Xiang Chen, Haitong Sun, Yushu Zhang
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Patent number: 12289647Abstract: Some aspects of this disclosure relate to apparatuses and methods for implementing techniques for generating a report result based on a set of measurements performed at measurement gaps during a reporting period. The set of measurements are performed on a reference signal at a first bandwidth part (BWP) or a second BWP when BWP switching is performed. The first BWP has a first measurement gap configuration, the second BWP has a second measurement gap configuration. The measurement gaps of the reporting period are configured according to a third measurement gap configuration that is determined based on the first measurement gap configuration and the second measurement gap configuration.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2021Date of Patent: April 29, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Dawei Zhang, Yang Tang, Jie Cui, Xiang Chen, Manasa Raghavan, Huaning Niu, Qiming Li
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Patent number: 12289267Abstract: This disclosure relates to techniques for periodic reference signal activation and deactivation in a wireless communication system. Information configuring periodic reference signals may be received by a wireless device. Information deactivating some or all of the periodic reference signals may be received by the wireless device. The information deactivating some or all of the periodic reference signals may be received using different signaling type than the information configuring the periodic reference signals.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2021Date of Patent: April 29, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Yushu Zhang, Qiming Li, Haitong Sun, Jie Cui, Huaning Niu, Chunxuan Ye, Wei Zeng, Dawei Zhang
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Patent number: 12284680Abstract: Aspects herein relate to wireless devices, circuits, and methods for determining a PRACH resource mapping comprising a starting symbol position within a reference slot, wherein the starting symbol position is determined based, at least in part, on a subcarrier spacing configuration of PRACH resources of a wireless network that a wireless device is operating on; and using the radio to transmit a RACH preamble and an associated RA-RNTI via the determined PRACH resource mapping. Further aspects herein relate to devices, circuits, and methods for using a modified RA-RNTI for transmission or reception of data over a wireless network, wherein the wireless network has a subcarrier spacing configuration of PRACH resources, wherein a size of the subcarrier spacing configuration of the PRACH resources causes out-of-range RA-RNTI values to be calculated using a legacy RA-RNTI equation in an unmodified form, wherein the range of permissible RA-RNTI values is from 0 to 216?1.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2021Date of Patent: April 22, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Hong He, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Huaning Niu, Jie Cui, Oghenekome Oteri, Wei Zeng, Yang Tang
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Patent number: 12283752Abstract: The present disclosure belongs to the technical field of OAM antennas, and provides a frequency re-configurable OAM antenna in S band and a frequency reconfiguration method. The OAM antenna includes a lower dielectric substrate and multiple array units. Each array unit includes a metal patch, an upper dielectric substrate, an outer loop, an inner loop, a coaxial feeder, four metal probes, and four diodes. In the present disclosure, bias states of all the diodes of each array unit are controlled by applying a voltage; when all the diodes are in forward bias states, the antenna works at a high frequency; and when all the diodes are in reverse bias states, the antenna works at a low frequency. The frequency re-configurable OAM antenna in S band in the present disclosure has features of frequency reconfiguration and two OAM radiation modes, and has a stable gain over a broadband.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2022Date of Patent: April 22, 2025Assignee: Anhui UniversityInventors: Zhixiang Huang, Sixian Qian, Jie Wu, Kaikun Niu, Yi Li, Shuyang An, Xingang Ren, Lixia Yang, Xianliang Wu
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Patent number: 12276881Abstract: A light-emitting substrate includes a substrate and a plurality of light-emitting assemblies. The plurality of light-emitting assemblies are located on a side of the substrate. At least one light-emitting assembly includes a light-emitting element and a light adjustment portion arranged around the light-emitting element. The light adjustment portion includes a plurality of sub-structures spaced apart from each other. In any two sub-structures in the light adjustment portion in any direction away from the light-emitting element, a height of a sub-structure closer to the light-emitting element is less than a height of a sub-structure farther from the light-emitting element.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2022Date of Patent: April 15, 2025Assignees: BOE MLED TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Pei Qin, Yutao Hao, Hao Zhou, Donglei Li, Ying Chen, Honghao Yu, Jie Gao, Jiaxin Li, Jingran Niu, Jinpeng Li
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Publication number: 20250119197Abstract: A base station includes a transceiver and a processor. The processor is configured to transmit a first synchronization signal block (SSB) burst including a first set of SSBs. The first set of SSBs is transmitted via the transceiver on a first set of beams having a first beam pattern. The processor is also configured to signal, via the transceiver, a change in beam pattern for transmitted SSBs. The change in beam pattern is signaled before or during transmission of a second SSB burst. The processor is further configured to transmit the second SSB burst. The second SSB burst includes a second set of SSBs transmitted via the transceiver on a second set of beams having a second beam pattern. The second set of beams has a different number of beams than the first set of beams, and the second set of SSBs has a different number of SSBs than the first set of SSBs.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 18, 2022Publication date: April 10, 2025Inventors: Yushu ZHANG, Wei ZENG, Haitong SUN, Dawei ZHANG, Jie CUI, Sigen YE, Huaning NIU, Qiming LI
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Publication number: 20250119920Abstract: A method includes: receiving a first message from a network element in the wireless network, the first message comprising validity information for a downlink transmission resource associated with a downlink transmission; and in response to the validity information indicating the downlink transmission resource being invalid, skipping monitoring the downlink transmission resource.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 22, 2022Publication date: April 10, 2025Inventors: Xiubin SHA, Bo DAI, He HUANG, Yuan GAO, Ting LU, Li NIU, Jie TAN
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Publication number: 20250119199Abstract: Systems, methods, and circuitries are disclosed for avoiding slot decoding failure due to beam switching of a common beam. In one example, a baseband processor for a user equipment (UE) is configured to cause the UE to perform various operations. The operations include receiving a data transmission on a plurality of component carriers (CCs) carrying corresponding symbols on a common beam; receiving a beam switch command from the network node, wherein the beam switch command is configured to cause the UE to switch a receiving (RX) beam at an end boundary of a first symbol of the data transmission; identifying one or more symbols for restricted scheduling in one or more CCs of the plurality of CCs based on the beam switching on the first symbol; and ignoring the one or more symbols identified for restricted scheduling for decoding of the data transmission.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 11, 2022Publication date: April 10, 2025Inventors: Jie Cui, Yang Tang, Manasa Raghavan, Qiming Li, Xiang Chen, Huaning Niu, Dawei Zhang, Hong He
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Patent number: 12271701Abstract: This disclosure relates to a method and an apparatus for training a text classification model. The method may include determining a semantic representation of the training sample using the text classification model and determining a predicted classification result of the training sample based on the semantic representation. The method may further include generating an adversarial sample corresponding to the training sample based on the training sample and perturbation information and determining a semantic representation of the adversarial sample corresponding to the training sample using the text classification model.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2022Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITEDInventors: Yao Qiu, Jinchao Zhang, Jie Zhou, Cheng Niu
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Patent number: 12273827Abstract: The present disclosure relates to devices, apparatuses, and methods for enhanced PHR reporting in support of UE antenna scaling. A wireless device, which comprises at least one antenna array each comprising a plurality of antenna elements may perform antenna scaling by activating or deactivating at least one of the plurality of antenna elements (with corresponding RF chains) of one or more antenna arrays. The wireless device may generate a power headroom (PHR) report based at least on a difference between beamforming gains obtained after the antenna scaling and before the antenna scaling. The wireless device may then send the PHR report to a base station in communication with the wireless device.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2021Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Xiang Chen, Anatoliy S Ioffe, Dawei Zhang, Fucheng Wang, Huaning Niu, Jie Cui, Manasa Raghavan, Qiming Li, Yang Tang
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Patent number: 12273176Abstract: A user equipment (UE) is configured to establish a connection to a base station, wherein the base station configures the UE with a first beam corresponding to a first transmission reception point (TRP) and a second beam corresponding to a second TRP, wherein the first and second beam are in frequency range 2 (FR2) and wherein the UE does not support simultaneous reception of multiple beams in FR2, detect a beam failure during a beam failure detection (BFD) evaluation period, identify one or more candidate beams during a candidate beam detection (CBD) evaluation period and transmit a beam failure recovery (BFR) request to the base station.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2021Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Manasa Raghavan, Jie Cui, Qiming Li, Yushu Zhang, Yang Tang, Haitong Sun, Huaning Niu, Xiang Chen, Dawei Zhang
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Patent number: 12273898Abstract: Techniques described herein may include a special scheduling cell (sSCell) provided for dynamic spectrum sharing (DSS). The sSCell may schedule a primary cell of a master cell group (MCG) or a primary cell of a secondary cell group (SCG). The primary cell may be referred to as a special cell or SpCell. The sSCell may be activated and/or deactivated, enter in or exit from a state of dormancy, and radio link monitoring (RLM), beam failure recovery (BFR), and cell grouping parameters may be provided. Techniques described herein include configuring a UE-specific search space (USS) with non-fallback downlink control information (DCI), USS with fallback DCI, and overall search space for DSS enhancement.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2021Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Haitong Sun, Dawei Zhang, Wei Zeng, Yushu Zhang, Hong He, Chunxuan Ye, Huaning Niu, Jie Cui, Wei Zhang
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Patent number: 12273906Abstract: A cellular base station (BS) which transmits more flexible downlink control information (DCI) to the UE, and a UE capable of receiving and processing a received DCI message. The DCI message may have a DCI format of 0_1 or 0_2 and further may comprise an UL-SCH set to 0, a CSI request field of all 0s and an SRS request field having a nonzero value. The DCI message may indicate to the UE that the UE should: 1) transmit an aperiodic SRS corresponding to SRS request; and 2) that the UE should not transmit on the PUSCH. The DCI may include existing fields that specify either a slot offset or beam information useable when transmitting the aperiodic SRS. The base station may also generate a DCI message with an SRS trigger that is targeted to a plurality of UEs in a group, or a plurality of groups of UEs, for greater efficiency.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2020Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Haitong Sun, Yushu Zhang, Huaning Niu, Hong He, Wei Zeng, Chunxuan Ye, Oghenekome Oteri, Sigen Ye, Dawei Zhang, Chunhai Yao, Jie Cui, Yang Tang
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Publication number: 20250106786Abstract: A user equipment including a transceiver and a processor is configured to receive, from a base station and via the transceiver, a set of resource indicators identifying a set of beams and a configuration for reporting a duty cycle for transmission in an uplink direction for at least one resource indicator of the set of resource indicators. The processor is also configured to, at least one of periodically or based on an event reported by a body proximity sensor (BPS), determine the duty cycle for transmission in the uplink direction for the at least one resource indicator of the set of resource indicators; and transmit, to the base station via using the transceiver, the determined duty cycle and the corresponding at least one resource indicator of the set of resource indicators according to the received configuration for reporting the duty cycle.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 5, 2022Publication date: March 27, 2025Inventors: Huaning NIU, Dawei ZHANG, Jie CUI, Manasa RAGHAVAN, Qiming LI, Xiang CHEN, Yang TANG, Yushu ZHANG
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Publication number: 20250106719Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods for enhancement in NTN mobility. A cellular base station may serve as a source base station of a handover procedure from the source base station to a target non-terrestrial network (NTN) base station. The cellular base station may configure a parameter associated with the target NTN base station in a handover command, the parameter being related to NTN mobility, and send the handover command to a wireless device for use by the wireless device during the handover procedure. The wireless device may receive the handover command from the cellular base station, and perform the handover procedure using the parameter associated with the target NTN base station.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2024Publication date: March 27, 2025Inventors: Jie Cui, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Hong He, Huaning Niu, Manasa Raghavan, Qiming LI, Sarma V. VANGALA, Xiang CHEN, Yang TANG
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Patent number: 12262331Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods for power headroom reporting in integrated access and backhaul nodes.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2021Date of Patent: March 25, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian, Yushu Zhang, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Hong He, Huaning Niu, Jie Cui, Wei Zeng, Weidong Yang
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Patent number: 12261797Abstract: A user equipment (UE) is configured to determine to perform a sounding reference signal (SRS) transmission with an antenna port switch operation, wherein the SRS transmission with the antenna port switch operation is performed during an SRS transmission occasion comprising one or more symbols of a slot and apply one or more scheduling restriction rules corresponding to the SRS transmission with the antenna port switch to provide one or more scheduling restrictions for the UE, wherein the scheduling restrictions cause the UE to omit performing at least one of transmission operations or reception operations during one or more symbols of the slot or one or more symbols of an adjacent slot.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2021Date of Patent: March 25, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Jie Cui, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Hong He, Huaning Niu, Manasa Raghavan, Qiming Li, Xiang Chen, Yang Tang
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Patent number: 12262399Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods for latency reduction for beam failure recovery (BFR), with respect to transmit-receive point (TRP)-specific BFR.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2021Date of Patent: March 25, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Yushu Zhang, Chunhai Yao, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Huaning Niu, Jie Cui, Qiming Li, Sigen Ye, Wei Zeng