Patents by Inventor Jinfang Zhang

Jinfang 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).

  • Publication number: 20240099393
    Abstract: A vaping device is disclosed, which includes: a casing; a microphone assembly provided at the bottom of the casing, wherein a first storage volume and a second storage volume, which are integrally connected, are arranged in the casing and above the microphone assembly, an atomization assembly is installed in the first storage volume and a battery assembly is installed in the second storage volume; and a pivotable cover assembly for replacing a battery, wherein the pivotable cover assembly is configured to be connected to the casing and provided at the top of the first storage volume and the second storage volume.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: SHENZHEN FUNYIN ELECTRONIC TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ying ZHOU, Jinfang ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20240107370
    Abstract: The present application provides a method and device for wireless communications. The first node transmits a first radio signal, the first radio signal carries a first data unit; receives a first status report, the first status report indicates whether the first data unit set is successfully received; maintains a first variable of the first data unit; maintains a second variable; herein, the first status report indicates a negative confirmation for the first data unit; the maintaining a first variable of the first data unit comprises: when the first data unit is considered a first retransmission, setting a value of a first variable of the first data unit to 0; the maintaining a second variable comprises: when all conditions in the first condition set are met, a value of the second variable being increased by 1. The present application effectively monitors radio link.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: SHANGHAI LANGBO COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Jinfang ZHANG, Xiaobo ZHANG
  • Patent number: 11943744
    Abstract: A sidelink communication method, a terminal device, and a network device are provided. In some embodiments, a terminal device receives resource configuration information sent by a network device, where the resource configuration information is for configuring a common resource for the terminal device, and the common resource is a resource that is configured by the network device for all terminal devices within coverage of the network device and that is to be used by all the terminal devices to perform sidelink communication. The terminal device receives sidelink BWP indication information sent by the network device, where the sidelink BWP indication information indicates N sidelink bandwidth parts SL-BWPs, and the N SL-BWPs include a frequency domain resource corresponding to the common resource, where N is a positive integer. The terminal device performs sidelink communication with another terminal device in the N SL-BWPs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hongjia Su, Jun Luo, Jinfang Zhang, Lei Lu
  • Publication number: 20240098750
    Abstract: The present application provides a method and device for wireless communications. A first node receives a first data unit at a MAC sublayer; receives a first signaling, the first signaling indicates a first time-domain resource, the first time-domain resource is reserved for retransmission of a first MAC PDU, the first MAC PDU comprises the first data unit; wherein a first time length is a length of a time interval between a reception of the first data unit and the first time-domain resource, whether to transmit first control information depends on a size relation between the first time length and a first time threshold; the first control information is used to indicate dropping retransmission of the first MAC PDU. The present application can effectively improve radio efficiency, reduce transmission delay, and reduce power consumption of the UE.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: SHANGHAI LANGBO COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Jinfang ZHANG, Xiaobo ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20240089951
    Abstract: The present application discloses a method and a device for wireless communications. A first node receives a first data unit in a first protocol layer, the first protocol layer being a layer above a physical layer; receives a first signaling, the first signaling indicating an initial transmission; and transmits a first radio signal, the first radio signal carrying a first MAC PDU, the first signaling being used to schedule the first radio signal; herein, a first time length is equal to a time interval length between a reception of the first data unit and a transmission of the first radio signal, and whether the first MAC PDU comprises at least partial bits in the first data unit is related to a relative magnitude of the first time length and a first time threshold. The present application can enhance the system capacity and reduce the UE's power consumption.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: SHANGHAI LANGBO COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Jinfang ZHANG, Xiaobo ZHANG
  • Patent number: 11902185
    Abstract: A sidelink information transmission method, a communications device, and a network device, the method including sending, by a network device, first indication information to a device, the first indication information indicating a first resource that is a resource set used to transmit sidelink information, where the first indication information is used to obtain a correspondence satisfied by a time-domain resource and a frequency-domain resource of a resource that is in the first resource and that is used to transmit the sidelink control information, and sending, to the device, control information indicating a second resource belonging to the first resource, and having a third resource used to send the sidelink control information to a second communications device and satisfying the correspondence, and having a fourth resource used by the device to send the sidelink data to a second device based on the sidelink control information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhengzheng Xiang, Jinfang Zhang, Hongjia Su, Lei Lu
  • Patent number: 11903010
    Abstract: This application provides a sidelink quality measurement method and a communications apparatus. The method includes: A first terminal device sends a reference signal to a second terminal device, where the reference signal is used to determine channel state information of a first sidelink, and the first sidelink is a direct link from the first terminal device to the second terminal device. The first terminal device receives, from the second terminal device, the channel state information of the first sidelink.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tianze Li, Zhengzheng Xiang, Jinfang Zhang, Hongjia Su, Lei Lu
  • Publication number: 20240049326
    Abstract: The present application discloses a method and a device for wireless communications. A first node receives a first message, the first message being used for configuring a first RLC entity and a second RLC entity; and transmits a first data unit set via the second RLC entity; and as a response to any condition in a first condition set being satisfied, starts to transmit a second data unit set via the first RLC entity; herein, each data unit comprised by the second RLC entity is transmitted via a second link in an air interface; the first condition set comprises that the second link is failed; each data unit comprised by the first RLC entity is transmitted via a first link in an air interface. The present application can enhance the robustness of data transmission with energy being saved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Applicant: SHANGHAI LANGBO COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Jinfang ZHANG, Xiaobo ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20240015839
    Abstract: The present application discloses a method and a device for DRX in wireless communications. A first node receives a first signaling and a first bit block, the first signaling being used for scheduling the first bit block; and maintains a first timer; and as a response to receiving the first signaling, starts or restarts a second timer; and when either of the first timer and the second timer is in a running state, monitors a first-type target signaling; herein, the first timer and the second timer are configured for a same DRX group; the action of maintaining a first timer comprises adjusting the time while the first timer is running; when each condition in a first condition set is satisfied, the reception of the first bit block is used for adjusting the time while the first timer is running. The present application supports DRX running in an effective manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 4, 2023
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Applicant: SHANGHAI LANGBO COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Jinfang ZHANG, Xiaobo ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20230397288
    Abstract: Discloses a method and a device for wireless communications. A first node maintains a first timer, and maintains a second timer; transmits a first message, the first message comprising an RRC signaling; and determines whether to switch an RRC state according to both a state of the first timer and a state of the second timer; herein, the action of maintaining a first timer comprises: along with the first message, starting the first timer; the action of determining whether to switch an RRC state according to both a state of the first timer and a state of the second timer comprises: when the second timer is not in a running state, as a response to that the first timer is expired, switching from an RRC inactive state to a first RRC state. The present application implements the failure detection of small data transmission.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2023
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Applicant: SHANGHAI LANGBO COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Jinfang ZHANG, Xiaobo ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20230389052
    Abstract: The present application provides a method and device for relay wireless communications. A node receives a first message through sidelink; determines a first transmission mode based on at least the first message; transmits a first bit group by adopting the first transmission mode, the first bit group comprises at least one bit; wherein the first transmission mode is one transmission mode in a candidate transmission mode set, the candidate transmission mode set comprises a transmission through cellular link and a transmission through sidelink; the first message indicates a first condition set, and the first condition set comprises at least one condition; when condition(s) in the first condition set is(are) satisfied. The reasonable selection of small data transmission mode in the relay transmission network architecture of the present application can effectively reduce the signaling overhead of the relay node and reduce the power consumption of the relay node.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2023
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Applicant: SHANGHAI LANGBO COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Jinfang ZHANG, Xiaobo ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20230379881
    Abstract: The present application provides a method and device for wireless communications. A first node receives a first paging message; as a response to receiving the first paging message, executes a first procedure, and the behavior of executing a first procedure comprises transmitting a first message; wherein the first paging message instructs a first radio bearer executing data transmission in RRC_INACTIVE state; the first message at least comprises a CCCH message; whether a first condition set is met is used to determine whether a first sub-message is comprised in the first message, when all conditions in the first condition set are met, the first message does not comprise the first sub-message; when any condition in the first condition set is not met, the first message comprises the first sub-message. The present application effectively supports downlink-triggered Small Data Transmission (SDT).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2023
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Applicant: SHANGHAI LANGBO COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Jinfang ZHANG, Xiaobo ZHANG
  • Patent number: 11825421
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses example power control methods and apparatuses. One example method includes determining a transmit power of a control channel and a first data subchannel, where the control channel and the first data subchannel completely overlap in time domain and do not overlap in frequency domain. A transmit power of a second data subchannel is determined to be the same as the transmit power of the control channel and the first data subchannel, where the second data subchannel and the control channel overlap in frequency domain and do not overlap in time domain. The control channel and the first data subchannel are sent to a second terminal apparatus at the transmit power of the control channel and the first data subchannel. The second data subchannel is sent to the second terminal apparatus at the transmit power of the control channel and the first data subchannel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Wenting Guo, Jinfang Zhang, Zhengzheng Xiang, Lei Lu
  • Patent number: 11812455
    Abstract: Example communication methods and apparatus are described. One example communication method includes receiving first indication information by a first communications device from a network device, where the first indication information indicates a first resource for sidelink communication. The first communications device sends the first data to a second communications device. The first communications device receives second indication information from the network device, where the second indication information is used to determine a second resource for transmitting feedback information. The first communications device receives feedback information of the first data from the second communications device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhengzheng Xiang, Hongjia Su, Jinfang Zhang, Lei Lu, Jun Luo
  • Publication number: 20230337183
    Abstract: The present application provides a method and device used for wireless communications. A first node receives a first paging message; as a response to receiving the first paging message, monitors a first signaling in a first time window, the first signaling is used to indicate resuming a first radio bearer set; executes a first action at least according to whether the first signaling is received; herein, the behavior of executing a first action at least according to whether the first signaling is received comprises: when the first signaling is received and an uplink time is aligned, the first action is transmitting a first feedback message; when the first signaling is received and an uplink time is not aligned, or when the first signaling is not received, the first action is executing a first random access procedure. The present application effectively supports small data transmission.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2023
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Applicant: SHANGHAI LANGBO COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Jinfang ZHANG, Xiaobo ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20230292307
    Abstract: The present application provides a method and device for wireless communications. A first node receives a first signaling, the first signaling is used to activate a first scheduling, or the first signaling is used to de-activate a first scheduling; a first processor, as a response to receiving the first signaling, executes a first action, the first action is related to a current RRC state; wherein the phrase of the first action being related to a current RRC state comprises: for RRC_CONNECTED State and RRC_INACTIVE State, only when the current RRC state is RRC_CONNECTED State, the first action comprises transmitting a first HARQ-ACK on a first time-frequency resource block; the first scheduling is executed after being activated and before being deactivated. The present application can effectively support data transmission in RRC_INACTIVE State.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2023
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Applicant: SHANGHAI LANGBO COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Jinfang ZHANG, Xiaobo ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20230269665
    Abstract: A method and a device used for wireless communications. A first node receives a first radio signal, and decodes the first radio signal for obtaining at least one MAC SDU, any MAC SDU of the at least one MAC SDU belonging to a target logical channel set; and determines whether to initialize a first timer according to whether the at least one MAC SDU belongs to a given logical channel set, specifically comprising: if any of the at least one MAC SDU belongs to the given logical channel set, initializing the first timer; if none of the at least one MAC SDU belongs to the given logical channel set, not initializing the first timer; herein, the first radio signal is scrambled by a non-unicast RNTI; any logical channel in the target logical channel set is used for multicast MBS. This application helps greatly reduce the UE power consumption.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2023
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Applicant: SHANGHAI LANGBO COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Jinfang ZHANG, Xiaobo ZHANG
  • Patent number: 11653412
    Abstract: This application provides a data transmission method and communications apparatus, to improve transmission efficiency. The method may include obtaining, by a MAC entity of a first communications device from an upper layer, first data on each of at least one first logical channel and second data on each of at least one second logical channel, where a service type or a destination address of the first data is different from a service type or a destination address of the second data. The method may also include generating, by the first communications device, a MAC PDU, where the MAC PDU includes the first data on each first logical channel and the second data on each second logical channel; and sending, by the first communications device, the MAC PDU through a direct link.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mingchao Li, Zhenzhen Cao, Hang Liu, Hejun Wang, Yinghui Yu, Xiao Xiao, Jinfang Zhang
  • Patent number: 11611384
    Abstract: A beam training method and a related device are disclosed. The method includes: sending, by a first communications device, sidelink control information (SCI) to a second communications device, where the SCI is used to instruct the first communications device to send at least one channel state information-reference signal (CSI-RS) to the second communications device; and sending, by the first communications device, the at least one CSI-RS to the second communications device based on the SCI, where the at least one CSI-RS is used by the second communications device to determine that a beam corresponding to a CSI-RS with highest signal strength in the at least one CSI-RS is a beam for communication between the second communications device and the first communications device. The CSI-RS used for beam training is dynamically sent based on the instruction of the SCI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhengzheng Xiang, Jun Luo, Hongjia Su, Jinfang Zhang, Lei Lu
  • Publication number: 20220417933
    Abstract: Example communication methods and apparatus are described. One example communication method includes receiving first indication information by a first communications device from a network device, where the first indication information indicates a first resource for sidelink communication. The first communications device sends the first data to a second communications device. The first communications device receives second indication information from the network device, where the second indication information is used to determine a second resource for transmitting feedback information. The first communications device receives feedback information of the first data from the second communications device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2022
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Inventors: Zhengzheng XIANG, Hongjia SU, Jinfang ZHANG, Lei LU, Jun LUO