Patents by Inventor Lianhai Wu

Lianhai Wu 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: 12232114
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present application are directed to a method and apparatus for data indication in an MT-EDT procedure. In an embodiment of the present application, the method includes receiving DL data from a base station in an MT-EDT procedure; and determining whether to transmit UL data associated with the DL data in the MT-EDT procedure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Lenovo (Beijing) Limited
    Inventors: Jie Shi, Lianhai Wu, Jing Han, Haiming Wang, Jie Hu
  • Publication number: 20250056646
    Abstract: The present application relates to methods and apparatuses for paging enhancement in mobile terminating small data transmission (MT-SDT). One embodiment of the present disclosure provides a first network node, which includes: a processor; a transceiver coupled to the processor, wherein the processor is configured to: receive, via the transceiver, first information associated with mobile terminating small data transmission (MT-SDT) for a user equipment (UE) from a second network node; and determine whether or not to indicate the MT-SDT to the UE based on at least the first information received from the second network node.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Publication date: February 13, 2025
    Applicant: Lenovo (Beijing) Limited
    Inventors: Ran Yue, Lianhai Wu, Jing Han, Mingzeng Dai, Min Xu
  • Patent number: 12225625
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods and apparatuses. According to some embodiments of the disclosure, a method includes: selecting a first subscriber identity module from a plurality of subscriber identity modules of a user equipment; and transmitting a resume request message via the first subscriber identity module, wherein the resume request message comprises first radio access network (RAN)-based notification area (RNA) update information associated with the first subscriber identity module and second RNA update information associated with a second subscriber identity module of the plurality of subscriber identity modules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: Lenovo (Beijing) Ltd.
    Inventors: Lianhai Wu, Jie Shi, Haiming Wang, Jing Han, Jie Hu
  • Publication number: 20250048365
    Abstract: Embodiment of the present application is directed to a method and apparatus for slot format indication. According to an embodiment of the present application, the method includes receiving at least one signal indicating one of: whether at least one symbol at a beginning of a sequence of consecutive symbols transmitted or received over a communication link is reserved or is to be reserved, and whether at least one symbol at an end of the sequence of consecutive symbols transmitted or received over the communication link is reserved or is to be reserved. The at least one uplink transmission is performed based on the received signal in response to the communication link being associated with an uplink transmission. The at least one downlink reception is performed based on the received signal in response to the communication link being associated with downlink reception.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2024
    Publication date: February 6, 2025
    Inventors: Hongmei Liu, Lianhai Wu, Zhennian Sun, Haipeng Lei, Zhi Yan
  • Publication number: 20250048173
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present application relate to a method and apparatus of reporting buffer status. An exemplary UE includes: at least one receiving circuitry; at least one transmitting circuitry; and at least one processor coupled to the at least one receiving circuitry and the at least one transmitting circuitry, wherein the at least one processor is configured to: trigger a buffer status report (BSR) in response to a trigger condition associated with an application data unit (ADU) being satisfied; and generate buffer status information for the BSR.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2021
    Publication date: February 6, 2025
    Applicant: Lenovo (Beijing) Limited
    Inventors: Jing Han, Yibin Zhuo, Mingzeng Dai, Lianhai Wu, Congchi Zhang, Haiyan Luo, Haiming Wang
  • Patent number: 12218886
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for indicating carrier are disclosed. A method comprises transmitting a candidate carrier configuration, wherein the candidate carrier configuration includes at least one of a frequency position, a frequency offset, an operation mode, NRS information, CRS information, power offset and EUTRA system bandwidth of at least one candidate carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: Lenovo (Beijing) Limited
    Inventors: Zhi Yan, Haipeng Lei, Lianhai Wu, Jie Shi, Haiming Wang
  • Patent number: 12219479
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present application are related to a method and apparatus for grouping user equipments (UEs). A method according to an embodiment of the present application includes: determining grouping rule information on a set of UE grouping rules for wake up signal (WUS) supported in a base station (BS); and configuring WUS resource information and group information associated with the set of grouping rules. Embodiments of the present application can improve the legacy WUS mechanism and efficiently reduce false wake up probability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: Lenovo (Beijing) Limited
    Inventors: Jie Shi, Lianhai Wu, Haiming Wang, Jing Han, Jie Hu
  • Patent number: 12219655
    Abstract: A transmission method and apparatus of a discovery signal and a communication system. The transmission method of a discovery signal includes: determining one or more transmission resources from resource pools according to a sidelink discovery signal needing to be transmitted; and transmitting the sidelink discovery signal by using the one or more transmission resources; wherein the resource pools are segmented in a frequency domain and/or a time domain and hence comprise multiple types. Hence, cases of waste of resources or of impossible carrying may be reduced as much as possible even if sizes of discovery information are different due to different scenarios.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Hua Zhou, Lianhai Wu, Haibo Xu
  • Patent number: 12213009
    Abstract: The present application is related to a method and apparatus for controlling a cell selection procedure and a handover procedure under 3GPP 5G New Radio (NR) technology. A method for wireless communication performed by a user equipment (UE) includes: starting a first timer for controlling a cell selection procedure; and performing the cell selection procedure to select a cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Lenovo (Beijing) Limited
    Inventors: Lianhai Wu, Haiming Wang, Jing Han, Jie Shi, Jie Hu
  • Publication number: 20250031122
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods and apparatuses for conditional handover in a non-terrestrial network (NTN). An embodiment of the subject application provides a user equipment (UE). The UE includes a processor and a wireless transceiver coupled to the processor. The processor is configured to: receive, with the wireless transceiver, at least a conditional handover (CHO) configuration and a CHO execution condition for a target cell, wherein the CHO execution condition includes: a time-based event and at least one measurement-based event, or a location-based event and at least one measurement-based event; and evaluate whether the CHO execution condition is fulfilled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2021
    Publication date: January 23, 2025
    Inventors: Lianhai WU, Le YAN, Min XU, Mingzeng DAI, Haiming WANG
  • Publication number: 20250031093
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method and apparatus for wireless communication. According to some embodiments of the disclosure, a UE may detect uplink data with a first importance level becoming available to a medium access control (MAC) entity of the UE, wherein the first importance level may identify the relative importance information of the uplink data. The UE may trigger buffer status reporting (BSR) in response to the first importance level satisfying a criterion for triggering the BSR.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2021
    Publication date: January 23, 2025
    Inventors: Yibin Zhuo, Mingzeng Dai, Haiyan Luo, Jing Han, Lianhai Wu, Le Yan
  • Patent number: 12206512
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for scheduling enhancement for eMTC are disclosed. A method comprises determining a HARQ process number for a transport block (TB), wherein the HARQ process number is determined by at least one of a HARQ process field of a control signal, a fixed HARQ process number, a HARQ process number of earliest scheduled process in a time duration, a HARQ process number of a process with earliest feedback in a time duration, a scrambling code of the TB, and a predefined HARQ process number of a process in an earliest feedback bundle; and transmitting the TB with the determined HARQ process number.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Lenovo (Beijing) Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhi Yan, Haipeng Lei, Yingying Li, Lianhai Wu, Jie Shi, Haiming Wang
  • Publication number: 20250024508
    Abstract: The present application relates to a method and apparatus for random access in non-terrestrial networks (NTN). An embodiment of the present disclosure provides a user equipment (UE), which includes: a transceiver configured to: receive configuration information associated with repetition of a random access message; and a processor configured to: determine whether to transmit a request for the random access message with repetition, or determine whether to transmit the random access message with repetition for a random access procedure based on the configuration information, wherein the configuration information at least indicates one of the following: a signal strength parameter and a signal strength offset associated with the signal strength parameter; a non-signal-strength parameter; a non-signal-strength parameter and a non-signal-strength offset associated with the non-signal-strength parameter; or a signal strength parameter and a non-signal-strength parameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2021
    Publication date: January 16, 2025
    Applicant: Lenovo (Beijing) Limited
    Inventors: Min Xu, Ran Yue, Jing Han, Lianhai Wu, Jie Hu
  • Publication number: 20250024510
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present application relate to methods and apparatuses of a mobility robustness optimization (MRO) mechanism for uplink (UL) coverage enhancement (CE) and network slicing procedures. According to an embodiment of the present application, a user equipment (UE) includes a processor and a transceiver coupled to the processor; and the processor is configured: to receive, via the transceiver from a network node, configuration information regarding at least one of a network slicing operation or an uplink (UL) transmission repetition operation; to perform a UL data transmission procedure or a random access channel (RACH) procedure based on the configuration information; and to transmit, via the transceiver to a serving cell, assistant information related to a failure of the UL data transmission procedure or a random access problem of the RACH procedure, wherein the assistant information is associated with at least one of the network slicing operation or the UL transmission repetition operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2021
    Publication date: January 16, 2025
    Inventors: Lianhai Wu, Mingzeng Dai, Le Yan, Congchi Zhang, Yibin Zhuo
  • Patent number: 12200537
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods and apparatuses. According to some embodiments of the disclosure, a method performed by a communication device, includes: receiving, from a base station, a first configuration information indicating a threshold to configure the communication device, wherein the threshold is associated with data volume; determining whether congestion happens at the communication device based on the threshold; and transmitting a congestion indication to a first parent node via a Backhaul Adaptation Protocol (BAP) signaling message when it is determined that the congestion happens at the communication device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Lenovo (Beijing) Ltd.
    Inventors: Lianhai Wu, Joachim Löhr, Prateek Basu Mallick, Jie Shi, Haiming Wang, Jing Han
  • Patent number: 12200594
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods and apparatuses. According to some embodiments of the disclosure, a method includes: transmitting a signaling message to a first node on a backup backhaul route, the signaling message comprising an indication of a failure in a backhaul link including a second node different from the first node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Lenovo (Beijing) Limited
    Inventors: Lianhai Wu, Haiming Wang, Jing Han
  • Patent number: 12200797
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods and apparatuses. According to some embodiments of the disclosure, a method includes: transmitting radio link information, wherein the radio link information is associated with a backhaul link.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Lenovo (Beijing) Limited
    Inventors: Lianhai Wu, Jing Han, Haiming Wang, Jie Shi
  • Patent number: 12200700
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for time domain resource allocation are disclosed. A method comprises: receiving a first slot format indicating a first time domain resource; receiving an indicator indicating a second time domain resource allocated for data or control channel transmission; mapping the second time domain resource to a third time domain resource, wherein the third time domain resource is a subset of the first time domain resource; and receiving the data or control channel transmission from the third time domain resource. Although the method may imply that the first slot format is received before the indicator is received, the indicator may be received before the first slot format is received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Lenovo (Beijing) Limited
    Inventors: Hongmei Liu, Haipeng Lei, Zhennian Sun, Zhi Yan, Lianhai Wu
  • Publication number: 20250016618
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to methods and apparatuses for packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) reordering management. According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, a user equipment (UE) can include: a receiver configured to receive at least one of application data unit (ADU) discard information associated with an ADU or ADU related information associated with the ADU; and a processor coupled to the receiver and configured to perform a PDCP reordering window management based on the received at least one of the ADU discard information or the ADU related information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2021
    Publication date: January 9, 2025
    Inventors: Mingzeng DAI, Jing HAN, Congchi ZHANG, Lianhai WU, Haiyan LUO, Yibin ZHUO, Le YAN
  • Publication number: 20250016693
    Abstract: Methods (300, 400) and apparatuses for MPE P-MPR reporting are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2021
    Publication date: January 9, 2025
    Applicant: Lenovo (Beijing) Limited
    Inventors: Bingchao Liu, Lianhai Wu, Ran Yue, Haiming Wang