Patents by Inventor Lili Zhang

Lili 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: 20210185547
    Abstract: A communication method includes receiving first beam feedback information from a wide beam terminal, where the first beam feedback information includes information about a first wide beam and information about M wide beams whose signal quality meets a first condition, receiving second beam feedback information from a narrow beam terminal, where the second beam feedback information includes information about a second wide beam and information about N wide beams whose signal quality meets a second condition, receiving, from the narrow beam terminal, information about a first narrow beam, where the first narrow beam is a narrow beam covered by the second wide beam, and determining, based on the first beam feedback information, the second beam feedback information, and the information about the first narrow beam, whether to transmit downlink data to the wide beam terminal and the narrow beam terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2019
    Publication date: June 17, 2021
    Inventors: Peiyao Zhao, Zhaocheng Wang, Kai Xu, Hongcheng Zhuang, Yanliang Sun, Lili Zhang
  • Patent number: 11037568
    Abstract: Audio message processing methods and apparatuses are provided, where a method may include a server recognizing types of communication messages transmitted between communicating counterparties; when a type of any communication message is an audio type, the server acquiring the any communication message, and converting the any communication message to corresponding text content; and upon determining that any communicating party has a conversion need for the any communication message, the server sending the text content to the any communicating party. Through technical solutions of the present disclosure, text conversion may be performed upon audio messages in advance, thereby increasing response speed for audio conversion requests of users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: Alibaba Group Holding Limited
    Inventors: Daping Zhang, Lili Zhang, Yixin Huang, Yun Chen, Jiandong Lai, Haohua Zhong
  • Publication number: 20210168855
    Abstract: An information transmission method and an apparatus, where the method includes: sending first indication information to a terminal, where the first indication information is used to indicate a format configuration of one or more time units in first time duration, where the format configuration is a time domain structure configuration of the one or more time units in a transmission direction, where the first time duration is not greater than second time duration, and where the second time duration is a maximum channel occupancy time of a network device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2021
    Publication date: June 3, 2021
    Inventors: Lili Zhang, Jiayin Zhang
  • Patent number: 11023832
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present application provide a method and system for task processing. During operation, the system may receive a task event generated by a task sending device with an initial state of the task event being a to-be-accepted state. The system may perform a first reminding operation associated with the task event for a user. Upon receiving a predetermined user response, the system may change the state of the task event from the to-be-accepted state to an activated state, wherein the predetermined user response is responsive to the first reminding operation associated with the task event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: DINGTALK HOLDING (CAYMAN) LIMITED
    Inventors: Lili Zhang, Zhenhao Wu, Jintao Lu, Dengxian Lai, Bing Hu
  • Patent number: 11026179
    Abstract: A method includes obtaining a power control parameter for a sounding reference signal (SRS), where the power control parameter for the SRS includes at least one of a target power parameter value for the SRS, a path loss compensation factor, and a closed-loop power control parameter value for the SRS. The method further includes determining transmit power for the SRS on a first carrier based on the power control parameter for the SRS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Lili Zhang
  • Patent number: 11019626
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a method and an apparatus for data transmission. The method includes: determining a quantity N of first virtual resource blocks VRBs corresponding to first user equipment UE, where the N first VRBs correspond to N virtual subbands for carrying to-be-transmitted data of the first UE, and N is a natural number greater than or equal to 1; determining, based on the quantity N of the first VRBs, a first step corresponding to the N first VRBs, where the first step is used to indicate a distance between two adjacent physical subbands to which the N first VRBs are mapped in a physical resource, and the first step is greater than 1; and determining, based on the first step, N first PRBs corresponding to the N first VRBs, where the N first PRBs correspond to N physical subbands for carrying the to-be-transmitted data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chen Dong, Yongbo Zeng, Jian Wang, Lili Zhang
  • Patent number: 10999875
    Abstract: A random access method and an apparatus include performing listen before talk (LBT) on a first carrier, detecting a first signal on the first carrier when the terminal determines, through the LBT, that the first carrier is in a busy state, where the first carrier includes an unlicensed carrier, the first signal includes a first preamble signal or indication information, and the indication information indicates that the first carrier sends the first preamble signal, and sending a second preamble signal on the first carrier to attempt to access a base station when the terminal detects the first preamble signal or the indication information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiaocui Li, Guorong Li, Kai Xu, Lili Zhang
  • Patent number: 10993130
    Abstract: The present invention provides a measurement method and an apparatus. The method includes: receiving, by served user equipment UE accessing a serving base station, restrictive measurement resources of at least two neighboring cells that are respectively sent by base stations serving the at least two neighboring cells; and performing, by the served UE based on the restrictive measurement resources, RRM measurement on a neighboring cell, in the at least two neighboring cells, whose measurement resource needs to be limited, and/or performing radio link monitoring RLM on a serving cell of the UE based on the restrictive measurement resources. According to the method, the served UE can learn the restrictive measurement resource of the neighboring cell, and according to the restrictive measurement resource learnt by the served UE, the served UE performs neighboring-cell RRM measurement and/or performs RLM on the serving cell of the served UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Lili Zhang
  • Patent number: 10992201
    Abstract: An electrical machine of a vehicle electrical propulsion system includes a stator, a rotor, and a stator winding all disposed within a housing thereof. The stator defines a central bore elongated along a longitudinal axis, and multiple slots circumferentially disposed around the central bore. The rotor is held within the central bore and rotates relative to the stator. The stator winding includes a core conductor, an insulation layer surrounding the core conductor, and a conductive shield layer surrounding the insulation layer. The stator winding extends through the slots of the stator. The stator winding includes an in-slot portion within the slots of the stator and an end-winding portion outside of the slots. The conductive shield layer surrounds the insulation layer along both the in-slot portion and the end-winding portion of the stator winding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Christopher Michael Calebrese, Jeffrey Sullivan, Lili Zhang, Qin Chen, Konrad Weeber
  • Patent number: 10986599
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide timing advance (TA) obtaining methods and apparatuses. One example method includes generating, by a base station, an indication message and sending the indication message to UE, and receiving, by the UE, the indication message sent by the base station. The UE can then obtain a TA of a second carrier based on the indication message, where the second carrier is a carrier not used to transmit a PUSCH. Although the second carrier is a carrier not used to transmit a PUSCH, the TA of the second carrier can still be obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Lili Zhang, Kai Xu, Xiaocui Li, Nathan Edward Tenny, Bin Liu
  • Publication number: 20210112503
    Abstract: This application provides an interference measurement method. A first terminal sends an interference measurement signal on an interference measurement resource, where the interference measurement signal is a signal used to measure interference between links in different directions, and the different directions include a downlink direction between the first terminal and a first network device and an uplink direction between a second terminal and a second network device; and the second terminal monitors interference measurement signal strength based on information about the interference measurement resource and information about the interference measurement signal. The second terminal may further perform power control based on interference measurement, that is, control, based on the interference measurement signal strength, power at which the second terminal sends a data signal to the second network device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2017
    Publication date: April 15, 2021
    Inventor: Lili ZHANG
  • Patent number: 10979868
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method and a system for transmitting an uplink signal between a plurality of carriers, user equipment, and a base station, so that channel reciprocity can be effectively utilized. In some implementations, the method includes receiving indication signaling sent by a base station; and transmitting an uplink signal in a target subframe of a corresponding target carrier based on the indication signaling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Lili Zhang
  • Patent number: 10962582
    Abstract: A ground fault locating method for a power distribution network includes: monitoring each phase line of three phase distribution lines, and in the event of occurrence of waves with fault features, performing wave recording to obtain phase line record files; combining the record files corresponding to each of the three phase lines to obtain fault record files; and synthesizing the fault record files to form a transient record file, determining a fault location according to a wave having a maximum change in wave amplitude between two points in the transient record file, and displaying the fault location in a wiring diagram. The ground fault locating method for a power distribution network can significantly improve accuracy of single-phase ground fault detection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignees: BEIJING GUODIAN TONG NETWORK TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD, STATE GRID JIBEI ELECTRIC POWER CO., LTD, STATE GRID QINHUANGDAO POWER SUPPLY COMPANY
    Inventors: Xinling Wu, Shen Liu, Tiejun Zhao, Yue Yu, Weiyue Zhou, Chuanbo Tian, Ke Qiao, Xiaoling Zhu, Yaxin Liu, Dong Liang, Aimei Yan, Shuhan Zhang, Lili Zhang, Yi Yuan, Xuemei Wu, Jian Zhu, Lingchen Sun, Sining Wang, Man Leng
  • Publication number: 20210092730
    Abstract: Embodiments of this application provide a transmission direction configuration method, a device, and a system, and relate to the field of communications technologies. A specific solution is as follows: a terminal device receives first indication information from a network device, the first indication information is used to indicate a configuration of uplink and downlink transmission directions, the configuration is used to describe types, a number, and distribution of resource elements comprised in one period, the resource granularity comprises a time domain granularity, the time domain granularity comprises (OFDM) symbol, the types of the resource elements comprise at least one of an uplink resource element, a downlink resource element, or a switch resource element between the downlink resource element and the uplink resource element; and performs information transmission indicated by the first indication information, of the uplink and/or downlink transmission directions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2020
    Publication date: March 25, 2021
    Inventors: Lili ZHANG, Guorong LI
  • Patent number: 10952227
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a resource scheduling method and an apparatus, and is applied to the field of communications technologies. The method includes: receiving, by a terminal UE, a first time division duplex TDD configuration and a second time division duplex TDD configuration; determining the first TDD configuration or the second TDD configuration as a target TDD configuration corresponding to the UE; dividing, based on the target TDD configuration, subframes corresponding to the UE into a first subframe subset, a second subframe subset, and a third subframe subset; and performing channel quality state measurement based on the first subframe subset, the second subframe subset, and the third subframe subset, and reporting a measurement result of the channel quality state measurement to an eNB, so that the eNB schedules a subframe resource according to the measurement result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Lili Zhang, Richard Stirling-Gallacher, Bin Liu
  • Patent number: 10945155
    Abstract: This application relates to the field of communications technologies, and discloses a method and an apparatus for transmitting a buffer status report, to help enhance mobility management on a terminal. The method may include: receiving, by a terminal, an instruction message, where the instruction message is used to instruct the terminal to report a BSR, the BSR includes at least one of a first BSR and a second BSR, the first BSR is a BSR corresponding to a first beam link, and the second BSR is a BSR corresponding to a second beam link; and then, reporting, by the terminal, the BSR on the first beam link according to the instruction message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Lili Zhang, Guorong Li, Aimin Justin Sang
  • Patent number: 10939489
    Abstract: An interference coordination method includes: determining, by a first cell, first configuration information of the first cell. The first configuration information includes a parameter for transmitting uplink control information UCI by a terminal served by the first cell, the parameter included in the first configuration information is a parameter configured for the first cell and is a parameter orthogonal to a parameter configured for a second cell, and the second cell is a neighboring cell of the first cell; and notifying, by the first cell, the first configuration information to the served terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Lili Zhang, Richard Stirling-Gallacher, Yongbo Zeng, Bin Liu, Kai Xu, Xiaocui Li
  • Publication number: 20210056124
    Abstract: Synchronizing data across databases comprising generating a synchronization event in response to a change in source data in a source database. The synchronization event is published as a message in a source database internal queue. The message is then published in a message broker. Sink data in a sink database is synchronized according to the message in the message broker to match the change in source data in the source database.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2019
    Publication date: February 25, 2021
    Inventors: Daniel Rodrigo Da Paz Pontes, Deepak Kaushal, Zhitao Xu, Muhammad Nuri, Eliezer Madeira de Campos, Lili Zhang, Kushal Gohil, Srilatha Usike, Supraja Kanapala, Jayesh Patel, Manish Patel, Tushar Phondge, Vincent Civetta, Frank Villavicencio
  • Patent number: 10932234
    Abstract: A method for operating a transmission-reception point (TRP) includes determining a first cycle of backhaul communications modes for the TRP, each backhaul communications mode of the first cycle is associated with a different time period and prompts the TRP to either transmit or receive using a subset of communications beams available to the TRP during an associated time period, wherein the communications beams used by the TRP and neighboring TRPs of the TRP in each associated time period are selected to prevent mutual interference, and wherein at least one backhaul communications mode of the first cycle prompts the TRP to either transmit or receive using all of the communications beams available to the TRP, determining a backhaul frame configuration for the TRP in accordance with the first cycle, the backhaul frame configuration specifying an arrangement of subframes of a frame used for backhaul communications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard Stirling-Gallacher, Lili Zhang, Nathan Edward Tenny
  • Publication number: 20210051488
    Abstract: A method includes measuring beam-formed reference signals transmitted by a plurality of mmWave transmission points (TPs), sending a cloud cell formation request including indicators associated with best mmWave TPs determined in accordance with the measured beam-formed reference signals, receiving a cloud cell formation request response including indicators associated with a subset of the best mmWave TPs selected by a central controller in accordance with selection information, where the subset of the best mmWave TPs includes a first mmWave transmission point (TP) serving as a master TP and a second mmWave TP serving as a slave TP, and establishing a cloud cell with mmWave TPs of the subset of the best mmWave TPs selected by the central controller, where a data connection is established with the slave TP and at least a control connection is established with the master TP.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Publication date: February 18, 2021
    Inventors: Richard Stirling-Gallacher, Nathan Edward Tenny, Bin Liu, Lili Zhang