Patents by Inventor Liquan Yuan

Liquan Yuan 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: 9806892
    Abstract: Techniques for unified optical network unit power management in a passive optical network include operating an optical network unit (ONU) in a first state in which a transmitter of the ONU is turned off and a receiver of the ONU is turned on, operating the ONU in a second state in which both the transmitter and the receiver are turned off, and transitioning the ONU directly between the first state and the second state, based on a power management rule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignees: ZTE Corporation, ZTE (USA) Inc.
    Inventors: Denis Andreyevich Khotimsky, LiQuan Yuan, DeZhi Zhang
  • Patent number: 9794076
    Abstract: A method for a node device to enter or exit a power-saving mode and a node device are disclosed. The method for a node device to enter a power-saving mode includes: the node device detecting characteristics of a reverse power supply signal provided by a customer premise equipment, and if a condition of entering a power-saving mode is satisfied, the node device entering the power-saving mode. The method for a node device to exit a power-saving mode includes: the node device in a power-saving mode exiting the power-saving mode after detecting that a customer premise equipment starts reverse power supply to the node device. The node device includes a reverse power supply unit, a power source unit, a control unit, and a transceiver unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: XI'AN ZHONGXING NEW SOFTWARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Weiliang Zhang, Mingming Cheng, Liquan Yuan
  • Patent number: 9749078
    Abstract: Techniques, apparatus and systems are described for accommodating the optical network units (ONUs) having different nominal upstream bitrates on the same passive optical network (PON) system by making the specified burst preamble and the bandwidth map allocation record format invariant with respect to the nominal upstream bitrate of a target ONU. The disclosed techniques, apparatus and systems allow seamless evolution of the lower-bitrate services to higher-bitrate services offered to an end-user without need to upgrade the central office equipment. In addition they can avoid the adverse consequences of inadvertently connecting a high-upstream-bitrate ONU to a lower-upstream-bitrate network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignees: ZTE Corporation, ZTE (USA), Inc.
    Inventors: Denis Andreyevich Khotimsky, Liquan Yuan, Dezhi Zhang
  • Publication number: 20170142502
    Abstract: An optical-electrical receiving and transmitting method and apparatus, as well as an optical-electrical transceiving method and device and an optical-electrical transceiver are provided. The optical-electrical transceiving processing method may include: in a reception direction, a received optical signal is split into multipath optical signals, the multipath optical signals are processed into multipath parallel electrical signals, and the multipath parallel electrical signals are converted into a single-path serial electrical signal; in a transmission direction, a received single-path serial electrical signal, which is to be transmitted, is converted into multipath parallel electrical signals, then the multipath parallel electrical signals are processed into multipath optical signals, and finally the multipath optical signals are combined into a single beam of optical signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2014
    Publication date: May 18, 2017
    Inventors: Yongjia YIN, Mingsheng LI, Liquan YUAN, Songlin ZHU, Zhuang MA, Yong GUO
  • Publication number: 20170055053
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a method and apparatus for adjusting wavelength for an Optical Line Terminal/Optical Network Unit (OLT/ONU). The method for adjusting wavelength for an OLT includes that: a source OLT sends an adjustment notification message to a target OLT, wherein the adjustment notification message is used for indicating that an ONU is to be adjusted into a Time-Wavelength Division Multiplexing Channel (TWDM CH) of the target OLT; and the source OLT receives an adjustment acknowledgement message provided by the target OLT, wherein the adjustment acknowledgement message is used for indicating that an adjustment process of the ONU has been completed. By means of the technical solution provided in the disclosure, an ONU of a source OLT can still work normally after being switched to a channel of a target OLT, thereby achieving the effect that the continuity of a service between the OLT and the ONU may be maintained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2014
    Publication date: February 23, 2017
    Inventors: Dezhi ZHANG, Liquan YUAN, Weiliang ZHANG, Dan GENG
  • Publication number: 20160344472
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a method and device for channel switching, an Optical Network Unit (ONU) and a system for Time Wavelength Division Multiplexing (TWDM). The method for channel switching includes that: an ONU acquires channel information of a first TWDM channel, wherein the channel information of the first TWDM channel is used for indicating an uplink wavelength and/or downlink wavelength of the first TWDM channel; and the ONU tunes the uplink wavelength and/or downlink wavelength of the ONU into the uplink wavelength and/or downlink wavelength of the first TWDM channel according to the channel information of the first TWDM channel. By means of the present disclosure, the problem of high cost caused by specially building a standby channel for each TWDM channel in a system for TWDM Passive Optical Network (PON) to provide service protection is solved, and the cost of deploying the TWDM PON system is reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2014
    Publication date: November 24, 2016
    Inventors: DAN GENG, WEILIANG ZHANG, LIQUAN YUAN, DEZHI ZHANG
  • Patent number: 9413902
    Abstract: Provided are a method and device for supplying power to an access device. The method includes: detecting one or more user terminals connected with the access device; and determining one or more user terminals for supplying power to the access device according to a current service state of each of the one or more user terminals connected with the access device. By adopting the technical solution according to the embodiments of the disclosure, the problem in the related art, that as it is impossible to supply power to an access device according to the current service state of each of a plurality of user terminals connected with the access device, the equality of the user terminals in power supply is influenced, is solved, thus guaranteeing the equality of each user terminal connected with the access device in supplying power to the access device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2016
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mingming Cheng, Weiliang Zhang, Liquan Yuan, Qun Cheng, Qiang Guo
  • Patent number: 9363013
    Abstract: Techniques, apparatus and systems are described for an optical line terminal (OLT) operable in a passive optical network (PON) system to isolate and mitigate the behavior of a rogue optical network unit (ONU) that transmits optical power up the optical distribution network (ODN). In one aspect, a method of mitigating the behavior of rogue ONUs can include detecting the presence of a rogue ONU on the PON system, and transmitting, based on the detection, a message addressed exclusively to the ONUs that have not yet been discovered or identified by the OLT.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Denis Andreyevich Khotimsky, Liquan Yuan, Dezhi Zhang
  • Publication number: 20160127043
    Abstract: Disclosed is method for scheduling a data message in a Passive Optical Network (PON) and Ethernet Over Cable (EOC) networking, which may include: an Optical Coax Unit (OCU) allocating a coaxial side Logical Link Identifier (LLID) for a Coaxial Network Unit (CNU) which accessed the OCU, and acquiring an optical network side LLID allocated for the OCU by an Optical Line Terminal (OLT); and establishing a mapping relationship between the coaxial side LLID and the optical network side LLID, and scheduling a data message of the CNU according to the mapping relationship. Also disclosed are a system for scheduling a data message in a PON and EOC networking and a related device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2013
    Publication date: May 5, 2016
    Applicant: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Meiyan Zang, Liquan Yuan
  • Patent number: 9300622
    Abstract: The present invention provides a tunnel gateway device used for: receiving a domain name system (DNS) server address for an inner layer or outer layer service of a tunnel configured by an automatic control server according to a management protocol; and taking its own address as the DNS server's address and sending the address to a client, or sending the configured DNS server address to the client. The present invention also provides a method for obtaining the DNS, and the present invention implements the DNS server distribution and obtaining of the DNS without depending on the address protocol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Liquan Yuan, Chao Qin, Peng Sun
  • Patent number: 9287982
    Abstract: A DPOE system and a service auto-configuration method and network based on that system are provided, wherein, the DPOE system includes an acquisition unit, an analyzing unit and a configuration unit; the service auto-configuration network includes a DPOE system, a back-office management system and an ONU; the service auto-configuration method based on that system includes: the DPOE system acquiring a configuration file from the back-office management system, wherein the configuration file includes configuration information of the ONU and configuration information of an OLT in the DPOE system; the DPOE system analyzing the configuration file and obtaining the configuration information of the ONU and the configuration information of the OLT; configuring the OLT locally and configuring the ONU via a management channel between the OLT and the ONU. Thus the service can be opened without performing further configuration to the OLT individually after the process of the ONU initialization is completed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Meiyan Zang, Liquan Yuan, Chaoqin Zhang
  • Publication number: 20160072641
    Abstract: Disclosed is a data transmission method. When it is determined that a transmitting end device and a receiving end device both support a link binding capability, a binding group is established; when data is selected to be transmitted by a binding link in the binding group, the data to be transmitted is encapsulated according to a binding data format and is transmitted through the binding link; and when data is selected to be transmitted by a non-binding link, the data to be transmitted is encapsulated according to a common data format and is transmitted through the non-binding link. Also disclosed are a data transmission apparatus and a computer storage medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2014
    Publication date: March 10, 2016
    Inventors: Qiongwen LIANG, Lin WANG, Liquan YUAN, Weiliang ZHANG, Junjian ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20160006608
    Abstract: A multi-wavelength passive optical network (MW-PON) includes an optical distribution network (ODN), a plurality of optical line terminations (OLTs) and an optical network unit (ONU). The ODN includes a trunk fiber, one or more branching elements, and a plurality of distribution fibers. Each OLT is associated with an individual bi-directional wavelength channel using a corresponding single downstream wavelength and a corresponding single upstream wavelength, and supporting a specific downstream line rate and one or more distinct upstream line rates. The ONU is communicatively coupled to a respective distribution fiber, being tunable over a specific range of downstream wavelengths and a specific range of upstream wavelengths, and supporting a specific downstream line rate and a specific upstream line rate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2014
    Publication date: January 7, 2016
    Inventors: Denis Andreyevich Khotimsky, Dan Geng, DeZhi Zhang, LiQuan Yuan
  • Publication number: 20150358485
    Abstract: Provided are a method and device for supplying power to an access device. The method includes: detecting one or more user terminals connected with the access device; and determining one or more user terminals for supplying power to the access device according to a current service state of each of the one or more user terminals connected with the access device. By adopting the technical solution according to the embodiments of the disclosure, the problem in the related art, that as it is impossible to supply power to an access device according to the current service state of each of a plurality of user terminals connected with the access device, the equality of the user terminals in power supply is influenced, is solved, thus guaranteeing the equality of each user terminal connected with the access device in supplying power to the access device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2013
    Publication date: December 10, 2015
    Inventors: Mingming CHENG, Weiliang ZHANG, Liquan Yuan, Qun CHENG, Qiang GUO
  • Publication number: 20150333919
    Abstract: A method for a node device to enter or exit a power-saving mode and a node device are disclosed. The method for a node device to enter a power-saving mode includes: the node device detecting characteristics of a reverse power supply signal provided by a customer premise equipment, and if a condition of entering a power-saving mode is satisfied, the node device entering the power-saving mode. The method for a node device to exit a power-saving mode includes: the node device in a power-saving mode exiting the power-saving mode after detecting that a customer premise equipment starts reverse power supply to the node device. The node device includes a reverse power supply unit, a power source unit, a control unit, and a transceiver unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2013
    Publication date: November 19, 2015
    Applicant: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Weiliang ZHANG, Mingming CHENG, Liquan YUAN
  • Patent number: 9167323
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a method for quickly updating ranging results of optical network units by an optical line terminal. The method comprises the following steps: an Optical Line Terminal (OLT) distributes an acquired ranging difference to all the Optical Network Units (ONUs); and the current ONU implements quick updating of the ranging result of the current ONU itself according to the acquired ranging difference. The disclosure also provides a system for quickly updating ranging results of ONUs by an OLT, wherein a distributing unit in the OLT is used for distributing an acquired ranging difference to all the ONUs; an updating unit in the ONU is used for implementing quick updating of ranging result of the current ONU itself according to the acquired ranging difference. the method and system of the disclosure can save the quantity of messages, enable quick switching in protection status, thus implementing protection switching efficiently.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Dezhi Zhang, Weiliang Zhang, Liquan Yuan
  • Publication number: 20150288480
    Abstract: Techniques, apparatus and systems are described for accommodating the optical network units (ONUs) having different nominal upstream bitrates on the same passive optical network (PON) system by making the specified burst preamble and the bandwidth map allocation record format invariant with respect to the nominal upstream bitrate of a target ONU. The disclosed techniques, apparatus and systems allow seamless evolution of the lower-bitrate services to higher-bitrate services offered to an end-user without need to upgrade the central office equipment. In addition they can avoid the adverse consequences of inadvertently connecting a high-upstream-bitrate ONU to a lower-upstream-bitrate network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2013
    Publication date: October 8, 2015
    Inventors: Denis Andreyevich Khotimsky, Liquan Yuan, Dezhi Zhang
  • Publication number: 20150222440
    Abstract: Techniques for unified optical network unit power management in a passive optical network include operating an optical network unit (ONU) in a first state in which a transmitter of the ONU is turned off and a receiver of the ONU is turned on, operating the ONU in a second state in which both the transmitter and the receiver are turned off, and transitioning the ONU directly between the first state and the second state, based on a power management rule.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2013
    Publication date: August 6, 2015
    Inventors: Denis Andreyevich Khotimsky, LiQuan Yuan, DeZhi Zhang
  • Patent number: 9084034
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a method and system for realizing power saving mechanism management between an Optical Network Unit (ONU) and an Optical Line Terminal (OLT). The method includes: passing power saving information between the ONU and the OLT through an extended Operation Administration and Maintenance (OAM) frame; closing/opening an optical module of the ONU based on the obtained power saving information. With the method of the disclosure, the optical module is closed in time when the optical module of the ONU is not needed, thus reducing power consumption of the ONU, and enabling interaction between the ONU and the OLT to meet the requirement for power saving and emission reduction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2015
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Dezhi Zhang, Yuanling He, Meiyan Zang, Liquan Yuan
  • Patent number: 8942378
    Abstract: A method for encrypting multicast services in a passive optical network system is provided in the present invention, and the method includes: an Optical Line Terminal (OLT) generating a public key, and using the public key to encrypt the multicast service data in a bearer channel and then transmitting the encrypted data, the multicast service data in the same one bearer channel being encrypted using the same public key; and said OLT sending the public key ,which is used to encrypt the multicast service data, via a management control channel to an Optical Network Unit (ONU) which is activated successfully and requests to receive said multicast service data. A device for encrypting multicast services in a passive optical network system is also provided in the present invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2015
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Dezhi Zhang, Liquan Yuan