Patents by Inventor Mengzhen WANG

Mengzhen WANG 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: 20260181675
    Abstract: Wireless communication methods are disclosure. A wireless communication method includes determining, by a user equipment (UE), a configuration of at least one radio bearer of the user equipment for transmitting a SLPP (sidelink positioning protocol) message; and transmitting, by the UE, the SLPP message carried by the at least one radio bearer according to the configuration, where the at least one radio bearer includes at least one of a DRB (data radio bearer) or an SRB (signaling radio bearer).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2025
    Publication date: June 25, 2026
    Applicant: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yu PAN, Weiqiang DU, Chuangxin JIANG, Mengzhen WANG, Jing LIU, Qi YANG
  • Patent number: 12641572
    Abstract: Provided are a method of resource acquisition, method for resource scheduling, terminal, serving node, and medium. The resource acquisition method is applied at a first terminal, including: receiving configuration information, transmitted by a second terminal, of an available resource set in a case where a predefined condition is satisfied; acquiring a target resource based on the configuration information of the available resource set, a target resource is used for transmitting service data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2026
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Wei Luo, Boyuan Zhang, Mengzhen Wang, Lin Chen
  • Patent number: 12621855
    Abstract: Systems and methods for communication between a wireless communication devices and wireless communication nodes disclosed herein. In one embodiment, the systems and methods are configured to determine, by a wireless communication node, an indication of a version of a sidelink transmission format. The wireless communication node can further configure, according to the indication, a sidelink resource and at least one transmission configuration parameter for a sidelink transmission of a wireless communication device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2026
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Mengzhen Wang, Lin Chen, Boyuan Zhang, Xueying Diao
  • Patent number: 12538218
    Abstract: Systems and methods for performing signaling transmission or exchange for wireless sidelink relay communications are described. In one embodiment, a method performed by a first network node is disclosed. The method comprises: obtaining, from a wireless communication device, a first indication information indicating that the wireless communication device supports a sidelink relay communication involving the wireless communication device; transmitting, to a second network node, a second indication information generated based on the first indication information; and obtaining, from the second network node, a third indication information indicating whether the wireless communication device is authorized to perform the sidelink relay communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2026
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Xueying Diao, Mengzhen Wang, Lin Chen
  • Patent number: 12513596
    Abstract: Presented are systems, methods, apparatuses, or computer-readable media for relay service. A second wireless communication device in a vicinity of a first wireless communication device may receive information to be used for selection of a relay device. The second wireless communication device may determine whether to wirelessly connect with the first wireless communication device as the relay device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2025
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Boyuan Zhang, Mengzhen Wang, Lin Chen
  • Publication number: 20250374348
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide an end-to-end communication establishment method and system. The method comprises: source user equipment (UE) in a radio resource control connected state determines to establish, by means of a selected relay UE, an end-to-end sidelink with a target UE; the source UE sends to a base station first request information used for establishing the end-to-end sidelink between the source UE and the target UE, wherein the first request information at least comprises one of an SL-SRB list, an identifier of the target UE, an identifier of the relay UE, and an SL-DRB list; and the source UE receives first configuration information issued by the base station, and establishes the end-to-end sidelink with the target UE by means of the selected relay UE according to the first configuration information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2023
    Publication date: December 4, 2025
    Inventors: Wanfu XU, Mengzhen WANG, Lin CHEN, Tao QI
  • Patent number: 12425945
    Abstract: A wireless communication method for use in a first wireless terminal is disclosed. The wireless communication method comprises transmitting, to a first wireless network node, assistance information related to a second wireless terminal, and receiving, from the first wireless network node, a configuration message of configuring the first wireless terminal to forward data traffic for the second wireless terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2025
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Mengzhen Wang, Wei Luo, Boyuan Zhang, Weiqiang Du
  • Publication number: 20250294545
    Abstract: Provided are a sidelink relay communication method and apparatus, a device, and a medium. The sidelink relay communication method is applied to user equipment (UE)-to-Network relay communication. The method includes the following processes. The relay UE receives a data packet from a source communication device through a first bearer between the source communication device and the relay UE, where the data packet is mapped to the first bearer by the source communication device. The relay UE maps the data packet to a second bearer between the relay UE and a target communication device and transmits the data packet to the target communication device, where either the source communication device comprises a remote UE and the target communication device comprises a base station or the source communication device comprises a base station and the target communication device comprises a remote UE.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2025
    Publication date: September 18, 2025
    Applicant: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mengzhen WANG, Lin CHEN, Weiqiang DU
  • Publication number: 20250280350
    Abstract: The arrangements described herein relate to systems, methods, apparatuses, and non-transitory computer-readable media for a relay UE providing to a destination UE a source ID of a source wireless communication device for an End-to-End (E2E) unicast link between the source UE and the destination UE. The relay UE provides to the source UE a destination ID of the destination UE for the E2E unicast link.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2025
    Publication date: September 4, 2025
    Applicant: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mengzhen WANG, Lin CHEN
  • Publication number: 20250274997
    Abstract: A wireless communication method for use in a third wireless terminal is disclosed. The method comprises: transmitting, to a fourth wireless terminal, a first PC5 link establishment request via a first relay terminal, wherein the first PC5 link establishment request comprises first relay selection information, receiving, from the fourth wireless terminal, a second PC5 link establishment request via a second relay terminal, wherein the second PC5 link establishment request comprises second relay selection information, selecting one of the first relay terminal or the second relay terminal based on the first relay selection information and the second relay selection information, and establishing a PC5 link with the fourth wireless terminal via the selected relay terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2024
    Publication date: August 28, 2025
    Applicant: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Wanfu Xu, Mengzhen Wang, Lin Chen, Tao Qi
  • Patent number: 12395990
    Abstract: The disclosed techniques enable resource configuration for sidelink communications. An example method includes receiving, by a first network element, a sidelink resource request transmitted from a communication node. The method also includes communicating, via an interface between the first network element and a second network element, information about resource configuration for the communication node. The method further includes transmitting, by the first network element, a response to the sidelink resource request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2024
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2025
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Mengzhen Wang, Lin Chen
  • Publication number: 20250254599
    Abstract: In some arrangements, a first BS (source BS) sends to a second BS (target BS) a handover request including a target cell ID. A remote UE is communicating with the first BS via a first indirect path including a first SL between the remote UE and a first relay UE or a first direct path between the remote UE and the first BS. The target cell ID includes an ID of a serving cell (e.g., serving cell ID or NCGI) of a second relay UE or a serving cell of the direct path. The first BS receives from the second BS a handover response.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2025
    Publication date: August 7, 2025
    Applicant: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mengzhen WANG, Lin CHEN, Wanfu XU, Tao QI
  • Patent number: 12363562
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to methods and devices for routing and bearer mapping configuration in an integrated access and backhaul (IAB) network. In one implementation, the method may include detecting, by an IAB entity, a failure in transmitting a packet via an egress link of an original routing path. The method may further include selecting, by the IAB entity, a backhaul adaption protocol routing identifier of a backup routing path for the packet. The method may further include selecting, by the IAB entity, an egress backhaul radio link control channel on an egress link of the backup routing path for transmitting the packet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2025
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Lin Chen, Wei Luo, Mengzhen Wang, Wei Zou, Xueying Diao
  • Publication number: 20250212180
    Abstract: Provided are a user equipment (UE) information reporting method and apparatus, an internet of vehicles resource configuration method and apparatus, and a storage medium. The reporting method includes the following steps: a first UE acquires identification information of a second UE; and the first UE sends identification information of the second UE before an adjustment and identification information of the second UE after the adjustment to a network element device on a network side to report UE information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2025
    Publication date: June 26, 2025
    Applicant: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Wei LUO, Lin CHEN, Mengzhen WANG, Boyuan ZHANG
  • Patent number: 12342258
    Abstract: Provided are an initiation method and apparatus, a reselection method and apparatus, a device, and a storage medium. The initiation method is applied to a first communication node, where the first communication node is in a connected state, an idle state or an inactive state, and includes: receiving relay function configuration information sent by a second communication node; and initiating, according to a comparison result of the relay function configuration information and a first current parameter value, a relay function corresponding to the comparison result, where the first current parameter value includes a measurement value and a traffic priority.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2025
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Boyuan Zhang, Mengzhen Wang, Xueying Diao, Lin Chen
  • Publication number: 20250203640
    Abstract: Provided are a method and apparatus for resource configuration for a sidelink in Internet of vehicles. The method includes: a terminal receiving configuration information about a sidelink Bandwidth part (BWP)/resource pool; and the terminal performing sidelink data transmission according to the received configuration information about the sidelink BWP/resource pool.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2025
    Publication date: June 19, 2025
    Applicant: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Lin Chen, Mengzhen Wang, Boyuan Zhang, Ying Huang, Wei Luo, Wei Zou
  • Publication number: 20250193951
    Abstract: Techniques are described to perform sidelink wireless communication. An example wireless communication method includes receiving, by a first network function of a network device from a second network function of the network device, a request message related to a first communication device, where the request message includes information of a channel to be setup or modified, and where the information includes a second communication device identifier that indicates a second communication device to which the first communication device is configured to setup or modify the channel; and transmitting, by the first network function to the second network function, a response message in response to the receiving the request message.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2025
    Publication date: June 12, 2025
    Inventors: Mengzhen WANG, Lin CHEN, Wanfu XU, Tao QI
  • Publication number: 20250184859
    Abstract: Presented are systems, methods, apparatuses, or computer-readable media for splitting data for multi-path transmissions. A first wireless communication device may receive, from a wireless communication node, information for a first path or a second path. The first wireless communication device may determine to split the data transmission via the first path or the second path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2025
    Publication date: June 5, 2025
    Applicant: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Lin CHEN, Mengzhen WANG, Weiqiang DU, Wanfu XU, Tao QI
  • Publication number: 20250175820
    Abstract: Presented are systems, methods, apparatuses, or computer-readable media for multi-path communications. A centralized unit (CU) may send, to a distributed unit (DU), the multi-path configuration information. The CU may receive, from the DU, multi-path configuration response information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2025
    Publication date: May 29, 2025
    Applicant: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Lin CHEN, Mengzhen WANG, Weiqiang DU, Wanfu XU, Tao QI
  • Publication number: 20250175859
    Abstract: Presented are systems, methods, apparatuses, or computer-readable media for facilitating handovers. A first wireless communication node may send, to a second wireless communication node, a handover request message identifying at least one wireless communication device in a user equipment (UE)-to-network relay configuration or an aggregation configuration. The first wireless communication node may receive, from the second wireless communication node, a handover request acknowledgement information identifying the at least one wireless communication device with which a handover is permitted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2025
    Publication date: May 29, 2025
    Applicant: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Lin CHEN, Mengzhen WANG, Weiqiang DU, Wanfu XU, Tao QI