Patents by Inventor Ningjuan Chang

Ningjuan Chang 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: 20240015626
    Abstract: A method performed by a base station (BS) is provided. The method receives, from a user equipment (UE), a message indicating that the UE is capable of performing a conditional handover. The method then transmits, to the UE, a set of one or more conditional handover configurations. Each conditional handover configuration in the set of conditional handover configurations includes information associated with a corresponding candidate cell, and a handover condition comprising a measurement event based on a signal quality of at least one of a serving cell and the corresponding candidate cell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2023
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Inventors: NINGJUAN CHANG, SHOHEI YAMADA, RENMAO LIU
  • Publication number: 20230388967
    Abstract: Provided in the present disclosure are a wireless connection control method and user equipment. The wireless connection control method includes: user equipment (UE) receiving indication information including one or more multicast and broadcast service (MBS) services; the UE determining, on the basis of the indication information, whether an MBS service of interest to the UE is present; and if an MBS service of interest to the UE is present, the UE triggering a radio resource control (RRC) connection establishment/resume procedure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2021
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Inventors: Ningjuan CHANG, Renmao LIU, Lei LIU
  • Publication number: 20230388972
    Abstract: Provided in the present disclosure are a discontinuous reception method and user equipment. The discontinuous reception method includes: user equipment (UE) receiving configuration information or scheduling information related to a multicast and broadcast service (MBS) service; the UE determining whether a discontinuous reception (DRX) configuration is configured in the configuration information or the scheduling information; and if no DRX configuration is configured in the configuration information or the scheduling information, the UE employing a DRX configuration corresponding to unicast for reception of the MBS service.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2021
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Inventors: Ningjuan CHANG, Renmao LIU
  • Patent number: 11818620
    Abstract: Provided are a method executed by user equipment (UE), UE, and a base station. The method includes: receiving from the base station a first Radio Resource Control (RRC) message containing a handover command; storing a handover configuration included in the first RRC message; and managing the handover configuration. Before receiving the RRC message containing the handover command, the UE still maintains communication with a source base station before a handover is executed, thus shortening data transmission interruption time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG Innovation Company Limited
    Inventors: Ningjuan Chang, Shohei Yamada, Renmao Liu
  • Publication number: 20230362774
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a radio link failure reporting method and user equipment. The radio link failure reporting method includes: detecting, by user equipment (UE), occurrence of a radio link failure (RLF); and storing, by the UE, radio link failure information in an RLF report, wherein if the UE has performed a handover procedure before the RLF, the radio link failure information includes: information for indicating the type of the handover procedure; a global cell identity and a tracking area code of a cell where the latest handover command was received; and an elapsed time starting from reception of the latest handover command.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2021
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Inventors: Ningjuan CHANG, Renmao LIU
  • Publication number: 20230345312
    Abstract: A base station (BS), a User Equipment (UE), and a method performed by a BS and/or a UE are provided. The method includes transmitting, by the BS, a Radio Resource Control (RRC) message to a User Equipment (UE), the RRC message indicating whether at least one of a Radio Link Control (RLC) entity and a Packet Data Convergence Protocol (PDCP) entity is to be reestablished, wherein the RRC message configures the UE to reestablish the RLC entity in a case that the RRC message indicates that the RLC entity is to be reestablished, and the RRC message configures the UE to reestablish the PDCP entity in a case that the RRC message indicates that the PDCP entity is to be reestablished.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2023
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Inventors: NINGJUAN CHANG, SHOHEI YAMADA
  • Patent number: 11736987
    Abstract: The present application provides a method performed by user equipment (UE), comprising: receiving, from a base station, a first radio resource control (RRC) message including a handover command; determining whether a first condition included in the first RRC message is met; and if the first condition is met, sending a handover indication to the base station, the handover indication being used to inform the base station that the UE is about to start performing a handover. The present application further provides UE and a corresponding base station. By means of the technical solution of the present application, the data transmission interruption time in the handover procedure in the NR can be further reduced, and an unnecessary incorrect handover is avoided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG INNOVATION COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Ningjuan Chang, Shohei Yamada
  • Publication number: 20230262542
    Abstract: Provided in the present disclosure are a handover information reporting method and user equipment. The handover information reporting method includes: successfully executing, by user equipment (UE), a handover from a source base station to a target base station; and transmitting, by the UE, to the target base station a radio resource control (RRC) message including handover report information, the handover report information including an information element for indicating a radio link control (RLC) retransmission status, and the RLC retransmission status being a maximum value of a count value RETX_COUNT of an RLC layer of the UE for recording the number of retransmissions of an RLC service data unit (SDU) or an RLC protocol data unit (PDU).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2021
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Inventors: Ningjuan CHANG, Fangying XIAO, Renmao LIU
  • Publication number: 20230262565
    Abstract: Provided in the present invention is a method performed by user equipment (UE), including: when the UE undergoes a dual active protocol stack (DAPS) handover failure during a DAPS handover, if no source base station radio link failure (RLF) is detected, the UE falling back to a source base station link, without generating and storing handover failure information for the DAPS handover failure in a link failure report; and if the UE, when falling back to the source base station link, detects a source base station RLF, the UE recording and storing link failure information for the source base station RLF in the link failure report.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2021
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Inventors: Ningjuan CHANG, Renmao LIU
  • Patent number: 11678238
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method performed by user equipment, user equipment, and a handover command generation method. The method performed by user equipment includes: receiving a handover command including a handover condition, and storing a handover configuration in the handover command, wherein when the handover condition is met, the user equipment performs the handover configuration corresponding to the handover condition; and if a master cell group (MCG) failure is detected or if it is detected that a security update needs to be performed, performing at least an operation related to the stored handover configuration. Therefore, user equipment can determine the validity of a handover command, thereby avoiding a service interruption caused by a connection failure resulting from a handover performed on the basis of an invalid handover command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ningjuan Chang, Renmao Liu
  • Publication number: 20230180330
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for link failure recovery during a handover and corresponding user equipment. The method performed in the user equipment (UE) comprises: after a successful handover procedure of the UE configured with a dual active protocol stack, if a radio link failure (RLF) of a master cell group occurs at the UE, then in a radio resource control re-establishment procedure for connection recovery, or when an RLF occurs on a source link, performing, by the UE, an operation of falling back from the dual active protocol stack to a single active protocol stack, releasing a protocol stack and a configuration associated with a source base station; when the link quality of the source base station is good, releasing, by the UE, a protocol stack and a configuration associated with a target base station, resuming a single connectivity state to the source base station, and reporting the failure information to the base station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2021
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Inventors: Ningjuan CHANG, Takako HORI
  • Publication number: 20230171838
    Abstract: Provided in the present invention are a method performed by user equipment, and user equipment. The method performed by user equipment is a method for deactivating an SCG in a process in which UE configured with dual connectivity or multi-connectivity communicates with an MCG and the SCG. The MCG is a serving cell group controlled by an MN, and the SCG is a serving cell group controlled by an SN.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2021
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Inventors: Chongming ZHANG, Renmao LIU, Fangying XIAO, Ningjuan CHANG
  • Patent number: 11653328
    Abstract: The present invention provides a user equipment, a method executed by a user equipment, a base station, a method executed by a base station, a mobile control entity, and a method executed by a mobile control entity. The method executed by a user equipment comprises: receiving a paging message from a base station; and determining whether to perform a downlink early data transmission (EDT) preparation operation based on downlink EDT indication information when the user equipment UE initiates an RRC connection establishment procedure or an RRC connection resume procedure based on the paging message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG Innovation Company Limited
    Inventors: Ningjuan Chang, Chao Luo, Renmao Liu
  • Patent number: 11596019
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method performed by user equipment. The method comprises: transmitting a random access preamble for early data transmission (EDT) on a physical random access channel resource for EDT; receiving a random access response (RAR); and performing fallback to a non-EDT procedure if it is determined according to an uplink grant in the received RAR that EDT transmission cannot be performed. Further provided is corresponding user equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, SHARP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ningjuan Chang, Renmao Liu
  • Patent number: 11582680
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an access control method performed at user equipment (UE), comprising: receiving, from a base station, multiple pieces of access control information corresponding to multiple network types; using the received multiple pieces of access control information to respectively perform an access control check for the multiple network types of networks; starting an access barring timer according to an access control check result; and if the access barring timer times out, informing an upper layer of the UE that barring of access is removed. The present disclosure also provides an access control configuration method for UE performed at a base station, corresponding UE, and a corresponding base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG Innovation Company Limited
    Inventors: Chongming Zhang, Renmao Liu, Fancying Xiao, Ningjuan Chang
  • Publication number: 20230022967
    Abstract: Provided in the present disclosure are a method for radio link failure recovery and user equipment. The method for radio link failure recovery comprises: user equipment (UE) detecting that a handover failure occurs, and when the UE has a stored conditional handover (CHO) configuration, or when the UE has a stored conditional handover (CHO) configuration and CHO recovery is enabled, the UE reverting back to a configuration used in a source cell, the configuration used in the source cell including one or more of a physical layer dedicated configuration, a medium access control (MAC) layer configuration, or a semi-persistent SPS configuration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2020
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Inventors: Ningjuan CHANG, Renmao LIU
  • Patent number: 11558870
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for processing carrier activation at user equipment (UE) and a corresponding device. The method implemented at the user equipment comprises: acquiring an indication related to deactivation of a currently activated carrier, wherein the carrier is a carrier in a carrier group consisting of a plurality of carriers; and if a random access procedure is ongoing, then ignoring the indication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG INNOVATION COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Ningjuan Chang, Renmao Liu, Fangying Xiao
  • Patent number: 11546823
    Abstract: Network configuration including: receiving, by a target primary eNB of user equipment, a handover request message transmitted by a source primary eNB of the user equipment, the handover request message containing identification indication information or service indication information of the user equipment in a serving eNB before handover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: FUJITSU CONNECTED TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED
    Inventors: Weiwei Wang, Ningjuan Chang
  • Publication number: 20220322173
    Abstract: Provided in the present invention are a method for radio link failure recovery and user equipment. The method for radio link failure recovery includes: initiating, by user equipment (UE), an RRC connection re-establishment procedure; in a cell selection procedure of the RRC connection re-establishment procedure, if a selected cell is a conditional handover candidate cell of the UE, then performing, by the UE, a handover to the selected cell; and if the selected cell is not a conditional handover candidate cell of the UE, then suspending, by the UE, all radio bearers except signaling radio bearer 0 (SRB0), and continuing the RRC connection re-establishment procedure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2020
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Inventors: NINGJUAN CHANG, RENMAO LIU
  • Publication number: 20220312282
    Abstract: Provided in the present invention are a method for radio link failure recovery and user equipment. The method for radio link failure recovery includes: determining whether a radio link failure (RLF) occurs on a radio link of user equipment (UE); when the RLF occurs on the UE, if the UE is configured with a conditional handover, then executing a cell selection procedure; and performing a radio link failure recovery operation according to a cell selection result of the cell selection procedure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2020
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Inventors: NINGJUAN CHANG, CHONGMING ZHANG