Patents by Inventor Qiming Zhang

Qiming 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: 20240187938
    Abstract: Aspects are described for a user equipment (UE) comprising a transceiver configured to enable wireless communication with a serving cell and a target cell and a processor communicatively coupled to the transceiver. The processor is configured to receive a handover command from the serving cell. The handover command comprises an epoch index and ephemeris information of the target cell. The processor is further configured to determine an epoch time of the target cell based on the epoch index and perform time synchronization with the target cell using the epoch time and the ephemeris information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2023
    Publication date: June 6, 2024
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jie Cui, Fangli Xu, Chunxuan Ye, Yang Tang, Hong He, Qiming Li, Yuqin Chen, Dawei Zhang
  • Publication number: 20240187901
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) is configured to receive a measurement configuration from a serving cell, wherein the measurement configuration comprises event configuration associated with radio resource management (RRM) relaxation, perform measurements of the serving cell, transmit a measurement report to the serving cell and receive an indication from the serving cell that RRM relaxation for radio resource control (RRC) connected mode is enabled at the UE.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2021
    Publication date: June 6, 2024
    Inventors: Jie CUI, Dawei ZHANG, Hong HE, Huaning NIU, Manasa RAGHAVAN, Qiming LI, Xiang CHEN, Yang TANG
  • Publication number: 20240187201
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) is configured to simultaneously connect to a primary cell (PCell) serving a primary component carrier (PCC), a primary secondary cell (PSCell) serving a primary secondary component carrier (PSCC) and at least one secondary cell (SCell) serving a secondary component carrier (SCC), wherein the PSCell is in a deactivated state. The UE receives a radio resource management (RRM) measurement configuration comprising a PCC measurement object (MO) configuration, a PSCC MO configuration, and an SCC MO configuration, determines a PCC MO carrier specific scaling factor (CSSF), a PSCC MO CSSF, and an SCC MO CSSF and applies each respective CSSF to a measurement period corresponding to each of the PCC MO, the PSCC MO, and the SCC MO.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2021
    Publication date: June 6, 2024
    Inventors: Qiming LI, Dawei ZHANG, Huaning NIU, Jie CUI, Manasa RAGHAVAN, Xiang CHEN, Yang TANG, Yushu ZHANG
  • Patent number: 12000571
    Abstract: An LED string light includes a first conducting wire, a second conducting wire, and a third conducting wire which are arranged in parallel. The first conducting wire, the second conducting wire and the third conducting wire all comprise a conducting wire core and an insulation layer coating a surface of the conducting wire core, and the first conducting wire and the second conducting wire defines a plurality of lamp welding regions. The LED string light also includes a plurality of SMD LEDs respectively disposed at the plurality of lamp welding regions. Each SMD LED has a first welding leg and a second welding leg, which are respectively welded onto the first welding spot and the second welding spot at one corresponding lamp welding region, and the plurality of the SMD LEDs are connected in parallel. A plurality of encapsulation colloids respectively coat the plurality of the SMD LEDs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: Zhuhai Bojay Electronics Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Xiwan Shan, Tuxiu Yang, Yundong Ai, Jie Zhang, Qunlin Li, Qiming Liu, Su Yan, Jingtian Wu, Yanyong Liu, Junchao He, Jiahui Cai, Yue Chen
  • Publication number: 20240178962
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) may support concurrent synchronization signal block (SSB) inter-frequency measurement without a measurement gap (MG). The UE may also, or alternatively, support concurrent SSB inter-frequency measurement in intra-band scenarios (e.g., where a target inter-frequency cell and serving cell are on the same band) and/or inter-band scenarios (e.g., where a target inter-frequency cell and serving cell are on the same band). The UE may report concurrent SSB based inter-frequency measurement as a NEEDFORGAP information element (IE), which may include one or more of a variety of parameters regarding UE measurement capabilities. Scheduling restrictions (e.g., restrictions to downlink and uplink communications) are also enabled based on UE measurement capabilities, including scheduling restriction for frequency range 1 (FR1), frequency range 2 (FR2), and cross frequency range scenarios.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2021
    Publication date: May 30, 2024
    Inventors: Jie Cui, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Hong He, Huaning Niu, Manasa Raghavan, Qiming Li, Xiang Chen, Yang Tang, Yushu Zhang
  • Publication number: 20240179734
    Abstract: Techniques discussed herein can facilitate inter-cell interference mitigation. One example aspect is a user equipment (UE), configured to receive a network assistance indication associated with an interfering signal, where the interfering signal interferes with a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) transmission. A time resource allocation of the interfering signal is different than a time resource allocation of the PDSCH transmission. The UE is further configured to determine an interference and noise covariance estimation mechanism based on the network assistance indication then perform interference and noise covariance estimation based on the noise covariance estimation mechanism. The UE is further configured to perform mitigation of the interfering signal using a mitigation mechanism based on the interference and noise covariance estimation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Publication date: May 30, 2024
    Inventors: Yushu Zhang, Manasa Raghavan, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Huaning Niu, Jie Cui, Qiming Li, Rajarajan Balraj, Xiang Chen, Yang Tang
  • Publication number: 20240179758
    Abstract: Systems and methods for determining a timing of a random access channel (RACH) occasion (RO) used to transmit a contention free random access (CFRA) preamble triggered by the receipt of an physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) order in a PDCCH are disclosed herein. A user equipment (UE) receives the PDCCH order and determines a timing offset value between the RO and a signal (e.g., a synchronization signal block (SSB), the PDCCH, a reference signal, etc.) to be used as a timing source. The UE also determines the arrival time of the signal to be used at the timing source. The UE then determines a time of the RO (during which the CFRA preamble will be transmitted) according to the arrival time and the timing offset value. Timing advance (TA) value(s) may also be accounted for as part of such a determination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2021
    Publication date: May 30, 2024
    Inventors: Jie Cui, Qiming Li, Dawei Zhang, Hong HE, Hongbo YAN, Huaning NIU, Manasa RAGHAVAN, Shengshan CUI, Xiang CHEN, Yang TANG
  • Patent number: 11997509
    Abstract: Methods and systems to activate beams for beam switching based on measurements of a downlink reference signal that is QCL Type-D with a downlink pathloss reference signal are disclosed. A UE may measure and report to a base station the RSRP of the reference signal that is QCL Type-D with a target downlink pathloss reference signal. Based on the reported RSRP measurements, the base station may activate the target pathloss reference signal to command the UE to update the pathloss measurements of the target pathloss reference signal for uplink power control of a beam corresponding to the target pathloss reference signal. The UE may determine whether the target pathloss reference signal is considered known for uplink power control based on the timing relationship among the reception of the reference signal from the base station, the transmission of the RSRP measurement of the reference signal, and reception of the activation command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Qiming Li, Manasa Raghavan, Dawei Zhang, Huaning Niu, Jie Cui, Panagiotis Botsinis, Sameh M. Eldessoki, Xiang Chen, Yang Tang
  • Publication number: 20240172096
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE), baseband processor or other network device (e.g., base station, next generation NodeB, etc.) can operate to process or generate measurement gap configurations associated with multiple universal subscriber identity modules (MUSIM) with dual subscriber identify modules (SIMs). A UE can perform a system information request or an SI reading with or without the SI request based on a UE configured interruption or a preconfigured measurement gap configuration to read a system information block (SIB) 1 and at least one other SIB of SI associated with the target network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Inventors: Jie Cui, Qiming Li, Sethuraman Gurumoorthy, Yuqin Chen, Yang Tang, Manasa Raghavan, Xiang Chen, Huaning Niu, Dawei Zhang, He Hong
  • Publication number: 20240172018
    Abstract: Some aspects include an apparatus, method, and computer program product for radio resource management measurement prioritization for reduced capacity (RedCap) user equipment (UE). A RedCap UE may be use Half-Duplex Frequency Division Duplex (HD-FDD) for wireless communications. When performing communications with a network, the RedCap UE may make several measurements, including Reference Signal Received Power (RSRP), Signal to Interference and Noise Ratio (SINR), and Reference Signal Received Quality (RSRQ) measurements. To obtain these measurements, the RedCap UE may measure Synchronization Signal Block (SSB), Received Signal Strength Indicator (RSSI), and/or Channel State Information Reference Signal (CSI-RS) symbols. Difficulties may arise when a RedCap UE's serving cell signal timing is not synchronized with a neighboring cell. The RedCap UE may be configured to prioritize measurements over uplink transmissions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2021
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jie CUI, Hong HE, Yang TANG, Qiming LI, Xiang CHEN, Manasa RAGHAVAN, Dawei ZHANG, Huaning NIU, Chunxuan YE, Haitong SUN
  • Patent number: 11991574
    Abstract: To support layer 1 (L1) and layer 2 (L2) centric inter-cell mobility and inter-cell multi-TRP operation, a user equipment (UE) may need to measurement the downlink reference signals from neighbor cells. To obtain these measurements, a UE may perform layer 3 (L3) measurements for one or more neighboring cells, and provide an L3 measurement report to a network node. Candidate measurement neighboring cells for L1 measurements may be identified based on the L3 measurements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Yushu Zhang, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Jie Cui, Manasa Raghavan, Qiming Li, Wei Zeng
  • Patent number: 11991771
    Abstract: Inter-cell mobility may include decoding a first radio resource control (RRC) reconfiguration message received from a first cell. The first RRC reconfiguration message may comprise a first portion of configuration information for performing a cell change to a second cell. A cell change message received from the first cell may be decoded. The cell change message may indicate that a cell change to the second cell is to be performed. A cell change acknowledgment may be encoded for transmission to the second cell. A second RRC reconfiguration message received from the second cell may be decoded. The second RRC reconfiguration message may comprise a second portion of configuration information for performing the cell change to the second cell. The second portion of configuration information may comprise a remaining portion of configuration information to perform the cell change to the second cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Fangli Xu, Chunhai Yao, Dawei Zhang, Haijing Hu, Qiming Li, Wei Zeng, Yang Tang, Yuqin Chen, Yushu Zhang
  • Publication number: 20240163051
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) is configured to determine to perform a sounding reference signal (SRS) transmission with an antenna port switch operation, wherein the SRS transmission with the antenna port switch operation is performed during an SRS transmission occasion comprising one or more symbols of a slot and apply one or more scheduling restriction rules corresponding to the SRS transmission with the antenna port switch to provide one or more scheduling restrictions for the UE, wherein the scheduling restrictions cause the UE to omit performing at least one of transmission operations or reception operations during one or more symbols of the slot or one or more symbols of an adjacent slot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2021
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Inventors: Jie CUI, Chunxuan YE, Dawei ZHANG, Haitong SUN, Hong HE, Huaning NIU, Manasa RAGHAVAN, Qiming LI, Xiang CHEN, Yang TANG
  • Publication number: 20240163752
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) is configured to perform layer 1 (L1), layer 2 (L2) and layer (3) mobility operations. The UE determines a measurement gap sharing scheme for layer 1 (L1)/layer 2 (L2) based mobility and layer 3 (L3) based mobility, determines a measurement gap pattern, wherein at least one measurement gap includes L1/L2 measurement occasions and L3 measurement occasions and collects measurement data during the at least one measurement gap in accordance with the measurement gap sharing scheme.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2021
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Inventors: Jie CUI, Qiming LI, Dawei ZHANG, Haitong SUN, Hong HE, Huaning NIU, Manasa RAGHAVAN, Xiang CHEN, Yang TANG, Yushu ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20240163738
    Abstract: Apparatus and method are provided for a user equipment (UE) to perform measurement operations for a handover procedure including target NR Primary Secondary Cell (PSCell) change or addition. The measurements of a target PSCell are performed in accordance with a synchronization signal/physical broadcast channel (SS/PBCH) block measurement time configuration (SMTC) included in a measurement object received from a base station (BS). A source primary cell (PCell) is used for reference timing of the SMTC if the measurement object is configured by the source PCell on same frequency and subcarrier spacing of the target PSCell. A source PSCell is used for reference timing of the SMTC if the measurement object is configured by the source PSCell on same frequency and subcarrier spacing of the target PSCell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2021
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Inventors: Jie Cui, Dawei Zhang, Fangli Xu, Hong He, Huaning Niu, Manasa Raghavan, Qiming Li, Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian, Xiang Chen, Yang Tang
  • Publication number: 20240163699
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) is configured to report beam information for a secondary cell. The UE receives a signal from a network indicating that a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) secondary cell (SCell) activation procedure has been initiated, collects beam information corresponding to a target PUCCH SCell, reports the beam information to the network, determines that the target PUCCH SCell has been activated as a PUCCH SCell and transmits uplink control information (UCI) over a PUCCH to the PUCCH SCell, wherein the UE is also configured with a different PUCCH corresponding to a primary cell (PCell).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2021
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Inventors: Jie CUI, Qiming LI, Dawei ZHANG, Haitong SUN, Hong HE, Huaning NIU, Manasa RAGHAVAN, Xiang CHEN, Yang TANG, Yushu ZHANG
  • Patent number: 11985530
    Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods for performing body proximity sensing operations based on uplink or measurement gaps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jie Cui, Qiming Li, Dawei Zhang, Hong He, Huaning Niu, Manasa Raghavan, Xiang Chen, Yang Tang
  • Publication number: 20240155398
    Abstract: Systems and methods for analyzing a validity of an early measurement report (EMR) measurement result are described herein. A base station may configure a threshold value for EMR result validity and receive, from a user equipment (UE), a first measurement value corresponding to a first time at or before expiration of a timer associated with idle mode or inactive mode measurements. The base station receives, from the UE, a second measurement value corresponding to a second time when a radio resource control (RRC) connection setup or resume procedure starts. The base station then determines, based on a comparison of the threshold value to a difference between the first measurement value and the second measurement value, whether the EMR result is valid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: Qiming Li, Dawei Zhang, Yang Tang, Yuexia Song, Jie Cui, Manasa Raghavan, Xiang Chen, Rolando E. Bettancourt Ortega
  • Publication number: 20240155696
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE), baseband processor or other network device (e.g., base station, next generation NodeB, etc.) can operate to configure a hand over (HO) or a primary secondary cell (PSCell) addition based on a channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) based contention free random access (CFRA) procedure. A CSI-RS rough timing of a CSI-RS position can be determined based on a synchronization signal block (SSB) associated with a CSI-RS or a serving cell timing. A CFRA transmit timing can be determined based on the CSI-RS rough timing or a CSI-RS fine timing that is derived from a timing and frequency (T/F) tracking operation on the CSI-RS. Reference signal receive power (RSRP) measurement(s) can be made on the CSI-RS for performing the CSI-RS based CFRA procedure with transmissions according to the CSI-RS transmit timing of the CSI-RS that satisfies an RSRP threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2021
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: Jie Cui, Fangli Xu, Yushu Zhang, Yang Tang, Qiming Li, Manasa Raghavan, Xiang Chen, Huaning Niu, Hong He, Dawei Zhang
  • Patent number: 11974235
    Abstract: Activating an uplink (UL) gap at a base station may include decoding a user equipment (UE) UL gap capability report received from a UE. A radio resource control (RRC) UL gap configuration may be encoded for transmission to the UE. A power headroom report (PHR) medium access control (MAC) control element (CE) received from the UE may be decoded. The PHR MAC CE may include at least one of a P value or a power management maximum power reduction (P-MPR) value. Decoding the measurement information may include determining that the P value is equal to one or the P-MPR value is greater than zero. Based on determining that the P value is equal to one or the P-MPR value is greater than zero, the UL gap configuration may be implicitly activated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Huaning Niu, Dawei Zhang, Jie Cui, Laxminarayana Pillutla, Manasa Raghavan, Qiming Li, Sharad Sambhwani, Xiang Chen, Yang Tang