Patents by Inventor Qian Zhang

Qian 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: 20210258942
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. Generally, the described techniques provide for training a beam for multiple component carriers (CCs) for concurrent communications in a wireless communications system associated with limited user equipment (UE) capabilities. The beam training may improve a receive or transmit beam for two or more CCs as a group that share an RF chain. The UE may receive, via a first receive beam, a first reference signal on a group of CCs over a first symbol. The UE may also receive, via a second receive beam, a second reference signal on the group of CCs over a second symbol. The UE may select a receive beam for a subsequent communication based on determining a value of a parameter for each of the first and the second receive beam.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2021
    Publication date: August 19, 2021
    Inventors: Tianyang Bai, Yan Zhou, Tao Luo, Kiran Venugopal, Jung Ho Ryu, Qian Zhang, Ling Ding, Junyi Li
  • Publication number: 20210243709
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a base station may determine a minimum time gap for a set of uplink transmissions in a set of timing advance groups; and schedule a first uplink transmission, of the set of uplink transmissions, in a first timing advance group, of the set of timing advance groups, and a second uplink transmission, of the set of uplink transmissions, in a second timing advance group, of the set of timing advance groups, with at least the minimum time gap between the first uplink transmission and the second uplink transmission. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2020
    Publication date: August 5, 2021
    Inventors: Qian ZHANG, Yan ZHOU, Tao LUO
  • Publication number: 20210243732
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive, in one or more downlink resources, a timing advance command in downlink control information; and implement the timing advance command after an action time period commencing from receipt of the timing advance command elapses. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2020
    Publication date: August 5, 2021
    Inventors: Qian ZHANG, Yan ZHOU, Tao LUO
  • Publication number: 20210243734
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure relate to wireless communications, and more particularly, to techniques for dynamically updating transmission configuration information (TCI) state and spatial relation information. For example, downlink control information (DCI) or media access control control element (MAC-CE) is used to update a large number of TCI states. As such, high efficiency, such as in terms of low overhead or usage of memory, is achieved with an increase of the upper limit of configured trigger state numbers. The DCI or MAC-CE is used to dynamically update the content in the large number of TCI states.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2021
    Publication date: August 5, 2021
    Inventors: Qian ZHANG, Yan ZHOU, Tao LUO
  • Patent number: 11080107
    Abstract: An event notification method, including: receiving an event subscription request from a subscriber, the event subscription request including at least one notified party; sending a first event notification to the at least one notified party; sending a second event notification to at least a part of the at least one notified party, the second event notification being for canceling the first event notification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignees: BEIJING BOE TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Junjie Zhao, Jing Su, Qian Zhang, Yanqiu Zhao
  • Publication number: 20210235397
    Abstract: Aspects described herein relate to identifying a timing advance group (TAG) for a second remote radio header (RRH) that is different from a first RRH, the TAG associated with a timing advance (TA) offset, wherein the first RRH and the second RRH are associated with a serving cell, switching from the first RRH to the second RRH in accordance with the TAG and the associated TA offset, and transmitting, on an uplink communication channel, data to the second RRH.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2020
    Publication date: July 29, 2021
    Inventors: Qian ZHANG, Yan ZHOU, Tao LUO
  • Publication number: 20210235398
    Abstract: Aspects described herein relate to report of timing difference for different synchronization signal blocks (SSBs) in fifth generation new radio (5G NR). In an example, the aspects may include receiving, from a network entity, a message indicating at least two SSBs, wherein a first of the two SSBs is associated with a first remote radio header (RRH) and a second of the two SSBs is associated with a second RRH; determining a received timing difference for at least the two SSBs; and transmitting the timing difference for at least the two SSBs to the network entity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2020
    Publication date: July 29, 2021
    Inventors: Qian ZHANG, Yan Zhou, Tao Luo
  • Publication number: 20210235338
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described in which a user equipment (UE) may measure physical layer parameters of one or more reference signals transmitted by one or more non-serving or neighbor base stations. The UE may store the measured physical layer parameters and, in the event that a handover command is received from a source base station to establish a connection with a target base station of one of the neighbor base stations, use the measured physical layer parameters for an uplink communication with the target base station, where the measured physical layer parameters are unreported by the UE prior to establishing the connection with the target base station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2021
    Publication date: July 29, 2021
    Inventors: Qian Zhang, Yan Zhou, Tao Luo
  • Publication number: 20210227432
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive physical-layer control information indicating to activate or deactivate a secondary cell; and activate or deactivate the secondary cell within a time period in accordance with the physical-layer control information, wherein the time period is based at least in part on a set of factors and based at least in part on the secondary cell being activated or deactivated by the physical-layer control information. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2020
    Publication date: July 22, 2021
    Inventors: Qian ZHANG, Yan ZHOU, Tao LUO
  • Publication number: 20210226751
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure relate to Layer 1/Layer 2-centric inter-cell mobility. Within a serving cell having a plurality of remote radio heads, each remote radio head transmits a referenced signal that includes a PCI index unique to the remote radio head. A user equipment is configured with a beam management function that uses one of the reference signals as a source reference signal for the beam management. The source reference signal is uniquely tied to the corresponding remote radio head through its PCI index.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2021
    Publication date: July 22, 2021
    Inventors: Qian ZHANG, Yan ZHOU, Tao LUO
  • Publication number: 20210227436
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may establish a first connection with a source base station. The UE may determine that a handover procedure is being performed for establishing a second connection with a target base station. The UE may monitor, during a monitoring period instantiated at a physical layer of a protocol stack of the UE, for a control signal acknowledging success of the handover procedure from a target base station. The UE may transmit, based at least in part on a result of the monitoring during the monitoring period, a physical layer signal or a medium access control layer signal to the source base station indicating that the handover procedure was unsuccessful based at least in part on a failure to successfully receive and decode the control signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Publication date: July 22, 2021
    Inventors: Qian Zhang, Yan Zhou, Tao Luo
  • Publication number: 20210227533
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive a plurality of configurations corresponding to a plurality of physical cell identifiers (PCIs), wherein the plurality of PCIs are associated with a serving cell of a base station, and wherein the plurality of configurations are based at least in part on respective remote radio heads (RRHs) of the base station; receive information indicating an RRH, of the respective RRHs, or a PCI corresponding to the RRH; and perform a communication with the RRH based at least in part on the PCI in accordance with a configuration, of the plurality of configurations, corresponding to the PCI. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2021
    Publication date: July 22, 2021
    Inventors: Qian ZHANG, Yan ZHOU, Tao LUO
  • Publication number: 20210227613
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive configuration information associated with monitoring link quality on a non-serving cell of the UE, wherein the configuration information includes at least one of: information indicating a reference signal resource associated with the non-serving cell, or information indicating an uplink resource associated with the non-serving cell; monitor a reference signal of the non-serving cell based at least in part on the configuration information; and transmit, to a serving cell using the uplink resource, a channel quality indicator associated with the non-serving cell based at least in part on the monitoring. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2020
    Publication date: July 22, 2021
    Inventors: Qian ZHANG, Yan ZHOU, Tao LUO
  • Patent number: 11070300
    Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with wireless circuitry that is tested in a test system. The test system may include test probes. Circuitry under test may wirelessly transmit test signals. The test probes may receive the test signals at multiple locations. Circuitry may measure direct current (DC) voltages generated by the test probes and may convert the voltages to electric field magnitudes. A test host may process the electric field magnitudes to determine whether the circuitry under test exhibits a satisfactory radiation pattern. The test probes may include dielectric substrates and one or more dipole elements coupled to respective diodes. The dipole elements may include indium tin oxide (ITO) and may include first and second sets of orthogonal dipole elements. Transmission lines coupled to the dipole elements may include ITO and may form low pass filters that convert rectified voltages produced by the diodes into the DC voltages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Aaron J. Cooper, Amin Tayebi, Breanna E. Bredesen, Carlo Di Nallo, Michael J. Williams, Nikolaj P. Kammersgaard, Qian Zhang, Tyler R. Roschuk
  • Publication number: 20210219199
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure provide apparatus, methods, processing systems, and computer readable mediums for enabling L1 (physical layer) and L2 (medium access control (MAC) layer) inter-cell mobility. In some examples, a user equipment (UE) may receive, from a network entity, at least one of physical layer signaling or MAC layer signaling comprising information for a selected cell. The UE may performing an inter-cell mobility procedure in accordance with the information for the selected cell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2020
    Publication date: July 15, 2021
    Inventors: Qian ZHANG, Yan ZHOU, Tao LUO
  • Publication number: 20210219255
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive or determine information indicating a timing advance for a non-serving cell of the UE, and perform an inter-cell mobility operation based at least in part on the timing advance for the non-serving cell of the UE. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2020
    Publication date: July 15, 2021
    Inventors: Qian ZHANG, Yan ZHOU, Tao LUO
  • Publication number: 20210219195
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may select, from a set of one or more neighbor cells, a set of one or more candidate cells for an inter-cell mobility operation; determine, from the set of one or more candidate cells, a set of one or more selected cells for the inter-cell mobility operation; add the set of one or more selected cells to a cell group of the UE; and transmit, to a base station, at least one of: the set of one or more candidate cells, or the set of one or more selected cells. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Publication date: July 15, 2021
    Inventors: Qian ZHANG, Yan ZHOU, Tao LUO
  • Publication number: 20210218801
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method, apparatus and storage medium for resource configuration. The method includes: receiving a request for resource creation, the request comprising a configuration rule for automatic configuration of a target resource; creating an automatic deployment resource in response to the request, wherein the automatic deployment resource includes configuration rule information derived from the configuration rule included in the request; and identifying the target resource to be configured and performing resource configuration for the identified target resource based on the configuration rule information. Thus, the efficiency of configuring a target resource is increased.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2019
    Publication date: July 15, 2021
    Inventors: Qian ZHANG, Junjie ZHAO, Jing SU
  • Publication number: 20210219194
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure provide apparatus, methods, processing systems, and computer readable mediums for enabling L1 (physical layer) and L2 (medium access control (MAC) layer) inter-cell mobility. More specifically, rules and operations performed during L1/L2 based cell handover operations. In certain aspects, a user equipment (UE) is configured to receive, from a network entity of a source cell via at least one of L1 or L2 signaling, a handover command for the UE to handover from the source cell to a target cell. The UE may determine at least one transient period during which the UE is served by both the source cell and the target cell, and perform the handover while communicating with the source cell and target cell during the transient period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2020
    Publication date: July 15, 2021
    Inventors: Qian ZHANG, Yan ZHOU, Tao LUO
  • Publication number: 20210219230
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive a physical-layer control signal indicating to activate or deactivate a set of secondary cells (SCells); and activate or deactivate the set of SCells in accordance with the physical-layer control signal. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2021
    Publication date: July 15, 2021
    Inventors: Qian ZHANG, Yan ZHOU, Tao LUO