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: 20210368459
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a first wireless node (e.g., a user equipment) may receive, from a second wireless node (e.g., a base station), a downlink signaling message indicating a synchronization signal block (SSB) grouping based at least in part on a full-duplex capability and transmission directions associated with the second wireless node. The first wireless node may configure, and the second wireless node may perform, a beam search and/or a self-interference measurement to identify at least one candidate downlink and uplink beam pair suitable for full-duplex operation based at least in part on the SSB grouping. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2021
    Publication date: November 25, 2021
    Inventors: Qian ZHANG, Navid ABEDINI, Yan ZHOU, Tao LUO, Junyi LI
  • Patent number: 11181301
    Abstract: A condensation tray for condensing tankless water heaters is disclosed. The tray can include a plurality of peaks and valleys. The peaks can divert condensate runoff from a secondary heat exchanger into the valleys so as to prevent the condensate from falling on a primary heat exchanger. The tray includes gas apertures that enable combustion gases to pass through the tray and across the secondary heat exchanger. Overhangs on the peaks can prevent the condensate from draining through the gas apertures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: Rheem Manufacturing Company
    Inventors: Jeffrey Stogsdill, Qian Zhang, Govinda Mahajan, Joshua Renier
  • Patent number: 11182678
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for generating a pattern program using a genetic algorithm. The genetic algorithm operates on example data strings that represent the data categories to be recognized or extracted through named entity recognition. In the initialization stage, the initial pattern programs are generated based on example data strings that represent the data categories to be recognized or extracted through named entity recognition. Starting from the initial pattern programs, genetic operations are iteratively conducted to generate generations of offspring pattern programs. In each round of the genetic operation, offspring pattern programs are generated through the crossover operation and the mutation operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: ALIPAY (HANGZHOU) INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Desheng Wang, Qian Jia, Yang Liu, Peng Zhang, Qian Zhang, Peng Zheng
  • Patent number: 11184121
    Abstract: Hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) processes, indicators, and similar methods may be used improve new radio performance in a number of ways. For example HARQ processes may be retransmitted, even before a response is expected, a number of times. Separate acknowledgement may be provided for various code blocks within a single transport block. Multi-bit ACK/NACK signaling may be used to efficiently express the status of individual code blocks or groups of code blocks within a transmission block. Grantless transmissions may be acknowledged implicitly, e.g., via responses comprising downlink control information or sent via a physical hybrid automatic repeat request indicator channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: Convida Wireless, LLC
    Inventors: Lakshmi R. Iyer, Allan Y. Tsai, Tianyi Xu, Guodong Zhang, Pascal M. Adjakple, Qing Li, Wei Chen, Qian Zhang, Joseph M. Murray
  • Publication number: 20210359892
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may determine a tracking reference signal (TRS) pattern to be used for receiving a TRS. The TRS pattern may indicate a plurality of TRS symbols of the TRS, one or more TRS symbols of the plurality of TRS symbols having a bandwidth that is different than a bandwidth of at least one other TRS symbol of the plurality of TRS symbols, or having a discontinuous tone allocation. The UE may receive the TRS based at least in part on the TRS pattern. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2021
    Publication date: November 18, 2021
    Inventors: Tianyang BAI, Junyi LI, Wooseok NAM, Sungwoo PARK, Kiran VENUGOPAL, Tao LUO, Jung Ho RYU, Qian ZHANG, Ling DING
  • Publication number: 20210359812
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may transmit, to a base station, a UE capability to receive a first portion of a tracking reference signal (TRS) and a second portion of the TRS, the first portion and the second portion associated with a TRS pattern. The UE may receive, from the base station, an indication of the TRS pattern, where the TRS pattern includes the first portion of the TRS pattern and the second portion of the TRS pattern. The UE may receive one or more TRSs according to the first portion of the TRS pattern and the second portion of the TRS pattern.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2021
    Publication date: November 18, 2021
    Inventors: Tianyang Bai, Wooseok Nam, Sungwoo Park, Kiran Venugopal, Tao Luo, Junyi Li, Jung Ho Ryu, Qian Zhang, Ling Ho Ding
  • Publication number: 20210360595
    Abstract: New radio download numerology allocation information may be obtained through master information block data, system information block data, radio resource control signals, or signals or a physical downlink numerology indication channel, and used along with a reference signal detected in a search space to obtain resource element positions in an antenna port reference signal in a resource block that belongs to a particular band slice according to a reference signal allocation scheme for a band slice numerology. A physical download control may then be decoded based upon one or more resource elements of the reference signal, allowing the connection of, e.g., an enhanced mobile broadband, massive machine type communication, or ultra-reliable/low-latency application to a communications network thereby. Alternatively, multiple physical downlink control channels may be blindly demodulated at each of a number calculated reference signal locations, and one channel selected based on passing a cyclic redundancy check.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2021
    Publication date: November 18, 2021
    Inventors: Allan Y. Tsai, Lakshmi R. Iyer, Guodong Zhang, Qian Zhang, Pascal M. Adjakple, Qing Li, Joseph M. Murray, Tianyi Xu, Wei Chen, Ahmed ElSamadouny, Salman Khan, Yifan Li
  • Publication number: 20210360642
    Abstract: A configuration to enable a wireless device to resolve a conflict between configured transmit beams and configured receive beams in a self-interference measurement configuration. The first wireless device receives, from a second wireless device, a configuration for a self-interference measurement. The first wireless device determines whether a conflict is present between a configured transmit beam and a configured receive beam. The first wireless device resolves the conflict between the configured transmit beam and the configured receive beam. Similarly, a second wireless device configures a configuration for a self-interference measurement for a first wireless device. The second wireless device determines whether a conflict is present between a configured transmit beam and a configured receive beam of the configuration. The second wireless device resolves the conflict between the configured transmit beam and the configured receive beam.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2021
    Publication date: November 18, 2021
    Inventors: Navid ABEDINI, Qian Zhang, Yan Zhou, Tao Luo, Junyi Li
  • Patent number: 11174182
    Abstract: It discloses a system for controlling heavy metals and a method for preventing and controlling heavy metals using the same. The system includes a constructed wetland (3), in which several layers of fillers are laid, so that water is allowed to flow through each layer of the filler to remove heavy metals. Preferably, a sandwich wall is constructed around the constructed wetland (3), and organic matters (12) which generating heat through fermentation is filled in the sandwich wall to supply heat to the constructed wetland (3) in winter. The sandwich wall is easy to build and the fermentation materials are cheap and easily available, thereby the present method is able to effectively solve the difficulties occurred in the operation of constructed wetland in winter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: CHINESE RESEARCH ACADEMY OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
    Inventors: Lei Wang, Beidou Xi, Jinsheng Wang, Ming Chang, Yangyang Wang, Tongtong Li, Yali Zhang, Hui Liu, Feng Wu, Qian Zhang
  • Patent number: 11172620
    Abstract: Optical system for facilitating plant growth is provided. The optical system can produce a light beam having a full width at half-maximum (FWHM) angle of greater than 120 degrees in one or more transverse directions, wherein the transverse direction is perpendicular to the optical axis of the light beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: VERDANT LIGHTING TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Liangliang Cao, Qian Zhang
  • Patent number: 11178246
    Abstract: The disclosed embodiments disclose techniques for managing cloud-based storage using a time-series database. A distributed cloud data management system (DCDMS) manages objects stored in a cloud storage system. The DCDMS leverages a distributed time-series database to track objects accessed via the DCDMS. During operation, the DCDMS receives a request to access an object using a path identifier and an object identifier. The DCDMS determines from the path identifier that the request is associated with one of its supported extended capabilities, and uses the previously tracked object operations that are stored in the time-series database to determine the actual target bucket in the cloud storage system that contains the requested object; the target bucket that contains the object may be different from the bucket identified in the path identifier that is received. The object identifier is then used to access the requested object from the target bucket to service the request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: Panzura, LLC
    Inventors: Jian Xing, Qian Zhang, Pu Paul Zhang
  • Publication number: 20210351832
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may perform, in a full duplex communication mode, a channel measurement (CM) procedure associated with a self-interference measurement (SIM) procedure to determine a downlink signal to self-interference plus noise ratio associated with a downlink (DL) and uplink (UL) (DL/UL) beam pair of the UE; receive, from a base station, uplink interference information associated with a UL beam of the DL/UL beam pair of the UE, wherein the uplink interference information indicates at least one of: a final DL/UL beam pair selected by the base station; and transmit a measurement report based at least in part on the CM procedure and the SIM procedure, wherein the measurement report is based at least in part on the downlink signal to self-interference plus noise ratio. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2021
    Publication date: November 11, 2021
    Inventors: Qian Zhang, Yan Zhou, Tao Luo, Navid Abedini
  • Publication number: 20210351902
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive a configuration for a channel measurement (CM) process indicating at least one channel measurement resource (CMR) associated with quasi co-location (QCL) information, wherein the QCL information corresponds to a transmit (Tx) beam of the base station associated with a receive (Rx) beam of the UE; receive a configuration for an interference measurement (IM) process indicating at least one interference measurement resource (IMR) associated with a UE beam pair comprising the Rx beam of the UE and a Tx beam of the UE; perform a self-interference measurement (SIM), wherein the SIM procedure is based at least in part on the CM process and the IM process; and transmit, to the base station, a measurement report based at least in part on the SIM procedure. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2021
    Publication date: November 11, 2021
    Inventors: Qian ZHANG, Yan ZHOU, Juan MONTOJO, Tao LUO, Navid ABEDINI
  • Publication number: 20210352510
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may transmit, in a full duplex communication mode, a data transmission or a control transmission; perform a self-interference measurement (SIM) associated with an uplink transmit beam from a first panel and a downlink receive beam from a second panel of the UE, based at least in part on at least part of the data transmission or the control transmission; and transmit a measurement report indicating the SIM. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2021
    Publication date: November 11, 2021
    Inventors: Qian ZHANG, Yan ZHOU, Tao LUO, Navid ABEDINI
  • Publication number: 20210351838
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive, in a full duplex transmission mode, a measurement trigger indicating a set of candidate base station beam pairs, wherein a candidate base station beam pair comprises a base station uplink (UL) beam and a base station downlink (DL) beam, wherein the corresponding identified UE beam pair comprises a UE UL beam and a UE DL beam, wherein the set of candidate base station beam pairs are identified based at least in part on a base station self-interference measurement; and transmit, to the base station, a beam measurement report based at least in part on a plurality of beam measurements obtained based at least in part on the measurement trigger. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2021
    Publication date: November 11, 2021
    Inventors: Qian ZHANG, Yan ZHOU, Tao LUO, Navid ABEDINI
  • Patent number: 11172499
    Abstract: This application discloses an information transmission method, apparatus, and system, and belongs to the field of communications technologies. The method includes: generating, by a base station, amount indication information, where the amount indication information is used to indicate a maximum amount of downlink control information; sending, by the base station, the amount indication information to user equipment; receiving, by the user equipment, the amount indication information; and receiving, by the user equipment, downlink control information based on the amount indication information. In this application, the amount indication information is sent to the user equipment, so that the user equipment receives the downlink control information based on the amount indication information. This can resolve a problem that complexity of blind detection performed by the user equipment is relatively high, thereby reducing the complexity of the blind detection performed by the user equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Haicun Hang, Ye Wu, Qian Zhang
  • Publication number: 20210345232
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may store configurations for candidate physical cell identifiers (PCIs) that the UE may select from for inter-cell mobility. A base station or a UE or both may identify a first configuration indicating a number of configured PCIs for inter-cell mobility operations. The base station or the UE or both may identify a second configuration indicating a number of selected PCIs for inter-cell mobility operations. In some cases, the selected PCIs may be a subset of the configured PCIs. Identifying the number of configured PCIs and the number of selected PCIs by the base station and UE may be based on a capability report configured by the UE. The UE and the base station may perform an inter-cell mobility operation based on stored cell configurations associated with the configured PCIs and the selected PCIs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2021
    Publication date: November 4, 2021
    Inventors: Yan Zhou, Qian Zhang, Jelena Damnjanovic, Tao Luo
  • Publication number: 20210345429
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive a beam configuration for each physical cell identifier (PCI) of a set of candidate PCIs. A beam configuration for a PCI may include, for example, transmission configuration indicator (TCI) states for downlink channels and reference signals or spatial relations for uplink channels and reference signals. The UE may receive an indication of a selected subset of PCIs of the set of candidate PCIs. The UE may apply the beam configuration for each PCI of the selected subset of PCIs based on the indication of the selected subset of PCIs. The UE may then communicate according to the beam configurations for the selected subset of PCIs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2021
    Publication date: November 4, 2021
    Inventors: Yan Zhou, Qian Zhang, Sony Akkarakaran, Wooseok Nam, Mostafa Khoshnevisan, Tao Luo
  • Publication number: 20210344459
    Abstract: Aspects described herein relate to on-demand soft acknowledgement (ACK)/negative acknowledgement (NACK) in radio access and other wireless networks, such as fifth generation new radio (5G NR), 3GPP Long Term Evolution (LTE), 3GPP LTE-Advanced (LTE-A), Wi-Fi, and the like. In an example, the aspects may include receiving, from a network entity, a request to enable soft ACK/NACK feedback; enabling the soft ACK/NACK feedback based on the request, where the soft ACK/NACK feedback comprises at least a link quality metric per diversity branch; and transmitting, to the network entity, the soft ACK/NACK feedback based on a determination to enable the soft ACK/NACK feedback.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2021
    Publication date: November 4, 2021
    Inventors: Yan Zhou, Qian Zhang, Tao Luo
  • Patent number: D935508
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Qian Zhang, Ningning Li, Lei Zhang