Patents by Inventor Qian Zhou
Qian Zhou 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).
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TRANSMITTING INTER-USER-EQUIPMENT CROSS-LINK INTERFERENCE (CLI) REFERENCE SIGNALS FOR CLI MITIGATION
Publication number: 20240137965Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a first user equipment (UE) may receive, from a first network node associated with the first UE, a cross-link interference (CLI) configuration. The first UE may transmit, to a second UE, an inter-UE CLI measurement reference signal based at least in part on the CLI configuration, a measurement associated with the inter-UE CLI measurement reference signal being signaled to the first network node. Numerous other aspects are described.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2023Publication date: April 25, 2024Inventors: Qian ZHANG, Yan ZHOU, Muhammad Sayed Khairy ABDELGHAFFAR, Tao LUO -
Publication number: 20240137913Abstract: A UE receives information indicating a set of slots or symbols for a subband full duplex (SBFD) operation. The UE also receives a configuration of an SBFD format including at least a first subband for uplink communication and a second subband for downlink communication. The UE further receives an indication that indicates for the UE to update the SBFD format for at least a subset of the set of slots or symbols.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 24, 2022Publication date: April 25, 2024Inventors: Qian ZHANG, Yan ZHOU, Tao LUO
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Publication number: 20240137192Abstract: A method of wireless communication by a user equipment (UE) includes receiving a configuration for switching between a full frequency bandwidth slot in a half duplex mode, and a partial frequency bandwidth slot in a subband based base station full duplex (SBFD) mode. The full frequency bandwidth slot is for uplink communications or downlink communications. The partial frequency bandwidth slot is for the uplink communications corresponding to an uplink subband or for downlink communications corresponding to at least one downlink subband. The method also includes switching, in accordance with the configuration, between the full frequency bandwidth slot and the partial frequency bandwidth slot.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 20, 2022Publication date: April 25, 2024Inventors: Qian ZHANG, Yan ZHOU, Tao LUO
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Patent number: 11963184Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. In some examples, a user equipment (UE) may be scheduled by a base station for full-duplex sidelink transmissions. A first UE may receive, from a base station, a first sidelink grant indicating a first set of resources and a second set of resources. The first set of resources may at least partially overlap in time with the second set of resources. Upon receiving the first sidelink, the first UE may transmit, to a second wireless device, a second sidelink grant indicating the second set of resources. The first UE may transmit a first data message to the second UE over the first set of resources and receive a second data message from the second device over the second set of resources.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2021Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Yan Zhou, Qian Zhang, Sony Akkarakaran, Navid Abedini, Tao Luo
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Publication number: 20240121070Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive an indication that a network node is operating in a sub-band full duplex mode in a set of symbols. The UE may identify whether to receive at least one of a synchronization signal block communication or a physical downlink control channel communication associated with a common search space in the set of symbols based at least in part on the indication. Numerous other aspects are described.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 6, 2023Publication date: April 11, 2024Inventors: Muhammad Sayed Khairy ABDELGHAFFAR, Qian ZHANG, Abdelrahman Mohamed Ahmed Mohamed IBRAHIM, Yan ZHOU
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Patent number: 11956182Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for configuring multi-beam full-duplex communication that allows a device (e.g., user equipment (UE) or base station) to contemporaneously perform both uplink and downlink communication over the same frequency band. Because of the full duplex communication capability provided by the present disclosure, the NR system may achieve reduced latency and improved spectrum and resource efficiency, thereby accommodating a growing demands for the wireless communication. The full duplex communication capability may be achieved by implementing downlink control information (DCI) format that specifies to the UE the beam assignments for contemporaneous transmission (Tx) and reception (Rx).Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2021Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Yan Zhou, Tianyang Bai, Qian Zhang, Navid Abedini, Tao Luo
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Patent number: 11956184Abstract: The present disclosure provides systems, devices, apparatus and methods, including computer programs encoded on storage media, for an autonomous fallback for a full-duplex beam pair. In a first aspect, a first wireless device may determine an occurrence of a performance trigger for a current beam pair for full-duplex communication at the first wireless device and use a fallback full-duplex beam pair in response to determining the occurrence of the performance trigger. In a second aspect, the first wireless device may receive an indication from a second wireless device of an occurrence of the performance trigger for the current beam pair for full-duplex communication and using the fallback full-duplex beam pair for communication with the second wireless device in response to receiving the indication.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2021Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Yan Zhou, Kiran Venugopal, Navid Abedini, Qian Zhang, Tao Luo
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Patent number: 11954417Abstract: Disclosed a method for predicting permeability of a multi-mineral phase digital core based on deep learning. In the present disclosure, a three-dimensional digital core is constructed and a pore structure is randomly generated; after a plurality of multi-mineral digital core images is acquired by performing image segmentation on the three-dimensional digital core, permeability corresponding to each of the multi-mineral digital core images is acquired by simulation using multi-physics field simulation software and a multi-mineral digital core data set is constructed based on the plurality of multi-mineral digital core images and the permeability corresponding to each of the multi-mineral digital core images; an SE-ResNet18 convolutional neural network is constructed and trained with the multi-mineral digital core data set; and an image of a multi-mineral core to be predicted is input into the trained SE-ResNet18 convolutional neural network to determine the permeability of the multi-mineral core.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2023Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: CHINA UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM (EAST CHINA)Inventors: Hai Sun, Liang Zhou, Dongyan Fan, Lei Zhang, Jun Yao, Yongfei Yang, Kai Zhang, Qian Sang, Xia Yan, Lei Liu, Fei Luo, Yuda Kan
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Patent number: 11956797Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a first user equipment (UE) may receive configuration information for configuring a plurality of semi-persistent resources for a plurality of UEs, the plurality of semi-persistent resources including one or more semi-persistent resources configured for the first UE. The UE may receive an indication to activate the plurality of semi-persistent resources across the plurality of UEs. The UE may communicate, based at least in part on the indication, using the one or more semi-persistent resources. Numerous other aspects are described.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2021Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Qian Zhang, Yan Zhou, Navid Abedini, Junyi Li, Tao Luo
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Publication number: 20240110047Abstract: Aqueous dispersions and uses for the same. The aqueous dispersion includes a component (a) of one or more ethylene-vinyl ester copolymers, a component (b) of one or more protective colloids, a component (el) of one or more nonionic surfactants, and a component (d) of one or more dispersants, selected from polycarboxylates. Where an amount of the component (b) and the component (c1) is less than or equal to 3.4 pphm, preferably between 1-3.4 pphm, more preferably between 2-3.1 pphm. Where the weight ratio of an amount of the component (b) to the component (el) is between 1.01-2 and an amount of the component (d) is less than or equal to 1 pphm. The component (b) is polyvinyl alcohol (PVOH).Type: ApplicationFiled: December 30, 2020Publication date: April 4, 2024Applicant: Wacker Chemie AGInventors: Jin Zheng, Qian Chen, Jie Xu, Jiaxiang Zhou
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Publication number: 20240113846Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive configuration information associated with downlink reception in an uplink subband corresponding to a subband full duplex (SBFD)-aware configuration. The UE may receive a downlink communication in the uplink subband based on the configuration information. Numerous other aspects are described.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 4, 2023Publication date: April 4, 2024Inventors: Muhammad Sayed Khairy ABDELGHAFFAR, Qian ZHANG, Abdelrahman Mohamed Ahmed Mohamed IBRAHIM, Yan ZHOU
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Publication number: 20240113833Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. Techniques described herein relate to schemes for managing an overlap of at least part of a tracking reference signal (TRS) with an uplink subband or a guard band in a subband full duplex (SBFD) slot or symbol. In some examples, if a user equipment (UE) and/or a network entity determines that at least a portion of a TRS is scheduled for reception in an uplink subband or a guard band of an SBFD slot or symbol, the UE and/or the network entity may: drop the TRS, puncture the portion of the TRS that overlaps with the uplink subband or the guard band; or may shift the frequency position of the TRS such that the TRS is scheduled within the downlink subband(s) of the SBFD slot or symbol.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2022Publication date: April 4, 2024Inventors: Abdelrahman Mohamed Ahmed Mohamed Ibrahim, Muhammad Sayed Khairy Abdelghaffar, Ahmed Attia Abotabl, Qian Zhang, Yan Zhou
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Publication number: 20240109990Abstract: Aqueous dispersions and uses for the same. The aqueous dispersion includes a component (a) of one or more ethylene-vinyl ester copolymers and a component (b) of one or more protective colloids. The aqueous dispersion may optionally a component (c1) of one or more nonionic surfactants and/or a component (c2) of one or more ionic surfactants. Where a total amount of the component (b) is less than or equal to 2.2 pphm, preferably between 1-2.2 pphm, or more preferably 1.8 pphm. Additionally, where a total amount of the component (c1) and the component (c2) is less than 0.1 pphm, preferably less than or equal to 0.01 pphm.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 30, 2020Publication date: April 4, 2024Applicant: Wacker Chemie AGInventors: Jin Zheng, Qian Chen, Yipeng Wei, Jiaxiang Zhou
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Publication number: 20240114500Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A network entity may implement a subband full duplex communication scheme. For a half duplex UE, each slot may be configured as either a downlink slot or an uplink slot. A half duplex UE may be scheduled with a transmission in a conflicting (e.g., opposite) direction with respect to the configured slot direction for the UE. The UE may determine whether to communicate a scheduled transmission in a conflicting direction of the configured slot direction in accordance with a conflict resolution scheme. A UE may receive scheduling information for a second transmission that is scheduled for the same direction as the slot in addition to the transmission scheduled for the opposite direction as the slot. The UE may apply the conflict resolution scheme to determine which transmission to communicate.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 29, 2023Publication date: April 4, 2024Inventors: Muhammad Sayed Khairy ABDELGHAFFAR, Qian ZHANG, Abdelrahman Mohamed Ahmed Mohamed IBRAHIM, Yan ZHOU
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Patent number: 11949504Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may transmit control signaling indicating a capability of the UE for supporting a first duplex mode and indicating a mode switching latency of the UE for switching between the first duplex mode and a second duplex mode. In some cases, the UE may transmit an indication of a set of supported full-duplex channel combinations, where each channel combination of the set of supported full-duplex channel combinations may include an uplink channel and a downlink channel. In some cases, the UE may transmit an indication of a duration for which the capability of the UE for supporting the first duplex mode is applicable. The UE may receive scheduling information based on the capability of the UE for supporting the first duplex mode and the mode switching latency, and communicate with a base station based on the scheduling information.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2021Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Qian Zhang, Yan Zhou, Peter Gaal, Tao Luo, Junyi Li
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Patent number: 11950160Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure provide a method for wireless communications by a user equipment (UE). The method generally includes receiving signaling configuring the UE with multiple candidate target physical cell identifiers (PCIs) of at least one candidate target cell, receiving signaling configuring the UE with at least one handover (HO) condition for each PCI of the multiple candidate target PCIs, detecting that an HO condition is satisfied for a target PCI of one or more target PCIs selected from the multiple candidate target PCIs for HO, initiating an HO procedure to a target cell associated with the target PCI for which the HO condition is satisfied, the HO procedure involving transmitting a random access signal on an uplink (UL) resource configured for the target PCI, and transmitting or receiving an HO complete message, via physical or medium access control (MAC) layer signaling, a handover complete message indicating completion of the HO procedure.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2021Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Yan Zhou, Qian Zhang, Tao Luo
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Patent number: 11950110Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive, from a base station, a parameter switch configuration that indicates at least one parameter switching pattern associated with two or more values of a configuration parameter, the parameter switching pattern corresponding to a periodic uplink communication and a periodic downlink communication. The UE may communicate, based at least in part on the parameter switching pattern, with at least one wireless communication device based at least in part on the periodic uplink communication and the periodic downlink communication. Numerous other aspects are described.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2021Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Qian Zhang, Yan Zhou, Junyi Li, Navid Abedini, Tao Luo
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Publication number: 20240107461Abstract: A network node may transmit an RS to a UE in a symbol or a slot. The RS may extend over a plurality of downlink subbands that have non-contiguous subcarriers in the symbol or the slot. At least two downlink subbands in the plurality of downlink subbands may be separated by an uplink subband in the symbol or the slot. The plurality of downlink subbands and the uplink subband may be associated with a subband full duplex operation at a network node. The RS may include a CSI-RS. The UE may measure the RS from the network node in the symbol or the slot. The UE may generate at least one CSI metric based on the measurement of the RS. The network node may receive a CSI report from the UE based on the RS and at least one CSI metric.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2022Publication date: March 28, 2024Inventors: Qian ZHANG, Yan ZHOU
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Publication number: 20240107516Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a network node may identify whether a first downlink channel or reference signal is permitted to overlap in time, in the full-duplex configuration, with a second uplink channel or reference signal based at least in part on: a first channel type or reference signal type of the first downlink channel or reference signal, or a second channel type or reference signal type of the second uplink channel or reference signal. The network node may schedule a communication of a user equipment based at least in part on whether the first downlink channel or reference signal is permitted to overlap in time, in the full-duplex configuration, with the second uplink channel or reference signal. Numerous other aspects are described.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 23, 2022Publication date: March 28, 2024Inventors: Yan ZHOU, Qian ZHANG, Tao LUO
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Publication number: 20240107517Abstract: A UE receives a first TDD UL DL slot format configuration in RRC signaling, the first TDD UL DL slot format configuration indicating types of communication for a set of symbols or a set of slots, the types of the communication including one or more of uplink, downlink, or flexible. The UE further receives an indication of an adjusted type for at least one symbol in the set of symbols or at least one slot in the set of slots. The at least one symbol for which a type of the communication is adjusted is a downlink symbol or an uplink symbol based on the first time TDD UL DL slot format configuration, or the at least one slot for which the type of the communication is adjusted is a downlink slot or an uplink slot based on the first time TDD UL DL slot format configuration.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 23, 2022Publication date: March 28, 2024Inventors: Qian ZHANG, Yan ZHOU, Muhammad Sayed Khairy ABDELGHAFFAR, Tao LUO