Patents by Inventor Qiping PI
Qiping PI 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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Publication number: 20250113379Abstract: A terminal includes: a reception unit configured to receive information related to a channel access procedure from a base station; a control unit configured to determine the channel access procedure, based on the information; and a communication unit configured to perform transmission to the base station, based on the determined channel access procedure, wherein the control unit supports a channel access procedure with LBT (Listen before talk), and does not assume that the LBT is to be configured in a licensed band.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 27, 2022Publication date: April 3, 2025Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Naoya Shibaike, Hiroki Harada, Satoshi Nagata, Qiping Pi
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Publication number: 20250105989Abstract: This terminal comprises a control unit that determines a cell to transmit control information on the basis of a timing pattern indicating the order of cells to transmit the control information, and a transmitting unit that transmits the control information in the determined cell. If the timing pattern includes Scell to be de-activated, the timing pattern is changed before Scell is de-activated.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 26, 2021Publication date: March 27, 2025Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Yuki Takahashi, Satoshi Nagata, Qiping Pi, Jing Wang, Lan chen
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Publication number: 20250081201Abstract: A terminal according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes a receiving section that receives at least one of configuration information of a pattern of resources unavailable for a DL in certain time resources and indication information related to the pattern of the resources, and a control section that performs control to perform DL reception in resources other than the resources unavailable for the DL, and performs control not to perform the DL reception in the resources unavailable for the DL, based on at least one of the configuration information and the indication information. According to one aspect of the present disclosure, use efficiency of resources can be enhanced.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 20, 2021Publication date: March 6, 2025Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Hiroki Harada, Shohei Yoshioka, Shinya Kumagai, Satoshi Nagata, Jing Wang, Qiping Pi
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Publication number: 20250063604Abstract: A terminal according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes a transmitting section that transmits a plurality of repetitions of a physical random access channel by using a plurality of different beams, and a control section that determines a reference beam corresponding to one of the plurality of different beams and that determines, on the basis of reception of a response to the physical random access channel, a subsequent uplink beam, the reception using the reference beam. According to one aspect of the present disclosure, it is possible to improve coverage in a random access procedure.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 24, 2021Publication date: February 20, 2025Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Yuki Matsumura, Naoya Shibaike, Satoshi Nagata, Jing Wang, Qiping Pi, Lan Chen
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Publication number: 20250039874Abstract: A terminal according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes a receiving section that receives a downlink control channel, and a control section that judges, based on the presence or absence of configuration or support of scheduling of a plurality of downlink shared channels in a plurality of transmission/reception points using downlink control information provided by the downlink control channel, at least one of a transmission configuration indication (TCI state) indicated by the downlink control information and a TCI state corresponding to a downlink shared channel scheduled by the downlink control information.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2021Publication date: January 30, 2025Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Yuki Matsumura, Nagoya Shibaike, Satoshi Nagata, Weiqi Sun, Jing Wang, Qiping Pi, Lan Chen
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Publication number: 20250030522Abstract: A terminal includes a reception unit configured to receive downlink data scheduled by SPS (Semi-Persistent Scheduling); a control unit configured to perform postponement of HARQ-ACK (Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest-ACKnowledgement) corresponding to the downlink data, a maximum postponement period being configured to the postponement; and a transmission unit configured to transmit an uplink control channel that carries uplink control information including the HARQ-ACK via a resource determined based on the postponement of the HARQ-ACK. The control unit performs carrier switching of the uplink control channel as necessary, and determines whether the postponement of the HARQ-ACK exceeds the maximum postponement period, based on a subcarrier spacing of: a cell before performing the carrier switching; a cell after performing the carrier switching; or a cell indicated by a semi-static cell pattern.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 19, 2022Publication date: January 23, 2025Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Yuki Takahashi, Satoshi Nagata, Qiping Pi, Jing Wang, Lan Chen
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Publication number: 20250008510Abstract: A terminal receives a plurality of downlink data channels scheduled by a single downlink control information, and assumes that if any downlink data channel collides with an uplink symbol, the downlink data channel cancelled by the collision is excluded from the specific scheduling.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 5, 2021Publication date: January 2, 2025Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Naoya Shibaike, Hiroki Harada, Satoshi Nagata, Qiping Pi, Jing Wang, Lan Chen
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Publication number: 20240414704Abstract: A terminal includes: a reception unit configured to receive downlink control information activating semi-persistent scheduling and downlink data according to the activated semi-persistent scheduling from a base station; a control unit configured to determine a cell for feedback for the downlink data in a case where dynamic carrier switching is enabled; and a transmission unit configured to use the determined cell to transmit feedback information corresponding to the downlink data to the base station.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 11, 2022Publication date: December 12, 2024Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Yuki Takahashi, Satoshi Nagata, Qiping Pi, Jing Wang, Lan Chen
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Publication number: 20240406967Abstract: A terminal according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes a receiving section that receives a downlink control channel for transmitting one piece of downlink control information for scheduling a plurality of downlink shared channels, and a control section that, when at least one codepoint of a transmission configuration indication (TCI) notification field configured in the downlink control information indicates a plurality of TCI states, judges at least one of a quasi-co-location (QCL) and a TCI state corresponding to the plurality of respective downlink shared channels, based on whether offset between the downlink control channel and at least one of the plurality of downlink shared channels is less than a certain threshold value.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2021Publication date: December 5, 2024Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Yuki Matsumura, Naoya Shibaike, Satoshi Nagata, Weiqi Sun, Jing Wang, Qiping Pi, Lan Chen
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Publication number: 20240397522Abstract: This terminal comprises a receiving unit which receives a downstream control signal, and a control unit which, on the basis of the downstream control signal, controls repeat transmission of an upstream control signal and delaying transmission of the upstream control signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 16, 2021Publication date: November 28, 2024Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Yuki Takahashi, Satoshi Nagata, Qiping Pi, Jing Wang, Lan Chen
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Publication number: 20240373458Abstract: A terminal includes: a reception unit configured to receive from a base station: a block including a synchronization signal and a broadcast channel; a control channel carrying control information; and a shared channel carrying system information, based on the control information; and a control unit configured to perform an initial access to the base station, based on the system information. Information included in the broadcast channel includes at least one of information related to QCL (Quasi co-location), information related to LBT (Listen before talk), information related to DBTW (Discovery burst transmission window), and information indicating whether a band is a licensed band or an unlicensed band.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 2, 2021Publication date: November 7, 2024Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Naoya Shibaike, Hiroki Harada, Satoshi Nagata, Qiping Pi
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Publication number: 20240357585Abstract: A terminal according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes: a receiving section configured to receive a configuration of a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) for at least one of a scheduling request (SR) and channel state information (CSI); and a control section configured to control respective transmission of a plurality of repetitions of the PUCCH over a plurality of subslots based on the configuration. According to one aspect of the present disclosure, suitable PUCCH repetition transmission can be implemented.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 17, 2022Publication date: October 24, 2024Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Yuki Takahashi, Satoshi Nagata, Qiping Pi, Jing Wang, Lan Chen
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Publication number: 20240340896Abstract: A terminal includes: a control unit configured to generate feedback information including first feedback information for control information that performs scheduling for a downlink shared channel by a first method and second feedback information for control information that performs scheduling for a downlink shared channel by a second method; and a transmission unit configured to transmit the feedback information in uplink, wherein at least the first feedback information includes third feedback information for control information that performs scheduling for a single downlink shared channel and fourth feedback information for control information that performs scheduling for a plurality of downlink shared channels.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 5, 2021Publication date: October 10, 2024Inventors: Mayuko Okano, Naoya SHIBAIKE, Hiroki HARADA, Qiping PI, Jing WANG, Lan CHEN
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Publication number: 20240340863Abstract: This terminal comprises: a transmission unit that uses a cell different from cells in which signals based on dynamic scheduling have been received, to transmit response signals responsive to the signals; and a control unit that multiplexes overlapping slots of the response signals transmitted in the different cell.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 4, 2021Publication date: October 10, 2024Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Yuki Takahashi, Shinya Kumagai, Satoshi Nagata, Qiping Pi, Jing Wang, Lan Chen
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Publication number: 20240333364Abstract: A terminal includes: a control unit configured to assume a beam switching gap between a plurality of signals or channels for transmission or reception to be a sufficient time corresponding to a larger subcarrier spacing.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 5, 2021Publication date: October 3, 2024Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Naoya Shibaike, Hiroki Harada, Satoshi Nagata, Qiping Pi, Jing Wang, Lan Chen
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Publication number: 20240324006Abstract: A base station includes: a reception unit configured to perform time division multiplexing of a plurality of reception beams corresponding to a plurality of transmission beams applied for transmission in COT (Channel Occupancy Time), and to perform LBT (Listen before talk) in which sensing is performed by applying each of the plurality of reception beams using a round robin method; and a transmission unit configured to apply, to the transmission in the COT, a transmission beam corresponding to a reception beam, among the plurality of the reception beams, for which a busy state is not detected in the LBT.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 28, 2021Publication date: September 26, 2024Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Naoya Shibaike, Hiroki Harada, Satoshi Nagata, Qiping Pi, Jing Wang, Lan Chen
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Publication number: 20240305436Abstract: A terminal includes: a reception unit configured to receive: a block including a synchronization signal and a broadcast channel; a control channel carrying control information; and a shared channel carrying system information, based on the control information; and a control unit configured to perform an initial access, based on the system information. The block is arranged in all of consecutive slots in a period in a case where a subcarrier spacing is applied in a frequency band.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 2, 2021Publication date: September 12, 2024Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Naoya Shibaike, Hiroki Harada, Satoshi Nagata, Qiping Pi
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Publication number: 20240284433Abstract: This terminal includes: a control unit that multiplexes a first code book for a response signal of a signal that is included in a first slot and is dynamically scheduled, and a second code book for a response signal of a signal that is included in a second slot and that is semi-dynamically scheduled, the second slot being an uplink cell slot different from the first slot and overlapping with the first slot; and a transmission unit that transmits the first code book and the second code book that have been multiplexed.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 5, 2021Publication date: August 22, 2024Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Yuki Takahashi, Satoshi Nagata, Qiping Pi, Jing Wang, Lan Chen
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Publication number: 20240244627Abstract: A terminal comprising: a transmission unit that transmits one or more uplink channels; and a control unit that multiplexes the one or more uplink channels; wherein the control unit determines the one or more uplink channels based on a specific priority so that a transmission power of the one or more uplink channels is smaller than a specific power; and the specific priority is defined based on at least one of a condition among a priority of an uplink channel, a type of the uplink channel, a priority of uplink control information transmitted through the uplink channel, and a type of the uplink control information.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2022Publication date: July 18, 2024Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Yuki Takahashi, Satoshi Nagata, Qiping Pi, Jing Wang, Lan Chen
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Publication number: 20240236999Abstract: A terminal is disclosed including a control unit that is capable of multiplexing a first uplink control information of a first priority and a second uplink control information of a second priority in an uplink control channel; and a communication unit that transmits an uplink signal via the uplink control channel, wherein the control unit determines a resource of the uplink control channel based on whether the first uplink control information is associated with the first uplink control information.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 10, 2021Publication date: July 11, 2024Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Yuki Takahashi, Satoshi Nagata, Qiping Pi, Jing Wang, Lan L Chen