Patents by Inventor Qun Zhao

Qun Zhao 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: 20220264673
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a direct connection communication method and apparatus. The method comprises: determining a direct connection communication Bandwidth Part (BWP) set, the direct connection communication BWP set at least comprising a first direct connection communication BWP and a second direct connection communication BWP; and performing direct connection communication by using the direct connection communication BWP set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2019
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Applicant: BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Qun ZHAO
  • Publication number: 20220263638
    Abstract: A method for transmitting control information, for a control information transmitting terminal. The control information includes a first part of control information and a second part of control information. The method includes the following. The first part of control information is transmitted to a control information receiving terminal through a first physical layer channel occupying a first time-frequency resource. First indication information is transmitted to the control information receiving terminal, the first indication information being configured to indicate a size of a second time-frequency resource and the second time-frequency resource being configured to be occupied when transmitting the second part of control information. The second part of control information is transmitted to the control information receiving terminal through a second physical layer channel occupying the second time-frequency resource.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2019
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Inventor: Qun ZHAO
  • Patent number: 11419136
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an information feedback method and apparatus. The method is applied to a terminal and includes: receiving downlink data scheduled by one or more pieces of DCI and subjected to information feedback within a specific time unit; determining an uplink transmission mode of uplink feedback information corresponding to the downlink data scheduled by the one or more pieces of DCI, where the uplink transmission mode comprises multiplexing transmission or separate transmission; and sending the corresponding one or more pieces of uplink feedback information to a base station within the specific time unit according to the uplink transmission modes respectively, such that the base station obtains the corresponding one or more pieces of uplink feedback information within the specific time unit according to the uplink transmission modes respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Qun Zhao
  • Publication number: 20220255643
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods for controlling a transmitted power of a sidelink communication and belongs to the communication field. The method includes the followings: when V2X communication is conducted between a first UE and a second UE, the first UE obtains a transmitted power of a reference signal from the second UE and measures a received power of receiving the reference signal by the second UE; the first UE determines a path loss based on a difference between the received power and the transmitted power of the reference signal, and determines a transmitted power of the first UE conducting V2X communication with the second UE based on the path loss.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2019
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Applicant: Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Qun ZHAO
  • Publication number: 20220256464
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a sidelink communication method and apparatus, and a storage medium. The sidelink communication method includes: determining to enter an energy-saving state; and canceling a conventional operation on sidelink control information (SCI) in the energy-saving state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2019
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Applicant: BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Qun ZHAO
  • Patent number: 11412480
    Abstract: A user equipment including: a selection unit that selects, based on a result of sensing performed in a first time window and on a transmission interval of a signal, one or more resource candidates in a second time window after the first time window; and a transmission unit that selects a resource for transmitting a signal from the selected one or more resource candidates, and transmits the signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Shinpei Yasukawa, Satoshi Nagata, Qun Zhao, Jing Wang, Huan Wang, Liu Liu, Anxin Li, Huiling Jiang
  • Publication number: 20220240209
    Abstract: A method for adjusting transmission time, applied to any one of receiving ends in a sidelink multicast communication, includes starting transmitting a physical sidelink feedback channel at a first timing before a synchronization reference timing and separated from the synchronization reference timing by a first time offset.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2019
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Inventor: Qun ZHAO
  • Patent number: 11395261
    Abstract: User equipment in a radio communication system is provided. The user equipment includes a configuration information management unit configured to retain configuration information in relation to a plurality of divided resources that are capable of transmitting data without receiving data transmission permission from a communication device that is different from the user equipment, the plurality of divided resources each being associated with retransmission control processes, and a transmitter configured to select, from the plurality of divided resources, a divided resource that is associated with a given retransmission control process whose retransmission control buffer is empty, so as to transmit data by using the divided resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Shinpei Yasukawa, Kazuki Takeda, Satoshi Nagata, Qun Zhao
  • Publication number: 20220223216
    Abstract: Systems, apparatus and methods are provided for performing program operations in a non-volatile storage system. In one embodiment, there is provided a method that may comprise categorizing active storage blocks of a non-volatile storage device into a robust group and a less-robust group based on a number of factors including page error count, program time and number of Program/Erase (P/E) cycles; determining that a cache program operation needs to be performed; selecting a first storage block from the robust group to perform the cache program operation; determining that a regular program operation needs to be performed; and selecting a second storage block from the less-robust group to perform the regular program operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2021
    Publication date: July 14, 2022
    Inventors: Gang ZHAO, Lin Chen, Jie CHEN, Qun Zhao
  • Patent number: 11385698
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods are provided for managing voltage drops on a semiconductor chip. One exemplary embodiment according to the present disclosure may provide a method for managing voltage drops in a semiconductor chip. The method may comprise monitoring power supply voltages for different voltage domains in the semiconductor chip by a voltage drop detection circuit, determining that a voltage drop event has occurred based on voltage information and duration information associated with the voltage drop event reported from the voltage drop detection circuit, generating diagnostic information that includes whether the voltage drop event is an external event or an internal event determined based on the voltage information and timing information reported from the voltage drop detection circuit, and taking an action based on the diagnosis information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: INNOGRIT TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Gang Zhao, Lin Chen, Zhengtian Feng, Qun Zhao
  • Publication number: 20220217696
    Abstract: A feedback information transmission method can include: selecting a basic sequence according to an information item of sidelink communication; generating feedback information of the sidelink communication according to the basic sequence; and transmitting the feedback information to a second terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2019
    Publication date: July 7, 2022
    Inventor: Qun ZHAO
  • Publication number: 20220217684
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for using a sidelink bandwidth part. The method is implemented by a terminal and includes: receiving a configuration signaling, in which the configuration signaling includes a first information field, and the first information field is configured to indicate a time domain resource location corresponding to a sidelink resource pool; and using the sidelink bandwidth part at the time domain resource location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2022
    Publication date: July 7, 2022
    Inventor: Qun ZHAO
  • Publication number: 20220209900
    Abstract: A method for transmitting feedback information in direct communication and a first terminal are disclosed. The method includes: in response to a second terminal sending direct data to a first terminal with a first blind retransmission mechanism for a last time, transmitting by the first terminal, hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback information to the second terminal, in which the HARQ feedback information is configured to indicate a receiving state of the first terminal for the direct data ; and retransmitting by the first terminal, the HARQ feedback information to the second terminal with a second blind retransmission mechanism.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2019
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Inventor: Qun ZHAO
  • Publication number: 20220206553
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods are provided for managing voltage drops on a semiconductor chip. One exemplary embodiment according to the present disclosure may provide a method for managing voltage drops in a semiconductor chip. The method may comprise monitoring power supply voltages for different voltage domains in the semiconductor chip by a voltage drop detection circuit, determining that a voltage drop event has occurred based on voltage information and duration information associated with the voltage drop event reported from the voltage drop detection circuit, generating diagnostic information that includes whether the voltage drop event is an external event or an internal event determined based on the voltage information and timing information reported from the voltage drop detection circuit, and taking an action based on the diagnosis information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2020
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Inventors: Gang Zhao, Lin Chen, Zhengtian Feng, Qun Zhao
  • Patent number: 11362879
    Abstract: A constellation rotation method is presented. The method includes: determining a statistical characteristic of a received signal of a Base Station (BS) according to a channel coefficient of one or more User Equipments (UEs), at least one of noise information and interference information, the received signal being a signal received by the BS through a physical channel from the one or more UEs; determining a constellation rotation angle of each UE according to the determined statistical characteristic of the received signal; and for each UE, rotating a constellation of a data stream of a UE according to the constellation rotation angle of the UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Neng Ye, Xiangming Li, Xiaohang Chen, Xiaolin Hou, Qun Zhao, Huiling Jiang
  • Publication number: 20220179762
    Abstract: Systems, apparatus and methods are provided for performing cache program operations in a non-volatile storage system. A method may comprise issuing a first cache program operation from a storage controller to a non-volatile storage device to write data to a first regular block, writing the data to the first regular block and a copy of the data to a backup block, determining that a program error has occurred while writing the data to the first regular block, asserting the program error to the storage controller, retrieving a mapping between the first regular block and the backup block, issuing a read operation to read the copy of the data from the backup block, reading the copy of the data from the backup block and issuing a second cache program operation to write the data to a second regular block and marking the first regular block as defective.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2020
    Publication date: June 9, 2022
    Inventors: Gang ZHAO, Lin Chen, Jie Chen, Qun ZHAO
  • Publication number: 20220182206
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a retransmission feedback method for sidelink communication, related to the technical field of communications. The method is executed by a first terminal. The method includes: generating feedback information for each retransmission during a retransmission process of sidelink data with a second terminal, the feedback information indicating whether the sidelink data is correctly received, the retransmission process comprising at least one retransmission; obtaining a feedback resource of each retransmission in the retransmission process; and transmitting the feedback information of each retransmission to the second terminal through a feedback resource of the corresponding retransmission.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2019
    Publication date: June 9, 2022
    Inventor: Qun ZHAO
  • Publication number: 20220169297
    Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein are generally related to children's stroller systems and more particularly to systems, methods, and apparatus for providing a compact automatic folding stroller. In at least one embodiment, a compact automatic folding stroller can be provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2021
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Applicant: GRACO CHILDREN'S PRODUCTS, INC.
    Inventors: Jordi Dorca PUJOL, Lin LI, Xiao Qun ZHAO
  • Patent number: 11323211
    Abstract: Provided are physical-layer resource mapping methods and devices, UE and a base station. The method includes: during multiplexing transmission of hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement (HARQ ACK) information and uplink data, determining a starting position and frequency-domain offset of an HARQ-ACK modulation symbols mapped to a physical-layer resource, the frequency-domain offset being each of frequency-domain offsets of resource elements (REs) that different HARQ-ACK modulation symbols are mapped to; and mapping each HARQ-ACK modulation symbol to the corresponding RE according to the starting position and the frequency-domain offset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Qun Zhao
  • Patent number: 11310839
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a grant-free transmission method, a user equipment, and a base station. The grant-free transmission method at a user equipment side includes: step a, sending a first multiple access signature selected by a user equipment to a base station; step b, receiving an intervention result of the base station for the user equipment; step c, determining, when the intervention result is to adopt the first multiple access signature, to adopt the first multiple access signature for data transmission; and step d, determining, when the intervention result is to adopt a second multiple access signature, to adopt the second multiple access signature for the data transmission. According to the grant-free transmission method, the user equipment, and the base station provided by the present disclosure, the collision during the grant-free transmission is avoided or reduced with less signaling overhead.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Neng Ye, Xiangming Li, Xiaohang Chen, Xiaolin Hou, Qun Zhao, Huiling Jiang