Patents by Inventor Renmao Liu

Renmao Liu 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).

  • Patent number: 11395182
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method for performing early data transmission in a random access process, and a corresponding base station and corresponding user equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG Innovation Company Limited
    Inventors: Renmao Liu, Chao Luo, Ningjuan Chang, Chongming Zhang
  • Patent number: 11388626
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method in user equipment (UE), the UE operating in a carrier aggregation mode. The method comprises: receiving a Media Access Control (MAC) control element (CE) used for deactivating packet duplication; transmitting data from a Packet Data Convergence Protocol (PDCP) entity to a Radio Link Control (RLC) entity; and transmitting, at a MAC entity, the data only by a cell or cell group associated with the RLC entity in a packet duplication activated state, or by a cell or cell group selected from a set of cells or cell groups pre-configured for the UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG Innovation Company Limited
    Inventors: Fangying Xiao, Shohei Yamada, Renmao Liu
  • Publication number: 20220217787
    Abstract: The present invention provides a random access method and user equipment. The random access method includes: user equipment (UE) transmitting a message A to a base station, wherein the message A includes a preamble and a payload of the message A; the user equipment (UE) receiving a message B transmitted by the base station and serving as a response message to the message A; determining whether the message B includes a contention resolution ID of the UE; and upon determining that the message B includes the contention resolution ID of the UE, generating a media access control layer control information (MAC CE), or a media access control layer protocol data unit (MAC PDU), or hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) information to indicate acknowledgement information related to the message B.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2020
    Publication date: July 7, 2022
    Inventors: CHONGMING ZHANG, RENMAO LIU, CHAO LUO, SHOHEI YAMADA
  • Publication number: 20220217679
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method performed by user equipment and user equipment. The method comprises: receiving sidelink control information (SCI) transmitted by other user equipment; and determining a resource for at least any one of an initial transmission, a blind retransmission, and a retransmission of a transport block (TB) carried by a physical sidelink shared channel (PSSCH) corresponding to the SCI.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2020
    Publication date: July 7, 2022
    Inventors: Yinan Zhao, RENMAO LIU, CHAO LUO
  • Patent number: 11381994
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method performed in UE, comprising: receiving from a base station a QoS flow configuration contained in an RRC message, wherein the QoS flow configuration comprises a QoS flow identifier and at least one of the following identifiers: a PDU session identifier associated with a QoS flow indicated by the QoS flow identifier, a DRB identifier associated with the QoS flow indicated by the QoS flow identifier, an SDAP identifier associated with the QoS flow indicated by the QoS flow identifier, and an identifier of a default DRB associated with the QoS flow indicated by the QoS flow identifier; determining whether the QoS flow identifier is a part of a current UE configuration; and if the QoS flow identifier is not a part of the current UE configuration, adding, in art RRC layer, the QoS flow indicated by the QoS flow identifier, and indicating to an upper layer the addition of the QoS flow through the QoS flow identifier and the at least one associated identifier; if the QoS flow
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG Innovation Company Limited
    Inventors: Ningjuan Chang, Renmao Liu
  • Patent number: 11382161
    Abstract: An access control method and a user equipment are provided in the present invention. The access control method in a user equipment includes: determining, according to a status of the user equipment, a corresponding access control parameter to execute access control; if a result of the access control is access barring, then starting different access barring timers corresponding to different user equipment states, or starting the same access barring timer in the different user equipment states; and determining a duration of the started access barring timer according to the corresponding access control parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG Innovation Company Limited
    Inventors: Chongming Zhang, Hidekazu Tsuboi, Chao Luo, Renmao Liu
  • Patent number: 11382141
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method performed by user equipment, a method performed by a base station, user equipment, and a base station. The method performed by user equipment includes: transmitting to a base station a Radio Resource Control (RRC) connection resume request; receiving an RRC response message transmitted by the base station and used as a response to the RRC connection resume request; in the case where the UE has transmitted the RRC connection resume request on the basis of Early Data Transmission (EDT), performing first security processing on the RRC response message; and in the case where the UE has not transmitted the RRC connection resume request on the basis of the EDT, performing second security processing on the RRC response message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG INNOVATION COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Ningjuan Chang, Renmao Liu
  • Publication number: 20220201710
    Abstract: Provided in the present disclosure is a method performed by user equipment, comprising: receiving sidelink control information (SCI); and determining, according to the SCI, a cast-type and/or a session ID of a physical sidelink shared channel (PSSCH) scheduled by the SCI.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2020
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Inventors: CHAO LUO, RENMAO LIU
  • Publication number: 20220191949
    Abstract: A random access method and a user equipment are provided. The random access method includes: transmitting a message A to a base station, the message A includes a preamble and a message A payload; and after completing transmission of the message A, receiving a message B from the base station as a response message to the message A, the preamble is transmitted on a Physical Random Access Channel (PRACH); the message A payload is included in a Medium Access Control (MAC) Protocol Data Unit (PDU), and is transmitted on a Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH); and obtaining, from a multiplexing and assembly entity, the MAC PDU used for transmission, and storing the MAC PDU in a buffer when determining that a transmission occasion is available for the message A.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Inventors: CHONGMING ZHANG, RENMAO LIU, SHOHEI YAMADA
  • Publication number: 20220191938
    Abstract: A method performed by a user equipment for wireless communication and a user equipment are provided. The method includes: receiving a timing advance command in uplink slot n; and determining, according to a time when the timing advance command is received, a time for applying an uplink transmission timing adjustment starting from a start of uplink slot n+k+1, wherein: k is determined according to a duration of N1 symbols; n, k, and N1 are all integers; and a value of N1 corresponds to at least one of the following: a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) decoding time defined by PDSCH processing capability 1 when a reference processing capability assumption is true; a PDSCH decoding time defined by the PDSCH processing capability 1 when a PDSCH demodulation reference signal (DM-RS) is configured.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2020
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Inventors: CHAO LUO, RENMAO LIU
  • Publication number: 20220167452
    Abstract: The present invention provides user equipment and a pre-configured uplink resource transmission method performed thereby. The pre-configured uplink resource transmission method performed by user equipment comprises the following steps: when upper layer data arrives at an access stratum of the UE, a Radio Resource Control (RRC) layer triggering an RRC procedure to confirm whether a condition for pre-configured uplink resource transmission is met, and if so, performing, by the RRC layer, an operation of pre-configured uplink resource data transmission; and when using a pre-configured uplink resource transmission mode, a Medium Access Control (MAC) layer verifying whether a pre-configured uplink resource is available, and if not, performing, by the UE, fallback to a data transmission mode in which pre-configured uplink resource data transmission is not used, so as to transmit the uplink data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Inventors: NINGJUAN CHANG, RENMAO LIU
  • Publication number: 20220159570
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method executed by a user equipment and a user equipment. The method executed by a user equipment (UE) comprising: receiving, from a base station, system information including a grouping wake-up signal (WUS) configuration for performing grouping wake-up on a WUS group associated with the UE; monitoring a grouping WUS for the WUS group associated with the UE according to the received grouping WUS configuration; and monitoring a following paging occasion (PO) for detecting a paging message when the grouping WUS is detected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2020
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Applicants: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG Innovation Company Limited
    Inventors: RENMAO LIU, CHAO LUO, FANGYING XIAO
  • Patent number: 11337255
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method executed by user equipment, the method comprising: executing a random access procedure; and if a random access response message includes a backoff indicator, setting a preamble backoff time parameter to a time value corresponding to the backoff indicator multiplied by a configured parameter. Furthermore, the present disclosure further provides corresponding user equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG INNOVATION COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Chongming Zhang, Shohei Yamada, Renmao Liu
  • Patent number: 11337109
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method performed at UE, comprising: receiving a UL grant from a base station, wherein the UL grant comprises information related to uplink resources allocated to the UE by the base station; obtaining a priority order, configured for the UE by the base station based on at least one of an uplink resource type, an uplink resource scheduling mode, and an uplink resource transmission mode, of a plurality of logical channels to which the uplink resources allocated in the UL grant are applicable; if a BSR carried in a MAC CE does not comprise buffer status information of a logical channel having a highest priority, then setting a priority of the MAC CE carrying the BSR to be lower than a priority of data from the logical channel having the highest priority; and according to the set priority order of the data and the MAC CE, sequentially assembling the data and the MAC CE into a MAC protocol data unit (PDU) for transmission on the allocated uplink resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG Innovation Company Limited
    Inventors: Chongming Zhang, Renmao Liu
  • Patent number: 11337252
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for acquiring system information by receiving, from a base station, information carrying direct or indirect associations between preamble sequences and system information blocks (SIBs); selecting a corresponding preamble sequence based on one or a plurality of required SIBs and the received associations by at least one of: selecting a single preamble sequence associated with the greatest number of required SIBs; selecting a single preamble sequence associated with the fewest number of not-required SIBs; selecting one or a plurality of preamble sequences associated with the one or plurality of required SIBs having the fewest total number; and selecting, according to a priority of the one or plurality of required SIBs, different preamble sequences respectively associated with required SIBs of different priorities; and transmitting the selected preamble sequences to the base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG INNOVATION COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Chongming Zhang, Shohei Yamada, Renmao Liu
  • Publication number: 20220140968
    Abstract: A method executed by a UE comprises: receiving DCI for scheduling a PDSCH transmission; determining, according to an FDRA field in the DCI, a RIV; if a frequency domain resource assignment scaling condition is not satisfied, determining, according to the RIV, a first starting resource block index and a first length of continuous resource blocks; if the frequency domain resource assignment scaling condition is satisfied, determining, according to the RIV, a second starting resource block index and a second length of continuous resource blocks, determining the first starting resource block index by multiplying the second starting resource block index by a scaling factor, and determining the first length of continuous resource blocks by multiplying the second length of continuous resource blocks by the scaling factor; and determining an allocated frequency resource based on the first starting resource block index and the first length of continuous resource blocks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2020
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Inventors: CHAO LUO, RENMAO LIU
  • Patent number: 11323197
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a resource mapping and transmission method and a corresponding base station and user equipment. The method comprises: generating radio frames for NB-IoT TDD, and in the radio frames for NB-IoT TDD, mapping a Narrowband Primary Synchronization Signal “NPSS,” a Narrowband Secondary Synchronization Signal “NSSS,” a Narrowband Physical Broadcast Channel “NPBCH,” and a Narrowband System Information Block Type 1 “SIB1-NB” to subframes selected from subframes 0, 4, 5, and 9 of the radio frames, wherein the NPSS, the NSSS, the NPBCH, and the SIB1-NB are respectively mapped into different subframes and are not respectively mapped into the subframes 5, 9, 0, and 4; and transmitting the generated radio frames. According to embodiments of the present invention, user equipment supporting NB-IoT TDD can exit a search for an NB-IoT TDD cell as early as possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG Innovation Company Limited
    Inventors: Chao Luo, Renmao Liu
  • Patent number: 11324068
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method for transmitting data at user equipment (UE), comprising receiving a first RRC connection resume request instructing to resume an RRC connection; and reestablishing a packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) layer based on the first RRC connection resume request. The embodiments of the present disclosure further provide a device for transmitting data and a storage medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG INNOVATION COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Chongming Zhang, Renmao Liu, Chao Luo, Ningjuan Chang
  • Patent number: 11324059
    Abstract: The present application provides a method executed by user equipment (UE), comprising: receiving radio resource control (RRC) signaling, the RRC signaling comprising configuration information used for configuring, for the UE, a data radio bearer (DRB) supporting packet duplication; establishing a corresponding DRB according to the configuration information; and calculating transmittable data of a packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) entity for a logical channel corresponding to the established DRB. The present application also provides corresponding UE, a base station, and a corresponding method executed by a base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG Innovation Company Limited
    Inventors: Fancying Xiao, Chongming Zhang, Renmao Liu, Shohei Yamada
  • Publication number: 20220132362
    Abstract: A wireless communication method for downlink transmission by an adaptive entity in an IAB node that is a RAN node that supports wireless access and wireless backhaul access traffic of a UE is provided. The wireless communication method includes receiving an adaptive PDU or SDU including a poll; and providing an indication of the poll in a poll indication to a lower layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2020
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Inventors: FANGYING XIAO, RENMAO LIU