Patents by Inventor Sa ZHANG

Sa 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).

  • Patent number: 11972653
    Abstract: A lock, a vehicle parking system, and a vehicle parking method are provided. The lock includes a main body, a lock switch, a lock controller, a lock communication circuit, and a battery. The battery is connected to the lock switch, the lock controller, and the lock communication circuit, and configured to supply electrical energy to the lock switch, the lock controller, and the lock communication circuit. The lock communication circuit is connected to the lock controller, and transmits a locking instruction or an unlocking instruction to the lock controller when receiving the locking instruction or the unlocking instruction from a second device located outside the lock. The lock controller is connected to the lock switch connected to the main body, and the lock controller controls, when receiving the locking instruction or the unlocking instruction, the main body to perform a locking operation or an unlocking operation through the lock switch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignees: BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shengwei Yang, Qi Zhang, Dong Wang, Jinlong Zheng, Lihong Yang, Sa Li, Xingjun Shu, Yajun Guo, Yafeng Wang, Jianye Tang, Gaowei Chen, Yanchao Zhang, Desheng Xiang, Xi Chen
  • Patent number: 11962423
    Abstract: UE, base station and data transmission method and apparatus. The method includes: in an unlicensed frequency band of 5G NR, a UE transmitting uplink data and associated UCI to a base station through AUL transmission; the base station identifying the UE through UE specific DMRS; the base station decoding the UCI; if the UCI is successfully decoded, the base station decoding the uplink data; based on whether a transport block or CBG is successfully decoded, the base station transmitting DFI to the UE, the DFI including first information used to indicate a location of the successfully decoded CBG; the UE receiving the DFI; the UE using the first information to determine HARQ-ID of a transport block where the CBG that needs to be retransmitted is located, and a sequence number of the CBG in a HARQ of the transport block where the CBG is located; the UE performing scheduling-free retransmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: BEIJING UNISOC COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Sa Zhang
  • Patent number: 11963160
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates beyond 4th generation (4G) communication system such as long term evolution (LTE). A method performed by the terminal in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes receiving downlink signal including at least one of downlink data or downlink control information (DCI), determining an uplink signal to be transmitted based on the downlink signal, determining at least one of a time unit or an uplink physical channel for transmitting the uplink signal, the uplink physical channel including at least one of a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) or a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH), and transmitting the uplink signal in the determined at least one of the time unit or the uplink physical channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sa Zhang, Yi Wang, Jingxing Fu, Feifei Sun
  • Publication number: 20240107527
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a 5G or 6G communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate. A method performed by a terminal in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes receiving, from a base station on a first cell, first downlink control information (DCI) for scheduling multiple physical downlink shared channels (PDSCHs) on first multiple cells and receiving, from the base station, the multiple PDSCHs on the first multiple cells based on the first DCI.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Sa ZHANG, Feifei SUN
  • Publication number: 20240107547
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a 5th generation (5G) or 6th generation (6G) communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate. A communication method and an electronic equipment are provided. The method includes receiving configuration information of periodical physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) monitoring, wherein within each cycle of the configuration comprises a first time window and/or a second time window, and according to the configuration information, performing PDCCH monitoring on type 3 common search space (CSS) and UE-specific search space (USS) in the first time window, and/or, skipping PDCCH monitoring on type 3 CSS and USS in the second time window. By the embodiments of the disclosure, the user equipment (UE) periodically performs PDCCH monitoring and/or skips PDCCH monitoring to achieve the objective of power-saving, and it is avoided that UE cannot timely receive scheduling information to thereby cause data transmission delay.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Min WU, Sa ZHANG, Feifei SUN
  • Publication number: 20240107526
    Abstract: An apparatus in a wireless communication system and a method performed by the same are provided. The method includes determining whether uplink control information (UCI) is multiplexed in a first physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) including more than one transport block and/or whether the first PUSCH is simultaneously transmitted with a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) including the UCI, receiving information for scheduling transmission of the first PUSCH, and transmitting the first PUSCH and/or the PUCCH including the UCI based on the determination. The disclosure can improve the communication efficiency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Sa ZHANG, Feifei SUN
  • Publication number: 20240080856
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a method and device for signal transmission. According to an aspect of the present disclosure, a method for receiving one or more physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH), includes: receiving, by a user equipment (UE), a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH), wherein the received PDCCH includes downlink control information (DCI) for scheduling one or more PDSCHs; receiving, by the UE, one or more PDSCHs according to the received DCI; determining and transmitting, by the UE, a hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) codebook for one or more PDSCHs according to the received PDSCH and PDCCH.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2022
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: Yi WANG, Sa ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20240056948
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a 5G or 6G communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate. A method includes receiving configuration information of a first SSB by a UE and receiving, based on the configuration information, the first SSB for use in synchronization and/or measurement. The first SSB comprises fewer signals than a second SSB. In other words, the first SSB is simpler than the second SSB, so the first SSB is more energy-saving than the second SSB, so that the purpose of saving power on the base station side can be achieved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2023
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Inventors: Min WU, Sa ZHANG, Feifei SUN
  • Publication number: 20240057191
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a 5G or 6G communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate. A method performed by a Network-Controlled Repeater (NCR) in a wireless communication system includes receiving, from a base station, side control information including configuration information for forwarding signals between the base station and user equipment (UE), wherein the configuration information includes information on beam indication for the forwarding to the UE. The method further includes forwarding the signals between the base station and the UE based on the information on the beam indication, in case that a random access procedure triggered by beam failure recovery, for a mobile termination (MT) of the NCR, is completed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2023
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Inventors: Zhe Chen, Sa ZHANG, Feifei SUN, Bin YU
  • Publication number: 20240049253
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a 5G or 6G communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate. The present disclosure provides a first user equipment (UE) and a second UE, and methods performed by the first UE and the second UE in a wireless communication system. The method performed by the first UE in the communication system includes transmitting, to the second UE, a first signalling for indicating information of a resource, or receiving, from the second UE, a second signalling for indicating the information of the resource; and on the resource, receiving a feedback signalling from the second UE.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventors: Miao ZHOU, Feifei SUN, Sa ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20240040628
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a fifth generation (5G) or sixth generation (6G) communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate. A communication method, a user equipment (UE), a base station, and a storage medium are provided. The method includes receiving, by a UE, information related to physical random access channel (PRACH) resources, determining available PRACH resources in an energy saving state and/or non-energy saving state of a base station, and then transmitting a PRACH to the base station based on the available PRACH resources and the state of the base station. The method may reduce the amount of PRACH resources to be monitored by the base station, thereby achieving the purpose of saving power on the base station side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2023
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Inventors: Min WU, Sa ZHANG, Qi XIONG, Feifei SUN
  • Publication number: 20240040622
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a 5G or 6G communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate. The present disclosure provides a method performed by a terminal in a wireless communication system, comprising receiving, from a base station, a configuration message including first configuration information associated with a downlink reception of the terminal and second configuration information associated with an uplink transmission of the terminal and in case that the first configuration information corresponds to a first state of the base station, refraining from receiving the downlink reception and in case that the second configuration information corresponds to the first state of the base station, refraining from transmitting the uplink transmission.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2023
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Inventors: Sa ZHANG, Feifei SUN, Min WU
  • Patent number: 11882528
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. The present disclosure relates to mobile communication technology, and in particular, to a method for uplink transmission and apparatus thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Inventors: Sa Zhang, Yi Wang, Jingxing Fu, Feifei Sun
  • Publication number: 20240023123
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a 5G or 6G communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate. An apparatus and a method performed by the same in a wireless communication system are disclosed. The method includes: receiving configuration information from a base station; and receiving a downlink signal from the base station based on the configuration information, the downlink signal including downlink data. The downlink data includes a unicast physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) and/or a multicast/broadcast PDSCH, the unicast PDSCH includes a dynamically scheduled unicast PDSCH and/or a unicast semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) PDSCH, and the multicast/broadcast PDSCH includes a dynamically scheduled multicast/broadcast PDSCH and/or a multicast/broadcast SPS PDSCH. The present disclosure improves the efficiency of uplink or downlink transmission.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2023
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Inventors: Sa ZHANG, Yi WANG, Jingxing FU, Feifei SUN
  • Publication number: 20230396391
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services The disclosure provides a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system and a method performed by the UE, including: receiving downlink data and/or downlink control signaling from a base station; and transmitting uplink data and/or uplink control signaling to the base station based on the downlink data and/or downlink control signaling received from the base station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2021
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Inventors: Sa ZHANG, Yi WANG, Feifei SUN, Jingxing FU
  • Publication number: 20230345448
    Abstract: An apparatus and a method performed by the same in a wireless communication system are provided. The method includes determining that a first bandwidth part (BWP) is deactivated and a second BWP is activated, and determining whether to process a semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) configuration activated before the first BWP is deactivated and the second BWP is activated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2023
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Inventors: Sa Zhang, Feifei SUN
  • Publication number: 20230328644
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a 5G or 6G communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate. A communication method, a user equipment and a base station are provided. The communication method includes transmitting a request signaling to a base station to request the base station to perform at least one of the following operations, transmitting at least one downlink signal, receiving at least one uplink signal, and entering an active state. In accordance with the embodiments of the disclosure, the influence of the dormancy of the base station on user experience and transmission delay is reduced when the base station enters a dormant state to reduce power consumption.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2023
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Inventors: Min WU, Feifei SUN, Sa ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20230284234
    Abstract: A method for transmitting hybrid automatic repeat request-acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) information comprises receiving downlink control information (DCI) including a PUCCH resource indication, the PUCCH resource indication indicates a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resource for transmitting HARQ-ACK information by at least one user equipment (UE), determining the physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resource for transmitting the HARQ-ACK information according to the PUCCH resource indication, and transmitting the HARQ-ACK information on the determined PUCCH resource.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2021
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Inventors: Jingxing FU, Feifei SUN, Yi WANG, Sa ZHANG, Min WU, Qi XIONG
  • Publication number: 20230284222
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a transmission method of an uplink control channel, a corresponding user equipment, a base station and a computer-readable medium. The transmission method of the uplink control channel comprising: obtaining configuration information related to a nominal repetition; determining resource locations of one or more actual repetitions according to the configuration information related to the nominal repetition; and transmitting information according to the resource locations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2021
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Inventors: Feifei SUN, Yi WANG, Sa ZHANG, Bin YU
  • Publication number: 20230269765
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a fifth generation (5G) or sixth generation (6G) communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate. An apparatus and a communication method thereof in a wireless communication system are provided. The method includes receiving a downlink signal based on one or more downlink channels, and transmitting an uplink signal based on one or more uplink channels. The disclosure can improve communication efficiency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2023
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Inventors: Sa ZHANG, Feifei SUN