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).

  • Publication number: 20250141603
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a 5G or 6G communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate. A method and an apparatus for performing a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) operation are provided. The method includes receiving downlink signals, wherein the downlink signals include a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) that does not schedule a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) reception, and/or one or more multicast PDSCHs, and generating a HARQ-ACK codebook for the downlink signals. The invention can improve communication efficiency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2023
    Publication date: May 1, 2025
    Inventors: Sa ZHANG, Feifei SUN
  • Publication number: 20250106851
    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. A method performed by a second type of transceiver node in a wireless communication system is provided, comprising: receiving a first type of data and/or a first type of control signaling from a first type of transceiver node; determining an HARQ-ACK codebook and a time unit for transmitting the HARQ-ACK codebook based on the first type of data and/or the first type of control signaling; and transmitting the HARQ-ACK codebook to the first type of transceiver node in the determined time unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2024
    Publication date: March 27, 2025
    Inventors: Sa ZHANG, Yi WANG, Feifei SUN, Jingxing FU
  • Publication number: 20250096985
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a 5th generation (5G) or 6th generation (6G) communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate. A method performed by a terminal is provided. The method includes receiving, from a base station, a radio resource control (RRC) message including first configuration information for a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ)-acknowledgement (ACK) feedback mode related to a multicast physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) and second configuration information for a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resource set related to the HARQ-ACK feedback mode, receiving, from the base station, the multicast PDSCH, and transmitting, to the base station, HARQ-ACK information for the multicast PDSCH based on the first configuration information and the second configuration information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2024
    Publication date: March 20, 2025
    Inventors: Sa ZHANG, Yi WANG, Jingxing FU, Feifei SUN
  • Publication number: 20250088866
    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. A method performed by a network device for forwarding information in a communication system is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2023
    Publication date: March 13, 2025
    Inventors: Jingxing FU, Feifei SUN, Sa ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20250088335
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a 5G or 6G communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate. A terminal and a method performed by the same in a wireless communication system are provided. The method includes transmitting a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) and/or receiving a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) from one or more PUSCHs and/or one or more PDSCHs, wherein the one or more PUSCHs include dynamically scheduled PUSCHs and/or configured grant (CG) PUSCHs, and the one or more PDSCHs include dynamically scheduled PDSCHs and/or semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) PDSCHs. The invention can improve communication efficiency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2023
    Publication date: March 13, 2025
    Inventors: Sa ZHANG, Feifei SUN
  • Patent number: 12245230
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a 5th Generation (5G) or 6th Generation (6G) communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate. A method performed by a user equipment (UE) is provided. The method includes receiving, by the UE, a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH), wherein the received PDCCH includes downlink control information (DCI) for scheduling one or more physical downlink shared channels (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 acknowledgment (HARQ-ACK) codebook for one or more PDSCHs according to the received PDSCHs and PDCCH.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yi Wang, Sa Zhang, Jingxing Fu
  • Patent number: 12244533
    Abstract: A method and a corresponding apparatus for performing uplink transmission in a wireless communication system are disclosed. The method comprises: based on at least one of the information indicating uplink transmission resources, acquiring the number of resource elements REs used for determining a PUSCH transmission; determining a transport block size TBS for the uplink transmission based on the number of REs; and performing the uplink transmission based on the determined TBS. Wherein, a PUSCH transmission occupies m time unit for transmission, and the rate matching and RE mapping of the PUSCH are performed on all resources occupied in m time unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Feifei Sun, Qi Xiong, Yi Wang, Sa Zhang, Jingxing Fu, Bin Yu
  • Publication number: 20250038924
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a method performed by a UE in a wireless communication system, including receiving a channel state information (CSI) reporting configuration comprising a plurality of first sub-configurations, and determining and reporting CSI based on a second sub-configuration comprising N out of the plurality of the first sub-configurations, where N is greater than or equal to 1, wherein the CSI comprises one or two CSI parts, wherein a number of the CSI parts included in the CSI is determined based on N, and wherein at least one of the one or two CSI parts included in the CSI is determined based on a first order including at least one of an order of the N first sub-configurations in the second sub-configuration, an order of CSI parameters in the CSI, and an order between zero-padding bits and the CSI parameters in the CSI.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2024
    Publication date: January 30, 2025
    Inventors: Zhe CHEN, Jingxing FU, Sa ZHANG, Feifei SUN
  • Publication number: 20250030471
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a 5G or 6G communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate. The disclosure provides a method performed by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system. The method includes: receiving, from a base station, channel state information (CSI) report configuration information including a list of sub-configurations; and transmitting, to the base station, a first CSI report for at least one sub-configuration associated with the list of sub-configurations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2024
    Publication date: January 23, 2025
    Inventors: Zhe CHEN, Jingxing FU, Sa ZHANG, Feifei SUN
  • Publication number: 20250016775
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for uplink transmissions in a wireless communication system are provided. The method includes receiving a downlink signal including at least one of downlink data or downlink control information (DCI); and determining uplink signals to be transmitted based on the downlink signal, and determining at least one of a time unit or an uplink channel for transmitting the uplink signal, wherein the uplink signal includes at least one of uplink data or uplink control information (UCI), and the uplink channel includes at least one of a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) or a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH); and performing an uplink transmission based on the determined uplink signals, and the determined time units and/or uplink channels. The invention can improve the efficiency of the uplink transmission.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2022
    Publication date: January 9, 2025
    Inventors: Sa ZHANG, Feifei SUN, Jingxing FU
  • Publication number: 20250008508
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a 5G or 6G communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate. Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a communication method, an electronic device and a computer-readable storage medium. For an uplink service, the method comprises steps of: by a user equipment, determining a remaining PDB of a data packet in a buffer, and reporting related information of the remaining PDB to a base station, so as to assist the base station to perform proper uplink scheduling for the User Equipment according to the related information of the remaining PDB. Accordingly, the packet loss rate of data packets is reduced, and the transmission efficiency is improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2022
    Publication date: January 2, 2025
    Inventors: Min WU, Feifei SUN, Sa ZHANG
  • Patent number: 12184585
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a 5th generation (5G) or 6th generation (6G) communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate. A method performed by a terminal is provided. The method includes receiving, from a base station, a radio resource control (RRC) message including first configuration information for a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ)-acknowledgement (ACK) feedback mode related to a multicast physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) and second configuration information for a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resource set related to the HARQ-ACK feedback mode, receiving, from the base station, the multicast PDSCH, and transmitting, to the base station, HARQ-ACK information for the multicast PDSCH based on the first configuration information and the second configuration information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sa Zhang, Yi Wang, Jingxing Fu, Feifei Sun
  • Patent number: 12160869
    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: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sa Zhang, Yi Wang, Jingxing Fu, Feifei Sun
  • Patent number: 12156206
    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. A method performed by a second type of transceiver node in a wireless communication system is provided, comprising: receiving a first type of data and/or a first type of control signaling from a first type of transceiver node; determining an HARQ-ACK codebook and a time unit for transmitting the HARQ-ACK codebook based on the first type of data and/or the first type of control signaling; and transmitting the HARQ-ACK codebook to the first type of transceiver node in the determined time unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sa Zhang, Yi Wang, Feifei Sun, Jingxing Fu
  • Patent number: 12149367
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the technical field of communications, particularly to a feedback information transmission method. The method comprises: sending, by a first terminal, a sidelink hybrid auto repeat request ACK (HARQ-ACK) codebook via a physical uplink channel within a target time unit for sending sidelink HARQ-ACK information within the target time unit, the sidelink HARQ-ACK codebook including sidelink HARQ-ACK information corresponding to at least one sidelink data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: Beijing Unisoc Communications Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Huan Zhou, Sa Zhang, Hualei Wang
  • Patent number: 12120686
    Abstract: A service conflict processing method, a user terminal, and a computer-readable storage medium. The method comprises: determining whether UCI of an eMBB service currently being transmitted collides with data or UCI of an URLLC service with respect to transmission time, wherein the UCI of the eMBB service comprises HARQ-ACK information; and if the UCI of the eMBB service has collided with the data or the UCI of the URLLC service with respect to transmission time, delaying the transmission of the UCI of the eMBB service. The solution can be employed to improve spectral efficiency of the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: BEIJING UNISOC COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sa Zhang, Huan Zhou
  • Publication number: 20240340146
    Abstract: In accordance with an aspect of the disclosure, a method performed by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system is provided, the method comprises receiving, from a base station, configuration information for a channel state information (CSI) report, the configuration information including a list of sub-configurations for the CSI report, identifying, based on the list of sub-configurations, a mapping order for at least one of precoding matrix indicator (PMI) related to parameters or channel quality indicator (CQI) related parameters, and transmitting, to the base station, the CSI report corresponding to one or more sub-configurations among the list of sub-configurations, based on the mapping order.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2024
    Publication date: October 10, 2024
    Inventors: Zhe CHEN, Sa ZHANG, Feifei SUN
  • Publication number: 20240324062
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a fifth generation (5G) or sixth generation (6G) communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate. Disclosed is a method performed by a user equipment (UE) in a communication system, including receiving a first configuration of a discontinuous reception (DRX), the first configuration including at least one of a first starting position, a first cycle length and a first onDuration length, performing the DRX based on the first configuration, determining a second configuration of the DRX after a cell discontinuous transmission (DTX) and/or cell DRX is enabled, the second configuration including at least one of a second starting position, a second cycle length and a second onDuration length, and performing the DRX based on the second configuration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2024
    Publication date: September 26, 2024
    Inventors: Min WU, Sa ZHANG, Feifei SUN
  • Patent number: 12069655
    Abstract: Downlink data scheduling HARQ-ACK codebook feedback and generation methods and devices, and a medium are provided. The method comprises: determining whether a first HARQ-ACK codebook transmitted by a user terminal is detected; when the first HARQ-ACK codebook is not detected, delivering DCI for triggering retransmission of the first HARQ-ACK codebook to the user terminal, wherein the DCI for triggering retransmission of the first HARQ-ACK codebook comprises a first trigger group number field, the first trigger group number field is the same as a first scheduling group number field, the first trigger group number field is used for indicating a number of the first trigger group, and the first scheduling group number field is used for indicating a number of the first scheduling group; and receiving the first HARQ-ACK codebook retransmitted by the user terminal. The solution can indicate HARQ-ACK codebook feedback of a discontinuous downlink data scheduling group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: BEIJING UNISOC COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sa Zhang, Huan Zhou, Xingya Shen
  • Publication number: 20240259153
    Abstract: A terminal, a base station and a method performed by the same in a wireless communication system are provided. The method includes receiving one or more messages from abase station, where the one or more messages include first configuration information for configuring at least one first uplink bandwidth part (BWP) as an active uplink BWP and/or second configuration information for configuring at least one first downlink BWP as an active downlink BWP, and determining the active uplink BWP for an uplink transmission and/or the active downlink BWP for a downlink reception based on at least the first configuration information and/or the second configuration information. The invention can improve transmission quality and transmission rate of communication.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2022
    Publication date: August 1, 2024
    Inventors: Di SU, Chen QIAN, Yi WANG, Sa ZHANG