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: 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
  • Publication number: 20240237135
    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 and a user equipment. The method includes: receiving semi-static configuration information related to a cell DTX and/or a cell DRX, and/or, receiving dynamic adjustment signaling related to a cell DTX and/or a cell DRX; determining a state of the cell DTX and/or the cell DRX based on the semi-static configuration information and/or the dynamic adjustment signaling, wherein the state comprises an active time and an inactive time, i.e., in the embodiment of the embodiment of the present disclosure, using the cell DTX and/or cell DRX for the cell base station side is able to effectively reduce the power consumption of the communication base station by discontinuous transmission and/reception, and thus power saving can be achieved on the base station side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2024
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Inventors: Min WU, Sa ZHANG, Feifei SUN
  • Publication number: 20240236978
    Abstract: A method performed by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes receiving first information for configuring simultaneous transmission of physical uplink shared channels (PUSCHs), second information for configuring a control resource set (CORESET) with a CORESET pool index, and third information for configuring ackNack feedback mode associated with uplink control information (UCI), identifying a PUSCH to be used for multiplexing the UCI among the PUSCHs, multiplexing the UCI in the identified PUSCH, and transmitting the PUSCHs including the identified PUSCH in which the UCI is multiplexed, wherein in case that the simultaneous transmission is enabled, the ackNack feedback mode is configured to a first mode, and the UCI includes hybrid automatic repeat request-acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) information, the identified PUSCH is one of candidate PUSCHs selected among the PUSCHs and is associated with CORESETs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2024
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Inventors: Sa ZHANG, Feifei SUN
  • Publication number: 20240215029
    Abstract: 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) 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 user equipment (UE)includes: receiving downlink data and/or downlink control signaling from a base station; determining uplink data and/or uplink control signaling, an uplink time unit and/or an uplink physical channel for transmitting the uplink data and/or the uplink control signaling based on the downlink data and/or the downlink control signaling; and transmitting the uplink data and/or uplink control signaling to the base station on the determined uplink time unit and/or uplink physical channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2024
    Publication date: June 27, 2024
    Inventors: Sa ZHANG, Yi WANG, Jingxing FU, Feifei SUN
  • Publication number: 20240172130
    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: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2024
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Inventors: Sa ZHANG, Yi WANG, Jingxing FU, Feifei SUN
  • Publication number: 20240163067
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a 5G or 6G communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate. The application provides a method BS performed by a user equipment in a wireless communication system, comprising: performing a first operation when a transport block over multi-slot physical uplink shared channel TBoMS PUSCH overlaps with a first uplink signal; and transmitting TBoMS PUSCH signal and/or the first uplink signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2022
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Inventors: Qi XIONG, Feifei SUN, 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
  • 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
  • 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: 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: 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: 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