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: 20230189273
    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. There is provided a method and device for transmitting. The method includes: receiving a multiplexing indication signal indicating multiplexing uplink control information (UCI) on a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH); multiplexing the UCI on the PUSCH; and transmitting the multiplexed PUSCH, wherein the number of priorities of UCI multiplexed on one PUSCH is at least one.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2021
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Inventors: Jingxing FU, Feifei SUN, Yi WANG, Sa ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20230155789
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a 5G or 6G communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate. An apparatus in a wireless communication system and a method performed by the same are provided, with the method including receiving a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH), receiving a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) based on the received PDCCH, and transmitting hybrid automatic repeat request-acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) feedback information for the received PDSCH, thereby improving improve communication efficiency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2022
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Inventors: Sa ZHANG, Feifei SUN, Jingxing FU
  • Publication number: 20230156685
    Abstract: A method performed by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system, the method comprising: receiving, from a base station, first information associated with a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resource associated with hybrid automatic request—acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK); receiving, from the base station, a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH); identifying the PUCCH resource based on second information associated with HARQ-ACK which is obtained from the first information, and third information associated with uplink control information (UCI); transmitting, to the base station, HARQ-ACK information for the PDSCH and at least one scheduling request (SR) via the identified PUCCH resource.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2021
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Inventors: Sa ZHANG, Yi WANG, Feifei SUN, Jingxing FU
  • Publication number: 20230156623
    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 12, 2023
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Inventors: Sa ZHANG, Yi WANG, Jingxing FU, Feifei SUN
  • Publication number: 20230133238
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a 5G or 6G communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate. A method performed by a user equipment (UE) is provided. The method includes: receiving first configuration information from a base station, configuring a mode of feeding back hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) information based on the first configuration information, and transmitting the HARQ-ACK information according to the first configuration information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2022
    Publication date: May 4, 2023
    Inventors: Jingxing FU, Feifei SUN, Sa ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20230115804
    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, an apparatus, an electronic device, and a computer-readable storage medium, which belong to the field of wireless communication technology are provided. The method is performed by a network device, and the method includes receiving first information used to configure at least one first beam for transmitting information, determining at least one first beam based on the first information, and transmitting information based on the determined at least one first beam. Based on the solutions provided by the embodiments of the disclosure, it is possible to implement flexible configuration of beams used by network devices, provide information transmission performance, and meet application requirements better.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2022
    Publication date: April 13, 2023
    Inventors: Jingxing FU, Feifei SUN, Sa ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20230095598
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses are provided in a wireless communication system. Configuration information regarding a hybrid automatic repeat and request-acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) retransmission is received from a base station (BS) via higher layer signaling. Downlink control information (DCI) is received from the BS. An offset for the HARQ-ACK retransmission is identified as a value of a modulation and coding scheme (MCS) field included in the DCI, based on the configuration information. The HARQ-ACK retransmission is performed on a slot identified based on the offset.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Inventors: Sa ZHANG, Feifei SUN, Jingxing FU
  • Publication number: 20230097059
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a 5G or 6G communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate. The disclosure discloses a method performed by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system and a UE performing the method. The method comprises receiving a downlink control information DCI format, wherein the DCI format is used for scheduling one or more uplink channels or downlink channels; and transmitting the one or more uplink channels or receiving the one or more downlink channels according to the DCI format.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Inventors: Sa ZHANG, Feifei SUN, Min WU
  • Publication number: 20230096999
    Abstract: A terminal and a method performed by the terminal in a wireless communication system are provided. The method includes receiving a RRC message including information related to a SPS HARQ deferral, performing at least one of multiplexing or prioritization among a first PUCCH and one or more uplink channels when the first PUCCH overlaps with the one or more uplink channels, identifying a PUCCH resource for a PUCCH transmission with HARQ-ACK information for SPS PDSCH receptions based on a result of performing at least one of the multiplexing or the prioritization in a first slot, determining a second slot based on the RRC message, when the PUCCH resource overlaps with at least one of a downlink symbol, an SS/PBCH block or a CORESET0, and transmitting the HARQ-ACK information for the SPS PDSCH receptions in the second slot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Inventors: Sa ZHANG, Feifel Sun, Jingxing Fu
  • Publication number: 20230047579
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) and a method performed by the same in a wireless communication system are provided. The method includes receiving a downlink (DL) signal including a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) and/or a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH); and/or transmitting an uplink (UL) signal including a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) and/or a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH), where the UE monitors the PDCCH when the UE is in active time of a discontinuous reception (DRX) mode. The method can reduce the power consumption of the UE.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2022
    Publication date: February 16, 2023
    Inventors: Sa ZHANG, Min WU, Feifei SUN, Yi WANG
  • Patent number: 11558825
    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: August 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Inventors: Sa Zhang, Yi Wang, Jingxing Fu, Feifei Sun
  • Publication number: 20220400050
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a port configuration method and device, the method comprises: receiving antenna port configuration parameters, the antenna port configuration parameters being adapted to information on transmission capability of a terminal; and determining an association relationship set between port selection parameters and demodulation reference signal DMRS port identifiers according to the antenna port configuration parameters. The present disclosure determines the association relationship set adapted to the transmission capability of the terminal by using the antenna port configuration parameters sent by a base station, and obtains the DMRS port in accordance with the determined antenna port data so as to configure the port, thereby avoiding blind configuration on the port of the terminal, improving efficiency of the terminal configuration, and reducing signaling overhead of the configuration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2020
    Publication date: December 15, 2022
    Inventors: Runqua MIAO, Sa ZHANG, Dawei MA
  • Publication number: 20220377773
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a 5? 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: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2022
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Inventors: Yi WANG, Sa ZHANG, Jingxing FU
  • Publication number: 20220360385
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method performed by a user equipment (UE), the method including determining formats of all downlink control information (DCI) to be received and DCI format payload sizes corresponding to the formats of the DCI; performing an alignment operation on one or more of the DCI format payload sizes according to a protocol or higher-layer signaling; and receiving all DCI, wherein, the formats of all DCI to be received include a DCI format for a multicast physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2022
    Publication date: November 10, 2022
    Inventors: Jingxing FU, Sa ZHANG, Feifei SUN, Yi WANG
  • Publication number: 20220329390
    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: March 31, 2022
    Publication date: October 13, 2022
    Inventors: Sa ZHANG, Yi WANG, Jingxing FU, Feifei SUN
  • Publication number: 20220322313
    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: March 30, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Inventors: Sa ZHANG, Yi WANG, Jingxing FU, Feifei SUN
  • Publication number: 20220304041
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a 5G or 6G communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate. A method performed by a user equipment (UE) is provided. The method includes receiving, from a base station, a message including configuration information of a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ)-acknowledgement (ACK) feedback mode for a multicast semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) without physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) scheduling, receiving, from the base station, downlink control information (DCI) for activation of the multicast SPS PDSCH without PDCCH scheduling, receiving, from the base station, the multicast SPS PDSCH without PDCCH scheduling based on the activation of the multicast SPS PDSCH without PDCCH scheduling, and transmitting, to the base station, HARQ-ACK information for reception of the multicast SPS PDSCH without PDCCH based on the HARQ-ACK feedback mode for the multicast SPS PDSCH without PDCCH scheduling.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2022
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Inventors: Jingxing FU, Feifei SUN, Yi WANG, Sa ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20220248436
    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. Embodiments of the present application provide a method and device for transmitting Hybrid Automatic Repeat request-Acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2020
    Publication date: August 4, 2022
    Inventors: Sa ZHANG, Yi WANG, Feifei SUN, Jingxing FU, Miao ZHOU
  • Publication number: 20220231815
    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: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2022
    Publication date: July 21, 2022
    Inventors: Feifei SUN, Qi XIONG, Yi WANG, Sa ZHANG, Jingxing FU, Bin YU
  • Publication number: 20220225380
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a method performed by a second type of transceiving node in a wireless communication system, including receiving a first type of data and/or a first type of control signaling from a first type of transceiving node, and transmitting uplink control information (UCI) to the first type of transceiving node, wherein, if multiple physical uplink control channels (PUCCHs) with UCIs of different priorities overlap in a time domain, the multiple PUCCHs are multiplexed and/or prioritized.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2022
    Publication date: July 14, 2022
    Inventors: Sa ZHANG, Feifei SUN, Jingxing FU, Yi WANG