Patents by Inventor Senbao Guo

Senbao Guo 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: 9749991
    Abstract: A method for instructing CSI feedback signaling configuration and base station are provided, the method comprising: a base station side notifies a terminal side, via the first higher layer signaling of a UE-Specific, a CSI-RS resource for measuring CSI, the CSI-RS resource comprising at least one of: the time frequency position of the CSI-RS resource in a subframe, the aerial port number configuration of the CSI-RS resource, a period and a subframe offset of the CSI-RS resource, the sequence identifier of the CSI-RS resource, and the power control information of the CSI-RS resource; the base station side instructs the terminal side to feed back the CSI corresponding to the CSI-RS resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Senbao Guo, Yu Ngok Li, Junfeng Zhang
  • Patent number: 9736824
    Abstract: A method for feeding back channel state information is provided, which includes: a base station notifying a terminal of transmission resources used for transmitting a plurality of Channel State Information (CSIs) or a plurality of colliding CSIs and/or of priorities between a plurality of CSIs or a plurality of colliding CSIs. In the present document, the base station indicates the terminal on how to handle a feedback of the colliding CSIs when collision between the CSIs occurs during processes of feeding back a plurality of CSIs via a high layer signaling or a preset rule, which enables the base station and the terminal to reach a uniform feedback mechanism, and guarantees a minimum possibility of discarding CSIs, thereby solving the problem of the impact on the CoMP performance due to discarding excessive CSIs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Senbao Guo, Yunfeng Sun, Yu Ngok Li, Junfeng Zhang
  • Patent number: 9686066
    Abstract: A method and terminal for determining channel state information are disclosed. The method includes: a terminal receiving an aperiodic channel state information CSI request, determining a parameter X according to a capability of the terminal processing a CSI process and/or the number of CSI processes y configured currently, and updating up to X aperiodic CSI according to the parameter X; wherein the parameter X is: a total number of CSI processes or reports required to be updated by the terminal at the same moment in one or more aperiodic CSI requests.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2017
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yu Ngok Li, Jun Xu, Senbao Guo, Junfeng Zhang
  • Publication number: 20170150461
    Abstract: The present document discloses a method for determining a transmission time of a synchronization signal, a terminal, a base station, and a communication system. The method for determining the transmission time of the synchronization signal includes: receiving the synchronization signal; acquiring a time index of the synchronization signal; and determining the transmission time of the synchronization signal according to the time index. The present document also discloses a computer storage medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2014
    Publication date: May 25, 2017
    Inventors: Chunxu LI, Senbao GUO, Guanghui YU
  • Patent number: 9661617
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for determining resources in a Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH) are disclosed. The method includes: an apparatus determining a channel resource index of the PUCCH according to physical resources of an enhanced Physical Downlink Control Channel (ePDCCH), wherein, the PUCCH is used for carrying positive acknowledgement/negative acknowledgement (ACK/NACK) information about a Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH) indicated by the ePDCCH; and the physical resources of the ePDCCH include: any one or more of a physical resource block, an enhanced control channel element and an antenna port index. The embodiments of the present document can ensure the compatibility between an LTE-Advanced system and an LTE Release-8 system, and facilitate improving the system capacity and the scheduling flexibility of the LTE-Advanced system, thereby enabling an LTE-Advanced terminal to obtain a maximum frequency selectivity gain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Bo Dai, Yijian Chen, Senbao Guo, Yunfeng Sun, Zhisong Zuo
  • Publication number: 20170135105
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a method for dynamically allocating resource and device, an evolved Node B and User Equipment (UE). Wherein, the method includes that: an evolved Node B acquires resource allocation information of DownLink (DL) data and/or UpLink (UL) data indicated by DL control signaling, wherein the resource allocation information includes positions and number of Resource Allocation Elements (RAEs), the RAEs include N transmission symbols in a time domain, and occupy the whole bandwidth in a frequency domain, or each RAE occupies a Bandwidth Part (BP) in X BPs in the frequency domain, the X BPs forming the frequency domain, N being an integer more than 0 and X being an integer more than 1; and the evolved Node B sends the resource allocation information to UE.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2014
    Publication date: May 11, 2017
    Applicant: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Chunxu LI, Senbao GUO, Junfeng ZHANG
  • Patent number: 9603135
    Abstract: The disclosure claims a method and a device for transmitting a Position Reference Signal (PRS) subframe. In the disclosure, the network side configures certain channels or signals according to the configuration condition of the PRS, or the network side configures the PRS according to the configuration condition of certain channels or signals; the receiving side correctly identifies the length of Cyclic Prefix (CP) according to the configuration information issued by the network side, so as to correctly measure and accurately receive the channels or signals sent by the network side. The disclosure overcomes the technical problem in the conventional art that the length of CP is ambiguous, so that the signals cannot be measured and accurately received by the receiving side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Senbao Guo, Yunfeng Sun, Bo Dai, Zhisong Zuo, Junfeng Zhang
  • Patent number: 9578628
    Abstract: Provided are a PUCCH resource configuration method, transmission method, device and system. The method includes: allocating dedicated PRBs for UEs configured to transmit uplink control information using an enhanced PUCCH, which step comprising: taking the UEs configured to transmit the uplink control information using the enhanced PUCCH as a first type of UEs, and taking UEs other than the first type of UEs as a second type of UEs; and reserving a designated number of PRBs according to the number of UEs in the first type of UEs, wherein the designated number of PRBs are located between SR/semi-static ACK/NACK resources of the second type of UEs and dynamic ACK/NACK resources of the second type of UEs, and taking the designated number of PRBs as dedicated PRBs for the first type of UEs; and allocating orthogonal resources for UEs located in different cells among the first type of UEs based on the dedicated PRBs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Liyuan Zhong, Yunfeng Sun, Senbao Guo, Feng Bi, Yuhong Gong
  • Publication number: 20170033851
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a beam identification method in a Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) beamforming communication system, which includes that: a Node B sends multiple beam training signals to a terminal, each beam training signal corresponding to a beam and the beams covering different directions; the terminal detects the beam training signals, determines a selected beam according to a detection result, and feeds back indication information about the selected beam to the Node B; and the Node B determines a beam configured to send data information according to the indication information, fed back by the terminal, about the selected beam. The present disclosure further discloses beam identification related device and system in an MIMO beamforming communication system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2014
    Publication date: February 2, 2017
    Inventors: Liyuan Zhong, Senbao Guo, Guanghui Yu
  • Publication number: 20170034824
    Abstract: The present invention embodiment discloses an ultra-large bandwidth data transmission method, device and computer storage medium, said method comprising: a data transmission device sending data in accordance with a sub-frame level approach at a specified bandwidth of a long term evolution (LTE) system; wherein, the sampling rate of the data transmission device is m/n times a sampling rate corresponding to said specified bandwidth LTE system, m and n being positive integers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2014
    Publication date: February 2, 2017
    Inventors: Wenhao Liu, Guanghui Yu, Zhaohua Lu, Senbao Guo, Bo Dai
  • Publication number: 20170026102
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for mixedly indicating uplink and downlink beams, comprising: a base station notifies correlations between properties of an uplink access signal and an uplink beam index and/or downlink beam index in a preset manner and/or in a manner of system message configuration, wherein the properties of the uplink access signal are used for indicating the uplink beam index and/or downlink beam index for sending the uplink access signal; and after receiving the uplink access signal, the base station obtains the uplink beam index and/or downlink beam index by recognizing the properties of the uplink access signal. Further disclosed at the same time are a base station, terminal and system for realizing the method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2014
    Publication date: January 26, 2017
    Inventors: Senbao GUO, Guanghui YU, Zhaohua LU
  • Publication number: 20160373180
    Abstract: Downlink beam determination methods, devices and system and a computer storage medium are provided. One method includes that: at least one beam is sent, each beam respectively bearing a beam index corresponding to each beam; a fed-back beam index is received; and a beam corresponding to the fed-back beam index is selected as a downlink beam. Another method includes that: at least one beam is sent, each beam bearing a beam index corresponding to the each beam; a beam matching with a pre-stored beam selection strategy is selected from the received at least one beam; the beam index born on the selected beam is extracted; and the beam index is sent. A downlink beam determination method applied to a base station and a terminal, as well as the downlink beam determination device and system and the computer storage medium are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2014
    Publication date: December 22, 2016
    Inventors: Senbao Guo, Guanghui Yu, Zhaohua Lu
  • Publication number: 20160359536
    Abstract: Provided are a method, system and apparatus for indicating and receiving an uplink beam index. The indicating method includes that: a base station detects a first uplink access signal of a terminal from at least one uplink access signal received from the terminal according to a preset rule; the base station acquires corresponding related information from the first uplink access signal; and the base station generates an access response indication by virtue of an uplink beam index corresponding to the first uplink access signal, and sends the access response indication.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2014
    Publication date: December 8, 2016
    Inventors: Senbao Guo, Guanghui Yu, Zhaohua Lu
  • Patent number: 9510221
    Abstract: A pilot measurement method is provided, which includes that a receiving end determines a port configuration for pilot measurement, and the receiving end receives a pilot signal using the port configuration, and obtains channel information upon an estimate. Correspondingly, a receiving end for pilot measurement is also provided. Even though the number of antenna ports is sharply increased, a part of ports still can be selected as the ports for transmitting a pilot signal according to needs, the number of the ports for transmitting the pilot signal can be unlimited, and the pilot configuration problem under the condition of sharp increase in the number of the antenna ports can be solved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chenchen Zhang, Yunfeng Sun, Senbao Guo
  • Patent number: 9503938
    Abstract: The disclosure discloses a handover method based on a cognitive technology. At least two working areas such as a Primary Working Area (PWA) and a Secondary Working Area (SWA), a RRM and a HOC are configured both in User Equipment (UE) and in a Base Station (BS); after receiving a handover request, according to the current radio environments, the PWA of the BS makes a handover negotiation with the neighboring BSs or with the neighboring BSs and the UE requesting handover, determines the communication parameters satisfying the handover request, and sends the determined communication parameters to the SWA of the BS and the SWA of the UE; the SWA of the BS and the SWA of the UE configure said communication parameters and notify the RRM of the BS after the configuration is finished; the RRM of the BS instructs the HOC of the BS and the HOC of the UE to activate the respective SWAs, and to perform the handover according to the communication parameters configured by the SWA.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2016
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Min Wei, Feng Li, Nan Zhao, Kaibo Tian, Aihua Peng, Senbao Guo
  • Patent number: 9497754
    Abstract: Disclosed is a configuration method for an enhanced downlink control channel, which configures K ePDCCH detection clusters for a terminal, including: independently configuring an antenna port index of a corresponding demodulation reference signal (DMRS) at the time of detection of each ePDCCH detection cluster or different transmission modes of ePDCCH detection clusters of the K ePDCCH detection clusters; and/or independently configuring a scrambling sequence index of the corresponding DMRS at the time of detection of each ePDCCH detection cluster or different transmission modes of ePDCCH detection clusters of the K ePDCCH detection clusters; and/or independently configuring the correlation between a corresponding DMRS scrambling sequence at the time of detection of each ePDCCH detection cluster or different transmission modes of ePDCCH detection clusters of the K ePDCCH detection clusters and a DMRS scrambling sequence of a physical downlink shared channel PDSCH, and the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2016
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Senbao Guo, Yijian Chen, Yunfeng Sun, Bo Dai, Junfeng Zhang
  • Publication number: 20160316435
    Abstract: Provided is a method and device for interacting signaling between nodes, a method and device for controlling uplink power, and an uplink transmission method and device, wherein the method includes that: a node respectively receives uplink power control information transmitted by other nodes using a basic resource element as a unit, and transmits the uplink power control information of the node to the other nodes by using the basic resource element as a unit, wherein the basic resource element includes at least one of the followings: a terminal or a terminal cluster, and a basic unit resource. The disclosure solves the problem in the related art that an uplink power reduction method cannot ensure uplink transmission reliability in a double-link scenario, thus ensuring the accuracy of uplink transmission in the double-link scenario.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2014
    Publication date: October 27, 2016
    Inventors: Senbao GUO, Bo DAI, Yunfeng SUN, Junfeng ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20160270113
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a scheduling configuration method, which includes that: a centralized control unit configures coordination parameters of different nodes, and distributed scheduling units in each node schedule user resources of the local nodes. The present disclosure also discloses a scheduling configuration device, which includes: a configuration unit and scheduling units, wherein the configuration unit is arranged in a centralized control unit and configured to configure coordination parameters of different nodes; and the scheduling units are arranged in each node and configured to schedule user resources of the local nodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2014
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Inventors: Yunfeng Sun, Yu Ngok Li, Jun Xu, Junfeng Zhang, Senbao Guo
  • Patent number: 9445420
    Abstract: Provided are a downlink data rate-matching method and device, the method including: a UE acquiring one of the following information: one or more sets of rate-matching resource indication information configured by a base station and used for instructing the UE to perform rate-matching, one or more sets of rate-matching resource indication information and combined rate-matching resource indication information, and rate-matching resource indication information of a serving cell of the UE acquired when the UE accesses a network; the UE determining a DCI Format corresponding to downlink grant indication information in a subframe of downlink control information transmitted by the base station; and the UE determining rate-matching resource information corresponding to the DCI Format and used for rate-matching according to the DCI Format and a preset corresponding relationship, and conducting downlink data rate-matching according to the rate-matching resource information. The solution improves rate-matching accuracy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Senbao Guo, Yu Ngok Li, Yunfeng Sun, Junfeng Zhang
  • Publication number: 20160218840
    Abstract: Provided are a parameter transmission method and device for interference coordination and an interference coordination method and device. The parameter transmission method includes that: a first Transmission Point (TP) specifies a part of resources in all available resources of the first TP; the first TP defines a set of shared parameters on the specified part of resources, wherein the set of shared parameters are used for performing interference coordination between the first TP and at least one second TP adjacent to the first TP; and the first TP sends the set of shared parameters to the at least one second TP. According to the technical solutions, space-domain Inter-Cell Interference Coordination (ICIC) may be adopted on the basis of a conventional ICIC technology to further enhance a capability of interference coordination between TPs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2014
    Publication date: July 28, 2016
    Inventors: Yu Ngok LI, Jun XU, Yunfeng SUN, Senbao GUO, Junfeng ZHANG