Patents by Inventor Shaozhen Guo

Shaozhen 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: 12267174
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may start a timer after transmitting an uplink communication on a physical uplink shared channel to a base station using a configured grant. The UE may determine whether the uplink communication is acknowledged as received by the base station based at least in part on determining whether a downlink communication from the base station is detected within a time duration associated with the timer. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Shaozhen Guo, Xiaoxia Zhang, Changlong Xu, Jing Sun
  • Patent number: 12267694
    Abstract: A terminal according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes a receiving section that receives a plurality of pieces of configuration information indicating a plurality of control resource sets, and a control section that, when the plurality of pieces of configuration information do not include a control resource set pool index for one or more control resource sets of the plurality of control resource sets, determines a value of the control resource set pool index for the one or more control resource sets. According to one aspect of the present disclosure, it is possible to appropriately determine an operation for multiple panels/TRPs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yuki Matsumura, Satoshi Nagata, Shaozhen Guo
  • Patent number: 12267134
    Abstract: A terminal, as disclosed, includes: a processor that, for a plurality of physical downlink shared channels (PDSCHs) transmitted from a plurality of transmission reception points (TRPs), respectively, controls transmission of capability information for indicating a first maximum number regarding a number of layers per PDSCH and a second maximum number regarding a total number of layers of the plurality of PDSCHS; and a receiver that receives the plurality of PDSCHs. The processor controls reporting of a single channel state information (CSI) for the plurality of TRPs, the single CSI indicating a first rank and a second rank that are determined according to a set of ranks based on higher layer signaling. In other aspects, a radio communication method, a base station, and a system are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yuki Matsumura, Satoshi Nagata, Jing Wang, Shaozhen Guo, Xiaolin Hou
  • Publication number: 20250106787
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication at a user equipment (UE) are described. The UE may be configured to support uplink power control for multiple random access channel (RACH) procedures. A medium access control layer entity at the UE may maintain multiple sets of counters and parameters for multiple simultaneous RACH procedures. In some cases, the UE may perform simultaneous RACH procedures with network entities associated with different timing advance groups, and the UE may associate the counters and parameters of the RACH procedure with the timing advance group. In other cases, the UE may associate the counters and parameters of the RACH procedure with multiple control resource set pool indexes which may correspond to multiple transmission reception points. Each set of counters may be associated with an uplink power control that the UE may use to determine the PRACH transmission power for each RACH procedure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Publication date: March 27, 2025
    Inventors: Shaozhen GUO, Mostafa KHOSHNEVISAN, Jing SUN, Xiaoxia ZHANG, Fang YUAN, Yan ZHOU, Tao LUO, Peter GAAL
  • Publication number: 20250105951
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive, from a network entity, a configuration that indicates a time alignment timer associated with a timing advance group (TAG) for a bandwidth part (BWP) or a component carrier (CC) configured for multiple downlink control information (multi-DCI) based multiple transmission reception point (multi-TRP) communications. The UE may start the time alignment timer for a TRP. The UE may flush one or more hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) identifiers (IDs) from a HARQ buffer associated with the TRP based at least in part on an expiration of the time alignment timer. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2022
    Publication date: March 27, 2025
    Inventors: Fang YUAN, Yan ZHOU, Mostafa KHOSHNEVISAN, Shaozhen GUO, Tao LUO, Xiaoxia ZHANG, Peter GAAL, Junyi LI
  • Patent number: 12261688
    Abstract: A terminal receives a radio frame having a second slot pattern to be used in a case in which a modulation system (FTN) different from a modulation system in a case of using a first slot pattern is applied. The terminal applies for the second slot pattern a configuration of an uplink and a downlink according to a time division duplex in the radio frame by using a reference subcarrier spacing same as that for the first slot pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Hiroki Harada, Satoshi Nagata, Shaozhen Guo, Jing Wang, Xiaolin Hou
  • Publication number: 20250097693
    Abstract: In some implementations, a user equipment (UE) may transmit, to a network entity, a report associated with a UE capability for supporting a common timing advance (TA) configuration, wherein the report indicates one or more of: a supported TA type that includes one of an independent TA or a common TA; or a quantity of timing advance groups (TAGs) for a carrier aggregation. The UE may receive, from the network entity, a TA configuration based at least in part on the report.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2022
    Publication date: March 20, 2025
    Inventors: Fang YUAN, Yan ZHOU, Mostafa KHOSHNEVISAN, Shaozhen GUO, Tao LUO, Xiaoxia ZHANG, Peter GAAL, Junyi LI
  • Publication number: 20250097931
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may transmit, to a network entity, a scheduling request that indicates full antenna panel availability or partial antenna panel availability. The UE may receive, from the network entity, an uplink grant that schedules an uplink communication in connection with the scheduling request, wherein the uplink grant is based at least in part on the full antenna panel availability or the partial antenna panel availability indicated by the scheduling request. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2022
    Publication date: March 20, 2025
    Inventors: Luanxia YANG, Jing SUN, Aleksandar DAMNJANOVIC, Changlong XU, Fang YUAN, Xiaoxia ZHANG, Shaozhen GUO, Siyi CHEN, Tao LUO
  • Patent number: 12255746
    Abstract: A terminal according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes: a receiving section that receives downlink control information for releasing a plurality of semi-persistent schedulings (SPSs); and a control section that performs control of including a valid Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest ACKnowledgement (HARQ-ACK) corresponding to the downlink control information at at least one of a plurality of positions of HARQ-ACKs corresponding to downlink shared channel (Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH)) reception of the plurality of SPSs in a semi-static HARQ-ACK codebook. According to an aspect of the present disclosure, the HARQ-ACK codebook can be appropriately determined even when joint SPS release is used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yuki Takahashi, Satoshi Nagata, Xiaohong Zhang, Shaozhen Guo, Lihui Wang, Xiaolin Hou
  • Patent number: 12245156
    Abstract: A terminal according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes a control section that determines whether to power on or off each panel of a plurality of panels and switches power of the panel to ON or OFF, a receiving section that receives a signal by using the panel being powered on, and a transmitting section that transmits a signal by using the panel being powered on. According to one aspect of the present disclosure, it is possible to suppress power consumption of a panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yuki Matsumura, Satoshi Nagata, Jing Wang, Shaozhen Guo, Xiaolin Hou
  • Publication number: 20250063522
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may communicating a first uplink message using a first uplink carrier and a first timing advance (TA) value associated with a first transmission configuration indicator (TCI) state and a second uplink message using a second uplink carrier and a second TA value associated with a second TCI state for the UE. The UE may receive a timing advance group (TAG) configuration which indicates a TA value to apply for a supplementary uplink (SUL) carrier of the serving cell, which is one of the first TA or second TA values. The UE may then transmit a SUL message using the SUL carrier of the serving cell in accordance with the TA value determined for the SUL carrier based on the TAG configuration for the UE.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2022
    Publication date: February 20, 2025
    Inventors: Fang Yuan, Yan Zhou, Mostafa Khoshnevisan, Shaozhen Guo, Tao Luo, Peter Gaal, Junyi Li, Xiaoxia Zhang
  • Publication number: 20250063521
    Abstract: A method of wireless communication performed by a wireless communication device includes: communicating a plurality of timing advance group (TAG) indicators, wherein each TAG indicator is associated with at least one cell of a plurality of cells, wherein at least one of the plurality of cells is configured with two CORESET pool index values and two TAG indicators. The method further includes communicating, at a first time based on a first TAG indicator associated with a first reference cell of the plurality of cells, a first communication signal, wherein the first reference cell is based on a number of CORESET pool index values and TAG indicators associated with at least one of the plurality of cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2022
    Publication date: February 20, 2025
    Inventors: Shaozhen GUO, Mostafa KHOSHNEVISAN, Fang YUAN, Jing SUN, Xiaoxia ZHANG, Yan ZHOU, Tao LUO
  • Patent number: 12231203
    Abstract: A terminal according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes a control section that determines activation or deactivation for a panel, and a transmitting section that transmits a report related to determined activation or deactivation for the panel by including the report in at least one of channel state information and MAC control information (MAC CE).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yuki Matsumura, Satoshi Nagata, Weiqi Sun, Shaozhen Guo, Jing Wang, Xiaolin Hou
  • Publication number: 20250056383
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A first UE may receive a message indicating a configuration or a sidelink discovery burst transmission window. The configuration may include time periods for transmitting multiple sidelink synchronization signals. The first UE may perform a channel access procedure during the sidelink discovery burst transmission window. The first UE may perform the channel access procedure for transmitting one or more of the sidelink synchronization signals according to a pattern indicated by the configuration. The pattern may be based on a quasi co-location relationship between associated pairs of the sidelink synchronization signals. The first UE may transmit the one or more sidelink synchronization signals to a second UE in accordance with the pattern indicated by the configuration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2022
    Publication date: February 13, 2025
    Inventors: Siyi CHEN, Jing SUN, Xiaoxia ZHANG, Changlong XU, Shaozhen GUO, Luanxia YANG, Hao XU
  • Publication number: 20250056567
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. In some examples, a first UE may be configured to transmit multiple sidelink synchronization signal blocks (S-SSBs) within an S-SSB period, the transmissions back-to-back or non-back-to-back. The first UE may determine one or more listen-before-talk occasions associated with the S-SSBs, participate in at least one listen-before-talk procedure during a listen-before-talk occasion, and transmit the multiple S-SSBs to a second UE. In some other examples, the first UE may identify a reference frequency position of a reference S-SSB in a sidelink BWP. The first UE may transmit the reference S-SSB and one or more additional S-SSBs to a second UE, the one or more additional S-SSBs having frequency positions following the reference frequency position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2022
    Publication date: February 13, 2025
    Inventors: Siyi Chen, Jing Sun, Xiaoxia Zhang, Changlong Xu, Shaozhen Guo, Luanxia Yang
  • Publication number: 20250056568
    Abstract: Some aspects described herein relate to transmitting, by a first user equipment (UE), a cooperation discovery signal related to cooperative communication, and receiving, from one or more second UEs and in response to the cooperation discovery signal, a request to connect with the first UE for cooperative communication. Other aspects relate to receiving the cooperation discovery signal and transmitting the request in response to the cooperation discovery signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2022
    Publication date: February 13, 2025
    Inventors: Luanxia YANG, Aleksandar DAMNJANOVIC, Jing SUN, Changlong XU, Xiaoxia ZHANG, Shaozhen GUO, Siyi CHEN
  • Publication number: 20250048284
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may determine a timing advance value to use for an uplink transmission based on a unified transmission configuration indicator (TCI) state associated with the uplink transmission. In some examples, the control signaling configuring a unified TCI state for an uplink transmission may indicate the timing advance value for the uplink transmission. In some examples, the UE may receive control signaling indicating an association between a set of timing advance values for the component carrier associated with a set of unified TCI states or a set of unified TCI groups, and the UE may determine the timing advance value for a given uplink transmission based on the TCI state or TCI group indicated for the uplink transmission.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2022
    Publication date: February 6, 2025
    Inventors: Fang YUAN, Yan ZHOU, Mostafa KHOSHNEVISAN, Shaozhen GUO, Tao LUO, Xiaoxia ZHANG, Peter GAAL, Junyi LI
  • Publication number: 20250048294
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive information scheduling an uplink resource on a carrier, wherein the carrier is associated with a plurality of timing advance groups and is associated with one or more timing advance offsets for the plurality of timing advance groups. The UE may transmit, using the uplink resource, on the carrier in accordance with the one or more timing advance offsets. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2022
    Publication date: February 6, 2025
    Inventors: Shaozhen GUO, Mostafa KHOSHNEVISAN, Fang YUAN, Jing SUN, Xiaoxia ZHANG, Yan ZHOU, Tao LUO
  • Publication number: 20250048292
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive configuration information for a serving cell associated with a first transmission reception point (TRP) and for two or more other cells associated with two or more other TRPs, the serving cell and the two or more other cells associated with a same component carrier. The UE may receive a first timing advance configuration associated with the serving cell and a second one or more timing advance configurations associated with the two or more other cells. The UE may transmit an uplink communication in accordance with the first timing advance configuration or the second one or more timing advance configurations. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2022
    Publication date: February 6, 2025
    Inventors: Fang YUAN, Yan ZHOU, Mostafa KHOSHNEVISAN, Shaozhen GUO, Tao LUO, Xiaoxia ZHANG, Peter GAAL, Junyi LI
  • Publication number: 20250048396
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive a first one or more physical sidelink shared channel communications associated with a first set of physical sidelink shared channel priorities and associated with a first feedback message codebook. The UE may receive a second one or more physical sidelink shared channel communications associated with a second set of physical sidelink shared channel priorities and associated with a second feedback message codebook. The UE may include transmit, based at least in part on a physical sidelink feedback channel feedback resource configuration, a first feedback message in a first physical sidelink feedback channel feedback resource and a second feedback message in a second physical sidelink feedback channel feedback resource.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2022
    Publication date: February 6, 2025
    Inventors: Shaozhen GUO, Jing SUN, Changlong XU, Xiaoxia ZHANG, Luanxia YANG, Siyi CHEN, Hao XU