Patents by Inventor Shulan Feng

Shulan Feng 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: 20200229226
    Abstract: Embodiments of this application disclose a data transmission method, a network device, and a terminal device, to reduce power consumption of the terminal device during data transmission. The method includes: configuring, by a network device, a first scheduling resource set for first service data, and configuring a second scheduling resource set for scheduling signaling that carries the first service data determining a transmission resource for the first service data; sending the scheduling signaling in the second scheduling resource set, and sending the first service data in the transmission resource for the first service data; receiving data in the first scheduling resource set for the first service data, and receiving in the second scheduling resource set for the scheduling signaling that carries the first service data, the scheduling signaling; and obtaining the first service data from the data received in the first scheduling resource set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2020
    Publication date: July 16, 2020
    Inventors: Junwei WANG, Shulan FENG
  • Publication number: 20200213994
    Abstract: This application provides a signal processing method and apparatus. A network device obtains capability information of a terminal device, where the capability information includes a processing time period for uplink data of the terminal device and a processing time period for uplink control information of the terminal device; determines a first time-frequency resource based on the capability information, where the first time-frequency resource is used to carry first uplink data and/or first uplink control information; and sends first signaling to the terminal device, where the first signaling indicates the first time-frequency resource. This application can improve efficiency of configuring a time-frequency resource by the network device for the first uplink data and/or the first uplink control information of the terminal device, thereby reducing a signal transmission delay.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2020
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Inventors: Shulan FENG, Xiuyong SHEN, Jinnan LIU, Xingwei ZHANG, Junren CHANG
  • Publication number: 20200196291
    Abstract: A method for processing physical downlink control channel data, a transmitting end, and a user equipment are provided and relate to the field of communications, which can extract a scrambling sequence in multiple modulation modes, so that scrambling and descrambling are performed on physical downlink control channel data in multiple modulation modes. The method includes: generating a scrambling sequence corresponding to a control channel element according to an index number of the control channel element and/or a modulation mode used by the control channel element; performing scrambling on physical downlink control channel data by using the scrambling sequence; and sending the scrambled physical downlink control channel data to a user equipment. The embodiments of the present application are used to perform scrambling and descrambling on physical downlink control channel data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2020
    Publication date: June 18, 2020
    Inventors: Yuchun WU, Shulan FENG
  • Patent number: 10681768
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to the field of communications technologies, and in particular, to a communication method and a device. Second user equipment executes some tasks required for communication between first user equipment and a network device, and the first user equipment properly communicates with the second user equipment. In this way, energy consumption of the first user equipment required for communication with the network device can be reduced, thereby prolonging a standby time and improving user experience.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Junren Chang, Shulan Feng
  • Publication number: 20200177321
    Abstract: A hybrid automatic repeat request HARQ feedback method and apparatus are provided. The method includes: obtaining, by a network device, first indication information used to instruct a terminal device to feed back HARQ feedback information, where the first indication information is obtained based on information amounts corresponding to a data channel and/or information amounts corresponding to a control channel that are in a reference slot and at least one first slot, the reference slot and the at least one first slot each correspond to a different component carrier of a plurality of component carriers serving the terminal, and the reference slot and the at least one first slot have a same start moment, and at least two of the plurality of component carriers have different slot lengths; and sending, by the network device to the terminal device, indication information used to indicate at least the first indication information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2020
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Inventors: Jie SHI, Xingwei ZHANG, Chao LI, Shulan FENG
  • Publication number: 20200178276
    Abstract: Embodiments of the application disclose a data transmission method, a network device, and a terminal device. In at least one embodiment, a first network device sends first downlink data to a first terminal device in a first time period in a first time unit, the first network device receives, in a second time period in the first time unit, a feedback signal sent by the first terminal device, and the first network device determines a third time period from the first time unit. A start point of the third time period is an end time of the first time period, and an end point of the third time period is a start time of the second time period; and the third time period may be divided into at least one of the following time periods: a fourth time period, a fifth time period, and a sixth time period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2020
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Inventor: Shulan FENG
  • Patent number: 10659968
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method for performing communication by using an unlicensed spectrum, a device, and a system, which relate to the field of communications technologies, so as to improve efficiency of using an unlicensed spectrum by user equipment. The method includes: obtaining, by a base station eNB, a time resource and/or a frequency resource by contending with another eNB or another system using an unlicensed spectrum; generating, by the base station eNB, information about the time resource and/or the frequency resource according to the time resource and/or the frequency resource; and sending, by the base station eNB, the information about the time resource and/or the frequency resource to user equipment UE by using a broadcast or multicast message, so that the user equipment UE communicates with the base station eNB according to the information about the time resource and/or the frequency resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Junren Chang, Li Chai, Jie Ma, Yajuan Li, Bo Lin, Shulan Feng
  • Publication number: 20200119996
    Abstract: This application provides a message sending method and apparatus. The method includes: determining, by a first device based on a first configuration of a first message, a first time unit for sending the first message; determining, by the first device, whether a resource capable of carrying the first message exists in the first time unit; when the resource capable of carrying the first message does not exist in the first time unit, determining, by the first device, at least one second time unit for sending the first message, where the resource capable of carrying the first message exists in each second time unit; and sending, by the first device, the first message to a second device in the at least one second time unit. In this way, a probability that the message can still be sent increases when a type of a time unit changes dynamically.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Publication date: April 16, 2020
    Inventors: Zhe LIU, Xingwei ZHANG, Shulan FENG
  • Patent number: 10609698
    Abstract: A method for processing physical downlink control channel data, a transmitting end, and a user equipment are provided and relate to the field of communications, which can extract a scrambling sequence in multiple modulation modes, so that scrambling and descrambling are performed on physical downlink control channel data in multiple modulation modes. The method includes: generating a scrambling sequence corresponding to a control channel element according to an index number of the control channel element and/or a modulation mode used by the control channel element; performing scrambling on physical downlink control channel data by using the scrambling sequence; and sending the scrambled physical downlink control channel data to a user equipment. The embodiments of the present application are used to perform scrambling and descrambling on physical downlink control channel data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuchun Wu, Shulan Feng
  • Patent number: 10609763
    Abstract: In an embodiment, the present invention discloses a method for accessing a network by UE, a core network entity, a base station, and first UE. The method includes determining, by a base station, that first UE provides relay for the second UE; and sending, by the base station, a first message including a first identifier to the first UE. The first message is used to manage a data radio bearer DRB of the first UE so that the DRB of the first UE is used to transmit data of the second UE, and the first identifier is in a one-to-one correspondence with the second UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hui Jin, Xiangdong Zhang, Shulan Feng, Da Wang
  • Patent number: 10595236
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a communication method, a network side device, and a user terminal. The method includes: establishing, by a user terminal, a connection to a first base station by using a first component carrier; sending, by the first base station, a preprocessing indication message to the user terminal, to indicate that the user terminal is to perform uplink synchronization with a second base station on a second component carrier; and obtaining, by the first base station, a target second base station, and sending a first indication message to the target second base station, to indicate that the user terminal is to perform data transmission with the target second base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Junren Chang, Liangliang Zhang, Wei Quan, Shulan Feng
  • Publication number: 20200068645
    Abstract: A wireless communications method, apparatus, and system including a terminal is provided. The terminal sets up a connection to a first base station, and stays in always connected mode. When the terminal moves in a dense network, handovers of the first base station can be reduced. Further, when the terminal moves in the dense network, frequent signaling interaction is reduced, paging load in the entire network is reduced, and an end-to-end delay in service setup and transmission is reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2019
    Publication date: February 27, 2020
    Inventors: Junren CHANG, Yuchun WU, Shulan FENG, Chen-Xiong ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20190364552
    Abstract: The embodiment of the disclosure provides a downlink control information transmission method and apparatus, where the method includes: determining a first resource set based on M resource subsets included in target resources, wherein at least two of the M resource subsets do not overlap in frequency domain, and each resource subset comprises at least one control channel bearing resource unit, M is an integer, and M?2; the first resource set comprises N control channel bearing resource units, at least two of the N control channel bearing resource units belong to different resource subsets, and at least two of the N control channel bearing resource units are inconsecutive in frequency domain, N?2, wherein one control channel bearing resource unit includes a plurality of resource element groups (REGs); and receiving downlink control information on the first resource set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2019
    Publication date: November 28, 2019
    Inventors: Shulan FENG, Lixia XUE
  • Publication number: 20190364551
    Abstract: A data communication method, an apparatus, and a system are provided. The method includes: sending, by a sending apparatus, a first group of one or more control resource sets to a receiving apparatus; sending, by the sending apparatus, first signaling to the receiving apparatus, where the first signaling is used to instruct the receiving apparatus to receive data on a time-frequency resource for data transmission. Based on the foregoing method, signaling overheads are reduced, and a control channel and data are dynamically reused in a control resource set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2019
    Publication date: November 28, 2019
    Inventors: Yongping ZHANG, Shulan FENG, Jinhuan XIA
  • Publication number: 20190364539
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a data transmission processing method including: receiving first indication information and saving context information of user equipment according to the first indication information, where the context information includes identification information of the user equipment; and decoding a PDCCH based on the identification information of the user equipment, to obtain second indication information, where the second indication information is used to determine that the user equipment is a paged object or that there is a service of the user equipment. The indication information meant for the paged object is carried in the PDCCH, so that the user equipment can determine, depending on whether the indication information can be successfully obtained, whether the user equipment is the paged object or has a service, and perform subsequent processing, for example, connecting to a network, when determining that the user equipment is the paged object or has a service.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2019
    Publication date: November 28, 2019
    Inventors: Junren CHANG, Shulan FENG, Jinhuan XIA, Xiangdong ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20190350011
    Abstract: This application discloses a communication method. A first device obtains first control information, wherein the first control information comprises at least one of indication information of a transmission mode and indication information of a transmission resource; determines a transmission resource for first data based on the first control information; and sends the first data on the determined transmission resource.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2019
    Publication date: November 14, 2019
    Inventors: Chao LI, Shulan FENG, Xingwei ZHANG
  • Patent number: 10477611
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a wireless communications method, apparatus, and system. A terminal is provided. The terminal sets up a connection to a first base station, and stays in always connected mode. Therefore, when the terminal moves in a dense network, handovers of the first base station can be reduced. Further, when the terminal moves in the dense network, frequent signaling interaction is reduced, paging load in the entire network is reduced, and an end-to-end delay in service setup and transmission is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Junren Chang, Yuchun Wu, Shulan Feng, Chen-Xiong Zhang
  • Publication number: 20190327726
    Abstract: Embodiments of this application provide an information transmission method, a terminal device, and an access network device. The information transmission method provided in the embodiments of this application may include: determining resources for carrying N pieces of uplink control information (UCI) partly overlap or completely overlap in time domain, wherein the N pieces of UCI comprise at least one piece of beam channel quality information and at least one of a piece of channel state information or an acknowledgement (ACK)/a negative acknowledgement (NACK), wherein a priority of the beam channel quality information is higher than a priority of the channel state information, and/or a priority of the beam channel quality information is lower than a priority of the ACK/NACK. According to the embodiments of this application, a UCI reporting conflict can be effectively prevented.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2019
    Publication date: October 24, 2019
    Inventors: Xingwei ZHANG, Shulan FENG, Guanglong DU, Chao LI, Jie SHI
  • Publication number: 20190327686
    Abstract: Embodiments of this application provide an uplink power control method and a terminal. The method includes: obtaining, by a terminal, a power control impact factor, where the power control impact factor includes at least one of the following: beamforming information, a subcarrier spacing, a time length, or a service type; determining, by the terminal, a transmit power of an uplink channel based on the power control impact factor; and sending, by the terminal, the uplink channel at the transmit power of the uplink channel. The embodiments can improve uplink power control precision.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2019
    Publication date: October 24, 2019
    Inventors: Xingwei ZHANG, Shulan FENG, Guanglong DU, Chao LI, Jie SHI
  • Patent number: 10454663
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention disclose a wireless communications method and system, and a full-duplex wireless transceiver, where the method includes: modulating a transmit digital signal into a first radio frequency signal and outputting the first radio frequency signal to a transmit antenna; then performing, under control of a pre-generated control signal, phase adjustment and amplitude adjustment on the first radio frequency signal and obtaining a cancellation signal; performing self-interference cancellation on a second radio frequency signal received from a radio air interface by using a receive antenna and the cancellation signal so as to generate a third radio frequency signal obtained after self-interference cancellation; and finally demodulating the third radio frequency signal into a receive digital signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jinnan Liu, Shulan Feng