Patents by Inventor Shuqiang Xia

Shuqiang Xia 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: 20200336268
    Abstract: Provided are a method and device for determining a reference signal, a method and device for determining a control channel element, and a storage medium. The method for determining a reference signal includes: indicating, in a preset manner, that the reference signal exists in at least one of N scheduled transmission time intervals, where N is a positive integer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2018
    Publication date: October 22, 2020
    Applicant: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jing Shi, Shuqiang Xia, Wen Zhang, Chunli Liang, Xianghui Han, Min Ren
  • Patent number: 10805910
    Abstract: A method for sending uplink control information comprises: determining uplink control information needing to be sent; coding the uplink control information; interlacing the coded uplink control information; and sending the interlaced uplink control information over a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Weiwei Yang, Bo Dai, Chunli Liang, Shuqiang Xia
  • Patent number: 10797924
    Abstract: Provided is a method and apparatus for sending information. The method includes determining uplink information and/or a reference signal to be sent; and sending the uplink information and/or the reference signal to a communication node via a first sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chunli Liang, Shuqiang Xia, Zhisong Zuo, Xianghui Han, Jing Shi
  • Patent number: 10771300
    Abstract: Provided are an information sending method and apparatus, and a computer storage medium. The method includes: according to information to be sent on a physical uplink channel, determining, from N predefined sequences, a sequence corresponding to a reference signal to be sent, wherein the N predefined sequences have the same non-zero value on a predetermined position, N being an integer greater than or equal to 2; and mapping the determined sequence corresponding to the reference signal and the information to a time-frequency resource, and sending the reference signal and the information on the time-frequency resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chunli Liang, Shuqiang Xia, Xianghui Han, Wen Zhang
  • Publication number: 20200274630
    Abstract: New sequences have been proposed and/or adopted for short Physical Uplink Control Channel communications between base stations and UEs. In an exemplary embodiment, a UE communicates with a base station based on sequence groups that include the new sequences, where the new sequences are allocated to different sequence groups based, at least in part, on correlations with other existing sequences included in individual sequence groups.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2020
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Inventors: Chunli Liang, Shuqiang Xia, Zhisong Zuo, Peng Hao, Xianghui Han
  • Publication number: 20200274683
    Abstract: A system and method for allocating network resources are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, the system and method are configured to perform: determining a first resource indication value indicative of a first subset of a plurality of resource blocks to be allocated to a wireless communication device, wherein the first resource indication value is determined by a predefined equation using a single combination of a first parameter and a second parameter as an input; and transmitting the first resource indication value to the wireless communication device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2020
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Inventors: Shuqiang XIA, Xianghui HAN, Wen ZHANG, Chunli LIANG, Jing SHI, Min REN
  • Publication number: 20200266956
    Abstract: The present invention provides a data transmission method and apparatus. The method includes: transmitting physical downlink channel data according to a first-type reference signal (RS) or a second-type RS or a third-type RS. The method of the present invention ensures a balance between data transmission performance and RS overheads for different NarrowBand-Internet Of Things (NB-IOT) physical downlink channel data, thereby resolving the problem in the related art of not knowing which RS is to be used to transmit NB-IOT physical channel data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2016
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Inventors: Xianming CHEN, BO Dai, Jing Shi, Shuqiang Xia, Wen Zhang, Huiying Fang
  • Patent number: 10749636
    Abstract: Disclosed are an HARQ sending and receiving method and device, and a node. The method comprises: detecting reception conditions of N transmission blocks; according to the reception conditions, generating a first HARQ status value with the length of M bits, wherein each value of all the first HARQ status values corresponds to one reception condition of the N transmission blocks when k falls within a pre-set value range on a one-to-one basis, where k is the number of correctly received transmission blocks among the received transmission blocks, M, N and k are integers, N?M<N, and 0?k?N; and sending the first HARQ status value as HARQ information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shuqiang Xia, Bo Dai, Zhisong Zuo, Chunli Liang
  • Patent number: 10749645
    Abstract: The present invention provides a reference signal transmitting method and device, and a reference signal receiving method and device. The transmitting method comprises: determining the position of a time-frequency resource for a reference signal a transmission time interval (TTI) according to a preset manner; and transmitting the reference signal according to the position of the time-frequency resource. The present invention solves the problem in the related art of high processing delay of a user equipment (UE) that occurs because a DMRS is later-positioned, and reduces the processing delay of the UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Wen Zhang, Shuqiang Xia, Bo Dai, Qian Dai, Jing Shi, Xianghui Han
  • Patent number: 10742470
    Abstract: Provided are a data transmission method and apparatus, a sending end sends data to a receiving end on one or more orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols in a scheduling unit, and the receiving end receives data sent by the sending end on one or more OFDM symbols in the scheduling unit. A time length of the scheduling unit is a length of two long term evolution (LTE) OFDM symbols having normal cycle prefixes and a subcarrier spacing of 15 kHz, the scheduling unit is formed by seven or eight OFDM symbols having a subcarrier spacing of 60 kHz, the scheduling unit is maintained to be the seven OFDM symbols having a subcarrier spacing of 60 kHz and having new extended cycle prefixes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Donglei Chen, Zhisong Zuo, Shuqiang Xia, Peng Hao
  • Patent number: 10736130
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method and device for uplink control signal transmission, a user terminal and a storage medium. The method includes: sending, by the user terminal, K predefined sequences on M transmission symbols in a Transmission Time Interval (TTI) to transmit B-bit uplink control information, wherein M is a positive integer, K is an integer, 1?K?2B, the B is an integer greater than or equal to 1, one of the K predefined sequences is sent on each of the M transmission symbols, the predefined sequences have a length of N and are mapped to N subcarriers of corresponding transmission symbols, N=2n with n being a positive integer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Xianghui Han, Shuqiang Xia, Wen Zhang, Jing Shi, Min Ren
  • Patent number: 10721740
    Abstract: The present embodiments provide a method for the transmission of messages during random access, comprising: terminals that transmit type-1 messages to the base station according to the type-1 message transmission method corresponding to the terminal set to which the terminal belongs; wherein, the terminal sets are classified according to the subcarrier transmission capability supported by the terminals. The present embodiments also provide three other methods for the transmission of messages during random access, as well as the corresponding devices and computer storage mediums.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kun Liu, Bo Dai, Zhaohua Lu, Shuqiang Xia, Xianming Chen, Huiying Fang, Jing Shi, Wen Zhang
  • Patent number: 10721013
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and apparatus for information transmission, which comprises configuring a transmission window within a scheduling window; wherein, a scheduling window comprises K transmission windows, a transmission window comprises P available subframes, K is an integer greater than 0, P is an integer greater than 1, and the available subframes within the transmission window are utilized to transmit data. By using at least two subframes within a transmission window to transmit data, the technical solutions provided by the present embodiments allow for the channel coding and rate matching of system information, such as SIB1 information, to no longer be restricted to within a single subframe; this technology is especially applicable to system information transmission in systems like NB-IoT, and ensures transmission performance of system information like NB-IoT SIB1 information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Xianming Chen, Bo Dai, Huiying Fang, Shuqiang Xia, Jing Shi, Kun Liu
  • Publication number: 20200220698
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and an apparatus for transmitting a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH). The method comprises: determining a time-domain position for transmitting the PUSCH according to a downlink transmission time interval (TTI) for receiving a scheduling grant; and transmitting the PUSCH at the determined time-domain position, the scheduling grant comprising at least one of the following pieces of information: information indicating whether to transmit a demodulation reference signal (DMRS); information related to a first time-domain position for transmitting the DMRS; information related to a second time-domain position for transmitting data; information on a frequency-domain density of the DMRS; and information of a frequency-domain offset of the DMRS. By means of the embodiments of the present invention, a resource for transmitting a PUSCH can be effectively determined.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2017
    Publication date: July 9, 2020
    Inventors: WEN ZHANG, SHUQIANG XIA, WENFENG ZHANG, JING SHI, XIANGHUI HAN, CHUNLI LIANG
  • Publication number: 20200213911
    Abstract: Disclosed are a data transmission method and apparatus. The method includes: a transmission node acquiring information about a data transmission mode, herein the information about the data transmission mode includes a rapid data transmission mode in which a time-domain length of data transmission is configured based on a time-domain symbol; and the transmission node transmitting data according to the acquired data transmission mode. In the data transmission method, the time-domain length of data transmission is configured based on the time-domain symbol, the setting of the time-domain length of data transmission is flexible, multiple opportunities of data transmission can exist in one subframe, resources used for data transmission can be guaranteed to be found rapidly when there is a data transmission demand, thus rapid data transmission is realized and data transmission delay is reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2020
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Inventors: Bo DAI, Shuqiang XIA, Qian DAI, Jing SHI, Liujun HU, Zhaohua LU
  • Patent number: 10700843
    Abstract: Provided are a method and device for information transmission in a Machine Type Communication (MTC) system. The method includes that: a subframe set and a narrowband for transmitting first information are determined according to a Physical Cell Identity (PCID); and the first information is sent or received on the subframe set and the narrowband.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Xianming Chen, Bo Dai, Shuqiang Xia, Kun Liu, Jing Shi, Wen Zhang, Huiying Fang
  • Publication number: 20200196304
    Abstract: Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH) can be effectively allocated and utilized by base stations and mobile stations. In an exemplary embodiment, a mobile station receives from a base station an allocation of a first set channel resource groups. The base station assigns a second set of channel resource groups. The mobile station decodes, based on the second set of channel resource groups, one or more channel resources to transmit messages to the base station. A benefit of the disclosed exemplary embodiments is that a base station can dynamically assign channel resources to a mobile station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2020
    Publication date: June 18, 2020
    Inventors: Xianghui Han, Shuqiang Xia, Chunli Liang, Wei Gou, Jing Shi, Wen Zhang
  • Publication number: 20200187225
    Abstract: Disclosed is a data transmission method and apparatus, and an electronic device. The method includes that a transmitting end transmits data over an allocated resource. The allocated resource includes one of: a first type of resource and a second type of resource; or the second type of resource. A starting time of the second type of resource is later than a starting time of the first type of resource, or an ending time of the second type of resource is earlier than an ending time of the first type of resource. The data transmitted over the first type of resource and the date transmitted over the second type of resource are aligned on a time-domain symbol.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2017
    Publication date: June 11, 2020
    Inventors: Shuqiang Xia, Chunli Liang, Jing Shi, Xianghui Han, Wen Zhang
  • Patent number: 10680783
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method and an apparatus for transmitting an uplink control signal. The method includes: transmitting M predefined sequences on two transmission symbols within a transmission time interval, and determining an acknowledgement (ACK) message or a negative acknowledgement (NACK) message according to the M predefined sequences and mapping patterns of the M predefined sequences in a time domain and a frequency domain, where M is a positive integer. By means of the above technical solution, a problem that a transmission structure for transmitting the ACK message and the NACK message is imperfect when the transmission time interval is equal to the length of two symbols is solved, and the transmitting of the ACK message and the NACK message when the transmission time interval is equal to the length of two symbols is perfected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Xianghui Han, Shuqiang Xia, Bo Dai, Wen Zhang, Jing Shi, Min Ren
  • Publication number: 20200178274
    Abstract: Methods and system for transmitting a scheduling request simultaneously with HARQ-ACK messages are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method performed by a first communication node, includes: allocating N resources for transmitting a scheduling request from a second communication node to the first communication node, wherein at least one resource is allocated for transmitting the scheduling request only and also for transmitting a HARQ-ACK message and the scheduling request simultaneously, wherein N is a positive integer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2020
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Inventors: Jing Shi, Shuqiang Xia, Xianghui Han, Chunli Liang, Wen Zhang, Min Ren