Patents by Inventor Steven James Wenham

Steven James Wenham 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: 20240031988
    Abstract: This application discloses a paging indication method and an apparatus. The method includes: A UE obtains first indication information, where the first indication information indicates whether a core network device supports a paging cause value; and receives a first paging message, where the first paging message includes first information corresponding to the UE, and the first information does not include a first field indicating the paging cause value; and when the first indication information indicates that the core network device supports the paging cause value, the first information indicates the paging cause value. According to the method provided in this application, the UE can explicitly learn whether the paging cause value is indicated in information that is in a paging message and that corresponds to the UE.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2023
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Inventors: Yiru Kuang, Rama Kumar Mopidevi, Haibo Xu, Steven James Wenham, Guowei Ouyang
  • Publication number: 20220272661
    Abstract: An information transmission method and a related device are provided. The method includes: determining, by a base station, to send downlink information to P user equipments of at least one user equipment within a first time period; generating, by the base station, an indication field according to the determined P user equipments, where the indication field includes M bits, each of the at least one user equipment is corresponding to K bits of the M bits, the K bits are used to indicate whether the corresponding user equipment needs to receive and read the downlink information sent by the base station within the first time period, K is a positive integer greater than 1 and less than M, and P is an integer greater than or equal to 0; and sending, by the base station, the indication field to the at least one user equipment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2022
    Publication date: August 25, 2022
    Inventors: Xiaolei TIE, Feng YU, Steven James WENHAM
  • Patent number: 11350384
    Abstract: An information transmission method and a related device are provided. The method includes: determining, by a base station, to send downlink information to P user equipments of at least one user equipment within a first time period; generating, by the base station, an indication field according to the determined P user equipments, where the indication field includes M bits, each of the at least one user equipment is corresponding to K bits of the M bits, the K bits are used to indicate whether the corresponding user equipment needs to receive and read the downlink information sent by the base station within the first time period, K is a positive integer greater than 1 and less than M, and P is an integer greater than or equal to 0; and sending, by the base station, the indication field to the at least one user equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xiaolei Tie, Feng Yu, Steven James Wenham
  • Patent number: 11051278
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention disclose a control information sending method, a control information detection method, a base station, and user equipment. The control information sending method includes: determining, by a base station, target control information and characteristic information corresponding to the target control information, where the target control information is information for scheduling target user equipment by the base station; determining, according to a preset rule and the characteristic information from a resource block set corresponding to a target coverage level, a target resource block subset corresponding to the target control information, and selecting, from the target resource block subset, an available resource block as a target resource block; and sending the target control information using the target resource block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xiaolei Tie, Yinghui Yu, Lei Liu, Steven James Wenham, Odile Rollinger
  • Publication number: 20200236650
    Abstract: An information transmission method and a related device are provided. The method includes: determining, by a base station, to send downlink information to P user equipments of at least one user equipment within a first time period; generating, by the base station, an indication field according to the determined P user equipments, where the indication field includes M bits, each of the at least one user equipment is corresponding to K bits of the M bits, the K bits are used to indicate whether the corresponding user equipment needs to receive and read the downlink information sent by the base station within the first time period, K is a positive integer greater than 1 and less than M, and P is an integer greater than or equal to 0; and sending, by the base station, the indication field to the at least one user equipment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Publication date: July 23, 2020
    Inventors: Xiaolei TIE, Feng YU, Steven James WENHAM
  • Patent number: 10645670
    Abstract: An information transmission method and a related device are provided. The method includes: determining, by a base station, to send downlink information to P user equipments of at least one user equipment within a first time period; generating, by the base station, an indication field according to the determined P user equipments, where the indication field includes M bits, each of the at least one user equipment is corresponding to K bits of the M bits, the K bits are used to indicate whether the corresponding user equipment needs to receive and read the downlink information sent by the base station within the first time period, K is a positive integer greater than 1 and less than M, and P is an integer greater than or equal to 0; and sending, by the base station, the indication field to the at least one user equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xiaolei Tie, Feng Yu, Steven James Wenham
  • Publication number: 20180324822
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present application propose a feedback method for an uplink channel, and an apparatus. In the solution, instead of always sending a first common message or a first scheduling command in any case, a base station determines, only after determining whether a data packet to be sent by a terminal is the last data packet of the terminal, whether a to-be-sent message including an indication bit that is used to indicate whether the base station correctly receives the data packet sent by the terminal is the first scheduling command or the first common message. Alternatively, when the base station determines that the terminal needs to send a next data packet or needs to retransmit the data packet, an indication bit for the terminal in at least two indication bits is used to indicate uplink control information. Therefore, this avoids a waste of resources.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2018
    Publication date: November 8, 2018
    Inventors: Xiaolei TIE, Gengshi WU, Steven James WENHAM, Yinghui YU
  • Publication number: 20180206206
    Abstract: An information transmission method and a related device are provided. The method includes: determining, by a base station, to send downlink information to P user equipments of at least one user equipment within a first time period; generating, by the base station, an indication field according to the determined P user equipments, where the indication field includes M bits, each of the at least one user equipment is corresponding to K bits of the M bits, the K bits are used to indicate whether the corresponding user equipment needs to receive and read the downlink information sent by the base station within the first time period, K is a positive integer greater than 1 and less than M, and P is an integer greater than or equal to 0; and sending, by the base station, the indication field to the at least one user equipment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2018
    Publication date: July 19, 2018
    Inventors: Xiaolei TIE, Feng YU, Steven James WENHAM
  • Publication number: 20180092082
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention disclose a control information sending method, a control information detection method, a base station, and user equipment. The control information sending method includes: determining, by a base station, target control information and characteristic information corresponding to the target control information, where the target control information is information for scheduling target user equipment by the base station; determining, according to a preset rule and the characteristic information from a resource block set corresponding to a target coverage level, a target resource block subset corresponding to the target control information, and selecting, from the target resource block subset, an available resource block as a target resource block; and sending the target control information using the target resource block.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2017
    Publication date: March 29, 2018
    Inventors: Xiaolei TIE, Yinghui YU, Lei LIU, Steven James WENHAM, Odile ROLLINGER
  • Patent number: 7182250
    Abstract: A computing device with an embedded microprocessor or micro-controller, including a software stack which comprises a content manager, and a runtime environment positioned in the stack above or together with a hardware abstraction layer. The content manager is not specific to any one design of runtime environment or hardware abstraction layer, so that several different designs of runtime environment and/or hardware abstraction layer can each operate with the same content manager. This de-couples the content manager from the runtime environment and/or hardware abstraction layer (e.g. a Java Virtual machine; elements of the operating system). The core advantage is that a single content manager can be used across multiple runtime environments and/or hardware abstraction layers; runtime environments and OSs can therefore be swapped without needing to re-write the content manager.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2007
    Assignee: Smart Card Solutions Limited
    Inventors: Martin Sean Kelly, Simon Fisher, Martin Strauch, Steven James Wenham
  • Publication number: 20040078798
    Abstract: A computing device with an embedded microprocessor or micro-controller, including a software stack which comprises a content manager, and a runtime environment positioned in the stack above or together with a hardware abstraction layer. The content manager is not specific to any one design of runtime environment or hardware abstraction layer, so that several different designs of runtime environment and/or hardware abstraction layer can each operate with the same content manager. This de-couples the content manager from the runtime environment and/or hardware abstraction layer (e.g. a Java Virtual machine; elements of the operating system). The core advantage is that a single content manager can be used across multiple runtime environments and/or hardware abstraction layers; runtime environments and OSs can therefore be swapped without needing to re-write the content manager.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2003
    Publication date: April 22, 2004
    Inventors: Martin Sean Kelly, Simon Fisher, Martin Strauch, Steven James Wenham