Patents by Inventor Tao Cui

Tao Cui 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: 11946759
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an electronic device, a wireless communication method and a computer-readable storage medium. The electronic device for a vehicle according to the present disclosure comprises a processing circuit configured to: determine load information of the vehicle; generate vehicle information, with the vehicle information comprising the load information of the vehicle; and send the vehicle information to a server for the server to determine, according to the vehicle information, road planning information for the vehicle. By using the electronic device, the wireless communication method and the computer-readable storage medium according to the present disclosure, the load information of the vehicle can be taken into consideration during road planning and decision planning, thereby better managing the load of the vehicle and more rationally planning a road.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tao Cui, Chen Sun, Rui Lu, Yi Liu
  • Publication number: 20240048338
    Abstract: A method for selecting one or more secondary cells, SCells for supporting communication with a user equipment, UE, by carrier aggregation, CA. The one or more SCells is/are selected from a set of SCell candidates available for an access node. The method includes estimating a probability that the UE connected to a primary cell, PCell, of the access node is in coverage of an SCell in the set of candidates, predicting available resources for the SCell, calculating a CA value for the SCell based on the estimated probability, an estimated spectral efficiency and the predicted available resources, and calculating a CA value for each SCell of the set of SCell candidates, ranking the SCells of the set of SCell candidates based on their calculated CA values, and selecting one or more SCells for providing CA with the UE based on the ranking.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventors: Mats ZACHRISON, Peiliang CHANG, Tao CUI, Sven EKEMARK, Sofia SVEDEVALL, Henning WIEMANN, Linnea FAXÉN
  • Patent number: 11895519
    Abstract: Methods, a first, and a second network node as well as a user equipment for exchange of measurement period related parameters are provided. The user equipment performs a method for measuring a measurement quantity of a secondary cell on a second carrier operated by a second radio network node. The user equipment receives, from the second radio network node, an indication indicative of the second carrier and a first parameter indicating a measurement period for measuring the measurement quantity of the secondary cell. The user equipment measures said measurement quantity on the secondary cell on the second carrier over the measurement period. The measurement period is a predefined value times the first parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Muhammad Kazmi, Tao Cui
  • Publication number: 20240032081
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to an electronic device and a communication method. An electronic device used at a terminal device side comprises a processing circuit configured to: provide, via a cellular link, a direct link resource usage demand and a cellular link resource usage demand of the terminal device to a base station, so that the base station allocates direct link resources and cellular link resources for the terminal device according to the direct link resource usage demand and the cellular link resource usage demand of the terminal device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2021
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Chen SUN, Tao CUI
  • Patent number: 11882457
    Abstract: In a process for adding a base station as a secondary base station, and for example in 5 response to a UE Context Setup Request or a UE Context Modification Request, a distributed unit of a base station selects a feature set, and informs a central unit of the base station of the selected feature set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Ioanna Pappa, Matteo Fiorani, Paulson Angelo Vijay Silveris, Tao Cui
  • Patent number: 11871456
    Abstract: The present application relates to an electronic device in a wireless communication system, and a wireless communication method. The electronic device in a wireless communication system according to the present application comprises: a processing circuit, configured to perform a channel detection process in one or more beam directions of an unlicensed spectrum; and a transceiver circuit, configured to transmit a random access preamble sequence in one or more beam directions in which channels are detected as idle. The electronic device and the wireless communication method of the present application can implement a random access process on an unlicensed spectrum, improve the channel detection efficiency, and reduce the delay caused by the channel detection process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tao Cui
  • Publication number: 20230413297
    Abstract: A wireless device and a method therein for receiving positioning system information from a radio network node. The wireless device and the radio network node operate in a wireless communications network. The wireless device receives positioning system information broadcast scheduling information comprising information about positioning System Information Blocks that are comprised in a System Information message. Further, the wireless device receives an indication that a pSIB is segmented into pSIB segments. Based on the indication and on the pSI the wireless device determines whether or not the pSIB segments are scheduled via contiguous scheduling. When the pSIB segments are determined to be scheduled via contiguous scheduling, the wireless device monitors scheduled resources, retrieves the contiguously scheduled pSIB segments and decodes position system information of the retrieved pSIB segments.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2023
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Inventors: Fredrik GUNNARSSON, Åke BUSIN, Tao CUI, Sara MODARRES RAZAVI, Ritesh SHREEVASTAV
  • Publication number: 20230413169
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) is configured to determine that a private enterprise deployed cellular network is available, determine that a Wi-Fi network is available at a same time as the private enterprise deployed cellular network and prioritize connection to the private enterprise deployed cellular network over the Wi-Fi network based on one or more conditions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2023
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Inventors: Raj S CHAUGULE, Ajoy K. SINGH, Henri S. BERGER, Li LI, Nai Tao CUI
  • Patent number: 11849443
    Abstract: An electronic device, a radio communication method, and a computer readable storage medium. The electronic device comprises a processing circuit, and is configured to use a group common-physical downlink control channel (GC-PDCCH) to transmit control information relating to data in a time slot preceding a time slot of the GC-PDCCH. In the invention, a GC-PDCCH can be better designed according to characteristics of an NR communication system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventor: Tao Cui
  • Publication number: 20230397285
    Abstract: A method for user equipment, UE, configuration determination for a UE connected in a radio communication network is presented. The method is performed in a base station, BS, and comprises determining a minimum candidate user equipment configuration, CUEC, wherein the CUEC comprises a special cell, SpCell, the SpCell providing connection with the UE, validating the determined minimum CUEC against capabilities of the UE, selecting a successfully validated determined minimum CUEC as a current CUEC, generating a next CUEC and comparing the generated next CUEC with the current CUEC, validating the next CUEC against the capabilities of the UE when the next CUEC has a higher weight than the current CUEC, selecting a successfully validated next CUEC as the current CUEC, and configuring the UE in accordance with the current CUEC. A BS, a distributed unit, a computer program and a computer program product for UE configuration determination are also presented.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2021
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Inventors: Henning Wiemann, Linnea Faxén, Fredrik Ovesjö, Tao Cui, Marwa Mamoun Abdelgadir Abdelrahman, Joakim Hellsten, Edward Carlstedt-Duke
  • Publication number: 20230385688
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an electronic device and a method for federated learning. The electronic device for federated learning at a central processing apparatus comprises a processing circuitry which is configured to: determine a group of distributed nodes for generating a global model parameter among a plurality of distributed nodes, wherein the correlation between local training data of the group of distributed nodes meets a specific correlation requirement; and generate the global model parameter based on local model parameters of the group of distributed nodes, wherein the local model parameters are generated by the group of distributed nodes based on respective local training data thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2021
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Chen SUN, Songtao WU, Tao CUI
  • Publication number: 20230388811
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an electronic device and a method for wireless communication and a computer-readable storage medium. An electronic device comprising: a processing circuit configured to: generate, where a user equipment accesses an unauthorized frequency band successfully, an indication representing whether sharing a channel occupancy time of the user equipment with other user equipment is permitted; and send the indication to a base station or the other user equipment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2023
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Qimei CUI, Bowen CAI, Tao CUI, Xiaofeng TAO
  • Publication number: 20230361962
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an electronic device, a wireless communication method, and a computer readable medium. The electronic device includes a processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to generate a discovery reference signal for an unlicensed band. The discovery reference signal contains a primary synchronization signal, a secondary synchronization signal and a channel state information reference signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2023
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventor: Tao CUI
  • Publication number: 20230362780
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an electronic device, a wireless communication method, and a computer-readable storage medium. The electronic device according to the present disclosure comprises a processing circuit and is configured to: determine one or more relay vehicles that must forward a message related to a vehicle; generate the message related to the vehicle, the message comprising information of the one or more relay vehicles; and send the message. By using the electronic device, wireless communication method, and computer-readable storage medium according to the present disclosure, the redundancy of information sending can be reduced while expanding the coverage range of a message so as to save on overhead and reduce interference, thereby optimizing a message sending process in the Internet of Vehicles. (FIG.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2021
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Jian LI, Tao CUI, Chen SUN
  • Publication number: 20230345533
    Abstract: Provided are an electronic device, a wireless communication method and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium. The electronic device comprises a processing circuit, and the processing circuit is configured: to perform a first uplink data transmission to a first transmission point within a channel occupation time after the electronic device successfully accesses an unlicensed frequency band; and to perform a second uplink data transmission to a second transmission point on the basis of an acknowledgement message from the second transmission point in the vicinity of the first transmission point within the remaining time after the first uplink data transmission is completed in the channel occupation time, wherein the acknowledgement message is transmitted to the electronic device by the second transmission point in response to an additional transmission request transmitted to the second transmission point by the first transmission point after completion of the first uplink data transmission.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2021
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Qimei CUI, Hao LI, Tao CUI
  • Publication number: 20230345440
    Abstract: An apparatus in a wireless communication system comprises a processing circuit configured to: determine a channel detection mode for an unlicensed frequency band on the basis of at least a wireless communication service type and/or a cell load condition; and generate configuration information comprising a channel detection mode, the configuration information needing to be sent to user equipment so as to indicate the channel detection mode to the user equipment. According to at least one aspect of the embodiments of the present disclosure, a channel detection mode suitable for a current application scenario is configured for a large-bandwidth unlicensed frequency band in a 5G new radio (NR) on the basis of at least a wireless communication service type and/or a cell load condition, which may reduce the workload of a base station and user equipment and increase system working efficiency while improving bandwidth allocation efficiency and resource utilization.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2023
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventor: Tao CUI
  • Publication number: 20230337007
    Abstract: Provided are an electronic device and a method for wireless communication, and a computer readable storage medium, the electronic device comprising: a processing circuit, configured to: perform periodic channel detection for a plurality of unlicenced channels in an unlicenced band according to a first period; and respectively send master system information blocks MIB having the same content to user devices over at least some of the available unlicensed channels in the unlicensed band indicated by the channel detection results, the MIBs comprising part of the minimum system information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2023
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Song WANG, Qimei CUI, Tao CUI, Yuxuan XIE, Huiling ZUO
  • Patent number: 11787717
    Abstract: The present invention discloses an electrocatalytic Fenton oxidation-electrochemical oxidation coupling process and apparatus for efficient treatment of chemical wastewater, and belongs to the field of sewage treatment. The process includes an electrocatalytic Fenton oxidation step, an electrochemical oxidation step, and a pH adjustment step. A spacing between a cathode and an anode in the electrocatalytic Fenton oxidation step is controlled, so that oxygen produced at the anode reacts at the cathode to produce H2O2. The treatment requirements can be met without external aeration or external addition of H2O2, and meanwhile, the efficiency of COD removal by electro-Fenton oxidation is effectively improved. Further, by connecting a pH adjusting tank with the electrocatalytic Fenton oxidation-electrochemical oxidation coupling apparatus in series, a coupling treatment process with near-zero production of iron sludge is realized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: NANJING UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Weiqing Han, Tao Cui, Kajia Wei, Wei Li, Lianjun Wang, Xiaodong Liu, Xiuyun Sun, Jiansheng Li, Jinyou Shen
  • Publication number: 20230328643
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an electronic device, method and storage medium for sleep and wake-up of a base station. A method for a first base station is described, the method comprising: detecting a first indicator of the first base station; in response to the detected first indicator indicating that the workload of the first base station is lower than a first threshold, sending first information to a second base station, wherein the first information includes information for indicating that the first base station requests to sleep; and receiving second information for the first information from the second base station, wherein the second information indicates whether the first base station is allowed to sleep. In the method, the first base station may include an Integrated Access and Backhaul (IAB) base station, and the second base station may include an IAB donor base station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2021
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Xiaodong XU, Shumeng ZHANG, Zhihan HUANG, Shiying YAN, Lu TIAN, Kun LI, Haojin LI, Tao CUI
  • Patent number: 11785619
    Abstract: A wireless device and a method therein for receiving positioning system information from a radio network node. The wireless device and the radio network node operate in a wireless communications network. The wireless device receives positioning system information broadcast scheduling information comprising information about positioning System Information Blocks that are comprised in a System Information message. Further, the wireless device receives an indication that a pSIB is segmented into pSIB segments. Based on the indication and on the pSI the wireless device determines whether or not the pSIB segments are scheduled via contiguous scheduling. When the pSIB segments are determined to be scheduled via contiguous scheduling, the wireless device monitors scheduled resources, retrieves the contiguously scheduled pSIB segments and decodes position system information of the retrieved pSIB segments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Fredrik Gunnarsson, Åke Busin, Tao Cui, Sara Modarres Razavi, Ritesh Shreevastav