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: 11356153
    Abstract: Provided in the present disclosure are a device and method in a radio communication system, and a computer-readable storage medium. The device comprises a processing circuit configured to: decode a group common physical downlink control channel (group common PDCCH) of a user equipment group comprising a target user equipment so as to acquire control information related to multi-user multiple input multiple output (MU-MIMO) transmission of a control channel; and decode a user equipment-specific physical downlink control channel (UE-specific PDCCH) of the target user equipment on the basis of the control information so as to acquire specific transmission control information related to the target user equipment, where the UE-specific PDCCH of the target user equipment and UE-specific PDCCH of the other user equipment are stacked on a same transmission resource for transmission. MU-MIMO transmission with respect to a downlink control channel is effectively implemented, thus increasing resource utilization rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jianfei Cao, Tao Cui
  • Patent number: 11343038
    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: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tao Cui
  • Patent number: 11330608
    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: February 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tao Cui
  • Publication number: 20220110133
    Abstract: The present invention provides an electronic device and method for wireless communication, and a computer readable storage medium. The electronic device comprises a processing circuit configured to: set a first timer used for counting the activation time of a current bandwidth part (BWP) for a user equipment on an unlicensed frequency band; and switch, when the first timer times out, the user equipment onto another BWP on the unlicensed frequency band.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Publication date: April 7, 2022
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Qimei CUI, Zhenyu XU, Tao CUI, Xiaofeng TAO, Bowen CAI, Jing LIU
  • Patent number: 11277818
    Abstract: Disclosed are a wireless communication method and a wireless communication device. The wireless communication device comprises a processing circuit, wherein the processing circuit is configured to: detect broadcast information on a specific subchannel in an unlicensed frequency band; and broadcast time information on the specific subchannel when the broadcast information cannot be successfully detected, wherein the time the occupation of the specific subchannel by the wireless communication device ends can be determined according to the time information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Huiling Zuo, Na Li, Haowei Wang, Tao Cui, Yuxuan Xie, Song Wang
  • Publication number: 20220070865
    Abstract: An electronic device at a network side serves as a first user equipment and a second user equipment. The electronic device includes a processing circuit and is configured to: determine the second user equipment to share a channel occupy time (COT) of the first user equipment on a time domain, wherein the first user equipment and the second user equipment send uplink information to the electronic device in the COT of the first user equipment using orthogonal frequency domain resources; and generate frequency domain resource indication information of the second user equipment to indicate a frequency domain resource for the second user equipment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2020
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Inventors: Qimei CUI, Jing LIU, Tao CUI, Xiaofeng TAO
  • Publication number: 20220061054
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an electronic device, a wireless communication method, and a computer readable medium. According to one embodiment, an electronic device for wireless communication comprises a processing circuit configured to control to receive indication information from a base station on a set of bandwidth parts, the set of bandwidth parts comprising one or more bandwidth parts, and further configured to control to communicate with the base station by using at least one bandwidth part in the set of bandwidth parts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2020
    Publication date: February 24, 2022
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventor: Tao CUI
  • Publication number: 20220048801
    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.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2020
    Publication date: February 17, 2022
    Inventors: Weiqing HAN, Tao CUI, Kajia WEI, Wei LI, Lianjun WANG, Xiaodong LIU, Xiuyun SUN, Jiansheng LI, Jinyou SHEN
  • Patent number: 11234249
    Abstract: The present invention provides an electronic device and method for wireless communication, and a computer readable storage medium. The electronic device comprises a processing circuit configured to: set a first timer used for counting the activation time of a current bandwidth part (BWP) for a user equipment on an unlicensed frequency band; and switch, when the first timer times out, the user equipment onto another BWP on the unlicensed frequency band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Qimei Cui, Zhenyu Xu, Tao Cui, Xiaofeng Tao, Bowen Cai, Jing Liu
  • Publication number: 20220006580
    Abstract: Disclosed are an electronic apparatus, a radio communication method and a computer-readable medium. The electronic apparatus for radio communication according to one embodiment comprises a processing circuit. The processing circuit is configured to: determine a time length of a sending window of a discovery reference signal based on a target number of candidate positions of a synchronous signal block of the discovery reference signal and a subcarrier spacing; and control the sending of the discovery reference signal based on the determined time length.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2019
    Publication date: January 6, 2022
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tao CUI, Jianfei CAO
  • Patent number: 11210638
    Abstract: Systems and methods for providing contextual calendar reminders are provided. A host can receive a calendar reminder notifying the host that a calendar for a property listing maintained by the host may need to be updated. The system can provide the host with a reminder to update the calendar for the property listing based on criteria related to the expected number of times the host will view the calendar within a designated time period and the timing of the host's last interaction with the calendar. If the designated criteria are satisfied, the system can generate a reminder for the host to update the calendar for the property listing. Before sending the reminder to the host, the system confirms that the host did not recently interact with the calendar and if the host did interact with the calendar, the system cancels the sending of the reminder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: Airbnb, Inc.
    Inventors: Tao Cui, Yuting Gu
  • Publication number: 20210400495
    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: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2019
    Publication date: December 23, 2021
    Inventors: Ioanna Pappa, Matteo Fiorani, Paulson Angelo Vijay Silveris, Tao Cui
  • Publication number: 20210385806
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an electronic device, a wireless communication method, and a computer readable medium. The electronic device for wireless communication according to one embodiment comprises a processing circuit. The processing circuit is configured to: perform control, so as to perform channel idle detection on an unlicensed band at a predetermined bandwidth; and perform control on the basis of a result of the channel idle detection, so as to transmit a hybrid automatic retransmission request on one or more sub-bandwidth blocks having the predetermined bandwidth.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2019
    Publication date: December 9, 2021
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Qimei CUI, Zhenyu XU, Tao CUI, Xiaofeng TAO, Bowen CAI, Jing LIU
  • Publication number: 20210376888
    Abstract: Provided in the present disclosure are a device and method in a radio communication system, and a computer-readable storage medium. The device comprises a processing circuit configured to: decode a group common physical downlink control channel (group common PDCCH) of a user equipment group comprising a target user equipment so as to acquire control information related to multi-user multiple input multiple output (MU-MIMO) transmission of a control channel; and decode a user equipment-specific physical downlink control channel (UE-specific PDCCH) of the target user equipment on the basis of the control information so as to acquire specific transmission control information related to the target user equipment, where the UE-specific PDCCH of the target user equipment and UE-specific PDCCH of the other user equipment are stacked on a same transmission resource for transmission. MU-MIMO transmission with respect to a downlink control channel is effectively implemented, thus increasing resource utilization rate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2019
    Publication date: December 2, 2021
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Jianfei CAO, Tao CUI
  • Publication number: 20210368351
    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: July 24, 2019
    Publication date: November 25, 2021
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Qimei CUI, Bowen CAI, Tao CUI, Xiaofeng TAO
  • Publication number: 20210336735
    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: September 8, 2017
    Publication date: October 28, 2021
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Tao CUI
  • Publication number: 20210337508
    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: April 12, 2019
    Publication date: October 28, 2021
    Inventors: Fredrik GUNNARSSON, Åke BUSIN, Tao CUI, Sara MODARRES RAZAVI, Ritesh SHREEVASTAV
  • Publication number: 20210321311
    Abstract: Disclosed are an apparatus and a method in a wireless communication system and a computer readable storage medium, the apparatus comprising a processing circuit, and the processing circuit being configured to: configure a measurement cell range of a user device to include adjacent cells of the current serving cell of the user device and cells other than the adjacent cells; and notify the user device of the measurement cell range, such that the user device implements measurement for the measurement cell range. According to at least one aspect of the embodiments of the present disclosure, expanding the measurement cell range for an unmanned aerial vehicle to include cells other than adjacent cells can prevent the occurrence of frequent handover.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2021
    Publication date: October 14, 2021
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Penshun LU, Wenbo ZHANG, Tao CUI
  • Patent number: 11147098
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an electronic apparatus, a wireless communication device, and a wireless communication method. According to an embodiment, the electronic device for a base station side comprises a processing circuit. The processing circuit is configured to: perform control to perform, on a beam corresponding to a user equipment, channel detection on a target channel, the channel detection being based on a specific beam direction; and determine the access to the target channel according the channel detection result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuxuan Xie, Na Li, Haowei Wang, Tao Cui, Huiling Zuo, Song Wang
  • Publication number: 20210301833
    Abstract: A method of detecting combustor flashback in a gas turbine engine includes positioning a dynamic pressure sensor within a combustion section having a flame tube, providing a flow of fuel to the gas turbine engine, and operating the gas turbine engine to establish a flame having a flame front spaced a non-zero distance from an outlet of the flame tube. The method also includes detecting pressure changes adjacent the flame tube to produce pressure signals, monitoring the amplitude of the signals provided by the dynamic pressure sensor, detecting a flashback signal within the signals provided by the dynamic pressure sensor, and varying the fuel flow in response to the detection of the flashback signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2018
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Inventors: Joshua S. McConkey, Tao Cui