Patents by Inventor Tao Qi

Tao Qi 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: 20250151166
    Abstract: Aspects of this technical solution can include a first Bandwidth Part (BWP configuration used for receiving the multicast reception in the RRC-inactive state, for receiving the multicast data channel in the RRC-inactive state, a first search space, a first control resource set, a first frequency domain location, and a first bandwidth, for receiving the multicast control channel reception in the RRC-inactive state, a second search space, a second control resource set, a second frequency domain location, and a second bandwidth, and receiving, by the wireless communication device from the network, the multicast reception according to the first configuration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2025
    Publication date: May 8, 2025
    Applicant: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yang LI, Tao QI, Lin CHEN
  • Publication number: 20250142666
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for supporting multicast reception for a user equipment, UE, in an RRC_INACTIVE state is disclosed. The method comprises receiving, by a distributed unit, DU, indication information from a central unit, CU, and providing, by the DU, configuration information to the CU. The present disclosure also relates to a method for supporting multicast reception for a user equipment, UE, in an RRC_INACTIVE state. The method comprises receiving, by a UE, a configuration about multicast reception in the RRC_INACTIVE state, and receiving, by the UE, multicast in the RRC_INACTIVE state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2024
    Publication date: May 1, 2025
    Applicant: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yang LI, Tao QI, Lin CHEN
  • Publication number: 20250119723
    Abstract: A wireless communication method for use in a first wireless terminal is disclosed. The method comprises transmitting, to a second wireless terminal, a message associated with a discovery of a relay terminal, wherein the message comprises information associated with at least one network slice supported by the relay terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2024
    Publication date: April 10, 2025
    Applicant: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Wanfu XU, Mengzhen WANG, Lin CHEN, Tao QI
  • Publication number: 20250106931
    Abstract: Methods and systems for techniques for enabling wireless devices to receive multicast services in a radio resource control inactive (RRC_INCTIVE) state are disclosed. In an implementation, a method of wireless communication includes receiving, by a first network node, from a second network node, a session management signaling that include an alternative quality of service profile, and transmitting, by the first network node, to a wireless device, multicast session data based on the alternative quality of service profile during a radio resource control inactive period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2024
    Publication date: March 27, 2025
    Inventors: Tao QI, Yang LI, Lin CHEN
  • Publication number: 20250106105
    Abstract: Presented are systems, methods, apparatuses, or computer-readable media for configuring mobile relay nodes. A first network node may send, to a second network node, configuration information. The configuration information may be associated with a node capable of providing at least one user plane (UP) function.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2024
    Publication date: March 27, 2025
    Applicant: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Xueying DIAO, Ying HUANG, Lin CHEN, Tao QI
  • Patent number: 12256262
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus and systems for data mapping in a wireless communication are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method performed by a wireless communication module is disclosed. The method comprises: scheduling data of at least one data radio bearer (DRB) at a first layer; and performing a mapping between a plurality of Quality of Service (QoS) flows and the at least one DRB at a mapping layer that is the first layer or a second layer immediately above the first layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Feng Xie, Liping Wang, Tao Qi, Jun Xiong
  • Patent number: 12238755
    Abstract: Methods for resource allocation and provisioning in a wireless user equipment for sidelink communication with another wireless user equipment are disclosed. For example, a preemption procedure is implemented for allocating active Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest (HARQ) processes in a MAC layer of the wireless user equipment to efficient transmit or receive transport blocks. The preemption procedure may be based on preemption status parameters and preemption priority parameters associated with various transport blocks competing for the HARQ process resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tao Qi, Wei Luo, Lin Chen, Boyuan Zhang, Feng Xie
  • Publication number: 20250056650
    Abstract: Various arrangements disclosed herein relate to managing Multicast and Broadcast Services (MBSs) in various Radio Resource Control (RRC) states, including a wireless communication device receives from a network using signaling specific to the wireless communication device, Point-to-Multipoint (PTM) configuration for each of a plurality of MBSs when the wireless communication device is in a RRC-connected state. The wireless communication device transitions from the RRC-connected state to the RRC-inactive state. In response to transitioning to the RRC-inactive state, the wireless communication device receives from the network data for at least one MBS of the plurality of MBSs using the PTM configuration received in the RRC-connected state when the wireless communication device is in an RRC-inactive state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2024
    Publication date: February 13, 2025
    Applicant: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Yang LI, Tao QI, Lin CHEN
  • Patent number: 12225556
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to mechanisms for allocating and mapping wireless communication resources for a multicast/broadcast session in a wireless network. In some exemplary implementations, data flows in a multicast/broadcast session may be duplicated and adaptively and dynamically mapped to multiple independent radio bearers, where each of these multiple independent radio beaters may be configured to either multicast the multicast/broadcast data to a group of target user equipments or unicast the multicast/broadcast data to a single user equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Tao Qi, Feng Xie, Yan Xue, Shuqiang Xia, Kun Cao
  • Publication number: 20250048166
    Abstract: A wireless communication method for use in a first wireless terminal is disclosed. The method comprises receiving, from a first wireless network node, a sidelink (SL) measurement configuration associated with a user-to-user relay for the first wireless terminal and a second wireless terminal, and transmitting, to the first wireless network node, a measurement report based on the measurement configuration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2024
    Publication date: February 6, 2025
    Applicant: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mengzhen WANG, Lin CHEN, Wanfu XU, Weiqiang DU, Tao QI
  • Publication number: 20250048062
    Abstract: Various arrangements disclosed herein relate to managing Multicast and Broadcast Services (MBSs) in various Radio Resource Control (RRC) states, including a wireless communication device receiving from a network using first signaling specific to the wireless communication device, PTM configuration used for receiving at least one MBS when the wireless communication device is in an RRC-connected state. The wireless communication device receives from the network using second signaling specific to the wireless communication device when the wireless communication device is in the RRC-connected state, indication information indicating that the PTM configuration used for receiving the at least one MBS is obtained from broadcast signaling when the wireless communication device is in an RRC-inactive state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2024
    Publication date: February 6, 2025
    Applicant: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yang LI, Tao QI, Lin CHEN
  • Publication number: 20250016052
    Abstract: Method, device and computer program product for wireless communication are provided. A method includes: receiving, by a first wireless communication terminal from a wireless communication node, an aggregation configuration; and performing, by the first wireless communication terminal, the aggregation configuration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2024
    Publication date: January 9, 2025
    Inventors: Lin CHEN, Mengzhen WANG, Weiqiang DU, Wanfu XU, Tao QI
  • Patent number: 12193001
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus and systems for transmitting data using bandwidth parts in a wireless communication are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method performed by a wireless communication node is disclosed. The method comprises: configuring a first set of bandwidth part (BWP) for a wireless communication device, wherein the first set of BWP includes a single BWP configured for either uplink or downlink transmission regarding the wireless communication device; and configuring at least one second set of BWPs for the wireless communication device, wherein each of the second set of BWPs includes a pair of BWPs configured respectively for uplink and downlink transmissions regarding the wireless communication device. The first set of BWP is associated with the at least one second set of BWPs based on at least one predetermined relationship.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Shuqiang Xia, Feng Xie, Ying Liu, Tao Qi, Yan Xue, Kun Cao
  • Patent number: 12185194
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes methods, system, and devices for selecting a radio bearer mode for multicast broadcast services (MBS). The method includes informing a radio access network (RAN) that a user equipment (UE) is receiving/interested to receive or no longer receiving/interested to receive multicast broadcast service (MBS) services via a cast mode. The method includes sending, by the UE, MBS interest information to the RAN, the MBS interest information comprising a list of MBS services of interest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hao Zhu, Lin Chen, Zijiang Ma, Tao Qi, Feng Xie, Ying Huang
  • Publication number: 20240429754
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, and methods for detecting a foreign object on a wireless power charging region are described. A circuit can detect an object inductively coupled to a wireless power transmitter. The circuit can further measure an input parameter prior to a power transfer stage, the input parameter can be one of an input current and an input power. The circuit can further compare the measured input parameter with a predetermined value. The circuit can further determine whether the object is a foreign object or the wireless power receiver based on a result of the comparison between the measured input parameter with the predetermined value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2024
    Publication date: December 26, 2024
    Applicant: Renesas Electronics America Inc.
    Inventors: Chan Young Jeong, Tao Qi, Young Chul Ryu, Kwangmuk Choi, Pooja Agrawal, Krishal Jaswantsinh Solanki, Adnan Dzebic
  • Publication number: 20240407030
    Abstract: A method of wireless communication is described. The wireless communication method includes detecting, at a first device requesting to communication with a third device, a low link quality of a first link associated with the first device or the third device, the low link quality being below a link quality threshold; broadcasting, after the detecting the low link quality, a message to discover a second device capable of establishing a second link with the first device or the third device; and communicating with the third device via the second device using the second link.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2024
    Publication date: December 5, 2024
    Applicant: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Wanfu XU, Mengzhen WANG, Tao QI, Lin CHEN
  • Patent number: 12150162
    Abstract: Methods for resource allocation and provisioning in a wireless user equipment for sidelink communication with another wireless user equipment are disclosed. For example, a preemption procedure is implemented for allocating active Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest (HARQ) processes in a MAC layer of the wireless user equipment to efficient transmit or receive transport blocks. The preemption procedure may be based on preemption status parameters and preemption priority parameters associated with various transport blocks competing for the HARQ process resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tao Qi, Wei Luo, Lin Chen, Boyuan Zhang, Feng Xie
  • Patent number: 12143865
    Abstract: A system and method for managing Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service (MBMS) continuity. The system and method include transmitting, by a wireless communication device through a first distributed unit (DU) of a wireless communication node to a central unit (CU) of the wireless communication node, a first message. The first DU corresponds to a first subset of a plurality of MBMS services of the CU. The first message indicates a second subset of the plurality of MBMS services that corresponds to a second DU of the wireless communication node. The system and method include receiving, by the wireless communication device from the CU in response to transmitting the first message, a second message including MBMS scheduling information. The system and method include performing, by the wireless communication device, a handover procedure from the first DU to the second DU.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Kun Cao, Tao Qi, Feng Xie, Hao Zhu
  • Publication number: 20240365165
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus and systems for wireless communication are described. One method includes receiving, by a network device of a wireless network, an indication to perform N one-to-one mappings, wherein each mapping is between a Quality of Service (QoS) flow and a radio bearer, wherein N is a positive integer and controlling communication in the wireless network according to the indication.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2024
    Publication date: October 31, 2024
    Inventors: Tao QI, Lin CHEN, Yang LI, Zhendong LI
  • Patent number: 12114306
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus and systems for transmitting data based on asymmetric bandwidth parts in a wireless communication are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method performed by a wireless communication node is disclosed. The method comprises: configuring at least one downlink bandwidth part (BWP) for a wireless communication device, wherein each of the at least one downlink BWP is configured for a downlink transmission to the wireless communication device; configuring at least one uplink BWP for the wireless communication device, wherein each of the at least one uplink BWP is configured for an uplink transmission from the wireless communication device; and configuring a transmission resource on one uplink BWP of the at least one uplink BWP for the wireless communication device to transmit an uplink signal on the transmission resource. The uplink signal indicates a request for activating an associated downlink BWP.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Shuqiang Xia, Feng Xie, Ying Liu, Tao Qi, Kun Cao