Patents by Inventor Tao Zhou
Tao Zhou 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).
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Publication number: 20250016872Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide a method for wireless communications at a user equipment (UE). The UE may receive a configuration from a base station (BS). The configuration may indicate transmission parameters associated with different symbols such as sub-band full duplex (SBFD) symbols and non-SBFD symbols. For example, the transmission parameters may indicate power control parameters (e.g., a received power target value, a power control factor value, a closed-loop power control value) and a unified transmission configuration indicator (TCI) (e.g., a joint uplink and downlink TCI state, separate uplink and downlink TCI states). The UE may transmit uplink transmissions to the BS, in accordance with the transmission parameters.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 16, 2024Publication date: January 9, 2025Inventors: Qian ZHANG, Yan ZHOU, Jelena DAMNJANOVIC, Jae Ho RYU, Mostafa KHOSHNEVISAN, Junyi LI, Changhwan PARK, Tao LUO
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Publication number: 20250016776Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may transmit, to a base station, an indication of whether the UE is enabled to receive a simultaneous spatial relation update for a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resource group of PUCCH resources that share a same spatial relation. The UE may receive, from the base station based at least in part on the indication, the simultaneous spatial relation update for the PUCCH resource group. Numerous other aspects are provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 12, 2024Publication date: January 9, 2025Inventors: Jung Ho RYU, Yan ZHOU, Tao LUO
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Publication number: 20250015858Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide a method for wireless communications at a user equipment (UE). The UE determines whether to deactivate a semi-persistent (SP) channel state information (CSI) report associated with a first CSI report setting that is linked with a CSI report associated with a second CSI report setting. The second CSI report setting has a longer reporting periodicity than the first CSI report setting. The UE deactivates the SP CSI report, when at least the CSI report associated with the second CSI report setting is active.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 21, 2022Publication date: January 9, 2025Inventors: Qiaoyu LI, Arumugam CHENDAMARAI KANNAN, Yan ZHOU, Mahmoud TAHERZADEH BOROUJENI, Tao LUO, Tianyang BAI, Yu ZHANG
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Publication number: 20250015955Abstract: A configuration to configure a UE to activate a subset of configured UL-TCI states. The apparatus receives a configuration of UL-TCI states and an activation of a subset of configured UL-TCI states. The apparatus receives DCI in a PDCCH scheduling an UL transmission with one or more TCI states of activated TCI states. The apparatus transmits the UL transmission based on the one or more TCI states.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 5, 2024Publication date: January 9, 2025Inventors: Kiran VENUGOPAL, Yan ZHOU, Tianyang BAI, Tao LUO, Junyi LI
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Patent number: 12192984Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure are generally directed to a method for wireless communication. The method generally includes receiving a configuration of resources on a plurality of signaling entities for reception of a plurality of control messages, wherein each of the plurality of control messages schedules resources on a different signaling entity than one of the plurality of signaling entities on which the control message is to be received, and monitoring the configured resources on the plurality of signaling entities for the plurality of control messages.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2023Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Yan Zhou, Tao Luo, Konstantinos Dimou, Hamed Pezeshki
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Patent number: 12192905Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to methods and apparatus for applying a common power saving behavior across multiple sets of frequency resources (e.g., component carriers (CCs) and/or bandwidth parts (BWPs)). A method that may be performed by a user equipment (UE) includes obtaining signaling, from a network entity, indicating a common power saving behavior and applying the common power saving behavior on multiple sets of frequency resources.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2023Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Inventors: Yan Zhou, Tao Luo, Wooseok Nam
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Patent number: 12192965Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A network entity, such as a base station, may receive, from a first network entity, a broadcast indicating a downlink control channel transmission pattern associated with the first network entity. The network entity may monitor a plurality of receive beams for a plurality of downlink control channel transmissions from the first network entity according to the downlink control channel transmission pattern and may select a communication beam according to one or more cross-link interference (CLI) measurements associated with one or more of the plurality of receive beams in accordance with the monitoring. The network entity may communicate with a user equipment using the selected communication beam and a first set of resources that at least partially overlap in time and frequency with a scheduled communication at the first network entity. The network entity may experience or may cause the measured CLI.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2022Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Qian Zhang, Yan Zhou, Navid Abedini, Tao Luo, Junyi Li, Huilin Xu, Peter Gaal, Juan Montojo
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Publication number: 20250000320Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a method and a device for controlling a cleaning robot, a cleaning robot, and a storage medium. The method include: acquiring an edge cleaning trajectory of the cleaning robot marked on a grid map; determining a central area grid associated with the cleaning robot in real time; and controlling the cleaning robot to exit an edge cleaning state in response to determining a repeated section of edge cleaning of the cleaning robot based on the edge cleaning trajectory and the central area grid. Compared to the related art, the present disclosure enables the cleaning robot to exit the edge cleaning state in time, avoiding repeated edge cleaning and improving the cleaning efficiency.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 2, 2021Publication date: January 2, 2025Inventors: Tao SUN, Jiying REN, Lin SHAO, Sunchun ZHOU, Cong WANG
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Publication number: 20250006822Abstract: A method for manufacturing a gate-all-around TFET device. The method comprises: forming, on a substrate, a channel stack comprising channel layer(s) and sacrificial layer(s) that alternate with each other; forming, on the substrate, a dummy gate astride the channel stack; forming a first spacer at a surface of the dummy gate; etching the sacrificial layer(s) to form recesses on side surfaces of the channel stack; forming second spacers in the recesses, respectively; fabricating a source and a drain separately, where a region for fabricating the source is shielded by a dielectric material when fabricating the drain, and a region for fabricating the drain is shielded by another dielectric material when fabricating the source; etching the dummy gate and the sacrificial layer(s) to form a space for a surrounding gate; and fabricating a surrounding dielectric-metal gate in the space.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 27, 2023Publication date: January 2, 2025Inventors: Na Zhou, Junjie Li, Jianfeng Gao, Tao Yang, Junfeng Li, Jun Luo
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Publication number: 20250000321Abstract: Provided are a cleaning device and a control method, a cleaning device and a detection apparatus. The cleaning device includes a device body, which includes a cleaning module acting on an object to be cleaned (M); a humidity detection mechanism provided in the device body and in contact with the object to be cleaned (M), to detect a humidity of the object to be cleaned (M); and a control module provided in the device body and connected to the humidity detection mechanism to perform control processing according to humidity data detected and obtained by the humidity detection mechanism. The humidity detection for the object to be cleaned (M) is realized.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 14, 2022Publication date: January 2, 2025Applicant: TINECO INTELLIGENT TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Jian HUANG, Weidong LIU, Zhikang LIU, Xiaoyong WANG, Tao XU, Zhen CHEN, Rendi WU, Dehua ZHOU, Chunfeng ZHOU, Yin TANG, Hongbin JIANG, Yuan WANG
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Publication number: 20250007677Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive configuration information associated with a single downlink control information (DCI) multiple transmit receive point (TRP) mode, wherein the configuration information indicates at least one of respective repetition modes for one or more physical channels or a list of configured reference signals. The UE may receive an indication of a pair of unified transmission configuration indicators (TCIs). The UE may communicate with at least one of a first TRP or a second TRP using beam directions associated with the pair of unified TCIs based at least in part on the configuration information. Numerous other aspects are described.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 24, 2022Publication date: January 2, 2025Inventors: Fang YUAN, Yan ZHOU, Tao LUO
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Patent number: 12185124Abstract: A user equipment (UE) communicates with a network node based on a first transmission configuration indication (TCI) state. The UE receives control information indicating a second TCI state from a TCI candidate set that comprises a list of TCI states that can be activated for future communication, the TCI candidate set including a first set of TCI states associated with the first TCI state. The UE updates, in response to receiving the control information indicating the second TCI state, the TCI candidate set to include a second set of TCI states that have a second association with the second TCI state.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2022Date of Patent: December 31, 2024Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Tianyang Bai, Hua Wang, Yan Zhou, Junyi Li, Tao Luo
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Patent number: 12185316Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a first user equipment (UE) may transmit, to a second UE, a first message to indicate a sidelink bandwidth part (BWP) switch, for the first UE, to a first sidelink BWP, wherein the first message includes an indication of the first sidelink BWP and a first sidelink resource pool in the first sidelink BWP. The UE may receive, from the second UE, a second message that confirms the sidelink BWP switch for the first UE. The UE may transmit, to the second UE, a third message to activate the sidelink BWP switch, for the first UE, to the first sidelink BWP, based at least in part on receiving the second message that confirms the sidelink BWP switch. Numerous other aspects are described.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2021Date of Patent: December 31, 2024Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Hua Wang, Sony Akkarakaran, Tao Luo, Junyi Li, Qing Li, Hong Cheng, Jelena Damnjanovic, Peter Gaal, Juan Montojo, Yan Zhou, Jing Sun, Jung Ho Ryu
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Patent number: 12184582Abstract: In multi-beam communication, the UE may assist in the scheduling of beams utilized during the multi-beam communication by improving the manner in which the quality of the beam is reported to the network. The apparatus may measure a signal received from a base station on at least one beam. The apparatus may detect a triggering event for providing CSI for the at least one beam. The apparatus may transmit an uplink transmission comprising a CSI report in response to detecting the triggering event. The apparatus may receive an uplink request from a UE for providing CSI for at least one beam. The apparatus may transmit an indication scheduling a CSI report in response to the uplink request. The apparatus may receive an uplink transmission from the UE comprising the CSI report for the at least one beam.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2023Date of Patent: December 31, 2024Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Tianyang Bai, Makesh Pravin John Wilson, Kiran Venugopal, Jung Ho Ryu, Xiaoxia Zhang, Yan Zhou, Tao Luo
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Patent number: 12185296Abstract: A base station and a UE may communicate using directional beams, such as a downlink directional beam (used to transmit downlink channels) and an uplink directional beam (used to transmit uplink channels), each beam carrying one or more data channels, control channels, and/or reference signals. According to one aspect, signaling for managing the uplink channels and downlink channels may be sent over a shared common beam. The shared common beam is distinct from the uplink directional beam and the downlink directional beam. In one example, a first shared common channel may serve to manage or update uplink data channels (on the uplink directional beam) and downlink data channels (on the downlink directional beam), while a second shared common channel may serve to manage or update uplink control channels (on the uplink directional beam) and downlink control channels (on the downlink directional beam).Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2021Date of Patent: December 31, 2024Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Yan Zhou, Tianyang Bai, Tao Luo
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Patent number: 12184590Abstract: A user equipment (UE) reports, to a base station, UE duplex communication characteristics. The UE then communicates with the base station in accordance with the reported characteristics. The characteristics can include duplex communication modes supported by the UE. The modes can include receiving and transmitting concurrently with the base station; communicating in a first direction with the base station and concurrently communicating in an opposite direction with a second base station; communicating with the i in a first direction concurrent with the base station communicating in an opposite direction with another UE; and communicating in half duplex (HD) with the base station in HD. The UE can receive, from the base station, a command to communicate in a reported mode. In such cases, communicating, by the UE with the base station, in accordance with the reported duplex communication characteristics includes communicating with the base station in the commanded mode.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2022Date of Patent: December 31, 2024Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Qian Zhang, Yan Zhou, Tao Luo
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Patent number: 12180639Abstract: An additive feeding device includes a water supply pipeline, the water supply pipeline is provided with a rising convex part for increasing the height of a water path in the fed water stream direction, and the water supply pipeline on the upstream of the rising convex part is connected with a liquid storage box through a suction structure, and the additive pumped into the water supply pipeline flows to the upstream of the water supply pipeline in a countercurrent mode under the blocking action of the rising convex part. By means of the arrangement, the automatic feeding device can suck the additive into the water supply pipeline through the suction structure, the pumped additive flows to the upstream of the water supply pipeline in a countercurrent mode under the blocking action of the rising convex part arranged in the water supply pipeline.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2020Date of Patent: December 31, 2024Assignees: QINGDAO HAIER WASHING MACHINE CO., LTD., HAIER SMART HOME CO., LTD.Inventors: Tao Huang, Bingheng Zhou, Haifeng Ren
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Patent number: 12185147Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a base station may receive, from a user equipment (UE), a measurement report associated with at least one downlink beam corresponding to a first transmit receive point (TRP). The base station may transmit, to the UE and using a second TRP, a communication using a selected downlink beam corresponding to the second TRP, wherein the selected downlink beam is selected based at least in part on a beam inference generated using a machine learning component, and wherein the beam inference is based at least in part on the measurement report and a location of the second TRP relative to a location of the first TRP. Numerous other aspects are described.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2021Date of Patent: December 31, 2024Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Hamed Pezeshki, Tao Luo, Yan Zhou
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Patent number: 12185405Abstract: A first UE may receive, from a base station or a second UE, one or more first TCI states via RRC signaling. The first UE may receive, from the base station or the second UE, one or more MAC-CEs. Each of the one or more MAC-CEs may include at least one indication of one or more second TCI states. The one or more second TCI states may be a subset of the one or more first TCI states. The first UE may transmit to the second UE, or receive from the second UE, a sidelink message via a sidelink channel based on a third TCI state. The third TCI state may be from the one or more second TCI states.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2021Date of Patent: December 31, 2024Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Hua Wang, Sony Akkarakaran, Tao Luo, Junyi Li, Yan Zhou, Hong Cheng, Jelena Damnjanovic, Peter Gaal, Jung Ho Ryu
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Patent number: 12184421Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may determine a quantity of hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) codebooks capable of being stored by the UE, a maximum amount of HARQ codebook data capable of being stored by the UE, or a maximum HARQ codebook size capable of being stored by the UE, and may transmit, to a network node, capability information that indicates the quantity of HARQ codebooks capable of being stored by the UE, the maximum amount of HARQ codebook data capable of being stored by the UE, or the maximum HARQ codebook size capable of being stored by the UE. Numerous other aspects are described.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2022Date of Patent: December 31, 2024Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Konstantinos Dimou, Jing Sun, Peter Gaal, Yan Zhou, Tao Luo