Patents by Inventor Wei Ling

Wei Ling 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: 12684570
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for transmitting information for PDSCH configurations. One method (400) includes determining (402) configuration information comprising a plurality of instances of a physical downlink shared channel configuration parameter. The method (400) includes transmitting (404) the configuration information to a user equipment, wherein: the physical downlink shared channel configuration parameter is used for a physical downlink shared channel scheduled by downlink control information; the downlink control information is transmitted from a set of resources having a corresponding index of a plurality of indexes; and each index corresponds to an instance of the plurality of instances of the physical downlink shared channel configuration parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2026
    Assignee: Lenovo (Beijing) Limited
    Inventors: Chenxi Zhu, Bingchao Liu, Wei Ling, Lingling Xiao
  • Patent number: 12683670
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present application are related to a method and apparatus for uplink transmission. An exemplary method of the present application includes: receiving a downlink control information (DCI) indicating a set of common transmission configuration indication (TCI) states for uplink transmission; and in response to the set of common TCI states being applicable for the uplink transmission, transmitting uplink transmission with repetition according to at least part of the set of common TCI states; or transmitting uplink transmission without repetition according to one of the set of common TCI states or an additional TCI state instead of the set of common TCI states.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2026
    Assignee: Lenovo (Beijing) Limited
    Inventors: Wei Ling, Chenxi Zhu, Bingchao Liu, Yi Zhang, Lingling Xiao
  • Patent number: 12676708
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods of Transmission Configuration Indication (TCI) states configuration and activation or deactivation for multiple DCI (M-DCI) based multiple TRP (M-TRP) Downlink (DL) transmission are disclosed. The apparatus includes: a receiver that receives a capability report from a remote device, wherein the capability report indicates that the remote device supports 128 or more configurable TCI states; a processor that configures 128 or more TCI states according to the capability report; and a transmitter that transmits a Media Access Control (MAC) Control Element (CE) to activate a subset of the TCI states.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2026
    Assignee: Lenovo (Beijing) Limited
    Inventors: Bingchao Liu, Chenxi Zhu, Wei Ling, Lianhai Wu
  • Patent number: 12672070
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for power control are disclose.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2026
    Assignee: Lenovo (Beijing) Limited
    Inventors: Wei Ling, Chenxi Zhu, Bingchao Liu, Yi Zhang, Lingling Xiao
  • Patent number: 12666420
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for indicating a slot offset corresponding to a downlink control channel. One method (500) includes transmitting (502) first information to a user equipment indicating to the user equipment to receive a downlink data channel a slot offset after a scheduling downlink control channel, wherein: the slot offset comprises at least one slot; the first information indicates a resource allocation entry of a resource allocation table; and each resource allocation entry of the resource allocation table indicates that the slot offset comprises at least one slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2026
    Assignee: Lenovo (Beijing) Limited
    Inventors: Chenxi Zhu, Wei Ling, Bingchao Liu, Lingling Xiao
  • Patent number: 12665649
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to a method and apparatus for beam failure recovery in multi-downlink control information (DCI) based multiple transmit-receive points (TRPs). A method according to an embodiment of the present application may include: receiving a configuration including a plurality of sets of failure detection beams and a plurality of sets of candidate beams, each set of failure detection beams and each set of candidate beams are associated with one of a plurality of CORESETPoolIndex values; and transmitting a beam failure recovery request in an uplink transmission when all beams in a set of failure detection beams in the plurality of sets of failure detection beams associated with a first CORESETPoolIndex value of the plurality of CORESETPoolIndex values are failed in a slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2026
    Assignee: Lenovo (Beijing) Limited
    Inventors: Wei Ling, Chenxi Zhu, Bingchao Liu, Yi Zhang
  • Patent number: 12660029
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for are disclosed. A method comprises receiving a MAC CE indicating a PF value and a value indicating a starting position koffset in frequency domain for a SRS resource: and transmitting the SRS resource in mP contiguous resource blocks starting from k0(pi)+koffset, where mP is the largest integer that is equal to or smaller than (I), wherein mSRS,BSRS is the allocated sounding frequency band of the SRS resource configured by RRC signaling, and k0(pi) is the start position of the SRS resource determined by RRC signaling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2026
    Assignee: Lenovo (Beijing) Limited
    Inventors: Bingchao Liu, Chenxi Zhu, Wei Ling, Yi Zhang, Lingling Xiao
  • Patent number: 12652674
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for configuring UL-TCI states. One method includes receiving a RRC message configuring a set of UL-TCI states. Each UL-TCI state defines at least one uplink spatial relationship. Each uplink spatial relationship corresponds to a spatial domain transmission filter corresponding to a CSI-RS, a SSB, or an SSB. The method includes receiving a MAC CE message comprising information that activates a subset of the set of UL-TCI states for use in an UL-TCI field of DCI used to schedule a codebook-based PUSCH transmission. The method includes receiving the DCI with the UL-TCI field indicating the at least one uplink spatial relationship for the UE to use for the codebook-based PUSCH transmission. The method includes transmitting the codebook-based PUSCH transmission with the at least one uplink spatial relationship indicated by the UL-TCI field in the DCI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2026
    Assignee: Lenovo (Beijing) Limited
    Inventors: Chenxi Zhu, Wei Ling, Bingchao Liu, Yi Zhang, Lingling Xiao
  • Patent number: 12652137
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for group-based beam reporting with L1-RSRP measurement for multi-TRP DL transmission are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method comprises receiving a CSI reporting setting linked to two Resource Settings for channel measurement for group based beam reporting, and transmitting a CSI report corresponding to the CSI reporting setting, wherein the CSI report includes two or more CRIs or SSBRIs and their corresponding received powers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2026
    Assignee: Lenovo (Beijing) Limited
    Inventors: Bingchao Liu, Chenxi Zhu, Wei Ling, Yi Zhang
  • Publication number: 20260156504
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present application are directed to a method and apparatus for enhanced PDCCH monitoring on overlapping PDCCH monitoring occasions. A method according to an embodiment of the present application may include: receiving configuration information for monitoring a plurality of physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) transmissions, wherein the configuration information includes a plurality of search space sets; selecting at least one search space set with different quasi co-location (QCL)-Type D information from each other for monitoring from the plurality of search space sets based on a rule; and monitoring at least one search space set including the selected at least one search space set on monitoring occasions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2026
    Publication date: June 4, 2026
    Inventors: Yi ZHANG, Chenxi ZHU, Bingchao LIU, Wei LING, Lingling XIAO
  • Publication number: 20260156653
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus of monitoring behaviour determination for overlapping ePDCCH and CSI-RS/SSB/PDSCH/PDCCH are disclosed. The method includes: receiving, by a receiver, a configuration for a transmission of enhanced Physical Downlink Control Channel (ePDCCH) with two Transmission Configuration Indication (TCI) states including two Quasi Co-Location Type D (QCL-TypeD) properties; and determining, by a processor, a monitoring behaviour based on a QCL-TypeD assumption and/or a predefined priority rule, wherein at least one symbol of the ePDCCH overlaps with a transmission of Channel State Information Reference Signal (CSI-RS). Synchronization Signal Block (SSB). Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH), and/or Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2021
    Publication date: June 4, 2026
    Applicant: Lenovo (Beijing) Limited
    Inventors: Yi Zhang, Chenxi Zhu, Wei Ling, Bingchao Liu, Lingling Xiao
  • Publication number: 20260155932
    Abstract: The present application relates to methods and apparatuses for channel state information (CSI) reporting. An embodiment of the present disclosure provides a user equipment (UE), comprising: a transceiver that: receives a codebook configuration for CSI reporting associated with a plurality of channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) resources; and transmits a CSI report based on the codebook configuration; and a processor that is coupled with the transceiver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2022
    Publication date: June 4, 2026
    Inventors: Yi Zhang, Chenxi Zhu, Wei Ling, Bingchao Liu, Lingling Xiao
  • Patent number: 12647236
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus of rate matching mechanism for PDSCH scheduled by enhanced PDCCH with multiple transmissions are disclosed. The method includes: receiving, by a receiver, configurations for a plurality of Control Resource Sets (CORESETs), configurations for a plurality of search space sets, configurations for a plurality of rate matching patterns in a plurality of rate matching pattern groups, and a Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) transmitted with a plurality of repetitions; wherein the plurality of repetitions of the PDCCH are transmitted on a plurality of candidates from a plurality of transmitting-receiving identities; and determining, by a processor, resources not available for Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH) based on a linkage between the CORESETs, the search space sets, or the candidates, for rate matching.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2026
    Assignee: Lenovo (Beijing) Limited
    Inventors: Yi Zhang, Chenxi Zhu, Bingchao Liu, Wei Ling, Lingling Xiao
  • Patent number: 12647800
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for MAC CE based common beam indication are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method comprises receiving a higher layer parameter to enable MAC CE based common beam indication; receiving a common beam indication MAC CE; and determining a common beam according to the common beam indication MAC CE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2026
    Assignee: Lenovo (Beijing) Limited
    Inventors: Bingchao Liu, Chenxi Zhu, Wei Ling, Yi Zhang, Lingling Xiao
  • Patent number: 12640887
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus of restriction on linked ePDCCH candidates for ePDCCH soft combining are disclosed. The method includes: receiving, by a receiver, a plurality of Control Resource Set (CORESET) configurations, a plurality of search space set configurations, and a Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) transmitted with a plurality of repetitions; wherein the plurality of repetitions of the PDCCH are transmitted from a plurality of transmitting-receiving identities, and one CORESET is associated with one search space set; and determining, by a processor, linked monitoring occasions and/or linked candidates for blind detection of the PDCCH with soft combining.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2026
    Assignee: Lenovo (Beijing) Limited
    Inventors: Yi Zhang, Chenxi Zhu, Bingchao Liu, Wei Ling, Lingling Xiao
  • Patent number: 12641621
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for dynamic common beam (or common TCI state) switching for DL reception are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method comprises receiving a higher layer parameter to enable common TCI state for DL reception for a carrier, receiving a DCI with format 1_1 or 1_2 containing TCI field indicating a TCI state; and determining TCI state for DL reception according to the TCI state indicated by the TCI field of the DCI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2026
    Assignee: Lenovo (Beijing) Limited
    Inventors: Bingchao Liu, Chenxi Zhu, Wei Ling, Yi Zhang, Lingling Xiao
  • Publication number: 20260142687
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for partial frequency sounding with start RB location hopping are disclosed. A method comprises receiving a configuration on start RB location hopping pattern for an SRS resource configured with partial frequency sounding and with hops in each frequency hopping (FH) period, wherein the start RB location hopping pattern for partial frequency sounding factor PF has PF elements, and each element in the start RB location hopping pattern is selected from a set of values {0, 1, . . . , PF?1}; and determining the start RB location for each hop in each frequency hopping (FH) period according to the start RB location hopping pattern.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2026
    Publication date: May 21, 2026
    Inventors: Bingchao LIU, Lingling XIAO, Chenxi ZHU, Wei LING, Yi ZHANG
  • Patent number: 12604275
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present application are related to a method and apparatus for PUSCH transmission with repetitions. An exemplary method includes: receiving DCI scheduling a plurality of repetitions of a PUSCH transmission, wherein there is at least one open-loop power control parameter set indication in the DCI; receiving configuration information associated with the PUSCH transmission, indicating: a first and a second SRS resource sets, a mapping pattern, and at least one list of P0-PUSCH-Set, wherein a first part of the plurality of repetitions is associated with the first SRS resource set and a second part of the plurality of repetitions is associated with the second SRS resource set according to the mapping pattern: and transmitting the first part and second part of the plurality of repetitions according to a first P0 value and a second P0 value respectively determined based on the received DCI and configuration information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2026
    Assignee: Lenovo (Beijing) Limited
    Inventors: Wei Ling, Chenxi Zhu, Bingchao Liu, Yi Zhang, Lingling Xiao
  • Patent number: 12604316
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus of Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH) processing procedure time derivation for Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request Acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) feedback of PDSCH scheduled by enhanced Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2026
    Assignee: Lenovo (Beijing) Limited
    Inventors: Yi Zhang, Chenxi Zhu, Bingchao Liu, Wei Ling, Lingling Xiao
  • Publication number: 20260101333
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for 8TX UE with two coherent antenna groups are disclosed. In one embodiment, a UE comprises a transceiver; and a processor coupled to the transceiver, wherein the processor is configured to receive, via the transceiver, a control message scheduling a PUSCH transmission with transmission rank N to be transmitted by two antenna groups, wherein, the control message includes a TPMI that indicates two 4TX precoding matrices used by the two antenna groups, and the two 4TX precoding matrices are of the same type, wherein, N is any of 2 to 8; and transmit, via the transceiver, the scheduled PUSCH transmission according to the control message.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2023
    Publication date: April 9, 2026
    Applicant: Lenovo (Beijing) Limited
    Inventors: Chenxi Zhu, Bingchao Liu, Yi Zhang, Wei Ling, Lingling Xiao