Patents by Inventor Wenfeng Zhang
Wenfeng Zhang 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: 20150036557Abstract: A technology of dynamically allocating uplink and downlink subframes in an LTE-advanced Time Division Duplex (TDD) communication system specifically relates to a TDD adaptive frame structure retransmission method, network and terminal side device. The method includes: in a TDD adaptive frame transmission process, for an uplink subframe, if a frame structure whose Round Trip Time (RTT) period of a Physical Hybrid-ARQ Indicator Channel (PHICH) and a Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH) corresponding to the uplink subframe is 10 ms is found in seven already defined frame structures, transmitting PHICH data on a corresponding downlink subframe in the found frame structure, and receiving retransmitted data on the corresponding uplink subframe in the found frame structure. The technical solution of the present application ensures the Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ) compatibility with an uplink data channel of an R10UE.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2013Publication date: February 5, 2015Applicant: ZTE CorporationInventors: Xiaobo Zhang, Bin Yu, Wenfeng Zhang
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Patent number: 8948105Abstract: A method and system for dynamic adjustment of downlink/uplink resource allocation ratio in a long-term evolution (LTE) time division duplex (TDD) system is disclosed. The method includes replacing at least one uplink subframe in a subframe pattern with at least one of a mute subframe and a mute uplink pilot timeslot (UpPTS), within a geographical guard area that isolates at least two areas having different TDD allocation patterns. The method further includes scheduling an uplink transmission from at least one mobile terminal such that the at least one of the mute subframe and the mute UpPTS are unused. A simple solution or a TDD configuration index substitution solution, or any combination thereof, may be used to control the uplink transmission involving a mute subframe or a mute UpPTS.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2010Date of Patent: February 3, 2015Assignee: ZTE (USA) Inc.Inventors: Wenfeng Zhang, Yuhong Duan, Jian Hu, Zhifeng Ma, Zhongda Du, Bin Yu
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Patent number: 8937891Abstract: Techniques, apparatuses, and systems for dynamically changing downlink and uplink allocations can include operating a base station under time division duplexing to communicate with one or more mobile devices using a frame structure, adjusting a downlink-uplink ratio to change an allocation between uplink and downlink data capacities in the frame structure, determining a mute interval based on the adjusted downlink-uplink ratio, generating mute information based on the mute interval to identify the one or more areas of the frame structure effected by the allocation change, and transmitting the mute information to the one or more mobile devices.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2012Date of Patent: January 20, 2015Assignee: ZTE (USA) Inc.Inventors: Wenfeng Zhang, Yonggang Fang
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Patent number: 8913532Abstract: Techniques, apparatuses, and systems for wireless communications comprising can include operating a wireless communication system that provides multiple guard time values for different deployment configurations, mapping the guard time values to cyclic prefix (CP) values to reduce an acquisition complexity and reduce an initial synchronization time of a mobile station, and communicating a selected guard time value to a mobile station by transmitting a signal using a cyclic prefix value corresponding to the selected guard time value.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2009Date of Patent: December 16, 2014Assignee: ZTE (USA) Inc.Inventors: Yonggang Fang, Wenfeng Zhang, Yu Xin
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Patent number: 8887361Abstract: A vertical turning-milling complex machining center comprises a horizontally-arranged bed body (6) and a vertically-arranged column (7). The bed body (6) is provided with an X-axis lateral supporting linear track (2) and an X-axis guide screw (5). The bed body (6) is also provided with a uniaxial rotating table (1) which can reciprocate and is driven directly by a first external rotor torque motor. The column (7) is vertically provided with a Z-axis lateral supporting linear track (10), a Z-axis guide screw (9) and a crossbeam (11) that reciprocates up and down. The crossbeam (11) is provided with a transverse Y-axis linear track (13), a Y-axis guide screw (12) and a single-pendulum milling head seat frame that can reciprocate along the Y-axis guide screw (12). The single-pendulum milling head is driven directly by a second external rotor torque motor.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2010Date of Patent: November 18, 2014Assignee: Dalian Kede Numerical Control Co., LtdInventors: Dehai Yu, Chungang Cai, Zhihui Ren, Wenfeng Zhang, Hu Chen, Junmin Zheng, Qiang Guo, Tao Zou, Jingming Li, Peng Qu, Yang Lin
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Patent number: 8886201Abstract: Techniques, apparatuses, and systems for handling femto-cell hand-in requests can include operating a macro-cell base station to provide wireless service to wireless devices in a geographical coverage area; receiving, from a wireless device, a message indicative of the wireless device's reception of a base station radio signal, the message including a base station identifier; controlling multiple femto-cell base stations that are assigned to the base station identifier to communicate with the wireless device and to report a reception of a radio signal from the wireless device; and transferring the wireless device from the macro-cell base station to a femto-cell base station of the multiple femto-cell base stations that reports a reception of the radio signal from the wireless device. The multiple femto-cell base stations can provide wireless service in different nonadjacent portions of the geographical coverage area.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2009Date of Patent: November 11, 2014Assignee: ZTE (USA) Inc.Inventors: Yonggang Fang, Rajesh Bhalla, Wenfeng Zhang, Xiaowu Zhao
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Publication number: 20140299115Abstract: The present invention discloses an exhaust gas inlet structure of an exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) Cooler which includes a water shell, a gas inlet pipe, a bellow, an insulated pipe, an inlet chamber, a pre-cooling water chamber and a main board. The water shell is equipped with a water inlet pipe. Its main feature is the insulated pipe is placed within the bellow and connected with the gas inlet pipe at one end while the other end is suspended. The large-bore end of the inlet chamber is connected with the main board to form a gas inlet cavity while leaving a space to form a coolant channel between the joining part and the water shell. An external surface of a middle pipe body connects to the bellow to form a pre-cooling cavity connected to the coolant channel.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 11, 2012Publication date: October 9, 2014Applicant: ZHEJIANG YINLUN MACHINERY CO., LTD.Inventors: Wenfeng Zhang, Xiaojun Qin, Zhao Youqi, Hao Liu
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Patent number: 8831657Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a transmission power configuration method for a Demodulation Reference Signal (DMRS), and the method comprises: configuring the ratio between transmission power of a DMRS at each layer in a Resource Element (RE) and transmission power of data at a corresponding layer to be a constant value. Meanwhile, the present disclosure discloses a transmission power configuration apparatus for the DMRS. The present disclosure greatly improves the correct rate of data frame decoding, and improves decoding performance. The present disclosure enables the network side not need to notify a UE of the corresponding relationship between transmission power of DMRS at each layer and transmission power of data at the corresponding layer, which simplifies the overhead of the control signalling in the network side.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2010Date of Patent: September 9, 2014Assignee: ZTE CorporationInventors: Yunfeng Sun, Wenfeng Zhang, Jing Jiang, Junfeng Zhang
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Patent number: 8798655Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a transmission power configuration method for a Demodulation Reference Signal (DMRS), and the method comprises: configuring the ratio between transmission power of a DMRS at each layer in a Resource Element (RE) and transmission power of data at a corresponding layer to be a constant value. Meanwhile, the present disclosure discloses a transmission power configuration apparatus for the DMRS. The present disclosure greatly improves the correct rate of data frame decoding, and improves decoding performance. The present disclosure enables the network side not need to notify a UE of the corresponding relationship between transmission power of DMRS at each layer and transmission power of data at the corresponding layer, which simplifies the overhead of the control signalling in the network side.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2010Date of Patent: August 5, 2014Assignee: ZTE CorporationInventors: Yunfeng Sun, Wenfeng Zhang, Jing Jiang, Junfeng Zhang
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Patent number: 8675621Abstract: Techniques, apparatuses, and systems for using identification sequences in a wireless communication system can include receiving information indicative of a pilot code detected by a wireless device, the pilot code being shared by multiple Femto Access Points (FAPs) that each provide wireless service in at least a portion of the coverage area; receiving information indicative of an identification sequence detected by the wireless device that is associated with the pilot code, using the information indicative of the identification sequence to identify one of the FAPs that share the pilot code; and performing a hand-off of the call to the identified FAP to continue to provide wireless service for the call via the identified FAP.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2009Date of Patent: March 18, 2014Assignee: ZTE (USA) Inc.Inventors: Yonggang Fang, Wenfeng Zhang, Rajesh Bhalla, Xiaowu Zhao
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Publication number: 20140050125Abstract: A method of dynamically adjusting the downlink-uplink allocation in a TDD system, includes: transmitting a downlink-uplink allocation signal to at least one user device, wherein the allocation signals specifies a set of flexible subframes within a radio frame that can be flexibly configured as either downlink or uplink subframes; determining if a HARQ feedback signal falls within a flexible subframe; and re-assigning the HARQ feedback signal to be transmitted in a non-flexible subframe within the radio frame.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 17, 2012Publication date: February 20, 2014Applicant: ZTE USA, INC.Inventor: Wenfeng ZHANG
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Publication number: 20140034028Abstract: The present invention discloses a plate-fin structure EGR cooler with heat-insulation function includes shell. The two ends of the shell are equipped with an air inlet flange and a discharge chamber. A water inlet pipe and a water outlet pipe are set on the shell near the air inlet flange and the discharge chamber. A cooling core assembly, an air chamber and a bellow are set in the shell. The main board at one end of the cooling core assembly is connected to the shell and the discharge chamber and the main board at another end is connected to one end of the air chamber. The other end of the air chamber is connected to one end of the bellow. The other end of the bellow is connected to the shell and the air inlet flange. A heat-insulating pipe connected to the air inlet flange is set within the bellow.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2012Publication date: February 6, 2014Applicant: ZHEJIANG YINLUN MACHINERY CO., LTD.Inventors: Wenfeng Zhang, Baijun Guan, Hao Liu, Yihong Hu, Xiaojun Qin, Youqi Zhao, Lianmin Yang, Shoudu Zhang, Kaijun Xu, Qingsong Lu, Luying Chen
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Publication number: 20130235819Abstract: A new sequence initialization for demodulation reference signal (DMRS) sequence design used in the LTE-A system is provided. In some implementations, the modulo-2 addition of nSCID and nNDI, both of which are provided in a downlink control information (DCI) message, is used to dynamically select one of a plurality of parameter candidates and the dynamically selected parameter is then used for determining the initialization state of a DMRS sequence. In some other implementations, the modulo-2 addition of nSCID and nNDI is used for determining the least significant bit of the initialization state of the DMRS sequence.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2013Publication date: September 12, 2013Applicant: ZTE (USA) INC.Inventor: Wenfeng Zhang
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Publication number: 20130208678Abstract: Systems and methods for the configuration of channel state information reference signals (CSI-RS) are disclosed. The systems and methods include providing user equipment with the locations of CSI-RS reuse information. Several encoding patterns and exemplary methodology for both the identification of the CSI-RS resource element locations are provided in exemplary embodiments. In addition, exemplary embodiments provide muting methods and systems for a physical downlink shared channel resource elements.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 16, 2011Publication date: August 15, 2013Applicant: ZTE (USA) INC.Inventor: Wenfeng Zhang
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Publication number: 20130188531Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods and apparatus for network energy savings in a wireless communication system, such as the 3GPP LTE system. Particularly, one such method reduces power consumption in a base station by selectively muting or disabling downlink transmissions of certain control signal symbols in one or more subframes or frames. The disclosed methods and apparatus can apply independently or in combination in both FDD and TDD systems.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 16, 2011Publication date: July 25, 2013Applicant: ZTE CORPORATIONInventor: Wenfeng Zhang
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Publication number: 20130128860Abstract: A method of allocating resource elements in an orthogonal frequency division multiplexed (OFDM) system for transmission of a channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) without overlapping with resource elements allocated to a port-5 user equipment-specific reference signal (URS) signal is disclosed. The method can include shifting in a frequency domain at least a portion of resource elements allocated to the CSI-RS in a normal-CP subframe. According to certain embodiments, the allocation of resource elements can be defined per an 8-port CSI-RS, or per a group of eight CSI-RS resource elements, within a single physical resource block (PRB) whose time-domain dimension is one subframe and whose frequency-domain dimension is 12 subcarriers.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 1, 2011Publication date: May 23, 2013Inventor: Wenfeng Zhang
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Publication number: 20130094411Abstract: A method of allocating resource elements in an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) system for transmission of a channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) is disclosed. The method includes converting resource elements to a two-dimensional frequency-time domain. The converted resource elements can then be partitioned to units of a physical resource block (PRB), which can be one subframe, for example. It can be determined whether a portion of a PRB is being used by another signal; and if the portion of the PRB is not being used, it can be allocated for transmission of the CSI-RS. The CSI-RS can be transmitted at resource element locations determined by the resource elements available to the CSI-RS in a regular or a frequency-division duplexing (FDD) downlink subframe, for example. The CSI-RS can be transmitted in a downlink subframe configured as a Multi-Media Broadcast over a Single Frequency Network (MBSFN) or a non-MBSFN subframe.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 17, 2011Publication date: April 18, 2013Applicant: ZTE CORPORATIONInventor: Wenfeng Zhang
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Publication number: 20130088949Abstract: A method of allocating resource elements in an orthogonal frequency division multiplexed (OFDM) system for transmission of a channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) is disclosed. The method includes converting one or more resource elements to a two-dimensional frequency-time domain; and partitioning the one or more converted resource elements to units of a physical resource block (PRB). One or more resource elements are patterned over at least a portion of the PRB for transmission of the CSI-RS. According to an embodiment, the CSI-RS resource elements with a same subcarrier index for a common cell are code division multiplexed (CDM), with a CDM dimension equal to a number of CSI-RS resource elements with the same subcarrier index for the common cell.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2011Publication date: April 11, 2013Applicant: ZTE CORPORATIONInventors: Wenfeng Zhang, Jing Jiang
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Patent number: 8363593Abstract: A system and method for wireless communication includes multiplexing an EUDC downlink control channel so that it is transmitted like a downlink dedicated channel (DL-DPCH). The EUDC downlink control channel can be multiplexed with the DL-DPCH by code or by both code and time. The EUDC downlink control channel may be multiplexed with a downlink dedicated physical data channel (DL-DPDCH), a downlink dedicated physical control channel (DL-DPCCH), or both. In one embodiment, the EUDC downlink control channel is multiplexed by adding a multicode channel to a current DL-DPCH and treating the EUDC downlink control channel as a dedicated channel with power control functionality.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2002Date of Patent: January 29, 2013Assignee: Alcatel LucentInventors: Wenfeng Zhang, Jung-Tao Liu, Nandu Gopalakrishnan
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Patent number: 8330529Abstract: Embodiments of a method, apparatus and circuit for voltage regulation are disclosed. One embodiment of a circuit includes a first field effect transistor (FET) having a gate, a drain and a source. A current source is connected to the drain of the FET. A second FET has a source connected to the source of the first FET by a node. The second FET also has a gate. A low-pass filter circuit has an input connected to the gate of the first FET and an output connected to the gate of the second FET.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2010Date of Patent: December 11, 2012Assignee: Xilinx, Inc.Inventors: Wenfeng Zhang, Qi Zhang