Patents by Inventor Wenping Bi

Wenping Bi 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: 11956792
    Abstract: Embodiments of this application disclose a data transmission method, a control information sending method, and a device, and relate to the field of communications technologies. The method may include: determining, by the communications device, a first resource used for receiving or sending data; receiving control information, where the control information includes first indication information that can be used to indicate that a resource is punctured or postponed, and where the first indication information is used to indicate that a second resource is punctured or postponed; and determining, by the communications device, a third resource based on the first indication information and the first resource, and receiving or sending the data by using the third resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yue Zhao, Wenping Bi, Yubo Yang, Xingqing Cheng
  • Patent number: 11582081
    Abstract: A reference signal sending method, a reference signal receiving method, and an apparatus are provided. A first network device determines a first resource. The first network device generates a reference signal corresponding to the first resource. The reference signal includes M parts, and all of the M parts are the same. The first resource does not carry a cyclic postfix of the reference signal. Alternatively, the first resource carries a cyclic prefix of the reference signal and the cyclic prefix corresponding to the reference signal is located only at the start of the 1st part in the M parts. M is a positive integer. The first network device sends the reference signal to a second network device on the first resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yongqiang Fei, Zhiheng Guo, Xinqian Xie, Wenping Bi
  • Patent number: 11523400
    Abstract: A resource configuration method, apparatus and storage medium are disclosed. The method includes: sending, by a network device, first information to a terminal, where the first information is used by the terminal to determine not to send data and/or receive data on a first resource; and the first information includes first indication information used to indicate a first resource block (RB) and second indication information used to indicate a subcarrier occupied by the first resource on the first RB; or the first information includes third indication information used to indicate a first subcarrier, and the first subcarrier is used to determine the first resource. The resource configuration method and apparatus and the storage medium that are provided in the present disclosure can improve resource configuration flexibility.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhiheng Guo, Yongqiang Fei, Zukang Shen, Yi Long, Yang Zhao, Lei Wan, Wenping Bi
  • Patent number: 11510155
    Abstract: Various embodiments provide a communication method, a communications apparatus, and a computer-readable storage medium. In those embodiments, a first transmit power can be determined for transmitting first information in a first time unit on a first carrier and a second transmit power can be determined for transmitting second information in a second time unit on a second carrier. A third transmit power can be determined for transmitting the second information in a first time period and transmitting the second information in a second time period using the second transmit power or the third transmit power. The second information can be sent in the first time period using the third transmit power. In those embodiments, a sum of powers used by a terminal device to transmit two uplink carriers in a same time period does not exceed a maximum transmit power of the terminal device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xinqian Xie, Zhiheng Guo, Yongqiang Fei, Wenping Bi
  • Patent number: 11496972
    Abstract: An information receiving method and an apparatus are disclosed. The method includes: receiving, by a terminal device, first power information and second power information from a network device; and determining a first maximum transmission power based on the first power information, and determining a second maximum transmission power based on the second power information, where the first maximum transmission power is a maximum transmission power to be used by the terminal device for transmitting a signal by a first radio access technology, and the second maximum transmission power is a maximum transmission power to be used by the terminal device for transmitting a signal by a second radio access technology.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhiheng Guo, Yi Long, Zukang Shen, David Jean-Marie Mazzarese, Wenping Bi, Xinqian Xie
  • Patent number: 11452053
    Abstract: A signal sending method, a signal receiving method, and a device are disclosed. The signal sending method includes: determining, by a network device, an SSB and indication information, where the indication information is used to indicate that a frequency location of the SSB is one of frequencies in a frequency set, and the frequency set includes a first frequency and a second frequency, or includes a first frequency, a second frequency, and a third frequency; and sending, by the network device, the SSB and the indication information to a terminal device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhiheng Guo, Xinqian Xie, Qian Wu, Yongqiang Fei, Wenping Bi, Xinghua Song
  • Patent number: 11425758
    Abstract: A random access method and apparatus, the method includes: receiving, by a first node, first information sent by a second node, where the first information is used to determine a first transmit power, and the first transmit power is a power used when the first node sends downlink information to the second node over a first link; and the first link is a link between the first node and the second node, and the first node is an upper-level device of the second node; and determining, by the first node, the first transmit power based on the first information. Therefore, the first node determines the first transmit power based on the first information, and uses the first transmit power when sending the downlink information to the second node over the first link, so that interference between signals received by the second node can be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xinqian Xie, Zhiheng Guo, Yongqiang Fei, Wenping Bi
  • Publication number: 20220255670
    Abstract: An information processing method, a terminal device, and a network device are provided. In one method, a first bit in downlink control information includes two bits, a bit status of the first bit may belong to a first state set or may be a second state, and a terminal device may perform multi-TB scheduling or single-TB scheduling based on the first bit. When the bit status of the first bit belongs to the first state set, the first state set is {01, 10, 11}, N=4, and the downlink control information includes a first field, the bit status of the first bit can be used to determine a quantity L of TBs scheduled by the downlink control information, and a bit status of five bits of the first field can be used to determine HARQ process numbers of the L TBs and NDI information of the L TBs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2022
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Inventors: Ming Zhang, Zheng Yu, Wenping Bi, Xingqing Cheng
  • Publication number: 20220225328
    Abstract: This application provides an information processing method and a communications device. An information processing method includes: a first communications device receives first information from a second communications device. The first communications device determines, based on the first information, that a start location of a first time window is a K1th time unit after a start location of a first resource or the start location of the first time window is a K2th time unit after an end location of the first resource. The first resource is a resource used by the first communications device to transmit data, and K1 and K2 are positive integers. The first communications device monitors, based on the determined start location of the first time window, control information sent by the second communications device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2022
    Publication date: July 14, 2022
    Inventors: Wenping Bi, Zheng Yu, Yubo Yang, Xingqing Cheng
  • Publication number: 20220217759
    Abstract: A method including: When downlink control information includes a first field, the first field includes (N+2) bits. A quantity L of TBs is determined based on the first field. When L is greater than 1, the L TBs can include both a newly transmitted TB and a retransmitted TB. In j consecutive bits in the first field, a bit state of only one bit is 1, bit states of j?1 bits are all 0, and j=N+1?L. k=0, a bit state of a bj bit in the first field is 1, and L consecutive bits in the first field, carry NDI of the L TBs; or k=L+1, a bit state of a bL bit in the first field is 1, and L consecutive bits in the first field, carry NDI information of the L TBs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2022
    Publication date: July 7, 2022
    Inventors: Zheng YU, Wenping BI, Yubo YANG
  • Publication number: 20220174677
    Abstract: Embodiments of this application provide a resource indication method and a communication device. The resource indication method includes: A first communication device receives first information sent by a second communication device, where the first information is used to indicate a first resource pattern and indicate a reserved resource determined by using the first resource pattern, the first resource pattern is used to determine a position corresponding to each of N resource sets, and N is a positive integer greater than or equal to 1. The first communication device determines reserved resource based on the positions corresponding to the N resource sets and indicated by the first resource pattern, where the reserved resource is a resource unavailable to the first communication device. The first communication device determines not to transmit a signal by using the reserved resource.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2022
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Inventors: Wenping BI, Zheng YU, Yubo YANG, Yongqiang FEI, Xingqing CHENG
  • Publication number: 20220053508
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to information transmission methods and communications devices. In one example method, a first communications device receives control information sent by a second communications device, where the control information is used to schedule a plurality of transport blocks (TBs). The first communications device determines a first value, where the first value is associated with one or more of a frequency hopping configuration parameter, a redundancy version (RV) change parameter, an interleaving gap parameter, and a quantity of transport blocks. The first communications device determines a first start time unit during transmission of a first TB, where the first TB is at least one of the plurality of TBs scheduled by the control information, and an index of the first start time unit is an integer multiple of the first value. The first communications device transmits the first TB based on the determined first start time unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2021
    Publication date: February 17, 2022
    Inventors: Zheng YU, Wenping BI
  • Publication number: 20220052797
    Abstract: Example transmission methods and apparatus are described. One example method includes receiving control information by a first communications device, where the control information schedules a plurality of transport blocks (TBs), and the control information includes redundancy version (RV) indication information. The first communications device determines a first parameter through pre-specifying, determines the first parameter by receiving physical layer signaling sent by the second communications device, or determines the first parameter by receiving higher layer signaling sent by the second communications device, where the first parameter is a parameter related to a first RV corresponding to a first TB. The first communications device determines the first RV based on the first parameter, and determines, for the first TB based on the first RV and a predetermined RV updating sequence, an RV used in a time unit other than the k time units in the time resource used for transmission of the first TB.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2021
    Publication date: February 17, 2022
    Inventors: Zheng YU, Wenping BI
  • Publication number: 20220021487
    Abstract: In a data transmission method, a first communications device receives flag information. When the flag information indicates that one piece of control information can be used for scheduling of a plurality of transport blocks, the first communications device obtains transport block allocation information that indicates the number of transport blocks scheduled by the control information and a bit state corresponding to each transport block. Alternatively, when the flag information indicates that one piece of control information can be used for scheduling of only one transport block, the first communications device obtains hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) process number information, where the HARQ process number information indicates an HARQ process number corresponding to the transport block scheduled by the control information. The first communications device sends data or receives data based on the information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2021
    Publication date: January 20, 2022
    Inventors: Zheng YU, Wenping BI
  • Publication number: 20220022021
    Abstract: A communication method includes: a first device determines first control information, where the first control information carries first information, and the first information is used to indicate emergency information; and the first control information is format-3 control information, format-3A control information, format-6-0A control information, format-6-0B control information, format-6-1A control information, or format-6-1B control information; the first device sends the first control information to a second device; and the first device sends the emergency information to the second device. The method expands coverage of a network, and may be applied to an internet of things (IoT), for example, machine type communication (MTC), a long term evolution-machine (LTE-M), or machine-to-machine (M2M).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2021
    Publication date: January 20, 2022
    Inventors: Wenping BI, Zheng YU, Yubo YANG, Xingqing CHENG
  • Publication number: 20220021509
    Abstract: This application relates to a communication method and a communications device. The communication method includes: determining, a first signal to be sent on a first uplink carrier; determining a second signal to be sent on a second uplink carrier, where the first uplink carrier corresponds to a first radio access technology, and the second uplink carrier corresponds to a second radio access technology; and when a first transmission timing corresponding to the first signal is different from a second transmission timing corresponding to the second signal, and if the first signal and the second signal overlap in time domain, sending, a third signal, where the third signal is the second signal, or is the second signal or a part of the first signal, where the part of the first signal is carried on a symbol that does not overlap with a symbol corresponding the second signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2021
    Publication date: January 20, 2022
    Inventors: Xinqian XIE, Zhiheng GUO, Yi LONG, Yongqiang FEI, Wenping BI
  • Publication number: 20220022217
    Abstract: Embodiments of this application provide a communication method and device. The method includes: A first device determines first control information, where the first control information includes first indication information and second indication information, where the first indication information is used to indicate a state of preconfigured-resource transmission, and the state includes successful transmission, unsuccessful transmission, scheduling retransmission, or preconfigured-resource retransmission; and the second indication information is used to indicate whether the first device transmits first information, and the first information includes higher layer data and/or preconfigured uplink resource reconfiguration information. The first device sends the first control information to a second device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2021
    Publication date: January 20, 2022
    Inventors: Wenping BI, Zheng YU, Xiang MI, Yubo YANG, Xingqing CHENG
  • Publication number: 20220022117
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses example communication methods and an example communication device. One example communication method includes receiving, by a communication device and from a first network device in a first communication system, a first access parameter used to access the first communication system and a second access parameter used to access a second communication system, where a system bandwidth of the first communication system is different from a system bandwidth of the second communication system. The first communication system is switched by the communication device to the second communication system based on the second access parameter when a switching condition of switching from the first communication system to the second communication system is satisfied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2021
    Publication date: January 20, 2022
    Inventors: Zhihu LUO, Wenping BI, Zhe JIN, Xingqing CHENG, Xiang MI, Yuwan SU
  • Patent number: 11212755
    Abstract: Embodiments of this application provide a maximum transmission power determining method, an apparatus, a system, and a storage medium. A network device configures, for a terminal device that works in a DC mode but does not support dynamic power sharing, power information corresponding to a first time unit and power information corresponding to a second time unit when a first radio access technology is used, and correspondingly, the terminal device determines maximum transmission power corresponding to the first time unit and maximum transmission power corresponding to the second time unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Wenping Bi, Zhiheng Guo, Yi Long, Xinqian Xie
  • Publication number: 20210377895
    Abstract: A communication method and device, the method including determining, by a terminal device, first information and second information, where the first information is associated with a validity of a timing advance (TA), determining, by the terminal device, N TA verification criteria based on the second information, where N is an integer greater than or equal to 1, and where each TA verification criterion of the N TA verification criteria is associated with the respective TA verification criterion holding true when a specified condition is met, and determining, by the terminal device, the validity of the TA based on the first information and the N TA verification criteria.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2021
    Publication date: December 2, 2021
    Inventors: Wenping Bi, Zheng Yu, Xingqing Cheng, Xinqian Xie, Yongqiang Fei