Patents by Inventor Xiang Cheng

Xiang Cheng 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: 9065514
    Abstract: A method for transmitting power offset information of a secondary common pilot channel and a radio network control, including: after a drift radio network control receives request information sent by a serving radio network control and used for requesting the drift radio network control to feed back power offset information of respective secondary common pilot channels of managed target primary and secondary carrier cells, the drift radio network control setting following kinds of information elements with reference to MIMO pilot modes used respectively by target primary and secondary carrier cells: power offset information of a secondary common pilot channel of a single carrier cell, power offset information of a secondary common pilot channel of a primary carrier cell, and power offset information of a secondary common pilot channel of a secondary carrier cell, and feeding back set information elements to the serving radio network control through an IUR.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2015
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventor: Xiang Cheng
  • Patent number: 9059831
    Abstract: In an SC-FDE system, in accordance with FDPMT, a transmitter may be configured to replace data carried by one or more signals, e.g., one or more sub-carriers, with the data included in a pilot frequency sequence. The starting position of the pilot frequency sequence may affect the BER value of the system. The transmitter may then be configured to choose a proper starting position for the pilot frequency sequence so that the BER of the overall system may be minimum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2015
    Assignee: EMPIRE TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT LLC
    Inventors: Xiang Cheng, Miaowen Wen
  • Patent number: 9019860
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a method, a terminal and a communication system for starting a compressed mode, wherein the method comprises: a terminal receiving information of a target cell to be measured from a radio network controller; according to the information of the target cell to be measured, the terminal determining a transmission gap pattern sequence; according to the determined transmission gap pattern sequence, the terminal starting a compressed mode to perform a measurement to the target cell. In accordance with the present invention, the problem that a compressed mode can not be started in the case of load balancing mechanism or service bearer feature mechanism is solved, and the Quality of Service (QoS) of the terminal as well as the performance of the system are enhanced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventor: Xiang Cheng
  • Publication number: 20150078267
    Abstract: In an SC-FDE system, in accordance with FDPMT, a transmitter may be configured to replace data carried by one or more signals, e.g., one or more sub-carriers, with the data included in a pilot frequency sequence. The starting position of the pilot frequency sequence may affect the BER value of the system. The transmitter may then be configured to choose a proper starting position for the pilot frequency sequence so that the BER of the overall system may be minimum.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2013
    Publication date: March 19, 2015
    Inventors: Xiang Cheng, Miaowen Wen
  • Patent number: 8964661
    Abstract: A method for determining a slot format of an F-DPCH is disclosed in the present disclosure, including: a Node B using No.0 slot format of the F-DPCH as the slot format for transmitting information over the F-DPCH when detecting that a UE in CELL_FACH state or idle mode is using an E-DCH. An apparatus for determining a slot format of an F-DPCH is also disclosed. The present disclosure ensures that the slot format of the F-DPCH transmitted by the Node B is identical with that of the F-DPCH received by the UE, so that the UE can correctly receive the TPC bits carried on the F-DPCH, and thus the UE can use the TPC bits to implement inner loop power control. Therefore, the Node B can correctly receive the data information transmitted over an E-DPDCH.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Yazhu Ke, Xiang Cheng
  • Patent number: 8964792
    Abstract: A method and a system for controlling a compressed mode in a macro-diversity state are provided by the disclosure, wherein the method comprises that a terminal and a serving node B determine a compressed mode, wherein the compressed mode comprises: transmission gap pattern sequence information; the terminal and the serving node B start or stop the compressed mode, the terminal or the serving node B indicates a current compressed mode state to a related node B, and the related node B performs compressed mode operation according to the current compressed mode state. According to the disclosure, the problem that the execution state of the compressed mode of the terminal and a network side cannot be synchronized is solved, normal operation of the compressed mode of the terminal is guaranteed, and the service quality of the terminal and the performance of the system are improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Lin Liu, Xiang Cheng, Yazhu Ke
  • Patent number: 8897242
    Abstract: A method and a system for configuring an enhanced dedicated channel transmission bearer mode are provided by the present invention. The method comprises: in a situation that a first radio network controller (RNC) establishes an enhanced dedicated channel cell over a non-main carrier frequency layer in a predetermined network element, the first RNC configuring an enhanced dedicated channel transmission bearer mode of the predetermined network element, wherein the predetermined network element comprises at least one of the following: a node B connected to the first RNC and a second RNC connected to the first RNC. The present solution solves the problem in the related art that: the radio network controller cannot distinguish the received data from a main carrier and the received data from an auxiliary carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2014
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Xiang Cheng, Lin Liu, Yazhu Ke
  • Patent number: 8868088
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for communication control between radio network controllers. The method comprises: after a serving node B belonging to a drift radio network controller controls a terminal to perform activation of an enhanced dedicated channel radio link, notifying a radio link activation information of the terminal to the drift radio network controller; and the drift radio network controller sending a radio link activation indication to a serving radio network controller according to the radio link activation information; and, after the serving node B belonging to the drift radio network controller controls the terminal to perform deactivation of the enhanced dedicated channel radio link, notifying a radio link deactivation information of the terminal to the drift radio network controller; and the drift radio network controller sending a radio link deactivation indication to the serving radio network controller according to the radio link deactivation information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Xiang Cheng, Yu Zhang, Meifang He
  • Patent number: 8842551
    Abstract: The present application discloses a method and apparatus for transmitting/receiving an HARQ failure indication. The method includes: a Node B receives an E-DCH payload from a primary carrier and fails to decode it; the Node B determines whether the condition of transmitting an HARQ failure indication is met, if so, the Node B sets the HARQ failure indication data frame on the primary carrier; and the Node B transmits the HARQ failure indication data frame to a service radio network controller on a transmission bearer corresponding to the primary carrier. The present application realizes a better control over the SIR target value through a carrier-based outer loop power control function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2014
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Meifang He, Xiang Cheng, Yu Zhang
  • Patent number: 8837351
    Abstract: A method and UE for setting a Happy bit on an uplink enhanced dedicated control channel are provided. The method includes: a UE transmits an uplink Enhanced Dedicated Channel (E-DCH) on more than one carrier, when criterion 1 and criterion 2 are met, the UE sets the Happy bit which is to be transmitted to a network side as “UNHAPPY” to indicate that the UE doesn't satisfy with the current serving grant. The disclosure optimizes the processing process of power control and resource scheduling, reduces call-drop rate, so that the performances of the UE and the NodeB are optimized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Meifang He, Xiang Cheng, Yu Zhang
  • Publication number: 20140241329
    Abstract: The present document provides a method for a User Equipment (UE) which activates multi-stream transmission to transmit a High Speed Dedicated Physical Control Channel (HS-DPCCH) and a UE thereof, wherein the method is applied in a multi-stream transmission system, and includes: after receiving High-Speed Physical Downlink Shared Channel (HS-PDSCH) subframes transmitted from primary and secondary serving cells, the UE which activates the multi-stream transmission transmitting a HS-DPCCH carrying jointly encoded Acknowledge/Negative Acknowledgement (ACK/NACK) and Channel Quality Indicator (CQI) after a predetermined duration by taking a later received HS-PDSCH subframe of the pair of paired HS-PDSCH subframes as a reference, wherein the predetermined duration is determined according to a timing correlation by which the UE transmits the HS-DPCCH subframe and correspondingly receives the HS-PDSCH subframe, which is specified in the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) specification 25.211.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2012
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shugong Lin, Junqiang Liu, Xiang Cheng, Ruifeng Li
  • Patent number: 8811327
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a method, a system and a C-RNC for determining the support capability of a local cell, the method comprising the following steps of: a controlling radio network controller (C-RNC) receiving from a node B capability support information about the local cell of the node B, wherein the capability support information comprises uplink multi-carrier capability support information and shared interconnection of type B (IUB) transport bearer capability support information; and the C-RNC determining by default that the local cell supports a separate IUB transport bearer, and determining an uplink multi-carrier support capability and a shared IUB transport bearer support capability of the local cell according to the capability support information. The present invention accelerates the processing of the C-RNC, thereby improving the system performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Xiang Cheng, Lin Liu, Yazhu Ke
  • Patent number: 8804640
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a method and an apparatus for obtaining the Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ) information of a CCCH, wherein the method for obtaining the HARQ information of the CCCH comprises: a base station receiving a request message from a Radio Network Controller (RNC), wherein the request message is used to indicate the HARQ information used by the CCCH; the base station obtaining the HARQ information used by the CCCH according to the request message. According to the present invention, the base station obtains the HARQ information of the CCCH according to the message from the radio network controller, thus which is convenient for both the base station and a UE to know exactly the corresponding relationship between the CCCH logical channel and the HARQ used by the CCCH logical channel, thereby guaranteeing Node B to perform decoding correctly and improving the reception success rate of signal and data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Yazhu Ke, Xiang Cheng
  • Patent number: 8774117
    Abstract: Disclosed are a terminal and a grant processing method therefor. The method includes: when a terminal carries out the 16 quadrature amplitude modulation (16QAM) operation, if an absolute grant is mapped by using absolute grant value mapping relationship table 1, then scheduling grant table 1 will be utilized to update a serving grant; and if the absolute grant is mapped by using absolute grant value mapping relationship table 2, then scheduling grant table 2 will be utilized to update the serving grant. By way of the present invention, the boundaries of various tables match each other as far as possible, thereby the performance problem appearing during the engineering application can be solved, improving the performance of high speed uplink packet access (HSUPA) technology during engineering application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Xiang Cheng, Yazhu Ke, Lin Liu
  • Patent number: 8774115
    Abstract: A method for data transmission in a communication system is disclosed in the present invention. The method includes: after the radio access network and the core network finish the initialization, the core network initiates a public bearer establishment or the radio access network requests to establish the public bearer, and the radio access network and the core network establish the public bearer there between; and the radio access network and the core network transmit uplink data and/or downlink data of multiple machine type communication (MTC) equipment by using the public bearer. A system for data transmission in a communication system is also disclosed in the present invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Lin Liu, Xiang Cheng, Yazhu Ke
  • Patent number: 8768328
    Abstract: A switching method and system for a Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) mode are provided by the disclosure. The method comprises that: a NodeB determines to perform MIMO mode switching for a cell (S302); through a NodeB Application Part (NBAP) layer of an lub port, the NodeB sends a message which carries the cell identifier of the cell and the MIMO mode status information of the cell (S304) to a Radio Network Controller (RNC); the RNC updates the MIMO mode status of the cell by using the cell identifier and the MIMO mode status information (S306). The disclosure ensures normal communication between a piece of User Equipment (UE) and a NodeB.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Yu Zhang, Xiang Cheng, Lin Liu, Shugong Lin
  • Patent number: 8743794
    Abstract: A method of flow control between radio network controller and base station is disclosed. The method includes: step 1, the base station carrying information of Maximum PDU Length in a capacity allocation frame of High Speed Downlink Shared Channel; step 2, the radio network controller receiving the capacity allocation frame from the base station; step 3, the radio network controller transmitting data to the base station, wherein the amount of data transmitted during one HS-DSCH Interval is less than or equal to the product of Maximum PDU Length carried in said capacity allocation frame and the maximum number of PDUs that can be transmitted during one HS-DSCH Interval. The disclosed method enables the base station control the flow with the radio network controller in the common state of the fortified connection mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Yazhu Ke, Xiang Cheng
  • Patent number: 8718095
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a method for transmitting a frame sequence number and a node B and a serving radio network controller, which method comprises: a node B receiving a protocol data unit from a carrier and de-multiplexing the protocol data unit into media access control data streams; the node B inserting a carrier symbol into a carrier indicator field of an enhanced-dedicated transport channel data frame and generating a frame sequence number for every the enhanced-dedicated transport channel data frame transmitted on the carrier; and the node B transmitting the media access control data streams to a serving radio network controller SRNC by using the enhanced-dedicated transport channel data frame. By virtue of the present invention it achieves that the SRNC is capable of obtaining the information regarding network layer data transmission in dual-carrier situation so as to detect the loss of data frames.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Meifang He, Xiang Cheng, Yu Zhang
  • Patent number: 8718015
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method and a terminal for synchronizing a subordinate carrier cell, which method comprises the following steps of: after a terminal receives an activation uplink subordinate carrier order from a service node B, the terminal, with the current time as a reference, carrying out synchronization in a cell in an activation set of the enhanced dedicated channel of the subordinate carrier under a non-service node B at a first time point after having carried out delay according to an acquired subordinate carrier activation processing offset time period. The present technical solution reduces the time delay required by synchronization and inter-cell interference and enables the cell capacity and coverage to be unaffected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Xiang Cheng, Yu Zhang, Meifang He
  • Patent number: 8717977
    Abstract: A method for transmitting multi-carrier enhanced dedicated channel data, comprising a first sending step and a first receiving step, wherein the first sending step comprises: when a node B only has an enhanced dedicated channel cell of a single carrier frequency layer in the multi-carrier, setting “uplink multiplexing information” in an enhanced dedicated channel uplink data frame as “null” and sending it to a serving radio network controller; the first receiving step comprises: the serving radio network controller receiving the enhanced dedicated channel uplink data frame sent by the node B of sender which only has the enhanced dedicated channel cell of a single carrier frequency layer in the multi-carrier, and distinguishing which carrier in the multi-carrier is the carrier for receiving data carried in the enhanced dedicated channel uplink data frame based on carrier identifier information corresponding to carrier frequency of the enhanced dedicated channel cell recorded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Xiang Cheng, Lin Liu, Yazhu Ke