Patents by Inventor Xiaocui LI
Xiaocui LI 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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Patent number: 10986599Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide timing advance (TA) obtaining methods and apparatuses. One example method includes generating, by a base station, an indication message and sending the indication message to UE, and receiving, by the UE, the indication message sent by the base station. The UE can then obtain a TA of a second carrier based on the indication message, where the second carrier is a carrier not used to transmit a PUSCH. Although the second carrier is a carrier not used to transmit a PUSCH, the TA of the second carrier can still be obtained.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2016Date of Patent: April 20, 2021Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventors: Lili Zhang, Kai Xu, Xiaocui Li, Nathan Edward Tenny, Bin Liu
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Patent number: 10959254Abstract: A radio communications method, a base station, and a terminal, where the base station sends downlink control information to the terminal, where the downlink control information includes uplink scheduling indication information, and the uplink scheduling indication information instructing the terminal to send uplink data in a plurality of uplink subframes on at least one unlicensed carrier such that the terminal sends uplink data in a plurality of uplink subframes on one or more corresponding unlicensed carriers based on the uplink scheduling indication information, thereby implementing scheduling, using uplink scheduling indication information in one piece of downlink control information, of a plurality of uplink subframes to perform uplink transmission. This increases a data volume in data transmission while effectively reducing scheduling signaling overheads.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2016Date of Patent: March 23, 2021Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Kai Xu, Xiaocui Li
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Publication number: 20210067258Abstract: A radio resource management (RRM) measurement method and apparatus, where the method includes receiving, by the terminal device, indication information from the network device, where the indication information indicates a time-frequency resource used to perform received signal strength indicator (RSSI) measurement on the unlicensed carrier, performing, by the terminal device on the time-frequency resource, the RSSI measurement on the unlicensed carrier to obtain an RSSI measurement result, and sending, by the terminal device, the RSSI measurement result to the network device.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 9, 2020Publication date: March 4, 2021Inventors: Xiaocui Li, Kai Xu
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Patent number: 10939489Abstract: An interference coordination method includes: determining, by a first cell, first configuration information of the first cell. The first configuration information includes a parameter for transmitting uplink control information UCI by a terminal served by the first cell, the parameter included in the first configuration information is a parameter configured for the first cell and is a parameter orthogonal to a parameter configured for a second cell, and the second cell is a neighboring cell of the first cell; and notifying, by the first cell, the first configuration information to the served terminal.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2016Date of Patent: March 2, 2021Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventors: Lili Zhang, Richard Stirling-Gallacher, Yongbo Zeng, Bin Liu, Kai Xu, Xiaocui Li
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Patent number: 10841022Abstract: A radio resource management (RRM) measurement method and apparatus, where the method includes receiving, by the terminal device, indication information from the network device, where the indication information indicates a time-frequency resource used to perform received signal strength indicator (RSSI) measurement on the unlicensed carrier, performing, by the terminal device on the time-frequency resource, the RSSI measurement on the unlicensed carrier to obtain an RSSI measurement result, and sending, by the terminal device, the RSSI measurement result to the network device.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2015Date of Patent: November 17, 2020Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventors: Xiaocui Li, Kai Xu
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Publication number: 20200322912Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide timing advance (TA) obtaining methods and apparatuses. One example method includes generating, by a base station, an indication message and sending the indication message to UE, and receiving, by the UE, the indication message sent by the base station. The UE can then obtain a TA of a second carrier based on the indication message, where the second carrier is a carrier not used to transmit a PUSCH. Although the second carrier is a carrier not used to transmit a PUSCH, the TA of the second carrier can still be obtained.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 13, 2016Publication date: October 8, 2020Inventors: Lili ZHANG, Kai XU, Xiaocui LI, Nathan Edward TENNY, Bin LIU
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Publication number: 20200236708Abstract: A data sending method includes determining, by user equipment, a narrowband time-frequency resource scheduled by a base station. The method further includes performing, by the user equipment, clear channel assessment CCA channel detection on the narrowband time-frequency resource to obtain a channel energy value of the narrowband time-frequency resource. The method further includes determining, by the user equipment, whether the channel energy value is less than a preset energy threshold. When the channel energy value is less than the preset energy threshold, the method includes sending, by the user equipment, uplink data to the base station on the narrowband time-frequency resource.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 12, 2017Publication date: July 23, 2020Inventors: Xiaocui Li, Kai Xu
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Publication number: 20200196354Abstract: A random access method and an apparatus include performing listen before talk (LBT) on a first carrier, detecting a first signal on the first carrier when the terminal determines, through the LBT, that the first carrier is in a busy state, where the first carrier includes an unlicensed carrier, the first signal includes a first preamble signal or indication information, and the indication information indicates that the first carrier sends the first preamble signal, and sending a second preamble signal on the first carrier to attempt to access a base station when the terminal detects the first preamble signal or the indication information.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 31, 2017Publication date: June 18, 2020Inventors: Xiaocui Li, Guorong Li, Kai Xu, Lili Zhang
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Patent number: 10645723Abstract: A signal transmission method, a signal transmission control method, a user equipment (UE), and a base station, where the signal transmission method includes performing, by UE, channel detection, and sending, by the UE, uplink data when a result of the channel detection is that a channel is available, where the uplink data includes one or more subframes, at least one subframe includes a sounding reference signal (SRS), and the SRS is located at a start location of the subframe. The signal transmission control method includes sending, by a base station, SRS configuration information to the UE using radio resource control (RRC) signaling or physical downlink control signaling (DCI) such that the UE sends an SRS based on the SRS configuration information. Hence, utilization of a channel can be significantly improved.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2016Date of Patent: May 5, 2020Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Kai Xu, Xiaocui Li
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Patent number: 10609743Abstract: A device-to-device (D2D) data transmission method and system, where the method implemented by a source terminal and includes sending a first message to n candidate terminals, where the first message discovers the n candidate terminals, the source terminal is out of a network coverage area of a base station, and the n candidate terminals are in the network coverage area of the base station, receiving n second messages from each candidate terminal, wherein each second message includes at least one of a user identity of each candidate terminal or status information of each candidate terminal, determining a relay terminal from the n candidate terminals according to at least one of the user identity of each candidate terminal or the status information of each candidate terminal, and transmitting the data to the base station using the relay terminal.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2015Date of Patent: March 31, 2020Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Xiaocui Li, Kai Xu
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Patent number: 10548125Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide examples of D2D resource allocation methods, devices, and systems. One example method includes receiving, by first UE, a first message sent by second UE, where the first message is used to request to allocate a resource to the second UE, the first UE is UE in a network coverage area of a base station, and the second UE is UE out of the network coverage area of the base station. Resource indication information of a first resource allocated to the second UE is obtained by the first UE according to the first message. A second message is sent by the first UE to the second UE, where the second message carries the resource indication information, and the second UE sends data to the first UE by using the first resource according to the resource indication information.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2015Date of Patent: January 28, 2020Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kai Xu, Xiaocui Li
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Publication number: 20190373623Abstract: A subframe scheduling method and a base station are disclosed. The method is applied to the base station and includes: when preempting an unlicensed carrier, obtaining, by the base station, a starting position of the preempted unlicensed carrier; determining a first number and a type of a first subframe based on the starting position, where the first number is a symbol number corresponding to the starting position that is used by the base station to send data, and the first subframe is a subframe in which a symbol corresponding to the first number is located; and sending the type of the first subframe and the first number to a terminal. In embodiments of the present invention, a processing process of the terminal can be simplified.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 30, 2016Publication date: December 5, 2019Inventors: Xiaocui LI, Kai XU
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Patent number: 10476721Abstract: The present invention discloses an information transmission method, a device, and a system, and relates to the communications field, so as to resolve a problem that a receiving device has excessively large power consumption because the receiving device needs to continuously perform blind detection on a channel to determine a moment at which data transmission is started. A specific solution is: obtaining, by a network device, a start location of a first subframe, configuring a first field in downlink control information DCI of a second subframe, and sending, to user equipment, the first subframe and the second subframe that are adjacent to each other, where the first field is used to indicate the start location of the first subframe. The present invention is used for information transmission.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2015Date of Patent: November 12, 2019Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventors: Xiaocui Li, Jian Wang
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Publication number: 20190320460Abstract: A signal transmission method, a signal transmission control method, a user equipment (UE), and a base station, where the signal transmission method includes performing, by UE, channel detection, and sending, by the UE, uplink data when a result of the channel detection is that a channel is available, where the uplink data includes one or more subframes, at least one subframe includes a sounding reference signal (SRS), and the SRS is located at a start location of the subframe. The signal transmission control method includes sending, by a base station, SRS configuration information to the UE radio resource control (RRC) signaling or physical downlink control signaling (DCI) such that the UE sends an SRS based on the SRS configuration information. Hence, utilization of a channel can be significantly improved.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2016Publication date: October 17, 2019Applicant: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kai Xu, Xiaocui Li
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Patent number: 10448417Abstract: A method for communicating with an access node includes receiving measurement table information from the access node, wherein the measurement table information is derived from measurements of communications channels between access nodes and user equipments (UEs) served by the access nodes, determining an access strategy and an associated access parameter for a shared communications channel in accordance with the measurement table information, and transmitting an uplink transmission on the shared communications channel in accordance with the associated access parameter after obtaining access to the shared communications channel.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2017Date of Patent: October 15, 2019Assignee: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Pengfei Xia, Xiaocui Li, Bin Liu, Kai Xu
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Publication number: 20190268957Abstract: An interference coordination method includes: determining, by a first cell, first configuration information of the first cell. The first configuration information includes a parameter for transmitting uplink control information UCI by a terminal served by the first cell, the parameter included in the first configuration information is a parameter configured for the first cell and is a parameter orthogonal to a parameter configured for a second cell, and the second cell is a neighboring cell of the first cell; and notifying, by the first cell, the first configuration information to the served terminal.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 8, 2016Publication date: August 29, 2019Applicant: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventors: Lili Zhang, Richard Stirling-Gallacher, Yongbo Zeng, Bin Liu, Kai Xu, Xiaocui Li
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Patent number: 10375523Abstract: Embodiments provide a location information obtaining method and a device, and relates to the communications field. The method includes: obtaining, by a network device, location information of a reference point and location information of first user equipment; determining, by the network device, relative location information of the first user equipment relative to the reference point; and sending, by the network device, the location information of the reference point and the relative location information of the first user equipment relative to the reference point.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2017Date of Patent: August 6, 2019Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jian Wang, Xiaocui Li
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Patent number: 10375600Abstract: A data retransmission method includes transmitting, by a first device, data to a second device by using a first carrier. The first carrier is an unlicensed carrier. The method additionally includes retransmitting, by the first device, the data to the second device by using a second carrier. The first carrier and the second carrier are different carriers. The method additionally includes sending, by the first device, control signaling to the second device. The control signaling is used to indicate the data.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2015Date of Patent: August 6, 2019Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventors: Xiaocui Li, Jian Wang, Da Wang
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Publication number: 20190200391Abstract: A random access method and apparatus to increase an opportunity of performing physical random access channel (PRACH) access, where the method includes receiving, by a terminal, information about a PRACH time window from a base station, where the information about the PRACH time window carries a size of the PRACH time window, preempting, by the terminal, an unlicensed carrier on which a PRACH resource is configured, and performing, by the terminal before the size of the PRACH time window is exceeded, .PRACH access on the successfully preempted unlicensed carrier on which the PRACH resource is configured. Therefore, by configuring the PRACH time window, the terminal has more opportunities to preempt the unlicensed carrier on which the PRACH resource is configured, greatly improving a PRACH access success rate.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 12, 2016Publication date: June 27, 2019Inventors: Xiaocui Li, Kai Xu, Lili Zhang
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Publication number: 20190191476Abstract: A multi-link configuration method, a base station, and a user equipment, where the UE generates uplink information and sends the uplink information to the base station. The base station configures a first set or a second set for the UE based on the uplink information. In this process, the transmission point included in the first set is a candidate transmission point, and the transmission point included in the second set establishes a plurality of links to a user, and is a transmission point that actually transmits data to the UE. When a signal of the transmission point included in the second set is weak or interrupted, a transmission point with good quality is selected from the first set and added to the second set to reduce a quantity of times of link interruption and service interruption.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 8, 2016Publication date: June 20, 2019Inventors: Lili Zhang, Kai Xu, Xiaocui Li