Patents by Inventor Xiaoqiang Qiao
Xiaoqiang Qiao 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: 20230230027Abstract: A method and apparatus for sign-bill return based on a blockchain, a device and a readable storage medium, through acquiring (S101) a sign-bill return request sent by a shipment terminal; acquiring (S102) pre-stored target sign-bill information according to the sign-bill return request; acquiring (S103) a target hash value corresponding to the target sign-bill information from the blockchain; and sending (S104) the target sign-bill information to the shipment terminal, when verifying that the target sign-bill information is correct by the target hash value, the tamper-proof blockchain storage of the target sign-bill information is achieved, which not only improves efficiency of the sign-bill return, but also improves reliability of the sign-bill return.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 28, 2020Publication date: July 20, 2023Inventors: Qing CONG, Zhenhui WANG, Wenming ZHE, Xiaoqiang QIAO
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Patent number: 11606672Abstract: An information transmission method includes: receiving, by a network element selector from a user equipment (UE), a first message including identification information of the UE; determining, based on the identification information of the UE, a user group to which the UE belongs; determining a controller corresponding to the user group; and receiving and sending a further message to the controller.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2022Date of Patent: March 14, 2023Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Xiaoqiang Qiao, Yan Li
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Patent number: 11576030Abstract: The present disclosure provides a user plane gateway updating method and apparatus, so as to resolve a prior-art technical problem that GW-U updating cannot be implemented when neither an MME nor a GW-C changes. Embodiments of the present disclosure provide four different solutions, for purposes of being compatible with an existing implementation mechanism and improving system efficiency, when a UE performs TAU, an EPS system of a distributed gateway can select, according to a current location of the UE, a best GW-U and re-establish a PDN connection, thereby optimizing a data transmission path and ensuring communication performance.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2021Date of Patent: February 7, 2023Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventors: Xiaoqiang Qiao, Yan Li
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Publication number: 20230006842Abstract: A blockchain-based data processing method and apparatus, a computer device, and a computer-readable storage medium.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 9, 2022Publication date: January 5, 2023Applicant: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITEDInventors: Zhang WANG, Yixin GUO, Dezhi WEI, Zhaochuang WANG, Xiaoqiang QIAO, Youwei LIU
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Patent number: 11496913Abstract: A load migration method, apparatus, and system. The method includes obtaining, by a first controller, in a process of migrating a user equipment (UE) to the first controller from a second controller, a first temporary user identifier of the UE, the first temporary user identifier comprising a second identifier of the second controller, allocating, by the first controller, a second temporary user identifier to the UE, the second temporary user identifier comprising a first identifier of the first controller, transmitting, by the first controller, the second temporary user identifier to a database server for updating the first temporary user identifier by the second temporary user identifier, and sending, by the first controller to an external network element, the first identifier of the first controller.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2020Date of Patent: November 8, 2022Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Xiaoqiang Qiao, Yan Li
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Publication number: 20220132279Abstract: An information transmission method includes: receiving, by a network element selector from a user equipment (UE), a first message including identification information of the UE; determining, based on the identification information of the UE, a user group to which the UE belongs; determining a controller corresponding to the user group; and receiving and sending a further message to the controller.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 5, 2022Publication date: April 28, 2022Inventors: Xiaoqiang QIAO, Yan LI
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Patent number: 11272440Abstract: A network slice selection method and apparatus are disclosed. The method includes: receiving, by a first SSF device of a VPLMN, a first service request message; obtaining, by the first SSF device, roaming information of UE according to the first service request message; selecting, by the first SSF device, a first network slice instance in the VPLMN for the UE based on the roaming information of the UE.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2020Date of Patent: March 8, 2022Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hui Ni, Fang Yu, Yan Li, Xiaoqiang Qiao
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Patent number: 11240639Abstract: Embodiments of this application provide an information transmission method, a network element selector, and a controller. The information transmission method provided in the embodiments of this application includes: receiving, by an NES from an external network element, a first message including identification information of UE; determining, based on the identification information of the UE, a user group to which the UE belongs; determining a controller corresponding to the user group; and then sending the first message to the controller.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2019Date of Patent: February 1, 2022Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Xiaoqiang Qiao, Yan Li
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Publication number: 20210400463Abstract: The present disclosure provides a user plane gateway updating method and apparatus, so as to resolve a prior-art technical problem that GW-U updating cannot be implemented when neither an MME nor a GW-C changes. Embodiments of the present disclosure provide four different solutions, for purposes of being compatible with an existing implementation mechanism and improving system efficiency, when a UE performs TAU, an EPS system of a distributed gateway can select, according to a current location of the UE, a best GW-U and re-establish a PDN connection, thereby optimizing a data transmission path and ensuring communication performance.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2021Publication date: December 23, 2021Inventors: Xiaoqiang QIAO, Yan LI
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Patent number: 11070614Abstract: A load balancing method is provided: A load balancer obtains an invalidation notification, where the invalidation notification includes an identifier of an invalid object on a target side, and the invalid object includes an invalid interaction node, an invalid session group on an interaction node, or an invalid session in a session group; the load balancer broadcasts the invalidation notification, where the invalidation notification is used to instruct an interaction node on a source side to delete recorded information about a load balancing protocol of the invalid object; and the load balancer reassigns an interaction node to an application interaction request when the load balancer receives the application interaction request sent by the interaction node on the source side and destination data in the application interaction request is empty. In this way, reliability of message exchanging is ensured when an interaction node is abnormal.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2019Date of Patent: July 20, 2021Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Shiyong Tan, Xiaoqiang Qiao
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Patent number: 11051157Abstract: The present disclosure provides a user plane gateway updating method and apparatus, so as to resolve a prior-art technical problem that GW-U updating cannot be implemented when neither an MME nor a GW-C changes. Embodiments of the present disclosure provide four different solutions, for purposes of being compatible with an existing implementation mechanism and improving system efficiency, when a UE performs TAU, an EPS system of a distributed gateway can select, according to a current location of the UE, a best GW-U and re-establish a PDN connection, thereby optimizing a data transmission path and ensuring communication performance.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2019Date of Patent: June 29, 2021Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventors: Xiaoqiang Qiao, Yan Li
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Patent number: 11039501Abstract: A method includes: receiving, by a network element selector, a first message from a first external network element, where the first message carries a first session index, and the first session index is used to identify UE served by the first external network element; and sending, by the network element selector, the first message to a first converged controller based on mapping information corresponding to the UE and the first session index in the first message, where the mapping information includes a mapping relationship between the first converged controller and a plurality of different session indexes of the UE, and the plurality of different session indexes of the UE include the first session index. It can be learned that the network element selector sends, based on the mapping information corresponding to the UE, all messages of different external network elements serving the UE to a same converged controller.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2019Date of Patent: June 15, 2021Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventors: Xiaoqiang Qiao, Yan Li
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Publication number: 20210092618Abstract: A load migration method, apparatus, and system. The method includes obtaining, by a first controller, in a process of migrating a user equipment (UE) to the first controller from a second controller, a first temporary user identifier of the UE, the first temporary user identifier comprising a second identifier of the second controller, allocating, by the first controller, a second temporary user identifier to the UE, the second temporary user identifier comprising a first identifier of the first controller, transmitting, by the first controller, the second temporary user identifier to a database server for updating the first temporary user identifier by the second temporary user identifier, and sending, by the first controller to an external network element, the first identifier of the first controller.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 4, 2020Publication date: March 25, 2021Inventors: Xiaoqiang Qiao, Yan Li
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Patent number: 10893423Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to the communications field, and provide a load migration method, apparatus, and system. The method includes: determining, by a source controller, a to-be-migrated UE that needs to be migrated to a destination controller; updating, by the source controller, resource information of the to-be-migrated UE in a database server, where the updated resource information includes a correspondence between the to-be-migrated UE and the destination controller; and sending, by the source controller, an inter-domain update instruction to an external network element, where the inter-domain update instruction includes an identifier of the to-be-migrated UE and an identifier of the destination controller.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2020Date of Patent: January 12, 2021Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Xiaoqiang Qiao, Yan Li
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Patent number: 10880369Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a universal session persistence method for different communications protocol layers. The method includes: generating, by a first node device, a first interaction message, where the first interaction message includes a first load balancing protocol header, the first load balancing protocol header is independent of a protocol header corresponding to a communications protocol layer at which the first interaction message is generated, the first load balancing protocol header includes a first destination end load balancing index, and the first destination end load balancing index is used to identify a second node device that is to receive the first interaction message; and sending, by the first node device, the first interaction message to the second node device via a first load balancer.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2019Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shiyong Tan, Xiaoqiang Qiao
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Patent number: 10764411Abstract: The present disclosure discloses an SCTP-based communications method and system, and an apparatus. The method includes: A network element selector receives an SCTP packet that includes a plurality of SCTP data chunks of a plurality of user terminals. Because each SCTP data chunk carries index information, the network element selector may select a service providing device for each user terminal based on the index information carried in each SCTP data chunk. Therefore, application layer messages of different user terminals in the SCTP may be routed to different servers based on LBI parameters, and corresponding session persistence is implemented in a subsequent interaction process.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2018Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yan Li, Xiaoqiang Qiao
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Publication number: 20200267638Abstract: A network slice selection method and apparatus are disclosed. The method includes: receiving, by a first SSF device of a VPLMN, a first service request message; obtaining, by the first SSF device, roaming information of UE according to the first service request message; selecting, by the first SSF device, a first network slice instance in the VPLMN for the UE based on the roaming information of the UE.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 26, 2020Publication date: August 20, 2020Inventors: Hui NI, Fang YU, Yan LI, Xiaoqiang QIAO
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Publication number: 20200187024Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to the communications field, and provide a load migration method, apparatus, and system. The method includes: determining, by a source controller, a to-be-migrated UE that needs to be migrated to a destination controller; updating, by the source controller, resource information of the to-be-migrated UE in a database server, where the updated resource information includes a correspondence between the to-be-migrated UE and the destination controller; and sending, by the source controller, an inter-domain update instruction to an external network element, where the inter-domain update instruction includes an identifier of the to-be-migrated UE and an identifier of the destination controller.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 10, 2020Publication date: June 11, 2020Inventors: Xiaoqiang Qiao, Yan Li
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Patent number: 10652142Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose an SDN-based ARP implementation method and apparatus. The method includes: receiving, by a controller, an ARP request sent by a first switch, and when it is determined that no ARP entry corresponding to the ARP request exists locally, sending, to the first switch, an instruction configured to instruct the first switch to flood the ARP request. In this way, the ARP request can be broadcast to an entire network by means of message forwarding between switches.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2018Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Xiaoqiang Qiao, Yan Li, Hui Ni
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Publication number: 20200100094Abstract: The present disclosure provides a user plane gateway updating method and apparatus, so as to resolve a prior-art technical problem that GW-U updating cannot be implemented when neither an MME nor a GW-C changes. Embodiments of the present disclosure provide four different solutions, for purposes of being compatible with an existing implementation mechanism and improving system efficiency, when a UE performs TAU, an EPS system of a distributed gateway can select, according to a current location of the UE, a best GW-U and re-establish a PDN connection, thereby optimizing a data transmission path and ensuring communication performance.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 8, 2019Publication date: March 26, 2020Inventors: Xiaoqiang QIAO, Yan LI