Patents by Inventor Xiaotao REN

Xiaotao REN 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).

  • Publication number: 20150201346
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a method, a device, and a system for measuring channel state information, which relate to the communications field. The method includes: transmitting, by a base station BS, multiple sets of channel state indication reference signal CSI-RS resources; and notifying a user equipment UE of an aggregation mode of the CSI-RS resources, so that after the UE aggregates the multiple sets of CSI-RS resources according to the aggregation mode of the CSI-RS resources to form a measurement source, the UE performs CSI measurement according to a channel corresponding to CSI-RS ports on the measurement source.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2015
    Publication date: July 16, 2015
    Inventors: Yong Wu, Xiaotao Ren
  • Patent number: 9077496
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for generating a reference signal, including: obtaining first control information, where the first control information indicates or includes cyclic shift related information which is used by a terminal belonging to a serving cell to send a reference signal; and sending the first control information to the terminal belonging to the serving cell, so that the terminal belonging to the serving cell generates the reference signal according to the cyclic shift related information which is indicated or included by the first control information and used by the terminal to send the reference signal, where a variation rule of a cyclic shift which the terminal belonging to the serving cell uses to generate the reference signal is the same as that of a cyclic shift which a terminal belonging to a coordinated cell uses to generate the reference signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2015
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mingyu Zhou, Lei Wan, Xiaotao Ren, Yuan Xia, Zuomin Wu, Qiang Li
  • Patent number: 9071308
    Abstract: A method for determining codebook generation mode is disclosed by the present disclosure, comprising: A: grouping M kinds of ranks among N kinds of ranks supported by a user equipment (UE) into Z sets of rank, and for each set, respectively selecting a codebook generation mode from at least two preset codebook generation modes, where N, M and Z are integers greater than or equal to 1, M is less than or equal to N, and Z is less than or equal to M; B: informing the UE or a serving cell thereof of the selection. The present disclosure also discloses a UE and a base station. The system performance can be improved by adopting the method and devices of the present disclosure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2015
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yongxing Zhou, Xiaotao Ren, Liang Xia, Jingyuan Sun
  • Publication number: 20150146622
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present application provide a method, a terminal, and a base station for transmitting information. In the embodiments of the present application, subframe configuration information of a first carrier is obtained, where the subframe configuration information is used to indicate a type-1 subframe of the first carrier and a type-2 subframe of the first carrier, the type-1 subframe is used for the base station to transmit, in system bandwidth, first information including a first CRS, the first CRS is used for demodulation, and the type-2 subframe is not used for the base station to transmit a CRS used for demodulation, so that the terminal can receive, according to the subframe configuration information and on the first carrier, information sent by the base station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2015
    Publication date: May 28, 2015
    Inventors: Xiaotao Ren, Yongxing Zhou, Jingyuan Sun, Liang Xia
  • Publication number: 20150139169
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present application provide a method for reporting uplink control information, a terminal and a base station. The terminal determines uplink control information needing to be reported, where the uplink control information includes uplink control information needing to be reported currently and uplink control information that needs to be reported previously but has not been reported and is stored by the terminal, so that when the uplink control information fails to be reported completely, the terminal can report partial control information of the uplink control information to the base station according to priority information of the uplink control information, and store the control information that has not been reported in the uplink control information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2015
    Publication date: May 21, 2015
    Inventors: Jingyuan Sun, Xiaotao Ren, Jianbing Yang
  • Publication number: 20150139022
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a method and a system for data demodulation, and a user equipment. An interference statistic characteristic is measured by using an IMR instead of a CRS or a non-zero power CSI-RS, so that the obtained interference statistic characteristic can truly reflect an interference statistic characteristic that a DMRS actually experiences, and then a PDSCH is demodulated, so as to improve accuracy of channel estimation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2015
    Publication date: May 21, 2015
    Inventors: David Mazzarese, Yongxing Zhou, Liang Xia, Xiaotao Ren, Jingyuan Sun
  • Publication number: 20150124638
    Abstract: A method for virtual carrier aggregation, a base station, and a user equipment are provided. A base station receives measurement capability indication information and indication information indicating a capability of receiving data transmission that are reported by a UE. The base station selects a measurement set for the UE according to the measurement capability indication information, and sends the measurement set to the UE, where the indication information indicating the capability of receiving data transmission includes information of carriers on which the UE supports concurrent receiving of data transmission and the measurement capability indication information includes indication information indicating a capability of the UE for measuring CSI and/or indication information indicating a capability of the UE for measuring RSRP. The base station can flexibly select an activated carrier set for the UE.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2015
    Publication date: May 7, 2015
    Inventors: Jingyuan SUN, Liang XIA, Yongxing ZHOU, Xiaotao REN, Mingyu ZHOU, Tao GUO
  • Publication number: 20150109949
    Abstract: Provided in embodiments of the present application are a method and terminal for handling CSI. The embodiments of the present invention use the terminal to measure and report to a base station first CSI, where the first CSI comprises a first RI, a first PMI, and a first CQI, to acquire a second RI and/or a second PMI on the basis of the first CSI, thus allowing the terminal to utilize the second RI to measure and report to the base station the PMI and CQI corresponding to the second RI; or, the terminal utilizes the second RI and the second PMI to measure and report to the base station the CQI corresponding to the second RI and to the second PMI; or, the terminal utilizes the second PMI to measure and report to the base station the RI and CQI corresponding to the second PMI.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2014
    Publication date: April 23, 2015
    Inventors: Liang XIA, Xiaotao REN, Yongxing ZHOU
  • Patent number: 9008718
    Abstract: In a method for power control, a user equipment (UE) receives a path loss measurement indicator and at least one parameter sent by a base station and measures a path loss between the UE and at least one uplink serving access point of the UE according to the path loss measurement indicator. An uplink transmitting power adjustment value is calculated according to the measured path loss and the at least one parameter received from the base station. The UE adjusts uplink transmitting power according to the uplink transmitting power adjustment value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mingyu Zhou, Lei Wan, Yajun Zhao, Xiaotao Ren
  • Patent number: 8982808
    Abstract: A method for transmitting a signal and a communications apparatus are provided. The method includes: obtaining a signal transmission mode, where the signal transmission mode indicates that an uplink signal is transmitted in a multiplexing mode; and transmitting the uplink signal on an uplink band and a downlink band in the multiplexing mode according to the obtained signal transmission mode. The communications apparatus includes: a first obtaining unit, configured to obtain a signal transmission mode, where the signal transmission mode indicates that an uplink signals is transmitted in a multiplexing mode; and a transmitting unit, configured to transmit the uplink signal on an uplink band and a downlink band in the multiplexing mode according to the obtained signal transmission mode. The technical solutions of embodiments of the present invention can reduce signaling overheads of the system and improve spectrum efficiency of the system when obtaining channel state information (CSI).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Lei Wan, Xiaotao Ren, Yongxia Lv, Yunzhe Hou
  • Publication number: 20150055614
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a data transmission method that relates to the field of communications technologies and is invented for effectively improving the spectrum efficiency of data transmission. The data transmission method includes: mapping, to a resource element according to a preset rule, data that needs to be transmitted to a user equipment, where the preset rule includes: mapping data to the resource element corresponding to a non-zero power CSI-RS in a first set of the user equipment, unless the resource element is a specific resource element, where the specific resource element includes a resource element that is among the resource elements corresponding to the non-zero power CSI-RS in the first set and overlaps a resource element corresponding to a zero power CSI-RS; and transmitting the mapped data to the user equipment. The present invention is applicable to a radio communications system such as Long Term Evolution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2014
    Publication date: February 26, 2015
    Inventors: David Mazzarese, Jingyuan Sun, Xiaotao Ren
  • Publication number: 20150055503
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for processing a reference signal, a user equipment, and a base station. The method includes: obtaining, by a UE, a first reference signal resource set, where the first signal resource set includes at least one first reference signal resource; and executing, by the UE, an operation of performing a co-location assumption process for at least one antenna port indicated by each first reference signal resource.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2014
    Publication date: February 26, 2015
    Inventors: Liang XIA, David MAZZARESE, Yongxing ZHOU, Xiaotao REN, Jingyuan SUN
  • Publication number: 20150029913
    Abstract: A signal transmission method and apparatus are provided. The method includes generating a first signal according to at least one protocol layer of a first protocol stack and a second protocol stack, and sending the first signal to a receive end by using a first uplink carrier; and/or receiving, by using a first downlink carrier, a third signal sent by receive end, and parsing the third signal according to the at least one protocol layer of the first protocol stack and the second protocol stack; where the first protocol stack is used to implement communication between a base station and a user equipment on a base station side, the second protocol stack is used to implement communication between devices, and the second protocol stack is connected to the at least one protocol layer of the first protocol stack. Therefore, signal transmission can be implemented by using uplink and downlink carriers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2014
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Inventors: Yongxing Zhou, Jingyuan Sun, Xiaotao Ren
  • Publication number: 20150009853
    Abstract: A method, device and user equipment (UE) for transmitting multi-cell scheduling information is provided. When at least two cells are serving the UE, the method for transmitting multi-cell scheduling information includes determining a main cell of the UE from the at least two cells and transmitting, in the main cell, the scheduling information of the main cell and an auxiliary cell which are serving the UE.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2014
    Publication date: January 8, 2015
    Inventors: Lei Wan, Sha Ma, Mingyu Zhou, Jingyuan Sun, Chengyu Wang, Di Zhu, Yuan Xia, Xiaotao Ren, Shujun Dang
  • Publication number: 20150003442
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention disclose a cell configuration method, a method for implementing synchronization between a user equipment and a base station, a user equipment, and a base station. The cell configuration method includes: determining, by a first base station corresponding to a first cell, system information of a second cell; and notifying, by the first base station, a second base station corresponding to the second cell of the system information, so that the second base station sends and receives signals according to the system information. According to the solutions provided in the embodiments of the present invention, system information of a cell may be dynamically or semi-statically adjusted according to user equipment distribution and service distribution, so that network resources can be better provided for a user equipment that needs them, a capability of serving the user equipment is improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2014
    Publication date: January 1, 2015
    Inventors: Jingyuan SUN, Liang XIA, Yongxing ZHOU, Xiaotao REN
  • Publication number: 20150003388
    Abstract: The present invention provides a reference signal sending method, a receiving method and an apparatus. The sending method includes: determining, by a base station, a parameter configuration format for the reference signal from the at least two sets of parameter configuration formats, where the reference signal is configured with at least two sets of parameter configuration formats of the reference signal, and at least one parameter in different parameter configuration formats of the reference signal has a different configuration granularity; and performing, by the base station, parameter configuration for the reference signal by using the determined parameter configuration format, and sending the reference signal to a terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2014
    Publication date: January 1, 2015
    Applicant: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: David Mazzarese, Xiaotao Ren, Jingyuan Sun, Liang Xia
  • Publication number: 20140355548
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a data transmission method, a user equipment, and a base station. The method includes: obtaining a resource element RE configuration, where an RE indicated by the RE configuration is a subset of the RE available for sending a channel state information reference signal CSI-RS and is the RE onto which a data symbol can be mapped; and receiving, according to the RE configuration, the data symbol that is sent by a base station on the RE indicated by the RE configuration. In the embodiments of the present invention, a data symbol can be mapped onto the RE that is used for sending the CSI-RS, so that a UE can receive the data symbol on the RE that is used for sending the CSI-RS, thereby improving the utilization efficiency of the RE.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2014
    Publication date: December 4, 2014
    Inventors: Liang Xia, Jingyuan Sun, Yongxing Zhou, Xiaotao Ren
  • Patent number: 8861387
    Abstract: A method, device and user equipment (UE) for transmitting multi-cell scheduling information is provided. When at least two cells are serving the UE, the method for transmitting multi-cell scheduling information includes the following steps: determining a main cell of the UE from the at least two cells; transmitting, in the main cell, the scheduling information of the main cell and an auxiliary cell which are serving the UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Lei Wan, Sha Ma, Mingyu Zhou, Jingyuan Sun, Chengyu Wang, Di Zhu, Yuan Xia, Xiaotao Ren, Shujun Dang
  • Patent number: 8842616
    Abstract: A method, a network device, and a system for determining resource mapping in CoMP transmission are disclosed. The method includes: the cooperative cells that perform CoMP transmission for a UE negotiate a mapping rule used by the cooperative cells when the status of the CoMP transmission of the UE changes, where the mapping rule includes the number of and position of OFDM symbols allocated to a PDCCH domain and/or a data channel domain; and the negotiated mapping rule is notified to the UE. In this embodiment, before the downlink signals are transmitted, the mapping rule used by each cooperative cell for CoMP transmission is negotiated between the cooperative cells, and therefore, the UE can accurately receive the signal sent by multiple cooperative cells and the performance of CoMP transmission in the system is improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2014
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xingqing Cheng, Lei Wan, Mingyu Zhou, Yajun Zhao, Xiaotao Ren
  • Publication number: 20140256374
    Abstract: In a method for power control, a user equipment (UE) receives a path loss measurement indicator and at least one parameter sent by a base station and measures a path loss between the UE and at least one uplink serving access point of the UE according to the path loss measurement indicator. An uplink transmitting power adjustment value is calculated according to the measured path loss and the at least one parameter received from the base station. The UE adjusts uplink transmitting power according to the uplink transmitting power adjustment value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2014
    Publication date: September 11, 2014
    Applicant: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mingyu Zhou, Lei Wan, Yajun Zhao, Xiaotao Ren