Patents by Inventor Yan Zhou

Yan Zhou 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: 20260231225
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive, via a serving cell, an indication to transmit a physical random access channel (PRACH) communication to a candidate cell. The UE may transmit the PRACH communication with an offset from reception of the indication to transmit the PRACH communication, the offset based at least in part on one or more of: whether the UE previously identified the candidate cell, one or more characteristics of a random access channel (RACH) associated with the candidate cell, or one or more capabilities of the UE. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2023
    Publication date: August 6, 2026
    Inventors: Fang YUAN, Yan ZHOU, Jelena DAMNJANOVIC
  • Publication number: 20260231137
    Abstract: Aspects described herein relate to receiving control information that schedules multiple data transmissions to be received by a user equipment (UE), receiving a first data transmission of the multiple data transmissions using, based on whether the first data transmission is scheduled to be received before or after a threshold time, one of a first beam identified in the control information or a first default beam, where the threshold time is a time offset from a time at which the control information is received, and receiving a second data transmission of the multiple data transmissions using one of the first beam identified in the control information, a second beam identified in the control information, or a second default beam. Other aspects relate to transmitting the control information, the first data transmission, and the second data transmission.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2025
    Publication date: August 6, 2026
    Inventors: Tianyang BAI, Yan ZHOU, Junyi LI, Tao LUO
  • Publication number: 20260230896
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A first user equipment (UE) (e.g., “victim” UE) may receive control signaling identifying a set of antenna panels of the first UE usable for measuring cross-link interference (CLI) experienced within a set of CLI resources. The first UE may perform CLI measurements on signals received from a second UE (e.g., “aggressor” UE) via the set of CLI resources and the set of antenna panels. The first UE may then transmit a CLI report associated with CLI measurements performed on the signals received via an antenna panel of the set of antenna panels. In some implementations, the CLI report includes an indication of the antenna panel, an indication one or more CLI resources from the set of CLI resources associated with the antenna panel, or a combination thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2026
    Publication date: August 6, 2026
    Inventors: Tianyang BAI, Yan ZHOU, Qian ZHANG, Junyi LI, Tao LUO
  • Publication number: 20260230968
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may transmit a capability message indicating a first quantity of candidate cells supported by the UE for a first type of mobility procedure. The UE may receive, a control message indicating one or more candidate cells that correspond to a second quantity of candidate cells. The UE may generate before receiving a physical down-link control channel (PDCCH) order, a respective set of communication parameters for each candidate cell of the one or more candidate cells. The UE may receive the PDCCH order that instructs the UE to transmit a physical random access channel (PRACH) message to a candidate cell of the one or more candidate cells. The UE may transmit the PRACH message to the candidate cell in accordance with the respective set of communication parameters associated with the candidate cell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2023
    Publication date: August 6, 2026
    Inventors: Yan ZHOU, Fang YUAN, Jae Ho RYU, Changhwan PARK, Rebecca Wen-Ling YUAN, Jelena DAMNJANOVIC
  • Publication number: 20260231176
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. A user equipment (UE) may receive a downlink communication triggering an aperiodic cross-link interference (CLI) measurement in accordance with a quasi-co-location (QCL) Type-D configuration. The UE may perform the aperiodic CLI measurement using one or more reference signals received in accordance with the downlink communication. For example, the UE may perform the aperiodic CLI measurement using the default receive beam. The UE may report the results of the aperiodic CLI measurement in an aperiodic CLI report.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2025
    Publication date: August 6, 2026
    Inventors: Qian ZHANG, Yan ZHOU, Muhammad Sayed Khairy ABDELGHAFFAR
  • Patent number: 12701514
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive, from a base station, an indication of an uplink power control parameter indication scheme associated with an uplink channel or a reference signal, wherein the uplink power control indication scheme is associated with a setting of one or more uplink power control parameters for the uplink channel or the reference signal in relation to an uplink transmission configuration indicator (TCI) state or a joint TCI state. The UE may receive, from the base station, the one or more uplink power control parameters based at least in part on the indication of the uplink power control parameter indication scheme associated with the uplink channel or the reference signal. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2026
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Fang Yuan, Yan Zhou, Tianyang Bai, Tao Luo
  • Patent number: 12700981
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive an indication that a network node is operating in a sub-band full duplex mode in a set of symbols. The UE may identify whether to receive at least one of a synchronization signal block communication or a physical downlink control channel communication associated with a common search space in the set of symbols based at least in part on the indication. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2026
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Muhammad Sayed Khairy Abdelghaffar, Qian Zhang, Abdelrahman Mohamed Ahmed Mohamed Ibrahim, Yan Zhou
  • Patent number: 12701478
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. For example, a source distributed unit (DU) may receive, from a user equipment (UE), a measurement report indicating at least one transmission configuration indicator state (TCI) state associated with a target DU. The source DU may transmit, to the target DU, an indication of a set of candidate TCI states from the at least one TCI state for a dynamic cell switch of the UE from a source cell of the source DU to a target cell of the target DU. As such, the UE may transmit, to the target DU, a random access message or an uplink message in accordance with a first TCI state from the set of candidate TCI states.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2024
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2026
    Assignee: Qualcomm Incorporated
    Inventors: Jelena Damnjanovic, Yan Zhou, Naeem Akl, Tianyang Bai
  • Patent number: 12701561
    Abstract: Wireless communications systems and methods can use common transmission configuration indication (TCI) states to indicate beam directions for single-target and multi-target communications. A wireless communication device is configured to communicate a configuration for a plurality of transmission configuration indications (TCIs). The wireless communication device is further configured to communicate a first activation of a first TCI of the plurality of TCIs for a first signal, and a second activation of a second TCI of the plurality of TCIs for a plurality of second signals. The wireless communication device is further configured to communicate, based on the first TCI, the first signal, and communicate, based on the second TCI, at least one of the plurality of second signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2026
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Yan Zhou, Tianyang Bai, Tao Luo
  • Patent number: 12700982
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described that provide for full-duplex communications at both a user equipment (UE) and a serving network entity in which the UE, the network entity, or both can dynamically change from full-duplex communications to half-duplex communications. A UE may be configured for full-duplex communications for a set of symbols, and may receive an indication to switch one or more symbols to a half-duplex configuration. The half-duplex configuration may correspond to an indicated half-duplex configuration in which both the network entity and UE operate in the half-duplex configuration, or may correspond to a full-duplex configuration of the network entity in which the UE operates in half-duplex and the network operates in the full-duplex configuration. Signaling that indicates one or more symbols to be switched to the half-duplex configuration may be provided in downlink control information, medium access control signaling, or both.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2026
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Qian Zhang, Yan Zhou
  • Patent number: 12701564
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication at a user equipment (UE) are described. A UE may monitor a first slot for a semi-persistent scheduled transmission associated with a target slot for feedback information for the semi-persistent scheduled transmission. The UE may also monitor for a control message during a first time period based on a scheduling conflict between uplink transmission of the feedback information and a downlink reception at the target slot. In some examples, the UE may select a second slot subsequent to the first slot for transmission of the feedback information for the semi-persistent scheduled transmission based on at least one of monitoring for the control message during the first time period or an availability of uplink resources during a second time period at least partially overlapping with the first time period. The UE may then perform a communication procedure with a network device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2026
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Konstantinos Dimou, Yan Zhou, Tao Luo
  • Publication number: 20260223117
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive multiple indications of multiple uplink resource allocations on one or more component carriers from a network entity. The multiple uplink resource allocations may be associated with multiple configured grants that schedule multiple uplink transmission occasions for the UE across the multiple uplink resource allocations. The UE may transmit uplink control information (UCI) to the network entity that indicates a set of uplink transmission occasions during which the UE skips uplink transmissions. The UE may transmit an uplink message to the network entity in accordance with the multiple configured grants and the UCI.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2023
    Publication date: July 30, 2026
    Inventors: Fang YUAN, Iyab Issam SAKHNINI, Wanshi CHEN, Yan ZHOU, Tao LUO
  • Publication number: 20260222090
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems and techniques for performing wireless communication. For example, a method for wireless communications at a network entity (e.g., a base station or portion thereof) may include determining cells in a triggering evaluation, determining a cell metric type, and determining a triggering condition. Based on the triggering condition, the user equipment may skip layer 1 (L1) measurements for one or more cells (e.g., that meet the triggering condition) or reduce L1 measurement frequency for the one or more cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2023
    Publication date: July 30, 2026
    Inventors: Fang YUAN, Yan ZHOU, Changhwan PARK
  • Publication number: 20260223067
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. In some examples, a user equipment (UE) may receive configuration information that indicates one or more first paging bandwidth parts (BWPs) associated with a first device type and one or more second paging BWPs associated with a second device type. The UE may monitor for a paging message associated with the one or more first paging BWPs or the one or more second BWPs based on a device type of the UE, wherein the device type is the based on device capabilities. In some cases, the UE may receive a first physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) monitoring configuration associated with the first device type, a second PDCCH monitoring configuration associated with the second device type, or a combination thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2025
    Publication date: July 30, 2026
    Inventors: Le LIU, Alberto RICO ALVARINO, Yan ZHOU, Chiranjib SAHA
  • Publication number: 20260222926
    Abstract: Systems and techniques are provided for wireless communications. For example, a network entity can receive information indicative of a mapping between reference signals and a set of component carriers (CCs) for a plurality of candidate CA configurations included a neighbor cell list for the network entity. Performance information indicative of respective values for each CC of the set of CCs can be used to determine estimated cell throughput information for each candidate CA configuration in the neighbor cell list, based on the performance information and reference signal measurements obtained according to the mapping for each CC of the set of CCs associated with a respective candidate CA configuration. The network entity can transmit cell reselection information for handover of the network entity, indicative of a ranked order of the neighbor cell list, the ranked order determined according to the estimated cell throughput information for each candidate CA configuration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2025
    Publication date: July 30, 2026
    Inventors: Kiran VENUGOPAL, Yan ZHOU, Jing JIANG
  • Publication number: 20260222032
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive a configuration for at least one aperiodic channel state information (CSI) reference signal (A-CSI-RS) resource set. The UE may receive an indication of a first unified transmission configuration indicator (TCI) state and a second unified TCI state. The UE may receive downlink control information that triggers an A-CSI state that is associated with the at least one A-CSI-RS resource set. The UE may apply at least one of the first unified TCI state or the second unified TCI state to the at least one A-CSI-RS resource set. The UE may receive one or more A-CSI-RSs using the applied at least one of the first unified TCI state or the second unified TCI state. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2023
    Publication date: July 30, 2026
    Inventors: Fang YUAN, Yan ZHOU
  • Patent number: 12695495
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides systems, devices, apparatus and methods, including computer programs encoded on storage media, for channel state information report configuration for non-serving cell reference signal. A user equipment may receive, from a serving cell, a reference signal (RS) measurement configuration and a RS report configuration associated with a non-serving cell. The UE also may monitor for a RS beam using a transmission configuration indicator (TCI) state associated with the non-serving cell based on the RS measurement configuration. The UE also may obtain one or more measurements of the RS beam associated with the non-serving cell. The UE also may transmit, to the serving cell, a beam report indicating the one or more measurements of the RS beam associated with the non-serving cell and beam measurements associated with a serving cell based on the RS report configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2026
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Tianyang Bai, Yan Zhou, Fang Yuan, Junyi Li, Tao Luo
  • Patent number: 12696303
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. Generally, the described techniques provide for a user equipment (UE) to receive a message including transmission configuration indicator (TCI) states information associated with beam information for uplink or downlink resources. The UE may identify multiple channels or reference signals, or both, to which a TCI state is to be applied based on associated indications included with the TCI state information. In some examples, the TCI state information may also include indications of source reference signals for quasi co-location (QCL) assumptions for the indicated channels or reference signals. Based on applying the TCI state, the UE may determine beam information for uplink or downlink resources and may communicate with the base station accordingly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2026
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Tianyang Bai, Yan Zhou, Tao Luo, Junyi Li
  • Patent number: 12695549
    Abstract: Methods, computer programs products, and apparatuses for SPS reactivation are provided. An example method at a UE includes determining that a base station skips one or more semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) physical downlink shared channel (SPS PDSCH) occurrences. The method further includes skipping transmission of a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback for the one or more SPS PDSCH occurrences.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2026
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Konstantinos Dimou, Yan Zhou, Tao Luo, Olufunmilola Omolade Awoniyi-Oteri
  • Patent number: 12696302
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A communication device, which may be otherwise known as user equipment (UE) may receive a downlink control information (DCI) on a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH). The DCI may include one or more of an indication of a set of transmission configuration indicator (TCI) states related to a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH), one or more receive beams associated with the set of TCI states, or a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) scheme. The UE may decode the DCI and may determine a temporal period associated with the indication of the set of TCI states. The UE may receive, based on the temporal period, the PDSCH according to one or more of the set of TCI states, the one or more receive beams associated with the set of TCI states, the PDSCH scheme, or one or more default receive beams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2026
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Mostafa Khoshnevisan, Peter Gaal, Xiaoxia Zhang, Yan Zhou, Tao Luo, Jing Sun, Arumugam Chendamarai Kannan