Patents by Inventor Ye Si

Ye Si 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: 12372632
    Abstract: A ranging method includes: sending a first signal, where a time at which the first signal is sent from a first UE is a first time; receiving a second signal sent by a second UE, where a time at which the second signal reaches the first UE is a second time; and determining a distance between the first UE and the second UE according to the first time, the second time, and a first time difference, where the first time difference is a difference between a third time at which the second UE sends the second signal and a fourth time at which the second UE receives the first signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ye Si, Huaming Wu, Xueming Pan, Peng Sun
  • Patent number: 12362895
    Abstract: A bandwidth part (BWP) switching method, a terminal and a network side device are provided. The BWP switching method performed by the terminal includes: receiving a BWP activation signaling, switching to a first BWP according to the received BWP activation signaling; and receiving a positioning reference signal (PRS) on the first BWP, wherein the first BWP meets at least one of the following: a numerology of the first BWP is consistent with a numerology of the PRS; or a bandwidth of the first BWP is not less than a bandwidth of the PRS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2025
    Assignee: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ye Si, Peng Sun, Huaming Wu, Yuanyuan Wang, Zixun Zhuang
  • Publication number: 20250220715
    Abstract: An information processing method and apparatus and a terminal. The information processing method according to an embodiment of this application includes: determining, by a terminal, a first parameter based on a first number of first resource units occupied by a first resource within a first time domain resource, where the first parameter includes at least one of a sidelink channel occupancy ratio SL CR and a sidelink channel busy ratio SL CBR, the first resource includes a resource for transmitting first information or a resource with a first measurement value greater than a pre-configured threshold, and the first information includes at least one of a sidelink positioning reference signal PRS and a physical sidelink shared channel PSSCH.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2025
    Publication date: July 3, 2025
    Applicant: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shuyan PENG, Huaming WU, Ye SI
  • Publication number: 20250219795
    Abstract: A method for reporting positioning measurement information, a terminal, and a network device are provided. The method includes: receiving first configuration information from a network device; and reporting a measurement result of a beam group based on the first configuration information, where the beam group is used to transmit a positioning reference signal PRS, and the beam group includes N beams determined by reference signal received power RSRP or time of arrival TOA, where N is a positive integer, the N beams are beams in a first cell, and the first cell is one of cells participating in positioning.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2025
    Publication date: July 3, 2025
    Applicant: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ye SI, Peng SUN, Huaming WU
  • Patent number: 12348441
    Abstract: This disclosure provides a method for configuring a positioning reference signal in an NR system, a method for receiving a positioning reference signal in an NR system, and a device. The configuration method includes: transmitting first target configuration information, where the first target configuration information is used to configure a positioning reference signal PRS of a terminal device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2025
    Assignee: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ye Si, Peng Sun
  • Patent number: 12342417
    Abstract: A positioning method includes: receiving configuration information; and determining, in idle state or inactive state based on the configuration information, whether to enter connected state at a preset moment to complete a positioning procedure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2025
    Assignee: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ye Si, Peng Sun, Wei Bao
  • Publication number: 20250175896
    Abstract: This application provides a positioning processing method and apparatus, a device, and a readable storage medium. The positioning processing method on a first device side includes: receiving at least one of a first location request or first indication information; and initiating a positioning procedure based on at least one of the first location request or the first indication information. The first location request includes information used to indicate a requirement for power consumption positioning of a first terminal. The first indication information includes information used to indicate a terminal characteristic of the first terminal in response to the requirement for power consumption positioning. The first device is a first network device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2025
    Publication date: May 29, 2025
    Applicant: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Ye SI
  • Patent number: 12313758
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of communications technologies, and provides a positioning method, a terminal, and a network device. The positioning method includes: obtaining positioning information, where the positioning information includes priority information related to a positioning signal, and/or measurement time information of a positioning signal; and determining the positioning signal based on the positioning information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2025
    Assignee: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuanyuan Wang, Ye Si, Peng Sun, Zichao Ji, Huaming Wu, Zixun Zhuang
  • Patent number: 12301503
    Abstract: A method for mapping a positioning reference signal, a terminal, and a network-side device are provided. The method for mapping a positioning reference signal is applied to a terminal and includes: obtaining mapping information of a positioning reference signal, where the mapping information indicates relative resource element offsets of at least some symbols in a positioning reference signal resource; and determining, based on the mapping information, a relative resource element offset of each symbol in the positioning reference signal resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2025
    Assignee: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Ye Si
  • Publication number: 20250151020
    Abstract: A positioning reference signal (PRS) measurement method, a terminal, and a network side device are provided. The positioning reference signal (PRS) measurement method includes: The terminal performs PRS measurement on at least one of a plurality of carriers to obtain a positioning measurement result when the terminal is configured to simultaneously perform PRS measurement on the plurality of carriers, where the positioning measurement result is used for positioning the terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2025
    Publication date: May 8, 2025
    Applicant: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wenkuan QU, Qian YANG, Yuanyuan WANG, Ye SI, Minhua ZHENG
  • Patent number: 12284131
    Abstract: A method for reporting positioning measurement information, a terminal, and a network device are provided. The method includes: receiving first configuration information from a network device; and reporting a measurement result of a beam group based on the first configuration information, where the beam group is used to transmit a positioning reference signal PRS, and the beam group includes N beams determined by reference signal received power RSRP or time of arrival TOA, where N is a positive integer, the N beams are beams in a first cell, and the first cell is one of cells participating in positioning.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ye Si, Peng Sun, Huaming Wu
  • Publication number: 20250052851
    Abstract: A positioning method and a communication device are provided, which relate to the field of communication technologies. The method includes: determining first information. The first information includes at least one of the following: direction information of a target beam, energy change information of the target beam, LOS path indication information, and beam identification information. The first information is used to determine positioning information of the first device. The LOS path indication information is used to indicate whether the target beam is an LOS path. The beam identification information is identification information of the target beam.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2024
    Publication date: February 13, 2025
    Inventors: Yuanyuan WANG, Huaming WU, Ye SI, Zixun ZHUANG
  • Publication number: 20250056589
    Abstract: A power determining method, a terminal, and a readable storage medium. The power determining method in embodiments of this application includes: determining, by a first terminal, power information for target signal transmission on a first resource pool, where the target signal includes a first sidelink SL reference signal or a physical sidelink control channel PSCCH, where the first resource pool includes at least one of the following: a resource pool associated with the first SL reference signal; and a resource pool that cannot be used for transmission of data or a physical sidelink shared channel PSSCH.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2024
    Publication date: February 13, 2025
    Applicant: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuanyuan WANG, Huaming WU, Shuyan PENG, Ye SI
  • Publication number: 20250055623
    Abstract: This application discloses a method for resource selection on sidelink SL, and a terminal, pertaining to the field of communication technologies. The method for resource selection on sidelink SL in embodiments of this application includes: performing, by a terminal, sensing on a sensing resource; based on a sensing result, performing resource exclusion in a resource selection window at a first resource granularity; and performing resource selection in remaining resources of the resource selection window at a second resource granularity, where a selected resource is used for transmitting an SL positioning reference signal PRS.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2024
    Publication date: February 13, 2025
    Inventors: Shuyan PENG, Yuanyuan WANG, Ye SI
  • Publication number: 20250048322
    Abstract: This application discloses a sidelink positioning processing method and apparatus, a terminal, and a readable storage medium. The sidelink positioning processing method in embodiments of this application includes: sending, by a first terminal, target sidelink control information SCI, where the target SCI is used to indicate sidelink SL positioning reference signal PRS resource information, and the target SCI is SCI dedicated to an SL PRS or SCI shared with data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2024
    Publication date: February 6, 2025
    Applicant: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ye SI, Shuyan PENG, Yuanyuan WANG, Huaming WU
  • Publication number: 20250039835
    Abstract: A positioning method includes transmitting, by a first terminal, a first SL positioning reference signal to a second terminal at least twice within first time, and receiving a second SL positioning reference signal from the second terminal; and determining, by the first terminal, first time information; where the first time information is related to transmission time of the first SL positioning reference signal; the first time information includes at least one of the following: transmit timing information of the first SL positioning reference signal transmitted by the first terminal; receive timing information of the second SL positioning reference signal received by the first terminal; or a time difference between receive timing of the second SL positioning reference signal received by the first terminal and transmit timing of the first SL positioning reference signal transmitted by the first terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2024
    Publication date: January 30, 2025
    Inventors: Yuanyuan Wang, Shixiao Liu, Huaming Wu, Ye Si
  • Publication number: 20250031175
    Abstract: A positioning reference signal PRS transmission method and apparatus, and a terminal. The method of embodiments of this application includes: mapping, by a first terminal based on first mapping information, a sidelink SL-PRS to a physical sidelink shared channel PSSCH resource for transmission, where the first mapping information includes at least one of the following: a relationship between an SL-PRS bandwidth and a PSSCH resource bandwidth; occupied symbol information of an SL-PRS in a PSSCH resource; and a time division multiplexing TDM mode for SL-PRS and PSSCH.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2024
    Publication date: January 23, 2025
    Applicant: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuanyuan WANG, Huaming WU, Shuyan PENG, Ye SI, Shixiao LIU
  • Publication number: 20250023696
    Abstract: This application discloses a resource determining method and apparatus, a terminal, and a storage medium. The resource determining method according to embodiments of this application includes: determining, by a terminal, a candidate resource of a sidelink positioning reference signal; and determining, by the terminal, a target resource for transmitting the sidelink positioning reference signal from a candidate resource set formed by the candidate resource. The candidate resource includes a candidate time domain resource. Any one of the candidate time domain resource includes at least one of the following: a first time unit, where the first time unit is only used for transmitting the sidelink positioning reference signal; and a second time unit, where the second time unit is used for transmitting the sidelink positioning reference signal and resource determining-related information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2024
    Publication date: January 16, 2025
    Applicant: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuanyuan WANG, Shuyan PENG, Ye SI, Huaming WU
  • Patent number: 12170967
    Abstract: An SRS power control method includes: receiving configuration information from a network device, where the configuration information is used to configure N power control parameter sets, a power control parameter set includes a path loss estimation reference signal (path loss RS), the path loss RS is associated with a neighboring cell and/or a serving cell, and N is a positive integer; and performing power control on at least one SRS unit according to the N power control parameter sets, where the at least one SRS unit is used for positioning, and an SRS unit is an SRS resource set or an SRS resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ye Si, Xiaodong Sun, Peng Sun, Huaming Wu
  • Patent number: 12158535
    Abstract: A positioning method and a communication device are provided, which relate to the field of communication technologies. The method includes: determining first information. The first information includes at least one of the following: direction information of a target beam, energy change information of the target beam, LOS path indication information, and beam identification information. The first information is used to determine positioning information of the first device. The LOS path indication information is used to indicate whether the target beam is an LOS path. The beam identification information is identification information of the target beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuanyuan Wang, Huaming Wu, Ye Si, Zixun Zhuang