Patents by Inventor Yifei Yuan

Yifei Yuan 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: 10932199
    Abstract: A method and a terminal for uplink power control are disclosed. The method comprising: determining the uplink transmit power by a terminal according to a transmission scenario in which the terminal belongs. In embodiments of present disclosure, uplink transmit power is determined by a terminal for uplink transmission, wherein a scheme of uplink power control is achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Weimin Li, Bo Dai, Yifei Yuan, Huiying Fang, Kun Liu, Weiwei Yang, Shupeng Li
  • Patent number: 10917159
    Abstract: Presented herein are systems and methods for beam information feedback. A first communication node may receive, from a second communication node, a group of reference signals that are carried either on respective beams or on a same beam. The group of reference signals may be determined based on one or more time-frequency-code resources. The first communication node may determine, based on the group of reference signals, one or more beam indexes and channel state information. The first communication node may transmit, to the second communication node, a set including the one or more beam indexes and the channel state information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Bo Gao, Yu Ngok Li, Zhaohua Lu, Yifei Yuan, Xinhui Wang
  • Publication number: 20210036815
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for information reporting as well as a method and apparatus for information transmission are provided. The method for information reporting includes: receiving, by a second communication node, a reference signal from a first communication node, to determine a reference signal-related index and/or channel state information; reporting, by the second communication node, a set to the first communication node, and the set includes at least one of: the reference signal-related index and the channel state information. This technical solution solves the problems of low flexibility and poor adaptability of beam-related information reporting in the related art; the second communication node reports its own capability, so that the first communication node can indicate a beam reporting that meets to user capability, thereby improving the stability of beam-related information reporting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2020
    Publication date: February 4, 2021
    Inventors: Bo Gao, Yu Ngok Li, Yijian Chen, Zhaohua Lu, Yifei Yuan, Xinhui Wang
  • Publication number: 20210029672
    Abstract: Provided are a system message transmission method and device, which relate to the field of wireless communications. According to the system message transmission method, a system message is transmitted at a preset resource location; and a physical downlink channel is transmitted according to the system message. The system message may include at least one of: frequency domain location information of a system, configuration information of a physical shared channel carrying a system message, configuration information of terminal access, available resource information of the physical downlink channel, and radio frame information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2020
    Publication date: January 28, 2021
    Inventors: Bo DAI, Shuqiang XIA, Guanghui YU, Liujun HU, Yifei YUAN
  • Patent number: 10903888
    Abstract: Provided are a configuration method and configuration device for a reference signal and a communication node. The method applied to a first communication node includes: configuring configuration signaling; carrying, by the configuration signaling, parameter configuration for N reference signal resources, the parameter configuration at least includes channel characteristic requirement indication information; and sending the configuration signaling to a second communication node to enable the second communication node to obtain the parameter configuration, where N is an integer greater than or equal to 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Inventors: Bo Gao, Yu Ngok Li, Zhaohua Lu, Yifei Yuan, Xinhui Wang
  • Patent number: 10849144
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method and apparatus for determining a scheduling gap, wherein, the method comprises: demodulating the NarrowBand Physical Downlink Control Channel in order to determine the initial subframe of the scheduled NarrowBand Physical Downlink Shared Channel (NB-PDSCH) or the NarrowBand Physical Uplink Shared Channel (NB-PUSCH), wherein, the basis for determining the initial subframe comprises at least one of the following: the final subframe of the NB-PDCCH, the final subframe in the search space where the NB-PDCCH is located, the resource allocation within the scheduling window, and the scheduling gap indication. The implementation of the present technical solutions solves the problem of how to determine the scheduling within the NarrowBand system, thereby saving indication expenditure and improving resource usage efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jing Shi, Bo Dai, Yifei Yuan, Huiying Fang, Shuqiang Xia, Shupeng Li
  • Publication number: 20200358499
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for generating and utilizing spreading sequence codebooks for a symbol-level sequence spreading is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method performed by a wireless communication device, comprising: receiving a first number from a wireless communication node; selecting a first spreading sequence codebook from at least one spreading sequence codebook; selecting a first spreading sequence from the first spreading sequence codebook according to the first number; and spreading data symbols according to the first spreading sequence, wherein the at least one spreading sequence codebook each comprises a plurality of spreading sequences configured based on one entry of a first sequence set after cyclic shifting operation, wherein the first sequence set before cyclic shifting operation is configured based on a second sequence set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2020
    Publication date: November 12, 2020
    Inventors: Sha WANG, Yifei YUAN, Li TIAN, Zhifeng YUAN, Wei CAO
  • Patent number: 10812239
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for information reporting as well as a method and apparatus for information transmission are provided. The method for information reporting includes: receiving, by a second communication node, a reference signal from a first communication node, to determine a reference signal-related index and/or channel state information; reporting, by the second communication node, a set to the first communication node, and the set includes at least one of: the reference signal-related index and the channel state information. This technical solution solves the problems of low flexibility and poor adaptability of beam-related information reporting in the related art; the second communication node reports its own capability, so that the first communication node can indicate a beam reporting that meets to user capability, thereby improving the stability of beam-related information reporting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Bo Gao, Yu Ngok Li, Yijian Chen, Zhaohua Lu, Yifei Yuan, Xinhui Wang
  • Publication number: 20200329462
    Abstract: In coverage enhancement of machine type communication (MTC), a downlink transmitted bit stream is jointly encoded with uplink payload by the terminal. The combined signal is sent on uplink, to be jointly decoded by the base station that knows the downlink payload and the joint encoding mechanism at the mobile terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2020
    Publication date: October 15, 2020
    Inventor: Yifei YUAN
  • Publication number: 20200322079
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices related to applying a spreading code to reference signals are described. In one exemplary aspect, a method for wireless communication includes receiving a message indicating a set of control options available to the mobile device for data transmissions. The method includes selecting a spreading code sequence from a number of spreading code sequences, wherein the spreading code sequence corresponds to a control option in the set of control options, wherein the number of spreading code sequences is greater than a length of each of the spreading code sequence, and wherein the spreading code sequences are generated using a method when the length of each of the spreading code sequences is greater than or equal to a value. The method also includes generating a plurality of reference signal symbols using the spreading code sequence, and transmitting the plurality of reference signal symbols.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2020
    Publication date: October 8, 2020
    Inventors: Wei Cao, Li Tian, Yifei Yuan, Tao Lu
  • Publication number: 20200322994
    Abstract: Optimizing the resource configuration or selection for grant-free contention-based non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) transmissions is an effective way to increase network capacity and reduce multi-user interference at the user equipment (UE). In some embodiments, a network node may determine the current traffic load, select multiple access (MA) sequences for the UE based on the determination, and transmit this selection to the UE for subsequent transmissions. In other embodiments, the UE may receive a message with an indication of the traffic load being experienced by the base station that the UE is attempting to connect to, and then may randomly select an MA sequence for subsequent transmissions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2020
    Publication date: October 8, 2020
    Inventors: Li Tian, Wei Cao, Sha Wang, Yifei Yuan, Zhifeng Yuan
  • Publication number: 20200280416
    Abstract: Method and apparatus for configuring channel characteristics of a reference signal, and a communication device are described. The method includes determining first type signaling, where the first type signaling carries a first type set and the first type set includes a plurality of index elements; and sending the first type signaling to a second communication node.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2020
    Publication date: September 3, 2020
    Inventors: Bo Gao, Yu Ngok Li, Zhaohua Lu, Yijian Chen, Yifei Yuan, Xinhui Wang
  • Publication number: 20200252192
    Abstract: Provided are a reference signal configuring method and device. The method includes: configuring a first-type parameter set of a first-type reference signal indicator, where the first-type parameter set includes N indicator elements, N is an integer greater than or equal to 1; generating first-type signaling according to the first-type parameter set, where the first-type signaling carries the first-type parameter set; and sending the first-type signaling to a second communication node.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2020
    Publication date: August 6, 2020
    Inventors: Bo Gao, Yu Ngok Li, Yijian Chen, Zhaohua Lu, Yifei Yuan, Xinhui Wang
  • Publication number: 20200163071
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a processing method and apparatus for recovering a beam. The method includes: generating a first type of signaling when K elements in a beam related parameter set trigger one or more thresholds; and sending the first type of signaling to a second communication node, where the beam related parameter set includes Q elements, where Q and K are both positive integers, and K is less than or equal to Q. Through the present disclosure, the technical problems that a beam cannot be recovered after beam link failure, and beam and channel state information reports or beam and channel state information report requests cannot be actively initiated in a millimeter wave communication system are solved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Publication date: May 21, 2020
    Inventors: Bo Gao, Yu Ngok Li, Yijian Chen, Zhaohua Lu, Yifei Yuan, Xinhui Wang
  • Patent number: 10638465
    Abstract: In coverage enhancement of machine type communication (MTC), a downlink transmitted bit stream is jointly encoded with uplink payload by the terminal. The combined signal is sent on uplink, to be jointly decoded by the base station that knows the downlink payload and the joint encoding mechanism at the mobile terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: ZTE (USA) Inc.
    Inventor: Yifei Yuan
  • Publication number: 20200127726
    Abstract: A system and method for performing beam management is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes: determining a relationship between a first reference signal and a second reference signal, wherein the first and second reference signals share a same or similar one or more of the following properties: a channel property, a transmission property and a reception property; and transmitting the first and second reference signals to a wireless communication node.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2019
    Publication date: April 23, 2020
    Inventors: Bo GAO, Yijian CHEN, Yu Ngok LI, Zhaohua LU, Yifei YUAN, Xinhui WANG
  • Publication number: 20200120528
    Abstract: A system and method for performing robust beam reporting is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method performed by a first communication node includes: receiving at least one reference signal; determining at least one reference signal received power (RSRP) value associated with the at least one reference signal; generating a RSRP report in accordance with a predetermined format that groups the at least one RSRP value into N sets of RSRP values, each set containing at least one RSRP value, and associates each of the N sets of RSRP values with a respective one of N sets of resource groups, wherein each set of resource groups contains at least one resource group, and N is a positive integer; and transmitting the RSRP report.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2019
    Publication date: April 16, 2020
    Inventors: Bo GAO, Yijian CHEN, Yu Ngok LI, Zhaohua LU, Yifei YUAN, Xinhui WANG
  • Patent number: 10594359
    Abstract: The present document discloses a communication data sending method and device, and user equipment, herein the communication data sending method includes: UE indicating a D2D data channel resource through D2D data channel resource indication information in D2D control indication information and/or index information corresponding to the D2D control indication information; and the UE sending D2D communication data on the D2D data channel resource. Through the present document, the problem that a transmitting UE for D2D communication is unable to indicate the used D2D data channel resource by using an eNB scheduling indication resource in the cellular communication is solved, and the indication of the D2D data channel resource is realized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jin Yang, Shuanshuan Wu, Wenhuan Wang, Yifei Yuan, Ming Yuan, Shuanghong Huang
  • Publication number: 20200028563
    Abstract: Provided are a configuration method and configuration device for a reference signal and a communication node. The method applied to a first communication node includes: configuring configuration signaling; carrying, by the configuration signaling, parameter configuration for N reference signal resources, the parameter configuration at least includes channel characteristic requirement indication information; and sending the configuration signaling to a second communication node to enable the second communication node to obtain the parameter configuration, where N is an integer greater than or equal to 1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2018
    Publication date: January 23, 2020
    Inventors: Bo GAO, Yu Ngok LI, Zhaohua LU, Yifei YUAN, Xinhui WANG
  • Publication number: 20200014514
    Abstract: Provided are a signaling sending method and device and a signaling receiving method and device. The signaling sending method includes: configuring N sets according to reference-signal-related information satisfying a predetermined channel characteristic requirement, where N is an integer greater than or equal to 1, and an element in the N sets is the reference-signal-related information; generating a first type of signaling, where the first type of signaling carries the N sets; and sending the first type of signaling to a second communication node, where the first type of signaling is used for notifying the second communication node to perform beam indication according to the N sets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2019
    Publication date: January 9, 2020
    Inventors: Bo Gao, Yu Ngok Li, Zhaohua Lu, Yifei Yuan, Xinhui Wang