Patents by Inventor Yuxin Wei
Yuxin Wei 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: 20250048304Abstract: A method of operating a system in a telecommunications network, the telecommunications network comprising at least a first radio node and a terminal wherein the first radio node is configured to provide a wireless access interface to communicate with the terminal. The method comprises determining that the first radio node has a movable position; determining a first indicator for the first radio node and for assisting a terminal mobility procedure, based on the determination that the first radio node has a movable position; identifying the first indicator to the radio node; receiving a registration request from the terminal; and communicating a response to the registration request to the terminal, wherein the response to the terminal identifies the first indicator as being allowed for the terminal.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 23, 2022Publication date: February 6, 2025Applicant: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Vivek SHARMA, Yuxin WEI, Yassin Aden AWAD, Hideji WAKABAYASHI
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Patent number: 12219415Abstract: A mobile telecommunications system anchor base station for a mobile telecommunications system has at least one anchor cell and at least one slave cell which is associated with the anchor cell. The anchor base station has circuitry which is configured to activate or deactivate the slave cell, based on a service requirement received from at least one user equipment.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2021Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignee: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Yuxin Wei, Hideji Wakabayashi, Shinichiro Tsuda
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Patent number: 12219613Abstract: A communication system for supporting carrier aggregation and a method and apparatus for updating system information thereof are disclosed. A method for providing system information in the communication system supporting carrier aggregation includes: when system information of said communication system changes, generating first information including information for indicating the change of system information; determining a first cell of a terminal related to the change of system information, wherein said first cell is one of cells to which said terminal connects, and corresponds to a carrier unit currently used by said terminal for keeping connection with a base station of said communication system; and transmitting said first information to said terminal through said first cell.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2023Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventor: Yuxin Wei
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Publication number: 20250039709Abstract: A wireless telecommunications apparatus, forming a UE, for use in a wireless telecommunications network comprises communication circuitry configured to transmit wireless signals to or receive wireless signals from a first network node, the first network node being a mobile network node and control circuitry configured to determine whether one or more conditions are satisfied and when the one or more conditions are satisfied, to measure a characteristic of a wireless signal received by the communication circuitry from a second, different, network node.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 22, 2022Publication date: January 30, 2025Applicant: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Yuxin WEI, Vivek SHARMA, Hideji WAKABAYASHI, Yassin Aden AWAD
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Patent number: 12213215Abstract: The present disclosure pertains to a user equipment for a mobile telecommunications system, which has a circuitry configured to communicate with a new radio base station and a LTE base station. The circuitry is further configured to: perform simultaneous uplink communication with the LTE base station and the new radio base station; detect an overheating situation; and transmit capability information in response to detecting the overheating situation.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2023Date of Patent: January 28, 2025Assignees: Sony Group Corporation, Sony Mobile Communications Inc.Inventors: Vivek Sharma, Yuxin Wei, Anders Berggren, Hideji Wakabayashi, Shinichiro Tsuda
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Publication number: 20250031063Abstract: A method for operating an infrastructure equipment forming part of a wireless communications network is provided. The infrastructure equipment is a non-terrestrial network part of the wireless communications network configured to transmit one or more spot beams to provide a wireless access interface for transmitting signals to and receiving signals representing data from a communications device within a coverage region of a cell or one of the spot beams, the spot beam forming a cell. The method comprises broadcasting system information for receipt by the communications device, the system information including information relating to at least one of a cell or a spot beam of a neighbouring infrastructure equipment and a second spot beam of the infrastructure equipment, wherein the system information is broadcast in accordance with at least one predetermined condition.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 3, 2024Publication date: January 23, 2025Applicant: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Yuxin WEI, Samuel Asangbeng ATUNGSIRI, Hideji WAKABAYASHI, Vivek SHARMA
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Patent number: 12207103Abstract: A communications device is provided. The communications device comprises transceiver circuitry configured to transmit signals and receive signals to and from a wireless communications network, and controller circuitry. The controller circuitry is configured in combination with the transceiver circuitry to transmit to the wireless communications network, whilst operating in an inactive state, one or more signals comprising uplink data using a first of a plurality of beams each for transmission in a different one of a plurality of spatial directions, to detect, whilst operating in the inactive state, that the first beam satisfies a beam failure condition a specified number of consecutive times, and subsequently to determine, whilst operating in the inactive state, that the first beam has failed.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2020Date of Patent: January 21, 2025Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventors: Yassin Aden Awad, Vivek Sharma, Yuxin Wei, Hideji Wakabayashi
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Patent number: 12207272Abstract: A method for transmitting data by a communications device to an infrastructure equipment in a cell of a wireless communications network is provided. The method comprises receiving an indication of a plurality of configured grants, each of the configured grants allocating a set of communications resources for the transmission of the data by the communications device within one of a plurality of bandwidth parts defining a frequency range within a system bandwidth of the cell, determining that one or more of the plurality of configured grants should be activated and/or determining that one or more of the plurality of configured grants should be deactivated, and transmitting, to the infrastructure equipment, one or both of an activation signal if the communications device determines that one or more configured grants should be activated and a deactivation signal if the communications device determines that one or more configured grants should be deactivated.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2020Date of Patent: January 21, 2025Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventors: Yassin Aden Awad, Vivek Sharma, Yuxin Wei, Hideji Wakabayashi
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Publication number: 20250024344Abstract: A method comprising receiving, by a communications device from a wireless communications network, one or more conditions for triggering a handover of the communications device to a target infrastructure equipment and one or more conditions for triggering a handover of the communications device to a target communications device configured to relay signals between the communications device and the wireless communications network. The method comprises evaluating the one or more conditions for triggering the handover to the target infrastructure equipment and the one or more conditions for triggering the handover to the target relay communications device. The method comprises initiating the handover to the target infrastructure equipment or the target relay communications device based on the evaluation of the one or more conditions for triggering the handover to the target infrastructure equipment and the one or more conditions for triggering the handover to the target relay communications device.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 1, 2022Publication date: January 16, 2025Applicant: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Yuxin WEI, Vivek SHARMA, Hideji WAKABAYASHI, Yassin Aden AWAD
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Patent number: 12200605Abstract: A mobile telecommunications system entity for a mobile telecommunications system has at least one entity, which serves at least one user equipment. The mobile telecommunications system entity has circuitry which is configured to transmit scheduling information for on-demand system information, which can be requested by the at least one user equipment.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2023Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventors: Yuxin Wei, Brian Alexander Martin, Vivek Sharma, Hideji Wakabayashi, Shinichiro Tsuda
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Publication number: 20250016844Abstract: A communications device for transmitting data to a wireless communications network transmits a random access preamble and uplink data in an uplink shared physical channel associated with the preamble according to a 2-step random access procedure. The association between the preamble and the uplink shared channel is known to the wireless communications network. The communications device detects, in response to transmitting the preamble and the uplink data, a random access response message providing timing advance information and uplink grant of resources of the uplink shared channel according to a 4-step random access procedure. In response to detecting the random access response message, the communications device transmits uplink data in the uplink resources granted in the random access response message according to a 4-step random access procedure, as if the communications device continued with a 4-step RACH procedure having started with a 2-step RACH procedure.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 23, 2024Publication date: January 9, 2025Applicant: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Samuel Asangbeng ATUNGSIRI, Martin Warwick BEALE, Yassin Aden AWAD, Yuxin WEI, Kazuyuki SHIMEZAWA
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Patent number: 12192958Abstract: A method of communicating using a communications device, the method comprises determining a plurality of time periods during which a paging message may be received in a first wireless network, entering a connected mode in a second wireless network, transmitting an assistance information indication in the second wireless network, entering an idle mode in the second wireless network, and while in the idle mode in the second wireless network, receiving in the second wireless network a paging message at a paging time, wherein the assistance information indication is for permitting the second wireless network to determine the paging time for transmitting the paging message such that the communications device is able to receive the paging message at the paging time and is not prevented from receiving a paging message transmitted in the first wireless network during any of the plurality of time periods.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2020Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Vivek Sharma, Hideji Wakabayashi, Yuxin Wei, Yassin Aden Awad, Anders Berggren
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Patent number: 12192975Abstract: A method, base station, terminal and communication system for updating component carriers are provided. Wherein, status information of the terminal, base station and/or component carrier is acquired; whether the status information accords with the predetermined condition is determined; an old component carrier is replaced by a new component carrier, or a new component carrier is added in the even that the predetermined condition is met. With the embodiments of the present invention, the component carrier which the terminal would use is updated more effectively.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2020Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventor: Yuxin Wei
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Publication number: 20240430730Abstract: A method, an equipment and a system for handing over a cell in a communication system supporting carrier aggregation. The method includes: when a terminal in the communication system moves to the edge of the currently serving cell, the terminal selects one or more neighbor cells from one or more neighbor cells as measurement objects according to the carrier aggregation manner of the one or more neighbor cells; the terminal measures the capabilities of the measurement objects, and obtains one or more measurement results; and the terminal sends a source base station which currently serving the terminal one or more measurement results as capability measurement reports of the one or more neighbor cells. Also provided are an equipment for handing over a cell in a communication system supporting carrier aggregation, a terminal including the said equipment and a communication system including the said terminal.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 5, 2024Publication date: December 26, 2024Applicant: Sony Group CorporationInventor: Yuxin WEI
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Publication number: 20240430884Abstract: A communications device receives a frequency resource indicator to configure a first frequency domain portion of communications resources of a wireless access interface which can be used for communications between the communications device and a wireless network. The frequency resource indicator indicates a configuration of the first frequency domain portion of the communications resources including indicating whether communications resources in the first frequency domain portion should be configured as uplink communications resources reserved for uplink transmissions, as downlink communications resources reserved for downlink transmissions or as flexible communications resources which can be subsequently configured as uplink or downlink communications resources. In response, the communications device configures the first frequency domain portion of the communications resources in accordance with the configuration indicated by the frequency resource indicator.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 19, 2022Publication date: December 26, 2024Applicant: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Yassin Aden AWAD, Shin Horng WONG, Yuxin WEI, Vivek SHARMA, Hideji WAKABAYASHI
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Patent number: 12177760Abstract: A method of controlling communications within a wireless communications network is provided. The method comprises receiving, at a first of the infrastructure equipment acting as a donor node connected to a core network part of a wireless communications network, signals representing data from a second of the infrastructure equipment over a first communications path via one or more other infrastructure equipment acting as relay nodes, receiving, at the first infrastructure equipment, assistance information from at least one of the second infrastructure equipment and the one or more other infrastructure equipment acting as the relay nodes, and determining, by one of the first infrastructure equipment and the one or more other infrastructure equipment acting as the relay nodes in the case that the assistance information satisfies a trigger condition, that the second infrastructure equipment should communicate with the first infrastructure equipment over a second communications path.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2022Date of Patent: December 24, 2024Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventors: Yuxin Wei, Vivek Sharma, Hideji Wakabayashi
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Patent number: 12177728Abstract: A terminal device and a method of operating a terminal device in a wireless communication network. The method comprises establishing, by the terminal device, a first radio connection with a first network access node for transmission of data via a first bearer and a second radio connection with the first network access node for transmission of data via a second bearer. Based on a difference between quality of service for the data transmission via the first bearer and the second bearer, a third radio connection is established between the terminal device and a second network access node for transmission of the data via the first bearer; and the third radio connection is established between the terminal device and the second network access node, a fourth radio connection is established between the terminal device and the second network access node for transmission of the data via the second bearer.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2022Date of Patent: December 24, 2024Assignees: SONY GROUP CORPORATION, SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS INC.Inventors: Vivek Sharma, Hideji Wakabayashi, Yuxin Wei, Anders Berggren
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Patent number: 12177311Abstract: A broker device for an internet-of-things network, the broker device including circuitry having a communication interface, the circuitry being configured to communicate with one or more publisher devices and with a plurality of subscriber devices via the communication interface, wherein the circuitry is further configured to: receive published data from a publisher device of the one or more publisher devices that is registered as a publisher for a data category at the broker device, wherein the published data includes data payload and a data identifier indicating the data category of the data payload; and transmit at least the data payload of the received published data to at least one subscriber device of the plurality of subscriber devices that is registered as a subscriber for the data category at the broker device.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2021Date of Patent: December 24, 2024Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventors: Hideji Wakabayashi, Vivek Sharma, Yassin Aden Awad, Yuxin Wei
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Publication number: 20240422574Abstract: A mobile telecommunications system anchor base station for a mobile telecommunications system is provided. The mobile telecommunications system has at least one anchor cell and at least one slave cell which is associated with the anchor cell. The anchor base station has circuitry which is configured to broadcast slave cell system information being specific for the at least one slave cell.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 26, 2024Publication date: December 19, 2024Applicant: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Yuxin WEI, Hideji WAKABAYASHI, Shinichiro TSUDA
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Patent number: 12170946Abstract: A method of controlling communications within a wireless communications network is provided. The method comprises communicating, with a first infrastructure equipment acting as a donor node connected to a core network, signals representing data by a second infrastructure equipment over a first communications path via one or more other infrastructure equipment acting as relay nodes, the second infrastructure equipment being a child node and one of the one or more other infrastructure equipment acting as the relay nodes or the donor node being a parent node, the parent node being connected to the child node via a backhaul communications link and configured to allocate uplink communications resources to the child node.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2023Date of Patent: December 17, 2024Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventors: Yuxin Wei, Vivek Sharma, Hideji Wakabayashi, Yassin Aden Awad