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).

  • Patent number: 11979774
    Abstract: An infrastructure equipment of a wireless communications network is configured to act as a first relay node by determining an allocation of a first set of communications resources by the infrastructure equipment acting as a first relay node for another infrastructure equipment acting as a second relay node, the communications resources for transmitting uplink data from a first communications device to an infrastructure equipment connected to a core network part of the wireless communications network acting as a donor node, the allocation of the first set of communications resources for the other infrastructure equipment acting as the second relay node being based upon a donor set of communications resources allocated by the donor node for communicating the uplink data from the first communications device to the donor node via the infrastructure equipment acting as the first relay node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Yuxin Wei, Vivek Sharma, Kazuyuki Shimezawa, Samuel Asangbeng Atungsiri
  • Publication number: 20240138015
    Abstract: A method of communicating data by a terminal device in a wireless telecommunication system comprising a first radio access node and a second radio access node, the method comprising establishing an RRC connection with the first radio access node, entering a dual connectivity mode of operation for the terminal device in which the first radio access node acts as a master radio access node and the second radio access node acts as a secondary radio access node, communicating the same first data between the terminal device and the first radio access node and between the terminal device and the second radio access node, determining that radio link failure criteria are satisfied in respect of at least the first radio access node, and communicating second data between the terminal device and the second radio access node.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2024
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Vivek SHARMA, Yassin Aden AWAD, Yuxin WEI, Hideji WAKABAYASHI
  • Patent number: 11964243
    Abstract: An atomization generator and a special high-pressure atomization generation device for increasing oil and gas field recovery are provided. The special high-pressure atomization generation device for increasing oil and gas field recovery includes an agent pot assembly, a gear pump, a metering pump, an atomization generator and pipelines. The gear pump is connected with the agent pot assembly through an agent pot liquid inlet pipe. The metering pump is arranged between the agent pot assembly and the atomization generator which are connected through the low-pressure manifold pipeline and the high-pressure liquid inlet pipeline. The high-pressure liquid inlet pipeline is connected with the liquid inlet pipe. The liquid inlet pipes are connected with the metering pump. The gas inlet pipe is connected with the high-pressure gas source through the high-pressure gas inlet pipe. The gas inlet cap is provided with a gas inlet pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Shandong Ruiheng Xingyu Petroleum Technology Development Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Dayong Li, Tongwu An, Xuegang Liu, Yonglin Zhong, Qiaoling Meng, Jiabu Wang, Jiankui Li, Mingqian Shen, Yuxin Dong, Dongsheng Zhang, Fulin Zheng, Ming Wei
  • Patent number: 11968684
    Abstract: A method for transmitting data by a communications device in a cell of a wireless communications network, the method comprising receiving an indication of a plurality of configured grants, each of the configured grants allocating a sequence of communications resources for the transmission of the data in the cell by the communications device, receiving an indication of a mapping between each of a plurality of logical channels and one or more of the plurality of configured grants, and transmitting a first portion of the data associated with a first logical channel of the plurality of logical channels using communications resources allocated by one of the plurality of configured grants, in accordance with the mapping.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Vivek Sharma, Yassin Aden Awad, Yuxin Wei, Hideji Wakabayashi
  • Publication number: 20240121328
    Abstract: A method of transmitting data by a transmitting entity in a wireless communications network to a receiving entity, the method comprising receiving, at the transmitting entity, data for transmission via a wireless access interface of the wireless communications network, dividing the data into portions for transmission, forming from each portion of data for each of one or more protocol layers one or more protocol data units, the one or more protocol data units being formed for each layer according to a protocol applied by the layer for transmitting the protocol data unit and each of the protocol data units for each layer includes a header, and transmitting the data via the wireless access interface by processing each of the one or more protocol data units via each of the one or more protocol layers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Yuxin WEI, Vivek SHARMA, Hideji WAKABAYASHI, Yassin Aden AWAD
  • Patent number: 11956688
    Abstract: A method of operating a terminal device in a wireless telecommunications system comprising the terminal device and a non-terrestrial network access node, wherein the method comprises the terminal device performing the steps of: determining a first location for the terminal device transmitting signalling indicating the first location; determining a second location for the terminal device; determining whether or not a distance between the first location and the second location is more than a predefined threshold distance, and if so transmitting signalling indicating the second location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Samuel Asangbeng Atungsiri, Yuxin Wei, Vivek Sharma
  • Publication number: 20240114387
    Abstract: 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, signals representing data by a second of the infrastructure equipment over a first communications path via one or more others of 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: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Yuxin WEI, Vivek SHARMA, Hideji WAKABAYASHI, Yassin Aden AWAD
  • Publication number: 20240107450
    Abstract: A mobile telecommunications system comprising first infrastructure equipment and a terminal wherein the terminal is configured to communicate with the first infrastructure equipment via an air interface provided by the first infrastructure equipment, wherein the terminal is configured to: determine that the terminal can trigger an infrastructure equipment search; and transmit, based on determining that the terminal can trigger an infrastructure equipment search, a wake-up signal; and wherein the first infrastructure equipment is configured to: based on the wake-up signal from the terminal, transition to an active state where the first infrastructure equipment provides the air interface for the terminal to communicate with the first infrastructure equipment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2022
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Yuxin WEI, Vivek SHARMA, Hideji WAKABAYASHI, Yassin Aden AWAD
  • Publication number: 20240098803
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventor: Yuxin WEI
  • Publication number: 20240098584
    Abstract: A method for providing service continuity in a handover of a communications device from an untrusted access point to a trusted access point in a wireless communications network includes transmitting a request to receive a service from a core network of the wireless communications network via the untrusted access point, the communications device being in an inactive state; receiving from the untrusted access point the requested service using a current communications session; determining that a handover procedure should be performed from the untrusted access point to the trusted access point; arranging for the trusted access point to receive information regarding the current communications session in advance of the handover, the information including at least an indication that the communications device is currently receiving the requested service via the untrusted access point; receiving the requested service from the core network via the trusted access point after the handover.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2022
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Vivek SHARMA, Hideji WAKABAYASHI, Yuxin WEI, Yassin Aden AWAD
  • Publication number: 20240089833
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Yuxin WEI, Brian ALEXANDER MARTIN, Vivek SHARMA, Hideji WAKABAYASHI, Shinichiro TSUDA
  • Publication number: 20240089337
    Abstract: A broker circuitry, wherein the broker circuitry is configured to communicate with one or more publisher devices and with a plurality of subscriber devices, wherein an internet-of-things network is based on a publisher-subscriber method for data distribution between the one or more publisher devices and the plurality of subscriber devices, wherein a publisher device of the one or more publisher devices is registered as a publisher for a data category at a broker in the internet-of-things network and at least one subscriber device of the plurality of subscriber devices is registered as a subscriber for the data category at the broker in the internet-of-things network, wherein the broker circuitry is further configured to: provide the broker, wherein a control plane and a user plane are handled separately.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2021
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Hideji WAKABAYASHI, Yassin Aden AWAD, Vivek SHARMA, Yuxin WEI
  • Publication number: 20240089957
    Abstract: A base station for a mobile telecommunications system has circuitry configured to communicate with at least one user equipment. The circuitry is further configured to transmit minimum system information having a bitmap indicating at least one service provided by a cell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Yuxin WEI, Vivek SHARMA, Hideji WAKABAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20240089834
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a user equipment for a mobile telecommunications system, which includes circuitry configured to communicate with a new radio base station. The circuitry is further configured to transmit an on-demand system information request to the new radio base station, wherein the on-demand system information request is transmitted based on a backup resource.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Yuxin WEI, Vivek SHARMA
  • Patent number: 11930418
    Abstract: A method for an infrastructure equipment of a wireless telecommunications network, the wireless telecommunications network comprising a base station and a non-terrestrial network part, the non-terrestrial network part transmitting one or more 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 a spot beam, the method comprising: determining a location of the communications device, determining the coverage region of the cell or the spot beam, determining a relative motion, relative to the communications device, of the coverage region of the cell or the spot beam, and based on the location and the relative motion, initiating a cell change of the communications device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuxin Wei, Samuel Asangbeng Atungsiri
  • Publication number: 20240080750
    Abstract: A mobile telecommunications system method for transmitting on demand system information to a user equipment includes requesting system information, based on a specific radio resource control connection state, and to transmit system information to the user equipment, based on the system information request.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Yuxin WEI, Brian Alexander MARTIN, Hideji WAKABAYASHI, Shinichiro TSUDA
  • Publication number: 20240080916
    Abstract: A method for controlling a connection procedure for a terminal device requesting a radio connection to a cell supported by network infrastructure equipment in a wireless telecommunication system, the method comprising: determining, at the terminal device, that a request to connect to the cell supported by the network infrastructure equipment is to be made, establishing, at the terminal device, application information relating to an operating context for the terminal device; transmitting a connection request message from the terminal device to the network infrastructure equipment, wherein the connection request message comprises a request for the terminal device to connect to the cell and an indication of the application information; and determining, at the network infrastructure equipment, whether to allow the request for the terminal device to connect to the cell based, at least in part, on the application information received by the network infrastructure equipment from the terminal device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Vivek SHARMA, Brian Alexander MARTIN, Yuxin WEI, Hideji WAKABAYASHI, Shinichiro TSUDA
  • Patent number: 11924695
    Abstract: A mobile telecommunications system method is described. A property of a first received reference signal from a first base station operating in a first mobile telecommunications system and a property of a second received reference signal from a second base station or a user equipment operating in a second mobile telecommunications system are measured. It is switched from the first base station to the second base station as a serving base station based on the property of the first received reference signal and on the property of the second received reference signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinichiro Tsuda, Yuxin Wei, Brian Alexander Martin, Hideji Wakabayashi
  • Patent number: 11924913
    Abstract: An apparatus comprising circuitry configured to generate a user equipment identifier which is unique on Anchor cell level or which is unique in RAN notified area level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Brian Alexander Martin, Shin Horng Wong, Martin Warwick Beale, Yuxin Wei, Vivek Sharma, Shinichiro Tsuda, Hideji Wakabayashi, Samuel Asangbeng Atungsiri
  • Patent number: 11917693
    Abstract: Infrastructure equipment for use in a wireless telecommunications network, the infrastructure equipment including: receiver circuitry configured to receive a second signal from a terminal device of the wireless telecommunications network; and transmitter circuitry configured to transmit a third signal to the terminal device, the third signal being transmitted in response to the reception of the second signal, the third signal being for the terminal device to determine, in combination with a first signal received by the terminal device, the spatial position of the terminal device, and the third signal being comprised within a system information block (SIB).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignees: SONY GROUP CORPORATION, SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS INC
    Inventors: Hideji Wakabayashi, Anders Berggren, Yuxin Wei, Vivek Sharma, Shinichiro Tsuda