Patents by Inventor Zhanzhan ZHANG

Zhanzhan ZHANG 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: 11889423
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a communication method and apparatus, and a computer-readable storage medium, to resolve a prior-art problem that data sending or data receiving of a terminal device is delayed. The method includes: if no monitoring occasion of a wake-up signal exists in a first time window, or a first time window includes no monitoring occasion of a wake-up signal in at least one search space set configured for a terminal device, monitoring a physical downlink control channel within an on duration time period of a discontinuous reception DRX state, where the first time window is a time window for monitoring the wake-up signal, the wake-up signal indicates the terminal device to monitor the physical downlink control channel within the on duration time period, and the first time window is prior to the on duration time period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Han Zhou, Xiaolei Tie, Zhanzhan Zhang, Wenwen Huang
  • Publication number: 20230362888
    Abstract: A paging indication method includes: generating a PEI, where the PEI indicates whether there is a paging message sent to a terminal on one or more POs; determining a time frequency region for sending the PEI, where the time frequency region corresponds to a synchronization signal block (SSB), a first interval is different from a second interval, the first interval is an interval between a start subcarrier of the PEI and a start subcarrier of the SSB, and the second interval is an interval between a start subcarrier of a secondary synchronization signal (SSS) and the start subcarrier of the SSB; and sending, in the time frequency region, the PEI to the terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2023
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Applicant: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Han ZHOU, Xiaolei TIE, Zhanzhan ZHANG, Jingxin WEI
  • Publication number: 20230354371
    Abstract: A communication method and apparatus to improve flexibility of performing PDCCH monitoring by a terminal device, and reduce power consumption of the terminal device. According to the method, in a dynamic SS set group switching mechanism, the terminal device may alternatively not perform PDCCH monitoring on some monitoring occasions corresponding to an SS set in a monitoring state, to improve the flexibility of performing PDCCH monitoring by the terminal device, and overcome a power consumption waste caused by unaligned monitoring occasions corresponding to different SS sets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2023
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Applicant: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wenwen HUANG, Xiaolei TIE, Zhanzhan ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20230344611
    Abstract: A reference signal indication method and apparatus, a computer-readable storage medium, and a computer program are disclosed. In the method, a terminal device receives configuration information of a reference signal from a network device. The configuration information indicates at least one resource location of the reference signal. The terminal device further receives indication information of the reference signal from the network device. The indication information indicates whether the network device sends the reference signal at a first resource location. The at least one resource location includes the first resource location. According to the method, the terminal device can determine resource locations at which the network device sends the reference signal, to learn whether demodulation performance on a subsequent PO that needs to be monitored can be ensured by receiving the reference signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2023
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Inventors: Zhihu Luo, Zhanzhan Zhang, Zhe Jin
  • Publication number: 20230268765
    Abstract: The present application relates to a battery management and control system for a flow battery. An example battery management and control system includes an alternating current distribution box, a rectifying and inverting device, a flow battery including a battery pack that outputs direct current power, a positive electrode pump driver, and a negative electrode pump driver. The rectifying and inverting device connected to the battery pack inverts the direct current power into alternating current power and outputs the alternating current power. The alternating current distribution box is connected respectively to a power grid, the rectifying and inverting device, the positive electrode pump driver and the negative electrode pump driver. The box continuously supplies alternating current power to at least one of the positive electrode pump driver, the negative electrode pump driver or an additional system from either the power grid or the rectifying and inverting device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2023
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Inventors: HongLiang ZHANG, Zhanzhan ZHANG, Yongjun YUAN, Jian WANG, Mianyan HUANG
  • Publication number: 20230156500
    Abstract: This application relates to a communication method, including: A first terminal device monitors control information of a first cell in a first time period, and after monitoring the control information, determines, based on the control information, whether to perform monitoring on the first paging occasion. The first time period includes at least one time unit in which a first synchronization signal block burst set is located, or the first time period is adjacent to time units in which the first synchronization signal block burst set is located; and the first synchronization signal block burst set is located in front of the first paging occasion in time domain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2023
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Inventors: Xiaolei Tie, Han Zhou, Wenwen Huang, Zhanzhan Zhang
  • Publication number: 20230108137
    Abstract: Embodiments of this application disclose a paging indication method and apparatus. The method includes: A terminal device receives downlink control information DCI from a network device, where the DCI indicates whether M terminal devices in N groups are paged, M is an integer greater than or equal to 1, and N is an integer greater than or equal to 1 and less than or equal to M; and when determining that a terminal device in a group in which the terminal device is located is paged, the terminal device receives a PDSCH scheduled by the DCI from the network device, where the PDSCH is used to carry a paging message.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2022
    Publication date: April 6, 2023
    Inventors: Xiaolei TIE, Wenwen HUANG, Han ZHOU, Zhanzhan ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20230036393
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to communication method and a communications apparatus. One example method includes determining, based on a receiving status of a first power saving signal, that a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) is not detected within a first discontinuous reception (DRX) cycle; and performing, in a first time period within the first DRX cycle, radio resource management (RRM) measurement on a channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) sent by a network device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2022
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Inventors: Zhanzhan ZHANG, Xiaolei TIE, Han ZHOU
  • Publication number: 20230024064
    Abstract: A detection method and an apparatus, applied to the field of communication technologies. The method includes: a terminal-side device performs detection on a plurality of monitoring occasions before a start time of DRX on duration; if the terminal-side device detects first indication information from a network-side device, determining a first time period based on an Nth monitoring occasion in the plurality of monitoring occasions before the start time of the DRX on duration, and performing BWP switching in the first time period. The first indication information indicates the terminal-side device to perform BWP switching. N is an integer greater than 0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2022
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Applicant: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiaolei TIE, Han ZHOU, Zhanzhan ZHANG, Meng HUA, Wenwen HUANG
  • Publication number: 20230026953
    Abstract: A DRX control method and apparatus may flexibly control active times of different DRXs when a plurality of DRXs is configured for a terminal device. For example, a network device may send indication information to the terminal device in a first serving cell of the terminal device, to configure the terminal device to start, prolong, or end DRX active time of a second serving cell of the terminal device. The first serving cell is configured with a first DRX, and the second serving cell is configured with a second DRX. The network device sends indication information based on the first DRX.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2022
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Applicant: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhanzhan ZHANG, Xiaolei TIE, Han ZHOU, Wenwen HUANG, Meng HUA
  • Publication number: 20230019909
    Abstract: A communication method applied to a terminal device includes receiving a first message from a network device. The first message includes configuration information of at least one first reference signal. The communication method also includes receiving a second message from the network device. The second message indicates an availability of at least one second reference signal, the at least one second reference signal has a quasi co-location (QCL) relationship with at least one synchronization signal/physical broadcast channel block (SSB), and the at least one first reference signal includes the at least one second reference signal. The communication method further includes receiving, from the network device and based on the configuration information and the second message, an available reference signal of the at least one second reference signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2022
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Inventors: Zhanzhan ZHANG, Xiaolei TIE, Han ZHOU, Meng HUA
  • Publication number: 20220399973
    Abstract: A reference signal transmission method is provided to reduce power consumption. The method may be applied to time-frequency tracking. The method includes a network device sends configuration information of a reference signal RS to a terminal device, where the configuration information is used to indicate at least one periodic target sending time period of the RS; and the network device sends the RS in a first target sending time period based on a first periodicity, where the first target sending time period belongs to the at least one periodic target sending time period. In this case, the RS is sent only in a part of the target sending time period, that is, the RS is not an always-on signal, and wake-up duration of UE is short. This helps UE reduce power consumption.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2022
    Publication date: December 15, 2022
    Inventors: Han Zhou, Xiaolei Tie, Zhanzhan Zhang, Meng Hua
  • Publication number: 20220394692
    Abstract: This application provides a communication transmission method and a device. The method includes: A terminal device receives first indication information from a network device; and the terminal device skips PDCCH monitoring in a first cell based on the first indication information. The first cell is a single cell; the first cell is a primary cell Pcell; the first cell is a Pcell and at least one Scell of secondary cells Scells in which PDCCH monitoring is skipped when PDCCH monitoring is skipped in the Pcell; or the first cell is a Pcell and all activated Scells of Scells. The method effectively avoids PDCCH-only of the terminal device in the first cell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2022
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Inventors: Wenwen Huang, Xiaolei Tie, Zhanzhan Zhang, Han Zhou, Meng Hua
  • Publication number: 20220361024
    Abstract: A method for indicating to skip PDCCH monitoring and an apparatus are provided, to indicate, by using downlink control information, a terminal device to skip PDCCH monitoring. After a network device sends DCI that includes PDCCH skipping indication information to the terminal device, the terminal device determines, based on the PDCCH skipping indication information, not to monitor a PDCCH in a first time interval. In this way, the DCI is used to indicate the terminal device to skip PDCCH monitoring, and specific signaling used to indicate to skip PDCCH monitoring is clarified, thereby saving energy of the terminal device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2022
    Publication date: November 10, 2022
    Inventors: Yifan XUE, Xiaolei TIE, Lixia XUE, Zhanzhan ZHANG
  • Patent number: 11445568
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to communication methods and communications apparatus. One example method includes determining, based on a receiving status of a first power saving signal, that a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) is not detected within a first discontinuous reception (DRX) cycle, and performing, in a first time period within the first DRX cycle, radio resource management (RRM) measurement on a channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) sent by a network device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhanzhan Zhang, Xiaolei Tie, Han Zhou
  • Publication number: 20220279447
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a communication method and apparatus, and a computer-readable storage medium, to resolve a prior-art problem that data sending or data receiving of a terminal device is delayed. The method includes: if no monitoring occasion of a wake-up signal exists in a first time window, or a first time window includes no monitoring occasion of a wake-up signal in at least one search space set configured for a terminal device, monitoring a physical downlink control channel within an on duration time period of a discontinuous reception DRX state, where the first time window is a time window for monitoring the wake-up signal, the wake-up signal indicates the terminal device to monitor the physical downlink control channel within the on duration time period, and the first time window is prior to the on duration time period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2022
    Publication date: September 1, 2022
    Inventors: Han ZHOU, Xiaolei TIE, Zhanzhan ZHANG, Wenwen HUANG
  • Publication number: 20220264574
    Abstract: A communication method includes that, when a terminal device receives indication information used by a network device to indicate the terminal device to work on a non-dormant bandwidth part (BWP) in a secondary cell, the terminal device can determine a specific BWP on which the terminal device is to work, and perform a corresponding operation. A network device generates indication information, and sends the indication information to a terminal device, where the indication information is used to indicate the terminal device to work on a non-dormant BWP in a first secondary cell. Then, the terminal device enables, according to the indication information, the terminal device to work on a first BWP, where the first BWP is the non-dormant BWP in the first secondary cell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2022
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Inventors: Yifan Xue, Xiaolei Tie, Zhanzhan Zhang, Han Zhou, Wenwen Huang, Jian Wang
  • Publication number: 20220232478
    Abstract: A communication method and apparatus includes: a network device separately sends configuration parameters of power saving signaling to terminal devices. Then, the network device sends downlink control information carrying the power saving signaling to the terminal device through a physical downlink control channel based on a payload of the DCI and/or a search space set. The configuration parameter of the power saving signaling includes the payload of the DCI and the search space set. The payload of the DCI indicates a quantity of bits of the DCI. The DCI is used to carry the power saving signaling and is transmitted through the physical downlink control channel (PDCCH). The search space set is used to determine a monitoring occasion of the PDCCH.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2022
    Publication date: July 21, 2022
    Applicant: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wenwen HUANG, Meng HUA, Xiaolei TIE, Han ZHOU, Zhanzhan ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20220225151
    Abstract: In a signal measurement method, user equipment (UE) receiving a periodic reference signal in a first on-duration that is in a non-active time in a discontinuous reception DRX state. After receiving the periodic reference signal in the first on-duration, the UE measures the periodic reference signal to obtain a measurement result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2022
    Publication date: July 14, 2022
    Applicant: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhanzhan Zhang, Xiaolei Tie, Meng Hua, Wenwen Huang, Han Zhou
  • Publication number: 20220166594
    Abstract: This application provides a communication method and apparatus. The method includes: A terminal device sends first indication information to a network device, where the first indication information indicates that a switching delay between a first bandwidth part BWP and a second BWP is first duration, where the first BWP and the second BWP are uplink BWPs or downlink BWPs used by the terminal device to send and receive data. In this application, the terminal device can indicate to the network device a specific switching delay between two BWPs in a serving cell, so that a BWP switching delay determining method is more flexible and a result is more accurate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2022
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Inventors: Zhanzhan ZHANG, Xiaolei TIE, Han ZHOU, Wenwen HUANG