Patents by Inventor Zhaohua Lu

Zhaohua Lu 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: 12375980
    Abstract: Provided are a signaling receiving method, a signaling transmitting method, and a device. The signaling receiving method includes receiving a first signaling. The first signaling includes a first-type parameter corresponding to a target element. The first-type parameter includes at least one of the following: a physical cell identifier, a mobility measurement reference signal, or a sequence parameter of a synchronization signal. The target element includes one of the following: a serving cell, a serving cell group, a bandwidth part (BWP), a BWP group, an information element, an information element group, a transmission configuration indicator (TCI) state, or a TCI state group. The information element includes at least one of the following: a channel or a signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shujuan Zhang, Zhaohua Lu, Jianwei Wang, Chuangxin Jiang, Bo Gao, Wenjun Yan, Shuaihua Kou
  • Patent number: 12369145
    Abstract: A wireless communication device may receive a configuration of at least one radio resource control (RRC) parameter for X channel measurement reference signal (CMR) resource sets or X CMR resource subsets of CMRs from a corresponding set of CMR resources. The parameter X can be an integer greater than 1. The wireless communication device may measure channel quality for at least one CMR resource of the X CMR resource sets or the X CMR resource subsets according to the configuration. The wireless communication device may send a report including at least one of a CMR index or channel quality to the wireless communication node. The report may include at least one of: a CMR index, or a channel quality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Shijia Shao, Bo Gao, Shujuan Zhang, Zhen He, Zhaohua Lu
  • Patent number: 12369169
    Abstract: Presented are systems and methods for indicating phase tracking reference signal-demodulation reference signal (PTRS-DMRS) association. A wireless communication device may receive a scheduling grant to trigger a first group of physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) transmission occasions and a second group of PUSCH transmission occasions from a wireless communication node. The scheduling information carried by the scheduling grant may at least include port association information of PTRS-DMRS. The port association information may comprise a first port association for the first group of PUSCH transmission occasions and a second port association for the second group of PUSCH transmission occasions. The second port association may be at least associated with a portion of the scheduling information which is at least for the first group of PUSCH transmission occasions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Meng Mei, Chuangxin Jiang, Zhaohua Lu, Yu Pan, Yang Zhang
  • Patent number: 12369167
    Abstract: Provided are methods and apparatuses for transmitting and receiving control signaling. The method include determining second information according to first information, where the second information includes at least one of: the number N of bits used in first control signaling to notify a first transmission parameter, a correspondence mapping table between an index value referenced by the first transmission parameter in the first control signaling and the value of the first transmission parameter, the type of the first transmission parameter notified by a predetermined indication field in the first control signaling, or position information of the bits used in the first control signaling to notify the first transmission parameter; and where the first information includes a relationship between a transmission time interval between the first control signaling and a first signal and a predetermined threshold K, where N and K are non-negative integers; and transmitting the first control signaling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Shujuan Zhang, Yu Ngok Li, Bo Gao, Chuangxin Jiang, Nan Zhang, Hao Wu, Zhaohua Lu
  • Patent number: 12369126
    Abstract: Methods and systems for controlling a transmit power of a wireless communication device are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a method includes: determining one or more reference signals transmitted by a wireless communication node; maintaining one or more path loss estimates for the one or more reference signals; associating at least one path loss estimate with an uplink (UL) signal; calculating a transmission power of the UL signal according to the at least one path loss estimate; and transmitting the UL signal in accordance with the calculated transmission power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Bo Gao, Zhaohua Lu, Ke Yao, Shujuan Zhang
  • Patent number: 12369160
    Abstract: A system and method for providing receiving shared channels during multi TRP transmission are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, an example wireless communication method comprises: determining, by a wireless communication node, a plurality of sets of rate matching configurations. The method further comprises: associating, by the wireless communication node, the plurality of sets of rate matching configurations with respective group identifiers, and transmitting, by the wireless communication node to a wireless communication device, a signal indicating the plurality of sets of rate matching configurations and the group identifiers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Chuangxin Jiang, Zhaohua Lu, Yu Ngok Li, Shujuan Zhang, Huahua Xiao
  • Patent number: 12362891
    Abstract: Provided a method for signal communication includes: determining first information according to signaling information and a predetermined rule; determining, according to the first information, a quasi co-location reference signal set of a port group comprised in a signal; and communicating the signal according to the determined quasi co-location reference signal set of the port group comprised in the signal, where the communicating comprises receiving or transmitting. The first information comprises: a time interval between the signal and a control channel for scheduling the signal, a number of quasi co-location reference signal sets of a control channel element, a number of quasi co-location reference signal sets of the signal, and an index of the quasi co-location reference signal sets of the control channel element; and the time interval between the signal and the control channel for scheduling the signal is less than a predetermined threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2025
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shujuan Zhang, Zhaohua Lu, YuNgok Li, Bo Gao, Chuangxin Jiang, Yijian Chen, Huahua Xiao
  • Patent number: 12362788
    Abstract: Provided are a channel state information feedback method and apparatus, and a storage medium. The channel state information feedback method comprises: calculating, by a first communication node, actual channel state information, and transmitting, by the first communication node, first-type signaling to a second communication node, wherein the first-type signaling comprises a channel state information report, the channel state information report comprises precoding information; in a case where a resource for transmitting the first-type signaling is less than a resource required for transmitting the actual channel state information, discarding, by the first communication node, part of the precoding information in the actual channel state information according to a priority order.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2025
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Guozeng Zheng, Hao Wu, Yong Li, Zhaohua Lu
  • Patent number: 12362813
    Abstract: Provided are a beam recovery processing method, a beam recovery method, a base station and a terminal. The beam recovery processing method includes: determining, by a transmitting end, a configuration information set for instructing a receiving end to perform a beam recovery; and transmitting, by the transmitting end, the configuration information set to the receiving end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2025
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Yijian Chen, Nan Zhang, Zhaohua Lu, YuNgok Li
  • Patent number: 12362889
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to channel state information reference signal configuration, precoding, and transmission, and channel state information feedback configuration, compression, and transmission in multiple-input and multiple-output (NEMO) wireless communication systems. The various embodiments provide channel state information reference signal and feedback schemes which facilitate a decrease of the amount of information that need to be transmitted and reduce communication resource overhead for channel state information configuration and feedback.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2025
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Hao Wu, Yong Li, Guozeng Zheng, Zhaohua Lu, Yu Ngok Li
  • Patent number: 12363731
    Abstract: Presented are systems and methods for parameter estimation. A wireless communication device may determine that a first number of PDCCH transmissions, scheduled from a wireless communication node, that are associated and are PDCCH candidates for blind detection decoding, is K, wherein K is an integer larger than 1. The wireless communication device may determine a second number of PDCCH candidates to be counted for monitoring. The wireless communication device may count the second number of PDCCH candidates for monitoring with respect to the first number of PDCCH transmissions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2025
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Yu Pan, Chuangxin Jiang, Shujuan Zhang, Zhaohua Lu
  • Publication number: 20250226960
    Abstract: A wireless communication method, comprising: forming M groups of data transmission configurations, wherein the mth group of data transmission configuration corresponds to the data transmission scheduled by a maximum number of Km control information sets, where M>0, m=1, . . . , M and Km>0, defining one or more transmission settings for said M groups of data transmission configurations, allocating resources among the one or more transmission settings, generating one or more control information sets associated with said one or more transmission settings, transmitting the one or more control information sets to a wireless network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2024
    Publication date: July 10, 2025
    Inventors: Nan Zhang, Yu Ngok Li, Yijian Chen, Zhaohua Lu
  • Patent number: 12352876
    Abstract: A wireless communication method for use in a wireless terminal is disclosed. The wireless communication method comprises transmitting, to a wireless network node, positioning state information in a physical uplink channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2025
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Guozeng Zheng, Huahua Xiao, Chuangxin Jiang, Hao Wu, Zhaohua Lu
  • Patent number: 12356359
    Abstract: A wireless communication method includes receiving, by a wireless communication device from a wireless communication node, a downlink control message; and sending, by the wireless communication device to the wireless communication node, in response to receiving the downlink control message, an uplink signal, wherein the uplink signal is configured for the wireless communication node to position the wireless communication device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2025
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Huahua Xiao, Guozeng Zheng, Zhaohua Lu, Chuangxin Jiang
  • Patent number: 12356335
    Abstract: Provided is a method for determining a transmission parameter, including: acquiring a sounding reference signal (SRS) resource set; and determining a transmission parameter of uplink transmission according to at least one channel state information-reference signal (CSI-RS) resource in the SRS resource set. Further provided is a method for determining a transmission power, including: acquiring downlink control information; and determining a transmission power of a second number of uplink transmissions according to a first number of transmission power control (TPC) commands indicated by the downlink control information. Further provided is a method for determining a power headroom report (PHR), including: in a case that there are multiple uplink transmissions that occupy the same time domain resource in one time period, or there are multiple uplink transmissions with the same starting time, determining a PHR in the time period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2025
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Ke Yao, Chuangxin Jiang, Bo Gao, Zhaohua Lu
  • Patent number: 12356396
    Abstract: Presented are systems and methods for enhancing the reliability of uplink transmissions. A wireless communication device may receive a scheduling grant of an uplink channel from a wireless communication node. The wireless communication device may transmit the uplink channel to the wireless communication node. The wireless communication device may transmit a transmission block indication for determining a transmission block size (TBS) of the uplink channel to the wireless communication node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2025
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Chuangxin Jiang, Shujuan Zhang, Hao Wu, Zhaohua Lu, Bo Gao, Ke Yao, Yu Pan
  • Patent number: 12355701
    Abstract: Presented are systems and methods for acquiring channel state information. A wireless communicate node may transmit a channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) to a wireless communication device via a first antenna port of a plurality of antenna ports of the wireless communication node. The wireless communication node may receive a channel state information (CSI) report from the wireless communication device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2025
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Yong Li, Hao Wu, Zhaohua Lu, Guozeng Zheng
  • Patent number: 12356344
    Abstract: Presented are systems, methods, apparatuses, or computer-readable media for multi-beam transmission signaling for uplink communication channels. A wireless communication device may receive, from a wireless communication node, B candidate groups of power control parameters. The wireless communication device may receive, from the wireless communication node, a first signaling to indicate the B candidate groups of power control parameters for a first physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resource. B may be an integer greater than or equal to 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2025
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Chuangxin Jiang, Zhaohua Lu, Shujuan Zhang, Bo Gao, Hao Wu, Ke Yao
  • Patent number: 12348294
    Abstract: Systems and methods for wireless communications are disclosed herein. A first communication node reports at least one codeword, a number of antenna ports, a coherence capability of the antenna ports, or a full power transmission mode for the at least one uplink transmission to a second communication node. The at least one codeword is determined based on the number of antenna ports, the coherence capability, and the full power transmission mode. The at least one codeword includes at least one precoding matrix group or at least one Transmission Precoding Matrix Index (TPMI) group corresponding to the at least one precoding matrix group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2025
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Yang Zhang, Bo Gao, Ke Yao, Hao Wu, Zhaohua Lu, Yu Ngok Li, Wenjun Yan
  • Patent number: 12348280
    Abstract: System, methods and apparatuses for enhancing localization of wireless communication devices can include a wireless communication node transmitting, and a wireless communication device receiving, a plurality of reference signals (RSs), for measurement. Each RS can be communicated along a respective transmission link. The wireless communication device can transmit, and the wireless communication node can receive, at least one of assistance information or a report on reference signal receive powers (RSRPs) of a subset of the plurality of RSs, to assist determination of a line-of-sight (LOS) transmission link among the respective transmission links.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2025
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Guozeng Zheng, Huahua Xiao, Chuangxin Jiang, Zhaohua Lu