Patents by Inventor Zhi YAN
Zhi YAN 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: 20250151046Abstract: According to some embodiments of the disclosure, a user equipment (UE) may: determine a first physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resource for a first PUCCH transmission in a first time unit, wherein the first PUCCH transmission carries hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) information bits for at least one semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) reception, and the first PUCCH resource is on a first frequency domain part; and in the event that the first PUCCH resource overlaps a symbol not intended for an uplink transmission on a second frequency domain part, defer the first PUCCH transmission.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 31, 2021Publication date: May 8, 2025Inventors: RUIXIANG MA, YUANTAO ZHANG, HONGMEI LIU, ZHI YAN, HAIMING WANG
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Patent number: 12294937Abstract: The present disclosure is related to a method and apparatus for wireless communication. A method performed by a user equipment, comprising: determining a first control resource set based on configuration information associated with a second control resource set; and determining a first search space based on configuration information associated with a second search space, wherein the first control resource set is associated with the first search space and the second control resource set is associated with the second search space.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2019Date of Patent: May 6, 2025Assignee: Lenovo (Beijing) Ltd.Inventors: Yuantao Zhang, Hongmei Liu, Zhi Yan, Yingying Li, Haipeng Lei, Haiming Wang
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Patent number: 12294992Abstract: Embodiments of the present application are related to a method and apparatus for physical random access channel (PRACH) repetitions. A method according to an embodiment of the present application includes: receiving signaling information indicating at least one of a total number of a set of preambles in a period, a total number of a set of physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) resource units (PRUs) in the period, a preamble repetition number in the period and a PRU repetition number in the period; and determining a mapping ratio of preambles to PRUs in the period based on the received signaling information.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2020Date of Patent: May 6, 2025Assignee: Lenovo (Beijing) Ltd.Inventors: Hongmei Liu, Zhi Yan, Yuantao Zhang, Haipeng Lei
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Publication number: 20250141620Abstract: Methods and apparatus of indicating states of availability of Tracking Reference Signal (TRS) resources are disclosed. The method includes: receiving, by a receiver, a first signaling indicating states of availability of Tracking Reference Signal (TRS) resource groups in a first set of TRS resource groups, a second signaling indicating states of availability of TRS resource groups in a second set of TRS resource groups; and determining, by a processor, availability of TRS resources based on the first signaling and the second signaling; wherein each of the first signaling and the second signaling is one of: a paging Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) based signaling and a Paging Early Indication (PEI) based signaling.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2021Publication date: May 1, 2025Applicant: Lenovo (Beijing) LimitedInventors: Yingying Li, Zhi Yan, Yuantao Zhang, Hongmei Liu, Haiming Wang
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Publication number: 20250141605Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for are NTN IoT HARQ disabling disclosed. A UE comprises a processor; and a receiver coupled to the processor, wherein the processor is configured to receive, via the receiver, HARQ configuration and a control signal scheduling transport block(s), where each of the scheduled transport block(s) is associated with an HARQ process number; and receive, via the receiver, the scheduled transport block(s) based on the control signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2021Publication date: May 1, 2025Applicant: Lenovo (Beijing) LimitedInventors: Zhi Yan, Hongmei Liu, Yuantao Zhang, Yingying Li, Haiming Wang
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Patent number: 12284652Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods and apparatuses. According to some embodiments of the disclosure, a method includes: receiving a first buffer status report at a communication device; and triggering a pre-emptive buffer status report based on the first buffer status report if a trigger condition is met.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2019Date of Patent: April 22, 2025Assignee: Lenovo (Beijing) LimitedInventors: Lianhai Wu, Haiming Wang, Jing Han, Zhi Yan, Jie Shi, Jie Hu
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Patent number: 12284037Abstract: Embodiments of the present application are related to a method and apparatus for PDCCH repetition. A method according to an embodiment of the present application includes: receiving control channel element (CCE) aggregation level (AL) information in a search space set configuration; determining a scaling factor for each of repetition levels of a maximum repetition number, wherein the maximum repetition number corresponds to a total number of monitor occasions (MOs) within a set of MOs; computing a number of PDCCH candidates to be monitored for each of the repetition levels based on the CCE AL information and the scaling factor for each of the repetition levels; and receiving a control signal on the PDCCH candidates.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2020Date of Patent: April 22, 2025Assignee: Lenovo (Beijing) Ltd.Inventors: Yingying Li, Yuantao Zhang, Hongmei Liu, Zhi Yan, Haiming Wang
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Patent number: 12284134Abstract: The present application relates to method and apparatus for fallback operation for semi-static HARQ-ACK codebook determination. One embodiment of the present disclosure provides an apparatus comprising: a receiver that receives at least one down-link (DL) transmission within a DL association set; a processor that determines whether to use a fallback hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) transmission; and a transmitter that transmits a first HARQ-ACK codebook on a first resource for the DL association set in response to the fallback HARQ-ACK transmission being used or a second HARQ-ACK codebook on a second resource for the DL association set in response to the fallback HARQ-ACK transmission not being used.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2023Date of Patent: April 22, 2025Assignee: Lenovo (Beijing) LimitedInventors: Haipeng Lei, Haiming Wang, Zhi Yan, Xiaodong Yu
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Patent number: 12280132Abstract: A low-pH, aqueous skin care composition, comprising: a) 0.1 to 10% of a hydroxycinnamic acid (HCA); and b) 0.1% to 5% of a hydrotrope selected from the group consisting of: phenolic acid, derivatives of phenolic acid, phenolic alcohol, derivatives of phenolic alcohol, and mixtures thereof; wherein the hydrotrope has a pKA less than the formula pH; and wherein the hydrotrope has the partition coefficient (logP) of less than 3.0; c) water, and wherein the pH of the composition is less than 5.0.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2022Date of Patent: April 22, 2025Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Matthew Clair Ehrman, Wan Ting Chung, Zhi Yan Chew
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Patent number: 12273865Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for NBIoT frequency hopping are disclosed. A method comprises receiving a signal on a first number of frequency carriers, the signal switches among the first number of frequency carriers every a second number of time unit, wherein, the second number is configured by higher layer signaling, and the second number is determined by at least one of a subcarrier spacing of the signal, a scaling factor, a resource unit size of the signal, a subcarrier allocation.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2019Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: Lenovo (Beijing) LimitedInventors: Zhi Yan, Haipeng Lei, Yingying Li, Lianhai Wu, Jie Shi, Haiming Wang
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Publication number: 20250106858Abstract: Embodiments of the present application are related to a method and apparatus of beam indication. According to an embodiment of the present application, an exemplary method includes: receive at least first spatial domain filter configuration information from a second RAN node; and perform at least one of the following: downlink transmission to a remote apparatus at least according to a first spatial domain filter; downlink reception from the second RAN node at least according to a second spatial domain filter; uplink reception from the remote apparatus at least according to a third spatial domain filter; or uplink transmission to the second RAN node at least according to a fourth spatial domain filter.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 10, 2022Publication date: March 27, 2025Applicant: Lenovo (Beijing) LimitedInventors: Hongmei Liu, Zhi Yan, Yuantao Zhang, Ruixiang Ma, Haiming Wang
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Publication number: 20250089099Abstract: Disclosed are methods and apparatuses for random access (RA) procedure in full duplex mode. An embodiment of the subject application provides a user equipment (UE). The UE includes a processor and a wireless transceiver coupled to the processor. The processor is configured to: receive, with the wireless transceiver, a Bandwidth Part (BWP) configuration for at least a uplink (UL) BWP from a base station (BS), and determine a set of valid Random Access Channel (RACH) Occasions (ROs) within the UL BWP for FD functionality, wherein the BS is able to perform reception in the UL BWP with the UE when the BS performs transmission in a downlink (DL) BWP with another UE.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 24, 2021Publication date: March 13, 2025Applicant: Lenovo (Beijing) LimitedInventors: Yuantao Zhang, Ruixiang Ma, Hongmei Liu, Zhi Yan, Yingying Li, Haiming Wang
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Publication number: 20250089025Abstract: Embodiments of the present application are related to a wireless communication method and apparatus. According an embodiment of the present application, an exemplary method includes: receiving a signaling indicating a first set of reference signal (RS), wherein a spatial domain filter associated with the first set of RS is on or off; and determining a second set of RS based on the signaling, wherein the second set of RS is a set of RS associated with channel state information (CSI) reporting, or a set of pathloss RS, or a set of RS associated with radio link monitoring (RLM), or a set of RS associated with beam failure recovery (BFR).Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2021Publication date: March 13, 2025Inventors: HONGMEI LIU, ZHI YAN, YUANTAO ZHANG, YINGYING LI, HAIMING WANG
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Patent number: 12250696Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relates to methods and apparatuses for wireless communication. According to some embodiments of the present disclosure, a method includes: receiving a signaling indicating configuration information on a set of aperiodic channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) resources corresponding to a trigger state in a downlink control information (DCI). The set of aperiodic CSI-RS resources may include a plurality of subsets of aperiodic CSI-RS resources; and receiving at least one aperiodic CSI-RS resource of the set of aperiodic CSI-RS resources according to the configuration information.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2020Date of Patent: March 11, 2025Assignee: Lenovo (Beijing) LimitedInventors: Hongmei Liu, Zhi Yan, Yuantao Zhang, Yingying Li, Haiming Wang
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Publication number: 20250070925Abstract: Embodiments of the present application relate to methods and apparatuses of frequency hopping for full duplex (FD). According to an embodiment of the present application, a user equipment (UE) includes a processor and a transceiver coupled to the processor; and the processor of the UE is configured: to receive, via the transceiver of the UE from a network node, configuration information regarding frequency hopping for a subset of symbols or slots of a plurality of available symbols or slots in a time domain; and to determine, based on the configuration information regarding frequency hopping, a frequency hopping operation in the subset of symbols or slots for at least one of a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resource and a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) resource.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 30, 2021Publication date: February 27, 2025Applicant: Lenovo (Beijing) LimitedInventors: Yuantao Zhang, Ruixiang Ma, Hongmei Liu, Zhi Yan, Yingying Li, Haiming Wang
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Publication number: 20250071817Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to methods and apparatuses for physical random access channel (PRACH) repetition. According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, a user equipment (UE) can include: a receiver that receives configuration information; a processor coupled to the receiver, wherein the processor: determines a plurality of synchronization signal block (SSB) patterns based on the configuration information, wherein each SSB pattern includes one or more SSBs; determines an SSB pattern from the plurality of SSB patterns; determines a set of random access channel (RACH) occasions (ROs) for PRACH repetition based on the determined SSB pattern; determines, from the plurality of SSB patterns, a set of SSB patterns associated with each RO of the set of ROs, wherein the set of SSB patterns include the determined SSB pattern; and determines a set of preambles associated with each SSB pattern of the set of SSB patterns; and a transmitter coupled to the processor.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 17, 2022Publication date: February 27, 2025Inventors: Yuantao ZHANG, Hongmei LIU, Zhi YAN, Haiming WANG
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Patent number: 12226659Abstract: A neutron capture therapy system is provided, which may prevent a material of a beam shaping assembly from deformation and damaged, and improve the flux and quality of neutron sources. A boron neutron capture therapy system (100) includes a neutron generating device (10) and a beam shaping assembly (20). The neutron generating device (10) includes an accelerator (11) and a target (T). A charged particle beam (P) generated by acceleration of the accelerator (11) acts with the target (T) to generate neutrons. The neutrons form a neutron beam (N). The neutron beam (N) defines a main axis (X). The beam shaping assembly (20) includes a support part (21) and a main part (23) filled within the support part (21).Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2024Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Assignee: NEUBORON THERAPY SYSTEM LTD.Inventors: Wei-Lin Chen, Tao Jiang, Fa-Zhi Yan
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Patent number: 12232035Abstract: Methods, a remote unit and a base unit are disclosed. According to one embodiment, a method at a base unit, comprising: generating a wake up signal (WUS) set consisted of a number of WUSs to indicate that are mote unit shall attempt to receive a paging message in a paging occasion (PO) on a Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) in a cell, mapping each of the WUSs to a number of resource sets, transmitting, to the remote unit, the WUS set on a time-frequency resource, wherein the PO is a set of PDCCH monitoring occasions (MOs), wherein the number of the WUSs is determined by the number of Synchronization Signal Blocks (SSBs) actually transmitted by the base unit, and wherein the Kth WUS and the Kth transmitted SSB are quasi co-located, where K is an integer no more than the number of the WUSs.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2019Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Assignee: Lenovo (Beijing) Ltd.Inventors: Yingying Li, Zhi Yan, Haipeng Lei, Hongmei Liu, Jie Shi
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Publication number: 20250048365Abstract: Embodiment of the present application is directed to a method and apparatus for slot format indication. According to an embodiment of the present application, the method includes receiving at least one signal indicating one of: whether at least one symbol at a beginning of a sequence of consecutive symbols transmitted or received over a communication link is reserved or is to be reserved, and whether at least one symbol at an end of the sequence of consecutive symbols transmitted or received over the communication link is reserved or is to be reserved. The at least one uplink transmission is performed based on the received signal in response to the communication link being associated with an uplink transmission. The at least one downlink reception is performed based on the received signal in response to the communication link being associated with downlink reception.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 25, 2024Publication date: February 6, 2025Inventors: Hongmei Liu, Lianhai Wu, Zhennian Sun, Haipeng Lei, Zhi Yan
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Publication number: 20250048435Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for wake up signal for uplink transmission are disclosed. A method at a UE comprises: receiving PRACH configuration, where one or multiple ROs are in a PRACH configuration period; and transmitting at least a WUS (wake up signal) within a wake, the WUS transmitted at the first or first several ROs within the wake-up period or at a resource in front of RO(s) within the wake-up period.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2021Publication date: February 6, 2025Inventors: ZHI YAN, HONGMEI LIU, YUANTAO ZHANG, YINGYING LI, HAIMING WANG