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).

  • Patent number: 11101936
    Abstract: The present application is related to a method and apparatus of using redundant bits in semi-statically configured HARQ-ACK feedback. A method of receiving information according to one embodiment comprises receiving a first number of code block groups from a base unit, wherein each code block within a code block group is independently decodable; determining a (HARQ-ACK) codebook size corresponding to the first number of code block groups; and transmitting a HARQ-ACK codebook to the base unit, wherein the HARQ-ACK codebook comprises the first number of HARQ-ACK bits with each bit corresponding to one code block group and a second number of padded bits. The first number plus the second number is equal to the determined HARQ-ACK codebook size. The present application enhances the downlink (DL) transmission performance and the uplink (UL) HARQ-ACK transmission reliability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: Lenovo (Beijing) Limited
    Inventors: Haipeng Lei, Chenxi Zhu, Zhi Yan, Zhennian Sun
  • Publication number: 20210212154
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for gap period configuration. One apparatus includes a receiver that receives a configuration message. The configuration message includes information that configures one or more gap periods within a transmission period. The apparatus also includes a transmitter that transmits data in the transmission period. The receiver receives a control indication message in the one or more gap periods.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2021
    Publication date: July 8, 2021
    Inventors: Zhi Yan, Xiaodong Yu, Haipeng Lei, Chenxi Zhu
  • Publication number: 20210169005
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a filtration system for harvesting microalgae. The filtration system includes a filter housing with modular filtration units each containing a fungal filter. The fungal filter includes a perforated support with a capture fungus on the support. The fungal filter is adapted to be removed and replaced from the modular filtration unit, for example during operation of the filtration system. The capture fungus is adapted to capture one or more types of microalgae upon contact of the capture fungus with the microalgae, for example via fungal mycelium. During use of the filtration system to treat an influent stream containing microalgae, microalgae are captured and coated on the fungal filters. The coated fungal filters can be easily removed and the microalgae is harvested directly from the perforated support. New replacement filters can be inserted into the filtration system for continuous operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2020
    Publication date: June 10, 2021
    Inventors: Zhi-Yan Du, Muhammad Fadzlan Bin Kamarudzaman, Warren Purvin, Spencer Rinke, Tomo Max Saito, Chad Winner
  • Publication number: 20210176671
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for discarding data corresponding to a conditional handover. One apparatus includes a transmitter that transmits information corresponding to a conditional handover to multiple candidate cells. The information indicates to one or more candidate cells of the multiple candidate cells a time to discard data or to discard the data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2021
    Publication date: June 10, 2021
    Inventors: Lianhai Wu, Zhi Yan, Chenxi Zhu, Haiming Wang
  • Publication number: 20210167893
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for information having symbol repetition. One apparatus (300) includes a transmitter (310) that transmits (1602) multiple sets of information. Each set of information of the multiple sets of information includes a group of basic symbols and optional repetition symbols, and the optional repetition symbols are a repetition of at least part of the group of basic symbols.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2017
    Publication date: June 3, 2021
    Inventors: Zhi Yan, Haipeng Lei, Xiaodong Yu, Chenxi Zhu, Haiming Wang
  • Publication number: 20210127323
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for determining a time-frequency resource for transmitting and/or receiving using a system parameter. One apparatus (200) includes a receiver (212) that receives (702) system information on a time-frequency resource. The time-frequency resource is determined by a system parameter, and the system parameter includes a system operation mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2017
    Publication date: April 29, 2021
    Inventors: Zhi Yan, Xiaodong Yu, Haipeng Lei, Lianhai Wu, Yingying Li
  • Patent number: 10979180
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgment bundling. One apparatus includes a processor that generates a hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgment bundle for transmission in a first available feedback resource. In such an apparatus, the hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgment bundle includes a first number of hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgements of first hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgments, and the number of hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgments is less than a threshold number of hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgments. The apparatus also includes a transmitter that transmits the hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgment bundle in the first available feedback resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: Lenovo Innovations Limited (Hong Kong)
    Inventors: Zhi Yan, Xiaodong Yu, Chenxi Zhu
  • Publication number: 20210099268
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for transmitting and/or receiving a feedback message indicating feed-back for one or more processes. One apparatus (200) includes a transmitter (210) that transmits (502) data. The apparatus (200) includes a receiver (212) that receives (504) a feedback message in a control channel. The feedback message corresponds to the transmitted data, and the feedback message includes: a feedback flag indicating whether the feedback message includes feedback for one or more processes; and a feedback indication indicating feedback for the one or more processes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2017
    Publication date: April 1, 2021
    Inventors: Zhi Yan, Haipeng Lei, Yingying Li, Haiming Wang
  • Publication number: 20210067282
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for indicating a frequency offset of a non-anchor carrier are disclosed. A method comprising: transmitting a broadcast signal on an anchor carrier and transmitting system information on a non-anchor carrier, wherein the broadcast signal includes a frequency offset of the non-anchor carrier to the anchor carrier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2018
    Publication date: March 4, 2021
    Inventors: Zhi Yan, Xiaodong YU, Haipeng LEI, Chenxi ZHU
  • Patent number: 10939329
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for discarding data corresponding to a conditional handover. One apparatus (300) includes a transmitter (310) that transmits (602) information corresponding to a conditional handover to multiple candidate cells. The information indicates to one or more candidate cells of the multiple candidate cells a time to discard data or to discard the data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: Motorola Mobility LLC
    Inventors: Lianhai Wu, Zhi Yan, Chenxi Zhu, Haiming Wang
  • Publication number: 20210037514
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for transmitting a control message are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2018
    Publication date: February 4, 2021
    Inventors: Zhi Yan, Xiaodong Yu, Haipeng Lei, Chenxi Zhu, Haiming Wang
  • Publication number: 20210006378
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2018
    Publication date: January 7, 2021
    Inventors: Haipeng Lei, Haiming Wang, Zhi Yan, Xiaodong Yu
  • Patent number: 10887871
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for device-to-device transmission. One apparatus includes a receiver that receives a control signal containing a first set of bits indicating a frequency band reference and a second set of bits indicating a frequency band pattern. In such an embodiment, the frequency band pattern is based on a unit size of the frequency band reference. Moreover, the apparatus includes a processor that identifies a resource assignment from both the frequency band reference and the frequency band pattern. In some embodiments, the apparatus includes a transmitter that transmits data on the resource assignment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: Lenovo Innovations Limited (Hong Kong)
    Inventors: Zhi Yan, Xinghua Song, Chenxi Zhu
  • Patent number: 10858687
    Abstract: This application describes consortium between fungi and algae, where the algae are incorporated within hyphae of the fungi. The fungi, the algae, or both can be modified to express heterologous lipid synthesizing enzymes. Incorporation of algae into fungi facilitates harvesting of the algae and products produced by the consortia. Such consortia are robust. For example, the fungi and algae can symbiotically provide nutrients to each other and are tolerant of environmental stresses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: Board of Trustees of Michigan State University
    Inventors: Gregory Bonito, Zhi-Yan Du, Christoph Benning
  • Publication number: 20200374048
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for determining hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement (“HARQ-ACK”) feedback timing for semi-persistent scheduling (“SPS”) physical downlink shared channel (“PDSCH”). One apparatus (300) includes a receiver (335) that receives (805) a radio resource control (“RRC”) signal from a base unit and a processor (305) that determines (810) a feedback timing for a SPS PDSCH transmission. The processor (305) uses the RRC signal to determine the feedback timing. The apparatus also includes a transmitter (330) that transmits (815) HARQ-ACK feedback to the base unit in a first slot defined by the feedback timing information. Here, the HARQ-ACK feedback indicating whether the SPS PDSCH transmission was successfully received.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2017
    Publication date: November 26, 2020
    Inventors: Haipeng Lei, Zhi Yan, Lianhai Wu
  • Publication number: 20200359304
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for determining a discovery announcement pool. One method (600) includes receiving (602) multiple discovery announcement pools. The multiple discovery announcement pools include different discovery signal transmission bandwidths, different numbers of transmission subframes, or a combination thereof. The method (600) includes determining (604) a first discovery announcement pool of the multiple discovery announcement pools. The method (600) includes transmitting (606) a discovery announcement signal using the first discovery announcement pool.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2017
    Publication date: November 12, 2020
    Inventors: Xiaodong Yu, Zhi Yan, Chenxi Zhu, Lianhai Wu, Haipeng Lei
  • Patent number: 10827038
    Abstract: Systems and methods for receiving, at a server computer, an indication that a user is exiting an application on a client device displaying a first document, causing a footprint of the first document to be stored, receiving, at the server computer, a request for a second document from the client device operated by the user, determining that the user is enrolled in a footprint services, retrieving a footprint associated with the user including information related to a document previously accessed by the user, causing information related to the footprint to be displayed to the user on the client device, receiving, from the client device operated by the user, a response to the information related to the footprint displayed to the user on the client device, determining, from the response, a request to display the document associated with the footprint, and causing the document associated with the footprint to be displayed to the user instead of the second document requested by the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: SuccessFactors, Inc.
    Inventors: Xiao Zhi Yan, Sally Weng, Peter Zhao
  • Patent number: 10822583
    Abstract: This application describes consortium between fungi and algae, where the algae are incorporated within hyphae of the fungi. The consortium is robust. The fungi and algae can symbiotically provide nutrients to each other, and are tolerant of environmental stresses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: Board of Trustees of Michigan State University
    Inventors: Gregory Bonito, Zhi-Yan Du, Christoph Benning
  • Publication number: 20200344010
    Abstract: The present application is related to a method and apparatus for determining a hybrid automatic repeat request-acknowledge (HARQ-ACK) codebook for carrier aggregation (CA). A method for determining a HARQ-ACK codebook for CA includes receiving a first control signal on a carrier within a carrier group in a slot, wherein the first control signal includes an indicator for indicating whether the carrier is a last scheduled carrier of the carrier group for downlink transmissions. The method further includes transmitting a hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) codebook corresponding to the downlink transmissions in the slot for the carrier group, wherein, based on the first control signal, one or more HARQ-ACK bits for the last scheduled carrier are arranged at the end of the HARQ-ACK codebook. The present application reduces signaling overhead for a HARQ-ACK codebook and avoids misunderstanding between a base unit and a remote unit when determining the HARQ-ACK codebook for CA.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2018
    Publication date: October 29, 2020
    Inventors: Haipeng Lei, Haiming Wang, Zhi Yan, Xiaodong Yu
  • Publication number: 20200336957
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for conditional handovers involving multiple candidate cells. One apparatus (102) includes a receiver (212) that receives (602) a handover command involving multiple candidate cells. The apparatus (102) includes a processor (202) that selects (604) a target cell of the multiple candidate cells in response to the target cell meeting a predetermined condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2017
    Publication date: October 22, 2020
    Inventors: Lianhai Wu, Zhi Yan, Chenxi Zhu, Haiming Wang