Patents by Inventor Zhongming Chen

Zhongming Chen 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).

  • Publication number: 20160205705
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for conducting random access on a small cell under dual connectivity. The method includes that: a User Equipment (UE) sends a dedicated random access preamble corresponding to a designated small cell to a base station to which the designated small cell belongs on the designated small cell; and the UE receives a random access response message sent by a base station to which a master control cell in dual connectivity belongs or the base station to which the designated small cell belongs. The present disclosure also discloses a system for conducting random access on a small cell under dual connectivity, a base station, a UE and a computer storage medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2014
    Publication date: July 14, 2016
    Inventor: Zhongming Chen
  • Publication number: 20160112945
    Abstract: Disclosed are a small cell eNodeB access system and a method for realizing network access therefor, including: setting up a control plane link and a user plane link respectively, the small cell eNodeB access system processing control plane data of access UE through the set up control plane link, and processing user plane data of an access UE via the set up user plane link. In the embodiment of the present invention, it makes the UE have data transmission and reception with two different eNodeBs such as macro cell (eNodeB) and small cell (eNodeB) simultaneously by separating the control plane with the data plane, so as to increase the user throughput and enhance the mobility performance, and to solve the problem that the user switches between the cells so that information exchanges frequently between nodes and so as to cause an impact on the core network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2013
    Publication date: April 21, 2016
    Inventors: Zhongming CHEN, Yada HUANG, Xiaojuan SHI, Zhongda DU, Dapeng LI
  • Publication number: 20160044350
    Abstract: A method of operating a communications system storing assets for later transmission, is disclosed. The assets have respective expiration dates beyond which a right to transmit expires. The method comprises checking an expiration date of an asset and deleting the asset from storage based, at least in part, on the expiration date, a predetermined period of time added to or subtracted from the expiration date and/or whether the asset has been selected for later viewing. The predetermined period of time may provide a grace period for completing viewing of a selected asset by a user, either after or before the expiration date, depending on the rights to the asset granted by the source of the asset. The period of time may depend on a playtime of the asset and may be added to the expiration date only if the asset has been selected for viewing. Systems are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2015
    Publication date: February 11, 2016
    Inventors: Zhongming CHEN, Jay Thomas
  • Publication number: 20150359019
    Abstract: Provided are a network access system and method. The system comprises a control plane node which is connected with a UE via a radio interface, connected with an MME via an S1 interface, and configured to process control plane data; and a user plane node, connected with the UE via a radio interface, connected with an SGW via an Ss interface, and configured to process user plane data. It is solved the problem in the related art that a core network is impacted because of frequent information interaction among nodes due to the fact that a user switches among cells, and then achieves the effects of reducing the information interaction among the nodes and reducing the impact on a core network signalling.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2013
    Publication date: December 10, 2015
    Inventors: Zhongming CHEN, Yada HUANG, Zhongda LIN
  • Patent number: 9198097
    Abstract: This document discusses a method and device for initiating cell measurement. An initiating condition for initiating the measurement of a Closed Subscriber Group (CSG) cell and/or a Hybrid cell is preset by the network side. The measurement of the CSG cells and/or Hybrid cells is initiated by a User Equipment (UE) when the initiating condition is satisfied. The UE automatically initiates the measurement of the CSG cell and/or Hybrid cell when the UE is close to its own footprint area or fingerprint area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Zhongming Chen, Xiaojuan Shi, Yada Huang, Zhongda Du, Yun Deng
  • Patent number: 9167210
    Abstract: A method of operating a communications system storing assets for later transmission, is disclosed. The assets have respective expiration dates beyond which a right to transmit expires. The method comprises checking an expiration date of an asset and deleting the asset from storage based, at least in part, on the expiration date, a predetermined period of time added to or subtracted from the expiration date and/or whether the asset has been selected for later viewing. The predetermined period of time may provide a grace period for completing viewing of a selected asset by a user, either after or before the expiration date, depending on the rights to the asset granted by the source of the asset. The period of time may depend on a playtime of the asset and may be added to the expiration date only if the asset has been selected for viewing. Systems are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: Time Warner Cable Enterprises LLC
    Inventors: Zhongming Chen, Jay Thomas
  • Publication number: 20150218699
    Abstract: A heat exchanger type reaction tube includes a first tube part that forms a first flow channel into which a feed gas flows and in which the feed gas moves down; a second tube part that forms a second flow channel which is connected to the first flow channel and in which the feed gas moves up and that has a granular catalyst carrying support medium charged therein; and a heating device that heats the first tube part and the second tube part. Then, the first flow channel and the second flow channel are adjacent to each other while being separated from each other by a partition wall, and the second flow channel is provided with a distributor which holds the catalyst carrying support medium and through which the feed gas passes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2013
    Publication date: August 6, 2015
    Inventors: Suguru Noda, Dong Young Kim, Yusuke Kon, Zhongming Chen, Eisuke Haba, Shunsuke Ueda
  • Publication number: 20150147263
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of producing carbon nanotubes, comprising a catalyst particle forming step of heating and reducing a catalyst raw material to form catalyst particles and a carbon nanotube synthesizing step of flowing a raw material gas onto the heated catalyst particles to synthesize carbon nanotubes, wherein a carbon-containing compound gas without an unsaturated bond is flowed onto the catalyst raw material and/or the catalyst particles in at least one of the catalyst particle forming step and the carbon nanotube synthesizing step.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2013
    Publication date: May 28, 2015
    Inventors: Suguru Noda, Zhongming Chen, Dong Young Kim, Shunsuke Ueda, Eisuke Haba
  • Publication number: 20150147262
    Abstract: The present invention relates to metal catalyst particles for carbon nanotube synthesis, comprising carbon-containing regions on their surfaces.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2013
    Publication date: May 28, 2015
    Inventors: Suguru Noda, Zhongming Chen, Dong Young Kim, Shunsuke Ueda, Eisuke Haba
  • Patent number: 9020510
    Abstract: This document discusses a method and device for initiating cell measurement. An initiating condition for initiating the measurement of a Closed Subscriber Group (CSG) cell and/or a Hybrid cell is preset by the network side. The measurement of the CSG cells and/or Hybrid cells is initiated by a User Equipment (UE) when the initiating condition is satisfied. The UE automatically initiates the measurement of the CSG cell and/or Hybrid cell when the UE is close to its own footprint area or fingerprint area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Zhongming Chen, Xiaojuan Shi, Yada Huang, Zhongda Du, Yun Deng
  • Patent number: 8983469
    Abstract: A method and system for managing neighbor cell information are disclosed in the present invention. A user equipment is reselected into a current Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (UTRA) cell from a former resident cell belonging to other system, and finds out that the former resident cell is not in a neighbor cell list of the current UTRA cell and the user equipment itself supports a neighbor cell relation maintenance function, and/or after receiving an indication notified by a network side that the user equipment can report neighbor cell relation, the user equipment reports an air interface signaling message carrying cell information of the former resident cell to a Radio Network Controller (RNC); the RNC receives and decodes the air interface signaling message, acquires the cell information of the former resident cell, and updates inter-system neighbor cell information according to the cell information of the former resident cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Meifang He, Zhongming Chen, Yin Gao
  • Patent number: 8965378
    Abstract: This document discusses a method and device for initiating cell measurement. An initiating condition for initiating the measurement of a Closed Subscriber Group (CSG) cell and/or a Hybrid cell is preset by the network side. The measurement of the CSG cells and/or Hybrid cells is initiated by a User Equipment (UE) when the initiating condition is satisfied. The UE automatically initiates the measurement of the CSG cell and/or Hybrid cell when the UE is close to its own footprint area or fingerprint area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Zhongming Chen, Xiaojuan Shi, Yada Huang, Zhongda Du, Yun Deng
  • Patent number: 8954052
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a method and system for implementing measurement. The method comprises: a report status of a measurement task is detected, a User Equipment (UE) no longer measures the current measurement task if the report status is that the current measurement task has been finished or will not continue being reported, or the User Equipment (UE) continues measuring the current measurement task if the report status is that the current measurement task is not finished or will continue being reported. By adopting the present invention, the UE is free from unnecessary measurements when the reporting of the measurement task is not needed, which relieves the measurement burden of the UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Yada Huang, Zhongming Chen
  • Patent number: 8948766
    Abstract: A measurement reporting method for a Closed Subscriber Group (CSG) cell and a corresponding User Equipment (UE) are provided in the present invention. The method comprises the following steps that: after detecting a neighboring accessible CSG cell which is not on a frequency in a measurement configuration, a UE in a connected state requests a network for a measurement configuration by reporting indication information which contains the frequency information of the accessible CSG cell and/or the bandwidth information of the accessible CSG cell. The present invention solves the problem about the measurement and reporting of a CSG cell by a UE, so that a network is able to make a decision in time according to a measurement report, satisfying the requirement of the UE on mobility.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Yun Deng, Xiaojuan Shi, Yada Huang, Zhongming Chen
  • Patent number: 8934902
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method of notifying switching information and a base station. The method comprises: a source base station switching a user equipment (UE) to a target Pcell of a target base station; and the source base station notifying the target base station of signal quality of the target Pcell. The present invention ensures that the target base station can efficiently select secondary service cells according to the transmitted information, and reduces time delay.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Zhongming Chen, Yada Huang
  • Patent number: 8908645
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a method for processing a measurement task in a carrier aggregation system, which includes: deleting all measurement tasks related to a source Secondary Cell (Scell); or deleting a measurement task related to an Scell in a deleted source Scell; or doing not delete a measurement task related to the source Scell when a source Scell is reassigned to another frequency having a measurement object, and modifying a measurement object corresponding to the measurement task related to the source Scell to a measurement object of the reassigned frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Zhongming Chen, Yada Huang
  • Publication number: 20140341116
    Abstract: Disclosed are a capability for reporting Feature Group indicators (FGI) capability by the terminal and a method for configuring a measurement task for the terminal by the network side and a terminal, a network side device and a system thereof. Wherein, the method for reporting the FGI capability by the terminal comprises: when reporting the FGI capability of the terminal to the network side, for each Radio Access Technology (RAT), the terminal reporting whether the terminal supports Automatic Neighbor Relation (ANR) capability of the RAT or not. The method for configuring the measurement task for the terminal by the network side comprises: when obtaining the FGI capability of the terminal, the network side also obtaining whether the terminal supports the ANR capability of each RAT or not, and configuring a measurement task corresponding to the FGI capability for the terminal according to the FGI capability supported by the terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2012
    Publication date: November 20, 2014
    Applicant: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Zhongming Chen, Zhongda Du
  • Patent number: 8861478
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a method for processing a measurement task in a carrier aggregation system, which includes: deleting all measurement tasks related to a source Secondary Cell (Scell); or deleting a measurement task related to an Scell in a deleted source Scell; or doing not delete a measurement task related to the source Scell when a source Scell is reassigned to another frequency having a measurement object, and modifying a measurement object corresponding to the measurement task related to the source Scell to a measurement object of the reassigned frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Zhongming Chen, Yada Huang
  • Patent number: 8855664
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a method for acquiring information of a home NodeB, a method for balancing load, and implementation apparatuses thereof, which are used to solve the problem how to guide a UE to move to an appropriate home NodeB when a macro cell performs load balancing. In the present invention, information of a target NodeB is acquired actively through a macro NodeB, and according to an access type of the target NodeB, subscribers of the macro NodeB are timely balanced to the home NodeB which can provide services, thereby reducing a call drop rate resulted from blind handover. Since measurement information of the UE is fully considered, success rate of balancing handover is enhanced, and the object of performing effective load balancing in a home NodeB environment is achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Yin Gao, Zhongming Chen, Jin Xi
  • Patent number: 8804564
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for determining downlink time reference, including: a terminal taking a downlink primary component carrier as a time reference and determining an absolute time to send uplink data according to a time advance based on the time reference. Also disclosed is a method for determining downlink time reference, including: a terminal taking a downlink component carrier which performs random access, or a downlink component carrier corresponding to an uplink component carrier, or another downlink component carrier within a same frequency band as the downlink component carrier corresponding to the uplink component carrier as a time reference, and determining an absolute time to send uplink data according to a time advance based on the time reference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Zhongda Du, Zhongming Chen