Patents by Inventor Anthony Ekpenyong

Anthony Ekpenyong 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: 20230179993
    Abstract: A method of operating a wireless communication system is disclosed (FIG. 6). The method includes receiving a virtual cell identification (VCID) parameter (600) from a remote transmitter. A base sequence index (BSI) and a cyclic shift hopping (CSH) parameter (604,606) are determined in response to the VCID. A pseudo-random sequence is selected in response to the BSI and CSH (610,612). A reference signal is generated using the selected pseudo-random sequence (614).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2023
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Inventors: Anthony Ekpenyong, Ralf Bendlin, Runhua Chen
  • Patent number: 11576035
    Abstract: A method of operating a wireless communication system is disclosed (FIG. 6). The method includes receiving a virtual cell identification (VCID) parameter (600) from a remote transmitter. A base sequence index (BSI) and a cyclic shift hopping (CSH) parameter (604,606) are determined in response to the VCID. A pseudo-random sequence is selected in response to the BSI and CSH (610,612). A reference signal is generated using the selected pseudo-random sequence (614).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Anthony Ekpenyong, Ralf Bendlin, Runhua Chen
  • Patent number: 11362872
    Abstract: Wireless communication techniques for transmitting and receiving reference signals is described. The reference signals may include pilot signals that are transmitted using transmission resources that are separate from data transmission resources. Pilot signals are continuously transmitted from a base station to user equipment being served. Pilot signals are generated from delay-Doppler domain signals that are processed to obtain time-frequency signals that occupy a two-dimensional lattice in the time frequency domain that is non-overlapping with a lattice corresponding to data signal transmissions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: Cohere Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Ronny Hadani, Shlomo Selim Rakib, Anthony Ekpenyong, Clayton Ambrose, Shachar Kons
  • Publication number: 20200322202
    Abstract: Wireless communication techniques for transmitting and receiving reference signals is described. The reference signals may include pilot signals that are transmitted using transmission resources that are separate from data transmission resources. Pilot signals are continuously transmitted from a base station to user equipment being served. Pilot signals are generated from delay-Doppler domain signals that are processed to obtain time-frequency signals that occupy a two-dimensional lattice in the time frequency domain that is non-overlapping with a lattice corresponding to data signal transmissions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2020
    Publication date: October 8, 2020
    Inventors: Ronny Hadani, Shlomo Selim Rakib, Anthony Ekpenyong, Clayton Ambrose, Shachar Kons
  • Patent number: 10693692
    Abstract: Wireless communication techniques for transmitting and receiving reference signals is described. The reference signals may include pilot signals that are transmitted using transmission resources that are separate from data transmission resources. Pilot signals are continuously transmitted from a base station to user equipment being served. Pilot signals are generated from delay-Doppler domain signals that are processed to obtain time-frequency signals that occupy a two-dimensional lattice in the time frequency domain that is non-overlapping with a lattice corresponding to data signal transmissions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: Cohere Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Ronny Hadani, Shlomo Selim Rakib, Anthony Ekpenyong, Clayton Ambrose, Shachar Kons
  • Publication number: 20200029203
    Abstract: A method of operating a wireless communication system is disclosed (FIG. 6). The method includes receiving a virtual cell identification (VCID) parameter (600) from a remote transmitter. A base sequence index (BSI) and a cyclic shift hopping (CSH) parameter (604,606) are determined in response to the VCID. A pseudo-random sequence is selected in response to the BSI and CSH (610,612). A reference signal is generated using the selected pseudo-random sequence (614).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2019
    Publication date: January 23, 2020
    Inventors: Anthony Ekpenyong, Ralf Bendlin, Runhua Chen
  • Patent number: 10433159
    Abstract: A method of operating a wireless communication system is disclosed (FIG. 6). The method includes receiving a virtual cell identification (VCID) parameter (600) from a remote transmitter. A base sequence index (BSI) and a cyclic shift hopping (CSH) parameter (604,606) are determined in response to the VCID. A pseudo-random sequence is selected in response to the BSI and CSH (610,612). A reference signal is generated using the selected pseudo-random sequence (614).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Anthony Ekpenyong, Ralf Bendlin, Runhua Chen
  • Publication number: 20190081836
    Abstract: Wireless communication techniques for transmitting and receiving reference signals is described. The reference signals may include pilot signals that are transmitted using transmission resources that are separate from data transmission resources. Pilot signals are continuously transmitted from a base station to user equipment being served. Pilot signals are generated from delay-Doppler domain signals that are processed to obtain time-frequency signals that occupy a two-dimensional lattice in the time frequency domain that is non-overlapping with a lattice corresponding to data signal transmissions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2017
    Publication date: March 14, 2019
    Inventors: Ronny Hadani, Shlomo Selim Rakib, Anthony Ekpenyong, Clayton Ambrose, Shachar Kons
  • Patent number: 9413509
    Abstract: A method and apparatus of wireless communication between a base station and at least one user equipment. The method includes: transmitting an enhanced physical downlink control channel from the base station to the at least one user equipment using a demodulation reference signal antenna port; transmitting message from the base station to the at least one user equipment which is scheduled by the enhanced physical downlink control channel; receiving the message at the at least one user equipment; determining at the at least one user equipment whether the message was correctly received; and transmitting an ACK/NAK signal on an ACK/NAK resource determined from the enhanced physical downlink control channel from the at least one user equipment to the base station indicating whether the message was correctly received by the at least one user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2016
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Runhua Chen, Anthony Ekpenyong
  • Patent number: 9401748
    Abstract: A method of operating a wireless communication system (FIG. 4) is disclosed. The method includes receiving a plurality of reference signals from a respective plurality of transceivers (402). Each, of the plurality of reference signals is measured to produce a respective plurality of channel state information (CSI) measurements (404). An aggregated channel quality indicator (CQI) is calculated from measuring the plurality of reference signals (406). The aggregated CQI is transmitted to at least one transceiver of the respective plurality of transceivers (408).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2016
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Runhua Chen, Anthony Ekpenyong, Eko Onggosanusi, Ralf Bendlin
  • Patent number: 9319928
    Abstract: A detailed design of an LTE Link Adaptation function for LTE uplink is disclosed. A new approach for adapting SINR backoff in OLLA is used when serving non-time-sensitive radio bearers without target BLER constraint. A sub-optimal scheduler is also disclosed wherein the SINR measurements at the ILLA input are updated on each TTI for the UEs scheduled in that sub-frame for future UL transmission with a fresher interference measurement from the sub-frame preceding by 8 ms the actual transmission sub-frame. This allows for exploitation of a correlation peak of the interference resulting from HARQ retransmissions. A schedule incorporating these features improves upon, with a minor complexity increase, the spectral efficiency performance of a low-complexity baseline scheduler only based on SINR updates at SRS rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Pierre Bertrand, Jing Jiang, Anthony Ekpenyong
  • Patent number: 9154277
    Abstract: This patent application considers the configuration aperiodic sounding reference signal parameters by radio resource control signaling and the triggering of aperiodic SRS transmission by detection of a positive trigger in downlink control information. Transmission timing rules are also proposed to determine the valid subframes for aperiodic SRS transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Anthony Ekpenyong, Vikram Chandrasekhar, Pierre Bertrand
  • Patent number: 9084242
    Abstract: This invention is a technique for coordinate multi-point wireless transmission between plural base stations and user equipment. At least one base station transmits via a Physical Downlink Shared CHannel (PDSCH). The user equipment does not know the identity of the plural base stations. This could include joint transmission by simultaneous data transmission from multiple base stations. This could include dynamic point selection by data transmission from one base station at a time and changing the transmitting point (TP) from one subframe to another subframe. This could include coordinated scheduling/beamforming (CS/CB) where data is transmitted to the user equipment from one base station at a time and the base stations communicate to coordinate user scheduling and beamforming. The transmission point (TP) could vary over Resource Block (RB) pairs within a subframe while never transmitting from more than one base station. The transmission point (TP) could change in a semi-static fashion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2015
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Runhua Chen, Eko N. Onggosanusi, Anthony Ekpenyong, Vikram Chandrasekhar
  • Patent number: 9001756
    Abstract: A wireless transmission system included at least one user equipment and a base station. The base station is operable to form a downlink control information block, modulate the downlink control information, precode the modulated downlink control information, and transmit the precoded, modulated downlink control information on at least one demodulation reference signal antenna port to the at least one user equipment. The precoded, modulated downlink control information is mapped to a set of N1 physical resource block pairs in a subframe from an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing symbol T1 to and orthogonal frequency division multiplexing symbol T2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Runhua Chen, Eko Onggosanusi, Vikram Chandrasekhar, Anthony Ekpenyong
  • Patent number: 9001641
    Abstract: A wireless communication receiver including a serial to parallel converter receiving an radio frequency signal, a fast Fourier transform device connected to said serial to parallel converter converting NFFT corresponding serial signals into a frequency domain; an EZC root sequence unit generating a set of root sequence signals; an element-by-element multiply unit forming a set of products including a product of each of said frequency domain signals from said fast Fourier transform device and a corresponding root sequence signal, an NSRS-length IDFT unit performing a group cyclic-shift de-multiplexing of the products and a discrete Fourier transform unit converting connected cyclic shift de-multiplexing signals back to frequency-domain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Pierre Bertrand, Anthony Ekpenyong
  • Patent number: 8767641
    Abstract: In this invention wireless communication of data between a user equipment and a base station including bandwidth aggregation of a plurality of component carriers, includes a first unit transmitting on a first component carrier a grant control signal the other unit specifying a second component carrier different to transmit the typically via a carrier indication field of 3 bits. The carrier indication field can be a one-to-one mapping to each possible second component carrier of a component carrier offset from an anchor carrier, which could be the first component carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Runhua Chen, Anthony Ekpenyong, Eko N. Onggosanusi
  • Patent number: 8761062
    Abstract: This invention sets conditions for user equipment responses to channel state indicator request in channel state information that may conflict.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Vikram Chandrasekhar, Runhua Chen, Anthony Ekpenyong
  • Publication number: 20140036859
    Abstract: This invention is a method of wireless communication between a base station and at least one user equipment. The base station signals a user equipment to produce a burst of a number of sounding reference signals having a predetermined burst duration. The user equipment sounds wireless channel to the base station via a burst of sounding reference signals having the predetermined burst duration. The base station schedules transmission of user equipment in time and frequency domain according to a CQI estimated from the received sounding reference signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2011
    Publication date: February 6, 2014
    Applicant: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Anthony Ekpenyong, Vikram Chandrasekhar, Runhua Chen, Pierre Bertrand
  • Publication number: 20140036737
    Abstract: A method of operating a wireless communication system is disclosed (FIG. 6). The method includes receiving a virtual cell identification (VCID) parameter (600) from a remote transmitter. A base sequence index (BSI) and a cyclic shift hopping (CSH) parameter (604,606) are determined in response to the VCID. A pseudo-random sequence is selected in response to the BSI and CSH (610,612). A reference signal is generated using the selected pseudo-random sequence (614).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2013
    Publication date: February 6, 2014
    Applicant: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Anthony Ekpenyong, Ralf Bendlin, Runhua Chen
  • Publication number: 20130258886
    Abstract: A method of operating a wireless communication system (FIG. 4) is disclosed. The method includes receiving a plurality of reference signals from a respective plurality of transceivers (402). Each, of the plurality of reference signals is measured to produce a respective plurality of channel state information (CSI) measurements (404). An aggregated channel quality indicator (CQI) is calculated from measuring the plurality of reference signals (406). The aggregated CQI is transmitted to at least one transceiver of the respective plurality of transceivers (408).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2013
    Publication date: October 3, 2013
    Applicant: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Runhua Chen, Anthony Ekpenyong, Eko Onggosanusi, Ralf Bendlin