Patents by Inventor Ekpenyong TONY

Ekpenyong TONY 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: 20200196284
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method and device for transmitting a downlink control channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2018
    Publication date: June 18, 2020
    Inventors: Lei WANG, Ekpenyong TONY, Xuejuan GAO
  • Publication number: 20200187172
    Abstract: Disclosed are downlink control information transmission and reception methods and devices, for solving the technical problem of excessive high power consumption caused by high workload of terminal monitoring in the case of higher frequency. The method comprises: a base station determines at least one beam direction for transmitting downlink control information of a terminal, and generates first downlink control channel configuration information according to at least one determined beam direction, the first downlink control channel configuration information being used for indicating the beam direction of the downlink control information transmitted by the base station to the terminal; after transmitting the first downlink control channel configuration information to the terminal, the base station transmits the downlink control information to the terminal in the at least one beam direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2018
    Publication date: June 11, 2020
    Inventors: Lei WANG, Ekpenyong TONY, Fang-Chen CHENG
  • Publication number: 20200187193
    Abstract: Disclosed in the present application are an uplink control channel transmission method, a terminal, a base station and a device, for solving the problem, in the prior art, that no relevant solution addresses how to perform long NR-PUCCH transmission in multiple slots. The method applied to a terminal comprises: determining a total transmission length T of an uplink control channel (PUCCH) to be transmitted in P slots; determining the transmission structure of the PUCCH on the basis of T; and transmitting the PUCCH in the P slots according to the transmission structure. The present invention defines the transmission structure for long PUCCH transmission in multiple slots, realizing the normal transmission of the long PUCCH in multiple slots.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2018
    Publication date: June 11, 2020
    Inventors: Xuejuan GAO, Ekpenyong TONY
  • Publication number: 20200170018
    Abstract: Disclosed are a data transmission method, a terminal, and a base station. Determined is that a TB needs to be divided into M CBG; grouping, according to a preset grouping scheme, multiple CB produced when the one TB is code block segmented, thus diving the one TB into the M CBG; and transmitting data according to the M CBG, where M is a positive integer. The technical solution of the present invention solves the technical problem of low data transmission efficiency and low resource utilization rate in an LTE system found in the prior art.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2018
    Publication date: May 28, 2020
    Applicant: China Academy of Telecommunications Technology
    Inventors: Xuejuan GAO, Ekpenyong TONY, Fang-Chen CHENG
  • Publication number: 20200170033
    Abstract: Embodiment of the present application provides a transmission method, a terminal device, and a base station, used to solve the technical problem in the related art that there is no method supporting CBG-based retransmission and ACK/NACK feedback. The transmission method comprises: receiving by the terminal device a downlink control channel; and acquiring by the terminal device a first indication field from the downlink control channel, the first indication field being used to indicate whether each code block group (CBG) in the corresponding CBGs in an initial transmission of TB needs to be retransmitted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2018
    Publication date: May 28, 2020
    Applicant: China Academy of Telecommunications Technology
    Inventors: Xuejuan GAO, Ekpenyong TONY, Fang-Chen CHENG
  • Publication number: 20200154408
    Abstract: Disclosed in the present application are an information transmission method and device, for realizing the transmission of information of a group of terminals. The information transmission method provided in the present application comprises: determining information of a group of terminals to be sent; and sending, by means of a group common physical downlink control channel (PDCCH), the information of the group of terminals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2018
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventors: Lei WANG, Ekpenyong TONY
  • Publication number: 20200145170
    Abstract: A method and device for transmitting information, for solving the problem that at present there is no solution configured to use a group common physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) to transmit information related with a group of terminals. In the embodiments of the present disclosure, a base station determines information of a group of terminals to be sent; and the base station uses, within a set of resources of a group common PDCCH corresponding to the group of terminals, a fixed subcarrier space or different subcarrier spaces to send the information of the group of terminals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2018
    Publication date: May 7, 2020
    Inventors: Lei WANG, Ekpenyong TONY
  • Publication number: 20200146036
    Abstract: Disclosed in an embodiment of the present application are a method and device for determining whether data is damaged, the method comprising: a terminal receiving a downlink control channel which is used for scheduling retransmission; according to the downlink control channel, the terminal determining whether damaged data is present during N previous transmissions of a retransmitted data packet, which are scheduled by the downlink control channel, N being an integer greater than or equal to 1; hence, the terminal receives the downlink control channel which is used for scheduling retransmission, and determines, according to the downlink control channel, whether damaged data is present during the N previous transmissions of the retransmitted data packet, which are scheduled by the downlink control channel, thereby improving transmission performance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2018
    Publication date: May 7, 2020
    Inventors: Xuejuan GAO, Ekpenyong TONY, Fang-Chen CHENG
  • Publication number: 20200128538
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method and apparatus for indicating and determining a slot structure, the method comprising: a base station determining a structure in a slot; the base station indicating, in a dynamic or semi-static manner, the structure in the slot to a terminal; receiving the structure in the slot indicated by the base station, in the dynamic or semi-static manner, to the terminal; and the terminal determining the structure of one or more slots according to the indicated slot structure. By means of the present invention, when a future mobile communication system needs to provide lower network delay and support richer service types, a slot structure supported by the system is more flexible and diverse.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2018
    Publication date: April 23, 2020
    Inventors: Lei WANG, Ekpenyong TONY
  • Publication number: 20200120712
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method and device for determining a preamble sequence of a physical random access channel. The method comprises: includes in a previous stage, receiving respective preamble sub-sequences, and determining instances of time at which the respective preamble sub-sequences are detected in a detection window; in a current stage, receiving respective preamble sub-sequences, and determining instances of time at which the respective preamble sub-sequences are detected in the detection window; and determining preamble sub-sequences belonging to a same preamble sequence according to the instances of time at which the respective preamble sub-sequences are detected in the current stage, and the instances of time at which the respective preamble sub-sequences are detected in the previous stage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2018
    Publication date: April 16, 2020
    Applicant: CHINA ACADEMY OF TELECOMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Bin REN, Ren DA, Fang-Chen CHENG, Ekpenyong TONY
  • Publication number: 20190356459
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the technical field of communications, and specifically relates to a method and device for determining the initial positions of a downlink data channel. The present invention solves the problem of determining the initial positions in the time domain of a downlink data channel when the resources occupied by a downlink control channel in the time domain are variable. The method comprises: a base station transmits to a terminal a generated indication signaling, and the terminal determines, on the basis of the received indication signaling, the time domain initial positions of the downlink data channel in L downlink TTIs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2018
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Applicant: CHINA ACADEMY OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Lei WANG, Ekpenyong TONY, Xueming PAN, Fang-Chen CHENG
  • Publication number: 20190357174
    Abstract: A data transmission method, apparatus and system, the method comprising: for an initial access uplink data transmission, determining a modulation and coding scheme for uplink data according to protocol specification and/or base station broadcast information; using the determined modulation and coding scheme to perform modulation and coding on the uplink data, and sending a preamble and the modulated and coded uplink data. In the present invention, the modulation and coding scheme for the uplink data for the initial access uplink data transmission is determined according to the protocol specification and/or base station broadcast information, and the modulation and coding is thereby performed on the uplink data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2018
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Applicant: China Academy of Telecommunications Technology
    Inventors: Zheng ZHAO, Ekpenyong TONY, Bin REN, Xueming PAN
  • Publication number: 20190357268
    Abstract: Disclosed are a data transmission method, device, and system. The method comprises: for the transmission of random access uplink data, according to the correspondence between preambles and data resources as described by a protocol, determining the data resource corresponding to the preamble in the uplink data transmission, different preambles corresponding to different data resources; transmitting the preamble and the uplink data that uses the determined data resource. In the embodiments of the present invention, a protocol describes the correspondence between preambles and data resources. For the transmission of random access uplink data, the data resource corresponding to the preamble in the uplink data transmission can be determined, and different preambles correspond to different data resources. Thus it can be ensured that different users use different data resources to bear uplink data, thereby enabling the data portion multiplexing for multiple users.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2018
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Applicant: CHINA ACADEMY OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Zheng ZHAO, Ekpenyong TONY, Bin REN, Xueming PAN
  • Publication number: 20190357203
    Abstract: The present application discloses an uplink data retransmission method and terminal. The method comprises: a terminal determining whether to spontaneously retransmit first uplink data; and if the terminal determines to spontaneously retransmit the first uplink data, the terminal retransmitting the first uplink data on a physical resource that is pre-configured on a network side. The application adopts the above technical solution to resolve the technical problem in which, for a URLLC service, if a retransmission mechanism is based on a conventional HARQ mechanism, a certain time interval is required between two adjacent transmissions of uplink data, which may result in retransmission being unsupported for a certain time delay requirement and configuration, and as a result a reliability requirement for the URLLC service cannot be met.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2018
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Applicant: CHINA ACADEMY OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Yanping XING, Fang-Chen CHENG, Ekpenyong TONY