Patents by Inventor Joon Kui Ahn

Joon Kui Ahn 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: 10492186
    Abstract: Provided are a method for a terminal transmitting uplink control information (UCI) through a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) in a wireless communication system, and a terminal using the method. A transmission power to be applied to the uplink control channel is determined on the basis of a value subordinate to a PUCCH format, and at least one type of UCI is transmitted from the physical uplink control channel by using the transmission power that is determined, wherein when the PUCCH format is PUCCH format 3, and the at least one type of UCI includes acknowledgement/negative-acknowledgement (ACK/NACK) and periodic channel state information (CSI), the value subordinate to the PUCCH format is determined on the basis of the number of bits of the ACK/NACK and the number of bits of the periodic CSI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Dong Youn Seo, Joon Kui Ahn, Yun Jung Yi, Suck Chel Yang, Bong Hoe Kim
  • Publication number: 20190357242
    Abstract: A method for determining link direction of resources in a wireless communication system, the method performed by a user equipment (UE) includes receiving frame configuration information from a base station, wherein the frame configuration information indicates at least one of default resources and flexible resources in a frame, receiving downlink control information (DCI) format from the base station, and determining link direction of the flexible resources in the frame based on the frame configuration information and the DCI format.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2019
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Inventors: Dong Youn SEO, Min Gyu KIM, Suck Chel YANG, Joon Kui AHN
  • Patent number: 10477531
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for configuring a starting position of a control channel in a wireless communication system, and a terminal using the same. The method includes receiving duration information about a physical downlink control channel from the first orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbol of a downlink subframe; and configuring a first OFDM symbol after OFDM symbols indicated by the duration information, as a starting point of an enhanced-physical downlink control channel. The downlink subframe includes a plurality of subcarriers in a frequency domain and 12 or 14 OFDM symbols in a time domain. The PDCCH includes the first N (N is a natural number of from 1 to 4) number of OFDM symbols of the downlink subframe. The duration information indicates the N number of OFDM symbols. The E-PDCCH comprises the starting point to the last OFDM symbol of the downlink subframe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Dong Youn Seo, Joon Kui Ahn, Suck Chel Yang, Han Byul Seo
  • Patent number: 10462787
    Abstract: A method of allocating radio resources in a multi-carrier system is disclosed, by which a signaling message can be efficiently transmitted according to necessity of a user equipment. In a user equipment of a mobile communication system transceiving data using a plurality of subcarriers, the present invention includes the steps of if the signaling message to be transmitted is generated in the user equipment, generating a preamble sequence according to a user equipment identifier to identify the user equipment, transmitting a preamble signal including the preamble sequence and the signaling message to a base station, and receiving an acknowledgement signal for the preamble signal generated according to the user equipment identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: WILD GUARD LTD.
    Inventors: Hak Seong Kim, Bong Hoe Kim, Joon Kui Ahn, Dong Youn Seo, Jung Hoon Lee, Young Woo Yun, Suk Hyon Yoon, Eun Sun Kim, Ki Jun Kim
  • Publication number: 20190312672
    Abstract: A method for channel-coding information bits using a code generation matrix including 32 rows and A columns corresponding to length of the information bits includes, channel-coding the information bits having “A” length using basis sequences having 32-bit length corresponding to columns of the code generation matrix, and outputting the channel-coded result as an output sequence. If “A” is higher than 10, the code generation matrix is generated when (A?10) additional basis sequences were added as column-directional sequences to a first or second matrix. The first matrix is a TFCI code generation matrix composed of 32 rows and 10 columns used for TFCI coding. The second matrix is made when at least one of an inter-row location or an inter-column location of the first matrix was changed. The additional basis sequences satisfy a value 10 of a minimum Hamming distance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2019
    Publication date: October 10, 2019
    Applicant: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Dong Wook ROH, Joon Kui AHN, Nam Yul YU, Jung Hyun CHO, Yu Jin NOH, Ki Jun KIM, Dae Won LEE
  • Patent number: 10425858
    Abstract: A method is provided for performing, by a first device, channel coding of data to be transmitted to a second device. The first device determines a size of a transport block for the data, attaches a first cyclic redundancy check (CRC) code to the transport block having the determined size to produce a first CRC-attached transport block, and segments the first CRC-attached transport block into multiple code blocks when a size of the first CRC-attached transport block is larger than a predetermined size. The size of the transport block is determined from among a plurality of predetermined transport block sizes, and the plurality of predetermined transport block sizes are predetermined such that all the multiple code blocks have a same size as each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Bong Hoe Kim, Ki Jun Kim, Joon Kui Ahn, Dong Youn Seo
  • Publication number: 20190268899
    Abstract: Provided is a method and an apparatus for transmitting uplink control information by a terminal in wireless communication system. When a PUCCH resource used for transmitting only periodic CSI from a subframe, the resource is a first resource, and a resource indicated by ARI is a second resource, when a setting allows transmitting together ACK/NACK and the periodic CSI through a PUCCH from the same subframe, the first resource and the second resource are mutually exclusive, and the second resource that is used for transmitting together the ACK/NACK and the periodic CSI uses the resource indicated by the ARI from resources determined by an RRC.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2019
    Publication date: August 29, 2019
    Inventors: Dong Youn SEO, Suck Chel Yang, Joon Kui Ahn
  • Publication number: 20190260550
    Abstract: Provided are a method and an apparatus for a user equipment, which is allocated a plurality of serving cells, receiving acknowledgement/negative acknowledgement (ACK/NACK) in a wireless communication system. The method comprises: transmitting uplink data through a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH); and receiving ACK/NACK with respect to the uplink through a physical hybrid-ARQ indicator channel (PHICH), wherein a serving cell that receives the ACK/NACK is selected from one or more serving cells, which the user equipment monitors to detect an uplink grant that schedules the PUSCH.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2019
    Publication date: August 22, 2019
    Applicant: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Dong Youn SEO, Han Byul SEO, Suck Chel YANG, Joon Kui AHN
  • Patent number: 10383158
    Abstract: A method for transmitting acknowledgement/negative-acknowledgement (ACK/NACK) information of a user equipment (UE) configured with two serving cells including a first serving cell and a second serving cell, the method including receiving two transport blocks (TBs) through a downlink subframe of the first serving cell, receiving one TB through a downlink subframe of the second serving cell and transmitting ACK/NACK information informing ACK/NACKs for the two TBs and the one TB through an uplink subframe of the first serving cell, wherein the ACK/NACK information informs the ACK/NACKs for the two TBs and the one TB by a combination of one resource selected from a plurality of candidate resources and two bits transmitted through the one resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Dong Youn Seo, Min Gyu Kim, Joon Kui Ahn, Suck Chel Yang
  • Patent number: 10375723
    Abstract: A method of communicating data by a user equipment in a wireless communication system, the method includes configuring plural frequency blocks divided from a system bandwidth; receiving scheduling information including a frequency block indicator and resource allocation information for data; and performing a procedure for receiving or transmitting the data via a first frequency block indicated by the frequency block indicator among the plural frequency blocks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Joon Kui Ahn, Jung Hoon Lee, Dong Youn Seo
  • Patent number: 10375649
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for controlling transmission power of an uplink control channel carried out by an user equipment in a wireless communication system and an user equipment using the method. The method comprises: receiving uplink power control information; and determining transmission power of an uplink control channel based on the uplink power control information, wherein the uplink power control information includes a power offset value determined according to whether transmit diversity is applied when the uplink control channel is transmitted through a channel selection scheme.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Dong Youn Seo, Joon Kui Ahn
  • Patent number: 10361811
    Abstract: A method for channel-coding information bits using a code generation matrix including 32 rows and A columns corresponding to length of the information bits includes, channel-coding the information bits having “A” length using basis sequences having 32-bit length corresponding to columns of the code generation matrix, and outputting the channel-coded result as an output sequence. If “A” is higher than 10, the code generation matrix is generated when (A-10) additional basis sequences were added as column-directional sequences to a first or second matrix. The first matrix is a TFCI code generation matrix composed of 32 rows and 10 columns used for TFCI coding. The second matrix is made when at least one of an inter-row location or an inter-column location of the first matrix was changed. The additional basis sequences satisfy a value 10 of a minimum Hamming distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Dong Wook Roh, Joon Kui Ahn, Nam Yul Yu, Jung Hyun Cho, Yu Jin Noh, Ki Jun Kim, Dae Won Lee
  • Patent number: 10326579
    Abstract: Provided are a method and an apparatus for a user equipment, which is allocated a plurality of serving cells, receiving acknowledgement/negative acknowledgement (ACK/NACK) in a wireless communication system. The method comprises: transmitting uplink data through a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH); and receiving ACK/NACK with respect to the uplink through a physical hybrid-ARQ indicator channel (PHICH), wherein a serving cell that receives the ACK/NACK is selected from one or more serving cells, which the user equipment monitors to detect an uplink grant that schedules the PUSCH.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Dong Youn Seo, Han Byul Seo, Suck Chel Yang, Joon Kui Ahn
  • Patent number: 10305663
    Abstract: Provided is a method of transmitting ACK/NACK in a TDD-based wireless communication system. The method includes: receiving M downlink subframes associated with an uplink subframe n in each of two serving cells; determining four candidate resources based on the M downlink subframes received in each of the two serving cells; and transmitting an ACK/NACK response for the M downlink subframes by using one resource selected from the four candidate resources in the uplink subframe n, wherein the two serving cells includes a first serving cell and a second serving cell, and wherein among the four candidate resources, a first resource and a second resource are associated with a PDSCH or a SPS release PDCCH for releasing semi-persistent scheduling received in the first serving cell, and a third resource and a fourth resources are associated with a PDSCH received in the second serving cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Joon Kui Ahn, Suck Chel Yang, Min Gyu Kim, Dong Youn Seo
  • Patent number: 10306609
    Abstract: Provided is a method and an apparatus for transmitting uplink control information by a terminal in wireless communication system. When a PUCCH resource used for transmitting only periodic CSI from a subframe, the resource is a first resource, and a resource indicated by ARI is a second resource, when a setting allows transmitting together ACK/NACK and the periodic CSI through a PUCCH from the same subframe, the first resource and the second resource are mutually exclusive, and the second resource that is used for transmitting together the ACK/NACK and the periodic CSI uses the resource indicated by the ARI from resources determined by an RRC.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Dong Youn Seo, Suck Chel Yang, Joon Kui Ahn
  • Patent number: 10298369
    Abstract: A reference signal transmission method in a downlink MIMO system is disclosed. The downlink MIMO system supports a first UE supporting N transmission antennas among a total of M transmission antennas (where M>N) and a second UE supporting the M transmission antennas. The method includes transmitting, by a base station (BS), subframe-associated information which designates a first subframe in which data for the first UE and the second UE is transmitted and a second subframe in which data only for the second UE can be transmitted within a radio frame having a plurality of subframes, and transmitting the first subframe and the second subframe. Reference signals corresponding to antenna ports ‘0’ to ‘N?1’ of the N antennas are mapped to the first subframe, and reference signals corresponding to antenna ports ‘0’ to ‘M?1’ of the M antennas are mapped to the second subframe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Jung Hoon Lee, Dong Youn Seo, Ki Jun Kim, Joon Kui Ahn
  • Patent number: 10270571
    Abstract: A method of transmitting pilot signals in a system which performs communication using two or more earners comprises transmitting first pilots and second pilots from at least one user equipment to a base station, the first and second pilots, which are transmitted from the at least one user equipment, being multiplexed by code division multiplexing, and the first and second pilots, which are transmitted from a specific user equipment, having different transmission powers, and transmitting data from the at least one user equipment to the base station depending on the first pilots and the second pilots. Since many UEs can transmit CQ pilots, exact channel estimation can be performed and thus communication efficiency can be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Young Woo Yun, Hak Seong Kim, Bong Hoe Kim, Joon Kui Ahn, Dong Youn Seo, Jung Hoon Lee, Ki Jun Kim, Suk Hyon Yoon, Eun Sun Kim
  • Patent number: 10263676
    Abstract: A method for indicating a combination between a codeword and a layer in a MIMO communication, system, a layer mapping method, and a data transmission method using the same are disclosed. A minimum number of codeword-layer mapping combinations from among all available combinations based on the’ numbers of all codewords and all layers are pre-defined in consideration of a ratio of a codeword to a layer, a reception performance of a receiver, and reduction of combinations, so that a data transmission method using the predefined combinations is implemented. If a specific one codeword is mapped to at least two layers, a diversity gain can be acquired.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Dong Wook Roh, Bong Hoe Kim, Young Woo Yun, Dong Youn Seo, Joon Kui Ahn, Ki Jun Kim
  • Publication number: 20190110276
    Abstract: A method is provided for a User Equipment (UE) operating in a wireless communication system. The method includes monitoring a control channel candidate with a downlink control information (DCI) format size in a plurality of search spaces. Each of the plurality of search spaces corresponds to a respective carrier indicator field (CIF) value. The method further includes transmitting or receiving data using downlink control information which is detected by monitoring the control channel candidate. In a state that control channel candidates have different values of carrier indicator field for the DCI format size, the control channel candidate with the DCI format size is received in any search space corresponding to any of the different values of carrier indicator field for the DCI format size.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2018
    Publication date: April 11, 2019
    Applicant: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Suck Chel YANG, Min Gyu KIM, Joon Kui AHN, Dong Youn SEO
  • Patent number: 10250368
    Abstract: A method for uplink transmission in a wireless communication system, the method includes determining, by a user equipment (UE), whether the first uplink signal to be transmitted toward a first cell belonging to a first timing advance group (TAG) at an nth subframe overlaps the second uplink signal to be transmitted toward a second cell belonging to a second TAG at an (n+1)st subframe; dropping, by the UE, the first uplink signal at the nth subframe, if a total transmission power including the first and second uplink signals exceeds a maximum transmit power, where n is an integer?1; and transmitting the second uplink signal without the first uplink signal which is dropped.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Joon Kui Ahn, Suck Chel Yang, Yun Jung Yi, Dong Youn Seo