Patents by Inventor Samuel Asangbeng Atungsiri
Samuel Asangbeng Atungsiri 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).
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Publication number: 20230362776Abstract: A method for a communications device in a coverage region of a first cell generated by a non-terrestrial network part of a wireless communications network, the first cell being a serving cell for the communications device, the method comprising determining whether the coverage area of the first cell overlaps with a region associated with a coverage area of at least one non-serving cell, and in response to determining that the coverage area of the serving cell overlaps with a region associated with a coverage area of at least one non-serving cell, initiating measurements of signals transmitted on a frequency which is used for transmissions by infrastructure equipment associated with the at least one non-serving cell.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 18, 2023Publication date: November 9, 2023Applicant: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Yuxin WEI, Samuel Asangbeng ATUNGSIRI, Hideji WAKABAYASHI, Vivek SHARMA
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Publication number: 20230361866Abstract: A method of operating a first infrastructure equipment of a wireless communications network comprising a core network part, the first infrastructure equipment, a second infrastructure equipment acting as a backhaul relay node between the first infrastructure equipment and the core network part, and a downstream wireless communications device. The method comprising receiving from the second infrastructure equipment an indication of a first set of communications resources, allocating resource elements of the first set of communications resources for receiving first data for transmission to the core network part from the downstream wireless communications device, and receiving second data transmitted by the second infrastructure equipment on one or more resource elements within a second set of communications resources, the second set of communications resources different from the first set of communications resources.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 24, 2023Publication date: November 9, 2023Applicant: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Kazuyuki SHIMEZAWA, Samuel Asangbeng ATUNGSIRI, Yuxin WEI
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Publication number: 20230362949Abstract: A method of operating a wireless telecommunications system for communicating higher layer data from network infrastructure comprises establishing an allocation of radio resources for the network infrastructure equipment to use for transmitting higher layer data to the terminal device during a higher layer data transmission period; transmitting an indication of the allocated radio resources to the terminal device; beginning transmission of the higher layer data to the terminal device at the beginning of the higher layer data transmission period; and subsequently identifying during the higher layer data transmission period whether any of the allocated radio resources which have not yet been used are needed by the network infrastructure equipment for transmitting other data in the wireless telecommunications system.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 17, 2023Publication date: November 9, 2023Applicant: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Samuel Asangbeng ATUNGSIRI, Shin Horng WONG, Martin Warwick BEALE
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Publication number: 20230336301Abstract: A communications device is configured to transmit and/or receive signals via a wireless access interface provided by a mobile communications network. The wireless access interface comprising a plurality of transmission units each comprising one or more communications resource elements formed by dividing a system bandwidth in tune and frequency. One or more transmission units are configured to form combined transmission units, which can be allocated to communications devices for receiving or transmitting signals. The communications device is configured to receive an indication of a combined transmission unit providing one or more of the transmission units for the communications device, and receive an indication for each of the one or more transmission units of the combined transmission unit of whether the transmission unit is for transmitting signals, whether the transmission unit is for receiving signals or whether the transmission unit is not to be used for transmitting or receiving signals.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 1, 2023Publication date: October 19, 2023Applicant: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Shin Horng WONG, Martin Warwick BEALE, Samuel Asangbeng ATUNGSIRI
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Publication number: 20230300768Abstract: An electronic device (UE) comprising circuitry configured to compensate feeder link influence on the common TA (Tcom) in a transparent payload non-terrestrial network (NTN) configuration with a non-terrestrial network component (NT-RN) and an infrastructure equipment (gNB) tethered by the non-terrestrial network component (NT-RN).Type: ApplicationFiled: August 4, 2021Publication date: September 21, 2023Applicant: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Samuel Asangbeng ATUNGSIRI, Vivek SHARMA, Hideji WAKABAYASHI
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Patent number: 11757598Abstract: A communications device for use in a wireless communications system comprising an infrastructure equipment and the communications device is provided. The communications device is configured to transmit an uplink channel to the infrastructure equipment in a plurality of allocated subcarriers. The communications device comprises circuitry for one or more modulation symbol repetition blocks, each configured to receive modulated symbols mapped to one of a plurality of modulated symbol sets and to repeat each of the received modulated symbols within each of the plurality of modulated symbol sets, and circuitry for a precoder block configured to carry out a precoder function on the repeated modulation symbols, the precoder function comprising multiplying each of the repeated modulation symbols by an element of a precoder vector to produce precoded symbols.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2022Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventors: Shin Horng Wong, Martin Warwick Beale, Samuel Asangbeng Atungsiri, Kazuyuki Shimezawa
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Patent number: 11757504Abstract: The present disclosure pertains to a network entity for a mobile telecommunications system having circuitry configured to communicate with at least one user equipment, wherein the circuitry is further configured to transmit, to the at least one user equipment, time information for indicating a beam which will cover the at least one user equipment.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2020Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventors: Yuxin Wei, Yassin Aden Awad, Vivek Sharma, Samuel Asangbeng Atungsiri, Hideji Wakabayashi
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Patent number: 11751165Abstract: A method for operating an infrastructure equipment forming part of a radio access network part of a wireless communications network is provided. The method comprising configuring a notification area of a radio access network part by determining one or more base stations and/or one or more of non-terrestrial network parts which form part of the notification area, the base stations and/or the non-terrestrial network parts of the notification area being for use in transmitting signals to a communications device from the wireless communications network, determining, based on the notification area and on a present time, which one of the base stations and/or the non-terrestrial network parts of the notification area is presently serving the communications device, and transmitting a paging message to the serving base station or serving non terrestrial network part for subsequent transmission to the communications device.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2020Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventors: Yuxin Wei, Vivek Sharma, Hideji Wakabayashi, Samuel Asangbeng Atungsiri, Yassin Aden Awad
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Publication number: 20230276258Abstract: A method for operating an infrastructure equipment forming part of a wireless communications network is provided. The infrastructure equipment is a non-terrestrial network part of the wireless communications network configured to transmit one or more spot beams to provide a wireless access interface for transmitting signals to and receiving signals representing data from a communications device within a coverage region of a cell or one of the spot beams, the spot beam forming a cell. The method comprises broadcasting system information for receipt by the communications device, the system information including information relating to at least one of a cell or a spot beam of a neighbouring infrastructure equipment and a second spot beam of the infrastructure equipment, wherein the system information is broadcast in accordance with at least one predetermined condition.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 9, 2023Publication date: August 31, 2023Applicant: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Yuxin WEI, Samuel Asangbeng ATUNGSIRI, Hideji WAKABAYASHI, Vivek SHARMA
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Patent number: 11743799Abstract: A method for a communications device in a coverage region of a first cell generated by a non-terrestrial network part of a wireless communications network, the first cell being a serving cell for the communications device, the method comprising determining whether the coverage area of the first cell overlaps with a region associated with a coverage area of at least one non-serving cell, and in response to determining that the coverage area of the serving cell overlaps with a region associated with a coverage area of at least one non-serving cell, initiating measurements of signals transmitted on a frequency which is used for transmissions by infrastructure equipment associated with the at least one non-serving cell.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2019Date of Patent: August 29, 2023Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Yuxin Wei, Samuel Asangbeng Atungsiri, Hideji Wakabayashi, Vivek Sharma
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Publication number: 20230268990Abstract: A method for operating a communications device is provided. The communications device is configured to transmit uplink signals to and/or to receive downlink signals from a non-terrestrial infrastructure equipment forming part of a non-terrestrial network, NTN, and to transmit uplink signal to and/or to receive uplink signals from a terrestrial infrastructure equipment forming part of a terrestrial network, TN. The method comprises communicating with the non-terrestrial infrastructure equipment via one of a plurality of spot beams, each of the spot beams providing a first wireless access interface for transmitting the uplink signals to and/or receiving the downlink signals from the non-terrestrial infrastructure equipment within a coverage region formed by the each of the spot beams, and communicating with the terrestrial infrastructure equipment via a second wireless access interface provided by the terrestrial infrastructure equipment.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2021Publication date: August 24, 2023Applicant: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Vivek SHARMA, Samuel Asangbeng ATUNGSIRI, Hideji WAKABAYASHI
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Patent number: 11736242Abstract: A communications device includes receiver circuitry, transmitter circuitry, and controller circuitry controlling the transmitter circuitry and the receiver circuitry to receive data in accordance with an automatic repeat request (ARQ) type protocol in which the data is received as a plurality of encoded data packets encoded with an error correction code and the transmitter circuitry transmits a feedback signal depending on whether each of the data encoded packets is estimated as having been decoded successfully by the receiver circuitry. The controller circuitry is configured to evaluate a quality measure of each encoded data packet and in response to the evaluated quality measure to transmit an early indication of the feedback signal to the wireless communications network, before the encoded data packet has been decoded by the error correction decoder.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2021Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Martin Warwick Beale, Samuel Asangbeng Atungsiri, Shin Horng Wong
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Publication number: 20230261820Abstract: A receiver for detecting and recovering payload data from a received signal comprises a radio frequency demodulation circuit, a detector circuit and a demodulator circuit. The radio frequency demodulation circuit detects the received signal. The received signal carries the payload data as OFDM symbols in one or more of a plurality of time divided frames, each frame including a bootstrap signal, a preamble signal and a plurality of sub-frames. The demodulator circuit detects bootstrap OFDM symbols to identify communications parameters for detecting the fixed length signalling data, detects the fixed length signalling data to identify the communications parameters for detecting the variable length signalling data, detects the variable length signalling data, and uses the fixed and variable length signalling data to detect the payload data.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 28, 2023Publication date: August 17, 2023Applicant: Saturn Licensing LLCInventor: Samuel Asangbeng ATUNGSIRI
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Patent number: 11722258Abstract: A retransmission method for use in a telecommunications system, the method comprising: transmitting, to a terminal, first data in a set of identified resources allocated for the transmission of the first data; identifying that a portion of the identified resources has been used to transmit data other than the first data; and retransmitting a subset of the first data, the subset of the first data comprising the portion of the first data that was previously scheduled to be transmitted in the portion of the identified resources.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2021Date of Patent: August 8, 2023Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventors: Martin Warwick Beale, Shin Horng Wong, Samuel Asangbeng Atungsiri
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Patent number: 11711141Abstract: A method of operating a first infrastructure equipment of a wireless communications network comprising a core network part, the first infrastructure equipment, a second infrastructure equipment acting as a backhaul relay node between the first infrastructure equipment and the core network part, and a downstream wireless communications device. The method comprising receiving from the second infrastructure equipment an indication of a first set of communications resources, allocating resource elements of the first set of communications resources for receiving first data for transmission to the core network part from the downstream wireless communications device, and receiving second data transmitted by the second infrastructure equipment on one or more resource elements within a second set of communications resources, the second set of communications resources different from the first set of communications resources.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 2019Date of Patent: July 25, 2023Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Kazuyuki Shimezawa, Samuel Asangbeng Atungsiri, Yuxin Wei
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Patent number: 11711838Abstract: There is provided a method of transmitting downlink control-related information to a terminal in a wireless telecommunications system. The method comprises allocating downlink resources in a first set of resources for sending the downlink control-related information; determining that a further downlink transmission will be transmitted using at least part of the allocated downlink resources thereby identifying a collision between the downlink control-related information transmission and the further downlink transmission; upon identifying a collision, allocating a second set of resources for sending the downlink control-related information; and transmitting the downlink control-related information using at least the second set of resources.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2021Date of Patent: July 25, 2023Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Shin Horng Wong, Martin Warwick Beale, Samuel Asangbeng Atungsiri
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Patent number: 11706772Abstract: A method of operating a wireless telecommunications system for communicating higher layer data from network infrastructure comprises establishing an allocation of radio resources for the network infrastructure equipment to use for transmitting higher layer data to the terminal device during a higher layer data transmission period; transmitting an indication of the allocated radio resources to the terminal device; beginning transmission of the higher layer data to the terminal device at the beginning of the higher layer data transmission period; and subsequently identifying during the higher layer data transmission period whether any of the allocated radio resources which have not yet been used are needed by the network infrastructure equipment for transmitting other data in the wireless telecommunications system.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2020Date of Patent: July 18, 2023Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Samuel Asangbeng Atungsiri, Shin Horng Wong, Martin Warwick Beale
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Publication number: 20230224103Abstract: Infrastructure equipment forming part of a wireless communications network configured to receive data from a communications device via a communications channel between the infrastructure equipment and the communications device. The infrastructure equipment comprises circuitry configured to receive, from the communications device, a request for a resource allocation, to receive one or more reference symbols from the communications device, to estimate based on the received reference symbols, for each of a plurality of resource units, RUs, of the communications channel, a signal to interference and noise ratio, SINR, sequence of the communications channel, and to perform a first transform followed by a second transform on the SINR sequence to produce a cepstrum of the SINR sequence, the second transform being an inverse of the first transform, and to encode and to transmit the cepstrum to the communications device.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 26, 2021Publication date: July 13, 2023Applicant: Sony Group CorporationInventor: Samuel Asangbeng ATUNGSIRI
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Publication number: 20230209473Abstract: A method of transmitting data by a terminal device operating in a wireless communications system comprising a non-terrestrial network access node and the terminal device, comprises the terminal device receiving an indication of an initial value of a set of one or more communications parameters for transmitting radio signals carrying the data, and modelling a state of a communications channel from the terminal device to a non-terrestrial network access node, in which a link adaptation procedure is used to select a revised value of the set of the one or more communications parameters with respect to the initial value of the set of the one or more communications parameters for the modelled channel state, and the method includes adapting the value of the set of the one or more communications parameters according to the revised value.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 6, 2023Publication date: June 29, 2023Applicant: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Vivek SHARMA, Yuxin WEI, Hideji WAKABAYASHI, Samuel Asangbeng ATUNGSIRI
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Patent number: 11690043Abstract: A method of operating an infrastructure node in a wireless communications system is provided. The method comprises detecting that downlink messages for a communications device to decode should be transmitted by the node in one or more of a plurality or temporally spaced paging occasions, and determining that a wake-up signal (WUS) should be transmitted by the node to the communications device in advance of each of the one or more paging occasions which comprise the downlink messages for the communications device to decode, determining that a time since a most recent transmission of a signal which can be used by the communications device to re-synchronise with the node is greater than a predetermined threshold and transmitting, in response to determining that the time since the most recent transmission from the infrastructure equipment to the communications device is greater than the predetermined threshold, a preamble signal to the communications device.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2021Date of Patent: June 27, 2023Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventors: Shin Horng Wong, Martin Warwick Beale, Samuel Asangbeng Atungsiri