Patents by Inventor Tony EKPENYONG

Tony 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).

  • Patent number: 11956807
    Abstract: A miss-detection determination method, a terminal and a network device are provided. The miss-detection determination method includes: sending a target sequence or signal to a network device in an uplink grant-free transmission occasion; determining that no miss-detection occurs in the network device in a case that miss-detection indication information is received from the network device within a preset time period after sending the target sequence or signal, otherwise, determining that miss-detection occurs in the network device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Datang Mobile Communications Equipment Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Wei Bai, Xuejuan Gao, Tony Ekpenyong
  • Patent number: 11949521
    Abstract: A data transmission method and device are provided in embodiments of this disclosure. The method includes: starting to transmit data to a network device on a resource configured in one period; changing an RV value or a resource or a DMRS from a current value to another value in case that a terminal needs to transmit data beyond the boundary of the period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Datang Mobile Communications Equipment Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Wei Bai, Xuejuan Gao, Tony Ekpenyong, Yanping Xing
  • Patent number: 11895709
    Abstract: A random access method and a terminal are provided. The random access method comprises: receiving random access mechanism configuration information sent by a base station, wherein the random access mechanism configuration information includes a random access type and random access time-frequency resource information corresponding to the random access type, and the random access type includes a first random access mechanism and/or a second random access mechanism; and performing a random access process of the first random access mechanism or the second random access mechanism according to the random access mechanism configuration information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: DATANG MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Bin Ren, Tony Ekpenyong, Xueming Pan
  • Patent number: 11895644
    Abstract: An information transmission method, a base station, and a terminal are provided. The method includes: acquiring a quantity of times of repeated transmissions of a terminal in a target configuration period; sending, to the terminal, Physical Downlink Control Channels for supplementary transmissions, if the quantity of times of repeated transmissions is less than a preset quantity of repeated-transmission times.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: DATANG MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wei Bai, Tony Ekpenyong
  • Patent number: 11871247
    Abstract: A downlink control channel transmission method, a terminal and a network side device are provided. The method includes: selecting, in a case that monitoring occasions of search spaces transmitted in different Control Resource Sets (CORESETs) configured with different beam directions collide, a target CORESET from the different CORESETs according to types of the search spaces where the collision occurs, wherein the collision during the monitoring occasions comprises that the monitoring occasions are the same and configured resources of the different CORESETs overlap, or, that a time interval between the monitoring occasions is less than a specified threshold; and detecting and receiving a downlink control channel according to a beam direction of the target CORESET.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: DATANG MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lei Wang, Tony Ekpenyong
  • Patent number: 11653363
    Abstract: Provided in the present disclosure are a method and device for transmitting a downlink channel. The method for transmitting a downlink channel includes: notifying a UE of a resource set for transmission of a group common PDCCH. The solution of the present disclosure enables the UE to ascertain a resource location for detection and reception of a group common PDCCH, thereby detecting and receiving the group common PDCCH at the resource location of the group common PDCCH.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: DATANG MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lei Wang, Tony Ekpenyong
  • Patent number: 11497024
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a transmission method and device. The transmission method includes: receiving, by a user equipment, configuration information for indicating whether transmission of uplink control information on a first physical uplink shared channel is supported; and transmitting, by the user equipment, the first physical uplink shared channel and/or the uplink control information based on the configuration information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: DATANG MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xuejuan Gao, Tony Ekpenyong
  • Patent number: 11497003
    Abstract: An information transmission method, a terminal and a network device are provided. The information transmission method includes: determining a plurality of PUCCH resources corresponding to UCI; determining a target PUCCH resource for the UCI transmission from the plurality of PUCCH resources, according to Scheduling Request (SR) states of a plurality of SR configurations; and sending the UCI through the target PUCCH resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: DATANG MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xuejuan Gao, Tony Ekpenyong
  • Patent number: 11489706
    Abstract: An information transmission method, a terminal and a base station are provided. The method includes: acquiring a symbol occupied by a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) in a time unit; determining a cyclic shift (CS) value corresponding to the symbol; and transmitting the PUCCH on the symbol according to the CS value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: DATANG MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xuejuan Gao, Tony Ekpenyong
  • Patent number: 11470648
    Abstract: A random access method, a base station and a User Equipment (UE) are provided. A random access method applied to a base station side includes: receiving, by using a pre-configured first SubCarrier Spacing (SCS), a first random access preamble message transmitted by a UE when the base station instructs the UE to perform an initial access according to a contention-based random access mechanism; transmitting, by using a predetermined second SCS or a third SCS configured by a network, a first Random Access Response (RAR) message to the UE; receiving, by using a predetermined fourth SCS or a fifth SCS configured by the network, a first scheduling transmission message transmitted by the UE; and transmitting, by using a predetermined sixth SCS or a seventh SCS configured by the network, a first collision resolution message to the UE, to complete the initial access.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: DATANG MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ren Da, Bin Ren, Tony Ekpenyong, Zheng Zhao, Fangchen Cheng, Tie Li
  • Patent number: 11438127
    Abstract: A measurement gap determination method, a UE and a network side device are provided. The measurement gap determination method includes: receiving, by a UE, measurement configuration information of a SS block of at least one BWP transmitted from a network side device, wherein the UE operates at the BWP on which no SS block is transmitted when the UE receives the measurement configuration information; determining, by the UE, a measurement gap for the measurement of the SS block on the at least one BWP in accordance with the measurement configuration information; and measuring, by the UE, the SS block on the at least one BWP in the measurement gap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: DATANG MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ren Da, Zheng Zhao, Bin Ren, Tie Li, Fangchen Cheng, Tony Ekpenyong
  • Patent number: 11432274
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a data transmission method, a UE, a base station and a storage medium. The method includes: obtaining a slot format indication (SFI) transmitted by a base station; when a transmission direction of a preset transmission resource indicated by the SFI does not meet transmission requirement of downlink semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) transmission, not performing the transmission related to the downlink SPS transmission on the preset transmission resource; and/or, when a transmission direction of a preset transmission resource indicated by the SFI meets transmission requirement of downlink SPS transmission, performing the transmission related to the downlink SPS transmission on the preset transmission resource. The preset transmission resource is a resource for performing transmission related to the downlink SPS transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: DATANG MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xuejuan Gao, Tony Ekpenyong
  • Patent number: 11388689
    Abstract: A timing advance indication method, a base station, a terminal and a device are provided. The method includes: transmitting subcarrier spacing configuration information of a physical uplink shared channel and/or a physical uplink control channel to a terminal; receiving a preamble fed back by the terminal based on subcarrier spacing configuration information; obtaining a quantized value of a timing advance corresponding to a tracking area based on the preamble; and transmitting the quantized value of the timing advance to the terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: DATANG MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ren Da, Zheng Zhao, Bin Ren, Tony Ekpenyong, Pierre Bertrand, Fangchen Cheng, Tie Li, Qiubin Gao
  • Patent number: 11388722
    Abstract: A common downlink control channel transmission method and a relevant device are provided. The common downlink control channel transmission method includes: receiving, by a UE, a target signal from a network side device, a resource set for transmitting a common downlink control channel is associated with the target signal; and determining, by the UE, the resource set in accordance with the target signal, and receiving the common downlink control channel from the network side device through the resource set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: DATANG MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lei Wang, Tony Ekpenyong
  • Patent number: 11382086
    Abstract: A method and device of transmitting a downlink control channel, a method and device of detecting and receiving a downlink control channel are provided. The method includes: determining a blind detection period parameter of the downlink control channel; and transmitting the downlink control channel based the blind detection period parameter of the downlink control channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: DATANG MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lei Wang, Tony Ekpenyong
  • Patent number: 11381355
    Abstract: An information determination method, an information determination apparatus, and a device are provided. The information determination method includes: for multiple configurations of uplink grant-free transmission, detecting uplink transmission on a resource corresponding to at least one of the multiple configurations; and in a case that a first configuration corresponding to a resource where the uplink transmission is detected is not a predetermined configuration, determining an HARQ ID of the detected uplink transmission according to association information between the first configuration and the predetermined configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: DATANG MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wei Bai, Xuejuan Gao, Tony Ekpenyong
  • Patent number: 11363581
    Abstract: A resource allocation determination method, a resource allocation indication method, a UE and a network device are provided. The resource allocation determination method applied for the UE includes: determining the quantity N of bits of a resource allocation indication field in DCI; determining a BWP where a data channel is located based on the DCI; and determining resource allocation for the data channel in the BWP where the data channel is located based on information about the resource allocation indication field in the DCI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: DATANG MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yanping Xing, Xuejuan Gao, Tony Ekpenyong
  • Publication number: 20220150924
    Abstract: A transmission method for a physical uplink shared channel, a terminal and a network device are disclosed. The method on the terminal side includes: when at least one physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) using a preset redundant version (RV) in a group of PUSCHs for repetition transmission is dropped or stopped, determining, based on the preset RV, an RV of at least one PUSCH subsequent to the PUSCH that is dropped or stopped in the group of PUSCHs for repetition transmission; sending a corresponding PUSCH according to the determined RV.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2020
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Applicant: DATANG MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xuejuan GAO, Tony EKPENYONG
  • Publication number: 20220124773
    Abstract: An information transmission method, a terminal and a network device are provided. The information transmission method includes: in the case that a first uplink channel carrying first UCI overlaps a second uplink channel carrying second UCI in time domain, determining a third uplink channel for multiplexing transmission of the first UCI and the second UCI; judging whether a starting position and/or an ending position of the third uplink channel is later than a starting position and/or an ending position of the first uplink channel by a predetermined time; and when it is judged that the starting position and/or the ending position of the third uplink channel is later than the starting position and/or the ending position of the first uplink channel by the predetermined time, dropping the second UCI, and transmitting the first UCI on the first uplink channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2020
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Applicant: DATANG MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xuejuan GAO, Tony EKPENYONG
  • Publication number: 20220116970
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides in some embodiments a transmission method for HARQ feedback information, a network device and a terminal. The method includes: determining a transmission position of an HARQ-ACK in accordance with a transmission position of downlink transmission and feedback timing of the HARQ-ACK for the downlink transmission, granularity of the feedback timing being smaller than one slot; and receiving the HARQ-ACK at the transmission position of the HARQ-ACK.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2019
    Publication date: April 14, 2022
    Applicant: DATANG MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xuejuan GAO, Tony EKPENYONG