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).

  • 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
  • Publication number: 20220094479
    Abstract: This disclosure provides an information transmission method, a terminal and a network device, to solve the problem that there is no relevant solution as to how to transmit CSI in the case that the use of downlink DCI to trigger the transmission of aperiodic CSI on the PUCCH is supported. The information transmission method includes: receiving downlink DCI, wherein the downlink DCI includes an aperiodic channel state information CSI trigger information field; when the aperiodic CSI trigger information field indicates that aperiodic CSI is to be reported, determining a first transmission resource for the aperiodic CSI and a second transmission resource for an HARQ-ACK corresponding to the downlink DCI; transmitting the aperiodic CSI on the first transmission resource, and transmitting the HARQ-ACK on the second transmission resource.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2020
    Publication date: March 24, 2022
    Applicant: DATANG MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xuejuan GAO, Qianqian Si, Tony EKPENYONG
  • Publication number: 20220070895
    Abstract: An information transmission method, apparatus and device are provided. The method includes receiving downlink transmission; identifying a transmission reception point TRP or a TRP group corresponding to the downlink transmission; transmitting a Hybrid Automatic Repeat request Acknowledge HARQ-ACK of the downlink transmission to the TRP or the TRP group corresponding to the downlink transmission through a Physical Uplink Control Channel PUCCH, wherein, HARQ-ACKs of downlink transmissions corresponding to different TRPs or TRP groups are transmitted on different PUCCHs, and the different PUCCHs are PUCCHs using different PUCCH resources or are PUCCHs transmitted on non-overlapping symbols on a same carrier, or are PUCCHs transmitted on different carriers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2019
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Applicant: DATANG MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xuejuan GAO, Deshan MIAO, Tony EKPENYONG
  • Publication number: 20220046718
    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: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2021
    Publication date: February 10, 2022
    Applicant: DATANG MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Bin REN, Tony Ekpenyong, Xueming Pan
  • Publication number: 20220038919
    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: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2019
    Publication date: February 3, 2022
    Applicant: DATANG MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lei WANG, Tony EKPENYONG
  • Publication number: 20220030582
    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: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2020
    Publication date: January 27, 2022
    Applicant: DATANG MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wei BAI, Xuejuan GAO, Tony EKPENYONG
  • Patent number: 11224072
    Abstract: A method for information transmission is provided by the present disclosure. The method includes: transmitting, by a first User Equipment (UE), a first random access request to an access network entity, the first random access request carrying a first preamble and data; and receiving, by the first UE, a random access response sent by the access network entity according to the first random access request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: DATANG MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Bin Ren, Tony Ekpenyong, Xueming Pan
  • Publication number: 20220007393
    Abstract: A method and a device for transmitting a hybrid automatic repeat request, a network device and a terminal are provided. The transmitting method includes: receiving a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) in an uplink grant-free transmission occasion; and transmitting an explicit hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) according to a reception result of the PUSCH, wherein a content of the explicit hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) includes at least one of: an acknowledgement (ACK), a negative acknowledgement (NACK), or a discontinuous transmission (DTX).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2019
    Publication date: January 6, 2022
    Applicant: DATANG MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wei BAI, Xuejuan GAO, Tony EKPENYONG
  • Publication number: 20210399848
    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: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2019
    Publication date: December 23, 2021
    Applicant: DATANG MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wei BAI, Xuejuan GAO, Tony EKPENYONG, Yanping XING
  • Patent number: 11206651
    Abstract: A method for detecting and receiving a downlink control channel, a User Equipment (UE), and a network side device are provided. The method includes: determining, by a UE, a first detection time parameter indicated by a network side device for detection and reception of the downlink control channel; and selecting, by the UE, a corresponding downlink control channel time domain resource according to the first detection time parameter to detect and receive the downlink control channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: DATANG MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lei Wang, Tony Ekpenyong
  • Patent number: 11206652
    Abstract: A downlink channel transmitting method, a downlink channel receiving method, devices thereof, a base station and a terminal are provided. The downlink channel transmitting method is applied to a base station and includes: indicating, explicitly or implicitly, a transmitting period of a group common physical downlink control channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: DATANG MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lei Wang, Tony Ekpenyong
  • Patent number: 11201774
    Abstract: An uplink waveform acquisition method, an uplink waveform feedback method, a terminal, and a base station are provided. The acquisition method includes: acquiring an uplink waveform for information transmission of a terminal; and performing information transmission according to the uplink waveform, wherein, the acquiring the uplink waveform, includes: determining the uplink waveform for current information transmission of the terminal, according to correspondence between uplink waveforms and preset conditions in communication protocols; or receiving information about the uplink waveform for information transmission of the terminal, the information about the uplink waveform being determined for the terminal and transmitted through a preset message by a network side; or receiving information about the uplink waveform for information transmission of the terminal, the information about the uplink waveform being fed back to the terminal by the network side according to reporting information from the terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: DATANG MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yanping Xing, Tony Ekpenyong, Xueming Pan
  • Publication number: 20210359797
    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: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2019
    Publication date: November 18, 2021
    Applicant: DATANG MOBILE COMMUNICTIONS EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wei BAI, Xuejuan GAO, Tony EKPENYONG
  • Patent number: 11178697
    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: February 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: DATANG MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Bin Ren, Tony Ekpenyong, Xueming Pan
  • Patent number: 11166299
    Abstract: Provided are a data retransmission method and device, and a terminal. The method includes: acquiring a radio resource control (RRC) signaling, wherein the RRC signaling at least comprises a first configuration field and a second configuration field; the first configuration field is a configured grant (ConfiguredGrantConfig) field, and the second configuration field is a physical uplink shared channel configuration (PUSCH-config) field; in the case that a base station dynamically schedules the terminal to perform a retransmission of a PUSCH, determining a parameter set for the retransmission according to a configuration parameter comprised in the first configuration field and a configuration parameter comprised in the second configuration field; and performing the retransmission of the PUSCH according to the determined parameter set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: DATANG MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tony Ekpenyong, Wei Bai, Yanping Xing, Xuejuan Gao
  • Publication number: 20210314105
    Abstract: A HARQ-ACK sending method, a receiving method, a terminal and a base station are provided, the HARQ-ACK sending method includes: determining one PUCCH resource for transmitting HARQ-ACK of a SPS PDSCH from at least one PUCCH resource for transmitting the HARQ-ACK of the SPS PDSCH, wherein the at least one PUCCH resource includes at least one first type of PUCCH resource, and the first type of PUCCH resource is a PUCCH resource for carrying more than 2 bits of information; and sending the HARQ-ACK of the SPS PDSCH on the determined PUCCH resource.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2019
    Publication date: October 7, 2021
    Applicant: DATANG MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xuejuan GAO, Tony EKPENYONG
  • Publication number: 20210314986
    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: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2019
    Publication date: October 7, 2021
    Applicant: DATANG MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wei BAI, Tony EKPENYONG
  • Publication number: 20210315019
    Abstract: An uplink resource allocation method, an uplink resource allocation device, a base station and a terminal are provided. The uplink resource allocation method includes determining resource allocation information of an msg3 in a CBRA process. The resource allocation information is determined by the base station in accordance with a predefined rule; or the resource allocation information is configured by the base station, and notified by the base station to the terminal. When the resource allocation information is determined in accordance with the predefined rule, a same predefined rule is used by the base station and the terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2019
    Publication date: October 7, 2021
    Applicant: DATANG MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lei WANG, Yanping XING, Tony EKPENYONG
  • Publication number: 20210307053
    Abstract: The invention provides a scheduling method, a scheduling apparatus, a base station, a terminal and a computer readable storage medium. The scheduling method includes: scheduling data transmission of at least one terminal through downlink control information by means of combining high layer signaling pre-configuration and group common downlink control channels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2019
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Applicant: DATANG MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lei WANG, Tony EKPENYONG
  • Publication number: 20210250970
    Abstract: Provided are a data retransmission method and device, and a terminal. The method includes: acquiring a radio resource control (RRC) signaling, wherein the RRC signaling at least comprises a first configuration field and a second configuration field; the first configuration field is a configured grant (ConfiguredGrantConfig) field, and the second configuration field is a physical uplink shared channel configuration (PUSCH-config) field; in the case that a base station dynamically schedules the terminal to perform a retransmission of a PUSCH, determining a parameter set for the retransmission according to a configuration parameter comprised in the first configuration field and a configuration parameter comprised in the second configuration field; and performing the retransmission of the PUSCH according to the determined parameter set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2019
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Applicant: DATANG MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tony EKPENYONG, Wei BAI, Yanping XING, Xuejuan GAO