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: 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
  • 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: 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: 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: 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