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: 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: 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: 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: 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
  • Patent number: 10986670
    Abstract: A random access feedback method, a random access processing method, a base station and a terminal are provided. The random access feedback method includes: receiving a first message sent by a terminal in performing a random access, wherein the first message comprises a preamble field and a data field; detecting the preamble field and the data field of the first message to obtain a detection result of whether or not a preamble exists in the first message and/or whether or not data is successfully obtained in the first message; and feeding back the detection result to the terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: CHINA ACADEMY OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Bin Ren, Tony Ekpenyong, Xueming Pan
  • Patent number: 10911283
    Abstract: A method of generating an uplink signal sequence, a user equipment, a base station and a computer-readable storage medium are provided. The method includes: generating an uplink signal sequence ru,v(?)(n) based on ru,v(?)(n)=ej?nru,v(n), 0?n<12, where a is configured to distinguish a terminal, an uplink signal base sequence ru,v(n)=ej?(n)?/4, where u represents a group number, and v represents an intra-group base sequence number, ?(n)?/4 represents a phase of a base sequence; performing a full traversal of multiple possible phases of the phase ?(n)?/4 on the uplink signal sequence with a length of 12, and selecting a predetermined number of uplink signal sequences with a lowest peak-to-average power ratio and a lowest cross-correlation characteristic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: CHINA ACADEMY OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Xiangli Lin, Xuejuan Gao, Tony Ekpenyong
  • Publication number: 20200404666
    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: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2018
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Applicant: CHINA ACADEMY OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Xuejuan GAO, Tony EKPENYONG
  • Publication number: 20200404629
    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: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2018
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Applicant: CHINA ACADEMY OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Lei WANG, Tony EKPENYONG
  • Publication number: 20200359374
    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: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2018
    Publication date: November 12, 2020
    Applicant: CHINA ACADEMY OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Xuejuan GAO, Tony EKPENYONG
  • Publication number: 20200344728
    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: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2018
    Publication date: October 29, 2020
    Applicant: CHINA ACADEMY OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Xuejuan GAO, Tony EKPENYONG
  • Publication number: 20200275398
    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: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2018
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Applicant: CHINA ACADEMY OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Ren DA, Zheng ZHAO, Bin REN, Tony EKPENYONG, Pierre BERTRAND, Fangchen CHENG, Tie LI, Qiubin GAO
  • Publication number: 20200274746
    Abstract: A method of generating an uplink signal sequence, a user equipment, a base station and a computer-readable storage medium are provided. The method includes: generating an uplink signal sequence ru,v(?)(n) based on ru,v(?)(n)=ej?nru,v(n), 0?n<12, where a is configured to distinguish a terminal, an uplink signal base sequence ru,v(n)=ej?(n)?/4, where u represents a group number, and v represents an intra-group base sequence number, ?(n)?/4 represents a phase of a base sequence; performing a full traversal of multiple possible phases of the phase ?(n)?/4 on the uplink signal sequence with a length of 12, and selecting a predetermined number of uplink signal sequences with a lowest peak-to-average power ratio and a lowest cross-correlation characteristic.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2018
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Applicant: CHINA ACADEMY OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Xiangli LIN, Xuejuan GAO, Tony EKPENYONG
  • Publication number: 20200267698
    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: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2018
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Applicant: CHINA ACADEMY OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Yanping XING, Xuejuan GAO, Tony EKPENYONG
  • Publication number: 20200214014
    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: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2018
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Applicant: CHINA ACADEMY OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Lei WANG, Tony EKPENYONG
  • Publication number: 20200204332
    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: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2018
    Publication date: June 25, 2020
    Applicant: CHINA ACADEMY OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Ren DA, Zheng ZHAO, Bin REN, Tie LI, Fangchen CHENG, Tony EKPENYONG
  • Publication number: 20200196282
    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: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2018
    Publication date: June 18, 2020
    Inventors: Lei WANG, Tony EKPENYONG