Patents Examined by Albert T. Chou
  • Patent number: 10631190
    Abstract: Embodiments of a system and method for providing DRX enhancements in LTE systems are generally described herein. In some embodiments, a system control module is provided for controlling communications via a communications interface. A processor is coupled to the system control module and is arranged to implement an inactivity timer and an on-duration timer for determining an active time for monitoring subframes on the physical downlink control channel for control signals, the processor further monitoring subframes after the active time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Youn Hyoung Heo, Yujian Zhang, Jong-Kae Fwu
  • Patent number: 10630814
    Abstract: A multi-port communication device having a plurality of serial interfaces and a plurality of Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) interfaces is provided. Data is received from one or more medical devices at a serial interface of the plurality of serial interfaces and communicated to a healthcare information system via a TCP interface of the plurality of TCP interfaces. The multi-port communication device can be remotely managed by a remote device via a set of management tools. In embodiments, the set of management tools run locally on the multi-port communication device. The multi-port communication device may additionally comprise locally installed drivers that enable communication with the healthcare information system via TCP.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: Cerner Innovation, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Thomas Barnes, Raymond B. Smith, Dharmesh Jagadish, John Harold Volkens
  • Patent number: 10631333
    Abstract: Wireless communications systems and methods related to sharing a communication medium with private networks are provided. In one embodiment, a first wireless communication device communicates with a second wireless communication device during a first transmission opportunity (TXOP) in a spectrum, a channel reservation signal to reserve a second TXOP in the spectrum subsequent to the first TXOP. The first wireless communication device communicates, with the second wireless communication device during the second TXOP, a communication signal. In one embodiment, a first wireless communication device monitors, during a first TXOP in a spectrum, for a channel reservation signal to reserve a second TXOP in the spectrum by a second wireless communication device of a priority operator, the second TXOP being subsequent to the first TXOP. The first wireless communication device determines whether to communicate with a third wireless communication device during the second TXOP based on the monitoring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Xiaoxia Zhang, Jing Sun, Tamer Kadous
  • Patent number: 10624137
    Abstract: Provided is a wireless communication system transmitting information to a communication terminal moving through a spot wireless area. In an integrated base station, an external information communication section controls communication with a server. A contents memory section stores contents received from the server. A wireless LAN communication section communicates with the communication terminal. A control section establishes connection with the communication terminal using a first connection not requiring an authentication procedure for connection with the communication terminal, or using a second connection requiring the authentication procedure for connection with the communication terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: Soverign Peak Ventures, LLC
    Inventors: Tsutomu Mukai, Hitoshi Takai
  • Patent number: 10616083
    Abstract: A device network communicates with a remote platform such as a cloud service via a gateway. A network monitor device monitors network health and may adjust the amount of data collected by the gateway, reducing the amount of data collected in case of poor network health.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Amit Verma
  • Patent number: 10588157
    Abstract: A data transmission method and an apparatus to communicate data on multiple carriers in the mobile communication system are provided. A random access method of a terminal in a mobile communication system including primary and secondary cells operating on multiple carriers according to the present invention includes communicating data after random access in the primary cell, receiving, when the random access is triggered in the secondary cell, information for use in the secondary cell random access from the primary cell, transmitting a preamble in the secondary cell based on the received information, monitoring the primary cell to receive a Random Access Response for the secondary cell, and applying, when the Random Access Response for the secondary cell is received, the information carried in the Random Access Response to the secondary cell in which the preamble has been transmitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Soenghun Kim, Sangbum Kim, Jaehyuk Jang, Kyeongin Jeong, Jongsoo Choi
  • Patent number: 10581733
    Abstract: Methods and devices for constructing a label and forwarding a label packet are provided. A node receives a message which carries a segment list and a segment list Identifier (ID) for identifying the segment list. The node constructs a label forwarding table according to the segment list and the segment list ID, and performs forwarding according to the label forwarding table; and/or the node maintains a mapping relationship between the segment list and the segment list ID.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: XI'AN ZHONGXING NEW SOFTWARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shaofu Peng, Ran Chen, Ting Liao
  • Patent number: 10568085
    Abstract: A base station and a wireless device may communicate with one another regarding carrier types that may differ based on the presence or absence of certain reference signals. The communication may be, for example, related to a handover decision.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventor: Esmael Hejazi Dinan
  • Patent number: 10545845
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems, devices, and methods related to assets and predictive models and corresponding workflows that are related to updating a routing table. In particular, examples involve based on a predictive model, determining that a given asset of a plurality of assets in a mesh network is likely to be unavailable within a given period of time in the future and in response to the determining, causing a routing configuration for at least one other asset in the mesh network to be updated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: Uptake Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Brett Heliker, Brad Nicholas
  • Patent number: 10541921
    Abstract: Embodiments provide a TCAM-based access control list that supports disjunction operations in rules. A network frame is received. Embodiments determine set TCP flags of the network frame. Upon determining that the set TCP flags match a first entry in a numeric range table, bits of a search key corresponding to the first entry are updated. The search key accesses a second entry stored in a TCAM. The first entry further comprises an encode field to scan a TCP header of the network frame for set TCP flags, a first mask field to a condition corresponding to unset TCP flags to identify in the network frame, a second mask field to a condition corresponding to set TCP flags to identify in the network frame, and an operation field specifying a disjunction operation for comparing the set TCP flags with the first mask field and the second mask field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Claude Basso, Joseph A. Kirscht, Natarajan Vaidhyanathan
  • Patent number: 10536369
    Abstract: A first layer one link aggregation master comprises a first port coupled to receive customer traffic; a first channel; a second channel; an aggregation engine coupled to the first and second channels; a first switch circuit coupled to the first port and to the first channel, and configured to communicate the customer traffic from the first port over the first channel to the aggregation engine, the aggregation engine including a splitter circuit configured to use layer one information to segment at least a portion of the customer traffic into a first virtual container and a second virtual container, the aggregation engine further including an encapsulation circuit configured to encapsulate the second virtual container using Ethernet standards for transport over the second channel; a radio access card configured to generate an air frame based on the first virtual container for wireless transmission over a first wireless link of a link aggregation group to the receiver; and a second switch circuit coupled to the
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: Aviat U.S., Inc.
    Inventors: Chaoming Zeng, Sergio Licardie
  • Patent number: 10536927
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention disclose triggering methods and apparatuses of aperiodic channel state information CSI and an aperiodic sounding reference signal SRS for a carrier aggregation system. The method comprises: (1) pre-assigning a corresponding relationship between bits of the CSI request field in an uplink grant and multiple downlink component carriers DL CCs of user equipment, wherein the number of bits of the CSI request field is greater than 1 and less than the maximum allowed number of DL CCs in the system; (2) determining the DL CC for which aperiodic CSI reporting is to be triggered; and (3) mapping the CSI request field in the uplink grant according to the pre-assigned corresponding relationship to mark the value of the bit corresponding to the determined DL CC as “trigger”.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Jin Liu, Xudong Zhu
  • Patent number: 10536233
    Abstract: Techniques for sending feedback information for multi-carrier operation are described. In an aspect, feedback information may be sent on an uplink carrier that may or may not be paired with a downlink carrier on which data transmission is sent. A user equipment (UE) may receive data transmission on a downlink carrier among a plurality of downlink carriers. The UE may determine feedback information for the data transmission, determine an uplink carrier to use to send the feedback information from among a plurality of uplink carriers, and send the feedback information on the uplink carrier. In another aspect, feedback information for multiple downlink carriers may be sent on at least one uplink carrier using Single-Carrier Frequency Division Multiple Access (SC-FDMA). A UE may receive data transmissions on a plurality of downlink carriers, determine feedback information for the data transmissions, and send the feedback information on at least one uplink carrier using SC-FDMA.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jelena Damnjanovic, Juan Montojo, Xiaoxia Zhang
  • Patent number: 10512103
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to transmit data in a connectionless mode are disclosed. An example method includes identifying, at a user equipment, that data exists to be transmitted to a destination address, the destination address encoded into the data. An indication is transmitted that the user equipment will transmit the data, the data to be transmitted without establishing a bearer with a wireless network. The data is encoded into a preamble of a random access channel message. The random access channel message is transmitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventor: Roger Piqueras Jover
  • Patent number: 10498513
    Abstract: Methods for dynamic allocation of reference signals (RS) may be provided. For example, rather than or in addition to using a pre-defined resource element (RE) mapping for determining reference signal locations within a time-frequency grid, a WTRU may receive one or more dynamic indications (e.g., downlink control information received via a physical downlink control channel) that indicate the position of reference signals and/or associate a first reference signal with a second reference signal. For example, the indicated association may indicate that the first and second reference signals were sent by the base station using the same precoder. The association may indicate that first and second reference signals may be used together for channel estimation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: IDAC Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul Marinier, J. Patrick Tooher, Ghyslain Pelletier
  • Patent number: 10484303
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving from a host node comprising a tenant multicast application with a single tenant deployment, an encapsulated multicast packet over unicast at a virtual replicator, the encapsulated multicast packet comprising receiver information for the virtual replicator, replicating the encapsulated multicast packet at the virtual replicator, and transmitting the encapsulated multicast packet over unicast to a plurality of receiving nodes based on the receiver information. The receiving nodes comprise the tenant multicast application and the virtual replicator operates in a cloud without multicast capability. An apparatus is also disclosed herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Gregory J. Shepherd, Ijsbrand Wijnands, Neale Ranns, David Ward, Michael Francis O'Gorman
  • Patent number: 10476784
    Abstract: A network device may receive a flow having source information corresponding to a first client device and destination information corresponding to a second client device. A tag may then be created by the network device for the flow based upon the source information and the destination information. Next, the network device may encapsulate a packet corresponding to the flow. The packet may be encapsulated with encapsulation information including the created tag. The encapsulated packet may then be routed through a plurality of intermediate network devices in the network. The created tag encapsulated with the packet may identify the packet as being a part of the flow as the packet is routed through the plurality of intermediate network devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Anand Oswal, Muninder Sambi, Sanjay Kumar Hooda
  • Patent number: 10469368
    Abstract: Generally, this disclosure provides systems, methods and computer readable media for switching systems employing distributed routing tables to provide improved support for multiple network topologies, configurations and routing modes. A routing system of a switch, for routing a packet from an input port of a switch to an output port, may include memory modules to store routing tables configured to store entries, each entry configured to store output port identifiers. The routing system may also include a table address generation module configured to select an entry from the routing tables based in part on a first subset of a Destination Location ID (DLID) associated with the packet. The table address generation module may further be configured to select one or more output ports from the selected entries, the selected output ports based in part on a second subset of the DLID.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventor: Albert S. Cheng
  • Patent number: 10462201
    Abstract: The disclosed subject matter includes techniques for wireless control. A system includes a processor. The system also includes a computer-readable memory storage device storing executable instructions that can be executed by the processor to cause the processor to receive a connection request from a wireless controller. The processor can also send a request for a media stream and a request for a wireless monitoring acknowledgement to a host device. The processor can also receive a response from the host device with the wireless monitoring acknowledgment. The processor can also further receive a message from the host device acknowledging a reception with the wireless controller. The processor can stop monitoring for control data from the wireless controller in response to the host device acknowledging the reception with the wireless controller. The processor can further receive the media stream from the host device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventor: Gregory M. Daly
  • Patent number: 10455635
    Abstract: A cell activation/deactivation method in a wireless communication system and an apparatus therefor are disclosed. Specifically, a method for activating/deactivating a secondary cell (SCell) by a UE in a wireless communication system supporting carrier aggregation includes: receiving an SCell addition related message from an eNB; partially activating one or more first SCell when a partial activation related message for the first SCell from among a plurality of SCells added according to the SCell addition related message is received from the eNB; and fully activating one or more second SCell when a full activation related message for the second SCell from among the plurality of SCells added according to the SCell addition related message is received from the eNB, wherein normal SCell operations are applied to the second SCell and only some of the normal SCell operations are applied to the first SCell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jonghyun Park, Kijun Kim, Joonkui Ahn, Hanbyul Seo, Seungmin Lee