Patents Examined by Anez Ebrahim
  • Patent number: 10159088
    Abstract: The present invention extends to methods, systems, devices, apparatus, and computer program products for transferring data through a bonded communication link. A bonded communication link bonds together capabilities from each of a plurality of other communication links to form a higher bandwidth communication link relative to each of the plurality of other communication links considered separately. Link qualities can be monitored for each of the plurality of other communication links. Different priorities can be assigned to different types of data. Based on monitored link qualities and assigned data priorities, different data types can be routed via different of the other communication links. Routing different data types via different of the other communication links facilitates selective transmission of higher priority data when quality degrades on a communication link.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2018
    Assignee: Sqwaq, Inc.
    Inventors: Stefan E. De Nagy Koves Hrabar, Edward Lindsley
  • Patent number: 10123287
    Abstract: A transceiver station includes a first board and a second board. The first board includes an anchor cell L2 scheduler configured to schedule at least one of uplink and downlink transmissions for a multi-carrier user on only a first of the plurality of carriers. The second board includes a secondary cell L2 scheduler configured to schedule at least one of uplink and downlink transmissions for the multi-carrier user on only a second of the plurality of carriers, the second board being separate from, but interconnected with the first board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignees: Alcatel Lucent, Nokia of America Corporation
    Inventors: Jerry Z. Wang, Venkata Vankayala, Ramdhan Singh, Constant Conan, Emad N. Farag, Taofik Saidi
  • Patent number: 10117263
    Abstract: A method of a wireless device connected to multiple base stations to receive data in a wireless communication system is provided. The wireless device detects multiple transports (TBs) being transmitted by the multiple base stations, and determines whether the sum of total bits of the multiple TBs exceeds the maximum TB size supported by the wireless device. If the sum of the total bits of the multiple TBs exceeds the maximum TB size, the wireless device decides, according to a priority, which TBs to receive among the multiple TBs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Joonkui Ahn, Suckchel Yang, Yunjung Yi
  • Patent number: 10117238
    Abstract: A mobile communications system includes a wireless access interface communicating data to/from mobile communications devices, the wireless access interface provided on a downlink first carrier, the first carrier providing plural communications resource elements across a first frequency range, and within a second frequency range within and smaller than the first frequency range. The wireless access interface includes plural time divided sub-frames each including the plural communications resource elements of the first and second frequency ranges, each sub-frame including a first wideband control channel in a part having a bandwidth corresponding substantially to the first frequency range, and a second narrow band control channel in a second part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yuichi Morioka
  • Patent number: 10111217
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a User Equipment (UE) having a receiver and a decoder. The receiver is configured to receive, from an eNodeB (eNB), a signal indicating a configuration of a period to receive one or more Physical Downlink Control CHannels (PDCCHs) in respective one or more Transmission Time Intervals (TTIs). Each of the one or more PDCCHs conveys a same Downlink Control Information (DCI) format. The DCI format includes at least one field indicating a first Time Division Duplexing (TDD) UpLink-DownLink (UL-DL) configuration in a first cell for DL data receptions or UL data transmissions. A TDD UL-DL configuration includes ten TTIs each having a respective serial index from 0 to 9. The receiver is also configured to receive, from the eNB, at least one PDCCH of the one or more PDCCHs. The decoder is configured to decode the DCI format conveyed by the at least one PDCCH in a second cell. The period is a multiple of ten TTIs, and the one or more TTIs are in a last ten TTIs of the period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Aris Papasakellariou, Ying Li
  • Patent number: 10111224
    Abstract: Systems and/or methods for supporting communications at a reduced bandwidth with a full bandwidth network such as a long-term evolution (LTE) network may be disclosed. For example, inband assignments such as downlink assignments and/or uplink grants may be provided and/or received and transmissions may be monitored and/or decoded based on the inband assignment. Additionally, information (e.g. a definition or configuration) associated with an ePDCCH may be provided and/or received and ePDCCH resources may be monitored and/or decoded based on such information. An indication for support of a reduced bandwidth by the full bandwidth network may also be provided and/or received and control channels in the reduced or narrow bandwidth may be monitored and/or decoded based on the indication. A PRACH preamble and/or a multi-type subframe definition may also be provided and/or used for support of such a reduced bandwidth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Moon-il Lee, Marian Rudolf, Peter S. Wang, Shahrokh Nayeb Nazar, Janet A. Stern-Berkowitz, Pouriya Sadeghi, Allan Y. Tsai, Sung-Hyuk Shin
  • Patent number: 10111082
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to relating time-to-live information with location data for wireless network access points. A freshness component determines a value associated with a freshness of location data for an access point. An encoding component encodes the value into a time-to-live information element included publicly broadcast access point information, and a transmitter transmits the publicly broadcast access point information. The publicly broadcast access point information includes at least one of a beacon frame or probe response. Additionally, by providing a value satisfying a non-inclusion threshold for the time-to-live information, emitters or network administrations may use time-to-live information to indicate that they do not wish to have location data for an access point stored.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventor: Edward Thomas Lingham Hardie
  • Patent number: 10098169
    Abstract: A user terminal supports a D2D proximity service enabling a direct device-to-device communication without passing through a network. The user terminal includes a controller configured to select one of a plurality of other user terminals as a D2D synchronization source and to synchronize to a D2D synchronization signal transmitted by the D2D synchronization source, when the user terminal receives D2D synchronization signals transmitted by the plurality of other user terminals in a case where the user terminal is out of network coverage. The controller stops transmission of a predetermined D2D synchronization signal in response to selecting the other user terminal as the D2D synchronization source, when the user terminal is transmitting the predetermined D2D synchronization signal in a case where the user terminal is out of network coverage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Adachi, Henry Chang
  • Patent number: 10084522
    Abstract: Radio network node and method in a radio network node, for wireless communication with a user equipment in a wireless communication system in antenna streams, wherein the radio network node comprises a plurality of antenna elements, forming a multiple antenna array which is configured for massive MIMO transmission. The method comprises beamforming a signal to be transmitted to the user equipment by splitting and phase shifting said signal; detecting a peak of power of one beamformed signal, exceeding a threshold value; manipulating said signal until the peak of power of the signal is lower than said threshold value; and transmitting said signal, to be received by the user equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zixin Zhang, Simon Andersson, Björn Sihlbom
  • Patent number: 10075182
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus related to message compression/decompression are described. A compressed message is generated by indicating what changes are to be made to a previous message to produce the message sought to be transmitted. The required change, in the form of at least one command and corresponding parameter, is transmitted as a compressed version of the message being communicated. This approach takes advantage of the fact that messages sent over time often include much of the same message content and only one or a few fields may have changed. The techniques are general and involve including a command in the compressed message along with at least one parameter. The command indicates processing to be performed on a previous message to generate the uncompressed message. The parameter may be, e.g., data to be inserted into the previous message or specify a location in the previous message where the change is to be made.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Vincent Park, George Tsirtsis, Hesham Soliman
  • Patent number: 10069747
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to quality of service (QOS) features for a router. The router may determine whether a congestion level of a first interface of the set of network interfaces exceeds a threshold level. Responsive to the congestion level exceeding the threshold level, the router activates a traffic analyzer configured to identify a first session that is present in the data traffic and inserts a set of packets that are part of the first session into a first queue of the set of queues via an expedited communications path over a bus. The router also forwards the set of packets in accordance with the desired quality of service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul Chen, Derek Hee Jun Cha
  • Patent number: 10070464
    Abstract: The present invention provides a signal transmission method and apparatus, a communications system, a terminal, and a base station, where the method includes: determining a repetition factor or an extended sequence of a channel; determining a time domain resource according to the repetition factor or a length of the extended sequence, where the time domain resource is a transmission subframe; and sending a signal by using the transmission subframe of the channel. The signal transmission method, apparatus, communications system, terminal, and base station that are provided by the present invention can solve the technical problem of poor channel coverage in a signal transmission method in the prior art.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhenfei Tang, Yuanjie Li, Zhongfeng Li
  • Patent number: 10063495
    Abstract: Accordingly, there is provided an IMS node, comprising a transmission module and a processor. The transmission module is arranged to send SIP messages to a plurality of other IMS nodes. The processor arranged to detect an error in a particular other IMS node, the error indicating that the particular other IMS node is not available to receive traffic. In response to detection of such an error, the processor causes the particular other IMS node not to be used for a period of time. The transmission module is further arranged to send at least one test message to the particular other IMS node when the period of time expires. The processor is further arranged to determine if the at least one test message is successfully processed by the particular other IMS node, and in response to a positive determination then returning the particular other IMS node to use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventor: Christian Olrog
  • Patent number: 10057794
    Abstract: Apparatus and method providing feedback on channel conditions in a wireless telecommunications system including a base station arranged to communicate with plural terminals device using frequencies spanning a system frequency bandwidth. At least one terminal device is a reduced capability terminal device including a tuneable transceiver configured to receive downlink transmissions from the base station using only a restricted frequency bandwidth which is smaller than and within the system frequency bandwidth. The reduced capability terminal device is configured to communicate information derived from measurements of channel conditions to the base station. The information may include an indication of measured channel conditions for the different frequency locations, or an indication of one or more frequency locations for which the corresponding measurement of channel conditions meet a pre-defined selection criterion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideji Wakabayashi, Matthew William Webb, Yuichi Morioka, Stephen Truelove
  • Patent number: 10051664
    Abstract: Some demonstrative embodiments include apparatuses, systems and/or methods of communicating during a discovery window. For example, an apparatus may include logic and circuitry configured to cause a wireless station to select an access window from a plurality of access windows within a discovery window, the discovery window being configured to communicate awareness networking messages according to a contention mechanism; and contend to transmit a service discovery frame during the selected access window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: INTEL IP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Po-Kai Huang, Minyoung Park, Emily H. Qi
  • Patent number: 10051595
    Abstract: Techniques are provided for placing wireless access points on a site model. An indication of a newly detected wireless access point is received. Perceived signal strengths are received from the newly detected wireless access point or located wireless access points. A site model is selected based on the received perceived signal strengths. The newly detected wireless access point is placed on the selected site model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
    Inventors: Allan Delgado Campos, Fabiel Zuniga Gallegos
  • Patent number: 10028124
    Abstract: Some demonstrative embodiments include apparatuses, systems and/or methods of awareness networking communications over a Sub 1 Gigahertz Band. For example, an apparatus may include logic and circuitry configured to cause a wireless station to determine a timing of a plurality of Discovery Windows (DWs) according to a Neighbor Awareness Networking (NAN) Protocol; and communicate one or more NAN messages over a Sub 1 Gigahertz (GHz) (S1G) band during one or more of the DWs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: INTEL IP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Emily H. Qi, Po-Kai Huang, Minyoung Park
  • Patent number: 10028293
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and an apparatus for controlling data transmission on a radio communication network. The method includes: acquiring, by a base station, transmission attribute information, where the transmission attribute information includes attribute information of to-be-transmitted data and scheduling attribute information of the base station; and judging whether the acquired scheduling attribute information of the base station meets a preset scheduling condition; and if yes, the base station sends a scheduling suspension message and/or a scheduling start message to a terminal according to the transmission attribute information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Guanglin Han
  • Patent number: 10021548
    Abstract: Encoding and decoding schemes at an encoding device/transmitter and decoder device/receiver, respectively, for use in communicating the state of a system. In an example method carried out by an encoding device, state information x(k), which represents the current state of a monitored system, is measured. The encoding device calculates a state update parameter, based on: a message power constraint P; the covariance N of measurement noise associated with the channel over which encoded state information is to be transmitted; and the norm of the signal vector [s(k), x(k)], where s(k) is a stored state information parameter. The encoding device then calculates a message signal z(k)=G(k)*(x(k)?s(k)), which may then be transmitted to a remote decoder device, and calculates an updated version of the stored information s(k+1)=A*(s(k)+F(k)*z(k)). The encoding device replaces the stored state information s(k) with s(k+1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventor: Ather Gattami
  • Patent number: 9998424
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatuses are provided for VoIP communication with endpoint devices via a network address translator (NAT). A plurality of proxy servers is configured to relay communications through mapped paths of the NAT during operations including VoIP sessions through or with the plurality of endpoint devices and during other operations not involving VoIP sessions through or with the plurality of endpoint devices. The mapped paths are susceptible to being unmapped by the NAT if the mapped path is unused for a threshold duration of time. The proxy servers maintain the mapped paths through the NAT by prompting the endpoint devices to communicate data to the plurality of proxy servers. A call control server uses a selection algorithm to select a particular one of the proxy servers to be used for routing communication of a VoIP session between endpoint devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: 8x8, Inc.
    Inventors: Garth Judge, Huw Rees, Zhishen Liu