Patents Examined by Anthony Luo
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Patent number: 10447452Abstract: An approach is provided for generating response frames. Incoming frames are processed by a receive controller to determine type and attributes. Based on the type and the attributes of the incoming frame, a response frame is constructed and transmitted by a transmit controller. A response frame is constructed by setting values in a frame template. A block ACK can be implemented by means of a block ACK scoreboard.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2015Date of Patent: October 15, 2019Assignees: ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC., AMD FAR EAST LTD.Inventors: Douglas A. Mammoser, Sebastian Ahmed
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Patent number: 10439886Abstract: A system and method for dynamically (re)configuring a service network based on profile information obtained from a Big Data Analytics platform. Received dynamic situation profiles relative to network states, subscriber states, etc. may be compared against corresponding characteristic situation profiles. If there is a similarity, a dynamic design change action may be effectuated for changing configuration of at least a part of the service network, e.g., a service chaining mechanism, operating to service user data flows of the subscribers.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2015Date of Patent: October 8, 2019Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)Inventors: George Lapiotis, Chirag Parekh, Henry Chang, Kiran Patel
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Patent number: 10440760Abstract: A method and apparatus for session management in a wireless network are disclosed. For example, a user endpoint (UE) device, sends a request for a session internet protocol (IP) address assignment using an interface IP address, configures the UE device with the session IP address, provides to a controller an association of the interface and session IP addresses, and receives packets addressed to the session IP address via an access network entity associated with the interface IP address. In one example, a controller receives an association of an interface IP address with a session IP address from an attached UE device, provides to a network node an update on a route to reach the session IP address through the interface IP address, identifies an active interface IP address to receive packets, and configures an open flow switch or router for routing the packets towards the active interface IP address.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2016Date of Patent: October 8, 2019Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Zhi Cui, Jiansong Wang
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Patent number: 10433202Abstract: There are provided a wireless communication method of configuring a measurement resource and a wireless communication device therefor. The method comprises determining a measurement resource to be disregarded when the number of measurement resources configured in one subframe exceeds the maximum number of measurement resources that a user equipment is able to measure in one subframe, wherein the measurement resource with lower priority is determined to be disregarded, and the measurement resource is not disregarded A times within the duration of N subframes, where A is an integer larger than 1, N corresponds to one plus B*periodicity of the measurement resource, and B is an integer equal to or larger than 1.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2018Date of Patent: October 1, 2019Assignee: Sun Patent TrustInventors: Hui Tong, Masayuki Hoshino, Akihiko Nishio, Ming Xu
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Patent number: 10404530Abstract: Computerized methods and systems are disclosed for configuring a network controller (NC). These methods and systems recognize, via a network device, e.g., hardware, software, processors, storage media, memory, a predetermined command from a management controller (MC). The network device responds to the predetermined command by configuring the NC with a message type associated with an event, and controlling enablement of a message associated with the message type using a selectable enable bit as defined in the predetermined command.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2014Date of Patent: September 3, 2019Assignee: Mellanox Technologes, Ltd.Inventors: Yuval Itkin, Dror Goldenberg
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Patent number: 10389551Abstract: A network for an aircraft including a master device and slave devices connected in daisy-chain arrangement series. Each slave device has a unique identifier. The master transmits polling data packets along the slave devices, each including only one identifier. Polling data packets are transmitted in successive sequences, each including for each slave device only one polling data packet and including the polling data packets in a predetermined order. Each slave device includes a first data interface for connection in an upstream direction, a second data interface for connection in the downstream direction, and a processing unit to compare for each received polling data packet the identifier thereof with the identifier of the respective slave device, and output a response data packet to the master device if the two identifiers match, and forward the polling data packet to the second interface at least if the two identifiers do not match.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2016Date of Patent: August 20, 2019Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbHInventors: Jens Hollander, Holger Heitsch, Daniel Kliem, Martin Wagner
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Patent number: 10355968Abstract: An adapter is configured to connect to a network. The adapter including a controller configured to receive a stream of network communication from a computer system physically connected to the adapter. The controller is further configured to detect a first identifier. The first identifier is related to a first communication unit of the stream of network communication. In response to detecting the first identifier, the controller is further configured to direct the first communication unit away from the network and back toward the controller through a loopback pathway. The controller is further configured to direct the stream of network communication away from the computer system and to the network.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2015Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventor: Mehulkumar J. Patel
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Patent number: 10333656Abstract: Systems and methods presented herein provide for channel reservation for a wireless telephony system operating in an RF band with a wireless system comprising a conflicting wireless technology. One method is operable with an eNodeB. The method includes assigning an ID (e.g., a PN sequence) to a user equipment (UE) operating in the RF band, processing a scheduling request for uplink (UL) data from the UE, and granting a time and a frequency for the UE to transmit the UL data. The method also includes waiting until the UE performs a Listen Before Talk (LBT) operation to determine whether the granted time and frequency is occupied by another wireless system employing a different wireless technology. The method also includes transmitting the ID to the UE to reserve the granted time and frequency when unoccupied by the other wireless system, and processing the UL data from the UE.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2016Date of Patent: June 25, 2019Assignee: Cable Television Laboratories, Inc.Inventors: Jennifer Andreoli-Fang, Alireza Babaei
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Patent number: 10320495Abstract: A method of characterizing the performance of the payload of a satellite in orbit is executed with the aid of a test ground station including first radio-frequency amplification means and a radio-frequency transmit ground antenna. The method includes a step of providing first amplification means that can be configured to generate at the input of the transmit ground antenna a wide-band test thermal noise the power spectral density of which can be adjusted to a test thermal noise reference power spectral density Dref so that the ratio of the test thermal noise spectral density received at the input of the transponder and that corresponds to it to the thermal noise floor spectral density generated by the satellite alone internally and the natural thermal noise of the Earth is greater than or equal to a first threshold Ds1 equal to 10 dB. An IOT system is configured to execute the method.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2016Date of Patent: June 11, 2019Assignee: THALESInventors: Stéphane-Olivier Tessandori, Emmanuel Bousquet, Arnaud-Damien Durand
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Patent number: 10313222Abstract: An adapter is configured to connect to a network. The adapter including a controller configured to receive a stream of network communication from a computer system physically connected to the adapter. The controller is further configured to detect a first identifier. The first identifier is related to a first communication unit of the stream of network communication. In response to detecting the first identifier, the controller is further configured to direct the first communication unit away from the network and back toward the controller through a loopback pathway. The controller is further configured to direct the stream of network communication away from the computer system and to the network.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2015Date of Patent: June 4, 2019Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventor: Mehulkumar J. Patel
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Patent number: 10313219Abstract: A method of processing a stream of mobile communication device data events. The method comprises determining by a script executing on a computer system a number of events on a first number of data event queues, where the events are mobile communication device data events waiting to be processed and the first number of data event queues are associated with a first topic, comparing the number of events on the first number of queues to a predefined queue depth threshold associated, based on the comparison, creating additional queues associated with the first topic to establish a second number of queues associated with the first topic, rebalancing the queues associated with the first topic by moving some of the events stored on the queues to the additional queues, and creating additional event processing threads based on creating the additional queues.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2016Date of Patent: June 4, 2019Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.Inventors: Robert H. Burcham, Geoffrey A. Holmes, Rakesh Anavalamudi Surendra
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Patent number: 10305796Abstract: A method, in a switch in an interconnected layer-2 architecture, is disclosed for enhanced forwarding database synchronization of Media Access Control (MAC) addresses based on HIT logic. The method includes learning a MAC address against a port associated with the switch; storing the MAC address with information comprising a port Identifier (ID), a switch ID, and the enhanced HIT logic set to true; setting the enhanced HIT logic to false if the MAC address was not seen on the port at an end of a cycle; and synchronizing the MAC address with other switches in the interconnected layer-2 or multi-chassis architecture if the enhanced HIT logic is true at the end of the cycle.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2015Date of Patent: May 28, 2019Assignee: Ciena CorporationInventors: Vineet Gautam, Tajeshwar Gill, Mukesh Chhabra
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Patent number: 10298438Abstract: A resource state monitoring method, device and communication network are provided. The method includes: acquiring network event state information of a node in a network running process, detecting a data plane resource state of the node and a control plane resource state of the node when it determines that the network event state information of the node meets a resource state detection triggering condition, and reporting a detection result to a management plane of the node. The device includes an acquiring unit, a checking unit, a triggering unit, a detecting unit and a reporting unit. The network includes several nodes, a communication control device and a resource state monitoring device.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2011Date of Patent: May 21, 2019Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Fatai Zhang, Jianhua Gao
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Patent number: 10277493Abstract: A method for monitoring a network includes generating a first receiving sequence number representing a first location within a first ordered sequence of a number of data packets as received by a receiving device, and extracting a first transmission sequence number representing a second location within a second ordered sequence of the number of data packets as transmitted by a transmitting device. The method further includes generating a second receiving sequence number representing a third location within the first ordered sequence of the number of data packets, extracting a second transmission sequence number representing a fourth location within the second ordered sequence of the number of data packets. The method further includes generating a measurement of network transmission based at least on the first receiving sequence number, the first transmission sequence number, the second receiving sequence number, and the second transmission sequence number.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2017Date of Patent: April 30, 2019Assignee: Ciena CorporationInventor: Marc Holness
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Patent number: 10244517Abstract: A method for enabling a base station to transmit control information in a wireless communication system according to one embodiment of the present invention, comprises a step of transmitting an enhanced physical downlink channel (E-PDCCH) for a terminal using at least one physical resource block pair among a plurality of physical resource block pairs for transmitting the E-PDCCH, wherein the plurality of physical resource block pairs include one or more physical resource block pair sets, and a parameter related to a demodulation reference signal for the E-PDCCH is set with respect to each physical resource block pair set.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2012Date of Patent: March 26, 2019Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Inkwon Seo, Hanbyul Seo, Hakseong Kim
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Patent number: 10230419Abstract: In one aspect there is provided a method. The method may include receiving a first analog radio frequency signal including a signal of interest and an interference signal caused by a second analog radio frequency signal transmitted in full duplex over a channel from which the first analog transmission is received; adjusting at least one of the first analog radio frequency signal and a portion of the second analog radio frequency signal to enable at least one of a reduction or an elimination of the interference signal in an output analog radio frequency signal; combining the first analog radio frequency signal and the portion of the second analog radio frequency signal to generate the output analog radio frequency signal characterized by at least the reduction or the elimination of the interference signal included in the output analog radio frequency signal; and providing the output analog radio frequency signal. Related apparatus, systems, methods, and articles are also described.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2011Date of Patent: March 12, 2019Assignee: The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior UniversityInventors: Dinesh Bharadia, Jung-Il Choi, Mayank Jain, Sachin Katti, Tae Min Kim, Philip Levis
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Patent number: 10182359Abstract: A method and apparatus for testing signal reception sensitivity of a wireless access point are provided. The apparatus includes a receiver which is configured to receive a test start request signal, a transmission power level change request signal and a test packet retransmission request signal from a neighboring access point apparatus; a test signal generator which is configured to generate a test packet signal to be transmitted to the neighboring access point apparatus; a transmission power level adjuster which is configured to adjust a transmission power level of the test packet signal; a transmitter which is configured to transmit the test packet signal to the neighboring access point apparatus with a power having a level adjusted by the transmission power level adjuster; and a test executor which is configured to execute a test program having a predetermined sequence for testing a signal reception sensitivity of the neighboring access point apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2011Date of Patent: January 15, 2019Assignee: KT CorporationInventors: Jae Ho Chung, Wi Sang Rho, Yung Ha Ji, Kyu Jeong Han
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Patent number: 10182366Abstract: There are provided a wireless communication method of configuring a measurement resource and a wireless communication device therefor. The method comprises determining a measurement resource to be disregarded when the number of measurement resources configured in one subframe exceeds the maximum number of measurement resources that a user equipment is able to measure in one subframe, wherein the measurement resource with lower priority is determined to be disregarded, and the measurement resource is not disregarded A times within the duration of N subframes, where A is an integer larger than 1, N corresponds to one plus B*periodicity of the measurement resource, and B is an integer equal to or larger than 1.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2017Date of Patent: January 15, 2019Assignee: Sun Patent TrustInventors: Hui Tong, Masayuki Hoshino, Akihiko Nishio, Ming Xu
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Patent number: 10178651Abstract: A method and apparatus for operating a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communications network, the method separately encoding and rate matching a first set of information bits and a second set of information bits; mapping and concatenating the encoded and rate matched first set of information bits with the encoded and rate matched second set of information bits, thereby creating a bit stream; and modulating and transmitting the bit stream.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2013Date of Patent: January 8, 2019Assignee: BlackBerry LimitedInventors: Joon Beom Kim, Zhijun Cai
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Patent number: 10178659Abstract: A network of handling a sEPDCCH transmission comprises instructions of determining a duration of a sTTI; determining the number of a plurality of available REs of a plurality of REs in a sSU, nEPDCCH; determining an AL of the sSU, Q; determining the number of a plurality of ECCEs in an aggregated sSU, K; determining the number of a plurality of EREGs in an ECCE, A; numbering a plurality of available REs in the aggregated sSU from 0 to (A*K?1) cyclically; arranging the plurality of EREGs numbered with 0 to (A*K?1) according to a K by A matrix; determining the number of a plurality of aggregated sSUs for performing the sEPDCCH transmission, N; determining the number of a plurality of ECCEs in N aggregated sSUs, N*K; and determining a sEPDCCH position on N*K consecutive ECCEs.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2016Date of Patent: January 8, 2019Assignee: HTC CorporationInventor: Ling-San Meng