Patents Examined by Asghar Bilgrami
  • Patent number: 9596698
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method and radio base station for sharing resources in a wireless communication system. The radio base station stores an identity of a first entity to which a first plurality of UEs is associated. The first plurality of UEs has full access to resources provided by the radio base station. The radio base station also stores an identity of a second entity to which a second plurality of UEs is associated. The second plurality of UEs has partial access to the resources provided by the radio base station. When the radio base station receives a request for accessing resources from a UE, it determines whether the UE is associated with the second entity, i.e. if the UE is to be handled in support mode. If the UE is associated with the second entity it means that the UE only should have partial access to the resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Bogdan Timus, Harald Kallin, Gunnar Mildh
  • Patent number: 9591502
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a method and equipments for feeding back MDT Log. Terminal equipment rationally chooses whether to send Log available message to the network based on the fact whether present attribution zone(s) of terminal equipment is the valid attribution zone(s), or report the information of present attribution zone(s) to network side, then the network side judges whether to acquire MDT Log, so as to avoid feeding back MDT Log and further causing loss of valid MDT Log in case of no correspondence of present attribution zone(s). Moreover, terminal equipment can decide whether to report Log available message to the network side according to the condition of actual attribution zone(s), which avoids unnecessary reporting of MDT Log and validly saves radio resource of the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: China Academy Of Telecommunications Technology
    Inventors: Jing Fu, Xiaodong Yang
  • Patent number: 9565295
    Abstract: Methods and systems for monitoring communication of mobile communication terminals, such as cellular phones. An off-air monitoring system reconstructs both directions of a call conducted between two mobile terminals by receiving only downlink channels. The off-air monitoring system receives multiple downlink transmissions transmitted by base stations in a wireless communication network. The system uses the received downlink transmissions to reconstruct the bidirectional call content of calls conducted between wireless terminals. In order to reconstruct the bidirectional content of a given call, the system identifies and correlates the two downlink transmissions of that call from among the multiple received downlink transmissions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: VERINT SYSTEMS LTD.
    Inventors: Arik Poznanski, Itai Langer
  • Patent number: 9560482
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to a mobile device that is suitable for detect geofence crossing events. In some instances, the mobile device can detect geofence crossing events using a lower power algorithm or a higher power algorithm. The mobile device may allow a user of the mobile device to specify whether a lower power algorithm or a higher power algorithm is to be used when detecting geofence crossing events. In some instances, the mobile device may automatically change from a lower power algorithm to a higher power algorithm if a predetermined abnormality is found to be present in the detected geofence crossing events. In some instances, the user may be prompted to confirm automatically changing from a lower power algorithm to a higher power algorithm if a predetermined abnormality is found to be present in the detected geofence crossing events.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventor: Jonathan Paul Frenz
  • Patent number: 9553963
    Abstract: A telecommunication device includes a casing, smart phone components disposed within the casing, two opposed flexible wrist grips having upper and lower surfaces, and a flexible screen disposed on the lower surfaces of the casing and the opposed flexible wrist grips and in communication with the smart phone components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2017
    Inventor: Gregory A. Piccionielli
  • Patent number: 9542322
    Abstract: Once or more embodiments manage access to data by accelerator systems in an out-of-core processing environment. In one embodiment, a request from an accelerator system is received for access to a given data set. An access context associated with the given data set is determined. The accelerator system is dynamically configured, based on the access context that has been determined, based on the access context that has been determined, to one of access the given data set directly from the server system; locally store a portion of the given data set in a memory; and locally store all of the given data set in the memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Yuk Lung Chan, Rajaram B. Krishnamurthy, Carl Joseph Parris
  • Patent number: 9544756
    Abstract: System, methods, nodes, and computer program for determining a home network of a UE roaming in a visited network are described. The UE sends a session invitation to a further UE. The method comprises receiving, by a control node in the home network, the session invitation. The method further comprises adding, by a control node in the home network, an indication of the home network identity and an indication for session invitation loopback routing, to the session invitation. The method further comprises sending, by a control node in the home network, the session invitation towards the visited network. The method further comprises receiving, by a control node in the visited network, a session invitation from the home network. The method further comprises determining, by the control node in the visited network, the home network based on the indication of the home network identity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Cormac Hegarty, Jan Holm, Gert Oster
  • Patent number: 9537705
    Abstract: A method, article of manufacture, and apparatus for efficiently backing up information are disclosed. In an embodiment, this may comprise receiving information about a plurality of clients, grouping clients into client groups based on the information, transmitting data from a client group to an intermediate shared storage at a time convenient for the client group, transferring the data to a server, and storing the data in a server storage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company LLC
    Inventors: Michael John Dutch, Christopher Hercules Claudatos, William Dale Andruss, Bruce David Leetch
  • Patent number: 9538443
    Abstract: A second handover of a user equipment from a cell B to a cell C of a cellular communications network is successfully completed, wherein a successful completion of a first handover of the user equipment from a cell A of the cellular communications network to the cell B has immediately preceded the second handover. The second handover is determined as being a rapid handover at the cell B and/or the cell C based on a detection that the second handover of the user equipment has been initiated from the cell B to the cell C within a configurable period of time since the successful completion of the first handover, and the rapid handover is reported to the cell A.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy
    Inventors: Bernhard Wegmann, Ingo Viering, Krzysztof Kordybach, Richard Waldhauser
  • Patent number: 9525988
    Abstract: A call switching method and a mobile device are provided that rapidly and conveniently switch calls. The method includes establishing, by the mobile device, a first call with a first device; receiving, by the mobile device, a request for a second call from a second device, during the first call; informing a user of the mobile device of the call request; determining, by the mobile device, whether the user moves the mobile device from a first ear to a second ear; and accepting, by the mobile device, the second call with the second device, when the mobile device is moved from the first ear to the second ear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2016
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Dayama Dwarkaprasad, Das Kumarbrata
  • Patent number: 9510672
    Abstract: A method of selecting video source devices to drive first and second presentation spaces provided by at least one display screen in a collaborative workspace, the method comprising the steps of providing a control assembly that includes a plurality of control interfaces, each control interface including a separate selectable control associated with each of the presentation spaces, associating at least first and second video sources with first and second of the control interfaces, respectively, for each of the control interfaces, when a selectable control is selected, providing video information from the video source device associated with the control interface used to make the selection to the presentation space associated with the selectable control such that a plurality of video images from at least first and second different video source devices can be presented simultaneously in the presentation spaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: STEELCASE INC.
    Inventors: Lewis Epstein, Brett Kincaid, Hyun Yoo, Suzanne Stage, Lukas Scherrer, Larry Cheng
  • Patent number: 9510253
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for determining a reason for too late handover to a Home eNB (HeNB), and the method includes that: after completing the re-establishment link of Radio. Resource Control (RRC) with User Equipment (UE), the HeNB confirms that a Radio Link Failure (RLF) event occurs when the UE is connected with a cell of another eNodeB; the HeNB generates an RLF Indication message and transmits the RLF Indication message to the another eNodeB, wherein the RLF Indication message includes information of a Closed Subscriber Group (CSG) cell currently accessed by the UE; the another eNodeB determines the reason for too late handover of the UE to the HeNB according to the RLF Indication message. The disclosure also provides a system for determining the reason for too late handover to the HeNB. The present disclosure can determine a specific reason for the RLF, and thereby, can be more useful for improving the configuration of related parameters at the network side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Lifeng Han, Yin Gao, Longtao Ren, Jian Zhang, Shengyao Jin
  • Patent number: 9504055
    Abstract: Various embodiments include methods for scheduling reception activities on a wireless communication device having a first receive chain and a second receive chain. Various embodiments may include identifying a first reception activity and a second reception activity of a first subscription scheduled on the first receive chain, in which a duration of the second reception activity is longer than a duration of the first reception activity. The wireless communication device may determine whether the first reception activity and the second reception activity can be performed concurrently on the first receive chain, and schedule the second reception activity on the second receive chain in response to determining that the first reception activity and the second reception activity cannot be performed concurrently on the first receive chain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2016
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Suresh Sanka, Mukesh Kumar, Anand Rajurkar
  • Patent number: 9491695
    Abstract: The present invention defines an efficient method for (re)selecting a cell according to a speed of a terminal in a HetNet where cells having various regions such as macro cells, pico cells and femto cells are arranged in the same frequency band in a mobile communication system. A cell selection control method of a terminal in a mobile communication system, according to an embodiment of the present invention, comprises a step of receiving, from a base station, cell list information for not allowing a terminal moving at a high speed to select a cell and a step of setting the terminal so that cells included in the cell list information are considered or not considered to be targets of selection or reselection when the terminal moves at the high speed. According to the present invention, in a network consisting of various types of cells using the same frequency band, the terminal can determine whether to select or reselect a cell according to the speed of the terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Kyeong In Jeong, Soeng Hun Kim, Himke Van Der Velde
  • Patent number: 9485711
    Abstract: Systems and methods for providing voice services and/or data services to a portable electronic device. The portable electronic device has an application in its memory that compares an available network code to a list of blocked network codes. If the available network code is on the list of blocked network codes, the application may send a notification that service is not available or may see if a different network code is on the list of blocked network codes. If the available network code is not on the list of blocked network codes, voice and/or data services may be provided to the portable electronic device by the telecommunications service provider associated with the available network code.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.
    Inventors: Jagannath Ghoshal, John Sumler
  • Patent number: 9479930
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a mobile communication method of sending and receiving the signaling of an S1AP/X2AP layer on DRB established between a radio base station DeNB and a relay node RN, the method comprising a step of generating a key KS1X2_int for performing integrity protection in the above DRB, in an SMC (security mode command) process performed in an attach process of the relay node RN.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2016
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Hideaki Takahashi, Wuri Andarmawanti Hapsari, Anil Umesh, Mikio Iwamura
  • Patent number: 9462882
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for selecting information from a video source to be displayed on at least a first common display screen in a collaborative workspace having a switching device, the method comprising the steps of providing a selectable control interface that includes at least one indicator that can indicate at least first and second different states, associating a video source with the switching device so that video information from the video source is presented to the switching device, when the video source is associated with the switching device, causing the at least one indicator to indicate a first state and when the selectable control interface is selected, causing the at least one indicator to indicate the second state and providing the video information from the video source to the common display screen via the switching device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: Steelcase Inc.
    Inventors: Lewis Epstein, Brett Kincaid, Hyun Yoo, Suzanne Stage, Lukas Scherrer, Larry Cheng
  • Patent number: 9459942
    Abstract: Correlation of metrics monitored from a virtual environment is described herein. A method for detecting correlations between metrics monitored from a virtual environment includes monitoring network operation metrics of network devices in the virtual environment. Network operation metric irregularities exceeding a threshold are detected. A first network operation metric irregularity is selected from the detected network operation metric irregularities. A time frame of the first network operation metric irregularity is identified for analysis. A second network operation metric irregularity is selected from the detected network operation metric irregularities. The first network operation metric irregularity and the second network operation metric irregularity can be compared to determine a correspondence between the first network operation metric irregularity and the second network operation metric irregularity using a comparison engine and based on a predetermined analysis method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
    Inventor: Assaf Dagan
  • Patent number: 9454336
    Abstract: A mobile electronic device is provided. The mobile electronic device includes a transceiver configured to receive at least a first signal from a first end point and a second signal from a second end point. The mobile electronic device also includes a controller comprising processing circuitry. The controller is configured to measure a signal strength of the first signal and a signal strength of the second signal. The controller is also configured to generate for a display an interface that arranges a first command button associated with the first end point and a second command button associated with a second end point into different display priority slots as a function of the measured signal strength of the first signal and the measured signal strength of the second signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2016
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Rahul Rudradevan, Brett Foster
  • Patent number: 9449301
    Abstract: Various exemplary embodiments relate to a method and related network node including one or more of the following: determining, at a policy and charging rules node, that the policy and charging rules node should perform a policy decision; comparing a criteria portion of at least one rule of a plurality of rules to a set of context information; identifying a rule of the plurality of rules that matches the set of context information; determining that a result portion of the identified rule includes a reference to a first managed object; and using the first managed object as at least part of a result of the policy decision.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Kevin Cutler, Katha Kulasingam