Patents Examined by Berhanu Belete
  • Patent number: 9030980
    Abstract: A method for transmitting uplink data using multiple carriers by a User Equipment (UE) in a mobile communication system is provided. The method includes determining a first maximum transmission power indicating a maximum transmission power for each carrier and a second maximum transmission power indicating a maximum transmission power for all carriers based on information for setting transmission power, received from an evolved Node B (eNB), determining a minimum value from among a required transmission power and the first maximum transmission power as an uplink transmission power, for each carrier, scaling the determined uplink transmission powers so that a sum of the uplink transmission powers is less than or equal to the second maximum transmission power, and transmitting the uplink data based on the scaled uplink transmission powers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Soeng-Hun Kim, Joon-Young Cho, Gert-Jan Van Lieshout
  • Patent number: 9019893
    Abstract: A method for configuring a neighbor list is provided. The method is applied to a femtocell to establish a neighbor list. The method includes steps of: accessing a Public Land Mobile Network (PLMN) list in the femtocell, the PLMN list recording a circuit-switched (CS)/packet-switched (PS) service weighting; determining a weighting parameter with reference to history CS/PS amount information and the CS/PS service weighting of the femtocell; selecting n macrocells from the PLMN list according to the weighting parameter, n being a natural number; and filling the n macrocells into the neighbor list.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: Sernet (Suzhou) Technologies Corporation
    Inventor: Ling Zhu
  • Patent number: 9014023
    Abstract: Mobile network services are performed in a mobile data network in a way that is transparent to most of the existing equipment in the mobile data network. The mobile data network includes a radio access network and a core network. A first service mechanism in the radio access network breaks out data coming from a basestation, and performs one or more mobile network services based on the broken out data. A second service mechanism in the core network performs one or more mobile network services based on the network traffic remaining after the first service mechanism performs its breakout. An optional third service mechanism coupled to the core network provides one or more mobile network services in the mobile data network. An overlay network allows the first, second and third service mechanisms to communicate with each other. The overlay network is preferably a private virtual network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Bruce O. Anthony, Jr., Ronald L. Billau, Canio Cillis, Robert B. Nicholson
  • Patent number: 8995363
    Abstract: Transmission power of a plurality of uplink carrier components used for communication by a mobile station apparatus and a base station apparatus is effectively controlled. The mobile station apparatus communicates with the base station apparatus using plurality of downlink component carriers and a plurality of uplink component carriers. The mobile station apparatus sets a plurality of groups, and each of the groups is composed of at least one uplink component carrier. The mobile station apparatus receives multiple pieces of control information regarding each of the groups to the mobile station apparatus from the base station apparatus in a single downlink component carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shoichi Suzuki, Shohei Yamada, Katsunari Uemura, Daiichiro Nakashima
  • Patent number: 8976665
    Abstract: The disclosed embodiments include a system, computer program product, and method for routing a call over a packet network. A call request may be received from a calling party to call a called party at a network address. At least one potential call path over a packet network may be determined to connect the calling party to the called party at the network address. Network performance information associated with each potential call path may be accessed and a determination may be made that each of the call paths are impaired or congested. In response to determining that each of the call paths are impaired or congested, the call may be routed over a call path other than one of the at least one potential call paths to enable the calling party to communicate with the called party.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Assignee: CenturyLink Intellectual Property LLC
    Inventors: William L. Wiley, Michael K. Bugenhagen
  • Patent number: 8965966
    Abstract: A computer system including instructions recorded on a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium and readable by at least one processor, the system including a logging module, a receiving module, and a transmission module. The logging module is configured to log information associated with a scheduler. The receiving module is configured to receive a request for information associated with the scheduler. The transmission module is configured to transmit information associated with the scheduler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: SAP SE
    Inventors: Sasan Memar-Zahedani, Andreas Dahl
  • Patent number: 8953444
    Abstract: A method of communicating in a wireless network including receiving effective load values for sectors accessible to an access terminal of the wireless network. The effective load values represent effective loads on the sectors. The method also includes receiving pilot signal channel quality values of the sectors and selecting a serving sector, for the access terminal based on the effective load values and the pilot signal channel quality values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Donna Ghosh, Christopher Gerard Lott, Shweta Nandakumar, Rashid Ahmed Akbar Attar, Vinod V. Menon, Chunhao Chen, Kambiz Azarian-Yazdi, Radhika Gowaikar
  • Patent number: 8948167
    Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention is a control unit for distributing packets of work to one or more consumer of works. The control unit is configured to assign at least one processing domain from a set of processing domains to each consumer included in the one or more consumers, receive a plurality of packets of work from at least one producer of work, wherein each packet of work is associated with a processing domain from the set of processing domains, and a first packet of work associated with a first processing domain can be processed by the one or more consumers independently of a second packet of work associated with a second processing domain, identify a first consumer that has been assigned the first processing domain, and transmit the first packet of work to the first consumer for processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: NVIDIA Corporation
    Inventors: Lacky V. Shah, Sean J. Treichler, Abraham B. de Waal
  • Patent number: 8942090
    Abstract: A method for selective admission of traffic packets to a telecommunication switch having a limited throughput T and a common input queue, wherein the traffic packets comprise packets pre-assigned to higher and lower classes; in case of congestion at the common input queue of the switch, the method performs selective admission of the packets to the switch according to classes pre-assigned to them and depending on dynamic, recently utilized throughput of the switch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2015
    Assignee: ECI Telecom Ltd.
    Inventor: Shell Nakash
  • Patent number: 8942144
    Abstract: An energy efficient Ethernet physical layer (PHY) device including an EEE control module configured to generate a control signal to transition the PHY device into a low power consumption mode based an operating condition, and a pause frame generator module responsive to the control signals to generate a pause frame. The pause frame generator module is configured to send the pause frame to a media access control (MAC) device to reduce an incoming flow of data packets from the MAC device to the PHY device for a pause time duration. In operation, the pause frame generator module generates the pause frame including a pause time indicating the length of time for the PHY device to be in the low power consumption mode. The value of the pause time for each pause frame is determined adaptively based on the amount of data traffic to be transmitted from the PHY device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2015
    Assignee: Micrel, Inc.
    Inventors: Wei-Chieh Chang, Wei-Chi Lo, Charng-Show Li, Menping Chang
  • Patent number: 8929233
    Abstract: A digital broadcast receiving apparatus includes a receiving unit configured to receive a digital broadcast signal in which predetermined data is transmitted repeatedly. A transmission time estimating unit estimates a transmission time for transmitting data per transmission unit, by analyzing separation information contained in the digital broadcast signal where the separation information describes a time for the transmission unit of data corresponding to the predetermined data. A determining unit determines whether content of the predetermined data has been updated for each data reception starting time after the transmission time has been estimated. If the content has not been updated, the control unit inhibits reception processing by the receiving unit for a predetermined period of time based on the estimated transmission time, and if the content has been updated, the control unit permits the reception processing by the receiving unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Alpine Electronics, Inc.
    Inventor: Tomoya Hamaguchi
  • Patent number: 8923163
    Abstract: A multihop network and nodes are described herein that implement a reactive routing protocol that enables resources of the multihop network to be continuously adapted in a distributed/opportunistic manner in response to a topology change within the multihop network so as to optimize the performance of a connection between a source node and a destination node. The types of resources that can be adapted include for example: (1) a route; (2) a channel; and/or (3) physical layer parameters. The different types of topology changes that can occur include: (1) movement of a node; (2) quality variations in a channel between the source node and the destination node; (3) changes in traffic patterns in the multihop network; (4) changes in transmit patterns (e.g., power, beamforming direction) in the multihop network; and (5) changes in resource allocations in the multihop network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (Publ)
    Inventors: Peter Larsson, Niklas Johansson
  • Patent number: 8909732
    Abstract: A method of establishing transmission control protocol (TCP) connections is disclosed and may include receiving a uniform resource locator (URL) as part of a hyper text transfer protocol (HTTP) request. Further, the method may include searching a host database with the URL and determining whether host data for the URL is available. The method may also include performing a domain name service (DNS) lookup for a URL host and for one or more sub-resource hosts, wherein all DNS lookups are performed in parallel at substantially the same time, when host data for the URL is available.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Rajiv K. Vijayakumar, Idreas Mir, Samson Jim, Mark Bapst
  • Patent number: 8903965
    Abstract: Embodiments disclose re-generating a configuration command of a network device. A method includes receiving a request to re-generate a configuration command previously issued to a network device, wherein the configuration command has one or more parameters; retrieving a template and a pattern associated with the configuration command, wherein the template represents a syntax for the configuration command, wherein the pattern represents a storage location for the configuration command; based on the pattern, retrieving from an object database all objects containing values for all the particular parameters from the storage location specified by the pattern; and creating a re-generated configuration command by substituting the values of the retrieved objects into the template.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Albert Meng Fong, Xiaobing Xie
  • Patent number: 8902754
    Abstract: Systems and methods for session-aware GTPv2 load balancing are described. In some embodiments, a method may include receiving a first and a second transaction between an MME and an S-GW over an S11 interface of an LTE/SAE network using a control portion of a second version of a GTPv2-C protocol and storing an uplink UP TEId and IP address, a downlink CP TEId and IP address, and an uplink CP TEId and IP address obtained from the first transaction, and a downlink UP TEId and IP address obtained from the second transaction. The method may further include identifying messages between an eNodeB and the S-GW over a direct tunnel using a user portion of a GTPv1-U protocol as belonging to a session in response to the messages including at least one of: the first uplink UP TEId and IP address, or the first downlink UP TEId and IP address.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: Tektronix, Inc.
    Inventors: Syed Muntaqa Ali, Stephen David Croll, Aleksey G. Ivershen, Vignesh Janakiraman, John Peter Curtin
  • Patent number: 8898263
    Abstract: Embodiments relate to techniques for efficiently and effectively propagating changes from a server to a client using a network filter driver configured to monitor network traffic for a signature. Techniques are presented for synchronizing settings with a remote server device. A method is provided, including (a) monitoring web-based messages exchanged between the computerized client device and the remote server device across a network, (b) detecting a pre-defined pattern within a particular message of the monitored web-based messages exchanged between the computerized client device and the remote server device, (c) in response to detecting the pre-defined pattern within the particular message, evaluating the particular message to determine whether a set of server settings has changed, and (d) in response to determining that the set of server settings has changed, updating a local version of the set of server settings. A corresponding apparatus and computer program product are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2014
    Assignee: Autonomy Inc.
    Inventor: Manjunath Bharadwaj Subramanya
  • Patent number: 8891427
    Abstract: A method and a system for implementing a MBMS counting in a wireless communication network environment, wherein a plurality of User Equipments and at least one Radio Network Controller are located in the wireless communication network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Lin Dong, Shuguang Yang, HuaiShan Zhang
  • Patent number: 8891394
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method in which a terminal reports the results of quality measurement based on a specific reference cell from among a plurality of serving cells for the terminal in a mobile communication system using carrier aggregation. The present invention also relates to a terminal apparatus for the method. For this purpose, the terminal receives measurement configuration information from a network, performs a quality measurement in accordance with the received measurement configuration information, determines whether or not a report criterion based on a specific reference cell from among the plurality of cells for the terminal is met in accordance with the measurement result, and, if the report criterion based on the specific reference cell is met, sends a report message, including the measurement results and an indicator that indicates the specific reference cell, to the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Sung Hoon Jung, Sung Duck Chun, Seung June Yi, Young Dae Lee, Sung Jun Park
  • Patent number: 8873461
    Abstract: A method for simultaneously transmitting packets having different lengths to two or more users in a wireless communication system includes: generating the packets which are to be transmitted to the respective users; and simultaneously transmitting the generated packets to the respective users. Each of the packets contains information on the position of a symbol to which a tail field of the packet belongs, and the information on the position of the symbol to which the tail field belongs includes at least one of the maximum symbol number of the packet, the symbol number of transmission data of the packet, positional information of a last aggregated MAC protocol data unit (A-MPDU) subframe, and positional information of a null delimiter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Yun-Joo Kim, Jong-Ee Oh, Sok-Kyu Lee
  • Patent number: 8873485
    Abstract: An antenna for transmission of signals in respective element frequency bands is controlled to reduce power consumption and transmit a good quality signal. A mobile station apparatus performs wireless communication with a base station apparatus using a plurality of element frequency bands having a predetermined frequency bandwidth. The mobile station apparatus includes: a plurality of transmission sections having an antenna and power amplifier; a transmission processing section generating a transmission signal and outputting the signal to at least one of the transmission sections based on information indicating a first transmission mode in which signals are transmitted using a single transmission antenna and a second transmission mode in which signals are transmitted using different transmission antennas respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Daiichiro Nakashima, Yasuhiro Hamaguchi