Patents Examined by Berhanu Belete
  • Patent number: 8848633
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. More particularly, the present invention relates to a method and to an apparatus for transmitting an SRS in a multi-antenna system. The method comprises the steps of: acquiring specific information for discriminating a first antenna group and a second antenna group from among a plurality of antennas, wherein said first antenna group includes one or more antennas which are set to a turned-on state to perform communication with a base station, and said second antenna group includes one or more other antennas which are set to a turned-off state; transmitting an SRS to the base station if a predetermined condition is satisfied, under the condition that the second antenna group is set to the turned-off state; and setting the second antenna group to a turned-off state after the transmission of the SRS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Jae Hoon Chung, Yeong Hyeon Kwon, Seung Hee Han, Min Seok Noh
  • Patent number: 8837318
    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: December 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Bruce O. Anthony, Jr., Ronald L. Billau, Canio Cillis, Robert B. Nicholson
  • Patent number: 8830864
    Abstract: A 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. When data is broken out by the first service mechanism, the data is delivered at the edge, which means the true activity of the channel is not visible to the core network. The reduction of data in the core network due to serving data at the edge risks causing a switch from a high-speed channel to a low-speed channel by the mechanism in the core network that monitors and assigns channel speeds. In order to maintain the high-speed channel, the on-going data rate for a subscriber session is monitored and channel maintenance traffic is injected towards and from the radio network controller (in both directions). The amount of channel maintenance traffic depends on thresholds that determine a desired data rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Bruce O. Anthony, Jr., Ronald L. Billau, Canio Cillis, Robert B. Nicholson
  • Patent number: 8824321
    Abstract: A multi-function device capable of executing a plurality of functions, the device comprising: a first acquisition unit configured to acquire communication state information relating to a current communication state of the multi-function device; a determination unit configured to determine: a first priority order in a case of a first state indicating that the current communication state of the multi-function device is good; and a second priority order in a case of a second state indicating that the current communication state of the multi-function device is poor, wherein the second priority order is different from the first priority order, and wherein each of the priority orders indicate each of priorities of the plurality of functions; and a data transmission unit configured to execute preferentially a transmission of data for a high-priority function earlier than a transmission of data for a low-priority function, based on the determined priority order.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hiroshi Shibata
  • Patent number: 8824349
    Abstract: A mobile station apparatus performs communication with abase station apparatus using a multiple number of component frequency bands, each being a band having a predetermined frequency bandwidth, and includes: a controller setting up a value relating to the transmission power of each component frequency band in accordance with the number of component frequency bands to which radio resources are allocated; and a transmission processor adjusting the transmission power of each component frequency band, based on the value of transmission power set at the controller and transmitting a signal using radio resources of a multiple number of component frequency bands. With this configuration, in a radio communication system using a multiple number of component frequency bands, it is possible to adjust transmission power control in accordance with the number of uplink component frequency bands used for transmission and transmit a signal of a waveform suitable for the radio communication system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Daiichiro Nakashima, Yasuhiro Hamaguchi, Kazunari Yokomakura, Jungo Goto, Osamu Nakamura, Hiroki Takahashi
  • Patent number: 8824328
    Abstract: Systems and methods for optimizing the performance of an application, as described, may include determining an arrival time of a packet at a network emulator node by the network emulator node, wherein the packet is transmitted from a node to the network emulator node over the network, establishing a packet ordering queue at the network emulator node, applying a maximum delay time by the network emulator node, applying a minimum delay time by the network emulator node, and computing a packet departure time for the packet from the network emulator node. An exemplary embodiment may additionally include the determination of a bandwidth delay time, where the applicable network bandwidth is imposed by the network emulator node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: Infosys Limited
    Inventor: Karthikeyan Balaji Dhanapal
  • Patent number: 8817589
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for line coding in a communications network are described. According to one embodiment of the invention, downstream communications traffic bits are received and mapped into downstream bit positions of a transmission structure. A pre-selected bit in each upstream bit positions of the transmission structure is provided to form a downstream transmission structure. A downstream optical signal carrying the downstream transmission structure is generated for transmission. Upstream communications traffic bits are also received and mapped into the upstream bit positions of the transmission structure to form an upstream transmission structure. An upstream optical signal carrying the upstream transmission structure is generated for transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (Publ)
    Inventors: Fabio Cavaliere, Stefan Dahlfort, Luca Giorgi
  • Patent number: 8812658
    Abstract: Disclosed are various embodiments for pre-fetching of resources referenced on a network page. A predicted next network page is retrieved by a computer system. The predicted next network page references at least one resource. At least one attribute of the resource is evaluated according to at least one retrieval criteria. At least one resource is retrieved if the attribute meets the retrieval criteria.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Pongsakorn Teeraparpwong, Sikandar Saifullah
  • Patent number: 8812630
    Abstract: In accordance with embodiments disclosed herein, there are provided methods, systems, and apparatuses for implementing a session table framework including, for example, receiving a configuration request at a host organization from a client device; generating, via a configurator engine of the host organization, a configuration model having metadata therein; generating a user session unique to the client device in a memory of the host organization; creating a user session data table within the user session of the memory based on the metadata of the configuration model; populating data into the user session data table based on the metadata of the configuration model; generating a renderable User Interface (UI) based on the metadata of the configuration model and based further on the data in the user session data table; and transmitting the renderable UI to the client device for display, responsive to receiving the configuration request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventors: John Duff, Manu Gurudatha, Ashik Uzzaman
  • Patent number: 8806041
    Abstract: Applications executing on mobile client devices may access remote resources via network connections. Operational capabilities and financial costs of these connections may differ. Developers, network administrators, and other parties may wish to moderate usage of various available conditions to conform to business rules. Connectivity information including one or more network grants are integrated into an application received from a developer at ingestion by an application management server, which accesses those business rules. The client devices may coordinate with a proxy server to provide additional controls. Networking public interfaces provide the developer with a simplified pathway for development of applications which use network connections, particularly on mobile devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Xavier Federico Lopez Suarez, Lorne A. Millwood, Peter F. Hill, Donald Ryan Willhoit
  • Patent number: 8799421
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method includes retrieving, from a data repository, one or more resource requirements associated with a plurality of services; receiving computing resource information associated with a group of available computing devices; determining, at least partly based on the one or more resource requirements for the plurality of services and the computing resource information for the group of available computing devices, an allocation of the plurality of services across the group of available computing devices; detecting an occurrence of an event in a computing device associated with the group of available computing devices; removing, based on detecting, the computing device from the group of available computing devices to generate an updated group of available computing devices; and re-allocating the plurality of services across the updated group of available computing devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Allen Hutchison, Bassem Elkarablieh
  • Patent number: 8793351
    Abstract: A configuration tool is used to configure new server racks and computing assets in a data center. When new server racks are placed in a data center, the configuration tool scans the racks to identify any unconfigured server racks and then determines their virtual locations. The tool queries a mapping between the physical and virtual rack locations in the data center to determine the physical location for each rack based on its virtual location. Using the acquired physical and virtual locations for each unconfigured rack, the configuration tool can configure the unconfigured racks. For example, the configuration tool may identify the assets contained in the rack and associate the rack's physical location with those assets. In addition, the configuration tool can determine the rack's VLAN and use that information to configure the TOR switch associated with the rack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventor: Aleksandr Renzin
  • Patent number: 8750275
    Abstract: An antenna array control method is illustrated. At least a packet is selected as at least a probing packet every probing period. One radiation pattern in a probing radiation pattern set is used to transmit the probing packet. The radiation pattern with the minimum packet error rate among all radiation patterns is selected as a best radiation pattern. When the probing period expires, a candidate radiation pattern set is obtained according to current probabilities of the radiation patterns to be the best radiation pattern. Transfer probabilities of the radiation patterns in the candidate radiation pattern set are obtained. A target radiation pattern set is obtained according to the transfer probabilities, a motion variation and trend set, and the candidate radiation pattern set. The probing period and the probing radiation pattern set are adjusted according to whether the target radiation pattern set equals to the probing radiation pattern set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignees: Lite-On Electronics (Guangzhou) Limited, Lite-On Technology Corporation
    Inventors: An Huang, Kai-Ge Liu, Xiang-Ming Ye
  • Patent number: 8745210
    Abstract: A migration control apparatus for controlling migration of a virtual machine includes a monitoring section, a planning section, a time estimation section, a comparing section, and a plan execution section. The monitoring section monitors a status of a current migration of the virtual machine running on a first physical machine. The planning section makes, on the basis of the status of the current migration, a new migration plan for migrating the virtual machine. The time estimation section estimates a first migration time required to perform a new migration. The comparing section compares the first migration time with a second migration time to determine which migration will be completed earlier. The second migration time is an estimated time required to complete the current migration. The plan execution section performs the new migration when it has been determined that the new migration will be completed earlier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventor: Atsuji Sekiguchi
  • Patent number: 8743821
    Abstract: A radio communication system includes a base station device and a plurality of mobile station devices which radio-communicate with the base station device. The base station device allocates random access signal identifiers for identifying random access signals to the mobile station devices and decides an allocation period for each of the random access signal identifiers used by the mobile base stations. During the allocation period, each of the mobile station devices transmits a random access signal corresponding to the allocated random access signal identifier. Thus, it is possible to suppress a delay until the random access procedure using a dedicated preamble is complete.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Daiichiro Nakashima, Shohei Yamada, Yasuyuki Kato, Yasuo Sugawara
  • Patent number: 8743718
    Abstract: A method for calculating delay in a distributed antenna system includes sending a ping initiation message from a remote node to a host node in a distributed antenna system. The ping initiation message uniquely identifies a first communication port of the remote node to the host node with a unique identification. The method also includes receiving a ping reply message at the remote node. The ping reply message corresponds to the ping initiation message and also uniquely identifies the first communication port of the remote node with the unique identification. The method also includes determining, at the remote node, whether the ping reply message corresponds to the first communication port of the remote node based on the unique identification. The method also includes, when the ping reply message corresponds to the first communication port of the remote node, calculating the round-trip time delay between sending the ping initiation message and receiving the ping reply message at the remote node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: ADC Telecommunications, Inc.
    Inventors: James Robert Grenier, John M. Hedin
  • Patent number: 8676985
    Abstract: A system context aware resource management, method of managing shared resources and services and a computer program product therefor. Client devices, e.g., handheld or mobile devices, request resources from provider computers, e.g., in a cloud environment. The provider computers provide cloud-based personal assistants. Resource requests from client devices may be context related that may be provided in response to a selected context. A resource management system schedules resource processing for requesting mobile client devices, initially, and responds to device context changes by selectively adjusting shared resource job priorities, e.g., creating a new job, pausing or restarting/resuming a respective job.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2014
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Marcos Dias De Assuncao, James R. Kraemer, Fernando Luiz Koch, Marco Aurelio Stelmar Netto
  • Patent number: 8644282
    Abstract: A system and method for transmitting LDPC parameters is provided. In the method, an initial number of OFDM symbols (Nsym_init) is determined for a packet that is based on the number of information bits to be delivered in the packet. An STBC value is also determined. A number of extra symbols (Nsym_ext) value is generated based on the Nsym_init value, wherein a Nsym value is based on said Nsym_init value and said Nsym_ext value. An Nldpc_ext value is determined based on the STBC value and the Nsym_ext value for purposes of determining LDPC parameters associated with the packet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Kai Shi, Ning Zhang
  • Patent number: 8625452
    Abstract: A 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. When data is broken out by the first service mechanism, the data is delivered at the edge, which means the true activity of the channel is not visible to the core network. The reduction of data in the core network due to serving data at the edge risks causing a switch from a high-speed channel to a low-speed channel by the mechanism in the core network that monitors and assigns channel speeds. In order to maintain the high-speed channel, the on-going data rate for a subscriber session is monitored and channel maintenance traffic is injected towards and from the radio network controller (in both directions). The amount of channel maintenance traffic depends on thresholds that determine a desired data rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2014
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Bruce O. Anthony, Jr., Ronald L. Billau, Canio Cillis, Robert B. Nicholson
  • Patent number: 8503438
    Abstract: According to one aspect of the invention, packets of a first type within a first data flow are routed to a destination through a packet core network. In response to a detection that packets of a second type are to be routed while routing the first data flow, a second data flow is created which is a sub-flow of the first data flow. Packets of the second type are routed via the second data flow to the destination without traversing the packet core network, while packets of the first type are routed via the first data flow traversing the packet core network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Assignee: Stoke, Inc.
    Inventors: Heeseon Lim, Nishi Kant