Patents Examined by Chirag G. Shah
  • Patent number: 10469551
    Abstract: A server device may receive content that was transmitted using a broadcast technique; track a quantity of user devices that have entered a particular area after the content has been received by the server device; determine, based on the tracking, that the quantity of user devices meets or exceeds a threshold quantity; and redistributing, by the server device and based on the determining, the content to one or more of the user devices that have entered the particular area after the content has been received by the server device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Sagiv Draznin, Matthew W. Nelson, Lalit R. Kotecha
  • Patent number: 10469287
    Abstract: Described herein are systems, methods, and software to enhance gateway security for multiple communication groups. In one implementation, a method of operating a gateway service includes identifying a data packet received from a first computing system, wherein the data packet comprises a first destination port value. The method further includes, identifying a group identifier within the data packet, wherein the group identifier associated with a communication group of the plurality of communication groups, translating the first destination port value to a second destination port value based on the group identifier, and forwarding the data packet with the translated second destination port value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: COLORTOKENS, INC.
    Inventors: Harish Magganmane, Ravi Voleti, Ashish Trivedi, Deepak Mohanty, Charles Kuta, Anoop Kapoor, Pankaj Parekh
  • Patent number: 10462765
    Abstract: For paging user devices that are link budget limited (LBL), a base station transmits a special ID that is used by said devices to identify a paging frame and/or a paging occasion. When transmitting a paging message for an LBL device, the base station may use: (a) larger aggregation and larger CFI (than conventionally allowed) and (b) a larger number of resource blocks (than conventionally allowed) for paging payload. If paging messages for LBL devices saturate the paging frame capacity, the base station may allocate a plurality of special IDs. If paging messages for LBL devices and/or other data transfers saturate network capacity, at least a subset of the LBL devices may be directed to enter a connected-state discontinuous reception (DRX) mode, wherein those devices will remain in connected mode and periodically check for resource allocations. Paging payload information may be repeatedly transmitted in successive subframes, to support soft combining.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Tarik Tabet, Syed Aon Mujtaba, Moustafa M. Elsayed
  • Patent number: 10462057
    Abstract: A computing resource service provider may provide customers with access to various services provided by a set of service endpoints. During certain intervals of time increased network traffic may cause an increase in the consumption of computing resources of the set of service endpoints. A throttling trigger may be detected that may cause one or more routing devices to reroute network traffic to one or more lower tier routing devices. The lower tier routing devices may maintain throttling information and forward network traffic to the set of service endpoints.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Brian Kachmarck, Naveen Anand Subramaniam, Jacob Shannan Carr, Aaron Ben Fernandes, Gaurav Gupta
  • Patent number: 10440769
    Abstract: A method of configuring downlink timings and transmitting a random access response message is provided for a random access procedure in a Long Term Evolution (LTE) system supporting carrier aggregation. The method for adjusting timing of a terminal in a wireless communication system supporting carrier aggregation of at least one carrier includes transmitting a Random Access Preamble to a base station, and receiving a Random Access Response with a Timing Advance Command (TAC) for commanding uplink timing adjustment from the base station, wherein the Random Access Response comprises information indicating a Timing Advance Group (TAG) to which the TAC is applied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jaehyuk Jang, Kyeongin Jeong
  • Patent number: 10433284
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices are described for improving resource management in wireless communications. More particularly, the methods systems and devices relate to techniques for suspending bearers when not required, for example, for D2D communications. In one example, a mobile device may send a connection request that indicates a service type. The connection request may be a service request (SR) or an extended service request (ESR). A set of bearers may be established for the intended communication(s). The indicated service type may not require all bearers of the set of bearers such that at least one bearer may be suspended.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Haris Zisimopoulos, Hong Cheng, Lenaig Genevieve Chaponniere, Sudhir Kumar Baghel
  • Patent number: 10432247
    Abstract: Sequence trigger circuitry may be configured to repeat command sequences to switch between communication modes of a RFFE. The circuitry may include a first logic circuitry to, in response to a trigger signal, generate a first output signal or a second output signal to activate a first command sequence or a second command sequence, respectively. The circuitry may also include a second logic circuitry to activate a third command sequence based on a comparison of a clock output signal with a first timer value and upon generating the first output signal. The first command sequence and the third command sequence may switch the RFFE into a receive mode of the plurality of modes. The circuitry may include a third logic circuitry to activate a fourth command sequence based on a comparison of the clock output signal with a second timer value and upon generating the second output signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: Intel IP Corporation
    Inventors: Peter Pawliuk, Simon A. Hughes
  • Patent number: 10432421
    Abstract: Provided are a communication control device and a communication system capable of detecting message transmission in the case where an invalid device transmits a message to a common communication line. A monitoring device decides a reference time point t0 for periodical message transmission by an ECU, decides multiple scheduled transmission time points t1, t2, . . . obtained by adding a period corresponding to an integer multiple of a transmission cycle T of a message to the reference time point t0, and decides that a predetermined period including each of the scheduled transmission time points is a permission period for message transmission. The monitoring device determines whether or not a detected message on a CAN bus has been transmitted during the permission period. If determined that transmission of an invalid message is not permitted, the monitoring device performs processing of causing the ECU which receives the message to discard the message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignees: National University Corporation Nagoya University, AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroaki Takada, Ryo Kurachi, Naoki Adachi
  • Patent number: 10425319
    Abstract: A transport software defined networking (SDN) controller comprising a receiver and a processor coupled to the receiver. The processor is configured to cause the transport SDN controller to determine a physical topology based on physical layer adjacency discovery messages received from physical layer network elements (NEs), receive advertisement messages from the physical layer NEs, each advertisement message comprising a mapping between an adjacent network layer NE and a port of the associated physical layer NE, extract a network layer adjacency request from some of the advertisement messages indicating a first network layer NE is requesting a network layer connection with a second network layer NE, and setup a physical layer connection between the first network layer NE and the second network layer NE based on the network layer adjacency request, the advertisement messages, and the physical topology.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Peter Ashwood-Smith
  • Patent number: 10425476
    Abstract: A mechanism by which the number of groups can be reduced in a multi-group P2P network is disclosed. A method for group formation in wireless peer-to-peer (P2P) networks, includes: exchanging group-related information between group owners of neighboring P2P groups; deciding on whether a combined group of the neighboring P2P groups meets a predetermined condition of either of the neighboring P2P groups, based on the group-related information of the neighboring P2P groups; and merging the neighboring P2P groups to form at least one single group when the combined group meets the predetermined condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Prakash Chaki, Masato Yasuda, Kazuaki Nakajima
  • Patent number: 10425325
    Abstract: Embodiments are directed to a process and system for optimizing traffic paths for orphaned hosts in a VXLAN system, by configuring virtual link trunking (VLT) peers to advertise MAC addresses learned from all multi-homed hosts in the system using Anycast VXLAN tunnel endpoint-Internet Protocol address (VTEP-IP); configuring the virtual link trunking (VLT) peers to advertise MAC addresses learned from all single-homed hosts in the system using a secondary VTEP-IP; directing unicast traffic destined to the single-homed hosts to directly connected VLT peers using the Secondary VTEP-IP; and directing Broadcast, unknown unicast, and multi-cast (BUM) traffic destined to the single-homed hosts to directly connected VLT peers using the Inclusive Multicast Ethernet Tag route.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: Dell Products LP
    Inventors: Phaniraj Vattem, Mukesh Moopath Velayudhan, Anoop Ghanwani, Swaminathan Sundararaman, Mohan Ayalasomayajula, Bhavini Gada
  • Patent number: 10420100
    Abstract: This disclosure relates generally to resuming packet services in a mobile network. A device, method, and/or system may include switching, with user equipment, from communicating with a first radio access network to communicating with a second radio access network, setting, with a processor of the user equipment, a register of the user equipment to initiate packet services with the first radio access network, and transmitting, with the user equipment, a request to a core network node of the first radio access network to resume communications with the first radio access network based, at least in part, on the register.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventor: Robert Zaus
  • Patent number: 10412202
    Abstract: A method of encoding a packet of data representative of a haptic effect, the haptic affect being associated with an immersive content is described. The method includes adding a first information in the packet, the first information being representative of a dependency of said haptic effect with regard to a position of a body model in relation to the immersive content. Thereafter, a second information in the packet is added, the second information being representative of at least a first part of the body model targeted by the haptic effect. A method for decoding the packet and corresponding devices are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: INTERDIGITAL CE PATENT HOLDINGS
    Inventors: Julien Fleureau, Bertrand Leroy, Franck Thudor
  • Patent number: 10412635
    Abstract: The present invention provides a resource use method, device and system. The method comprises: a transmission node dynamically changes, according to information detected on a current carrier the size of a resource corresponding to the carrier, and uses the changed carrier to perform data transmission. The present invention solves the problem of lowness of spectrum resource utilization rate, and increases the spectrum utilization rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Bo Dai, Chunli Liang, Weiwei Yang, Yajun Zhao
  • Patent number: 10404482
    Abstract: Various systems and methods for performing bit indexed explicit replication (BIER). For example, one method involves receiving a packet at a node. The packet includes a bit string. The node traverses the bit string and selects an entry in a bit indexed forwarding table (BIFT). The entry includes a forwarding bit mask. Based on the forwarding bit mask and the bit string, the node forwards the packet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Ijsbrand Wijnands, Gregory J. Shepherd, John H. W. Bettink
  • Patent number: 10397840
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method including receiving, from a first network, a first node identifier associated with a second network, transmitting the first node identifier to a small cell node, receiving a handover initiation signal from the first network responsive to a request for a handover, from a macro cell node of the second network to the small cell node of the first network, of a communication session associated with a first wireless communication link to a communication device, where the request is triggered at the second network responsive to identification of the first node identifier in a first wireless signal from the communication device, and where the first node identifier is obtained by the communication device via a second wireless signal from the small cell node, and facilitating a second wireless communication link to the communication device via the small cell node to complete the handover. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Venson Shaw, Sangar Dowlatkhah
  • Patent number: 10389646
    Abstract: A network switch includes switching circuitry and multiple ports. The multiple ports are connected to a communication network. The switching circuitry is configured to receive via the ports packets that are assigned respective Virtual Lanes (VLs), and forward each packet for transmission via a respective selected port, to queue the packets pending for transmission via a given port in multiple VL-dedicated queues, in accordance with the VLs assigned to the packets, to mark an outbound packet, pending for transmission via the given port, with multiple congestion indications that are indicative of respective congestion states of the multiple VL-dedicated queues of the given port, and to transmit the marked outbound packet via the given port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: MELLANOX TECHNOLOGIES TLV LTD.
    Inventors: Vladimir Zdornov, Eitan Zahavi
  • Patent number: 10382328
    Abstract: Technologies are provided for distributing intra-network communications evenly across routers in a multi-tier network. Routers in a middle tier of the network receive data transmissions from a router in a lower tier of the network and determine that a destination of the data transmissions is another router in the lower tier of the network. Instead of routing the data transmissions to the destination router directly, the routers in the middle tier of the network route the data transmissions to other routers in a higher tier of the network. The routers in the higher tier of the network then route the data transmissions back to routers in the middle tier of the network, distributing the data transmissions evenly across routers in the middle tier that are connected to the destination router in the lower tier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Colin John Whittaker
  • Patent number: 10383046
    Abstract: A method, a device, and a non-transitory storage medium are described in which a radio access network slice and core network slice service is provided based on RAN-CN network slice pairing information. A radio access network slice and/or a core network slice uses the RAN-CN network slice pairing information to select network resources to support sessions of end devices. The RAN-CN network slice pairing information may include location information, radio access network slice information, core network slice information correlated to different types or applications or services available to end devices. The RAN-CN network slice pairing information may include information indicating current and available radio access network resources pertaining to the radio access network slices and threshold resources that may be used to support the different types of applications or services.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Kalyani Bogineni, Ratul K. Guha, Jignesh S. Panchal, Niranjan B. Avula
  • Patent number: 10383141
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure present medium access control (MAC) protocols for uplink Spatial Division Multiple Access (SDMA) transmissions by one or more stations (STAs). An access point (AP) may receive one or more requests for uplink SDMA transmission from a plurality of stations. The access point may schedule the transmissions by sending a signal to the stations to notify them of the parameters of the uplink SDMA transmissions such as start time, duration of the transmission, spatial streams assigned to each station, and so on.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventor: Maarten Menzo Wentink