Patents Examined by Diane Lo
  • Patent number: 10205604
    Abstract: A technique allows stations to utilize an equal share of resources (e.g., airtime or throughput). This prevents slow stations from consuming too many resources (e.g., using up too much air time). Fairness is ensured by selective dropping after a multicast packet is converted to unicast. This prevents slow stations from using more than their share of buffer resources. Multicast conversion aware back-pressure into the network layer can be used to prevent unnecessary dropping of packets after multicast to unicast (1:n) conversion by considering duplicated transmit buffers. This technique helps achieve airtime/resource fairness among stations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: Aerohive Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: Liwu Liu, Jianlin Zeng
  • Patent number: 10142238
    Abstract: A dynamic network load regulating device includes a first network bridge, a second network bridge, a third network bridge, and a traffic monitoring module. The second network bridge and the third network bridge are further coupled to a plurality of terminal devices. Each of the network bridges includes a plurality of ports. The traffic monitoring module is configured to monitor the plurality of ports traffic load. When a first data transmission path traffic load reaches a congestion threshold, the dynamic network load regulating device increases the first data transmission path cost to select a second data transmission path to transmit network data. A method for the dynamic network load regulating device is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: NANNING FUGUI PRECISION INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yi-Ting Lai
  • Patent number: 10142974
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to an uplink control signal design for wireless system. One example method of a subscriber station (SS) includes performing network entry in a multi-carrier wireless environment using a primary carrier, receiving timing information corresponding to the primary carrier, receiving a first control signaling via the primary carrier, the first control signaling assigning at least one secondary carrier, transmitting uplink data via the secondary carrier using an uplink transmission timing of the secondary carrier, the uplink transmission timing of the secondary carrier being assigned the same as an uplink transmission timing of the primary carrier, and determining an adjustment of the uplink transmission timing or frequency of the secondary carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Mo-Han Fong, Dong-Sheng Yu, Hosein Nikopourdeilami
  • Patent number: 10142071
    Abstract: For determining reference signal locations, a method determines a number of Transmission Time Intervals (TTI) in a scheduled transmission of a plurality of TTI. The method further determines one or more reference signal locations based on the number of TTI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: Motorola Mobility LLC
    Inventors: Hossein Bagheri, Ravikiran Nory, Vijay Nangia
  • Patent number: 10142929
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for a wireless device to receive data in an eco state is provided. According to an embodiment of the disclosure, upon determining that data is to be transmitted to the wireless device in the eco state, a network node operates to transmit a unicast notification message to the wireless device in order to inform the wireless device of the impending data transmission. According to another embodiment of the disclosure, in response to receiving the unicast notification message, the wireless device operates to receive the data in accordance with the unicast notification message. To this end, the wireless device might for example try to receive data for a time period following the unicast notification message. Meanwhile, the wireless device may remain in the eco state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kelvin Kar Kin Au, Liqing Zhang, Jianglei Ma
  • Patent number: 10129141
    Abstract: A method includes: obtaining, by a mobile terminal, first network connection parameters of a routing device connected to the mobile terminal; according to the first network connection parameters, determining, by the mobile terminal, whether the mobile terminal has a management permission for managing the connected routing device; and if the mobile terminal has the management permission for managing the connected routing device, managing, by the mobile terminal, the connected routing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: Xiaomi Inc.
    Inventors: Zhuang Qian, Yong Chen, Yidong Wang
  • Patent number: 10129854
    Abstract: The present document relates to a method for a base station to efficiently indicate, to a transceiving terminal, a resource region to which control information and data are to be transmitted in a wireless communication system supporting direction communication between terminals, that is, D2D communication, and an apparatus therefor. To that end, the transmitting terminal receives, from a base station, resource allocation information associated with D2D communication, and on the basis of the resource allocation information received from the base station, transmits, to a receiving terminal, control information (SA) for D2D communication and data corresponding to the control information, wherein the resource allocation information comprises first resource region information for transmitting the control information, and the transmitting terminal acquires, on the basis of the first resource region information, a second resource region information for transmitting the data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Hakseong Kim, Hanbyul Seo
  • Patent number: 10123352
    Abstract: When contending for access to a radio channel (for example CSMA/CA in Wi-Fi), an apparatus selects a first clear channel assessment (CCA) threshold that is higher than a minimum; determines to temporarily use a second CCA threshold that is lower than the first CCA threshold; and based on this determination it selects the second CCA threshold for a specified time period. In one embodiment this determination is based on the apparatus' use of a spectrum relative to a threshold usage level which may be calculated as a number of successful transmissions by the apparatus on the spectrum over a predefined time period; and/or as a deferring time experienced by the apparatus with respect to the spectrum over a predefined time period. In an embodiment the specified time period comprises a backoff time, and the determination to temporarily use the second CCA threshold is triggered by a periodic timer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Wessam Afifi Ahmed, Enrico-Henrik Rantala, Esa Juhani Tuomaala, Sayantan Choudhury
  • Patent number: 10122485
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a signal processing apparatus, a signal processing method, and a program capable of reducing the number of pins for transmitting and receiving data. The signal processing apparatus is provided with a signal transmission unit configured to perform classification for a signal to be transmitted and received between processing units that process an obtained signal, perform time division multiplexing for the signal classified into a group, and transmit the signal. The classification is performed depending on at least one feature of an update period, an update timing, and a tolerable transmission delay of the signal. Further, the signal belonging to the group is subjected to time division multiplexing in such a manner that the transmission is completed within the update period, the transmission is completed within a range of the tolerable delay, and the transmission is performed with a minimum number of pins.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoki Yoshimochi, Satoshi Okada, Misa Nakane
  • Patent number: 10117121
    Abstract: A terminal device includes a reception unit which performs first measurement when a predetermined cell is in a first state and second measurement when the predetermined cell is in a second state, and a higher layer processing unit which reports the first measurement or the second measurement to a base station device. Based on information indicating the first state/the second state of the predetermined cell, the first measurement and the second measurement are switched.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Naoki Kusashima, Kazuyuki Shimezawa, Wataru Ouchi, Toshizo Nogami, Alvaro Ruiz Delgado, Kimihiko Imamura
  • Patent number: 10103861
    Abstract: Various example embodiments are disclosed herein. According to one example embodiment, a method may include determining, at a base station in a wireless network, an uplink channel quality for a mobile station, sending an acknowledgment/negative acknowledgment (ACK/NAK) aggregation indicator to the mobile station based on the determining, sending a plurality of data bursts to the mobile station, and receiving at least one aggregated ACK/NAK report from the mobile station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: Wireless Future Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Adrian Boariu, Shashikant Maheshwari
  • Patent number: 10104597
    Abstract: A mesh WLAN controller (100) operates in mesh soft-access-point or mesh client modes. When operating in the mesh client mode it performs a mesh network scan, for detecting at least one mesh WLAN BSS (202), send mesh client access requests to mesh WLAN BSSs detected, and, if mesh client access is achieved, provide information indicative to the accessed WLAN BSSs of any other mesh WLAN BSS to which mesh client access is achieved, and if mesh client access is not achieved with any of the detected mesh WLAN BSSs, operate in the mesh soft-access-point mode. Upon receiving an instruction to operate in a mesh bridge-client mode, the controller detects messages from any of the mesh WLAN BSSs (204, 206) with mesh client access, and forwards the received mesh WLAN messages within any other of the mesh WLAN BSSs to which mesh client access has been achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: PHILIPS LIGHTING HOLDING B.V.
    Inventors: Xiaodong Ge, Jun Yao
  • Patent number: 10104707
    Abstract: Techniques for implementing Wireless Gigabit (WiGig) Display Extension (WDE) communications as Wi-Fi Direct Services (WFDS) services are described. According to such techniques, WDE services may make use of primitives and events obtained from a WFDS application service platform (ASP). This application of WFDS to WDE may provide necessary mechanisms for layer 2 operations such as device and service discovery, P2P connection management, and session management. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Guoqing Li, Bahareh Sadeghi, Emily Qi, Carlos Cordeiro
  • Patent number: 10098030
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method implemented by an access node in a wireless communication system for beam switch, comprising: selecting a transmission mode from a set of predefined transmission modes; transmitting a reference signal to a device according to the selected transmission mode; signaling the selected transmission mode to the device; and receiving, from the device, a mobility measurement report based on the reference signal. By virtue of this method, the signaling overhead for reference signal configuration can be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Qingyu Miao, Jinhua Liu
  • Patent number: 10091829
    Abstract: A user apparatus that performs D2D communication by radio includes a signal transmission unit configured to transmit a signal including a destination identifier of a physical layer associated with a destination identifier of an upper layer which is a layer higher than the physical layer; and a signal reception unit configured to detect a signal addressed to the user apparatus by detecting an identifier, of the physical layer of the user apparatus, that is associated with an identifier of the upper layer of the user apparatus from a signal received by radio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Shimpei Yasukawa, Hiroki Harada, Satoshi Nagata
  • Patent number: 10082558
    Abstract: Neighbor cell hearability can be improved by including an additional reference signal that can be detected at a low sensitivity and a low signal-to-noise ratio, by introducing non-unity frequency reuse for the signals used for a time difference of arrival (TDOA) measurement, e.g., orthogonality of signals transmitted from the serving cell sites and the various neighbor cell sites. The new reference signal, called the TDOA-RS, is proposed to improve the hearability of neighbor cells in a cellular network that deploys 3GPP EUTRAN (LTE) system, and the TDOA-RS can be transmitted in any resource blocks (RB) for PDSCH and/or MBSFN subframe, regardless of whether the latter is on a carrier supporting both PMCH and PDSCH or not. Besides the additional TDOA-RS reference signal, an additional synchronization signal (TDOA-sync) may also be included to improve the hearability of neighbor cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Lai King Tee, Geng Wu, Jun Li, Yuqiang Tang, Neng Wang, Hua Xu, Jianglei Ma
  • Patent number: 10085268
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a communications device including: a first transceiver configured to transmit and receive a signal compliant with a first communication protocol; a first protocol processor configured to process a first frame included in the received signal; a second transceiver configured to transmit and receive a signal compliant with a second communication protocol; a second protocol processor configured to process a second frame included in the received signal; a recognizer configured to recognize the communication protocol of the received signal; a command handler configured to handle a command extracted from the first frame; a converter configured to convert a command extracted from the second frame and pass the converted command to the command handler; and a memory configured to store device identification information for use in the first communication protocol. The second transceiver transmits the device identification information to an external device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Nobuya Takagi
  • Patent number: 10084691
    Abstract: Upon detecting a failure of a switch link in a set of multiple redundant switch links that directly connect two nodes in the switch fabric network, the system performs a failover operation that remaps network traffic associated with the failed switch link to an alternative switch link in the set of multiple redundant switch links. Each node in the switch fabric network maintains a mapping table that translates from logical ports and associated logical virtual lanes to physical ports and associated virtual lanes. The system also provisions switch links with private virtual lanes comprising resources to facilitate failover operations. While remapping the network traffic, the system changes the mapping table so that network traffic, which is presently directed to a physical port and associated virtual lane for the failed switch link, is remapped to an alternative physical port and an associated private virtual lane, for the alternative switch link.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Arvind Srinivasan, Bjorn Dag Johnsen, Shimon Muller
  • Patent number: 10080182
    Abstract: An embodiment of the present invention relates to a method of transceiving a neighbor awareness networking (NAN) signal by a NAN device in a wireless communication system, the method comprising the steps of: receiving a NAN publish from an access point (AP); identifying a service from the NAN publish; and having association with the AP for the identified service, wherein the service is one of services of one or more stations (STAs) associated with the AP.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2018
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Dongcheol Kim, Byungjoo Lee, Giwon Park
  • Patent number: 10075962
    Abstract: For determining transmission channel resources to be allocated for a communication, a processing device: obtains an interference profile representative of interference with said communication implied by at least one predicted interferer; determines, for each set of transmission channel resources made available to perform said communication, a first figure of merit representative of robustness to frequency-selective interference with said communication that might be implied by unpredicted interferers; determines from the interference profile, for each set of transmission channel resources made available to perform said communication, a second figure of merit representative of robustness to frequency-selective interference with said communication that is expected to be implied by predicted interferers; and selects transmission channel resources that optimize the first figure of merit under a QoS-target constraint applied to the second figure of merit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Nicolas Gresset