Patents Examined by Gregory Sefcheck
  • Patent number: 9544804
    Abstract: The invention relates to a wireless communication system. A method for transmitting a power headroom report (PHR) from a terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention may include determining whether a time alignment timer (TAT) for a serving cell is operating; and transmitting, to a base station, a PHR including only the PHR on the serving cell in which the TAT is operating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Sungjun Park, Sunghoon Jung, Seungjune Yi, Youngdae Lee
  • Patent number: 9544787
    Abstract: A method of using tester data packet signals and control instructions for testing multiple data packet signal transceiver devices under test (DUTs). During mutually alternating time intervals, selected ones of which are substantially contemporaneous, multiple tester data packet signals and DUT control instructions are used for concurrent testing of multiple DUTs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: LitePoint Corporation
    Inventors: Christian Volf Olgaard, He Zhao
  • Patent number: 9544918
    Abstract: A resource allocation method and device are provided that can achieve uniform loads on and stable quality of a common channel available to mobile stations having no dedicated channels. A method for allocating common channel resources in a system in which a plurality of first radio communication devices transmit data to a second radio communication device over a common channel, based on first resource allocation information, includes: by the second radio communication device, transmitting second resource allocation information to at least one of the first radio communication devices; and by each of the first radio communication devices, transmitting data to the second radio communication device over the common channel, based on any one of the first resource allocation information and the second resource allocation information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroaki Aminaka, Kojiro Hamabe, Jinsock Lee
  • Patent number: 9538526
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method and device for transmitting a frame. The method for transmitting a frame includes a step of generating A-MPDU (aggregate MAC protocol data unit) and a step of transmitting A-MPDU. The A-MPDU includes a first AMPDU subframe and a second A-MPDU subframe, wherein the first A-MPDU subframe includes a data block, and the second AMPDU subframe includes an FEC (Forward Error Correction) coding block which is additionally used in the decoding of the data block. Thus, the STA is capable of preventing unnecessary power consumption of STA by selectively determining whether FEC information is received according to whether an error occurred in the decoded data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Hyang Sun You, Yong Ho Seok, Jong Hyun Park, Ill Soo Sohn, Eun Sun Kim, Ji Hyun Lee
  • Patent number: 9526114
    Abstract: A method and a device for transmitting data in a wireless communication system are discussed. The method according to one embodiment includes receiving, by a first station, a first frame from a second station through at least one idle subchannel of a plurality of subchannels; and transmitting, by the first station, a second frame to the second station. If the first frame includes channel information related to all of the at least one idle subchannel through which the first frame is transmitted, the second frame is transmitted via the at least one idle subchannel indicated by the channel information. If the first frame does not include the channel information, the second frame is transmitted via at least one of a plurality of subchannels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2016
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventor: Yong Ho Seok
  • Patent number: 9525474
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of performing channel sounding in a wireless LAN system. The method includes transmitting a Null Data Packet Announcement (NDPA) frame for providing notice of an NDP to be transmitted, and transmitting the NDP and receiving a feedback frame from a station (STA). The feedback frame includes channel state information created on the basis of the NDP. The NDP includes a signal field and at least one long training field (LTF) for a multiple input multiple output channel. The signal field includes a repetitive instruction subfield. The repetitive instruction subfield provides instruction on whether orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbol repetition is applied to the at least one LTF.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2016
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Jong Hyun Park, Hyang Sun You, Yong Ho Seok
  • Patent number: 9525516
    Abstract: A transmission device capable of reducing packet receiving errors and the number of retransmissions by improving error correction coding gain without increasing the amount of resources used in transmission. The transmission device (100) that transmits each bit of coded data constituted from systematic bits and parity bits in order for each transmission unit, and performs frequency puncturing to puncture, in units of symbols, data to be punctured in which each bit has been superimposed on a plurality of frequency domain symbols. A time puncturing unit (102) extracts transmission unit data from the coded data and a frequency puncturing unit (105) performs frequency puncturing in accordance with the ratio of parity bits to systematic bits included in the data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2016
    Assignee: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryohei Kimura, Toru Oizumi, Shinsuke Takaoka, Yasuaki Yuda, Daichi Imamura, Fumiyuki Adachi, Tetsuya Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 9521077
    Abstract: A system may receive, based on a generic access point name stored by a user device, a request to establish a network connection. The request may include a user device identifier that identifies the user device. The system may determine, based on the user device identifier, a specific access point name associated with the user device. The specific access point name may be different from the generic access point name. The system may determine, based on the specific access point name, information that identifies a gateway node for processing traffic associated with the user device. The system may cause the network connection to be established based on the user device identifier and the information that identifies the gateway node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignees: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Cellco Partnership
    Inventors: Miguel A. Carames, Arvind Aggarwal
  • Patent number: 9516581
    Abstract: A communication system, a mobile station apparatus, a base station apparatus, and a processing method are provided that can perform decoding processing of a PDCCH related to a search space efficiently, and can perform communication promptly. A mobile station apparatus for performing communication with a base station apparatus in a mobile communication system: performs monitoring of a physical downlink control channel in an extension search space in accordance with an instruction from the base station apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shohei Yamada, Shoichi Suzuki
  • Patent number: 9509452
    Abstract: Techniques to increase the capacity of a W-CDMA wireless communications system. In an exemplary embodiment, early termination of one or more transport channels on a W-CDMA wireless communications link is provided. In particular, early decoding is performed on slots as they are received over the air, and techniques are described for signaling acknowledgment messages (ACK's) for one or more transport channels correctly decoded to terminate the transmission of those transport channels. The techniques may be applied to the transmission of voice signals using the adaptive multi-rate (AMR) codec. Further exemplary embodiments describe aspects to reduce the transmission power and rate of power control commands sent over the air, as well as aspects for applying tail-biting convolutional codes in the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jiye Liang, Mingxi Fan, Yisheng Xue
  • Patent number: 9497006
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a wireless communication system, and more particularly to a method and an apparatus for transmitting uplink signals in a wireless communication system for supporting multiple antenna transmissions. The method for transmitting the uplink signals in the wireless communication system for supporting the multiple antenna transmissions according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises the steps of: receiving a PDCCH (Physical Downlink Control Channel) including uplink grant information for indicating a first rank value; precoding uplink data on the basis of the first rank value; precoding uplink control information on the basis of a second rank value; multiplexing the precoded uplink data and the uplink control information on a PUSCH (Physical Uplink Shared Channel) resource; and transmitting the multiplexed uplink data and the uplink control information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2016
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jae Hoon Chung, Hyun Soo Ko, Min Seok Noh, Moon Il Lee
  • Patent number: 9497765
    Abstract: Communications by base stations in wireless communication networks may be coordinated in a manner to improve performance by mobile devices experiencing interference from non-serving base stations. In particular, base station communications may be coordinated to improve the performance of interference cancellation by mobile devices. If a user equipment (UE) experiencing interference is capable of interference cancellation, then the base stations may coordinate to increase interference to that user equipment so as to improve that UE's ability to perform interference cancellation. Base stations may also coordinate to reduce interference for a UE, regardless of the UE's ability to perform interference cancellation. Mobile device performance improvements may also be achieved by coordinating scheduling of resources by the non-serving base stations, by using communication formats compatible with interference cancellation, by spatial coordination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2016
    Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Taesang Yoo, Hendrik Schoeneich, Myriam Rajih, Tao Luo, Siddhartha Mallik
  • Patent number: 9491053
    Abstract: A system for negotiating Ethernet link settings between interconnected nodes in a network having an Ethernet protocol stack that includes a PCS sub-layer with an auto-negotiation function. The system comprises connecting an intermediate device coupled between two network nodes via optical or copper interfaces, with the link settings between each node and the connected intermediate device being the same, thereby bypassing the auto-negotiation of the PCS sub-layer in the intermediate device. The intermediate device may transparently send negotiation messages from each node to the other during the link negotiation phase without interacting with those messages. Instead of the intermediate device, a single form pluggable (SFP) device may be connected between the two network nodes via optical or copper interfaces on the network side and via an SFP slot on the device side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Assignee: Accedian Networks Inc.
    Inventors: Claude Robitaille, Steve Rochon
  • Patent number: 9487305
    Abstract: A system and method for analyzing a scenario, such as a communications scenario in which the end-to-end quality of communications between end nodes of a communications link may be affected by various factors and conditions. Such factors and conditions may include performance parameters of the end nodes and intermediate nodes, human operational performance, and external conditions, such as weather. Qualitative and quantitative representations of the end-to-end quality of communications are presented simultaneously and in a time-synchronized manner with displays of the relevant performance parameters, indications of human operational actions, and locations of nodes of the communications link and external conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Assignee: THE BOEING COMPANY
    Inventors: Yifan Yang, Elwyn William Hubbard, Christopher J. Devine, James M. Rush, Gregory W. Smith
  • Patent number: 9485069
    Abstract: Techniques for performing peer discovery to enable peer-to-peer (P2P) communication are disclosed. In an aspect, a proximity detection signal used for peer discovery may be generated based on one or more physical channels and/or signals used in a wireless network. In one design, a user equipment (UE) may generate a proximity detection signal occupying at least one resource block based on a SC-FDMA modulation technique. In another design, the UE may generate a proximity detection signal occupying at least one resource block based on an OFDMA modulation technique. The UE may generate SC-FDMA symbols or OFDMA symbols in different manners for different physical channels. In yet another design, the UE may generate a proximity detection signal including a primary synchronization signal and a secondary synchronization signal. For all designs, the UE may transmit the proximity detection signal to indicate its presence and to enable other UEs to detect the UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Renqiu Wang, Siddhartha Mallik, Ravi Palanki, Naga Bhushan, Tao Luo, Durga Prasad Malladi
  • Patent number: 9479241
    Abstract: A wireless access device, system and method are disclosed for provisioning multiple concurrent radio services and adaptive management of multi-radio access points or multi-radio small cell base stations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2016
    Inventor: Arbinder Singh Pabla
  • Patent number: 9479954
    Abstract: A combination and correlation of data from multiple sensors in a wireless digital network is described. Sensors such as spectrum monitors, access points, and wireless client devices provide spectrum data to one or more central stations connected to the network. Spectrum data from multiple sensors is combined and correlated to provide insight into network operation such as spectrum maps, detection-range maps, and for network diagnostics. Sensors providing spectrum data may be synchronized. Correlating spectrum data from synchronized sensors allows more accurate location of sources such as interferers. The known EIRP of certain wireless devices may be used to improve location estimates, and these devices may be used as calibrations sources for sensors in the wireless network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2016
    Assignee: Aruba Networks, Inc.
    Inventor: Subburajan Ponnuswamy
  • Patent number: 9467929
    Abstract: A wireless terminal according to an embodiment includes a display unit, a wireless LAN communication unit, a wireless WAN communication unit, and a control unit. The control unit acquires, when a radio wave intensity of a wireless signal output from a wireless LAN access point detected by the wireless LAN communication unit satisfies a predetermined condition, notification information corresponding to the wireless LAN access point by the wireless WAN communication unit or by the wireless LAN communication unit, and to indicates the notification information with an indication unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: YAHOO JAPAN CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yuki Sekine
  • Patent number: 9456354
    Abstract: A non-line of sight backhaul system and method are described that provides self-alignment of the antennas beams of the wireless radios of the system, that provides robust operation in licensed and unlicensed frequency bands, that facilitates the use of a reduced number of frequency channels from M to 1 and that enables operation in a non-line of sight (NLOS) propagation environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2016
    Assignee: TARANA WIRELESS, INC.
    Inventor: Dale Branlund
  • Patent number: 9456316
    Abstract: A mode of a publisher or a subscriber is stored. Also, a first identifier indicating affiliation to a first group is stored. In a case of the publisher, a transmission message including ToC information, which is a list of the first identifiers and data to be transmitted, is transmitted to an outside. In a case of the subscriber, when a received message includes the first identifier, data included in the message is stored into a non-volatile memory, and when it is determined that all data in the ToC information stored in the received message are already received and that the number of publishers is less than a threshold, the stored mode is changed to the publisher.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2016
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Masahiro Ishiyama, Arata Miyamoto, Kenichi Maeda, Hiroki Kudo, Hiroto Nakai