Patents Examined by Jason Mattis
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Patent number: 9526104Abstract: A base station broadcasts first parameters identifying a first set of almost blank subframes on a primary carrier. The base station transmits at least one unicast control message comprising second parameters identifying a second set of almost blank subframes on a secondary carrier and cross carrier scheduling parameters indicating that the primary carrier carries scheduling information for the secondary carrier. During the time the cross carrier scheduling is configured and the secondary carrier is activated, when the primary carrier enters an almost blank subframe, the secondary carrier also enters an almost blank subframe.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2015Date of Patent: December 20, 2016Assignee: Ofinno Technologies, LLCInventor: Esmael Hejazi Dinan
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Patent number: 9510287Abstract: A wireless device and a method for controlling Discontinuous Reception (DRX) in the wireless device. The wireless device is capable of cellular and Device to Device (D2D) communication. The method comprises: in response to receiving a first uplink cellular communication grant, activating, for a first period of time (t1), a DRX-wake state for a cellular DRX configuration during which DRX-wake state the wireless device is configured to receive a second uplink cellular communication grant, and in response to receiving a first D2D communication grant, activating, for a second period of time (t2), the DRX-wake state for a D2D DRX configuration, wherein the D2D DRX configuration is separate from the cellular DRX configuration, and during which DRX-wake state the wireless device is configured to receive a second D2D communication grant. Thereby the wireless device is capable of controlling DRX using both the cellular DRX configuration and the D2D DRX configuration.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2012Date of Patent: November 29, 2016Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)Inventors: Qianxi Lu, Qingyu Miao
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Patent number: 9509455Abstract: Data characterizing a first signal transmitted in an orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) system by a transmitter with one or more transmit antennas through an in-band channel and received by a receiver with a plurality of receive antennas can be received. The first signal can include one or more in-band pilot pulses. A channel quality for an out-of-band channel can be predicted based on the received data and a cross-correlation between an in-band channel and one or more out-of-band channels. Data characterizing the predicted channel quality for the out-of-band channel can be provided. Related apparatus, systems, techniques, and articles are also described.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2014Date of Patent: November 29, 2016Assignee: AltioStar Networks, Inc.Inventor: Ramesh Annavajjala
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Patent number: 9503161Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided for performing acquisition, synchronization and cell selection within an MIMO-OFDM communication system. A coarse synchronization is performed to determine a searching window. A fine synchronization is then performed by measuring correlations between subsets of signal samples, whose first signal sample lies within the searching window, and known values. The correlations are performed in the frequency domain of the received signal. In a multiple-output OFDM system, each antenna of the OFDM transmitter has a unique known value. The known value is transmitted as pairs of consecutive pilot symbols, each pair of pilot symbols being transmitted at the same subset of sub-carrier frequencies within the OFDM frame.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2013Date of Patent: November 22, 2016Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Jianglei Ma, Ming Jia, Peiying Zhu, Wen Tong
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Patent number: 9503230Abstract: Disclosed are a method and a system for implementing synchronous parallel transmission over multiple channels. The method comprises: a sending end and a receiving end accessing an NoC through a sending port and a receiving port on the NoC, the sending port and the receiving port having a capability of simultaneously and parallelly transmitting data; the sending end sending data to the sending port of the NoC, and the sending port encoding the received data into a bipolar data symbol and modulating the bipolar data symbol by using a Walsh code; then the NoC synchronously adding and combining modulated symbols of all sending ports, and sending a signal after the combination to each receiving port through an NoC bus synchronously and parallelly; and the receiving port demodulating the received combined data according to the Walsh code thereof to obtain the bipolar data symbol, and then decoding the bipolar data symbol and sending the decoded bipolar data symbol to the receiving end.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2012Date of Patent: November 22, 2016Assignee: ZTE CorporationInventor: Chengke Shen
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Patent number: 9497718Abstract: The present invention provides a method, an apparatus, and a system for synchronization between base stations. The method for synchronization between base stations includes: A first base station receives synchronization information sent by a user equipment, where the first base station is a serving base station of the user equipment; and the first base station adjusts a downlink sending time point and an uplink receiving time point of the first base station according to the synchronization information, so as to keep consistency between the downlink sending time point of the first base station and a downlink sending time point of a second base station that serves as a synchronization time reference and keep consistency between the uplink receiving time point of the first base station and an uplink receiving time point of the second base station.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2013Date of Patent: November 15, 2016Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Tianle Deng, Binsong Tang, Haiyan Luo
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Patent number: 9480019Abstract: A wireless communication apparatus in a first wireless communication system is equipped with a power detector for detecting power of a reception signal; an envelope detector for detecting an envelope signal of the reception signal; a signal determiner for determining whether the reception signal is a first signal to be used for a communication in the first wireless communication system, on the basis of a variation amount of the envelope signal; a wireless communicator for performing a wireless communication; and a wireless communication activator for activating the wireless communicator when the wireless communication apparatus detects power of the reception signal and determines that the reception signal is the first signal.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2014Date of Patent: October 25, 2016Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Koji Imamura, Takayuki Abe
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Patent number: 9480018Abstract: A method in a communication device for processing a received data unit includes determining whether the communication device is an intended receiver based on the received data unit, determining whether the received data unit includes an exclusive use indication, where the exclusive use indication indicates that a plurality of data units are transmitted only to the at least one intended receiver during a time period, where each of the plurality of data units has at least a respective physical layer (PHY) preamble, and determining a time interval during which the communication device need not listen for incoming data units using (i) a result of determining whether the received data unit includes an exclusive use indication and (ii) a result of determining whether the communication device is an intended receiver.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2010Date of Patent: October 25, 2016Assignee: Marvell World Trade Ltd.Inventors: Yong Liu, Hongyuan Zhang, Raja Banerjea, Mao Yu
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Patent number: 9473973Abstract: It may be determined that a HARQ transmission schedule from a RAN to a WCD includes HARQ acknowledgment bundling. An indication of signal quality as measured by the WCD may be received by the RAN. The indicated signal quality may be associated with a first transmission rate. The RAN may determine a first set of one or more data slots of the HARQ transmission schedule for which the WCD bundles HARQ acknowledgments. In response to this determination, one or more HARQ subpackets may be transmitted to the WCD in the first set of one or more data slots. The one or more HARQ subpackets may be transmitted at a second transmission rate that is less than the first transmission rate.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2014Date of Patent: October 18, 2016Assignee: Sprint Spectrum L.P.Inventors: Siddharth S. Oroskar, Maulik K. Shah, Jasinder P. Singh
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Patent number: 9474089Abstract: The present disclosure proposes a dynamic resource allocation mechanism for a user equipment and a base station having multiple connections. According to one of the exemplary embodiment, the present disclosure proposes a user equipment (UE) which includes at least but not limited to a transmitter and a receiver for transmitting and receiving data respectively and a processing circuit coupled to the transmitter and the receiver and is configured for establishing a first connection with a first base station by using the transmitter and the receiver, establishing a second connection with a second base station by using the transmitter and the receiver, receiving through the receiver a dynamic time division duplexing (TDD) subframe configuration from either the first base station and the second base station, wherein the dynamic TDD subframe configuration is not received from a system information block (SIB), and operating according to the dynamic TDD subframe configuration.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2014Date of Patent: October 18, 2016Assignee: Acer IncorporatedInventor: Hung-Yu Wei
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Patent number: 9455922Abstract: Technologies for generating an interrupt for moderating generation of packet ingress interrupts includes a local computing device to receive a network packet from a remote computing device. The local computing device examines a header field of a transport layer protocol data unit of the received network packet to determine a size parameter. A network socket throughput between the local computing device and the remote computing device is determined based on communications between the local computing device and the remote computing device. The local computing device determines an interrupt rate based on the determined size parameter and the network socket throughput. An interrupt is generated based on the determined interrupt rate to allow processing of the received network packet.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2014Date of Patent: September 27, 2016Assignee: Intel CorporationInventor: Shawn T. Rader
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Patent number: 9439127Abstract: The invention relates to a method for data transmission with a local network, the local network comprising a plurality of local network entities for connecting mobile entities to the local network and at least one local network entity for connecting the local network to a data network. The method comprises receiving, by a first local network entity of the local network entities of the local network, a data packet, the network address of the first mobile entity on the basis of the data packet, determining, by the first local network entity on the basis of the network address of the first mobile entity, the second local network entity, via which the first mobile entity is connected to the local network, and forwarding, by the first local network entity, the data comprised by the data packet to the first mobile entity via the second local network entity.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2014Date of Patent: September 6, 2016Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventors: Frank Mademann, Qing Zhou
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Patent number: 9439116Abstract: An example method is provided in one example embodiment and includes receiving, by a first Home eNodeB (HeNB), a first attach request from a user equipment (UE) for attaching a subscriber associated with the UE to a small cell network; determining whether the subscriber has transitioned into the small cell network from a macro cell network; exchanging, based on the determination, a first pair of messages between the first HeNB and the UE to determine an International Mobile Subscriber Identity (IMSI) of the subscriber; and exchanging, based on the determination, one or more second pairs of messages between the first HeNB and the UE to advance a sequence number for Non-Access Stratum (NAS) messages for the UE to a value corresponding to a received sequence number for the first attach request from the UE.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2014Date of Patent: September 6, 2016Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.Inventors: Yuyong Zhang, Mark Grayson, Anton Okmyanskiy, Swaminathan A. Anantha
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Patent number: 9439189Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of transmitting an acknowledgement/not-acknowledgement (ACK/NACK) and a device for using such a method. According to the present invention, a cell-specific downlink-uplink setting for one of a plurality of serving cells and a reference UL-DL setting is received, an effective downlink sub-frame capable of actually receiving a data unit from one serving cell is determined based on the settings, and only an ACK/NACK for the effective downlink sub-frame is configured as a bit string and fed back.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2013Date of Patent: September 6, 2016Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Dongyoun Seo, Bonghoe Kim, Joonkui Ahn, Suckchel Yang
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Patent number: 9426083Abstract: A credit-based method for controlling data communications in a computer system between a sender and a receiver coupled by an ordered communication link is described herein. A request for a credit check is transmitted from the sender to the receiver via the ordered communication link. An initial number of credits are allocated to the sender in a credit counter. A snapshot counter is set to a value of the credit counter and us updated as returned credits are received. A number of reported credits are determined based on a credit check response message received from the receiver. The returned credits are ordered relative to the credit check response message. The number of credits is checked for consistency based on a number of the snapshot counter and the number of reported credits.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2009Date of Patent: August 23, 2016Assignee: HEWLETT PACKARD ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT LPInventor: Michael L. Ziegler
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Patent number: 9426072Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for classifying traffic flows. A traffic agent operable to collect classification information for one or more traffic flows may be deployed at an end host communicatively coupled to a data-center network. The traffic agent, deployed in a user space independent of the operating system, may compare the classification information for a given traffic flow to a metric value. Where the classification information achieves a certain threshold indicated by the metric value, the traffic agent may classify the traffic flow as an elephant flow. In some examples, a library may be included with the traffic agent that may include a modified send function. The modified send function may provide classification information to the traffic agent indexed to the traffic flow for which it is called so that the traffic agent may analyze the classification information to potentially provide a classification for the traffic flow.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2014Date of Patent: August 23, 2016Assignee: ROBIN SYSTEMS, INC.Inventors: Rafit Izhak Ratzin, Krishna Satyasai Yeddanapudi, Dhanashankar Venkatesan
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Patent number: 9420578Abstract: The invention relates to a new structure of a control channel region within a sub-frame of a 3GPP-based based communication system using OFDM in the downlink. This new structure of a control channel region is inter alia particularly suitable for conveying physical downlink control channel information from a donor eNodeB to a relay node. The control channel region is divided in CCEs that have equal size irrespective of the presence of further cell-specific and/or UE-specific reference signals within the control channel region. This is achieved by dividing the control channel region in plural sub-CCEs that are combined to CCEs all having equal size (in terms of resource elements that can be used for the signaling of control information). The control channel region is divided in the frequency domain and/or time domain in a FDM respectively TDM fashion in order to obtain the sub-CCEs.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2015Date of Patent: August 16, 2016Assignee: SUN PATENT TRUSTInventors: Sujuan Feng, Alexander Golitschek Edler Von Elbwart, Christian Wengerter
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Patent number: 9413625Abstract: In a method for monitoring the residence time across nodes of a communication network including a transparent clock-based synchronization architecture, the method includes configuring and generating a tunable and traceable packet dedicated to delay measurements. The method further includes measuring the packet resident time across a network node by a transparent clock, storing, at the level of the network node, the measured residence time, and retrieving the stored residence time by a Network protocol.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2012Date of Patent: August 9, 2016Assignee: Alcatel LucentInventors: Michel Le Pallec, Dinh Thai Bui
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Patent number: 9414413Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for transmitting a frame, which is performed by a transmission station in a wireless LAN system that supports frame transmission and reception on the basis of a first physical layer and a second physical layer. The method comprises the steps of: transmitting a request-to-send (RTS) to a reception station through the first physical layer of the transmission station; receiving, by the reception station, a first clear-to-send (CTS) frame transmitted through the first physical layer of the reception station in response to the RTS frame; and transmitting a second CTS frame through the second physical layer of the transmission station, then transmitting a data frame through the first physical layer of the transmission station.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2012Date of Patent: August 9, 2016Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Jong Hyun Park, Ill Soo Sohn, Eun Sun Kim, Yong Ho Seok
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Patent number: 9414258Abstract: The present invention provides a method and an apparatus for processing a bearer. The method includes performing depth packet inspection DPI processing on a traffic flow of a service according to a preset layer-7 protocol type matching rule. Alternatively, shallow packet inspection SPI processing is performed on a traffic flow of a service according to a preset layer-3 or layer-4 protocol type matching rule so as to obtain a DPI/SPI processing result. According to the DPI/SPI result and the preset matching rule, a service quality attribute parameter of the service is determined. The method further includes determining whether the service quality attribute parameter is the same as a service quality attribute parameter of an existing bearer, and if different, creating a dedicated bearer for the service.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2013Date of Patent: August 9, 2016Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventors: Xiang Hu, Zhiyu Di, Shaohui Hou