Patents Examined by Juvena Loo
  • Patent number: 10236998
    Abstract: Embodiments herein describe a distributed system that includes a central controller coupled to a plurality of separate radio heads. Each of the radio heads is coupled to the central controller via respective wired backends (e.g., cables). The radio heads includes one or more transceivers (e.g., radios) and antennas for wireless communicating with client devices. In the embodiments herein, the central controller can perform a variant of CCA to determine if a first one of the radio head can transmit wireless signals to, or receive wireless signals from, a first client device while a second radio head is communicating with a second client device using a combination of RTS/CTS, channel sensing, and interference cancellation techniques.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: Cisco Technology Inc.
    Inventor: Pooya Monajemi
  • Patent number: 10231266
    Abstract: According to an aspect of the present invention, a device for communication according to a specific communication protocol includes a processor for generating a connection request frame for requesting a connection to other device based on the communication protocol. The connection request frame includes a predetermined field. The processor initiates data communication at predetermined timing in a given time interval in the case of setting the predetermined field of the connection request frame to a predetermined value and receiving a connection assignment frame for accepting the connection request from the other device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tsutomu Terazaki, Takahiro Tomida, Ryo Okumura, Toshihiro Takahashi
  • Patent number: 10206187
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for transmitting data using a multi-carrier in a mobile communication system. The method of transmitting data in user equipment of a wireless communication system using a carrier aggregation technique according to an embodiment of the present invention includes setting secondary cells included in an S-TAG (Secondary-Timing Advance Group) configured of only secondary cells (SCells), deactivating a downlink timing reference cell in the S-TAG; determining whether other activated secondary cells exist besides the deactivated downlink timing reference cell in the S-TAG, and when the other activated secondary cells exist in the S-TAG, setting one of the other activated secondary cells as a new downlink timing reference cell. According to the present invention, uplink transmission speed can be increased in the user equipment and user QoS can be improved by transmitting data using one or more uplink carriers in the terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Soeng Hun Kim, Gert-Jan Van Lieshout, Sang Bum Kim
  • Patent number: 10164876
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to assisting forwarding of multicast traffic over Ethernet Virtual Private Network (EVPN) from a multicast source to a host multi-homed to multiple provider edge (PE) devices. Embodiments are based on the inclusion of an Ethernet Segment Identification (ESI) to EVPN type-6 routes advertised by PE devices which received a multicast Join message. Other PE devices receiving such routes are able to determine whether they belong to the ES identified by the ESI and to determine whether they are designated forwarders (DFs) for the host. Furthermore, PE devices which are the DFs are configured to re-originate the EVPN type-6 routes, i.e. re-send the advertisements, indicating themselves as DFs. This ensures that a remote PE device associated with the multicast source will also send multicast traffic to such DF PE devices, which, in turn, would allow the multicast traffic to successfully reach the host.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Mitesh Mukesh Kanjariya, Ashutosh Gupta, Manoj Kumar Pandey
  • Patent number: 10154534
    Abstract: A terminal device includes a wireless communication part configured to wirelessly communicate with base station devices; a link controller configured to establish a link with a primary base station device (PCell) so as to enable a wireless communication via the wireless communication part while establishing a link with a secondary base station device (SCell) so as to enable a wireless communication via the wireless communication part; a primary base station link failure detector configured to detect a radio link failure in the wireless communication with the primary base station device based on the predetermined condition; and a primary base station link failure information transmitter configured to wirelessly transmit the information, concerning the radio link failure with the primary base station device, to the secondary base station device when the primary base station link failure detector detects the radio link failure status.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: KDDI Corporation
    Inventors: Toshiaki Yamamoto, Takeo Ohseki, Xiaoqiu Wang, Yosuke Akimoto, Satoshi Konishi
  • Patent number: 10154468
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for transmitting data using a multi-carrier in a mobile communication system. The method of transmitting data in user equipment of a wireless communication system using a carrier aggregation technique according to an embodiment of the present invention includes setting secondary cells included in an S-TAG (Secondary-Timing Advance Group) configured of only secondary cells (SCells), deactivating a downlink timing reference cell in the S-TAG; determining whether other activated secondary cells exist besides the deactivated downlink timing reference cell in the S-TAG, and when the other activated secondary cells exist in the S-TAG, setting one of the other activated secondary cells as a new downlink timing reference cell. According to the present invention, uplink transmission speed can be increased in the user equipment and user QoS can be improved by transmitting data using one or more uplink carriers in the terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Soeng Hun Kim, Gert-Jan Van Lieshout, Sang Bum Kim
  • Patent number: 10135634
    Abstract: A system may include a plurality of slave devices connected to a master device via a bus interface that includes a communication line and a plurality of select lines. The communication line may connect the master device to each of the plurality of slave devices and may permit bi-directional, one-wire communication among the master device and the plurality of slave devices. A select line, of the plurality of select lines, may connect the master device to a slave device, of the plurality of slave devices, and enable signaling, associated with the bi-directional, one-wire communication, between the master device and the slave device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventor: Wolfgang Scherr
  • Patent number: 10135568
    Abstract: A relaying method performed by a half-duplex relay for a telecommunications system includes a reception stage of receiving codewords from sources during N uses of the transmission channel. The successive codewords correspond to B blocks, the first of which can be decoded independently of the other blocks. This stage includes a decoding step of estimating a message from each source based on received codewords. The relay performs an error detection and decision-taking step on messages decoded without error. The relay performs a stage of encoding a signal and forwarding it to a destination. The signal is representative of only messages decoded without error and includes channel encoding by an incremental redundancy code to obtain a channel encoded codeword. The relay passes from non-selective reception to selective reception after receiving B1 blocks and switches from the reception stage to the encoding and forwarding stage under control of the decision step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: ORANGE
    Inventors: Abdulaziz Mohamad, Raphael Visoz, Antoine Berthet
  • Patent number: 10116455
    Abstract: The present disclosure is related to a large-scale broadband LTE wireless network capable of providing a very high wireless data capacity, wherein one aspect of the system utilizes a base station optimization server, wherein the base station optimization server comprises a publish-subscribe broker communications facility to which a mobile transceiver device is connected via a corresponding redirected bearer. A usage data reporting facility of the base station optimization server and the publish-subscribe broker communications facility are adapted to collect and report billing usage data for the mobile transceiver device for all data sent by the mobile transceiver device on paths that do not include a packet gateway (PGW) element, where the billing usage data is collected in the LTE network via paths that include the redirected bearer at the cellular LTE base transceiver station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: ALL PURPOSE NETWORKS, INC.
    Inventors: Harvey Rubin, James Keith Brewington, Anil S. Sawkar, David M. Poticny
  • Patent number: 10116579
    Abstract: A method for queue management in a packet-switched network including at an intermediate node receiving first packets belonging to a first class associated with a first queue management mechanism and second packets belonging to a second class associated with a second queue management mechanism; marking or dropping of the first packets in accordance with the first queue management mechanism and marking or dropping of the second packets in accordance with the second queue management mechanism; and coupling the marking or dropping of the second packets to the marking or dropping of the first packets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Koen De Schepper, Ing-Jyh Tsang
  • Patent number: 10117197
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for transmitting data using a multi-carrier in a mobile communication system. The method of transmitting data in user equipment of a wireless communication system using a carrier aggregation technique according to an embodiment of the present invention includes setting secondary cells included in an S-TAG (Secondary-Timing Advance Group) configured of only secondary cells (SCells), deactivating a downlink timing reference cell in the S-TAG; determining whether other activated secondary cells exist besides the deactivated downlink timing reference cell in the S-TAG, and when the other activated secondary cells exist in the S-TAG, setting one of the other activated secondary cells as a new downlink timing reference cell. According to the present invention, uplink transmission speed can be increased in the user equipment and user QoS can be improved by transmitting data using one or more uplink carriers in the terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Soeng Hun Kim, Gert-Jan Van Lieshout, Sang Bum Kim
  • Patent number: 10117288
    Abstract: Techniques for harmonizing wireless communications performed by a computing device which communicates using varying wireless communication standards are described herein. For instance, a computing device may include multiple chipsets with associated antennas that are configured to perform wireless communications using separate wireless standards which operate at overlapping frequencies. To avoid performance degradation experienced in simultaneous use cases with communications operating at overlapping frequencies, the multiple chipsets may be configured with logic to determine which communications are prioritized when multiple chipsets attempt to communicate simultaneously. The multiple chipsets may be communicatively coupled to coordinate their communications by prioritizing certain types of communications over other types of communications to avoid simultaneous communications in overlapping frequencies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Jay Praful Desai, Pratik Kalpesh Patel, Qinghai Gao, Morris Yuanhsiang Hsu, Ateet Kapur, Milos Jorgovanovic
  • Patent number: 10117265
    Abstract: A method and a communication node of resource scheduling in a wireless communication network are disclosed. In the method, the network comprises N neighboring cells indexed by i which share the same frequency band, where i=0, . . . , N?1, N>=3. In the method, available frequency resources of the frequency band are divided into N subsets indexed by j, where j=0, . . . , N?1. The frequency resources in each of the subsets are not consecutive. The N subsets are allocated to the N cells in downlink subframes of a frame. The subsets allocated to each of the cells may vary among downlink subframes indexed by k, where k=0, . . . , K?1, K being the number of downlink subframes in the frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Zhenglin Sun, Zhiyu Yang, Huibo Xu
  • Patent number: 10103852
    Abstract: Embodiments are provided for implementing efficient uplink (UL) orthogonal frequency division-multiple access (OFDMA) transmission in wireless systems, such as in WiFi networks. An embodiment method includes sending, by an access point (AP) to a plurality of stations (STAs), scheduling information for periodic UL transmission, and sending, to the STAs, a short synchronous signal (SSS) in accordance with the scheduling information for periodic UL transmission. The method further includes receiving, from the STAs, a corresponding UL transmission in response to receiving the SSS. The UL transmission is sent by each of the plurality of the STAs at about a same time. The STAs wait for a time short interframe space (SIFS) after receiving the SSS, before sending, to the AP, the UL transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Zhigang Rong, Young Hoon Kwon, Yunsong Yang
  • Patent number: 10084834
    Abstract: A method of randomizing a size of a packet is provided. A randomization method may include recognizing a maximum segment size (MSS) defined for transmission and reception of a packet with a reception terminal, and randomizing a size of the packet to be less than the MSS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Soo Jeon Lee, Won Chan Jung, Byoung Sun Lee, Do Seob Ahn
  • Patent number: 10084715
    Abstract: A method of generating a sequence of packets representing a stream of one or more media frames at an encoding system, the method comprising: in dependence on a measure of data loss over a network, determining a level of error correction data required in respect of a stream of media frames in order to substantially satisfy a recovery parameter expressing a target proportion of packets recoverable using error correction data; in dependence on the determined level of error correction data, identifying a target encoding bitrate so as to not exceed a target transmission bitrate over the network; encoding the stream of media frames so as to generate encoded data at the target encoding bitrate; and processing the encoded data and error correction data formed in respect of the stream of media frames so as to generate a sequence of packets at a rate commensurate with the target transmission bitrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: Imagination Technologies Limited
    Inventor: Venu Annamraju
  • Patent number: 10063452
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for testing a communication link are disclosed. In the method and apparatus, a routing loop is established between two devices connected by the communication link, and data is routed between the two devices over the communication link. One or more performance measures of the communication link are obtained based at least in part on the data routing. The one or more performance measures are then used to determine whether the communication link is defective.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin Michael Dzierwinski, Girish Anand, Travis Steven Pepper, Kent David Forschmiedt, Lisa Huang, Jacques Joshua Richard
  • Patent number: 10051628
    Abstract: A communications device can transmit and receive data via a wireless access interface provided by a mobile communications network including an infrastructure equipment for transmitting signals to or receiving signals from the communications device. The wireless access interface provides a primary carrier within a first frequency range, which forms a primary cell providing a contiguous set of communications resources across the first frequency range and providing one or more control channels for transmitting signaling message to the communications device or receiving signaling messages from the infrastructure equipment. A controller in combination with a receiver and transmitter can receive from the infrastructure equipment a signaling message identifying a nested carrier including one or more candidate channels selected from a predefined plurality of candidate channels within a second frequency range which is different to and mutually exclusive from the first frequency range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Matthew William Webb, Jussi Kahtava, Dimitris Koulakiotis
  • Patent number: 10034213
    Abstract: The present disclosure presents a method and a network entity for load contribution distribution in a wireless communication system supporting component carrier communication. The network entity serves a first cell of a wireless communication system. The method comprises receiving (61) information on one or more secondary cell usages of the first cell, wherein a secondary cell usage represents a secondary component carrier load of a wireless device connected to a primary cell of one or more further cells which are different from the first cell. The information on primary cell usage and the one or more secondary cell usage for the first cell is compiled (62) in the network entity. The method further comprises identifying (63) the respective primary cell for each secondary cell usage. Finally it comprises sending (64) secondary cell usage information to a respective network entity serving the identified respective primary cell for each secondary cell usage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Rasmus Axén, Fredrik Gunnarsson, Stefan Johansson
  • Patent number: 10033637
    Abstract: A method for switching data between virtual machines is provided, the method includes acquiring data that is inside a physical host and needs to be sent to a destination node; determining, according to the data, whether the destination node is a node inside the physical host or a node outside the physical host; and when the destination node is a node inside the physical host, determining a destination virtual network interface card (NIC) port, and sending the data to a corresponding destination virtual machine using a virtual NIC corresponding to the destination virtual NIC port; or when the destination node is a node outside the physical host, determining a physical NIC port, and sending the data outside the physical host using a physical NIC corresponding to the physical NIC port. A corresponding apparatus and system are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chuanyu Qin, Yunsong Lu