Patents Examined by Kevin Mew
  • Patent number: 10044643
    Abstract: A network appliance is virtually inserted in a data path within a network. Packet data that matches a criteria is intercepted at a logical point within the data path. The intercepted packet data is forwarded to an application running on the virtually inserted network appliance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
    Inventor: Robert L. Faulk, Jr.
  • Patent number: 10039138
    Abstract: A system is disclosed in which a UE-Relay receives, from a user communication device, a message requesting the provision of a communication link (e.g. a Layer 2 link) between the user communication device and a network serving the user communication device. The UE-Relay communicates with its core network, responsive to the received message, to establish the communication link from the user communication device to a base station remote from the UE-Relay; and relays data, between the user communication device and the base station using the communication link.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2018
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Benoit Lecroart, Christophe Le Thierry D'Ennequin, Dorin Panaitopol
  • Patent number: 10038612
    Abstract: In various embodiments, a multi-channel request-to-send and a multi-channel clear-to-send may be used in a wireless communications network to assure that a subsequent multi-channel communications exchange between two devices takes place only over channels that are sensed by both devices as being free.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2018
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Michelle X. Gong, Adrian P. Stephens
  • Patent number: 10039107
    Abstract: Some demonstrative embodiments include apparatuses, systems and/or methods of dynamic allocation of radio resources. For example, a resource allocator may dynamically allocate to a plurality of nodes of a cellular network non-cellular radio resources for communication over a plurality of non-cellular wireless communication links, the resource allocator may be configured to assign the non-cellular radio resources to a plurality of resource blocks corresponding to a plurality of link types, and to dynamically allocate to a non-cellular wireless communication link resources from a resource block corresponding to a link type of the non-cellular wireless communication link.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2018
    Assignee: INTEL IP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Michael Faerber, Andreas Schmidt, Martin Hans, Maik Bienas
  • Patent number: 10033882
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, determining a deadline for completion of the transfer of the data content item to the mobile device. A set of locations of the mobile device is determined between the first time and the deadline, a candidate plurality of wireless base stations is identified, based on the forecasted plurality of locations, to wirelessly transfer a portion of the data content item to the mobile device during the time period. A utilization of a wireless base station of the candidate set of wireless base stations is forecasted during the time period, a transfer time is determined within the time period based on the forecasted utilization and the deadline, and the transfer time is provided to the mobile device. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Vijay Gopalakrishnan, Jeffrey Erman, Jeffrey Pang
  • Patent number: 10028199
    Abstract: Virtual beacons are virtual in that an actual beacon need not be transmitted but a rather a virtual beacon transmitter at a desired location maybe considered to transmit virtual beacons. In some embodiments a set of beacon transmitter information for one or more beacons is supplied to devices in a communications system. The beacon transmitter information indicates transmission power and location of actual and virtual beacon transmitters as well as information to be communicated by virtual beacons. Devices with access to beacon information can determine based on the location of a wireless terminal whether the wireless terminal is within coverage area of a virtual beacon and report reception of the virtual beacon to the wireless terminal or a component of the wireless terminal which acts upon receiving an indication of beacon reception.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: Mist Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Friday, Neal Dante Castagnoli, Randall Wayne Frei
  • Patent number: 10009908
    Abstract: Methods of operating a wireless terminal may be provided. A high-speed indication may be received for a cell of a network node indicating that the cell is adapted to operate in a high-speed environment, and operation of the wireless terminal may be adapted to communicate through the cell of the network node in the high-speed environment responsive to receiving the high-speed indication. Methods of operating a node of a wireless communication network may also be provided. Communication service may be provided through a cell to a plurality of wireless terminals in a high-speed environment, and a high-speed indication may be transmitted through the cell to one of the plurality of wireless terminals, with the high-speed indication indicating that the cell is adapted to operate in a high-speed environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Torgny Palenius, Peter Alriksson, Maomao Chen, Muhammad Kazmi, Christopher Callender, Joakim Axmon
  • Patent number: 10003543
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a communication device includes: a communicator, a first circuitry and a second circuitry. The communicator establishes a communication connection with a destination communication device over a communication network and to communicate a packet relating to first information using the communication connection. The first circuitry determines a transmission interval of a packet relating to second information that is different from the first information, based on characteristic information on the communication network. The second circuitry performs control to transmit the packet relating to the second information to the destination communication device using the communication connection in accordance with the transmission interval determined by the first circuitry during at least a time period when the communication connection is established and communication of the packet relating to the first information is not performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2018
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Daisuke Ajitomi, Keisuke Minami, Hiroyuki Aizu
  • Patent number: 10003367
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for communicating in a wireless network include provision of interfering signal characteristics information to a user equipment to facilitate suppression of an interfering signal present in a downlink signal being received at the user equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2018
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Alexei Davydov, Seunghee Han, Gregory Morozov, Alexander Maltsev, Ilya Bolotin
  • Patent number: 9998990
    Abstract: Examples are disclosed for techniques for allowing a wireless device to wake up a low power device while remaining compatible with other devices and wireless protocols. A first station determines that a low power device needs to wake up all or a portion of its circuitry in order to send and/or receive data from the first station. The first station sends a legacy preamble according to a standard wireless communication method such as according to IEEE 802.11 or Bluetooth addressed to the low power device. Legacy stations will recognize that a device is accessing the medium and will abstain from transmitting data during the transaction(s) between the first station and the low power device. The first station then sends a wake up payload according to a low power wireless communication method such as ASK or FSK to the low power device. The low power device recognizes the wake up payload and wakes up its main radio such as an IEEE 802.11 or Bluetooth radio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventor: Minyoung Park
  • Patent number: 9986561
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method by which a terminal sets a resource pool for device-to-device communication in a wireless communication system. Particularly, the method comprises the steps of: acquiring information on a scheduling assignment (SA) resource pool through a synchronization step with a specific terminal; detecting a resource allocation SA in the SA resource pool; receiving a first D2D data channel including a resource pool allocation message on the basis of the resource allocation SA; and setting a resource pool for a second D2D data channel including user data and/or a resource pool for a discovery signal, according to the resource pool allocation message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Hanbyul Seo, Manyoung Jung
  • Patent number: 9985740
    Abstract: Some demonstrative embodiments include apparatuses, devices, systems and methods of multi-user (MU) wireless communication. For example, a wireless station may generate a MU Physical Layer Convergence Protocol (PLCP) Protocol Data Unit (PPDU) including a header field and a plurality of Spatial Streams (SSs) of Media Access Control (MAC) Protocol Data Units (MPDUs) to a plurality of users, the header field including an indication of a plurality of modulation schemes corresponding to respective ones of the plurality of users; and process transmission of the MU PPDU to the plurality of users over a wireless communication band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: Intel IP Corporation
    Inventors: Carlos Cordeiro, Assaf Kasher, Chittabrata Chitto Ghosh
  • Patent number: 9986447
    Abstract: Embodiments of a UE and methods for D2D communication are generally described herein. The UE may transmit, as part of an in-network communication session, a D2D discovery status message. The D2D discovery status message may indicate an initiation or termination of a D2D discovery operation at the UE and may indicate if the UE is announcing or monitoring part of the D2D discovery operation. The D2D discovery operation may be at least partly for configuring a D2D communication session between the UE and one or more other UEs. The UE may transmit, as part of the D2D discovery operation, a D2D discovery signal for reception at one or more other UEs. The UE may transmit and receive D2D packets over a direct link to a second UE as part of the D2D communication session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: Intel IP Corporation
    Inventors: Youn Hyoung Heo, Pingping Zong, Alexandre Saso Stojanovski, Achim Luft
  • Patent number: 9986555
    Abstract: Disclosed is a system information transmitting method, including: in one modification period, determining a frequency domain location for transmitting a coverage enhancement system message and time domain locations for periodically transmitting a coverage enhancement system message; a base station periodically transmitting the coverage enhancement system message; and the determined frequency domain location and the time domain locations for periodically transmitting are different from the re-transmission locations of main information block (MIB) information. Also disclosed are a receiving method corresponding to the transmitting method, as well as devices corresponding to the transmitting and receiving methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Huiying Fang, Bo Dai, Shuqiang Xia, Jing Shi
  • Patent number: 9979633
    Abstract: A method is provided to control an IP core network, including first and second routers connected to an external data packet network and switches able to connect to a base station of a network for access to the first and second routers. The data packet network is able to send data streams through the IP core network destined for the terminals attached to the base station, at least one data stream currently being conveyed between the external network and at least one terminal. The method includes: establishing a rule for processing a stream by the first router, assigning the second router as backup router for the first router; transmitting to the external data packet network information relating to the assigning of the backup router; detecting an event relating to a failure of the first router; and transmitting to the backup router an established processing rule to be applied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: ORANGE
    Inventors: Sivasothy Shanmugalingam, Philippe Bertin
  • Patent number: 9974084
    Abstract: A method performed by a network node (110) for assisting cellular communications and Device-to-Device, D2D, communications of a first set of user equipments (123, 124, 125, 143 144) served by at least one neighboring network node (111, 112) in a wireless telecommunications network (100) is provided. The network node (110) determines a load on at least one Physical Radio Resource, PRR, which PRR is assigned to a second set of user equipments (121, 122, 141, 142) served by the network node (110) for cellular and/or D2D communications. The network node (101, 102) then transmits an indication of the load to the at least one neighboring network node (111, 112), wherein the load indication further indicates that the load on the at least one PRR is caused by cellular and/or D2D communications of the second set of user equipments (121, 122, 141, 142) served by the network node (110).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Gabor Fodor, Muhammad Kazmi, Yi-Pin Eric Wang
  • Patent number: 9954577
    Abstract: A system for communicating BPL signals is provided, including a BPL modem having a first internal modem and a second internal modem, the first internal modem and the second internal modem each in communication with a RF combiner; the RF combiner in communication with a medium voltage power line; and wherein the RF combiner combines signals from the first internal modem and the second internal modem into a single signal, and communicates the single signal to the medium voltage power line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: CORINEX COMMUNICATIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sam Shi, Peter Sobotka, Brian Donnelly
  • Patent number: 9948445
    Abstract: A signal processing method includes: sending a first data signal and receiving a second data signal in a first resource block (RB) of a first subframe; and sending a first reference signal according to first reference information and receiving a second reference signal according to second reference information in the first RB, where: the first reference information is different from the second reference information; the first reference information includes: a time-frequency resource location occupied by the first reference signal, and sequence information of the first reference signal; and the second reference information includes: a time-frequency resource location occupied by the second reference signal, and sequence information of the second reference signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Wen Zhang, Yongxia Lyu
  • Patent number: 9948421
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an orthogonal codes based code division multiplexing method of performing the code division multiplexing of demodulation reference signals in multiple layers of resource blocks by using orthogonal matrices, the method comprising: changing the order of chips in particular rows of a first orthogonal matrix to obtain a second orthogonal matrix with the changed order of chips; and multiplying the chips in respective rows of the second orthogonal matrix by the demodulation reference signals in corresponding layers of resource blocks correspondingly in the time direction to obtain code division multiplexing signals. The technical scheme of the present disclosure can improve the power jitter situation of downlink signals on the time, thereby the usage efficiency of the power amplifier at the base station side can be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: Sun Patent Trust
    Inventors: Zhi Zhang, Ming Xu, Masayuki Hoshino, Seigo Nakao, Daichi Imamura
  • Patent number: 9949264
    Abstract: An uplink transmission method in a wireless communication system, and a user equipment (UE) therefore, are discussed. The method includes, for example, generating uplink control information (UCI) which includes at least one of a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) acknowledgement (ACK)/negative-acknowledgement (NACK) signal, a channel quality indicator (CQI) and a scheduling request (SR); generating a reference signal (RS) based on one or more indices selected from among a set {0, 3, 6, 8, 10}; transmitting the UCI on a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH); and transmitting the generated RS for the PUCCH based on the selected one or more indices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Min Gyu Kim, Suck Chel Yang, Joon Kui Ahn, Dong Youn Seo