Patents Examined by Mohammad Adhami
  • Patent number: 10075898
    Abstract: Generation and management of a communication path between a plurality of information processing devices are properly performed. An information processing device is equipped with a communication unit and a control unit. The communication unit performs exchange of a signal for generating or updating of a multi-hop communication path using wireless communication with another information processing device. In addition, the control unit performs control for updating path information regarding the communication path set through the exchange of the signal for generating or updating of the multi-hop communication path before the path information is destroyed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nobuhiko Watanabe, Kazuyuki Sakoda, Chihiro Fujita, Yoshihiko Ikenaga
  • Patent number: 10070443
    Abstract: A wireless terminal device (30) is capable of operating both in a licensed radio frequency band and an unlicensed radio frequency band. The wireless terminal device (30) comprises processor circuitry (40) configured (1) to select a first requirement comprising at least a first rule governing utilization of the unlicensed radio frequency band and (2) to use a second requirement comprising at least a second rule for implementing the first rule of the selected first requirement. The first requirement may be a regional requirement and the second requirement may be an operator requirement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventors: Kenneth James Park, John Michael Kowalski
  • Patent number: 10064200
    Abstract: A method for receiving a PDCH is provided. The method comprises: receiving, by a UE, information identifying a plurality of resource elements that are transmitted with zero power in a resource block containing the PDCH; receiving, by the UE, a first DMRS on a first DMRS port transmitted from a first cell; and receiving, by the UE, the PDCH that is transmitted on the first DMRS port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Vahid Pourahmadi, Hua Xu, Siva Dharshan Muruganathan, Yongkang Jia, Shiwei Gao, Yi Song, Robert Mark Harrison
  • Patent number: 10033876
    Abstract: A system and method for associating an audio clip with an object is provided wherein the voice-based system, such as a voicemail system, is used to record the audio clips.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: TEXAS TECHNOLOGY VENTURES 2, LLP
    Inventors: Jarold Bowerman, David Mancini
  • Patent number: 10028325
    Abstract: The invention relates to a medical communication system, comprising at least one medical device (2a, 2b, 2c); a gateway (31) configured for establishing at least one wireless link to an access point; wherein the medical device (2a, 2b, 2c) comprises a unit (22a, 22b, 22c) for establishing a communication connection to the gateway (31) and a unit (21a, 21b, 21c) for establishing a direct wireless link to the access point, and wherein the medical device (2a, 2b, 2c) is configured to detect whether or not a communication connection to the gateway (3) is established and to set up a direct wireless communication link to the access point if a communication connection to the gateway (31) is not established, wherein the medical communication system is configured to set up a communication link between the medical device (2a, 2b, 2c) and the access point via the gateway (31) if a communication connection between the medical device (2a, 2b, 2c) and the gateway (31) is established.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: Fresenius Vial SAS
    Inventor: Frederic Couillaud
  • Patent number: 10027521
    Abstract: A transmitting apparatus, a receiving apparatus and controlling these apparatuses with regard to antenna identification information are provided. The transmitting apparatus includes: a frame generator configured to generate a plurality of frames which include a preamble symbol and a data symbol; and a transmitter configured to group a plurality of sub-carriers for the plurality of frames into a plurality of groups, insert in the plurality of frames antenna identification information controlling a sum of phase differences between the plurality of groups, calculated based on identification information about at least one external antenna of the transmitting apparatus, to be lowered than a predetermined threshold value, and transmit the plurality of frames in which the antenna identification information is inserted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignees: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION, YONSEI UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Jae-hyeon Bae, Jong-soo Seo, Hak-jin Kim, Young-ho Oh
  • Patent number: 10020901
    Abstract: An approach for inter-gateway interference estimation and admission control is provided. A gateway receives return link signals, each being received via a satellite from a respective user terminal (UT) located within a satellite beam serviced by the gateway. A transmit power factor and an interference factor are determined for each UT based on the respective return link signal. A total interference factor is determined for the UTs based on the transmit power factors and the interference factors. A residual capacity level for the satellite beam is determined based on the total interference factor and a noise power factor. The gateway receives an admission request from a further UT requesting admission for transmission of a return link signal. The gateway determines whether to grant the admission request based on a required capacity level for the return link signal of the further UT relative to the residual capacity level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Assignee: Hughes Network Systems, LLC
    Inventors: Jun Xu, James Jong, Channasandra Ravishankar
  • Patent number: 10015803
    Abstract: A control apparatus that controls the communication period length of a signal transmitted by radio obtains the first radio quality regarding the first signal and the second radio quality regarding the second signal when spatially separating and transmitting the first signal and the second signal in parallel. The apparatus determines whether the first radio quality satisfies the first level for transmitting the first signal in the first communication period length and whether the second radio quality satisfies the second level for transmitting the second signal in the second communication period length. In a case where the first radio quality does not satisfy the first level or the second radio quality does not satisfy the second level, the apparatus extends the communication period length of a signal having a smaller communication period length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Daisuke Horio
  • Patent number: 10015833
    Abstract: A communication device for RNTI allocation comprises a processing means, for executing a program, and a storage unit, coupled to the processing means, for storing the program which instructs the processing means to perform the steps: connecting to a first base station, receiving a first RNTI assigned by the first base station, receiving a RRC message including a second RNTI for communication with a second base station from the first base station, transmitting a RRC message response to the first base station, performing communication with the first base station with the first RNTI and communication with the second base station with the second RNTI, transmitting a random access preamble to the second base station, receiving a random access response from the second base station, transmitting a scheduled transmission containing the second RNTI to the second base station, and receiving a contention resolution message from the second base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignee: HTC Corporation
    Inventor: Chih-Hsiang Wu
  • Patent number: 10009188
    Abstract: Methods and nodes (200, 202) in a data distribution network, for distributing content to multiple consuming nodes (C1, C2, C3, . . . ). A first node (200) detects (2:2) multiple data flows (2:1b) of a first content from the first node to a second node (202) in the distribution network, when the first node operates as delivering node of the first content for the consuming nodes. The first node then instructs (2:4) the second node to operate as delivering node of the first content for the consuming nodes and redirects (2:5) the consuming nodes to use the second node as delivering node of the first content. The first node further reduces (2:6) the multiple data flows to a common data flow of the first content to the second node. Thereby, efficiency can be improved in the data distribution network by reducing the number of data flows between the first and second nodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Stefan Hellkvist, Joacim Halén, Jan-Erik Mångs
  • Patent number: 10003982
    Abstract: A method for transmitting data, the method including receiving data from one or more data units, determining a total data rate based on data obtained from the one or more data units, determining an optimum data rate for packet transmission based on minimizing overhead data included in the packet transmission where, when the total data rate exceeds a predetermined threshold, a first portion of data is automatically removed from the data obtained from the one or more data units for placement in a data storage buffer and a second portion of the data obtained from the one or more data units remains in the packet transmission such that the total data rate is decreased and transmitting the second portion of the data obtained from the one or more data units at the optimum data rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2018
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Chen J. Chang, Amir L. Liaghati, Mahsa L. Liaghati
  • Patent number: 9992272
    Abstract: A cloud computing system retrieves routing entries associated with a particular tenant of the cloud computing system and are a subset of a routing table of the entire cloud computing system. The routing entries are loaded into a networking switch, which is configured to route network packets using the loaded subset of routing entries, using a general-purpose processor rather than a costly dedicated ASIC.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: VMware, Inc.
    Inventors: Serge Maskalik, Weiqing Wu, Debashis Basak, Sachin Thakkar, Govind Haridas
  • Patent number: 9979663
    Abstract: Technology is disclosed herein for monitoring a network path. In an implementation, a device on a network path obtains a burst capacity of the network path, determines a round trip time associated with a burst of traffic sent over the network path, and determines a predicted throughput of the network path based at least in part on the burst capacity of the network path and the rount trip time of the burst of traffic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: Accedian Networks Inc.
    Inventor: Claude Robitaille
  • Patent number: 9979621
    Abstract: A method to provide a cyber attack resistant and fault tolerant precision clocking scheme for wide area critical infrastructure networks through what is called Distributed Time Source Validation, DTSV, is provided, which is a distributed algorithm and signaling mechanism for a network to detect a compromised time source or sources in a multiple master clock system. The method includes providing a local clock signal, receiving in a node R1 an external clock signal from an external source, C or S1, estimating based on the local clock signal and the external clock signal timing parameters associated with the first node and the external source, comparing the timing parameters to detect any Mutual Clock Discrepancy (MCD) between the first node and the external source, and distributing any detected MCD in the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: NET INSIGHT INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AB
    Inventor: Magnus Danielsson
  • Patent number: 9974074
    Abstract: Time-division duplexing (TDD) in distributed communications systems, including distributed antenna systems (DASs) is disclosed. In one embodiment, a control circuit is provided and configured to control the TDD transmit mode of a DAS to control the allocation of time slots for uplink and downlink communications signal distribution in respective uplink path(s) and downlink path(s). The control circuit includes separate power detectors configured to detect either a transmit power level in a downlink path or a receive power level in an uplink path. If the transmit power detected in the downlink path is greater than receive power detected in the uplink path, the control circuit switches the TDD transmit mode to the downlink direction. In this manner, the control circuit does not have to control the TDD transmit mode based solely on detected power in the downlink path, where a directional coupler may leak uplink power in the downlink path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: Corning Optical Communications Wireless Ltd
    Inventors: Dror Ben-Shlomo, Isaac Shapira
  • Patent number: 9954772
    Abstract: Various techniques for source imposition of network routes are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving label values at a source host from a label server. The individual label values corresponding to a network route to one of the hosts or network nodes in the computing network. The method also includes constructing a label stack to reach a destination virtual machine on a destination computing device in the computing network based on the received label values corresponding to the destination computing device and a location of the source computing device in the computing network. The method also includes imposing the constructed label stack on a packet destined to the destination virtual machine on the destination computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Benjamin Black, Dawn Cseh, Tim LaBerge, Edet Nkposong
  • Patent number: 9942136
    Abstract: This application discloses a packet processing method and an LSR. The method includes: receiving, by an Ingress LSR of a first MPLS tunnel, a first notification packet that is based on an IGP, where the first notification packet includes an ELC flag, which is used to indicate that the first Egress LSR has ELC; after learning from the first notification packet that the first Egress LSR has ELC, inserting a label into a first packet, to generate a second packet, where the label forms an MPLS label stack, which includes, from bottom to top, a first EL, a first ELI, and a first TL; and sending the second packet to the first Egress LSR through the first MPLS tunnel. According to the solutions of this invention, a Transit LSR of the first MPLS tunnel may perform load balancing when forwarding the second packet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Xiaohu Xu
  • Patent number: 9930647
    Abstract: Embodiments of an enhanced Node B (eNB) and method for RRC connection establishment for small-data transfers in a 3GPP LTE network are generally described herein. The eNB may receive a small-data RRC connection request message from user equipment (UE) that may include an establishment clause value indicating small-data traffic either with or without mobility. The eNB may send an initial UE setup request message to inform the mobility management entity (MME) that a small-data RRC connection is being established. The eNB may receive an acceptance message from the MME for the small-data RRC connection which may include a reduction of an RRC inactivity timer for fast connection release. The eNB may send an RRC connection reconfiguration message to the UE in response to receipt of the acceptance to establish the small-data RRC connection, the RRC connection reconfiguration message including a measurement information element (IE) when mobility is to be supported.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: Intel IP Corporation
    Inventors: Ali T. Koc, Maruti Gupta, Rath Vannithamby, Satish Chandra Jha
  • Patent number: 9930632
    Abstract: A method, device, system and a computer storage medium for remote registration of a Machine-to-Machine (M2M) application are provided. The method includes that: a local Common Service Entity (CSE) receives a first registration request message from the M2M application, reads a CSE list in the remote registration parameter when determining that the first registration request message includes a remote registration parameter and determining an activation indication parameter in the remote registration parameter represents that remote registration is required to be executed, and sends a second registration request message corresponding to the first registration request message according to the CSE list when it is determined that the CSE list is not empty and target CSEs in the CSE list have been registered on the local CSE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventor: Hao Wu
  • Patent number: 9917927
    Abstract: A first Core Network (CN) node (e.g., Gateway GPRS Support Node), a second CN node (e.g., Serving GPRS Support Node) and a wireless access node (e.g., Base Station Subsystem) are described herein that are configured to efficiently deliver a network triggered report notification to a wireless device (e.g., Internet of Things device).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET L M ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Olof Liberg, Paul Schliwa-Bertling, Ravitej Ballakur, John Walter Diachina