Patents Examined by Peter Solinsky
  • Patent number: 9247460
    Abstract: A method for performing link adaptation in association with scheduling a data channel for a cell in a base station of a cellular communication system, and an arrangement, suitable for performing such a method. The link adaptation method has link adaptation optimization purpose which is achieved by updating a link adaptation parameter on the basis of the load on the data channel and on the basis of the load of a control channel controlling the data channel in the cell. The method obtains a better trade-off between the spectral efficiency and the delay, due to re-transmissions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET L M ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Erik Eriksson, Kristina Jersenius
  • Patent number: 9237568
    Abstract: A method of transmitting control information for a relay node (RN) from an eNode B in a wireless communication system includes transmitting information on a resource region of at least one relay-physical downlink control channel (R-PDCCH) including the control information for the RN and interleaving mode information on an interleaving mode applied to the at least one R-PDCCH to the RN, wherein the resource region of the at least one R-PDCCH is RN-specifically configured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Kyu Jin Park, Sung Ho Moon, Yeong Hyeon Kwon, Jae Hoon Chung
  • Patent number: 9231750
    Abstract: Described herein are systems and methods for reducing power consumption, latency, and chip complexity in a datacom/telecom multiplexer and demultiplexer. Adding a high frequency analog domain data path around or in place of a standard digital core data path allows the elimination of the demultiplexing and multiplexing stages required to drop the data rate of data streams down to that required for a standard digital core. Latency is also reduced due to the higher operating frequency of sequential elements required for data operations. The digital core can be powered down when not in use, and can be activated when necessary.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: Semtech Corporation
    Inventor: Paul Spencer Milton
  • Patent number: 9226338
    Abstract: In various aspects of this disclosure, a communication terminal device may be provided. The communication terminal device may include a receiver. The receiver may be configured to receive a message from a first communication device. The communication terminal device may further include a circuit configured to provide a communication device to communication device communication. The communication terminal device may further include a controller. The controller may be configured to determine whether to relay the received message to at least one second communication device. The controller may further be configured to modify the message if the controller determined to relay the received message. The controller may further be configured to relay and transmit the modified message to the at least one second communication device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignee: Intel Mobile Communications GmbH
    Inventor: Frank Kowalewski
  • Patent number: 9215704
    Abstract: As channel state information of multiple nodes in a multiple node system, the present invention relates to a method and a device for transmitting and receiving information showing a correlation between said multiple nodes. Also, the present invention relates to a method and a device for transmitting and receiving a Channel Quality Indication (CQI), in consideration of signal through transmitted by multiple nodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Binchul Ihm, Jinyoung Chun, Kitae Kim, Sunam Kim, Jiwon Kang, Sungho Park
  • Patent number: 9198101
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a wireless communication system, more specifically to a method for transmitting control information and a device therefor. The wireless communication system can support carrier aggregation. The present invention relates to a method for transmitting information from a terminal to a base station in a wireless communication system, which includes a step for receiving first information for cross carrier scheduling through at least one primary cell among serving cells formed in a terminal from the base station, and a step for transmitting second information about a secondary cell related to at least one first information among serving cells to the base station through an uplink resource of the primary cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Seungmin Lee, Hakseong Kim, Hanbyul Seo
  • Patent number: 9191163
    Abstract: Systems and methods which provide data communication content delivery through a hybrid network implementation are disclosed. A hybrid network configuration may utilize a broadcast communication technique to deliver large amounts of data communication content to one or more mobile communication device via uni-directional network links and a uni-cast communication technique via bi-directional network links with the one or more mobile communication device to facilitate delivery and utilization of the data communication content. Data content delivery loss recovery techniques implemented according to embodiments of the invention utilize network links of the hybrid network other than or in addition to the uni-directional network links to implement loss recovery techniques such as a hybrid repeat technique, a hybrid retransmission technique, hybrid statistical feedback technique, and/or combinations thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: CMMB Vision USA Inc.
    Inventor: Hui Liu
  • Patent number: 9184896
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to inhibit an increase in the amount of A/N resources, without changing the timing at which the error detection result of an SCell is notified when UL-DL configurations to be configured for each of the unit bands are different, from the timing at which the error detection result is notified when just a single unit band is configured. A control unit (208) transmits, using a first unit band, a response signal including error detection results about data received with both the first unit band and a second unit band. In a first composition pattern set for the first unit band, an uplink communication subframe is set to be the same timing as at least an uplink communication subframe of a second composition pattern set for the second unit band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Toru Oizumi, Daichi Imamura, Akihiko Nishio, Hidetoshi Suzuki
  • Patent number: 9185025
    Abstract: A primary border node (BN) and a standby BN are provided for internetworking two network domains, such that connectivity between the two network domains is maintained when a failure occurs in one of the network domains. The two network domains include an access network that implements MPLS-TP and a core network that implements IP, MPLS, or a combination of both. The primary BN establishes a tunnel from itself to the standby BN, and re-directs network data traffic from itself to the standby BN via the tunnel when it detects that an access node has switched connection from the primary VN to the standby BN. The primary BN also monitors its connections to the core network, and signals access nodes to switch to the standby BN if a failure is detected in these connections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET L M ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Sriganesh Kini, Hector Avalos
  • Patent number: 9184889
    Abstract: A method and network element for providing reference signals to a user equipment, the method determining a reference signal pattern at the network element; and sending the reference signals to the user equipment using a reference signal mapping based on the reference signal pattern. Further a method and user equipment for receiving reference signals from a network element, the method determining a reference signal mapping at the user equipment; and detecting the reference signals at the user equipment using the reference signal mapping.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Joon Beom Kim, Yi Song, Zhijun Cai
  • Patent number: 9185690
    Abstract: An evolved Node B (eNB) for allocating resources for a device-to-device (D2D) link between User Equipments (UEs) is described. The eNB includes a processor and instructions stored in memory that is in electronic communication with the processor. The eNB allocates resources for a D2D signal. The D2D signal is transmitted or received by the UE in uplink spectrum in a case of Frequency Division Duplexing (FDD) or in uplink subframes in a case of Time Division Duplexing (TDD).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Ahmad Khoshnevis, Shohei Yamada, Zhanping Yin, John M. Kowalski
  • Patent number: 9178812
    Abstract: Presented herein are techniques useful in a network comprising a plurality of network nodes each configured to apply one or more service functions to traffic that passes through the respective network nodes. A network node receives packets encapsulated in a service header that includes information defining a variable set of context headers stacked into an association of metadata that is relevant to one or more service functions within a service path comprised of one or more network nodes. The network node interprets a forwarding state and a next-hop network node for the service path from the service header, and determines a service action or associated metadata from the set of context headers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: James Guichard, Paul Quinn, David Ward, Surendra Kumar, Nagaraj A. Bagepalli, Michael R. Smith, Navindra Yadav
  • Patent number: 9178670
    Abstract: In the transmission of user data for a user equipment and control information on the user data to the user equipment using a plurality of carrier waves by a base station in a wireless communication system, the control information can be transmitted over a portion of the plurality of carrier waves, and carrier waves over which only the user data is transmitted can be generated without the control information. Here, the base station transmits, at a certain number of subframes following the subframes at which the control information is transmitted, the user data over the carrier waves to which only the user data is allocated. Thus, the user equipment can minimize the buffering of the user data during the detection of the control information, and decode the user data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Moon Il Lee, Seung Hee Han, Jae Hoon Chung, Kyu Jin Park
  • Patent number: 9178819
    Abstract: The invention relates to a learning-based method for loop avoidance in a packet switched communication network. In one embodiment, this is accomplished by configuring each communication device to maintain a table of unique identifiers, where the unique identifiers include Media Access Control (MAC) address, MAC and Virtual Local Area Network (VLAN) address, Internet Protocol (IP) address or any other unique device identifier, receiving one or more data packet on one or more port of the device, checking the table for unique source identifier of the received data packet, determining whether the received data packet is received from the same port of the device as in the table against the corresponding entry, and updating learned time entry with current system clock time of the device and forwarding the data packet to the next communication device if the packet is received from the same port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: Tejas Networks Limited
    Inventor: Sinha Puneet
  • Patent number: 9167609
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices for communicating a compressed beacon are described herein. In some aspects, a method of communicating in a wireless network includes transmitting, at an access point, a full beacon at a first multiple of a beacon interval. The method further includes transmitting a compressed beacon at each beacon interval that is not the first multiple of the beacon interval. Another method of communicating in a wireless network includes receiving, at a wireless device, a full beacon at a first multiple of a beacon interval. The method further includes receiving a compressed beacon at a beacon interval that is not the first multiple of the beacon interval.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Santosh Paul Abraham, Guido Robert Frederiks, Simone Merlin, Maarten Menzo Wentink
  • Patent number: 9167470
    Abstract: A method of handling signaling congestion for a machine type communication (MTC) device and/or a MTC server in a wireless communication system is disclosed. The method comprises receiving system information from a network; and stopping a triggering operation in a communication window according to the system information, wherein the system information indicates occurrence of a signaling congestion situation in the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: HTC Corporation
    Inventor: Ching-Yu Liao
  • Patent number: 9154414
    Abstract: An apparatus configured to route packets over networks may be configured to determine whether a packet is valid prior to routing a received packet. The apparatus may receive the packet on one of a plurality of interfaces. The apparatus may identify the interface on which the packet is received and also a source of the packet. Additionally, the apparatus may access a bundle of acceptable interfaces on which a packet from the source may be received. The number of acceptable interfaces may be greater than a single interface, but less that all of the interfaces of the apparatus configured to receive packets from over the networks. If the interface on which the packet is received is an acceptable interface identified by the bundle, then the packet is valid and routed to a next location. Otherwise, the packet is determined to be invalid and dropped.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Clayton Seaman-Kossmeyer, Dario Nicolas Ciccarone
  • Patent number: 9148272
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. More particularly, the present invention relates to a method and to an apparatus for the method, wherein the method is configured such that a base station, in which cross-carrier scheduling through a first component carrier (CC) is set, transmits a downlink signal in a TDD wireless communication system in which the first CC and a second CC are aggregated, wherein the method comprises a step of transmitting a control channel signal during a specific subframe timing during which the second CC is set as a downlink. The transmitting step involves transmitting the control channel signal through a control channel region of the first CC when the first CC is set as a downlink in the specific subframe timing, and transmitting the control channel signal through a control channel region of the second CC when the first CC is set as an uplink during the specific subframe timing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2015
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Suckchel Yang, Joonkui Ahn, Dongyoun Seo
  • Patent number: 9143444
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a system includes a TRILL-enabled network that includes a first physical routing bridge (RB) and a second physical RB, logic adapted for creating a virtual RB logically connected to the first and second physical RBs to form a vLAG group at an edge of the network, logic adapted for determining a first distribution tree linking the first physical RB to every other RB in the network in a non-repeating fashion, ending with the second physical RB, and logic adapted for determining a second distribution tree linking the second physical RB to every other RB in the network in a non-repeating fashion, ending with the first physical RB, wherein when a multicast packet is received by the virtual RB from one of the physical RBs, the multicast packet is distributed according to either the first or the second distribution tree thereby preventing looping.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Meenakshi R. Kaushik, Chandramouli Radhakrishnan, Venkatesan Selvaraj, Daljeet Singh
  • Patent number: 9137781
    Abstract: A method of handling hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) acknowledgement responses in a network of a wireless communication system is disclosed. The method comprises selecting a plurality of communication devices of the wireless communication system when the plurality of communication devices conform to a specified rule; and always responding positive HARQ acknowledgement messages to the plurality of communication devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2015
    Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Chien-Min Lee, Chia-Pang Yen