Patents Examined by Shaq Taha
  • Patent number: 9584402
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer program products for transmitting data between devices are disclosed. A device may utilize a standardized communication system (“SCS”) to transmit data directly between devices including an SCS. The SCS may discover available devices. The SCS may determine available transmission paths between a first device and a second device. The SCS may select a transmission path between the first device and the second device, and the SCS may transmit data from the first device to the second device using a standardized communication protocol (“SCP”).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: Fasetto, LLC
    Inventors: Coy Christmas, Luke Malpass
  • Patent number: 9578658
    Abstract: An apparatus, method, and system to provide a backoff method and device used for a lower priority access category AC. The method includes: when the lower priority AC and another AC in a same station STA obtain a transmission opportunity TXOP at the same time and an internal collision occurs, detecting a TXOP sharing state of the lower priority AC; and executing backoff of the lower priority AC according to the detected TXOP sharing state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xun Yang, Yunbo Li, Tianyu Wu, Hufei Zhu
  • Patent number: 9577918
    Abstract: A system and algorithm configured to generate diversity at the traffic source so that packets are uniformly distributed over all of the available paths, but to increase the likelihood of taking a minimal path with each hop the packet takes. This is achieved by configuring routing biases so as to prefer non-minimal paths at the injection point, but increasingly prefer minimal paths as the packet proceeds, referred to herein as Increasing Minimal Bias (IMB).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: Cray Inc.
    Inventors: Abdulla Bataineh, Thomas Court, Duncan Roweth
  • Patent number: 9578498
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses are provided for facilitating authentication of access terminal identities and for recording a usage relationship between a valid access terminal identity and a user identity. An access terminal and a validation server are both provisioned with corresponding validation keys. The access terminal may determine that a user identity is not recorded for use with the access terminal, and may send a report message to report a usage relationship between the access terminal identity and the user identity, where the report message is signed with a signature based on the validation key. The validation server authenticates the signature using the validation key in the validation server. The validation server may record the usage relationship between the authenticated access terminal identity and the user identity in a database, which database records may be employed to determine whether an access terminal requesting network access is authorized or unauthorized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Zhimin Du, Yan Li
  • Patent number: 9571258
    Abstract: A system and process that incorporates teachings of the subject disclosure may include, for example, an interference monitor configured to detect occurrences of unintended signals within a communications link. A communications link may carry a down-converted format of a satellite signal from an earth terminal to an integrated receiver and decoder for further network distribution. Depending upon the nature of any such detected unintended signals, the communications link can be “swapped out” for a redundant communications link carrying a down-converted format of the same satellite signal obtained by way of a redundant earth terminal. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Douglas Medina, Ronald Jones, Michael Peck
  • Patent number: 9565132
    Abstract: Described are embodiments of methods, apparatuses, and systems for multi-protocol tunneling across a multi-protocol I/O interconnect of computer apparatus. A multi-protocol I/O interconnect may include a switching fabric operatively coupled to a first protocol-specific controller and a second protocol-specific controller, and may be configured to simultaneously route packets of the first protocol to the first protocol-specific controller and packets of the second protocol to the second protocol-specific controller. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Prashant R. Chandra, Kevin C. Kahn
  • Patent number: 9560592
    Abstract: A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for wireless communication are provided. The apparatus receives an LDCS configuration for a UE relay from a second entity and monitors for an LDCS from the UE relay based on the received LDCS configuration. The second entity may comprise one of an LPN that is not in a dormant state and a Macro cell. The apparatus may receive LDCS configurations for a plurality of LPNs and monitor for a plurality of LPNs based on the received LDCS configurations. When the apparatus determines a need to connect to a LPN, the apparatus may select an LPN among the plurality of LPNs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Hao Xu, Durga Prasad Malladi, Yongbin Wei, Peter Gaal, Wanshi Chen, Aleksandar Damnjanovic, Tao Luo
  • Patent number: 9553932
    Abstract: A method and system for providing IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) session continuity to a User Equipment (UE) across a plurality of communication networks is provided. The UE traverses from a first communication network to a second communication network. A public user identity associated with a private user identity of the UE is registered with the first communication network by using a first address. The method includes generating (404) a complimentary private user identity associated with the public user identity. The method also includes obtaining (406) a second address from the second communication network when the UE traverses from the first communication network to the second communication network. Moreover, the method includes registering (408) the public user identity associated with the complimentary private user identity with the first communication network by using the second address.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2017
    Assignee: Google Technology Holdings LLC
    Inventors: Srisankar S. Kunniyur, Irfan Ali
  • Patent number: 9554242
    Abstract: In a zigbee network, reliable communications are provided by maintaining messages transmitted from a device in a message queue in the device. If no successful acknowledgement is received for a transmitted message, the message is re-transmitted when the message queue executes. Messages are deleted from the queue when the message is successfully transmitted or when a maximum number of re-tries has been exhausted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2017
    Assignee: AMX LLC
    Inventors: James Roger Hargrave, Kelvin Hui Xu, David Alan Escamilla
  • Patent number: 9553820
    Abstract: A plurality of packets that belong to a data flow are received and are distributed to two or more packet processing elements, wherein a packet is sent to a first packet processing element. A first instance of the packet is queued at a first packet processing element according to an order of the packet within the data flow. The first instance of the packet is caused to be transmitted when processing of the first instance is completed and the first instance of the packet is at a head of a queue at the first ordering unit. A second instance of the packet is queued at a second ordering unit. The second instance of the packet is caused to be transmitted when processing of the second instance is completed and the second instance of the packet is at a head of a queue at the second ordering unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2017
    Assignee: Marvell Israel (M.L.S.L) Ltd.
    Inventors: Evgeny Shumsky, Gil Levy, Adar Peery, Amir Roitshtein
  • Patent number: 9544109
    Abstract: A method and a system of setting up a reference signal in a radio communication system are disclosed. The radio communication system includes a serving cell and a neighboring cell, and a mobile terminal of the serving cell uses the same temporal frequency resource to receive a serving resource block from the serving cell and an interference resource block from the neighboring cell. The method includes setting up a user-specific reference signal in the interference resource block and puncturing at the same temporal frequency position as the temporal frequency position at which the user-specific reference signal is set up on the interference resource block of the serving resource block to prevent any signal from being transmitted at the punctured temporal frequency position. When the method and the system are used and the interference power between cells is measured, it is possible to effectively reduce feedback overhead in a coordinated beamforming.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: Sun Patent Trust
    Inventors: Hui Tong, Ming Xu, Masayuki Hoshino, Daichi Imamura
  • Patent number: 9544901
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for receiving available channel information in a wireless LAN system. According to one aspect of the present invention, in a method in which a first station (STA) receives available channel information in a wireless LAN system, wherein the first station operates as an unlicensed device that is allowed to operate in an available channel not used by a licensed device in a white space band, the first station receives, from a second station, a frame including an operating class field, a channel number field and a maximum transmission power field, and operates in the channel indicated by the operating class field and the channel number field, wherein said operating class field and said channel number field indicate the available channel which can be used by the unlicensed device, and said maximum transmission power field indicates the maximum transmission power permitted in the available channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Eun Sun Kim, Byoung Hoon Kim, Yong Ho Seok
  • Patent number: 9537589
    Abstract: A method and apparatus of detecting a frame boundary by using a preamble are provided. The method includes delaying the preamble by a predetermined length of time, wherein the preamble includes an LTF and a code of the (n+1)th one of 2n sync sequences of the LTF is the inverse of a code of the last one of the sync sequences of STF; calculating a correlation value between the preamble and the delayed preamble; and detecting a frame boundary by comparing the correlation value with a threshold correlation value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Byoung Hak Kim, Jaehwan Kim, Mi Kyung Oh, Cheol-ho Shin, Sangsung Choi
  • Patent number: 9532187
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method and apparatus for transmitting using an interleaver applied to a PPDU in a HE WLAN. In an aspect of the present invention, a method for transmitting data to a plurality of STAs through transmission channel by an AP in a WLAN system, wherein the transmission channel is divided into a plurality of subchannels which are allocated to the plurality of STAs respectively, the method may include interleaving a plurality of data units for the plurality of STAs based on characteristics of the plurality of subchannels allocated to the plurality of STAs to generate a plurality of interleaved data units; and transmitting, through the transmission channel, a Physical layer Protocol Data Unit (PPDU) frame including the plurality of interleaved data units respectively on the plurality of subchannels to the plurality of STAs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: NEWRACOM, INC.
    Inventor: Yongho Seok
  • Patent number: 9532252
    Abstract: Techniques for monitoring and diagnosing states of wireless network elements having a known impact on uplink interference are presented. In an aspect, a method includes receiving, by a system including a processor, diagnostic data for a cellular network including strength data representative of strengths of radio frequency signals, prior to demodulation, respectively received at a plurality of antennas of a base station of the cellular network over a defined duration of time and at a defined sampling rate. The method further includes, based on analyzing the strength data by the system, determining by the system, a state of a network element of the cellular network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: Srikanth Hariharan, Ernest Tsui, Christopher M. Riley, Bo Ji, Xiaojun Tang
  • Patent number: 9525611
    Abstract: One embodiment includes a system. The system includes a receiver configured to extract a timestamp from a header of each packet of a data stream received from a network and to de-packetize the data stream to provide a stream of data blocks. The timestamp can correspond to generation of each data block associated with each respective packet of the data stream according to a global timebase. The system also includes a delay controller configured to measure a delay associated with each packet of the data stream based on the timestamp relative to the global timebase and to control converting the data stream to a corresponding analog output signal for transmission based on the measured delay.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2016
    Assignee: Imagine Communications Corp.
    Inventors: Junius A. Kim, Keyur R. Parikh
  • Patent number: 9525509
    Abstract: A data transmission device where a low-speed signal transmission frame is included in time slots of a high-speed signal transmission frame and a number of the time slots to include the low-speed signal transmission frame is variable, wherein the time slots have respective time slot numbers, includes a storage unit storing signal data of the high-speed signal transmission frame corresponding to the number of the time slots based on a time slot number basis, wherein the signal data of the high-speed signal transmission frame are supplied on the time slot number basis; and a selection and output unit selecting and sequentially outputting the signal data on the time slot number basis, wherein the signal data have been stored in accordance with the number of the time slots.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2016
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Hidetaka Kawahara, Junichi Sugiyama, Wataru Odashima, Shota Shinohara, Hiroyuki Homma
  • Patent number: 9509636
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a management of multicast traffic within a wireless mesh network. In some embodiments, a wireless mesh network includes a plurality of mesh nodes and a central server in communication with at least one of the mesh nodes of the plurality of mesh nodes. In some embodiments, the central server is configured to generate one or more rules for at least one of the mesh nodes to enable a change in a pre-routing parameter in a packet header. In some embodiments, the central server includes a rules-based engine configured to generate and convey one or more traffic shaping rules in response to sensing traffic conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: Vivint, Inc.
    Inventor: Venkat Kalkunte
  • Patent number: 9510236
    Abstract: A system comprising: at least one network modem configured to communicate wirelessly with at least one base station; and a subsystem configured to provide data packets to the at least one network modem to be transmitted wirelessly to the at least one base station, the subsystem comprising at least one video encoder configured to receive at least one input video signal and provide at least some of the data packets based on the at least one input video signal, wherein the at least one network modem is further configured to: engage in an authentication protocol with the subsystem; and process the data packets received from the subsystem based at least in part on whether the subsystem successfully completes the authentication protocol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: Accelerated Media Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Dudley C. Freeman, Scott David Blanchard, Andrew George Lillie, Ciro Aloisio Noronha, William Anthony Slattery, Thomas P. Jennings, Steven Paul DeFala
  • Patent number: 9503272
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes discovering at a first edge device in a first network that a multicast source has moved from the first network to a second network, the first edge device in communication through a core network with a plurality of edge devices belonging to a multicast group comprising the multicast source, transmitting from the first edge device to a second edge device in the second network, a join request for the multicast group comprising the multicast source at the second network, receiving multicast traffic for the multicast group at the first edge device on a transient multicast tree extending from the second edge device to the plurality of edge devices, and forwarding the multicast traffic to the plurality of edge devices. An apparatus and logic are also disclosed herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2016
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Fang Yang, Kathy Xia Ke, Isidoros Kouvelas, Christian Cassar