Patents Examined by Shripal Khajuria
  • Patent number: 9307498
    Abstract: The exemplary embodiments describe a method for use in a user equipment, a method for use in a radio base station; a user equipment and a radio base station. According to the exemplary embodiments, the user equipment is configured to decide on application or not of a power reduction and to indicate it decision in a power headroom report intended for transmission to the radio base station. The radio base station is configured to receive the power headroom report and based on the indicated information in the received power headroom report, the base station in made aware of an additional or special power backoff (e.g. to fulfill SAR requirements) has been applied and thereby able to distinguish it from normal power backoff or power reduction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Robert Baldemair, Lisa Boström, Henning Wiemann
  • Patent number: 9305062
    Abstract: A method for a computer system includes receiving a first user communication, determining a first group of users, determining a target number of users, determining whether the first group of users includes the target number of users, and if not, providing the communication to the first group of users, determining a hierarchal mapping of groups of users in response to user memberships, determining a second group of users from the hierarchal mapping, determining a plurality of social network relationship factors for the second group of users with respect to the first user, and providing the communication to at least a subset of users in the second group of users in response to the first plurality of social network relationship factors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignee: LinkedIn Corporation
    Inventors: Brian Lawler, Elliot Loh, Paul J. Martino, Mark Pincus
  • Patent number: 9299114
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to messaging and provide a method, system and computer program product for business object integration with messaging. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for messaging integration of a business object can be provided. The method can include embedding a business object in message text in a messaging session provided by a messenger, and applying an action to the business object from within the messaging session of the instant messenger. The method further can include indexing the messaging session with keywords in the message text and tags for the business object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: John R. Hind, Naveenkumar V. Muguda
  • Patent number: 9300582
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a packet at an edge device in a first network site in communication with a second network site through a transport network, the packet comprising a destination address for a host at the second network site, verifying at the edge device a connection with the host, and inserting the destination address in a forwarding information base at the edge device upon verifying the connection with the host. An apparatus and logic are also disclosed herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Hasmit Grover, Dhananjaya Rao, Victor Moreno
  • Patent number: 9300477
    Abstract: A method begins by a processing module sending a transaction verification request to the set of dispersed storage (DS) units, wherein the transaction verification request includes a transaction number that corresponds to a particular dispersed storage network (DSN) access request. The method continues with the processing module receiving transaction verification responses from at least some of the set of DS units to produce received transaction verification responses. The method continues with the processing module identifying an undesired condition with processing the DSN access request and initiating a corrective remedy for the undesired condition when a DS unit of the set of DS units does not provide a desired transaction verification response.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignee: CLEVERSAFE, INC.
    Inventors: Jason K. Resch, Greg Dhuse, Andrew Baptist
  • Patent number: 9294336
    Abstract: Provided is a router including a network interface that communicates with a network, a first communication interface that communicates with a mobile communication interface of a wireless communication device through a mobile communication control station, a second communication interface that communicates with a wireless LAN interface of the wireless communication device through a wireless LAN control station, and a conversion unit that converts an origin address of one of data to the network received from the mobile communication interface and data to the network received from the wireless LAN interface into an origin address of another one of the data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Nishiki Mizusawa, Kotaro Takagi
  • Patent number: 9294578
    Abstract: Membership in a social network is virally expanded by suggesting to a user to invite contacts from the user's address book and, in addition, eligible contacts from other address books. Eligible contacts from other address books include those contacts that have e-mail addresses with the same e-mail domain as the user's e-mail address.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Assignee: Yammer, Inc.
    Inventors: David Oliver Sacks, Adam Marc Pisoni
  • Patent number: 9288134
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for network architecture that is a server-centric network architectural design.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Chuanxiong Guo, Guohan Lv, Dan Li, Haitao Wu, Yunfeng Shi, Danfeng Zhang, Yongguang Zhang, Songwu Lu
  • Patent number: 9282042
    Abstract: In a network including a plurality of nodes, a node transmits data to another node, receives data from another node, and stores a communication history between a plurality of other nodes and the node itself. When an acknowledge response to data transmitted to a first node among the plurality of other nodes is not received, the node generates a duplicate data of the transmitted data. When a duplication report indicating detection of duplicate data transmitted to a second node among the plurality of other nodes has been received from one of the plurality of other nodes, the node refers to the communication history, and identifies the first node as a cause of generation of the duplicate data. Thereafter, the node generates a check request that include a communication history between the first node and the node itself and that requests the first node to check the communication history.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventor: Jun Ibuki
  • Patent number: 9281926
    Abstract: To provide a radio base station apparatus and radio communication method capable of performing radio communications using downlink reference signal structures suitable for antenna virtualization, a radio base station apparatus (200) has a plurality of transmission antennas, generates CRSs used in demodulation of at least downlink control information, CQI-RSs generated for each of the transmission antennas used in measurement of channel quality, and DM-RSs generated for each stream used in demodulation of downlink transmission data, and multiplexes the CRSs, CQI-RSs and DM-RSs into a same transmission time unit to transmit from each of the antennas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yoshihisa Kishiyama, Hidekazu Taoka, Mamoru Sawahashi
  • Patent number: 9277458
    Abstract: A device receives roaming information associated with a user equipment (UE), a current eNodeB conducting a current Internet protocol (IP) session with the UE, and a plurality of eNodeBs that are neighboring the current eNodeB. The device also selects, based on the roaming information and from the plurality of eNodeBs, an optimal eNodeB to which to handover the UE, and establishes a preemptive IP session with the optimal eNodeB. The device further initiates a handover of the current IP session and the UE from the current eNodeB to the optimal eNodeB, where the current eNodeB acts as an anchoring point for a bearer path associated with the UE during the handover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: VERIZON PATENT AND LICENSING INC.
    Inventors: Samir Ait-Ameur, Imtiyaz Shaikh
  • Patent number: 9276864
    Abstract: Information about the transmission of packets or other information can be inferred based at least in part upon the state of one or more queues used to transmit that information. In a networking example, a hook can be added to a free buffer API call from a queue of a NIC driver. When a packet is transmitted and a buffer freed, the hook can cause information for that packet to be transmitted to an appropriate location, such as a network traffic control component or control plane component, whereby that information can be compared with packet, source, and other such information to infer which packets have been transmitted, which packets are pending, and other such information. This information can be used for various purposes, such as to dynamically adjust the allocation of a resource (e.g., a NIC) to various sources based at least in part upon the monitored behavior.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Pradeep Vincent
  • Patent number: 9276791
    Abstract: A method of transmitting a Physical Layer Convergence Procedure (PLCP) frame in a Very High Throughput (VHT) Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) system includes generating a MAC Protocol Data Unit (MPDU) to be transmitted to a destination station (STA), generating a PLCP Protocol Data Unit (PPDU) by adding a PLCP header, including an L-SIG field containing control information for a legacy STA and a VHT-SIG field containing control information for a VHT STA, to the MPDU, and transmitting the PPDU to the destination STA. A constellation applied to some of Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex (OFDM) symbols of the VHT-SIG field is obtained by rotating a constellation applied to an OFDM symbol of the L-SIG field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: Wi-Fi One, LLC
    Inventors: Dae Won Lee, Dong Wook Roh, Byeong Woo Kang, Yong Ho Seok, Yu Jin Noh, Bong Hoe Kim
  • Patent number: 9277497
    Abstract: Technologies are generally described for reducing the from-power-grid energy consumption of a wireless network such as a cellular network over a period of time through cell size adaptations. According to some examples, cell sizes for the base stations may be optimized by decomposing the cell size optimization into two approaches: a multi-stage energy allocation approach and an energy consumption minimization approach. By implementing an energy allocation policy based on available energy type (e.g., from-power-grid or renewable) and an approximation technique for the energy consumption minimization, cell size optimization for each base station may be achieved resulting in network-wide enhancement of renewable energy usage vs. from-power-grid energy usage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Nirwan Ansari, Tao Han
  • Patent number: 9276650
    Abstract: A wireless communication apparatus and a response control method wherein in a case of applying Persistent Allocation (PA) to MU-MIMO, the increase in the resources to be used in the feedback can be precluded. In a terminal, a response control unit causes, based on the type of downstream allocation control information, on an error detection result obtained by an error detecting unit and on a response rule table, a response signal to be transmitted by use of an upstream response resource designated in the downstream allocation control information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Takaaki Kishigami, Isamu Yoshii
  • Patent number: 9270636
    Abstract: A network node maintains a neighbor data structure in the form of a hash table containing multiple buckets for storing mapping entries, with each entry specifying a local address corresponding to a global address. The table is based on a hash function that generates a corresponding hash value for each global address. Each bucket is associated with a unique hash value and is implemented as a corresponding balanced tree containing a corresponding set of nodes, with each node storing a corresponding mapping entry. Upon receiving a lookup request containing a first global address, the node determines a first bucket by applying the hash function to the first global address, and then traverses a first tree corresponding to the first bucket to find a first entry having a global address equaling the first global address. Concurrent non-blocking access is permitted to various portions of the tree during changes in the tree.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Giridhar Narasimhamurthy, Bharadwaj Raghavendra Gosukonda
  • Patent number: 9270618
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a system includes a network fabric having a plurality of fabric switches interconnected in the network fabric and a switch controller having logic adapted to configure the network fabric, determine one or more paths through the network fabric between any two hosts connected thereto, and create a source-routing table to store the one or more paths through the network fabric between any two hosts connected thereto. In another embodiment, a method includes receiving or creating a packet using a NIC of a host connected to a network fabric having a plurality of fabric switches interconnected therein, determining a path through the network fabric by consulting a source-routing table stored to the host, storing source-routing information to a packet header for the packet, the source-routing information including the path, and sending the packet to a first device or hop indicated by the path in the source-routing information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Casimer M. DeCusatis, Mircea Gusat, Keshav G. Kamble, Cyriel J. Minkenberg, Vijoy A. Pandey, Renato J. Recio
  • Patent number: 9271210
    Abstract: In a wireless network environment comprising a mobile router serving a moving network, said mobile router for attaching to a packet-switched access network that uses a micro-mobility protocol and a Quality of Service (QoS) protocol to route packet data to and from said mobile router, wherein said mobile router has a QoS aggregate requirement generated by nodes attached thereto, a method of handover of said mobile router to a mobility agent in said access network, which method comprises the steps of: (i) said mobile router sends a QoS request message to said mobility agent, which QoS request message comprises a QoS parameter representing said QoS aggregate; (ii) upon receipt by said mobility agent, said access network takes a QoS admission decision on the basis of said QoS parameter; and (iii) said mobility agent sends a QoS acknowledgement to said mobile router whereby said mobility agent informs said mobile router of the outcome of said QoS admission decision; characterized by the step of (iv) if said QoS ad
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignee: Uniloc Luxembourg S.A.
    Inventors: George Kamel, Paul Anthony Pangalos, Andrej Mihailovic, Abdol Hamid Aghvami
  • Patent number: 9270642
    Abstract: A process communication device includes a process communication interface for communicating on a process communication loop in accordance with a process communication protocol. A controller is coupled to the process communication interface. A rules store is coupled to the controller, and has at least one process communication packet rule that is based on the process communication protocol. The controller applies the at least one process communication packet rule to at least one process communication packet received from the process communication interface, and generates event information when a process communication packet fails at least one process communication packet rule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignee: Rosemount Inc.
    Inventors: Eric D. Rotvold, Jeff D. Potter
  • Patent number: 9264117
    Abstract: A method of operating a user equipment device includes extracting at least one rank indicator (RI) from an uplink grant, and adapting a transmission rank in response to said RI. At least two transmit antennas are configured to transmit according to said transmission rank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2016
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Runhua Chen, Eko N. Onggosanusi