Patents Examined by Syed S Ali
  • Patent number: 9781024
    Abstract: Various embodiments manage data flow between at least one wireless communication device and at least one application executing at an edge of the wireless communication network. In one embodiment, a first flow regenerator disposed within the network generates a replicated set of data packets. The replicated set of data packets are a copy of a set of data packets being transmitted between an application disposed on a first node at an edge of the network and a wireless communication device. The first flow regenerator sends the replicated set of data packets to a second flow regenerator disposed in the network. The replicated set of data packets are sent to the second flow regenerator through at least a second node disposed between the first flow regenerator and the second flow regenerator. The second node is configured to perform one or more book-keeping operations on the replicated set of data packets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Dinesh Verma
  • Patent number: 9779173
    Abstract: Systems and methods of the present invention allow for recording and transmitting a network user's network session. In an example embodiment, an Internet user may, though a client, access a website having a Multimedia File Recorder and a Multimedia File Sender. The Internet user may (by accessing a Control Panel on the website that controls the Multimedia File Recorder) record a multimedia file of his Internet session. Upon completion, the multimedia file may be transmitted to the website operator via a file streaming system, a file transfer system, or an email messaging system, each of which may reside on a server that is communicatively coupled to the client through a network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: GO DADDY OPERATING COMPANY, LLC
    Inventors: Robert R. Parsons, Shawn M. Fitzpatrick
  • Patent number: 9769850
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method, a device and a system for transmitting data, which relate to the field of network technology. A station sends a request-to-send frame to an access point to obtain a channel, at the same time, the access point actively sends a middle-clear-to-send frame, so as to indicate which stations can send data, thereby reducing the time overhead in the data transmission process, improving the flexibility of the system, and avoiding system errors. Specifically, the method includes: an access point AP receives a request-to-send RTS frame sent by a station STA; sends a middle-clear-to-send MCTS frame to a scheduled STA; receives an F frame sent by the scheduled STA according to the MCTS frame; sends a final-clear-to-send FCTS frame to another scheduled STA; and receives data sent by the another scheduled STA according to the FCTS frame. The present invention is applied to data transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Lvxi Yang, Peng Wang, Fang Wang, Xun Yang
  • Patent number: 9755979
    Abstract: Capacity enhancement of a direct communication link using a variable redundancy delivery network. An estimated information rate between a source node and a terminal node may be partitioned into a first information rate provided via the direct communication link and a second information rate to be provided via the variable redundancy delivery network. One or more parameters of the variable redundancy delivery network may be calculated to provide the second information rate based on a non-uniform probability density of messages requested by the terminal node. Capacity and reliability of storage media devices in the variable redundancy delivery network may be traded off to provide the second information rate. The variable redundancy delivery network may implement various coding schemes and per-message coding rates that may be determined based on the non-uniform probability distribution of the source message library.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: ViaSat, Inc.
    Inventor: Nirmalkumar Velayudhan
  • Patent number: 9742483
    Abstract: A relaying device includes a wireless apparatus interface, a signal processing unit connected to the wireless apparatus interface, a network interface, and a packet processing unit connected to the network interface. The relaying device is provided with multiple communication paths including the wireless apparatus interface, the signal processing unit, and the packet processing unit, and each communication path has a mixing unit configured to additively synthesize an uplink audio signal and a downlink audio signal of other communication path to the uplink audio signal and input the synthesized signal to the packet processing unit, and configured to additively synthesize an uplink audio signal and a downlink audio signal of other communication path to the downlink audio signal and input the synthesized signal to the signal processing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: Icom Incorporated
    Inventor: Keishiro Uwamori
  • Patent number: 9736841
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a data transmission method, a base station and user equipment. The method includes: sending, by a first base station, first information to a second base station, or receiving, by the first base station, the first information sent by the second base station, wherein the first information is used for indicating that the second base station is to serve user equipment; sending, by the first base station, second information to the user equipment, wherein the second information is used for instructing the user equipment to operate on a carrier corresponding to the second base station, for enabling the user equipment to operate on the carrier corresponding to the second base station. By adopting the embodiments of the present disclosure, the probability of wrong scheduling of high-capacity user equipment is reduced, and the performance loss caused by wrong scheduling is avoided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yan Cheng, Lixia Xue, Bo Li, Lei Guan
  • Patent number: 9722912
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes system and methods for network planning. The systems and methods can incorporate network traffic demands, availability requirements, latency, physical infrastructure and networking device capability, and detailed cost structures to calculate a network design with minimum or reduced cost compared to conventional methods. In some implementations, the method include providing an initial, deterministic set of failures, and then successively performing a network optimization and a network availability simulation to determine which failures most impact the performance of the network model. The high impact failures can then be provided back into the system, which generates an improved network design while still maintaining minimum cost.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Xiaoxue Zhao, Emilie Jeanne Anne Danna, Christoph Albrecht, Bikash Koley, Satyajeet Singh Ahuja, Vinayak Dangui
  • Patent number: 9705620
    Abstract: A memory controller is provided to increment a source timestamp count responsive to a clock signal. Further, the memory controller associates the source timestamp count to a respective word for each endpoint in a plurality of endpoints. The memory controller transmits the received clock signal, a respective data word, and an associated source count to each endpoint. Each endpoint increments a destination count responsive to the clock signal. Each endpoint further transmits its respective word to an external memory responsive to the destination count being greater than or equal to the associated source count by a threshold margin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Philip Michael Clovis, Michael Drop, Isaac Berk
  • Patent number: 9705773
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a probabilistic framework that can calculate the probability of fulfilling demands for a given set of traffic flows. In some implementations, the probability of fulfilling demands can be based on the probability of infrastructure component failures, shared risk link groups derived from a cross-layer network topology, and traffic engineering (TE) considerations. The consideration of the cross-layer network topology enables the systems and methods described herein to account for the relationship between the physical and logical topologies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Xiaoxue Zhao, Emilie Jeanne Anne Danna, Alireza Ghaffarkhah, Ajay Kumar Bangla, Christoph Albrecht, Wenjie Jiang, Benjamin Preskill, Bikash Koley
  • Patent number: 9699226
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods are disclosed for display dependent analysis of call data in an IBPX. In an example embodiment, an apparatus communicatively coupled to an IPBX server is configured to route VoIP calls in the IPBX. An interface circuit is configured to selected parameters of interest based on display capabilities of a set of devices and generate subscription requests to subscribe the devices to the parameters of interest. A first processing circuit is configured to generate call summary metrics from call event messages for calls routed by the IPBX server. A second processing circuit subscribes a device identified in the subscription request to the selected set of parameters of interest identified in the subscription request. The second processing circuit evaluates call summary metrics for each parameter of interest subscribed to by the devices and provides results of the evaluation to devices that are subscribed to the parameter of interest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: 8x8, Inc.
    Inventors: Zhishen Liu, Qing Zhao
  • Patent number: 9693353
    Abstract: A wireless communication terminal apparatus wherein even when a SC-FDMA signal is divided into a plurality of clusters and the plurality of clusters are then mapped to respective discontinuous frequency bands (when C-SC-FDMA is used), the improvement effect of system throughput can be maintained, while the user throughput can be improved. In the apparatus, a DFT unit (210) subjects a symbol sequence of time domain to a DFT process, thereby generating signals of frequency domain. A setting unit (211) divides the signals input from the DFT unit (210) into a plurality of clusters according to a cluster pattern that is in accordance with an MCS set, an encoding size, or the number of Ranks occurring during MIMO transmissions, which is indicated in those signals input, and then maps the plurality of clusters to the respective ones of a plurality of discontinuous frequency resources, thereby setting a constellation of the plurality of clusters in the frequency domain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: Sun Patent Trust
    Inventors: Shinsuke Takaoka, Seigo Nakao, Daichi Imamura, Masayuki Hoshino
  • Patent number: 9668245
    Abstract: A method for processing data in a wireless communication network is provided, wherein at least two resource pools for an uplink control channel are provided for mobile terminals for a geographical area, and wherein the mobile terminals in the geographical area uses at least one of the at least two resource pools for the uplink control channel. In addition, a corresponding device and system are suggested.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy
    Inventors: Esa Tapani Tiirola, Timo Erkki Lunttila, Kari Juhani Hooli, Kari Pekka Pajukoski
  • Patent number: 9665651
    Abstract: A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a process that reduces a sampling size of a total population of on-line social network users based on a comparison of seed information to a population of on-line social network users. The reduced sampling of on-line social network users is compared to a social graph of the on-line social network users, wherein the social graph is obtained from an algorithm applied to the reduced sampling of the on-line social network users. An outlier is determined in the reduced sampling of on-line social network users based on a characterizing of a cluster of social network users. Additional embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventor: Balachander Krishnamurthy
  • Patent number: 9667799
    Abstract: Disclosed is a communication system—for effecting communication events between a computer system, comprising first and second computer devices, and additional endpoint(s) connected via a communication network—comprising processing units, each having access to computer storage holding executable code modules for managing a communication event configured to implement a media modality controller configured to manage media modality of an established communication event and a call controller configured to establish the communication event. An instance of the media modality controller is assigned responsive to an instruction initiated to the media controller by the call controller to convey media modality control signals of the communication event to a media agent on the first device without accessing a call agent on the second device. The initiation of the instruction by the call controller is responsive to an instruction received via the network from the call agent on the second device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Carl S. Olivier, Marek Laasik, Sergei Zolotarjov, Mihails Velenko, Andrei Jefremov
  • Patent number: 9660826
    Abstract: Various embodiments manage data flow between at least one wireless communication device and at least one application executing at an edge of the wireless communication network. In one embodiment, a first flow regenerator disposed within the network generates a replicated set of data packets. The replicated set of data packets are a copy of a set of data packets being transmitted between an application disposed on a first node at an edge of the network and a wireless communication device. The first flow regenerator sends the replicated set of data packets to a second flow regenerator disposed in the network. The replicated set of data packets are sent to the second flow regenerator through at least a second node disposed between the first flow regenerator and the second flow regenerator. The second node is configured to perform one or more book-keeping operations on the replicated set of data packets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Dinesh Verma
  • Patent number: 9660910
    Abstract: A network element within a data center comprises a switch adapted to receive a data packet, a server in communication with the switch, and a switching engine in the switch. The switching engine may be configured to modify policy header information in the data packet to direct the packet to the server. The server may be configured to modify the policy header information while the data packet is in the server to return the data packet to said switch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Cynthia A. Gabriel, Bill Shao
  • Patent number: 9661036
    Abstract: A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a method for receiving initial filter criteria from a home subscriber server, transmitting information obtained from the initial filter criteria to a domain name system, receiving a multicast IP address from the domain name system, and transmitting a message to a plurality of IP multimedia subsystem network elements according to the multicast IP address. The message can be used for configuring the plurality of IP multimedia subsystem network elements. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: Chaoxin Charles Qiu, Arshad Khan, Niral Sheth
  • Patent number: 9654256
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a wireless communication system and a user equipment (UE) providing wireless communication services, and more particularly, a method of preventing transmission error of data while maintaining its security and a method of controlling an access of a Relay Node (RN) to a Donor eNB (DeNB) and an access of the UE to the RN during a process of transmitting and receiving user data when the RN as a radio network node is connected to the DeNB in an Evolved Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (E-UMTS), a Long Term Evolution (LTE) system, and a LTE-Advanced (LTE-A) system that have evolved from a Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Sung-Duck Chun, Seung-June Yi, Sung-Hoon Jung, Sung-Jun Park
  • Patent number: 9648535
    Abstract: In accordance with an example embodiment of the present invention, a method comprises configuring an autonomous mode for traffic offloading; and indicating the autonomous mode towards at least one terminal, wherein said autonomous mode supports local area radio access connectivity by internet protocols to reduce control from a core network. Related apparatus and computer program product are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Yixue Lei, Kodo Shu, Haitao Li, Mika Petri Olavi Rinne
  • Patent number: 9642164
    Abstract: An object is to increase opportunities for starting “Inter-band CA”. A mobile station UE of the present invention includes a transmission unit 14 configured to postpone transmission of a random access preamble in a cell #2 when the mobile station UE in a “RRC_Connected state” in a cell #1 detects a start trigger of a random access procedure in the cell #2, and determines that an uplink signal is being transmitted in the cell #1. The transmission unit 14 performs the postponed transmission of the random access preamble upon completing the transmission of the uplink signal in the cell #1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Tooru Uchino, Anil Umesh