Patents Examined by Walter Divito
  • Patent number: 9826418
    Abstract: Some demonstrative embodiments include apparatuses, systems and/or methods of performing a Time of Flight (ToF) measurement. For example, a first wireless device may include a controller to perform a Time of Flight (ToF) measurement procedure with a second wireless device; and a radio to communicate with the second wireless device a ToF frame including a first time value of a Time Synchronization Function (TSF) of a sender of the frame to indicate a beginning time of a ToF measurement period, and a second time value of the TSF at transmission of the ToF frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jonathan Segev, Gaby Prechner, Shahar Michaelovich
  • Patent number: 9826502
    Abstract: A wireless communication network may provide services, e.g., multimedia services, in unicast and broadcast modes, and the mode of providing a service may depend on a level of demand. In response to changing demand for a service the network may determine that service should transition from one mode to the other, and the network, may signal such a transition to one or more terminals subscribing to the service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: George Cherian, Fatih Ulupinar, Jun Wang
  • Patent number: 9819579
    Abstract: A method for validation of a packet transport network includes performing a header space analysis, with input headers to obtain output headers from the header space analysis, between one or more ingress points and a particular egress point; determining disjointness of the output headers; and determining validity of a point-to-point connection property of the packet transport network based on the disjointness of the output headers. The header space analysis allows near-real-time validation that packet transport flows in an Multiprotocol Label Switching-Transport Profile (MPLS-TP) network have been correctly programmed on the switches by a Software Defined Networking (SDN) controller or other technique such that the correct label mappings have been made to carry a flow from a source to a destination, and all flows from any source to a destination are isolated from one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: Ciena Corporation
    Inventor: Nigel Lawrence Bragg
  • Patent number: 9820187
    Abstract: Some demonstrative embodiments include devices, systems and methods of providing offloadability information to a User Equipment (UE). For example, a core network (CN) may provide to the UE Packet Data Network (PDN) offloadability information corresponding to one or more PDN connections of the UE, the PDN offloadability information indicating which PDN connection of the one or more PDN connections is able to be offloaded to a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: INTEL IP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Alexander Sirotkin, Alexandre S. Stojanovski, Vivek Gupta, Chen-Ho Chin
  • Patent number: 9820179
    Abstract: Wireless User Equipment (UEs) are adapted to facilitate uplink transmissions on two or more carriers. According to one example, a wireless user equipment can determine whether a size of data to be transmitted is greater than or less than a predetermined threshold. When the size of the data is less than the predetermined threshold, the wireless user equipment can transmit the data on a primary carrier. When the size of the data is greater than, or equal to the predetermined threshold, the wireless user equipment can transmit an initial portion of the data on the secondary carrier, and any remaining portion of the data can be transmitted on the primary carrier. Other aspects, embodiments, and features are also included.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Sitaramanjaneyulu Kanamarlapudi, Liangchi Hsu
  • Patent number: 9819614
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a system includes a set of network control entities associated with a distributed multi-stage switch. Each network control entity from the set of network control entities is configured to manage at least one edge device having a set of ports and coupled to the distributed multi-stage switch. Each network control entity from the set of network control entities is associated with a unique set of identifiers. A network control entity from the set of network control entities is configured to assign a unique identifier from its unique set of identifiers to a port from the set of ports of the at least one edge device in response to the network control entity receiving a login request associated with the port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: Juniper Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: Amit Shukla, Suresh Boddapati, Joseph White, Ravi Shekhar, Jeevan Kamisetty
  • Patent number: 9820226
    Abstract: In an example embodiment, there is disclosed herein an apparatus comprising a wireless transceiver and a controller coupled to the wireless transceiver and configured to receive data via the wireless transceiver. The controller operates the wireless transceiver at a first power save state where the wireless transceiver can receive a frame but other circuits are de-energized. The controller is responsive to the wireless transceiver receiving a frame while the wireless transceiver is in a first power state to determine whether the frame is a predefined wakeup frame. The controller provides additional power to the wireless transceiver responsive to determining the frame is a predefined wakeup frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Allan Thomson, Esteban Torres
  • Patent number: 9813385
    Abstract: Example implementations are directed to the facilitation of UDP load balancing even in implementations that involve load balancers that support only TCP. In example implementations, the application can control the session lifetime through the accompanying TCP connection. Thus, example implementations can make use of any load balancer that supports only TCP.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: DeNA CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yutaka Takeda, Bryan D. English, Yusuke Shinozaki
  • Patent number: 9807633
    Abstract: A mobile station in a wireless communication network is disclosed. The mobile station includes a transceiver coupled to a processor configured to perform measurements of signals of one or more cells of a wireless communication system during a first set of subframes, to cause the transceiver to transmit a measurement report including at least the measurements of signals of the one or more cells, and to indicate that the measurements of the one or more cells were performed during the first set of subframes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: Google Technology Holdings LLC
    Inventors: Murali Narasimha, Sandeep H. Krishnamurthy, Ravi Kuchibhotla
  • Patent number: 9807634
    Abstract: The present invention defines a method for a terminal capable of aggregating multiple carriers to perform measurement to the carriers efficiently in a mobile communication system. The present invention is directed to the 3GPP LTE (Long Term Evolution or 3GPP LTE-A (LTE-Advanced) system that is currently discussed in the 3GPP (3rd Generation Partnership Project) as an example of the communication system to which the present invention is applied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kyeong In Jeong, Gert Jan Van Lieshout
  • Patent number: 9806850
    Abstract: In the field of wireless communication, a method and an apparatus for transmitting Uplink Control Information (UCI) are provided. The method includes: determining a codeword corresponding to the UCI among multiple codewords according to a preset rule when the UCI is transmitted on a Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH) with the multiple codewords (101); and transmitting the UCI by mapping the UCI onto the corresponding codeword (102). The apparatus includes a determining unit and a transmitting unit. The method and the apparatus provide a solution to transmitting UCI on a PUSCH with multiple codewords. This solution can be implemented easily based on LTE R8, without involving too much additional work of standardization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yongxia Lv, Yan Cheng
  • Patent number: 9807795
    Abstract: The present invention defines an efficient contention-based access procedure in a mobile communication system. The present invention is directed to a 3GPP LTE/LTE-A mobile communication system under discussion in the 3GPP as one of the representative next generation mobile communication system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kyeong In Jeong, Soeng Hun Kim, Gert Jan Van Lieshout
  • Patent number: 9801151
    Abstract: A server apparatus includes a receiving unit that receives a location registration signal from a mobile wireless device, a determining unit that determines whether the mobile wireless device is a model compliant with only a first communication standard or a model compliant with both of the first communication standard and a second communication standard, based on the identification information contained in the location registration signal, and a location registration processing unit that causes a server configured to perform a process using a first Internet protocol to perform a location registration process when the mobile wireless device is the model compliant with only the first communication standard, and causes a server configured to perform a process using a second Internet protocol to perform the location registration process when the mobile wireless device is the model compliant with both of the first communication standard and the second communication standard.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventor: Yoshiaki Ohnishi
  • Patent number: 9800381
    Abstract: A method, an apparatus and a system for configuring a Demodulation Reference Signal (DMRS) are disclosed in the present invention. The method includes: receiving a DMRS indication index transmitted from a network side; determining at least one port used for the local transmission of the DMRS; acquiring the predetermined DMRS configuration parameters corresponding to the DMRS indication index and the at least one port, and configuring, according to the DMRS configuration parameters, the DMRS to be transmitted from the at least one port. Therefore, the terminal can implement the configuration of the DMRS without reloading the corresponding configuration information. Thus, the implementation complexity of the DMRS configuration flow is decreased, and the operation load of the terminal is also reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: Chine Academy of Telecommunications Technology
    Inventors: Wenhong Chen, Deshan Miao, Rakesh Tamrakar
  • Patent number: 9788289
    Abstract: The method of transmitting the reference signal includes receiving a synchronization signal in a subframe including contiguous first slot and second slot, and receiving a reference signal in the subframe, in which each of the first slot and the second slot includes a plurality of RBs and a plurality of OFDM symbols, the synchronization signal includes a PSS and a SSS, the PSS is received in the last OFDM symbol of the first slot, the SSS is received in a previous symbol before the last OFDM symbol of the first slot, a cell identifier is acquired based on the PSS and the SSS, the synchronization signal is received in center 6 RBs among the plurality of RBs, and the reference signal is received in at least one 01-DM symbol among the plurality of OFDM symbols in the second slot through the center 6 RBs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Bonghoe Kim, Yunjung Yi, Suckchel Yang, Hanbyul Seo, Joonkui Ahn, Dongyoun Seo
  • Patent number: 9788263
    Abstract: A hybrid wireless client apparatus including: a hybrid client controller, at least one antenna, and a plurality of shared and discrete components coupled to one another to form at least one transmit and receive chain each coupled to the at least one antenna for orthogonal frequency division multiplexed (OFDM) wireless communications with a wireless access point (WAP). The hybrid client controller is coupled to the plurality of shared and discrete components and configured to determine an eligibility of at least one neighboring wireless client node on a wireless local area network (WLAN) as a relay target, and responsive to an affirmative eligibility determination to initiate on the hybrid wireless client apparatus both local communications with the WAP together with a relay of distinct communications between the WAP and the at least one neighboring wireless client node as the relay target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: Quantenna Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Bahador Amiri, Ramanujam Jagannath, Dapeng Mi, Hossein Dehghan, Bo Zhao, Sunil F. Assao
  • Patent number: 9781171
    Abstract: The present invention provides a registration method for managing NAT shutdown. In Internet communication field, a user must perform registrations intermittently to a server through NAT, and increase the time interval of registration step by step. But NAT itself will shutdown if no packet is passed through for a long period. The registration method of the present invention is to adjust the time interval of registration step by step so that the time interval of registration is slightly less than the shutdown time of NAT, and then fix the time interval of registration to assure that all of the Invite packet can pass through without blocking up by the shutdown of NAT.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: NATIONAL TAIPEI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Shaw Hwa Hwang, Cheng Yu Yeh, Kuan Lin Chen, Yao Hsing Chung, Chi Jung Huang, Li Te Shen, Shun Chieh Chang, Bing Chih Yao, Chao Ping Chu, Ning Yun Ku, Tzu Hung Lin, Ming Che Yeh
  • Patent number: 9774524
    Abstract: Exemplary methods include generating a first fast reroute (FRR) next hop (NH) comprising of a first primary next hop (PNH), a first secondary next hop (SNH), and a first attribute, wherein the first PNH and first SNH include forwarding information that causes traffic to be forwarded towards a second and third network device, respectively. The methods include sending a first request to a forwarding plane to generate a second FRR NH comprising of a second PNH, a second SNH, and a second attribute. The methods include updating contents of the first FRR NH, and sending a second request to the forwarding plane to update the second FRR NH, wherein the second request causes the forwarding plane to determine whether to revert back to using the second PNH based on whether the first attribute included in the second request is different from the second attribute of the second FRR NH.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET L M ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Pramodh D'Souza, Lars Ernstrom, Antoni Przygienda
  • Patent number: 9756663
    Abstract: A method for receiving MBMS (Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service) service at a user equipment camping on a first frequency in a wireless communication system is disclosed. The method comprises receiving the MBMS on a second frequency without camping on the second frequency from a network, if being able to receive the MBMS on the second frequency while camping on the first frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Sangwon Kim, Sungduck Chun, Seungjune Yi, Sunghoon Jung, Youngdae Lee, Sungjun Park
  • Patent number: 9756682
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a method and system for partitioning WLAN in order to separate network traffic from different WLANs. Specifically, a network device receives a packet from a client connected to a first network device on an access network. The network device then determines that the received packet is associated with a VLAN that is pre-configured on the first network device based on the access network to which the client is connected. Furthermore, the network device transmits the packet to a MAC layer switching device, which is not configured with the VLAN that is pre-configured on the network device. The packet includes one of a DHCP discovery message, an ARP request message, a unicast message, a multicast message, and a broadcast message. The unicast message will be transmitted to the second network device on the pre-configured VLAN prior to being transmitted to another network device outside the pre-configured VLAN.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: Aruba Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: Pradeep Iyer, Santashil PalChaudhuri