Patents by Inventor Sharif M. Shahrier

Sharif M. Shahrier has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20170142025
    Abstract: A method, system and apparatus for resource reservation are disclosed herein. In an example, a first router may transmit, to a second router, a path message comprising an indication of resources to be reserved and a bidirectional direction indicator. On a condition that the indicated resources to be reserved are available to the second router, the first router may receive, from the second router, a reserve message, which may indicate that transmission resources have been allocated by the second router. On a condition that the indicated resources to be reserved are not available to the second router, first router may receive, from the second router, an error message, which may indicate that transmission resources have not been allocated. In a further example, the resources to be reserved may be resources associated with voice traffic, video traffic or both. Voice traffic may include multiple party communications involving three or more users.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2017
    Publication date: May 18, 2017
    Applicant: InterDigital Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Kamel M. Shaheen, Sharif M. Shahrier
  • Patent number: 9560641
    Abstract: A wireless user equipment (UE) may include a reservation setup protocol (RSVP) message generator. The RSVP message generator may be configured to generate a RSVP message to a communication peer via a network that includes at least one router for reserving resources along a path. The RSVP PATH message may include a bi-directional direction indicator, an address of at least one router, and at least one of an indication of a peak data rate, token bucket rate, or maximum packet size. The message may provide an indication for reservation of bi-directional communication resources, wherein the bi-directional communication resources include resources in a direction from the device and in a direction toward the device. The UE may also include an RSVP message receiver configured to receive a refresh message, wherein the resources along the path are maintained upon receipt of the refresh message. The refresh message may be received periodically.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: InterDigital Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Kamel M Shaheen, Sharif M Shahrier
  • Publication number: 20150249983
    Abstract: A wireless user equipment (UE) may include a reservation setup protocol (RSVP) message generator. The RSVP message generator may be configured to generate a RSVP message to a communication peer via a network that includes at least one router for reserving resources along a path. The RSVP PATH message may include a bi-directional direction indicator, an address of at least one router, and at least one of an indication of a peak data rate, token bucket rate, or maximum packet size. The message may provide an indication for reservation of bi-directional communication resources, wherein the bi-directional communication resources include resources in a direction from the device and in a direction toward the device. The UE may also include an RSVP message receiver configured to receive a refresh message, wherein the resources along the path are maintained upon receipt of the refresh message. The refresh message may be received periodically.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2015
    Publication date: September 3, 2015
    Applicant: INTERDIGITAL TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kamel M. Shaheen, Sharif M. Shahrier
  • Patent number: 9030933
    Abstract: A wireless user equipment (UE) configured to initiate a packet based session includes a reservation setup protocol (RSVP) message generator configured to transmit a RSVP PATH message. The RSVP PATH message includes a direction indication. The direction indicator indicates that reservations should be made for the UE to transmit only, to receive only or to both transmit and receive. The UE also includes an RSVP message receiver configured to receive an RSVP RESV message indicating that reservations have been made as a result of the RSVP PATH message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignee: InterDigital Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Kamel M Shaheen, Sharif M Shahrier
  • Patent number: 8792323
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for supporting handover of mobile communications is provided. A router performs routing services in a service area. The router maintains a location table configured to store current router addresses of mobile nodes that have the router as a home router. The router receives data intended for mobile nodes that are listed in the location table and are in the routers service area. The router receives a user datagram protocol (UDP) message from a mobile node when it leaves the service area. The UDP message includes an IP address of a new router in the mobile node's new service area. The router updates the location table with the new IP address and transmits data intended for the mobile node to the new router until the data is redirected at the source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: InterDigital Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Sharif M. Shahrier, Prabhakar R. Chitrapu
  • Publication number: 20140112293
    Abstract: A wireless user equipment (UE) configured to initiate a packet based session includes a reservation setup protocol (RSVP) message generator configured to transmit a RSVP PATH message. The RSVP PATH message includes a direction indication. The direction indicator indicates that reservations should be made for the UE to transmit only, to receive only or to both transmit and receive. The UE also includes an RSVP message receiver configured to receive an RSVP RESV message indicating that reservations have been made as a result of the RSVP PATH message.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2013
    Publication date: April 24, 2014
    Applicant: INTERDIGITAL TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kamel M Shaheen, Sharif M Shahrier
  • Patent number: 8630176
    Abstract: A wireless user equipment (UE) configured to initiate a packet based session includes a reservation setup protocol (RSVP) message generator configured to transmit a RSVP PATH message. The RSVP PATH message includes a direction indication. The direction indicator indicates that reservations should be made for the UE to transmit only, to receive only or to both transmit and receive. The UE also includes an RSVP message receiver configured to receive an RSVP RESV message indicating that reservations have been made as a result of the RSVP PATH message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2014
    Assignee: InterDigital Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Kamel M Shaheen, Sharif M Shahrier
  • Publication number: 20130142167
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for supporting handover of mobile communications is provided. A router performs routing services in a service area. The router maintains a location table configured to store current router addresses of mobile nodes that have the router as a home router. The router receives data intended for mobile nodes that are listed in the location table and are in the routers service area. The router receives a user datagram protocol (UDP) message from a mobile node when it leaves the service area. The UDP message includes an IP address of a new router in the mobile node's new service area. The router updates the location table with the new IP address and transmits data intended for the mobile node to the new router until the data is redirected at the source.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2012
    Publication date: June 6, 2013
    Applicant: INTERDIGITAL TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sharif M. SHAHRIER, Prabhakar R. CHITRAPU
  • Patent number: 8213385
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for supporting handover of mobile communications is provided. A router performs routing services in a service area. The router maintains a location table configured to store current router addresses of mobile nodes that have the router as a home router. The router receives data intended for mobile nodes that are listed in the location table and are in the routers service area. The router receives a user datagram protocol (UDP) message from a mobile node when it leaves the service area. The UDP message includes an IP address of a new router in the mobile node's new service area. The router updates the location table with the new IP address and transmits data intended for the mobile node to the new router until the data is redirected at the source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2012
    Assignee: Interdigital Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Sharif M. Shahrier, Prabhakar R. Chitrapu
  • Publication number: 20120076096
    Abstract: A wireless user equipment (UE) configured to initiate a packet based session includes a reservation setup protocol (RSVP) message generator configured to transmit a RSVP PATH message. The RSVP PATH message includes a direction indication. The direction indicator indicates that reservations should be made for the UE to transmit only, to receive only or to both transmit and receive. The UE also includes an RSVP message receiver configured to receive an RSVP RESV message indicating that reservations have been made as a result of the RSVP PATH message.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2011
    Publication date: March 29, 2012
    Applicant: INTERDIGITAL TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kamel M. Shaheen, Sharif M. Shahrier
  • Publication number: 20120014351
    Abstract: A system and method for feature context transfer store all currently “active” feature contexts locally at an Access Router (AR), and store all “inactive” feature contexts centrally in a main database. The main database can be accessed by all the ARs within the same administrative domain. When a new microflow becomes active, its active feature contexts are brought from the main database and loaded into the local directory, thus replacing any inactive feature contexts that are not needed at the time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2011
    Publication date: January 19, 2012
    Applicant: INTERDIGITAL TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sharif M. Shahrier, Donald M. Boles
  • Patent number: 8085664
    Abstract: A wireless user equipment (UE) configured to initiate a packet based session includes a reservation setup protocol (RSVP) message generator configured to transmit a RSVP PATH message. The RSVP PATH message includes a direction indication. The direction indicator indicates that reservations should be made for the UE to transmit only, to receive only or to both transmit and receive. The UE also includes an RSVP message receiver configured to receive an RSVP RESV message indicating that reservations have been made as a result of the RSVP PATH message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2011
    Assignee: InterDigital Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Kamel M Shaheen, Sharif M Shahrier
  • Patent number: 7974294
    Abstract: A system and method for feature context transfer store all currently “active” feature contexts locally at an Access Router (AR), and store all “inactive” feature contexts centrally in a main database. The main database can be accessed by all the ARs within the same administrative domain. When a new microflow becomes active, its active feature contexts are brought from the main database and loaded into the local directory, thus replacing any inactive feature contexts that are not needed at the time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2011
    Assignee: InterDigital Technology Corporation
    Inventor: Sharif M. Shahrier
  • Patent number: 7720897
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for DFT processing using prime factor algorithm (PFA) on a selected number P of midamble chip values received by a CDMA receiver, where P has a plurality M of relatively prime factors F, and the DFT process is divided into M successive F-point DFT processes. The P data values are retrieved from a single input port memory and selectively permuted by a controller into parallel caches to optimize factoring with associated twiddle factors stored in parallel registers. The permuted inputs are factored in two or more parallel PFA circuits that comprise adders and multipliers arranged to accommodate any size F-point DFT. The outputs of the PFA circuits are processed by consolidation circuitry in preparation for output permutation of the values which are sent to memory for subsequent DFT cycles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2010
    Assignee: InterDigital Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Ryan Samuel Buchert, Sharif M. Shahrier, Peter Edward Becker
  • Publication number: 20090238145
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for supporting handover of mobile communications is provided. A router performs routing services in a service area. The router maintains a location table configured to store current router addresses of mobile nodes that have the router as a home router. The router receives data intended for mobile nodes that are listed in the location table and are in the routers service area. The router receives a user datagram protocol (UDP) message from a mobile node when it leaves the service area. The UDP message includes an IP address of a new router in the mobile node's new service area. The router updates the location table with the new IP address and transmits data intended for the mobile node to the new router until the data is redirected at the source.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2009
    Publication date: September 24, 2009
    Applicant: INTERDIGITAL TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sharif M. Shahrier, Prabhakar R. Chitrapu
  • Patent number: 7573890
    Abstract: A system and method for supporting mobile Internet communication is provided which employs a plurality of Routers and a plurality of Mobile Nodes (MNs). Each Router has a unique communication address. Each MN is associated with a home Router. Each Router has an associated Mobile Node Location List identifying each MN for which the Router is the home Router and the communication address of a Router corresponding to a current location of each such MN. Each MN is movable from an old location where the MN communicates with the Internet via one Router to a current location where the MN communicates with the Internet via a different Router. Communication at the current location via the different Router is established by communicating to the MN's home Router the communication address of the different Router as the communication address corresponding to the MN's current location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2009
    Assignee: InterDigital Technolgy Corporation
    Inventors: Sharif M. Shahrier, Prabhakar R. Chitrapu
  • Publication number: 20080267125
    Abstract: A wireless user equipment (UE) configured to initiate a packet based session includes a reservation setup protocol (RSVP) message generator configured to transmit a RSVP PATH message. The RSVP PATH message includes a direction indication. The direction indicator indicates that reservations should be made for the UE to transmit only, to receive only or to both transmit and receive. The UE also includes an RSVP message receiver configured to receive an RSVP RESV message indicating that reservations have been made as a result of the RSVP PATH message.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2008
    Publication date: October 30, 2008
    Applicant: INTERDIGITAL TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kamel M. Shaheen, Sharif M. Shahrier
  • Patent number: 7400582
    Abstract: The invention relates to establishing a wireless packet session between at least two users. At least one of the users is a wireless user. A first of the at least two users sends a reservation setup protocol (RSVP) PATH message to a second user of the two users. The RSVP PATH message includes information for reserving resources for transmissions from only the first user to the second user; or from the first user to the second user and the second user to the first user, or only for transmissions from the second user to the first user. In response to receiving the RSVP PATH message, the second user transmits a RSVP reservation (RESV) message to the first user. Transmissions occur using the reserved resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2008
    Assignee: InterDigital Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Kamel M. Shaheen, Sharif M. Shahrier
  • Patent number: 7317762
    Abstract: A method and apparatus are disclosed for deinterleaving expanded interleaved data blocks, particularly for use in a wireless telecommunications system such as provided by the Third Generation Partnership Project (3G) standard. The data is processed on a sequential element basis where each element has a pre-determined number of bits M which bits are contained in a block of sequential data words W?. The elements are extracted from the block of words W? in sequential order, each element being extracted from either a single or two sequential interleaved words within the set of words W?. The elements are stored in selective location within a set of words W of a deinterleaver memory such that upon completion of the extraction and writing of all the elements, the words W from the deinterleaver memory can be sequentially read out to correspond to an original data block of bits from which the block of interleaved elements was created.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2008
    Assignee: Interdigital Technology Corporation
    Inventor: Sharif M. Shahrier
  • Patent number: 7136389
    Abstract: A system and method for supporting mobile Internet communication is provided which employs a plurality of Routers and a plurality of Mobile Nodes (MNs). Each Router has a unique communication address. Each MN is associated with a home Router. Each Router has an associated Mobile Node Location List identifying each MN for which the Router is the home Router and the communication address of a Router corresponding to a current location of each such MN. Each MN is movable from an old location where the MN communicates with the Internet via one Router to a current location where the MN communicates with the Internet via a different Router. Communication at the current location via the different Router is established by communicating to the MN's home Router the communication address of the different Router as the communication address corresponding to the MN's current location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2006
    Assignee: InterDigital Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Sharif M. Shahrier, Prabhakar R. Chitrapu