Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Coats & Bennett
  • Patent number: 8235399
    Abstract: An ice skate blade for an ice skate is sized to fit into a holder attached to the sole of the ice skate. The ice skate blade has a pair of tabs that extend into the holder to secure the blade to the holder. A first tab includes a through hole that receives a mechanical fastener that secures the blade to the holder. The second tab includes a lock that contacts the interior of the holder to prevent the skate blade from moving within the holder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Inventor: Wally Wayne Tatomir
  • Patent number: 8234837
    Abstract: A split column includes two half sections with locating features for aligning the half sections. A whole column is formed and then split into half sections. The locating features are formed on the inner surfaces of the half sections after the column is split into half sections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: Column & Post, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Douglas Koren, David Szilezy, Joseph Hahn
  • Patent number: 8238281
    Abstract: A method (300) for use in a cellular system (100) with a controlling node (110) and user terminals, UEs (130). In the system, UEs can assume one of at least two states, a non-listening state, i.e. a state during which a UE (130) does not listen for data from its controlling node (110), and a listening state, an “on duration” state. According to the method (300) a UE in the system is able to alternate (310) between said two states according to a certain scheme, the scheme according to which a UE in the system alternates between said two states being dependent on whether or not data units which are transmitted between the UE and its controlling node are received entirely and correctly within an initially allocated resource for each data unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Ghyslain Pelletier, Kristofer Sandlund, Johan Torsner, Jonas Pettersson
  • Patent number: 8238472
    Abstract: One or more carrier signals in a multiple-carrier UE transmitter are frequency-adjusted to account for an estimated error in the separation frequency between the transmitted carrier signals. The adjustment is applied when generating the UL signals for the respective carrier frequencies in digital baseband of the UE. In one embodiment, one or more of the modulators that apply the carrier separation frequency additionally apply a frequency correction. In another embodiment, first mixers apply the carrier separation frequency to each different carrier signal. One or more carrier signal paths include a second mixer applying a frequency correction to the carrier signal. The RF modulation frequency may also be adjusted to partially compensate for the estimated carrier separation frequency error.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Oskar Drugge, Anders Wallén
  • Patent number: 8230519
    Abstract: A disposable isolation hospital gown is provided having a main body and a pair of sleeves. Integrally formed with the hospital gown is a disposable wrapper that is particularly positioned or placed such that the gown can be rolled or folded into a bundle, after which the disposable wrapper is reversed and in the process of reversing the disposable wrapper, the bundled gown is stuffed or placed into the reversed disposable wrapper for disposal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2012
    Inventor: Virginia C. Porowski
  • Patent number: 8233427
    Abstract: A base station receives channel quality reports from a plurality of mobile terminals. The channel quality reports from the mobile terminals indicate the signal power of the signals received by the mobile terminals from the base station and one or more interference parameters relating to the power of impairment components contributing to the total impairment of the received signal during a first time interval. The base station computes an estimated channel quality indication for a second time interval subsequent to the first time interval based on expected variations in the powers of the impairment components. The estimated channel quality indication for the second time interval is used by the base station to schedule the mobile terminals and to determine the transmission format.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2012
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Andres Reial, Bengt Lindoff, Anders Rosenqvist
  • Patent number: 8233886
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for accessing data objects stored in a communication device are disclosed. An exemplary method comprises detecting a trigger event related to a remote communications party, retrieving contact data from a contacts database using a party identifier corresponding to the remote communications party, searching for stored data objects associated with the remote communications party, using the contact data as search parameters, and displaying the results of the search. The method may further include ranking the data objects by relevancy and formatting the display according to the ranking.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Mobile Communications AB
    Inventor: Tomas Karl-Axel Wässingbo
  • Patent number: 8233877
    Abstract: A mobile terminal capable of operating in a Discontinuous Transmission mode during an active voice call with a remote party is also capable of operating in a Discontinuous Reception mode during the same active voice call. Particularly, a receiving mobile terminal monitors when the remote party stops transmitting speech during the active voice call. If there are no speech signals to receive, the mobile terminal switches it's receiver “off” for selected receive time slots to save battery power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2012
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventor: Hong Xin George Huan
  • Patent number: 8234497
    Abstract: Disclosed is a DRM device and method for providing secure linking to a user identity. A first request is sent to a subscriber identity module. A message is received from the subscriber identity module via a secure authenticated channel. The message comprises at least a master key identifier, a random number, and a derived key. In response to the message, a second request is sent to a DRM server. The second request comprises at least a master key identifier, the device identifier, and a random number. Also disclosed is a DRM server and method for providing secure linking to a user identity. A first request is received from a DRM device. The first request comprises at least master key identifier, a device identifier, and a random number. The DRM device is authenticated. A second request for an application specific key is sent to a trusted key management server. The second request comprises at least a master key identifier. At least a key is received from the trusted key management server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2012
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Yi Cheng, Frank Hartung, Nilo Mitra, Ignacio Mas Ivars
  • Patent number: 8233920
    Abstract: A wireless communication network determines positioning data for a given mobile terminal, in response to receiving a positioning event trigger for that mobile terminal. The network sends the positioning data to the mobile terminal via control-plane signaling, for transfer by the mobile terminal to the user plane. Correspondingly, the mobile terminal receives the positioning data over the control plane, transfers it to the user plane, and transmits the positioning data or location information derived from the positioning data, via user-plane signaling. As such, network-performed positioning measurements and/or geographic coordinate data derived therefrom are transferred from the control plane, to the user plane, for flexible and transparent transmission from the mobile terminal to a given node having a user-plane connection with the mobile terminal. Such a node may be essentially any type of communication device, system, or server, internal or external to the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2012
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Dirk Gerstenberger, Ari Kangas, Daniel Larsson, Torbjörn Wigren
  • Patent number: 8228974
    Abstract: A device that detects an effect which distorts a communication signal in a serial communication channel comprises an input, a detector connected to the input, a demultiplexer having a data input connected to the output of the detector, and an evaluator at each output of the demultiplexer. The input receives the distorted communication signal from the communication channel. The detector detects a feature in a symbol of the distorted communication signal and outputs the detected feature. The demultiplexer outputs the detected feature and has a plurality of control inputs. A differently delayed symbol (i?1, 1, i+1) of the communication signal is applied to each input to switch the detected feature present at the input of the demultiplexer to an output of the demultiplexer specified by the symbols present at the control inputs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Assignee: Ericsson AB
    Inventors: Julien Nicholas Vincent Poirrier, Stefan Herbst, Joerg-Peter Elbers, Helmut Griesser
  • Patent number: 8229347
    Abstract: A base transceiver station (202) for use in a wireless telecommunications system comprising at least one radio transceiver of a first type connected to an antenna of a first type (108) for providing wireless access for remote subscriber units (114) and a radio transceiver of a second type connected to an antenna of a second type (206). The radio transceivers of the first type are operably connected via cables (208), in an intermediate 10 frequency domain, to the transceiver of the second type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventor: Michael Johannes Fuss
  • Patent number: 8229044
    Abstract: The impairment processor described herein uses a look-up table operation to reduce the computational complexity associated with determining an impairment correlation between first and second sample streams for an interference rejection receiver. One exemplary impairment processor iteratively computes multiple partial impairment correlations based on values selected from look-up table(s), and combines the partial impairment correlations to obtain a final impairment correlation between the first and second sample streams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Andres Reial, Girum Alebachew, Elias Jonsson
  • Patent number: 8229300
    Abstract: An optical switch controller controls an optical interconnection network that variably connects at least one input data channel to a plurality of outputs channels via at least one switching element. An address reader module has at least one semiconductor optical amplifier optically processes an optical signal. The address reader module obtains information by reading a data tag from the input data channel, and outputs an address control signal based on the information. The address control signal can be used to control switching elements in the optical interconnection network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Assignee: Ericsson AB
    Inventors: Antonella Bogoni, Luca Poti, Nicola Andriolli, Mirco Scaffardi, Gianluca Berettini, Piero Castoldi
  • Patent number: 8230310
    Abstract: According to one aspect of the teachings presented in this document, a wireless communication receiver implements a form of joint detection that is referred to as “fast joint detection” (FJD). A receiver that is specially adapted to carry out FJD processing provides an advantageous approach to joint detection processing wherein the number of computations needed to produce reliable soft bits, for subsequent turbo decoding and/or other processing, is significantly reduced. Further, the algorithms used in the implementation of FJD processing are particularly well suited for parallelization in dedicated signal processing hardware. Thus, while FJD processing is well implemented via programmable digital processors, it also suits applications where high-speed, dedicated signal processing hardware is needed or desired.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson
    Inventor: Anders Rosenqvist
  • Patent number: 8229050
    Abstract: In a method of enabling model order selection for joint channel synchronization and noise covariance estimation of at least one received signal in a wireless communication network, generating S0 a spatially and temporally stacked signal model by stacking successive samples of temporally adjacent received signal vectors and corresponding training vectors, computing S1 a noise variance matrix for each hypothesized synchronization position, channel length and stacking order, based on the stacked training symbols: determining S2 a best synchronization position for the received signal, based on the stacked training vectors, by jointly determining the best synchronization position for the received signal and estimating a channel length and a stacking order for said signal model based on the stacked training vectors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Miguel Lopez, Gustav Almqvist, Tomas Andersson, Dennis Hui
  • Patent number: 8228915
    Abstract: The invention relates to techniques for handling residual space occurring in packet-based data transmissions, wherein according to one embodiment of a method for controlling a packet-based data transmission, in case an amount of residual space in the packet (300) is below a predefined threshold value, a last one of one or more sub-headers (304) in the header (302) of the packet (300) is constructed by setting a length indicator (LF) to a value indicating to a receiver that no further sub-header follows.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Michael Meyer, Henning Wiemann, Sabine Sories
  • Patent number: 8228878
    Abstract: The present invention relates to wireless communications, and more specifically it relates to a method and system of relaying of wireless communications. Particularly, it relates to suppression and elimination of self-induced interference and oscillations in such systems, thereby facilitating repeaters with increased amplification gain providing extended communication range and improved performance in terms of data rates. Preferred embodiments specify antenna element weighting providing such interference suppression. The invention is, e.g., useful for spatial multiplexing and MIMO communications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Peter Larsson, Mikael Prytz
  • Patent number: 8228367
    Abstract: A radio transceiver included in or attached to an imaging camera is used to facilitate the automatic determination of a scale factor in a three-dimensional (3D) reconstruction. The radio transceiver transmits a radio signal from each of one or more camera positions and measures a reflection profile for the transmitted signal. The measured reflection profile is compared to a simulated reflection profile, generated from a 3D model of the subject/scene of interest, to determine an estimate of an unknown scale for the 3D model. In various embodiments, the radio transceiver may be adapted from a radio device that already exists in or on the imaging camera (e.g., a cellular radio, Bluetooth® radio, or the like) or may be added to an imaging camera.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Björn Johansson, Beatriz Grafulla-Gonzalez, Per Persson, Sanbao Xu
  • Patent number: 8229297
    Abstract: A method of processing data for computing alternative paths in an optical network (10, 40) including making a list of groups (12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24, 26) that comprise links wherein the links in a group share a risk of being affected by the same fault, comparing each group (12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24, 26) with other groups (12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24, 26) in the list to determine whether each group includes the same links as another group, and deleting the groups (16, 26, 20, 22) that comprise links which are a subset of the links in another group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventor: Giovanni Fiaschi