Patents Represented by Attorney Roger S. Burleigh
  • Patent number: 7870259
    Abstract: In a method for the transmission of data packets (D) from a transmitter (TR) to a receiver (RE) identification of transmitted data packets are stored. Defective data packets (D) are detected by the receiver (RE), status messages (S) which request defective data packets for retransmission are sent from the receiver (RE) to the transmitter (TR) and retransmissions of requested data packets are performed according to the status messages (S). The transmitter (TR) evaluates a first status message (S11) with an identification of at least one first requested data packet and retransmits the first data packet. The transmitter (TR) then initializes a timing unit according to the retransmission of the first data packet, wherein the timing unit or a threshold for the timing unit is attributable to the first data packet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2011
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (Publ)
    Inventors: Michael Meyer, Janne Peisa, Bela Rathonyi, Joachim Sachs, Stefan Wager, Toomas Wigell
  • Patent number: 7865173
    Abstract: The present invention is related to an authentication method and arrangements in a communication system including a Subscriber (50) with a terminal (51), an Operator Node (52) and a Service Provider Node (53), which authentication method is based on an SLA agreement between the Operator (OP) and the Service Provider (SP). The method includes that the Subscriber (50) with terminal (51) performs (5) strong authentication with the Operator Node (52) acting as Registration Authority OP(RA). After the strong authentication is performed by the Operator Node (52) a Mobile Strong Authentication Assertion MSAA is generated (6) and transmitted to the Service Provider Node (53) for validation. By this method the authentication is being delegated from the Service Provider to the Mobile Operator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2011
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (Publ)
    Inventors: Susana Fernandez-Alonso, Luis Barriga
  • Patent number: 7864684
    Abstract: The invention provides a leaky-bucket method for delivering packets from a first node (A) to a second node (B) in a packet switched network, comprising the steps of: receiving at the first node (A) of at least one transmission comprising buffered packets, and at least one transmission comprising real-time packets; transmitting the received packets to the second node (B) and increase a bucket counter for the bucket, which bucket has a leak rate that is equal to or larger than the byte transmitting ratio of the real-time packets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2011
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (Publ)
    Inventor: Sten Onbeck
  • Patent number: 7864748
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for transporting TDM traffic through packet switched networks. The nodes of the packet switched network are MPLS adjusted, and the timeslots of a TDM connection are encapsulated in data frames in the transmitting circuit switched node, and added one or more MPLS label(s) by means of the MPLS label stacking concept to identify the fixed path through the packet switched network and to uniquely address the PCM system of the circuit switched receiving node. The present invention is particularly useful for transmission of real-time data traffic through IP network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2011
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (Publ)
    Inventors: Terje Moldestad, Per Eirik Heimdal, Halvard Widerøe Njølstad, Berner Vegge
  • Patent number: 7855674
    Abstract: The present invention provides a coherent radar system based on a modification of standard non-coherent radar without Moving Target Indication. Typical radars in this class are Navigation radars which are mass produced with low cost components. These radars utilize a magnetron in the transmitter which is a random phase device. In the present invention, the received signal is extracted just prior to amplitude detection process (where phase information is lost), and digitized using an analogue to digital converter providing coherent detection based on correlation between the transmitted pulse and the received signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2010
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (Public)
    Inventor: Per Atle Våland
  • Patent number: 7852881
    Abstract: The present invention discloses one or more network components within a telecommunication network wherein said network is a serial bitstream network and the network components are comprising one or more inverse multiplexers, wherein said multiplexer(s) is/are TDM bonding multiplexers and said multiplexer(s) utilize(s) spare bits and/or FAS bits in a protocol for control of specific functions of the inverse multiplexer(s). The invention further includes a method for inverse multiplexing of one or more serial bitstreams within a telecommunication network wherein said method uses spare bit and/or frame alignment signals from a protocol to: measure differential delay between transmission lines at the receiving end, and/or secure timeslot integrity by compensation for individual link delay, and/or secure correct transmitter and receiver timeslot sequence by link identification, and/or monitor channel availability by block error checking.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2010
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (Publ)
    Inventor: Reidar Schumann-Olsen
  • Patent number: 7848742
    Abstract: Saving bandwidth on the Abis interface in mobile communication systems. When congestion appears on an Abis full rate channel communication is switched over to half rate while keeping full rate on the radio interface. Thereby possibilities are still available for good error correction and control on a highly interfered radio channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2010
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (Publ)
    Inventor: Martin Bakhuizen
  • Patent number: 7843860
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an arrangement in a communications system participating in user station (UE; 1) service request and/or access procedures and comprising a number of packet data support nodes (10), a number of charging and/or policy handling nodes (30) and a number of application functions (20) handling mobility management and call control of mobile user stations requesting and/or accessing services. The packet data support node(s) (10) comprise(s) means adapted to send first mobile user station identity related information over a first interface (Gx,Gy; Gx/Gy) to a charging and/or policy handling node (30), at reception of a request for bearer services from a mobile user station (1). The application function(s) (20) comprise(s) means for, at reception of a request for a service session (SIP) from a mobile user station (1), sending second mobile user station identity related information to the charging and/or policy handling node (30), over a second interface (Rx,Rx/Gq).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2010
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (Publ)
    Inventor: Krister Boman
  • Patent number: 7839956
    Abstract: A method of compensating for dc offset of a received signal transmitted over a channel having a plurality of paths, the received signal comprising a modulated data signal and a modulated known training sequence signal, the method comprising the steps of: constructing (104) from the known training sequence signal a first regression matrix; path-combining (106) the incrementally rotated elements of the first regression matrix to produce the elements of a trend matrix; deriving (108) a neutralized second regression matrix from the first regression matrix and the trend matrix; utilising the neutralized second regression matrix to compensate (110, 112) for dc offset of the received modulated data signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2010
    Assignee: Telefonaktiegolaget L M Ericsson (Publ)
    Inventor: Shousheng He
  • Patent number: 7835320
    Abstract: The present invention relates to communications. More especially it relates to multiple access communications over diverse access technologies. Particularly it relates to multiple radio access technologies and heterogeneous networks and admission control for multi-technology access, the admission control serving one or more communication sessions over more than one access technology at the same time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2010
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (Publ)
    Inventors: Per Olof Magnus Magnusson, Mikael Prytz, Joachim Sachs
  • Patent number: 7817660
    Abstract: A first interface for receiving downlink data packets from a core network, a second interface for transmitting data packets to user entities, a processor comprising a scheduler, a first memory partition comprising and parameter data pertaining to a first subset of allocated priority queues, a second memory partition comprising parameter data pertaining to a second subset of allocated priority queues, is provided. The processor is transferring parameter data between the first and second memory partitions, and vice versa, whereby parameter data for priority queues having no data packets in corresponding buffers is prioritized for being transferred to the first memory partition, parameter data for priority queues having data packets in corresponding buffers is prioritized for being transferred to the second memory partition, the processor performing scheduling based on a selection of priority queues whose parameter data is residing in the second memory partition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2010
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (Publ)
    Inventor: Rikard Thomasson
  • Patent number: 7804836
    Abstract: A processing device and method for processing packets of encoded real-time data to perform a gradual fade-out and fade-in of a signal. Upon detecting the beginning of a packet loss period, a last correctly received packet is repeated with gradually increased attenuation to slowly fade out, for example, an audio signal. At the end of the packet loss period, the device slowly fades in the signal by attenuating the first or a number of packets received following the loss period. The method may be performed with low complexity by decrementing segment numbers of samples of data packets such as in a lookup operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2010
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (PUBL)
    Inventor: Kim Hyldgaard
  • Patent number: 7800442
    Abstract: The present invention relates to balanced power amplifier network in combination with outphasing techniques such as Chireix. The object of the present invention is to provide a solution to the problem to combine balanced amplifiers like the current mode class D (CMCD) or class E/F with a LINC network. The main problem is that some power amplifiers have balanced output and the LINC network is single-ended so that a high power low loss transformer that works at several impedance levels is needed, which is hard to realize at cellular frequencies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2010
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (Publ)
    Inventor: Thomas Lejon
  • Patent number: 7796556
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and arrangements for including a detected cell, i.e. a cell not identified by the network, in an active set, i.e. the set comprising the base stations simultaneously connected to the same mobile terminal in soft handover. The method comprises the steps of:—receiving a measurement report comprising a detected set cell from a mobile terminal located in a first cell:—providing (301) a list (L1) for the first cell in the network with cells not defined as neighbouring cells to the first cell, wherein the cells in the list (L1) are grouped based on their scrambling codes;—identifying (302) the scrambling code of the detected set cell;—creating (303) a temporary relation between one of the cells in the list (L1), having an identical scrambling code as the detected set cell, and one cell in the AS;—adding (304) the one of the cells in the list (L1), having an identical scrambling code as the detected set cell, to the active set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2010
  • Patent number: 7792105
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method, a broadcast management centre, a router, a host and a system for performing broadcast in a point-to-point oriented packet-switched telecommunication network. The basic idea is to use multicast for parts of the transmission within said telecommunication network. The multicast technique is used to send broadcast data to a geographical broadcast group to which a network node belongs. The network nodes are configured to a certain geographical broadcast group by the broadcast management centre.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2010
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (Publ)
    Inventors: Ralf Keller, Thorsten Lohmar, Frank Hundscheidt
  • Patent number: 7782788
    Abstract: A method of charging a subscriber for using GPRS services provided by a mobile communications network. The method is based on including a flag in PDP activation or modification messages sent from a UE used by the subscriber to a GGSN of the network; the flag indicates whether the PDP context is to be used for signaling data or user data. The flag is examined within the network or at a node external to the network; if the flag indicates that the PDP context is to be used for carrying signaling data, a first charging regime is applied to the subscriber for establishing and using the context and, if the flag indicates that the PDP context is to be used for carrying user data, a different charging regime is applied to the subscriber for establishing and/or using the context.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2010
    Assignee: Elefonaktibolaget L M Ericsson (Publ)
    Inventors: Hans Ahlback, Harri Hakala, Leena Mattila
  • Patent number: 7783262
    Abstract: The present invention pertains to a transmitter that can exploit feedback to help it organize information which is subsequently sent to a receiver. More specifically, the transmitter receives a feedback signal from the receiver and then uses data about a channel in the feedback signal to adapt at least one of a coding, interleaving and modulating scheme to organize information which is subsequently transmitted to the receiver. In this way, the transmitter can obtain the best match of a channel and a given information payload.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2010
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (Publ)
    Inventor: Ali S. Khayrallah
  • Patent number: 7777683
    Abstract: A lens (300, 500) is disclosed for steering the exit direction (?) of an incident electromagnetic wave. The lens comprises a main body (210, 510) of a ferroelectric material with a first main surface (207, 507) and a first transformer (220, 222). The electromagnetic wave enters and exits the lens through the transformer, and the lens comprises means (370, 380) for creating a DC-field in a first direction in the main body. The main body (210, 510) of ferroelectric material comprises a plurality (21011-210NN, 51011-510NN) of slabs of the ferroelectric material, each slab also comprising a first (403, 603) and a second electrode of a conducting material. The means for creating a DC-field can create a gradient DC-field in the first direction using the first and second electrodes, so that the dielectric constant in the main body will also be a gradient in the first direction, thus enabling steering of the existing electromagnetic wave.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2010
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (Publ)
    Inventors: Ola Tageman, Spartak Gevorgyan, Anatoli Deleniv, Pierre Filhol, Vladimir Cherman
  • Patent number: 7769391
    Abstract: The present invention relates in general to the radio communications field and, in particular, to a method and apparatus for detecting congestion in a spread spectrum Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) cellular communication system. By measuring the number of Signal-to-Interference Ratio Error reports being received at the Radio Network Controller a potential congestion can be detected in the cell when the number of reports being received is above a threshold. Further can a differentiation be made between a potential or a serious congestion and different actions be performed dependant on if a potential or a serious congestion is detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2010
    Assignee: Elefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (Publ)
    Inventors: Andreas Andersson, Torbjörn Olsson
  • Patent number: 7760644
    Abstract: A multiservice IP network and a method are described herein that use an enhanced QOS message which makes it possible for an IP router to reserve resources for and admit a high priority traffic flow without needing to terminate an existing low priority traffic flow. In accordance with the present invention, in the event an emergency reservation request arrives at an IP router and there are not enough resources to support the high priority traffic flow, then the IP router reduces the reservation of one or more low priority traffic flows to a reduced level. The IP router also sends a notification message to the sender indicating that the reservations have been reduced. Thereafter, the high priority traffic flow can be admitted. As such, if there is enough adaptive traffic in the multiservice IP network, then the low priority calls need not be terminated instead only the resources are reduced to a lower but still acceptable QoS level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2010
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (Publ)
    Inventor: Attila Bader