Patents Assigned to Alcatel Lucent
  • Patent number: 9104410
    Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided which allow telecommunication equipment to adjust its power consumption. By replicating the functionality of a standard component for processing traffic on a general purpose CPU, traffic can be routed within the equipment to the general purpose CPU for processing instead of the component under certain conditions. If the maximum bandwidth supported by the functionality on the general purpose CPU is less than the maximum bandwidth supported by the component, then the component can be powered down during times of low traffic and the traffic routed to the general purpose CPU instead. Since the maximum bandwidth supported by the functionality on the general purpose CPU is less than the maximum bandwidth supported by the component, less power is necessary to operate the telecommunication equipment and hence cost is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Kin-Yee Wong, Joseph Rorai
  • Patent number: 9106413
    Abstract: To address the security requirements for cyber-physical systems, embodiments of the present invention include a resilient end-to-end message protection framework, termed Resilient End-to End Message Protection or REMP, exploiting the notion of the long-term key that is given on per node basis. This long term key is assigned during the node authentication phase and is subsequently used to derive encryption keys from a random number per-message sent. Compared with conventional schemes, REMP improves privacy, message authentication, and key exposure, and without compromising scalability and end-to-end security. The tradeoff is a slight increase in computation time for message decryption and message authentication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Young Jin Kim, Vladimir Y. Kolesnikov, Marina Thottan
  • Patent number: 9107041
    Abstract: Methods and systems for determining a location of a UE includes receiving UE position information from a UE being serviced by a plurality of base stations. The UE position information may include a signal reception time and a signal transmission time or a timing advance for at least two of the plurality of base stations. The signal transmission time being a measured time for a signal being transmitted by the UE to be received by a base station, the signal reception time being a measured time for a signal being transmitted by the base station to be received by the UE, and the timing advance being a difference between the signal transmission time and the signal reception time for the base station. The method may include determining a location of the UE based on the received UE position information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventor: Ren Da
  • Patent number: 9106655
    Abstract: A translation device includes a receiver, a processor and a transmitter. The receiver is configured to receive packets from a first party designated for a second party, the received packets including parameters associated with the first party. The processor is configured to translate the parameters of the received packets to form translated packets such that the parameters of the translated packets are associated with the device. The transmitter is configured to transmit the translated packets to the second party.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Bing He, Juergen Stoetzer-Bradler, Chao Sun, Carsten Waitzmann, Quanxiu Liu
  • Patent number: 9106381
    Abstract: Systems, methods, apparatus for configuring NodeB triggering of HS-DPCCH within a UMTS system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Huy Thang Pham, Nicola Puddle
  • Patent number: 9107032
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for implementation in a wireless communication system including a plurality of base stations, a plurality of gateways, and a plurality of mobility management entities. The method includes receiving, at a first mobility management entity and from a first base station, measurement data collected by the first base station for a first mobile unit having a connection to the wireless communication system via the first base station. The measurement data includes a temporary identifier associated with the first mobile unit for the duration of the connection. The method also includes identifying the first mobile unit using the temporary identifier and forming a first record associated with the first mobile unit. The first record includes the measurement data collected by the first base station for the first mobile unit and previously collected measurement data for the first mobile unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Harvey Rubin, Jean-Michel Pugeat, Baoling S. Sheen, Dennis J. Wiest
  • Patent number: 9107068
    Abstract: The herein described device and method facilitate inter-cell interference coordination (ICIC) in a relay-assistant cellular network by: determining, with respect to a sector, whether the sector is relay overloaded or neighboring sectors of the sector are relay overloaded according to load information of the neighboring sectors of the sector; enabling the sector to borrow relay resources released by the neighboring sectors of the sector if the sector is relay overloaded with respect to the neighboring sectors of the sector; and releasing relay resources allocated to the sector according to load information of the neighboring sectors of the sector if the neighboring sectors are relay overloaded with respect to the sector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Jun Wang, Dongyao Wang, Qi Jiang, Jiyong Pang, Jianguo Liu, Gang Shen
  • Patent number: 9103987
    Abstract: An optical device comprising a first optical coupler located over a surface of a substrate such that the optical coupler is able to end-couple to an optical core of a first optical fiber having an end facing and adjacent to the first optical coupler and the surface. The optical device further comprises a second optical coupler located over the surface such that the second optical coupler is able to end-couple to an optical core having an end facing and adjacent to the second optical coupler. The optical device also comprises a pump coupler being configured to couple pump light to an optical path that connects the first optical coupler and the second optical coupler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Christopher Doerr, Peter Winzer
  • Patent number: 9106572
    Abstract: Example embodiments are directed to a method of controlling a self-sufficient network system to prevent unauthorized use of the self-sufficient network. The method includes receiving an activation request from the self-sufficient network system and authenticating the self-sufficient network system based on the activation request. The self-sufficient network system is functional if the activation request is valid and the self-sufficient network system has reduced functionality if the activation request is not valid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Chao Kan, Phu Thieu, Thierry Klein
  • Patent number: 9107184
    Abstract: For applications with very small data activities, connection of a UE to a wireless network for sending or receiving such small data traffic increments via conventional connection set-up processes is quite inefficient in terms of spectral resource utilization. The invention provides a new connectionless methodology for transmission of such small data increments between a UE and a serving eNB. In particular, the invention methodology contemplates identifying a set of preamble sequences among the pool of preamble sequences provided for access requests from a UE to an eNB via the Random Access Channel as corresponding to a request from the UE for access to transmit an increment of data smaller than a predetermined threshold data size. When a UE has data traffic to transmit of a size smaller than the predetermined threshold size, it selects one of the preamble sequences in the identified set and sends an access request, using the selected preamble sequence, to a serving eNB via the Random Access Channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Yang Yang, Xin Wang, Jialin Zou
  • Patent number: 9106431
    Abstract: The invention includes a method and apparatus for providing media content. The method includes duplicating each packet of an original packet stream for which an associated importance level satisfies an importance condition, inserting each duplicate packet within the original packet stream to form thereby a modified packet stream, and transmitting the modified packet stream toward a wireless terminal adapted for processing the modified packet stream for presenting the media content conveyed by the original packet stream. The duplicate packets may be inserted within respective windows associated with the duplicate packets, wherein each window is determined according to an original packet position associated with the original packet from which the duplicate packet is formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Katherine H. Guo, Arun Narayen Netravali, Krishan K. Sabnani
  • Patent number: 9104462
    Abstract: A method and apparatus of providing an RE-aware technique for placing slots based on redundancy across and within slot communication pairs. In particular, the RE-aware placement strategy takes into account the redundancy in data transfers for slot-to-slot communications and place slots to exploit redundancy in data transfers while minimizing the overall inter-rack (or inter-data center) bandwidth usage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Krishna P. Puttaswamy Naga, Ashok Anand
  • Patent number: 9104874
    Abstract: An exemplary technique is provided for detecting a hijacking of computer resources, located in an internal network implementing security criteria and confidentiality criteria specific to the internal network, connected to an external network with no security criteria and confidentiality criteria, through a connection managed by a service provider.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Laurent Clevy, Antony Martin
  • Patent number: 9106708
    Abstract: The present invention is related to a method to control and to change dynamically a MAC address in an aggregation network containing at least a server computer device and a client device, comprising the steps of: Sending from said client device to a server computer device a message (1,11) containing the MAC address of said client computer device, Retrieving said MAC address from said message at said server computer device (2,12), Checking if said MAC address is already in use (by a user) in said network or if said server computer device wants to change all MAC addresses in said network, If so, sending from said server computer device to said client device a message (3,13) containing a new MAC address for said client, Overwriting said MAC address with said new MAC address in said client computer device (4,14).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Christele Bouchat, Sven Jozef Jeanne Van den Bosch, Michel Ferdinand Pauline Tassent, Erwin Alfons Constant Six, Jeanne Emmanuelle Rita De Jaegher
  • Patent number: 9104487
    Abstract: A capability is provided for reducing response variance of virtual processors. A controller receives a processing request. The controller may propagate the processing request toward multiple virtual processors hosted on multiple hardware devices contemporaneously. The controller may propagate the processing request toward a first virtual processor hosted on a first hardware device and propagate the processing request toward a second virtual processor hosted on a second hardware device based on a determination that a timeout period expires before a processing response is received from the first virtual processor. The timeout period may be determined based on one or more response time statistics of the virtual processor and one or more response time statistics of a physical processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Iraj Saniee, Li Li, Eric J Bauer, Randee S Adams
  • Patent number: 9106618
    Abstract: A method for providing control plane encryption in layer 3 networks is disclosed. The method for providing control plane encryption in layer 3 networks includes for a network having a subset of network elements forming a secured domain; the steps of at a network element which is in the secured domain, encrypting all unencrypted Layer 3 packets as they egress an encryption enable egress interface; unencrypting all encrypted Layer 3 packets as they egress an egress interface is not enabled for encryption; and leaving encrypted all encrypted Layer 3 packets as they egress an encryption enable egress interface. A system and machine readable storage media are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Carl Rajsic, Hansen Chan
  • Patent number: 9107233
    Abstract: The present invention proposes a distributed probabilistic dynamic interference coordination scheme to decrease or eliminate inter-cell interference, wherein the mechanism of ALOHA is introduced into the dynamic interference coordination. According to the first aspect of the present invention, a resource scheduling method is proposed, comprising: selecting resource to be scheduled from a scheduling list; selecting a first user equipment to be scheduled from the scheduling list; allocating the selected resource to the first user equipment by probability of p, wherein 0?p?1, if the first user equipment is of edge user. The present invention further proposes a scheduler implementing the aforesaid resource scheduling method and a base station (BS) comprising the aforesaid scheduler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Pingping Wen, Mingli You, Shaoquan Wu, Fanglei Sun
  • Patent number: 9104488
    Abstract: Various exemplary embodiments relate to a method and related network node including one or more of the following: receiving, at a wake-up server, an indication that an agent device will be suspended, including at least one criterion for reestablishing the agent device; determining that the at least one criterion has been met; and, in response, reestablishing the agent device. Various exemplary embodiments relate to a method and related network node including one or more of the following: transmitting, by an agent device to a support server, a request message; transmitting, to a wake-up server, an indication that resources associated with the agent device will be released, including at least one criterion for reestablishing the agent device; transmitting, to the support server, an instruction to transmit a result message associated with the request message to the wake-up device; and releasing the system resources associated with the agent device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventor: Thomas P. Chu
  • Patent number: 9106410
    Abstract: A key agreement protocol between a first party and a second party comprises the following steps from the first party perspective. An encrypted first random key component is directed to the second party, the first random key component having been computed at the first party and encrypted using a public key of the second party in accordance with an identity based encryption operation. An encrypted second random key component corresponding to the second party is received. The encrypted second random key component is decrypted using a private key of the first party. A session key for use in subsequent communications between the first party and the second party is computed based at least in part on the second random key component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventor: Ganapathy S. Sundaram
  • Patent number: 9107066
    Abstract: An example of the present invention is a method of transmitting encrypted user data to a mobile terminal in a wireless telecommunications network. The method comprises sending to the mobile terminal a data packet. The data packet comprises both an identifier of encryption information to used in recovering encrypted user data, and user data encrypted using said encryption information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Alessio Casati, Sudeep Kumar Palat, Said Tatesh