Patents Assigned to AND Communications
  • Publication number: 20160308823
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure involve systems, methods, computer program products, and the like, for correlating information associated with one networking transmission protocol, such as Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6), to information associated with a different networking transmission protocol, such as Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv4). More specifically, when resolving an Internet Protocol (IP) address associated with a requesting device to a network, the system may base the resolved destination on one or more attributes of a known address to build a network mapping of the received IP address. In one specific example, an IPv6 address is received and associated with a known IPv4 address to map the network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2016
    Publication date: October 20, 2016
    Applicant: Level 3 Communications, LLC
    Inventor: Joel C. Maslak
  • Patent number: 9473456
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for increasingly applying network resources to traffic flows based on heuristics and policy conditions. A network determines that a traffic flow satisfies a first condition and transmits a first portion of the traffic flow to a network service. A network service then inspects the first portion of the traffic flow at a first level of detail and determines that the traffic flow satisfies a second condition. The network can then transmit a second portion of the traffic flow to the network service based on the determining the traffic flow satisfies the second condition. The network service can inspect the second portion of the traffic flow at a second level of detail, wherein the inspecting at the second level of detail requires a different amount of computing resources than the inspecting at the first level of detail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignee: LEVEL 3 COMMUNICATIONS, LLC
    Inventors: Pete Joseph Caputo, II, William Thomas Sella
  • Patent number: 9473126
    Abstract: A latch and a frequency divider are provided. The latch includes: a first logic unit coupled between a power supply and a ground wire, wherein the first logic unit comprises a first control terminal, a first input terminal and a first output terminal; a second logic unit having a structure symmetrical to that of the first logic unit, wherein the second logic unit comprises a second control terminal, a second input terminal and a second output terminal; and a feedforward control unit adapted for cutting off a current path in the first logic unit or the second logic unit based on signals inputted into the first input terminal and the second input terminal. Power consumption of the latch can be reduced in both static working condition and dynamic working condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignee: SPREADTRUM COMMUNICATIONS (SHANGHAI) CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yiqiang Wu
  • Patent number: 9472847
    Abstract: An antenna structure is electronically connected to a connector of a wireless communication device. The connector includes a power terminal and a ground terminal. The antenna structure includes a main antenna, a secondary antenna, and two posts. The main antenna includes a feed portion and a ground portion. The secondary antenna extends from the main antenna. One post electronically connects the power terminal of the connector to the feed portion, and the other post electronically connects the ground terminal of the connector to the ground portion. A wireless communication device employing the antenna structure is also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignee: Chiun Mai Communication Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Yi-Chieh Lee, Yen-Hui Lin
  • Patent number: 9471473
    Abstract: A system is provided for environment validation. The system includes a user interface, a repository, and a validation tool. The repository includes environment component information. The validation tool accesses environment component information in the repository and validates each keystore associated with an environment. The validation tool also validates each port associated with the environment and validates each database associated with the environment. Additionally, the validation tool validates each message service associated with the environment and validates each interface associated with the environment. Furthermore, the validation tool outputs results of validating each environment component to the user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.
    Inventors: Vijaykumar Cherukumudi, Lesley Cranor, David K. Fultz
  • Patent number: 9473651
    Abstract: A scanning system provides for scanning documents and generating respective electronic copies with associated metadata. A scanner scans one or more documents to produce respective electronic copies. A user interface captures metadata entered by a user regarding the documents. A controller is communicatively coupled to the scanner and the user interface, and enables the user interface to capture the metadata concurrently with the scanner's scanning the documents. The electronic copy and the metadata can be associated with one another or incorporated into a common file. Parallel metadata entry and physical scanning reduces time a user spends to perform the overall process, resulting in increased user satisfaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignee: Nuance Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Ákos Zahorán, Tibor Attila Sás, Gábor Pesti, Miklós Osim, Béla Czinege, György László Várszegi
  • Patent number: 9473630
    Abstract: Methods, media, and network devices are provided for detecting errors in caller identifier records. A caller name provider is identified for a terminating endpoint that is a recipient of a communication from a transmitting device. The caller name provider receives queries for caller identifier information that will be transmitted to the terminating endpoint. The caller name provider returns records having the caller identifiers in response to the queries. When the records contain an error, the caller name providers receive update requests from a calling party of the transmitting device. The update requests include changes to the records that correct the errors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.
    Inventors: Mark Douglas Peden, Gary Duane Koller, Raymond Emilio Reeves, Simon Youngs
  • Patent number: 9470731
    Abstract: A TEM mode cell having an internal TEM element and at least one port on the cell comprising a stepped transmission line transformer coupling said element to the port. The cell comprises a hollow metallic housing having an enlarged center with opposite open ends, and a pair of end sections closing off said center open ends and tapering to a distal end of reduced cross sectional area. A connector at the distal end of each end section, and a stepped septum mounted within the housing and insulated therefrom, the septum coupled to and extending between the connectors. The septum having a central portion joining a pair of end portions each having a stepped contour reducing in size toward its connector. Each end portion has at least three steps in contour, with transition slopes between the steps being greatest leading to said central portion and the least leading to its connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignee: FISCHER CUSTOM COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Joseph F. Fischer, Allen W. Fischer, Bruce Harlacher, Eric Crittenden
  • Patent number: 9473385
    Abstract: An LTE network, having a plurality of base stations and S-GWs, processes GTP packets to determine an amount of GTP tunnels between the base stations and the S-GWs gateways. The LTE network processes the amount of GTP tunnels to determine a target amount of LTE P-GWs to serve the base stations. If the target amount of the LTE P-GWs is greater than a current amount of the LTE P-GWs, then an additional amount of virtual LTE P-GWs is implemented to serve the base stations. If the target amount of the LTE P-GWs is less than the current amount of the LTE P-GWs, then an extra amount of the virtual LTE P-GWs that serve the base stations are removed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.
    Inventors: Aaron Paul Hinkle, Seng Chai Gan, Khoi Dinh Nguyen, Danmei Wu
  • Patent number: 9473258
    Abstract: A method is provided for aligning RF signals of a first channel bank and additional channel banks in a test platform. A plurality of correlators is used to correlate a reference code signal carrying a particular code at a particular chip rate with a received code signal carrying the particular code at the particular chip rate from the first channel bank to establish a first timing offset. The plurality of correlators is used to correlate a continuation of the reference code signal with additional received code signals carrying the particular code at the particular chip rate from the additional channel banks to establish additional timing offsets. The first timing offset and additional timing offsets are applied to the first and additional channel banks. The plurality of correlators includes 72 correlators, and a timing offset established in a correlation interval having a shorter duration than a length of the particular code.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignee: SPIRENT COMMUNICATIONS PLC
    Inventors: Neil Christopher Pearse, Steve Michael Moroz, Mark Geoffrey Holbrow
  • Patent number: 9473613
    Abstract: A wired network may be used to carry signals for a wireless network, in a frequency-shifted manner, to extend the range of the wireless network. A wired network may detect signal interference emanating from a wireless service provider, and received through a leak in the wired network's infrastructure. Devices may be installed or leveraged in the vicinity of the interference to extend the wireless service to geographic areas that may have poor reception. The devices may amplify wireless downstream signals and transmit them wirelessly, and may receive upstream wireless communications and transmit them upstream in the wired network's protocol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Lawrence D. Wolcott, Kevin Johns
  • Patent number: 9473571
    Abstract: A plurality of server computers in a network that includes load balancing processes to enhance performance employs a non-performance related variable, such as power consumption, and modifies the load balancing processes in response to the reading of the non-performance variable. Such variables do not affect the response and performance as perceived by a browsing client but do provide other advantages with in the environment as a whole. The non-performance related variable is employed such that one or more of said server computers are de-activated to reduce power consumption, and the load balancing processes balance load across the remaining active server computers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignee: Brocade Communications Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: David Day, Ian McDowell
  • Patent number: 9471584
    Abstract: A demand paging method for a mobile terminal, a controller and a mobile terminal, wherein the demand paging method determines, when a mobile terminal needs to operate a compressed file, a storage location of the compressed file in an external part of the controller of the mobile terminal; a decoding unit of the internal part of the controller of the mobile terminal decompresses the compressed file in the storage location; the mobile terminal saves the decompressed file to a designated part of the memory, wherein the designated part of the memory comprises the memory in the internal part of the controller of the mobile terminal and/or the memory in the external part of the controller of the mobile terminal; the mobile terminal continues to operate on the basis of the decompressed file. The technical solution increases the processing efficiency of demand paging of the mobile terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignee: SPREADTRUM COMMUNICATIONS (SHANGHAI) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yipeng Chai, Mingjun Jia, Yanshan Shi
  • Patent number: 9473096
    Abstract: Systems and methods for dynamically adjusting transmit gain in a transceiver. The gain is adjusted in order to provide the maximum gain. The amount of distortion is measured. The gain is increased until the distortion reaches a predetermined limit. The gain of several components can be adjusted independently.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignee: Entropic Communications, LLC
    Inventor: Branislav Petrovic
  • Patent number: 9473945
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) is disclosed. The UE comprises a radio frequency transceiver, processor, a memory, and an application stored to the memory. The application, when executed by the processor establishes a communication link from the UE to a communication terminal. The application sends a validation message to the communication terminal over the communication link, wherein a passcode is appended to the validation message send to the communication terminal. The application receives the validation message back from the communication terminal via the communication link, wherein the received validation message has an appended aggregate security signature on the message that shows that the message was read and validated by the communication terminal. The application sends a short message over the communication link to the communication terminal. The application then tears down the communication link.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.
    Inventors: Ronald R. Marquardt, Lyle W. Paczkowski
  • Patent number: 9468858
    Abstract: A transformable yo-yo includes two rotators and a connecting shaft. A through hole, into which the connecting shaft is inserted from two directions, is provided in the middle of each of the rotators. A connecting device, configured to connect and secure the connecting shaft, is provided in the through hole. By moving the connecting device, the connecting shaft can be released so that the rotators are separated from the connecting shaft. Back sides of the two rotators are oppositely connected to the connecting shaft, and connected and secured through the connecting device to assemble a yo-yo of a first form. After release, the front sides of the two rotators are oppositely connected to the connecting shaft, and secured through the connecting device as well to assemble a yo-yo of a second form.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignees: Guangdong Alpha Animation & Culture Co., Ltd., Guangdong Auldey Animation & Toy Co., Ltd., Guangzhou Alpha Culture Communications Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Dongqing Cai
  • Patent number: 9473915
    Abstract: A call verification system in mobile terminals, including a calling/called unit, and the calling unit includes: a verification code acquiring module, a packaging module, a transmitting module; the called unit comprises a receiving module, a storage module, an analysis module, a verification code module and a call control module. A method includes steps of acquiring and packaging the verification code; transmitting verification code while calling; parsing and acquiring the verification code at the called terminal; matching the verification code with the standard verification code and intercepting the mismatched call establishment request. The effects are achieved without configuration of a mobile network and the service of operators; no delay for the users no effect on existing communication business; intercepting crank calls without answering or hanging up.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignee: SPREADTRUM COMMUNICATIONS (SHANGHAI) CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Pengfei Zhao
  • Patent number: 9473738
    Abstract: Communication systems, video endpoints, and related methods are described. A video endpoint is configured to receive commands corresponding to functions of the video endpoint from a mobile electronic device responsive to a user interacting with a remote control interface of the mobile electronic device. The functions include in-call functions. A method includes performing the functions responsive to receiving the commands from the mobile electronic device. A method of transforming a mobile electronic device into a remote control device for the video endpoint includes storing computer-readable instructions at one or more servers. The computer-readable instructions are configured to instruct the mobile electronic device to provide the remote control interface and transmit the commands to the video endpoint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignee: Sorenson Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Doug Stringham, Jonathan Roberts, Kevin Rittenhouse
  • Patent number: 9468401
    Abstract: A system and method are provided for capturing hearing characteristics from self-administered hearing tests, including loudness tolerance levels at different sound frequencies, as an individualized shaped auditory profile for automatically enhancing audio to complement and address as closely as possible an individual's hearing deficits experienced via a particular signal pathway, the signal pathway including the audio device used to administer the test, the sound environment, and the user's hearing capabilities. The user may self-administer a hearing test on a convenient personal apparatus, such as a smartphone. The shaped auditory profile may then be used to produce enhanced sound subsequently transmitted to the individual via the same signal pathway. In certain of its aspects, the invention is useful for any individual seeking an enhanced hearing experience, whether having hearing within normal range or hearing that is impaired.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignee: ACE Communications Limited
    Inventors: Charles Andrew Van Hasselt, Chi Shan Anna Kam, Pui Tong Paul Lee, Ka Kui Cheng
  • Patent number: D769229
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignees: CHENGDU M&S SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., CHENGDU GLOBAL-WAY COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yun Gao, Tian Tang, Chunmei Xin