Patents Assigned to AND Communications
  • Monitoring server load balancing
    Patent number: 9270566
    Abstract: Embodiments described herein discuss an approach to implementing load-balancing across multiple monitoring servers. One such embodiment describes a network monitoring device. The network monitoring device includes an ingress port, for receiving mirrored network packets, and a number of egress ports. The egress ports are associated with a number of monitoring servers, and used to forward the mirrored network packets to the monitoring servers. A packet classifier, coupled to the ingress port, examines the mirrored network packets, and determines which of the monitoring servers should receive the packets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignee: Brocade Communications Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Bing Wang, David Cheung
  • Systems and methods for communicating and validating adcopy instructions
    Patent number: 9271056
    Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein relate to a system and method for validating adcopy instructions. A user selection of an advertising client may be received. One or more advertising orders associated with the advertising client are identified in an order management system. A selection of an advertising order is received from the user. A set of adcopy instructions to be associated with the selected advertising contract is received from the user. The set of adcopy instructions are validated based on one or more rules associated with each of the order management system and a traffic and billing system. When the adcopy instructions are validated, the adcopy instructions are stored in a database associated with the traffic and billing system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignee: Cox Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Dan Garvel, Sandra Ashburn, Ann-Marie Dougherty, Shawn Coffman
  • Probability-based approach to recognition of user-entered data
    Patent number: 9268764
    Abstract: A method for entering keys in a small key pad is provided. The method comprising the steps of: providing at least a part of keyboard having a plurality of keys; and predetermining a first probability of a user striking a key among the plurality of keys. The method further uses a dictionary of selected words associated with the key pad and/or a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignee: Nuance Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew Cecil, Santosh Sharan, Jason Lachapelle
  • Semantic re-ranking of NLU results in conversational dialogue applications
    Patent number: 9269354
    Abstract: A human-machine dialog system is described which has multiple computer-implemented dialog components. A user client delivers output prompts to a human user and receives dialog inputs from the human user including speech inputs. An automatic speech recognition (ASR) engine processes the speech inputs to determine corresponding sequences of representative text words. A natural language understanding (NLU) engine processes the text words to determine corresponding NLU-ranked semantic interpretations. A semantic re-ranking module re-ranks the NLU-ranked semantic interpretations based on at least one of dialog context information and world knowledge information. A dialog manager responds to the re-ranked semantic interpretations and generates the output prompts so as to manage a dialog process with the human user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignee: Nuance Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Simona Gandrabur, Jean-Francois Lavallée, Réal Tremblay
  • Characterizing slave clock synchronization behavior by means of dropped sync packets
    Patent number: 9271247
    Abstract: Methods, media, and systems are provided for characterizing the synchronization behavior of a slave clock. A sequence of sync packets, usable to synchronize with a grandmaster clock, is transmitted from the grandmaster clock to a slave clock. The sequence of sync packets is modified by dropping one or more sync packets from the sequence, providing a pattern of dropped sync packets. A synchronization output of the slave clock is monitored and, based on the synchronization output, a determination is made as to whether the slave clock is synchronized while the sequence of sync packets is modified. A characterization of the synchronization behavior of the slave clock is stored with respect to the pattern of dropped sync packets. The process may be repeated for various patterns of dropped sync packets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.
    Inventors: Timothy Hugh Pearson, Steven Kenneth Guthrie, Seng Gan, Adeel Ahmed Siddiqui
  • Peer to peer connection
    Patent number: 9270751
    Abstract: A method in a first device for setting up a peer-to-peer IP connection between the first device and a second device may include sending a request to a second device for setting up the peer-to-peer IP connection between the first device and the second device. The request may include an IP address of the first device. Alternatively, an IP address of the second device may be received in a message from the second device. The peer-to-peer IP connection between the first device and the second device is then set up. The setting up may be initiated by one of the parties associated with the first device or the second device by connecting to the other party using the IP address of the other party.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Mobile Communications AB
    Inventors: Brett A. Pantalone, Anders Angelhag, Jan Robert Tobias Ritzau, William O. Camp, Jr.
  • Laminate structures having a hole surrounding a probe for propagating millimeter waves
    Patent number: 9270005
    Abstract: Various embodiments of millimeter-wave systems on a printed circuit board, including a microstrip, a probe, and an RF integrated circuit, as well as methods for manufacturing said systems. Various embodiments have holes extending through lamina in the PCB, thereby improving radiation propagation. Various embodiments have conductive cages created by multiple through-holes extending through lamina in the PCB, thereby increasing radiation propagation. The manufacture of such systems is easier and less expensive than the manufacture of current systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignee: Siklu Communication Ltd.
    Inventors: Yigal Leiba, Elad Dayan
  • OFDM communication system, method and device for transceiving signal
    Patent number: 9270350
    Abstract: An OFDM communication system, a method and a device for transceiving signal are provided. The method includes: dividing M transmitting antennas into one or more groups to form U transmitting ports, wherein transmitting antennas in different groups are uncorrelated, and M is greater than or equal to U; forming P data flows using a Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) mode, wherein P=U/2, and P is less than or equal to a number of receiving ports; and mapping a group of 2P modulation symbols, including two modulation symbols of each data flow, to a resource element pair to form Space Frequency Block Code (SFBC) coding relationships with each other, and transmitting the group of 2P modulation symbols on the U transmitting ports. The data transmission performance can be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignee: SPREADTRUM COMMUNICATIONS (SHANGHAI) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yongfang Zhou, Fajun Yan, Xiaojian Dong
  • Pre-installation frequency domain premises wiring tests
    Patent number: 9270813
    Abstract: A system and method for testing lines to determine service-affecting conditions on a line, such as telephone wiring. Conditions may be identified from low frequency variations in a frequency spectrum measured on the line. The line may be stimulated with a broad spectrum signal, such as may be generated by a DSL modem operating in the L0 state or may be the result of noise on the line. Analysis of the low frequency variations may yield information about the nature of service-affecting conditions allowing conditions, such as un-terminated or poorly-terminated extensions to be identified. The method may be performed by a test device attached to premises wiring in a telephone network and used to determine whether the premises wiring will support VDSL2 or other high speed data services without modification or may indicate changes at the premises to enable the wiring to support high speed data services.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignee: Tollgrade Communications, Inc.
    Inventor: Roger Faulkner
  • Grid encoded media asset data
    Patent number: 9271052
    Abstract: Metadata can identify temporal segments of content associated with a media asset and can identify asset data types. In response to a request for a particular asset, a central office may identify a data type and a temporal segment based on metadata associated with the request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventor: Dan Holden
  • Automatic methods to predict error rates and detect performance degradation
    Patent number: 9269349
    Abstract: An automatic speech recognition dictation application is described that includes a dictation module for performing automatic speech recognition in a dictation session with a speaker user to determine representative text corresponding to input speech from the speaker user. A post-processing module develops a session level metric correlated to verbatim recognition error rate of the dictation session, and determines if recognition performance degraded during the dictation session based on a comparison of the session metric to a baseline metric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignee: Nuance Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Xiaoqiang Xiao, Venkatesh Nagesha
  • Layer-3 support in TRILL networks
    Patent number: 9270572
    Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention provides a switch. The switch includes an IP header processor and a forwarding mechanism. The IP header processor identifies a destination IP address in a packet encapsulated with an inner Ethernet header, a TRILL header, and an outer Ethernet header. The forwarding mechanism determines an output port and constructs a new header for the packet based on the destination IP address. The switch also includes a packet processor which determines whether (1) an inner destination media access control (MAC) address corresponds to a local MAC address assigned to the switch; (2) a destination RBridge identifier corresponds to a local RBridge identifier assigned to the switch; and (3) an outer destination MAC address corresponds to the local MAC address.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignee: BROCADE COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS INC.
    Inventors: Phanidhar Koganti, Anoop Ghanwani, Suresh Vobbilisetty, Rajiv Krishnamurthy, Nagarajan Venkatesan, Shunjia Yu
  • Optical fiber and composite inorganic ferrule assemblies
    Patent number: 9268101
    Abstract: A pre-terminated optical fiber assembly with a ferrule having front and rear opposed faces and at least one fiber bore defined longitudinally therethrough includes a glass optical fiber is disposed within the at least one fiber bore with the fiber fused to the ferrule at a location at least 1 mm deep inside the bore. A method for fusing is also disclosed. The ferrule 14 is desirably composed of an inorganic composite material, the composite comprising a material gradient from at least 75% by volume of a first inorganic material to at least 75% by volume of second inorganic material in the radially inward direction, where the first inorganic material has a fracture toughness of at least 1 MPa·m1/2, and the second inorganic material has a softening point of no greater than 1000° C., desirably no greater than 900° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignee: Corning Optical Communications LLC
    Inventors: Jeffrey Dean Danley, Robert Bruce Elkins, II
  • Mobile client device, operation method, recording medium, and operation system
    Patent number: 9268424
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus that detects an input operation to a touch panel based on an output of the touch panel; creates an operation command to change content displayed on a display apparatus based on a detected input operation to the touch panel; and controls a wireless interface to transmit the operation command to the display apparatus controlling the display apparatus to change the content displayed on the display apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Mobile Communications Inc.
    Inventor: Yosuke Hatanaka
  • Managing access node selection for a wireless device
    Patent number: 9271212
    Abstract: In systems and methods of managing access node selection for a wireless device, a first handover of a wireless device from a first access node to a second access node is performed based on a traffic load of the first access node meeting a traffic load threshold, and a first signal level of the first access node and a second signal level of the second access node are monitored. During a predetermined time period, the performance of a second handover of the wireless device from the second access node to the first access node is prevented when the second signal level meets a first signal level criteria, but the second handover of the wireless device is performed from the second access node to the first access node when the second signal level meets a second signal level criteria and the first signal level meets a third signal level criteria.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.
    Inventor: Pei Hou
  • System and method for extracting a specific situation from a conversation
    Patent number: 9269357
    Abstract: A system, method, and computer readable article of manufacture for extracting a specific situation in a conversation. The system includes: an acquisition unit for acquiring speech voice data of speakers in the conversation; a specific expression detection unit for detecting the speech voice data of a specific expression from speech voice data of a specific speaker in the conversation; and a specific situation extraction unit for extracting, from the speech voice data of the speakers in the conversation, a portion of the speech voice data that forms a speech pattern that includes the speech voice data of the specific expression detected by the specific expression detection unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignee: Nuance Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Nobuyasu Itoh, Gakuto Kurata, Masafumi Nishimura
  • Service processing method, a baseband processor chip and a terminal
    Patent number: 9271132
    Abstract: A service processing method, a baseband processor chip and a terminal are disclosed in embodiments of this invention, wherein the service processing method comprises: in response to a need for processing a CS domain service by a terminal, identifying whether PS domain data that is being received/transmitted in a PS domain service currently processed by the terminal is critical data for maintaining the QoS level of the PS domain service; in response to that the PS domain data being received/transmitted is not critical data, suspending the processing of the PS domain service and processing the CS domain service. The embodiment of this invention enables a terminal of Class B to process a CS domain service during the process of receiving/transmitting PS domain data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignee: Spreadtrum Communications (Shanghai) Co., LTD
    Inventors: Zhi Zhang, Jiwu Liu, Xianliang Chen, Xichun Gao, Yuan Xu, Wenbo Lu, Ma Zhang, Yingping Hu
  • Signal monitoring platform
    Patent number: 9270545
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure relate to signal monitoring at edge of a network domain in a network. A monitoring device can evaluate communication quality of information streams in downstream frequency channels, and operation conditions in a telecommunication network. In one aspect, communication quality can be evaluated at the physical layer level or at a higher-layer level containing payload data. In response to an operation issue, the monitoring device can transmit a notification to a node of a distribution platform of the telecommunication network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventor: Jorge Salinger
  • Location awareness session management and cross application session management
    Patent number: 9271110
    Abstract: A location aware session token generation and validation system is provided. The system comprises a server system comprising at least one processor. The server system also comprises at least one non-transitory memory. The system further comprises a token component stored on the at least one non-transitory memory that, when executed by the server system, receives a request to initiate an application level session from a mobile device, wherein the request includes an identification of the mobile device and a location of the mobile device, generates a token for the application level session wherein the token is time limited and location limited such that the application level session will expire at the end of a specified period of time or when the mobile device moves from the location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.
    Inventors: David K. Fultz, Victor Anend Vijayakirthi
  • Transmission control protocol window size adjustment for out-of-order protocol data unit removal
    Patent number: 9270609
    Abstract: A system and method for sharing a WAN TCP tunnel between multiple flows without having head of the line blocking problem is disclosed. When a complete but out of order PDU is stuck behind an incomplete PDU in a TCP tunnel, the complete but out of order PDU is removed from the tunnel. To do that, first the boundaries of the PDUs of the different flows are preserved and the TCP receive window advertisement is increased. The receive window is opened when initially receiving out-of-order data. As out-of-order complete PDUs are pulled out of the receive queue, to address double counting, place holders are used in the receive queue to indicate data that was in the queue. As out-of-order data PDUs are pulled out of the queue the window advertisement is increased. This keeps the sending side from running out of TX window and stopping transmission of new data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignee: Brocade Communications Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Siva Adiraju, Ryan Hegland, Isaac Larson, Andy Dooley