Patents Assigned to AND Communications
  • Method and system for facilitating QoS zoning in a network
    Patent number: 8160072
    Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that facilitates end-to-end quality of service (QoS) between a source and a destination in a network. During operation, the system allocates virtual channels on an output port of a switch to a number of quality of service (QoS) levels. The system further assigns a virtual channel to a traffic flow based on a QoS zone, wherein the QoS zone is identified by a host identifier, a target identifier, and a QoS level of the traffic flow. In addition, the system forwards data frames in the traffic flow via the assigned virtual channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2012
    Assignee: Brocade Communications Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Sathish K. Gnanasekaran, Ponpandiaraj Rajarathinam, Vineet M. Abraham
  • SIDE LOADING
    Publication number: 20120086851
    Abstract: Side loading of content elements is provided. A selection of a content element from a terminal device may be received and a content format associated with the terminal device may be identified. If the content element is not available in the identified content format, the content element may be transcoded from a current content format to the identified content format and the content element may be transferred to the terminal device in the identified content format.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2011
    Publication date: April 12, 2012
    Applicant: COX COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Edgar V. Shrum, JR., Francisco Gonzalez
  • MOBILE DEVICE FOR LOW POWER IDENTIFICATION OF ITS POSITION AND A METHOD THEREFORE
    Publication number: 20120088519
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method in a mobile device and a mobile device for low power identification of its position in an indoor environment, in which beacon transmitters of a beacon system are present. The device receives a notification from at least one of the beacon transmitters of the beacon system that notifies the mobile device that it is within the range of the beacon system. Thus it is the beacon transmitters that perform the continuous scanning to identify if the mobile device is within range and not the mobile device itself. This will reduce the power consumption of the mobile device substantially. The mobile device will than request that the beacon transmitters within range to send data pertaining to their position, and then determine its position by performing calculations based on such data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2010
    Publication date: April 12, 2012
    Applicant: SONY ERICSSON MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS AB
    Inventors: Kare Agardh, Magnus Persson
  • Wavelength Selective Switch Band Aggregator and Band Deaggregator and Systems and Methods Using Same
    Publication number: 20120087658
    Abstract: In general, wavelength division multiplexed (WDM) communication systems may use wavelength selective switching to aggregate and/or deaggregate groups or bands of channel wavelengths. A wavelength selective switch (WSS) band aggregator may combine a plurality of channel band aggregate optical signals to produce a combined aggregate optical signal (i.e., a transmitted WDM or DWDM signal). The WSS band aggregator may also combine one or more spectral portions of broadband noise with the bands of channel wavelengths such that the spectral portion(s) of the broadband noise occupies unutilized channels in the combined aggregate optical signal. A WSS band deaggregator may separate a combined aggregate optical signal (i.e., a received WDM or DWDM signal) to produce a plurality of channel band aggregate optical signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2010
    Publication date: April 12, 2012
    Applicant: TYCO ELECTRONICS SUBSEA COMMUNICATIONS LLC
    Inventor: Ralph Brian Jander
  • Voice Over Short Messaging Service
    Publication number: 20120089399
    Abstract: A method of operating a mobile communication device is described. A text message is received over a wireless messaging channel, wherein the text message contains a non-text representation of an utterance. The non-text representation is extracted from the text message, and an audio representation of the spoken utterance is synthesized from the non-text representation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2011
    Publication date: April 12, 2012
    Applicant: NUANCE COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
    Inventor: Daniel L. Roth
  • HOLDER FOR FLEXIBLE POUCH CONTAINER
    Publication number: 20120085782
    Abstract: A flexible pouch container holder for a flexible pouch container includes a deformable flexible sheet and has an opening in an upper portion of the flexible pouch container, a liquid contained inside the flexible pouch container being discharged through the opening, wherein the holder includes a bottom support portion which supports a bottom of the flexible pouch container; and a peripheral support portion which is higher in rigidity than the flexible pouch container, has elasticity, is open at the top of the peripheral support portion and continuous with the bottom support portion, and surrounds a portion of the flexible pouch container which is positioned below the opening when the bottom of the flexible pouch container is placed on the bottom support portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2011
    Publication date: April 12, 2012
    Applicant: SYSTEM COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
    Inventor: Minoru FUTORI
  • FACSIMILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM AND METHOD
    Publication number: 20120087484
    Abstract: A fax processing system handles faxes that are originally destined for a recipient's phone number. The fax processing system communicates with the fax recipient via a data communications network (for example, the Internet) and can provide more sophisticated fax handling capabilities than conventional fax machines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2011
    Publication date: April 12, 2012
    Applicant: j2 Global Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: David S. Trandal, David J. Brahm, Leland W. Kirchhoff, Robert A. Dolan, David F. Hofstatter
  • SIDE LOADING
    Publication number: 20120090020
    Abstract: Side loading of content elements is provided. A selection of a content element from a terminal device may be received and a content format associated with the terminal device may be identified. If the content element is not available in the identified content format, the content element may be transcoded from a current content format to the identified content format and the content element may be transferred to the terminal device in the identified content format.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2011
    Publication date: April 12, 2012
    Applicant: COX COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Edgar V. Shrum, JR., Francisco Gonzalez
  • TERMINAL APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ADDING AN EFFECT TO AN IMAGE
    Publication number: 20120086834
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus including: an image capturing unit configured to capture an image of a subject; a storage unit configured to store a table that associates information related to an image with at least one effect to be applied to an image; a control unit configured to detect or receive information related to the image captured by the image capturing unit, and select an effect from the table stored in the storage unit based on the detected or received information related to the image; and an image processing unit configured to apply the selected effect to the captured image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2011
    Publication date: April 12, 2012
    Applicant: SONY ERICSSON MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS JAPAN, INC.
    Inventor: Hiroaki ADACHI
  • Video Assets Having Associated Graphical Descriptor Data
    Publication number: 20120090009
    Abstract: Graphical descriptor data associated with a particular video asset may include data for one or more graphical descriptor images and graphical descriptor metadata related to each graphical descriptor image. The graphical descriptor images can be simultaneously presented on a display screen with the video asset content and used to navigate to different content in that video asset. The graphical descriptors can also be used to navigate to content of one or more different assets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2010
    Publication date: April 12, 2012
    Applicant: COMCAST CABLE COMMUNICATIONS, LLC
    Inventors: Michael Cook, Walt Michel
  • REMOTE CONTROLLER SETTING MODULE, TELEVISION AND REMOTE CONTROL COMMAND SETTING METHOD THEREOF
    Publication number: 20120086870
    Abstract: A remote control setting module which is suitable to be installed in an electronic apparatus to set a button command corresponding to a remote control signal from a remote controller is disclosed. The remote control setting module includes an infrared sensing unit and a signal processing unit. The infrared sensing unit receives the remote control signal from the remote controller and then identifies a signal waveform corresponding to remote control signal. The signal processing unit is coupled to the infrared sensing unit and used for setting the button command to correspond to the received signal waveform.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2011
    Publication date: April 12, 2012
    Applicants: KINPO ELECTRONICS, INC., CAL-COMP ELECTRONICS & COMMUNICATIONS COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventor: HWAI-CHIH LEE
  • LINK STATE RELAY FOR PHYSICAL LAYER EMULATION
    Publication number: 20120087232
    Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention provides a fault-management system. During operation, the system identifies a failure at a remote location associated with a communication service. The system then determines a local port used for the communication service, and suspends the local port, thereby allowing the failure to be detected by a device coupled to the local port.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2011
    Publication date: April 12, 2012
    Applicant: BROCADE COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Srinivas S. Hanabe, Jitendra Verma, Eswara S. P. Chinthalapati
  • Systems and Methods for Sharing Threaded Conversations on Mobile Communications Devices
    Publication number: 20120088527
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention may include systems and methods for sharing threaded conversations on mobile communications devices. In one embodiment, a method may include: receiving, at a service provider system, a message containing a thread file associated with a forwarded message thread from a forwarding party mobile communications device, wherein the thread file comprises message text and sender information obtained from each of multiple text messages in the forwarded message thread, and wherein the message identifies at least one new recipient; identifying the message as containing a thread file; generating and associating a unique thread identifier with the thread file; and transmitting the thread file with the unique thread identifier over a wireless network for delivery to the at least one new recipient for display of the forwarded message thread.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2010
    Publication date: April 12, 2012
    Applicant: COX COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
    Inventor: Pujan K. Roka
  • Orthogonally-Combining Wavelength Selective Switch Multiplexer and Systems and Methods Using Same
    Publication number: 20120087657
    Abstract: In general, a wavelength division multiplexed (WDM) communication system may use wavelength selective switching to simultaneously pre-filter and combine groups of channel wavelengths with orthogonal polarizations to provide a pre-filtered, pair-wise orthogonal aggregate WDM optical signal. An orthogonally-combining wavelength selective switch (WSS) multiplexer may route channel wavelengths individually from different sets of channels to a common output. The orthogonally-combining WSS multiplexer may also provide substantially orthogonal polarizations for the wavelengths in the different sets of channels. The different sets of channels may include odd channels and even channels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2010
    Publication date: April 12, 2012
    Applicant: TYCO ELECTRONICS SUBSEA COMMUNICATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Ralph Brian Jander, Yan Jiang
  • AUTONOMOUS FRACTIONAL TIME REUSE
    Publication number: 20120088517
    Abstract: Autonomous fractional time reuse is provided. In some embodiments, autonomous fractional time reuse includes determining a number of neighboring base stations of a base station in a heterogeneous network; and pseudo randomly selecting one or more Fractional Time Reuse (FTR) slots for transmission by the base station. In some embodiments, the one or more FTR slots are autonomously selected by the base station without coordinating the selection of the one or more FTR slots with one or more of the neighboring base stations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2011
    Publication date: April 12, 2012
    Applicant: AirHop Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Hanson On, Fei Frank Zhou
  • Method and arrangement relating communication devices
    Patent number: 8155042
    Abstract: A method for use in controlling transmit power of a radio transceiver for communication with a receiving and/or transmitting node is provided. The method may include transmitting a signal from the radio transmitter, the signal including a Transmit Power Control portion, and altering the TPC re-transmission when the radio transmitter is in a fixed environmental condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB
    Inventor: Thomas Karlsson
  • Electronic device and method for positioning the electronic device
    Patent number: 8154441
    Abstract: A system and method for positioning an electronic device. The electronic device communicates with one or more monitoring electronic devices via a location server and a plurality of base stations. The system and method receives a standard command message, determines whether information in a received message is the same as information in the standard command message, and obtains position information of the electronic device if the information in the received message is the same as the information in the user-defined standard command message. The system and method further transmit a reply message, which comprises the position information and time for acquiring the position information of the electronic device, to a corresponding monitoring electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2012
    Assignee: Chi Mei Communication Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Pin-Chien Cheng
  • Electronic device with electrostatic protection structure
    Patent number: 8154884
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a circuit board and an electrostatic protection structure. The circuit board has a top surface and a bottom surface opposite to the top surface. The electrostatic protection structure is positioned on the top surface of the circuit board. The electrostatic protection includes an insulating layer and a conducting layer coating on the insulating layer. Four ground terminals are formed on the bottom surface of the circuit board. The insulating layer includes a main portion and four first connecting portions extending from the main portion. The conducting layer on the four first connecting portion are connected to the four first ground terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2012
    Assignee: Chi Mei Communication Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Chung-Chuan Lin
  • Color filter
    Patent number: 8154568
    Abstract: A color filter includes a transparent base board and a pixel portion formed on the base board. The pixel portion includes a plurality of pixels and each pixel includes eight sub-pixels in at least four different colors. Light passing through each pixel is colored to be in a color formed by mixed light emitting from the eight sub-pixels and changed by changing the luminance of light respectively passing through the sub-pixels, and light passing through the plurality of pixels cooperatively form colored images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2012
    Assignee: Chi Mei Communication Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Meng-Chieh Chou
  • Portable wireless telephone
    Patent number: D657340
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2012
    Assignee: NEC Casio Mobile Communications Ltd.
    Inventors: Iichiro Hasimoto, Shinobu Sugioka, Katsuhiro Nara