Patents Assigned to FutureWei Technologies
  • Patent number: 8477859
    Abstract: A system and method for wireless communications with codebook quantization are provided. A method for communications device operations includes estimating a channel between a controller and a mobile device, generating channel state information from the channel estimate, quantizing the channel state information by selecting a codeword from a rank n codebook based on a codeword selection mechanism, where n is a non-negative integer value, transmitting an index corresponding to the selected codeword and receiving a transmission from the controller. The transmission is precoded based on the index. The rank n codebook includes 2K codewords with each codeword comprising n columns of a transformed base matrix of dimension Nt×Nt, where K is a positive integer number representing a number of bits in the rank n codebook, and Nt is a number of transmit antennas at the controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2013
    Assignee: FutureWei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Yang Tang, Pengfei Xia
  • Patent number: 8477600
    Abstract: A network comprising a first layer processor (LP) configured to distribute a plurality of component communications to a plurality of component connections using a distribution table comprising a plurality of component communication identifiers (CCIDs) and the component connection associated with each CCID, a second LP configured to collect the packets from the component connections, and a composite connection coupled to the first LP and the second LP, wherein the composite connection comprises a plurality of the component connections and is configured to transport the component communications using the component connections, and wherein the distribution table and composite connection are configured such that component communications associated with at least the same CCID of a component communication takes the same path from the first LP to the second LP as from the second LP to the first LP.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2013
    Assignee: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Lucy Yong, T. Benjamin Mack-Crane, Linda Dunbar, Robert Sultan
  • Patent number: 8477822
    Abstract: An apparatus comprising a header comprising a platform for attaching opto-electronic components, an optical element, a laser diode (LD) configured to emit an optical signal that passes through the optical element, and a cap affixed to the header such that the cap is coaxially aligned with the header, wherein the cap and header encase the optical element and the LD.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2013
    Assignee: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Rongshong Miao
  • Publication number: 20130166644
    Abstract: A method for operating a communications point includes receiving a first message from a candidate communications point in a communications points set associated with a user equipment (UE), where the first message includes a resource report advising of an available portion of an upper layer communications resource that can be committed by the candidate communications point in a collaboration with a first communications point to communicate with the UE. The method also includes sending a second message to the candidate communications point, the second message including a resource reservation request to reserve a subset of the available portion of the upper layer communications resource. The method further includes receiving a third message from the candidate communications point, the third message including a resource reservation response indicating whether the subset of the available portion of the upper layer communications resource has been reserved as requested.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2011
    Publication date: June 27, 2013
    Applicant: FutureWei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Yishen Sun, Hao Bi
  • Patent number: 8474034
    Abstract: An apparatus comprising a processor configured to implement an anti-replay check for a plurality of received packets and a plurality of corresponding sequence numbers; and a circular buffer coupled to the processor and comprising a bitmap, wherein the bitmap is slided in a circular manner by updating a low index that points to a first sequence number for a first received packet and a high index that points to a last sequence number for a last received packet without bit-shifting, and wherein, when the update results in the new value of one of the low index and the high index exceeding the end of the circular buffer, the one of the low index and the high index wraps around from the beginning of the circular buffer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2013
    Assignee: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Xiangyang Zhang, Xiaoyong Yi
  • Patent number: 8472801
    Abstract: An apparatus comprising an optical line terminal (OLT) configured to transmit a bandwidth map (BWmap) for a plurality of burst signals to be transmitted by a plurality of optical network units (ONUs), wherein the BWmap comprises a plurality of allocations, and wherein each allocation comprises a start time for the allocation, a grant size for the allocation, and a header error correction (HEC) for the allocation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2013
    Assignee: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Frank J. Effenberger, Yuanqiu Luo
  • Patent number: 8472357
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method of wireless communication includes transmitting a first data packet from a user end during a first subframe of a radio frame. A second data packet is transmitted from a base station during a second subframe of the radio frame. A single data packet is received from a relay node in a third subframe of the radio frame. The single data packet includes the first and the second data packets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2013
    Assignee: FutureWei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Yazdan Panah Ali, Young Hoon Kwon
  • Patent number: 8472325
    Abstract: A packet communications network that transports a plurality of traffic over a plurality of server transport paths from a source to a destination, the network comprising: using a load distribution method to distribute each instance of traffic to an individual transport path, thereby avoiding reordering at the destination; enabling all the transport paths to carry the traffic; allowing the network to provision a preferred traffic distribution through a policy setting; and redistributing the traffic when a condition on one of the transport paths changes. Also disclosed is a composite transport group component comprising: a processor configured to implement a method comprising: receiving a server trail failure notification message; and performing a dynamic redistribution of traffic over a plurality of server trails, thereby transporting substantially all of the traffic associated with a class of traffic transported over the server trail associated with the server trail failure notification message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2013
    Assignee: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Lucy Yong, Linda Dunbar, Robert Sultan
  • Publication number: 20130155903
    Abstract: A method for operating a multiple point transmission system is disclosed. The method includes reconfiguring the multiple point transmission system according to an updated configuration of an at least one radio bearer between an at least one transmission point and a terminal device, and communicating with the terminal device using the reconfigured multiple point transmission system. The configuration of the at least one radio bearer is updated according to operating condition information of the terminal device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2011
    Publication date: June 20, 2013
    Applicant: FutureWei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Hao Bi, Yishen Sun
  • Publication number: 20130155976
    Abstract: A method for transmitting a transmission to a station in a wireless network includes transmitting a preamble of the transmission to the station using a first channel with a first bandwidth, the preamble including a first indicator indicating a second channel with a second bandwidth, the second bandwidth greater than the first bandwidth, and transmitting a data portion of the transmission to the station using the second channel with the second bandwidth.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2012
    Publication date: June 20, 2013
    Applicant: FutureWei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: FutureWei Technologies, Inc.
  • Patent number: 8468343
    Abstract: A system and method for securing wireless transmissions is provided. A method for transmitting secure messages includes selecting a bin of codewords from a plurality of bins. The bin of codewords containing a plurality of sub-bins of codewords, and the selecting is based on a first message. The method also includes selecting a sub-bin of codewords from the plurality of sub-bins of codewords based on a second message, selecting a codeword from the sub-bin of codewords, and transmitting the selected codeword to a legitimate receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2013
    Assignee: FutureWei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Tie Liu, Yufei Blankenship
  • Patent number: 8467681
    Abstract: An apparatus comprising a path computation element (PCE) configured to perform a path computation using signal compatibility constraints information for a network element (NE) in a wavelength switched optical network (WSON), wherein the signal constraints information are communicated at a Generalized Multi-Protocol Label Switching (GMPLS) control plane layer and comprise a plurality of signal attributes and a plurality of NE compatibility constraints. A network component comprising a transmitter unit configured to transmit signal compatibility constraints via GMPLS signaling, wherein the signal compatibility constraints define the signal compatibility constraints for a NE in a WSON. A method comprising receiving signal compatibility constraints for a NE in a WSON, performing a path calculation based on the signal compatibility constraints for the NE, and sending signal compatibility constraints associated with a computed path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2013
    Assignee: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Young Lee, Greg Bernstein
  • Patent number: 8467386
    Abstract: An apparatus comprising a mobile access gateway (MAG) configured to register an Internet Protocol (IP) address for a mobile node (MN) with a local mobility anchor (LMA) to allow proxy mobile IP version 6 (PMIPv6) mobility management for the MN, wherein the MAG communicates a query message that comprises a PMIPv6 service name to a Domain Name Service (DNS) and obtains the IP address of the LMA from the DNS. Also disclosed is a network component comprising at least one processor coupled to a memory and configured to send a DNS query for a plurality of Service Resource Records (SRV RRs), and receive a DNS reply that comprises a plurality of Fully Qualified Domain Names (FQDNs) for a plurality of LMAs, wherein the DNS query comprises a Proxy Mobile Internet Protocol version 6 (PMIPv6) service name, a protocol name, and a domain name.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2013
    Assignee: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Behcet Sarikaya, Yangsong Xia
  • Patent number: 8467346
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method for a wireless communication includes generating a first time-frequency reference signal pattern at a first base station. The first time-frequency reference signal pattern includes a modified version of a mother pattern of time-frequency of a fixed size. The method further includes transmitting a first reference signal using the first time-frequency reference signal pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2013
    Assignee: FutureWei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Weimin Xiao
  • Publication number: 20130151242
    Abstract: An apparatus comprising an ingress port configured to receive a signal comprising a plurality of encoded audio signals corresponding to a plurality of sources; and a processor coupled to the ingress port and configured to calculate a parameter for each of the plurality of encoded audio signals, wherein each parameter is calculated without decoding any of the encoded audio signals, select some, but not all, of the plurality of encoded audio signals according to the parameter for each of the encoded audio signals, decode the selected signals to generate a plurality of decoded audio signals, and combine the plurality of decoded audio signals into a first audio signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2011
    Publication date: June 13, 2013
    Applicant: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Doh-Suk Kim
  • Publication number: 20130147543
    Abstract: An embodiment apparatus comprises a plurality of flying capacitors coupled between a dc input power source and an output capacitor and switching circuitry coupled to the plurality of flying capacitors. The switching circuitry is configured such that in a first operational phase, the dc input power source and the plurality of flying capacitors in a first capacitor configuration are stacked together and further coupled to the output capacitor and in a second operational phase, the plurality of flying capacitors in a second capacitor configuration are coupled between ground and the output capacitor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2011
    Publication date: June 13, 2013
    Applicant: FutureWei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Heping Dai, Hengchun Mao
  • Patent number: 8462907
    Abstract: A network component comprising a first adaptation component, a second adaptation component, a system Phase-Locked-Loop (PLL) coupled to the first adaptation component, a comparison and voting logic component coupled to the first adaptation component and the system PLL component, a compensation logic component coupled to the comparison and voting logic component, and a positive/negative delay component coupled to the second adaptation component and the compensation logic component. Also disclosed is a network component comprising a comparison and voting logic function block configured to compare a plurality of internal timing references in a system PLL synchronization area, a compensation logic function block configured to calculate an offset value if any of the internal references substantially deviates from an expected value in a deterministic outcome, and a delay function block configured to add the calculated offset value to a timing reference that is forwarded to a subsequent node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2013
    Assignee: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Serge Francois Fourcand
  • Patent number: 8463059
    Abstract: An apparatus comprising a processor configured to receive a current block of an image, determine an optimal prediction mode of a plurality of prediction modes for the current block, wherein the optimal prediction mode corresponds to either a standard predictor set or a non-standard predictor set, predict a predicted predictor set based on a first known predictor set and a second known predictor set, clear a first flag if the predicted predictor set matches the optimal predictor set; and set the first flag if the predicted predictor set does not match the optimal predictor set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2013
    Assignee: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Lingzhi Liu
  • Publication number: 20130142290
    Abstract: Method and apparatus for decoding a transmitted signal by a receiver in a MIMO system into a first estimate component for estimating a first signal, a first interference component indicating interference resulting from a correlation relationship among a set of signals to be transmitted, and a first noise component. A base station generates the transmitted signal from the set of signals through a coding process, the coding process defining a correlation relationship amongst the set of signals. The correlation information about the correlation relationship is transmitted to the receiver directly or by a dedicated reference symbol. The decoding is performed by determining a linear receiver filter for the first signal in accordance with the correlation information, and de-correlating the first signal and interferences.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2011
    Publication date: June 6, 2013
    Applicant: FutureWei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Hamidreza Farmanbar, Aaron Callard, Mohammadhadi Baligh
  • Publication number: 20130142439
    Abstract: A system and a method for progressive queries, which are a sequence of queries for visual search of an image, sent from a sender to a receiver of a communication network, are disclosed. Queries based on a set of feature points and their associated locations of an image may be selected in sequence. A sender sends a first query to a receiver, wherein the first query comprises a number of feature points which is a subset of the set of feature points of the image invariant to rotation and scaling in creating the image. The sender receives a feedback from the receiver, wherein the feedback is generated by the receiver based on searching an image repository using information from the first query. The sender then decides whether there is a match of the image in the image repository based on the received feedback.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2011
    Publication date: June 6, 2013
    Applicant: FutureWei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Xin Xin, Zhu Li, Aggelos K. Katsaggelos