Patents Assigned to FutureWei Technologies
  • Patent number: 8265029
    Abstract: A method and apparatus of signaling radio resource allocation in a wireless communication system includes the time-frequency resources into multiple regions; defining a channel tree within at least one region, wherein the channel tree has base nodes which are determined using the area of the region and the area of a base node; determining a channel identifier assignment for a mobile station, wherein the channel identifier corresponds to a collection of base nodes from a channel tree; transmitting an indication of the determined channel identifier to the mobile station; and transmitting a packet to a mobile station or receiving a packet from the mobile station using the physical time-frequency resources, which correspond to the channel identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: FutureWei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Sean Michael McBeath, Anthony C. K. Soong, Yunsong Yang, Jianmin Lu, Jung Woon Lee
  • Patent number: 8264994
    Abstract: A method of paging for a wireless device with multiple radio interfaces corresponding to multiple access networks. The method provides a first interface from the multiple radio interfaces to listen to paging for the multiple radio interfaces; turns the rest of the multiple radio interfaces into deep-sleep mode; and maintains attachment for each of the deep-sleep interfaces to a corresponding serving base station or access point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: FutureWei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: H. Anthony Chan, Bin Shen, Haiyong Chen
  • Publication number: 20120226930
    Abstract: A method for reporting a power outage to a communications controller includes detecting the power outage, and selecting a transmission slot from a plurality of transmission slots in order to report the power outage to the communications controller, the transmission slot selected according to a non-uniform probability distribution function, the non-uniform probability distribution function is monotonic with time after the power outage. The method also includes transmitting a first power outage indicator to the communications controller in the transmission slot selected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2012
    Publication date: September 6, 2012
    Applicant: FutureWei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Erik Colban, George Calcev, Bin Chen, George Cummings
  • Publication number: 20120226966
    Abstract: A method of transmitting an information sequence in a message includes embedding a first information sequence into an original payload of the message to produce an augmented payload and generating an original error check code using the augmented payload, the original error check code derived from the first information sequence. The method also includes transmitting the message, the message including the original payload and the original error check code.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 29, 2012
    Publication date: September 6, 2012
    Applicant: FutureWei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Bin Chen
  • Patent number: 8260209
    Abstract: A system and method for coordinated spatial multiplexing using second order statistical information is provided. A method for controller operations includes receiving second order statistics from a plurality of communications devices, computing a beamforming vector for each communications device in the plurality of communications devices, selecting a subset of communications devices from the plurality of communications devices to receive transmissions, and transmitting transmissions to the subset of selected communications devices. The beamforming vector for a communications device is based on the second order statistics provided by the communications device, and the transmitting uses the computed beamforming vector for each selected communications device to transmit the transmissions to the selected communications device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignee: FutureWei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Shahab Sanayei
  • Patent number: 8259662
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for dynamically assigning persistent resources in a wireless communications system is provided. A method comprises transmitting a first boundary indication to a mobile station, and transmitting a position indication to the mobile station, wherein the position indication corresponds to a network resource assigned based on a network resource request, the position indication is relative to the first boundary indication. The method also comprises transmitting a second boundary indication to the mobile station in response to detecting a change in a position of a boundary, and transmitting a first transmission to the mobile station using a network resource corresponding to the position indication or receiving a second transmission from the mobile station using a network resource corresponding to the position indication, wherein the position indication is relative to the second boundary indication. The first boundary indication is based on a position of the boundary.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignee: FutureWei Technologies
    Inventors: Jack Smith, Sean Michael McBeath
  • Publication number: 20120218910
    Abstract: A method implemented by a network apparatus comprising receiving a Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD) membership report message from a host, sending an Automatic IP Multicast Tunneling (AMT) Relay discovery message comprising an anycast address for a border relay (BR) via an IPv4 network, receiving an AMT Relay advertisement message comprising a unicast address for the BR via the IPv4 network, sending an AMT request message to the BR via an AMT tunnel, receiving an AMT query message comprising a MLD listener query from the BR via the AMT, sending an AMT membership message comprising the MLD membership report message of the host to the BR via the AMT tunnel, and receiving an AMT multicast data message comprising an encapsulated IPv6 multicast message from the BR via the AMT tunnel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2012
    Publication date: August 30, 2012
    Applicant: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Behcet Sarikaya
  • Publication number: 20120219051
    Abstract: A wireless receiver is constructed to equalize a time-domain received signal, detect a plurality of symbols of the equalized time-domain received signal, and perform interference cancellation on the time-domain received signal. The interference cancellation can be performed using a partial result produced by an IDFT, and may use only neighboring symbols in a detected plurality of symbols. The resulting wireless receiver can be constructed to operate efficiently under a plurality of wireless standards.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2012
    Publication date: August 30, 2012
    Applicant: FutureWei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Bei Yin, Kiarash Amiri, Joseph R. Cavallaro, Yuanbin Guo
  • Publication number: 20120221698
    Abstract: A system and method for mobility management in a wireless communications system are provided. A method for proxy server operations includes determining if a communications device is capable of performing an operation, forwarding a transmission to a destination of the transmission if the communications device is capable of performing an operation, and responding to the transmission on behalf of the communications device if the communications device is not capable of performing an operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2011
    Publication date: August 30, 2012
    Applicant: FutureWei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Hinghung Anthony Chan, Muhana Magboul Ali Muslam
  • Patent number: 8254944
    Abstract: A method for coordinating beam forming between two communicating entities includes obtaining cell loading information and adjusting a number of used beam-sets at a specific scheduling time according to the cell loading information. The method further includes transmitting a common pilot that is not beam-formed together with feed-forward information according to the cell loading. A wireless communication system employing conventional CL-MIMO protocols can be adapted to employ the methodology.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: FutureWei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Young Hoon Kwon, Anthony C. K. Soong, Cornelius Van Rensburg
  • Patent number: 8254942
    Abstract: A system and method for resource allocation in wireless communications systems includes a method for operating a base station. The method includes receiving a resource request for radio resources for a mobile station and transmitting an indication of unallocated radio resources to the mobile station. A resource assignment is determined for the resource request, and the resource assignment is transmitted to the mobile station. The resource assignment comprises unallocated radio resources and a number of radio resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: FutureWei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Sean Michael McBeath, Anthony C. K. Soong, Jack Smith
  • Patent number: 8254968
    Abstract: A system and method for low overhead paging in a wireless communications system is provided. A method for controller operation includes generating a compressed map, receiving an incoming call intended for a communications device, and broadcasting the compressed map to communications devices served by the controller. The compressed map includes indications of paging groups of the controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: FutureWei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Changhoi Koo, Sean Michael McBeath
  • Publication number: 20120216118
    Abstract: In accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, a method of playing a media includes receiving a first media stream of the media and displaying the first media stream in a first window of a media player. The first media stream includes navigable parts configured to be selected for higher resolution streaming. A request to stream a selected navigable part of the first media stream is sent. A second media stream with the selected navigable part is received and displayed. The resolution of the selected navigable part in the second media stream is higher than the resolution of the selected navigable part in the first media stream.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2012
    Publication date: August 23, 2012
    Applicant: FutureWei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Kui Lin, Hong Heather Yu
  • Publication number: 20120216121
    Abstract: In accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, an apparatus for streaming a media includes a server side receiver for receiving a request to stream a media from a media player. The apparatus further includes a content generator, a server side transmitter, and a media stream generator. The content generator is configured to generate content information providing a plurality of presentation options to consume the media. The server side transmitter is configured to send the content information. The server side receiver is further configured to receive a selected presentation option from amongst the plurality of presentation options. The media stream generator is configured to generate a media stream comprising the media based on the selected presentation option.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2012
    Publication date: August 23, 2012
    Applicant: FutureWei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Kui Lin, Hong Heather Yu
  • Patent number: 8249451
    Abstract: A network component comprising at least one processor configured to implement a method comprising creating a port restriction matrix comprising a plurality of port restrictions, and compressing the port restriction matrix. Included is a method comprising establishing a port wavelength restriction data for an optical component, establishing a port connectivity data for the optical component, and transmitting the port wavelength restriction data and the port connectivity data to a path computation element. Also included is an apparatus comprising a path computation client configured to communicate data to a path computation element, wherein the data comprises a port restriction data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Young Lee, Greg Bernstein
  • Patent number: 8249019
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for enabling Single Radio (SR)-Voice Call Continuity (VCC) of emergency calls are provided. More specifically, the methods and apparatuses provide continuity of IMS emergency sessions established in 4G access for mobility to 3G/2G access. Generally, a Mobility Management Entity (MME) in the packet switch (PS) domain provides a handover request to a Mobile Switching Center (MSC) Server in the circuit switch (CS) domain. The handover request includes an indication that the call is an emergency call and may include an indication that a Packet Switched Network Induced Location Request (PS-NI-LR) or similar location reporting procedure is required and/or a Gateway Mobile Location Center (GMLC) address. The MSC Server facilitates the handover to the CS domain via the Mg and/or Mw interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: FutureWei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Kaniz Mahdi
  • Patent number: 8249104
    Abstract: An apparatus comprising a data framer configured to frame an external protocol extension message for transmission, the external protocol extension message comprising a header that indicates an external protocol extension and at least one type-length-value (TLV) comprising a type field, a length field, and a value field, wherein a format of the TLV is specified by a specific organization, and wherein the value field comprises information related to protocol functions external to the network. Also included is an apparatus comprising at least one component configured to implement a method comprising compiling an external protocol extension message comprising a plurality of TLVs and a header that indicates an external protocol extension, and transmitting the external protocol message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Frank J. Effenberger, Bo Gao, Wei Lin
  • Publication number: 20120206882
    Abstract: In accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, a device includes a circuit board with a thermally conductive core layer and a chip disposed over the circuit board. The device further includes a heat sink disposed over the chip. The thermal conductivity of the heat sink along a first direction is larger than a thermal conductivity along a second direction. The first direction is perpendicular to the second direction. The heat sink is thermally coupled to the thermally conductive core layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2011
    Publication date: August 16, 2012
    Applicant: FutureWei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Anwar Mohammed, Renzhe Zhao
  • Publication number: 20120207126
    Abstract: A first central controller of a wireless system selects a common reference signal (“CRS”) pattern for muting on a first type of control channel by the first central controller, the first type of control channel formed with resource elements (“REs”), identifies, for a first set of user equipments (“UEs”) in a serving area of the first central controller, a set of subframes including the first type of control channel, the set of subframes having REs that overlap the CRS pattern for muting, mutes the overlapping REs in the first type of control channel, frequency-division multiplexes the first type of control channel with data channels, and transmits, to the first set of UEs, the first type of control channel with the muted REs on the identified set of subframes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2012
    Publication date: August 16, 2012
    Applicant: FutureWei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Bingyu Qu, Weimin Xiao, Philippe Sartori
  • Patent number: 8243844
    Abstract: An apparatus comprising a transmitter configured to transmit a low power mode Discrete Multi-Tone (DMT) signal using a plurality of DMT tones, wherein a subset of the DMT tones are used for transmitting data, and wherein at least some of the remaining DMT tones are used for a Peak-to-Average Ratio (PAR) reduction is disclosed. Included is a network component comprising at least one processor configured to implement a method comprising promoting transmission of a plurality of data streams using a plurality of first digital tones, and promoting transmission of at least one second digital tone that reduces a peak of a signal generated by at least one of the first digital tones.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignee: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Guozhu Long