Patents Assigned to FutureWei Technologies
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Publication number: 20180035364Abstract: A device for communicating with a plurality of user equipment in a cellular network comprises a non-transitory memory having instructions and one or more processors in communication with the memory. The one or more processors execute the instructions to receive information regarding a faked base station including an operating frequency, location area code and cell identification of the faked base station, prepare a first message to alert of the faked base station, select the plurality of user equipment that may receive a signal from the faked base station, transmit the first message to alert of the faked base station to the plurality of user equipment and transmit a second message to bar the plurality of user equipment from connecting to the faked base station.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 1, 2016Publication date: February 1, 2018Applicant: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Zhibi Wang, Baoling Sheen, Marcus Wong
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Publication number: 20180035396Abstract: A method for transmitting beamformed signals includes beamforming a synchronization signal in accordance with a first set of spatially separated transmission beams, thereby producing first beamformed synchronization signals, transmitting the first beamformed synchronization signals, determining if a first synchronization cycle is complete, and when the first synchronization cycle is not complete, rotating the first set of spatially separated transmission beams, and repeating the beamforming, the transmitting, and the determining until the first synchronization cycle is complete.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 16, 2016Publication date: February 1, 2018Applicant: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Richard Stirling-Gallacher, Bin Liu, Majid Ghanbarinejad, Qian Cheng
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Patent number: 9882821Abstract: A system and method for information delivery with multiple point transmission are provided. A method for detecting lost packets is provided. The method includes initiating a timer for a received packet at a receiving transmission point, where the timer is set according to a time value associated with the received packet. The method also includes determining that a delivery of the received packet has failed according to the timer elapsing, and transmitting a lost packet report to a primary transmission point that distributed the received packet to the receiving transmission point.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2015Date of Patent: January 30, 2018Assignee: FUTUREWEI TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Hao Bi, Yishen Sun
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Patent number: 9877288Abstract: A method for operating a user equipment (UE) configured for estimating channel quality includes receiving a downlink fractional control channel from a non-serving HS-DSCH cell, estimating a quality of the downlink fractional control channel over a specified time period, and deriving downlink synchronization primitives in accordance with the quality of the downlink fractional control channel. Further methods for deriving the transmit power of an uplink control channel from downlink fractional control channels transmitted by the serving and non-serving HS-DSCH cells are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2015Date of Patent: January 23, 2018Assignee: FUTUREWEI TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Carmela Cozzo, Peng Zhang, Xiaolei Tie
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Patent number: 9875386Abstract: Object recognition can be improved by verifying a geometric consistency between matching interesting points pairs of two images, as objects with the images are more likely to match when the matching interesting points pairs are geometrically consistent. The geometric consistency between matching interesting points pairs can be verified in accordance with a topology code distance vector (D). The topology code distance vector (D) may be evaluated in accordance with a decision tree classifier, which may be trained in accordance with previous or historic topology code distance vectors. The topology code distance vector (D) may be computed from a subset of matching interesting points pairs having the shortest matching distance.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2012Date of Patent: January 23, 2018Assignee: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Xin Xin, Zhu Li, Aggelos K. Katsaggelos
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Patent number: 9874699Abstract: An apparatus comprises a transistor outline (TO) package comprising a TO can holder; and a TO can at least partially embedded within the TO can holder; and a mode converter coupled to the TO package. A system comprises a mode converter comprising a lens configured to convert a mode of a light from a first mode size to a second mode size, wherein the first mode size is smaller than the second mode size; a silicon photonic chip comprising a waveguide configured to communicate the light; a fiber configured to couple to the lens and the waveguide; and a substrate configured to provide a support for the silicon photonic chip.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2016Date of Patent: January 23, 2018Assignee: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Rongsheng Miao, Yu Sheng Bai
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Patent number: 9877278Abstract: The disclosure relates to technology for a base station to signal user equipment to monitor a narrowband control channel in a wideband system. The base station sends a configuration signaling to configure the user equipment including a designation of subframe(s). The base station then determines whether to signal the user equipment to monitor the subframe(s) using one of a narrowband bandwidth and a system bandwidth. In response to the base station signaling the user equipment to monitor the narrowband bandwidth, the base station communicates with the user equipment using the narrowband bandwidth. In response to the base station signaling the user equipment to monitor the system bandwidth, the base station sends a probe message within the narrowband bandwidth to the user equipment, where the probe message signals to the user equipment to begin monitoring the system bandwidth and to communicate with the user equipment using the system bandwidth.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2016Date of Patent: January 23, 2018Assignee: FUTUREWEI TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Philippe Sartori, Vipul Desai, Lukasz Krzymien, Carmela Cozzo, Qian Cheng, Anthony Soong, Jialing Liu
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Patent number: 9875208Abstract: A method for accessing a device in a primary peripheral component interconnect express (PCIe) domain from a secondary PCIe domain includes determining which one or more virtual functions of the device in the primary PCIe domain are to be made available to the secondary PCIe domain. A virtual function driver is installed in the primary PCIe domain associated with the one or more virtual functions. Information corresponding to the one or more virtual functions is provided to the secondary PCIe domain. A virtual function driver associated with the one or more virtual functions is installed in the secondary PCIe domain from the information. The virtual function driver in the secondary PCIe domain has same properties as the virtual function driver in the primary PCIe domain. The device in the primary PCIe domain is accessed from the virtual function driver in the secondary PCIe domain.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2015Date of Patent: January 23, 2018Assignee: FUTUREWEI TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Thomas Boyle, Chang Yu, Wesley Shao, Ligang Chen
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Patent number: 9875186Abstract: The present technology relates to managing data caching in processing nodes of a massively parallel processing (MPP) database system. A directory is maintained that includes a list and a storage location of the data pages in the MPP database system. Memory usage is monitored in processing nodes by exchanging memory usage information with each other. Each of the processing nodes manages a list and a corresponding amount of available memory in each of the processing nodes based on the memory usage information. Data pages are read from a memory of the processing nodes in response to receiving a request to fetch the data pages, and a remote memory manager is queried for available memory in each of the processing nodes in response to receiving the request. The data pages are distributed to the memory of the processing nodes having sufficient space available for storage during data processing.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2015Date of Patent: January 23, 2018Assignee: FutureWei Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Huaizhi Li, Qingqing Zhou, Guogen Zhang
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Patent number: 9876435Abstract: A method comprises providing a resonant converter comprising a switching network comprising a first high-side switch, a second high-side switch, a first low-side switch and a second low-side switch, a resonant tank coupled between the switching network and a transformer and a rectifier coupled to a secondary side of the transformer, coupling a driver to the switching network and the rectifier, wherein the driver includes a first winding coupled to the rectifier, a second winding coupled to the first high-side switch and a third winding coupled to the second high-side switch, detecting a signal indicating a soft switching process of the driver and adjusting a resonant frequency of the driver until the resonant frequency of the driver approximately matches a switch frequency of the resonant converter.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2016Date of Patent: January 23, 2018Assignee: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Daoshen Chen, Heping Dai, Xujun Liu, Liming Ye, Dianbo Fu
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Publication number: 20180018223Abstract: A method is performed by a solid state device (SSD) controller to generate a parity. The method includes receiving input data to be stored to pages of a storage device, wherein each page is capable of being allocated with multiple codewords; configuring codewords of the pages into multiple groups, wherein each group has an integer number of codewords, at least one of the pages is allocated with a non-integer number of codewords, and wherein the integer number is larger than the non-integer number; obtaining parities for the multiple groups, and storing the parities to reserved spaces of the storage device. With the calculation of a parity decoupled from physical pages, the selection of a rate of code used is unconstrained by an integer number of codewords per page.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 12, 2016Publication date: January 18, 2018Applicant: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Xiangyu TANG, Yunxiang WU
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Patent number: 9871719Abstract: A method implemented by a path computation element (PCE), comprising receiving a path computation request to compute a network path for a source-destination pair in a service chain (SC) network, wherein the path computation request comprises at least one network routing constraint and a service function (SF) input associated with a plurality of SFs, computing a plurality of network paths through the network for the source-destination pair according to the network routing constraint, selecting at least a first of the network paths according to the SF input, and sending a path computation response indicating at least the first network path in response to the received path computation request.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2017Date of Patent: January 16, 2018Assignee: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Young Lee, Linda Dunbar, Hong Zhang
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Patent number: 9872230Abstract: A method for wireless communications includes generating a composed query for obtaining information about a subset of neighboring stations of a responding station which satisfy the composed query, the composed query including a logical combination of attributes and values, and transmitting the composed query to the responding station. The method also includes receiving the information.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2013Date of Patent: January 16, 2018Assignee: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.Inventors: George Calcev, Bin Chen, Hanan Ahmed
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Patent number: 9872238Abstract: Mobile stations can query independent basic service set (BSS) parameters of a group of Access Points (APs) by setting a Pre-Association Message Exchange BSSID Independent (PAME-BI) bit during Wi-Fi discovery. The PAME-BI bit may be included in a Generic Advertisement Service (GAS) request to indicate that an Access Network Query Protocol (ANQP) request carried by the GAS request is querying both independent and dependent BSS parameters. In some embodiments, the PAME-BI bit is included as a field in the ANQP query, rather than the GAS request message.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2016Date of Patent: January 16, 2018Assignee: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Bin Chen, George Calcev, Hanan Ahmed, Kaidi Huang
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Patent number: 9870177Abstract: A method for operating a device adapted to store information with high reliability includes determining a storage address for a data payload portion of a write request in accordance with a configuration of a communications interface coupled to the device, where the data payload is to be stored in mirroring groups of cache storage partitions of a plurality of cache storage modules. The method also includes generating a payload read request in accordance with the storage address, and prompting the communications interface to initiate the storing of the data payload, in parallel, in the mirroring groups in accordance with the payload read request.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2015Date of Patent: January 16, 2018Assignee: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Mark Allan Kampe, Cameron Bahar, Jinshui Liu, Wesley Shao, Huawei Liu
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Patent number: 9872188Abstract: A method includes performing, via a controller, adaptive filtering on a network quality indicator to predict future values of the network quality indicator, calculating, via the controller, residues between the predicted future values and measured values of the network quality indicator, analyzing, via the controller, the residues over at least one selected frequency band to determine if a threshold has been exceeded for the at least one selected frequency band, and detecting, via the controller, an anomaly event of the network in a frequency band in which a threshold has been exceeded using the residues and measured values of the network quality indicator.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2015Date of Patent: January 16, 2018Assignee: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Kai Yang, Baoling S. Sheen, Juan Roa
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Patent number: 9871736Abstract: A system and method for information delivery with multiple point transmission are provided. A method for detecting lost packets is provided. The method includes initiating a timer for a received packet at a receiving transmission point, where the timer is set according to a time value associated with the received packet. The method also includes determining that a delivery of the received packet has failed according to the timer elapsing, and transmitting a lost packet report to a primary transmission point that distributed the received packet to the receiving transmission point.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2015Date of Patent: January 16, 2018Assignee: FUTUREWEI TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Hao Bi, Yishen Sun
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Patent number: 9872237Abstract: A device for communicating with a plurality of user equipment in a cellular network comprises a non-transitory memory having instructions and one or more processors in communication with the memory. The one or more processors execute the instructions to receive information regarding a faked base station including an operating frequency, location area code and cell identification of the faked base station, prepare a first message to alert of the faked base station, select the plurality of user equipment that may receive a signal from the faked base station, transmit the first message to alert of the faked base station to the plurality of user equipment and transmit a second message to bar the plurality of user equipment from connecting to the faked base station.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2016Date of Patent: January 16, 2018Assignee: FUTUREWEI TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Zhibi Wang, Baoling Sheen, Marcus Wong
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Patent number: 9871730Abstract: A method implemented in a network element (NE) configured to operate in an information centric network (ICN), comprising receiving a plurality of test traffic flows, wherein the test traffic flows are copies of a number of traffic flows received in a forwarding plane of the ICN during a defined interval; emulating the ICN at a state determined at an arrival time of the test traffic flows to the NE and defined based on a plurality of active traffic flows in the ICN; measuring a first impact of a plurality of first candidate paths for a first test traffic flow from the test traffic flows in the emulated ICN to the active traffic flows; selecting one of the first candidate paths based on the first impact measurement; measuring a second impact of a plurality of second candidate paths for a second test traffic flow from the test traffic flows in the emulated ICN to active traffic flows and the selected first candidate test path; selecting one of the second candidate paths based on the second impact measurement; anType: GrantFiled: August 13, 2015Date of Patent: January 16, 2018Assignee: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Serhat Nazim Avci, Cedric Westphal
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Patent number: 9867192Abstract: A method for operating a UE includes receiving, by the UE during an initial access sequence, a plurality of first inbound beams each transmitted by a communications controller in a different transmit direction over a first carrier, where the first inbound beams have a different subcarrier frequency range from each other, generating values of a receive metric in accordance with the first inbound beams, selecting one of the first inbound beams in accordance with the receive metric values, transmitting, by the UE, an indication of the selected first inbound beam, and receiving, by the UE, a second inbound beam transmitted by the communications controller in a transmit direction in accordance with the indication of the selected first inbound beam, where the second inbound beam has a second subcarrier frequency range of the first carrier that is different than a first subcarrier frequency range of the selected first inbound beam.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2015Date of Patent: January 9, 2018Assignee: FUTUREWEI TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Lukasz Krzymien, Ahmed Alkhateeb, Vipul Desai, Philippe Sartori