Patents Assigned to FutureWei Technologies
  • Publication number: 20170262407
    Abstract: A system-on-chip includes a reconfigurable data interface to prepare data streams for execution patterns of a processing unit in a flexible compute accelerate system. An apparatus is provided that includes a first set of line buffers configured to store a plurality of data blocks from a memory of a system-on-chip and a field composition circuit configured to generate a plurality of data segments from each of the data blocks. The field composition circuit is reconfigurable to generate the data segments according to a plurality of reconfiguration schemes. The apparatus includes a second set of line buffers configured to communicate with the field composition circuit to store the plurality of data segments for each data block, and a switching circuit configured to generate from the plurality of data segments a plurality of data streams according to an execution pattern of a processing unit of the system-on-chip.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2016
    Publication date: September 14, 2017
    Applicant: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Qiang Wang, Zhenguo Gu, Qiang Li, Zhuolei Wang
  • Patent number: 9759867
    Abstract: An optical apparatus includes a first beam combining device arranged to receive a first optical beam having a first wavelength at a first location and a second optical beam output having a second wavelength at a second location. The second optical beam has a polarization that is substantially orthogonal to a polarization of the first optical beam. The first beam combining device configured to output a first combined beam that comprises a combination of the first optical beam and the second optical beam. An optical element is arranged to receive the first combined beam and a second combined beam and to transmit an output beam that includes a combination of the first combined beam and the second combined beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Qi Deng, Yaohui Xie, Li Zeng, Xiaolu Song
  • Patent number: 9762902
    Abstract: A method for decoding and reconstructing a QM associated with a picture, wherein the method comprises acquiring at least one reference QM and at least one weighting factor associated with the reference QM, wherein the reference QM is a previously decoded QM, and computing a predicted matrix using the reference QM and the weighting factor associated with the reference QM, wherein the predicted matrix is used to reconstruct the QM. In another embodiment, a method for encoding a QM associated with a picture, wherein the method comprises acquiring a first QM reference and a second QM reference, acquiring a first weighting factor that corresponds to the first QM reference and a second weighting factor that corresponds to the second QM reference, obtaining the predicted QM using the first QM reference, the second QM reference, the first weighting factor, and the second weighting factor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignees: Futurewei Technologies, Inc., The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: Jianhua Zheng, Jianwen Chen, Jingsheng Jason Cong
  • Patent number: 9762914
    Abstract: There is disclosed a method, device and computer-readable storage medium for decoding video data. The method includes: obtaining a reference sample array of a video block; obtaining a sum of the reference sample array; calculating a threshold by performing arithmetic right shift to the sum, a shift value of the arithmetic right shift being determined according to size information of the video block; and determining the binary partition pattern by comparing the reference sample array with the threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignees: Futurewei Technologies, Inc., Santa Clara University
    Inventors: Zhouye Gu, Jianhua Zheng, Nam Ling, Chen-Xiong Zhang
  • Patent number: 9761155
    Abstract: A method for simulating an effect of surface temperature of an electronic device on skin of a human being when the electronic device is touched by the human being. The method comprises applying heat to a material within a cavity of a body, the body comprising a first end, a second end, an outer surface, and an inner surface that defines the cavity extending between the first end and the second end. The outer surface and the material have heat and thermal conductivity properties similar to human skin. The method comprises sensing a temperature of the material, and sensing a temperature of at least a portion of the outer surface when the portion of the outer surface contacts the electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Qian Han
  • Patent number: 9762446
    Abstract: A method implemented in an integrated edge node for performing routing functions and network appliance services at the edge of a network, the method comprising disassociating a first network feature from a port, creating a plurality of first internal virtual ports, associating the plurality of first internal virtual ports to a first network appliance service component and a core unit component, mapping the plurality first internal virtual ports to each other and to a plurality of ports, constructing an internal path comprising at least one port, a subset of the plurality of internal virtual ports, the network appliance service component, and the core unit component, and associating the first network feature to the internal path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: Futurewei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jun Xu, Guang Zhao
  • Patent number: 9763272
    Abstract: An embodiment of a system for operating a communications controller and a user equipment in a wireless communications system is provided. The communications controller is configured to allocate a first set of subframes to a group of UEs for a DMC link, allocate a second set of subframes to a particular UE in the group of UEs, transmit a first message including information about the first set of subframes to the group of UE, and transmit a second message including information about the second set of subframes to the particular UE. The second set of subframes is a subset of the first set of subframes, and information about the second set includes subframes in which the particular UE may transmit to other UEs in the group of UEs. Subframes in the first set not in the second set are allocated for reception by the particular UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Deping Liu, Brian Classon, Vipul Desai, Philippe Sartori
  • Patent number: 9760432
    Abstract: An intelligent code apparatus, method, and computer program are provided for use with memory. In operation, a subset of data stored in a first memory is identified. Such subset of the data stored in the first memory is processed, to generate a code. The code is then stored in a second memory, for use in reconstructing at least a portion of the data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Hao Luan, Alan Gatherer, Sriram Vishwanath, Casen Hunger, Hardik Jain
  • Patent number: 9762533
    Abstract: A WebRTC system, device and method enabling a P2P communication when both ends of a communication are WebRTC enabled devices. The system and devices also enable a WebRTC client to SIP device communication. A SIP interworking function is configured to receive a SDP1 from an originating WebRTC and obtain local media information from a media interworking function. The first SIP interworking function is configured to create a SDP2 based on the SDP1 and the local media information, create a SIP message comprising a message-body field including the SDP2 and an SIP extension header field including the SDP1, and send the SIP message to an IMS or SIP server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Huipeng Ren, Yilin Gan, Xinmin Ding
  • Patent number: 9762324
    Abstract: A method implemented by a wireless fronthaul unit, the method comprises aggregating a plurality of first wireless channel signals to produce a first aggregated signal via digital frequency-domain mapping (FDM), wherein the first wireless channel signals are positioned in the first aggregated signal in non-overlapping first frequency bands, each non-overlapping first frequency band having a first bandwidth and a center frequency, wherein each respective center frequency is an odd integer multiple of a lowest center frequency, converting the first aggregated signal into a first modulated signal, and transmitting the first modulated signal to a wireless fronthaul link.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Xiang Liu, Frank Effenberger, Lei Zhou, Huafeng Lin
  • Patent number: 9762642
    Abstract: A method implemented by a first client device, the method comprising receiving a media presentation description (MPD) for a media content from a streaming server, receiving a plurality of segments for the media content from one or more streaming servers, and packaging the MPD and at least part of the received segments such that the packaged segments are accessible by a second client device through the packaged MPD.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Xin Wang, Yongliang Liu
  • Patent number: 9760527
    Abstract: A system comprising a unified interconnect network, a plurality of process memory modules, and a plurality of processor modules configured to share access to the memory modules via the unified interconnect network. Data may be communicated between a plurality of processor modules and a plurality of shared resource pools via a unified interconnect network, wherein the communications comprise a protocol that is common to all resource pools, and wherein each resource pool comprises a plurality of resource modules each configured to perform a common function. Further, a network interface controller (NIC) module may be configured to receive data from a plurality of processor modules via a unified interconnect network, and provide core network connectivity to the processor modules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Norbert Egi, Guangyu Shi
  • Patent number: 9755987
    Abstract: A task-oriented virtual resource can be dynamically mapped to multiple physical resource types in order to better align resource allocation mechanisms. Mappings between the task-oriented virtual resource and the physical resource types may be managed in accordance with a workload associated with an underlying task being performed by the network on behalf of a user. The number of physical resource units that are mapped to the task-oriented virtual resource may be varied in accordance with one or more workload conditions using a finite state machine. The finite state machine can include nodes representing static or dynamic states for each physical resource type. The nodes may be interconnected via relationships, which can be governed by the workload conditions. Relationships between nodes may be modeled using hybrid graphs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Jeff Wheeler
  • Patent number: 9755779
    Abstract: A method implemented by a transmitter, comprising encoding digital in-phase and quadrature-phase (IQ) data associated with a plurality of analog signals according to a first multi-level modulation format to produce a modulated IQ signal, encoding control information associated with the plurality of analog signals according to a second multi-level modulation format that is different from the first multi-level modulation format to produce a modulated control signal, aggregating the modulated IQ signal and the modulated control signal via time-division multiplexing (TDM) to produce an aggregated TDM signal, and transmitting the aggregated TDM signal over a communication channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Huaiyu Zeng, Xiang Liu
  • Patent number: 9756658
    Abstract: A method for initiating a random access includes generating a first downlink control information (DCI) including random access parameters and selecting a control channel from a first downlink control channel in common search space of a first subframe and a second downlink control channel in a data region of the first subframe. The method also includes mapping the first DCI to the control channel and transmitting, by a communications controller to a UE, symbols of the first subframe including the first DCI in the control channel. Additionally, the method includes receiving, by the communications controller from the UE, a random access waveform in accordance with the random access parameters and transmitting, by the communications controller to the UE, after receiving the random access waveform, a second subframe including a second DCI in a control channel of the second subframe, where the second DCI includes scheduling information for a random access response.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Vipul Desai, Philippe Satori, Brian Classon
  • Patent number: 9756347
    Abstract: Presented systems and methods facilitate screen content coding. A system can comprises: a processing component configured to execute coding operations and a storage component configured to store information for the processing component, including the color table and color index map. The coding operations can include: receiving information associated with a plurality of pixels; creating a color table, the color table includes color values (e.g., of the pixels) and corresponding indices; creating a color index map wherein each index of the color map maps a pixel to an index value of the color table; and performing coding operations corresponding to the color table and color index map. In one exemplary implementation, index values of the color table are encoded/decoded during color table and index map coding rather than the actual raw color values for each pixel. Various types of compression and coding can be implemented (e.g., lossless, lossy, intra-prediction, inter-prediction, etc.).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Meng Xu, Zhan Ma, Haoping Yu
  • Patent number: 9756518
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for detecting a traffic suppression turning point in a communications system based on traffic behavior are provided. Models representing relationship between traffic loads and a key performance indicator of a cell or a cluster of cells may be built and tested to generate a set of prediction errors corresponding to a plurality of traffic load ranges. The prediction errors are examined against a criteria to determine a traffic suppression turning point in terms of traffic loads. The models built may also be used to calculate a set of KPI slope values corresponding to different traffic load ranges. The set of KPI slope values are examined against a criteria to determine a traffic suppression turning point in terms of traffic loads.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Baoling S. Sheen, Jin Yang, Yanchi Liu
  • Patent number: 9749375
    Abstract: A method implemented by a client device for media content streaming, the method comprising inserting one or more query parameters in a query string portion of a uniform resource locator (URL), wherein the query string portion follows a path portion of the URL, sending a media request comprising the URL to a streaming server, and receiving one or more segments of a media content from the streaming server in response to the media request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Xin Wang
  • Patent number: 9749833
    Abstract: A device is configured to perform a method of wireless communication in a wireless communication network. The method includes receiving, from a communications controller, a device-to-device (D2D) subframe configuration to communicate with one or more second wireless devices, the subframe configuration indicating one or more subframes in which to transmit a D2D signal or receive one or more D2D signals. The method also includes receiving, from the communications controller, scheduling information to transmit a first signal to the communications controller on a subframe indicated by the D2D subframe configuration. The method further includes prioritizing the transmission of the first signal over a transmission of the D2D signal or a reception of the one or more D2D signals, and transmitting the first signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: FUTUREWEI TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Philippe Sartori, Vipul Desai, Hossein Bagheri, Anthony C K Soong
  • Patent number: 9749103
    Abstract: A method for operating a transmission point with reduced interference includes determining a beamformed signal configuration specified in accordance with configuration information of neighboring TPs, wherein the beamformed signal configuration indicates multiplexed beamformed signals in a spatial domain and at least one of a time domain and a frequency domain, and transmitting beamformed signals in accordance with the beamformed signal configuration, wherein the beamformed signals comprises at least one of beamformed reference signals and beamformed control signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: FUTUREWEI TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Richard Stirling-Gallacher, Bin Liu, Jian Wang