Patents Assigned to InterDigital Technology
  • Publication number: 20140105607
    Abstract: A visible light communication (VLC) device for lighting and data transmission includes a dimming block and a light emitting device. The dimming block is configured to receive a desired brightness level, determine a data duty cycle for the data transmission based on the desired brightness level, determine a filler luminance value based on the desired brightness level, and generate dimming information for use by a second VLC device for decoding the data. The light emitting device is configured to convert the data, the filler luminance value, and the dimming information to visible light for transmission to the second VLC device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2013
    Publication date: April 17, 2014
    Applicant: InterDigital Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Douglas R. Castor, Samian Kaur, Weimin Liu
  • Patent number: 8699434
    Abstract: A protocol engine (PE) for processing data within a protocol stack in a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) is disclosed. The protocol stack executes decision and control operations. The data processing and re-formatting which was performed in a conventional protocol stack is removed from the protocol stack and performed by the PE. The protocol stack issues a control word for processing data and the PE processes the data based on the control word. Preferably, the WTRU includes a shared memory and a second memory. The shared memory is used as a data block place holder to transfer the data amongst processing entities. For transmit processing, the PE retrieves source data from the second memory and processes the data while moving the data to the shared memory based on the control word. For receive processing, the PE retrieves received data from the shared memory and processes it while moving the data to the second memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: InterDigital Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Edward L. Hepler, Robert G. Gazda, Alexander Reznick
  • Patent number: 8699955
    Abstract: In a wireless communication system having smart antennas and comprising a plurality of wireless transmit/receive units (WTRUs), a method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving data comprises a first WTRU transmitting a request for antenna (RFA) frame to a second WTRU. The second WTRU receives the RFA frame and determines a preferred antenna to receive a dataframe transmission. The first WTRU transmits the dataframe on the preferred antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: InterDigital Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Vincent Roy, Paul Marinier, Marian Rudolf, Joseph A. Kwak
  • Patent number: 8699469
    Abstract: A subscriber unit, used for communicating in voiced communications at a first data rate and communicating at a second data rate for other data, suppresses a selected communication during communication rate modification. A determination is made as to whether the transmission requires a change in data rate, and a switching circuit responds by engaging a different communication channel. Blocking circuitry blocks transmissions until the different data rate is established. This provides an optimum data rate, while preserving the integrity of the data transmitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: InterDigital Technology Corporation
    Inventor: Michael J. Luddy
  • Patent number: 8699711
    Abstract: A wireless transmit receive unit (WTRU) is configured to receive unciphered and ciphered messages. The unciphered messages include identity requests, authentication requests, non-access stratum (NAS) security mode commands and tracking area update responses. The ciphered messages may come from the NAS and a Radio Resource Controller (RRC). The messages are ciphered using security keys.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: Interdigital Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Rajat P. Mukherjee, Peter S. Wang, Mohammed Sammour, Shankar Somasundaram
  • Patent number: 8699334
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for uplink (UL) starvation avoidance includes determining a current buffer status information. The current buffer status information is reported to an evolved Node B (eNB). A grant that includes a determination of a number of tokens a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) may accumulate is received from the eNB.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: InterDigital Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Jin Wang, Mohammed Sammour, Peter S. Wang, Shankar Somasundaram, Stephen E. Terry
  • Patent number: 8700088
    Abstract: A system and a method of controlling transmitter power in a wireless communication system in which user data is processed as a multirate signal in which the user data signal having a first rate is converted into a transmission data signal having a faster second rate for transmission. The transmission power is adjusted on a relatively slow basis based on quality of data received by a receiver of the transmitted data. The transmitter power is determined as a function of the first and second rates such that a change in the data rate in the multiple channels or the rate of the transmission data signal is compensated in advance of a quality of data based adjustment associated with such data rate change.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: InterDigital Technology Corporation
    Inventor: John W. Haim
  • Patent number: 8699525
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for confirming the delivery of a data packet in a mesh network by sending an acknowledgement (ACK) to an ingress mesh point (IMP). A mesh network comprises a plurality of mesh points that are wirelessly linked together. A data packet sent by a station (STA) is received by an IMP. A MAC frame is generated for transmission of the data packet and the frame is forwarded to an egress mesh point (EMP) in order to provide a service by the mesh network. The MAC frame includes a field comprising an IMP address and an EMP address. When the EMP, (or optionally an intermediate mesh point), receives a data packet successfully, the EMP or the intermediate mesh point sends an ACK to the IMP or preceding mesh point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: InterDigital Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Catherine Livet, Guang Lu, Juan Carlos Zuniga
  • Publication number: 20140098730
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a method and system for efficiently supporting data calls to WTRUs in systems that also support telephony. Various types of data is transmitted on a known schedule which is tightly synchronized to a predetermined time frame. The WTRUs synchronize their wake-up periods to search for data at times when data may or will actually be transmitted to them.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2013
    Publication date: April 10, 2014
    Applicant: InterDigital Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Steven Jeffrey Goldberg, Stephen E. Terry
  • Publication number: 20140098769
    Abstract: Methods and base stations are described. A base station includes a receiver, a processor and a transmitter. The receiver receives a first data block associated with an uplink temporary block flow (TBF), and the first data block includes a first header that includes a temporary flow identity (TFI) that identifies the uplink TBF. The processor generate a piggybacked acknowledgement/non-acknowledgement (PAN) field corresponding to the uplink TBF and a PAN check sequence (PCS) based on the PAN field, masks a subset of PCS bits with the TFI to generate a masked PCS, and generates a second data block, associated with a downlink TBF, that includes a second header, a data part corresponding to the downlink TBF, the PAN field, and the masked PCS. The transmitter transmits the second data block.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2013
    Publication date: April 10, 2014
    Applicant: InterDigital Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Marian Rudolf, Behrouz Aghili, Prabhakar R. Chitrapu, Stephen G. Dick, Philip J. Pietraski, Yan Li
  • Patent number: 8693435
    Abstract: A method and system for the UE and RNC to reduce transmission latency and potentially prevent loss of PDUs upon a MAC layer reset. UE generation of the status PDU is coupled with the MAC layer reset. The RNC generates a message with a MAC reset indication. Following the MAC layer reset all PDUs stored in the UE MAC layer reordering buffers are flushed to RLC entities and then processed by RLC entities prior to the generation of a PDU status report. The PDU status report provides to the RNC the status of all successfully received PDUs. Upon reception of a PDU status report in the RNC, missing PDUs are realized and retransmitted to the UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: InterDigital Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Stephen E. Terry, Yi-Ju Chao
  • Patent number: 8694046
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) includes circuitry configured to receive control information on a downlink control channel from a base station. The control information indicates an allocation of an uplink channel and the control information is sent in response to the base station determining that the UE is to send an adaptive modulation and coding report. The circuitry is further configured in response to the control information to transmit a communication in the allocated uplink channel in a time interval including at least one time slot. The communication includes an adaptive modulation and coding report, and a transmission power level of the communication is derived from the control information and a pathloss measured by the UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: InterDigital Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Stephen G. Terry, Stephen G. Dick, James M. Miller, Ariela Zeira, Eldad M. Zeira
  • Publication number: 20140094166
    Abstract: Methods and network nodes are described. A network node receives an attach request message from a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) via a cellular radio access network (RAN). The attach request message includes a mobile station (MS) radio access capability information element (IE), and the MS radio access capability IE includes a field that indicates whether the WTRU is capable of receiving services from a core network via a non-cellular wireless access network. The network node provides services from the core network to the WTRU.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2013
    Publication date: April 3, 2014
    Applicant: InterDigital Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Debashish Purkayastha, Kamel M. Shaheen
  • Patent number: 8687508
    Abstract: In a wireless communication system including at least one wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) and at least one Node-B (NB), an activation or deactivation state is determined for each of a plurality of HARQ processes. A signal that includes the activation or deactivation state for each of the HARQ processes is transmitted to the WTRU. In response to receiving the signal, the WTRU activates or deactivates a particular HARQ process in accordance with the activation or deactivation state for each of the HARQ processes contained in the received signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: InterDigital Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Paul Marinier, Eldad M. Zeira, Alexander Reznik, Sudheer A. Grandhi, Stephen E. Terry, Christopher Cave
  • Patent number: 8688054
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for adaptively biasing a channel quality indicator (CQI) used for setting a configuration of communication between a transmitter and a receiver in a wireless communication system. The receiver sends a CQI and positive acknowledgement (ACK)/negative acknowledgement (NACK) messages to the transmitter. The ACK/NACK messages indicate the absence or presence of error, respectively, in a transmitted data packet. The CQI is derived from the signal-to-interference ratio (SIR) and the ACK/NACK messages. The transmitter calculates the block error rate (BLER) of the transmitted data packets based upon the ACK/NACK messages sent from the receiver. The transmitter compares the BLER of the transmitted data packets to a target BLER and biases the CQI based on the comparison in order to achieve the target BLER.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: InterDigital Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Philip J. Pietraski, Gregory S. Sternberg, Douglas R. Castor
  • Patent number: 8682279
    Abstract: Several methods are provided for communicating emergency call capability information between a station and an access point (AP) in a wireless local area network. The methods include advertising by the AP of its emergency call capabilities and announcing by the station of its emergency call capabilities. The AP can advertise its emergency call capabilities in a beacon frame, a probe response frame, a reassociation response frame, or a reauthentication response frame. The station can announce its emergency call capabilities in an association request frame, a reassociation request frame, an authentication request frame, or a reauthentication request frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: InterDigital Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Marian Rudolf, Juan Carlos Zuniga, Shamim Akbar Rahman, Joseph Kwak
  • Patent number: 8681816
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for indicating a temporary block flow (TBF) to which a piggybacked acknowledgement/non-acknowledgement (PAN) field is addressed. A PAN check sequence (PCS) is created, for example using a cyclic redundancy check (CRC) encoding. The PCS is masked with a temporary flow identity (TFI) assigned to a TBF or a mask generated based on the TFI. A data block including the PAN field and the masked PCS is then processed for transmission. The mask may be generated by converting the TFI using an (M, N) code, M being not greater than the number of bits of the PCS and N being the number of bits of the TFI. With this scheme, a TFI may be transmitted in a PAN field without using explicit bits to identify the TBF.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: InterDigital Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Marian Rudolf, Behrouz Aghili, Prabhakar R. Chitrapu, Stephen G. Dick, Philip J. Pietrazki, Yan Li
  • Patent number: 8682368
    Abstract: An access point includes a transmitter configured to transmit signals, a receiver configured to receive signals, and a timing information device. The timing information device is configured to receive a timing information request from a station associated to the access point, receive timing information for a beacon signal sent by a second access point, and report the timing information to the station. The timing information includes a time difference relative to a known reference time for transmission of the beacon signal and the time difference is an offset in timing units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: InterDigital Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Paul Marinier, Vincent Roy, Christopher Cave, Frank LaSita, Angelo Cuffaro, Athmane Touag, Marian Rudolf
  • Patent number: 8681744
    Abstract: The present invention is a receiver which includes a blind code detection device for determining the identity of a plurality of channels over which information is to be transmitted when the identity of all channels is not known by the receiver. The blind code detection device generates a candidate channel list filled with the identify of selected channels out of the plurality of channels. A multi-user detection device, responsive to the blind code detection device, processes those channels in the candidate code list.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: Interdigital Technology Corporation
    Inventors: John W Haim, Hyun-Seok Oh, Younglok Kim, Ariela Zeira, Robert A. DiFazio
  • Publication number: 20140080496
    Abstract: A method of paging a plurality of users by synchronizing user equipment (UE) specific paging and Point-to-Multipoint (PtM) user group paging to reduce power consumption when the UE is in a discontinuous reception state. The UE identities are defined such that paging occasions and common paging channels are synchronized for multiple users within a PtM user group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2013
    Publication date: March 20, 2014
    Applicant: InterDigital Technology Corporation
    Inventor: Stephen E. Terry