Patents Assigned to L
  • Method for detecting hardware faults by determining a ratio of released connections
    Patent number: 8582444
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method of detecting a faulty network element in a network, the network comprising at least a plurality of first network elements having a first network element type, and at least a plurality of second network elements having a second network element type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Oscar Zee, Tomas Norling
  • Policy management in a roaming or handover scenario in an IP network
    Patent number: 8582553
    Abstract: The invention comprises methods and arrangements for Policy Decision Point discovery in a roaming or handover scenario in an IP network (IN) comprising a plurality of network elements. The invention comprises methods and arrangement in an user equipment for receiving the address of the serving policy decision point and sending to the Home Agent a registration request comprising the local IP address of the user equipment so that the home agent can register the local IP address. The registration request will also comprise the address (ASPDP1) of the serving policy decision point (SPDP1) so that the Home Agent can forward the address of the serving policy decision point to the anchor Policy Decision Point and so that the anchor Policy Decision Point can contact the serving policy decision point by using said address of the serving Policy Decision Point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Mona Matti, Tony Larsson, Tor Kvernvik, Mattias Lidström, Niklas Björk
  • Grouping of user identities in an IP multimedia subsystem
    Patent number: 8582563
    Abstract: The present invention is aimed to provide a more flexible data structure where any IMPU, even those of the SIP URI type, may be shared by more than one IRS in order to simplify the registration of an IMPU for users of a Fixed-Mobile Convergent network. To this end, there is provided a flexible data structure wherein a number n of IMPUs of a user may be distributed in a number m of Implicit Registration Sets, wherein a given IMPU may be shared by more than one IRS, each IRS is associated with an access condition, and the explicit registration of said given IMPU under a given access condition triggers the implicit registration of those IMPUs in the IRS associated with said access condition, while the registration status of IMPUs in any other IRS remain unchanged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Germán Blanco, Jesus Javier Arauz Rosado
  • Reducing switching noise
    Patent number: 8582700
    Abstract: The present solution relates to a method in a first communication node (501) for suppressing noise in a communication system (500) utilizing an automatic gain control. The first communication node (501) receives (1301) a signal from a second communication node (503). Then, the first communication node (501) determines (1302) if a gain level is changed. The signal gain is changed (1303). The next step is for the first communication node (501) to determine (1305) if an inband interferer is present, and then to suppress (1306) transient noise in the signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Derek Hagen, Vimar Bjork, Claes Rolen
  • Device for determination of thermal exchange coefficient and associated method
    Patent number: 8583397
    Abstract: A device for determining the thermal exchange coefficient between a fluid and a wall at a point PN of a surface of the wall in contact with the fluid, including a measuring device (DT) which measures at least two temperature values TC1 and TC2 of the wall and a temperature value TF of the fluid, and a computer for calculating, from the temperature values TC1 and TC2, a temperature value Tp of the wall and a thermal flow ? given by the following equation: ?=??grad (TC1?TC2), where ? is the thermal conductivity of the wall, and for calculating, from the fluid temperature TF, the average temperature TP and the thermal flow ? the thermal exchange coefficient h in the following form: h=?/(TF?TP).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Assignee: Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives
    Inventor: Olivier Braillard
  • Method of measuring an anisotropic surface diffusion tensor or surface energy anisotropies
    Patent number: 8583403
    Abstract: A method for the determination of the diffusion tensor anisotropy or the surface energy anisotropy that does not require the formation of particular structures, and that is capable of being performed in cases of moderate-amplitude perturbations. The invention relates to measuring the temporal evolution of natural or artificial roughnesses, and analyzing the results in the firm of the 2D power spectral density for moderate-amplitude perturbations typically characterized by amplitude/wavelength ratios of the perturbation for a spatially defined perturbation having two wavelengths along two orthogonal directions, the ratios typically being less than 0.3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Assignee: Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique
    Inventors: Francois De Crecy, Jean-Charles Barbe, Daniel Girardeau-Montaut
  • Prohibiting unnecessary scheduling requests for uplink grants
    Patent number: 8582514
    Abstract: Uplink transmission scheduling requests (SRs) may be prohibited for a lower priority data flow, logical channel group (e.g., VoIP configured with semi-persistent resource allocation), or other grouping but may still be triggered for higher priority traffic (e.g., data connected to a signaling radio bearer (SRB)). More efficient scheduling is also achieved by allowing an uplink transmission scheduler to distinguish between different priority flows or groups (e.g., LCGs) without a buffer status report (BSR), As a result, when a semi-persistent resource is scheduled for the lower priority data, there is less delay for high priority data while eliminating uplink and downlink control signaling, i.e., fewer scheduling requests (SRs) and uplink grants, for the lower priority data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Peter Moberg, Magnus Linstrom, Eva Englund, Henrik Enbuske
  • Mobility handling for multicast services
    Patent number: 8583919
    Abstract: A method of handling mobility of a sender in a multicast packet sending scenario. The method comprises firstly establishing a multicast tree across a packet data network and transmitting multicast packets from the sender to a plurality of receivers via said multicast tree. Prior to a mobility event in respect of said sender, a suitable transfer anchor node is identified within said network, and the tree re-rooted to that transfer anchor node. Subsequently, multicast packets are transmitted from said sender to said transfer anchor node and injected into the multicast tree at said transfer anchor node. Following said mobility event, said sender continues to send multicast packets to said transfer anchor node for injection into the multicast tree.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Assignee: Telefonaktiegolaget L M Ericsson (Publ)
    Inventors: Mikko Sarela, Pekka Nikander
  • ZFET field-effect transistor with a vertical subthreshold slope and with no impact ionization
    Patent number: 8581310
    Abstract: The transistor comprises first and second source/drain electrodes formed in a semiconductor film by N-doped and P-doped areas, respectively. A polarization voltage is applied between the two source/drain electrodes in order to impose to the P-doped electrode a potential higher than that of the N-doped electrode. The transistor comprises first and second devices for generating a potential barrier in the semiconductor film. The two potential barriers are opposed to the passage of the charge carriers emitted by the first and second source/drain electrodes, respectively. The two potential barriers are shifted with respect to an axis connecting the two source/drain electrodes. The two devices for generating a potential barrier are configured to generate a potential barrier having a variable amplitude and it are electrically connected to the gate and to the counter electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Assignees: Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives, Centre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique
    Inventors: Jing Wan, Sorin Cristoloveanu, Cyrille Le Royer, Alexander Zaslavsky
  • Making of a microelectronic device including a monocrystalline silicon NEMS component and a transistor the gate of which is made in the same layer as the mobile structure of this component
    Patent number: 8580597
    Abstract: A method for making a microelectronic device including, on a same substrate, at least one electro-mechanical component including a mobile structure of a monocrystalline semi-conductor material and a mechanism actuating and/or detecting the mobile structure, and with at least one transistor. The method a) provides a substrate including at least one first semi-conducting layer including at least one region in which a channel area of the transistor is provided, b) etches a second semi-conducting layer based on a given semi-conductor material, lying on an insulating layer placed on the first semi-conducting layer, to form at least one pattern of the mobile structure of the component in an area of monocrystalline semi-conductor material of the second semi-conducting layer, and at least one pattern of gate of the transistor on a gate dielectric area located facing the given region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Assignee: Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives
    Inventors: Eric Ollier, Audrey Berthelot
  • Method for melting a batch of raw materials by a crown burner
    Patent number: 8578738
    Abstract: The invention concerns a method for melting a composition of raw materials including introducing the composition in an oven to form a layer (2) at the surface of the molten pool (4). An oxycombustion burner (10) is arranged above the pool and directed towards the composition layer (2) to produce a melting front (3). Parameters of the burner are adjusted to produce a large covering flame (12) causing an essentially radiation-based thermal transfer. Additionally, a plane containing a longitudinal section of the flame (Z-Z) and a horizontal direction perpendicular to the axis of the oven (X-X) intersects the melting front (3) at a height (h) included ranging between one third and half of the thickness of the composition (e). Such a method provides for a stable operation of the oven and is particularly adapted to a large-capacity oven.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Assignee: L'Air Liquide, Societe Anonyme pour l'Etude et l'Exploitation des Procedes Georges Claude
    Inventor: Remi Pierre Tsiava
  • Automatic digit map generation for access gateway during call setup
    Patent number: 8582732
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for generating a digit map for a call setup, wherein leading digits of a call number are collected by a gateway and transmitted to a call control server where a call-specific digit map is generated by comparing the leading digits to a numbering plan.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Stefan Paul Redmond, Herbie Francis
  • Communications unit and method for detecting pulse interference
    Patent number: 8582704
    Abstract: A communication method for use in a first cellular communications system is proposed for minimizing the interference caused by strong interfering pulses in the same frequency band as the system or an adjacent frequency band. The method comprises the steps of Receiving an incoming signal Bandpass filtering the incoming signal to filter out a first frequency band (B1) used by the communications system and forwarding the bandpass filtered signal to a receiver unit (35) for processing and forwarding the processed signal to a signal detector (37) arranged to detect the wanted signal. Redirecting a fraction of the received signal and detecting the power of the redirected fraction. Using the detected power to modify the function of the signal detector (37).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (Publ)
    Inventors: Johan Axnas, Vimar Bjork, Markus Ringstrom
  • Method and arrangement for delivering electronic state message information
    Patent number: 8583826
    Abstract: A method, executed in a messaging server handles electronic messages for a user, handles electronic state messages for at least one terminal, and delivers electronic state messages to at least one terminal. A state change is identified in or at the messaging server, the state change relating to at least one electronic message associated with the user, the at least one electronic message containing a destination identity associated with the user. A terminal address associated with the at least one terminal used by the user is retrieved based on the destination identity associated with the user. An electronic state message is delivered to the at least one terminal using the terminal address as destination address.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)
    Inventor: Anders Eriksson
  • Device for dispensing a cosmetic product and associated storage method
    Patent number: 8579531
    Abstract: This device comprises a container (12), a head (14) which is for dispensing cosmetic product and which is provided with a rotary application member (44) and a retention cap (42). It comprises a blocking cover (16) which can be moved between a position for blocking the container (12) and a position for dispensing the product. The container (12) is shaped so as to prevent the device (10) from being retained in a stable manner on a horizontal support with the head (14) in an upward position. The cover (16) comprises a member (86) for urging the rotary application member (40) against a sealing seat (60) delimited by the cap (42) in the blocking position of the cover. The urging member (86) can be resiliently deformed relative to the cover (16) between an idle configuration and a resiliently deformed configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Assignee: L'Oreal
    Inventors: Luc Maelstaf, Patrice Brunerie
  • Heuristic approach on checking service instance protection for availability management framework (AMF) configurations
    Patent number: 8584090
    Abstract: A configuration including Service Instances (SIs) and a list of Service Units (SUs) is to be validated. The SIs are to be allocated to the SUs for protection of the service represented by the SIs. A set of heuristics is applied to determine whether, for each of the SI assignments, the SI can be allocated to one of the SUs whose capacities support the required capacities of the SI. The heuristic then walks the list in order, to find a first SU that supports a current SI. If none of the SUs in the list can support the current SI, the heuristic indicates that the configuration is not validated. In response to a result that at least one of the heuristics in the set indicates the SUs can support all of the SIs, a final result is generated indicating that the configuration is valid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (Publ)
    Inventors: Pejman Salehi, Maria Toeroe, Ferhat Khendek
  • Inter-RAT/frequency automatic neighbor relation list management
    Patent number: 8583104
    Abstract: A telecommunications system comprises a serving radio base station and a candidate radio base station which are different with respect to at least one of frequency and radio access technology. The serving radio base station comprises a radio base station to which a wireless mobile station provides measurement reports. A method comprises the serving radio base station allowing the mobile station to obtain information broadcasted by the candidate radio base station. The information is either information for locating Cell Global Identity (CGI) of the candidate radio base station or the Cell Global Identity (CGI) itself of the radio base station. The mobile station obtains the information from the candidate radio base station during at least one reading gap. The reading gap is a time period in which the mobile station does not receive information from the serving radio base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Mehdi Amirijoo, Pål Frenger, Fredrik Gunnarsson, Harald Kallin, Johan Moe, Kristina Zetterberg
  • Parallel transmission of handover message
    Patent number: 8583122
    Abstract: In a method and system handover commands to a mobile station supporting simultaneous reception on two different channels is transmitted both on the regular channel and on an additional channel. By supporting decoding of both handover commands in the mobile station the likelihood of a successful handover is greatly increased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)
    Inventor: Lars Klockar
  • Automated flanging machine
    Patent number: 8578871
    Abstract: An automated flanging machine is provided. More specifically, a machine for automatically sewing a flange onto a work panel having a consistent corner radius and a straight edge is provided. The machine has a table adapted to support a work panel, a sewing head mounted directly adjacent to the table for performing a sewing operation on the work panel, a turning arm mounted adjacent to the table, and a rear conveyor for selectively moving the work panel on the table. The table may include a corner pivot mechanism for stabilizing the panel while the turning arm turns the panel 90 degree relative to an initial position, and for maintaining a consistent corner radius for sewing. The machine may also include a rear material guide and encoding arm for measuring the progression of the work panel as it is sewn along a side by the sewing head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Assignee: L & P Property Management Company
    Inventors: Jay Mark Smith, Dustin W. Smith
  • Dual mode mobile terminal access to a wireless communication network
    Patent number: 8583172
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to connecting a dual mode mobile terminal to a wireless communication network and includes connecting a dual mode mobile terminal to a wireless communication network using a mobile attachment mode or a fixed attachment mode. This includes detecting an operative transfer state of the dual mode mobile terminal triggering a transfer from the mobile attachment mode to the fixed attachment mode, and achieving a mobile attachment mode detach from the wireless communication network in the mobile attachment mode upon detection of the operative transfer state. This also includes achieving a fixed attachment mode attach to the same wireless communication network subsequent to execution of the mobile attachment mode detach to initiate the fixed attachment mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)
    Inventor: Kurt Essigmann