Patents Assigned to L
  • Adaptation of parameters in a communication network
    Patent number: 8934930
    Abstract: A distributed parameter update procedure is provided for updating parameters that do not have discrete values. When a parameter value is changed, a search is conducted of a parameter space to find a new parameter value minimizes some cost function. The cost function is derived based on the current parameter settings in neighboring nodes. The distributed parameter update procedure may simplify the search process by localizing the search of the parameter space for a new parameter value to the vicinity of the current parameter setting. In some embodiments, the search is conducted along a line of steepest descent emanating from the current parameter setting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson
    Inventors: Jiann-Ching Guey, Dennis Hui
  • Methods and systems for centrally-controlled client-side filtering
    Patent number: 8935352
    Abstract: Methods and systems to minimize the number of messages transmitted between a client and a server in a client-server network. The messages may be error messages, and may be associated with a log such as an error log. The client requests permission of the server to transmit a message(s) to the server. Upon receipt of the request, the server provides the client with a filter, which may include a filter table with a filter parameter(s). The server may provide the filter in real time and/or without the client or server having to go off-line. The client uses the filter to filter at least a selected message from the message(s). Once the client has filtered the selected message the client transmits the selected message and/or the associated log of the selected message to the server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Ronald Perrella, Steve Thobe, Gaiye Zhou
  • Parallel synchronous bus with non-uniform spaced conductive traces for providing equalized crosstalk
    Patent number: 8933761
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided a circuit interconnect. In one embodiment of the disclosure, the circuit interconnect includes a dielectric layer. A parallel synchronous bus is disposed on the dielectric layer. The parallel synchronous bus includes at least four conductive traces. The conductive traces are non-uniformly spaced from one another along a portion of the bus where the conductive traces are physically aligned in parallel so that crosstalk interference among the conductive traces is equalized across the conductive traces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignee: Marvell Israel (M.I.S.L.) Ltd.
    Inventor: Eldad Bar-Lev
  • WLAN having load balancing based on access point loading
    Patent number: 8934368
    Abstract: A network having distribution of access point loading includes access points to which mobile stations can associate themselves based upon access point beacon signal levels and loading levels for the various access points. A mobile station receives beacon signals from various access points and determines a signal strength for the received beacon signals. The mobile station also receives access point loading information from the access points. The mobile station associates with an access point based upon the access point beacon signal strengths and the access point loading information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P.
    Inventors: Zoran Kostic, Kin K. Leung, Hujun Yin
  • Wake-on-local-area-network operations in a modular chassis using a virtualized input-output-virtualization environment
    Patent number: 8935555
    Abstract: A method for waking an information handling system includes receiving in a chassis a plurality of modular information handling systems and a plurality of modular information handling resources, routing access of one of the modular information handling resources to one or more of the plurality of modular information handling systems, monitoring a plurality of power management event lines, determining a wake message received at one of the modular information handling resources, determining which of the plurality of modular information handling systems is associated with the received wake message, forwarding a wake signal to the determined modular information handling system, and powering on the determined information handling system. The modular information handling resource is configured to receive a wake message. Each line is coupled one of the modular information handling resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: John Loffink, Alan Brumley
  • Multimedia ad delivery
    Patent number: 8935720
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide systems, methods, and apparatuses for delivering an advertiser's ad content to a user regardless of the channel or media format being accessed by the user. Ads may be delivered within the media stream, in an ancillary stream, or from other sources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L. P.
    Inventors: Lyle T. Bertz, Yaojun Sun, Christopher J. Mateski, Chuma U. Agogbua
  • Rotary lock providing positive latching indicia
    Patent number: 8931813
    Abstract: A rotary lock including a housing having a strike channel shaped to receive a strike component and a latch member including at least one strike engaging member. The latch member is rotatable between an unlatched position, a secondary latch position and a primary latch position. A keeper member is moveable between a disengaged position, a secondary keeper position, and a primary keeper position. A lock member is moveable between a lock position and an unlock position. The lock member and/or a lock actuator is non-movable to the lock position when the latch member is in the secondary latch position, thereby providing indicia that the latch member is not fully latched in a primary latch position. Methods of assembly and use are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignee: A.L. Hansen Manufacturing Co.
    Inventors: Douglas L. Juga, Charles E. Bullock
  • Optical apparatus
    Patent number: 8934788
    Abstract: An optical apparatus for use in an optical communications network, and a method of operating a network are described. The apparatus includes an input suitable for receiving a first continuous wave optical signal from a remote location on a network, and a modifying unit arranged to modify the first continuous wave optical signal to produce a second continuous wave optical signal having a wavelength which is different from the wavelength of the first continuous wave optical signal. A modulating unit is arranged to modulate the second continuous wave optical signal with data to produce a modulated second continuous wave optical signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)
    Inventor: Fabio Cavaliere
  • Document key phrase extraction method
    Patent number: 8935260
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method of extracting key phrases from a document is disclosed comprising the steps of accessing a repository comprising linked subjects, the repository comprising first and second data structures representing the relationship between said subjects using different representation criteria; pruning the first data structure by removing links between subjects based on a further relationship between said subjects in the second data structure; matching phrases in said document to subjects in the pruned first data structure; further pruning the pruned first data structure by removing unmatched subjects that are not linked to matched subjects; determining a ranking for each matched subject; and selecting key phrases using the determined subject rankings. A computer program for implementing the steps of this method when executed on a computer is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Bao-Yao Zhou, Ping Luo, Sheng-Wen Yang, Yuhong Xiong, Wei Liu
  • Method and apparatus for re-originating calls
    Patent number: 8934474
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for enabling a subscriber who is originating a call to a called party endpoint to specify call handling treatments when a busy or a no answer network condition is encountered when calling the called party endpoint with no subscribed network based voice mail service are disclosed. The subscriber, for example, can re-originate the call that is originally directed to a home phone number of the called party to a cellular phone number of the called party instead upon encountering a busy or no answer network condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P.
    Inventors: Marian Croak, Hossein Eslambolchi
  • Digital watermarking
    Patent number: 8934663
    Abstract: A device for applying or extracting a digital watermark of two or more dimensions and a method of applying or extracting the digital watermark. The digital watermark is generated by adding a suitable number of watermarking arrays. Each watermarking array is constructed by convolving a multi-periodic shift array having a correlation bounded by a constant (two or greater) with a balanced periodic substitution sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignee: Optimark, L.L.C.
    Inventors: Oscar Moreno De Ayala, Anatol Zygmunt Tirkel
  • Composition comprising a polyol and a oil-soluble polar modified polymer
    Patent number: 8932566
    Abstract: The invention relates to a composition comprising a oil-soluble polar modified polymer and a hyperbranched polyol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignee: L'Oreal
    Inventors: Hy Si Bui, Mohamed Kanji, Susan Halpern, Bruno Bavouzet, Anita Chon Tong, Chunhua Li, Yoriko Kawaratani
  • Snapshots in distributed storage systems
    Patent number: 8935206
    Abstract: Embodiments include methods, apparatus, and systems for snapshots in distributed storage systems. One method of software execution includes using a version tree to determine what data blocks are shared between various storage nodes in the version tree in order to create a clone or a snapshot of a storage volume in a distributed storage system that uses quorum-based replication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Marcos K. Aguilera, Alistair Veitch, Susan Spence
  • Multiple media fail-over to alternate media
    Patent number: 8934349
    Abstract: The present invention is a system and method for failing over from a current network access medium to an alternative network access medium. A customer premises equipment (CPE) box has ports for connections to a network through several network access media, such as high speed cable connections, DSL connections and dial-up connections. QoS parameters for each of the connections are monitored from a bandwidth manager remote from the CPE box. When it is determined that a fail-over would be beneficial, a message is sent from the bandwidth manager to the CPE box containing a command to fail-over and an identity of the alternate network access media.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P.
    Inventors: Yihsiu Chen, Mark Jeffrey Foladare, Samuel Glazer, Shelley B. Goldman, Thaddeus Julius Kowalski
  • Liquid electrophotographic ink and method for making the same
    Patent number: 8932791
    Abstract: A liquid electrophotographic ink is disclosed herein. One example of the liquid electrophotographic ink includes a non-polar carrier liquid; pigmented toner particles; a charge director; and polymer resin encapsulated metal oxide nanoparticles. A method for making the liquid electrophotographic ink is also disclosed herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Doris Pik-Yiu Chun, Hou T. Ng, Albert Teishev
  • Visual outage management wizard plug-in
    Patent number: 8935571
    Abstract: Described herein are systems and methods related to a plug-in for a visual tool as a real-time knowledge transfer agent between network outages. One embodiment relates to a method comprises retrieving current outage data related to a current operation of a network, retrieving historical outage data related to a prior operation of the network, correlating the current outage data with the historical outage data, and constructing a resolution process plan for repairing a current outage based on correlations between the current outage data and the historical outage data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventor: Brian Lee
  • Independent data access in a segmented file system
    Patent number: 8935307
    Abstract: A first file server for use with a distributed-file system includes a processor configured to determine that an incoming file system communication is associated with a first portion of the distributed-file system associated with a second file server, send a first authorization request to the second file server to request authorization to directly access the first portion of the distributed-file system, analyze a first authorization response from the second file server to determine at least one storage location associated with the first portion of the distributed-file system, determine that an incoming second authorization request received from a third file server is associated with a second portion of the distributed-file system associated with the first file server, obtain data indicative of the second portion of the distributed-file system, and send a second authorization response that includes the data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Sudhir Srinivasan, Boris Zuckerman, Steven A. Orszag, Philip Eric Jackson
  • Dynamic registration of listener resources for cloud services
    Patent number: 8935377
    Abstract: Dynamic registration of listener resources for cloud services is disclosed. Example methods disclosed herein for cloud service listener registration include registering, at a registry server, information identifying listener resources for processing client requests associated with respective cloud services, the cloud services including a first cloud service. Some example methods also include providing first information to a client in response to a request to provide listener information for a first cloud service. In some such examples, the first information identifies a first listener resource registered for processing client requests associated with the first cloud service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Rene Glover, James Paul Fox, Rama Raghavan, Robert Marcus Wyatt
  • Method and system for monitoring a mobile station presence in a special area
    Patent number: 8934922
    Abstract: Method for monitoring the presence of a mobile station in at least one special area, wherein a radio communication defining device transmits one radio distinctive defining signal that define the special area by its coverage, the mobile station processes a signal received in order to determine whether or not it is defining signal and more precisely a distinctive one that defines the special area, the mobile station sends an updating signal to a mobile telephone network, the network routes the updating signal to special operating means that adapt the value of an operating parameter. According to the invention, the special area is associated to the mobile station by transmitting to the mobile station a checking data used by the mobile station for determining whether or not the defining signal received is distinctive defining signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignee: Afirma Consulting & Technologies, S.L.
    Inventor: Carlos A. Perez Lafuente
  • Food slicer
    Patent number: D720957
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignee: Idea S.r.l.
    Inventor: Dario Gualini