Patents Assigned to M
  • Patent number: 9854569
    Abstract: A physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) format for transmission of uplink control information (UCI) in unlicensed spectrum is either short PUCCH or long PUCCH. The short PUCCH occupies less than 1 subframe in the time domain and spans an entire system bandwidth in the frequency domain with interlacing on a resource block level. The long PUCCH occupies one subframe in the time domain and spans the entire system bandwidth in the frequency domain with interlacing on a resource block level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET L M ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Yu Yang, Fredrik Lindqvist
  • Publication number: 20170362108
    Abstract: A hybrid activated iron-biological treatment system and method for treating wastewater. The treatment system includes a combination of zero valent iron, ferrous iron, an iron oxide, and a denitrification microorganism.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2015
    Publication date: December 21, 2017
    Applicant: The Texas A&M University System
    Inventor: Yongheng Huang
  • Patent number: 9848068
    Abstract: A method for providing a parser by a network node, which includes a table defining a plurality of rules and a plurality of match fields required for extraction from an incoming data packet header in order to apply each of the respective rules is described. The method comprises determining at least one occurrence in the table of a first match field that requires extraction; and determining a parser for use in accordance with the at least one determined occurrence of the first match field. Furthermore, the step of determining at least one occurrence of the first match field comprises initializing a counter associated with the first match field and incrementing the counter for each of the plurality of rules that requires extraction of the first match field. And the step of determining a parser comprises determining the parser for use in accordance with the counter. A network node for carrying this method is also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2017
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Suresh Krishnan, Geoffrey Lefebvre
  • Patent number: 9847086
    Abstract: Concealing a lost audio frame of a received audio signal by performing a sinusoidal analysis of a part of a previously received or reconstructed audio signal, wherein the sinusoidal analysis involves identifying frequencies of sinusoidal components of the audio signal, applying a sinusoidal model on a segment of the previously received or reconstructed audio signal, wherein said segment is used as a prototype frame in order to create a substitution frame for a lost audio frame, and creating the substitution frame for the lost audio frame by time-evolving sinusoidal components of the prototype frame, up to the time instance of the lost audio frame, in response to the corresponding identified frequencies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2017
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET L M ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventor: Stefan Bruhn
  • Patent number: 9848434
    Abstract: The present teachings relates to methods performed in a network node of a wireless communication network. The method comprises: broadcasting one or more threshold values enabling the wireless devices to determine fulfillment of one or more criteria for selecting a contention based random access preamble either from a first preamble group or from a second preamble group for use in a contention based random access procedure; transmitting to a selected wireless device one or more threshold values using dedicated signaling, the one or more threshold values sent in the dedicated signaling overriding a corresponding broadcasted threshold value and being set so that the wireless device fulfills the criteria to select a preamble from the first preamble group, wherein the threshold values sent on the dedicated signaling differ from the broadcast threshold values; and prioritizing preambles of the first preamble group over preambles of the second preamble group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2017
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Wei Zhao, Ying Sun
  • Patent number: 9848374
    Abstract: Network services exchange data packets with mobile terminals wirelessly connected to a network. The network receives reports from a subset of the mobile terminals. The reports indicate network services used by the reporting mobile terminals. Various corresponding methods include the network associating one or more first data packets with one of the network services based on the reports. The first data packets originate from, or are addressed to, the reporting mobile terminals. The network derives or adapts, based on data included in the first data packets, one or more rules for identifying the network service based on data included in second data packets. The second data packets are different from the first data packets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2017
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET L M ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Gunnar Heikkilä, András Rácz, András Veres
  • Patent number: 9848203
    Abstract: The embodiments reduce output delay for pictures by determining after a current picture has been decoded and stored in a decoded picture buffer, DPB, a number of pictures in the DPB that are marked as needed for output. This number is compared, after a current picture has been decoded and stored in the DPB, against a value derived form at least one syntax element present or to be present in a bitstream representing pictures of a video sequence. If this number is greater than the value a picture, which is the first picture in output order, of the pictures in the DPB that are marked as needed for output is preferably output and marked as not needed for output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2017
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGETG L M ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Jonatan Samuelsson, Rickard Sjöberg
  • Patent number: 9848390
    Abstract: A system and method for determining a Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH) power control parameter h(nCQI,nHARQ) for two Carrier Aggregated (CA) PUCCH formats—PUCCH format 3 and channel selection. The value of h(nCQI,nHARQ) may be based on only a linear function of nHARQ for both of the CA PUCCH formats. Based on the CA PUCCH format configured for the User Equipment (UE), the e-Node B (eNB) may instruct the UE to select or apply a specific linear function of nHARQ as a value for the power control parameter h(nCQI,nHARQ), so as to enable the UE to more accurately establish transmit power of its PUCCH signal. Values for another PUCCH power control parameter—?F_PUCCH(F)—are also provided for use with PUCCH format 3. A new offset parameter may be signaled for each PUCCH format that has transmit diversity configured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2017
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Robert Baldemair, Jung-Fu Cheng, Dirk Gerstenberger, Daniel Larsson
  • Patent number: 9847729
    Abstract: A method of operating a switched mode power supply comprising a switched mode converter and a control arrangement. The switched mode converter converts an input voltage to an output voltage and includes a primary winding, controllable switch based circuitry connecting the input voltage over the primary winding, a secondary winding coupled to the primary winding, and an LC filter including an inductive element and a capacitive element, wherein the output voltage is obtained as the voltage over the capacitive element and a duty cycle of the switched mode converter can be controlled by controlling the switch based circuitry. The switched mode converter is controlled depending on measurements of the input and output voltages in a hybrid regulated ratio control scheme. The power of the switched mode power supply is shut off or a current thereof is limited, when a current of the switched mode power supply reaches a maximum current.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2017
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Magnus Karlsson, Jonas Malmberg, Oscar Persson, Fredrik Wahledow
  • Publication number: 20170356258
    Abstract: An apparatus and method have a screen frame having a screening surface provided by an array of openings separated by transverse ribs, a scalping surface having a plurality of openings formed therethrough and a vertical base portion contacting the screen surface of the screen frame such that vertical base portion connects the scalping surface to the screen frame. A scalping surface support member is disposed vertically between the scalping surface and the vertical base portion such that the scalping surface support member spaces the scalping surface a vertical height above the screening surface of the screen frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2017
    Publication date: December 14, 2017
    Applicant: M-I L.L.C.
    Inventors: ERIC CADY, BRIAN S. CARR
  • Patent number: 9843155
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods for forming fine scale structures (4, 4?, 4?, 5, 6, 7, 8) in the surface of a dielectric substrate (3) to two or more depths are disclosed. In an example, the apparatus comprises a first solid state laser (12) arranged to provide a first pulsed laser beam (13), a first mask (16) having a pattern for defining a first set of structures (4, 6, 7, 8) at a first depth, a projection lens (17) for forming a reduced size image of said pattern on the surface (3) of the substrate and a beam scanner arranged to scan said first pulsed laser beam (13) in a two-dimensional raster scan relative to the first pattern to form a first set of structures (4, 6, 7, 5) at a first depth in the substrate, wherein the first or a further solid state laser is arranged to form a second set of structures (8) at a second depth in the substrate (3).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: M-SOLV LIMITED
    Inventors: David Charles Milne, Philip Thomas Rumsby, David Thomas Edmund Myles
  • Patent number: 9843372
    Abstract: It is presented a method for controlling uplink multiple-input-multiple-output, MIMO. The method is performed in a network node and comprises the steps of: determining an inter-stream interference between two uplink streams in MIMO, Multiple Inputs Multiple Outputs, transmission; and controlling a selection of E-TFC, Enhanced dedicated transport channel Transport Format Combination, in response to the determined interference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET L M ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Cagatay Konuskan, Erik Larsson, Bo Göransson, Johan Hultell, Peter Von Wrycza
  • Patent number: 9841025
    Abstract: A device for the transmission of power using rotating magnetic fields includes a drive shaft with an external magnet, a pump shaft with an internal magnet suited to entrained by the external magnet, a rear tight chamber or containment body for the pump shaft and the internal magnet, the rear body being positioned between the internal magnet and external magnet. The rear body includes at least a glass-shaped casing and one or more probes buried within the thickness of the glass-shaped casing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: M PUMPS PROCESS SRL
    Inventors: Adriano Mischiatti, Antonio Mischiatti, Massimo Mischiatti
  • Patent number: 9839687
    Abstract: The present invention relates to novel acetylenedicarboxyl linkers used for the specific conjugation of compounds/cytotoxic agents to a cell-binding molecule, through bridge linking pairs of thiols on the cell-binding molecule. The invention also relates to methods of making such linkers, and of using such linkers in making homogeneous conjugates, as well as of application of the conjugates in treatment of cancers, infections and autoimmune disorders.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: SUZHOU M-CONJ BIOTECH CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Robert Yongxin Zhao
  • Patent number: 9843792
    Abstract: A multi-view display controller determines view angles for each view of a multi-view media content for each viewer watching a multi-view display. The view angles determined for a viewer collectively define a viewer cone that displays the views onto the viewer. Media data of the multi-view media content is output together with information of the determined view angles to the multi-view display in order to allow each viewer to have the same experience of displayed media content regardless of where the viewer is positioned relative to the multi-view display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET L M ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Jacob Ström, Michael Huber
  • Patent number: 9841120
    Abstract: An apparatus for controlling a flow of a fluid, such as a drilling fluid or drilling mud, is disclosed. The apparatus may include: a valve member; and a float member mechanically coupled to the valve member and configured to operate on the valve member when fully submerged in a fluid. The coupled float member is configured to increase flow through the valve member as a density of the fluid decreases and to restrict flow through the valve member as the density of the fluid increases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: M-I L.L.C.
    Inventor: Christopher D. Nicholson
  • Patent number: 9842150
    Abstract: The invention relates to determining a visibility component from a metadata value of an object, determining a visibility-affecting feature of a mobile device using the information management system, and retrieving the object to a display view of the mobile device, if the determined visibility-affecting feature corresponds to a value of a visibility property of the visibility component. The invention further relates to an apparatus, and a computer program product that perform the method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: M-FILES OY
    Inventors: Antti Nivala, Paivi Yli-Olli, Ari Laaja
  • Patent number: 9840629
    Abstract: A method includes coating a substrate to provide a flame resistant substrate. In an embodiment, the method includes preparing a solution. The solution includes an anionic material, a cationic material, and water. The method further includes exposing the substrate to the solution to produce a coating on the substrate. The coating has cationic material and anionic material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: The Texas A&M University System
    Inventor: Jaime C. Grunlan
  • Patent number: 9839621
    Abstract: A method for treating bladder cancer including the steps of administering an isothiocyanate functional surfactant to an area affected by bladder cancer, wherein the isothiocyanate functional surfactant comprises at least one isothiocyanate functional group associated with an aliphatic and/or aromatic carbon atom of the isothiocyanate functional surfactant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: The William M. Yarbrough Foundation
    Inventor: Michael E. Silver
  • Patent number: D805862
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: M & K Tools, LLC
    Inventor: Finis Michael Blackmon