Patents Assigned to Utstarcom Telecom Co., Ltd.
  • Patent number: 11206215
    Abstract: A method for routing a packet in a segment routing network includes extracting a destination Internet Protocol (IP) address from an IP header of the packet received by a routing node wherein the destination IP address includes a network identifier, a node identifier, a function identifier, and an argument; determining whether the network identifier and the node identifier match a routing node identifier; when the network identifier and the node identifier match the routing node identifier, determining a function to be executed based on the function identifier and the argument; when the function to be executed is determined, updating the node identifier, the function identifier, and the argument according to a segment list included in a segment routing header of the packet; and routing the packet according to the updated node identifier, the updated function identifier, and the updated argument in the destination IP address.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: UTStarcom Telecom Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yong-Lin Tang, Si-Hai Bao, Feng Liu, Sheng Yu
  • Patent number: 10958367
    Abstract: A network apparatus connected with a first clock source and at least one second clock source is provided. The network apparatus includes a system clock, a slave port connected to the first clock source, at least one passive port connected to the at least one second clock source, and a processor that controls synchronization of the system clock. The processor determines, from the slave port, a first clock offset between the system clock and a clock of the first clock source. The processor determines, from the at least one passive port, at least one second clock offset between the system clock and at least one clock of the at least one second clock source. The processor determines a true clock offset based on the first clock offset and the at least one second clock offset and synchronizes the system clock using the true clock offset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: UTStarcom Telecom Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yong-Lin Tang, Guang-Pu Zhou, Xiao-Mao Gan, Si-Hai Bao
  • Publication number: 20200195556
    Abstract: A method for routing a packet in a segment routing network includes extracting a destination Internet Protocol (IP) address from an IP header of the packet received by a routing node wherein the destination IP address includes a network identifier, a node identifier, a function identifier, and an argument; determining whether the network identifier and the node identifier match a routing node identifier; when the network identifier and the node identifier match the routing node identifier, determining a function to be executed based on the function identifier and the argument; when the function to be executed is determined, updating the node identifier, the function identifier, and the argument according to a segment list included in a segment routing header of the packet; and routing the packet according to the updated node identifier, the updated function identifier, and the updated argument in the destination IP address.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2019
    Publication date: June 18, 2020
    Applicant: UTStarcom Telecom Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yong-Lin Tang, Si-Hai Bao, Feng Liu, Sheng Yu
  • Publication number: 20200162181
    Abstract: A network apparatus connected with a first clock source and at least one second clock source is provided. The network apparatus includes a system clock, a slave port connected to the first clock source, at least one passive port connected to the at least one second clock source, and a processor that controls synchronization of the system clock. The processor determines, from the slave port, a first clock offset between the system clock and a clock of the first clock source. The processor determines, from the at least one passive port, at least one second clock offset between the system clock and at least one clock of the at least one second clock source. The processor determines a true clock offset based on the first clock offset and the at least one second clock offset and synchronizes the system clock using the true clock offset.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2019
    Publication date: May 21, 2020
    Applicant: UTStarcom Telecom Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yong-Lin Tang, Guang-Pu Zhou, Xiao-Mao Gan, Si-Hai Bao
  • Publication number: 20140369214
    Abstract: Disclosed is a device for storing and retrieving log files and testing circuits that includes a Control and Management Module, a Network Interface Module and a Serial Interface Module. The Network Interface Module connects with an SFP interface of data transport network to supply power and achieve a network connection. The Serial Interface Module connects to a serial port of equipment to store the output logs into the device. Remote management equipment can access the inventive device via telnet or other means. The device can be conveniently carried and installed and can work automatically after power up, which avoids taking additional power from the equipment room and saves on installation space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2014
    Publication date: December 18, 2014
    Applicant: UTStarcom Telecom Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhang Jinsong, Liu Lifeng, Chen Xiaoyun
  • Patent number: 7822075
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method of signal transmission between a host BTS and Remote Radio Unit(s), and the BTS communication system thereof. The transmission channel between the host BTS and the Remote Radio Unit(s) uses wideband transmission links or a network, the method includes the following steps of: performing the transmission over the transmission channel using a Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (SDH)/Optical Transmission Network (OTN), forming a digital wireless signal data stream and an in-band control signaling stream transmitted over the transmission channel into a Generic Framing Procedure (GFP) frame which is further mapped to a STM-N/OTM-n frame, thereby multiplexing the digital wireless signal data stream and the in-band control signaling stream to realize SDH/OTN-based transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2010
    Assignee: Utstarcom Telecom Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Sheng Liu
  • Patent number: 7817603
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for transmitting a plurality of antenna signals in a wireless Base Transceiver Station (BTS) using Remote Radio Head (RRH) technology and the corresponding system. The method includes the steps of: transmitting signals over the transmit channel using Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (SDH)/Optical Transmission Network (OTN), multiplexing the plurality of antenna signals adopting the manners of time division multiplex or GFP frame-level multiplex; forming the multiplexed antenna signal stream and in-band control signaling stream into Generic Framing Procedure (GFP) frame; or forming the plurality of antenna signals and the plurality of respective control signals on the in-band control signaling channel into a plurality of respective GFP frames in parallel; and further mapping the GFP frames to STM-N/OTM-n frames, therefore multiplexing the plurality of antenna signals and the in-band control signaling stream to realize the SDH/OTN-based transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2010
    Assignees: Utstarcom Telecom Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Sheng Liu
  • Patent number: 7809073
    Abstract: A MIMO method based on distributed transmission sources for transmitting a downlink data stream between M transmitting antennas and a mobile terminal having P receiving antennas, M and P>1, channels from at least two transmitting antennas to one of receiving antennas have different multipath distributions, comprises transmitting a different sub-data stream of M sub-data streams from the M transmitting antennas respectively to the mobile terminal by using the same spreading code: estimating multipath channel matrix of channels from the M transmitting antennas to the receiving antenna, which use the spreading code: and processing transmitted signals corresponding to the M sub-data streams received by the receiving antenna based on the multipath channel matrix of each receiving antenna, to restore the downlink data stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2010
    Assignee: Utstarcom Telecom Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Sheng Liu
  • Patent number: 7796554
    Abstract: The application discloses a method for resource management and a method for traffic guidance in a multimode radio network comprising a plurality of mobile communication networks of different modes that share wideband transmission links and sites of centralized base stations, the centralized base stations of the plurality of mobile communication networks being connected to a common base station controller or a common radio networks controller. A mobile terminal is made to perform real-time handover among different mobile communication networks, or, the allocation of the resources among the plurality of mobile communication networks is adjusted in real time, according to at least one of the following factors or the combination thereof: the multimode supporting capability of the mobile terminal, traffics of cells, operation policies and real-time operating conditions of the plurality of networks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2010
    Assignee: UTStarcom Telecom Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sheng Liu, Baijun Zhao
  • Patent number: 7773578
    Abstract: A method of transmitting one or more branches of wireless signals between a channel processing unit and a remote radio frequency unit in a centralized base station, or between base stations through a packet network, each of said branches of wireless signals being a signal flow having a wireless frame period, the method comprising steps: obtaining a sample data stream of wireless signal of each branch in said wireless signals; dividing said sample data stream into consecutive data segments of fixed length; encapsulating said data segments into application protocol packets according to a predetermined protocol, each application protocol packet further including first information indicating the sequence of the data segment of the packet in all the data segments of the branch to which the data segment belongs; second information indicating payload type of the branch; third information indicating whether the data segment of the packet contains a data sample corresponding to the start of a wireless frame period; an
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: Utstarcom Telecom Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Sheng Liu
  • Patent number: 7680149
    Abstract: A communication method between the units of a distributed base station system, characterized by comprising: at the transmitting end, mapping a CPRI link to a GFP-T frame; encapsulating the GFP-T frame into SDH virtual containers to form a STM-N frame; and transmitting the STM-N frame via a SDH line, and at the receiving end, receiving the STM-N frame transmitted via the SDH line; separating the SDH virtual containers from the STM-N frame; extracting the GFP-T frame from the SDH virtual containers; reproducing the CPRI link from the GFP-T frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2010
    Assignee: Utstarcom Telecom Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sheng Liu, Bill Huang
  • Patent number: 7656897
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for realizing transmission of multiprotocol client signals in a distributed base station subsystem, comprising: encapsulating client signals by a GFP-T frame; and mapping the GFP-T frame into a lower-layer transmission link to realize the transmission of client signals. The lower-layer transmission link is a common public radio interface CPRI link. The client signals are one of the following: baseband I/Q signals of WCDMA supported by CPRI protocol, baseband I/Q signals of radio interface protocols other than WCDMA, structured signals of E1/T1, STM-1 and other constant-rate links, structured variable-rate link signals such as Ethernet MAC frame signals, PPP/HDLC frame signals, etc. This method is also applicable to other types of synchronous transmission links between a remote radio unit and a primary baseband processing unit, e.g., the links as specified by OBSAI (Open Base Station Architecture Initiative).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2010
    Assignee: UTStarcom Telecom Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Sheng Liu
  • Patent number: 7653083
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a method for transmitting signal between a central channel processing Main Unit (MU) and one or more Remote Radio Units (RRUs) by using SDH/OTN in Centralized Base Transceiver Station system using remote radio head (RRH) technology.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2010
    Assignee: Utstarcom Telecom Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sheng Liu, Yulin Li
  • Publication number: 20090149221
    Abstract: A centralized base station system based on ATCA, comprising a main base station subsystem and one or more remote radio frequency subsystems, the main base station subsystem comprising: one or more shelves based on ATCA platform, each shelf comprising at least one control switch module of ATCA board form; one or more base station controller interface module; a signaling module; one or more baseband processing modules; one or more remote radio frequency interface modules; a first switch network comprising first switch network shelf back board BASE interface link, a control switch module and a first network switch unit; a second switch network comprising a shelf back board FABRIC interface link, a control switch module and a second network switch unit; a clock synchronization network comprising a shelf back board clock synchronization bus, a control switch module and a clock unit; and a signal transmission network, wherein the second network switch unit and the clock unit are further connected to the first netwo
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2004
    Publication date: June 11, 2009
    Applicant: UTSTARCOM TELECOM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sheng Liu, Shaoyun Ruan, Baijun Zhao
  • Publication number: 20080195535
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method and system for flexibly configuring charging information in an Internet protocol multimedia sub-system. According to the invention, charging mode information of respective application servers involved in a user service is stored in the home subscriber server, the home subscriber server sends charging function address information and charging mode information to a service call state control function unit, the service call state control function unit determines, based on the received charging function address information and the charging mode information, the charging function addresses for the respective application servers, and forwards corresponding charging function address information to the respective application servers, respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2005
    Publication date: August 14, 2008
    Applicant: UTSTARCOM TELECOM CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Sheng Liu
  • Publication number: 20080107014
    Abstract: The present invention provides a distributed wireless system with centralized control of resources, comprising: a plurality of communication processing devices connected to each other, each communication processing device performing the channel processing task of cells which it is responsible for, including processing an uplink wireless signal into an uplink data frame, and processing a downlink data frame into a downlink wireless signal; and a system control device connected to said communication processing devices and a network control device, comprising channel processing scheduling means for controlling the allocation of channel processing tasks among said communication processing devices, so that channel processing tasks of cells which one of the communication processing devices is responsible for are partly or wholly allocated to other channel processing devices for processing, and routing means for routing and transmitting data between the network control device network control device and a radio gatew
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2004
    Publication date: May 8, 2008
    Applicant: Utstarcom Telecom Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xiaoqing Huang, Sheng Liu, Baijun Zhao
  • Publication number: 20080069032
    Abstract: a method of transmitting one or more branches of wireless signals between a channel processing unit and a remote radio frequency unit in a centralized base station, or between base stations through a packet network, each of said branches of wireless signals being a signal flow having a wireless frame period, the method comprising steps: obtaining a sample data stream of wireless signal of each branch in said wireless signals; dividing said sample data stream into consecutive data segments of fixed length; encapsulating said data segments into application protocol packets according to a predetermined protocol, each application protocol packet further including first information indicating the sequence of the data segment of the packet in all the data segments of the branch to which the data segment belongs; second information indicating payload type of the branch; third information indicating whether the data segment of the packet contains a data sample corresponding to the start of a wireless frame period; an
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2004
    Publication date: March 20, 2008
    Applicant: Utstarcom Telecom Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Sheng Liu
  • Publication number: 20070280159
    Abstract: The invention provides a wireless base station connected to a wireless network control device, another wireless base station and a subscriber unit, comprising a first communication device for receiving/transmitting downlink data frames/uplink data frames from/to the wireless network control device; a second communication device for transmitting/receiving downlink wireless signals/uplink wireless signal to/from the subscriber unit; a channel processing device for processing the downlink data frames/uplink wireless signals into downlink wireless signals/uplink data frames; and a signal distribution unit for supplying the downlink data frames and the uplink wireless signals to the channel processing device for processing, wherein the base station further comprising a third communication device for communicating with the another base station, and the signal distribution unit further comprising forwarding control means for transmitting the downlink data frames or uplink wireless signals to the another wireless bas
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2004
    Publication date: December 6, 2007
    Applicant: UTStarcom Telecom Co., LTD
    Inventors: Sheng Liu, Baijun Zhao, Huang Bill
  • Publication number: 20070254671
    Abstract: The present invention provides a radio access network system, comprising: a core network CN; a plurality of radio access gateways (RAGs) each performing processing of all the L1/L2/L3 protocols in a radio interface access layer; and a plurality of remote RF units (RRUs); wherein said plurality of RAGs are connected with said CN via Iu interfaces and are connected with each other via Iur or Iur+ interfaces, said plurality of RAGs are connected with corresponding RRUs via Iua interfaces for realizing the control of said plurality of RAGs over said corresponding RRUs and digital radio signal transmission therebetween. In a specific mode for carrying out the present invention, each of said RAGs is divided into two independent network elements, i.e., a radio bearer server RBS and a radio control server RCS.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2004
    Publication date: November 1, 2007
    Applicant: UTSTARCOM TELECOM CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Sheng Liu
  • Publication number: 20070195832
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method of signal transmission between a host BTS and Remote Radio Unit(s), and the BTS communication system thereof. The transmission channel between the host BTS and the Remote Radio Unit(s) uses wideband transmission links or a network, the method includes the following steps of: performing the transmission over the transmission channel using a Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (SDH)/Optical Transmission Network (OTN), forming a digital wireless signal data stream and an in-band control signaling stream transmitted over the transmission channel into a Generic Framing Procedure (GFP) frame which is further mapped to a STM-N/OTM-n frame, thereby multiplexing the digital wireless signal data stream and the in-band control signaling stream to realize SDH/OTN-based transmission.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2004
    Publication date: August 23, 2007
    Applicant: UTSTARCOM TELECOM CO. LTD.
    Inventor: Sheng Liu