Patents Assigned to Via Telecom, Inc.
  • Patent number: 9363770
    Abstract: Automatic provisioning of an access point base station or femtocell. The method may include the femtocell transmitting first information (e.g., location information, signal measurement information, capability information, etc.) to a service provider (e.g., over an IP network). The femtocell may receive second information from the service provider, where the second information includes one or more operational parameters. The operational parameters may include hand-off parameters, admission policy parameters, PN or scrambling codes, power parameters, and/or other parameters. The femtocell may operate according to the received parameters to provide access for a plurality of access terminals in a local area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignees: IPCOMM, VIA TELECOM, INC.
    Inventors: Stanislaw Czaja, Mark E. Davis, Anthony Lee, Sang Gook Kim, Li-Hsiang Sun
  • Patent number: 9313752
    Abstract: Automatic provisioning of an access point base station or femtocell. The method may include the femtocell transmitting first information (e.g., location information, signal measurement information, capability information, etc.) to a service provider (e.g., over an IP network). The femtocell may receive second information from the service provider, where the second information includes one or more operational parameters. The operational parameters may include hand-off parameters, admission policy parameters, PN or scrambling codes, power parameters, and/or other parameters. The femtocell may operate according to the received parameters to provide access for a plurality of access terminals in a local area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2016
    Assignees: VIA TELECOM, INC., IPCOMM
    Inventors: Stanislaw Czaja, Mark E. Davis, Anthony Lee, Sang Gook Kim, Li-Hsiang Sun
  • Patent number: 8937936
    Abstract: A method for acquiring time synchronization and location information with a Femtocell includes an access point base station conveying an activation request to a service provider through a wired connection, where the service provider provides wireless communication in a macro area, and where the access point base station provides wireless communication in a local area. The method also includes the access point base station performing a first plurality of procedures to acquire a time synchronization and a second plurality of procedures to acquire a location of the access point base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2015
    Assignee: Via Telecom Inc.
    Inventors: Stanislaw Czaja, Paul Chun-Hsiung Wei, Sang Gook Kim, Li-Hsiang Sun
  • Publication number: 20140308986
    Abstract: Mobile communication devices and integrated circuits thereof are provided. The mobile communication device, communicating with a packet switched network and a second network, includes a transceiver, a first PLL circuit and a controller. When exchanging an ongoing data transmission with the packet switched network, the transceiver transmits a first message to the packet switched network, which indicates the mobile communication device will be tuned away from the packet switched network, and performs a subsequent procedure for the second network. The first PLL circuit provides a first clock to the transceiver. When the ongoing data transmission with the packet switched network is not completed, the controller controls the first PLL circuit to switch the first clock from a first clock frequency to a second clock frequency after the transceiver transmits the first indication message.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2013
    Publication date: October 16, 2014
    Applicant: VIA Telecom, Inc.
    Inventors: Hong-Kui YANG, Jian GU, Guotong WANG, Jing SU
  • Publication number: 20140295875
    Abstract: A system and method of enhancing transmission of highly detectable pilots (HDPs). At least one base station transmits at least one cellular signal in which each cellular signal includes repetitive HDP cycles. Each HDP cycle has a duration of N power control groups (PCGs) and includes an HDP period having a duration of M PCGs in which N is greater than M. Traffic and overhead channels are gated during each HDP period. An enhanced HDP symbol is transmitted during a selected HDP period for each set of X HDP cycles of each cellular signal. For single carrier configurations, only one enhanced HDP is transmitted at a time, or multiple HDPs are transmitted in different directions. Standard 1x pilots may be transmitted. The enhanced HDP may be a boosted standard 1x pilot or an additional standard HDP pilot. Multicarrier configurations are described with PCG or sub-chip and/or phase offsets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2013
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Applicant: VIA TELECOM, INC.
    Inventors: Hong-Kui Yang, Shu Wang, Jian Gu
  • Publication number: 20140295912
    Abstract: An apparatus for notification of a circuit switched event in a mobile station. The apparatus comprising a circuit switched modem, a packetized data modem and a radio. The circuit switched modem, configured to communicate circuit switched data over a circuit switched network. The packetized data modem, configured to communicate packetized data over a packetized data network. The radio, configured to couple the packetized data modem to the packetized data network via a packetized data radio link, and configured to couple the circuit switched modem to the circuit switched network via a circuit switched radio link, wherein said radio comprise one transmitter and two receivers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2013
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Applicant: VIA Telecom, Inc.
    Inventor: Anthony Lee
  • Publication number: 20140152394
    Abstract: A frequency detection circuit includes a filter, a power detector and a voltage comparator. The filter receives and filters a converted signal to generate a filtered signal. The power of the filtered signal relates to a frequency of the converted signal. The power detector generates a voltage according to the power of the filtered signal. The voltage comparator compares the voltage with multiple reference voltages to generate multiple comparison results. At least one of the inductance and capacitance of an LC tank in an amplifier is adjusted according to the comparison results.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2013
    Publication date: June 5, 2014
    Applicant: VIA Telecom, Inc.
    Inventors: Hsien-Ku CHEN, Bing-Jye KUO, Fang-Ren LIAO, Pei-Wei CHEN
  • Patent number: 8744493
    Abstract: A system and method for creating a localized silence area. A mobile device may be registered with an access point base station. Any direct communication links from the mobile device to any other base stations may be removed. An indication may be given to the mobile device that the mobile device is in a localized silence zone. The indication may include a request that the mobile device operate in a silent mode, information about making outgoing calls, information about receiving incoming calls, or a combination of these. Procedures for incoming voice calls to the mobile device may be different for different priority levels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: Via Telecom, Inc.
    Inventors: Stanislaw Czaja, Mark E. Davis
  • Publication number: 20140120846
    Abstract: A mixing unit includes a baseband signal processing unit, a radio frequency (RF) signal processing unit and a mixing unit. The baseband signal processing unit receives or generates a baseband signal. The RF signal processing unit processes or outputs a RF signal. The mixing unit is coupled to the baseband signal processing unit and the RF signal processing unit to select and operate in an up-convert mode or a down-convert mode according to a control signal. When the mixer operates in an up-convert mode, the mixing unit mixes the baseband signal with a local oscillation signal to generate the RF signal and outputs the RF signal to the RF signal processing unit. When the mixer operates in a down-convert mode, the mixing unit mixes the RF signal with the local oscillation signal to generate the baseband signal and outputs the baseband signal to the baseband signal processing unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2013
    Publication date: May 1, 2014
    Applicant: VIA Telecom, Inc.
    Inventors: Bing-Jye Kuo, Hsien-Ku Chen
  • Publication number: 20140077341
    Abstract: An integrated circuit (IC) and a seal ring thereof are provided. The IC includes a first seal ring. The first seal ring is disposed in the IC. The first seal ring includes at least one stagger structure. The at least one stagger structure includes at least one stagger unit. The at least one stagger unit makes staggered connection with another neighboring stagger unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Publication date: March 20, 2014
    Applicant: VIA TELECOM, INC.
    Inventors: Bing-Jye Kuo, Hong-Wen Lin, Yu-Jie Ji
  • Publication number: 20140022992
    Abstract: An apparatus provides notification of a circuit switched event over a packetized data network. The apparatus includes a packetized data modem that is configured to receive lower level packetized data over the packetized data network that comprises the notification. The packetized data modem has a first service-oriented tunneling link access control processor that is configured to decapsulate an Improved 1x Layer 3 General Page Message (IGPM) from the lower level packetized data, where the IGPM comprises a service option corresponding to the circuit switched event.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2013
    Publication date: January 23, 2014
    Applicant: VIA TELECOM, INC.
    Inventor: Anthony S. Lee
  • Publication number: 20130301701
    Abstract: An electronic device for motion compensation is provided. The electronic device has a processing unit configured to perform a decoding program on a video bitstream to output decoding data, wherein the decoding data has a plurality of inter-prediction macroblocks, and the processing unit further generates a plurality of first pixel interpolation values according to the inter-prediction macroblocks which are smaller than a predetermined macroblock size. A motion compensation acceleration circuit is configured to generate a plurality of second pixel interpolation values according to the inter-prediction macroblocks which are larger than or equal to the predetermined macroblocks size, and generate a plurality of reconstructed macroblocks according to the first pixel interpolation values, the second pixel interpolation values, and a plurality of corresponding residue values.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2013
    Publication date: November 14, 2013
    Applicant: VIA Telecom, Inc.
    Inventors: Yinglai XI, Qiang LI, Zhichong CHEN, Jumei LI
  • Patent number: 8565187
    Abstract: A wireless apparatus having one or more first radios, one or more second radios, interface control, and a processor. The one or more first radios are coupled to one or more first communication links. The one or more second radios are coupled to one or more second communication links. The interface control is coupled to the radios, and selects and executes communications over a specific one of the one or more second communication links following termination of a fallback session over one of the one or more first communication links, where RAT information is employed by the interface control to select the specific one of the one or more second communication links. The processor receives, processes, and provides to the interface control the RAT information, where the RAT information is received prior to termination of the fallback session or as part of termination of the fallback session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2013
    Assignee: VIA Telecom, Inc.
    Inventor: Anthony S. Lee
  • Patent number: 8565223
    Abstract: An apparatus for notifying of a circuit switched event over a packetized data network. The apparatus includes a packetized data modem and an internetworking interface. The packetized data modem is configured to transmit and receive packetized data over a packetized data radio link. The packetized data modem has a tunneling link access control processor that is configured to encapsulate/decapsulate data for a subset of sub-layers corresponding to a link access control layer of a circuit switched network model. The internetwork interface is operatively coupled to the packetized data modem via the packetized data network, and is configured to notify the packetized data modem of the circuit switched event. The internetworking interface has a link access control/tunneling link access control processor that is configured to encapsulate/decapsulate the data when performing notification of the circuit switched event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2013
    Assignee: VIA Telecom, Inc.
    Inventor: Anthony S. Lee
  • Publication number: 20130265990
    Abstract: A mobile communication device configured for Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communications is provided. In the mobile communication device, a wireless module performs wireless transmissions and receptions to and from a service network, and a controller module receives a message with an extension registration period only for the M2M communications from the service network via the wireless module and periodically performs a registration procedure according to the extension registration period only for the M2M communications.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2013
    Publication date: October 10, 2013
    Applicant: VIA Telecom, Inc.
    Inventors: Anthony LEE, Guotong WANG
  • Publication number: 20130265952
    Abstract: A mobile communication device configured for Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communications is provided. In the mobile communication device, a wireless module performs wireless transmissions and receptions to and from a service network, and a controller module receives a message with a Slot Cycle Index (SCI) only for the M2M communications from the service network via the wireless module and instructs the wireless module to monitor a paging channel according to the SCI only for the M2M communications.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2013
    Publication date: October 10, 2013
    Applicant: VIA Telecom, Inc.
    Inventors: Anthony LEE, Guotong WANG
  • Patent number: 8547173
    Abstract: A signal amplifying circuit is provided. The signal amplifying circuit includes a signal amplifier and a control circuit. The control circuit includes a compare unit and a register unit. The compare unit compares an input signal of the signal amplifier with a reference signal to generate a compare signal. The register unit receives and registers a control signal to be transmitted to the signal amplifier, and provides a registered signal to the signal amplifier according to the registered control signal when the compare signal is changed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignee: VIA Telecom, Inc.
    Inventor: Wu-Hung Lu
  • Patent number: 8547838
    Abstract: A mobile communications device with a wireless module and a controller module for performing a buffer status reporting procedure is provided. The wireless module performs wireless transmissions and receptions to and from a cellular station of a service network. The controller module receives machine type communication (MTC) data, determines whether to trigger a buffer status report (BSR) according to a comparison result of the data size of the MTC data and a threshold value when the MTC data arrives at an empty transmission buffer, and if so, transmits the BSR to the cellular station via the wireless module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignee: Via Telecom, Inc.
    Inventors: Anthony Lee, Guotong Wang
  • Publication number: 20130250854
    Abstract: A mobile station for notification of a circuit switched event. The mobile station includes a circuit switched modem, a packetized data modem, a radio, and a tune away controller. The circuit switched communicates circuit switched data over a circuit switched network. The packetized data modem communicates packetized data over a packetized data network. The radio couples the packetized data modem to the packetized data network via a packetized data radio link, and couples the circuit switched modem to the circuit switched network via a circuit switched radio link. Only one of the links may be active at a time. The tune away controller is coupled to the circuit switched modem and to the packetized data modem, and indicates tune away events over the packetized data network so that the circuit switched event is processed by the mobile station. The tune away controller directs switching between the links.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2013
    Publication date: September 26, 2013
    Applicant: VIA TELECOM, INC.
    Inventors: Mark E. Davis, Anthony S. Lee
  • Publication number: 20130242865
    Abstract: Methods and wireless communication devices for access procedure enhancement are provided. The wireless communication device for access procedure enhancement includes a transceiver module and a communication protocol module. The transceiver module performs wireless transmissions and receptions. The communication protocol module receives a page message from a base station via the transceiver module, transmits at least one access probe via the transceiver module, and terminates the transmission of the rest of an access probe payload of the at least one access probe according to a termination criterion. Moreover, the access probe is transmitted using a transmission power which is lower than a first threshold, and the access probe is transmitted at a data rate lower than a second threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Publication date: September 19, 2013
    Applicant: VIA TELECOM, INC.
    Inventors: Shu Wang, Hong-Kui Yang