Patents Examined by Abdelnabi Musa
  • Patent number: 8774089
    Abstract: A wireless terminal receives a first broadcast signal transmitted from a wireless base station; detects whether a part of a wireless terminal ID of the own wireless terminal is included in the first broadcast signal received in the broadcast signal reception or not and determines that the second broadcast signal is to be continuously received when the part of the wireless terminal ID is included; and receives the second broadcast signal when it is determined in the broadcast signal determination that the second broadcast signal is to be received, stops receiving data transmitted from the wireless base station when assignment information to be transmitted to the own wireless terminal is not present in the received second broadcast signal, and receives data transmitted from the wireless base station to the own wireless terminal based on the information on the assignment position of the wireless slot included in the second broadcast signal when the assignment information to be transmitted to the own wireless ter
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Fusao Nuno, Yoshitaka Shimizu
  • Patent number: 8767635
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of scheduling a shared channel of a wireless packet communication system, and more particularly, to a shared scheduler of a wireless packet communication. The present invention includes determining priorities of provided services for target terminals of cellular phones and ratios of carrier signal to interference from multiple target terminals; and based on the determined priorities, transmitting packet data to each the target terminal of cellular phones.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Ki Jun Kim, Young Jo Lee, Young Woo Yun, Suk Hyon Yoon, Soon Yil Kwon
  • Patent number: 8767598
    Abstract: In embodiments, a transmitting device sends a time reference field to a receiving device when indicating that no more frames will be sent to the receiving device. The time reference informs the receiving device of the length of time that the transmitting device has committed not to transmit to the receiving device. When operating in conformance with the ECMA-368 standard, the time reference allows the transmitting device to control the length of the commitment period after the MORE FRAMES bit is set to zero. In this way, the commitment not to transmit may be made for a shorter time than the time until the beginning of the following Distributed Reservation Protocol (DRP) reservation block or the time to the beginning of the following superframe. The time reference may be added in the Medium Access Control header or included in a vendor-specific message, for example.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventor: Krishnan Rajamani
  • Patent number: 8767603
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a mobile wireless terminal, which makes a wireless communication with a base station accommodated in a network, includes a receiver, a communication module, and a controller. The receiver is configured to receive and frequency-convert a wireless signal transmitted from the base station, and to detect a beacon signal transmitted from the base station based on a reception signal obtained by the frequency conversion. The communication module is configured to receive a wireless signal transmitted from the base station, to acquire identification information of the base station by decoding a reception signal obtained from the wireless signal, and to communicate with the base station. The controller is configured to activate the communication module in accordance with a reception result of the beacon signal by the receiver, and to control the communication module to acquire identification information from the base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Kengo Kurose, Takashi Minemura, Tsuyoshi Kogawa
  • Patent number: 8761088
    Abstract: A wireless base station apparatus communicates with first terminal devices belonging to the present cell by means of IDMA.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignee: KDDI Corporation
    Inventors: Tomoko Matsumoto, Satoshi Konishi
  • Patent number: 8732315
    Abstract: A device previously configured as a registrar and that has established an independent ad-hoc network is automatically discovered by another device also previously configured as a registrar. To form an ad-hoc wireless network between these two devices, each device periodically enters a scanning mode to scan for and intercept beacons transmitted by the other device. Upon such interception, one of the devices becomes an enrollee in accordance with a predefined condition and in response to a user selected option. Subsequently, the enrollee modifies its beacons to include an attribute, such as the MAC address, associated with the other device. After intercepting the modified beacon, the remaining registrar prompts it user to decide whether to allow the enrollee to join the registrar's network. If the user responds affirmatively, a handshake is performed between the two devices and a subsequent attempt is made by the enrollee to join the registrar's network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: Marvell International Ltd.
    Inventors: Kapil Chhabra, Rahul Kopikare, Milind Kopikare
  • Patent number: 8717971
    Abstract: The various embodiments described herein generally provide apparatus, systems and methods which facilitate the transmission of data between a client device and a remote device over a voice channel of a telephone network. More particularly, data from a client device is modulated into an audio signal using multiple frequency shift keying (MFSK) techniques and transmitted to the remote device over a voice channel of a wireless telephone network during a phone call. The frequency of the audio signal is selected based on the value of the data to be transmitted. The remote device receives the audio signal and determines the frequency of the audio signal to extract the transmitted data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: EchoStar Technologies L.L.C.
    Inventor: Gopi K. Manne
  • Patent number: 8719364
    Abstract: A network management system transmits/receives an email via a network; saves, in a database, first history information including the address of at least one of the destination and the source of the email written in the email; receives transmission information in which access information for accessing a web page via a network is written; saves, in the database, second history information including the access information written in the transmission information; inputs authentication information for identifying a user; and selectively displays the first history information saved in the first saving unit and the second history information saved in the second saving unit in a predetermined display format on a display unit by switching between the first history information and the second history information based on an instruction inputted by a user when the inputted authentication information is identical to previously registered information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: Canon Denshi Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shinsaku Kita, Ken Sakakibara
  • Patent number: 8705388
    Abstract: In an example embodiment, a method for determining backhaul channel assignments for multi-channel dual radio mesh nodes. The method comprises acquiring collision domain data for each access point of an associated mesh network. A cost function is calculated for each access point of the associated mesh network, the cost function assigning a weighted value for each access point in a collision domain based on a number of access points in the collision domain. Backhaul channel assignments for selected for each access point that minimizes the cost function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2014
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Xiaohong Gong, David S. Stephenson, Johannes P. Kruys, Bretton Lee Douglas
  • Patent number: 8700736
    Abstract: A system and method for providing a related content and a service server, an end terminal, and a storage medium wherein the system comprises a first end terminal connected to a mobile communication terminal through a local area network for making a request to an application server to send the content related to the basic content currently being played in the first end terminal to a second terminal; a mobile communication terminal connected to the first end terminal and to the second end terminal via the local are network, and connected to the service server via the local area network, and connected to the service server via a mobile communication network for transmitting data between the end terminals and the service server and the application server and wherein the service server receives the related content transmission request from the first end terminal and makes a request to the application server to search for the related content for transmission by the application server to the second end terminal in a
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: SK Planet Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jeong Hoon Lee, Jeong Min You, In Hwan Kim
  • Patent number: 8687590
    Abstract: A method is provided for handing over a user equipment (UE). The method includes a donor access node with which the UE is in communication via a serving relay node receiving UE context information. The method further includes the donor access node using the UE context information to identify data packets that belong to the UE, wherein the data packets are forwarded from the serving relay node to a target relay node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Zhijun Cai, Rose Qingyang Hu, Yi Yu, Mo-Han Fong, Chandra S. Bontu
  • Patent number: 8670380
    Abstract: An apparatus is provided that includes a plurality of portable wireless transmitter units, a plurality of digital receiver modules that alternate transmitting wireless synchronization pulses and that receive information from the plurality of transmitter units synchronized to the synchronization pulses, a receiver control unit in communication with each of the receiver modules that coordinates transmission of synchronization pulses among the plurality of digital receiver modules in accordance with a predetermined transmission sequence and a system that receives the information from at least some of the microphone transmitter units through the receiver modules and delivers the information exclusively to a geographic area proximate a source of the audio information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2014
    Assignee: Audio Technica, U.S., Inc
    Inventors: Robert T. Green, III, Brian Fair
  • Patent number: 8644266
    Abstract: In a radio communication system (100, 200) using a channel divided into a plurality of time slots, a control signal is transmitted in each time slot and a data signal is transmitted intermittently using a subset of the time slots. The control signal includes a portion which is a predetermined signal, such as a pilot signal, and one or more bits constituting a power control command. The format of the control signal is adapted according to whether or not data is transmitted in the same time slot. When data is not being transmitted, the proportion of the control signal which constitutes a power control command is increased and the energy of the control signal is reduced, at least by reducing the energy of the predetermined signal portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignees: Koninklijke Philips N.V., Sharp Corporation
    Inventors: Matthew P. J. Baker, Timothy J. Moulsley
  • Patent number: 8639759
    Abstract: A method and system for multicasting video signals over a network. A standard definition picture-in-picture multicast video signal is encoded from a video signal. A common network address is assigned to the standard definition picture-in-picture multicast video signal for both standard definition picture-in-picture video content and high definition video content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Brad Medford, Dinesh Nadarajah
  • Patent number: 8599790
    Abstract: A media access gateway includes a wireless network interface, a tunneling module, a proxy mobility agent module, and an address assignment module. The wireless network interface establishes a link with a wireless terminal. The tunneling module establishes tunnels with first and second local mobility anchors, associated with first and second packet data networks, respectively. The proxy mobility agent module stores a mapping of assigned addresses to local mobility anchor identifiers. The proxy mobility agent selects a first or second local mobility anchor in response to the mapping and a source address of the wireless terminal, and the tunneling module tunnels the packet to the selected local mobility anchor. The address assignment module transmits an address assignment message, which includes the first assigned address and a prefix usage indicator, to the wireless terminal. The first assigned address includes a network-based or client-based mobility address according to the prefix usage indicator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: Marvell International Ltd.
    Inventors: Ameya Damle, Stefano Faccin, Fan Zhao
  • Patent number: 8595330
    Abstract: A method, system and apparatus for uploading and downloading a caption file are disclosed. The method includes: receiving, by a caption server, file information of a multimedia file and file information of a caption file corresponding to the multimedia file from a client end player; determining, by the caption server, whether the caption server has the caption file according to the file information of the caption file and transmitting a status message indicating whether the caption server has the caption file to the client end player, to enable the client end player to upload the caption file when determining according to the status message that the caption server does not have the caption file. In the solution of the present disclosure, the client end player can upload and download the caption file automatically. The user does not need to search for and download the caption file manually, which improves the user's experience and saves resources of the caption server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2013
    Assignee: Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Company Limited
    Inventors: Huateng Ma, Yongyu Dai, Fuzhong Sheng, Tiange Si, Shuhui Mei
  • Patent number: 8570956
    Abstract: A method for effectively transmitting and receiving access information between a terminal and a base station using a message separation for a RRC CONNECTION REQUEST message that may include: transmitting a random access preamble; receiving a random access response in response to the random access preamble, wherein the random access response includes information related to at least one allocated radio resource which will be used for transmitting the RRC CONNECTION REQUEST message; determining at least one required radio resource for transmitting the RRC CONNECTION REQUEST message; generating the RRC CONNECTION REQUEST message by considering a characteristic of at least one among the at least one allocated radio resource and the determined at least one required radio resource, and transmitting the generated RRC CONNECTION REQUEST message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2013
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Sung-Jun Park, Young-Dae Lee, Sung-Duck Chun
  • Patent number: 8565196
    Abstract: Determining and simultaneously using a base station coupled to a mobile device, the base station comprising a detector for receiving a first identification signal corresponding to a first module and a second identification signal corresponding to a second module from the mobile device. A transmitter for sending a plurality of signals to the mobile device, said plurality of signals is configured to set up communication between the mobile device and the base station. A receiver for receiving a plurality of parameters for determining whether the second module is able to attach to the base station; and a processor for connecting the first and second module in the mobile device to the base station simultaneously in response to a plurality of slots by time multiplexing and the plurality of parameters when the second module is acceptable by the base station, wherein said plurality of slots are determined by the base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2013
    Assignee: VIA Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Hong-Kui Yang, Jing Su
  • Patent number: 8566395
    Abstract: In the field of media transmission technologies, a method and an apparatus for transmitting Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) media are provided, which solve a problem that a specific capability mode to be used cannot be determined when both a server and a client have enhanced functions. In the method and system for transmitting the HTTP media, the respective information of HTTP streaming media capabilities supported by the server and by the client are obtained. According to the obtained information of the HTTP streaming media capabilities supported by the server and supported by the client, the HTTP streaming media capability used by the server or the client in a subsequent media transmission procedure is determined. The server provides media services according to the determined HTTP streaming media capability; or the client obtains the media services according to the determined HTTP streaming media capability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2013
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Teng Shi, Yuanyuan Zhang, Peiyu Yue, Weizhong Yuan, Guangyuan Liu, Renzhou Zhang, Yonghui Tian, Chuxiong Zhang
  • Patent number: 8526405
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for responding to a web page request from a mobile device by providing the network address of a server hosting content formatted for the mobile device. The systems and methods include means and ways for redirecting a request for URL resolution from a DNS server to an enhanced DNS server with facilities to determine the kind of the requesting device, e.g., whether the requesting device is fixed or mobile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Richard R. Curtis, John L. Jorgensen, Eswar Priyadarshan, Jayasurya Vadrevu