Patents Examined by Abu-Sayeed Haque
  • Patent number: 10039148
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) device may be configured to effectively manage coexistence of multiple radio access technologies (RATs) on the device. Respective controllers responsible for at least partially managing wireless communications according to corresponding respective RATs may communicate to each other expected data transfer patterns that take place over their respective communications links, including application-specific data transfer patterns and data-transfer-mechanism-specific data transfer patterns. The RAT controllers may manage their respective data transfers according to the expected data-transfer pattern information associated with the other RATs received from each in order to prevent data transmission by the device over one RAT link interfering with data transmission of the device over another RAT link.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2018
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Ajoy K. Singh, Paul V. Flynn, Wen Zhao, Sami M. Almalfouh, Sanil H. Fulani, William S. Burchill
  • Patent number: 10038641
    Abstract: There is provided a flow control device for controlling flow control rules defining processing contents per flow in a packet transfer device for processing packets belonging to a flow between a first communication device and a second communication device, which receives a packet reception notification indicating that the packet transfer device receives a packet from at least one of the first communication device and the second communication device from the packet transfer device, determines a flow control rule to be notified to the packet transfer device in response to the received packet reception notification, manages a packet reception notification reception time when the packet reception notification is received, and calculates a first round-trip transmission delay time between two devices among the first communication device, the second communication device, and the packet transfer device based on the packet reception notification reception times.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2018
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Gen Morita, Shuichi Karino, Yoshinori Saida, Yoshikazu Watanabe, Takahiro Iihoshi
  • Patent number: 10038541
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide an interference measurement method, a base station, and a user equipment. The method includes: determining, by a user equipment, a first resource for interference measurement in a first subframe or determining a second resource not for interference measurement in the first subframe according to at least one of the zero-power CSI-RS configuration information, the non-zero power CSI-RS configuration information, and the CSI-IM configuration information; and performing interference measurement on the first resource, or performing no interference measurement on the second resource. The embodiments of the present invention can improve precision of interference measurement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2018
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Liang Xia, Yongxing Zhou, David Jean-Marie Mazzarese, Jingyuan Sun
  • Patent number: 10038636
    Abstract: A PVLAN switch for connecting a PVLAN to a non-PVLAN device is configured as a primary VLAN with secondary VLANs, the primary VLAN includes promiscuous ports, each of the secondary VLANs includes a smart PVLAN trunk port, and the smart PVLAN trunk port is included in at least two secondary VLANs where the smart PVLAN trunk port and the promiscuous port connect to non-PVLAN devices. A frame is received on a smart PVLAN trunk port sent from a non-PVLAN device, and includes a destination address and a secondary VLAN ID. The PVLAN switch port ID for the first frame, and a primary VLAN ID for the secondary VLAN ID are identified. If the frame is a non-isolated port, the secondary VLAN ID is modified to be the primary VLAN ID, and the modified frame is sent to another non-PVLAN device connected to the PVLAN switch port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2018
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Guo X. He, Gang Tang, Yi J. Zhu, Zheng D. Zhu
  • Patent number: 10028258
    Abstract: A resource controller for managing resources in a network and arranged at a site of a first network entity is provided, wherein the resource controller comprises: a database, adapted to store resource managing related information; an interface adapted to receive a resource managing message from a second network entity at the first network entity; and a resource managing unit, wherein the resource managing unit is adapted to grant access to the stored resource managing related information on the database based on the received resource managing message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: NOKIA SOLUTIONS AND NETWORKS GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Hans-Jochen Morper, Christian Markwart
  • Patent number: 10028241
    Abstract: A communication control method for performing device-to-device communication between different cells managed by an eNB 200 connected to an OAM 400, comprises: setting, by the OAM 400, in a predetermined cell managed by the eNB 200, an MBSFN area where synchronization is achieved between a plurality of cells; notifying, by the OAM 400, to the eNB 200, a radio resource that is common in the MBSFN area, and that is used for performing the device-to-device communication; and a step of broadcasting, by the eNB 200, the radio resource in the predetermined cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Adachi
  • Patent number: 10020870
    Abstract: In a data communication network, a wireless relay exchanges signaling data with User Equipment (UEs). The wireless relay compresses/decompresses Long Term Evolution (LTE) S1-MME signaling data and wirelessly exchanges the compressed the LTE S1-MME signaling data with an eNodeB. The eNodeB wirelessly exchanges the compressed LTE S1-MME signaling data with the wireless relay. The eNodeB compresses/decompresses the LTE S1-MME signaling data and exchanges the decompressed LTE S1-MME signaling data with the MME. The MME processes the decompressed LTE S1-MME signaling data to establish wireless data bearers for the UEs through the wireless relay to the eNodeB. The wireless relay wirelessly exchanges user data with the UEs, compresses/decompresses the user data, and wirelessly exchanges the compressed user data with the eNodeB. The eNodeB wirelessly exchanges the compressed UE user data with the wireless relay, compresses/decompresses the user data, and exchanges the decompressed user data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.
    Inventor: Zheng Fang
  • Patent number: 10020972
    Abstract: [Object] To enable a CP with a more appropriate length in MBSFN subframes to be used. [Solution] There is provided an apparatus including an acquisition unit configured to acquire a result of measurement of delay between identical signals transmitted in an MBSFN area, and a decision unit configured to decide a cyclic prefix length for an MBSFN subframe of the MBSFN area based on the result of the measurement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Nishiki Mizusawa
  • Patent number: 10015080
    Abstract: A boundary node for interworking between a first network and a second network comprises first equipment for interfacing with the first network and second equipment for interfacing with the second network. The first equipment comprises a switch fabric. A first interworking interface and a second interworking interface are provided for carrying traffic between the second equipment and the first equipment. Each of the interworking interfaces is for interfacing with a respective traffic-carrying path of the second network. For traffic flow in a direction from the second network to the first network, a method comprises determining that recovery switching is required for traffic on one of the traffic-carrying paths of the second network and performs a recovery switch, using the switch fabric in the first equipment, to switch between the interworking interfaces to achieve a recovery switch between the traffic-carrying paths of the second network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (publ)
    Inventors: Sergio Lanzone, Diego Sobrero, Orazio Toscano
  • Patent number: 10009905
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to techniques for reducing flash light effect in 3D MIMO. One aspect of the present invention relates to user equipment, comprising: a transmission and reception unit configured to receive an interference beam candidate list including directional beams transmitted from a camped base station and interference beam candidates transmitted from an adjacent base station; a measurement unit configured to measure reception quality of reference signals transmitted in the respective directional beams in the received interference beam candidate list; and an interference information generation unit configured to generate interference information based on the measured reception quality, wherein the transmission and reception unit indicates the generated interference information to the camped base station or the adjacent base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yuichi Kakishima, Satoshi Nagata, Yoshihisa Kishiyama
  • Patent number: 10004035
    Abstract: A method of managing data transmission for a receiving terminal of a first wireless system wherein the first wireless system coexists with at least one second wireless system includes receiving a transmission schedule of each of the at least one second wireless system; determining a usable time period for the first wireless system according to the transmission schedule of each of the at least one second wireless system; and sending a clear to send (CTS) to self signal or a power saving signal to indicate an interruption of the usable time period according to a length of the usable time period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2018
    Assignee: MediaTek Inc.
    Inventors: Chia-Hsiang Hsu, Ching-Hwa Yu, Li-Chun Ko
  • Patent number: 9992740
    Abstract: There is provided a communication device including (1) a communication controller that causes a control frame for synchronization to be transmitted during a control frame transmission period to a transmission destination of a data frame such that the data frame is transmitted after transmission of the control frame has completed, (2) a transmission section that continuously transmits the control frame for the control frame transmission period, (3) a reception section that receives a frame transmitted by a communication device of the transmission destination, (4) a control frame transmission information saving section that saves information for respective destination addresses, (5) a control frame transmission controller that references the information saved in the control frame transmission information saving section, and determines the control frame transmission period for when to transmit the next control frame, based on the control frame transmission period from the past and the data frame transition resul
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Toshihiko Matsunaga
  • Patent number: 9986027
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for delivering both PMP communications, for example standard cellular communications via a base station, and also delivering P2P communications, for example, communications between two mobile stations, using the same spectral resources for both types of communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Shalini Periyalwar, Hang Zhang, Nimal Senarath, Derek Yu, Kelvin Kar-Kin Au, Karl Mann
  • Patent number: 9986593
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for handling duplicated evolved universal terrestrial radio access network (E-UTRAN) radio access bearers (E-RABs) for dual connectivity in a wireless communication system is provided. A mobility management entity (MME) receives an E-RAB modification indication message including several E-RAB identifiers (IDs) set to the same value, and triggers a user equipment (UE) context release procedure with a cause value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jian Xu, Daewook Byun
  • Patent number: 9985717
    Abstract: A network for providing high speed data communications may include multiple terrestrial transmission stations that are located within overlapping communications range and a mobile receiver station. The terrestrial transmission stations provide a continuous and uninterrupted high speed data communications link with the mobile receiver station employing a wireless radio access network protocol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: SMARTSKY NETWORKS LLC
    Inventor: Donald Alcorn
  • Patent number: 9973876
    Abstract: Disclosed is apparatus configured: to create an advertising message including a packet data unit [PDU] including information identifying an application that may be installed on the apparatus and an indication that the PDU may include an application recommendation; and to cause the advertising message to be broadcast. Another apparatus is configured: to receive an advertising message including a packet data unit [PDU] including information identifying an application that may be installed on another apparatus and an indication that the PDU may include an application recommendation; and to use the information identifying an application to provide an option to install the application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: Provenance Asset Group LLC
    Inventors: Canfeng Chen, Jia Liu
  • Patent number: 9967117
    Abstract: Disclosed is a cooperative spectrum sensing system using sub-Nyquist sampling, which include: a plurality of secondary user terminals for detecting a frequency band occupied by a primary user terminal; and a fusion center, wherein each of the secondary user terminals may include: a receiving unit for receiving signals from the primary user terminal; a sampling unit for performing the sub-Nyquist sampling for the received signals at a predetermined down-sampling rate; an energy-detecting unit for detecting the frequency band occupied by the primary user terminal by detecting energy for the sampled signals; and a calculating unit for calculating a correct detection probability and a false alarm probability for the frequency band occupied by the primary user terminal by using spectrum of the frequency band, and for transmitting results of calculation to the fusion center.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: SOONGSIL UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CONSORTIUM TECHNO-PARK
    Inventors: Yoan Shin, Honggyu Jung, Kwang-Yul Kim
  • Patent number: 9961599
    Abstract: A method to control multiple radio access bearers is performed at a mobile wireless communication device when the mobile wireless communication device is connected to a radio network subsystem in a wireless communication network by first and second bidirectional radio access bearers. The mobile wireless communication device transmits a data packet on an uplink of the first bidirectional radio access bearer to the radio network subsystem. When the data packet is not correctly received by the radio network subsystem, the mobile wireless communication device retransmits the data packet repeatedly. After N retransmissions of the data packet, the mobile wireless communication device releases the first bidirectional radio access bearer while maintaining the second bidirectional radio access bearer. The first bidirectional radio access bearer provides a channel to transport packet switched data, and the second bidirectional radio access bearer provides a channel to transport circuit switched data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Sachin J. Sane, Jianxiong Shi
  • Patent number: 9961639
    Abstract: A method of operating a device for indicating an event notification to a user comprises indicating a new event through accordingly controlling visual, audible and/or tactile indicators. A user input is received in response to the indicated event. In case a user input in response to the indicated event is not received within a first time period, sensors in the device are controlled to monitor ambient conditions and determine corresponding pattern. In case of a change in the pattern of the ambient conditions by a predetermined amount within a second time period, the new event is indicated once more to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: Thomson Licensing
    Inventors: Robert Lindemann, Meik Huber, Anton Werner Keller
  • Patent number: 9948546
    Abstract: An auto-detection scheme may be applied to a physical layer (PHY) preamble of a communications packet, such as an 802.11 packet, to identify which generation of a communication standard was used to generate the packet. A packet of a wireless transmission may be received by a wireless device. The packet may include a PHY preamble, including a first field, such as a legacy long training field (L-LTF), and a second, subsequent field, such as a non-legacy Signal field. The wireless device may determine that the first field is encoded using a Fast-Fourier Transform (FFT) of a first size, and that the second field is encoded using a FFT of a second, different size. This determining may identify a generation of the communication standard used to generate the packet. In response to the determining, the wireless device may decode the packet according to the identified generation of the communication standard.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Joonsuk Kim, Syed Aon Mujtaba, Xiaowen Wang