Patents Examined by Adnan Baig
  • Extending virtual routing and forwarding
    Patent number: 10623315
    Abstract: In one embodiment of the disclosure, packets are routed according to a VRF (Virtual Routing and Forwarding) domain that is represented by a VRF identifier in a VRF-identifier (ID) field of packet headers. In one embodiment of the disclosure, a VRF identifier may be added to a VRF-ID field of a packet header so that the packet is routed according to a VRF domain that the packet belongs to.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Bijendra Singh, Thomas A. Volpe, Kari Ann OBrien, Kiran Kalkunte Seshadri
  • Reference signal communication in a wireless network
    Patent number: 10623160
    Abstract: A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) may receive a radio resource control (RRC) message providing configuration information for a physical control channel. The WTRU may monitor the physical control channel using a pilot signal of the physical control channel. The pilot signal may be derived from the pilot sequence and an index of the physical control channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Benoit Pelletier, Lujing Cai, Diana Pani, Hong O. Zhang, Damian C. Hamme
  • Allocation of broader network bandwidth within a local network
    Patent number: 10616325
    Abstract: One embodiment provides a method, including: allocating, at a node within a local network, availability to a broader network into one or more units; associating, using a processor, one or more tokens with the one or more units; distributing, over a network, the one or more tokens to a requesting node; receiving, over a network, the one or more tokens from the requesting node, where the one or more tokens have been associated with network payload; confirming, using the processor, that the one or more tokens are valid; and in response to the confirming, sending the network payload onto the broader network. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Scott Edwards Kelso, Rod D. Waltermann, Douglas Warren Robinson
  • Systems and methods for operation of wireless user devices with cellular and Wi-Fi interfaces
    Patent number: 10616844
    Abstract: An embodiment method for wireless communication includes grouping a plurality of user equipments (UEs) wirelessly coupled to a cellular base station (BS) into a UE cluster to function as a Wi-Fi virtual station (V-STA), and communicating with an access point (AP) to contend for a Wi-Fi transmission opportunity (TXOP) for the V-STA. In a further embodiment, the cellular BS contends for the TXOP on behalf of the UE cluster using a carrier sense multiple access with collision avoidance (CSMA-CA) procedure. In an alternative embodiment, one UE in the UE cluster is selected as a leader UE to contend for the TXOP on behalf of the UE cluster using a CSMA-CA procedure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Peiying Zhu, Osama Aboul-Magd, Jung Hoon Suh, Kwok Shum Au, Sheng Sun
  • Small cell edge computing platform
    Patent number: 10587721
    Abstract: A small cell may include a base station that may be co-located with an edge computing device. The edge computing device may be integrated within a small cell base station or be a physically separate module communicatively coupled to and in close proximity with the small cell base station that provides edge computing resources at the small cell. The processing responsibilities associated with received data may be split or divided between the edge computing device and a target mobile device. For example, a portion of data processing may be performed by the edge computing device and the remaining portion of data processing may be performed by the target mobile device. The distribution of processing responsibilities may be based on radio link conditions or conditions (e.g., power state or processing capabilities) associated with the target mobile device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Soumya Das, Edwin Chongwoo Park
  • Selecting and communicating buffer status information
    Patent number: 10588046
    Abstract: A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) may select a first type of buffer status information or a second type of buffer status information. The first type of buffer status information may indicate an amount of data buffered and the second type of buffer status information has less bits and is a different format than the first type of buffer status information. The WTRU may select, subsequent to a number of subframes of a transmission of buffer status information of a first type, buffer status information of the first type for transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: InterDigital Technology Corporation
    Inventor: Guodong Zhang
  • Power usage state information transmission method and apparatus
    Patent number: 10588095
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a power usage state information transmission method and apparatus. The transmission method for transmitting power usage state information according to the present invention includes: determining, by a terminal device, a power headroom PH of a second cell corresponding to the terminal device; and sending, by the terminal device to the first network device, the PH and channel configuration information corresponding to the PH. According to the embodiments of the present invention, the first network device can readily acquire, according to the PH and the channel configuration information, a power usage state of the second cell corresponding to the terminal device. In this way, transmit power of UE between different network devices can be properly allocated, and therefore, system resources are properly used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chuanfeng He, Bingyu Qu
  • Transport block size determination
    Patent number: 10575205
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques that may be applied in systems comprising machine type communication (MTC) user equipments (UEs). An exemplary method performed by a base station comprises using a first transport block size (TBS) table to communicate with a first type of user equipment (UE), using a second TBS table to communicate with a second type of UE, wherein the first type of UE supports a reduced peak data rate relative to the second type of UE, signaling information to the first type of UE for use in determining a TBS from the first TBS table, and communicating with the first type of UE, with one or more transmissions having a payload with a number of bits determined based on a TBS value from the first TBS table selected based, at least in part, on the signaled information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Wanshi Chen, Hao Xu, Peter Gaal
  • Controlling a jitter buffer
    Patent number: 10560393
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods for controlling a jitter buffer are described. In one embodiment, the apparatus for controlling a jitter buffer includes an inter-talkspurt delay jitter estimator for estimating an offset value of the delay of a first frame in the current talkspurt with respect to the delay of a latest anchor frame in a previous talkspurt, and a jitter buffer controller for adjusting a length of the jitter buffer based on a long term length of the jitter buffer for each frame and the offset value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
    Inventors: Xuejing Sun, Zhiwei Shuang
  • Monitoring network addresses and managing data transfer
    Patent number: 10554552
    Abstract: Monitoring network addresses and managing data transfer of an electronic data processing system. A first data packet including a first source network address and a first target network address is received via a first system link of a first converged interface. The first source network address is a unique network address assigned to a subsystem of the electronic data processing system. The first converged interface checks whether the first source network address is registered in a first source table assigned to the first converged interface. If the first source network address is not registered in the first source table, a registration of the first source network address is added to the first source table and it is announced to the remaining converged interfaces of the electronic data processing system that the first source network address is registered for the first computer system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Utz Bacher, Andreas Scheuring, Alexandra Winter
  • Network node, wireless device, methods and computer programs
    Patent number: 10548055
    Abstract: A network node for wireless access operating cell in a cellular network for a licensed or unlicensed frequency band and arranged for serving wireless devices in an unlicensed frequency band is disclosed. The network node is arranged to transmit a discovery reference signal (DRS) comprising a first and a second synchronization signal for enabling the wireless devices to find and measure the cell, wherein the DRS, when the network node operates a primary cell in the unlicensed frequency band, comprises system information, and additional or adapted synchronization signal for enabling the wireless devices to identify the presence of the system information and acquire further cell information. A wireless device for operating with such a network node is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Henning Wiemann, Peter Alriksson, David Sugirtharaj, Emma Wittenmark
  • Apparatus and method for transmitting and receiving in mobile communication system
    Patent number: 10548067
    Abstract: An apparatus and a method for receiving a broadcast service from a cell supporting multiple frequency bands for a frequency by a UE in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes determining whether a supportable frequency band combination includes a frequency band of a frequency at which a particular broadcast service may be received, and if the supportable frequency band combination includes the frequency band, transmitting, to a base station, a control message including identification information corresponding to a frequency of the broadcast service desired to be received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Soeng-Hun Kim, Gert-Jan Van Lieshout, Himke Van Der Velde, Kyeong-In Jeong, Sang-Bum Kim
  • Method for processing packet in access network and network device
    Patent number: 10523562
    Abstract: This application provides a method for processing a packet in an access network. The method includes: receiving, by an access device, a layer 2 protocol packet sent by a central device, where a destination address of the layer 2 protocol packet is a MAC address of the access device; obtaining, flow table information according to the layer 2 protocol packet, and generating a flow table entry, where the flow table entry includes a match field and an instruction; receiving a service packet; and determining a matching flow table entry according to the service packet, and when the matching flow table entry is the generated flow table entry, processing the service packet according to the instruction in the generated flow table entry. According to the technical solution, the access device can obtain the flow table information from the central device without the need of configuring a public IP address.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Ruobin Zheng
  • Speech transmission method and apparatus and speech service system
    Patent number: 10516622
    Abstract: A speech transmission method and apparatus include receiving at least one speech request packet sequentially sent by a terminal. Each speech request packet carries one speech data segment of the speech stream, an offset position, and a data length. The method includes generating a speech response packet corresponding to the speech request packet according to the speech request packet and other received speech request packets corresponding to the speech stream. The speech response packet carries an expected offset position and an expected data length. The method includes feeding back the speech response packet to the terminal, so that the terminal can make a determination for sending the next speech request packet according to the speech response packet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2019
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventor: Qiuge Liu
  • Small cell edge computing platform
    Patent number: 10511689
    Abstract: A small cell may include a base station that may be co-located with an edge computing device. The edge computing device may be integrated within a small cell base station or be a physically separate module communicatively coupled to and in close proximity with the small cell base station that provides edge computing resources at the small cell. The processing responsibilities associated with received data may be split or divided between the edge computing device and a target mobile device. For example, a portion of data processing may be performed by the edge computing device and the remaining portion of data processing may be performed by the target mobile device. The distribution of processing responsibilities may be based on radio link conditions or conditions (e.g., power state or processing capabilities) associated with the target mobile device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Soumya Das, Edwin Chongwoo Park
  • Predicting video engagement from wireless network measurements
    Patent number: 10505833
    Abstract: A mechanism is provided for predicting video engagement from network measurements for a user device connected to a wireless network. Wireless network measurements are retrieved from a wireless network device in the wireless network. The wireless network measurements are related to the user device of a user. It is determined that the user device is engaged in a video streaming session. A computer classifies the video streaming session as one of a plurality of classes, in which the plurality of classes predict an outcome of the video streaming session for the user device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: Jeffrey Pang, Jeffrey Erman, Lusheng Ji, Jia Wang
  • Systems and methods for a multi-mode active electronically scanned array
    Patent number: 10498415
    Abstract: Systems and methods described herein are directed towards an active electronically scanned array (AESA) that can perform both frequency division duplexing (FDD) operations and time division duplexing (TDD) operations. The AESA includes a switch network having one or more switching stages coupled between a transceiver and one or more array elements to switch the AESA between FDD operation and TDD operations, modify a function of one or more of the array elements in the AESA and/or swap portions of the AESA between different functions. The switch network can be disposed in a feed portion of the AESA. Thus, functions of each of the array elements or subarrays of multiple array elements in the AESA can be modified at a feed portion of the AESA. The array elements can be configured for TDD operations and FDD operations and can be configured as a transmit elements, receive elements or isolation elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: Raytheon Company
    Inventors: Samuel E. Parker, Scott E. Adcook
  • System and method for path state determinations
    Patent number: 10491500
    Abstract: A system and method for determining a state of a communications system. A determination is made whether a communications path is fully functional, impaired, or non functional. A maximum capacity available to the communications path is determined in response to determining the communications path is impaired. The communications path is limited to a maximum capacity available in response to determining the maximum capacity of the connection as impaired.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: CenturyLink Intellectual Property LLC
    Inventor: Michael K. Bugenhagen
  • Field checking based caching of ACL lookups to ease ACL lookup search
    Patent number: 10491521
    Abstract: In a network element cache operation is enhanced by extracting a set of fields from a packet, constructing a hash key from the extracted fields, and identifying a subset of the fields, wherein the field values thereof fail to exist in a set of classification rules. The hash key by is modified by masking the subset of the extracted fields. A hash lookup is performed using the modified hash key in a cache memory that stores a portion of the classification rules. The packet is processed responsively to the lookup.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: Mellanox Technologies TLV Ltd.
    Inventors: Gil Levy, Pedro Reviriego, Salvatore Pontarelli, Aviv Kfir
  • Support for distinguished minimum latency traffic guard band
    Patent number: 10484287
    Abstract: A network device may implement a guard band for reducing latency of transmitting high priority data. The device may identify a scheduled communication time for high priority data, which may include a scheduled reception time of the high priority data by the network device or a scheduled communication time of the high priority data. The network device may initiate a guard band prior to the scheduled communication time, and even before the high priority data is received by the network device. When the guard band is active, the network device may prevent transmission of low priority data, which may include preempting an in-progress low priority packet when initiating the guard band. Upon receiving the high priority data, the network device may immediately transmit the high priority data without incurring additional latency for preempting a low priority packet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: AVAGO TECHNOLOGIES INTERNATIONAL SALES PTE. LIMITED
    Inventor: Patricia Ann Thaler