Patents Examined by Afshawn Towfighi
  • Patent number: 9414260
    Abstract: Arrangements with wireless transmitter having: transmission operation processing unit allocating first header information (FHI) including physical address (PA) information to a header, allocates first data error checking code (FDECC) for detecting an error of FHI, second header information (SHI) as redundant header information of FHI, second data error checking code (SDECC) for detecting an error of SHI, divides data field into cell units, and adds third error checking code to each cell, to generate the communication frame; and a wireless transmission unit. A wireless receiver with: wireless receiving unit receiving the frame; reception operation processing unit checking if errors exists in FHI based on FDECC allocated to data field, and if an error, further checks if error in SHI based on SDECC, and if no error, generates a predetermined PA by using SHI, and judges if received communication frame is addressed to own wireless receiver based on generated predetermined PA.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2016
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Setsuo Arita, Shinji Murata, Yuji Ichinose, Hideaki Masuko
  • Patent number: 9414358
    Abstract: A method for supporting cross carrier indication of a control channel change notification for at least one wireless communication unit that is operating on a first serving communication cell and has been configured with access to at least one second serving communication cell in a wireless broadcast communication system. The method includes, at the base station: generating a message including a broadcast service identifier, wherein the broadcast service identifier identifies a control channel change of the at least one second serving cell accessible by the at least one wireless communication unit; and transmitting the message to the at least one wireless communication unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2016
    Assignee: SCA IPLA HOLDINGS INC
    Inventors: Paul Piggin, Peter Darwood
  • Patent number: 9401748
    Abstract: A method of operating a wireless communication system (FIG. 4) is disclosed. The method includes receiving a plurality of reference signals from a respective plurality of transceivers (402). Each, of the plurality of reference signals is measured to produce a respective plurality of channel state information (CSI) measurements (404). An aggregated channel quality indicator (CQI) is calculated from measuring the plurality of reference signals (406). The aggregated CQI is transmitted to at least one transceiver of the respective plurality of transceivers (408).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2016
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Runhua Chen, Anthony Ekpenyong, Eko Onggosanusi, Ralf Bendlin
  • Patent number: 9398589
    Abstract: A method for resource assignment, base station and terminal equipment. The method includes: determining resource block group sizes or numbers of resource block subsets to which a stand-alone carrier and a carrier segment correspond; and assigning a resource to terminal equipment according to the resource block group sizes or the numbers of the resource block subsets. With this method, waste of RBs in the resource assignment type 0 may be avoided on the one hand, and on the other hand, a solution for resource assignment of the resource assignment type 1 is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Haibo Xu, Yanling Lu, Yuantao Zhang, Yi Wang
  • Patent number: 9398596
    Abstract: A method, base station and controller for allocating PS traffic in mobile networks which provide a plurality of RATs (multi-RAT networks) for supporting Packet Services, which comprises: identifying more than one RAT with free bandwidth, determining a type of traffic which belongs to a PS connection initially established over a initial RAT, classifying Packet Services by taking into account at least one parameter which is the previously determined type of traffic, selecting at least one of the identified RAT for establishing the PS connection in accordance to the previous classification of the Packet Service. The classification of the Packet Service can additionally take into account other parameters: QoS, measured RTT, load of each RAT and combination of these parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: Vodafone IP Licensing Limited
    Inventors: Andrea De Pasquale, Francisco Javier Dominguez Romero, Ricardo Jose Monteiro Alves
  • Patent number: 9397918
    Abstract: Presented herein are techniques for detection and characterization of buffer occupancy of a buffer in a network device. Packets are received at a network device. The packets are stored in a buffer of the network device as they are processed by the network device. An occupancy level of the buffer is sampled at a sampling rate. Occupancy levels of the buffer over time are determined from the sampling, and traffic flow through the network device is characterized based on the occupancy levels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas J. Edsall, Ganga Sudharshini Devadas, Dennis Khoa Dang Nguyen, Chih-Tsung Huang
  • Patent number: 9391970
    Abstract: Providing media management services includes creating an account record for a first user of the media management services, allocating a first storage space to the first user that is accessible to the first user via user credentials assigned to the first user, creating an account record for a second user of the media management services, and allocating a second storage space to the second user that is accessible to the second user via user credentials assigned to the second user. The media management services also include sharing the second storage space with the first user based on a device identifier of a media recording device that is common to both the first account record and the second account record.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: Michael Branam, Akbar Pirani
  • Patent number: 9392580
    Abstract: A circuit arrangement for a mobile communications unit of a motor vehicle, having a first mobile communications module for a mobile communications transmission according to a first mobile communications standard, a second mobile communications module for a mobile communications transmission according to a second mobile communications standard and a reading unit for reading identification data from a chip card. For a reliable mobile communications connection, both for telephony and for the transmission of other digital data using control devices and personal computers, the circuit arrangement is configured to operate the two mobile communications modules simultaneously, and the reading unit is configured for the simultaneous operation of the two mobile communications modules to receive identification data from two subscriber identification modules from the same chip card and to transmit the identification data of a respective subscriber identification module to one of the two mobile communications modules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventor: Herbert Ehrentraut
  • Patent number: 9391910
    Abstract: Techniques for improving the performance of flow control mechanisms such as Pause are provided. The techniques provide for maintaining a fair distribution of available bandwidth while also allowing for fewer packet drops, and maximizing link utilization, in a distributed system. For example, in one embodiment, techniques are provided for achieving a fair share allocation of an egress port's bandwidth across a plurality of ingress ports contending for the same egress port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Suzuki, Rong Pan, Flavio Bonomi, Ravi Prasad, Padma Akkiraju, Hariprasada R. Ginjpalli, Andrew Robbins
  • Patent number: 9391913
    Abstract: A method, router node, and set of instructions for using express virtual channels in a component network on a chip are disclosed. An input link 302 may receive an express flow control unit from a source node 102 in a packet-switched network via an express virtual channel 110. An output link 306 may send the express flow control unit to a sink node 106. A switch allocator 322 may forward the express flow control unit directly to the output link 306.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Amit Kumar, Partha P Kundu
  • Patent number: 9392071
    Abstract: Discloses is a computer network system comprising a plurality of network management tools, a network segment comprising a plurality of hardware devices, and a proxy for interconnecting network management tools with the network segment. Each of the network management tools is assigned at least one functionality for monitoring and controlling at least one hardware device which is polled by the network management tools. The functionalities from different network management tools are separate from each other, and the proxy is set up to consolidate requests from the different network management tools and to focus the requests on one single request to the device to be controlled by the different network management tools.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Oliver Kuhles, Sascha Schwarz, Thomas Urban
  • Patent number: 9392611
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention disclose a resource scheduling method, a radio access device, and a communications system. In a solution provided in an embodiment of the present invention, a radio access device first measures an interference parameter value corresponding to each uplink resource block of a first communications system; when a first terminal accessing the first communications system needs to transmit uplink data, measures a channel condition parameter value of an uplink channel of the first terminal; if a current channel condition of the uplink channel of the first terminal is relatively good, allocates an uplink resource block, whose interference parameter value is greater than a first interference threshold, of the first communications system to the first terminal; and if relatively poor, allocates an uplink resource block, whose interference parameter value is less than the first interference threshold, of the first communications system to the first terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies, Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Rong Zhou
  • Patent number: 9386562
    Abstract: A method of transmitting at least one data stream by a transmitter in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes generating a preamble section including signaling information and a data section including at least one data stream; generating a frame including the preamble section and the data section; and transmitting the generated frame, wherein the signaling information includes first information including information related to the at least one data stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2016
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Ismael Gutierrez, Alain Mourad
  • Patent number: 9386532
    Abstract: Provided is a method and apparatus for executing an uplink channel power control in dual connectivity configuration when power is limited. An appropriate power controlling method may be determined based on a priority, and may be applied to a UE that has dual connectivity with a Master eNB (MeNB) and a Secondary eNB (SeNB) in a network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2016
    Assignee: INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGY LAB CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Dong Hyun Park
  • Patent number: 9386483
    Abstract: A method and apparatus can be configured to detect that a signaling strength of a first network entity has dropped below a threshold. The method can also include transmitting a measurement report to the first network entity. The method can also include receiving radio-resource-control reconfiguration information from the first network entity. The method can also include transmitting a scheduling request to a second network entity, wherein a random-access-channel procedure is avoided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2016
    Assignee: NOKIA SOLUTIONS AND NETWORKS OY
    Inventors: Tsunehiko Chiba, Srinivasan Selvaganapathy
  • Patent number: 9385827
    Abstract: A transmission apparatus includes an acquisition device that acquires a switch request for plural types of transmission sections overlapping with one another at least at apart of the sections, a selection device that selects one of the switch requests for plural types of transmission sections according to priority level information about a priority level corresponding to each of the plural types of transmission sections, and a switch device that switches the transmission paths depending on the selected switch request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2016
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventor: Takashi Honda
  • Patent number: 9374743
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of providing, by a UE served in a small-scale cell, information about surrounding UEs in a wireless communication system in which a macro cell and the small-scale cell coexist. The method can include the steps of: carrying out a handover from the macro cell to the small-scale cell; after completion of the handover, overhearing a signal transmitted by the UE; measuring signal intensities of the surrounding UEs; and, if the signal intensities meet predefined conditions, delivering information about the surrounding UEs to the small-scale cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jinyup Hwang, Sangwook Lee, Manyoung Jung, Yoonoh Yang, Suhwan Lim
  • Patent number: 9374252
    Abstract: Method and devices for generating a parallel binary representation of an HDBaseT® physical modulation. The method and devices include generating series-consisting-4-binary-symbols, each represents a physical modulation of one HDBaseT compliant symbol. The series-consisting-4-binary-symbols are transmitted over eight binary channels, where each series-consisting-4-binary-symbols is transmitted serially over one of the binary channels using transmission rate that is twice the HDBaseT rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: Valens Semiconductor Ltd.
    Inventors: Zeev Brunin, Itamar Nizan, Alon Benzaray, Eyran Lida
  • Patent number: 9374201
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide methods and apparatuses for determining a packet number for a packet, based on a transmit packet number (TPN), transmitted with the packet, a locally maintained base packet number (BPN), and a value of the TPN relative to one or more edges of a locally-maintained receive window. An example method generally includes receiving a packet having a transmitted packet number (TPN), maintaining a base packet number (BPN), maintaining a receive window defined by a first edge a and a second edge b, determining a value i of the TPN relative to at least one of the first edge a or the second edge b of the receive window, and calculating a packet number (PN) for the packet based on the TPN, the BPN, and the determination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Inventor: Maarten Menzo Wentink
  • Patent number: 9369949
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices are described for determining a quality estimation of a wireless network that may be used to determine whether a particular wireless network meets one or more criteria for association with a station. The quality estimation may be based on a load quality of a basic service set (BSS) of an available wireless network and/or one or more wide area network (WAN) metrics associated with the wireless network. A station may evaluate such load quality and WAN metrics prior to association, and/or after association with a wireless network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Can Zhao, Kuo-Chun Lee, Sivaramakrishna Veerepalli, Arnaud Meylan, David William Craig, Tiruvaiyaru Kothandaraman Krishnaswamy, Jay Kumar Sundararajan, Niranjan Ramesh Pendharkar, Gerardo Giaretta, Thomas Matthew Rebman, Vinod Nagarajan, Sha Hua, Satashu Goel