Patents Examined by Afshawn Towfighi
  • Patent number: 9363696
    Abstract: An analyzing device includes a memory and a processor coupled to the memory. The processor is configured to receive an acknowledgement from a wireless communication device for each of a plurality of data which is transmitted through a wired network and transmitted to the wireless communication device by a wireless communication which is capable of retransmitting data, from the wired network, calculate a reception interval of the plurality of acknowledgements, and analyze a retransmission cycle in the wireless communication based on a difference of the calculated reception interval of the plurality of acknowledgements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Sumiyo Okada, Yuji Nomura
  • Patent number: 9356747
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for facilitating synchronization in a wireless communication system. A number sequence of length L is defined. The number sequence is mapped on a first set of discrete Fourier frequency coefficients. A second set of discrete Fourier frequency coefficients is generated by frequency shifting the first set of discrete Fourier frequency coefficients. The second set of discrete Fourier frequency coefficients is transformed into a time domain signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Fredrik Berggren, Branislav Popovic
  • Patent number: 9357053
    Abstract: Systems and methods of controlling features of a wireless mobile device are provided. The method includes a portable device, the portable device further includes a plurality of separate programs saved in memory, each of the plurality of programs is independently identified by a respective one or more bits of an identifier sequence, a wireless transceiver of the portable device that monitors a predetermined wireless spectrum and detects a beacon, a processor that decodes the detected beacon for an identifier including a sequence of bits, a processor that correlates a content of the identifier with at least one of the plurality of programs by matching the one or more bits of the identifier sequence of the one program with a content and location of one or bits of the identifier and a processor executing the one program.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: Comm-Ence, Inc.
    Inventors: Randal Gruberman, Eric Carlton
  • Patent number: 9357564
    Abstract: User equipment (UE)-initiated accesses within a cellular network are optimized to account for cell size and to reduce signaling overhead. A fixed set of preamble parameter configurations for use across a complete range of cell sizes within the cellular network is established and stored within each UE. A UE located in a given cell receives a configuration number transmitted from a nodeB serving the cell, the configuration number being indicative of a size of the cell. The UE selects a preamble parameter configuration from the fixed set of preamble parameter configurations in response to the received configuration number and then transmits a preamble from the UE to the nodeB using the preamble parameter configuration indicated by the configuration number.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Pierre Bertrand, Jing Jiang
  • Patent number: 9357555
    Abstract: The present invention prevents performance degradation caused by a multiplication frequency of a memory clock in a wireless communication system by changing a frequency of the memory clock so that a multiplication frequency is not sufficiently close to a transmission/reception frequency that will cause noise or interference with a data transmission/reception. A communication apparatus according to the present invention includes a controller comprising at least one processor; and a memory for operating at a clock provided from the controller. The controller checks a communication frequency, determines whether the communication frequency is a value in a range of interference from a multiplication frequency of a memory clock frequency, and changes the memory clock frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ki-Yong Kim, Young-Seok Kim
  • Patent number: 9351200
    Abstract: A wireless communication access path exists between an ingress station and an egress station. A logical communication tunnel is established between the ingress and egress stations directly or through any number of intermediate relay stations to handle session flows of PDUs. As PDUs arrive, the ingress station may determine and add information bearing on an identified QoS associated with the PDU to the PDUs before they are delivered to the downstream egress station(s) or intermediate relay station(s). The information may be used by the downstream stations to schedule the PDUs for further delivery. The information may also be used by the egress station to schedule the PDUs for delivery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2016
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Hang Zhang, Peiying Zhu, Wen Tong, Nimal Gamini Senarath, Derek Yu, David G. Steer
  • Patent number: 9337989
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure related to a method for configuring a transmission resource, a related device, and a communication system. The method for configuring a transmission resource includes: notifying, by an access device, a user equipment of an uplink-downlink configuration change period, where the uplink-downlink configuration change period is less than a system message change period; and sending, by the access device, a first message to the user equipment, where the first message carries an uplink-downlink configuration indication corresponding to the uplink-downlink configuration change period, so that the user equipment updates, according to the uplink-downlink configuration indication, an uplink-downlink configuration used by the user equipment. The solutions according to the embodiments of the present disclosure help to improve flexibility for configuring a transmission resource and a utilization rate of a frequency spectrum resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yang Li, Chaojun Li, Xiaobo Chen, Xiaoan Fan
  • Patent number: 9338072
    Abstract: A Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) session between computing devices can be identified. Each computing device can be associated with a communication link. Each of the computing devices can execute a VoIP application. Each application can include selectable codecs. The codecs can be an audio codec and a video codec. A unique list of the selectable codecs can be generated. The list can include sublists which can identify the codecs. A loss threshold with each sublist based on previously determined performance characteristics of the codecs can be associated. The threshold can be a packet loss threshold value of the link associated with the devices. A packet loss metric of the link can be evaluated. The link can be associated with a codec of the sublists. A programmatic action can be performed to select a different codec from the sublists responsive to the evaluating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Haytham Assem, Jonathan Dunne, James P. Galvin, Patrick O'Sullivan
  • Patent number: 9326261
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention include a method for synchronizing a popularity value of distributed cache data, a method, an apparatus, and a system for cooperative and distributed caching. The synchronizing method includes: receiving, by a first base station, a request for accessing a packet domain service sent by a user equipment; if the first base station determines that the packet domain service is locally cached, sending the packet domain service to the user equipment and incrementing a current popularity value of the packet domain service in a list of locally cached content of the first base station according to a preset function; and sending, when the current popularity value of the packet domain service is accumulated to a preset threshold, the current popularity value to a popularity information synchronizing node for synchronization, and clearing the current popularity value locally cached. The present invention saves a transmission bandwidth of an IUB interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Wei Wei
  • Patent number: 9319271
    Abstract: A management device includes a memory and a processor coupled to the memory. The processor executes a process including, searching a network for a node that belongs to a management area to which the management device belongs, and creating management information in which the node searched for at the searching is used as a node that is targeted for management.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventor: Naohiro Tamura
  • Patent number: 9320050
    Abstract: Described herein are systems and methods to enhance radio link performance in a multi-carrier environment. A method may comprise sending, by an upper level layer of a wireless device, user data in a packet for transmission, wherein the packet includes an indication of a level of priority of the packet, receiving, by a media access control (“MAC”) layer of the wireless device, the packet for transmission including the indication of the level of priority provided by the upper level layer, identifying, by the MAC layer, a reliability of each of a plurality of component carriers, and selecting, by the MAC layer, one of the component carriers on which to transmit the packet, wherein the selecting is based on the level of priority of the packet and the reliability of the one of the component carriers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Ajoy K. Singh, Tarik Tabet, Sarma V. Vangala
  • Patent number: 9313142
    Abstract: A path computation element for a communications network, receives link advertisements from hybrid nodes (10) of the network and selects paths for new traffic flows based on the received link advertisements. The hybrid node has switching matrices (20, 30) operable using different protocols, and has internal links between the switching matrices. The link advertisements indicate a maximum and in a minimum bandwidth on any one of the internal links for a new traffic flow. The element can select a path via the hybrid node for a new traffic flow according to the bandwidth of the requested new traffic flow and according to the maximum and the minimum bandwidth indicated by the link advertisements. Advertising the maximum and minimum bandwidths available for a single new traffic flow for the internal links can enable more efficient path computation with little additional cost and hence maintain scalability of the link advertisements for larger networks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2016
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Paola Iovanna, Cristiano Zema, Fabio Ubaldi
  • Patent number: 9301234
    Abstract: There are provided measures for handover control for backhaul connections, said measures exemplarily including evaluation of the suitability of an access node cell in access network as target for a handover of a terminal based on delay information being indicative of an expected packet delay in a cell of the access node, wherein such delay information may be generated and/or exchanged in the access network. Said measures may exemplarily be applied for improving handover control in relay-enhanced access networks or networks that contain access nodes connected via different kinds of backhaul that can result in different end-to-end packet delays.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignee: Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy
    Inventors: Oumer Teyeb, Bernhard Raaf, Simone Redana
  • Patent number: 9301319
    Abstract: In one aspect, a method of communicating via a wireless medium by a wireless communications apparatus within a network is provided. The method includes detecting an operating characteristic associated with a load of the network. The method further includes determining a process for adjusting a size of a contention window in response to a successful transmission of a frame based on the detected operating characteristic, the contention window being provided for determining a deferral period for deferring access to the wireless medium. The method further includes transmitting information indicating the process to one or more wireless devices operating within the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Gwendolyn Denise Barriac, Vincent Knowles Jones, IV, Hemanth Sampath, Santosh Paul Abraham, Rahul Tandra, Yan Zhou, Simone Merlin
  • Patent number: 9295084
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a solution for random access in a wireless system, in which there is a plurality of available uplink carriers for the random access. The UE can monitor a random access response to get load related information for the plurality of available uplink carriers, determine one low-loaded uplink carrier according to the load related information, and perform random access in the low-loaded uplink carrier. The eNB can determine load related information for uplink carriers in a wireless system, and send a random access response that contains the load related information for multiple uplink carriers in the wireless system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Wei Bai, Haiming Wang, Juha Korhonen
  • Patent number: 9294344
    Abstract: A media gateway controller (MGC) is described herein that implements a shared risk group package to control and prevent a media gateway (MG) from establishing redundant links like a primary link and a secondary link that use resources that share the same risk of failure. Essentially, the MGC uses the shared risk group package to control which resources like ephemeral terminations are used by the MG to establish the primary link and the secondary link such that if any of the resources associated with the primary link fail then the secondary link remains operational within the MG and if any of the resources associated with the secondary link fail then the primary link remains operational within the MG.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Jerker Zetterlund, Paul Wilson
  • Patent number: 9288694
    Abstract: Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for partial failure handling of bearer mapping in dual connectivity are provided. One method includes, during a secondary evolved node B (SeNB) addition procedure, providing a target SeNB with an indication of SeNB change together with information on bearers that were served by a source SeNB. The method may further include receiving, by a master evolved node B (MeNB), bearer mapping for failed bearers from the target SeNB, and providing the source SeNB with the bearer mapping for the failed bearers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Assignee: NOKIA SOLUTIONS AND NETWORKS OY
    Inventors: Tsunehiko Chiba, Srinivasan Selvaganapathy, Subramanian Iyer
  • Patent number: 9282506
    Abstract: A receiver performs synchronization to a secondary component carrier in a wireless communication system. The secondary component carrier is aggregated with a primary component carrier in the wireless communication system. Side information of the secondary component carrier is utilized to reduce occurrences of a number of synchronization hypotheses in a hypothesis test in the case that synchronization to the secondary component carrier is performed. Symbol timing synchronization of the secondary component carrier is determined in accordance with the reduced occurrences of the number of synchronization hypotheses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Fredrik Berggren
  • Patent number: 9281931
    Abstract: The present description relates to an apparatus and method for receiving a control channel in a multi-component carrier system. The method for performing random access disclosed in the present description comprises the steps of: transmitting a random access preamble to a base station from an activated sub-serving cell; monitoring physical downlink control channel candidates during a response window one the basis of a certain aggregation in a temporary search space in a control region of the activated sub-serving cell, wherein the control region consists of a group of control channel elements; and adjusting an uplink time of the activated sub-serving cell according to a time advance command indicated by a random access response when the random access response, including a random access identifier corresponding to the random access preamble, is received in the response window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: Pantech Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ki Bum Kwon, Jae Hyun Ahn, Sung Kwon Hong
  • Patent number: 9281923
    Abstract: A method of assigning a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) process using a frequency division duplex (FDD) frame structure by a base station (BS) in a wireless communication system. The method according to one embodiment includes transmitting information related to a number of HARQ processes between the BS and a relay node (RN) to the RN. The number of the HARQ processes depends on subframes configured for transmission between the BS and the RN. The method according to the embodiment further includes assigning the HARQ processes subframes other than subframe indexes 0, 4, 5, and 9 based on the number of HARQ processes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Hakseong Kim, Hanbyul Seo, Byounghoon Kim, Kijun Kim