Patents Examined by Ajay P Cattungal
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Patent number: 7978668Abstract: An apparatus, method, and computer readable medium thereof for simultaneously establishing links with a plurality of nodes in a wireless network are provided. A processing module determines whether a mesh network configuration message of the apparatus has space to packet an information element and determines whether to transmit a Neighbor Link Establishment information element to one of the nodes. If the mesh network configuration message has space to packet an information element and the Neighbor Link Establishment information element needs to be transmitted to one of the nodes, the Neighbor Link Establishment information element will be packeted into the mesh network configuration message. Finally, a transmission module transmits the mesh network configuration message to the nodes in order to solve the problem of increasing time during link establishment and avoid deadlock among the nodes when the apparatus of the prior art establishes links with the nodes simultaneously.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2007Date of Patent: July 12, 2011Assignee: Institute for Information IndustryInventors: Shie-Yuan Wang, Frank Chee-Da Tsai, Hsu-Heng Weng, Chih-Che Lin, Ku-Han Fan, Teng-Wei Hsu
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Patent number: 7961710Abstract: A method and apparatus is provided for setting multiple paths between wireless nodes of an ad-hoc network including a source node, a relay node and a destination node that receives a message from the source node via the relay node. The multi-path setting method and apparatus includes receiving previous hop address information, and determining whether a wireless node that receives the previous hop address information is included in an insulating region, based on the previous hop address information.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2007Date of Patent: June 14, 2011Assignees: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., The Research Foundation of the City University of New YorkInventors: Ji-Hoon Lee, Xuhui Hu, Yong Liu, Myung-Jong Lee
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Patent number: 7929496Abstract: Methods and apparatus are disclosed for implementing composite channel trees for resource assignment. The composite channel tree includes a binary channel tree structure and at least one supplemental node facilitated by an additional bit to the channel identification. The methods and apparatus provide overcome defragmentation problems related in a binary code tree and reduces granularity issues related to the binary tree.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2007Date of Patent: April 19, 2011Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Alexei Gorokhov, Tingfang Ji
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Patent number: 7889684Abstract: A method for managing a terminal device includes: setting management commands; sending the management commands to a terminal device; and obtaining executed results of the management commands from the terminal device. Another method for managing a terminal device, comprising: setting management commands; configuring a terminal device with the management commands; and obtaining executed results of the management commands from the terminal device.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2007Date of Patent: February 15, 2011Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventors: Xiaoqian Chai, Xiaoyi Dong, Hai Shen, Jie Tang, Qi Shu, Kepeng Li, Jiangshui He, Hongtao Gao, Jianzhang Cheng
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Patent number: 7889751Abstract: A transmitter, a receiver, and a transceiver for use in a wireless communication system are disclosed. In one embodiment, the radio frequency (RF) transmitter comprises a first parallel-to-serial converter to convert first parallel data corresponding to a I quadrature baseband signal component into a first set of serial data bits, a second parallel-to-serial converter to convert second parallel data corresponding to a Q quadrature baseband signal component into a second set of serial data bits, and one or more stages having a first XOR gate coupled to a gate terminal of a first transistor and a second XOR gate coupled to a gate terminal of second transistor. The first XOR gate has a pair of inputs coupled to the first set of serial data bits and a first clock (e.g.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2007Date of Patent: February 15, 2011Inventor: Sudhir Aggarwal
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Patent number: 7885277Abstract: Methods and apparatus to analyze autonomous system (AS) peering policies are disclosed. A disclosed example method comprises obtaining routing information from two or more border routers of a first AS, wherein the routing information identifies two or more routes to a prefix associated with a second AS, and wherein the second AS is a peer of the first AS, identifying one of the two or more routes as an inferior route advertised by the second AS based on the routing information, and determining whether a routing impact is present within the first AS due to the advertised inferior route.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2008Date of Patent: February 8, 2011Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Aman Shaikh, Thomas Bradley Scholl, Ashley Flavel
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Patent number: 7876784Abstract: Methods and apparatus provide low-complexity receivers for use in superposition coded multi-user systems. In a downlink scenario, a superposition coded signal that includes data unique to first and second users is compared with every permutation of the bit positions of the transmitted signal. The values of the received signal that are nearest to the transmitted signal are located to extract the data unique to the first user. In an uplink scenario, a superposition coded signal that includes data unique to the first and second users is compared with every permutation of the bit positions of transmitted signals corresponding to the first and the second users. The values of the received signal that are nearest to the transmitted signal corresponding to the first user are located to extract the data unique to the first user simultaneously with the extraction of the data unique to the second user.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2008Date of Patent: January 25, 2011Assignee: Marvell International Ltd.Inventor: Jungwon Lee
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Patent number: 7860939Abstract: A serial communication system includes a master processor and a slave processor. A CS signal for requesting a serial communication is output from the master processor, and an OK_INV signal for responding to the CS signal is output from the slave processor. When a CS signal is an active state, the master processor executes a serial communications of a preset number of bits every time that a level of the OK_INV signal is reversed. The slave processor inverts a level of an OK_INV signal in response to the CS signal shifting to the active state. The slave processor changes the level of the OK_INV signal every time that a serial communication of a preset number of bits is completed.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2008Date of Patent: December 28, 2010Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.Inventor: Michihiro Fujiyama
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Patent number: 7852753Abstract: An apparatus and method for centrally selecting a control network from redundant control networks is described. In one embodiment of the invention, a network element includes a first control network and a second control network. Each line card implements a bonding interface to bond a first port coupled with the first control network and a second port coupled with the second control network. On each line card, the first and second ports receive a control network selection message from the first and second control networks respectively. A link layer driver on each line card interprets those selection messages and determines which control network is active and reports that control network as up to the bonding interface and reports the other control network as down to the bonding interface. The bonding interface selects the control network reported as up and application software uses that control network.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2008Date of Patent: December 14, 2010Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M EricssonInventors: Richard S. Newpol, James R. Bryant, Lei G. Chen
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Patent number: 7839877Abstract: A method is specified for the operation of an automation device provided for the receiving of telegrams together with such an automation device, which is distinguished by the fact that the automation device manages a resource pool for telegrams which are arriving or received, that the automation device distinguishes between active and new communication relationships with a remote communication participant and that for each new communication relationship a free resource is selected from the resource pool and thereafter is used for this communication relationship, which thereby becomes an active communication relationship.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2007Date of Patent: November 23, 2010Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Wilhelm Diesch, Dieter Klotz, Patrik Sieberling, Wolfgang Werner
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Patent number: 7836169Abstract: A method to identify and report over-utilized, under-utilized, and bad quality trunks and gateways in an Internet Protocol (IP) telephony network includes collecting information associated with a plurality of gateways and trunks on the gateways, as well as correlating the information with network topology and configuration data obtained from a network management system. The collected information may be used to compute traffic statistics associated with the gateways and trunks on the gateways. The method further includes identifying over-utilized, under-utilized, and/or bad quality trunks or gateways, if any; and generating a report to display the over-utilized, under-utilized, and/or bad quality trunks or gateways, e.g., a report to display a subset of the plurality of gateways or trunks for potential upgrade or downgrade. A system to identify and report over-utilized, under-utilized, and bad quality trunks and gateways in an Internet Protocol (IP) telephony network is also claimed and described herein.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2007Date of Patent: November 16, 2010Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.Inventors: Ottalingam Thangaraj Satyanarayanan, Neil Anil Prasad
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Patent number: 7830885Abstract: A communication network apparatus and method for routing communication signals from a source device to a receiving device. The apparatus performs only local processing on communication signals to thereby increase the speed of processing the signals. A plurality of the processing nodes are combined into a plurality of sub-networks that comprise the network apparatus. Each processing node of a sub-network need only process address information pertaining, to the node's current layer, one layer above it, if any, and one layer below it, if any.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2007Date of Patent: November 9, 2010Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property II, LLPInventor: Xiaolin Lu
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Patent number: 7804836Abstract: A processing device and method for processing packets of encoded real-time data to perform a gradual fade-out and fade-in of a signal. Upon detecting the beginning of a packet loss period, a last correctly received packet is repeated with gradually increased attenuation to slowly fade out, for example, an audio signal. At the end of the packet loss period, the device slowly fades in the signal by attenuating the first or a number of packets received following the loss period. The method may be performed with low complexity by decrementing segment numbers of samples of data packets such as in a lookup operation.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2005Date of Patent: September 28, 2010Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (PUBL)Inventor: Kim Hyldgaard
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Patent number: 7801162Abstract: The present invention relates to a gateway device, a network system and a data converting method using a plurality of network protocols different from each other. A gateway device includes a first communication controller connected to first device via a first bus in accordance with a first network protocol to exchange data with the first device in accordance with the first network protocol, a second communication controller connected to second device via a second bus in accordance with a second network protocol different from the first network protocol to exchange the data with the second device in accordance with the second network protocol, and a control unit interconverting the data in accordance with the first network protocol and the data in accordance with the second network protocol into each other so that the data is exchanged between the first device and the second device.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2008Date of Patent: September 21, 2010Assignee: Sungkyunkwan University Foundation for Corporate CollaborationInventors: Jae Wook Jeon, Suk Hyun Seo, Tae Yoon Moon, Jin Ho Kim
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Patent number: 7796643Abstract: A call processing system in a destination network associated with a destination signaling protocol comprises an interface configured to receive first signaling for a call placed by a user from a device in a source network, wherein the first signaling indicates a source signaling protocol associated with the source network, and a processor configured to determine a status for the call, determine an event by which the status is conveyed to the user based on the status, determine a parameter based on the event and the source signaling protocol, and generate second signaling indicating the parameter.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2007Date of Patent: September 14, 2010Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.Inventors: Trey A. Hilyard, Larry H. Piercy, Alex A. Zhang
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Patent number: 7783700Abstract: There is provided with a method of performing in a server apparatus sharing an image to be displayed on a screen with a client terminal, including: updating a part of an image in a frame buffer; generating a first packet which includes first area information indicating a first area updated in the image, a first image which is an image after update in the first area and a sequence number assigned by a sequence number counter and transmitting it; storing a set of the first area information and the sequence number in a storage; receiving a retransmission request including a sequence number from the client terminal; detecting a second area which is not updated in the first image which corresponds to the sequence number included in the retransmission request after the transmission of the first image by referring to the storage; acquiring a second image in the second area from the frame buffer.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2007Date of Patent: August 24, 2010Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Hiroshi Kawazoe, Masataka Goto, Shinya Murai, Kensaku Yamaguchi
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Patent number: 7764620Abstract: The invention relates to a device and a method for testing for wire breakage with a redundant signal output. To ensure the most fail-safe output in particular of a digital signal, whilst at the same time supplying a diagnosis function, it is proposed that two digital output modules should be connected in parallel, in particular with a diode integrated in each channel. The diagnosis function is enabled by a driver, which, in the event of a target value for the digital signal of logical “1”, connects the channel with a logical “1”, while setting a channel connected parallel thereto briefly to logical “0” and at the same time carrying out an interrupt test on the channel with logical “1”.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2006Date of Patent: July 27, 2010Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventor: Norbert Brousek
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Patent number: 7733883Abstract: A method for implementing a virtual leased line (VLL) is provided. The method includes the steps of: configuring a virtual local area network (VLAN) label stack on the basis of VLAN QinQ technique; configuring a VLAN QinQ switching device and a multi-protocol label switching device to communicate with each other; extending a label distribution protocol (LDP) to support encapsulation of VLAN labels, so as to carry out VLAN label assignment and take the extended LDP as a topology discovery protocol for an L2 virtual private network; setting the range of VLAN labels; implementing a VLL by constructing a VLAN switching path.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2005Date of Patent: June 8, 2010Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventors: Bin Li, Defeng Li
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Patent number: 7719985Abstract: A system and method are disclosed for multicasting information to a set of clients that includes transmitting the information to a primary client from a server and instructing the primary client to forward the information to a secondary client.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2007Date of Patent: May 18, 2010Assignee: Vulcan Patents LLCInventors: Michael Lee, Matt Regan, Geoff M. Smith
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Patent number: 7715359Abstract: A method for realizing metering pulses in Next Generation Network (NGN), which enables an MGC (media gateway controller) to cooperate with an MG (media gateway), so as to realize the metering pulse service. When it is necessary to initiate the charging, the MGC transmits the metering pulse signal to the MG, and then the MG transmits the first metering pulse to the user equipment immediately, and periodically transmits the subsequent pulses according to the Pulse Count and Pulse Interval specified by the signal parameter.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2005Date of Patent: May 11, 2010Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventor: Yangbo Lin