Patents Examined by Alan Lindenbaum
  • Patent number: 9769074
    Abstract: A method of monitoring data flow in a network is provided. The method includes: configuring a data flow including a plurality of data packets by a switch controller, the switch controller configured to control routing through the switch and switch configuration, wherein configuring includes storing an indication of a flow control policy in one or more of the data packets; monitoring a network switch receiving the data flow, wherein monitoring includes determining flow statistics in the switch; determining whether a congestion condition exists for the data flow based on the flow statistics and the flow control policy; and based on determining that the congestion condition exists for the data flow, performing a remedial action specific to the data flow to address the congestion condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Casimer DeCusatis, Rajaram B. Krishnamurthy
  • Patent number: 9769851
    Abstract: The invention relates to methods and communication devices in a network comprising the steps of mapping (S2) and allocating a first random access resource to a first frequency in an uplink subframe of a radio frame, and transmitting (S4) an expression on the radio channel expressing mapping of the first random access resource to use in relation to at least one uplink subframe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Robert Baldemair, David Astely
  • Patent number: 9763164
    Abstract: A mobile application gateway configured to interconnect mobile communication devices on a cellular network with an enterprise network is provided. The mobile application gateway includes a voice and data signaling gateway configured to provide routing functionalities, service functionalities and admission control. A gateway GPRS support node (GGSN) is configured to establish a secure data session between one or more of the mobile communication devices and the enterprise network by establishing a GPRS tunneling protocol (GTP) tunnel between a carrier-hosted serving GPRS support node (SGSN) and the GGSN.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: TANGO NETWORKS, INC.
    Inventor: Andrew Silver
  • Patent number: 9762364
    Abstract: This document discloses a solution for operating a radio communication apparatus that exchanges narrowband control messages with other radio communication apparatuses, each control message comprising a pilot sequence and an identifier identifying a transmitter of the control message. The radio communication apparatus receives a broadband signal through a broadband radio receiver and correlates sub-bands of the received signal so as to detect a narrowband control message within the received broadband signal. Upon detection of the narrowband control message on a sub-band of the received broadband signal, the transmitter of the narrowband control message is determined from the identifier of the narrowband control message. It is also determined from the reception of the narrowband control message on the sub-band that the sub-band is preferred by the transmitter of the narrowband control message, and said sub-band is utilized in data communication with the transmitter of the narrowband control message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: KYYNEL OY
    Inventors: Toni Linden, Matti Raustia, Teemu Vanninen
  • Patent number: 9756481
    Abstract: A method and wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) for receiving a multimedia broadcast/multicast service (MBMS) data is disclosed. A WTRU receives MBMS data segments from a first MBMS transmitting source along with segmentation information. The WTRU receives MBMS data segments and segmentation information from a second MBMS transmitting source. The MBMS data segments from the first MBMS transmitting source and the MBMS data segments from the second MBMS transmitting source are received in different order. The WTRU reassembles the MBMS data segments based on the segmentation information received from the first MBMS transmitting source and the second MBMS transmitting source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventor: Stephen E. Terry
  • Patent number: 9750013
    Abstract: A wireless network has a duty-cycle limitation, which defines a total transmission time budget and an average transmission time. A device (100) has a controller (102) for controlling the transmission of data according to the duty-cycle limitation. The controller stores past transmission time usage of the device in sequences of buckets, and determines a bucket budget of transmission time. A basic transmission time budget is assigned which is smaller than the average transmission time of the corresponding time interval, and additional transmission time is allocated to allow for temporally exceeding the average transmission time. The additional transmission time is based on the total transmission time budget and the past transmission time usage of past buckets in combination with the future basic transmission time budget of future buckets, which past, current and future buckets together cover the duty-cycle period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: PHILIPS LIGHTING HOLDING B.V.
    Inventor: Daniel Martin Goergen
  • Patent number: 9723542
    Abstract: According to an embodiment of the present invention, a method for transmitting a discovery signal related to device to device (D2D) communication by a first UE in a wireless communication system comprises: mapping a codeword related to a discovery signal to two or more pairs of physical resource blocks (PRBs) on a time axis; and transmitting the mapped codeword, wherein a first pair of PRBs of the two or more pairs of PRBs includes a resource area for a first signal and whether an n-th (n>=2) pair of PRBs of the two or more pairs of PRBs includes the resource area for the first signal is determined according to whether a next subframe of a subframe including an (n?1)-th pair of PRBs is for an uplink transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Hyukjin Chae, Hanbyul Seo, Hakseong Kim, Inkwon Seo
  • Patent number: 9713146
    Abstract: A mobile communications system including at least one base station configured to communicate data to/from different types of terminal devices via respective of plural logically separate carriers of a wireless access interface; first and second terminal devices operable to respectively camp-on to first and second carriers of the carriers and to subsequently communicate data with the at least one base station via the first and second carriers. The first and second carriers support compatible synchronization signalling such that the first and second terminal devices synchronize with the first and second carriers to begin a camp-on procedure, and following synchronization with one of the first or second carriers to begin a camp-on procedure. The second terminal device is configured to determine whether or not to continue with the camp-on procedure based on an aspect of physical layer signalling associated with a control channel of the carrier with which it has synchronized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: SCA IPLA HOLDINGS, INC
    Inventors: Philip Young, Peter Darwood
  • Patent number: 9699077
    Abstract: The application provides a method for determining a packet forwarding path, a network device acquires device information of the network device and interface information of the network device, so that the network device can send the device information of the network device and the interface information of the network device to a control device by using an IGP, so that the control device determines a packet forwarding path from the network device to the control device according to the device information of the network device and the interface information of the network device. Each network device that sends device information and interface information of the network device by using an IGP does not need to compute a packet forwarding path from the network device to a corresponding control device; therefore, decreasing a processing burden of the network device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jun Wang
  • Patent number: 9686097
    Abstract: A machine, program product, and method for enabling interoperable and low-latency networking among service devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2017
    Assignee: ORBIT-MATRIX, LLC
    Inventors: Jesse Johnson, Jose Fernandez, Stephen Vowell, Kevin Mayer
  • Patent number: 9674316
    Abstract: Methods and systems for identifying Internet Protocol (IP) data sessions at a VPN gateway. The VPN gateway receives encapsulating packets, wherein the encapsulating packets encapsulate IP packets. A corresponding VPN connection through which the encapsulating packets are received is identified. The VPN gateway decapsulates the encapsulating packets to retrieve the IP packets and performs deep packet inspection (DPI) on the IP packets in order to identify one or more data sessions that the IP packets belong to. A DPI database is updated accordingly, based on, at least in part, the one or more data sessions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: PISMO LABS TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Ying Kwan, Ho Cheung Lam
  • Patent number: 9635581
    Abstract: Local breakout mechanisms can be performed by a femto access point (FAP) to facilitate efficient utilization of backhaul and/or macro networks. In particular, a slave Gateway GPRS Support Node (GGSN) can be integrated within the FAP to directly route the incoming traffic from a user equipment (UE) at the FAP. In one example, Internet bound traffic can be directly routed to the Internet, without employing macro network resources. Further, the system can avoid hairpinning by routing traffic between the UE and a home Local Area Network (LAN) by a anchoring a call or a session in the slave GGSN and facilitate integration of UEs with home applications by employing a UE Digital Home Agent. In addition, the FAP can perform UE-to-UE CS media breakout to facilitate communication between UEs attached to the FAP, without routing the traffic through the core macro network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignees: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P., AT&T MOBILITY II LLC
    Inventors: Cheng P. Liu, Alireza Faryar, Kurt Huber
  • Patent number: 9602253
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and system for making a hybrid automatic repeat requests (HARQ) in a carrier aggregation system. The method receives downlink data through a first subframe of a first carrier, transmits acknowledgement/negative-acknowledgement (ACK/NACK) for the downlink data through a second subframe of a second carrier, and re-receives the downlink data through a third subframe of the first carrier, wherein the first carrier only includes the downlink subframes, and the second carrier includes the uplink subframes and the downlink subframes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Dongyoun Seo, Bonghoe Kim, Joonkui Ahn, Suckchel Yang, Hanbyul Seo, Seungmin Lee, Yunjung Yi
  • Patent number: 9596192
    Abstract: Embodiments relate to transmission of control data between a network switch and a switch controller is provided. Aspects of the embodiments includes: configuring a plurality of control data packets by the switch controller, wherein configuring includes disposing a sequence number in each of the plurality of control data packets indicating an order of data packet transmission; storing the plurality of control data packets in a replay buffer in communication with the switch controller; transmitting the plurality of control data packets to the network switch over a secure link between the switch controller and the network switch; and responsive to determining that one or more control data packets were not received by the network switch, retrieving the one or more control data packets from the replay buffer and re-transmitting the one or more control data packets to the network switch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Casimer M. DeCusatis, Rajaram B. Krishnamurthy
  • Patent number: 9590923
    Abstract: A method for transmission of control data between a network switch and a switch controller is provided. The method includes: configuring a plurality of control data packets by the switch controller, wherein configuring includes disposing a sequence number in each of the plurality of control data packets indicating an order of data packet transmission; storing the plurality of control data packets in a replay buffer in communication with the switch controller; transmitting the plurality of control data packets to the network switch over a secure link between the switch controller and the network switch; and responsive to determining that one or more control data packets were not received by the network switch, retrieving the one or more control data packets from the replay buffer and re-transmitting the one or more control data packets to the network switch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Casimer M. DeCusatis, Rajaram B. Krishnamurthy
  • Patent number: 9584334
    Abstract: A method for operating a cooperating user equipment (CUE) includes receiving a plurality of video packets that are hierarchically modulated (HM), with each video packet corresponding to a separately encoded video layer that is encoded with a rateless code, and decoding the plurality of video packets. The method also includes generating one or more supplemental packets to assist in the decoding of the plurality of video packets, and transmitting the one or more supplemental packets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Yu Cao, Jianglei Ma, Mohamed Adel Salem, Amine Maaref, Mohammadhadi Baligh
  • Patent number: 9572119
    Abstract: Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for a connection identification scheme are provided. One method includes determining, for example by an information receiver, a unique connection identity for an off-band connection with an information provider. The unique connection identity may be based on information related to a user plane connection with the information provider. The method may further include storing the unique connection identity, receiving radio access network information and synchronization information from the information provider, and synchronizing at least part of the radio access information with at least part of information sent in the user plane connection, using the synchronization information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: NOKIA SOLUTIONS AND NETWORKS OY
    Inventors: Peter Szilagyi, Csaba Vulkan
  • Patent number: 9559960
    Abstract: Technologies for managing congestion of a communication channel includes a network device for receiving a network packet from a computing device destined for another computing device, analyzing network traffic flows over a communication channel established between the network device and an upstream network device, and determining whether the communication channel is congested as a function of the network traffic flows. Such technologies may also include storing the received packet in a local storage in response to determining that the communication channel is congested, transmitting an acknowledgement packet to the computing device in response to storing the received network packet local storage, and transmitting the stored network packet to the upstream network device in response to determining that the communication channel is no longer congested.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Sanjay Rungta, Dileep K. Basam
  • Patent number: 9531758
    Abstract: A cloud-based secure Web gateway, a cloud-based secure Web method, and a network deliver a secure Web gateway (SWG) as a cloud-based service to organizations and provide dynamic user identification and policy enforcement therein. As a cloud-based service, the SWG systems and methods provide scalability and capability of accommodating multiple organizations therein with proper isolation therebetween. There are two basic requirements for the cloud-based SWG: (i) Having some means of forwarding traffic from the organization or its users to the SWG nodes, and (ii) Being able to authenticate the organization and users for policy enforcement and access logging. The SWG systems and methods dynamically associate traffic to users regardless of the source (device, location, encryption, application type, etc.), and once traffic is tagged to a user/organization, various polices can be enforced and audit logs of user access can be maintained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: Zscaler, Inc.
    Inventors: Srikanth Devarajan, Sridhar Narasimhan, Amit Sinha, Manoj Apte
  • Patent number: 9525710
    Abstract: A media gateway is provided that enables seamless switchover between a centralized media stream passing between first and second endpoints and through the media gateway and a decentralized media stream passing between the first and second endpoints, but bypassing the media gateway. The gateway provides synchronization information to the first and second endpoints to enable synchronization of the centralized and decentralized media streams. After synchronization is completed, the centralized media stream is disconnected in favor of the decentralized media stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2016
    Assignee: Avaya GmbH & Co., KG
    Inventors: Marc Weiβmann, Guido Nitsch, Werner Brinkmann