Patents Examined by Albert T. Chou
  • Patent number: 10243852
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure discloses a look-up table creation method and query method. The creation method includes: receiving a look-up table create message sent by a controller, where the look-up table create message includes an identifier of a look-up table and a look-up mode of the look-up table; creating a look-up table according to the look-up table create message and setting a look-up mode of the look-up table; receiving an entry add message sent by the controller, where the entry add message includes a to-be-added forwarding action and an index parameter of the forwarding action; and adding, according to the entry add message, an entry corresponding to the entry add message to the look-up table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Wenming Wang, Zhiqiang Li
  • Patent number: 10243783
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention relate to a method and a device for processing a communication path. The method includes: obtaining a path processing parameter from local configuration information or from a control layer device, obtaining path information and/or a restarting counter parameter from the control layer device; increasing a path with an opposite-end device when the path information is of increasing a path, identifying the state of the path and/or the state of the opposite-end device using the path processing parameter and/or the restarting counter parameter the opposite-end device; reporting the fault state of the path and/or the reset state of the opposite-end device to the control layer device when the path fails and/or the opposite-end device is reset, releasing sessions on the failed path and/or on a path connected with the reset opposite-end device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shiyong Tan, Hui Ni, Hui Cai
  • Patent number: 10244528
    Abstract: A method for efficiently scheduling virtual resource blocks to physical resource blocks is disclosed. In a wireless mobile communication system, for distributed mapping of consecutively allocated virtual resource blocks to physical resource blocks, when nulls are inserted into a block interleaver used for the mapping, they are uniformly distributed to ND divided groups of the block interleaver, which are equal in number to the number (ND) of physical resource blocks to which one virtual resource block is mapped.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Dong Youn Seo, Joon Kui Ahn, Yu Jin Noh, Jung Hoon Lee, Bong Hoe Kim
  • Patent number: 10237377
    Abstract: A packet rewriting apparatus is arranged between a tunnel end point and a switch that refers to content of the original header to determine processing to be applied to a packet. The packet rewriting apparatus is provided with: a packet rewriting rule storage unit that stores packet rewriting rule(s) for writing information corresponding to a virtual network identifier included in an additional header of a packet outputted from a tunnel end point, to a prescribed region of the original header; and a packet rewriting unit that rewrites, in accordance with the packet rewriting rule, to a packet in which information corresponding to the virtual network identifier is written to the original header of a transmitted packet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hideyuki Tai
  • Patent number: 10231243
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method and a device for allocating a resource unit on the basis of a container in a wireless LAN. The method for allocating a resource unit in a wireless LAN comprises the steps of: generating, by an AP, a PPDU to be transmitted to a plurality of STAs; and transmitting, by the AP, the PPDU to the plurality of STAs through at least one container allocated on the entire frequency band, wherein the PPDU includes MU/SU transmission indication information and resource allocation information for each container, the MU/SU transmission indication information includes information on whether an SU-based transmission or an MU-based transmission is carried out on the entire bandwidth, and the resource allocation information for each container can include information on the number of STAs allocated to each of the at least one container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jinsoo Choi, Hangyu Cho, Wookbong Lee, Jeongki Kim
  • Patent number: 10225868
    Abstract: A data transmission method and an apparatus to communicate data on multiple carriers in the mobile communication system are provided. A random access method of a terminal in a mobile communication system including primary and secondary cells operating on multiple carriers according to the present invention includes communicating data after random access in the primary cell, receiving, when the random access is triggered in the secondary cell, information for use in the secondary cell random access from the primary cell, transmitting a preamble in the secondary cell based on the received information, monitoring the primary cell to receive a Random Access Response for the secondary cell, and applying, when the Random Access Response for the secondary cell is received, the information carried in the Random Access Response to the secondary cell in which the preamble has been transmitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Soenghun Kim, Sangbum Kim, Jaehyuk Jang, Kyeongin Jeong, Jongsoo Choi
  • Patent number: 10218610
    Abstract: A method, communications processing device, and computer readable medium for MPLS segment routing are disclosed. One embodiment of the method comprises generating a first link-state packet comprising a first data structure. The first data structure maps a first portcode to a link connecting the first router within the network or to an additional router reachable from the first router. The method embodiment further includes receiving an incoming data packet encapsulated with a header comprising an incoming portcode stack having the first portcode as its uppermost portcode. The method embodiment further includes removing the first portcode from the incoming portcode stack to create an outgoing portcode stack for an outgoing data packet, and forwarding the outgoing data packet via a port, of the first router, identified by the first portcode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel C. Frost, Stewart F. Bryant, Clarence Filsfils
  • Patent number: 10165563
    Abstract: A base station includes a scheduler which allocates a first radio resource and a second radio resource while the first radio resource is used to transmit a control channel signal from a wireless terminal, and the second radio resource is used to transmit from the wireless terminal a first reference signal corresponding to the control channel signal even when the wireless terminal does not transmit the control channel signal by using the first radio resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Daisuke Jitsukawa, Hiroyuki Seki
  • Patent number: 10165458
    Abstract: A technique is provided to control transmitting, by a mobile station (MS) that uses carrier aggregation, a message including an interoperability test (IOT) indication for one or more uplink-downlink (UL-DL) configuration combinations of time-division-duplex (TDD) radio frames for use by a primary cell and a secondary cell. In one example implementation, an IOT indication may be provided for one or more (or each) uplink-downlink configuration combinations (e.g., one IOT indication per UL-DL configuration combination). In another example implementation, an IOT indication may be provided for one or more sets of uplink-downlink configuration combinations, where each set may include a plurality of UL-DL configuration combinations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy
    Inventors: Chunli Wu, Woonhee Hwang, Chun Hai Yao
  • Patent number: 10159094
    Abstract: According to an aspect of the present invention, a device for communication according to a specific communication protocol is provided. The communication device includes a processor for generating and processing frames based on frame formats defined by the communication protocol. The processor generates a beacon frame so that information on a collision avoidance scheme supported by the device of a plurality kinds of information specified based on the communication protocol is omitted. Further, the processor processes a connection request frame transmitted from other device to extract information on a collision avoidance scheme supported by the other device, and controls communication with the other device based on comparison of the extracted information on the collision avoidance scheme with the information on the collision avoidance scheme supported by the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2018
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshihiro Takahashi, Takahiro Tomida, Tsutomu Terazaki, Ryo Okumura
  • Patent number: 10149299
    Abstract: Collecting state information about the resources of radio access networks (RANs) and the Access Point Names (APNs) enables this information to be provided to mobile stations which employ this information to determine which radio access technology (RAT) to employ for connecting to the wireless access network, and to determine which APN to use. This decision is made relative to each application that the mobile station is executing, and these decisions are, optionally, revisited periodically, or as significant changes in the state information are recognized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignees: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P., INTEL CORPORATION, VENTURI WIRELESS, INC.
    Inventors: Mostafa Tofighbakhsh, Vivek Gupta, Krishna Ramadas
  • Patent number: 10148583
    Abstract: There are provided: a transfer management table storage unit to store a transfer management table which indicates transfer destination ports for frames received from another transfer device, the another transfer device being configured to transmit a frame low in importance of received frames without copying this frame and to transmit an important frame of received frames to paths made redundant by copying the important frame, the important frame being a frame higher in importance than the frame low in importance; an adjacent information table storage unit to store an adjacent information table which indicates information about instruments connected to the ports; and a transfer destination management unit to control whether to transfer an important frame received from another transfer device by use of the transfer management table and the adjacent information table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuji Goto, Ryusuke Kawate, Sachiko Taniguchi
  • Patent number: 10142231
    Abstract: Technologies for accelerating non-uniform network input/output accesses include a multi-home network interface controller (NIC) of a network computing device communicatively coupled to a plurality of non-uniform memory access (NUMA) nodes, each of which include an allocated number of processor cores of a physical processor package and an allocated portion of a main memory directly linked to the physical processor package. The multi-home NIC includes a logical switch communicatively coupled to a plurality of logical NICs, each of which is communicatively coupled to a corresponding NUMA node. The multi-home NIC is configured to facilitate the ingress and egress of network packets by determining a logical path for each network packet received at the multi-home NIC based on a relationship between one of the NUMA nodes and/or a logical NIC (e.g., to forward the network packet from the multi-home NIC) coupled to the one of the NUMA nodes. Other embodiments are described herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventor: Anil Vasudevan
  • Patent number: 10142201
    Abstract: A device network communicates with a remote platform such as a cloud service via a gateway. A network monitor device monitors network health and may adjust the amount of data collected by the gateway, reducing the amount of data collected in case of poor network health.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Amit Verma
  • Patent number: 10135578
    Abstract: Disclosed is a first electronic device and the first electronic device includes: a transmitter transmitting data to a second electronic device; a receiver receiving a feed-back (hereinafter, referred to as a first feed-back) for the transmitted data from the second electronic device; and a processor deciding whether to transmit the data again or another data to the second electronic device, based on the first feed-back, in which when the first feed-back is negative, the transmitter retransmits the data under a predetermined condition, and when a feed-back (hereinafter, referred to as a second feed-back) received from the second electronic device is negative with respect to the data retransmitted under the predetermined condition, the transmitter re-retransmits at least a part of the data to the second electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Hyun Seo Park, Yong Seouk Choi
  • Patent number: 10116574
    Abstract: Example embodiments described herein provide systems and methods for transmitting data packets between a protocol sender and a protocol receiver in a cloud environment, having either the protocol sender or the protocol receiver residing within a virtualized host. A protocol acceleration module may observe the data packets transmitted along the data path between the protocol sender and the protocol receiver using protocol stack configuration information of the protocol sender. The protocol acceleration module may override the protocol stack configuration information with policy-based protocol stack configuration information such that data packets transmitted from the protocol acceleration module to the protocol receiver use the policy-based protocol stack configuration information. For various embodiments, the protocol stack configuration information of the protocol sender is not modified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: Juniper Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: Ramana Kompella, Sumeet Singh
  • Patent number: 10084689
    Abstract: A first layer one link aggregation master comprises a first port coupled to receive customer traffic; a first channel; a second channel; an aggregation engine coupled to the first and second channels; a first switch circuit coupled to the first port and to the first channel, and configured to communicate the customer traffic from the first port over the first channel to the aggregation engine, the aggregation engine including a splitter circuit configured to use layer one information to segment at least a portion of the customer traffic into a first virtual container and a second virtual container, the aggregation engine further including an encapsulation circuit configured to encapsulate the second virtual container using Ethernet standards for transport over the second channel; a radio access card configured to generate an air frame based on the first virtual container for wireless transmission over a first wireless link of a link aggregation group to the receiver; and a second switch circuit coupled to the
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: Aviat U.S., Inc.
    Inventors: Chaoming Zeng, Sergio Licardie
  • Patent number: 10080236
    Abstract: The embodiments of the present invention relate to the technical field of wireless communications, and particularly, to a time-division duplexing communication method, system and device, which are used for solving the problem in the prior art that there is no uplink or downlink HARQ sequential relationship for a dynamic uplink and downlink subframe distribution solution. A time-division duplexing uplink data sending method in the embodiments of the present invention comprises: through a subframe n in a wireless frame, user equipment receiving indication information which comes from the network side; and according to the indication information, when it is determined that PUSCH data is required to be sent to the network side, sending the PUSCH data through at least one uplink subframe after the subframe n, the subframe n being a downlink fixed subframe or a special subframe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2018
    Assignee: China Academy of Telecommunications Technology
    Inventors: Xueming Pan, Zukang Shen, Jing Xu
  • Patent number: 10064182
    Abstract: A radio communication method including: storing each of a plurality of associations between each resource size and each data size by a terminal, each data size indicating each size of data capable of being transmitted using an associated resource size, receiving specified data, first control information, and second control information from a base station by the terminal, the specified data being mapped across a plurality of radio resources, each of the plurality of radio resources having each specified frequency bandwidth and each specified time period, the first control information indicating the number of the plurality of radio resources, the second control information indicating an individual resource size allocated for the specified data in each of the plurality of radio resources, obtaining a total data size of the specified data by the terminal based on the first control information, the second control information, and the plurality of associations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Tetsuya Yano, Yoshiaki Ohta, Yoshinori Tanaka
  • Patent number: 10045245
    Abstract: Embodiments of a system and method for providing DRX enhancements in LTE systems are generally described herein. In some embodiments, a system control module is provided for controlling communications via a communications interface. A processor is coupled to the system control module and is arranged to implement an inactivity timer and an on-duration timer for determining an active time for monitoring subframes on the physical downlink control channel for control signals, the processor further monitoring subframes after the active time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Youn Hyoung Heo, Yujian Zhang, Jong-Kae Fwu