Patents Examined by Alexander O. Boakye
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Patent number: 10045269Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a network access processing method and apparatus. The method includes: receiving traffic information and network load information that are reported by multiple access networks; determining a target access network in the multiple access networks according to the traffic information and the network load information; and when a current access network of a user terminal is different from the target access network: if the user terminal supports an inter-system mobility policy (ISMP), handing over the user terminal to the target access network; or if the user terminal supports an inter-system routing policy (ISRP) and it is determined that at least one application on the user terminal can be handed over to the target access network, handing over the at least one application to the target access network. In this way, properness of selecting an access network for a terminal or a terminal application can be improved.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2016Date of Patent: August 7, 2018Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventors: Chunsheng Zhu, Tao Kong
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Patent number: 10027497Abstract: A content distribution network includes first and second controllers, and multicast enabled routers. The first controller is configured to select a multicast channel for distributing content, to determine that the content has a geographic restriction associated with a restricted area in the content distribution network, to link an exclusion policy for the content to the multicast channel while the multicast channel provides the content, and to deny a request for the content from a client system within the restricted area based on the exclusion policy. The second controller is configured to distribute the exclusion policy to the multicast enabled routers including a first router configured to store the exclusion policy, and to ignore a multicast join message from the client system within the restricted area based on the exclusion policy.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2016Date of Patent: July 17, 2018Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.Inventors: Han Q. Nguyen, Huajin Jeng, Douglas M. Nortz
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Patent number: 10027594Abstract: One pre-configured code point from of a plurality of code points for a multiprotocol label switching (MPLS) traffic class represents a congestion marked code point associated with traffic congestion and the remaining code points represent not-congestion marked. Congestion associated with a label switching path can be determined based on a congestion notification from a router queue and on a pre-determined congestion indicator from a packet header.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2016Date of Patent: July 17, 2018Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Kiran Kalkunte Seshadri, Bijendra Singh, Thomas A. Volpe, Kari Ann O'Brien
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Patent number: 10021676Abstract: Disclosed is a method and apparatus for transmitting data by a terminal in a mobile telecommunication system, the method including transmitting a scheduling request for requesting resources for transmitting the data, monitoring a control channel to receive resource allocation information, continuously monitoring the control channel during a first period if the resources are allocated, transmitting the data based on the allocated resources, and monitoring the control channel to receive feedback information corresponding to the data during a second period following the transmission of the data.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2016Date of Patent: July 10, 2018Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., LtdInventors: Soeng Hun Kim, Gert Jan Van Lieshout
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Patent number: 10009286Abstract: A method for bandwidth sharing is provided. The method may include getting a list of neighboring communications hubs, the neighboring communications hubs being disposed in respective neighboring residences. The neighboring communications hubs may be communicatively coupled to the first communications hub using a first broadband data network provisioned by an Internet Service Provider (ISP), and the neighboring residences may be within a same predetermined geographic region as the first residence or within a predetermined temporal distance on a data network from the first residence. The method determines if a data requirement exceeds bandwidth available to the first communications hub and provides a request for data to a neighboring communications hub. The request corresponds to the data requirement. The method then receives data responsive to the request from the neighboring communications hub.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2016Date of Patent: June 26, 2018Assignee: Ooma, Inc.Inventors: William M. Gillon, Hai Lei, Tobin E. Farrand, David A. Bryan
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Patent number: 10009748Abstract: In the present application, a method of transmitting and receiving a signal by a terminal in a wireless communication system is disclosed. Specifically, the method comprises the steps of: receiving, from a network, information about a subframe which is designated for first use application, and information about a subframe in which use dedicated application is disabled; receiving, from the network, information about a use application change subframe which indicates the subframe which will change the first use application to a second use application; and transmitting and receiving a signal to and from the network or other terminals, according to the information about the use application change subframe, wherein if a specific subframe for transmission and reception of the signal belongs to the subframe in which a use dedicated application is disabled, the terminal transmits and receives a signal to and from the network according to the first use application in the specific resource.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2014Date of Patent: June 26, 2018Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Hanbyul Seo, Seungmin Lee
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Patent number: 9998962Abstract: Disclosed are a method for processing wireless access, a forwarding device and a network controller. The method includes: the forwarding device establishing a wireless access point table for local access; the forwarding device maintaining the wireless access point table for local access according to whether a wireless access point in the wireless access point table for local access exists and a state of the wireless access point in the wireless access point table for local access. The embodiments of the present document have achieved that the data of a corresponding relationship between APs and home forwarding devices are kept consistently under a pure WLAN network scenario or a multi-network integrated scenario in which the WLAN network accesses a mobile core network.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2014Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignee: ZTE CorporationInventor: Tian Tian
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Patent number: 9985836Abstract: A network taxonomy indicating relative locations of network access device within an access network is determined using timing data, performance data such as equalization coefficient data, and/or various other types of data. The timing data may indicate a travel time for a pair of network messages (e.g., network packets) between two network nodes such as two network access devices within the access network. A distance between the two network nodes may then be determined using this time of travel and a propagation velocity of signals transmitted through a transmission media via which the network nodes are connected.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2015Date of Patent: May 29, 2018Assignee: Cox Communications, Inc.Inventors: Jeff Finkelstein, John Civiletto
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Patent number: 9980168Abstract: This application discusses apparatus and methods of saving power using a quadrature receiver by enabling a single string reception mode of the quadrature receiver. In an example, a receiver for receiving communication information can include an analog front end configured to receive a modulated, information-carrying radio frequency signal at a first frequency band and to provide a digital representation of the modulated, information-carrying radio frequency signal at a second frequency band, a digital front end configured to receive the digital representation at the second frequency and to provide the communication information, for example, to a baseband processor. In a first processing mode of the receiver, the analog front end can provide either one of in-phase symbol information of the modulated, information-carrying radio frequency signal or quadrature symbol information of the modulated, information-carrying radio frequency signal at the second frequency band.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2015Date of Patent: May 22, 2018Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: David Arditti Ilitzky, Thomas A. Tetzlaff, Edgar Borrayo, Stefano Pellerano
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Patent number: 9980157Abstract: A transfer module transfers transmission target information on a predetermined transfer path including an information processing apparatus. This target transfer module appends transfer environment information indicating a degree of influence placed by the target transfer module on an information transfer result of the transmission target information transferred to the information processing apparatus and including at least one of module internal information about a transfer environment for the transmission target information in the transfer module or module surrounding information about a transfer environment associated with a surrounding of the target transfer module excluding an upstream transfer module to predetermined transmission information including the transmission target information received from the upstream transfer module to generate new predetermined transmission information, and transmits the new predetermined transmission information to a downstream transfer module.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2014Date of Patent: May 22, 2018Assignee: OMRON CorporationInventors: Ryota Yamada, Hajime Umeki, Yusuke Yamaji, Yui Ishida
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Patent number: 9967177Abstract: A switch is provided with a function to process packets by sequentially referring to a plurality of flow tables that have priorities. A control apparatus that controls the switch is provided with an entry generation unit that generates entry information to be set in each of a first flow table having, as match conditions, predetermined item(s) among information that can be set as match conditions, and a second flow table that has, as match conditions, item(s) that are different from the first flow table, and that is referred to when an entry of the first flow table is hit; an entry operation unit that instructs the switch to update the first and second flow tables, based on the generated entry information; and an entry management unit that manages content of each flow table of the switch.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2013Date of Patent: May 8, 2018Assignee: NEC CorporationInventor: Eiichirou Kojima
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Patent number: 9961209Abstract: Methods and apparatuses provide for listing codecs for offers and for providing an effective listing of codecs for answers. For example, a method relating to offers is provided which includes receiving an incoming offer that lists a plurality of codecs, determining for each of the plurality of codecs whether one or more related codecs are not listed in the incoming offer, generating an outgoing offer that lists the plurality of codecs and the one or more related codecs that were determined not to be listed in the incoming offer, and transmitting the outgoing offer.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2015Date of Patent: May 1, 2018Assignee: IBASIS, INC.Inventor: Manpreet Singh
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Patent number: 9960993Abstract: A packet network linear protection method, a network, and a node in a dual or multi-home configuration include designating each of a plurality of home nodes in the dual or multi-home configuration as a working home or a protect home; designating each link between each of the plurality of home nodes and an end node in the dual or multi-home configuration as active or standby; operating a protection switch state machine based on an associated linear protection protocol at each of the plurality of home nodes and the end node; communicating protection messages to each of the plurality of home nodes from the end node; and communicating protection states in an associated protection switch state machine by each of the plurality of home nodes to other home nodes and to the end node.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2016Date of Patent: May 1, 2018Assignee: Ciena CorporationInventors: Jie Hu, Marc Holness, Asheesh Jadav, Somen Bhattacharya
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Patent number: 9955506Abstract: Embodiments of a node that assists in adaptation of a carrier aggregation configuration of a wireless device in a cellular communications network and methods of operation thereof are disclosed. In some embodiments, the node determines an amount of required uplink resources (Pr) for the wireless device, decides whether adaptation of a carrier aggregation configuration of the wireless device should be performed based on a comparison of the amount of required uplink resources (Pr) for the wireless device and a maximum number of uplink resources (Pc) that can be allocated for the wireless device in a current carrier aggregation configuration of the wireless device, and takes an action to cause adaptation of the carrier aggregation configuration of the wireless device upon deciding that adaptation of the carrier aggregation configuration of the wireless device should be performed.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2015Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET L M ERICSSON (PUBL)Inventors: Imadur Rahman, Muhammad Kazmi
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Patent number: 9949206Abstract: A configuration method of a first access point of a network is disclosed, which comprises a configuration of the first access point as belonging to a low power set and able to transmit at a power level lower than a first value on at least one low power channel; a transmission of an indication that the first access point belongs to the low power set and a selection of a low power channel for transmission among at least one low power channel on which the reception power of a signal transmitted by the neighboring access points is less than a second power level.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2013Date of Patent: April 17, 2018Assignee: THOMSON LICENSINGInventors: Renaud Dore, Francois Baron, Philippe Chambelin
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Patent number: 9940611Abstract: A new terminal is seamlessly and securely integrated to an existing (primary) Wi-Fi network within an operating environment at a restaurant location. The location includes a data management server (DMS) for managing the local operations of devices operating there. The device being installed at the location is auto-configured into the primary Wi-Fi network by being provided with a default Wi-Fi profile that only enables the device to be activated on an activation Wi-Fi network also available at the location. Once the device activates to the Wi-Fi activation network, it requests activation onto the primary Wi-Fi network from a cloud-based data center. The data center requests an activation password from the local DMS. The local DMS generates an activation bundle, which is then returned and eventually instantiated on the device to complete the activation. Once activated, the device updates its Wi-Fi profile to now executed on the primary Wi-Fi network.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2015Date of Patent: April 10, 2018Assignee: Tabletop Media, LLCInventors: Viren R. Balar, James T. Row, II, Bryan E. Campbell, Kevin C. Mowry, Tiegang Li, Jeffrey E. Taylor
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Patent number: 9942932Abstract: A method of performing a terminal-to-terminal communication includes performing a terminal-to-terminal transmission via a portion of a radio spectrum licensed for transmission of wireless data. The terminal-to-terminal transmission is transmitted without performing terminal-to-terminal discovery associated with the terminal-to-terminal transmission. The terminal-to-terminal transmission is configured to be received by a terminal without being routed through a base station. The method further includes checking for an acknowledgement sequence and checking for a negative acknowledgement sequence.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2014Date of Patent: April 10, 2018Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventors: Chenxi Zhu, Akira Ito
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Patent number: 9942055Abstract: Some demonstrative embodiments include apparatuses, systems and/or methods of multicast communication. For example, an apparatus may include circuitry configured to cause a wireless device to process transmission of a multicast transmission to a plurality of devices; and to process reception of at least one Multi-User (MU) acknowledgement transmission from two or more devices of the plurality of devices, the MU acknowledgement transmission to acknowledge receipt of the multicast transmission by the two or more devices.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2015Date of Patent: April 10, 2018Assignee: INTEL IP CORPORATIONInventors: Po-Kai Huang, Emily H. Qi, Robert Stacey
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Patent number: 9942821Abstract: The wireless communication terminal includes: a plurality of communication interfaces each of which corresponds to at least one of a plurality of wireless access systems; a first unit receiving an instruction from a prescribed control apparatus, the instruction including a wireless access system determined by the control apparatus based on a status of the wireless communication terminal, which changes along with movement of the wireless communication terminal; and a second unit communicating by using a communication interface corresponding to the instructed wireless access system.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2012Date of Patent: April 10, 2018Assignee: NEC CorporationInventors: Ippei Akiyoshi, Yasuhiro Mizukoshi, Nobuhiko Itoh
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Patent number: 9929837Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and a device for performing coordination between radio access points in a wireless communication system, and a method by which a radio access point manages a wireless resource of a terminal in a wireless communication system, according to the present invention, comprises the steps of: receiving a measurement report message transmitted from the terminal; transmitting, to a communication element, measurement-related information according to the received measurement report message; receiving, from the communication element, a load information message including coordination pattern information generated on the basis of the measurement-related information; and managing the wireless resource of the terminal on the basis of the received coordinated pattern information.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2014Date of Patent: March 27, 2018Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Sung Hwan Won, Sangsoo Jeong, Beomsik Bae, Songyean Cho