Patents Examined by Alvin Zhu
  • Patent number: 9084125
    Abstract: A method of generating a data block for performing a polling procedure in a wireless communication system, a method of transmitting data and a method of performing a polling procedure are disclosed. A protocol layer performs the polling procedure for requesting a receiving side to transmit status report if there are no data to be transmitted to the receiving side in both a transmission buffer and a retransmission buffer. When determining whether there are no data to be transmitted to the receiving side in the retransmission buffer, it is preferable that a data block for which retransmission request information is not received from the receiving side is excluded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2015
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Sung Duck Chun, Young Dae Lee, Sung Jun Park, Seung June Yi
  • Patent number: 9071503
    Abstract: A method for enabling Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) routing in a transport network. The method comprises defining a network segment template; instantiating a respective network segment template for each node+link segment of the transport network; and connecting the link area of a first template instance to the node area of a second template instance using a remote ABR. The network segment template comprises a node area for enabling OSPF routing between addresses within a node of the transport network; a link area for enabling OSPF routing between the node and an adjacent neighbor node in the transport network; and a host Area Boarder Router (ABR) connected to the node area and the link area. The host ABR is configured to generate summary Link State Advertisement (LSA) messages containing a summary of addresses in the node area, and forward the summary LSA messages through the link area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2015
    Assignee: CIENA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Brian Moore, Craig Parker
  • Patent number: 9065630
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for detecting a received synchronization signal. The method includes receiving, at a receiver, a signal from a transmitter, where one or more portions of the received signal include the received synchronization signal. The method includes processing the one or more portions of the received signal to obtain a differential signal, and processing the differential signal and a plurality of candidate differential synchronization signals to obtain a plurality of cross-correlation signals. Each candidate differential synchronization signal is associated with one cross-correlation signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2015
    Assignee: MARVELL INTERNATIONAL LTD.
    Inventors: Chusong Xiao, Qing Zhao, Manyuan Shen, Leilei Song, Hui-Ling Lou
  • Patent number: 9058562
    Abstract: A traffic prediction component may automatically generate predicted traffic profiles for web sites based on tags that characterize the sites. An initial set of tags can be selected for a web site based on a set of predefined rules. An initial traffic profile may be selected based on the initial set of tags. The predicted profile of user traffic is then generated based on the initial set of tags and on the initial traffic profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2015
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventor: Victor Bennett
  • Patent number: 9049051
    Abstract: Techniques to access messaging services for branch offices are described. In one embodiment, for example, an apparatus may include a network interface for a packet-switched network, a private branch exchange for a circuit-switched network, and a gateway to couple to the network interface and the private branch exchange. The gateway may be operative to establish a packet-switched call connection with the network interface and a circuit-switched call connection with the private branch exchange. The gateway may further include a call router to route a call request over a circuit-switched network with the private branch exchange on behalf of a call terminal to access messaging services from a data center with a messaging server when the call terminal and the network interface are unavailable. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2015
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Cliff Didcock, Michael Wilson
  • Patent number: 9036487
    Abstract: Serial networking dedicated fiber optic inflight entertainment (IFE) systems, methods therefor and components thereof, that exhibit improved configuration and failover attributes through implementation of novel network configuration protocols. In some aspects of the invention, such an IFE system comprises a plurality of head end line replaceable units (HE-LRUs) and a plurality of serial networking line replaceable units (SN-LRUs), wherein each of the SN-LRUs individually detects that a closed system network has been formed between the plurality of HE-LRUs and the plurality of SN-LRUs based on a plurality of packets sourced by at least one of the HE-LRUs and received on a plurality of ports of each of the SN-LRUs, and wherein in response to detecting that the closed system network has been formed one of the SN-LRUs blocks one of its ports based on further detecting that the SN-LRU is a middle SN-LRU.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: Lumexis Corporation
    Inventors: Gregory C. Petrisor, Timotheus Antonius Beuman, Allen Curtis
  • Patent number: 9036606
    Abstract: A random access method, an evolved Node B (eNB), and a terminal equipment are provided. The method includes: determining target component carriers to which a User Equipment (UE) is to be handed over, and notifying the UE of information about the target component carriers through a source eNB; and after receiving a dedicated random access preamble sent by the UE, sending a random access response message on at least one component carrier in the target component carriers. The terminal equipment includes: a handover command receiving unit, a sending unit, and a random response receiving unit. Therefore, in a random access procedure of cell handover, the eNB is capable of determining downlink component carriers that a UE monitors, thereby increasing utilization rate of downlink resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Junren Chang, Yajuan Li, Shulan Feng
  • Patent number: 9031082
    Abstract: Communications in a network with dynamic topology is provided in which data is carried by software agents which operate autonomously and independently of global network information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignee: British Telecommunications Public Limited Company
    Inventor: Fabrice T P Saffre
  • Patent number: 9030993
    Abstract: In order that even a wireless terminal whose an unique ID is not registered in the filter list can use simply the access point without a prior setting task by user, a communication device includes access point means, filtering disabling means, unique ID registration means and filtering enabling means. The access point means connects a wireless terminal with at least one of a lower network and an upper network. The filtering disabling means disables a filtering which prevents connecting with an unregistered wireless terminal whose an unique ID is not registered in a filter list. The unique ID registration means acquires the unique ID of the wireless terminal and registers the acquired unique ID in the filter list, upon a state where the filtering is disabling, if a connection request is received from the wireless terminal. The filtering enabling means enables the filtering after the unique ID of the wireless terminal is registered in the filter list.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignee: Lenovo Innovations Limited (Hong Kong)
    Inventor: Naoki Mizoguchi
  • Patent number: 9031075
    Abstract: A packet processor provides for rule matching of packets in a network architecture. The packet processor includes a lookup cluster complex having a number of lookup engines and respective on-chip memory units. The on-chip memory stores rules for matching against packet data. A lookup front-end receives lookup requests from a host, and processes these lookup requests to generate key requests for forwarding to the lookup engines. As a result of the rule matching, the lookup engine returns a response message indicating whether a match is found. The lookup front-end further processes the response message and provides a corresponding response to the host.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignee: Cavium, Inc.
    Inventors: Rajan Goyal, Gregg A. Bouchard
  • Patent number: 9025521
    Abstract: A method for Mobile Station (MS) collaboration for a Downlink (DL) or Uplink (UL) transmission in a wireless network having MSs in a Base Station (BS) cell is provided. The DL transmission method includes forming a cluster of MSs having a same type of radio interface, receiving, by each MS, a DL transmission including a DL control channel message and a DL data burst, extracting, by the MSs, a DL data assignment included in the DL control channel message and indicating a receiving MS intended to receive the DL data burst, decoding, by the MSs, the DL data assignment and the DL data burst according to a determination to collaborate in the DL transmission, transmitting, by the collaborating MSs, a re-encoded DL data burst to the receiving MS, the receiving MS receiving the re-encoded DL data burst from the collaborating MSs and the DL data burst from the BS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kaushik Josiam, Zhouyue Pi
  • Patent number: 9025505
    Abstract: In various embodiments, a system, network node, and method of providing voice communications in a wireless packet communications system includes registering a communications path between a gateway (GW) and a base station (BS); establishing a real-time service flow in the BS; activating the real-time service flow over an air interface between the BS and a terminal device; requesting, by the terminal device, that zero bandwidth be allocated by the BS to the activated real-time service flow in the absence of voice traffic to or from the terminal device; requesting, by the terminal device, that sufficient bandwidth be allocated by the BS to the activated real-time service flow when voice traffic to or from the terminal device is detected by the terminal device; and transmitting and/or receiving the voice traffic over the registered communications path via the activated real-time service flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: Clearwire IP Holdings LLC
    Inventors: Durga Prasad Satapathy, Richard Martin Cane, Dhaval Dipak Mehta
  • Patent number: 9019897
    Abstract: A wireless multimedia brokerage service supports sharing of real-time multimedia content whereby a mobile device user can perceive real-time content from a device in visual proximity, such as a nearby display device, and share the content of the display device with another mobile terminal user without the need to download or otherwise directly access the real-time content. The brokerage service can handle the transactional details of obtaining rights to the real-time content and also manage establishing and terminating a real-time multimedia session with the device(s) of the recipient user(s). In some embodiments, the wireless multimedia content brokerage service can proactively obtain subscriptions to content providers based on the location of one or more users. The brokerage service can also proactively obtain and buffer real-time content after receiving a request to share the content, with the buffering allowing for content to be preserved while the recipient user or users are contacted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: Qurio Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Fred Neill, Christopher M. Amidon
  • Patent number: 9019935
    Abstract: In connection with a mobile wireless subnetwork having multiple radio network controllers and multiple radio nodes, a session established for an access terminal is associated with a serving radio network controller. The association is maintained as the access terminal moves from the coverage area of one radio node to the coverage area of another radio node within the same subnetwork. Access channel packets are routed from an access terminal having an existing session to the serving radio network controller by determining the IP address of the serving radio network controller using a session identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: Ericsson EVDO Inc.
    Inventors: M. Vedat Eyuboglu, Arthur J. Barabell, Sanjay Cherian
  • Patent number: 9007975
    Abstract: An access point including a beacon module that determines a beacon interval and that defines a first portion and a second portion of the beacon interval during which the access point operates in a normal mode and a power save mode, respectively. On receiving a communication from a client station during the first portion, a control module does not transition the access point from the normal mode to the power save mode at an end of the first portion. If the communication is not received during the first portion, the control module transitions the access point from the normal mode to the power save mode at the end of the first portion and from the power save mode to the normal mode at an end of the second portion. A duration of the second portion is less than a scan time of the client station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: Marvell World Trade Ltd.
    Inventors: Milind Kopikare, Raja Banerjea, Paul A. Lambert, Robert Fanfelle
  • Patent number: 8995393
    Abstract: A positioning node (110), a user equipment (120), a radio network node (130) and methods therein for providing complementary assistance data to be used by a user equipment (120) during a positioning session for determining a position of the user equipment (120) and for enabling continuation of the positioning session are provided. A change from a first cell to a second cell occurs during the positioning session. The user equipment (120) receives control information from the first cell before the change and from the second cell after the change. The positioning node obtains information identifying the second cell. Next, the positioning node generates the complementary assistance data relating to the second cell in advance of the change. The complementary assistance data comprises assistance data adapted to the second cell when the second cell is configured to provide control information to the user equipment (120).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (Publ)
    Inventors: Iana Siomina, Muhammad Kazmi
  • Patent number: 8995301
    Abstract: Techniques are described for providing managed virtual computer networks that have a configured logical network topology with virtual networking devices, such as by a network-accessible configurable network service, with corresponding networking functionality provided for communications between multiple computing nodes of the virtual computer network by emulating functionality that would be provided by the virtual networking devices if they were physically present.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin Christopher Miller, Eric Jason Brandwine, Andrew J. Doane
  • Patent number: 8989082
    Abstract: In one non-limiting, exemplary embodiment, a method includes: receiving at least one parameter from a broadcast channel (51); determining, using the received at least one parameter, information including at least one of an initial bit rate to use when transmitting on a random access channel (RACH) and an automatic repeat request (ARQ) profile to use when transmitting on the RACH (52); and transmitting a message on the RACH in accordance with the determined information (53).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: Nokia Corporation
    Inventors: Jeroen Wigard, Harri Holma, Karri Ranta-Aho, Juho Pirskanen, Benoist Sebire
  • Patent number: 8982846
    Abstract: Systems, methods and apparatus are provided for scheduling resources in Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) communication networks for “direct link” or peer-to-peer communications among stations operating therein so that OFDMA resources can be allocated to a transmitter station for a peer-to-peer communication session with a receiver station such that near-far issues caused by peer-to-peer communication are reduced/avoided. The disclosed technologies can prevent peer-to-peer communication links using different sub-channels within the same time slot from creating near-far issues for other receiver stations that are within communication range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: Motorola Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael H. Baker, Jeffrey D. Bonta, George Calcev, Nitin R. Mangalvedhe, James P. Michels, Nathan J. Smith
  • Patent number: 8971330
    Abstract: A network device may transmit a request to each of a plurality of multi-protocol label switching (MPLS) networks for a label switched path (LSP) label, wherein each LSP label provides a defined quality of service connection through a corresponding MPLS network. The network device may then receive from each of the plurality of MPLS networks a corresponding LSP label and transmit at least one LSP label to each of a plurality of network devices, wherein the defined quality of service connection is provided through each of the plurality of MPLS networks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventor: Daniel M. Wood