Patents Examined by Andrew W Chriss
  • Patent number: 10205572
    Abstract: A signal processing system and a signal processing method are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: KT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ki-Ho Lee, Yong-Gyoo Lee, Yung-Ha Ji
  • Patent number: 10205662
    Abstract: Exemplary methods in a first network device in a control plane include generating a prefix distribution list comprising of prefix lengths and corresponding prefix counts, each prefix count identifies a total number of prefixes of each corresponding prefix length. In one embodiment, the methods include generating a priority distribution list comprising of priorities and corresponding rule counts, each rule count identifies a total number of rules of each corresponding priority. In one embodiment, the methods include sending the prefix distribution list to a second network device in a forwarding plane, causing the second network device to generate a forwarding table based on the prefix lengths and corresponding prefix counts. In one embodiment, the methods include sending the priority distribution list to the second network device causing the second network device to generate a forwarding table based on the priorities and corresponding rule counts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ)
    Inventors: Jiang He, Xiaobing Lai
  • Patent number: 10200885
    Abstract: A telecommunications system includes a plurality of ranging terminals programmed to communicate with a plurality of satellites over a plurality of frequencies. A processor, having a memory, is programmed to receive ranging data from each of the plurality of ranging terminals, determine a plurality of power levels for each of the plurality of terminals, and transmit the plurality of power levels to each of the plurality of ranging terminals. Each power level is associated with one of the plurality of frequencies. The plurality of ranging terminals is programmed to transmit signals to the plurality of satellites over the plurality of frequencies in accordance with the power levels determined by the processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: Hughes Networks Systems, LLC
    Inventors: Yash M. Vasavada, Yezdi Antia
  • Patent number: 10194290
    Abstract: Techniques for energy efficient notification services are described. A telecommunications device may acquire multimedia/notification service data from various upstream units, e.g., one or more multimedia/notification service servers, at least one push notification service server and/or a storage system. The telecommunications device may select a communication channel between the telecommunications device and the various upstream units for acquiring multimedia/notification service data. The telecommunications device may select the communications channel based at least in part on efficiencies, e.g., it may select the most energy efficient communications channel. The telecommunications device may, in some instances, acquire the multimedia/notification service data as pushes from one or more upstream units (e.g., a push notification service server), and may, in some instances, acquire the multimedia/notification service data as pulls from one or more upstream units (e.g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.
    Inventor: Chunming Liu
  • Patent number: 10187862
    Abstract: The present invention provides an apparatus and a method for performing timing synchronization in a wireless communication system. Particularly, the present invention is characterized in that resources for D2D communication and resources for performing cellular communication are identified, and resource information for the D2D communication is determined considering the number of D2D terminals and a cell size of a base station, has different frequency and time domains according to D2D terminals, and includes different time offset values. Accordingly, the present invention prevents, in advance, the generation of interference according to the D2D communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Ilmu Byun, Jaehoon Chung, Hyeyoung Choi, Heejeong Cho, Genebeck Hahn
  • Patent number: 10187921
    Abstract: A communication control method comprises transmitting, by a user terminal to a base station, a message including information, where the information indicates a frequency used for receiving a discovery signal from another user terminal in a discovery procedure for discovering a proximal terminal. The communication control method further comprises notifying, by the user terminal, the base station of a resource used in the discovery procedure and included in system information of a cell different from a serving cell of the user terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventors: Masato Fujishiro, Chiharu Yamazaki, Kugo Morita, Yushi Nagasaka, Fangwei Tong, Henry Chang
  • Patent number: 10182080
    Abstract: An interworking of a wireless network and a wireline network is provided. A call setup method of a network apparatus in an IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) network includes setting a call between a first terminal of a first IMS network and a second terminal of a second IMS network; determining whether a protocol conversion is needed between the first terminal and the second terminal in the setting operation; and performing the protocol conversion when the protocol conversion is needed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Shi-Jae Lee, Joon-Ho Jung
  • Patent number: 10177936
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a system includes a switch having logic configured to receive an overlay packet via an overlay tunnel, the overlay packet including an overlay tunnel header having Quality of Service (QoS) attributes stored therein and a packet, remove the QoS attributes from the overlay tunnel header, decapsulate the packet from the overlay packet to remove the overlay tunnel header, determine a destination port from the packet, and forward the packet to the destination port. In another embodiment, a method includes receiving a packet on a source port, determining a virtual network associated with the source port, encapsulating the packet with at least one overlay tunnel header to form an overlay packet, storing QoS attributes with the at least one overlay tunnel header, the QoS attributes being determined in part by the virtual network, and sending the overlay packet via an overlay tunnel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Bhalachandra G. Banavalikar
  • Patent number: 10178577
    Abstract: In a wireless communication terminal in a wireless communication system for performing a control not to transmit signals, or to transmit signals with a reduction in a transmission power by a part of radio resources for a downlink signal in a cell provided by a base station, the terminal receives control information in generating a report related to a measurement result of the cell provided by the base station, monitors a state of a radio link with an own cell, and performs measurement on reception of the downlink signal. If an instruction for restricting the measurement to a part of the radio resources is included in the control information from the base station after the radio link failure occurs, the terminal generates and transmits a radio link failure report including the measurement result in the radio resources as instructed when the radio link failure occurs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: Sun Patent Trust
    Inventors: Takashi Tamura, Takahisa Aoyama, Hidenori Matsuo
  • Patent number: 10178028
    Abstract: In a secure network where the network characteristics are not known, a call admission control algorithm and a preemption control algorithm based on a destination node informing the source node of the observed carried traffic are used to regulate the amount of traffic that needs to be preempted by the source. The amount of traffic that needs to be preempted is based on the carried traffic measured at the destination node. The traffic to be preempted is based on the priority of the traffic, where the lowest priority traffic is the first to be preempted until the amount of traffic preempted is sufficient to allow the remaining traffic to pass through the network without congestion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: Nytell Software LLC
    Inventors: Kirk Chang, Gi Tae Kim, John Unger, John Sucec, Sunil Samtani
  • Patent number: 10178703
    Abstract: A wireless access network node receives, from a user equipment (UE), information relating to a random access procedure. The wireless access network node sends, to the UE, an indication to stop the random access procedure, based on the received information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Ayman Ahmed Mahmoud Abdel-Samad, Dinesh Kumar Arora, Mohamed Galal El-Din Ebrahim, Takashi Suzuki, Eswar Vutukuri
  • Patent number: 10178605
    Abstract: Embodiments of an eNB and method of transmitting PDCCHs are generally described herein. In some embodiments, the eNB may be configured to transmit PDCCHs that are based on a UE-specific reference signal (i.e., a UE-RS). In these embodiments, the UEs may be able to demodulate their PDCCH using a demodulation reference signal (DM-RS) that is specific to the UE (e.g., instead of a common reference signal). The PDCCHs disclosed herein may be suitable the Uu interface of an LTE-A system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Xiaogang Chen, Yuan Zhu, Yi Hsuan, Huaning Niu, Qinghua Li, Jong-Kae Fwu
  • Patent number: 10177887
    Abstract: A radio base station that communicates with a user terminal, and has a control section that executes control so that signals are time-division-multiplexed over a first radio resource region where symbols are multiplexed at a rate equal to or below a Nyquist rate and a second radio resource region where symbols are multiplexed at a faster rate than the Nyquist rate. The radio base station also includes a transmission section that transmits the signals that are time-division-multiplexed in the first radio resource region and the second radio resource region, to the user terminal to reduce the interference against predetermined signals in a radio communication system in which Faster-Than-Nyquist (FTN) is used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Mamoru Sawahashi, Teruo Kawamura, Yoshihisa Kishiyama
  • Patent number: 10177932
    Abstract: A method connects a domestic appliance to a wireless home network. The method includes receiving access data for the home network by a portable communications terminal, setting up a wireless communication link between the domestic appliance and the portable communications terminal according to a predetermined close-range communications standard, which communication link is separate from the home network, and transmitting control commands from the portable communications terminal to the domestic appliance via the communication link. The control commands control the domestic appliance to connect to the wireless home network using the access data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: BSH Hausgeraete GmbH
    Inventors: Frank Boeldt, Susett Starke
  • Patent number: 10177868
    Abstract: Systems and methods to synchronize wireless device nodes in the presence of a FMCW radio altimeter are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.
    Inventors: Steven L. Timm, Kelly P. Muldoon, Michael R. Franceschini
  • Patent number: 10172064
    Abstract: A system and computer program product to externalize mobile device state migration (i.e., checkpointing) without being dependent upon any particular Edge Application (EdgeApp) proxy server or cellular network base station. In this manner, the Edge Application (EdgeApp) proxy server does not have to be aware of a migration process, yet will enable state information to be provided to other EdgeApp proxy/server nodes at the edge of the network (cell tower).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Dakshi Agrawal, Chatschik Bisdikian, Dinesh C. Verma, Petros Zerfos
  • Patent number: 10171544
    Abstract: When a packet in which a “Static part” is changed is detected in a session established in a bearer, it is possible to prevent the packet from being discarded. A radio base station (eNB) according to the present invention includes a communication control unit (13) configured to control communication via a session (an RTP session or an RTCP session) with a mobile station (UE). The communication control unit (13) is configured such that, when a change in a “Static part” in a header of a received packet is detected, even if adding a new session to transmit the packet makes the number of sessions established in a bearer (#1) exceed a capability of the radio base station (eNB) or the mobile station (UE), the communication control unit (13) transmits the packet via the new session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Tooru Uchino, Akihito Hanaki
  • Patent number: 10171328
    Abstract: The present invention provides improved methods and devices for managing network congestion. Preferred implementations of the invention allow congestion to be pushed from congestion points in the core of a network to reaction points, which may be edge devices, host devices or components thereof. Preferably, rate limiters shape individual flows of the reaction points that are causing congestion. Parameters of these rate limiters are preferably tuned based on feedback from congestion points, e.g., in the form of backward congestion notification (“BCN”) messages. In some implementations, such BCN messages include congestion change information and at least one instantaneous measure of congestion. The instantaneous measure(s) of congestion may be relative to a threshold of a particular queue and/or relative to a threshold of a buffer that includes a plurality of queues.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: Cisco Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Davide Bergamasco, Andrea Baldini, Valentina Alaria, Flavio Bonomi, Rong Pan
  • Patent number: 10171227
    Abstract: A method for making IEEE 1588 master clock configuration for an ONU in a PON includes creating a PTP port on a UNI of the ONU, and generating a corresponding PTP port ME for the PTP port to indicate that the UNI is operating in a master clock mode; generating a 1588 master clock configuration data ME based on PTP port MEs of all PTP ports in the ONU, to store profiles of all PTP ports used as master clock devices; and generating a clock data set ME according to the 1588 master clock configure data ME, to indicate clock source information of all PTP ports used as master clock devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: ALCATEL LUCENT
    Inventors: Qin Yin, Xiao Chen, Xili Zhang, Jianhua Zhu
  • Patent number: 10171368
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a non-transitory processor-readable medium stores code representing instructions to be executed by a processor that cause the processor to receive a data unit having a header portion. The code causes the processor to select a route based on the header portion and modify, based on the route being associated with a tunnel, the data unit to define a tunnel data unit including a tunnel header. The code causes the processor to select a loopback link from a set of loopback links of a loopback link aggregation group (LAG). The code further causes the processor to receive via the loopback link, the tunnel data unit and send the tunnel data unit via the tunnel based on the tunnel header.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: Juniper Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: Kamal Singh, Sharath Kumar Kota Rathnamaiah