Patents Examined by Anh Ngoc Nguyen
  • Patent number: 9178718
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for dealing with a PS domain service and realizing a PS domain service request for a mobile terminal and the mobile terminal. The method comprises: identifying, by the mobile terminal, a type of a PS domain signaling process that is used for realizing a PS domain service; when the type of the PS domain signaling process belongs to a first type, acquiring a result of the PS domain signaling process corresponding to the PS domain signaling process; and when it is judged that the result is network refusal and the reason for refusal is Reason #7 (GPRS service not allowed), judging that a Public Land Mobile Network (PLMN) on which the mobile terminal currently resides is not a Home Public Land Mobile Network (HPLMN) and adding the PLMN into a list of forbidden PLMNs for GPRS service. According to the above technical solution, it is able to provide a GPRS service on a HPLMN or other PLMNs, thereby to provide a user with a PS domain service with the biggest possibility.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: ST-ERICSSON SEMICONDUCTOR (BEIJING) CO., LTD
    Inventor: Huan Pu
  • Patent number: 9179452
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for configuring and transmitting an HARQ ACK/NACK signal by bundling said signal about a component carrier wave of a downlink subframe linked with an uplink subframe transmitting an HARQ ACK/NACK signal on PUCCH format 3. More particularly, the method comprises the steps of: determining a mode for bundling an HARQ ACK/NACK signal; and configuring the bundled HARQ ACK/NACK signal according to the determined bundling mode, wherein in the step of determining the bundling mode, all the component carriers of the downlink subframe transmitting the HARQ ACK/NACK signal to an uplink subframe are bundled when the downlink channel is in a worse state than the predetermined reference state, and some of the component carriers of the downlink subframe transmitting the HARQ ACK/NACK signal to an uplink subframe are bundled when the downlink channel is not in a worse state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: Pantech Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Dong Hyun Park, Ki Bum Kwon
  • Patent number: 9178820
    Abstract: A network device includes a plurality of ports and at least one packet processor separate from a central processing unit (CPU). The packet processor is configured to forward a received packet based on a look-up of a destination address of the received packet in a table of learned entries that associate first addresses checked by the CPU to the ports of the network device, to add a new provisional entry that associates a source address with an ingress port of the received packet based on a look-up of the source address in both the learned entries and provisional entries that associate second addresses to be checked by the CPU to the ports of the network device, and to upgrade the new provisional entry to a learned entry with a delay time (e.g., a pre-determined time period) to allow the CPU to check the source address.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: Marvell Israel (M.I.S.L.) Ltd.
    Inventor: Gai Nachum
  • Patent number: 9172599
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described to provide fault tolerant folded Clos networks. A folded Clos network is disclosed including a set of tier 1 routers interconnected with a set of tier 2 routers. Tier 1 routers are configured to view a set of tier 2 routers as a single aggregate router. Accordingly, tier 1 routers are unaware of faults between tier 2 routers and additional tier 1 routers. A throwback router is connected to each tier 2 router to facilitate handling of data under such fault conditions. When a tier 2 router receives undeliverable data, the data is passed to a throwback router, which retransmits the data to an additional tier 2 router. Data that is retransmitted multiple times can be disregarded by the throwback router.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Bradley Scholl, Andrew Bruce Dickinson
  • Patent number: 9166675
    Abstract: Aspects of the invention provide a system and method to allow inroute frame timing synchronization without the aid of hub signal loopback or satellite ephemeris data. Furthermore, it allows tracking and compensating of the satellite motion to allow multiple remotes to use TDMA on the inroute frequencies, while minimizing the aperture. Two main techniques proposed are CLT and polling based approaches, which are used in combination for an optimum solution. In CLT based approach, hub transmits remote specific timing correction feedback messages on the outroute on as needed basis. In polling based approach, the remotes derive their timing based on a per-beam average delay estimate broadcast by the hub and a measured local delay specific to each outroute stream from a remote. An aspect of the invention uses triangulation method to determine satellite position. Furthermore, an aspect of the invention uses hub burst arrival method instead of polling approach.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: Hughes Network Systems, LLC
    Inventors: Udaya Bhaskar, Yezdi Antia, Satyajit Roy
  • Patent number: 9166930
    Abstract: Technologies generally described herein relate to waved time multiplexing. In some examples, a command flit can be transmitted from a sender node of a network-on-chip (“NOC”) to a destination node of the NOC via an intermediate node along a circuit-switched path. The command flit can include an interval period and a release duration. When the command flit has been transmitted, one or more data flits can be transmitted from the sender node to the destination node via the intermediate node along the circuit-switched path. The sender node, the destination node, and the intermediate node can be configured to reserve router resources of the sender node, the destination node, and the intermediate node respectively for circuit-switched traffic during a use duration of the interval period and to release the router resources for packet-switched traffic during the release duration in a waved time multiplex arrangement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: Empire Technology Development LLC
    Inventor: Yan Solihin
  • Patent number: 9143567
    Abstract: Aa gateway device for use between a Fiber Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) network and a Fiber Channel (FC) storage area network (SAN) device includes a controller, at least one first native Fiber Channel F_Port in operable communication with the controller and configured to interface with a native Fiber Channel N_Port of the FC SAN device, and at least one first virtual N_Port (VN_Port) linked to the at least one first native Fiber Channel F_Port and in operable communication with the controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventor: Roger G. Hathorn
  • Patent number: 9137703
    Abstract: A method of handling a data packet stream at different communication protocol layer levels of a communication protocol layer stack of an UMTS communication device is provided. The method comprises: Receiving a data packet stream at the communication device; Determining whether, in case of a loss of a data packet of the data packet stream, it is possible to retransmit the lost data packet to the communication device; and immediately transmitting data packets of the data packet stream succeeding the lost data packet from a MAC protocol layer level to a RLC protocol layer level if it is determined that the lost data packet cannot be retransmitted to the communication device, and otherwise storing data packets of the data packet stream succeeding the lost data packet for a third period of time at the MAC protocol layer level, which third period of time is longer than the second time period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2015
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Szilveszter Nádas, Sándor Rácz
  • Patent number: 9124536
    Abstract: Embodiments relate to managing data flows at a virtual forwarding element. A system for managing data flows is provided. The system includes a network interface card (NIC) attached to or integrated with a host. The system is configured to perform a method. The method receives a plurality of data flows from a virtual forwarding element executing in the host. The plurality of data flows originate from a plurality of virtual machines executing in the host. Each of the plurality of data flows carries a different network identifier and a different tunnel header. The method maps, by the NIC, a plurality of tunnels defined by the plurality of tunnel headers to the plurality of data flows using the plurality of network identifiers. The method sends the plurality of data flows out of the host through the plurality of tunnels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2015
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Casimer M. DeCusatis, Keshav G. Kamble
  • Patent number: 9125233
    Abstract: Novel tools and techniques that can provide wireless service for multiple service providers from a single, multi-service provider wireless access point. In an aspect, a multi-service provider wireless access point might communicate with a plurality of wireless devices, each associated with a different wireless carrier, and route communications from each device to the appropriate carrier (and/or, similarly, transmit communications from each carrier to the appropriate wireless device). In this way, for example, a single wireless access point could provide service to cellphones of subscribers of a number of different carriers. Such a wireless access point can provide enhanced efficiency and reduced cost, along with the ability to provide higher service for a number of wireless carriers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2015
    Assignee: CenturyLink Intellectual Property LLC
    Inventors: Robert J. Morrill, Charles I. Cook
  • Patent number: 9118426
    Abstract: A method for simultaneously transmitting packets to one or more users in a wireless communication system includes: generating the packets which include length information and are to be transmitted to the one or more users; and simultaneously transmitting the generated packets to the one or more users. The length information includes information representing a unit of the length information and information representing lengths of the packets according to the unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2015
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Yun Joo Kim, Sok-Kyu Lee, Hyun Kyu Chung
  • Patent number: 9113482
    Abstract: A permutated channel structure based on a block structure in talk-around direct communication is provided. A dedicated subchannel interferes with only one adjacent dedicated subchannel, even with a large synchronization error, by permutating the dedicated subchannels by cyclic shifts, whereby diversity gain can be maintained and interference between adjacent channels can be minimized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Seokki Kim, Sung Cheol Chang, Mi Young Yun, Won-Ik Kim, Hyun Lee, Sung Kyung Kim, Chul Sik Yoon
  • Patent number: 9107152
    Abstract: A beacon wireless transmits a sequence of one or more data packets that each or together comprise an identifier. A portion of the data packets specify an availability window during which a receiver forming part of the beacon can receive data transmissions. The receiver does not receive data transmissions outside of the availability window. Thereafter, the receiver is activated during the availability window to enable receipt of data transmissions to the beacon. Related systems, apparatus, methods, and articles are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: Gimbal, Inc.
    Inventor: Charles S. Wurster
  • Patent number: 9106382
    Abstract: A wireless access node to facilitate communication quality adjustments during voice over long term evolution (VoLTE) communication sessions comprises a wireless communication transceiver and a processing system. The wireless communication transceiver is configured to exchange VoLTE packets with a wireless communication device during a VoLTE emergency call with a public safety answering point (PSAP), and receive a scheduling request transmitted from the PSAP, wherein the scheduling request includes an identifier associated with the wireless communication device and specifies hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) settings for the VoLTE emergency call. The processing system is configured to, responsive to the scheduling request, issue a scheduling grant to the wireless communication device based on the HARQ settings specified in the scheduling request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.
    Inventor: Amar Nath Ray
  • Patent number: 9100932
    Abstract: Disclosed are a broadcast signal transmitting apparatus, a broadcast signal receiving apparatus, and a broadcast signal transceiving method in the broadcast signal transmitting and receiving apparatuses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2015
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Hotaek Hong, Sangchul Moon, Woosuk Ko
  • Patent number: 9100884
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for performing a handover in a wireless communication system are disclosed. The method for performing a handover of a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system includes measuring a first reception power from a first transmission point and a second reception power from a second transmission point; and determining transmission of a measurement report for the handover to the second transmission point. The transmission of the measurement report is determined using the first reception power, the second reception power, an offset value, and a value related to uplink transmission power of the user equipment (UE).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2015
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Hyukmin Son, Hyunwoo Lee, Hyeyoung Choi, Seunghee Han, Jinmin Kim
  • Patent number: 9100942
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for a first WiFi Direct device to receive a machine-readable label from a second WiFi Direct device to provide information on the P2P WiFi capability of the second WiFi Direct device to aid the two devices in establishing a WiFi Direct connection. The machine-readable label may include the display of a QR code by the second WiFi Direct device to the first WiFi Direct device. The information on the WiFi capability of the second WiFi Direct device may include the identity of the listen channel, the operating channel, whether the device is a P2P group owner or not (e.g., a P2P client device), and other service and/or configuration information. Because the first WiFi Direct device knows whether the second WiFi Direct device is a group owner or not, the first WiFi Direct device may take the appropriate connection to establish the WiFi Direct connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2015
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Sathiyanarayanan Ramasamy, Deepak Jindal Kumar
  • Patent number: 9088619
    Abstract: A provider edge (PE) device provides subscribers with access to an Internet Service Provider (ISP) network. The subscribers are connected to the PE device via a broadband aggregation device. The PE device includes a processor operable to snoop control plane traffic for a logical identifier that allows subscriber traffic having varying data plane information to be treated as a session group. The processor is further operable to instantiate the session group based on the logical identifier. A unit of the PE device applies a QOS policy to traffic flow associated with the session group. It is emphasized that this abstract is provided to comply with the rules requiring an abstract that will allow a searcher or other reader to quickly ascertain the subject matter of the technical disclosure. It is submitted with the understanding that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2015
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Eric Voit, Richard Manfred Pruss, Yves Hertoghs, John William Evans
  • Patent number: 9084140
    Abstract: An IP address pool monitor is communicatively coupled to a communication link carrying packets between a mobile wireless communication network and a wide area network. The pool monitor receives requests transmitted by mobile devices over the communication link to the wide area network, and stores a record for each request. The pool monitor also receives responses transmitted back to the mobile devices responsive to each request. Each mobile device is assigned an IP address from one of a plurality of IP address pools. Upon receiving a response, the pool monitor identifies the IP address pool that includes the IP address of the mobile device associated with the request responsive to which the response was transmitted. The pool monitor then calculates a performance statistic for the identified IP address pool based on the stored record of the request and the received response.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2015
    Assignee: Cellco Partnership
    Inventor: David E. Holland
  • Patent number: 9078155
    Abstract: A wireless communication system includes an RNC and a BTS which communicates with the RNC. A congestion-notification transmitting unit of the BTS notifies the RNC of occurrence of congestion in a sector in which a mobile station is located. The RNC includes a congestion-notification receiving unit, a retransmission-ratio monitoring unit, and a transmission-rate control unit. The congestion-notification receiving unit detects the congestion occurrence by the notification from the BTS. The retransmission-ratio monitoring unit monitors a ratio of retransmission of a packet to the mobile station. The transmission-rate control unit performs control of changing a transmission rate of a packet to the mobile station according to the retransmission ratio when the congestion occurrence has been detected by the congestion-notification receiving unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2015
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Shinya Hatakeyama, Yoshie Kitahara, Akio Ohhashi, Koichiro Higashi