Patents Examined by Benjamin Lamont
  • Patent number: 9723616
    Abstract: A method and apparatus assigning Physical Resource Blocks, PRBs, to a User Equipment, UE, in a wireless communication network having a plurality of cells, includes determining a Physical Cell Identifier, PCI, of a cell from the plurality of cells. Selecting a power level pattern of multiple PRBs for allocation, and assigning at least one of the multiple PRBs to the UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Virgil Cimpu, Michael Petras
  • Patent number: 9713150
    Abstract: Provided are a method and device in which a terminal manages component carriers in a wireless communication system. The terminal receives activation pattern data indicating activation or inactivation of at least one serving cell from a base station, and activates or inactivates the at least one component carrier in accordance with the activation pattern data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Sung Jun Park, Sung Duck Chun, Sung Hoon Jung, Seung June Yi, Young Dae Lee
  • Patent number: 9712314
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, an apparatus, and a system for processing an interference signal, so as to eliminate an interference signal in a full duplex multi-antenna system. The method includes: receiving a radio signal, where the signal includes a self-interference signal of a transmit antenna, and the self-interference signal includes a first self-interference signal, and a second self-interference signal; performing primary interference cancellation processing, by using a first reference signal, on the received signal to eliminate the first self-interference signal; and performing secondary interference cancellation processing, by using a second reference signal, on the signal after the primary interference cancellation processing to eliminate the second self-interference signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Sheng Liu
  • Patent number: 9692537
    Abstract: In one embodiment, there is presented a method for processing data. The method comprises receiving a bitstream, said bitstream comprising a first data stream and a second data stream, wherein the first data stream comprises data that is intended to be consumed at a substantially constant bit rate; and controlling the processing rate of the second data stream based at least in part on the rate of receipt of the first data stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: Avago Technologies General IP (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventor: Alexander MacInnis
  • Patent number: 9692686
    Abstract: An information handling system is provided. The information handling system includes systems and methods for implementing a multi-chassis link aggregation group (MLAG) in a network. This may be achieved by connecting at least two switches to a plurality of servers, with at least one logical bridging device and at least one MLAG configured in between the network and the plurality of servers. The at least one logical bridging device may be associated with the at least one MLAG. The system may include at least one MLAG per logical bridging device, but may include more MLAGs than logical bridging devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: DELL PRODUCTS L.P.
    Inventor: Pathangi Narasimhan Janardhanan
  • Patent number: 9692646
    Abstract: A device that that is difficult to access may have procedures remotely initiated by the generation of signal patterns over an Ethernet network. The signal patterns include status of the Ethernet link (active, down), the duration of an active link and a down link, and the speed of data during the active link.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: PROXIM WIRELESS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Nagaraju Nerella
  • Patent number: 9674846
    Abstract: Disclosed are a distributed multi-cell multi-user beamforming method, a transmitter and a relevant system. In the distributed beamforming method in the embodiments of the present invention, beamforming coordinated calculation is performed by a plurality of transmitters, and an interference matrix among the transmitters is used to perform an iterative operation on a beamforming vector corresponding to the data which is to be sent to each user over each sub-channel of this cell, so that the interference dimension of each user over each sub-channel of the transmitters is compressed into a subspace as small as possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xiaodong Wang, Hui Shen, Bin Li
  • Patent number: 9668176
    Abstract: Provided is a method for selecting a shunt gateway and a controller. The method includes that: the controller allocates an Anycast address of Serving Gateways (S-GWs) for a user equipment, and sends the Anycast address to all of the S-GWs; the controller sends the Anycast address to a radio-side network element via a Mobility Management Entity (MME); and when the controller receives a Packet_In message and a first uplink data packet from the user equipment sent by an S-GW, the controller selects the S-GW as an S-GW for the user equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Yifeng Bi, Yuhong Li, Lin Li, Tian Tian, Jing Wang, Jun Wang
  • Patent number: 9661655
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for uplink transmission over a non-contentious shared feedback channel are disclosed, wherein the parameters of the uplink transmission are determined by the parameters of a downlink transmission. A new uplink channel, called a physical shared uplink feedback channel (PSUFCH) is used for uplink transmission such as feedback information in response to a downlink transmission on a fast shared data channel. The content of the feedback information may be general, e.g. an ACK/NACK or a channel quality indicator (CQI). The PSUFCH is transmitted using power ramping that terminates upon reception of a downlink ACK (DLACK) from a Node-B. No ambiguity resolution is required due to the non-contentious and deterministic mapping of the uplink channel resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: InterDigital Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Eldad M. Zeira, Alexander Reznik, Paul Marinier, Sudheer A. Grandhi, Christopher Cave, Rocco Di Girolamo
  • Patent number: 9635419
    Abstract: A method that incorporates teachings of the subject disclosure may include, for example, receiving a packet indicative of a request for a number of video content items. The video content items are identified based on a network traffic flow characteristic associated with the packet and a popularity level is determined associated with each video content item of the number of video content items. The popularity level for each of the video content items is compared to a popularity threshold, and a portion of a video content item is displayed responsive to the popularity level exceeding the popularity threshold. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventor: William O'Hern
  • Patent number: 9609639
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method to receive an enhanced physical downlink control channel (EPDCCH) in a wireless communication system. More particularly, the method includes monitoring at least one EPDCCH candidate consisting of one or more enhanced control channel elements (ECCEs) in resource blocks and receiving the EPDCCH, wherein the number of ECCEs forming each of the one or more EPDCCH candidates corresponds to an aggregation level, the number of the EPDCCH candidates is set based on the number of ECCEs for each resource block and the number of resource blocks, and, when the number of resource blocks is a first value and the number of ECCEs for each resource block is a second value, the number of EPDCCH candidates in a specific aggregation level is set as a value obtained by dividing the total number of ECCEs by the specific aggregation level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Hanbyul Seo, Suckchel Yang
  • Patent number: 9584559
    Abstract: According to a first aspect of the present invention there is provided a method of handling an IP Multimedia Subsystem, IMS, session establishment request received from a calling party at a Multimedia Telephone Application Server, MMTel AS, within an IMS network from a Serving Call Session Control Function, S-CSCF, over an IMS Service Control, ISC, interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Rogier Noldus, Martinus Johannes Franciscus Huijsmans
  • Patent number: 9585052
    Abstract: A method for determining a traffic bearer for data traffic between a terminal (106) of a mobile network (102) and a content data source (116) of a content data network (104) is described. The method comprises sending (126) a service request for data of the content data source (116) from the terminal (106) to a network gateway (110) of the mobile network (102), and determining (132) an edge entity (108) of the mobile network (102). The edge entity (112) is adapted to forward the data traffic between the content data source (116) and the mobile network (102). The method comprises sending (130) a bearer establishment request to a control node (108) of the mobile network (102) for establishing the traffic bearer (389, 589) to the edge entity (112), and directing (154) the data traffic associated with the content data source (116) to the traffic bearer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Shunliang Zhang, Xuejun Cai
  • Patent number: 9577925
    Abstract: In general, techniques are described for providing current bandwidth usage information for one or more label switched paths (LSPs) to a path computation element (PCE) to trigger the PCE to dynamically modify a path computation domain of the PCE to manage network traffic within the domain. In some examples, a network router signals an LSP in a packet-switched network according to an allocated bandwidth for the LSP. The network router receives and maps the network packets to the LSP for transport along the LSP in accordance with forwarding information. The network router determines bandwidth usage information for the LSP that indicates a volume of the network packets mapped to the LSP and sends, in a notification message, the bandwidth usage information for the LSP to a path computation element that computes label switched paths for a path computation domain to trigger reoptimization of the path computation domain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: Juniper Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: Nitin Bahadur, Sudhir Cheruathur
  • Patent number: 9565614
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for controlling handoff of a mobile terminal, and more specifically, to a method for controlling handoff of a mobile terminal in an IEEE 802.22 wireless regional area network (WRAN) communication standard for defining communication of a fixed terminal which uses a frequency band that is not regionally used among television broadcasting frequency bands.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: UNIVERSITY-INDUSTRY COOPERATION GROUP OF KYUNG-HEE UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Choong Seon Hong, Sung Won Lee, Jun Lee
  • Patent number: 9560645
    Abstract: A UE, a MeNB, a SeNB and respective methods performed thereby are provided. The UE, the MeNB, and the SeNB are operable in a wireless communication system, the wireless communication system being adapted to provide for dual connectivity between the SeNB and a UE, and between the UE and a MeNB. The method is performed for providing system information of the wireless communication system to the UE and for the UE to acquire the system information. The method performed by the UE comprises receiving (110), from the SeNB, a MIB of a cell of the SeNB; and acquiring (120) a System Frame Number, SFN, from the MIB.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Riikka Susitaival, Daniel Larsson, Stefan Wager
  • Patent number: 9553697
    Abstract: Techniques for sending ACK/NACK information in a multi-carrier wireless communication network are disclosed. In one aspect, a plurality of ACK/NACK transmission techniques are selectively employed by a multi-carrier user equipment (UE) to reduce the number of bits of ACK/NACK information to send and/or increase the number of payload bits available for sending the ACK/NACK information. The ACK/NACK transmission techniques may include an orthogonal sequence reduction technique, a channel selection technique, a spatial bundling technique, a carrier bundling technique, and/or a subframe bundling technique. The ACK/NACK transmission techniques may be prioritized based on the number of carriers on which data transmissions are received, a payload size available for carrying ACK/NACK information, and/or other factors. The multi-carrier UE can utilize different ACK/NACK transmission techniques in connection with different subsets of its configured carriers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2017
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Wanshi Chen, Jelena M. Damnjanovic, Juan Montojo
  • Patent number: 9532326
    Abstract: There is disclosed a method for estimating a frequency offset between a mobile communication terminal and a network node. The method is based on processing, by means of a matched filter, a preamble sequence for random access received on a physical random access channel, PRACH. Thus the method is preferably applied in the Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA) network. In the matched filtered preamble sequence two peaks are determined and the frequency offset is based on a ratio of the two peaks. A corresponding network node, computer program and computer program product are also presented. The network node is preferably performed in a network node of the type eNodeB, E-UTRAN NodeB, also known as Evolved NodeB.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Eva Margaretha Forsgren, Oskar Mauritz
  • Patent number: 9526122
    Abstract: A communication method for a third device that controls a first link established directly between a first device and a second device is provided. The third device allocates a first link identifier for identifying the first link. The third device transmits first information including the first link identifier to the first device and the second device. The third device receives, from the first device and the second device, second information including allocation acceptance information indicating the acceptance or rejection of allocation of the first link identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2016
    Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Wooram Shin, Eunkyung Kim, Anseok Lee, Jae Sun Cha, Kwang Jae Lim, DongSeung Kwon
  • Patent number: 9515964
    Abstract: Techniques are provided for synchronizing, in a distributed Fiber Channel fabric or a distributed FCoE fabric in which FC frames are encapsulated in Ethernet frames, a controlling FCoE forwarder (cFCF) with the FCoE data-plane forwarder (FDF). The operation includes entering a recovery mode at the FDF. The FDF is modified based on a route distribution message provided by the cFCF which includes fabric-provided MAC addresses (FPMAs). The FDF notifies the cFCF of differences between the FPMAs supplied by the route distribution message with the FPMAs known by the FDF. The FDF leaves the recovery mode and sends an acknowledgement to the cFCF.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Henry J. May, Christoph Raisch, Stefan Roscher, Daniel Sentler, Bharath B. Somayaji, Sudheer R. Yelanduru