Patents Examined by Bob Phunkulh
  • Patent number: 8611279
    Abstract: When building sets of mobile stations in a radio communication network, reference signals are transmitted from a base station to at least two mobile stations to determine channel properties of a downlink channel between the base station and the at least two mobile stations. First and second feedback information are determined at the at least two mobile stations respectively, each feedback information comprising a first component indicating a channel quality. The first and the second feedback information are transmitted from the first and second mobile stations to the base station. A mobile station set is built according to the first and the second feedback information at the base station, wherein the channel quality is a parameter of a downlink beam with a largest received carrier power of at least three downlink beams of said downlink channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2013
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Cornelis Hoek, Thorsten Wild
  • Patent number: 8605758
    Abstract: The invention relates generally to a receiver unit in a digital broadcast system for receiving a broadcast signal comprising content segments and control data, and generating an output signal using the content segments and previously stored content segments. The previously stored content segments are retrieved from a local memory device using the control data and inserted among the received content segments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: Sirius XM Radio Inc.
    Inventors: Paul D. Marko, Craig P. Wadin
  • Patent number: 8599751
    Abstract: Provided is a control method of a control apparatus for a multi-cell communication system including a plurality of cells, the method including determining a cell edge terminal or an inner cell terminal from each of terminals included in each of the cells, and selecting, from base stations included in the plurality of cells, a first base station and a second base station. The first base station may serve all of a corresponding cell edge terminal and a corresponding inner cell terminal, and the second base station may serve only the corresponding inner cell terminal between the corresponding cell edge terminal and the corresponding inner cell terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignees: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Purdue Research Foundation
    Inventors: Bruno Clerckx, Ki Il Kim, Junil Choi, David J. Love, Tae Joon Kim, Chun Kin Au-Yeung, Obadamilola Aluko
  • Patent number: 8599868
    Abstract: A system determines bandwidth use by queues in a network device. To do this, the system determines an instantaneous amount of bandwidth used by each of the queues and an average amount of bandwidth used by each of the queues. The system then identifies bandwidth use by each of the queues based on the instantaneous bandwidth used and the average bandwidth used by each of the queues.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: Juniper Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: Pradeep Sindhu, Debashis Basu, Jayabharat Boddu, Avanindra Godbole
  • Patent number: 8588144
    Abstract: A wireless network device includes modulation modules, each configured to receive a data stream and modulate the data stream to generate a modulated data stream. A matrix module generates a multiplexing matrix based on channel conditions between the wireless network device and each of a plurality of client stations, and applies the multiplexing matrix to each of the modulated data streams to generate multiplexed data streams. The wireless network device also includes summing modules, each configured to sum at least two of the multiplexed data streams to generate a transmit data stream. A first transmitter transmits a first one of the transmit data streams during a downlink transmission period to a first one of the client stations. A second transmitter transmits a second one of the transmit data streams to a second one of the client stations while the first transmitter transmits the first one of the transmit data streams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2013
    Assignee: Marvell World Trade Ltd.
    Inventors: Rohit U. Nabar, Hongyuan Zhang, Hui-Ling Lou
  • Patent number: 8588241
    Abstract: In general, the invention is directed to techniques for improving memory utilization in a priority queuing system of a network device. More specifically, a priority queue memory management system is described in which memory pages are assigned to the various priority queues in order to implement an efficient first in, first out (FIFO) functionality. The dynamic memory techniques described herein allow the multiple priority queues to share a common memory space. As a result, each priority queue does not require a pre-allocated amount of memory that matches the aggregate size of the packets that must be buffered by the queue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2013
    Assignee: Juniper Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: Xianzhi Li, Hongsheng Ping, Qingming Ma
  • Patent number: 8588141
    Abstract: Terminal management means stores information with respect to a terminal that joins a delivery service provided in each cell in a context that serves to manage the information with respect to the terminal. Terminal counting means counts the number of terminals that joins the delivery service in the each cell on the basis of each service using the context stored in the terminal management means. Bearer determination means determines whether to use a point-to-point bearer or a point-to-multipoint bearer for the delivery service in the each cell based on the number of terminals counted by the terminal counting means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2013
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Atsuko Ishibashi
  • Patent number: 8582444
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method of detecting a faulty network element in a network, the network comprising at least a plurality of first network elements having a first network element type, and at least a plurality of second network elements having a second network element type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Oscar Zee, Tomas Norling
  • Patent number: 8576867
    Abstract: A pipeline scheduler provides a minimum bandwidth guarantee by transporting cells from an input port to an output port in a two-phased approach. Cells that conform to a minimum cell rate (MCR) are selected from queues at the input port and arranged into supercells for transport to the output port, followed by nonconforming cells, to guarantee fairness by using scheduling modules to build the supercells first for conforming cells, and then for nonconforming cells. Reservation vectors are used to permit the same time slot of the next frame to be reserved by a first queue, and the same time slot of the following time frame to be held for reservation by a second queue, to ensure equal time slot access by the first and second queues over successive time frames.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2013
    Assignee: Juniper Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: Ruixue Fan, Chi-Yu Lu
  • Patent number: 8576692
    Abstract: Techniques for transmitting UE-specific reference signals (UE-RSs) in a wireless network are described. In an aspect, a UE-RS may be transmitted in different manners depending on the number of layers used for data transmission. In one design, a cell may determine subcarriers for a UE-RS based on a frequency shift if data is transmitted on one layer and based on a predetermined set of subcarriers (with no frequency shift) if data is transmitted on multiple layers. In another aspect, a UE-RS may be transmitted on subcarriers determined based on a frequency shift for data transmission on multiple layers. In yet another aspect, a UE-RS may be transmitted from a plurality of cells to a UE for coordinated multi-point (CoMP). In yet another aspect, a UE-RS may be transmitted in a data section of a subframe including only the data section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2013
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Xiaoxia Zhang, Yongbin Wei, Tao Luo, Dung Ngoc Doan, Taesang Yoo
  • Patent number: 8571025
    Abstract: A virtual private network (VPN) over a telecommunications network is created by sending a request from a first VPN device to a second VPN device for establishing a VPN between the first and second VPN devices. The request includes a first signed certificate having a verified VPN parameter for the first VPN device. A reply is received at the first VPN device from the second VPN device that includes a second signed certificate having a verified VPN parameter for the second VPN device. The VPN is established between the first and second VPN devices based on each verified VPN parameter for each of the first and second VPN devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2013
    Assignee: Virnetx, Inc.
    Inventor: Victor Larson
  • Patent number: 8547970
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a receiver including a demodulation circuit adapted to demodulate data and control information attached to the data, and an extraction circuit adapted to extract some data from entire control information, wherein the demodulation circuit performs demodulation according to the extracted some data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hideyuki Matsumoto, Yuichi Mizutani
  • Patent number: 8547958
    Abstract: Systems and methods of enhanced real-time communications between WiFi devices. In one embodiment of the present invention a method for enhanced payload protection in a WiFi system includes transmitting multiple copies of data packets in successive frame body transmissions. In another embodiment, a method for enhanced communications over a WiFi link includes examining a unit ID packet to determine a destination of a data payload when errors are detected in IP and/or MAC headers. If a destination is determined, the packet is corrected and forwarded to the device based on the unit ID determination. In another embodiment, a method for enhanced real-time communications in a WiFi network includes establishing a communications frame that includes an active timeslot, preferably based on U-APSD, for a WiFi device to use for transmission of successive audio data packets transmitted between the WiFi handset and AP.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignee: VTech Telecommunications Limted
    Inventors: Sukhdeep S. Hundal, Daniel Roodnick, Bennett Cheng
  • Patent number: 8537752
    Abstract: The present invention discloses an information multiplexing method, comprising: coding multiple feedback information according to number of the feedback information and a linear block code sequence, and truncating corresponding coded information according to a target length of the feedback information coded (S302); dividing the truncated coded information into multiple feedback information logic units sequentially, and multiplexing together the multiple feedback information logic units, multiple rank indication information logic units, multiple control information logic units and data information logic units are; wherein the control information logic units, the multiple rank indication information logic units, the data information logic units, and the feedback information logic units contain the same bit number (S304). Transmission of more than two ACK/NACKs is achieved by the present invention and transmission performance of the system is improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2013
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Bo Dai, Peng Hao, Chunli Liang, Guanghui Yu, Yuqiang Zhang
  • Patent number: 8537854
    Abstract: An approach provides interdomain traversal to support packetized voice transmissions. A request for establishing a voice call is received from a source endpoint behind a first network address translator of a first domain, wherein the request specifies a directory number of a destination endpoint within a second domain. A network address is determined for communicating with the destination endpoint based on the directory number. Additionally, existence of a second network address translator within the second domain is determined. If the network address can be determined, a media path is established between the source endpoint and the destination endpoint based on the network address to support the voice call.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2013
    Assignee: Verizon Business Global LLC
    Inventors: Kiwan E. Bae, Wade R. Alt, Alan B. Johnston, James A. Robertson
  • Patent number: 8526366
    Abstract: A method, apparatuses, and system of broadcasting content data in a macro-diversity region of a data frame includes receiving a stream of transport packets. Selecting at least one burst size, from amongst a set of a plurality of predetermined burst sizes. Allocating one or more data bursts with the selected burst size to the macro-diversity region of the data frame, each data burst comprising at least a portion of the received transport packets and wherein the at least one burst size is selected so as to minimize a number of data bursts allocated to the macro-diversity region. Then communicating the allocation of data bursts to a transmitter that includes the allocation of data bursts in the macro-diversity region of a data frame transmitted by the transmitter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Assignee: Wi-Lan, Inc.
    Inventors: Dennis P. Connors, Huei-Jiun Ju, Keerthi S. Govind, Sina Zahedi
  • Patent number: 8514844
    Abstract: An embodiment of a method for providing a simulated stutter dial tone includes receiving a new voicemail notification message at a packet-based telephony device. The new voicemail notification message indicates that a new voicemail message is waiting in a voicemail box associated with a user of the packet-based telephony device. The method further includes detecting an off-hook status of the packet-based telephony device, and generating a simulated stutter dial tone signal by the packet-based telephony device in response to receiving the new voicemail notification message and detecting the off-hook status. The method further includes providing the simulated stutter dial tone signal to an audio reproduction device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignee: CenturyLink Intellectual Property LLC
    Inventor: Amar Nath Ray
  • Patent number: 8514775
    Abstract: System and method for improving the use of radio spectrum in transmission of data, according to which the payload information of any known line interface is divided into a plurality of data portions of smaller which are then grouped into packets so as to be subsequently radio transmitted. For transmission of such packets, suitable radio channels are selected. The invention also relates to reception of such radio channels having such packets incorporated therein, wherein the received packets are then transformed into payload information for inputting into corresponding line interfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Mario Giovanni Frecassetti, Giacomo Mirelli, Marzio Gerosa
  • Patent number: 8493917
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods and apparatuses (radio base station (120, 600) and UE (110, 700) for enabling a UE to perform a random access. According to embodiments of the present invention, an identification number of a dedicated random access preamble is, in a message, transmitted together with information indicating in which channel or channels the preamble is valid for the UE. The UE (110, 700) can then use the received information and based on that information perform a random access.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2013
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Michael Meyer, Magnus Lindström
  • Patent number: RE44593
    Abstract: A system for performing Network Address Translation, which allows applications to request information concerning address translations to be performed, so that those applications may send useful information to other applications for the purposes of allowing applications to communicate through the NAT device in the absence of statically defined rules for specific channels of communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventor: Andrew T. Molitor