Patents Examined by Bob Phunkulh
  • Patent number: 9860873
    Abstract: Disclosed are a D2D data transmission method and device. The method comprises: determining, by a D2D data sending end, a state of each sending opportunity in a sending window in the same manner as a D2D data receiving end, wherein the sending window is uniformly divided into a plurality of sending opportunities, and the state of each sending opportunity comprises a data sending state and a silent state; and sending D2D data to the D2D data receiving end in the sending opportunity of each data sending state in the sending window. By means of the technical solution provided in the embodiments of the present application, a D2D data sending end sends data on different resources (sending opportunities) or becomes silent, so that different D2D data sending ends are staggered on the resources, thereby alleviating the influence of “near-far” effects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: CHINA ACADEMY OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Rui Zhao, Qiubin Gao, Wenhong Chen, Ying Peng
  • Patent number: 9854499
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a device that determines each of a default downlink forwarding address of a first interface of a user plane and a currently used downlink forwarding address of the first interface of the user plane. One of an uplink user data packet comprising an origination address of a second interface of the user plane, a downlink user data packet comprising a destination address of the second interface of the user plane or both are received, by way of the user plane. One of the default downlink forwarding address, the currently used downlink forwarding address or both can be modified based on the uplink origination address, the destination address or both. Modification of the default downlink forwarding address, the currently used downlink forwarding address or both results in a redirection of an associated packet flow within the user plane. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Jiansong Wang, Joseph Dahan, Ryan Redfern
  • Patent number: 9843456
    Abstract: A node (260) of a cellular network node sends data units to a group of base stations (200). Each data unit is configured for conveying multicast data to be sent by the base stations (200) in a synchronized manner at a starting time indicated in the data unit. For each of the data units, the node (260) determines the starting time as the sum of the time of sending the data unit from the node and an offset value. Further, the node (260) obtains feedback information from the base stations (200) of the group. The feedback information indicates a deviation of the starting time indicated in one of the data units (411) from an earliest possible time of sending the multicast data from the data unit (411) by the base stations (200) of the group. Depending on the feedback information, the node (260) adapts the offset value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Ibtissam El Khayat, Prabaharan Kanesalingam, Jie Ling
  • Patent number: 9843687
    Abstract: An example method is provided in one example embodiment and may include receiving a request from a user equipment (UE) to access a wireless access network, wherein the UE is currently accessing one or more other wireless networks; determining by a Policy and Charging Rules Function (PCRF) whether a subscriber associated with the UE is authorized to access the wireless access network based, at least in part, on a profile for the subscriber; and communicating one of a wireless access rejection and a wireless access acceptance to the UE based on the determination. In some instances, the determining can include recovering the profile for the subscriber associated with the UE from a Subscriber Profile Repository (SPR) using an International Mobile Subscriber Identity (IMSI) for the subscriber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Ian McDowell Campbell, Rajesh S. Pazhyannur, Mark Grayson, Alon Ben Ami
  • Patent number: 9838170
    Abstract: A method for transmission by a transmitting node in a communication network using a plurality of non-orthogonal carriers, including obtaining, by a processor in the transmitting node, an information element data set comprised of a first number of elements, applying, by the processor, a transform matrix to the information element data set to obtain an output samples data set comprised of a second number of elements, the transform matrix being based on a non-linear function applied to a non-orthogonal frequency division matrix comprised of a plurality of columns wherein each column is associated one of the plurality of non-orthogonal carriers, and transmitting the output samples data set from a transmitter in the transmitting node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Michel Fattouche, David Gell, Murat Karsi, Kenneth Stanwood
  • Patent number: 9838284
    Abstract: According to one aspect disclosed herein, a performance monitoring SDN controller can translate an intent specified by a performance monitoring application into a flow rule and an action set to be utilized by a performance monitoring SDN element to process a packet flow received from the target SDN network. The performance monitoring SDN controller can provide the flow rule and the action set to a performance monitoring SDN element, which can receive the packet flow from the target SDN network and can analyze the packet flow in accordance with the flow rule to match the packet flow to an action included within the action set. The performance monitoring SDN element can execute the action to monitor a performance metric of the packet flow and to provide a value for the performance metric to the performance monitoring application agent, which can generate a message that includes the value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Venson Shaw, Jin He
  • Patent number: 9838093
    Abstract: Provided is a method of transmitting and receiving a frame for a multi-user multiple-input and multiple-output (MU-MIMO) communication in an access point (AP), the method including determining at least one transmission station (STA), transmitting, to the transmission STA, an uplink multi-user poll (UL MU poll) frame requesting a data frame, receiving the data frame from the at least one transmission STA simultaneously, and transmitting an acknowledgement (ACK) frame to the at least one transmission STA in response to the receiving.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Jee Yon Choi, Hyoung Jin Kwon, Je Hun Lee, Sok Kyu Lee
  • Patent number: 9800508
    Abstract: A system and method includes a network device comprising a control unit, a first port coupled to the control unit and configured to couple the network device to a first device using a first network link. The control unit is configured to receive a data packet from the first device on the first port, inspect the data packet for an indicator of an incast communication pattern, and implement a data flow shaper on a network when the indicator is present in the data packet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: DELL PRODUCTS L.P.
    Inventor: Pathangi Narasimhan Janardhanan
  • Patent number: 9801173
    Abstract: A communication apparatus and a communication method capable of suppressing an increase of bits used for a request to send a reference signal and flexibly setting a resource used for sending a reference signal. In a base station, a transmission processing unit transmits, in one of a plurality of formats, control information containing a request to send a sounding reference signal (A-SRS), and a reception processing unit receives the transmitted A-SRS using the resource specified by the format of the transmitted control information. Then, the plurality of formats is associated with each different SRS resource by a setting unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: Sun Patent Trust
    Inventors: Akihiko Nishio, Hidetoshi Suzuki
  • Patent number: 9800387
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes embodiments of apparatuses, systems, and methods for cross sub-frame by enhanced physical downlink control channel (EPDCCH) transmissions for scheduling of physical downlink share channel (PDSCH) transmissions one or more subframes after the EPDCCH transmission. Cross subframe scheduling may be useful for machine type communication (MTC) user equipment (UE) with reduced bandwidth support including half duplex type MTC UE operating at 1.4 MHz bandwidth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: INTEL IP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Gang Xiong, Marta Martinez-Tarradell, Debdeep Chatterjee, Seunghee Han
  • Patent number: 9801218
    Abstract: A self-organization network establishing method comprising following steps is presented. A plurality of zone controllers (ZCs) establishes a connection, and one of the ZCs is chosen as a ZC-head. The ZC-head instructs the ZCs to enable a joining-permitted function. A plurality of wireless nodes respectively searches for one of the ZCs to join to a corresponding controller network thereof after the ZCs enable the joining-permitted function. The ZC-head collects data of the wireless nodes through the ZCs, and generates configuration messages for each wireless node based on the collected data. The ZCs disconnect all network connections after the collection is completed. Finally, each wireless node respectively re-searches for their best ZC to join to the corresponding controller network thereof according to the configuration messages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC.
    Inventors: Chao-Chun Tseng, Meng-Seng Chen, Bo-Syuan Huang, Tien-Szu Lo
  • Patent number: 9788247
    Abstract: In a Long Term Evolution (LTE) network, an LTE gateway system exchanges registration data with User Equipment (UE) over a non-LTE network. The LTE gateway system transfers networking data to an LTE control system responsive to an IMS media session for the UE, and transfers an instruction to remove the networking data from the LTE control system responsive to termination of the IMS media session. The LTE control system receives an LTE initial access message and if the networking data characterizes the IMS media session over the non-LTE network through the LTE gateway system, then transfers a session transfer message to the LTE gateway system to switch communication access from the non-LTE network to the LTE network. The LTE control system receives an LTE session termination message and responsively transfers an LTE reattach message to the LTE gateway system to force the UE to reattach to the LTE network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.
    Inventors: Saravana Velusamy, Rajil Malhotra, Daniel J. Pope
  • Patent number: 9788230
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus communicates with a base station apparatus using a plurality of downlink subbands and a plurality of uplink subbands. The terminal apparatus receives, in a downlink subband, response information for an uplink data transmitted in an uplink subband in accordance with setting information which is received from the base station apparatus and indicates a relationship between the uplink subband and the downlink subband used to receive the response information, where the uplink subband being one of the plurality of uplink subbands, and where the downlink subband being one of the plurality of downlink subbands.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shoichi Suzuki, Daiichiro Nakashima
  • Patent number: 9780915
    Abstract: A system and method are provided for reducing the overhead caused by the presence of the cyclic prefix while enabling inter-carrier interference (ICI) and inter-symbol interference (ISI) cancellation in an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) network that includes an OFDM transmitter and an OFDM receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: Telefonica, S.A.
    Inventor: Javier Lorca Hernando
  • Patent number: 9780987
    Abstract: An adaptable orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing system (OFDM) that uses a multiple input multiple output (MIMO) to having OFDM signals transmitted either in accordance with time diversity to reducing signal fading or in accordance with spatial diversity to increase the data rate. Sub-carriers are classified for spatial diversity transmission or for time diversity transmission based on the result of a comparison between threshold values and at least one of three criteria. The criteria includes a calculation of a smallest eigen value of a frequency channel response matrix and a smallest element of a diagonal of the matrix and a ratio of the largest and smallest eigen values of the matrix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Shiquan Wu, Wen Tong, Leo Strawczynski
  • Patent number: 9769083
    Abstract: Unit (1, eNB, SGW, PGW) comprising a processor (20) and interface means (10) adapted for receiving and transmitting packets (15, 17) to external units (1, eNB, SGW, PGW) over a communication interface. The interface means (10) comprises a first layer filtering means (101) operating according to first level filtering rules (1010) and first packet queues (Q1_1-Q1_n); while the processor (20) comprises at least one kernel (KL_1-KL_n), second layer filtering means (102) operating according to second level filtering rules (1020), second packet queues and applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Jiangtao Zhang, Bengt Johansson, Sten Rune Pettersson
  • Patent number: 9769752
    Abstract: A wireless device configured as a group owner determines whether all client devices paired with the group owner are currently associated with the group owner. If all paired client devices are currently associated with the group owner, the group owner enters a first mode in which the group owner is in an active mode (powered up to communicate) during a first portion of a beacon interval and is in a low power mode (in which no communication occurs) during a second portion of the beacon interval. If not all paired client devices are currently associated with the group owner, the group owner enters a second mode in which the group owner is in the active state during the first portion and at least part of the second portion of the beacon interval. The group owner and client devices are configured to operate as master and slave.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Kevin Neal Hayes, Adam Benjamin Lapede, Prerepa Viswanadham, Dragan Petrovic, Mahesh Dandapani Iyer
  • Patent number: 9762363
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for performing coordinated communication between radio access points in a communication system are provided. The method includes receiving, by a first radio access point, a message requesting channel information from a second radio access point, transmitting, by the first radio access point, a response message in reply to the message requesting channel information to the second radio access point, transmitting, by the first radio access point, a message reporting the channel information to the second radio access point, and receiving, by the first radio access point, resource allocation information for Coordinated Multi-Point transmission and reception (CoMP) from the second radio access point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sung-Hwan Won, Hyo-Jin Lee, Jin-Young Oh
  • Patent number: 9755796
    Abstract: An avionics system comprises a plurality of avionics components; at least one OFDM transmitter coupled to a respective one or more of the plurality of avionics components and configured to transmit a wireless OFDM signal comprising a plurality of sub-bands; at least one OFDM receiver coupled to a respective one or more of the plurality of avionics components and configured to receive the wireless OFDM signal transmitted by the OFDM transmitter; and a radio altimeter configured to transmit a signal tone that sweeps a frequency spectrum allocated to the radio altimeter at a predefined rate and periodicity. The at least one OFDM transmitter is configured to transmit the wireless OFDM signal in the frequency spectrum allocated to the radio altimeter and to sequentially turn off respective subsets of the plurality of sub-bands in synchronization with the predefined rate and periodicity of the signal tone frequency sweep.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Jamal Haque, Michael R. Franceschini
  • Patent number: 9756588
    Abstract: Exemplary embodiments provide a method and apparatus for transmitting a synchronization signal for Device-to-Device (D2D) communication in a wireless communication system. With respect to a D2D synchronization source to transmit a synchronization signal for D2D communication, the method includes: generating a D2D Synchronization Signal (D2DSS); and transmitting, by a synchronization source, the D2DSS to a D2D reception (Rx) UE, wherein the D2DSS includes a Primary D2D Synchronization Signal (PD2DSS) generated based on information associated with the synchronization source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGY LAB CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Sung Jun Yoon