Patents Examined by Brandon Renner
  • Patent number: 9844065
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for optimizing the reach of a message beacon device. The method may include identifying a plurality of transceivers associated with the message beacon device, analyzing each identified transceiver on the basis of a resource consumption associated with the identified transceiver, an interference of the identified transceiver with a different transceiver of the plurality of identified transceivers, a reach of the identified transceiver, or a combination thereof, selecting a transmission set from the plurality of identified transceivers based on the analysis of each identified transceiver, and transmitting a message beacon using each selected transceiver in the transmission set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventor: Richard Dominic Wietfeldt
  • Patent number: 9843509
    Abstract: Transferring data over a network includes identifying an application flow and mapping the application flow to a network bound connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: Global Innovation Aggregators LLC.
    Inventors: Ping Pan, Richard D. Gitlin
  • Patent number: 9832687
    Abstract: When a mobile station requests circuit services notifications through a packet switched network, a mobile switching center sets a forwarding indicator. When the MSC detects an event indicative of a change in the status of the mobile station, the MSC sends an event notification to the packet switched network if the forwarding indicator is set to true. In the packet switched network, the base station can use the event notifications to manage communication resources used for packet data communications with the mobile station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Vibhor Julka, Erik Colban
  • Patent number: 9832788
    Abstract: Mechanisms for operating a wireless user equipment device, to determine the state of data scheduling activity. Such activity state (and other information such as measurements of signal interference and/or channel condition) may be used to dynamically control the selection of a high-power high-performance receiver vs. a low-power basic receiver. A first mechanism involves transitioning to a high activity state and starting a timer upon each occurrence of scheduled subframe. A transition to the low activity state occurs whenever the timer expires. A second mechanism involves filtering a sequence of binary-valued indicators corresponding respectively to a sequence of time intervals. Each indicator indicates whether a subframe is scheduled during the corresponding time interval. The filter output is compared to a threshold to determine high/low activity state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Youngjae Kim, Kee-Bong Song, Syed Aon Mujtaba
  • Patent number: 9826541
    Abstract: The present invention provides a novel rate adaptation algorithm and QoS-aware MAC scheduling system and method that either maximizes user satisfaction or maximizes spectrum utilization while maintaining user satisfaction by trading off the spectral resource allocations of connections for the application-level QoS based on the user-specific requirements. An adaptive scheduler is presented that incorporates user specific QoS requirements in the spectral allocation of resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignees: University of South Florida, Cornell University
    Inventors: Richard Dennis Gitlin, Zygmunt J. Haas, Huseyin Arslan, Gabriel Eduardo Arrobo, Chao He
  • Patent number: 9825997
    Abstract: A mediator for the transmission of media contents includes means for receiving video content requests from terminals when they request to take part in said video call conference, and for optimizing these requests, in order to avoid requesting any redundant video stream from a multimedia resource function, before forwarding the optimized requests to the multimedia resource function; means for implementing virtual conferees as a function of the video content requests from said terminals, for receiving the video streams that have been requested by the optimized request, from the multimedia resource function, and then forwarding the received video streams to the terminals that have requested them, in a broadcast way when a same video stream has been requested by several terminals, and means for commanding the telephony server to accept the implemented virtual conferees in the video call conference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Marin Osmond, Cédric Laisnard
  • Patent number: 9819405
    Abstract: Methods and systems for transmitting a signal. A first signal from a first device operating in spatial multiplexing transmission is concatenated with a second signal from a second device operating without spatial multiplexing transmission to generate a concatenated signal in a non-linearly superpositioned constellation, in which a portion of the constellation corresponding to the first signal is symmetrical about each of the real and imaginary axes. The concatenated signal is processed according to transmission processing of the second device, to generate a processed signal. The processed signal is transmitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hao Hu, Ming Jia, Jianglei Ma
  • Patent number: 9807777
    Abstract: An antenna switching method of an electronic device is provided. The antenna switching method includes measuring a transmit power variation of a first antenna, monitoring characteristics of received signals of both the first antenna and a second antenna, determining a comparison result by comparing the characteristics of the received signals of both the first antenna and the second antenna when the transmit power variation is greater than or equal to a threshold value, and switching a transmitting antenna based on at least the comparison result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tae Yoon Kim, Keon Young Lee, Chae Man Lim, Sang Won Kim, Yu Shin Kim
  • Patent number: 9807740
    Abstract: When downlink data allocation is indicated in an ePDCCH, this terminal device can determine PUCCH resources to be used in notification of response signals indicating results of error detection of downlink data without imposing scheduling restrictions on future DL subframes. In this device, an extraction unit (204) receives downlink data on multiple unit bands. A CRC unit (211) detects errors in the downlink data. A response signal generation unit (212) generates a response signal by using the results of error detection of the downlink data obtained by the CRC unit (211). The control unit (208) arranges the response signal in the PUCCH resources corresponding to the current DL subframe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: Sun Patent Trust
    Inventors: Toru Oizumi, Ayako Horiuchi, Kazuki Takeda, Akihiko Nishio
  • Patent number: 9794192
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and a device for allocating a packet switching resource, which includes: receiving, by a management plane unit, a service transport request carrying service information, where the service information includes source node information, sink node information, quality of service QoS requirement information, and bandwidth requirement information; determining, by the management plane unit, at least one transport path according to the service information and a preset resource allocation policy, and generating a routing table entry/forwarding table entry according to the at least one transport path; and sending, by the management plane unit, the routing table entry/forwarding table entry to data plane units of packet switching devices of each transport path of the at least one transport path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Congqi Li, Zhiyong Huang
  • Patent number: 9788347
    Abstract: Provided is a recursive method and apparatus for processing a signal for determining a plurality of frequency components of the signal, the signal being a chirp-like polyphase sequence. In one embodiment, the method includes: (1) determining a first frequency component of the plurality of frequency components, (2) determining a component factor by accessing a factor table, (3) determining the second frequency component using the determined first frequency component and the determined component factor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: Nvidia Corporation
    Inventors: Tarik Tabet, Godfrey Costa, Nallepilli Ramesh
  • Patent number: 9781691
    Abstract: There is provided a wireless communication device including a reception timing sense unit configured to sense reception timing information, a reception timing storage unit configured to store the reception timing information and to disclose and delete the stored reception timing information, a frame group arrival confirmation unit configured to confirm that a frame group arrives, a first frame group transmission unit, a second frame group transmission unit, a third frame group transmission unit, and a frame group transmission control unit configured to select any of the first frame group transmission unit, the second frame group transmission unit, and the third frame group transmission unit on the basis of the reception timing information and a result of frame group arrival confirmation, and to control a frame group transmission operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yasutaka Kawamoto
  • Patent number: 9775163
    Abstract: Resource management such as network radio resource management in wireless networks, is described in connection with different aspects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Thomas Schierl, Thomas Wirth, Thomas Haustein, Yago Sanchez
  • Patent number: 9774566
    Abstract: A communication method and a mobile electronic device are provided. The communication method includes: receiving a message packet; determining whether or not the received message packet is an abnormal packet; and when the received message packet is determined out as the abnormal packet, increasing a count value; keeping to receive the message packets and determine whether or not the received message packet is an abnormal packet; and when the count value is greater than an upper-limit value, re-deriving an IP address.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: Acer Incorporated
    Inventor: Jia-Hau Lee
  • Patent number: 9762344
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for transmitting and receiving signals in a wireless communication system. Specifically, in a multi-cell cooperative communication system, a base station can form cooperative detection user set information by detecting a terminal within a cell and form cooperative processing user set by receiving the cooperative detection user set information of a neighboring base station. At this time, the base station acquires information about a base station adjacent to the neighboring base station and designs an efficient filter in transmitting and receiving signals of terminals between the base stations, thereby being capable of removing inter-cell interference signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignees: LG Electronics Inc., Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation, Yonsei University
    Inventors: Hyunsoo Ko, Kwangsoon Kim, Kyungjun Choi, Jaehoon Chung, Jinmin Kim
  • Patent number: 9763209
    Abstract: A multi-band synchronizer that performs robustly in the presence of partial-band interference by breaking down the correlation of a sync waveform at a plurality of times, with one or more received signal branches into a multitude of sub-band correlations, and combining the sub-band correlations such that the impact of partial-band interference on synchronization performance is significantly mitigated is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: xG Technology, Inc.
    Inventor: Stephen R. Carsello
  • Patent number: 9763059
    Abstract: A transmitting/receiving system and a data processing method of the same are disclosed herein. The receiving system may include a receiving unit, a first processing unit, and a second processing unit. The receiving unit receives a broadcast signal including mobile service data from at least one slot. The first processing unit acquires FIC segments divided from an FIC chunk of at least one sub-frame. Herein, each FIC segment comprises a 2-byte segment header and a 35-byte segment payload. The segment header includes an FIC type information, a number of a corresponding FIC segment, and a number of a last FIC segment among the FIC segments divided from the FIC chunk. The second processing unit obtains the FIC chunk including signaling information between at least one ensemble and at least one mobile service from respective payloads of the FIC segments, based upon the acquired FIC type information, number of the corresponding FIC segment, and number of the last FIC segment of each FIC segment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jae Hyung Song, In Hwan Choi, Gomer Thomas
  • Patent number: 9756561
    Abstract: A method for providing connection type information in a Mobile Management Entity (MME), and a method for controlling radio resources in a Home (e)NodeB system are discussed. The method for providing connection type information according to an embodiment includes receiving an Attach Request message from a Home (e)NodeB. The Attach Request message includes a Closed Subscriber Group (CSG) ID and an access mode of the Home (e)NodeB, when the Home (e)NodeB is a hybrid cell. The Attach Request message includes a CSG ID but does not include an access mode of the Home (e)NodeB, when the Home (e)NodeB is not a hybrid cell. The method for providing connection type information further includes determining whether the UE is a CSG member or a non CSG member, if the Home (e)NodeB is a hybrid cell; and transmitting a connection accept message when the Home (e)NodeB is the hybrid cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Hyun-Sook Kim, Lae-Young Kim, Tae-Hyeon Kim
  • Patent number: 9756683
    Abstract: A method for transferring data among communication devices. The method includes a first communication device receiving, from a second communication device, data to be transferred and a condition defining a range of data transfer. The first communication device then determines whether a third communication device satisfies the condition defining the range of data transfer. On condition that the first communication device determines that the third communication device satisfies the condition, the first communication device directly transfers the data and the condition to the third communication device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Hirofumi Nishikawa, Tomohiro Shioya, Kei Sugano, Shoichiro Watanabe
  • Patent number: 9749187
    Abstract: A method, apparatus and memory for forwarding packets through a network domain containing nodes that are label distribution protocol (LDP) enabled and nodes that are segment routing (SR) enabled. In one embodiment, the method may include receiving at a hybrid node a packet with an attached segment identifier and detaching the segment identifier from the packet. This embodiment of the method continues with attaching a first LDP label to the packet after the segment identifier is detached and forwarding the packet with the attached first LDP label on a path toward a first LDP enabled node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Clarence Filsfils, Ahmed R. Bashandy, David D. Ward, Stefano B. Previdi