Patents Examined by Brandon Renner
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Patent number: 9750081Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 15, 2015Date of Patent: August 29, 2017Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Hirofumi Nishikawa, Tomohiro Shioya, Kei Sugano, Shoichiro Watanabe
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Patent number: 9743385Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a data sending and receiving method and device. The method includes: receiving a threshold; if a data volume of a packet to be sent is less than the threshold, sending the packet in a first data transmission manner; and if a data volume of the packet is greater than or equal to the threshold, sending the packet in a second data transmission manner. By adopting the technical solution of the present invention, a resource waste caused by transmitting small data in a data transmission manner used for transmitting a large packet in the prior art can be reduced, transmission efficiency of small data can be improved, and a transmission delay can be reduced.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2015Date of Patent: August 22, 2017Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yongxia Lyu, Tong Ji, Wen Zhang
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Patent number: 9735974Abstract: Measures, including methods, systems and non-transitory computer-readable storage mediums, for use in processing multicast group membership discovery protocol messages in a data center network including a plurality of compute servers. Each compute server in the plurality is capable of running one or more virtual machines. At a multicast group membership discovery protocol proxy located on a compute server in the plurality, a multicast group membership discovery protocol report message is received requesting delivery of data associated with a specified multicast group from a specified multicast data source. It is determined whether the specified multicast data source is hosted by a virtual machine running on the compute server. In response to a positive determination, a request corresponding to the received multicast group membership discovery protocol report message is forwarded to the virtual machine hosting the specified multicast data source on the compute server.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2015Date of Patent: August 15, 2017Assignee: METASWITCH NETWORKS LTDInventor: Benjamin Thomas Wright
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Patent number: 9730091Abstract: A system is provided that includes a plurality of sensors that detect threats within a secured geographic area, a control panel that monitors the plurality of sensors for activation, a primary control unit that forms a primary mesh network coupling the plurality of sensors with the control panel based upon relative link quality, wherein the primary mesh network is defined by a primary routing table, and a redundant control unit that forms a secondary mesh network coupling the plurality of sensors with the control panel based upon the relative link quality, wherein the secondary mesh network includes a respective relationship of each of the plurality of sensors defined by a secondary routing table, wherein the redundant control unit is located in a different geographic location than the primary control unit within the secured geographic area, and wherein the secondary routing table is different than the primary routing table.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2015Date of Patent: August 8, 2017Assignee: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.Inventors: Gourav Sharma, Vinayak Sadashiv Kore, Naveen G, Shreelatha M, Deepak Sundar Vaidyanathan
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Patent number: 9723552Abstract: A collaborative method for a node includes forming a local network with at least one other node using a lower power subsystem; selecting a master node from among the local network based on a first set of criteria; and communicating with a back end server over a wireless wide area network (WWAN) using a higher power subsystem. An apparatus may include a first subsystem for communicating with a local network; and a second subsystem having an active mode and an inactive mode, the second subsystem for communicating with a wireless wide area network (WWAN) when in the active mode, the apparatus selecting the active mode or inactive mode based on a set of criteria.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2015Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: Qualcomm IncorporatedInventors: Richard O. Farley, Dilip Krishnaswamy, Gang Ding
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Patent number: 9723649Abstract: A method and an apparatus are provided for improving availability of a circuit switched (CS) service to a user equipment (UE). The UE sends at least one location area update (LAU) message, to a core network (CN), to initiate an LAU procedure. A release of a CS signaling connection between the UE and the CN is detected due to a failure in the LAU procedure. An ongoing PS signaling connection between the UE and the CN is identified, when the CS signaling connection between the UE and the CN is released. The ongoing PS signaling connection is released. A public land mobile network (PLMN) is selected for obtaining CS services from the core network, when the ongoing PS signaling connection is released.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2015Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., LtdInventors: Bharat Bhat, Anand Biradar, Ananth Kumar Ramasamy
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Patent number: 9722878Abstract: A method, apparatus, and computer readable medium are disclosed. In one embodiment of the method, a packet and a segment ID stack is received at a first segment routing enabled node. The segment ID stack includes a plurality of segment IDs, one or which is a first area-segment ID that identifies a first area of a subdivided segment routing network. An egress interface of the first segment routing enabled node is selected based on the first area-segment ID. Thereafter, the packet is forwarded via the selected egress interface.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2016Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.Inventors: Clarence Filsfils, David D. Ward, Stewart F. Bryant, Daniel C. Frost, Nagendra Kumar Nainar, Carlos M. Pignataro
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Patent number: 9713009Abstract: A communications system includes a macro base station, a plurality of UEs (user equipment), a plurality of small cells, and a network through which the macro base station, the UEs, and the small cells communicate with each other, the small cells within a macro coverage area of the macro base station. The macro base station comprises a processor, a memory, and a small cell on/off module which is operable, for each small cell of the plurality of small cells, to: determine an interference metric for the small cell; if the determined interference metric meets a preset condition for the small cell, then determine a loss in signal strength to the UEs associated with the small cell caused by switching off the small cell; and judge whether to switch off the small cell based on at least one of the determined interference metric or the determined loss in signal strength.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2013Date of Patent: July 18, 2017Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Joydeep Acharya, Long Gao, Sudhanshu Gaur
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Patent number: 9706521Abstract: A base station may use the quality of service (QoS) levels of the bearer connections of user equipment devices (UEs) as a basis to allocate paging resources to the UEs. In one example, a UE may receive from the base station a message defining a plurality of recurring paging occasions. The plurality of paging occasions may include a first set of paging occasions and a second set of paging occasions that are mutually exclusive. The UE may then make a decision, based on a QoS level of a bearer connection of the UE, of whether to monitor one or more paging occasions of the first set of paging occasions or rather to monitor one or more paging occasions of the second set of paging occasions. And the UE may monitor, in accordance with the decision, at least one paging occasion for paging messages destined for the UE.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2014Date of Patent: July 11, 2017Assignee: Sprint Spectrum L.P.Inventors: Siddharth S. Oroskar, Jasinder P. Singh
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Patent number: 9699815Abstract: Wireless access points may automatically discover each other and establish connections based on accumulated credit values incremented via mutual exchanges of identifiers. A first access point may select a candidate access point for a potential connection, and may maintain a credit value for the selected candidate access point. The first access point may broadcast beacon messages, including an identification of the candidate access point and the credit value. Responsive to detecting a broadcast from the candidate access point including an identifier of the first access point, the first access point may increment the credit value. As each access point continues broadcasting beacon messages, it may increment its credit value for the other access point accordingly.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2015Date of Patent: July 4, 2017Assignee: HIRSCHMANN AUTOMATION AND CONTROL GMBHInventors: Lap Kong Law, Bernhard Wiegel, Constantin Baciu
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Patent number: 9699083Abstract: A frame search processing apparatus includes a frame information extraction unit (1) that extracts frame information from an input frame, a search processing unit (2) that compares the frame information with entry information, and a frame information output control unit (3) that controls output of the frame information to the search processing unit (2). The search processing unit (2) includes a plurality of comparison units that read out N pieces of entry information from a search table, and perform comparison between the entry information and the frame information at once.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2013Date of Patent: July 4, 2017Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Yuki Arikawa, Kenji Kawai, Yukikuni Nishida, Masami Urano, Keiichi Koike
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Patent number: 9698944Abstract: This disclosure describes methods for communicating simultaneously on multiple frequencies. In various implementations, if a wireless terminal receives a first set of data and a second set of data simultaneously on different frequencies, then it sends signals responsive to the first and second sets of data on different slots of a single uplink subframe and on different frequencies.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2014Date of Patent: July 4, 2017Assignee: Google Technology Holdings LLCInventors: Ravi Kuchibhotla, Robert T. Love, Ravikiran Nory
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Patent number: 9686675Abstract: A network monitoring node receives one or more data messages regarding User Equipment (UE) from one or more network interfaces for a communication session in the communication network continuously in real-time, determines a subscriber identification (ID) associated with the UE from the one or more data messages regarding the UE, and determines an equipment identification (ID) associated with the UE from the one or more data messages regarding the UE. The network monitoring node further receives a base-key associated with the UE from the one or more data messages regarding the UE, derives a decryption key from the base-key, decrypts a temporary ID associated with the UE from the one or more data messages regarding the UE based on the decryption key, maps the temporary ID with the subscriber ID for the UE, and the subscriber ID with the equipment ID for the UE, and assigns data messages for all further communication sessions to the UE based on the mapping.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2015Date of Patent: June 20, 2017Assignee: NETSCOUT SYSTEMS TEXAS, LLCInventors: Kanapathipillai Ketheesan, Kiran B. Suresh
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Patent number: 9686805Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method for processing a serving grant value, a user equipment and a network device, so that it can prevent a serving grant value of a UE from being excessively low. The method includes: taking, by a user equipment, a maximum value of historical values of a power ratio of a data channel to a control channel as a maximum power ratio value after receiving a non-serving relative grant down command sent by a network device; and obtaining, by the user equipment, a first serving grant value according to the maximum power ratio value and a first threshold, where the first threshold is a threshold of a serving grant value or a threshold of the power ratio of the data channel to the control channel.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2014Date of Patent: June 20, 2017Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventors: Bingzhao Li, Chuanfeng He
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Patent number: 9668264Abstract: Method in a transport network node, for distributing an available bandwidth between different access technologies utilizing the transport network node, the transport network node being associated with at least one network node. The method comprises obtaining an allocation scheme reflecting a desired distribution of bandwidth between the different access technologies, and receiving information from the at least one network node, regarding an access technology of the at least one network node. Furthermore, the method comprises scheduling transport of packet data, based on the received information regarding the access technology and the obtained allocation scheme. By implementing functionality in transport network nodes for scheduling transport of packet data based on the access technology, and number of active users, and/or number of active sessions, etc., the transport network node is enabled to allocate an appropriate amount of transport capacity fair between users of different access technologies.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2014Date of Patent: May 30, 2017Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET L M ERICSSON (PUBL)Inventors: Mats Forsman, Tomas Thyni
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Patent number: 9667400Abstract: A method for handling a transmission time interval, hereinafter called TTI, bundling operation for a mobile device of a wireless communication system includes transmitting a transport block in a first TTI bundle; and retransmitting the transport block when a non-positively-acknowledged feedback or an uplink grant for retransmission is received after the transport block transmission of the first TTI bundle and before a TTI where a feedback of the first TTI bundle is expected.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2014Date of Patent: May 30, 2017Assignee: HTC CorporationInventor: Chih-Hsiang Wu
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Patent number: 9668300Abstract: A portable radio provides operation in LTE and LMR radio bands. Improved filtering in the LTE receive path is provided through the use of a linear duplexer and a SAW filter. The SAW filter is implemented as a duplexer with one port terminated to provide a filter for the LTE RX path. The linear duplexer and SAW filter provide filtering for an LMR TX signal and an LTE TX signal which are simultaneously present at an LTE antenna of the radio. The linearity of the linear duplexer which reduces LTE TX and LMR TX signal levels combined with the selectivity of the SAW filter prevents intercept intermodulation in the LTE RX path.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2015Date of Patent: May 30, 2017Assignee: MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS, INC.Inventors: Henry W. Anderson, Timothy S. Mosher
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Patent number: 9668022Abstract: Techniques are presented for providing multimedia queue services. A multimedia queue manager manages queues of subscribers. The queues include selections for multimedia. The multimedia queue manager schedules broadcasts for the selections and informs recording devices of the subscribers to record the selections during those broadcasts. Moreover, the multimedia queue manager updates the queues in response to actions of the subscribers and/or actions of the recoding devices of the subscribers.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2015Date of Patent: May 30, 2017Assignee: OpenTV, Inc.Inventor: Nicholas C. Fishwick
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Patent number: 9660905Abstract: A method forwarding data traffic based on a service chain policy for distributed gateway located within a network virtualization edge (NVE). The NVE may receive, within a first virtual overlay network, a data packet destined for a destination tenant end point located in a second virtual overlay network. The NVE may determine that a network service function is unavailable to treat the data packet between the first virtual overlay network and the second virtual overlay network. In order to route the data packet, the NVE may obtain a service chain policy that provides the location of a network node configured to treat the data packet with the network service function. The NVE may transmit the data packet toward the network node. A service chain policy may correspond to a sequence of network nodes that represents a path to the destination tenant end point.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2014Date of Patent: May 23, 2017Assignee: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Linda Dunbar, Lucy Yong
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Patent number: 9661509Abstract: Mobility states are defined in order to prevent excess signaling overhead and to conserve power on a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) in a wireless network. The WTRU may determine that is operating in a low mobility state based on triggers related to the frequency of movement of the WTRU between network cells. The WTRU may change cells less frequently in a low or no mobility state than in a normal mobility state. Upon determining that the WTRU is in the low or no mobility state, the WTRU may configure mobility procedures associated with the low or no mobility state in order to conserve power and other network resources. The WTRU may coordinate its mobility state with the network.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2011Date of Patent: May 23, 2017Assignee: InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc.Inventors: Bhaskar Anepu, Diana Pani, Christopher Cave, Sylvie Gomes