Patents Examined by Brian O Connor
  • Patent number: 9942065
    Abstract: A wireless communication device includes a wireless communication unit and a processor. The wireless communication unit connects to relays for wireless communication and transmits and receives communication data via the relays by wireless communication. The processor determines a second relay different from a first relay currently connected to the wireless communication unit and a timing of connection to the second relay based on a predetermined connection standard. When setting are provided for switching destination to the second relay at the timing of connection, the processor instructs the wireless communication unit to send information on the second relay and information at the timing of connection to other predetermined wireless communication device. The processor instructs the wireless communication unit to switch the destination to the second relay at the timing of connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yoshiaki Nakamura
  • Patent number: 9935726
    Abstract: A wireless data acquisition system includes a data acquisition unit including a data sensor; a first wireless data link and a second wireless timing link with predicable or low latency. Stimulus and time markers come from a trigger generator. Data signals from the data sensor are transmitted across the wireless data link and timing information of the data acquisition unit is transmitted across the wireless timing link. A receiving host receives the transmitted data and timing information for logging and/or processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: Cognionics, Inc.
    Inventor: Yu Mike Chi
  • Patent number: 9936437
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method and a device for transmitting data in a WLAN system. The method for transmitting data comprising the steps of: assigning a relay device an R-BSS AID resource for being allocated to a terminal connected an R-BSS from a main access point; and allocating, by the relay device, an AID to the terminal connected to the R-BSS within the R-BSS AID resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: KT Corporation
    Inventors: Yang Seok Jeong, Joo Young Kim
  • Patent number: 9936531
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a method for proximity discovery among user equipments (UEs). The method includes: a UE registers with a device to device (DTD) server and obtains DTD default resources from a received registration response. When the UE is a user to be discovered and is not in coverage, it sends a discovery message on the DTD default resources. When the UE is a discovering user, it receives the discovery message on the DTD default resources. The present invention also discloses a device. With the technical solution of the present invention, it is not only possible to support a discovering service and a to-be-discovered service when the UE is in coverage, but also to support the same services when the UE is not in coverage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hong Wang, Lixiang Xu, Xiaowan Ke
  • Patent number: 9930564
    Abstract: A method of and an application server and user equipment for providing at least one of chat and Voice over Internet Protocol, chat/VoIP, services to the mobile user equipment in a mobile telecommunications network. The mobile user equipment comprises a chat/VoIP client for accessing a chat/VoIP service application interfacing the mobile telecommunications network. The chat/VoIP service application interfaces a plurality of proprietary chat/VoIP clients for accessing a plurality of proprietary chat/VoIP communication environments operated by a plurality of chat/VoIP service providers, for providing chat/VoIP services to the chat/VoIP client of the mobile user equipment. The chat/VoIP client and the chat/VoIP service application may be arranged such that privileged use of the mobile telecommunications network is enabled, providing a session between the user equipment and a communication environment with a predetermined or agreed Quality of Service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventor: Jos den Hartog
  • Patent number: 9924547
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present application provide a channel access method and an access point. The method includes: sending, by a first AP in a first system, a sense time identifier used to identify a sense time reserved on a channel to a first STA in the first system, so as to instruct the first STA to neither send information nor perform random access within the sense time; searching the channel within the sense time for a sequence that is used for random access and that is in a second system, so as to obtain a search result, and determining, according to the search result, whether the channel is obtained by means of competition; The technical solution of the present application provides a new channel access mechanism, which can implement coexistence of a next-generation WiFi system with a traditional WiFi system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Lianbo Zhang, Yunbo Li, Jing Li
  • Patent number: 9923692
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method performed in a network node of a communication system for configuring a communication device with channel state information, CSI, resources. The method comprises: configuring CSI resources for at least two sectors, the CSI resources comprising CSI reference signal, RS, resources and CSI interference measurements, IM, resources, such that the sectors are configured with same CSI IM resources, and such that each of the sectors is configured with CSI RS resources differing from the other sectors; and configuring the communication device to use a respective CSI resource configuration for each of at least two CSI processes, wherein each CSI resource configuration defines resources corresponding to resources of the configuring of a respective sector, whereby each CSI process specifies use of same CSI IM resources as the other CSI processes and CSI RS resources different from the other CSI processes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Ying Sun, Jing Rao
  • Patent number: 9913274
    Abstract: An apparatus and a method are provided for allocating resources, in which a base station allocates a time slot to a terminal in a wireless communication system supporting a time division multiple access scheme. The method includes a monitoring block of monitoring a channel state of the terminal after allocating a time slot for the terminal. The method also includes adjusting, by increasing or reducing, the number of the existing allocated time slots when the channel state of the terminal satisfies a preset time slot adjustment requirement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yun-Seok Choi, Hee-Won Kang, Keun-Chul Hwang
  • Patent number: 9912613
    Abstract: According to one exemplary embodiment, a method for orchestrating a flow of a packet through a software-defined network (SDN) switch is provided. The method may include determining at least one available service associated with the SDN switch. The method may also include receiving the packet at an input port associated with the SDN switch, wherein the packet has a destination value and a packet type. The method may then include generating a flow entry based on the at least one available service and the packet type, wherein the flow entry has a plurality of entry characteristics and an action. The method may further include selecting the flow entry based on matching the plurality of entry characteristics to the destination value and the packet type. The method may also include performing the action associated with the selected flow entry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Wei-Ting Chou, Cheng-Ta Lee, Jeffrey C. H. Liu, Hao-Ting Shih
  • Patent number: 9906591
    Abstract: The processing of data packets sent over a communication session between a host and a server by a service gateway includes processing a data packet using a current hybrid-stateful or hybrid-stateless processing method. The processing then checks whether a hybrid-stateless or hybrid-stateful condition is satisfied. When one of the sets of conditions is satisfied, the process includes changing from a hybrid-stateful to a hybrid-stateless processing method, or vice versa, for a subsequently received data packet. If the conditions are not satisfied, the process continues as originally structured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: A10 NETWORKS, INC.
    Inventors: Rajkumar Jalan, Feilong Xu, Lalgudi Narayanan Kannan, Ronald Wai Lun Szeto
  • Patent number: 9900853
    Abstract: The present invention, which is utilized in a wireless access system supporting carrier aggregation (CA), relates to methods for acquiring an uplink synchronization from two or more geographically distanced cells, particularly S-cells, and indicating that the corresponding cell is an S-cell, and to an apparatus for supporting same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Bonghoe Kim, Suckchel Yang, Yunjung Yi, Joonkui Ahn
  • Patent number: 9888097
    Abstract: Methods and systems for implementing private allocated networks in a virtual infrastructure are presented. One method operation creates virtual switches in one or more hosts in the virtual infrastructure. Each port in the virtual switches is associated with a private allocated network (PAN) from a group of possible PANs. In one embodiment, one or more PANs share the same physical media for data transmission. The intranet traffic within each PAN is not visible to nodes that are not connected to the each PAN. In another operation, the method defines addressing mode tables for the intranet traffic within each PAN. The entries in the addressing mode tables define addressing functions for routing the intranet traffic between the virtual switches, and different types of addressing functions are supported by the virtual switches.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: NICIRA, INC.
    Inventors: W. Andrew Lambeth, Anupam Dalal, Borislav Deianov, Jun Xiao
  • Patent number: 9882641
    Abstract: A data communication system comprises a central office processor which comprises a first input mapping unit, a first wave-front multiplexer, and a first output mapping unit. The first input mapping unit receives and dynamically maps digital data into a plurality of first electronic signals. The first wave-front multiplexer is coupled to the first input mapping unit to receive the first electronic signals, perform a wave-front multiplexing transformation on the first electronic signals, and output wave-front multiplexed signals, each of the wave-front multiplexed signals being a linear combination of the first electronic signals. The first output mapping unit is coupled to the first wave-front multiplexer to receive and dynamically map the wave-front multiplexed signals into second electronic signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: Spatial Digital Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Donald C. D. Chang
  • Patent number: 9882677
    Abstract: For data transmission in a wireless communication network, a radio channel divided into subframes in the time domain is used. A network system (100) assigns resource elements in a first subframe (20) and at least one subsequent subframe (21, 22) to a user equipment (200). By downlink control information transmitted in the first subframe (20), the network system (100) sends a multi-subframe assignment (503) to the user equipment (200). The multi-subframe assignment (503) indicates the assigned resource elements to the user equipment (200). In at least a part of the assigned resource elements in the first subframe (20) and at least a part of the assigned resource elements in the at least one subsequent subframe (21, 22), the network system (100) transmits precoded reference symbols (504, 06, 508) to the user equipment (200).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: David Hammarwall, George Jöngren
  • Patent number: 9877278
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to technology for a base station to signal user equipment to monitor a narrowband control channel in a wideband system. The base station sends a configuration signaling to configure the user equipment including a designation of subframe(s). The base station then determines whether to signal the user equipment to monitor the subframe(s) using one of a narrowband bandwidth and a system bandwidth. In response to the base station signaling the user equipment to monitor the narrowband bandwidth, the base station communicates with the user equipment using the narrowband bandwidth. In response to the base station signaling the user equipment to monitor the system bandwidth, the base station sends a probe message within the narrowband bandwidth to the user equipment, where the probe message signals to the user equipment to begin monitoring the system bandwidth and to communicate with the user equipment using the system bandwidth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2018
    Assignee: FUTUREWEI TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Philippe Sartori, Vipul Desai, Lukasz Krzymien, Carmela Cozzo, Qian Cheng, Anthony Soong, Jialing Liu
  • Patent number: 9876541
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a method in a wireless access network node for controlling a UE. The UE comprises at least two transmit antennas, and is capable of uplink transmit diversity. There is an antenna weight associated with each transmit antenna. First, the wireless access network node determines that the antenna weights of the user equipment may be controlled. Then, it creates a control signal that comprises control information and transmits it to the user equipment. The control information controls a UE autonomous selection of the antenna weights in the UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2018
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Johan Bergman, Johan Hultell, Niklas Johansson, Erik Larsson
  • Patent number: 9877259
    Abstract: Operational and environmental efficiency in virtual radio access networks (VRANs) can be improved by offloading data traffic and/or control signaling between physical transmit points (TPs) of a virtual TP. This may allow one or more physical TPs of the virtual TP to be muted in the downlink or uplink direction, thereby reducing energy consumption. The offloading may be performed during relatively short time-intervals such that physical TP are muted for one or more transmission time intervals (TTIs) before being re-activated. The offloading may also be implemented over longer time-intervals in accordance with a traffic engineering (TE) policy. Further it is possible to re-activate a de-activated downlink transmitter of physical TP by monitoring wireless signals via an activated receiver of the physical TP.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2018
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mohamed Adel Salem, Jianglei Ma, Mohammadhadi Baligh
  • Patent number: 9876715
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods of forwarding packets on a network, such as a leaf-spine network having leaf devices and spine devices. The methods may include receiving a packet at an ingress leaf device, and determining based, at least in part, on a header of the packet whether the packet is to be transmitted to a spine device. The methods may further include ascertaining based, at least in part, on a header of the packet whether to perform encapsulation on the packet, encapsulating the packet according to a result of the ascertaining, and then transmitting the packet to a spine device according to a result of the determining. Also disclosed herein are network apparatuses which include a processor and a memory, at least one of the processor or the memory being configured to perform some or all of the foregoing described methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2018
    Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Thomas James Edsall, Navindra Yadav, Francisco M. Matus, Kit Chiu Chu, Michael R. Smith, Sameer Merchant, Krishna Doddapaneni, Satyam Sinha
  • Patent number: 9872301
    Abstract: An embodiment of the present invention provides a method for receiving a signal with an interference eliminated. The method for receiving a signal with an interference eliminated includes the steps of: receiving the information of PBCH (Physical Broadcast Channel) of a neighbor interference cell from a serving cell; receiving the information of the downlink synchronization with the neighbor interference cell from the serving cell; identifying the channel of the serving cell suffering an interference by PBCH of the neighbor interference cell based on the information of the downlink synchronization; and eliminating the interference for receiving the identified channel based on the information of PBCH of the neighbor interference cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2018
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Yoonoh Yang, Sangwook Lee, Manyoung Jung, Suhwan Lim, Jinyup Hwang
  • Patent number: 9860151
    Abstract: Some embodiments provide a method for a first network controller that manages a set of logical forwarding elements implemented in several managed forwarding elements. The method receives a request to trace a specified packet having a particular source on a logical forwarding element. The method generates the packet according to the packet specification. The generated packet includes an indicator that the packet is for a trace operation. The method sends the packet to a second network controller that manages a managed forwarding element associated with the particular source. The method receives a first set of messages regarding operations performed on the packet from a set of network controllers that receives a second set of messages regarding operations performed on the packet from a set of managed forwarding elements that process the packet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: NICIRA, INC.
    Inventors: Igor Ganichev, Pankaj Thakkar, Teemu Koponen, Mo Dong