Patents Examined by Bunjob Jaroenchonwanit
  • Patent number: 10015821
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and instrumentalities are described to implement an interference management method in a WLAN. An access point (AP) or an inter-BSS coordinator (IBC) may identify a station (STA) associated with a first basic service set (BSS) as an edge STA or a non-edge STA. The AP or the IBC may group the edge STA into an edge group and a non-edge STA into a non-edge group. The AP or the IBC may receive information associated with a second BSS. The AP or the IBC may coordinate access of the edge group and/or the non-edge group. The access may be coordinated to minimize interference of the edge STA. The access may be based at least on the received information associated with the second BSS. The AP or the IBC may adjust transmit power of a plurality of STAs identified as edge group STAs and non-edge group STAs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignee: InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Oghenekome Oteri, Hanqing Lou, Monisha Ghosh, Robert L. Olesen, Frank La Sita, Xiaofei Wang, Pengfei Xia, Nirav B. Shah
  • Patent number: 10009076
    Abstract: An objective of the application is to provide a method and apparatus for obtaining downlink data in a massive MIMO system. Specifically, the base station transmits a downlink control signaling indicating downlink channel estimation information to a user equipment, wherein the downlink control signaling comprises corresponding effective channel mean value information; performs zero-forcing precoding to a to-be-transmitted signal on each subcarrier of a transmission sub-band; transmits the zero-forcing precoded signal to the user equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventor: Keying Wu
  • Patent number: 10002369
    Abstract: A first set of data including a first tracking identifier for a first webpage component and a destination address for the first webpage component is accessed. A second set of data that includes an address for retrieving a second webpage component, is accessed. The address includes a second tracking identifier. Whether the second tracking identifier is the same as the first tracking identifier is determined. The second webpage component is associated with the destination address when the second tracking identifier is the same as the first tracking identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2018
    Assignee: comScore, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael A. Brown, Xinyu Huang, Glen Grant
  • Patent number: 9999058
    Abstract: Channel assignment for wireless access networks is directed toward improved overall communication capability of the networks. A network is formed of wireless access points (APs) coupled via wired (and/or wireless) links and enabled to communicate with clients via radio channels of each of the APs. Local information is collected at each of the APs and processed to determine channel assignments according to a Neighbor Impact Metric (NIM) that accounts for one-hop and two-hop neighbors as well as neighbors not part of the network. Optionally, the NIM accounts for traffic load on the APs. The channel assignments are determined either on a centralized resource (such as a server or one of the APs) or via a distributed scheme across the APs. The local information includes how busy a channel is and local operating conditions such as error rate and interference levels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: Firetide, Inc.
    Inventors: Jorjeta Jetcheva, Ravi Prakash, Vinay Gupta, Sachin Kanodia, Mohan Natarajan
  • Patent number: 9999072
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method comprising classifying user equipment (UE) cells, to which carrier aggregation is applied, into a plurality of time advance groups. Uplink-time synchronization is managed using the time synchronization of a primary cell (Pcell) in the time synchronization group to which the primary cell belongs. For other time synchronization groups, the uplink time synchronization is managed using the time synchronization of a secondary cell (SCell) that is particularly set in the relevant time synchronization group. Thus, the plurality of time synchronizations can be effectively managed for the UE and a base station (BS).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Sungjun Park, Sungduck Chun, Sunghoon Jung, Seungjune Yi, Youngdae Lee
  • Patent number: 9986539
    Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided for transmitting UCI through a PUSCH. The method includes coding data bits and UCI bits, respectively; multiplexing the coded data bits and the coded UCI bits; and transmitting the multiplexed bits. The PUSCH includes two TBs, and a number of coded modulation symbols per layer of the UCI is determined based on a value related to a number of bits in at least one code block of a first TB, a number of Single-Carrier Frequency Division Multiple Access symbols of the first TB, scheduled bandwidth for the first TB, a value related to a number of bits in at least one code block of a second TB, a number of Single-Carrier Frequency Division Multiple Access symbols of the second TB, scheduled bandwidth for the second TB, a number of bits of the UCI, and an offset of the PUSCH.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Aris Papasakellariou, Young-Bum Kim
  • Patent number: 9973347
    Abstract: The present application relates to the technical field of field bus communication, and in particular to a protocol converter between a CPCI bus and an ISA bus and a conversion method thereof, which are suitable for communication between railway vehicle CPUs and vehicle bus MVB devices. The protocol converter comprises a CPCI local bus interface extension timing module, an ISA bus interface timing module, a CPCI bus matching ISA bus timing interface module, and a clock management module. The CPCI bus realizes communication with the ISA bus by the protocol converter. The traditional conversion bridge chips are replaced with the protocol converters without changing the traction controller structure and other devices in the system; the flexibility is high; and the functions are diverse. In addition, 8-bit data width or 16-bit data width of the ISA bus is supported, and the operation of an ISA bus device by a CPCI bus device in the form of IO or in the form of MEMORY is supported.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: CRRC QINGDAO SIFANG ROLLING ROCK RESEARCH INSTITUTE CO., LTD
    Inventors: Yawei Zhang, Mengxiang Zhu, Jiaomei Qin, Shuang Wang
  • Patent number: 9955422
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, are provided for power optimization. In one aspect there is provided a method. The method may include receiving, at a user equipment, configuration information including an active time wherein the active time is less than an allowed clock drift of a clock at the user equipment; and receiving, at the user equipment, data sent in advance by an application server, wherein the advance comprises a time based on at least the allowed clock drift. Related apparatus, systems, methods, and articles are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventor: Jari Kalevi Mutikainen
  • Patent number: 9955382
    Abstract: There is provided handling of wireless links in a wireless backhaul network. Load information from an end-user access network and from a wireless backhaul network is acquired. A current network topology of the wireless backhaul network is associated with a current performance value as a function of the acquired load information. An estimated performance value for a new network topology is provided according to which at least one wireless link for a client node has been redirected from a current hub node sector to a new hub node sector. The at least one wireless link is redirected according to the new network topology in a case the estimated performance value is higher than the current performance value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ)
    Inventors: Martin Hessler, Joel Berglund
  • Patent number: 9949185
    Abstract: Mobile service anchor management (MSAM) is facilitated. MSAM is an anchor management function/system for radio frequency (RF) access configuration/reconfiguration over the downlink, and uplink separated novel frequency division duplex systems. One method comprises determining, by a MSAM system comprising a processor, that a mobile device communicatively coupled to a first network device is associated with a region in which the first network device fails to have line of sight communication with the mobile device; and assigning, by the mobile service anchor management system, the mobile device to a second network device determined to have the line of sight communication for the region. Millimeter watt (mmW) BS devices and devices that operate on other RF bands can be utilized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: Yuang Lou, Douglas A. Duet
  • Patent number: 9949204
    Abstract: An example embodiment enhances power savings in a wireless network, where each wireless device has a hop count value indicating how many hops away is one or more central wireless devices. A device determines that it has information to deliver to the one or more central devices. It selects a device of the one or more other wireless devices, the selected device having a smaller hop count value, than the hop count value of the device. It enters a sleep mode based on a known repetition interval of wireless device discovery messages received from the selected device. The device awakes from the sleep mode based on the known repetition interval of wireless device discovery messages of the selected device. It then creates a connection with the selected device and transmitting to the selected device the information for delivery to the one or more central devices via the connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: Provenance Asset Group LLC
    Inventors: Arto Palin, Jukka Reunamaki, Teemu Savolainen
  • Patent number: 9948446
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a telecommunications device. The telecommunications device includes an electrical balance duplexer connected to an output node of a transmission path, an input node of a receive path, an antenna, and a tunable impedance. The electrical balance duplexer is configured to isolate the transmission path from the receive path by tuning the tunable impedance. The telecommunications device also includes a tuning circuit for tuning the tunable impedance. The tuning circuit includes amplitude detectors for measuring voltage amplitudes, phase detectors for measuring voltage phase differences, an impedance sensor for measuring an input impedance of the electrical balance duplexer, and a processing unit operatively connected to the detectors, the impedance sensor, and the tunable impedance. The processing unit is configured to calculate an optimized impedance value. The processing unit is also configured to tune the tunable impedance towards the optimized impedance value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignees: IMEC VZW, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
    Inventors: Barend Wilhelmus Marinus van Liempd, Benjamin Hershberg, Nathalie Fievet
  • Patent number: 9930619
    Abstract: A method for operating of an electronic device includes: connecting communication with an external electronic device; identifying state information and service information of the electronic device and the external electronic device; and selecting at least one communication method based on the state information and the service information. An electronic device includes a communication module and a processor. The processor is configured to select at least one communication method from a plurality of communication methods based on state information and service information of the electronic device and the external electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Gi-Beom Kim, Hyuk Kang, Chun-Ho Park, Jun-Hak Lim, Jun-Sik Kwon, Hyun-Ju Lee
  • Patent number: 9930724
    Abstract: method is provided for communicating with a User Equipment (UE) supporting a High Power Saving Reception Mode (HPSRM) mode by an evolved Node B (eNB) in a wireless communication system. The method includes receiving Discontinuous Reception (DRX) cycle information from a network entity performing mobility management for the UE by the eNB communicating with the UE over a wireless link; and broadcasting system information including the DRX cycle information. The DRX cycle information is set longer than DRX cycle information of a UE non-supporting the HPSRM mode. By doing so, an efficient paging method for an UE operating in the HPSRM mode may be provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kyeong-In Jeong, Soeng-Hun Kim, Jung-Soo Jung, Sang-Bum Kim
  • Patent number: 9917789
    Abstract: Embodiments include methods and apparatuses for allocating computing elements in a data receiving link. Aspects include receiving baseband data in the data receiving link and allocating a computing element from a resource pool of computing elements for converting the baseband data to transmission block data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Xinhao Cheng, Yonghua Lin, Chao Xue, Rong Yan, Chao Zhu
  • Patent number: 9918315
    Abstract: A wireless telecommunications system in which downlink communications are made using a radio interface that spans a system frequency bandwidth (host carrier) and supports at least some communications from a base station to least some terminal devices within a plurality of restricted frequency bands (virtual carriers) which are narrower than and within the system frequency bandwidth. A terminal device conveys an indication of its identity, e.g. an IMSI, to the base station during an initial connection procedure as the terminal device seeks to access the radio interface. The terminal device and the base station both determine a selected restricted frequency band from among the plurality of restricted frequency bands based on the identity of the terminal device in the same way.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Brian Alexander Martin, Yuichi Morioka
  • Patent number: 9913106
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method of transmitting broadcast signals. The method includes, generating plural input streams, wherein each of the plural input streams include plural input packets; link layer processing the input packets in the plural input streams to generate link layer packets; physical layer processing the link layer packets in physical layer, to generate the broadcast signals; and transmitting the generated broadcast signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Woosuk Kwon, Woosuk Ko, Sungryong Hong, Sejin Oh, Kyoungsoo Moon
  • Patent number: 9906379
    Abstract: A method is disclosed for providing a network bridge between a source and a receiving network of a communication network, wherein the network bridge includes two content-bridging nodes connected between the source and the receiving networks according to a redundancy schema defined in IEC62439-3. The method can include assigning a common source network node identifier to the two content-bridging nodes; receiving, by each of the two content-bridging nodes, network traffic within the source network; and forwarding, by each of the two content-bridging nodes using the source network identifier, the network traffic from the source to the receiving networks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Ioannis Sotiropoulos, Rida Jichi, Otmar Gorlitz, Thomas Werner, Claudio Honegger
  • Patent number: 9907094
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. More specifically, the present invention relates to random access procedures in a wireless network employing TDD scheme. According to one aspect of the present invention, the a user equipment (UE), receiving information a first time division duplex (TDD) uplink/downlink (UL/DL) subframe configuration and information on a second TDD UL/DL subframe configuration informing the UE of a change from the first TDD UL/DL subframe configuration, communicates with the network based on the second TDD UL/DL subframe configuration, but performs a random access procedure based on the first TDD UL/DL subframe configuration, when the random access procedure is initiated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Seungjune Yi, Sunyoung Lee, Youngdae Lee
  • Patent number: 9900873
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method and device for transmitting parameters and a method and device for generating parameters. The method for transmitting parameters comprises: a transmission node determines a first set of parameters for the transmission node to generate at least one user equipment specific reference signal; and the transmission node sends the first set of parameters to one or more transmission nodes adjacent to the transmission node. Through the disclosure, interference between user equipment specific reference signals of transmission nodes is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yijian Chen, Jun Xu, Yu Ngok Li, Bo Dai, Junfeng Zhang