Patents Examined by Camquyen Thai
  • Patent number: 9661549
    Abstract: This node, applying an information broadcasting service of the flooding type, includes a controller for accessing the radio resource able to perform dynamic containment for accessing the radio resource. It is characterized in that it includes a network coder allowing generation of the data packets so that each packet includes, in the payload portion, a message (M) resulting from the combination of a plurality of pieces of information (Info_idi) to be broadcast, and in the header portion, a list (L) of the identifiers (Idk) of the pieces of information combined in the message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: THALES
    Inventors: David Lim, Pascale Fouillot, Vania Conan, Damien Lavaux, Didier Pirez
  • Patent number: 9628242
    Abstract: An embodiment of the present invention relates to a method in which a base station transmits a signal in a wireless communication system, comprising: a step of generating a reception acknowledgement response to the uplink data received from a terminal; and a step of mapping the reception acknowledgement response to a downlink time-frequency resource and transmitting the mapped result. The downlink time-frequency resource is located on a resource region excluding the control region indicated by a physical control format indicator channel, and associated with the index of the resource block with which the uplink data is transmitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Hyeyoung Choi, Jinmin Kim, Seunghee Han, Hyukmin Son, Hyunwoo Lee
  • Patent number: 9629144
    Abstract: A method and system for managing time segments per subframe used for downlink control channel communication by adjacent base stations. The base stations may work with each other to arrange for their respective use of different time segments per subframe for their respective downlink control channel use. Further, each base station may also avoid downlink traffic channel communication in the time segments per subframe that the other base station will be using for control channel communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: Sprint Spectrum L.P.
    Inventors: Suryanarayanan Ramamurthy, Deveshkumar N. Rai, Naresh Madineni
  • Patent number: 9602255
    Abstract: A method for operating a communications controller includes allocating a number of resource blocks to an enhanced physical downlink shared channel (ePDSCH), and identifying a starting point for the resource blocks of the ePDSCH, the starting point located within a control region of a subframe. The method also includes signaling to a user equipment (UE) the starting point of the resource blocks and the number of resource blocks allocated to the ePDSCH.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignee: FUTUREWEI TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Philippe Sartori, Anthony C. K. Soong, Fredrik Berggren
  • Patent number: 9590762
    Abstract: An access point (AP) includes a transceiver to service wireless client traffic on wireless channels within a channel bandwidth. The AP services wireless client traffic in a first channel bandwidth and sets a receiver bandwidth to include the first channel bandwidth and a second channel bandwidth initially not available for servicing wireless client traffic. Concurrent with servicing the wireless client traffic in the first channel bandwidth, the AP searches the second channel bandwidth for any interference signal. If no interference signal is found in the second channel bandwidth, the AP declares the second channel bandwidth free of interference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: David Kloper, Raghuram Rangarajan, Greg Corsetto
  • Patent number: 9585226
    Abstract: A load control system may include a load control device for providing power to an electrical load and a control device that may send instructions to the load control device for providing the power to the electrical load. The control device may communicate with the load control device using a link address assigned to the load control device. The load control device may provide power to the electrical load in a manner that causes the electrical load to indicate the link address assigned to the load control device. The link address may be identified by a user or a user device. The identified link address may be associated with a load control device identifier that may identify a physical location of a load control device that is assigned the link address. A user may control a load control device at a physical location by sending instructions via the link address.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: LUTRON ELECTRONICS CO., INC.
    Inventors: Rupesh Gajurel, Sandeep Mudabail Raghuram, Rhodes B. Baker, Brian Michael Courtney
  • Patent number: 9577956
    Abstract: A system and method can support multi-homed routing in a network environment, which can be based on InfiniBand architecture using a fat-tree or a similar topology. The system can provide an end node that is associated with a switch port on a leaf switch in a network fabric. Then, the system can perform routing for each of a plurality of ports on the end node, and ensure that the plurality of ports on the end node take mutually independent paths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Bartosz Bogdanski, Bjørn Dag Johnsen
  • Patent number: 9559822
    Abstract: Embodiments relate to a method and mobile node in a wireless communication system for determining when to transmit a signal. The mobile node operates in the wireless communication system comprising a first cell and a second cell where the mobile node is synchronized to the first cell. The method comprises determining a timing reference based on a reception of a downlink transmission in the first cell. The method further comprises transmitting the signal, to be received in the second cell, at a point in time based on the timing reference and a timing advance value of the first cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ)
    Inventors: Mattias Bergström, Robert Baldemair, Mikael Wittberg
  • Patent number: 9521070
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a first port coupled to a first network, a second port coupled to a second network, a first memory, and a first processor coupled to the first memory and configured to execute first routing processing related to communication performed by the information processing apparatus and a first information processing apparatus coupled to the first port through the first network, execute second routing processing related to communication performed by the first information processing apparatus and a second information processing apparatus coupled to the second port through the second network, when a failure occurs in the first port, cause a third information processing apparatus coupled to both of the first and second networks to execute the first routing processing, and when a failure occurs in the second port, cause the third information processing apparatus to execute the second routing processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventor: Masahiro Sato
  • Patent number: 9515913
    Abstract: A computer-based system to schedule network traffic in a communication network includes a processor coupled to a first node of a network, a memory module coupled to the processor. Logic instructions are stored on a tangible computer readable medium which, when executed by the processor, configure the processor to receive at the first node of the network, situational awareness information from at least a second network node which is directly accessible by the first node, identify, in the first node, situational awareness information commonly known by multiple nodes across the network, generate a network schedule based on the commonly known situational information, generate a shortest path routing table from the first node to all other network nodes based on the network schedule, and route network traffic at the first node using the network schedule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventor: Bruce J. Lord
  • Patent number: 9497126
    Abstract: A communication device includes a packet-length table, a transmitter, a receiver, and a table update unit. The packet-length table stores, in association with an identifier of a network, a length of a packet to be transmitted to a device belonging to the network. The transmitter obtains a length of a packet associated with a network to which a destination device belongs, and transmits a packet whose length is equal to or less than the obtained length of a packet. The receiver receives a message when a length of the packet transmitted to the destination device is greater than a length of a packet that is able to be transmitted to a network included in a route leading to the destination device. The message indicates a maximum packet length. The table update unit updates a packet length associated with a network including the destination device to the maximum packet length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2016
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventor: Naoki Matsuhira
  • Patent number: 9450780
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus and systems for improved performance and energy efficiency of software-based routers. A software router running on a host computer system employing multiple Network Interface Controllers (NICs) maintains a routing table wherein packet flows are classified as managed flows (MFs) under which packets are received at and forwarded from the same NIC and unmanaged flows UFs under which packets are received at and forwarded from different NICs. Forwarding table data is employed by a NIC to facilitate packet identification and flow classification operations under which the NIC determines whether a received packet is an MF, UF, or an unclassified flow. Under various schemes, packet forwarding for MFs is handled by the software router architecture such that either only the packet header is copied into memory in the host or the entire packet forwarding is handled by the NIC.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Ren Wang, Jr-Shian Tsai, Maziar H. Manesh, Tsung-Yuan C. Tai, Ahmad Samih
  • Patent number: 9444571
    Abstract: A control information transmission apparatus which can reduce the interference power of the control signal of the terminal connected to the femtocell is provided. The control information transmission apparatus comprises an arrangement unit that arranges some or all of control signals for a terminal in an extension part among resources including a compatible part and the extension part; and a transmission unit that transmits some or all of the arranged control signals for the terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Atsushi Sumasu, Akihiko Nishio, Ayako Horiuchi, Masayuki Hoshino, Yoshihiko Ogawa, Takashi Iwai, Shinsuke Takaoka, Daichi Imamura, Seigo Nakao
  • Patent number: 9444676
    Abstract: A method is implemented by a network device in a network having a plurality of nodes. The method computes a remote loop free alternative (RLFA) next hop as a backup for a primary path next hop. The method improves RLFA computation efficiency for a Q-Space list of nodes in a Q-space for an endpoint node by reducing calculations of the loop free condition for a path from a source node to a destination node via a tunnel between the source node and the endpoint node. The method includes adding a neighbor node to a poison list where the candidate node is in the poison list and the neighbor node is not in the candidate list, the poison list indicating that a node is not a candidate for Q-Space, and determining the Q-Space list by removing nodes from poison list from the plurality of nodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Alfred C. Lindem, III, Lars Ernstrom, Vasant Patil
  • Patent number: 9386128
    Abstract: A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for wireless communication are provided. The apparatus stores data packets in a buffer. In addition, the apparatus determines a delay of at least one data packet of the data packets in the buffer. Furthermore, the apparatus controls a TCP data flow rate based on the determined delay. The apparatus may also store ACKs in a second buffer and drop an ACK of the stored ACKs when one of a number of stored ACKs is greater than a first threshold or a size of the stored ACKs is greater than a second threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2016
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Navid Ehsan, Thomas Klingenbrunn
  • Patent number: 9379935
    Abstract: A device may receive a packet, determine whether the received packet is encapsulated with a first header associated with a cached routing service, and determine whether the received packet is to be provided with the cached routing service when the received packet is not encapsulated with the first header associated with the cached routing service. In response to determining that the received packet is to be provided with the cached routing service, the device may encapsulate the received packet with a second header associated with the cached routing service, send the encapsulated packet toward a destination of the packet, and store the encapsulated packet in a buffer in a memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Douglas Carney, Harold Jason Schiller, Dante John Pacella
  • Patent number: 9374184
    Abstract: A method, apparatus, and computer program for interference cancellation in communication systems is provided. The method includes controlling of code block to physical layer mapping. The controlling includes mapping code blocks to the physical layer such that interfering signals become self-decodable at a receiving bandwidth of the user equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: NOKIA SOLUTIONS AND NETWORKS OY
    Inventors: Kari Pekka Pajukoski, Esa Tapani Tiirola, Olav Tirkkonen
  • Patent number: 9363203
    Abstract: Some embodiments of the invention include an interconnect structure to transfer data among a plurality of devices. The interconnect structure includes a crossbar and a number of interconnect branches coupled to the crossbar. Each of the interconnect branches includes a number of connector circuits coupled in series to transfer data in a group of devices of the plurality of devices. The crossbar includes a number of connector circuits coupled in series to allow one group of devices from one interconnect branch to exchange data with another group of devices from another interconnect branch. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventor: Martin S. Denham
  • Patent number: 9326163
    Abstract: At least one example embodiment discloses a method of controlling interference between a plurality of user equipments (UEs) in a network including a plurality of cells, each of the cells being at least one of a serving cell and neighboring cell. The method includes obtaining first path loss data of communications between the UEs and serving cells and second path loss data of communications between the UEs and neighboring cells, determining first parameters and nominal power parameters for the plurality of cells, respectively, based on the first path loss data and the second path loss data and determining nominal interferences for the plurality of cells, respectively, based on the respective first parameter and nominal power parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Pantelis Monogioudis, Supratim Deb
  • Patent number: 9325462
    Abstract: In a user equipment UE according to the present invention which appropriately measures downlink radio quality when multi-carrier transmission is performed, the user equipment UE includes a measurement unit 22B configured to perform measurement processes in the first carrier and the second carrier, wherein when simultaneous communication of a downlink signal in the first carrier and a downlink signal in the second carrier is performed, the measurement unit 22B is configured to perform only the measurement process in the second carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Takeshi Nakamori, Hiroyuki Ishii, Hiromasa Umeda