Patents Examined by Cassandra Decker
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Patent number: 9451486Abstract: A method for performing measurements in a digital cellular wireless telecommunication network is provided. An embodiment of the method includes determining free resources of a set of cells of the telecommunication network, determining a subset of the plurality of mobile devices, setting the subset of the plurality of mobile devices into a probing mode, determining the location of the subset of mobile devices in the probing mode, exchanging test signals between the mobile devices in the probing mode and the base stations of the set of cells, performing a plurality of measurements of signal strengths and/or signal powers of the test signals, determining average values from the plurality of measurements, and storing the average values of the plurality of measurements to provide a result of the measurement.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2012Date of Patent: September 20, 2016Assignee: Alcatel LucentInventors: Andre Fonseca Dos Santos, Edgar Kuehn
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Patent number: 9432467Abstract: An example apparatus includes a memory and a call session controller. The memory is to store a first public user identifier in association with a first nomadic service designator and a first operating mode designator, and to store a second public user identifier in association with a second nomadic service designator and a second operating mode designator. The call session controller is to determine whether a first call using the first public user identifier is eligible to be established based on the first nomadic service designator and the first operating mode designator, and determine whether a second call using the second public user identifier is eligible to be established based on the second nomadic service designator and based on the second operating mode designator.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2015Date of Patent: August 30, 2016Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Richard L. Khan, Chaoxin Qiu, Robert F. Dailey
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Patent number: 9408111Abstract: Embodiments of a WiFi system and method for time-sliced associations for make-before-break handover in the WiFi system are generally described herein. In some embodiments, the method monitors metrics of a serving channel of the WiFi system to determine whether to increase a channel scanning rate of target channels of the WiFi system. The channel scanning rate of the target channel may be increased in response to the metrics. A time-sliced association with one or more target cells on the target channel may be performed while an association with a serving cell on the serving channel may be maintained. The wireless client may be transitioned from the serving cell to the target cell in response to the metrics while obscuring the complexity from the device operating system and active applications.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2013Date of Patent: August 2, 2016Assignee: Intel CorporationInventor: Brent Elliott
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Patent number: 9398427Abstract: A resource efficient approach for push-to-talk (PTT) services over a mobile communications network is provided. A remote terminal (UT) receives a command for initiating a PTT session. The UT generates a RAB binding create message, including a PTT session identifier and RAB binding information, and transmits the RAB binding create message to a wireless gateway. The UT receives a RAB binding response from the wireless gateway, and performs a protocol signaling process for establishing PDP bearers, and for establishing the PTT session on a PTT server. The UT receives a command for initiation of media transmission for the PTT session, generates talk burst (TB) request message, and transmits the request message to the wireless gateway (the TB request message is transmitted via media access control (MAC) layer control messaging). In response, the UT receives a talk burst grant message from the wireless gateway.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2013Date of Patent: July 19, 2016Assignee: Hughes Network Systems, LLCInventors: Deepak Arur, Channasandra Ravishankar, Nassir Benammar, Gaguk Zakaria, Steve Mirra
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Patent number: 9391875Abstract: A method for network analysis includes determining an initial set of demands upon the resources of a network, determining a new set of demands upon the resources of the network, apply a policy for assigning a demand of the new set of demands to a demand of the initial set of demands, create a dependency for the assignment of the demand of the new set of demands to the demand of the initial set of demands, construct a sub-graph including the dependency, and incorporate the sub-graph into a resource-oriented-dependency graph. Each demand includes a quantification.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2013Date of Patent: July 12, 2016Assignee: Fujitsu LimitedInventors: Qiong Zhang, Paparao Palacharla, Chengyi Gao, Xi Wang, Motoyoshi Sekiya
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Patent number: 9374811Abstract: The present invention relates to a wireless communication system, and more particularly, to a method and apparatus for transceiving a downlink hybrid automatic repeat (HARQ). According to one embodiment of the present invention, a method for setting an HARQ process by a terminal in a wireless communication system may comprise the steps of: receiving, from a base station, limited-resource information indicating a resource the use of which for downlink transmission to the terminal is limited; determining an HARQ process to be activated on the basis of the limited-source information; and performing an HARQ operation for the downlink transmission by means of the HARQ process to be activated.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2012Date of Patent: June 21, 2016Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Hyungtae Kim, Daewon Lee, Seungmin Lee, Hanbyul Seo, Kijun Kim
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Patent number: 9370043Abstract: A method for voice/data hybrid mode within a user equipment (UE). The method includes detecting a first radio access technology (RAT) activity in response to a received first RAT suspend request for a second RAT tune-away. The method also includes adaptively performing the first RAT suspend request according to a predetermined priority of the detected first RAT activity and a second RAT tune-away activity. A receive chain is shared between a first RAT modem and a second RAT modem of the UE.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2013Date of Patent: June 14, 2016Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATEDInventors: Arvind Swaminathan, Srinivasan Balasubramanian, Thomas Klingenbrunn, Shyamal Ramachandran, Amit Mahajan
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Patent number: 9363812Abstract: A method by an access point for wireless communication service includes receiving configuration parameters from a core network entity for operation as a base station using at least one non-white space (non-WS) bandwidth. The method further includes determining whether the received configuration parameters comprise an indication for the access point to use white space (WS) for the service. The method further includes requesting authorization information from a WS database to operate in the WS, in response to the received parameters comprising the indication. An access point comprising a processor, memory and transceiver may be configured to perform the elements of the method, using a computer-readable storage medium or other means.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2013Date of Patent: June 7, 2016Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Gavin Bernard Horn, Rajat Prakash
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Patent number: 9357076Abstract: A load balancer controls a cluster of media agents each configured to perform media packet processing operations in a conference session. The load balancer receives a Session Traversal Utilities for Network Address Translation/Translator (NAT) (STUN) request from a caller to establish media. The STUN request includes a conference identifier (ID) for the session. The load balancer determines an availability of each of the media agents in the cluster, selects a media agent for the caller based on the conference ID and the determined media agent availabilities, forwards the STUN request to the selected media agent, and routes media packets between the caller and the selected agent for the session.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2014Date of Patent: May 31, 2016Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.Inventor: Jonathan D. Rosenberg
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Patent number: 9338105Abstract: A system for providing oversubscription of pipeline bandwidth comprises a steer module, an absorption buffer, an ingress packet processor (IPP), a memory management unit (MMU), and a main packet buffer. The steer module receives packets that include start of packet (SOP), middle of packet (MOP), and end of packet (EOP) cells, attaches a packet identifier to the cells, passes the MOP and EOP cells to the MMU, and stores the SOP cells and EOP metadata in the absorption buffer. The IPP processes the SOP cells and EOP metadata and passes the same to the MMU. The MMU stores the MOP, EOP, and processed SOP cells in the main packet buffer, combines, upon receiving the processed EOP metadata of each packet, the processed SOP cell, the MOP cells and the EOP cell of each packet to reconstruct each packet, and queues each reconstructed packet in an egress port queue.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2013Date of Patent: May 10, 2016Assignee: Broadcom CorporationInventors: Mark David Griswold, Mohammad Kamel Issa, Mohan Venkatachar Kalkunte
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Patent number: 9319916Abstract: A system that incorporates the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method for measuring a power level in at least a portion of a plurality of resource blocks occurring in a radio frequency spectrum, wherein the measuring occurs for a plurality of time cycles to generate a plurality of power level measurements, calculating a baseline power level according to at least a portion of the plurality of power levels, determining a threshold from the baseline power level, and monitoring at least a portion of the plurality of resource blocks for signal interference according to the threshold. Other embodiments are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2013Date of Patent: April 19, 2016Assignee: ISCO International, LLCInventors: Amr Abdelmonem, Mikhail Galeev, Sean S. Cordone, Zhigang Wang, Howard Wong, Jorge Seoane
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Patent number: 9306618Abstract: A filter enhancer provides greater performance in a passive filter. The passive filter has an input terminal for receiving a signal in a first frequency band and an output terminal for providing a signal in a second frequency band. The filter enhancer includes: (a) a first canceller circuit coupled between input terminal and output terminal, the first canceller circuit including a first finite impulse response (FIR) filter for attenuating signals in the first frequency band; and (b) a control circuit coupled to output terminal and first canceller circuit for providing adaptive coefficients for configuring the first FIR filter. The first FIR filter may be implemented by either a digital FIR filter or an analog FIR filter. The filter enhancer may further include a second canceller circuit coupled between input terminal and output terminal, the second canceller circuit including a second FIR filter for attenuating signals in the second frequency band.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2013Date of Patent: April 5, 2016Assignee: Scintera Networks LLCInventors: Olivier Charlon, Qian Yu
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Patent number: 9301204Abstract: A method for mobile station accessing to a base station in a wireless communication system that uses selective acknowledgement mechanism, comprising: transmitting, an access probe from the mobile station to the base station; receiving, a message from the base station, wherein the message indicates parts of the plurality of data frames are not decoded by the base station; passing, an instruction from a MAC layer to a PHY layer of the mobile station, wherein the instruction is used to send a selective acknowledgement header; sending, the parts of data frames that are not decoded by the base station from the MAC layer to the PHY layer according to the message; and retransmitting the parts of the plurality of data frames.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2013Date of Patent: March 29, 2016Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Anthony Lee, Guotong Wang
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Patent number: 9294980Abstract: A system that incorporates the subject disclosure may include, for example, responsive to a determination that a number of failed service requests directed to a first access technology exceeds a threshold for a maximum number of failed service requests, performing cell selection associated with a second radio access technology during an overload mitigation time duration; and responsive to a determination of an expiration of the overload mitigation time duration, transmitting additional service requests associated with the first radio access technology. Other embodiments are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2013Date of Patent: March 22, 2016Assignee: AT&T MOBILITY II LLCInventors: Jerry Jun, Inderpreet Singh Ahluwalia, Yunpeng Li, Huitao Liu
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Patent number: 9282551Abstract: Methods and apparatus for the automated altering of wireless device states in response to detected connection behaviors. In one embodiment, a mobile device receives network parameters, some of which are incorrectly configured, from a base station (or access point). To ensure the proper behavior of the mobile device, the device reviews the network provided parameters to determine if one or more of the parameters has been set incorrectly. If so, the device locally alters its own settings to mitigate the incorrect operation associated with the incorrect network provided parameters. In second exemplary embodiment, a number of tolerances are utilized to ensure the proper operation of the mobile device while maintaining an active link. Upon violation of one or more of these tolerances, the device breaks the active link to the wireless network.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2013Date of Patent: March 8, 2016Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Srinivasan Nimmala, Longda Xing, Li Su
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Patent number: 9258741Abstract: Systems, methods, and user equipment can involve transmitting Acknowledgement/Negative Acknowledgement (ACK/NACK) bits for carrier aggregation between a first cell and a second cell in a User Equipment (UE). With the UE, for a sub-frame, a first number of ACK/NACK bits for the first cell can be compared with a second number of ACK/NACK bits for the second cell. If a first number of ACK/NACK bits for the first cell is less than a second number of ACK/NACK bits for the second cell, an ACK/NACK bit position from the first cell can be used to transmit an ACK/NACK bit for the second cell. In some implementations, one or more DTX bits can be used to set the number of ACK/NACK bits in the first cell equal to the number of ACK/NACK bits in the second cell.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2013Date of Patent: February 9, 2016Assignee: BlackBerry LimitedInventors: Yiping Wang, Robert Mark Harrison, Jun Li
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Patent number: 9253554Abstract: Embodiments include, but are not limited to, systems and methods for enabling Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) in the upstream in an Ethernet Passive Optical Network over Coax (EPoC) network. Embodiments include systems and methods for translating Ethernet Passive Optical Network (EPON) upstream time grants to OFDMA resources represented by individual subcarriers of an upstream OFDMA frame. In an embodiment, the translation of EPON upstream time grants to OFDMA resources ensures that Coaxial Network Units (CNUs) sharing an OFDMA frame do not use overlapping subcarriers within the frame. Embodiments further include systems and methods for timing upstream transmissions by the CNUs in order for the transmissions to be received within the same upstream OFDMA frame at a Fiber Coax Unit (FCU). Embodiments further include systems and methods for re-generating a data burst from OFDMA resources for transmission from the FCU to an Optical Line Terminal (OLT).Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2013Date of Patent: February 2, 2016Assignee: Broadcom CorporationInventors: Sanjay Goswami, Avi Kliger, Edward Boyd, Yitshak Ohana, Leo Montreuil
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Patent number: 9246637Abstract: According to an aspect of this disclosure a communication terminal device is provided, comprising: a transceiver configured to communicate with a communication device according to a retransmission protocol; a controller configured, for a message transmitted from the communication device to the communication terminal device, to at least one of decide, upon a successful receipt of the message from the communication device, if the controller controls the transceiver not to transmit an acknowledgement message which is to be transmitted according to the retransmission protocol; and decide, upon an unsuccessful receipt of the message from the communication device, if the controller controls the transceiver not to transmit a negative acknowledgement message which is to be transmitted according to the retransmission protocol.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2013Date of Patent: January 26, 2016Assignee: INTEL IP CORPORATIONInventors: Thorsten Clevorn, Ralph Hasholzner, Jan Ellenbeck, Sabine Roessel
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Patent number: 9232501Abstract: A method for Independent resource request for initial NAS signaling in a communication network comprising of transporting service request message of both the UE and RN via Base station to management entity of Evolved Packet Edge (EPE) within Evolved Packet Core (EPC), as a signaling message over uplink channel referred to as “Independent Resource Request” (IR Request) message. The service request response message from one of the management entity of EPE or management entities of UE and RN within EPC are transported as a signaling message to EPE via Base station over the downlink channel referred to as “Independent Admission Response” (IA Response). This manages bearer setup signaling as a single loop, by transportation of “IR Request” signaling message over uplink and receiving “IA Response” signaling message over downlink channels.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2013Date of Patent: January 5, 2016Assignee: Tejas Networks Ltd.Inventor: Kumar Rohit
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Patent number: 9226219Abstract: In an embodiment of a wireless network, when a node joins the network and receives a routing advertisement, such a node transmits the routing advertisement to all its neighbors. The node then receives transmission from the neighboring nodes indicating interest in joining the advertised network. If more than a threshold number of neighboring nodes are interested in the advertised route, the newly joining node inserts the route advertisement in a beacon transmission. If there is not a threshold level of interest, the node unicasts only to the neighbors who indicated interest in the advertised network. In an embodiment, the node repeats the above steps on a predetermined time basis (e.g., one per day) in order to determine interest in the advertised route that may have newly arisen.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2011Date of Patent: December 29, 2015Assignee: Silver Spring NetworksInventors: Sterling Hughes, Peter Hunt, Jana Van Greunen