Patents Examined by Chandrahas Patel
  • Patent number: 9924417
    Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided for updating a sequence hopping (SH) pattern of an uplink channel during handover from a current cell having a current SH pattern. At least one downlink channel of each neighbor cell of the current cell is monitored. Information indicative of the monitored downlink channels of the neighbor cells is transmitted to the current cell. Prior to receiving a handover command from the current cell a target cell from among the neighbor cells is anticipated and a common downlink channel of the anticipated target cell is monitored to determine information representative of a target SH pattern of the target cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Jin Wang, Joseph S. Levy, Stephen E. Terry, Ulises Olvera-Hernandez
  • Patent number: 9913233
    Abstract: A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for wireless communication are provided. The apparatus may be a UE. The apparatus may transmit a message in a first subset of a set of resources. The message may include a position of the apparatus and a resource ID indicating at least one symbol in a second subset of the set of resources for transmitting a sequence. The apparatus may transmit the sequence in the at least one symbol in the second subset of the set of resources identified by the resource ID, receive at least one other sequence, adjust a transmission timing based on the received at least one other sequence, and transmit, based on the adjusted transmission timing, the sequence in one or more symbols in a third subset of the set of resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Navid Abedini, Shailesh Patil, Libin Jiang
  • Patent number: 9888498
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method for accessing a wireless communication node, a wireless communication node, and a system for accessing a wireless communication node. The method includes: receiving, by a second wireless communication node, a request message that is sent by a first wireless communication node; sending, a request response to the first wireless communication node; receiving, a second wireless communication node activation request; and sending, a random access indication message, so that the UE accesses the second wireless communication node. In the embodiments of the present invention, communication among a first wireless communication node that a UE has already accessed, a second wireless communication node that the UE expects to access, and the UE enables the first wireless communication node and the second wireless communication node to provide a service for the UE at the same time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yan Wang, Yuhua Chen, Tao Zhang, Bo Lin
  • Patent number: 9866495
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and apparatus for buffering data, which can perform highly reliable buffering processing on a received first data packet and further improve user experience. The method includes: receiving a first data packet; determining whether to perform accelerated transmission on data in the first data packet; and if it is determined not to perform accelerated transmission on the data in the first data packet, using a first manner to buffer the first data packet; and if it is determined to perform accelerated transmission on the data in the first data packet, using a second manner to buffer the first data packet, where a buffer duration in the second manner is greater than a buffer duration in the first manner. The present invention is applicable to the communications field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Guanglin Han, Mingrong Cao, Zhiming Zhu
  • Patent number: 9866359
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method and apparatus for transmitting a downlink ACK in response to an uplink multi-user transmission in a HE WLAN. In an aspect of the present invention, a method for transmitting an ACK in response to uplink data received from a plurality of STAs by an AP in a WLAN may be provided. The method may include transmitting a frame triggering transmission of a plurality of uplink data units from the plurality of STAs to the plurality of STAs, receiving a PPDU frame including a plurality of uplink data units from the plurality of STAs a predetermined IFS after transmitting the trigger frame, and transmitting an ACK frame including ACKs for the plurality of data units from the plurality of STAs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: NEWRACOM, INC.
    Inventor: Yongho Seok
  • Patent number: 9860790
    Abstract: A data flow is received from a mobile network relating to a mobile subscriber. Subscriber data is received for the subscriber identifying a service path corresponding to the subscriber and at least one service policy corresponding to the subscriber, the service path including a set of network service nodes in a plurality of network service nodes. Packets of the data flow are routed according to the service path, the packets corresponding to a request for a resource. At least one packet is appended with service header data identifying the service policy. Each service node performs at least one service based on received request data, each service node in the set of service nodes performing a service defined in a service subscription of the subscriber. At least one particular service node in the set of network service nodes performs a particular service based at least in part on the service policy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Muhammad A. Khan, Kevin D. Shatzkamer, Kirk McBean
  • Patent number: 9860090
    Abstract: A method for transporting data to a display device includes: receiving image data having a first part data and a second part data; determining a coding information of a header according to a bit number of the image data with consecutively same bit value, wherein the coding information indicates whether the second part data in bits is to be inverted or not; coding the image data according to the coding information; and packing the header and the coded image data to a packet for transporting to the display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: Novatek Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Chia-Wei Su, Chu-Ya Hsiao
  • Patent number: 9854476
    Abstract: A target node includes an S1 interface which includes an interface between the target node and a gateway, an X2 interface which includes an interface between a source node and the target node, and a transceiver which receives data from the S1 interface and data from the X2 interface. The transceiver sends the data from the X2 interface before sending the data from the S1 interface to a mobile device after the mobile device completes a handover from the source node to the target node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Jagdeep Singh Ahluwalia
  • Patent number: 9848364
    Abstract: The subject matter described herein relates to data communication in wireless communication systems. The device determines availability of scheduled serving cell before data communication and informs a device the determined availability of the scheduled serving cell. Depending upon the determined availability, the device is controlled to perform the data communication on the scheduled serving cell or another available serving cell. In this way, the unfinished data communication, for example, retransmission of a data block in an uplink or downlink HARQ process can be continued on an available serving cell, whereby avoiding large transmission delay and throughput loss in the wireless communication system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2017
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Haipeng Lei, Kodo Shu
  • Patent number: 9844038
    Abstract: A method for link adaptation at a mobile station can include the steps of computing mutual information per coded bit (MIB) metrics on at least one sub-channel for one or more candidate modulation types. The method may average the MIB metrics over at least two sub-channels, generate feedback information including MIB metrics for the plurality of candidate modulation types, and transmit the feedback information to a base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: Google Technology Holdings LLC
    Inventors: Krishna Kamal Sayana, Xiangyang Zhuang
  • Patent number: 9843798
    Abstract: An encoding/transmitting apparatus that is used to transmit moving-picture data from a transmitting side to a receiving side through a transmission path and to subject the moving-picture data to streaming in the receiving side has an external-output request determining unit that monitors the state of a network. If the network assumes an undesirable state, the request determining unit causes a multiplex output unit to stop multiplexing data. When the network assumes a desirable state, the multiplex unit starts multiplexing the data again. A video encoding unit and an audio encoding unit keep encoding data, whether the multiplex output unit is multiplexing data or not. When the area occupied by encoded data in an encoded-video-data storage unit and the area occupied by encoded data in an encoded-audio-data storage unit exceed a predetermined value, the encoding units stop encoding data, and wait until the area occupied by encoded data sufficiently decreases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideki Nabesako, Keisuke Aoki
  • Patent number: 9838161
    Abstract: Feedback determined for a plurality of subframes within a time window in a time division duplex system is bundled into at least two sets of feedback information based on differently timed bundling windows defined based on subframe types. When feedback associated with the plurality of subframes is received, possible errors in the subframes is determined based on the at least two sets of feedback information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy
    Inventors: Esa Tapani Tiirola, Timo Erkki Lunttila
  • Patent number: 9838282
    Abstract: A method in a network node is disclosed. The method comprises sending one or more packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) packet data units (PDUs) to a second network node on an internode interface, each of the one or more PDUs having an associated PDCP sequence number and an associated internode interface specific sequence number, the internode interface specific sequence numbers assigned by the network node. The method further comprises receiving feedback from the second network node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Torsten Dudda, Riika Susitaival, Alexander Vesely, Stefan Wager
  • Patent number: 9832666
    Abstract: A method for self-interference cancellation in a wireless communication device. The wireless communication device has an estimator, a transmitter and a cancellation device. The estimator is configured to estimate a known signal received from a second wireless communication device when the second wireless communication device is utilized less than a predetermined threshold. The transmitter is configured to transmit within a coherence time of the estimated known signal, a predetermined signal. The cancellation device is configured to cancel the estimated known signal from a received signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Feng Xue, Yang-Seok Choi, Shilpa Talwar, Roya Doostnejad
  • Patent number: 9819514
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus for processing stream messages are disclosed. In one aspect, a downstream message formatted according to an asymmetric communication protocol is received over a downstream Virtual Local Area Network (VLAN). An upstream message is generated in response to receiving the downstream message. The downstream message is transmitted on the downstream VLAN. The upstream message is transmitted on an upstream VLAN that is different than the downstream multicast VLAN.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: Adtran Inc.
    Inventor: Milton Jay Johnson
  • Patent number: 9819608
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer programs are presented for managing network traffic. A network switch includes a switch fabric and a resource coherency and analytics engine (RCAE) coupled to the switch fabric. The RCAE includes one or more virtualizable resource groups (VRGs) for managing network traffic flow across a plurality of network switches on the network. Further, the RCAE is operable to add network entities to each VRG, add flows to each VRG, and add other VRGs to each VRG. A virtualizable resource control list (VRCL), associated with each VRG, identifies which network entities in the VRG can communicate with each other, which network entities in the VRG can communicate with network entities in other VRGs, and a guaranteed bandwidth for the VRG associated with the VRCL. Furthermore, the RCAE is operable to exchange messages with other RCAEs in other network switches to implement traffic policies defined by each VRCL.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: Pluribus Networks Inc.
    Inventors: Sunay Tripathi, Robert James Drost, Garima Tripathi
  • Patent number: 9819607
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer programs are presented for managing network traffic. A network switch includes a switch fabric and a resource coherency and analytics engine (RCAE) coupled to the switch fabric. The RCAE includes one or more virtualizable resource groups (VRGs) for managing network traffic flow across a plurality of network switches on the network. Further, the RCAE is operable to add network entities to each VRG, add flows to each VRG, and add other VRGs to each VRG. A virtualizable resource control list (VRCL), associated with each VRG, identifies which network entities in the VRG can communicate with each other, which network entities in the VRG can communicate with network entities in other VRGs, and a guaranteed bandwidth for the VRG associated with the VRCL. Furthermore, the RCAE is operable to exchange messages with other RCAEs in other network switches to implement traffic policies defined by each VRCL.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: Pluribus Networks Inc.
    Inventors: Sunay Tripathi, Robert James Drost, Garima Tripathi
  • Patent number: 9814092
    Abstract: Provided are a frame transmission method performed in an access point (AP), a frame reception method performed in a terminal, and an AP. The frame transmission method performed in an AP includes acquiring a channel for transmitting a first data unit of a first terminal, when a data unit to be transmitted to at least one terminal other than the first terminal is in the AP, generating a physical layer convergence procedure (PLCP) protocol data unit (PPDU) including the first data unit and the data unit to be transmitted to the at least one terminal, and transmitting the PPDU to the first terminal and the at least one terminal. Accordingly, it is possible to improve the performance of a wireless local area network (WLAN).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Jin Hyung Oh, Gwang Zeen Ko, Hyun Duk Kang, Igor Kim, Myung Sun Song
  • Patent number: 9807771
    Abstract: A method of operating a base station such that the method comprises determining whether there are any mobile devices that are not associated with the base station that require protection from interference caused by downlink transmissions of the base station and setting a maximum permitted transmission power for the base station based on the result of the step of determining. A base stations operating according to this method is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventor: Nicholas William Whinnett
  • Patent number: 9800439
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods for disrupting or preventing periodicity in DTC circuits are provided. In an example, a communication circuit can include a digital-to-time converter (DTC) and a processing path coupled to the DTC. The DTC can be configured to receive reference information, modulation information and first dither information, and to provide a modulated signal using the reference information, the modulation information and the first dither information. The processing path can be configured to receive second dither information and to cancel the first dither information using the second dither information, wherein the DTC is configured to disrupt processing periodicity of the communication circuit using the first dither information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Andreas Jörn Leistner, Georgios Palaskas