Patents Examined by Christopher Crutchfield
  • Patent number: 9801190
    Abstract: The present invention is designed to provide a radio communication system, a base station apparatus, a user terminal and a radio communication method, whereby, when a plurality of kinds of CSI processes are configured, it is possible to lighten the processing load, and, furthermore, reduce the deterioration of throughput performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Satoshi Nagata, Yoshihisa Kishiyama
  • Patent number: 9800698
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with ordering packets into a transmission order within a queue are described. According to one embodiment, an apparatus includes shaper logic configured to (i) respectively determine launch times for packets received from a host bus, and (ii) order the packets into a transmission order according to the launch times. The launch times are expected transmission times for the packets that are provided according to one or more attributes associated with each respective one of the packets. The apparatus includes a queue configured to store the packets in the transmission order for transmission onto a network in a single stream. The shaper logic is configured to merge the packets from multiple streams into the transmission order when providing the packets to the queue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: MARVELL INTERNATIONAL LTD.
    Inventors: Lukas Reinbold, Thomas Kniplitsch
  • Patent number: 9794030
    Abstract: A method of performing hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) in a carrier aggregation system, the method includes receiving downlink data through a first subframe of a first carrier; transmitting acknowledgement/not-acknowledgement (ACK/NACK) for the downlink data through a second subframe of a second carrier; and receiving the downlink data again through a third subframe of the first carrier, wherein the first carrier is a carrier which s comprised of downlink subframe only.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Dongyoun Seo, Bonghoe Kim, Joonkui Ahn, Suckchel Yang, Hanbyul Seo, Seungmin Lee, Yunjung Yi
  • Patent number: 9787461
    Abstract: A method for measuring one-way delays in a communications network, the method comprising: maintaining a virtual clock state comprising information for converting times measured with respect to remote clocks into times as would be measured with respect to a local reference clock; registering, for each packet of the plurality of packets in a communications session between the first and second nodes, a timeset comprising transmission and reception times at the first and second nodes; converting, responsive to the virtual clock, times in the timeset measured with respect to the first node clock or the second node clock, into times as would be measured with respect to the reference clock; calculating, for each packet of the series of packets, a forward one-way delay (FOWD) from the first node to the second node and a reverse one-way delay (ROWD) from the second node to the first node, responsive to the converted timeset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: RAD DATA COMMUNICATIONS LTD.
    Inventors: Gabriel Zigelboim, Alon Geva, Yaakov Stein
  • Patent number: 9788186
    Abstract: Embodiments of an enhanced node B (eNB), user equipment (UE) and methods of signaling for proximity services and device-to-device (D2D) discovery in an LTE network are generally described herein. In some embodiments, the eNB may transmit signaling to indicate D2D discovery zone configuration to proximity service (ProSe) enabled UEs. The signaling may indicate time and frequency resources and a periodicity of a discovery zone and may indicate operational parameters for the discovery zone. The resources of the D2D discovery zone may be allocated for D2D discovery signal transmission by the ProSe-enabled UEs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: Intel IP Corporation
    Inventors: Debdeep Chatterjee, Youn Hyoung Heo, Huaning Niu, Gang Xiong, Hong He, Alexey Khoryaev, Sergey Panteleev
  • Patent number: 9780820
    Abstract: Provided is a digital filter implementing a function by using circular convolution of a digital input signal and a unit pulse response of the digital filter in applying a filter to the digital signal. In addition, a configuration sequence change of an output signal, which occurs as a result of digital filtering according to the present invention, in comparison to an input signal, is corrected by inversely performing circular shifting in a transmitter by amount of the configuration sequence change, or by reconstructing a signal after making synchronization and acquiring the signal previous to a time point of the synchronization by amount of the configuration sequence change, in a receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventor: Sung Jun Lee
  • Patent number: 9780929
    Abstract: A method for and apparatus for performing resource allocation in a wireless communication system is provided. The apparatus includes receiving a configuration of an entire system bandwidth including a predefined system bandwidth and a carrier segment in which is allocated in not available region for the predefined system bandwidth; checking an indication to indicate whether the entire system bandwidth is available or not for the UE, and information for the entire system bandwidth in the configuration; and receiving a reference signal and a control signal at subframes determined based on the indication and the information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Yunjung Yi, Hanbyul Seo, Joonkui Ahn, Dongyoun Seo
  • Patent number: 9774525
    Abstract: A base station, system, method, and computer program product are disclosed for transmitting data packets received by the base station. According to one aspect, the base station includes a first buffer configured to store data packets received by the base station, a second buffer configured to store data packets that are scheduled for transmission by the base station, and a computer processor, operatively coupled to the first buffer and the second buffer. The computer processor is configured to inspect a data packet to determine an application type of the data packet, determine a delay tolerance associated with the data packet based on the determined application type, determine a channel condition of a communication session with the user device, move the data packet from the first buffer to the second buffer based on the determined delay tolerance and the determined channel condition, and transmit data packets stored in the second buffer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: ALTIOSTAR NETWORKS, INC.
    Inventors: Kuntal Chowdhury, Si Nguyen
  • Patent number: 9775135
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a wireless communication system, and more specifically, to a method and a device for communicating device-to-device. The method for a first device to transmit a signal to a second device according to one embodiment of the present invention enables the first device to request to a base station a resource allocation for transmitting the signal to the second device, receive from the base station scheduling information for transmitting the signal to the second device, and the signal can be transmitted from the first device to the second device on the basis of the scheduling information, wherein the scheduling information includes information on an uplink resource for transmitting the signal from the first device to the second device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Hanbyul Seo, Daewon Lee, Byounghoon Kim
  • Patent number: 9774418
    Abstract: a method and system for managing a modulation and coding scheme (MCS). The method includes: a base station obtaining a downlink channel quality indicator (CQI) when a block error ratio of a trunking terminal reaches a pre-stored block error ratio threshold; the base station comparing a current CQI of a group with a CQI locally stored and reported by the group, wherein the CQI reported by the group is the minimum value in received CQIs reported by trunking terminals in the group respectively; and if a comparison result is that the CQI reported by the group is smaller than the current CQI of the group, the base station initiating an operation of updating an MCS value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Qingfeng Meng, Xi Yu, Zhuo Liu
  • Patent number: 9769677
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for performing precoding matrix indicator (PMI) feedback are provided. The apparatus may include at least one storage device containing a computer program, at least one processing circuit and related control/computing devices. The at least one processing circuit is configured with at least one storage device and computer program to feed back the selected PMI and to receive related signalings of the PMI feedback method. One of the signalings includes the precoder candidate set configuration which defines the subset of precoders in a codebook for each precoder to report PMI next time. The selected PMI is transmitted by the apparatus to the corresponding communication device in the communication network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Chao-Yuan Hsu, Ren-Jr Chen
  • Patent number: 9769215
    Abstract: A server is provided that includes a processor such that for a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) request containing a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) identifying the first device, the processor is programmed to promote adding a URI and redirecting the SIP request to a second device. The added URI used by the second device to invoke a Personal Network Management (PNM) Controller function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Andrew Michael Allen, Adrian Buckley
  • Patent number: 9769074
    Abstract: A method of monitoring data flow in a network is provided. The method includes: configuring a data flow including a plurality of data packets by a switch controller, the switch controller configured to control routing through the switch and switch configuration, wherein configuring includes storing an indication of a flow control policy in one or more of the data packets; monitoring a network switch receiving the data flow, wherein monitoring includes determining flow statistics in the switch; determining whether a congestion condition exists for the data flow based on the flow statistics and the flow control policy; and based on determining that the congestion condition exists for the data flow, performing a remedial action specific to the data flow to address the congestion condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Casimer DeCusatis, Rajaram B. Krishnamurthy
  • Patent number: 9768946
    Abstract: There is provided a method for determining frequency correction and time slot boundary detection for synchronization in a wireless device. A plurality of cell broadcast frequencies is acquired. A subgroup of cell broadcast frequencies is determined from the received plurality of cell broadcast frequencies. Frequency and time slot information in the subgroup is recovered by tuning a local oscillator to a center frequency of the subgroup. Individual frequencies are extracted from the recovered frequency information. The individual frequencies are provided to a frequency correction detector. A corresponding wireless device, computer program and computer program product are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (publ)
    Inventors: Sajal Kumar Das, Balasubramanian Krishnamurthi
  • Patent number: 9769851
    Abstract: The invention relates to methods and communication devices in a network comprising the steps of mapping (S2) and allocating a first random access resource to a first frequency in an uplink subframe of a radio frame, and transmitting (S4) an expression on the radio channel expressing mapping of the first random access resource to use in relation to at least one uplink subframe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Robert Baldemair, David Astely
  • Patent number: 9762364
    Abstract: This document discloses a solution for operating a radio communication apparatus that exchanges narrowband control messages with other radio communication apparatuses, each control message comprising a pilot sequence and an identifier identifying a transmitter of the control message. The radio communication apparatus receives a broadband signal through a broadband radio receiver and correlates sub-bands of the received signal so as to detect a narrowband control message within the received broadband signal. Upon detection of the narrowband control message on a sub-band of the received broadband signal, the transmitter of the narrowband control message is determined from the identifier of the narrowband control message. It is also determined from the reception of the narrowband control message on the sub-band that the sub-band is preferred by the transmitter of the narrowband control message, and said sub-band is utilized in data communication with the transmitter of the narrowband control message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: KYYNEL OY
    Inventors: Toni Linden, Matti Raustia, Teemu Vanninen
  • Patent number: 9763164
    Abstract: A mobile application gateway configured to interconnect mobile communication devices on a cellular network with an enterprise network is provided. The mobile application gateway includes a voice and data signaling gateway configured to provide routing functionalities, service functionalities and admission control. A gateway GPRS support node (GGSN) is configured to establish a secure data session between one or more of the mobile communication devices and the enterprise network by establishing a GPRS tunneling protocol (GTP) tunnel between a carrier-hosted serving GPRS support node (SGSN) and the GGSN.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: TANGO NETWORKS, INC.
    Inventor: Andrew Silver
  • Patent number: 9763140
    Abstract: Described in an example embodiment is an end-to-end admission control system that allows any rich media application to secure admission control in an environment where there are mixed wireless and wired segments in the network. In particular embodiments, the system includes the integration of Add Traffic Stream (ADDTS) and Resource Reservation Protocol (RSVP) admission control mechanisms, the mapping of parameters between these two mechanisms, the admission control policies, and failure handling for the end-to-end resource control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael McBride, Subhasri Dhesikan, Neil Diener, David Stephenson, Rajneesh Kumar
  • Patent number: 9756481
    Abstract: A method and wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) for receiving a multimedia broadcast/multicast service (MBMS) data is disclosed. A WTRU receives MBMS data segments from a first MBMS transmitting source along with segmentation information. The WTRU receives MBMS data segments and segmentation information from a second MBMS transmitting source. The MBMS data segments from the first MBMS transmitting source and the MBMS data segments from the second MBMS transmitting source are received in different order. The WTRU reassembles the MBMS data segments based on the segmentation information received from the first MBMS transmitting source and the second MBMS transmitting source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventor: Stephen E. Terry
  • Patent number: 9755933
    Abstract: A method and a system for measuring an audio transmission delay are provided. Synchronization operation is performed on transmission of an original audio codebook to be tested between a transmitter and a receiver. A transmitter starts sending the original audio codebook to be tested to a receiver in response to sending start instruction information, and stops sending the original audio codebook to the receiver in response to sending end instruction information. The receiver starts capturing the original audio codebook from the transmitter in response to receiving start instruction information and stops capturing the original audio codebook from the transmitter in response to receiving end instruction information. The audio transmission delay is obtained based on a test audio codebook captured by the receiver and the original audio codebook pre-stored in the receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Company Limited
    Inventors: Lianping Zou, Wenting Zhang, Hang He