Patents Examined by Christopher P. Grey
  • Patent number: 10433313
    Abstract: Techniques are provided herein to allow a wireless network access point (AP) to more fully use its bandwidth in order to leverage the different bandwidth capabilities of different types of wireless client devices that the AP serves. The AP generates control parameters for usage of a plurality of channels in a bandwidth during a downlink transmission interval. The control parameters comprise information indicating channel assignments that result in multiple downlink transmissions that at least partially overlap in time to different wireless client devices according to their respective bandwidth capabilities. The AP transmits the control parameters in a control frame in advance of the downlink transmission interval on each of the plurality of channels in the bandwidth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventor: Brian D. Hart
  • Patent number: 10419302
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a method for measuring user quality of experience QoE, where the method includes the following steps: receiving event information sent by a receiving end, where the event information includes condition information for determining a cause for shortage of valid media data in a buffer of the receiving end; determining, according to the condition information, whether the shortage of the valid media data in the buffer of the receiving end is caused by a service system or caused by a user's action; and measuring QoE decrease degrees according to different causes for the shortage of the valid media data in the buffer, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Bing Chen, Qingpeng Xie, Lina Sun
  • Patent number: 10412590
    Abstract: This invention discloses a heterogeneous mesh network comprised of multiple radio access technology nodes, wherein nodes can function dynamically, switching roles between client and server. Moreover, these nodes can operate in a heterogeneous fashion with respect to one another. In an alternate embodiment, the invention describes a mesh network comprised of nodes operating over TV white-space. This invention additionally discloses self-organizing network embodiments and embodiments that include novel methods of monitoring operational parameters within a mesh network, adjusting those operational parameters, and creating and implementing routing tables.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: Parallel Wireless, Inc.
    Inventors: Rajesh Kumar Mishra, Kaitki Agarwal, Sridhar Donepudi, Steven Paul Papa
  • Patent number: 10412618
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to optimistic QoS setup. A network element receives an IP packet that is not associated with a QoS request on a bearer for an application/service executing on a target client device, and initiates QoS activation for the target client device based on a combination of an application-specific identifier from the target client device and a user-specific identifier of the application/service. A server receives a session setup request that is not associated with a QoS request for an application/service executing on a target client device, the session setup request identifying one or more client devices to participate in a session, and initiates QoS activation for at least one of the client devices, before a session announcement is transmitted to the client devices, based on a combination of an application-specific identifier from the target client device and a user-specific identifier of the application/service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Karthika Paladugu, Kirankumar Anchan, Arvind V. Santhanam
  • Patent number: 10404589
    Abstract: A method performed by a network device that taps to a network having a routing device, includes: receiving a first packet tapped from the network; determining a first information regarding an input interface of the routing device based on a destination address of the first packet; receiving a second packet tapped from the network; determining a second information regarding an output interface of the routing device based on a source address of the second packet; determining a first CRC for the first packet; determining a second CRC for the second packet; and comparing the first CRC with the second CRC at the network device to determine whether the first packet and the second packet are the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: Gigamon Inc.
    Inventors: Ashutosh Alawani, Sreekanth Settipalli, Tanmay Kishore, Dominick Cafarelli, Shehzad Merchant
  • Patent number: 10404317
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to techniques for synchronization signals. The synchronization signal comprise a primary synchronization signal (PSS) generated based on a PSS sequence and a secondary synchronization signal (SSS) generated based on an SSS sequence. The SSS sequence may be generated based on a first sequence corresponding to a first cyclic shift and a second sequence corresponding to a second cyclic shift. The first cyclic shift and the second cyclic shift are associated with Cell ID. The Cell ID can be determined from the first cyclic shift and the second cyclic shift.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Peng Wang, Fredrik Berggren
  • Patent number: 10390334
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods and arrangements that make it possible to control the delay for the UEs to access the EUL resources in the Enhanced Uplink in CELL_FACH state procedure, independently from the delay for the UEs to access ordinary UL resources in the RACH procedure. This is achieved by a solution where the timing of entering (or re-entering) a transmission procedure for Enhanced Uplink in CELL_FACH state is controlled with the help of a transmission control parameter defined specifically for this transmission procedure, instead of using the same parameter as for the RACH procedure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: Optis Wireless Technology, LLC
    Inventors: Dirk Gerstenberger, Johan Bergman
  • Patent number: 10382185
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method and a base station for mitigating self-interference in which, in a resource region for transmitting a plurality of downlink control channels, an overlap region is configured, the overlap region being a resource region from which the effects of self-interference due to an uplink communication of a terminal must be removed, and the information regarding the overlap region is transmitted to a terminal connected to a base station and communicating via FDR.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Kitae Kim, Jaehoon Chung, Jinmin Kim, Kukheon Choi, Kwangseok Noh
  • Patent number: 10383111
    Abstract: In one exemplary embodiment, a method includes: transmitting a value from an access node towards an apparatus, where the value is indicative of a size of a first portion of an uplink resource block, where the uplink resource block is shared among a plurality of apparatus, where the first portion is specified for transmission of a first type of signaling to the access node, where a second portion of the uplink resource block is specified for transmission of a second type of signaling to the access node; and receiving at least one transmission using at least one of the first portion and the second portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Kari P. Pajukoski, Esa T. Tiirola, Kari J. Hooli, Timo E. Lunttila
  • Patent number: 10374856
    Abstract: Pilot, preamble and midamble patterns are provided that are particularly suited for four transmit antenna OFDM systems. Pilots are inserted in a scattered manner for each of the four antennas, either uncoded, space-time coded in pairs, space-time frequency coded in pairs, or space-time-frequency coded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Jianglei Ma, Ming Jia, Wen Tong, Peiying Zhu, Claude Royer
  • Patent number: 10367742
    Abstract: A multi-solution based radio system is provided. A radio system adaptively selects a solution to be used in a communication method based on a quality of service (QoS). The radio system estimates a QoS, such as by using information about at least one of a channel state, a signal state, a performance using a current solution, a complexity using a current solution, and a power consumption of a terminal with respect to a current solution. When the estimated QoS does not satisfy a predetermined condition, the radio system changes a current solution to an alternative solution or changes a parameter value applied to the current solution using feedback information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Ho Yang
  • Patent number: 10367725
    Abstract: In one implementation, a network controller includes a path analysis module, an instruction module, and a distribution module. The path analysis module defines a data path including a plurality of network devices for a flow within a network in response to a data path request from a network device. The instruction module generates a first message including an instruction to establish a first forwarding rule at a first network device, and a second message including a first instruction to establish a second forwarding rule at a second network device and a second instruction to establish a third forwarding rule at a third network device. The distribution module provides the first message to the first network device and the second message to the second network device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
    Inventors: Subin Cyriac Mathew, Sugesh Chandran
  • Patent number: 10349439
    Abstract: It is presented a method for releasing semi-persistent scheduling, SPS, for a wireless device. The method is performed in a network node and comprising the steps of: transmitting an SPS release message to the wireless device to release uplink SPS; starting a timer; when a first condition is true, transmitting a grant for uplink transmission to the wireless device, the first condition being true when the timer expires and/or a scheduling request has been received from the wireless device; receiving a data type indication from the wireless device; and determining that an SPS release message has been correctly received by the wireless device when a scheduling request has been received from the wireless device, the grant has been transmitted and the data type indication indicates only voice over internet protocol, VoIP, data from the wireless device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Alexander Langereis, Saad Naveed Ahmed, Don Corry, David Sandberg
  • Patent number: 10313970
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for controlling discontinuous reception on a mobile device and in particular to control a short discontinuous reception timer in response to receipt of a medium access control control element. The methods and apparatus include stopping, restarting or maintaining the short discontinuous reception timer. Methods and apparatus for limiting or stopping a retransmission timer by providing user equipment with a maximum retry value for transmissions, by providing a maximum redundant version value, or by providing a medium access control control element to stop or prevent the start of a retransmission timer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Zhijun Cai, James Earl Womack, Takashi Suzuki, Gordon Peter Young, Yi Yu
  • Patent number: 10291481
    Abstract: A method of processing a model of a telecommunications network, the telecommunications network. The method includes dividing the network elements of the telecommunications network into a plurality of different groups, for a first of the group of network elements being modelled, loading computer program code representing the group of network elements being modelled into the computer memory and executing the computer program to model the first group of network elements within a first time period. For a subsequent time period the first group of network elements is represented by the amount of network services consumed on the one or more interfaces with the second group of network elements determined within the first time period, while loading into the computer memory computer program code to model the second group of network elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: TEOCO Corporation
    Inventor: Gerard Terence Foster
  • Patent number: 10292196
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to carrier aggregation using separate RLC entities for different component carriers. According to one embodiment, a base station and a wireless device may establish a primary component carrier and at least one secondary component carrier according to a first radio access technology. Separate radio link control entities may be established for the primary component carrier and the secondary component carrier. Data communicated between the base station and the wireless device may be routed by way of the primary component or the secondary component carrier based on differing characteristics of the component carriers, and the RLC entities may treat downlink data differently on the primary component carrier and the secondary component carrier based on the differing characteristics of the component carriers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Tarik Tabet, Vinay Majjigi, Dawei Zhang
  • Patent number: 10291350
    Abstract: A method of receiving a packet in a wireless local area network system includes receiving, from an access point (AP), a packet comprising a data field and a first signal field including a first field, a second field, and a third field, wherein the packet is generated for a single receiving station or a plurality of receiving stations; and processing the packet based on the first signal field, wherein the first field indicates a group ID of the single receiving station or the plurality of receiving stations and whether the packet is generated based on a single user transmission scheme or a multi user transmission scheme, wherein, for the single user transmission scheme, at least one pre-determined value of the first field is used to indicate that the packet is generated based on the single user transmission scheme.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Dae Won Lee, Byeong Woo Kang, Yu Jin Noh, Yong Ho Seok, Dong Wook Roh
  • Patent number: 10277732
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus and systems are disclosed for managing digitally-streamed audio communication sessions between user devices (7a, 7b, 7c). The user devices are configured to send digitally-streamed data (21) indicative of received audio contributions from respective participants in a multiple-participant audio communication session to a multiple-participant audio communication session controller (30) for processing and onward streaming of data (22) indicative of the received audio contributions from the session controller (30) to one or more other user devices (7a, 7b, 7c) for conversion to audio representations for respective other participants of the received audio contributions. The data (22) streamed from the session controller to the respective user devices has one or more audio parameters affecting the audio representations provided by the user devices to the participants using them.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: BRITISH TELECOMMUNICATIONS public limited company
    Inventor: Peter James Hughes
  • Patent number: 10250690
    Abstract: The present invention relates generally to a system and method of networking and interconnecting a large number of various types of sensors to a remote location in an efficient manner. Specifically, the invention utilizes a flexible, configurable, scalable and power-efficient sensor interface relay architecture to gather sensor data from various locations and then relay it to a remote location via the internet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: Camgian Microsystems Corp.
    Inventors: Gary Butler, Derrick J. Savage, David Lindley, Muthukumar Nagarajan, Jeffery Hunt
  • Patent number: 10225820
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a method, an apparatus and a system for configuring Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service (MBMS) control information, and the method includes: a network side apparatus broadcasts Multicast Control Channel (MCCH) configuration information to the terminal by Broadcast Control Channel (BCCH), and the MCCH configuration information is received by the terminal; the network side apparatus sends Multicast Broadcast Single Frequency Network (MBSFN) region configuration information to the terminal by the MCCH channel; the MBSFN region configuration information is received by the terminal according to the MCCH configuration information; the network side apparatus sends MBMS service data to the terminal by Multicast Traffic Channel (MTCH); the MBMS service data is received by the terminal according to the MBSFN region configuration information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: CHINA ACADEMY OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Dajun Zhang, Jing Liang