Patents Examined by Christopher P. Grey
  • Patent number: 10212014
    Abstract: In some examples, an apparatus includes a transmitter configured to apply input data as a frequency-domain data sequence to modulate a set of subcarriers, and separate the frequency-domain data sequence into a first subsequence of elements and a second subsequence of elements. A first conjugate symmetric subsequence that is based on inserting a zero value into the first subsequence is formed, and a second conjugate symmetric subsequence that is based on inserting a zero value into the second subsequence is formed, where the zero values are inserted at different positions in the first and second subsequences. A time-domain sequence comprising a first component that is a function of the first conjugate symmetric subsequence, and a second component that is a function of the second conjugate symmetric subsequence is generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Shouxing Qu, Dake He, Stephen McCann
  • Patent number: 10177839
    Abstract: A wireless network with at least one base station and a plurality of associated terminals for the exchange of payload data and control data and at least one common transmission channel which is available for access to several terminals is described. The base station is configured to control access to the common transmission channel and the terminals are configured to send at least an access signal to the base station for the purpose of obtaining access to the common transmission channel. Different start moments and different preambles can be assigned to the terminals for transmitting their respective access signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
    Inventor: Christoph Herrmann
  • Patent number: 10171260
    Abstract: Techniques are provided to manage how router advertisement messages are forwarded for ultimate wireless transmission in a wireless network. In one embodiment, a multicast router advertisement message intended for a virtual local area network is converted into individual unicast router advertisement messages directed to specific wireless mobile client devices that are part of that virtual local area network. In another embodiment, router advertisement messages are routed between controllers according to the current location of a wireless mobile client device. In still other embodiments, techniques are provided to minimize the volume of the router advertisement messages sent over a wireless network, and to proactively send a unicast router advertisement message to a mobile client device that has performed a handoff, without waiting for a router solicitation message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Srinath Gundavelli, Abhijit Choudhury, Rohit Suri, Venkatesh Kanagasabapathy, Bhavannarayana Nelakanti, Sudhir Jain
  • Patent number: 10110500
    Abstract: A method involving receiving application monitoring data for a first application executing in a first cloud provider and a second application executing in a second cloud provider, wherein both the first and second cloud providers communication via a cloud exchange, performing traffic latency analytics using the received application monitoring data, determining, based on the traffic latency analytics, that a peering agreement between the first cloud provider and the cloud exchange should be moved to a Central office Re-architected as a Data Center (CORD), requesting a Path Computation Engine to find the CORD that meets a required set of criteria, establishing a private link between the CORD and the cloud exchange, moving the at least one peering agreement to be between the first cloud provider and the CORD, and forwarding at least a portion of the traffic originating from the first application in the first cloud provider directly via the CORD.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: Ciena Corporation
    Inventors: Mallikarjunappa Kore, Aung Htay, Yuemin Li
  • Patent number: 8018832
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are various embodiments of methods, systems, and apparatus for increasing packet generation in a digital communication system. In one exemplary method embodiment, multiple input signals are interpolated, shifted, and aggregated into a composite signal for transmission over a network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2011
    Assignee: Xocyst Transfer AG L.L.C.
    Inventors: Mark A. Webster, Daniel Shearer
  • Patent number: 8018863
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for reducing the number of CC messages transmitted in a provider network. In one embodiment of the invention, a first service provider network element receives CC messages from a first customer network at a first periodicity rate. The first service provider network element stores the received CC messages and reduces the first periodicity rate to create a second periodicity rate that is smaller than the first periodicity rate. The first service provider network element transmits CC messages to a second service provider network element through the provider network at the second periodicity rate. Other methods and apparatus are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2011
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson
    Inventors: Sriganesh Kini, Rishi Mehta
  • Patent number: 8005120
    Abstract: A base station including a transmitting and receiving amplifier for amplifying CDMA signals exchanged with a mobile station; a radio stage connected to the transmitting and receiving amplifier for carrying out D/A conversion of a transmitted signal that undergoes baseband spreading, followed by quadrature modulation, and for carrying out quasi-coherent detection of a received signal, followed by A/D conversion; a baseband signal processor connected with the radio stage for carrying out baseband signal processing of the transmitted signal and the received signal; a transmission interface connected with the baseband signal processor for implementing interface with external channels; and a base station controller for carrying out control such as management of radio channels and establishment and release of the radio channels. The base station communicates with the external channels by mapping logical channels into physical channels. The CDMA signals are spread using a short code and a long code.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2011
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Takehiro Nakamura, Junichiro Hagiwara, Etsuhiro Nakano, Koji Ohno, Seizo Onoe, Akihiro Higashi, Motoshi Tamura, Masatomo Nakano, Hiroshi Kawakami, Hiroki Morikawa
  • Patent number: 7986625
    Abstract: Under the present invention, the performance of a set of system resources is monitored in response to incoming request traffic. When a system resource is approaching an overload condition, a corrective action is identified and implemented. Overload thresholds for each system resource and appropriate corrective actions are contained within a management policy. Based on a performance history of the corrective actions, the management policy can be changed/revised.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2011
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Jeffrey S. Chase, Ronald P. Doyle, David L. Kaminsky, David M. Ogle, Richard D. Telford
  • Patent number: 7986697
    Abstract: A device and method for processing information fragments, the method includes: receiving multiple information fragments from multiple communication paths; wherein the each information fragment is associated with a cyclic serial number indicating of a generation time of the information fragment; storing the multiple information fragments in multiple input queues, each input queue being associated with a communication path out of the multiple communication paths; determining whether at least one serial number associated with at least one valid information fragment positioned in a head of one of the multiple input queues is located within a pre-rollout serial number range; mapping, in response to the determination, serial numbers associated with each of the valid information fragment positioned in the heads of the multiple input queues to at least one serial number range that differs from the pre-rollout serial number range; and sending to an output queue information fragment metadata associated with a minimal v
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2011
    Assignee: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.
    Inventors: Boaz Shahar, Liat Kochavi, Noam Sheffer, Michal Shmueli
  • Patent number: 7940789
    Abstract: The invention concerns a method for the rate regulation of radio link probing in a communication network comprising at least a receiver terminal and at least one transmitter terminal, characterized by the steps, at the level of the receiver terminal, of: determining the amount of data sent by each transmitter terminal to the receiver terminal through respective radio links, when a probing of a link is to be made, probing the link corresponding to the transmitter terminal having sent the greatest amount of data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2011
    Assignee: Thomson Licensing
    Inventors: Ludovic Jeanne, Patrick Fontaine, Renaud Dore
  • Patent number: 7920554
    Abstract: Middleware may accommodate both packet data and circuit data services in the same cellular telephone. A cellular telephone may travel between networks that are packet and circuit data service based. A protocol middleware may determine whether packet data services are available, and, if so, may determine the mobility management state of the system. Depending on the mobility management state of the system, inappropriate applications may be closed or suspended.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2011
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventor: Anil K. Kumar
  • Patent number: 7889679
    Abstract: A system for analyzing a network including a plurality of nodes associated and/or connected together by links. The system includes a processor coupled to a data memory. The processor is configured to access a first representation of the network and associated link weight measures w in the memory. Moreover, the system is configured to provide node values for the nodes and determine from the node values corresponding slope measures for links existing between the nodes, the slope measures being computed from a function of differences in node values and from the weight measures w for the links, the weight measures w being used for scaling the function of differences in nodes values; to select for at least some of the nodes one or more steepest ascent links having one or more greatest positive slope measures; and to generate a second representation corresponding to a steepest ascent graph of the network derived from information included in the steepest ascent links.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2011
    Assignee: Telenor ASA
    Inventors: Geoffrey Canright, Kenth Engø-Monsen, Johannes Bjelland, Richard Seyler Ling, Pål Roe Sundsøy
  • Patent number: 7876716
    Abstract: A base station (10) performs bi-directional radio communications with terminal station apparatuses using communication frames each having time slots and being composed of a first region with a predetermined open-loop period and a second region with an open-loop period shorter than the open-loop period of the first region. A level detecting section (21) detects a received level of an uplink slot configured in the second region. A transmission diversity section (14) performs diversity transmission on a downlink transmission signal assigned to a downlink slot corresponding to the uplink slot, corresponding to a result of detection of the received level. It is thereby possible to enhance the effect of improving the received quality due to transmission diversity without degrading the transmission efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2011
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroaki Sudo
  • Patent number: 7876769
    Abstract: A system manages a buffer having a group of entries. The system receives information relating to a read request for a memory. The system determines whether an entry in the buffer contains valid information. If the entry is determined to contain valid information, the system transmits the information in the entry in an error message. The system may then store the received information in the entry. In another implementation, the system stores data in one of the entries of the buffer, removes an address corresponding to the one entry from an address list, and starts a timer associated with the one entry. The system also determines whether the timer has exceeded a predetermined value, transferring the data from the one entry when the timer has exceeded the predetermined value, and adds the address back to the address list.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2011
    Assignee: Juniper Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: Anurag P. Gupta, Song Zhang
  • Patent number: 7864758
    Abstract: A storage switch in accordance with an embodiment of the invention is a highly scalable switch that allows the creation of a SAN that is easy to deploy and that can be centrally managed. Moreover, such a storage switch also allows the deployment of a global infrastructure, allowing the resources of the SAN, such as storage devices, to essentially be positioned anywhere on the globe. Further, such a storage switch allows a multi-protocol SAN, e.g., one that includes both iSCSI or Fibre Channel, and processes data packets at “wire speed.” To further enable wire-speed processing, a switch in accordance with the invention has “intelligence” distributed to each of its linecards, through which it classifies packets into data and control packets, it performs virtualization functions, and it performs protocol translation functions. A switch in accordance with the invention further performs serverless storage services such as mirroring, snapshot, and replication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2011
    Assignee: EMC Corporation
    Inventors: Santosh C. Lolayekar, Yu-Ping Cheng, Wan-Hui Lee, Renato E. Maranon, Robert T. Frey
  • Patent number: 7839883
    Abstract: The present invention concerns methods and apparatus for implementing a multi-user advance reservation system where reservations are specified in terms of flexible constraints, inflexible constraints and business values. The specification of reservations in this manner allows an entity managing the reservation system to arbitrate among reservations received from a user population with a view toward maximizing business value across the user population. In methods and apparatus of the present invention, penalties and rewards associated with various reservation outcomes can be specified in reservations to assist in business value maximization. In an example, a reservation having a low business value may be declined when there is a significant possibility that a reservation having a high business would be submitted during the pendency of service delivery to the user issuing the reservation with a low business value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2010
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Asit Dan, Robert Filepp, Kavitha Ranganathan, Daniela Rosu
  • Patent number: 7839895
    Abstract: Methods and systems provide approaches to start code emulation prevention at a granularity higher than the bit level. By operating at a level other than the bit level, processing capability requirements on both the encoder and decoder side can be reduced. In accordance with one or more embodiments, a start code emulation prevention method looks for data patterns relative to fixed-size data portions larger than single bits. When a particular pattern is found, start code emulation prevention data is inserted to prevent start code emulation. The inserted data is larger than a single bit and, in some embodiments, comprises a byte. When a decoder decodes data that has had start code emulation prevention data inserted, it can easily identify legitimate start codes and then can remove the start code emulation prevention data to provide the original data that was protected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2010
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Gary J. Sullivan, Stephen J. Estrop
  • Patent number: 7830787
    Abstract: A multicast transmission scheme is introduced. A multicast data stream is sent on a default tunnel and switched to a data tunnel during flooding conditions. The default tunnel is a point-to-multipoint tunnel from, for example, a source provider edge router to all other provider edge routers in a virtual private network. The data tunnel is a point-to-multipoint tunnel from, for example, a source provider edge router to other provider edge routers that have recipients. Flooding conditions can occur when sending the multicast data stream on the default tunnel, for example, when a specified bandwidth threshold has been exceeded on a source provider edge router. Additionally, the data tunnel is created by selecting a multicast distribution tunnel group from a configured pool of addresses, advertising the group, receiving data joins from, for example, provider edge routers with recipients, and waiting a specified send time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2010
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: IJsbrand Wijnands, Arjen Boers, Yiqun Cai, Tony Speakman
  • Patent number: 7817568
    Abstract: Provided are a method for measuring characteristics of a path between nodes by using active testing packets based on priority, i.e., an inter-node path characteristic measuring method, which can measure and provide characteristics of a generated node, when an inter-node data transmission path is generated based on Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) to provide a path with satisfactory transmission delay, jitter and packet loss that are required by a user, and to provide a computer-readable recording medium for recording a program that implement the method. The method includes the steps of: a) synchronizing system time of the nodes with a global standard time; b) forming each testing packet; c) registering frame sequence and the global standard time during transmission; and d) calculating transmission delay time, jitter and packet loss by using time stamp and packet sequence information of a frame received by the destination node and transmitting the result to the management system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2010
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Euihyun Paik, Tae-Il Kim, Hyeong-Ho Lee
  • Patent number: 7804858
    Abstract: A transmission ECU on a transmission side and reception ECUs on a reception side are connected through communication lines and junction connectors. A delay circuit is provided in each of the junction connectors on the side of the reception ECUs. One end of the delay circuit is connected to the communication line on the side of the transmission ECU and the other end of the same is connected to the communication line on the side of the reception ECU. The communication lines on the both ends of the delay circuit are grounded through termination resistors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2010
    Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventor: Yasuhiro Tamai