Patents Examined by Derrick Ferris
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Patent number: 9936268Abstract: Systems and methods for routing an incoming service request to one of a plurality of pod units are described. A communication system can be provided that includes a plurality of pods each having a first pod serving a first subset of user accounts associated with a hosted PBX system. The first pod can include a first pod unit in a first data center and a second pod unit in a second data center. A global user directory (GUD) can be used to store a plurality of user keys that are mapped to the plurality of pods. A router can be provided to identify a user key from an incoming service request, query the GUD to identify the first pod as being associated with the user key, and route the incoming service request to one of the first and second pod units.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2014Date of Patent: April 3, 2018Assignee: RingCentral, Inc.Inventors: Vlad Vendrow, Vladimir Shmunis, Vadim Zhuk, Dmitriy Alexandrovich Solovey
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Patent number: 9929833Abstract: The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. More specifically, the present invention relates to a method and a device for transmitting a HARQ (Hybird-ARQ) feedback signal in the wireless communication system, wherein the method comprises: receiving 1st to ith data within a time window comprising subframes 1 to N, wherein the 1st to Nth data are transmitted by a base station for the time window, wherein the ‘i’ is a natural number no more than the ‘N’, and the 1st to the Nth data are the same, sequentially decoding the 1st to the ith data, wherein the ith data received at a subframe i is data first successfully decoded, and transmitting an ACK (Acknowledgement) signal for all the 1st to the Nth data at a subframe i+X, wherein the ‘X’ is a predetermined number for transmission of the HARQ signal.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2014Date of Patent: March 27, 2018Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Sungjun Park, Sunyoung Lee, Sunghoon Jung, Youngdae Lee, Seungjune Yi
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Patent number: 9912449Abstract: A technology for a user equipment (UE) that is operable to select an internet protocol (IP) interface in a communications network is disclosed. Local policy information and access network selection information can be received from an Access Network Discovery and Selection Function (ANDSF) operating on a server in an evolved packet core (EPC). At least one IP interface on which to route an IP flow using inter access point name routing policies (IARP) can be determined prior to implementing other routing policies. The IP flow from the UE on at least one IP interface selected can be routed using the IARP.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2014Date of Patent: March 6, 2018Assignee: Intel IP CorporationInventor: Vivek Gupta
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Patent number: 9888512Abstract: A method for encoding streaming data according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises: a step of dividing a forward error correction (FEC) source block into one or more FEC sub-blocks; a first encoding step of FEC encoding said one or more FEC sub-blocks; a second encoding step of encoding said FEC source block; and a step of generating third encoded data including first encoded data encoded in the first encoding step and second encoded data encoded in the second encoding step. According to one embodiment of the present invention, a streaming service can be smoothly provided to multiple users in various environments or in a communication environment that varies according to movement or changes in a communication state. Further, a plurality of pieces of parity information can be transmitted to provide a streaming service which is capable of high reliability data recovery.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2013Date of Patent: February 6, 2018Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Song Yean Cho, Han Na Lim, Sang Soo Jeong
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Patent number: 9871568Abstract: Techniques are described herein for fast and efficient discovery of small cells by user equipment (“UE”) in a wireless telecommunications network. The small cells may operate at a high frequency band (“HFB”), which may correspond to higher frequencies than other cells (e.g., base stations, such as evolved Node Bs (“eNBs”)) of the network. The UE may receive assistance information, which may include polling channel configurations, beamforming weights, carrier frequencies, cell identifiers of small cells, and/or other information. The UE may use the assistance information when outputting (either omnidirectionally, pseudo-omnidirectionally, or directionally) a polling sequence, in order to detect the small cells.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2015Date of Patent: January 16, 2018Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Hyejung Jung, Qinghua Li, Pingping Zong
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Patent number: 9860763Abstract: In some aspects, a wireless monitoring system includes a sensor network, a data analysis system and a communication interface. The sensor network includes wireless sensor devices configured to passively monitor radio frequency (RF) signals exchanged in a wireless communication network in a geographic region, and each wireless sensor device is configured to compute local network-usage parameters based on processing the RF signals detected by the wireless sensor device. The data analysis system is configured to analyze regional performance metrics of the wireless communication network based on the local network-usage parameters computed by the biosensor devices. In some instances, the communication interface is configured to transmit a network performance report to the wireless communication network based on the analysis of the regional performance metric.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2015Date of Patent: January 2, 2018Assignee: Cognitive Systems Corp.Inventors: Oleksiy Kravets, Tajinder Manku
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Patent number: 9847954Abstract: The subject matter disclosed herein relates to a frame switch of an AFDX network in which the data acquisition application is decentralized. When the switch has to acquire the data transmitted on a virtual link, the switching table contains, apart from the input port and the output port (s) taken by this link, an ID representing the MAC address of the switch. The frames of this link are then not only switched but also transmitted to the network interface of the switch and processed by a dedicated application (DDA), hosted inside the switch. This application can be interrogated by a remote server and transfer the data that it has stored locally.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2014Date of Patent: December 19, 2017Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS (S.A.S.)Inventors: Juan Lopez, Emilie Claudel
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Patent number: 9838219Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a method and network device for providing VLAN mismatch detection in networks. Specifically, a network device monitors a plurality of packets received by a first device from a second device to identify a first set of VLAN identifiers indicated by at least one of the plurality of packets. The network device receives from a third device at least one packet tagged with a particular VLAN identifier, whereas the at least one packet to be forwarded by the first device to the second device. The network device then determines whether the particular VLAN identifier is included in the first set of VLAN identifiers indicated by at least one of the plurality of packets received by the first device from the second device. If the particular VLAN identifier is not included in the first set of VLAN identifiers, the network device presents a notification.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2014Date of Patent: December 5, 2017Assignee: ARUBA NETWORKS, INC.Inventors: Santashil PalChaudhuri, Sandeep Yelburgi, Herman Robers, Sandip Devnath, Sandeep Unnimadhavan
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Patent number: 9838895Abstract: A method includes receiving a packet stream at a gateway device, the gateway device coupled to a component of a content distribution system. The method also includes transmitting, from the gateway device, a wireless signal that carries data corresponding to at least a portion of the packet stream to a first device. The wireless signal is transmitted in a wireless coverage area that includes a second device configured to receive and analyze the wireless signal to produce of an assessment of the content distribution system.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2015Date of Patent: December 5, 2017Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.Inventors: Mark Brady, Stephen Sposato, Jin Wang, Xidong Wu
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Patent number: 9832122Abstract: Apparatus, systems and methods may be used to monitor data flows and to select and track particularly large data flows. A method of tracking data flows and identifying large-data (“elephant”) flows comprises extracting fields from a packet of data to construct a flow key, computing a hash value on the flow key to provide a hashed flow signature, entering and/or comparing the hashed flow signature with entries in a flow hash table. Each hash table entry includes a byte count for a respective flow. When the byte count for a flow exceeds a threshold value, the flow is added to a large-data flow (“elephant”) table and the flow is then tracked in the large-data flow table.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2014Date of Patent: November 28, 2017Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.Inventors: Sarang M. Dharmapurikar, Mohammadreza Alizadeh Attar, Kit Chiu Chu, Francisco M. Matus, Adam Hutchin, Janakiramanan Vaidyanathan
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Patent number: 9813901Abstract: Disclosed is a technique for performing flexible service-level access control in real-time while suppressing occurrence of signaling. According to the technique, a network entity (AAA server 10) configured to perform access control sets correspondences between addresses of a communication terminal (UE) 40 and respective service contents of services that the communication terminal 40 receives, and notifies the communication terminal of the correspondences. Thus, the communication terminal is able to know the service contents corresponding to the addresses that the communication terminal uses. In a case where a service content of a service that the communication terminal receives is changed, the address used by the communication terminal is changed to an address corresponding to the changed service content. As a result, from the changed address, the communication terminal is able to know that the service content has been changed and to know the changed service content.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2009Date of Patent: November 7, 2017Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICAInventors: Jun Hirano, Takashi Aramaki
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Patent number: 9806794Abstract: A system for broadband access to airborne platforms is described. The system includes: a ground station with a number of antenna panels, each antenna panel having two polarizations; the ground station having multiple modems connected to the different antenna panels and a processor controlling the modems; and the aircraft equipment comprising of a modem attached to an antenna with two polarizations.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2014Date of Patent: October 31, 2017Inventor: Ahmad Jalali
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Patent number: 9807737Abstract: The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. More specifically, a method for enabling a terminal to receive control information in a wireless communications system according to the present invention includes the steps of: constituting PCell and SCell; and monitoring a plurality of expected channels in a search space to receive the control information from a sub-frame #n in SCell, wherein if the sub-frame #n is included in a particular sub-frame set, the search space includes CSS, or if the sub-frame #n is not included in the particular sub-frame set, the search space includes only USS.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2014Date of Patent: October 31, 2017Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Suckchel Yang, Yunjung Yi, Joonkui Ahn
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Patent number: 9794129Abstract: The present proposal provides a specific solution for communications network topology summarization with a good trade-off between high scalability, good stability and resources utilization efficiency.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2012Date of Patent: October 17, 2017Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)Inventors: Paola Iovanna, Gianpaolo Oriolo, Cristiano Zema
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Patent number: 9788348Abstract: A wireless local area network (WLAN) provides wireless service to a collective comprising multiple remote units (RUs) by use of a collective association identifier (AID) assigned to, and shared by, the multiple RUs. The WLAN then uses the collective association identifier AID to identify transmissions of common data to the multiple remote units. Furthermore, the WLAN provides for a serving AP to store, for the collective as a whole, shared data rather than individually storing such data in association with each remote unit (RU) in the collective. The WLAN further provides for RUs to establish a link with their serving AP in order to exchange data sourced by, or intended for, their associated non-RF service provider, and for the AP then to establish a separate AP-to-service provider link to exchange the data, rather than the RU being required to establish an end-to-end link with the service provider.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2012Date of Patent: October 10, 2017Assignee: Google Technology Holdings LLCInventor: Dwight R. Smith
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Patent number: 9787562Abstract: The invention relates to the technical field of domestic networks. A domestic network based on the present UPnp-Standard allows AV connections to be set up between two network subscriber stations—Network connections such as these are set up and managed under the control of a network station which is in the form of a control point. In this case, the UPnP-Standard allows the network station which is the form of a control point to log off the network after setting up an AV connection, and thus to be inactive while the AV connection that has been set up is in existence. This results in the problem that an AV connection which has been set up unnecessarily remains in existence even after the desired AV data stream has been transmitted, so that further connection requests for such stations must be answered with a rejection.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2013Date of Patent: October 10, 2017Assignee: THOMSON LicensingInventor: Ingo Huetter
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Patent number: 9769217Abstract: A method is provided in one example embodiment and includes receiving a first request from a first user equipment by a first transport layer proxy located within an access network The first request includes a request to establish a user session between the first user equipment and a remote server. The method further includes establishing a first transport layer session between the first user equipment and the first transport layer proxy, establishing a second transport layer session between the first transport layer proxy and the remote server, and establishing a first control channel between the first transport layer proxy and a transport layer function manager within a core network. The method further includes sending session state parameters associated with the first transport layer session and the second transport layer session to the transport layer function manager using the first control channel.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2013Date of Patent: September 19, 2017Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.Inventors: Hendrikus G. P. Bosch, Paul A. Polakos, Humberto J. La Roche, Mahavir Dagdulal Karnavat
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Patent number: 9763104Abstract: Two-way (full-duplex) wireless links in facilitating network management and improve network performance. Once aspect includes methods for network management using an overlaid network for control signaling. Another aspects include methods to facilitate practical realization and improve performance of some of the network information theoretic configurations, such as Space-Division Multiple Access (SDMA) in uplink and downlink, Interference Channel, and other forms of distributed collaborative signaling schemes. Another aspect includes methods to support cognitive wireless networks.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2013Date of Patent: September 12, 2017Inventor: Amir Keyvan Khandani
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Patent number: 9729367Abstract: Provided are a method and device for processing an uplink (UL) signal in a WLAN system. An access point (AP) receives a request to send (RTS) frame from one station (STA) among a plurality of STAs, transmits a group identifier (ID) of a group to which STAs for performing UL multi user multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) transmission together with the one STA, among group IDs of a group to which the one STA belongs, and receives UL signals from the STAs which perform the UL MU-MIMO transmission such that the received UL signals are processed.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2012Date of Patent: August 8, 2017Assignees: Korea University Research and Business Foundation, LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Ill Soo Sohn, Han Bae Kong, Chang Ick Song, Hae Wook Park, Yong Ho Seok, Inkyu Lee
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Patent number: 9730125Abstract: A technique for providing per station control of multiple stations in a wireless network across multiple access points. A look-up table that assigns a station connected to the access point and at least one communication parameter to each of a plurality of persistent, uniquely-assigned BSSIDs (Basic Service Set Identifiers) is stored. An access point responds to messages addressed one of the plurality of persistent, uniquely-assigned BSSIDs and ignores messages addressed to other BSSIDs. Persistence of the BSSID allows the controller to maintain individual control over each station after moving to a second access point of the plurality of access points. A frame comprising the plurality of BSSIDs corresponding to each connected station aggregated into the frame is generated. The frame is transmitted to the plurality of stations.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2014Date of Patent: August 8, 2017Assignee: Fortinet, Inc.Inventors: Anil Kaushik, Srivatsan Sankaranarayanan, Vaduvur Bharghavan, Sung-Wook Han, Joseph Epstein, Berend Dunsbergen, Saravanan Balasubramaniyan