Patents Examined by Derrick Ferris
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Patent number: 9634919Abstract: In one implementation, a source endpoint and a destination endpoint communicate using multipath. A data stream may be transmitted using a primary path. The source endpoint and the destination endpoint connect through an alternative path, but before portions of the data stream are transmitted using the alternative path, the alternative path is tested using one or more disposable packets. The source endpoint sends the disposable packet of the data stream using the alternative path to the destination path and receives a transmission parameter for the disposable packet of the data stream and the alternative path.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2014Date of Patent: April 25, 2017Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.Inventor: Pål-Erik Martinsen
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Patent number: 9621699Abstract: A mobile client device, such as a wireless mobile or a palm sized personal digital assistant, is provided with at least a first and second audio resources and companion programming instructions/circuitry to generate various audio signals in a more context sensitive manner, while multi-media resources are being utilized. The instructions/circuitry cause the mobile client device to determine a first audio volume level at which the mobile client device is being utilized by a user for a first audio signal. Once the first audio volume level is determined, instructions/circuitry cause a second audio signal to be provided at a second audio volume level to the user. The second audio volume level being based at least in part on the first audio volume level initially.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2014Date of Patent: April 11, 2017Assignee: Varia Holdings LLCInventors: Peter Zatloukal, G. Eric Engstrom
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Patent number: 9619577Abstract: A computing system used for graphical user interface image reproduction includes a processor; and a memory communicatively coupled to the processor. The processor is configured to: extract data from network traffic being sent from a server to a first client device, the network traffic including cacheable files used to create a graphical user interface display on the first client device; store the cacheable file in a trace file associated with the first client device; and send the cacheable file to a second client device in response to a request from the second client device.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2011Date of Patent: April 11, 2017Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Hidenori Gohda, Masahiko Kosuda
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Patent number: 9622174Abstract: Methods and apparatus for using a plurality of cells by an evolved NodeB (eNB) in a communication system are provided. A first eNB, which manages a first cell and is providing a communication service to a User Equipment (UE) located in the first cell, determines to provide the communication service to the UE together with a second cell of a second eNB, which neighbors the UE. A cell addition request message, making a request for aggregation of the first cell and the second cell, is transmitted to the second eNB to provide the communication service. When a cell addition response message, accepting the request for aggregation of the first cell and the second cell, is received from the second eNB, a cell activation request message, making a request for activation of the second cell, is transmitted to the second eNB.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2013Date of Patent: April 11, 2017Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., LtdInventors: Young-Bum Kim, Ju-Ho Lee, Joon-Young Cho, Seung-Hoon Choi, Sang-Min Ro, Hyoung-Ju Ji
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Patent number: 9614910Abstract: Provided are a method, a system, and a computer program that use a Fibre Connection (FICON) protocol, in which a first device that is coupled to a second device receives an outbound exchange from the second device, wherein one or more Fibre Channel frames of the outbound exchange have a priority indicated by the second device. The first device responds to the second device with an inbound exchange, wherein one or more Fibre Channel frames of the inbound exchange have an identical priority to the priority indicated by the second device in the outbound exchange. In additional embodiments, priority is maintained across related exchange pairs.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2014Date of Patent: April 4, 2017Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Roger G. Hathorn, Bret W. Holley, Harry M. Yudenfriend
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Patent number: 9609572Abstract: A method and system for supporting the mobility of a mobile terminal in a software-defined network are disclosed. A method for supporting the mobility of a mobile terminal in a software-defined network according to an embodiment of the invention can include: routing a data packet of the mobile terminal to an authority switch serving as an anchor within a first partition, said routing performed by a switch by referencing a flow table; and setting a data path to an authority switch of a second partition, which is the partition containing the destination of the data packet, based on a rule provided by a controller and transmitting the data packet to a destination, said setting and transmitting performed by the authority switch of the first partition.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2014Date of Patent: March 28, 2017Assignee: Foundation of Soongsil University Industry CooperationInventors: Young-Han Kim, Hyun-Sik Yang
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Patent number: 9596700Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide an encoding method for a traffic indication map and a beacon frame, which relate to a communication field, enable a user to know whether there are data cached in an access point or enable a user terminal to know whether to access to a channel, and reduce the quantity of bytes occupied by the traffic indication map in the beacon frame. The encoding method for a traffic indication map provided by the embodiments comprises: controlling whether to display a sub-block bitmap display field in a sub-bitmap by marking at least one bit in a bitmap control field, a sub-block sub-bitmap in the sub-bitmap being used for enabling a user terminal to know whether there are data cached in an access point, or enabling the user terminal to know whether to access to a channel.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2014Date of Patent: March 14, 2017Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventors: Xun Yang, Lvxi Yang, Kang Song, Yongming Huang, Chunguo Li
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Patent number: 9596687Abstract: A system, media, and method, for aperiodic antenna calibration triggering in a wireless network is provided. Following a calibration of an antenna, a recalibration of the antenna is triggered upon determining that a recalibration criterion is met. The determination is made based on monitoring a reported power level of a transmitted signal as measured by a stationary and/or mobile client device couple to the wireless network.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2014Date of Patent: March 14, 2017Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.Inventors: Nitesh Manchanda, Walter Fred Rausch, Sharath Somashekar, Xianghong Zeng
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Patent number: 9596690Abstract: A communications device transmitting/receiving signals to/from a mobile communications network includes one or more network elements providing a wireless access interface for the communications device. The wireless access interface includes plural communications resource elements across a host frequency range of a host carrier, and a first section of the communications resources within a first frequency range for preferable allocation to reduced capability devices forming a first virtual carrier and a second section of the communications resources within a second frequency range for preferable allocation to the reduced capability devices forming a second virtual carrier. Each of the first and second frequency ranges is within the host frequency range. The communications device is configured with a reduced capability to receive the signals only within a frequency bandwidth less than the host frequency range and equal to at least one of the first frequency range or the second frequency range.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2014Date of Patent: March 14, 2017Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Matthew Webb, Dimitris Koulakiotis, Hideji Wakabayashi, Yuichi Morioka, Stephen Truelove
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Patent number: 9578627Abstract: The present invention relates a method for a terminal to transmit acknowledgement information including determining a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) format and resource, in which acknowledgement information is transmitted in response to a downlink transmission in a downlink sub-frame set including M (M?1) downlink sub-frame; and transmitting the acknowledgement information using the PUCCH format and resource in one uplink sub-frame. Here, one or more serving cells including one PCell and at least one SCell are configured to the terminal. In the determining step, the acknowledgement information may be transmitted using a PUCCH format 1a/1b, when a semi-persistent scheduling release physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) does not exist in the downlink sub-frame set, and one physical downlink shared channel, which is indicated through the detection of a corresponding PDCCH having a downlink assignment index value of one, exists in the downlink sub-frame set.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2011Date of Patent: February 21, 2017Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Hyunwoo Lee, Jaehoon Chung, Seunghee Han
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Patent number: 9565119Abstract: A packet analysis method includes acquiring a first acknowledge packet and a second acknowledge packet transmitted from the first device; acquiring a plurality of packets transmitted from the second device during a period from reception of the first acknowledge packet to reception of the second acknowledge packet; identifying a number of packets corresponds to data transmitted from the second device, by calculating a difference between a first identification number corresponding to the first acknowledge packet and a second identification number corresponding to the second acknowledge packet; calculating a plurality of bandwidth values, a number of the plurality of bandwidth values is identical to the number of packets, based on acquisition timings of the plurality of packets and an interval between the acquisition timings of two adjacent packets; and determining a bandwidth value that is to be removed from the plurality of bandwidth values by comparing the plurality of bandwidth values.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2014Date of Patent: February 7, 2017Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventors: Naoyoshi Ohkawa, Yuji Nomura, Sumiyo Okada, Fumiyuki Iizuka
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Patent number: 9560670Abstract: The invention concerns a method of managing coexisting packet streams (100, 110) in a wireless communication system, and a corresponding controller and a mobile terminal. A first packet stream (110) of the coexisting packet streams (100, 110) requires transmission resources of the wireless communication system at fixed time intervals, and a second packet stream (100) of the coexisting packet streams (100, 110) requires transmission resources of the wireless communication system at dynamically determined time intervals. A schedule defining allocations of transmission resources for the first packet stream (110) is set up. A request for an initial grant of transmission resources for a transmission of a data packet (101) of the second packet stream (100) is issued.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2008Date of Patent: January 31, 2017Assignee: Alcatel-Lucent USA Inc.Inventors: Rainer Bachl, Matthias Schneider, Antonella Faniuolo
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Patent number: 9554325Abstract: A system includes an apparatus; a first access point configured to transmit a first signal reaching the apparatus; and a second access point configured to transmit a second signal reaching the apparatus during a period other than the first signal is transmitted from the first access point, wherein a signal quality regarding the first access point is estimated on the basis of the first signal but except the second signal.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2014Date of Patent: January 24, 2017Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventor: Junichi Suga
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Patent number: 9529854Abstract: A method, system and computer program product for providing location-specific content to a personal computing device (PCD) connected to a distributed server network (such as the Internet) without requiring an access control gateway to provide such content. Location-specific (and user-specific) content/services are provided by a client-server architecture utilizing a location database and a location look-up utility of a location identifier and content retrieval (LICR) server. Specifically, a utility executing on the PCD provides PCD location parameters to the LICR server, which is equipped with a location look up engine/functionality and a location content retrieval engine/functionality (both within a LICR utility) that responds by providing location-specific and user-specific content to the PCD.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2007Date of Patent: December 27, 2016Assignee: Wayport, Inc.Inventor: James D. Keeler
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Patent number: 9525657Abstract: A system that supports automatic blogging as well as social group interactions comprises a mobile device with a client application that is communicatively coupled over Internet to an interaction management server capable of facilitating message distribution to social groups as well as blogging of messages selectively. The client application of the mobile device comprises a message creation module that facilitates creation of a message by a user of the mobile device, a social group interaction module that communicates the message to a social group managed by the interaction management server coupled to the mobile device, and a blogging module that communicates the message as a first blog entry to blog page managed by the interaction management server.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2015Date of Patent: December 20, 2016Inventor: Bindu Rama Rao
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Patent number: 9515798Abstract: If a PDCCH is multiplexed with data in a DMRS based manner, an E-PDCCH may be allocated by frequency-first mapping in reverse time order, starting from an OFDM symbol carrying the last DMRS in the first slot of a PRB allocated to a UE. For example, the E-PDCCH may be mapped to a resource region in the manner illustrated in FIG. 27. For reference, various signals may mapped to a resource region of a subframe in following manner: (1) CRSs or DMRSs may be mapped to the resource region of the subframe, (2) a legacy PDCCH may be mapped to the resource region, and then (3) the E-PDCCH may be mapped to the remaining region.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2012Date of Patent: December 6, 2016Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Jiwoong Jang, Jaehoon Chung, Hyunsoo Ko
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Patent number: 9503930Abstract: A method and an apparatus for transmitting control information are disclosed. The method includes: grouping UEs in a cell, and obtaining second control information of each UE group after grouping; performing joint channel coding on the second control information of each UE group; obtaining first control information, and transmitting the first control information to the UEs in the cell, where the first control information includes indication information of the second control information, on which joint channel coding has been performed, of each UE group, so as to obtain the second control information according to the indication information; and transmitting the second control information, on which joint channel coding has been performed, of each UE group to the UEs in the cell.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2014Date of Patent: November 22, 2016Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yi Wang, Jun Ni, Dageng Chen, Ni Ma
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Patent number: 9496918Abstract: Variable bandwidth assignment and frequency hopping are employed to make efficient use of radio resources. Variable bandwidth assignment is achieved by dynamically allocating different numbers of subcarriers to different mobile terminals depending on their instantaneous channel conditions. The frequency hopping patterns are determined “on-the-fly” based on the current bandwidth assignments. The bandwidth assignments and frequency hopping patterns are signaled to the mobile terminals in a scheduling grant.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2014Date of Patent: November 15, 2016Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)Inventors: Erik Dahlman, Ylva Jading, Per Skillermark, Stefan Parkvall
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Patent number: 9491121Abstract: Embodiments of the invention relate to controllable virtual link aggregation Internet Protocol (IP) forwarding. One embodiment includes forming a first virtual link aggregation (vLAG) between a first pair of switches for a first system that implements virtual router redundancy protocol (VRRP). A second vLAG is formed between a second pair of switches for a second system that implements VRRP. A VRRP role is forwarded by each switch of the first pair of switches and the second pair of switches to one another. The VRRP role is synchronized between each of the first pair of switches and the second pair of switches. VRRP packets are forwarded to particular switch ports of the first pair of switches and the second pair of switches.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2014Date of Patent: November 8, 2016Assignee: LENOVO ENTERPRISE SOLUTIONS (SINGAPORE) PTE. LTD.Inventors: Lei Bao, Chidambaram Bhagavathiperumal, Yuhong Guo, Yi Xia
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Patent number: 9491700Abstract: The present invention relates to a method by which a station (STA) which operates in power save mode in a wireless LAN system transmits and receives frames. The method includes the steps of: obtaining a channel access authority on the basis of at least one slot time, wherein each slot time is the unit time when a channel is maintained in an idle state for a channel access by the STA; transmitting a power save (PS) poll frame requesting the transmission of a buffered frame to an access point (AP); and receiving a response frame from the AP in response to the PS poll frame. The length of each slot time is set to be longer than the transmission time of the PS poll frame.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2013Date of Patent: November 8, 2016Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Jinsoo Choi, Seunghee Han, Jinsam Kwak, Yongho Seok, Jeongki Kim