Patents Examined by Dharmesh J Patel
  • Patent number: 10461883
    Abstract: Methods and systems are disclosed to adjust communication links within wireless networks based upon composite link quality indicators (LQIs). Packet communications are received by a network node through a communication link from a separate network node within a wireless network. The network node can also be configured to transmit packet communications from the network node through the communication link to the separate network node. The network node generates composite LQI measurements for the received packet communications, and the composite LQI measurements are based upon signal strength measurements for the received packet communications and also based upon signal quality measurements for the received packet communications. The network node then adjusts the communication link based upon the composite LQI measurements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: NXP USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Mihai Ionut Stanciu, Khurram Waheed
  • Patent number: 10433136
    Abstract: Concepts and technologies disclosed herein are directed to wireless network enhancements via inductance loops as antennas. According to one aspect disclosed herein, a roadside system can measure inductance of an inductance loop associated with a road. The roadside system can determine whether the inductance of the inductance loop is greater than a baseline. If the inductance of the inductance loop is greater than the baseline, the roadside system can determine that a vehicle is positioned over the inductance loop and can utilize the inductance loop to activate a roadside area network. The roadside system can connect a user device to the roadside system via the roadside area network. The roadside system can include a connection to a network via a backhaul to enable communication between the user device and the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignees: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., AT&T Mobility II LLC
    Inventors: Barrett Kreiner, Ryan Schaub, Robert Shively
  • Patent number: 10383158
    Abstract: A method for transmitting acknowledgement/negative-acknowledgement (ACK/NACK) information of a user equipment (UE) configured with two serving cells including a first serving cell and a second serving cell, the method including receiving two transport blocks (TBs) through a downlink subframe of the first serving cell, receiving one TB through a downlink subframe of the second serving cell and transmitting ACK/NACK information informing ACK/NACKs for the two TBs and the one TB through an uplink subframe of the first serving cell, wherein the ACK/NACK information informs the ACK/NACKs for the two TBs and the one TB by a combination of one resource selected from a plurality of candidate resources and two bits transmitted through the one resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Dong Youn Seo, Min Gyu Kim, Joon Kui Ahn, Suck Chel Yang
  • Patent number: 10356659
    Abstract: A wireless communication system includes a base station; and a relay station capable of wireless connection to the base station; wherein, in a case where a plurality of relay stations is accommodated with using a wireless connection, if a load state of traffic of the base station does not meet criteria, the base station selects at least one relay station, which is to perform the accommodation switching to meet the criteria, among the plurality of relay stations, and controls the selected relay station to perform the accommodation switching, and when the relay station is selected by the base station, the relay station switches a wireless connection to another base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventor: Takeo Miyata
  • Patent number: 10349367
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods and systems for synchronizing clocks maintained at different devices in a wireless communication network. A first wireless transceiver device may receive one or more messages from a second wireless transceiver device with parameters indicative of a first clock state. The first wireless transceiver device may then synchronize a second clock state maintained at the first wireless device based, at least in part, on the one or more parameters indicative of the first clock state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventor: Carlos Horacio Aldana
  • Patent number: 10299314
    Abstract: A mobile body includes a direction identifying unit that identifies a direction in which a communication target mobile body is positioned and a control unit that moves the mobile body by a first control amount indicating a pair consisting of a first absolute velocity value and a first velocity direction. Upon detecting that predetermined information is no longer received from the communication target mobile body, the control unit determines a second control amount by which the autonomous mobile robot is to be moved in the direction identified by the direction identifying unit and which indicates a pair consisting of a second absolute velocity value and a second velocity direction, and the control unit generates a second control command to switch the first control amount to the second control amount and move the autonomous mobile robot and outputs the generated second control command to a drive unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventor: Satoru Hayama
  • Patent number: 10298695
    Abstract: A system for configuring communications in an apparatus. An apparatus may determine whether access to resources not in the apparatus is desired. If it is determined that access to the resource is desired, an access request may be sent to a resource manager. The apparatus may then receive connection information in response to the access request, and may then utilize the connection information when selecting a communication configuration usable for accessing the desired resources that are accessible via the other apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: Provenance Asset Group LLC
    Inventors: Arto Palin, Jukka Reunamäki
  • Patent number: 10291311
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, receiving a first wireless signal at a first carrier frequency, the first wireless signal including a first modulated signal generated by a second antenna system by frequency-shifting the first modulated signal from a first native frequency band to the first carrier frequency, receiving a second wireless signal at a second carrier frequency, the second wireless signal including a second modulated signal generated by a third antenna system by frequency-shifting the second modulated signal from a second native frequency band to the second carrier frequency, detecting a fault in the second antenna system, and responsive to the detecting, adjusting a power level of a first wireless transmission to generate an adjusted first wireless transmission directed to the third antenna system. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventor: Irwin Gerszberg
  • Patent number: 10284479
    Abstract: A network congestion control method is provided. The method includes detecting whether a new network connection is established by a source endpoint; obtaining a destination endpoint of the new network connection when it is detected that a new network connection is established by a source endpoint; and assigning the new network connection to an established network group corresponding to the destination endpoint of the new network connection. Further, the method includes, based on a predefined network congestion control mechanism for each network group, obtaining a data transfer rate of each network group and controlling the data transfer rate of each network group to control data transfer rates of network connections in each network group including the new network connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: SANGFOR TECHNOLOGIES INC.
    Inventor: Dean Luo
  • Patent number: 10264477
    Abstract: The disclosure is related to a multi-band wireless station, e.g., a wireless access point, that includes more than one wireless radio in the same frequency band. The wireless station operates at multiple frequency bands, e.g., 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz. Further, the wireless station includes multiple radios in the same frequency band. For example, the wireless station can have two radios for the 5 GHz band—one for a low 5 GHz band and another for high 5 GHz band. If the client station is connecting to the 5 GHz band, it can either connect to the first sub-band or the second sub-band of the 5 GHz. The wireless station can decide the sub-band to which a particular client station has to be assigned based on a number of assignment attributes, e.g., client station attributes and the sub-band attributes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: NETGEAR, INC.
    Inventors: Peiman Amini, Joseph Amalan Arul Emmanuel, ShunLiang Yu
  • Patent number: 10264519
    Abstract: Operations include estimating a signal strength of a wireless signal as if received by a target wireless device. One or more relationships between detected signal strength values, measured channel utilization values, and/or actual channel utilization values are determined. The estimation is made based on applying detected signal strength values received at other wireless devices, measured channel utilization values at other wireless devices, and/or actual channel utilization values at other wireless devices to the relationships.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: KodaCloud Inc.
    Inventor: Subbu Ponnuswamy
  • Patent number: 10264524
    Abstract: In a wireless communication system including a slave device, and a master device wirelessly connected to the slave device, the slave device includes a wireless communicator that performs wireless communication with the master device, a power supply unit that supplies power to each unit of the slave device, an interrupt detector that detects various interrupts, and a controller that controls the entire slave device, the interrupt detector supplies the power from the power supply unit to each unit of the slave device when detecting a timer interrupt occurring at predetermined intervals, and the controller performs control to perform an initialization process of the wireless communicator when the power is supplied from the power supply unit to each unit of the slave device, and perform an entire initialization process of the slave device when a capture signal is received via the wireless communicator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Katsuhiro Hirai, Toshiyuki Sugitani, Shinji Fukuda
  • Patent number: 10243754
    Abstract: Method and system for reducing multicast traffic loss including configuring, on a primary DR including a first configured DR priority, a DR parameter including a value and an attribute; sending to a secondary DR, after a PIM interface comes up, a PIM hello message including a default DR priority lower than a second configured priority of the secondary DR; sending to the secondary DR, after the primary DR reaches a system-up state, a PIM hello message including the default DR priority; performing DR functionality, by the primary DR, after reaching the system-up state; and sending to the secondary DR, after waiting a time period corresponding to the value of the DR parameter, a PIM hello message including the first configured DR priority, where the primary DR waits to send the last PIM hello message to the secondary DR after the time period based on the attribute of the DR parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: Arista Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: Xiaoyan Chang, John French, Prashant Srinivas, Maxim Martynov, Srinivas Subramanian, Yu Iu
  • Patent number: 10243760
    Abstract: A communication device performs information communication through a communication line based on communication data specified by a CAN protocol. A communication necessity determination unit determines whether or not the information communication through the communication line is necessary based on external information obtained from an external device. When the information communication is necessary and a communication error is detected, a communication control unit stops the information communication during a fixed period and restarts the information communication after the fixed period elapses. When the information communication is unnecessary, the communication control unit stops transmitting communication data until a predetermined transmission restarting condition is satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Yuta Ochiai, Hiroya Ando, Mitsutoshi Kato, Naoto Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 10243885
    Abstract: Method for complex coloring based parallel scheduling for the switching network that is directed at traffic scheduling in the large scale high speed switching network. The parallel scheduling algorithm is on a frame basis. By introducing the concept of complex coloring which is optimal and can be implemented in a distributed and parallel manner, the algorithm can obtain an optimal scheduling scheme without knowledge of the global information of the switching system, so as to maximize bandwidth utilization of the switching system to achieve a nearly 100% throughput. The algorithm complexity is O(log2 N).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: Shanghai Jiao Tong University
    Inventors: Lingkang Wang, Tong Ye, Tony T. Lee, Weisheng Hu
  • Patent number: 10203748
    Abstract: A system includes a first electronic device that activates a first receiver according to a communication schedule that includes a plurality of frames. Each frame is organized according to a grid including a plurality of cells, wherein the cells are associated with a plurality of communication channels and a plurality of time slots. The system also includes a second electronic device that communicates with the first electronic device by transmitting a wake-up packet during a first time slot on a first communication channel. The first time slot and the first communication channel are located at a known position of a respective grid in each frame of the communication schedule. The first electronic device performs an operation based on the wake-up packet after receiving the wake-up packet. The second electronic device also receives a first acknowledgment packet associated with the wake-up packet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventor: Martin Turon
  • Patent number: 10199989
    Abstract: Described examples include Ethernet physical layer (PHY) interface integrated circuits with transmit interface circuitry for transmitting data to an Ethernet network through a magnetic interface, which includes a voltage mode first amplifier with an output that generates a first voltage signal from a supply voltage according to a data input signal. The transmit interface circuit also includes a feedforward second amplifier circuit with an output stage that operates in a first mode to generate a current signal from the supply voltage according to the first voltage signal and to provide the current signal to the first amplifier output to boost a peak voltage at the output above the supply voltage to facilitate support for higher peak signal voltage swings for 10Base-T applications while using 2.5 volt or other low voltage supply levels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Sumantra Seth, Ashwin Ramachandran, Gururaj Ghorpade
  • Patent number: 10165577
    Abstract: For methods, system, and apparatuses for dynamic response management a network device may receive an application service identifier and assign a radio resource to a first device based on the application service identifier. There may be a partitioning of content into a plurality of segments. There also may be an assignment of a quality of service level to a segment of the plurality segments and an adjustment of the quality of service level based on sensors of a device and other inputs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventor: Venson M. Shaw
  • Patent number: 10164684
    Abstract: A Power-Line Communication (PLC) receiver has a filter, a time domain processor, a frequency-domain processor, and a forward-error-correction decoder. A narrow-band frequency detector attached to the frequency-domain processor examines the frequency-domain signal for a highest-power sub-carrier frequency. This highest power is compared to an average power of all other sub-carriers and a narrow-band interferer is detected when the highest power is significantly above the average. When the interferer is detected N times in a time period, a control layer adds this sub-carrier frequency to a removed list and recalculates filter coefficients to add a notch filter at the frequencies of the removed list. Updated filter coefficients are loaded into the filter to implement notch filters. When the current power of a sub-carrier signal on the removed list falls significantly below the average power, the sub-carrier is deleted from the removed list and coefficients recalculated to remove the notch filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute Company Limited
    Inventors: Zhixia Zhu, Kwok Kwan Tong, Wei Lun Alan Cheung
  • Patent number: 10136455
    Abstract: A method and a system apparatus for providing Machine to Machine (M2M) communications in a multiple M2M device group zone environment are provided. The method for performing communication by an M2M device in an M2M communication system includes determining zone indexes corresponding to one or more zone identifiers assigned to one or more M2M device group zones of the base station, selecting a zone index corresponding to a zone identifier of the M2M device group zone associated with a M2M device group of a M2M device from the determined zone indexes, and performing communication with the base station by using the selected zone index and a M2M device group identifier associated with the M2M device group of the M2M device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Anshuman Nigam, Anil Agiwal