Patents Examined by Duc Duong
  • Patent number: 9887820
    Abstract: A method for transmitting a sounding reference signal and a method and device for indicating a configuration are provided. A method for indicating a sounding reference signal configuration may include: generating at least two pieces of downlink control signaling DCI, where each of the at least two pieces of DCI includes a sounding reference signal SRS configuration information element; and transmitting the at least two pieces of DCI in a subframe to a terminal, so that the SRS configuration information elements in the at least two pieces of DCI are used to jointly indicate an SRS configuration. Solutions of embodiments of the present invention can improve accuracy and flexibility of indicating an SRS configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Qiang Li, David Mazzarese
  • Patent number: 9883416
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, are provided for reporting blindly configured carrier aggregation secondary cells. In one aspect there is provided a method. The method may include detecting, by the user equipment, a secondary cell configured for the user equipment to allow access for carrier aggregation, wherein the secondary cell is blindly configured by a network before the detecting by the user equipment; and sending, by the user equipment, a report representative of the detected secondary cell to notify the network of the detecting by the user equipment. Related apparatus, systems, methods, and articles are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Lars Dalsgaard, Sari Kaarina Nielsen
  • Patent number: 9877318
    Abstract: A wireless device at least demodulates, descrambles and decodes a first control signal to generate a first signal. The wireless device processes the first signal by at least encoding, scrambling, modulating and scaling the first signal. The wireless device subtracts the processed first signal from received signals to generate a second signal. The wireless device at least demodulates, descrambles and decodes the second signal to generate a physical broadcast message. The wireless device determines a plurality of system parameters of a base station employing the physical broadcast message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2018
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventor: Esmael Hejazi Dinan
  • Patent number: 9860022
    Abstract: A wireless network protocol (CORE) and related methods, systems, and circuits are disclosed that are capable of enhancing network performance. The protocol uses random linear network coding (RLNC) for intra-session coding in the network, while allowing nodes in the network to set up inter-session coding regions where flows intersect. Within the inter-session coding regions, combinations of coded packets associated with different unicast sessions are permitted. However, packets associated with multiple different unicast sessions are not allowed to be transmitted outside of the coding regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: Aalborg Universitet
    Inventors: Jeppe Krigslund, Jonas Hansen, Martin Hundebøll, Daniel E. Lucani, Frank H. P. Fitzek
  • Patent number: 9854515
    Abstract: A network controlling entity in a heterogeneous or local area network (such as a macro eNB) selects a set of network access nodes that share a common wake-up area code WUAC. The network controlling entity selects a transmission entity such as a motile terminal/UE and directs it to wirelessly transmit a signal on a given radio resource. The network controlling entity also informs each network access node within the set of the given radio resource on which they should listen for the signal. In various embodiments the network access nodes within the set can choose whether or not to listen for the signal and thus choose whether they will wakeup, or they can reply to the signal with a request for wakeup confirmation. In this manner WUAC-specific sets of small cells can be awakened only when needed for traffic offloading and thereby saving energy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: Avago Technologies General IP (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Lili Zhang, Tero Heikki Matti Henttonen, Haiming Wang, Wei Hong
  • Patent number: 9848068
    Abstract: A method for providing a parser by a network node, which includes a table defining a plurality of rules and a plurality of match fields required for extraction from an incoming data packet header in order to apply each of the respective rules is described. The method comprises determining at least one occurrence in the table of a first match field that requires extraction; and determining a parser for use in accordance with the at least one determined occurrence of the first match field. Furthermore, the step of determining at least one occurrence of the first match field comprises initializing a counter associated with the first match field and incrementing the counter for each of the plurality of rules that requires extraction of the first match field. And the step of determining a parser comprises determining the parser for use in accordance with the counter. A network node for carrying this method is also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2017
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Suresh Krishnan, Geoffrey Lefebvre
  • Patent number: 9848341
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a network optimization method and a network optimization device. The method includes: acquiring, in a first time segment, a first network status parameter that is determined according to M groups of network status parameters of at least one target cell, and acquiring a first CP that is determined according to M groups of cell control parameters CPs of the target cell, where the network status parameters include a key performance parameter KPI and a cell measurement parameter, determining, according to the first network status parameter and from a first entry that records a mapping relationship between a network status parameter and a security status, a security status of the target cell in the first time segment; and performing network optimization on the target cell according to the security status of the target cell in the first time segment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2017
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hongcheng Zhuang, Jietao Zhang
  • Patent number: 9832808
    Abstract: A first network device may operate as a base station in a wireless wide area network (WWAN) and may establish a WWAN connection with a user device. A media access control (MAC) address of the user device may be obtained and sent to a second network device which operates an access point for a wireless local area network (WLAN). An acknowledgement containing a first service set identifier of the WLAN may be received from the second network device and sent to the user device to set up a secondary connection. An identifier for ordered data communication may used to enable in order communication through both the first and the second network devices. Data to be transmitted to the user device may be split into a first portion and a second portion, and transmitted through the WWAN connection and to the second network device for transmission to the user device via the WLAN respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Rajesh Pazhyannur, Vivek Jha
  • Patent number: 9832104
    Abstract: Architecture that provides reliable communications of broadcast data (e.g., a message) in a collection of nodes. Each node in the collection is assigned a range of identifiers in a token. The union of the tokens for all nodes is the entire identifier range space. Each node that receives a reliable broadcast message from an originator node acknowledges receipt of the message using its token. One or more intermediate nodes forward the message from the originator node to other nodes with which the originator node has no direct communications (multi-level node structure). The indirect nodes each send acknowledgements back to the parent nodes (which can be an intermediate node) which combine the tokens to ensure the entire range space for the associated assigned token range is covered. The originator node ultimately receives tokens to compute if all nodes have received the message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Rishi Rakesh Sinha, Lu Xun, Gopala Krishna Reddy Kakivaya
  • Patent number: 9832786
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, device, and system for scheduling a data flow, which are used to improve the processing efficiency. A network side device marks a priority of a subsequent uplink and/or downlink data flow of a UE corresponding to a downlink data packet in the downlink data packet, and enables a downstream node to schedule an access network resource or air interface resource according to the priority. Therefore, a bearer does not need to be modified during the process of distinguishing different service flows and performing differentiation scheduling on different service flows, thereby reducing the workload and improving the processing efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Weisheng Jin, Hai Liu
  • Patent number: 9832659
    Abstract: A method for and apparatus for supporting a control plane (C-plane) and a user plane (U-plane) in a wireless communication system supporting multiple carriers is provided. A wireless device configures a cell for the U-plane to receive and transmit data, determines to enable a User Plane Reception Period (U-RP) corresponding to the cell for the U-plane, and determines to receive and transmit data with the cell for the U-plane during the enabled U-RP. The cell for the U-plane includes at least one or more serving cells, and the cell for the U-plane has a different frequency from a cell for the C-plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Yunjung Yi, Joonkui Ahn, Hyangsun You
  • Patent number: 9832040
    Abstract: According to an example, in a method for redirecting virtual machine traffic a virtual switch may be implemented in a physical server. In addition, a packet sent from a first virtual machine to a second virtual machine may be detected, in which the first virtual machine and the second virtual machine are in the same virtual local area network (VLAN), and in which the packet has a first VLAN label that identifies the VLAN. Moreover, the first VLAN label may be replaced with a second VLAN label in the packet, in which the second VLAN label differs from the first VLAN label, and the packet may be sent to an uplink switch, in which the uplink switch may send the packet to a network security module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: HEWLETT PACKARD ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT LP
    Inventors: Songer Sun, Xiaoping Han
  • Patent number: 9825855
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to perform a process which includes determining an address available to be set as a source address of a first packet to be transmitted to an apparatus included in a network; identifying one or more relay apparatuses in a communication route from the apparatus to the information processing apparatus; and configuring, for at least one of the identified relay apparatuses, a setting regarding a transfer destination of a second packet whose destination address is the determined address in such a manner that the second packet is transferred toward the information processing apparatus along the communication route.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Taichi Sugiyama, Takeshi Yasuie, Yuji Nomura
  • Patent number: 9825859
    Abstract: According to an example, when transmitting MAC forwarding table items to other BEB devices in an SPBM network for synchronization, a BEB device aggregates a plurality of MAC forwarding table items in a MAC forwarding table belonging to a same MAC segment into an aggregated MAC forwarding item, and transmits the aggregated MAC forwarding table item to the other BEB devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: HEWLETT PACKARD ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT LP
    Inventor: Wei Wang
  • Patent number: 9825770
    Abstract: The embodiments disclose a method and communication node for configuring a multicast group in a Multiple Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) network. The method comprises: obtaining a multicast group configuration request to configure the multicast group of at least one downstream node in the MPLS network, the at least one downstream node may comprise a transit node, a leaf node or the combination thereof; generating a multicast group configuration packet based on the multicast group configuration request; and transmitting the multicast group configuration packet from the root node to the at least one transit node and/or leaf node via a multicast tree in the MPLS network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Song Yuan, Giovanni Mumolo
  • Patent number: 9825862
    Abstract: Some embodiments provide a method for processing a packet for a pipeline of a hardware switch. The pipeline, in some embodiments, includes several different stages that match against packet header fields and modify packet header fields. The method receives a packet that includes a set of packet headers. The method then populates, for each packet header in the set of packet headers, (i) a first set of registers with packet header field values of the packet header that are used in the pipeline, and (ii) a second set of registers with packet header field values of the packet header that are not used in the pipeline.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: BAREFOOT NETWORKS, INC.
    Inventor: Patrick Bosshart
  • Patent number: 9825653
    Abstract: The present invention provides a radio architecture that contains a main radio path and a sensing path. The parameters of the main radio path are controlled by a cognitive engine. The main radio path is tuned to a desired frequency band. The sensing path is used to monitor the spectrum around the desired frequency band. To minimize effects of undesired non-linearity on sensing, sensing path may have a lower gain setting. The cognitive engine determines the optimal setting of the main RF front-end with respect to the current state of the spectrum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties, Inc.
    Inventors: Eyosias Yoseph Imana, Tae Young Yang, Jeffrey H. Reed
  • Patent number: 9813217
    Abstract: Apparatus and method for resource allocation are provided. An apparatus includes a controller which is configured to utilize a tree structure with more than one branch in the resource allocation of physical resource blocks, each branch including one or more legal starting positions for resource allocation. Each starting position is associated with a cluster of physical resource blocks, the number of starting positions being different on each branch. The size of the resource clusters of each branch is different. The controller is configured to denote each resource cluster with a predefined index, and allocate one or more clusters to user equipment uplink connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy
    Inventors: Frank Frederiksen, Esa Tapani Tiirola, Bernhard Raaf, Kari Pekka Pajukoski, Kari Juhani Hooli
  • Patent number: 9801093
    Abstract: It is provided a dynamic association control apparatus comprising: an information acquisition part configured to acquire information related to an object relay node and to candidate base stations to be associated; a blocking probability calculation part configured to calculate respectively a candidate blocking probability in a case where the object relay node performs association with each of the candidate base stations to be associated according to the acquired information; and an association control part configured to select an object blocking probability from the calculated candidate blocking probabilities, and use a base station corresponding to the selected object blocking probability as an object base station to which the association is transferred, so that the object relay node changes to be associated with the object base station to which the association is transferred.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Peng Yang, Chunguang Liu, Zexi Yang, Sheng Zhou, Mika Mizutani, Zhisheng Niu
  • Patent number: 9801125
    Abstract: A data transmission method, multi-medium access point and multi-medium client are disclosed. The method includes: a multi-medium access point (AP) acquiring a current wireless local area network (WLAN) operating mode of an opposite end multi-medium client (Client) from the opposite end multi-medium Client; and the multi-medium AP comparing an address of a target device to which a data packet to be sent is sent with an address of the opposite end multi-medium Client, if they are different, judging whether both a current WLAN operating mode of the multi-medium AP and the current WLAN operating mode of the opposite end multi-medium Client are three-address modes or not, and if yes, determining that the data packet to be sent is prohibited from being sent through a wireless fidelity (WiFi) interface of the multi-medium AP.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: XI'AN ZHONGXING NEW SOFTWARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Junjian Zhang, Lin Wang, Weiliang Zhang, Qiongwen Liang