Patents Examined by Eric Myers
  • Patent number: 10193735
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods are described for power allocation in a superposition multiple access communication system capable of using non-uniform joint constellations or super-constellations. In one method, the conditional probability of a correctly-received symbol and a normalized weighting coefficient is calculated for each receiver and then the sum of weighted efficiencies is calculated. The optimal power allocation is determined for each receiver by maximizing the sum of weighted spectral efficiencies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Hyukjoon Kwon, Sandeep Krishnamurthy, Linbo Li, Jungwon Lee
  • Patent number: 10178033
    Abstract: Embodiments provide a virtual queue management system within the cluster of gateways. When a network message arrives at the gateway cluster, it is processed by one of the gateways within the cluster. The gateway that is processing the network message obtains identifying parameters. The identifying parameters can include, but are not limited to, an Internet Protocol (IP) address, a port number, and/or an HTTP command. The gateway creates a virtual queue identifier based on the obtained identifying parameters. The first gateway to receive a network message with a given virtual queue identifier assumes the role of virtual queue manager for that virtual queue. The virtual queue manager gateway informs other gateways within the cluster of the proper sequence for sending network messages to the server such that messages are transmitted to the server in the proper temporal order.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: John C. Bellessa, Cheng-Ta Lee, Chih-Hsiung Liu, Joey H. Y. Tseng
  • Patent number: 10178011
    Abstract: Some examples disclosed herein relate to traffic management via network switch QoS parameters analysis. In one example, a set of actual QoS parameters maybe analyzed using a set of configured QoS parameters of each network switch. A set of modified QoS parameters for each network switch maybe determined based on the analysis of the set of actual QoS parameters. The set of modified QoS parameters maybe recommended to configure each network switch for improved traffic management.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
    Inventors: Harish B. Kamath, Michael Lee Witkowski
  • Patent number: 10178699
    Abstract: Various aspects described herein relate to techniques for random access based on scalable signature design in wireless communications systems. A method, a computer-readable medium, and an apparatus are provided. In an aspect, the method may include randomly choosing an array of source symbols, wherein the array has one or more scalable dimensions based on at least one of a capacity requirement or a coverage requirement of a random access channel (RACH), encoding the array of source symbols into a codeword for a RACH signature, mapping the codeword to a serial concatenation of orthogonal or quasi-orthogonal sequences to define the RACH signature, and transmitting the RACH signature within a RACH slot. The techniques described herein may apply to different communications technologies, including 5th Generation (5G) New Radio (NR) communications technology.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jing Lei, Hao Xu
  • Patent number: 10171417
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer readable medium has instructions stored therein to be executed by a packet processing unit (PPU) in a communications network to allow a plurality of PPUs in the communications network to independently allocate IP addresses from a shared pool of IP addresses. The plurality of PPUs collectively maintain a distributed hash table (DHT). The DHT stores a distributed block allocation table (DBAT) and a plurality of distributed address allocation tables (DAATs). The DBAT includes an entry for each of a plurality of blocks of IP addresses to indicate which of the plurality of blocks are allocated to which of the plurality of PPUs. Each of the plurality of DAATs corresponds to one of the blocks in the DBAT and includes an entry for each of the IP addresses in that block to indicate which of the IP addresses in that block are allocated to which user entities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Per Synnergren, Johan Kristiansson
  • Patent number: 10172150
    Abstract: A wireless device, such as a user equipment device (UE), and a base station are disclosed, which may communicate with more efficient use of dynamic transmit time interval durations to enable a faster and more efficient ramp up of TCP communications to a higher or maximum throughput. The UE may communicate uplink or downlink communications with the base station according to a first shorter TTI duration for a first period of time. After the first period of time, the UE may communicate uplink or downlink communications to the base station according to a second longer TTI duration. For the case of uplink communications, the UE may be configured to increase a congestion window size after each acknowledgement of an uplink communication received by the base station during the first period of time. For the case of downlink communications, the base station may be configured to increase a congestion window size after each acknowledgement of a downlink communication received by the UE during the first period of time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Farouk Belghoul, Matthias Sauer, Lydi Smaini
  • Patent number: 10117233
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present application provided a method for downlink control information transmission, a base station and a terminal. In one aspect, by acquiring subframe configuration information of a terminal, where the subframe configuration information is used for indicating a first subframe for transmitting common control information and a second subframe for transmitting dedicated control information, the embodiments of the present application enable the common control information to be transmitted to the terminal over the first subframe and/or enable the dedicated control information to be transmitted to the terminal over the second subframe according to the subframe configuration information, thereby achieving downlink control information transmission between the base station and the terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yongxia Lv, Brian Classon, Wen Zhang
  • Patent number: 10097328
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. The present invention relates to a method for transmitting ACK/NACK in a wireless communication system in which carrier aggregation is set, and an apparatus therefor. Specifically, the present invention relates to an ACK/NACK transmission method and an apparatus therefor, the method comprising the steps of: receiving information on a plurality of physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resources via upper layer signaling; receiving a transmit power control (TPC) field on a secondary carrier through a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH); receiving data indicated by the PDCCH; and transmitting ACK/NACK for the data, wherein the ACK/NACK is transmitted using a PUCCH resource which is indicated by the value of the TPC field among the plurality of PUCCH resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Seunghee Han, Hyunsoo Ko, Jaehoon Chung, Moonil Lee
  • Patent number: 10097460
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer readable medium has instructions stored therein to be executed by a packet processing unit (PPU) in a communications network to allow a plurality of PPUs in the communication network to route data packets. The plurality of PPUs collectively maintain a distributed hash table (DHT). The DHT stores a distributed routing table (DRT), where the DRT includes a DRT entry that maps a key to a value. The key is based on a destination Internet Protocol (IP) address and an access point name (APN) associated with an IP session of a user entity (UE). The value represents both an IP address of one of the plurality of PPUs currently serving the IP session of the UE and an IP session identifier that identifies, to that PPU currently serving the IP session of the UE, the IP session of the UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Per Synnergren, Johan Kristiansson
  • Patent number: 10097452
    Abstract: A system and method for steering traffic through a set of services is provided. A service path or chain is assigned to a received packet based on a classification of the packet. A position and/or a direction of the traffic in the service path can be determined based on the previous service performed on the traffic. A next destination for the traffic can be assigned in accordance with the assigned service chain and determined position and direction information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Geoffrey Lefebvre, Erik Rubow, Ravi Manghirmalani
  • Patent number: 10084559
    Abstract: A network device including a port having register and timing modules. The register module includes first ToD, loadpoint, and compensation registers. The timing module includes a second ToD register and ToD module and operates based on a local clock signal. The register module receives a ToD from a control module, which is separate from the network device and selects an initial hardware time. The ToD is a future time and is based on a grandmaster clock signal. The first ToD and loadpoint registers store the ToD and initial hardware time. The compensation register stores a compensation value from the control module and determined based on a difference between local and grandmaster clock signals. The ToD module, when local and initial hardware times match: transfers the ToD between first and second ToD registers; and updates the ToD in the second ToD register based on the local clock signal and compensation value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: Marvell International Ltd.
    Inventors: Ramya Krishna Devineni, Donald Pannell, Hong Yu Chou, Samuel Kong
  • Patent number: 10080184
    Abstract: Some demonstrative embodiments include apparatuses, systems and/or methods of communicating in a Neighbor Awareness Networking (NAN) cluster. For example, an apparatus may include logic and circuitry configured to cause a NAN device to determine a scheduling rank of the NAN device; to receive schedule information from one or more other NAN devices of a NAN cluster including the NAN device, the schedule information of an other NAN device indicating one or more communication resources for communication with the other NAN device; based on a comparison between the scheduling rank of the NAN device and one or more scheduling ranks of the one or more other NAN devices, to determine a schedule to communicate with the one or more other NAN devices; and to communicate with the one or more other NAN devices based on the schedule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2018
    Assignee: INTEL IP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Po-Kai Huang, Emily H. Qi, Minyoung Park, Dibakar Das
  • Patent number: 10057111
    Abstract: A communication device includes an analog connector onboard a vehicle in a vehicle system that is coupled with a multiple unit (MU) cable extending through the vehicle system for communication of analog control signals. The device includes a network connector disposed onboard the first vehicle to communicatively couple with a digital communication network of the vehicle system that is separate from the MU cable. The device also includes a relay to close and conductively couple the control system of the first vehicle with the MU cable and to open to decouple a portion of the MU cable disposed onboard the first vehicle with a remainder of the MU cable that is off-board the first vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: William Cherrick Schoonmaker, Jared Klineman Cooper, Michael Alexander
  • Patent number: 10045267
    Abstract: A User Equipment (UE) registers with a Long Term Evolution (LTE) network. The UE registers with an Internet Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) over the LTE network. The UE registers with a Wireless Fidelity (WIF) network. The UE receives a status request from the LTE network responsive to a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) invite for the UE received at the IMS. The UE transfers a status response to the LTE network that indicates the WIFI network responsive to the status request. The UE receives the SIP invite from the IMS over the WIFI network. The UE exchanges user data for the media session over the WIFI network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.
    Inventors: Jasinder Pal Singh, Siddharth Oroskar, Nitesh Manchanda, Rajil Malhotra
  • Patent number: 10009930
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method and apparatus for transmitting a frame. A method for transmitting a frame in a wireless LAN comprises the steps of: an STA receiving an uplink transmission trigger frame from an access point (AP), wherein the uplink transmission trigger frame triggers the transmission of an uplink frame of an STA on an overlapping time resource, and triggers the transmission of one other uplink frame of at least one other STA; the STA transmitting the uplink frame to the access point (AP) through an allocated uplink transmission resource; and the STA performing a backoff process based on channel access parameters, which have been determined according to the success of the uplink frame transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Suhwook Kim, Kiseon Ryu, Jeongki Kim, Giwon Park, Hangyu Cho
  • Patent number: 9998948
    Abstract: Method and arrangement in a first node for requesting a status report from a second node. The first node and the second node are both comprised within a wireless communication network. The status report comprises positive and/or negative acknowledgement of data sent from the first node, to be received by the second node. The first node comprises a first counter configured to count the number of transmitted Protocol Data Units, PDUs, and a second counter configured to count the number of transmitted data bytes. The method and arrangements comprises initialising the first and the second counter to zero, transmitting data to be received by the second node, comparing the value of the first and the second counters with a first threshold limit value and a second threshold limit value and requesting a status report from the second node if any of the threshold limit values is reached or exceeded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: Unwired Planet, LLC.
    Inventors: Johan Torsner, Michael Meyer, Janne Peisa
  • Patent number: 9998998
    Abstract: MAC addresses provide a way to identify wireless client devices. Some wireless client devices are able to change their MAC addresses. Provided are devices computer-program products, and methods for identifying wireless client devices based on radiofrequency signatures of transmissions from the client devices. In some implementations, one or more wireless frames are received at a network device. In these implementations, a wireless frame is received at two or more antennas. In some implementations, a signal characteristic associated with transmission of the wireless frame is monitored. In these implementations, monitoring the signal characteristic includes using two or more antennas to determine a physical or temporal characteristic associated with the transmission of the wireless frame. In some implementations, a client device is identified. The identified client device is associated with the transmission of the wireless frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: ARUBA NETWORKS, INC.
    Inventor: Gautam Bhanage
  • Patent number: 9992796
    Abstract: A method for transmitting to an access point includes receiving a selection condition and a selection contention period from the access point, and comparing the selection condition to a selection parameter. The method also includes contending for use of a transmission medium during the selection contention period if the selection parameter meets the selection condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: FUTUREWEI TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Bin Chen, George Calcev, Lin Cai
  • Patent number: 9980181
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a solution for handling handover of connections for a user equipment from a packet switch network to a circuit switched network. This is provided as a method implemented in a node and system. The method is provided in a telecommunications network connecting user equipment, i.e. UE, communicating wirelessly with the network. The method comprising steps of detecting that handover is required from a packet switched, i.e. PS, based network to a circuit switched, i.e. CS, based network, initiating in a source mobility management node, a single radio voice call continuity, i.e. SRVCC, initiating a PS to CS handover for non-voice components with information about voice related parameters and a PS to CS handover indicator, executing hand over, sending an update request to a serving gateway, i.e.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: John Stenfelt, Peter Hedman
  • Patent number: 9967047
    Abstract: A method for transmitting digital data by a primary optical signal between a transmitter terminal and a receiver terminal, involves the following steps: determining a magnitude characterizing optical-wave degradation between the transmitter terminal and the receiver terminal, determining a number of transmission channels by a decreasing function of the magnitude characterizing optical-wave degradation, distributing the digital data over the transmission channels, modulating optical signals of different wavelengths using digital data distributed over the transmission channels, generating the primary optical signal by wavelength multiplexing of the optical signals, and sending a transmission configuration, including at least the number of transmission channels, from the transmitter terminal to the receiver terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: THALES
    Inventors: Arnaud Le Kernec, Mathieu Dervin, Michel Sotom