Patents Examined by Eric P Smith
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Patent number: 9179464Abstract: A method and device for transmitting a reference signal in a wireless communication system is provided. A base station maps each demodulation reference signal (DMRS) of each of a plurality of layers into a first resource element (RE) set and a second RE set including four REs over four orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols within a subframe, allocates first orthogonal cover codes (OCCs) having a length of 4 to each DMRS mapped into the first RE set, allocates second OCCs having a length of 4 to each DMRS mapped into the second resource element set and transmits each DMRS mapped into the first RE set and the second RE set. The subframe includes two slots and each slot includes six OFDM symbols. The second OCC are formed by swapping positions of bits that constitute the first OCCs.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2011Date of Patent: November 3, 2015Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Min Seok Noh, Moon Il Lee, Seung Hee Han, Jae Hoon Chung
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Patent number: 9178918Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure involve systems, methods, computer program products, and the like, for collaboration conferencing with multiple participants over a communications network, and more specifically for a conferencing routing service for managing and routing collaboration participants. A collaboration conferencing routing server may provide configurability in routing a collaboration conference to a conference bridge based on any number of criteria and information about the requester and the communications network on which the conference occurs.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2012Date of Patent: November 3, 2015Assignee: LEVEL 3 COMMUNICATIONS, LLCInventors: Andrew James Broadworth, Darren James Behmlander, Adam C. Uzelac
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Patent number: 9164817Abstract: A mobile communication terminal to provide a widget expansion function using a message communication, and an operation method of the mobile communication terminal is provided. The method includes a configuration of generating an additional function expansion message based on expansion of an additional function of a widget, and transmitting the generated additional function expansion message. The method also includes a configuration of expanding the additional function of the widget by receiving the additional function expansion message, by determining an application programming interface (API) library with respect to the expansion of the additional function, and by calling the determined API library.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2011Date of Patent: October 20, 2015Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tae Ho Jang, Jun Hyeong Kim
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Patent number: 9098548Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to a technique to access a data source from a client using a driver. A data source name (DSN) is provided to connect to the data source using the driver. The driver is used to interface between the client and an implementation of a driver interface to access the data source based on the DSN.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2011Date of Patent: August 4, 2015Assignee: Open Invention Network, LLCInventor: Marc Todd Yaeger
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Patent number: 9094330Abstract: An example of a data transport system includes transport nodes of a transport network, communication devices which communicate via the transport network, and a transport network logical path management server for setting logical paths between the transport nodes within the transport network, and a logical path control server. In a case where a first communication device is newly connected with a first transport node, the first communication device transmits control data to a logical path control server via the first transport node. The logical path control server obtains information about a connection relation between the newly connected first communication device and the first transport node from the control data, and establishes a logical path between the first communication device and a second communication device based on the obtained information about the connection relation and on information about logical paths between transport nodes in a logical path database.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2012Date of Patent: July 28, 2015Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Masayuki Takase, Masahiro Kimura, Kazuhiro Kusama
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Patent number: 9066261Abstract: Methods and apparatus for managing radio measurements during discontinuous reception. In one exemplary embodiment, the distribution of Long Term Evolution (LTE) DRX measurements is staggered or distributed across multiple DRX cycles (which may be contiguous or non-contiguous) so as to reduce the transceiver activity and power consumption. The exemplary UE in one implementation only performs a subset of measurements during each DRX cycle. By staggering or distributing cell measurements over multiple DRX cycles, the UE can improve power consumption, while still conforming to measurement requirements.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2012Date of Patent: June 23, 2015Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Zhu Ji, Jason Shi, Johnson Sebeni, Navid Damji, Li Su
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Patent number: 8989188Abstract: Techniques are provided for hosting a first virtual switch and one or more virtual machines (VMs) configured to be part of a virtual LAN (VLAN). The first virtual switch enables communications among the VMs arranged in one or more private VLANs (PVLANs). The first virtual switch receives a packet from a source VM that is evaluated for source identifier information associated and destination identifier information associated with a destination VM serviced by a second virtual switch for which the packet is destined. An evaluation result is obtained. Based on the evaluation result, the first virtual switch determines whether the source and destination VMs belong to a same PVLAN and drops the packet if the source VM and the destination VM do not belong to the same PVLAN.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2012Date of Patent: March 24, 2015Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.Inventors: Sundeep Chandra Udutha, Manohar Rapeti
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Patent number: 8989790Abstract: A wireless communication device with MIMO function conforming to a predetermined wireless standard and communication terminals that communicate with a base station incorporating MIMO function includes a master communication terminal which is any one of the plurality of communication terminals and a slave communication terminal which is connected to the master communication terminal via a predetermined connection element and is one or more communication terminals other than the master communication terminal among the plurality of communication terminals. A configuration in which a part of or all signal processing functions that relate to transmission and reception of one or more antennas incorporated in one or more slave communication terminals can be controlled from the master communication terminal is used.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2010Date of Patent: March 24, 2015Assignee: Lenovo Innovations Limited (Hong Kong)Inventor: Toshiya Todoroki
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Patent number: 8958281Abstract: An early BSIC (base station identity code) abort procedure includes comparing a first signal strength of a serving cell with a first threshold and comparing a second signal strength of a target cell to a second threshold. The first threshold is a sum of a network indicated threshold and a user equipment (UE) threshold. The second threshold is a difference between the network indicated threshold and the UE threshold. When the first signal strength is below the first threshold and the second signal strength is above the second threshold, the base station identity code (BSIC) procedure is initiated. A number of BSIC failure attempts is adaptively set before terminating the BSIC procedure.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2013Date of Patent: February 17, 2015Assignee: Qualcomm IncorporatedInventors: Ming Yang, Tom Chin, Qingxin Chen, Guangming Shi
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Patent number: 8937868Abstract: A method and an apparatus for feeding back channel information in a wireless communication system are provided. The method includes calculating an average Signal to Interference and Noise Ratio (SINR), determining a Modulation and Coding Scheme (MCS) level corresponding to the average SINR, determining an MCS level meeting a predefined condition among MCS levels equal to or less than the determined MCS level, and reporting a channel quality indicator representing the determined MCS level to a base station.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2012Date of Patent: January 20, 2015Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tae-Yoon Kim, Joo-Han Kim, Chae-Man Lim
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Patent number: 8934413Abstract: Systems and methods for communicating packets having a plurality of formats are described herein. In some aspects, a signal (SIG) field in the preamble of a packet may indicate whether an extension field, such as an extension SIG field or SIG-B field, is included in the packet. In another aspect, one or more detectors may be used to auto-detect packets formatted as one of at least two different formats based on a short training field (STF) of a received packet. In some aspects, along training field (LTF) in the preamble of a packet may indicate whether the payload is repetition coded.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2012Date of Patent: January 13, 2015Assignee: Qualcomm IncorporatedInventors: Sameer Vermani, Santosh P. Abraham, Mohammad Hossein Taghavi Nasrabadi, Vincent K. Jones, IV, Hemanth Sampath
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Patent number: 8923185Abstract: A method for guaranteeing with a high level of reliability the continuity of the communications operated from a fourth-generation mobile terminal linked to a level-3 interconnection network, in the terminology defined by the OSI, uses gateways to maintain location information about the mobile terminals. The method applies notably to the mobility of mobile terminals in a context which is highly intolerant to faults, for example for networks used by military forces, public bodies, or civil agents such as the police, fire brigade or civil security. In particular, it may be implemented in networks liable to experience breaks in communication links in the interconnection network.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2012Date of Patent: December 30, 2014Assignee: ThalesInventors: Natael Martinez, Christophe Mathieu, Guillaume Klech
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Patent number: 8913583Abstract: A base station sends a request for information relating to radio access technology capabilities of a mobile station. The base station receives a message containing information relating to radio access technology capabilities of the mobile station, where the message is responsive to the request, and the information contained in the message specifies that the mobile station supports at least two different types of radio access technologies useable by the mobile station to communicate over a wireless link between the base station and the mobile station. The base station is able to control which of the at least two different types of radio access technologies the mobile station is to use.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2010Date of Patent: December 16, 2014Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventor: Ke-Chi Jang
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Patent number: 8913615Abstract: A shared network interface controller (NIC) interfaces a plurality of operating system domains as part of the load-store architecture of the operating system domains. A bus interface couples the NIC to a load-store domain bus (such as PCI-Express), using header information to associate data on the bus with an originating operating system domain. Transmit/receive logic connects the NIC to the network. Association logic allows the NIC to designate, and later lookup which destination MAC address (on the Ethernet side) is associated with which operating system domain. Descriptor register files and Control Status Registers (CSR's) specific to an operating system domain are duplicated and made available for each domain. Several direct memory access (DMA) engines are provided to improve throughput. Packet replication logic, filters (perfect and hash) and VLAN tables are used for looping back packets originating from one operating system domain to another and other operations.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2012Date of Patent: December 16, 2014Assignee: Mellanox Technologies Ltd.Inventor: Christopher J. Pettey
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Patent number: 8908492Abstract: Methods of allocating orthogonal resources of a wireless communication network to a user equipment (UE) that uses transmit diversity are disclosed. In one or more embodiments, the UE is configured to transmit a reference symbol and a modulated symbol on multiple orthogonal resources on an antenna. The method includes: selecting, by the UE, a first and a second orthogonal resource, respectively, from a plurality of orthogonal resources according to the state of information bits to be communicated by the UE; and transmitting, by the UE, the reference and data symbols on the first and the second orthogonal resource, respectively, on one antenna. The first and the second resource are different for at least one of the states of the information bits. The first and the second resource are both in the same physical resource block.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2012Date of Patent: December 9, 2014Assignee: BlackBerry LimitedInventors: Youn Hyoung Heo, Robert Mark Harrison, Masoud Ebrahimi Tazeh Mahalleh
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Patent number: 8902761Abstract: A method and apparatus providing a network topology management of a wireless communication network are disclosed. The method discovers network topology data of the wireless communication network, wherein the wireless communication network comprises a self-healing capability, and identifies a difference between the network topology data that is discovered against a stored network topology data of the wireless communication network. The method updates the stored network topology data with the difference that is identified.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2010Date of Patent: December 2, 2014Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Chen-Yui Yang, Wen-Jui Li, Minghsien Wang, Quangchung Yeh
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Patent number: 8885651Abstract: According to one embodiment, a communication device is described comprising a first determiner configured to determine a signal transmission time between the communication device and another communication device, wherein the communication device and the other communication device have a communication session with each other and communication resources are allocated for exchanging data in course of the communication session; a second determiner configured to determine a waiting period based on the determined signal transmission time; a transmitter configured to transmit a message indicating that the communication session is to be ended; and a controller configured to control the communication device to release the communication resources when the waiting period has elapsed since the transmitting of the message by the transmitter.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2011Date of Patent: November 11, 2014Assignee: Intel Mobile Communications GmbHInventors: Arvind Purohit, Sudhir Pola
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Patent number: 8855102Abstract: A method, wireless mesh network and processor-readable storage medium for providing interoperability between devices that are capable of communicating at different data rates are disclosed herein. A start-of-frame delimiter token value in a synchronization header is used to indicate a data rate at which a device is capable of communicating. In certain embodiments, samples are collected around a bit transition and are used to adjust a bit timing of a receiving device to match a bit timing of a transmitting device using a coarse adjustment process and, in some embodiments, a fine adjustment process. In this way, compatibility can be maintained between new devices that can communicate at a relatively fast data rate and legacy devices that communicate at a lower data rate.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2010Date of Patent: October 7, 2014Assignee: Elster Solutions, LLCInventors: Andrew J. Borleske, Brent Brian, Robert T. Mason, Jr.
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Patent number: 8837454Abstract: A system and method is presented to support simultaneous connections to multiple network connections. For example, a wireless radio of a communication device may be used to transmit or receive data from two network channels, each associated with a network connection. The communication device may allocate a first set of resources from the wireless radio to be used to communicate across a first network channel and allocate a second set of communication resources from the wireless radio to be used to simultaneously communicate a cross a second network channel.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2012Date of Patent: September 16, 2014Assignee: Broadcom CorporationInventor: Gireesh Hegde
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Patent number: 8838689Abstract: A web conferencing server, including a conferencing module, a monitoring module and a control module, is provided. The conferencing module enables a plurality of participants to attend a web conference and further provides a first participant with a conference right, which allows the first participant to issue a conference command. The monitoring module monitors the status of the first participant in order to generate a status notification. In response to the status notification, the control module issues a control command to the conferencing module, to withhold the conference right from the first participant.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2011Date of Patent: September 16, 2014Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Li-Ju Chen, Chih-Wen Su, Richard Y F Tsai, Meng Li Wong, Ying-Chen Yu