Patents Examined by Ernest Tacsik
  • Patent number: 9634819
    Abstract: A system that incorporates the subject disclosure may perform, for example, a method for detecting signal interference in a first segment of a plurality of segments of a radio frequency spectrum of a wireless communication system, determining according to the signal interference a measure of quality of service of the first segment for transmitting voice traffic, comparing the measure of quality of service to a desired measure of quality of service measure for voice traffic, determining from the comparison that the first segment is not suitable for voice traffic, and notifying a system that the first segment is not suitable for voice traffic. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: ISCO International, LLC
    Inventors: Mikhail Galeev, Jorge Seoane
  • Patent number: 9629192
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method, device, and system for realizing device to device communication. The communication method includes: acquiring a wireless network temporary identifier used for device to device communication; receiving transmission grant information scrambled through the wireless network temporary identifier used for the device to device communication; and performing the device to device communication according to descrambled transmission grant information. In the present invention, by sending, to the terminal, the wireless network temporary identifier used for performing the device to device communication and the transmission grant information, the terminal may realize the D2D communication according to the wireless network temporary identifier used for performing the device to device communication and the transmission grant information, thereby satisfying a requirement of D2D data transmission between terminals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Qinghai Zeng, Yi Guo
  • Patent number: 9621556
    Abstract: A system using mobile devices and a network provides access authentication, authorization and accounting to computing resources using a two-person access rule solution approach. A central access control server coordinates a rule-based authorization process in which a requesting user and one or more authorizing users are engaged in real-time communications to facilitate approved access to a sensitive resource. The technique utilizes mobile cellular interfaces and location service technologies, while also providing traditional security control measures of voice and visual verification of user identities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventor: Michael R. Horton
  • Patent number: 9591485
    Abstract: Various embodiments are directed to systems and methods for provisioning a subscription service subscription to a user of a user device, the user device capable of alternatively communicating on a mobile telephone network and on a wireless data network. A request to subscribe the user to the subscription service may comprise a user device identifier and may be received from a mobile service provider system. A message to the user device may be initiated via the mobile telephone network. An access request may be received from the user, via the user device. Upon verifying that the access request was sent by a recipient of the message, the user may be provided with access to the subscription service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: RHAPSODY INTERNATIONAL INC.
    Inventors: Li-Kai Chang, John Anthony Larkin, Jeff Watts, Sanjeev Kaushik, David Stanley
  • Patent number: 9585177
    Abstract: Techniques for sharing a cellular network connection amongst multiple devices over a local area network are provided that reduce cellular network load during crowded events. In an aspect, a devices is configure to perform operations that include scanning an area for another device that has established a first wireless cellular connection with a cellular network device of a cellular network and that enables an indirect connection of the device to the cellular network device via a direct connection of the device to the other device via a local network device. The operations further include, in response to identifying the other device as a result of the scanning, sending a request to the other device to connect to the other device via the local network device and to receive the indirect connection to the cellular network device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignees: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P., BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Lusheng Ji, Jeffrey Pang, Jia Wang, Shobha Venkataraman, Muhammad Zubair Shafiq, Xiang-Yang Alex Liu
  • Patent number: 9532400
    Abstract: A radio communication terminal device may include: a cellular wide area radio communication technology circuit configured to provide a communication according to a cellular wide area radio communication technology; a circuit configured to provide a direct communication device to communication device communication; and a message generator configured to generate a message comprising information of a direct communication device to communication device communication provided by the circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: INTEL DEUTSCHLAND GMBH
    Inventors: Andreas Schmidt, Maik Bienas
  • Patent number: 9532162
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a method and a system for indicating a valid time of a trigger message, to indicate the valid time of the trigger message through a validity period parameter in the trigger message. The validity period parameter includes: a validity period format and a validity period. The method further comprises: a server transmits the trigger message to a network side entity (201); and the network side entity transmits the trigger message to a terminal after successfully parsing and storing the trigger message (202). Through the method and the system, a network is capable of correctly parsing the trigger message and implementing the valid time in the trigger message and thus avoids a wrong removal of a trigger message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kun Yang, Hao Wu
  • Patent number: 9532360
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and an apparatus for communication mode switching. The method includes: acquiring state information of a device-to-device link between a first UE and a second UE; implementing a switching between a first communication mode and a second communication mode according to the state information of the device-to-device link between the first UE and the second UE, where the first UE and the second UE perform device-to-device communication under the first communication mode, and the first UE communicates with the second UE via a base station under the second communication mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Li Chai, Bo Lin
  • Patent number: 9532332
    Abstract: A node device 100 is configured to: allocate a channel for communication to each of radio interfaces; between the radio interface and a radio interface which is included by an adjacent node device and to which the same channel as the channel allocated to the radio interface is allocated, establish a communication link using the channels; and, by using a communication link (a use communication link) set for the destination of received data among established communication links, transfer the data to the adjacent node device. The node device 100 specifies an unused channel that is other than a channel used by a communication link set as the use communication link among already allocated channels (101), and releases allocation of the unused channel (102).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Norihito Fujita
  • Patent number: 9526059
    Abstract: A mobility management method of a wireless communication device is disclosed. The method comprises receiving a first signal related to a first cell, determining a size of the first cell based on the first signal, receiving a second signal related to a second cell, and determining a size of the second cell based on the second signal. The method further comprises scaling at least one mobility parameter based on the determined sizes of the first and second cells, and performing mobility management in the second cell based on the scaled mobility parameters. Corresponding computer program product, arrangement and devices are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2016
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Jagadeesh Arunachalam, Joakim Axmon, Bengt Lindoff, Torgny Palenius
  • Patent number: 9510180
    Abstract: An application interface can support real-time mobile management notification. The application interface can have integrated Home Location Registry (HLR) mobile management signaling, such as Signal System 7 (SS7). An HLR database can contain mobile management registration messages, for example Update Location or Ready for Short Message (SM). A real-time feed can be received from the HLR database. Mobile management messages received via the feed can translated into application notification messages. The translated application notification messages can be delivered to registered applications that may reside on an external customer network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: Numerex Corp.
    Inventors: Bryan Tarleton, Michael J. Criscolo, Wayne Stargardt
  • Patent number: 9467920
    Abstract: A relay node which is registered to a first radio base station and a first mobility management device and which relays a communication between a mobile station and the first radio base station. The relay node includes a first control unit configured to execute a handover process for the relay node and decide to hand over the mobile station from the first radio base station to a second radio base station when a degradation of radio quality between the relay node and the first radio base station is detected, and to transmit a handover control signal for the mobile station to the second radio base station or the first mobility management device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventor: Hirotomo Yasuoka
  • Patent number: 9456393
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and apparatus for determining a starting symbol of a physical downlink shared channel; wherein, a Pico base station transmits information indicating a PDSCH starting symbol of the Pico base station to a Macro base station, the Macro base station transmits the information indicating a PDSCH starting symbol to a terminal, and the terminal determines the PDSCH starting symbol in accordance with the information indicating a PDSCH starting symbol. With the embodiments of the present invention, the terminal within a serving range of the Pico base station resulted from a high offset value will not incorrectly decode a PCFICH due to interference of the Macro base station, thereby making the terminal determine a demarcation symbol between a PDCCH and a PDSCH, further increasing the coverage of the Pico base station, and realizing load balancing of the Macro base station and Pico base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2016
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Haibo Xu, Yuantao Zhang, Yanling Lu, Weiwei Wang, Ningjuan Chang
  • Patent number: 9444544
    Abstract: A method is disclosed for an unmanned vehicle using a Short Message Service (SMS) to relay information to and from a separate management system is disclosed. All or portions of the payload/data to be transmitted to and from the unmanned vehicle and management system uses this SMS, specifically payload/data that aids in the operation and location determination (such as GPS data) of the unmanned vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: APOLLO ROBOTIC SYSTEMS INCORPORATED
    Inventor: Taylor D. Dixon
  • Patent number: 9426817
    Abstract: A radio communication base station allocates the same radio resource as a radio resource used for communication between the radio communication base station and a radio communication terminal in other radio communication base station to be a radio resource used in the other radio communication base station for communication between the other radio communication base station and the radio communication terminal. The radio communication base station includes a control unit that performs control to allocate a radio resource used for communication between a radio communication terminal moving at at least a predetermined speed and the other radio communication base station on a priority basis in accordance with content of service in the communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventor: Toshinori Kawasaki
  • Patent number: 9414428
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method (20) in a device-to-device, D2D, enabled user equipment (12) of a communication system (10). The D2D enabled user equipment (12) supports D2D-communication with another D2D-enabled user equipment (15). The communication system (10) comprises a base station (15) serving one or more cellular user equipment (14) unable to support D2D communication. The D2D enabled user equipment (2, 15) and the cellular user equipment (14) share the same communication resources. The method (20) comprises: receiving (21), from the base station (13), configuration parameters comprising information on a reference signal pattern for use by the D2D enabled user equipment (12), and transmitting (22), based on the configuration parameters, cellular reference signals, enabling the cellular user equipment (14) to measure and report, to the base station (13), channel information on a channel from the D2D enabled user equipment (12) to the cellular user equipment (14).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2016
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Qianxi Lu, Yang Hu, Qingyu Miao, Xinghua Song
  • Patent number: 9408026
    Abstract: A method of reporting hidden sector information from a base station node in a wireless communication system. The base station node has an internal multi-sector structure that is hidden from the rest of the system. The hidden sector information has sector information of the multi-sector structure is only internally available in the base station node. Enhanced cell-ID measurements associated with a first user equipment communicating with the base station are obtained, and formatted into information elements of a measurement report, each such information element having a plurality of symbols. Subsequently, hidden sector information for the first user equipment is retrieved and has an indication of an antenna sector of the base station in which the first user equipment is located. The retrieved dormant/latent sector information uses at least one selected symbol of the plurality of symbols of the measurement report to provide a transformed measurement report.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2016
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Karl Torbjörn Wigren, Claudia Muñiz Garcia
  • Patent number: 9408052
    Abstract: Techniques are described for power conservation in emergency broadcast message reception in a wireless communications system. In accordance with a method for conserving power, one or more segments of an emergency broadcast message in an access stratum are received. The emergency broadcast message is identified as a duplicate emergency broadcast message based at least in part on one or more identifiers of the received one or more segments. The receipt of additional segments of the emergency broadcast message is terminated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2016
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Vitaly Drapkin, Bhanu Kiran Janga, Shyamal Ramachandran, Ajit Gupta
  • Patent number: 9408192
    Abstract: A radio communication system includes a base station and a mobile station. The base station includes a controller that changes communication configurations when a plurality of communications with the mobile station at respective periodic communication intervals are scheduled to occur at the same communication timing so as to control to resolve simultaneous communications. The mobile station comprises a controller that performs communications with the base station using the communication configurations changed by the controller in the base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2016
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Ohta, Yoshihiro Kawasaki, Yoshiharu Tajima
  • Patent number: 9398637
    Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein relate generally to a compact device for providing Wi-Fi connectivity for an electronic device. The compact device is rotatably activated and includes interchangeable batteries and indicia indicating activation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Anthony S. Montevirgen, David G. Havskjold