Patents Examined by Gbemileke Onamuti
  • Patent number: 9306723
    Abstract: A method in a wireless communication terminal including monitoring a terminal specific search space of a first Component Carrier (CC) from a base unit, wherein the search space corresponds to a set of Physical Downlink Control CHannel (PDCCH) candidates monitored by the terminal for PDCCH messages, and receiving an activation message on the first CC, wherein the activation message activates at least one additional CC. The size of the search space monitored by the terminal after receiving the activation message is greater than the size of the search space monitored before receiving the activation message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignee: Google Technology Holdings LLC
    Inventors: Ravikiran Nory, Ravi Kuchibhotla, Robert T. Love, Vijay Nangia
  • Patent number: 9300433
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for encoding a constant amplitude that is applied to a code division multiplexing communication system are provided. By dividing a data bit into a block unit, the receiving side can easily determine an error, and by reducing power consumption in outdoor wide area communication using a bit string of a small length in a basic unit of an input frame, efficiency can be improved, and thus a physical layer of a ubiquitous sensor network can be optimized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Tae Joon Park, Hoyong Kang, Wun-Cheol Jeong, Chang Sub Shin, In Hwan Lee, Cheol Sig Pyo
  • Patent number: 9300556
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method, a computer program product, and a carrier for indicating one-way latency in a data network (N) between a first node (A) and a second node (B), wherein the data network (N) lacks continuous clock synchronization, comprising: a pre-synchronization step, a measuring step, a post-synchronization step, an interpolation step, and generating a latency profile. The present invention also relates to a computer program product incorporating the method, a carrier comprising the computer program product, and a method for indicating server functionality based on the first aspect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignee: Accedian Networks Inc.
    Inventors: Kjell Hansson, Olof Hagsand
  • Patent number: 9295036
    Abstract: A CQI transmission power control method is provided for transmitting CQIs of multiple cells is provided for a multi-cell HSDPA system in which multiple cells transmit packet data to a user equipment. A control information transmission method of a user equipment in a wireless communication system supporting multi-cell packet transmission service according to the present invention includes generating control informations indicating channel qualities of different cells; classifying the control informations into two control information groups according to a predetermined rule; compensating the control information groups for securing uniform reception performance at a base station; and transmitting the compensated control information groups to the base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Young Bum Kim, Youn H. Heo, Ju Ho Lee
  • Patent number: 9277032
    Abstract: The subject disclosure is generally directed towards a technology by which non-contiguous channels of unequal bandwidth may be aggregated for use by communication devices. A data stream is partitioned (e.g., via puncturing) into partitioned data streams for communication over aggregated non-contiguous channels, one partitioned data stream per channel, in which partitioning is based upon each channel's bandwidth. Secondary puncturing may be used on any partitioned data stream that is to be transmitted over a channel associated with a regulatory constraint, e.g., a regulatory mask. Database querying, which may include providing device filter characteristics, may be used to obtain the set of channels available for use, along with any regulatory mask associated with a channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Amer A. Hassan, Danny Allen Reed, Paul William Garnett
  • Patent number: 9270410
    Abstract: A method of transmitting a wireless signal (FIGS. 3A-3C) is disclosed. A data stream is divided (306) into a first data stream and a second data stream. The first data stream is encoded (300) at a first data rate. The second data stream is encoded (320) at a second data rate different from the first data rate. A first part of the encoded first data stream is transmitted from a first transmit antenna (308). A second part of the encoded first data stream is transmitted from a second transmit antenna (312).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Eko N. Onggosanusi, Anand G. Dabak, Timothy M. Schmidt, Badri N. Varadarajan
  • Patent number: 9246871
    Abstract: A method of discovering and assigning an IP address to a device to be discovered in a communication network having multiple interconnected nodes includes continuously monitoring, by the device to be discovered, the network for address resolution protocol (ARP) requests. The discoverer node transmits a number of ARP request to the network. The device to be discovered receives the number of ARP requests. The device to be discovered determines whether the number of ARP requests are unanswered by other devices in the network. The device to be discovered answers to the number of ARP requests with an ARP reply to claim an IP address associated with the number of ARP requests. The discoverer node and the device to be discovered exchange a pair of User Datagram Protocol (UDP) packets to complete the detection process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: Accedian Networks Inc.
    Inventors: Claude Robitaille, Guillaume Lemieux
  • Patent number: 9237516
    Abstract: For monitoring a wireless line usage status more effectively, a mobile station extracts a synchronizing signal of each of frames received from a plurality of base stations and a known signal transmitted together with transmission data within a time slot in which the transmission data are included but not transmitted within a time slot in which the transmission data are not included. The mobile station then measures a reception power of the synchronizing signal and a reception power of the known signal for each base station. And the mobile station determines a usage status of a wireless line of each base station based on the reception power of the synchronizing signal and the reception power of the known signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventor: Kenichiro Koyanagi
  • Patent number: 9226253
    Abstract: A method for synchronizing a node to a data sink determines a first time of receiving by the node a packet transmitted by a neighboring node and a second time of receiving by the data sink or a synchronized neighboring node the packet transmitted by the neighboring node. The node is synchronized to the data sink based on the difference between the first time and the second time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Jianlin Guo, Philip Orlik, Kieran Parsons
  • Patent number: 9225636
    Abstract: In one aspect, the teachings herein provide point-to-point communication between all the virtual machines (VMs) belonging to the same tenant in a cloud-based virtual network environment without using any intermediate routing functions, and while providing full virtualization at the L2 and L3 levels. That is, the approach preserves completely isolated address spaces for each tenant at both L2 and L3 levels and supports multiple subnets for each tenant, and thereby allows tenants to define their own virtual networks without requiring the addition of expensive centralized routing and without requiring inter-subnet communications for the same tenant to traverse sub-optimal paths, as happens with software-based routers implemented in one of the VMs belonging to the tenant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET L M ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Suresh Krishnan, Geoffrey Lefebvre
  • Patent number: 9219594
    Abstract: Radio frequency front end circuitry comprises a first antenna port, a second antenna port, antenna switching circuitry, a first diplexer, and a second diplexer. The antenna switching circuitry is coupled to each of the first antenna port and the second antenna port through the first diplexer and the second diplexer, respectively. The antenna switching circuitry is adapted to selectively couple one or more of a plurality of transmit and receive ports to the first antenna port and the second antenna port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2015
    Assignee: RF Micro Devices, Inc.
    Inventors: Nadim Khlat, Marcus Granger-Jones
  • Patent number: 9204406
    Abstract: A wireless device receives message(s) configuring cell groups and transmissions of sounding reference signals. Sounding reference signals are configured to be transmitted in a subframe. The wireless device transmits at least one packet on at least one first cell in the subframe. The wireless device transmits a first subset of the sounding reference signals and drops a second subset of the sounding reference signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: Ofinno Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Esmael Hejazi Dinan
  • Patent number: 9197449
    Abstract: A method and apparatus provide telecommunication terminal status information as enhanced telecommunication terminal status information by establishing communication with a telecommunication switching system controlling a telecommunication terminal by a monitor computer; directly accessing the telecommunication terminal status information from the telecommunication switching system by the monitor computer via a path distinct from that used to transmit the telecommunication terminal status information to the telecommunication terminal; converting the telecommunication terminal status information to enhanced terminal status telecommunication terminal status information by the monitor computer; and presenting the enhanced telecommunication terminal status information to a user of the telecommunication set. The telecommunication set may be a multi-paged telecommunication set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Assignee: Avaya Inc.
    Inventors: David Ray Burritt, Bruce Mazza, Paul Roller Michaelis, Robert Mitchell, Matthew Jerome Stevens, Roger Leon Toennis
  • Patent number: 9191936
    Abstract: A method for transmitting a signal via physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) in a wireless communication system and an apparatus for performing the method are provided. Control information bits are modulated to generate N1 modulation symbols, wherein N1 is twice a number of subcarriers in one resource block (RB). The modulation symbols are spread by using various orthogonal codes to generate a plurality of sequences and the generated plurality of sequences are transmitted using different slots of a subframe through different antenna ports, each sequence of the plurality of sequences being mapped on a corresponding single carrier frequency division multiple access symbol in a corresponding slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Seung Hee Han, Sung Ho Moon, Jae Hoon Chung, Moon Il Lee, Hyun Woo Lee
  • Patent number: 9185047
    Abstract: Various exemplary embodiments relate to a method and related network node including one or more of the following: determining, by the network node, that a port of the network node is ready to receive a packet; identifying a packet having a highest packet priority among a plurality of packets received via a plurality of interfaces, wherein the step of identifying includes, for each of a plurality of components at a first hierarchy level: identifying a first level highest priority packet among a plurality of packets available to the component, based on a packet priority associated with each of the plurality of packets available to the component, sharing the packet priority of the first level highest priority packet with at least one component at a second hierarchy level; and transmitting the packet having the highest priority to the port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Nirmesh Patel, Joe Cote
  • Patent number: 9178732
    Abstract: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate transmitting beacon symbols of a beacon message such that a sequence of symbols can satisfy a linear constraint over a field where the field elements can be identified with carriers. In this regard, a coding scheme can be applied to a beacon message; the coding scheme can produce a plurality of beacon symbols to transmit on given subcarriers. A receiving device of the beacon symbols can decode a beacon message by receiving less than the total number of symbols in a beacon message and determining the remaining symbol subcarriers based on the linear constraint. Thus, more efficient decoding of beacons is facilitated as well as resolving beacon ambiguity by figuring out which symbols satisfy linear constraints for the symbols, and resolving time and frequency shift by detecting an offset that would result in satisfaction of the linear constraint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Thomas Richardson, Husheng Li, Junyi Li, Alexander Leonidov, Rajiv Laroia, Ravi Palanki, Gavin Horn, Ashwin Sampath
  • Patent number: 9179241
    Abstract: A method and non-transitory computer readable medium for provisioning services for machine to machine communication devices in a communications network. For example, the method receives a request from a third party service provider to provision a service to a user of the third party service provider, determines whether a communication network service provider of the communications network and the third party service provider have a pre-existing agreement to provision the service, and provisions the service of the third party service provider to the user via the communications network in accordance with the pre-existing agreement, wherein the user is a subscriber of the communication network service provider.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Qingmin Hu, Farooq Bari
  • Patent number: 9160446
    Abstract: A method is presented for supporting SNCP over a packet network connecting to two SDH sub-networks and transporting one or more SDH paths that are SNCP-protected in both SDH sub-networks. The packet network connects to each of two sub-network interconnection points by a working path and a protection path. The packet sub-network may provide the same type of path protection as an SDH sub-network using SNCP, while avoiding bandwidth duplication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2015
    Assignee: ORCKIT-CORRIGENT LTD.
    Inventors: Daniel Cohn, Rafi Ram
  • Patent number: 9154251
    Abstract: Embodiments herein describe apparatuses, systems, and methods for signaling to support downlink coordinated multipoint (CoMP) communications with a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication network. In embodiments, the UE may be configured with a plurality of channel state information (CSI) processes (e.g., via radio resource control (RRC) signaling) to use for providing CSI feedback to an evolved Node B (eNB) to support downlink CoMP communications. The UE may be configured with a plurality of sets of CSI processes. The UE may further receive a downlink control information (DCI) message from the eNB that indicates one of the configured sets of CSI processes on which the UE is to provide CSI feedback to the UE. The UE may generate the CSI feedback for the indicated set of CSI processes, and transmit the CSI feedback to the eNB in a CSI report.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Kamran Etemad, Alexei Davydov
  • Patent number: 9155106
    Abstract: Techniques to more efficiently transmit pilot and signaling on the uplink in an OFDM system. With subband multiplexing, M usable subbands in the system are partitioned into Q disjoint groups of subbands. Each subband group may be assigned to a different terminal for uplink pilot transmission. Multiple terminals may transmit simultaneously on their assigned subbands. The transmit power for the pilot may be scaled higher to attain the same total pilot energy even though S instead of M subbands are used for pilot transmission by each terminal. Pilot transmissions from the terminals are received, and a channel estimate is derived for each terminal based on the pilot received on the assigned subbands. The channel estimate comprises a response for additional subbands not included in the assigned group. Subband multiplexing may also be used for uplink signaling transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Ranganathan Krishnan, Rajiv Vijayan, Tamer Adel Kadous