Patents Examined by Guang Li
  • Patent number: 9300495
    Abstract: More than one set of sounding signal configuration parameters are determined for the same mobile terminal. The mobile terminal uses the sets of configuration parameters to generate different sounding reference signals which can be used for different purposes such as estimating timing and channel quality. In one embodiment, a method of configuring uplink sounding transmissions by mobile terminals in a wireless communication network is characterized by determining different sets of configuration parameters for sounding signal transmissions for a given mobile terminal (200). The different sets of configuration parameters are transmitted to the mobile terminal, allowing the mobile terminal to generate different sounding signals for different uses by the wireless communication network (202).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Erik Dahlman, Ylva Jading, Stefan Parkvall
  • Patent number: 9282025
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a MAC address protection method and switch. A switch in a layer 2 ring network obtains network topology information of the layer 2 ring network, the network topology information includes a protection MAC address of a protected device, an identifier of a switch corresponding to the protection MAC address, and an identifier of each switch in the layer 2 ring network, wherein the protection MAC address is the MAC address of the protected device; and determines a local outgoing interface of the protection MAC address of the protected device according to the network topology information, establishes and stores an outgoing interface of an MAC entry corresponding to the protection MAC address according to the local outgoing interface of the protection MAC address, thereby ensuring the protected device to correctly send and receive messages to meet the topology change of the layer 2 ring network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Zhaoyuan Tan
  • Patent number: 9281924
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to a technique for generating 40+40 MHz and 40+40+40+40 MHz transmission modes for IEEE 802.11 wireless communications systems using Very High Throughput (VHT) waveforms with application to Television White Space (TVWS) spectrum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Santosh Paul Abraham, Vincent Knowles Jones, IV, Hemanth Sampath, Didier Johannes Richard Van Nee, Sameer Vermani, Stephen J. Shellhammer
  • Patent number: 9270440
    Abstract: A method of wireless communication is presented. The method includes determining whether decoding candidates for enhanced control channel resource sets overlap. The method further includes determining uplink resources based on a predefined rule when the decoding candidates overlap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Wanshi Chen, Tao Luo, Peter Gaal, Hao Xu, Yongbin Wei
  • Patent number: 9264164
    Abstract: A transmission apparatus, a transmission method, a wireless communication system and method. Generate a first group of orthogonal cover code sequences C1 represented by a matrix of [Cn, 1(1), Cn, 1(2), . . .
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2016
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Yi Wang, Hua Zhou, Jianming Wu
  • Patent number: 9252970
    Abstract: Described are embodiments of methods, apparatuses, and systems for multi-protocol tunneling across a multi-protocol I/O interconnect of computer apparatus. A method for configuring a multi-protocol I/O interconnect may include identifying a plurality of switches of a switching fabric of a multi-protocol I/O interconnect, and configuring a path from a port of a first switch of the plurality of switches to a port of a second switch of the plurality of switches. Packets of a first protocol and packets of a second protocol, different from the first protocol, may be simultaneously routed over the path. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Prashant Chandra, Kevin C. Kahn
  • Patent number: 9253150
    Abstract: An application gateway including application service programming logically positioned on a user premises side of a network demarcation forming an edge of the wide area network at a user premises can provide managed services to a user and one or more endpoint devices associated with the application gateway. The application gateway can be controlled remotely by the application service provider through a service management center and configured to execute an application service provided from the application service provider. The application gateway executes the application service at the user premises independent of application services executing on the application service provider's network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: Prodea Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Amir Ansari, George A. Cowgill, Leon E. Nicholls, Jude P. Ramayya, Ramprakash Masina, Alvin R. McQuarters, Atousa Raissyan, Robert A. Clavenna, II
  • Patent number: 9246830
    Abstract: Methods and systems for a multimedia queue management solution that maintaining graceful Quality of Experience (QoE) degradation are provided. The method selects a frame from all weighted queues based on a gradient function indicating a network performance rate change and a distortion rate caused by the frame and its related frames in the queue, and dropping the selected frame and all its related frames, and continues to drop similarly chosen frame until a network performance rate change caused by the dropping frame and its related frames meets a predetermined performance metric. A frame gradient is a distortion rate divided by a network performance rate change caused by the frame and its related frames, and a distortion rate is based on a sum of each individual frame distortion rate when the frame and its related frames are replaced by some other frames derived from remaining frames based on a replacement method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Zhu Li, Yong Wang, Dong-Qing Zhang, Hong Heather Yu
  • Patent number: 9247547
    Abstract: A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for wireless communication are provided in which resource elements compatible with multiple different communication protocols, which may not be compatible with one another, may be mapped to a radio frame. For example, in an LTE network, equipment configured to be compatible with 3GPP release 8 standards (herein referred to as Rel. 8) may have certain limitations as to what bandwidth is available for use and access, while these limitations may not apply to later releases of LTE standards after Rel. 8 (herein referred to as “New”). Thus, a system bandwidth can be extended to include an extension portion, to which resource elements compatible with the New protocol may be mapped, and a non-extension portion, to which resource elements compatible with either Rel. 8 or the New protocol may be mapped, providing an effective multiplexing of system resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Juan Montojo, Wanshi Chen
  • Patent number: 9240833
    Abstract: A method of operating a relay station in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes operating in a first mode comprising a first sub-mode and a second sub-mode, in the first sub-mode a first downlink and a first uplink between a base station and the relay station being simultaneously activated, in the second sub-mode a second downlink and a second uplink between the relay station and a mobile station being simultaneously activated, and operating in a second mode comprising a third sub-mode and a fourth sub-mode, in the third sub-mode the first downlink and the second uplink being simultaneously activated, in the fourth sub-mode the first uplink and the second downlink being simultaneously activated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2016
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Hak Seong Kim, Ki Jun Kim, Yujin Noh, Dae Won Lee, Bonghoe Kim
  • Patent number: 9231658
    Abstract: Systems and methods for setting a Network Allocation Vector (NAV) in a PLC node are disclosed. In a PLC standard, coexistence is achieved by having the nodes detect a common preamble and backing off by a Coexistence InterFrame Space (cEIFS) time period to help the node to avoid interfering with the other technologies. In one embodiment, a PHY primitive is sent from the PHY to the MAC know that there has been a preamble detection. A two-level indication may be used—one indication after receiving the preamble and other indication after decoding the entire frame. The MAC sets NAV to EIFS if a native preamble is detected. The MAC sets NAV to cEIFS if only a coexistence preamble is detected or if a non-native preamble is detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Kumaran Vijayasankar, Ramanuja Vedantham, Tarkesh Pande
  • Patent number: 9231865
    Abstract: An architecture for a specialized electronic computer for high-speed data lookup employs a set of tiles each with independent logic elements lookup memory portions. The tiles may each comprise gate-array-like functional units that may be wired together by a multi-way switch for extremely low latency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
    Inventors: Karthikeyan Sankaralingam, Eric Nathaniel Harris, Samuel Lawrence Wasmundt
  • Patent number: 9231846
    Abstract: A subject disclosure is directed towards emulating a data network interface for operating an interconnect controller in accordance with a networking standard. The emulated data network interface provides address resolution data associated with a destination, within a converged interconnect fabric, for application data. The address resolution data identifies a communication path that is compatible with the interconnect controller. The application data conforms to the networking standard. The emulated data network interface instructs the interconnect controller to route the application data to the destination via the compatible communication path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Suyash Sinha, Alexey Pakhunov, Ajith Jayamohan, Stephen Francis Heil
  • Patent number: 9225465
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for configuring a telecommunication system comprising at least one sending entity and one receiving entity between which the same link transmits several transport channels with different qualities of service. The sending entity matches the rate between the different coded transport channels with separate qualities of service, and the different coded transport channels are then multiplexed. The matching rate specific to each coded transport channel is determined from at least one first parameter representative of the expected Eb/I ratio and a second parameter representative of the capacity of the physical channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventor: Vincent Antoine Victor Belaiche
  • Patent number: 9220129
    Abstract: A method of sending information from a first base station to other base stations including sending information to a first plurality of the base stations at a first time; and sending said information to a different plurality of the base stations at a later time according to a predetermined sending pattern for timing sending of said information to different pluralities of the base stations at different times.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2015
    Assignee: Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy
    Inventors: Frank Frederiksen, Klaus Ingemann Pedersen, Vinh Van Phan
  • Patent number: 9191923
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices to enable range extension for wireless communication in sub-gigahertz bands are described herein. In some aspects, portions of packets are repeated in time and/or space when transmitting the packet in order to increase the chance that the packet can be decoded. The repetition of portions of the packet may be based, in part, on the channel characteristics of the channel over which the packet is sent. In some aspects, portions of packets are transmitted over a smaller bandwidth with increased power per frequency range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Mohammad Hossein Taghavi Nasrabadi, Hemanth Sampath, Vincent K. Jones, IV
  • Patent number: 9185018
    Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention provides a system for mapping all possible paths between a source node and a destination node. During operation, the system receives a management frame, determines all possible next-hop nodes based on a destination address carried in the payload of the management frame. The system then selects one of the next-hop nodes, and modifies payload of the received management frame to include information associated with the next-hop nodes and the selected next-hop node. The system then forwards the modified data frame to the selected next-hop node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: BROCADE COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Dennis Makishima, Vidya Renganarayanan, Anil Kumar Chintalapati, Sathish K. Gnanasekaran, Daniel Ji Young Park Chung, Vidya Sagar Ravipati
  • Patent number: 9184886
    Abstract: A method is provided for communication in a wireless telecommunication system. The method comprises adaptively designating, by a network element following a frame-based communication protocol, for use as a secondary component carrier in a carrier aggregation scheme, at least a portion of radio resources on an unlicensed band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Chandra Sekhar Bontu, Shalini Suresh Periyalwar
  • Patent number: 9178987
    Abstract: A system and method for interrupting a transmitting device during a call. In the system, calls are transmitted from a first device on a communication channel as a series of channel frames. At predetermined times during the transmission, the transmitting device is configured to drop channel frames, resulting in open channel frame periods where the transmitting device is not transmitting on the communication channel. During these open channel frame periods, the transmitting device is also configured to switch to a receiving mode. Other devices in the system are capable of switching into a transmitting mode during the open channel frame periods and, when applicable, sending an interrupt request on the communication channel to the transmitting device in order to request access to the channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventors: David G Wiatrowski, Thomas B Bohn, Dipendra M Chowdhary
  • Patent number: 9172583
    Abstract: A computing device configured for actively provisioning a managed node is described. The computing device includes a processor and executable instructions stored in memory that is in electronic communication with the processor. The computing device identifies a managed node on a network. The computing device also determines whether the managed node comprises management hardware. The computing device further enables the management hardware. To enable the management hardware, the computing device opens hardware-based secure communication between the computing device and the node, allows access to a remote management engine and provisions the management engine. The computer device additionally adds the managed node to a database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignee: Crimson Corporation
    Inventor: Xiaoming Dong