Patents Examined by Guang W Li
  • Patent number: 10244372
    Abstract: Device, comprising a main element (ME) and a set of at least two auxiliary elements (SEi), said main element including a master SWP interface (MINT), each auxiliary element including a slave SWP interface (SLINTi) connected to said master SWP interface of said NFC element through a controllably switchable SWP link (LK) and management means (PRM, CTLM, AMGi) configured to control said SWP link switching for selectively activating at once only one slave SWP interface on said SWP link.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignees: STMICROELECTRONICS (ROUSSET) SAS, STMICROELECTRONICS GMBH
    Inventors: Pierre Rizzo, Alexandre Charles, Juergen Boehler, Thierry Meziache
  • Patent number: 10237756
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a neighbor access point list is obtained. Statistics are maintained for a current access point that a client is currently associated with, including previous access points previous clients have roamed from prior to associating with the current access point, and next access points the previous clients associated with. The neighbor access point list for the client is optimized, by determining one or more previous clients that associated with a same previous access point as the client and prioritizing access points in the optimized neighbor access point list, based on the next access points the one or more previous clients associated with. The optimized neighbor access point list is sent to the client.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Tak Ming Francis Pang, David S. Stephenson, Santosh G. Pandey, Vishal Satyendra Desai
  • Patent number: 10225834
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses are provided for receiving system information by a user equipment (UE). System information including first partial bits of a system frame number (SFN) and bandwidth information are received at a first subframe of a radio frame. The system information is identical during a broadcast channel transmission period. Second partial bits of the SFN are acquired having a different value in each of radio frames within the broadcast channel transmission period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kyeong-In Jeong, Himke Van Der Velde, Soeng-Hun Kim, Joon-Young Cho
  • Patent number: 10219302
    Abstract: The invention relates to a technique for performing a random access procedure over a radio interface, for example between a mobile terminal and a radio base station of a mobile network. A method aspect of the invention comprises the steps of transmitting a synchronization request for synchronization information; receiving synchronization information in response to the synchronization request; and transmitting, based on at least one transmission parameter adjusted in accordance with the synchronization information, a resource request for data transmission resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Robert Baldemair, Maria Edvardsson, Erik Dahlman, Jacobus Cornelis Haartsen, Stefan Parkvall
  • Patent number: 10206222
    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: May 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Hak Seong Kim, Ki Jun Kim, Yu Jin Noh, Dae Won Lee, Bong Hoe Kim
  • Patent number: 10200139
    Abstract: A method for and apparatus for performing interference coordination in a wireless communication system is provided. A wireless device may transmit measurement results on neighboring cells; receive information of grouping of the neighboring cells based on the measurement results; and receive a signal to be applied with a different sub-band, a subframe shift, or a Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbol shift according to the information of grouping from each cell of the neighboring cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Yunjung Yi, Joonkui Ahn, Daesung Hwang, Hanbyul Seo, Kijun Kim, Suckchel Yang
  • Patent number: 10187881
    Abstract: An uplink power control method and apparatus are provided. The method is performed by a base station and includes: determining, according to a first quantity of accesses and a second quantity of accesses, whether to adjust a cell-level uplink power parameter, where the first quantity of accesses is a count of times that UEs access a cell of the base station by sending a random access preamble for one time, and the second quantity of accesses is a count of times that the UEs access the cell by sending a random access preamble for at least two times; and adjusting, when determining to adjust the cell-level uplink power parameter, the cell-level uplink power parameter, and sending an adjusted parameter to UE within the coverage area of the cell, so that the UE sends an uplink signal according to the adjusted cell-level uplink power parameter, thereby saving a measurement resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhan Xu, Bo Liu
  • Patent number: 10181963
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method and a device for transferring data between multiple clients and a destination node. The method includes: receiving request data sent by the plurality of clients, adding a unique label to the request data sent by each client, and sending the labeled request data to the second node; removing the labels from the request data, and sending the request data with the labels removed to the destination node for processing; receiving processing result data returned by the destination node, adding unique labels to the processing result data, and returning the processing result data with the labels to the first node; removing the labels from the processing result data and returning the processing result data with the labels removed to the clients corresponding to the labels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2019
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Feihu Zhou, Liqiang Xie, Yingpai Song
  • Patent number: 10148398
    Abstract: A communication system where a terminal apparatus (UE) communicates with a base station apparatus (BS) that configures a first cell. The UE acquires, from the BS, first information and second information, whereby the first information specifying a first number indicating a first subframe, the first subframe including a first resource element in which a first reference signal of the first cell is placed, the second information specifying a second number indicating a second subframe, the second subframe including a second resource element in which a second reference signal of a second cell other than the first cell is to be placed, and the second resource element being not used to transmit a signal of the first cell. The UE also demaps data, whereby, in the second subframe, the data is mapped on resource elements which do not include the second resource element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Toshizo Nogami, Kazuyuki Shimezawa, Shohei Yamada, Wahoh Oh
  • Patent number: 10135919
    Abstract: Facilitating browser access to cached content available from a peer to peer network by receiving a request for content from a content server, receiving from the content server content metadata indicating that the requested content is available from at least one alternative user computing device via a peer to peer network, instantiating on the user computing device a browser helper application which facilitates access to the peer to peer network, and receiving from the content server a lookup table comprising a list of alternative user computing devices from which the requested content is available. The lookup table can be parsed to select an alternative user computing device from which the content, or portions thereof, is requested. The received content can the be stored for later use or presented to the user via the browser.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: EXCALIBUR IP, LLC
    Inventors: Chyr-Song Ting, Chyr-Chong Ting
  • Patent number: 10123187
    Abstract: A method, a computer program product, and an apparatus are provided. The apparatus may be equipped to obtain one or more application identifiers from one or more applications on a wireless device, generate a super identifier (SID) having elements corresponding to the one or more applications and a base that identifies one or more common properties of the one or more applications, and broadcast the SID during one or more peer discovery slots allocated for the wireless device. In another example, a UE may be equipped to receive the SID broadcast by another UE, determine a match between at least one of the one or more common properties in the base, and determine whether an element associated with one or more applications is present in the SID.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: Qualcomm Incorporated
    Inventors: Zhibin Wu, Ranjith S. Jayaram, Georgios Tsirtsis, Michaela Vanderveen, Vincent D. Park
  • Patent number: 10110509
    Abstract: A network switch comprises a plurality of optical physical transport layer resources and a control plane management engine capable of receiving, via a request over a network interface, at least one control plane provisioning policy that maps at least one upper layer resource to at least some of the optical physical transport layer resources. The control plane management engine provisions at least some of the optical physical transport layer resources for use by at least one virtual control plane, which operates according to rules of the control plane provisioning policy. The control plane management engine is configured to manage network traffic among the at least some optical physical transport layer resources and external networking nodes according to the at least one virtual control plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: Nant Holdings IP, LLC
    Inventor: Thomas Wittenschlaeger
  • Patent number: 10085255
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A wireless device may receive a data transmission during a transmission time interval (TTI) that has one duration, and the device may transmit a responsive control message (e.g., acknowledgment information) in a subsequent TTI that has a different duration (e.g., a greater duration). In some cases, the control message may include bundled acknowledgment information for multiple downlink transmissions. The control message may, for instance, include acknowledgment information for data received during several TTIs having one duration bundled with acknowledgment information for data received during TTIs that have a different duration. The acknowledgment information may be compressed using, for example, a starting point and run length of consecutive negative acknowledgments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Shimman Arvind Patel, Wanshi Chen
  • Patent number: 10075929
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for network synchronization are provided. The apparatus comprises a radio frequency (RF) unit for transmitting and receiving a radio signal and a processor operatively coupled to the RF unit, wherein the processor is configured for transmitting signals via the RF unit, wherein the processor performs network synchronization with neighboring cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Yunjung Yi, Joonkui Ahn
  • Patent number: 10063663
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer-readable media are provided to allow multiple server resources to share a single connection to a client device. The single connection may be maintained between a notification queue on the server side and the client device. Multiple server resources share the notification queue. When a resource changes or a service wants to communicate information to a client, corresponding messages are sent to the notification queue over a connection within the data center. Once in the notification queue, the updates are communicated to the client device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: John R Burkhardt, Ransom Richardson, Jason Schleifer, Steven Lees
  • Patent number: 10056941
    Abstract: Systems and methods for providing wireless communication impairment correction using non-linear iterative precoding by a transmitter device are disclosed. The transmitter may exploit the non-linear transmit indications, and perform digital non-linear multiple input multiple output (MIMO) precoding of a transmit signal to improve the error vector magnitude (EVM) at the intended receiver device and/or reduce the adjacent channel leakage ratio (ACLR) at the unintended receiver devices. The non-linear transmit indications may comprise amplitude modulation to amplitude modulation (AM-AM) and amplitude modulation to phase modulation (AM-PM) indications. In operation, the non-linear transmit indications may be received from the intended receiver devices or may be measured by the transmitter device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Haim Mendel Weissman, Igor Gutman
  • Patent number: 10051675
    Abstract: An approach for automatically securing a public wireless network is disclosed. A VPN connection platform maintains a list of available trusted wireless access identifiers to connect to a public wireless network from a mobile device. The trusted wireless access identifiers are provided to an application associated with the mobile device that selectively initiates a virtual private connection when the mobile device cannot utilize any one of the trusted wireless access identifiers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventor: Mark Durbin
  • Patent number: 10033663
    Abstract: A network switch includes a plurality of internal ports, a plurality of external ports, an event handler, an action engine, and an event processor. The event handler detects an event and, in response, assembles a construct that includes event parameters. The action engine uses the construct to generate an event syntax. The event processor executes the event syntax to automatically configure the communication between the plurality of internal ports and the plurality of external ports. A first event may include the connection of a cable to a first external port and result in each of the plurality of internal ports communicating with the first external port. A second event may include the connection of a cable to a second external port and result in a first subset of internal ports communicating with the first external port and a second subset of internal ports communicating with the second external port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Cuong Nguyen, Rabah S. Hamdi, Saikrishna M. Kotha
  • Patent number: 10015802
    Abstract: An embodiment of the invention relates to a local area sensor network including a central unit configured to receive a resource allocation request from a priority network sensor in a reserved timeslot and in response to designate a shared timeslot allocation. The priority network sensor transmits a resource allocation request in a reserved timeslot, and the sensor transmits data in the allocated shared timeslot. A sensor network can be formed with multiple gateways that each communicate over wired and wireless portions of the network. The central unit communicates with the gateways over the wired portion of the network. Wireless nodes communicate wirelessly with the gateways. The central unit receives a plurality of link quality indicators from the gateways for respective wireless paths to the wireless sensors, and selects a gateway for relaying a message from the central unit to a wireless sensor based on the link quality indicators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Rainer Matischek, Markus Dielacher, Martin Flatscher, Josef Prainsack
  • Patent number: 10003522
    Abstract: A network topology is analyzed to identify shared risk link groups, the edge diversities of paths, and maximally diverse edges for paths. During operation of the network for conveying data packets between two end points, data flows are routed in the network by prioritizing the use of resources that do not belong to a shared risk group and are maximally diverse with other edges already being used. Various load balancing techniques can be used to minimize the risk of serious disruption in the event an underlying resource of a shared risk link group goes down.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2018
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Satyajeet Singh Ahuja, Gayathrinath Nagarajan, Petr V. Lapukhov