Patents Examined by Hardikkumar Patel
  • Patent number: 9839021
    Abstract: A method, an apparatus and a system for selecting a downlink primary carrier for transmitting data are disclosed. The method includes the following steps: A terminal obtains primary carrier selection information configured by a network; and the terminal determines a downlink carrier corresponding to an uplink carrier of the terminal as a downlink primary carrier for transmitting data according to the primary carrier selection information. In the embodiments of the present invention, the network selects a downlink carrier corresponding to an uplink carrier of the terminal as a downlink primary carrier for transmitting data. The terminal needs to detect only the downlink primary carrier, and the downlink carrier needs to be switched or detected only if the primary carrier receives a signaling message for detecting or receiving other carriers, so it is not necessary to switch or detect the downlink carrier frequently, which reduces battery consumption of the terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Lixia Xue, Yujuan He, Chaojun Li
  • Patent number: 9832777
    Abstract: A method in a Gateway General packet radio service Support Node, GGSN, for transferring a service identifier from a packet core network to a radio network is provided. The GGSN adds a service identifier in a General packet radio service Tunneling Protocol for User Plane, GTP-U, header extension of a data packet. The service identifier comprises information about what service and/or traffic pattern that the packet concerns. The GGSN sends the data packet with the GTP-U header extension to a radio network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignees: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ), China Mobile Communications Corporation
    Inventors: Paul Schliwa-Bertling, Jens Bergqvist
  • Patent number: 9830182
    Abstract: In one embodiment a method includes receiving a packet including a destination media access control (MAC) address field having a MAC address of a hypervisor and a destination Internet protocol (IP) address field having an IP address of a virtual machine (VM) coupled to the hypervisor. The method further determines a MAC address of the VM using the IP address of the VM and applies the VM MAC address to the destination MAC address field of the packet to forward the packet to the VM.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: Rackspace US, Inc.
    Inventor: Jason Ackley
  • Patent number: 9826381
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses for inter-device communication in wireless communication systems are provided. A user equipment (UE) may initiate a direct inter-device communication link between UEs located in proximity. The UEs participating in the inter-device communications may perform a device handshake procedure or a device discovery procedure to set up appropriate transmission parameters for the communication over the inter-device communication link. A device-to-device radio network temporary identification (DD-RNTI) may be used for the inter-device communication link. Long term evolution (LTE) downlink or uplink radio resources may be used for communications over the inter-device communication link.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Chandra Sekhar Bontu, Yi Song, Zhijun Cai
  • Patent number: 9819454
    Abstract: A transmission node in a wireless communication network includes a receiving unit for receiving a set of data packets transmitted from a set of nodes in the network scheduled in one TTI, a memory unit having a number of memory blocks, each for storing a set of data packets transmitted in a separate TTI of a HARQ process. Each memory block includes sub-memory blocks, each of which is for storing a data packet transmitted from a separate UE. The transmission node further includes a processor for allocating the set of data packets to the sub-memory blocks and releasing the sub-memory blocks after one HARQ process upon receipt of the set of data packets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: NXP USA, INC.
    Inventors: Nitin Jain, Maneesh Gupta
  • Patent number: 9819458
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices are described for bundling feedback related to downlink transmissions on a plurality of component carriers (CCs). In some examples, a base station configures a multi-carrier mobile device to use different feedback bundling schemes when it determines that the mobile device is power limited. The bundling scheme configured for the mobile device may be based, in part, on one or more transmission modes of the downlink CCs. Bundling schemes may include combinations of bundling techniques and an order in which these techniques are applied. In particular, the bundling techniques may include CC bundling in combination with spatial bundling and/or feedback repetition. For efficiency and performance, a bundling scheme may require application of CC bundling before resorting to use of feedback repetition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporation
    Inventors: Wanshi Chen, Juan Montojo, Jelena M. Damnjanovic
  • Patent number: 9813135
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to a technique for communicating Channel State Information (CSI) feedback. In some aspects, the CSI feedback is communicated in a very high throughput (VHT) wireless communications system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: QUALCOMM, Incorporated
    Inventors: Santosh Paul Abraham, Simone Merlin, Sameer Vermani, Hemanth Sampath
  • Patent number: 9807750
    Abstract: A method for operating a communications controller includes defining a positive integer quantity of resource element groups from a resource block with a positive integer number N resource elements in each resource element group, the resource block having a total number of resource elements, the total number of resource elements consisting of available resource elements and reserved resource elements. The method also includes assigning a plurality of available resource elements to fill in each of the positive integer quantity of resource element groups with N available resource elements in each resource element group, and blocking any unassigned available resource elements from being used in a resource element group. The method further includes interleaving a plurality of control messages onto the positive integer quantity of resource element groups, and transmitting the positive integer quantity of resource element groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: FUTUREWEI TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: David Jean-Marie Mazzarese, Zhongfeng Li, Philippe Sartori
  • Patent number: 9806784
    Abstract: A method in a communication network includes an access point, using a multiple input multiple output antenna configuration, sending out a sounding packet to a plurality of client stations. The client stations determine a channel estimation of the sounding packet, but only a channel estimation of a portion of the entire sounding packet to avoid processing the entire packet. The resulting partial estimation is sent to the access point for using in transmit beamforming. In other examples, the client station sends a reverse link sounding packet over a portion a channel having a bandwidth less than the sounding packet, and from this the access point determines partial channel estimations and transmit beamforming conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: Marvell World Trade Ltd.
    Inventor: Hongyuan Zhang
  • Patent number: 9800362
    Abstract: A method and a communication device are described for transmitting uplink control information in a wireless communication system supporting carrier aggregation. At least one of a plurality of physical downlink control channels (PDCCHs) indicating downlink semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) release or physical downlink shared channels (PDSCHs) is received in a plurality of downlink subframes according to an uplink (UL)- downlink (DL) configuration for time division duplex (TDD);. A PDCCH with a downlink control information (DCI) format for UL scheduling including a 2-bit field is received. Acknowledgement (ACK)/negative acknowledgement (NACK) information corresponding to the at least one PDCCH indicating downlink SPS release or the PDSCHs is transmitted through a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) based on the received PDCCH with the DCI format for UL scheduling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Suckchel Yang, Mingyu Kim, Joonkui Ahn, Dongyoun Seo
  • Patent number: 9801117
    Abstract: Techniques are provided for channel discovery. For example, there is provided a method operable by a mobile entity that may involve measuring beacon signals associated with the network. In one approach, the method may involve, in response to detecting an Authorized Shared Access (ASA) beacon signal on a frequency common to each network entity on a given ASA channel, extracting frequency information from the ASA beacon signal, wherein the ASA beacon signal comprises a single frequency network (SFN) beacon signal. In another approach, the method may involve, in response to detecting an ASA beacon signal on a frequency common to each network entity on a given ASA channel, extract frequency information from the ASA beacon signal, wherein timing correlates with an operating frequency for the ASA beacon signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Peter Gaal, Alan Barbieri, Rajat Prakash
  • Patent number: 9788278
    Abstract: A mobile station for use in a wireless network that operates according to the Long-Term Evolution Advanced (LTE-A) standard. The mobile station is operable to transmit an aperiodic sounding reference signal (SRS) to a base station in response to a triggering grant received from the base station. The bandwidth on which the mobile station transmits the aperiodic SRS depends on a type of the triggering grant. The type of the triggering grant is one of a downlink grant, an uplink multiple-input, multiple-output (MIMO) grant, and an uplink single-input, multiple-output (SIMO) grant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Young-Han Nam, Jianzhong Zhang
  • Patent number: 9763133
    Abstract: A plurality of cache servers, connected to a packet forwarding apparatus, forwarding a packet transmitted and received between a storage apparatus that holds a content under management in store and a user terminal, temporarily holds at least part of the content under management in store. A controller decides an on-screen resolution at the terminal, based on information contained in a content request message from the terminal, and selects a cache server that holds a content of the on-screen resolution in store. The controller instructs the selected cache server to deliver the content. The cache server instructed calculates a bit rate based on a signal received from the terminal. The cache server reads content from the terminal, which is to have the on-screen resolution and a bit rate not higher than the calculated bit rate. The content is stored in a packet and transmitted, then delivered without reducing the user's QoE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: Rakuten, Inc.
    Inventor: Kazunori Ozawa
  • Patent number: 9722810
    Abstract: A method for synchronizing multicast message subflows in a switched network includes associating, with a processing device, a first destination identifier corresponding to a multicast message with a first queue that corresponds to a first output port of a switching device, associating, with a processing device, a second destination identifier corresponding to the multicast message with a second queue that corresponds to a second output port of the switching device, pausing the first queue in response to a message counter corresponding to the first queue crossing a first predetermined threshold, and unpausing the first queue in response to the message counter crossing a second predetermined threshold, wherein the message counter indicates a quantity of data that has been forwarded by the first queue but remains to be forwarded by the second queue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Claude Basso, Nikolaos Chrysos, Cyriel Minkenberg, David A. Shedivy, Kenneth M. Valk, Brian T. Vanderpool
  • Patent number: 9681439
    Abstract: Systems and methods avoid the need to coordinate preambles between UEs performing random access on their PCells and SCells. According to an embodiment, a method for random access in a radio communication system includes: transmitting, by a network node, a random access response including a Radio Network Temporary Identifier (RNTI) which has a first value if the random access is associated with a first cell and a second value if the random access is associated with a second cell, the first value being different than the second value and the first cell being different from the second cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Mikael Wittberg, Mattias Bergström
  • Patent number: 9621374
    Abstract: Provided is a system and method for a multi-tenant datacenter with layer 2 cloud interconnection. More specifically the multi-tenant datacenter includes a plurality of physical client systems in a first datacenter each physical client system having a set of physical infrastructure resources. A first cloud computing environment is also in the first datacenter, and coupled to the physical client systems by OSI Layer 2. The first cloud computing environment thereby virtually extending the physical infrastructure resources of each physical client system. An associated method of providing a multi-tenant datacenter with layer 2 cloud interconnection is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: The Faction Group LLC
    Inventors: Luke Matthew Norris, Hooker Ashley Heggestad
  • Patent number: 9591459
    Abstract: Devices, systems, articles of manufacture, and methods for signaling a broadcast of a message are described. According to some embodiments, a first message to be broadcast in a cell is determined. The first message includes barring indications. A second message is generated. The second message is a System Information Type 3 message and includes an indication that the first message is to be broadcast. The second message is broadcast. Other aspects, embodiments, and features are also claimed and described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Mungal Singh Dhanda, Vikrant Jain
  • Patent number: 9591504
    Abstract: A monitoring apparatus includes a processor configured to capture a network transmission signal from a monitoring location in a monitoring target network; specify each of a plurality of sessions based on session specifying information contained in the captured network transmission signal; analyze, for specified each of the sessions, the network transmission signal and measure a quality index; transfer the quality index of each of the sessions, which is measured every predetermined period of time, as a quality measurement result to an aggregation apparatus until a predetermined threshold value of a processing capability is reached; and stop, when the predetermined threshold value of the processing capability is exceeded, measuring the quality index of one of the sessions in a high-load state, and in a next cycle, perform the measurement on one of the sessions in the high-load state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Akira Tanaka, Naoya Kohmura, Kazuo Mizuta
  • Patent number: 9591106
    Abstract: A robust header compression processing method and a robust header compressor are disclosed. The method includes: a compressor processing a plurality of data packets at the front of a packet flow by using an Internet Protocol (IP) identifier random behavior pattern, and determining an IP identifier behavior pattern according to characteristics of IP identifiers in the plurality of data packets at the front; and the compressor processing subsequent data packets of the packet flow according to the determined IP identifier behavior pattern. With the robust header compression processing method and the robust header compressor, waste of wireless resources can be avoided, and a utilization rate of the wireless resources can be enhanced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventor: Xuehong Shi
  • Patent number: 9591525
    Abstract: A new device is deployed to an area in which a network is provided. The new device may join the network using a single handshake via a neighboring device that is a member of the network and register with a network management system managing the network. If the network is overloaded or has limited bandwidth remaining, the network may refuse to admit the new device, or if the new device is isolated, may force some devices that are members of the network to leave or migrate from the network to allow the isolated device to join the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: ITRON GLOBAL SARL
    Inventors: Daniel Popa, Viet-Hung Nguyen, Mehdi Mani, Michael T. Garrison Stuber, Bastien Mainaud