Patents Examined by Hashim Bhatti
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Patent number: 8699441Abstract: A node (26) controls transitions between radio resource control states for a wireless terminal (30) in a radio access network (24). The radio resource control states comprise a first state and a second state. The node (26) comprises a capacity manager (60) and a radio resource manager (40). The capacity manager (60) is configured to monitor a network condition of the radio access network (24). The radio resource manager (60) is configured to make a decision whether to make a transition from the first state to the second state by determining whether (1) a cost of remaining in the first state is greater than (2) a cost of switching to the second state, and wherein the radio resource manager is configured to take the network condition into consideration when making the decision.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2011Date of Patent: April 15, 2014Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)Inventors: Paul Stjernholm, Mathias Sintorn, Lotta Voigt
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Patent number: 8699519Abstract: A first communication terminal which communicates with a second communication terminal through a best effort network includes: a communication history storage unit in which a communication history is stored for each of the communication terminals; and a round-trip delay time calculation unit which calculates a round-trip delay time that occurs in a communication with the second communication terminal. The second communication terminal includes a target loss event rate calculation unit which calculates a target loss event rate that is to be set by the first communication terminal in a communication with the second communication terminal, based on a past transmission rate that is recorded in the communication history and has been realized in the communication with the second communication terminal, and on the round-trip delay time that occurs in the communication with the second communication terminal.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2009Date of Patent: April 15, 2014Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Eiichi Muramoto, Takahiro Yoneda, Kazunobu Konishi
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Patent number: 8681628Abstract: Disclosed are a method and a system for determining top spreaders in high speed network. The method may comprise: sampling a plurality of packets from the plurality of hosts during an interval of time; determining a difference between a count and a count error for each host based on the sampled packets; ranking the hosts based on the determined difference to identify a first set of hosts that are top in the ranked hosts; and selecting a second set of hosts from the first set of hosts as the top spreaders.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2009Date of Patent: March 25, 2014Assignee: The Chinese University of Hong KongInventors: Xingang Shi, Dah-Ming Chiu
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Patent number: 8681728Abstract: Disclosed is a mobile communications system employing a plentitude of component carriers and carrier aggregation between a user equipment (UE) and a base station. When failure of any downlink component carrier (DL CC) or uplink component carrier (UL CC) has been detected, the UE transmits UL control signal (e.g., UL HARQ ACK/NACK) to the base station, by re-selecting a CC for UL transmission (e.g., activation of a control channel of a UL CC relating to the DL CC). This may prevent DL CC failure from influencing on a UL CC.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2010Date of Patent: March 25, 2014Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Sunghoon Jung, Sungduck Chun, Seungjune Yi, Youngdae Lee, Sungjun Park
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Patent number: 8676593Abstract: Methods and systems for controlling a geographic region of data in cloud computing are described. A method implemented in a computer infrastructure including a combination of hardware and software includes: receiving a request from a local computing device to save data on a network including a plurality of data storage locations in a plurality of different geographic regions; determining a specified geographic region of the plurality of different geographic regions by analyzing at least one of: (i) file attributes associated with the data, and (ii) predefined rules; identifying one of the plurality of data storage locations within the specified geographic region based on the determining step; and routing the data to the identified one of the plurality of data storage locations within the specified geographic region.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2010Date of Patent: March 18, 2014Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Abhinay R. Nagpal, Sandeep R. Patil, Sri Ramanathan, Matthew B. Trevathan
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Patent number: 8670425Abstract: A method, apparatus, and system for causing a mobile wireless device to begin scanning for wireless network coverage. A determination is made, based on one or more past instances of the mobile device being in a particular area, that the mobile device tends to be in the particular area for at least a threshold duration per instance. Further, a determination is made that the mobile device is currently located in the particular area. In response to at least the determination that the mobile device tends to be in the particular area for at least the threshold duration per instance and the determination that the mobile device is currently in the particular area, the mobile device will be made to scan for wireless network coverage, such as coverage of a network that is known exist in the particular area.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2011Date of Patent: March 11, 2014Assignee: Sprint Spectrum L.P.Inventors: Wen Xue, Shoba Umamaheswaran, Philip M. Kunkel, Jay Cole
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Patent number: 8670362Abstract: Apparatus and method for improving throughput in a wireless device accessing coexisting networks. In one embodiment, a wireless device includes first and second wireless transceivers, a power state controller, and an access controller. The first wireless transceiver is configured to access a first wireless network. The second wireless transceiver is configured to access a second wireless network. The power state controller is configured to switch the first wireless transceiver between an active state and a sleep state. The power consumed by the first wireless transceiver while in the sleep state is reduced relative to the active state. The access controller is configured to alternately allocate a wireless medium to the first wireless transceiver and the second wireless transceiver. The power state controller and the medium access controller are configured to coordinate power state switching of the first wireless transceiver and wireless medium access by the second wireless transceiver.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2011Date of Patent: March 11, 2014Assignee: Texas Instruments IncorporatedInventors: Yanjun Sun, Ariton E. Xhafa, Ramanuja Vedantham, Xiaolin Lu
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Patent number: 8665757Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention a method and a node for finding the shortest path to a cache node in a content delivery network (CDN) comprising requested content and a method for creating a virtual representation of a network. According to an embodiment of the present invention, the virtual representation is in the form of a virtual, hierarchical topology, and the cache nodes correspond to the cache nodes of the real network. All cache nodes are arranged at a first level and with the virtual nodes arranged at higher levels. In the virtual representation, all nodes (cache and virtual) are connected with virtual links such that there exist only one path between any two arbitrary cache nodes. Further, costs to the virtual links are assigned such that the path cost between any two arbitrary cache nodes in the virtual representation generally corresponds to the lowest path cost between corresponding cache nodes in the real network.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2009Date of Patent: March 4, 2014Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ)Inventors: Lars-Örjan Kling, Kjell Nyström, Thomas Johansson, Stefan Hellkvist, Hareesh Puthalath
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Patent number: 8665741Abstract: Apparatus, methods, and computer program products are disclosed for: selecting a reception path to receive information from a first receiver path through a first receiver portion in a transceiver portion of the apparatus or from a second receiver path in a receiver portion separate from the transceiver portion of the apparatus, wherein both of the first and second receiver paths receive the information using a same frequency band of a same radio access technology; and receiving the information using the selected reception path. Apparatus, methods, and computer program products are disclosed for: transmitting first information using a transmission frequency band of a radio access technology over a transmission path in a transceiver; and, for the radio access technology and a reception frequency band, receiving second information over a receiver path in a secondary receiver, where the transceiver does not have a receiver path configured to receive the reception frequency band.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2011Date of Patent: March 4, 2014Assignee: Nokia CorporationInventor: Hannu T. Laurila
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Patent number: 8665867Abstract: The present invention provides a method for processing a switch control command for solving the problem that consistency of data of the network device and the network management is unable to be kept in the process of processing the switch control command in the prior art. This method includes: when a priority of obtained trigger information is higher than a priority of a switch control command, discarding the switch control command (103); and reporting the discarded switch control command to a control system which manages the network device (104). The present invention further provides an device for processing a switch control command.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2010Date of Patent: March 4, 2014Assignee: ZTE CorporationInventors: Qing Wu, Xiuguo Wang
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Patent number: 8661156Abstract: A system identifies a network socket on a machine by assigning a non-IP address socket anchor and a port number to the network socket. A socket anchor may comprise a globally unique number. In some embodiments, a socket anchor comprises a number having a preselected number of bits. The number having the preselected number of bits may comprise a selected number associated with the machine concatenated with a number of randomly generated bits. The number of bits of the selected number plus the number of randomly generated bits is equal to the preselected number of bits. In some embodiments, the selected number associated with the machine is a Media Access Control (MAC) address of a network interface associated with the machine.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2010Date of Patent: February 25, 2014Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Nikhil Hegde, Prashant Anant Paranjape
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Patent number: 8654685Abstract: A wireless communication base station shares one antenna between a main system and a subsystem. A signal combiner/divider is connected to each of the transmission/reception signal lines of a main and a subsystem duplexer and combines signals according to their phases and divides other signals. A filter is provided in the signal paths between the combiners/dividers.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2010Date of Patent: February 18, 2014Assignee: KMW Inc.Inventors: Duk-Yong Kim, Nam-Shin Park
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Patent number: 8638821Abstract: A communication network includes a plurality of communication nodes, each node arranged for communicating frames of data with the other nodes during a dynamic segment having dynamic communication slots with respective communication slot numbers. Each of the plurality of communication nodes includes a time base having consecutive timeslots, associated with the dynamic communication slots; a communication slot number controller, for adjusting a communication slot number, a minislot counter for counting minislots while the adjusting of the communication slot counter is suspended and a control unit for controlling the communication slot number controller to either continue adjusting of the slot number if the determined duration of the reception is above a certain threshold or to continue adjusting of the slot number using the value obtained with the minislot counter if the determined duration of the reception is below a certain threshold.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2008Date of Patent: January 28, 2014Assignee: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.Inventors: Christopher Temple, Mathias Rausch
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Patent number: 8606890Abstract: A method for managing communication between nodes in a virtual network is provided. A first computing system utilizes first information to forward first data to the second computing system in a physical network. If the first information is incorrect, the second computing system forwards an unlearning request to the first computing system, and the first computing system updates or deletes the first information. If the first information is not available, the first computing system forwards the first data to a group of computing systems in the physical network by way of an unknown network service. Upon receiving the first data, the second computing system or a third computing system in the physical network forwards a learning request to the first computing system, and the first computing system utilizes the learning request to generate the first information.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2011Date of Patent: December 10, 2013Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: David Hadas, Irit Loy, Benny Rochwerger, Julian Satran
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Patent number: 8605751Abstract: In a symbol mapping apparatus, a channel coder outputs a codeword including a plurality of information bits and a plurality of redundancy bits by encoding transmission data. A symbol mapper maps the codeword to the symbol while changing a mapping scheme in the unit of the codeword.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2009Date of Patent: December 10, 2013Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research InstituteInventors: DongSeung Kwon, Byung-Jae Kwak, Bum-Soo Park
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Patent number: 8582603Abstract: Provided are a method of configuring a protocol header in a wireless communication system, and a communication apparatus and method using the protocol header configuration method. The protocol header may include a fixed length physical layer (PHY) header containing information associated with the number of Media Access Control (MAC) service data units, a variable length PHY header containing information associated with a segment constituting a payload, a MAC header containing information associated with the MAC service data units, and a Header Check Sequence (HCS) checking an error regarding a combination of the fixed length PHY header, the variable length PHY header, and the MAC header.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2009Date of Patent: November 12, 2013Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research InstituteInventors: Seung Eun Hong, Kyeongpyo Kim, Yong Sun Kim, Woo Yong Lee
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Patent number: 8577389Abstract: Embodiments analyze crowd-sourced data to identify a moved or moving beacon. The crowd-sourced data involving a particular beacon is filtered based on a cluster start time associated with the beacon. A clustering analysis groups the filtered crowd-sourced data for the beacon into a plurality of clusters based on spatial distance. Timestamps associated with the crowd-sourced data in the clusters are compared to select one of the clusters. The crowd-sourced data associated with the selected cluster is used to determine position information for the moved beacon. The cluster start time for the beacon is adjusted based on the earliest timestamp associated with the positioned observations corresponding to the selected cluster. Adjusting the cluster start time removes from a subsequent analysis the positioned observations associated with one or more prior positions of the beacon.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2011Date of Patent: November 5, 2013Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Jyh-Han Lin, Sindhura Bandhakavi, Pradipta Kumar Basu
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Patent number: 8565071Abstract: A protection method in a packet transport network is provided. A protection path is established for a service data flow borne on a shared protection ring in the method, where the protection path includes a wrapping protection path and a steering protection path. Firstly, a first service data flow is sent through the wrapping protection path. Then, a service data flow node stops sending a second service data flow subsequent to the first service data flow to the wrapping protection path, and buffers the second service data flow. When the first service data flow completely passes by the service data flow node again, the buffered second service data flow is switched from the wrapping protection path to the steering protection path.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2010Date of Patent: October 22, 2013Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jia He, Yang Yang, Yongjun Zhang, Wenjun Xie, Shanguo Huang, Wanyi Gu
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Patent number: 8558665Abstract: Embodiments relates to a display apparatus that can perform a video call and a method of connecting to a video call thereof, in which the method includes: receiving a control signal from an external device where an identification information for a video call is registered when a video call is received; turning on the display apparatus in response to the received control signal; and connecting to the received video call.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2011Date of Patent: October 15, 2013Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Taesue Um, Myunggi Kim
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Patent number: 8553576Abstract: Embodiments of systems and methods for providing wideband transmission co-existence are generally described herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2010Date of Patent: October 8, 2013Assignee: Intel CorporationInventor: Minyoung Park