Patents Examined by Jael Ulysse
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Patent number: 9408097Abstract: Indication(s) of a configuration of first interference measurement resources in first subframe(s) and of a configuration of second interference measurement resources in second subframe(s) are received at a first BS and from a second BS using an interface between the first and second BSs. The first BS transmits zero or low power REs that coincide with the REs belonging to the first interference measurement resources in the first subframe(s). The first BS transmits full power REs that coincide with the REs belonging to the second interference measurement resources in the second subframe(s). The first interference measurement resources in the first subframe(s) are to be used by a UE (e.g., attached to the second base station) to measure interference for zero or low power REs and the second interference measurement resources in the second subframe(s) are to be used by the UE to measure interference for full power REs.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2015Date of Patent: August 2, 2016Assignee: Nokia Solutions and Networks OyInventors: Bishwarup Mondal, Xiaoyi Wang
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Patent number: 9408202Abstract: A method and apparatus are described for allocating resources for an enhanced physical hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) channel (E-PHICH). A subset of an enhanced physical downlink control channel (E-PDCCH) may be allocated for use by the E-PHICH. The E-PDCCH may be defined by at least one of enhanced resource element groups (eREGs) and enhanced control channel elements (eCCEs). Each eCCE may be formed by grouping a plurality of eREGs. Each eREG may contain at least one resource element (RE). Alternatively, a subset of eREGs may be allocated as E-PHICH resources. E-PDCCH physical resource block (PRB) pairs may be selected as a resource for the E-PHICH. An indication of the number of the eCCEs may be broadcast to a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU).Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2012Date of Patent: August 2, 2016Assignee: InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc.Inventors: Shahrokh Nayeb Nazar, Moon-il Lee, Benoit Pelletier
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Patent number: 9407419Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for transceiving signals between a user equipment and a base station in a wireless communication system, and to an apparatus for same. More particularly, a method for the user equipment transceiving the signal in the wireless communication system, which is operated by a time division duplex (TDD), comprises the steps of: monitoring a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) with respect to a special frame; and receiving a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) that corresponds to the PDCCH from the special subframe, when a PDCCH having downlink allocation information of the special subframe is detected, wherein the PDSCH is received by at least one orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbol from a plurality of OFDM symbols that correspond to a defined guard period (GP) and an uplink pilot time slot (UpPTS) within the special subframe, according to a TDD uplink-downlink configuration.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2012Date of Patent: August 2, 2016Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Suckchel Yang, Mingyu Kim, Joonkui Ahn, Dongyoun Seo
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Patent number: 9407409Abstract: In a wireless communication system, from available data resource elements (REs) in a subframe, REs are assigned to transmissions of a reference signal, thereby resulting in a plurality of remaining data REs. Furthermore, REs from the plurality of remaining data REs are assigned for data transmission to a wireless device in groups of a predetermined number of REs such that all assigned data REs within a group are within a predetermined number of symbols of each other in time domain and within a second predetermined number of subcarriers of each other in frequency domain, thereby resulting in at least one ungrouped RE.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2011Date of Patent: August 2, 2016Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Kapil Bhattad, Peter Gaal, Tao Luo, Xiaoxia Zhang, Juan Montojo
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Patent number: 9344312Abstract: A method of transmitting multiple frames in a wireless local area network (WLAN) system supporting multi user-multiple input multiple output (MU-MIMO) is provided. The method comprises transmitting a first frame and a second frame consecutively to a first station (STA) and transmitting a third frame and a fourth frame consecutively to a second STA, wherein a transmission start time of the first frame and a transmission start time of the third frame are aligned to each other, and wherein a transmission start time of the second frame and a transmission start time of the fourth frame are aligned to each other.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2010Date of Patent: May 17, 2016Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventor: Yong Ho Seok
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Patent number: 9294289Abstract: A method for service management for terminals with broadband connections, wherein the terminal is connected through a home gateway to a service connected in an operator network, the home gateway being attached to an access node of the operator network, includes the steps of monitoring whether the terminal is temporarily not using the service, delegating the service and transferring its current status and/or data to the access node, and tearing down the connection between the home gateway and the access node while operating the service in the delegated service host.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2009Date of Patent: March 22, 2016Assignee: NEC EUROPE LTD.Inventors: Rolf Winter, Hans-Joerg Kolbe
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Patent number: 9258763Abstract: A communication system, a mobile station apparatus, a base station apparatus, and a processing method are provided that can perform decoding processing of a PDCCH related to a search space efficiently, and can perform communication promptly. A mobile station apparatus for performing communication with a base station apparatus in a mobile communication system: perform monitoring of a physical downlink control channel in an extension search space in accordance with an instruction from the base station apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2010Date of Patent: February 9, 2016Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shohei Yamada, Shoichi Suzuki
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Patent number: 9252833Abstract: Disclosed are various embodiments for providing a power-efficient driver architecture supporting rail-to-rail operation in full duplex mode. A driver is configured to drive a duplex signal over a transmission medium. A hybrid is configured to recover a received signal from the duplex signal. The received signal is generated by a remote transceiver. The driver is configured to drive the duplex signal based at least in part on the received signal recovered by the hybrid.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2012Date of Patent: February 2, 2016Assignee: BROADCOM CORPORATIONInventors: Hui Pan, Yuan Yao, Joseph Aziz, Derek Tam, Xin Wang, Chia-Jen Hsu
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Patent number: 9247260Abstract: A hybrid bitmap-mode video coding system encodes and decodes a plurality of video frames with optimized coding performance. The coding system filters a video frame to determine an appropriate encoding mode. In response to the video frame to be encoded in bitmap-mode, the coding system generates a bitmap and DCT-type data of the video frame. The bitmap data of the video frame are encoded losslessly to keep the high quality of the video frame. The DCT-type data of the video frame are encoded with compression. The bitmap-mode encoding enables the coding system to flexibly encode part of a video frame data lossless and encode the rest of the frame data lossy. As such, the lossless encoding of the frame provides high quality of important data of the frame, and at the same time maintains high compression ratio on less important data of the frame.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2007Date of Patent: January 26, 2016Assignee: Opera Software Ireland LimitedInventors: Erik R. Swenson, Nitin Bhandari
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Patent number: 9241336Abstract: The present technique relates to a communication terminal device and method, a base station device, and a communication system that enable efficient communications. A first communication unit that performs a first communication with a first other device transmits information indicating the margin in which the first communication is not disturbed by a second communication with a second other device, to the first other device. The communication terminal device and the communication system of the present technique can be used to perform efficient communications between a personal computer and a communication system utilizing the personal computer, for example.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2012Date of Patent: January 19, 2016Assignee: Sony CorporationInventor: Atsushi Yoshizawa
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Patent number: 9236984Abstract: A wireless communication device to facilitate determination of frequency band information comprises a processing system and a wireless communication transceiver. The processing system is configured to identify a carrier frequency stored within the wireless communication device and determine a direct current (DC) subcarrier associated with the carrier frequency. The wireless communication transceiver is configured to synchronize with the DC subcarrier to obtain channel information, wherein the channel information comprises a channel size and a DC subcarrier offset. The processing system is configured to process the DC subcarrier with the DC subcarrier offset to determine a starting frequency of a frequency band associated with the carrier frequency.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2014Date of Patent: January 12, 2016Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.Inventors: Stephen R. Bales, Kanwar-Preet Singh Jolly, Maneesh Gauba, Mark A. Moore
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Patent number: 9225467Abstract: A method for calibrating a threshold for selecting a transmission format, from a plurality of transmission formats, in order to exchange data packets over a radio-frequency propagation channel, referred to as the “channel” (L1, L2, L3) between a transmitting device and a receiving device of a satellite telecommunications system, includes: calculating a calibration table for the threshold, which associates transmission statistics, representative of an amount of estimated errors for a plurality of data packets received by the receiving device, with a plurality of values of the instantaneous channel quality; and updating the threshold, which, according to the calibration table, is a value of the instantaneous channel quality enabling a predefined value of the transmission statistics to be provided. A threshold calibration module, which can be included in a terrestrial terminal (2), and/or a satellite (3), and/or, more generally, in a satellite telecommunications system, is also described.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2010Date of Patent: December 29, 2015Assignee: AIRBUS DEFENCE AND SPACE SASInventor: Nicolas Girault
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Patent number: 9220018Abstract: A system and method for analyzing a scenario, such as a communications scenario in which the end-to-end quality of communications between end nodes of a communications link may be affected by various factors and conditions. Such factors and conditions may include performance parameters of the end nodes and intermediate nodes, human operational performance, and external conditions, such as weather. Qualitative and quantitative representations of the end-to-end quality of communications are presented simultaneously and in a time-synchronized manner with displays of the relevant performance parameters, indications of human operational actions, and locations of nodes of the communications link and external conditions.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2011Date of Patent: December 22, 2015Assignee: THE BOEING COMPANYInventors: Yifan Yang, Elwyn William Hubbard, Christopher J. Devine, James M. Rush, Gregory W. Smith
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Patent number: 9220043Abstract: Examples are disclosed for executing vertical handovers of wireless devices configured to couple with heterogeneous wireless networks. In some examples, wireless devices on separate heterogeneous networks may be swapped between the heterogeneous networks.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2014Date of Patent: December 22, 2015Assignee: Empire Technology Development LLCInventor: Ezekiel Kruglick
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Patent number: 9215701Abstract: Described herein is a technique for aggregating background traffic packets by the background users instead of performing a random access procedure to request an uplink resource for each new packet. Since the same physical random access channel (PRACH) resources are used for random access procedures by multiple UEs, collisions can occur. The PRACH is expected to operate with very low collision rates, but if the number of users increases, the collision rate increases as well as the error rate. The disclosed technique reduces the collision rate by reducing the number of random access procedures used to transmit background traffic.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2012Date of Patent: December 15, 2015Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Ali Taha Koc, Umesh Phuyal
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Patent number: 9210602Abstract: Indication(s) of a configuration of first interference measurement resources in first subframe(s) and of a configuration of second interference measurement resources in second subframe(s) are received at a first BS and from a second BS using an interface between the first and second BSs. The first BS transmits zero or low power REs that coincide with the REs belonging to the first interference measurement resources in the first subframe(s). The first BS transmits full power REs that coincide with the REs belonging to the second interference measurement resources in the second subframe(s). The first interference measurement resources in the first subframe(s) are to be used by a UE (e.g., attached to the second base station) to measure interference for zero or low power REs and the second interference measurement resources in the second subframe(s) are to be used by the UE to measure interference for full power REs.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2013Date of Patent: December 8, 2015Assignee: Nokia Solutions and Networks OyInventors: Bishwarup Mondal, Xiaoyi Wang
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Patent number: 9204358Abstract: A method for prioritizing handover targets for scanning by a mobile terminal, MS (6), in a wireless network (1) having a plurality of network elements (2 to 5), comprises a network element (2) receiving a signal from an MS (6) for which it is the serving network element and the network element detecting the direction from which it receives the signal from the MS. For the detected direction, the network element obtains, from a data store (2B) associated with the network element (2), probabilities of successful handover to respective different neighboring network elements. The network element (2) uses the probabilities in prioritizing scanning order of neighboring network elements and sends information about the prioritized scanning order to the MS (6). The network may be a WiMAX network in which the network elements are base stations.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2010Date of Patent: December 1, 2015Assignee: Alcatel LucentInventors: Sabine Randriamasy, Veronique Capdevielle
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Patent number: 9191855Abstract: A telecommunications network adapted to process data packets according to the client mobile internet protocol domain is extended to provide bearer capability, such that sub-sessions can be used to distinguish one portion of traffic from another. A different Quality of Service (QoS) can be assigned to each bearer. The bearers can be setup by a mobile node or a home agent in the telecommunications network.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2015Date of Patent: November 17, 2015Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ecrisson (publ)Inventors: Zoltán Richárd Turányi, György Miklós
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Patent number: 9191987Abstract: A method, apparatus, system, and computer program product example embodiments of the invention are disclosed to structure access to a wireless medium to reduce interference between nearby nodes. In example embodiments of the invention, a method includes the steps of determining an amount of available wireless communication resources in a reception area; determining a number of wireless communication nodes in the reception area; generating a reservation limit of the available wireless resources; determining an inability to allocate the reservation limit of the available wireless resources; transmitting a request for release of resources to at least one other wireless communication node. Another node receiving the request, performs a method including the steps of determining a threshold; comparing an allocated amount of wireless communication resources against the threshold; and releasing at least a part of the allocated amount of resources, if the reserved number is greater than the threshold.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2009Date of Patent: November 17, 2015Assignee: Nokia Technologies OYInventor: Markus Nentwig
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Patent number: 9185633Abstract: A radio base station that includes an upper-layer information transmission unit configured to transmit a length of Cyclic Prefix (CP) used in neighboring cells and a Positioning Reference Signal (PRS) transmission unit configured to transmit the PRS generated based on the length of CP, in a subordinate cell included in the neighboring cells.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2010Date of Patent: November 10, 2015Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Minami Ishii, Sadayuki Abeta