Patents Examined by Jason Mattis
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Patent number: 9820277Abstract: A method is provided to associate at least one user equipment to a plurality of component carriers. A carrier-to-interference ratio is calculated for each of component carriers available for the user equipment. Differences between the calculated carrier-to-interference ratios are calculated, with each difference being associated to a different one of the component carriers intervening in the difference, the component carriers being ordered in the decreasing order of their carrier frequency. The user equipment is associated with the component carrier having the lowest difference.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2013Date of Patent: November 14, 2017Assignee: ORANGEInventors: Lijie Hu, Kan Zheng, Lin Huang
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Patent number: 9813312Abstract: A controller implemented on computing equipment may control switches in a network. The controller may provide flow tables that implement network policies to the switches to control packet forwarding through the network. The controller may provide debug table entries to the switches for use in a debug table that is separate from the flow table. The debug table entries may match incoming network packets and increment corresponding counters on the switches. The controller may retrieve count information from the counters for performing debugging operations on the network. For example, the controller may identify conflicts between fields of a selected flow table entry, determine whether elephant packet flows are present between switches, determine whether desired load balancing is being performed, determine whether a network path has changed, determine whether packet loss has occurred, and/or determine whether network packets are taking undesired paths based on the retrieved count information.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2015Date of Patent: November 7, 2017Assignee: Big Switch Networks, Inc.Inventors: Xin Wu, Rajneesh Bajpai, Robert W. Sherwood, Srinivasan Ramasubramanian, Gregor Mathias Maier, Richard Leegan Lane, II, Kenneth Hsinchao Chiang, Mei Yang
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Patent number: 9813987Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed to coordinate a power save delay between a station (STA) and an access point (AP.) The STA may be configured to transmit information regarding a power save delay duration to the AP. The STA may then inform the AP that it will be entering power save mode and delay entering the power save mode for a specified period of time corresponding to the power save delay duration, thus providing a buffer period to allow the AP to complete the delivery of any frames that may already be in the hardware queue.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2012Date of Patent: November 7, 2017Assignee: QUALCOMM, IncorporatedInventor: Sidharth Thakur
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Patent number: 9807203Abstract: A method of transmitting content to a content receiver and of receiving content from a content transmitted is provided. The method may include receiving, at a content transmitter, a content transmission request fragmenting a segmented content corresponding to the content transmission request into at least one frame, generating a header comprising a frame identifier for the at least one frame, and transmitting the at least one frame and the header to the content receiver.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2014Date of Patent: October 31, 2017Assignees: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., AJOU UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATIONInventors: Jong Han Park, Jae Hoon Kim, Young-Bae Ko, Myeong Wuk Jang, Sung-Won Lee, Gue-Hwan Jung
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Patent number: 9800495Abstract: A method, performed in a network that includes a group of nodes, includes identifying a path through a set of the nodes, where each node, in the set of nodes, has a data plane and a control plane; establishing a control plane tunnel, associated with the path, within the control plane of the nodes in the set of nodes; establishing a data plane tunnel, associated with the path, within the data plane of the nodes in the set of nodes, where the data plane tunnel is associated with the control plane tunnel and established through the same set of nodes; and transmitting a control message through the control plane tunnel to change a state of the data plane tunnel.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2009Date of Patent: October 24, 2017Assignee: Infinera CorporationInventors: Biao Lu, Jan Bialkowski, Edward E. Sprague, Parthiban Kandappan
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Patent number: 9801139Abstract: A wireless communication device which can improve reception quality in a second other wireless communication device is disclosed, including a reception unit which receives a signal from a first other wireless communication device or a second other wireless communication device connected to the wireless communication device and the first other wireless communication device, a transmission power value setting unit which sets a transmission power value in a first subframe, in which the first other wireless communication device transmits a signal to the second other wireless communication device, to be higher than that in a second subframe in which the first other wireless communication device receives a signal from a third other wireless communication device connected to the first other wireless communication device, and a transmission power value switching control unit which performs switching in the first subframe to the transmission power value higher than that in the second subframe.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2011Date of Patent: October 24, 2017Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICAInventors: Yasuaki Yuda, Seigo Nakao, Ayako Horiuchi, Akihiko Nishio, Daichi Imamura, Takashi Iwai
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Patent number: 9794818Abstract: This application relates to a method for acquiring a CQI, a user equipment, an eNB and a system. The method includes: calculating CQIs of at least two subbands, where there is an overlapped resource block between the subbands; and transmitting the subband CQIs to an eNB. In the method for acquiring a channel quality indicator, the user equipment, the evolved node B and the system of the present application, there is an overlapped resource block between adjacent subbands, and meanwhile the channel quality of the resource block of the subband is obtained by using different subbands, thus the feedback accuracy of the channel quality of the resource block of each subband, especially the channel quality of the resource block in the subband overlapping area, thereby improving the granularity of frequency-selective scheduling, and improving the frequency-selective scheduling and the link adaptation, and therefore, the system throughput is increased.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2015Date of Patent: October 17, 2017Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yongxing Zhou, Jianguo Wang
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Patent number: 9794933Abstract: An objective of the present invention is to provide a method, apparatus, and equipment for determining device channel resources of a user equipment in an LTE-TDD system. The TDD system performs resource scheduling to the user equipment using an enhanced physical downlink control channel, and a physical uplink control channel used includes channel resource(s) for feeding back a hybrid automatic repeat request of a physical downlink shared channel as scheduled by the enhanced physical downlink control channel, when the number of downlink subframes as fed back in one uplink subframe may be more than one, the channel resource(s) is divided into a plurality of channel regions based on the number of downlink subframes having the enhanced physical downlink control channel set thereon currently, or based on the potential highest number of downlink subframes having the enhanced physical downlink control channel set thereon.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2013Date of Patent: October 17, 2017Assignee: Alcatel LucentInventors: Feng She, Yun Deng, Hongwei Yang
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Patent number: 9781692Abstract: A method for transmitting primary synchronization signals and secondary synchronization signals in new carriers is provided, which includes: with respect to a time domain, a base station side sending Primary Synchronization Signals (PSS) and Secondary Synchronization Signals (SSS) in Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) symbols except OFDM symbols occupied by reference signals in subframes #1 and #6, or subframes #0 and #5, or subframes #1, #6, #0 and #5; and with respect to a frequency domain, the base station side sending the PSS or SSS in resources of intermediate 6 Physical Resource Block (PRB) pairs of system bandwidth; the reference signals include Demodulation Reference Signals (DMRS).Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2013Date of Patent: October 3, 2017Assignee: XI'AN ZHONGXING NEW SOFTWARE CO.LTD.Inventors: Wei Gou, Bo Dai, Xiaogang Han, Zhisong Zuo
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Patent number: 9768843Abstract: Systems and methods for enabling a wireless backhaul network between access points (APs) in a wireless network are provided. In an embodiment, the wireless backhaul network is enabled using a Massive Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) radio access technology (RAT). In another embodiment, the wireless backhaul network is established using the same RAT as used by the APs to serve user devices, and can utilize the same time and frequency resources used for user communication.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2014Date of Patent: September 19, 2017Inventors: Murat Mese, Yan Wang, Nihar Jindal, Louay Jalloul, Arogyaswami Paulraj, Amin Mobasher, Sirikiat Ariyavisitakul, James Bennett, Sam Alex
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Patent number: 9768920Abstract: A method for transferring control signals and data signals, particularly in a motor vehicle. The control signals and the data signals are transferred by a physical medium. The control signals or the data signals are modulated prior to transferring. The modulated signals and the non-modulated signals are sent by the physical medium.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2010Date of Patent: September 19, 2017Assignee: Continental Automotive GmbHInventors: Klaus Gröhlich, Ronald Hain, Sebastian Randel, Götz Roderer
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Patent number: 9763244Abstract: First data may be transmitted during a first timeslot of a transmission time period using a first wireless communication standard and second data may be transmitted during a second timeslot of the transmission time period using a second wireless communication standard. Based on change(s) to one or more characteristics associated with data transmitted using the first wireless communication standard, such as a change in the wireless profile or wireless protocol being used, a duration of the transmission time period may be adaptively increased and/or a duration of the first timeslot may be adaptively decreased. In either scenario, a duration of the second timeslot may increase. This increase in the duration of the second timeslot may result in an increase in a frame aggregation count associated with the second wireless communication standard, allowing more data frames to be aggregated into a single packet, thereby increasing packet length and data throughput.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2015Date of Patent: September 12, 2017Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventor: Milos Jorgovanovic
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Patent number: 9763249Abstract: A method and apparatus for allocating a resource in a heterogeneous network environment are provided. In a heterogeneous network environment in which small cells and a macrocell are mixed, a macro base station divides an entire frequency band that is allocated to a corresponding macrocell into a plurality of Frequency Partitions (FPs). The macro base station allocates some of the plurality of FPs to small cells that are included in the macrocell.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2015Date of Patent: September 12, 2017Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTEInventors: Namsuk Lee, Yong Seouk Choi
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Patent number: 9749994Abstract: Mechanisms for feedback of channel quality information (CQI) in a multi-carrier environment are disclosed. A mobile station may include one or more antennas, and a transceiver coupled to the one or more antennas. The transceiver may be configured to receive (e.g., simultaneously) signals on a plurality of carriers. Each of the carriers may include synchronization channels. The transceiver may be further configured to, for each of one or more of the carriers: generate channel quality information (CQI) for the carrier based on pilot signals in the carrier; transmit the CQI for the carrier. The one or more carriers for which CQI is generated and transmitted may be determined by configuration information received from a base station.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2013Date of Patent: August 29, 2017Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Mo-Han Fong, Hang Zhang, Sophie Vrzic, Robert Novak, Jun Yuan, Dong-Sheng Yu
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Patent number: 9743450Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods are described for allowing a first device to learn how to connect to a first network using information that a second device obtained about a second network that is related to the first network. The second device can perform a virtual network discovery of the first network on behalf of the first device. The second device can describe how to initiate one or more connections to the first network by modifying the information the second device obtained about the second network. The second device can send the information identifying how to initiate the connections to the first network to the first device. The first device can automatically initiate connections to the first network without requiring user input.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2015Date of Patent: August 22, 2017Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Vinesh Pallen, Hyeonkuk Jeong, Kapil Chhabra
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Patent number: 9736801Abstract: The present disclosure describes methods and apparatus for synchronizing devices in a wireless data communication system. A wireless transceiver device of the wireless data communication system transmits a beacon at various intervals that includes both a timestamp indicating a current time and date of the transmitting wireless transceiver device, and a time quality indication indicating a quality of the time source of the transmitting wireless transceiver device. A wireless transceiver device receiving the beacon evaluates the time quality indication included in the beacon. If the time quality indication included in the beacon indicates the transmitting wireless transceiver device has a higher quality time source than the receiving wireless transceiver device, then the receiving wireless transceiver device adjusts its clock based on the timestamp in the beacon, otherwise the receiving wireless transceiver device need not adjust its clock based on the timestamp in the beacon.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2014Date of Patent: August 15, 2017Assignee: Marvell International Ltd.Inventor: Paul A. Lambert
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Patent number: 9729585Abstract: A communications adaptor comprising an adaptor first port; an adaptor second port; an adaptor third port; and a processor. The adaptor first port is configured to connect to an analog communications line. The adaptor second port is configured to connect to a data network. The adaptor third port is configured to connect to an analog telephony device. The processor is configured to determine that a first call setup request signal has been received at the adaptor first port. The processor is further configured, subsequent to such determination: (1) to transmit a second call setup request signal over the adaptor second port to an Internet Protocol (IP) telephony system over the data network; and (2) to transmit a third call setup request signal over the adaptor third port.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2015Date of Patent: August 8, 2017Assignee: Vonage America Inc.Inventors: Pablo Calamera, Deepak Ottur, Rohan Dwarkha
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Patent number: 9729291Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention relate to the technical field of communications, and provide a method and device for transmitting a reference signal. The method for transmitting a reference signal comprises: a base station determining an antenna port of a reference signal corresponding to a broadcast channel; the base station determining a complex valued modulation symbol of the reference signal according to a first parameter of the reference signal, wherein the first parameter of the reference signal is determined by the number of resource blocks occupied by the broadcast channel; and the base station transmitting the determined complex valued modulation symbol of the reference signal to a user terminal on the determined antenna port of the reference signal. The present invention can be used in an LTE wireless communication system.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2015Date of Patent: August 8, 2017Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventors: Zhenfei Tang, Yuanjie Li
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Patent number: 9729299Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer readable storage media communicate with a wireless device within a dense wireless environment. In one aspect, a method includes determining whether a wireless device is subject to interference, adjusting a transmission attribute based on the determining, and transmitting a message to the wireless device based on the adjusted transmission attribute. In some aspects, adjusting a transmission attribute may include selecting one or more of time division multiplexing or frequency division multiplexing when communicating with the wireless device. In some aspects, particular time periods and/or particular frequency bands may be selected for communication with the device depending on whether the device is subject to interference.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2014Date of Patent: August 8, 2017Assignee: QUALCOMM, IncorporatedInventors: Gwendolyn Denise Barriac, Simone Merlin, Rahul Tandra, Sameer Vermani, Yan Zhou, Bin Tian, Hemanth Sampath
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Patent number: 9717098Abstract: Methods and apparatuses are described in which an unlicensed spectrum is used for Long Term Evolution (LTE) communications. A first method includes performing clear channel assessment (CCA) to determine availability of an unlicensed spectrum, transmitting a request-to-send (RTS) signal to a set of user equipments (UEs) using the unlicensed spectrum when a determination is made that the unlicensed spectrum is available, and receiving, in the unlicensed spectrum, a common clear-to-send (CTS) signal and an individual CTS signal from one or more of the UEs in response to the RTS signal. A second method includes transmitting an RTS signal in an unlicensed spectrum or a V-RTS signal in a licensed spectrum, addressed to a set of UEs, and transmitting a CTS-to-self signal in the unlicensed spectrum along with the transmission of the V-RTS signal.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2014Date of Patent: July 25, 2017Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Naga Bhushan, Durga Prasad Malladi, Yongbin Wei, Peter Gaal, Tao Luo, Tingfang Ji, Gavin Bernard Horn, Wanshi Chen, Aleksandar Damnjanovic