Patents Examined by Jenee Alexander
  • Patent number: 8547887
    Abstract: A wireless mobile unit includes a first wireless interface configured to at least receive communication over a first wireless network. A second wireless interface is configured to provide for bidirectional communication over a second wireless network. An interface control is operative to control activation of the second wireless interface from an off state to an on state in response to a predefined radio frequency (RF) stimulus, the first wireless interface remaining in an on state regardless of the state of the second wireless interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignee: Shoretel, Inc.
    Inventor: Timothy S. Olson
  • Patent number: 8547941
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for improving WLAN spectrum efficiency and reducing interference by flow control comprising determining if at least one data packet is entering a receive buffer; determining if the utilization of the receive buffer is greater than an overflow threshold; determining if a wireless device is in power save mode, wherein the wireless device comprises the receive buffer, a WLAN transceiver and a send buffer for storing packets from an interface module to the WLAN transceiver; determining if the send buffer is empty; setting a power management bit to “1” in either a top-most packet in the send buffer or a NULL packet; and using the WLAN transceiver for transmitting either the top-most packet or the NULL packet to an access point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jianqiang He, Fernando Igartua, Gaurav Kumar
  • Patent number: 8543682
    Abstract: A method, system and computer program product for calculating a scaled quality indicator expressing a quality of experience for streaming media, includes calculating network characteristics of packet loss rate of the streaming media, calculating network characteristics of packet jitter of the streaming media, and calculating the scaled quality indicator based on the calculated packet loss rate and the calculated packet jitter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2013
    Assignee: Spirent Communications, Inc.
    Inventor: Jyotikumar Menon
  • Patent number: 8543664
    Abstract: The community network may be configured to deliver relevant, informative, and useful content regarding the client to individual users of the community. Further, individual users may be provided an opportunity to communicate with one another and to invite new users into their community. Additionally, users may collaborate with one another and with the sponsoring client. The community network system includes a set of software applications designed to support multiple clients through domains set up by a system administrator. The domains are secure partitions within the system which are accessible to unique communities of users and configured with specific tools and user roles for each client's purposes. Further, each user is assigned a role in the system based on the features and privileges that the client wishes to make available to that user in the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2013
    Assignee: Synergy Services Corporation
    Inventors: Scott W. Zirbel, Timothy Jay Miller
  • Patent number: 8537786
    Abstract: A method of improving CPC for a UE in a wireless communications system includes receiving a reconfiguration message, determining the content of a second information element, abbreviated to IE, included in a first IE when the first IE is included in the reconfiguration message, wherein the first IE is used for indicating timing information of a discontinuous transmission and discontinuous reception, abbreviated to DTX-DRX, operation and the second IE is used for selecting a timing of the DTX-DRX operation, and using the content of the first IE without storing the content of the first IE when the content of the second IE is a new timing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2013
    Assignee: Innovative Sonic Limited
    Inventor: Li-Chih Tseng
  • Patent number: 8533327
    Abstract: A peer-to-peer network comprises a plurality of intelligent terminal nodes, each intelligent terminal node being operable to establish, maintain, and tear-down communication sessions with another intelligent terminal node, a plurality of network service nodes coupled to the plurality of intelligent terminal nodes, the plurality of network service nodes comprise at least one of the plurality of intelligent terminal nodes, at least one user P2P function module operable to store, locate and distribute service resource information related to user policies, and at least one network P2P function module operable to store, locate and distribute service resource information related to operator provider policies, and operable to exert stricter security control than the at least one user P2P function module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2013
    Assignees: ZTE Corporation, ZTE (USA) Inc.
    Inventors: Li Mo, Weijun Lee, Larry Shaoyan Ma, Xing Chen
  • Patent number: 8532011
    Abstract: Apparatus and method for allocating bandwidth for multicast communications in a wireless communication network. The base station allocates certain bandwidth for handling multicast communications through a multicast communication channel. When a new multicast communication arrives, the base station assigns a predefined number of bandwidth to the multicast communication channel according to a predefined algorithm. A wireless device will monitor all slots in a multicast channel and discard all the packets not belonging to its call.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2013
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Zinping Zhang, Harleen Gill, Arul Ananthanarayanan
  • Patent number: 8532034
    Abstract: A method and system for coordinating wireless communication of different waveforms in the same frequency band, is provided, the network including multiple wireless stations of different types operating at the same wireless frequency band but at different waveform formats. Channel bandwidth is allocated by scanning all available channels in the frequency band to detect available channels. When the number of detected available channels is not less than the number of wireless station types, then scheduling and transmitting beacon periods for the different types of wireless stations to different available channels, wherein each type of wireless station may have a dedicated available channel period for wireless communication in parallel with other types of wireless stations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Huai-Rong Shao, Chiu Ngo
  • Patent number: 8526387
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. More specifically, the present invention relates to a method for transmitting uplink control information and a device therefor, and the method comprises the steps of: selecting, from a plurality of uplink control channel resources, one uplink control channel resource corresponding to a plurality of HARQ-ACKs; and transmitting bit values corresponding to said plurality of HARQ-ACKs by using the selected uplink control channel resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Suckchel Yang, Mingyu Kim, Joonkui Ahn, Dongyoun Seo
  • Patent number: 8526385
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for generating reference signals in a cellular wireless communication system having a set of resource blocks. Each resource block includes a plurality of resource elements. Each reference signal is associated with an antenna port in a cell. At least one reference signal in a cell is transmitted on at least one resource element only in resource blocks belonging to a subset of said set of resource blocks. The method includes shifting frequency in the resource blocks in the subset of resource blocks. The frequency shifting of the resource blocks belonging to said subset of resource blocks is cell-specific and is determined from an integer sequence having a length less than or equal to a total number of cell identities in said cellular wireless communication system. The disclosure also relates to methods and devices for transmitting and receiving such reference signals; and to a device for generating reference signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Fredrik Berggren, Jianghua Liu
  • Patent number: 8516046
    Abstract: A system and method of providing resource information in a virtual community is disclosed. A method of providing information related to each of a plurality of sub elements of a resource in a virtual community includes the steps of accessing the resource, collecting each of the plurality of sub elements of the resource, sending the plurality of sub elements of the resource to the virtual community server, gathering the information related to each of the plurality of sub elements of the resource in the virtual community server, and displaying the gathered information within the resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Inventor: Yongyong Xu
  • Patent number: 8509163
    Abstract: A method and a system for selecting network equipment are provided. The method includes: selecting a primary pool or a pool with the highest priority from preset information when UE needs to select network equipment; and selecting the network equipment for the UE from the selected primary pool or pool with the highest priority. Thus, the relocation times of an MME and a serving SAE gateway are effectively reduced and an operation efficiency of a network is enhanced. Meanwhile, the UE having or subscribing a new service function selects to be attached to the network equipment with the new service function within a pool, such that the diversity demands for service development are satisfied, and the equipment overhead is saved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2013
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xiaolong Guo, Xiaobo Wu
  • Patent number: 8495148
    Abstract: A method, system, and computer program product for implementing community messaging services is provided. The method includes calculating a receiver pool for receiving a broadcast message, the receiver pool being a subset of a messaging community. The method also includes transmitting the broadcast message to the receiver pool and tracking any feedback from the receiver pool to determine if a satisfactory response has been received. A satisfactory response results when a response is received that addresses or resolves an issue or question presented in the broadcast message. The method further includes re-calculating the receiver pool to receive the broadcast message if the satisfactory response has not been reached after a specified period of time, the re-calculated receiver pool being a subset of the messaging community that has not yet received the message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2013
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Irwin Boutboul, Jessica Wu Ramirez
  • Patent number: 8493954
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for reducing Digital-to-Analog Conversion (DAC) bits at a transmitter of a Frequency Division Multiple Access (FDMA) system reduces a number of the bits for conversion so as to save power and reduce the cost of operation. The method can include generating a digital signal gain control value and an analog signal gain control value using subcarrier allocation information, a required Signal to Noise Ratio (SNR), and a Peak to Average Power Ratio (PAPR); controlling a gain of a signal input to a digital-to-analog converter using the digital signal gain control value; converting a digital signal of the controlled gain to an analog signal using the digital-to-analog converter; and restoring an original signal by controlling a gain of a signal output from the digital-to-analog converter using the analog signal gain control value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jun-Kyu Kang, In-Tae Kang, Jeong-Gil Lee, Bo-Rham Lee, Sang-Min Bae
  • Patent number: 8488514
    Abstract: A system including a processor configured to determine whether or not to perform a mobility procedure based at least in part on a backhaul link quality between a relay node and an access node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2013
    Assignee: Research In Motion Limited
    Inventors: Zhijun Cai, Rose Qingyang Hu, Yi Yu, Andrew Mark Earnshaw, Yi Song, Mo-Han Fong
  • Patent number: 8451804
    Abstract: An improved access attempt procedure for call establishment is achieved by deriving a probability of access transmission as a function of both a priority level for access attempts and a random access cause, and performing link establishment authentication and security control call establishment based upon the deriving.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2013
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventor: Dragan Vujcic
  • Patent number: 8447844
    Abstract: A storage unit stores therein setting information and history information on a communication established by the setting information. When an information receiving unit receives new setting information, a judging unit judges whether the setting information stored in the storage unit reached a predetermined value. A determining unit compares the history information corresponding to the setting information, and determines a priority for each setting information based on a result of comparison. A deleting unit deletes setting information having the lowest priority from the storage unit, and a storing unit stores the new setting information in the storage unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2013
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Limited
    Inventor: Manabu Kimura
  • Patent number: 8412773
    Abstract: One example embodiment of the invention is directed to a computer program product for initiating a process for use during a data sharing event on a packet based network, the program product comprising computer executable instructions stored on a computer readable medium, the data sharing event including a plurality of users sharing streaming data with one another. The example program product instructions when executed by one or more computers causing the one or more computers to perform steps comprising receive a request to initiate the process communicated from one of the plurality of users participating in the data sharing event, respond to the request by initiating the process on the data network whereby at least one of the users participating in the data sharing event may access said process, and terminate the process after one or more termination conditions has been satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2013
    Assignee: Insors Integrated Communications
    Inventors: Adam M. Chapweske, Jon N. Swanson
  • Patent number: 8407357
    Abstract: Provided is a group management method and system for group communication in an in-terworking system of an Instant Messaging and Presence Services (IMPS) system and a Session Initiation Protocol for Instant Messaging and Presence Leveraging Extensions Instant Messaging (SIMPLE IM) system. In the group management method, a client currently connected to one of the IMPS system and the SIMPLE IM system requests the retrieval of the group properties of a group included in the other system to which the client is not connected. The group property retrieval request is converted into a protocol format supported by the other system and is forwarded to the other system. The other system retrieves the group properties of the group, generates a group property response including the retrieved group properties, and forwards the group property response. The group property response is converted into a protocol format supported by the currently connected system and is forwarded to the currently connected system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jae-Kwon Oh, Ajithkumar Narayanakurup
  • Patent number: 8380823
    Abstract: Device component information (physical information, logical information) on each device such as a host computer, a switch, and storage on the SAN is acquired via an LAN 9. Element information is created from the acquired device component information. According to the element information, a link between element information is created. Furthermore, when a plurality of links are established for an element, information is stored in advance so as to be used for selecting one of the links. Thus, each element stored the minimum information for routing and it becomes possible to search an associated element more effectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2013
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Sachiko Terai, Sawao Iwatani, Shigeru Honmura, Hideyuki Tanaka