Patents Examined by Jenee Williams
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Patent number: 9848443Abstract: A method and apparatus of accessing a channel in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes receiving a first frame including configuration information on a channel allocated from a bandwidth including a primary channel, a secondary channel and an extension channel from an access point (AP), and transmitting a second frame to the AP by using the allocated channel. The configuration information includes an extension channel offset element field that sets the extension channel as the offset of the primary channel.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2016Date of Patent: December 19, 2017Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventor: Yong Ho Seok
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Patent number: 9807755Abstract: A method is provided for transmitting downlink control information (DCI) at a base station in a wireless communication system. The base station assigns a set of Virtual Resource Blocks (VRBs) for the DCI on a downlink subframe, wherein the DCI is related with a specific device. The base station transmits, to the specific device, the DCI via a specific downlink control channel configured for the specific device by using the downlink subframe. The set of VRBs is configured to be a same VRB set in a first slot and a second slot of the downlink subframe. If the set of VRBs is assigned in the first slot of the downlink subframe, the DCI is configured for a downlink transmission for the specific device. If the set of VRBs is assigned in the second slot of the downlink subframe, the DCI is configured for an uplink transmission for the specific device.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2016Date of Patent: October 31, 2017Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Hakseong Kim, Hanbyul Seo, Byounghoon Kim
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Patent number: 9807759Abstract: A method of transmitting a data frame by a transmitter in a WLAN system is provided. The method includes generating a data block including at least one data units respectively transmitted through at least one or more spatial streams to at least one receiver, transmitting first control information to the at least one receiver, transmitting second control information to each receiver, and transmitting the data block to the at least one receiver. The first control information includes a length indicator for the data block, a MIMO indicator indicating whether the data block is for SU-MIMO or MU-MIMO, and a spatial stream indication field including information about the number of the spatial streams. The second control information includes a FEC coding field indicating an encoding scheme applied to the data unit and an MCS field indicating an MCS applied to the data unit.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2016Date of Patent: October 31, 2017Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Dong Wook Roh, Byeong Woo Kang, Dae Won Lee, Yong Ho Seok
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Patent number: 9794052Abstract: A method for transmitting uplink control information by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system using time division duplex (TDD), the UE being configured with a first component carrier (CC) and a second CC having different uplink-downlink configurations, the method comprising: determining hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) information for the first CC based on min (M1, W); determining HARQ-ACK information for the second CC based on min (M2, W); and transmitting bit information corresponding to the HARQ-ACK information for the first and second CCs through a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) in an uplink subframe, wherein min (A, B) represents a smallest number from A and B, W represents an uplink downlink assignment index (UL DAI) value indicated by an uplink grant for the PUSCH, M1 represents a number of downlink subframes corresponding to the uplink subframe on the first CC, and M2 represents a number of downlink subframes corresponding to the uplink subframe onType: GrantFiled: December 27, 2016Date of Patent: October 17, 2017Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Suckchel Yang, Joonkui Ahn, Dongyoun Seo
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Patent number: 9787852Abstract: Systems and methods that transport Charging Data Records (CDRs) using GTP? for offline charging. One embodiment comprises a Charging Data Function (CDF) that communicates with a Charging Gateway Function (CGF) of an offline charging system using GTP?. The CDF assembles a GTP? request for a transaction, assigns a sequence number for the transaction, and assigns a timestamp to the sequence number. The CDF inserts the sequence number in a GTP? header of the GTP? request, inserts the timestamp assigned to the sequence number in the GTP? header of the GTP? request, and sends the GTP? request to the CGF.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2014Date of Patent: October 10, 2017Assignee: Alcatel-Lucent USA Inc.Inventor: Ranjan Sharma
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Patent number: 9788353Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a mobile network communications method, communications apparatus, and communications system. The method includes: receiving, by a transport packet data network gateway, a data packet to be sent to a mobile node, and determining a home packet data network gateway of the mobile node according to IP address information of the mobile node; then sending a data connection establishment request message to the home packet data network gateway, to request to establish a data connection to a base station or a serving gateway at a location of the mobile node; and finally sending the data packet to the base station or the serving gateway through a channel of the data connection, or receiving a data packet that is sent by the base station or the serving gateway through a channel of the data connection.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2015Date of Patent: October 10, 2017Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yan Li, Jin Zhang
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Patent number: 9775166Abstract: A method, a device, and a system for controlling quality of service are provided. The method includes: obtaining, by a policy and charging enforcement function PCEF entity, a service flow priority identifier (FPI) of a downlink data packet, where the FPI is used to indicate a priority of a service flow to which the downlink data packet belongs; carrying, by the PCEF, the FPI in the downlink data packet; and sending, by the PCEF, the downlink data packet to a base station, so that the base station sends the downlink data packet to a user equipment UE according to the FPI. By adopting the method, the device, and the system according to the embodiments of the present invention, end-to-end differentiated processing of a service flow can be implemented, differentiated experiences can be provided for different levels of subscribers and different types of services.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2014Date of Patent: September 26, 2017Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventors: Liming Lu, Leibin Zheng, Yufang Wang
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Patent number: 9762434Abstract: A circuit is provided to facilitate temporal redundancy for inter-chip communication. When an inter-chip communication channel fails, data bits associated with the faulty channel are steered to a non-faulty channel and transmitted via the non-faulty channel together with data bits associated with the non-faulty channel at an increased data rate.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2012Date of Patent: September 12, 2017Assignee: RAMBUS INC.Inventors: Paul D. Franzon, John Wilson
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Patent number: 9760726Abstract: The invention proposes a method consisting in: opening, at the request of the UICC, a data channel between the terminal and the server; performing a mutual authentication between the UICC and the server by using the bootstrap credentials; requesting, from the UICC to the server, the delivery of a subscription profile by using the unique serial number; if a subscription profile exists for the UICC, downloading the subscription profile to the UICC.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2011Date of Patent: September 12, 2017Assignee: GEMALTO SAInventors: Xavier Berard, Denis Gachon
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Patent number: 9762307Abstract: A communication system includes a plurality of base stations and a plurality of communication terminals. The communication terminal calculates a desired channel matrix based on the reference signal received from the desired base station in communication therewith, also calculates an interference channel matrix based on the reference signal received from the strong interference base station having the strongest power of an interference wave affecting the communication terminal, and notifies the desired base station of the desired channel matrix and the interference channel matrix in an uplink message.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2014Date of Patent: September 12, 2017Assignee: KYOCERA CORPORATIONInventor: Toru Sahara
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Patent number: 9756670Abstract: A method and system for notifying a transport layer address are disclosed. The method includes: a first base station sending transport layer address information of an X2 gateway connected to the first base station to a second base station, wherein, the first base station is a home base station (step 10); and the second base station initiating an X2 connection establishment flow according to the received transport layer address information of the X2 gateway (step 20). The system includes: a first base station, configured to: send transport layer address information of an X2 gateway connected to the first base station to a second base station; wherein, the first base station is a home base station; and the second base station, configured to: initiate an X2 connection establishment flow according to the received transport layer address information of the X2 gateway.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2013Date of Patent: September 5, 2017Assignee: ZTE CorporationInventors: Ying Huang, Yunlu Wu, Yin Gao
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Patent number: 9749118Abstract: A method for providing bidirectional communication between segments of a home network includes receiving a first communication signal at a first interface of an inter-domain bridge during a first time interval; receiving a second communication signal at a second interface of the inter-domain bridge during the first time interval; generating a superimposed signal of the first communication signal and the second communication signal; and transmitting the superimposed signal through the first interface and the second interface during a second time interval. The second time interval occurs after the first time interval.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2012Date of Patent: August 29, 2017Assignee: Alcatel LucentInventor: Haris Gacanin
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Patent number: 9743416Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of a network node for improving utilization of resources of a cell 102 provided by a radio base station (RBS), the cell covering a geographical area and being a cell served by a low power node (LPN) 101 of the RBS in a heterogeneous network 100. The method comprises determining a load of downlink (DL) resources of the cell used for wireless communication terminal(s) 104 connected to the cell. The method also comprises deciding, based on said determined load, that the DL bandwidth of the cell available for scheduling should be adjusted, allowing the power of the LPN to be reallocated for the adjusted bandwidth available for scheduling whereby a transition zone area 103 between the LPN and at least one neighboring node 105 will be adjusted accordingly. The transition zone is an area in which a path-loss is lower to the LPN than to the at least one neighboring node but a received DL power density is lower from the LPN than from the at least one neighboring node.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2012Date of Patent: August 22, 2017Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)Inventors: Sara Sandberg, Ame Simonsson, Magnus Thurfjell
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Patent number: 9730194Abstract: A terminal that communicates with a base station monitors a physical downlink control channel allocated in a physical downlink control channel region and an enhanced physical downlink control channel allocated in a physical downlink shared channel region different from the physical downlink control channel region. If the physical downlink control channel is detected, the terminal reports response information via a physical uplink control channel resource corresponding to the resource in which the physical downlink control channel was detected. If the enhanced physical downlink control channel is detected, the terminal reports via a prescribed physical uplink control channel resource.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2012Date of Patent: August 8, 2017Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Toshizo Nogami, Shoichi Suzuki, Tatsushi Aiba, Daiichiro Nakashima, Katsunari Uemura, Kazuyuki Shimezawa, Kimihiko Imamura
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Patent number: 9729726Abstract: In various embodiments, a corpus of codecs may be correlated with different, partially overlapping ranges of transmission characteristics. As channel conditions degrade or improve, the system may select a new codec with which to continue the connection based upon the corresponding overlapping range. Codecs may not be switched immediately when the transmission characteristics enter overlapping ranges, to avoid degrading the user's experience. If the characteristics remain in the overlap, or manifest a likely progression toward another region, then the transition may be effected.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2014Date of Patent: August 8, 2017Assignee: Facebook, Inc.Inventors: Naizhi Li, Parama Jyothi Reddappagari, Alex Narest
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Patent number: 9723490Abstract: In some examples, a method may include determining whether a data packet is correctly received. In response to the data packet being correctly received, the method may include reading a received signal strength indication (RSSI) value, and based on the RSSI value, determining whether to transmit an acknowledgement (ACK) packet.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2014Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWAInventors: Zhipeng Wang, Tianyu Du, Dimitrios Makrakis, Hussein T. Mouftah
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Patent number: 9722757Abstract: A method and a communication apparatus for transmitting uplink control information in a wireless communication system; and a method and a communication apparatus for receiving uplink control information in a wireless communication system are discussed. The method according to an embodiment includes identifying a Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest-Acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK)(0), HARQ-ACK(1) and HARQ-ACK(2); and transmitting bits b(0)b(1) using a Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH) resource based on the HARQ-ACK (0), the HARQ-ACK(1) and the HARQ-ACK(2), according to a relation including Table 1.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2016Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Suckchel Yang, Mingyu Kim, Joonkui Ahn, Dongyoun Seo
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Patent number: 9716610Abstract: Methods of the present inventions allow for generating and providing an enhanced domain name. An exemplary method may comprise providing an enhanced domain to a second party. The enhanced domain may comprise a domain name, a web space automatically enabled and associated with the domain name, and at least one application automatically enabled and associated with the domain name.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2012Date of Patent: July 25, 2017Assignee: GO DADDY OPERATING COMPANY, LLCInventors: Nathan Curran, Justin Jilg
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Patent number: 9706368Abstract: Multicast traffic in a communication network may be obtained via subscription. For example, the multicast traffic may be obtained via a local subscription, via a visited domain of a mobile node for example, or a remote subscription, via a home domain of a mobile node for example, A network entity, such as a Mobile Access Gateway (MAG) and/or a local multicast router for example, may be used to manage the routing of the multicast traffic to the mobile node. The network entity may manage the multicast traffic using one or more multicast policies that may indicate how to route the multicast traffic to a mobile node.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2012Date of Patent: July 11, 2017Assignee: InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc.Inventors: Juan Carlos Zuniga, Carlos Jesus Bernardos
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Patent number: 9698884Abstract: A method of control signaling in a beamforming system is proposed. A base station allocates a first sets of DL control resource blocks for DL transmission to a plurality of user equipments (UEs) in a beamforming network. Each set of DL control resource blocks is associated with a corresponding set of beamforming weights. The base station also allocates a second sets of UL control resource blocks for UL transmission from the UEs. Each set of UL control resource blocks is associated with the same corresponding set of beamforming weights. The base station transmits cell and beam identification information using a set of control beams. Each control beam comprises a set of DL control resource block, a set of UL control resource block, and the corresponding set of beamforming weights.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2015Date of Patent: July 4, 2017Assignee: MediaTek Inc.Inventors: Jiann-Ching Guey, Chia-Hao Yu, Ming-Po Chang