Patents Examined by Jenee Williams
  • Patent number: 9345011
    Abstract: There is provided a method of transmitting an uplink for reference sensitivity test for intra-band non-contiguous CA in LTE-A system. The method may comprise: if a carrier aggregation (CA) is configured, if the configured CA corresponds to an intra-band CA, and if the configured CA corresponds to non-contiguous CA, transmitting an uplink on a primary component carrier using allocated resource blocks (RBs). if a channel bandwidth by an aggregation of the primary component carrier and a secondary component carrier is at least one of 25 RBs, 50 RBs, 75 RBs and 100 RBs and if a gap between two sub-blocks corresponds to a predetermined range, the number of the allocated resource block (RB) in the primary component carrier may be limited to 10 to meet a requirement for a reference sensitivity on a downlink of the secondary component carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Su Hwan Lim, Young Woong Kim, Young Goo Park, Sang Wook Lee, Dong Ik Lee
  • Patent number: 9319163
    Abstract: Mobile radio sets are installed on front and rear parts of a mobile body, one of fixed radio sets is set as a synchronization base station, and the other radio sets including the mobile radio sets are set as synchronization packet relay stations. Each of the relay stations in a synchronization acquiring mode makes a transition to a ground synchronization maintaining mode higher in synchronization accuracy when receiving a synchronization packet without the intervention of the mobile radio sets, or makes a transition to an on-vehicle synchronization maintaining mode lower in synchronization accuracy when receiving a synchronization packet with the intervention of the mobile radio sets, and the relay station in the on-vehicle synchronization maintaining mode makes a transition to the ground synchronization maintaining mode when receiving a synchronization packet from a relay station in the ground synchronization maintaining mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: THE NIPPON SIGNAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Terufumi Yamaguchi, Hiroki Saito, Yuhei Otsuka, Toshihito Shirai
  • Patent number: 9313117
    Abstract: The method and system to computes an LFA next hop as a backup for a primary path next hop that enables an administrator to control LFA selection for a given destination node using a tag and a weight. The method includes checking whether an interface of a next candidate node has a tag with a tag value matching a tag value of a primary SPF path for the destination node. The method further includes checking whether the destination node has any LFA, checking whether a stored tag differs from the tag value of the primary SPF path, and checking whether the interface of the next candidate node is preferred based on a comparison of a weight values, and replacing a stored LFA for the destination node with the next candidate node. Where conditions are met a stored LFA is replaced with the next candidate node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2016
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Uma S. Chunduri, Wenhu Lu, Vasant Patil
  • Patent number: 9292860
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided herein for the analysis of clickstream data of online users. The analysis methods and systems allow for the creation of new offline business methods based on online consumer behavior.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Assignee: Compete, Inc.
    Inventors: Man Jit Singh, David Cancel
  • Patent number: 9282063
    Abstract: A cell processing method and device for a Switch Fabric (SF) chip are disclosed, which belong to the field of communications. The SF chip includes a unicast route table, which is multiplexed in two working modes and is looked up according to a unicast cell, and a multicast route table, which is multiplexed in the two working modes and is looked up according to a multicast cell. The cell processing method for an SF chip includes: the SF chip receives a cell and an input link number corresponding to the cell from an upstream apparatus and extracts a destination Identifier (ID) of the cell; the SF chip looks up a route table according to a working mode of the SF chip, the destination ID and the input link number to determine a first bitmap corresponding to the cell; and the SF chip performs load balancing on the first bitmap to obtain a second bitmap and outputs the cell to a downstream apparatus according to the second bitmap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: ZTE MICROELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Songhui Luo, Huarui Liu
  • Patent number: 9282015
    Abstract: In a chassis-type network relay device, fault tolerance for the continuity monitoring function of Ethernet (Registered Trademark) OAM is improved. A first management card and a second management card serving as a main management card and a backup management card have continuity monitoring units which generate monitoring frames for checking continuity between devices and transmit the monitoring frames to a given line card, respectively. Each of a plurality of line cards has a transmission source selecting unit which, when having received respective monitoring frames from both management cards, selects one of the monitoring frames and transmits the selected monitoring frame from a given port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: Hitachi Metals, Ltd.
    Inventor: Chikara Sawaguchi
  • Patent number: 9271301
    Abstract: In a mobile communication network, a radio node and related method for reducing a signal-to-noise-and-interference ratio (SINR) requirement for a transmission in a scheduling interval. The node estimates a frequency resource utilization in the scheduling interval and compares the estimated utilization with a first threshold. When the estimated utilization is equal to or below the first threshold, the node increases the frequency resource utilization for the transmission, and adjusts a link adaptation for the transmission based on the increased frequency resource utilization. Optionally, the node may decrease the transmit power for the scheduling interval based on the adjusted link adaptation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Jawad Manssour, Girum Fantaye
  • Patent number: 9247554
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, computer programs, and computer-readable media are disclosed. A network node defines two or more user device groups, one of the user device groups using a licensed frequency band and another using an unlicensed frequency band. Timing advance parameters of user devices are determined. The user devices are assigned into one of the user device groups based on comparison of the timing advance parameters in such a manner that if a magnitude of differences of timing advance parameters of the user devices having mutual machine-to-machine communications exceeds the a timing advance parameter of at least one user device communicating with the network node, the user devices having the mutual machine-to-machine communications are directed into the user device group using the unlicensed frequency band for decreasing interference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy
    Inventors: Vinh Van Phan, Gilles Charbit, Timo Koskela, Sami Hakola
  • Patent number: 9240935
    Abstract: A disclosed technology can accurately measures the data frame loss between a pair of communication devices even when link aggregation is present between the communication devices. A communication system includes a transmitting device, receiving device, a plurality of transmitting and receiving links, and a measuring device. The transmitting device duplicates for the same number of times as the number of transmitting and receiving links a data frame loss measurement frame in which the total number of transmitted data frames is written, and then transmits them to the transmitting and receiving links. The receiving device writes the total number of received data frames in the received data frame loss measurement frame. The measuring device measures the data frame loss between the transmitting and receiving devices by subtracting the total number of data frames received by the receiving device from the total number of data frames transmitted by the transmitting device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2016
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Daisuke Yoshioka
  • Patent number: 9236986
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for controlling data traffic in a time-division duplex (TDD) system that uses multi-component carriers. The method for controlling data traffic in a TDD system that uses multi-component carriers according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises the steps of: a base station transmitting, to a user equipment, a wireless signal including data through one or more component carriers among a component carrier group including a first element carrier which is a primary cell (PCell) and a second element carrier (SCell) which is a secondary cell, wherein the Pcell and the Scell consist of uplink and downlink subframes in a time division duplex system; and the base station receiving, from the user terminal, a wireless signal including response control information for the data through the second component carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: Pantech Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Donghyun Park
  • Patent number: 9237517
    Abstract: A micro base station eNB-B, which is adjacent to a macro base station eNB-A and used in a cellular mobile communication system, comprises: a radio communication unit 110 that communicates with a radio terminal UE; and a control unit 150 that performs control to switch a power consumption state of the radio communication unit 110 on the basis of neighboring base station load information on a traffic load of the macro base station eNB-A adjacent to the base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventor: Shunsuke Kudo
  • Patent number: 9226164
    Abstract: A mobile communication terminal and method includes a short-distance radio communication module to perform a short-distance communication by a first radio wave via a radio repeater; a reception module receives a second radio wave different from the first radio wave; a determination module determines whether the mobile communication terminal exists indoors or outdoors based on a state of the second radio wave that is received by the reception module; and a search module searches a radio repeater if and when the determination module determines that the mobile communication terminal exists indoors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventor: Shinichi Oonaru
  • Patent number: 9226207
    Abstract: A communication terminal (30) includes a wireless communication unit (31) for transmitting and receiving radio signals, and a determination unit (transmission/reception timing adjustment unit 132) for determining a transmission period and a reception period in which the wireless communication unit (31) transmits and receives radio signals. In a case where a connection destination is switched from a first communication device currently in communication into a second communication device, when the second communication device transmits a predetermined signal in a transmission period for the communication with the first communication device, the determination unit changes a part of the transmission period for the communication with the first communication device into a reception period, to receive the predetermined signal from the second communication device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventor: Yuuki Nakasato
  • Patent number: 9223632
    Abstract: A cloud management system is described herein that provides the ability for an application to span two or more clouds while allowing operation, management, and troubleshooting of the distributed application as a single application. The system provides infrastructure that communicates across datacenters for execution and for centralizing knowledge of instances of an application that are running at different locations. The infrastructure provided by the system monitors both the application and connections between the clouds, with intelligence to know if issues are within the application or because of the connection between the clouds. The system coordinates management functions across multiple cloud platforms/locations. Thus, the cloud management system creates a single monitoring and troubleshooting interface and knowledge and execution fabric across multiple clouds so that applications spread across multiple clouds can be monitored, managed, and debugged more easily.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Kannan C. Iyer, Eric B. Watson
  • Patent number: 9220095
    Abstract: A base station device uses a downlink control channel and instructs a mobile station device to perform a random access procedure. The mobile station device switches, according to whether or not random access parameters are included in parameters of a secondary cell that has been allocated to the mobile station device, between a first random access procedure in which information in a carrier indicator field included in the downlink control channel is not used for selection of a cell in which a random access procedure is performed, and a second random access procedure in which information in the carrier indicator field included in the downlink control channel is used for selection of a cell in which a random access procedure is performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2015
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hidekazu Tsuboi, Katsunari Uemura, Yasuyuki Kato
  • Patent number: 9210003
    Abstract: A downlink channel estimation method and system, and a mobile terminal. In the method, a first mobile terminal is located in a central area of a cell, a second mobile terminal is located in an edge area of the cell, and a resource block of the second mobile terminal is adjacent to a resource block of the first mobile terminal, so that the first mobile terminal can use a data signal transmitted from a base station to the second mobile terminal to perform downlink channel estimation, thereby improving the accuracy of the downlink channel estimation, and enhancing the performance of the downlink channel estimation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2015
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sheng Liu, Hong Cheng
  • Patent number: 9210599
    Abstract: A first layer one link aggregation master comprises a first port coupled to receive customer traffic; a first channel; a second channel; an aggregation engine coupled to the first and second channels; a first switch circuit coupled to the first port and to the first channel, and configured to communicate the customer traffic from the first port over the first channel to the aggregation engine, the aggregation engine including a splitter circuit configured to use layer one information to segment at least a portion of the customer traffic into a first virtual container and a second virtual container, the aggregation engine further including an encapsulation circuit configured to encapsulate the second virtual container using Ethernet standards for transport over the second channel; a radio access card configured to generate an air frame based on the first virtual container for wireless transmission over a first wireless link of a link aggregation group to the receiver; and a second switch circuit coupled to the
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2015
    Assignee: Aviat U.S., Inc.
    Inventors: Chaoming Zeng, Sergio Licardie
  • Patent number: 9204465
    Abstract: In a wireless communication system that conducts a communication between a base station and a terminal the base station includes a first communication unit using a first communication system of a TDMA system, and a second communication unit using a second communication system, and the terminal includes a third communication unit using the first communication system, and a fourth communication unit using the second communication system. The base station transmits a control signal in the first communication system with the use of the first communication unit, and the base station determines timing of transmission for the second communication unit according to timing of TDMA of the first communication unit. The third communication unit receives the control signal transmitted from the base station in the first communication system, and the fourth communication unit controls receiving operation according to information included in the control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: Pansonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yutaka Suwa, Hiroyuki Ishihara, Akira Shibuta, Konomi Suwa
  • Patent number: 9203597
    Abstract: A communication device includes an EHF communication unit, a data signal line, and a protocol bridge element. The EHF communication unit includes a transceiver, and an antenna coupled to the transceiver. The data signal line carries a data signal conforming to a first communication protocol. The protocol bridge element is coupled to the data signal line and EHF communication unit, and configured to receive a first protocol-compliant data signal from the data signal line, translate the first protocol-compliant data signal to an outbound binary signal, time-compress the outbound binary signal, and transmit the outbound time-compressed signal to the transceiver. The protocol bridge element is further configured to receive an inbound time-compressed signal from the transceiver, time-decompress inbound time-compressed signal to an inbound binary signal, translate inbound binary signal to conform to a second communication protocol, and provide second protocol-compliant signal to the first data signal line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: Keyssa, Inc.
    Inventors: John Byren Wolcott, Gary D. McCormack, Ian A. Kyles
  • Patent number: 9203742
    Abstract: A network system has: a communication device configured to perform frame transmission and reception; a network configured to transfer the frame; a gateway connected between the communication device and the network; and a controller configured to perform management of the communication device and the network. The frame is classified into a control frame for communicating control information necessary for communication and a data frame for communicating data between communication devices. The gateway determines whether a frame received from a source communication device is the control frame or the data frame, forwards the control frame to the controller, and forwards the data frame to the network. The controller performs the management based on the control frame received from the gateway. The network transfers the data frame received from the gateway to a destination communication device without through the controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Noriaki Kobayashi, Kiyohisa Ichino, Satoshi Kamiya