Patents Examined by Jenkey Van
  • Patent number: 9572114
    Abstract: A channel map generation method includes: performing a power spectrum density detection on a plurality of channels in a frequency band, to generate a first channel map; and performing a first smoothing operation on the first channel map by a first window size to generate a second channel map. The first smoothing operation includes: grouping channels of the first channel map into a plurality of channel groups according to the first window size; and according to the number of good channels or bad channels in each of the channel group, deciding to retain channel determinations in the first channel map of the channel group, or re-designating all the channels of the channel group, so as to generate the second channel map.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: Realtek Semiconductor Corp.
    Inventors: Yan-Yu Chen, Chung-Yao Chang
  • Patent number: 9565307
    Abstract: In accordance with one aspect of the invention, a process for handling emergency calls from a caller in a voice over IP system is described. The process involves receiving a routing request message including a caller identifier and a callee identifier. The process also involves setting an emergency call flag active in response to the callee identifier matching an emergency call identifier pre-associated with the caller. The process further involves producing an emergency response center identifier in response to the emergency call identifier. The process also involves determining whether the caller identifier is associated with a pre-associated direct inward dialing (DID) identifier. The process further involves producing a direct inward dialing (DID) identifier for the caller by associating a temporary DID identifier with the caller identifier when the emergency call flag is active and it is determined that the caller has no pre-associated DID.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: VOIP-PAL.COM, INC.
    Inventors: Johan Emil Viktor Björsell, Maksym Sobolyev
  • Patent number: 9559863
    Abstract: Techniques are identified for optimizing the MAC flush in Ethernet rings for faster traffic restoration. In one embodiment, flushing of MAC addresses is performed only once on receiving a first control message. For example, when a first control message is received, a network device may switch from a first state to a second state, which may indicate that the MAC addresses are not to be flushed if additional control messages are received. In another embodiment, flushing of MAC addresses is performed on one ring port rather than on both ring ports. For example, a flag field of a control message header may be used to determine on which port to flush. In another embodiment, flushing of MAC addresses is performed on only one ring port of an interconnection node. For example, the ring port can be determined using a flag field and possibly labels associated with the ring ports.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: Brocade Communications Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Sandeep Kulambi
  • Patent number: 9525474
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of performing channel sounding in a wireless LAN system. The method includes transmitting a Null Data Packet Announcement (NDPA) frame for providing notice of an NDP to be transmitted, and transmitting the NDP and receiving a feedback frame from a station (STA). The feedback frame includes channel state information created on the basis of the NDP. The NDP includes a signal field and at least one long training field (LTF) for a multiple input multiple output channel. The signal field includes a repetitive instruction subfield. The repetitive instruction subfield provides instruction on whether orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbol repetition is applied to the at least one LTF.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2016
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Jong Hyun Park, Hyang Sun You, Yong Ho Seok
  • Patent number: 9491053
    Abstract: A system for negotiating Ethernet link settings between interconnected nodes in a network having an Ethernet protocol stack that includes a PCS sub-layer with an auto-negotiation function. The system comprises connecting an intermediate device coupled between two network nodes via optical or copper interfaces, with the link settings between each node and the connected intermediate device being the same, thereby bypassing the auto-negotiation of the PCS sub-layer in the intermediate device. The intermediate device may transparently send negotiation messages from each node to the other during the link negotiation phase without interacting with those messages. Instead of the intermediate device, a single form pluggable (SFP) device may be connected between the two network nodes via optical or copper interfaces on the network side and via an SFP slot on the device side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Assignee: Accedian Networks Inc.
    Inventors: Claude Robitaille, Steve Rochon
  • Patent number: 9445354
    Abstract: A mobile communications device, operating as a Mobile Terminal (MT), is provided. In the mobile communications device, a receiver is configured to receive a Router Advertisement from a service network, a processor is configured to set an O-Flag of the Router Advertisement to 1 when the O-Flag of the Router Advertisement from the service network is set to 0, and a transmitter is configured to transmit the Router Advertisement to a Terminal Equipment (TE), wherein the TE transmits a DHCPv6 INFORMATION-REQUEST message to the MT when the TE receives the Router Advertisement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: MEDIATEK INC.
    Inventors: Kuan-Ming Lin, Tsung-Chieh Chang, Yuan-Chieh Lin, Ming-Cong Sun, Huang-Yi Yu
  • Patent number: 9439089
    Abstract: Methods and systems for performing a round trip time determination between two devices are described. An example method may include publishing, over a wireless network interface by a first device within a neighbor aware network (NAN) cluster, a schedule that invites devices within the NAN cluster to request, within a time window, to perform a round trip time (RTT) determination with the first device. The schedule may indicate that the time window begins at a time offset from a NAN discovery window and ends after a predetermined period of time has elapsed. The method may also include receiving a request, from a second device within the NAN cluster, to perform the RTT determination with the first device. The method may also include performing the RTT determination with the second device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Vinit Chandrakant Deshpande, Prem Kumar, Mohammed Waleed Kadous, Wei Wang, Meghan Desai, Pierre Vandwalle
  • Patent number: 9432918
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods of receive diversity (RxD) full cell search by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system are described. In an aspect, a first set of received energies of a first signal received at a first antenna and a second set of received energies of a second signal received at a second antenna may be separately determined. Based thereon, a set of peak energies and corresponding antenna indices, along with a slot timing of at least one cell corresponding to the set of peak energies and corresponding antenna indices, may be determined. A frame timing and a scrambling code for the at least one cell then may be determined using a respective one of the first antenna and the second antenna corresponding to each of the set of peak energies and the corresponding antenna indices, along with the respective slot timing of the at least one cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Yi Su, Sharif Ahsanul Matin, Ahmad Bilal Hasan, Ramesh Chandra Chirala, Atin Kumar, An-Swol Clement Hu
  • Patent number: 9420511
    Abstract: Embodiments for signaling quality of service (QoS) requirements and user equipment (UE) power preference in LTE-A networks are generally described herein. In some embodiments, a power preference indication (PPI) is received at an eNB from a UE to set a power saving preference for the UE. A communication session is established using radio resource control (RRC) messages between the UE and the eNB to identify a preference for QoS configuration for handling traffic provided to the UE by the eNB. The QoS for traffic provided by the eNB to the UE is managed by the eNB based on the identified preference for QoS configuration for handling traffic provided to the UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Maruti Gupta Hyde, Satish Chandra Jha, Ali Taha Koc, Rath Vannithamby
  • Patent number: 9391885
    Abstract: In general, techniques are described for configuring a provider edge (PE) network device of an Ethernet virtual private network (EVPN) to use a common traffic engineering label (e.g., MPLS label) for different EVPN route types associated with the same EVPN. In some examples, the techniques include sending a first layer three (L3) control plane message that indicates a label-switched network protocol label that corresponds to a first EVPN route type, wherein the first L3 control plane message indicates that a first PE network device is reachable in the L2 segment. The techniques may include performing L2 address learning to determine at least one L2 address associated with the layer two segment of the EVPN. The techniques may include sending a second L3 control plane message that indicates the same label included in the first L3 control plane message corresponds to a second EVPN route type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: Juniper Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: Pankaj Shukla, Wen Lin, Satya Ranjan Mohanty, John E. Drake
  • Patent number: 9386617
    Abstract: Technology for setting up a Device to Device (D2D) communication channel between mobile wireless devices is disclosed. The technology includes identifying a first user equipment and a second user equipment located within a proximity; receiving network assisted proximity discovery information at one of the first UE and the second UE from an evolved packet core (EPC) operating on a third generation partnership practice (3GPP) wireless wide area network (WWAN); and setting up a device to device (D2D) communication between the first UE and the second UE based on the network assisted proximity discovery information received from the EPC.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2016
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Muthaiah Venkatachalam, Puneet Jain
  • Patent number: 9380435
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to providing supplementary services by interworking a packet network and a circuit network and sharing resources used to provide supplementary services therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Assignee: SK TELECOM CO., LTD
    Inventor: Woo Yong Choi
  • Patent number: 9369149
    Abstract: The method and apparatus of the present invention provides for reduced power consumption and cost while supporting wide bandwidth signals from a large number of antennas, as is required by next generation systems. In accordance with the present invention, a method and apparatus are provided for processing data in a baseband unit in which compressed signals from remote radio units are sent directly to the switch instead of to a separate conversion device. Thereby, the local input and output bottleneck within processing devices is removed in the data path of the signals between the remote radio units and the baseband unit. This also reduces the number of ports in the switch and bandwidth requirement for the switch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: INTEGRATED DEVICE TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Mohammad Shahanshah Akhter, Brian Scott Darnell
  • Patent number: 9319431
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer readable media for providing sedation service in a telecommunications network are disclosed. According to one aspect, a method for providing sedation service in a telecommunications network is provided. The method includes steps that are performed at a session initiation protocol (SIP) sedation node. The method includes receiving a first message sent from a SIP user agent and intended for a SIP server. The method further includes determining whether the SIP server is unavailable. The method further includes responsive to a determination that the SIP server is unavailable to respond to the first message, sending, to the SIP client, a SIP sedation message for reducing the number or frequency of messages sent by the SIP user agent to the SIP server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: TEKELEC, INC.
    Inventors: Robert James Sparks, Ben Allen Campbell, Adam Boyd Roach, Ajay Padmakar Deo
  • Patent number: 9300377
    Abstract: The invention concerns a method for downlink communication between a base station and a user terminal by means of a downlink superimposed radio signal comprising downlink data for the user terminal and for at least one further user terminal that are transmitted using the same radio resources, wherein the downlink data for the user terminal are transmitted with lower power than the downlink data for the at least one further user terminal, and control information is sent in downlink from the base station to the user terminal that enables the user terminal to decode the downlink data for the at least one further user terminal, a base station, a user terminal and a communication network therefor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Stephen Kaminski, Bozo Cesar
  • Patent number: 9295051
    Abstract: A base station for use in a wireless network is operable to communicate with a plurality of mobile stations. The base station transmits a downlink frame to a first mobile station. The downlink frame comprises time-frequency resource elements allocated in a plurality of physical resource blocks. The base station transmits the plurality of physical resource blocks in bundles having a bundle size that is a function of the system bandwidth configuration and the base station uses the same precoder for all physical resource blocks in the same bundle. The bundle size is from one physical resource block to three physical resource blocks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lingjia Liu, Young-Han Nam, Jianzhong Zhang
  • Patent number: 9282039
    Abstract: An address resolution method uniformly processing ARP broadcast packets by an address server to avoid broadcasting in the network, so that the occupied bandwidth is reduced. The method also includes storing by a network device and terminal address correspondence information of local and remote terminals in communication with one another, which reduces the size of the MAC table in the data center network, reduces the load of the network device, and improves the processing capabilities of the network device, so that it is possible to deploy a large layer-2 network to thereby solve real-time relocation problems of a virtual machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zuofu Zhang, Feng Dong, Hao Sun, Yanjun Chen
  • Patent number: 9270564
    Abstract: A network element in an Ethernet OAM network is operable to detect congestion associated with an OAM domain and generate a congestion notification to MEPs in the OAM domain using a modified Ethernet OAM protocol. When a network element detects congestion in one or more queues associated with an MEP in an OAM domain, it triggers a congestion state. The MEP transmits a congestion notification to other MEPs in the OAM domain. The notifying MEP, as well as other MEPs receiving the congestion notification, initiate a network management protocol message to a network management system for the OAM domain. The MEPs in the OAM domain may also propagate the congestion notification to MEPs in higher maintenance level OAM domains.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Abhishek Sinha, Frederic Spieser
  • Patent number: 9264364
    Abstract: A first device may receive data associated with a second device from within a first network and independently of a second network. The second device may include a sensor or an application to form or process a data record. The first device may establish a bearer between the first device and a particular user device, of multiple user devices, in accordance with a bearer policy; and provide the data towards the particular user device via a first sub-network, of multiple sub-networks, of the second network and via the bearer. The first sub-network may be independent of a second sub-network of the multiple sub-networks. The second sub-network may permit user device data to be transmitted between the multiple user devices. The first sub-network and the second sub-network may consume different levels of network resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2016
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Lalit R. Kotecha, Chris S. Neisinger, Sagiv Draznin
  • Patent number: 9253789
    Abstract: A wireless digital communication system includes a base station in communication with a plurality of user equipment mobile terminals (UEs). The system prioritizes the forwarding of blocks of downlink data to designated ones of the UEs. The system employs adaptive modulation and coding (AM&C) to achieve improved radio resource utilization and provides optimum data rates for user services. Blocks of downlink (DL) data are received by the base station which requests downlink (DL) channel quality measurements only from those mobile terminals (UEs) with pending downlink transmissions. The UEs respond to the request by measuring and reporting DL channel quality to the base station, which then allocates resources such that the UEs will make best use of radio resources. The base station notifies the UEs of the physical channel allocation indicating the modulation/coding rate and allocated slots followed by transmission of blocks of downlink data which are transmitted to the UEs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Stephen E. Terry, Stephen G. Dick, James M. Miller, Eldad M. Zeira, Ariela Zeira