Patents Examined by Joe Combs
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Patent number: 9281924Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to a technique for generating 40+40 MHz and 40+40+40+40 MHz transmission modes for IEEE 802.11 wireless communications systems using Very High Throughput (VHT) waveforms with application to Television White Space (TVWS) spectrum.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2012Date of Patent: March 8, 2016Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Santosh Paul Abraham, Vincent Knowles Jones, IV, Hemanth Sampath, Didier Johannes Richard Van Nee, Sameer Vermani, Stephen J. Shellhammer
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Patent number: 9253150Abstract: An application gateway including application service programming logically positioned on a user premises side of a network demarcation forming an edge of the wide area network at a user premises can provide managed services to a user and one or more endpoint devices associated with the application gateway. The application gateway can be controlled remotely by the application service provider through a service management center and configured to execute an application service provided from the application service provider. The application gateway executes the application service at the user premises independent of application services executing on the application service provider's network.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2015Date of Patent: February 2, 2016Assignee: Prodea Systems, Inc.Inventors: Amir Ansari, George A. Cowgill, Leon E. Nicholls, Jude P. Ramayya, Ramprakash Masina, Alvin R. McQuarters, Atousa Raissyan, Robert A. Clavenna, II
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Patent number: 9241285Abstract: In a packet communication system, a PCRF processes communication policy data to generate a communication policy instruction and a user notice. The PCRF transfers the communication policy instruction for delivery to a packet gateway system. The PCRF transfers the user notice for delivery to an ANDSF. The ANDSF processes the user notice to generate and transfer a data file for delivery to a user communication device that displays the user notice based on the data file. The packet gateway system processes the communication policy instruction to filter packets exchanged with the user communication device.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2012Date of Patent: January 19, 2016Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.Inventors: Lyle T. Bertz, Daniel Joe Sershen, Charles Brent Hirschman, Arun Rajagopal
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Patent number: 9231865Abstract: An architecture for a specialized electronic computer for high-speed data lookup employs a set of tiles each with independent logic elements lookup memory portions. The tiles may each comprise gate-array-like functional units that may be wired together by a multi-way switch for extremely low latency.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2012Date of Patent: January 5, 2016Assignee: Wisconsin Alumni Research FoundationInventors: Karthikeyan Sankaralingam, Eric Nathaniel Harris, Samuel Lawrence Wasmundt
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Patent number: 9220129Abstract: A method of sending information from a first base station to other base stations including sending information to a first plurality of the base stations at a first time; and sending said information to a different plurality of the base stations at a later time according to a predetermined sending pattern for timing sending of said information to different pluralities of the base stations at different times.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2009Date of Patent: December 22, 2015Assignee: Nokia Solutions and Networks OyInventors: Frank Frederiksen, Klaus Ingemann Pedersen, Vinh Van Phan
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Patent number: 9166737Abstract: Methods and apparatuses are described for a User Equipment (UE) to receive enhanced Control CHannels (eCCHs), including enhanced Physical Downlink Control CHannels (ePDCCHs), transmitted in a set of Resource Blocks (RBs) over a Transmission Time Interval (TTI). A method includes transmitting a first control signal to a first UE over a first number of Resource Elements (Res) in a subset of the RBs and over a first number of the transmission symbols in the TTI; transmitting a second control signal to a second UE over a second number of the REs in the subset of the RBs and over a second number of the transmission symbols in the TTI; and transmitting a reference signal of the first type over a third number of the REs in the subset of the RBs and over a third number of the transmission symbols in the TTI.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2012Date of Patent: October 20, 2015Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., LtdInventors: Aris Papasakellariou, Young-Bum Kim, Jianzhong Zhang
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Patent number: 9143384Abstract: A vehicular network is a closed network with known sources, destinations, and network connections that can be mapped in advance, and used to identify network resources needed to transmit a packet from a source to a destination. A network module can determine the source destination, and a priority of a packet based on the packet's content. Using the source and destination information, along with a network topology data, the network module can determine if two packets need the same network resources to be delivered to their destination. When the two packets do not use the same resources, there is no conflict, and the packets can be transmitted concurrently regardless of whether one of the packets has a higher priority than another packet. If there is a conflict, the network module transmits the packets based on the packets' priorities.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2011Date of Patent: September 22, 2015Assignee: Broadcom CorporationInventors: Nariman Yousefi, Yongbum Kim, John Walley, Sherman (Xuemin) Chen, Wael W. Diab, Nicholas Ilyadis
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Patent number: 9143215Abstract: Methods of allocating orthogonal resources of a wireless communication network to a user equipment (UE) that uses transmit diversity are disclosed. In one or more embodiments, the UE is configured to transmit a reference symbol and a modulated symbol on multiple orthogonal resources on an antenna. The method includes: selecting, by the UE, a first and a second orthogonal resource, respectively, from a plurality of orthogonal resources according to the state of information bits to be communicated by the UE; and transmitting, by the UE, the reference and data symbols on the first and the second orthogonal resource, respectively, on one antenna. The first and the second resource are different for at least one of the states of the information bits. The first and the second resource are both in the same physical resource block.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2012Date of Patent: September 22, 2015Assignee: BlackBerry LimitedInventors: Masoud Ebrahimi Tazeh Mahalleh, Youn Hyoung Heo, Robert Mark Harrison
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Patent number: 9106769Abstract: According to one aspect, the subject matter described herein includes a method for congestion management in a Diameter signaling network. The method occurs a Diameter routing node. The method includes determining, using a metric associated with Diameter message processing, that a first Diameter message processing metric threshold has been exceeded. The method also includes in response to determining that the first Diameter message processing metric threshold has been exceeded, performing a first congestion mitigation action, where performing the first congestion mitigation action includes analyzing subsequent Diameter messages to determine one or more common attributes of the subsequent Diameter messages and in response to determining the one or more common attributes of the subsequent Diameter messages, performing a second congestion mitigation action for Diameter messages having the one or more common attributes.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2012Date of Patent: August 11, 2015Assignee: Tekelec, Inc.Inventors: Mark Edward Kanode, Seetharaman Khadri, Peter J. Marsico
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Patent number: 9100873Abstract: Systems and methods for aligning data transfer to optimize connections established for transmission over a wireless network are disclosed. In one aspect, embodiments of the present disclosure include a method, which may be implemented on a system, for aligning data transfer to a mobile device to optimize connections made by the mobile device in a cellular network. The method includes batching data received in multiple transactions directed to a mobile device for transmission to the mobile device over the cellular network such that a wireless connection need not be established with the mobile device every time each of the multiple transactions occurs. For example, the data received in the multiple transactions for the mobile device can be sent to the mobile device, in a single transaction over a single instantiation of wireless network connectivity at the mobile device.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2012Date of Patent: August 4, 2015Assignee: Seven Networks, Inc.Inventors: Michael Luna, Mikko Tervahauta
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Patent number: 9088986Abstract: A method and a user equipment (UE) are described for controlling timers in a wireless communication system including a first type network communicating based on a number of orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols and a second type network which is different from the first type network. An update message is received that activates an idle mode signaling reduction (ISR) function of the UE. If the ISR function is activated in the UE, a periodic tracking area updating (P-TAU) timer is started, which is used to periodically notify availability of the UE. If the P-TAU timer expires and a mobility management backoff (MM-BO) timer is running, a deactivate ISR timer corresponding to the first type of network is started. The MM-BO timer is configured to start when a MM-BO time value is received at the UE.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2014Date of Patent: July 21, 2015Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventor: Li-Hsiang Sun
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Patent number: 9084137Abstract: The invention relates to methods for transmitting a buffer status report (BSR) in a mobile communication system, more particularly to the definition of rules for triggering, generating and transmitting BSRs. The invention also relates to a data transmission method utilizing new rules to decide data of which radio bearers is transmitted within a given transmission time interval. Moreover, the invention relates to scheduling method for radio resources that is taking into account additional scheduling-relevant information from the buffer status reporting and/or data transmission method. To avoid unnecessary grants from the network and to suggest an advanced handling of data transmissions the invention suggests a buffer status reporting and data transmission schemes that take into account the scheduling mode of data of radio bearers pending for transmission to decide whether to report on it in a buffer status report, respectively, whether to multiplex the data to a transport block for transmission.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2014Date of Patent: July 14, 2015Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of AmericaInventors: Martin Feuersaenger, Joachim Loehr, Christian Wengerter
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Patent number: 9031073Abstract: A data bridge controls packet transfers between network fabrics forming a closed network, such as a vehicular network. The data bridge includes two or more sets of modules, each of which communicates with a different network fabric. When a packet is to be delivered between network fabrics, a first set of modules, which is used to communicate with a first network fabric, decides whether to accept the packet or discard it. If the packet is accepted, it is delivered to a second set of modules, which is used for communicating with a second network fabric. The second set of modules makes a second, independent decision about whether the packet will be sent to the second network fabric. Each set of modules can base its decision on packet content type, and may discard any packet not to be delivered to the other network.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2011Date of Patent: May 12, 2015Assignee: Broadcom CorporationInventors: Nariman Yousefi, Yongbum Kim, John Walley, Sherman Xuemin Chen, Wael W. Diab, Nicholas Ilyadis
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Patent number: 9008045Abstract: Techniques disclosed herein include systems and methods for providing active mobility of Wi-Fi enabled devices within a given wireless local area network (WLAN). In general, techniques include dynamically commanding Wi-Fi enabled devices to disconnect from a corresponding access point in response to meeting predetermined conditions. A forced disconnect can be based on various criteria such as low-power or lost packet thresholds triggering the forced disconnect. Such techniques cause a Wi-Fi enabled device to disconnect from one access point and connect to another access point before a connection quality deteriorates to a point that causes noticeable interruptions in connectivity or a generally poor experience, thereby enabling a smooth transition among access points.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2012Date of Patent: April 14, 2015Assignee: Time Warner Cable Enterprises LLCInventors: Praveen Srivastava, Arun Manroa, Ahmed Bencheikh
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Patent number: 9001639Abstract: An apparatus and method for Orthogonal Cover Code (OCC) generation, and OCC mapping, includes generating the first group of OCC sequences, which is used to generate the first group of OCC sequences; generating the second group of OCC sequences, which is used to mirror the columns of the first group of OCC sequences to generate the second group of OCC sequences; generating the third group of OCC sequences, which is used to perform cyclic shift on the column vectors of the first group of OCC sequences to generate the third group of OCC sequences; and generating the fourth group of OCC sequences, which is used to mirror the columns of the third group of OCC sequences to generate the fourth group of OCC sequences.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2012Date of Patent: April 7, 2015Assignee: Fujitsu LimitedInventors: Yi Wang, Hua Zhou, Jianming Wu
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Patent number: 9001778Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure propose techniques for synchronizing TD-SCDMA and TDD-LTE systems. Certain aspects provide a method that generally includes obtaining, from a base station (BS) of a first radio access technology (RAT), timing and a system frame number (SFN) for a BS of a second RAT, and performing network acquisition operations with the BS of the second RAT using the timing and the SFN.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2010Date of Patent: April 7, 2015Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Tom Chin, Guangming Shi, Kuo-Chun Lee
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Patent number: 8971341Abstract: An application gateway including application service programming logically positioned on a user premises side of a network demarcation forming an edge of the wide area network at a user premises can provide managed services to a user and one or more endpoint devices associated with the application gateway. The application gateway can be controlled remotely by the application service provider through a service management center and configured to execute an application service provided from the application service provider. The application gateway executes the application service at the user premises independent of application services executing on the application service provider's network.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2012Date of Patent: March 3, 2015Assignee: Prodea Systems, Inc.Inventors: Amir Ansari, George A. Cowgill, Leon E. Nicholls, Jude P. Ramayya, Ramprakash Masina, Alvin R. McQuarters, Atousa Raissyan, Robert A. Clavenna
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Patent number: 8964663Abstract: A UE or eNnodeB receives a paging configuration or channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) configuration of a neighbor cell. The configuration enables calculating when the CSI-RS or muting of the neighbor cell will occur.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2011Date of Patent: February 24, 2015Assignee: Qualcomm IncorporatedInventors: Peter Gaal, Juan Montojo, Kapil Bhattad
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Patent number: 8958357Abstract: Various methods for providing relay node priority are provided. One example method includes generating a relay node access message for initiating an access procedure to establish a connection between a relay node and a donor cell. The relay node access message may be generated in accordance with an access priority scheme. The access priority scheme may be defined such that a higher priority is allocated to the relay node access message than a user device access message for initiating the access procedure to establish a direct connection between the user device and the donor cell. The example method may also include providing for transmission of the relay node access message in accordance with the access priority scheme. Similar and related example methods and example apparatuses are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2010Date of Patent: February 17, 2015Assignee: Nokia CorporationInventors: Lars Dalsgaard, Lei Du, Benoist Pierre Sebire
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Patent number: 8948126Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure propose techniques for performing a time division duplex-long term evolution (TDD-LTE) measurement in a time division synchronous code division multiple access (TD-SCDMA) system. Certain aspects provide a method that generally includes obtaining measurements of downlink (DL) transmission from a base station (BS) of a second radio access technology (RAT), maintaining uplink (UL) transmission with a BS of a first RAT while obtaining the measurements, and performing network acquisition operations with the BS of the second RAT based on the measurements.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2010Date of Patent: February 3, 2015Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Tom Chin, Guangming Shi, Kuo-Chun Lee