Patents Examined by Jose Villa
  • Patent number: 7940800
    Abstract: A method and system of transmitting packets of information over multiple channels such that the packets are sent simultaneously and serially across and down the channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2011
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Electronics Inc.
    Inventor: Paul H. Feinberg
  • Patent number: 7916639
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for data-flow quality control in a Digital Subscriber Line communications system comprising a transmitter, a receiver, and a Digital Subscriber Line intercoupling the transmitter and the receiver. The transmitter sends a data-flow to the receiver, where the data-flow is modulated onto data-carriers according to a bit allocation indicative for the number of bits to be modulated on each data-carrier. The method comprises the steps of the receiver measuring the data-flow quality and subsequently the receiver instructs the transmitter to decrease the bit allocation with a same amount for a plurality of data-carriers in case the data-flow quality is unsatisfactorily low. Then the transmitter decreases the bit allocation accordingly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2011
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Etienne André Hubert Van Den Bogaert, Jan Sylvia Verlinden
  • Patent number: 7864811
    Abstract: A network node constituting a telecommunications system together with one or more neighboring nodes includes a telecommunications control device, which includes a timing control signal receiver for receiving timing control signals transmitted from the neighboring nodes, and a transmission timing calculator for determining data transmission timing of the network node, based on reception timing of the timing controls signal of the neighboring nodes. The device further includes a timing control signal transmitter for transmitting a timing control signal with a phase indicative of data transmission timing of the network node reflected, a data communicator for transmitting and receiving a data signal to and from the neighboring nodes, and a phase state manager for controlling transmission of the timing control signal and data signal in accordance with the phase state of the network node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2011
    Assignee: Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Masaaki Date
  • Patent number: 7859986
    Abstract: Transmitting signals, e.g., high power narrow band signals on a periodic basis to facilitate detection of a frequency band and/or carrier signal to be used for communication with a basestation are described. The detected frequency band may be a downlink frequency band. The uplink frequency band to be used can be determined from a know frequency relationship between the detected downlink carrier and a corresponding uplink carrier or by monitoring the detected downlink frequency band for information indicating the uplink frequency band/carrier to be used. Carrier search methods involving searching for the narrowband high power signals used to provide carrier information and/or to indicate the frequency band to be monitored are described. Power detection methods can be used to detect the high power signals avoiding the need for symbol timing synchronization and/or channel estimation with regard to detection of the signals used to locate the frequency band to be used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2010
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Rajiv Laroia, Charles Stanski, Junyi Li
  • Patent number: 7860130
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes communicating with a Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) transceiver unit through a first twisted pair that comprises a first plurality of wires, and communicating with the DSL, transceiver unit through a second twisted pair that comprises a second plurality of wires. A training procedure is implemented to receive first signals from the DSL transceiver unit through the first plurality of wires of the first twisted pair, and to send second signals to the DSL transceiver unit through the second plurality of wires of the second twisted pair.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2010
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Shoujung J. Tsao, Roger W. Hsu
  • Patent number: 7697422
    Abstract: A network device adapted to process data packet traffic over a telecommunication network. The network device includes an ingress pipeline adapted to receive a data packet at a port of the network device. According to embodiments of the present invention, the data packet is characterized by an external QoS attribute having M bits. The network device also includes a processor adapted to form an internal QoS Profile associated with the data packet. The internal QoS Profile includes a QoS Profile Index having M+N bits and M and N are internally assigned. The processor is also adapted to process the data packet through the network device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2010
    Assignee: Marvell Israel (M.I.S.L.) Ltd.
    Inventors: Carmi Arad, Youval Nachum
  • Patent number: 7693175
    Abstract: A method, apparatus and computer program product for providing a prioritized MAC protocol for a WLAN or wireless mesh using a time filtering technique wherein a time limit (Advanced Interval For Reservation or AIFR) is imposed on the time prior to the expiration of data channel's NAV when a data channel is considered ‘almost idle’. The same AIFR limit applies to all CC-RTS of the same priority, and a higher priority CC-RTS will have a longer AIFR.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2010
    Assignee: Avaya Inc.
    Inventor: Mathilde Benveniste
  • Patent number: 7688856
    Abstract: In the data transmission method, a MAC layer receives data from an upper layer, classifies the data according to destination addresses and traffic identifiers, aggregates the data by destination address and traffic identifier as a first transmission unit, aggregates the first transmission units having the identical destination address as a second transmission unit, and transmits the second transmission units having different destination addresses in a single frame. The data transmission method allows packets transferred from the upper layer to be hierarchically aggregated by DAs and TIDs and then packaged into a data unit for each destination such that it is possible to transmit the data at an optimal data rate for each destination terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2010
    Assignees: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Seoul National University Industry Foundation
    Inventors: Kyung-Hun Jang, Dong-Jun Lee, Sung-Hyun Choi, Jin-Bong Chang, Young-Soo Kim
  • Patent number: 7688857
    Abstract: In the data transmission method, a MAC layer receives data from an upper layer, classifies the data according to destination addresses and traffic identifiers, aggregates the data by destination address and traffic identifier as a first transmission unit, aggregates the first transmission units having the identical destination address as a second transmission unit, and transmits the second transmission units having different destination addresses in a single frame. The data transmission method allows packets transferred from the upper layer to be hierarchically aggregated by DAs and TIDs and then packaged into a data unit for each destination such that it is possible to transmit the data at an optimal data rate for each destination terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2010
    Assignees: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Seoul National University Industry Foundation
    Inventors: Kyung-Hun Jang, Dong-Jun Lee, Sung-Hyun Choi, Jin-Bong Chang, Young-Soo Kim
  • Patent number: 7639613
    Abstract: Methods, apparatuses and systems directed to an adaptive network traffic monitoring and measurement system. In one implementation, the present invention provides a measurement engine that monitors data flows on the packet processing path of a network device and executes measurement policy that control the granularity with which measurement data is recorded. In one implementation, the present invention provides a filtering and aggregation mechanism that can seamlessly adapt to changes in measurement policy configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2009
    Assignee: Packeteer, Inc.
    Inventors: Farzad Ghannadian, Li Fang, Michael J. Quinn
  • Patent number: 7586836
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for providing a pilot symbol for base station identification in a Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) communication system having one or more transmission antennas, wherein the pilot symbol is comprised of a first sequence having a good cell identification characteristic and a second sequence for reducing a peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) for all of pilot symbols.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2009
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Sung-Eun Park, Seung-Hoon Choi, Dong-Seek Park, Jae-Yoel Kim, Ji-Ho Jang, Pan-Yuh Joo
  • Patent number: 7583586
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for transmitting a reference signal for identification of each cell in a communication system including a plurality of cells each of which is identified by a cell identifier. The method includes receiving a cell identifier, and generating a block code corresponding to the cell identifier using a predetermined block code generator matrix, and generating a first part sequence using the block code; selecting a second part sequence in accordance with the cell identifier; generating a reference signal of a frequency domain using the first part sequence and the second part sequence; converting the reference signal of the frequency domain to a reference signal of a time domain through an Inverse Fast Fourier Transform operation and transmitting the reference signal of the time domain in a predetermined reference signal transmission interval.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2009
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Sung-Eun Park, Seung-Hoon Choi, Dong-Seek Park, Jae-Yoel Kim, Ji-Ho Jang, Pan-Yuh Joo
  • Patent number: 7580356
    Abstract: An exemplary embodiment provides for a method for recording network traffic data that can be used in a network device operably disposed in a network, wherein the network device comprises a measurement data structure including at least one entry and a corresponding measurement key and wherein the at least one entry comprises at least one measurement attribute. The method includes receiving a packet and matching the packet to a data flow. A measurement policy for the data flow is identified, wherein the measurement policy comprises one or more measurement axes corresponding to respective data flow attributes, and a rule set relating to at least one of the one or more measurement axes. The rule set is applied to dynamically select one or more of the measurement axes in the measurement policy to be applied to the data flow. A measurement key is created based on the selected one or more measurement axes and attributes of the data flow corresponding to the selected one or more measurement axes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2009
    Assignee: Packeteer, Inc.
    Inventors: Sanjeev K. Mishra, Farzad Ghannadian, Li Fang
  • Patent number: 7542478
    Abstract: A system and method to avoid and control the bottleneck points in multi-hop wireless ad-hoc networks is described. This is achieved by using the overheard RTS/(N)CTS information to compute a weighted combination of the node's and neighbors weighted queue size. Rate limiting factor can be distributed by using ACK messages in case RTS/CTS is not enabled while node weight values can be distributed in DATA messages. Furthermore, rate limiting is based on two metrics that eliminate the problems of drop-tail schemes. Priority levels may be used for selective rejection to provide availability for emergency and system packets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2009
    Assignee: MeshNetworks, Inc.
    Inventors: Sebnem Z. Ozer, Surong Zeng, Charles R. Barker, Jr.