Patents Examined by Joshua Smith
  • Patent number: 9014022
    Abstract: An optical network including a plurality of gateway nodes interconnected with a plurality of intermediate nodes with segments of fiber. The network includes a plurality of devices, such as reconfigurable optical add drop multiplexors, optimally placed at various nodes throughout the network. The device placement is optimized with an integer linear programming analysis considering span definition such that any given span involves some number of segments not exceeding a number of segments that would require wavelength regeneration, cost of placement of a device at a given node, cost of wavelength regeneration, and various parameters and constraints.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: Level 3 Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Benjamin K. Peterson, Laurel Clark
  • Patent number: 9007905
    Abstract: A system to improve a Fiber Channel over Convergence Enhanced Ethernet (FCoCEE) network may include a sender in an FCoCEE network in which data packets having different data link layer structures are transmitted by the sender on a single data link. The system may also include a receiver to receive the data packets at the data link layer and to transmit an ACK and/or NAK in response to a sequence number in the data packets. The system may further include a replay buffer to retransmit the data packets where the replay buffer is sized by the length of the data link, data rate of the data link, the ACK and/or NAK processing time at either the sender and/or the receiver, and/or a threshold time for transmission and/or reception of the data packets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Casimer M. DeCusatis, Thomas A. Gregg, Rajaram B. Krishnamurthy
  • Patent number: 9007904
    Abstract: A system to improve a Fiber Channel over Convergence Enhanced Ethernet (FCoCEE) network may include a sender in an FCoCEE network in which data packets having different data link layer structures are transmitted by the sender on a single data link. The system may also include a receiver to receive the data packets at the data link layer and to transmit an ACK and/or NAK in response to a sequence number in the data packets. The system may further include a replay buffer to retransmit the data packets where the replay buffer is sized by the length of the data link, data rate of the data link, the ACK and/or NAK processing time at either the sender and/or the receiver, and/or a threshold time for transmission and/or reception of the data packets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Casimer M. DeCusatis, Thomas A. Gregg, Rajaram B. Krishnamurthy
  • Patent number: 8964654
    Abstract: The invention relates to feedback transmission for data packets in a mobile communication system. In particular the invention provides a communication system wherein feedback information of a retransmission protocol for transmitted data packets is transmitted. Further, the invention relates to a method for determining radio resources for the transmission of feedback information of a retransmission protocol for transmitted data packets as well as to a base station and a mobile station performing the method. In order to prevent potential collisions of feedback information while omitting a destination identifier for identifying the receiver of the feedback, the feedback resources for sending the feedback are determined at least based on a current transmission counter for a packet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Alexander Golitschek Edler Von Elbwart, Joachim Löhr
  • Patent number: 8953622
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for performing jitter buffering is provided herein. During operation, a system will utilize variable-length jitter buffers within each receiver. Each receiver will then be assigned an appropriate jitter-buffer size based upon system constraints. In one embodiment of the present invention jitter-buffer size is adjusted on a per call (or even per call/speech segment) basis and is based on both the source and destination capabilities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: Motorola Solutions, Inc.
    Inventor: Dean S. Dyson
  • Patent number: 8929212
    Abstract: A communication quality monitoring device is provided which determines communication quality deterioration by variation of a transmission buffer length in session control irrespectively of generation/non-generation of a data loss. A packet transmission and quality monitoring device 11-1 which detects deterioration in communication quality based on a buffer length of a session control protocol includes a threshold value calculating unit 11-17 which calculates a threshold value for the determination of deterioration in communication quality according to a parameter related to congestion detection of the session control protocol, and a deterioration determining unit 11-18 which determines deterioration in communication quality by comparing the threshold value and the buffer length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Takayuki Hama, Masahiro Jibiki
  • Patent number: 8923111
    Abstract: An external signal is received by the first wireless transmission device of one wireless transmission device group, and then is divided. One divided signal is transmitted to the first wireless transmission device of the other wireless transmission device group opposite to the one wireless transmission device group, and the other divided signal is transmitted to the second wireless transmission device of the one wireless transmission device group. In the same manner, in the second, third, . . . , wireless transmission devices of the one wireless transmission device group, an input signal is divided into two signals, and the divided signals are each transmitted to the opposing wireless transmission device of the other wireless transmission device group and to the adjacent wireless transmission device of the one wireless transmission device group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroaki Nakajima
  • Patent number: 8913548
    Abstract: A frame structure supporting a relay and a method of transmitting control information for supporting a relay system are disclosed. The method of transmitting control information for supporting a relay system comprises configuring a frame to which the relay system is applied; and transmitting a first message to one or more of a mobile station and relay stations, the first message including offset information indicating a beginning time of the frame and zone allocation information indicating configuration of the frame. In this case, a downlink zone of the frame includes a downlink transmit zone and a downlink access zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2014
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Ae Ran Youn, Jin Sam Kwak, Kyu Jin Park, Ji Wook Chung
  • Patent number: 8908578
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for requesting an uplink resource in a wireless communication system. In the method according to one aspect of the invention, a terminal transmits a quick access message to a base station and receives a resource from the base station. The quick access message includes a first field that shows the attributes of the data that is supposed to be transmitted by the terminal, and a field that is determined by the first field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Hee Jeong Cho, Ki Seon Ryu, Doo Hyun Sung, Sung Ho Park, Yong Ho Kim
  • Patent number: 8897130
    Abstract: Various example embodiments are disclosed. According to an example embodiment, an apparatus may include a switch fabric. The switch fabric may be configured to assign packets to either a first flow set or a second flow set based on fields included in the packets. The switch fabric may also be configured to send a first packet from the first flow set to a first flow set destination via a first path. The switch fabric may also be configured to determine, based at least in part on delays of the first path and a second path, whether sending a second packet from the first flow set to the first flow set destination via a second path will result in the second packet reaching the first flow set destination after the first packet reaches the first flow set destination, the second packet having been received by the router after the first packet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2014
    Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventors: Brad Matthews, Bruce Kwan, Mohan Kalkunte
  • Patent number: 8897284
    Abstract: A radio base station (eNB) according to the present invention includes: an RI acquisition unit (11) configured to acquire, from a mobile station (UE), an “RI” indicating number of streams determined by the mobile station (UE); an adjustment unit (12) configured to adjust the “RI” acquired by the RI acquisition unit (11), by using an offset value “RI offset” unique to the mobile station (UE); and a stream-number determination unit (13) configured to determine the number of streams to be simultaneously transmitted to the mobile station (UE), based on the “RI” adjusted by the adjustment unit (12).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2014
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Ofuji, Naoto Okubo
  • Patent number: 8885636
    Abstract: A system and method for designing a dial plan for Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) systems includes generating an abstract dial plan design which is platform independent, the dial plan including rules for routing communications in a VoIP network structure. The dial plan is validated through simulations prior to deployment to evaluate the dial plan performance under simulated conditions. The dial plan design is translated to provide compatibility with a deployed network using platform specific configuration adaptors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Bernard A. Grunwald, Shang Q. Guo, Gopal S. Pingali, Zon-Yin Shae, Shu Tao
  • Patent number: 8885610
    Abstract: A switching server 100 determines whether or not to switch a network for an uplink from a radio IP network 10A to a radio IP network 10B, on the basis of an acquired communication quality of the uplink. In addition, when determining to switch the network for the uplink to the radio IP network 10B, the switching server 100 transmits, to an MN 300, an uplink switching instruction to switch the network for the uplink to the radio IP network 10B.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
    Inventor: Tomoyoshi Yokota
  • Patent number: 8879419
    Abstract: A system and method for establishing connection of an IP telephone to a network may include, in response to receiving a registration request from an IP telephone, generating a command to cause network access devices to ping the IP telephone. The command may be communicated to the network access devices. Ping information may be received in response to the network access devices pinging the IP telephone. A network access device may be selected that has the highest quality network access path to the IP telephone. In response to selecting the network access device that has the highest quality network access path, a network address of the selected network access device may be communicated to a network device to enable the IP telephone to communicate with the selected network access device. Credentials may be communicated to the IP telephone to register with the selected network access device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: CenturyLink Intellectual Property LLC
    Inventors: Michael Roberts, Shekhar Gupta
  • Patent number: 8873453
    Abstract: Methods, system and devices for wireless transmission of HDMI data streams. Plurality of data multiplex converters are constructed and used in parallel to process one HDMI datastream into plurality of channels of data packets wherein the plurality of channels of data packets are transmitted through Wi-Fi wireless protocols to a destination device. The received plurality of channels of data packets are reassembled into one data stream for display or play.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignee: Sigma Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Sai C. Manapragada, Alvin Dale Kluesing
  • Patent number: 8861598
    Abstract: Particular embodiments generally relate to video compression. In one embodiment, a store of reference frames is provided in memory. The reference frames may be classified based on a plurality of classifiers. The classifiers may correspond to features that are found in the reference frame. A frame to encode is then received. The frame is analyzed to determine features found in the frame. As macroblocks in the frame are encoded, a macroblock is analyzed to determine which feature may be included in the macroblock. The feature is used to determine a classifier, which is used to determine a subset of the reference frames. The subset is then searched to determine a reference frame for the macroblock.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: William Mauchly, Joseph T. Friel, Alan MacDonald, Dihong Tian, Wen-Hsiung Chen, Michael A. Arnao
  • Patent number: 8830978
    Abstract: The invention provides a wireless communication system. In one embodiment, the wireless communication system comprises a base station and user equipment. The base station transmits data to user equipment via a plurality of the component carriers comprising a series of data transmission cycles, interleaves starting time of a plurality of active periods of the component carriers in each data transmission cycle in an order, and sends control data to the user equipment via the component carriers during the active periods of the component carriers. The user equipment receives the control data via the component carriers during the active periods of the component carriers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Acer Incorporated
    Inventors: Yan-Xiu Zheng, Hao-Wen Chen
  • Patent number: 8831018
    Abstract: A gateway device includes a SIP server and a media converter. The SIP server uses media communication control data output from communication terminal devices (CTDs) to discriminate the communication media standards adopted by the CTDs, based on a call control, to call-control the CTDs. The media converter uses the communication media standards discriminated and acquired to convert media data, delivered from the CTDs, involved in communication, to a signal of a relevant communication media standard. The SIP server causes the communication media standard and information used for communication to be stored in an information memory. The media converter includes input/output interfaces, a controller, a media converter circuit and a data switcher. The interfaces verify whether or not the received data is media data, the media converter circuit converts the communication media standard of received media data received from the source CTD to a communication media standard of the destination CTD.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shugo Shiba
  • Patent number: 8824332
    Abstract: A method for selecting a clock source in Synchronization Digital Hierarchy (SDH) network and a clock module are provided in the present invention. The method includes: generating a clock information message based on the clock quality information in SDH network, and the clock module of every network node in said SDH network independently selects a clock source by using said clock information message. The method and clock module for selecting a clock source in SDH provided in the present invention enable automatic switch and recovery for a clock source, and effectively solve the problem of clock looping, and adequately maintain the compatibility with the existing system without increasing the cost of the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventor: Rui Gao
  • Patent number: 8817723
    Abstract: A method of resource allocation for use in a wireless network is disclosed. A network coloring decision to assign a plurality of resource blocks to a plurality of cells within the wireless network is triggered upon occurrence of a network event. A network coloring is performed by assigning each cell of the plurality of cells a resource block from the plurality of resource blocks. An effect of interference among adjacent cells with a same resource block assignment is reduced as measured by a network performance metric related to a number of resource block assignment conflicts over the plurality of cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Mohammadhadi Baligh, Ying Qian