Patents Examined by Jung Park
  • Patent number: 9197719
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for communicating data between a communication system and a mobile radio-communication network through an Internet Protocol data communication channel. The communication system comprises a host device and a portable object cooperating with the host device. According to the invention, the portable object determines in which geographical place the communication system is located. The portable object determines whether at least one subscription before a mobile radio-communication network operator over a data communication channel using the IP within the geographical place exists or not. And, if at least one subscription before a mobile radio network operator exists, then the portable object sends to the host device a request for reading configuration data relating to an access to the data communication channel using the IP.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Assignee: GEMALTO SA
    Inventor: Paul Bradley
  • Patent number: 9197379
    Abstract: Techniques provide additional Hybrid-ARQ indication resources for LTE TDD subframes that are normally without conventional LTE PHICH resources or that have too few LTE PHICH resources. In some embodiments, a modified PHICH is created using unused REGs in the control region of the downlink subframe. In others, a modified PHICH resides within the resources of an AL=1 PDCCH, and is formed using encoding and modulation processes that differ from normal PDCCH processing. In other embodiments, the PUSCH HARQ feedback bits are carried by a conventional LTE PDCCH, which is distinguished from other PDCCHs by scrambling it with a new type of RNTI: HARQ indicator Radio-network temporary identifier (HI-RNTI). In still other embodiments, the modulation symbols of PHICH are then placed on top of those normally reserved for PDCCHs. For such overlapped radio resources, the modulation symbols from the modified PHICH will replace those from normal PDCCHs for transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Erik Eriksson, Cheng Jung-Fu, Daniel Larsson
  • Patent number: 9191157
    Abstract: A method of performing cooperative transmission in a multi-node system including a Base Station (BS) and a plurality of nodes controlled by the BS is provided. The method comprises: transmitting a first signal generated using a first cell identifier (ID) from the plurality of nodes; and transmitting a second signal generated using a second cell ID from at least one of the plurality of nodes, wherein the first cell ID is identical with a cell ID used by the BS, and the second cell ID is different from the first cell ID.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Ji Won Kang, Jin Young Chun, Moon Il Lee, Ki Tae Kim, Su Nam Kim, Bin Chul Ihm, Sung Ho Park
  • Patent number: 9191867
    Abstract: A method, apparatus, computer program product, and processing system provide for dynamic selection of a secondary serving cell among various available secondary serving cells, be they in the same frequency as the primary serving cell (as in SFDC-HSDPA), in a different frequency but in the same band as the primary serving cell (as in DC-HSDPA), or in a different band from the primary serving cell (as in DB-DC-HSDPA). Here, the UE may be preconfigured for each of the available secondary serving cells, and may receive a configuration message to select between one of them based on factors such UE battery consumption, CQIs corresponding to the available secondary serving cells, loading of the secondary serving cells, or UE power headroom limitations. Thus, an advanced UE capable of receiving the plurality of technologies may benefit from dynamically selecting the best available secondary serving cell in accordance with the factors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventor: Sharad Deepak Sambhwani
  • Patent number: 9184811
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to preventing the load to be required for blind detection in a mobile station apparatus (UE) from increasing and switching between SU-MIMO and MU-MIMO dynamically, even in the event the system bandwidth is expanded. The present invention has a DCI format selection section (209) that selects identification information which identifies between a DCI format for SU-MIMO and a DCI format for MU-MIMO, a control signal generation section (210) that generates control signals including the identification information and including the DCI format for SU-MIMO or MU-MIMO, having the same number of bits, and a transmission section that transmits the control signals to a mobile station apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Hidekazu Taoka, Yoshihisa Kishiyama, Nobuhiko Miki, Katsutoshi Kusume
  • Patent number: 9184934
    Abstract: Certain embodiments of the invention can include systems and methods for enabling the operation of multiple control devices on the same network. Each control device on a network can be configured to monitor and receive input messages from multiple IO devices on the network. The control devices may also be configured to send output messages to one or more of the IO devices. According to certain embodiments, one control device may send output messages to certain IO devices while another IO device may send output messages to different IO devices. The input and output messages can both be sent via multicast according to certain embodiments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Dennis Brian King, Andre DeMaurice, Harry Ridenour
  • Patent number: 9178758
    Abstract: A method for shortening a circuit switch fallback (CSFB) performing time includes determining a plurality of weighting values each associated with one of a plurality of frequencies to be measured during a CSFB procedure, determining a frequency measurement sequence for scheduling the frequencies to be measured in sequence according to the determined weighting values, and measuring a signal quality on the frequencies according to the frequency measurement sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: MEDIATEK INC.
    Inventors: Hung-Yueh Chen, Chun-Pin Chen, Chih-Yuan Tsai
  • Patent number: 9179425
    Abstract: A wireless device may compute transmission power of an uplink packet employing a first parameter calculated by accumulation of an initial value and at least one power control value corresponding to a sequence of subframes. The sequence of subframes starts from an initial subframe and ends with the first subframe. The initial subframe is identified by the most recent subframe before the first subframe with one of the following events: a predefined transmit power parameter value is updated by higher layers; and a random access response is received corresponding to a transmitted random access preamble on a secondary cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: Ofinno Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Esmael Hejazi Dinan
  • Patent number: 9178790
    Abstract: A first node that transmits TCP packets to and receives TCP packets from a second node splits a target TCP packet throughput across multiple consecutive time slots, each slot having a target throughput value. If a current slot's achieved throughput value does not match the current slot's target throughput value, the target throughput value for the current slot and/or a subsequent slot is adjusted. Transmit throughput from the first node to the second node is controlled by transmitting TCP packets from the first node to the second node according to a target throughput value for the current slot. Receive throughput from the second node to the first node is controlled by dynamically calculating an advertised receive window size according to a target throughput value for the current slot and communicating the advertised receive window size to the second node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: Ixia
    Inventors: Partha Majumdar, Maksim Pyatkovskiy
  • Patent number: 9178831
    Abstract: Some embodiments relate to a network comprising two RBridges connected by a link where the two RBridges are not the ingress and egress RBridge for said frames, wherein said RBridges automatically exchange information as to their support of hop-by-hop reversible frame aggregation, reversible header compression, and reversible data compression, and wherein if both RBridges support any or all of these features in the same fashion, one or more of said features are automatically applied to appropriate frames at the transmitting RBridge and removed at the receiving RBridge, increasing the throughput of the link.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Inventor: Donald E. Eastlake, III
  • Patent number: 9178808
    Abstract: The different switch modules making up a distributed virtual switch may route configuration commands for hardware resources to different modules within the distributed switch using a distribution and routing layer. At least one of the switch modules maintains a routing table that defines which switch modules are responsible for which hardware resources. The switch module uses the routing tables to forward the commands on the distribution and routing layer to the responsible switch module which then ensures that the relevant hardware resources are configured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Josep Cors, David R. Engebretsen, David L. Hermsmeier, Adam C. Lange-Pearson, Ward R. Nelson
  • Patent number: 9178832
    Abstract: To prevent buffer overflow, a receiving entity may use credits to control the total amount of packets any single transmitting entity can forward. Once the assigned credits are spent, the transmitting entity cannot send data portions to the receiving entity until additional credits are provided. However, the logic in the receiving entity may be designed to manage a maximum number of credits that is less than the capacity of the buffer in the transmitting entity. For example, the receiving entity is designed to manage a maximum of eight credits but the buffer has room for twelve data portions. To use the buffer efficiently, the transmitting entity may identify when extra buffer storage is available and provide additional credits. In addition, the transmitting entity may control when the credits are provided such that the receiving entity is not allocated more credits that it was designed to manage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Prakash B. Baratam, Brian T. Vanderpool
  • Patent number: 9172662
    Abstract: A virtual chassis system includes a plurality of network nodes configured with a master virtual chassis address. The network nodes are connected by virtual fabric link (VFLs) that provide a connection for exchange of data packets between the network nodes. The data packets include source MAC addresses and associated hardware device information, such as source chassis ID, source network interface identifier and source port identifier information. The network nodes use this information to maintain synchronized MAC address tables for forwarding of data packets in the virtual chassis system. One or more control protocols in the network node are used for topology discovery, master network node election, generation of routing tables, health monitoring and other functions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Amy Chung-Hua Chang, Roberto H. Jacob Da Silva, Nalinakshan Kunnath, Ignatius D. Santoso, Anand Vinayagam
  • Patent number: 9172639
    Abstract: The different switch modules making up a distributed virtual switch may route configuration commands for hardware resources to different modules within the distributed switch using a distribution and routing layer. At least one of the switch modules maintains a routing table that defines which switch modules are responsible for which hardware resources. The switch module uses the routing tables to forward the commands on the distribution and routing layer to the responsible switch module which then ensures that the relevant hardware resources are configured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Josep Cors, David R. Engebretsen, David L. Hermsmeier, Adam C. Lange-Pearson, Ward R. Nelson
  • Patent number: 9173049
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method, an apparatus and a system for data transmission. The method includes: receiving processed first microwave data information that is received through a microwave antenna; performing multiplexing through a preset rule on the first microwave data information and processed first radio frequency data information that is received through a base station antenna, and sending multiplexed information to a baseband unit, so that the baseband unit sends the first microwave data information to a microwave indoor unit. In the method, the apparatus and the system for data transmission, microwave data information and radio frequency data information are multiplexed, and then multiplexed information is transmitted together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiaohong Chen, Wei Wang, Shaofeng Xu
  • Patent number: 9167562
    Abstract: A method of allocating channel resources from a first device to a second device in a wireless network comprises receiving channel resource allocation information from a coordinator of the wireless network to allocate the channel resources; transmitting data to the second device through the allocated channel resources; receiving channel resource request information from the second device to request the first device to allocate a part of the allocated channel resources; and deciding whether to allocate the part of the channel resources allocated from the coordinator, to the second device in accordance with the channel resource request information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Joong Heon Kim, Beom Jin Jeon
  • Patent number: 9167434
    Abstract: A method and system for coordinated interference suppression in a communication system. The communication system implements at least a first radio access technology via a first base station and a second radio access technology via a second base station. The first and second radio access technologies differ from one another. Information relating to an interference signal received at the first base station via the first radio access technology is received at the second base station from a first device associated with the first base station, At a second device associated with the second base station, an interfering user equipment accessing the second base station via the second radio access technology is identified. The identification is based on the information received from the first device associated with the first base station. Interference caused by the identified interfering user equipment is suppressed by the second base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Xiao-Dong Li, Patrick Lie Chin Cheong, Carl Cao
  • Patent number: 9160770
    Abstract: A network node receives a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) or H.323 signaling packet associated with data traffic, and determines if the data traffic originated from a source node or source network as Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) traffic. The network node tags a header of the SIP or H.323 signaling packet with a tag that identifies the data traffic as a VoIP originated call based on the determination, and sends the tagged SIP or H.323 signaling packet towards a destination. The network node further sends data identifying the data traffic as a VoIP originated call to an administrative system for at least one of call billing, rating, settlement or taxation purposes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2015
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventor: Brian Edmund Somes
  • Patent number: 9161322
    Abstract: A base station transmits control message(s) to a wireless device configuring secondary cell(s). Each of the secondary cells is assigned to a cell group in a plurality of cell groups comprising a primary cell group and at least one secondary cell group. The control message(s) comprise dedicated parameters. If dedicated parameters comprise a cell group index for the secondary cell, the wireless device assigns the secondary cell to one of the at least one secondary cell group identified by the cell group index. Otherwise, the wireless device assigns the secondary cell to the primary cell group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2015
    Assignee: Ofinno Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Esmael Hejazi Dinan
  • Patent number: 9154369
    Abstract: Embodiments provide an apparatus, method and software configured to modify a transmission control protocol packet so as to become a user datagram protocol datagram, or to modify a user datagram protocol datagram so as to become a transmission control protocol packet. An embodiment uses a mapping between TCP packet format, such as TCP wire packet format, and an UDP-encapsulated TCP packet format, such as UDP-encapsulated TCP wire packet format, allowing direct re-use of any TCP protocol implementation. TCP frames can be modified into valid UDP datagrams before being transmitted, and inverse modifications can be done when receiving datagrams from the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Remi Denis-Courmont, Aki Petteri Niemi, Kai Kalervo Vehmanen