Patents Examined by Kabir Jahangir
  • Patent number: 9876664
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for transmitting a broadcast signal. The method comprises formatting input streams with multiple data transmission channels, and the formatting step comprises adding a header indicating a format of a payload of the BBF.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2018
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jaeho Hwang, Woosuk Ko, Sungryong Hong
  • Patent number: 9867106
    Abstract: A handover procedure can be implemented using a codec-specific threshold as a triggering event for the handover procedure. A mobile device can initiate a communication session with a serving access point (AP). The mobile device can receive a codec established for the communication session, access a set of codec-specific thresholds stored in memory of the mobile device to determine a handover triggering threshold that is specific to the codec used for the communication session. The mobile device can measure a parameter of a radio signal from the serving AP, and when the measured parameter falls below the codec-specific threshold, a handover procedure can be initiated to transition the communication session to a target AP.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark McDiarmid, Jun Liu, Ming Shan Kwok
  • Patent number: 9860720
    Abstract: Facilitating communication between cellular and digital mobile radio devices is presented herein. In one aspect, a digital mobile radio messaging gateway is deployed within a cellular network that allows cellular devices to send and/or receive data to digital mobile radio devices. Moreover, the digital mobile radio messaging gateway provides transparent messaging access from devices to digital mobile radio switches and/or gateways essentially making the cellular network an extension of the digital mobile radio network. As an example, the digital mobile radio messaging gateway converts data received from the digital mobile radio network to a message that conforms to a protocol supported by the cellular network. Similarly, the digital mobile radio messaging gateway converts data received from the cellular network to a message that conforms to a protocol supported by the digital mobile radio network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: AT&T MOBILITY II LLC
    Inventor: Arturo Maria
  • Patent number: 9860896
    Abstract: The present invention discloses an enhanced physical downlink control channel (EPDCCH) candidate determining method and device, and relates to the field of wireless communications, so as to avoid EPDCCH blocking and improve reliability of control information transmission. The method of the present invention includes: determining an EPDCCH resource set p in a subframe k, where the EPDCCH resource set p includes NECCE,p,k=q×r enhanced control channel elements (ECCEs), an EPDCCH candidate of an EPDCCH with an aggregation level being L corresponds to L ECCEs having consecutive reference numerals, and an EPDCCH candidate is capable of carrying an EPDCCH; and determining the number of EPDCCH candidates at the aggregation level L of a carrier corresponding to an index Cellindex and an ECCE corresponding to each EPDCCH candidate, where the ECCE corresponding to each EPDCCH candidate at the aggregation level L is related to the index Cellindex.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Qiang Wu, Jianqin Liu, Jianghua Liu
  • Patent number: 9843422
    Abstract: A method is disclosed of encapsulating a device control protocol request for a device specific control function, the method including sending an initial request in an operation-id and a data field of an IPP request to a host device from a client device, the client device configured to support IPP client functionality; sending an initial response from the host device to the client device in a data field of the IPP response; sending a DCPI request for a requested action to the host device, wherein the DCPI request for the requested action is defined by device control protocol operation code and Type-Length-Value (TLV) fields contained in the data field of the IPP request; and sending a response to the client device, wherein the device control protocol response is contained in the data field of the IPP response and includes the status of the requested action and optional data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA LABORATORY U.S.A., INC.
    Inventor: Carlos Rimola
  • Patent number: 9843523
    Abstract: A plurality of in-vehicle control apparatuses (100) and a DLC (200) connected to a vehicle network each include a frame monitoring unit (131). The frame monitoring units (131) detect simultaneous transmission of a plurality of communication data having a shared CAN ID by monitoring an error frame transmitted to the vehicle network. The plurality of in-vehicle control apparatuses (100) and the DLC (200) also each include a control determination unit (132) and a transmission/reception control unit (133) that execute adjustment processing to adjust the plurality of communication data having the shared CAN ID when simultaneous transmission of the communication data is detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro Mabuchi, Kazuhiro Okude
  • Patent number: 9843434
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method of transceiving a signal between a transmitter and a receiver in a wireless communication system. The method includes transceiving the signal in units of a subframe including a plurality of symbols. Each of the plurality of symbols includes a valid symbol and a cyclic prefix, and a length of the cyclic prefix is changed according to a distance between the transmitter and the receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Kitae Kim, Jaehoon Chung, Sunam Kim
  • Patent number: 9794834
    Abstract: Disclosed are an information transmission method and a device thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: CHINA ACADEMY OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Zhe Fu, Jiamin Liu, Yumin Wu
  • Patent number: 9774493
    Abstract: A network element, in a control plane enabled network, configured to retain a connection's home path while the connection is on an alternate path includes interfaces communicatively coupled to the network to form one or more links; circuitry communicatively coupled to the interfaces, wherein the circuitry is configured to route one or more connections which originate on the network element to the one or more links via the interfaces, wherein each of the one or more connections has an associated home path, and for a connection of the one of more connections which is not on its associated home path, reserve bandwidth for the connection through the control plane on the associated home path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: Ciena Corporation
    Inventors: Jeffrey Scott Moynihan, John Oltman, Vagish Madrahalli, Neena Aluri
  • Patent number: 9769659
    Abstract: According to a first aspect there is provided a method of operating an entity of a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN). The method comprises receiving a Media Access Control (MAC) address for a device that is attempting to associate with the WLAN (S101), and determining if an International Mobile Subscriber Identity (IMSI) associated with the MAC address is stored in the WLAN (S102). The method further comprises, if an IMSI associated with the MAC address is not stored in the WLAN, obtaining an IMSI for the device during authentication of device stored IMSI of the device to the WLAN (S103), and causing storage within the WLAN of the obtained IMSI in association with the MAC address (S104).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Mats Buchmayer, Oscar Zee
  • Patent number: 9755815
    Abstract: A system and method for establishing windows that govern the exchange of acknowledgements in a full-duplex communication. The window is established for two nodes which transmit asymmetric frame sizes in full-duplex mode. The window is related to the size of the asymmetric frames. Frames are exchanged in full-duplex between the two nodes, and the window size is defined as enabling the nodes to send data until the number of unacknowledged frames at the nodes is less than or equal to the window size, at which point acknowledgments are exchanged simultaneously. In sending the acknowledgment, both nodes can send acknowledgments simultaneously in full-duplex in the same frequency bin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Vaneet Aggarwal, Rittwik Jana, Christopher W. Rice, Nemmara K. Shankaranarayanan
  • Patent number: 9755726
    Abstract: Various methods and apparatuses are provided to address the need for improved multi-carrier communication. In one apparatus, a radio access network (RAN) (402) includes multiple network nodes (403, 406) operative to transmit, via multiple carriers (411-412), packet data to a user element (UE) (401) using a protocol stack. The protocol stack includes a radio link control (RLC) layer split into an upper RLC processing layer and multiple lower RLC processing layers. Each lower RLC processing layer is associated with one carrier of the multiple carriers and each lower RLC processing layer supports packet data transmission via its associated carrier. The upper RLC processing layer supports packet data transmission via the multiple carriers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Krishna Balachandran, Joseph H. Kang, Kemal M. Karakayali, Kiran M. Rege
  • Patent number: 9749216
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a method for acquiring a content, a user equipment and a cache node. The method includes: a user equipment requests a target content from a management node; receives a first probe packet and a second probe packet, the first probe packet includes an identifier of a fragment of the target content and a shortest distance from the fragment to the user equipment on a first path, and the second probe packet includes the identifier of the fragment of the target content and a shortest distance from the fragment to the user equipment on a second path; determines an optimal path according to the shortest distance from the fragment to the user equipment on the first path and the shortest distance from the fragment to the user equipment on the second path; and sends a second acquiring request used for acquiring the fragment through the optimal path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shucheng Liu
  • Patent number: 9750014
    Abstract: Techniques for managing operation over a communication medium shared between Radio Access Technologies (RATs) are disclosed. In one example, one or more parameters of a Time Division Multiplexing (TDM) communication pattern may be set to define activated periods and deactivated periods for communication over the medium. A first interlace may be selected among a plurality of interlaces for communication over the medium, the first interlace being reserved for a first operator. During the first interlace, transmission over the medium may be cycled in accordance with the TDM communication pattern, and deactivated during a second interlace among the plurality of interlaces that is reserved for a second operator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Ahmed Kamel Sadek, Akula Aneesh Reddy, Nachiappan Valliappan, Ping Xia, Mohammad Naghshvar, Tamer Adel Kadous, Mingxi Fan
  • Patent number: 9742591
    Abstract: A method is provided for computing a channel quality indicator (CQI) value by a user equipment in a wireless communication system. The method includes configuring, through a higher layer, channel measurement resources defined by channel status information-reference signal (CSI-RS) resource element configuration with non-zero transmission power and subframe configuration, configuring, through the higher layer, interference measurement resources defined by the CSI-RS resource element configuration with zero transmission power and the subframe configuration, and computing the CQI value based on a channel measurement and an interference measurement. The channel measurement is performed by using the channel measurement resources, and the interference measurement is performed by using the interference measurement resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Hanbyul Seo, Kijun Kim, Daewon Lee
  • Patent number: 9736873
    Abstract: An M2M Server may be integrated into a 3GPP network. A network node, for example a Serving General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) Support Node (SGSN) may include a dedicated interface with a M2M server. The interface may be called a GM2M interface. The interface may be a logical interface internal to the network node. The node may receive subscriber data and control data, wherein the control data facilitates a network control procedure and the subscriber data identifies a device involved in the network control procedure. The node may determine that the device involved in the network control procedure is a machine to machine device based on the subscriber data. The node may also send the control data to a machine to machine server using a message sent via a dedicated interface with the machine to machine server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul L. Russell, Jr., Ashish Gupta, Nicholas J. Podias, Ana Lucia A. Pinheiro, Jean-Louis Gauvreau, Rocco Di Girolamo, Guang Lu, Debjani Majumder
  • Patent number: 9712439
    Abstract: A packet processing block. The block comprises an input for receiving data in a packet header vector, the vector comprising data values representing information for a packet. The block also comprises circuitry for performing packet match operations in response to at least a portion of the packet header vector and data stored in a match table, and circuitry for performing one or more actions in response to a match detected by the circuitry for performing packet match operations and according to information stored in an action table. Each of said match table and said action table comprise one or more memories selected from a pool of unit memories, wherein each memory in the pool of unit memories is configurable to operate as either a match memory or an action memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Patrick W. Bosshart, Hun-Seok Kim
  • Patent number: 9705802
    Abstract: A terminal device includes: a signal generator to generate a traffic request signal; a policy manager to transmit a policy request signal to a policy provider, and to receive a policy answer signal corresponding to the policy request signal; a traffic transceiver to perform a download of a traffic answer signal corresponding to the traffic request signal from a content provider via a path network; a terminal network detector to detect a network status of the path network based on the policy answer signal; and a traffic control processor, at a time of the download, to determine a traffic control status based on the network status, and control the download based on the traffic control status.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: SK TELECOM CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jahon Koo
  • Patent number: 9699781
    Abstract: According to an exemplary embodiment, a communications node for use in a communications system wherein the communications node is adapted to: transmit to user equipments (UEs) within a node coverage area a first uplink-downlink configuration within a first time interval; and transmit to selected user equipments (UEs) within the node coverage area secondary uplink-downlink configurations over a plurality of secondary time intervals within the first time interval, wherein the secondary uplink-downlink configurations contain information on reconfigurable subframes within the first uplink-downlink configuration which can be reconfigured by the communications node for use by one or more of the selected UEs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Phong Nguyen, Yuanrong Lan
  • Patent number: 9693357
    Abstract: In a cellular communication system including a plurality of cells, a resource allocation apparatus of a base station determines a resource division ratio of a present resource frame using a traffic load of a plurality of cells that are measured for an immediately preceding resource frame and marginal utility of each partition, divides a present resource frame into a plurality of partitions according to the determined resource division ratio, and allocates a plurality of partitions to a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Yunhee Cho, Seok Seo, Jae Su Song, Seung-Hwan Lee