Patents Examined by Kerri Rose
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Patent number: 8681725Abstract: A transmission controller (40) comprises a transmission request processor (44); a transmission reservation grantor (46); and, a transmission monitor (48). The transmission request processor (44) is configured to receive a request for a transmission reservation emanating from a client application executed at a wireless terminal (30). The transmission reservation grantor (46) is configured to use transmission rules stored for the wireless terminal (30) to make a determination whether to grant a transmission reservation responsive to the request for the transmission reservation.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2011Date of Patent: March 25, 2014Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)Inventors: Elias Blomqvist, Karl-Johan Östh, Ulf Kristiansson
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Patent number: 8681702Abstract: PLMN selection methods and mobile communication devices utilizing the same are provided. The PLMN selection method is performed by a mobile communication device attached to a service network for an emergency bearer service through an emergency packet data connection, wherein the mobile communication device is capable of accessing a SIM card comprising a forbidden PLMN. The PLMN selection method comprises: receiving an equivalent PLMN list comprising the forbidden PLMN from the service network; and removing the forbidden PLMN from the equivalent PLMN list after the emergency bearer service has been completed.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2011Date of Patent: March 25, 2014Assignee: HTC CorporationInventor: Kundan Tiwari
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Patent number: 8675479Abstract: A network layout between network elements and routers using network redundancy to improve reliability of network communication is disclosed. Upon detecting a link failure associated with a primary link between an access switch and a primary router by the access switch via a connectivity verification protocol, the access switch sends a message to the primary router indicating connection defect via the connectivity verification protocol such as IEEE 802.1 ag standard. After enabling protection switching mechanism to activate a secondary link between the access switch and a backup router for network communication, routing data streams are routed between the access switch and the router via the secondary link. In one aspect, the protection switching mechanism is operated in accordance with G.8031 under International Telecommunication Union (“ITU”) standard.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2011Date of Patent: March 18, 2014Assignee: Tellabs Operations, Inc.Inventors: Sasha Cirkovic, Pawan K. Singal, Gowri Kuthanur
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Patent number: 8675475Abstract: Techniques for managing a wireless network when disruptive events occur are provided. In one aspect, a method for managing a heterogeneous wireless network having at least two classes of nodes is provided. The method includes the following steps. One or more network signaling activities are observed. If the network signaling activities exhibit a behavior that is associated with a power failure affecting at least one of the classes of nodes, network resources for transmission and processing of network signaling associated with one or more other of the classes of nodes are adjusted to accommodate the behavior.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2011Date of Patent: March 18, 2014Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Chatschik Bisdikian, Bong Jun Ko
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Patent number: 8675523Abstract: Embodiments herein relate to optimized spanning tree construction based on parameter selection. A selected parameter of a bridged packet-switched network is correlated to an algorithm. A spanning tree is constructed based on the correlated algorithm.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2012Date of Patent: March 18, 2014Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventor: Byung Kyu Choi
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Patent number: 8670311Abstract: A monitoring management apparatus may include a storage unit that stores connection information indicating a connection state of the wireless device connected to the communication system, a display unit that displays the wireless device connected to the communication system based on the connection information stored in the storage unit, an input unit that receives an instruction related to the wireless device displayed on the display unit, and a control unit that performs control of temporarily interrupting communication of a wireless device, other than a wireless device satisfying conditions set in advance, with reference to the connection information stored in the storage unit when a simultaneous interruption instruction to simultaneously interrupt communication of a wireless device is input to the input unit.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2011Date of Patent: March 11, 2014Assignee: Yokogawa Electric CorporationInventor: Toshihiro Itou
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Patent number: 8670300Abstract: A network device relating to a digital subscriber line (DSL) such as an asymmetrical DSL (ADSL) or a very high bit rate DSL (VDSL) is provided. In the present invention, the capacitors equipped into the network device are separated and grouped into two independent groups. When the network device runs out of power, the energy of one of the two independent groups is provided for generating the dying gasp signal, and the energy of the other of the two independent groups is provided for amplifying and transmitting the dying gasp signal to a Central Office (CO). Accordingly, the CO can be accurately known whether the network device runs out of power or not, and the respective capacitances of the two independent groups can be significantly reduced so as to reduce the cost of the network device.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2011Date of Patent: March 11, 2014Assignee: Gemtek Technology Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yu-Sung Cho, Yung-Chang Lin
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Patent number: 8670329Abstract: There is disclosed a system and method for implementing concurrent ingress and egress viewing of network traffic data to evaluate the performance of a device under test. The method may be performed by a network testing system. The method may be performed in real-time.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2013Date of Patent: March 11, 2014Assignee: IxiaInventors: Ethan Sun, Dean Lee, Rajesh Paramasivan, Victor Alston
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Patent number: 8665890Abstract: A Hybrid Cross-Layer Routing (HCLR) protocol designed and implemented based on the premise of being able to leverage a pair of proactive and reactive routing schemes in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs) which is used to compensate against wireless link effects thereby allowing for making more intelligent routing decisions. Compared to standalone proactive or reactive routing protocols, HCLR provides a two-tier improvement logic by performing local on-demand search in an n-hop neighborhood utilizing a 2-tuple cross-layer routing metric. HCLR is implemented in a Linux Quagga suite and its performance improvements compared to OSPF MANET Designated Routing (MDR) through emulation studies is demonstrated.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2012Date of Patent: March 4, 2014Assignee: The Regents of the University of CaliforniaInventors: Homayoun Yousefi'zadeh, Xiaolong Li
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Patent number: 8665744Abstract: A WiFi-enabled embedded device boots as a first access point. The WiFi-enabled embedded device communicates with a first wireless station to receive configuration parameters while continuing to operate as an access point. The WiFi-enabled embedded device then applies the configuration parameters internally to cause the WiFi-enabled embedded device to operate as a second wireless station. In an embodiment, the first wireless station discovers a configuration service advertized by the WiFi-enabled embedded device using mDN/DNS-SD, and automatically provides the configuration parameters to the WiFi-enabled embedded device. Convenient provisioning of the WiFi-enabled embedded device is thus made possible.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2012Date of Patent: March 4, 2014Assignee: Gainspan CorporationInventors: Prashant Viswanathan, Greg Winner, Pankaj Vyas
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Patent number: 8665813Abstract: The invention relates methods for triggering channel quality feedback for at least one of plural component carriers of a communication system available for downlink transmission. The invention suggests a mechanism for triggering channel quality feedback from a terminal where the downlink control signaling overhead for the selection of component carrier(s) to be reported on is minimized. One aspect of the invention is a new interpretation of a predetermined format for dedicated control information comprising a CQI request flag, which is depending on the status of the CQI request flag. In case the CQI request flag is set at least one further bit of the dedicated control information is interpreted as information indicative of the one or more component carriers available for downlink transmission to the terminal and the terminal is providing channel quality feedback on the channel quality experienced on the indicated component carrier or component carriers.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2010Date of Patent: March 4, 2014Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventor: Alexander Golitschek Edler Von Elbwart
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Patent number: 8665711Abstract: A first network device creates a protection path to a second network device associated with a first service site, and creates a pseudowire between the first service site and a second service site via the first network device and the second network device. The first network device also detects a failure between the first network device and the first service site, and forwards traffic, provided by the pseudowire between the first service site and the second service site, via the protection path. The second network device uses the traffic on the protection path as a trigger to activate a link between the second network device and the first service site.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2012Date of Patent: March 4, 2014Assignee: Juniper Networks, Inc.Inventors: Bhupesh Kothari, Nischal Sheth
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Patent number: 8654727Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method and system for transmitting a position reference signal, which includes: acquiring a currently needed Position Reference Signal (PRS) sequence with a length of 2×NRBPRS, wherein NRBPRS is the PRS bandwidth configured by high layer signaling, which is represented by a unit of a resource block; determining the position of the PRS sequence in a physical resource block; and transmitting the acquired PRS sequence on the determined position. With the method of the present disclosure, a currently needed PRS sequence is acquired directly, or at first, a PRS sequence with the maximum length is generated, and then the currently needed PRS sequence is intercepted from the PRS sequence with the maximum length. The present disclosure ensures that an effective PRS sequence can be acquired in any circumstance, thereby ensuring the realization of the positioning function of the PRS.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2009Date of Patent: February 18, 2014Assignee: ZTE CorporationInventors: Bo Dai, Guanghui Yu, Weijun Li, Xun Yang
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Patent number: 8644164Abstract: Systems and techniques are described which improve performance, reliability, and predictability of networks without having costly hardware upgrades or replacement of existing network equipment. An adaptive communication controller provides WAN performance and utilization measurements to another network node over multiple parallel communication paths across disparate asymmetric networks which vary in behavior frequently over time. An egress processor module receives communication path quality reports and tagged path packet data and generates accurate arrival times, send times, sequence numbers and unutilized byte counts for the tagged packets. A control module generates path quality reports describing performance of the multiple parallel communication paths based on the received information and generates heartbeat packets for transmission on the multiple parallel communication paths if no other tagged data has been received in a predetermined period of time to ensure performance is continually monitored.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2012Date of Patent: February 4, 2014Assignee: Talari Networks IncorporatedInventors: John Earnest Averi, Stephen Craig Connors, John Edward Dickey, Andrew Joshua Gottlieb
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Patent number: 8638761Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to systems, devices, and methods for communicating over a plurality of tones and spatial streams. Modulation symbols may be mapped to tones and spatial streams so as to increase frequency and/or spatial diversity without substantially increasing latency. For certain aspects, this interleaving approach may be performed on low-density parity-check (LDPC) codewords.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2011Date of Patent: January 28, 2014Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Mohammad Hossein Taghavi Nasrabadi, Vincent Knowles Jones, Didier Johannes Richard Van Nee, Geert Arnout Awater
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Patent number: 8634429Abstract: An apparatus comprising a wireless modem for use at a terminal, the modem being adapted to connect to the terminal via a first connection, and to connect via a second, wireless connection to a gateway between a wireless cellular network and a further, packet-based network. The modem is operable to connect to the gateway via the second connection using a point-to-point link protocol that does not require a physical address for the gateway, and is operable to connect to the host terminal via the first connection using a point-to-multipoint link protocol that supports point-to-multipoint connection and does require a physical address for the gateway. The modem is configured to intercept a message being conveyed between the gateway and the terminal, to generate a substitute address that identifies an interface of the modem, and in response to intercepting the message to communicate the substitute address to the terminal.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2011Date of Patent: January 21, 2014Assignee: NVIDIAInventors: Bruno De Smet, Flavien Delorme
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Patent number: 8634440Abstract: An integrated circuit including multiple instances of identical processing circuitry may be modelled within a field programmable gate array integrated circuit by second processing circuitry connected via a multiplexer to first processing circuitry and operating at a multiple of the clock frequency of the first processing circuitry. Demultiplexing circuitry is used to reform the multiple outputs of the respective separate instances to be fed back to the first processing circuitry.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2010Date of Patent: January 21, 2014Assignee: ARM LimitedInventors: Spencer J Saunders, Liam Dillon, Rafal J Janta
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Patent number: 8634323Abstract: Base station simulcast controller module apparatuses are adapted to send a message to the base station controller to direct the base station controller to send downlink packets across each of the plurality of base stations for simulcast with a common sector identity (ID). One or more simulcasting control instructions may be sent to the plurality of base stations to facilitate simulcasting with the sector ID from the plurality of base stations. Methods for facilitating simulcasting and de-simulcasting at a plurality of base stations include sending a message to a base station controller to direct the base station controller to send downlink packets across each of a plurality of base stations for simulcast with a common sector identity (ID). One or more simulcasting control instructions are also sent to the plurality of base stations to facilitate simulcasting with the sector ID from the plurality of base stations.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 2012Date of Patent: January 21, 2014Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Joseph B. Soriaga, Christopher Gerard Lott, Rashid Ahmed Akbar Attar
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Patent number: 8619735Abstract: Example methods and apparatus to register with external networks in wireless network environments are disclosed. A disclosed example method involves sending a registration request from the device to a network entity and receiving a registration response at the device. The registration response indicates one or more registration plans. The example method also involves selecting a registration plan from the one or more registration plans and sending registration information associated with the device to the network entity. The registration information is selected based on the selected registration plan.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2010Date of Patent: December 31, 2013Assignee: BlackBerry LimitedInventors: Michael Montemurro, Stephen McCann
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Patent number: 8614943Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a method and an apparatus for protecting a subscriber access network, and relate to the field of communications. The method includes: connecting a Broadband Network Gateway BNG device and N predetermined Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexers DSLAMs to an aggregation device AGG; allocating an active BNG interface for each of the N DSLAMs, allocating a standby BNG interface set for the N DSLAMs to obtain a backup relationship, and sending the backup relationship to the AGG (102); and backing up subscriber data on the DSLAMs to the standby BNG interface set, so that when an active BNG interface fails, the AGG switches subscribers on a DSLAM served by the failed active BNG interface to a standby BNG interface in the standby BNG interface set.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2012Date of Patent: December 24, 2013Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventors: Changtai Li, Dong Yang, Guangyu Sun