Patents Examined by Kerri Rose
  • Patent number: 8817732
    Abstract: A method for transmitting a relay node specific downlink physical control channel (R-PDCCH) at a base station in a wireless communication system is disclosed. More specifically, the method includes the steps of allocating one or more Resource Blocks (RBs) for the relay node specific downlink physical control channel, mapping the relay node specific downlink physical control channel to the one or more resource blocks, and transmitting the relay node specific downlink physical control channel to the relay node by using the one or more resource blocks, wherein the mapping step includes mapping the relay node specific downlink physical control channel along a frequency direction in a symbol belonging to a lowermost index, among the one or more resource blocks, and then mapping the relay node specific downlink physical control channel along the frequency direction in a symbol belonging to a next index.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Hak Seong Kim, Byoung Hoon Kim, Dae Won Lee, Ki Jun Kim
  • Patent number: 8817616
    Abstract: In a node device 1 in a communication network, an FID management table 5 stores an FID for unique identification of a frame and the information about a destination node of the frame, and a weighting table 7 stores weighting information about another node as a destination for relay of the frame for each final destination node of the frame. When a frame transmitted to a local node is received, and if the FID of the received frame is stored in the FID management table 5, the data about the destination node associated with the FID is updated. If the FID of the frame received from the frame reception device is not stored in the FID management table 5, the FID management table 5 corresponding to the destination node of the frame is referred to, and another node as a destination for relay of the frame is determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Tadashige Iwao, Kentaro Masubuchi, Chiaki Nakajima, Kentaro Ikemoto, Syunsuke Koga, Yuji Takahashi
  • Patent number: 8811426
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with bandwidth switching are described. According to one embodiment, an apparatus includes a transceiver configured to operate at a first bandwidth. A bandwidth controller is configured to detect an operating condition of the apparatus and select a second bandwidth from a plurality of available bandwidths based on the operating condition, and cause the transceiver to temporarily operate at the second bandwidth and then cause the transceiver to subsequently operate at the first bandwidth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: Marvell International Ltd.
    Inventor: Raja Banerjea
  • Patent number: 8811170
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for controlling the maximum bit rate for a bearer used for data transmission over a packet-switched network using a specified access point for a group of mobile entities. A PDN gateway enforces the maximum bit rate for the group, the APN group AMBR. This is possible as all mobile entities belonging to said group are connected to the same PDN gateway for a certain access point name APN. This is obtained by providing a PDN gateway information into an update location acknowledgement message sent from the HSS to the MME.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (Publ)
    Inventors: Xuejun Cai, Yuxi Shen
  • Patent number: 8804648
    Abstract: A mobile station apparatus can stably communicate with a base station apparatus even when interference occurs due to a signal from another apparatus in a part of a frequency band used for communication. A second base station apparatus communicates with the mobile station apparatus using a common frequency band, which is all or part of a frequency band to be used for communication by the first base station apparatus, and a dedicated frequency band to be unused by the first base station apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Koichi Tsunekawa
  • Patent number: 8792345
    Abstract: One or more mobile devices capable of establishing wireless communication a public packet network independently of a network access device in a local environment is used to provide additional bandwidth for the local environment. Some traffic that would normally be routed over the backhaul connected to the network access device, such as a fixed wireless terminal, is sent to the mobile device and after address translation sent to the public network over the backhaul connection associated with the mobile device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Oscar Zee, Hannes Medelius, Jari Vikberg
  • Patent number: 8792423
    Abstract: In a method of controlling RRC (Radio Resource Control) state switching in a wireless communication system, adaptively controlling (S40) RRC state switching between an idle state and a connected state for a user equipment based on at least a detected mobility measure for said user equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Qianxi Lu, Rui Fan
  • Patent number: 8787345
    Abstract: The present invention relates a voice communication method between a plurality of users sharing the same transmission band. The resource is accessed by time division under the supervision of a control node. During a polling step, any user wishing to speak transmits (210) a request to the control node. The control node allocates (220) transmission frames to the requesting users or merely to some of these users. Users allocated a transmission frame can then transmit (230) a voice packet to the respectively allocated frames thereof. The transmission frames are interleaved temporally so as to give the impression of full-duplex communication during voice reproduction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives
    Inventors: Giorgio Corbellini, Emilio Calvanese Strinati
  • Patent number: 8780931
    Abstract: A switch includes network ports and a network processor with a fabric interface that provides SerDes (Serializer/Deserializer) channels. The network processor divides each packet received over the network ports into cells and distributes the cells across the SerDes channels. Fabric ports of the switch communicate with the fabric interface to transmit cells to and receive cells from the fabric interface. The switch is selectively configurable as a standalone switch by connecting each fabric port of the switch to another of the fabric ports of the switch, as a member of a switch stack by connecting each fabric port of the switch to a different other switch through one fabric port of that other switch, or as a member of a distributed fabric system by connecting each fabric port of the switch to a different scaled-out fabric coupler (SFC) chassis by an SFC fabric port of that SFC chassis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Sushma Anantharam, Alexander Philip Campbell, Keshav Govind Kamble, Dar-Ren Leu, Vijoy A. Pandey, Nandakumar Peethambaram
  • Patent number: 8780846
    Abstract: Provided is a compact base station apparatus (HeNB) whereby frame timing can precisely be synchronized between HeNB and MeNB, thereby suppressing the interference in an upstream channel. In HeNB (100), which forms a cell smaller than a cell formed by MeNB, frame timing detecting unit (111) detects, based on a sync signal received from MeNB, the frame timing of MeNB; a control unit (116) uses the frame timing of MeNB to set the frame timing of a downstream channel in HeNB (100); a transmission RF unit (118) transmits, in accordance with the frame timing of the downstream channel in HeNB (100), a preamble to MeNB; and a TA command extracting unit (114) acquires, from a response signal responsive to the preamble, information indicating a difference in frame timing between MeNB and HeNB (100).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiko Nanri, Jifeng Li, Yoshiharu Ohsaki, Ichirou Inaba
  • Patent number: 8774208
    Abstract: Some implementations of the present invention provide mechanisms for gating the transmission of FIN and other short overhead messages of the like in order to improve spectral efficiency. In some implementations spectral efficiency is improved by reducing the number of air-link connections established to merely transmit FIN and other short overhead messages of the like. In one implementation FIN messages are buffered in a queue and transmitted when an air-link connection is established to transmit higher value messages. In one implementation FIN messages are buffered and transmitted when the contents of the buffer breach a threshold that justifies the establishment of an air-link connection to transmit the contents of the buffer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Rashid Ahmed Akbar Attar, Christopher Gerard Lott, Donna Ghosh, Linhai He, George Cherian
  • Patent number: 8774202
    Abstract: The subject matter described herein includes methods, systems, and computer readable media for generating GTP encapsulated RTP packets in an LTE node simulator. According to one method, and LTE node simulator uses a first processing unit to generate prepackaged headers for RTP payloads. The first processing unit communicates the prepackaged headers to a second processing unit separate from the first processing unit within the LTE node simulator. The second processing unit assembles GTP packets by combining the prepackaged headers with the RTP payloads. The second processing unit transmits the GTP packets to a device under test.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: Ixia
    Inventors: Andrei Mihail Sandu, Catalina Macalet, Claudia Ioana Tanase, Radu Bulboaca
  • Patent number: 8767664
    Abstract: Provided are a mobile terminal apparatus, a radio base station apparatus and a radio communication method, capable of saving PHICH resources enough and realizing effective retransmission control of uplink SU-MIMO. The radio communication method of the present invention is characterized in that a radio base station apparatus receives signals of plural codewords, when there is an error in each of the codewords, generates a one-bit negative response physical HARQ indicator channel signal and transmits the physical HARQ indicator channel signal, and a mobile terminal apparatus receives the physical HARQ indicator channel signal and transmits retransmission signals of all the codewords to the radio base station apparatus based on the negative response physical HARQ indicator channel signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Hidekazu Taoka, Nobuhiko Miki, Teruo Kawamura, Yuichi Kakishima
  • Patent number: 8767770
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for selecting a data transfer method in a telecommunication system wherein several data transfer methods exist for selection. The method comprises determining a message to be transmitted on the basis of inputs received from a user. At least one piece of property information concerning the message being entered or already entered is checked. In order to transmit the message, the data transfer method associated in predetermined selection conditions with the property information is selected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignee: Nokia Corporation
    Inventor: Jussi Maaniitty
  • Patent number: 8761005
    Abstract: A data communication network includes a client device and multiple aggregation devices coupled to each other and the client via links within a link aggregation group (“LAG”) across the aggregation devices. The aggregation devices appear to the client as a single device coupled thereto, and operate in conjunction with each other by assigning at least one different identifier to each of the plurality of separate aggregation devices and storing information including the identifiers to association tables located on each of the aggregation devices. The multiple aggregation devices can be separate switches, and the LAG can include multiple ports across the switches, with a different identifier being assigned to each of the ports in the LAG. A virtual link trunk interface can couple aggregation devices, which can reconfigure communication paths thereacross with respect to the client device using the identifiers in the stored association tables when a LAG link fails.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventor: Krishnamurthy Subramanian
  • Patent number: 8761120
    Abstract: A method of handling cell change for a mobile device employing a high speed downlink package access (HSDPA) technology in wireless communication systems. The method includes initiating a handover procedure to change a serving cell of the mobile device when the mobile device moves from a HSDPA cell into another HSDPA cell, performing a physical channel reconfiguration procedure from a high speed physical downlink shared channel (HS-PDSCH) to a dedicated physical data channel (DPDCH), wherein the physical channel reconfiguration procedure is initiated via a Radio Network Controller (RNC), and performing the handover procedure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignee: Wistron Corporation
    Inventors: Chwu-Wuang Hsieh, Cheng-Ying Hsieh, Kuo-Hao Hung
  • Patent number: 8755263
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a device and method for optimal estimation of the distortion caused by the transmission medium by means of the sequential emission of pairs of quadrature complementary sequences, estimating the frequency spectrum of a transmission channel allows obtaining information of considerable interest to analyze its characteristics or correcting the distortion effects introduced in a communication system. This invention describes a new method for extracting said characteristics generating a transmission preamble using complementary sequences, which allows upon reception identifying the distortion caused in each of the I/Q phases of a quadrature modulation system on the transmitted symbols, canceling the phase distortion effects caused by the medium and reducing the equalization of the channel to a single equalizing baseband filter identical for both I2/Q2 phases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2014
    Inventors: Vicente Diaz Fuente, Daniel Hernanz Chiloeches, Jesus Berian Mugica
  • Patent number: 8755292
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for controlling uplink transmission power in a communication system are provided. In the method, transmission power of an uplink data channel signal is determined according to an Open Loop Power Control (OLPC) scheme and transmission power of an uplink control channel signal is determined according to a Closed Loop Power Control (CLPC) scheme.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jeong-Ho Park, Jae-Hee Cho, Hyun-Kyu Yu
  • Patent number: 8750137
    Abstract: A communication line is installed in a network by automating a design phase and a configuration phase for the service and by automating failure recovery in either of the phases. In the design phase, an optimal route for the communication line is found, and the network components are provisioned and assigned. If the assigned network components are not available or can not be validated, the components causing the failure are marked, and the design phase is retried without the marked components. After the design phase, the configuration phase begins. The circuit design is tested against actual network components. If the test is passed, the actual network is configured according to the circuit design and the circuit is activated. If there is a network component failure during the configuration phase, the good route elements in the design are released while the failed network components are marked. The design phase is retried.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignee: Level 3 Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Richard L. Wall, Gary L. Ryczek, James A. Loukatos, Alex J. Henes, Jeffrey L. Martin, Brett P. Hollman, Thomas G. Hoople, George T. Joseph, Troy Kau
  • Patent number: 8750154
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for supporting a discontinuous reception (DRX) operation in a Node B in a mobile communication system are provided. The method includes defining a second System Frame Number (SFN) where one cycle of a first SFN corresponds to one bit, transmitting information on the second SFN to a User Equipment (UE), determining a second SFN which is used to transmit a paging signal to the UE, determining a first SFN which is used to transmit the paging signal in the determined second SFN, and transmitting the paging signal to the UE at the determined first SFN.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sang-Bum Kim, Sung-Ho Choi, Soeng-Hun Kim, Kyeong-In Jeong, Jung-Soo Jung, Chae-Gwon Lim