Patents Examined by Kevin Cunningham
  • Patent number: 10205564
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving a packet via high speed downlink packet access (HSDPA) are disclosed. At least one HSDPA medium access control (MAC-hs) service data unit (SDU) is segmented into a plurality of segments. MAC-hs protocol data units (PDUs) are generated from the segments wherein each MAC-hs PDU includes at least one segment. Each MAC-hs PDU may include one segment from a single MAC-hs SDU. The size of the segments may match to the size of the MAC-hs PDUs minus the size of the header of the MAC-hs PDU. The sizes of the segments may be determined based on the number of segments to which the MAC-hs SDU is segmented. Alternatively, each MAC-hs PDU may include a combination of segments from a plurality of MAC-hs SDUs or a combination of at least one segment from one MAC-hs SDU and at least one entire MAC-hs SDU.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: InterDigital Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Christopher R. Cave, Paul Marinier, Stuart T. Burchill, Vincent Roy
  • Patent number: 10182420
    Abstract: In one aspect thereof the exemplary embodiments provide a method that includes, when in a time division duplex mode of operation with a user equipment, allocating physical uplink control channel resources by reserving physical uplink control channel resources with a granularity of one acknowledge/negative acknowledge (ACK/NACK) bundle; and sending an indication of the allocated physical uplink control channel resources from a network access node to the user equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2019
    Assignee: Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy
    Inventors: Esa Tapani Tiirola, Chun Yan Gao, Peng Chen
  • Patent number: 10159100
    Abstract: There is provided a mechanism for establishing a single PDN connection with plural IP addresses and breakout or terminating points. When a communication connection provided with multiple IP addresses via a multi-address bearer connection is established, an indication is prepared for indicating a terminating point represented by a network element of the cellular communication network where data traffic, based on one of the multiple IP addresses, is branched to another network being different to the cellular communication network by means of an IP based communication link The indication element is sent to the communication network by means of a PDCP signaling e.g. as a new PDU type code. In the network, it is decided whether a local receiving network element is indicated as a terminating point, wherein in this case a breakout connection to another network being different to the cellular communication network by the IP based communication link is established.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2018
    Assignee: NOKIA SOLUTIONS AND NETWORKS OY
    Inventors: Jouni Korhonen, Teemu Savolainen, Gyorgy Tamas Wolfner
  • Patent number: 10154414
    Abstract: A first finite resource allocation request is received at a finite resources allocation server from a first client network node requesting a first amount of a given type of finite resource for use by the first client network node. A first allocated amount of the given type of finite resource is first allocated to the first client network node. The first allocating allocates the first allocated amount at least on the basis of a previously allocated first amount. A second finite resource allocation request is received at the finite resources allocation server from a second client network node requesting a second amount of the given type of finite resource. A second allocated amount of the given type of finite resource is second allocated to the second client network node. The second allocating allocates the second allocated amount at least on the basis of a previously allocated second amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: METASWITCH NETWORKS LTD.
    Inventors: George Malcolm Gilbert, Ryan Peter Norris
  • Patent number: 10149205
    Abstract: A method and system of bearer management signalling in a communication network comprising of transporting bearer resource request message of both the UE and RN via DeNB to managing entity of UE within EPC, as a signalling message over uplink channel referred to as “Union of Resource Request” (UR Request)' message. The bearer resource response message from one of the managing entity of UE or managing entities of UE and RN within EPC are transported as a signalling message to Evolved Packet Edge (EPE) via DeNB over the downlink channel referred to as “Independent Admission Response” (IA Response). This manages bearer setup signalling as a single loop, by transportation of “UR Request” signalling message over uplink and receiving one “IA Response” signalling message over downlink channels. EPE is a conglomeration of network nodes comprising of UEs, RNs and all other network nodes that communicate over EPC via DeNB.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: TEJAS NETWORKS LTD.
    Inventors: Kumar Rohit, R C Sanil, Kumar M Vinod
  • Patent number: 10129731
    Abstract: Network hardware devices organized in a wireless mesh network (WMN) in which one network hardware devices includes multiple radios. A processing device of a first network hardware device scans a channel of the first radio for access point (AP) beacon frames that each contains information identifying a mesh network device in a WMN. The processing device creates a list of a plurality of mesh network device from the AP beacon frames and transmits a location probe transmission by each of the plurality of radios one sector at a time in a neighbor discovery process. The processing device receives metrics of the location probe transmissions received by the plurality of mesh network devices in the neighbor discovery process and configures each of the plurality of radios to communicate with one of a set of neighbor mesh network devices using the metrics in a neighbor selection process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Lori Yoshida, Andrew David Price, Varadaranjan Gopalakrishnan, Yi Zhu, Sheung Mei Chan
  • Patent number: 10117193
    Abstract: The invention relates to methods for adjusting the transmit power utilized by a mobile terminal for uplink transmissions, and to methods for adjusting the transmit power used by a mobile terminal for one or more RACH procedures. The invention is also providing apparatus and system for performing these methods, and computer readable media the instructions of which cause the apparatus and system to perform the methods described herein. In order to allow for adjusting the transmit power of uplink transmissions on uplink component carriers, the invention suggests introducing a power scaling for uplink PRACH transmissions performing RACH procedures on an uplink component carrier. The power scaling is proposed on the basis of a prioritization among multiple uplink transmissions or on the basis of the uplink component carriers on which RACH procedures are performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: Sun Patent Trust
    Inventors: Martin Feuersaenger, Joachim Loehr, Takahisa Aoyama
  • Patent number: 10104530
    Abstract: An information query method, including sending, by a first device, a data-excluded information query request frame, where the data-excluded information query request frame includes first control information and a first hash value; receiving, by the first device, a data-excluded information query response frame sent by a second device. The data-excluded information query response frame includes second control information, a second hash value, and an address of the second device. The method also includes sending, by the first device, a data-contained information query request frame to the second device when the first device determines that a third hash value is consistent with the second hash value, so that the second device responds to the data-contained information query request frame when receiving the data-contained information query request frame. Correspondingly, the present disclosure further provides a related device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: HUAWEI DEVICE (DONGGUAN) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ji Chen, Zhiming Ding, Zhenguo Du
  • Patent number: 10098091
    Abstract: A method and apparatus perform Uplink (UL) beam tracking in a beamforming-based wireless communication system. A Mobile Station (MS) repeatedly transmits code sequences mapped respectively to MS transmit beams through each MS transmit beam as many times as the number of Base Station (BS) receive beams while sweeping the MS transmit beams. The MS receives, from a BS, transmit beam information indicating at least one best transmit beam selected from the MS transmit beams by the BS, and allocation information used to allocate UL resources for UL feedback. The MS transmits best beam information indicating the at least one best transmit beam and a MS identifier to the BS using the UL resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ji-Yun Seol, Tae-Young Kim, Hyun-Kyu Yu
  • Patent number: 10075854
    Abstract: Some embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method for managing access points in a Wi-Fi network by using a centralized controller. In some embodiments of the present disclosure, a Wi-Fi access point management method is provided for minimizing interference between Wi-Fi access points in a Wi-Fi network environment, and for reducing excessive power consumption by using a centralized controller to adapt to network conditions, meeting requirements including users' traffic demands.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: Korea Advanced Institute Of Science and Technology
    Inventors: Song Chong, Jin Woo Shin, Ki Min Lee
  • Patent number: 10075949
    Abstract: A method and apparatus provide for low latency transmissions. A resource assignment can be received. A first set of time-frequency resources in a subframe can be determined from the resource assignment. A second set of time-frequency resources in the subframe can be determined. The second set of time-frequency resources can be for a low latency data transmission. The second set of time-frequency resources can overlap with at least a portion of the first set of time-frequency resources. A regular latency data transmission in the subframe can be decoded based on the determined first and second set of time-frequency resources. The regular latency transmission can have a longer latency than the low latency transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: Motorola Mobility LLC
    Inventors: Ravi Kuchibhotla, Robert T. Love, Vijay Nangia, Ravikiran Nory, Ajit Nimbalker
  • Patent number: 10039028
    Abstract: Examples of methods, systems, and computer program products relating to supervising data in a wireless network are disclosed. At least part of a system may be located between a packet data network and a base station, and/or may be at least logically separate from the base station. The system may be capable of evaluating the service provided by the base station, and may be capable of determining whether or not any action should consequently be performed. Examples of an action may include an action which may not necessarily affect en-route data packets such as outputting a report, and/or an action which may affect en-route data packets such as delaying packets, not delaying packets, and/or stopping the delaying of packets. An action which affects data packets may or may not affect data packets uniformly. An action may or may not result in an improvement in quality of user experience.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2018
    Assignee: VASONA NETWORKS INC.
    Inventors: Ofer Weill, Michael Ben-Nun, Roni Bar Yanai
  • Patent number: 10027388
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure describe systems and methods for precoding wireless transmissions. Various embodiments may precode rank-one or rank-two wireless transmissions onto four antennas. Various embodiments may precode wireless transmissions using a precoding matrix selected from a group of matrices, wherein different groups of matrices differ in total angular region, number of beams, or angular distance between beams. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: Intel IP Corporation
    Inventors: Yuan Zhu, Qinghua Li, Xiaogang Chen
  • Patent number: 9986534
    Abstract: The present document provides a method for determining transport block size (TBS), a base station and a terminal, including: a terminal receives downlink control signaling transmitted by a base station, obtains a combination of I?TBS and N?PRB, {ITBS, N?PRB}, and selects a mapping way to determine transport block size according to {I?TBS, N?PRB}, wherein, the mapping way includes at least one of following rules: a first rule, using high-layer TBS to obtain low-layer TBS according to I?TBS, N?PRB}; a second rule, obtaining TBS according to the {I?TBS, N?PRB} and a mapping relationship table pre-created; a third rule, determining a mapping factor according to the {I?TBS, N?PRB}, obtaining {ITBS, NPRB} according to the {I?TBS, N?PRB} and mapping factor, then determining TBS according to the {ITBS, NPRB} and a related {ITBS, NPRB} and TBS mapping relationship table, wherein the mapping factor is a real number greater than 0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Zewei Chen, Bo Dai, Jun Xu, Jin Xu, Wei Gou, Zhisong Zuo
  • Patent number: 9985855
    Abstract: Described are: a method, an apparatus, and a tangible computer-readable storage medium comprising instructions to instruct one or more processors to carry out a method. One set of methods is for the transmit side of a communication link and another set of methods is for the receive side. A transmit side method includes assigning one of a set of classifications to media, e.g., voice/audio packets transmitted in a sequence, different classifications impacting differently a measure of perceptual quality calculated at the receive side if packets of the respective classifications are lost. A present packet is sent to the receive side containing the classification of a previous packet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
    Inventors: Glenn N. Dickins, Hannes Muesch
  • Patent number: 9961638
    Abstract: A wireless device and a method for controlling Discontinuous Reception (DRX) in the wireless device. The wireless device is capable of cellular and Device to Device (D2D) communication. The method comprises: when receiving a first uplink cellular communication grant, activating, for a first period of time (t1), a DRX-wake state for a cellular DRX configuration during which DRX-wake state the wireless device is configured to receive a second uplink cellular communication grant, and when receiving a first D2D communication grant, activating, for a second period of time (t2), the DRX-wake state for a D2D DRX configuration, wherein the D2D DRX configuration is separate from the cellular DRX configuration, and during which DRX-wake state the wireless device is configured to receive a second D2D communication grant. Thereby the wireless device is capable of controlling DRX using both the cellular DRX configuration and the D2D DRX configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Qianxi Lu, Qingyu Miao
  • Patent number: 9942152
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for forwarding data packets in a service network using a service-based policy. A gateway node may receive data packets from a service session and send the data packets for a forwarding node. The forwarding node may match the service session data packet against a service address and forwarding policy, the forwarding policy being based on capabilities and service configurations of the servicing nodes in the service network. Forwarding node may then forward the service session data packet to a servicing node in accordance with the forwarding policy, and send the service session data packet to a server for processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: A10 NETWORKS, INC.
    Inventors: Rajkumar Jalan, Gurudeep Kamat, Swaminathan Sankar, Hasnain Karampurwala
  • Patent number: 9918285
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method and user equipment of uplink power control. The method comprises the steps of: UE determines the target transmission power of uplink signal which transmitted on each synchronization uplink component carrier of current uplink sub-frame; Judging whether PRACH transmission exists on uplink secondary component carrier of current uplink sub-frame; If judged that there is, determining the PRACH target transmission power, and further judging that whether the sum of the uplink signal power and the PRACH target transmission power exceeds the maximum transmission power of UE; If judged exceeded, holding the PRACH target transmission power constant, and reducing the target transmission power of all or part of SC-FDMA symbol of uplink signal which is contained in current uplink sub-frame and needed to reduce power. The technical scheme of present invention is using for uplink power control when PRACH signal is overlap with other uplink signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: China Academy of Telecommunications Technology
    Inventors: Xuejuan Gao, Yanan Lin, Zukang Shen
  • Patent number: 9912606
    Abstract: An apparatus and method of communication in a network includes a hub having a burst time plan generating section to generate a burst time plan including time slot allocation information that allocated transmission time slots in a subsequent frame to remote terminals. The allocation information identifies at least one time slot in the subsequent frame as a dummy time slot assigned to at least one remote terminal already acquired in the network. The hub also includes a transmitter to transmit the burst time plan including the allocation information. A corresponding remote terminal and computer readable media are also discussed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignee: VT IDIRECT, INC
    Inventors: David Thompson Nemeth, Jason B Maiorana, Sadaf Fardeen
  • Patent number: 9877316
    Abstract: The invention relates to a new structure of a control channel region within a sub-frame of a 3GPP-based based communication system using OFDM in the downlink. This new structure of a control channel region is inter alia particularly suitable for conveying physical downlink control channel information from a donor eNodeB to a relay node. The control channel region is divided in CCEs that have equal size irrespective of the presence of further cell-specific and/or UE-specific reference signals within the control channel region. This is achieved by dividing the control channel region in plural sub-CCEs that are combined to CCEs all having equal size (in terms of resource elements that can be used for the signaling of control information). The control channel region is divided in the frequency domain and/or time domain in a FDM respectively TDM fashion in order to obtain the sub-CCEs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2018
    Assignee: SUN PATENT TRUST
    Inventors: Sujuan Feng, Alexander Golitschek Edler Von Elbwart, Christian Wengerter