Patents Examined by Kiet Tang
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Patent number: 8832316Abstract: Communication systems and methods for enhancing communications between users featuring a central service which formats messages into a printer-friendly format. The format of the delivered message is based on preference settings established by the recipient or an authorized agent of the recipient. The messages are delivered to a device, such as a printer. Messages can be sent to the service in any format and can include text, photographs, URLs, and/or a variety of file types. The messages are then parsed by the service and formatted for delivery to the device.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2005Date of Patent: September 9, 2014Assignee: Presto Services Inc.Inventors: Joseph M. Beninato, Martin Mazner, Heidi Kay Carson, David A. Chavez
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Patent number: 8830848Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed herein for adjusting a control channel timer based on control communication traffic on a control channel. In a particular embodiment, a method provides exchanging data packets with a wireless network over a wireless traffic channel assigned to a wireless device. The method further provides monitoring control communications from the wireless network over a wireless control channel and adjusting a control channel timer that indicates a time period that the wireless device should continue to monitor the control communications based on a level of control communication traffic. The method further provides releasing the assigned traffic channel in response to the expiration of a dormancy timer. In response to the release of the traffic channel, the method provides starting the control channel timer. In response to the expiration of the control channel timer, the method provides stopping the monitoring of the control communication traffic.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2010Date of Patent: September 9, 2014Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.Inventors: Manoj Shetty, Anoop Kumar Goyal, Sachin R. Vargantwar, Siddharth S. Oroskar
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Patent number: 8812683Abstract: Receiving and executing at a server a script provided by a client, e.g., in a service request sent by a web services or other service client and/or consumer, is disclosed. In various embodiments, the script is configured to cause the server to do one or more of the following: pre-process at least a portion of the services request; post-process a response data associated with the services request; and replace an operation comprising the service at least in part with a replacement operation defined or identified at least in part in the script.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2013Date of Patent: August 19, 2014Assignee: EMC CorporationInventors: Alex Rankov, Victor Spivak, Donald Peter Robertson
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Patent number: 8797996Abstract: An inter-network packet transmission method and system in a vertical handover between the two different technology networks is provided. An inter-network packet transmission method includes tunneling between gateways of heterogeneous networks though an interface, updating a routing table of at least one of the gateways by exchanging information through the interface, and transmitting packets to a user equipment based the at least one updated routing table.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2008Date of Patent: August 5, 2014Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventor: Chi Won Choi
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Patent number: 8780835Abstract: There are provided measures for channel access control. Such measures may exemplarily comprise obtaining a contention window assignment including at least an assignment of a size of a contention window for contention-based channel access, accessing at least one logical channel in a contention-based manner according to the contention window assignment, including allocating resources to the at least one logical channel for data transmission, and modifying the size of the contention window based on a result of the resource allocation in terms of an aggregated bit rate allocated for data transmission and an aggregate target bit rate requirement of prioritized bit rates of the at least one logical channel.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2011Date of Patent: July 15, 2014Assignee: Broadcom CorporationInventors: Sami-Jukka Hakola, Timo K. Koskela, Samuli Turtinen
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Patent number: 8767612Abstract: Provided area wireless communication apparatus and wireless communication control method, which are capable of preventing concentration of the data delivery requests from the wireless communication terminal apparatuses and thus reducing power consumption occurring when the wireless communication terminal waits for data delivery. AID managing section (201) divides the wireless LAN terminals associated with the access point into a plurality of groups and manages the grouped wireless LAN terminals using the group AID, and extension TIM generating section (207) generates extension TIM indicating that data addressed to the wireless LAN terminal is stored for each group. Extension TIM generating section (207) transmits the extension TIM to the subordinate wireless LAN terminal at timing shifted for each group.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2011Date of Patent: July 1, 2014Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventor: Hirokazu Kobayashi
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Patent number: 8751611Abstract: A digital downloading jukebox system including a mechanism for delivering custom services to a recognized user, including services for creating playlists, communicating with others, accessing other features, etc. is provided. In some exemplary embodiments, after a user is recognized, the jukebox system allows users to access a special front-end via an Internet-enabled device or on an actual jukebox. Then, the user may, for example, create playlists, share songs with friends, send messages to friends, and access other value-added content. Such a system preferably learns about networks of friends, and enables managers to send similar messages to regular customers and/or others known to the system. In some exemplary embodiments, changes via a first user interface on a first device are reflected on second user interface on other properly-configured devices.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2013Date of Patent: June 10, 2014Assignee: Touchtunes Music CorporationInventors: Guy Nathan, Dominique Dion
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Patent number: 8743824Abstract: The present invention relates to a wireless communication system, and discloses a method and apparatus for transmitting/receiving a signal in a wireless communication system that supports multi-user MIMO transmission. According to one embodiment of the present invention, a method in which a mobile station receives a signal in a wireless communication system that supports multi-user MIMO transmission, comprises: a step of receiving information on the entirety of the transmission rank of the multi-user MIMO transmission; a step of receiving a reference signal and data for demodulation for the mobile station on the basis of the information on the entirety of the transmission rank; a step of acquiring channel information on the mobile station from the reference signal for demodulation; and a step of demodulating said data on the basis of the acquired channel information.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2010Date of Patent: June 3, 2014Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Hyun Soo Ko, Jae Hoon Chung, Bin Chul Ihm, Moon Il Lee
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Patent number: 8730925Abstract: A base station communicates a positioning reference signal (PRS) to wireless communication devices over a downlink in a wireless communication system by encoding a PRS into a first set of transmission resources, encoding other information into a second set of transmission resources, multiplexing the two sets of resources into a subframe such that the first set of resources is multiplexed into at least a portion of a first set of orthogonal frequency division multiplexed (OFDM) symbols based on an identifier associated with the base station and the second set of resources is multiplexed into a second set of OFDM symbols. Upon receiving the subframe, a wireless communication device determines which set of transmission resources contains the PRS based on the identifier associated with the base station that transmitted the subframe and processes the set of resources containing the PRS to estimate timing (e.g., time of arrival) information.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2010Date of Patent: May 20, 2014Assignee: Motorola Mobility LLCInventors: Colin D. Frank, Sandeep H. Krishnamurthy, Kenneth A. Stewart, Xiangyang Zhuang, Robert T. Love
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Patent number: 8730929Abstract: A method to maintain Network Address Translation (NAT) binding is provided. The method includes: an edge NAT router mapping a source address of a data packet from a mobile terminal to the source address of the edge NAT router, and mapping a destination address of the data packet from a computing device to the destination address of the mobile terminal, and maintaining the two address mapping relationships for a first time interval; the computing device sending a heartbeat packet to the mobile terminal according to a second time interval smaller than the first time interval, so a Time To Live set value progressively decreases to 0 as the heartbeat packet reaches the edge NAT router, thereby maintaining a link from the mobile terminal to the computing device, such that the heartbeat packet will not be sent down to the handheld device.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2010Date of Patent: May 20, 2014Assignees: Mediatek (Beijing) Inc., Hesine Technologies, Inc.Inventor: Jianhui Tao
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Patent number: 8724470Abstract: Disclosed is a wireless communication system and a user equipment (UE) providing wireless communication services, and more particularly, a method of controlling data flow in an Evolved Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (E-UMTS), a Long Term Evolution (LTE) system, and a LTE-Advanced (LTE-A) system that have evolved from a Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS). In particular, the present invention provides an effective way of controlling data flow of a relay node (RN) in the LTE-A system.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2010Date of Patent: May 13, 2014Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Seungjune Yi, Sungduck Chun, Sungjun Park
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Patent number: 8724490Abstract: A system and method for managing energy of a home or other structure are disclosed. An energy management system for a home network comprises a central device controller configured to communicate with energy consuming devices, energy generation devices and storage devices at a home. Power/energy measuring devices provide consumption measurements for the home and each device to the controller. A home network router routes communications among various networks for the home. The router provides for a 6LowPan/Zigbee network to communicate with WiFi, Ethernet and the like networked devices of the home.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2010Date of Patent: May 13, 2014Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventor: Jeff Donald Drake
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Patent number: 8719350Abstract: The disclosure is directed to email addressee verification. A method in accordance with an embodiment includes: obtaining an email message including at least one email address; evaluating each email address of the email message against at least one email rule, and assigning a score to each email address based on the evaluation; and comparing the score assigned to each email address to a threshold, and flagging any suspect email address based on the comparison.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2008Date of Patent: May 6, 2014Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventor: Sanjeev Sharma
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Patent number: 8719873Abstract: A digital downloading jukebox system including a mechanism for delivering custom services to a recognized user, including services for creating playlists, communicating with others, accessing other features, etc. is provided. In some exemplary embodiments, after a user is recognized, the jukebox system allows users to access a special front-end via an Internet-enabled device or on an actual jukebox. Then, the user may, for example, create playlists, share songs with friends, send messages to friends, and access other value-added content. Such a system preferably learns about networks of friends, and enables managers to send similar messages to regular customers and/or others known to the system. In some exemplary embodiments, changes via a first user interface on a first device are reflected on second user interface on other properly-configured devices.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2012Date of Patent: May 6, 2014Assignee: TouchTunes Music CorporationInventors: Guy Nathan, Dominique Dion
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Patent number: 8711829Abstract: Provided is an error correcting method that can provide improved error correction efficiency in a multimedia broadcast/multicast service (MBMS) by marking the presence of an error in a Protocol Data Unit (PDU) with an error instead of discarding the erroneous PDU in an MBMS terminal of the MBMS system, which performs error correction in an application layer, and transmitting the erroneous PDU together with a PDU without an error to the application layer, and an error correction apparatus employing the method. The MBMS terminal includes: a radio link control (RLC) protocol processor configured to receive PDUs generated from the reception data, generate service data units (SDUs) by combining the PDUs, mark whether there is an SDU recovered from a PDU with an error, and output the SDUs; and a packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) processing means configured to receive and deliver the SDUs.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2006Date of Patent: April 29, 2014Assignees: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, SK Telecom Co., Ltd, KT CorporationInventors: Jung-Im Kim, Jae-Heung Kim, Kyoung-Seok Lee, Byung-Han Ryu, Seung-Chan Bang
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Patent number: 8705424Abstract: A method for configuring at least one component carrier (CC) for a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH). The method includes receiving a CC configuration using a signaling protocol, wherein the CC is assigned using a semi-static configuration. Also included is a user equipment (UE) comprising a processor configured to receive a CC configuration for at least one CC for a PDSCH using a signaling protocol, wherein the CC is assigned using a semi-static configuration. Also included is an access node comprising a processor configured to transmit a CC configuration for at least one CC for a PDSCH using a signaling protocol, wherein the CC is assigned using a semi-static configuration.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2010Date of Patent: April 22, 2014Assignee: BlackBerry LimitedInventors: Zhijun Cai, Yi Yu
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Patent number: 8705509Abstract: An object of this invention is to realize stable control in a time synchronizer utilizing GPS satellites so that a long operational time is ensured for the system even if any of the GPS satellites becomes unable to be captured. When a base station becomes unable to capture any of the GPS satellites and if there is a mobile station which is in a relationship capable of performing handover from the base station to another base station, a radio wave input/output unit receives a frame transmitted by the other base station being able to normally receive the GPS satellite via the mobile station, and a frame timing detection unit estimates a deviation from the UTC. A 1PPS correction circuit unit transmits a signal to correct the deviation, and a control unit causes a GPS receiver to change and adjust the frame timing. A frame generation unit generates a frame based on the corrected 1PPS signal.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2009Date of Patent: April 22, 2014Assignee: NEC CorporationInventor: Kaoru Kuwabara
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Patent number: 8705497Abstract: Provided is a communication system in which a wireless access network communicates with a mobile station via a wireless link. One of the mobile station and the wireless access network proposes a plurality of candidate transmission gap configurations to the other of the mobile station and the wireless access network, and the other selects one of the candidate transmission gap configurations.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2008Date of Patent: April 22, 2014Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., LtdInventors: Soeng-Hun Kim, Gert Jan Van Lieshout, Himke Van Der Velde
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Patent number: 8705420Abstract: A mobile station (UE) according to the present invention includes: a CP length determiner unit (15) configured to determine a length of a CP to be inserted in an uplink signal; and a CP adder unit (14) configured to generate the uplink signal by adding a CP to any one of an inputted signal modulated by DFT-Spread OFDM (Single Carrier FDMA) scheme and an inputted signal modulated OFDM scheme, the CP having the length determined by the CP length determiner unit (15), wherein the cyclic prefix length determiner unit (15) is configured to be capable of setting the length of the CP to be inserted in the uplink signal independently of a length of a CP inserted in a downlink signal.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2009Date of Patent: April 22, 2014Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.Inventors: Sadayuki Abeta, Hiroyuki Ishii, Yoshihisa Kishiyama
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Patent number: 8705493Abstract: Methods, apparatuses, and systems for announcing services available in a macro-diversity region of a data frame broadcast by a plurality of base stations in a single frequency network to a plurality of subscriber stations, includes a data frame with at least a data region and a macro-diversity region. A media access control (MAC) management message is generated which identifies content and characteristics of the content in the macro-diversity region. Then the MAC management message is transmitted in the data region of the data frame, wherein the MAC management message is decoded by a client station to determine if there is content of interest to the client station in the macro-diversity region of the data frame.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2007Date of Patent: April 22, 2014Assignee: WI-LAN, Inc.Inventors: Dennis P. Connors, Gene Marsh