Patents Examined by Latresa McCallum
  • Patent number: 10034163
    Abstract: A mobile communication system includes a mobile station, a packet switching station, and a plurality of location registration devices that perform location management of the mobile station. With respect to the mobile station, after one location registration device is already selected from among the plurality of location registration devices, when the mobile station performs location registration, an NRI (Network Resource Identifier) included in a TMSI (Temporary Mobile Station Identifier) is transmitted to the packet switching station. The packet switching station makes a request for location registration with respect to the one location registration device, based on the NRI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Koji Onishi, Toshiyuki Tamura, Hidenobu Sasaki, Jyunya Okabe
  • Patent number: 10033614
    Abstract: A system to monitor bandwidth can include memory to store session data describing each communication session for at least a portion of a communication system. A bandwidth calculator can access the session data and provide a measure of bandwidth utilization computed based on the accessed session data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: Mitel Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: Amy S. Pendleton, Pramod Madabhushi
  • Patent number: 9992767
    Abstract: Provided are a data transmission method and device, which relate to the field of communications. The method includes: when data is transmitted between an REC and one or more REs, arranging extended control words of the one or more REs in a plurality of superframes, wherein connotations of the extended control words at a same position in different superframes are different, and sending the plurality of superframes to an opposite end. By arranging extended control words of one or more REs in a plurality of superframes and different connotations of the extended control words at the same position in different superframes, the solution solves the problem that the requirements cannot be satisfied due to the limited number of control words in the protocol, and has the beneficial effect of increasing control words in the protocol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yonghua Li, Xiaomin Yang, Yangfeng Wang, Sheng You, Diqiang Zhang
  • Patent number: 9985738
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus are disclosed for interference mitigation of an open-access node. The method includes determining, at the open-access node, whether uplink interference from a mobile entity is above a threshold. The method includes adjusting a transmission power to trigger a hand-in of the mobile entity in response to determining the uplink interference is above the threshold. The method includes handing-in the mobile entity from a first cell in response to adjusting the transmission power. The method includes redirecting the mobile entity to a second cell different from the first cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Yan Zhou, Farhad Meshkati, Mehmet Yavuz
  • Patent number: 9967067
    Abstract: An example method is provided in one example embodiment and includes receiving feedback information from at least one controlled cell indicative of interference received at one or more user equipment devices served by the at least one cell. The at least one controlled cell is controlled by an operator associated with the at least one controlled cell. The method further includes selecting one or more user equipment devices that is determined to have received interference from at least one non-controlled cell that is greater than a predetermined threshold. The at least one non-controlled cell is not controlled by the operator associated with the at least one controlled cell. The method still further includes determining a power level for a subset of common resources from among a set of common resources shared among the at least one controlled cell based upon the received feedback information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Ritesh K. Madan, Rohit Umesh Nabar
  • Patent number: 9929820
    Abstract: A device providing an emergency alert service via a mobile broadcasting according to one embodiment of the present invention includes an RS frame encoder configured to generate an RS frame, which is a 2nd dimensional data frame, in a manner of performing an RS (Reed-Solomon)-CRC (Cyclic Redundancy Check) encoding on an ensemble comprising a mobile data for a mobile broadcasting service and a service signaling channel containing an access information on the mobile broadcasting service, an RS frame divider configured to divide the generated RS frame into a plurality of RS frame portions, a signaling encoder configured to generate a signaling data comprising a TPC (Transmission Parameter Channel) for signaling a transmission parameter of the mobile broadcasting and a FIC (Fast Information Channel) containing a connection information between the ensemble and the broadcasting service, a data group formatter configured to generate a data group containing a part of the signaling data and the RS frame portion, and a
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Sejin Oh, Jeongwoo Kim, Minsung Kwak
  • Patent number: 9930723
    Abstract: An Automatic Neighbor Relation (ANR) task execution method, system and an ANR user equipment management method, apparatus are described, when an ANR function is enabled, a corresponding User Equipment (UE) is selected for the enabled ANR function, and then a Discontinuous Reception (DRX) configuration matching this ANR function is configured for the selected UE; that is, the disclosure specifically configures a matching DRX parameter for the UE selected by the ANR function, without searching a required UE from the UE configuring a Long DRX in an entire cell, thus improving efficiency and a success rate of executing an ANR task; simultaneously the disclosure only needs to perform specific configuration on the UE selected by the ANR function, without changing the configuration of all the UEs in the entire cell, thus greatly reducing an influence on a Key Performance Indicator (KPI) of the cell, and improving entire user experience satisfaction of the cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Qiuhong Yuan, Zhongying Xia, Qingyuan Zhao
  • Patent number: 9924471
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses are provided for facilitating dynamic measurement power offset adjustments for use in reporting channel quality feedback. A user equipment may generate and send a plurality of channel quality indicator (CQI) values to a base station. The base station determines whether at least some of the received CQI values are outside of an upper or lower threshold value. If at least some of the received CQI values are outside the upper or lower threshold value, the base station can transmit an adjusted measurement power offset to the user equipment. On receipt of the adjusted measurement power offset, the user equipment generates subsequent CQI values using the adjusted measurement power offset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Andrea Garavaglia, Long Duan, Jochen Hoidis, Amer Catovic
  • Patent number: 9918256
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method in a User Equipment (UE) for use in handover from its serving base station to a neighboring base station. The method includes: performing one or more downlink quality measurements of the neighboring base station on one or more downlink subframes in a TDD configuration of the neighboring base station to obtain a downlink quality measurement result; and transmitting said downlink quality measurement result to the serving base station for enabling the serving base station to determine whether to trigger the handover or not.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ)
    Inventors: Rui Fan, Jinhua Liu, Yu Qian, Imadur Rahman
  • Patent number: 9906997
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for transmitting an inactivity indication in a wireless communication system is provided. A user equipment (UE), which transmits/receives Internet protocol (IP) packets of a specific bearer/channel via a first connection with a first node, establishes a second connection with a second node while maintaining the first connection. When the specific bearer/channel is moved from the first node to the second node, the UE transmits an inactivity indication which indicates inactivation of the specific bearer/channel to the first node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Youngdae Lee, Jaewook Lee, Sunghoon Jung
  • Patent number: 9872311
    Abstract: A method for notifying a downlink demodulation pilot control signaling, includes: a base station side notifying a user equipment (UE) side of an index of a virtual signaling group and/or index of port offset signaling group used when generating a downlink pilot sequence and/or mapping the generated downlink pilot sequence through at least one of the following information: UE-specific or common high layer signaling; antenna indication information of DL_Grant; new data indication information in a Disable TB signaling in the DL_Grant; scrambling indication information in the DL_Grant; in a UE-specific or common search space, an aggregation level of the DL_Grant, a relative position of a first control channel element of the DL_Grant in the UE-specific or common search space, a subframe number where the DL_Grant is located and a system frame number where the DL_Grant is located.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2018
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Senbao Guo, Yunfeng Sun, Junfeng Zhang, Dongli Chen, Wenfeng Zhang
  • Patent number: 9867031
    Abstract: A decrease is realized in network load caused by a change in selection of location registration device or an increase or decrease in the number of installations, on a circuit switching network side. A mobile communication system includes a mobile station, a packet switching station, and a plurality of location registration devices that perform location management of the mobile station. With respect to the mobile station, after one location registration device is already selected from among the plurality of location registration devices, when the mobile station performs location registration, an NRI (Network Resource Identifier) included in a TMSI (Temporary Mobile Station Identifier) is transmitted to the packet switching station. The packet switching station makes a request for location registration with respect to the one location registration device, based on the NRI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Koji Onishi, Toshiyuki Tamura, Hidenobu Sasaki, Jyunya Okabe
  • Patent number: 9843435
    Abstract: In a method of a heterodyne FDD receiver for enabling reception of a multi-band RXRF signal spectrum, an RXRF signal spectrum is received, which comprises a lower frequency band and a higher frequency band. A Local Oscillator, LO, output frequency, fLO, is selected based on a frequency fA of the lower frequency band, and a frequency fB of the higher frequency band. Moreover, the RXRF signal spectrum is frequency shifted into an RXIF signal spectrum, by mixing the RXRF signal spectrum with the LO output frequency fLO. The LO frequency fLO is selected to satisfy fA<fLO<fB, where fA and fB are any frequency of the lower or higher frequency band, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Ming Li, Youping Su
  • Patent number: 9826467
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method for establishing an association between a STA and an AP, and the method includes: sending, by the STA, an association request frame to the AP, where the association request frame includes a service type element, and the service type element is used for indicating a sensor service type, an offloading service type, or a hybrid service type to which the STA belongs, where the sensor service type includes a first sensor service or a second sensor service, and the offloading service type includes a first offloading service or a second offloading service; and receiving, by the STA, an association response frame sent by the AP, where the association response frame is generated by the AP after determining, according to the service type element, a service type to which the STA belongs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tianyu Wu, Changle Li, Hang Lin
  • Patent number: 9826503
    Abstract: A multimedia communications system for broadcast distribution of multimedia content to mobile terminals over a cellular network is disclosed. The disclosed system accesses content providers, receives corresponding content information associated with provider content, and broadcasts content information to user terminals. The user terminals include software and/or hardware for receiving the content information and enabling a user to subscribe to one or more content items. Once a subscription is in place for one or more content items, corresponding content IDs are sent to and stored at the terminal. The system facilitates broadcast of the content. Content IDs stored in the terminal and broadcasted content IDs are compared. Only the content associated with the matching content IDs is then downloaded to the user terminal for storage and/or presentation. Content associated with unmatched content IDs is prevented from being received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: AT&T Mobility II LLC
    Inventors: Bo Lee, Yonghui Tong
  • Patent number: 9807627
    Abstract: Access between a data terminal 1 and a data network 5 by way of a first wireless-enabled access point 3 is restored after a primary connection 4 between the first access point and the data network is lost by having the access point 3 scan for a further wireless-enabled access point 6 and establishing a wireless connection between the first access point 3 and the further access point 6 such that the data terminals 1 etc can connect to the data network by way of the access points 3, 6 and the wireless connection between them.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: BRITISH TELECOMMUNICATIONS public limited company
    Inventors: David Mark Elliott, Patrick Rowan Limb, Richard Gedge
  • Patent number: 9807762
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to resource allocation method and apparatus. The resource allocation method includes monitoring resource information of a plurality of base stations including a first base station and a second base station, receiving a resource allocation request from a first terminal that is located in a boundary region and connected to the first base station, and checking whether a second terminal using a voice service is located in the boundary region. When the second terminal is located in the boundary region, resources are allocated to the first terminal based on resources allocated to the second terminal. The boundary region is an overlapped region of cells of the first base station and the second base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: KT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ki-Ho Lee, Yong-Gyoo Lee, Yung-Ha Ji
  • Patent number: 9794175
    Abstract: A method of transmitting a data packet from a content provider in a content-centric network CCN includes verifying whether a content request packet requesting a content identical to a content of a content request packet being received from a content requester is present in a pending interest table (PIT), increasing a value of a counter corresponding to the content request packet, comparing the value of the counter to a predetermined threshold value, and transmitting a data packet using a predefined broadcast media access control (MAC) address in response to the content request packet being received and the value of the counter being greater than or equal to the threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Do Jun Byun, Byoung Joon Lee, Myeong Wuk Jang
  • Patent number: 9775192
    Abstract: A method of sharing a wireless data service, including receiving, by a first terminal, a wireless data service share request from a second terminal, checking, by the first terminal, available wireless data service remaining amount information, and transmitting, by the first terminal, a response to the wireless data service share request to the second terminal based on the checked wireless data service remaining amount information. Another such sharing method includes requesting, by a second terminal, wireless data service remaining amount information available by a first terminal from the first terminal, transmitting, by the second terminal, a wireless data service share request to the first terminal based on the wireless data service remaining amount information received from the first terminal, and receiving, by the second terminal, a response to the wireless data service share request from the first terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Cheol-hoi Kim, Hun Lee, Ji-hoon Choi, Joo-yoon Bae
  • Patent number: 9769024
    Abstract: A method comprising: determining within a measurement interval at least one effective network control function instance; selecting a subsequent measurement interval measurement data for at least one succeeding function; and executing the at least one succeeding function dependent on the subsequent measurement interval measurement data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: NOKIA SOLUTIONS AND NETWORKS OY
    Inventors: Lars Christoph Schmelz, Tobias Bandh