Patents Examined by Latresa McCallum
  • Patent number: 10182348
    Abstract: A communication device transmits a communication parameter to connect to a wireless network established by an access point to another communication device using information obtained from a captured image and stores the information obtained from the captured image. When the communication parameter is changed, the changed communication parameter is transmitted to the another communication device by reusing the stored information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2019
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hideaki Tachibana
  • Patent number: 10171217
    Abstract: This invention provides SRS transmission methods to meet the Massive MIMO systems requirements. These methods are described in two separate categories. Firstly, enhancements to multiplex more channels in the same resources for a given SRS transmission and to provide Massive MIMO throughput performance improvements. Secondly, scheduling enhancements to provide adaptive UE-specific scheduling based on channel conditions for each UE. These methods can be combined in different ways in each BS to optimize the channel estimation system capacity for a given level of system performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: RF DSP INC.
    Inventors: Jason Brent, Dengkui Zhu, Ping Liang
  • Patent number: 10171192
    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: February 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Sejin Oh, Jeongwoo Kim, Minsung Kwak
  • Patent number: 10154511
    Abstract: A communications system communicating data to/from a communications terminal includes infrastructure equipment forming a mobile communications network to transmit/receive data to/from the communications terminal via a wireless access interface, the communications terminal configured to transmit/receive data to/from the infrastructure equipment. The communications terminal can receive transmission data to the infrastructure equipment at a buffer, transmit a resource request message requesting resources of the wireless access interface to the infrastructure equipment in response to receiving the data for transmission to the infrastructure equipment, and receive a resource allocation message from the infrastructure equipment. The resource allocation message allocates resources of the wireless access interface to the communications terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Matthew William Webb, Hideji Wakabayashi
  • Patent number: 10154467
    Abstract: Systems and methods for user equipment (UE) transmit power adjustment for inter-device communication in wireless communication systems are provided. A UE may communicate directly with another UE over a direct inter-device communication link when they are located in proximity. The UE may adjust its transmit power for the inter-device communication during a device handshake/discovery procedure. For example, the UE may adjust its transmit power for the inter-device communication based on a data exchange between the UE and the other UE over the inter-device communication link. Long term evolution (LTE) downlink or uplink radio resources may be used for the data exchange over the inter-device communication link.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Chandra Sekhar Bontu, Yi Song, Zhijun Cai
  • Patent number: 10122428
    Abstract: There is provided a method, including obtaining, by a network apparatus, antenna sensing information with respect to signals received by a base station operating under a shared access-system which allows a licensee system to apply at least a part of an shared access spectrum which is currently unused by an incumbent system; detecting, on the basis of the antenna sensing information, that at least one device of the incumbent system is communicating on the shared access spectrum in the coverage area of the base station; identifying the angular sector in which the device of the incumbent system is located with respect to the base station; and dynamically isolating the identified angular sector from usage by the licensee system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy
    Inventors: Seppo Ilmari Yrjola, Eero Olavi Heikkinen
  • Patent number: 10117249
    Abstract: A satellite communications system comprises multiple satellites (e.g., a combination of LEO/MEO/GEO satellites). Multiple satellite gateways communicate over channels of the satellites with remote mobile user terminals. The mobile user terminals communicate with the satellite gateways via associated satellite terminals that interface with the satellites, or directly with the satellites. Each mobile user terminal of a first group communicates with a satellite gateway, over satellite channels, via an associated satellite terminal. Each mobile user terminal of a second group (e.g., in a remote rural area) communicates with a satellite gateway directly over satellite channels. The mobile user terminals of the first communicate with the satellite terminals locally via S-band. The mobile user terminals of the second group communicate directly over the satellite channels via Ku band or Ka Band. Each of the satellite gateways communicates over satellite channels via Ka band, Ku band, V-band or L-band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: Hughes Network Systems, LLC
    Inventors: Channasandra Ravishankar, John Corrigan
  • Patent number: 10114877
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to a technique to access a data source from a client using a driver. A data source name (DSN) is provided to connect to the data source using the driver. The driver is used to interface between the client and an implementation of a driver interface to access the data source based on the DSN.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: Open Invention Network LLC
    Inventor: Marc Todd Yaeger
  • Patent number: 10103967
    Abstract: A master test system may comprise cable modem termination systems, resource servers, provisioning/Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) servers, call management system (CMS) servers, Data over Cable Service Interface Specification/Wide Area Network (DOCSIS/WAN) servers, test controller servers, etc. Servers on the master test system may facilitate tests of devices under test (DUTs) coupled to the master test system. Servers on the master test system and/or slave test systems may facilitate tests of DUTs coupled to slave test systems that are coupled to the master test system. The slave test system(s) may comprise resource servers and test controller servers. In various implementations, the servers on the slave test system(s) may facilitate tests of DUTs coupled to the slave test system(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: Contec, LLC
    Inventors: Ina Huh, Rajeev Tiwari, Jin Ryu
  • Patent number: 10103854
    Abstract: Different precoding processes are used among different regions. A transmit processor uses resources in a region to transmit the control channel and the reference signal. A mobile station device includes a controller that sets a region on the basis of announced information from the base station device, a propagation channel estimator that averages propagation channel variation estimation values from a plurality of reference signals within the region, and a control channel detector that uses the averaged propagation channel estimation values to detect the control channel that includes control information addressed to the mobile station device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Daiichiro Nakashima, Kimihiko Imamura, Toshizo Nogami, Kazuyuki Shimezawa
  • Patent number: 10097461
    Abstract: Detection of the congestion on a link based on an exchange of messages between a sender and a receiver, one sender and several receivers or several senders and one receiver. This equipment is connected to the ends of a transmission channel. One of the items of equipment is designated as the master and the others slaves. These exchanges are aimed at enabling the master to calculate and compare the rate of the data send and the rate of the data received. A divergence in the rates calculated reveals a congestion on the link. All these exchanges are made in the application layer and therefore do not involve the underlying layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: AIRBUS DEFENCE AND SPACE SAS
    Inventors: Claude Poletti, Marc Cartigny, Olivier Klotz
  • Patent number: 10091022
    Abstract: This disclosure includes a method, and a device for implementing the method, for creating a channel for transmitting data on a Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) connection, the method comprising: method for creating a channel for transmitting data on a Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) connection, the method comprising: defining a plurality of sets of tones, wherein each set of tones includes one or more tones used by a DSL connection; monitoring the transmission characteristics of each set of tones in the plurality of sets of tones; and creating a first channel for transmitting data on the DSL connection, including allocating a first set of tones of the plurality of sets of tones to the first channel based on the monitored transmission characteristics of the first set of tones and the transmission requirements of the first channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: British Telecommunications Public Limited Company
    Inventors: Ian Horsley, Leslie Humphrey
  • Patent number: 10075356
    Abstract: Example methods disclosed herein to prioritize anomalies in a communication network include classifying respective nodes in the communication network as normal, abnormal or indeterminate based on measurements received for the nodes. Disclosed example methods also include selecting a subset of the nodes classified as abnormal to be root cause abnormal nodes representing sources of the anomalies in the communication network, respective ones of the root cause abnormal nodes being abnormal nodes identified in the communication network and determined to have respective sets of direct descendent nodes having majorities of nodes classified as abnormal or indeterminate. Disclosed example methods further include combining respective anomaly sizes and anomaly scopes determined for the respective ones of root cause abnormal nodes based on the measurements to determine respective rankings for the root cause abnormal nodes, and outputting the respective rankings to prioritize the set of root cause abnormal nodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Dan Pei, Ashley Flavel, Zihui Ge, Alexandre Gerber, Hiren Shah, He Yan
  • Patent number: 10075372
    Abstract: Apparatus comprising a Session Initiation Protocol agent arranged to send and receive Session Initiation Protocol messages to and from peer Session Initiation Protocol agents. The apparatus is configured, for a Session Initiation Protocol message to be sent, to translate one or more header fields of the message into an alternative format and to include the translated field(s) within or prefixed to the message, together with the untranslated field(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Frederik Zwaal, Erik Reitsma
  • Patent number: 10070387
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment may receive sensor information from a sensor associated with the user equipment, wherein the user equipment is in a deep sleep mode when the sensor information is received. The user equipment may deactivate the deep sleep mode, based at least in part on receiving the sensor information, to permit the user equipment to transmit or decode a network communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: QUALCOMM, Incorporated
    Inventors: Parthasarathy Krishnamoorthy, Liangchi Hsu, Srinivasan Balasubramanian, Naveen Kumar Pasunooru, Prashanth Mohan, Raevanth Venkat Annam, Shravan Kumar Raghunathan, Muthukumaran Dhanapal, Ankit Maheshwari, Akash Kumar, Atul Soni
  • Patent number: 10057161
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure involve systems, methods, computer program products, and the like, for collaboration conferencing with multiple participants over a communications network, and more specifically for a conferencing routing service for managing and routing collaboration participants. A collaboration conferencing routing server may provide configurability in routing a collaboration conference to a conference bridge based on any number of criteria and information about the requester and the communications network on which the conference occurs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: Level 3 Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Andrew James Broadworth, Darren James Behmlander, Adam C. Uzelac
  • Patent number: 10051647
    Abstract: A method by a communication device accesses a shared communication channel using a contention based access protocol. The communication device is configured to transmit data streams with different transmission priorities via the shared communication channel with a first data stream having a higher transmission priority than a second data stream. A method includes observing whether the shared communication channel is available for transmission, where when the shared communication channel is available for transmission, and the communication device waits for the duration of a time interval randomly selected from a time range in which the shared communication channel is available for transmission before the transmission is started.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (PUBL)
    Inventors: Junaid Ansari, Ismet Aktas, Shehzad Ali Ashraf
  • Patent number: 10045199
    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: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Koji Onishi, Toshiyuki Tamura, Hidenobu Sasaki, Jyunya Okabe
  • Patent number: 10038538
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates Beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system such as Long Term Evolution (LTE). A communication method of a User Equipment (UE) in a Dual Connectivity (DC)-based mobile communication system in which a Master Cell Group (MCG) and at least one Secondary Cell Group (SCG) are configured is provided. The method includes receiving measurement gap configuration information relating to a measurement gap used to periodically measure at least one serving cell, determining a first sub-frame included in the measurement gap using a System Frame Number (SFN) of the MCG and the received measurement gap configuration information, and performing a measurement on the at least one serving cell during at least one measurement gap sub-frame determined based on the determined first sub-frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Soeng-Hun Kim, Gert-Jan Van Lieshout, Kyeong-In Jeong
  • Patent number: 10034327
    Abstract: Exemplary methods in a network node of a radio access network (RAN) in a telecommunication system include receiving an indication from a network node in a core network that mobile terminated data is pending for a user equipment (UE), receiving a connection request from the UE, setting up a radio resource control (RRC) connection to the UE, releasing the RRC connection to the UE, setting a release timer value to a value sufficient to establish a mobile terminated communication by the network to the UE, and releasing the RRC connection to the UE when the release timer has expired. Exemplary methods in a network node of a RAN in a telecommunication system include keeping UE that is configured for long discontinuous reception (DRX) in idle mode, in RRC connected mode long enough to allow a network stored mobile terminated short message service (MT SMS) to be received by the UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Peter Hedman, Paul Schliwa-Bertling