Patents Examined by Man Phan
  • Patent number: 8335241
    Abstract: A bus system for the real-time communication of a superordinate unit with one or more subordinate units is used for exchanging address and data information via a bus. For the rapid exchange of messages, further fields are provided between the fields for the address and data information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2012
    Assignee: Rohde & Schwarz GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Martin Huber, Hendrik Koehler
  • Patent number: 8331269
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and device for transmitting voice in a wireless system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Beijing Xinwei Telecom Technology Inc.
    Inventors: Hang Li, Guanghan Xu, Yongquan Qiang, Hui Zhou, Qiang Ma
  • Patent number: 8331372
    Abstract: Methods and systems are described for enabling an operative coupling to a network. In an aspect, first data is detected for forwarding between a first node in a first network and another node by a network relay including a first network interface hardware component operatively coupled to a first network. A determination is made that a second operative coupling to a second network of a second network interface hardware component in the network relay is disabled. The second network interface hardware component is configured to enabled the second operative coupling, in response to the determination. Data received for forwarding between the first network and the second network is forwarded via the enabled second operative coupling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Inventor: Robert Paul Morris
  • Patent number: 8331370
    Abstract: A hierarchical distributed routing architecture including at least two levels, or layers, for receiving, processing and forwarding data packets between network components is provided. The core level router components receive an incoming packet from a network component and identify a distribution level router component based on processing a subset of the destination address associated with the received packet. The distribution level router components receive a forwarded packet and forward the packet to a respective network. The mapping, or other assignment, of portions of destination addresses to router components of the distributed routing environment may be managed by a router management component. In some embodiments, mapping of destination address to router components may be based, at least in part, on traffic volumes associated with the mapped destination addresses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: James R. Hamilton, Alan M. Judge, David J. McGaugh, Justin O. Pietsch, David J. O'Meara
  • Patent number: 8331371
    Abstract: A hierarchical distributed routing architecture including at least three levels, or layers, for receiving, processing and forwarding data packets between network components is provided. The core level router components receive an incoming packet from a network component and identify a distribution level router component based on processing a subset of the destination address associated with the received packet. The distribution level router components receive a forwarded packet and identify a transit level router component based on at least a subset of the destination address associated with the received packet. The transit level router components receive the forwarded packet and forward the packet to a respective network. The mapping of destination addresses to router components of may be managed by a router management component. In some embodiments, mapping of destination address to router components may be based, at least in part, on traffic volumes associated with the mapped destination addresses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Alan M. Judge, David J. McGaugh, James R. Hamilton, Justin O. Pietsch, David J. O'Meara
  • Patent number: 8325750
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide an accelerated system and methods for gathering business information, augmenting that information to conform to requirements for sharing the information and for synchronizing, managing and publishing the information across the supply chain. A control module business gathers information from a variety of enterprise wide systems and stored via an acceleration engine. The information is published to a data pool and registered by the data pool with a registry. One or more embodiments of the user interface component comprise declaratively defined interfaces that are not hardcoded in a source code program. The server interface is capable of utilizing declaratively defined interface definitions for data pool specific messages and data attributes that are not hardcoded in a source code program. Declaratively defined user and server interfaces allow for modification of the interface without altering the source code.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: SAP AG
    Inventors: Cherny Eugene, Fisch Gilat, Cohen Ronen, Levin Stanley
  • Patent number: 8325737
    Abstract: A network arranged to implement label switched paths, comprising: an ingress label edge router (LER), at least one label switching router (LSR), and an egress LER, in which the ingress LER is connected to the egress LER via one or more of the LSRs. In said network the ingress LER is arranged to transmit, in use, a path message for setting up a bidirectional label switched path (LSP) from the ingress LER to the egress LER via at least one LSR in response for a request for such an LSP. The path message is transmitted over the path of the LSP to be created, in which the path message comprises a first parameter indicative of the bandwidth to be assigned to data traversing the LSP in a first, downstream, direction from ingress LER to egress LER and a second parameter indicative of the bandwidth to be assigned to data traversing the LSP in an opposite, upstream, direction, in which the upstream and downstream bandwidths are different.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Diego Caviglia, Attila Takacs
  • Patent number: 8320262
    Abstract: A method and device for transmitting communications on a bus system, as well as a bus system, is provided, in which the communications are transmitted in communication frames and the communication frames and the communications contain a security sequence. In the bus system, communications of various lengths can be transmitted, and for all of the communications to be transmitted in the bus system, a maximum length of a communication is provided. A first code is contained in the communication frame, by means of which the maximum length of the respective communication to be transmitted can be specified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Fuehrer, Bernd Mueller
  • Patent number: 8320323
    Abstract: A method for allocating a time and frequency resource of a resource request indicator (RRI), a method for transmitting an RRI, and a device thereof are provided, which relate to a wireless communication technique and reduce the overhead of the time and frequency resource. The method for allocating a time and frequency resource of an RRI includes: allocating codes for an RRI and other uplink control signaling; and multiplexing the RRI and other uplink control signaling in the same time and frequency resource in a code division manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shujun Dang, Sha Ma, Xianghua Wang, Tianle Deng, Xiaobo Chen, Chengyu Wang
  • Patent number: 8320280
    Abstract: An apparatus for determining a coincidence of a position with a reference position, wherein radio signals from fixedly positioned radio transmitters can be received at the position, having a provider for providing properties of the radio signals of the fixedly positioned radio transmitters at the position, wherein the provided properties of the radio signals include transmitter identifications identifying the radio transmitters, a separator for separating the radio transmitters into a first number of radio transmitters previously recorded transmitter identifications of which at the reference position are identical with transmitter identifications provided at the position, and into a second number of radio transmitters previously recorded transmitter identifications of which at the reference position and transmitter identifications provided at the position are different, and a determiner for determining a measure of matching for the position on the basis of the provided properties of the radio signals, wherein
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der Angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Steffen Meyer, Juergen Hupp, Thorsten Vaupel, Stephan Haimerl, Frank Mueller, Karin Loidl, Renata Kitti Zahonyi
  • Patent number: 8320388
    Abstract: An autonomic network node system for providing at least one virtual router (VR) for providing on demand virtual routing service, the autonomic network node system includes a plurality of autonomic router components (ARCs) comprising at least one autonomic control component (ACC) and at least one autonomic forwarding component (AFC), physical resources comprising a plurality of logical resource partitions (LRPs), at least one database for storing information relating to the plurality of ARCs and LRPs, and a autonomic framework configured for receiving at least one request of on demand virtual routing service, accessing at the at least one database, allocating at least one LRP to perform at least one ARC to be installed in the autonomic network node system, installing the at least one ARC in the autonomic network node system, allocating the installed ARC and, updating the at least one database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignees: Groupe des Ecoles des Telecommunications (GET)
    Inventors: Wajdi Louati, Djamal Zeghlache
  • Patent number: 8310970
    Abstract: A user equipment implements a method of processing indication messages, such as SCRI (signaling connection release indication) messages. For at least one RRC (radio resource control) state, if the current RRC state of the UE is a result of a previously sent indication, the UE inhibits itself from sending a further indication message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2012
    Assignee: Researh In Motion Limited
    Inventors: Johanna Lisa Dwyer, Paul Marcus Carpenter
  • Patent number: 8305933
    Abstract: A method, apparatus, and system for discovering devices on a local area network. The method comprises sending a DNS request from a host networking element, receiving the DNS request at one or more devices, and responding to the host networking element with one or more DNS responses. The DNS request comprises one or more particular domain names. The one or more DNS responses comprise local network address information for the one or more VoIP devices. The apparatus comprises means for filtering a set of network traffic for a DNS request, means for responding to a DNS request with a local network address, and means for forwarding the DNS request to another device. The system comprises a computer for generating a DNS request for a particular domain, and one or more VoIP devices for receiving the DNS request and sending a DNS response to the computer with a local network address for the VoIP device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Vonage Nework LLC
    Inventors: Mabrouk Aboughanaima, Deepak Ottur
  • Patent number: 8305960
    Abstract: The present invention describes a method for operation and maintenance of Access Points in a wireless communications network, and a network node and an access point for use in such a network. Access points are used for connecting wireless networks to core networks. The method comprises the step of first receiving, at a network node, an on-demand triggered request for status information, wherein the request includes an access point identity. The network node investigates, using the received access point identity, if the access point is registered within the network. If the access point is registered within the network, then as a first following step, the network node uses the access point identity to retrieving access point address information from storing means. In a second following step, the network node uses the retrieved address information to establish a connection to the access point. Thereafter the network node receives access point status information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Jari Vikberg, Tomas Nylander
  • Patent number: 8305929
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an electronic device for communication within a network, comprising a first interface (6) enabling communication with at least one further electronic device (1a, 1b, 1c, 1d, 1e) within a network (8) according to a first communication standard, a storage (5) for storing a first address of the at least one further electronic device (1a, 1b, 1c, 1d, 1e), said first address relating to the first communication standard, and a controller (4) for requesting a second address from said at least one further electronic device (1a, 1b, 1c, 1d, 1e), said second address relating to a second communication standard within said network (8), wherein the second address is stored together with the first address in the storage (5). The present invention further relates to a method for operating an electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Armin Mank
  • Patent number: 8300578
    Abstract: According to one embodiment of the invention, a method for managing seamless roaming of a wireless node of a plurality of nodes forming a wireless network comprises detecting, recovering and transmitting operations. The detecting operation involves detecting receipt of a Disassociation message from the wireless node by a first node of the plurality of nodes. The wireless node is roaming and seeking to establish a new communication with a second node of the plurality of nodes. The recovering operation involves addressing information from the Disassociation message by the first node, where the addressing information identifies the second node of the plurality of nodes. The transmitting operation involves transmitting a Route Update message to at least the second node of the plurality of nodes. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Abhishek Patil, Xiangpeng Jing, Aixin Liu, Djung N. Nguyen
  • Patent number: 8300562
    Abstract: A method, an apparatus, and a system for sending a status report are disclosed according to the present invention. The method includes receiving a short message sent by a sender; assigning a first ID to the short message; incorporating the first ID in the short message and sending the short message; receiving a first status report carrying a second ID and the first ID and generating a second status report based on the first ID; sending the second status report to the sender. For the short message which has not been delivered successfully by the Short Message Service Router (SMS Router) for the first time, the SMS Router may replace the second ID in the first status report with the first ID based on the relationship between the first ID and the second ID to obtain a second status report and send the second status report to a sender.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xinjie Li, Xiaoying Zhu
  • Patent number: 8300692
    Abstract: A moving picture coding method, a moving picture decoding method, a moving picture coding device, and a moving picture decoding device perform skipped display even in a moving picture decoding device having insufficient processing capability and while suppressing an increase in an amount of coded data. A plurality of combined pictures are generated each of which is generated by combining a plurality of pictures into a combined picture having the plurality of pictures as regions. The plurality of the combined pictures is coded and a slice boundary between the regions is set in the combined picture. For each of the plurality of combined pictures, when the combined picture has one or more to-be-displayed region except at least one not-to-be-displayed region, the to-be-displayed region is coded with reference to only a to-be-displayed region of another combined picture. The one or more to-be-displayed region is displayed for skipped reproduction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Nakamura, Ikuo Fuchigami, Masao Hamada, Tadanori Tezuka
  • Patent number: 8300549
    Abstract: The configuration of a gateway in a communications network may be updated. Provisioning data may be extracted from a gateway management server. The extracted provisioning data may be filtered against a list of target gateways. Upon determining an equipping status of endpoints associated with the target gateways in the list, the configuration of one or more target gateways may be updated utilizing existing endpoint provisioning associated with the one or more target gateways.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Assignee: Cox Communications, Inc.
    Inventor: Brett Anwar Brock
  • Patent number: 8295278
    Abstract: The present invention provides systems and methods which create an infrastructure/transport Pseudowire (PW) a priori between two Provider Edge (PE) devices. Accordingly, other PWs can be mapped to this transport PW. In an exemplary application, the transport PW (which is a MS-PW by itself) can start and end between two Switching Provider Edge (S-PE) devices and span across multiple S-PEs in between. In another exemplary application, the transport PW terminates between two Terminating Provider Edge (T-PE) devices spanning across all S-PEs in between. In a further exemplary application, the transport PW can start at a S-PE or T-PE and terminate at a T-PE or S-PE, respectively. The placement of the endpoints of the transport PW (on two PEs) determines the number of intervening S-PEs that benefit from this application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2012
    Assignee: Ciena Corporation
    Inventors: Himanshu Shah, Mark Libby, David Parks