Patents Examined by Mark Rinehart
  • Patent number: 9167565
    Abstract: A method of transmitting data through a downlink common transport channel in a wireless communication system is disclosed. The method comprises receiving measurement information transmitted from a user equipment at an upper network node, forwarding control information of the common transport channel, which is acquired from the measurement information, from the upper network node to a base station, and transmitting downlink data from the base station to the user equipment through the common transport channel in accordance with the control information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Young Dae Lee, Sung Duck Chun, Sung Jun Park
  • Patent number: 9166734
    Abstract: The invention directed to an efficient frame aggregation transmission scheme with network coding to improve transmission efficiency in 802.11n/ac networks. According to network conditions, the proposed scheme can dynamically utilizes either modified systematic network coding or mixed generation coding to efficiently transmit the aggregated frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Hui-Tang Lin, Ying-You Lin
  • Patent number: 9160446
    Abstract: A method is presented for supporting SNCP over a packet network connecting to two SDH sub-networks and transporting one or more SDH paths that are SNCP-protected in both SDH sub-networks. The packet network connects to each of two sub-network interconnection points by a working path and a protection path. The packet sub-network may provide the same type of path protection as an SDH sub-network using SNCP, while avoiding bandwidth duplication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2015
    Assignee: ORCKIT-CORRIGENT LTD.
    Inventors: Daniel Cohn, Rafi Ram
  • Patent number: 9160617
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention relate to faulty recovery mechanisms for a three-dimensional (3-D) network on a processor array. One embodiment comprises a multidimensional switch network for a processor array. The switch network comprises multiple switches for routing packets between multiple core circuits of the processor array. The switches are organized into multiple planes. The switch network further comprises a redundant plane including multiple redundant switches. Multiple data paths interconnect the switches. The redundant plane is used to facilitate full operation of the processor array in the event of one or more component failures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2015
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Rodrigo Alvarez-Icaza Rivera, John V. Arthur, John E. Barth, Jr., Andrew S. Cassidy, Subramanian Iyer, Paul A. Merolla, Dharmendra S. Modha
  • Patent number: 9154316
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for emulating a shared or source distribution tree within an MPLS network. In one embodiment of the method, a router receives a multicast data packet. The router transmits the multicast data packet to a first router via a first point-to-point label switched path (LSP). The router replicates the multicast data packet to produce a replicated multicast data packet. Then the router transmits the replicated multicast data packet to a second router via a second point-to-point LSP. The first point-to-point LSP is distinct from the second point-to-point LSP.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Ijsbrand Wijnands, Arjen Boers
  • Patent number: 9155043
    Abstract: Provided is a terminal and an access point in an active mode for multi-user transmission opportunity (TXOP) power saving that may decrease power consumption by changing an operation state of the terminal from an awake state to a sleep state if there is no stream of data to be transmitted during a TXOP duration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Young Soo Kim, Ui Kun Kwon
  • Patent number: 9154251
    Abstract: Embodiments herein describe apparatuses, systems, and methods for signaling to support downlink coordinated multipoint (CoMP) communications with a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication network. In embodiments, the UE may be configured with a plurality of channel state information (CSI) processes (e.g., via radio resource control (RRC) signaling) to use for providing CSI feedback to an evolved Node B (eNB) to support downlink CoMP communications. The UE may be configured with a plurality of sets of CSI processes. The UE may further receive a downlink control information (DCI) message from the eNB that indicates one of the configured sets of CSI processes on which the UE is to provide CSI feedback to the UE. The UE may generate the CSI feedback for the indicated set of CSI processes, and transmit the CSI feedback to the eNB in a CSI report.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Kamran Etemad, Alexei Davydov
  • Patent number: 9154278
    Abstract: A mobile communications device having an LTE radio technology and at least one other technology (for example, Bluetooth or Wi-Fi) determines whether transmissions using the other radio technology causes, or is likely to cause interference in reception of LTE signals. If such interference exists or is likely, then a signal indicating interference is sent to the LTE base station, which can take action to try to mitigate or prevent such interference. The mobile communications device can have a timer so that the interference indicating signal is only sent periodically, either at regular intervals, or whenever the interference is determined to exist after the timer period has expired. In some cases, a signal indicating that the interference level has reduced can be sent, again either at regular intervals, to whenever the interference level changes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Vivek Sharma
  • Patent number: 9155106
    Abstract: Techniques to more efficiently transmit pilot and signaling on the uplink in an OFDM system. With subband multiplexing, M usable subbands in the system are partitioned into Q disjoint groups of subbands. Each subband group may be assigned to a different terminal for uplink pilot transmission. Multiple terminals may transmit simultaneously on their assigned subbands. The transmit power for the pilot may be scaled higher to attain the same total pilot energy even though S instead of M subbands are used for pilot transmission by each terminal. Pilot transmissions from the terminals are received, and a channel estimate is derived for each terminal based on the pilot received on the assigned subbands. The channel estimate comprises a response for additional subbands not included in the assigned group. Subband multiplexing may also be used for uplink signaling transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Ranganathan Krishnan, Rajiv Vijayan, Tamer Adel Kadous
  • Patent number: 9155087
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. More specifically, the present invention relates to a method for transmitting control signal via a PUCCH in a wireless communication system, and to an apparatus for the method, wherein the method comprises the following steps: joint-coding a plurality of pieces of control information to obtain a single codeword; obtaining a first modulation symbol sequence from the single codeword; obtaining, from the first modulation symbol sequence, a plurality of second modulation symbol sequences corresponding to each slot in the PUCCH; cyclically shifting the plurality of second modulation symbol sequences in a time domain to obtain a plurality of third modulation symbol sequences; performing a discrete Fourier transform (DFT) precoding process on the plurality of third modulation symbol sequences to obtain a plurality of complex symbol sequences in a frequency domain; and transmitting the plurality of complex symbol sequences via the PUCCH.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Seung Hee Han, Jae Hoon Chung, Sung Ho Moon, Moon Il Lee
  • Patent number: 9148679
    Abstract: Processing video data for delivery to a remote wireless includes receiving video data from a video source and receiving position and motion information regarding the remote wireless device. Operation also includes, based upon the position and motion information regarding the remote wireless device, determining an anticipated Quality of Service (QoS) available for servicing of transmissions to the remote wireless device and determining video processing parameters based upon the video data and the anticipated QoS. Operation further includes processing the video data based upon the video processing parameters to produce an output video stream and transmitting the output video stream for delivery to the remote wireless device. Operation may also/alternatively include altering wireless transmission parameters of a transport stream servicing delivery of the video data to alter the anticipated QoS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2015
    Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventors: Jeyhan Karaoguz, Sherman Chen, Michael Dove, Thomas J. Quigley, David Rosmann, Stephen Elliott Gordon
  • Patent number: 9148844
    Abstract: The present invention provides an MiAN, a system and a method for finding partners for use in an MiAN cluster system. The method comprises the step of performing, by the slave MiAN, search on working channels of the proximity interface in accordance with a preset search order, and trying to establish a communication connection with the proximity interface of a master MiAN with respect to the MiANs that have been searched during the search process. When selecting the working channels of the proximity interface, all the master MiANs in the clustering system perform search in accordance with the search order, and operate on the channel which has been searched first in accordance with the search order and the channel quality of which meets a predetermined requirement. According to the present invention, the processes of finding, selecting and binding partners in the MiAN cluster system will be accelerated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2015
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Xin Xia, Yongsheng Zhang
  • Patent number: 9148830
    Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein provide systems and methods for improving reverse link throughput using Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) across multiple wireless devices. In a particular embodiment, in response to receiving a user instruction to execute an application associated with a wireless protocol over a MIMO transmit antenna system, a method provides transferring a wireless probe signal to identify whether an external MIMO antenna element is available over another wireless protocol. The method further provides generating a signal with a Walsh code for the application and wirelessly transmitting the signal from an internal MIMO antenna element for receipt by a MIMO receive antenna system. The method further provides wirelessly transmitting the signal over the other wireless protocol, wherein a second wireless device including the external MIMO antenna element receives the signal and wirelessly transmits the signal from the external MIMO antenna element for receipt by the MIMO receive antenna system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2015
    Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.
    Inventors: Jasinder Pal Singh, Sachin R. Vargantwar, Maulik K. Shah, Siddharth Oroskar
  • Patent number: 9143252
    Abstract: The present invention is a transmission apparatus and a data communication channel processing method that make it possible to realize construction of a monitoring and controlling data communication network in accordance with a network management form desired by a user or an already existing network management form in a network conforming to SONET, SDH, etc., and the transmission apparatus is configured so as to comprise a data communication channel terminator for selectively performing termination processing of an signal received by a data communication channel in accordance with an area attribute setting and a data communication channel pass-through unit for passing through a signal for which termination processing is not performed by the data communication channel terminator to a transmission apparatus belonging to another area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventor: Takayuki Shimizu
  • Patent number: 9137158
    Abstract: In an exemplary communication apparatus, an assignment module determines whether processing for a second packet assigned the flow ID associated with a received first packet is being executed. The assignment module determines a parallel processing module to execute processing for the first packet and a parameter to be included in a notice of assignment. The determined parallel processing module acquires a result of execution of the processing for the second packet from the computation table or the result of execution of the processing held in the parallel processing module according to the received notice of assignment. The determined parallel processing module executes the processing for the first packet using the result of execution of the processing for the second packet and the information included in the notice of assignment, and updates a computation table with a result of execution of the processing for the first packet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2015
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Taisuke Ueta, Hayato Hoshihara, Masayuki Takase, Akihiko Tsuchiya, Yusuke Yajima
  • Patent number: 9137795
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a method and system for allocating resources of a Relay link-Physical Downlink Control Channel (R-PDCCH). The method includes that: a network side configures a resource allocation way of the R-PDCCH (400); a relay node receives control information carried in the R-PDCCH in accordance with the configured resource allocation way (401). The disclosure provides a specific solution for implementing the resource allocation of the R-PDCCH.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2015
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Feng Bi, Ming Yuan, Feng Liang, Jin Yang, Shuanshuan Wu, Bo Dai, Yifei Yuan
  • Patent number: 9136985
    Abstract: In a terminal, a control unit transmits a bundle response signal using a resource in a basic region of an uplink control channel in an uplink unit band of a unit band group when no error is detected in each of a plurality of pieces of downlink data of the unit band group, the uplink control channel in the uplink unit band being associated with a downlink control channel in a basic unit band that is a downlink unit band in which a broadcast channel signal including information relating to the uplink unit band is transmitted, and the control unit transmits the bundle response signal using a resource in an additional region of the uplink control channel when an error is detected in each of the plurality of pieces of downlink data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2015
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Seigo Nakao, Daichi Imamura
  • Patent number: 9131428
    Abstract: A relay wireless communication device is discovered using probe request. A source device that intends to transmit one or more frames to a destination device transmits the probe request to request a probe response from one or more potential relay devices. A relay device transmits a probe response to the source device when the relay device may operate to forward the one or more frames from the source device to the destination device. The relay device employs one or more considerations to determine its eligibility to serve as relay for the source and destination devices. The source device selects one of the potential relay devices based on their provided probe responses. The source device may select an optimal relay device based upon two or more received probe responses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventors: Chiu Ngok Eric Wong, Matthew James Fischer
  • Patent number: 9130873
    Abstract: Real-time service composition is provided by a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) transport binding for Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) messages. A SOAPAction header and SOAP envelope can be included in a SIP message to identify a requested service. The SIP message recipient can parse out the SOAP envelope and forward same to a corresponding Web Service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET L M ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventor: Torbjörn Dahlén
  • Patent number: 9131405
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. And, a method of transmitting and receiving channel status information on a multi-cell operation in a wireless communication system and apparatus for the same are disclosed. The present invention may include determining a report type of channel status information on multi-cell operation and transmitting/receiving the channel status information corresponding to the determined channel status information report type via uplink data channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jonghyun Park, Kijun Kim, Seungmin Lee, Hanbyul Seo