Patents Examined by Marsha D. Banks-Harold
  • Patent number: 10848244
    Abstract: Provisioning of Internet Protocol (IP) configuration data or other configuration related data for devices or services connected to a passive optical network (PON) is contemplated. The provisioning may be facilitated with an optical line terminal (OLT) providing the desired configuration data over the PON to an optical network unit (ONU) connected to the device or service desired for provisioning, such as to enable the ONU to provision the device or service without exchanging Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) messaging with a DHCP server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: Cable Television Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: John Berg, Jon Schnoor
  • Patent number: 10849081
    Abstract: Wireless communications systems and methods related to transmission of platoon information. A first vehicle in a vehicle platoon obtains a first radio resource spanning a frequency channel and a time period for synchronous transmission with at least a second vehicle in the vehicle platoon. The first vehicle transmits, synchronously with at least the second vehicle, information associated with the vehicle platoon in the frequency channel and the time period of the first radio resource. The first vehicle may obtain the first radio resource by requesting a transmission request from a wireless communication device and receiving a transmission grant indicating the first radio resource. Alternatively, the first vehicle may obtain the first radio resource by selecting the first radio resource based on at least one of a sensing report or a resource reservation received from the second vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Zhibin Wu, Shailesh Patil, Kapil Gulati, Tien Viet Nguyen, Sudhir Kumar Baghel, Junyi Li, Libin Jiang
  • Patent number: 10841206
    Abstract: Routing packets by a router involves establishing a first flow configured for forwarding the packets from a first ingress interface to a first egress interface of the router; determining a condition to modify the first flow; deactivating the first flow; establishing a second flow configured for forwarding the packets from at least one of (1) the first ingress interface to a second egress interface, (2) a second ingress interface to the first egress interface, or (3) a second ingress interface to a second egress interface; and activating the second flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: 128 Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Abilash Menon, Anna Yungelson, Scott A. McCulley, Robert Penfield
  • Patent number: 10826663
    Abstract: A method of configuring a pilot signal includes defining a first pilot signal arrangement and defining a second pilot signal arrangement. Also, the method includes determining, by a communications controller, a first determined pilot signal arrangement in accordance with the first defined pilot signal arrangement, the second defined pilot signal arrangement, and a set of characteristics and transmitting, by the communications controller, the pilot signal having the first determined pilot signal arrangement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhihang Yi, Jianglei Ma, Liqing Zhang, Kelvin Kar Kin Au
  • Patent number: 10826722
    Abstract: A method implemented by a customer network controller (CNC) in a network comprises storing, by a memory of the CNC, a mapping between a virtual local area network (VLAN) identifier (ID) of a VLAN, an application ID of an application executed in the VLAN, and a service policy associated with the application, the service policy defining a network requirement for the application, the VLAN being associated with a customer edge (CE), transmitting, by a transmitter of the CNC, a tunnel creation request comprising the VLAN ID, the application ID, and the service policy, and storing, by the memory, a tunnel ID of a tunnel established in response to the tunnel creation request, the tunnel defining a path between an ingress provider edge (PE) node and an egress PE node that satisfies the service policy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Young Lee, Italo Busi
  • Patent number: 10813008
    Abstract: A method for communicating by an electronic device is provided. The method includes acquiring a value indicating a signal quality of a first network that provides a packet data based call service, when the acquired value satisfies a first condition, receiving a call or transmitting a call request through a second network that provides a circuit-switching based call service, and, when the acquired value satisfies a second condition, receiving a call or transmitting a call request through the first network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hye-Jeong Kim, Yu-Shin Kim
  • Patent number: 10798026
    Abstract: Systems and methods for bufferbloat recovery and avoidance are provided herein. A portion of the buffer can be compressed based on one or more thresholds without changing an order of packet transmission and without dropping packets. The method includes storing, by a device, a plurality of packets received by the device to a buffer. The buffer can be configured with a minimum threshold and a maximum threshold. The method includes detecting that a size of the buffer has reached at least the maximum threshold and compressing one or more packets of the plurality of packets stored between the minimum threshold and the maximum threshold while transmitting, during compression, at least a portion of one or more packets of the plurality of packets stored in the buffer below the minimum threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: Citrix Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Praveen Raja Dhanabalan, Surya Prakash Patel
  • Patent number: 10798673
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and storage media for reporting geo-information in wireless communications networks are described. In embodiments, a roadside unit (RSU) may instruct or configure a user equipment (UE) to report its geo-information to other UEs and/or receive other geo-information from the other UEs over vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) sidelinks. In embodiments, the RSU or a core network element may allocate radio resources for V2V communications to geographic areas and/or based on reported geo-information. In embodiments, the UE may use its geo-information and/or the obtained geo-information to select resources from the allocation for transmission or receipt of V2V messages. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Alexey Khoryaev, Sergey Panteleev, Sergey Sosnin, Andrey Chervyakov, Dmitry Belov
  • Patent number: 10779283
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally discloses a wireless resource sharing mechanism configured to support sharing of physical wireless resources of a wireless interface of a wireless access device. The wireless resource sharing mechanism is configured to support sharing of physical wireless resources of a wireless interface of a wireless access device in order to support Machine-Type Communications (MTCs). The wireless resource sharing mechanism is configured to support sharing of physical wireless resources, of a wireless interface of a wireless access device, between MTC traffic of MTC devices and non-MTC traffic of non-MTC devices (referred to herein as legacy traffic of legacy devices). The wireless resource sharing mechanism is configured to support sharing of physical wireless resources, of a wireless interface of a wireless access device, within a scheduling time interval of the wireless interface of the wireless access device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Yigang Cai, Yang Yang
  • Patent number: 10772059
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to methods and systems for processing packets over a communications network, including aspects of on demand network MIMO. A first gateway of a plurality of gateways may wirelessly receive a modulated signal from a first node, the modulated signal including a first packet. The first gateway may generate first samples corresponding to the first packet. The first gateway may decode the generated first samples to obtain decoded data. The first gateway may transmit the decoded data to a server. The server and/or the first gateway may determine, based on the decoded data, whether the first packet is successfully decoded at the first gateway. The server may obtain the generated first samples from the first gateway for decoding at the server, responsive to determining that the first packet is unsuccessfully decoded at the first gateway.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: Cognosos, Inc.
    Inventors: Mary Ann Weitnauer, Qiongjie Lin, Sajith Mohan Chakkedath, Sean Nowlan, James Stratigos, Nishith Parikh
  • Patent number: 10764724
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method and apparatus for implementing member resource processing, the method comprising: a virtual sub-resource of a pre-created group resource triggers, according to a forwarding request of an initiator, a local common services entity (CSE) to send an acquisition request for acquiring member resource attribute information to one or more member resources, the initiator being a remote CSE or an application entity (AE); and the local CSE sends an update request for forwarding the acquired member resource attribute information to one or more target member resources, so as to update the one or more target member resources. The present disclosure, simplifies a process of forwarding information between member resources, saves signaling overhead, avoids the problem of possible network congestion caused by occupation of network resources, and improves real time performance of the forwarding of the information between the member resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kun Yang
  • Patent number: 10757600
    Abstract: A communications terminal communicates data to/from a mobile communications network. The mobile communications network includes a radio network including one or more base stations configured to provide a low bandwidth communications interface formed from a low bandwidth carrier for communicating the data to or receiving the data from the communications terminal in accordance with a relatively low bandwidth, and to provide a high bandwidth communications interface formed from a high bandwidth carrier for communicating the data to or receiving the data from the communications terminal in accordance with a relatively high bandwidth. The communications terminal is configured to attach for communication to the high bandwidth interface, and in response to receiving a command from the mobile communications network, to detach from the high bandwidth interface and to re-attach to the low bandwidth interface for communicating the data to or from the mobile communications network via the low bandwidth interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: SCA IPLA HOLDINGS INC
    Inventor: Martin Beale
  • Patent number: 10757630
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus optimize settings of a wireless communication network via an abstractor. The abstractor receives an event sent by the wireless communication network. The abstractor receives one or more proposed settings from one or more optimizers of the wireless communication network. The abstractor transmits one or more predicted values to the one or more optimizers. The predicted values predict the effect that the one or more proposed settings will have on the wireless communication network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Philippe Leroux, Aaron James Callard, Alex Stephenne
  • Patent number: 10735150
    Abstract: A multiple-input multiple output (MIMO) wireless receiver is provided to detect data in MIMO streams received via a multi-antenna system. A filter based detector performs a first pass at decoding codewords in a MIMO bitstream, and then a parity check is performed to determine that the codewords were decoded correctly. If one or more codewords are decoded correctly, those codewords can be used as a candidate codeword and used to generate a bit log likelihood ratio as an input for a second MIMO detector pass which uses a list based MIMO detector. The first pass with a high speed, simple detector facilitates decreasing the list size for the second, optimum list based detector which helps improve overall throughput.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventor: SaiRamesh Nammi
  • Patent number: 10735133
    Abstract: A method in a transmitter station includes: generating payload data for transmission to a receiver station via a plurality of antennae of the transmitter station; selecting a number of transmit streams for transmission of the payload data; selecting respective modulation schemes for each of the transmit streams; according to the modulation schemes and to an active one of (i) a single-encoder mode and (ii) a per-stream encoder mode, generating the number of coded, modulated transmit streams; wherein each coded, modulated transmit stream contains a portion of the payload data; and providing the coded, modulated transmit streams to respective ones of the antennae for transmission to the receiver station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: PERASO TECHNOLOGIES INC.
    Inventors: Gary Cheng, Joseph Andonieh, Bradley Robert Lynch, Christopher James Hansen
  • Patent number: 10735077
    Abstract: Machine-readable media, methods, apparatus and system for beam acquisition in a wireless system are disclosed. In some aspects, a base station may include a transceiver configured to map beam reference signals onto a plurality of transmission beams. The base station may further include a control module configured to divide the transmission beams into a plurality of groups, based at least in part on a plurality of logical indexes assigned to the transmission beams. The control module may be further be configured to divide the transmission beams of each of the groups into a plurality of sub-groups. The control module may be further configured to change a transmission beam order in at least one of the groups, in order to equalize and maximize logical index differences between transmission beams, which are adjacent to one another in a respective sub-group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yuan Zhu, Jinyu Zhang, Yushu Zhang
  • Patent number: 10728954
    Abstract: Initiation of a network slice event is disclosed. The network slice event can be initiated in response to, and according to a determined a network slice event instruction. The network slice event can result in modification of network slices of a network. The modification of the network slices can correspond to a change in the performance of the network. The modification of the network slices can comprise adding a new slice, removing an existing slice, adapting an existing slice, etc. Artificial intelligence, machine learning, etc., can be employed to provide an inference related to determining the network slice event instruction. The slice event can be implemented via a network controller, for example an ONAP component, based on the network slice event instruction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: Joseph Dahan, Michal Cwian, Rajendra Prasad Kodaypak
  • Patent number: 10728821
    Abstract: The claimed subject matter includes techniques for migrating wireless channels. An example method includes initiating, via a first media access controller on an integrated circuit chip, a first connection on a first wireless channel. The example method also includes performing, via a second media access controller on the integrated circuit chip, a scan on additional wireless channels using a second media access controller. The example method also includes detecting, via the second media access controller, an available wireless channel from the additional wireless channels. The method further includes migrating, via the first media access controller, the first connection from the first wireless channel to the available wireless channel. The method further includes combining the second access media controller with the first media access controller to provide increased throughput or signal quality on the available wireless channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Mark W. Casebolt, Naveen Makineni
  • Patent number: 10728140
    Abstract: Concepts and technologies disclosed herein are directed to deadlock-free traffic rerouting in software-defined networking (“SDN”) networks. According to one aspect of the concepts and technologies disclosed herein, a centralized SDN controller can determine that a packet flow along a path within at least a portion of a network is to be rerouted from the path to a new path. The centralized SDN controller can initiate a reroute of the packet flow to the new path. The centralized SDN controller can request a bandwidth for the new path. The bandwidth can be determined such that bandwidth oversubscription on the new path is avoided. In response to the packet flow settling on the new path, the centralized SDN controller can adjust a requested bandwidth of the packet flow to a desired value to complete the reroute of the packet flow from the path to the new path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Gagan Choudhury, Kang Xi, Simon Tse, Narayan Padi, Alvin Goddard, Aswatnarayan Raghuram
  • Patent number: 10721177
    Abstract: A computing device comprises a processor and memory. A throttling application stored in the memory that is executed by the processor is configured, in response to a new server request from a first application, to determine whether performing the new server request exceeds a predetermined number of requests in progress; if performing the new server request does not exceed a predetermined number of requests in progress, estimate a completion time for the new server request; insert the new server request and the completion time in a request queue; and send the new server request and a time to live field to a server, wherein the time to live field is equal to the completion time minus a current time that the new server request is sent to the server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventor: Garret Buban