Patents Examined by Marsha D. Banks-Harold
  • Patent number: 10306625
    Abstract: According to an aspect, there is provided a method of operating a network node in a communication network. The method comprises determining (121) a preferred configuration for one or more flexible subframes in a frame, the frame comprising one or more subframes allocated to uplink transmissions, one or more subframes allocated to downlink transmissions and one or more flexible subframes that can each be dynamically allocated to either uplink transmissions or downlink transmissions; and transmitting (125) a message to a neighbouring network node in the communication network through an inter node interface, the message indicating the preferred configuration for the one or more flexible subframes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Angelo Centonza, Erik Eriksson, Lars Lindbom, Xinghua Song
  • Patent number: 10299314
    Abstract: A mobile body includes a direction identifying unit that identifies a direction in which a communication target mobile body is positioned and a control unit that moves the mobile body by a first control amount indicating a pair consisting of a first absolute velocity value and a first velocity direction. Upon detecting that predetermined information is no longer received from the communication target mobile body, the control unit determines a second control amount by which the autonomous mobile robot is to be moved in the direction identified by the direction identifying unit and which indicates a pair consisting of a second absolute velocity value and a second velocity direction, and the control unit generates a second control command to switch the first control amount to the second control amount and move the autonomous mobile robot and outputs the generated second control command to a drive unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventor: Satoru Hayama
  • Patent number: 10291311
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, receiving a first wireless signal at a first carrier frequency, the first wireless signal including a first modulated signal generated by a second antenna system by frequency-shifting the first modulated signal from a first native frequency band to the first carrier frequency, receiving a second wireless signal at a second carrier frequency, the second wireless signal including a second modulated signal generated by a third antenna system by frequency-shifting the second modulated signal from a second native frequency band to the second carrier frequency, detecting a fault in the second antenna system, and responsive to the detecting, adjusting a power level of a first wireless transmission to generate an adjusted first wireless transmission directed to the third antenna system. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventor: Irwin Gerszberg
  • Patent number: 10284479
    Abstract: A network congestion control method is provided. The method includes detecting whether a new network connection is established by a source endpoint; obtaining a destination endpoint of the new network connection when it is detected that a new network connection is established by a source endpoint; and assigning the new network connection to an established network group corresponding to the destination endpoint of the new network connection. Further, the method includes, based on a predefined network congestion control mechanism for each network group, obtaining a data transfer rate of each network group and controlling the data transfer rate of each network group to control data transfer rates of network connections in each network group including the new network connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: SANGFOR TECHNOLOGIES INC.
    Inventor: Dean Luo
  • Patent number: 10264524
    Abstract: In a wireless communication system including a slave device, and a master device wirelessly connected to the slave device, the slave device includes a wireless communicator that performs wireless communication with the master device, a power supply unit that supplies power to each unit of the slave device, an interrupt detector that detects various interrupts, and a controller that controls the entire slave device, the interrupt detector supplies the power from the power supply unit to each unit of the slave device when detecting a timer interrupt occurring at predetermined intervals, and the controller performs control to perform an initialization process of the wireless communicator when the power is supplied from the power supply unit to each unit of the slave device, and perform an entire initialization process of the slave device when a capture signal is received via the wireless communicator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Katsuhiro Hirai, Toshiyuki Sugitani, Shinji Fukuda
  • Patent number: 10264477
    Abstract: The disclosure is related to a multi-band wireless station, e.g., a wireless access point, that includes more than one wireless radio in the same frequency band. The wireless station operates at multiple frequency bands, e.g., 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz. Further, the wireless station includes multiple radios in the same frequency band. For example, the wireless station can have two radios for the 5 GHz band—one for a low 5 GHz band and another for high 5 GHz band. If the client station is connecting to the 5 GHz band, it can either connect to the first sub-band or the second sub-band of the 5 GHz. The wireless station can decide the sub-band to which a particular client station has to be assigned based on a number of assignment attributes, e.g., client station attributes and the sub-band attributes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: NETGEAR, INC.
    Inventors: Peiman Amini, Joseph Amalan Arul Emmanuel, ShunLiang Yu
  • Patent number: 10264519
    Abstract: Operations include estimating a signal strength of a wireless signal as if received by a target wireless device. One or more relationships between detected signal strength values, measured channel utilization values, and/or actual channel utilization values are determined. The estimation is made based on applying detected signal strength values received at other wireless devices, measured channel utilization values at other wireless devices, and/or actual channel utilization values at other wireless devices to the relationships.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: KodaCloud Inc.
    Inventor: Subbu Ponnuswamy
  • Patent number: 10257758
    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: July 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Mark W. Casebolt, Naveen Makineni
  • Patent number: 10251047
    Abstract: Techniques may be used for restricted direct discovery in proximity services (ProSe). A ProSe function may receive from a discovery wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) a restricted ProSe Application identity (ID) of an application located at the discoverer WTRU requesting ProSe discovery. The ProSe function may derive a first and second ProSe codes for the discoveree WTRU and discoverer WTRU, and provide the ProSe codes to the discoverer and/or discoveree WTRUs. A ProSe application server may receive a revocation message from an announcing WTRU indicating a revoked WTRU. The ProSe application server may provide a ProSe discovery WTRU ID for the revoked WTRU to a ProSe Function. The ProSe function may instruct the announcing WTRU to stop announcing a ProSe code known by the revoked WTRU, and may provide a new ProSe code to at least one WTRU authorized to discover the announcing WTRU.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: INTERDIGITAL PATENT HOLDINGS, INC.
    Inventors: Dimitrios Karampatsis, Mahmoud Watfa, Ulises Olvera-Hernandez, Saad Ahmad
  • Patent number: 10250517
    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 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventor: Garret Buban
  • Patent number: 10243885
    Abstract: Method for complex coloring based parallel scheduling for the switching network that is directed at traffic scheduling in the large scale high speed switching network. The parallel scheduling algorithm is on a frame basis. By introducing the concept of complex coloring which is optimal and can be implemented in a distributed and parallel manner, the algorithm can obtain an optimal scheduling scheme without knowledge of the global information of the switching system, so as to maximize bandwidth utilization of the switching system to achieve a nearly 100% throughput. The algorithm complexity is O(log2 N).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: Shanghai Jiao Tong University
    Inventors: Lingkang Wang, Tong Ye, Tony T. Lee, Weisheng Hu
  • Patent number: 10243760
    Abstract: A communication device performs information communication through a communication line based on communication data specified by a CAN protocol. A communication necessity determination unit determines whether or not the information communication through the communication line is necessary based on external information obtained from an external device. When the information communication is necessary and a communication error is detected, a communication control unit stops the information communication during a fixed period and restarts the information communication after the fixed period elapses. When the information communication is unnecessary, the communication control unit stops transmitting communication data until a predetermined transmission restarting condition is satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Yuta Ochiai, Hiroya Ando, Mitsutoshi Kato, Naoto Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 10243754
    Abstract: Method and system for reducing multicast traffic loss including configuring, on a primary DR including a first configured DR priority, a DR parameter including a value and an attribute; sending to a secondary DR, after a PIM interface comes up, a PIM hello message including a default DR priority lower than a second configured priority of the secondary DR; sending to the secondary DR, after the primary DR reaches a system-up state, a PIM hello message including the default DR priority; performing DR functionality, by the primary DR, after reaching the system-up state; and sending to the secondary DR, after waiting a time period corresponding to the value of the DR parameter, a PIM hello message including the first configured DR priority, where the primary DR waits to send the last PIM hello message to the secondary DR after the time period based on the attribute of the DR parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: Arista Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: Xiaoyan Chang, John French, Prashant Srinivas, Maxim Martynov, Srinivas Subramanian, Yu Iu
  • Patent number: 10237376
    Abstract: A method for congestion control includes receiving at a destination computer a packet transmitted on a given flow, in accordance with a predefined transport protocol, through a network by a transmitting network interface controller (NIC) of a source computer, and marked by an element in the network with a forward congestion notification. Upon receiving the marked packet in a receiving NIC of the destination computer, a congestion notification packet (CNP) indicating a flow to be throttled is immediately queued for transmission from the receiving NIC through the network to the source computer. Upon receiving the CNP in the transmitting NIC, transmission of further packets on at least the flow indicated by the CNP from the transmitting NIC to the network is immediately throttled, and an indication of the given flow is passed from the transmitting NIC to a protocol processing software stack running on the source computer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: MELLANOX TECHNOLOGIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Diego Crupnicoff, Michael Kagan, Noam Bloch, Adi Menachem, Idan Burstein
  • Patent number: 10237025
    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: February 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventor: SaiRamesh Nammi
  • Patent number: 10231260
    Abstract: According to some embodiments, a method in a wireless device of a wireless communication network comprises receiving scheduling information for one or more System Information (SI) messages. The wireless device determines a coverage enhancement level associated with each of the one or more SI messages based on the received scheduling information. The wireless device also determines a coverage enhancement level of the wireless device. After identifying a subset of the one or more SI messages based on the determined coverage enhancement level of the wireless device, the wireless device acquires a SI message from the identified subset of the one or more SI messages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Oscar Ohlsson, Andreas Höglund, Emre Yavuz, Anders Wallén, Johan Bergman
  • Patent number: 10203748
    Abstract: A system includes a first electronic device that activates a first receiver according to a communication schedule that includes a plurality of frames. Each frame is organized according to a grid including a plurality of cells, wherein the cells are associated with a plurality of communication channels and a plurality of time slots. The system also includes a second electronic device that communicates with the first electronic device by transmitting a wake-up packet during a first time slot on a first communication channel. The first time slot and the first communication channel are located at a known position of a respective grid in each frame of the communication schedule. The first electronic device performs an operation based on the wake-up packet after receiving the wake-up packet. The second electronic device also receives a first acknowledgment packet associated with the wake-up packet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventor: Martin Turon
  • Patent number: 10205484
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a waveguide system for determining an event associated with a mode of transmitting or receiving electromagnetic waves on a surface of a transmission medium, identifying according to the event an updated mode for transmitting or receiving adjusted electromagnetic waves on the surface of a transmission medium, and transmitting or receiving the adjusted electromagnetic waves based on the updated mode. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Paul Shala Henry, Robert Bennett, Irwin Gerszberg, Farhad Barzegar, Donald J. Barnickel, Thomas M. Willis
  • Patent number: 10199989
    Abstract: Described examples include Ethernet physical layer (PHY) interface integrated circuits with transmit interface circuitry for transmitting data to an Ethernet network through a magnetic interface, which includes a voltage mode first amplifier with an output that generates a first voltage signal from a supply voltage according to a data input signal. The transmit interface circuit also includes a feedforward second amplifier circuit with an output stage that operates in a first mode to generate a current signal from the supply voltage according to the first voltage signal and to provide the current signal to the first amplifier output to boost a peak voltage at the output above the supply voltage to facilitate support for higher peak signal voltage swings for 10Base-T applications while using 2.5 volt or other low voltage supply levels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Sumantra Seth, Ashwin Ramachandran, Gururaj Ghorpade
  • Patent number: 10193809
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a network element that performs network traffic bridging receives load balancing criteria comprising an indication of at least one transport layer port number and an indication of a plurality of network nodes. A plurality of forwarding entries are created based on the load balancing criteria. A forwarding entry specifies the at least one transport layer port number and a network node of the plurality of network nodes. The network element applies the plurality of forwarding entries to network traffic to load balance, among the plurality of network nodes, network traffic that matches the at least one transport layer port number.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Samar Sharma, Mouli Vytla