Patents Examined by Peter Chen
  • Patent number: 10305650
    Abstract: A method for transmitting a discovery message in a wireless communication system supporting device-to-device (D2D) direct communication, the method performed by the device, includes: receiving discovery resource region information including multiple discovery resource partitions from a base station; determining one discovery resource partition among multiple discovery resource partitions by using discovery search information previously shared with specific D2D terminals; determining a discovery resource for transmitting a discovery message among discovery resources in the determined discovery resource partition through a predetermined resource selecting method; and transmitting the discovery message through the determined discovery resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignees: LG Electronics Inc., Seoul National University R&DB Foundation
    Inventors: Hakseong Kim, Seonik Seong, Kwangbok Lee
  • Patent number: 10278181
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are low data rate electronic devices capable of wireless communication at ranges of thousands of meters. These devices may be such things as keypads, door latches, occupancy monitors, sprinkler controllers and other devices controlled or monitored in a campus or a collection of buildings. These devices operate at intermediate ranges in RF congested areas and failure-intolerant situations through the use of discrete programmable channels. Devices may measure the quality of a communications link on a channel, and apply varying levels of redundancy based upon a recent history of success and failure of packet transmission to other distant devices, which measurement may be a value of badness increased as errors are encountered and decreased as packet communication is successful.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: Hall Labs LLC
    Inventors: David R. Hall, Mark Hall, Craig Boswell, Everett D. Robinson
  • Patent number: 10270663
    Abstract: Examples include fabric management devices. Some examples include a fabric management device to manage a network fabric. The fabric management device comprises a serial interface to connect to a network device of the network fabric that provides power and data to the fabric management device, a processing resource, and a machine-readable storage medium with instructions executable by the processing resource. The machine-readable storage medium comprises instructions establish communication across the serial interface with the network device via a fabric management device driver, discover a topology of the network fabric, wherein the network fabric comprises a plurality of network devices, and monitor a set of network performance metrics of the plurality of network devices. The machine-readable storage medium further comprises instructions to dynamically configure the network fabric based on the set of network performance metrics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
    Inventors: Peter Erik Mellquist, Bryan Stiekes
  • Patent number: 10250674
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure provide a radio access method, apparatus, and system, which can implement mutual transmission and processing of collaborative data between sites on a basis of low-cost deployment and high availability, and improve network performance. In the method, a basic DU is deployed in a site, and the method may include: receiving, by a switching device, a first data packet sent by a first basic DU; determining to send the first data packet to a second basic DU for collaborative processing; and sending the first data packet to the second basic DU, so that the second basic DU performs collaborative processing on the first data packet and a second data packet, where the second data packet and the first data packet are of a same data type. Embodiments of the disclosure are applicable to the communications field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xiaodong Zhang, Jueping Wang, Jianchun Wang, Tao Pu
  • Patent number: 10250502
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a software defined network SDN-based data processing system, and the system includes: a source data node, configured to receive a first data packet, and send to a corresponding source control node; the source control node, configured to receive the first data packet, where the first data packet carries a destination address of the first data packet; and determine a destination control node; and the destination control node, configured to receive the first data packet, and generate a second data packet and a matching policy rule. According to a software defined network-based data processing system in an embodiment of the present disclosure, the collaboration capability between nodes is improved so as to reduce the redundancy of multi-node processing in a network device, thereby improving the service processing efficiency of the network. The present disclosure further discloses a software defined network-based data processing method and device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Song Jiang, Mingzhen Xia
  • Patent number: 10243789
    Abstract: A method for universal scaling of software network functions involves receiving, at a switch of a network, a batch of data units during a first period. The network further includes one or more network function (NF) instances of an NF service, and a scaling controller. The switch transmits one or more units of data during the first period to an NF instance of the NF service. An estimated maximum safe data unit rate is determined for the NF instance, and a representative safe data unit rate is determined for the NF service. A total number of data units designated to be received by the NF service during the first period is determined, and a total number of NF instances of the NF service to be provisioned in the network is determined at the scaling controller using the estimated total number of data units and the representative safe data unit rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: Nefeli Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: David Naylor, Daniele di Proietto, Matthew Mussomele, Kevin Fall, Sylvia Ratnasamy, Chris Torek
  • Patent number: 10243648
    Abstract: A satellite system having increased communications capacity and methods for increasing the capacity of satellite systems are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: WorldVu Satellites Limited
    Inventor: Gregory Thane Wyler
  • Patent number: 10237889
    Abstract: A method, an apparatus, and a processor-readable storage medium for wireless communication are provided. In an aspect, the apparatus is a subordinate entity that receives an indication of a resource allocated for an uplink transmission. The subordinate entity also receives a condition associated with the resource. The subordinate entity evaluates whether the condition is satisfied and determines whether to transmit a packet using the resource based on the condition being satisfied. In another aspect, the apparatus is a scheduling entity that generates an indication of a resource allocated for an uplink transmission. The resource is associated with a condition that limits access to the resource. The scheduling entity transmits the indication and the condition to a subordinate entity and receives a packet from the subordinate entity via the resource based on the condition being satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jay Kumar Sundararajan, Jing Jiang, Tingfang Ji, Chih Ping Li, Gavin Bernard Horn, Keiichi Kubota
  • Patent number: 10225092
    Abstract: A transmission control system includes: a storage unit that stores therein zone identification information for identifying a zone in which each of transmission terminals is used, and priority information that indicates a priority at which a transmission terminal indicated by the zone identification information should use each of a plurality of relay devices, in association with each other; a reception unit that receives, from a first transmission terminal, first zone identification information for identifying a zone in which the first transmission terminal is used and second zone identification information for identifying a zone in which a second transmission terminal as a destination terminal is used; and a selection unit that selects a relay device to be used for relaying the content data based on first priority information associated with the first zone identification information and second priority information associated with the second zone identification information in the storage unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Kanda, Takahiro Asai
  • Patent number: 10212039
    Abstract: A management server communicates with an authentication server that authenticates endpoints, which are configured to connect wirelessly with access points (APs) controlled by respective ones of a plurality of controllers. Weights for the APs and the controllers are stored. Event logs detailing requests for authentication of the endpoints are received. For each request, roaming conditions for the endpoint that triggered the request are determined. Also, a respective weight of one or more of the AP connected with the endpoint and of the controller that controls the AP is increased by a respective amount depending on whether the roaming conditions are caused by the AP and the controller being improperly configured or properly configured. Identities of ones of the APs and the controllers having weights that exceed one or more weight thresholds each indicative of an improperly configured AP or controller are stored.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Vivek Santuka, Aaron Troy Woland, Pok Sze Wong, Jesse Ryan Dubois, Kannan Muthusamy
  • Patent number: 10187838
    Abstract: A system and method for load rebalancing are provided. A node B selects a subset of carriers from a plurality of carriers of the node B according to effective usages for the plurality of carriers, determines a heavily loaded carrier and a lightly loaded carrier from the subset of carriers according to effective usages of the subset of carriers, select a mobile device assigned to the heavily loaded carrier as a candidate for handoff, and performs a handoff of the selected mobile device from the heavily loaded carrier to the lightly loaded carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Ernest Newbury, Keith Butterworth, Zinan Lin, Alpaslan Gence Savas, Matthijs A. Visser
  • Patent number: 10171157
    Abstract: A repeater efficiently transfers frames addressed to the same destination address when the frames are received at the same time by a plurality of ports, by performing a distribute-transfer process, when a difference between a size of each of the frames received by a normal port and an average size of those frames is within a preset range for all the frames, or an actual-measured communication speed of each of two ring ports is greater than a threshold. The distribute-transfer process distributes and transmits the frames to two communication paths from the two ring ports after receiving the frames at the two normal ports. The highest actual-measured communication speed of a ring port among other ring ports of the repeaters is considered as a communication efficiency parameter for selecting a broadest communication path for transmitting the frame. The frame(s) having the highest communication speed is/are distributed to the ring port connected to the broadest path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Zhuomin Zhou, Yoshifumi Kaku
  • Patent number: 10172119
    Abstract: A method, apparatus, and computer program for controlling allocation of control message fields in uplink transmission in a cellular telecommunication system are presented. Uplink control message fields are allocated to the resources of a physical uplink shared traffic channel according to an uplink transmission scheme selected for a user terminal. The control message fields are allocated so that transmission performance of the control messages is optimized for the selected uplink transmission scheme.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: WIRELESS FUTURE TECHNOLOGIES INC.
    Inventors: Timo E. Lunttila, Kari P. Pajukoski, Esa T. Tiirola
  • Patent number: 10165596
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method and an apparatus for transmitting a frame in a wireless local area network. A method for transmitting a frame in a wireless local area network may comprise the steps of: an STA, operating on the basis of TPC, transmitting a TPC configuration request frame to an AP, the TPC configuration request frame containing information for a TPC STA communication resource requested by the STA; the STA receiving, from the AP, a TPC configuration response frame as a response to the TPC configuration request frame, the TPC configuration response frame containing information for allocating requested TPC STA communication resource; and the STA transmitting the frame to the AP by means of the requested TPC STA communication resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jinsoo Choi, Jinyoung Chun, Wookbong Lee, Dongguk Lim, Hangyu Cho
  • Patent number: 10164858
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods for monitoring a wireless local area network (WLAN) to identify inoperative or degraded devices and restore network connectivity to end users. In one embodiment, the network includes one or more access points (APs) in data communication with a cable modem, which in turn communicates with managed network entities via a backhaul connection. Each AP is configured to provide connectivity to client devices, as well as monitor the operation of other network components including the cable modem, via logic indigenous to the AP, and invoke corrective action when failures or degraded performance is detected. In one variant, the logic operative to run on the AP includes both diagnostic and self-healing functionality, so as to enable at least partial automated diagnosis, localization, and recovery from faults, thereby obviating costly troubleshooting by the network operator or service personnel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: Time Warner Cable Enterprises LLC
    Inventors: Don Gunasekara, Ahmed Bencheikh, Priyank Vira
  • Patent number: 10158539
    Abstract: Systems and methods for transmission of data through mesh networks are disclosed. Specifically, various techniques and systems are provided for using performance metrics of nodes in a mesh network to make data transmission decisions. Exemplary embodiments of the present invention include a computer-implemented method. The method comprises receiving, at a network device on a network, performance metrics associated with an additional network device on the network; generating performance metrics associated with the network device; storing the performance metrics associated with the network device and the performance metrics associated with the additional network device; and transmitting the performance metrics associated with the network device and the performance metrics associated with an additional network device, wherein when the performance metrics are received, the performance metrics are used to determine whether data will be transmitted to the network device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2018
    Assignee: Belkin International, Inc.
    Inventors: Ryan Yong Kim, Venkata Subba Rao Pathuri, Gursharan Sidhu, Aaron Schneider, Brian Knopf
  • Patent number: 10149138
    Abstract: A method for transmitting a discovery message in a wireless communication system supporting device-to-device (D2D) direct communication, the method performed by the device, includes: discovering a D2D synchronization signal; classifying one or more macros by using the strength of the discovered D2D synchronization signal; receiving macro resource allocation information from a base station of the classified macro; sensing a macro resource of the classified macro based on the received macro resource allocation information; determining a macro resource for selecting a discovery resource through the sensing result; determining a discovery resource for transmitting a discovery message in the determined macro resource; and transmitting the discovery message through the determined discovery resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Hakseong Kim, Seonik Seong, Kwangbok Lee
  • Patent number: 10149308
    Abstract: A communication quality determination/acquisition device and method for a wireless communication system. The determination device includes: a measuring module configured to perform downlink channel quality measurement based on a distribution of static and dynamic downlink subframes of a target cell, wherein the static downlink subframes are downlink subframes relative to the target cell and at least one neighboring cell, while the dynamic downlink subframes are downlink subframes relative to the target cell and are uplink subframes relative to the at least one neighboring cell; and a communication module configured to report a downlink channel quality measurement result. By performing measurement and reporting while considering downlink subframe configurations and the distribution of the static and dynamic downlink subframes of the target cell, the device and method can accurately measure the channel quality under dynamic TDD UL/DL configurations and report the same to a network side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Qimei Cui, Ting Fu, Mingliang Tao, Liang Zeng
  • Patent number: 10148571
    Abstract: A routing table is represented as a binary search tree ordered by prefix lengths. Markers are placed to guide accessing nodes in designated subtrees to search for a longest prefix match with destination addresses of data packet. Destination descendant nodes in remote hierarchical levels of the tree are associated with the markers. The traversal of the binary search tree is conducted by accessing the respective destination descendant nodes while avoiding accessing nodes in intermediate hierarchical levels. The packet is processed using the longest prefix match.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: MELLANOX TECHNOLOGIES TLV LTD.
    Inventors: Aviv Kfir, Pedro Reviriego, Salvatore Pontarelli, Gil Levy
  • Patent number: 10148459
    Abstract: Network service insertion includes determining a tunnel interface corresponding to a service entity to which an incoming packet is to be directed, the tunnel interface being determined based on software defined network (SDN) flow rules. Further, the incoming packet can be encapsulated based on a tunnel configuration corresponding to the tunnel interface to generate an encapsulated packet such that the encapsulated packet includes media access control (MAC) address headers and a virtual local area network (VLAN) tag associated with the incoming packet. The encapsulated packet can be sent to the service entity through the tunnel interface for network service insertion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
    Inventors: Jechun Chiu, Venkatavaradhan Devarajan, Duane Edward Mentze, Craig Joseph Mills