Patents Examined by Rhonda Murphy
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Patent number: 10187307Abstract: A system and method for implementing transmission parameter control at a transmitting station is described. The exemplary system and method comprises querying a transmission parameter control module for a transmission schedule. The transmission schedule comprises at least one schedule entry defining a set of transmission parameter controls as they pertain to a destination address. At least one packet of data is then transmitted to the destination address according to the transmission parameters controls of at least one schedule entry from the transmission schedule. A system and method for selecting an antenna configuration corresponding to a next transmission of packet data is also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2016Date of Patent: January 22, 2019Assignee: ARRIS Enterprises LLCInventors: William Kish, Victor Shtrom, John Chanak
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Patent number: 10117194Abstract: A method and apparatus are disclosed for power headroom reporting in a wireless communication system. The method includes a UE (User Equipment) being configured with at least a first cell and a second cell. The method also includes the UE reports a PHR (Power Headroom Report) on the first cell in a subframe, wherein the PHR contains the power headroom value of the second cell, and the power headroom value of the second cell is derived using a specific PUSCH resource assignment regardless of whether there is PUSCH (Physical Uplink Shared Channel) transmission in the second cell in the subframe or not.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2014Date of Patent: October 30, 2018Assignee: INNOVATIVE SONIC CORPORATIONInventor: Ming-Che Li
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Patent number: 10104584Abstract: A user equipment (UE) receives, from a plurality of wireless access network nodes, respective indicators, where the UE is concurrently connected to the plurality of wireless access network nodes. The UE determines, based on the indicators, a split of uplink data in a buffer of the UE into a plurality of uplink data portions for transmission by the UE to the respective wireless access network nodes.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2015Date of Patent: October 16, 2018Assignee: BlackBerry LimitedInventor: Zhijun Cai
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Patent number: 10090956Abstract: A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for wireless communication are provided in which a signal including a signal from a UE is received. System information of a neighboring eNodeB is obtained. The received signal is processed based on the system information in order to enhance the received signal with respect to the signal from the UE.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2010Date of Patent: October 2, 2018Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Xiaoxia Zhang, Durga Prasad Malladi, Yongbin Wei, Tao Luo, Hao Xu
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Patent number: 10085236Abstract: Exemplary embodiments provide a method and apparatus for transmitting data through a device-to-device (D2D) communication between user equipments (UEs), the method including: generating, at a first UE, first D2D data, the first D2D data corresponding to a transport block (TB) unit; and transmitting, from the first UE to a second UE, the first D2D data through at least one D2D communication resource, the at least one D2D communication resource being based on a sub-RPT (sub-resource pattern for transmission). An RPT defined in a D2D resource pool is configured based on the sub-RPT, and the sub-RPT indicates the at least one D2D communication resource for the transmission of the first D2D data among at least two D2D communication candidate resources.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2015Date of Patent: September 25, 2018Assignee: Innovative Technology Lab Co., Ltd.Inventor: Sung Jun Yoon
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Patent number: 10075777Abstract: A system includes a terminal, a wireless access network, an IP telephony network, a core network gateway from the IP telephony network to the public mobile phone network and a network device, which connects the wireless access network to the IP telephony network and adapts the IP telephony network services to be used by utilizing the circuit-switched signaling protocols of the terminal. A location updating request is received from the terminal over the wireless access network. Location updating is performed via a core network gateway. The network device performs user registration to the IP telephony network using a domain name formed by the phone number of the user and the domain name of the network device or the numeric IP address as the address connection to be registered and as location data in the IP telephony network.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2015Date of Patent: September 11, 2018Assignee: Intermec IP Corp.Inventors: Markku Rautiola, Heikki Oukka
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Patent number: 10064212Abstract: A method for transmitting a scheduling request includes receiving, at a relay UE and from a remote UE, a sidelink control information. The relay UE is within a coverage area of a base station. The remote UE is outside of the coverage area. The relay UE is configured to relay transmissions from the remote UE to the base station, and the sidelink control information indicates a future transmission of a data packet over a sidelink channel. A scheduling request is transmitted to a base station. A scheduling grant that indicates an uplink resource is received from the base station. A data packet over the sidelink channel is received from the remote UE.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2015Date of Patent: August 28, 2018Assignee: BlackBerry LimitedInventors: Rene Faurie, Eswar Vutukuri, Takashi Suzuki
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Patent number: 10057899Abstract: A frame transmission method is provided by a device in a wireless communication network. The device generates a signal field including a symbol using a 64 FFT and carrying signaling information, and generates a data field including a symbol using a FFT having a larger size than the 64 FFT and carrying data. The device transmits a frame including the signal field and the data field.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2015Date of Patent: August 21, 2018Assignee: NEWRACOM, INC.Inventors: Ilgu Lee, Changwahn Yu
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Patent number: 9992733Abstract: A method, station and computer readable storage medium used to perform opportunistic roaming procedures. A station joined to a basic service set (BSS) of an access point (AP) performs a method including determining a roam profile for the station, the roam profile indicating at least one of available operating bands or available APs for the station, determining a first value associated with a network parameter of the joined AP, determining at least one roam candidate AP having a second value associated with the network parameter corresponding to the roam candidate AP, wherein the first and second values are a received signal strength indicator, determining whether a predetermined criteria value is satisfied based upon the first and second values, wherein the predetermined criteria value is a minimum difference between the first value and second value and roaming to the roam candidate AP when the predetermined criteria value is satisfied.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2014Date of Patent: June 5, 2018Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Welly Kasten, Chaitanya Mannemala, Kapil Chhabra, Veerendra Boodannavar
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Patent number: 9986444Abstract: The present invention relates to a wireless communication system and, in particular, to a method and apparatus for feeding back aggregated CSI using multiple CSI-RS setting information in a wireless communication system which supports CoMP. The method of a terminal feeding back aggregated CSI for cooperative transmission in the wireless communication system according to an embodiment of the present invention, includes the steps of respectively receiving first CSI-RS setting information and second CSI setting information for a first base station and a second base station participating in the cooperative transmission; receiving a first CSI-RS and a second CSI-RS setting information; calculating first CSI and second CSI using the first CSI-RS and the second CSI-RS; and transmitting the aggregated CSI calculated on the basis of the first CSI and the second CSI, wherein the first CSI-RS and the second CSI-RS can be transmitted on the same subframe.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2012Date of Patent: May 29, 2018Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Hyungtae Kim, Hanbyul Seo
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Patent number: 9985912Abstract: A system and method of transferring cells through a switch fabric having a shared memory crossbar switch, a plurality of cell receive blocks and a plurality of cell transmit blocks. The system determines, based on a number of cells queued up in respective output buffers in the cell transmit blocks, output buffers in the cell transmit blocks that can receive cells on a low latency path. The cells transferred include first cells that can be transferred on the low latency path and second cells that cannot be transferred via the low latency path. The first cells are transferred via a bypass mechanism in shared memory to the output buffers. The second cells are transferred by writing the second cells to shared memory, reading the second cells from shared memory and transferring the second cells read from shared memory to the output buffers in the cell transmit blocks.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2015Date of Patent: May 29, 2018Assignee: Juniper Networks, Inc.Inventors: Rahul Wagh, Kapil Suri, Gurjeet Singh, Harshad B Agashe, Srihari R. Vegesna, Dinesh Jaiswal
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Patent number: 9979524Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for transmitting a terminal-specific reference signal for a control signal by a base station in a wireless communication system. Specifically, the method is characterized in that it comprises: transmitting a plurality of control channels and a first terminal-specific reference signal for the plurality of control channels to a first resource region; and transmitting one control channel and a second terminal-specific reference signal for the control channel to a second resource region, wherein the different descrambling identifiers are applied to the first and second terminal-specific reference signals.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2012Date of Patent: May 22, 2018Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Kitae Kim, Jinyoung Chun, Sunam Kim, Jiwon Kang, Binchul Ihm, Sungho Park
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Patent number: 9973942Abstract: Methods and apparatus for modifying network management for hybrid operation. In one embodiment, the networks include an LTE network and a CDMA 1× network, and a mobile device can place CDMA 1× voice calls while registered with the LTE network. However, since the mobile device cannot simultaneously measure information for the LTE network while connected to the CDMA 1× networks, the mobile device modifies measurements and behaviors reported to the LTE network. In one implementation, the mobile device accounts for the time switched away from the LTE network in one or more subsequent reports thereto.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2012Date of Patent: May 15, 2018Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Li Su, Jianxiong Shi, Jr., Madhusudan Chaudhary, Longda Xing
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Patent number: 9967859Abstract: One illustrative method for a wireless device in a wireless local area network (WLAN) includes receiving a network interworking indicator at the wireless device, the network interworking indicator indicating support of a capability of the WLAN to communicate information relating to a wireless network. A request for network information identifying one or more networks is transmitted from the wireless device to the WLAN. The network information is received in response to the request for network information. The network information is provided in a container field of a generic container.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2015Date of Patent: May 8, 2018Assignee: BlackBerry LimitedInventors: Adrian Buckley, Vytautas Robertas Kezys
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Patent number: 9954711Abstract: A wireless communication device (alternatively, device) includes a communication interface and a processor, among other possible circuitries, components, elements, etc. to support communications with other wireless communication device(s) and to generate and process signals for such communications. A device is configured to generate various orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) and/or orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) packets (e.g., frames, signals, etc.) that are based on any of group of set of OFDM/A frame structures. Across the various OFDM/A frame structures, the ratio of pilot sub-carriers to data sub-carriers across resource units (RUs) decreases as the total number of sub-carriers across the RUs increases. In addition, some of the OFDM/A frame structures include different total number of sub-carriers yet same number of pilot sub-carriers.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2015Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignee: AVAGO TECHNOLOGIES GENERAL IP (SINGAPORE) PTE. LTD.Inventor: Ron Porat
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Patent number: 9954770Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture (e.g., physical storage media) to reroute tunnel traffic in a network are disclosed. Example methods disclosed herein include, in response to detecting an event associated with routing first traffic in the network, determining a plurality of paths to carry respective traffic for a plurality of tunnels between pairs of routers in the network, the plurality of paths being determined based on a quality metric characterizing an aggregate tunnel bandwidth to be carried by the plurality of paths for the plurality of tunnels. Such disclosed example methods also include sending first routing information describing the plurality of paths to the routers in the network to cause the routers to route the respective traffic for the plurality of tunnels using the plurality of paths.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2014Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.Inventors: John Gregory Klincewicz, Gagan Choudhury, Kathleen S. Meier-Hellstern
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Patent number: 9942877Abstract: Technologies are generally described for providing multicasting services. In some examples, a method performed under control of a first user equipment may include receiving a first level of signal and a second level of signal from a base station during a first time slot and transmitting the second level of signal to a second user equipment during a second time slot.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2011Date of Patent: April 10, 2018Assignee: INHA-INDUSTRY PARTNERSHIP INSTITUTEInventor: Duk Kyung Kim
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Patent number: 9942917Abstract: A method for allocating resources for device-to-device transmission between two or more user equipment (UEs) includes transmitting, from a first UE to a second UE, a resource allocation configuration for device-to-device communications. A resource request for a device-to-device transmission is received from the second UE. In response to the resource request, a resource for the device-to-device transmission is selected at the first UE. A resource grant is transmitted to the second UE. The resource grant identifies the selected resource. A device-to-device transmission is received from the second UE over the selected resource.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2015Date of Patent: April 10, 2018Assignee: BlackBerry LimitedInventors: Rene Faurie, Eswar Vutukuri, Takashi Suzuki
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Patent number: 9924329Abstract: A method for a multi-media broadcast/multicast service by a base station includes receiving, from a radio network controller (RNC), a command for updating an MBMS notification indicator, the command including notification indicator information and a connection frame number, determining whether a modification period is included in the command, and transmitting a notification indicator starting at a time based on the connection frame number for the modification period if the modification period is included in the command, wherein the notification indicator information is used to generate the notification indicator.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2015Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Assignees: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd, Beijing Samsung Telecom R&D CenterInventors: Chunying Sun, Xiaoqiang Li
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Patent number: 9924330Abstract: Disclosed is a method for a multi-media broadcast/multicast service (MBMS) by a radio network controller (RNC), including generating a command for updating an MBMS notification indicator, the command including notification indicator information and a connection frame number, transmitting the command to a base station, and receiving a notification indicator starting at a time based on the connection frame number for a modification period if the modification period is included in the command, wherein the notification indicator information is used to generate the notification indicator.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2015Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Assignees: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd, Beijing Samsung Telecom R&D CenterInventors: Chunying Sun, Xiaoqiang Li