Patents Examined by Richard K. Chang
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Patent number: 8934386Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention enable power-save methods for wireless networks. Embodiments of the present invention are compliant with the IEEE 802.11 protocol. Further, embodiments of the present invention are readily inter-operable with other third party implementations.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2009Date of Patent: January 13, 2015Assignee: Broadcom CorporationInventors: Mahesh Iyer, Kapil Chhabra, Yury Gonikberg
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Patent number: 8897286Abstract: A method can be used for facilitating uplink synchronization between a first transceiver and a second transceiver within a cell in a multi-user cellular communication system. The first transceiver receives a signal for the uplink synchronization from the second transceiver. The signal includes a first signature sequence generated, at least in part, from a sequence with a zero-correlation zone. The first transceiver then performs a correlation of the signal for detection of the first signature sequence.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2012Date of Patent: November 25, 2014Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventors: Branislav Popovic, Oskar Mauritz
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Patent number: 8855063Abstract: Embodiment and methods and apparatus for scheduling one or more responses for multiple stations (STAs) in a downlink multiple-user multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) network transmission are provided.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2010Date of Patent: October 7, 2014Assignee: Intel CorporationInventor: Michelle X. Gong
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Patent number: 8848585Abstract: An embodiment method for managing power of user device having a plurality of interfaces includes mapping centralized reachability states to physical power states of the interface and controlling the physical power states based on the mapping. Controlling includes transmitting a signal to the user device.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2010Date of Patent: September 30, 2014Assignee: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Hinghung Anthony Chan, Justin Zengjun Xiang, James Han, Behcet Sarikaya
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Patent number: 8830982Abstract: An uplink control method for use in a communication system based on multiple carriers. The method includes allocating different types of random access channels for different types of uplink operations.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2009Date of Patent: September 9, 2014Assignee: Industrial Technology Research InstituteInventor: Chie-Ming Chou
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Patent number: 8817714Abstract: The base station device includes: a signal transmission unit which transmits a signal in which data is assigned in a natural number of resource blocks located in a frequency axis in each of a plurality of bands and a signal including information specifying the plurality of bands to the mobile station device. The mobile station device includes: a signal reception unit which receives the signal including the information specifying the plurality of bands from the signal transmission unit via any of the plurality of bands, and receives the signal in which the data is assigned in the natural number of resource blocks located in the frequency axis in each of the plurality of bands from the signal transmission unit based on the information specifying the plurality of bands; and a data extraction unit which extracts data from the signal in which the data is assigned in the natural number of resource blocks located in the frequency axis received by the signal reception unit.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2009Date of Patent: August 26, 2014Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Toshizo Nogami, Shohei Yamada
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Patent number: 8804489Abstract: A router detects a network failure and responsive to that failure, floods a fast failure notification message out a set of interfaces of the router. The fast failure notification message includes information that identifies the network failure and includes as its source MAC (Media Access Control) address a MAC address that is assigned to an interface that is coupled with the detected network failure and is not part of the set of interfaces of the router. The router updates a routing table to reflect the network failure. The flooding of the fast failure notification message is performed prior to completion of the routing table update to reflect the network failure.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2011Date of Patent: August 12, 2014Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (Publ)Inventors: Wenhu Lu, Albert Jining Tian
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Patent number: 8743806Abstract: An uplink control method for use in a communication system based on multiple carriers. The method includes allocating different types of random access channels for different types of uplink operations.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2011Date of Patent: June 3, 2014Assignee: Industrial Technology Research InstituteInventor: Chie-Ming Chou
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Patent number: 8743681Abstract: A method including receiving network topology and resource management information; generating a mapping between the network topology of a network and resource reservation paths associated with flows using the network based on the network topology and resource management information; generating a failure recovery plan (FRP) based on the mapping, wherein the FRP instructs one or more other network devices on how to manage a failure such that one or more resource reservation paths associated with flows impacted by the failure are not deleted; and loading the FRP on the one or more other network devices.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2010Date of Patent: June 3, 2014Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.Inventor: Hassan M. Omar
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Apparatus and method for resource allocation information transmission in mobile communication system
Patent number: 8724561Abstract: An apparatus and method for resource allocation information transmission is provided. The method includes determining a search space for use in a second frequency band using resource allocation information of a first process detected in a first frequency band, detecting resource allocation information using the search space in the second frequency band, and when failing to decode received data according to the resource allocation information detected in the second frequency band, re-detecting resource allocation information of the first process in the second frequency band in a first time interval using the search space without detecting the resource allocation information of the first process in the first frequency band.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2010Date of Patent: May 13, 2014Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Sang-Min Lee, Eun-Yong Kim, Joon-Young Cho, Ju-Ho Lee, Tak-Ki Yu -
Patent number: 8705412Abstract: An apparatus and a method for protecting receive circuits in a Time Division Duplexing (TDD) wireless communication system are provided. The receive circuit protecting apparatus includes a TDD controller for controlling transmission and reception modes according to transmission and reception intervals, a transmitter for power-amplifying and outputting a Radio Frequency (RF) signal in the transmission mode under control of the TDD controller, and a Transmit/Receive Antenna Switch (TRAS) for, in the transmission mode, forwarding a signal of the transmitter to an antenna feed line under the control of the TDD controller and for absorbing an output signal of the transmitter flowing to the receive circuits using a reflection structure positioned in a reception path, and, in the reception mode, for forwarding a signal fed from the antenna feed line to the receive circuits under the control of the TDD controller.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2010Date of Patent: April 22, 2014Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventor: Hyun-Su Yoon
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Method and system for performing time synchronization between nodes in wireless communication system
Patent number: 8705508Abstract: A method is provided for synchronizing time between nodes in a wireless communication system. A reference node transmits a first packet to a correspondent node. Upon receiving the first packet, the correspondent node transmits a second packet with a reception time of the first packet recorded therein, to the reference node. Upon receiving the second packet, the reference node calculates a forward delay time using a transmission time and the reception time of the first packet. The correspondent node receives a third packet with the forward delay time from the reference node, and calculates a reverse delay time. The correspondent node calculates an offset value for the synchronization using the forward delay time and the reverse delay time.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2009Date of Patent: April 22, 2014Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jeong-Sik In, Hyo-Hyun Choi, Bong-Wan Jun -
Patent number: 8687592Abstract: A system and method for switching a session of a User Equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system are provided. According to the method, if the UE performs a handover from a macro base station of a macro cell to a femto base station of a femto cell, a femto base station transmits a path switch request message, which includes a serving gateway relocation Information Element (IE), to a Mobility Management Entity (MME) of the macro cell, in order to request a switching from an existing session of the UE to a new session managed by the femto base station. Then, in response to the path switch request message, the MME switches the existing session of the UE to the new session and transmits a path switch approval message to the femto base station. The serving gateway relocation IE includes information requesting relocation of a serving gateway of the UE to a femto serving gateway within the femto cell.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2010Date of Patent: April 1, 2014Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jung-Hoon Cheon, Ok-Seon Lee
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Patent number: 8670400Abstract: The present invention discloses a method and system for acquiring an address of a Serving General Radio Packet Service support node (SGSN). The method comprises: a Policy and Charging Enforcement Function (PCEF) entity providing a SGSN change event trigger to a Policy and Charging Rules Function (PCRF) entity; and the PCRF entity reporting a SGSN change event and a new address of the SGSN to the PCEF entity after receiving the SGSN change event trigger. The method solves the problem that credit control management cannot be carried out for different general radio packet service support nodes during online charging.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2010Date of Patent: March 11, 2014Assignee: ZTE CorporationInventor: Xiaoyun Zhou
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Patent number: 8670336Abstract: Provided is a method, computer program product, and apparatus for estimating the quality of a call in which a first user terminal will comprise an end point. The method comprises establishing an end-to-end connection between a first user terminal and a node, which end-to-end connection is via an access point of a network by which the first user terminal is connected to the network; displaying information indicative of an expected quality of a call in which the first user terminal will comprise an end point, in dependence on information indicative of the quality of the end-to-end connection; and providing call initiation means for enabling a user to then selectively establish a call between the first user terminal and a callee. Also provided is a method, computer program product, and apparatus for estimating the quality of a call between a first user terminal and a potential callee.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2010Date of Patent: March 11, 2014Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Mihails Velenko, Christoffer Asgaard Rodbro, Ole Mahrt, Mart Oruaas
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Patent number: 8665815Abstract: A method in which a user equipment processes data in a wireless mobile communication system is provided. The method includes the steps of receiving a first data block from an upper layer, transferring a second data block including the first data block to a lower layer at a particular protocol layer, discarding the first and second data blocks present in the particular protocol layer if a certain period of time has passed, and transferring information associated with the discard of the second data block to the lower layer.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2012Date of Patent: March 4, 2014Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Sung Duck Chun, Young Dae Lee, Sung Jun Park, Seung June Yi
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Patent number: 8660077Abstract: Methods and systems for conveying or transmitting to any given user in an OFDMA-MU-MIMO system scheduling information of other co-scheduled users to permit the user to perform error-correction on received data and/or interference reduction on its received signals. The scheduling information can include resource block assignment, modulation constellations employed, coding rates employed, power levels utilized and precoder matrix indices used. Further, the scheduling information can be conveyed in part through dedicated reference symbol layers or pilot streams. Moreover, a base station may transmit a preliminary estimate of the total number of users the base station expects to schedule, or an upper-bound on the total number of users, to the MU-MIMO users to permit the MU-MIMO users to determine preferred precoder matrix indices and indications of channel quality indices.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2011Date of Patent: February 25, 2014Assignee: NEC Laboratories America, Inc.Inventors: Narayan Prasad, Mohammad Ali Khojastepour, Meilong Jiang, Xiaodong Wang, Sampath Rangarajan
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Patent number: 8644127Abstract: Systems and methods for partial self-FEXT (far-end crosstalk) are described. One method, among others, comprises determining one or more instantaneous characteristics of an input signal, wherein the one or more instantaneous characteristics comprise one or more of amplitude of the input signal and an energy level of the input signal. The method further comprises selecting one or more disturbers to cancel according to the one or more instantaneous characteristics, wherein selecting one or more disturbers is performed on a per-DMT (discrete multi-tone) symbol basis.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2010Date of Patent: February 4, 2014Assignees: Ikanos Communications, Inc., Indian Institute of TechnologyInventors: Pravesh Biyani, Laurent Francis Alloin, Shankar Prakriya, Surendra Prasad, Amitkumar Mahadevan
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Patent number: 8625503Abstract: A method in which a user equipment processes data in a wireless mobile communication system is provided. The method includes the steps of receiving a first data block from an upper layer, transferring a second data block including the first data block to a lower layer at a particular protocol layer, discarding the first and second data blocks present in the particular protocol layer if a certain period of time has passed, and transferring information associated with the discard of the second data block to the lower layer.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2008Date of Patent: January 7, 2014Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Sung Duck Chun, Young Dae Lee, Sung Jun Park, Seung June Yi
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Patent number: 8611364Abstract: A universal serial bus (USB) control system includes a plurality of antennas configured to transmit and receive a radio frequency (RF) signal, a plurality of wireless USB modules connected to the plurality of antennas, and an application layer connected to the plurality of wireless USB modules. Each wireless USB module is configured to convert the RF signal received through a corresponding antenna into data, convert the data into the RF signal, and transmit the RF signal through the corresponding antenna.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2010Date of Patent: December 17, 2013Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: KyuMan Lee, YunYoung Kim, Jinyong Chung