Patents Examined by Robert Wilson
  • Patent number: 9942939
    Abstract: A method, a device, and a non-transitory storage medium that stores instructions to store one or multiple instances of first data that indicate one or multiple types of forward error correction (FEC) coding schemes supported by an end device; generate a radio resource control connection request; select one of the one or multiple instances of first data during the generation of the radio resource control connection request; include the one of the one or multiple instances of first data in the radio resource control connection request in response to the selection; and transmit the radio resource control connection request to a wireless station of a wireless network in response to the inclusion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventor: Abhinav Prasad
  • Patent number: 9942759
    Abstract: A communication apparatus may receive a first specific signal including a specific wireless identifier from an external apparatus; determine whether the specific wireless identifier is a first wireless identifier; in a case where it is determined that the specific wireless identifier is the first wireless identifier, shift an operating state of the communication apparatus to one state of a first parent state and a child state, and form the first wireless network to which both the communication apparatus and the external apparatus belong. In a case where it is determined that the specific wireless identifier is not the first wireless identifier, the communication apparatus is maintained in a first non-belonging state. The communication apparatus may receive specific wireless setting information from the external apparatus by using the first wireless network; and belong to the specific wireless network by using the specific wireless setting information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hiroshi Shibata
  • Patent number: 9935869
    Abstract: A device may determine that a route is inactive. Information identifying the route may be stored in a forwarding plane portion of a forwarding table and a control plane portion of the forwarding table. The route may be associated with directing network traffic toward an endpoint network device. The device may remove the information identifying the route from the forwarding plane portion of the forwarding table without removing the information identifying the route from the control plane portion of the forwarding table based on determining that the route is inactive. The device may route network traffic based on the forwarding table after removing the information identifying the route from the forwarding plane portion of the forwarding table without removing the information identifying the route from the control plane portion of the forwarding table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: Juniper Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: Ali Ahmed Shakir, Sridhar Talari Rajagopal
  • Patent number: 9930545
    Abstract: A device may select a sector of a network on which to perform network traffic offloading based on a sector loading metric relating to an imbalance of loading of a set of cells of the sector. The device may identify a loaded cell of the sector based on one or more call admission metrics or one or more cell congestion metrics. The device may identify a less loaded neighbor (LLN) cell for the loaded cell. The device may cause one or more cell configuration alterations relating to causing network traffic to be offloaded from the loaded cell to the LLN cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: VIAVI Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Nicolae G. Cotanis, Hyoung Suk Jeon
  • Patent number: 9924528
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for transmitting and receiving a feedback signal in a cellular mobile communication system is provided. The method of transmitting feedback in a Cooperative Multi-Point (CoMP) system, includes receiving feedback set information including allocation information of a Channel Status Information Reference Signal (CSI-RS) transmitted for estimating a channel of a User Equipment (TIE), receiving IDentification (ID) information for identifying a CoMP set including CSI-RS allocation information from a cell operating in a CoMP mode, extracting the CoMP set using the ID information and a feedback set, detecting a first feedback mode and first feedback timing with a first CSI-RS not included in the CoMP set among CSI-RSs included in the feedback set, and generating and transmitting feedback with respect to the first CSI-RS according to the detected first feedback mode and the first feedback timing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyojin Lee, Juho Lee, Kiil Kim, Younsun Kim
  • Patent number: 9918308
    Abstract: The present invention relates to configuring search spaces of at least two coexisting control channels in a communication system. In particular, the control channels are defined in at least partially overlapping regions, wherein the overlapping is in the time and/or frequency domain. This configuration enables coexistence of the at least two channels in the same resource grid and better utilization of the resources. Furthermore, it enables sharing of the reference signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Sujuan Feng, Alexander Golitschek Edler Von Elbwart, Christian Wengerter
  • Patent number: 9904568
    Abstract: High-speed processing of packets to, and from, a virtualization environment can be provided while utilizing hardware-based segmentation offload and other such functionality. A hardware vendor such as a network interface card (NIC) manufacturer can enable the hardware to support open and proprietary stateless tunneling in conjunction with a protocol such as single root I/O virtualization (SR-IOV) in order to implement a virtualized overlay network. The hardware can utilize various rules, for example, that can be used by the NIC to perform certain actions, such as to encapsulate egress packets and decapsulate packets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Pradeep Vincent, Matthew David Klein, Samuel James McKelvie
  • Patent number: 9906391
    Abstract: A method of wirelessly communicating a packet including a first portion for transmission over at least one channel of a first transmission type and a second portion for transmission over at least one channel of a second transmission type. In one aspect, the method includes generating, at a wireless device, a packet including a first portion having a first symbol duration. The packet further includes a second portion having a second symbol duration greater than the first. The second portion can include a plurality of repeated portions of the signal field, the repeated portions having the second symbol duration. The first portion includes a first training field. The method further includes prepending or appending a second training field to the first portion. The second training field has the second symbol duration. The method further includes transmitting the packet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Bin Tian, Tao Tian, Sameer Vermani, Eric Pierre Rebeiz, Dung Ngoc Doan, Lin Yang, Rahul Tandra
  • Patent number: 9906631
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for transmitting a multimedia data packet are provided. The method includes generating Media Abstraction Layer (MAL) information for abstracting information on the multimedia data to be transmitted, generating a multimedia data packet including said MAL information, and transmitting the generated multimedia data packet to a network entity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignees: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., University-Industry Cooperation Group of Kyung Hee University
    Inventors: Kyung-Mo Park, Sung-Oh Hwang, Jae-Yeon Song, Doug Young Suh, Yong Hun Lee
  • Patent number: 9893858
    Abstract: According to some embodiments, a method of operating a wireless device in a wireless system comprises allocating a first uplink sub-channel to the wireless device in a first subframe associated with the wireless device. The first uplink sub-channel comprises a portion of an uplink system bandwidth, and portions of the uplink system bandwidth outside of the first uplink sub-channel are not available for transmission in the first subframe by the wireless device. The method further comprises determining a first sounding reference signal (SRS) sub-channel. The first SRS sub-channel comprises a portion of the first uplink sub-channel in frequency domain, and the SRS sub-channel is available for transmitting SRS in the first subframe by the wireless device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Yufei Blankenship, Shiwei Gao
  • Patent number: 9893948
    Abstract: A method, system, and computer program product to manage a network comprising a plurality of interconnected components are described. The method includes obtaining a set of all the components that are part of the network over time, and identifying one or more repeating patterns of components among the set of all the components as corresponding lower-level definitions to generate a hierarchical set of all the components. The method also includes obtaining time-varying information regarding topology and operational values within the network, and creating a representation of the network at a set of times based on the hierarchical set of all the components and the time-varying information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: Utopus Insights, Inc.
    Inventors: Ulrich A. Finkler, Fook-Luen Heng, Steven N. Hirsch, Mark A. Lavin, Jun Mei Qu, Amith Singhee, Wei Wu
  • Patent number: 9888044
    Abstract: A system for data communications comprising a handset having a processor, a wireless communications device, a speaker and a microphone and one or more software applications operating on the processor that are configured to interface with a voice over long-term evolution (VoLTE) service. A wireless access point coupled to the handset through a local wireless communications media and the wireless communications device, the wireless access point further coupled to a long range wireless communications media and configured to interface with a server that provides VoLTE calling functionality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: RELIANCE JIO INFOCOMM USA, INC.
    Inventors: Gautam G. Reddy, Pallavur A. Sankaranaraynan, Jayabharath R. Goluguri, Matthew Oommen
  • Patent number: 9887766
    Abstract: Methods, apparatuses, and systems for providing layer-2 extension services through a non-routed ground segment network, are described. The method includes providing a Layer-2 (L2) interface between a node of the non-routed ground segment network and a service provider, assigning a virtual tagging tuple to the service provider and receiving service provider traffic at a node of the non-routed ground segment network. The method further includes tagging the service provider traffic with the virtual tagging tuple, and switching the tagged service provider traffic through the non-routed ground segment network according to the virtual tagging tuple.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: ViaSat, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Foxworthy, Girish Chandran, Jason Lau, Mark Colaluca
  • Patent number: 9887802
    Abstract: Method and apparatus for controlling a physical layer protocol data unit (PPDU) transmission rate of a physical layer in a first terminal are provided. The method includes: obtaining a media access control protocol data unit (MPDU) retransmission frequency of the first terminal in a first period, where the first terminal is a station or an access point in a wireless network; if the MPDU retransmission frequency is less than a frequency threshold, promoting the PPDU transmission rate in a second period; and else, suppressing the PPDU transmission rate in the second period, where the second period is following and adjacent to the first period along a time axis. The PPDU transmission rate may be adjusted adaptively according to a channel's practical transmission state, the physical layer rate may be prevented from decreasing continuously in noisy channel environment, and a throughput rate may be improved in real time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: SPREADTRUM COMMUNICATIONS (SHANGHAI) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xin Xie, Ping Jiang, Xueli Lv, Guochu Chen
  • Patent number: 9882782
    Abstract: A method, system, and computer program product to manage a network comprising a plurality of interconnected components are described. The method includes obtaining a set of all the components that are part of the network over time, and identifying one or more repeating patterns of components among the set of all the components as corresponding lower-level definitions to generate a hierarchical set of all the components. The method also includes obtaining time-varying information regarding topology and operational values within the network, and creating a representation of the network at a set of times based on the hierarchical set of all the components and the time-varying information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: Utopus Insights, Inc.
    Inventors: Ulrich A. Finkler, Fook-Luen Heng, Steven N. Hirsch, Mark A. Lavin, Jun Mei Qu, Amith Singhee, Wei Wu
  • Patent number: 9876623
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus are provided for a user equipment (UE) to transmit uplink control information (UCI) and for a base station to receive UCI when the UE is configured a number of cells for operation with carrier aggregation (CA). The base station configures the UE a code rate and the UE determines a UCI payload to transmit in a subframe to be the maximum one that results a transmission code rate that is not larger than the configured code rate. For transmission of aperiodic channel state information (A-CSI), a number of triggering states depends on the number of cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Aris Papasakellariou
  • Patent number: 9872240
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to new network device source entity triggered device configuration setup. Specifically, various techniques and systems are provided for efficient setup of a acquired device on a network using information generated by a new network device source entity. More specifically, exemplary embodiments of the present invention include methods and systems for receiving, at a computing device connected to an established network device on a network, an acquisition communication including an indication that a new network device has been acquired; transmitting data to the established network device, wherein the data includes identification information associated with the new network device; receiving a join query, wherein the join query includes a request to authorize the new network device to join a network; and transmitting a response to the join query, wherein the response includes an authorization for the new network device to join the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2018
    Assignee: BELKIN INTERNATIONAL INC.
    Inventors: Ryan Yong Kim, EuChong Son
  • Patent number: 9871878
    Abstract: A system for improving network data communications performance between end-user devices and content origin servers. A plurality of accelerators are distributed across a network and communicate with end-user devices and content origin servers. Software development kits installed on end-user devices monitor control channel data traffic between the end-user devices and accelerators. Various data traffic efficiency approaches are implemented by the software development kits on the end-user devices and the plurality of accelerators resulting in improved data communications links between the end-user devices and the content origin servers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2018
    Assignee: Twin Prime, Inc.
    Inventors: Kartikeya Chandrayana, Satish Raghunath, Radha Krishna Pagadala, Shauli Gal, Maria Garcia Cerdeno, Russell Larsen
  • Patent number: 9872302
    Abstract: According to certain embodiments, methods and systems include providing interference characterization data by a network node to a first wireless device for use in performing interference mitigation. A network node may provide telecommunications services for a first wireless device located associated with the network node. Characteristic data associated with at least one characteristic of an interfering signal associated with a second wireless device may be identified. The at least one characteristic may identify at least one transmission mode associated with the interfering signal. The characteristic data associated with the interfering signal associated with the second wireless device may be transmitted to the first wireless device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2018
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: George Jöngren, Stefania Sesia, Bo Lincoln
  • Patent number: 9860906
    Abstract: A method, computer-readable storage device and apparatus for processing a machine-to-machine communication. For example, the method receives a request for transmission of the machine-to-machine communication in the communications network, wherein the machine-to-machine communication is between two dedicated machines operated by a customer of the communications network, determines an overall priority of the request, wherein the overall priority is based on a plurality of priority parameters, wherein the plurality of priority parameters comprises at least two of: a level of delivery service priority, a customer type priority, a location type priority, a sensor type priority, a registration status priority, a transmission status priority, and a bearer establishment priority, and transmits the machine-to-machine communication over the communications network to a destination, wherein the transmitting is based on the overall priority.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: Venson Shaw, Rajendra Prasad Kodaypak