Patents Examined by Ronald H Davis
  • Patent number: 8811341
    Abstract: In some implementations, a method includes identifying handover from a source eNodeB (eNB) to a target eNB or reestablishment with a subsequent eNB after losing connection with an initial eNB. Time-domain measurement resource restrictions for the UE are identified. The time-domain measurement resource restriction for the UE is released in connection with identifying the handover or the reestablishment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Takashi Suzuki, Zhijun Cai, Rene Waraputra Purnadi
  • Patent number: 8804569
    Abstract: A communication method for execution at a customer premises device, comprising detecting receipt of a command indicative of an intent of a management entity to initiate a management session, the command being a management session initiation command. Responsive to detecting receipt of the management session initiation command, an identifier for participating in a management session with the management entity is obtained. Also, a method for execution at a management entity, comprising obtaining a management address for a customer device and determining whether the management address is indicative of a an address capable of supporting a management session or an address incapable of supporting a management session. If the management address is indicative of an address incapable of supporting a management session, a command is sent to the customer device, causing it to obtain a management address capable of supporting a management session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: BCE Inc.
    Inventor: Frank Chan
  • Patent number: 8804719
    Abstract: In one embodiment, which may be implemented in either IP networks or MPLS networks, a tree of the network may be constructed at a source network device by sending only a single packet. The remaining network devices in the network replicate the packet so that a copy will reach each of the egress nodes. Along the way, identity information from each node or hop will be added to the replicated packets. As the egress nodes receive the packets, the egress nodes will each send a reply packet to the source network device. The reply packet includes a list of every hop on the path. The source network device is configured to construct a tree of the network based on the reply packets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Sam K. Aldrin, Azhar M. Sayeed
  • Patent number: 8792492
    Abstract: An open communication method between at least two sub-networks using a broker node. Each of the sub-networks has a different routable network addressing scheme. The method comprises receiving a packet for a specific application, the packet includes an application identifier, determining if the packet is to be relayed to another of the at least two sub-networks based upon the application identifier, determining if a node receiving the packet is a broker node, relaying the packet to a broker node if not a broker node and forwarding, by the broker node, the packet to at least one node in another of the at least two sub-networks. The node generating the packet communicates using a first of the at least two sub-networks. A broker node communicates using at least two of the at least two sub-networks via a corresponding routable network addressing schemes for each of the sub-networks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignees: Telcordia Technologies, Inc., Toyota Infotechnology Center U.S.A., Inc.
    Inventors: Wai Chen, Ratul Guha, John Lee, Junichiro Fukuyama, Rama Vuyyuru
  • Patent number: 8792388
    Abstract: A controller removes a node to be bypassed from topology information that prescribes the network configuration and calculates a new path not passing the bypass node. For the nodes that form the path, the controller creates flow information that prescribes operation on the flow at nodes to set the flow information at the nodes on the path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Junichi Yamato, Kazuya Suzuki
  • Patent number: 8774049
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for use in a communications network in which a Mobile Node accesses the communications network via a proxy node. The proxy node is arranged to handle mobility signalling on behalf of the Mobile Node. At a mobility anchor function, such as a Local Mobility Anchor, a first Care-of-Address associated with the Mobile Node is registered. When the mobility anchor function receives a registration request to register a second Care-of-Address associated with the Mobile Node, it sends a request message to the proxy node acting on behalf of the Mobile Node. The request message instructs the proxy node to check whether the Mobile Node is reachable using the first Care-of-Address.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (Publ)
    Inventors: Johan Rune, Conny Larsson
  • Patent number: 8767569
    Abstract: A communications interface between an end-user and an edge node of a communication network for establishing, prior to data transmission, the differentiated service code points supported by the network. The end-user first issues a service request message (42) to an edge node of the communication network. The edge node responds with an acknowledgement message (44) carrying information as to which DSCP's the network is able to support. Finally, the application at the end-user can decide how to mark the relevant packets during data transmission depending on the levels of differentiated service supported by the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignee: Nokia Corporation
    Inventor: Petri Koskelainen
  • Patent number: 8767694
    Abstract: Disclosed are system, method and computer program product for remote administration of mobile devices. The system includes an administration server that receives a request to perform a remote administrative task on a mobile device. The server selects a function that performs the requested remote administrative task. The server identifies one or more management protocols that perform the selected function, wherein different protocols use different mechanisms to perform the same function. The server determines if the mobile device supports one or more of the identified protocols. When the mobile device supports two or more different management protocols, the server selects a protocol with the highest priority for performing the selected function. The server then executes the selected management protocol to perform the selected function that performs the requested remote administrative task on the mobile device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignee: Kaspersky Lab, ZAO
    Inventor: Victor V. Yablokov
  • Patent number: 8761177
    Abstract: A telecommunications system having a format converter provides bi-directional communications between TDM signals on one side and ATM signals on the other. An ATM aggregate receives and transmits ATM signals, and a TDM interface receives and transmits TDM signals. The format converter has an ATM bus and a TDM bus connected to their respective interfaces, and service-specific adapters are connected between the ATM bus and the TDM bus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignee: Tellabs Emea Holdings Limited
    Inventors: Raymond O'Brien, Francis Melinn
  • Patent number: 8761041
    Abstract: A femto base station registers IDs of neighboring macro base stations and the ID of a terminal into a management device. When the femto base station detects that the communication state of a terminal in communication with the femto base station transited from active to idle, the femto base station hands off the communication session to one of the neighboring macro stations and enters the dormant state. When the macro base station detects that the communication state of the terminal transited from idle to active, the macro base station transmits an inquiry to the management device, identifies a femto base station to be started based on the terminal ID and the macro base station ID and starts the femto base station. When the femto base station is started, it is handed off from the macro base station to the femto base station to maintain the communication session of the terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventor: Tsuyoshi Tamaki
  • Patent number: 8750160
    Abstract: A macro wireless communication system includes a base station and a femto access point for communicating with user equipment (UE), such as handset, whereby the UE receives information regarding the network relationships between the base station and the femto access point. A home profile setting may be stored in the UE. When the UE communicates with a femto access point that is identified in the home profile, the UE adapts a neighbor listing provided by the home femto access point. Alternatively, the base station stores a list of the UE and its corresponding home femto access point, along with the neighbor list of the femto access point. When a UE is connected to the base station and that base station is in neighbor list of the UE's home femto access point, a message is sent to the UE to forward an appropriate neighbor list to simplify handovers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignee: Nokia Siemens Networks Oy
    Inventors: Tejas Bhatt, Shashikant Maheshwari
  • Patent number: 8730844
    Abstract: Disclosed are a self-forming ad-hoc network architecture and triplet-based radio waveform for communicating via the network architecture. The self-forming ad-hoc network preferably has a plurality of network nodes including a point-of-presence node, one or more relay nodes that aggregate data (triplet) traffic, one or more sensor nodes that send and receive data from relay nodes, and one or more handheld nodes that send and receive data to and from relay nodes and communicate data between themselves. The communication waveform is defined by orthogonal triplets having multiple time slots, multiple frequency channels, and multiple hop sequences in a channel, that is used to communicate between the network nodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: Lockheed Martin Corporation
    Inventors: Russell K. Johnson, Michael D'Ortenzio, Keith Winnovich
  • Patent number: 8711853
    Abstract: A method is provided in one example and includes evaluating multiple paths in a network in order to execute a reverse path forwarding decision for multicast traffic associated with a source. The method may also include selecting a second network path based on a first network path previously been designated as a route for the multicast traffic associated with the source. The first network path and a second network path differ by at least one network element. The method further includes receiving at least one of a first data stream and a second data stream, wherein the first data stream is associated with the first network path and the second data stream is associated with the second network path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2014
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Yiqun Cai, Heidi Ou
  • Patent number: 8705410
    Abstract: When a conference bridge establishes a link line with another conference bridge to provide a global conference, a global conference application executing at the conference bridge establishes a SIP dialout with one or more remote conference bridges. The global conference application uses the XCON standard and/or the CCMP draft standard to subscribe for event notifications for that conference from the remote conference bridge. The received event notifications can be made available for use by the source conference bridge when constructing the roster information for applications executing at the source conference bridge. The received event notifications can be displayed and provide the proper diagram for the distributed conference complete with media, mode, and other information displayed. Further, the system allows the use of intelligent endpoint user interfaces to control mute, lecture mode, sidebars, breaking the bridge into sub-groups, and the like during the conference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2014
    Assignee: Avaya Inc.
    Inventors: Gerard O'Sullivan, Colm Smyth
  • Patent number: 8687511
    Abstract: A Secure Location Session Manager (SLSM) is an intelligent router for open mobile alliance (OMA) Secure User Plane Location (SUPL) Version 1.0 (and later) messages best implemented when multiple, geo-diverse SUPL servers are deployed in a distributed environment, such as an active-active redundant configuration within a wireless carrier's network. In a standalone option, the SLSM acts as a “middleman” for all SUPL positioning messages between a mobile device and a responsible SUPL server. In an embedded option, the SLSM resides within an existing server. The SLSM manages and stores session information for all pending and ongoing SUPL positioning sessions in internal tables for routing and load balancing purposes. The external interfaces of the SLSM consist of OMA ULP messages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: Telecommunication Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Kambiz Ghozati, Dara Ung, Kyle Greenwell, Tojo Thomas, William Wells
  • Patent number: 8665860
    Abstract: A relay device that relays a message transmitted from a terminal device to a server through a communications network. When a message is received from the terminal device, the relay device obtains attribute information related to the user of the terminal device, obtains an identifier to be inserted into a message to the terminal device by a server that generated a session in response to the message from the terminal device, the identifier being for identifying the session, stores the obtained identifier that is associated with the attribute information, determines whether or not the attribute information coincident to the attribute information obtained by receiving the message from the terminal device is to be stored when a message was received from the terminal device, inserts the identifier associated with the attribute information into the message received from the terminal device when the coincident attribute information is stored, and relays the message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventor: Takao Ogura
  • Patent number: 8665872
    Abstract: When a packet received from a ring network is addressed to a device on a local network established under a transmission apparatus, then that transmission apparatus detects whether a memory device installed therein is in the memory full state. If the memory device is determined to be in the memory full state, then the transmission apparatus sends the packet, which was received from the ring network, back to the ring network. Subsequently, when the memory device recovers from the memory full state, the transmission apparatus sends the packet to the specified device in the local network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventor: Yoshihide Komatsu
  • Patent number: 8660076
    Abstract: A method and apparatus of transmitting a scheduling request to request uplink resources are provided. A user equipment receives a scheduling request (SR) configuration and a transmission indicator from a first serving cell. The transmission indicator enables the simultaneous transmission of the SR and a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH). The user equipment transmits a SR on a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) in a subframe to the first serving cell and transmits uplink data on the PUSCH in the subframe to a second serving cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2014
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Sung Jun Park, Sung Duck Chun, Sung Hoon Jung, Seung June Yi, Young Dae Lee
  • Patent number: 8654671
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a system and to a method for QoS (Quality of Service) support in a ubiquitous sensor network. The system for QoS support in a ubiquitous sensor network includes a mesh coordinator and nodes. The mesh coordinator organizes a super frame containing a dedicated QoS data transmission period, and synchronizes each of the nodes constituted into one network with the abovementioned super frame. The nodes create a beacon frame containing information on whether or not to set QoS, to broadcast the beacon frame in a dedicated beacon period of the super frame if QoS data transmission is needed, to create a QoS data frame with a set priority, and to transmit the QoS data frame to the dedicated QoS data transmission period of the super frame in the case of transmitting QoS data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: SK Telecom Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Woo Jin Shim, Yong Gil Park, Jae Hwang Yu, Sung Cheol Hong, Se Hyun Oh
  • Patent number: 8649376
    Abstract: There is provided a transmission apparatus including a virtual I/F control section which outputs data to be transmitted, a packet generation processing section which generates a packet containing the data, a storage section which stores a plurality of destinations of the packet, a virtual I/F which sequentially performs, to the plurality of destinations, processing of rewriting a destination set in the packet generated by the packet generation processing section by one of the plurality of destinations stored in the storage section, and outputting the packet in which the destination is rewritten, and a real interface which transmits, every time the packet is output from the virtual I/F, the packet to the destination set in the packet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Yasuto Masuda