Patents Examined by Samina Choudhry
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Patent number: 9578676Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for avoiding in-device coexistence interference on a user equipment. A first wireless communication circuitry and a second wireless communication circuitry operate concurrently on the user equipment. The second wireless communication circuitry detects an operational status of the first wireless communication circuitry, and determines if the operational status is transmission or reception. In response to determining that the operational status is transmission, the second wireless communication circuitry avoids receiving data. In response to determining that the operational status is reception, the second wireless communication circuitry avoids transmitting data.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2014Date of Patent: February 21, 2017Assignee: MARVELL WORLD TRADE LTD.Inventors: Hong Zheng, Xuan Zhou, Lei Zhang, Xinhua Ma
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Patent number: 9577668Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and computer program products that encode and/or decode information of a video stream, such as an MPEG-4 video stream, are disclosed. Some embodiments comprise an apparatus having a binarizer module to create a plurality of bins for a syntax element for information of the video stream, a context selection module to generate an index value and a most probable symbol (MPS) value for encoding the plurality of bins, and an arithmetic coding module to encode a first and a second bin of the plurality of bins based on a first probability value and a second probability value, respectively, wherein the first and second probability values are determined via the generated index value and MPS value. Examples of some embodiments are high definition personal video recorders, transcoders, computers, personal digital assistants, cellular telephones, portable video players, high definition digital versatile disc (HD-DVD) devices, and Blu-ray disc-read only memory (BD-ROM) devices.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2013Date of Patent: February 21, 2017Assignee: Intel CorporationInventor: Musa Jahanghir
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Patent number: 9571300Abstract: Machines, systems and methods for efficient data communication are provided. The method comprises receiving a data packet to be transmitted to a destination node in a overlay-based communications network, wherein the destination information is included in a virtual header that includes a virtual address of the destination node; determining a physical address of the destination node based on the virtual address of the destination node; replacing the virtual header for the received data packet with a physical header that includes the physical address; and transmitting the data packet over the communications network to a destination host based on the physical address included in the physical header.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2014Date of Patent: February 14, 2017Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Katherine Barabash, Rami Cohen, Sergey Guenender, Liane Lewin-Eytan, Eran Raichstein, Liran Schour
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Patent number: 9565426Abstract: A method of managing lip synchronization error in a multimedia content delivery network includes identifying a video packet and an audio packet associated with the video packet and determining a synchronization offset between the audio and video packets at a first monitoring point in the network. The audio and video packets are then detected at a second monitoring point in the network and a second synchronization offset is determined. When a delta between the first synchronization offset and the second synchronization offset exceeds a threshold, lip synchronization error information may be automatically recorded and/or reported to a service provider and corrective action may be taken if potential sources of the lip synchronization error are within the domain of the service provider. The video packet may be identified by a timestamp within the packet and the audio packet may be identified by audio data within the audio packet.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2010Date of Patent: February 7, 2017Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Chen-Yui Yang, Chee Ching, Paul Kahn, David H. Lu, Anthony Mark Srdar
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Patent number: 9565104Abstract: According to an example, a switch controller is connected to a computer hosting a virtual machine (VM) and a virtual switch to provide packet forwarding for the VM. The switch controller restricts packet forwarding actions on the ports according to the assigned primary VLAN, the assigned secondary VLAN, and the assigned VDS to the ports and the stored rules.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2013Date of Patent: February 7, 2017Assignee: HEWLETT PACKARD ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT LPInventors: Lianlei Zhang, Tao Lin, Weichun Ren, Yang Liu, Shaobo WU
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Patent number: 9559966Abstract: Systems and methods for forwarding data packets in a communications network, the method comprising: providing information included in a first portion of a data packet to a network policy unit, in response to a forwarding device receiving a data packet to be forwarded over one or more network routes; forwarding the data packet according to a flow policy, in response to the forwarding device receiving the flow policy from the network policy unit, wherein the flow policy applied to the data packet by the forwarding device is determined by the network policy unit based on the network policy unit performing an analysis of the information included in the first portion of the data packet in view of policy information provided to the network policy unit.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2014Date of Patent: January 31, 2017Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Katherine Barabash, Yaniv Ben-Itzhak, Rami Cohen
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Patent number: 9560598Abstract: In order to reduce power consumption of an electronic device during wireless communication, the electronic device may transition between a baseline (simple) receiver and a higher-power advanced receiver based on network conditions and/or environmental conditions. For example, the transition to the advanced receiver may occur when it offers improved communication performance over the baseline receiver, such as when there is significant interference and a high data rate, or when there is significant interference and a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) is low. Similarly, the transition to the baseline receiver may occur when the capabilities of the advanced receiver are not needed, such as when there is less interference, or when the data rate is lower and the SNR is high. In this way, the electronic device can avoid the added power consumption associated with the advanced receiver except where the communication performance offered by the advanced receiver is needed.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2013Date of Patent: January 31, 2017Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Syed A. Mujtaba, Kee-Bong Song, Youngjae Kim
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Patent number: 9554366Abstract: The disclosure generally relates to optimized always-on wireless service using network assistance and keep-alives. More particularly, in response to a user equipment (UE) requesting a bearer for an always-on service, a network may establish the bearer for the always-on service and transmit an availability time that indicates a period during which the bearer will be held in an active state to the UE. Any applications running on the UE may then use the bearer for the always-on service, and the UE may transmit a single keep-alive message to the network before the availability time expires to reset the period during which the bearer will be held in the active state. Furthermore, the keep-alive message may be structured to not generate a reply and thereby reduce battery consumption, reduce communication overhead, and improve network capacity.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2013Date of Patent: January 24, 2017Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Kirankumar Anchan, Karthika Paladugu, Arvind V. Santhanam
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Patent number: 9544859Abstract: To facilitate a selective transmission power boost in a narrowband subsystem of a wideband host carrier, wherein the narrowband subsystem is preferentially allocated to reduced capability communications devices, both data symbols and dedicated reference symbols are transmitted at a higher power within the narrowband. Where the benefits of inserting dedicated reference symbols are outweighed by the loss of data capacity, no dedicated reference symbols are inserted.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2014Date of Patent: January 10, 2017Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventor: Yuichi Morioka
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Patent number: 9544930Abstract: A communication interception method by a base station, a device and a terminal belonging to device-to-device (D2D) communication includes: receiving a message sent by a device, where the message is used to instruct interception of D2D data of the terminal belonging to the D2D communication; obtaining the D2D data according to the message; and sending the obtained D2D data to the device.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2014Date of Patent: January 10, 2017Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Xiaodong Yang, Brian Classon, Bo Lin
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Patent number: 9537702Abstract: Methods, apparatuses and systems for identifying a channel bandwidth and channel offset of an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) signal. The OFDM signal is received by a receiver apparatus that may be tuned to RF bandwidth of 20 MHz, 40 MHz or 80 MHz. The method utilized by the apparatus includes identifying the location of the primary channel and subsequently determining a sequence of equalized frequency domain sub-symbols of the signal field in the lower and the upper frequency band. Further, a cross-correlation between the sequence of equalized frequency domain sub-symbols is computed along with the computing energy of the sequence of equalized frequency domain sub-symbols. Finally, the cross-correlation and the computed energy are compared for identifying the channel offset and the channel bandwidth.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2014Date of Patent: January 3, 2017Assignee: Uurmi Systems Private LimitedInventors: Nanda Kishore Chavali, Syed Zeeshan Ismail
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Patent number: 9537517Abstract: Provided is a method of controlling an uplink noise level in a multi-radio unit (RU) environment in which each RU measures an ordinary noise level using a power monitoring function thereof when there is no user traffic and then controls an uplink noise level based on the ordinary noise level.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2015Date of Patent: January 3, 2017Assignee: INNOWIRELESS CO., LTD.Inventors: Jin Soup Joung, Yong Hoon Lim, Seung Man Lee, Hee Jun Lee
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Patent number: 9531870Abstract: A method is provided for providing customized ring-back tones to callers on a wireline network such as a public switched telephone network having an advanced intelligent network or a VoIP network. When a call request is received from a calling party to connect to a called party through a wireline telephone network it is determined if the calling party is identified in a screening list for the called party. If so, then a customized audible ring-back tone is played to the calling party until the called party is connected to the calling party or until the call request is terminated.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2014Date of Patent: December 27, 2016Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.Inventors: James E. Haley, Douglas R. Jones, John H. Wurster, Susan M. Middleswarth
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Patent number: 9532340Abstract: A method performed by a network node for enabling Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest (HARQ) transmissions in a device-to-device (D2D) communication between a first wireless device and a second wireless device in a wireless telecommunications network is provided. The first and the second wireless device are served by the network node, which transmits information to at least the first and second wireless device indicating transmission resources to be used when transmitting a HARQ acknowledgement (A/N) transmission for a received data transmission in the D2D communication. The network node determines a Time-Division Duplexing (TDD) configuration for data transmissions in the D2D communication between the first and the second wireless device, and transmits the determined TDD configuration to the first and second wireless device.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2012Date of Patent: December 27, 2016Inventors: Qianxi Lu, Qingyu Miao, Zhenshan Zhao
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Patent number: 9532262Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for providing Multicast Broadcast Services continuity towards a user equipment part of a wireless network, said Multicast Broadcast Services being supported by at least one Multicast Broadcast Services bearer, said wireless network further providing Unicast Services to said user equipment, said Unicast Services being supported by at least one Unicast Service bearer, said Multicast Broadcast Services bearers being multiplexed with Unicast Services bearers on at least one carrier. According to the present invention, the method comprises the steps of prioritizing said Multicast Broadcast Services over said Unicast services.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2012Date of Patent: December 27, 2016Assignee: Alcatel LucentInventors: Chandrika Worrall, Sudeep Palat
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Patent number: 9526088Abstract: A wireless communications system including a base station, a relay device, and a terminal device. The terminal device is operable to receive from the base station an allocation of uplink resources for transmitting uplink data to the relay device, and to transmit uplink data to the relay device using the uplink resources allocated to the terminal device. The relay device is operable to receive the transmitted uplink data from the terminal device on the allocated resources, to receive an allocation of uplink data resources for relaying the received uplink data to the base station, and to transmit the received uplink data to the base station using the uplink resources allocated to the relay device.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2012Date of Patent: December 20, 2016Assignee: SCA IPLA HOLDINGS INCInventors: Timothy James Speight, Paul William Piggin
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Patent number: 9525991Abstract: A method is provided for sharing digital information between first and second mobile devices. The method may include, at an embedded device, receiving the digital information from the first mobile device; at the embedded device, notifying the second mobile device of the digital information via a push notification; and at the embedded device, maintaining communication with the first and second mobile devices. In some embodiments, the method further includes, at the embedded device, receiving an embedded device wide area network (WAN) Internet protocol (IP) address. Maintaining communication with the first and second mobile devices may include notifying the first and second mobile devices of the new embedded device WAN IP address via respective additional push notifications, or using a DDNS server.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2013Date of Patent: December 20, 2016Assignee: ACTIONTEC ELECTRONICS, INC.Inventors: Chuang Li, Bo Xiong, Tsung-Yen Dean Chang
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Patent number: 9521084Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention relate to the field of communications, and provide a network coding method, a relay apparatus and a selection apparatus, which can avoid a case that a network coding system matrix is not full rank, and improve correctness of decoding. The network coding method includes: obtaining network coding information, where the network coding information includes information of a candidate network coding vector set and a candidate transmission rate set, and transmission rates in the candidate transmission rate set are in one-to-one correspondence with network coding vectors in the candidate network coding vector set; selecting a full rank network matrix according to the network coding information; and coding received source node information according to the full rank network matrix. The network coding method, relay apparatus and selection apparatus provided in the embodiments of the present invention are used for network coding.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2014Date of Patent: December 13, 2016Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventors: Lili Wei, Wen Chen, Yuejun Wei, Ying Jin
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Patent number: 9503960Abstract: An interfering wave is detected using, in a received signal including a preamble and a control signal field, a plurality of symbols including a symbol configuring the preamble and a symbol configuring the control signal field. The received signal has one of a plurality of transmission formats that use at least either a first frequency band or a second frequency band. In a signal quality detector, a symbol differential calculator calculates, in each of the first frequency band and the second frequency band, differences between a certain number of symbols adjacent to one another at predetermined positions in a time domain among the plurality of symbols. A square operator performs square operations on results of the calculation of differences. An interference determiner determines, using results of the square operations, whether each of the first frequency band and the second frequency band includes an interfering wave.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2014Date of Patent: November 22, 2016Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Shigeru Soga, Ippei Kanno, Yoshinobu Matsumura, Hisateru Kobatake, Teruaki Hasegawa
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Patent number: 9497128Abstract: The present invention provides a service rate control method, system and device. The method includes: receiving, by a PGW, a PCC rule sent by a PCRF, wherein the PCC rule includes a service data flow identifier, a QCI and an ARP; and determining whether the PCC rule satisfies a new bearer establishment condition, if the PCC rule satisfies the new bearer establishment condition, establishing a first bearer according to the QCI and the ARP, and binding a service data flow corresponding to the service data flow identifier to the first bearer. The present invention solves the problem that rates of some service data flows will exceed their own GBRs continuously due to service characteristics, thereby leading a QoS of other service data flow sharing a same bearer as the service data flow cannot be satisfied, thus ensuring the degree of user experience.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2014Date of Patent: November 15, 2016Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventors: Guanglin Han, Jian Zhang, Huadong Hu