Patents Examined by Saumit Shah
  • Patent number: 10588152
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides techniques for configuring the utilization of request-to-send/clear-to-send (RTS/CTS) protocol procedures based on varying conditions at the STA. For example, an AP may identify one or more conditions, when satisfied, may trigger the STA to either enable or disable uplink (UL) transmissions associated with a RTS/CTS protocol procedure. In some aspects, an AP may determine a transmit opportunity (TXOP) threshold for an STA and may determine whether to broadcast a message having the TXOP threshold to multiple STAs including the STA or unicast the message to the STA. An STA may receive a message from an AP having a TXOP threshold and may replace, based on an indication in the received message, a current TXOP threshold in the STA with the TXOP threshold in the received message. The STA may transmit an UL RTS frame in response to a determination that a planned TXOP duration satisfies the TXOP threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Yan Zhou, Gwendolyn Denise Barriac, George Cherian, Simone Merlin, Alfred Asterjadhi, Qingjiang Tian, Gang Ding
  • Patent number: 10581622
    Abstract: A communication device that performs bidirectional multiplex communication between a plurality of slave communication devices and the communication device is provided with: a first port connected to one end section of a transmission line to which the slave communication devices are connected; a second port connected to the other end section of the transmission line; and a current detection unit connected to the first port and the second port. An operation voltage is supplied from the communication device to the slave communication devices, a change of the quantity of a current flowing in the first port and/or the second port is detected by means of the current detection unit, and on the basis of the current quantity change, occurrence of disconnection in the transmission line is detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Ryosuke Fujiwara, Kazunori Hara
  • Patent number: 10567999
    Abstract: A method for telecommunications is disclosed herein including a first node receiving a plurality of events. A first state machine in the first node generates a current state of the first state machine by processing the plurality of events. The first node publishes the plurality of events to a persistent event log. A second node subscribes to the persistent event log. A second state machine in the second node generates the current state of the first state machine on the second state machine by processing the plurality of events from the persistent event log.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: Mitel Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: Hoang Long Nguyen, Asim Parekh
  • Patent number: 10567950
    Abstract: A wireless communication network serves media content to a wireless communication device. The wireless communication network receives registration notices for the wireless communication device from Downstream Content Delivery Networks (dCDNs) when the wireless communication device registers with the dCDNs. The wireless communication network receives CDN signaling from an Upstream Content Delivery Network (uCDN) for one of the multiple dCDNs when the wireless communication device registers with the uCDN. The wireless communication network selects one of the dCDNs for the wireless communication device. The wireless communication network transfers the CDN signaling to the selected one of the dCDNs. The uCDN transfers media content to the dCDN and the dCDN transfers the media content to the wireless communication device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.
    Inventors: Lyle T. Bertz, Charles Brent Hirschman
  • Patent number: 10560912
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for detecting, by a first device, a timing measurement frame from a second device, the timing measurement frame having a plurality of time measurement samples, wherein at least the first of the measurement samples has a transmit timestamp value; determining transmit timing values for the subsequent measurement samples; applying a receive timestamp value to each of the received measurement samples; and determining a relative clock drift between a clock of the first device and a clock of the second device by comparing the receive timestamp values with transmit timing values of one or more measurement samples contained in the frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignee: Provenance Asset Group LLC
    Inventors: Enrico Rantala, Ilari Teikari, Jarkko Kneckt, Mika Kasslin, Janne Marin, Olli Alanen
  • Patent number: 10547500
    Abstract: Technologies are provided for determining sources of network packet loss in a network environment. The sources of packet loss can be determined by sending probe packets between devices in different areas in which the areas are connected via the Internet. From the probe packets, IP path information can be obtained. The IP path information can be annotated in order to identify nodes along forward and return paths between the areas. Packet loss can be assigned to the nodes using the annotated IP path information. Using the packet loss assigned to the nodes, epicenters of packet loss can be identified and corrective action can be taken.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Price Langton Hardman, Jeremy Michael Devoll, Shaohui Wang
  • Patent number: 10547416
    Abstract: Multi-channel listening capable receiver capable of operating on one of K data channels and method of operating such a receiver. A local oscillator (2) is provided for tuning the receiver (1) to one of the channels within a channel switching time Ts, as well as a processing unit (9) arranged to detect a presence of a preamble on the tuned channel. The processing unit (9) is further arranged to switch over the local oscillator (2) to a next one of the data channels if no presence of a preamble is detected within a single preamble symbol duration Tp. The channel switching time is a fraction ? of a single preamble symbol period Tp. The number of data channels K fulfills the condition K<floor (N?1?(K*?)) to be able to receive all relevant data packets on the K channels, after being triggered by reception of the preamble.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: Qorvo International PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: Hans Van Driest, Bram van den Bosch, Wilhelmus van Hoogstraeten
  • Patent number: 10530702
    Abstract: A system and method for serializing parallel streams of information. The system and method employ a plurality of buffers and a controller. The plurality of buffers are configured to store information received from a demodulator and output the stored information to a decoder. The controller is configured to store a plurality of frames of information output in a parallel manner from the demodulator into the plurality of buffers, and control the output of the plurality of buffers such that each of the plurality of frames is output to the decoder once stored.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: HUGHES NETWORK SYSTEMS LLC
    Inventor: Tony C. Huang
  • Patent number: 10531469
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates beyond 4th-generation (4G) communication system such as long term evolution (LTE). Disclosed is a method for operating a BS for supporting mixed numerology in a wireless communication system. The method includes: generating a first signal for a first group and a second signal for a second group according to different configurations; and transmitting the first signal through a first channel allocated for the first group and the second signal through a second channel allocated for the second group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yeohun Yun, Chanhong Kim, Jongbu Lim, Hyunseok Ryu, Peng Xue
  • Patent number: 10530643
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a method for automatic management network provisioning includes: broadcasting a provisioning request to one or more devices; receiving at least one provisioning reply from the device(s); and broadcasting a provisioning configuration packet to device(s) from which a provisioning reply was received. In another embodiment, a method for peer-based automatic management network provisioning includes broadcasting network configuration information corresponding to a particular device to one or more other devices of a network environment; determining, after the broadcast, whether such network configuration information was modified; and requesting, from one or more of the other devices, the network configuration information corresponding to the particular device. The request is made in response to determining the particular device network configuration information was modified after broadcasting the network configuration information to the one or more other devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: Lenovo Enterprise Solutions (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Fred Allison Bower, III, Caihong Zhang
  • Patent number: 10524197
    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: October 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: Belkin International, Inc.
    Inventors: Ryan Yong Kim, EuChong Son
  • Patent number: 10523500
    Abstract: What is disclosed is a system and method to automatically configure the fanout modes of ports of a switch in a network system. The network node coupled to the port of the network switch is discovered. A plurality of fanout modes for the port is determined. The port is configured with one of the plurality of fanout modes. The system may also use neighboring ports to determine the maximum speed of a network interface card of the network node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: QUANTA COMPUTER INC.
    Inventors: Cheng-Hsun Li, Ching-Chih Shih
  • Patent number: 10524155
    Abstract: Various communication systems may benefit from appropriate prioritization of users and/or devices. For example, wireless communication systems may benefit from multi-subscription network prioritization, such as systems for prioritizing subscribers with multiple subscriptions that are using fewer devices than they have subscriptions. A method can include determining that a device is associated with a plurality of subscriptions. The method can also include determining at least one related device is not in use, wherein the at least one related device is associated with same plurality of subscriptions. The method can further include assigning a higher priority to the device based on the determinations that the device has the plurality of associated subscriptions and has at least one related device not in use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: NOKIA SOLUTIONS AND NETWORKS OY
    Inventors: John Harris, Heli Katja Marjaana Silvennoinen, Mika Forssell
  • Patent number: 10499430
    Abstract: A method and apparatus operate a device on a licensed spectrum and an unlicensed spectrum. The device can operate on a Wireless Wide Area Network (WWAN) band via a WWAN base station using a WWAN Radio Access Technology (RAT). The device can connect to a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) base station using the WWAN RAT on a WWAN RAT WLAN band operating on a WLAN frequency and can connect to a WLAN access point using a WLAN RAT on a WLAN RAT band operating on a WLAN frequency. The WWAN RAT WLAN band can be determined to be the same band as the WLAN RAT band. A signal metric of the WWAN RAT WLAN band or the WLAN RAT band can be compared to a threshold. Whether to disable communications on the WWAN RAT WLAN band or the WLAN RAT band can be determined based on comparing the signal metric of the WWAN RAT WLAN band or the WLAN RAT band to a threshold. Communications of the WWAN RAT WLAN band or the WLAN RAT band can be disabled if the communications on the WWAN RAT WLAN band or the WLAN RAT band should be disabled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: Motorola Mobility LLC
    Inventors: Ranjeet Gupta, James Van Bosch
  • Patent number: 10492217
    Abstract: The present embodiments herein provide methods, apparatuses and a system for the purpose of scheduling resources to a UE (11) by a network node (12). The UE or CE (11) is configured to receive (210), from the network node (12), a control message, comprising information about a resource allocation as well as an indicator indicating whether a single-subframe scheduling scheme or a multi-subframe scheduling scheme. The CE (11) then retrieves the indicator and act according the information associated with the indicator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Håkan Andersson, Andreas Bergström, Mattias Frenne, Johan Furuskog, Stefan Parkvall, Qiang Zhang
  • Patent number: 10484302
    Abstract: Some embodiments provide a method for a network controller that manages a logical network implemented in a datacenter comprising forwarding elements to which the network controller does not have access. The method identifies a data compute node (DCN), that operates on a host machine in the datacenter, to attach to the logical network. The DCN has a network interface with a first network address provided by a management system of the datacenter, and executes (i) a workload application and (ii) a managed forwarding element (MFE). The method distributes configuration data for configuring the MFE to receive data packets sent from the workload application on the DCN and perform network security and forwarding processing on the data packets. The data packets sent by the workload application have a second network address as a source address when received by the MFE and are encapsulated by the MFE using the first network address.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: NICIRA, INC.
    Inventors: Mukesh Hira, Saurabh Shah, Su Wang, Jia Yu
  • Patent number: 10485000
    Abstract: A multi-mode capable LTE-5G new radio (NR) user equipment (UE) for receiving LTE radio resource connection (RRC) messages is described. The UE receives an LTE RRC message from an evolved node B (eNB). The UE also determines which data radio bearer (DRB) to offload to a particular 5G NR system. The UE establishes an RRC with the 5G NR system. The UE steers a particular DRB or DRBs to the 5G NR system. The UE acknowledges receiving the LTE RRC message using LTE or NR connections. The UE updates an LTE system with a status of connections to the 5G NR system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignees: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha, FG Innovation Company Limited
    Inventors: Kamel M. Shaheen, Toshizo Nogami, Atsushi Ishii
  • Patent number: 10461916
    Abstract: The embodiments discloses a data transmission method and device. The method includes: separately configuring, by an eNodeB in different time units on a specific frequency band according to a TDD mode or an FDD mode, an uplink frequency resource used for transmitting uplink data and a downlink frequency resource used for transmitting downlink data; and sending, by the eNodeB, downlink data to user equipment UE by using the configured downlink frequency resource, and receiving, by using the configured uplink frequency resource, uplink data sent by the UE, so that an uplink frequency resource and a downlink frequency resource are configured in different time units on a same frequency band according to both a TDD mode and an FDD mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kunpeng Liu, Leiming Zhang
  • Patent number: 10454714
    Abstract: In one aspect, A computerized method of a gateway distributing routes learned through routing protocols (RP) into a Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) includes the step of providing a first gateway that receives a route over a routing protocol. The method includes the step of with the first gateway, redistributing the route to one or more peer routers as a BGP route based on one or more specified criteria. The method includes the step of setting a gateway precedence based on the redistribution of the route to the one or more peer routers as the BGP route. The method includes the step of, based on the gateway precedence, setting a second gateway to automatically redistribute the route with different priorities to influence steering of traffic to a preferred gateway.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: NICIRA, INC.
    Inventors: Ajit Ramachandra Mayya, Parag Pritam Thakore, Stephen Craig Connors, Steven Michael Woo, Sunil Mukundan, Thomas Harold Speeter, Vipin Kumar
  • Patent number: 10447597
    Abstract: Some embodiments of the invention provide a path-and-latency tracking (PLT) method. At a forwarding element, this method in some embodiments detects the path traversed by a data message through a set of forwarding elements, and the latency that the data message experiences at each of the forwarding elements in the path. In some embodiments, the method has a forwarding element in the path insert its forwarding element identifier and path latency in a header of the data message that it forwards. The method of some embodiments also uses fast PLT operators in the data plane of the forwarding elements to detect new data message flows, to gather PLT data from these data message flows, and to detect path or latency changes for previously detected data message flows. In some embodiments, the method then uses control plane processes (e.g., of the forwarding elements or other devices) to collect and analyze the PLT data gathered in the data plane from new or existing flows.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: BAREFOOT NETWORKS, INC.
    Inventors: Changhoon Kim, Jeongkeun Lee, Parag Bhide, Jithin Thomas, Xiaozhou Li, Georgios Nikolaidis