Patents Examined by Shick Hom
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Patent number: 9408199Abstract: One embodiment takes the form of a method carried out by a base station. The method includes the base station serving a wireless communication device (WCD) on a given air-interface resource. While serving the WCD, the base station may receive a data packet from the WCD. In response, the base station may update the data packet to include an indication of the given air-interface resource on which the base station is serving the WCD. The base station may then transmit the updated data packet for receipt by one or more gateways.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2014Date of Patent: August 2, 2016Assignee: Sprint Spectrum L.P.Inventors: Saravana Velusamy, Deveshkumar Rai, Rajil Malhotra, Suryanarayanan Ramamurthy
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Patent number: 9402268Abstract: A communication system includes a plurality of eNodeBs (eNBs) configured to serve one or more user equipments (UEs). The plurality of eNBs includes a first eNB and a second eNB. The first eNB is configured to wirelessly communicate on a resource with the second eNB. The resource includes a time resource and/or a frequency resource. The first and second eNBs are configured to cooperatively serve the one or more UEs. The first and second eNBs are configured to engage in wireless communication following a predetermined schedule known to the plurality of eNBs.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2014Date of Patent: July 26, 2016Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Rakesh Taori, Arun Sridharan
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Patent number: 9385942Abstract: A system for providing at least one node of an n-node multi-switch link aggregation group (MLAG) includes a packet forwarding device for receiving a packet destined for at least one n-node MLAG, n being an integer greater than 2. The packet forwarding device includes a packet forwarding database for storing packet forwarding rules for the at least one n-node MLAG. The packet forwarding device further includes a processing element for forwarding, blocking forwarding of, or redirecting the packet in accordance with one of the packet forwarding rules defined for the n-node MLAG group in the packet forwarding database.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2014Date of Patent: July 5, 2016Assignee: Extreme Networks, Inc.Inventors: Donald B. Grosser, Jr., Shankara Ramamurthy
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Patent number: 9380466Abstract: Among other things, a communication system comprising remote units and a controller is described. The remote units exchange radio frequency (RF) signals with mobile devices. At least some of the RF signals comprise information destined for, or originating from, a mobile device. The controller comprises one or more modems and is connected to an external network. At least one of the modems is a baseband modem and is configured to pass first data corresponding to the information. The controller is separated from the remote units by an intermediate network over which second data corresponding to the information is carried in frames between the controller and the remote units. The second data comprises baseband data and at least some of the baseband data is compressed in a frequency domain. The remote units and the controller are configured to compress the baseband data for transmission over the intermediate network.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2013Date of Patent: June 28, 2016Assignee: CommScope Technologies LLCInventors: Vedat Eyuboglu, Arthur J. Barabell
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Patent number: 9374850Abstract: A software architecture providing ad hoc wireless networking capabilities. The software architecture may be compatible with wireless devices, such as UWB devices operating according to the WLP communication protocol. The software architecture may include user mode and kernel mode modules, and may include a multiplexing driver framework to enable system connection to multiple ad hoc networks.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2014Date of Patent: June 21, 2016Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Mohammad Shabbir Alam, Poovanpilli G. Madhavan, Ankur Agiwal, Sharad Mittal, Xinyan Zan, Frank Li, Zhong Deng, John-Paul M. Stewart
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Patent number: 9374814Abstract: The present application relates to the field of communications, and disclosed are a DCI transmission method and device under cross-band carrier aggregation. The method is: for LTE-A UE which aggregates carriers having different TDD uplink/downlink configurations, according to a pre-arranged rule or high-layer signaling configuration information, determining whether a DAI and a UL index are contained in a DCI format which is used by a PDCCH for scheduling a PUSCH, and determining a CSS and a USS respectively and separately. Accordingly, it can be ensured that the size of a DCI which is transmitted in a CSS does not change, thus ensuring the normal transmission of common cell information, and at the same time, in a USS, according to the actual needs, a specific bit field in the DCI can be determined rationally, thus supporting the UL multi-frame scheduling and/or the resource overhead control of an ACK/NACK over a PUSCH.Type: GrantFiled: July 4, 2013Date of Patent: June 21, 2016Assignee: CHINA ACADEMY OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGYInventors: Xuejuan Gao, Yanan Lin, Zukang Shen
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Patent number: 9369890Abstract: To increase the number of CSI-RSs for interference measurement to improve interference measurement accuracy, a first reference signal for channel state measurement and a second reference signal for interference measurement are assigned to reference signal resources defined for transmission of the first reference signal, and a mobile terminal apparatus that supports both the first reference signal and the second reference signal is notified of pattern information to identify an assignment pattern of the first reference signal and the second reference signal. A second mobile terminal apparatus that supports the first reference signal and that does not support the second reference signal is notified of pattern information to identify an assignment pattern of the first reference signal, and of assignment information indicating that resources assigned the second reference signal are assigned a third reference signal of zero power for channel state measurement.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2012Date of Patent: June 14, 2016Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Satoshi Nagata, Yoshihisa Kishiyama, Anass Benjebbour, Wei Xi
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Patent number: 9369381Abstract: According to one aspect, embodiments of the invention provide a node comprising a processor, a memory including a predefined mapping, the predefined mapping correlating network characteristics to related critical thresholds at which a delivery ratio of the node is close to a maximum level and at which a total number of transmissions by the node is close to a minimum number necessary to achieve the delivery ratio, and a component configured to communicate with one-hop neighbors of the node and configured to determine at least one characteristic of a dynamic network based on information received from the one-hop neighbors of the node, wherein, in reference to the predefined mapping, the processor is configured to identify a critical threshold associated with the at least one characteristic of the network and is configured to transmit a first packet to at least one one-hop neighbor based on the critical threshold.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2014Date of Patent: June 14, 2016Assignee: Raytheon BBN Technologies Corp.Inventors: Jason Keith Redi, Bakul Grover Khanna
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Patent number: 9356754Abstract: The present invention is designed to increase the number of CSI-RSs for interference measurements and improve the accuracy of interference measurements. The first reference signal is allocated to a reference signal resource defined for transmission of the first reference signal, and also a second reference signal for interference measurement is allocated, the allocation patterns of the first reference signal and the second reference signal are implicitly reported to the first mobile terminal to apparatus that supports both the first reference signal and the second reference signal, and, in the first mobile terminal apparatus, interference is measured using both the first reference signal and the second reference signal or using the second reference signal alone, based on the implicitly-reported allocation patterns.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2013Date of Patent: May 31, 2016Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Satoshi Nagata, Yoshihisa Kishiyama
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Patent number: 9351304Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices are described for predicting a current random access transmission power detectable by a base station based on historical transmission power information. In one aspect, a mobile device may access a historical transmission power associated with a current state of the mobile device, with the historical transmission power based on mobility patterns of the mobile device. Based at least in part on the accessed historical transmission power, the mobile device may predict a current random access transmission power of the mobile device, where the predicted current random access transmission power is configured to elicit a random access response from a base station. In one aspect, the techniques described herein may reduce a number of power ramp steps taken by the mobile device during a random access procedure, reduce interference from the mobile device during the random access procedure, or both based on the predicted current random access transmission power.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2014Date of Patent: May 24, 2016Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Thomas Kilpatrick, II, Olufunmilola Awoniyi-Oteri, Amir Sarajedini, Roy Franklin Quick, Jr., Patrik Nils Lundqvist
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Patent number: 9344373Abstract: A tool for packet transmission and delivery in a distributed system. The tool determines one or more packets is classified as a L3 packet. The tool determines translation of the one or more packets classified as L3 packets to one or more corresponding net devices. The tool sends the one or more packets classified as a non L3 packet to a user space packet dispatcher service.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2014Date of Patent: May 17, 2016Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Vijoy A. Pandey, Daljeet Singh
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Patent number: 9344576Abstract: An Internet telephony system (ITS) comprising an enclosure, an interface to a packet switched computer network; a communications processor, configured to implement a voice over Internet Protocol communication, to execute at least a client portion of a telephony control application supporting at least a coordinated delivery of data presented to the user through a user interface and a conversation using the voice over Internet Protocol communication; and to execute a web browser; and at least one manual control input.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2011Date of Patent: May 17, 2016Assignee: III Holdings 1, LLCInventors: David Friedman, Wai Wu
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Patent number: 9337975Abstract: The present invention is designed to effectively apply carrier aggregation and Coordinated Multiple Point (CoMP) transmission/reception in a system band that is formed with a plurality of fundamental frequency blocks. A radio communication system where carrier aggregation is applicable in the same frequency band, and, this radio communication system includes the first radio base station apparatus and a second radio base station apparatus that perform coordinated multiple point transmission to a user terminal using cells having the same frequency band, and the first radio base station apparatus and the second radio base station apparatus perform retransmission control for uplink signals from the user terminal on a shared basis, and perform mapping of downlink signals to radio resources separately.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2012Date of Patent: May 10, 2016Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Satoshi Nagata, Yoshihisa Kishiyama
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Patent number: 9326278Abstract: Embodiments of user equipment and methods for reducing delay in a radio-access network (RAN) are generally described herein. Embodiments disclosed herein provide enhancements that may be applicable to a 3GPP LTE RAN for reducing delay that may be particularly beneficial for real-time over-the-top (OTT) applications. Some embodiments provide for an uplink delayed buffer status report. Some embodiments provide for a downlink congestion and buffer report. Some embodiments provide for traffic characteristic based inter-UE prioritization.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2014Date of Patent: April 26, 2016Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Jing Zhu, Rath Vannithamby
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Patent number: 9325611Abstract: In an embodiment, a method configures a network to route data on a first network service that connects a user's network with a service provider network. In the method, an instruction to route data from the network addressed to a hostname on the first network service is received. According to the hostname, a first IP address that addresses a server identified by the hostname is determined. A second IP address is also determined as the second IP address of the specific network service. Finally a message is sent to the user's network that specifically instructs the user's network to route data addressed to the first IP address to the second address. The message causes configuration of a router on the user's network to route data on the first network service. System and computer program product embodiments are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2014Date of Patent: April 26, 2016Assignee: Level 3 Communications, LLCInventor: Pete Joseph Caputo, II
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Patent number: 9325898Abstract: A method for controlling a communication apparatus includes connecting to a first network formed by an access point, establishing communication with an information processing apparatus on the first network by using a first application, determining whether the information processing apparatus is operating as the access point forming the first network, detecting a transition of the first application to a background, and performing control to disconnect from the first network after it is determined that the information processing apparatus is operating as the access point and after the transition of the first application to the background is detected.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2013Date of Patent: April 26, 2016Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hiroyuki Torikai, Koji Hatanaka
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Patent number: 9320038Abstract: A method and an apparatus for transmitting Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest (HARQ) Acknowledgement/Negative Acknowledgement (ACK/NACK) are provided. The HARQ ACK/NACK transmission method includes receiving a Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH) in a subframe of a first cell, identifying an ACK subframe for transmitting HARQ ACK/NACK corresponding to the PDSCH, and transmitting the HARQ ACK/NACK in the identified ACK subframe of a second cell.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2015Date of Patent: April 19, 2016Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Seung Hoon Choi, Joon Young Cho, Jin Kyu Han, Young Bum Kim, Hyoung Ju Ji
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Patent number: 9320031Abstract: In a mobile station device capable of transmitting up to a predetermined number of transport blocks to a base station device on a single physical uplink shared channel, an object is to efficiently perform HARQ in case that the mobile station device receives an uplink grant that disables a part of uplink data. The mobile station device receives downlink control information transmitted by the base station device and used for scheduling the physical uplink shared channel. In case that the downlink control information indicates that a specific transport block is disabled, the mobile station device sets ACK for a HARQ process corresponding to the specific transport block.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2011Date of Patent: April 19, 2016Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Shoichi Suzuki, Tatsushi Aiba
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Patent number: 9306985Abstract: In one or more embodiments, an apparatus includes a data server, a VoIP server, and a processing circuit. The VoIP server routes VoIP calls to and from a plurality of telecommunication devices associated with respective user accounts. The VoIP server stores data generated by the plurality of telecommunication devices on the data server. The user accounts each have a settings file associated with the user account. In response to a set of criteria indicated in the settings file of one of the user accounts being satisfied, the processing circuit logs into a data server remote to the VoIP server using login credentials included in the settings file. In further response to the set of criteria being satisfied, the processing circuit copies one or more data files associated with the user account from the data server to the remote data server.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2014Date of Patent: April 5, 2016Assignee: 8x8, Inc.Inventor: Zhishen Liu
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Patent number: 9306801Abstract: According to one embodiment of the invention, a non-transitory computer readable medium for improving the scalability and redundancy of a wireless communications network.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2014Date of Patent: April 5, 2016Assignee: ARUBA NETWORKS, INC.Inventors: Sheausong Yang, Gopalakrishnan Raman