Patents Examined by Shick Hom
  • Patent number: 9306862
    Abstract: Explicit discard indications are used that allows a radio network controller, when operating in a multi-point High Speed Downlink Packet Access, HSDPA, scenario, to send data to a user equipment via plural radio base stations while reducing the risk for unnecessary duplicate data to be sent over the Uu interface between the radio base stations and the user equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Anders Jonsson, Nianshan Shi
  • Patent number: 9307533
    Abstract: A wireless communication apparatus which can simultaneously conduct communication on at least two frequency channels is described. The apparatus includes a communication unit which refers to a connection management table to determine a communication system which can be used by a wireless communication terminal using an identifier of the wireless communication terminal, and conducts communication with the wireless communication terminal on a second frequency channel using the communication system, when a request from the wireless communication terminal to change the first frequency channel to the second frequency channel is permitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Tomoko Adachi, Toshihisa Nabetani, Kiyoshi Toshimitsu, Tatsuma Hirano
  • Patent number: 9300460
    Abstract: A wireless communication system (14) comprises points that have time division duplex, TDD, configurations. Information is obtained indicating the TDD configuration of each of multiple points to which a particular wireless communication device (6) is simultaneously connected. Based on this obtained information, it is determined that one or more time-domain radio resources used by the multiple points are conflicting resources defined by the TDD configuration of one or more of the multiple points as being uplink resources and defined by the TDD configuration of one or more others of the multiple points as being downlink resources. For the device (6), each of the one or more conflicting resources are resolved as either an uplink resource to be used by the device (6), a downlink resource to be used by the device (6), or a resource not to be used by the device (6), based on one or more rules for optimizing use of conflicting resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: David Hammarwall, Ali Behravan, Daniel Larsson, Imadur Rahman, Eliane Semaan, Xinghua Song
  • Patent number: 9276849
    Abstract: A new type of data transport service which uses a frame relay layer 2 data link connection identifier (DLCI) to select among various service types, feature sets, and/or closed user groups (CUGs). A layer 3 address may be extracted from a layer 2 frame, and the layer 3 address information may be used to route a data packet over a packet-switched network according to the service classes, feature sets, and/or CUGs selected. At the destination, the layer 3 data packet may again be enclosed in a layer 2 frame with a DLCI indicating the service classes, features sets, and/or CUGs. Because the use of conventional permanent virtual circuits (PVCs) is not required in aspects of the invention, new methods of measuring and managing network traffic are presented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P.
    Inventors: Christopher J. Chase, Stephen L. Holmgren, John Babu Medamana, Vikram R. Saksena
  • Patent number: 9270835
    Abstract: One embodiment takes the form of a method carried out by a gateway. The method includes the gateway receiving a message that was originated by a wireless communication device (WCD) being served by an access network. Next, the gateway may identify a given air-interface resource on which the access network is serving the WCD. After receiving the message, the gateway may use the given air-interface resource to determine one or more rules for decrementing an account balance associated with the WCD. The gateway may then decrement the account balance associated with the WCD in accordance with the determined one or more rules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignee: Sprint Spectrum L.P.
    Inventors: Saravana Velusamy, Deveshkumar Rai, Rajil Malhotra
  • Patent number: 9271192
    Abstract: Techniques and systems for rate adaption in wireless systems are disclosed. A disclosed technique includes generating confidence measures for a plurality of data rates based at least on a first indicator and a second indicator, the first indicator corresponding to packet loss associated with packets transmitted by a device at a first data rate that is selected from the plurality of data rates, and the second indicator corresponding to one or more signal quality values associated with one or more packets received by the device; selecting, from the plurality of data rates, a second data rate based at least on the confidence measures; and transmitting one or more additional packets at the second data rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignee: Marvell International Ltd.
    Inventors: Hemanth Sampath, Ravi Narasimhan
  • Patent number: 9258046
    Abstract: A control point, such as a laptop, phone, wireless access point, or other device, transmits beacons to receiving stations in a wireless network. The control point may reduce power and bandwidth consumption by transmitting beacons with smaller payloads and/or less frequently to sectors with no associated stations. The stations, which may include laptops, phones, or other devices may reduce power consumption be powering on their antennas when beacons may be transmitted to their sectors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2016
    Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventor: Rajesh Kumar Sinha
  • Patent number: 9256571
    Abstract: A method begins by generating a set of write request frames regarding a write request operation for a set of encoded data. Each of the write request frames includes a payload section and a protocol header. The payload section includes a transaction number field and a data payload section, which includes a name field, a revision number field, a length field, and a payload field. The protocol header includes a payload length field and an operation code field to indicate the write request operation. The method continues by outputting the set of write request frames to storage units of a dispersed storage network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2016
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Andrew Baptist, Wesley Leggette, Jason K. Resch, Manish Motwani
  • Patent number: 9258787
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method of globally balancing the transmit power in a cellular radio system with tight reuse of frequencies, to a central controller node, and to an access point that in combination with conventional power control schemes balances the downlink transmission power on re-used frequencies in order to balance co-channel interference in a multi-cell environment. The power balancing scheme takes the instantaneous channel variation and co-channel interference into account and satisfies the throughput requirements of the different cells when allocating downlink power to the user equipments. Global power balancing dynamically assigns a token to or takes a token away from an individual reused radio channel based on quality of, or based on transmission power in the channel. The balancing of transmission power, along with the conventional power scheme, prevents a global increase or global decrease of interference in the multi-cellular system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2016
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson(publ)
    Inventors: Muhammad Kazmi, Jingyi Liao
  • Patent number: 9253671
    Abstract: A method for reporting, performed UE, in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes receiving a logged measurement configuration comprising logging object heterogeneous network information, attempting to detect a radio signal transmitted by a heterogeneous network, checking a heterogeneous network type of the heterogeneous network when the radio signal is detected, determining whether or not the heterogeneous network is a logging object based on the logging object heterogeneous network information and the determined heterogeneous network type, logging information about the heterogeneous network and common logging information if the heterogeneous network is the logging object, and reporting the logged information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Sung Hoon Jung, Seoung June Yi, Young Dae Lee, Sung Jun Park, Jae Wook Lee
  • Patent number: 9241319
    Abstract: A multi-channel wireless network acquires reference time information that is commonly applied to all multi-channels and acquires packet receiving time information of a received packet on each channel basis based on the reference time information by spreading and applying the reference time information to each channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2016
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Tae Joon Park, Chang Sub Shin, Wun-Cheol Jeong, Hoyong Kang, In Hwan Lee, Cheol Sig Pyo
  • Patent number: 9241309
    Abstract: Method and apparatus for dynamic configuration of an inactivity timeout period for a data radio bearer used to transport data for a data service between a wireless communication device and a wireless network is provided. The method includes formatting a message including information related to the data service. The method further includes sending the message from the wireless communication device to the wireless network that is attendant to establishment of the data radio bearer for the data service. The method additionally includes receiving, at the wireless communication device, an assignment of the data service to the data radio bearer. The data radio bearer can have a customized inactivity timeout period defined by the wireless network based at least in part on the information in the message provided by the wireless communication device. The method also includes sending data for the data service over the data radio bearer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2016
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Giri Prassad Deivasigamani
  • Patent number: 9237468
    Abstract: A method for logging and reporting IDC interference information is provided. The method includes receiving an IDC interference measurement configuration from a network, the IDC interference measurement configuration comprising information instructing that a logging of IDC interference information be started, performing first IDC interference measurement on a first subframe, logging first IDC interference information comprising a first IDC interference measurement result, performing second IDC interference measurement on a second subframe, logging second IDC interference information comprising a second IDC interference measurement result, and reporting the first IDC interference information and the second IDC interference information to the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Sung Hoon Jung, Seung June Yi, Young Dae Lee, Sung Jun Park, Jae Wook Lee
  • Patent number: 9225503
    Abstract: In the present invention, a method for transmitting/receiving data in a wireless communication system supporting carrier aggregation/multiple cells and a base station for same are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Jinmin Kim, Seunghee Han, Hyunwoo Lee
  • Patent number: 9219591
    Abstract: An approach is provided for acknowledgement bundling. Dynamically scheduling of one or more of subframes per bundling window is performed by reusing an assignment index field (e.g., downlink assignment index (DAI) field). The assignment index field has a value greater than or equal to number of previously assigned subframes within the bundling window. The bundling window defines a group of subframes for common acknowledgement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2015
    Assignee: Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy
    Inventors: Xiangguang Che, Peng Chen, Frank Frederiksen, Troels Kolding
  • Patent number: 9203750
    Abstract: Systems and methods for Ethernet frame translation to Internet Protocol over Infiniband (IPoIB). An example method may comprise receiving, by a computer system, a network frame comprising a payload and a header including a destination address, determining an IB link layer address corresponding to the destination address, and encapsulating the payload into an Infiniband over Internet Protocol (IPoIB) frame including the IB link layer address.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: Red Hat Israel, Ltd.
    Inventor: Michael Tsirkin
  • Patent number: 9198128
    Abstract: Provided is a method and apparatus for discontinuously transmitting/receiving packets for low-power consumption of a terminal in a cellular system for packet transmission. The present research provides a method and apparatus that can perform a low-power consuming operation when a terminal is in active state in a cellular system. The method for discontinuously transmitting/receiving packet data to reduce power consumption of a terminal in a cellular system, including the steps of: a) establishing discontinuous reception/transmission (DRX/DTX) parameters including discontinuous DRX/DTX cycle information for terminals operating in a transmission suspension mode, which is a sub-state of an active state; and b) performing DRX/DTX based on the DRX/DTX parameters in the terminals operating in the transmission suspension mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Assignees: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE, SK TELECOM CO., LTD., KT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jae-Heung Kim, Byung-Han Ryu, Seung-Chan Bang
  • Patent number: 9198175
    Abstract: Data transmission and reception is provided by configuring control channels in a wireless communication system using a plurality of carriers. User equipment (UE) may monitor physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) candidates within common search spaces (CSSs) and User Equipment-specific search spaces (USSs). If the UE is configured with cross-carrier scheduling, when two PDCCH candidates originating from a CSS and a USS, respectively, have cyclic redundancy check (CRC) scrambled by the same Radio Network Temporary Identifier (RNTI) and have a common payload size and the same first control channel element (CCE) index, the UE may interpret that only the PDCCH originating from the CSS is transmitted, thereby solving ambiguity of downlink control information (DCI) detection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Young Jo Ko, Bang Won Seo, Jae Young Ahn
  • Patent number: 9184875
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods and systems for receiving an encoded data packet, one or more activation commands, and a communication identifier, decoding the received data packet, validating the decoded received data packet, and executing one or more routines associated with the respective one or more activation commands.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: ABBOTT DIABETES CARE, INC.
    Inventors: Jeffery Mario Sicurello, Mark Kent Sloan
  • Patent number: 9178640
    Abstract: User equipment (UE) associated with synchronous networks operate in a synchronous mode while UEs associated with asynchronous networks operate in an asynchronous mode. When operating in a synchronous mode, a UE can significantly improve performance of synchronization signal detection, data decoding, and tracking loop management by using the interference cancellation (IC) techniques that are not available in an asynchronous mode of operation. Obtaining synchronization indicators and determining the synchronization status of the current network by UE is disclosed. The determination may be based on the synchronization indicator, whether detected through signal detection, signal measurements, signal analysis, or the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Kapil Bhattad, Tao Luo, Taesang Yoo, Xiaoxia Zhang, Xiliang Luo, Ke Liu, Durga Prasad Malladi