Patents Examined by Stephen J Clawson
  • Patent number: 10771343
    Abstract: A system, method, and computer-implemented method for automatically and robustly standardizing electronic equipment identifiers with service profile identifiers in a domain of a unified computing system to better facilitate identification of the physical equipment. A particular domain in a domain list may be accessed, and a service profile identifier list of service profile identifiers and an equipment identifier list of equipment identifiers for the particular domain may be accessed. If a particular equipment identifier assigned to a particular piece of equipment (e.g., a blade server) does not include the particular service profile identifier assigned to that equipment, then the particular equipment identifier is changed to include the particular service profile identifier to facilitate identification of the physical equipment. Each service profile identifier in the particular domain is checked, and the process is repeated for any additional domains.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: Mastercard International Incorporated
    Inventor: Chase A. Aleshire
  • Patent number: 10756996
    Abstract: Systems and methods with a service operating in a network between an originating node and a terminating node include, responsive to detection of a fault on a service, determining a first snapshot of information at each of the originating node and the terminating node; responsive to detection of clearing of the fault, determining a second snapshot of information at each of the originating node and the terminating node; and utilizing the first snapshot of information at each of the originating node and the terminating node and the second snapshot of information at each of the originating node and the terminating node to determine packet disruption information for the service based on the fault and the clearing of the fault.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: Ciena Corporation
    Inventors: Jatin Sareen, Atul Sharma
  • Patent number: 10743365
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method, an apparatus and a system for data connection management. The method for data connection management includes: obtaining, by a user equipment UE, first instruction information, wherein the first instruction information is used for instructing to close or open a data connection; and transmitting, by the UE, the first instruction information to a packet data network gateway P-GW, for enabling the P-GW to stop or start data transmission of at least one bearer of the UE according to the first instruction information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yijun Yu, Youyang Yu
  • Patent number: 10743347
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus and systems supporting coexistence of wireless devices and equipment in shared wireless medium environments through the use of multiple PHYs. The techniques provided herein may be applied to various types of wireless devices and equipment. Under one example, a wireless device transmits and/or receives signals using one or more frequencies and/or channels within shared wireless medium environments in which other wireless equipment is operating, such as access points and stations in wireless local area networks (WLANs). The wireless devices are configured to coexist with the operations of the other wireless equipment within the shared wireless medium environment by adapting its transmission operations to utilize frequencies or channels that do not interfere with other equipment and/or implementing co-channel and shared channels operations under which access to channels is implemented using standardized WLAN protocols such as, but not limited to PHY and MAC protocols used for 802.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: Ossia Inc.
    Inventors: Scott Elliott, Dale Mayes, Robert Giometti
  • Patent number: 10733138
    Abstract: The present invention provides an integrated system-on-chip device. The device is configured on a single silicon substrate member. The device has a data input/output interface provided on the substrate member. The device has an input/output block provided on the substrate member and coupled to the data input/output interface. The device has a signal processing block provided on the substrate member and coupled to the input/output block. The device has a driver module provided on the substrate member and coupled to the signal processing block. The device further includes a driver interface and coupled to the driver module and configured to be coupled to a silicon photonics device. In an example, a control block is configured to receive and send instruction(s) in a digital format to the communication block and is configured to receive and send signals in an analog format to communicate with the silicon photonics device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: INPHI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Radhakrishnan L. Nagarajan
  • Patent number: 10716124
    Abstract: A base station will group UEs together for MU-MIMO service with the grouping being based at least in part on the UEs of the group being at least a threshold Euclidian distance from each other. Further, the base station could dynamically set the threshold Euclidian distance based on consideration of coverage quality. And the base station could additionally base the UE grouping on the UEs of the group having threshold angular separation, having reported threshold high SINR, and/or on one or more other factors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: Sprint Spectrum L.P.
    Inventors: Sreekar Marupaduga, Rajveen Narendran
  • Patent number: 10701565
    Abstract: A network node for wireless access is operating in a cellular network for an unlicensed frequency band and arranged for serving wireless devices in the unlicensed frequency band. The serving of the wireless devices in the unlicensed band relies on making a clear channel assessment in the unlicensed band for ascertaining that the unlicensed band is currently not occupied by other transmissions and when not occupied commencing transmission. Upon commencing the transmission, the network node is arranged to attempt scheduling a paging message together with a message providing a discovery signal and determine whether the transmission of the discovery signal and the paging message use the same subframe scrambling code, and if they do, transmit the paging message and the discovery signal in the same subframe. A method and computer program for the network node are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Inventors: David Sugirtharaj, Peter Alriksson, Mai-Anh Phan, Emma Wittenmark
  • Patent number: 10674016
    Abstract: Apparatus, systems, methods, and computer program products for determining an authentication procedure are disclosed. One apparatus includes a processor and a memory that stores code executable by the processor. The code is executable by the processor to acquire a schedule of a conference and a reference time which is determined on the basis of the schedule, recognize at least one voice of at least one participant who participates in the conference, determine whether the at least one voice of the at least one participant meets a predetermined condition after the elapse of the reference time, and output information for promoting progress of the conference in response to the determining whether the at least one voice of the at least one participant meets the predetermined condition after the elapse of the reference time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) PTE LTD
    Inventors: Takumi Imai, Masaru Nishiyama, Nozomi Mandokoro, Daisaku Morita
  • Patent number: 10674536
    Abstract: In a radio air interface, a mixed-numerology carrier is one that multiplexes orthogonal frequency division multiplexed (OFDM) waveforms that have different numerologies onto the same carrier. This disclosure provides for a sync signal (SS) enabling channel access for such a mixed-numerology carrier. In one example, a single SS, having a given numerology, supports channel access for a plurality of numerologies on the mixed-numerology carrier. In another example, a plurality of numerologies on the mixed-numerology carrier each has its own respective SS, and a single, common numerology is used for all SS's. In still another example, a plurality of numerologies on the mixed-numerology carrier each has its own respective SS, where each SS has the same numerology as the numerology for which the SS provides channel access.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: Qualcomm Incorporated
    Inventors: Jing Sun, Tao Luo, Wanshi Chen
  • Patent number: 10667159
    Abstract: The present application provides a method for enhancing reliability of wireless communication, comprising: monitoring, by a user equipment (UE), quality of downlink transmission between the UE and a base station (BS); and measuring, by the UE in response to a trigger event, transmission quality of at least one beam used for the downlink transmission between the UE and the BS, wherein the trigger event is used to indicate that quality of the downlink transmission between the UE and the BS does not meet a first preset condition. The present application further discloses another method for enhancing reliability of wireless communication and a related device and system. By means of the solutions disclosed in the present application, transmission quality of a beam used for uplink/downlink transmission between a BS and a UE can be non-periodically measured based on event trigger, which improves real-time performance of detection and greatly enhances reliability of wireless communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: BEIJING ZHIGU RUI TUO TECH CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Na Wei, Ran Xu
  • Patent number: 10667186
    Abstract: A method of assigning and managing reference signals in a multi-cell environment, and a network device and a terminal for applying the method, are provided. Reference signal patterns may be assigned to multiple femtocells through a long term coordination of a central control unit that is used to control multiple cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignees: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
    Inventors: Won Jae Shin, Young Jun Hong, Chang Yong Shin, Yong Ho Cho, Dong Jo Park, Jung Hyun Park
  • Patent number: 10660092
    Abstract: It is an object to provide a sequence allocating method that, while maintaining the number of Zadoff-Chu sequences to compose a sequence group, is configured to make it possible to reduce correlations between different sequential groups. This method includes the steps of setting a standard sequence with a standard sequence length (Nb) and a standard sequence number (rb) in a step (ST101), setting a threshold value (Xth(m)) in accordance with an RB number (m) in a step (ST103), setting a sequence length (N) corresponding to RB number (m) in a step (ST104), judging whether ¦r/N?rb/Nb¦=Xth(m) is satisfied in a step (ST106), including a plurality of Zadoff-Chu sequences with a sequence number (r) and a sequence length (N) in a sequence group (rb) in a step (ST107) if the judgment is positive, and allocating the sequence group (rb) to the same cell in a step (ST112).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Takashi Iwai, Daichi Imamura, Tomofumi Takata, Yoshihiko Ogawa
  • Patent number: 10660069
    Abstract: A resource allocation device is provided that, responsive to a use request for resources of a network, the use request having a pair of nodes as terminal points designated among a plurality of nodes constituting the network, searches for one or more candidate paths between the terminal points, with which amounts of the resources related to the use request can be allocated, in a state where the resources that have been allocated to one or more other use requests are set aside from the network. The device calculates, for each of the one or more searched-for-candidate paths, in a state where the resources are allocated to the candidate path, a maximum number of paths that can be allocated between the terminal points of a virtual path related to the service, and selects the candidate path with which a sum total of the maximum numbers of paths becomes greatest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahiro Kobayashi, Toshiaki Tsuchiya, Ryutaro Matsumura, Takumi Kimura, Katsunori Noritake
  • Patent number: 10638407
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a wireless access system supporting an unlicensed band, methods for configuring a discovery reference signal (DRS), methods for re-configuring subframes for same, methods for transmitting a DRS, and devices for supporting same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Seonwook Kim, Joonkui Ahn, Hanbyul Seo, Seungmin Lee, Jonghyun Park, Hanjun Park
  • Patent number: 10638505
    Abstract: A system for allocating uplink resources to relay nodes in a wireless network includes an access node configured to deploy a first radio air interface. The system also includes a relay node configured to attach to the first radio air interface and to deploy a second radio air interface to which one or more end-user wireless devices are attached. The system further includes one or more other end-user wireless devices attached to the first radio air interface. The system further includes a processor configured to determine a type of traffic related to the one or more end-user wireless devices served by the relay node. The processor is further configured to selectively issue an extended uplink grant to the relay node based on the type of traffic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: Sprint Spectrum L.P.
    Inventors: Nitesh Manchanda, Sreekar Marupaduga, Vanil Parihar
  • Patent number: 10637764
    Abstract: The disclosed computer-implemented method may include (1) identifying a plurality of network paths within a network, (2) identifying a plurality of network services offered via the network, (3) creating a virtual path topology that represents a select grouping of the network paths that (A) originate from a single ingress node within the network and (B) lead to a plurality of egress nodes within the network, (4) mapping at least one of the network services to the virtual path topology, and (5) providing the at least one of the network services to at least one computing device via at least one of the network paths included in the select grouping represented by the virtual path topology. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: Juniper Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: Anshu Verma, Javier Antich
  • Patent number: 10631218
    Abstract: The 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). a method for operating a terminal in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes receiving information relating to a data session from a network node, determining a target node among nodes belonging to a second network based on the information relating to the data session, and performing a handover from a source node belonging to a first network to the target node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignees: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd, Korea University Research and Business Foundation
    Inventors: Young Kyo Baek, Chung Gu Kang, Chan Seok Yang, Jungje Son, Sunghoon Kim, Jun Man Lee, Hoyeon Lee
  • Patent number: 10631292
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus includes a higher layer processing unit configured to configure transmission mode information; and a reception unit configured to receive a physical downlink shared channel and a short physical downlink shared channel, and the transmission mode information indicates a transmission mode for the physical downlink shared channel and a transmission mode for the short physical downlink shared channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG INNOVATION COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Liqing Liu, Shoichi Suzuki, Tatsushi Aiba, Takashi Hayashi, Tomoki Yoshimura, Wataru Ouchi
  • Patent number: 10630426
    Abstract: Implementations described herein utilize redundancy information for packet data portions. For instance, a first packet includes multiple data portions. A second packet is generated that includes redundancy information for one or more of the multiple data portions of the first packet. In at least some implementations, the redundancy information can be used to determine whether an error condition occurs related to the first packet, such as data errors and/or a dropped data portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventor: Lionel Koenig
  • Patent number: 10623992
    Abstract: System and method for mobile network access load balancing. In accordance with a first method embodiment, a method includes receiving, at a network access load balancing controller, performance status information from a mobile network access gateway. The method also includes calculating, at the network access load balancing controller, a dynamic performance score for the mobile network access gateway utilizing the performance status information and calculating, at the network access load balancing controller, a weighted ranking of dynamic performance scores of a plurality of mobile network access gateways. The method further includes assigning, based on the weighted ranking of dynamic performance scores, one of the plurality of mobile network access gateways to serve as a mobile network access gateway for a user element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: A10 NETWORKS, INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Yichao He, Yang Yang, Ali Golshan