Patents Examined by Stephen J Clawson
  • Patent number: 10616828
    Abstract: One embodiment relates to a method of selecting an access network via a mobile terminal. The mobile terminal may obtain, from a device for selecting access networks, at least one rule for selecting access networks which ranks, according to an order of priority, a plurality of access networks comprising a cellular access network using a first cellular access technology, a cellular access network using a second cellular access technology and at least one noncellular access network. The terminal may detect at least one wireless noncellular access network and at least one cellular access network to which networks the mobile terminal can attach and select the highest priority access network, from among the access networks detected, according to the at least one selecting rule applied as a function of the cellular access technology of the cellular access network detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: Orange
    Inventors: Khadija Daoud Triki, Antoine Mouquet
  • Patent number: 10616304
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for audio dejittering are described. The method may include determining a mean delay applied to packets in a packet voice communication system, calculating, from the mean delay, a standard deviation for at least a subset of packets in a talk spurt, determining a target delay for the talk spurt by applying a moving average to the standard deviation, and applying the target delay to a first packet from the talk spurt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Tony Lee, Matthew Zivney, Manjunatha Kantharaju
  • Patent number: 10567554
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods are provided for user-plane LWA PDU routing. In one novel aspect, LTE PDU packets are routed through a WLAN AP to a UE by encapsulation of the data packets. In one embodiment, a bridge/VLAN architecture is used. The UE identifies one or more Ethernet Frames received the WLAN interface as containing the PDCP PDUs by decoding the EtherType. In another embodiment, the WLAN terminated tunneling is used by decoding the EtherType of indicating the PDCP type. In another novel aspect, an UE-terminated tunneling is created. In one embodiment, the IP tunneling is used. In another embodiment, the GRE tunneling is used. The GRE header contains a KEY field to identify the packets as being the LWA packets. In yet another embodiment, the IPSec tunneling is used. The SPI of the header is used to identify the packets as being the LWA data packets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: HFI Innovation INC.
    Inventors: Pavan Santhana Krishna Nuggehalli, Chie-Ming Chou, Chia-Chun Hsu
  • Patent number: 10555282
    Abstract: A method for processing a control channel at a user agent (UA) to identify power control commands within a wireless communication system, the method comprising the steps of, at a user agent, monitoring for power control messages on a single carrier, decoding a message received on the single carrier to generate decoded information and using the decoded information to identify a power control command for each of at least first and second carriers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Sean Michael McBeath, Mo-Han Fong, Youn Hyoung Heo, Zhijun Cai, Andrew Mark Earnshaw
  • Patent number: 10547513
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for determining a network topology of a hierarchical network, the apparatus including: a memory unit to store an outage state matrix representing an outage state of leaf nodes at the lowest hierarchical level of the hierarchical network; and a processing unit to decompose the stored state matrix into a first probability matrix indicating for each inner node of the hierarchical network the probability that the respective inner node forms the origin of an outage at the lowest hierarchical level of the hierarchical network and into a second probability matrix indicating for each leaf node at the lowest hierarchical level of the hierarchical network the probability that an inner node forms a hierarchical superordinate node of the respective leaf node at the lowest hierarchical level of the hierarchical network, wherein the decomposed second probability matrix is evaluated by the processing unit to determine the network topology.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Dagmar Beyer, Denis Krompaß, Sigurd Spieckermann
  • Patent number: 10547650
    Abstract: A method for assigning to a terminal device (UE) a service server (SS) carried out by an IS, by any of the SSs, and by the UDB in a cooperative/corresponding manner. A “first reallocation (IS/SS/UDB) procedure” and a “second reallocation (IS/SS/UDB) procedure” are correspondingly performed within the IS, the SS and the UDB. The first reallocation procedure allows, via IS/SS/UDB processing and interactions, storing by the UDB, in relationship with at least one of the user identifiers of a UE, a mark indicating that the UE has been assigned to a replacement SS to substitute another SS that has failed. The second reallocation procedure allows, also via IS/SS/UDB processing and interactions, utilization of the mark to trigger a new SS reallocation of the UE to a SS when the UE sends a subsequent registration message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ)
    Inventors: Emiliano Merino Vazquez, Francisca Bejarano Garcia, Ingo Berk
  • Patent number: 10530626
    Abstract: A transmitter adapted for massive multiple-input multiple-output (M-MIMO) operation includes a first set of power amplifiers (PAs) that amplifies a first signal to produce an amplified first signal, and a second set of PAs that amplifies a second signal to produce an amplified second signal, wherein PAs in the first set of PAs are different from PAs in the second set of PAs. The transmitter includes an antenna array operatively coupled to the first set of PAs and the set of second PAs, the antenna array including a plurality of transmit antennas, wherein the antenna array transmits one or more of the amplified signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ming Jia, Jianglei Ma
  • Patent number: 10531438
    Abstract: The present invention provides a control information sending method, user equipment, and a network side device, where the control information sending method includes: determining, by the user equipment, to change an accessed control channel from a first control channel to a second control channel; sending, by the user equipment, indication information of the second control channel to a network side device, so that the network side device sends control information to the user equipment over the second control channel according to the indication information of the second control channel. By using the technical solutions provided in embodiments of the present invention, control information sending efficiency can be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Song Zhu, Xiaolong Guo
  • Patent number: 10523597
    Abstract: A data center network node (13) comprising a first data connection (22) for connecting at least one server to a conventional subnetwork comprising at least one of a switch or a router, an optical transceiver (14) comprising a transmitter (16) and a receiver (17), a second data connection (23) for connecting the at least one server to the optical transceiver, a switching arrangement (21) for linking the optical transceiver (14) to an offload subnetwork (10), the switching arrangement configurable between a first configuration (24) in which the offload subnetwork bypasses the optical transceiver and a second configuration (28) in which the optical transceiver is optically linked to the offload subnetwork.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Luca Giorgi, Giulio Bottari, Antonio D'Errico
  • Patent number: 10523820
    Abstract: A first request to form a conference call is received from a first of a plurality of electronic devices. In response to the first request, a conference data structure is generated in a memory. Based on determining the conference call has ended, a second request is transmitted to each of the plurality of electronic devices to return a high-resolution video stream generated by each electronic device during the conference call. In response to the second requests, the high-resolution video stream is received from at least some of the plurality of electronic devices. Each of the received high-resolution video streams is stored in the conference data structure in the memory to generate a completed conference data structure. A notice that the completed conference data structure is available is transmitted to each of the plurality of electronic devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher M. Garrido, Eric L. Chien, Wenhui Xu, Xiaoxiao Zheng, Spencer E. Lewson, Keith W. Rauenbuehler, Komei Harada, Ming Jin, Gurtej Singh G. Chandok, David L. Biderman
  • Patent number: 10511520
    Abstract: Systems and techniques are provided for multi-hop path finding. Order data describing an order may be received. The order data may include a currency pair, a price level, and a volume. A one-hop path structure may be generated based on the order data describing the order. The one-hop path structure may include one-hop paths for the currency pair. The one-hop path structure may be written to a first ring buffer. The one-hop path structure may be read from the first ring buffer. Two-hop path structures may be generated by joining the one-hop path structure with other one-hop path structures. A value for the relative importance of the two-hop path structures may be determined to be greater than a threshold. Combined two-hop path structures may be written to a second ring buffer when the value for the relative importance of the two-hop path structures is greater than the threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: Ripple Labs Inc.
    Inventor: Michael Warnock
  • Patent number: 10505852
    Abstract: For handling data being communicated over lossless Ethernet that is sensitive to delays, a processor designates data being transmitted over an Ethernet connection as one of low latency data and standard data. The processor further indicates that a Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) device supports transmission of the low latency data using a type length value (TLV) of a data center bridging capability exchange protocol (DCBX) as of Aug. 10, 2010. The processor transmits the low latency data and indicating that the low latency data being transmitted is low latency data. The processor detects one or more delays in the transmission of the low latency data. The processor issues a flow control command to pause a port from sending frames to the Ethernet for a given amount of time in response to detecting the one or more delays.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Louie A. Dickens, Roger G. Hathorn, Richard Hutzler, William M. Smith, Jr., Michael E. Starling, Daniel J. Winarski
  • Patent number: 10499375
    Abstract: Provided are a sidelink operation method of a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system, and a UE that uses the method. The method comprises: transmitting a sidelink gap request to a serving cell; receiving, from the serving cell, a message for setting a plurality of sidelink gap patterns in response to the sidelink gap request; and receiving, from the serving cell, information for activating a predetermined sidelink gap pattern from among the plurality of sidelink gap patterns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Sunghoon Jung, Jaewook Lee
  • Patent number: 10492225
    Abstract: Techniques for mobile communication in an unlicensed frequency band are discussed. A network device (e.g., an evolved NodeB, or other cell network device) can generate a listen before talk (LBT) protocol in order to determine whether an unlicensed carrier of a secondary cell device is idle or busy. The LBT protocol can be generated as a one shot LBT within a two symbol duration of a potential downlink (DL) transmission burst, or multiple times within the two symbol duration. In response to an idle state detection, a discovery reference signal (DRS) can be transmitted. In response to the LBT protocol and the DRS transmission being misaligned, a reservation signal can be generated to reserve the unlicensed carrier for the DL transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: Intel IP Corporation
    Inventors: Qiaoyang Ye, Hwan-Joon Kwon, Abhijeet Bhorkar, Jeongho Jeon
  • Patent number: 10491364
    Abstract: A signal generation method for generating a signal that is to be transmitted in a network of connected objects. The method includes: an obtaining step for obtaining a first signal conveying a stream of data acquired by a connected object of the network; a reception step for receiving a synchronization second signal including information providing a timestamp for the first signal; and a generation step for generating a third signal by using a reversible operation to combine the first signal and the synchronization second signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: ORANGE
    Inventors: Apostolos Kountouris, Philippe Surbayrole, Quentin Lampin
  • Patent number: 10484152
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a 5G or pre-5G communication system for supporting a higher data rate beyond a 4G communication system such as LTE. Disclosed is a method and apparatus for transmitting or receiving a reference signal in a beamforming communication system. The method comprises the steps of: generating a reference signal sequence for a reference signal that can be used for beam searching; mapping the reference signal sequence to modulation symbols corresponding to resource elements having a predetermined identical subcarrier spacing among resource elements that can be used to transmit the reference signal; generating an OFDM symbol signal including the modulation symbols; and transmitting the OFDM symbol signal using at least one predetermined transmission beam among transmission beams that can be used by a base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hyun-Yong Lee
  • Patent number: 10484265
    Abstract: An IP network topology update system may update IP network topology in near real-time and on-demand with minimum overheads. It identifies likely impact area (e.g., layer 2 or layer 3), objects (e.g., link or node such a device), and timing (e.g., what topology objects located where or when the topology update process should be performed) in the IP Layer 3 network and its underlying SDN Layer 2 network under virtualized networking infrastructure as candidates of impacts for topology update.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Tsong-Ho Wu, Wen-Jui Li, Wai Lai
  • Patent number: 10477535
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. In particular, the present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for receiving data, by a terminal, in a wireless communication system, the method comprising the steps of: receiving a PDCCH; receiving a PDSCH corresponding to the PDCCH in a subframe including CSI-RS resource available in a cell; and demodulating the PDSCH. If a predetermined condition is satisfied, demodulation of the PDSCH is performed on the assumption that the PDSCH is not transmitted in the CSI-RS resource available in the cell, and if the predetermined condition is not satisfied, the demodulation of the PDSCH is performed on the assumption that the PDSCH can be transmitted in the CSI-RS resources available in the cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Suckchel Yang, Yunjung Yi, Hyangsun You, Joonkui Ahn
  • Patent number: 10469367
    Abstract: In one embodiment, segment routing (SR) network processing of packets is performed which includes operations signaling and processing of packets in manners providing processing and/or memory efficiencies. One embodiment includes acquiring a segment routing particular packet by a particular router in a network. Responsive to the particular router data plane ascertained during fast path processing by a fast path processing unit that the segment routing particular packet is to be Operations, Administration, and Maintenance (OAM) processed by a different processing unit in the particular router, communicating a time stamp of a current time and the segment routing particular packet including a segment routing header that includes OAM signaling from said fast path processing to the different processing unit, with fast path processing being hardware-based packet processing by the fast path processing unit. The segment routing particular packet is OAM processing by the different processing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Clarence Filsfils, Zafar Ali, Syed Kamran Raza, Ahmed Refaat Bashandy, Nagendra Kumar Nainar, Carlos M. Pignataro, Jaganbabu Rajamanickam, Rakesh Gandhi, Bhupendra Yadav, Faisal Iqbal
  • Patent number: 10462806
    Abstract: The choice of a transmit (Tx)-Receive (Rx) beam pair out of many available beam pairs between a base station and a millimeter wave (mmW)-capable UE is directly related to the performance of transmission between the base station and the UE. A method, apparatus, and computer-readable medium at a transmitting user equipment (UE) capable of (mmW) communication are disclosed to determine a new serving Tx-Rx beam pair based on cumulative strengths of a plurality of Tx-Rx beam pairs. The UE may iteratively perform a process of, until a predetermined number of synchronization cycles is reached: selecting one of the plurality of Transmit (Tx)-Receive (Rx) beam pairs based at least in part on a scheduling opportunity value of the selected Tx-Rx beam pair that has not been measured for a current synchronization period; and measuring a strength of the selected Tx-Rx beam pair.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jun Zhu, Raghu Narayan Challa