Patents Examined by Sumitra Ganguly
  • Patent number: 9942796
    Abstract: A wireless end-user device contains a processor configured to maintain a quality of service (QoS) activity map that is based on at least two criteria: a device application associated with a given wireless network service usage activity, and a wireless network type for a current selected wireless network, where the types include a home wireless network type and a roaming wireless network type. The processor determines an application associated with the given wireless network service usage activity, and then determines an applicable QoS policy from the associated application and an indication of the current wireless network type. The processor applies the applicable QoS policy to the service usage activity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: Headwater Research LLC
    Inventor: Gregory G. Raleigh
  • Patent number: 9929951
    Abstract: Systems and methods manage network traffic of a first protocol by use of a second protocol. Network traffic directed toward a network destination address of a first protocol is received. A mapping of addresses is utilized to determine a corresponding other network address of the second protocol. The network traffic is reconfigured to be forwarded to the intended network destination using the second protocol and the determined corresponding other network address.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew B. Dickinson, Frederick David Sinn, Bradley D. Roberts
  • Patent number: 9924505
    Abstract: A method for configuring a search space within which a mobile terminal performs blind decoding attempts for potential control message candidates which may be transmitted by a base station. The frequency domain resource for which the terminal performs a blind decoding attempt for a given candidate message is determined by a pseudo-random selection (known by both terminal and network) from a pre-determined set of possible resources. A pre-determined set of resources can be different for each candidate. In one embodiment the set of resources is configured by the network for each terminal and each candidate. The method may be applied for example to ePDCCH of an LTE-A wireless communication system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventor: Timothy Moulsley
  • Patent number: 9918312
    Abstract: A method in a wireless communication device including receiving (410) a composite control channel including at least two control channel elements, each control channel element only contains radio resource assignment information, for example, a codeword, exclusively addressed to a single wireless communication entity. The device combines (420) at least two of the control channel elements, and decodes (430) the combined control channel elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: Google Technology Holdings LLC
    Inventors: Ravi Kuchibhotla, Raja S. Bachu, Brian K. Classon, Robert T. Love, Ravikiran Nory, Kenneth A. Stewart, Yakun Sun
  • Patent number: 9913314
    Abstract: Systems and methods are presented for the dynamic aggregation of communications network bandwidth. Communication devices are bonded in a community in which the communication resources of a bonded device can be used to transfer data on behalf of another bonded device. In an exemplary embodiment, communication devices are bonded wirelessly to share wireless wide area network communication channels. Bandwidth aggregation is performed dynamically based on user communication requirements and the current states of the bonded communication devices. Methods are presented by which communication devices can be automatically bonded when a predetermined bonding condition is satisfied. The methods and systems of the invention optimize utilization of communication resources in a cost-effective manner that provides a user high quality service as well as location mobility.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignee: AT&T Mobility II LLC
    Inventors: Todd W. Allen, Kevin W. Jones
  • Patent number: 9900244
    Abstract: A network analysis module may obtain information including but not limited to network traffic and topology information for a network environment including multiple separate networks and physical connections between the networks. The module generates a network topology model including but not limited to extreme-case failure or break information according to the network topology information, and applies the historical network traffic information to the network topology model to predict future expected normal traffic load and extreme-case traffic load for each route over the physical connections between the networks. Output may include one or more reports for each route, each report indicating the historical and predicted traffic levels for both normal and extreme-case scenarios of a respective route.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Sonali Roy, Samuel Joseph Mortimer
  • Patent number: 9876733
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention relate to the field of communications technologies, and disclose a resource reservation method and system, and a convergence device. The method includes: receiving, by a convergence device, a first resource reservation request message based on a format of a first interface and that is from a policy server (PS); converting, by the convergence device, the first resource reservation request message into a second resource reservation request message based on a format of a second interface; and sending, by the convergence device, the second resource reservation request message based on the format of the second interface to a modulation and demodulation system, so that the modulation and demodulation system performs resource reservation according to the second resource reservation request message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2018
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chenghu Shen, Dao Pan, Yong Li
  • Patent number: 9871738
    Abstract: A bandwidth management system includes a plurality of queues respectively corresponding to a plurality of zones. An enqueuing module receives network traffic from one or more incoming network interfaces, determines a belonging zone to which the network traffic belongs, and enqueues the network traffic on a queue corresponding to the belonging zone. A dequeuing module selectively dequeues data from the queues and passes the data to one or more outgoing network interfaces. When dequeuing data from the queues the dequeuing module dequeues an amount of data from a selected queue, and the amount of data dequeued from the selected queue is determined according to user load of a zone to which the selected queue corresponds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2018
    Assignee: Guest Tek Interactive Entertainment Ltd.
    Inventor: David T. Ong
  • Patent number: 9866482
    Abstract: A method of the present invention includes: determining, when packet congestion occurs or network bandwidth decreases, at least one to-be-discarded packet in a packet buffer; and discarding the at least one to-be-discarded packet so that at least one unbuffered packet enters the packet buffer to prevent discarding too many unbuffered packets, where the unbuffered packet is a packet that has not entered the packet buffer. The present invention is primarily applied in a packet buffering process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Haiqing Lan
  • Patent number: 9860787
    Abstract: A communication method and system, an access network device, and an application server, where the communication method includes receiving, by an access network device, a service packet, and sending, by the access network device, the received service packet to an application server according to a policy, where the application server is arranged at an access network side, and is independent from the access network device or in the access network device, and the application server supports operation of at least one service. An application server that supports operation of third-party applications is introduced at an access network side such that a user equipment (UE) can directly perform service interaction with the access network side, which significantly improves the response time of a user request, decreases service delay, and improves the quality of service (QoS) of a service, thereby improving user experience.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xinyan Lv, Feng Xing
  • Patent number: 9859989
    Abstract: A method for processing interference in wireless communication at a base station, wherein at least some of a plurality of (Radio Frequency) RF channels in the base station operates at a current operating frequency point assigned to the base station includes detecting interference of one or more candidate frequency points by using at least one RF channel, wherein the one or more candidate frequency points are different from the current operating frequency point; reporting result of detecting interference of the one or more candidate frequency points to a resource manager; and in response to the resource manager assigning one of the one or more candidate frequency points to the base station, notifying a user to switch from the current operating frequency point to the assigned candidate frequency point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yu Bo Li, Yong Hua Lin, Jianbin Tang, Jun Song Wang, Qi Jun Wang, Qing Wang
  • Patent number: 9847936
    Abstract: Devices and techniques for hardware accelerated packet processing are described herein. A device can communicate with one or more hardware switches. The device can detect characteristics of a plurality of packet streams. The device may distribute the plurality of packet streams between the one or more hardware switches and software data plane components based on the detected characteristics of the plurality of packet streams, such that at least one packet stream is designated to be processed by the one or more hardware switches. Other embodiments are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2017
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Nrupal Jani, Dinesh Kumar, Christian Maciocco, Ren Wang, Neerav Parikh, John Fastabend, Iosif Gasparakis, David J. Harriman, Patrick L. Connor, Sanjeev Jain
  • Patent number: 9843466
    Abstract: A method for disabling a sequence group hopping by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system, the method includes receiving a cell-specific sequence group hopping parameter from a base station, wherein the cell-specific sequence group hopping parameter is used to enable the sequence group hopping for a plurality of UEs, including the UE, in a cell; receiving a UE-specific sequence group hopping parameter from the base station, wherein the UE-specific sequence group hopping parameter is used to disable the sequence group hopping for the UE; and disabling the sequence group hopping by the UE-specific sequence group hopping parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Hyun Soo Ko, Min Seok Noh, Jae Hoon Chung, Seung Hee Han, Moon Il Lee
  • Patent number: 9843514
    Abstract: A packet processing method and a background server are provided. The packet processing method includes: receiving, by a bearer system of a background server, an IPIP packet sent by an access server via an IP tunnel; and removing a reverse proxy IP address and a windows server IP address that are in an outer layer of the IPIP packet, and changing a destination IP address in the IPIP packet, of which the reverse proxy IP address and the windows server IP address are removed, into the windows server IP address, to obtain an IP packet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Wenzheng Li, Zhiwu Chen, Zhongfei Wang, Lirong Liu
  • Patent number: 9838978
    Abstract: Device-to-device (D2D) transmissions by a wireless device may interfere with base station reception of other signals. To mitigate this interference, the wireless device estimates the path loss between itself and the base station. The path loss and the current D2D transmission power level are used to estimate the amount of interference the base station is experiencing as a result of the D2D transmissions from the wireless device. Based on the estimated interference experienced by the base station, the wireless device increases the robustness of the MCS being used and decreases the transmission power level by a corresponding amount. By decreasing the D2D transmission power level, less interference will be experienced by the base station. By increasing the robustness of the MCS, the impact of the reduced D2D transmission power level is mitigated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: Sprint Spectrum L.P.
    Inventors: Sanghoon Sung, Udit Thakore, Hau Tran, Yun Sung Kim
  • Patent number: 9838356
    Abstract: Encrypted peer-to-peer detection is provided. In some embodiments, encrypted peer-to-peer detection includes monitoring network traffic from a first client to determine whether the first client is executing a peer-to-peer application; and generating network traffic that emulates peer-to-peer network traffic sent from the peer-to-peer application executing on the first client to a second client after detecting unknown network traffic sent from the first client to the second client. In some embodiments, encrypted peer-to-peer detection includes monitoring network traffic from a client to determine that the client is sending a request for information for a peer-to-peer application executing on the client; and generating a network traffic response to the client that emulates peer-to-peer network traffic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: Palo Alto Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: Shadi Rostami-Hesarsorkh, Huagang Xie
  • Patent number: 9788311
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for handling a control channel for carrier aggregation in wireless communications. The method includes determining which component carrier to listen to, detecting the downlink control channel, processing mapping information related to downlink and uplink transmissions and operating discontinuous reception with respect to carrier aggregation. The method also includes detecting a component carrier, determining the component carrier type and locating the anchor component carrier, if necessary, where the anchor component carrier carries the carrier aggregation information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Erdem Bala, Guodong Zhang, Phillip J. Pietraski, Sung-Hyuk Shin, Peter S. Wang, Marian Rudolf, Joseph S. Levy, Donald M. Grieco, Shankar Somasundaram, Kyle Jung-Lin Pan
  • Patent number: 9757070
    Abstract: A biological information measurement apparatus includes a sensor unit, a processing unit which detects biological information based on sensor information from the sensor unit, a communication unit which transmits the biological information to an information processing apparatus, and a time output unit which outputs time. The communication unit obtains a delay time of the transmission timing of the biological information based on apparatus-specific information, obtains a first transmission timing based on the time output from the time output unit, and transmits the biological information at a second transmission timing delayed from a first transmission timing by the obtained delay time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Yuichi Takano
  • Patent number: 9756589
    Abstract: Exemplary methods and systems may generally be implemented to allow a macro-network base station without access to a GPS reference signal to provide some or all of the functionality for which existing macro-network base stations typically rely on GPS. In a first aspect, an exemplary macro-network base station may determine its location using a location-determination technique that is based upon the angles of arrival of FM radio signals from nearby FM stations. In a second aspect, an exemplary macro-network base station may stabilize its local oscillator by phase-locking its local oscillator to an FM radio signal, and periodically adjusting its local oscillator to account for phase drift of the FM radio signal. And in a third aspect, an exemplary macro-network base station may synchronize its frame-start timing with a nearby base station using a frame-start timing signal that the base station has synchronized to frame transmissions from the nearby base station during a setup routine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: Sprint Spectrum L.P.
    Inventors: Walter Rausch, Durga Prasad Satapathy
  • Patent number: 9736839
    Abstract: Disclosed are a sequence report method and a sequence report device for reducing a signaling amount for reporting a Zadoff-Chu sequence or a GCL sequence allocated for a cell. Indexes starting at 1 are correlated to different ZC sequences and are allocated for cells so that the indexes are continuous. When such ZC sequences are reported from BS to UE, a start index indicating the start of the continuous indexes is combined with the number of allocated sequences and they are reported as allocation sequence information by a report channel. The UE and the BS share the correlation between the ZC sequences and the indexes and the UE identifies a usable sequence number according to the correlation and the allocation sequence information reported from the BS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: Godo Kaisha IP Bridge 1
    Inventors: Daichi Imamura, Takashi Iwai, Kazunori Inogai, Sadaki Futagi, Atsushi Matsumoto