Patents Examined by Syed S Ali
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Patent number: 10021538Abstract: Methods and apparatuses pertaining to coordination and provision of non-interfering long-range low-power wireless communications may involve facilitating wireless communications among a first set of wireless devices in a first frequency band when operating in a first mode in which there is frequency overlap and no spatial overlap among the first set of wireless devices. Moreover, wireless communications may be facilitated among a second set of wireless devices in a second frequency band different from the first frequency when operating in a second mode in which there is spatial overlap and no frequency overlap among the second set of wireless devices.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2016Date of Patent: July 10, 2018Assignee: MEDIATEK INC.Inventor: Yasantha Rajakarunanayake
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Patent number: 10015832Abstract: A system and method for communications in communications systems with relay nodes are provided. A communications controller includes a communications control unit, a bearer control unit coupled to the communications control unit, and a mapping unit coupled to the bearer control unit. The communications control unit manages resources and schedules transmission opportunities, the bearer control unit manages radio bearers for relay nodes coupled to the communications controller, and the mapping unit provides a mapping of user bearers to radio bearers.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2015Date of Patent: July 3, 2018Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hang Zhang, Yunsong Yang
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Patent number: 10015794Abstract: A wireless communication terminal apparatus wherein even when a SC-FDMA signal is divided into a plurality of clusters and the plurality of clusters are then mapped to respective discontinuous frequency bands (when C-SC-FDMA is used), the improvement effect of system throughput can be maintained, while the user throughput can be improved. In the apparatus, a DFT unit (210) subjects a symbol sequence of time domain to a DFT process, thereby generating signals of frequency domain. A setting unit (211) divides the signals input from the DFT unit (210) into a plurality of clusters according to a cluster pattern that is in accordance with an MCS set, an encoding size, or the number of Ranks occurring during MIMO transmissions, which is indicated in those signals input, and then maps the plurality of clusters to the respective ones of a plurality of discontinuous frequency resources, thereby setting a constellation of the plurality of clusters in the frequency domain.Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 2017Date of Patent: July 3, 2018Assignee: Sun Patent TrustInventors: Shinsuke Takaoka, Seigo Nakao, Daichi Imamura, Masayuki Hoshino
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Patent number: 9998506Abstract: A method and apparatus for transmitting a groupcast to support a voice paging service in a VoIP system are provided. In the method, a voice paging message is received from a voice paging transmitting terminal and one or more voice paging messages are reproduced from the received voice paging message. A group table is used to change the destination address and port of each of the reproduced voice paging messages into the IP address and port of each of one or more voice paging receiving terminals. Each of the reproduced voice paging messages is unicast on the basis of the changed IP address and port.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2010Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Si-Nam Woo, Hyun-A Kim, Pyung-Bin Lim, Sang-II Choi
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Patent number: 9967122Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure provide systems, methods, and apparatuses for implementing the multiplexing of different orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) waveforms using a transmitter and receiver configured to process different types of signals without a need for distinct hardware structures. In one example, aspects of the present disclosure may include a transmitter configured to transmit both a first type of discrete fourier transform (DFT)-spread OFDM waveform and a second type of DFT-spread OFDM waveform that may be multiplexed over the wireless channel. In some aspects, the transmitter may modify the numerology of the zero-tail DFT-spread OFDM waveform to match the numerology of other OFDM waveforms (e.g., OFDM waveform with zero-guard or a single carrier DFT-spread OFDM with zero-guard).Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2016Date of Patent: May 8, 2018Assignee: Qualcomm IncorporatedInventors: Seyong Park, Wei Zeng, Joseph Binamira Soriaga, Tingfang Ji
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Patent number: 9965563Abstract: A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a process that reduces a sampling size of a total population of on-line social network users based on a comparison of seed information to a population of on-line social network users. The reduced sampling of on-line social network users is compared to a social graph of the on-line social network users, wherein the social graph is obtained from an algorithm applied to the reduced sampling of the on-line social network users. An outlier is determined in the reduced sampling of on-line social network users based on a characterizing of a cluster of social network users. Additional embodiments are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2017Date of Patent: May 8, 2018Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventor: Balachander Krishnamurthy
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Patent number: 9961008Abstract: The present invention provides a system for handling handover of communication protocol data between two satellite transponder, wherein the satellite transponders are moving in orbit around the earth, enabling to transmit communication protocol data between at least one gateway and terminal.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2015Date of Patent: May 1, 2018Assignee: AYECKA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMSInventors: Avraham Barda, Baruch Kagan, Igal Gerzberg
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Patent number: 9955487Abstract: A method for receiving downlink data by a User Equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes checking a transmission parameter related to data transmitted from an interfering cell, determining presence/absence of an interference signal based on the transmission parameter, determining whether to apply Network Assisted Interference Cancellation and Suppression (NAICS) technology based on at least one of the transmission parameter or the presence/absence of the interference signal, and decoding the downlink data depending on whether to apply the NAICS technology.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2015Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Cheol-Kyu Shin, Hyo-Jin Lee, Heun-Chul Lee, Young-Bum Kim, Youn-Sun Kim
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Patent number: 9954777Abstract: A method of routing messages includes receiving a request message from an originating device to be forwarded to one of a plurality of target devices, the request message having a first network address as a source address identifying the originating device. The first network address of the request message is dynamically mapped to a second network address of a selected target device, and the first and second network addresses are stored in association with each other as address mapping information. The method also includes forwarding the selected target device using the second network address. The routing device receives from the target device an error message in relation to the request message, and identifies the originating device which originated the request message using the address mapping information and the second network address of the target device which issued the error message.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2016Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: William Bittles, Simon Davitt, Christopher Leonard
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Patent number: 9949155Abstract: Methods and systems for a transportation vehicle are provided. One method includes collecting by a processor connection information for a plurality of user devices accessing a wireless network on a transportation vehicle; determining by the processor available bandwidth for the plurality of user devices depending on a connection type; monitoring currently used bandwidth by the plurality of user devices; receiving a request from a user device to access content via the wireless connection; determining by the processor additional bandwidth for accessing the content by the user device; and rejecting the request for accessing the content when the additional bandwidth and the currently used bandwidth equals or exceeds the available bandwidth for the plurality of user devices.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2016Date of Patent: April 17, 2018Assignee: Panasonic Avionics CorporationInventor: Changhwa Lin
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Patent number: 9948553Abstract: A system for distributed multi-domain routing control includes two or more software-defined network (SDN) controllers and virtual routers. The two or more SDN controllers create virtual topology information by collecting information about switches under the control thereof, exchange network information about a different virtual network, as well as create a routing path from a source terminal to a destination cross switch or a routing path from the destination cross switch to a destination terminal based on location identification information of the destination terminal and/or the virtual topology information. Then, the virtual routers manage communication between the different virtual tenant networks or communication between each virtual tenant network and an external network.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2015Date of Patent: April 17, 2018Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTEInventors: Ji Young Kwak, Yong Yoon Shin, Sae Hoon Kang, Byung Yun Lee
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Patent number: 9942063Abstract: An apparatus includes an encoder adapted to encode data bits for transmission via a communication link using pulse amplitude modulation (PAM). The encoder includes a logic circuit. The logic circuit is adapted to perform a logic operation on a pattern of bits and the data bits in order to reduce a run-length and/or improve the DC balance of the data bits.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2013Date of Patent: April 10, 2018Assignee: Altera CorporationInventor: David W. Mendel
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Patent number: 9936418Abstract: Explicit congestion notification (ECN) data that is utilized in a core portion of a cellular communication network has known issues associated with a first use scenario and an infrequent use scenario. A probe comprising probe data and a data structure for storing certain ECN data can be transmitted in order to mitigate these issues. Transmitting the probe in response to a communication session being established with a device of a network can mitigate the first use issue. Transmitting the probe in response to expiration of a probe timer in connection with a network traffic idle period can mitigate the infrequent use scenario.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2015Date of Patent: April 3, 2018Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.Inventors: Zhi Cui, Kadangode K. Ramakrishnan, Robert C. Streijl
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Patent number: 9935881Abstract: A method of load sharing, includes: extracting a factor field capable of distinguishing data flow in a packet header of the classified data flow, and taking the factor field as an input factor of a default load sharing algorithm of a network forwarding device interface, or taking the factor field as an input factor of a load sharing algorithm capable of uniformly allocating the data flows and selected according to the flow characteristic of the data flows, calculating the paths of the data flows, and forwarding the data flows according to respective paths. The method is used for increasing the expansibility of the network forwarding device and achieving load balancing.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2015Date of Patent: April 3, 2018Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shi Tang, Chong Zhou
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Patent number: 9935732Abstract: A node (100) of a cellular network selects a first modulation scheme setting for a first radio link to a first device (10?). The first modulation scheme setting is selected from a set of modulation scheme settings, each identified by at least one corresponding index. On the basis of a mapping of each of the indices to a corresponding set of transmission parameters, the node (100) identifies a first set of link parameters mapped to the index corresponding to the selected first modulation scheme setting. The node (100) then configures the first radio link according to the identified first set of link parameters. Further, the node (100) selects a second modulation scheme setting for a second radio link to a second device (10).Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2015Date of Patent: April 3, 2018Assignee: Sony Mobile Communications, Inc.Inventors: Rickard Ljung, Basuki Priyanto
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Patent number: 9935670Abstract: RF front-end circuitry, which includes RF switching and duplexing circuitry, a first RF diplexer, and a second RF diplexer, is disclosed. The RF switching and duplexing circuitry operates in one of a group of RF transmit modes, such that the group of RF transmit modes includes at least one transmit uplink carrier aggregation mode. The RF switching and duplexing circuitry provides at least one RF transmit signal based on the one of the group of RF transmit modes. The first RF diplexer is coupled between the RF switching and duplexing circuitry and a primary RF antenna. The second RF diplexer is coupled between the RF switching and duplexing circuitry and an auxiliary RF antenna.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2014Date of Patent: April 3, 2018Assignee: Qorvo US, Inc.Inventor: Nadim Khlat
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Patent number: 9936079Abstract: Apparatus and methods are disclosed for display dependent analysis of call data in an IBPX. In an example embodiment, an apparatus communicatively coupled to an IPBX server is configured to route VoIP calls in the IPBX. An interface circuit is configured to selected parameters of interest based on capabilities of a set of devices and generate subscription requests to subscribe the devices to the parameters of interest. A first processing circuit is configured to generate call summary metrics from call event messages for calls routed by the IPBX server. A second processing circuit subscribes a device identified in the subscription request to the selected set of parameters of interest identified in the subscription request. The second processing circuit evaluates call summary metrics for each parameter of interest subscribed to by the devices and provides results of the evaluation to devices that are subscribed to the parameter of interest.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2017Date of Patent: April 3, 2018Assignee: 8×8, Inc.Inventors: Zhishen Liu, Qing Zhao
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Patent number: 9929851Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses for full duplex communication on a wireless network are disclosed. In one aspect, one or more lists of non-effecting nodes are determined for one or more devices on the wireless network. A list of non-effecting nodes for a device identifies other network nodes or devices whose transmissions do not cause substantial interference with the device. When a full duplex communication is scheduled on the wireless network, a downlink message transmitted to the device may be performed concurrently with an uplink transmission from one of the non-effecting devices. This full duplex communication may be possible even if the device does not inherently support full-duplex communication on the wireless network.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2014Date of Patent: March 27, 2018Assignee: QUALCOMM, IncorporatedInventors: Yan Zhou, Gwendolyn Denise Barriac, Simone Merlin, Carlos Horacio Aldana
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Patent number: 9930518Abstract: The invention relates to a method for discovering a home agent serving a mobile node upon the mobile node changing its mobility management scheme in a packet-switched network and the implementation of such method in a mobile node or home agent. In order to propose a home agent discover scheme that maintains session continuity in a seamless manner upon a mobile node changing its mobility management scheme, a mobile node comprises information on its location prior to changing the mobility management scheme to one of the first signaling messages transmitted upon changing the mobility management scheme (home agent discovery message). The receiving node uses this information to identify the home agent serving the mobile node or to provide a hint to the home agent where the mobile node is registered in a response message to the mobile node.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2017Date of Patent: March 27, 2018Assignee: Sun Patent TrustInventors: Kilian Weniger, Takashi Aramaki, Jun Hirano, Jens Bachmann, Shinkichi Ikeda
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Patent number: 9930625Abstract: There is provided a terminal apparatus configured to communicate with a base station apparatus. The terminal apparatus includes a reception unit configured to receive information for configuring a plurality of subframe sets and a parameter for each of the plurality of subframe sets from the base station apparatus, and a transmission unit configured to report power headroom calculated based on the parameter for a subframe set to which a subframe in which power headroom reporting is performed belongs, to the base station apparatus in the subframe. Thus, the terminal apparatus can efficiently perform a process related to a transmission power.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2014Date of Patent: March 27, 2018Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tatsushi Aiba, Shoichi Suzuki, Kazunari Yokomakura