Patents Examined by Syed S Ali
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Patent number: 9128914Abstract: Disclosed is a semiconductor integrated circuit capable of efficiently performing debugging. The semiconductor integrated circuit includes a distributing part distributing received packets according to destinations of the packets, a plurality of accumulating parts sequentially accumulating the packets distributed thereto, respectively, a plurality of relaying parts supplying the packets accumulated in one of the accumulating parts to corresponding one of the processing parts, respectively, and an output controlling part assigning the relay permission command to one relaying part designated by a relay permission packet from among the relaying parts when a packet distributed thereto from the distributing part is determined as the relay permission packet.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2012Date of Patent: September 8, 2015Assignee: LAPIS Semiconductor Co., Ltd.Inventor: Yoshiki Kobayashi
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Patent number: 9122640Abstract: There is disclosed a method, system and computer readable medium for transferring data in a LAN-free environment, in particular for a tape backup or restore operation. Data of a client partition of a first server is sent to a partition of a LAN-free server through the Local Area Network (LAN). The data sent is then converted from TCP/IP protocol to Fiber Channel protocol. The converted data is sent to a Storage Area Network (SAN) through a Fiber Channel card and finally to a tape library. An advantage is thus to mutualize and virtualize resources, in particular Fiber Channel cards. Storage Area Network tape drives are shared using such host bus adapter cards. Certain embodiments avoid the reconfiguration of Storage Area Network tape drives when the client partition moves to a new hardware.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2012Date of Patent: September 1, 2015Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Alain Lentini, Jarl Theuwissen
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Patent number: 9112574Abstract: A relaying device includes a wireless apparatus interface, a signal processing unit connected to the wireless apparatus interface, a network interface, and a packet processing unit connected to the network interface. The relaying device is provided with multiple communication paths including the wireless apparatus interface, the signal processing unit, and the packet processing unit, and each communication path has a mixing unit configured to additively synthesize an uplink audio signal and a downlink audio signal of other communication path to the uplink audio signal and input the synthesized signal to the packet processing unit, and configured to additively synthesize an uplink audio signal and a downlink audio signal of other communication path to the downlink audio signal and input the synthesized signal to the signal processing unit.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2013Date of Patent: August 18, 2015Assignee: Icom IncorporatedInventor: Keishiro Uwamori
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Patent number: 9107155Abstract: Various example embodiments are disclosed. According to one example embodiment, a method may include synchronizing, by an access node in a wireless network, with a first mobile station, synchronizing with a second mobile station, compiling a device-to-device group, the device-to-device group including at least the first mobile station and the second mobile station, sending a first connection message to the first mobile station, the first connection message including timing advance parameters of both the first mobile station and the second mobile station, and sending a second connection message to the second mobile station.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2014Date of Patent: August 11, 2015Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OYInventors: Gilles Charbit, Tao Chen, Sami-Jukka Hakola, Timo Kalevi Koskela
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Patent number: 9088920Abstract: The invention relates to a method and arrangement in a serving Radio Network Controller, SRNC for controlling inter RAT handover to E-UTRAN of a UE with E-UTRA capability operating in a serving network comprising said SRNC, wherein the SRNC receives, from a Serving GPRS Support Node, SGSN, security keys generated at authentication and key agreement, AKA, upon attachment of the UE to the serving network; characterized in the steps of—determining (202) which type of UICC the UE is equipped with by analyzing the security keys received from SGSN; —using the knowledge of which type of UICC the UE is equipped with to base a decision (204) on whether to allow handover of the UE to E-UTRAN.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2014Date of Patent: July 21, 2015Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET L M ERICSSON (PUBL)Inventors: Ingrid Nordstrand, Håkan Palm
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Patent number: 9087018Abstract: A system and method for transferring application-specific functionality from a mobile handset to a wireless network associated with the mobile handset. A network component of the system communicates with a virtual copy of the mobile application on behalf of the handset while the handset is not actively using the application and performs any necessary application execution on behalf of the handset. The network component transfers execution back to the handset when the handset resumes active use of the mobile application.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2013Date of Patent: July 21, 2015Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)Inventors: Vishwamitra Nandlall, Haseeb Akhtar
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Patent number: 9083602Abstract: Provided is a communication system which is provided with a plurality of communication devices and transfers a packet between the plurality of communication devices through a communication path. When a packet is looped back at any of the communication devices on the communication path to verify connectivity of the communication path, a first communication device of the plurality of communication devices stores, in a first region of header information of the packet, first information for designating the communication device at which the packet is looped back, further stores, in a second region of the header information of the packet, second information on a loopback point in the designated communication device at which the packet is looped back, and sends the packet to which the first information and the second information have been added.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2009Date of Patent: July 14, 2015Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Hideki Endo, Taisuke Ueta, Yoshihiro Ashi, Norio Miyazaki
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Patent number: 9059897Abstract: A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a process that obtains seed information including privacy profile settings of on-line social network users. The seed information is compared to a random population of on-line social network users and a sampling size of a total population is reduced according to the comparison. The reduced sampling is compared to one of a social graph, a generalized profile of an on-line user, or a combination thereof. The social graph is determined from a randomized-walk algorithm applied to an on-line social network of the users and an outlier is identified in the reduced sampling based on relationships between the on-line social network users. Additional embodiments are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2014Date of Patent: June 16, 2015Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, LPInventor: Balachander Krishnamurthy
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Patent number: 9060327Abstract: A data transmission method is provided. The method includes: receiving from a plurality of receiving stations, which include base stations and relay stations, a state information value corresponding to the receiving stations; measuring signal strength with respect to the receiving stations; selecting any one receiving station from among the receiving stations which have a great signal strength value obtained by measuring the signal strength and which have a small state information value; and transmitting data to the selected receiving station. Accordingly, radio resources can be prevented from ineffective use caused by relay transmission.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2009Date of Patent: June 16, 2015Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Han Byul Seo, Byoung Hoon Kim
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Patent number: 9049741Abstract: A technique for operating a mobile station as wireless local-area network [“WLAN”] gateway. A gateway application sets up (3-0) a WLAN base station capable of communicating with WLAN terminals over a WLAN network; creates a network identifier (3-2, 3-4) for the WLAN base station; assigns (3-8, 3-10) an IP address for the WLAN terminals; resolves domain name service [“DNS”] queries (3-12 . . . 3-18) in cooperation with an external DNS service system; assigns a port number protocols supported by the gateway application; and tunnels internet traffic (3-30 . . . 3-36) between the WLAN terminals and an internet host over the broadband connection. The memory further comprises a media server application for sharing content among the one or more WLAN terminals. The gateway application may redirect (6-22) a first HTTP page request (6-24) from the WLAN terminals to a start page of the media server application.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2012Date of Patent: June 2, 2015Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventors: Lasse Maki, Tom Ojala
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Patent number: 9026651Abstract: Measuring performance and capacity of a networked server coupled to a cluster of client machines, including: initializing each client machine of the cluster of client machines with a number of client applications; performing a first feedback process of configuring the number of client applications for the each client machine such that each client application adjusts its own operation to achieve a first balance point of a client application count for the each client machine; and performing a second feedback process in which the networked server and the cluster of client machines achieve a second balance point of a client machine count for the networked server.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2013Date of Patent: May 5, 2015Assignee: Sony Computer Entertainment America LLCInventor: Shawn He
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Patent number: 9014082Abstract: A method for signal transmission in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes: transmitting backhaul resource allocation information by a base station to a relay node; decoding the backhaul resource allocation information by the relay node; and transmitting backhaul downlink control information and backhaul downlink data by the base station to the relay node, wherein a start position of a symbol for transmitting the backhaul downlink control information is fixed to a specific symbol of a backhaul link subframe, and the backhaul resource allocation information includes information on a radio resource for transmitting the backhaul downlink data.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2010Date of Patent: April 21, 2015Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Hak Seong Kim, Joon Kui Ahn, Han Byul Seo, Byoung Hoon Kim, Ki Jun Kim
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Patent number: 8998544Abstract: According to one embodiment, an apparatus comprises an interface and one or more processors. The interface receives a request for a web page from a web browser. The one or more processors select a subset of web servers from a resource pool according to a load balancing determination. The one or more processors send the request to at least two of the web servers of the subset before receiving any response from the other web servers. Upon receiving one or more responses from distinct web servers, the one or more processors selects a response to communicate to the web browser.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2011Date of Patent: April 7, 2015Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventor: Chris Higgins
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Patent number: 8989076Abstract: A mobile communication system includes a mobile station connected with a base station by radio when being in a cell formed by the base station, and configured to communicate with a counter side unit through the base station; and a relay station configured to form a limitation area. The relay station receives a downlink signal from the base station and transmits a limitation downlink signal obtained by adding information showing that it is in the limitation area to the downlink signal to the limitation area. When receiving the limitation downlink signal, the mobile station transmits an uplink signal showing a function limited state to the base station in synchronization with a downlink channel received from the base station.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2010Date of Patent: March 24, 2015Assignee: NEC CorporationInventor: Yasuaki Ishikawa
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Patent number: 8984108Abstract: Techniques for mapping availability management (AM) functions to software installation locations are described. An availability management function (AMF) can look-up a component type and determine software associated with that component. For a selected AMF node, the AMF software entity can then determine a pathname prefix associated with that software. The pathname prefix can then be used for various AM functions, e.g., instantiation of a new component or service unit.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2007Date of Patent: March 17, 2015Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (Publ)Inventor: Maria Toeroe
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Patent number: 8976715Abstract: A packet voice transceiver adapted to reside at a first end of a communication network and to send an ingress communication signal comprising voice packets to, and receive an egress communication signal comprising voice packets from, a second packet voice transceiver residing at a second end of the communication network. The packet voice transceiver includes a far-end echo canceller that reduces echo that is present in the egress communication signal. The far-end communicates with other functional components of the transceiver system and adapts its behavior based on the activity of the other functional components.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2008Date of Patent: March 10, 2015Assignee: Broadcom CorporationInventor: Wilfrid LeBlanc
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Patent number: 8971296Abstract: 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: December 30, 2013Date of Patent: March 3, 2015Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of AmericaInventors: Shinsuke Takaoka, Seigo Nakao, Daichi Imamura, Masayuki Hoshino
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Patent number: 8964743Abstract: The present invention concerns content searches in a distributed environment such as in an IPv6 network. This is achieved by deriving a multicast address from a string associated with the content to be searched. The searching party and the server owning the content use a common function for deriving this multicast address. The content owner listens to this multicast address and the searching party sends requests for the content on that multicast address.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2009Date of Patent: February 24, 2015Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)Inventor: Jinhui Wang
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Patent number: 8958319Abstract: A first base station (14) in a wireless communication system (10) operating according to a synchronised time division duplex scheme comprises an antenna (24), a radio communication unit (26) and an interference handling module (28). The interference handling module comprises an interference investigating unit (30) and a transmission control unit (34) configured to provide a sounding frame in which a variable downlink time interval has a pre-defined size long enough to provoke interference, order the interference investigating unit to obtain and analyse a link quality data parameter in a non-downlink time interval and determine whether interference from another base station is present. The transmission control unit is further configured to order the radio communication unit (26) to reduce the size of following variable downlink time intervals according to an interference reduction scheme for obtaining time intervals with a guaranteed reduced size if interference from another base station is present.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2011Date of Patent: February 17, 2015Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)Inventors: Ali Behravan, David Astely, Yu Qian
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Patent number: 8953493Abstract: A setting system of field devices may include a first communication path, a terminal device, a relay device, and a second communication path. The terminal device may include a receiving unit that receives an input operation of information, a first setting unit that performs the first setting for each of the field devices by transmitting information necessary for the first setting from the terminal device to each of the field devices through the second communication path in response to the input operation received by the receiving unit, and a second setting unit that performs a second setting for the terminal device, the second setting being necessary with the first setting for each of the field devices in response to the input operation received by the receiving unit.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2012Date of Patent: February 10, 2015Assignee: Yokogawa Electric CorporationInventor: Yoshiyuki Jinguu