Patents Examined by Thad Defauw
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Patent number: 9232358Abstract: A method and apparatus for reusing a multicast broadcast single frequency network (MBSFN) subframe are disclosed. The method comprises configuring a policy of using unicast on a reused MBSFN subframe; and implementing the configured policy to reuse the MBSFN subframe. By using the above technical solution, it is enabled to implement transmitting unicast services on an MBSFN subframe while achieving a balance between power saving and implementation complexity, without affecting the existing protocol.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2010Date of Patent: January 5, 2016Assignee: Alcatel LucentInventors: Yu Chen, Yonggang Wang, Zhongji Hu
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Patent number: 9219572Abstract: A method and apparatus for allocating subcarriers in an orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) system is described. In one embodiment, the method comprises allocating at least one diversity cluster of subcarriers to a first subscriber and allocating at least one coherence cluster to a second subscriber.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2015Date of Patent: December 22, 2015Assignee: Adaptix, Inc.Inventors: Xiaodong Li, Hui Liu, Kemin Li, Wenzhong Zhang
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Patent number: 9210708Abstract: A method and apparatus for allocating subcarriers in an orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) system is described. In one embodiment, the method comprises allocating at least one diversity cluster of subcarriers to a first subscriber and allocating at least one coherence cluster to a second subscriber.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2015Date of Patent: December 8, 2015Assignee: Adaptix, Inc.Inventors: Xiaodong Li, Hui Liu, Kemin Li, Wenzhong Zhang
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Patent number: 9198132Abstract: A mobile phone terminal has a transition request function in which the mobile phone terminal transmits to a network a state transition request that the state of communication with the network be set to a pocket idle state if a packet communication idle state continues for a predetermined time in a state in which the mobile phone terminal is connected to the network in an RRC (Radio Resource Control) state. The mobile phone terminal includes a control section that controls the transition request function based on a communication history of the mobile phone terminal, based on a transmission power value of the mobile phone terminal, or based on a reception electric field value of the mobile phone terminal.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2011Date of Patent: November 24, 2015Assignee: NEC CORPORATIONInventor: Takashi Tadaki
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Patent number: 9191138Abstract: A method and apparatus for allocating subcarriers in an orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) system is described. In one embodiment, the method comprises allocating at least one diversity cluster of subcarriers to a first subscriber and allocating at least one coherence cluster to a second subscriber.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2015Date of Patent: November 17, 2015Assignee: Adaptix, Inc.Inventors: Xiaodong Li, Hui Liu, Kemin Li, Wenzhong Zhang
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Patent number: 9185566Abstract: A cell cancellation method for improved spectrum sharing is provided. The cell cancellation method includes detecting interference from a cell. The method also includes cancelling a signal from the cell when a physical cell identifier corresponding to the cell is indicated in a cancellation list. An adaptive radio link failure (RLF) trigger method for improved spectrum sharing is disclosed. The RLF trigger method includes detecting interference from a cell. The RLF trigger method also includes adjusting a radio link failure trigger according to a cell identity of an interferer associated with the cell.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2012Date of Patent: November 10, 2015Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATEDInventors: Rajat Prakash, Peter Gaal
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Patent number: 9172486Abstract: Disclosed are apparatus and method for time division multiplexing of a dedicated channel. In one aspect, the apparatus and method are configured to assign a common spreading code to two or more User Equipments (UEs); encode a downlink (DL) dedicated channel (DCH) with the common spreading code; time-division multiplex a Dedicated Physical Data Channel (DPDCH) data for each of the two or more UEs on the encoded DL DCH; and transmit the multiplexed data on the DL DCH to the UEs.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2013Date of Patent: October 27, 2015Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Sharad Deepak Sambhwani, Peyman Razaghi, Sony J. Akkarakaran
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Patent number: 9137701Abstract: A wireless end-user device has wireless wide-area network (WWAN) and wireless local-area network (WLAN) modems. One or more processors determine when an application is running in a background state or as a foreground application. The processors control application access for Internet service activities through an application program interface (API). At a time when Internet service activities are communicated through the WWAN modem, the processors use a differential traffic control policy to selectively block and allow network access for an application based on the determination as to whether the application is running in a background state or as a foreground application. A different policy may apply to WLAN modem usage.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2015Date of Patent: September 15, 2015Assignee: Headwater Partners I LLCInventors: Gregory G. Raleigh, James Lavine, Alireza Raissinia
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Patent number: 9137383Abstract: Systems, apparatus, and methods for collaborative and distributed emergency multimedia data management are described. In one aspect, a system includes a packet data reception interface. The system further includes a rules engine coupled with the packet data reception interface and configured to select a processing profile for packet data received, the rules engine further configured to associate packet data received with stored packet data. The system also includes a policy engine coupled with the rules engine and configured to execute the processing profile for packet data received.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2012Date of Patent: September 15, 2015Assignee: Airbus DS Communications, Inc.Inventors: Lorenzo Javier Estrada, Ameel Kamboh, Jason Wellonen
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Patent number: 9130843Abstract: A method of sending hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) adaptive streaming (HAS) content from a content source to a client over a transmission control protocol (TCP) connection between the content source and the client may include receiving a request for one or more first HAS data chunks from the client; sending the one or more first HAS data chunks to the client; generating idle delay values indicating an amount of delay in the TCP connection during an idle time period, the idle time period being a time period over which no HAS data chunks are being sent from the content source to the client; receiving a request for a second HAS data chunk from the client; setting the size of a starting TCP congestion window based on the idle delay values; and sending the second HAS chunk to the client using the starting TCP congestion window.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2012Date of Patent: September 8, 2015Assignee: Alcatel LucentInventors: Shahid Akhtar, Viorel Craciun, Pieter Liefooghe, Ather Chaudhry
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Patent number: 9125054Abstract: In a base station, a configurable radio unit allows for communication with a baseband processor that satisfies a CPRI standard while allowing personalization and customization by the end user in order to prevent undesired usage and/or access by other users/competitors. The radio module is programmable to allow for specific designation of the location, lengths, and types of signal and control information within CPRI basic frames. By being configured to allow for the adjustment of these parameters, the radio module can be commonly and mass produced while allowing for end users of the processors to personalize their use without additional hardware components, such as FPGA circuits. In addition, by generating a container frame, the radio module can allow for asynchronous communication between the CPRI standard and an employed communication scheme.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2012Date of Patent: September 1, 2015Assignee: Broadcom CorporationInventor: Timothy Ryan
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Patent number: 9125103Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure describe techniques and configurations for handling a wait time in a wireless communication network when the network is determined to be congested. An apparatus may include computer-readable media having instructions and one or more processors coupled with the computer-readable media and configured to execute the instructions to send a radio resource control request message to a wireless network controller, receive a response message including an extended wait time value, determine upon receipt of the response message whether a back-off timer associated with the apparatus is running, and determine whether to start the backoff timer with the received extended wait time value based at least in part on the determination of whether the back-off timer is running and the received wait time value is integrity protected.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2013Date of Patent: September 1, 2015Assignee: Intel CorporationInventor: Vivek Gupta
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Patent number: 9119158Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for monitoring a battery lifespan of a machine type communication device, and more particularly, to an apparatus and method for preventing a disconnection in communication due to a battery being expended by verifying a battery lifespan of the machine type communication device in a network. The present invention may include detecting a residual capacity of a battery power supply, comparing the residual capacity of the battery power supply to a threshold required for a power supply, and warning against a shortage of the residual capacity of the battery power supply when the residual capacity of the battery power supply is less than or equal to the threshold required for the power supply.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2011Date of Patent: August 25, 2015Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research InstituteInventors: Hye Yeon Kwon, Moon Soo Jang, Ae Soon Park
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Patent number: 9107162Abstract: In embodiments, an evolved Node B (eNB) of a wireless communication network may configure an enhanced physical downlink control channel (EPDCCH) physical resource block (PRB) set for a user equipment (UE). The EPDCCH-PRB set may include a plurality of PRB-pairs. The EPDCCH-PRB set may further include a plurality of enhanced resource element groups (EREGs) organized into localized enhanced control channel elements (ECCEs) having EREGs of the same PRB-pair and distributed ECCEs having EREGs of different PRB-pairs. In some embodiments, the eNB may determine a set of distributed EPDCCH candidates for the UE from the EPDCCH-PRB set, wherein the individual distributed EPDCCH candidates include one or more of the distributed ECCEs, and wherein the set of distributed EPDCCH candidates includes at least one EREG from each of the plurality of localized ECCEs. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2013Date of Patent: August 11, 2015Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Yuan Zhu, Xiaogang Chen, Seunghee Han, Jong-Kae Fwu, Qinghua Li
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Patent number: 9094419Abstract: Various methods and systems are provided for real-time facsimile (fax) transmission over a packet network. In one embodiment, among others, a method includes monitoring fax communications across a pass-through connection and controlling transfer of the fax communications to a fax-relay protocol connection based at least in part upon the monitored fax communications. In another embodiment, a method includes monitoring a state of a state machine communicating over a pass-through connection and, responsive to a re-invite to the fax-relay protocol, transferring from the pass-through connection to a fax-relay protocol connection based at least in part upon the state of the state machine.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2010Date of Patent: July 28, 2015Assignee: Netgen Communications, Inc.Inventors: Michael B. Coffee, Clifford J. Schornak
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Patent number: 9072039Abstract: A method, network node and UE device (115) for wireless access control and load balancing among various access nodes (105, 110) in a radio access network that contains both base stations (105) and relay notes (110). A wireless UE device (115) receives a message containing at least one of the respective loads for a group of access nodes and weighting factors for possible connections. The device determines a preferred access node (325, 425, 525) using at least one of the respective loads and weighting factors and attaches to the preferred access node.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2010Date of Patent: June 30, 2015Assignee: BlackBerry LimitedInventors: Rose Qingyang Hu, Yi Yu, Zhijun Cai
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Patent number: 9072079Abstract: The present invention discloses a method for controlling a channel access, an access point and a user equipment. The method comprises: determining a next device for accessing a channel according to a predefined rule; when the next device for accessing the channel is a traditionally active status device, scheduling the traditional active status device to occupy the channel once the channel is free; when the next device for accessing the channel is a newly active status device, determining a next traditionally active device for accessing the channel according to the predefined rule, and scheduling all newly active status devices and the next traditionally active status device to contend for accessing the channel once the channel is free.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2012Date of Patent: June 30, 2015Assignee: CHINA MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS CORPORATIONInventor: Haiyun Luo
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Patent number: 9066229Abstract: In a base station, a configurable radio unit allows for communication with a baseband processor that satisfies a CPRI standard while allowing personalization and customization by the end user in order to prevent undesired usage and/or access by other users/competitors. The radio module is programmable to allow for specific designation of the location, lengths, and types of signal and control information within CPRI basic frames. By being configured to allow for the adjustment of these parameters, the radio module can be commonly and mass produced while allowing for end users of the processors to personalize their use without additional hardware components, such as FPGA circuits. In addition, by generating a container frame, the radio module can allow for asynchronous communication between the CPRI standard and an employed communication scheme.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2012Date of Patent: June 23, 2015Assignee: Broadcom CorporationInventor: Timothy Ryan
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Patent number: 9065688Abstract: A method includes determining, at an electronic device, information associated with a location of the first electronic device. An initial set of television white space channels is filtered based on the information to generate a search set of television white space channels. A passive scan of the search set of television white space channels is performed at the electronic device to identify a television white space access point.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2012Date of Patent: June 23, 2015Inventors: Vincent K. Jones, Hemanth Sampath, Stephen J. Shellhammer, Tevfik Yucek, Santosh Paul Abraham
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Patent number: 9055596Abstract: The present disclosure presents methods and apparatuses for selective channel reset. For example, the disclosure describes example methods that may include determining that a candidate cell exhibits superior communication properties on a carrier than does a serving cell. In an aspect, this carrier may correspond to an active serving cell channel. The example methods may also include adding a reset flag to a channel reconfiguration message based on the determining, where the reset flag instructs a user equipment to reset a subset of a set of channels associated with the serving cell and the subset includes the channel. Furthermore, example methods may include transmitting the channel reconfiguration message, for example, to a user equipment. Thus, a specified subset of channels associated with the user equipment may be reset, which reduces the signaling load, complexity, and power drain associated with legacy channel reset methods and apparatuses.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2012Date of Patent: June 9, 2015Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Fnu Pankaj, Sivaram S. Palakodety, Rohit Kapoor