Patents Examined by Thai Hoang
  • Patent number: 9614766
    Abstract: Intelligent packet analysis may be provided to determine congestion problems and lead to fast solutions in low latency networks. Specifically, a congestion analyzer system may allow a user to monitor congestion on a network while using lightweight storage. A sniffer tool may be employed to capture all packets and store associated packet information into a database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Haoxiang Zhao, Chih-Tsung Huang, Wei-Jen Huang, Vuong Tran
  • Patent number: 9614770
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a device in a network detects a power outage event. The device monitors one or more operational properties of the device, in response to detecting the power outage event. The device determines whether to initiate a traffic control mechanism based on the one or more monitored operational properties of the device, according to a power outage traffic control policy. The device causes one or more nodes in the network that send traffic to the device to regulate the traffic sent to the device, in response to a determination that the traffic control mechanism should be initiated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Jean-Philippe Vasseur, Jonathan W. Hui
  • Patent number: 9602260
    Abstract: A technology enabling a base station to transmit acknowledgement (ACK)/negative ACK (NACK) information about data received from a terminal is provided. A cyclic shift value difference of each terminal may be maximized and a radio resource for transmitting the ACK/NACK information may be assigned without collision.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Taegyun Noh, Jae Young Ahn
  • Patent number: 9590898
    Abstract: A method in a network controller of a control plane in a software defined network (SDN) coupled to a plurality of network elements (NEs) of a data plane in the SDN is described. The method includes causing the plurality of NEs to install one or more packet handling rules for a selected type of packet so that the NEs forward only a subset of data for each packet of the selected type to the network controller. The method further includes receiving the subset of data for each packet of the selected type and composing a whole packet of the selected type that includes the subset of data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET L M ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Amudhan Gunasekaran, Bhalaji Narayanan, Periyasamy Palanisamy, Sasidharan Sambasivam
  • Patent number: 9577928
    Abstract: A system and method can support data service address resolution in a network environment. An intermediate node can receive an incoming data packet from a source node, wherein the incoming data packet targets a destination node, and wherein the incoming data packet includes a global identifier for the destination node and a local identifier for the intermediate node. Furthermore, the intermediate node can obtain local addressing information for the destination node based on the global identifier for the destination node. Then, the intermediate node can send an outgoing data packet to the destination node based on the obtained local addressing information for the destination node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Vadim Makhervaks, Bjørn Dag Johnsen, David M. Brean, Richard P. Mousseau
  • Patent number: 9565032
    Abstract: Systems and methods for relate to bus ring performance monitoring and control. A bus ring includes an agent and a switch unit to connect the agent to the bus ring. The switch unit includes a transmit queue to store data from the bus ring to be transmitted to the agent and a receive queue to store data from the agent to be transmitted to the bus ring. A first counter is implemented to track a number of pending transactions in the transmit queue and a second counter is implemented to track a number of times the receive queue is full and unable to accept additional data. Frequency of the bus ring is increased or decreased based on comparison of values of the first counter and the second counter with corresponding predefined high and low threshold values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Richard Gerard Hofmann, Ryan Wells, Vijay Nagaraj, Prudhvi Nadh Nooney
  • Patent number: 9549389
    Abstract: A method for forwarding a page message to a communication device includes receiving a page message and a list of Closed Subscriber Group (CSG) Identities in conjunction therewith. Each of the CSG Identities is indicative of which radio base stations among said plurality of radio base stations the communication device is allowed to access. The method also includes selecting, based on the list of CSG Identities received in conjunction with the received page message, a subset of radio base stations among said plurality of radio base stations and forwarding the page message to each radio base station in the selected subset of radio base stations, whereby the communication device is paged only via radio base stations that the communication device is allowed to access.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Tomas Nylander, Mats Buchmayer, Jari Vikberg
  • Patent number: 9538566
    Abstract: According to one embodiment of the present invention, a method for transmitting a reception acknowledgement response by an user equipment for performing device-to-device communication in a wireless communication system, comprises the steps of: receiving a physical downlink shared channel; and transmitting a reception acknowledgement response for the physical downlink shared channel on a resource for a physical uplink control channel, wherein the reception acknowledgement response is transmitted according to a setting of a round trip time (RTT), and the RTT is set for each user equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Hyeyoung Choi, Hyunwoo Lee, Jaehoon Chung
  • Patent number: 9526081
    Abstract: Systems and methods related to time and frequency synchronization of a base station in a cellular communications network are disclosed. In some embodiments, a method of operation of a synchronizing base station comprises selecting a first base station for frequency synchronization and a second base station for time synchronization, where the second base station can be different than the first base station selected for frequency synchronization. The method further comprises performing frequency synchronization using a signal transmitted from a radio interface of the first base station and performing time synchronization using a signal transmitted from a radio interface of the second base station. In this manner, the synchronizing base station is enabled to independently select the first and second base stations used for frequency and time synchronization, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2016
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Havish Koorapaty, Daniel Larsson
  • Patent number: 9521054
    Abstract: A first terminal 1000 includes: a local terminal transmission rate acquisition unit 100 for acquiring a transmission rate of an application in the first terminal 1000; a search range control unit 110 for deciding an upper limit of a search range of an available bandwidth of a communication line, using the transmission rate; and a probe packet transmission unit 120 for transmitting a probe packet to a second terminal 2000 in a bandwidth less than or equal to the upper limit. The second terminal 2000 includes: a probe packet receiving unit 200 for receiving the probe packet; and an available bandwidth estimation unit 210 for estimating the available bandwidth based on the received probe packet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Takashi Oshiba
  • Patent number: 9521614
    Abstract: A method for automation and control of a wireless device in a WiFi environment. The method includes a wireless mobile device configured with a soft access point (softAP) transmitting probe requests to home automation devices and traditional stationary access points. The wireless mobile device periodically wakes up to scan for other services, sends a probe request, authenticates the received probe response from the another device and receives control information via the received probe response.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Leonardo W. Estevez, Paul Kimelman, Avraham Baum
  • Patent number: 9509616
    Abstract: Encapsulated packets may be generated for different packets transmitted between a source instance and destination instance in a computer system. The source instance and destination instance may be implemented by different physical hosts linked by multiple network paths. Congestion of the multiple network paths may be determined and path-balancing polices may be implemented in response to the determined congestion. Each encapsulation packet comprises contents of a corresponding packet, and one or more data values selected in accordance with a path-balancing policy. The data values added to one encapsulation packet may differ from those added to another. Different network paths to the destination may be selected for different encapsulation packets of a given transmission based at least in part on the added data values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Alan Michael Judge, Matthew Shawn Wilson
  • Patent number: 9485730
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for controlling communication connection in an electronic device are provided. The method includes detecting at least one peripheral, detecting at least one preference device among the at least one detected peripheral, and inactivating a communication module when at least one preference device is not detected among the at least one detected peripheral.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Su-Young Park
  • Patent number: 9485081
    Abstract: An apparatus for compensating for a skew is provided between data signals supplied through a plurality of data lines and a clock signal supplied through a clock line. A skew compensation apparatus includes a plurality of data receivers each configured to delay a data signal supplied through a corresponding data line based on associated phase difference data and to output the delayed data signal, a clock receiver configured to receive a clock signal supplied through a clock line, and a phase controller configured to select any one of the plurality of data receivers and to output, to the selected data receiver, a phase control signal configured to correct the phase difference data of the selected data receiver based on the phase difference between a data signal output from the selected data receiver and the clock signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hee-Sun Ahn, Jae-Goo Lee, Choong-Sun Shin, Young-Uk Won, In-Bok Song
  • Patent number: 9479974
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for serving high speed downlink shared channel (HS-DSCH) cell change are disclosed. A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) sends a measurement report to a radio network controller (RNC) when a signal strength of a target cell approaches a signal strength of a source cell. The RNC adds the target cell in an active set and sends pre-loaded HS-DSCH configuration information for the target cell to the WTRU. The WTRU sends another measurement report when a signal strength of the target cell exceeds that of the source cell. The WTRU monitors a high speed shared control channel (HS-SCCH) on the target cell based on the pre-loaded HS-DSCH configuration information and decodes an HS-SCCH transmission. The WTRU determines whether a MAC-hs/ehs reset is required and if so resets a MAC-hs/ehs entity prior to receiving an HS-DSCH transmission from the target cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2016
    Assignee: InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Diana Pani, Paul Marinier, Christopher Cave
  • Patent number: 9461772
    Abstract: A packet interval (a time difference between sequentially received packets) in a certain previous time is calculated and a cumulative distribution function of the calculated packet interval is obtained. Meanwhile, a function value-corresponding to-flow end that is a boundary value of the cumulative distribution function to be considered as a flow end (timeout) in the range of a cumulative distribution function value is stored. From the cumulative distribution function obtained as described above, a value of a packet interval mapped to a cumulative distribution function value that matches the function value-corresponding to-flow end is set as a threshold. That is, the threshold is dynamically set based on a previous packet interval. Therefore, a packet stop period from a last packet reception time to a current time is measured, and it is detected as a flow timeout at a timing when the measured value is equal to or greater than the threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: NEC Communication Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Iizuka, Toshiyasu Tanaka, Koichi Yoshimura, Masahito Iwai, Tetsuya Ito
  • Patent number: 9462049
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for providing subscriber load distribution in networks are disclosed. For example, the method receives capacity data and user equipment (UE) resource consumption data from a plurality of devices that process call control signaling messages within the communication network. The method receives a first request from one of the plurality of devices to re-register one or more selected user equipment, and selects at least one available device from the plurality of devices. The method then re-registers the one or more selected user equipment on the at least one available device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Eric Noel, Mark Ratcliffe
  • Patent number: 9456376
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for dynamic uplink communication in a wireless communication system are disclosed herein. The method includes transmitting, by a base station, a pilot signal on a first channel to a mobile station (MS), the pilot signal indicating a signal strength, receiving, by the MS, a one-bit indicator from a plurality of base stations on a second channel, the one-bit indicator indicating a congestion status for each of the plurality of base stations, determining, by the MS, the congestion status for each of the plurality of base stations, and selecting, by the MS, a base station based on the one-bit indicator received on the second channel, wherein the one-bit indicator further indicates a neighboring base station that is lightly congested.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2016
    Assignee: IPR Licensing, Inc.
    Inventors: James A. Proctor, Jr., Dennis D. Ferguson
  • Patent number: 9455775
    Abstract: A first base station receives a first message comprising one or more parameters indicating whether a wireless device supports configuration of a number of channel state information (CSI) processes. The first base station transmits at least one second message comprising configuration parameters of CSI reference signals. The first base station transmits, to a second base station after making a handover decision, at least one third message comprising at least one of the one or more parameters and the configuration parameters of the CSI reference signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2016
    Assignee: COMCAST CABLE COMMUNICATIONS, LLC
    Inventor: Esmael Hejazi Dinan
  • Patent number: 9455765
    Abstract: Communications connectors are provided that include a plurality of inputs that are arranged as differential pairs of inputs and a plurality of outputs that are arranged as differential pairs of outputs. A plurality of low frequency conductive paths are provided, each of which electrically connects a respective one of the inputs to a respective one of the outputs. These low frequency conductive paths are configured to pass signals having frequencies in a first frequency band while substantially attenuating signals having frequencies in a second frequency band that includes higher frequencies than the first frequency band. A plurality of second conductive paths are also provided. Each of the plurality of second conductive paths is electrically in parallel with at least a portion of a respective one of the low frequency conductive paths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2016
    Assignee: CommScope, Inc. of North Carolina
    Inventors: Richard A. Schumacher, Scott Lynn Michaelis