Patents Examined by Thomas D Busch
  • Patent number: 9930707
    Abstract: A method by a cabin wireless access point (CWAP) server includes receiving an IP address request message from a CWAP installed in a vehicle cabin. The IP address request message contains data identifying a physical location of the CWAP within the vehicle cabin. The physical location of the CWAP is identified within the vehicle cabin responsive to the data contained in the IP address request message. An IP address is assigned to the CWAP responsive to the physical location of the CWAP identified by the data. An IP address message containing the IP address is communicated to the CWAP. Related methods by CWAPs and corresponding CWAP servers and CWAPs are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: Thales Avionics, Inc.
    Inventor: Jueren Ma
  • Patent number: 9894530
    Abstract: Methods and network nodes of a wireless telecommunications system are disclosed. One method of controlling transmissions with a base station of a wireless telecommunications system comprises the steps of: determining a set of neighboring base stations, each base station in the set of neighboring base stations utilizing an identical carrier and scrambling code to support transmissions with that base station; and allocating base stations in the set of neighboring base stations different spreading codes for transmissions with those base stations. By allocating each base station in the set of base stations sharing the same carrier and scrambling code different spreading codes, interference in transmissions between the base stations can be controlled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Eric B. Jul, Holger Claussen
  • Patent number: 9860879
    Abstract: It is provided an apparatus, comprising radio side separating means for separating first uplink data of a first radio network received from a physical radio interface from second uplink data of a second radio network received from the physical radio interface; first uplink processing means configured to process, according to a higher layer uplink functionality, the first uplink data into first processed uplink data; second uplink processing means configured to process, according to the higher layer uplink functionality, the second uplink data into second processed uplink data; and aggregating means for providing the first processed uplink data to a first logical channel of a physical transport means and the second processed uplink data to a second logical channel of the physical transport means, wherein the first radio network is different from the second radio network; and the first logical channel is different from the second logical channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: NOKIA SOLUTIONS AND NETWORKS OY
    Inventor: Maximilian Riegel
  • Patent number: 9769807
    Abstract: Embodiments herein relate to a method in a user equipment for performing channel estimation of one or more long term channel properties at the user equipment, wherein the user equipment is served by a radio network node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: George Jöngren, Stefano Sorrentino
  • Patent number: 9730198
    Abstract: The invention relates to a wireless communication system, and more particularly, to a method and apparatus for transmitting control information. The wireless communication system may support carrier aggregation (CA). A method for transmitting control information to a base station by a terminal in a wireless communication system according to one aspect of the present invention comprises the steps of: receiving at least one of either a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) or a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) from said base station via at least one serving cell provided on the terminal; and transmitting, to said base station, control information on the reception of said PDCCH or on the reception of said PDSCH indicated by the PDCCH. Said at least one serving cell may use a frequency division duplex (FDD) frame structure or a time division duplex (TDD) frame structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Hyunwoo Lee, Jinmin Kim, Seunghee Han
  • Patent number: 9713126
    Abstract: The present invention proposes methods and apparatuses and computer program products for dynamic transmission set indication in scenarios in which a terminal is enabled for single cell transmission SiC as well as for coordinated multipoint transmission CoMP. To this extent, appropriate information is being fed back from the terminal to the base station via feedback signaling channels. The decision on which transmission mode defined by respective transmission set definitions is used can be taken by the terminal or, in a modified scenario, by the base station, based on the information fed back.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy
    Inventors: Xiao Yi Wang, Timo Erkki Lunttila, Peter Skov
  • Patent number: 9681429
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method and a device for allocating a search space of a control channel in a subframe. A method for monitoring downlink control information comprises the steps of: acquiring first control information on a first enhanced-physical downlink control channel (e-PDCCH) by monitoring a common search space in a first slot of a subframe; and acquiring second control information on a second e-PDCCH by monitoring a user equipment (UE)-specific search space in a second slot of the subframe. Thus, a terminal can obtain cell-specific information through an e-PDCCH even without a legacy physical downlink control channel (PDCCH).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Ji Won Kang, Jin Young Chun, Ki Tae Kim, Su Nam Kim, Bin Chul Ihm, Sung Ho Park
  • Patent number: 9674233
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for user location registration comprising determining, by a first network service provided by a first network, subscriber location information associated with a first user communication device registered with the first network, wherein the subscriber location information includes a network identifier of the first device, and wherein the network identifier is not obtained via session initiation protocol (SIP) messaging received from the first device; receiving, by the first network service, a broadcast location request for the subscriber location information in response to a call initiated from a second user communication device wherein receiving the broadcast location request further includes determining subscriber identity information from the broadcast location request, and determining that the subscriber identity information is associated with the subscriber location information; and sending, by the first network service, the determined subscriber location information in response to
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: Vonage Business Inc.
    Inventor: Tzahi Efrati
  • Patent number: 9571384
    Abstract: A QoS management scheme for SDN. Network resource availability of routers and switches are maintained in a central resource database of a SDN controller. The SDN controller performs resource reservation, admission control and route calculation. When a flow is admitted or completed, the resource database is updated accordingly. Dynamic queue mapping for QoS routing in SDN is also provided. For a traffic flow with a certain traffic description and delay requirement, the queue mapping protocol dynamically assigns the flow to different priority queues at different switches along its routing path. Compared with the static mapping of a flow to a specified priority queue, the disclosed mapping is more flexible and uses network resources more efficiently.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Mingquan Wu, Miao Zhao, Hong Heather Yu
  • Patent number: 9521604
    Abstract: In order to transmit a paging to a user terminal with high quality, transmit a CSI-RS effectively and perform UL HARQ efficiently in HetNet, the present invention provides a radio communication method having the steps of: a micro base station which is arranged in a macro cell and forms a smaller micro cell than the macro cell, transmitting, to a user terminal, a signal having a CSI-RS subframe including a CSI-RS and a paging subframe including modification notification information indicating modification in system information and a control signal indicating not to measure a CSI-RS when the CSI-RS subframe and the paging subframe collide with each other; and the user terminal determining a CSI-RS subframe to measure the CSI-RS based on the control signal when the CSI-RS subframe and the paging subframe collide with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Tetsushi Abe, Satoshi Nagata, Nobuhiko Miki, Naoto Ookubo
  • Patent number: 9462506
    Abstract: Methods and devices for determining an available load in a cell of a cellular radio system are provided where the determination of the available load is made in response to an estimated inter cell interference load. An estimated inter cell interference is determined. The inter cell interference change events are monitored by determining when a User Equipment changes serving cell or when the User Equipment adds or removes a cell to the active set of the User Equipment. The determined inter cell interference is adjusted by an estimated load caused by the User Equipment causing an inter cell interference change event, and the available load is determined in response to the adjusted inter cell interference. The method can continuously update inter cell interference. Moreover, the update can be made fast and thereby allow an improved estimation of the available cell load.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET L M ERICSSON
    Inventors: Zhang Zhang, Mats Blomgren
  • Patent number: 9380135
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a wireless communication system and more specifically relates to a method and device for transmitting information. A wireless communication system can support carrier aggregation (CA). In one aspect of the present invention, a method, in which a terminal transmits information to a base station in a wireless communication system, comprises the steps of: carrying out rate matching for a preset number of symbols in a subframe for transmitting first information on at least one serving cell formed in the terminal; and transmitting the first information from the subframe in which the rate matching has been carried out, to the base station. Therein, the uplink transmission timing of the one or more serving cells are different from one another, and the preset number is determined in accordance with the difference between the uplink transmission timings of the one or more serving cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Hyunwoo Lee, Seunghee Han, Jinmin Kim
  • Patent number: 9369992
    Abstract: In systems and methods of selecting a sub-band, a first sub-band and a second sub-band of an access node are selected, and is it determined that an intermodulation product of the first sub-band and the second sub-band overlaps with a carrier band of the access node. A transmission of data is scheduled on the second sub-band when a power of the intermodulation product of the first sub-band and the second sub-band does not meet a power threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: Sprint Spectrum L.P.
    Inventors: Sungki Park, Saied Kazeminejad, Brett Christian, Brent Scott
  • Patent number: 9369248
    Abstract: A method in a communication node for mapping symbols of an Enhanced Physical Downlink Control Channel, EPDCCH, message is provided. The EPDCCH comprises one or more aggregation levels. For each aggregation level, an EPDCCH message is constituted by a set of Control Channel Elements, eCCEs. Each eCCE is mapped to a set of multiple enhanced Resource Element Groups, eREGs, wherein each eREG is a group of Resource Elements, REs, in a Physical Resource Block, PRB, pair. The communication node maps the symbols of the EPDCCH message to the set of REs that constitutes the multiple eREGs that the set of eCCEs correspond to. The order in which the EPDCCH symbols are mapped to the set of REs is dependent on the aggregation level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Jung-Fu Cheng, Erik Eriksson, Mattias Frenne, Johan Furuskog, Havish Koorapaty, Daniel Larsson
  • Patent number: 9225448
    Abstract: Provided are a method and apparatus for transmitting positive-acknowledgement (ACK)/negative-acknowledgement (NACK) in a time division duplex (TDD)-based wireless communication system. A user equipment receives an uplink grant which includes an uplink resource assignment and an uplink downlink assignment index (DAI), determines an ACK/NACK payload size on the basis of a value of the uplink DAI, and generates an ACK/NACK response for the at least one downlink transport block. The user equipment multiplexes the ACK/NACK response on an uplink transport block, and transmits the multiplexed ACK/NACK response.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Dong Youn Seo, Min Gyu Kim, Suck Chel Yang, Joon Kui Ahn
  • Patent number: 9148873
    Abstract: A wireless network includes a first station and a second station. The first station includes a media access control circuit configured to provide a frame of data to be transmitted on a communication channel, and a physical layer device configured to receive the frame of data and transmit the frame of data on the communication channel. The frame of data is transmitted according to a first short interframe space (SIFS) or a second SIFS, and the first SIFS has a duration that is different from that of the second SIFS. The second station is configured to determine whether the first station transmitted the frame of data according to the first SIFS or the second SIFS and transmit a response to the frame of data based on the determination of whether the first station transmitted the frame of data according to the first SIFS or the second SIFS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2015
    Assignee: MARVELL INTERNATIONAL LTD.
    Inventors: Yong Liu, Hongyuan Zhang