Patents Examined by Tito Pham
  • Patent number: 9769215
    Abstract: A server is provided that includes a processor such that for a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) request containing a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) identifying the first device, the processor is programmed to promote adding a URI and redirecting the SIP request to a second device. The added URI used by the second device to invoke a Personal Network Management (PNM) Controller function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Andrew Michael Allen, Adrian Buckley
  • Patent number: 9769677
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for performing precoding matrix indicator (PMI) feedback are provided. The apparatus may include at least one storage device containing a computer program, at least one processing circuit and related control/computing devices. The at least one processing circuit is configured with at least one storage device and computer program to feed back the selected PMI and to receive related signalings of the PMI feedback method. One of the signalings includes the precoder candidate set configuration which defines the subset of precoders in a codebook for each precoder to report PMI next time. The selected PMI is transmitted by the apparatus to the corresponding communication device in the communication network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Chao-Yuan Hsu, Ren-Jr Chen
  • Patent number: 9736833
    Abstract: One embodiment is directed to a method for operating base stations in a heterogeneous network. The method may include receiving, by a first base station, an indication for a second base station to use flexible time division duplex mode (502), assessing an amount of interference that will be caused by the second base station (504)-(508), deciding how to adjust a transmission power of the second base station (509), and sending the second base station a request to adjust the transmission power (510).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
    Inventors: Cassio Barboza Ribeiro, Michal Cierny
  • Patent number: 9729399
    Abstract: A device enables automated bandwidth on demand functionality for a user, associated with a network, based on a request of the user, and receives a particular schedule for the user and the automated bandwidth on demand functionality. The device generates provisioning commands that update bandwidth requirements of the network, for the user, based on the particular schedule. The device provides the provisioning commands to network resources of the network, and the provisioning commands cause the network resources to implement the updated bandwidth requirements for the user according to the particular schedule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Sachindra K. Nalluri, Vinod Ramalingam, Rui Deng Kirtzic
  • Patent number: 9723515
    Abstract: A method and system is provided for transmitting data in a communication system operating in the HF band comprising a link layer and a physical layer. The system comprises a transmitter and a receiver. The transmitter comprises at least one scheduler. The method comprises a step of segmenting at least two data streams F1,F2 each of the streams having a service constraint, each being segmented into a plurality of data sub-blocks FjBi, a step in which the data sub-blocks are transformed into a frame then a step of coding and interleaving the first frame TF1, and of the second frame TF2, producing sub-frames STF1c, STF2c, then generating a frame to be transmitted by mixing n sub-frames STF1c of the data stream F1 with m sub-frames STF2c of the data stream F2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: Thales
    Inventors: Catherine Lamy-Bergot, Jean-Yves Bernier
  • Patent number: 9722745
    Abstract: A method and base station for coordinated multi point data transmission are disclosed. The method includes: a base station receiving a per-cell CQI value reported by a UE; looking up an SINR-CQI mapping table according to the per-cell CQI value, and acquiring a subband/broadband SINR value; performing CQI recalculation according to the subband/broadband SINR value, and acquiring a recalculated subband/broadband CQI value; and selecting modulation and coding according to the recalculated subband/broadband CQI value to schedule data transmission. With the method and base station of the embodiments of the present document, in a CoMP system, in a joint transmission scenario, the accuracy of the CQI value used by the BS for scheduling is improved, and the oscillation during an AMC process is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Linmei Mo, Yajun Zhao, Baoyu Sun, Chen Huang, Hanqing Xu, Yujie Li, Hongfeng Qin, Guofeng Chen, Hongfeng Yuan, Xin Zhang
  • Patent number: 9717081
    Abstract: A method for managing uplink carrier frequencies is provided, which is applicable to the field of communication. The method includes the following steps: A state switching response message sent by a UE is received, where the state switching response message includes a result of state switching performed by on a secondary uplink carrier serving cell; The result of the state switching is notified to a secondary uplink carrier non-serving cell in a secondary carrier active set through an RNC. A device and a system for managing uplink carrier frequencies are further provided. Through the method, device, and system provided in embodiments of the present invention, the uplink carrier frequencies are managed, so as to facilitate transmission of uplink data during multi-cell collaboration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2017
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tingwei Xu, Xiaofei Ma, Jie Ma, Xiaoxiao Zheng, Zongjie Wang, Xueli Ma, Jing Li, Chuanfeng He, Bo Yang
  • Patent number: 9693275
    Abstract: For traffic offload via a local network, a MME may obtain from a HSS, subscription data including SIPTO related permissions defined on APN basis that indicate SIPTO prohibited, indicate SIPTO allowed excluding SIPTO via Local Network (SIPTO@LN), and/or indicate SIPTO allowed including SIPTO@LN. Then, the MME may obtain information about one or more local Gateways (GWs) capable of offloading selected traffic, such information indicating which of the one or more local GWs provides access to which Packet Data Networks (PDNs), with each PDN being identified by its associated APN. Finally, the MME may process PDN connections and/or PDN disconnections in order to support offloading of the selected traffic. The counterpart UE includes the appropriate means of hardware and/or software that is configured to support and perform SIPTO@LN.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Alexandre Saso Stojanovski, Hyun Sook Kim, Jae Hyun Kim, Tae Hyeon Kim, Lae Young Kim
  • Patent number: 9674863
    Abstract: At least one example embodiment discloses a method of scheduling communications in a network having a plurality of base stations covering cells, respectively. The method includes obtaining a first coordination matrix, by a first base station, based on channel state information from at least one user equipment (UE), the first coordination matrix indicating scheduling information and first weights associated with subband transmissions for the first base station, transmitting the first coordination matrix to at least another base station of the plurality of base stations, receiving, by the first base station, a second coordination matrix from the at least another base station, the second coordination matrix indicating second weights associated with subband transmissions for the second base station, and transmitting, by the first base station, in subbands where the associated first weights are greater than the associated second weights.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Fang-chen Cheng, Min Zhang, Matthew P J Baker
  • Patent number: 9674760
    Abstract: A method for performing device-to-device (D2D) communication in a wireless communication system is provided. A master user equipment sets a D2D link with a slave user equipment. The master user equipment performs D2D communication with the slave user equipment through the D2D link. The master user equipment receives handover information of the slave user equipment from the slave user equipment. The master user equipment transmits the handover information of the slave user equipment to an evolved NodeB of a handover source cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Hakseong Kim, Hanbyul Seo
  • Patent number: 9667517
    Abstract: A method for checking connectivity between a first device and a second device on a bidirectional Label Switched Path LSP, includes the first device sends, to the second device, an echo request including a reply mode and a return address, the reply mode requesting an echo reply to be delivered through backward LSP, and the return address being the unique ID of the first device; the first device receives an echo reply from the second device, the echo reply including the unique ID of the first device and return code related to connectivity of the backward LSP; and the first device correlates the echo reply with the echo request to verify connectivity between the two devices on the bidirectional Label Switched Paths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Hui Ling, Haibo Wen, Zheng Liang
  • Patent number: 9654269
    Abstract: Embodiments may comprise physical layer logic to implement a new, short acknowledgement. Embodiments may store the short acknowledgement on a machine-accessible medium. Some embodiments may determine and transmit a communication with the short acknowledgement. Further embodiments may receive and detect communications with the short acknowledgement. The short acknowledgement may reduce power consumption and reduce on-the-air time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Thomas J. Kenney, Eldad Perahia, Minyoung Park, Emily H. Qi
  • Patent number: 9647960
    Abstract: This switched data transmission system, that may be used in particular in avionics applications, of the type comprising a plurality of electronic devices and equipment units adapted for transmitting discrete messages over a transmission network, and in which each of the equipment units is connected to a network switch, the switches being connected to each other by means of data transmission links so as to form a physical topology of a loop network, each message being associated with information regarding data flow priority in the network comprising of functional priority information, is characterized in that each message is also associated with information regarding topological priority of data flow in the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: THALES
    Inventors: Patrice George Paul Toillon, David Jose Faura, Thomas Criqui
  • Patent number: 9628198
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for canceling multi-user interference (MUI) by a base station (BS) in a wireless communication system. The method includes determining the number of tones to accumulate channel values among tones included in a resource area, based on a minimum delta cyclic shift (CS) that represents a minimum gap between CS values allocated to user equipments (UEs) and a number of UEs to be multiplexed, creating a matrix of amounts of change in phase for the tones to accumulate for the UEs to be multiplexed, and canceling MUI based on a signal matrix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Ik-Beom Lee
  • Patent number: 9622198
    Abstract: Power headroom reports may be transmitted from a wireless terminal to a base station wherein a primary component carrier and at least one secondary component carrier are provided for uplink transmissions from the wireless terminal to the base station and wherein a respective component carrier index is assigned to each of the at least one secondary component carriers provided for the wireless terminal. Respective power headroom reports may be generated for the primary component carrier and for each of the at least one secondary component carriers, and a MAC control element may be generated including the power headroom reports for the primary and secondary component carriers. More particularly, the power headroom reports for each of the at least one secondary component carriers may be arranged in order of the component carrier indices for the respective secondary component carriers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Lisa Boström, Robert Baldemair, Dirk Gerstenberger, Daniel Larsson, Henning Wiemann
  • Patent number: 9577857
    Abstract: Techniques for providing hybrid communications to devices on vehicles include using a selected modulation scheme on a forward link to deliver data (that is intended to be received by an on-board device) onto a vehicle, and using a reverse link in a different frequency band to send reverse data from the vehicle. Based on the reverse data, a subsequent pre-defined modulation scheme for a subsequent forward transmission is selected from a plurality of modulation schemes corresponding to a plurality of performance levels of data delivery. The selections may be based on a current geo-spatial location of the vehicle, a type of data, and/or on one or more other dynamic conditions. The forward data may be multiplexed and/or multicast. Thus, adaptive modulation is achieved in a hybrid communications system in which the forward link and the reverse link to the vehicle are supported by different wireless communication bands.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: GOGO LLC
    Inventors: Bryan Adrian Lauer, Rukmani Loganathan, Sajit Sasi, Pat Walsh, Anand Chari
  • Patent number: 9565272
    Abstract: A content capability clearing house that can act as a trusted and neutral mediator among network providers to manage rich content capabilities among multiple networks is provided. Content capabilities that can be brokered include, but are not limited to, quality of service and content screening. In an embodiment, a content capability clearing house includes a receiver that receives content capability request messages and other messages from network providers. A content capability request message includes a quality of service request and/or a subscriber profile request for use with content screening and subscriber specific advertisements. The present invention includes a series of methods for determining content capabilities for data transmission over a transaction between a content provider and a subscriber in which a content capability clearing house is used to efficiently broker and manage the capability among multiple network providers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignees: Amdocs Development Limited, Amdocs Canadian Managed Services Inc.
    Inventors: Parham Momtahan, Mark Jones
  • Patent number: 9559799
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for multiplexing reference signals in a predetermined number of Code Division Multiplexing (CDM) groups to balance power across Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) symbols are disclosed. In a wireless communication system, orthogonal sequences used for spreading the reference signals are allocated such that the order of orthogonal sequences allocated to a subcarrier of one CDM group has a predetermined offset with respect to the order of orthogonal sequences allocated to a subcarrier of another CDM group, adjacent to the subcarrier of the one CDM group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Moon Il Lee, Jae Hoon Chung, Seung Hee Han, Min Seok Noh
  • Patent number: 9560666
    Abstract: As disclosed, while a wireless communication device (WCD) is idling on a particular carrier frequency of a base station, the base station may receive a message broadcast by that base station, the message specifying multiple relative sets of priority levels defined for a set of carrier frequencies and correlating each of the multiple relative sets of priority levels with respective different WCD operational characteristics. In particular, the message may specify a first correlation of one relative set of priority levels with one WCD operational characteristic and includes a second correlation of a different relative set of priority levels with a different WCD operational characteristic. The WCD may select one of the relative sets of priority levels responsive to the WCD having a WCD operational characteristic that the message correlates with the selected relative set of priority levels. The WCD may then apply the selected relative set of priority levels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: Sprint Spectrum L.P.
    Inventors: Jasinder P. Singh, Siddharth S. Oroskar, Maulik K. Shah
  • Patent number: 9491048
    Abstract: Access terminals are adapted to facilitate automated configuration of communications interfaces based on a current carrier identity. According to one example, an access terminal may determine a carrier identity from a subscription module. A modem configuration associated with the carrier identity may be selected from modem configuration data stored on a storage medium accessible by the access terminal. The selected carrier-specific software configuration may then be activated to configure a communications interface of the access terminal to facilitate operations associated with the carrier identity, such as facilitating wireless communications with a carrier associated with the carrier identity. Other aspects, embodiments, and features are also included.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Samir Bhagwandas Thakkar, Brian T. Duddie, Billy Abele Oostra, Patrick James Kusbel