Patents Examined by Trang Nguyen
  • Patent number: 9817099
    Abstract: A method for precision collaborative targeting includes determining information indicative of a current location and of a known remote location. A first distance is determined from the current location to the known remote location. A sensor is slewed towards an unknown remote location, the sensor being initially directed from the current location to the known remote location. The distance from the current location to the unknown remote location is measured. Information indicative of the location of the unknown remote location is determined from the amount of slewing and the distance from the current location to the unknown remote location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: Raytheon Company
    Inventors: Mark S. Svane, Timothy G. Brauer, Nathan D. Culbertson
  • Patent number: 9820125
    Abstract: A method for initiating a Packet Switched emergency call using a user equipment (UE) is presented. The UE includes a plurality of protocol layers. The plurality of protocol layers including an IMS sublayer, a non-access stratum (NAS) layer and an access stratum (AS) layer. The method includes generating an ATTACH REQUEST using the UE. The ATTACH REQUEST has an attach type. The method includes retrieving the attach type of the ATTACH REQUEST using the NAS layer of the UE, and generating an RRC CONNECTION REQUEST. The RRC CONNECTION REQUEST includes an RRC establishment cause based upon the attach type of the attach request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Chen Ho Chin, Richard C. Burbidge
  • Patent number: 9810895
    Abstract: A biological observation apparatus includes a light source that radiates illumination light onto an observation region that includes a biological specimen; a CCD that acquires a macro image of the observation region; a light source that radiates excitation light onto the biological specimen; a micro-image acquisition unit that acquires a micro image of the biological specimen; an identification-information storing unit that stores identification information of the biological specimen; a biological-specimen specifying unit that extracts identification information of the biological specimen by performing image processing on the macro image, and specifies a biological specimen for which the extracted identification information corresponds to the identification information stored in the identification-information storing unit; and a pan controller that moves a capturing range of the micro-image acquisition unit such that the biological specimen is included in the viewing range of the micro image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Kimura
  • Patent number: 9814089
    Abstract: Techniques for co-existence on a shared communication medium are disclosed. To foster co-existence, operation of a first Radio Access Technology (RAT) may be cycled between active periods and inactive periods of transmission, on a communication medium shared with a second RAT, in accordance with a Discontinuous Transmission (DTX) communication pattern. One or more cycling parameters of the DTX communication pattern may be set based on a frame structure associated with the first RAT. Transmission may proceed over the communication medium in accordance with the first RAT and the one or more cycling parameters of the DTX communication pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Raja Sekhar Bachu, Rizwan Ehtesham Ahmed, Prashanth Haridas Hande, Ahmed Kamel Sadek
  • Patent number: 9806910
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a gateway device including a communication interface provided with a plurality of channels capable of connecting to an external device; a switch unit configured to determine a connection state between the plurality of channels; and a controller configured to group a Controller Area Network (CAN) signal, which is received from a first external device connected to a first channel among the plurality of channels, into a message frame, and when an identifier of the message frame is included in a pre-determined high-speed transmission identifier group, configured to control the switch unit so that a second channel to which a second external device corresponding to the identifier is connected, is connected to the first channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company
    Inventors: Jungnan Ryu, SungKwan Choo, Joon Ho Lee
  • Patent number: 9807779
    Abstract: Various aspects described herein relate to managing ultra low latency (ULL) communications over a plurality of component carriers (CC). A configuration for aggregating a set of CCs can be received, wherein the set of CCs includes at least a primary cell and a secondary cell. Based on the received configuration, at least the primary cell can be communicated with for legacy communications, wherein the legacy communications are based on a first transmission time interval (TTI) having a first duration. Based on the received configuration, the primary cell and the secondary cell can be communicated with for ULL communications, wherein the ULL communications are based on a second TTI having a second duration that is less than the first duration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Wanshi Chen, Peter Gaal, Shimman Arvind Patel, Madhavan Srinivasan Vajapeyam
  • Patent number: 9800504
    Abstract: The subject matter described herein includes methods, systems, and computer readable media for implementing intelligent routing via diverting Diameter traffic from an overloaded Policy and Rules Charging Function (PCRF). An exemplary method includes receiving, at a Diameter Routing Agent (DRA), a first session establishment request for a subscriber and generating a routing entry in a routing table that associates the subscriber with a first destination identifier identifying a first PCRF. The method also includes receiving an indication that the first PCRF is overloaded, receiving a second session establishment request for the subscriber, and generating a new routing entry in the routing table that associates the subscriber with a second destination identifier that does not identify the first PCRF.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Jared Michael Renzullo, Tarek Assali
  • Patent number: 9780939
    Abstract: A method and a base station of transmitting a data block are provided. At least one data block is transmitted via at least one of at least two downlink frequency bands. A modulation symbol and N spreading sequences are received. Acknowledgement/negative acknowledgement (A/N) information is determined in accordance with the modulation symbol and the N spreading sequences. The modulation symbol and the N spreading sequences jointly determine the A/N information. And the at least one data block may be retransmitted depending on the A/N information determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jianghua Liu, Mattias Frenne
  • Patent number: 9774461
    Abstract: A system for communicating a multicast packet through a network switch fabric is described. The system receives the multicast packet at an input port of the network switch fabric, where the multicast packet is directed to multiple output ports, and where the network switch fabric has a virtual output queue (VOQ)-based architecture, in which each input port maintains a separate VOQ for unicast packets to each output port and one or more VOQs for multicast packets destined to multiple output ports. The system sends the multicast packet by inserting the multicast packet into the one or more VOQs associated with the multiple output ports, so that multicast packets are queued separately from unicast packets. Moreover, the system may optionally dynamically modify a number of the one or more VOQs for the multicast packets based on a number of multicast flows through the network switch fabric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
    Inventor: Arvind Srinivasan
  • Patent number: 9769689
    Abstract: Adjusting cell specific antenna configuration parameters includes receiving, at each of a plurality of radio access nodes in a network, measurement reports from a plurality of user equipment devices. Base incremental adjustments to configuration parameters of one or more antennas are performed at each radio access node in response to the measurement reports. Additional measurement reports are received from the plurality of user equipment devices after the incremental adjustments. Base incremental adjustments to the configuration parameters of the one or more antennas at the radio access nodes continue to be performed in response to the measurement reports after previous incremental adjustments until an improvement limit has occurred. Biased random adjustments to the configuration parameters of the one or more antennas at the radio access nodes are performed in response to the improvement limit until a desired optimum result is achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Nandu Gopalakrishnan, Jin Yang, Yongxi Tan, James Matthew, Yan Xin
  • Patent number: 9762437
    Abstract: Systems and methods for enrolling nodes into an ad hoc network associated with a multi-roomed structure. Nodes within the ad hoc network comprise a communication module configured to communicate with the ad hoc network using at least one of room-limited communications and room-transparent communications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Raj B. Apte, Christopher Paulson, Erik John Hasenoehrl
  • Patent number: 9760677
    Abstract: The disclosure herein provides methods, systems, and devices for managing, transferring, modifying, converting and/or tracking medical files and/or medical system messages. In certain embodiments, the foregoing may generally be based on requesting medical files at a first medical facility, identifying the requested medical files at a second medical facility, initiating a secure network connection between the first and second medical facility, modifying a header portion of the medical files based on patient identification information created by the first medical facility, and other processing steps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: ONEMEDNET CORPORATION
    Inventor: Jeffrey N. Yu
  • Patent number: 9762346
    Abstract: A transmitting apparatus is disclosed. The transmitting apparatus includes an encoder to perform channel encoding with respect to bits and generate a codeword, an interleaver to interleave the codeword, and a modulator to map the interleaved codeword onto a non-uniform constellation according to a modulation scheme, and the constellation may include constellation points defined based on various tables according to the modulation scheme.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Se-ho Myung, Belkacem Mouhouche, Daniel Ansorregui Lobete, Kyung-joong Kim, Hong-sil Jeong
  • Patent number: 9763127
    Abstract: Embodiments described herein relate generally to a user equipment (“UE”) that is to transmit a handover error report to an access node. An access node may use information in the handover error report to adjust configurations for parameters that are used to make handover decisions. A UE may transmit such a handover error report in response to an undesirable handover procedure from a source access node to a target access node, such as a failed or nearly failed or too early handover procedure. The UE may transmit this handover error report to either the source access node or the target access node or another node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Juergen Michel, Bernhard Raaf, Thorsten Clevorn
  • Patent number: 9760954
    Abstract: Visual focal point composition of media capture based on a target audience is provided. An aspect includes activating a profile selection function via a media recording device and receiving, via the profile selection function, an identifier of a target viewer of media content. The profile selection function provides a list of social network contacts, including the target viewer, via the media recording device. Another aspect includes retrieving contact preferences associated with the identifier. The contact preferences are determined from data about the target viewer that is sourced from one or more compartmentalized entities. The contact preferences identify focal aspects of media content statistically determined to be of interest by the target viewer. A further aspect includes providing suggested focal aspects of a scene subject to media capture. The suggested focal aspects are derived from the contact preferences.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Peter A. Balinski, Sasikanth Eda, John G. Musial, Sandeep R. Patil
  • Patent number: 9750020
    Abstract: A wireless device having a first tunable antenna tuned to a first frequency band; and a second tunable antenna tuned to a second frequency band that is different than the first frequency band, wherein the first and second antennas are configured to transmit, receive, or a combination of transmit and receive transmission signals by carrier aggregation at the respective first and second frequency bands simultaneously.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Saku Lahti, Petri T. Mustonen, Jukka Leppänen, Mikko S. Komulainen
  • Patent number: 9749955
    Abstract: Mobile platform power management is an important problem especially for battery-powered small form factor platforms such as smartphones, tablets, wearable devices, Internet of Things (IOT) devices, and the like. A low-power wake-up radio cooperates with a mobility manager which is configured to receive information from one or more sensors and determine a mobility management frame. The mobility management frame specifies transmitter operation, such as a number and time interval over which to transmit a number of wake-up packets, which are usable by the low-power wake-up radio to control main radio operation in the wireless communications device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Alexander W. Min, Minyoung Park
  • Patent number: 9736079
    Abstract: A computer implemented system is provided for improving performance of transmission in real-time or near real-time applications from at least one transmitter unit to at least one receiver unit. The system includes an intelligent data connection manager utility that generates or accesses performance data for two or more data connections associated with the two or more communication networks, and based on the current performance data determining current network transmission characteristics associated the two or more data connections, and bonds the two or more data connections based on: a predetermined system latency requirement; and dynamically allocating different functions associated with data transmission between the two or more data connections based on their respective current network transmission characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: Dejero Labs Inc.
    Inventors: David Sze, Bogdan Frusina, Barry Gilhuly, Todd Schneider
  • Patent number: 9729389
    Abstract: A switching system includes memory and a switching circuit. The memory stores a port priority table and a trigger source and condition table. The switching circuit for switches network traffic between a number of ports based on the port priority table, the trigger source and condition table, and port health status data. Switching network traffic includes: determining a priority path for a first port using the port health status data and the trigger source and condition table; determining a second port specified as a destination for network traffic arriving at the first port by the port priority table for the priority path; and routing incoming network traffic from the first port to the second port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: IXIA
    Inventors: Wei Lian, Wenxing Quan, Randy Fung, Marcel Felix Desdier
  • Patent number: 9726584
    Abstract: A sample imaging apparatus comprising: an imaging section for imaging a stained sample including a stained cell to generate a cell image relating to the stained cell included in the stained sample; and a staining abnormality detector for detecting an abnormality relating to staining of the stained sample on the basis of the cell image generated by the imaging section, is disclosed. A sample imaging apparatus comprising: an imaging section for imaging a stained sample to generate a cell image relating to a cell included in the stained sample; and an imaging abnormality detector for detecting an abnormality relating to the imaging section on the basis of the cell image generated by the imaging section, is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: SYSMEX CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kazuhiro Yamada