Patents Examined by Trang Nguyen
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Patent number: 9723499Abstract: Network service providers often make use of traffic optimizers, in order to balance the objectives of maximizing users' quality of experience (“QoE”) with the costs of transmitting data. Certain content providers may make use of their own optimization algorithms, which may be interfered with by network providers' traffic optimizers. As described herein, a master optimization controller (“MOC”) may be able to enable or disable traffic optimizers within a network by enhancing a Transmission Control Protocol (“TCP”) three-way handshake procedure. The MOC may also perform traffic optimization, thus serving as the only device that performs optimization on traffic. Additionally, while traffic optimizers within a network are typically not visible to third party content providers, the MOC may perform optimization in a manner that may be visible to, and controlled by, a content provider.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2015Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.Inventor: Ram Gopal Lakshmi Narayanan
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Patent number: 9723517Abstract: An apparatus performs in parallel a first communication conforming to a first wireless communication method and a second communication conforming to a second wireless communication method by distributing transmission data to the first communication and the second communication so that first and second transmission data are distributed to the first and second communications, respectively. The apparatus detects an unallocated data amount indicating an amount of a first portion of the first transmission data that is different from a second portion of the first transmission data that is allocated to wireless resources of the first communication. The apparatus controls, based on the detected unallocated data amount, a ratio of an amount of the first transmission data distributed to the first communication, to a total amount of transmission data distributed to both the first and second communications.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2015Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventors: Yuji Kojima, Takeshi Kawasaki
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Patent number: 9723622Abstract: A method and apparatus for enabling prioritization of signaling messages in a communication network are disclosed. For example, the method receives at least one signaling message, and classifies each of the at least one signaling message. The method schedules each of the at least one signaling message for processing, and discards selectively one or more signaling messages that have been scheduled under an overload condition.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2016Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: Uber Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Xiaowen Mang, Carolyn Roche Johnson, II
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Patent number: 9715671Abstract: A system for managing medications facilitates documentation of medication returned from remote dispensing units to a central storage location such as a pharmacy vault. The system may be especially useful in facilitating the tracking of controlled substances. The system receives an indication that a medication previously removed from the remote dispensing units has been designated for return to the medication management system. The system computes an estimated return amount of the medication, and causes a queued return list to be displayed at the central storage location. The system can accommodate multiple remote dispensing devices and multiple medications.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2012Date of Patent: July 25, 2017Assignee: Omnicell, Inc.Inventors: John Vahlberg, Mike Dougan
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Patent number: 9713060Abstract: A method, system, and computer program product that provides a two-index system for clusters of small cells in a wireless network. A first index is employed for access to and identification of a serving cell within a cluster of small cells. A second index indicates a group of small cells for determining mobility control. The first index may be derived from primary/secondary synchronization signals, or from frequency/time division multiplex signal position. The second index may be indicated in system/master information block signals or predefined as a plurality of small cells identified by the first index for each cell. Determination of physical cell identification is aided by providing a plurality of primary/secondary synchronization (PSS/SSS) signal alternating configurations with indicator, wherein a maximum number of configurations is predefined.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2012Date of Patent: July 18, 2017Assignee: Avago Technologies General IP (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Na Wei, Pengfei Sun, Erlin Zeng, Chunyan Gao, Wei Bai, Haiming Wang, Wei Hong, Lili Zhang
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Patent number: 9710900Abstract: A method of analyzing a thermal image of a body section is disclosed. The method comprises obtaining a thermospatial representation of the body section, calculating a surface integral of the thermal data over the surface, and determining the likelihood that a thermally distinguishable region is present in the body section, based on a value of the surface integral.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2013Date of Patent: July 18, 2017Assignee: Real Imaging Ltd.Inventors: Israel Boaz Arnon, Yoel Arieli
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Patent number: 9713107Abstract: A transmitter comprising a power amplifier, a phase modulator, a switched DC-DC converter, all operating in dual mode, and a controller is disclosed. The power amplifier is arranged to selectively operate either in a first mode or in a second mode, wherein the first mode is a linear mode and the second mode is a non-linear mode in order to save power with least increasing cost in hardware. The transmitter is adapted to operate at different allocated bandwidths, for different radio standards while keeping minimum power consumption governed by the controller. A transceiver, a communication device, a method and a computer program are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2016Date of Patent: July 18, 2017Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)Inventors: Fenghao Mu, Bengt Lindoff
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Patent number: 9705692Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and device for receiving a multimedia broadcast multicast service (MBMS) in a mobile communication system. The method for receiving the MBMS of a terminal in the mobile communication system according to an embodiment of the present invention is characterized in that it includes: determining whether service area ID (SAI) information on a serving cell is broadcast during the MBMS; receiving the SAI information on the serving cell when it is determined that the SAI information is broadcast; determining, by using the received SAI information of the serving cell, whether an SAI of the MBMS matches the SAI of the serving cell; and changing the cell reselection priority of the frequency of the serving cell to the highest priority if it is determined that the SAI of the MBMS matches the SAI of the serving cell.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2016Date of Patent: July 11, 2017Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Soeng-Hun Kim, Kyeong-In Jeong
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Patent number: 9699064Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for re-construction and tracking of a forwarding state of a network device in communication with a network controller in a Software Defined Network (SDN). The techniques include receiving control messages, where the control messages are messages transmitted from a network controller to a network device. The techniques further includes extracting a subset of control messages from the control messages, where each control message from the subset of control messages caused a change in a forwarding state of the network device; generating, based on the extracted subset of control messages, a directed graph, wherein the directed graph is representative of the forwarding state of the network device; and causing the directed graph to be displayed on a display device.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2015Date of Patent: July 4, 2017Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)Inventor: Ganesh Handige Shankar
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Patent number: 9699730Abstract: Provided is a communication method by a station (STA) that operates in a power safe mode in a wireless LAN system. The method comprises: transmitting a probe request frame to an access point (AP), wherein the probe request frame includes system information identification information for identifying system information acquired by the STA; and receiving a probe response frame as a response to the probe request frame from the AP. The probe response frame includes a time stamp value related to the point of time of transmitting the probe response frame, and if it is determined, based on the system information identification information, that updated information which is not included in said acquired system information exists, the probe response frame further includes said updated information. Also provided is a communication method by an access point (AP) in a wireless LAN system.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2016Date of Patent: July 4, 2017Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Yong Ho Seok, Hyang Sun You, Ji Hyun Lee
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Patent number: 9693172Abstract: A method for operating a machine-type device (MTD) includes determining communications requirements for a machine-type device (MTD), and assigning a first signal waveform selected from a plurality of signal waveforms to the MTD in accordance with the determined communications requirements, wherein each signal waveform has an associated characteristic signal bandwidth.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2014Date of Patent: June 27, 2017Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yu Cao, Ming Jia, Jianglei Ma, Javad Abdoli
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Patent number: 9691410Abstract: The present invention relates to a frequency band extending device and method, an encoding device and method, a decoding device and method, and a program, whereby music signals can be played with higher sound quality due to the extension of frequency bands. A bandpass filter 13 divides an input signal into multiple sub-band signals, a feature amount calculating circuit 14 calculates feature amount using at least one of the multiple divided sub-band signals and the input signal, a high frequency sub-band power estimating circuit 15 calculates an estimated value of a high frequency sub-band power based on the calculated feature amount, a high frequency signal generating circuit 16 generates a high frequency signal component based on the multiple sub-band signals divided by the bandpass filter 13, and the estimated value of the high frequency sub-band power calculated by the high frequency sub-band power estimating circuit 15.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2015Date of Patent: June 27, 2017Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Yuki Yamamoto, Toru Chinen, Hiroyuki Honma, Yuhki Mitsufuji
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Patent number: 9680669Abstract: Embodiments can relate to an apparatus for interference mitigation in a wireless communication. The apparatus can comprise at least one processing element arranged to extract, from a received PDCCH or EPDCCH signal, modulated symbols; the modulated symbols having been modulated using a linear m-ary modulation constellation. The apparatus also comprises a demodulator to demodulate the extracted PDCCH or EPDCCH modulated symbols; the demodulator being operable to demodulate the extracted symbols according to the linear m-ary modulation constellation.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2013Date of Patent: June 13, 2017Assignee: INTEL CORPORATIONInventors: Alexei Davydov, Seunghee Han, Gregory Morozov, Alexander Maltsev, Ilya Bolotin
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Patent number: 9674734Abstract: In an access device associated with a first network cell, a method for enabling user equipment (UE) to obtain a service unavailable through the first network cell includes receiving a request for the UE to access the service, and identifying, in a message to the UE, a plurality of second network cells providing the service.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2016Date of Patent: June 6, 2017Assignee: BlackBerry LimitedInventors: Richard Charles Burbidge, Takashi Suzuki, David Philip Hole, Johanna Lisa Dwyer, Venkata Ratnakar Rao Rayavarapu, Maiyuran Wijayanathan, Stephen McCann, Andrew Mark Earnshaw, Chen Ho Chin
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Patent number: 9668187Abstract: Network node (120) and method (300) in a network node (120), which is serving a user equipment (110), for instructing the user equipment (110) to send a measurement report in a wireless communication network (100) comprising the network node (120) and an underlay network node (130). The method (300) comprises estimating (302) an amount of data the user equipment (110) is expected to communicate. Further, the method (300) also comprises determining (303) the user equipment (110) to be a candidate for hand over to the underlay network node (130), based on the estimated (302) amount of data. Additionally, the method (300) comprises instructing (305) the user equipment (110) to send a measurement report.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2011Date of Patent: May 30, 2017Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)Inventors: Fredrik Gunnarsson, Mats Folke, Walter Müller
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Patent number: 9667526Abstract: A mobile terminal includes: a peripheral interface having four terminals; an I2C interface; a first detection unit adapted to detect if an I2C device is inserted into the peripheral interface; and a first control unit adapted to, when the first detection unit detects there is an I2C device inserted into the peripheral interface, connect the I2C interface with the peripheral interface, such that the I2C interface is connected with the detected I2C device plugged in the peripheral interface. Accordingly, information exchange between mobile terminals and I2C devices can be achieved, thus adaptability of the mobile terminals can be expanded.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2015Date of Patent: May 30, 2017Assignee: SPREADTRUM COMMUNICATIONS (SHANGHAI) CO., LTDInventors: Yu-Jen Su, Wei-Hsin Lee, Chia-Hsiang Su, Pao-Ta Lin, Tsung-Hsien Tsai, Wen-Ni Cheng
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Patent number: 9661628Abstract: A method including receiving timing information associated with a transmission of reference information from a first cell or first network node when in a less active mode; and using the timing information to control when transmissions from the first cell or first network node are monitored for the reference information.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2012Date of Patent: May 23, 2017Assignee: Nokia Solutions and Networks OyInventors: Claudio Rosa, Frank Frederiksen, Timo Erkki Lunttila
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Patent number: 9648574Abstract: A receiving device includes a first processing unit configured to execute a first demodulation process on a second signal transmitted in a second radio area different from a first radio area in which a first signal as a desired signal is transmitted; a first estimation unit configured to execute a first estimation process of estimating a channel for the second radio area based on an execution result of the first demodulation process; and a second processing unit configured to execute a cancellation process of cancelling a component from a received signal based on the estimated channel, the component being attributed to the second signal transmitted in the second radio area, wherein the receiving device executes a second demodulation process on the desired signal based on an execution result of the cancellation process.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2015Date of Patent: May 9, 2017Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventor: Takashi Seyama
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Patent number: 9648555Abstract: Techniques for wireless network discovery and selection support are described. In one embodiment, for example, an evolved packet core (EPC) node may comprise a processor circuit to implement an access network discovery and selection function (ANDSF) according to a management object that includes a branch comprising one or more policies to select a wireless local area network (WLAN), the processing circuitry to receive capabilities information and location information for a user equipment (UE) and determine access network information for the UE based on the capabilities information and the location information. Other embodiments are described and claimed.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2015Date of Patent: May 9, 2017Assignees: INTEL CORPORATION, INTEL IP CORPORATIONInventor: Vivek Gupta
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Patent number: 9642108Abstract: Disclosed are methods for carrying out device-to-device (“D2D”) communication. In one implementation, a user equipment (“UE”) communicates D2D with another UE using uplink radio resources. The first UE receives a downlink signal from a base station and determines the reception time. The first UE also receives a timing advance for uplink communication. Based on the reception time and the timing advance, the first UE determines an uplink transmission time. When transmitting to the second UE, however, the first UE does not transmit at the determined UL transmission time. Rather, the first UE delays its D2D transmission for a period of time that is based on the second UE's uplink timing advance.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2016Date of Patent: May 2, 2017Assignee: Google Technology Holdings LLCInventors: Murali Narasimha, Vijay Nangia, Ravikiran Nory