Patents Examined by Vanneilian Lalchinthang
  • Patent number: 9871929
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a communication method and a user equipment. The method includes: establishing, by a first user equipment, Internet-based Web Real-Time Communication WebRTC multimedia communication with a second user equipment, where the Internet-based WebRTC multimedia communication includes Internet-based WebRTC audio communication and Internet-based WebRTC non-audio communication; and performing, by the first user equipment, a first audio communication change operation, where the performing, by the first user equipment, a first audio communication change operation includes: establishing, by the first user equipment, telecommunications domain-based audio communication with the second user equipment, and disconnecting, by the first user equipment in a case in which the Internet-based WebRTC non-audio communication with the second user equipment remains, the Internet-based WebRTC audio communication with the second user equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2018
    Assignee: HUAWEI DEVICE (DONGGUAN) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiaoqiang Lv, Wenmei Gao, Shunan Fan, Yahui Wang, Hao Jing
  • Patent number: 9847860
    Abstract: There is provided a mechanism for conducting a communication between at least one communication network control element such as an eNB and at least one communication element such as a UE wherein a DM RS based communication mode is used. DMRS (scrambling) sequences are generated wherein each DMRS sequence includes a set of calculation parameters being specific for the respective DMRS sequence, wherein the set of calculation parameters is configurable by the eNB during communication. For initializing each of the at least one scrambling sequence before receiving the configuration information, i.e. in an initial phase of the communication, a predetermined default value based on e.g. an UE_ID and being selectable from a set of predetermined default values is used for the set of calculation parameters in each DMRS sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2017
    Assignee: Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy
    Inventors: Xiaoyi Wang, Peter Skov, Jingxiu Liu, DeShan Miao
  • Patent number: 9843510
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for selecting a label switched path LSP, which is applied in an MPLS network and includes: determining an energy engineering parameter of a network element itself in the network, where the network element is a network element on any candidate LSP between a source network element and a destination network element; receiving, by the network element, Interior Gateway Protocol IGP messages sent by other network elements in the network, and obtaining an energy engineering parameter of each of the other network elements; and selecting, according to the energy engineering parameter of the network element itself and the energy engineering parameter of each of the other network elements, a transmission path for the source network element and the destination network element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chongyang Wang, Jianjun Yang
  • Patent number: 9844058
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, a device and a system for reporting RF capability in carrier aggregation, used to reduce signaling overhead when a UE reports information. The method provided in the embodiments of the present invention includes: identifying a combination of identifiers of frequency bands that support the carrier aggregation, and generating a set of combinations of identifiers of frequency bands that support the carrier aggregation; identifying identifiers of frequency bands that do not support the carrier aggregation, and generating a set of identifiers of frequency bands that do not support the carrier aggregation; and sending the set of combinations of identifiers of frequency bands that support the carrier aggregation and the set of identifiers of frequency bands that do not support the carrier aggregation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Dengkun Xiao, Jing Han
  • Patent number: 9838091
    Abstract: It is possible to improve the spectral efficiency of multi-layer multiple input multiple output (MIMO) transmissions by estimating the magnitude parameter at the receiver side, rather signaling the magnitude parameter from the transmitter to the receiver. In long term evolution (LTE) networks, the user equipment (UE) may estimate the power allocation (Pa) parameter by executing a series of steps. For example, the UE may define a single unknown variable from a received downlink MIMO signal, extend the single unknown scalar variable to a multivariate signal model for multiple channels (N), convert the multivariate signal model to a MIMO configured signal model, and then obtain the Pa parameter from the MIMO configured multivariate signal model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Ge Xu, Cornelius Janse van Rensburg
  • Patent number: 9838946
    Abstract: A system and method for selecting at least one relay in a communication network; the network comprises a plurality of nodes; each of the nodes comprises at least one processing unit; each pair of the nodes is characterized by a first connection number; a first score is associated with each pair of (i) first first connection number; and (ii) second first connection number; each of the processing unit is programmed to execute the method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: MAXTECH COMMUNICATION NETWORKS LTD.
    Inventors: Yakir Matusovsky, Uzi Hanuni, Boaz Dagan
  • Patent number: 9832784
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods and apparatuses for transmitting data in a multicarrier telecommunication system and in particular for performing modulation and coding for low transmission power data. Scheduling information indicating resources on which a terminal is scheduled to transmit data is received at the terminal. The scheduling information includes a modulation and coding indicator set. Data are transmitted on the scheduled resources in accordance with a modulation and coding indicator in the modulation and coding indicator set and with a transmission parameter of the data to be transmitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Michael Einhaus, Christian Wengerter, Alexander Golitschek Edler von Elbwart
  • Patent number: 9832769
    Abstract: A half-duplex wireless network device is structured to transmit and receive information over a unique pattern of one or more transmission slots and one or more reception slots within each of a sequence of communication frames to accomplish virtual full-duplex communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: Northwestern University
    Inventor: Dongning Guo
  • Patent number: 9826453
    Abstract: A system and method manages call connections between mobile subscribers and an EP-based wireless telecommunications network through a wireless access point. Communications between the mobile subscribers and the IP-based wireless telecommunications network are initiated by a registration request. During the registration request various identifiers (IMSI, MAC address, IP Address, etc.) are communicated to the system. The system is arranged to log the identifiers and associate those identifiers with the entry point (e.g., the wireless access point) into the IP based wireless network. Call connections from the mobile subscribers are monitored for various throughput and call quality based metrics. Call handoffs between the IP-based wireless communications network and the cellular telephony network are managed by the system based on the monitored call quality and throughput metrics on a per-access point basis using the registered identifiers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Janne P. Linkola, Christopher E. Caldwell
  • Patent number: 9825735
    Abstract: In accordance with an example embodiment of the present invention, disclosed is a method and an apparatus thereof for handling a conflict resolution between storage requirements of multiple applications sharing the same data. A conflict resolution function resolves the conflicts in several steps and the result is either a coordinated merge of the different applications' storage requirements in multiple groups according to their needs and/or a controlled reduction of the relevance of some of the storage requirements for some applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Qianxi Lu, Qingyu Miao, Zhenshan Zhao
  • Patent number: 9825810
    Abstract: Some embodiments provide an elastic architecture for providing a service in a computing system. To perform a service on the data messages, the service architecture uses a service node (SN) group that includes one primary service node (PSN) and zero or more secondary service nodes (SSNs). The service can be performed on a data message by either the PSN or one of the SSN. However, in addition to performing the service, the PSN also performs a load balancing operation that assesses the load on each service node (i.e., on the PSN or each SSN), and based on this assessment, has the data messages distributed to the service node(s) in its SN group. Based on the assessed load, the PSN in some embodiments also has one or more SSNs added to or removed from its SN group. To add or remove an SSN to or from the service node group, the PSN in some embodiments directs a set of controllers to add (e.g., instantiate or allocate) or remove the SSN to or from the SN group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: NICIRA, INC.
    Inventors: Jayant Jain, Anirban Sengupta, Mohan Parthasarathy
  • Patent number: 9819466
    Abstract: A method of retransmitting a packet for low-power wireless sensor communications of a coordinator in a sensor network is provided. The method includes receiving packets from a plurality of sensor devices during a plurality of guaranteed time slots (GTSs) of a Contention Free Period (CFP) which are allocated to the respective sensor devices; checking whether there is an error in each of the received packets; generating one GTS Bulk ACK frame that contains pieces of ACK information to be transmitted to the respective sensor devices, according to the error check results; and transmitting the generated GTS Bulk ACK frame to the plurality of sensor devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Geon-Min Yeo, Young-Il Kim, Won Ryu
  • Patent number: 9813349
    Abstract: The present invention provide a transmission path, including: an FD storage module, configured to receive and store an FD; a calculating module, configured to determine, according to a length value of the first frame stored in the FD storage module, a volume of data stored in the transmission path; a determining module, configured to determine whether the volume of the data stored in the transmission path determined by the calculating module is greater than a preset data volume threshold; and an instructing module, configured to send a backpressure signal to the TM module when the determining module determines that the volume of the data stored in the transmission path is greater than the preset data volume threshold, where the backpressure signal is used to instruct the TM module to stop sending an FD of the second frame to the transmission path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yong You, Xiyou Wu
  • Patent number: 9813890
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for transmitting contents in a mobile communication network. According to one embodiment of the present invention, the method for receiving the contents of user equipment (UE) in a mobile communication system equipped with a local server which is connected to a base station (eNB) and copies partial contents of an external content server and maintains the copied contents, can include: a content determination step of determining whether the selected contents are the contents provided from the local server when a content selection input is received; a request transmission step of transmitting a content transmission request message to the base station (eNB) when the contents are the contents provided from the local server; and a content reception step of receiving the contents from the base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sang Soo Jeong, Beom Sik Bae, Jung Je Son, Chae Gwon Lim, Jung Shin Park, Kyung Joo Suh
  • Patent number: 9780843
    Abstract: An interference suppression (IS) time/frequency zone for improved interference suppression at the user equipment (UE) is provided. The IS time/frequency zone can be scheduled and set up using existing signaling of the Almost Blank Subframe (ABS) framework. This includes using the existing signaling of the ABS framework to schedule the IS time/frequency zone, coordinate transmission parameters among base stations for the IS time/frequency zone, and signal the IS time/frequency zone to the UE. In another aspect, interfering base stations align respective reference signals during the IS time/frequency zone, which allows the UE to measure the channels from its serving base station and/or the interfering base stations(s). With channel state information knowledge at the UE, interference alignment can be achieved at the UE during the IS time/frequency zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: Avago Technologies General IP (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Amin Mobasher, Louay Jalloul
  • Patent number: 9775180
    Abstract: The radio communication system has a user equipment, a first base station, a second base station, a serving gateway, and a switching station. The first base station has a control-plane path set to the switching station. The second base station has no control-plane path to the switching station. A path setting determiner determines whether to set a user-plane path, based on measurement information reported from the user equipment. A base station determiner determines, based on identification information obtained by the user equipment, whether a base station to which the user-plane path is to be set is the second base station, the base station corresponding to the obtained identification information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yasufumi Morioka, Hiroto Yasuda, Jinho Kim, Hideaki Takahashi, Junichiro Hagiwara, Hiroyuki Ishii
  • Patent number: 9769678
    Abstract: A method for determining the performance of a communications network said method comprising the steps of transmitting a message from a mobile device to at least one server, each server within the at least one servers being configured to direct the message back to the mobile device; receiving at the mobile device the messages returned by each of the at least one server; calculating a time differential between transmission of the message by said mobile device and receipt of the messages, returned by each server of the at least one server, by said mobile device; and forwarding the calculated time differential to a primary server selected from the at least one server for storage is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: 3RD BRAND PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: John Anthony Underwood, Christopher Edward Keys, Rainer Leinonen, Markku Kero
  • Patent number: 9762340
    Abstract: A synchronization timing loop detection method includes monitoring an active timing reference for a flapping event at a network element, incrementing a counter for each detected flapping event, determining if the counter exceeds a threshold over a predetermined time period, and, if the counter exceeds the threshold, declaring a possible timing loop on the active timing reference. The flapping event can include the active timing reference being active followed by inactive due to synchronization status messaging and one of a logical and physical timing loop on the active timing reference. A synchronization timing loop detection system and a network element for synchronization timing loop detection for the synchronization timing loop detection method are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: Ciena Corporation
    Inventor: Mark J. Derrico
  • Patent number: 9762457
    Abstract: Concepts and technologies are disclosed herein for providing and using a deep packet inspection virtual function. A control system can detect a service request. The control system can analyze a policy to determine a function of a service to which the service request relates, a virtual machine that will host the function, and a deep packet inspection virtual function associated with the service. The control system can trigger loading of an image to the virtual machine and instantiation of the virtual machine. The image can include the function of the service and the deep packet inspection virtual function. The control system can validate the service and the deep packet inspection virtual function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventor: Walter Cooper Chastain
  • Patent number: 9756567
    Abstract: A wireless telecommunications system including at least one base station, a first terminal device and a second terminal device, wherein the first terminal device is a terminal device of a first type and the second terminal device is a terminal device of a second type, the second type being different from the first type, and wherein the at least one base station is configured to communicate data which is specific to the first terminal device in a synchronous manner and to communicate data which is specific to the second terminal device in a non-synchronous manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: SCA IPLA HOLDINGS INC
    Inventor: Yuichi Morioka