Patents Examined by Wali Butt
  • Patent number: 9954660
    Abstract: A user equipment receives, from the base station apparatus, bit information. The bit information indicates first information indicating one or more antenna ports and second information indicating a number of layers for downlink data symbols.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yingyu Zhang, Renmao Liu, Ming Ding, Yongming Liang, Zeng Yang
  • Patent number: 9930695
    Abstract: This disclosure describes methods, apparatus, and systems related to an OFDMA Distributed Channel Access. A first computing device comprising one or more processors and one or more transceiver components may determine one or more random access resource allocations. The first computing device may generate a trigger frame associated with the one or more random access resource allocations. The first computing device may cause to send the trigger frame to one or more user devices including a first user device. The first computing device may receive from the first user device, in response to sending the trigger frame, a first uplink frame based on a first backoff count associated with the first user device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: Intel IP Corporation
    Inventors: Robert Stacey, Chittabratta Ghosh
  • Patent number: 9913195
    Abstract: A mesh network comprising an originator station and a target station wherein each station comprises a controller and memory for storing a first path table for storing one or more paths to be used for sending data packets and a second path table for storing one or more alternative paths for sending data packets. The originator station is configured to broadcast a path request data packet for the target station and receive a first path reply data packet comprising a first alternative path to the target station. Then the originator station is further configured to store the first alternative path in the second path table of the originator station and receive at least one second path reply data packet comprising at least one second alternative path to the target station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignee: TERRANET AB
    Inventors: Johan Petersen, Henrik Floberg, Monthadar Al Jaberi, Chafik Driouichi
  • Patent number: 9888501
    Abstract: The embodiments set forth herein disclose techniques for enabling a user device to seamlessly establish a secure, high-bandwidth wireless connection with a vehicle accessory system to enable the user device to wirelessly stream user interface (UI) information to the vehicle accessory system. To implement this technique, a lower-bandwidth wireless technology (e.g., Bluetooth) is used as an initial means for establishing a Wi-Fi pairing between the user device and the vehicle accessory system. Wi-Fi parameters associated with a Wi-Fi network provided by the vehicle accessory system can be communicated to the user device using the lower-bandwidth wireless technology. A secure Wi-Fi connection can then be established between the user device and the vehicle accessory system using the provided Wi-Fi parameters. The embodiments also disclose a technique for enabling the user device to automatically reconnect with the vehicle accessory system in a seamless manner (e.g., when returning to a vehicle).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel R. Borges, Sriram Hariharan, Matthew L. Semersky, Michael J. Giles, Andre M. Boule, Brian D. Pietsch, Artiom Shamis, Ganesha Adkasthala Ganapathi Bata, Christopher R. Whitney, Tanya G. Kancheva, Friedrich W. Drees
  • Patent number: 9888442
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a power receiving unit that wirelessly receives power from a power supply apparatus; a first communication unit that performs wireless communication; a connection unit that connects a communication device including a second communication unit that performs wireless communication; and a control unit that (a) determines whether the communication device is capable of receiving predetermined power if the communication device is connected with the connection unit, and (b) controls the first communication unit to transmit data for notifying the power supply apparatus about a presence of a device which is not capable of using wireless power supply if the communication device is not capable of receiving the predetermined power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Nobuyuki Tsukamoto
  • Patent number: 9883529
    Abstract: Example methods disclosed herein for a station in a communication system include accessing a response frame received in response to a control frame transmitted to an access point. The response frame indicates a start time for a trigger frame to be transmitted by the access point to trigger the station to transmit an uplink transmission. Disclosed example methods also include controlling a receiver of the station to receive the trigger frame at the indicated start time. Example methods disclosed herein for an access point in a communication system include transmitting a response frame to a station in response to a control frame received from the station. The example response frame indicates a start time for a trigger frame to be transmitted by the access point to trigger the station to transmit an uplink transmission. Disclosed example methods also include transmitting the trigger frame at the indicated start time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: Intel IP Corporation
    Inventor: Chittabrata Ghosh
  • Patent number: 9867214
    Abstract: A wireless communication device is configured to perform clear channel assessment (CCA) using one or more CCA levels that are selected based on various criteria. The device receives or detects one or more packets on the communication medium, and the device then processes those one or more packets to determine status of one or more channels within one or more frequency bands using the one or more CCA levels. These CCA levels may be selected based on one or more parameters, and different CCA levels may be used at different times, for different channels, etc. Also, different CCA levels may be used to determine the status of different channels, different portions of the frequency spectrum, etc. When at least one channel is determined as being clear and available for usage, the device is configured to support communications with one or more other devices via one or more channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: AVAGO TECHNOLOGIES GENERAL IP (SINGAPORE) PTE. LTD.
    Inventor: Ron Porat
  • Patent number: 9853845
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and computer readable media for indicating a communication and information in a signal field are disclosed. A high-efficiency wireless local area network (HEW) device comprises circuitry is disclosed. The circuitry may be configured to: generate a HEW packet comprising a legacy signal (L-SIG) field, where the L-SIG field comprises a plurality of subcarriers, and an R-L-SIG field, where the R-L-SIG field comprises a repeat of the plurality of subcarriers partitioned into a plurality of groups, and where information is encoded into one or more groups of the plurality of groups by a same modulation to each subcarrier partitioned into the corresponding group. A HEW device comprising circuitry is disclosed. The circuitry may be configured to: receive a L-SIG field; receive a R-L-SIG field; and determine whether the R-L-SIG field is a repeat of the L-SIG field with piggybacked information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: Intel IP Corporation
    Inventors: Qinghua Li, Xiaogang Chen, Huaning Niu, Robert J. Stacey, Jeongho Jeon, Yuan Zhu
  • Patent number: 9838989
    Abstract: Information is communicated indicating whether a cell on a first carrier of a first type is to be used as a reference cell, wherein the reference cell is at least one selected from among a pathloss reference cell and a timing reference cell, and wherein the first carrier of the first type is part of a carrier aggregation that further includes at least a second carrier of a second, different type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Takashi Suzuki, Zhijun Cai, Rene Waraputra Purnadi
  • Patent number: 9838172
    Abstract: Disclosed is a base station apparatus in which a configuration section (102) configures, within a data assignable region for a terminal apparatus (200), a first search space and a second search space each being a candidate to which control information is assigned, each of the first search space and the second search space including a plurality of control channel elements, and a signal assignment section (105) assigns control information to each of the first search space and the second search space. In addition, the configuration section (102) allocates numbers to a plurality of first control channel elements included in the first search space in an ascending order, and allocates numbers larger than or identical with the numbers allocated to the first control channel elements to a plurality of second control channel elements included in the second search space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: Sun Patent Trust
    Inventors: Ayako Horiuchi, Kazuki Takeda
  • Patent number: 9832120
    Abstract: A packet routing apparatus includes a plurality of interface units each includes, a first memory in which a plurality of routing information used in a routing of a packet are stored, a second memory in which the plurality of routing information are stored, the number of the routing information stored in the second memory being smaller than the number of the routing information stored in the first memory, and a retrieval unit configured to detect a packet length of the packet received at any of the plurality of ports, perform the routing based on the plurality of routing information stored in the second memory when the detected packet length is less than a predetermined value, and perform the routing based on the plurality of routing information stored in the first memory when the detected packet length is greater than or equal to the predetermined value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventor: Michio Kuramoto
  • Patent number: 9831964
    Abstract: Methods and systems for improving adjacent channel rejection performance in a wireless signal by a radio device in a mobile network. In one embodiment, a mobile radio network includes a first radio device (e.g., a subscriber), a second radio device, and a fixed radio apparatus (e.g., a base station or repeater). The first radio device receives a first channel signal having a first frequency offset with respect to a reference frequency. The first channel signal is associated with the second radio device. The first radio device measures the first frequency offset, determines a second frequency offset for a second channel signal, and transmits the second channel signal with the second frequency offset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Arthur Christopher Leyh, Gregory J. Buchwald, David P. Gurney, Frank D. Panzica
  • Patent number: 9826419
    Abstract: Techniques for optimized cell acquisition for long term evolution (LTE) time division duplex (TDD) systems or closed subscriber group (CSG)/evolved Multicast Broadcast Multimedia Service (eMBMS) capable user equipments (UEs) are disclosed. A UE obtains configuration information, CSG capability information, and/or eMBMS capability information for a cell. The UE also stores the obtained information for the cell in a cell information database. In some aspects, the UE may employ the CSG and/or eMBMS capability information to select a weaker cell, during initial frequency scan at power up of the UE, based on cell capability. Additionally or alternatively, the UE may employ the configuration information to determine an initial mutual information (Mi) hypothesis value for physical hybrid-automatic repeat request (HART) indicator channel (PHICH) group mapping of the cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Pratik Kotkar, Alexei Yurievitch Gorokhov, Sachin Saraswat, Ning Yin, Srinivasan Rajagopalan, Muralidharan Murugan, Santosh Kumar Rongala
  • Patent number: 9819977
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for transmitting/receiving contents through a network such as the Internet, and to a transmitter/receiver using same, the transmission method comprising: converting content stored in a file format into a delivery format; and transmitting the content converted into the delivery format using an IP packet, wherein the delivery format includes indicator information for expressing whether a program clock reference (PCR) has been transmitted to the IP packet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Hotaek Hong, Jinpil Kim, Joonhui Lee, Hyeonjae Lee, Kyungho Kim, Kangsuk Huh
  • Patent number: 9804884
    Abstract: A communication system includes a control device configured to calculate a packet forwarding path and set a flow based on the packet forwarding path in a node, and a plurality of nodes configured to forward a received packet based on a flow set by the control device. The control device, when receiving a detour instruction, calculates a new packet forwarding path which detours a detour target node and sets a flow based on the new packet forwarding path in the plurality of nodes on the new packet forwarding path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Koji Ashihara, Junichi Yamato
  • Patent number: 9794124
    Abstract: A control apparatus, includes a first unit configured to be capable of specifying an identification rule to identify a packet based on a user of a virtual network including a plurality of virtual nodes; and a second unit configured to be capable of sending an instruction to a physical node corresponding to each of the virtual nodes of the virtual network, wherein each of the virtual nodes includes a predetermined network function being capable of providing a first packet operation to the packet, wherein the instruction includes that the physical node provides a second packet operation to the packet so as to emulate the first packet operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Masashi Numata, Syuuhei Yamaguchi, Junichi Yamato
  • Patent number: 9794979
    Abstract: A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for data communication are provided. The method may include providing a plurality of data channels on a communications link, determining unused bandwidth as a difference between total bandwidth provided by the communications link and bandwidth used by the plurality of data channels, allocating the unused bandwidth to a virtual channel, scheduling the plurality of data channels and the virtual channel in accordance with a time-based multiplexing scheme, and disabling interface circuitry used to couple the transmitter to the communications link when the virtual channel is scheduled. Each of the plurality of data channels may be assigned to a source of data to be transmitted on the communications link.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Wolfgang Roethig, Jaeyoung Kwak
  • Patent number: 9794128
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention relate to providing virtual network domain movement operations for overlay networks. One embodiment includes a method that includes determining one or more overlay network attributes (ONAs) for a plurality of virtual networks. The one or more ONAs are associated with the virtual networks. The one or more ONAs are managed as one or more portable entities by one or more of creating ONAs, deleting ONAs, moving ONAs, combining ONAs and dividing ONAs. A movement operation is performed on the one or more virtual networks among one or more servers of one or more overlay networks based on the management of the one or more ONAs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Casimer M. DeCusatis, Mircea Gusat, Vinit Jain, Keshav G. Kamble, Cyriel J. Minkenberg, Vijoy A. Pandey, Renato J. Recio
  • Patent number: 9788236
    Abstract: Aspects generally relate to a priority mechanism for handing potentially conflicting triggers related to offloading rules and RAN aggregation. As described, a UE may receive, from a BS, configuration information for RAN aggregation of one or more data bearers and offloading rules for WLAN offloading. The UE may determine a priority for communicating using the RAN aggregation and offloading rules based, at least in part, on the received configuration information. The UE may perform the RAN aggregation or the WLAN offloading according to the offloading rules based on the determined priority. The priorities may be established in an effort to generally give priority to RAN aggregation over offloading rules and/or give priority to UE-specific instructions over broadcasted instructions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Ozcan Ozturk, Gavin Bernard Horn, Stefano Faccin
  • Patent number: 9780942
    Abstract: A cellular radio architecture for a vehicle that includes a receiver module having a receiver delta-sigma modulator that converts analog receive signals to a representative digital signal. The architecture further includes a transmitter module having a transmitter delta-sigma modulator for converting digital data bits to analog transmit signals. Portions of the receiver and transmitter modules are fabricated with indium phosphide (InP) technologies and portions of the receiver and transmitter modules are fabricated with CMOS technologies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Timothy J. Talty, Cynthia D. Baringer, Mohiuddin Ahmed, Albert E. Cosand, James Chingwei Li, Peter Petre, Zhiwei A. Xu, Yen-Cheng Kuan