Patents Examined by Zhaohui Yang
  • Patent number: 10298310
    Abstract: It would be to provide a method which will work with future versions of LTE-A, be backwards compatible and alleviate interference to signals for basic system operation. The method includes generating one or more Reference Signals associated with the one or more Channel Quality Indicators, and includes mapping the one or more Channel Quality Indicator-Reference Signals to the last symbol of the second slot of the one or more subframes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: LENOVO INNOVATIONS LIMITED (HONG KONG)
    Inventor: Boon Loong Ng
  • Patent number: 10298493
    Abstract: Measures, including methods, systems and computer program products, for use in processing route data in a network comprising a plurality of autonomous systems. At a network device, route data defining at least one route for network traffic which is configured on at least one border network device is received from the at least one border network device. The at least one border network device is located at a border of an autonomous system in the plurality of autonomous systems. The network device processes the received route data according to a set of policies to generate modified route data. The network device transmits at least a part of the modified route data to the at least one border network device. The at least part of the modified route data is operable to instruct the at least one border network device to modify the behavior of the at least one route.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: Metaswitch Networks Ltd
    Inventors: Christopher David Liljenstolpe, Jonathan Eric Hardwick, Jonathan Richard Berger
  • Patent number: 10270622
    Abstract: Embodiments herein include systems and methods for providing a mechanism to enable smooth, seamless, and reliable connectivity for wireless devices in a unified network. The system supports roaming of mobile units across mobility switches. A given mobile unit can retain its IP address in both intra-subnet and inter-subnet roaming scenarios. The given mobile unit also retains its membership to a mobility VLAN to which it had been assigned, even during roaming scenarios. Embodiments include a framework for wireless switches to advertise VLANs they support to peer wireless switches in the mobility domain, and to advertise their capability to act as VLAN servers for those VLANs. Embodiments support VLAN membership management capabilities that allow access points and peer wireless switches to request wireless switches to add VLANs to the tunnels they share.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: Avaya Inc.
    Inventors: Vivek L. Atreya, Shashi H. Ankaiah, Seemant Choudhary, Kumar Das Karunakaran, Udaya N. Shankar
  • Patent number: 10270714
    Abstract: A switch for transmitting data packets between at least one source node and at least one target node is provided. The switch includes a storage unit, a control unit, at least one receiving port and at least one transmitting port. The storage unit includes a plurality of storage blocks and configured to cache the data packets. The control unit is configured to manage the storage blocks. The switch receives and caches the data packets transmitted from the at least one source node via the receiving port and transmits the cached data packets to the at least one target node via the transmitting port. A data accessing method adapted for the switch is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: VIA Alliance Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xiaoliang Kang, Jiin Lai, Weilin Wang, Peng Shen
  • Patent number: 10256990
    Abstract: A plurality of management cards including an active card and a standby card are provided. The active card determines open or block of a ring port in accordance with an event based on a ring protocol, issues an open instruction or a block instruction to a line card, and notifies a block factor in addition to the block instruction when issuing the block instruction. The line card controls open or block of the ring port in accordance with the open instruction or the block instruction and retains open/block information of the ring port and a block factor of the block state in a port management table. When the standby card is changed to the active card in accordance with a predetermined change instruction, it acquires the information retained in the port management table from the line card.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: APRESIA Systems, Ltd.
    Inventor: Makoto Yasuda
  • Patent number: 10250486
    Abstract: An IP router capable of isochronous switching of a packetized media stream. According to an example, the IP router parses the RTP header within an incoming IP datagram to extract the RTP time stamp, which provides a time value for a unique IP Flow. By inspecting the header, the IP router can switch the flow at the point in time that the RTP time stamp value changes, or matches a target value. In one aspect, the IP router looks for the change in the RTP time stamp value and performs the switch based on the detected change. In another aspect, the IP router performs the switch at a specified time stamp value that can be unique to a group of signals or based on a common “sync” value published to all the ports of the IP router.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: GVBB HOLDINGS S.A.R.L.
    Inventor: Charles S. Meyer
  • Patent number: 10218597
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for providing rating and usage models for IP traffic to and from clients' resource instances in a provider network environment. A service provider may implement rating and usage models that may be used to associate provider network addresses with address ranges of external networks. The models may be provided to or selected by clients and applied to traffic between the clients' provider network addresses and the addresses of user devices that are in the address ranges of external networks associated with the models. Rating models may be applied to provider network clients' usage on the provider network resulting from the clients' customers' accesses of the clients' applications on resource instances in the provider network. Usage models may be applied to the clients' customers' usage on intermediate networks when accessing the clients' applications on resource instances in the provider network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin Christopher Miller, Joseph E. Magerramov
  • Patent number: 10212674
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. More specifically, the present invention relates to power headroom reporting (PHR) in terms of multiple TDD UL/DL subframe configurations. According to one aspect of the present invention, the UE receives information informing the UE of multiple time division duplex (TDD) uplink/downlink (UL/DL) subframe configurations, and transmits a power headroom reporting (PHR) to the network. Here, the PHR comprises an identifier informing the network that the PHR is for a specific TDD UL/DL subframe configuration with regards to the multiple TDD UL/DL subframe configurations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Sunyoung Lee, Seungjune Yi
  • Patent number: 10206138
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for assigning a quality of service to a data packet in a communications network by mapping a Wi-Fi access layer identifier such as an SSID to a value in a datagram header, and subsequently using the datagram header to assign an appropriate data bearer for the datagram, the data bearer having a quality of service class identifier appropriate for the type of traffic expected to be sent over the particular Wi-Fi access layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: Parallel Wireless, Inc.
    Inventors: Yang Cao, Sumit Garg, Anand Bhaskarwar, Steven Beaudette, Mohit Chugh
  • Patent number: 10200938
    Abstract: A disclosure of the present specification provides a method for performing a cell search procedure or a cell discovery procedure in which a discovery signal is transmitted to a resource element determined in consideration of interference between adjacent cells. The method comprises the steps of: receiving a discovery signal generated by a particular small cell; and searching for the particular small cell on the basis of the discovery signal, wherein the position of the resource element to which the discovery signal is transmitted may be changed according to time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Hyangsun You, Yunjung Yi, Joonkui Ahn, Jonghyun Park, Daesung Hwang
  • Patent number: 10178696
    Abstract: Methods of a network node may provide listen-before-talk (LBT) functionality in a telecommunications system. Such methods may include associating a user equipment (UE) within the network node's coverage to a group of UEs. In addition, a clear channel assessment (CCA) of an unlicensed channel may be provided for the group of UEs. Related network nodes and UEs are also discussed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Jung-Fu Cheng, Sorour Falahati, Stefano Sorrentino, Amitav Mukherjee, Havish Koorapaty, Daniel Larsson
  • Patent number: 10178634
    Abstract: Methods, computer readable media, and wireless apparatuses are disclosed for a TXOP duration field. An apparatus is disclosed comprising processing circuitry configured to: encode a first high efficiency (HE) physical-layer convergence procedure (PLCP) protocol data unit (PPDU) comprising a transmission opportunity (TXOP) duration field in a first physical-layer portion of the first HE PPDU. The processing circuitry may be further configured to set the TXOP duration field value to indicate a largest duration value representable by the TXOP duration field that is equal to or less than a duration value indicated by the first MAC duration field, if the first HE PPDU is to include a first media access control (MAC) duration field in a first MAC-layer portion of the first HE PPDU.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: Intel IP Corporation
    Inventors: Po-Kai Huang, Robert J. Stacey, Qinghua Li
  • Patent number: 10177951
    Abstract: A method of determining reserved tones to be used for reduction of a peak to average power ratio (PAPR) of a signal includes: randomly selecting carrier indices for the reserved tones and generating a kernel signal based on the randomly selected carrier indices for the reserved tones; calculating a comparison reference average value of the kernel signal, comparing the calculated comparison reference average value with a prestored comparison reference average value, and preliminarily determining carrier indices of the reserved tones based on the comparison; re-arranging an order of the preliminarily determined carrier indices of the reserved tones; calculating comparison reference average values of kernel signals generated by changing each of the re-arranged carrier indices of the reserved tones, and finally determining carrier indices of the reserved tones which generate a kerneal signal having the smallest comparison reference average value among the comparison reference average values as indices of the rese
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Young-ho Oh, Hak-ju Lee
  • Patent number: 10178700
    Abstract: A method for a device and a node for preventing data transmission configuration conflict between the device and the node is disclosed. The node transmits a control message which is received by the device. The device determines a first data transmission configuration from the received control message. The device then determines a second data transmission configuration from a candidate set of configurations wherein the candidate set of configurations is associated with the first data transmission configuration. The device then transmits data and wherein the node receives the data in accordance with the second data transmission configuration. A device and node implementing the method is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ)
    Inventors: Erik Eriksson, Rui Fan, Daniel Larsson
  • Patent number: 10171969
    Abstract: Disclosed is a system and method for facilitating wireless communication amongst sensors attached to wearables. Each of the sensors may be configured to operate either as a master device or a slave device. Further, the sensors may be inter-communicatively coupled to establish a sensor communication network wherein one of the sensors operates as the master device and the other sensors operates as the slave devices. Further, a set of sensors may be configured to broadcast metadata information to at least one other sensor within the sensor communication network. Further, the said sensor communication network may be updated based upon the metadata information received from the set of sensors to form an updated sensor communication network. The said sensor communication network may be updated by swapping one of the slave devices with the said master device to operate as a new master device for the said updated sensor communication network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Inventor: Cho Wing Lam
  • Patent number: 10153867
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) communicating in a carrier aggregation (CA) or multi-connectivity operation using more than one component carrier (CC), where at least one of the CCs is enabled to use evolved interference management for traffic adaptation (eIMTA), adapts the hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) timing of the UE communications based on changes in the eIMTA and configurations. The HARQ timing includes HARQ acknowledgement (ACK) timing or HARQ scheduling timing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Wanshi Chen, Jelena Damnjanovic, Peter Gaal
  • Patent number: 10129740
    Abstract: Provided is a wireless communication apparatus including a communication unit capable of wireless communication with another wireless communication apparatus, a determination unit for determining whether the communication unit is in proximity to the other wireless communication apparatus, and a control unit for performing, in a case the communication unit is determined to be in proximity to the other wireless communication apparatus, a connection procedure between the communication unit and the other wireless communication apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Erika Saito, Katsutoshi Itoh, Tomoya Yamaura
  • Patent number: 10129824
    Abstract: The method for transmitting and receiving data at a base station in a wireless communication system according to one embodiment of the present invention includes the steps of receiving a performance report from a terminal, determining whether the addition of a serving cell is necessary, when the addition of the serving cell is necessary, transmitting a request for receiving a cell identifying signal to one or more other base stations on the basis of the received performance report and transmitting a request for transmitting the cell identifying signal to the terminal. According to the embodiment, in a network in which a small cell and a macro cell are overlapped and operated, the terminal can minimize battery consumption and quickly recognize the small cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Soeng Hun Kim, Jae Hyuk Jang, Kyeong In Jeong
  • Patent number: 10117086
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for sharing a discovery. The method may include receiving a first announcement from an announcement device, receiving a share instruction indicating that the received announcement is of interest to the user of the mobile device; generating discovery sharing data based on the received first announcement in response to the share instruction, transmitting the discovery sharing data to an external server, receiving an update indicator from the external server indicating that the metadata associated with the mobile device has been updated, and generating a second announcement associated with the mobile device based on the update indicator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Michaela Vanderveen, Georgios Tsirtsis
  • Patent number: 10117208
    Abstract: Provided is a method for determining an uplink transmission timing of a terminal having a plurality of cells configured therein, and a terminal using the method in a wireless communication system. The method comprises receiving timing advance (TA) configuration information, and determining an uplink transmission timing for each of the two cells on the basis of the TA configuration information, wherein the plurality of cells comprise a first cell using a frequency division duplex (FDD) frame structure and a second cell using a time division duplex (TDD) frame structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Dongyoun Seo, Joonkui Ahn, Yunjung Yi, Bonghoe Kim, Daesung Hwang