Patents by Inventor Maria G. Lam

Maria G. Lam has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 8989008
    Abstract: The transmission Control Protocol (TCP) may be optimized for a cellular network having a radio segment. A network device may receive state information relating to processing of traffic at a radio interface in a cellular network and receive packets transmitted by user equipment (UE). Based on the state information, the network device may modify a TCP window field of the received packets based on the state information. The network device may forward the modified version of the packets towards a destination indicated by a destination address field of the packets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Deepak Kakadia, David L Harris, Maria G Lam
  • Publication number: 20150049606
    Abstract: A device may receive information associated with a network resource request. The network resource request may be a request, by a user device, for access to a network resource associated with a network. The device may determine a subscriber class associated with the user device based on receiving the information associated with the network resource request. The device may determine a service type associated with the network resource request based on receiving the information associated with the network resource request. The device may determine an allocation and retention priority (ARP) level based on the determined subscriber class and the determined service type. The device may assign the ARP level to the network resource.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2013
    Publication date: February 19, 2015
    Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Raymond SO, Maria G. LAM
  • Patent number: 8897137
    Abstract: A communications system provides a dynamic setting of optimal buffer sizes in IP networks. A method for dynamically adjusting buffer capacities of a router may include steps of monitoring a number of incoming packets to the router, determining a packet arrival rate, and determining the buffer capacities based at least partially on the packet arrival rate. Router buffers are controlled to exhibit the determined buffer capacities, e.g. during writing packets into and reading packets from each of the buffers as part of a packet routing performed by the router. In the disclosed examples, buffer size may be based on the mean arrival rate and one or more of mean packet size and mean waiting time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2014
    Assignee: Cellco Partnership
    Inventors: Jay J. Lee, Thomas Tan, Deepak Kakadia, Emer M. Delos Reyes, Maria G. Lam
  • Publication number: 20140341117
    Abstract: A device searches for a primary access network, and acquires the primary access network. The device also requests a service provided by a network connected to the primary access network, and attaches to the primary access network only when the service is requested by the device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2014
    Publication date: November 20, 2014
    Inventors: John F. MACIAS, Patricia R. CHANG, Maria G. LAM, Scott Anthony TOWNLEY, Derek Hongwei BAO, Phillip Andrew RITTER
  • Publication number: 20140323145
    Abstract: A system may be configured to receive traffic that is destined for a user device, determine a type of content associated with the traffic, determine, based on the type of content, a base station paging scheme, and locate the user device by using the base station paging scheme. In some implementations, a system may include a traffic content analyzer device to analyze header information of a data packet to identify a type of content of the data packet, and output a message that is based on the identified type of content; and a mobile management entity device to receive the message from the traffic content analyzer device, and locate an intended recipient of the data packet by paging one or more base stations using a paging scheme that is based on information in the message.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2013
    Publication date: October 30, 2014
    Applicant: VERIZON PATENT AND LICENSING INC.
    Inventors: Maria G. Lam, Imtiyaz Shaikh
  • Patent number: 8861360
    Abstract: A monitoring device may determine an application to monitor, may determine a parameter to monitor, where the parameter is associated with at least one of a network or a device, may determine user devices from which to collect the parameter, and may transmit, to the user devices, information that identifies the application and information that identifies the parameter. The monitoring device may receive, from the user devices, information that identifies values of the parameter, may analyze the values of the parameter, may determine, based on the analysis, that the application is a cause of a problem associated with the network or the device. The monitoring device may perform an action based on determining that the application is a cause of the problem.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignees: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Cellco Partnership
    Inventors: Patricia R. Chang, Steven R. Rados, Maria G. Lam, Lalit R. Kotecha, Arda Aksu, Jack T. Tang
  • Patent number: 8855635
    Abstract: A network device may be configured to receive information regarding a location of a user device; compare the location of the user device to one or more coverage areas associated with each of one or more cells that are associated with a base station of a wireless telecommunications network; determine that the user device is within a particular coverage area of a particular cell, of the one or more cells; and instruct the user device, based on determining that the user device is within the particular coverage area of the particular cell, to connect to the particular cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignees: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Cellco Partnership
    Inventors: Derek Hongwei H. Bao, Patricia R. Chang, Steven R. Rados, Priscilla Lau, Yee Sin Chan, Maria G. Lam, John F. Macias, Thomas H. Tan, Lalit R. Kotecha, David Chiang, Thomas W. Haynes
  • Publication number: 20140286309
    Abstract: A system may be configured to identify that a user device is connected to a first radio access network (“RAN”), via a first technology; and to identify that the user device is capable of accessing a second RAN, via a second technology. The system may further be configured to instruct the user device to concurrently connect to the second RAN and the first RAN, send or receive a first type of traffic via the first RAN, and send or receive a second type of traffic via the second RAN.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2014
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Applicants: CELLCO PARTNERSHIP (D/B/A VERIZON WIRELESS), VERIZON PATENT AND LICENSING, INC.
    Inventors: Priscilla Lau, Patricia R. Chang, Arda Aksu, Jay J. Lee, Lalit R. Kotecha, Thomas H. Tan, Maria G. Lam, Steven R. Rados, John F. Macias, Derek Hongwei Bao
  • Publication number: 20140254370
    Abstract: A system may be configured to receive information regarding a quality of service (“QoS”) objective for a network. The network may include a group of nodes through which network traffic traverses. Each node, of the group of nodes, may implement one or more queues that indicate an order in which traffic is processed by the node. The system may further identify scheduling information associated with one or more nodes of the network. The queues implemented by the one or more nodes may be based on the identified scheduling information. The system may receive performance information from at least one of the nodes, of the group of nodes; and may generate new scheduling information for at least one node, of the group of nodes, based on the information regarding the QoS objective, the scheduling information associated with the one or more nodes, and the performance information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2013
    Publication date: September 11, 2014
    Applicant: VERIZON PATENT AND LICENSING INC.
    Inventors: Deepak Kakadia, Emerando M. Delos Reyes, Maria G. Lam
  • Publication number: 20140256343
    Abstract: Bandwidth for a radio access network may be efficiently allocated for certain voice over LTE (VoLTE) services. In one implementation, a request associated with traffic flows may be received. Each of the traffic flows may be associated with an amount of guaranteed bit rate (GBR) traffic. The method may further include selectively summing the GBR traffic, to obtain an aggregate bandwidth value. The method may further include reserving an amount of GBR bandwidth corresponding to the previous version of the aggregate bandwidth value when a comparison indicates that the aggregate bandwidth value is less than the previous version of the aggregate bandwidth value; and reservation an amount of GBR bandwidth corresponding to the aggregate bandwidth value when a comparison indicates that the aggregate bandwidth value is not less than the previous version of the aggregate bandwidth value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2013
    Publication date: September 11, 2014
    Inventors: Imtiyaz Shaikh, Niranjan B. Avula, Maria G. Lam, Priscilla Lau, Raymond Wai-Man So
  • Patent number: 8805364
    Abstract: A device searches for a primary access network, and acquires the primary access network. The device also requests a service provided by a network connected to the primary access network, and attaches to the primary access network only when the service is requested by the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: John F Macias, Patricia Chang, Maria G Lam, Scott Anthony Townley, Derek Hongwei Bao, Phillip Andrew Ritter
  • Patent number: 8782188
    Abstract: A method performed by a device includes detecting a first condition to generate a report record associated with the device; generating the report record associated with the device, in response to detecting the first condition, where generating the report record includes recording environment conditions associated with the device, recording device conditions associated with the device, and recording signal conditions associated with the device; detecting a second condition to send the generated report record to a server device; and sending the generated report record to the server device, in response to detecting the second condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignees: Cellco Partnership, Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Derek Hongwei H. Bao, Vikram Rawat, Patricia Ruey-Jane Chang, Steven R. Rados, Maria G. Lam
  • Patent number: 8724588
    Abstract: A system that includes an eNodeB device located in a border region between a first traffic area and a second traffic area, where the first traffic area includes a first pool of mobile management entities (MMEs), where the second traffic area includes a second, different pool of MMEs, and where the eNodeB is associated with the first pool of MMEs and the second pool of MMEs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2014
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Mingxing Li, Maria G. Lam
  • Publication number: 20140119182
    Abstract: The transmission Control Protocol (TCP) may be optimized for a cellular network having a radio segment. A network device may receive state information relating to processing of traffic at a radio interface in a cellular network and receive packets transmitted by user equipment (UE). Based on the state information, the network device may modify a TCP window field of the received packets based on the state information. The network device may forward the modified version of the packets towards a destination indicated by a destination address field of the packets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2012
    Publication date: May 1, 2014
    Applicant: VERIZON PATENT AND LICENSING, INC
    Inventors: Deepak Kakadia, David L Harris, Maria G Lam
  • Patent number: 8705490
    Abstract: A server device may identify that a user device is connected to a first radio access network (“RAN”), via a first technology. The server device may identify that the user device is capable of accessing a second RAN, via a second technology, where the second RAN is different from the first RAN, and where the second technology is different from the first technology. The server device may also receive an indication that the first RAN is congested. The server device may further determine, based on the indication that first RAN is congested, and further based on identifying that the user device is capable of accessing the second RAN via the second technology, that the user device should be handed over to the second RAN. Additionally, the server device may instruct the user device to connect to the second RAN via the second technology.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2014
    Assignees: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Cellco Partnership
    Inventors: Priscilla Lau, Patricia Ruey-Jane Chang, Arda Aksu, Jay J. Lee, Lalit R. Kotecha, Derek Hongwei H. Bao, Thomas H. Tan, Maria G. Lam, Steven R. Rados, John F. Macias
  • Publication number: 20140105035
    Abstract: A device may receive information that identifies a radio frequency condition of a user device, where the radio frequency condition indicates a quality of a radio access network connection of the user device. The device may determine a radio frequency parameter value based on the radio frequency condition, and may set a data rate for a transmission control protocol (“TCP”) communication with the user device based on the radio frequency parameter value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2012
    Publication date: April 17, 2014
    Applicants: CELLCO PARTNERSHIP d/b/a VERIZON WIRELESS, VERIZON PATENT AND LICENSING, INC.
    Inventors: Maria G. LAM, Lalit R. KOTECHA, Deepak KAKADIA, David CHIANG, Jyothi KESHAVDAS, Arda AKSU, Sagiv DRAZNIN
  • Patent number: 8688029
    Abstract: A device may receive a signal strength indicator associated with a connection between a mobile device and a first base station. The signal strength indicator may indicate a strength of a radio signal received by the mobile device from the first base station. The device may transmit the signal strength indicator to a network device, and may receive, from the network device, a first notification to activate a second base station based on the signal strength indicator. The device may activate the second base station based on the first notification. The second base station may provide temporary wireless connectivity for the mobile device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignees: Cellco Partnership, Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Jyothi Keshavdas, Arda Aksu, Lalit R. Kotecha, David Chiang, Maria G. Lam, Steven R. Rados
  • Publication number: 20140066046
    Abstract: A device may receive a signal strength indicator associated with a connection between a mobile device and a first base station. The signal strength indicator may indicate a strength of a radio signal received by the mobile device from the first base station. The device may transmit the signal strength indicator to a network device, and may receive, from the network device, a first notification to activate a second base station based on the signal strength indicator. The device may activate the second base station based on the first notification. The second base station may provide temporary wireless connectivity for the mobile device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2012
    Publication date: March 6, 2014
    Applicants: Cellco Partnership d/b/a Verizon Wireless, Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Jyothi KESHAVDAS, Arda AKSU, Lalit R. KOTECHA, David CHIANG, Maria G. LAM, Steven R. RADOS
  • Publication number: 20140066052
    Abstract: A monitoring device may determine an application to monitor, may determine a parameter to monitor, where the parameter is associated with at least one of a network or a device, may determine user devices from which to collect the parameter, and may transmit, to the user devices, information that identifies the application and information that identifies the parameter. The monitoring device may receive, from the user devices, information that identifies values of the parameter, may analyze the values of the parameter, may determine, based on the analysis, that the application is a cause of a problem associated with the network or the device. The monitoring device may perform an action based on determining that the application is a cause of the problem.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2012
    Publication date: March 6, 2014
    Applicants: CELLCO PARTNERSHIP d/b/a Verizon Wireless, VERIZON PATENT AND LICENSING, INC.
    Inventors: Patricia R. CHANG, Steven R. RADOS, Maria G. LAM, Lalit R. KOTECHA, Arda AKSU, Jack T. TANG
  • Publication number: 20130267227
    Abstract: A network device may be configured to receive information regarding a location of a user device; compare the location of the user device to one or more coverage areas associated with each of one or more cells that are associated with a base station of a wireless telecommunications network; determine that the user device is within a particular coverage area of a particular cell, of the one or more cells; and instruct the user device, based on determining that the user device is within the particular coverage area of the particular cell, to connect to the particular cell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2013
    Publication date: October 10, 2013
    Inventors: Derek Hongwei H. Bao, Patricia R. Chang, Steven R. Rados, Priscilla Lau, Yee Sin Chan, Maria G. Lam, John F. Macias, Thomas H. Tan, Lalit R. Kotecha, David Chiang, Thomas W. Haynes