Patents by Inventor Sreevalsan Vallath

Sreevalsan Vallath 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).

  • Publication number: 20140098693
    Abstract: A method for triggering cell transition in an uplink power limited condition is disclosed. The method can include a wireless communication device determining that the wireless communication device is experiencing an uplink power limited condition; deriving a modified downlink channel quality measurement by adjusting a measured downlink channel quality to indicate a lower downlink channel quality than the measured downlink channel quality; generating a measurement report including the modified downlink channel quality measurement; and sending the measurement report to the serving cell to trigger transition of the wireless communication device from the serving cell to a second cell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2013
    Publication date: April 10, 2014
    Applicant: Apple, Inc.
    Inventors: Tarik Tabet, Sarma V. Vangala, Sreevalsan Vallath, Swaminathan Balakrishnan
  • Publication number: 20140066055
    Abstract: A network reselection procedure, of a wireless communication device, that occurs following a network detachment event, such as a device sleep event or a device power savings mode event. The wireless communication device attempts to acquire a first wireless network to which the wireless communication device was most recently attached, immediately preceding the network detachment event. Then, in response to an unsuccessful acquisition of the first wireless network, the wireless communication device attempts an alternate network acquisition utilizing a Most Recently Used List (MRUL) that is stored at the wireless communication device and includes information about one or more frequency bands allocated to a primary service provider with which the wireless communication device is affiliated. After determining whether the alternate network acquisition attempt was successful, the wireless communication device attaches to a second network and stores information associated with the second network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2013
    Publication date: March 6, 2014
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Swaminathan BALAKRISHNAN, Sarma V. VANGALA, Wanping ZHANG, Tahir SHAMIM, Sreevalsan VALLATH
  • Publication number: 20140044046
    Abstract: A method for reducing packet loss during data transfer from a network to a wireless communication device over a connection is disclosed. The method can include the wireless communication device signaling a first receive window size for a data transfer; determining occurrence of an event resulting in an interruption of the connection; and, in response to determining occurrence of the event, signaling a second receive window size for the data transfer prior to the event to trigger an adjustment of a data rate of the data transfer in preparation for the event.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2013
    Publication date: February 13, 2014
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Sarma V. Vangala, Sreevalsan Vallath, Swaminathan Balakrishnan, Vikram Bhaskara Yerrabommanahalli
  • Publication number: 20140016490
    Abstract: A method for handling a missed rank report during a tune-away period is provided. The method can include a wireless communication device tuning away from a first network to a second network for a tune-away period; returning to the first network from the tune-away period; determining that a scheduled rank report was missed during the tune-away period; generating a Channel State Indicator (CSI) report based on a previously defined Rank Indicator (RI) value known to the first network in response to missing the scheduled rank report; and sending the CSI report to the first network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2013
    Publication date: January 16, 2014
    Inventors: Tarik Tabet, Navid Damji, Sreevalsan Vallath, Sarma V. Vangala, Samy Khay-Ibbat
  • Publication number: 20130315119
    Abstract: A method is disclosed for coordinating a user equipment's communication with a network during tune back with C-DRX (connected mode discontinuous receive). When a user equipment tunes back to a network after a tune away or a signal fade, a scheduling request is sent to the network to indicate the tune back as quickly as possible. The user equipment waits for a downlink transmission from the network. When the user equipment does not receive the downlink transmission, the method determines if the connection between the user equipment and the network has been released. The sending of the first scheduling request and any additional scheduling requests is coordinated with the C-DRX configuration so as to maximize the battery savings of C-DRX and minimize the latency of the tune back process in case the user equipment has uplink data to send.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2012
    Publication date: November 28, 2013
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Tarik TABET, Paul V. Flynn, Sreevalsan Vallath, Kee-Bong Song, Syed A. Mujtaba, Li Su
  • Publication number: 20130310092
    Abstract: Outer loop link adaptation for device resumption. A user equipment (UE) and base station (BS) may be in communication in a first network (e.g., an LTE network). Communication between the UE and the BS may be interrupted, e.g., due to a long fading environment, the UE tuning away to a second network (e.g., a CDMA network). Accordingly, the measured error rate may increase dramatically. After resumption from the interruption, a negative offset may be applied to a reported SINR value from the UE due to the previous increase in error rate. Upon improvement in the error rate, a larger, positive offset adjustment may be added to the negative offset, allowing the estimated SINR to return to reported SINR more quickly. Additionally, the error rate estimation may be adjusted to converge to a more recently measured more quickly by decreasing a feedback filter coefficient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2012
    Publication date: November 21, 2013
    Applicant: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Tarik Tabet, Paul V. Flynn, Syed A. Mujtaba, Navid Damji, Zhu Ji, Sreevalsan Vallath
  • Publication number: 20130310091
    Abstract: Outer loop link adaptation for device resumption. A user equipment (UE) and base station (BS) may be in communication in a first network (e.g., an LTE network). Communication between the UE and the BS may be interrupted, e.g., due to a long fading environment, the UE tuning away to a second network (e.g., a CDMA network). Accordingly, the measured error rate may increase dramatically. After resumption from the interruption, a negative offset may be applied to a reported SINR value from the UE due to the previous increase in error rate. Upon improvement in the error rate, a larger, positive offset adjustment may be added to the negative offset, allowing the estimated SINR to return to reported SINR more quickly. Additionally, the error rate estimation may be adjusted to converge to a more recently measured more quickly by decreasing a feedback filter coefficient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2012
    Publication date: November 21, 2013
    Inventors: Tarik Tabet, Paul V. Flynn, Syed A. Mujtaba, Navid Damji, Zhu Ji, Sreevalsan Vallath
  • Publication number: 20130294417
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for intelligent scheduling in hybrid networks based on client identity. For example, in one embodiment, the hybrid networks are cellular networks (e.g., LTE and CDMA 1X), and a cellular device uses a single-radio solution to support circuit-switched calls on a CDMA 1X network and packet-switched calls on LTE. Periodically, the cellular device tunes away from LTE and monitors CDMA 1X activity, and vice versa. The LTE network can infer the cellular device's tune away schedule, based on the device's identity, and the paging schedule algorithm of the CDMA 1X network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2013
    Publication date: November 7, 2013
    Inventors: Vikram B. Yerrabommanahalli, Prashant H. Vashi, Jianxiong Shi, Sreevalsan Vallath
  • Publication number: 20130286853
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for network-based detection and mitigation of hybrid client device reception outage events. For example, in one embodiment, a cellular device uses a single-radio solution to support circuit-switched calls on a CDMA 1X network and packet-switched calls on LTE. Periodically, the cellular device tunes away from LTE and monitors CDMA 1X activity, and vice versa. During these tuned-away periods, the network adjusts operation to mitigate adverse effects (e.g., underutilization of radio resources, synchronization loss, etc.).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2013
    Publication date: October 31, 2013
    Inventors: Jianxiong Shi, Johnson O. Sebeni, Li Su, Navid Damji, Paul V. Flynn, Sarma V. Vangala, Sreevalsan Vallath, Thanigaivelu Elangovan, Zhu Ji
  • Publication number: 20130094371
    Abstract: A system and methodology that can limit and manage the number of multiple radio access bearer (mRAB) initiations, which are transitions from a Circuit Switched (CS) voice session, is provided. Moreover, the system, within a Radio Access Network (RAN), can identify vulnerable radio conditions for a user equipment (UE) on an uplink (UL) and/or a downlink (DL), and then subsequently determines whether a Packet Switched (PS) data session is allowed to pass through to the UE, during a CS voice call. In addition, the system can temporarily block a network-initiated data request to the existing CS voice call, if the voice call is likely to be dropped on initiating an mRAB. As the vulnerable radio conditions improve, the system can deliver the previously blocked data request to the UE.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2011
    Publication date: April 18, 2013
    Applicant: AT&T MOBILITY II LLC
    Inventors: Sreevalsan Vallath, Arthur Brisebois
  • Publication number: 20110151885
    Abstract: A radio resources management algorithm, through a process of function evaluation and optimization, determines and assigns resource priority values to wireless resource requests. Resource requests may be arranged within a priority queue in accordance with the priority values. The priority queue may control access to wireless resources that are typically reserved for handing off ongoing calls between cells. The algorithm may supplement or replace an existing CAC algorithm. The algorithm may also determine whether sufficient spare handoff resources are available to fulfill a resource request. If sufficient resources are not available, the disclosed algorithm may implement one or more congestion control mechanism designed to free up handoff resources. If sufficient resources are not available to fulfill a resource request, the resource request may be accepted and arranged in the priority queue if it is of sufficiently high priority, or may be rejected if the request is of low priority.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2009
    Publication date: June 23, 2011
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Cagatay Buyukkoc, Sreevalsan Vallath