Patents by Inventor Susan Yim
Susan Yim 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).
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Patent number: 11329693Abstract: An electronic communication device comprises a first transceiver capable of a bi-directional communication session on a first communication medium; a second transceiver capable of a bi-directional communication session on a second communication medium; and a control logic coupled to the first transceiver and the second transceiver and capable of implementing a convergence layer, wherein the control logic is configured to receive, from the first transceiver, a first signal; and cause, in response to the first signal, data received and transmitted by the first transceiver on the first communication medium as part of a communication session to be received and transmitted instead by the second transceiver on the second communication medium.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2020Date of Patent: May 10, 2022Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATEDInventors: Yanjun Sun, Gang Xu, Soon-Hyeok Choi, Bhadra Sandeep, Xiaolin Lu, Ariton E. Xhafa, Minghua Fu, Robert W. Liang, Susan Yim
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Patent number: 11139857Abstract: Systems and methods for efficiently allocating beacon slot among multiple nodes on multiple levels within a power line communication network are described. In various implementations, these systems and methods may be applicable to Power Line Communications (PLC). For example, a method may include performing, by a communications device, assigning beacon transmission times to nodes within the communication device's network. The assigned beacon transmission times comprise a beacon slot and frame pattern. The beacon slot and frame pattern ensure that each node does not transmit a beacon in a beacon slot that is adjacent to a beacon slot assigned to a parent or child node. A beacon transmission slot is reserved for a base node in every frame. The frames may be organized into thirty-two-frame superframes, wherein each frame comprises a base node beacon slot and four switch node beacon slots.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2020Date of Patent: October 5, 2021Assignee: Texas Instruments IncorporatedInventors: Ramanuja Vedantham, Kumaran Vijayasankar, Ramachandran Ananthakrishnan, Susan Yim
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Publication number: 20200220574Abstract: An electronic communication device comprises a first transceiver capable of a bi-directional communication session on a first communication medium; a second transceiver capable of a bi-directional communication session on a second communication medium; and a control logic coupled to the first transceiver and the second transceiver and capable of implementing a convergence layer, wherein the control logic is configured to receive, from the first transceiver, a first signal; and cause, in response to the first signal, data received and transmitted by the first transceiver on the first communication medium as part of a communication session to be received and transmitted instead by the second transceiver on the second communication medium.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 19, 2020Publication date: July 9, 2020Inventors: Yanjun Sun, Gang Xu, Soon-Hyeok Choi, Bhadra Sandeep, Xiaolin Lu, Ariton E. Xhafa, Minghua Fu, Robert W. Liang, Susan Yim
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Publication number: 20200169293Abstract: Systems and methods for efficiently allocating beacon slot among multiple nodes on multiple levels within a power line communication network are described. In various implementations, these systems and methods may be applicable to Power Line Communications (PLC). For example, a method may include performing, by a communications device, assigning beacon transmission times to nodes within the communication device's network. The assigned beacon transmission times comprise a beacon slot and frame pattern. The beacon slot and frame pattern ensure that each node does not transmit a beacon in a beacon slot that is adjacent to a beacon slot assigned to a parent or child node. A beacon transmission slot is reserved for a base node in every frame. The frames may be organized into thirty-two-frame superframes, wherein each frame comprises a base node beacon slot and four switch node beacon slots.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 30, 2020Publication date: May 28, 2020Inventors: Ramanuja VEDANTHAM, Kumaran VIJAYASANKAR, Ramachandran ANANTHAKRISHNAN, Susan YIM
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Patent number: 10644750Abstract: A method for implementing a convergence layer. Data is received on a first communication medium by a first transceiver. Data is transmitted on the first communication medium by the first transceiver. A signal is received. Causing, through the convergence layer, by a control logic in response to the signal, the data received and transmitted on the first communication medium as part of a communication session to be received and transmitted instead by a second transceiver on a second communication medium, wherein the convergence layer is configured to conceal from a routing layer at least one of: information related to the first signal, and information related to the data being received and transmitted on the second communication medium.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2015Date of Patent: May 5, 2020Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATEDInventors: Yanjun Sun, Gang Xu, Soon-Hyeok Choi, Bhadra Sandeep, Xiaolin Lu, Ariton E. Xhafa, Minghua Fu, Robert W. Liang, Susan Yim
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Patent number: 10574295Abstract: Systems and methods for efficiently allocating beacon slot among multiple nodes on multiple levels within a power line communication network are described. In various implementations, these systems and methods may be applicable to Power Line Communications (PLC). For example, a method may include performing, by a communications device, assigning beacon transmission times to nodes within the communication device's network. The assigned beacon transmission times comprise a beacon slot and frame pattern. The beacon slot and frame pattern ensure that each node does not transmit a beacon in a beacon slot that is adjacent to a beacon slot assigned to a parent or child node. A beacon transmission slot is reserved for a base node in every frame. The frames may be organized into thirty-two-frame superframes, wherein each frame comprises a base node beacon slot and four switch node beacon slots.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2018Date of Patent: February 25, 2020Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATEDInventors: Ramanuja Vedantham, Kumaran Vijayasankar, Ramachandran Ananthakrishnan, Susan Yim
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Publication number: 20180241432Abstract: Systems and methods for efficiently allocating beacon slot among multiple nodes on multiple levels within a power line communication network are described. In various implementations, these systems and methods may be applicable to Power Line Communications (PLC). For example, a method may include performing, by a communications device, assigning beacon transmission times to nodes within the communication device's network. The assigned beacon transmission times comprise a beacon slot and frame pattern. The beacon slot and frame pattern ensure that each node does not transmit a beacon in a beacon slot that is adjacent to a beacon slot assigned to a parent or child node. A beacon transmission slot is reserved for a base node in every frame. The frames may be organized into thirty-two-frame superframes, wherein each frame comprises a base node beacon slot and four switch node beacon slots.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 19, 2018Publication date: August 23, 2018Inventors: Ramanuja VEDANTHAM, Kumaran VIJAYASANKAR, Ramachandran ANANTHAKRISHNAN, Susan YIM
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Patent number: 9826040Abstract: A system and method for reducing transmission collisions. In one embodiment, a transmitter for communicating of a smart grid power line network includes an arbiter. The arbiter is configured to select a transmission interval during which the transmitter can transmit. The interval is selected from a plurality of available transmission intervals reserved for contending transmissions, and selected based on a level of a hierarchical network at which the transmitter is located. The interval selected is different from any interval used by a different transmitter spaced two hierarchical levels away from the level of the hierarchical network at which the transmitter is located.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2011Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATEDInventors: Shu Du, Susan Yim, Xiaolin Lu, David M. Wilson
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Publication number: 20160028438Abstract: A method for implementing a convergence layer. Data is received on a first communication medium by a first transceiver. Data is transmitted on the first communication medium by the first transceiver. A signal is received. Causing, through the convergence layer, by a control logic in response to the signal, the data received and transmitted on the first communication medium as part of a communication session to be received and transmitted instead by a second transceiver on a second communication medium, wherein the convergence layer is configured to conceal from a routing layer at least one of: information related to the first signal, and information related to the data being received and transmitted on the second communication medium.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 8, 2015Publication date: January 28, 2016Inventors: Yanjun Sun, Gang Xu, Soon-Hyeok Choi, Bhadra Sandeep, Xiaolin Lu, Ariton E. Xhafa, Minghua Fu, Robert W. Liang, Susan Yim
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Patent number: 9184779Abstract: An electronic communication device comprises a first transceiver capable of a bi-directional communication session on a first communication medium; a second transceiver capable of a bi-directional communication session on a second communication medium; and a control logic coupled to the first transceiver and the second transceiver and capable of implementing a convergence layer, wherein the control logic is configured to receive, from the first transceiver, a first signal; and cause, in response to the first signal, data received and transmitted by the first transceiver on the first communication medium as part of a communication session to be received and transmitted instead by the second transceiver on the second communication medium.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2012Date of Patent: November 10, 2015Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATEDInventors: Yanjun Sun, Gang Xu, Soon-Hyeok Choi, Bhadra Sandeep, Xiaolin Lu, Ariton E. Xhafa, Minghua Fu, Robert W. Liang, Susan Yim
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Patent number: 8826265Abstract: Systems and methods for implementing data concentrated initiated multicast firmware upgrade in power line communications (PLC) are described. In an illustrative embodiment, a method performed by a PLC device may include forming a group of PLC devices to receive a transmission of a data set, the group being organized according to a hierarchical structure, transmitting the data set to the group of PLC devices, determining whether a PLC device in the lowest level of the hierarchical structure is missing one or more portions of the data set, and retransmitting at least the missing portions of the data set until the lowest level of PLC devices each have the full data set.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2012Date of Patent: September 2, 2014Assignee: Texas Instruments IncorporatedInventors: Ramanuja Vedantham, Kumaran Vijayasankar, Ramachandran Ananthakrishnan, Susan Yim
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Patent number: 8817847Abstract: An electronic communication device comprises a first transceiver capable of a bi-directional communication session on a first communication medium; a second transceiver capable of a bi-directional communication session on a second communication medium; and a control logic coupled to the first transceiver and the second transceiver, wherein the control logic is configured to receive, from the first transceiver, a first signal, and cause, in response to the first signal, data transmitted by the first transceiver on the first communication medium as part of a communication session to be transmitted instead by the second transceiver on the second communication medium while the first transceiver continues to receive data as part of the communication session.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2012Date of Patent: August 26, 2014Assignee: Texas Instruments IncorporatedInventors: Yanjun Sun, Gang Xu, Soon-Hyeok Choi, Bhadra Sandeep, Xiaolin Lu, Ariton E. Xhafa, Minghua Fu, Robert Liang, Susan Yim
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Patent number: 8787195Abstract: Systems and methods for beacon selection in communication networks are described. In various implementations, these systems and methods may be applicable to Power Line Communications (PLC). For example, a method may include performing, using a terminal device deployed in a communications network, receiving a beacon transmitted by a switch device within the communications network and, in response to the terminal device having had a previous connection with the switch device, determining a connection time of the previous connection. The method may also include performing at least one of: adding the switch device to a blacklist in response to the connection time being smaller than a first threshold value, or selecting the switch device for subsequent communication in response to the connection time being greater than a second threshold value.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2012Date of Patent: July 22, 2014Assignee: Texas Instruments IncorporatedInventors: Kumaran Vijayasankar, Ramanuja Vedantham, Robert Liang, Susan Yim, Xiaolin Lu
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Publication number: 20130188670Abstract: An electronic communication device comprises a first transceiver capable of a bi-directional communication session on a first communication medium; a second transceiver capable of a bi-directional communication session on a second communication medium; and a control logic coupled to the first transceiver and the second transceiver, wherein the control logic is configured to receive, from the first transceiver, a first signal, and cause, in response to the first signal, data transmitted by the first transceiver on the first communication medium as part of a communication session to be transmitted instead by the second transceiver on the second communication medium while the first transceiver continues to receive data as part of the communication session.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 19, 2012Publication date: July 25, 2013Applicant: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATEDInventors: Yanjun SUN, Gang Xu, Soon-Hyeok Choi, Bhadra Sandeep, Xiaolin Lu, Ariton E. Xhafa, Minghua Fu, Robert Liang, Susan Yim
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Publication number: 20130188673Abstract: An electronic communication device comprises a first transceiver capable of a bi-directional communication session on a first communication medium; a second transceiver capable of a bi-directional communication session on a second communication medium; and a control logic coupled to the first transceiver and the second transceiver and capable of implementing a convergence layer, wherein the control logic is configured to receive, from the first transceiver, a first signal; and cause, in response to the first signal, data received and transmitted by the first transceiver on the first communication medium as part of a communication session to be received and transmitted instead by the second transceiver on the second communication medium.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 19, 2012Publication date: July 25, 2013Applicant: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATEDInventors: Yanjun SUN, Gang Xu, Soon-Hyeok Choi, Bhadra Sandeep, Xiaolin Lu, Ariton E. Xhafa, Minghua Fu, Robert W. Liang, Susan Yim
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Publication number: 20120294377Abstract: Systems and methods for beacon selection in communication networks are described. In various implementations, these systems and methods may be applicable to Power Line Communications (PLC). For example, a method may include performing, using a terminal device deployed in a communications network, receiving a beacon transmitted by a switch device within the communications network and, in response to the terminal device having had a previous connection with the switch device, determining a connection time of the previous connection. The method may also include performing at least one of: adding the switch device to a blacklist in response to the connection time being smaller than a first threshold value, or selecting the switch device for subsequent communication in response to the connection time being greater than a second threshold value.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 22, 2012Publication date: November 22, 2012Applicant: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATEDInventors: Kumaran Vijayasankar, Ramanuja Vedantham, Robert Liang, Susan Yim, Xiaolin Lu
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Patent number: 8290492Abstract: A method of wireless handover in a broadcast network (FIGS. 5 and 8) is disclosed. A wireless receiver (FIG. 4) receives a first signal (N) from a first transmitter (f1). The receiver measures a signal strength (RSSI) of the first signal. The strength of the first signal is compared to a first threshold (T0). The receiver receives a second signal (N+3) from a second transmitter (f3) in response to the step of comparing. The first and the second signals are sent to an application processor (120). The wireless receiver continues to receive the first and second signals until the application processor terminates receiving one of the first and second signals.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2007Date of Patent: October 16, 2012Assignee: Texas Instruments IncorporatedInventors: Xiaolin Lu, Rao P. Venkatasadasiva, Zigang Yang, Anand Ganesh Dabak, Badri Varadarajan, Srinath Hosur, Susan Yim
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Publication number: 20110182178Abstract: In at least some embodiments, a communication device includes a transceiver with Carrier Sensing Multiple Access with Collision Avoidance (CSMA-CA) logic. The CSMA-CA logic provides dynamic randomization management for a contention window size.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 19, 2011Publication date: July 28, 2011Applicant: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATEDInventors: Shu DU, Susan YIM, Xiaolin LU, Badri VARADARAJAN
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Publication number: 20110185075Abstract: A system and method for reducing transmission collisions. In one embodiment, a transmitter for communicating of a smart grid power line network includes an arbiter. The arbiter is configured to select a transmission interval during which the transmitter can transmit. The interval is selected from a plurality of available transmission intervals reserved for contending transmissions, and selected based on a level of a hierarchical network at which the transmitter is located. The interval selected is different from any interval used by a different transmitter spaced two hierarchical levels away from the level of the hierarchical network at which the transmitter is located.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 20, 2011Publication date: July 28, 2011Applicant: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATEDInventors: Shu DU, Susan YIM, Xiaolin LU, David M. WILSON
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Publication number: 20080273497Abstract: A method of wireless handover in a broadcast network (FIGS. 5 and 8) is disclosed. A wireless receiver (FIG. 4) receives a first signal (N) from a first transmitter (f1). The receiver measures a signal strength (RSSI) of the first signal. The strength of the first signal is compared to a first threshold (T0). The receiver receives a second signal (N+3) from a second transmitter (f3) in response to the step of comparing. The first and the second signals are sent to an application processor (120). The wireless receiver continues to receive the first and second signals until the application processor terminates receiving one of the first and second signals.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 4, 2007Publication date: November 6, 2008Inventors: Xiaolin Lu, Rao Venkatasadasiva, Zigang Yang, Anand G. Dabak, Srinath Hosur, Badri Varadarajan, Susan Yim