Patents by Inventor Woods WANG

Woods WANG 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: 20180310138
    Abstract: There is provided a method in a wireless communications network, the method comprising: broadcasting a content stream as a broadcast service to at least one device using the wireless communications network; and sending to the at least one device a broadcast service status message, the broadcast service status message including the service areas for which the broadcast service will soon cease. By receiving an indication that the broadcast service will cease, before the broadcast service is stopped, the device can take steps to avoid buffer under-run, such as requesting and setting up a unicast service of the same content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2015
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Inventors: Jinyang Xie, Jie Ling, Hongxia Long, Woods Wang
  • Publication number: 20170078353
    Abstract: A method executed in a network node capable of broadcasting or multicasting user content delivery to communication devices comprise: preparing of different versions of user content to be broadcasted or multicasted to the communication devices; preparing, for each version,a respective instruction arranged to instruct each of the communication devices to, based on its device capabilities, automatically select at least one of the broadcasted or multicasted user content version/s when the respective communication device is capable of handling the respective version/s and/or to automatically discriminate at least one of the broadcasted or multicasted user content version/s when the respective communication device is not capable of handling the respective version/s; transmitting the instructions to the communication devices via broadcasting or multicasting, and transmitting the different versions of user content to the communication devices via broadcasting or multicasting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2014
    Publication date: March 16, 2017
    Applicant: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Jie LING, Ibtissam EL KHAYAT, Thorsten LOHMAR, Michael John SLSSINGAR, Woods WANG, Jinyang XIE