Patents Issued in April 8, 2014
  • Patent number: 8693354
    Abstract: A method for generation of Ncs set is disclosed as: an upper limit value Ncs_max of Ncs is determined firstly, Ncs values which are less than or equal to the Ncs_max are selected to be elements of an initial Ncs set, a screening Ncs set is generated from the initial Ncs set, and then a final Ncs set is generated from the screening Ncs set. The final Ncs set can satisfy the maximal covering demand of the system, and when a random access preamble is generated by cyclic shift amount contained in the final Ncs set, the interference between and in cells can be decreased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Peng Hao, Bin Yu, Shuqiang Xia, Bo Dai, Chunli Liang
  • Patent number: 8693355
    Abstract: A technique for jitter buffer management for improved power savings in a wireless communication device (100) includes defining (202) a jitter buffer threshold for the wireless communication device, determining (204) that an amount of packets in the jitter buffer falls below the threshold, sending a trigger (206) to obtain queued voice packets from an access point, downloading (208) queued voice packets from the access point, and adding (212) the voice packets from the access point to the jitter buffer in the wireless communication device (100).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: Motorola Solutions, Inc.
    Inventor: Soren L. Lundsgaard
  • Patent number: 8693356
    Abstract: A method, for determining a first amount of a plurality of high-throughput long training fields within a packet in a wireless communication system, includes determining a second amount of a plurality of space time streams needed by the wireless communication system transmitting the packet, and setting the first amount to be greater than or equal to 8 when the second amount is greater than 4.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: Ralink Technology Corp.
    Inventors: Cheng-Hsuan Wu, Yen-Chin Liao, Yung-Szu Tu
  • Patent number: 8693357
    Abstract: A system for automated testing of Ethernet signals of a unit under test (UUT) in a simulated Avionics Full Duplex (AFDX) network environment. The UUT may be any Ethernet device, including a 24 port Ethernet switch. Ethernet signal are received from a UUT by a measurement module that is adapted to modify the Ethernet signals according to a condition indicative of an AFDX network environment. Such modification includes attenuating the Ethernet signals with an RF attenuator or terminating the Ethernet signals with a 10 Base-T Ethernet simulation circuit. Modified signals are then monitored or evaluated to determine functionality of the UUT.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: Rockwell Collins, Inc.
    Inventors: Philip T. Ridl, Benjamin W. Scilley, Robert L. Eickhorst
  • Patent number: 8693358
    Abstract: A wireless data-oriented service provides toll free data access to wireless users, such as GSM or CDMA-based users, when accessing specified content. The content provider pays for (“sponsors”) access to specific content for wireless users, often in conjunction with advertisement campaigns. In one embodiment a separate access point name is used when making the request to distinguish between sponsored data and conventional data access requests. In another embodiment, a portal proxy is used and sponsored data is distinguished from conventional data by the address of the destination web site. Wireless users accessing the sponsored content are not billed for usage, but rather the content provider is billed for usage. A data session management platform generates appropriate call data records indicating the session usage and transmits the records to reconcile accounts between the mobile network operator and the content provider.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: Syniverse Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Richard Lance Hodges
  • Patent number: 8693359
    Abstract: Disclosed is a communication control device for measuring the delivery quality of unicast/multicast video delivery by a user premises device. The communication control device connects a first network to a second network. The first network is connected to a delivery server for delivering data packets containing plural pieces of content. The second network is connected to a plurality of computers for acquiring the data packets from the delivery server. The communication control device acquires control information that is transmitted from the computers to the delivery server, extracts computer identification information and data packet identification information from the acquired control information, and measures the delivery quality of data packets targeted for measurement, which are to be transmitted to the identified computers, in accordance with the extracted computer identification information and the extracted data packet identification information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro Imai, Junichi Kimura
  • Patent number: 8693360
    Abstract: The present invention is related to a method and arrangement for performing handover decisions in a communication network, wherein the handover decisions are related to user equipment receiving packet data on a shared downlink traffic channel from a current serving cell. The method comprises the steps of providing (381, 382) a quality measure related to the shared downlink traffic channel of the serving cell and to at least one target cell, determining (383) a relation between the quality measure related to the shared downlink traffic channel of the serving cell and the target cell, and performing the handover decision based on said determined relation and based on the size of the provided quality measure related to the shared downlink traffic channel of the serving cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Jinhua Liu, Rong Hu, Stefan Wager
  • Patent number: 8693361
    Abstract: Various methods and devices are provided to address the need for improved multicast operation. In one method, a mobile device receives a multicast packet from a station, the mobile device being one of a plurality of mobile devices that includes a group of feedback mobile devices. The mobile device transmits an indication that it is volunteering to become a member of the group of feedback mobile devices and determines whether to begin operating as a member of the group of feedback mobile devices. If the mobile device is to begin operating as a member of the group of feedback mobile devices, the mobile device transmits an indication of channel quality and/or a level of interference observed by the mobile device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Yigal Bejerano, Thyagarajan Nandagopal, Katherine H. Guo
  • Patent number: 8693362
    Abstract: Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products are described for power headroom reporting. A mobile device may identify a transmit power associated with each of a number of independently power controlled channels on one or multiple carriers configured for use by the mobile device. The transmit power may relate to one channel that is an uplink control channel, and one or more additional channels that are uplink shared channels. The identified transmit power of one channel (e.g., the uplink control channel) may be a virtual transmit power, while other identified transmit powers may be measured transmit powers for actual transmissions. The identified transmit powers may be added up, and the power headroom available for the mobile device may be calculated using the accumulated transmit powers. The mobile device may transmit a power headroom report to a base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Aleksandar Damnjanovic, Jelena M. Damnjanovic, Juan Montojo, Peter Gaal
  • Patent number: 8693363
    Abstract: Systems (100, 200) and methods for providing TDMA communication. The methods involve determining a channel quality of an uplink channel. A communication delay is set equal to an integer value “K”. “K” is selected based on the channel quality. “K”?“N”. “N” is a total number of frames of a time slot of a TDMA signal (400). Thereafter, First Message Data (FMD) is communicated over the uplink channel in a first time slot (A1) of an uplink signal (1000, 1100, 1200, 1400, 1500, 1600). An Error Control Process (ECP) is performed using FMD to at least identify First Error Free Message Data (FEFMD). Filler data and/or at least a portion of FEFMD is communicated over a downlink channel in a last “N?K” frames of a time slot (A1) of a downlink signal (1050, 1150, 1250, 1450, 1550, 1650), when “K”<“N”.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: Harris Corporation
    Inventors: Daniel W. Ericson, Jun Ni, Albert J. Bruso
  • Patent number: 8693364
    Abstract: A method for reconfiguring parameters of a discontinuous reception operation of a medium access control layer for a mobile device of a wireless communication system includes when a radio resource control dedicated signaling for disabling a short cycle mode of the discontinuous reception operation is received during activation of the short cycle mode, switching from the short cycle mode to a long cycle mode of the discontinuous reception operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: HTC Corporation
    Inventor: Chih-Hsiang Wu
  • Patent number: 8693365
    Abstract: Embodiments in accordance with the invention provide a state-based channel selection method to improve the rate of successful transmissions for a multi-channel wireless network. Channels are monitored for performance, and, based upon performance, are placed in channel state vectors having increasing levels of desirability. The higher the state vector in which a channel is placed, the more desirable the channel is considered for selection. The channel in the highest state vector is considered for selection first. A channel not in the highest desirable state vector is eligible for selection when a channel is unavailable from higher desirable state vectors. Channels not in the highest desirable state vector, but also not in the lowest undesirable state vector, are monitored for improvement to move into higher desirable state vectors as they improve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: Brian E. Phillips, Murali Tummala, John McEachen
  • Patent number: 8693366
    Abstract: Provided are a communication system and the like capable of making a stable relay route even when a propagation channel is fluctuated by the fluctuation of RSSI. For making a tree-type communication route whose root is a core node, each slave node, after the reception of the latest reset routing packet from a node, judges if the transmission source node should be the parent of the tree-type structure based on the sequential average of the reception power of n routing packets received from the same transmission source node. As the reception power is log-normally distributed in general, an asymptotically stable relay route can be obtained, especially by using the sequential average.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: Kyushu University, National University Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Furukawa, Guangri Jin
  • Patent number: 8693367
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to a system and method for offloading selected data to an alternate communication network. The offloading provides another route for selected packet traffic that can relieve the burden on a mobile operator's network, such as the backhaul and core networks. As the proliferation of data rich content and increasingly more capable mobile devices has continued, the amount of data communicated over mobile operator's networks has exponentially increased. Upgrading the existing network that was designed for voice calls is not desirable or practical for many mobile operators. A offload gateway is provided that inspects packets and determines those packets to offload to an alternate network as well as providing mobility management to allow for seamless handoffs and gateway relocations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Kuntal Chowdhury, Mohan Rangan, Taiwo Oyedele, Michael Digiorgio, Rajeev Koodli
  • Patent number: 8693368
    Abstract: A method for remote identification of a network node of a network is described herein. The network includes a plurality of network nodes and each network node of the plurality of network nodes corresponds to an identifier. An activation signal is received by the network node. In response to receiving the activation signal, a message including information identifying the network node is sent. The identifier corresponding to the network node is determined by a remote node of the network based on the message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventor: Serge Zelenov
  • Patent number: 8693369
    Abstract: A method of routing a data packet in a telecommunications network, said packet comprising a primary destination address and a destination port number. On reception of said packet, the following steps are executed: determining a port mask defining a range of port numbers to which the destination port number belongs; selecting an identifier of a destination piece of equipment of the packet from a plurality of equipment identifiers associated with said destination address on the basis of the port mask; and routing the packet to the destination piece of equipment on the basis of said identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: Orange
    Inventor: Mohamed Boucadair
  • Patent number: 8693370
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a method for preventing repeated updating of an address table in Ethernet ring network protection, including: an Ethernet ring network node sends an Ethernet ring network protection protocol frame and encapsulates its own node information into the Ethernet ring network protection protocol frame; an Ethernet ring network node receives the Ethernet ring network protection protocol frame and matches the node information encapsulated in the received Ethernet ring network protection protocol frame with its own node information; and when the matching is successful, the Ethernet ring network node does not update the address table. The present disclosure further discloses a system for preventing repeated updating of an address table in Ethernet ring network protection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventor: Shaoyong Wu
  • Patent number: 8693371
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, and products for inferred discovery of a data communications device connected to a router, unreachable by a management module, and characterized by a device address are disclosed that include querying, by the management module, the router for connection data and identifying, by the management module in dependence upon the connection data, the device address.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Matthew E. Duggan, Daniel J. Martin, David M. Roberts
  • Patent number: 8693372
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus related to routing in communications networks are described. Various embodiments are well suited to wireless communications systems lacking centralized control, e.g., a mobile wireless communications system supporting the dynamic formation and/or maintenance of overlapping peer-to-peer ad hoc networks. A node can establish multiple links, e.g., with different links corresponding to different overlapping networks. Next hop packet routing information, e.g., forwarding tables, are maintained on a per network basis. A node determines the next hop routing for a received packet to be forwarded based on the link upon which the packet was received, which is associated with a particular network, and the included packet destination address. The same destination address may, and sometimes does, correspond to different next hop nodes for different networks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: M. Scott Corson, Vincent D. Park
  • Patent number: 8693373
    Abstract: A communication apparatus searches for another network after a network is created, participates in another network in accordance with a role, in communication parameter setting processing, of a communication apparatus existing in another network, and executes the communication parameter setting processing. After the communication apparatus decides to receive the communication parameters from another communication apparatus, the communication apparatus determines an activation state of a providing function of a provider apparatus of the communication parameters, and requests the provider apparatus to provide the communication parameters in accordance with the determination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kenichi Fujii, Fumihide Goto
  • Patent number: 8693374
    Abstract: An access network is described in which a centralized controller provides seamless end-to-end service from a core-facing edge of a service provider network through aggregation and access infrastructure out to access nodes located proximate to the subscriber devices. The controller operates to provide a central configuration point for configuring aggregation nodes (AGs) of a network of the service provider so as to provide transport services to transport traffic between access nodes (AXs) and edge routers on opposite borders of the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: Juniper Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: James M. Murphy, Abhijit K. Choudhury, Pradeep Sindhu, Ina Minei, Jayabharat Boddu
  • Patent number: 8693375
    Abstract: One embodiment relates to a method of automated multiple-instance spanning tree reconfiguration. Query packets are sent to switches within an multiple-instance spanning tree (MST) region, and response packets are received from the switches with traffic utilization data for ports of the switches. An MST reconfiguration is determined. The MST reconfiguration is propagated to the switches within the MST region. Other embodiments and features are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Frank A. Reichstein, Shaun K. Wakumoto
  • Patent number: 8693376
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for monitoring media flow in a telecommunication network. The network comprises a media-handling node (MHN) through which, sessions between subscribers are transported via first ports (PI1-PI5) and second ports (PO1-PO5). An extra port (XP1-XP5) is assigned to the media-handling node (MHN) for each new session that is transported through the node. The method comprises the following steps: storing in a database (LI-DB), identification of a first subscriber (A) for which monitoring is desired; a connection is set-up between the first subscriber (A) and second subscriber (B); an assigned extra port (XP1) that is adherent to the session between the first and second subscriber (A, B) is connected; the session between the first and second subscriber is monitored via the connected extra port (XP1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ)
    Inventors: Bo Ekstrom, Hakan Axelsson
  • Patent number: 8693377
    Abstract: A computer implemented method and system is provided for exchanging voice messages between a sender and a recipient. A client component that allows the sender to create, address, and render the voice messages to the recipient using a graphical user interface is provided. A messaging server that enables interaction between the sender and the recipient is also provided. The sender records one or more voice messages and addresses the recorded voice messages on the client component by entering a recipient address or an arbitrary address. The client component transmits the recorded voice messages, the recipient address or the arbitrary address, and a client identifier to the messaging server. The messaging server resolves a recipient delivery address based on the arbitrary address. The messaging server transmits a delivery message comprising the recorded voice messages to the resolved recipient delivery address. The recipient responds to the recorded voice messages with response messages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Inventor: Robert Joseph Hazy
  • Patent number: 8693378
    Abstract: To provide a wireless terminal device that can control so that the size of RWIN of an electronic device on a receiving side changes to an optimum value when hand-down (hand-off) from high speed communication to low speed communication occurs, and a method for controlling the same. A wireless terminal device 1 includes: a first communication unit (10) that is connected to a PC (101) and performs communication with a network (202) side at a first communication speed; a second communication unit (11) that is connected to the PC (101) and performs communication with the network (202) side at a second communication speed that is faster than the first communication speed, and a control unit (12) that reciprocally switches between the first communication unit (10) and the second communication unit (11).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroshi Shikanai
  • Patent number: 8693379
    Abstract: A communication system performs communication while switching between full-duplex communication and half-duplex communication. A slave device, which receives command packet signals requesting to write or read data from the master device, stores information in a response packet signal that specifies half-duplex communication in response to one of the received packet signals, and transmits the response packet signal to the master device, when the number of the received command packet signals has reached the maximum number of the command packet signals storable in a command signal queue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Shinichiro Nishioka, Tsutomu Sekibe
  • Patent number: 8693380
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for improving power performance of a wireless adapter which adopts a time slicing scheme by dividing a beacon interval into multiple slices, and assigning these slices to the stations through the beacon frame. The stations wakeup at the appointed slices to receive their buffered frames from an access point, and may enter into sleep state once the transactions conclude. A further embodiment including formatting data into a control frame for use in a wireless local area network, the frame including an indication, for each station associated with the wireless local area network, whether frames are buffered awaiting transmission to each respective station, a number of time intervals between control frames, and at which time interval the transmission of the buffered frames will begin for each station having buffered frames awaiting transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: Thomson Licensing
    Inventors: Yong He, Xiaojun Ma, Huanqiang Zhang, Jun Li, Charles Chuanming Wang
  • Patent number: 8693381
    Abstract: A method for discontinuous reception (DRX) configuration is disclosed, and the method includes: configuring DRXs for a plurality of component carriers, and selecting one or more component carriers as anchor component carriers; controlling the DRXs of other non-anchor component carriers by the anchor component carrier. A system for discontinuous reception (DRX) configuration is also disclosed, and the system includes: a selection and configuration unit, which is used to configure DRXs for a plurality of component carriers and select one or more component carriers as anchor component carriers; a control unit, which is used to control the DRXs of other non-anchor component carriers by the anchor component carrier. By the method and the system, the DRX solution based on the primary carrier is clarified, and the DRX solution based on primary carriers in the stage of conception is improved and concretely implemented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Jian Zhang, Yincheng Zhang, Guanzhou Wang, Si Chen
  • Patent number: 8693382
    Abstract: An apparatus includes at least one memory including computer program code and at least one processor. The at least one memory and the computer program code are configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus at least to receive a message containing no media content, the message indicating one or more supported media types by a group, cross-check the indicated supported media types with usable media types in the group, based on the cross-check, determine whether at least one of the indicated supported media types is found in the usable media types in the group and, based on the determination, send the message without modifying the indicated supported media types if all of the indicated supported media types are determined to be usable media types.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: Core Wireless Licensing S.A.R.L.
    Inventors: Antti Laurila, Miikka Poikselkä
  • Patent number: 8693383
    Abstract: Techniques for utilizing multiple carriers to substantially improve transmission capacity are described. For multi-carrier operation, a terminal receives an assignment of multiple forward link (FL) carriers and at least one reverse link (RL) carrier. The carriers may be arranged in at least one group, with each group including at least one FL carrier and one RL carrier. The terminal may receive packets on the FL carrier(s) in each group and may send acknowledgements for the received packets via the RL carrier in that group. The terminal may send channel quality indication (CQI) reports for the FL carrier(s) in each group via the RL carrier in that group. The terminal may also transmit data on the RL carrier(s). The terminal may send designated RL signaling (e.g., to originate a call) on a primary RL carrier and may receive designated FL signaling (e.g., for call setup) on a primary FL carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Aleksandar Damnjanovic, Joseph P. Odenwalder, Stein Arne Lundby, Yongbin Wei
  • Patent number: 8693384
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a method for dynamic packet retransmissions of a radio link control, hereinafter called RLC, layer for an RLC entity of a transmitter in a wireless communications system. The method includes the following steps. A first RLC packet, including a first header and a first data field, is transmitted to a receiver. A negative acknowledgment signal corresponding to the first RLC packet is received from the receiver. A first TB size is indicated and received from a protocol layer lower than the RLC layer. A second RLC packet is constructed, whose size depends on the first TB size, includes a second header and a second data field including a portion of the first data field. The second RLC packet is then transmitted to the receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: HTC Corporation
    Inventor: Chih-Hsiang Wu
  • Patent number: 8693385
    Abstract: Provided is a repeater for relaying communication by achieving synchronization with a base station and a mobile station without using GPS. The repeater includes a donor unit communicating with the base station and a remote unit communicating with the mobile station. Upon receipt of a signal from the base station, the donor unit specifies a preamble of the received signal to achieve synchronization with the base station. This determines start of each frame in the communication between the base station and the repeater. After the synchronization achievement, the remote unit starts performing procedures for achieving synchronization with the mobile station. Upon notification of the start timing of each frame from the donor unit, the remote unit determines the notified timing as start timing of each frame in the communication between the repeater and the mobile station, and transmits a preamble referred to by the mobile station when it achieves synchronization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Baba, Nubuo Kuchiki, Akira Ishida
  • Patent number: 8693386
    Abstract: A near-optimal resource allocation method is provided for a Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) relay scheme in which the source and relay nodes have only partial channel state information (CSI), obtained through finite rate feedback, and the powers of the source and relay nodes are constrained. Power on/off beamforming is employed at the source and relay nodes in which the receiving node feeds back the index of a beamforming matrix selected in accordance with the channel state. Using channel statistical information, the exemplary method allocates time between the first stage and the second stage of the relay transmission, and power between the source and the relay node. With only limited CSI feedback, the resource allocation method enjoys a considerable performance advantage over arrangements with no feedback.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: Thomson Licensing
    Inventors: Jun Xiao, Wen Gao
  • Patent number: 8693387
    Abstract: A transceiver station is provided for forming a telecommunications network node. The station includes at least two transceiver radio modules and a control module. Each transceiver module is adapted to operate alternatingly as a subscriber station and as a base station, as a function of commands from the control module. The control module is adapted to determine a modification of the state of the network and to dynamically control at least one change in the operation of at least one transceiver module, from subscriber station to base station or vice versa, as a function of at least the determined modification. The control module is adapted so that the number of subscriber stations connected to a base station is at most equal to 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: Thales
    Inventors: Serge Hethuin, Isabelle Bucaille, Cyril Lantz
  • Patent number: 8693388
    Abstract: A spaced based local area network system for providing dynamically allocated downlink services for spacecraft in Geosynchronous Earth Orbit. The system includes at least two client satellites which host an inter-satellite communications payload; a hub satellite which hosts an inter-satellite communications payload, a downlink communications payload, and an aggregator payload; and a ground station which transmits data to and receives data from the hub satellite. The hub satellite, using the aggregator payload, aggregates at least two data flows received from the at least two client satellites over an inter-satellite link, by the inter-satellite communications payload, into a data stream that is downlinked to the ground station, using the downlink communications payload, over a space-to-ground link.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: Intelsat Global Service LLC
    Inventors: Gerard Jansson, Salim Yaghmour
  • Patent number: 8693389
    Abstract: A communications system for an aircraft carrying at least some personnel having personal electronic devices (PEDs) for wireless data communications outside the aircraft includes a satellite-based communications network that includes a plurality of satellites, at least one access point in the aircraft for providing a wireless local area network (WLAN) for data communications with the PEDs, and a satellite transceiver in the aircraft cooperating with the at least one access point for data communications with the satellite-based communications network to the PEDs. At least one network selection controller is for selecting a satellite among the plurality of satellites so that data communications is sent to the PEDs through the satellite transceiver based on a needed channel capacity of the data communications to be sent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: Livetv, LLC
    Inventors: Michael J. Lynch, Robert M. Keen, Jeffrey A. Frisco
  • Patent number: 8693390
    Abstract: A mobile telephone having a relaying function, the relaying function being a function of wirelessly connecting to an external device and a base station and of relaying data between the external device and the base station, the mobile telephone comprising: a first wireless communication unit configured to perform wireless communication with the external device; and a second wireless communication unit configured to perform wireless communication with the base station, wherein during a relay period for relaying data between the external device and the base station, transmission power of the second wireless communication unit is controlled within a limit of a second maximum power that is smaller than a first maximum power, and when voice communication is started in a course of the control using the second maximum power, the transmission power is controlled within a limit of the first maximum power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
    Inventors: Yuu Hirai, Mitsufumi Yoshimoto
  • Patent number: 8693391
    Abstract: This invention relates to a node for providing peer-to-peer services in a communication network, the network comprising of at least one further node. The node comprises; an input arranged to receive at least one SIP peer-to-peer request; an output arranged to transmit the at least one SIP peer-to-peer request from the node to at least one of the at least one further nodes; and wherein the input is further arranged to receive at least one SIP peer-to-peer response from the at least one further node and the output is arranged to transmit the SIP peer-to-peer response.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: Nokia Corporation
    Inventors: Miguel A. Garcia-Martin, Marcin Wieslaw Matuszewski
  • Patent number: 8693392
    Abstract: A method and system of enabling communication between peers in a peer-to-peer (P2P) network in the presence of network address translators (NAT). The method includes: assigning a unique peer identifier to each one of the plurality of peers in the P2P network; establishing an overlay topology connecting each peer to a subset of the plurality of peers in a structured connection pattern based on the unique peer identifier of each peer, each one of the plurality of peers having more connections to close peers and fewer connections to distant peers; and routing messages between peers through the established overlay topology.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: Avaya Canada Corp.
    Inventors: Eric Cooper, Alan B. Johnston, Philip Matthews
  • Patent number: 8693394
    Abstract: A method of discovering a neighbor cell, the method including: determining whether a first Primary Synchronization Channel (PSCH) of a first cell in which a terminal is included is identical to a second PSCH of a second cell, and whether timings of the first cell and the second cell are synchronous; estimating third channel information of the second cell based on second channel information of the first cell from first channel information, when the first PSCH is identical to the second PSCH and the timings of the first cell and the second cell are synchronous, the second channel information being estimated using a first Secondary Synchronization Channel (SSCH) of the first cell, and the first channel information being estimated using the first PSCH and the second PSCH; and detecting a second SSCH of the second cell, and detecting a cell identifier (ID) of the second cell using the second SSCH.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Eun Jeong Shin, Hyeong Geun Park, Il Gyu Kim
  • Patent number: 8693395
    Abstract: An apparatus for controlling IEEE 802.15.4 physical layer operation state is provided. The physical layer operation state controlling apparatus defines an operation state of a physical layer including a Hardwired Low-MAC (HL-MAC) device in which functions of IEEE 802.15.4 MAC layer are hardwired, and includes a state module for controlling the operation state of the physical layer. The state module includes a Finite State Machine (FSM) for, when receiving an event for the operation state of the physical layer, transiting to a state module corresponding to the event and controlling the operation state of the physical layer; and an interrupt handler for converting an interrupt received from the physical layer to the event corresponding to a register of the state module and sending the event to the FSM. Hence, by means of the state machine for the IEEE 802.15.4 PHY, the IEEE 802.15.4 physical layer operation state can be controlled to optimize the operations of the upper MAC.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: Korean Electronics Technology Institute
    Inventors: Tae Ho Hwang, Dong Sun Kim, Kwang-Ho Won
  • Patent number: 8693396
    Abstract: A single radio multimode mobile (SRMMM) of a circuit-switched radio access technology (RAT) network and a packet data radio access technology (RAT) network including a network interface unit attached to the packet data RAT network through which an active packet data session is maintained. The SRMMM includes a processing unit in communication with a network interface unit. The SRMMM includes a display on which the processing unit displays a calling party number associated with a circuit switched page request for a voice call. A method of allowing a subscriber of a single radio multimode mobile (SRMMM) of a circuit-switched radio access technology (RAT) network and a packet data radio access technology (RAT) network to view a calling party number including comprises the steps of attaching a network interface unit to the packet data RAT network through which an active packet data session is maintained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (Publ)
    Inventors: Ke-Chi Jang, Marvin Bienn
  • Patent number: 8693397
    Abstract: The disclosed subject matter relates to employing a received signal strength indicator returned from a femto cell to optimize a multiple access wireless communication network. In particular, a method operable in a wireless communications network is disclosed. The method comprises receiving a received signal strength indicator from a femto cell situated in a geographical area within a multiple access wireless communication network, and optimizing the multiple access wireless communication network as a function of the received signal strength indicator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: AT&T Mobility II LLC
    Inventors: Ming-Ju Ho, Patrick Mascarenhas
  • Patent number: 8693398
    Abstract: In general, techniques are described for facilitating interchassis redundancy (ICR) among heterogenous mobile gateway member chassis that provide high-availability services as an group to one or more mobile subscribers. In one example, a member chassis of the mobile gateway comprises a control plane having a plurality of distributed subscriber management service units that serve as anchors for subscriber sessions. A redundancy group defines a backup association between one of the subscriber management service units and a subscriber management service unit of another member chassis of the mobile gateway. A routing unit of the member chassis comprises a resource manager that negotiates parameters for a communication channel for the redundancy group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: Juniper Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: Srinivasa Chaganti, Apurva Mehta, Samya Das Sarma, Bobby Vandalore, Kumar Mehta
  • Patent number: 8693399
    Abstract: A gateway apparatus including: a route control packet generating unit that generates a route control packet for constructing routes between node apparatuses forming an ad hoc network and the gateway apparatus; a channel designation signal generating unit that generates channel designation signal for designating a second channel different from a first channel on which the ad hoc network transmits and receives packets; a time designation signal generating unit that generates time designation signal for designating switching time to the node apparatus for switching the channel used for transmission and reception of packets to the second channel; a radio communication unit that transmits the route control packet, the channel designation signal and the time designation signal on the first channel; and a channel switching unit that switches, when it is time to switch, the channel on which the radio communication unit transmits and receives a signal to the second channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Shinichi Hirata, Jun Hasegawa, Takahiro Koharagi, Takuji Furusawa, Hiroaki Kawasumi, Masashi Kuwahara, Katsumi Kobayashi, Masaharu Nozawa
  • Patent number: 8693400
    Abstract: A mobile communication method according to the present invention includes a step A of releasing, by a gateway device S-GW, a first GBR bearer for a mobile station UE and transmitting “Downlink Data Notification” to a packet exchanger SGSN if a fault of a radio network controller RNC is detected in the state in which a second GBR bearer for the mobile station UE is set, a step B of transmitting, by the packet exchanger SGSN, “Paging” to the mobile station UE, and a step C of starting, by the packet exchanger SGSN, a procedure for releasing the second GBR bearer when no response to the “Paging” is received from the mobile station UE in a predetermined period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Katsutoshi Nishida, Keisuke Suzuki, Shin Naraha
  • Patent number: 8693401
    Abstract: A hierarchical data structure for signaling and data handling at a packet core network is defined. A hierarchical data structure is applied to both persistent and dynamic information to support a type of devices that share the same characteristics. Subscription database, context information, and policy rule information is comprised of group level information and device level information. Group level information contains the information the devices that belong to the group share. Device level information contains the device specific information that is different from group level information. When a device belonging to a group requests access to a packet network or performs a procedure that changes the mobility or session state of the device, context management unit works with authentication unit, subscription database unit, and policy decision unit to construct a right information for the device to handle the control and user data traffic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: Connectem Inc.
    Inventors: Heeseon Lim, Nishi Kant
  • Patent number: 8693402
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a data transmission method which includes: sending, by an REC, a first part of downlink data of a downlink period to an RE before the downlink period arrives; sending, by the REC, a second part of the downlink data of the downlink period to the RE in the downlink period, where the second part and the first part constitute all downlink data of the downlink period; receiving, by the RE, the first part and the second part of the downlink data of the downlink period; and sending, by the RE, the first part and the second part as the downlink data through an air interface in the downlink period. Accordingly, the embodiments of the present disclosure also disclose a base station which can effectively improve utilization of transmission bandwidth of a CPRI interface and utilization of spectrum resources of the air interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jinfang Zhang, Sheng Liu, Bojie Li
  • Patent number: 8693403
    Abstract: A method and system for detection and correction of a WiFi login failure for a mobile application is disclosed herein. The present invention provides a set of diagnostic steps that are undertaken automatically on a mobile communication device to identify this condition within an application and generate a browser window inside the application so that the condition can be fixed and the application can continue without having to time-out and exit an application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: Joingo, LLC
    Inventors: Stephen S. Boyle, Thang Dao
  • Patent number: 8693404
    Abstract: A system, method, and computer readable medium for transmit protection in a femtocell system are provided. A multi-stage transmit protection routine prohibits radio transmissions for unregistered femtocell systems and transmissions from femtocell systems in unauthorized areas. A femtocell system may request transmission authorization from a base station manager. The base station manager may provide an authorization failure if the femtocell system is not registered or if the source address of the femtocell system is not within a predefined distance of a registered location of the femtocell system. If the femtocell is provided a transmission authorization, the femtocell system may obtain a GPS location from a user equipment and provide the GPS location to the base station manager which evaluates the location. The base station manager may provide an authorization failure if the GPS location is not within a predefined distance of the registered location of the femtocell system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: Ubeeairwalk, Inc.
    Inventor: Christopher Martin Edward Osborn