Patents Issued in March 8, 2016
  • Patent number: 9281948
    Abstract: Techniques for providing revocation information for revocable items are described. In implementations, a revocation service is employed to manage revocation information for various revocable items. For example, the revocation service can maintain a revoked list that includes revoked revocable items, such as revoked digital certificates, revoked files (e.g., files that are considered to the unsafe), unsafe network resources (e.g., a website that is determined to be unsafe), and so on. In implementations, the revocation service can communicate a revoked list to a client device to enable the client device to maintain an updated list of revocation information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Philip J. Hallin, Yogesh A. Mehta, Violet Anna Barhudarian, Magnus Bo Gustaf Nyström
  • Patent number: 9281949
    Abstract: A DRM client on a device establishes trust with a DRM server for playback of digital content. The client executes in a secure execution environment, and the process includes (1) securely loading loader code from secure programmable memory and verifying it using a digital signature scheme and first key securely stored in the device; (2) by the verified loader code, loading DRM client code from the memory and verifying it using a digital signature scheme and second key included in the loader code; (3) by the verified DRM client code (a) obtaining a domain key from the memory; (b) encrypting the domain key with a device identifier using a DRM system key included in the DRM client code; and (c) sending the encrypted domain key and device identifier to the DRM server, whereby the device becomes registered to receive content licenses via secure communications encrypted using the domain key.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: ERICSSON AB
    Inventors: Raj Nair, Mikhail Mikhailov, Kevin J. Ma
  • Patent number: 9281950
    Abstract: A method for using a charging system to account for service provided by a network element (NE) of a service provider network includes receiving an accounting request (ACR) from the NE at a router in the charging system, the ACR associated with service provided by the NE in the service provider network in conjunction with a communication session; modifying the ACR to form a modified ACR; sending the modified ACR to a charging collection function (CCF) server; receiving an accounting answer from the CCF server indicating the CCF server was not able to process the modified ACR; and resending the modified ACR to the CCF server or changing the modified ACR to form a revised ACR and sending the revised ACR to an alternate CCF server. A router associated with the method includes a service network communication module, a message processing module, and a charging system communication module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventor: Ranjan Sharma
  • Patent number: 9281951
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with any-to-any multicasting in a tunnel based virtual private network (VPN) are described. One example method includes calculating a resolved address for an unknown reverse path forwarding (RPF) neighbor in an any-to-any multicasting route. The resolved address is calculated using next hop resolution protocol (NHRP) resolution. The address is to be resolved based on control plane traffic. The NHRP address resolution is not to affect unicast routing. The example method may also include establishing the any-to-any multicasting route. Since the multicasting route is any-to-any (e.g., spoke-to-spoke), the multicasting route is not required to include a hub in the logical hub-and-spoke network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Rajiv Asati, Mohamed Khalid, Manikchand R. Bafna
  • Patent number: 9281952
    Abstract: A system, method, and program product is provided that selects an instant messaging message that includes one or more words in a text area. The instant message is a communication with an instant messaging participant that corresponds to an instant messaging participant identifier. A count is kept of the words that match keywords that are associated with a selected instant messaging group data store that is stored in a nonvolatile data area. If the count exceeds a particular threshold, the instant messaging participant identifier is added to the selected instant messaging group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Susann Marie Keohane, Gerald Francis McBrearty, Shawn Patrick Mullen, Jessica Carol Murillo, Johnny Meng-Han Shieh
  • Patent number: 9281953
    Abstract: Method and system for a network device are provided. The device includes a port for receiving a multicast packet and a multicast data structure for maintaining information regarding a multicast group to which the multicast packet is to be sent. When the port is a part of a link aggregation group (LAG), then any port that is a member of the LAG is removed from the multicast group such that the multicast packet is not sent to any member of the LAG.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: QLOGIC, Corporation
    Inventor: Frank R. Dropps
  • Patent number: 9281954
    Abstract: A method for processing IP multicast packets in a Multichassis Link Aggregation (MLAG) domain. The method includes processing the IP multicast packet using the bridging functionality and the routing functionality implemented by each of the MLAG peers to process the IP multicast packets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: Arista Networks, Inc.
    Inventor: Kenneth James Duda
  • Patent number: 9281955
    Abstract: Technologies are provided in example embodiments for intercepting a packet being multicast from a first tunnel endpoint in a network, determining first address mapping information of the first tunnel endpoint and a first host, wherein the first host created the packet, generating a control protocol message with the first address mapping information, and communicating the control protocol message through a control plane in the network. In more specific example embodiments, the communicating the control protocol message includes sending the control protocol message to a network repository, where the first address mapping information is registered in the network repository. In other more specific example embodiments, the communicating the control protocol message includes pushing the control protocol message to one or more other tunnel endpoints. Further embodiments include decapsulating the packet to determine an endpoint identifier of the first host and a location of the first tunnel endpoint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Victor Manuel Moreno, Ian Bruce Bernard Cox
  • Patent number: 9281956
    Abstract: A radio communication station in a radio communication system having a plurality of radio communication devices, derives a quantization parameter from control indications received from respective radio communication devices and transmits the quantization parameter to the radio communication devices on at least one downlink channel. The radio communication devices receive the quantization parameter, determine respective channel state metrics for the downlink channel, respectively quantize the determined respective channel state metrics by applying quantization ranges indicated by the quantization parameter, determine respective control indications indicative of the respective quantized channel state metrics, and transmit to the radio communication station respective signals indicating the determined respective control indications as respective random access transmissions on an uplink channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
    Inventors: Matthew P. J. Baker, Timothy J. Moulsley, Filippo Tosato, Domenico Porcino
  • Patent number: 9281957
    Abstract: A system and method for allowing flexible associations between PHY devices and MAC devices in a point-to-multipoint communications system, such that a given upstream channel is not deterministically bound to a particular MAC device. An upstream MAC device may connect to a varying number of PHY devices depending on configured PHY capacity. Upstream service flows are intact by noting Service identifiers (SIDs) of each burst received at a PHY device. A burst is then directed via a switching infrastructure to the appropriate MAC on the basis of the SID.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventor: Niki Pantelias
  • Patent number: 9281958
    Abstract: A method provides an interworking service in a home network. In view of the above, the present invention provides a method for providing an interworking service in a home network, in which servers and adaptors existing in a home network can identify with each other and servers or adaptors are not doubly connected to a device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Hark Jin Lee, Eun Seo Lee, Kwangil Lee, Jun Hee Park
  • Patent number: 9281959
    Abstract: A method of controlling a home network device by using a universal web application. In the method, the universal web application may receive control information, for controlling the home network device, from a server. A control command, which is issued to control the home network device, may be sent to a control point module by using a script application program interface (API) that is included in the received control information. Accordingly, result data that is obtained by executing the control command on the home network device may be received by the control point module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ho Jin, Young-Chul Sohn, Jong-Wook Park
  • Patent number: 9281960
    Abstract: Systems and associated methods for estimating wireless workloads are described herein. Systems and methods provide for generating an estimate of a wireless workload's processing requirements from the combined knowledge of system specific values, such as system parameters, platform details, and implementation details. Systems and methods for estimating wireless workloads may be utilized in various wireless protocols, including, 3G, WiMax, LTE, WiFi, femtocells, and point-to-point wireless links. The estimated workloads may be used for scheduling wireless workloads in a shared computing environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Malolan Chetlur, Umamaheswari C. Devi, Parul Gupta
  • Patent number: 9281961
    Abstract: A user of an instant messaging system may store names of other users of the instant messaging system on a participant list (which may be referred to as a “buddy list”), and the names may be categorized into one or more groups. Similarly, a user of a mobile device, such as a mobile telephone, may store contact information about people on the mobile device. Information describing the on-line presence of the user within the instant messaging system or geographic location of a mobile device, such as a mobile telephone associated with the user system, may be disseminated to users on the participant list or people on the contact list based on notification information that is associated with groups of users or contacts. A delegation model is used to control whether a user is permitted to make modifications to the notification information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: FACEBOOK, INC.
    Inventor: Edmund J. Fish
  • Patent number: 9281962
    Abstract: A spam detector for determining likelihood of forgery of a source in an email addressed to a destination is provided, comprising extraction means for extracting delivery path information from one or more packets in the packet flow of the email, and comparison means for comparing the extracted delivery path information with trusted delivery path information from the source to the destination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventor: Seth Golub
  • Patent number: 9281963
    Abstract: A method and system for performing email search, the said method comprising of enabling the user to find relations between emails and build network relations and to further retrieve groups based on the relations (and intersections of relations) as per the user's choice; the system comprising of giving and having the user select predetermined options for a search with a further ability to “drill-down” the results with the aid of filters to view further mails/results, and being also able to search on search results and also provide for storing user searches.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: PERSISTENT SYSTEMS LIMITED
    Inventors: Prashanth Patnam, Ajay Deshpande, Jitendra Gokhale, Vinod Kulkarni
  • Patent number: 9281964
    Abstract: Provided are a method and signaling gateway for establishing an optimized media path applied in an IMS network. The method includes: during the process of forwarding a session description protocol (SDP) request and response, when receiving a SDP response of a first session, a first ALG judging that there is an optimized media path between itself and a second ALG, then when sending the SDP response of the first session, including indication information in the send SDP response; the first ALG sending a SDP request with the target being the second ALG; and after having received the SDP response of the first session including the indication information or after having received the SDP request with the target being the second ALG and the SDP response of the first session including the indication information, the second ALG sending the SDP response of the first session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Zhenhua Xie, Zhenwu Hao
  • Patent number: 9281965
    Abstract: According to an aspect, a communication system includes at least one mobile communication device, at least one movable communication device, and a server. The mobile communication device includes: a first position information obtaining unit for obtaining position information of the mobile communication device; and a first communication unit for communicating with another communication device. The movable communication device includes: a second position information obtaining unit for obtaining position information of the movable communication device; and a second communication unit for communicating with another communication device. The server stores the position information through communication with the mobile communication device and the movable communication device, and transmits the stored position information to at least one of the mobile communication device and the movable communication device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: KYOCERA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Taichi Wakabayashi, Yu Nishino, Yuya Matsubara, Yudai Nagata
  • Patent number: 9281966
    Abstract: A method, apparatus and system for modifying a transmit diversity signal comprising receiving at least one input parameter, calculating at least one virtual parameter based on the at least one input parameter, converting the at least one virtual parameter into an actual parameter, and modifying a transmit diversity signal based on the actual parameter. Variations of the invention are possible, including mapping the input parameter to an actual parameter by various methods, for example, quantization, hysteresis and other methods. Embodiments of the invention may include an apparatus adapted to modify a transmit diversity signal comprising a processor to calculate at least one virtual parameter based on at least one input parameter, convert said at least one virtual parameter to an actual parameter, and modify said transmit diversity signal based on said actual parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Eduardo Abreu, Yair Karmi
  • Patent number: 9281967
    Abstract: Aspects of rail-to-rail line drivers using differential cascode bootstrapping are described. In one embodiment, a differential line driver includes first and second differential driver output legs. The first output leg includes a first p-type cascode stack and a first n-type cascode stack, and the second output leg includes a second p-type cascode stack and a second n-type cascode stack. The differential line driver also includes a differential cascode bootstrap circuit arrangement coupled to an output of the differential line driver. More particularly, the differential cascode bootstrap circuit arrangement is coupled between the first and second differential output driver legs and the output of the differential line driver. According to aspects of the embodiments described herein, differential line drivers with overvoltage protection and rail-to-rail output swings may be achieved. Further, the differential line drivers may be generally smaller, with cascode stack transistors of reduced in size.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: BROADCOM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuan Yao, Jing Wang, Junhua Tan, Mostafa Mohammad Hany Ali Hammad, Hui Pan
  • Patent number: 9281968
    Abstract: A differential circuit system is provided. The differential circuit system includes: a different circuit set including a plurality of differential circuits, a voltage regulator, and a current drainage circuit set. The differential circuits are electrically connected between a first node and a second node, and each differential circuit generates a current flowing from the first node to the second node. A high voltage is provided to the first node and a low voltage is provided to the second node. The first node receives an external voltage. According to the first voltage, the voltage regulator generates the low voltage. The low voltage is provided to the second node. The current drainage circuit set generates a drainage current in between the second node and a ground voltage. A superposed current flowing to the voltage regulator is difference of the summation of currents minus the conducting current.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignees: GLOBAL UNICHIP CORPORATION, TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING CO., LTD
    Inventors: Fan-Yi Jien, Wen-Tai Wang, Sheng-Tsai Huang, Yen-Cheng Chen
  • Patent number: 9281969
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention are generally directed to a configurable multi-mode driver and receiver. An embodiment of a communication system includes a communication channel, and a first device and a second device coupled with the communication channel. The first device includes a driver apparatus to drive data signals on the communication channel, the driver apparatus including circuits to receive and drive the data signals, where the circuits are configurable for termination resistance of the driver circuit apparatus, and each of the plurality of circuits is comprised of one or more circuit units, the circuit units being configurable for equalization control of the driver apparatus. The second device includes a receiver to receive data signals from the communication channel as an input. Either the first device or the second device includes configurable circuit elements to provide signal reflection control for the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Inventors: Srikanth Gondi, Roger Isaac
  • Patent number: 9281970
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, and systems for preventing false packet acceptance in high-speed links. In accordance with one aspect, embodiments are disclosed that facilitate assessing the probability of error bursts in receivers that include decision feedback equalizers (DFEs) and that perform non-contiguous mapping of received bits to frame bits. From this probability, calculation of a mean-time to false packet acceptance (MTTFPA) may be determined, and indication that a projected link MTTFPA is too low can be used to trigger an alert or invoke some safety mechanism. Associated operations may then be performed to ensure the link is prevented from being operated in an unsafe condition under which false packet acceptance may occur.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventor: Adee O. Ran
  • Patent number: 9281971
    Abstract: Embodiments include systems and methods for determining link margins of data communications channels in a communications system. For example, an integrated circuit includes a large number of input/output (I/O) channels, each with a respective receiver system. The receiver system can include equalizer subsystems, that attempt to adapt to their respective channels (e.g., to eliminate inter-symbol interference). Embodiments manipulate filter tap weights in the equalizer subsystems to controllably close its respective data eye until a failure region is detected, indicating that a threshold I/O error rate has been exceeded. Thus, for each channel, the filter tap weights can be allowed to fully adjust to identify fully adapted values, and they can be forced into a failure region to identify failure region values. A link margin for each channel can be derived for each channel according to the difference between the fully adapted and failure region values of the filter tap weights.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
    Inventor: Nima Edelkhani
  • Patent number: 9281972
    Abstract: Systems and methods for radio frequency digital predistortion in a multi-band transmitter are disclosed. In one embodiment, the multi-band transmitter includes a digital upconversion system configured to digitally upconvert digital input signals to provide digital radio frequency signals. Each digital input signal and thus each digital radio frequency signal corresponds to a different band of a multi-band transmit signal to be transmitted by the multi-band transmitter. The multi-band transmitter also includes a radio frequency digital predistortion system configured to digitally predistort the digital radio frequency signals to provide predistorted digital radio frequency signals, and a combiner configured to combine the predistorted digital radio frequency signals to provide a multi-band predistorted digital radio frequency signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)
    Inventor: Mark Edward Rollins
  • Patent number: 9281973
    Abstract: A method for demodulating at least one received frame is provided, where the frame includes of a succession of bits coded according to a Manchester code. The method includes the steps of: generating an interruption at least at each appearance of a rising and/or falling edge of the frame of coded bits; determining the time between each interruption from at least one first counter; reinitializing the demodulation of the frame as soon as one of the determined times is less than a first predetermined value or greater than a second predetermined value, the first and second predetermined values being dependent on the duration of a bit coded according to the code; and demodulating, for each determined time, if the determined time is greater than the first predetermined value and is less than the second predetermined value, at least one binary value of the frame from the determined time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: SAGEM DEFENSE SECURITE
    Inventors: Thanh-Truoc Duong, Frédéric Bocage
  • Patent number: 9281974
    Abstract: An integrated circuit is disclosed. The integrated circuit includes an equalizer circuit that may provide high-frequency signal amplification. The equalizer circuit also has adjustable impedance circuitry, which may receive digital control signals to adjust the effective impedance of the equalizer circuit. Furthermore, a method of operating the equalizer circuit is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: Altera Corporation
    Inventor: Wing Liu
  • Patent number: 9281975
    Abstract: An electronically tunable equalizer is provided to a downlink (DL) and/or uplink (UL) signal processing path of a wireless communication unit incorporating a RF filter. The electronically tunable equalizer is pre-configured with a plurality of capacitance states, each representing a specific capacitance. The equalizer produces a different equalizer response for each of the plurality of capacitance states based on a received pass-band frequency signal. The plurality of equalizer responses is provided to the RF filter on a signaling processing path, thus affecting the RF filter's pass-band ripple. The RF filter's pass-band ripple is measured for each of the plurality of equalizer responses to determine a desired pass-band ripple. By configuring the electronically tunable equalizer to the capacitance state that produced the desired pass-band ripple, a ceramic RF filter may be used in the wireless communication unit for the benefit of lower cost and size, with reduced pass-band ripple.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: CORNING OPTICAL COMMUNICATIONS WIRELESS LTD
    Inventor: Maor Saig
  • Patent number: 9281976
    Abstract: At least one tone is generated. An output signal is generated in response to an input signal and the at least one tone. The output signal is modulated. The input signal and the at least one tone are represented in the modulated output signal. The at least one tone is outside a bandwidth of the input signal as represented in the modulated output signal. The modulated output signal is amplified. The at least one tone in the amplified signal is attenuated after the amplifying.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Rahmi Hezar, Lei Ding, Baher Haroun
  • Patent number: 9281977
    Abstract: Provided is an apparatus and method for separating two phase-modulated signals having different amplitudes. A separation method for a phase-modulated signal may include: receiving, using a single antenna, a first received signal and a second received signal that are modulated and thereby transferred from a transmitter; calculating an attenuation level of each of the first received signal and the second received signal by dividing each of the first received signal and the second received signal into a real number portion and an imaginary number portion; calculating a difference between the first received signal and the second received signal; and separating and thereby demodulating the first received signal and the second received signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventor: Jong Soo Lim
  • Patent number: 9281978
    Abstract: A method and a highway addressable remote transducer (HART) soft modem device for modulating and demodulating analog signals with HART messages are provided. A phase coherent frequency shift keying (FSK) modulator modulates and transmits analog signals with HART messages, and a phase coherent FSK demodulator receives and demodulates the analog signals with the HART messages. The FSK modulator is a digital modulator that outputs 1 or 0 for transmission. With oversampling and low pass filtering, the digital modulation results in low jitter and good signal to noise ratio. The FSK demodulator applies a fast energy detect algorithm and dynamically reduces or increases a clock speed of a central processing unit (CPU) of the HART soft modem device for reducing power consumption of the CPU. Furthermore, the HART soft modem device uses direct memory access (DMA) to further reduce the power consumption, thereby reducing the overall power consumption by around 50%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: Smart Embedded Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Pranatharthi Subbaratnam Haran
  • Patent number: 9281979
    Abstract: A Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) communication system is described. The system may include a transmitting device having at least two transmitting antennae, each of the at least two transmitting antenna is configured to form and/or steer directional beam signals, and a receiving device having at least two receiving antennae. The transmitting device and the receiving device are configured and disposed such that illuminated spots at the receiving device produced by the beam signals of the transmitting antennae are smaller than spatial separation between neighboring receiving antennae and/or resolution spots from the receiving antenna are smaller than spatial separation between the transmitting antennae.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Alexander Maltsev, Ali Sadri, Andrey Pudeyev, Carlos Cordeiro
  • Patent number: 9281980
    Abstract: A receiving apparatus and method, a sending apparatus and method, a front-end circuit, a modulator, and a transceiving system are provided. The sending apparatus includes: a double-sideband OFDM modulator, configured to perform double-sideband OFDM modulation on a bit sequence of service data to obtain a double-sideband OFDM analog electrical signal, where the double-sideband OFDM analog electrical signal carries the service data on both positive and negative sidebands, and an IQMZ, configured to perform optical carrier modulation on the double-sideband OFDM analog electrical signal to obtain a double-sideband OFDM optical signal, where the double-sideband OFDM optical signal carries the service data on both positive and negative sidebands. In comparison with a traditional manner in which service data is only carried on a positive sideband, bandwidth utilization in the present invention doubles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Weijian Chen
  • Patent number: 9281981
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for transmitting data with conditional zero padding is provided. In accordance with an embodiment of the disclosure, a transmitter transmits data to a receiver by transmitting symbols such that each symbol is preceded by a cyclic prefix of a fixed length and the symbol conditionally includes enough zero padding to avoid ISI (Inter-Symbol Interference) between consecutive symbols. In some implementations, if the fixed length for cyclic prefixes is long enough to avoid ISI between consecutive symbols, then the symbols may omit zero padding. Otherwise, the symbols may include enough zero padding to avoid ISI between consecutive symbols. The zero padding may be zero tail or zero head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ming Jia, Jianglei Ma, Wen Tong
  • Patent number: 9281982
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses are provided for transmitting and receiving references signals. A method includes receiving a first parameter and a second parameter, which are cell specific parameters; receiving a third parameter, which is a UE specific parameter; acquiring the reference signal for a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH), based on the third parameter; and transmitting the reference signal on the PUSCH. Sequence hopping and group sequence hopping are disabled for the reference signal, regardless of values of the first parameter and the second parameter, if the third parameter indicates that the sequence hopping and the group sequence hopping are disabled. The sequence hopping includes hopping between two sequences in a group, and the group sequence hopping includes hopping among different groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Aris Papasakellariou, Joon Young Cho
  • Patent number: 9281983
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses are provided for transmitting and receiving references signals. A method includes receiving a first parameter, which is a cell specific parameter; receiving a second parameter, which is a UE specific parameter; receiving a cyclic shift indicator (CSI) indicating a cyclic shift for a sequence and an orthogonal covering code; acquiring the reference signal for a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH), based on the CSI and the second parameter; and transmitting the reference signal on the PUSCH. Group sequence hopping is not applied to acquire the reference signal, if the first parameter indicates that the group sequence hopping is enabled and the second parameter indicates that the group sequence hopping is disabled. The first parameter includes a group hopping enabled parameter, and the group sequence hopping includes hopping among different groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Aris Papasakellariou, Joon Young Cho
  • Patent number: 9281984
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses are provided for transmitting and receiving references signals. A method includes receiving a first cell specific parameter; receiving a second UE specific parameter; receiving a CSI; acquiring a first reference signal for a PUSCH, based on the second parameter and the CSI; acquiring a second reference signal for a PUCCH, based on the first parameter; and transmitting at least one of the first reference signal and the second reference signal. Group sequence hopping is not applied to acquire the first reference signal, if the first parameter indicates that the group sequence hopping is enabled and the second parameter indicates that the group sequence hopping is disabled. The group sequence hopping is applied to acquire the second reference signal, if the first parameter indicates that the group sequence hopping is enabled and the second parameter indicates that the group sequence hopping is disabled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Aris Papasakellariou, Joon Young Cho
  • Patent number: 9281985
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses are provided for transmitting and receiving references signals. A method includes transmitting a first parameter and a second parameter, which are cell specific parameters; transmitting a third parameter, which is a UE specific parameter; transmitting a CSI; and receiving at least one of a first reference signal, which is generated based on the CSI, for a PUSCH and a second reference signal for a PUCCH. The first reference signal is generated by not applying sequence hopping and group sequence hopping, regardless of values of the first parameter and the second parameter, if the third parameter indicates that the sequence hopping and the group sequence hopping are disabled. The second reference signal is generated by applying the group sequence hopping, if the first parameter indicates that the group sequence hopping is enabled and the third parameter indicates that the sequence hopping and the group sequence hopping are disabled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Aris Papasakellariou, Joon Young Cho
  • Patent number: 9281986
    Abstract: A transmission apparatus included in a communication system together with a reception apparatus and configured to multiplex data from M (M is a natural number equal to or larger than 2) channels and transmit the data to the reception apparatus. The transmission apparatus includes M timing offset units configured to respectively receive inputs of the data from the different channels and insert designated timing offset values in the input data, a multiplexing unit configured to multiplex the M data subjected to the timing offset and output a multiplexed signal, and a timing-offset calculating unit configured to calculate different timing offset values for the respective M timing offset units and output the calculated timing offset values to the respective timing offset units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Fumihiro Hasegawa
  • Patent number: 9281987
    Abstract: A digital transmission apparatus and a method thereof and a digital reception apparatus are provided. A frame body processor converts incoming data and outputs a frame body, a system information generator generates system information, which is necessary for processing the data at a reception apparatus, by using a different processing method from the frame body processing method of the frame body processor, a frame generator multiplexes data of the frame body, a header of the frame, and the system information, thereby generating a frame, and a signal processor up-coverts a signal of the frame and transmits the signal to the reception apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jong-sook Hur, Dong-hoon Lee
  • Patent number: 9281988
    Abstract: A receiving device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure receives a signal in which a data symbol and invalidation data are arranged. The receiving device includes an amplifying unit that amplifies the input signal and a gain adjusting unit that adjusts gain of the amplifying unit in a section of the invalidation data. The present disclosure can be applied to a receiving device that receives a radio signal of an OFDM system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideki Yokoshima, Yoshihisa Takaike, Gerd Spalink
  • Patent number: 9281989
    Abstract: A compensation apparatus compensates a quadrature-demodulated signal output from a quadrature demodulator 5 that performs quadrature demodulation by using a signal of a carrier frequency fc, by removing an image component caused by the quadrature demodulator 5 from the quadrature-demodulated signal. The compensation apparatus includes a signal generator 10 that generates a reference signal having a predetermined bandwidth in a reception band, and provides the reference signal to an input side of the quadrature demodulator 5. The reference signal includes a frequency band that is biased to either a higher-frequency side or a lower-frequency side with respect to the carrier frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Masahiko Onishi, Isao Katsura
  • Patent number: 9281990
    Abstract: In the methods and devices of the present disclosure, a dummy compensation word is added to the data packet such that the UDP checksum value need not be modified from any previous value, regardless of changes to the UDP payload. Because the UDP checksum value is not modified in embodiments of the present disclosure, there is no delay waiting for a UDP checksum value to be calculated and no need for additional buffers to store the data packet contents because of UDP checksum calculations. The dummy compensation word is calculated so that the unmodified value maintained in the checksum is the checksum for the data packet including the dummy compensation word. By placing the compensation word in the data packet after the last word in the UDP payload, there is no, or very minimal, processing delay and data packet buffering hardware is significantly reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: Viavi Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Takashi Hidai
  • Patent number: 9281991
    Abstract: A system and associated method for minimizing network traffic in playing a media stream with a media module running in a client computer system. The media stream is stored in a media content server. A video file of the media stream is processed to generate an audio file corresponding to the video file, such that the media module downloads and plays the audio file when the media module is invisible on a computer screen of the client computer system. When the media module becomes visible, the media module switches back to downloading and playing the video file. A current location is tracked by a location sync file stored in the media content server to synchronize the video file and the audio file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Blaine H. Dolph
  • Patent number: 9281992
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a method for identifying a storage device, which includes: obtaining, by a master control server, disk information of a storage device through a storage server; determining, by the master control server, that there is a storage device matching a device identifier according to the disk information, and entering a monitoring state; otherwise, creating a device identifier for the storage device and entering the monitoring state. The disclosure also provides a system for identifying a storage device. Through the method and the system, the storage devices are uniformly identified so as to facilitate unified management of the storage devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Shengzhong Han, Aimin Lei, Liang Ji
  • Patent number: 9281993
    Abstract: A method to distribute policies may include transmitting one of an identification (ID) assigned to a policy template or the policy template associated with each policy to an enforcement point or selected enforcement points for enforcement. The method may also include transmitting one set of parameters to be used in each policy template to the enforcement point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: David L. Kaminsky, Christina Born, Carrie S. Cheng, Eric Kirschstein
  • Patent number: 9281994
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to managed object expression and provide a method, system and computer program product for algebraically expressing a managed object in a keyed data set. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for algebraically expressing a managed object in a keyed data set can be provided. The method can include specifying one-dimensional sets of managed objects each with a corresponding single partial object identifier with wildcard and incorporating each single partial object identifier with wildcard into an algebraic expression compositing managed objects in the keyed data set. The method further can include evaluating the algebraic expression to generate an index for the composited managed objects in the keyed data set, and managing the composited index in a computer communications network by reference to the index.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Matthew D. Love, Daniel P. Van Vugt
  • Patent number: 9281995
    Abstract: There is a need to generate a virtual network across multiple physical networks without the need for users to understand information about the respective physical networks. A network system includes: multiple communication systems for communication with a user; multiple physical network management servers that manage multiple physical networks including multiple routers; and a virtual network management server that manages a virtual network connecting the communication systems with each other through the physical networks. The virtual network management server acquires physical network configuration information. The virtual network management server generates management information in order to manage the physical networks as one abstraction network. The virtual network management server configures the abstraction network by transmitting the generated management information to each of the physical network management servers and the routers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashige Baba, Akihiko Takase
  • Patent number: 9281996
    Abstract: A method and system for dynamically selecting a destination gateway to complete a call over a path supported at least in part by an IP telephony network and a public switched telephone network. The method and system further provide for dynamically detecting available gateways, dynamically removing failed and/or unavailable gateways, and automatically recovering failed and/or unavailable gateways after a predetermined period of time. A method is also provided for detecting available destination gateways using a ping method, where a message is transmitted to a plurality of destination gateways on a one-by-one basis to ascertain the availability status of each destination gateway.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: John K. Gallant, Steven R. Donovan
  • Patent number: 9281997
    Abstract: Disclosed are a building baseband unit, a baseband processing panel, and a failure processing method for the baseband processing panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: CHINA MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Lingjun Xu, Guanghui Cheng, Dong Wang