Patents Issued in August 1, 2017
  • Patent number: 9722806
    Abstract: Technologies for service discovery and media sharing are disclosed. A described technique includes receiving, at a first device, service information for a streaming service provided by a second device, the first device and second device being on different first networks, the first networks being different local multicast networks; inserting an entry in a multicast domain name system (mDNS) cache of the first device based on the service information such that the streaming service is (i) discoverable by the first device via a mDNS query and (ii) accessible through a second network that interconnects the first networks; and sending streaming information from the first device to the second device through the second network for the streaming service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: Asurion, LLC
    Inventors: Tomer Dvir, Omri Haim, Omri Bruchim, Or Yagel, Jonathan Rauch
  • Patent number: 9722807
    Abstract: A computer network system for posting content at a web site includes computer servers configured to host a web site for a group of users, and a data storage configured to store an email address in association with a destination at the website. The computer servers can receive an electronic message at the email address by the computer servers from a user. A computer processor can automatically extract content from the electronic message. The computer servers can automatically post the content extracted from the electronic message at the destination at the website.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: Shutterfly, Inc.
    Inventors: Craig Jorasch, Thomas E. McGannon, Syed Saleem Javid Brahmanapalli, Benjamin C. Guthrie, Irene Chan, Kristina Maria Raquel Aguirre
  • Patent number: 9722808
    Abstract: A data transmission system including a plurality of terminal devices arranged in a communication network and configured to transmit or receive content data. At least one terminal devices configured to receive content data transmitted from another terminal device, among the plurality of terminal devices, includes a reception priority management unit configured to manage priority of two or more content data addressed to the own terminal device, and a data reception control unit configured to, based on an output time interval of output signals corresponding to priority data whose priority managed by the reception priority management unit is high among two or more content data being received, request a transmission source configured to transmit content data having priority lower than the priority data, to perform control to stop transmitting the content data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Kenichiro Morita, Takuya Imai, Shoh Nagamine
  • Patent number: 9722809
    Abstract: Disclosed are an apparatus and method of organizing a plurality of data recipients subscribed to receive information from a leader. An example method may include receiving a plurality of response messages from at least a portion of the plurality of data recipients, and determining a decrease in the plurality of response messages received from the at least a portion of the plurality of data recipients based on a previous number of response messages received. The method may also include removing at least one data recipient from the plurality of data recipients and adding the removed at least one data recipient to a new group of data recipients responsive to the decrease in the plurality of response messages received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: Open Invention Network LLC
    Inventor: David Gerard Ledet
  • Patent number: 9722810
    Abstract: A method for synchronizing multicast message subflows in a switched network includes associating, with a processing device, a first destination identifier corresponding to a multicast message with a first queue that corresponds to a first output port of a switching device, associating, with a processing device, a second destination identifier corresponding to the multicast message with a second queue that corresponds to a second output port of the switching device, pausing the first queue in response to a message counter corresponding to the first queue crossing a first predetermined threshold, and unpausing the first queue in response to the message counter crossing a second predetermined threshold, wherein the message counter indicates a quantity of data that has been forwarded by the first queue but remains to be forwarded by the second queue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Claude Basso, Nikolaos Chrysos, Cyriel Minkenberg, David A. Shedivy, Kenneth M. Valk, Brian T. Vanderpool
  • Patent number: 9722811
    Abstract: A method of controlling an external apparatus includes: receiving an input command of a user and biometric information of the user from a device; determining a condition for controlling the external apparatus and operation of the external apparatus based on the received input command of the user and the received biometric information of the user; and providing a control command for controlling the operation of the external apparatus if the determined condition is satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jae-woo Ko, Hang-sik Shin, Se-jun Park, Yang-wook Kim, Hae-in Chun, Jae-ho Jung
  • Patent number: 9722813
    Abstract: Methods and systems for providing consumer directed energy management are described. Consumer defined triggers provide consumers and utilities with the ability to control residential energy usage, by managing manage multiple residential load control elements. A user interface is provided separately from the load control elements to allow the consumer to define his or her schedule and preferences for the purposes of controlling the multiple load control elements. In addition, settings on load control elements can be automatically adjusted based on information about consumer schedules and preferences obtained from other sources. In some embodiments, a utility interface allows utilities to implement improved energy load control. When a utility expects to implement a load control event, the utility can monitor consumer schedules and/or preferences, in order to achieve the desired energy reduction while reducing the impact on participating consumers' comfort.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: Tendril Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: Charles R. Benes, Rebecca F. Premus, Michael K. Ruth, Carol L. Stimmel, Adrian C. Tuck, Andrew J. Wheeler
  • Patent number: 9722814
    Abstract: A node within a wireless endpoint device may be coupled to multiple heterogeneous networks simultaneously. The node is configured to select between the different networks based on various constraints associated with the endpoint device, applications executing on the endpoint device, traffic routed by the endpoint device, and constraints associated with the multiple networks. Based on these different constraints, and based on the current operating mode of the node, the node rates each network, and then selects the network with the highest rating to be used for routing purposes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: Silver Springs Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: Dalton Victor, Elad Gottlib, George H. Flammer, III
  • Patent number: 9722815
    Abstract: In one exemplary aspect, an edge-gateway multipath method includes the step of providing an edge device in a local network communicatively coupled with a cloud-computing service in a cloud-computing network. A set of wide area network (WAN) links connected to the edge device are automatically detected. The WAN links are automatically measured without the need for an external router. The edge device is communicatively coupled with a central configuration point in the cloud-computing network. The method further includes the step of downloading, from the central configuration point, an enterprise-specific configuration data into the edge device. The enterprise-specific configuration data includes the gateway information. The edge device is communicatively coupled with a gateway in the cloud-computing network. The communicatively coupling of the edge device with the gateway includes a multipath (MP) protocol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Inventors: Sunil Mukundan, Stephen Craig Connors, Steven Michael Woo, Ajit Ramachandra Mayya, Thomas Harold Speeter
  • Patent number: 9722816
    Abstract: There is provided a method for processing a set of input symbols. The method is performed by a transmitter. The method comprises acquiring a set of input symbols. The method comprises generating a set of precoded symbols from the set of input symbols by subjecting the set of input symbols to a coding vector. The method comprises generating a transmission signal comprising a sequence of pulse forms from the set of precoded symbols by pulse shaping the set of precoded symbols. The coding vector is based on a model vector modelling intersymbol interference experienced by the pulse forms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventor: Martin Sjödin
  • Patent number: 9722817
    Abstract: A method for equalizing a signal comprising modulated symbols comprising a block of N received symbols comprises: demultiplexing the N received symbols by factor L to generate a predetermined number L of sub-blocks of symbols, each comprising a version of the N received symbols sub-sampled by factor L, the independent equalization of each sub-block using an identical equalization algorithm, multiplexing the equalized symbols of each sub-block to obtain a block of N equalized symbols, removing instances of interference linked to paths other than two paths of higher power comprising generating an interference term resulting from the influence, on the equalized symbols, of all paths of the channel having the impulse response of the transmission channel except two paths of higher power, subtracting the interference term from the symbols of the block of N received symbols, and, a second equalization step equal to a second iteration of the first equalization step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignees: Thales, Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
    Inventors: Bilel Raddadi, Benjamin Gadat, Charly Poulliat, Nathalie Thomas, Marie-Laure Boucheret
  • Patent number: 9722818
    Abstract: A circuit includes a summation circuit for receiving an input data signal and a feedback signal including a previous data bit. The summation circuit is configured to output a conditioned input data signal to a clock and data recovery circuit. A first flip-flop is coupled to an output of the summation circuit and is configured to receive a first set of bits of the conditioned input data signal and a first clock signal having a frequency that is less than a frequency at which the input data signal is received by the first summation circuit. A second flip-flop is coupled to the output of the summation circuit and is configured to receive a second set of bits of the conditioned input data signal and a second clock signal having a frequency that is less than the frequency at which the input data signal is received by the first summation circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ming-Chieh Huang, Chan-Hong Chern, Tao Wen Chung, Yuwen Swei, Chih-Chang Lin, Tsung-Ching Huang
  • Patent number: 9722819
    Abstract: A distortion compensation system includes a first communication node including a first reception unit including an equalizer configured by a first digital filter unit and a first transmission unit including an emphasis circuit configured by a second digital filter unit, and a second communication node including a second transmission unit transmitting a training pattern before receiving normal data from the first communication node. The equalizer converges a filter constant of the first digital filter unit so that an error of the received training pattern is converged. The first transmission unit performs a distortion compensation using the converged filter constant of the first digital filter unit as at least a part of a filter constant of the second digital filter unit of the emphasis circuit, and then transmits the data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hironobu Akita, Shigeki Ohtsuka, Nobuaki Matsudaira, Takahisa Yoshimoto
  • Patent number: 9722820
    Abstract: A method of calibrating coefficients of a calibrated decision feedback equalizer (DFE) across a process, voltage, and temperature (PVT) range, the calibrated DFE comprising a plurality of DFE taps for reducing distortions of an input signal, and a sampler for sampling the input signal, the method including applying a preset voltage to an input of the calibrated DFE, setting a DFE tap of the plurality of DFE taps to a maximum value, generating a source reference, via a source reference calibrator, to apply to the DFE tap, changing the source reference to a first level that causes an output of the sampler to transition from a first state to a second state, determining the first level as a calibrated source reference, and applying the calibrated source reference to the DFE tap during normal operation of the calibrated DFE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mohammad Hekmat, Amir Amirkhany
  • Patent number: 9722821
    Abstract: A precoding method, a precoding apparatus, a Frequency Domain Equalization (FDE) method, and an FDE apparatus are provided in the embodiments of the present invention. The precoding method includes: performing offset modulation for a transmitting signal vector; calculating a precoding matrix according to the offset-modulated transmitting signal vector and a receiver decision signal vector, where the precoding matrix is used for performing precoding for the transmitting signal vector; and performing precoding for the transmitting signal vector according to the precoding matrix. Linear precoding is performed by using the offset-modulated signal on the transmitter, and therefore, the interference caused by multiple antennas and multipath propagation is reduced, the system BER is reduced, and the complexity of implementation is low.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Gong Zhang, Xun Yang, Pei Xiao, Zihuai Lin
  • Patent number: 9722822
    Abstract: A driver circuit device using driver equalization in power and ground terminated transmission line channels. The driver circuit device can include a weaker pull-up driver, which is needed to pre-emphasize the pull-up signal for driver equalization in power terminated transmission line channels. The driver circuit device can also include a weaker pull-down driver, which is needed to pre-emphasize the pull-down signal for driver equalization in ground terminated transmission line channels. In the transmission line channels with power terminations, a weaker pull-up Ron is implemented. In the transmission line channels with ground terminations, a weaker pull-down Ron is implemented. Drivers implemented in power and/or ground terminated transmission line channels can be used to improve device performance, such as in signal eye opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: INPHI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Liang Leon Zhang, Friedel Gerfers, Carl Pobanz, Myoung Joon Choi, Vivek Gurumoorthy, Chienhsin Lee
  • Patent number: 9722823
    Abstract: Systems and methods for providing offset calibration for low power and high performance receivers are described herein. In one embodiment, a receiver comprises a sample latch having a first input coupled to a receive data path, and a second input. The receive also comprises a first digital-to-analog converter (DAC), a second DAC, and a calibration controller. In a calibration mode, the calibration controller is configured to input a calibration voltage to the first input of the sample latch using the first DAC, to input a threshold voltage and an offset-cancelation voltage to the second input of the sample latch using the second DAC, to adjust the offset-cancelation voltage, to observe an output of the sample latch as the offset-cancelation voltage is adjusted, and to store a value of the offset-cancelation voltage at which a metastable state is observed at the output of the sample latch in a memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Minhan Chen, Kenneth Luis Arcudia
  • Patent number: 9722824
    Abstract: A method for simultaneously transmitting data bits and a clock signal includes converting the combination of the data bits and the clock signal to analog voltages by a digital-to-analog converter. The clock signal are the most significant bit of the digital-to-analog conversion and the data bits are the least significant bit of the digital-to-analog conversion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventor: Robert Floyd Payne
  • Patent number: 9722825
    Abstract: A telecommunications system is provided that can re-sample a digitized signal at a resample rate that is based on one or more factors to better utilize bandwidth. The factors can include the bandwidth of the signal that the digitized signal represents, the amount of bandwidth owned or used by the carrier, the full bandwidth of the designated RF band, the bandwidth of the serial link, the frame length of the serial link, the segmentation of the frames on the serial link, and the capability of the equipment at the receiving end of a serial link. The re-sampled signal can be transmitted to another unit that is remote to the unit transmitting the signal. The other unit can include a re-sampling device that restores the re-sampled signal to a digital signal that can be converted to an analog signal for wireless transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: CommScope Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Thomas Kummetz, Van E. Hanson, Christopher Goodman Ranson
  • Patent number: 9722826
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices are described for wireless communications. More particularly, the described features relate to techniques for adjusting a modulation and coding scheme (MCS) to account for different airtime utilizations (available airtime actually utilized by a device for transmissions) resulting from different MCSs. In one example, a method for wireless communication may involve: determining a media access control (MAC) efficiency for a station of a plurality of stations based at least in part on a real-time multi-user (MU) physical protocol data unit (PPDU) length, a real-time physical layer service data unit (PSDU) length of each of the plurality of stations, and a modulation and coding scheme (MCS) of the station; adjusting a goodput estimate of the station using the MAC efficiency; and, adjusting the MCS of the station using the adjusted goodput estimate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Qinghai Gao, Xiaolong Huang, Vincent Knowles Jones, IV, Srinivas Katar, James Simon Cho
  • Patent number: 9722827
    Abstract: A wireless access point or other transmitter can be configured to inject a supplemental signal into a data modulated carrier signal. In some examples, a transmitter system includes an antenna, a primary modulator, and a supplemental modulator. The primary modulator receives a baseband data signal and a carrier signal and outputting to the antenna a data modulated carrier signal according to a communications protocol. The supplemental modulator injects a supplemental signal into the data modulated carrier signal by distorting the data modulated carrier signal within an error bound of the communications protocol. A corresponding receiving system includes an antenna and a supplemental signal detector for detecting the supplemental signal by detecting the distortion within the data modulated carrier signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: Ixia
    Inventor: Stephen Samuel Jackson
  • Patent number: 9722828
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a receiver comprises a latch configured to receive a data signal and to latch symbols of the received data signal, and a decision feedback equalizer. The decision feedback equalizer comprises a first feedback capacitor having first and second terminals, the first terminal being coupled to a first internal node of the latch. The decision feedback equalizer also comprises a first plurality of switches configured to alternatively couple the second terminal of the first feedback capacitor to a first feedback signal and a ground, the first feedback signal having a first voltage that is a function of a bit decision corresponding to a first previous symbol in the data signal preceding a current symbol in the data signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Li Sun, Xiaohua Kong, Zhi Zhu, Miao Li, Dong Ren
  • Patent number: 9722829
    Abstract: A pulse shaping circuit is configured to shape a waveform of an edge of a signal applied to a switch of a power amplifier included in an on-off keying transmitter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignees: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Postech Academy-Industry Foundation
    Inventors: Jae Sup Lee, Bum Man Kim, Han-Kyu Lee, Dae Chul Jeong, Tae Young Chung
  • Patent number: 9722830
    Abstract: The disclosure is directed to a signal detection system. The system includes a receiver configured to receive data comprising noise and a signal having an amplitude lower than that of the noise received by the receiver. The system also includes a detection module configured to receive the data received by the receiver, define a region of interest of the data, compare a plurality of portions of the region of interest, and identify a portion of the region of interest that is more likely to contain the signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: THE CHARLES STARK DRAPER LABORATORY, INC.
    Inventor: Stanley Shanfield
  • Patent number: 9722831
    Abstract: The invention provides a carrier frequency offset processing method, an apparatus and a receiver. The method comprises: receiving, through a software and hardware interface, an estimated value of frequency offset of a data packet transmitted by an automatic frequency offset control module; collecting the received estimated value of frequency offset of the data packet and performing statistical analysis to obtain a statistical value of carrier frequency offset between a receiving module and a transmitting module; and dynamically adjusting, according to the statistical value of carrier frequency offset, a bandwidth of a low-pass filter through the software and hardware interface. The invention realizes dynamic adjustment of the bandwidth of the low-pass filter in the process of a receiver receiving signals, solving the problem of the impact on processing performance brought by the fixed bandwidth of a low-pass filter in the prior art.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: SHANGHAI EASTSOFT MICROELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Liwei Shen, Ruijin Liu, Song Pan
  • Patent number: 9722832
    Abstract: A frequency control circuit, adapted to be utilized in a phase locked loop circuit. The frequency control circuit includes a first frequency control block, a second frequency control block, a pump control unit and a charge pump unit. The first frequency control block generates a first control signal according to a frequency of an output signal from the phase locked loop circuit, in which the first control signal is configured to control the frequency of the output signal located within a predetermined frequency region. The second frequency control block generates a second control signal according to a frequency of an input signal and the frequency of the output signal, in which the second control signal is configured to control the frequency of the output signal located at a target frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: HIMAX TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED
    Inventors: Shih-Che Hung, Chun-Liang Chen
  • Patent number: 9722833
    Abstract: A frequency shift key (FSK) receiver includes a phase compensator for compensating for frequency differences in a transmitter that transmits a FSK signal to the receiver. The phase compensating is performed before the FSK signal is demodulated by the receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Wenxun Qiu, Timothy Mark Schmidl
  • Patent number: 9722834
    Abstract: A communication system includes a receiving circuit and a phase error estimating circuit. The receiving circuit receives an input signal x, which has an input phase ? in a polar coordinate system. According to partial differentiation performed on the natural logarithm of a function f(x, ?), the phase error estimating circuit generates an estimated phase error of the input signal x. f(x, ?) represents a probability function of receiving the input signal x at the receiving circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: MStar Semiconductor, Inc.
    Inventor: Yu-Jen Chou
  • Patent number: 9722835
    Abstract: A data processing apparatus is arranged to map input data symbols to be communicated onto a predetermined number of sub-carrier signals of Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexed OFDM symbols. The predetermined number of sub-carrier signals is determined in accordance with one of a plurality of operating modes and the input data symbols are divided into first sets of input data symbols and second sets of input data symbols.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: SATURN LICENSING LLC
    Inventors: Matthew Paul Athol Taylor, Samuel Asangbeng Atungsiri, John Nicholas Wilson
  • Patent number: 9722836
    Abstract: A data processing apparatus maps input symbols to be communicated onto a predetermined number of sub-carrier signals of an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexed (OFDM) symbol. The data processor includes an interleaver memory which reads-in the predetermined number of data symbols for mapping onto the OFDM sub-carrier signals. The interleaver memory reads-out the data symbols on to the OFDM sub-carriers to effect the mapping, the read-out being in a different order than the read-in, the order being determined from a set of addresses, with the effect that the data symbols are interleaved on to the sub-carrier signals. The set of addresses are generated from an address generator which comprises a linear feedback shift register and a permutation circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: Saturn Licensing LLC
    Inventors: Jean-Luc Peron, Matthew Paul Athol Taylor, John Nicholas Wilson, Samuel Asangbeng Atungsiri
  • Patent number: 9722837
    Abstract: Provided is a wireless communication device and a wireless communication method which can maintain compatibility with a plurality of communication schemes and send a response signal back within the allowed time specified by each communication scheme. The wireless communication device includes a radio receiving unit (120) that receives a packet having a format conforming to a first communication scheme and including a second format portion conforming to a second communication scheme using a higher frequency band than the first communication scheme and a first format portion excluding the second format portion, and a processing unit (160) that, outputs a response signal at completion of demodulation and decoding of the first format portion, regardless of whether demodulation and decoding of the second format portion are completed or not.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroaki Takano
  • Patent number: 9722838
    Abstract: An apparatus for transmitting a broadcast signal includes an input formatting module configured to de-multiplex an input stream into at least one Data Pipe (DP); a BICM module configured to perform error correction processing on data of the at least one DP; a signal frame building module configured to map the data of the DP to symbols within a signal frame; and an OFDM generation module configured to generate a transmission broadcast signal by inserting a preamble into the signal frame and performing OFDM modulation. The OFDM generation module includes a pilot signal insertion module configured to insert a pilot signal including Continual Pilots (CP) and Scattered Pilots (SP) into the transmission broadcast signal, and the CPs are inserted into every symbol of the signal frame, and location and number of the CPs are determined based on a Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) size.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Chulkyu Mun, Jongseob Baek, Byounggill Kim, Jaehyung Kim, Woosuk Ko, Sungryong Hong
  • Patent number: 9722839
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a communication method performed by a User Equipment (UE) (301) in a mixed cellular and Device-to-Device (D2D) network (300) and the UE. The method comprises the step of communicating in the mixed network according to a radio frame structure, wherein the radio frame structure comprises at least one D2D subframe having a Guard Period (GP) at an end or at a beginning of the D2D subframe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Zhenshan Zhao, Qianxi Lu, Qingyu Miao
  • Patent number: 9722840
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a broadcast signal receiver. A broadcast signal receiver according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a synchronization/demodulation module configured to perform signal detection and OFDM demodulation on a received broadcast signal, a frame parsing and deinterleaving module configured to parse and deinterleave the signal frame of the broadcast signal, a demapping and decoding module configured to convert the data of at least one Physical Layer Pipe (PLP) of the broadcast signal into a bit domain and to perform FEC decoding on the data, and an output processing module configured to receive the data of the at least one PLP and to output a data stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Jaehyung Kim, Woosuk Ko, Sungryong Hong
  • Patent number: 9722841
    Abstract: Disclosed are techniques for channel-based coding for wireless communications. A transmitter includes circuitry and multiple antennas. The circuitry selects a subset of the antennas, determines a respective channel response for each of the antennas in the subset, generates a respective coded system for each of the antennas in the subset, and transmits the coded symbols using the antennas in the subset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA
    Inventors: Ertugrul Guvenkaya, Huseyin Arslan
  • Patent number: 9722842
    Abstract: Methods and systems are described for transmitting data to a node using a plurality of radio frequency channels. The data may be allocated, based on feedback from the node, into various portions amongst multiple radio frequency channels and/or amongst tones associated with the radio frequency channels. The data portions may be transmitted to the node, using frequency diversity, via respective radio frequency channels as at least part of respective orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) transmissions, which may be at least partially concurrent transmissions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Brian G. Agee, Matthew C. Bromberg
  • Patent number: 9722843
    Abstract: A system comprises an analog front end (AFE), an analog-to-digital converter (ADC), and alias detection circuitry. The AFE may be operable to receive an analog signal via a communication medium, wherein a first frequency band of the analog signal is occupied by an OFDM symbol and a second frequency band of the analog signal is occupied by first aliases generated during digital-to-analog conversion of the OFDM symbol. The ADC is operable to digitize the particular band of the analog signal to generate a digital signal, wherein, during the digitization, aliasing of the first aliases results in second aliases which fall into the first frequency band. The alias detection circuitry is operable to detect the second aliases in the first frequency band of the digital signal, and process the digital signal based on the detected second aliases to generate an output signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: Maxlinear, Inc.
    Inventor: Curtis Ling
  • Patent number: 9722844
    Abstract: The transmission method includes: performing first-time series-parallel conversion on modulation symbols, and allocating the data to different subcarriers, by a sender side; performing second-time series-parallel conversion on the data allocated to each subcarrier, modulating the parallel data to Slepian signals orthogonal to each other; summing up the data modulated to different Slepian signals; further modulating the data to a subcarrier; and summing up the data in all subcarriers to form transmission signals. The demodulation method includes: calculating a pseudo-inverse of a matrix formed by subcarrier signals of a sender side by a receiver side; performing subcarrier demodulation on reception signals by using columns of the calculated pseudo-inverse matrix; and performing matching filtering demodulation on signals in each subcarrier by using Slepian signals orthogonal to each other to obtain estimation values of modulation symbols of the sender side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Xianjun Yang, Xin Wang, Jian Zhang
  • Patent number: 9722845
    Abstract: A Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) device, having a demodulator configured to translate in-phase and quadrature components of a received BLE signal into a differential phase signal; an estimator configured to estimate a frequency offset of the differential phase signal; and a detector configured to detect information in the differential phase signal corrected by the estimated frequency offset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: Intel IP Corporation
    Inventors: Lu Lu, Jinyong Lee, Xuan Steven Li, Aiguo Yan
  • Patent number: 9722846
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method of receiving a broadcast signal. The method comprises receiving the broadcast signal; an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) demodulating on the received broadcast signal; parsing at least one signal frame from the demodulated broadcast signal to extract service data or service component data; converting the service data or service component data into bits; decoding the converted bits; and outputting a data stream comprising the decoded bits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jongseob Baek, Woosuk Ko, Sungryong Hong
  • Patent number: 9722847
    Abstract: A preamble generating unit generates first and second synchronization preambles having different numbers of subcarriers. A transmission signal generating unit generates an OFDM transmission signal through time-division multiplexing by using the generated first and second synchronization preambles. A transmission RF unit converts the generated OFDM transmission signal into a radio-frequency OFDM signal and transmits the radio-frequency OFDM signal. The preamble generating unit adds a predetermined dummy period between the first synchronization preamble and the second synchronization preamble.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ippei Kanno, Yoshinobu Matsumura, Teruaki Hasegawa, Shigeru Soga, Kouya Watanabe, Hisateru Kobatake, Kenichi Mori, Yoshio Urabe
  • Patent number: 9722848
    Abstract: Examples include techniques for using a modulation and coding scheme (MCS) for downlink transmissions. In some examples information elements (IEs) for either a physical multicast channel (PMCH) or a physical multicast control channel (PMCCH) include information to indicate an MCS for downlink transmission over a PMCH or PMCCH between an evolved Node B (eNB) and user equipment (UE). For these examples, the information in the IEs include indications of whether higher order modulation for quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) have or have not been enabled. Both the UE and the eNB may operate in compliance with one or more 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) Long Term Evolution (LTE) standards.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Alexei Davydov, Hwan-Joon Kwon, Gregory V. Morozov, Alexander Maltsev
  • Patent number: 9722849
    Abstract: Gain variations during a packet can lead to significant performance degradation in communications systems that use high order quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM). A method and the associated apparatus track such variations in an OFDM system and completely eliminate any performance degradation. Gain estimation and compensation is employed with the use of pilot subcarriers in the payload of an OFDM data packet. Estimated pilot magnitude ratios are averaged, throughout the processing life of a packet, to yield accurate gain estimations. A gain compensation factor is used to adjust data carriers. An exclusion method is also employed to eliminate pilot carriers which contribute to noise.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: Edgewater Wireless Systems Inc.
    Inventors: Manish Bhardwaj, Garret Shih
  • Patent number: 9722850
    Abstract: A flow bonder at a CMTS and another at a cable modem distribute packets of a service flow over multiple channels and collect them in the downstream direction respectively; vice versa in the upstream direction. The service flow may include video and data streams that are provided to the CMTS via an IP network. IP header information is stripped form video packets and remultiplexed with packets of other video streams. The remultiplexed video stream packets are combined into a composite stream, which is transported using multiple bonded-flow RF channels over an HFC. A set top box receives the composite stream and separates data from video packets based on IP information. Video packets are assembled according to information from a multiple program transport stream table based on a program selected by a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: ARRIS Enterprises LLC
    Inventors: Mark Bugajski, Carol Ansley
  • Patent number: 9722851
    Abstract: Features are described with regard to the analysis of network and content characteristics that may affect the retrieval of network content, and the determination by a network computing device, based at least partly on that analysis, of whether a client computing device should bypass the network computing device and retrieve requested and related content directly from content sources. Additional features are described with regard to the determination of network resources to be cached, and to the determination of a computing device from which to initiate the caching. The network computing component or the client computing device can also monitor characteristics of the network connection between the computing devices and with other computing devices associated with content providers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Peter F. Hill
  • Patent number: 9722852
    Abstract: A method is provided in one example and includes receiving media content including timed metadata, generating a common format asset including the timed metadata and a timed metadata index including at least one reference point corresponding to the common format asset. Each reference point includes state context information of the timed metadata at a particular instance of time. The method may further include receiving a request for the timed metadata from a particular client device, and retrieving a determined amount of the timed metadata from the common format asset using the timed metadata index. In a particular example, the determined amount of the timed metadata is an amount sufficient to display a current timed metadata context corresponding to the request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Eric Colin Friedrich, Matthew Francis Caulfield, Carol Etta Iturralde, Mahesh Vittal Viveganandhan, Scott C. Labrozzi
  • Patent number: 9722853
    Abstract: An endpoint broker to provide application launch endpoints from multiple data centers having different tenancy sets. Upon accessing a request for an application launch endpoint connection for a user, the broker selects a data center, from amongst multiple data centers that have different tenancy sets, that is to provide an endpoint in satisfaction of the request. The endpoint broker identifies an endpoint from the selected data center, and then associates the identified endpoint with the user. The user is then provided access to the identified endpoint using the association. Thus, a user is not restricted to having an endpoint from a single data center. If there are concerns with providing an endpoint from one data center, an endpoint may be provided from another data center in a manner that is transparent to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Sriram Sampath, Tristan William Scott, Ido Miles Ben-Shachar, Ersev Samim Erdogan, Niraj Agarwala
  • Patent number: 9722854
    Abstract: There is provided a system and method for resilient routing based on a multi-channel model for emergency management. The system includes a packet delivery anomaly detector for determining an existence of an anomaly in a mandated routing infrastructure for a packet that renders the packet incapable of reaching a destination node designated for the packet through the mandated routing infrastructure. The system further includes a dynamic alternate route identifier for dynamically identifying alternate routes for the packet responsive to a determination of the existence of the anomaly. The alternate routes are outside the mandated routing infrastructure, are provided using one or more mobile devices external to and not part of the mandated routing infrastructure, and are dynamically identified responsive to at least geographic location information. The system also includes a wireless transmitter for wirelessly routing the packet using at least one of the alternate routes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Timothy M. Lynar, Christian Vecchiola
  • Patent number: 9722855
    Abstract: A method for arranging services in a computing infrastructure is provided. The method includes receiving a request for services, with requested capabilities, to be provided from a computing infrastructure and reserving portions of the computing infrastructure until services, with at least the requested capabilities being reserved. The method includes committing the services with at least the requested capabilities, as reserved and providing the services, with at least the requested capabilities, in fulfillment of the request for the services, wherein at least one method operation is performed by a processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: VCE Company, LLC
    Inventor: Jonathan Peter Streete
  • Patent number: 9722856
    Abstract: Disclosed is a system and method for enabling a SNMP based Network Management System in cooperation with at least one SDN Controller to control sequence of recovery actions and dynamically change the recovery action sequence for a given fault based on the feedback received from an SNMP Agent/Open flow based devices across various systems/platforms for recovering a business service which is achieved by way of Open flow stack enhancements and OF-CONFIG enhancements at the controller end and device end. The present invention is essentially about extending the ability to initiate and perform dynamic recovery actions in a network supporting both the traditional SNMP based management systems & Open flow based SDN Control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: Tech Mahindra Ltd.
    Inventors: Sankarnarayanan Nagasubramaniam, Manoj Kotnala, Sachin Ganpatlal Tawniya