Signal Quality Determined By Bit Error Rate Patents (Class 370/333)
  • Patent number: 9584416
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses are disclosed to facilitate wireless communications. User equipment (UE), such as a mobile device, identifies data congestion and transmits a recommended data rate modification wireless signal (e.g., a recommended reduced data rate) to the base station that is transmitting data to the UE. The base station may reduce the data rate of the down link (DL) to the reduced data rate. The UE may then receive data from the base station at the reduced data rate. Therefore, flow control may be implemented at the base station side (e.g., sometimes referred to as the Network (NW) side) based upon the reduced data rate modification determined and transmitted by the UE to the base station. In this way, the data rate transmission to the UE can be reduced to allow the UE to successfully process received data and successfully perform its functions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Sai Yiu Duncan Ho, Shailesh Maheshwari
  • Patent number: 9548844
    Abstract: A preamble signal is an OFDM signal, and is a real-part signal obtained by removing an imaginary-part signal from a signal in the time domain that is generated by an IFFT process being performed on a signal in the frequency domain obtained by assigning preamble data to subcarriers in accordance with a predetermined arrangement pattern. The predetermined arrangement pattern indicates that preamble data is assigned to any of subcarriers given numbers equal to or less than N/2?1 and the preamble data is not assigned to subcarriers given numbers more than N/2?1, where a plurality of subcarriers are numbered by integers from 0 to N?1 (N is an integer) in ascending order with respect to the center frequency of each subcarrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Assignee: MegaChips Corporation
    Inventor: Handa Chen
  • Patent number: 9504048
    Abstract: Provided are a method and apparatus for acquiring channel responses of a self-interference channel and a full-duplex communication device. The method comprises: obtaining an estimate value of a channel response of the self-interfering channel by employing multiple reference signals to perform a channel estimation on the self-interfering channel; determining a stable range of each channel frequency-domain response on the basis of the channel response estimated value; randomly selecting a frequency point within the stable range of each channel frequency-domain response or selecting a frequency point of a greater channel response to serve as an emission frequency point of the reference signals, and, when an interrelation of the channel responses on the emission frequency point and on a non-emission frequency point is acquired, acquiring all the channel responses on time-domain and frequency-domain on the basis of a reception signal corresponding to the reference signals on the emission frequency point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2016
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hong Cheng, Rui Wang, Yinggang Du
  • Patent number: 9501376
    Abstract: Indirect testing of multiple I/O interface signal lines concurrently. A system distributes a test data sequence to a group of signal lines. Each signal line receives the test data sequence and checks for errors in receiving the test data sequence at an associated I/O buffer. The system includes an error detection mechanism for each signal line. The system also includes an error detection mechanism for the group of multiple signal lines. If the I/O buffer receives any bit of the test data sequence incorrectly, the signal line error detection indicates an error. The group error detection accumulates pass/fail information for all signal lines in the group. Rather than sending a pass/fail indication on every cycle of the test, the group error detection can count pass/fail information for all signal lines of the group for all bits of the test data sequence and indicate error results after the entire test data is received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2016
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Christopher Nelson, Bharani Thiruvengadam
  • Patent number: 9485335
    Abstract: A method of operation in a high-speed Ethernet transceiver is disclosed. The method includes engaging in an autonegotiation process with a link partner transceiver to indicate whether one or more sub-rate modes of operation are supported. Each sub-rate mode of operation corresponds to a sub-data rate that is less than a maximum data rate. The autonegotiation process is terminated. The transceiver then participates in a training process. The training process includes receiving a first training sequence corresponding to a first sub-data rate that is less than the maximum data rate. A signal quality parameter for the received first training sequence is measured. The training sequence is terminated based on the measured signal quality parameter failing a predetermined criteria. A second training sequence is then initiated that corresponds to a second sub-data rate that is less than the first sub-data rate without starting a second autonegotiation process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignee: Aquantia Corp.
    Inventors: Paul Langner, Hossein Sedarat
  • Patent number: 9451563
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices are described for improve network performance, such as throughput and PER, by allowing nodes to adjust energy detection (ED) threshold levels. For example, a method for Wi-Fi wireless communication includes determining, by a first node, an ED threshold level for a second node of a wireless network based at least in part on a metric for the first node. The method may also include signaling, from the first node to the second node, an ED level set element that indicates the determined ED threshold level. In another example, a method includes signaling, by a first node, an ED level adjustment capability of the first node to one or more nodes in a wireless network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Yan Zhou, Simone Merlin
  • Patent number: 9439204
    Abstract: A wireless device includes a detecting unit, a sending unit, and a selecting unit. The detecting unit detects, for each communication channel while switching multiple communication channels, interference information. The sending unit sends to a destination wireless device, a packet in which the detected interference information are sequentially stored for each wireless device. The selecting unit receives the packet. When the wireless device does not correspond to the destination wireless device, the selecting unit transfers the packet. When the wireless device corresponds to the destination wireless device, the selecting unit selects, on the basis of the pieces of the interference information that are sequentially stored in the packet and the detected interference information, a communication channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Satoshi Kozaki, Kyohei Tanaka
  • Patent number: 9419786
    Abstract: A multi-lane serial link signal receiving system includes a clock generating circuit and a plurality of data receiving channels. The clock generating circuit provides a fundamental clock signal. Each of the data receiving channels receives an input signal and the fundamental clock signal, and includes a phase detecting circuit, a multi-order digital clock data recovery circuit and a phase adjusting circuit. The phase detecting circuit samples the input signal according to a sampling clock signal to generate a sampled signal. The multi-order digital clock data recovery circuit performs a digital clock data recovery process on the sampled signal to generate phase adjusting information. The phase adjusting circuit adjusts the phase of the fundamental clock signal according to the phase adjusting information to generate the sampling clock signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignee: MStar Semiconductor, Inc.
    Inventors: Po-Nien Lin, Meng-Tse Weng, Jiunn-Yih Lee
  • Patent number: 9413499
    Abstract: To obtain a high frequency diversity effect while suppressing inter-code interference in code multiplexing transmission in an OFDM-based radio access scheme, a transmission apparatus is provided with an orthogonal spreading code generating section (10) that generates different spreading codes based on orthogonal code sequences, a phase rotation giving section (11) and spreading modulation section (12) which provide the information symbols or spreading codes with different phase rotation for each symbol sequence and then, spreads the information symbols with the spreading codes for each symbol sequence, and a multiplexing section (13) that multiplexes spread symbols of different symbol sequences, where the information symbols or the spreading codes are rotated by a phase rotation amount such that overlaps in a signal constellation in polar coordinates of spread symbols for transmitting different information symbols are controlled to within a required range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2016
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Kenichi Higuchi, Yoshihisa Kishiyama
  • Patent number: 9408121
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and an apparatus for enhancing measurement in a wireless communication system. The method includes: obtaining, according to a measurement period or triggered by an event, a measurement amount, where the measurement amount includes a ratio of a valid signal based on a reference signal to a non-valid signal based on the reference signal measured based on the reference signal; reporting the measurement amount to a base station; or performing cell selection or cell reselection according to the measurement amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2016
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Dengkun Xiao, Jing Han, Anjian Li, Yuan He, Tong Wu, Jie Cui, Liji Wu
  • Patent number: 9374750
    Abstract: A method includes receiving information indicating a user equipment is to be handed over from a source base station and scheduling transmission of a control channel for said user equipment in dependence on identity information associated with said user equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: Nokia Siemens Networks Oy
    Inventors: Harri Kalevi Holma, Hannu Pekka Matias Vaitovirta, Antti Anton Toskala
  • Patent number: 9369242
    Abstract: A method of wireless communication includes receiving an uplink grant for one or more pending HARQ processes waiting to perform a retransmission. The method also includes selecting each pending HARQ process that has not received a NACK. The method further includes terminating an oldest selected HARQ process when the uplink grant is insufficient to perform the retransmission for the plurality of pending HARQ processes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Ming Yang, Tom Chin, Guangming Shi
  • Patent number: 9237495
    Abstract: A method for performing handover by wireless User Equipment (UE) is provided. The UE includes a Long Term Evolution-Mobile Extreme Convergence (LTE-MXC) application processor, a LTE processor and a Digital Signal Processor (DSP). The UE buffers a set of IP packets when a Radio Access Technology (RAT) indicator is less than a pre-defined threshold and sends the set of IP packets to the LTE processor and the DSP. The LTE processor transmits the set of IP packets to the LTE network and sends acknowledgement signals to the LTE-MXC application processor and the DSP. When the handover is complete, the LTE processor sends the transmission status of the set of IP packets to the DSP. The UE also includes multimode Radio Resource Control (RRC) and Non-Access Stratum (NAS) modules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Mukesh Taneja
  • Patent number: 9224292
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for broadcasting a control message across an existing broadcast transport medium such as TV, Radio, Webcasts, Smart Phones/Tablets, Audio Buttons/Toys and PA/audio systems via a common acoustic channel with normal traditional broadcasts over those mediums to control computing devices, especially smart mobile devices such as smart phones or tablets. The present invention also involves a method for encoding the control message onto an acoustic wave composed of active sinusoidal frequency components selected out of monitored possible frequencies according to the concept of mathematical combinations. This encoding method is aimed at using a minimum amount of transmitted energy to get a maximum amount of data with as little reflective noise as possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Inventor: Kerry L. Davis
  • Patent number: 9219569
    Abstract: Various aspects of the disclosure described herein provide for optimizing rate control during a selection of a communications profile from a set of communications profiles by taking into account effective frame aggregation size as a function of packet error rate (PER). An expected throughput may also be determined for each communications profile and updated after each transmission so that a communications profile having the highest expected throughput may be chosen for a particular frame transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2015
    Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Qinghai Gao, Vishnu Vardhan Bala Krishnan, Shu Du, Zhanfeng Jia
  • Patent number: 9203589
    Abstract: A method includes receiving reference signals in a mobile communication terminal, the mobile communication terminal being designed to receive data-carrying signals that are transmitted from a base station using one of multiple predefined Modulation and Coding Schemes (MCSs). Based on the received reference signals, using processing circuitry in the terminal, effective Signal to Noise Ratios (SNRs) are calculated for the MCSs in a predefined partial subset of the MCSs that does not include all MCSs. The effective SNRs, for the MCSs that are not part of the predefined partial subset, are estimated by interpolating among two or more calculated effective SNR measures of the MCSs in the predefined partial subset using an interpolation function. Channel feedback is calculated based on the calculated effective SNRs and the estimated effective SNRs. The channel feedback is transmitted from the terminal, for use in transmitting the data carrying signals from the base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: MARVELL INTERNATIONAL LTD.
    Inventors: Yona Perets, Ezer Melzer
  • Patent number: 9198102
    Abstract: A mobile communication method includes: a step of transmitting, by a radio base station eNB#3, “Forwarding Request” on downlink user data addressed to a mobile station UE to a radio base station eNB#1; a step of switching, in response to the “Forwarding Request”, by the radio base station eNB#1, a forwarding destination of the downlink user data addressed to the mobile station UE from the radio base station eNB#2 to the radio base station eNB#3; and a step of transmitting, by the radio base station eNB#3, the downlink user data addressed to the mobile station UE to the mobile station UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Hideaki Takahashi, Wuri Andarmawanti Hapsari, Kenichiro Aoyagi, Takayuki Watanabe, Tatsuro Yajima
  • Patent number: 9167604
    Abstract: The methods and an apparatuses for scanning in WLAN are disclosed. A method of a scanning of a station (STA) may include monitoring a channel during a probedelay based on a MAC sublayer management entity (MLME)-SCAN.request primitive indicating an active scanning for a target Access Point (AP), receiving a frame including a channel congestion indicator from an AP during the probedelay, generating a MLME-SCAN.change request primitive to request a change of a scanning type parameter included in the MLME-SCAN.request primitive when the channel congestion indicator indicates that the channel is congested, generating a MLME-SCAN.change confirm primitive to confirm the change of the scanning type parameter included in the MLME-SCAN.request primitive as a response of the MLME-SCAN.change request primitive, and performing a passive scanning for the target AP based on the MLME-SCAN.change confirm primitive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Gi Won Park, Ki Seon Ryu, Jin Sam Kwak, Han Gyu Cho
  • Patent number: 9137775
    Abstract: A communications apparatus is disclosed. A receiving module receives an observed time difference of arrival (OTDOA) request and a search list of cells provided by a network at a second time point. A comparing module compares the received search list to a stored search list of cells which is received at a first time point and stored in a database. A searching module searches at least one of the cells from the received search list by using different search ranges adjusted according to the comparison result, and stores the at least one of the cells in the database. A measuring module performs OTDOA measurements by detecting positioning reference signals (PRS) from the at least one of the cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2015
    Assignee: MEDIATEK INC.
    Inventors: Tsung-Yu Chiou, Yuan-Wen Ting
  • Patent number: 9106330
    Abstract: A wireless communication apparatus in a first wireless system is provided with first, second and third units, and a controller. The first unit transmits frames over a frequency channel using a short or long IFS as compared with a specific one used in a second wireless system with a communication range wider than the first wireless system. The second unit receives frames over the channel. The third unit determines an error characteristic in the received frames and/or a busy status of the channel. The controller controls at least either one of whether to change the frequency channel or not, and whether to change a duration of an interframe space or not.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Ryoko Matsuo, Tomoko Adachi, Tomoya Tandai, Takeshi Tomizawa
  • Patent number: 9037134
    Abstract: Aspects describe communications environments in which femtocell capability is provided to devices within the communications network. A non-femto enabled device and/or a femto enabled device can communicate with a femto enabled device in the same geographical area for femto-enabled peer-to-peer communication. Two non-femto enabled devices can be provided femto functionality through utilization of a femto enabled device, which operates as a hub between the two devices. Other aspects relate to enhanced position determination, adaptive coverage enhancement, local mobile networks, open access femtocells without a backhaul, and local broadcast of media though utilization of femto enabled devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Matthew S. Grob, Mehmet Yavuz, Sanjiv Nanda
  • Patent number: 9026124
    Abstract: A system and method for interference mitigation in a wireless communications system are provided. A method for interference mitigation in a controller includes coordinating with other controllers to establish a cooperative agreement, receiving information from a communications device served by the controller, scheduling a transmission opportunity for the communications device based on an indicator and the cooperative agreement, and receiving a transmission from the communications device at the scheduled transmission opportunity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Jack Anthony Smith
  • Patent number: 9020499
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for fast cell selection by a mobile wireless device. The mobile wireless device detects when a first wireless cell fails a set of stored suitability criteria and searches for and locates a set of candidate wireless cells to associate with. The mobile wireless device measures at least one received signal metric for each candidate wireless cell in the set of candidate wireless cells. When a candidate cell in the set of candidate wireless cells is identically the first wireless cell, the mobile wireless device evaluates the suitability of the candidate wireless cell using the stored set of suitability criteria for the first wireless cell and the measured at least one received signal metric for the candidate wireless cell. The mobile wireless communication device associates with the candidate wireless cell when the candidate wireless cell meets the stored set of suitability criteria.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Giri Prassad Deivasigamani, Venkatasubramanian Ramasamy, Sharad Garg, Srinivasan Vasudevan
  • Patent number: 9020062
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for decoding signal vectors in multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems, where the receiver has received one or more signal vectors based on the same transmitted vector. The receiver linearizes each received signal vector using one or more zero-forcing, MMSE, or other suitable linear equalizers. The components of the equalized signal vectors may be combined using maximum-ratio combining to form the components of a combined equalized signal vector. The components of the combined equalized signal vector may then be decoded individually using a linear decoder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: Marvell World Trade Ltd.
    Inventors: Jungwon Lee, Woong Jun Jang, Hui-Ling Lou
  • Patent number: 9008668
    Abstract: A service handover control apparatus and a method using the apparatus are provided. The service handover control apparatus includes a service handover management unit collecting information associated with a transmitting terminal and a wireless access network, which operate based on an Internet Protocol multimedia subsystem (IMS), and outputting a control signal which controls service handovers of the transmitting terminal and the receiving terminal based on the collected information; and a service handover controller providing the service handover management unit with the information associated with the transmitting terminal and the receiving terminal, and controlling the service handovers of the transmitting terminal and the receiving terminal based on the control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignees: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Fraunhofer Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Su-won Lee, Xiaoyu Liu, John Williams Floroiu, Eun Sun Jung, Hee Jin Jang, Marius Corici, Byoung Joon Lee
  • Patent number: 9008040
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention disclose a handover method, User Equipment (UE), and a network side device, which can shorten a handover delay of a control plane and an interrupt delay of user plane data. A handover method includes: obtaining, by a UE, a Time Advance (TA) of a target cell before a handover; and obtaining an Uplink Grant (UL Grant) sent by the target cell; and then sending a Handover Complete message to the target cell with the TA on a resource that is corresponding to the UL Grant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Weiwei Song, Yuhua Chen, Jing Han, Zhiyu Yan, Yinghui Yu, Xin Xiong
  • Patent number: 8995355
    Abstract: A wireless communication apparatus that transmits data in certain communication interval to a receiving apparatus, using one or more communication channels among a plurality of adjacent communication channels, is provided. The apparatus includes: a setting unit configured to set the one or more communication channels for transmitting the data; a transmission unit configured to transmit the data using the one or more set communication channels; and a detection unit configured to detect interference with other wireless communication apparatuses, when the transmission unit transmits the data using the one or more set communication channels; wherein the setting unit changes the number of the one or more communication channels based on a time duration that the data transmission has been restrained due to the detected interference, and the communication interval.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hidetada Nago
  • Patent number: 8989761
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method of communicating in a mobile telecommunication network (100; 200), the mobile telecommunication network comprising a plurality of cells (102; 104; 106), wherein resource blocks are used for transmitting data in the mobile telecommunication network, and wherein the method comprises:—dividing (S2) a resource into at least a first plurality of resource blocks and a second plurality of resource blocks, wherein the resource blocks of the first plurality do not overlap with the resource bocks of the second plurality;—assigning (S3) the first plurality of resource blocks to a first group of cells and assigning the second plurality of resource blocks to a second group of cells;—scheduling (S4) first data transmissions in the first group of cells on the first plurality of resource blocks;—scheduling (S5) second data transmissions in the second group of cells on the second plurality of resource blocks;—scheduling (S6) third data transmissions in the first group of cells on the second p
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Siegfried Klein, Anton Ambrosy
  • Patent number: 8983487
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an adaptive transmitting device using limited feedback information in a mobile communication system, and a method thereof. According to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, when the base station transmits a pilot signal to the terminal, the terminal generates channel information by using the pilot signal, generates additional channel information from the channel information, and transmits the channel information and the additional channel information to the base station. The base station determines band allocation, power allocation, and modulation methods for each use by using received feedback information, and transmits modulated traffic data to the terminal according to the determined methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignees: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation, Yonsei University
    Inventors: Young-Jo Ko, Jae-Young Ahn, Kwang-Soon Kim, Jung-Hyoung Kwon, Keum-Chan Whang
  • Patent number: 8983472
    Abstract: A method and system supporting handoff of a multimedia call session using background network scanning is disclosed. A mobile multimedia handset may engage in the exchange of a multimedia information stream via a first wireless network, and may sniff a portion of radio frequency spectrum for a second wireless network. Information about available services and network quality of service for the second network may be received by querying the second wireless network or from advertising by the second wireless network. Hand-off between the two networks may be based upon the results of the comparison and one or more user-defined criteria, and the handoff may be synchronized according to predefined events in the stream of multimedia information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventors: Jeyhan Karaoguz, James D. Bennett, Nambirajan Seshadri
  • Patent number: 8965343
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and software for operating communication systems and wireless communication devices are provided herein. In one example, a method of operating a wireless communication is provided. In security circuitry of the wireless communication device, the method includes receiving a request from processing circuitry for an application to access a first communication network with a first communication transceiver, and processing the request and a security key to authorize the application to use the first communication transceiver to access the first communication network. In the first communication transceiver, the method includes exchanging communications over the first communication network for the application responsive to the authorization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.
    Inventors: Lyle Walter Paczkowski, Matthew C. Schlesener, William M. Parsel, Carl Joseph Persson
  • Patent number: 8964541
    Abstract: During an initial part of a communication session, a transmitting node transmits digital data over a first air interface channel to a receiving node, using a first data rate and a first level of repetition. A degradation in quality of the communication session is detected. During a subsequent part of the communication session, the transmitting node transmits digital data over the first air interface channel as before but also transmits the digital data over a second air interface channel, using a second data rate and a second level of repetition. The second data rate is higher than the first data rate, and the second level of repetition is higher than the first level of repetition. Thus, during a given transmission period, the transmitting node may transmit a voice frame once over the first air interface channel and N times over the second air interface channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: Sprint Spectrum L.P.
    Inventors: Jason P. Sigg, Jasinder P. Singh, Maulik K. Shah
  • Patent number: 8965375
    Abstract: There are provided measures for a pathloss-based access node wake-up control, more specifically a pathloss-based access node wake-up control in a heterogeneous network environment. Such measures exemplarily include a retrieval of an average handover pathloss level between an access node and a neighboring access node, an estimation of an uplink sounding pathloss level between the access node and a terminal, said terminal being connectable to the access node and the neighboring access node, a comparison of the estimated uplink sounding pathloss level and the retrieved average handover pathloss level, and an enabling of a switch-on of the access node from an inactive state in which a transmitter is switched off to an active state in which the transmitter is switched on, when the estimated uplink sounding pathloss level is smaller than the retrieved average handover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: Nokia Siemens Networks Oy
    Inventors: Juergen Michel, Dirk Rose
  • Patent number: 8964697
    Abstract: When a mobile terminal transmitting/receiving a packet using a plurality of IP address types performs a handover to an access network (single address type connection network) permitting transmission/reception of a packet using a single IP address only, an IP address not permitted is unfortunately discarded at an access network as a handover destination. Disclosed is a technique configured so that a mobile terminal (UE 1) detecting a handover to the single address type connection network establishes a temporary connection with a mobility management gateway (PGW 5) and thereafter acquires an address of an ePDG 8 located at a core network and informs the ePDG of a communication state before the handover via a PDN using the temporary connection. The ePDG informs the PGW of the communication state of the UE before the handover. Thereby, the communication state of the UE before the handover is achieved with the PGW via the ePDG and the PDN.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ryuji Sugizaki, Shinkichi Ikeda, Keigo Aso, Jun Hirano
  • Patent number: 8964866
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a wireless communication system, and more particularly, to a method and apparatus for transmitting signals using codebooks in a wireless communication system that supports multiple antennas. A method in which a base station transmits downlink signals according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises the following steps: receiving a first precoding matrix indicator (PMI) and a second precoding matrix indicator from a terminal; determining a first matrix (W1) from a first codebook including precoding matrixes indicated by the first PMI, determining a second matrix (W2) from a second codebook, including precoding matrices indicated by the second PMI, and determining a precoding matrix (W) based on the first matrix (W1) and second matrix (W2); performing precoding on one or more layers, to which the downlink signals are mapped, using the determined precoding matrix (W); and transmitting the precoded signals to the terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Hyunsoo Ko, Jaehoon Chung, Moonil Lee
  • Patent number: 8958456
    Abstract: A composite wireless device including a WLAN device and a BT device. The composite wireless device includes a wireless-channel control unit that determines usable FH channels that can be used for frequency hopping of the BT device, based on communication quality information of the WLAN channel, and notifies the BT device of the usable frequency bands, and a BT-communication control unit that acquires communication quality information of an extended frequency band, which is a frequency band other than the usable frequency bands, as extended communication quality information. The wireless-channel control unit adds the FH channels in the WLAN channel, which are determined as being unused based on the extended communication quality information, as the usable FH channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Yukimasa Nagai
  • Patent number: 8942706
    Abstract: A radio network controller is operable in both a unicast signaling mode and a bi-cast signaling mode. In unicast signaling mode, the radio network controller is operable to send radio resource control signals to a mobile station through a serving cell. The radio network controller is operable to go into bi-cast signaling mode during a hard handover. In the bi-cast signaling mode, the radio network controller is operable to send radio resource control messages to the mobile station through both the current serving cell and a target cell. The mobile station is configured to listen to both the current serving cell and the target cell for radio resource control messages. User data, however, is transmitted only from the current serving cell to the mobile station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2015
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ)
    Inventors: Bengt Lindoff, Johan Nilsson, Per Synnergren
  • Patent number: 8942716
    Abstract: A radio resource control method of controlling a radio resource for transmitting user data by a mobile station via an uplink, including: sending, from a radio base station, a signal indicative of a reduction of a maximum allowable transmission rate of the user data signaled to the mobile station connected to the radio base station, to a radio network controller; and controlling, at the radio network controller, the radio resource based on the reported signal indicative of the reduction of the maximum allowable transmission rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2015
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Masafumi Usuda, Anil Umesh
  • Patent number: 8937937
    Abstract: In a mobile communication network comprising a pico base station and macro base station with overlapping coverage areas, the pico base station transmits a supplemental synchronization signal to enable synchronization when the mobile terminal is operating within a link imbalance zone. The supplemental synchronization signal is transmitted using different time, frequency, and/or code resources from the primary and/or secondary synchronization signals to differentiate and separate the supplemental synchronization signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2015
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ)
    Inventors: Bengt Lindoff, Lars Lindbom, Stefan Parkvall
  • Patent number: 8938269
    Abstract: Techniques to enhance the performance in a wireless communication system using CQI feedback optimized to support different scenarios. According to one aspect, an access terminal may select a CQI feedback table based on the access terminals capability. According to another aspect, an access point may select a CQI feedback table based on an access terminals capability, system loading and the type of service provided by the access point. An access point which provides services that require high data rates may select a larger CQI feedback table to support the high data rates for access terminals which support the larger CQI feedback table. The same access point may select a smaller CQI feedback table for access terminals which do not have the capability or need for the high data rate services.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2015
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Hemanth Sampath, David Jonathan Julian
  • Patent number: 8934368
    Abstract: A network having distribution of access point loading includes access points to which mobile stations can associate themselves based upon access point beacon signal levels and loading levels for the various access points. A mobile station receives beacon signals from various access points and determines a signal strength for the received beacon signals. The mobile station also receives access point loading information from the access points. The mobile station associates with an access point based upon the access point beacon signal strengths and the access point loading information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P.
    Inventors: Zoran Kostic, Kin K. Leung, Hujun Yin
  • Patent number: 8934939
    Abstract: In a wireless communications system, a serving base station performs outer and closed power control for an overhead channel and a traffic channel for data, either of which can carry an acknowledgement (Ack) channel and Channel Quality Indicator (CQI) channel on an uplink from User Equipment (UE). In an exemplary aspect, data packet communication is implemented in 3GPP LTE Rel. 8 wherein the uplink has a Single Carrier Frequency Division Multiplex (SC-FDM) uplink waveform. The UE performs open loop power control by a determining transmit power spectral density value by using received energy per symbol for a reference signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Rashid Ahmed Akbar Attar, Donna Ghosh, Christopher Gerard Lott
  • Patent number: 8929343
    Abstract: A method for determining a channel quality index in an OFDM receiver is disclosed. The method comprises receiving signals comprising reference signals from a serving cell and reference signals from neighboring cells; determining signal power of the reference signals from the serving cell and signal power of the reference signals from detected neighboring cells; and determining carrier-to-interference ratio to be the ratio between the signal power of the reference signals from the serving cell and the signal power of the reference signals from the detected neighboring cells. Carrier-to-interference ratio is used for adapting physical layer properties and/or for deciding on handover. A computer program and apparatuses for implementing the method are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (Publ)
    Inventors: Bengt Lindoff, Johan Nilsson
  • Patent number: 8929934
    Abstract: A communication device is described comprising a receiver configured to receive a radio signal from another communication device via a communication channel; a detector configured to detect the presence of an impairment of the communication channel; a determiner configured to determine a type of the impairment of the communication channel; and a transmitter configured to transmit an indication of the type of the impairment of the communication channel to the other communication device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Intel Mobile Communications GmbH
    Inventor: Beena Joy Chirayil
  • Publication number: 20150003420
    Abstract: A device and method performs a handover. The method includes establishing a connection to a cellular network. The method includes determining whether a WiFi network is available for connection. The method includes determining performance data of the WiFi network based upon network metrics. The method includes determining a quality of service (QoS) parameter associated with a currently executed application, the QoS parameter being indicative of whether a handover from the cellular network to the WiFi network is permitted. The method includes performing the handover from the cellular network to the WiFi network when the performance data of the WiFi network satisfies a set of predetermined criteria for the network metrics and the QoS parameter indicates the handover is permitted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2014
    Publication date: January 1, 2015
    Inventors: Sarma VANGALA, Tarik Tabet, Swaminathan Balakrishnan, Sreevalsan Vallath
  • Patent number: 8923878
    Abstract: A mobile station, where the mobile station includes a reception quality measurement unit, a channel quality information transmission unit, and a control signal transmission unit, where the reception quality measurement unit is configured to measure a reception quality of a pilot signal of each of a plurality of cells, when a radio link is established with the plurality of cells, where the channel quality information transmission unit is configured to transmit, to a first cell having the beset reception quality among the plurality of cells, channel quality information corresponding to the reception quality, and where the control signal transmission unit is configured to transmit, to a cell other than the first cell among the plurality of cells, a control signal requesting not to transmit a data signal by using the same resource as the first cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Akihito Morimoto, Yoshihisa Kishiyama, Motohiro Tanno, Mamoru Sawahashi
  • Patent number: 8923836
    Abstract: Device, system, and method of phone call placement. A method of placing a phone call from a mobile phone includes: receiving a user command to initiate a phone call from said mobile phone using a cellular network; diverting said phone call to be carried by a detected network element of a non-cellular wireless network, instead of by said cellular network; wherein the diverting is based on at least one of: a Media Access Control (MAC) address of a detected network element of said non-cellular wireless network, an Organizationally Unique Identifier (OUI) of a detected network element of said non-cellular wireless network, or a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) account configuration data of a detected network element of said non-cellular wireless network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: AudioCodes Ltd.
    Inventors: Eliezer Britstein, Shaul Weissman
  • Patent number: 8923774
    Abstract: A management unit manages a plurality of multiservice communication devices capable of communicating via a plurality of networks. The management unit includes a device interface for facilitating a bidirectional data communication with the plurality of multiservice communication devices via a wireless control channel, the bidirectional data communication including outbound control data sent to at least one of the plurality of multiservice communication devices and inbound control data received from at least one of the plurality of multiservice communication devices via either a logical or physical control channel. A network interface receives network resource data from the plurality of networks. A management processing unit includes a local agent that gathers environmental data, wherein the management processing unit processes the inbound control data, the environmental data and the network resource data and that generates the outbound control data in response thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventors: Vinko Erceg, David Rosmann, Brima B. Ibrahim, Jeyhan Karaoguz, John Walley, Arya Reza Behzad
  • Patent number: 8923456
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and system for channel estimation. First, pilot signals are extracted from a received multi-path signal, in which each pilot signal includes a first pilot and a second pilot. Then, an initially estimated channel frequency-domain response is obtained based on the extracted first pilot. Afterward, a frequency-domain response estimate of each pilot frequency in the second pilot is calculated according to the obtained initially estimated channel frequency-domain response, an actual value of each pilot frequency in the second pilot is obtained based on the extracted second pilot, and a deviation between the frequency-domain response estimate and the actual value of each pilot frequency is calculated. When it is detected that aliasing components exist in the initially estimated channel frequency-domain response, a center of each aliasing component is determined according to the deviation, so as to determine an estimated position of each aliasing component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: Montage Technology (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuanfei Nie, Gang Hu, Meiwu Wu
  • Patent number: 8923217
    Abstract: The present disclosure includes systems and techniques relating to wireless communications. A described system, for example, includes a device configured to transmit signals, in a frequency band, to the wireless communication devices. The signals can include spatially steered first signals that concurrently provide data to the wireless communication devices. The signals can include one or more second signals to the wireless communication devices to control transmission of responses from the wireless communication devices in the frequency band. The device can monitor for the responses in the frequency band. The device can control, based on a lack of reception of an expected response, a transmission of a third signal in the frequency band to prevent a transmission from another wireless communication device different than the wireless communication devices. The third signal can include information to reschedule a transmission of a response from a wireless communication device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: Marvell World Trade Ltd.
    Inventors: Yong Liu, Raja Banerjea, Harish Ramamurthy, Hongyuan Zhang