Combining Or Distributing Information Via Code Word Channels Using Multiple Access Techniques (e.g., Cdma) Patents (Class 370/335)
  • Patent number: 9585015
    Abstract: A method, apparatus, and system are provided for authentication of collaborative mobile devices. A first mobile device receives a challenge message, derives a first mobile device authentication result based on the challenge message, and conveys, to a second mobile device of a user of the first mobile device, a first short-range wireless signal comprising the challenge message. The second mobile device receives the challenge message from the first mobile device, derives a second mobile device authentication result based on the challenge message, and conveys, to the first mobile device, a first short-range wireless signal comprising the second mobile device authentication result. The first mobile device receives the second mobile device authentication result and authenticates one or more of the first mobile device, the second mobile device, and the user by conveying, to an authenticator device, the first mobile device authentication result and the second mobile device authentication result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Inventors: Alejandro G. Blanco, Mark A. Boerger, George S. Hanna, John B. Preston
  • Patent number: 9585156
    Abstract: When communications of a single radio access technology (RAT), or different radio access technologies in a proximate communication spectrum are operating at the same time, potential interference between devices may occur. To reduce the interference, the time division duplex (TDD) configuration of one or more conflicting device may be altered. For example, at the edge of a communication region, TDD configurations used by edge base stations to communicate with mobile devices may be set to reduce interference. As another example, communications of a first device may be altered so the first device schedules uplink communications when a second device also has uplink communications scheduled. Other configurations may also be implemented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Kapil Bhattad, Dhananjay Ashok Gore, Tamer Adel Kadous, Ashok Mantravadi, Ahmed Sadek, Raj Kumar
  • Patent number: 9584172
    Abstract: A wireless network receiver includes a detection module that uses preamble data in a data frame for signal processing functions and the detection module is configured to adjust the number of preamble data bits that are used based on the power of a received signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Wenxun Qiu, Timothy Mark Schmidl, Minghua Fu, Anuj Batra
  • Patent number: 9584198
    Abstract: Systems and associated methods for reciprocity calibration of multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) wireless communication are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a method for reciprocity calibration of the MIMO system includes transmitting a pilot symbol by a transmitter (TX) of the reference antenna and receiving the pilot symbol by receivers (RXes) of antennas of a base station as ri,0 pilot symbols. (Index “i” denotes individual antenna “i” of the base station, and “0” denotes the reference antenna.) The method further includes transmitting the received pilot symbols by TXes of the antennas of the base station, receiving the pilot symbols transmitted by the antennas of the base station by the reference antenna as r0,i pilot symbols, and calculating non-reciprocity compensation factors as r i , 0 r 0 , i .
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventor: Djordje Tujkovic
  • Patent number: 9577745
    Abstract: In a mobile communication system using a code division multiple access (CDMA) method, spreading code detection and frame/slot timing synchronization (cell search) is conducted by using a long code masked symbol. The spreading factor of the long code masked symbol is set to a value lower than spreading factors of other ordinary symbols. As a result, it becomes possible to reduce the circuit scale and power dissipation of the mobile terminal and raise the speed of cell search.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: FIPA FROHWITTER INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AG
    Inventors: May Suzuki, Nobukazu Doi, Takashi Yano
  • Patent number: 9578519
    Abstract: There is provided mechanisms for determining antenna settings associated with at least one network node in a wireless communications network. A method is performed by a network node. The method comprises detecting an event of a network node in the wireless communications network, the event indicating a need for adjustment of at least one antenna setting of the network node and/or at least one other network node in the wireless communications network. The method comprises determining the adjustment of the at least one antenna setting by identifying stored key performance information based on the event. The method comprises determining the adjustment of the at least one antenna setting by assessing a candidate set of possible antenna settings of the network node and/or the at least one other network node, wherein the candidate set is defined by the key performance information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Niklas Jaldén, Henrik Asplund, Harald Kallin
  • Patent number: 9576624
    Abstract: The disclosed technology provides for multi-dimensional data randomization in a memory cell array using circular shifts of an initial scrambling sequence. Data addressed to a first row of a data array is randomized using the initial scrambling sequence and data addressed to each row of the memory cell array is randomized using a scrambling sequence that is equal to a circular shift of the initial sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY LLC
    Inventors: Nicholas Odin Lien, Ara Patapoutian, Jeffrey J. Pream, Young Pil Kim, David Orrin Sluiter
  • Patent number: 9571254
    Abstract: A method and apparatus are presented for transmitting acknowledgement (ACK)/negative acknowledgement (NACK) signals in a wireless communication system. ACK/NACKs are spread using spreading codes of a spreading factor, the spreading factor being one of a first spreading factor equal to 2 and a second spreading factor equal to 4. One or more physical hybrid automatic repeat request (ARQ) indicator channel (PHICH) groups allocated in units of four resource elements are transmitted, each PHICH group carrying up to four ACK/NACK signals for the first spreading factor, and up to eight ACK/NACK signals for the second spreading factor. A total number of allocated PHICH groups for the first spreading factor is determined as twice a total number of allocated PHICH groups for the second spreading factor. A PHICH group index for an ACK/NACK is determined using a first function. A spreading code index for the ACK/NACK is determined using a second function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jung Hoon Lee, Joon Kui Ahn
  • Patent number: 9572190
    Abstract: A method automatically connects a device to a WiFi network. The method includes determining WiFi networks that are available for a connection thereto. The method includes categorizing each of the WiFi networks as a private WiFi network or a public WiFi network in which the private WiFi network utilizes a first association process while the public WiFi network utilizes a second association process. The method includes executing a first automatic connection process using the first association process until a successful connection is established to one of the private WiFi networks based upon a first prioritized list. The method includes executing a second automatic connection process until a successful connection is established to one of the public WiFi networks based upon a second prioritized list when the first automatic connection process to the private wireless networks is unsuccessful.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Artiom Shamis, Kapil Chhabra
  • Patent number: 9571235
    Abstract: A radio communications link is established between radio stations, and a semi-persistent radio resource is allocated to support data transmission over the communications link. The semi-persistent radio resource is associated with a corresponding automatic repeat request (ARQ) process identifier. Non-limiting examples of a semi-persistent radio resource include a regularly scheduled transmission time interval, frame, subframe, or time slot during which to transmit a data unit over the radio interface. Retransmission is requested of a data unit transmitted using the semi-persistent radio resource. The ARQ process identifier associated with the semi-persistent resource is used to match a retransmission of a data unit dynamically scheduled on the communications link with the requested data unit retransmission. In a preferred example embodiment, the ARQ process identifier is a hybrid ARQ (HARQ) process, where a retransmitted data unit is combined with a previously-received version of the data unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Johan Torsner, Henning Wiemann
  • Patent number: 9572157
    Abstract: An embodiment of the present invention provides a method, comprising dynamically reserving free channel time blocks for directional transmissions in a wireless personal area network (WPAN) by a transceiver communicating with a Coordinator and the Coordinator allocating a part or a whole of unreserved channel time blocks for a directional link during a handshake with the transceiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Alex Kesselman, Yuval Bachrach
  • Patent number: 9565680
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for configuring a channel resource, a base station, and a user equipment are disclosed. The method includes: determining load information of a cell; according to the load information, that the cell reaches a congested state, configuring channel resource configuration information for a new user equipment accessing the cell, where the configuration information includes: a first DPCH Pilot bit transmit power offset and/or a first number of pilot bits, the first DPCH Pilot bit transmit power offset is smaller than a power offset configured for a user equipment in a non-congested state, and the first number of Pilot bits is smaller than a number of Pilot bits that is configured for a user equipment in a non-congested state, and sending the configuration information to the new user equipment. The method can improve downlink throughput of the cell and reducing a call drop rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiaoxia Wang, Jian Li
  • Patent number: 9565695
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for transmitting an uplink Scheduling Request (SR) are provided. The method includes, obtaining a SR subframe configuration by receiving signaling, and transmitting SR information to a Base Station (BS) by using physical resources of another non-SR channel for transmitting other uplink control information. By applying the present invention, the SR, ACKnowledgement/Non-ACKnowledgement (ACK/NACK) or Channel Quality Indicator (CQI) information is returned to a BS when low Constant Modulus (CM) characteristic of an uplink Component Carrier (CC) is ensured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hong He, Yingyang Li, Chengjun Sun
  • Patent number: 9560540
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method and an arrangement in a transmitting node (560) for enabling a receiving node (540) to perform measurements on interference caused by transmissions from at least one transmission point (510, 520, 530) controlled by the transmitting node (560) on receptions at the receiving node (540). The transmitting and receiving nodes (560, 540) are comprised in a wireless communications system (500, 600, 700). The transmitting node determines (910) an interference measurement resource, IMR, comprising a set of Time-Frequency Resource Elements, TFREs, upon which the transmitting node is expected to transmit interference. The transmitting node then transmits (930) at least one interfering signal on said IMR as said interference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: David Hammarwall, Svante Bergman, Jonas Fröberg Olsson, George Jöngren
  • Patent number: 9560650
    Abstract: Disclosed is a data transmission method in a mobile communication system. The data transmission method through a code sequence in a mobile communication system includes grouping input data streams into a plurality of blocks consisting of at least one bit so as to map each block to a corresponding signature sequence, multiplying a signature sequence stream, to which the plurality of blocks are mapped, by a specific code sequence, and transmitting the signature sequence stream multiplied by the specific code sequence to a receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: EVOLVED WIRELESS LLC
    Inventors: Yeong Hyeon Kwon, Seung Hee Han, Hyun Hwa Park, Dong Cheol Kim, Hyun Woo Lee, Min Seok Noh
  • Patent number: 9559757
    Abstract: Provided is control information related to polarizations of antennas for MISO communication. The control signal generator generates polarization information indicating whether antennas used for transmission by MISO have only a first polarization or have a second polarization as well as the first polarization. With this structure, the present invention allows for the use of combinations of SISO, MISO and MIMO, taking the polarization of antennas. Furthermore, the present invention enables the receiver to reduce the power consumption.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: SUN PATENT TRUST
    Inventors: Mikihiro Ouchi, Yutaka Murakami, Tomohiro Kimura
  • Patent number: 9560539
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for a terminal to report the measurement result of a minimization of drive test (MDT) in a wireless communication system. More specifically, the method comprises the steps of: receiving MDT setup information from said base station; performing cell measurement on the basis of said MDT setup information; storing the result of said cell measurement in an MDT log on the basis of a valid time that precedes as much as the second interval from storage times, at every storage time of a first interval unit that is contained in said MDT setup information; and reporting to said base station the MDT log in which the result of said cell measurement is stored.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Kyungjun Lee, Sungduck Chun, Seungjune Yi, Sunghoon Jung, Youngdae Lee, Sungjun Park
  • Patent number: 9560616
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention relate to the field of wireless communications and particularly to a method of and apparatus for determining a synchronous cell so as to determine a synchronous cell of an extension carrier so that the extension carrier is available between the network and a user equipment. The method of determining a synchronous cell according to the invention includes: a network-side apparatus determining an extension carrier to be configured for a user equipment; and the network-side apparatus determining a synchronous cell of the extension carrier upon determining that the extension carrier is a synchronous extension carrier. The synchronous cell of the extension carrier can be determined so that the extension carrier is available between the network side and a user equipment to thereby improve the performance of the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: CHINA ACADEMY OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Yali Zhao, Fangli Xu
  • Patent number: 9553649
    Abstract: Distributed signal field for communications within multiple user, multiple access, and/or MIMO wireless communications. In accordance with wireless communications, a signal (SIG) field employed within such packets is distributed or partitioned into at least two separate signal fields (e.g., SIG A and SIG B) that are located in different portions of the packet. A first of the SIG fields includes information that may be processed and decoded by all wireless communication devices, and a second of the SIG fields includes information that is specific to one or more particular wireless communication devices (e.g., a specific wireless communication device or a specific subset of the wireless communication devices). The precise locations of the at least first and second SIG fields within a packet may be varied, including placing a second of the SIG fields (e.g., including user-specific information) adjacent to and preceding a data field in the packet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2017
    Assignee: BROADCOM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Vinko Erceg, Joseph Paul Lauer, Matthew James Fischer, Peiman Amini, Joonsuk Kim
  • Patent number: 9553993
    Abstract: Selecting one of a plurality of direct inward dialing numbers for dialing an international number preceded by a direct inward dialing number is disclosed. A destination phone number to be dialed by a wireless device is initially received at the wireless device. It is then determined that the destination phone number is an international destination phone number. In response to the determination that the destination phone number is an international destination phone number, one direct inward dialing number is selected from among a plurality of direct inward dialing numbers. The selected one direct inward dialing number connects the wireless device to a server. Next, the wireless device dials the one selected direct inward dialing number and determines that a connection between the wireless device and the server has been established. Finally, the international destination phone number is forwarded to the server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2017
    Assignee: TRACFONE WIRELESS, INC.
    Inventor: Satish Ramprasad
  • Patent number: 9549314
    Abstract: A wireless communication system corresponding to a wireless terminal device in which at least one of a first frequency bandwidth for use in an up link and a second frequency bandwidth for use in a down link is variable, including a capability information reception unit capable of receiving and extracting terminal capability information transmitted from the wireless terminal device and related to capability of the wireless terminal device; a category designation unit capable of designating a terminal category to which the wireless terminal device belongs, based on the terminal capability information received and extracted by the capability information reception unit; and a link setting unit capable of setting a link to the wireless terminal device and transmitting a control signal depending on the link setting to the wireless terminal device, based on the terminal category designated by the category designation unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventor: Takayoshi Ode
  • Patent number: 9543986
    Abstract: A communication device for uplink transmission with a first type of information and a second type of information includes a demultiplexing circuit, a vector selection circuit, a permutation circuit and a Reed-Muller encoding circuit. The demultiplexing circuit generates a first group of information bits and a second group of information bits according to the first type of information and the second type of information. The vector selection circuit selects code vectors from a predetermined vector set for the first group of information bits and the second group of information bits. The permutation circuit permutes the code vectors according to the first group of information bits and according to the second group of information bits. The Reed-Muller encoding circuit encodes the first group of information bits and the second group of information bits with the permuted code vectors for providing different levels of protection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventor: Chia-Pang Yen
  • Patent number: 9544834
    Abstract: A method in a first radio network controller, RNC, (105, 405) for handling a reuse of a scrambling code in a cellular network (100) is provided. The first RNC (105, 405) defines a set of scrambling codes. Each scrambling code in the defined set is locally reused by at least two cells in the cellular network (100). The first RNC (105, 405) receives a measurement report from a user equipment (180). The measurement report is related to a scrambling code that is comprised in the defined set of scrambling codes. The first RNC (105, 405) determines that the reported scrambling code is comprised in the defined set of scrambling codes. The first RNC (105, 405) initiates, based on the determination, a process for identifying, among the at least two cells in which the reported scrambling code is locally reused, an originating cell from which the reported scrambling code originates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ)
    Inventors: Fredrik Gunnarsson, Klas Johansson
  • Patent number: 9544795
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method in a base station for determining channel interference in a radio network comprising a device-to-device, D2D, capable UE and the base station serving at least one cellular UE, said method comprising: configuring the at least one cellular UE with a cellular uplink Reference Symbol, RS, related parameter; transmitting the cellular uplink RS related parameter associated with the at least one cellular UE to the D2D capable UE; and obtaining information of interference to the D2D capable UE measured by the D2D capable UE using the cellular uplink RS related parameter. The present invention also provides a corresponding method in D2D capable UE and the devices thereof. This achieves a more accurate the interference channel measurement in multi-cell and multi-antenna scenario.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Qianxi Lu, Qingyu Miao, Yu Qian, Xinghua Song
  • Patent number: 9544041
    Abstract: A set of receiver path circuits is allocated for processing a radio-frequency (RF) signal provided by receive antennas coupled to the receiver path circuits. The RF signal may belong to a first signal class, such as Wi-Fi. A first gain control signal is applied to each of the allocated receiver path circuits to condition a signal level of the RF signal for the first signal class. A second gain control signal is applied to another set of receiver path circuits coupled to the receive antennas to condition the RF signal of a second signal class. First receive gain control signals are generated from the RF signals of the first signal class by the allocated set of the receiver path circuits. The first receive gain control signals are configured to optimize the signal level for processing the first signal class. A second receive gain control signal is generated to optimize the signal level of the RF signal for the second signal class.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Raghuram Rangarajan, David Kloper, Paul J. Stager
  • Patent number: 9538425
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for controlling an optimization of handover procedures between universal terrestrial radio access (UTRA) release 6 (R6) cells and UTRA release 7 (R7) cells are disclosed. When a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) is moving between an R6 cell and an R7 cell, or between R7 cells, a handover is initiated from a source Node-B to a target Node-B. In the R7 cell, the enhanced medium access control (MAC) functionality including flexible radio link control (RLC) protocol data unit (PDU) size and high speed MAC (MAC-hs) segmentation and multiplexing of different priority queues are supported. After the handover, a MAC layer and/or an RLC layer are reconfigured or reset based on functionality supported by the target Node-B.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: InterDigital Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Diana Pani, Christopher R Cave, Stephen E Terry, Paul Marinier
  • Patent number: 9536215
    Abstract: A system for location tracking using passive tags includes a reader and a location tracker. The reader receives an identifier associated with a first passive tag. The location tracker receives the location of the passive tag, and maps the location of the first passive tag to the identifier associated with the first passive tag. The location tracker determines the location of an object based on the location of the first passive tag. The location tracker may receive the location of a second passive tag, and map the location of the second passive tag to an identifier associated with the second passive tag. The location tracker may update the location of the object using the location of the second passive tag in response to the reader receiving the identifier associated with the second passive tag.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
    Inventor: Samuelson Rehman
  • Patent number: 9531462
    Abstract: A mobile station transmitting transmission signals using one of a plurality of transmission schemes which includes at least a first transmission scheme and a second transmission scheme, where in a case that the used transmission scheme is the first transmission scheme, the transmission signals are applied by an open loop (OL) in which precoding information is not fed back and in a case that the used transmission scheme is the second transmission scheme, the transmission signals are applied by a closed loop (CL) for which a precoding matrix indicator (PMI) is fed back from the mobile station. The first peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) characteristics of the first transmission scheme differs from the second PAPR characteristics of the second transmission scheme.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazunari Yokomakura, Yasuhiro Hamaguchi, Osamu Nakamura, Jungo Goto, Hiroki Takahashi
  • Patent number: 9532231
    Abstract: Systems and methods of scheduling data for transmission from an access point “AP” to a station in a system of multiple co-located APs may include determining whether the station is also able to receive transmitted data from another of the multiple co-located APs. If the determining is negative the data is transmitted but if the determination is positive, the data may be transmitted only after ascertaining that exclusive permission to transmit the data to the station has been granted to the AP.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: Magnolia Broadband Inc.
    Inventors: Phil F. Chen, Haim Harel, Kenneth Kludt
  • Patent number: 9528243
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for acquiring time and frequency synchronization in a DSSS receiver are disclosed. An iterative approach is used in acquiring a DSSS signal when the phase coherency of the signal is less than the symbol length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: Digi International Inc.
    Inventor: Terry Michael Schaffner
  • Patent number: 9525516
    Abstract: A transmission device capable of reducing packet receiving errors and the number of retransmissions by improving error correction coding gain without increasing the amount of resources used in transmission. The transmission device (100) that transmits each bit of coded data constituted from systematic bits and parity bits in order for each transmission unit, and performs frequency puncturing to puncture, in units of symbols, data to be punctured in which each bit has been superimposed on a plurality of frequency domain symbols. A time puncturing unit (102) extracts transmission unit data from the coded data and a frequency puncturing unit (105) performs frequency puncturing in accordance with the ratio of parity bits to systematic bits included in the data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2016
    Assignee: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryohei Kimura, Toru Oizumi, Shinsuke Takaoka, Yasuaki Yuda, Daichi Imamura, Fumiyuki Adachi, Tetsuya Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 9525966
    Abstract: A transceiver station provides wireless resources for cells on a plurality of carriers in a geographical coverage area, where the geographical coverage area is divided into a plurality of sectors. The transceiver station includes a first board and a second board. The first board includes a L1 processing circuit configured to perform L1 processing functions on at least one of radio frequency antenna streams and downlink transmit data for users in the cells on a per-carrier basis. The second board includes a scheduler configured to schedule at least one of uplink and downlink transmissions for the cells on a per-sector basis, the second board being separate from, but interconnected with the first board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2016
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Jerry Z. Wang, Venkata Vankayala, Ramdhan Singh, Constant Conan, Taofik Saidi, Suresh Gopinathan
  • Patent number: 9520883
    Abstract: A frequency detection circuit includes: a first comparison circuit configured to output a first comparison result produced by comparison between a second threshold value higher than a first threshold value; a second comparison circuit configured to output a second comparison result produced by comparison between a third threshold value lower than the first threshold value; a third comparison circuit configured to output a third comparison result produced by comparison between the input data, and the first threshold value at second timing of a second clock; a phase detector configured to determine in which one of the areas an edge of the input data is positioned among the three areas produced by dividing a phase in a one-bit width time into three areas; and a phase rotation detector configured to detect a rotation direction of the phase based on a change of a detection result in the phase detector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventor: Takayuki Shibasaki
  • Patent number: 9520978
    Abstract: A quantity of antenna ports of a transmitting apparatus is signalled in a wireless communication system. The quantity of antenna ports of the transmitting apparatus is encoded into a first type information and a second type information. The first type information is transmitted on a physical broadcast channel (PBCH) and the second type information is transmitted on a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH). The PDSCH is transmitted on at least one antenna port indicated by the first type information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mattias Frenne, Branislav Popovic, Jianghua Liu
  • Patent number: 9521662
    Abstract: In at least some embodiments, a wireless networking system is provided. The wireless networking system includes a base-station and a plurality of user devices in communication with the base-station. The base-station selectively assigns each user device to one of a first group and a second group. Also, the base-station selectively assigns each user device to an uplink synchronized state and an uplink non-synchronized state. The base-station allocates a unique reduced identifier to each user device in the uplink synchronized state, but does not allocate unique reduced identifiers to user devices in the non-synchronized state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Pierre Bertrand, Shantanu Kangude
  • Patent number: 9516516
    Abstract: A spectrum manager manages a secondary system that shares a frequency with a primary system. A communication unit receives a measurement value of reception power of a signal of the secondary system which is measured by a monitoring station, and holds the measurement value in a measurement result storage unit. A path loss estimating unit estimates a path loss at a first frequency, and a path loss correcting unit performs actual measurement correction on a path loss estimation value using one of a reception power measurement value of a radio signal of a secondary transmitting station measured at a second frequency different from the first frequency and a reception power measurement value of the radio signal of the secondary transmitting station measured in a period of time which is not used by the primary system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kazushi Muraoka
  • Patent number: 9516609
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses are provided for uplink MIMO transmissions in a wireless communication system. In particular, a single inner loop power control may be utilized to control a power of both a primary stream and a secondary stream, in a system where the power of the secondary stream is linked to the power of the primary stream. That is, a single transmit power control command calculated according to the primary stream and directly controlling the power of the primary stream can effectively control the power of both uplink streams. Further, the disclosure provides outer loop power control, where a signal-to-interference ratio target used in the inner loop power control can be adjusted. Here, the SIR target may be adjusted in accordance with at least one of a block error rate performance or a HARQ failure performance of one of the primary stream or the secondary stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Sharad Deepak Sambhwani, Sony John Akkarakaran
  • Patent number: 9510329
    Abstract: According to one embodiment of the invention, a system for providing a dynamic user-customizable beacon information element (IE) is described. One embodiment of the system comprises an access point comprising a hardware processor wherein the system is configured to perform operations comprising: periodically transmitting, by an access point, a first beacon frame comprising a plurality of IEs, based on user input, configuring at least one IE of the plurality of IEs in the first beacon frame, modifying the at least one IE in the first beacon frame based at least on the user input to obtain a second beacon frame comprising a modified IE based on the user input and periodically transmitting, by the access point, the second beacon frame comprising the modified IE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: Aruba Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: Gautam D. Bhanage, Venkatesh Kannan
  • Patent number: 9509441
    Abstract: A mobile station apparatus transmits in a subframe, to a base station apparatus, Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ) control information and channel state information on the indicated one physical uplink control channel resource, the HARQ control information and the channel state information being transmitted using one of a first processing method of coding and a second processing method of coding, the one of the first processing method of coding and the second processing method of coding being applied on the basis of whether a sum of a number of bits of the HARQ control information and a number of bits of the channel state information exceeds a second predetermined value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tatsushi Aiba, Shoichi Suzuki
  • Patent number: 9504057
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for detecting and mitigating interface conditions at a multi-radio device. In one embodiment, a multi-radio device monitors and detects an in-device coexistence (IDC) interference condition which is, for example, caused by concurrent operation of radios. In response, the device notifies a network entity (e.g., a Long Term Evolution (LTE) eNodeB) of the detected IDC condition. Upon receiving the notification of the IDC condition, the network entity may implement or invoke a mitigation scheme in order to reduce the amount of IDC experienced at the client device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2016
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Sassan Ahmadi
  • Patent number: 9503152
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for generating composite code sequences are disclosed. An example method includes determining, via a determiner, a first number of samples to be contributed into a first unit duration of a composite code sequence from respective first, second, and third component code sequences; based on the first number of samples determined, randomly selecting, via a randomizer, the first number of samples from the respective ones of the first, second, and third component code sequences to enable the selected samples to more accurately represent the respective ones of the first, second, and third component code sequences; and compiling, via a compiler, the selected samples into the first unit duration of the composite code sequence by interspersing a sample from the first component code sequence between samples from the second component code sequence or between samples from the third component code sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2016
    Assignee: THE BOEING COMPANY
    Inventors: Isaac M. Jeng, David K. Wen
  • Patent number: 9504034
    Abstract: A radio system having multiple bearers overlays a relatively narrowband bearer such as P25 on a relatively wideband bearer such as LTE, for transmission of both uplink and downlink signals. The wideband bearer uses a spectrum of subcarriers which form a set of radio frequency blocks. One or more blocks or other related parts of the spectrum may be allocated to the narrowband bearer. In some cases the narrowband bearer may push through the wideband allocation using a relatively high power to dominate signals transmitted by the wideband bearer. Voice calls such as emergency calls using the narrowband bearer may be prioritized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2016
    Assignee: TAIT LIMITED
    Inventor: Clive Douglas Horn
  • Patent number: 9501617
    Abstract: Systems and methods that allow transfer criteria to be defined based on one or more of several attributes, such as a particular user, site, or device, as well as whether individual images and/or image series are classified as thin slices, and applied to medical images in order to determine which images are downloaded, viewed, stored, and/or any number of other actions that might be performed with respect to particular images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2016
    Assignee: D.R. SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Murray A. Reicher, Evan K. Fram
  • Patent number: 9503491
    Abstract: Methods, systems and devices are described to avoid stalling during playback of an adaptive media stream delivered to a media player device over a network. The media device requests segments of the media stream that are received in a buffer. Buffer utilization is monitored over time to determine a rate of change, and future segment requests are adjusted based upon the determined rate of change in the buffer utilization. By making adjustments based upon the rate of change in buffer utilization, sudden changes that could otherwise affect the viewer's experience can be avoided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2016
    Assignee: EchoStar Technologies L.L.C.
    Inventors: Mark B. Hurst, Herrick Muhlestein
  • Patent number: 9496933
    Abstract: As wireless networks evolve, network providers may utilize legacy LTE devices as well as devices that support massive multi-input, multiple output (M-MIMO). Systems and methods for simultaneously servicing legacy LTE devices and M-MIMO devices are provided. In embodiments, a transmission zone for M-MIMO communications is defined within a legacy, non M-MIMO radio frame. The location of the M-MIMO transmission zone is transmitted to user devices. For example, an identification of the location of the M-MIMO transmission zone is transmitted in a system information message. In a further example, the location of the M-MIMO transmission zone is transmitted in the downlink control information. The location of the M-MIMO transmission zone may be defined dynamically based on a variety of criteria. In addition or alternatively, a set of pre-defined transmission zones may be utilized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2016
    Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventors: Louay Jalloul, Amin Mobasher, Nihar Jindal, Sam Alex, Murat Mese
  • Patent number: 9497777
    Abstract: In UMTS WCDMA a new RACH-based uplink is being discussed. The request for uplink transmission resource is made using a mechanism based on the conventional RACH. The main difference from the conventional RACH is that the data transmission uses a high-speed uplink packet data channel, known as Enhanced Dedicated Channel (E-DCH), instead of a single short message associated directly with the RACH preamble. One proposed scheme for indicating the E-DCH resources to be used creates a link between the values of each of a group of multiple signatures sent on the AICH (to acknowledge the E-RACH access) and a specific set of E-DCH parameters defined in a table. We propose to signal the set of resources to be used independently from acknowledging the E-RACH access. One possible method is to transmit information in the unused portion of the AICH (corresponding to 1024 chips every slot) indicating the resource set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2016
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
    Inventors: Matthew P. J. Baker, Timothy J. Moulsley
  • Patent number: 9491629
    Abstract: A method, in a cellular communication network comprising cells with at least one switched off cell, for providing a minimum coverage for multimedia transmission, said multimedia being parted into a number of independent autonomous multimedia partitions, comprising the steps of: —transmitting from all neighbor cells (3-8) of said switched off cell (1), multimedia partition(s) of a primary subset over a normal range, —transmitting from at least a first (3-8) and a second (3-8) neighbor cells of said switched off cell (1), multimedia partition(s) of a secondary subset over an extended range (3?-8?), the secondary subset of said first neighbor cell (3-8) being partially disjoint of the secondary subset of said second neighbor cell (3-8) when first and second cells are adjacent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Marie Line Alberi-Morel, Carine Balageas
  • Patent number: 9485783
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to a method for enhanced multichannel access where multiple simultaneous transmissions can occur each spanning a subset of frequency bands.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Santosh P. Abraham, Sameer Vermani, Hemanth Sampath, Vinay Sridhara
  • Patent number: 9485788
    Abstract: The invention is directed to synchronizing a massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) link between an access point (AP) and a contaminating AP. An exemplary method comprises: detecting, by an AP, a contaminating AP, wherein the contaminating AP interferes with communication between the AP and other UEs in communication with the AP; and extracting, by the AP, broadcasted pilot information from a first channel associated with a data frame, wherein the broadcasted pilot information is associated with the contaminating AP.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Mobile Communications Inc.
    Inventors: Erik Bengtsson, Kåre Agardh, Vanja Plicanic Samuelsson
  • Patent number: 9485067
    Abstract: A mobile communication system in which a working frequency band is divided into a plurality of predetermined frequency bands, and time division multiplexing is performed, the mobile communication system includes a base station to insert a known pilot symbol into the plurality of predetermined frequency bands at a predetermined reference interval, and to insert to arrange the known pilot symbol into at least one of the plurality of predetermined bands at a smaller interval than the predetermined reference interval, wherein a frequency band in which the known pilot symbol is inserted at a smaller interval than the predetermined reference interval is to be set cyclically in time; and a mobile terminal to receive the known pilot symbol transmitted from the base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Kenji Suda, Hiroyuki Seki