Polling Patents (Class 370/449)
  • Patent number: 12135663
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for communicating data between communication equipments, where the first communication equipment (EqptN) is put into the emission mode (Xmit) for the frame (TrN) containing its identification (D_PID), while each second communication equipment (Eqpt1, EqptN+1, EqptN+x) is put into the receiving mode (Rcv), then the equipment (EqptN) is put into the receiving mode (Rcv), each equipment (Eqpt1, EqptN+1, EqptN+x) prescribes its local emission window (Ftle1, FtleN+1, FtleN+x), which is associated with its identification, during which it is put into the emission mode (Xmit) for its frame, a time of beginning (IDF1, IDFN+1, IDFN+X) of the window being a determined function, increasing with respect to a difference equal to its identification from which the identification (D_PID) is subtracted, each equipment is put into the emission mode, during which it emits its frame containing its identification during its window starting at the beginning time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: SAFRAN ELECTRONICS & DEFENSE
    Inventors: Patrice Toillon, Thiebault Jeandon
  • Patent number: 12088646
    Abstract: Enhancing a video conference that is provided by video conference software includes a subset of participants of the video conference using a particular add-on application that is compatible with the video conference software, the add-on application obtaining communication parameters from the video conference software, discovering the subset of the participants, and the add-on application using the communication parameters from the video conference software to provide at least some of the subset of the participants with private communication that is independent of communication capabilities provided by the video conference software and to provide at least one visual indication to each of the subset of participants. The add-on application may provide specific data to the video conference software. The video conference software may provide the specific data to particular participants of the video conference independently of whether any of the particular participants have the add-on application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: mmhmm inc.
    Inventor: Phil Libin
  • Patent number: 12063071
    Abstract: Provided is a method for registering an optical network unit. The method is used for an optical line terminal. The method for registering an optical network unit comprises: according to pre-acquired registration information of an optical network unit to be registered, issuing registration configuration information, so as to complete registration of said optical network unit, wherein the registration information of said optical network unit is acquired before the present registration starts. Further provided are a method for writing registration information, an optical line terminal, an optical network unit, a front-facing optical network unit, and a registration device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jiangyan He, Weiliang Zhang, Liquan Yuan
  • Patent number: 11973715
    Abstract: Embodiments herein relate to a method performed by a transmitting device (120) for handling communication in a wireless communications network, wherein the transmitting device (120) comprises at least two radio link control, RLC, entities and is configured with a split bearer to a receiving device (100). The transmitting device (120) identifies that a last transmitted protocol data unit, PDU, of one of the at least two RLC entities, is lacking a poll indicator requesting a status of one or more transmitted PDUs. When identifying that the last transmitted PDU lacks the poll indicator, the transmitting device transmits to the receiving device (100), a PDU comprising a poll indicator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Martin Skarve, Torsten Dudda, Torbjörn Örtengren, Samir Shah, Mikael Wittberg
  • Patent number: 11936563
    Abstract: Some embodiments of the invention provide a new networking data path framework that employs one or more dedicated kernel threads to process network traffic on a host computer executing multiple machines (such as virtual machines or containers). This new framework is referred to as an Enhanced Networking Stack (ENS) in this document. In some embodiments, the dedicated kernel threads execute on dedicated CPU cores (e.g., one kernel thread per CPU core) to proactively poll physical NICs (PNICs) of the host computer and virtual NICs (VNICs) of the machines (e.g., VMs), and to perform packet processing operations on packets received by the host and packets transmitted by the machines. In some embodiments, each PNIC or VNIC is associated with one dedicated kernel thread, in order to avoid synchronization issues between the kernel threads.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: VMware LLC
    Inventor: Louis Luo
  • Patent number: 11868300
    Abstract: A chiplet system can include a Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI) bus for communication. A primary device coupled to the SPI bus can generate read or write instructions for a secondary device. In response to instructions from the primary device, the secondary device can prepare a response. The response message can include a secondary device status field to indicate a readiness of the secondary device to provide a particular data payload to the primary device. Using deferrals that are communicated from the secondary device to the primary device can enable longer latency SPI operations to proceed without monopolizing the SPI bus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Dean E. Walker, Tony Brewer
  • Patent number: 11870583
    Abstract: Aspects described herein relate to POLL timer enhancement in fifth generation new radio (5G NR). In an example, the aspects may include determining whether a count of packet data unit (PDU) without POLL associated with a current PDU sequence satisfies a threshold for maximum PDUs without POLL; determining whether a total transmission queue memory exceeds an uplink transmission queue memory threshold; generating a POLL bit based on a determination that the PDU without POLL count associated with the current PDU without POLL in-sequence satisfies the threshold for maximum PDUs without POLL and the total transmission queue memory exceeds the threshold for uplink transmission queue memory; and transmitting, to a network entity, the current PDU with the POLL bit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Sitaramanjaneyulu Kanamarlapudi, Leena Zacharias
  • Patent number: 11811143
    Abstract: An OAM multiplexing communication system uses one or more OAM modes and multiplexes signals of one or more sequences for each OAM mode. A transmitting station includes a transmitting antenna using an M-UCA, and an OAM mode generation unit that simultaneously generates one or more OAM modes from each UCA. A receiving station includes a receiving antenna equivalent to the M-UCA, an OAM mode separation unit that separates signals received by each UCA for each OAM mode, and a received signal processing unit that estimates channel information for each OAM mode and performs an equalization process for each OAM mode by using a receiving weight calculated from the channel information. The received signal processing unit is configured to estimate, for each OAM mode, channel information of another OAM mode causing interference and calculate the receiving weight of a subject OAM mode by using the channel information of the subject OAM mode and said another OAM mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hirofumi Sasaki, Doohwan Lee, Hiroyuki Fukumoto, Hiroyuki Shiba
  • Patent number: 11797075
    Abstract: Reducing power consumption of communication interfaces by clock frequency scaling and adaptive interleaving of polling is disclosed. In a first aspect, a control system controls transmission of a command via a serial interface at a higher clock frequency. After transmission, the control system and the interface are operated at a lower clock frequency to save power during command execution. In this aspect, a reduction in polling corresponds to the reduction in clock signal frequency. When the command is complete, the interface is operated at the higher frequency to send another command. In a second aspect, after the control system sends a command to the receiving device, polling is suspended and an execution time of the command is tracked. Polling begins when the tracked execution time almost equals an expected completion time. Both aspects disclosed above may be implemented to reduce power consumption in exchange for a small increase in latency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Sandeep Kumar, Suman Kumar, Deven Balani
  • Patent number: 11792305
    Abstract: The warehouse control system (WCS) coordinates communication between communicating devices and systems. The WCS stores mappings of different message types that are transmitted between different components of a warehouse. The WCS accepts inbound messages from the components, parses the inbound messages, and handles the data accordingly. The WCS also transmits outbound messages to components of the warehouse. The WCS forms the outbound message according to protocols defined in the WCS. The WCS maps positions of each message to predefined data fields to define the message type. The mapping of the fields to positions of each message type defines the fields of the message for future message handling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: FIDUS GLOBAL, LLC
    Inventors: Aarron Hale, Efton Collins, Kelly Meroney, Manish Surati, Floyd Vanpool, Erik Lindvall, Damian Perez Cespedes, Guillermo Francisco López Massón
  • Patent number: 11743622
    Abstract: Disclosed in embodiments of the present invention are a data transmission method and apparatus, a wireless Access Point (AP), a Passive Optical Network module of an Optical Network Unit (ONU PON), WLAN and PON networking, and a storage medium. The method includes: sending, based on a data transmission request of a Station (STA), inform signaling carrying data packet information to a Passive Optical Network module of an Optical Network Unit (ONU PON), the inform signaling being used for the ONU PON to apply for a corresponding bandwidth from an Optical Line Terminal (OLT) based on the data packet information; and receiving service data from the STA and forwarding the same to the ONU PON, the service data being used to be forwarded to the OLT according to the corresponding bandwidth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hongxi Zhang, Mingsheng Li
  • Patent number: 11696719
    Abstract: A sensor including electrodes, a control module and a physical layer module. The electrodes are configured to (i) attach to a patient, and (ii) receive a first electromyographic signal from the patient. The control module is connected to the electrodes. The control module is configured to (i) detect the first electromyographic signal, and (ii) generate a first voltage signal. The physical layer module is configured to: receive a payload request from a console interface module or a nerve integrity monitoring device; and based on the payload request, (i) upconvert the first voltage signal to a first radio frequency signal, and (ii) wirelessly transmit the first radio frequency signal from the sensor to the console interface module or the nerve integrity monitoring device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: Medtronic Xomed, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard L. Brown, John G. Pollock, Jeff R. Justis, Kevin L. McFarlin, Randal C. Schulhauser, Tyler S. Stevenson
  • Patent number: 11672029
    Abstract: Embodiments are disclosed that allow data to be sent between a Bluetooth enabled device and a virtual device associated with a corresponding physical device. In particular, embodiments of a virtual mobile device system may include one or more components for processing Bluetooth calls where these Bluetooth components may process received Bluetooth calls in a first manner in a connected state and process Bluetooth calls in a disconnected state in a second manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: HYPORI, LLC
    Inventor: Joel Howard Schopp
  • Patent number: 11638252
    Abstract: A wireless local area network (WLAN) communication method and apparatus using multiple transmission speed partitioning and cooperative transmission are disclosed. The WLAN communication method includes transmitting, by access point to the nodes, transmission time slots, partitions and internal transmission priorities using transmission time slot information, partition information and internal transmission priority information, receiving uplink packet from one node, determining whether downlink data to be transmitted to the high speed or the low speed node is present, or not in the download queue, transmitting, if present, the downlink packet to the nodes, removing downlink data from the download queue for ACK, and transmitting, if not present, transmitting ACK to the nodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: Research & Business Foundation Sungkyunkwan University
    Inventors: Dong Hyeok An, Yu Sung Kim, Ik Jun Yeom
  • Patent number: 11502967
    Abstract: Provided are methods and apparatuses for packet scheduling for software-defined networking in an edge computing environment. A packet scheduling method according to an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure comprises: receiving packets arriving at a queue connected to a switch in a software-defined network in an edge computing environment; moving the packets in the queue forward one position based on the order of arrival each time a packet is served by the switch; and if a new packet enters the switch while the buffer in the queue is full, pushing out the packet at the front and putting the new packet at the end of the queue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: Research & Business Foundation Sungkyunkwan University
    Inventors: Hee Yong Youn, Hai Xue, Kyung Tae Kim
  • Patent number: 11470460
    Abstract: A communication method includes: a first transmission step of transmitting first setting information and first network organization information regarding one information processing apparatus of a second network via a first communication path; a first determination step of determining a role of communication with a first master apparatus via a second communication path on the basis of the first network organization information and role adjustment information; a second transmission step of transmitting second setting information and second network organization information to the first master apparatus via the first communication path; a second determination step of determining a role of the communication with a second master apparatus via the second communication path on the basis of the second network organization information and role adjustment information by the first master apparatus; and a first communication start step of starting the communication via the second communication path with another informatio
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Naoki Miyabayashi, Yoshihiro Yoneda, Masahiro Sueyoshi
  • Patent number: 11354041
    Abstract: Aspects of a storage device including a memory and a controller are provided which allow for reduction of latency and improve QoS for reads performed in memory locations such as multi-plane dies sharing a bus with the controller. When the controller receives a host read command, the controller sends a read sense command to a memory location to perform a read operation. The controller also sends a status polling command to the memory location to check die status. While the read operation is being performed, and while other read operations are being performed in other memory locations, the controller refrains from polling this memory location and the other memory locations for die status. Rather, the controller continuously toggles a read enable input to the memory location until the read operation is complete and the die status is ready, after which the controller receives data from the memory location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: WESTERN DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Todd Lindberg, Robert Ellis, Kevin O'Toole
  • Patent number: 11277377
    Abstract: A method for data communication and computation over a network whereby nodes of the network are capable of evaluating functions in the local environment of the node, and where the addresses of newly created or of newly connected network nodes are assigned at random, near uniqueness of node addresses being accomplished by using a random or pseudo-random method of choosing one address from a sufficiently large pool of network addresses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: Prisma Analytics GmbH
    Inventors: Hardy Schloer, Philip Gagner
  • Patent number: 11171808
    Abstract: A switch device is a switch device that relays data in an in-vehicle network and including a plurality of first communication ports which are connectable to a plurality of functional units in a vehicle, and includes a plurality of first communication circuits disposed corresponding to the first communication ports and capable of communicating with the functional units via the corresponding first communication ports, one or more second communication circuits different from the plurality of first communication circuits, a switching unit capable of switching a connection destination of each of the first communication ports between the corresponding first communication circuit and the second communication circuit, and a control unit that controls the switching unit such that a connection destination of a target port which is the first communication port serving as a target is switched to the second communication circuit when a predetermined condition is satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignees: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Akihiro Ogawa, Hirofumi Urayama, Koichi Takayama, Takeshi Hagihara, Yasuhiro Yabuuchi
  • Patent number: 11051179
    Abstract: A device including an antenna and a control method thereof are provided. In the method, a base station receives, from at least one terminal, a reference signal transmitted through at least one beam based on beam sweeping. Also, the base station calculates an angle between the base station and the at least one terminal transmitting the reference signal by using the received reference signal for each beam, and computes an optimal antenna orientation of a base station antenna of the base station by using the calculated angle. Further, the base station adjusts an orientation of the base station antenna according to the optimal antenna orientation of the base station antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Sanghyun Chang
  • Patent number: 11025547
    Abstract: Some embodiments of the invention provide a new networking data path framework that employs one or more dedicated kernel threads to process network traffic on a host computer executing multiple machines (such as virtual machines or containers). This new framework is referred to as an Enhanced Networking Stack (ENS) in this document. In some embodiments, the dedicated kernel threads execute on dedicated CPU cores (e.g., one kernel thread per CPU core) to proactively poll physical NICs (PNICs) of the host computer and virtual NICs (VNICs) of the machines (e.g., VMs), and to perform packet processing operations on packets received by the host and packets transmitted by the machines. In some embodiments, each PNIC or VNIC is associated with one dedicated kernel thread, in order to avoid synchronization issues between the kernel threads.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: VMWARE, INC.
    Inventor: Louis Luo
  • Patent number: 10972575
    Abstract: A method, apparatus and system for supporting Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) in a network such as a 5G communication network. Application Function (AF) request data is received from an AF operating in the network in support of MEC, stored in memory, and transmitted from the memory to one or more Policy Control Functions (PCFs) operating in the network. Subscribing PCFs may be notified of the receipt and storage of the data and request retrieval of the data. The data may be stored and handled by a function referred to as the Application Data Repository, or by another data repository. The operations may be performed by a network function such as but not limited to an Application Data Repository function. The function can store the AF request data and notify the PCFs. The function can handle AF requests associated with roaming UEs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xu Li, Hang Zhang, Ngoc Dung Dao
  • Patent number: 10928086
    Abstract: According to certain embodiments, a system comprises a master device and a plurality of slave devices. The master device configured to determine that one or more of the slave devices use a default address reserved for unconfigured devices, and to communicate a command to each slave device that is using the default address. The command comprises a list of unused addresses and an instruction to enter a selection round to select one of the addresses from the list.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: Lennox Industries Inc.
    Inventors: Richard Dutt, Christopher S. Tracy
  • Patent number: 10917361
    Abstract: A data processing apparatus includes N apparatus input ends, an input switch, K buffer areas, a first output switch, a second output switch, and M apparatus output ends. N input ends of the input switch are coupled to the N apparatus input ends, and K output ends of the input switch correspond to the K buffer areas. K1 input ends of the first output switch correspond to K1 buffer areas in the K buffer areas, and M output ends of the first output switch are coupled to the M apparatus output ends. K2 input ends of the second output switch correspond to K2 buffer areas in the K buffer areas except the K1 buffer areas, and M output ends of the second output switch are coupled to the M apparatus output ends.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Wan Lam
  • Patent number: 10871999
    Abstract: A system and method of dynamically controlling a reservation of resources within a cluster environment to maximize a response time are disclosed. The method embodiment of the invention comprises receiving from a requestor a request for a reservation of resources in the cluster environment, reserving a first group of resources, evaluating resources within the cluster environment to determine if the response time can be improved and if the response time can be improved, then canceling the reservation for the first group of resources and reserving a second group of resources to process the request at the improved response time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: III Holdings 12, LLC
    Inventor: David Brian Jackson
  • Patent number: 10855490
    Abstract: A CAN network synchronization method identifies a sync master node from a plurality of nodes, and designates each of the remaining nodes as a sync slave node. The method further designates a message from the sync master node as a sync message, and assigns a lowest number to the message ID of the sync message. The method further assigns a unique node ID to each sync slave node, and assigns a unique message ID to a transmission duration report message from a sync slave node. The method further assigns a unique message ID to a transmission target time allocation message from the sync master node. The method also performs a handshake operation between the sync slave nodes and the sync master node to exchange message burst transmission durations (Tsst), transmission target times (TTXtarget), and a common time reference point, and conducts time adjustment on each sync slave node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: HAMILTON SUNSTRAND CORPORATION
    Inventor: Qiuming Leng
  • Patent number: 10841186
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for accessing data related to at least one operation implemented by at least one node device (N1) of a network (R) from a plurality of node devices (N1, N2, N3) of said network, which are capable of communicating via a first communication link (L1). According to the invention, the access method is suitable for receiving a message through which a node device signals, to an observation device, an operation implemented by said node device; for recording at least one piece of information on said operation; and, upon receiving a request from a terminal via a second communication link, for transmitting a response developed from at least part of the recorded information. The invention also relates to a data-transmission method. The invention further relates to an observation device (DT) and to a node device (N1) of a network which implement the access method and the transmission method, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: Orange
    Inventors: Quentin Lampin, Dominique Barthel
  • Patent number: 10820234
    Abstract: An example of a system may include a controller, communicatively connected to an access point (AP), including a processing resource and a memory resource storing instructions executable by the processing resource to: identify an unused portion of a computational capacity of the access point when the access point is executing a primary functionality of the access point; allocate an amount of the unused portion of the computational capacity of the access point to execute a first portion of a non-primary data mining functionality distinct from the primary functionality of the access point; and adjust the amount of the unused portion of the computational capacity allocated to the execution of the non-primary data mining functionality based on a change in network traffic associated with the access point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
    Inventors: Florent Granier, Eddie Ayotte, Dominik Seelos
  • Patent number: 10764148
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer readable media for network traffic statistics collection are disclosed. One method for network traffic statistics collection includes during testing of a system under test (SUT): receiving a first trigger message indicating a first message group context for statistics collection; receiving, from the SUT, a first test message of a plurality of test messages, wherein the first test message includes a first message group identifier (MGID) and a second MGID, wherein the first MGID is associated with the first message group context and the second MGID is associated with a second message group context; and performing, using the first MGID, statistics collection associated with the first message group context. The method may also include changing from the first message group context to the second message group context during the test and using the second message group context for statistics collection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: Keysight Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Noah Steven Gintis, Vinod Joseph, Alina Crina Balan
  • Patent number: 10735837
    Abstract: An optical network element includes an optical multiplexing/demultiplexing device forming a degree; a channel holder source connected to the optical multiplexing/demultiplexing device; and a controller configured to, responsive to provisioning a media channel on the degree, wherein the media channel is a contiguous portion of optical spectrum supporting N channels, N>1, cause allocation of optical filter bandwidth in the optical multiplexing/demultiplexing device for M channels in the media channel, M<N, cause provisioning of the M channels in the media channel, and cause configuration of N?M channel holders in the media channel from the channel holder source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: Ciena Corporation
    Inventors: Choudhury A. Al Sayeed, Radmila Kovacevic, Edward Chen, David Miedema
  • Patent number: 10735977
    Abstract: A first communication device transmits a signal addressed to a second communication device by the use of one of resources included in a resource pool selected from a set of resource pools. On the other hand, each of third communication devices which relay the radio communication between the first communication device and the second communication device selects one resource pool from the set of resource pools in accordance with a predetermined rule which is defined on the basis of a hop count at the third communication device in the radio communication between the first communication device and the second communication device and the resource pool selected by the first communication device, and transfer the signal addressed to the second communication device by the use of one of the resources included in the selected resource pool to a next communication device in a relay order or the second communication device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Hongyang Chen, Yoshinori Tanaka
  • Patent number: 10721353
    Abstract: A system for authenticating the identity of a caller (i) receives a phone call from a caller, where the phone call is initiated through an application on a remote computer device associated with the caller, and where the phone call includes one or more phone authentication credentials; (ii) determines a preliminary identity of the caller based upon the one or more phone authentication credentials; (iii) receives online authentication credentials from the application on the remote computer device; (iv) determines a confirmed identity of the caller based, at least in part, upon the one or more online credentials and the preliminary identity of the caller; and (v) displays the confirmed identity of the caller to a user answering the phone call. As a result, the user and/or the system do not need to perform additional authentication before providing service to the caller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY
    Inventors: Lucas Wiechman, Matthew Burgund, Mark Biersdorf, Dan Hlavac
  • Patent number: 10693754
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for determining a resource indicator are described, so that according to a specified resource, another resource associated with the resource can be determined, thereby rapidly determining an indicator of the resource. An association relationship tree information is obtained. The association relationship tree information is used to indicate association relationships between multiple resources. The multiple resources include resources located at at least three resource layers, the association relationships include a direct association relationship and an indirect association relationship. Two resources having the direct association relationship are separately located at two adjacent resource layers, and two resources having the indirect association relationship are separately located at resource layers spaced by at least one resource layer. A second resource having the indirect association relationship with a first resource is determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shehui Zhang, Santosh Akhilesh, Jian Wu
  • Patent number: 10680935
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer readable media can be operable to facilitate the recovery of a failed data path. A determination may be made that one or more channels have become unavailable to a central device. The central device may identify an opportunity to attempt to recover the one or more unavailable channels, the opportunity being based upon a waiting period, time-of-day, device activity, or other parameter. A communication interface associated with the central device may be re-initialized so that the central device can attempt to recover the one or more unavailable channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: ARRIS ENTERPRISES LLC
    Inventors: Allen Walston, Angelo Bione
  • Patent number: 10667252
    Abstract: A radio terminal according to an embodiment is used in a mobile telecommunication system which provides a plurality of communication services. The radio terminal includes a controller which uses any of a plurality of resource pools provided for each communication service on the basis of resource map information. The plurality of resource pools is provided in one radio frame and in one system bandwidth. The resource map information indicates the layout pattern of the plurality of resource pools.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventors: Masato Fujishiro, Chiharu Yamazaki, Atsuhisa Inakoshi, Fangwei Tong, Kugo Morita
  • Patent number: 10642907
    Abstract: The present application provides a method, a means and a system for processing service data. A method comprises: a receiving means sends to a processing means a query request carrying labeling information to query said processing means whether there locally exists data carrying the labeling information, the labeling information being for identifying data needed by the receiving means to provide a target service. The receiving means receives query result information sent by the processing means. If the query result information indicates that the processing means does not have data carrying the labeling information, the receiving means provides the target service based on the received data carrying labeling information. The present application can determine the completeness of data and ensure the successful provision of services.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: Alibaba Group Holding Limited
    Inventors: Zhengbin Zuo, Junze Yu
  • Patent number: 10638294
    Abstract: A Bluetooth Integrated Circuit includes a receiver, a transmitter, and a control circuit. The receiver circuit is configured to receive a scan request packet from an electronic device, and the scan request packet being transmitted by the electronic device in accordance with a Bluetooth wireless low energy standard. The transmitter circuit is configured to transmit a data packet or an advertising packet, and the control circuit is coupled to the receiver circuit and the transmitter circuit. When the receiver circuit receives the scan request packet, the control circuit detects a transmission rate at which the scan request packet is transmitted by the electronic device and controls the transmitter circuit to transmit the data packet or the advertising packet at the data rate related to the scan request packet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: Realtek Semiconductor Corp.
    Inventors: Yu-Hsuan Liu, Yu-Fang Chiu, Ya-Hsueh Huang, Yi-Lin Li, Ju-Chun Wu
  • Patent number: 10592192
    Abstract: A display apparatus communicatively coupleable to a multi display system is provided. The display apparatus includes a display; a first connector configured to receive an image from a first display apparatus of the multi display system; a processor configured to perform a control so that a feedback signal that informs of a detection of an error is transmitted to the first display apparatus through the first connector when the error is detected in the received image, a compressed image in which the image is compressed is received from the first display apparatus in response to the feedback signal, and the received compressed image is decompressed to display the decompressed image through the display; and a second connector configured to transmit the compressed image to a second display apparatus of the multi display system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Dong-jin Kim, Seo-ye Seo
  • Patent number: 10587562
    Abstract: A computerized polling system is provided. The polling system allows a polling user to ask a question posed to a plurality of answering users. The first user asks the questions and provides two or more graphical representations, each representation corresponding to one of the potential answers to the question. The system receives answers from the answering users and tallies them, providing a result with indications of how the answering users have answered, such as a percentage marking.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Inventor: Jennifer Lynn Pikor
  • Patent number: 10531330
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes devices, systems, and methods for frame start optimizing in telecommunication systems. Some aspects may involve receiving, by an aggregation device in the telecommunication system, frames from transmitter devices. Some aspects may also involve determining that buffering may be required to sequence the frames for an aggregation operation performed by the aggregation device. The aggregation operation may include a process that combines frames from transmitter devices. In response to determining that the buffering is required, frame adjustment signals may be transmitted to the transmitter devices. The frame adjustment signals may instruct the transmitter devices to transmit subsequent frames such that the buffering is reduced for a subsequent aggregation operation performed by the aggregation device using the subsequent frames.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: Andrew Wireless Systems GmbH
    Inventors: Christopher Goodman Ranson, Keld Knut Lange
  • Patent number: 10454621
    Abstract: A communication control device includes a control unit. The control unit included in the communication control device performs control to notify an information processing device of a period for the information processing device to acquire information regarding a communication state in the information processing device. The control unit included in the communication control device further performs control to cause the information processing device to notify the information regarding the communication state acquired in the period and to determine a destination of a delivery confirmation request on the basis of the information regarding the communication state. Thereby, a destination of a delivery confirmation request can be appropriately determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Eisuke Sakai, Yuichi Morioka
  • Patent number: 10420097
    Abstract: A subscriber unit and a method for receiving data at a subscriber unit for wireless communications are provided. A subscriber unit includes a receiver and at least one processor configured to monitor and receive forward control information within a first time interval of a first slot of a plurality of slots. Each slot of the plurality of slots includes the first time interval and a second time interval subsequent to the first time interval. The receiver and the at least one processor are further configured to receive forward traffic data in the first time interval of a second slot of the plurality of slots in accordance with the forward control information, where the second slot is contiguous to the first slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: IPR Licensing, Inc.
    Inventors: John B. Cornett, Kevin P. Johnson, George R. Nelson, Jr.
  • Patent number: 10383084
    Abstract: Described herein are techniques for determining a location of a disconnected device. In an example, a method includes instructing a first access point to sniff a wireless channel for probe request packets from disconnected devices, and instructing the first access point to send a distance-probing packet to a disconnected device after receiving a probe request packet from the disconnected device. The method further includes receiving, from the first access point, a MAC address of the disconnected device determined from the received probe request packet. After receiving the MAC address from the first access point, a group of access points is instructed to send distance-probing packets to the disconnected device. The method further includes receiving, from the first access point and the group of access points, time-of-flight measurements associated with the disconnected device. A location of the disconnected device can be determined using the time-of-flight measurements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
    Inventors: Souvik Sen, Dongho Kim
  • Patent number: 10362147
    Abstract: Increasing the processing load on the server is suppressed in a network system in which response requests are intermittently transmitted from a client to a server. A network system has a client configured to transmit response requests at a specific time interval, and a server configured to send a response to the client according to a received response request. The server calculates a communication interval indicating an interval at which the client is to transmit its response request based on a factor affecting the processing load of the server, and sends communication interval information indicating the calculated communication interval to the client. The client transmits its response request at the time interval indicated by the communication interval information received from the server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Morimichi Mizuno, Takayuki Yamamoto, Akio Takamoto
  • Patent number: 10334471
    Abstract: Various communication systems may benefit from appropriate handling of reconfiguration. For example, certain wireless communication systems may benefit from lossless bearer reconfiguration when handling a transition from the user of a longer sequence number to a shorter sequence number. A method can include determining, by a protocol entity, if a next expected highest count value among count values associated with protocol data units received is more than a pre-defined limit ahead of a lowest count value among count values associated with protocol data units expected to be received. The method can also include resetting the next expected highest count value to a new value corresponding to a predefined upper limit, conditional on the determination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
    Inventor: Henri Markus Koskinen
  • Patent number: 10291480
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a device in a network reserves first and second sets of local resources for an anomaly detection mechanism. The device reports the first set of local resources to a supervisory node in the network. The device applies one or more anomaly detection rules from the supervisory node using the first set of reserved resources. The device receives one or more anomaly detection rules from a peer node in the network. The device applies the one or more anomaly detection rules from the peer node using the second set of reserved resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Carlos M. Pignataro, Omar Santos, David C. White, Jr.
  • Patent number: 10243696
    Abstract: A method of decoding a plurality of diverse signals for low-density parity-check (LDPC) decoders that takes advantage of signal diversity. The method allows for the combining of soft-decision LDPC encoded non-coherently modulated signals, which is in contrast to existing approaches where hard decision combining is used for non-coherently modulated signals. The method includes the steps of inputting each diversity signal into a unique demodulator, and calculating the LLR of each demodulated signal. When the diverse demodulated signals are combined into a single combined signal, each bit of the combined signal is selected according to the value of either the highest LLR value of each bit across the demodulated signals or according to the sum of the LLR of each bit across the demodulated signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: Syracuse University
    Inventors: Kapil Borle, Biao Chen, Fangfang Zhu, Yu Zhao
  • Patent number: 10104683
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A receiving device may detect a signal associated with low latency transmissions and decode a non-low latency communication accordingly. The receiving device may receive an indicator from a transmitting device that indicates where and when low latency communications occur. The indication may specify frequency resources or symbols used by the low latency communication. The indicator may be transmitted during the same subframe as the low latency communication, at the end of a subframe, or during a subsequent subframe. The receiving device may use the indicator to mitigate low latency interference, generate channel estimates, and reliably decode the non-low latency communication. In some cases, the interfering low latency communication may occur within the serving cell of the receiving device; or the interfering low latency communication may occur in a neighboring cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Wanshi Chen, Durga Prasad Malladi, Peter Gaal, Yongbin Wei, Hao Xu, Shimman Arvind Patel, Aleksandar Damnjanovic
  • Patent number: 10034178
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method and apparatus for multi-channel operation, performed by an access point (AP), in a WLAN system, the method includes: transmitting channel assignment information to a plurality of stations (STAs), in which the channel assignment information is for assigning at least one of a first channel and a second channel to each of the plurality of STAs; transmitting channel activity information to the plurality of STAs, in which the channel activity information is for indicating an activity duration where the AP transmit or receive a frame through each of the first channel and the second channel; and transmitting or receiving a frame through the first channel or the second channel on the basis of the channel activity information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Yong Ho Seok, Eun Sun Kim
  • Patent number: 10027440
    Abstract: A control circuit of a wireless user equipment includes: a PDCP layer computing circuit for reading a PDCP SDU from a PDCP SDU buffer of a memory device of the wireless user equipment, and for generating a ciphered data based on the PDCP SDU; a RLC layer computing circuit for generating a RLC PDU based on the ciphered data; a MAC layer computing circuit for generating a MAC PDU based on the RLC PDU; and a channel encoding circuit for encoding the MAC PDU. The PDCP layer computing circuit directly transmits the ciphered data to the RLC layer computing circuit, the RLC layer computing circuit directly transmits the RLC PDU to the MAC layer computing circuit, and the MAC layer computing circuit directly transmits the MAC PDU to the channel encoding circuit, without buffering above data in any buffering circuit outside the control circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR CORP.
    Inventors: Chao-Yuan Hsu, Ting-Yu Wei, Chi-Ming Cheng, Chen Chen