Retransmission If No Ack Returned Patents (Class 714/749)
  • Patent number: 8176377
    Abstract: A fast ARQ mechanism operated inside 3GPP GERAN mobile radio systems uses short bitmaps, spanning only few octets, in the header of a RLC/MAC block conveying relevant ACK/NACK signalling that is transmitted either in the uplink or downlink direction, indifferently. This short bitmap which may request synchronization between transmitting and receiving frames, is encoded together with the header using coding which is more robust than that used for payload. Correct retransmission of badly received radio blocks is based on the number of RLC/MAC block periods between the instant of transmission of a radio block and the instant of reception of the short bitmap. In addition, the short bitmap is allocated in a new zone placed immediately after the header of the RLC/MAC blocks, and encoded independently of the payload using a more robust coding against the errors than the robustness of the MCS used in the payload data part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2012
    Assignee: Nokia Siemens Networks S.p.A.
    Inventor: Sergio Parolari
  • Patent number: 8169914
    Abstract: A method of transmitting data over a communication network using negative acknowledgment is presented. In the method, a stream of data packets is transmitted from a first node of the network to a second node of the network. All but at least two of the stream of data packets is successfully received at the second node, wherein the data packets that are not successfully received are not located sequentially within the stream of data packets. A status packet is transmitted from the second node to the first node, wherein the status packet includes an indication of each of the data packets that were not successfully received. In response to receiving the status packet at the first node, the data packets that were not successfully received at the second node are retransmitted from the first node to the second node in response to receiving the status packet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2012
    Assignee: Sling Media Pvt. Ltd.
    Inventors: Parimal Bajpai, Vikal Kumar Jain, Aparna Sarma Akella
  • Patent number: 8164424
    Abstract: A system of electronic tag has developed for integrated processing by utilizing RFID technology, which comprises a reader for collecting information, processor for processing success failure, unsure state of instruction, and a terminal for submitting transaction and receiving the result of transaction to identify.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2012
    Assignee: Pusan National University Industry-University Cooperation Foundation
    Inventors: Bong-Hee Hong, Ryuan Choi, Woo-Seok Ryu, Sung-Woo Ahn
  • Patent number: 8161341
    Abstract: A method of transmitting control information in a wireless communication system and transmission window updating method using the same are disclosed, by which transmission efficiency in a transmitting side can be enhanced. The present invention includes the steps of receiving a first control information block including a first status report information from a receiving side, the first status information providing reception acknowledge information for a plurality of data blocks transmitted to the receiving side, receiving a second control information block including a second status report information placed as a last status report information in the second control information block, and updating the transmission window using the reception acknowledge information in the first status report information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2012
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Young Dae Lee, Sung Duck Chun, Myung Cheul Jung
  • Patent number: 8161342
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for combining retransmitted hybrid automatic repeat-request (HARQ) messages at different stages in an OFDM/OFDMA receiver are provided. A combination of different types of HARQ combiners may be designed into the receiver and selected on a per-channel basis. Proper selection of a HARQ combining scheme may reduce the required HARQ buffer size and may provide an increased combining gain when compared to conventional HARQ combining techniques. Furthermore, the HARQ combiner type may be dynamically selected through forward and reverse shifting between the different types of HARQ combining schemes in an effort to decrease the bit error ratio (BER) without saturating the HARQ buffer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2012
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jong Hyeon Park, Bok Tae Sim, Je Woo Kim, Serguei A. Glazko, Sameer Nanavati, Ju Won Park
  • Patent number: 8155013
    Abstract: A method and apparatus is disclosed herein for synchronized multi-link transmission in an ARQ-enabled multi-hop wireless network. In one embodiment, the method comprises performing pre-transmission of a packet to hops to enable a base station and the plurality of hops in the network to transmit the packet synchronously to one or more mobile stations in the wireless communication system; and performing one or more re-transmissions of the packet at a set of one or more hops forming a path in the network if time remaining before a synchronized transmission time for the path as a whole is greater than a threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2012
    Assignee: NTT Docomo, Inc.
    Inventors: Moo Ryong Jeong, Ismail Guvenc, Fujio Watanabe
  • Patent number: 8151157
    Abstract: A method of encoding data using a parity check matrix, a method of decoding encoded data, and a data retransmission method using the same are disclosed. A method of encoding data by LDPC code using a parity check matrix includes variably selecting a specific sub-matrix from a parity check matrix in accordance with a coding rate to be used for encoding, the parity check matrix including at least two sub-matrixes, and encoding an input data stream by using the selected sub-matrix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2012
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Young Seob Lee, Min Seok Oh, So Yeon Kim, Ji Wook Chung, Ki Hyoung Cho
  • Patent number: 8151158
    Abstract: The present invention provides methods and systems for decoding a data burst in a communication system. A data burst, including a plurality of forward error correction (FEC) blocks, is received. At least one FEC block of the data burst is decoded. Thereafter, it is detected if one or more errors are present in the at least one FEC block of the data burst. Upon detecting one or more errors in the at least one FEC block, the method halts the decoding of the data burst. In response to detecting the one or more errors, a retransmitted data burst corresponding to the data burst is received. One or more FEC blocks of the data burst may be combined with corresponding one or more FEC blocks of the retransmitted data burst. The one or more FEC blocks of the data burst includes the at least one FEC block that had the one or more errors detected as present.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2012
    Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventors: Sriram Mudulodu, Louay Jalloul
  • Patent number: 8151154
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a transmitter and a receiver for a mobile communication system. The basic idea of the present invention is to target the number of HARQ transmissions that is required to be able to decode the transmitted data successfully and to only transmit HARQ feedback information if the decoding result differs from an expected result, wherein the expected result is based on the targeted number of required HARQ transmissions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2012
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Mats Sagfors, Johan Torsner, Stefan Wager
  • Patent number: 8151156
    Abstract: Repetitive transmissions in multi-carrier based wireless access techniques may be achieved by providing multiple cyclic delay values for a plurality of carriers, performing a cyclic delay procedure using the multiple cyclic delay values according to the number of repetitive transmission of data symbols to be transmitted to a receiver, and transmitting the cyclic delayed data symbols to the receiver using the plurality of carriers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2012
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Moon-Il Lee, Jin-Young Chun, Jae-Won Chang, Jin-Hyuk Jung
  • Publication number: 20120079338
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a host controller includes a command generator and detector. The command generator generates a command having a retransmission flag in an argument, and transmits the generated command to a memory device. The detector detects timeout if a response from the memory device cannot be recognized within a defined time. When transmitting an initial command, the host controller clears the retransmission flag and transmits the command. If the detector detects timeout, the host controller sets the retransmission flag, and retransmits the same command as the initial command to the device. If a normal response corresponding to the initial command or retransmitted command is received, the host controller recognizes that the command is correctly executed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2011
    Publication date: March 29, 2012
    Inventor: Akihisa FUJIMOTO
  • Patent number: 8140929
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for transmitting/receiving a Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest (HARQ) Acknowledge/Negative acknowledge (ACK/NACK) signal in a mobile communication system. The apparatus and method distribute a CDM segment, to which an ACK/NACK signal is mapped, in the frequency domain of an OFDM symbol, and repeatedly transmits the CDM segment, thereby providing diversity gain in the time-frequency domain. Further, the apparatus and method provide a mapping rule for distributing transmit power between OFDM symbols to which the ACK/NACK signal is mapped and transmitted, thereby preventing a particular OFDM symbol power-overload, and thus contributing to improvement of the entire system performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Young-Bum Kim, Jin-Kyu Han, Hwan-Joon Kwon, Ju-Ho Lee, Jianzhong Zhang
  • Patent number: 8140928
    Abstract: A radio communications apparatus having a retransmission function that has a determination portion configured to receive an error detection result obtained for a first packet transmitted to a destination apparatus and determine in a first sub-layer whether the error detection result is a positive acknowledgement; a transmission portion configured to transmit a second packet following the first packet to the destination apparatus; a timer portion configured to measure a predetermined period of time after the second packet is transmitted; and a report portion configured to report to a second sub-layer that is an upper sub-layer of the first sub-layer that the error detection result is the positive acknowledgement when no message is received from the destination apparatus during the predetermined period of time, the message indicating that the error detection result is falsely determined to be the positive acknowledgement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2012
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Anil Umesh, Sadayuki Abeta
  • Patent number: 8130819
    Abstract: A portable device, such as a mobile terminal or user equipment, for encoding uplink acknowledgments to downlink transmissions. The portable device includes a receiver configured to receive a plurality of data blocks, such that each of the data blocks include an associated cyclic redundancy check (CRC), and a processor configured to determine received status for each of the data blocks by checking the CRC of each of the data blocks. The portable device further includes a transmitter for transmitting a response sequence which indicates the received status of all of the data blocks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2012
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Bong Hoe Kim, Young Woo Yun, Ki Jun Kim, Eun Sun Kim, Joon Kui Ahn, Suk Hyon Yoon, Dong Youn Seo, Hak Seong Kim, Jung Hoon Lee, In Jae Jung
  • Patent number: 8132069
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for combining retransmitted hybrid automatic repeat-request (HARQ) messages at different stages in an orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM)/orthogonal frequency-division multiple access (OFDMA) receiver are provided. The type of HARQ combiner used for a particular channel may depend on a number of selection criteria including the modulation order of the transmission, the number of bits needed for the combined signals, and the headroom in the HARQ buffer. For some embodiments, a combination of different types of HARQ combiners may be designed into a receiver and selected on a per-channel basis. Proper selection of a HARQ combining scheme may reduce the required HARQ buffer size and may provide an increased combining gain when compared to conventional HARQ combining techniques.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2012
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jong Hyeon Park, Je Woo Kim, Sameer Nanavati, James Y. Hurt
  • Patent number: 8122313
    Abstract: Various example embodiments are disclosed. According to an example embodiment, a receiving station in a wireless network may receive a plurality of Medium Access Control Packet Data Units (MPDUs) from a transmitting station. Each of the plurality of MPDUs may include a sequence number. The receiving station may also determine which of the plurality of MPDUs were successfully or not successfully received from the transmitting station. The receiving station may also transmit, to the transmitting station, at least one automatic repeat request (ARQ) feedback information element (IE). The at least one ARQ feedback IE may include a number of acknowledgment maps field indicating a number of acknowledgment maps included in the ARQ feedback IE and the indicated number of acknowledgment maps. Each of the acknowledgment maps may include a sequence format field indicating a number of block sequence fields and the indicated number of block sequence fields.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2012
    Assignee: Nokia Siemens Networks Oy
    Inventors: Xiaoyi Wang, Shashikant Maheshwari
  • Publication number: 20120042221
    Abstract: Provided are a method and apparatus for implementing a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ). A terminal receives a plurality of transmission blocks through a plurality of downlink component carrier waves, and determines a plurality of ACK/NACK resources for the plurality of transmission blocks. If the plurality of ACK/NACK resources overlaps, the terminal uses the overlapping ACK/NACK resources to transmit one bundled ACK/NACK signal for the plurality of transmission blocks through an uplink component carrier wave.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2010
    Publication date: February 16, 2012
    Inventors: So Yeon Kim, Jae Hoon Chung, Yeong Hyeon Kwon, Seung Hee Han
  • Publication number: 20120042222
    Abstract: In a retransmitting method, at least one ARQ block included in a first PDU is fragmented into a plurality of ARQ sub-blocks, and at least one second PDU is generated from the plurality of ARQ sub-blocks. The second PDU includes a payload including an extended header and at least some of a plurality of ARQ sub-blocks. The extended header includes a field representing a sequence number of the first ARQ sub-block belonging to the payload.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2010
    Publication date: February 16, 2012
    Applicant: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Jae Sun Cha, Kwang Jae Lim, Sung Cheol Chang, Chul Sik Yoon
  • Patent number: 8116249
    Abstract: An access point transmits data frames to a plurality of wireless terminals by MC or BC communication. When the data frames are transmitted, data to identify the presence of the return of an ACK frame as affirmative acknowledgment with respect to transmitted contents is applied to an MAC header. In a case where a Block ACK frame is requested as affirmative acknowledgment with respect to the transmission of a plurality of frames in the MC or BC communication, the plurality of wireless terminals return the Block ACK frame to the access point and the wireless terminals other than the wireless terminal itself by the MC or BC communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2012
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Youichirou Shiba, Kiyotaka Matsue
  • Patent number: 8112694
    Abstract: A system and method communicates commands from a command originator to receiving devices, yet the receiving devices do not confirm receipt of the command. The most current command (e.g. the one with the highest sequence number) is rebroadcast by the command originator and the receiving devices, tending to be more frequent upon detection of an event indicating that the most current command was not received by at least one other device, and less frequently upon detection of an event indicating that the most current command was provided with sufficient duplication that if another device could receive it, the device likely did receive it, subject to a maximum and minimum rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2012
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Alec Woo, David E Culler
  • Patent number: 8112688
    Abstract: A data-transmission control method is implemented when transmitting data after dividing the data into a plurality of blocks and performing error correction when performing data transmission. The method includes obtaining additional information indicating a result of error correction process of received data and a result of data transmission (ACK/NACK) from a reception station, and deciding a data length of data to be retransmitted when NACK is obtained as the result of data transmission so that a rate of occurrence of transmission errors upon retransmission is minimized, based on a number of blocks in which error correction has failed indicated by the additional information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2012
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Tetsuya Mishuku
  • Patent number: 8108545
    Abstract: A mechanism is provided for packet coalescing in virtual channels of a data processing system. A first processor bundles original data into a data packet to be transmitted to a destination processor, the original data comprising payload data and overhead data. The first processor transmits the data packet to a second processor along a path to the destination processor. The second processor determines if the second processor has additional payload data destined for the same destination processor. Responsive to the second processor having the additional payload data, the second processor unbundles the data packet, adds the additional payload data to the payload data, and rebundles the payload data along with the additional payload data and the overhead data into a rebundled data packet. Then the second processor transmits the rebundled data packet to at least one other processor along the path to the destination processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Lakshminarayana B. Arimilli, Ravi K. Arimilli, Ramakrishnan Rajamony
  • Patent number: 8102801
    Abstract: A user equipment for physical layer automatic repeat request is disclosed. The user equipment comprises a higher layer automatic repeat request (ARQ) mechanism, a physical layer transmitter, a physical layer receiver, an acknowledgment (ACK) transmitter and an adaptive modulation and control unit (AMC). A higher layer ARQ mechanism generates data for transmission. A physical layer transmitter receives the data for transmission from the higher layer ARQ mechanism, to format the received data into packets for transmission. A physical layer receiver receives and demodulates received packets and retransmission statistics. An ACK transmitter transmits a corresponding acknowledgment for a given packet at the physical layer receiver. An AMC unit adjusts a particular encoding/data modulation of each packet using collected retransmission statistics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2012
    Assignee: InterDigital Technology Corporation
    Inventor: Joseph A Kwak
  • Patent number: 8103929
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method and an apparatus for efficient ACKnowledgment/NonACKnowledgement (ACK/NACK) transmission in order to transmit forward data for multiple layers and support Hybrid Automatic Retransmission reQuest (HARQ) for each layer in a mobile communication system. The method includes determining whether transmission of the ACK/NACK is for a first layer or for layers higher than the first layer; and when the transmission of the ACK/NACK is for layers higher than the first layer, transmitting the reverse ACK/NACK by allocating resources to the higher layers with a quantity different from that of the first layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hwan-Joon Kwon, Jin-Kyu Han, Jae-Hyun Park, Seung-Kyun Oh, Dong-Hee Kim, Jae-Chon Yu, Yeon-Ju Lim, Zhouyue Pi
  • Patent number: 8102805
    Abstract: An exemplary method for signaling scheduling information includes scheduling first and second transport blocks for simultaneous transmission during a first transmission interval on first and second data substreams, respectively, assigning a single re-transmission process identifier for the first transmission interval, and transmitting first scheduling information for the first transmission interval. The first scheduling information includes the re-transmission process identifier and first disambiguation data.The method further comprises scheduling at least one of the first and second transport blocks for re-transmission during a second transmission interval and transmitting second scheduling information for the second transmission interval, the second scheduling information including the re-transmission process identifier and second disambiguation data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2012
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Bo Göransson, Per Johan Torsner, Stefan Parkvall
  • Patent number: 8099643
    Abstract: A method and system for minimizing slot wastage by overlapping HARQ regions in a communication system. A control region allocation (CRA) utility defines a group of HARQ regions for transmission of control data. A HARQ region definition includes a starting symbol and a starting sub-channel number for the HARQ region, a number of symbols and a number of sub-channels to define the dimensions of the region and the slot duration for each sub-burst in a sequence of allocated sub-bursts. The CRA utility overlaps one HARQ region with the other to minimize slot wastage. The slots that carry data in one HARQ region overlap un-used slots in another HARQ region or are overlapped with a dummy allocation in the other HARQ region. Since mobile stations do not carry data for the slots with a dummy allocation, the overlap of HARQ regions avoids conflict with the HARQ operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2012
    Assignee: Motorola Mobility, Inc.
    Inventor: Satyen D. Barve
  • Patent number: 8094639
    Abstract: A method for multiplexing a data information stream, including a systematic symbol and a non-systematic symbol, and a control information stream of at least three types in a wireless mobile communication system is disclosed. The method includes mapping the data information stream to a resource area so that the systematic symbol is not mapped to a specific resource area to which the control information stream is mapped, and mapping the control information stream to the specific resource area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2012
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Ki Hwan Kim, Jae Hoon Chung, Moon Il Lee
  • Patent number: 8091005
    Abstract: In a keyboard-video-mouse (“KVM”) system in which a target computer may be wirelessly accessed by a plurality of remote stations, a method includes, by the target computer: obtaining a frame of video data; transmitting packets for the frame; transmitting a query packet; obtaining a list of requests from at least one of the remote stations, each request from a particular remote station identifying packets missed by that particular remote station; and resending at least some of the requested packets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2012
    Assignee: Avocent Huntsville Corporation
    Inventors: Iain Huntly-Playle, C. David Covington, Charles Lally, Sheng Li, Richard L. Moore
  • Publication number: 20110314350
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method for communicating data is provided. The method includes, defining a data transmission unit (DTU) to be sent in an xDSL data stream, defining a retransmit container as a time slot that corresponds to the DTU, maintaining a copy of the DTU and an index corresponding to the retransmit container in a retransmission buffer, transmitting the DTU in the xDSL data stream, determining whether the DTU should be retransmitted, and if the DTU should be retransmitted: identifying the DTU by the retransmit container and retransmitting a copy of the DTU as identified by the retransmit container before the DTU leaves the retransmission buffer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2011
    Publication date: December 22, 2011
    Applicant: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventors: Benoit CHRISTIAENS, Miguel Peeters, Raphael Cassiers
  • Patent number: 8082478
    Abstract: A method for retransmission of erroneous data in a communications system includes receiving data blocks at a receiver that have been generated in a transmitter by the use of an error correcting code. The received data blocks are decoded by a linear programming algorithm. One or more symbols in the decoded data block are identified by subjecting the symbols in the decoded data block to an integrality criterion. A retransmission of a part of the data block based on the one or more identified symbols is then initiated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2011
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Michael Lunglmayr, Jens Berkmann
  • Patent number: 8072910
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method comprises transmitting onto a wireless connection, by a device, a first wireless data packet destined for a second device; in response to a determined absence by the device of a required acknowledgment of the first wireless data packet from the second device, queuing by the device the first wireless data packet while waiting for a second wireless data packet; receiving by the device the second wireless data packet; and transmitting, by the device, the first wireless data packet with the second wireless data packet to the second device via the wireless connection in response to the device receiving the second wireless data packet and before any other device can send a data frame on the wireless connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2011
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Pascal Thubert, Patrick Wetterwald, Vincent Jean Ribiere
  • Patent number: 8074138
    Abstract: In a decoding apparatus in a portable Internet terminal, a channel encoded symbol received from a transmitter is decoded by one of a chase-combining scheme and a code-combining scheme selected based on an ID value of the subpacket indicating a start position of the symbol. In this case, the chase-combining scheme is partly used for the encoded symbol of the information bit. With such a mode, decoding can be performed at a low code rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2011
    Assignees: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, KT Corporation, SK Telecom Co., Ltd., KTFreetel Co., Ltd., Hanaro Telecom, Inc.
    Inventors: Su-Chang Chae, Youn-Ok Park, Jun-Woo Kim
  • Patent number: 8068497
    Abstract: A medium access control (MAC) architecture reduces transmission latency for data block retransmissions. A plurality of data blocks are received and temporarily stored in a first memory (e.g., queue, buffer). The plurality of data blocks are then transmitted. A determination is made as to whether each of the transmitted data blocks was received successfully or needs to be retransmitted because the data block was not received successfully. Each of the transmitted data blocks that needs to be retransmitted is marked and temporarily stored in a second memory having a higher priority than the first memory. The marked data blocks are retransmitted before data blocks stored in the first memory location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2011
    Assignee: InterDigital Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Stephen E. Terry, Yi-Ju Chao, James M. Miller
  • Patent number: 8069402
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to method, device and system for detecting errors in a communication system. A signal is received from a transmitter at a receiver wherein the signal includes a data portion and a result of a hash function. The hash function is computed in part from a transmitter identification code. The receiver determines if the result of the hash function matches both the data portion and the transmitter identification code. The receiver discards the signal if the result of the hash function does not match both the data portion and the transmitter identification code of the transmitter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2011
    Assignee: On-Ramp Wireless, Inc.
    Inventors: Theodore J. Myers, Daniel Thomas Werner
  • Patent number: 8065580
    Abstract: A method for securely transmitting data messages in an HVDCT system. Each transmitting unit is connected to each receiving unit via at least two connection channels. Each data message includes a message counter that uniquely characterizes the data message, and each transmitting unit transmits the data message to each receiving unit via all of the connection channels. Each receiving unit calculates a comparison counter and compares it with the message counter in the received data message. If the message counter and the comparison counter do not match, a repetition request is transmitted to the transmitting unit for the purpose of transmitting a message counter that corresponds to the comparison counter. After the repetition request has been received, the transmitting unit accesses a transmission buffer, and the data message whose message counter corresponds to the comparison counter of the repetition request is transmitted via all of the connection channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2011
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Anja Ackermann, Michael Festor, Frank Greiner
  • Publication number: 20110283157
    Abstract: A method for transmitting information of ACK/NACK (Acknowledgement/Negative ACK) sequence from a receiver in a wireless communication system is disclosed. A receiver receives a plurality of data from a transmitter, and determines one ACK/NACK sequence including ACKs/NACKs corresponding to each of the plurality of data. If two or more ACKs are included in the ACK/NACK sequence, the receiver selects a combination of a first HARQ (Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest) transmission resource and a first modulation symbol corresponding to a certain ACK of the two or more ACKs, and selects a combination of a second HARQ transmission resource and a second modulation symbol corresponding to ACKs other than the certain ACK of the two or more ACKs. Thus, the receiver transmits each of the first modulation symbol and the second modulation symbol to the transmitter using the first HARQ transmission resource and the second HARQ transmission resource, respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2009
    Publication date: November 17, 2011
    Inventors: Suckchel Yang, Jung Hoon Lee, Joon Kui Ahn, Dongyoun Seo
  • Patent number: 8060023
    Abstract: In a mobile communication system according to the present invention, a data transmitting-side apparatus is configured to retransmit a transmission data block according to a transmission acknowledgement signal transmitted from a data receiving-side apparatus. The data receiving-side apparatus includes: a maximum number-of-retransmissions manager unit configured to manage the maximum number of retransmissions of the transmission data block; and a transmission acknowledgement signal transmitter unit configured not to transmit the transmission acknowledgement signal, when the number of retransmissions of the transmission data block reaches the maximum number of retransmissions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2011
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Masafumi Usuda, Anil Umesh, Takehiro Nakamura
  • Patent number: 8060802
    Abstract: Automatic Repeat reQuest (ARQ) apparatus and method of a Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO system are provided. The ARQ method includes decoding, when one or more packets are received, the received packets and trying to detect the decoded packets; and storing, when error is detected from the packets, the corresponding error packet, requesting a transmitter to retransmit N-ary packets from which the error is detected and to transmit (M-N)-ary new packets when the number of the error packets N is smaller than the total number of the transmitted packets M. Accordingly, the error rate of the retransmitted data can be minimized, the number of retransmissions can be decreased, and the overall data transmission rate can be raised.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2011
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Petar Popovski, Hiroyuki Yomo, Elisabeth De Carvalho, Seung-Hoon Park, David Mazzarese, Marcos Daniel Katz, Dong-Seek Park, Sung-Kwon Hong, Hak-Ju Lee
  • Publication number: 20110276826
    Abstract: Methods and devices are provided where when an online parameter change is requested a data transfer unit is stopped, a parameter change is communicated and the data transfer unit is started with changed parameters to generate new data transfer units.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2010
    Publication date: November 10, 2011
    Applicant: Lantiq Beteiligungs- GmbH & Co. KG.
    Inventors: Dietmar SCHOPPMEIER, Gert SCHEDELBECK
  • Publication number: 20110276852
    Abstract: A communication device (100) for communicating in accordance with a hybrid automatic repeat request protocol, the communication device (100) comprising a receiving unit (102) adapted for receiving a communication message including soft-bit values, the soft-bit values representing reliability information for received verification data verifying proper transmission of the communication message, a storage unit (104) adapted for storing the soft-bit values, and a storage management unit (106) adapted for dynamically managing storage of the soft-bit values in the storage unit (104) so that soft-bit values failing to fulfil at least one relevance criteria are not maintained in the storage unit (104).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2008
    Publication date: November 10, 2011
    Inventors: Stefan Mueller-Weinfurtner, Steffen Reinhardt, Udo Wachsmann
  • Patent number: 8055275
    Abstract: Disclosed is an interactive method for reporting location reports by a target UE in an LCS. The method comprises: the target UE receiving a location request initiated by an applicant and reporting a location report to the LCS system after detecting the occurrence of an event triggering a location report; the LCS system returning to the target UE a location report acknowledgement after receiving the location report submitted by the target UE. Further, while submitting the location report to the LCS system, the target UE starting a timer designating a time period and judging whether it has received a location report acknowledgement returned by the LCS system within the designated time period, if yes, stopping the timer designating the time period; otherwise, reporting once again the location report to the LCS system and re-starting the timer designating the time period at the same time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2011
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Xiaoqin Duan
  • Patent number: 8050248
    Abstract: The invention relates to retransmissions in wireless communication systems. It is proposed to reduce the retransmission delays by utilizing feedback associated with a lower protocol layer than the conventional feedback messages of the ARQ functionality. After sending a packet from a transmitter towards a receiver, the transmitter monitors the link for a low-level control signal from the receiver. The low-level control information can e.g. comprise power control commands or be related to link quality indicators. Based on this signal, it is decided whether a retransmission is to take place, e.g. at the transmitter or at an external control unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2011
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Michael Meyer, Reiner Ludwig
  • Patent number: 8051354
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for realizing HARQ in multi-carrier cell, comprising: when distributing high-speed shared resource for UE, Node B distributes the high-speed downlink packet service to N frequencies, and reports the information of the established physical channel, including the frequency information, to RNC and said UE; after Node B establishes the high-speed shared resource for said UE at N frequencies, it establishes N HARQ sub-entities on the HARQ entity built for said UE, each sub-entity independently processes the high-speed downlink packet service at one frequency; correspondingly, said UE also establishes N HARQ sub-entities on the HARQ entity; Node B configures parameters for each HARQ sub-entity and notifies the configuration information to RNC and said UE through upper-level signaling; Node B and UE complete their configuration for each sub-entity of HARQ entity according to the information, and realize the HARQ function in the service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2011
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Zijiang Ma, Zhifeng Ma, Yincheng Zhang, Dapeng Li
  • Publication number: 20110264977
    Abstract: The present invention provides a scalable and reliable feedback suppression method for receiving and transmitting data block. The method comprises receiving at least one initial data packet of the data block which is sent by the transmitter to the multicast group of receivers; and sending at least one NAK packet indicating packet loss to the transmitter by at least one receiver of the multicast group, wherein the at least one NAK packet is sent in a single uplink time slot dedicated to said multicast group of receivers, and wherein the NAK packet is identical for all receivers of said multicast group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2009
    Publication date: October 27, 2011
    Inventors: Jian Feng Chen, Ning Liao, Jun Li
  • Patent number: 8042016
    Abstract: Provided a method and device for efficiently retransmitting packets of which transmissions failed in wired/wireless network including detecting continuity by detecting whether or not a sequence ID of a received packet is continuous with a start sequence ID or an end sequence ID of packets included in reception blocks which are generated in advance of the received packet; depending on the result of the detection, manipulating reception blocks to renew or delete the reception blocks or generate a new reception block by using the sequence ID of the received packet; and transmitting an EBN (Explicit Block NACK) for requesting retransmission of lost packets in units of a block when discontinuity is detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2011
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Noseong Park, Yoonmee Doh, Sun Joong Kim, Cheol Sig Pyo
  • Patent number: 8036110
    Abstract: A base station apparatus communicating with a user equipment terminal in a mobile communication system is disclosed. The base station apparatus includes a determination unit determining whether an uplink signal received from the user equipment terminal is to be retransmitted, a control information generation unit generating control information to permit the user equipment terminal to transmit an uplink signal, and a transmission unit transmitting the control information to the user equipment terminal. Further, in the base station apparatus, when the determination unit determines that the uplink signal is to be retransmitted, the control information generation unit generates the control information so as to include retransmission information indicating that an uplink signal transmitted before from the user equipment terminal is to be retransmitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2011
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Ishii, Atsushi Harada
  • Patent number: 8036166
    Abstract: A method includes, in response to receiving implicit signaling of the radio resource, and in response to a plurality of wireless communication system cell-specific static and semi-static input parameters, determining a plurality of output parameters and allocating radio resources using the determined output parameters. Also disclosed are computer readable storage mediums for storing programs that operate in accordance with the methods, as well as various devices that operate in accordance with the methods and that include the computer readable storage mediums.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2011
    Assignee: Nokia Corporation
    Inventors: Esa Tiirola, Kari Pajukoski, Esa Malkamäki
  • Patent number: 8036135
    Abstract: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate determining when and whether to implement a sender-based data packet scheduling mechanism or a receiver-based data packet scheduling mechanism based on one or mode scheduling factors. For example, a sending node and a receiving node may communicate to permit a determination of which node is more capable of performing the scheduling tasks, and a corresponding scheduling technique may be selected and executed. According to an aspect, an amount of data downloading may be compared to an amount of data uploading at each node, and a sender-based scheduling protocol may be performed when the amount of data uploading is greater than the amount of downloading data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2011
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventor: Anastasios Stamoulis
  • Publication number: 20110246847
    Abstract: Link adaptive retransmission techniques are provided for use in connection with wireless communications between a first wireless communication device and a second wireless communication device. The first wireless communication device generates M packet error information values for the transmit session of a packet based on whether an acknowledgment message or a non-acknowledgment message is received from the second wireless communication device for a transmission and for previously sent transmissions even if less than M transmissions are sent by the first wireless communication device to the second wireless communication device upon completion of the transmit session. The first wireless communication device computes a retransmission fading margin based on the M packet error information values, from which an effective carrier-to-interference-plus-noise ratio is derived for selection of a modulation scheme.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2010
    Publication date: October 6, 2011
    Applicant: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Hang Jin, Li Guo, Hanqing Lou
  • Patent number: 8032809
    Abstract: Provided is an apparatus for detection timeout of each channel, which is a socket connection, in a Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) Offload Engine (TOE) using TCP accelerating hardware, and a method thereof. The timer managing apparatus of the TOE using the TCP accelerating hardware, including: a command register for receiving a command for a retransmission timer or a delayed ACK timer from an embedded processor of the TOE; a finite state machine (FSM) for storing information of a timer in operation by analyzing the command for the retransmission timer or the delayed ACK timer stored in the command register and controlling an entire operation of the timer managing apparatus; and a timeout checker for checking timeout of a timer in operation by using the stored timer information and notifying the timeout to the FSM.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2011
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Chan-ho Park, Kyoung Park, Myung-joon Kim