12th week of 2016 patent applcation highlights part 66 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20160087765 | Synchronization in a Beamforming System - A beamforming system synchronization architecture is proposed to allow a receiving device to synchronize to a transmitting device in time, frequency, and spatial domain in the most challenging situation with very high pathloss. A periodically configured time-frequency resource blocks in which the transmitting device uses the same beamforming weights for its control beam transmission to the receiving device. A pilot signal for each of the control beams is transmitted in each of the periodically configured time-frequency resource blocks. The same synchronization signal can be used for all stages of synchronization including initial coarse synchronization, device and beam identification, and channel estimation for data demodulation. | 2016-03-24 |
20160087766 | SHORT TRAINING FIELD FOR WIFI - A method for generating an orthogonal frequency division multiplex (OFDM) data unit conforming to a first communication protocol for transmission via a communication channel is described. A first field is generated that conforms to a second communication protocol and has an integer number of OFDM symbols L | 2016-03-24 |
20160087767 | ORIGINATOR AND RECIPIENT BASED TRANSMISSIONS IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS - Methods and systems are described for determining a plurality of transmission levels for, e.g., a plurality of time-frequency channels and/or a plurality of tones. The transmission levels may be determined by a first node based on, for example, a received transmission from a second node. The first node may generate a signal, which may be based on, for example, an originator-based pseudorandom sequence, a recipient-based pseudorandom sequence, and/or a complex sinusoid. The first node may transmit the signal as an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) transmission. | 2016-03-24 |
20160087768 | System and Methods for Compress and Forward Relaying Schemes in Joint Signal Processing - Embodiments are provided for a compress and forward relaying scheme in joint multi-cell processing. A plurality of base stations receive similar combinations of user signals from a plurality of users, compress the signals using quantization, and relay the signals over respective backhaul links to a processor in the network for decoding the signal. The processor determines suitable quantization noise levels for the backhaul links according to a weighted sum-rate maximization function for optimizing the quantization noise levels, subject to a backhaul sum capacity constraint on the backhaul links. The determined quantization noise levels are sent to the base stations, which then quantize the received combinations of user signals according to the quantization noise levels and relay the quantized signals to the processor. The quantization is according to a Wyner-Ziv coding or a single user compression algorithm that excludes statistical correlations between the user signals at the base stations. | 2016-03-24 |
20160087769 | METHOD AND TRANSMITTER APPARATUS FOR GENERATING AND TRANSMITTING CHANNEL FEEDBACK AND METHOD AND RECEIVER APPARATUS FOR RECEIVING AND RETRIEVING CHANNEL FEEDBACK - The embodiments of the invention relate to a method and a transmitter apparatus for generating and transmitting channel feedback. The method contains the steps of determining at least one first quality value averaged over a long term time interval for a first transmission channel (TC | 2016-03-24 |
20160087770 | Method, System and Apparatus for Transmitting Data in Carrier Aggregation Manner - A method, a system and an apparatus can be used for transmitting data in a CA manner. A first base station currently serving a user equipment (UE), creates EPS bearers under different component carriers CC Groups for the UE. The UE sets different access stratum entities corresponding to the CC Groups to process data in the process of creating the EPS bearers. The UE determines, when transmitting or receiving data, a corresponding CC Group according to an EPS bearer that bears the data. An access stratum entity corresponding to the CC Group processes the data that needs to be transmitted or received, a site is a first base station currently serving the UE or a second base station currently serving the UE. | 2016-03-24 |
20160087771 | METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING A SOUNDING REFERENCE SIGNAL IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND APPARATUS FOR SAME - A method for transmitting a sounding reference signal (SRS) at a user equipment in a time division duplex (TDD) communication system; and the user equipment are discussed. The method includes receiving downlink control information (DCI) including a request of the SRS transmission. The DCI includes information for receiving downlink data using multiple antennas by the user equipment. The method further includes transmitting the SRS to the base station according to the request of the SRS transmission. | 2016-03-24 |
20160087772 | METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING CONTROL INFORMATION AND A DEVICE THEREFOR - The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. More specifically, the present invention relates to a method for transmitting uplink control information and to a device therefor, and relates to a method comprising the steps of: selecting one uplink control channel resource corresponding to a plurality of HARQ-ACKs, from a plurality of uplink control channel resources; and transmitting a bit value corresponding to the plurality of HARQ-ACKs, by using the selected uplink control channel resource. The present invention also relates to a device for the method. | 2016-03-24 |
20160087773 | BASE STATION, TERMINAL, BAND ALLOCATION METHOD, AND DOWNLINK DATA COMMUNICATION METHOD - Provided are a base station, a terminal, a band allocation method, and a downlink data communication method with which bands can be efficiently allocated. In a base station in which a plurality of unit bands can be allocated to a single communication, when a data receiver acquires terminal capability information transmitted by a terminal in the initial access unit band and the bandwidth available for communication indicated by the terminal capability information can accommodate a plurality of unit bands, a unit band group which includes the initial access unit band as well as the unit bands adjacent thereto is allocated to the terminal, and a communication band movement indication, which indicates the movement of the center frequency in the communication band of the terminal toward the center frequency in the unit band group, is transmitted to the terminal using the initial access unit band. | 2016-03-24 |
20160087774 | Method, system and device for selecting demodulation reference signal pattern information - Disclosed in the present invention are a method, a system and a device for selecting Demodulation Reference Signal (DMRS) pattern information, wherein the method includes that a base station selects DMRS pattern information on the basis of a preset first rule, and informs a terminal of the selected DMRS pattern information; and the base station sends a DMRS to the terminal according to the selected DMRS pattern information. | 2016-03-24 |
20160087775 | ACKNOWLEDGMENT MECHANISMS FOR OFDMA OPERATION - In an example of wireless communications based on orthogonal frequency-division multiple access (OFDMA), an access point may send a downlink frame to multiple stations. In response, some or all of the stations may transmit their respective uplink frames simultaneously after a predetermined time period. The uplink frames from the stations may be aggregated or multiplexed to form a final uplink frame that is received by the access point. Each of the uplink frames from the stations may include at least a legacy header and an acknowledgment frame. While a legacy header occupies the entire channel bandwidth of its uplink frame, an acknowledgment frame occupies a sub-band assigned to its station, where a sub-band is a portion of the channel bandwidth. Other methods, apparatus, and computer-readable media are also disclosed. | 2016-03-24 |
20160087776 | METHOD OF RECEIVING A POINT-TO- MULTIPOINT SERVICE IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The present invention relates to a wireless communication system and user equipment providing wireless communication services, and a method of transmitting and receiving data between a terminal and a base station in an evolved Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) that has evolved from a Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) or a Long Term Evolution (LTE) system, and more particularly, to a method of receiving a point-to-multipoint service data, and it may be an object of the present invention is to provide an improved method of receiving the point-to-multipoint service data in a wireless communication system in order to minimize a data loss by a reception entity. | 2016-03-24 |
20160087777 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SELECTING CHANNEL QUALITY INDICATOR IN COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Disclosed is a method of operating a terminal in a communication system, including measuring channel quality, and transmitting a Channel Quality Indicator (CQI) based on the channel quality measured on the basis of a target BLock Error Rate (BLER), which is determined by using a ratio between efficiency corresponding to a first CQI and efficiency corresponding to a second CQI. | 2016-03-24 |
20160087778 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DISPATCHING A CHANNEL QUALITY INDICATOR FEEDBACK IN MULTICARRIER SYSTEM - In accordance with one or more aspects and corresponding disclosure thereof, various aspects are described in connection with channel quality indicator (CQI) feedback in connection with one or more downlink carriers. An anchor carrier scheme is employed to provide channel quality indicator (CQI) feedback of one or more downlink carriers. An indication is set to identify that a designated uplink carrier is used to convey the CQI feedback. An uplink carrier is selected from a set of uplink carriers as an anchor carrier to convey the CQI feedback. CQI feedback is transmitted for one or more downlink carriers using the designated carrier. | 2016-03-24 |
20160087779 | FULL DUPLEX RADIO COMMUNICATION - A method performed under control of a first device capable of full duplex radio communications may include receiving a first part of a first data from a second device capable of the full duplex radio communications; determining that the second device has transmitted the first data to the first device, based, at least in part, on the received first part of the first data; and transmitting a second data to the second device, while receiving a second part of the first data from the second device. | 2016-03-24 |
20160087780 | CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS FOR MULTIPLEXED ISOLATOR COMMUNICATION - An embodiment of a communication system for transmitting and receiving data across an isolation barrier may include a communication circuit connected to an isolator at a first side of the isolation barrier, the communication circuit having a transmit circuit to drive a first data signal onto the isolator based on input data received by the communication circuit, a receive circuit to receive a second data signal from the isolator and produce output data based on the received second data signal, and a control circuit to control the transmit and receive circuits to provide time division multiplexing of the first and second data signals. The control circuit may transition to a transmit state in which the transmit circuit drives the first data signal onto the isolator from a receive state in which the receive circuit receives the second data signal from the isolator in response to detecting a condition as a function of receiving a predetermined number of bits of the second data signal and passage of a predetermined time period. | 2016-03-24 |
20160087781 | Methods and Apparatuses for Signaling in Dynamic Time Division Duplex Systems - The present invention relates to a method in a UE served by a network node, a method in the network node, the UE, and the network node. The network node is applying dynamic TDD with flexible subframes. The method comprises receiving ( | 2016-03-24 |
20160087782 | MULTI-DROP CHANNELS INCLUDING REFLECTION ENHANCEMENT - A clock channel to couple a transmitter to a plurality of receivers, the clock channel including: a transmission line to be coupled to an input of at least one receiver from among a plurality of receivers, the transmission line including: a reflection portion to reflect a clock signal propagating through the clock channel according to a clock frequency. | 2016-03-24 |
20160087783 | PHASE DETECTING CIRCUIT FOR INTERCHAIN LOCAL OSCILLATOR (LO) DIVIDER PHASE ALIGNMENT - Certain aspects of the present invention provide methods and apparatus for detecting phase shift between signals, such as local oscillating signals in adjacent transceiver paths. One example circuit for phase detection generally includes a mixer configured to mix a first input signal having a first frequency with a second input signal having a second frequency to produce an output signal having frequency components at the sum of and the difference between the first and second frequencies; a filter connected with the mixer and configured to remove one of the frequency components at the sum of the first and second frequencies, thereby leaving a DC component; and an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) (e.g., a comparator) connected with the filter and configured to determine whether the first input signal is in-phase or out-of-phase with the second input signal based on a comparison between the DC component and a reference signal. | 2016-03-24 |
20160087784 | SYNCHRONOUS RESET AND PHASE DETECTING FOR INTERCHAIN LOCAL OSCILLATOR (LO) DIVIDER PHASE ALIGNMENT - Certain aspects of the present invention provide methods and apparatus for synchronizing frequency-divided oscillating signals associated with multiple radio frequency (RF) paths to be in-phase. For certain aspects, a reset pulse is input to synchronization logic for a particular RF path, and this logic retimes the reset pulse to a local synthesizer clock in this RF path. The retimed reset pulse drives the reset input of a local frequency divider for this RF path and is also appropriately delayed, buffered, and then daisy-chained to the synchronization logic in the next RF path to be repeated therein. By appropriately resetting the local frequency dividers using the synchronization logic in this manner, the frequency-divided oscillating signals for the RF paths are synchronized to operate in-phase with one another. | 2016-03-24 |
20160087785 | TIME SYNCHRONIZATION AND CONTROLLED ASYNCHRONIZATION OF REMOTE TRIGGER SIGNALS - A mechanism is disclosed for transmitting pulses onto respective cables so that the pulses arrive at the remote ends of the respective cables in synchronized (or controllably asynchronized) fashion. First, the round-trip time of flight of each cable is measured using speedy delivery pulses, i.e., pulses whose leading edges have exponential shape. Second, a calculation is performed to determine the input delay(s) between the pulses that would produce desired output delay(s). For example, it may be desirable that the pulses arrive at the respective remote ends at the same time, in which case the desired output delay(s) is (are) zero. Third, the same speedy delivery pulses are transmitted onto the respective cables so that the interpulse delay(s) conform to the computed input delay(s). Thus, the desired output delay(s) are achieved at the remote ends of the cables. | 2016-03-24 |
20160087786 | MULTILEVEL MODULATION OPTICAL TRANSCEIVER AND MULTILEVEL MODULATION OPTICAL TRANSMISSION AND RECEPTION METHOD - A multilevel modulation optical transceiver for distributing an OTN frame defined by ITU-T to a plurality of lanes for transmission, the multilevel modulation optical transceiver including: an MLD transmission unit; and a data replication unit, further including a data rearrangement unit arranged at a preceding stage of the MLD transmission unit, for performing data rearrangement processing of replicating, in advance, a frame synchronization pattern of an overhead of the OTN frame before being subjected to the lane rotation processing from a first lane that has the overhead to another lane that does not have the overhead, and of saving a payload to be overwritten with the frame synchronization pattern to a reserved area of the overhead to enable the payload to be restored on a reception side. | 2016-03-24 |
20160087787 | SAMPLE RATE CONVERTER AND METHOD OF CONVERTING SAMPLE RATE - A sample rate converter and a method of converting a sample rate are disclosed herein. The sample rate converter includes a data delay unit, a clock rate conversion unit, a Lagrange polynomial filter unit, a resample position calculation unit, and a resample position compensation unit. The data delay unit delays signals in response to an input clock signal. The clock rate conversion unit converts the sample rate of the signals. The Lagrange polynomial filter unit performs a filtering function on the signals whose rate has been converted. The resample position calculation unit outputs the value (Dint, dfrac) of the resample position of the signals based on a set resample ratio value. The resample position compensation unit corrects the error value of the signals by applying the value (Dint, dfrac) to the signals, and outputs a final signal. | 2016-03-24 |
20160087788 | CALCULATING STATE OF CRYPTOGRAPHIC OBJECTS AND GENERATING SEARCH FILTER FOR QUERYING CRYPTOGRAPHIC OBJECTS - Mechanisms are provided for calculating state of cryptographic objects and generating search filters for querying cryptographic objects based on the given state or on the given combination of unique states. The mechanism to calculate a state of a cryptographic object allows an application or system to resolve the current state of any cryptographic object with the following set of state altering date values: initial date, activation date, deactivation date, compromise date, and destroy date. A processing module may retrieve the state meta-data and calculate the current state of a given cryptographic object. The current state may be, for example, one of the following: unknown, pre-active, active, deactivated, compromised, destroyed, and destroyed-compromised. The mechanism to generate a search filter may generate a search query language (SQL) search filter to query for cryptographic objects using the state altering date values stored for each object. | 2016-03-24 |
20160087789 | Cryptographic Method and Apparatus - A method of formatting data for transmission to another party including the step of incorporating in the data a flag indicative of the absence of data for authentication of the sender. An authentication tag length is also included to permit variable length tags to be used. | 2016-03-24 |
20160087790 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ENCRYPTING DATA - A method for encrypting data based on all-or-nothing encryption. Data to be encrypted and an encryption key are provided. The data is divided into an odd number of blocks, wherein each of the odd number of blocks has the same size. The blocks are encrypted with the encryption key to obtain an intermediate ciphertext that includes the encrypted blocks. The intermediate ciphertext is linearly transformed based on additive contravalence operations to obtain a final ciphertext. | 2016-03-24 |
20160087791 | COMPUTATION OF HASH VALUE FOR A MESSAGE BASED ON RECEIVED PORTIONS OF THE MESSAGE - Hash values for a message may computed by a receiving computer as portions of the message are received. In one embodiment, an intermediate hash value is computed for a portion of the message and a new intermediate hash value computed for each received portion of the message based on a previous intermediate hash value and the contents of the new received portion. When all portions of the message have been received, the final calculated intermediate hash value is the hash value for the entire message. In one embodiment, such a method of calculating a hash value may be based on the SHA-256 hash algorithm or other known or later developed hash algorithms. In one embodiment, the hash calculation for portions of received messages may be applied to keyed-hashing for message authentication (HMAC). | 2016-03-24 |
20160087792 | TECHNIQUES FOR DISTRIBUTING SECRET SHARES - Various embodiments are generally directed to an apparatus, method and other techniques generating one or more polynomial elements for a polynomial function using a node value of a pseudo random number generator tree as a seed value, the polynomial function comprising a secret value and the polynomial elements, and the pseudo random number generator tree at least partially matching at least one other pseudo random number generator tree on another device, generating a plurality of share values based on the one or more polynomial elements and the polynomial function and distributing a share value of the plurality of share values to a device. | 2016-03-24 |
20160087793 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ENFORCING ACCESS CONTROL POLICIES ON DATA - A method for enforcing access control policies on data owned by a plurality of users includes evaluating the access control policies of users, applying a collusion resistant sharing scheme for generating key shares of an encryption key and delegating the key shares to one or more designated users based on a result of the evaluation. The data is securely dispersed by applying an encryption scheme on all parts of the data to be encrypted to produce encrypted data shares. The encryption scheme is provided such that for decryption of the encrypted data, the encryption key and at least a predetermined number of data shares are provided. Each data share is delegated to one or more designated users, and the data shares and the key shares are distributed to the respective designated users. | 2016-03-24 |
20160087794 | COMBINED AUTHENTICATION AND ENCRYPTION - A system and methods are provided for establishing an authenticated and encrypted communication connection between two devices with at most two round-trip communications. During establishment of an initial authenticated, encrypted communication connection (or afterward), a first device (e.g., a server) provides the second device (e.g., a client) with a token (e.g., a challenge) that lives or persists beyond the current connection. After that connection is terminated and the second device initiates a new connection, it uses the token as part of the handshaking process to reduce the necessary round-trip communications to one. | 2016-03-24 |
20160087795 | SECURE MEMORIES USING UNIQUE IDENTIFICATION ELEMENTS - Various embodiments of the invention relate to secure systems and modules, and more particularly, to systems, devices and methods of generating and applying identification elements uniquely associated with memory, memory mapping and encrypted storage. These unique identification elements provide an improved, statistically random source from which keys and memory mappings may be derived. The application of these keys across various architectures result in an improvement in the security of data stored within a system. | 2016-03-24 |
20160087796 | STRING PROCESSOR - According to one embodiment is a string processor configured to output a biased output string having a first output value and a second output value. The string processor is given an unbiased input string of at least two input values. The string processor has a processing unit and a memory device, the memory device stores a code-word set. The code-word set has a plurality of code-words, each code-word having at least one input value, and each output value has at least one corresponding code-word. The processing unit is configured to: compare a comparison string to the code-word set, wherein the comparison string includes an input from the input string; and assign an output value to the output string when the comparison string matches a code-word. The assigned output value is that to which the matched code-word corresponds. An output probability of an output value is defined by the number and length of the code-words corresponding to that output value; and the output probability of the first output value is larger than the output probability of the second output value. | 2016-03-24 |
20160087797 | SECURE REMOTE PASSWORD - Aspects of the present disclosure pertain to system and method of securing mobile devices using virtual certificates at a computer processor. A method may include receiving a request for access to a computer network associated with a computing device to an application associated with a network connected server processor; electronically receiving, at the server processor, a first security key fragment from the computing device; the first security key fragment being paired with a verifier key fragment unknown to the computing device; generating a conditional seed key fragment at the server processor associated with the verifier key fragment; comparing a first hash parameter to a second hash parameter at the server processor; transmitting, at the server processor, a session security key for enabling network access to the application associated with the server processor. | 2016-03-24 |
20160087798 | COMPUTATION OF HASH VALUE FOR A MESSAGE BASED ON RECEIVED PORTIONS OF THE MESSAGE - Hash values for a message may be computed by a receiving computer as portions of the message are received. In one embodiment, an intermediate hash value is computed for a portion of the message and a new intermediate hash value computed for each received portion of the message based on a previous intermediate hash value and the contents of the new received portion. When all portions of the message have been received, the final calculated intermediate hash value is the hash value for the entire message. In one embodiment, such a method of calculating a hash value may be based on the SHA-256 hash algorithm or other known or later developed hash algorithms. In one embodiment, the hash calculation for portions of received messages may be applied to keyed-hashing for message authentication (HMAC). | 2016-03-24 |
20160087799 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO COLLECT DISTRIBUTED USER INFORMATION FOR MEDIA IMPRESSIONS AND SEARCH TERMS - Disclosed examples involve obtaining encrypted identifiers identifying at least one of a device or a user of the device, sending respective ones of the encrypted identifiers to corresponding database proprietors, receiving user information corresponding to the respective ones of the encrypted identifiers from the corresponding database proprietors, and associating the user information with at least one of a search term collected at the device or a media impression logged for media presented at the device. | 2016-03-24 |
20160087800 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SIGNATURE CAPTURE - A method of signature capture for a document uses a portable digital media device with a touch responsive screen on which the signer traces his signature. An URL address is sent to the device and opened in the web browser. The URL address is valid for a limited period of time, and the signature is stored at a webpage associated with the URL address. | 2016-03-24 |
20160087801 | CRYPTOGRAPHICALLY ENFORCING STRICT SEPARATION OF ENVIRONMENTS - A system and method are disclosed for enforcing site or organization localized provisioning policy using cryptography. In an exemplary method, a signing key is used to generate a signature for an application. The signature of the application is verified using a verifying key in order to determine whether the application adheres to the site or organization localized provisioning policy. The verifying may be performed during initialization of a computing device or during runtime of an operating system at the computing device. | 2016-03-24 |
20160087802 | Homogeneous Atomic Pattern for Double, Add, and Subtract Operations for Digital Authentication Using Elliptic Curve Cryptography - A method of performing finite field addition and doubling operations in an elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) authentication scheme as a countermeasure to side-channel attack. The addition and doubling operations are executed using atomic patterns that involve the same sequence and number of operation types, so that the noise consumption and electromagnetic emanation profile of circuitry performing the operations is identical regardless of operation. A subtraction operation using such an atomic pattern is also disclosed. | 2016-03-24 |
20160087803 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VERIFYING VARIED ELECTRONIC SIGNATURE - The technologies relate to a system and method for electronic signature agnostic verification. The method involves receiving a request to verify an electronic signature, thereafter validating an integrity of the electronic signature on the basis of one or more predefined validation parameters and validation fields, then analyzing the validated electronic signature to obtain one or more features of the validated electronic signature, further decoding the analyzed electronic signature using one or more decode parameters, and finally comparing the decoded electronic signature with a predefined value received from one or more sources, to check the correctness of the decoded electronic signature. The technique supports various electronic signature formats and electronic signature standards. | 2016-03-24 |
20160087804 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ISSUING CSR CERTIFICATE FOR VEHICLE-TO-ANYTHING COMMUNICATION - A method for issuing a certificate signing request (CSR) certificate in a vehicle-to-anything (V | 2016-03-24 |
20160087805 | POST-PROCESSING MECHANISM FOR PHYSICALLY UNCLONABLE FUNCTIONS - In accordance with embodiments disclosed herein, there is provided systems and methods for providing a post-processing mechanism for physically unclonable functions. An integrated circuit includes a physically unclonable function (PUF) unit including an adaptive PUF logic. The adaptive PUF logic receives a PUF response having a plurality of bits. The adaptive PUF logic also determines whether a record exists for bit among the plurality of bits in the PUF response. The record includes a stored bit location and a stored bit value corresponding to the stored bit location. The adaptive PUF logic also overrides a bit value of the bit in the PUF response with the stored bit value when it is determined that the record exists for the bit in the PUF response. The bit value of the bit in the PUF response is different from the stored bit value. | 2016-03-24 |
20160087806 | MOBILE DEVICE AUDIO/VIDEO LEGAL APPLICATION SOFTWARE - A tamperproof date/time stamp method that adds a real-time tamperproof date/time stamp to a digital audiovisual file includes generating at least one real-time date/time stamp and applying the date/time stamp to the digital audiovisual file. The real-time date/time stamp can be created through the location-based service in tablet computers. It can also be created through an internal clock running in the background of the application that incorporates the correct date/time from an Internet handshake with a remote server. A system for audio or video recording using a tablet computer includes an audio or video recording software module and a time-stamp software module that generates at least one real-time date/time stamp. | 2016-03-24 |
20160087807 | NETWORK PORT AND ETHERNET DEVICE INTEGRATING POWERED DEVICE AND POWER SOURCING EQUIVALENT IN A PORT - A network port includes a connection port, a PD unit, a PSE unit, a control unit, and a switch unit. The connection port is connected to an external Ethernet port. The control unit determines a type of the external Ethernet port and outputs determination signal correspondingly. The switch unit selectively connects the PSE unit to the connection port, or connects the PD unit to the connection port according to the determination signal output by the control unit. An Ethernet device is also provided. The network port and the Ethernet device integrate PD and PSE in a port, and switch to corresponding PSE mode or PD mode automatically according to the PSE device or PD device. | 2016-03-24 |
20160087808 | FAST HARDWARE SWITCHOVER IN A CONTROL PATH IN A NETWORK ASIC - A multicast destination table contains a list of links. The list of links includes the main link that is currently in use and alternate links to reach the same destination. The links in the list of links are ordered based on a metric. Each of the links is stored as an entry in the multicast destination table. A multicast replication engine traverses the list of links until an enabled link in the list of links is reached, and replicates a packet according to data associated with the enabled link in the list of links. | 2016-03-24 |
20160087809 | HIERARCHICAL HARDWARE LINKED LIST APPROACH FOR MULTICAST REPLICATION ENGINE IN A NETWORK ASIC - A multicast rule is represented in a hierarchical linked list with N tiers. Each tier or level in the hierarchical linked list corresponds to a network layer of a network stack that requires replication. Redundant groups in each tier are eliminated such that the groups in each tier are stored exactly once in a replication table. A multicast replication engine traverses the hierarchical linked list and replicates a packet according to each node in the hierarchical linked list. | 2016-03-24 |
20160087810 | MBMS BEARER ENHANCEMENTS FOR PUSH TO TALK OR PUSH TO EVERYTHING VIA EMBMS - A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for wireless communication are provided. The apparatus may be a UE that performs a PTT/PTX call setup for communication via MBMS. In a first configuration, the UE sets up a unicast bearer with an eNB, and sends group call setup signaling to the eNB while setting up the unicast bearer. In a second configuration, the UE sets up a unicast bearer with an eNB, and receives group call setup signaling from the eNB while setting up the unicast bearer. In a third configuration, the UE receives a group page while in an RRC idle state, and receives group call setup signaling based on information in the group page. | 2016-03-24 |
20160087811 | METHODS AND DEVICES OF ACCESSING WIRELESS NETWORK - The present disclosure relates to methods and devices of accessing a wireless network. The method of accessing a wireless network in a first terminal device includes: detecting a target terminal device waiting access a target wireless network after the first terminal device accesses the target wireless network; generating a plurality of multicast addresses according to access information of the target wireless network; and sending a multicast packet to each of the plurality of multicast addresses, wherein the multicast packet is indicative of the access information and is received by the target terminal device so as to access the target wireless network. | 2016-03-24 |
20160087812 | MAIN ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR COMMUNICATING WITHIN A NETWORK AND METHOD FOR OPERATING A MAIN ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR COMMUNICATING WITHIN THE NETWORK - The present invention relates to a main electronic device for communicating within a network comprising an interface for enabling communication within the network and a controller for sending polling messages via the network to logical addresses via said interface in order to request information from at least one further electronic device. | 2016-03-24 |
20160087813 | WIRELESS DEVICE AND INTERFACE MODULE - An interface module according to one aspect of the invention includes an interface and a local communication device. The interface, which is connected to a field device, receives a first wireless signal from the field device. The local communication device wirelessly transmits the first signal to a wireless module by first local communications. The local communication device receives, from the wireless module by second local communications, a second signal destined for the field device that is wirelessly transmitted from an external device and wirelessly received by the wireless device. The interface device outputs the second signal to the field device. | 2016-03-24 |
20160087814 | WIRELESS-COMMUNICATION QUALITY-INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A PLC network and a wireless network are asynchronous to each other, and data communication between the PLC network and the wireless network is performed via a gateway station. A wireless-communication quality-information processing device includes a reception unit, a wireless-communication quality-information generation unit, and a communication processing unit. The reception unit receives a wireless communication frame transmitted from a wireless slave station of the wireless network. The wireless-communication quality-information generation unit generates wireless-communication quality information indicating quality of wireless communication in the wireless network from characteristic information included in the received wireless communication frame. The communication processing unit determines whether to reflect data included in the wireless communication frame to the PLC network as new data by referring to the wireless-communication quality information. | 2016-03-24 |
20160087815 | METHOD OF OPERATING A RECEIVER AND A RECEIVER - In one embodiment, the method includes determining, at a receiver, a total average received power over N resource elements and the L antennas, where N and L are integers greater than or equal to 1. The method further includes determining, at the receiver, a first bias in a first estimate of average received power for a received desired signal based on the determined total average received power; and generating, at the receiver, a first refined estimate of the average received power for the received desired signal based on the first estimate and the determined first bias. | 2016-03-24 |
20160087816 | ENHANCED RECEIVER EQUALIZATION - A receiver includes an analog-to-digital converter module configured to receive a test bit stream via a transmission channel and to provide a channel loss value of the transmission channel based on the test bit stream, a continuous time linear equalization module configured to receive a data bit stream via the transmission channel and to provide an equalized data bit stream based on an equalization setting, and a control module configured to set the equalization setting such that the CTLE module provides an equalization level to compensate for the channel loss value. | 2016-03-24 |
20160087817 | DECISION FEEDBACK EQUALIZER SUMMATION CIRCUIT - A circuit includes a summation circuit for receiving an input data signal and a feedback signal including a previous data bit. The summation circuit is configured to output a conditioned input data signal to a clock and data recovery circuit. A first flip-flop is coupled to an output of the summation circuit and is configured to receive a first set of bits of the conditioned input data signal and a first clock signal having a frequency that is less than a frequency at which the input data signal is received by the first summation circuit. A second flip-flop is coupled to the output of the summation circuit and is configured to receive a second set of bits of the conditioned input data signal and a second clock signal having a frequency that is less than the frequency at which the input data signal is received by the first summation circuit. | 2016-03-24 |
20160087818 | Partial Response Equalizer and Related Method - A multi-phase partial response receiver supports various incoming data rates by sampling PrDFE output values at a selected one of at least two clock phases. The receiver includes a calibration circuit that performs a timing analysis of critical data paths in the circuit, and this analysis is then used to select the particular clock phase used to latch the output values. These techniques permit the multiplexer outputs from for each phase of the partial response receiver to directly drive selection of a multiplexer for the ensuing phase, i.e., by avoiding regions of instability or uncertainty in the respective multiplexer outputs. | 2016-03-24 |
20160087819 | EQUALIZING TRANSMITTER AND METHOD OF OPERATION - A transmitter for providing channel equalization that includes a first driver and second driver having a high pass filter. The first driver generates a first output signal representing a digital input signal. The second driver generates a second output signal representing a high pass filtered version of the digital input signal. The first and second output signals are summed to provide a third output signal that is channel equalized for transmission over a channel. | 2016-03-24 |
20160087820 | JOINT PRECODING AND MULTIVARIATE BACKHAUL COMPRESSION FOR THE DOWNLINK OF CLOUD RADIO ACCESS NETWORKS - Signals transmitted on the backhaul links of a cloud radio access network may be compressed using joint compression encoding. Joint compression encoding may be performed using a successive estimation-compression architecture. Joint compression encoding may include designing preceding matrices that may be used with signal compression. Joint compression encoding may be applied to signals transmitted on the downlink of the cloud radio access network. One or more baseband signals to be delivered over the backhaul links may be jointly compressed using multivariate compression. Multivariate compression may be implemented using successive compression based on a sequence of minimum mean squared error (MMSE) estimations and per BS compression. | 2016-03-24 |
20160087821 | RECEIVER WITH DUOBINARY MODE OF OPERATION - An integrated circuit is disclosed that includes a receiver circuit to receive duobinary data symbols from a first signaling lane. The receiver circuit includes sampling circuitry to determine symbol state, and a duobinary decoder. The duobinary decoder is coupled to the sampling circuitry and converts the detected states to a PAM2 coded symbol stream. A decision-feedback equalizer (DFE) is provided that has inputs coupled to the sampling circuitry in parallel with the duobinary decoder. The DFE cooperates with the sampling circuitry to form a feedback path, such that the duobinary decoder is external to the feedback path. | 2016-03-24 |
20160087822 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING A MULTI-LEVEL PSEUDO-RANDOM TEST SIGNAL - The present invention relates to a method for generating multi-level PRBS patterns for testing purposes, wherein the method includes the steps of providing a binary PRBS signal with a binary bit pattern sequence and mapping each bit of the binary bit pattern sequence to a symbol of a multilevel output. | 2016-03-24 |
20160087823 | NON-RECIPROCAL COMPONENTS WITH BALANCED DISTRIBUTEDLY MODULATED CAPACITORS (DMC) - A non-reciprocal radio frequency transceiver front end utilizing multiple time-varying transmission lines (TVTLs) implemented using distributed modulated capacitors (DMC) to exploit time-varying properties of transmission line structures to isolate the transmit and receive signals. The TVTLs are coupled at an input side to an antenna and ground through a first 90 degree coupler, and the outputs of the TVTLs are coupled through a second 90 degree coupler for connection to a receiver and transmit circuit, respectively. The apparatus allows simultaneously operating a transmitter and receiver sharing a single antenna (or single antenna array). | 2016-03-24 |
20160087824 | Phase-Domain Digitizer - A phase-domain delta-sigma (ΔΣ) modulator in a phase digitizer determines a demodulated phase error based on a phase-modulated frequency signal, in which a carrier frequency is modulated with a fundamental frequency and an associated phase, and a selected one of a set of reference signals, where the demodulated phase error represents a difference between the phase and a reference phase of the selected one of the set of reference signals. Moreover, a digital filter in the phase-domain ΔΣ modulator filters the demodulated phase error. Furthermore, a latch in the phase-domain ΔΣ modulator provides a bit stream by sampling one or more bits of the filtered demodulated phase error, where an average value of the bit stream represents the phase. Next, control logic in the phase-domain ΔΣ modulator selects the one of the set of reference signals. | 2016-03-24 |
20160087825 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR EARLY DETECTION OF HIGH EFFICIENCY WIRELESS PACKETS IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION - An apparatus for wireless communication is provided. The apparatus includes a receiver configured to receive a packet including a first signal field and a second signal field, the first signal field including a single orthogonal frequency division (OFD) symbol including a cyclic redundancy check (CRC) field, a basic service set (BSS) identification, and a tail. The apparatus further includes a processor configured to determine a communication protocol of the packet based on the CRC field. | 2016-03-24 |
20160087826 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND DEVICES FOR IDENTIFYING Wi-Fi SIGNALS FOR SPATIAL REUSE - Example systems, methods, and devices for differentiating Wi-Fi signals for spatial reuse are discussed. More specifically, a communication station arranged for Clear Channel Assessment (CCA) channel status reporting, an access point, and communication methodologies therebetween are disclosed. Methods, apparatus, and systems described herein can be applied to 802.11ax or any other wireless standard. | 2016-03-24 |
20160087827 | RANGE EXTENSION MODE FOR WIFI - A first plurality of OFDM symbols for a first field of a preamble to be included in a data unit that conforms to a first communication protocol are generated, wherein each OFDM symbol of the first plurality of OFDM symbols corresponds to a first long training sequence that is obtained at least by multiplying a predetermined sequence with a second long training sequence defined by a second communication protocol. A first plurality of modified constellation symbols are generated, including multiplying the first plurality of constellation symbols by the predetermined sequence. A second plurality of OFDM symbols are generated to include the first plurality of modified constellation symbols. The preamble is generated to include the first plurality of OFDM symbols for the first field and the second plurality of OFDM symbols for the second field, and the data unit to include at least the preamble. | 2016-03-24 |
20160087828 | METHOD OF TRANSMITTING REFERENCE SIGNAL AND TRANSMITTER USING THE SAME - A method and apparatus of transmitting a reference signal in a wireless communication system is provided. A user equipment determines a cell identifier of a cell, and receives a reference signal sequence from the cell. The reference signal sequence is obtained based on 2N+1, where N denotes the cell identifier of the cell. A base station generates the reference signal sequence based on 2N+1, and transmits the reference signal sequence. | 2016-03-24 |
20160087829 | COMMON BROADCAST CHANNEL LOW PAPR SIGNALING IN MASSIVE MIMO SYSTEMS - Methods and devices for common channel low PAPR signaling are disclosed having a power amplifier set configured to transmit broad-beam signals over a frequency band narrower than the available bandwidth and modulated with a low PAPR sequence. A second power amplifier set may be configured to transmit narrow-beam unicast signals. | 2016-03-24 |
20160087830 | Multi-Mode Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing Transmitter for Highly-Spectrally-Efficient Communications - A transmitter may comprise a symbol mapper circuit and operate in at least two modes. In a first mode, the number of symbols output by the mapper circuit per orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbol transmitted by said transmitter may be greater than the number of data-carrying subcarriers used to transmit the OFDM symbol. In a second mode, the number of symbols output by said mapper circuit per orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbol transmitted by said transmitter is less than or equal to the number of data-carrying subcarriers used to transmit said OFDM symbol. The symbols output by the symbol mapper circuit may be N-QAM symbols. While the circuitry operates in the first mode, the symbols output by the mapper may be converted to physical subcarrier values via filtering and decimation prior to being input to an IFFT circuit. | 2016-03-24 |
20160087831 | PREDICTING ONE OR MORE SYSTEM LOSS EVENTS AND PROACTIVE SYSTEM RECOVERY - Certain aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communications and, more particularly, to predicting a system loss event and/or proactive system recovery. Aspects of the present disclosure relate to techniques and apparatus for system loss event (e.g., radio link failure event) geo-coding and proactive system recovery. According to certain aspects, a user equipment (UE) may generate and store information about one or more system loss events associated with the UE. The UE may then predict one or more other system loss events associated with the UE based on this information and take action, based on the prediction to continue communication of the UE. | 2016-03-24 |
20160087832 | Iterative Algorithm for Rapid Fault Isolation - Methods, systems, and apparatus for detecting fault are disclosed. In one aspect, a signal having an initial pulse width is transmitted on a telecommunication line. A fault location index is identified based on at least one fluctuating echo tap of the signal. An updated pulse width is determined based on the initial pulse width and the fault location index. The fault location index is updated based on at least one fluctuating echo tap of an updated signal having the updated pulse width. | 2016-03-24 |
20160087833 | SERVER CLUSTERING IN MOBILE COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT - A clustered server system and a method for maintaining a server cluster involve a plurality of servers that collectively form a server cluster. A master database stores configuration information concerning the server cluster. Each server stores a local copy of the configuration information in a file system. The servers automatically update their respective file system using a database copy of the configuration information if the configuration information changes in the database. | 2016-03-24 |
20160087834 | Smart Home System and Control Method Therefor - Provided are a smart home system and control method therefor, the system comprising: a client ( | 2016-03-24 |
20160087835 | Methods and Apparatus to Provision Cloud Computing Network Elements - Methods and apparatus to provision cloud computing network elements are disclosed. A disclosed example method includes receiving a selection of a cloud networking template from a client, wherein the cloud networking template includes a data center connector type and a wide area network connector type, configuring a virtual machine on a host server based on the cloud networking template, configuring a data center connector based on the data center connector type, configuring a wide area network connector based on the wide area network connector type, and coupling the wide area network connector to the data center connector and coupling the data center connector to the virtual machine within the host server to enable the client to access the virtual machine. | 2016-03-24 |
20160087836 | SEAMLESS MOVEMENT BETWEEN PHONE AND PC WITH REGARD TO APPLICATIONS, DISPLAY, INFORMATION TRANSFER OR SWAPPING ACTIVE DEVICE - It would be beneficial to allow one or more of information, applications, desktops, and in general any information to be shared between a computer and a communications device. For example, it would be useful to be able to move a presentation from a computer to a mobile communications device. Some solutions attempt to address this by requiring a user to load the information on a laptop, USB key, burn it to an optical disk or the like, and then “open” the information on another device located at the remote destination. In one embodiment, through the use of one or more of virtualization and content translation, any information and/or applications can be exchanged between a computer and a communications device. More specifically, one embodiment utilizes metadata in conjunction with a virtualization environment to allow the exchange of information and/or applications between a personal computer and a communications device, or vice versa. | 2016-03-24 |
20160087837 | DEVICE FOR MANAGING AND CONFIGURING FIELD DEVICES IN AN AUTOMATION INSTALLATION - A device for managing and configuring field devices in an automation installation with a configuration tool that is designed to physically detect a field device in the automation installation, to logically incorporate it into the automation installation and to configure it in the automation installation, the configuration tool communicating with the field devices and ascertaining the device status thereof on a regular cycle. In order to visualize the validity of a device status ascertained in the past, each field device may have, in the configuration tool, an associated device status symbol whose appearance changes dynamically on the basis of the time elapsed (t | 2016-03-24 |
20160087838 | RETAIL TRIGGERED DEVICE CONFIGURATION SETUP - The present disclosure relates to retail triggered device configuration setup. Specifically, various techniques and systems are provided for efficient setup of a purchased device on a network using information generated by a retailer at the point of sale. More specifically, exemplary embodiments of the present invention include methods and systems for receiving, at a computing device connected to an established network device on a network, a transaction communication including an indication that a new network device has been acquired; transmitting data to the established network device, wherein the data includes identification information associated with the new network device; receiving a join query, wherein the join query includes a request to authorize the new network device to join a network; and transmitting a response to the join query, wherein the response includes an authorization for the new network device to join the network. | 2016-03-24 |
20160087839 | NETWORK GROUPING SYSTEM AND THE NETWORK GROUPING METHOD THEREOF - A network grouping system and a network grouping method thereof are provided. The network grouping system includes a controlling server and a connecting server. The connecting server connects to the controlling server via a switch. The connecting server embeds a grouping identifier into a network packet, and transmits the network packet to the controlling server via the switch. The controlling server retrieves the grouping identifier from the network packet, and creates a grouping configuration according to the grouping identifier. The grouping configuration records a matching relation of the grouping identifier with the connecting server. The controlling server further transmits the grouping configuration to the switch so that the switch passes on network packets according to the grouping configuration. | 2016-03-24 |
20160087840 | USING VIRTUAL NETWORKING DEVICES TO MANAGE NETWORK CONFIGURATION - Techniques are described for providing managed virtual computer networks that may have a configured logical network topology with one or more virtual networking devices, with corresponding networking functionality provided for communications between multiple computing nodes of the virtual computer network by emulating functionality that would be provided by the networking devices if they were physically present. In some situations, the emulating of networking device functionality includes receiving routing communications directed to the networking devices and using included routing information to update the configured network topology for the managed computer network. In addition, the techniques may further include supporting interactions with devices that are external to the virtual computer network, including remote physical networking devices that are part of a remote computer network configured to interoperate with the virtual computer network, and/or specialized network devices that are accessible via a substrate network on which the virtual computer network is overlaid. | 2016-03-24 |
20160087841 | BIFURCATED CONTROL AND MANAGEMENT PLANES FOR FIBER CHANNEL NETWORKS - Techniques are provided for bifurcating database information that might otherwise be replicated on each switch in a switched fabric of a Storage Area Network (SAN). The database is divided into a control plane database that comprises mostly switch specific data and a central management database that comprises user device configurations and device profiles. The control plane database includes information such as name server and zone server information, for those devices that may locally log into the switched fabric via a given switch, and those remote devices that are zoned with those local devices and that may log into the switched fabric via another switch. The central management database includes global information for the switched fabric and device profile information (e.g., login interface, Virtual SAN membership, device aliasing, etc.) for devices that have access to the switched fabric and that can also be requested by the various switches in the switched fabric. | 2016-03-24 |
20160087842 | METHOD OF OPERATING A COMMUNICATION NETWORK - A method of operating a communication network comprising a verification component is provided, wherein the method comprises achieving at the verification component a verification plan defining a verification process associated with a specific network operation; and executing the verification plan after deploying the specific network operation. | 2016-03-24 |
20160087843 | HOST PROFILES IN A STORAGE AREA NETWORK (SAN) ARCHITECTURE - Reference profiles for managing configurations of host machines in a cluster may include a subprofile that specifies a boot LUN in a SAN storage architecture. Processing of a reference profile includes properly resolving the boot LUN specified in the reference profile and the actual boot LUN used in a target host machine. | 2016-03-24 |
20160087844 | DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING SYSTEM - Aspects of the present disclosure are directed toward a distributed computing system in which host computing devices host computing services that are only accessible by client computing devices and other computing services associated with a particular computing channel for a line-of-business and in which host computing devices host computing services that are accessible by client computing devices and other computing services across lines of business. The computing services are configured according to a common application interface (API) that provides a modular configuration allowing the computing services to be deployed across multiple computing channels for multiple lines-of-business respectively. Aspects of the present disclosure are also directed toward an automated deployment system that is configured to automatically deploy computing services at a computing platform based on a computing platform template and one or more computing service templates. | 2016-03-24 |
20160087845 | SUPPORT FOR CONVERGED FIBER CHANNEL OVER ETHERNET (FCOE) TRAFFIC ON SOFTWARE DEFINED NETWORKS (SDNS) - In one embodiment, a system includes a software defined network (SDN) controller connected to SDN-capable switch(es), the SDN controller being configured to communicate with and program the SDN-capable switches, wherein each of the SDN-capable switches is configured to communicate with the SDN controller, one or more fiber channel forwarders (FCFs) connected to the SDN-capable switches, storage area network (SAN) fabric(s), and local area network (LAN) fabric(s), and at least one end node connected directly or indirectly to the SDN-capable switches and/or the one or more FCFs, wherein the SDN controller is configured to collect information from the one or more FCFs that corresponds with each of the one or more FCFs via fiber channel initialization protocol (FIP) advertisement frames, and create and manage a FCF database, the FCF database including the information that corresponds with each of the one or more FCFs. | 2016-03-24 |
20160087846 | VIRTUAL OPTICAL NETWORK PROVISIONING BASED ON MAPPING CHOICES AND PATTERNS - Virtual optical network (VON) provisioning using implicit encoding of mapping constraints may include evaluating mapping choices to exclude certain mapping patterns before evaluating the mapping patterns. For each virtual node in a VON request, candidate physical nodes may be assigned and evaluated for compliance with constraints associated with the VON request. The constraints may be expanded to allow for various selection criteria for the VON request. Multiple VON requests may be simultaneously evaluated to find optimal solutions for the physical network. | 2016-03-24 |
20160087847 | MECHANISM FOR MANAGEMENT CONTROLLERS TO LEARN THE CONTROL PLANE HIERARCHY IN A DATA CENTER ENVIRONMENT - Mechanisms to enable management controllers to learn the control plane hierarchy in data center environments. The data center is configured in a physical hierarchy including multiple pods, racks, trays, and sleds and associated switches. Management controllers at various levels in a control plane hierarchy and associated with switches in the physical hierarchy are configured to add their IP addresses to DHCP (Dynamic Host Control Protocol) responses that are generated by a DCHP server in response to DCHP requests for IP address requests initiated by DHCP clients including manageability controllers, compute nodes and storage nodes in the data center. As the DCHP response traverses each of multiple switches along a forwarding path from the DCHP server to the DHCP client, an IP address of the manageability controller associated with the switch is inserted. Upon receipt at the DHCP client, the inserted IP addresses are extracted and used to automate learning of the control plane hierarchy. | 2016-03-24 |
20160087848 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMPROVING THE PERFORMANCE OF COLLECTIVE OPERATIONS IN HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING - System, method, and apparatus for improving the performance of collective operations in High Performance Computing (HPC). Compute nodes in a networked HPC environment form collective groups to perform collective operations. A spanning tree is formed including the compute nodes and switches and links used to interconnect the compute nodes, wherein the spanning tree is configured such that there is only a single route between any pair of nodes in the tree. The compute nodes implement processes for performing the collective operations, which includes exchanging messages between processes executing on other compute nodes, wherein the messages contain indicia identifying collective operations they belong to. Each switch is configured to implement message forwarding operations for its portion of the spanning tree. Each of the nodes in the spanning tree implements a ratcheted cyclical state machine that is used for synchronizing collective operations, along with status messages that are exchanged between nodes. Transaction IDs are also used to detect out-of-order and lost messages. | 2016-03-24 |
20160087849 | PLANNING AND RECONFIGURING A MULTILAYER NETWORK - A device may receive information that identifies an initial network topology, to be used to reconfigure a network. The initial network topology may describe an optical layer and an internet protocol layer of the network. The internet protocol layer of the network may include an internet protocol node. The device may determine a reconfiguration criterion associated with the initial network topology. The device may determine a reconfiguration technique to be used to reconfigure the network. The device may perform the reconfiguration technique. The device may generate a reconfigured network topology based on performing the reconfiguration technique. The reconfigured network topology may describe a reconfigured internet protocol layer and a reconfigured optical layer. The reconfigured internet protocol layer may be reconfigured based on the optical layer. The reconfigured network topology may be reconfigured based on the initial network topology. The device may provide the reconfigured network topology. | 2016-03-24 |
20160087850 | MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - According to an embodiment, a management apparatus includes a receiver, a first calculator, and a second calculator. The receiver is configured to receive existence information from communication apparatuses, the information probabilistically indicating characteristics of identification information of other communication apparatuses detected by a corresponding communication apparatus. The first calculator is configured to calculate, for each communication apparatus, some of the identification information, as a first set indicating a set of other communication apparatuses detectable by the communication apparatuse. The second calculator is configured to calculate, for each communication apparatus, a second set with a smaller number of false positives than the corresponding first set, as existence probability information, based on the existence information and the first set. The existence probability information indicates a probability of existence of a link between the communication apparatus and the other communication apparatus. | 2016-03-24 |
20160087851 | REAL-TIME NETWORK DATA MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD - One or more techniques and/or systems are disclosed for real-time data management on a computing network. A user can be provided with an ability to identify information about data, and updates to data, disposed on a network, such as a location of the data, a type of data, and a state of the data, in real-time. A processor component may be able to locally identify target records, and a monitor component can track the target records disposed in files on one or more devices in the network. Metadata about identified records can be indexed and stored in data management component. State changes on the targeted devices in the network can be identified in real-time and the appropriate updates can be provided to a user. A display component can provide a user with real-time information about target records as well as desired classifications and risk scores for targeted data and/or devices. | 2016-03-24 |
20160087852 | DYNAMIC MANAGEMENT OF RESTFUL ENDPOINTS - Embodiments of the present invention disclose methods, systems, and program products for dynamically managing RESTful endpoints. In one embodiment, an application server provides dynamic management of RESTful endpoint, including the ability to re-use the same resource information for multiple endpoints across multiple routers, allowing for applications aliases or sharing routing capability between applications. Yet other embodiments of the present invention can provide a high availability application server system and/or failover support for routers and resources, as well as the ability to remotely add new containers and resources to the application server. | 2016-03-24 |
20160087853 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INTEGRATED USER INTERFACE FOR ELECTRONIC DEVICES - Various aspects of a system and a method for integrated user interface for electronic devices are disclosed. The system may include a first electronic device. The first electronic device receives metadata from a second electronic device. The first electronic device generates an integrated user interface (UI) corresponding to the first electronic device and the second electronic device based on received metadata. The received metadata comprises a current set of available operations for controlling the first and/or second electronic device. The first electronic device renders the generated integrated UI on a display of the first electronic device. | 2016-03-24 |
20160087854 | MANAGING CHANGE EVENTS FOR DEVICES IN AN ENTERPRISE SYSTEM - Techniques are disclosed for communicating to remote devices information about change events related to changes in access to an enterprise system. A device access management system may facilitate communication about a change event to the remote devices. Information about a change event may be stored in a change event object based on the type of change event (e.g., a policy change, an application change, and a settings change). A change event queue may persistently store information corresponding to change events. One or more computing nodes may be scheduled to execute an action process for each change event based on the type of the change event. A computing node may communicate information (e.g., an instruction to implement adjust access) about a change event to remote devices. A change event may persist on the queue until all remote devices are notified about the change event. | 2016-03-24 |
20160087855 | REMOTE MANAGEMENT OF APPLICATION SETTINGS - In various implementations, a computer-implemented method for remotely managing settings of applications includes receiving a network communication from a managed device, the received network communication including a client-side hash value. The method further includes identifying settings for an application on the managed device in response to the receiving of the network communication, where the identified settings include configuration instructions for the application. Based on a comparison between the received client-side hash value and a server-side hash value that corresponds to the identified settings, at least some of the identified settings are transmitted to the managed device. The transmitting of the at least some of the identified settings can be based on the comparison indicating a mismatch between the received client-side hash value and the server-side hash value. The method may also include completing processing of the received network communication after the transmitting of the at least some of the identified settings. | 2016-03-24 |
20160087856 | Resource Budget Determination for Communications Network - Resources ( | 2016-03-24 |
20160087857 | METHODS, NETWORK NODES, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR PROVIDING COST-INFORMATION FROM MULTIPLE BALANCES - A method performed in a first network node, includes the first network node receiving, from a second network node, a request specifying a user account and a media content. The method further includes the first network node retrieving, from a database, a database object associated with the user account, the database object including a first parameter associated with a non-monetary balance. The method further includes the first network node retrieving, from the database, at least one predefined rule associated with the media content. The method further includes the first network node determining an advice of charge using the database object and the at least one predefined rule, the advice of charge specifying a deduction from the non-monetary balance for downloading the media content. The method also includes the first network node transmitting the advice of charge to the second network node. | 2016-03-24 |
20160087858 | Systems and Methods for Providing Trusted Service Management Services - Embodiments of the invention provide systems and methods for providing trusted service management services. According to one embodiment, a system can include a processor operable to execute computer-executable instructions to: generate a message generated based on a common messaging standard; transmit the message via a common gateway and corresponding interface; receiving, via the common gateway and corresponding interface, a response generated based on the common messaging standard; and process the response based on the common messaging standard. | 2016-03-24 |
20160087859 | MONITOR A DATA CENTER INFRASTRUCTURE - A method and apparatus for monitoring a data center infrastructure are described. In one embodiment, the method comprises collecting traffic data from the network, collecting storage I/O performance information, collecting central processing unit (CPU) and memory usage information, determining a virtual infrastructure of the network, compute and storage comprising virtual entities; and grouping the traffic data based at least on the virtual entities. | 2016-03-24 |
20160087860 | APPLICATION TOPOLOGY BASED ON NETWORK TRAFFIC - Methods and apparatuses for generating an application topology are provided. A processor determines a first application profile based, at least in part, on a first network packet. A processor determines a second application profile based, at least in part, on a second network packet. A processor determines a link between a first application and a second application based, at least in part, on address information of the first network packet. A processor generates a topology comprising the first and second application profiles based, at least in part, on the link, the first application profile and the second application profile. A processor updates the first and second application profiles based, at least in part, on matching the first application profile and second application profile with an application deployment template. | 2016-03-24 |
20160087861 | INFRASTRUCTURE PERFORMANCE MONITORING - A method and apparatus for infrastructure performance monitoring are described. In one embodiment, the method comprises monitoring virtual application performance, identifying degradation in the application performance, and correlating the degradation to one or more of virtual and physical infrastructure components. | 2016-03-24 |
20160087862 | IDENTIFYING AND TRANSMITTING PERFORMANCE INFORMATION - Performance information is gathered on a client, and indicates the performance of a hosted service with respect to the client. A cross origin resource sharing system shares the performance information with an analysis system, that is separate from the hosting service. | 2016-03-24 |
20160087863 | Infering Management State via Secondary State - Determining whether or not a device is managed. A method includes, as part of running a particular application, determining whether or not certain state and/or data (such as a particular specialized font, a particular certificate chain, or particular xml policy setting) is present on the device. When the certain state and/or data is present on the device, the method includes determining that the device is managed, otherwise, determining that the device is not managed. | 2016-03-24 |
20160087864 | DSL NEIGHBORHOOD DIAGNOSTICS - A Device Abstraction Proxy (DAP) interface receives a request for operational data relating to Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) services provided to a plurality of DSL terminals in a DSL network by two or more providers. The DAP interface receives, in response to the request, the operational data, including operational data for a plurality of DSL lines coupled to the plurality of DSL terminals. The DAP then identifies at least two of the plurality of DSL lines as belonging to a common neighborhood of DSL lines, each of the at least two of the plurality of DSL lines respectively associated with at least two of the plurality of DSL terminals being provided the DSL services by different providers. Embodiments correlate a condition and/or a performance of one of the at least two DSL lines identified as belonging to the common neighborhood with a condition and/or performance of another one of the at least two DSL lines identified as belonging to the common neighborhood. | 2016-03-24 |