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 List of recent Congestion-related patents |
03/05/15
20150065819 |   Multiple vector fluid localization
A differential or relative measurement between an orthogonal measurement vector and another measurement vector can be used to determine the location where fluid accumulation is occurring or the local change in such fluid accumulation. This can help diagnose or treat infection or hematoma or seroma at a pocket of an implanted cardiac rhythm management device, other implanted medical device, or prosthesis.
Cardiac Pacemakers, Inc. |
03/05/15
20150065133 |  Cell broadcast for smart traffic steering across radio technologies with improved radio efficiency
Traffic associated with user equipment that are coupled to a first radio access network is steered to a second radio access network based on an adaptable signal strength criterion. The signal strength criterion is related to real-time network load conditions of the first radio access network and can be broadcasted from a serving access point to the user equipment.
At&t Intellectual Property I, L.p. |
03/05/15
20150063199 |  Method for mobile relay node obtaining ta information, mobile relay node switching, updating location of user location and paging user
The present invention provides a method for rn switching and location updating, a method for updating location of ue and a method for paging ue. Application of the methods of the present invention, can present each ue under the relay from initiating a tracking area update process, reduce network congestion, and save system sources..
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. |
03/05/15
20150063152 |  Client-side inference of wireless network states
A system configured to generate a utilization metric using a plurality of client devices coupled to a network server is disclosed. The system includes a channel condition monitor and a probe packet coordinator located on each client device, the channel condition monitor being configured to gather channel information, the probe packet coordinator being configured to format a packet train containing the channel information, the probe packet coordinator being configured to schedule or control the transmission timing of the packet train.
Tube, Inc. |
03/05/15
20150063121 |  Load balancing among alternative paths
A method and a transmitting node for redirecting of a flow of data packets to a path of alternative paths, and a method and a receiving node for enabling redirection of a flow of data packets to a path of alternative paths, where data packets are marked with a value indicating the importance of the data packets. The method for directing directs one or more flows of data packets for the alternative paths, wherein data packets marked with a higher value are prioritized over data packets marked with a lower value.
Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ) |
03/05/15
20150063116 |  Network communication apparatus and preferential band limitation of transfer frame
In a network communication apparatus, transfer and discard processing is realized for each transfer frame having a priority, and a band limitation is carried out to prevent the congestion of a transfer destination apparatus. Specifically, a bucket is provided for every priority, and tokens of an amount determined based on the priority are supplemented.
Nec Corporation |
03/05/15
20150063104 |  User equipment and reducing delay in a radio access network
Embodiments of user equipment and methods for reducing delay in a radio-access network (ran) are generally described herein. Embodiments disclosed herein provide enhancements that may be applicable to a 3gpp lte ran for reducing delay that may be particularly beneficial for real-time over-the-top (ott) applications. |
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03/05/15
20150062936 |  Absolute acceleration sensor for use within moving vehicles
A communication system for a vehicle comprises a mechanism for sensing a change in speed of the vehicle and a control device for sending a signal to a headlight activation circuit to modulate the vehicle's headlights based upon the change in speed. In particular, a headlight of the vehicle is able to be modulated as the vehicle reduces speed and/or is decelerating as it approaches an intersection.
Vision Works Ip Corporation |
03/05/15
20150062935 |  Absolute acceleration sensor for use within moving vehicles
A communication system for a vehicle comprises a mechanism for sensing a change in speed of the vehicle and a control device for sending a signal to a headlight activation circuit to modulate the vehicle's headlights based upon the change in speed. In particular, a headlight of the vehicle is able to be modulated as the vehicle reduces speed and/or is decelerating as it approaches an intersection.
Vision Works Ip Corporation |
03/05/15
20150061492 |  Absolute acceleration sensor for use within moving vehicles
A communication system for a vehicle comprises a mechanism for sensing a braking of the vehicle and a control device for sending a signal to a headlight activation circuit to modulate the vehicle's headlights based upon the braking of the vehicle. In particular, a headlight of the vehicle is able to be modulated based upon an application of one or both of a front brake and a rear brake.
Vision Works Ip Corporation |
02/26/15
20150058475 | Distributed policy-based provisioning and enforcement for quality of service
Embodiments of the disclosure provide techniques for measuring congestion and controlling quality of service to a shared resource. A module that interfaces with the shared resource monitors the usage of the shared resource by accessing clients.
Vmware, Inc. |
02/26/15
20150057906 | Vehicle energy management
A system and method for vehicle energy management are described that take driving context into account to derive suggested vehicle control inputs to reduce energy consumption. Driving context may be based on information including, for example, traffic congestion and/or flow information for a travelled route, road topology information, traffic controls, weather conditions, vehicle characteristics, and other types of driving context information.
Qnx Software Systems Limited |
02/26/15
20150057019 | Optimized and selective management of policy deployment to mobile clients in a congested network to prevent further aggravation of network congestion
A method of managing deployment of policies in a mobile network is provided. The method includes sending, by a proxy server, a stability notification including a stability interval for delivery to mobile devices in a mobile network, receiving location notifications initiated by one or more of the mobile devices, wherein each location notification indicates a stable location of a corresponding mobile device initiating the location notification, and processing the location notifications to maintain a congested area list indicating congested areas within the mobile network.
Seven Networks, Inc. |
02/26/15
20150055494 | Method and notifying congestion related information
The present invention discloses a method and apparatus for notifying congestion related information. The method includes: obtaining, by an andsf entity, congestion related information of an access network; notifying, by the andsf entity, the congestion related information to a ue through a message of an andsf policy.
China Academy Of Telecommunications Technology |
02/26/15
20150055478 | Congestion detection and management at congestion-tree roots
A device for performing congestion detection and management at a node of a network may include a congestion management module to monitor an arrival and a departure rate of data packets associated with a queue, a queue size, or a rate of change of the queue size. The congestion management module may identify the queue as a congested queue by one of determining that the arrival rate of the data packets associated with the queue is larger than the departure rate of the data packets associated with the queue, the queue size is larger than a first threshold, or the rate of change of the queue size is larger than a second threshold.
Broadcom Corporation |
02/26/15
20150055476 | Scalable flow and cogestion control with openflow
A method of performing congestion management in a network is provided. The method includes monitoring a congestion status at a switch in the network.
International Business Machines Corporation |
02/26/15
20150055472 | Method and base station for controlling wireless communication of data
A method and a base station (900) for controlling wireless communication of data on a first radio link between the base station and a user equipment, ue (902), when a first communication mode is employed implying that corresponding status reports should be transmitted on an opposite second radio link to indicate whether said data has been received or not. A communication unit (900a) communicates data and status reports with the ue according to the first communication mode and according to a second communication mode.
Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ) |
02/26/15
20150055470 | Congestion and analytics based access selection control
An example method includes obtaining from an access network discovery and selection (andsf) server an andsf policy specifying a rule for access selection, the rule specifying one or more attributes to be compared to a corresponding one or more expressions, at least one of the corresponding one or more expressions being a sum of a corresponding threshold parameter and a corresponding offset parameter. The example method further includes obtaining one or more threshold parameter values, obtaining at least one offset parameter value, and determining the access selection based on the at least one rule, the one or more threshold parameter values, and the at least one offset parameter value..
Alcatel-lucent Usa Inc. |
02/19/15
20150052271 | Method of optimizing the width of transaction id for an interconnecting bus
The present invention discloses a method of to generate transaction id(s) in a bus interconnection design. An encoding table for each slave can be derived by calculating all possible transactions from all the masters to the slave so as to determine the minimum width of the transaction id received by the slave in the interconnecting bus design, thereby avoiding the routing congestion in the interconnecting bus..
Global Unichip Corp. |
02/19/15
20150052243 | Transparent software-defined network management
Systems and methods for network management, including adaptively installing one or more monitoring rules in one or more network devices on a network using an intelligent network middleware, detecting application traffic on the network transparently using an application demand monitor, and predicting future network demands of the network by analyzing historical and current demands. The one or more monitoring rules are updated once counters are collected; and network paths are determined and optimized to meet network demands and maximize utilization and application performance with minimal congestion on the network..
Nec Laboratories America, Inc. |
02/19/15
20150051823 | Managing traffic flow
A method for tracking and routing traffic to avoid congestion via a plurality of user devices including providing a traffic reservation user interface for receiving a plurality of path selections from the plurality of user devices; responsive to predicting a traffic congestion from the plurality of user devices taking into account real-time and predicted conditions, presenting a first set of users with a first set of route selection recommendations via the user interface; and responsive to receiving a plurality of actual routing selections from the first set of users from the user interface, adjusting the traffic prediction, and presenting a second set of users with a second set of route selection recommendations via the user interface to reduce expected traffic congestion.. .
International Business Machines Corporation |
02/19/15
20150051822 | Managing traffic flow
A system or computer usable program product for tracking and routing traffic to avoid congestion via a plurality of user devices including providing a traffic reservation user interface for receiving a plurality of path selections from the plurality of user devices; responsive to predicting a traffic congestion from the plurality of user devices taking into account real-time and predicted conditions, presenting a first set of users with a first set of route selection recommendations via the user interface; and responsive to receiving a plurality of actual routing selections from the first set of users from the user interface, adjusting the traffic prediction, and presenting a second set of users with a second set of route selection recommendations via the user interface to reduce expected traffic congestion.. .
International Business Machines Corporation |
02/19/15
20150049613 | Smart delivery of li data in emergency conditions
Methods and arrangements are provided for maintaining a wanted quality of service transmission level of lawful interception (li) payload data to a law enforcement agency (lea) via an hi3 interface in a li system. The data is acquired from an intercepted ip packet flow and belongs to one or more target identities using a specific internet communications service.
Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ) |
02/19/15
20150049611 | Transmission control protocol (tcp) congestion control using transmission delay components
According to the present disclosure, methods and apparatus are provided to improve the transmission control protocol (tcp) for data such as delay sensitive or bursty data. A maximum send window is adjusted using forward queuing delay and maximum bandwidth parameters.
Cisco Technology, Inc. |
02/12/15
20150043346 | Congestion detection based on resource utilization information and user quality-of-experience indicators
A capability is provided for detecting congestion in a communication network. A congestion condition is detected for the network based on resource utilization information associated with the network and a set of user quality-of-experience (qoe) indicators associated with the network. |
02/12/15
20150043345 | Performing qos on unknown bandwidths through rate estimating tcp congestion handlers
A system and method is provided for scheduling data packets. The system includes one or more packet engines configured to provide one or more congestion indications for a plurality of connections of a communication link.
Citrix Systems, Inc. |
02/12/15
20150043343 | Communication system
A home base station via which a plurality of mobile communication devices are connectable in a communication network, the home base station having an associated closed subscriber group (csg) and including a unit for receiving a connection request from a mobile communication device wherein the connection request includes an indication of whether the mobile communication device is a member of the csg associated with the home base station, a unit for monitoring congestion levels for the home base station and for indicating when the home base station is in a congested situation, a unit for determining if the mobile communication device requesting connection is the member of the csg associated with the home base station from the indication of whether the mobile communication device is the member of the csg associated with the home base station, and a unit for controlling access to the home base station.. .
Nec Corporation |
02/12/15
20150043339 | Tcp congestion control for large latency networks
A congestion control mechanism for tcp communication sessions is described. The congestion control mechanism adjusts the size of the congestion window based on a number of parallel virtual tcp hybla connections.
Cdf Ke Yuan |
02/12/15
20150043332 | Controlling transmission control protocol data
A method an apparatus for sending data to a user equipment via a radio access network node using the transmission control protocol. A tcp node that sends tcp user plane data to the ue receives a message originating from the ran node.
Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ) |
02/05/15
20150040095 | Method of improving timing critical cells for physical design in the presence of local placement congestion
Optimizing circuits having a congested placement with a timing critical placement map includes identifying critical circuit components in the placement map and determining failing circuit components in the placement map; determining “non-critical” circuit components safe to be moved; removing selected non critical from the placement map; and optimizing the critical circuit components in a new partial placement image of said map; and reinserting the “non-critical” circuit components back into said placement image. The optimization is performed by circuit transformation operating in congested regions of the placement image enabling cell insertion and modifications that increase cell size..
International Business Machines Corporation |
02/05/15
20150037036 | Scalable optical broadcast interconnect
A modular interconnect includes an mn-by-mn fully connected, direct broadcast, point-to-point, all-to-all interconnect fabric, wherein the mn-by-mn fully connected, direct broadcast, point-to-point, all-to-all interconnect fabric is non-blocking and congestion free, and wherein m is an integer≧2 and n is an integer≧2. Operating the modular interconnect includes distributing each of mn inputs to each and every one of mn outputs..
Lightfleet Corporation |
02/05/15
20150036661 | Wireless communication methods and components that implement handoff in wireless local area networks
This invention relates to wireless local area networks, and particularly to the ieee 802.11 family of standards. It consists of a method and apparatus that can be implemented in access points (aps) and subscriber wireless transmit/receive units (wtrus), in order to allow an ap to initiate re-association of a wtru to itself or a different ap.
Interdigital Technology Corporation |
02/05/15
20150036500 | System and a tcp mapper
A system for congestion control of traffic in a network that uses transmission control protocol (tcp) includes a plurality of tcp congestion control programs having one or more parameters, a plurality of tcp congestion control units running the tcp congestion control programs, and a tcp mapper adapted to map incoming tcp traffic flow from a plurality of incoming tcp traffic flows to the tcp congestion control units based on at least one of (a) the type of application program from which the incoming tcp traffic flow originated (b) the type of network for which the incoming tcp traffic flow is destined, (c) parameters related to network performance (d) network constraints (e) source of the incoming tcp traffic flow, and (f) destination of the incoming tcp traffic flow.. .
Liveqos Inc. |
02/05/15
20150036496 | Reporting of user plane congestion (upcon) using a upcon container
Technology for reporting radio access network (ran) user plane congestion (upcon) is disclosed. In an example, a core network (cn) device can include computer circuitry configured to: receive an upcon event report using an upcon container that includes a congestion situation indicator to indicate a upcon situation; and change an upcon process based on the congestion situation indicator. |
02/05/15
20150036487 | Vehicle-mounted device and congestion control method
A vehicle-mounted device includes a measurement unit that detects the radio signal to measure a congestion level, a reception unit that receives, from each of the predetermined vehicle-mounted devices, the value of a predetermined parameter, in which a degree of contribution to congestion increases as the value of the parameter increases, from among parameters relating to the communication of the predetermined vehicle-mounted device, and a control unit that sets, when the congestion level measured by the measurement unit is outside a set predetermined range, the value of the predetermined parameter of its own device so that the congestion level is within the predetermined range in consideration of the magnitude relationship between the congestion level and a value within the predetermined range and a magnitude relationship between the value of the predetermined parameter received by the reception unit and the value of the predetermined parameter of its own device.. .
Nec Corporation |
02/05/15
20150035686 | Traffic light control using destination information in calendar data of a user device
Traffic light control using destination information in calendar data of a user device includes storing calendar data including destination information in a plurality of user devices in a community. A next step includes obtaining the calendar data by a community authority coordinator operable to communicate with the user devices through a community network.
Motorola Solutions, Inc |
01/29/15
20150029887 | Signalling congestion
Methods and apparatus are disclosed for signalling congestion being caused by data items such as packets, received at a network element such as a router, in a communications network such as the internet, or being caused by items otherwise requiring service or capacity from a shared resource. Preferred embodiments of the method involve identifying whether or not received data items received at a network element are capable of carrying congestion indications such as ecn marks, and for those that are capable, assigning congestion indications to the data items in dependence on a queue length characterisation based on a substantially current, instantaneous measurement of the length of the queue, whereas for those that are not capable, a sanction such as dropping may be applied in dependence on a different queue length characterisation based on a weighted moving average of current, recent, and less recent measurements of the length of the queue..
British Telecommunications Public Limited Company |
01/29/15
20150029863 | Network congestion control with awareness of random packet losses
Messages are sent from a first network device to a second network device across a network. The network includes a network portion with an expected random packet loss rate.
Cisco Technology, Inc. |
01/29/15
20150029853 | Congestion control enforcement in a virtualized environment
In a data network congestion control in a virtualized environment is enforced in packet flows to and from virtual machines in a host. A hypervisor and network interface hardware in the host are trusted components.
Mellanox Technologies Ltd. |
01/29/15
20150029043 | Road traffic information server and road traffic information system
Provided are a server and a system that are capable of generating road traffic information on traffic congestion in a more appropriate manner, considering actual road traffic conditions. If a vehicle speed v falls below a first reference speed v1 and then exceeds a second reference speed v2 (>v1), then a traffic congestion situation is estimated based on an inference that the vehicle is highly likely to have escaped from traffic congestion.
Honda Motor Co., Ltd. |
01/22/15
20150026656 | Updating pin locations in a graphical user interface of an electronic design automation tool
Methods and apparatuses are described for creating, editing, and viewing a floorplan of a circuit design. Specifically, some embodiments enable a user to perform a graphical operation at an inference point in a circuit design layout, wherein the location of the inference point is determined based on existing graphical objects in the circuit design layout.
Synopsys, Inc. |
01/22/15
20150026542 | Method, device and system for packet transmission over ip networks
In a method for packet transmission over ip networks redundant ip packet streams are generated by an ip transmitter (32) and transmitted using separate network paths (34) to one or more ip receivers (36). At each ip receiver (36) duplicate ip packets are overwritten to form a single combined packet stream.
Appear Tv As |
01/22/15
20150023233 | Suppression of discovery of mobile devices in a wireless network
Technologies are generally described for suppressing discovery of mobile devices in a wireless ubiquitous computing (ubicomp) network, reducing the number of network transmissions by devices in the network and reducing network congestion and prolonging battery life. A mobile device may add supplementary information to introductory beacons transmitted by the device that indicate no response is necessary from other devices participating in the network except for a coordinator of the network.
Empire Technology Development Llc |
01/22/15
20150023175 | Jitter-based transmission control method
A jitter-based transmission control method is disclosed. In the jitter-based transmission control method, several packets are sent applying a current congestion window size by at least one sender device through a network switch device.
National Central University |
01/22/15
20150023173 | Systems and methods for managing a network
Systems and methods for managing a network are disclosed. One method can comprise receiving data having information identifying a first path to a destination, wherein the information facilitates transmission of the data to a next-hop of the first path.
Comcast Cable Communications, Llc |
01/22/15
20150023172 | Congestion profiling of computer network devices
A method may include transmitting data frames from a reaction point of a source device. The method may also include receiving, at the reaction point, congestion notification messages corresponding to the transmitted data frames and containing congestion feedback data regarding a particular network switching device and an identifier of the particular network switching device.
International Business Machines Corporation |
01/22/15
20150023169 | System and architecture to optimize video traffic over internet protocol networks
Techniques are provided for managing network traffic and alleviating network congestion issues in video conference environments. At a video conference bridge device configured to send and receive communications to an endpoint device in a network, one or more video streams are received from the endpoint participating in a video conference.
Cisco Technology, Inc. |
01/22/15
20150023168 | Dynamic network traffic analysis and traffic flow configuration for radio networks
A system may receive, from a base station, information indicating that a network congestion level associated with the base station satisfies a threshold, the network congestion level being a measurement of traffic associated with a network, and the network including the base station. The system may determine, based on the network congestion level satisfying the threshold, traffic flow information for a plurality of traffic flows associated with the base station.
Verizon Patent And Licensing Inc. |
01/22/15
20150023166 | Method and controlling network access in a wireless communication system
The present invention is directed to a wireless communication system. Specifically, the present invention is directed to a method of controlling network access and an apparatus therefore, wherein the method comprises: receiving a message related with access parameters, the message including a first n-bit field, a second n-bit field and a third 1-bit field, wherein the first n-bit field indicates a maximum number of slots the wireless device is to delay due to random back-off between consecutive access probes, the second n-bit field indicates a maximum number of slots the wireless device is to delay due to random back-off between successive enhanced access probe sequences, and the third 1-bit field for indicating a network congestion situation..
Lg Electronics Inc. |
01/15/15
20150019803 | Partitioned memory with shared memory resources and configurable functions
A memory device that includes an input interface that receives instructions and input data on a first plurality of serial links. The memory device includes a memory block having a plurality of banks, wherein each of the banks has a plurality of memory cells, and wherein the memory block has multiple ports.
Mosys, Inc. |
01/15/15
20150019752 | Adaptive setting of the quantized congestion notification equilibrium setpoint in converged enhanced eithernet networks
Embodiments relate to controlling workload flow on converged ethernet links. An aspect includes coupling, by a processing device, a first control loop to a second control loop.
International Business Machines Corporation |
01/15/15
20150016253 | Source-aware network shaping
Systems and methods are described for source-aware shaping of network traffic in a communications system. Embodiments can manage resource congestion within a communications network by preferentially adjusting certain types of traffic on a per-subscriber and/or per-application basis.
Viasat, Inc. |
01/15/15
20150016252 | Source-driven switch probing with feedback request
Embodiments relate to proactively probing the packet queues of elements in a physical or virtual network to predict and prevent the occurrence of congestion points. An aspect includes receiving a first feedback request at a central controller connected to a plurality of switches in a network.
International Business Machines Corporation |
01/15/15
20150016251 | Congestion induced video scaling
Access nodes and methods adjust a bit rate of a data stream in a communication network. The access nodes and methods have a packet inspection unit configured to inspect one or more of the data packets to determine that the data stream includes video data.
Wi-lan Labs, Inc. |
01/08/15
20150012618 | Technique for processing a data stream between a server and a client entity
A technique is provided for processing a data stream between a server and a client entity in a packet communication network. The data stream is composed of packets steered by a processing device.
Orange |
01/08/15
20150012586 | Delivery network, server, and delivery method
In a delivery network system, deliver a server that holds requested content is determined, using information included in a content request message from a communication terminal. A file or stream of the requested content is read from the determined server.
Nec Corporation |
01/08/15
20150012584 | Method and using http redirection to mediate content access via policy execution
Systems, methods, and devices of the various embodiments enable http redirect messages to indicate content access policy information. In this manner, policy rules may be implemented based on the policy information in the http redirect messages to control network congestion and/or quality of service (“qos”)..
Qualcomm Incorporated |
01/08/15
20150012491 | Higher efficiency storage replication using compression
In one embodiment, there is a multi-cluster synchronization system between two or more clusters. The multi-cluster synchronization system uses variable compression to optimize the transfer of information between the clusters.
Rackspace Us, Inc. |
01/08/15
20150009826 | Hierarchical traffic differentiation to handle congestion and/or manage user quality of experience
Methods, apparatuses and systems for performing hierarchical traffic differentiation and/or employing hierarchical traffic differentiation are provided. These methods, apparatuses and systems may be implemented to, for example, handle congestion and/or to manage user quality of experience (qoe).
Vid Scale, Inc |
01/08/15
20150009822 | Control device, control method, and communication system
A control device includes: a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to: acquire congestion information indicating a congestion state of communication of wireless local area networks (lans) which are connection destination candidates of a mobile terminal configured to switch a state thereof between a first state and a second state, in the first state the mobile terminal being wirelessly connected to a radio base station of a mobile communication network and not performing a detection operation of a wireless lan among the wireless lans, and in the second state the mobile terminal performing the detection operation and being wirelessly connected to a detected wireless lan, and perform switching control for switching a state of the mobile terminal from the first state to the second state when the congestion information satisfies a given condition.. .
Fujitsu Limited |
01/08/15
20150009817 | Method of controlling congestion, controlling congestion and communication system
Provided herein is a method of controlling a congestion in a communication scheme using a lower layer that performs a first congestion control and an upper layer that performs a second congestion control different from the first congestion control. The method includes detecting a congestion in the lower layer, notifying, from the lower layer to upper layer, the occurrence of the congestion and congestion control information related to the congestion; and setting, in the upper layer, an output rate for each of at least one congestion-related upper-layer session that is processed in the upper layer and is related to the congestion.
Fujitsu Limited |
01/08/15
20150009814 | Method, apparatus and network system for controlling network congestion
The invention provides a method, an apparatus and a system for controlling network congestion. The method includes: sending a control frame or a beacon frame to a station in a network when network congestion occurs, so as to instruct the station to enlarge a contention window when the station needs to send data.
Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. |