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20160142142 | Spatial-Mode Multiplexing Optical Signal Streams Onto A Multimode Optical Fiber - An apparatus includes an optical spatial-mode multiplexer having a plurality of optical inputs and an optical output and an optical spatial-mode filter end-connected to the optical output of the optical spatial-mode multiplexer. The optical spatial-mode filter is configured to end-connect to a multimode optical fiber having a set of optical propagation modes and is configured to pass the optical modes of the set whose velocities in the multimode optical fiber are within a selected range and to block remaining ones of the optical modes of the set. | 05-19-2016 |
20160139485 | Multi-Electrode Photonic Digital To Analog Converting Vector Modulator - A digital-electronic-to-analog-optical converter, which has a structure consistent with a super-Mach-Zehnder interferometer, and which can perform the functionalities of both a Digital to Analog Converter (DAC) and a digital modulator uses a sub-Mach-Zender modulator to modulate optical wave signals propagating through its optical waveguide in a push-pull manner. The modulation performed is phase modulation realized with electrodes positioned near the optical wave guide where such electrodes carry modulation signals in digital, analog or discrete time signal format creating electromagnetic or electric fields that engage the optical wave signals traveling through the waveguide thus imparting a phase shift onto the optical wave signals. The amount of the phase shift can be implemented through the geometry of the electrodes, the length of time the modulating signal is applied, and the amplitude of the modulating signal. | 05-19-2016 |
20160135176 | ENHANCED PHYSICAL DOWNLINK CONTROL CHANNEL USER EQUIPMENT SPECIFIC SEARCH SPACE SUBBAND HOPPING FOR MACHINE TYPE COMMUNICATION DEVICE - A method is provided for receiving, at a receiving device, a control information message from a transmitting device. The method includes monitoring a first plurality of reception resources contained in a first frequency range in a first subframe and a second plurality of reception resources contained in a second frequency range in a second subframe. The method also includes receiving a control information message in at least one of the monitored reception resources. The first frequency range is at least partly non-overlapping with the second frequency range. | 05-12-2016 |
20160134568 | USER INTERFACE ENCAPSULATION IN CHAT-BASED COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS - A chat-based communication capability is presented. The chat-based communication capability may support encapsulation of a user interface within a chat session. The encapsulation of a user interface within a chat session may be provided by dynamically creating the user interface within the chat session. The creation of a user interface within a chat session may be supported by determining that the user interface is to be created within the chat session and propagating, toward a device supporting the chat session, information configured for use by the device to create the user interface within the chat session. The creation of a user interface within a chat session may be supported by receiving information configured for use by a device to create the user interface within the chat session and initiating creation of the user interface within the chat session based on the information configured for use by the device to create the user interface within the chat session. | 05-12-2016 |
20160128025 | INTERFERENCE CANCELLATION AND SUPPRESSION FOR MULTI-USER MULTIPLE-IN/MULTIPLE OUT (MIMO) COMMUNICATION - A first user equipment accesses, based on first information in a first downlink control information (DCI) message addressed to the first user equipment, one or more of a plurality of sets of information indicating pairings for multiuser MIMO from a table stored in the first user equipment. The first user equipment performs interference suppression or cancellation for one or more second user equipment based on information in the one of the plurality of sets. | 05-05-2016 |
20160127894 | CONNECTIONLESS WIRELESS ACCESS - A capability for connectionless wireless access is presented. A wireless end device is configured to encrypt context information of the wireless end device, based on a security key associated with attachment of the wireless end device to a wireless communication network, to form encrypted context information, generate a packet including a header and a payload where the header includes the encrypted context information, and propagate the packet toward a wireless access node of the wireless communication network. The wireless access node is configured to receive the packet and propagate the encrypted context information toward a controller of the wireless communication network. The controller is configured to receive the encrypted context information from the wireless access node, decrypt the encrypted context information based on a security key associated with attachment of the wireless end device to the wireless communication network to recover the context information of the wireless end device, and determine, based on the context information, whether the wireless end device is permitted to communicate via the wireless communication network. | 05-05-2016 |
20160127563 | HANDLING OF REDUCED PARTIAL CDRs IN AN OFFLINE CHARGING SYSTEM - Systems and methods that handle partial Charging Data Records (CDRs) for a session. An offline charging system includes a cluster of Charging Gateway Functions (CGF). A first CGF of the cluster receives a first Fully Qualified Partial CDR (FQPC) for a session, and stores FQPC data based on the first FQPC in a centralized storage module that is accessible by each of the CGFs in the cluster. A second CGF of the cluster receives a Reduced Partial CDR (RPC) for the session responsive to a failure of the first CGF, retrieves the FQPC data from the centralized storage module, and generates a second FQPC for the session based on the RPC and the FQPC data retrieved from the centralized storage module. | 05-05-2016 |
20160124147 | SEMICONDUCTOR-BASED PHOTODETECTOR HAVING MULTIPLE OPTICAL FEEDS FOR COUPLING LIGHT INTO AN ACTIVE AREA THEREOF - We disclose a semiconductor-based photodetector having multiple optical feeds for coupling light into an active area thereof in a manner that causes the light to be distributed more-uniformly therein than in a comparable conventional photodetector. As a result, embodiments of the disclosed photodetector can handle an advantageously high optical power and generate a relatively high photocurrent before the saturation is reached. In some embodiments, the multiple optical feeds are used to reduce the size of the active area to achieve a larger effective bandwidth and/or better RF response for the photodetector without exacerbating certain detrimental effects therein, e.g., caused by the excessive heat generated by the absorbed light. In some embodiments, multiple semiconductor-based photodetectors can be optically arrayed and electrically interconnected to form a traveling-wave photodetector that preserves one or more beneficial characteristics of the individual photodetectors used therein. | 05-05-2016 |
20160119865 | CONFIGURABLE COMMUNICATION MODULES FOR FLEXIBLE COMMUNICATIONS WITHIN AN ENERGY-LIMITED WIRELESS SYSTEM - A capability for flexible communications within an energy-limited wireless system is presented. An energy-limited wireless node includes a communication module configured to switch between a sleep mode in which the communication module is not operable to communicate and an active mode in which the communication module is operable to communicate, a configurable auxiliary receiver configured to initiate switching of the communication module from the sleep mode to the active mode based on detection of a wake-up signal, and a controller configured to control configuration of the configurable auxiliary receiver to operate using an auxiliary receiver configuration. A controller includes a processor and a memory communicatively connected to the processor wherein the processor is configured to determine a configuration for a configurable auxiliary communication module of an energy-limited wireless node, and propagate, toward the energy-limited wireless node, an indication of the configuration for the configurable auxiliary communication module of the energy-limited wireless node. | 04-28-2016 |
20160119095 | COORDINATING TRANSMISSION OF POSITIONING REFERENCE SIGNALS AND NON-REFERENCE SIGNALS - A base station coordinates transmission of positioning reference signals and non-reference signals. The base station includes a transceiver to detect a reference signal transmitted by one or more other base stations in one or more physical resource blocks. The base station also includes a processor to identify a pattern of resources allocated to the one or more other base stations based on the one or more physical resource blocks including the reference signal. The transceiver is to bypass transmission of non-reference signals in physical resource blocks indicated by the pattern. | 04-28-2016 |
20160105489 | DISTRIBUTION OF CLOUD SERVICES IN A CLOUD ENVIRONMENT - A capability for determining a distribution of a cloud service within a cloud environment is presented. The distribution of the cloud service within the cloud environment may specify a placement of information objects and cloud service virtual functions of the cloud service within the cloud environment. The distribution of the cloud service within the cloud environment may be determined based on a graph-based representation of the cloud service in which nodes of the graph represent the information objects of the cloud service and edges between the nodes of the graph represent the cloud service virtual functions of the cloud service and based on a graph-based representation of the cloud environment in which nodes of the graph represent locations or elements of the cloud environment and edges between the nodes of the graph represent the interconnections between the locations or elements of the cloud environment. | 04-14-2016 |
20160099790 | Cost Effective Network Interference Cancellation For Wireless Networks - Embodiments are described herein to provide improvements to known network interference cancellation techniques. One general approach involves a first network node attempting ( | 04-07-2016 |
20160095126 | MODIFYING PARAMETERS OF A WIRELESS ACCESS NODE - A capability for modifying parameters of a wireless access node is provided. The capability for modifying parameters of a wireless access node may support use of parameter monitoring and computation functions to jointly improve or optimize capacity for voice and data users in wireless networks. The capability for modifying parameters of a wireless access node may include detecting a trigger event associated with the wireless access node, modifying a signal-to-interference-and-noise ratio (SINR) threshold of the wireless access node responsive to the trigger event, modifying a call admission control (CAC) threshold of the wireless access node based on evaluation of a parameter associated with modification of the SINR threshold of the wireless access node, and further modifying the CAC threshold of the wireless access node based on evaluation of a parameter associated with modification of the CAC threshold of the wireless access node. | 03-31-2016 |
20160095042 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF NETWORK BASED IP FLOW MOBILITY WITHOUT UE BASED SIGNALING - Methods apparatus and systems providing a mechanism for policy-based steering of user flows/applications via paths traversing different access networks between multi-homing user equipment (UE) and a gateway device in a manner avoiding UE signaling, wherein the UE address is the same for each path, and wherein the same flow/application paths are selected by both the UE and the gateway device in accordance with-based criteria. | 03-31-2016 |
20160095032 | PLACEMENT AND USE OF WIRELESS NETWORK FUNCTIONS IN A VIRTUALIZATION ENVIRONMENT - A capability for controlling placement and use of wireless network functions within a virtualization environment is presented. The capability for controlling placement and use of wireless network functions in a virtualized environment may include controlling placement of a set of wireless network functions of a wireless network within a virtualization environment to form a set of virtualized wireless network functions, where the set of virtualized wireless network functions includes at least a set of virtualized serving node functions and a set of virtualized gateway node functions. The capability for controlling placement and use of wireless network functions in a virtualized environment may include controlling selection of one of the virtualized gateway node functions responsive to a request for a bearer for a wireless device served by the wireless network. | 03-31-2016 |
20160095031 | Policy Engine In Mobile Unit For Enhanced Femtocell Handover - A mobile unit preselects candidate femtocells for handover. The mobile unit reports candidate femtocells and associated measurement data to the network. The network analyzes the preselected candidate femtocells and provides a list of handover femtocells for the mobile unit to use. This list can be the same or different than the preselected list. | 03-31-2016 |
20160095009 | OCCUPANCY NOTIFICATIONS FOR UNLICENSED FREQUENCY BANDS - A node identifies at least one first channel of an unlicensed frequency band that is occupied by a first node that operates according to a first radio access technology (RAT). The node transmits a signal on a second channel of the unlicensed frequency band. The signal is formed according to a second RAT used for transmission on the second channel and the signal includes information identifying the at least one second channel of the unlicensed frequency band. | 03-31-2016 |
20160094914 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR LOCALIZING AUDIO STREAMS VIA ACOUSTIC LARGE SCALE SPEAKER ARRAYS - In one example embodiment, a system for localizing an audio stream includes a processor. The processor is configured to determine channel state information of an acoustic channel between a plurality of speakers and at least one device of a plurality of devices, the at least one device requesting the audio stream from among available audio streams. The processor is further configured to determine transmit signals for transmitting audio signals representing the available audio streams to the plurality of devices, the determined transmit signals being based on at least the determined channel state information such that the requested audio stream is more audible to a user associated with the at least one device compared to other users associated with other ones of the plurality of devices. | 03-31-2016 |
20160094668 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DISTRIBUTED CUSTOMIZED DATA PLANE PROCESSING IN A DATA CENTER - Systems and methods for providing data plane services in a data center include receiving a request for a data plane service from a tenant of a host in the data center. In response to receiving the request, a service process is instantiated at the host for performing the data plane service for a virtual machine of the tenant. | 03-31-2016 |
20160094650 | NON-OVERLAY RESOURCE ACCESS IN DATACENTERS USING OVERLAY NETWORKS - Various embodiments relate to a method, device, and machine-readable storage medium including: exchanging messages between a virtual machine and the overlay network; identifying a request message transmitted by a virtual machine supported by the server as requesting an underlay resource that is inaccessible via the overlay network; sending a proxy request to the underlay resource via the underlay network; receiving, at the server, at least one message from the underlay resource in response to the proxy request; and forwarding the at least one message to the virtual machine based on determining that the virtual machine previously requested the underlay resource. | 03-31-2016 |
20160094438 | SYSTEM AND METHOD PROVIDING SECURED CONTEXTS IN MPLS LFIB - A system, method and apparatus for enabling validation of packets received from a label switched router (LSR) via a label switched path (LSP) wherein an LSR assigning LSP label/FEC bindings further associates a respective epoch label with each binding, the advertised bindings and associated epoch labels being included within transmitted packets to enable verification of received packets by matching included Epoch label to the Epoch label originally associated with the packet LSP label. | 03-31-2016 |
20160094432 | Verifying Connector Placement Via Loopback Schemas - A method and system for verification of connector placement via loopback schemas is disclosed. The method for verification of connector placement via loopback schemas applies a schema to the loopback facilities associated with the signaling pairs at a particular port, with the schema being identified at the remote end of a cable connected to the port via a connectivity test, and the resulting schema identifying the port connected thereto. The method and system for verification of connector placement via loopback schemas provides advantages over systems known in the art positively identifying a particular port while eliminating the requirement for detailed connector labeling. | 03-31-2016 |
20160094304 | Optical Line Loading Using Variable Bandwidth Noise - An apparatus is provided that includes an optical noise generator and a noise combiner. The noise generator is configured to produce an optical signal having a noise channel. The noise combiner is configured to combine an optical data channel with the noise channel received at one or more add ports to produce an optical output signal. A controller is configured to operate the noise generator or the noise combiner to provide a variable bandwidth of added noise combined with the optical data channel. | 03-31-2016 |
20160092595 | Systems And Methods For Processing Graphs - Systems and methods are provided for organizing and processing information in a graph having a number of nodes interconnected by a number of edges. An array E lists neighboring nodes for nodes of the graph that have at least one neighboring node in a determined order of the nodes. Positions in array E of a last neighboring node listed in array E for respective nodes are listed as corresponding entries in an array V based on the determined order of the nodes. In various aspects, array E and array V are used to determine information for the graph, including degrees or neighboring nodes of one or more given nodes of the graph. The system and methods disclosed herein are applicable for determining relative ranks for the nodes of the graph. | 03-31-2016 |
20160088001 | COLLABORATIVE DEEP PACKET INSPECTION SYSTEMS AND METHODS - A system for collaborative deep packet inspection in a network uses a coarse grain mechanism to perform deep packet inspection on sample packets sampled from a plurality of traffic flows received at a network device using a plurality of signatures and develop a profile of the network and a fine grain mechanism to perform real-time inspection of a traffic flow against a small set of the signatures that is updated based on the profile. The fine grain mechanism further enables at least one policy action to be applied to a traffic flow when the traffic flow matches one of the signatures in the set of signatures. | 03-24-2016 |
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. | 03-24-2016 |
20160085024 | Optical Spatial Mode-Multiplexer - An apparatus includes an optical fiber bundle that includes a plurality of input optical fibers and a tapered segment. One end of each of the input optical fibers physically connects to a wide end of the tapered segment. The optical fiber bundle is an integral unit. The input optical fibers are multimode optical fibers. Fundamental optical propagating modes of at least two of the multimode optical fibers have different velocities. | 03-24-2016 |
20160073405 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LTE AND WIFI CO-EXISTENCE ON THE SAME SMALL CELL IN UNLICENSED BAND - A method of operating a first network element in a wireless communications network to perform WIFI and long term evolution (LTE) communications with a second network element on an unlicensed portion of a radio spectrum, the unlicensed portion being divided into first and second frequency regions, includes performing, at the first network element, WIFI protocol communications over the unlicensed portion, including at least one of transmission to, and reception from, a second network element, of WIFI protocol data using one or more first frequencies of the first frequency region, and performing, at the first network element, LTE protocol communications over the unlicensed portion including at least one of transmission to, and reception from, the second network element, of LTE protocol data using one or more second frequencies of the second frequency region, the WIFI protocol communications and LTE protocol communications being performed by the first network element simultaneously. | 03-10-2016 |
20160072588 | Method And Apparatus For Processing A Communication Signal In An Optical Communication Network - A method and apparatus for processing a communication signal in an optical network. A network node typically includes a transmit train for generating transmissions and a receive train for receiving transmissions from another network node. The network node may be, for example, an OLT or an ONU. In a receiver implementing the described solution, a photodiode is employed to convert received optical signals into electrical signals that are then provided to a TIA or other device for producing a differential output having an inverted output and a non-inverted output. One of the outputs is delayed one bit and attenuated, then combined with the other output to produce an equalized signal for further processing by the receive train. The solution may be analogously applied on the transmit side for introducing pre-distortion, either in addition to or in lieu of in the receiver. | 03-10-2016 |
20160066469 | COOLING ARRANGEMENT FOR A CIRCUIT PACK - A circuit structure comprises a circuit board. An array of opto-electronic devices is provided on the circuit board. At least some of heat sinks are provided in thermal contact with a respective opto-electronic device. A face plate of the circuit structure comprises an array of openings configured to allow air to move along a path adjacent to an opto-electronic device and through a respective heat sink. An air moving device is located adjacent a heat sink and is operable to drive air through a respective opening on the face plate. A ducting structure is provided to direct the air driven by a corresponding air moving device. | 03-03-2016 |
20160066306 | INTERFACE FOR INTERFERENCE MITIGATION IN UNLICENSED FREQUENCY BANDS - Nodes in a wireless communication system can mitigate interference in unlicensed frequency bands by coordinating downlink transmissions. The nodes may negotiate, based on messages exchanged over an interface between a first node and at least one second node, time intervals for downlink transmissions by the first node and the at least one second node over a channel of an unlicensed frequency band in response to the at least one second node transmitting over the channel of the unlicensed frequency band. | 03-03-2016 |
20160066233 | Method And Apparatus For Improved Dual Connectivity - Various methods and devices are provided to address the need for improved dual connectivity. For example, a network node ( | 03-03-2016 |
20160066204 | USER EQUIPMENT ASSISTANCE FOR INTERFERENCE MITIGATION IN UNLICENSED FREQUENCY BANDS - A first base station selects a subset of channels of an unlicensed frequency band based on indications of energy received over the channels. The first base station transmits one or more messages instructing user equipment to monitor the subset of channels and report information indicating whether at least one second base station is transmitting over the subset of channels. User equipment monitors the subset of channels of the unlicensed frequency band in response to receiving the one or more messages from a first base station indicating the subset of channels. The user equipment transmits one or more messages including information indicating whether one or more second base stations are transmitting over the subset of channels. | 03-03-2016 |
20160065386 | SCALABLE VIRUTAL NETWORKS IN SDN-BASED ETHERNET NETWORKS USING VLANS - Various embodiments relate to a method, device, and machine-readable storage medium including: instructions for receiving a configuration request from an edge device, wherein the configuration request identifies a traffic flow between at least two end devices other than the edge device; instructions for assigning a virtual local area network (VLAN) identifier to the traffic flow; instructions for configuring the edge device to add the assigned VLAN identifier to outgoing frames associated with the traffic flow, wherein the outgoing frames are frames that will be transmitted by the edge device to a core network. Various embodiments additionally include instructions for configuring, in response to assigning the VLAN identifier, at least one additional edge device to remove the VLAN identifier from incoming frames associated with the traffic flow, wherein the incoming frames are frames that have traversed at least one core node of the core network. | 03-03-2016 |
20160065372 | SECURE COMMUNICATION OF DATA BETWEEN DEVICES - A capability for secure communication of data from a source device to a destination device is presented. The source device has a device identifier associated therewith. The source device stores an encrypted version of the device identifier that is encrypted based on a master key of the destination device. The source device stores an encryption key. The source device communicates data to the destination device in a secure manner by encrypting the data using the encryption key and propagating the encrypted version of the device identifier and the encrypted data to the destination device. The destination device recovers the data sent by the source device by decrypting the encrypted version of the device identifier based on the master key to determine the device identifier, determining a decryption key based on the device identifier, and decrypting the encrypted data based on the decryption key to recover the data sent by the source device. | 03-03-2016 |
20160057108 | METHOD FOR LOAD-BALANCING IPSEC TRAFFIC - Systems, methods and apparatus for distributing IPsec traffic across multiple IPsec processing units (PUs) by controllably allocating a specific range of one or more IPSec parameters of the IPsec traffic to each PU. | 02-25-2016 |
20160044631 | QOS-AWARE PAGING IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Paging messages are transmitted by a wireless communications network to mobile terminals, which have been in an idle state or dormant mode and which have waiting calls/data from their associated peer entities, in accordance with the qualities of service (QoS) associated with the waiting calls/data, where the QoS associated each waiting call/data includes a type of the call/data. To make paging of mobile terminal QoS aware, a QoS field is included in the Paging Announce requests sent from an RNC to another RNC, or from an RNC to a BTS. The QoS field includes: a QoS class of service of the waiting call/data indicating the type of the waiting call; a grade of service of the waiting call/data to which the mobile terminal is subscribed; and, optionally, other QoS service flow parameters whose presence depends on the type of wireless technology being used in the network. | 02-11-2016 |
20160043929 | PROVIDING CLOUD-BASED SERVICES USING DYNAMIC NETWORK VIRTUALIZATION - The invention is directed to providing cloud-based services using dynamic network virtualization. Embodiments of the invention provide a cloud-based service over a system that has a dynamic network virtualization architecture. The architecture includes a set of distributed forwarding elements with centralized control, and at least one virtual machine that is bound to one of the forwarding elements. These features enable the virtual machine to be migrated across a wide area network while maintaining its original IP address and service continuity. | 02-11-2016 |
20160029225 | Active Antenna System And Method With Full Antenna Ports Dimension - An Active Antenna System (AAS) is used to generate a logical port by performing beam forming operations to process a reference signal applied to its input. The beam forming operations are based on AAS configuration information received by the AAS. The beam forming operations map different operations to different components of the AAS where said operations are performed during the processing of the reference signal resulting in a beam that may be directed at a particular location with a certain amount of power. The AAS configuration information is received by a processor coupled to all of the components of the AAS and said processor converts the received AAS configuration information to control signals causing said components to perform the beam forming operations. | 01-28-2016 |
20160028625 | PACKET FORWARDING BASED ON PATH ENCODING - In general, a capability for forwarding packets based on path encoding is presented. The capability for forwarding a packet based on path encoding may be configured to enable forwarding of a packet along a network path by determining a path encoding label for the network path, associating the path encoding label for the network path with the packet, and forwarding the packet along the network path based on the path encoding label associated with the packet. The network path for a packet may include an ordered sequence of node output interfaces of an ordered sequence of nodes. The path encoding label for the network path includes an ordered sequence of node interface labels corresponding to the ordered sequence of node output interfaces of the nodes of the network path. The nodes of the network path forward the packet along the network path based on the path encoding label. | 01-28-2016 |
20160028451 | Active Antenna System And Method With Full Antenna Ports Dimension - An Active Antenna System (AAS) operated as a static AAS is used to generate a static beam from signals applied to its input and based on received AAS configuration information. The AAS configuration information is received by a processor coupled to all of the components of the AAS and said processor converts the received AAS configuration information to control signals causing said components to generate the static beam. | 01-28-2016 |
20160021390 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MODIFYING COMPRESSIVE SENSING BLOCK SIZES FOR VIDEO MONITORING USING DISTANCE INFORMATION - A method and a system for using compression sensing to provide low data rate transmission and low computational complexity to determine anomalies in video data obtained by a video camera or other motion detection device. The video data is divided into varying sized video blocks based on an anticipated size of objects of interest within the video, and based on a distance between a video camera and the objects of interest. Features are extracted from the video data of each block to detect anomalies if a feature vector is outside of an “allowed range.” By utilizing varying sized video blocks, anomalies are more effectively and efficiently detected in the video data. | 01-21-2016 |
20160021039 | MESSAGE CONTROL FUNCTIONS WITHIN COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS - A chat-based communication capability is presented. In at least some embodiments, a chat-based communication capability may utilize a chat-based communication paradigm to support one or more communication interaction types not typically supported by chat-based communication paradigms. In at least some embodiments, a chat-based communication capability may support chat-based communication between a human entity and a non-human entity or between multiple non-human entities. In at least some embodiments, a chat-based communication capability may support extended operations which may be provided within the context of a chat-based system. In at least some embodiments, a chat-based communication capability or other communication or interaction environment may support one or more of relationship identification and notification capabilities, question and answer management functions, message attribution management functions, software developer functions, or the like. | 01-21-2016 |
20160021038 | CHAT-BASED SUPPORT OF COMMUNICATIONS AND RELATED FUNCTIONS - A chat-based communication capability is presented. In at least some embodiments, a chat-based communication capability may utilize a chat-based communication paradigm to support one or more communication interaction types not typically supported by chat-based communication paradigms. In at least some embodiments, a chat-based communication capability may support chat-based communication between a human entity and a non-human entity or between multiple non-human entities. In at least some embodiments, a chat-based communication capability may support extended operations which may be provided within the context of a chat-based system. In at least some embodiments, a chat-based communication capability or other communication or interaction environment may support one or more of relationship identification and notification capabilities, question and answer management functions, message attribution management functions, software developer functions, or the like. | 01-21-2016 |
20160020962 | Management of Virtual CPES - A manner of managing remote devices in a communication system. In order to facilitate management of both traditional CPE (consumer premises equipment) devices and vCPEs (virtual CPEs), a vCPE is provided, preferable in communication with one or more VNF (virtual network function) managers and a vCPE descriptors file. When a management service operation is to be performed, at least one function associated with the management operation is identified and characterized. The management service operation may then be scheduled an executed by the appropriate end points according to the characterization. | 01-21-2016 |
20160007288 | OPPORTUNISTIC INFORMATION FORWARDING USING WIRELESS TERMINALS IN THE INTERNET-OF-THINGS - A capability for opportunistic forwarding of information using a wireless terminal is presented. An energy limited node includes a wake-up circuit configured to detect a wake-up signal from a wireless terminal where the wake-up signal includes a modulated waveform signal, and a communication module configured to switch, based on a control signal generated by the wake-up circuit, from a sleep mode in which the communication module is not operable to communicate with the wireless terminal to an active mode in which the communication module is operable to communicate with the wireless terminal. A wireless terminal includes a first wireless communication interface configured for communication with a device using a wireless communication protocol, a second wireless communication interface configured for wireless communication with a wireless access node of a wireless network, and a processor configured to support opportunistic forwarding of information between the device and the wireless access node of the wireless network. | 01-07-2016 |
20150382395 | Method For Recovering From PDCP HFN De-Synchronization For VoLTE Call And Data Failure In RLC Layer - A method and/or device that determines when an erroneous voice packet has been received over the air interface of a cellular communication network, such as a 4G LTE network, and initiates a voice communications re-establishment procedure when a triggering event—based on receptions of erroneous voice packets—has occurred. The voice communications re-establishment procedure is performed to avoid at least a portion of the air interface (i.e., an uplink or downlink of the Uu interface through which the erroneous voice packets have traversed) from becoming non-operational. The triggering event may be the number of consecutive erroneous voice packets received over an uplink or downlink surpassing a threshold or it may be the length of time that has lapsed during receptions of consecutive erroneous voice packets. The triggering event is an indication that an uplink or downlink will most likely become non-operational if voice communications are not re-established. | 12-31-2015 |
20150382359 | Radio Resource Management For Packet Data Services - Systems and methods for control of a radio resource for packet data services are provided to facilitate radio resource management. One embodiment comprises a radio network element of a Packet-Switched (PS) network that serves User Equipment (UE). The radio network element determines a value for a summation of load contribution from one or more UEs, the load contribution for respective ones of the one or more UEs based on a minimum grant for the respective ones of the one or more UEs; and manages a radio resource based on the value of the summation. The minimum grant may be a grant required to transport a minimum transport block size. An example method may determine a color status based on the value of the summation with respect to a scale of virtual loading, and make a radio resource management decision concerning the radio resource based on the color status. | 12-31-2015 |
20150382282 | Network Assisted ANDSF Policy Updating - Various methods and apparatuses are provided to address the need for reduced UE location reporting. In one method, an access network discovery and selection function (ANDSF) server receives ( | 12-31-2015 |
20150382026 | Compressive Sense Imaging - Systems and methods for compressive sense imaging are provided. In one aspect, incident light reflecting from an object is received via an aperture array and a sensor and intermediate compressive measurements are generated using compressive sequence matrices that are determined based on the properties of the aperture array and the sensor. The intermediate compressive measurements are further processed to generate compressive measurements representing the compressed image of the object. An uncompressed image of the object is generated from the compressive measurements using a determined reconstruction matrix that is different from the sequence matrices used to acquire the intermediate compressive measurements. | 12-31-2015 |
20150382000 | Systems And Methods For Compressive Sense Imaging - Systems and methods for compressive sense imaging are provided. In one aspect, a system and method is provided for determining at least one kernel matrix based on the relative motion of an object during a time period corresponding to the acquisition of one or more compressive measurements of the object. An uncompressed image of the object is generated using the compressive measurements using a reconstruction basis matrix that is different from the compressive basis matrix used to acquire the compressive measurements of the object. To compensate for the relative motion of the object, the reconstruction basis matrix is determined based on the at least one kernel matrix and the compressive basis matrix. | 12-31-2015 |
20150381522 | Control Of Supplemental Content In A Data Flow - Systems and methods for the control of supplemental content in a data flow are provided such that supplemental content, such as advertising content, may be handled separately from other content in the data flow. One embodiment comprises a network element of a Packet-Switched (PS) network that serves mobile User Equipment (UE). The network element receives a data flow of packets for a download of content requested by the UE, identifies in the data flow supplemental content that was not requested by the UE, makes a determination concerning transmission of the supplemental content, and transmits at least a portion of the data flow based on the determination. For example, a repetition frequency limit, a temporal limitation, or a repetition frequency limit and corresponding temporal limitation can be utilized to control transmission of the supplemental content. The supplemental content also can be charged separately from other content of the data flow. | 12-31-2015 |
20150381285 | WAVELENGTH-TUNABLE BURST-MODE RECEIVER - An apparatus, e.g. an optical receiver, includes an optical front end and a processor. The optical front end is configured to coherently receive an input optical signal and convert the input optical signal to a digital-electrical data stream. The processor is configured to recover a data stream from the digital-electrical data stream. The processor is further configured to compare a correlation pattern of the recovered data stream with a pre-determined correlation pattern. The processor is further configured to determine, from the comparison, coefficients of a filter configured to recover data encoded on the input digital-electrical data stream. | 12-31-2015 |
20150373648 | Non-Cooperative Power Control For Large-Scale Antenna Systems - A base station servicing a cell of a cellular network provides power control of a cell independent of any other cell in the network. For downlink power control, the base station transmits information at its full power and applies a downlink power control factor to each downlink channel to equalize downlink throughputs of the mobile terminals in the cell. For uplink power control, the base station transmits instructions to have the uplink channel with the worst channel condition to transmit at its full power and the other uplink channels to transmit at that same full power. Each transmission is scaled by a corresponding uplink power control factor such that uplink throughputs for the mobile terminals in the cell are equalized. The base station applies an approximation of a rigorous capacity lower bound algorithm using propagation channel conditions and channel parameters to calculate the uplink and downlink power control factors. | 12-24-2015 |
20150370931 | REDUCING THE DATA RATE OF COMPRESSIVE MEASUREMENT BY USING LINEAR PREDICTION - Various embodiments relate to a non-transitory machine-readable storage medium encoded with instructions for execution by a source device for compressive sensing a signal, wherein the source device acquires a set of compressive sensing measurements using a structured sensing matrix, the non-transitory machine-readable medium including: instructions for determining a signal specific coding scheme for the set of compressive sensing measurements; instructions for coding the compressed sensing measurements using the determined signal specific coding scheme; instructions for determining a parametric model describing the signal specific coding scheme for the encoded set of compressed sensing measurements; and instructions for transmitting a description of the parametric model to via a communications channel. | 12-24-2015 |
20150365911 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR A DISTRIBUTED WIRELESS NETWORK - WLAN controllers in a same mobility domain are able to dynamically discover other WLAN controllers in the same mobility domain across one or more layer 2 or layer 3 network boundaries. A WLAN controller in the mobility domain determines an address of at least one seed WLAN controller in the mobility domain from a configuration server. The WLAN controller registers with the at least one seed WLAN controller in the mobility domain and receives information for other WLAN controllers in the mobility domain from the at least one seed WLAN controller. The WLAN controller also receives synchronized wireless device information that allows a wireless device to roam from one AP adopted by the WLAN controller in a first access network to another AP adopted by another WLAN controller in a second different access network in the same mobility domain. | 12-17-2015 |
20150350755 | Method And Apparatus For The Management Of Remote Nodes In A Communication Network - A manner of performing remote-node management, for example the management of ONUs in a PON. In that type of optical network, a management node such as an OLT determines that a management command is to be transmitted and also determines the management protocol associated with the management command. A management message is generated, the management message having a header with a device identifier field. When the management message is generated, the device identifier field is populated with a value indicating whether the management command is associated with a default protocol or with an alternate protocol. The value in the device identifier field may identify specific alternate protocols so that when the manage device, for example an ONU in a PON, received the management message it may be directed to an appropriate interface point. | 12-03-2015 |
20150350415 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DETERMINING CROSSTALK FOR A JOINING LINE IN A VECTORED SYSTEM - At least one example embodiment discloses a method of determining crosstalk for a joining line in a communication system having a plurality of current active lines. The method includes obtaining a number of disturber lines among the plurality of current active lines, the number of disturber lines being less than a number of the plurality of current active lines, obtaining a pilot matrix, a first dimension of the pilot matrix being based on the number of disturber lines, the pilot matrix representing a sequence of pilots to be transmitted across the plurality of current active lines and the joining line, the first dimension being a number of time instances, the number of time instances being less than the number of the plurality of active lines and determining a crosstalk coupling vector for the joining line based on the pilot matrix. | 12-03-2015 |
20150350067 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF MINIMIZING PACKET LOSS DURING REDUNDANT PAIR SWITCHOVER - Systems, methods, architectures, mechanisms and/or apparatus to manage routing associated with a redundant pair of nodes during a switchover from an old active node to a new active node by establishing a tunnel there between to convey traffic routed to the old active node prior to routing protocol convergence at the new active node. | 12-03-2015 |
20150341647 | ACCELERATED IMAGE PROCESSING - An illustrative example method of processing image data includes dividing a block of data into a plurality of sub-blocks, the block of data corresponding to at least one image; selecting at least one of the sub-blocks according to a predetermined sequence; identifying a plurality of features of interest in the selected sub-block; and processing the selected sub-block to provide information regarding at least one of the features of interest. | 11-26-2015 |
20150341307 | Distributed Address Resolution Protocol Forwarding - A network device within a data communication network includes a plurality of network interfaces, each programmed with a respective set of Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) routing entries for correlating network addresses with physical addresses. Each network interface is further programmed with an additional respective set of Longest Prefix Match (LPM) routing entries for correlating other network addresses with designated network interfaces to enable traffic matching one of the LPM routing entries to be forwarded to the appropriate designated network interface within the network device. | 11-26-2015 |
20150333975 | Mobile Client-Driven Network Transitions - Methods and apparatuses for implementing a mobile client network transition are provided. In an embodiment, a network transition priority list including measured quality-of-service data for each of a plurality of networks within communications range of a mobile client is received. Each of the plurality of networks is ranked in accordance with one or more network administrator policies. An updated network transition priority list is generated based on the ranking of the plurality of networks, and the updated network transition priority list is transmitted to the mobile client. | 11-19-2015 |
20150333386 | CAVITY FILTER - In one embodiment, the cavity filter includes a housing defining a cavity, and at least one post projecting from a first interior surface of the housing towards a second interior surface of the housing. The first interior surface faces the second interior surface. The cavity filter further includes a thermo electric cooler disposed on the housing. The thermo electric cooler is configured to one of cool and heat at least a portion of the housing. | 11-19-2015 |
20150331777 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF GENERATING DATA CENTER ALARMS FOR MISSING EVENTS - Systems, methods, architectures, mechanisms and/or apparatus to manage alarm generation associated with the failure of an expected event or action to occur. | 11-19-2015 |
20150319787 | SELECTIVELY DECODING PACKET PAYLOADS BASED ON DECODED PACKET HEADERS - A wireless communication node selectively decodes a payload of a packet based on a measured signal strength of a decoded header of the packet and a modulation and coding scheme (MCS) used to encode the payload of the packet. In some embodiments, the MCS may be indicated in the decoded header of the packet. | 11-05-2015 |
20150319749 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING NETWORK RESOURCE IMPACT OF MIGRANT WI-FI USERS - A method, apparatus and system providing migrant or unauthenticated users associating with a Wi-Fi Access Point (WAP) with a minimal amount of address, data and other managed Wi-Fi network resources until such time as the migrant or unauthenticated users actually authenticate themselves. | 11-05-2015 |
20150319710 | Method And Apparatus For Reducing Interference In A Heterogeneous Network - Various methods and devices are provided to address the need for reducing interference in heterogeneous wireless networks. In one apparatus, a network node ( | 11-05-2015 |
20150319709 | Method And Apparatus Reducing Interference In A Heterogeneous Network - Various methods and devices are provided to address the need for reducing interference in heterogeneous wireless networks. In one apparatus, a network node ( | 11-05-2015 |
20150316711 | SMALL FOOTPRINT LIGHT PIPE PCB MOUNTING ADAPTOR - An apparatus and system providing a relatively low-profile, low-angle, small-footprint adapter for mounting a flexible light pipe to a PCB such that light may be readily transmitted from a PCB surface mounted LED through the light pipe. | 11-05-2015 |
20150312743 | OVERRIDE OF DISTRIBUTION ALGORITHMS FOR AN OFFLINE CHARGING SYSTEM - Systems and methods that override CDF distribution algorithms for offline charging. One embodiment comprises a distributor unit that connects to a plurality of Charging Data Functions (CDFs) of an offline charging system. The distributor unit receives a Diameter request from a Charging Trigger Function (CTF) for a Diameter session, and determines whether the Diameter request includes an override parameter indicating a destination CDF for the Diameter session. When the Diameter request includes the override parameter, the distributor unit sends the Diameter request to the destination CDF if the destination CDF is available. When the Diameter request does not include the override parameter, the distributor unit selects the destination CDF based on a distribution algorithm, inserts the override parameter in the Diameter request indicating the destination CDF, and sends the Diameter request to the destination CDF. | 10-29-2015 |
20150305034 | Method And Apparatus For Improved Multi-Carrier Communication - Various methods and apparatuses are provided to address the need for improved multi-carrier communication. In one apparatus, a radio access network (RAN) ( | 10-22-2015 |
20150303650 | Low Cost Directly Modulated TWDM Burst Mode Laser - A directly modulated multi-electrode DFB laser is used to transmit information in a TWDM environment where the output power and the output wavelength of the laser output signal are determined by the ratios of bias currents simultaneously applied to the electrodes of the laser by a control circuit. The total amount of current applied to the electrodes is kept to a constant value to maintain the temperature of the laser constant. The electrodes of the DFB laser are positioned so as not to experience any thermal coupling between them or with any other component of the DFB laser. | 10-22-2015 |
20150298680 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROL OF A HYBRID VEHICLE WITH REGENERATIVE BRAKING USING LOCATION AWARENESS - A hybrid vehicle includes a location awareness module that determines an energy profile for a portion of a roadway or for a known route. The energy profile includes one or more measurements of regenerative braking operations for predicted braking events. The hybrid vehicle determines an efficient use of an electric motor and generator (EMG) based on the energy profile of the roadway portion or the route. When the energy profile includes a predicted braking event, the hybrid vehicle determines to engage the EMG to discharge the battery system prior to the regenerative braking operation for the predicted braking event. | 10-22-2015 |
20150295650 | FILTER STRUCTURE FOR DRIVING AN OPTICAL MODULATOR - We disclose an opto-electronic circuit having an optical modulator and a driver circuit configured to generate a plurality of electrical drive signals for the optical modulator in a manner that causes the opto-electronic circuit to operate as a finite-impulse-response (FIR) filter. Different electrical drive signals generated by the driver circuit represent different taps of the FIR filter and are individually applied to different respective electrodes in the optical modulator without first being combined with one another prior to said individual application. The optical modulator represents an adder of the FIR filter and is configured to use the applied electrical drive signals to perform signal summation in the optical domain, thereby alleviating some of the limitations associated with the electrical RF circuitry used in the driver circuit. The opto-electronic circuit can be employed in optical transceivers and equalizers and be configured to implement signal pre-emphasis, feed-forward equalization, or decision-feedback equalization. | 10-15-2015 |
20150288827 | DATA ALLOCATION FOR PRE-PAID GROUP DATA PLANS - In one example embodiment, a group server includes a processor configured to receive a data quota usage report corresponding to data quota usage by at least one of a plurality of lines, the plurality of lines forming a group subject to a pre-paid data usage agreement with a data service provider and determine a data quota for the at least one of the plurality of lines based on at least the received data quota usage report and an accuracy threshold. | 10-08-2015 |
20150288540 | NETWORK DEVICE WITH SERVICE AND CLIENT ROUTING ELEMENTS CONFIGURED TO SUPPORT ANY-SOURCE MULTICAST EXTRANETS - A first network device comprises a service routing element and a client routing element. The service routing element is configured with a first anycast rendezvous point address so as be an anycast rendezvous point peer with at least a second network device in a service routing domain. The client routing element is configured with a second anycast rendezvous point address so as to be an anycast rendezvous point peer with at least a third network device in a client routing domain. The first network device receives in its service routing element from a service routing element of the second network device a register message identifying a multicast source, and provides at least a portion of the register message from its service routing element to its client routing element in a manner that allows the third network device to learn the identity of the multicast source from the client routing element. | 10-08-2015 |
20150287214 | METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR MONITORING OBJECTS OF INTEREST IN AREA WITH ACTIVITY MAPS - An apparatus for monitoring movement of objects of interest in an area includes an activity map generation circuit and a unified activity map generation circuit. The activity map generation circuit is configured to: generate a plurality of activity maps based on video content from a plurality of cameras, each of the plurality of activity maps being indicative of relative activity of the objects of interest over time within a field of view of a camera among the plurality of cameras, and each of the plurality of cameras having a different corresponding field of view in the area; and standardize the plurality of activity maps with regard to a single common point of view. The unified spatial activity map generation circuit is configured to combine the plurality of standardized activity maps into a unified activity map. | 10-08-2015 |
20150281464 | Distributed Collaborative Offline Charging System - A distributed collaborative offline charging system and method is provided. Charging is determined by receiving a reduced charging record at a charging control function. The reduced charging record includes a charging data subset and an index for charging parameters that are not included in reduced charging record. The charging control function retrieves the charging parameters that are not included in reduced charging record utilizing the index. | 10-01-2015 |
20150281166 | CHAT-BASED SUPPORT OF MULTIPLE COMMUNICATION INTERACTION TYPES - A chat-based communication capability is presented. In at least some embodiments, a chat-based communication capability utilizes a chat-based communication paradigm to support one or more communication interaction types not typically supported by chat-based communication paradigms. In at least some embodiments, a chat-based communication capability supports chat-based communication between a human entity and a non-human entity (e.g., a device, a program, a process, an organization, or the like). In at least some embodiments, a chat-based communication capability supports chat-based communication between multiple non-human entities (e.g., where the non-human entities may include devices, programs, processes, organizations, or the like). | 10-01-2015 |
20150281050 | Method for Adjacency Status Synchronization in Label Distribution Protocol - A method for providing LDP Hello Adjacency status synchronization between peers is disclosed. The method for providing LDP Hello Adjacency status synchronization between peers includes generating, by a first packet-switched network node, a Hello Adjacency Status type-length-value (TLV) comprising adjacency status specific data, wherein the Hello Adjacency Status TLV comprises an unknown (U) bit, a forwarding (F) bit, a type field indicating a Hello Adjacency Status type, a length field, and a status data field comprising the status specific data, wherein the status specific data comprises information about Hello Adjacency status; and transmitting, by the first packet-switched network node, the Hello Adjacency Status TLV to a second packet-switched network node. The method for providing LDP Hello Adjacency status synchronization between peers provides recovery advantages over systems known in the art by providing capability for a peer to receive information on the loss of Hello Adjacency from another peer. | 10-01-2015 |
20150280797 | Scalable TDD Calibration for Large-Scale Antenna Systems and the Like - In one embodiment, an LSAS base station has a tree architecture including a central controller at the tree root, one or more intermediate levels of hubs forming tree branches, and an antenna module for each service antenna at a tree leaf. To calibrate an overall ratio characterizing differences between downlink and uplink channels between the central controller and each antenna module, neighbor-calibration procedures are calibrate neighbor ratios between parent nodes and their child nodes. Appropriate neighbor ratios are multiplied to generate overall ratios. To reduce time required to perform the neighbor-calibration procedures, odd and even phases are performed. In the odd phase, neighbor ratios are generated between parents in all odd levels and their children in even levels, and analogously for the even phase for even-level parents and odd-level children. Within each phase, independent parent-child pairs can be calibrated simultaneously. | 10-01-2015 |
20150278823 | CLASSIFICATION OF DEVICE PROBLEMS OF CUSTOMER PREMISES DEVICES - A capability for classifying a device problem of a customer premises device of a customer is presented. The capability for classifying a device problem of a customer premises device of a customer may include receiving customer trouble ticket information of a trouble ticket associated with a customer, receiving customer device measurement information for a customer premises device of the customer, and classifying a device problem of the customer premises device based on text mining of the customer trouble ticket information and based on the customer device measurement information. | 10-01-2015 |
20150278549 | Anonymization of Streaming Data - Techniques are provided for anonymizing streamed data. In various embodiments data are anonymized by receiving a data element (p | 10-01-2015 |
20150271738 | METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR FACILITATING DORMANT CELL DISCOVERY - A method of facilitating dormant small cell discovery in a wireless communications network including at least a small cell and a second cell includes changing, at the small cell, an operating state of the small cell from an active state to a dormant state, the dormant state being a state in which the small cell transmits discovery signals and does not transmit DL broadcast or DL control channels, the discovery signals being signals through which user equipments (UE)s discover the dormant small cell; sending, from the dormant small cell, a notification, the notification identifying, for at least the second cell, a duty cycle with which the first small cell will periodically transmit the discovery signals; and transmitting, from the dormant small, the discovery signals using a periodic transmission pattern that includes active portions and non-active portions defined by the duty cycle. | 09-24-2015 |
20150262905 | GROUNDING SYSTEM FOR COOLING OF ELECTRONIC DEVICES USING DIELECTRIC FLUIDS - An apparatus comprising an integrated circuit. The integrated circuit comprises a substrate having a planar surface, a plurality of active electronic and/or optical devices located over the planar surface in the integrated circuit, and, a planar channel having a hollow interior and being located between the active electronic and/or optical devices, and the substrate. A portion of a segment of the planar channel is formed of metal or graphene. | 09-17-2015 |
20150257123 | WIRELESS ACCESS NODE CALIBRATION CAPABILITY FOR IMPROVED MOBILE WIRELESS DEVICE LOCATION ACCURACY - A capability for determining an offset of a wireless access node is presented. The determined offset of the wireless access node may be used by a location determination process associated with the wireless access node and configured to determine locations of mobile wireless devices that are communicating via the wireless access node. The offset of a wireless access node may be determined by determining a known location of a device when the device communicates via the wireless access node, determining an estimated location of the device when the device communicates via the wireless access node where the estimated location of the device is determined using the location determination process associated with the wireless access node, and determining the offset of the wireless access node based on the known location of the device and the estimated location of the device. | 09-10-2015 |
20150257035 | METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR CONGESTION MANAGEMENT IN WIRELESS NETWORKS WITH MOBILE HTTP ADAPTIVE STREAMING - In a method for controlling congestion within a cell of a wireless network providing mobile HTTP adaptive streaming (HAS), a mobile HAS client in the cell delays a request for a next HAS segment of a HAS media stream for a delay time interval in response to a notification of congestion within the cell. The mobile HAS client calculates a reduced bitrate for the next HAS segment, and requests the next HAS segment at the reduced bitrate after expiration of the delay time interval. The reduced bitrate is reduced relative to a bitrate for a previous HAS segment of the HAS media stream. | 09-10-2015 |
20150256267 | OPTICAL RECEIVER HAVING A DIGITAL CHROMATIC-DISPERSION COMPENSATOR BASED ON REAL-VALUED ARITHMETIC - An optical receiver comprising an optical-to-electrical converter and a digital processor having first and second equalizer stages. The optical-to-electrical converter is configured to mix an optical input signal and an optical reference signal to generate a plurality of electrical digital measures of the optical input signal. The digital processor is configured to process the electrical digital measures to recover the data carried by the optical input signal. The first equalizer stage in the digital processor is configured to perform chromatic-dispersion-compensation processing in a manner that does not mix different electrical digital measures prior to signal-equalization processing in the second equalizer stage, which enables the first equalizer stage to operate using real-valued arithmetic. These characteristics of the first equalizer stage enable the second equalizer stage to more-effectively mitigate signal impairments for signals received through CD-impaired optical-transport links because various orthogonality-degrading effects can now be tracked and compensated more accurately therein. | 09-10-2015 |
20150250009 | ACCESS INDEPENDENT SIGNALING AND CONTROL - Various exemplary embodiments relate to a method, network node, and non-transitory machine-readable storage medium including one or more of the following: enabling communication via a first a second access network, wherein the first access network is a first type and the second access network is a second type; communicating with a first control application via at least one of the first access network and the second access network according to a signaling protocol that is used for the communication without regard for which of the first access network and the second access network are used for the communication, wherein the communication effects a change to service provided via at least one data bearer across at least one of the first access network and the second access network, and communicating via the at least one data bearer to exchange non-control application data with at least one other network device. | 09-03-2015 |
20150249868 | INTERNET PROTOCOL TELEVISION TIERED SERVICE DELIVERY OVER WI-FI NETWORKS - Systems and methods that provide different levels of Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) services on Wi-Fi networks utilizing concurrent multicast streams. One embodiment comprises a Wi-Fi Access Point (AP) that identifies IPTV channel subscription information for users of Wi-Fi client devices. The AP utilizes multiple Group Temporal Keys (GTKs) to concurrently encrypt and multicast different IPTV channels, and provides the appropriate GTKs to the client devices based on the subscription information to allow different users of the Wi-Fi client devices to receive different packages of IPTV channels. | 09-03-2015 |
20150249867 | Internet Protocol Television Via Public Wi-Fi Network - An apparatus, e.g. a wireless media access point, includes a transceiver, a non-transitory storage medium, and a processor operably coupled to the transceiver and the storage medium. The processor is configured by instructions stored on the storage medium to transmit a first multicast channel associated with a first group temporal key (GTK), and to simultaneously transmit a second multicast channel associated with a second GTK. | 09-03-2015 |
20150248680 | MULTILAYER DYNAMIC MODEL OF CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE - An opinion score for a customer associated with a service provider can be determined based on a first function. Parameters of the first function are determined are determined in conjunction with determining parameters of a second function that relates a first probability of a customer behavior event to the opinion score and a third function that relates a second probability of a customer action to an accumulation of the opinion score over a predetermined time interval. The parameters are determined based on one or more values representative of session performance associated with the customer, a measured value of the first probability, and a measured value of the second probability. The parameters are stored in a profile associated with the customer. | 09-03-2015 |
20150247915 | Method And Apparatus For Determining Tag Location - Various embodiments provide a method and apparatus for determining tag location by using one or more estimated channel responses (CR) that characterize the wireless channel between the tag and one or more respective anchors. In particular, a tracking server in communication with the anchor(s) determines the tag's location based on a comparison of the estimated CR(s) with a set of stored CRs associated with the anchor(s). | 09-03-2015 |
20150245318 | RATE ALLOCATION METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR OPTIMIZATION OF ADAPTIVE WIRELESS VIDEO STREAMING - A method and an apparatus for adaptively allocating available bandwidth for network users. The method is particularly beneficial in improving a viewing experience for mobile devices accessing the network, while also maximizing the number of supported users within the network. An adaptively adjusted control parameter is used in conjunction with a utility function to assign a provisional rate for users entering the network. Based on the assigned provisional rate, the method then admits prospective new network users, if enough free capacity exists to service the new user at the provisional rate. | 08-27-2015 |
20150244980 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REDUCING LATENCY IN VIDEO DELIVERY - A system and a method for producing a low-latency video for transmission over a network. The low-latency video may be created by modeling a select portion of original video data and comparing a current frame of the model against previous frames of the model in order to estimate the select portions of the original video data. The estimated, select portions of the original video data may be combined with a remainder of the original video data (such as background images) in order to produce the low-latency video. Model data and the original video data can be transmitted over the network using different paths in order to ensure that the model data is transmitted as quickly as possible, thereby allowing enough time for a morpher to process the model data before combining the model with the original video data. | 08-27-2015 |
20150244843 | HEADER ELIMINATION FOR REAL TIME INTERNET APPLICATIONS - The disclosed techniques provide for eliminating real-time transport protocol, RTP, extension bit X, marker bit M, time stamp and sequence number information and/or user data protocol, UDP, checksum information from the header of a packet for transmission. | 08-27-2015 |
20150244842 | PACKET CLASSIFICATION USING MULTIPLE PROCESSING UNITS - A packet classification capability is presented herein. The packet classification capability enables improvements in packet classification via use of a combination of a primary processing unit and a secondary processing unit where the secondary processing unit is configured to perform packet classification functions in parallel based on distribution of packet classification information across processing blocks of the secondary processing unit. The processing blocks of the secondary processing unit may be supported using a set of processing elements, where each of the processing elements may include a shared memory, respectively. The secondary processing unit may be configured to use a linear search process, a tuple search process, a Bloom search process, or the like. The primary processing unit may be a Central Processing Unit (CPU) and the secondary processing unit may be a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU). | 08-27-2015 |
20150244442 | METHOD AND APPARATUS TO GENERATE VIRTUAL SECTOR WIDE STATIC BEAMS USING PHASE SHIFT TRANSMIT DIVERSITY - In one embodiment, the method includes receiving a signal, and generating first and second transmission signals from the received signal. The first signal has a fixed phase, and the second signal has a phase that changes over time. The first and second signals are sent from first and second antennas, respectively. | 08-27-2015 |
20150236966 | CONTROL OF CONGESTION WINDOW SIZE OF AN INFORMATION TRANSMISSION CONNECTION - A capability for controlling a size of a congestion window of an information transmission connection (ITC) is provided. The size of the congestion window of the ITC may be controlled based on a threshold, which may be based on an ideal bandwidth-delay product (IBDP) value. The IBDP value may be based on a product of an information transmission rate measure and a time measure. The information transmission rate measure may be based on a target information transmission rate for the ITC. The time measure may be based on a round-trip time measured between a sender of the ITC and a receiver of the ITC. The threshold may be a cap threshold where the size of the congestion window is prevented from exceeding the cap threshold. The threshold may be a reset threshold which may be used to control a reduction of the size of the congestion window. | 08-20-2015 |
20150236809 | Multi-Wavelength Laser Apparatus And Methods - An apparatus includes a laser that includes a plurality of optical cavities, separate optical gain media for each of the cavities, an optical demultiplexer, and a periodic optical filter. The optical demultiplexer demultiplexes a common portion of the optical cavities into separate portions. The periodic optical filter is inserted into the common portion of the optical cavities. | 08-20-2015 |
20150236783 | Apparatus And Method For Protection In A Data Center - A manner of providing redundancy protection for a data center network that is both reliable and low-cost. In a data center network where the data traffic between numerous access nodes and a network core layer via primary aggregation nodes, an optical network device such as and OLT (optical line terminal) is provided as a backup aggregation node for one or more of the primary aggregation nodes. When a communication path through a primary aggregation node fails, traffic is routed through the optical network device. In a preferred embodiment, a communication link is formed from a plurality of access nodes to a single port of the OLT or other optical network device via an optical splitter that combines upstream transmissions and distributes downstream transmissions. The upstream transmissions from the plurality of access nodes may occur according to an allocation schedule generated when the backup aggregation node is needed. | 08-20-2015 |
20150235543 | Network Switch With Enhanced Interface - A network switch is provided that has an enhanced interface wherein an integrated circuit device is provided that facilitates the delivery of enhanced status information from the network switch. This integrated circuit, illustratively, a field programmable gate array (FPGA) or programmable logic device (PLD) such as a complex programmable logic device (CPLD), facilitates the delivery of enhanced status indicator information in conjunction with the resident networking switch semiconductor device (i.e., an Ethernet switch or PHY device). The enhanced status indicator information is conveyed using more LEDs (i.e., more than the resident networking semiconductor device contains by itself), and thus more information can be displayed and conveyed by such LEDs. | 08-20-2015 |
20150233997 | TRANSFORMER EVALUATION - An illustrative method of evaluating a condition of a plurality of transformers that are located remotely from each other, includes: obtaining an ambient temperature for respective sites of the transformers at a plurality of times during a period; determining respective loading at the transformers at the plurality of times; and determining respective aging rates of the transformers during the period based on the respective ambient temperatures and loadings. | 08-20-2015 |
20150230215 | Common Search Space In Secondary ENBS - A method is provided for receiving, at a receiving device, a control information message from a transmitting device. An example method includes determining at a user equipment (UE) a status of the UE and monitoring at the UE based on the status either a common search space (CSS) of a cell or a UE-specific search space (USS) of the cell. The cell is a cell of a secondary eNodeB for communicating with the UE. The method may further include monitoring a CSS and a USS of a cell of a master eNodeB (MeNB) simultaneously while monitoring either the CSS or the USS of the cell of the secondary eNodeB. The status may be a status of the UE with respect to a Random Access Channel (RACH) procedure with the cell | 08-13-2015 |
20150229778 | OFFLINE CHARGING FOR RICH COMMUNICATION SERVICES (RCS) - Systems and methods that provide charging for Rich Communication Services (RCS). One embodiment comprises an offline charging system that receives a Diameter charging request from a network element that provides a Rich Communication Services (RCS) service. The offline charging system processes an Attribute Value Pair (AVP) of the Diameter charging request to identify an RCS service Identifier (ID) that uniquely identifies the RCS service. The offline charging system selects RCS charging logic for the RCS service based on the RCS service ID, and initiates the RCS charging logic to charge for the RCS service. | 08-13-2015 |
20150229459 | Interference Cancellation in TDD Massive MIMO Wireless Systems - Directed inter-cell interference experienced by the downlink of a massive MIMO wireless communication network base station due to pilot contamination that occurs as a result of pilot signal reuse is significantly reduced by encoding signals to be transmitted over the downlink into robust signals. The robust signals along with corresponding beamforming vectors are transmitted over the downlink where the beamforming vectors are estimated by the base station using received fast fading pilot sequences. The encoding is performed by an interference cancellation algorithm whose use is proper when the communication network can be characterized as having one transmitter at each of its nodes (i.e., the base stations) and all the channel coefficients of the network are known by every node. | 08-13-2015 |
20150223227 | Distributed Generation of Slow-Fading Post-Coding Vectors for LSAS Communication Networks and the Like - In one embodiment, a cellular wireless communications network, such as a large-scale antenna system (LSAS) network, having multiple base stations is logically divided into overlapping, virtual, truncated networks, where each base station functions as the master of a different truncated network, and each truncated network also has one or more base stations that function as slaves to that master base station. Each master base station generates estimated slow-fading coefficients and a slow-fading post-coding (SFP) vector based only on the wireless units current located within its truncated network. In particular, to generate the SFP vector, the master collects estimated slow-fading coefficients and estimated uplink data symbols from its slaves. The master uses the SFP vector to update its own estimated uplink data symbols for the wireless units currently located within its own cell. | 08-06-2015 |
20150215328 | Methods and Devices for Defending a 3G Wireless Network Against Malicious Attacks - Wireless state information collected or inferred from a 3G wireless network is used to detect and prevent malicious attacks against the network. | 07-30-2015 |
20150215043 | Lasers Based On Optical Ring-Resonators - An apparatus includes a laser that includes an optical gain medium and first and second optical ring-resonators. The optical gain medium and the optical ring-resonators are serially optically connected together to form one or more segments of an optical cavity of the laser. One of the optical ring-resonators has a Mach-Zehnder interferometer forming an internal optical waveguide segment of the one of the optical ring-resonators. | 07-30-2015 |
20150207896 | DEVICES AND METHODS FOR CONTENT DISTRIBUTION IN A COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK - According to at least one example embodiment, a method for transmitting data files in a network includes receiving requests from user devices for packets of the data files. The method includes constructing a conflict graph such that each packet requested by each user device is represented by a distinct vertex in a plurality of vertices of the conflict graph, the constructing being based on which of the plurality of vertices represent a same requested packet and which requested packets are stored in caches belonging to the user devices. The method includes coloring the plurality of vertices of the conflict graph to label the requested packets. The method includes combining the packets represented by vertices having a same color. The method includes sending the combined packets. | 07-23-2015 |
20150207881 | DEVICES AND METHODS FOR NETWORK-CODED AND CACHING-AIDED CONTENT DISTRIBUTION - A method for caching in a network includes determining popularities for a plurality of data files based on requests for the plurality of data files. The method includes sending random packets of the plurality of data files to at least one destination based on the popularities. The method may include ranking the plurality of data files from a most popular data file to a least popular data file using the determined popularities. The method may include selecting, for each data file, a number of random packets based on the ranking, wherein the sending sends the selected number of random packets for each data file. | 07-23-2015 |
20150205046 | METHOD AND ASSEMBLY INCLUDING A CONNECTION BETWEEN METAL LAYERS AND A FUSIBLE MATERIAL - An illustrative assembly includes a first component having a hole between two first component surfaces. The hole includes a first metal layer on the first component inside the hole. A second component includes a second component surfaced adjacent one of the first component surfaces. The second component includes a second metal layer on the second component. A fusible material is at least partially in the hole and at least partially in the recess. The metal alloy establishes a connection between the first and second metal layers. | 07-23-2015 |
20150201000 | DISTRIBUTED COMPUTATION OF LINEAR COMBINATIONS IN A NETWORK - A first source node transmits a first transmission vector formed by multiplying a vector of input values and an inverse of a transfer matrix that relates vectors transmitted from the first source node via a plurality of intermediate nodes to vectors received at a plurality of destination nodes. Each of the intermediate nodes transmits a vector formed by a linear operation performed on received vectors. The linear operation may be determined based on linear combinations of the first transmission vector and one or more second transmission vectors transmitted by second source nodes. The linear combinations are to be received at the destination nodes. The linear operation is chosen so that propagation of the first transmission vector through the intermediate nodes produces, at the destination nodes, predetermined linear combinations of the first transmission vector and one or more second transmission vectors transmitted by one or more second source nodes. | 07-16-2015 |
20150198447 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INDOOR POSITION TAGGING - A system and method for position tagging within an environment includes at least one mobile electronic device adapted to be moved within the environment and a pedestrian dead reckoning module. The at least one mobile electronic device includes an inertial measurement unit and at least one of a near field communication chip, barcode scanner, global positioning system, Bluetooth receiver or WiFi receiver. The pedestrian dead reckoning module is adapted to query and record time stamped readings from the inertial measurement unit and the at least one of the near field communication chip, barcode scanner, global positioning system, Bluetooth receiver or WiFi receiver. The system and method may generate one or more spatial maps of the environment through the collection of radio frequency signal data along with the time stamped readings. | 07-16-2015 |
20150198443 | LOCALIZATION ACTIVITY CLASSIFICATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS - A system and method for providing multi-floor activity classification for a mobile device within a multi-floor environment includes an activity recognition module receiving inertial readings and pressure readings from the mobile device. The activity recognition module classifies activities for the mobile device from the inertial readings and the pressure readings. | 07-16-2015 |
20150195726 | ESTIMATING AVAILABLE CELL CAPACITY BASED ON MONITORED NETWORK DATA - In one embodiment, a method comprises monitoring network data associated with a cell of a communication network for one or more channel conditions, estimating total cell capacities for respective channel conditions based on the monitored network data, and estimating an available cell capacity based at least in part on the total cell capacity estimates and a portion of the monitored network data. The method may also include sending information derived from at least a portion of the network data to a server and receiving from the server total cell capacities for respective channel conditions, where the total cell capacities received from the server are used to estimate the available cell capacity. The method may further include sending the available cell capacity estimate to the server and receiving from the server an available cell capacity. | 07-09-2015 |
20150195616 | SELECTIVE PRESENTATION OF VIDEO ON DEMAND CONTENT SEGMENTS - Systems and methods are disclosed that temporarily suspend the presentation of VOD content that has been indicated as objectionable to a user. One embodiment is a client device that receives a Video On Demand (VOD) datastream, and identifies a time period within the VOD datastream that includes content indicated as objectionable to a user. The client device temporally suspends presentation of the VOD datastream to the user during the time period. | 07-09-2015 |
20150195189 | MULTIPLE TREE ROUTED SELECTIVE RANDOMIZED LOAD BALANCING - Various exemplary embodiments relate to a method, network node, and non-transitory machine-readable storage medium including one or more of the following: receiving a message at the network node; selecting a routing tree of a plurality of routing trees based on a plurality of weights associated with the plurality of routing trees; determining a next hop network node for the message based on the selected routing tree; and forwarding the message to the next hop network node. | 07-09-2015 |
20150195039 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INTERCHANGING DATA IN A HYBRID ETHERNET-BASED PASSIVE OPTICAL NETWORK - An interworking unit and a method of interchanging data between an optical network and a cable distribution network. In one embodiment, the interworking unit includes: (1) a cable line terminal module operable to communicate with a plurality of cable network units via a cable distribution network and (2) an optical networking unit module coupled to the cable line terminal module and operable to generate a message requesting registration of the interworking unit as an optical networking unit in an optical network and reporting a speed of the cable distribution network. | 07-09-2015 |
20150189689 | Methods And Systems For Optimizing Short Data Burst Services Over An LTE Network - Methods and related systems for managing wireless network capacity in support of short data burst (SDB) services over long term evolution (LTE)-based networks are provided. Such methods and systems provide improved efficiency and performance, thereby increasing the capacity of LTE-based networks to support SDB services. | 07-02-2015 |
20150188964 | Rendering rated media content on client devices using packet-level ratings - A content delivery system provides packet-level ratings of media content for use by client devices in rendering the media content thereon. A client device can store a permission level and compare the permission level with respective rating levels included in received media packets. The media content within the received media packets is rendered on the client device on the condition that the permission level compares favorably with the associated rating level and blocked on the condition that the permission level compares unfavorably with the associated rating level. | 07-02-2015 |
20150188814 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND APPARATUS PROVIDING BI-DIRECTIONAL FORWARDING DETECTION SUPPORT TO UNNUMBERED IP INTERFACES - A system, method and apparatus providing BFD support to unnumbered IP Interfaces in MPLS networks using a newly defined interface identifier (IF-ID) sub-object included within one or more BFD protocol messages to extend the use of BFD protocol to unnumbered IP interfaces. | 07-02-2015 |
20150181449 | Method And Apparatus For Monitoring Mobile Communication Networks - A manner of monitoring communications networks, and in a preferred embodiment specifically of monitoring and reporting RF (radio frequency) signal strength in mobile communication networks. A mobile device manager generates and transmits one or more measurement request messages and receives network-characteristic measurements in response. These responses are stored and aggregated and may be used to generate network maps and generate alarms as appropriate or at the request of a network operator. | 06-25-2015 |
20150180796 | NETWORK RESOURCE MANAGEMENT FOR PARALLEL COMPUTING - An illustrative example computing system includes a parallel computing controller configured to communicate control information with a plurality of computing nodes over a virtual private network. A cloud computing controller is configured to receive a communication from the parallel computing controller. Based at least in part on the received communication, the cloud computing controller allocates cloud computing resources to facilitate data traffic communication involving at least one of the plurality of computing nodes. | 06-25-2015 |
20150180769 | SCALE-UP OF SDN CONTROL PLANE USING VIRTUAL SWITCH BASED OVERLAY - A capability for scale-up of a control plane of a Software Defined Network (SDN) using a virtual switch based overlay is presented. A central controller (CC) of the SDN that is providing control functions for a physical switch (pSwitch) of the SDN, based on a determination that the control plane between the CC and the pSwitch is congested, modifies the default flow forwarding rule on the pSwitch from a rule indicating that new traffic flows are to be forwarded to the central controller to a rule indicating that new traffic flows are to be forwarded to a virtual switch (vSwitch). Upon receipt of a first packet of a new traffic flow at the pSwitch, the pSwitch provides the first packet of the new traffic flow to the vSwitch, which in turn provides an indication of the first packet of the new traffic flow to the CC for processing by the CC. | 06-25-2015 |
20150180603 | Wavelength-Selective Cross-Connect Device Having a Variable Number of Common Ports - A configurable wavelength-selective cross-connect (WSXC) device having an array of optical ports in which at least some of the ports are configurable to operate as common ports or as plural ports. The configurable WSXC device includes a MEMS mirror array whose mirrors are tiltable in a manner that enables, e.g., reconfigurations of the configurable WSXC device that result in a change of the number of common ports therein. In one possible configuration, the configurable WSXC device can operate as 1×M | 06-25-2015 |
20150178945 | METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR DETECTING ANOMALIES USING TRANSFORM BASED COMPRESSED SENSING MATRICES - A measurement vector of compressive measurements is received. The measurement vector may be derived by applying a sensing matrix to a source signal. The sensing matrix may be derived from a frequency domain transform. At least one first feature vector is generated from the measurement vector. The first feature vector is an estimate of a second feature vector. The second feature vector is a feature vector that corresponds to a translation of the source signal. An anomaly is detected to in the source signal based on the first feature vector. | 06-25-2015 |
20150178944 | METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR DETECTING ANOMALIES IN THE COMPRESSED SENSING DOMAIN - A measurement vector of compressive measurements is received. The measurement vector may be derived by applying a sensing matrix to a source signal. At least one first feature vector is generated from the measurement vector. The first feature vector is an estimate of a second feature vector. The second feature vector is a feature vector that corresponds to a translation of the source signal. An anomaly is detected to in the source signal based on the first feature vector. | 06-25-2015 |
20150163784 | Resource Allocation in Support of Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP) in a Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) System - Method and apparatus for allocating resources to real-time traffic communication in an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) based system are provided. An example method includes assigning, selecting, mapping and transmitting. One or more Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP) packets are assigned to a single bundled packet. A first modulation and coding scheme (MCS) of a set of MCSs is selected. The first MCS is the one MCS of the set of MCSs capable of mapping the bundled packet to a smallest possible amount of physical OFDMA resources while addressing one or more negative impacts of interference on a link associated with the real-time traffic communication. The bundled packet is mapped to the smallest possible amount of physical OFDMA resources based on the first MCS selected. The bundled packet is transmitted using the first MCS selected and over the smallest possible amount of physical OFDMA resources mapped. | 06-11-2015 |
20150163202 | SECURITY KEY GENERATION FOR SIMULTANEOUS MULTIPLE CELL CONNECTIONS FOR MOBILE DEVICE - A first security context is established between a given user computing device and a first network computing device associated with a first network cell of a communications network to enable a secure data connection between the given user computing device and the first network computing device. A second security context is established between the given user computing device and a second network computing device associated with a second network cell of the communications network to enable a secure data connection between the given user computing device and the second network computing device simultaneous with the secure data connection between the given user computing device and the first network computing device. Establishment of the second security context includes the first network computing device sending the given user computing device a simultaneous secure data connection parameter useable by the given user computing device to establish the second security context with the second network computing device. | 06-11-2015 |
20150163157 | ALLOCATION AND MIGRATION OF CLOUD RESOURCES IN A DISTRIBUTED CLOUD SYSTEM - A capability is provided for allocating and migrating cloud resources in a distributed cloud system. A cloud resource request is received and an associated cloud resource allocation is determined. The cloud resource request includes cloud resource request information. The cloud resource request information includes a cloud resource allocation parameter associated with allocation of requested cloud resources responsive to the cloud resource request and a cloud resource migration parameter associated with migration of cloud resources allocated responsive to the cloud resource request. The cloud resource allocation includes cloud resource allocation information specifying allocation of cloud resources within the cloud system responsive to the cloud resource request and cloud resource migration information specifying migration of cloud resources allocated within the cloud system responsive to the cloud resource request. | 06-11-2015 |
20150163131 | ONLINE APPLICATION TESTING OF GROWN APPLICATION CAPACITY - A capability for online application testing of grown application capacity is presented. The capability for online application testing of grown application capacity enables grown application capacity of a cloud-based application to be tested and validated while the application remains online for handling of live application traffic. The capability for online application testing of grown application capacity enables grown application capacity of a cloud-based application to be tested and validated with minimal impact or risk to the application traffic of the application or the existing application capacity of the application. The capability for online application testing of grown application capacity may support online testing of grown application capacity for various mechanisms for growing application capacity of a cloud-based application (e.g., horizontal growth mechanisms, vertical growth mechanisms, pseudo-vertical growth mechanisms, or the like). | 06-11-2015 |
20150156170 | Security Event Routing In a Distributed Hash Table - Embodiments include components of a computer defense network (CND) architecture, e.g. a content addressable network (CAN) gateway, a CAN peer or a CND controller. The gateway is configured to receive from a host a security event log that includes a protocol tag, and to securely forward the log to a selected one of a plurality of CAN peers based on the protocol tag. The CAN peer is configured to configured to filter the events based on an assigned communication protocol, and to produce a security report from the filtered events. The CND controller is configured to receive the filtered report from the peer and to defend the network against a threat based on the report. | 06-04-2015 |
20150156014 | Method And Apparatus For ONU Authentication - A manner of authenticating subscriber devices for operation in an optical access network, such as ONUs attempting to access a PON. When a managing node such as an OLT in a PON detects a subscriber device, it sends a request for a text string or password, which is presumably resident on the subscriber device and known to the managing node. | 06-04-2015 |
20150147027 | HYBRID WAVELENGTH SELECTIVE SWITCH - An optical apparatus, comprising a wavelength selective switch, the wavelength selective switch including: one or more planar lightwave circuits and a plurality of optical beam steering assemblies. Each one of the planar lightwave circuits have at least one arrayed waveguide grating located thereon. | 05-28-2015 |
20150143043 | DECENTRALIZED ONLINE CACHE MANAGEMENT FOR DIGITAL CONTENT - A first cache is provided to cache a first portion of a first block of digital content received over a network connection shared between a first user associated with the first cache and at least one second user. The first cache caches the first portion in response to the first user or the second user(s) requesting the first block. The first cache selects the first portion based on a fullness of the first cache, a number of blocks cached in the first cache, or a cache eviction rule associated with the first cache. | 05-21-2015 |
20150139640 | OPTICAL MONITORING USING OPTICAL FREQUENCY COMBS - In one embodiment, an optical performance monitor (OPM) is configured to monitor a received optical wavelength-division-multiplexed (WDM) signal generated by modulating spectral lines of an optical frequency comb. The OPM is further configured to mix the received optical WDM signal with light of another optical frequency comb having a slightly different tooth spacing to generate a set of beat signals at frequencies representing frequency differences between the spectral lines (such as, at the carrier frequencies) of the optical WDM signal and the spectral lines of said another optical frequency comb. The OPM can further be configured to measure one or more parameters of the received optical WDM signal based on the characteristics of the generated beat signals and provide the resulting OPM data to a system controller for maintaining favorable signal-transport conditions within the system. | 05-21-2015 |
20150134329 | CONTENT IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM - The content of a media program is recognized by analyzing its audio content to extract therefrom prescribed features, which are compared to a database of features associated with identified content. The identity of the content within the database that has features that most closely match the features of the media program being played is supplied as the identity of the program being played. The features are extracted from a frequency domain version of the media program by a) filtering the coefficients to reduce their number, e.g., using triangular filters; b) grouping a number of consecutive outputs of triangular filters into segments; and c) selecting those segments that meet prescribed criteria, such as those segments that have the largest minimum segment energy with prescribed constraints that prevent the segments from being too close to each other. The triangular filters may be log-spaced and their output may be normalized. | 05-14-2015 |
20150126287 | Methods And Devices For Maintaining Sessions Based On Presence Status Information - Sessions, such as on-line gaming sessions, are maintained by proxy agents on behalf of users even when the users are inactive. The agents, along with other components, form a novel “always-on” architecture that greatly reduces the time it takes to initiate and carry out sessions. | 05-07-2015 |
20150121435 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR LOCAL DISTRIBUTION OF MULTIPLE MULTIMEDIA CHANNELS FROM MULTIMEDIA SERVICE PROVIDER - A set top box (STB) for local distribution of multiple multimedia channels from a multimedia service provider is provided. The STB includes a receiver, a multimedia signal processor, an audio signal processor, and a wireless transmitter. The user can access a plurality of multimedia channels carrying a multimedia signal with audio and video content. The receiver selects first and second multimedia channels for local distribution based on channel selection criteria. The STB distributes the first multimedia channel via a multimedia output path to a multimedia device. The STB distributes the second multimedia channel via an audio output path to an audio device. The wireless transmitter may include an FM transmitter. A media distribution unit for local distribution of multiple multimedia channels from a multimedia service provider and a method associated therewith are also provided. | 04-30-2015 |
20150119086 | SIMULTANEOUS LOCALIZATION AND MAPPING SYSTEMS AND METHODS - A system and method for providing localization and mapping within an environment includes at least one mobile device adapted to be moved within the environment. The at least one mobile device includes an inertial measurement unit and at least one radio frequency receiver. The at least one mobile device detects inertial measurements through the inertial measurement unit and values of signal strength through the at least one radio frequency receiver. The system and method also includes a localization module that provides simultaneous localization and mapping of the at least one mobile device within the environment based at least on the inertial measurements detected by the inertial measurement unit and the values of signal strength detected by the at least one radio frequency receiver. | 04-30-2015 |
20150117178 | NETWORK DEVICE CONFIGURED TO GENERATE EMPTY ROUTE FOR LIMITING NUMBER OF WITHDRAWAL MESSAGES - A first network device is configured to originate an actual route by sending a multicast join message to a particular next-hop network device, and in conjunction with originating the actual route, to generate an empty route associated with the next-hop network device for use in limiting a number of withdrawal messages that would otherwise result upon a failure in the actual route. The first network device may be further configured to generate an unreachability indicator message for the empty route indicating that the next-hop network device is unreachable responsive to the failure in the actual route, and to send the unreachability indicator message for the empty route to one or more additional network devices, with the unreachability indicator message causing each such additional network device to delete multiple actual routes to the next-hop network device that are represented by the empty route. | 04-30-2015 |
20150113144 | VIRTUAL RESOURCE PLACEMENT FOR CLOUD-BASED APPLICATIONS AND SOLUTIONS - A virtual resource placement management capability is presented herein. The virtual resource placement management capability enables a cloud consumer to manage placement of virtual resources of the cloud consumer by a cloud service provider within a cloud environment of the cloud service provider. The virtual resource placement management capability may support management of placement of virtual resources of a cloud consumer onto physical resources of a cloud service provider (e.g., physical resources used by the cloud service provider to provide a cloud environment), which also may be referred to herein as mapping of virtual resources of a cloud consumer onto physical resources of a cloud service provider. The virtual resource placement management capability may support management of placement of virtual resources of a cloud-based application or a cloud-based solution of a cloud consumer onto physical resources of a cloud service provider. | 04-23-2015 |
20150109461 | AUTOMATED TESTING OF MEDIA DEVICES - A device testing capability is presented herein. The device testing capability supports automated testing of media devices (e.g., cameras, microphones, speakers, or the like) for verifying that the media devices are functioning properly. The device testing capability may support automated verification by an endpoint that one or more media devices or one or more sets of media devices associated with endpoint are functioning properly. For example, the device testing capability may support automated verification by a computer that a camera associated with the computer is functioning properly. For example, the device testing capability may support automated verification by a computer that a speaker and a microphone that are associated with the computer are functioning properly. The device testing capability may support automated verification, by a management system, of the proper functioning of media devices associated with endpoints in a set of endpoints. | 04-23-2015 |
20150108336 | DETECTOR DEVICE - An apparatus according to an exemplary aspect of the present disclosure includes, among other things, a substrate, at least one semiconductor light-detector on the substrate and an optical waveguide on the substrate. The optical waveguide is configured to guide light to the at least one light-detector, one or more vias in a surface of the substrate or one or more ridges on the surface of the substrate. The one or more vias or ridges are configured to at least partially interrupt light propagating along the surface toward the at least one semiconductor light-detector from outside the optical waveguide. | 04-23-2015 |
20150106820 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING ALLOCATING RESOURCES - Various embodiments provide a method and apparatus for allocating resources to processes by using statistical allocation based on the determined maximum average resource demand at any time across all applications (“ | 04-16-2015 |
20150103753 | INTERFERENCE ALIGNMENT FOR TRANSMITTER/RECEIVER PAIRS IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS - Interference is mitigated in a wireless communication system using interference alignment techniques to cancel inter-cell interference based on a decoding order while using joint decoding to cancel intra-cell interference. Second transmitter-receiver pairs proximate a first transmitter-receiver pair may be selected so that the first transmitter-receiver pair is in a first cell and the second transmitter-receiver pairs are not in the first cell. Signals transmitted by the second transmitter-receiver pairs may be aligned to be received by the first transmitter-receiver pair in a first subspace of channels. A second subspace of the channels is free of the signals transmitted by the second transmitter-receiver pairs. | 04-16-2015 |
20150103737 | METHOD OF RECEIVING A SIGNAL IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORK AND ASSOCIATED NETWORK ELEMENTS - In one embodiment, the method includes determining, at a network element, a first filter component based on reference sequences for user equipments in a first set. The method further includes determining a second filter component. The second component is based on a plurality of received signals and has estimated contributions to the plurality of received signals by the user equipments in the first set removed. The plurality of received signals are associated with a plurality of antennas. The method further includes filtering a selected received signal based on the first and second filter components to obtain an estimated signal for a selected user equipment. | 04-16-2015 |
20150100544 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DETERMINING HIERARCHICAL COMMUNITY DECOMPOSITION - In one example embodiment, a method of determining a hierarchical community decomposition of a plurality of nodes includes determining one or more subsets of the plurality of nodes at at least one level of the hierarchical community decomposition, the determined one or more subsets being non-detachable and non-linkable. The method further includes forming the at least one level of the hierarchical community decomposition based on the determined one or more subsets. | 04-09-2015 |
20150098444 | LARGE SCALE ANTENNA SYSTEM WITH OVERLAYING SMALL CELLS - A large-scale antenna system (LSAS) base station transmits one or more first signals on one or more first channels corresponding to one or more first access terminals associated with the LSAS base station concurrently with nulling one or more second channels corresponding to one or more second access terminals associated with one or more small cells. The first signal(s) is/are transmitted synchronously with the second signal(s) transmitted by the small cell(s). | 04-09-2015 |
20150096052 | Children's Online Personal Info Privacy Protection Service - A children's online personal information privacy protection service is disclosed, implemented in one embodiment within a Home Subscriber Server (HSS) of an IMS communication network. The HSS maintains service profiles including child user flags identifying which users are child users; and the service profiles for child users includes items of child user personal information content and access authorization data. The access authorization data is adjustable based on parental consent to allow or disallow access to certain network entities. When queried for information content by a network entity, the HSS consults the child user flag to determine whether the query relates to a child user, and if so, controls access to the information content based on the access authorization data. | 04-02-2015 |
20150095985 | Parental Control System For Controlling Access To Online Store Contents - A parental control system for controlling child access to objectionable or age-inappropriate online content is disclosed, implemented in one embodiment within a service platform associated with an online media store. The service platform maintains a parental control menu, accessible by responsible authorities (e.g., parents/guardians and store administrators) to identify child users, to specify allowed or objectionable content items or categories and to specify allowed or blocked transactions relating to those items or categories for certain ages of children or for individual children. When a child user accesses the online media store, the service platform consults the parental control menu to determine which content and which types of transactions (e.g., browsing, previews, downloads) should be enabled or blocked. | 04-02-2015 |
20150095594 | Method and Apparatus for Bit-Interleaving - A manner of processing data for transmission in a data communication network. Node having a main memory and an interleaver is provided. Received data is stored in the main memory and a bandwidth map is prepared. The data is then selectively read out and pre-processing according to the bandwidth map and stored in an interleaver memory. The date is later read out and post-processed before interleaving into a downstream data frame. The pre- and post-processing provide the data in a more efficient form for interleaving. | 04-02-2015 |
20150093068 | Optical Device - An apparatus is disclosed comprising a planar optical waveguide structure which includes a substrate and two planar optical waveguides thereon. The apparatus further comprises a solid structure having a body and two branches connected to the body. Each of the two branches has a reflective surface area thereon. Each of the two planar optical waveguides is configured to optically couple light from an end thereof to the reflective surface area of a corresponding one of the branches. The planar optical waveguide structure further includes a third planar optical waveguide on the substrate. The third planar optical waveguide has a segment located between the solid structure and the substrate. | 04-02-2015 |
20150092873 | Decentralized Slow-Fading Precoding for Multi-Cell Wireless Systems - Methods and apparatuses for slow-fading precoding for multi-cell wireless systems are provided. At a base station of a cellular network in which a plurality of terminals are served, the base station serving pluralities of same-cell terminals and neighboring-cell terminals, and the cellular network including neighboring-cell base stations that serve respective pluralities of same-cell terminals and neighboring-cell terminals, a same-cell and one or more neighboring cells within the cellular network are selected, the same-cell and one or more neighboring cells comprising a truncated network. A plurality of slow-fading coefficients is obtained, each of the plurality of slow-fading coefficients being associated with channel state information for communication within the truncated network between a neighboring-cell base station and one of the respective same-cell terminals or neighboring-cell terminals, and a set of slow-fading precoding coefficients is generated for transmitting signals within the truncated network to same-cell terminals and neighboring-cell terminals based on the plurality of slow-fading coefficients. | 04-02-2015 |
20150092755 | CONTROLLING UPLINK TRANSMISSIONS FROM INTERFERING STATIONS - An access point to transmit a first message that instructs stations (STAs) to bypass uplink transmissions for a first time interval indicated in the first message. The access point is to transmit one or more first messages at a transmission power sufficient for a first portion of the STAs to decode the one or more first messages and insufficient for a second portion of the STAs to decode the one or more first messages. The transmission power can be determined based on minimum transmit powers associated with the STAs. Subsequent second time intervals can be determined based on uplink transmissions received from the STAs during the first time interval. | 04-02-2015 |
20150092620 | Method And Apparatus For Improved Multicast Service Using Negotiated Feedback - Various methods and devices are provided to address the need for improved multicast operation. In one method, a feedback mobile device receives ( | 04-02-2015 |
20150092569 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR EFFICIENT MANAGEMENT OF S-PMSI RESOURCE IN RSVP P2MP MULTICAST NETWORKS - A method, apparatus, and machine readable storage medium is for management of an Inclusive Provider Multicast Service Interface (I-PMSI) tunnel for forwarding traffic for a given multicast flow is disclosed. Aspects of the method comprise: upon expiry of an S-PMSI_DELAY interval timer, switching the multicast flow from the I-PMSI tunnel to a Selective Provider Multicast Service Interface (S-PMSI) tunnel only if the number of active Source-to-Leaf (S2L) paths exceeds a defined first threshold of a number of S2L paths and otherwise resetting the S-PMSI_DELAY interval timer. Other aspects provide for switching the multicast flow from the I-PMSI tunnel to the S-PMSI tunnel only if the number of PE nodes associated with the S-PMSI tunnel interested in the multicast flow does not exceed a defined a second threshold. Other aspects, in the case of the S-PMSI tunnel being active, further comprise steps of switching the multicast flow from the S-PMSI tunnel to the I-PMSI tunnel if the number of S2L paths on S-PMSI in bypass exceeds a third defined threshold. | 04-02-2015 |
20150092542 | Techniques For Improving Discontinuous Reception In Wideband Wireless Networks - Methods, systems and devices for improving discontinuous reception (DRX) in wireless telecommunication networks are disclosed. According to an embodiment, a retransmission buffer status report (BSR) timer is implemented in a user equipment (UE) as an attribute that is configurable for each logical channel of the UE. According to another embodiment, a data flush token is implemented as a logical channel attribute in a UE in order to expedite emptying of the UE's uplink buffer. According to another embodiment, improvements are provided to the manner in which a UE determines to cancel regular BSRs. According to other embodiments, features are implemented at a base station such as an E-UTRAN Node B (eNB) to improve downlink and uplink transmission scheduling between the base station and a UE. According to further embodiments, improved methods of detecting and handling late and delayed BSRs are implemented at a base station. The disclosed embodiments promote improved battery life of a UE as well as improved network data performance. | 04-02-2015 |
20150092541 | Methods, Systems And Devices For Improving Discontinuous Reception In Wideband Wireless Networks - Methods, systems and devices for improving discontinuous reception (DRX) in wireless telecommunication networks are disclosed. According to an embodiment, a retransmission buffer status report (BSR) timer is implemented in a user equipment (UE) as an attribute that is configurable for each logical channel of the UE. According to another embodiment, a data flush token is implemented as a logical channel attribute in a UE in order to expedite emptying of the UE's uplink buffer. According to another embodiment, improvements are provided to the manner in which a UE determines to cancel regular BSRs. According to other embodiments, features are implemented at a base station such as an E-UTRAN Node B (eNB) to improve downlink and uplink transmission scheduling between the base station and a UE. According to further embodiments, improved methods of detecting and handling late and delayed BSRs are implemented at a base station. The disclosed embodiments promote improved battery life of a UE as well as improved network data performance. | 04-02-2015 |
20150089058 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SOFTWARE DEFINED ADAPTATION OF BROADBAND NETWORK GATEWAY SERVICES - Various exemplary embodiments relate to a method performed by a broadband network gateway. The method includes: receiving a hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) request from a service portal, the HTTP request including a user profile; selecting a script based on the HTTP request; and executing the script, wherein the script calls a subscriber management application programming interface (API) and updates a host based on the user profile. Various exemplary embodiments relate to a broadband network gateway. The broadband network gateway includes: a hypertext transfer protocol server configured to receive an HTTP request from a web portal; an application programming interface providing a set of subscriber management functions of the broadband network gateway; and a script engine configured to extract parameters from the HTTP request and execute a preconfigured script making calls to the set of subscriber management functions using the extracted parameters. | 03-26-2015 |
20150087237 | INTERFERENCE MITIGATION AND SIGNAL ENHANCEMENT IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Interference caused by signals transmitted by a wireless communication system can be mitigated at unintended receivers and enhanced at intended receivers. The interference created at one or more unintended receivers by a first signal transmitted from a transmitter to an intended receiver and the unintended receivers is mitigated by removing portions of a second signal that are uncorrelated with the first signal. The second signal is directed towards the unintended receivers. A third signal is enhanced at the intended receiver by allocating a portion of a transmission power associated with the removed portions of the second signal to the third signal. | 03-26-2015 |
20150086218 | DISPERSION MANAGEMENT FOR INHOMOGENEOUS FIBER-OPTIC LINKS - Methods and apparatus for managing the effects of dispersion in an optical transport system in which some of the system's nodes are connected to one another via inhomogeneous fiber-optic links. In one embodiment, an optical transmitter is configured to apply electronic and/or optical dispersion pre-compensation in the amount selected to cause the peak-to-average-power ratio of the optical signal in the lower-dispersion portion of the link to be relatively low (e.g., close to a minimum value). Advantageously, such dispersion pre-compensation tends to significantly reduce, e.g., in terms of the bit-error rate, the directional anisotropy exhibited by optical transmissions through the inhomogeneous fiber-optic links. | 03-26-2015 |
20150086216 | Level Spacing For M-PAM Optical Systems With Coherent Detection - An apparatus includes an optical transmitter configured to provide an optical signal amplitude-modulated among M different levels. A constellation control module is configured to provide a drive signal to control the optical signal. A feedback module is configured to receive a measure of spacing between amplitude peaks of a symbol constellation of the optical signal. The feedback module is further configured to regulate the constellation control module to adjust the optical signal in response to the measure of spacing. | 03-26-2015 |
20150086204 | FREQUENCY-DIVERSITY MIMO PROCESSING FOR OPTICAL TRANSMISSION - An optical transport system configured to transmit information using two or more modulated optical carriers spaced at spectral intervals that are smaller than the baud rate. An example optical receiver in the optical transport system includes a signal equalizer configured to implement frequency-diversity multiple-input/multiple-output signal processing directed at canceling the effects of inter-carrier interference caused by the spectral overlap between adjacent modulated optical carriers to enable the optical receiver to recover individual data streams encoded onto the different modulated optical carriers at the corresponding optical transmitter(s). Some embodiments of the optical transport system may advantageously be capable of achieving a higher spectral efficiency than the spectral efficiency supported by the optical orthogonal-frequency-division-multiplexing transmission format. | 03-26-2015 |
20150086201 | Data Multiplexing And Mixing Of Optical Signals Across Propagation Modes - An apparatus, e.g. an optical device, includes an optical transmitter and a mixer. The transmitter is configured to transmit a plurality of optical data channels that each include at least one spectral component at a same frequency. The mixer is configured to combine a first data channel with a second data channel. The combining is such that first and second optical channels output by the optical transmitter each include contributions from the first and second data channels at the same frequency. | 03-26-2015 |
20150086200 | Space To Wavelength Superchannel Conversion - An apparatus inputs an input configured to receive an input optical signal, and an output configured to output an output optical signal. A superchannel converter is coupled between the input and the output. The superchannel converter is configured to convert N spatial modes of the input optical signal to M spatial modes of the output optical signal. | 03-26-2015 |
20150086199 | COMPACT TWO-STAGE OPTICAL AMPLIFIER - Various exemplary embodiments relate to an optical amplifier, including: a multicore rare-earth doped optical fiber with a first plurality of cores associated with a first stage of the optical amplifier and a second plurality of cores associated with a second stage of the optical amplifier; a three dimensional (3D) waveguide configured to couple input space division multiplexed (SDM) channels into the first plurality of cores at a first end of the multicore rare-earth doped optical fiber and to couple channels from the second plurality of cores to output SDM channels; a reflector configured to optically interconnect the first plurality of cores to the second plurality of cores; and pump laser coupled to the multicore rare-earth doped optical fiber configured to produce laser pump light to pump the multicore rare-earth doped optical fiber. | 03-26-2015 |
20150086193 | FIBER-NONLINEARITY PRE-COMPENSATION PROCESSING FOR AN OPTICAL TRANSMITTER - An optical transmitter configured to mitigate the adverse effects of fiber nonlinearity by altering the transmitted constellation symbols based on specific nonlinear characteristics of a fiber-optic link over which the optical transmitter is configured to transmit and on an a priori estimate of the nonlinear component of the optical-signal distortion in that fiber-optic link. In an example embodiment, each constellation symbol is altered by a respective perturbation amount determined using (i) a calculated or measured nonlinear transfer function corresponding to the fiber-optic link and (ii) a set of neighboring constellation symbols that are expected to contribute to the nonlinear distortion of the optical signal carrying the present constellation symbol due to the fiber nonlinearity. In various embodiments, different appropriate perturbation amounts can be selected to approximately pre-compensate nonlinear distortions caused by various nonlinear optical effects, such as four-wave mixing, etc. | 03-26-2015 |
20150086157 | Photonic Lantern Spatial Multiplexers with mode selectivity - A photonic lantern spatial multiplexer that provides mode selectivity includes a multimode optical waveguide and a plurality of single mode optical waveguides. The single mode cores of the single mode optical waveguides merge with the multimode core of the multimode optical waveguide. At least two of the single mode cores have different respective single mode effective refractive indexes. | 03-26-2015 |
20150085644 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REDUCING TRAFFIC LOSS WHILE USING LOOP FREE ALTERNATE ROUTES FOR MULTICAST ONLY FAST REROUTE (MOFRR) - A system, method and apparatus for adapting operation of a router configured to receive commonly sourced traffic via primary and secondary Upstream Multicast Hop (UMH) links, wherein the secondary path is cached for a predetermined period of time to avoid data loss upon restoration of the primary path. | 03-26-2015 |
20150085352 | OPTICAL AMPLIFIER FOR SPACE-DIVISION MULTIPLEXING - In an example embodiment, an optical amplifier comprises a doped multi-core optical fiber and two optical couplers placed at the ends of the doped multi-core fiber, with each optical coupler having a respective plurality of optical waveguide cores optically coupled to the optical waveguide cores of the doped multi-core fiber. The spatial arrangement of the cores at the input end of the first optical coupler is configured for low-loss intake of the optical energy from the input transmission line. The spatial arrangement of the cores at the output end of the first optical coupler and the spatial arrangement of the cores at the input end of the second optical coupler match the spatial arrangement of the cores in the doped multi-core fiber. The spatial arrangement of the cores at the output end of the second optical coupler is configured for low-loss transfer of the optical energy into the output transmission line. | 03-26-2015 |
20150082176 | VISUAL SIMULATOR FOR WIRELESS SYSTEMS - An illustrative example network simulator device includes a display and a processor that uses information simulating network performance including a plurality of network parameters. The processor selectively controls the display to present a visual representation of a network including a plurality of base stations and a plurality of mobile stations. The display also presents a visual representation of at least some of the generated information including information regarding at least one of the network parameters from a network perspective, a base station perspective, and a mobile station perspective. | 03-19-2015 |
20150079997 | AUTOMATED TRIGGERS FOR APPLICATION OF CELL ASSOCIATION BIAS AND/OR INTERFERENCE MITIGATION TECHNIQUES - In a wireless telecommunications network, there is included: a macro cell ( | 03-19-2015 |
20150071091 | Apparatus And Method For Monitoring Network Performance - A manner of monitoring network performance using an AMA (active monitoring agent). A network manager, generally operating on one of the network nodes, establishes an AMA associated with two end points, at least one of the end points including a VM running an application. VM migration is monitored, and if a detected migration is associated with an active AMA then the new endpoint or endpoints associated with the AMA are calculated and a new AMA is established. A VM pair table is updated to reflect the change. | 03-12-2015 |
20150067814 | Methods And Systems For Providing Controlled Access To The Internet - Novel, Internet-related architectures, methods and devices are proposed that are based on a fundamentally different philosophy: hosts (e.g., source and destination nodes) are given the ability to specify their access control policies to the network they are a part of, and the network enforces these policies. The architecture proposed is mobility friendly to the ever increasing number of mobile hosts and is scalable as well. | 03-05-2015 |
20150063220 | METHODS AND DEVICES FOR BOOSTING TRANSMISSION POWER OF A SIGNAL IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM - A method for transmitting a signal in a wireless communications network includes calculating, by a network element, first and second average powers. The first average power is associated with a first time period of a downlink transmission between a transmitter associated with the network element and at least one user, and the second average power is associated with a second time period of the downlink transmission. The method includes transmitting, by the transmitter, the signal at one of a rated transmission power and a boosted transmission power based on a first threshold value associated with the first average power and a second threshold value associated with the second average power. The rated transmission power is less than or equal to a long-term average power limit associated with a power amplifier of the transmitter, and the boosted transmission is greater than the rated power. | 03-05-2015 |
20150055953 | Channel Wavelength Assignment With Transient Reduction - In an automatically switched optical network operating according to a wavelength plan, the wavelengths are assigned to an optical path based on availability, performance and SRS wavelength coupling reduction. First, the wavelengths are grouped in static bins based on their reach versus cost performance, and each bin assumes a ΔQ of a middle wavelength. Then, the bins are moved into subsets of dynamic bins, constructed using bin constraints that account for the particulars of the respective optical path. The path is characterized taking into account the wavelength currently accessing at the end nodes, and the wavelength tandeming through the end nodes. Wavelength selection starts with the bins that satisfy the maximum number of constraints, and the wavelengths are checked sequentially against wavelength constraints; relaxed constraints are also applied when it is not possible to exactly satisfy one or more constraints. | 02-26-2015 |
20150055561 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING SERVICES ACROSS SERVICE DOMAINS - The present invention supports services that span multiple service domains. In one embodiment, the present invention provides service-level interaction between an enterprise network and a non-enterprise network (or networks), thereby enabling enterprise users at remote locations (i.e., at home, on vacation, or at other locations remote from the enterprise location) to use services typically only available to the enterprise users while at the enterprise location (e.g., while in the office). The present invention provides a calendar notification service, whereby a calendar notification originating in an enterprise network is provided to a remote enterprise user via a non-enterprise network. The present invention provides an enterprise dialing plan service, whereby a remote enterprise user may register a remote user device to be able to use an enterprise dialing plan. Once registered, the remote enterprise user may use the enterprise dialing plan from the remote user device to place calls to local enterprise users at local user devices connected to the enterprise network and, similarly, local enterprise users may use the enterprise dialing plan to place calls to the remote enterprise user at the remote user device. | 02-26-2015 |
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. | 02-26-2015 |
20150052593 | SECURE FILE TRANSFERS WITHIN NETWORK-BASED STORAGE - A capability is provided for securely transferring a file within network-based storage. A capability is provided for securely transferring a user file of a user from a first server to a second server. The first server may be associated with a first service provider and the second server may be associated with a second service provider. The secure transfer of a user file from the first server to the second server may be performed based on a One-Click File Transfer capability in which only a single click by the user is needed in order for the user file to be transferred. The secure transfer of a user file from the first server to the second server may be performed based on a Zero-Click File Transfer capability in which the user file may be transferred without any interaction by the user. | 02-19-2015 |
20150050032 | DIGITALLY LOCKING COHERENT RECEIVER AND METHOD OF USE THEREOF - A digitally locking coherent receiver and a method of coherently receiving a data signal. One embodiment of the receiver includes: (1) a detector configured to recover a composite signal with respect to a local oscillator signal, the composite signal being a combination of a data signal and a reference signal, and (2) a digital signal processor (DSP) communicably coupled to the detector and configured to recognize and compensate for drift in the local oscillator signal with respect to the reference signal. | 02-19-2015 |
20150049379 | OPTICAL AMPLIFIER FOR MULTI-CORE OPTICAL FIBER - An optical device comprising a first optical coupler located over a surface of a substrate such that the optical coupler is able to end-couple to an optical core of a first optical fiber having an end facing and adjacent to the first optical coupler and the surface. The optical device further comprises a second optical coupler located over the surface such that the second optical coupler is able to end-couple to an optical core having an end facing and adjacent to the second optical coupler. The optical device also comprises a pump coupler being configured to couple pump light to an optical path that connects the first optical coupler and the second optical coupler. | 02-19-2015 |
20150045061 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING A USER EQUIPMENT LOCATION BASED ON MEASUREMENTS FROM MULTIPLE BASE STATIONS - Methods and systems for determining a location of a UE includes receiving UE position information from a UE being serviced by a plurality of base stations. The UE position information may include a signal reception time and a signal transmission time or a timing advance for at least two of the plurality of base stations. The signal transmission time being a measured time for a signal being transmitted by the UE to be received by a base station, the signal reception time being a measured time for a signal being transmitted by the base station to be received by the UE, and the timing advance being a difference between the signal transmission time and the signal reception time for the base station. The method may include determining a location of the UE based on the received UE position information. | 02-12-2015 |
20150043347 | METHOD OF OPERATING A NETWORK USING DIFFERENTIATED PRICING AND A NETWORK CONFIGURED TO OPERATE USING DIFFERENTIATED PRICING - The method of operating a network includes receiving a measurement of total traffic intensity, receiving an expected quality of service associated with a packet, and assigning the packet to one of two or more priority queues based on the measurement of total traffic intensity and the expected quality of service, the two or more priority queues having different delay metrics. | 02-12-2015 |
20150033274 | REQUESTS FOR EMERGENCY SERVICES THROUGH AN IPTV NETWORK - Systems and methods that request emergency services through an Internet-Protocol Television (IPTV) infrastructure. One embodiment comprises an IPTV network infrastructure comprising an IPTV server coupled to an IPTV set-top box of an end user that subscribes to IPTV services. The IPTV server receives a request for an emergency service from the end user through the IPTV set-top box. The infrastructure further includes a management server that receives the request for the emergency service from the IPTV server, and identifies information regarding the end user from an IPTV account of the end user. The infrastructure further includes a text message engine that receives the request for the emergency service from the management server, formats a text message for requesting the emergency service, inserts the information regarding the end user in the text message, and sends the text message to an emergency services center. | 01-29-2015 |
20150032875 | ADAPTIVE POLLING OF INFORMATION FROM A DEVICE - A capability is provided for adaptive polling of a device based on a set of polling control regions configured to control polling of the device. The set of polling control regions is defined based on at least one of a set of control parameters and non-parametric control information. A transition within the set of polling control regions is determined based on a current polling control region and a target polling control region that is determined based on input information received while in the current polling control region. The input information may include at least one of values of one or more parameters in the set of parameters and non-parametric input information. The transition may include remaining in the current polling control region or transitioning to a new polling control region. The transition may be performed based on a rapid up controlled down (RUCD) transition scheme. | 01-29-2015 |
20150016263 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM FOR TRAFFIC REDISTRIBUTION IN WIRELESS NETWORKS - The apparatus includes a processor. The processor is configured to determine whether to redistribute traffic, generate a message upon determining traffic is to be redistributed, the message including cell priority values, the cell priority values including a priority value for each of a plurality of carriers, and transmit the message to the one or more user equipment. | 01-15-2015 |
20150011228 | FEMTO BASE STATIONS AND METHODS FOR OPERATING THE SAME - Femto base stations and methods described herein suppress the need for an external GPS antenna and cable, while still providing a network service provider with the ability to obtain the desired GPS location coordinates and the user with the flexibility of placing the femto cell at the location of their choice within a home regardless of GPS signal strength. | 01-08-2015 |
20150009821 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INTEGRATED UNICAST AND MULTICAST TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT - Methods for managing network resources for multicast streams based on unicast load conditions of a base station in a communications network include monitoring unicast load conditions of the base station, and adjusting bearer properties for a multicast stream based on the unicast load conditions. A broadcast provisioning server (BPS) manages network resources for multicast streams based on unicast load conditions of a base station in a communications network. The BPS may be configured to monitor unicast load conditions of the base station and adjust bearer properties for a multicast stream based on the unicast load conditions. | 01-08-2015 |
20150009808 | FAULT-RESILIENT BROADCAST, MULTICAST, AND UNICAST SERVICES - In general, various capabilities related to fault-resilient services within communication networks are presented. The services may include broadcast services, multicast services, unicast services, or the like, as well as various combinations thereof. A capability for providing local protection to unicast traffic at a node associated with a pair of redundant trees is presented herein. A capability for providing local protection to multicast traffic at a node associated with a pair of redundant trees is presented herein. A capability for constructing a pair of redundant trees is presented herein. A capability for constructing a pair of redundant trees includes partitioning a graph into a pair of partitions based on a link coloring mechanism and constructing the pair of redundant trees based on the pair of partitions. | 01-08-2015 |
20150009807 | FAULT-RESILIENT BROADCAST, MULTICAST, AND UNICAST SERVICES - In general, various capabilities related to fault-resilient services within communication networks are presented. The services may include broadcast services, multicast services, unicast services, or the like, as well as various combinations thereof. A capability for providing local protection to unicast traffic at a node associated with a pair of redundant trees is presented herein. A capability for providing local protection to multicast traffic at a node associated with a pair of redundant trees is presented herein. A capability for constructing a pair of redundant trees is presented herein. A capability for constructing a pair of redundant trees includes partitioning a graph into a pair of partitions based on a link coloring mechanism and constructing the pair of redundant trees based on the pair of partitions. | 01-08-2015 |
20140376558 | Dynamic Network Service Association and On Demand Service Provisioning - An edge switch enables service provisioning and dynamic service association for end devices coupled to the edge switch. The edge switch maintains a generic user profile that includes classification rules for classifying incoming traffic from the end devices to Virtual Local Area Network (VLAN) VLAN tunnel services. Upon detecting incoming traffic on an access port of the edge switch, the edge switch accesses the generic user profile to determine whether the incoming traffic matches one of the classification rules, and if so, automatically associates the incoming traffic with a VLAN tunnel service indicated by the matching classification rule to provide tunnel-based connectivity to remote end devices associated with the VLAN tunnel service. | 12-25-2014 |
20140376376 | Method And Apparatus For Improved Multicast Rate Control - Various methods and devices are provided to address the need for improved multicast operation. In one method, a sender transmits multicast transmissions at a first transmission rate to a multicast group of mobile devices that includes a group of feedback mobile devices. The sender receives, from each feedback mobile device of the group of feedback mobile devices, multicast receive quality feedback corresponding to the multicast transmissions. A new transmission rate for subsequent multicast transmissions to the multicast group of mobile devices is then determined using the multicast receive quality feedback received from each feedback mobile device, a lower multicast receive quality level threshold and a higher multicast receive quality level threshold. | 12-25-2014 |
20140372576 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND APPARATUS FOR NETWORK FABRIC CONFIGURATION IN DATA COMMUNICATION NETWORKS - An auto fabric configuration (AFC) mode is provided to enable network elements, when added to a data communication network, to discover each other, using TLVs added to standard protocols. The AFC mode further allows for automatic configuration of the network fabric. For example, core features, such as link aggregation, Virtual Local Area Networks (VLANs) and Shortest Path Bridging (SPB) adjacencies, can be automatically configured. | 12-18-2014 |
20140369681 | Method And Apparatus For Alien Device Identification In Passive Optical Networks - A manner of detecting the presence of alien devices, for example ONUs, that are transmitting upstream in an optical access network such as a PON. An alien detection device, for example a properly configured OLT, supports normal network operation and also monitors a selected performance characteristic. When the selected performance characteristic is evaluated to perform within satisfactory parameters, a protocol that includes a command to subscriber devices such as ONUs to go quiet, for example a rogue check, is executed and a signal detector monitored during the quiet period. An alarm may be generated if an alien device appears to be present. | 12-18-2014 |
20140369392 | MULTI-STANDARD COMPATIBLE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - In one example embodiment, a communication system includes a remote unit configured to convert a plurality of signals, received at the remote unit from a plurality of end devices, into a plurality of first digital signals regardless of a bandwidth occupied by any of the plurality of signals. The communication system further includes a central unit configured to generate a plurality of second digital signals by processing the plurality of first digital signals received from the remote unit and transmit the plurality of second digital signals back to the remote unit, to be transmitted to the plurality of end devices. | 12-18-2014 |
20140369230 | Virtual Chassis Topology Management - Topology management within a virtual chassis is achieved by communicating virtual chassis topology information between switches within the virtual chassis within protocol extensions of customized protocol data units (PDUs) associated with a VC-ISIS protocol. The virtual chassis topology information can be used, for example, to detect the topology of the virtual chassis and generate a shortest path tree within each switch of the virtual chassis for use in routing between switches within the virtual chassis. | 12-18-2014 |
20140362687 | Method And Apparatus For Improved Multicast Rate Control Using Feedback Mobiles - Various methods and devices are provided to address the need for improved multicast operation. A sender transmits ( | 12-11-2014 |
20140359340 | SUBSCRIPTIONS THAT INDICATE THE PRESENCE OF APPLICATION SERVERS - Systems and methods for indicating the presence of application servers. The system comprises a serving network element of an IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) network configured to communicate with a primary application server to provide a service for a session, to determine that the primary application server is unavailable, to failover to a secondary application server to provide the service, and to initiate a subscribe request to a presence server requesting to be notified when the primary application server becomes available. The serving network element is further configured to receive a notification from the presence server that the primary application server has become available, and to switch back to the primary application server to provide the service after receiving the notification. | 12-04-2014 |