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Patent application number | Title | Published |
20160141332 | EMISSIVE DEVICE INCLUDING FIRST AND SECOND ADJACENT PIXELS SHARING THE SAME SEMICONDUCTOR LIGHT-EMITTING STACK - The emissive device includes first and second adjacent pixels ( | 05-19-2016 |
20160140409 | TEXT CLASSIFICATION BASED ON JOINT COMPLEXITY AND COMPRESSED SENSING - A server computes a sparsifying matrix from a set of reference blocks that is selected from first blocks of text based on joint complexities of each pair of the first blocks of text. The server determines one of the set of reference blocks that is most similar to a second block of text based on the sparsifying matrix, a measurement matrix, and a measurement vector formed by compressing the second block of text using the measurement matrix. The server transmits a signal representative of the one of the set of reference blocks to indicate a classification of the second block of text. | 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 |
20160134622 | Restricted Certificate Enrollment For Unknown Devices In Hotspot Networks - A network access system, e.g. a network hotspot, requires a mobile network access device, e.g. a smart phone or WiFi only device, to provide a network access standard designation and/or a device identification datum to gain access to network services. The network access standard designation may be provided by the mobile network access device to an online signup server via a EKU_key_purpose field of a PKCS10 certificate signing request. The device identification datum may be provided to the OSU via a subject field of the signing request. The OSU may require that the device identification datum be the same as a device identification datum provided by the mobile network access device prior to the mobile network access device requesting a signed network access certificate. | 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 |
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 |
20160119831 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING MOBILITY OF USER EQUIPMENT HAVING DUAL CONNECTIVITY IN COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The present invention provides a method of determining mobility of a user equipment having dual connectivity in a communication system. In one embodiment, the user equipment transmits measurement reports in a frequency occupied by the source small cell to the source small cell, such that the source small cell determines that a target small cell replaces itself to serve the user equipment. In another embodiment, the user equipment transmits measurement reports in a frequency occupied by the source small cell to the macro cell, such that the macro cell determines that a target small replaces the source small cell to serve the user equipment. | 04-28-2016 |
20160119435 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DISCOVERY OF SERVICES IN INTERCONNECTED SMART SPACES - The invention relates to a method for enabling the discovery of at least one service ( | 04-28-2016 |
20160113052 | TELECOMMUNICATIONS METHOD, TELECOMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM, PRIMARY NODE, SECONDARY NODE AND USER EQUIPMENT - A telecommunications method for a telecommunications system comprising a user equipment ( | 04-21-2016 |
20160112772 | SYNCHRONIZATION BETWEEN MULTIMEDIA FLOWS AND SOCIAL NETWORK THREADS - For controlling synchronization between a multimedia flow and a related social network thread, a device able to capture the multimedia flow and the social network thread selects (S | 04-21-2016 |
20160112730 | NODES AND METHODS FOR USE IN HAS CONTENT DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS - A network node, suited for use in a content delivery system for use in between at least one server node, adapted for delivering a part of content over a network on request, and at least one client node, said network node being adapted for receiving a request for a part of content in one of multiple versions, issued by a client node of said at least one client nodes; determining if it will be capable to transmit said part of content in the requested version upon receipt thereof, if so, requesting and receiving said part of content from said server node and transmitting said part of content to said client node and otherwise informing said client node that it is not capable to transmit said part of content in the requested version. | 04-21-2016 |
20160112164 | DUAL CONNECTIVITY - A method of configuring a network node in a wireless telecommunications network to use a secondary cell for dual connectivity communication, a computer program product and network control node operable to perform that method. The method comprises: determining at least one RACH preamble reserved by the secondary cell for use by dual connectivity capable user equipment; identifying user equipment meeting criteria for implementation of dual connectivity communication with the secondary cell; and communicating an allocation of the at least one RACH preamble reserved by the secondary cell for use by dual connectivity capable user equipment to the identified user equipment. Aspects may avoid or mitigate contention experienced by user equipment on RACH and thus may enable fast, contention-free access to a cell. According to some aspects and embodiments, a dedicated preamble can be configured for user equipment identified as a candidate suited to implementation of dual connectivity techniques. Use of a dedicated preamble may, according to some embodiments, both avoid possible contention and also be used, in some embodiments, as a means to identify user equipment by a newly accessed cell, for example, in the case of RRC connected user equipment. | 04-21-2016 |
20160112108 | CSI FEEDBACK METHOD AND APPARATUS IN LARGE SCALE ANTENNA SYSTEM - The present invention relates to a channel state information (CSI) feedback method and apparatus in a large-quantity antenna system. An embodiment provides a method used in a UE of a large scale antenna system, including: detecting a downlink channel; determining, according to a multipath propagation model, a channel response of a first number of strong propagation paths, where the channel response of each propagation path is determined as a matrix related to the following time-varying parameters: an arrival direction, time to arrive, and a path amplitude; and feeding back the first number and indication information of the time-varying parameters of the first number of strong propagation paths. By using the sparsity of channels of the large-quantity antenna system, the present invention reduces a feedback payload and maintains at least equal system performance. | 04-21-2016 |
20160104209 | REAL TIME BIDDING SYSTEM FOR APPLICATIONS - Embodiments relate to a method executed by a system comprising a real time bidding sell side server ( | 04-14-2016 |
20160100397 | UPLINK SCHEDULING INFORMATION REPORTING APPARATUS AND SYSTEM SUPPORTING MULTI-CONNECTIVITY - One objective of the present invention is to provide uplink scheduling information reporting apparatus and System supporting multi-connectivity. Herein, a UE connected to multiple eNBs, the UE receives trigger configuration information about buffer status report of a logical channel group that a corresponding radio bearer belongs to, and radio bearer configuration information and uplink resource configuration information respectively corresponding to each of the multiple eNBs, when the BSR trigger condition of at least one of the multiple eNBs is satisfied, transmit to a corresponding eNB the buffer status report of the logical channel group that its corresponding radio bearer belongs to, so as to support uplink scheduling report in multi-connectivity. The reporting mechanism provides the serving eNB with information about data amount that can be transmitted in UL buffer of a UE, so as to support multi-connectivity, and enables macro cell to provide a better coverage of the control plane data and enables small cell to provide larger capacity. | 04-07-2016 |
20160100273 | Method and Apparatus for Software Defined Sensing - Systems and methods for configuring a sensor on a controller include receiving a sensor description defined in a format of a domain specific language corresponding to the sensor. The sensor description is parsed to identify one or more instructions. The one or more instructions are mapped to corresponding commands of the controller to enable the controller to perform the one or more instructions. | 04-07-2016 |
20160099869 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AGGREGATING PSEUDOWIRES - Systems, methods, architectures and/or apparatus for implementing Multi-Segment Pseudo Wire (MS-PW) arrangements in an efficient and scalable manner. | 04-07-2016 |
20160088079 | STREAMING PLAYOUT OF MEDIA CONTENT USING INTERLEAVED MEDIA PLAYERS - A capability for supporting streaming playout of media content is presented. The capability for supporting streaming playout of media content may use multiple interleaved media players running in parallel to support interleaved playout of adjacent chunks of a media content item in a round robin manner so as to provide streaming playout of the media content item. The capability for supporting streaming playout of media content enables streaming playout of media content on various types of devices, including resource-constrained devices (e.g., devices constrained in terms of available runtime memory, processing resources, or the like). | 03-24-2016 |
20160087769 | METHOD AND TRANSMITTER APPARATUS FOR GENERATING AND TRANSMITTING CHANNEL FEEDBACK AND METHOD AND RECEIVER APPARATUS FOR RECEIVING AND RETRIEVING CHANNEL FEEDBACK - The embodiments of the invention relate to a method and a transmitter apparatus for generating and transmitting channel feedback. The method contains the steps of determining at least one first quality value averaged over a long term time interval for a first transmission channel (TC | 03-24-2016 |
20160087345 | RADOME FOR AN ANTENNA WITH A CONCAVE-REFLECTOR - A radome for a concave-reflector antenna is fastened directly onto the reflector's edge. The inner surface of the radome comprises at least one absorbent part partially covering its surface area and disposed along its peripheral edge. The surface area of the radome covered by the absorbent part(s) is less than 15% of the total surface area. The radome may comprise two absorbent parts in diametrically opposite positions. Each absorbent part may have a substantially triangular shape, the base of the absorbent part being rounded along the radome's edge, and a portion of its surface area having been removed laterally from each side of the triangle in a circular arc cut-out. | 03-24-2016 |
20160086039 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR AUTOMATIC DETECTION AND TRACKING OF ONE OR MULTIPLE OBJECTS OF INTEREST IN A VIDEO - The invention relates to a method for automatic detection and tracking of one or multiple objects of interest in a video sequence comprising several successive frames ( | 03-24-2016 |
20160085589 | Method And Apparatus For Providing Isolated Virtual Space - Various embodiments provide a method and apparatus of creating an application isolated virtual space without the need to run multiple OSs. Application isolated virtual spaces are created by an Operating System (OS) utilizing a resource manager. The resource manager isolates applications from each other by re-writing the network stack and the I/O subsystem of the conventional OS kernel to have multiple isolated network stack/virtual I/O views of the physical resources managed by the OS. Isolated network stacks and virtual I/O views identify the resources allocated to an application's isolated virtual space and are mapped to applications via an isolating identifier. | 03-24-2016 |
20160073427 | DUAL CONNECTIVITY NETWORK - A method of transmitting an indication of user equipment uplink buffer status in a wireless communications network in which user equipment is configured to communicate with one or more base stations using dual connectivity techniques, a computer program product and user equipment operable to perform that method. The method comprises: receiving an indication of a dual connectivity configuration to be used by the user equipment for uplink transmission; structuring an uplink buffer status report to group uplink buffer status by one or more scheduler to be used by the user equipment according to the received indication of a dual connectivity configuration; and transmitting the structured uplink buffer status report to the one or more base stations. Aspects and embodiments provide a method for providing buffer status reports in a network offering dual connectivity functionality according to which user equipment is served by multiple independent schedulers which may be connected via a non-ideal backhaul link. | 03-10-2016 |
20160073406 | A METHOD FOR ALLOCATION OF FREQUENCY RESOURCES OF DIFFERENT OPERATORS TO USER TERMINALS, AND A BASE STATION AND A USER TERMINAL THEREFOR - The invention concerns a method for allocation of frequency resources (FA, FB) of different operators (OPA, OPB) to user terminals, wherein on a frequency resource (FA, FB) of each operator (OPA, OPB) of said different operators, an indication of said operator allowing user terminals registered at said operator (OPA, OPB) to get access to a signaled cell (CSA, CSB) is transmitted on a broadcast channel (PBCHA, PBCHB), user terminals receive control information only on frequency resources (FA, FB) of an operator (OPA, OPB) at which the user terminals are registered, and said control information comprises an indicator (CIFA, CIFB) allocating to the user terminals a frequency resource (FA, FB) of said frequency resources of an operator (OPA, OPB) at which the user terminals are not registered, and a base station and a user terminal therefor. | 03-10-2016 |
20160073341 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR OPTIMIZING POWER CONSUMPTION EFFICIENCY OF USER EQUIPMENT - An objective of the present invention is to provide a method and apparatus for optimizing power consumption efficiency of user equipment. Specifically, the user equipment sends power saving related information corresponding to the user equipment to a corresponding network device; the network device determines to activate or deactivate the active timer of the user equipment in a NAS idle state; when it is determined to activate the active timer, the network determines an activation value in setting information of the active timer based on the power saving related information or ancillary reference information of the active timer; the network device sends the setting information of the active timer to the user equipment. In this way, the network may perform power saving setting processing according to the actual application need of the user equipment, which not only further optimizes the power consumption efficiency of the user equipment but also enhances the management efficiency for user equipment power saving control. | 03-10-2016 |
20160073328 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING PCRF - First, correspondence relationships between subscribers and PCRFs are preset in HSS, and a same PCRF is configured to subscribers belonging to the same subscriber group. Then, the MME or AF or 3GPP AAA server sends a query message to HSS, obtains the PCRF corresponding to a certain subscriber, and then sends the PCRF information to S-GW or P-GW or ePDG. In this way, S-GW or P-GW or ePDG may send messages related to the same subscriber or the same subscriber group to the same PCRF. A network element may send to the same PCRF messages related to the same subscriber or the same subscriber group as required to be sent to the PCRFs, such that the same PCRF performs a uniform control to all related sessions of the same subscriber or the same subscriber group. | 03-10-2016 |
20160065292 | CODEBOOK FEEDBACK METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MULTIPLE-ANTENNA CHANNEL IN MIMO SYSTEM - A codebook feedback method and apparatus for a multiple-antenna channel in a Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) system are provided. In an embodiment, a method ( | 03-03-2016 |
20160065283 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR QUANTIZING CHANNEL STATE INFORMATION - The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for quantizing channel state information (CSI). An embodiment of the present invention provides a method for providing codeword index information to a base station configured with N | 03-03-2016 |
20160064829 | ANTENNA ARRAY FOR TRANSMITTING AND/OR FOR RECEIVING RADIO FREQUENCY SIGNALS, ACCESS NETWORK NODE AND VEHICLE THEREOF - The embodiments of the invention relate to antenna array (AA | 03-03-2016 |
20160057766 | ENHANCEMENTS TO RESOURCE ALLOCATION FOR MBSFN TRANSMISSION IN AN MBSFN AREA - In an embodiment, there is provided a method for resource allocation to MBMS services for MBSFN transmission in an MBSFN Area in a mobile communication system, said resource allocation including an assessment of a list of MBMS sessions to be scheduled for said MBSFN transmission, a method wherein a Sequence Number SN is used for said assessment, said SN determining the rank of an MBMS session in a sequence of MBMS sessions scheduled by one or more BM-SC(s) for said MBMS services, said rank of said MBMS session in said sequence being used in said assessment to determine a rank of said MBMS session in said list. | 02-25-2016 |
20160057755 | IMPLICIT ADDRESSING FOR SPORADIC MACHINE-TYPE ACCESS - An apparatus and method for detecting an implicit user ID of a received data packet is disclosed. When a data packet is received, at least one frequency on which the data packet has been received is determined. Further, a spreading code sequence of the data packet is determined, and the at least one determined frequency and the determined spreading code sequence are used to determine an implicit user ID of the data packet. | 02-25-2016 |
20160057753 | REDUCED DMRS CONFIGURATION AND METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ADAPTIVELY SELECTING DMRS CONFIGURATION - The present invention provides a reduced DMRS configuration and a method and apparatus for adaptively selecting a DMRS configuration. The method comprises: estimating channel change with respect to a target UE; and selecting one of a normal DMRS configuration or a reduced DMRS configuration for the target UE based on the estimated channel change, wherein, in the normal DMRS configuration, a DMRS symbol is assigned to each time slot, while in the reduced DMRS configuration, a DMRS symbol is assigned to each subframe. | 02-25-2016 |
20160057735 | METHODS OF SIGNALING MCS - The invention proposes methods of signaling MCS. Current standard does not support more MCS levels. A method in an e NB for signaling MCS, comprising steps of: i. generating (S | 02-25-2016 |
20160057712 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REPORTING POWER HEADROOM IN SUPPORT OF MULTIPLE LINK CONNECTIONS - Embodiments of the present invention provide a method for reporting power headroom in support of multiple link connections. The method comprises: receiving, by a user equipment, one or more configured power headroom report parameters from at least one of multiple base stations to which the multiple link connections are connected; maintaining, at the user equipment, multiple groups of power headroom report timers respectively corresponding to the multiple link connections and maintaining multiple groups of triggering conditions for reporting power headroom respectively corresponding to the multiple link connections, wherein a number of groups of the multiple groups of the power headroom report timers and the number of groups of the multiple groups of triggering conditions for reporting the power headroom are identical to the number of connections of the multiple link connections respectively; if at least one triggering condition of one group of the triggering conditions for reporting the power headroom is met with respect to a corresponding base station of the multiple base stations, then calculating the power headroom for the corresponding base station and generating a power headroom report; and sending the power headroom report to the corresponding base station. | 02-25-2016 |
20160057666 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM FOR BIASING ADJUSTMENT OF CELL RANGE EXPANSION - The present invention aims to provide method, apparatuses and systems for providing UE with biasing adjustment parameters about cell range expansion in a heterogeneous network. Herein, a current eNB determines, based on attribute information of one or more user equipments to be handed over, biasing adjustment parameters about cell range expansion of the one or more user equipments corresponding to their target eNB, and sends the biasing adjustment parameters to the one or more user equipments; the one or more user equipments adjust, based on the biasing adjustment biasing adjustment parameters, its report trigger condition of measurement report on measurement report on the current eNB and the target eNB, and report, the measurement report on the current eNB and the target eNB to the current eNB when the report trigger condition is satisfied; the current eNB makes a handover decision for corresponding user equipment(s) based on the measurement report. The present invention realizes a more flexible handover setting for the CRE load balancing and enhances the network efficiency and user QoS. | 02-25-2016 |
20160057030 | MONITORING INTERACTIONS WITH AUDIOVISUAL CONTENT - Embodiments of the invention relates to a method for monitoring interactions with audiovisual content, performed by a monitoring device ( | 02-25-2016 |
20160050631 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR UPLINK TRANSMISSION POWER CONTROL OF MULTI-LINK CONNECTIONS - The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for uplink transmission power control (TPC) of multi-link connections. The method for uplink TPC of multi-link connections according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: a user equipment (UE) receiving a cell path loss compensating factor and a reference power level of each carrier of each connection in the multi-link connections, receiving an uplink transmission power adjustment amount of each carrier of each connection in the multi-link connections, and measuring a path loss of each carrier of each connection in the multi-link connections. According to the received cell path loss compensating factor, reference power level, and uplink transmission power adjustment amount, and the measured path loss, the UE calculates uplink transmission power of each carrier of each connection in the multi-link connections, and transmits data based on the uplink transmission power. | 02-18-2016 |
20160050243 | METHODS AND DEVICES FOR TRANSMISSION OF MEDIA CONTENT - Embodiments relate to a method for transmission of media content ( | 02-18-2016 |
20160048406 | SCHEDULING - A method of adjusting a scheduling parameter associated with a runnable in a multi-programmed computing system, a computer program product and scheduling unit operable to perform that method. The method comprises: analysing header information associated with a data packet received by the computing system and addressed to or from the runnable; determining whether the information associated with the data packet meets scheduling action trigger criteria; and adjusting the scheduling parameter associated with the runnable in accordance with an action associated with the meeting of the scheduling action trigger criteria. Aspects allow for dynamic change of scheduling parameters associated with a runnable in response to reception of a packet. That dynamic change depends on the properties of the received packet. Aspects allow a runtime environment to wake a runnable up and assign the runnable an appropriate priority and/or urgency of execution. Those decisions can be determined based on information derived from a header of received network packets, for example. | 02-18-2016 |
20160044039 | PRIVACY-AWARE PERSONAL DATA STORE - A capability for privacy-aware personal data storage is presented. The capability for privacy-aware personal data storage enables secure storage of data within a personal data store. The data stored in the personal data store may be data produced by a set of connected end devices associated with an entity for which the personal data store stores data of the set of connected end devices. The capability for privacy-aware personal data storage may support visualization of and control over privacy level for data of a connected end device(s) that is stored in the personal data store. The visualization of and control over data stored in the personal data store may be supported by a privacy meter, which may be an object or device that may be integrated with or independent of the connected end device(s) for which the visualization of and control over data stored in the personal data store is supported. | 02-11-2016 |
20160043786 | NON-LINEAR PRECODER WITH SEPARATE MODULO DECISION - The present invention relates to a signal processing unit for pre-processing signals for crosstalk mitigation. | 02-11-2016 |
20160036723 | LOW-COST FLOW MATCHING IN SOFTWARE DEFINED NETWORKS WITHOUT TCAMS - Various exemplary embodiments relate to a method for processing data packets by a first-hop switch in a data network, including: receiving a first data packet associated with a flow; determining whether the flow associated with the first data packet is found in a flow table in the first-hop switch; modifying the first data packet by replacing a packet header field with flow definition information; and transmitting the modified first data packet based upon the flow definition information. | 02-04-2016 |
20160029352 | DOWNLINK COMMUNICATION WITH REPETITION TRANSMISSIONS - Wireless telecommunications methods, a computer program product and network nodes are disclosed. The wireless telecommunication network base station method comprises repeating transmission of a physical broadcast channel within a radio frame of a downlink physical resource. By repeating the transmission of the physical broadcast channel, the coverage is increased to the desired amount. | 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 |
20160026514 | STATE MIGRATION FOR ELASTIC VIRTUALIZED COMPONENTS - A capability for supporting an elastic virtualized component that is stateful is provided by supporting state migration for the elastic virtualized component. The elastic virtualized component may support a virtualized network function or any other suitable virtualized function. The elastic virtualized component includes a component load balancer and a set of component instances configured to provide functions of the elastic virtualized component. The elastic virtualized component may be configured to support migration of state information of the component instances following elasticity events in which the capacity of the elastic virtualized component changes (e.g., in response to growth events in which the number of component instances of which the elastic virtualized component is composed increases, in response to degrowth events in which the number of component instances of which the elastic virtualized component is composed decreases, or the like). | 01-28-2016 |
20160021693 | METHOD FOR ESTABLISHING A DIRECT COMMUNICATION, AND BASE STATIONS, A GATEWAY AND A DEVICE THEREFOR - The invention concerns a method for establishing a direct communication in a communication network between a first device (UE | 01-21-2016 |
20160021029 | METHOD OF PROVIDING AN MMOIP COMMUNICATION SERVICE - The invention concerns a method of providing an MMoIP communication service, and a MMoIP system to execute the said method. One or more MMoIP packet streams (T | 01-21-2016 |
20160020511 | OMNI DIRECTIONAL CIRCULARLY-POLARIZED ANTENNA - An omni circularly-polarized antenna comprises: upper and lower layers of metal strips placed horizontally and having identical spoke-like shapes, each of the layers of said metal strips composed of a center and a plurality of spokes connected to the center, the plurality of spokes, at a circumferential position of the spoke-like shape, having extensions extending towards an identical direction along the circumference, wherein extending directions of the extensions of the spokes in the upper and lower layers of metal strips are opposite; metal poles with a number being identical with a number of the spokes in the metal strips, the metal poles vertically interconnecting ends of the extensions of the spokes in the upper and lower layers of metal strips; a coaxial connector comprising an elongated inner conductor and an outer conductor, wherein the elongated inner conductor is connected to the center of the upper layer of metal strip, and the outer conductor is connected to the center of the lower layer of metal strip. | 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 |
20150382390 | RADIO LINK ESTABLISHMENT - A method of establishing an association between user equipment configured to communicate with other user equipment via a direct radio link within a wireless communications network; a computer program product and user equipment operable to perform that method. The method comprises: monitoring, at one of the user equipment configured to communicate via a direct radio link, for receipt of a beacon signal from one of the other user equipment; and if such a beacon signal is received, notifying the user equipment transmitting the received beacon signal of receipt of the beacon signal to establish an association with the user equipment transmitting the received beacon signal; and if no beacon signal is received, commencing transmission of a beacon signal and monitoring for receipt of a notification that the transmitted beacon signal has been received by one of the other user equipment to establish an association with the other user equipment responsible for transmission of that notification. Aspects and embodiments described may allow user equipment wishing to establish a device to device link with other user equipment to discover each other without each having to transmit a beacon signal. | 12-31-2015 |
20150382065 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND RELATED SELECTION DEVICE FOR NAVIGATING IN ULTRA HIGH RESOLUTION VIDEO CONTENT - The present invention relates to a method, system and related devices for navigating in ultra high resolution video content under control of a user navigation command originating from a client device, at least portions of the ultra high resolution video content being transmitted from a server towards said client device, where said method comprises the steps of receiving a user navigation command, said user navigation command indicating a navigation trajectory through said ultra high resolution video content and determining a local video saliency on said navigation selection trajectory by analyzing said ultra high resolution video content on said navigation trajectory through said ultra high resolution video content and
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20150378566 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND DEVICE FOR NAVIGATING IN ULTRA HIGH RESOLUTION VIDEO CONTENT BY A CLIENT DEVICE - The present invention relates to a method, system and related devices for selecting a spatial portion of ultra high resolution video content, under control of a client device, for being transmitted from a server towards said client device where said method comprises first obtaining selection information from said client device to select a spatial portion of said ultra high resolution video content for transmitting towards said client device and selecting said spatial portion from said ultra high resolution video content based on said selection information in view of at least part of said ultra high resolution video content being transmitted from said server towards said client device in combination with/function of content data pertaining to said ultra high resolution video content. | 12-31-2015 |
20150373588 | PRIORITIZING QOS FOR USER APPLICATIONS IN COMMUNICATION NETWORKS - The present subject matter discloses a method for prioritizing QoS for user application in a communication network. In one implementation, a user defined domain name list (UDDL) message, where the UDDL message includes a UDDL comprising of domain names in a priority order is received. Further, the domain names specified in the UDDL are converted to obtain a modified UDDL, where the modified UDDL includes the domain names converted in a format recognizable by a home location register (HLR). Subsequently, a radio access bearer assignment message including the modified UDDL is sent to the HLR. | 12-24-2015 |
20150373205 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR AGGREGATING CHARGING INFORMATION - The network element collects, within a time window, charging information of a plurality of user equipments belonging to a same group, aggregates the charging information to obtain a charging aggregation result, and sends the charging aggregation result to a corresponding device in said system. The charging system receives a plurality of pieces of aggregated charging information and time windows sent by a network element in the system, wherein each piece of charging information respectively corresponds to one of the time windows, and aggregates the plurality of pieces of aggregated charging information based on the time windows and the group(s) and/or sub-group(s) to which the user equipments belong, to generate charging data record(s), wherein the time windows and the user equipments correspond to the plurality of pieces of aggregated charging information. | 12-24-2015 |
20150373139 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND DEVICES FOR CONTENT CACHING AND DELIVERING IN IP NETWORKS - A content request is sent ( | 12-24-2015 |
20150372724 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONFIGURING COORDINATED MULTI-POINT MEASUREMENT SET - Method and an apparatus for configuring a coordinated multi-point measurement set. An embodiment of the present invention provides a method at a neighboring base station side ( | 12-24-2015 |
20150365970 | BASE STATION AND TERMINAL FOR A CELLULAR COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM - The invention relates to a base station ( | 12-17-2015 |
20150365964 | METHOD OF AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING ECCE SEARCH SPACE OF EPDCCH FOR CROSS CARRIER SCHEDULING - The invention provides a method of and apparatus for determining an ECCE user equipment specific search space of an EPDCCH for cross carrier scheduling. According to an embodiment of the invention, the method includes: determining a distance between candidates of a search space at each aggregation level at least according to total number N | 12-17-2015 |
20150365867 | TRAFFIC OFFLOAD - A wireless telecommunications method, network nodes and a computer program product are disclosed. The wireless telecommunications method comprises: mapping at least some user plane traffic only from a first transmission path supporting communications between user equipment and a first base station to a second transmission path supporting simultaneous communications between the user equipment and a second base station; providing data protection configuration information used to encode the at least some user plane traffic transmitted over the second transmission path between the user equipment and the second base station; and transmitting the at least some user plane traffic encoded using the data protection configuration information over the second transmission path. In this way, at least some of the user plane traffic may be offloaded from a first transmission path to a second transmission path. That user plane traffic may be transmitted simultaneously with other user plane traffic. Accordingly, traffic can be directed to different network nodes at the same time and encoded using different data protection configuration information which allows separate schedulers to be used to enable simultaneous transmission to occur even with a non-ideal backhaul link between the two base stations. | 12-17-2015 |
20150365499 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING SIMULTANEOUS ACCESS TO DATA PRODUCED BY DEVICES COUPLED TO A MOBILE SYSTEM COUPLED TO A CPE - A mobile system (S | 12-17-2015 |
20150363047 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR MULTIMODAL INTERACTION - Methods and systems for multimodal interaction are described herein. In one embodiment, a method for multimodal interaction comprises determining whether a first input modality is successful in providing inputs for performing a task. The method further includes prompting the user to use a second input modality to provide inputs for performing the task on determining the first input modality to be unsuccessful. Further, the method comprises receiving inputs from at least one of the first input modality and the second input modality. The method further comprises performing the task based on the inputs received from at least one of the first input modality and the second input modality. | 12-17-2015 |
20150359005 | WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATIONS - A wireless telecommunications method, a computer program product and network nodes are disclosed. The wireless telecommunications network node method comprises on a failure to establish a connection after initiating a RACH procedure, repeatedly transmitting a RACH preamble signature using a defined set of resource blocks of an uplink channel. In this way, when a conventional RACH procedure fails to establish a connection with the network, a modified RACH procedure is instead initiated. This modified RACH procedure transmits a RACH preamble signature repeatedly using a repeating set of resource blocks which are repeatedly allocated from the uplink channel. This enables the RACH preamble signature to be repeatedly transmitted so that the energy from these repeated transmissions may be combined by the network in order to detect the presence of the RACH preamble signature transmitted by network nodes in a poor coverage area such as, for example, an MTC device located in a basement. | 12-10-2015 |
20150358070 | APPARATUS, ONBOARD EQUIPMENT, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR A REMOTE RADIO HEAD - Embodiments provide an apparatus, onboard equipment, a method, and a computer program for a remote radio head. The apparatus ( | 12-10-2015 |
20150358066 | METHOD OF DETERMINING TWO-STAGE CODEBOOK SET APPLICABLE TO 4TX CROSS-POLARIZED ANTENNA CONFIGURATION - The invention provides a solution of designing a two-stage codebook set applicable to 4Tx cross-polarized antenna configuration and a method of determining a codebook in a multi-input multi-output communication system based upon the designed two-stage codebook set applicable to 4Tx cross-polarized antenna configuration. The first stage codebook relates long-term/wideband channel information and is based on DFT vectors, whereas the second stage codebook relates to short-term/narrowband channel information and is base on selecting columns of the first stage codebook and providing inter-polarization phase information. | 12-10-2015 |
20150350722 | Method and Apparatus for Fast Channel Change - Providing a fast channel change function in a digital television system by processing compressed video streams to provide high priority (HP) and low priority (LP) encoded streams, which streams may also be hierarchically modulated to provide, respectively, long interleave and short interleave modulated signals for transmission, wherein a receiver may rapidly demodulate and use information within the low priority signal of a new channel to more rapidly change to the new channel. | 12-03-2015 |
20150347316 | PROCESS FOR MANAGING THE STORAGE OF A LIST OF N ITEMS IN A MEMORY CACHE OF C ITEMS OF A CACHE SYSTEM - Process for managing the storage of a list (L) of N items (I[i]) in a memory cache (M) of C items (I[i]) of said list, said N items being ordered in said list according to a rank i which depends of their last request time by a user, C, N and i being strictly positive integers, said process providing, upon the reception of a request for an item (I[i]), for calculating a popularity probability f(i) for said requested item, f being an acceleration function, and for deciding to move or not said requested item at a higher rank i according to said popularity probability. | 12-03-2015 |
20150341206 | NETWORK ENTITY OF A COMMUNICATION NETWORK - Embodiments relate to a concept for a communication network, the communication network comprising a plurality of network entities. It is provided, from an event subscribing network entity ( | 11-26-2015 |
20150341191 | IMPROVEMENT TO ACTIVE SIGNALING IN A COGNITIVE WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORK - A method for choosing the sequence of bursts of an access pattern in the primary network of a cognitive wireless network comprising a primary and a secondary network, wherein this access pattern comprises an alternation of listen periods and signaling transmission periods, these periods having various lengths; comprises the steps of computing a random integer X, and then generating a sequence of bursts corresponding to the computed random integer X. In a peculiar embodiment, the random integer X has a geometric distribution with a given probability p. | 11-26-2015 |
20150334420 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENCODING AND DECODING VIDEO - An encoding apparatus (EA | 11-19-2015 |
20150334156 | METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING A VIDEO STREAM - Method for transmitting a video stream in a network ( | 11-19-2015 |
20150334046 | A METHOD AND A SERVER FOR EVALUATING A REQUEST FOR ACCESS TO CONTENT FROM A SERVER IN A COMPUTER NETWORK - The invention concerns a method to evaluate, in particular on a server ( | 11-19-2015 |
20150334014 | IP ADDRESS BASED UDP RELAY - The present subject matter discloses a method for UDP relay in communication networks. In one implementation, a UDP port number included in a header of a message is identified. The method further includes ascertaining the IP address based on a mapping table, where the mapping table includes a list of plurality of UDP port numbers mapping to the IP addresses of corresponding destination servers. Further, the message is modified to obtain a modified message based at least on the IP address. Subsequently, the modified message is unicasted to the destination IP address. | 11-19-2015 |
20150332191 | REDUCING COSTS RELATED TO USE OF NETWORKS BASED ON PRICING HETEROGENEITY - A capability is provided for reducing the costs of data transfers for networks using pricing heterogeneity. For data to be transferred between an application of a first network and a user device, the data may be transferred directly without using a second network or indirectly using a second network including a transfer of the data between the first network and the second network. In a network-based file system, a first network is primarily used for write requests and a second network is primarily used for read requests, and a data block is transferred from the first network to the second network based on a determination that a threshold number of read requests for the data block have been received. The determination as to when to transfer data between networks may be determined based on various costs associated with the networks. | 11-19-2015 |
20150327080 | FREQUENCY BAND SELECTION - A small cell base station, a method, a computer program product and a wireless telecommunications network are disclosed. The small cell base station is deployable in a wireless telecommunications network in which a macro base station provides a first region of radio coverage using a first frequency band and a second region of radio coverage using a second frequency band, the first region of radio coverage comprising a plurality of angularly spaced first radio beams, the second region of radio coverage comprising at least a second radio beam, the second radio beam being arranged to radiate from the macro base station between adjacent angularly spaced first radio beams, the small cell base station comprising: transmission logic operable to provide a third region of radio coverage using a small cell frequency band, the small cell frequency band comprising one of the first frequency band and the second frequency band; reception logic operable to measure a signal quality of transmissions received from macro base stations using the first frequency band and the second frequency band and to identify as an excluded frequency band that one of the first frequency band and the second frequency band which has a highest signal quality; and transmission frequency band selection logic operable to select as the small cell frequency band that frequency band other than the excluded frequency band. Through this approach both the macro base stations and the small cell base station can share frequency bands. By excluding the highest signal quality frequency band from the set and excluding that high-quality frequency band from being used by the small cell base station, the overall performance of the wireless telecommunications network is improved. | 11-12-2015 |
20150326537 | SECURE DEVICE-TO-DEVICE (D2D) COMMUNICATION - User equipment decrypt information received in a first frame over an air interface during device-to-device (D2D) communication with another user equipment. The information is decrypted using a cryptographic function that is applied to a security key and a first frame number of the first frame. | 11-12-2015 |
20150325897 | ELECTRICALLY CONTROLLABLE RADIO-FREQUENCY CIRCUIT ELEMENT HAVING AN ELECTROCHROMIC MATERIAL - We disclose an electrically controllable RF-circuit element that includes an electrochromic material. In an example embodiment, the electrically controllable RF-circuit element is configured to operate as a phase shifter whose phase-shifting characteristics can be changed using a dc-bias voltage applied to a multilayered structure containing a layer of the electrochromic material. | 11-12-2015 |
20150324952 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING A HIGH-RESOLUTION VIDEO STREAM - A process for generating a high-resolution video stream, the process comprising: receiving ( | 11-12-2015 |
20150324861 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR OPTIMIZING INFORMATION DIFFUSION BETWEEN COMMUNITIES LINKED BY INTERACTION SIMILARITIES - A device (OD), intended for optimizing diffusion of information into communities of social network(s) represented by a graph, comprises: —an analysing means (ICE) for analysing this information to determine at least one meaningful concept defining it, —a building means (IRE) for building an ordered list of communities according to numbers of determined meaningful concepts matching respectively concepts associated to the communities of the list, —a filtering means (FM) for defining a group of target communities as entry points for initiating the diffusion of the information, by filtering this built ordered list, —a simulation means (DGCIS) for simulating the information diffusion on the graph (G), and —a processing means (PM) for allowing the choice of at least one target community into the defined group from at least the simulated information diffusion, and then for diffusing the information in each chosen target community. | 11-12-2015 |
20150323576 | ELECTROCHROMIC CELL FOR RADIO-FREQUENCY APPLICATIONS - A disclosed electrical cell enables experimental measurements of dielectric properties of an electrochromic material in the radio-frequency range of the electromagnetic spectrum. In an example embodiment, the electrical cell includes a layer of the electrochromic material under test that is sandwiched between a conducting base plane and a microstrip line. The conducting base plane and the microstrip line are electrically connected to a co-planar waveguide configured for application of superimposed DC-bias and RF-probe signals using a conventional probe station and a vector network analyzer. The S-parameters of the electrical cell measured in this manner can then be used, e.g., to obtain the complex dielectric constant of the electrochromic material under test as a function of frequency. | 11-12-2015 |
20150319660 | METHOD FOR WIFI CONNECTIVITY LOSS ANTICIPATION - A method for anticipating the loss of connectivity between a mobile device and a wireless short-range access point among a plurality of such wireless access points, this method comprising the following steps: —collecting a plurality of paths corresponding to the mobile device movements within the coverage areas of the access points to which the mobile device was successively associated without loss of connectivity, each path comprising a root access point at which a connectivity is originated and a dead-end access point at which the connectivity is lost; —detecting the current access point to which the mobile device is currently associated; identifying the paths comprising the current access point; —computing the risks of losing the connectivity when following each of the identified paths from the current access point to the root access point or to the dead-end access point of each of the identified paths. | 11-05-2015 |
20150319594 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING ROAMING TRAFFIC CHARGING FOR A UE - An objective of the present invention is to provide a method and apparatus for performing roaming traffic charging for a user equipment; receiving a roaming traffic charging request about the user equipment, wherein the user equipment roams to a visited network, the roaming traffic charging request includes roaming traffic-related information of the user equipment; if the roaming traffic-related information satisfies a first charging condition, forwarding the roaming traffic charging request to an OCS of an alternative roaming provider corresponding to the user equipment so as to perform the roaming traffic charging for the user equipment, wherein the alternative roaming provider corresponds to a home network of the user equipment. Compared with the prior art, the present invention provides an innovative online charging solution to support an alternative roaming provider, which is based on the new EU roaming regulations and independent from H-MNO, for roaming tariff; enables operators to support new EU roaming regulations and fulfill most of EU Commission's expectations without causing a great impact to the core network. | 11-05-2015 |
20150312920 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR USE IN USER EQUIPMENT CONFIGURED WITH EPDCCH FOR PROVIDING DOWNLINK RADIO LINK CONDITION - The invention provides a method for use in a user equipment configured with EPDCCH, the method comprising: measuring downlink radio link quality corresponding to UE-specific search space in EPDCCH; and sending an EPDCCH CQI to a serving base station to indicate the measured downlink radio link quality. The invention further provides a method for use in a user equipment configured with EPDCCH, the method comprising: measuring downlink radio link quality corresponding to UE-specific search space in EPDCCH; and sending an EPDCCH failure indicator to a serving base station when the measured downlink radio link quality does not meet a predetermined condition. The invention further provides a method for use in a user equipment configured with EPDCCH, the method comprising: measuring downlink radio link quality corresponding to common search space in PDCCH on frames where EPDCCH is configured; and triggering radio link failure when the measured downlink radio link quality does not meet a predetermined condition. | 10-29-2015 |
20150312352 | SERVICE-BASED NETWORKING - A service-based networking capability is presented. The service-based networking capability replaces traditional networking connections between endpoints with service connections between endpoints. The service-based networking capability supports establishment and use of a service connection between endpoints, where the service connection between endpoints may be provided below the application layer and above the transport layer. The establishment and use of a service connection between endpoints may be provided using a connected services stack, which may include a connected services layer that is configured to operate below the application layer and above the transport layer. | 10-29-2015 |
20150312351 | METHOD, DEVICE AND SYSTEM FOR DEVICE TRIGGER IN IOT - An object of the invention is providing a method, device and system for Device Trigger in IoT. The network device obtains device trigger request(s) corresponding to one or more target devices, and determines, based on the device trigger request in conjunction with subscribed data corresponding to the target device, a device trigger response corresponding to the device trigger request. Compared with the prior art, the present invention provides a proxy mechanism used in IoT/MTC, i.e., with the network device as a proxy for the target device, a device trigger request corresponding to the target device is processed to reduce unnecessary trigger request to the target device, and reduce resource/energy (such as CPU, memory, network connection, etc. . . . ) consumption for the IoT/MTC devices and network; furthermore, the present invention would further reduce the response time of device trigger and improve the quality of services in IoT. | 10-29-2015 |
20150311882 | A FILTER ASSEMBLY AND A METHOD OF FILTERING - A filter assembly is provided comprising a first filter ( | 10-29-2015 |
20150310664 | AUGMENTED REALITY BASED MANAGEMENT OF A REPRESENTATION OF A SMART ENVIRONMENT - A capability for managing a representation of a smart environment is presented herein. The capability for managing a representation of a smart environment is configured to support augmented reality (AR)-based management of a representation of a smart environment, which may include AR-based generation of a representation of the smart environment, AR-based alignment of the representation of the smart environment with the physical reality of the smart environment, and the like. | 10-29-2015 |
20150310577 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING INCOMING VIDEO STREAM WHILE DRIVING - Various embodiments provide a method and a communication device ( | 10-29-2015 |
20150310544 | STATUS TRACKING SYSTEM - Systems and Methods for providing status update for a transaction are described herein. According to the present subject matter, the system(s) implement the described method(s) for providing updated status of a transaction. The method includes receiving a status update request, by a server, from a communication device of a user, to track status of the transaction between the user and other party, wherein the status update request comprises at least of tracking parameters and update parameters associated with the status update. The method further includes polling the other party through a communication network based on the tracking parameters and the update parameters to obtain an updated status of the transaction. Furthermore, the method includes providing the updated status of the transaction to the user based on the update parameters. | 10-29-2015 |
20150304854 | METHOD OF SPECTRUM DETECTION AND DESIGN OF DETECTION FRAME STRUCTURE IN COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The invention provides a method of spectrum detection in a user equipment of a communication system, the method including: for each detection period, detecting a signal from a target system in a specific downlink detection sub-frame of each frame in a detection duration; and sending a detection result to a base station at the end of the detection duration. The specific downlink detection sub-frame is a sub-frame #4 or #9 in a downlink/uplink sub-frame configuration 1; a sub-frame #4 or #9 in a configuration 2; a sub-frame #7 in a configuration 3; a sub-frame #4 or #7 in a configuration 4; and a sub-frame #3, #4, #7 or #9 in a configuration 5 of a TDD system. The specific downlink detection sub-frame is any other downlink sub-frame than sub-frames #0 and #5 in an FDD system. There is further provided a method of spectrum detection in a base station of a communication system, the method including: receiving detection result(s) from one or more user equipments; and determining whether one or more frequency bands of a target system are available according to the detection result(s). | 10-22-2015 |
20150304832 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR ROAMING CHARGING FOR CS FALLBACK MTRF CALL - An objective of the present invention is to provide a method and device for charging roaming for CS fallback MTRF call; at least one charging data record is obtained through receiving charging data records from at least one roaming charging device, wherein the user equipment roams to a VPLMN corresponding to the at least one roaming charging device; based on the at least one charging data record and in combination with the local charging data record in the home charging device, consolidation processing is performed so as to obtain a consolidated target charging data record. Compared with the prior art, the present invention introduces a novel method of computing charging data records so as to perform final charging in a home charging device in the home network, instead of performing final charging in a roaming charging device in a visited network, which guarantees that a terminal subscriber is correctly charged and avoids repetitive charging on the charging data records in the mobile switching center of the visited network. | 10-22-2015 |
20150304734 | METHOD AND CLIENT APPARATUS FOR RECEIVING AN HTTP ADAPTIVE STREAMING VIDEO - A method for receiving an HTTP adaptive streaming video from a server, said method comprising at a client, operatively connected to said server upon receiving a chunk of said video, determining a current rate of transmission for transmissions from said server to said client; obtaining statistical information pertaining to an expected future rate of transmission, in function of at least said current rate of transmission; deriving a target rate of transmission from said statistical information; and requesting a subsequent chunk of said video in accordance with said target rate of transmission. | 10-22-2015 |
20150304606 | A VIDEOCONFERENCING SERVER WITH CAMERA SHAKE DETECTION - A video conferencing server ( | 10-22-2015 |
20150304501 | A METHOD AND A MODULE FOR SHIFTING A CALL ESTABLISHED THROUGH A FIRST APPLICATION SERVER IN ORDER TO ROUTE IT THROUGH A SECOND APPLICATION SERVER - A method for shifting an original call established between a first user device ( | 10-22-2015 |
20150304180 | RADIO ACCESS NETWORK GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM WITH MULTIPLE FORMAT - Various exemplary embodiments relate to a method and server for processing geo-information including receiving, at the Geo-Information System server, a geo-view identifier; sending an indication whether a geo-view identified by the geo-view identifier is available, the geo-view comprising a schema identifier, wherein a schema identified by the schema identifier describes a data format comprising location information and one or more characteristics of the conditions in the cellular network; receiving data in a format consistent with the identified schema; and storing the received data in a data store. | 10-22-2015 |
20150302859 | Scalable And Embedded Codec For Speech And Audio Signals - A system and method for processing of audio and speech signals is disclosed, which provide compatibility over a range of communication devices operating at different sampling frequencies and/or bit rates. The analyzer of the system divides the input signal in different portions, at least one of which carries information sufficient to provide intelligible reconstruction of the input signal. The analyzer also encodes separate information about other portions of the signal in an embedded manner, so that a smooth transition can be achieved from low bit-rate to high bit-rate applications. Accordingly, communication devices operating at different sampling rates and/or bit-rates can extract corresponding information from the output bit stream of the analyzer. In the present invention embedded information generally relates to separate parameters of the input signal, or to additional resolution in the transmission of original signal parameters. Non-linear techniques for enhancing the overall performance of the system are also disclosed. Also disclosed is a novel method of improving the quantization of signal parameters. In a specific embodiment the input signal is processed in two or more modes dependent on the state of the signal in a frame. When the signal is determined to be in a transition state, the encoder provides phase information about N sinusoids, which the decoder end uses to improve the quality of the output signal at low bit rates. | 10-22-2015 |
20150302123 | X-MAPS WITH FLEXIBLE TILES - Various exemplary embodiments relate to a method and server for processing X-Maps with flexible tiles including receiving measurements of at least one characteristic of a transmission, determining two or more geographic areas of similar transmission conditions, and storing indications of the determined geographic areas and indications of at least one characteristic of at least one transmission in each area. | 10-22-2015 |
20150302028 | METHOD AND ARRANGEMENT FOR IMAGE RETRIEVAL BASED ON MULTIPLE IMAGES - A Method for retrieving at least one image from a database (DB) of images based on at least two input images (image i, image j), comprises the steps of determining ( | 10-22-2015 |
20150296430 | APPARATUSES, METHODS AND COMPUTER PROGRAMS FOR A MOBILE TRANSCEIVER AND A BASE STATION TRANSCEIVER - Embodiments relate to apparatuses, methods and a computer programs for a mobile transceiver ( | 10-15-2015 |
20150296420 | SUPPORT OF CS FALLBACK IN AN EVOLVED PACKET SYSTEM - An embodiment of the present invention is a method for the support of Circuit Switched CS fallback in an Evolved Packet System EPS, said support including moving an User Equipment UE from an evolved Radio Access Network RAN to a legacy RAN for access to CS domain services, and moving back said UE from said legacy RAN to said evolved RAN at the end of said CS domain services, said support including moving back said UE to said evolved RAN in a PLMN that was serving said UE over said evolved RAN before moving said UE to said legacy RAN. | 10-15-2015 |
20150296415 | Ack For Downlink WiFi Carrier Aggregation - An LTE cellular network and a WiFi network whose coverage areas overlap allow user devices accessing both networks to perform downlink channel aggregation through a tunneling feature provided by the cellular network whereby uplink information destined for the WiFi network is routed through an IP tunnel through the cellular network ultimately reaching the WiFi network via a common point or common network to which the WiFi and the cellular networks are connected. User devices having access to both networks are able to establish the tunnel during establishment of communications between such user devices and the WiFi network and use the tunnel as an uplink to convey information to the WiFi network, which is operated in a broadcast only mode or an ACK-less mode. | 10-15-2015 |
20150295840 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING SIGNALS IN AN OPTICAL TRANSPORT NETWORK - An exemplary method and apparatus are provided for a remapping of Optical Data Units of fixed size into lower order Optical Data Units of flexible size. More particularly, a transport signal which has a frame structure referred to as Optical Transport Units may be transmitted through an Optical Transport Network domain. Each Optical Transport Unit contains at least one Optical Data Unit of fixed size with an overhead section and a payload section. An edge network node of the Optical Transport Network domain receives the transport signal and remaps the at least one Optical Data Unit of fixed size into a domain-internal lower order Optical Data Unit of flexible size. Within the Optical Transport Network domain, the remapped domain-internal lower order Optical Data Unit of flexible size is transmitted as payload of a domain-internal higher order Optical Data Unit of fixed size. | 10-15-2015 |
20150295686 | METHOD FOR CONFIGURING REFERENCE SIGNAL RESOURCES FOR COOPERATIVE MULTIPOINT TRANSMISSION - The present invention relates to Coordinated Multiple Point (CoMP) transmission. According to an embodiment, a method for a serving base station of CoMP transmission includes sending a message to a cooperating base station of the CoMP transmission to indicate desired Non-Zero-Power Channel Status Information Reference Signal (NZP CSI RS) resources and/or Zero-Power Channel Status Information Reference Signal (ZP CSI RS) resources. The method meets new needs and facilitates CoMP transmission. | 10-15-2015 |
20150295685 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING ALMOST BLANK SUBFRAMES (ABS) BASED ON CELL BORDER RATE RATIOS - At least one embodiment relates to a method for controlling a number of almost blank subframes (ABS) in a heterogeneous network having a macro cell and at least one small cell of a plurality of small cells in a coverage area of the macro cell, the method includes receiving, at the macro cell, a plurality of measurements regarding both received power and received quality from a terminal, receiving, at the macro cell, a plurality of load-related values from a plurality of small cells; and determining, by the macro cell, a cost-benefit value (CBV) based on the received measurements and load values. The CBV indicates whether an increase or a decrease in the ABS would benefit the network. The method further includes selectively changing, by the macro cell, the number of ABS available to the at least one small cell based on the CBV. | 10-15-2015 |
20150293912 | PROCESS FOR SELECTING AT LEAST ONE RELEVANT MULTIMEDIA ANALYSER FOR A MULTIMEDIA CONTENT TO BE ANALYSED IN A NETWORK - Process for selecting at least one relevant multimedia analyser ( | 10-15-2015 |
20150289169 | AUTONOMOUS DETERMINATION OF OPTIMAL VALUES FOR HANDOVER PARAMETERS - The present invention relates to a method for adjusting handover parameters (TTT; OFF) used for handover detection within a given serving cell (CS). In accordance with an embodiment of the invention, the method comprises, for respective ones of a plurality of mobile stations (UE | 10-08-2015 |
20150288800 | CONFIGURATION OF ELECTRONIC DEVICE - Method for configuring an electronic device, the method comprising the steps of:—Accessing at least two distinct datasets each comprising past user activity data;—Extracting time and location information from each of the datasets;—Executing an algorithm to obtain, from the extracted time and location information, time-location correlations to recognize a location pattern over time;—Converting said location pattern over time to the present and future to obtain a time-location expectation; and—Configuring the electronic device based on said expectation. | 10-08-2015 |
20150288507 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND EQUIPMENT FOR DETERMINING DEVICE CHANNEL RESOURCE(S) OF A USER EQUIPMENT - An objective of the present invention is to provide a method, apparatus, and equipment for determining device channel resources of a user equipment in an LTE-TDD system. The TDD system performs resource scheduling to the user equipment using an enhanced physical downlink control channel, and a physical uplink control channel used includes channel resource(s) for feeding back a hybrid automatic repeat request of a physical downlink shared channel as scheduled by the enhanced physical downlink control channel, when the number of downlink subframes as fed back in one uplink subframe may be more than one, the channel resource(s) is divided into a plurality of channel regions based on the number of downlink subframes having the enhanced physical downlink control channel set thereon currently, or based on the potential highest number of downlink subframes having the enhanced physical downlink control channel set thereon. The present application obtains the device channel resource(s) occupied by the present user equipment in at least one channel region of the plurality of channel regions. The present invention enables the user equipment to feed back ePDCCH. | 10-08-2015 |
20150282188 | ALTRUISTIC SCHEDULING IN HETEROGENEOUS WIRELESS NETWORKS - The present invention relates to a method in a wireless communication system including at least a first network ( | 10-01-2015 |
20150282163 | APPARATUS, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR SCHEDULING DATA TRANSMISSION - Embodiments provide an apparatus, a method and a computer program for scheduling a data transmission. The apparatus | 10-01-2015 |
20150282135 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING SEARCH SPACE OF E-PDCCH OF UE - The invention discloses a method and an apparatus for determining a search space of an E-PDCCH of a user equipment. According to the invention, first it is determined a distance between candidates of a search space per aggregation level; and then it is determined a position of a corresponding candidate of the search space per aggregation level in allocated ECCEs at least according to the determined distance. With the invention, candidates of a search space per aggregation level can be positioned uniformly in allocated ECCEs. | 10-01-2015 |
20150282082 | OPTIMIZATION OF NETWORK SIGNALING LOAD AND/OR USER EQUIPMENT POWER CONSUMPTION IN A PACKET MOBILE SYSTEM - In an embodiment, there is provided a method for optimization of network signalling load and/or User Equipment power consumption in a packet mobile system wherein an User Equipment UE has access to a network comprising a Core Network CN accessed by a Radio Access Network RAN, a method wherein CN assistance information is provided by said CN to said RAN for an UE, said CN assistance information including information determined in said CN based on a learning by said CN of a traffic pattern and/or a mobility pattern of said UE, and said CN assistance information is used in said RAN to adjust RAN parameters enabling to control transitions between idle and connected state and/or power consumption in connected state for said UE. | 10-01-2015 |
20150282024 | USER PLANE HANDOVER FOR HETEROGENEOUS NETWORKS - A method to handover a user equipment ( | 10-01-2015 |
20150280955 | METHOD AND PROCESSING ARRANGEMENT FOR JOINT PROCESSING OF UPLINK DATA - The invention relates to a method for joint processing of uplink data (g(n), s(n)) transmitted from at least one user equipment (UE | 10-01-2015 |
20150280850 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING UPLINK TRANSMISSION IN A MANAGEMENT DEVICE OF LTE-A NETWORK AND THE DEVICE THEREOF - According to embodiments of the present invention, there is provided a method of providing, for a dual-antenna UE or quadri-antenna UE, downlink control information used for uplink transmission in a management device of LTE-A network, and the method for the former comprises the steps of: determining an uplink transmission scheme for the dual-antenna UE; semi-statically configuring, by high level signaling, the uplink transmission mode to which the uplink transmission scheme belongs; generating downlink control information corresponding to the determined uplink transmission scheme, the downlink control information comprising a first indicating field, a second indicating field, a new-data indicating field for a first transmission block and a new-data indicating field for a second transmission block; wherein, when transmission block is disabled for the determined up-link transmission scheme, disablement of at least one of two transmission blocks is represented by a first combination of the value of the first indicating field and the second indicating field; and the disablement of the two transmission blocks is represented by a combination formed by the new-data indicating field for the first transmission block and the new-data indicating field for the second transmission block; transmitting the generated downlink control information to the dual-antenna UE. | 10-01-2015 |
20150278146 | Method And Apparatus For Providing Traffic Re-Aware Slot Placement - Various embodiments provide a method and apparatus of providing an RE-aware technique for placing slots based on redundancy across and within slot communication pairs. | 10-01-2015 |
20150271839 | METHOD OF DETERMINING POSITION OF ACKNOWLEDGEMENT INFORMATION FOR HARQ IN PUCCH - The invention relates to a method, in a wireless communication System, of determining the position, of acknowledgment/non-acknowledgment information for a hybrid automatic repeat request, in a physical uplink control channel, wherein the user equipment sends in an uplink sub-frame the acknowledgment/non-acknowledgment information for one or more downlink sub-frames. In an aspect of the invention, the base station sends to the user equipment a first starting position related to each ePDCCH set, a first offset related to a mapping relationship between the uplink sub-frame and information about the number of enhanced control channel éléments per ePDCCH set. The user equipment détermines the position, of the acknowledgment/non-acknowledgment information for the hybrid automatic repeat request, in the physical uplink control channel upon réception of the foregoing information. With the inventive solution, a waste of physical uplink control channel resources can be lowered and full use of the resources can be made to thereby improve the efficiency of the System. | 09-24-2015 |
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 |
20150271342 | NETWORK RESOURCE ALLOCATION IN COMMUNICATION NETWORKS - The present subject matter discloses systems and methods for allocating network resources in a communication network. In one implementation, the method for allocating network resources for a current call made by a subscriber comprises determining a previous actual usage parameter associated with the subscriber, wherein the previous actual usage parameter is indicative of previous allocation of the network resources made to the subscriber for at least one previous call; retrieving a previous expected usage parameter associated with the subscriber, wherein the previous expected usage parameter is indicative of expected usage of the network resources made by the subscriber for the at least one previous call; and computing a current usage parameter associated with the subscriber for a current allocation of network resources based on the previous actual usage parameter and the previous expected usage parameter. The method further comprises allocating network resources to the subscriber based on the computing. | 09-24-2015 |
20150264579 | RADIO CELLS - A method of providing a region of radio coverage within a wireless telecommunication network and a wireless telecommunication base station operable to provide that region of radio coverage. The base station comprises: transmission apparatus operable to provide a first region of radio coverage on a first radio frequency and a second region of radio coverage on a second radio frequency. The first region of radio coverage comprises a plurality of angularly spaced primary first radio beams and at least one secondary first radio beam. The base station is arranged to transmit the secondary first radio beam at a vertical tilt angle which differs from a tilt angle associated with the plurality of primary first radio beams. The second region of radio coverage comprises at least a primary second radio beam; that primary second radio beam is arranged to radiate from the base station between adjacent angularly spaced primary first radio beams. Aspects recognise that by providing two cells on a carrier, one vertically offset with respect to another, and horizontally offsetting a cell on a second carrier it may be possible to improve overall network performance. | 09-17-2015 |
20150264564 | ACCESS CONTROL OF GEO-FENCED SERVICES USING CO-LOCATED WITNESSES - A capability for providing access control for a geo-fenced service (GFS) is presented herein. In general, a GFS is a network-hosted service having associated therewith a spatial region within which the network-hosted service may be accessed. The spatial region of the GFS may be defined based on one or more witnesses co-located at a location of the spatial region within which the GFS may be accessed, which are associated with the GFS in order to support access control for the GFS. The capability for providing access control for the GFS, based on a request by a user device to access the GFS, uses one or more co-located witnesses associated with the GFS to verify the presence of the user device within the spatial region within which the GFS may be accessed before granting access by the user device to the GFS. | 09-17-2015 |
20150264306 | VIDEO CONFERENCE SYSTEMS IMPLEMENTING ORCHESTRATION MODELS - A method for generating an output video stream in a video conference comprising receiving a plurality of input video streams of the video conference, receiving a series of observation events ( | 09-17-2015 |
20150263947 | SECONDARY LOOKUP FOR SCALING DATAPATH ARCHITECTURE BEYOND INTEGRATED HARDWARE CAPACITY - Various exemplary embodiments relate to a method for routing an incoming packet to a destination, the method including: receiving, at a network device, the incoming packet; determining a destination address of the packet; determining that the destination address is not included in a routing table on the network device; sending a message to a companion device, wherein the message includes the destination address; receiving from the companion device, at the network device, a routing indicator for the destination address; and sending the packet towards a destination consistent with the routing indicator. | 09-17-2015 |
20150263784 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RELAYING MESSAGES IN A PLC NETWORK - A method for relaying messages in a PLC network including a relay node and at least two end nodes attached to the relay node, the method including at the relay node receiving respective first probing messages from the at least two end nodes; processing the respective first probing messages to generate respective first feedback messages; broadcasting the respective first feedback messages to the at least two end nodes; wherein the first probing messages are formed as orthogonal signals and received substantially simultaneously in a first time slot, and wherein the first feedback messages are formed as orthogonal signals and broadcast substantially simultaneously in a second time slot. | 09-17-2015 |
20150257131 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING RESOURCES OF PHYSICAL DOWNLINK CONTROL CHANNELS - A method for determining resources to be decoded by the UE to retrieve physical downlink control channels. A method is in a UE or an eNB and comprises the following steps of: i. determining a start position of a unit of resources in one physical resource block pair; ii, determining a gap between two of the units; and iii. determining a set of units, in a given plurality of physical resource block pairs, according to said start position and said gap, as the resources to be decoded. In this way, the eNB and the UE can locate all the resources for the EPDCCH, namely the search space is determined. This aspect allows a balance between the number of blind decoding and eNB scheduling flexibility in the EPDCCH search space. | 09-10-2015 |
20150257086 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING EPDCCH-BASED DOWNLINK CONTROL INFORMATION - An object of the present invention is to provide a method and apparatus for determining ePDCCH-based downlink control information. Specifically, receiving a control signaling from an eNB, wherein the control signaling comprises at least one ePDCCH set and corresponding configuration information thereof; determining candidate resource index information based on the control signaling; performing DCI blind detection operation based on the candidate resource index information, so as to obtain downlink control information corresponding to the control signaling. Compared with the prior art, based on the control signaling received from the eNB, wherein the control signaling comprises at least one ePDCCH set and corresponding configuration information thereof, the user equipment of the invention determines candidate resource index information, and then performs DCI blind detection operation based on the candidate resource index information, so as to obtain downlink control information corresponding to the control signaling, therefore, the invention realizes determination of ePDCCH-based downlink control information. | 09-10-2015 |
20150257006 | SECURITY MECHANISM FOR SHORT RANGE RADIO FREQUENCY COMMUNICATION - A capability for securing short range radio frequency (RF) communication is presented. The capability for securing short range RF communication may be provided by configuring an RF tag and an RF reader such that only that RF reader (or any other appropriately configured RE reader) is able to detect the presence of the RF tag. The RF tag may be configured to receive a signal from an RF reader and to use backscatter spread modulation to spectrally spread the received signal at the RF tag to form a spread signal having an average energy per unit frequency that is below a noise threshold, thereby rendering the RF tag undetectable by the RF reader if the RF reader is not configured to correctly de-spread the spread signal of the RF tag (or by any other RF reader not configured to correctly de-spread the spread signal of the RF tag). | 09-10-2015 |
20150256257 | SECURE DATA TRANSMISSION USING SPATIAL MULTIPLEXING - An example apparatus includes a mode selective detector, a measurement module, a difference calculator and a threshold and alarm module. The mode selective detector detects a plurality of modes of a spatially multiplexed signal. The measurement module measures a parameter for the plurality of modes of the spatially multiplexed signal, wherein the parameter is a power or a signal to noise ratio (SNR). The difference calculator compares the measured parameter among a subset modes and/or among a known set of unperturbed parameters and determines a differential, the subset including at least one mode. The threshold and alarm module sets an alarm indicator when the differential is out of bounds. | 09-10-2015 |
20150256249 | APPARATUSES, METHODS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAMS FOR A RECEIVER AND A TRANSMITTER OF A WIRELESS SYSTEM - Embodiments provide apparatuses, methods, and computer programs for a receiver and a transmitter of a wireless system. An apparatus ( | 09-10-2015 |
20150254285 | DATA LOGS MANAGEMENT IN A MULTI-CLIENT ARCHITECTURE - Systems and methods for data logs management in a multi-client architecture are described. According to the present subject matter, the system(s) implement the described method(s) for efficient data logs management. The method includes identifying purging parameters associated with each entity of the plurality of entities, where the purging parameters signify a mechanism of purging data logs stored in partition corresponding the entity, and where the purging parameters comprises at least criticality point associated with data logs to relinquish storage space. Further, the method includes purging of data logs stored in the partition of the entity based on the purging parameters, wherein the purging relinquishes the storage space. | 09-10-2015 |
20150251552 | DEVICE AND A METHOD FOR CONTROLLING AN INDUCTION COIL - An exemplary method and apparatus are provided for improved control for induction coils in charging systems for movable vehicles. The technique includes determining a set point for a second induction coil from information about a power transfer of a first induction coil. A switching time for operating the first induction coil in a first pre-determined operating mode is triggered based on a first set point, and a switching time for operating the second induction coil in a second pre-determined operating mode is triggered based on a second set point. The second set point may be determined based on the first set point and an offset. | 09-10-2015 |
20150249931 | SUPPORT OF PACKET DATA CONNECTIVITY IN A MOBILE NETWORK - In an embodiment, there is provided a method for the support of packet data connectivity in a mobile network, said mobile network comprising a Radio Access network RAN and a Core Network CN, said method including, in case no connectivity is available between a RAN node and the Core Network, support of said packet data connectivity in a mode referred to as resilient mode wherein said packet data connectivity is provided locally by said RAN node to at least one User Equipment UE in the coverage of said RAN node, referred to as authorized UE, that is authorized to operate in said resilient mode. | 09-03-2015 |
20150249743 | ENRICHED PRESENCE STATUS - For enriching presence statuses of users in a contact list with call routing rules associated with said users, the presence statuses indicating an availability of said users, called contact users, for communication and being delivered by a presence server (PS) to an application (UCA) implemented in a communication device (CD) owned by a user, called application user, the presence server: sends a request to a call server (CS) managing call routing rules of said contact users, the request containing identifiers (IdCU) of said contact users, receives a response from the call server, the response containing routing statuses (RS) of said contact users, the call server having determined call routing rules (RR) stored respectively in correspondence with the identifiers (IdCU) and having interpreted the call routing rules (RR) to create a routing status for each contact user, and sends a message to the communication device (CD), the message containing the routing status for each contact user, in order that the application (UCA) displays the routing status of contact users. | 09-03-2015 |
20150249281 | JOINING DEVICE FOR FASTENING A RADOME ONTO AN ANTENNA REFLECTOR - A joining device to enable the fastening of a rigid flat radome onto a circular-opening reflector comprises an upper brace applied to one outward-turned side of the radome and covering the peripheral segment of the reflector and radome, a lower brace placed against the face of the reflector opposite the radome, and a rigid spacer comprising and joined with a pad disposed between the reflector and the radome, at least one cylinder leaving a through-hole for a means of fastening the radome onto the reflector, and at least one peg mating with the radome. The upper brace covers the peg and comprises an orifice for putting the cylinder through. In an antenna comprising a circular-opening reflector, a rigid flat radome comprising a plurality of holes on its periphery, and such a joining device, only some of the holes of the radome are used to allow a means of fastening through. | 09-03-2015 |
20150248462 | DYNAMICALLY IMPROVING STREAMING QUERY PERFORMANCE BASED ON COLLECTED MEASUREMENT DATA - A streaming query control capability is presented herein. The streaming query control capability may support improvement or optimization of various aspects of streaming queries. The streaming query control capability may support improvements or optimization in streaming query performance within an environment. The streaming query control capability may support improvements in streaming query performance via improvements in deployment of a streaming query to an environment. The streaming query control capability may support improvements in streaming query performance via modification of a streaming query intended for execution in an environment based on measurement data collected from the environment. The streaming query control capability may support improvements in streaming query performance via integrated deployment and activation of multiple streaming queries sharing a common characteristic. Various combinations of such capabilities may be supported for improvement or optimization of various aspects of streaming queries. | 09-03-2015 |
20150248461 | STREAMING QUERY DEPLOYMENT OPTIMIZATION - A streaming query control capability is presented herein. The streaming query control capability may support improvement or optimization of various aspects of streaming queries. The streaming query control capability may support improvements or optimization in streaming query performance within an environment. The streaming query control capability may support improvements in streaming query performance via improvements in deployment of a streaming query to an environment. The streaming query control capability may support improvements in streaming query performance via modification of a streaming query intended for execution in an environment based on measurement data collected from the environment. The streaming query control capability may support improvements in streaming query performance via integrated deployment and activation of multiple streaming queries sharing a common characteristic. Various combinations of such capabilities may be supported for improvement or optimization of various aspects of streaming queries. | 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 |
20150247686 | COOLING ASSEMBLY - The cooling assembly includes: a heat sink base thermally coupleable with a heat-generating component to be cooled; cooling fins thermally connected with the heat sink base to provide a thermal path from the heat-generating component to the cooling fins; and a displacement mechanism operable to reciprocate the cooling fins. | 09-03-2015 |
20150245162 | METHOD OF DISTRIBUTING GROUP MESSAGE OF MACHINE TYPE COMMUNICATION - The invention relates to a method, in an interworking function device, of distributing a group message of machine type communication, the method including the steps of: receiving the group message from a service capability server, wherein the group message includes location/area information, radio access technology information, external group identifier information and/or application layer data; selecting a transmission mode under a predetermined policy according to the group message or obtaining the transmission mode by querying a home location register or a home subscriber server according to the group message; translating the location/area information into a geographical area in which the group message is transmitted and updating the group message with the geographical area; mapping the external group identifier information to internal group identifier information according to information in the home location register or the home subscriber server and updating the group message with the internal group identifier information to obtain an updated group message; querying the home location register or the home subscriber server according to the updated group message about a core network node or a broadcast system node for transmitting the group message; and transmitting the updated group message to the core network node or the broadcast system node in the selected transmission mode. | 08-27-2015 |
20150244564 | ACTIVE/STANDBY PW REDUNDANCY FOR EPIPES - Various exemplary embodiments relate to a method performed by a backbone network for performing switchover of plurality of pseudo-wires (PWs) connecting a customer edge device to a primary backbone edge bridge (BEB), the method including: designating one of the plurality of PWs as a control PW; associating the remaining PWs with the control PW; associating a virtual backbone MAC (B-MAC) address with the control PW; and advertising, by the primary BEB, the virtual B-MAC address to the backbone network. | 08-27-2015 |
20150244072 | MULTIBAND ANTENNA WITH VARIABLE ELECTRICAL TILT - A feed system for controlling the variable electrical tilt in the vertical plane of arrayed radiating elements of a multiband antenna, comprising a Butler matrix with N inputs and N outputs comprising hybrid couplers, each input being capable of receiving a radio signal and each output being capable of transmitting the signal to at least one radiating element. | 08-27-2015 |
20150243737 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE WITH A REVERSE BIASED HEMT TRANSISTOR - An electronic device including at least: | 08-27-2015 |
20150242429 | DATA MATCHING BASED ON HASH TABLE REPRESENTATIONS OF HASH TABLES - A data matching capability is presented herein. The data matching capability may be configured to support matching of a set of values of a set of data fields to a corresponding set of values of a corresponding set of data fields. The data matching capability may be configured to support matching of a set of values of a set of data fields to a corresponding set of values of a corresponding set of data fields based on use of the set of values of the set of data fields as an input and based on a hash table representation of a hash table storing the corresponding set of values of the corresponding set of data fields. The data matching capability may be used within various contexts including packet classification within telecommunication networks. | 08-27-2015 |
20150237501 | ENCRYPTION IN A WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATIONS - An example of the present invention is a method of transmitting encrypted user data to a mobile terminal in a wireless telecommunications network. The method comprises sending to the mobile terminal a data packet. The data packet comprises both an identifier of encryption information to be used in recovering encrypted user data, and user data encrypted using the encryption information. | 08-20-2015 |
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 |
20150236760 | METHOD OF OPTIMIZING RADIO LINK MONITOR WINDOW PARAMETER IN WIRELESS HETEROGENEOUS COMMUNICATION NETWORK - The invention relates to a method, in a first base station ( | 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 |
20150230166 | SUPPORT OF NOMADIC OR FIXED USERS IN A MOBILE NETWORK - In an embodiment, a method is provided for the support of nomadic or fixed users in a mobile network, said mobile network comprising a Core Network CN accessed by a Radio Access Network RAN, said mobile network providing connectivity referred to as PDN connectivity between an User Equipment UE and at least one external network referred to as Packet Data Network PDN, via a selected one of mobile network nodes associated with said PDN and referred to as PDN Gateway PDN GW, said method including support of a nomadic or fixed user in a mode of operation referred to as non-mobile mode of operation wherein said selected PDN GW referred to as local PDN GW is co-located with a RAN node serving said UE, based on knowledge of the user's mobility pattern. | 08-13-2015 |
20150230141 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IDLE USER EQUIPMENT REDISTRIBUTION IN A HETNET FOR LOAD BALANCE - In one example embodiment, a user equipment includes a processor. The processor is configured to receive a message, determine whether to perform a carrier frequency selection process based on the received message, the carrier frequency selection process being performed for determining a carrier frequency for the user equipment to operate on, and determine the carrier frequency by performing the carrier frequency selection process if the processor determines to perform the carrier frequency selection process. | 08-13-2015 |
20150230113 | SELECTIVE SIGNALING INFORMATION SHARING FOR COMP ENHANCEMENT - A method of facilitating coordinated multi-point communication (CoMP) in a wireless communications network including at least a first base station (BS) and a second BS, a plurality of user equipment (UEs) being associated with the second BS, includes generating, at the first BS, a status request message for requesting the second BS to report one or more types of status information, the status request message including at least one of an aggregation indicator and conditional reporting indicator, the aggregation indicator specifying whether the second BS is to report individual measurements or aggregated measurements to the first BS, the conditional reporting indicator indicating to the second BS to report measurements corresponding to the one or more types of resource status information to the first BS only when one or more conditions are met; and sending the status request message to the second BS. | 08-13-2015 |
20150229511 | METHOD FOR SWITCHING FROM A ONE-WAY INTO A TWO-WAY SIGNALLING MODE AS A PROTECTION SCHEME FOR THE DISTRIBUTION OF TIME AND FREQUENCY OVER A PACKET SWITCHED NETWORK - A packet network includes a peer-to-peer transparent clock hardware support in at least one network element. The transparent clock hardware support enables a local delay measurement mechanism between two adjacent transparent clocks. A master/slave end-to-end synchronization path includes a first set of network elements and their associated transparent clocks. The master and slave exchange unidirectional time stamped packets through the first set of network elements. A method includes generating a first indicator in at least a specific field of a first time stamped packet by a first element when a failure occurs which disables the local delay measurement mechanism between the first element and a second element of the first set; and starting requesting a two-way signalling mode including generating at least a second time stamped packet in order to measure a second delay corresponding to an end-to-end transmission delay of the second time stamp packet from the slave to the master. | 08-13-2015 |
20150229456 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING CHANNEL FEEDBACK INFORMATION IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RECEIVING CHANNEL FEEDBACK INFORMATION IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The invention relates to a method (MET-T) for transmitting channel feedback information in a wireless communication system. The method (MET-T) contains the steps of determining (M | 08-13-2015 |
20150229430 | METHOD OF SUPPORTING TRANSFER OF OPTICAL NETWORK UNIT BETWEEN PASSIVE OPTICAL NETWORKS - In one embodiment, the method includes sending a first transfer message to a target optical line terminal (OLT) corresponding to the target passive optical network (PON), the first transfer message including first identifier information of the first ONU; and sending a second transfer message to a source OLT corresponding to the source PON, the second transfer message including second identifier information of the first ONU and wavelength information of the target PON. | 08-13-2015 |
20150229354 | VECTORING FOR LOW POWER MODES - In one embodiment, the method includes determining, at an access node, a precoder matrix for precoding transmission from the access node to a plurality of downstream devices over a plurality of lines. The plurality of lines include high power lines and low power lines. The high power lines are in active communication and transmit more symbols per frame than the low power lines. The method further includes precoding a signal vector using the precoder matrix regardless of the symbols the signal vector is sending over the low power lines. Here, the determining determines the precoder matrix such that the precoding does not mitigate the cross-talk effect the high power lines have on the low power lines. The method also includes transmitting over the plurality of lines based on the precoded signal vector. | 08-13-2015 |
20150223127 | METHOD FOR HANDOVER MANAGEMENT WITHIN HETEROGENEOUS NETWORKS - A base station ( | 08-06-2015 |
20150223042 | INDEPENDENT ROAMING CHARGING FOR A ROAMING USER EQUIPMENT IN A VISITED NETWORK - An objective of the present invention is to provide a method and apparatus for performing independent roaming charts for a roaming user equipment roaming in a VPLMN, a visited charging device acquires roaming service usage information of the roaming user equipment in the VPLMN from a visited PCEF, wherein the roaming user equipment roams to the VPLMN, and the visited charging device and the visited PCEF correspond to the VPLMN; the visited charging device determines roaming charging information of the roaming user equipment in the VPLMN based on a roaming charging policy, corresponding to the roaming user equipment, and the roaming service usage information. Compared with the prior art, the present invention provides an innovative policy and charging method, the roaming charging plan may be directly managed and controlled by the roaming operator in its own charging system, instead of being managed and controlled by the home operator, so as to support new EU roaming rules and meanwhile satisfy the requirements of the rules and of the operators. | 08-06-2015 |
20150223017 | METHOD FOR PROVISIONING A PERSON WITH INFORMATION ASSOCIATED WITH AN EVENT - The present invention relates to a method for provisioning a person with information associated with an event wherein the method comprises the steps of detecting a person involved in the event, subsequently determining a geo-location of said person involved in said event and controlling the provisioning of directional information at the geo-location of the person involved in the event. | 08-06-2015 |
20150222618 | METHOD FOR ESTABLISHING AN AUTHORIZED COMMUNICATION BETWEEN A PHYSICAL OBJECT AND A COMMUNICATION DEVICE - A method for establishing an authorized communication between a physical object ( | 08-06-2015 |
20150222400 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING CSI REPORT - The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for controlling a Channel State Information (CSI) report. According to an embodiment of the present invention, a method for controlling a CSI report of a User Equipment (UE) in a base station of a Long Term Evolution (LTE) mobile communication network is provided. The method includes a step of determining a CSI report set for a UE, where the CSI report set includes multiple CSI feedback modes, and each CSI feedback mode is defined to include a Non-Zero Power Reference Signal (NZP RS) resource part for channel measurement and an Interference Measurement Resource (IMR) part for interference measurement. In addition, the method further includes a step of sending to the UE Radio Resource Control (RRC) signaling indicating the CSI report set. | 08-06-2015 |
20150222399 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR CONTROLLING CELLS IN A NETWORK - At least one example embodiment discloses a method of coordinating a change from a first operating state to a second operating state of a selected cell in a system. The method includes changing to an intermediate state from the first operating state based on first signaling information exchanged between a serving cell of a user equipment (UE) and the selected cell in the first operating state and at least one signal received by the selected cell in the first operating state from the UE, the first operating state being a dormant state and operating in the intermediate state based on second signaling information between the serving cell and the selected cell, third signaling information between the serving cell and the UE and transmission information between the UE and the selected cell, the intermediate state being between the first operating state and the second operating state, the second operating state being an on state where the selected cell serves the UE. | 08-06-2015 |
20150215978 | SUPPORT OF DATA TRANSMISSION IN A PACKET MOBILE NETWORK - In an embodiment, there is provided a method for the support of data transmission in a packet mobile network, for PDN connectivity over said packet mobile network between an User Equipment UE and an external Packet Data Network PDN, said packet mobile network comprising a Core Network CN accessed by a Radio Access Network RAN, said data transmission using a tunnel over an interface between a serving RAN node and a serving user plane CN node, said method including support of said data transmission in a mode referred to as connectionless transmission mode, wherein said tunnel over said interface is predefined and identified using information referred to as Connection ID information, providing a reference to said PDN and to said serving user plane CN node. | 07-30-2015 |
20150215842 | REQUESTING RESOURCES FOR DEVICE-TO-DEVICE (D2D) COMMUNICATION - A device, such as user equipment, to transmit a preamble in a preamble resource to indicate one or more communication resources for a device-to-device (D2D) communication channel and transmit voice or data over the D2D communication channel using the one or more communication resources in response to absence of an indication of a collision in the preamble resource. User equipment may also detect a preamble in a preamble resource that indicates the one or more communication resources for a device-to-device (D2D) communication channel and monitor the one or more communication resources for D2D communication in response to detecting the preamble in the preamble resource. | 07-30-2015 |
20150215759 | METHOD THAT ENABLES THE USER OF A WIRELESS TELEPHONE TERMINAL TO ESTABLISH AN EMERGENCY CONNECTION IN A LOCAL NETWORK, AND TERMINAL AND SERVER FOR CARRYING OUT THIS METHOD - When establishing an emergency connection in a wireless network having an authentication server, wherein a user terminal is a non-subscriber to the network, a dialed number is recognized as an emergency number and the terminal sends a start-up message to a radio access point of the network. The terminal receives a first message that requests the identity of the terminal, from the access point in response to the start-up message, and sends a second message, which contains the identity of the terminal and an indication indicating that the terminal is attempting to make an emergency call. An authentication server, determines that the second message contains an indication that the call is an emergency call, and sends an acceptance message to the terminal via the access point wherein a port of the access point is validated to permit the terminal to establish an emergency connection. | 07-30-2015 |
20150215473 | ONLINE CHARGING METHOD FOR ALWAYS ON IP CONNECTIVITY - The invention relates to an online charging method for always on IP connectivity in a communication system, the method comprises a Diameter router receiving an online charging request from a Diameter client, wherein the online charging request includes subscriber information; the Diameter router finding a corresponding online charging system in a subscriber index database based on the subscriber information; sending a successful acknowledge to the Diameter client and generating a ticket file when the corresponding online charging system does not exist in the subscriber index database or the corresponding online charging system is not available, wherein the successful acknowledge includes a dummy quota specified by the Diameter router; and the ticket file processor reading the ticket file based on a scheduled timing and generating a first online charging event request and sending the first online charging event request to the Diameter router when the corresponding online charging system exists in the subscriber index database or the corresponding online charging system is available. | 07-30-2015 |
20150215320 | METHOD FOR ESTABLISHING AN AUTHORIZED COMMUNICATION BETWEEN A PHYSICAL OBJECT AND A COMMUNICATION DEVICE ENABLING A WRITE ACCESS - A method for establishing an authorized communication between a physical object ( | 07-30-2015 |
20150215050 | DETECTION AND REMOVAL OF CYCLE SLIP FROM RECEIVED SIGNALS - Embodiments of the disclosure include a method and apparatus for detecting and removing cycle slip. A phase-modulated signal having a plurality of phase-modulated symbols is received at an optical receiver, and, for each phase-modulated symbol, a phase-error estimate of a phase error of the phase-modulated symbol is generated. The presence of a cycle slip is then detected based on the phase-error estimates, and, a phase of each of one or more of the received phase-modulated symbols is adjusted to remove the detected cycle slip without adjusting a local oscillator. | 07-30-2015 |
20150215018 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING RI REPORT - The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for controlling a rank information (RI) report. According to an embodiment of the present invention, a method for controlling an RI report of a User Equipment (UE) in a base station of a Long Term Evolution (LTE) mobile communications network is provided. The method includes the following steps: determining a Channel State Information (CSI) report set for a UE, where the CSI report set includes multiple CSI feedback modes (CSI processes); sending to the UE Radio Resource Control (RRC) signaling indicating the CSI report set; and sending to the UE signaling indicating a precoding codebook subset and/or rank restriction of each CSI feedback mode in the CSI report set. According to the above embodiment, rank selection and high rank transmission are supported for coordinated multi-point (CoMP) transmission in the LTE mobile communications network. | 07-30-2015 |
20150208335 | RULE-DRIVEN POLICY CREATION BY AN ANDSF SERVER - Various exemplary embodiments relate to a method, network node, and non-transitory machine-readable storage medium including one or more of the following: identifying a location associated with a user equipment device (UE) in communication with an ANDSF server via an S14 session established over a first access network; retrieving a policy rule that includes a first portion and a second portion; determining, based on evaluating the first portion using the location associated with the UE, that the policy rule is applicable to the S14 session; generating, in response to determining that the policy rule is applicable to the S14 session, a policy based on the second portion, wherein the policy includes an identification of an access point for use by the UE to access a second access network; and transmitting the policy including the identification of the access point to the UE via the S14 session over the first access network. | 07-23-2015 |
20150208070 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DYNAMIC ADAPTATION OF VIDEO ENCODER PARAMETERS - A method for adapting at least one video encoding parameter to be used for encoding of a video for being transmitted from a server to a client, comprises a step of determining whether the movement speed of a region of interest over successive ones of previously encoded and transmitted frames of said video exceeds a predetermined threshold value, and a step of adapting said at least one video encoding parameter if said predetermined threshold value is exceeded. | 07-23-2015 |
20150208031 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENABLING VISUAL MUTE OF A PARTICIPANT DURING VIDEO CONFERENCING - A method for adapting video data (video room | 07-23-2015 |
20150207940 | DEVICES FOR DETERMINING TO TERMINATE A CHARGING SESSION AND SYSTEMS THEREOF - The present invention aims to provide devices for determining to terminate a charging session and Systems thereof. A session termination decision device receives a decision request for terminating a charging processing of the current always on IP connectivity session from a charging session termination request device; the session termination decision device sends information relevant to a termination rule corresponding to the charging session of the current always on IP connectivity session to the initiating device for the charging session, in response to the decision request; and the initiating device for the charging session requests the OCS to terminate the charging session. Compared with the prior art, the present invention releases a Diameter charging session without totally removing the charging rules from IP-CAN, and keeps the IP-CAN session when there is no active service or data flow during long duration session, i.e. the always on IP connectivity session. It will significantly save System resources and reduce unnecessary charges to end users, and thus benefit both service providers and end users. | 07-23-2015 |
20150207740 | METHODS AND DEVICE FOR PROCESSING DIGITAL DATA FRAMES AND TRANSPORT FRAMES FOR REDUCTION OF TRANSPORT BANDWIDTH - A device (D | 07-23-2015 |
20150207507 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING PIPELINED OPERATIONS ON PARALLEL INPUT DATA WITH FEEDBACK - Embodiments of the claimed subject matter provide a method and apparatus for performing pipelined operations on input data with feedback. One embodiment of the apparatus includes a first logic circuit for determining a value of a first function based on input data for a first clock cycle. The first logic circuit includes pipeline stages that perform subsets of calculations of the value of the first function in one clock cycle. The apparatus also includes a second logic circuit for determining a value of a second function for the first clock cycle based on a value of a third function for a second clock cycle prior to the first clock cycle. The apparatus further includes a third logic circuit for determining a value of the third function for the first clock cycle by combining the values of the first and second functions for the first clock cycle. | 07-23-2015 |
20150206213 | RELATIONSHIP ESTABLISHMENT - A method of establishing enablers of a relationship between a first entity and a second entity, a computer program product and relationship establishment unit operable to perform that method. The method comprises: determining a set of indications of primary relationship characteristics to define a generic relationship between the first entity and the second entity; expressing primary first entity relationship requirements and primary second entity relationship requirements in terms of the indications of primary relationship characteristics; assessing, based on common indications of primary relationship characteristics, whether commonality between the primary first entity relationship requirements and primary second entity relationship requirements passes a preselected threshold; and, if so, establishing enablers of a relationship between the first entity and said second entity based on the common indications of primary relationship characteristics. | 07-23-2015 |
20150204615 | Dendritic Tube Circular Fin Heat Exchanger - Various exemplary embodiments relate to a heat exchanger configured to be attached to a cooling fan having a fan hub and a plurality of fan blades the cooling fan configured to produce airflow, said airflow having a first airflow rate at a first location and a different second airflow rate at a different second location, the heat exchanger including: an inlet manifold; an outlet manifold; a plurality of inlet tubes connected to the inlet manifold; a plurality of outlet tubes connected to the outlet manifold and the plurality of inlet tubes; and a plurality of concentric circular fins connected to the plurality of tubes, wherein the plurality of concentric circular fins have different radii such that a first spacing between a pair of adjacent first and second concentric circular fins corresponds to the first location and a second spacing between a pair of adjacent third and a fourth concentric circular fins corresponds to the second location and the first spacing is different from the second spacing. | 07-23-2015 |
20150201430 | APPARATUSES, METHODS AND COMPUTER PROGRAMS FOR AN OPERATOR SPECIFIC SCHEDULER, A COMMON SCHEDULER AND AN ADAPTATION MODULE - Embodiments relate to apparatuses, methods and computer programs for an operator specific scheduler, a common scheduler and an adaptation module. An adaptation module apparatus maps control signaling resources and data signaling resources of a mobile communication system to universal control and data resources. A common scheduler apparatus determines information on an availability of a subset of the universal control resources based on an assignment rule of an operator and based on the information on the availability of the plurality of universal control resources. An operator specific scheduler | 07-16-2015 |
20150201021 | Method For Routing Transactions Between Internal And External Partners In A Communication Center - In a multimedia call center (MMCC) operating through an operating system, a client-specific self-help wizard is provided for active clients and updated periodically with information related to client transaction history with the MMCC. A connected client is presented by the wizard with a selective media function through which the client may a select a media type for interaction and help, and the MMCC will then re-contact the client through the selected media. The client, for example, may select IP or COST telephony, and the MMCC will place a call to the client to a number or IP address listed for the client, and interactivity will then be through an interactive voice response unit. Help information specific to a client is updated in the client's wizard periodically according to ongoing transaction history with the MMCC. The wizard may also monitor client activity with the wizard and make reports available to various persons. | 07-16-2015 |
20150200849 | METHOD OPERATING IN A FIXED ACCESS NETWORK AND UES - In a CN access network with a virtual node for at least one third party, the virtual node being used for bearing and operating the function defined by the third party, the UE accesses from a fixed access network; and the access network provides the UE with the communication connection between the UE and the virtual node of the third network/service operator. According to the embodiment the access network accommodates the virtual node to operate the function related to the third party, and improves the function topology architecture of the network, to provide users with better user experience quality. | 07-16-2015 |
20150200793 | COORDINATED MULTI POINT TRANSMISSION MODES - A method of configuring user equipment in a wireless communication network to operate to receive a dynamically changing coordinated multipoint transmission from one or more transmission point in said network, a computer program product and network control node operable to perform that method. The method comprises: determining, for the user equipment, a set of two or more transmission points from which the user equipment may receive a transmission and allocating them to a coordinated multipoint transmission measurement set associated with the user equipment; allocating a set of modes of operation of the transmission points in the coordinated multipoint transmission measurement set for communication with the user equipment; associating a codepoint to each mode in the allocated set of modes of operation of the set of transmission points to form a codebook; and informing the user equipment of the codebook. Aspects and embodiments described recognise that without significantly increasing the number of bits required in a downlink control information message, dynamic switching among some preselected or preconfigured coordinated multipoint transmission schemes can be efficiently supported within a network. The configuration of code points interpreted by user equipment may be set on a user equipment by user equipment basis and can be preconfigured by RRC signalling semi-statically. | 07-16-2015 |
20150200455 | ANTENNA FEED - An antenna feed and methods are disclosed. The antenna feed is for generating signals for an antenna array for transmitting a transmission beam having one of a plurality of different tilt angles, the antenna feed comprises: a digital signal processor operable to receive an input broadband signal and to generate, in response to a requested tilt angle, a plurality N of output broadband signals, each having an associated phase and amplitude; a plurality N of transmission signal generators, each operable to receive one of the plurality N of output broadband signals and to generate a corresponding plurality N of first RF signals; a feed network operable to receive the plurality N of first RF signals and to generate a plurality P of second RF signals, each of the plurality P of second RF signals having an associated amplitude and phase, the plurality P of second RF signals being used to generate a plurality M of third RF signals, where P is no less than M, each third RF signal having an associated phase and amplitude for supplying to a corresponding antenna of a plurality M of antennas of the antenna array to transmit the transmission beam with the requested tilt angle. By increasing the number of signals generated within the feed network, which are utilized to generate the third RF signals for supplying to the antenna, the range of possible tilt angles is increased as are the possible range of beam patterns in order to satisfy the coverage and capacity requirements. | 07-16-2015 |
20150195716 | USER EQUIPMENT CHARACTERISTICS - A method of providing an indication of ambient operational characteristics of user equipment to a network control node in a wireless communication network, and a method of configuring radio resource allocation to user equipment in a wireless communication network in response to an indication of ambient operational characteristics of said user equipment. The method of providing an indication of ambient operational characteristics of user equipment to a network control node in a wireless communication network comprises: determining how many cell boundaries the user equipment has crossed within a monitoring period; assessing an operational parameter indicative of a relationship between the user equipment and each cell visited during the monitoring period; and communicating an indication of how many cell boundaries have been crossed together with an indication of the operational parameter to the network control node. The method of configuring radio resource allocation to user equipment in a wireless communication network in response to an indication of ambient operational characteristics of said user equipment comprises: receiving an indication of how many cell boundaries have been crossed by the user equipment in a monitoring period, together with an indication of an operational parameter indicative of a relationship between the user equipment and each cell visited by the user equipment during the monitoring period; and configuring an inactivity timer to apply to the user equipment in response to the received indications. Aspects and embodiments described provide mobility information to a network in order to allow a network to configure radio parameters for user equipment such to achieve better battery consumption and reduced signaling load within a network. Techniques described may be useful to smart phones operating with background applications running. | 07-09-2015 |
20150195702 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM USING CAMEL DIALOGUE SERVICES - An objective of the present invention is a method, apparatus, and a system using a CAMEL service. According to the method of the present invention, the method comprises the following steps during a process in which a called user equipment moves from an original visit mobile switch center (VMMSC) to a new VMSC: when receiving roaming retry information from the original VMSC, generating a first send routing information containing suppress Terminating CAMEL Subscription Information (TCSI) indicator of the CAMEL dialogue service; sending the first send routing information to a home location register, so as to request a mobile station roaming number of the called user equipment in said new MSC. According to the method of the present invention, the initial CAMEL service connection is always maintained during the MTRR process, without bothering to interrupt and re-invoke various kinds of CAMEL services, thereby shortening the call setting time during the MTRR process; besides, the communication load of the network ss7 is reduced, and the network resources are saved. Particularly during the RBT service process, the user will not hear two different ringtones any more, which enhances the user experience. | 07-09-2015 |
20150195006 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR TESTING SUBSCRIBER PREMISES EQUIPMENT - In one embodiment, the method includes determining at least one value that depends on an attenuation of a signal transmitted over a telecommunication line to a DSL modem or received over the telecommunication line from the DSL modem; detecting depending on the value that the DSL modem is coupled with the telecommunication line via a DSL splitter in such a way that the DSL modem is connected to a different connector of the DSL splitter than a modem connector of the DSL splitter, which modem connector is intended for being connected with the DSL modem; determining a loop length value of the telecommunication line; and determining a threshold depending on the loop length value, wherein the detecting is based on comparing the threshold with the value. | 07-09-2015 |
20150189692 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING SAMPLES OF A DIGITAL BASEBAND SIGNAL - The present invention refers to to a device and a method for transmitting samples ( | 07-02-2015 |
20150189674 | COMMON CHANNEL AQUISITION - A method of selecting a common channel type for uplink transmission in a wireless communication network when conflicting instructions are received, a computer program product and user equipment operable to perform that method. The method comprises: attempting to acquire resource on a first type of common channel for uplink transmission of information in accordance with a first received instruction; receiving a second instruction to make any uplink transmission on a second type of common channel; determining whether there is any information to be sent and, if not, ceasing attempts to acquire resource on the first type of common channel. Aspects and embodiments described aim to provide a method to resolve a mixture of commands received by user equipment whilst aiming to ensure efficient overall network operation. | 07-02-2015 |
20150189664 | INTERFERENCE INDICATOR FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS - Methods and apparatuses for indicating an interference distribution in frame between base stations are provided. The method comprises: in response to a mismatch between a first frame allocation used by a first base station and a second frame allocation used by a second base station, transmitting, from the first base station to the second base station, a message for indicating an interference distribution in frame, A new information element, i.e., UL ABS (uplink Almost Blank Subframe) is introduced to indicate the uplink ABS information of the interfering base station. A modified DL ABS with a flag is used to indicate the downlink ABS information of the interfering base station, wherein the flag is to indicate that the DL ABS is used to protect UL transmission in the recipient base station. | 07-02-2015 |
20150189603 | APPARATUS, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR A BASE STATION TRANSCEIVER - Embodiments relate to an apparatus, a method and a computer program for a base station transceiver ( | 07-02-2015 |
20150189568 | METHOD FOR INTERFERENCE REDUCTION IN A RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, PROCESSING UNIT, AND WIRELESS ACCESS NETWORK NODE THEREOF - The invention relates to a method for interference reduction in a radio communication system. The method (MET | 07-02-2015 |
20150189336 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR VIDEO SERVICE TRANSMISSION - The invention proposes a method and apparatus of video service transmission. A method of managing video service transmission in a broadcast multicast service center is proposed, wherein, the video service is coded as base coding layer data and enhancement coding layer data, the base coding layer data and the enhancement coding layer data respectively use different multimedia broadcast multicast service bearer to implement transmission, the method comprises the following steps: obtaining dependency information of the enhancement coding layer data, the dependency information being used to indicate the coding layer data on which the enhancement coding layer data depends; and transmitting to a multimedia broadcast multicast service gateway a session start request signaling of multimedia broadcast multicast service, the session start request signaling of multimedia broadcast multicast service being used to request establishing multimedia broadcast multicast service bearer for the enhancement coding layer data, the session start request signaling of multimedia broadcast multicast service including the dependency information. | 07-02-2015 |
20150188657 | HIGH CAPACITY NETWORK NODE - An exemplary technique is provided for a scalable architecture for a network node that allows a very high switching capacity. The network node has a number of packet optical add drop multiplexers (POADMs), a number of dual line cards, respectively associated with the POADMs, and an optical switch matrix. Each POADM has an input and an output line interface and serves to selectively add and drop optical packets into and from packet timeslots of output and input wavelength-multiplexed optical signals transmitted and received at said output and input line interfaces, respectively. The dual line cards serve to electrically process and buffer packets to be added and dropped. The optical switch matrix configurably interconnects internal optical interfaces contained within the dual line cards on a packet by packet basis. | 07-02-2015 |
20150186674 | Role-based Anonymization - A data anonymization system provides role-based anonymization for data requesters. The system applies a base anonymization function to subscriber data related to at least one subscriber of a service provider to produce base anonymized subscriber data. Upon receiving a request for the subscriber data from a data requester, a role assigned to that data requester is determined to identify a custom anonymization function to be applied to the subscriber data in order to produce custom anonymized subscriber data for the data requester. | 07-02-2015 |
20150185870 | METHOD, A SERVER AND A POINTING DEVICE FOR ENHANCING PRESENTATIONS - The invention concerns a method for making a presentation comprising,—sending ( | 07-02-2015 |
20150181445 | DYNAMIC MANAGEMENT OF AN ON/OFF STATUS OF A BASE STATION FROM A ROUTING PROXY - The application relates to the problem that when an HeNB switches off (HeNB1-3) while connected via a proxy (PR) as mentioned by Release 11 of 3GPP TR 37.803 to a peer X2AP entity, the X2AP entity in the HeNB can not inform its peer (eNB1) that it is no longer reachable. The problem is solved in that when the proxy detects the disconnection of the SCTP connection (SCT-P1-3) between the HeNB and itself, it transmits an X2AP STOP message to the eNB (eNB1), whereby this message indicates the end of the SCTP connection (SCTP1-3) and identifies the HeNB. | 06-25-2015 |
20150180617 | METHOD OF IMPLEMENTING AUTOMATICALLY RETRANSMISSION FEEDBACK IN A UE IN A CARRIER AGGREGATION NETWORK - The invention proposes a method of implementing hybrid automatically retransmission feedback in a UE in a carrier aggregation network, wherein, the network comprises a self-scheduling primary cell and a secondary cell, and the method comprises: determining a reference frame configuration based on the frame configuration of the primary cell and the frame configuration of the secondary cell, wherein, the reference frame configuration is the type 5; determining a first quantity of downlink subframes of the secondary cell needing to be fed back in uplink subframes, according to the frame configuration of the secondary cell and downlink subframes, associated with uplink subframes, corresponding to the reference frame configuration; receiving from a base station a parameter about the number of downlink subframes fed back, and calculating a second quantity of downlink subframes needing to be fed back in the uplink subframes, based on the parameter; determining an actual quantity of downlink subframes actually fed back, based on the first quantity and the second quantity; implementing automatically retransmission feedback for downlink frames of the actual quantity in the physical shared channel, adjusted by uplink grants, in the uplink subframes. | 06-25-2015 |
20150163772 | METHOD AND APPARATUS OF COMPRESSING A MULTI-CARRIER MODULATION SIGNAL IN FREQUENCY DOMAIN - The invention provides a method and an apparatus, of compressing a multi-carrier modulation signal in frequency domain. By setting a modulation mode indicator, the preferable technical scheme could be changed dynamically according to the modulation mode, so as to select the corresponding bits for the different modulation mode. Moreover, according the preferable technical scheme of the present invention, the signal of the data channel in the resource element after extracting the second scale factor is represented by the bits which are occupied by a pair of I/Q signal. Thus, more bits are saved and compression ratio is enhanced. | 06-11-2015 |
20150163706 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PERFORMING CELL RESELECTION - A method and an apparatus for performing cell reselection are provided. According to the embodiments, the method includes: selecting a first candidate reselection target cell set in which a cell reselection measurement result of each cell meets a first criterion; selecting a second candidate reselection target cell set from the first candidate reselection target cell set according to a cell reselection priority level of each cell in the first candidate reselection target cell set; and considering received Multicast Broadcast Single Frequency Network (MBSEN) region identification information of each cell in the second candidate reselection target cell set, and selecting a cell from the second candidate reselection target cell set to serve as a reselection target cell. Therefore, the continuity of receiving of a Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service (MBMS) service can be improved as much as possible. | 06-11-2015 |
20150163674 | Method for Selectively Exposing Subscriber Data - Methods, systems, and apparatuses for selectively exposing subscriber data include maintaining subscriber data at a digital data storage, wherein the digital data storage is protected by a service provider firewall. A request to expose subscriber data from a third-party requestor is received. Selected subscriber data and a security condition associated with the request are determined, wherein the security condition is based on an identity of the third-party requestor. The selected subscriber data is retrieved if the security condition is satisfied, and the selected subscriber data is transmitted to the third-party requestor. | 06-11-2015 |
20150161411 | METHOD FOR PROTECTING CONFIDENTIALITY OF A FILE DISTRIBUTED AND STORED AT A PLURALITY OF STORAGE SERVICE PROVIDERS - This method comprises the steps of: —choosing ( | 06-11-2015 |
20150159412 | SELF-LOCKING INJECT/EJECT LATCH - A latch that can be used as a mechanical aid for insertion/extraction of a circuit pack into/from a slot in an equipment cabinet. In an example embodiment, a handle of the latch contains a spring-biased locking lever that automatically locks the latch in the closed position when the pawl of the latch engages the keeper. Some embodiments may include an integrated micro-switch that enables a graceful shutdown of the circuit pack, e.g., to avoid an extraction without a proper power-down. At least some embodiments of the latch may also have one or more of the following beneficial characteristics: (i) a relatively large and/or variable leverage ratio; (ii) a relatively small footprint on the faceplate of the circuit pack; (iii) a fully symmetric design with or without the integrated micro-switch; and (iv) enhanced electromagnetic compatibility with the use of an electrically conducting latch base and/or gasket. | 06-11-2015 |
20150156776 | METHOD OF BANDWIDTH CONFIGURATION FOR A USER EQUIPMENT IN A MTC BASED COMMUNICATION NETWORK - The present invention relates to a method, in a base station of a MTC based communication system, of configuring bandwidth for a MTC user equipment, wherein bandwidth of the MTC user equipment is smaller than system bandwidth for MTC, the method comprising the steps of: receiving a first message from the MTC user equipment, the first message indicating an offset of bandwidth selected by the MTC user equipment according to a predetermined selection policy relative to the system bandwidth, wherein the selected bandwidth covers center frequency band of the system bandwidth; determining the bandwidth selected by the MTC user equipment according to the first message. According to the invention, the system bandwidth for MTC and the bandwidth of the MTC user equipments can be asymmetrically increased, while extending the capacity of MTC by allocating wider bandwidth. The cost for the user equipments in a MTC based communication system could be saved by reserving the bandwidth of the MTC user equipments or by reducing the increment of the bandwidth of the MTC user equipments while increasing the system bandwidth for MTC. | 06-04-2015 |
20150156774 | INTERWORKING BASE STATION BETWEEN A WIRELESS NETWORK AND A CELLULAR NETWORK - This invention concerns an interworking base station (BS) between a wireless network and a cellular network. The base station (BS) is adapted to support carrier aggregation and is adapted to employ : ▪ a primary carrier (PC) using cellular access technology providing communication between a user terminal (UE) and said base station, said primary carrier (PC) being used to assure a robust communication link; ▪ at least one secondary carrier (SC) using a wireless access technology providing communication between said user terminal (UE) and said base station (BS), said at least one secondary carrier (SC) being used to assure a high rate wireless connexion; ▪ a control mechanism (MAC Mux) to direct the delivery of high-speed data services over the primary carrier (PC) using a cellular access technology, the secondary carrier (SC) using wireless access technology or the combination of the cellular and wireless access technologies. | 06-04-2015 |