| ZTE (USA) INC. Patent applications |
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| 20120134286 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR CONFIGURING SUBSCRIBER QUALITY OF SERVICE PROFILES - A wireless communication apparatus is operable in a first wireless communications system implementing a first wireless communications protocol. A subscriber Quality of Service (QoS) profile module is for configuring a QoS Profile. A receiver module is for receiving, over the first wireless network, a QoS Profile Request message. A transmission module is for transmitting a QoS Profile Response message over the first wireless network. | 05-31-2012 |
| 20120120854 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DYNAMIC ADJUSTMENT OF DOWNLINK/UPLINK ALLOCATION RATIO IN LTE/TDD SYSTEM - A method and system for dynamic adjustment of downlink/uplink resource allocation ratio in a long-term evolution (LTE) time division duplex (TDD) system is disclosed. The method includes replacing at least one uplink subframe in a subframe pattern with at least one of a mute subframe and a mute uplink pilot timeslot (UpPTS), within a geographical guard area that isolates at least two areas having different TDD allocation patterns. The method further includes scheduling an uplink transmission from at least one mobile terminal such that the at least one of the mute subframe and the mute UpPTS are unused. A simple solution or a TDD configuration index substitution solution, or any combination thereof, may be used to control the uplink transmission involving a mute subframe or a mute UpPTS. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120106973 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR OPTICAL WIRELESS ARCHITECTURE - Embodiments of the present invention pertain to optical wireless architecture. More particularly, certain embodiments of the invention pertain to a novel method and apparatus to generate millimeter-wave signals with simple and/or low cost architecture. Simple millimeter-wave generation and dispersion-tolerant transmission is based on photonic mixing of two free-running lightwaves and self-mixing down-conversion. More particularly, heterodyne mixing of two free run lightwaves is achieved, wherein one lightwave is modulated by an external modulator driven by electrical data as one of the side-bands of a millimeter-wave signal. Optical to electrical conversion is performed and the millimeter-wave signal is broadcasted by a high-frequency antenna to a receiving side having a local oscillator with self-mixing architecture to down-convert the radio frequency to its baseband form. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120082047 | USER EQUIPMENT MEASUREMENT FOR INTERFERENCE MANAGEMENT IN HETEROGENEOUS NETWORKS WITH FEMTO CELLS - Systems and methods for interference management are disclosed. Exemplary embodiments disclose systems and methods configured to identify victim or interfering mobile stations and transmit measurement instructions to the victim or interfering mobile stations. According to certain embodiments, the mobile stations monitor downlink link quality and report this information back to the serving cells. The serving cells are configured to schedule the mobile stations in the subframes whose downlink link quality is high, determined based on a predetermined threshold. | 04-05-2012 |
| 20120028661 | INTERWORKING CIRCUIT SERVICE FALL BACK - Techniques, apparatuses, and systems include mechanisms for interworking circuit service fallback. In one implementation, a system for wireless communications can include one or more first base stations forming a first radio access network to provide wireless communications based on a first wireless technology; one or more second base stations forming a second radio access network to provide wireless communications based on a second wireless technology which is different from the first wireless technology, and an interworking service (IWS) module that is configured to provide the interworking between the first and second radio access networks for communications to a wireless device served by the system via either the first wireless technology or the second wireless technology, and uses a signal adaptation protocol to encapsulate messages in communicating with a wireless device served by the system. Other implementations are also provided in this document. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20110292859 | MOBILITY MANAGEMENT METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MULTICAST AND BROADCAST SERVICES - A system is disclosed for performing a mobile station handover while continuing a multicast and broadcast service (MCBCS). The system includes a transceiver module transmitting from the mobile station multicast and broadcast service (MBS) zone criteria, including a list of one or more potential target base stations, to a serving base station, if a target base station is not in the same MBS zone as the serving base station. A handover request is made to one or more of the potential target base stations from the serving base station, determined based on the MBS zone criteria, where the MBS zone criteria includes an MCBCS continuity policy of the mobile station. A target base station is then selected, from the list of one or more potential target base stations, that satisfies the MBS zone criteria, and a handover process is performed to the target base station. | 12-01-2011 |
| 20110237251 | IDLE AND PAGING SUPPORT FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS WITH PRIVATE CELLS - Systems, apparatuses, and techniques for operating a wireless communication system with public and private paging groups. Systems, apparatuses, and techniques can include operating a base station to provide wireless service to mobile stations in a macrocell, the macrocell associated with a public paging group identifier and a private paging group identifier; assigning the private paging group identifier to one or more private cells that are spatially situated in at least a portion of the macrocell, the one or more private cells are operable by one or more base stations to restrict wireless access to specific wireless devices; and using wireless device access privileges associated with the one or more private cells for one or more wireless operations associated with the mobile stations, the wireless operations including paging and location update. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110177838 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SPACE-TIME POWER CONTROL FOR MIMO TRANSMISSIONS - A system for controlling transmit power at a station in a multiple in, multiple out (MIMO) system is disclosed. The system includes a signal to interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) generator configured to predict a post-processing SINR, based on at least one previous and current SINR estimate, for each spatial stream. A power control bit (PCB) generator is configured to generate at least one PCB based on the predicted SINR, which is transmitted to the station at which transmit power is controlled, by a transceiver module, where the stations is a base station or a mobile station. A power control step (PCS) generator is configured to determine a PCS size based on the PCB. | 07-21-2011 |
| 20110170638 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SPATIAL CHANNEL STATE INFORMATION FEEDBACK BASED ON A KRONECKER PRODUCT - A spatial channel state information (CSI) feedback technique is incorporated into multiple-input multiple-output mobile communications technologies. Spatial channel state information is measured at receiving equipment and then decomposed into components. The components are then quantized using codebook(s) and fed back as multiple indices to transmitting equipment. | 07-14-2011 |
| 20110113480 | CARRIER-GRADE PEER-TO-PEER (P2P) NETWORK, SYSTEM AND METHOD - A computing network, including: a plurality of peer computing devices including code, which when executed by a peer computing device causes the executing peer computing device to cooperate with at least one other of the peer computing devices; at least one server including code, which when executed by the at least one server locates at least one of the peer computing devices; and at least one mediator including code, which when executed by the at least on mediator collects information from at least some of the peer computing devices; wherein, the peer computing devices, at least one sever and at least one mediator are communicatively coupled via an at least carrier-grade telecommunications network being suitable for enhancing co-operation among the cooperating ones of the peer computing devices relative to best-efforts communications among the cooperating ones of the peer computing devices. | 05-12-2011 |
| 20110110310 | FRAME STRUCTURE FOR MULTI-HOP RELAY IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS - Implementations of systems and techniques for scheduling wireless transmission of data blocks between a base station (BS) and one or more relay stations (RSs) in a wireless relay communication network. | 05-12-2011 |
| 20110103406 | FLEXIBLE OFDM/OFDMA FRAME STRUCTURE FOR COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS - A flexible OFDM/OFDMA frame structure technology for communication systems is disclosed. The OFDM frame structure technology comprises a configurable-length frame which contains a variable length subframe structure to effectively utilize OFDM bandwidth. Furthermore, the frame structure facilitates spectrum sharing between multiple communication systems. | 05-05-2011 |
| 20110096783 | FLEXIBLE OFDM/OFDMA FRAME STRUCTURE FOR COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS - A flexible OFDM/OFDMA frame structure technology for communication systems is disclosed. The OFDM frame structure technology comprises a configurable-length frame which contains a variable length subframe structure to effectively utilize OFDM bandwidth. Furthermore, the frame structure facilitates spectrum sharing between multiple communication systems. | 04-28-2011 |
| 20110085497 | Connectionless modes for wireless machine to machine communications in wireless communication networks - Techniques, devices, and systems that include mechanisms for connectionless communications in wireless communication networks or systems. | 04-14-2011 |
| 20100332625 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROTOCOL CONFIGURATION IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS - Described herein are methods and systems for protocol configuration in a wireless communication system. In one embodiment, the system includes an access service network device configured to receive a Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) message, including protocol configuration information of a mobile station, and to relay at least a portion of the protocol configuration information to a data server to which the mobile station seeks access. The protocol configuration information is translated to a protocol used by the access service network device and the data server, before relaying the protocol configuration information. The access service network device can act as a proxy or a relay between the mobile station and the data server. According to an embodiment, the wireless communication system includes a WiMAX communication system. | 12-30-2010 |
| 20100322163 | Internetworking Techniques for Transferring Packets Between Source and Target Serving Gateways - Techniques, apparatuses, and systems having mechanisms for transferring packets between source and target serving gateways. | 12-23-2010 |
| 20100203906 | Paging Mechanisms for Mobile Stations with Multiple Subscriptions - Apparatuses, techniques, and systems for operating a mobile station with multiple subscriptions includes transmitting a paging message for a subscriber identity of two or more subscriber identities that are associated with a single mobile station over a wireless communication channel based on a paging cycle structure including multiple paging slots. The two or more subscriber identities can include a first subscriber identity and a second, different subscriber identity. Transmitting the paging message can include using, during a paging cycle based on the paging cycle structure, a single paging slot to transmit the paging message, where the single paging slot is associated with the two or more subscriber identities. | 08-12-2010 |
| 20100150069 | Reverse Link Acknowledgment Signaling - Techniques, apparatuses, and systems can include mechanisms for transmitting and receiving data on one or more reverse link acknowledgement channels. | 06-17-2010 |
| 20100130212 | Femto Cell Handover In Wireless Communications - Techniques, apparatuses, and systems can include determining one or more handover base station candidates for a specific mobile station associated with a serving base station based at least on respective one or more proximities of the one or more handover base station candidates to the serving base station and one or more base station access privileges associated with the mobile station. | 05-27-2010 |
| 20100076879 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PROVIDING SERVICES VIA PEER-TO-PEER-BASED NEXT GENERATION NETWORK - A peer-to-peer network comprises a plurality of intelligent terminal nodes, each intelligent terminal node being operable to establish, maintain, and tear-down communication sessions with another intelligent terminal node, a plurality of network service nodes coupled to the plurality of intelligent terminal nodes, the plurality of network service nodes comprise at least one of the plurality of intelligent terminal nodes, at least one user P2P function module operable to store, locate and distribute service resource information related to user policies, and at least one network P2P function module operable to store, locate and distribute service resource information related to operator provider policies, and operable to exert stricter security control than the at least one user P2P function module. | 03-25-2010 |
| 20100046410 | MCBCS System Initialization and Establishment Over Wireless Broadband Network - Systems, apparatuses, and techniques for wireless communications can include receiving an access profile associated with a wireless device from a connectivity service network which is operable to determine whether the wireless device has privilege to a data feed provided by a multicast-broadcast service controller; operating a proxy, which is in communication with the multicast-broadcast service controller, based on the access profile to obtain service parameter information associated with the data feed and to use a first multicast-broadcast service data path between the proxy and the multicast-broadcast service controller to receive the data feed; and operating a base station to deliver the data feed to the wireless device in accordance with the service parameter information, the base station operable to use a second, different multicast-broadcast service data path between the proxy and the base station to receive the data feed. | 02-25-2010 |
| 20100029278 | USING IDENTIFICATION SEQUENCES IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS - Techniques, apparatuses, and systems for using identification sequences in a wireless communication system can include receiving information indicative of a pilot code detected by a wireless device, the pilot code being shared by multiple Femto Access Points (FAPs) that each provide wireless service in at least a portion of the coverage area; receiving information indicative of an identification sequence detected by the wireless device that is associated with the pilot code, using the information indicative of the identification sequence to identify one of the FAPs that share the pilot code; and performing a hand-off of the call to the identified FAP to continue to provide wireless service for the call via the identified FAP. | 02-04-2010 |
| 20090300726 | ETHERNET SERVICE CAPABILITY NEGOTIATION AND AUTHORIZATION METHOD AND SYSTEM - Described herein are methods and systems for negotiating and authorizing one or more Ethernet and/or IP services among a plurality of network entities in a wireless communication system. In one embodiment, an Access Service Network Entity transmits Ethernet Service capability data to a Home Connectivity Service Entity. Optionally, the Ethernet Service capability data may include Ethernet Service capability data associated with a Visited Connectivity Service Entity. The Home Connectivity Service Entity then determines which Ethernet and/or IP Services are authorized for a particular mobile station associated with the Access Service Network Entity based upon the received Ethernet Service capability data, a subscriber profile, and a home network policy. | 12-03-2009 |
| 20090019156 | System and Method of Providing Services via a Peer-To-Peer-Based Next Generation Network - A peer-to-peer network comprises a plurality of intelligent terminal nodes, each intelligent terminal node being operable to establish, maintain, and tear-down communication sessions with another intelligent terminal node, a plurality of network service nodes coupled to the plurality of intelligent terminal nodes, the plurality of network service nodes comprise at least one of the plurality of intelligent terminal nodes, at least one user P2P function module operable to store, locate and distribute service resource information related to user policies, and at least one network P2P function module operable to store, locate and distribute service resource information related to operator provider policies, and operable to exert stricter security control than the at least one user P2P function module. | 01-15-2009 |
| 20080280608 | Enhanced Timer Based Registration Method for Wireless Communication Networks - Techniques and systems that provide enhanced timer based registration for efficiently registering access terminals with a wireless network. | 11-13-2008 |
| 20080267110 | Signaling for Multi-Hop Relay in Wireless Communication Systems - Systems and techniques for signaling between a subordinate base station and a superordinate base station in a wireless network with wireless relay stations to inform the superordinate base station of a failure in establishing an uplink related to the subordinate base station and scheduling wireless resource allocation between a base station and one or more relay stations. | 10-30-2008 |
| 20080253322 | WiMAX Multicast Broadcast Network System Architecture - Techniques and system architectures for supporting Multicast Broadcast Services (MCBCS) over a WiMAX network. | 10-16-2008 |
| 20080247372 | Data Synchronization for Multicast/Broadcast Service in Wireless Relay Network - Wireless communication relay networks and techniques for providing data synchronization in Multicast Broadcast Services (MBS). | 10-09-2008 |
| 20080220790 | Radio resource management in wireless cellular networks having multihop relay stations - Radio resource management for wireless cellular networks equipped with relay stations for multi-hop packet or protocol data unit (PDU) relaying. | 09-11-2008 |
