01st week of 2011 patent applcation highlights part 23 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20110002204 | POWER ADJUSTMENT METHOD, INFORMATION WRITE METHOD AND INFORMATION WRITE MEDIUM - A write power adjustment method makes it possible to set optimum write power with high precision. Trial writing is conducted by using write power Pw,m (where m is an integer) of a plurality of kinds, and a modulation M,m associated with each write power is calculated. Optimum asymptotic power Pasy-opt is calculated by performing predetermined computation by using reference asymptotic power Pasy-ref and reference write start power Pws-ref which are previously determined for each medium. An evaluated value S,m=M,m×(Pw,m−Pasy-opt) is calculated by using the optimum asymptotic power Pasy-opt. Write power Pw that makes the evaluated value S equal to zero when applying straight line approximation to a relation between the write power Pw,m and the evaluated value S,m is calculated as optimum write start power Pws-opt. And optimum write power Pw-opt is found by performing predetermined computation on the optimum write start power Pws-opt. | 2011-01-06 |
20110002205 | Medium Recording and Reproduction Apparatus and Method - Medium recording and reproduction apparatus and method can prevent prohibition of disc recording due to the fact that laser power calibration area becomes unusable by studying a management information update method during data recording. When usable capacity of the laser power calibration area is monitored and the capacity is reduced, management information area to be currently updated is changed to another layer. | 2011-01-06 |
20110002206 | Apparatus and Method for Recording/Reproducing On/From Medium - To prevent the degradation in read access performance to replacement data caused by not selecting appropriate replacement clusters and to suppress the waste of the number of DFL registrations. Attention is paid to the usage direction of a user data area and that of a replacement area, and in the case where one CRD-type DFL registration can be made collectively in the sequential defect management processes, a replacement area of which the usage direction is the same as that of the user data area is selected. | 2011-01-06 |
20110002207 | Method and system for fluid mediated disk activation and deactivation - Embodiments of methods and systems for controlling access to information stored on memory or data storage devices are disclosed. In various embodiments, fluid-mediated modification of information or access to information is utilized. According to various embodiments, data storage devices designed for rotating access are described which include rotation-activated fluid control mechanisms. | 2011-01-06 |
20110002208 | OPTICAL DISK DEVICE AND TILT CORRECTION METHOD FOR OPTICAL DISK DEVICE - An optical disk device has: a detector ( | 2011-01-06 |
20110002209 | OPTICAL MEDIUM WITH ADDED DESCRIPTOR TO REDUCE COUNTERFEITING - Functionality is described for reducing the unauthorized reproduction of optical media, such as optical discs of various types. The functionality operates by adding a physical descriptor to an optical medium, forming reference descriptor information based on the descriptor, signing the reference descriptor information to produce authenticity information, and adding the authenticity information to the optical medium. At a point of consumption, the functionality operates by reading the authenticity information and reading the descriptor. Based on the information that is read, the functionality performs cryptographic analysis and descriptor-based analysis to validate the optical medium. The functionality includes various provisions to reduce the impact of wear and tear on the above-summarized analysis. The functionality can be applied to stamped or recordable optical media. | 2011-01-06 |
20110002210 | METHOD FOR CALIBRATING ACTUATOR - A method for calibrating an actuator is provided. A reflective reference surface is set. An objective lens is shifted to several calibration positions along the tracking direction in the actuator, focusing is performed at each position, and the shift volt and the focus volt are recorded. The focus volt at a calibration position is set as a standard focus volt, and the focus volt bias at the other calibration position with respect to the standard focus volt is calculated. A focus volt bias curve is formed by curve-fitting the focus volt bias and the shift volt at each calibration position, and a focus volt bias is obtained to compensate the volt along the focusing direction. | 2011-01-06 |
20110002211 | Systems and Methods for Format Efficient Timing Recovery In a Read Channel - Various embodiments of the present invention provide systems, methods and media formats for processing user data derived from a storage medium. As an example, a system is described that includes a storage medium with a series of data. The series of data includes a servo data and a user data region. The user data region includes a first synchronization pattern and a second synchronization pattern located a distance from the first synchronization pattern. A storage buffer is provided that is operable to receive at least a portion of the series of data. A retiming circuit calculates an initial phase offset and frequency offset for a defined bit within the storage buffer using a first location of the first synchronization pattern and a second location of the second synchronization pattern. An error correction loop circuit re-samples the series of data from the storage buffer based at least in part on the initial phase offset and a frequency offset. | 2011-01-06 |
20110002212 | ADHESION STRUCTURE AND METHOD USING ELECTRICALLY CONDUCTIVE ADHESIVE, DISK DRIVE DEVICE USING THE ADHESION STRUCTURE AND METHOD, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE DISK DRIVE DEVICE - A base plate containing aluminum as a main component and an electrically conductive counter plate are bonded together through the medium of an electrically conductive adhesive. Even when an oxide film is formed on the surface of the base plate, electrical continuity between the base plate and the counter plate, which are connected together through the medium of the electrically conductive adhesive, is improved by a process of applying a resistance lowering voltage, which reduces the resistance component due to the oxide film by causing a dielectric breakdown. | 2011-01-06 |
20110002213 | HOLDER OF MAGNETIC STORAGE APPARATUS, MAGNETIC STORAGE APPARATUS AND ELECTRIC DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME - A holder of a magnetic storage apparatus is suggested that can efficiently absorb the shock when a vibration or shock is applied to the magnetic storage apparatus. A plurality of holding members (first shock absorbing material foam rubber | 2011-01-06 |
20110002214 | OPTICAL INFORMATION RECORDING AND REPRODUCING METHOD AND OPTICAL INFORMATION RECORDING AND REPRODUCING APPARATUS - An optical information recording and reproducing method for recording or reproducing information by irradiating pulsed laser diode light from a laser diode (LD) light source in which the resistance value of the LD light source is measured in an operating state, the measured LD light source resistance value is compared with a target resistance value, and the LD light source is heated when the LD light source resistance value is higher than the target resistance value, in order to maintain the LD light source resistance at a specified value or less. | 2011-01-06 |
20110002215 | OPTICAL PICKUP DEVICE AND OPTICAL INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS USING THE OPTICAL PICKUP DEVICE - An optical pickup device is disclosed. In the optical pickup device, S-polarized light is input to a polarization filter from a DVD light source or a CD light source. Since the polarization filter transmits through the S-polarized light and diffracts P-polarized light, the S-polarized light is transmitted through the polarization filter. The S-polarized light is converted into three beams by being diffracted by a diffraction element. The three beams reflected at a polarization beam splitter are converted into circularly polarized light by a ¼ wavelength plate via a collimate lens, and the circularly polarized light is condensed on an optical recording medium via an objective lens. Light reflected from the optical recording medium is converted into linear P-polarized light by the | 2011-01-06 |
20110002216 | OPTICAL PICKUP DEVICE AND OPTICAL DISC DEVICE - Regarding optical pickup devices usable for performing recording on and reproduction from a plurality of types of optical discs, there is a problem that because of the structure of locating many optical elements in a height direction of an optical system, the height of the optical system is increased and so it is difficult to realize a thin and compact optical pickup device. According to the present invention, a first wave plate is located between a first light source and a first mirror, a second wave plate is located between a second light source and a second mirror, and the first wave plate and the second wave plate cause a desirable phase shift to light beams of the first through third wavelengths. Owing to this, the number of optical elements located in the height direction of the optical system can be decreased, and so the height of the optical system can be reduced. | 2011-01-06 |
20110002217 | OBJECTIVE LENS AND OPTICAL PICKUP DEVICE - In order that thickness reduction, weight reduction, and mass productivity improvement should be achieved in an objective lens even in the case where NA is high, an objective lens according to the present invention is a bi-convex single lens having at least one aspheric surface, and satisfies conditions: (1) 3.52011-01-06 | |
20110002218 | OPTICAL STORAGE MEDIUM COMPRISING A MULTILEVEL DATA LAYER - The optical storage medium comprises a substrate layer, a data layer, and a nonlinear layer with a super-resolution structure disposed on the data layer, wherein pits and lands having a size above a diffraction limit of a pickup for reading of the data establish a first and a second level of the data layer, and pits and lands having a size below the diffraction limit of the pickup are arranged on a further level of the data layer. In a preferred embodiment, pits having a size below the diffraction limit are arranged on a third level and lands having a size below the diffraction limit are arranged on a fourth level of the data layer. The optical storage medium is in particular a read-only optical disc comprising a phase-change material, for example AgInSbTe, for providing the super-resolution effect. | 2011-01-06 |
20110002219 | GROUP IDENTIFICATION AND DEFINITION WITHIN MULTIPLE USER, MULTIPLE ACCESS, AND/OR MIMO WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS - Group identification and definition within multiple user, multiple access, and/or MIMO wireless communications. A group identification definition field may be transmitted to a number of receiving devices for use in interpreting current or subsequently received packets that include a group identification field (group ID). The group ID can serve a number of functions such as indicating those receiving devices for which the packet is intended, the identification of fields within the packet corresponding to the various devices, certain parameters (e.g., code type, code rate, modulation type, etc.) associated with such fields within the packet, etc. The group identification definition field may be updated or modified to allow for modification of the manner in which subsequent packets, including respective group IDs, are processed. One of a variety of events may direct the group identification definition field may be updated or modified. | 2011-01-06 |
20110002220 | TUNNELING-BASED MOBILITY SUPPORT EQUIPMENT AND METHOD - A tunneling-based mobility support method and apparatus is provided which supports a mobility of a mobile node in a heterogeneous network regardless of IP versions (IPv4/IPv6). The mobility support apparatus includes a load balancer, a plurality of mobility support servers, and a plurality of end routers each being TCP connected to each of the mobility support servers. When receiving a tunnel establishment request message from the mobile node, the load balancer selects one mobility supports server from a plurality of mobility support servers to control a mobility service for the mobile node. The selected mobility support server selects a plurality of tunnel end addresses of one end router from the plurality of end routers to establish an IP tunnel with the mobile node according to a predetermined criterion, forwards the tunnel establishment request message to the end router, and sends the mobile node a tunnel establishment response message including the tunnel end address of the selected end router. | 2011-01-06 |
20110002221 | Telecommunications systems - A method of reducing the load on a first node in a cellular telecommunications network, which network includes a plurality of nodes, each of the nodes serving a plurality of telecommunications devices by providing communication resources thereto is disclosed. The method includes selecting a target telecommunications device for handover from the first node to a second of said nodes; handing over the target device to the second node; allocating communication resources to the target device to enable the second node to serve the target device; selecting a matched telecommunications device that is served by the first node; and adjusting the communication resources allocated to the matched device, which resources enable the first node to serve the matched device, so that they correspond to the resources allocated to the target device, which resources enable the second node to serve the target device. | 2011-01-06 |
20110002222 | METER-BASED HIERARCHICAL BANDWIDTH SHARING - Example methods and apparatus for hierarchical bandwidth management are disclosed. An example method includes, receiving a data packet included in a first data traffic flow having a first rate of traffic. The example method further includes marking the data packet with a first marker type if the first rate of traffic is less than or equal to a first threshold, otherwise marking the data packet with a second marker type. The example method also includes combining the first data traffic flow with a second data traffic flow having a second rate of traffic to produce a third data traffic flow having a third rate of traffic. The example method still further includes, if the data packet is marked with the first marker type, forwarding the data packet in the third data flow. The example method yet further includes, if the data packet is marked with the second marker type and the third rate of traffic is less than or equal to a second threshold, forwarding the data packet in the third data flow, otherwise, discarding the packet. | 2011-01-06 |
20110002223 | OPTIMIZING PHYSIOLOGIC MONITORING BASED ON AVAILABLE BUT VARIABLE SIGNAL QUALITY - When transmitting patient data over a hospital network, data types are prioritized into a data type hierarchy ( | 2011-01-06 |
20110002224 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING CONGESTION OCCURRENCE IN A COMMUNICATION NETWORK - Congestion occurrence in a communication network is controlled when performing data transmission based on a first protocol between a first edge node and a second edge node. The first edge node detects a first congestion state identifying a congestion state of the first edge node, and sets first congestion information identifying the detected first congestion state to a packet that is to be transmitted from the first edge node to the second edge node. The first edge node transmits the packet having the first information to the second edge node at the time when the first edge node performs data transmission based on a second protocol from the first edge node to the second edge node, wherein the second protocol is a connectionless protocol positioned at a protocol layer higher than the first protocol. | 2011-01-06 |
20110002225 | SIGNAL ANALYSIS/CONTROL SYSTEM AND METHOD, SIGNAL CONTROL APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A signal analysis/control system includes: a signal analysis unit which analyzes an input signal of a transmission unit and generates analysis information; and a signal control unit which controls the input signal of a reception unit by using the analysis information. Thus, the signal analysis is performed in the transmission unit. This reduces the calculation amount concerning the signal analysis in the reception unit. Furthermore, the reception unit can control each of the constituent elements of the input signal according to the signal analysis information obtained in the transmission unit. | 2011-01-06 |
20110002226 | Method for Discovering Routes in Wireless Communications Networks - A method and system discovers a route in a wireless communications network, FIG. | 2011-01-06 |
20110002227 | MULTIUSER SCHEDULING IN WLAN SYSTEMS - An apparatus for wireless communications is provided including a processing system. The processing system is configured to determine path-losses between the apparatus and a plurality of wireless nodes, to group the plurality of wireless nodes into sets based on the determined path-losses, and to exchange data with at least one of the wireless nodes in one of the sets. | 2011-01-06 |
20110002228 | Scheduler Using a Plurality of Slow Timers - There is disclosed a scheduler for a traffic generator and a method of scheduling traffic. A working memory may stores N respective timer values for N count-down timers, where N is an integer greater than one. An arithmetic and logic unit (ALU) may update each timer value in rotation every N cycles of a clock. A temporal interpolator may delay output data from the ALU by a selectable delay period of 1 to N cycles of the clock. | 2011-01-06 |
20110002229 | DYNAMIC MANAGEMENT OF END-TO-END NETWORK LOSS DURING A PHONE CALL - A method and system of managing end-to-end loss in a manner that allows phone calls to be executed across many networks at desirable end-to-end loss levels, including networks having fixed-loss stratagems, by controlling devices to adjust their local loss or gain in order to establish target end-to-end loss. | 2011-01-06 |
20110002230 | Quality of Service Parameter Relaxation for Non-Conversational Voice Calls Over a Packet-Switched Network - A method for communication in a packet-switched network. The method includes, when a determination is made that a call that has been set up with a quality of service appropriate for a live voice call will carry recorded voice-based data, decreasing the quality of service used on the call. | 2011-01-06 |
20110002231 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ADJUSTING MONITORING OF TIMESLOTS DURING DATA TRANSMISSION - A method for coordinating communications between a user equipment and a base station comprises identifying timeslots for uplink and downlink communications between the user equipment and the base station, monitoring a predetermined number of timeslots for communications, and tracking usage of at least a portion of the timeslots identified for at least one of uplink communications and downlink communications. Upon reaching a predetermined usage metric related to at least one of uplink communications and downlink communications, the method includes triggering an automatic reduction in a number of timeslots monitored by the user equipment to less than the predetermined number of timeslots or communicating a delay signal to the base station to delay a trigger of an adjustment of a number of timeslots monitored by the user equipment. | 2011-01-06 |
20110002232 | MULTI-PATH TIMING TRACKING AND IMPAIRMENT MODELING FOR IMPROVED GRAKE RECEIVER PERFORMANCE IN MOBILITY SCENARIOS - Methods and wireless receivers ( | 2011-01-06 |
20110002233 | Link Quality Estimation Method and Apparatus in a Telecommunication System - Method and apparatus for enabling accurate link quality estimation of a wireless link between a sending node ( | 2011-01-06 |
20110002234 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR UMTS HSDPA SHARED CONTROL CHANNEL PROCESSING - Aspects of a method and system for UMTS HSDPA Shared Control Channel processing may include calculating at a receiver, for each one of a plurality of control channels, a quality metric based at least one Viterbi Decoder state metric. A control channel may be selected on the basis of the quality metrics, where the quality metric is selected that provides maximum confidence. The selected control channel may be chosen if its corresponding 3GPP metric is greater than a specified threshold, where the threshold is a design parameter. A validity of a selected control channel may be determined based on consistency and a CRC, where the CRC may be derived from decoding a sub-frame. The calculating and selecting may be done for a first slot of a sub-frame for High-Speed Shared Control Channels. | 2011-01-06 |
20110002235 | BASE STATION, MOBILE STATION, MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING CONTROL SIGNAL TRANSMISSION - A disclosed base station includes a transmission-rate determining unit for determining a transmission rate of a control channel for transmitting an upper-layer control signal, and a transmitter for allocating a predetermined bandwidth to the control channel for transmitting the upper-layer control signal according to the determined transmission rate, and transmitting the signal. | 2011-01-06 |
20110002236 | OPTIMIZATION OF STREAMING DATA THROUGHPUT IN UNRELIABLE NETWORKS - Multiple TRFC connections transport streaming data through a wireless channel, and the difference between measured round trip times of packets and minimum round trip time is used to adjust the number of TFRC connections to fully utilize bandwidth through the wireless channel. | 2011-01-06 |
20110002237 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, TRANSMISSION APPARATUS AND COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD - Provided is a transmission device comprising a transmission weight generating unit for generating a plurality of transmission weights, a communication quality acquiring unit for acquiring a value indicating the communication quality of each of unique paths, and a transmission weight determining unit for selecting such one of the transmission weights generated by the transmission weight generating unit that the difference of the values indicating the communication qualities acquired by the communication quality acquiring unit between the individual unique paths is at or lower than a predetermined value and that the sum of all the communication qualities of the unique paths becomes the maximum. | 2011-01-06 |
20110002238 | METHOD FOR STOPPING A TRACING FLOW - The present invention discloses a method for stopping a tracing flow, wherein, a mobility management entity sends a tracing de-activating message to an evolved node B, wherein, the tracing de-activating message carries tracing reference information; responding to the tracing de-activating message, the evolved node B stops related tracing flow according to the tracing reference information. And the tracing de-activating message carries stopping description information. The related tracing flow may be stopped by the tracing de-activating message by means of the present invention so as to achieve flexibility of tracing function and improve network performance. | 2011-01-06 |
20110002239 | Determining the Location of a Femtocell - A server may automatically attempt to locate a femtocell. Information may be obtained from the femtocell or neighboring femtocells to determine location. Servers associated with the femtocell may be contacted using that information to determine the femtocells location. | 2011-01-06 |
20110002240 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CREATING A TRANSITIVE OPTIMZED FLOW PATH - Traffic paths based on common devices available in a network are optimized, controlled, manipulated and created. The new paths used to optimize are not limited to the original OSI layer and/or original networks. Thus, various kinds of users/computers/devices, working in the same or in different abstraction layer networks, are combined into one collective virtual network providing the ability to compute and utilize the best (optimal) traffic path for each flow at each given time. The traffic path can be constructed especially for each flow. All or most devices and layer networks are combined in a collective virtual network when computing and constructing an optimized path for a flow. Thus, there is no need to add additional headers to a flow thereby eliminating the addition of overhead to the flow. | 2011-01-06 |
20110002241 | SYSTEMS, METHODS AND DEVICES FOR MONITORING ENVIRONMENTAL CHARACTERISTICS USING WIRELESS SENSOR NODES - A wireless sensor node may be wirelessly registered with a first central node and may be automatically configured based at least in part on wireless communications with the first central node. The same wireless sensor node may subsequently be wirelessly registered with a second central node and may be automatically reconfigured based at least in part on wireless communications with the second central node. Environmental characteristics are detected using the wireless sensor node. | 2011-01-06 |
20110002242 | Sparse channel equalization - Sparse channel equalization may be achieved by receiving a signal via a multi-path communication channel. The equalization then continues by extracting sparse information regarding the multiple path communication channel from the signal. Such sparse information generally indicates the position of the signals received via each of the multiple paths. The equalization then continues by estimating a channel response of the multiple path communication channel based on the sparse information. The equalization then continues by generating equalization taps (or coefficients) based on the channel response. The equalization then continues by equalizing the signal based on the equalization taps. | 2011-01-06 |
20110002243 | SUPPORTING MOBILE AD-HOC NETWORK (MANET) AND POINT TO MULTI-POINT (PMP) COMMUNICATIONS AMONG NODES IN A WIRELESS NETWORK - Nodes in a wireless network participate in either point-to-multipoint (PMP) or MANET/mesh communications with other nodes on one or more shared channels of the network. A first or base station node transmits a downlink signal having a time frame structure of determined duration to a number of second or subscriber nodes. Portions of the frame structure establish (i) first time periods during which messages are transmitted from the first node to the second nodes, and (ii) second time periods during which messages are transmitted from the second nodes to the first node, using the PMP protocol on one or more shared channels or subchannels of the network. Other portions of the time frame structure establish third time periods during which nodes communicate with one another using the MANET/mesh protocol on the shared channels or subchannels, while avoiding interference with messages transmitted under the PMP protocol. | 2011-01-06 |
20110002244 | RELAYS IN MULTI-USER MIMO SYSTEMS - A method for signalling in a MIMO system. The system comprises a base station (BS) and at least one relay station (RS) operating in half duplex realized using Time Division Duplex. The BS and the RS distribute channels to at least one mobile station (MS). The method is particularly characterized in the steps where: —the BS selects at least one RS which is served during a first time slot (TS | 2011-01-06 |
20110002245 | IN-NETWORK HOME GATEWAY FOR HYBRID FIBER-COAX NETWORK - A network gateway function that is provided at a coaxial tap of a hybrid-fiber coaxial broadband network that feeds a customer location. A Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification (DOCSIS) modem may be embedded in the tap wherein the DOCSIS protocol is terminated. A network functionality such as firewall and network address translation is provided at a network termination point that may use Multimedia over Coax (MoCA) or other similar technology using an existing coaxial cable drop to a customer location that effectively extends a home network to the tap. | 2011-01-06 |
20110002246 | Data Packet Communications in a multi-radio access environment - More than one radio-access technology is supported in an apparatus, and channel-coding functions in the apparatus are shared between at least two of said more than one radio-access technology. | 2011-01-06 |
20110002247 | SIGNAL MULTIPLEXING METHOD, SIGNAL DEMULTIPLEXING METHOD, DIGITAL SIGNAL REFERENCE FREQUENCY CORRECTION METHOD, MULTIPLEXING DEVICE, DEMULTIPLEXING DEVICE, RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND DIGITAL SIGNAL REFERENCE FREQUENCY CORRECTION DEVICE - A multiplexing/demultiplexing device has a phase difference detection part for detecting a phase difference from a reference frequency of a multiplexed signal and a reference frequency of each of input/output lines, an interpolation part for performing an interpolation on a digital transmitting/receiving signal of each of the input/output lines with a signal delayed by time corresponding to the phase difference for each of the input/output lines based on the phase difference detected by the phase difference detection part to obtain a digital transmitting/receiving signal sampled with the reference frequency of the multiplexed signal for each of the input/output lines, and a signal multiplexing/demultiplexing part for performing a multiplex/demultiplex of the digital transmitting/receiving signals of the input/output lines with use of the reference frequency of the multiplexed signal. | 2011-01-06 |
20110002248 | MOBILE TERMINAL AND NETWORK NODE - Disclosed is a technique to enable a mobile terminal to grasp an address handling method used for each service and hence to achieve more efficient communication. According to this technique, a mobile terminal (UE) | 2011-01-06 |
20110002249 | Method for Packet-Switching Interface for Code Division Switching in a Terrestrial Wireless System - An access radio port is provided that includes means for spreading a payload data signal, extracted from an ATM packet, with a uniquely assigned orthogonal code, means for transmitting the spread payload data signal to one of a group of mobile subscriber terminals located within a microport cell of a wireless terrestrial network, and means for releasing the uniquely assigned orthogonal code. In another aspect, a mobile subscriber terminal, configured to be located within a microport cell of a terrestrial wireless network that interfaces with an access radio port, is provided. The mobile subscriber terminal includes means for receiving an assignment of a unique orthogonal code, means for spreading a payload data signal by the unique orthogonal code, means for modulating and forwarding the spread payload data signal to the access radio port, and means for releasing the assignment of the unique orthogonal code. | 2011-01-06 |
20110002250 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REDUCING BATTERY CONSUMPTION IN A WTRU UPON ETWS NOTIFICATION - A method and apparatus for broadcasting and receiving an emergency indication during an emergency information broadcast. An eNB is configured to broadcast, and a wireless transmit receive unit is configured to receive, a paging signal including a first emergency indication, a set of system information blocks including emergency information and the paging signal without the first emergency indication while broadcasting the system information blocks including the emergency information. The eNB determines a time period for including the first emergency indication in the paging signal has expired. | 2011-01-06 |
20110002251 | TIME SYNCHRONIZATION AND ROUTING METHOD IN WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORK, AND APPARATUS FOR ENABLING THE METHOD - A time synchronization method in a wireless sensor network, a low power routing method using a reservation scheme, and an apparatus for performing the method are provided. The time synchronization method in the wireless sensor network may include: receiving a first synchronization request command packet from a parent node that manages time synchronization for a predetermined synchronization region; receiving, from the parent node, a second synchronization request command packet that has a transmission timestamp value of the first synchronization request command packet; and performing time synchronization for a child node based on a reception time of the first synchronization request command packet, a reception time of the second synchronization request command packet, and the transmission timestamp value of the first synchronization request command packet. | 2011-01-06 |
20110002252 | FRAME STRUCTURE FOR PICONET MASTER NODE ON/OFF SCHEDULING AND METHOD THEREOF - A frame structure for piconet master node on/off scheduling and method thereof. The frame structure includes a schedule-based data period, a contention-based active period, a schedule-based schedule notification message period directly following the contention-based active period, and an inactive sleep mode period positioned before the schedule-based data period, before or after the contention-based active period, or after the schedule-based schedule notification message period. | 2011-01-06 |
20110002253 | METHOD FOR MANAGING POWER SAVING OPERATION IN WIRELESS COMMUNICAITON SYSTEM - In a power saving operation management method in a mobile communication system, a base station receives a sleep mode entering request message from a mobile station desiring to enter the sleep mode, determines a sleep period type and a parameter by analyzing a combination of radio channels between the mobile station and the base station, and transmits a sleep mode entering response message including the sleep period type and the parameter. | 2011-01-06 |
20110002254 | METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING BCMCS INFORMATION - A broadcast/multicast service information receiving method and broadcast/multicast service information transmitting method using the same are disclosed. The present invention includes the steps of receiving length information of a BCMCS component flow discriminator (BCMCS Flow Discriminator) configuring a BCMC service flow identifier (BCMCS Flow Identifier) and receiving information for a number of BCMCS component flow discriminators configuring the BCMC service flow identifier using a bit number corresponding to a value of the length information of the BCMCS component flow discriminator. Accordingly, the information for the BCMCS component flow identifier can be efficiently transmitted and received. | 2011-01-06 |
20110002255 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AVOIDING AND RESOLVING CONFLICTS IN A WIRELESS MOBILE DISPLAY DIGITAL INTERFACE MULTICAST ENVIRONMENT - Systems and methods for avoiding conflict in a wireless mobile display digital interface (WMDDI) environment including both host and client devices. In one aspect, the presently claimed invention includes a system and/or method that is configured for broadcasting a first multicast MAC address by a first host to at least one first client in a predetermined geographic area and broadcasting the first multicast MAC address by a second host to at least one second client in the predetermined geographic area. The system and/or method can be further configured for determining a priority between the first host and the second host when the second host receives multicast packets transmitted by the first host and changing to a second multicast MAC address by a least priority host of the first host and the second host. | 2011-01-06 |
20110002256 | BASE STATION, RELAY STATION, COMPUTING APPARATUS, AND REFERENCE SIGNAL TRANSMISSION, ALLOCATION, AND RECEIVING METHODS THEREOF - A base station, relay station, computing apparatus, and reference signal transmission, allocation, and receiving methods thereof are provided. For each the antennas, the BS perform the following operations: (i) generating a BS superframe comprising a first kind frame and a second kind frame, each of the first and second kind frames comprising a plurality of subframes and defining a downlink access zone and a downlink relay zone, (ii) allocating allocates a reference signal of the antenna in a first OFDM symbol in only one of the subframes in the first kind frame, the first OFDM symbol belonging to the downlink access zone of the first kind frame, and (iii) allocating the reference signal in a second OFDM symbol in only one of the subframes, the second OFDM symbol belonging to the downlink access zone or the downlink relay zone. | 2011-01-06 |
20110002257 | Method and system for processing signals in a high performance receive chain - Aspects of a method and system for processing signals in a high performance receive chain may include amplifying a plurality of radio frequency signals in one or more respective one or ones of a plurality of amplifier chains in a multistandard radio frequency front-end, which may comprise one or more shared processing stages. The plurality of radio frequency signals may be compliant with a plurality of radio frequency communication standards and may be received concurrently. The one or more shared processing stages may be shared between two or more of the plurality of amplifier chains. Each of the two or more of the plurality of amplifier chains may be operable to amplify signals compliant with different radio frequency communication standards. | 2011-01-06 |
20110002258 | METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING SYSTEM INFORMATION - A method for transmitting and receiving system information, wherein the method for transmitting the system information includes that a sub-frame used to transmit other system information and a sub-frame used to transmit system information | 2011-01-06 |
20110002259 | Emergency alert signals for satellite systems - A notification system for satellite broadcasts is provided, the system comprising a database that is a depository for notification information, an encoder that encodes notification information from the database for satellite broadcasts, and a data linker that associates encoded notification information with at least one packet identifier (PID) for transmission to at least one satellite system transponder. Additionally, a receiver is described that can decode notification information from any multimedia content stream source utilizing a detector, a decoder and a notification information lookup. | 2011-01-06 |
20110002260 | PRIVATE MULTIMEDIA CONTENTS BROADCASTING EQUIPMENT WHICH USES ISM RADIO FREQUENCY BAND OR U-NII 5GHz RADIO FREQUENCY BAND, PRIVATE MULTIMEDIA CONTENTS BROADCASTING SYSTEM AND METHOD THEREOF - An individual multimedia contents broadcasting equipment is disclosed, which includes an individual broadcast process unit which provides a private IP through a DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) to a receiving terminal, which requests a connection, and makes a connection of the receiving terminal through a radio network, and transmits a broadcast content to the connected receiving terminal; and a radio communication unit which forms a radio network and communicates data with the connected receiving terminal through the radio network. | 2011-01-06 |
20110002261 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONNECTION TO A WIRELESS NETWORK - The invention provides a method and system for connection and/or reconnection of a computing device to a wireless network. Embodiments of the system and method may, when appropriate, inhibit use of stored IP addresses, for example by deleting or effectively deleting stored IP addresses. By deleting or effectively deleting stored IP addresses, the computing device is influenced to request, via an associated wireless communication device, a new valid IP address from an access point which in turn requests a valid IP address from the wireless service provider server. | 2011-01-06 |
20110002262 | MAC RESET AND RECONFIGURATION - A method and apparatus for reconfiguring a medium access control (MAC) entity in a wireless transmit receive unit (WTRU). The method and apparatus includes the WTRU transmitting a MAC reconfiguration request, the WTRU receiving a MAC reconfiguration command including new MAC parameter values and the WTRU reconfiguring a MAC entity based on the new MAC parameter values in the MAC reconfiguration command. | 2011-01-06 |
20110002263 | BEAMFORMING USING BASE AND DIFFERENTIAL CODEBOOKS - Embodiments of methods and apparatus for determining and/or quantizing a beamforming matrix are disclosed. In some embodiments, the determining and/or quantizing of the beamforming matrix may include the use of a base codebook and a differential codebook. Additional variants and embodiments are also disclosed. | 2011-01-06 |
20110002264 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR DIGITAL-TO-ANALOG CONVERSION WITH VECTOR QUANTIZATION - A digital-to-analog converter (DAC) includes a mismatch shaping feedback vector quantizer configured to store state information in expanded format using One-Hot Encoding of a matrix. The expanded state format storage enables implementation of a simplified state sorter for the vector feedback mechanism of the vector quantizer. The simplified state sorter may minimize the variance of ones (or other symbols representing state values) in the matrix, and allow performing sorting in a reduced number of clock cycles. For example, sorting may be performed on a predetermined edge of single clock cycle, or on two edges of the same clock cycle. The matrix may be normalized periodically or as needed, to avoid overflow and underflow. The DAC may be used as a quantizer of a modulator of an access terminal in a cellular communication system. | 2011-01-06 |
20110002265 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PROVIDING A SERVICE - A method for providing a service comprising a plurality of coding layers in a communication network is provided, and wherein each one of said plurality of layers is associated with a unique identifier, the method uses a single message containing necessary information for a receiver to derive all identifiers for several layers within a single service; the method allows to reduce the messages exchange in such a communication system. | 2011-01-06 |
20110002266 | System and Method for Frequency Domain Audio Post-processing Based on Perceptual Masking - In an embodiment, a method of frequency domain post-processing is disclosed. The method includes applying adaptive modification gain factor to each frequency coefficient, and determining gain factors based on Local Masking Magnitude and Local Masked Magnitude. | 2011-01-06 |
20110002267 | VOICE SERVICE IN EVOLVED PACKET SYSTEM - Methods and apparatus to manage voice service in evolved packet systems are disclosed. An example method in a User Equipment (UE) with a first indicator related to voice services in an Evolved Packet System (EPS) comprises receiving a Non Access Stratum (NAS) protocol response message with a second indicator and responsive to at least one of the first indicator or the second indicator, determining availability of voice services over IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) in at least one of long term evolution (LTE) or global system for mobile communications edge radio access network (GERAN)/universal mobile telecommunications system terrestrial radio access network(UTRAN). | 2011-01-06 |
20110002268 | VOICE SERVICE IN EVOLVED PACKET SYSTEM - Methods and apparatus to manage voice service in evolved packet systems are disclosed. An example in a UE with a first indicator related to voice services in an Evolved Packet System (EPS) includes receiving a first Non Access Stratum (NAS) protocol response message with a second indicator and responsive to at least one of the first indicator or the second indicator, cause the UE to select to another radio access technology (RAT). | 2011-01-06 |
20110002269 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR ADAPTING A BUFFER OF A TERMINAL AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM COMPRISING SUCH A DEVICE - A method and a device for adapting a buffer of a terminal are provided, said method comprising the steps of (i) a network provides data to the terminal; and (ii) the terminal adapts its buffer based on the data provided. Furthermore, a communication system comprising such a device is provided. | 2011-01-06 |
20110002270 | BASE STATION AND METHOD FOR REDUCING ASYNCHRONOUS INTERFERENCE IN A MULTI-TIER OFDMA OVERLAY NETWORK - Embodiments of a base station and method for reducing asynchronous interference in a multi-tier OFDMA overlay network are generally described herein. In some embodiments, a lower-tier base station is configured to adjust OFDMA frame boundaries to cause frames communicated by a higher-tier to arrive within a cyclic prefix at the lower-tier base station. The lower-tier base station may also be configured to adjust OFDMA frame boundaries to cause frames communicated by a lower-tier of the network to arrive within a cyclic prefix at a higher-tier mobile station. Accordingly, frames from one tier may arrive within the cyclic prefix of another thereby reducing asynchronous interference. | 2011-01-06 |
20110002271 | SERVICE PROVIDING APPARATUS FOR DIGITAL PROCESSING SERVICE, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD - A service providing apparatus that provides a digital processing service and performs wireless communication with a service use apparatus that uses the service includes: a wireless communication unit that performs wireless communication; an interface unit that enables the attachment of a portable wireless communication device that performs wireless communication for the apparatus to which the wireless communication device is attached when the wireless communication device is attached; a generation unit that generates configuration information for wireless communication; and a configuration unit that executes, on the wireless communication device attached to the interface unit, based on the configuration information generated by the generation unit, a configuration process that enables wireless communication between the service use apparatus to which the wireless communication device has been attached and the wireless communication unit. | 2011-01-06 |
20110002272 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - A mobile communications network is a communications network that performs both circuit switching and packet switching. A data communications network is a communications network that performs packet switching. A communication apparatus is capable of connecting to the mobile communications network and the data communications network. The communication apparatus includes a communication control unit which obtains access from a mobile station to the mobile communications network, terminates the access whose call type is packet-switched call, and replaces that access with access to the data communications network. | 2011-01-06 |
20110002273 | METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING SUBFRAME GROUPING INFORMATION AND DECODING SUBFRAME GROUPED FRAMES - A method for transmitting subframe grouping information and a method for decoding subframe-grouped frames are provided. The subframe grouping information transmission method updates a grouping information field of a MAC message, which a serving base station periodically broadcasts to an MS, using subframe grouping information determined by a target base station, and periodically transmits the MAC message to the MS. This method enables provision of a downlink signaling method for supporting variable TTIs of a base station when handover is performed, thereby minimizing service delay of each mobile station and enabling efficient utilization of resources. | 2011-01-06 |
20110002274 | RESOURCE SHARING BETWEEN A PLURALITY OF COMMUNICATION NETWORKS - A method of resource sharing between a plurality of communication networks each having a nominal resource allocation of a shared air interface resource and a resource exchange allowance is provided. A temporary resource allocation of a first air interface resource from a nominal resource allocation of a first network is initiated ( | 2011-01-06 |
20110002275 | RESOURCE ALLOCATION IN A RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method of using resource blocks in a communication system with a plurality of Base Stations (BSs), including assigning resource blocks to a first BS, the first BS communicating to a second BS a message comprising information about at least one resource block assigned to the first BS and not planned to be used by the first BS, and the second BS receiving the message. Optionally, the second BS using the at least one resource block. Related apparatus and methods are also described. | 2011-01-06 |
20110002276 | System and Methods for ACK/NAK Feedback in TDD Communications - Systems and methods for providing an efficient mechanism for transmitting encoded downlink assignment index (DAI) and for signaling the ACK/NAK information corresponding to downlink grant allocations in an over the air radio telecommunications network with time division duplex (TDD) capability, where aggregation of component carriers (CCs) is used. Downlink control messages containing encoded DAI information are transmitted with downlink allocation grants. A receiver observes the encoded DAI and the downlink allocation grants and forms corresponding ACK/NAK signals. Method embodiments for forming the ACK/NAK signals for CC groups and frames or subframes are provided. The ACK/NAK signals are then encoded using method embodiments and transmitted over parallel channels for each CC group to the transmitter. By using method embodiments for selecting resources for use in the transmission, the last observed DL grant can be identified by the transmitter and the transmitter can detect an error at the receiver. | 2011-01-06 |
20110002277 | Signal Reception in Wireless Communication Systems using Automatic Repeat Request Transmissions - A wireless communication transceiver compensates a given received signal for retransmission interference, if (uncompensated) decoding of the given received signals fails. The transceiver estimates the retransmission interference bearing on the given received signal based on hypothesizing that another user (or users) mistakenly transmitted in the same time interval, using some or all of the same channel resources as were allocated to the given received signal. The transceiver may retain information in any given interval, indicating the channel allocations used for those user signals successfully received in that interval. The retained information allows the transceiver to determine, with respect to a given signal received in a current time interval, which other users would be interfering users if they mistakenly retransmitted in the current time interval. The transceiver may target its compensated decoding, which may be iterative, to the most likely and/or most significant ones of the potentially of interfering user(s). | 2011-01-06 |
20110002278 | Method and Apparatus for ARQ Control in Wireless Communications - In one or more aspects, the method and apparatus presented herein consider corresponding uplink resource allocations when allocating ARQ signal powers. In particular, in at least one embodiment, more power is allocated to the acknowledgment (“ack”) signal(s) corresponding to user equipment (UE) transmissions that involve larger allocations of uplink resources. For the example context of an LTE network, an eNodeB “boosts” its ack signaling power for acknowledging UE transmissions associated with larger uplink bandwidth allocations. Additionally, or alternatively, the UE is configured to bias its ARQ signal evaluations, to bias its ack/nack decision determinations to favor the ack decision, at least for those acks associated with transmissions that used greater resource allocations. | 2011-01-06 |
20110002279 | UPLINK OPEN LOOP POWER CONTROL SYSTEM - Embodiments of the present invention provide an uplink open loop power control system in which interference over thermal information is transmitted to mobile stations. Other embodiments may be described and claimed. | 2011-01-06 |
20110002280 | MIDAMBLE FOR WIRELESS NETWORKS - Briefly, in accordance with one or more embodiments, a midamble for a downlink subframe is generated by rotating an order of midamble tones per antenna between two or more subbands. A Golay sequence may be utilized in the modulation of one or more subcarriers of the midamble via a reuse-3 arrangement. Alternatively, a reuse-1 arrangement may be applied to the midamble. | 2011-01-06 |
20110002281 | DISCONTINUOUS RECEPTION FOR CARRIER AGGREGATION - Discontinuous reception (DRX) operations for wireless communications implementing carrier aggregation are disclosed. Physical downlink control channel implementation for carrier aggregation is also disclosed. DRX methods are disclosed including a common DRX protocol that may be applied across all component carriers, an individual/independent DRX protocol that is applied on each component carrier, and hybrid approaches that are applied across affected component carriers. Methods for addressing the effects of loss of synchronization on DRX, impact of scheduling request on DRX, uplink power control during DRX, and DRX operation in measurement gaps are disclosed. | 2011-01-06 |
20110002282 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SETTING METHOD, BASE STATION, MOBILE STATION, AND PROGRAM - The problem is that, in a mobile wireless system, when more than one frequency block composed of resource blocks that are consecutive on a frequency axis is assigned to one mobile station, the multi-diversity effect due to scheduling increases by the number of assigned frequency blocks being increased, but the overhead caused by the scheduling information increases. Accordingly, there is a tradeoff between the multi-diversity effect and the scheduling overhead. However, when the aforementioned tradeoff was considered with OFDM and SC-FDMA, the same fixed number of frequency blocks would have been used for all mobile stations. Accordingly, an optimization that takes into account the tradeoff between the multi-diversity effect and scheduling overhead has not been sufficiently achieved. In a wireless communication system, the maximum frequency block number, which is the maximum number of the aforementioned frequency blocks assigned to the same mobile station, is set based on system information, which is information pertaining to the base station installation environment and the mobile station or the mobile station's communication status, and the base station assigns no more resource blocks than the aforementioned maximum frequency block number. | 2011-01-06 |
20110002283 | MULTICARRIER RADIO RECEIVER AND METHOD FOR RECEIVING MULTIPLE CARRIERS - A radio receiver uses a first receiver type for receiving data and/or control information on one or more secondary carrier channel(s) if one or more common channels(s) are transmitted on the corresponding secondary carrier. Otherwise, the radio receiver uses a second receiver type for receiving data and/or control information on one or more secondary carrier channel(s). | 2011-01-06 |
20110002284 | MULTI-TIER NETWORK INTERFERENCE MITIGATION - In some embodiments, a femto access point comprises a baseband processor, an RF modulator/demodulator coupled to the baseband processor to modulate/demodulate data for communication within a predetermined frequency range, one or more antennas to coupled to the RF modulator/demodulator to transceive information with one or more wireless devices via a wireless communication link, and a control module to implement a femto transmission-free zone in at least one of a time domain or a frequency domain and in which the femto access point does not transmit data. Other embodiments may be described. | 2011-01-06 |
20110002285 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MANAGING RESOURCE TO DECREASE INTER-CELL INTERFERENCE IN A BROADBAND WIRELESS COMMMUNICATION SYSTEM - An apparatus and method for resource management in a wireless communication system are provided. The method includes allocating resources and transmit power to maximize Quality of Service (QoS) satisfaction of User Equipments (UEs) and a sum rate using long-term channel information of the UEs, determining a transmit power constraint per resource block using a power distribution of the resources and transmit power allocation results and control information of at least one neighboring BS, and allocating resource and transmit power to maximize the QoS satisfaction of the UEs and the sum rate using short-term channel information of the UEs under a condition of the transmit power constraint. | 2011-01-06 |
20110002286 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ALLOCATING DATA BURST - A method and apparatus for allocating a data burst is disclosed, which is capable of differently setting a start symbol offset, at which an allocation of data burst is started, by each sector when allocating the data burst into a downlink sub-frame for each of neighboring sectors, wherein the method is comprised of dividing a data region of a downlink sub-frame for each of neighboring sectors into a plurality of segment regions, and allocating each of the segment regions into the respective sectors without being overlapped; and allocating downlink data bursts for the respective sectors, wherein the allocation of downlink data bursts is sequentially started from the segment region allocated for each sector. | 2011-01-06 |
20110002287 | BASE STATION, MOBILE STATION AND COMMUNICATION METHOD THEREOF - A base station, a mobile station and a communication method thereof are provided. The base station and the mobile station are adapted for use in a wireless network. The wireless network comprises the base station and the mobile station. The mobile station connects with the base station via a physical channel. The physical channel comprises a plurality of resource units. Each resource unit comprises a sub-block. The sub-block comprises a sequence. The mobile station communicates with the base station with the sequence during the sub-block bases on a mapping relation. | 2011-01-06 |
20110002288 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ALLOCATING RANGING CHANNEL IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and apparatus of allocating a ranging channel in a wireless communication system is provided. A base station (BS) allocates at least one first ranging channel, having a first structure, and at least one second ranging channel, having a second structure, to a ranging subframe. The first structure or the second structure can be one of the ranging channel structures of an IEEE 802.16e system. A number of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols included in the first structure and a number of OFDM symbols included in the second structure differs from each other. And a guard time including at least one OFDM symbol is allocated between the at least one first ranging channel and the at least one second ranging channel. | 2011-01-06 |
20110002289 | Methods and Arrangements in a Wireless Communications System - The present invention relates to methods and arrangements that make it possible to control the delay for the UEs to access the EUL resources in the Enhanced Uplink in CELL_FACH state procedure, independently from the delay for the UEs to access 5 ordinary UL resources in the RACH procedure. This is achieved by a solution where the timing of entering (or re-entering) a transmission procedure for Enhanced Uplink in CELL-FACH state is controlled with the help of a transmission control parameter defined specifically for this transmission procedure, instead of using the same parameter as for the RACH procedure. | 2011-01-06 |
20110002290 | METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING CQI IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method of transmitting a channel quality indicator (CQI) in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes receiving an uplink grant on a downlink channel, the uplink grant comprising a CQI report indicator, a transport format field and a resource assignment field, the CQI report indicator indicating whether a CQI is reported, the transport format filed indicating a transport format of the CQI, the resource assignment field indicating the number of resource blocks used for reporting the CQI and transmitting the CQI on an uplink channel by using the uplink grant. | 2011-01-06 |
20110002291 | Cooperative Transceiving Between Wireless Interface Devices of a Host Device with Shared Modules - A circuit includes a first wireless interface circuit that transceives packetized data between a host module and a first external device in accordance with a first wireless communication protocol. A second wireless interface circuit transceives packetized data between the host module and a second external device in accordance with a second wireless communication protocol. The second wireless interface circuit includes at least one module that is shared with first wireless interface circuit. The first wireless interface circuit and the second wireless interface circuit operate in accordance with a wireless interface schedule that includes a first time interval where the first wireless interface device and the second wireless interface device contemporaneously use the at least one module. | 2011-01-06 |
20110002292 | METHOD FOR UPDATING LOCATION INFORMATION OF USER EQUIPMENT - A method for updating location information of a UE is provided. A Node B transmits location information of the UE to an MME. An MME updates location information of the UE saved in a network as the location information of the UE from the Node B. The method supports the UE in a connection mode moving. between different geographical domains without a need for domain update process. It also supports signaling in circuit domain to be transmitted in newly evolved network. | 2011-01-06 |
20110002293 | METHOD FOR ALLOCATING CONTROL CHANNEL - A method for allocating a submap is disclosed. The method includes configuring a subframe including one or more resource areas according to a size of the submap, allocating the submap and a control header including subframe configuration information and submap information to the one or more resource areas, and transmitting the control header. | 2011-01-06 |
20110002294 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, COMMUNICATION CHANNEL EFFICIENCY IMPROVING DEVICE, AND RADIO COMMUNICATION TERMINAL - A technique is disclosed, according to which the efficiency of a communication channel where the communication is performed between radio communication terminals. According to this technique, under the network condition where different types of connection can be made to different types of networks, radio communication terminals performing communication with each other can perform communication by being connected to the same access network. For instance, by changing the connection of UE_a | 2011-01-06 |
20110002295 | INFRASTRUCTURE ASSISTED NETWORK TRANSITION - An infrastructure assisted network transition scheme is provided. In a multi-mode wireless communication device, handover threshold data is received from a management server associated with a first wireless network comprising one or more wireless access points. The multi-mode wireless communication device receives signals from the one or more wireless access point devices of the first wireless network and generates data representing the received signals. The multi-mode wireless communication device analyzes the data representing the received signals with respect to the handover threshold data to determine when the multi-mode wireless communication device should initiate hand-in to the first wireless network and when to initiate hand-out from the first wireless network to the second wireless network. Functions are provided at the management server to enable the generation of the handover threshold data from network configuration information associated with the first wireless network. | 2011-01-06 |
20110002296 | Method and transcoder entity for tandem free operation in a telecommunication network - A method is described for engaging a first transcoder entity in a tandem free operation session with a second transcoder entity. The transcoder entities control the tandem free operation session and the insertion of transcoders into the session. They also perform a synchronization procedure of the first transcoder entity and the second transcoder entity and send tandem free operation frames. The tandem free operation frames are sent from the first transcoder entity to the second transcoder entity during execution of the synchronization procedure. A transcoder entity and a program embodying the invention is also described. | 2011-01-06 |
20110002297 | GATEWAY ASSOCIATION - Embodiments provide components of a communication network that may facilitate efficient optimization of the communication network. In various embodiments, network gateway selection for incoming subscriber stations may be allocated to one or more components that make intelligent allocation determinations. Additionally, in various embodiments, control of the communication network may also be allocated to various components. | 2011-01-06 |
20110002298 | Reducing Overhead in Wireless Communications - Stations in a wireless network may communicate directly using MAC management messages. As examples, servers may communicate using MAC management messages with mobile stations, base stations may communicate using MAC management messages, and relay cells may communicate using MAC management messages. | 2011-01-06 |
20110002299 | HANDOVER FOR CELLULAR RADIO COMMUNICATIONS - An improved handover process is described for a cellular wireless network. In one example, a method includes registering a mobile station to a first base station and a first gateway, handing the mobile station over to a second base station coupled to the first gateway, selecting a second gateway coupled to the mobile station, registering the mobile station to the second gateway, de-registering the mobile station from the first gateway, and handing the mobile station over to a third base station coupled to the second gateway and not coupled to the first gateway. | 2011-01-06 |
20110002300 | METHOD OF PERFORMING HANDOVER AND NETWORK SYSTEM OF ENABLING THE METHOD - A method of performing a handover is provided. The method of performing the handover includes: a mobile terminal transmitting an access stop message to a first Access Point (AP) when the mobile terminal moves from a first AP area to a second AP area; the first AP transmitting a handover start message to a first Mobility Access Gateway (MAG) corresponding to the first AP in response to the access stop message; the first MAG transmitting the handover start message to a Local Mobile Anchor (LMA); and the LMA performing a buffering of a data packet to be transmitted to the mobile terminal. | 2011-01-06 |
20110002301 | Handover in Core-Edge Separation Technology in Wireless Communications - In one embodiment of the invention, a method for wireless communication includes receiving a packet destined to a destination node at a first egress router. The destination node is supported by a second egress router. A destination address of the packet is the first egress router. The received packet is redirected to the second egress router. | 2011-01-06 |
20110002302 | NETWORK HANDOVER METHOD, COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM, AND RELEVANT DEVICES - A network handover method, a communications system, and relevant devices are provided, so as to implement handover between a Wireless Fidelity (WiFi) network and a Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMAX) network. The method specifically includes the following steps. A user terminal determines a target network access point (AP) and acquires a tunnel destination address. A signaling transmission tunnel between the user terminal and the target network AP is established through a current network according to the tunnel destination address. The user terminal executes a network access operation with the target network AP through the signaling transmission tunnel. The communications system and the relevant devices are further provided. Thus, the handover between the WiFi network and the WiMAX network can be implemented. | 2011-01-06 |
20110002303 | RANGING BY MOBILE STATION IN FEMTO SYSTEM - A ranging method in a mobile station of a femto system is disclosed. According to the present invention, a femto base station enables non-synchronized ranging channel (NS-RCH) information to be carried on S-SFH SP | 2011-01-06 |