01st week of 2010 patent applcation highlights part 40 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20100003906 | MOTOR-DRIVEN MACHINE TOOL - A motor-driven machine tool ( | 2010-01-07 |
20100003907 | INCLINATION ANGLE ADJUSTING DEVICE AND WORKPIECE ATTACHING DEVICE - The present invention facilitates with high accuracy the adjustment of a minute angle degree, and also is capable of sufficiently securing the rigidity of the whole device after the adjustment and provides good operability, accuracy, and rigidity. Provided are a workpiece attaching body having a workpiece attaching surface and a rotating body rotatably supporting the workpiece attaching body. The rotating body has an inclination angle adjusting surface inclined relative to an axis of the rotating body, the workpiece attaching body has opposite to the workpiece attaching surface an inclination angle adjusting surface which is inclined relative to the workpiece attaching surface and which comes in surface contact with the inclination angle adjusting surface of the rotating body, and spherical coupling means is arranged which is for rotatably adjustably coupling the workpiece attaching body and the rotating body about a spherical center on an axis of the rotating body along both inclination angle adjusting surfaces. Thereby, the rotating body and the workpiece attaching body are relatively rotated about the spherical center along both inclination angle adjusting surfaces so as to adjust the inclination angle of the workpiece attaching surface. | 2010-01-07 |
20100003908 | INCLINATION ANGLE ADJUSTING DEVICE AND WORKPIECE ATTACHING DEVICE - To facilitate with high accuracy adjustment of a minute angle degree and also to sufficiently secure the rigidity of a whole device after the adjustment. Provided are a workpiece attaching body | 2010-01-07 |
20100003909 | PULLER FOR USE IN ANIMAL CARCASS BONING OR CUTTING - An apparatus for pulling a section of an animal carcass from the carcass wherein the carcass is held using means for holding. The apparatus includes means for anchoring to the section of the carcass, and means for forcibly separating the means for anchoring from the means for holding, preferably in a substantially vertical downwards direction, and thereby remove the section from the carcass. According to preferred embodiments, the means for anchoring may be a hook or a gripper which clamps to the section of the carcass. A system including the apparatus and a corresponding method are also provided. | 2010-01-07 |
20100003910 | Highly bacteriocidal chlorine dioxide, formulation, preparation and use thereof - When used as a biocide on newly butchered chickens, chlorine dioxide at concentrations of 12 to 50 ppm is effective at temperatures of 35° C. to 90° C. with 15 ppm being very effective at temperatures of 45° C. to 60° C. Chlorine dioxide in about 50° C. water did not off gas chlorine dioxide at a concentration of 50 ppm. | 2010-01-07 |
20100003911 | Passive Cooling Systems for Network Cabinet - Certain embodiments of the present invention provide a cooling duct assembly for electronic equipment installed in a cabinet. The cooling duct assembly comprises at least one main duct in fluid communication with a front portion of the cabinet. The at least one main duct receives cold air from the front portion of the cabinet and routes the cold air toward a back portion of the cabinet. Additionally, the cooling duct assembly comprises at least one side duct in fluid communication with the at least one main duct. The at least one side duct receives the cold air from the at least one main duct and routes the cold air to at least one side air intake opening on the electronic equipment. | 2010-01-07 |
20100003912 | MEDICAL MINI-ENVIRONMENT DEVICE - A ventilation apparatus for forming a sterile medical area mainly includes an operation module for ventilating the air. The apparatus for ensuring the air cleanliness includes a filtering unit for filtering dusts and particles in the air and a sterilizing unit for eliminating micro organisms. The clean and sterilized air is sent into the medical area via an air outlet to form a quasi-laminar air flow pattern. By application of the ventilation apparatus, the cleanliness of the medical area can be ensured. | 2010-01-07 |
20100003913 | HVAC AIR DUCT VENT COVER AND METHDOLOGY FOR ITS USE - One possible embodiment of the present invention could be a cover for sealing a ceiling-mounted HVAC vent comprising of a rectangular base with several edges; several rectangular cover walls, each cover wall being attached to a respective edge, the base and cover walls being originally arranged in a cruciform shape; wherein the cover walls provide a force fit upon the interior sides of a framework of a ceiling mounted HVAC vent to hold the cover in place within the hollow interior of the framework. | 2010-01-07 |
20100003914 | ENHANCED NOTIFICATION MECHANISM FOR BROADCAST NETWORKS USING BIT-MAP VECTORS - Methods, apparatus, systems and computer program products are defined for enhancing the delivery of overhead notifications in a broadcast network, in particular a broadcast network suitable for wireless device implementation. The broadcast-receiving devices only receive new notification messages, as opposed to receiving all of the currently active notification messages. This is achieved by broadcasting a listing of the currently active notifications versions and having the devices compare the currently active notification versions to the locally stored version(s) to determine which version or versions require capturing. In those aspects in which the broadcast-receiving device is a battery powered wireless device, battery power consumption is minimized because the device only captures active notification messages not currently in device memory, as opposed to all of the currently active notifications. | 2010-01-07 |
20100003915 | SYSTEMS AND METHOD FOR FREQUENCY BASED SATELLITE CHANNEL SCANNING - A satellite signal demodulator is configured to use frequency-based channel scanning to sense the presence of a channel and to obtain the frequency profile of the channel. Once the channel is identified and the profile is obtained, channel extraction is used to identify the frequency parameters for a given channel. A coarse parameter estimation is performed to obtain a coarse estimate of the symbol rate (SR) and the center frequency (f | 2010-01-07 |
20100003916 | Portable Communication Terminal - A portable communication terminal comprises wireless communication units | 2010-01-07 |
20100003917 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A communication system according to the present invention includes a transmitter for applying a transmission signal to a human body as an electric field, and a receiver for receiving the transmission signal by detecting the electric field via the human body. The receiver includes a reception electrode which faces the human body, a resonance circuit formed of a resonance inductor and a resonance capacitor, and a coupling capacitor for capacitively coupling the reception electrode and the resonance circuit. | 2010-01-07 |
20100003918 | WIRELESS DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND METHODS USING ACTIVE RADIO FREQUENCY TAGS AND WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION DEVICES - A wireless data communication system and related operating methods are provided. The system uses active radio frequency (RF) tags to communicate content data to consumer-grade wireless telecommunication devices, in accordance with a wireless local area network (WLAN) protocol. A method of wirelessly providing information to a consumer-grade wireless telephone begins by providing data content to an active RF tag. The active RF tag creates a content message that conveys the data content, and wirelessly transmits the content message in accordance with a designated WLAN data communication protocol. The wireless telephone wirelessly receives the content message in accordance with the WLAN data communication protocol, and then displays indicia of the data content. | 2010-01-07 |
20100003919 | Bluetooth hands-free car kit - A bluetooth hands-free car kit includes a hands-free cell phone/PDA holder electrically connected to the internal electric circuit of a car for receiving and amplifying sound, a bluetooth adapter insertable into the hands-free cell phone/PDA holder for wireless communication with a cell phone/PDA through a bluetooth communication technique, and an audio transmitter receiver device insertable into the bluetooth adapter for receiving and transmitting audio signals. The bluetooth adapter has a pivoted clip biased by a spring member for engaging a retaining notch on one lateral side of the audio transmitter receiver device to lock the audio transmitter receiver device to the bluetooth adapter upon insertion of the audio transmitter receiver device into the bluetooth adapter. | 2010-01-07 |
20100003920 | PEAK SUPPRESSING AND RESTORING METHOD, TRANSMITTER, RECEIVER, AND PEAK SUPPRESSING AND RESTORING SYSTEM - A peak suppressing and restoring method includes suppressing a peak of a signal, starting suppression when a suppression start value is lower than a suppression target value, using a function of a gain characteristic such that a peak amplitude value attains the suppression target value, and restoring the suppressed peak of the signal using an inverse function of the function of the gain characteristic. | 2010-01-07 |
20100003921 | Service Monitoring and Disconnection Notification in a Wireless Gateway Device - A gateway apparatus configured to wirelessly communicate with and provide a service to a wireless client device includes a wireless access point module, a network interface and a controller. The wireless access point module is configured to wirelessly communicate with the wireless client device. The network interface module is configured to interface with a network in order to provide the service for the wireless client device. The controller is responsive to detecting degradation in the service or to receiving a command to generate a signal, for transmission to the wireless client device by the wireless access point module. The signal notifies the wireless client device to disconnect from the gateway apparatus. | 2010-01-07 |
20100003922 | System and Method for Scheduling of Spectrum Sensing in Cognitive Radio Systems - System and method for scheduling spectrum sensing in cognitive radio systems. A method comprises sensing an availability of a spectrum band, computing a duration of an inter-sensing time block based on the availability of the spectrum band, and scheduling an occurrence of the spectrum sensing operation using the duration of the inter-sensing time block. Computing the duration of the inter-sensing time block based on the availability of the spectrum band allows for an optimization of communications of the cognitive radio system, thereby increasing spectral efficiency and reducing interference to licensed communications. | 2010-01-07 |
20100003923 | MOBILE APPLICATION MONITORING SYSTEM - A method and system to test, monitor, audit and share revenue associated with third-party software applications operating on mobile devices over a network operator's wireless network. An application may be tested by the mobile application monitoring system to simulate the expected load of the application on a mobile device and the wireless network utilized by the mobile device, and to determine any services utilized by the application. Based on the simulation, the system determines a compensation arrangement under which revenue associated with the application will be shared between the network operator and the application provider. Revenue is shared inversely with an application's impact on customers and on the network operator. Modifications may be made to the compensation arrangement by the system to cause the revenue share or other compensation value to increase or decrease based on non-performance-related features or consequences that are identified by the system. | 2010-01-07 |
20100003924 | RADIO FREQUENCY INTERFERENCE SENSING SYSTEM AND METHOD - A method of sensing radio frequency interference (RFI) in a wireless system is provided. The method includes receiving wireless data through a wireless receiver and evaluating received wireless data through a receiver baseband module to identify an occurrence of a signal detection failure by a physical (PHY) layer or a media access control (MAC) layer of the wireless system. The method also includes triggering a radio frequency interference sensing state in response to the occurrence of signal detection failure by the physical layer or the media access control layer of the wireless system. | 2010-01-07 |
20100003925 | INSENSITIVE AREA DETECTING METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR THE SAME IN RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - In a method of detecting an insensitive area in a radio communication system which includes a plurality of base stations and a plurality of mobile terminals, a total reception power data is requested to a concerned one of the plurality of base stations which is connected with a concerned one of the plurality of mobile terminals, when a signal indicating an insensitive state of the concerned mobile terminal is received. Radio environment of an up link is determined from the concerned mobile terminal to the concerned base station based on the total reception power data from the concerned base station. An up link insensitive area is determined based on a position data of the mobile terminal and the radio environment. | 2010-01-07 |
20100003926 | Communication System, Communication Device and Communication Rate Modification Method - A communication system includes: an RE/IF/BB unit ( | 2010-01-07 |
20100003927 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR POWER-SAVING AND WAKE-UP - Disclosed is an apparatus and method of power-saving and wake-up, which is not only used to reduce the power consumption of a system of electronic equipment, but also allow the system to immediately return to normal operation according to the requirement. The apparatus for power-saving and wake-up includes a first detector, a second detector, a decoder and a third detector. The method for power-saving and wake-up includes detecting a cable signal, a clock pair signal and a differential pair signal. When one of the detected signals is unusual, the system soon turns off the unusual channel power and implement the procedures for power saving and operates under the power saving mode, which can realize the effect of power saving and low power consumption. The method for power-saving and wake-up includes detecting the cable signal, the toggling and frequency of the clock signal and the synchronizing signals of the system. | 2010-01-07 |
20100003928 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR HEADER COMPRESSION FOR CDMA EVDO SYSTEMS - A method and system for providing header compression guidance to mobile devices initiating certain applications and/or protocols. A selective header compression (SHC) utility utilizes a session initiation protocol (SIP) message to provide robust header compression (ROHC) guidance to a mobile device initiating a call involving selected (SIP related) applications, protocols and/or service options. In addition, ROHC guidance allows the mobile device to appropriately select the source and/or destination port (depending on packet origination) for data flows requiring ROHC. ROHC guidance may recommend that the mobile device request ROHC for VoIP flows, but not for video flows. Furthermore, the guidance may specify the range of real-time protocol (RTP) ports at which ROHC is applied. For example, within a specified range of RTP ports, ROHC may be applied to data transmissions via even port numbers but prevented for real-time transport control protocol (RTCP) flows via odd port numbers. | 2010-01-07 |
20100003929 | WIRELESS AUDIO TRANSCEIVER SYSTEM AND METHOD USING UWB WIRELESS COMMUNICATION - There is provided a transceiving method of an audio signal using an UWB wireless communication scheme, including the steps of: extracting and analyzing the beacon frames to generate reserved transmission interval information previously reserved by the other UWB transmitters and/or adjacent wireless audio transmitters and information on audio source and channel; calculating an available transmission interval for each channel of audio sources by using the information on the audio source and channel of the other UWB transmitters; generating and transmitting a beacon frame based on the reserved transmission interval and the audio source and channel information; transmitting the audio signal at the reserved transmission interval by audio source and channel units; extracting and analyzing the beacon frame to generate audio source and channel information and reserved transmission interval information; and providing the audio source and channel information to the user. | 2010-01-07 |
20100003930 | Personal content player - A Personal Content Player is disclosed. One embodiment of the present invention is a miniature electronic device which functions as an automatic content receiver and storage device. Digital content is transmitted to the device using the excess capacity in an existing network, such as one or more conventional broadcast radio stations. The content is received by the device, and stored in a memory. The content is then played at a time chosen by the user. | 2010-01-07 |
20100003931 | TRANSMISSION SCHEMES FOR MULTI-ANTENNA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS UTILIZING MULTI-CARRIER MODULATION - Pilot and data transmission schemes for multi-antenna communication systems utilizing multi-carrier modulation are provided. Subband multiplexing is used to avoid interference resulting from transmitting multiple signals simultaneously from multiple antennas. M usable subbands are initially arranged to form multiple groups of subbands, with each group including a different subset of the usable subbands. Each of T transmit antennas is then assigned one or possibly more subband groups for pilot transmission and typically one subband group for data transmission. Pilot and data may then be transmitted from each antenna on the subbands assigned to that antenna for pilot and data transmission. For each transmit antenna, the transmit power for each assigned subband may be scaled higher such that all of the total transmit power available for the antenna is used for transmission. Pilot and/or data may be transmitted simultaneously from all T antennas on all usable subbands without causing mutual interference. | 2010-01-07 |
20100003932 | TRANSMITTER AND COMMUNICATION APPARATUS USING THE SAME - A signal generating section | 2010-01-07 |
20100003933 | SIGNAL TRANSMISSION APPARATUS AND SIGNAL TRANSMISSION METHOD - A signal transmission apparatus of the invention comprises: a correlator | 2010-01-07 |
20100003934 | ADAPTIVE METHOD OF TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING A SIGNAL IN A MULTI-ANTENNA SYSTEM, CORRESPONDING TRANSMISSION AND RECEPTION DEVICES, COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS AND SIGNAL - A method is provided for receiving a signal, corresponding to a data signal transmitted by a transmitter to a receiver via a transmission channel. The method includes the following steps: analyzing the signal received, delivering an information item representative of the transmission channel; determining, periodically and/or as a function of a variation of the transmission channel: at least one distribution of the transmission antennas into at least one group of at least one antenna as a function of the information item representative of the transmission channel, wherein at least one group includes at least two transmission antennas for at least one of the determinations; and specific efficiencies assigned respectively to each of the groups of antennas for each distribution as a function of the information item, and transmitting to the transmitter a parameterization signal defining the at least one distribution and the specific efficiencies. | 2010-01-07 |
20100003935 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION DEVICE WITH LOW POWER RECEIVER FOR SIGNAL DETECTION - A mobile communication device with a low power receiver for signal detection and a method for utilizing a low power receiver for signal detection in a mobile communication device. Various aspects of the present invention comprise a first receiver module adapted to operate in a sleep mode. The first receiver module may also be adapted to receive a communication signal utilizing a first amount of power, where the communication signal is characterized by a first set of signal characteristics. A second receiver module may be adapted to receive a communication signal characterized by the first set of signal characteristics. The second receiver module may be adapted to receive a communication signal utilizing a second amount of power that is less than the first amount of power. A communication signal received by the second receiver module may be analyzed to determine a mode in which to operate the first receiver module. | 2010-01-07 |
20100003936 | MULTIMODE COMMUNICATION DEVICE WITH SHARED SIGNAL PATH PROGRAMMABLE FILTER - A multimode communication device with a shared signal path programmable filter and a method for utilizing a shared signal path programmable filter in a multimode communication device. Various aspects of the present invention comprise a first module adapted to receive a first communication signal (e.g., corresponding to a first communication protocol) and a second module adapted to receive a second communication signal (e.g., corresponding to a second communication protocol). A shared filter, communicatively coupled to the first and second modules, may be adapted to filter the first and/or second communication signals in accordance with a plurality of selectable sets of filter response characteristics (e.g., associated with the first and second communication protocols). A filter control module may be adapted to select a set of filter response characteristics from a plurality of such sets and program the shared filter to filter a communication signal in accordance with the selected set. | 2010-01-07 |
20100003937 | Receiver Device, System, and Method for Low-Energy Reception of Data - A receiver device, A system and a method for reception of a signal having an amplitude that has been modulated with information, wherein a resistive element is provided that converts an electrical quantity into a physical parameter. | 2010-01-07 |
20100003938 | NOISE MEASUREMENT FOR RADIO SQUELCH FUNCTION - A method implementable in an audio receiver having an input for receiving broadcast signals including a set of channels and a squelching controller includes converting the signals associated with each channel into respective digital signals, and tuning the digital signals associated with a first subset of the channels. For each channel of the first channel subset, a respective set of amplitudes associated with respective frequencies of the associated digital signal is determined. A random-noise-level value associated with each channel of the first channel subset is determined from each set of the signal amplitudes. If a signal amplitude associated with a first channel of the first channel subset exceeds the random-noise-level of the first channel, a second subset of the channels of the set is tuned. Otherwise, the random-noise-levels are provided to the squelching controller. | 2010-01-07 |
20100003939 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR CALIBRATING RECEIVED SIGNAL STRENGTH INDICATORS - This disclosure discloses methods and apparatus for calibrating received signal strength indicators. | 2010-01-07 |
20100003940 | RADIO SIGNAL RECEIVER DEVICE - A radio signal detector includes first and second detector circuits. The first detector circuit has a higher detection sensitivity to detect a radio signal earlier than the second detector circuit. The second detector circuit has a lower detection sensitivity to detect the radio signal accurately. When the second detector circuit detects the radio signal, it starts up a microcomputer. When the first detector circuit detects the radio signal, a time counter starts to count time. After being started up, the microcomputer acquires a time difference between the radio signal detection by the first detector circuit and the start-up. The microcomputer determines time of radio signal transmission by a radio signal transmitter device based on the determined time difference, and outputs control information after an elapse of a predetermined time. | 2010-01-07 |
20100003941 | ANTENNA SELECTOR AND COMMUNICATION DEVICE - A transmitting/receiving circuit ( | 2010-01-07 |
20100003942 | LOOP ANTENNA INPUT CIRCUIT FOR AM AND AM RADIO RECEIVER USING THE SAME - p-MOSFETs ( | 2010-01-07 |
20100003943 | Harmonic Reject Receiver Architecture and Mixer - Receiver architectures and methods of processing harmonic rich input signals employing harmonic suppression mixers are disclosed herein. The disclosed receivers, mixers, and methods enable a receiver to achieve the advantages of switching mixers while greatly reducing the mixer response to the undesired harmonics. A harmonic mixer can include a plurality of mixers coupled to an input signal. A plurality of phases of a local oscillator signal can be generated from a single local oscillator output. Each of the phases can be used to drive an input of one of the mixers. The mixer outputs can be combined to generate a frequency converted output that has harmonic rejection. | 2010-01-07 |
20100003944 | SYSTEM, CIRCUIT AND METHOD FOR ACTIVATING AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE - The disclosure provides a system, circuit and method for activating an electronic device from a low power state. The circuit comprises: a microprocessor; a first accelerometer; a second accelerometer which is activated upon receiving a movement signal from the first accelerometer, indicating a movement of the electronic device; a threshold circuit connected to an output of the second accelerometer to allow only signals generated by the second accelerometer that exceed a threshold to pass; an input device; and a monitoring circuit connected to the input device and an output of the threshold circuit. The monitoring circuit comprises a latch circuit utilizing signals from the threshold circuit and a reset signal from the microprocessor to generate a trigger signal to activate the input device. The monitoring circuit selectively generates an activation signal to activate the electronic device to a higher power state utilizing a notable signal received from the input device. | 2010-01-07 |
20100003945 | Cellular emergency notification service - Cellular emergency notification service transmitting Point-To-MultiPoint (P2MP) emergency service messages on one or more mandatory non-user configurable P2MP emergency channels to all available personal cellular telecommunications devices in one or more selected cells thereby ensuring mandatory reception. | 2010-01-07 |
20100003946 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING EMERGENCY DATA MESSAGES AT A PSAP - A system and method for receiving and processing data messages at a PSAP may include parsing an emergency data message to identify data elements in an emergency data message, populating data fields of a data record with the data elements of the emergency data message, and displaying the data record in a list of selectable data records representative of received emergency data messages for an operator at the PSAP to view. | 2010-01-07 |
20100003947 | DATA MESSAGE SERVICE CONTROLLER AND METHOD FOR HANDLING EMERGENCY TEXT MESSAGING - A system and method for communicating an emergency data message includes receiving a data message and determining whether an emergency abbreviated dialing code was received with the data message. If an emergency data message includes an abbreviated dialing code, an emergency data message short code associated with the abbreviated dialing code may be requested. A cell code identifier in which the wireless communications device is located may be determined, and the data message, emergency data message short code, and cell code identifier may be communicated via a communications network for the data message to be routed to a PSAP handling emergencies in an area in which the wireless communications device is located. | 2010-01-07 |
20100003948 | MULTI-BUTTON EMERGENCY MESSAGE GENERATION - A wireless communications device and method for generating and communicating an emergency text message includes, in response to receiving a request initiated from one of a plurality of emergency message buttons configured to initiate communication of respective emergency messages related to different emergency categories, generating an emergency message related to the respective emergency category. The generated emergency message may be then be communicated over a communications network. | 2010-01-07 |
20100003949 | EMERGENCY DATA MESSAGE ROUTER DATABASE - A system and method for providing information associated with public safety answering points may include storing a set of records including information associated with a plurality of PSAPs, each record may include (i) an identifier indicative of a PSAP available to service emergency communications, (ii) at least one cell code identifier indicative of cell sites in which the associated PSAP services, and (iii) at least one network address capable of receiving certain emergency data message types. In response to receiving a request, a PSAP local to a wireless communications device of a user who sent an emergency data message may be identified, and a network address associated with the identified local PSAP may be provided. | 2010-01-07 |
20100003950 | BATTERY CHARGE RESERVATION FOR EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS - A wireless communications device and method for establishing a voltage threshold at which to turn off electronics of a wireless communications device includes determining a power threshold level at which a device is to be shut off when a battery of the device reaches or drops below the power threshold level. The determined power threshold level may be offset. The amount of power remaining for the battery in the communications device may be measured. The communication device may be shut off based on the offset power threshold level so as to preserve enough power for an emergency message to be generated and sent in the case of an emergency. | 2010-01-07 |
20100003951 | EMERGENCY MESSAGE BUTTON AND METHOD ON A WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE FOR COMMUNICATING AN EMERGENCY MESSAGE TO A PUBLIC SAFETY ANSWERING POINT (PSAP) - A wireless communications device including a housing, a user interface configured to enable a user to type text messages for communication over a communications network, an emergency message button selectable by a user, and a processing unit in communication with the user interface and emergency message button. The processing unit may be configured to generate and send an emergency message to a public safety answering point in response to a user selecting the emergency message button. | 2010-01-07 |
20100003952 | EMERGENCY MESSAGE MENU - A wireless communications device and method for generating and communicating an emergency text message, includes in response to receiving a request to communicate an emergency text message, accessing stored personal data for use in generating content of the emergency text message. A determination may be made as to whether current location coordinates are available. The emergency text message may be populated with the accessed stored personal data and current location coordinates, if available. The populated emergency text message may be communicated over a communications network to a public safety answering point. | 2010-01-07 |
20100003953 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR HANDLING EMERGENCY IMAGE MESSAGING - A system and method for routing emergency image messages to a PSAP may include receiving an emergency data message and identifying that the emergency data message includes an image. A location of a wireless communications device used to send the emergency data message may be determined. At least one PSAP local to the emergency communications device may be identified and a determination as to which, if any, of the at least one PSAP is capable of receiving an emergency data message that includes an image may be made. The emergency data message that includes an image may be routed to a PSAP local to the wireless communications device and capable of receiving emergency data messages that include an image. | 2010-01-07 |
20100003954 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISTRIBUTING EMERGENCY DATA MESSAGES TO PUBLIC SAFETY ANSWERING POINTS IN A BALANCED MANNER - A system and method for routing emergency data messages to public safety answering points may include identifying PSAPs local to the user and configured to receive emergency data messages. A determination of distribution of previous emergency data messages to the identified PSAPs may be performed. Based on the distribution of previous emergency data messages to the identified PSAPs, one of the identified PSAPs may be selected and the emergency data message may be routed thereto. | 2010-01-07 |
20100003955 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING AND COLLECTING DATA MESSAGES BEING COMMUNICATED OVER A COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK - A system and method for capturing emergency data messages in a network environment includes receiving, at a first network node, an emergency data message communicated from a wireless communications device. The emergency data message may be accompanied by an origination address and destination address indicative of an emergency network address. A determination may be made at the first network node to determine whether the origination address matches a monitored address established by a law enforcement agency to capture data messages to or from the origination address. If it is determined that the origination address matches the monitored address, then a copy of the emergency data message may be routed to a second network node for collection of the emergency data message and the emergency data message may be routed to the destination address. Otherwise, the emergency data message may be routed to the destination address. | 2010-01-07 |
20100003956 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR COMMUNICATION OF MOBILE STATION OF SHADOW AREA IN A MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - An apparatus and method for communication of a Mobile Station (MS) of a shadow area in a mobile communication system are provided. The method includes determining whether an Emergency Ad-hoc Relay (EAR) amble is received and transmitting a help signal when the EAR amble is not received. | 2010-01-07 |
20100003957 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND SAFETY CONFIRMATION METHOD - A device having a first configuration includes an input unit configured to accept an input made by a user, and a transmitting unit configured to add a safety confirmation number accepted by the input unit to a first call control signal and to transmit the first call control signal with the safety confirmation number. A device having a second configuration includes a storing unit configured to store a safety confirmation text and a safety confirmation number by associating the safety confirmation text with the safety confirmation number, and a display unit configured to display the safety confirmation text that is stored in the storing unit correspondingly to the safety confirmation number added to a received first call control signal. | 2010-01-07 |
20100003958 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING AND COMMUNICATING UPDATED EMERGENCY MESSAGES - A system and method for updating a public safety answering point (PSAP) with a current location of a user may include communicating a first emergency message including a set of geographic coordinates to a PSAP in response to a user request to send an emergency message from a wireless communications device. The emergency may be a text message. The set of geographic coordinates of the wireless communications device may be updated, and a second emergency message including the updated set of geographic coordinates of the wireless communications device may be communicated to the PSAP. By updating the geographic coordinates, an operator at the PSAP may provide emergency personnel with changes in location of the user. | 2010-01-07 |
20100003959 | PREFORMATTED EMERGENCY TEXT MESSAGE - A wireless communications device and method for generating and communicating an emergency text message includes in response to receiving a request to communicate an emergency text message, accessing stored personal data for use in generating content of the emergency text message. A determination may be made if current location coordinates are available. The emergency text message may be populated with the accessed stored personal data and current location coordinates, if available. The populated emergency text message may be communicated over a communications network. | 2010-01-07 |
20100003960 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SENDING AN EMERGENCY MESSAGE SELECTED FROM AMONG MULTIPLE EMERGENCY MESSAGE TYPES FROM A WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE - A wireless communications device and method for communicating an emergency message to a public safety answering point (PSAP) may include storing (i) data representative of a plurality of emergency messages being of different message types and (ii) a network address associated with each emergency message. In response to a user selecting one of the emergency messages, the selected emergency message and associated network address may be established as defaults for communication of the default emergency message to a PSAP over the communications network. In response to the user requesting to send an emergency message, the default emergency message may be generated by using the default network address to communicate the emergency message and communicated over the communications network to the default network address for routing the default emergency message to a PSAP local to the user. | 2010-01-07 |
20100003961 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING NETWORK ASSISTED GEOGRAPHIC COORDINATES FOR EMERGENCY DATA MESSAGING - A system and method for communicating geographic coordinates with an emergency data message to a public safety answering point (PSAP) may include receiving a request from a user to send an emergency data message to a PSAP and determining whether geographic coordinates are locally available. If geographic coordinates are locally available, then the locally available geographic coordinates may be obtained and included with an emergency data message. Otherwise, if the geographic coordinates are not locally available, then a request for geographic coordinates from a network node on a communications network may be made and received from the communications network for inclusion with the emergency data message. The emergency data message may be communicated to a network node on the communications network for routing to the PSAP. | 2010-01-07 |
20100003962 | LOCATION INFORMATION SYSTEM FOR A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND METHOD THEREFORE - The present application is directed to location information systems for wireless communication devices. In one implementation, a location information system sends location information to a wireless communication device present in a predetermined area in a facility over a short-range wireless communication channel. The location information informs the wireless communication device a location of the wireless communication device in the facility. The location information system sends the location information to the wireless communication device from a location in the facility other than the location of the wireless communication device in the facility. | 2010-01-07 |
20100003963 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR MANAGING SUBSCRIBER CONNECTION - The invention relates to a device for managing a subscriber connection, the device including a mechanism for granting connection services to the subscriber connection, mechanism for monitoring reception behavior concerning predetermined messages conveyed to the subscriber connection, and a mechanism for controlling a further connection service grant to the subscriber connection based on the reception behavior. | 2010-01-07 |
20100003964 | INTEGRATION OF SECURE IDENTIFICATION LOGIC INTO CELL PHONE - Presented herein are systems and methods for integrating secure identification logic into cell phones. A registration is received, wherein said registration includes an identifier identifying a mobile terminal. Information is transmitted to the mobile terminal, wherein a password is a function of the information. | 2010-01-07 |
20100003965 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING A RANGE OF CLOSED SUBSCRIBER GROUP IDENTITIES FOR OPEN NETWORK ACCESS - Method for operating one or more radio cells of a cellular mobile wireless network, and cellular mobile wireless system, wherein each radio cell may be identified by a broadcasted cell identifier, and wherein use may be limited to a closed subscriber group by the fact that the radio cell has a corresponding identifier, and mobile wireless terminals log into the particular radio cell to use the services of the mobile wireless network only after a match has been made with a positive list of allowed cell identifiers stored in the mobile wireless terminal. The cell identifier is variable, and on the basis of the cell identifier a determination may be made as to whether log-in and use of the network services is limited to the closed subscriber group at that moment, or alternatively, whether log-in and use of the network services is enabled for any subscriber. | 2010-01-07 |
20100003966 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND GATEWAY DEVICE FOR PROCESSING SUBSCRIPTION SERVICE - A method for processing subscription service is provided by an embodiment of the invention adapted to establish a connection with a terminal for subscribing to a service through a network, where the terminal is a wireless terminal or a fixed wired network terminal. The method comprises the following steps: receiving from a terminal a subscription service request, which includes a service field; determining whether the subscription service request is legal, according to the service field; and forwarding the subscription service request if the subscription service request is legal. Meanwhile, an embodiment of the invention provides a system for processing subscription service and a gateway device. The embodiment of the invention makes it possible to prevent any terminal from accessing the network through the gateway device, which eliminates the potential hazard in the subscription system. Meanwhile, according to the embodiment of the invention, illegal terminals can not access the subscription network, which refines the subscription network and improves the stability of the subscription network. | 2010-01-07 |
20100003967 | PROCESSING MESSAGES FROM A MOBILE COMPUTING DEVICE FOR DIAGNOSIS OR SERVICE SELECTION - Selecting a service for a mobile computing device includes receiving a message from the mobile computing device via a wireless network, storing data from the message, querying the data to identify a characteristic, selecting a service from a plurality of services based on the identified characteristic, and sending the selected service to the mobile computing device | 2010-01-07 |
20100003968 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING PUSH MESSAGES - A method for controlling push messages on a portable electronic device is provided. The computer-implemented method for filtering reception of push messages includes providing a pre-configured white list containing at least one IP address, receiving service indication of a push message initiated by a push initiator and forwarded by a push proxy gateway, determining if the source address contained in the service indication is on the pre-configured white list, and, if so, connecting to the push initiator to retrieve the push message. | 2010-01-07 |
20100003969 | EMOTION RECOGNITION MESSAGE SYSTEM, MOBILE COMMUNICATION TERMINAL THEREFOR AND MESSAGE STORAGE SERVER THEREFOR - A message storage server stores a message by speech or video transmitted from a mobile communication terminal and performs emotion recognition on the message to generate emotion data. A mobile communication terminal, upon receiving a confirmation request from the message storage server of a message which the mobile communication terminal has transmitted as a message for another mobile communication terminal, displays the emotion data assigned to the transmitted message on its display. | 2010-01-07 |
20100003970 | INFORMATION TRANSFER CONTROL APPARATUS AND INFORMATION TRANSFER CONTROL METHOD FOR TRANSFERRING CONTENT - An information transfer control apparatus includes a storage unit storing an ID generating function for each distribution process group having at least one distribution process representing information transfer between plural communication terminals; an assigning unit assigning identification information to the distribution process using the ID generating function; a determining unit determining the distribution process group, the ID generating function, and the identification information associated with a request in response to receiving, from a first one of the communication terminals, the request for the information transfer from the first one of the communication terminals to a second one of the communication terminals and determining whether to allow information distribution; and a generating unit generating new identification information based on the determined ID generating function and sending a digital item containing the new identification information to the second one of the communication terminals when the determining unit allows the information distribution. | 2010-01-07 |
20100003971 | REPEAT DIALING IN WIRELESS NETWORKS TO BUSY CALLED PARTIES - A wireless network is disclosed that provides repeat dialing to busy called parties. The wireless network includes an originating MSC system that serves a calling party, and a terminating MSC system that serves a called party. The calling party initiates a call to the called party through the originating MSC system, and the terminating MSC system determines that the called party is busy on another call. The originating MSC system then receives a repeat dialing instruction from the calling party and transmits a repeat dialing indicator to the terminating MSC system. The terminating MSC system identifies when the called party becomes available in substantially real time. When available, the terminating MSC system attempts to set up a call between the called party and the calling party. | 2010-01-07 |
20100003972 | Advanced System And Method For Dynamically Discovering, Provisioning And Accessing Host Services On Wireless Data Communication Devices - A system and method for pushing a service book to a mobile device is provided. A service book includes a plurality of fields relating to a host service. At least one mobile device is identified that is to receive the service book. Wireless propagation information is provided that identifies an address for the mobile device to receive the service book. The service book is transmitted over a wireless network using the address for the mobile device, and is received by the mobile device. | 2010-01-07 |
20100003973 | Radio Communication Method and Radio Communication Terminal - A gist of the present invention is a radio communication method including the steps of calculating a transmission power difference between transmission power of a first carrier and transmission power of a second carrier, determining whether or not the transmission power difference exceeds a threshold that is set up on the basis of a maximum transmission power difference allowable between the first carrier and the second carrier, and disconnecting any one carrier out of the first carrier and the second carrier when the transmission power difference exceeds the threshold set up on the basis of the maximum transmission power difference. | 2010-01-07 |
20100003974 | Method and System for Adaptive Multi Rate (AMR) and Measurements Downlink Adaptation - Various aspects of a method and system for adaptive multi rate and measurements adaptation may include a processor that enables computation of at least one signal level measurement for at least one received signal. The processor may enable cancelling of interfering signals received in addition to the received signal based on processing of a received bit sequence using a first burst process operation (BP) in a first decoding algorithm that utilizes SAIC operations. The processor may also enable cancelling of noise signals received in addition to the received signal based on processing the received bit sequence using a second BP operation that utilizes redundancy and imposes a physical constraint during decoding. The processor may also enable adjustment of the computed at least one signal level measurement. | 2010-01-07 |
20100003975 | Method for accessing a service from a user's terminal via a heterogeneous network in which several types of access are available - The invention relates to a method for accessing a service from a user's terminal ( | 2010-01-07 |
20100003976 | Mobile based area event handling when currently visited network does not cover area - An area event handler informs when a target mobile enters or leaves a network covering a pre-defined target area, and re-aims an original area event request. When the event occurs, the mobile sends a location report to an initiator of the request. A PLMN list with estimated geographic coverage areas is stored in a Home GMLC, and sent to each relevant mobile. When a mobile enters new network coverage, it uses this list for network access selection. When the Home GMLC discovers that the currently visited PLMN does not serve the original target area, it modifies the area event to the that mobile, so that the Home GMLC will be notified when the target mobile once again enters a PLMN that serves the original target area. Then, after being so notified, the Home GMLC re-sends the original area event location service request to the target mobile. | 2010-01-07 |
20100003977 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR USE IN COOPERATIVE RELAYS USING INCREMENTAL REDUNDANCY AND DISTRIBUTED SPATIAL MULTIPLEXING - A method and apparatus are used in cooperative relays with incremental redundancy (IR) and distributed spatial multiplexing. A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) may listen to the base station (BS) transmission during Phase 1 of the communication, and use cooperation between a relay station (RS) and the BS for the data transmission during Phase 2 to improve performance. During Phase 2, both the BS and the RS may transmit data to the WTRU, using either distributed Space Time Block Codes/Space Frequency Block Codes (STBC/SFBC) or distributed spatial multiplexing. | 2010-01-07 |
20100003978 | Apparatus and Method For Improving Mobile Terminated Cell Setup Performance During Inter-Frequency Cell Reselection - An apparatus and method comprising determining if the timing of a registration system information (RSI) or a paging occasion occurs first; if the paging occasion occurs first, checking for a page and answering the page on the target cell after collecting system information (SI) if the page exists; or if the timing of the RSI occurs first: reading RSI and obtaining a registration area indicator of the target cell; determining if the registration area indicators of a source cell and of the target cell are the same; if not, determining whether checking the page in the source cell would overlap with receiving SI from the target cell; if overlap, or if same, collect SI and monitor a paging channel in the target cell; or if no overlap, checking for the page in the source cell, and if no page, collect SI and monitor the paging channel in the target cell. | 2010-01-07 |
20100003979 | MOBILE STATION, BASE STATION, AND METHOD - A disclosed mobile station is designed to send or receive at least a control channel using a given frequency in a first operating mode and to tune to a frequency different from the given frequency and perform a neighboring cell search in a second operating mode. The mobile station includes a measuring unit configured to obtain a measurement of radio channel quality at a measurement interval; and a determining unit configured to compare the measurement and a threshold and to select one of the first operating mode and the second operating mode based on the result of comparison. The mobile station allows a base station to recognize the operating mode of the mobile station either by preventing reporting of the measurement lower than the threshold to the base station or by transmitting a signal indicating the selected operating mode to the base station. | 2010-01-07 |
20100003980 | AUTOMATIC CONFIGURATION OF INTER-DOMAIN ACCESS TECHNOLOGY NEIGHBOR RELATIONS - The disclosure relates to automatically configuring a map of inter-access technology neighbor relations. In this neighbor relations map configured by an ANDSF, relationships between neighboring cells of differing access networks of the same or different access technologies are maintained including extra-domain and non-domain neighbor relationships. A domain refers to a domain of one or more access technologies in which ANDSF is not required for intra-domain access selection and discovery. ANDSF configures the map based on neighbor relations data reports from wireless terminals, which record the neighbor relations data as they perform extra-domain or non-domain handovers or reselections or as they scan their surroundings. ANDSF provides steering instructions to configure the neighbor relations data recording and reporting behaviors of the wireless terminals. ANDSF provides access network discovery and selection information, which indicates availability of non-domain accesses, and in some cases domain accesses, to wireless terminals based on their locations. | 2010-01-07 |
20100003981 | RESOURCE ALLOCATION IN TARGET CELL AFTER HANDOVER - A system is proposed to provide handover in a mobile telecommunications environment, particularly applicable to 3GPP networks, in which a user device, such as a mobile telephone provides a buffer status report to the target base station during a handover procedure. The target base station uses this status report to allocate appropriate resources for uplink data to be transmitted from the user device to the target base station. | 2010-01-07 |
20100003982 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DELIVERY NOTIFICATION OF NON-ACCESS STRATUM RETRANSMISSION - A method and apparatus for data delivery confirmation in a wireless transmit receive unit (WTRU) including transmitting an uplink (UL) message, performing a mobility operation, determining that the UL message is not acknowledged, and generating a delivery failure message. The mobility operation is a handover or a radio resource control (RRC) connection reestablishment. A message including the delivery failure message is passed between protocol layers. | 2010-01-07 |
20100003983 | HANDOVER MESSAGING IN AN UNLICENSED MOBILE ACCESS TELECOMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM - Methods and messages for performing handovers between an unlicensed mobile access network (UMAN) comprising a first radio access network and a second radio access network. URR (UMA radio resource) handover messages are exchanged between a mobile station (MS) and a UMA network controller (UNC) operating in the UMAN. The MS may access the UMAN via a wireless access point (AP) that is communicatively coupled to the UNC via an IP network. The URR handover messages are sent between the MS and the UNC using an Up interface comprising a set of layered protocols over an underlying IP transport. The handover methods include both handover from a UMAN to the second radio access network, and handover from the second radio access network to the UMAN. | 2010-01-07 |
20100003984 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SUPPORTING DUAL TRANSFER MODE FOR HANDOVER IN GSM SYSTEM - A method for operating a Mobile Station (MS) for maintaining a Dual Transfer Mode (DTM) and apparatus for supporting the DTM for a handover process in a Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) system are provided. The method includes receiving a broadcast control message from at least one neighbor cell, determining whether the at least one neighbor cell supports the DTM by using the broadcast control message, and reporting the determination result on whether the DTM is supported and a received signal measurement result. Accordingly, a DTM service can be seamlessly maintained. | 2010-01-07 |
20100003985 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING HANDOVER IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - An apparatus and a method for handover in a wireless communication system are provided. The handover method includes, when handing over to another Base Station (BS) while being serviced by a serving BS, determining whether there exists data to transmit in an uplink, and, when the data to transmit in the uplink exists, requesting bandwidth from the serving BS before commencing a network re-entry to a target BS for the handover. | 2010-01-07 |
20100003986 | METHODS FOR SCANNING NEIGHBOR BASE STATIONS AND COMMUNICATION APPARATUSES UTILIZING THE SAME - A communication apparatus is provided. The communication apparatus includes a radio transceiver module and a processor. The processor receives a neighbor cell advertisement message from a serving base station via the radio transceiver module and scans neighbor base stations according to information carried in the neighbor cell advertisement message to obtain a measurement result. The neighbor base stations are scanned in a prioritized order | 2010-01-07 |
20100003987 | Radiophone Apparatus, Hand-Off Method in Radiophone Apparatus, and Communication System - A wireless telephone device, a hand-off method in a wireless telephone device and a communication system are provided to enable the occurrence suppression of instant disconnection in a MAHHO as much as possible. A wireless telephone device ( | 2010-01-07 |
20100003988 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR WIRELESS CHANNEL SELECTION BY A MOBILE DEVICE - A method and mobile device for performing wireless channel selection that employs more than one concurrent level 2 interface to facilitate a level 3 handoff. The method and device maintain an active service over a first level 3 connection through a first transceiver, establish a second level 3 connection through a second transceiver, and then switch the service over to the second connection. To establish an appropriate level 3 connection, the mobile device may evaluate candidate channels against criteria associated with the active service to ensure quality of service can be maintained over the new connection or may adapt the active service to a candidate channel. | 2010-01-07 |
20100003989 | RECEIVER WITH AFC FUNCTION FOR OPERATING IN SOFT HANDOVER - A receiver having Automatic Frequency Control (“AFC”) is described having at least one input signal terminal and an offset frequency estimation means for estimating each offset frequency of at least two predetermined input signals inputted at the same time at the input signal terminal. The access to the receiver of each input signal is respectively modulated and identified by a distinct code, and in addition an AFC means is included to perform automatic frequency control of a voltage control oscillator serving as a frequency reference of the receiver. The AFC means described in the present invention is operative to provide a unique compensation command defined as a function of a combination of at least two analytical terms, each term respectively depending on the estimated offset frequency of the corresponding input signal. | 2010-01-07 |
20100003990 | MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM, MOBILE STATION AND BASE STATION - In a mobile communications system in which a mobile station is capable of communicating simultaneously with a plurality of base stations, the resources of the plurality of base stations are managed under the control of the mobile station. For example, the mobile station specifies a resource to a base station with a resource specifying signal, the mobile station specifies a resource to a base station with a resource specifying signal, and the mobile station specifies a resource to a base station with a resource specifying signal. | 2010-01-07 |
20100003991 | Physics-based statistical model and simulation method of RF propagation in urban environments - A physics-based statistical model and simulation/modeling method and system of electromagnetic wave propagation (wireless communication) in urban environments. In particular, the model is a computationally efficient close-formed parametric model of RF propagation in an urban environment which is extracted from a physics-based statistical wireless channel simulation method and system. The simulation divides the complex urban environment into a network of interconnected urban canyon waveguides which can be analyzed individually; calculates spectral coefficients of modal fields in the waveguides excited by the propagation using a database of statistical impedance boundary conditions which incorporates the complexity of building walls in the propagation model; determines statistical parameters of the calculated modal fields; and determines a parametric propagation model based on the statistical parameters of the calculated modal fields from which predictions of communications capability may be made. | 2010-01-07 |
20100003992 | Finding Hidden Cells in a Mobile Communication System - A weaker cell is discovered in a mobile communication system that also includes a stronger cell. Discovery involves ascertaining a slot timing of a received signal that has passed through a channel. The slot timing is used to ascertain a stronger secondary synchronization vector contained in the received signal. A channel estimate is generated, and used with the stronger secondary synchronization vector to generate a cancellation signal that is an estimate of a stronger secondary synchronization vector component of the received signal. Removing the cancellation signal from the received signal yields a residual signal. The slot timing is used to ascertain a weaker secondary synchronization vector contained in the residual signal. The weaker secondary synchronization vector is used to ascertain a group identifier (ID) of the weaker cell. The group ID of the weaker cell and the residual signal are used to ascertain the weaker cell's scrambling code ID. | 2010-01-07 |
20100003993 | METHOD FOR MAPPING A COVERAGE AREA - A method for calculating path loss PL at a point P in a coverage area CA of an antenna at a cell site. The method comprises the steps: transmitting a signal from the antenna, the antenna having an effective antenna gain Gant, and measuring a received signal strength indicator RSSI of the transmitted signal by a receiving antenna at the point P. The method further comprises the steps: determining a dominant indirect radiation path between the antenna and the receiving antenna to establish the effective antenna gain Gant from the antenna in a direction of the dominant indirect radiation path, and calculating path loss PL at the point P using the established effective antenna gain Gant and measured received signal strength indicator RSSI. A method for mapping a coverage area, a method for simulating changes in a communication network and a system for cell planning. | 2010-01-07 |
20100003994 | COMMUNICATION CONTROLLING METHOD, METHOD FOR SHARING INFORMATION, WIRELESS TERMINAL, WIRELESS BASE STATION, AND WIRELESS BASE STATION CONTROLLING APPARATUS - The connection state of a wireless line, in which a communication can be immediately made in an estimated time period, is preset by estimating the time period with a high possibility of making a communication based on the communication history of a wireless terminal for a predetermined past period in a communication made between the wireless terminal and a wireless base station. | 2010-01-07 |
20100003995 | BASE STATION DEVICE, FREQUENCY ALLOCATION METHOD, AND MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM USING THE SAME - A base station device performs wireless communication with a terminal device. The base station device includes a setting unit to set a first frequency group in which frequencies that differ from frequencies used in an adjacent base station device are used, a second frequency group including different frequencies to the frequencies included in the first frequency group, and a third frequency group including frequencies that overlap at least partially the frequencies included in the first or second frequency group; an allocating unit to allocate a frequency included in one of the first to third frequency groups to the terminal device; and a transmission unit to transmit the allocated frequency to the terminal device. | 2010-01-07 |
20100003996 | Apparatus and method for resource allocation for frequency overlay scheme in a broadband wireless communication system - A broadband wireless communication system supporting a frequency overlay scheme is provided. An operating method of a base station includes allocating relative addresses to Resource Blocks in at least one operating Frequency Assignment (FA) of a terminal according to an addressing scheme for the terminal; generating at least one resource indicator represented with the relative addresses; generating resource allocation information which comprises the at least one resource indicator; and transmitting the resource allocation information through a primary FA of the terminal. | 2010-01-07 |
20100003997 | Radio Base Station And Radio Communication Method Therefor - A radio base station transmits data to a mobile station in the form of error correction coded blocks. To this end, a controller allocates radio resources belonging to a first set of radio resources to one part of a block of data, as well as radio resources belonging to a second set of radio resources to the other part of the block. The first set of radio resources is a set of radio resources assigned to the radio base station for use in data transmission, while the second set of radio resources is a set of radio resources other than the first set of radio resources. A transceiver transmits the block by using the radio resources that the controller has allocated. | 2010-01-07 |
20100003998 | CELLULAR SYSTEM, CARRIER ALLOCATION METHOD THEREOF, BASE STATION, AND MOBILE STATION - In a method of allocating carriers of a cellular system comprising mobile stations and a wireless network of multiple base stations, multiple carriers being available for communication between base and mobile stations, the wireless network performs the following. Carriers are divided into first and second carriers, and allocated the same for each cell formed by the base stations. Each mobile station is classified as an intracell-inner-area or an intracell-outer-area mobile station. Communication is performed with the intracell-inner-area and intracell-outer-area mobile stations by the first and second carriers, respectively. A status of use of the first carriers in a first cell is measured based on communicated data, as is that of the second carriers in a second cell. The number of second carriers in the second cell is changed based on at least the status of use of the first carriers and the status of use of the second carriers. | 2010-01-07 |
20100003999 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM HAVING RADIO ACCESS NETWORK AND METHOD CONTROLLING CALL PROCESSING LOAD THEREOF - A mobile communication system structured in a radio access network having a base station, a control station, and a switch network for matching a mobile station and a core network, the control station comprising a traffic signal process; a control signal processor; a call process load controller; and a call processor, wherein the call process load controller refers to information on call process volume included in a call process volume request message sent from the call processor and the traffic signal processor, selects the corresponding call processor and traffic signal processor according to weight estimated based on software and hardware performance, and sends the call control service request message containing information on the selected traffic signal processor to the selected call processor. | 2010-01-07 |
20100004000 | Method for Automatically Changing Incoming Call Alert Profile Upon the Current Location - A method for automatically changing incoming call alert profile upon the current location, implements on a GPS-functioned portable communication device. The method continually obtains a location coordinate, compares the location coordinate with a comparison list to match an incoming call alert profile for the portable communication device's current incoming call alert profile. Thus, wherever the portable communication device moves to, a reaction will be presented automatically according to the current incoming call alert profile when an incoming call comes. | 2010-01-07 |
20100004001 | PAGING MECHANISM IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A communication system is disclosed which includes a communication network having a paging controller and a plurality of base stations to communicate with at least one mobile client device within the system. Also included in the communication system is a base station, between the plurality of base stations, receiving location updates from the at least one mobile client device; and a processor within the paging controller to accumulate the number of location updates relayed by the base station for each mobile client device, wherein the processor determines whether the accumulated number of location updates received exceeds a predetermined threshold number of location updates. The plurality of base stations each broadcast paging messages to the at least one mobile client device when the predetermined threshold number of location updates is not exceeded. The base station, among the plurality of base stations, solely broadcasts paging messages to the at least one mobile client device when the predetermined threshold number of location updates is exceeded. | 2010-01-07 |
20100004002 | METHOD OF PROVIDING LOCATION PRIVACY - A method of providing location privacy of a mobile station in a wireless access system is disclosed. The method of providing location privacy of a mobile station comprises the steps of transmitting a deregistration request message to a serving base station, the deregistration message requesting entry to an idle mode; and receiving a deregistration command message from the serving base station, the deregistration command message including a temporary identifier allocated to the mobile station. In this case, the temporary identifier is an identifier for uniquely identifying the mobile station from a paging group to which the serving base station belongs. | 2010-01-07 |
20100004003 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SUPPORTING LOCATION-BASED SERVICES BY A REMOVABLE MODULE - Techniques for supporting location-based services (LBS) by a removable module are described. A set of messages (e.g., commands and events) may be defined to support location-based services by the removable module. In one design, the removable module may send a first message (e.g., a Get Position—Request message) to a terminal to request for location information. The first message may be sent for an LBS application running on the removable module. The removable module may thereafter receive a second message (e.g., a Get Position—Response message) with the requested location information from the terminal. The removable module may execute a task for the LBS application based on the location information. The task may include reporting the location of the terminal, initiating a voice call, sending an SMS message, displaying a menu on the terminal, sending a report for tracking of the terminal, etc. | 2010-01-07 |
20100004004 | System and Method for Matching User Preferences to Places of Interest - A system and method is provided for presenting points-of-interest (POI) content data on a mobile device. Software instructions are stored in the memory of the mobile device and are executed by the processor. The instructions enable the mobile device to display a list of POI categories for acceptance by a user. The category may be further divided into subcategories that are also displayed for user selection. The current position of the mobile device is requested from a location service provider or provided by the user. The current position and selected category and subcategory are formulated into a request for POI content data. The request is sent to selected POI content service providers whose service offerings include providing POI content data for the category/subcategory and current location. The POI content data received from the selected POI content service providers is displayed on the mobile device. | 2010-01-07 |
20100004005 | NOTIFICATION ON MOBILE DEVICE BASED ON LOCATION OF OTHER MOBILE DEVICE - A mobile computing device comprises a user input device, an output device, a memory configured to store data and a processing circuit. The processing circuit is configured to receive user input from the user input device indicative of a request to associate the stored data with a second mobile computing device, to receive an indication that the second mobile computing device is proximate to the mobile computing device, and to provide a notification to the user via the output device based on the indication. | 2010-01-07 |