10th week of 2012 patent applcation highlights part 26 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20120057438 | Power consumption control device, timepiece device, electronic device, power consumption control method, power consumption control program - A power consumption control device includes a power consumption control unit that receives the output potential of a photovoltaic cell generating an electromotive force, receives the output potential of a secondary battery charged by the electromotive force of the photovoltaic cell, causes a timepiece device to transition to a power saving state where a clock operation of measuring time is stopped when the output potential difference of the secondary battery is not greater than a predetermined threshold value, and the secondary battery is in a non-charging state indicating a state where the output potential difference of the photovoltaic cell is not greater than the output potential difference of the secondary battery. | 2012-03-08 |
20120057439 | Photovoltaic panel, wristwatch, and method of manufacturing photovoltaic panel - Provided is a photovoltaic panel in which a plurality of photovoltaic cells is electrically connected in series, and in which at least one of the photovoltaic cells is set as a non-use cell which is not electrically connected to the other photovoltaic cells and not used. | 2012-03-08 |
20120057440 | Grating For VCSEL Coupling To A Heat Assisted Magnetic Recording Head - An apparatus includes a waveguide including a core layer having curved edges shaped to reflect light to a focal point, and a grating positioned adjacent to or imbedded in the core layer, wherein at least a portion of the grating is positioned between the curved edges and adjacent to or imbedded in a portion of the core layer that is not traversed by light reflected from the curved edges. A data storage device that includes the apparatus is also provided. | 2012-03-08 |
20120057441 | SPHERICAL ABERRATION CORRECTION APPROPRIATE POSITION SEARCH APPARATUS, AND SPHERICAL ABERRATION CORRECTION APPROPRIATE POSITION SEARCH METHOD - A focus error amplitude obtaining device is configured to obtain amplitudes of a focus error signal. An error amplitude difference calculation device is configured to calculate an error amplitude difference which is a difference between the amplitudes of the focus error signal obtained at two different positions in a moving range of a spherical aberration correction device. An appropriate position search control device is in charge of overall control of structural elements; spherical aberration correction device movement control device, focus error amplitude obtaining device, and error amplitude difference calculation device. The appropriate position search control device decides an appropriate position of the spherical aberration correction device based on the error amplitude difference. | 2012-03-08 |
20120057442 | INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM, AND METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RECORDING A SIGNAL THEREON - A disc-shaped information recording medium includes a laminate of recording layers on and from which an information signal can be optically recorded and reproduced from one side of the medium. Data areas are provided in the recording layers, respectively. The information signal can be recorded on and reproduced from the data areas while a laser beam emitted from an optical pickup is applied to the data areas. Optical recording test areas are provided in the recording layers, respectively. A test signal can be recorded on and reproduced from the optical recording test areas to decide optimum power values of the laser beam for signal recording. The test areas are out of overlap as viewed in a direction of propagation of the laser beam. | 2012-03-08 |
20120057443 | INFORMATION RECORDING APPARATUS, INFORMATION RECORDING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - An information recording apparatus carries out DC writing on a section B to change a reflectivity from a recording surface to display a visible character or image. Next, the apparatus writes record data on each of sections A to C under a special recording condition. The special recording condition is a recording condition that: makes excellent the recording characteristics of each of the sections A to C after the record data has been recorded, and sets the pulse width of a write signal for writing a shortest mark to be shorter than an optimum pulse width. | 2012-03-08 |
20120057444 | Information Processing Apparatus and Operation Control Method of an Information Processing Apparatus - According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes an optical disc drive, a data processing module which executes data processing using the optical disc drive, and a power supply management module which manages supply of power to the optical disc drive. The data processing module interrogates the power supply management module about the optical disc drive at the time of activation, and waits until an operating system recognizes the optical disc drive when an instruction is received from the power supply management module in response to an interrogation. The instruction instructs to wait until the operating system recognizes the optical disc drive. The power supply management module shifts the optical disc drive to a power supply on state and returns the instruction to the data processing module, if the optical disc drive is in a power supply off state when the interrogation is received. | 2012-03-08 |
20120057445 | OPTICAL PICKUP DEVICE AND OPTICAL DISC APPARATUS - For obtaining stable servo-signals without receiving ill influences of stray lights from other layers, on both a focus error signal and a tracking error signal, when recording/reproducing a multi-layer optical disc having small gap between layers thereof, a light beam is divided with using a first and a second diffraction gratings. The first diffraction grating is a polarization diffraction grating, and is mounted on an actuator. The second diffraction grating is disposed on a fixed portion. The first diffraction grating has a first region having a center of a light beam and other(s), and among signal lights reflecting from the disc, the light beam entering into the first region is diffracted, and the light beam entering into the second region transmits therethrough. The second diffraction grating transmits the light beam diffracting on the first region of the polarization diffraction grating therethrough, while diffracting the light beam diffracting on the second region. | 2012-03-08 |
20120057446 | SUB-OPTICAL-RESOLUTION KERR SIGNAL DETECTION FOR PERPENDICULAR WRITE-HEAD CHARACTERIZATION - A property, such as a quality parameter, of a write pole in a write head is determined using an optical metrology device, where the write pole is smaller than the optical resolution limit of the metrology device. The metrology device produces polarized light that is reflected off the write pole while the write pole is magnetized either during or after excitation with a write current. The magnetization alters the polarization state of the light, which can be analyzed to transform the altered polarization state into intensity. The intensity of the light is detected over the point spread function of the optics in the metrology device and an intensity value is generated. The intensity value is used to determine the quality parameter of the write pole, e.g., by comparison to a threshold or reference intensity value, which may be generated empirically or theoretically. | 2012-03-08 |
20120057447 | OBJECTIVE LENS FOR OPTICAL PICKUP AND OPTICAL PICKUP DEVICE - An objective lens for an optical pickup device is provided with a light-source-side lens surface by which laser light is converged, and a disc-side lens surface by which the laser light converged by the light-source-side lens surface is converged. The first lens surface and the second lens surface are configured to guide a part of a light collecting portion of the laser light reflected on the second lens surface to a position on an outside of the first lens surface. | 2012-03-08 |
20120057448 | RECORDING METHOD, RECORDING DEVICE AND INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM - A writing method according to the present invention is a method for writing a data sequence as a combination of marks and spaces on an information recording medium by condensing a laser beam through a lens. The writing method is characterized in that a cooling pulse for recording a mark that is even shorter than the limit of optical resolution of the laser beam and another cooling pulse for recording a mark that is still longer than the limit of the optical resolution of the laser beam are applied under mutually different conditions. | 2012-03-08 |
20120057449 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND FREQUENCY HOPPING METHOD - Disclosed are a wireless communication apparatus and frequency hopping method which minimize the change in the instantaneous power distribution characteristics of the time waveform of transmission signals when a plurality of channels are multiplexed by frequency division. At a terminal ( | 2012-03-08 |
20120057450 | METHOD OF TRANSMITTING TRAFFIC IN A COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK AND COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK APPARATUS | 2012-03-08 |
20120057451 | METHOD OF RETRANSMISSION FOR SUPPORTING MIMO IN SYNCHRONOUS HARQ - A method for retransmitting data in synchronous Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest (HARQ) to support Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) is disclosed. The method includes transmitting a plurality of unit data blocks to a receiver, receiving from the receiver a control channel signal including first feedback information indicating whether the transmission of the plurality of unit data blocks is successful, and retransmitting at least one of the plurality of unit data blocks according to a predetermined order, each unit data block in one Transmission Time Interval (TTI), if a rank is 1 and the first feedback information indicates that the transmission of the plurality of unit data blocks is failed. | 2012-03-08 |
20120057452 | FAILOVER AND FAILBACK OF COMMUNICATION BETWEEN A ROUTER AND A NETWORK SWITCH - A router is provided. The router includes a primary interface, a backup interface, a processor, and a memory. The primary interface and backup interface may be used to communicate with a network switch. The router may be configured to determine whether the primary interface is stable. The primary interface is stable when the primary interface may be used to exchange information with a network switch over a primary network segment. The router may be configured to activate the primary interface when the primary interface is determined to be stable. The router may also be configured to activate the backup interface when the primary interface is determined to be not stable. The backup interface may be activated for the exchange of information with the network switch. | 2012-03-08 |
20120057453 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR TWO-NODE CLUSTER HOT BACKUP - A method, an apparatus and a system for two-node cluster hot backup is provided. A second network node configures a redundancy protocol with a first network node at an access port to negotiate an active/standby relationship between each local access port and each access port of the first network node, releases a route of a network segment of a user, where the network segment of the user is the same as a network segment of a user to which a route released by the first network node belongs, establishes or specifies a protection channel with the first network node, synchronizes user information with the first network node, and when the first network node has a failure, performs service switching according to the redundancy protocol, and sends a downstream traffic to the user according to the user information. | 2012-03-08 |
20120057454 | Admission and Eviction Policies for Mobile Devices with Non-Telephonic Functionality - Implementations and techniques for admission and/or eviction policies for wireless devices having non-telephonic functionality are generally disclosed. | 2012-03-08 |
20120057455 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INCREASING SPECTRUM USE EFFICIENCY IN A MESH NETWORK - Mesh Network Access Points (APs) points, including gateways and routers, are deployed over a geographic area. The APs monitor the communication channel for other carriers and transmit accordingly. The APs selectively co-transmit when other carriers are sensed, if the efficiency of the mesh network will improve. APs select a transmission rate based on observed carrier-to-interference ratios. APs use directional antennas to increase carrier-to-interference ratios and spectral efficiency. AP transmit schedules are adaptable and adjusted according to observed carrier-to-interference measurements. | 2012-03-08 |
20120057456 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DISTRIBUTED COMMUNICATION USING SHORT RANGE AND WIDE RANGE COMMUNICATION LINKS - A method and apparatus for a wireless device comprising means for receiving first packets of an IP flow utilizing a wireless link to a cellular base station or a Wi-Fi access point during a first time interval; means for receiving second packets of an IP flow utilizing a wireless link to another wireless device during the first time interval; and means for recovering the IP flow utilizing the first and second packets are disclosed. | 2012-03-08 |
20120057457 | PACKET-DATA NETWORK AND METHODS FOR RAN-AGNOSTIC MULTIMEDIA CONTENT DISTRIBUTION - Embodiments of a packet-data network (PDN) and methods for RAN-agnostic multimedia content distribution are generally described herein. In some embodiments, the PDN may dynamically distribute IP packets of a single service flow to two or more RANs associated with two or more available radio links for subsequent transmission to a user terminal when each of the two or more available radio links meet the QoS requirements of the single service flow. | 2012-03-08 |
20120057458 | EARLY LOAD DETECTION SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR GGSN PROCESSOR - A device may store a first and second queue of packets, calculate an average queue size based on the number of packets in the first and second queues and discard a packet when the packet is a session creation packet and the calculated average queue size is greater than a threshold value. | 2012-03-08 |
20120057459 | Method, System and Use thereof for Controlling Real Time Contiguous Data in a Packet Switched Data Stream, Real Time Contiguous Data Service Provided Using Said Method - A method and apparatus in a packet-switched communication network for controlling Quality of Service (QoS) for a packet-switched data stream that includes a plurality of contiguous data packages. The network normally provides the data stream to users at a first QoS level. When it is determined that a receiving user is not authorized to receive the data stream at the first QoS level, the apparatus intercepts the data stream prior to receipt by the receiving user and extracts selected data packages from the data stream to reduce the QoS level for the data stream to a lower, second QoS level to match an authorization status of the receiving user. The apparatus then forwards to the receiving user, a modified data stream with the lower, second QoS level. | 2012-03-08 |
20120057460 | SERVICE PROCESSING SWITCH - Methods and systems for providing IP services in an integrated fashion are provided. According to one embodiment, a load associated with multiple virtual routing processing resources of an IP service generator of a virtual router (VR) based switch is monitored. Packets are load balanced among the virtual routing processing resources. A packet flow cache is maintained with packet flow entries containing information indicative of packet processing actions for established packet flows. Deep packet classification is performed to determine whether a packet is associated with an established packet flow. If so, the packet is directed to one of multiple virtual services processing resources representing application-tailored engines configured to provide network-based IP services including one or more of virtual private network (VPN) processing, firewall processing, Uniform Resource Locator (URL) filtering and anti-virus processing. If the packet is allowed, it is returned to the source virtual routing processing resource for forwarding. | 2012-03-08 |
20120057461 | METHOD AND ARRANGEMENTS FOR DYNAMIC RESOURCE RESERVATION - Embodiments of the present invention relate to network nodes and methods that allow for improved QoS control in a telecommunications network by providing combined reservation of transport resources and processing resources for a traffic flow. The amount of transport resources and the amount of processing resources required in connection with a traffic flow can be signaled in a signaling message from a sender node to a receiver node to enable reservation of appropriate amounts of processing resources as well as transport resources. | 2012-03-08 |
20120057462 | TRANSMISSION CONTROL PROTOCOL (TCP) THROUGHPUT OPTIMIZATION IN POINT-TO-MULTIPOINT AND HETEROGENEOUS WIRELESS ACCESS NETWORKS - A device receives a packet provided in a wireless access network, and determines whether the packet is a payload packet or an acknowledgment (Ack) packet. The device also allocates, when the packet is an acknowledgement packet, the acknowledgment packet to an expedited priority queue, and allocates, when the packet is a payload packet, the payload packet to a regular priority queue. The device further delivers one or more acknowledgment packets provided in the expedited priority queue prior to delivering one or more payload packets provided in the regular priority queue. | 2012-03-08 |
20120057463 | METHOD AND APPARATUS CONFIGURED TO PROVIDE LOCAL BREAKOUT SERVICES WITH A SINGLE APN - A method, apparatus, computer program, and system is provided that includes handling traffic management in a communication network system. One example may include activating a communication link, obtaining traffic management rules to handle the traffic flow on the communication link, and transferring the traffic management rules to at least one network element configured to implement the traffic management rules. The traffic management rules are configured to perform traffic management by transferring at least a portion of the network traffic to a different communication network. | 2012-03-08 |
20120057464 | ROUTING DEVICE, COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM, AND ROUTING METHOD - A routing device of the present invention is included in a communication network capable of explicit routing which specifies resources included in a default path for each flow, and includes a detour path detection unit that detects a detour path which enables estimation of temporary transmission quality which can be provided to a flow within a detour region when at least a portion of an explicit default path of the flow transmitted by the routing device is detoured via resources included in a default path of another flow, and a routing unit that routes data of the flow at least to either one of the detour path and the default path, based on a difference between transmission quality of the detour path detected by the detour path detection unit and transmission quality of the default path. | 2012-03-08 |
20120057465 | Link Layered Networks With Improved Operation - A method and system for optimizing and keeping operational a wireless link layered network in which a system control and modifying message (SCMM) is elicited from nodes receiving information packets and based upon whether the node originating the SCMM is from a link layer level which is equal to or less than the link layer level eliciting the SCMM, rerouting or adjusting future transmissions can be effected or items like a less current time at a receiving node and a most recent utilization rate of a receiving node can be adjusted, recorded or set. | 2012-03-08 |
20120057466 | Automated Traffic Engineering for Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) with Link Utilization as Feedbank into the Tie-Breaking Mechanism - A method implemented in a node of a multi-protocol label switching (MPLS) network for improved load distribution, including determining a first set of one or more shortest paths between each MPLS node pair, selecting at least a first shortest path by applying the common algorithm tie-breaking process, calculating a link utilization value for each link of the MPLS network, determining a second set of one or more shortest paths between each MPLS node pair, generating a path utilization value for each shortest path in the second set of shortest paths based on link utilization values corresponding to each shortest path, and selecting a second shortest path from the second set of shortest paths on the basis of said path utilization value, whereby the selection of the second subsets in light of path utilization minimizes the standard deviation of load distribution across the entire MPLS network. | 2012-03-08 |
20120057467 | RELAY DEVICE - A relay device includes a switch for switching a combination of an input for receiving traffic data and an output for sending the traffic data; a congestion information processing section for obtaining congestion information indicating a degree of congestion of each of a plurality of traffics from an adjacent relay device which handles the plurality of traffics commonly with the relay device, and congestion information of each traffic in the relay device; a congestion information comparison section for finding information on a congestion level which quantitatively indicates difficulty of flowing of each traffic based on the congestion information obtained from the adjacent relay device and the congestion information of the relay device; a transmission scheduling adjustment section for assigning a transmission band of a bus to each traffic based on the congestion level; and a switch assignment section for shifting the switch based on a result of the assignment. | 2012-03-08 |
20120057468 | System and Method for Routing Internet Traffic Over Internet Links - An apparatus and method for Internet Protocol (IP) transit is described. Embodiments include a platform for routing IP traffic in real time from at least one network user to a plurality of Internet links. Embodiments further include assigning different ranks to different internet links based on network monitoring. In one embodiment, a system for routing internet traffic includes an internet route optimizer to generate routing instructions for incoming data packets using a ranked list of the internet links, wherein the internet route optimizer generates the ranked list of the internet links using: (a) financial costs of routing data packets over the internet links, (b) a delay associated with routing packets over the internet links and (c) a type of data of the incoming data packets. | 2012-03-08 |
20120057469 | Data transfer in large network in efficient manner. - The embodiments herein generally relate to distributed systems and more particularly, to data propagation in a large network. This invention enables the network to support data propagation in plurality of directions based on configuration. Using this method data propagation is equally fast and deterministic in all the configured directions. Here, superframe duration is divided into plurality of data cycle period, which is further divided into plurality of time zones each dedicated to support a specific directional data flow. This method improves the power efficiency of data propagation, enables user to configure any directional data propagation and reduces the delay. | 2012-03-08 |
20120057470 | METHOD FOR MONITORING AND REPORTING EVENTS BY MEDIA GATEWAYS - A method for monitoring and reporting events by media gateways, including: presetting events in the media gateways; the media gateways monitoring the preset events and reporting the monitoring result to a media gateway controller during operation. The events may include: off-hook, on-hook, dialing, hook flash, network fault, quality alarm, and timer timeout, etc. By presetting events in the media gateways, the problem of system resulted from the fact that the media gateways can not obtain events issued from the media gateway controller due to various reasons can be avoided through presetting events in the media gateway and then monitoring and reporting the events by the media gateway automatically after the media gateways are started up. Thereby, system stability can be improved. | 2012-03-08 |
20120057471 | Acknowledgment and/or receiver recovery mechanisms for scheduled responses within multiple user, multiple access, and/or MIMO wireless communications - Acknowledgment and/or receiver recovery mechanisms for scheduled responses within multiple user, multiple access, and/or MIMO wireless communications. Explicit scheduling information is provided from a first wireless communication device (e.g., an access point (AP), a transmitting wireless communication device) to a number of other wireless communication devices (e.g., wireless stations (STAs), receiving wireless communication devices) directing those other wireless communication devices a manner by which responses (e.g., acknowledgments (ACKs), block acknowledgments (BACKs), training feedback frames, etc.) are to be provided to the first wireless communication device there from. Such direction may include the order, timing, cluster assignment, etc. by which each respective wireless communication device is to provide its respective response to the first wireless communication device. In the event of the first wireless communication device failing to receive at least one response from at least one of the other wireless communication devices, various communication medium recovery mechanisms may be performed. | 2012-03-08 |
20120057472 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR WIRELESS TRANSMISSION OF DATA - There are provided methods for selecting a communication protocol for formatting data and for wirelessly transmitting data, preferably medical data, e.g., electrocardiogram data, methods for reducing data and/or selecting from data, methods for adding data, methods for generating trend data, methods for rendering data, methods for inputting and/or transmitting addressee data and for transmitting data to the addressee(s) and/or notifying the addressee(s), and methods for wirelessly transmitting data to a server and transmitting data from the server, as well as systems for carrying out such methods. | 2012-03-08 |
20120057473 | FAULT DIAGNOSTICS FOR IMPROVED QUALITY OF SERVICE - Providing a near-carrier class service to a non-carrier class backhaul network, including: monitoring a connection of the non-carrier class backhaul network of at least one picocell by periodically sending at least one message to a monitoring agent located within an interne service provider network; tracing the connection to the monitoring agent through a network operations center when an acknowledgement in response to the at least one message is not received from the monitoring agent; generating an alert message that provides detailed information about a point of failure in the connection when a loss of connection is detected in tracing the connection; and generating a solution to fix the loss of connection so that the near-carrier class service can be provided to the non-carrier class backhaul network of the at least one picocell. | 2012-03-08 |
20120057474 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR HANDOVER CONTROL IN A MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM WITH CSG - Due to the coverage size of the CSG cell, handover to macro-cell may occur frequently. These handovers are not desirable to both the user and operators. However, to disable or delay the handover of the CSG Cell would cause UE experiencing radio link failure and not able to re-establish connection to other cells. The present invention introduces a method for the UE to increase the stickiness to the CSG cells based on the user preferences and application requirements. When applied, it keeps the UE to the CSG cell as long as possible and reduces the possibility of connection re-establishment failure. The invention is also applicable to the corporate network deployment with multiple CSG cells. | 2012-03-08 |
20120057475 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO PERFORM JAMMING BASED ON SIGNAL AND INTERFERENCE IN PEER-TO-PEER NETWORKS - A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product are provided in which a signal is received on a resource, a signal quality of the signal is determined, a signal energy of the signal is determined, and the resource is jammed based on the signal quality and the signal energy by transmitting a signal on the resource. | 2012-03-08 |
20120057476 | MACHINE-TO-MACHINE COMMUNICATIONS OVER FIXED WIRELESS NETWORKS - One or more devices determine uplink signal strength for a machine-to-machine (M2M) device using a wireless access network. The one or more devices identify a default uplink transmission mode that requires the M2M device to employ transmission time interval (TTI) bundling, when the uplink signal strength is below a particular threshold, and identify a default uplink transmission mode that requires the M2M device to not employ TTI bundling, when the uplink signal strength is not below the particular threshold. The one or more devices store, in a memory, the default transmission mode for the M2M device. The one or more devices retrieve, from the memory and during a wake-up time window associated with the M2M device, the default transmission mode for the M2M device and construct, for the M2M device, an uplink scheduling grant based on the stored default transmission mode. | 2012-03-08 |
20120057477 | Mobile Subscriber Information Transmission Over Multiple Uplink Frames - Methods and apparatuses of a mobile subscriber transmitting information to a base station are disclosed. One method includes identifying an uplink transmission condition. If the uplink transmission condition is identified, the mobile subscriber transmits a message over multiple uplink frames using multiple uplink frame types. The mobile subscriber may inform the base station that it is transmitting the message over the multiple uplink frames. | 2012-03-08 |
20120057478 | Dynamic Bandwidth Allocation Control in a Multi-Access Radio Communication System - A scheduler for ranking-based scheduling of multiple users on a shared communication channel of a serving base station in a wireless communication system comprises a determiner ( | 2012-03-08 |
20120057479 | COMMUNICATION CONTROL UNIT AND COMMUNICATION CONTROL SYSTEM - A communication control unit and a communication control system are provided in which control devices can synchronously operate. In a communication control system in which a communication control unit and multiple control devices having an actuator to operate a control target are connected via a network, the communication control unit provides a control command to the control devices, synchronizes times of the communication control unit and the control devices, obtains communication delays relative to the control devices, collects control start times of the control devices, obtains a time by subtracting the control start time from a predetermined time as a start time of the control device, calculates a time obtained by subtracting the communication delay from the start time for each control device, and transmits the control command to the control devices before the earliest time of the calculated times. | 2012-03-08 |
20120057480 | UE RECEIVER REFERENCE SIGNAL PROCESSING THAT UTILIZES RESOURCE PARTITIONING INFORMATION - Communication in a dominant interference scenario may be supported by performing inter-cell interference coordination (ICIC). According to certain aspects of ICIC, resource coordination/partitioning may be performed to allocate resources to a serving Node B located near the vicinity of a strong interfering Node B. The interfering Node B may avoid transmitting on the allocated/protected resources, but transmissions from the interfering Node B on resources not allocated to the serving Node B (i.e., unprotected) may cause significant interference on cell-specific reference signal (CRS) tones of the serving Node B. Therefore, if the CRS tones of the unallocated/unprotected resources are used, performance degradation may result to various operations of the serving Node B. Therefore, certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for a UE receiver in utilizing resource partitioning information (RPI) for performing CRS processing in a heterogeneous network (HetNet). | 2012-03-08 |
20120057481 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MEASURING ROUND TRIP TIME BASED ON WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORK - A RTT measurement system includes first and second signal time measuring devices respectively connected to two wireless LAN devices and a RTT estimator. Each one of the first and second signal time measuring devices senses a transmitted signal from a corresponding WLAN device and a corresponding received signal and measures a signal time difference between the transmitted signal and the received signal. The RTT estimator estimates a RTT using the measured signal time differences at the first and second signal time measuring devices. | 2012-03-08 |
20120057482 | UNIFIED FEEDBACK FRAMEWORK FOR MU-MIMO ENHANCEMENT BASED ON INDICATION OF PREFERRED PRECODER PAIRINGS - Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to techniques for generating unified feedback framework for Multi User Multiple Input Multiple Output (MU-MIMO) enhancement based on indication of a preferred precoder pairings. | 2012-03-08 |
20120057483 | Frame Structure For Multi-Input Multi-Output - Described herein are implementations related to data communication using a frame that includes at least two data packets. One of the data packets includes a preamble that is separated from a payload by a gap, void or empty space. Another of the data packets includes a preamble that is aligned with the gap, void or empty space. A receiver of the frame may perform channel measurements during the gap, void or empty space. | 2012-03-08 |
20120057484 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ESTIMATING DOWNLINK CHANNEL QUALITY - The present invention provides a method includes: receiving a downlink channel quality indicator or an interference indicator, where the downlink channel quality indicator or the interference indicator is fed back by a UE; estimating a weak interference noise matrix of the UE according to the downlink channel quality indicator or the interference indicator, where the downlink channel quality indicator or the interference indicator is fed back by the UE; obtaining a time-frequency channel matrix of a serving cell and a time-frequency strong interference matrix of a strong interfering cell, and obtaining a time-frequency interference noise matrix of the UE according to the estimated weak interference noise matrix and the time-frequency strong interference matrix; and estimate downlink channel quality according to the time-frequency channel matrix and the time-frequency interference noise matrix. | 2012-03-08 |
20120057485 | DYNAMICALLY MANAGING AND RECONFIGURING WIRELESS MESH NETWORKS - A wireless network with multiple subscriber systems in a lobe pool may operate by determining a state of the wireless network, identifying a new condition, the new condition including a new demand condition or a new network health condition, determining whether the new condition has a threshold impact on operations of the wireless network or component subscriber systems of the wireless network, and if the threshold impact exists, reconfiguring the wireless network to accommodate the new condition. | 2012-03-08 |
20120057486 | TO SHORT-RANGE WIRELESS NETWORKS - A wireless sensor network of devices including a sensor and a coordinator:
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20120057487 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING ACK/NACK - The present invention is directed to a wireless communication system. Particularly, the present invention is directed to a method and an apparatus of transmitting an ACK/NACK (acknowledgement/negative ACK) signal by a user equipment in a wireless communication system, which includes receiving a plurality of data units from a base station, bundling ACK/NACK results for a plurality of the data units per time or frequency interval to obtain at least one bundled ACK/NACK result, performing ACK/NACK multiplexing over the at least one ACK/NACK result to determine an uplink resource for ACK/NACK transmission and a bit sequence, and transmitting the bit sequence to the base station via the uplink resource for the ACK/NACK transmission. | 2012-03-08 |
20120057488 | Method and Device for Detecting of Transmitting Antenna Configuration in Long Term Evolution System - The present invention discloses a method and device for detecting transmitting antenna port configuration in a LTE system. The method includes: receiving a signal transmitted by a transmitting end at a receiving end, extracting from the signal a reference signal transmitted by each transmitting antenna port and descrambling; calculating and obtaining reference signal energy of each transmitting antenna port, dividing the reference signal energy into a first type of reference signal energy and a second type of reference signal energy, and determining a current bandwidth; and comparing the first type of reference signal energy with the second type of reference signal energy, and determining the number of transmitting antenna ports according to a comparison result. The present invention does not need to perform P-BCH blind detection multiple times to obtain the number of transmitting antenna ports, thus improving the performance of cell initial search and reducing the complexity of implementation. | 2012-03-08 |
20120057489 | METHOD FOR SELECTING WIRELESS COMMUNICATION PATH - Disclosed is a method of selecting a communication path having wider communication bands with respect to wireless communication apparatuses capable of performing direct communication between the wireless communication apparatuses without routing through a relay apparatus. A first wireless communication apparatus determines the capability of the relay apparatus to determine a threshold and compares the received signal strength indicator of a packet transmitted from a second wireless communication apparatus to the first wireless communication apparatus by direct communication with the threshold to determine a communication path for a packet to be transmitted to the second wireless communication apparatus. | 2012-03-08 |
20120057490 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MONITORING A DOWNLINK CONTROL CHANNEL IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM SUPPORTING MULTIPLE CARRIERS - The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. More particularly, the present invention discloses a method and apparatus for monitoring a downlink control channel in a wireless communication system which supports multiple carriers. According to one embodiment of the present invention, provided is a method in which a user equipment that supports carrier aggregation for performing communication through the use of a plurality of component carriers monitors a downlink control channel, wherein said method comprises the steps of: receiving, from a base station, setup information for a specific component carrier among the plurality of component carriers; starting a timer in accordance with the control signal received through the downlink control channel; and monitoring the downlink control channel through the specific component carrier and deactivating the rest of the plurality of component carriers when timer expires. | 2012-03-08 |
20120057491 | Method of Scheduling Transmissions in a Communication System - In a telecommunication system, a method of controlling and implementing uplink transmission schemes specifically for user equipment having multiple input/multiple output (MIMO) capability, including initialising said scheme at a network element; forwarding a message from said network element to said terminal indicating said scheme; transmitting uplink signals according to said scheme. It may include selecting a pre-coding arrangement such as a Transmitted Precoding Matrix Indicator or other scheduling grant information. | 2012-03-08 |
20120057492 | Opportunistic 40 MHz Mode of Transmission in Wireless Transmitters - A system includes a signal processing module and a control module. The signal processing module receives a first clear channel assessment (CCA) signal for a first sub-channel of a communication channel, increases a pulse width of the first CCA signal by a predetermined period of time, and generates a second CCA signal. The control module receives the second CCA signal and a third CCA signal for a second sub-channel of the communication channel. The control module transmits data via one of the second sub-channel and the communication channel based on the second and third CCA signals. | 2012-03-08 |
20120057493 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION TERMINAL, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, COMMUNICATION METHOD AND CONTROL PROGRAM - A mobile communication terminal 10 receives “HCS_PRIO” of a notice data (System Information Block Type 3) of a base station | 2012-03-08 |
20120057494 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INCREASING SPECTRUM USE EFFICIENCY IN A MESH NETWORK - Mesh Network Access Points (APs) points, including gateways and routers, are deployed over a geographic area. The APs monitor the communication channel for other carriers and transmit accordingly. The APs selectively co-transmit when other carriers are sensed, if the efficiency of the mesh network will improve. APs select a transmission rate based on observed carrier-to-interference ratios. APs use directional antennas to increase carrier-to-interference ratios and spectral efficiency. AP transmit schedules are adaptable and adjusted according to observed carrier-to-interference measurements. | 2012-03-08 |
20120057495 | RADIO COMMUNICATION BASE STATION DEVICE AND CORRELATION SETTING METHOD - Provided is a radio communication base station device which can suppress a use amount of an SRS communication resource. In this device, a correlation rule setting unit ( | 2012-03-08 |
20120057496 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM FOR PAGING USER EQUIPMENT - A method, an apparatus, and a system for paging a User Equipment (UE) are provided. The method for paging a UE includes: sending a downlink data notification message inclusive of paging range indicator information to a core network control plane entity; receiving a paging message sent by the core network control plane entity and inclusive of a raging range; and initiating a paging to a UE corresponding to a user ID in the paging range. The apparatus for paging a UE includes: a first sending module, a first receiving module, and a paging initiating module. A system for paging a UE is further provided. With the method, apparatus, and system for paging a UE, the UE can be paged in only a set paging range. | 2012-03-08 |
20120057497 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM FOR MEASURING NETWORK PERFORMANCE - The present invention relates to the communications field, and discloses a method for measuring network performance. With the method, a receiving end receives a performance measurement message corresponding to a data stream, obtains a performance measurement parameter corresponding to the data stream, so that stream-based network performance measurement can be implemented. The present invention also discloses an apparatus and a system for measuring network performance, and another method for measuring network performance. | 2012-03-08 |
20120057498 | METHOD FOR POSITIONING USER EQUIPMENT IN A WIRELESS MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING THE METHOD - The present invention relates to a wireless communication system, and more particularly, to an apparatus for positioning a user equipment and method thereof. The present invention includes receiving, from a plurality of base stations including a serving cell, a predetermined number of consecutive positioning subframes in a radio frame at a predetermined period, each of the consecutive positioning subframe including a reference signal, measuring a time of arrival of the positioning subframes by using the reference signal, and transmitting a result of the measured time of arrival of the positioning subframe to the serving cell, wherein the predetermined period is set to be larger than a generation period of the reference signal and wherein sequences of the reference signals included in the consecutive positioning subframes are different from each other. | 2012-03-08 |
20120057499 | Channel Quality Indication Report with Granularity Dependent of the Number of Best Component Carriers - According to several embodiments of the present invention, an apparatus (e.g., a UE) monitors a set of component carriers by referring to sub-bands having a sub-band size. The channel quality of the component carriers is detected, best component carriers are identified based on the channel quality, the number of the best component carriers is identified, and the subband size is varied based the identified number of the best component carriers. Identification information and channel quality information on the best component carriers may then be provided, for example to a network control element such as an eNode-B. | 2012-03-08 |
20120057500 | RADIO BASE STATION AND COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD - A control unit ( | 2012-03-08 |
20120057501 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF COMMUNICATION USING TUNNELED DIRECT LINK SETUP (TDLS) - Systems and methods for improved communications using tunneled direct link setup are described herein. The systems and methods relate to discovery, link setup, channel switching, multicasting, link selection, and quality of service implemented in conjunction with tunneled direct link setup. | 2012-03-08 |
20120057502 | Methods and Apparatus For Separating Home Agent Functionality - MIP Home Agent (HA) architectures are described that decompose, e.g., split, packet forwarding control functionality from actual data packet forwarding operations performed by a conventional MIP HA. This places MIP routing control in a node which is distinct from the tunnel end-points which perform packet forwarding operations to direct packets including a mobile's Home Address. Tunneling establishment and control functionality is implemented by what is referred to herein as decomposed HA (DHA) while data packet forwarding and redirection is performed, under the control of the DHA, by a tunneling agent (TA) node. The tunneling agent node serves as the data packet redirection node for a mobile as it moves from one location to another and may be located outside of a firewall used to protect the DHA. Tunnel endpoint nodes (Mobile Nodes and/or Access Nodes) send tunnel packets to the tunnel agent whilst directing control signaling packets to the DHA. | 2012-03-08 |
20120057503 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING ACCESS POINTS - Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method, an apparatus and a system for controlling access points. The method includes: receiving load information on working APs in a coverage area; judging a current overall capacity of the coverage area according to the load information; and controlling APs in the coverage area according to a judgment result. A network management server includes a first receiving module, a first judgment module, and a first control module. The system includes the network management server, working APs, and non-working APs. The embodiments of the present invention also provide another method for controlling APs, a primary working AP, and a system for controlling APs. In the embodiments of the present invention, APs in the same coverage area are automatically controlled to turn on or off according to the service traffic; resources are utilized rationally; labor costs are saved; and the work efficiency is improved. | 2012-03-08 |
20120057504 | NETWORK EXPLORATION METHOD AND NETWORK EXPLORATION APPARATUS - A network exploration apparatus is configured to calculate a communication cost of a network to which a plurality of terminals is coupled through a plurality of network devices. The network exploration apparatus includes a transmitter configured to transmit an exploration packet to the plurality of terminals, a receiver configured to receive a response packet for the exploration packet, a detector configured to detect a terminal group to which a terminal that does not receive the exploration packet among the plurality of terminals belongs based on a reception result of the response packet by the receiver, and a calculator configured to calculate a communication cost between terminals based on an inclusion relationship between a plurality of terminal groups detected by the detector when the transmitter repeatedly transmits the exploration packet. | 2012-03-08 |
20120057505 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM FOR SETTING UP BIDIRECTIONAL POINT-TO-MULTIPOINT LABEL SWITCHED PATH - The present invention provides a method, an apparatus, and a system for setting up a bidirectional point-to-multipoint label switched path. The method includes: distributing a leaf node label of a leaf-to-source data path and a source node label of a source-to-leaf data path through a Path message and a Resource Reservation message by using a Resource Reservation Protocol-Traffic Engineering to set up a bidirectional point-to-multipoint label switched path. The bidirectional point-to-multipoint label switched path that is set up in the present invention ensures consistency of LSPs in both directions, and overcomes a defect that the source node needs to send multiple data packets to the leaf nodes through multiple bidirectional point-to-multipoint label switched paths when a source transmits data to a leaf in the prior art. | 2012-03-08 |
20120057506 | Large network association procedure in power efficient manner - The embodiments herein generally relate to distributed systems and more particularly, to association procedure in a large network. In this invention time is divided into different zones each for specific task such as to wake-up dormant devices, to synchronize unassociated devices, to transmit identity frame and then to associate with network coordinator device. In each time zone plurality of nodes perform the specific task simultaneously. This improves the power efficiency and speeds up the association procedure. This technique also improves neighboring table information, which enables better localization. | 2012-03-08 |
20120057507 | Charging method and system for prepaid service - The present invention discloses a charging method and system for a prepaid service. The charging method comprises the following steps that: a VPN charging management module presets different VPN package charging levels in the prepaid service, receives a calling request from a user terminal, and determines whether there is at least one VPN valid user in a calling terminal and a called terminal and determines whether this calling belongs to the preset different VPN package charging levels; and a VPN charging module charges the calling terminal or the called terminal which is a VPN valid user for this calling according to the VPN package charging level to which the calling terminal or the called terminal belongs, and ends this calling if the amount of the user terminal account is insufficient. The present invention realizes the flexible VPN charging in the prepaid service, not only enables a user to enjoy more flexible charging and save charges conveniently, but also it is favourable for the service promotion of operators, without changing the existing service framework structure and development interface, and saves the development costs of operators by synchronizing to multiple systems by a synchronization module. | 2012-03-08 |
20120057508 | Method and System for Distributed Communication - A decentralized communication device is provided that facilitates optimal positioning and orientation of one or more antennas for wireless communication with external devices. The decentralized communication device includes one or more master components and one or more slave components. The master and the slave components are physically separate and communicate wirelessly. In some embodiments the slave acts as a carrier frequency translator between the master and an external wireless device, where it communicates with the external device using a first frequency and communicates with the master using a second frequency which is different from the first frequency. In another embodiment the slave has most or all the physical layer to do the digital coding, digital modulation, data framing, data formatting and data packetization for communicating with an external device, in which case digital coding and digital modulation is distributed between the master and the slave. | 2012-03-08 |
20120057509 | REDUNDANCY SYSTEM FOR A TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND RELATED METHODS - A redundancy system for a co-channel telecommunication system and related methods. Implementations of the redundancy system may include at least a first modulator and a second modulator having a symbol mapper coupled to a parallel bit signal. The symbol mapper may be configured to route each of a plurality of parallel bits received through the parallel bit signal to a plurality of significant bit signals. In a first implementation, a plurality of significant bit signal multiplexers may be used to switch the plurality of parallel bit signals to allow the first and second modulators to operate in either a redundant or operating mode. In a second implementation, a premapped symbol (PMSI) encoder and a PMSI decoder may be used to transmit the plurality of significant bit signals across an interface bus as a real dual-data rate (DDR) signal and an imaginary DDR signal. | 2012-03-08 |
20120057510 | METHOD OF PRE-EQUALIZING A DATA SIGNAL BY TIME REVERSAL IN FDD - Pre-equalizing a data signal transmitted in frequency division duplex by an originating entity having a set of originating antennas to a destination entity having a set of destination antennas, including: transmitting a first pilot by a destination antenna; the originating entity estimating a first impulse response of a first channel; an iterative step including an originating antenna transmitting a second pilot modulated by the first impulse response; the destination entity estimating and time reversing a combined impulse response of the first and second channels; the destination antenna transmitting a third pilot modulated by the time-reversed response; estimating a composite response of the channels; re-iterating the iterative step for some originating antennas; and re-iterating the steps of transmitting a first pilot, estimating the first response, and the iterative step for some destination antennas; and determining pre-equalization coefficients for the data signal from a combination of a set of composite impulse responses. | 2012-03-08 |
20120057511 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPROVED WIRELESS INTERFACE AGGREGATION - The present invention describes systems and methods for improved wireless interface integration. An exemplary embodiment of the present invention provides a wireless interface aggregation system having a computing device including a processor, a memory, a first wireless interface with a first observed throughput rate in a first network environment and second wireless interface with a second observed throughput rate in the first network environment. The aggregation control module is configured to control the transmission and wireless interface and the second wireless interface to provide an overall throughput rate for the computing device in the first network environment greater than sum of the first observed throughput rate and the second observed throughput rate. | 2012-03-08 |
20120057512 | Methods And Apparatus For Increasing Data Throughput By Grouping Data Packets Into Maximum Transmissible Units - A technique for use in a communication device for communicating data involves receiving a plurality of transport data packets in an ordered sequence; rearranging at least some of the transport data packets in a group with a reordered sequence different from the ordered sequence, for increasing the total size of the group to be at or near a maximum transmissible unit size of a transport data frame; formatting the transport data packets of the group having the total size at or near the maximum transmissible unit size into the transport data frame, for data transmission from the communication device; and repeating, for a plurality of transport data frames, the acts of rearranging and formatting, for communicating the data. | 2012-03-08 |
20120057513 | SLEEP MODE SELECTION EMPLOYING A SEMI-MARKOV DECISION PROCESS - The disclosed subject matter relates to energy efficiency in mobile devices associated with a wireless communications environment. Power Saving Classes (PSCs) aim to reduce the power consumption of mobile devices based on the different types of traffic. Optimizing sleep mode selection schemes so as to maximize the energy efficiency while providing a QoS guarantee can be accomplished with optimization of a theoretical framework based on the semi-Markov Decision Process along with a performance evaluation on the sleep mode operation. A novel Policy Optimization algorithm is capable of finding optimized policies for a selection of different PSCs. | 2012-03-08 |
20120057514 | Resource Allocation and Outage Control for Renewable Energy WLAN Infrastructure Mesh Node - A mesh node of an infrastructure wireless local area network ‘WLAN’ is coupled to a battery which is coupled to a device that is able to harness energy from a source of renewable energy. Energy management of the mesh node includes conducting simulations of a system comprising the mesh node, the device, and the battery in its current state of charge, determining an admissible load for the mesh node from the simulations, and withholding communication services by the mesh node for one or more periods of time a cumulative duration of which is related to power consumption of the mesh node when handling the admissible load. The simulations involve meteorological data related to the source of renewable energy in the vicinity of the mesh node. | 2012-03-08 |
20120057515 | MULTIPOINT RELAY SET SELECTION METHODS AND THEIR APPLICATION TO MULTICAST CHANNEL RESERVATION IN OVERLAPPING BASIC SERVICE SETS IN WIRELESS NETWORKS - A method and apparatus are described including communicating with neighbor nodes in a wireless network, determining one-hop neighbor nodes and two-hop neighbor nodes responsive to the communication, determining a minimum multipoint relay set responsive to the first working channel determination and communicating over the wireless network using the minimum multipoint relay set. | 2012-03-08 |
20120057516 | METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING A SOUNDING REFERENCE SIGNAL IN AN UPLINK COMP COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND APPARATUS FOR SAME - The present invention relates to a method for transmitting a sounding reference signal from a terminal in an uplink coordinative multi-point (CoMP) communication system. Specifically, the method comprises the steps of: receiving parameters for transmitting a sounding reference signal from a serving base station included in a CoMP set; assigning a resource for the sounding reference signal on the basis of the parameters; and transmitting the sounding reference signal to the serving base station included in the CoMP set and to at least one neighboring base station according to the assigned resource, wherein basis sequences of the parameters for the sounding reference signal are different for base stations included in the CoMP set. | 2012-03-08 |
20120057517 | Wireless Clone Mode Display - Wireless sinks, such as displays, may receive wirelessly transmitted audio/video information in clone mode. In one embodiment, the same audio/video stream may be provided to a plurality of sinks daisy chained from a wireless receiver. | 2012-03-08 |
20120057518 | BLUETOOTH NETWORKING - An apparatus enabling establishment of a Bluetooth mesh network comprises at least two Bluetooth transceiver circuitries and an internal connection between the at least two Bluetooth transceiver circuitries. The Bluetooth transceiver circuitries are simultaneously connected to different Bluetooth piconets, and the apparatus operates as a bridge between the piconets. Concatenation of such apparatuses enables construction of a Bluetooth mesh network where the bridge devices may be simultaneously connected to multiple Bluetooth piconets. | 2012-03-08 |
20120057519 | METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING CONTROL SIGNAL TO RELAY NODE AT BASE STATION IN MIMO WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND APPARATUS THEREFOR - A method for transmitting a control signal to a relay node at a base station in a multi-input multi-output (MIMO) wireless communication system is disclosed. The method comprises configuring relay-resource element groups (R-REGs) in a unit of four resource elements (REs) contiguous in the ascending order of subcarrier indexes, except for resource elements for a reference signal (RS); allocating transmission resources to the control signal in a unit of the relay-resource element group; and transmitting the control signal to the relay node by using the allocated transmission resources, wherein the resource elements for the reference signal include resource elements for channel state information-RS (CSI-RS), which include resource elements for a channel state information RS to which a transmission power of 0 is allocated. | 2012-03-08 |
20120057520 | Renewable Energy Monitoring System - We describe a solar photovoltaic monitoring system for monitoring and controlling a solar photovoltaic inverter, comprising: a wireless transceiver coupled to a solar photovoltaic inverter, the inverter comprising a device monitor for monitoring and controlling the inverter, wherein the monitoring comprises generating monitoring data defining a status of the system and transmitting the data using the transceiver coupled to the inverter; a wireless repeater for receiving data from the inverter and retransmitting the data; a transceiver coupled to a gateway capable of communicating the retransmitted data received to a monitoring station, the gateway transmitting control data received from the monitoring station; wherein the repeater receives control data from the gateway and retransmits data to the inverter; and wherein the controlling in the inverter comprises receiving the retransmitted control data from the transceiver coupled to the inverter and controlling the inverter dependent on the data. | 2012-03-08 |
20120057521 | METHOD FOR IMPLEMENTING RELAY STATION DOWNLINK COOPERATIVE RETRANSMISSION AND A RELAY STATION - A method for implementing relay station downlink retransmission and a relay station are disclosed by the present invention. According to the situation of the least available radio resource number for retransmission data on a retransmission sub-frame, the relay station of the present invention performs corresponding physical layer processing in advance for the data to be retransmitted until the OFDM signal is generated, and retransmits the OFDM signal on the retransmission sub-frame. By the method of the present invention, the problem is resolved efficiently that the relay station cooperative communication cannot be performed normally due to the change of the radio resource number during downlink data retransmission, so that the normal implementation of the relay station downlink cooperative communication is ensured; furthermore, the method of the present invention does not induce any extra overhead and time delay, needs no signaling control, can be easily implemented, reduces the system complexity, ensures the flexibility of sub-frame configuration, thereby improving service quality and resource utilization rate. | 2012-03-08 |
20120057522 | UPLINK ROUTING WITHOUT ROUTING TABLE - The present technology relates to protocols relative to utility meters associated with an open operational framework. More particularly, the present subject matter relates to protocol subject matter for advanced metering infrastructure, adaptable to various international standards, while economically supporting a 2-way mesh network solution in a wireless environment, such as for operating in a residential electricity meter field. The present subject matter supports meters within an ANSI standard C12.22/C12.19 system while economically supporting a 2-way mesh network solution in a wireless environment, such as for operating in a residential electricity meter field, all to permit cell-based adaptive insertion of C12.22 meters within an open framework. Cell isolation is provided through quasi-orthogonal sequences in a frequency hopping network. Additional features relate to apparatus (both network and device related) and methodology subject matters relating to uplink routing without requiring a routing table. | 2012-03-08 |
20120057523 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING BACKHAUL SUBFRAME CHANNEL IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The present invention relates to a method for transmitting a backhaul sub frame channel of a base station in a wireless communication system. The method for transmitting a backhaul sub frame channel according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises: creating a downlink relay control channel by coding downlink relay control information that is transmitted to a relay; allocating the created downlink relay control channel to a first slot of a semi-static resource region that is allocated to the relay; and transmitting, to the relay, a backhaul sub frame to which the channel is allocated. Compared to existing control channel transmission techniques, the present invention can minimize overheads. Moreover, the present invention also reduces control channel resources required during retransmission and for the transmission of multiple backhaul subframes. | 2012-03-08 |
20120057524 | MULTI-CARRIER OPERATION FOR WIRELESS SYSTEMS - A method for a subscriber station to perform network entry in a multi-carrier wireless environment that has a primary carrier and at least one secondary carrier associated with a base station. The method includes sensing a carrier in an area serviced by the base station and determining if the carrier is a primary carrier or a secondary carrier. The method further includes performing the network entry if the determining establishes that the sensed carrier is a primary carrier and not a secondary carrier. | 2012-03-08 |
20120057525 | METHOD OF RESOLVING RECEPTION CONFLICTS FOR MULTI-CARD MULTI-STANDBY MOBILE TERMINAL - The present invention provides a method of resolving reception conflicts for a multi-card multi-standby mobile terminal, which is for resolving the conflicts of the mobile terminal based on Goble System for Mobile communication (GSM) network and in the standby mode, including: acquiring synchronization result with base stations and judging if there are time slot conflicts between multiple SIM cards of the multi-card multi-standby mobile terminal according to the synchronization result; if the conflicts being non-time slot conflicts, receiving and processing data of different SIM cards in different time slots of a TDMA frame; and if the conflicts being time slot conflicts, receiving and processing data of a non-current SIM card in redundant frames of BCCH or CCCH of a current SIM card. The present invention manages the logical channel conflicts with other SIM cards through using the redundant frames corresponding to the BCCH or CCCH of a SIM card, thereby resolving the signal conflicts because of the signals from different base stations being not synchronized for a dual-card dual-standby handset and is compatible with the prior art. | 2012-03-08 |
20120057526 | Soft State Framework for Mobile WSN Routing - A soft state framework to support routing functionality in a mobile wireless sensor network is provided. This invention allows each node of the wireless sensor network to move in random directions in a three dimensional space. The invention seeks to minimize resource consumption while optimizing routing functionality in a mobile condition. | 2012-03-08 |
20120057527 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING A MEASUREMENT REPORT FROM A USER EQUIPMENT TO A NETWORK IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and apparatus for providing a measurement report from a User Equipment (UE) to a network in a wireless communication system according to one embodiment includes using a configuration to indicate whether or not a corresponding additional measurement result should be included in the measurement report, and using the configuration to indicate more than one type of additional measurement result. A method and apparatus for providing a measurement report from a UE to a network in a wireless communication system according to another embodiment includes triggering a measurement report, and omitting an additional measurement result in the measurement report if the measurement report is triggered by inter-Radio Access Technology measurement (inter-RAT measurement). | 2012-03-08 |
20120057528 | Method for Operating a Mobile Wireless Network - Operating a mobile wireless network to ensure proper function of protocol entities during the transmission of data units between two wireless stations of the mobile wireless network. User data is assembled by a first convergence protocol layer of the first wireless station into at least one first data unit, particularly a packet data unit, before transmission to a second convergence protocol layer of a second wireless station, particularly on the same protocol level, with the user data being supplied to the first convergence protocol layer by at least one user in a network layer. At least one protocol entity of the first convergence protocol layer is configured as a function of a configuration request received by the second wireless station and transmits the at least one first data unit through a carrier to a link control layer. | 2012-03-08 |
20120057529 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING A HARQ IN A MULTICARRIER SYSTEM - Provided are a method and apparatus of performing a HARQ in a multiple carrier system. A receiver determines the size of a soft buffer to be used in an effective HARQ process on the basis of the maximum number of effective HARQ processes over a plurality of component carriers and stores the received transport block in the soft buffer. The present invention enables the performance of a HARQ in an efficient manner by using multiple carriers in the event the size of the soft buffer is limited. | 2012-03-08 |
20120057530 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING TRANSMISSIONS IN VARIOUS STATES VIA A HIGH SPEED DOWNLINK SHARED CHANNEL - A method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving via a high speed downlink shared channel (HS-DSCH) is disclosed. A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) receives the HS-DSCH while operating in a cell forward access channel (Cell-FACH) state, a cell paging channel (Cell-PCH) state, or URA paging channel (URA-PCH) state. | 2012-03-08 |
20120057531 | CONDITIONAL UPLINK TIMING ALIGNMENT IN A MOBILE STATION DEVICE OF A RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A mobile station device transmits a random access preamble, whose preamble ID is randomly selected by the mobile station device, to a base station device and performs uplink timing alignment based on the synchronization timing deviation information included in a random access response which the base station device transmits in response to the transmitted random access preamble. In an uplink synchronous status, upon receiving the random access response including timing deviation information, the mobile station device ignores the timing deviation information. Otherwise, the mobile station device performs the uplink timing alignment based on the timing deviation information. | 2012-03-08 |
20120057532 | METHOD, SYSTEM, NETWORK ELEMENT, AND GATEWAY FOR PROCESSING ACCESS POINT NAME RESTRICTION INFORMATION - A method, a system, a network element, and a gateway for processing access point name restriction information are disclosed. The method includes: a second mobility management element receives first access point name restriction information from a first mobility management element; the second mobility management element obtains maximum access point name restriction information according to the first access point name restriction information, so that a packet data network gateway determines to or refuses to establish a new packet data network gateway connection. With the present invention, the second mobility management element may obtain the maximum access point name restriction information according to the received access point name restriction information. In this way, the packet data network gateway can determine to or refuse to establish a new packet data network gateway connection, therefore improving the security of private packet data network gateways. | 2012-03-08 |
20120057533 | RESOURCE SHARING BETWEEN SECONDARY NETWORKS - Method, apparatus, and computer program product embodiments are disclosed to provide for wireless resource sharing on a fair basis between heterogeneous wireless networks to enable coexistence in a TV band white space. An example embodiment of the invention includes a method, comprising the steps of: receiving a coexistence value associated with a wireless network; receiving radio frequency spectral environment information of the wireless network; receiving coexistence values and radio frequency spectral environment information of wireless networks neighboring the wireless network; receiving a resource request for the wireless network; generating a resource allocation based at least on the received coexistence values and received radio frequency spectral environment information; and communicating at least a portion of the generated resource allocation to the wireless network. The resulting embodiments provide for wireless resource sharing on a fair basis between heterogeneous wireless networks to enable coexistence of secondary networks. | 2012-03-08 |
20120057534 | TECHNIQUES FOR PRIMARY CHANNEL SELECTION IN WIRELESS NETWORKS - An embodiment of the present invention provides an apparatus, comprising a transceiver capable of communicating in a first basic service set (BSS) of a wireless network that is operable adjacent to a second basic service set (BSS) of said wireless network, wherein when the first BSS and the second BSS operate such that the first BSS and the second BSS contain channels that at least partially overlap, the transceiver selects a primary channel of the first BSS to be next to a primary channel of the second BSS so that the first and the second BSSs avoid collisions with each other due to the at least partial overlapping. | 2012-03-08 |
20120057535 | UPLINK COORDINATED MULTIPOINT COMMUNICATIONS IN A WIRELESS NETWORK - Devices, systems, methods and/or computer program products are provided to facilitate coordinated multipoint transmission and reception of communications in a wireless network. In some scenarios, different set of resources are allocated for uplink transmissions of multiple user equipment. In other scenarios collision avoidance and/or multiplexing techniques are used to enable reception and decoding of multiple uplink transmissions on the same or overlapping resources at the same time. This Abstract is provided for the sole purpose of complying with the Abstract requirement rules that allow a reader to quickly ascertain the disclosed subject matter. Therefore, it is to be understood that it should not be used to interpret or limit the scope or the meaning of the claims. | 2012-03-08 |
20120057536 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SUPPORTING MULTI-BAND WIFI - Provided are a method and apparatus for supporting a multiband wireless fidelity (WiFi). The method for supporting the multiband WIFI includes: assigning a category and a frequency band for traffic, based on one or more characteristics of the traffic; packetizing the traffic in a media access control (MAC) unit corresponding to the assigned frequency band; and transmitting the packetized traffic by using the assigned frequency band in a physical layer (PHY) unit corresponding to the assigned frequency band. | 2012-03-08 |
20120057537 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR CONDITIONAL ACCESS - Methods, devices, and computer program products facilitate access to, and usage of resources within, a radio network. A conditional access framework incorporates myriad technologies ranging from authentication, session control, Internet Protocol (IP) packet inspection to resource allocation by airlink schedulers. Such an end-to-end control enables effective implementation of conditional access paradigms by ensuring service guarantees for authorized users while resulting in a certain level of service availability to guest users. | 2012-03-08 |