| 11th week of 2013 patent applcation highlights part 29 |
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| 20130064162 | Capability Extensions for Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Services - A base station of a mobile communication network supports continuity of a Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service, MBMS, for a terminal. The base station receives, from the terminal, an information element informing the base station of a combination of bands, which the terminal supports for carrier aggregation. The terminal supports MBMS reception on any carrier configurable as a serving cell for the terminal according to the information element. The base station derives, from the received information element, MBMS reception capabilities of the terminal. The base station determines a number of carriers, which are configurable by the base station as serving cell of the terminal, such that the terminal is enabled to receive at least one MBMS. | 2013-03-14 |
| 20130064163 | METHOD FOR MINIMIZING COLLISIONS OF MESSAGES RESPONSIVE TO MULTI- OR BROADCAST MESSAGES IN A RADIO COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM - A radio communication system comprises an access station that is adapted and configured to transmit a rateless encoded multicast message to a plurality of radio terminals. Each of the radio terminals transmits a reply message to the access station upon successful reception of the multicast message, wherein the transmit resources are selected from a predefined set of agreed transmit resources, where the selection is influenced by certain characteristics of the reception of the multicast message. | 2013-03-14 |
| 20130064164 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING MULTICAST SERVICE - A method of managing a multicast service is provided to a mobile station. The mobile station receives from a base station a message including information on a multicast indication cycle including a multicast available interval and a multicast unavailable interval. The mobile station receives a multicast indicator in the multicast available interval of the multicast indication cycle, and receives a multicast traffic at a transmission time indicated by the multicast indicator. | 2013-03-14 |
| 20130064165 | SUPPORT OF MULTIPLE TIMING ADVANCE GROUPS FOR USER EQUIPMENT IN CARRIER AGGREGATION IN LTE - Methods, systems, and devices are described to support multiple timing advance groups for multi-carrier user equipment. Some embodiments provide for utilizing timing advance group synchronization information across multiple timing advance groups. Some embodiments provide support for performing random access procedures in relation to timing advance groups that may not include a primary component carrier. Some embodiments utilize timing advance group indexes to enable cross-carrier random access procedure management. Other embodiments support parallel random access procedures across multiple timing advance groups. Some embodiments provide for a reference downlink component carrier for timing within a timing advance group. | 2013-03-14 |
| 20130064166 | System and Method for Direct Multi-User Transmission - A method for transmitting to a plurality of responder stations includes transmitting a first direct link setup request message to a first responder station via an access point, the first direct link setup request message including a first group identifier, the first group identifier being received from a communications controller and being associated with the first responder station, and transmitting a second direct link setup request message to a second responder station via the access point, the second setup request message including a second group identifier, the second group identifier being received from the communications controller and being associated with the second responder station. The method also includes transmitting data to the first responder station and the second responder station in a single transmission. | 2013-03-14 |
| 20130064167 | CELLULAR COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, NETWORK CONTROLLER AND METHOD FOR OBTAINING FEEDBACK FROM SUBSCRIBER COMMUNICATION UNITS - A method for obtaining feedback from one or more wireless subscriber communication unit(s) related to a broadcast service in a wireless communication system comprising at least one communication cell. The method comprises transmitting a request message by a network controller to one or more wireless subscriber communication unit(s); receiving and processing the request message by a wireless subscriber communication unit; transmitting a layer-1 response signal by the wireless subscriber communication unit in response to the request message; and detecting by the network controller the layer-1 response signal in a particular communication cell, and in response thereto, performs one of the following:
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| 20130064168 | Physical Uplink Shared Channel Demodulation Reference Signal Design for Uplink Coordinated Transmission in Type II Relay Using a Punctured Demodulation Reference Signal - A method is provided for providing an access node with a demodulation reference signal (DMRS). The method includes, when the UE and at least one relay node are present in a cell, the relay node transmitting the DMRS on a subset of a set of resource elements in which the UE transmits the DMRS. | 2013-03-14 |
| 20130064169 | Physical Uplink Shared Channel Demodulation Reference Signal Design for Uplink Coordinated Transmission in Type II Relay - A method is provided for an access node to perform channel estimation. The method includes, when a UE and a relay node are present in a cell with the access node, the access node receiving from the UE and from the relay node DMRS that are cyclically shifted relative to one another. The method further includes the access node performing a first channel estimation based on the DMRS that was transmitted by the UE, performing a second channel estimation based on the DMRS that was transmitted by the at least one relay node, combining the first channel estimation with the second channel estimation to derive a combined channel estimation, using the first channel estimation to demodulate control information received from the UE, and using the combined channel estimation to demodulate data received from both the UE and the at least one relay node. | 2013-03-14 |
| 20130064170 | PROCESSING UPLINK SIGNAL AND DOWNLINK SIGNAL IN RADIO UNIT - Described embodiments provide a method for processing an uplink signal in a radio unit. A first uplink signal may be received directly from user equipment. The received uplink signal may be delayed using uplink delay information. A second uplink signal may be received indirectly from user equipment through at least one repeater connected to the radio unit. The delayed first uplink signal and the second uplink signal may be combined and transmitted to a digital unit. | 2013-03-14 |
| 20130064171 | Ranging Regions for Wireless Communication Relay Stations - One embodiment of the present invention provides a unique ranging technique in wireless communication environments that employ relay stations associated with a base station. Each relay station, and optionally the base station itself, can be allocated a unique ranging region having unique ranging resources that may be used by a mobile station to initiate a ranging function with the corresponding relay station or base station. | 2013-03-14 |
| 20130064172 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING CONTROL INFORMATION IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Disclosed are an apparatus and a method for transmitting/receiving control information in a wireless communication system. In a repeater according to the present invention, a receiving antenna can receive control information for a hybrid automatic repeat reQuest ACKnowledgement (HARQ ACK) feedback on the data transmission of a base station from the base station through higher layer signaling. On the basis of the control information, a processor can determine a resource in an upper link control channel to be used for the transmission of the HARQ feedback. A transmitting antenna can transmit the HARQ feedback to the base station through the resource that has been determined. | 2013-03-14 |
| 20130064173 | RELAY NODE AND MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM - A relay node operable to maintain an access link to a UE and a backhaul link to a D-eNB, wherein each of access link and backhaul links are controlled by separate states. The separate states may be independent from one another. The backhaul link consists of at least two states: the first state and the second state of backhaul link. In the first state, a relay node monitors signals from D-eNB continuously. In the second state, a relay node monitors signal from D-eNB discontinuously. The access link consists of at least two states: the first state and the second state of access link. In the first state, a relay node transmits common control signals. In the second state, a relay node can pause the transmission of common control signals or transmit common control signals in longer period than in the first state of access link (DTX). | 2013-03-14 |
| 20130064174 | METHOD OF RECEIVING DATA FROM BASE STATION AT RELAY NODE IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND APPARATUS THEREOF - A method used by a relay node for receiving a relay node specific downlink physical shared channel from a base station in a multiple antennae wireless communication system is disclosed. More specifically, the method includes the steps of demodulating a relay node specific downlink physical control channel (R-PDCCH) by using a relay node specific reference signal; and, in case a specific downlink information is detected from the demodulated relay node specific downlink physical control channel, of demodulating the relay node specific downlink physical shared channel, under an assumption that the relay node specific downlink physical shared channel is transmitted through a single antenna port by using a predetermined antenna port and scrambling identifier (ID). Herein, the specific downlink control information may correspond to a downlink control information designating a Fallback Mode. And, the predetermined antenna port and scrambling ID may respectively correspond to antenna port 7 and scrambling ID 0. | 2013-03-14 |
| 20130064175 | Access Point Assisted Direct Client Discovery - A wireless access point device configured to serve wireless client devices in a wireless network monitors transmissions sent by direct clients capable of forming ad hoc networks with one or more other direct clients. Profile data is stored for each detected direct client. The profile data indicates device type and services of the direct client, as well as potentially other information. The wireless access point receives from a direct client a request for information concerning one or more other direct clients, and sends a response to the direct client containing information for other direct clients based on the stored profile data. | 2013-03-14 |
| 20130064176 | APPARATUSES AND METHODS FOR ENHANCING DATA RATE FOR PACKET-SWITCHED (PS) DATA SERVICE - A wireless communication device for enhancing a data rate for a packet-switched (PS) data service is provided. The device comprises a processor configured to reference cell information corresponding to a first subscriber identity card to maintain mobility for a second subscriber identity card by using the referenced cell information when performing the PS data service with a first service network for the first subscriber identity card. | 2013-03-14 |
| 20130064177 | PAYLOAD HEADER REDUCTION CLASSIFICATION FOR MULTIPROTOCOL CONVERGENCE SUBLAYER - Embodiments of the present disclosure describe methods, apparatuses, and systems for payload header reduction classification for multiprotocol convergence sublayer. | 2013-03-14 |
| 20130064178 | System For Monitoring Electrical Power Distribution Lines In A Power Grid Using A Wireless Sensor Network - A system is disclosed for monitoring electrical power distribution lines comprising a plurality of mesh networks. Each mesh network monitors electrical power distribution lines at a select location of the power grid. Each mesh network comprises a plurality of wireless sensors adapted for wireless communications therebetween. Each wireless sensor measures attributes of line voltage for an associated electrical power distribution line at the select location. A master sensor collects data from the other sensors in the mesh network and determining voltage in phase attribute data of the electrical power distribution lines at the select location. The master sensor comprises a gateway device for communication outside of the mesh network. A monitor device for communication with master sensors receives voltage and phase attribute data from the master sensors for monitoring operation of the electrical power distribution line power grid. | 2013-03-14 |
| 20130064179 | MANAGEMENT OF TCP/IP MESSAGING IN WIRELESS NETWORKS - Some implementations of the present invention provide mechanisms for gating the transmission of FIN and other short overhead messages of the like in order to improve spectral efficiency. In some implementations spectral efficiency is improved by reducing the number of air-link connections established to merely transmit FIN and other short overhead messages of the like. In one implementation FIN messages are buffered in a queue and transmitted when an air-link connection is established to transmit higher value messages. In one implementation FIN messages are buffered and transmitted when the contents of the buffer breach a threshold that justifies the establishment of an air-link connection to transmit the contents of the buffer. | 2013-03-14 |
| 20130064180 | HARQ-ACK FEEDBACK DETECTION FOR AN I/Q-MULTIPLEXED CONTROL CHANNEL - In a network that provides high-speed packet access, a mobile terminal is served by multiple activated serving cells which are grouped into cell groups. The mobile terminal monitors control channel transmissions to detect whether there are any transmissions for the mobile terminal from the activated serving cells for each cell group and provides feedback to a primary serving cell. When no transmission is detected from serving cells of a particular cell group, the mobile terminal may transmit feedback information explicitly indicating that no transmission is detected for that cell group. Alternatively, the mobile terminal may withhold transmitting feedback for that cell group and increases the power for transmitting the feedback information for cell groups in which transmissions were detected. | 2013-03-14 |
| 20130064181 | CLOSED LOOP TRANSMIT DIVERSITY IN CONTINUOUS PACKET CONNECTIVITY - Apparatus and methods for communicating in a wireless network include receiving a weight vector in a slot for providing closed loop transmit diversity to signals in a next slot, holding the weight vector over a plurality of slots following a transmission burst, and applying the weight vector to signals in at least one slot of a subsequent transmission burst in discontinuous transmit. Additional apparatus and methods for communicating in a wireless network include determining a weight vector based on signals received from a device to provide closed loop transmit diversity feedback to the device, holding the weight vector over a plurality of slots following receiving a transmission burst, and applying the weight vector for signals received in at least one slot of a subsequent transmission burst from the device. | 2013-03-14 |
| 20130064182 | METHOD FOR CONFIGURING NEIGHBOR LIST AND FEMTOCELL CORE PROCESSOR USING THE SAME - A method for configuring a neighbor list is provided. The method is applied to a femtocell to establish a neighbor list. The method includes steps of: accessing a Public Land Mobile Network (PLMN) list in the femtocell, the PLMN list recording a circuit-switched (CS)/packet-switched (PS) service weighting; determining a weighting parameter with reference to history CS/PS amount information and the CS/PS service weighting of the femtocell; selecting n macrocells from the PLMN list according to the weighting parameter, n being a natural number; and filling the n macrocells into the neighbor list. | 2013-03-14 |
| 20130064183 | POWER CONTROL METHOD AND RADIO NETWORK CONTROLLER - A power control method performing a power control operation between a radio network controller and a node B is provided. The method includes steps of: calculating a packet error rate threshold and a base received packet count according to a target block error rate (BLER) and a precision of the target BLER; obtaining an accumulated received packet count and an accumulated packet error count; increasing a target signal-to-interference ratio (SIR) of the node B when the accumulated packet error count is greater than a product of the accumulated received packet count and the packet error rate threshold; decreasing the target SIR when the accumulated received packet count is greater than or equal to a product of the base received packet count and a threshold parameter; and resetting the accumulated received packet count and the accumulated packet error count after the target SIR is adjusted. | 2013-03-14 |
| 20130064184 | RECEIVING APPARATUS AND DATA OBTAINING METHOD - A receiving apparatus for communication area evaluation includes a receiving unit configured to receive a first signal transmitted from a base station; a delay profile calculation unit configured to calculate a downlink delay profile based on the first signal; and an estimated value calculation unit configured to calculate an estimated cyclic prefix length based on the calculated downlink delay profile. | 2013-03-14 |
| 20130064185 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR BULK ACTIVATION/DEACTIVATION OF COMPONENT CARRIERS IN A WIRELESS NETWORK ENVIRONMENT - Method and apparatus are provided for communicating availability and removal of one or more CCs in a cell. The one or more CCs that are available in the cell of a wireless communication network are determined, or a need to release one or more CCs that are active in the cell of a wireless communication network is detected. Availability of or the need to release the one or more CCs in the cell is communicated to a plurality of mobile stations. Each of the plurality of mobile stations is allowed to use or de-activate the one or more CCs in the cell. | 2013-03-14 |
| 20130064186 | Method and System for Synchronizing Access Stratum Security Algorithm - The disclosure discloses a method and a system for synchronizing an Access Stratum (AS) security algorithm. The method comprises: a control plane notifying a user plane to start a decryption exception detection when sending an Radio Resource Control (RRC) connection re-establishment message ( | 2013-03-14 |
| 20130064187 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR WAN ASSISTED CONTENTION DETECTION & RESOLUTION IN PEER TO PEER NETWORKS - Various methods and apparatus are directed to collision detection and/or avoidance regarding peer to peer connection identifiers. A wireless communications device broadcasts a signal indicating its acquired connection identifier in one of two alternative blocks. A base station monitors peer to peer signaling in its coverage area and tracks the usage of peer to peer connection identifiers by pairs of devices. The base station detects when multiple pairs of devices are using the same peer to peer connection identifier. The base station provides assistance to the peer to peer network to avoid a collision or facilitate rapid collision detection by the peer to peer devices. In one approach the base station sends an instruction for a connection to switch its connection identifier. In another approach the base station sends a connection a message to bias its selection as to which of the two alternative blocks to use for transmission. | 2013-03-14 |
| 20130064188 | DYNAMIC RESOURCE MANAGEMENT FOR ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS WIRELESS NETWORKS - The disclosed subject matter relates to dynamic resource management for wireless network components with a wireless communications environment. Personal base stations can be deployed in a substantially uncoordinated manner resulting in conflicts among wireless radio resources. Dynamically assigning subchannel and dynamically allocating power for subchannels can reduce these conflicts. Dynamic resource management can employ combinatorial auction schema such that assignment of subchannels can be considerate of selecting a power level for performance and to minimize overlapping subchannel interference. In an aspect, several methods can be employed to reduce the computational complexity of the general integer programming problem presented. These several methods can include a Combinatorial Auction with Greedy Algorithm scheme, a Random Equal Subchannel Partition scheme, a Local Combinatorial Auction scheme, and a Neighbors' Poor Channels scheme. | 2013-03-14 |
| 20130064189 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MOBILE ASSISTED REVERSE LINK INTERFERENCE MANAGEMENT - Techniques are provided for mobile assisted reverse link interference management. For example, a method for providing mobile assisted reverse link (RL) interference management includes requesting at least one pilot strength measurement from a user device. The method may include receiving at least one macrocell pilot strength measurement or femtocell pilot or beacon strength measurement from the user device in response to the request. The method may include determining a data rate allocation for the user device based at least in part on the at least one macrocell pilot strength measurement or femtocell pilot or beacon strength measurement. The method may include transmitting the data rate allocation to the user device, thereby controlling RL interference caused by the user device to at least one non-serving cell. | 2013-03-14 |
| 20130064190 | SIGNALING OF RESOURCE ASSIGNMENTS IN CROSS-CARRIER SCHEDULING SCENARIOS - This invention relates to signaling of resource assignments in cross-carrier scheduling scenarios. In order to enable cross-carrier scheduling in a mobile communication system using carrier aggregation while avoiding erroneous detection of assigned physical resources that could lead to HARQ soft buffer corruption/degradation of the system throughput, the invention suggests a scheme for explicitly indicating within downlink control information (DCI) including a resource assignment for the downlink (or uplink) the number of OFDM symbol(s) used for control signaling within a sub-frame on a component carrier on which resources are assigned by the DCI. In one exemplary implementation the number of OFDM symbol(s) used for control signaling is the PCFICH values signaled in a 3GPP LTE-A network. The indication of the OFDM symbol(s) within the sub-frame on the assigned component carrier may for example be jointly encoded with other control signaling information, e.g. with the carrier cation of the carrier indicator field. | 2013-03-14 |
| 20130064191 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND RANDOM ACCESS METHOD THEREOF - A random access method of a User Equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system supporting carrier aggregation which allows transmitting data on multiple carriers is provided. A random access method for a wireless communication system supporting carrier aggregation according to the present invention includes receiving, at a terminal, Random Access Channel (RACH) selection information necessary for random access, the RACH selection information being transmitted by a base station; selecting, when the random access is triggered, an uplink carrier on which the random access is attempted based on the RACH selection information; and attempting the random access on the selected uplink carrier. | 2013-03-14 |
| 20130064192 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION METHOD AND MOBILE STATION - A mobile communication method according to the present invention includes a step A of transmitting, by a radio base station eNB, “RRC Connection Reconfiguration” including setting information on a plurality of CCs and PDCCHs to a mobile station UE, and a step B of transmitting, by the mobile station UE, “RRC Connection Reconfiguration Complete” to the radio base station eNB using a contention-based channel in response to the received “RRC Connection Reconfiguration”. | 2013-03-14 |
| 20130064193 | METHOD FOR DECODING CONTROL INFORMATION OF TERMINAL IN CARRIER AGGREGATION SYSTEM AND TERMINAL THEREOF - Provided is a method of decoding control information of a terminal in a carrier aggregation system. The method includes: receiving downlink control information including a carrier indication field from a base station; and decoding the downlink control information, wherein the downlink control information includes at least two or more fields, and a component carrier indicated by a value of the carrier indication field is determined according to a value of a specific field among the at least two or more fields. | 2013-03-14 |
| 20130064194 | METHODS FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING DATA USING A PLURALITY OF RADIO CHANNELS, TRANSMISSION AND DESTINATION DEVICES, CORRESPONDING SIGNAL AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - A method and apparatus are provided for transmitting data packets in a communication network using a plurality of radio channels. The network is organized into a plurality of communication layers including a data link layer MAC and a physical layer PHY. The method includes aggregating data packets to be transmitted to a single recipient, in the MAC layer, outputting at least two aggregated packets, with which a single header of the PHY layer is associated. At least two of the radio channels are concatenated to form a concatenated channel. The aggregated packets are simultaneously transmitted respectively over at least two separate concatenated sub-channels, one concatenated sub-channel including at least one of the radio channels of the concatenated channel. | 2013-03-14 |
| 20130064195 | Method of Handling Random Access Procedure on Secondary Cell when Primary Cell Time Alignment Timer Expires - A method of handling a random access procedure for a mobile device in a wireless communication system is disclosed. The method comprises having an ongoing random access procedure on a secondary cell; and aborting the ongoing random access procedure on the secondary cell when a time alignment timer associated with a primary cell expires. | 2013-03-14 |
| 20130064196 | Searching Space and Operation for Enhanced PDCCH in LTE Systems - A method is provided for operating an eNB in a wireless communication network. The method comprises allocating, by the eNB, one or more resource units within one or more physical resource block pairs to a user equipment for transmitting enhanced control information. | 2013-03-14 |
| 20130064197 | System and Method for Dynamic Coordination of Radio Resources Usage in a Wireless Network Environment - A wireless user equipment (UE) device includes a processor configured to control at least one of a plurality of subsystems to receive sensory data associated with multiple radio channels relative to one or more radio elements utilizing multiple radio access technologies in a communications network, whereby the sensory data may be processed to determine one or more reliability conditions associated with the sensory data. The processor is further configured to control at least one or more of the plurality of subsystems for communicating the sensory data and the associated reliability conditions to a network node and for processing a control message received from the network node for facilitating allocation of a radio resource to at least one of the radio elements. | 2013-03-14 |
| 20130064198 | MULTIPATH TRANSPORT TUNNEL OVER MULTIPLE AIR INTERFACES CONNECTING WIRELESS STATIONS - A method and apparatus for wireless communication between stations addressable via an Internet Protocol (IP) network that includes a first station wirelessly communicating with a second station via a multi-path transport protocol (MTP) tunnel The MTP tunnel manages at least a first IP data sub-flow over a first air interface and at least a second IP data sub-flow over a second air interface and allocates a first IP data flow to the at least two distinct IP data sub-flows over the at least two distinct air interfaces. | 2013-03-14 |
| 20130064199 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING/RECEIVING UPLINK POWER CONTROL INFORMATION - Disclosed are an apparatus and method for transmitting or receiving uplink power control information. According to the present invention, a transmitting antenna of a base station device transmits, to a terminal, a first message containing first information on the interference and noise levels of frequency partitions to which an uplink data channel and an uplink control channel are allocated. Here, the uplink data channel and the uplink control channel are allocated to different frequency partitions. The transmitting antenna can further transmit, to the terminal, information on frequency partitions to which the uplink data channel and the uplink control channel are allocated. | 2013-03-14 |
| 20130064200 | BASE STATION APPARATUS, MOBILE TERMINAL APPARATUS AND COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD - To provide a base station apparatus, a mobile terminal apparatus and a communication control method supporting respectively a plurality of mobile communication systems coexist mutually. The base station apparatus in a radio communications system in which an LTE-A system and an LTE system are placed so as to coexist with each other, the LTE-A system having a system band composed of a plurality of component carriers, the LTE system having a system band composed of a single component carrier, the base station apparatus is configured to generate ACK/NACK of HARQ to uplink transmission of a plurality of the component carriers, set offset as 0 to the component carrier used in the LTE system, set the offset to be increased beginning at the aforementioned component carrier in order of being circuited among the plurality of the component carriers, and add the aforementioned offset to the allocation resource of ACK/NACK. | 2013-03-14 |
| 20130064201 | System and a Method for Managing Device Identifier of A Ubiquitous Network - The present invention discloses a ubiquitous network gateway, which includes: a conversion unit, used for converting the identifier of the device of the extension network of the ubiquitous network to the identifier of the communication network device, maintaining, storing or caching the mapping relationship between the identifier of the device of the extension network of the ubiquitous network and the identifier of the communication network device, and converting the identifier of the communication network device to the identifier of the device of the extension network of the ubiquitous network; an identifier mapping unit, used for maintaining or storing the mapping relationships among the identifier of the device of the extension network of the ubiquitous network, the identifier of the communication network device and the gateway identifiers of the ubiquitous network. A system and a method for managing communication network device identifiers of the ubiquitous network are disclosed in the present invention. The use of the ubiquitous network gateway, system and method of the present invention can enable the service interaction with the device of the extension network of the ubiquitous network and benefit the service development of the ubiquitous network. | 2013-03-14 |
| 20130064202 | Efficient Location Updates, Paging and Short Bursts - A mobile terminal in a wireless communication network may be one of several modes of operation. When in an idle mode, the mobile terminal may avoid a lengthy random access procedure normally associated with responding to a page from a base station, if the base station includes in the page an indication of a resource that the mobile terminal may utilize when responding to the page. Additionally, the mobile terminal may transmit an efficient location update MAC header to a base station, whether prompted to by a page from the base station or not. Furthermore, without leaving the idle mode or a sleep mode, the mobile terminal may exchange short data burst messages with a base station. | 2013-03-14 |
| 20130064203 | TRANSMITTER, RECEIVER, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - A communication system, etc. are provided that can prevent the accuracy of propagation channel estimation from degrading when performing radio communications based on OFDM by using a plurality of carriers each with a predetermined bandwidth. Radio communications based on an OFDM scheme are performed between a transmitter and a receiver by using a carrier with a prescribed bandwidth in which first signals such as reference signals, for example, are arranged at constant subcarrier intervals. The transmitter, when performing communications with the receiver by using a plurality of such carriers, transmits to the receiver an OFDM signal in which the first signals are arranged at predetermined subcarrier intervals across the plurality of carriers. The receiver extracts the first signals from the OFDM signal received from the transmitter. | 2013-03-14 |
| 20130064204 | METHOD, DEVICE AND SYSTEM FOR SIGNAL TRANSMISSION - A method, a device and a system for signal transmission are disclosed in embodiments of the present invention. The method comprises: selecting a multiplexing mode of signals to be transmitted by a cell according to interference strength received by the cell and/or interference strength received by a neighboring cell; notifying a receiver of the multiplexing mode of the signals to be transmitted by the cell; and transmitting the signals to be transmitted by the cell according to the multiplexing mode of the signals to be transmitted by the cell. Through the signal transmission method, device and system provided herein, the multiplexing mode is selected adaptively according to the interference strength. Therefore, the inter-cell interference is reduced, the reliability of channel detection is improved, the system complexity is reduced, and the cost is saved. | 2013-03-14 |
| 20130064205 | ACKNOWLEDGING COMMUNICATION IN A WIRELESS NETWORK - Allocating uplink resources based on downlink traffic in a wireless network is provided. The number of sent segments of transport communication protocol (TCP) data may be counted. In response to the count exceeding a value, a message is sent allocating uplink resources to receive an uplink segment and a message acknowledging sent segments of the TCP data. | 2013-03-14 |
| 20130064206 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, BASE STATION APPARATUS, AND MOBILE STATION APPARATUS - A mobile communication system in which a mobile station apparatus transmits, to a base station apparatus, uplink data using a physical uplink shared channel assigned by an uplink data transmission permission signal, wherein the base station apparatus: transmits, to the mobile station apparatus, a radio resource control signal including information for specifying a physical format in transmitting reception quality information together with uplink data; and transmits, to the mobile station apparatus, the uplink data transmission permission signal including a transmission instruction of reception quality information, and wherein the mobile station apparatus transmits, to the base station apparatus, reception quality information together with uplink data using the physical uplink shared channel according to information for specifying the physical format in case that a transmission instruction of the reception quality information is included in the uplink data transmission permission signal. | 2013-03-14 |
| 20130064207 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING PRECODING INFORMATION - A method and an apparatus for transmitting and receiving precoding information are disclosed. The method can be implemented in a communication system, wherein the communication system includes a terminal and a data transmitting apparatus in communication with the terminal, a system bandwidth of the communication system is divided into at least one bandwidth part (BP) and each BP comprises at least one subband. The method includes: selecting, by the terminal, a subband within a first BP of the at least one BP according to a preset criterion or a predefined rule; obtaining, by the terminal, precoding information of the subband selected within the first BP; and transmitting, by the terminal, the precoding information of the subband selected within the first BP to the data transmitting apparatus. | 2013-03-14 |
| 20130064208 | RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, RADIO COMMUNICATION NETWORK SYSTEM AND METHOD THEREFOR - A radio communication system provided with a communication device and a radio communication network system is characterized by comprising a transmission delay estimate information transmitting means for transmitting transmission delay estimate information to the radio communication network system when the transmission condition of the transmission delay estimate information is met. | 2013-03-14 |
| 20130064209 | Support of UL ACK/NACK Feedback for Carrier Aggregation During Timing Uncertainty Component Carrier (Re-) Configuration/Activation/De-activation Period - An apparatus and a method is described, by which a component carrier configuration, re-configuration, activation or deactivation is performed. In particular, a signaling format used for acknowledgment/negative acknowledgement messages on an uplink control channel is detected, and a codebook size of the acknowledgment/negative acknowledgement messages is decided based on the detected signaling format. | 2013-03-14 |
| 20130064210 | TERMINAL APPARATUS AND RESPONSE SIGNAL TRANSMITTING METHOD - This invention is related to a terminal apparatus that can normally transmit an upstream response signal. A response signal generating unit ( | 2013-03-14 |
| 20130064211 | RADIO BASE STATION AND CONTROL METHOD FOR THE SAME - A radio base station eNB which periodically receives uplink control information including CQI through PUCCH, comprising: a storage unit | 2013-03-14 |
| 20130064212 | TERMINAL APPARATUS AND COMMUNICATION METHOD THEREOF - This invention is directed to a terminal apparatus capable of preventing the degradation of reception quality of control information even in a case of employing SU-MIMO transmission system. A terminal ( | 2013-03-14 |
| 20130064213 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING OR SUPPORTING COOPERATIVE COMMUNICATION BETWEEN TERMINALS IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - According to one embodiment of the present invention, the receiver of a base station receives, from a first terminal, a first message containing information on a first terminal identifier, information which enables a direct link connection between the first terminal and one or more candidate terminals capable of cooperative communication in a cell to which the first terminal belongs, and/or information on the mode in which the first terminal performs cooperative communication. The transmitter of the base station transmits, to said one or more candidate terminals, a message for requesting a direct link connection with the first terminal, wherein the message contains the information on the first terminal identifier and/or information on the mode in which the first terminal performs cooperative communication. The network to which the first terminal and the candidate terminals are linked is different from the network to which the first terminal and the base station are linked. | 2013-03-14 |
| 20130064214 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR INTERFERENCE BASED JOINT SCHEDULING OF PEER TO PEER LINKS WITH WWAN - A method of operating a first wireless device includes receiving a grant from a base station for peer-to-peer communication with a second wireless device using time-frequency resources utilized by a third wireless device for WWAN communication with the base station. In addition, the method includes receiving a transmit power for the peer-to-peer communication with the grant. The transmit power is determined based on an interference that can be caused to transmissions received by the base station from the third wireless device. Furthermore, the method includes communicating with the second wireless device at a power less than or equal to the received transmit power using peer-to-peer communication on the time-frequency resources. | 2013-03-14 |
| 20130064215 | Enhanced PDCCH with Transmit Diversity in LTE Systems - A method is provided for communication in a wireless telecommunications network. The method comprises transmitting an extended physical downlink control channel to a user equipment using transmit diversity from at least one demodulation reference signal port. | 2013-03-14 |
| 20130064216 | DMRS Association and Signaling for Enhanced PDCCH in LTE Systems - A method is provided for operating a UE in a wireless communication network. The method comprises sending, by the UE, an ACK/NACK message after receiving data on a PDSCH scheduled by an E-PDCCH, wherein the sending is from at least one antenna port and uses at least one physical resource, and wherein the at least one physical resource is determined based at least partially on a resource over which the E-PDCCH is received, and wherein the resource over which the E-PDCCH is received consists of at least one eCCE. | 2013-03-14 |
| 20130064217 | EFFICIENT UPLINK FEEDBACK IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method for transmitting control information by transmitting a reference signal from a first transceiver to a second transceiver, in response to the reception of the reference signal, determining at the second transceiver a plurality of control channel elements based upon the received reference signal, jointly encoding the plurality of control channel elements at the second transceiver to generate a control signal, and transmitting the control signal from the second transceiver to the first transceiver. | 2013-03-14 |
| 20130064218 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ALLOCATION OF MACRO CELL RESOURCES IN A DISTRIBUTED FEMTO CELL NETWORK AND A DISTRIBUTED RELAY STATION NETWORK - A method implemented in a wireless network including a first base station and a second base station is disclosed. The method includes, upon a change in a load condition, transmitting from the second base station to the first base station load information through backhaul in order to coordinate the first base station and the second base station, allocating, to the second base station, one or more tiles corresponding to one or more time-frequency resource blocks of orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA), and allocating remaining tiles to the first base station. Other methods and apparatuses are also disclosed. | 2013-03-14 |
| 20130064219 | Methods and Network Nodes for Signalling of Complementary Assistance Data - A positioning node ( | 2013-03-14 |
| 20130064220 | HANDOFF OF A MOBILE DEVICE MOVING AT A HIGH RELATIVE VELOCITY TO BASE STATIONS FOR A WIRELESS NETWORK - Examples are disclosed for handoff of a mobile device moving at a high relative velocity to a plurality of base stations for a wireless network. | 2013-03-14 |
| 20130064221 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING AN ACCESS NETWORK RE-SELECTION - The present disclosure relates to a system for managing an access network re-selection. The system comprises providing means, establishing means and executing means. Said providing means may be configured to provide a first indication indicating a target access network to be re-selected in case of a handover event and a second indication for establishing a certain context on the target access network. Further, said establishing means may be configured to establish the certain context on the target access network dependent on the provided second indication, said established context including a first part of the access network re-selection. Said executing means may be configured to execute a second part of the access network re-selection due to the provided first indication and the received handover trigger triggering said handover event. | 2013-03-14 |
| 20130064222 | NETWORK SELECTION - A wireless user device, in radio communication with a first access point of one or more networks with which it could communicate via at least one of a plurality of access points, sends a network selection request to the first access point. If the network wishes to initiate a response from another access point in the same or another network, the first access point forwards the network selection request to one or more neighboring access points, in the same or another network. If any of the neighboring access points is able to communicate with the user device, that neighboring access point sends a response directly to the wireless user device and the wireless user device chooses the most suitable network from the responses sent. | 2013-03-14 |
| 20130064223 | SUPPORT FOR MULTI-HOMING PROTOCOLS - The present invention solves the problems with a new proxy binding update request and proxy binding acknowledgement messages having new indicators and identification information. Namely, the home agent/local mobility anchor will exchange proxy binding update messages and proxy binding acknowledge messages that include information such as mobile node identification (MN-ID), home network prefix (HNP), but can also include selective information fields such as, access type, handover indicator (HO), and interface identification (interface ID). By including new access type, indicator, and identification information, the local mobility anchor can respond to a binding update request message with a better understanding of the new connectivity request from the mobile node. | 2013-03-14 |
| 20130064224 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING A HANDOVER IN AN EVOLVED UNIVERSAL TERRESTRIAL RADIO ACCESS NETWORK - A method and an apparatus for performing a handover in an evolved universal terrestrial radio access network (E-UTRAN) are disclosed. A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) sends a measurement report to a source evolved Node B (eNB), and receives a handover command from the source eNB. The WTRU initiates reception and processing of a primary broadcast channel (P-BCH) at the target cell after receiving the handover command. The WTRU then sends a random access preamble to the target eNB, receives a random access response from the target eNB, and sends a handover complete message to the target eNB. The reception and processing of the P-BCH may be initiated immediately after receiving the handover command or after sending the handover complete message. The WTRU may apply default configuration or source cell configuration in the target cell until a target cell SFN and/or P-BCH information are acquired. | 2013-03-14 |
| 20130064225 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SECURITY ACTIVATION IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK - Systems and methodologies are provided that facilitate security activation for wireless communications. In an aspect, a method for wireless communication is provided which includes determining a first security key for communicating with a source access point and receiving, from the source access point, a handover command that includes an indication of whether to apply a second security key upon handover. The method also includes handing over communication from the source access point to a target access point, where the second security key is applied for communicating with the target access point upon the handover when the handover command indicates to apply the second security key. | 2013-03-14 |
| 20130064226 | Handover in Heterogeneous Wireless Networks - A first base station in a network initiates handover of a wireless device in connected mode to a second base station. The first base station and the second base station have substantially different transmit powers. The first base station initiates a handover employing a first criterion, if the wireless device is in an active call from a first call category with the first base station. The first base station initiates a handover using a second criterion, if the wireless device is not in an active call from a first call category with the first base station. | 2013-03-14 |
| 20130064227 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE, AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD - Disclosed are a wireless communication method and device which can maintain frequency scheduling flexibility and improve system throughput performance. A Walsh sequence number determination unit ( | 2013-03-14 |
| 20130064228 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING MODULATION ORDER OF UPLINK CONTROL INFORMATION IN MULTIPLE ANTENNA WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND DEVICE THEREFOR - Disclosed is a method for allowing a terminal equipped with multiple antennas to transmit uplink control information in a wireless communication system. More specifically, the method comprises the steps of generating a plurality of codewords by using data information and said uplink control information; modulating each of the generated codewords based on predetermined modulation orders; and transmitting the modulated signals to a base station through said multiple antennas, wherein first uplink control information of said uplink control information is mapped into a particular codeword among the plurality of codewords, second uplink control information is repeated and mapped for each of the plurality of codewords, and a modulation order for the second uplink control information is the modulation order corresponding to said particular codeword. | 2013-03-14 |
| 20130064229 | Energy Efficient Method For Communication In A Wireless Sensor Network Of An Industrial Control System - A method for communication in a wireless sensor network of an industrial control system. The network includes a plurality of device nodes and at least one gateway. The method includes aggregating in at least one wireless device data originating from at least two data packets. The method includes receiving at a first node at least one first data packet for a first destination address and aggregating data from the at least one data packet with data from at least one second data packet, intended for the same first destination address, forming an aggregated data packet and sending the aggregated data packet to another node or to said gateway. In other aspects of the invention a method, system and a computer program for carrying out the method are described. | 2013-03-14 |
| 20130064230 | METHOD OF TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING SIGNAL IN A DISTRIBUTED ANTENNA SYSTEM - A method of transmitting a signal from a base station to a user equipment in a multi-node system comprises down-link-transmitting a signal at a first zone of a radio frame by using centralized antennas (CAs); and downlink-transmitting a signal at a second zone used for a backhaul link of a relay in the radio frame by using distributed nodes, wherein the first zone and the second zone are multiplexed by time division. | 2013-03-14 |
| 20130064231 | GENERATING DOWNLINK FRAME AND SEARCHING FOR CELL - The present invention relates to a method for generating a downlink frame including generating a first short sequence and a second short sequence indicating cell group information, generating a first scrambling sequence determined by the first synchronization signal, generating a second scrambling sequence determined by the first short sequence, scrambling the first short sequence with the first scrambling sequence, scrambling the second short sequence with at least the second scrambling sequence, and mapping a second synchronization signal including the scrambled first short sequence and the scrambled second short sequence in the frequency domain. | 2013-03-14 |
| 20130064232 | TECHNIQUES FOR REDUCING OVERHEAD IN A COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM - Parallel demodulators are provided in field units. Forward and reverse channel allocation information may be broadcast to the field units in the same epoch as traffic data but on first and second channels, such as paging and traffic channels. This assures that all field units are able to receive forward and reverse channel allocation information every epoch. By having parallel demodulators in the field unit, switching between the first and second channels is avoided and channel allocation information is not lost. | 2013-03-14 |
| 20130064233 | Transceiver Station for Forming a Telecommunications Network Node and Associated Telecommunications Method - A transceiver station is provided for forming a telecommunications network node. The station includes at least two transceiver radio modules and a control module. Each transceiver module is adapted to operate alternatingly as a subscriber station and as a base station, as a function of commands from the control module. The control module is adapted to determine a modification of the state of the network and to dynamically control at least one change in the operation of at least one transceiver module, from subscriber station to base station or vice versa, as a function of at least the determined modification. The control module is adapted so that the number of subscriber stations connected to a base station is at most equal to 1. | 2013-03-14 |
| 20130064234 | HARDWARE-BASED PACKET ADDRESS PARSING FOR PACKET RECEPTION IN WIRELESS NETWORKS - An apparatus comprises a network physical layer and an activity sensor for sensing a packet and activating the network physical layer from shutdown. The network physical layer decodes a PHY header portion and a media access control header portion of a packet header. A MAC has a fixed hardware media access plane implementing IEEE 802.11 series MAC functionality and couples to a microprocessor. A MAC address parser receives the MAC header portion of the packet, for processing the MAC header portion of the packet, and for activating the MAC from a shutdown in response to recognizing a MAC address within the MAC header portion of the packet, such that the MAC is not activated if the MAC parser does not recognize the MAC address, wherein the MAC is operable, after activation, to perform MAC functionality without the microprocessor and to provide data from the packet to the microprocessor. | 2013-03-14 |
| 20130064235 | Turbo Modes for BAN-based Communications - A first device is adapted to communicate with a second device using a protocol standard. The devices exchange security and connection setup frames using a preamble format and a header format defined in the protocol standard. The connection setup frames specify a modified protocol using a truncated preamble, a shortened header, or both. The devices configure their transceivers to transmit and receive frames formatted based on the modified protocol. | 2013-03-14 |
| 20130064236 | Control of Quality of Service in Overlapping Basic Service Sets in Wireless Local Area Networks - Access priority for wireless devices located in an area in which radiofrequency (RF) coverage areas of a first wireless access point and a second wireless access point overlap is controlled by coordinating operation of the first wireless access point and the second wireless access point. The wireless devices access a common RF channel via a collision sense multiple access/collision avoidance mechanism. The probability of accessing the RF channel may be varied by adjusting the length of interframe spacings and the length of contention windows. The length of the interframe spacings and the length of the contention windows associated with the first access point and associated with the second access point are configured such that the probability of wireless devices associated with the first wireless access point accessing the RF channel is greater than the probability of wireless devices associated with the second wireless access point accessing the RF channel. | 2013-03-14 |
| 20130064237 | Wireless Communication System, Cluster Head Equipment (CHE) Installed In Wireless Communication System, And Wireless Communication Method - Disclosed is a wireless communication system and the like that can avoid interference even if a plurality of networks coexist. The wireless communication system includes a primary user, cluster head equipment, and a secondary user. The cluster head equipment is for providing a local area network to a cluster region containing the abovementioned primary user. Also, the cluster head equipment contains: an acquisition means that acquires one or both—of information regarding the primary user and information regarding a primary signal—and the like; and a transmission means that transmits information to the secondary user. Then, using this wireless communication system, the secondary user performs cognitive wireless communication or the like on the basis of the information received from the transmission means of the cluster head equipment. | 2013-03-14 |
| 20130064238 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, COMMUNICATION METHOD AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - In a communication system adapted to MIMO transmission, a receiver may include a filter to filter signals received from a transmitter through the receiver antennas and having a weight matrix thereof updated by an adaptive algorithm with respect to each substream message symbol from the transmitter, and a code generator to feed back a part of the weight matrix updated by the filter, as an updated STF code, to the transmitter. The transmitter may make the transmission using the updated STF code which is optimized for a current channel state. | 2013-03-14 |
| 20130064239 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SYNCHRONIZING AND OBTAINING SYSTEM INFORMATION IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A base station and terminal use methods of obtaining synchronization and system information in a wireless communication system. An operation of a base station includes generating a synchronization signal to be transmitted through a Synchronization Channel (SCH), generating a broadcast signal to be transmitted through a Broadcast Channel (BCH), and transmitting repetitively the SCH and the BCH by performing beamforming on the channels with different transmission beams. | 2013-03-14 |
| 20130064240 | Systems and methods for multiple mode voice and data communications using intelligenty bridged TDM and packet buses - In a communications system, a first packet network is provided. Packetized data is transferred between the system and one or more packet-based devices. A TDM network is provided, and data is transmitted in frames having slots. Data transmitted via the TDM network includes data for voice communications for telephony devices. The TDM network is selectively coupled to the first packet network and a WAN. A processor and a control bus interface circuit control transfer of packetized data and transmittal of data for voice communications. The processor controls processing of packetized data and data'for voice communications. A switch/multiplexer selectively controls providing data to/from particular slots. The processor selectively controls voice communications from telephony devices over the TDM network and packet-based communications over the packet network. Voice communications that stay in a circuit-switched form occur over the TDM network and the WAN. | 2013-03-14 |
| 20130064241 | AGILE NETWORK PROTOCOL FOR SECURE COMMUNICATIONS USING SECURE DOMAIN NAMES - A network device comprises a storage device storing an application program for a secure communications service, and at least one processor configured to execute the application program for the secure communications service so as to enable the network device to send a request to look up a network address of a second device based on an identifier associated with the second device, receive an indication that the second device is available for the secure communications service, the indication including the requested network address and provisioning information for a secure communication link, connect to the second device over the secure communication link, using the received network address of the second device and the provisioning information for the secure communication link, and communicate at least one of video data and audio data with the second device using the secure communications service via the secure communication link. | 2013-03-14 |
| 20130064242 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO MEASURE MARKET SHARE FOR VOICE OVER INTERNET PROTOCOL CARRIERS - Methods and apparatus to measure market share for VoIP carriers is disclosed. An example method includes querying a plurality of VoIP carrier servers to determine the VoIP carrier server that owns the telephone subscriber number (SN), in response to the querying, receiving a plurality of messages operable to determine whether the telephone SN is found within any one of the plurality of VoIP carrier servers, when the received plurality of messages is at least one of inconclusive or when the telephone SN is not found within any one of the plurality of VoIP carrier servers, placing a first partial call to the telephone SN from a first VoIP number within a first VoIP carrier network, receiving a first signal from the first VoIP carrier network, and based on the first received signal, determining whether the telephone SN belongs to the first VoIP carrier network. | 2013-03-14 |
| 20130064243 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, COMMUNICATION DEVICE, CONTROLLER, AND METHOD AND PROGRAM FOR CONTROLLING FORWARDING PATH OF PACKET FLOW - A communication system includes a communication device controlling packet forwarding, and a controller setting a first table entry used for packet forwarding according to a request from the communication device. The communication device determines whether to forward a received packet according to the first table entry or forward the received packet according to a second table entry set by the communication device based on a rule for identifying a received packet. The load of the controller for controlling paths can be reduced. | 2013-03-14 |
| 20130064244 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SHORTEST PATH BRIDGING OF MULTICAST TRAFFIC - Methods, system and apparatus for determining shortest path bridging (SPB) of multicast frames within a communications network. | 2013-03-14 |
| 20130064245 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR FORWARDING DATA UNDER PROTOCOL INDEPENDENT MULTICAST DUAL JOIN - Embodiments of the present invention relates to the field of communications, which complements a data forwarding method of a backup incoming interface under protocol independent multicast dual join in a PIM protocol, facilitates implementation of compatibility in various manufacturers, and reduces a restriction of a network topology on the application of the PIM protocol. The method includes: when a main incoming interface is up, forwarding, by a router, multicast data received from a backup incoming interface to the main incoming interface in a join state; and when the main incoming interface is down, before selecting a new main incoming interface and/or backup incoming interface, forwarding, by the router, the multicast data received from the backup incoming interface to all interfaces in a join state or to all other interfaces in a join state except the backup incoming interface. | 2013-03-14 |
| 20130064246 | Packet Forwarding Using an Approximate Ingress Table and an Exact Egress Table - Techniques are provided for forwarding packets via an intermediate network device. A packet comprising a destination MAC address is received at a first port of a network device having a plurality of bi-directional ports. A second port of the network device to which the packet should be forwarded is identified through the use of at least an approximate ingress table at the first port comprising a plurality of compressed destination MAC addresses each having an associated egress port, and the packet is forwarded to the second port. At the second port, a subsequent network device to which the packet should be forwarded is identified through the use of an exact egress table at the second port including exact destination MAC addresses each associated with a network device connected to the second port, and the packet is forwarded to the subsequent network device. | 2013-03-14 |
| 20130064247 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PROCESSING SOURCE ROLE INFORMATION - A method and device for processing source role information in which a source role tag is inserted into a packet as an inner VLAN tag of the packet and used to perform role based access control processing for the packet. | 2013-03-14 |
| 20130064248 | HANDLING OUT-OF-SEQUENCE PACKETS IN A CIRCUIT EMULATION SERVICE - Various exemplary embodiments relate to a method and related network node having a playout buffer including one or more of the following: receiving, at the network device, a first packet belonging to a first flow, the first packet including a first sequence number (SN); receiving, at the network device, a second packet belonging to the first flow, the second packet including a second SN; determining that the second SN is not in sequence with the first SN; waiting to receive, at the network device, a third packet belonging to the first flow, the third packet including a third SN; and determining that a jump in SNs has occurred for the first flow between the first packet and the second packet based on determining that the third SN is in sequence with the second SN. | 2013-03-14 |
| 20130064249 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING COMMUNICATION PORTS - Embodiments of the present invention are directed to a communication system that enables transmitting control signals between communication devices connected with a communication cable. The control signals are either to activate a visual indicator associated with the second port or to request a unique identification number and the signals are transmitted without changing the voltage polarity between the control wires. The communication cable may include at one end a connector having a control circuitry, a visual indicator and a unique identification number. | 2013-03-14 |
| 20130064250 | REMOTELY ACCESSING AND CONTROLLING USER EQUIPMENT IN A PRIVATE NETWORK - Described embodiments provide a method for enabling a remote terminal outside a private network to remotely access and control at least one user equipment inside the private network by a remote access control device in the private network. A gateway device of the private network may be requested to set up first port forwarding enabling the remote terminal to remotely access the remote access control device, receiving a remote access request message from the remote terminal through the first port forwarding. After setting up the first port forwarding setup, the gateway device may be required to set up second port forwarding enabling the remote terminal to remotely access selected user equipment indicated in the received remote access request message in response to the remote access request message. | 2013-03-14 |
| 20130064251 | Automatic Detection of Channel Bandwidth - A step-wise approach to automatically determining the bandwidth of a communication channel includes dividing the channel's potential bandwidth into a number of ranges. An initial range is then selected and a series of data packets specific to the selected range are transmitted from a first endpoint to a second endpoint, with the second endpoint determining one or more channel metrics based on the transmitted packets (e.g., measured transmission rates). If the metrics indicate the current range accurately reflects the channel's bandwidth, a measured transmission rate of the transmitted data packets is used as the channel's bandwidth. Otherwise, another range is selected and the process is repeated. The described approach rapidly determines channel bandwidth, even when the channel between the two endpoints is asymmetric. Techniques described herein are particularly beneficial when used in conjunction with multimedia conferencing applications. | 2013-03-14 |
| 20130064252 | SIGNAL TRANSMISSION/RECEPTION CIRCUIT - The code word generation section generates a code word by adding an error checking and correcting code to an word. The conversion section divides the code words into bit strings each including information bits having the same number of bits as that of the word and code bits having the same number of bits as that of the error checking and correction code, and for each of the bit strings, outputs the information bits of the bit string to a first signal line group and outputs the code bits to a second signal line group. When dividing the code words into the bit strings, the code words are divided in such a manner as to satisfy a condition that a plurality of bits of the same code word are not output at the same time on a particular signal line group. | 2013-03-14 |
| 20130064253 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR MULTI-STAGE MULTIPLEXING IN A NETWORK - Methods and apparatus for performing multiplexing of video or other content (e.g., programs) within a network using feed-back from a subsequent digital program insertion stage, and/or feed-forward information from a prior multiplexing stage. In one embodiment, the network comprises a hybrid fiber coax (HFC) cable network having headend and hub-based statistical multiplexing stages, and communication between the two stages is used to improve the visual quality performance and bandwidth utilization of the output multi-program stream during conditions where downstream content is inserted into the transport stream. Business methods associated with the various multiplexing features described above are also disclosed. | 2013-03-14 |
| 20130064254 | PCR CLOCK RECOVERY IN AN IP NETWORK - An IP network includes a central entity and at least one customer premises equipment (CPE) device. The central entity generates a program clock reference (PCR) clock and provides audio-visual packets to a CPE based on the PCR clock. The CPE sets a first clock based on the PCR clock for decoding operations. The CPE sets a second clock that is independent from the first clock for audio and video output operations. For example, the CPE can process the audio-visual packets using the second clock. | 2013-03-14 |
| 20130064255 | SYSTEM, APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING AGGREGATED NETWORK CONNECTIONS - The invention discloses a network aggregation system, apparatus and method for creating aggregated network connections to provide high availability and increased throughput where the plurality of network connections may possess diverse physical and logical characteristics. Increased throughput on the aggregated network connection equals the sum of the available throughput on the aggregated network connections. Aggregation is performed in a transparent fashion, independent of any physical or logical characteristics of the individual connections. Network connectivity over the aggregated connection is managed such that the loss or gain of connectivity in an individual connection among the aggregated group does not result in the loss of data from the data stream aggregation device. | 2013-03-14 |
| 20130064256 | CONTROLLABLE MULTI-WAVELENGTH LASER SOURCE - In at least one embodiment a laser system includes a fiber laser source, a polarization controller and a wavelength converter. The relative power distribution between a pump wavelength and a signal wavelength is controllable using the polarization controller. An optional phase compensator is used to control polarization state of the output laser beam. In various embodiments the relative power distribution among multiple wavelengths may be controlled over a range of at least about 100:1. | 2013-03-14 |
| 20130064257 | PULSE LIGHT SOURCE - The pulse light source comprises a seed light source, a first YbDF, a band-pass filter, a second YbDF, and a third YbDF, and has the MOPA structure. The band-pass filter inputs pulse light which is outputted from the seed light source and amplified by the first stage YbDF, and outputs, while separating a wavelength band of the inputted pulse light into a shorter wavelength side and a longer wavelength side with reference to a peak wavelength of the inputted pulse light, the attenuated pulse light after attenuating the optical power on one side more than the optical power on the other side between the shorter and longer wavelength sides. | 2013-03-14 |
| 20130064258 | MASTER OSCILLATOR SYSTEM AND LASER APPARATUS - A master oscillator system may include a grating that functions as one of a plurality of resonator mirrors in an optical resonator, an optical element disposed within an optical path between the plurality of resonator mirrors, and an attitude control mechanism that adjusts an angle at which laser light traveling within the optical resonator is incident on the grating by adjusting the attitude of the optical element. | 2013-03-14 |
| 20130064259 | SOLID-STATE LASER APPARATUS AND LASER SYSTEM - A solid-state laser apparatus may include: a master oscillator configured to output laser light having at least one longitudinal mode, the master oscillator being capable of changing the spectral linewidth of the laser light output therefrom; at least one amplifier located downstream of the master oscillator on an optical path; a wavelength converter located downstream of the amplifier on the optical path; a detector configured to detect the spectrum of the laser light; and a controller configured to control the spectral linewidth of the laser light output from the master oscillator based on a detection result of the detector. | 2013-03-14 |
| 20130064260 | LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE - Broad light emission is provided and additionally heat conductivity is increased to improve reliability. A light emitting device comprises a light emitting element, a pair of conductor members, a transparent board and a transparent member. The conductor members are spaced away from each other at an interval in a side-surface direction of the light emitting element and are electrically connected to the light emitting element. The transparent board supports the light emitting element and the pair of conductive members. The transparent member is located on the transparent board and seals the light emitting element and the pair of conductor members. The pair of conductor members are provided with a pair of metal plates that are secured thereon. The pair of metal plates project from the transparent member in directions different from each other. | 2013-03-14 |
| 20130064261 | Solid State Laser Device Using a Selected Crystal Orientation in Non-Polar or Semi-Polar GaN Containing Materials and Methods - An edge emitting solid state laser and method. The laser comprises at least one AlInGaN active layer on a bulk GaN substrate with a non-polar or semi-polar orientation. The edges of the laser comprise {1 1−2±6} facets. The laser has high gain, low threshold currents, capability for extended operation at high current densities, and can be manufactured with improved yield. The laser is useful for optical data storage, projection displays, and as a source for general illumination. | 2013-03-14 |
