13th week of 2012 patent applcation highlights part 31 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20120076029 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING AVAILABILITY METRICS FOR MEASUREMENT AND MANAGMENT OF ETHERNET SERVICES - Maintenance entities may be defined between customer and provider flow points to allow performance management to take place on an Ethernet network. The maintenance entities may be defined for access link, intra-domain, and inter-domain, and may be defined on a link or service basis. Performance parameters, including availability metrics, may be collected for the maintenance entities. The provision of such availability metrics in an Ethernet based solution to facilitate consistency of service management and operations for carriers transitioning to the Ethernet solution. | 2012-03-29 |
20120076030 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO MEASURE THE PERFORMANCE OF A DE-JITTER BUFFER - Systems and methods to measure the performance of a de-jitter buffer are disclosed. An example method includes transmitting a known audio signal via a plurality of packets over a packet-based network, recording a received signal based on the known audio signal, analyzing the recorded signal to determine one or more of a lower size, an upper size, an expansion speed, or a contraction speed of a de-jitter buffer based on the recorded signal and the known signal, comparing the one or more of the lower size, the upper size, the expansion speed, or the contraction speed to a performance requirement, and correcting communication network performance based on the comparison. Determining the expansion speed includes filling a lower portion of the de-jitter buffer, adding jitter to the plurality of packets, the jitter increasing at a first rate, and identifying the expansion speed as the first rate if no packet loss occurs. | 2012-03-29 |
20120076031 | RESOURCE ALLOCATION TO USERS IN SLOTTED CODE DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS SYSTEMS USING BEAMS - The invention includes several embodiments for slot assignment in code division multiple access communication systems. One embodiment for fixed beams assigns slots by first detecting a beam having the best received quality and selected the best slot from that beam. Another fixed beam embodiment determines the best slot or slots in a number of beams and determines the overall best beam/slot combination. Another fixed beam embodiment uses a modified interference factor. One embodiment for the uplink using adaptive arrays using a spatial analysis stage followed by a transmission power level estimation stage. An overall interference level associated with each slot is determined and a slot having the best overall quality is determined. Another embodiment for the downlink uses the spatial analysis and slot assignment of the uplink for the downlink. Another embodiment for the downlink uses a spatial and transmission power level estimation stages. | 2012-03-29 |
20120076032 | MULTI-USER MIMO-SDMA FOR FINITE RATE FEEDBACK SYSTEMS - A multi-user v downlink beamforming system with limited feedback ( | 2012-03-29 |
20120076033 | METHODS FOR OPPORTUNISTIC MULTI-USER BEAMFORMING IN COLLABORATIVE MIMO-SDMA - A system and method for opportunistically designing collaborative beamforming vectors is disclosed for a wireless multiple input, multiple output (MIMO) space division multiple access (SDMA) communication system by sequentially designing beamforming vectors for ranked channels in order to exploit the instantaneous channel conditions to improve per user average SNR performance. Each subscriber station independently transmits information to a base station that allows the base station to determine beamforming vectors for each subscriber station by ranking the subscriber stations by channel strength. Using sequential nullspace methods, the ranked channel matrices are then used to select the channel matrix H | 2012-03-29 |
20120076034 | Baseband Processor Apparatus and Method for Monitoring A Wireless Communication Network - A baseband processor of a distributed architecture for monitoring mobile communication in a wireless communication network is claimed. Systems and methods enable receiving reporting data related to events that occur in a wireless network from the perspective of the wireless device. The data management system is capable of generating a data reporting profile and communicating with a wireless device. The application processor is capable of monitoring and reporting a plurality of conditions within the wireless device and sending and receiving communications from the data management system. The baseband processor is capable of monitoring and reporting plurality of conditions on the wireless network and sending and receiving communications with the application processor. Both the application processor and the baseband processor monitor and report the conditions of the device and the network by applying a series of logical rules found within the data reporting profile. | 2012-03-29 |
20120076035 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SETTING UP A BEARER - Method and system for setting up a bearer are disclosed. The bearer setup method includes these steps: a packet data network gateway (PGW) obtains first quality of service (QoS) information and a first bearer identifier (ID), and sets up a bearer between the PGW and a radio access network (RAN) according to the first QoS information, where the bearer is associated with the first bearer ID; the RAN sets up a radio bearer (RB) with a user equipment (UE) according to second QoS information associated with the first QoS information, where the RB is associated with a second bearer ID associated with the first bearer ID. | 2012-03-29 |
20120076036 | Method and System for Proxy A/V Bridging on an Ethernet Switch - Aspects of a system for proxy NV bridging on an Ethernet switch may include an AV switch enables reception of incoming PDUs from a legacy device via an AV block network, wherein each incoming PDU contains an AV stream identifier (which consists of a destination address and may also consist of a traffic class designation and/or higher level protocol identifiers). The destination address may identify a destination AV device within the AV block network. The AV switch may enable generation of outgoing PDUs by inserting or modifying a corresponding traffic class designation within each of the incoming PDUs. The AV switch may enable transmission using a specific traffic shaping process of each of the outgoing PDUs to a destination AV device within the AV block network based on the AV stream identifier and corresponding QoS parameters. | 2012-03-29 |
20120076037 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING SOUNDING REFERENCE SIGNAL IN RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Disclosed is a method for transmitting a sounding reference signal from to a base station in a radio communication system. More specifically, the method comprises the steps of: transmitting a periodic sounding reference signal to a base station; receiving a transmission instruction for an additional sounding reference signal from the base station; multiplexing said periodic sounding reference signal and said additional sounding reference signal along a frequency axis or a time axis; and transmitting said multiplexed periodic sounding reference signal and said additional sounding reference signal to said base station. Said multiplexing step is characterized by multiplexing said periodic sounding reference signal and said additional sounding reference signal along a frequency axis or a time axis. | 2012-03-29 |
20120076038 | INFORMATION FEEDBACK METHOD FOR COORDINATED MULTIPOINT COMMUNICATION - Coordinated multipoint communication is a technology for improving cell-edge performance for users in a cell-type mobile communication system. In order to enable a coordinated multipoint transmission/reception operation, a user equipment report of a local environment is required to select both coordinated communication modes and communication partners in evolved Node B (eNB) base stations. According to the present invention, a method is described for feeding back information from User Equipment (UE) to a serving base station to enable a coordinated multi-point transmission/reception operation. The information reported through the feedback is classified into two categories corresponding to received signal intensity information and received signal timing information. The UE may select one or both types of information from between the categories to provide feedback. In embodiments of the present invention, various overhead-reducing reporting formats are described. | 2012-03-29 |
20120076039 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING SIGNAL USING SPATIAL SILENCING - The present invention relates to a method for transmitting signals in a heterogeneous network, the method comprising: a step wherein a base station determines a value-added vector for forming a beam pattern to be applied to a subsidiary carrier; a step wherein carrier operation information including information related to the determined value-added vector is transmitted via a primary carrier; and a step wherein the subsidiary carrier is transmitted by applying the determined value-added vector. | 2012-03-29 |
20120076040 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD - To suppress concentration of channel quality information requests and reports in a case of discontinuously transmitting reference signals at specific resources in a time domain, and thereby preventing degradation in throughput. A transmission apparatus (eNB) transmits an instruction of CSI request distributed for each reception apparatus in a subframe concurrently with or earlier than a reference signal CSI-RS to each of reception apparatuses (UE | 2012-03-29 |
20120076041 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR REPORTING MEASUREMENT RESULT IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and apparatus of reporting a measurement result in a wireless communication system is provided. A user equipment receives, from a base station, measurement configuration information comprising a reporting condition for triggering reporting of a measurement result on M component carriers among N component carriers, where M≦N. The user equipment determines whether the reporting condition is satisfied by measuring the N component carriers. If the reporting condition is satisfied, the user equipment reports a measurement result on the M component carriers to the base station. | 2012-03-29 |
20120076042 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RANDOM ACCESS IN A MULTI-CARRIER WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The present invention relates to a wireless communication system, and discloses a method and an apparatus for performing random access in a multi-carrier wireless communication system. According to one embodiment of the present invention, the method in which user equipment carries out a process for random access to a base station in a multi-carrier wireless communication system comprises: a step of measuring the channel qualities of one or more uplink component carriers, and determining the uplink component carrier having the highest channel quality; a step of selecting a physical random access channel (PRACH) resource on the uplink component carrier having the highest channel quality; and a step of transmitting a random access preamble to the base station using the selected PRACH resource. | 2012-03-29 |
20120076043 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION BASE STATION DEVICE, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION TERMINAL DEVICE, CONTROL CHANNEL TRANSMISSION METHOD, AND CONTROL CHANNEL RECEPTION METHOD - Disclosed is a wireless communication base station device which can prevent unnecessary HARQ retransmissions when a terminal is using a plurality of unit bands, even when the unit band through which data is transmitted differs from the unit band through which a PDCCH, to which the resource allocation information of said data is allocated, is transmitted. In this device, a control unit ( | 2012-03-29 |
20120076044 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LOGGING TRAFFIC FLOW - A system and method for monitoring user traffic. An observance window is established for a time period associated with the CIR rate. Incoming bits are measured to determine if the CIR rate plus a CBS rate is exceeded. A determination is made whether there is a threshold crossing during the observance window. A flag state is set indicating a user traffic flow is out of conformance in response to determining there is a threshold crossing. | 2012-03-29 |
20120076045 | TERMINAL CONFIGURABLE FOR USE WITHIN AN UNKNOWN REGULATORY DOMAIN - A terminal for use within an unknown regulatory domain, and a computer program product and method for configuring the terminal, are provided. The terminal can comprise first program instructions to actively scan one or more domain independent channels in a frequency band, second program instructions to configure the terminal for use in the unknown regulatory domain in response to the terminal receiving regulatory domain information as a result of actively scanning one or more of the domain independent channels, third program instructions to passively scan one or more domain dependent channels in the frequency band in response to the terminal not receiving the regulatory domain information as a result of actively scanning one or more of the domain independent channels, and fourth program instructions to configure the terminal for use in the unknown regulatory domain in response to passively scanning one or more domain dependent channels in the frequency band. | 2012-03-29 |
20120076046 | Method for Inheriting Attribute of Forwarding Adjacency in Multilayer Network and Corresponding Multilayer Network - The present invention provides a method for inheriting an attribute of a FA in a multilayer network, which comprises: returning information of a first attribute of each link on a FA LSP in a path computation reply message to an upper layer head node, and initiating connection setup; a head node on the FA LSP constructing the first attribute of this FA according to information of the first attribute of each link on the FA LSP included in a path message sent from a upstream node and storing the first attribute of this FA, and sending information of the first attribute of this FA to a downstream node; and c) the tail node on the FA LSP obtaining information of the first attribute of this FA and storing the first attribute of this FA. The present invention also provides a multilayer network. | 2012-03-29 |
20120076047 | MAINTAINING CURRENT CELL LOCATION INFORMATION IN A CELLULAR ACCESS NETWORK - A method, femto Base Station, and network service node for connecting a User Equipment UE, to local devices in a local network. The femtoBS includes a femtoBS part and a Packet Data Network Gateway, PDN-GW, part comprising a subset of PDN-GW functions. The UE sends a PDN connection request that includes a special Access Point Name, APN, which indicates the request ts for local IP access. The network service node, such as a Mobility Management Entity, MME1 includes a gateway selection mechanism that, based on the special APN1 selects the PDN GW part of the femtoBS device to serve the connection. A route optimization function in the femtoBS shortcuts the traffic between the femtoBS part and the PDN GW part, providing direct access to the local network. The UE may access the Internet through a residential gateway in the local network and a fixed access connection. | 2012-03-29 |
20120076048 | LOAD SHARING AND REDUNDANCY SCHEME - Methods and apparatus for providing a device for forwarding packets in a network are disclosed. A first router and a second router having a shared set of interfaces are provided, enabling the first router and the second router to share forwarding data for forwarding packets on the shared set of interfaces. | 2012-03-29 |
20120076049 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PERFORMING PEER-TO-PEER COMMUNICATION BETWEEN STATIONS WITHIN A BASIC SERVICE SET - A method and system for performing peer-to-peer wireless communication between stations (STAs) within a basic service set (BSS) while maintaining connectivity with an access point (AP) in the BSS are disclosed. A source STA, an AP and a destination STA negotiate a direct link setup (DLS) channel for performing peer-to-peer communication between the source STA and the destination STA. The DLS channel may be different from a BSS channel used for communication between the AP and each of the STAs. The source STA and the destination STA then perform peer-to-peer communication on the negotiated DLS channel. | 2012-03-29 |
20120076050 | CONTROL DEVICE, COMMUNICATION TERMINAL, CONTROL METHOD, COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD, AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - In a power line communication system, a control device sets an intra-breaker communication period during which communication is performed between communication terminals connected to a single breaker, and an inter-breaker communication priority period during which communication is performed between communication terminals connected to different breakers from each other. The control device operates filters so that the filters allow signals that travel via breakers to pass through the filters during the inter-breaker communication priority period, and so that the filters block signals that travel via breakers from passing through the filters during the intra-breaker communication period. | 2012-03-29 |
20120076051 | WIRELESS TERMINAL AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM SWITCHING METHOD - A wireless terminal involving small redundancy that can be reconfigured to a configuration compatible with a plurality of systems using the hardware resources compatible with one system is provided. A wireless terminal | 2012-03-29 |
20120076052 | METHOD AND NODE FOR FINDING CONTENT IN A CONTENT DISTRIBUTION NETWORK, AND METHOD FOR CREATING A VIRTUAL REPRESENTATION OF A CONTENT DISTRIBUTION NETWORK - Embodiments of the present invention a method and a node for finding the shortest path to a cache node in a content delivery network (CDN) comprising requested content and a method for creating a virtual representation of a network. According to an embodiment of the present invention, the virtual representation is in the form of a virtual, hierarchical topology, and the cache nodes correspond to the cache nodes of the real network. All cache nodes are arranged at a first level and with the virtual nodes arranged at higher levels. In the virtual representation, all nodes (cache and virtual) are connected with virtual links such that there exist only one path between any two arbitrary cache nodes. Further, costs to the virtual links are assigned such that the path cost between any two arbitrary cache nodes in the virtual representation generally corresponds to the lowest path cost between corresponding cache nodes in the real network. | 2012-03-29 |
20120076053 | Call Forwarding Methods And Apparatus For Mobile Communication Devices Which Operate In WWANS And WLANS - A mobile device operates in a WLAN for VoIP communications, which includes registering with registrar server functionality of a SIP proxy server with a SIP identity which is further communicated to a location server. In response to an incoming voice call from a caller via a telephone network, the mobile device receives an INVITE request which is issued from a gateway and forwarded from the SIP proxy server. The mobile device sends a response to the SIP proxy server which is communicated to the caller via the gateway. When switching from the WLAN to the cellular network, the mobile device sends via the WLAN to the location server a message for forwarding voice calls directed to the SIP identity to the telephone number. The mobile device also sends via the cellular network a message for canceling the forwarding of voice calls directed to telephone number to the SIP identity. | 2012-03-29 |
20120076054 | TRANSCODERS AND MIXERS FOR VOICE-OVER-IP CONFERENCING - Transcoders and mixers having reduced algorithmic delay and processing complexity. An improved mixer for signals having encoded speech parameters wherein the parameters obtained through decoding are used by a parameter estimator to improve the encoding by providing a parameter estimate for the mixed signal. In the case of pitch parameters, the mixer uses the principle of strong-pitch-domination. The mixing of wideband signals is simplified by performing mixing of individual lower and upper sub-bands. A transcoder and a mixer that converts a wideband signal into a narrowband signal relies upon high frequency suppression. A transcoder and a mixer that converts a narrowband signal into a wideband signal relies upon filter combination. | 2012-03-29 |
20120076055 | A METHOD AND A DEVICE FOR CALIBRATION - An eNodeB in a TDD system ( | 2012-03-29 |
20120076056 | OFDMA Scheduling Method for Avoiding Leakage at the Mobile Stations - The present invention relates to scheduling of uplink and downlink resources between mobile terminals ( | 2012-03-29 |
20120076057 | Duplex Mismatch Detection - An apparatus including a port to transmit first frames and receive second frames over a communication channel, the port including a collision detect circuit and a duplex mismatch circuit. The collision detect circuit detects collisions on the communication channel between the first frames and the second frames. The duplex mismatch circuit declares a duplex mismatch when the communication channel was established without attempting auto-negotiation, the port is in a half-duplex mode, and the collision detect circuit detects a very late collision involving one of the first frames. The very late collision occurs after a predetermined amount of data has been transmitted in the one of the first frames. The duplex mismatch indicates that a full-duplex mode is used with respect to the second frames. | 2012-03-29 |
20120076058 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ADAPTIVE AGGREGATION OF DATA IN A WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORK - A method and system for adaptive aggregation of data in a Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) is disclosed. The method receiving one or more packets produced from a plurality of sensor nodes at an aggregator sensor node. The method further includes categorizing and storing the received packets in the buffer queue of the aggregator node. Then initiating an aggregation process by selecting an aggregation mechanism. The aggregation mechanism is selected based on the feedback value and a special instruction. The aggregated packets are forwarded to the base station based on an aggregation function. | 2012-03-29 |
20120076059 | APPARATUSES AND METHODS FOR HANDLING MEASUREMENT LOGGING CONFIGURATION - A mobile communication device with a wireless module and a controller module is provided. The wireless module performs wireless transmissions and receptions to and from a service network. The controller module, configured to be in a connected mode, receives a measurement logging configuration message from the service network via the wireless module, and starts a periodic logging timer in response to the measurement logging configuration message. Also, the controller module keeps the periodic logging timer running when leaving the connected mode. | 2012-03-29 |
20120076060 | Channel Quality Indicator Transmission Timing with Discontinuous Reception - A user equipment (UE) is disclosed. The UE includes a processor configured to begin channel quality indicator (CQI) transmissions using an assigned periodic CQI reporting resource before the start of the on-duration of a discontinuous reception (DRX) operation mode. | 2012-03-29 |
20120076061 | Collaborative coexistence of co-located mobile WiMAX, wireless LAN, and/or Bluetooth radios - Collaborative coexistence of co-located mobile WiMAX, wireless LAN, and/or Bluetooth radios. Within a communication device that includes multi-protocol communication capability, the various radio modules included within such a communication device operate cooperatively such that collisions are avoided between those various radios. When a first of the radio modules operates as governed by a relatively rigid frame structure, a second of the radio modules capitalizes upon that predetermined nature (of the relatively rigid frame structure) to support communication during times in which that first radio module has a lower level of activity (e.g., turned off completely, within a power savings mode, in a sleep mode, etc.). The radio module operation is performed within a time-orthogonal manner, such that multiple radio modules are not attempting to transmit or receive simultaneously. Moreover, CTS2SELF operation can be employed alone or in conjunction with power savings operation of co-located radios within a communication device. | 2012-03-29 |
20120076062 | METHOD, PUBLIC LAND MOBILE NETWORK AND BASE STATION ENTITY - A method for transmission of data within a public land mobile network from a base station entity to a first user equipment and to at least one other user equipment includes: providing a Shared Control Channel including a plurality of first sub-channels; providing a Physical Downlink Shared Channel comprising a plurality of second sub-channels, wherein each of the plurality of second sub-channels used for transmission of data to the first user equipment or the at least one other user equipment is referenced by a respective first sub-channel out of the plurality of first sub-channels; and performing downlink transmission of identical content to the first user equipment and to the at least one other user equipment. | 2012-03-29 |
20120076063 | Single Frequency Multicast Broadcasting Network Subframe, Method and Device for Sending User Data Channel - The present invention discloses a multicast broadcast single frequency network subframe. The multicast broadcast single frequency network subframe is used as a physical resource of a user transmission data channel; in the multicast broadcast single frequency network subframe, except symbols of a physical downlink control channel, other symbols adopt the same cyclic prefix as subframe 0 in a local cell. The present invention also discloses a user data channel transmission method and device, and a user physical resource determining device. By using the subframe, the transmission method and device, and the determining device, the performance of the LTE-A system can be improved. | 2012-03-29 |
20120076064 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING DYNAMIC SCHEDULING INFORMATION BASED ON MULTICAST BROADCAST SERVICES - The present invention discloses a method and apparatus for processing multicast/broadcast services based dynamic scheduling information. The method comprises: network side allocating multicast resources, wherein, in one scheduling period, one of the following ways is used for the allocation: (1) configuring each multicast service channel with a flag indicating whether it is scheduled; (2) configuring a scheduled multicast service channel with a flag indicating it is scheduled; (3) configuring an un-scheduled multicast service channel with a flag indicating it is not scheduled; (4) allocating an SFN multicast/broadcast subframe number having a special value or not allocating a multicast/broadcast subframe number to an un-scheduled multicast service channel; and the network side transmitting the dynamic scheduling information according to the allocated multicast resources. The present invention saves UE electric energy. | 2012-03-29 |
20120076065 | Method, System and Apparatus for Providing Modulation and Coding Mode used by Multicast Service Macro Diversity - A method, system and apparatus are provided for modulation and coding mode used by multicast service macro diversity. A message containing relevant information of modulation and coding mode(s) used by an MBS zone is sent in the MBS zone. The MS receives the message, analyzes other messages in the MBS zone according to the relevant information of the modulation and coding mode(s) contained in this message, and receives MBS service data according to the analyzed result upon other messages in the MBS zone. The invention resolves the problem that an entity is required to uniformly manage the coding and modulation mode definition of each cell in the prior art, as well as the problem that the DCD count in the DL-MAP message has to be continuously tracked in the prior art. | 2012-03-29 |
20120076066 | TRANSMISSION POWER CONTROL METHOD OF UPLINK PACKET DATA TRANSMISSION - A mobile station (MS) transmits a first data flow to a first group of base stations with a first power offset, transmits a second data flow to a second group of base stations, and further transmits a pilot signal. A radio network controller (RNC) controls the power of the pilot signal power based on reception errors of the second data flow, calculates the first power offset based on signaled required level of the first power offset from base stations (BTS) of the first group which calculate the required level of the first power offset based on an occurrence of retransmission, and signals the calculated first power offset to the mobile station. | 2012-03-29 |
20120076067 | Method And Apparatus In A Plurality Of Rendezvous Points For Together Processing Multicast Traffics From Mobile Multicast Source - The invention proposes method and apparatus in a plurality of rendezvous points for together processing multicast traffics from mobile multicast source. Wherein, a first rendezvous point and at least one second rendezvous point compose an anycast group which is used for sharing the processing task of the multicast data packets of the mobile multicast source point together, the first rendezvous point and the at least one second rendezvous point share a route forwarding table, the route forwarding table comprises corresponding relation among the care-of-address, the home address and the multicast address of one or more multicast sources. The first rendezvous point obtains the multicast data packets, forwards the multicast data packets to the at least one second rendezvous point, when needing to forward the multicast data packets to the at least one second rendezvous point; the first rendezvous point searches the route forwarding table, according to address information of the multicast packet; determines the corresponding shared multicast tree, when the address information matches the care-of address and/or home address and matches the multicast address of an candidate multicast source; and forwards the multicast data packet according to the shared multicast tree. | 2012-03-29 |
20120076068 | Data Transmission Method, System and Apparatus Thereof - Disclosed are a data transmission method, a system and an apparatus, which are used to meet transmission quality requirements of data on multiple kinds of logic channels in the event that multiple kinds of logic channels related to multimedia broadcast multicast service (MBMS) are mapped to the same transmission channel. The data transmission method provided by the present invention includes that: a network side determines multiple kinds of modulation and coding schemes (MCSs) needed to be adopted when multiple kinds of logic channels are mapped to the same transmission channel, and notifies a terminal of correspondence between logic channels and MCSs; using MCSs needed to be adopted, the network side performs modulation and coding for the data on logic channels mapped to the transmission channel, then transmits it to the terminal through the transmission channel. | 2012-03-29 |
20120076069 | ACCESS POINT AND TERMINAL DEVICE - An access point configured to relay communications of a terminal device in a wireless network, the access point including: a request receiving unit, which receives a setting change request to change a first wireless setting, which is being set as a wireless setting of the wireless network, into a second wireless setting; a determination unit, which determines whether a second terminal device, which performs communications with the access point in accordance with the first wireless setting, is present; and a setting change unit; wherein when it is determined that the second terminal device is not present in the wireless network, the setting change unit changes from the first wireless setting to the second wireless setting in response to the setting change request, and wherein when it is determined that the second terminal device is present in the wireless network, the setting change unit keeps the first wireless setting. | 2012-03-29 |
20120076070 | BASE STATION, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, MOBILE TERMINAL, AND RELAY DEVICE - A base station including an allocation unit for allocating the downlink of the relay link or the access link and the downlink of the direct link to a resource block included in a same resource block group, and allocating the uplink of the relay link or the access link and the uplink of the direct link to a resource block included in a same resource block group. | 2012-03-29 |
20120076071 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING/RECEIVING A SIGNAL IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method of receiving a signal of a relay station in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes: receiving backhaul resource allocation information from a base station; and receiving backhaul downlink data from the base station by using a radio resource indicated by the backhaul resource allocation information, wherein the radio resource includes a plurality of symbols in a time domain, and the plurality of symbols have boundaries which are shifted based on symbols included in a frequency band allocated to a macro user equipment, and wherein the radio resource includes a plurality of subcarriers in a frequency domain, and at least one subcarrier adjacent to the frequency band allocated to the macro user equipment among the plurality of subcarriers is set to a guard subcarrier in which the base station transmits no signal. | 2012-03-29 |
20120076072 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MAINTAINING PRIVACY IN A WIRELESS NETWORK - A system and method for of maintaining privacy in a wireless network is provided. A wireless communication device may transmit, to a broadcast address, a plurality of messages using a respective plurality of source identifiers. A response to at least one of the plurality of messages may be received. A predefined source identifier is used to establish a link. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 2012-03-29 |
20120076073 | PROTECTION MECHANISMS FOR MULTI-USER MIMO TRANSMISSIONS - Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to techniques for medium reservation in the case of multi-user (MU) communications. Multiple mechanisms are supported for protecting MU transmissions, wherein appropriate control messages can be exchanged between an access point and served user stations before transmitting downlink data packets. | 2012-03-29 |
20120076074 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ESTABLISHING CONTENTION WINDOW IN WIMEDIA WIRELESS NETWORK - There are provided an apparatus and a method for establishing a contention window in a WiMedia wireless network. The contention window establishing apparatus includes: a parsing unit extracting the number of devices that intend to transmit data from a beacon received during a beacon period and an access category (AC) of each device; a calculation unit calculating a transmission probability of each access category (AC) on the basis of the extracted number of devices; and a contention window establishing unit establishing a contention window for each access category (AC) on the basis of the calculated transmission probability, to reduce contentions among the devices and decrease data transmission latency time, thereby maximizing efficiency in data transmission latency time. | 2012-03-29 |
20120076075 | INITIAL ACCESS SETTING INFORMATION GENERATING APPARATUS, METHOD, AND PROGRAM, AND BASE STATION APPARATUS - An initial access setting information generating apparatus includes a preamble information transmission number obtaining unit that receives and obtains the number of transmissions for preamble information in a non-contention type initial access procedure performed between a base station and a communication terminal, where the preamble information transmission number obtaining unit receives and obtains the number of transmissions after the initial access procedure is completed; an expected reception power determination unit that determines an expected reception power at the base station, based on the number of transmissions for the preamble information, which is obtained by the preamble information transmission number obtaining unit; and a set value communication unit that generates and outputs initial access setting information about the initial access procedure for the communication terminal, based on the expected reception power determined by the expected reception power determination unit. | 2012-03-29 |
20120076076 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONNECTING TO NETWORK FROM MOBILE TERMINAL - A method for connecting to a network from a mobile terminal capable of forming a high-performance radio channel in a Universal Mobile Telecommunication System (UMTS), and an apparatus implementing the same are provided. The method includes transmitting a Radio Resource Control (RRC) connection request message indicating a first release version to the network, receiving an RRC connection setup message indicating a second release version from the network, comparing the first and second release versions, determining whether there is a third release version lower than the first release version and higher than the second release version when the second release version differs from the first, and, if there is the third release version lower than the first release version and higher than the second release version, transmitting an RRC connection request message indicating the third release version to the network when the second release version differs from the first release version. | 2012-03-29 |
20120076077 | Efficient Signaling of Discontinuous Transmission - Methods and devices are disclosed for efficient signaling of discontinuous transmission in a wireless communication system. In various aspects of the disclosure, a user equipment device monitors transmissions on a plurality of physical downlink control channels (PDCCHs) and, in response to said transmissions, generates an acknowledge/negative acknowledge (ACK/NACK) signal comprising a plurality of bits, wherein the plurality of bits includes a discontinuous transmission (DTX) indicator bit. In some embodiments, the indicator bit corresponds to an even or odd number of PDCCHs successfully decoded. In other embodiments, the indicator bit corresponds to an odd or even number of component carriers comprising “TRUE” NACKs. | 2012-03-29 |
20120076078 | TRANSMISSION/RECEPTION METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR UPLINK MIMO RETRANSMISSION IN LTE SYSTEM - A transmission/reception method and apparatus for a mobile communication system supporting uplink MIMO is provided. In the transmission method, a User Equipment (UE) transmits two transport blocks according to a predetermined number of layers and respective precoding indices, an evolve Node B (eNB) transmits, when one of the transport blocks is lost, a negative acknowledgement for the lost transport block, and the UE sets a precoding index for the lost transport block to a predetermined value to retransmit the lost transport block while maintaining the number of layers. | 2012-03-29 |
20120076079 | BASE STATION DEVICE, TERMINAL DEVICE AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A base station device including: a receiver that receives data from a terminal device; and a processor that performs setting for the reception of data from the terminal device, and deactivates a management of the terminal device after performing setting, wherein the receiver receives data from the terminal device in a state of deactivated management. | 2012-03-29 |
20120076080 | AUTOMATED VOICE OVER INTERNET PROTOCOL WIRELESS HEADSET - A system, apparatus, and method are provided for automatically provisioning wireless local area network (LAN) access point and/or hotspot information, Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) service provider information, and VoIP account information on a service provider's Web page to configure a wireless VoIP headset for use. | 2012-03-29 |
20120076081 | PROTECTION MECHANISMS FOR MULTI-USER MIMO TRANSMISSIONS - Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to techniques for medium reservation in the case of multi-user (MU) communications. Multiple mechanisms are supported for protecting MU transmissions, wherein appropriate control messages can be exchanged between an access point and served user stations before transmitting downlink data packets. | 2012-03-29 |
20120076082 | METHOD FOR ATTACHMENT AND AUTHENTICATION OF A USER TERMINAL WITH A VISITED NETWORK - A method for attachment and authentication of a user terminal of a home type radiocommunication network with a visited type radiocommunication network, the home network including home means for attachment to a packet network and the visited network including: at least one visited base station able to ensure radio transmission and reception with user terminals located in at least one visited cell attached to the visited base station; visited authentication and control means of user terminals able to authenticate the user terminals attached to the network; and at least one visited distribution gateway ensuring radio reception and transmission with the at least one visited base station. | 2012-03-29 |
20120076083 | Resource allocation - A method of signalling resource allocation data in a communication system which uses a plurality of sub-carriers arranged in a sequence of chunks includes receiving an allocation of the sub-carriers for each of a plurality of user devices. The received allocations are processed to determine, for each user device, data identifying a start chunk and an end chunk within the sequence of chunks, which depend upon the sub-carriers allocated to the user device. Different resource allocation data are generated for each of the user devices using the data identifying the corresponding start chunk and end chunk determined by the processing, the resource allocation data including a bit pattern which defines a grouping of the sequence of chunks into a sequence of groups, in dependence upon the sub-carriers allocated to each user device. The respective resource allocation data is signaled to each of the plurality of user devices. | 2012-03-29 |
20120076084 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION METHOD AND RADIO BASE STATION - A mobile communication method according to the present invention includes a step of: (A) transmitting, from a macro radio base station (MBS) to a femto radio base station (FBS), scheduling information notifying a radio resource assigned for transmitting a predetermined signal in a first cell under the control of the macro radio base station (MBS), a radio resource that can be used in a second cell under the control of the femto radio base station (FBS), or a radio resource that cannot be used in the second cell under the control of the femto radio base station (FBS). | 2012-03-29 |
20120076085 | GROUP PAGING METHOD AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND BASE STATION AND PAGING CONTROLLER USING THE SAME - Group paging methods and wireless communication devices and base stations using the same methods are proposed. In some embodiments, group identifiers are partitioned into different pools and assigned to wireless communication devices based on their mobility. When a base station intends to perform group paging, specific devices, not responded to the previous group paging, will be paged, or the group paging is repeated, and the other devices which responded to the previous group paging ignore the repeated group paging in a period of time. In other embodiments, a device responds to the group paging at the opportunity of random access process based on the indicator given in its idle information or the indicator given in paging message with some pre-determined mathematical operation or the pre-determined mathematical calculations on its device identity. | 2012-03-29 |
20120076086 | ASYMMETRICAL LINKS IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS - A method of allocating wireless communication capacity in a wireless point-to-point link including obtaining a channel having a bandwidth for use in the wireless point-to-point link, allocating a first portion of the bandwidth for use for transmitting from a first point to a second point of the wireless point-to-point link, and allocating a second portion of the bandwidth for use for transmitting from the second point to the first point of the wireless point-to-point link, in which the bandwidth is asymmetrically assigned between the first portion and the second portion. Related apparatus and methods are also described. | 2012-03-29 |
20120076087 | Tile Allocation Method - A method and apparatus are provided for allocating and transmitting groups of subcarriers, called tiles, between a plurality of transceiver antennas. The method includes receiving at least one downlink signal by a subscriber station transceiver through at least one of the plurality of subscriber station antennas, characterizing a received signal of at least one downlink signal over multiple subcarriers, and allocating tiles for uplink transmission through at least one of the plurality of transceiver antennas. The tiles allocation is based on the characterized received signal of the at least one downlink signal over multiple subcarriers and is based on a required power Ptx for uplink transmission compared with a maximum power P that each of the plurality of the transceiver antennas can emit. | 2012-03-29 |
20120076088 | Carrier Indicator Field Usage and Configuration in Carrier Aggregation - Format of a downlink control channel for a user equipment UE is changed in conjunction with switching the UE between being enabled for cross carrier scheduling and being disabled for cross carrier scheduling. The changed format is used on at least one serving cell of the UE's configured set of component carriers CCs. In one embodiment the changed format comprises an explicit carrier indicator field CIF for the case in which the switching is from disabled to enabled; and the changed format has no explicit CIF when the switching is from enabled to disabled. In another embodiment switching from disabled to enabled comprises the UE's configured set of CCs being changed from one to multiple cells; and switching from enabled to disabled comprises the UE's configured set of CCs being changed from multiple cells to one cell. In one embodiment the changed format is implicit. | 2012-03-29 |
20120076089 | MOBILE TERMINAL APPARATUS AND RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD - To provide a mobile terminal apparatus and radio communication method for enabling feedback control information to be efficiently transmitted with an uplink control channel signal, the radio communication method of the invention has, in a mobile terminal apparatus, the steps of receiving a signal for each of a plurality of component carriers from a radio base station apparatus, generating feedback control information for each component carrier from the signal, performing joint-coding on the feedback control information for each component carrier, mapping the feedback control information coded by the joint-coding to subcarriers, and transmitting an uplink transmission signal mapped to the subcarriers. | 2012-03-29 |
20120076090 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR THE TRANSMISSION AND RECEPTION OF DOWNLINK CONTROL SIGNALLING IN MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Provided is a method of transmitting control information of a base station in a mobile communication system includes obtaining scheduling information from a terminal; and transmitting at least two control channels through one down link carrier, wherein each control channel corresponds to a different uplink carrier. | 2012-03-29 |
20120076091 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CHANNEL ACCESS IN WLAN SYSTEM - A channel access method in a wireless local area network (WLAN) system using a multi-channel configured by aggregation of a plurality of subchannels is provided. The method includes receiving from an access point (AP) a multi-channel switching request frame for requesting a first station operating in a first subchannel constituting the multi-channel to switch to a second subchannel constituting the multi-channel and transmitting a multi-channel switching response frame for reporting whether to switch to the second subchannel in response to the multi-channel switching request frame. | 2012-03-29 |
20120076092 | DATA TRANSMISSION METHOD AND APPARATUS - Embodiments of the present invention provide a data transmission method and apparatus. ROHC packets that use a same Context ID are encapsulated into MAC PDU, wherein the MAC PDU is formed by a MAC PDU packet header and a MAC PDU payload. The Context ID of the ROHC packets is carried in the MAC PDU packet header, and the Context ID is not carried in the ROHC packets. The MAC PDU is sent. In this way, transmission resources are saved, and transmission efficiency is improved. | 2012-03-29 |
20120076093 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RADIO RESOURCE CONTROL PROFILE CREATION IN A UMTS NETWORK - A method for creating a radio resource control profile for a radio resource allocation or a state-transition profile having the steps of: receiving a parameter associated with a user equipment (UE); associating the parameter with the radio resource control profile for the radio resource allocation or the state-transition profile; and initiating the radio resource allocation or state transition profile for the UE. | 2012-03-29 |
20120076094 | Systems and Methods for File Sharing Through Mobile Devices - Systems and methods are disclosed which relate to the sending and receiving of multimedia files between two devices while connected through a voice call. These devices are free to send any type of file through a direct connection without the need to hang up and call back just to see if the file was sent successfully. These methods work for a plurality of cellular and computer devices connected through a cellular network or other Internet Service Provider. | 2012-03-29 |
20120076095 | SUPPORTING ENHANCED UPLINK TRANSMISSION DURING SOFT HANDOVER - An enhanced uplink user equipment is in soft handover. A radio network controller selects a primary Node-B out of a plurality of Node-Bs supporting the soft handover. The radio network controller receiving successfully received enhanced uplink data packets from the plurality of Node-Bs. The radio network controller reordered the successfully received enhanced uplink data packets for in-sequence deliver. The primary Node-B sends specified scheduling information to the user equipment that the other Node-Bs does not transmit. At least the primary Node-B transmits acknowledgements and negative acknowledgements to the user equipment. | 2012-03-29 |
20120076096 | BI-DIRECTIONAL AND REVERSE DIRECTIONAL RESOURCE RESERVATION SETUP PROTOCOL - A wireless user equipment (UE) configured to initiate a packet based session includes a reservation setup protocol (RSVP) message generator configured to transmit a RSVP PATH message. The RSVP PATH message includes a direction indication. The direction indicator indicates that reservations should be made for the UE to transmit only, to receive only or to both transmit and receive. The UE also includes an RSVP message receiver configured to receive an RSVP RESV message indicating that reservations have been made as a result of the RSVP PATH message. | 2012-03-29 |
20120076097 | METHOD OF GENERATING REFERENCE SIGNAL IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method of generating a reference signal includes acquiring a base sequence and acquiring a reference signal sequence with a length N from the base sequence. Good PAPR/CM characteristics of the reference signal can be kept to enhance performance of data demodulation or uplink scheduling. | 2012-03-29 |
20120076098 | METHOD OF GENERATING REFERENCE SIGNAL IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method of generating a reference signal includes acquiring a base sequence and acquiring a reference signal sequence with a length N from the base sequence. Good PAPR/CM characteristics of the reference signal can be kept to enhance performance of data demodulation or uplink scheduling. | 2012-03-29 |
20120076099 | METHOD, DEVICE, AND SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING TUNNEL IDENTIFIER ALLOCATION - A method, a device, and a system for controlling tunnel identifier allocation are provided. The method includes: determining whether a type of a current procedure allows a Serving Gateway (SGW) to change a Tunnel Endpoint Identifier (TEID) and/or an Internet Protocol (IP) address (S | 2012-03-29 |
20120076100 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING REFERENCE SIGNAL IN MULTI-ANTENNA SYSTEM - Provided are a method and apparatus for transmitting a reference signal in a multi-antenna system. A terminal generates a plurality of reference signal sequences to which cyclic shift values different from each other are allocated, generates an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbol to which the plurality of reference signal sequences are mapped, and transmits the OFDM symbol to a base station through a plurality of antennas. The respective cyclic shift values allocated to the respective reference signal sequences are determined on the basis of a parameter n indicated by a cyclic shift field transmitted from a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH). | 2012-03-29 |
20120076101 | RADIO COMMUNICATION TERMINAL, BASE STATION, RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD AND RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A radio communication terminal ( | 2012-03-29 |
20120076102 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ACQUIRING ANTENNA INFORMATION IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The present invention relates to a wireless communication system, and discloses a method and apparatus for acquiring antenna information. According to the present invention, a method in which user equipment acquires information of a transmission antenna of an eNB comprises the steps of: receiving a physical broadcast channel (PBCH) including information which indicates whether or not the eNB supports an extended transmission antenna configuration; decoding the received physical broadcast channel, and checking the transmission modes of the physical broadcast channel; and acquiring information of the transmission antenna of the eNB from one or more of the transmission modes checked in the previous step and information which indicates whether or not the eNB supports an extended transmission antenna configuration. | 2012-03-29 |
20120076103 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SCHEDULING UPLINK RADIO RESOURCES IN RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and an apparatus for scheduling uplink radio resources in a wireless communication system, and the method comprises: an evolved NodeB (eNB) allocating radio resources to user equipment (UE) according to the uplink channel quality information and the current logical channel information of the UE, determining the control signaling information of the radio resources, and notifying the control signaling information of the radio resources to the UE; Alternatively, after receiving the control signaling information of the radio resources sent by the eNB, the UE selecting corresponding radio resources for the logical channel according to the requirements of quality of service (QoS) of the logical channel and the control signaling information of the radio resources. | 2012-03-29 |
20120076104 | METHOD FOR A USER TERMINAL TO RANDOM ACCESS A CARRIER AGGREGATION MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method for random access to a base station by a user equipment (UE) in a mobile communication system using carrier aggregation in which communication is conducted over a plurality of component carriers, and a terminal for the method are disclosed. When the UE performs a contention-based random access procedure in the mobile communication system to which CA technology is applied, the UE considers an uplink grant signal as a contention resolution message when receiving the uplink grant signal from a eNB only when the uplink grant signal is received through a downlink CC corresponding to an uplink CC used to transmit a random access preamble or a third message, to thereby prevent contention resolution from being erroneously ended. | 2012-03-29 |
20120076105 | COMMUNICATION METHOD USING A CARRIER AGGREGATION AND APPARATUS THEREFORE - The present invention is directed to a wireless communication system. More specifically, the present invention is directed to a method and an apparatus of controlling uplink transmission at a user equipment in a wireless communication system, wherein the user equipment is connected to multiple component carriers, which includes receiving configuration information for transmitting an uplink signal from a base station; and identifying a time for transmitting the uplink signal to the base station on a corresponding uplink component carrier in use of the configuration information, wherein if the corresponding uplink component carrier is in a non-available state at the time for transmitting the uplink signal, the uplink signal is not transmitted. | 2012-03-29 |
20120076106 | MUTING SCHEMES FOR CHANNEL STATE INFORMATION REFERENCE SIGNAL AND SIGNALING THEREOF - A method of wireless communication is provided which includes establishing a time-frequency muting pattern including at least one data resource element (RE) and transmitting information indicating the time-frequency muting pattern to a user equipment. In some designs, the muting pattern is established by grouping a plurality of resource elements into muting groups such that the time-frequency muting pattern includes the muting groups. | 2012-03-29 |
20120076107 | AUTONOMOUS SCANNING AND HANDOVER - In some embodiments a network adapter comprises a first network access technology and a second network access technology and a controller comprising logic to locate an available network which utilizes the first network access technology and automatically connect to the available network using the first network access technology when a network identifier associated with the available network is stored in a memory module coupled to the network adapter. Other embodiments may be described. | 2012-03-29 |
20120076108 | TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORK - A method of operating a mobile wireless network, in which, when there is a relocation, the connection may be continued directly from the latest state before the relocation. User data is transmitted between a mobile station and a first base station, the user data being combined into data units. For transmission of data units, transmission-specific information describing an instantaneous state of the transmission is stored in the mobile station, as well as in a first network unit at a higher level than the first base station. With the relocation of the mobile station from the first base station to a second base station having a second higher-level network unit, the transmission-specific information stored in the first higher-level network unit is transmitted to the second higher-level network unit to continue the transmission after the relocation essentially directly from its latest state. | 2012-03-29 |
20120076109 | Session Transfer in a Communication Network - A method and apparatus for transferring a session from a packet switched access network to a circuit switched access network. A Mobility Management Entity receives a service type indicator from a gateway node. The service type indicator indicates a type of service for the session, and is associated with bearers used for the session. The Mobility Management Entity subsequently receives, from an eNodeB, an indication that the session is to be transferred from the packet switched network to the circuit switched access network. The Mobility Management Entity determines the bearers associated with the session using the service type indicator, and initiates transfer of the session using those bearers. This ensures that the correct bearers are transferred regardless of whether or not identifiers such as QCI values have been ascribed to other types of service. | 2012-03-29 |
20120076110 | CONTEXT TRANSFER SYSTEMS AND METHODS IN SUPPORT OF MOBILITY - A broad aspect of the invention provides a method of providing mobility support for a mobile node's traffic. The method involves maintaining context information for the mobile node on each of a first plurality of network nodes carrying the traffic; and proactively transferring and maintaining at least a portion of the context information in a plurality of network nodes which are not carrying the traffic, but which are candidates for carrying the traffic due to mobility of the mobile node. The method typically further involves defining and maintaining a definition of the second plurality of network nodes. In one embodiment of the invention, this involves adding a particular network node to the second plurality when the particular network node becomes a candidate for carrying the traffic, removing a particular network node from the second plurality when the particular network node is no longer a candidate for carrying the traffic. | 2012-03-29 |
20120076111 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROCESSING HANDOVER IN HETEROGENEOUS MOBILITY PROTOCOL MIXED NETWORKS AND MIP CLIENT DEVICE - A method for processing handover to provide IP mobility for mobile user equipment, a system thereof, and a Mobile IP (MIP) client device using the same method. The method processing handover at a home agent in a heterogeneous protocol mixed network includes: at a home agent, creating a Proxy Mobile IP (PMIP) tunnel when user equipment accesses a PMIP network; at the home agent, creating a Client Mobile IP (CMIP) tunnel when a CMIP network is accessed due to handover of the user equipment; and at the home agent, severing the PMIP tunnel when the user equipment completes performing handover. | 2012-03-29 |
20120076112 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MEDIA INDEPENDENT HANDOVER CAPABILITY DISCOVERY - A first media independent handover function (MIHF) receives a media independent handover (MIH) capabilities discovery request from a second MIHF and generates a MIH capabilities discovery response message, including one or more parameters. Then the first MIHF then sends the MIH capabilities discovery response to the second MIHF. Based on the information contained in the MIH capabilities discovery response, the first MIHF may receive a handover request message from the second MIHF. The one or more parameters included within the discovery response message indicates the specific technologies for which the first MIHF supports a MMB handover. The one or more parameters may include a list of the technologies for which a make-before-break (MMB) handover is supported. For example, a parameter may use a specific bit structure wherein each bit is a Boolean representation of whether MMB handover is supported for a specific type of technology. | 2012-03-29 |
20120076113 | TRANSMITTING ACKNOWLEDGEMENT MESSAGES USING A STAGGERED UPLINK TIME SLOT - A downlink communication is transmitted/received in at least one downlink time slot. In response to the received downlink communication, an acknowledgement message is received/transmitted in an uplink time slot a fixed integer number of uplink time slots after transmission/reception of the received downlink communication. The uplink and downlink time slots are staggered by substantially a half of a time slot. | 2012-03-29 |
20120076114 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, WIRELESS BASE STATION, AND ABNORMALITY RESTORATION METHOD - A wireless communication apparatus attachable to an information processing apparatus. The wireless communication apparatus includes a wireless communication interface configured to perform wireless communication. The wireless communication apparatus also includes a processor configured to input, on detecting an error in the wireless communication interface, a signal for recognizing a temporary interruption to the information processing apparatus, and to initialize the wireless communication interface. | 2012-03-29 |
20120076115 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING SOUNDING REFERENCE SIGNAL IN RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Disclosed is a method for transmitting a sounding reference signal from a terminal to a base station in a radio communication system to which carrier aggregation is applied. More specifically, the method comprises the steps of: receiving information on a plurality of uplink component carriers for transmitting periodic sounding reference signals from a base station; allocating different time resources for said periodic sounding reference signal transmitted via said plurality of uplink component carriers; and transmitting said periodic sounding reference signals to said base station using said uplink component carriers and said allocated different time resources. | 2012-03-29 |
20120076116 | MODEM FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATION - A device for wireless communication, for example a WiMAX gateway, may include a control circuit comprising a wireless transceiver, an enclosure enclosing the control circuit, and a pair of antennas for wirelessly communicating with an external device via the wireless transceiver. The antennas may be mechanically coupled to an outside of the enclosure and electrically coupled to the control circuit, and may be collapsible to a stowed configuration to reduce the size of the device when the device is not in operation, and extendable to an operational configuration in which the antennas are spaced apart and are substantially parallel with each other. An interlock may disable operation of the device when the antennas are in the stowed configuration. The device may include a second antenna and transceiver, for example to provide WiFi connectivity. | 2012-03-29 |
20120076117 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO DISCOVER NETWORK CAPABILITIES AVAILABLE VIA WIRELESS NETWORKS - Example methods and apparatus to discover network capabilities available via wireless networks are disclosed. A disclosed example method involves discovering first network capabilities by performing an exchange between a wireless terminal and an access point of a wireless local area network. The method also involves comparing the first network capabilities with cached network capabilities and joining the wireless terminal with the access point based on at least a portion of the first network capabilities matching at least a portion of the cached network capabilities. | 2012-03-29 |
20120076118 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO PRESENT NETWORK CAPABILITIES AVAILABLE VIA WIRELESS NETWORKS - Example methods and apparatus to present network capabilities available via wireless networks are disclosed. A disclosed example method involves discovering a first network that supports a network query protocol and retrieving at least one network service from the first network prior to joining the first network. The at least one retrieved network service is presented. | 2012-03-29 |
20120076119 | Consistent Interpretation Method On Carrier Indication Field and Related Communication Device - A consistent interpretation method on a carrier indication field (CIF) in a wireless communication system is disclosed. The method comprises building up a first common set of a plurality of component carriers between a mobile station and a base station according to a specific order; and addressing the plurality of component carriers according to the first common set. One CIF value corresponds to one of the plurality component carriers or be left unused. | 2012-03-29 |
20120076120 | Destination Learning and Mobility detection in Transit Network Device in LTE & UMTS Radio Access Networks - A method of learning and identifying two unidirectional GTP-U tunnels corresponding to a user equipment (UE) in a device placed in a LTE network, where the device acts as a transparent proxy intercepting user plane and control plane protocols on the S1 interface, is disclosed. Methods of pairing the two unidirectional tunnels that belong to same UE, when there is no control plane information or when there is Control Plane information, but the NAS portions of the S1 Control that contain bearer IP addresses are encrypted, are disclosed. Control plane and user plane methods for associating GTP-U tunnels and the corresponding bearer plane IP addresses are identified. Additionally, methods for detecting mobility of a UE, as it moves from the coverage area of one E-NodeB to another, are disclosed. Methods for constructing an eNodeB topology map are also disclosed. | 2012-03-29 |
20120076121 | Releasing Connections with Local GW When UE Moves Out of Residential/Enterprise Network Coverage - A method, system and device are provided for managing LIPA and/or SIPTO connection releases when UE moves out of residential/enterprise network coverage in case service continuity is not supported for the LIPA/SIPTO PDN connection(s). To address problems caused by not providing service continuity for LIPA/SIPTO PDN connections, the PDN connection/PDP context created in the HeNB/HNB by the MME/SGSN includes context information related to the UE indicating whether such connection is a LIPA PDN connection PDN connection or not. In addition, each UE may be configured to reconnect or not reconnect to the PDN corresponding to a certain APN or service, depending on how the PDN connection was disconnected by the network. | 2012-03-29 |
20120076122 | Positioning With Wireless Local Area Networks And WLAN-Aided Global Positioning Systems - Accurate position capability can be quickly provided using a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN). When associated with a WLAN, a wireless device can quickly determine its relative and/or coordinate position based on information provided by an access point in the WLAN. Before a wireless device disassociates with the access point, the WLAN can periodically provide time, location, and decoded GPS data to the wireless device. In this manner, the wireless device can significantly reduce the time to acquire the necessary GPS satellite data (i.e. on the order of seconds instead of minutes) to determine its coordinate position. | 2012-03-29 |
20120076123 | SIMULTANEOUSLY MULTI-NETWORKED HANDHELD MULTIMEDIA GATEWAYS - A user may simultaneously access sources of multimedia information via multiple wireless networks using a handheld multimedia gateway. A user interface may support the selection of information services that are each provided separate, but possibly overlapping, viewing spaces. Circuitry in the multimedia gateway manages the operation of the multiple wireless communication paths, and enables the display of visual information through two or more display devices. The user may customize the display, the size, and the location within a display of regions in which the information is presented. | 2012-03-29 |
20120076124 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR UPLINK POWER CONTROL IN COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Disclosed is a method for uplink power control in a communication system that includes determining a power control offset for controlling power for traffic to be transmitted by a subscriber station, according to whether a Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest (HARQ) is applied to the traffic, and transmitting the power control offset to the subscriber station. | 2012-03-29 |
20120076125 | OPERATOR CONTROL OF RESOURCES FOR ROAMING SUBSCRIBERS - The present invention relates to a solution for handling visiting subscribers in a visited communication network ( | 2012-03-29 |
20120076126 | METHOD IN WHICH USER EQUIPMENT PERFORMS RANDOM ACCESS IN A CARRIER AGGREGATION MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The present document relates to a method in which user equipment carries out a process for random access to a base station in a carrier aggregation mobile communication system which performs communications using a plurality of component carriers (CCs), and to a terminal device for the method. The user equipment separately manages back-off operations for each of the CCs, and performs a random access preamble transmission using the relevant CC if another usable CC exists, even when a back-off period is being applied to a specific CC, to carry out a random access process in an efficient manner in a carrier aggregation mobile communication system. | 2012-03-29 |
20120076127 | SIGNALLING FOR DIGITAL BROADCASTING SYSTEM - A method and apparatus for transmitting a plurality of data streams in a wireless broadcast system are provided. The method includes mapping the plurality of data streams onto a super-frame that includes a plurality of frames; inserting signalling information in a first signalling information field for assisting in the reception of a first number of said plurality of data streams for a given frame, the first number being less than or equal to a limit applicable to each of the plurality of frames; dependent on a number of data streams for the given frame being greater than the limit, inserting signalling information in a second signalling information field; inserting said first and second signalling information fields in a preamble section of said given frame; and transmitting the plurality of frames. | 2012-03-29 |
20120076128 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ANONYMOUS WEB CALLING CHARGING ADVICE - Methods and systems are presented for anonymous web call processing, in which an application web server prompts a calling party to initiate a web call, queries a charging server for a tariff rate associated with the anonymous web call to the specified called party, renders the tariff rate to the calling party, and prompts the calling party to confirm initiation of the anonymous web call to the specified called party. | 2012-03-29 |