20th week of 2012 patent applcation highlights part 48 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20120122407 | ADAPTIVE TRANSMISSION FEEDBACK - A method, program and apparatus for transmitting from a transmitter to a receiver over a channel using a transmit diversity scheme. The method comprises: receiving power-related information fed back from the receiver to the transmitter; and at the transmitter, using the power-related information to generate channel state information. The method further comprises using the generated channel state information to control for subsequent transmission to the receiver from the multiple transmit antennas of the transmitter. | 2012-05-17 |
20120122408 | Method And Apparatus For Mapping Of Absolute Power Grant Values in Wireless Communications - A method and apparatus for adjusting power grants in wireless communications. Multiple power grant tables are stored and one or more tables are designated during communication. | 2012-05-17 |
20120122409 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND WIRELESS TERMINAL DEVICE - A wireless communication system corresponding to a wireless terminal device in which at least one of a first frequency bandwidth for use in an up link and a second frequency bandwidth for use in a down link is variable, including a capability information reception unit capable of receiving and extracting terminal capability information transmitted from the wireless terminal device and related to capability of the wireless terminal device; a category designation unit capable of designating a terminal category to which the wireless terminal device belongs, based on the terminal capability information received and extracted by the capability information reception unit; and a link setting unit capable of setting a link to the wireless terminal device and transmitting a control signal depending on the link setting to the wireless terminal device, based on the terminal category designated by the category designation unit. | 2012-05-17 |
20120122410 | MULTIBAND COUPLING ARCHITECTURE - A multiband coupling circuit including: a number of paths equal to the number of frequency bands, each path having a first terminal and a second terminal; a third terminal and a fourth terminal; a number of distributed couplers equal to the number of paths, all couplers being identical and sized according to the highest frequency band, and each coupler including a first conductive line between first and second ports connected to the first and second terminals of the concerned path, and a second conductive line coupled to the first one between third and fourth ports; a first set of attenuations between the third ports of the couplers and the third terminal of the circuit; and an array of filters between the fourth ports of the coupler and the fourth terminal of the circuit. | 2012-05-17 |
20120122411 | IMPROVED CONTROL OF SWITCHER REGULATED POWER AMPLIFIER MODULES - Various embodiments described herein relate to a power management block and an amplification block used in the transmitter of a communication subsystem. The power management block provides improved control for the gain control signal provided to a pre-amplifier and the supply voltage provided to a power amplifier which are both in the amplification block. The power expended by the power amplifier is optimized by employing a continuous control method in which one or more feedback loops are employed to take into account various characteristics of the transmitter components and control values. | 2012-05-17 |
20120122412 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE POWER FOR BROADCASTING A COGNITIVE PILOT CHANNEL - The invention relates to a method for controlling the power for broadcasting a Cognitive Pilot Channel broadcasting lists of information to each of a plurality of meshes M | 2012-05-17 |
20120122413 | RADIO RECEIVER - A radio receiver receives a broadcast signal and generates an RF signal, generates an IF signal from the RF signal, detects the electric field intensity and the frequency of the IF signal, detects the IF signal and generates a detected signal, detects the intensity of a noise signal that is a harmonic component of a digital signal that exists in a certain specific frequency band from among the detected signals, determines that the broadcast signal includes a desired analog broadcast signal when the electric field intensity of the IF signal is equal to or larger than a predetermined electric field intensity, the frequency is within a predetermined frequency range, and also the signal intensity detected by the noise signal detection unit is equal to or smaller than a predetermined value, and then performs a control to stop a search. | 2012-05-17 |
20120122414 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPARATUS CHANGING RADIATION PATTERNS OF ANTENNA APPARATUSES - When controlling antenna apparatuses to select a predetermined combination from among a plurality of combinations of antenna elements, a controller measures RSSIs of wireless signals received by the antenna apparatuses, and sets a detection packet interval and a changeover threshold based on measured RSSIs with reference to a detection packet interval table and a changeover threshold table. Then, the combination of the antenna elements is changed over by using the set detection packet interval and the changeover threshold. | 2012-05-17 |
20120122415 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND SIGNAL DETECTING METHOD - Disclosed is a wireless communication device capable of improving the properties of an interference canceller and improving reception performance without increase in circuit scale and without increase in power consumption. In the device, a channel estimation unit ( | 2012-05-17 |
20120122416 | Signal receiving apparatus, signal receiving method and electronic apparatus - Disclosed herein is a signal receiving apparatus including a frequency conversion section configured to carry out frequency conversion on a modulated signal transmitted to the signal receiving apparatus by adoption of a radio transmission technique, wherein the frequency conversion section carries out the frequency conversion by adoption of a frequency conversion method selected from a plurality of frequency conversion methods adoptable by the frequency conversion section in the frequency conversion to be executed on the modulated signal. | 2012-05-17 |
20120122417 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE HAVING FUNCTIONAL BLOCKS INDIVIDUALLY CONTROLLED TO SELECTIVELY ENTER POWER-SAVING MODE AND RELATED POWER CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - An electronic device includes a first functional block, a second functional block, and a control circuit. The first functional block has a first wake-up guard time requirement. The second functional block has a second wake-up guard time requirement which is different from the first wake-up guard time requirement. The control circuit is coupled to the first functional block and the second functional block, and implemented for selectively controlling the first functional block to switch from a normal mode to a power-saving mode by referring to the first wake-up guard time requirement, and selectively controlling the second functional block to switch from the normal mode to the power-saving mode by referring to the second wake-up guard time requirement. | 2012-05-17 |
20120122418 | Methods, Systems, and Products for Security Systems - Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for notification of alarms in security systems. A packetized alarm message is received from a security system associated with a network address. The network address is associated to a notification address. A communication to the notification address is initiated to alert of an alarm from a security system. | 2012-05-17 |
20120122419 | EMERGENCY MESSAGE TRANSMISSION METHOD AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE IMPLEMENTING THE METHOD - In a method for transmitting an emergency message by an electronic device, a start signal is generated at the time of a trigger operation by a detection unit, location information of the electronic device is periodically acquired and transmitted to a memory by a location acquisition unit; location at the time of the trigger operation or that at the most recent time point is acquired from the memory, an emergency message is generated based on the acquired location information and transmitted to one or more pre-determined target addresses by a transmission unit. An electronic device for transmitting the emergency message is also provided. | 2012-05-17 |
20120122420 | Automated Alert Generation in Response to a Predetermined Communication on a Telecommunication Device - A cell phone software application that automatically informs a person's ICE contacts when their cell phone has made an emergency 911 call. Also included are systems for sending the GPS location of the cell phone to both the emergency service responders and to the ICE contacts. Personal medical information can also be transmitted automatically to the emergency service when the emergency call has been made. A system for disabling the alerting of the person's ICE contacts is also included such that the cell phone user is free to make emergency calls on behalf of other people. | 2012-05-17 |
20120122421 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REDUCING LATENCY IN A WIRELESS LOCATION SYSTEM - A system and method for providing a location of a mobile device in a network. The method includes: receiving a location request; determining the location of the mobile device responsive to the location request; holding the determined location of the mobile device until a permission to send the determined location is received; receiving the permission to send the determined location; and transmitting the determined location of the mobile device responsive to the received permission. | 2012-05-17 |
20120122422 | Access Network Discovery and Selection Function, ANDSF, Node Distributing Closed Subscriber Group, CSG, Information - The invention relates to a method in an Access Network Discovery and Selection Function, ANDSF, node for distributing Closed Subscriber Group information. The CSG information comprises an Allowed CSG List of a first UE and cell information indicating position of a cell with controlled access associated to the Allowed CSG List. The method comprises retrieving an Allowed CSG List of the radio cell from a CSG Database over a first network | 2012-05-17 |
20120122423 | Subscriber identifier and method for subscriber authentication - The subject innovation relates to a subscriber identifier for subscriber authentication in a mobile telecommunications network. The subscriber identifier comprises a memory device that contains a first subscription data record for subscriber authentication in a first mobile telecommunications network. The memory device further contains a second subscription data record for subscriber authentication in a second mobile telecommunications network. Based on an available mobile telecommunications network, one of the contained subscription data records being usable for subscriber authentication in each case. | 2012-05-17 |
20120122424 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING WIRELESS NETWORKS AS A SERVICE - A wireless network system is provided. The system comprises a wireless network controller and a plurality of access points and/or femtocells. The wireless network controller is in communication with each of the plurality of access points and/or femtocells via an access data network, and is configured to perform one or more network control functions for the benefit of the plurality of access points and/or femtocells. The network control functions may be selected from management and operation, client authentication, mobility, and per-user administration. The wireless network controller is remotely located and operated with respect to the plurality of access points and/or femtocells. | 2012-05-17 |
20120122425 | DISPLAY OF SECURE MESSAGES ON A MOBILE COMMUNICATION DEVICE - A mobile communications device for the display of an incrementally received message includes a message viewer application for scanning the received portions of the message. On determination that the received portion of the message includes a first displayable portion of the message content, the system signals to a message server to halt the message server from forwarding further portions of the message content. The system provides a mechanism for the user of the mobile communications device to cause the mobile communications device to further signal the message server to recommence the forwarding of further portions of the secure message content to permit the verification of the e-mail based on the further portions of the secure message content. | 2012-05-17 |
20120122426 | Separating Attachments Received From A Mobile Device - A computer-implemented method includes receiving a message from a mobile device over a wireless network, the message including several attachments, wherein the several attachments include one or more mobile device attachments corresponding to content captured using the mobile device, identifying the one or more mobile device attachments; and separating the one or more mobile device attachments from the plurality of attachments. | 2012-05-17 |
20120122427 | Personal Media Storage and Retrieval for Visual Voice Mail - A personal media storage system within a visual voicemail system may be implemented A visual voicemail server may receive and store multimedia content on a personal media storage system and associate such content with a voicemail. A visual voicemail server may obtain such content if provided with location data for the content rather than the actual content. A visual voicemail client on a wireless device may transmit a request for content to the visual voicemail server, which may retrieve the content and send to the visual voicemail client using the communications link between the visual voicemail client and the visual voicemail server. The visual voicemail client may render the content within the client. | 2012-05-17 |
20120122428 | Automatic Annunciator Allocation - Technologies described herein generally relate to allocating annunciators to provide annunciations in response to annunciation requests in a computing device. The computing device may include a platform application, which may be configured to receive annunciation requests from applications for providing annunciations. The platform application may discover annunciators capable of providing the at least one annunciation. The platform application may schedule the annunciation request with one of the discovered annunciators and upon scheduling the annunciation request with one of the discovered annunciator, may cause the scheduled annunciator to provide the annunciation in response to the annunciation request. The technologies presented herein can allocate annunciators according to the demands of a user by determining a prioritization level of an annunciation request and an attention limit of the computing device such that the computing device can manage multiple annunciation requests without inundating a user with extraneous annunciations. | 2012-05-17 |
20120122429 | METHOD FOR DIGITAL WATERMARK USE BY A MOBILE STATION - Disclosed is a method for digital watermark use by a mobile station. In the method, a mobile station receives a plurality of digital watermarks. The mobile station detects at least two digital watermarks in the received plurality of watermarks. Based on the at least two detected digital watermarks, a user-specific rule is applied to select a predefined action. The mobile station performs the selected predefined action. | 2012-05-17 |
20120122430 | Weighing Device and Method - The invention relates to a method for weighing a use located on an electronic scale in communication with a mobile telecommunication terminal having a display screen, the scale and the mobile terminal both wirelessly communicating with a telecommunication network adapted to put at least the mobile terminal in communication with an additional communication device, the method including a weighing step, a two-way communication step during which the scale transmits weighing data resulting from the weighing to the mobile terminal, and a display step during which the mobile terminal displays weighing data on the screen. | 2012-05-17 |
20120122431 | CALL RELAY FUNCTION SUPPORT SYSTEM AND METHOD - A system and method of supporting a call relay function is provided. The system includes a second modem terminal for performing a call connection with a first modem terminal through a network, the first modem terminal for relaying a call by forming a near distance communication channel with at least one non-modem terminal when a request for the call connection is received from the second modem terminal, or by supporting a call connection between the second modem terminal and the non-modem terminal and relaying a call to transmit and receive data necessary for execution of a call function when a request for the call connection with the second modem terminal is received from a non-modem terminal in which the communication channel is formed, and the non-modem terminal for performing a call function with the second modem terminal based on the call relay function of the first modem terminal. | 2012-05-17 |
20120122432 | System, Method and Computer Program for Determining the Probability of a Medical Event Occurring - A method for determining the likelihood of a medical event occurring, comprising the steps of applying a data mining technique to a dataset containing temporal patient data, wherein the data mining technique provides information regarding the likelihood of a medical event occurring. | 2012-05-17 |
20120122433 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND TERMINAL FOR SETTING SCHEDULE OF COMMUNICATION TERMINAL - The present invention relates to a method, an apparatus, and a terminal for setting a schedule on a communication terminal. The method includes: obtaining schedule-affecting parameter information that affects implementation of a schedule; determining, according to the schedule-affecting parameter information and preset schedule-affecting parameter information that is necessary for the implementation of the schedule, that the schedule cannot be implemented, and performing processing according to a preset scheme for processing a non-implementable schedule. In implementation of the embodiments of the present invention, a user may arrange and manage his or her schedule more scientifically, reasonably, and flexibly, thus facilitating improved schedule arrangement by the user. | 2012-05-17 |
20120122434 | INTERACTIVE MEDIA MANAGEMENT SERVER - An interactive media management server that facilitates management of interactive media and delivery of such interactive media. It comprises a first interface to an interactive media distribution server communicatively coupled to a plurality of mobile devices, and a second interface to a service provider system or a content provider system. It comprises a manager module for managing creation, distribution and tracking of a plurality of interactive media. The manager module, via the second interface, manages the delivery of the plurality of interactive media from the service provider system or the content provider system, and the communication of user responses to the plurality of interactive media to the corresponding service provider system or content provider system. | 2012-05-17 |
20120122435 | Mobile Telephony Presence - Systems and methods for reporting of presence information associated with use of a mobile telephone are presented. In one example, a headset that is paired with a cellular mobile phone relays presence information to a presence application running on a computer. | 2012-05-17 |
20120122436 | HANDS FREE NOTIFICATION - The present invention provides a mechanism that enables a called party mobile device | 2012-05-17 |
20120122437 | System and Method for Activating Services on a Wireless Device - A system and method for activating services on a wireless device are provided that improve a user's experience and ease of activation/provisioning of services for the wireless device by providing a new provisioning channel for service activations. A user is simply required to input a short activation code(s) into the wireless device which is combined into an activation message along with other device-related information that is automatically retrieved from the wireless device. The generated activation message is then transmitted over the messaging provisioning channel accessible by inactive and/or unprovisioned wireless devices for delivery to a remote site for use in activating services on the wireless device. The services to be activated may include at least one of the following: out of the box activation, device upgrades, device reactivations, wireless number changes, wireless number porting, and the addition or purchasing of services including airtime, enrollments or content. | 2012-05-17 |
20120122438 | Mobile phone including a streaming server with means for controlling the processing of a file before its release - The mobile phone a first buffer memory for storing a data file in a first format and including a plurality of data packets, a converter for converting the file from the first format into a second format, the converter being connected as output of the first buffer memory, a second buffer memory connected as output of the converter and adapted to store the transformed file in the second format, and a streaming server for streaming data to a remote client equipment, the streaming server being adapted to be connected to the remote client equipment via a data link and to receive a data streaming request from the remote client equipment. | 2012-05-17 |
20120122439 | CALL CORRECTING RELAY SYSTEM FOR OPTIMIZING CALL RELAYING BETWEEN DIFFERENT TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS - The invention relates to a device for call correcting relaying of telecommunication connections between at least two telecommunication terminal devices, wherein the telecommunication terminal devices each are registered in different telecommunication networks, comprising at least two telecommunication terminal devices, wherein each telecommunication terminal device has a software component set up for initializing outgoing call requests from the telecommunications terminal devices and thereby for providing information about a desired target telephone number by means of an established telecommunication connection, wherein the software component is further set up for analyzing the identity of the calling location for incoming call requests and declining particular call requests on the basis of the identity analysis and initializing an outgoing call request as a response to the declining; at least one fixed network server, wherein the fixed network server comprises at least one switching component and comprises devices providing interconnection functionality, so that the fixed network server constitutes a neutral telecommunication network; and software-implemented device on the fixed network server that are set up so that an incoming call request to the fixed network server from a first telecommunication terminal device is analyzed with regard to the identity of the requesting telecommunication terminal device and a connection to the requesting telecommunication terminal device is permitted and established as a reaction to the identity analysis, and a desired telecommunication connection to a second telecommunication terminal device is produced on the basis of the identity analysis and the established connection. | 2012-05-17 |
20120122440 | Positioning Reference Signal Assistance Data Signaling for Enhanced Interference Coordination in a Wireless Communication Network - A method in a wireless communication terminal is disclosed. The method includes receiving a first signal including a desired second signal and an interference component, wherein the interference component includes at least a third signal transmitted in an Almost Blank Subframe (ABS) by a neighbor cell, and configuring the wireless communication terminal to employ interference reduction to process the first signal based on a configuration of the interference component. | 2012-05-17 |
20120122441 | DATA COMMUNICATION SETTING CONTROL METHOD BASED ON SUBSCRIBER IDENTIFICATION MODULE AND PORTABLE DEVICE FOR SUPPORTING THE SAME - A method and a portable device that support the control of a data communication setting are provided. The portable terminal includes a Subscriber Identification Module (SIM) card interface into which the SIM is inserted. The device further includes a control unit, a memory unit, and a radio frequency unit. The control unit extracts Mobile Country Code/Mobile Network Code (MCC/MNC) information from the inserted SIM, determines data communication setting information corresponding to the MCC/MNC information from a policy table containing the data communication setting information for each MCC/MNC information, and establishes a data communication by using the determined data communication setting information. The memory unit stores the policy table, and the radio frequency unit performs the established data communication with a specific service operator network related to the SIM under the control of the control unit. | 2012-05-17 |
20120122442 | ESTABLISHMENT OF A TRANSCODER-FREE OPERATION CONNECTION - When a request is sent by a switching unit, relating to the use of at least one subset of a codec mode configuration for the establishment of a transcoder-free operation connection by a radio network controller, it is checked whether the at least one requested subset is supported by the radio network controller. If the at least one subset of at least one codec mode configuration is supported, a transcoder-free operation connection to the switching unit and to the communication terminal is established by the radio network controller. Furthermore, a message relating to the at least one subset of the codec mode configuration to be used is signalled from the radio network controller to the communication terminal for the transmission of data. | 2012-05-17 |
20120122443 | SOFTWARE OUTPUT DESTINATION HANDLING TERMINAL, SYSTEM, METHOD, AND PROGRAM FOR THE SAME - A software output destination handling terminal that handles a display terminal as a software output destination. Data indicating a type of the display terminal is received from the display terminal with which communication connection has been established, and data indicating a usage status of the user is obtained. Data indicating a display rule for a software application to be displayed under the usage status is obtained. In the rule, information designating the display terminal type is associated with information designating a category of the software application to be displayed at the display terminal having the type. Based on the rule, the category of the software application to be displayed at the relevant display terminal is specified. Based on the category, a software application belonging to the category is specified among software applications. Data indicating an instruction to the display terminal to display the software application is generated and sent thereto. | 2012-05-17 |
20120122444 | FEMTO BS FOR REDUCING INTER-CELL INTERFERENCE AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING SIGNAL USING THE SAME - A signal transmission method includes determining whether there is a User Equipment (UE) within an area of the femto BS, determining whether the UE is in an active mode, operating in a first mode of alternating a first Available Interval (AI) with a first UnAvailable Interval (UAI) in time, if no UE exists within the area of the femto BS, operating in a second mode of alternating a second AI with a second UAI shorter than the first UAI in time, if a UE exists within the area of the femto BS and operates in an inactive mode and operating in a third mode of continuously transmitting a signal, if a UE exists within the area of the femto BS and operates in the active mode. | 2012-05-17 |
20120122445 | Method and apparatus for reducing mutual interference of multi-carrier - The disclosure discloses a method for reducing mutual interference of multi-carrier, comprising: adjusting the delay of at least one modulation signal; respectively modulating each adjusted modulation signal onto each modulated signal; and comparing the performance indices of modulated signals with set performance indices, wherein the delay of at least one modulation signal is adjusted when the set performance indices are not reached, until the performance indices of modulated signals reach the set performance indices, and each current modulated signal is set as an output signal, or each current modulation signal is set as an input signal when the set performance indices are reached. The disclosure further discloses an apparatus for reducing mutual interface of multi-carrier. The disclosure can improve the performance obviously under the circumstance of arranging the multi-carrier adjacent to each other, and enable the multiple carriers to operate simultaneously in the coverage area of one radio signal, thereby greatly improving the frequency spectrum utilization ratio. | 2012-05-17 |
20120122446 | FAST CELL SEARCH - Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate searches for a cell in a wireless communication environment. A mobile device can employ a searcher that can detect timing information respectively associated with PSCs and cells to determine the cell with the highest correlation. The searcher can detect SSCs, which can include detecting associated phase information, to determine the SSC with the highest correlation, CP length, and/or other information to facilitate identifying a desired cell having the strongest signal to establish communication between the mobile device and the desired cell. PSCs respectively associated with cells can have different positions in the symbol sequences, and SSCs can respectively be phase shifted at different angles to facilitate detection and identification of a cell(s), where a PSC can be utilized as a phase reference by the associated SSC. | 2012-05-17 |
20120122447 | System and Method for On-Demand Diagnostics of a Device Utilizing Secure Data to Interact Wirelessly with One or More Third Party Systems - A system and method for remotely providing an end user with a solution to a failure in a mobile transaction is disclosed. The system includes a portable communication device having a diagnostics agent configured to transmit the communication device's unique identification number and present status over a mobile network. The system further includes a retailer subsystem in short proximity communication with the communication device, and a remote system management back end in wireless communication with both the communication devices and the retailer subsystem. The system management back end has a diagnostics management system configured to receive failure data from the portable communication device, and to determine a solution based on the failure data. The system also includes a mobile network in communication with the system management back end, via which the solution is wirelessly transmitted to the end user. | 2012-05-17 |
20120122448 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR CONFIGURATION OF A MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method for configuration of a mobile communication system with a mobile communication network and a mobile terminal, which comprises determining a communication service quality required by a software application running on the mobile terminal for the transmission of data to be transmitted via a communication connection between the mobile communication network and the mobile terminal; and determining at least one of a base station of the mobile communication network to provide the communication connection and a radio frequency region to be used to provide the communication connection based on the required communication service quality. | 2012-05-17 |
20120122449 | RESOURCE ALLOCATION TO TERRESTRIAL AND SATELLITE SERVICES - There is provided a method for improving an allocation of resources, i.e., frequency and power, to terrestrial services and satellite services that use a same frequency band. The method includes determining a demand (D | 2012-05-17 |
20120122450 | Handling of services for a called subscriber - A method and control node and computer program are disclosed for handling Intelligent Network services associated with a call to a subscriber of a mobile telecommunications network, the network comprising said control node, a HLR and one or more SCPs. Said control node a) sends to said HLR one or more requests for routing information associated with said call; b) receives from said HLR service trigger elements associated with said services; c) uses said trigger elements for invoking said services in said one ore more SCPs; and d) receives from said one or more SCPs information related to said services associated with said trigger elements. | 2012-05-17 |
20120122451 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING ROAMING SERVICES TO INBOUND ROAMERS USING VISITED NETWORK GATEWAY LOCATION REGISTER - The present invention provides a method for providing roaming services to one or more subscribers, correspondingly associated with the one or more HPMNs, while the one or more subscribers are registered with the VPMN. The method includes allocating a pool of GTs to a Gateway Location Register (GLR) that is associated with the VPMN, where the pool of Global Titles (GTs) corresponds to at least one of: one or more VLRs associated with the VPMN, one or more SGSNs associated with the VPMN, one or more HPMNs, and one or more HLRs associated with an HPMN from the one or more HPMNs. The method further includes facilitating mobile communication of the one or more subscribers in the VPMN using the allocated pool of GTs. | 2012-05-17 |
20120122452 | MOTION-BASED KINETIC FINGERPRINT RADIO SELECTION - Systems and techniques for motion adaptive wireless user equipment (UE) in a wireless network are disclosed. These techniques can leverage kinetic information to select a preferred radio (or radio technology) or adapt a reselection scanning interval. This can serve to improve the performance of a UE by reducing the amount of power expended in maintaining an adequate level of connectedness to the wireless network components in the face of UE movement. In a further aspect, kinetic power generators can be employed as a source of UE transit data. Kinetic fingerprints can be compared to UE transit data, e.g., that acquired from a kinetic generator of the UE, to facilitate selection of preferred radios and reselection intervals. In this aspect, radio selection schema and reselection scanning schema can effectively be selected with little to no drain on a UE power source. | 2012-05-17 |
20120122453 | CELL SEARCHER OF MOBILE TERMINAL AND NEIGHBOR CELL SEARCHING METHOD THEREOF - Provided are a cell searcher for handover of a mobile terminal and a neighbor cell searching method thereof. The neighbor cell searching method includes: after searching a home cell, determining whether a Primary Synchronization Signal (PSS) code of the home cell is identical to that of a neighbor cell; when the PPS code of the home cell is identical to that of the neighbor cell, cancelling a PSS symbol of the home cell from a received signal in a time domain; and searching a neighbor cell from the received signal cancelled the PSS symbol of the home cell. | 2012-05-17 |
20120122454 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR REGISTRATION OF OWNER'S TERMINAL IN SMALL NETWORK OF BASE STATIONS - Provided is a system for registering a terminal, including: a verification unit to verify whether the terminal is a closed subscriber group (CSG) member in response to a registration request to a small base station that is received from the terminal; a search unit to search for an owner terminal of the small base station when the terminal is not the CSG member as the verification result; a request unit to request the found owner terminal to determine whether to approve a CSG member registration of the terminal; and a registration unit to register the terminal as a temporary CSG member when the owner terminal approves the CSG member registration in response to the request. | 2012-05-17 |
20120122455 | Method and Arrangement in a Radio Communications System for Dynamic Carrier Mode Switching - A method in a radio network node for dynamic carrier mode switching is provided. The radio network node is comprised in a radio communications system. The radio network node is configured to operate in a legacy mode and is further configured to operate in a non legacy mode. At least one carrier is operated so that it switches ( | 2012-05-17 |
20120122456 | Method and System for a Transmitting Mobility State - A method for transmitting a mobility state is provided in the present invention, the method includes: when an source evolved NodeB (eNB) performs a handover of a user equipment (UE) in a connectivity state, it sends the UE historical information to a target eNB; the target eNB decides a mobility state of the UE according to the UE historical information. Alternatively, when the source eNB performs a handover of the UE in a connectivity state, it decides the mobility state of the UE according to the UE historical information, sets the corresponding mobility state instruction information and sends it to the target eNB; the target eNB acquires the mobility state corresponding to the UE according to the received mobility state instruction information. A system for transmitting a mobility state is also provided in the present invention. | 2012-05-17 |
20120122457 | RADIO BASE STATION AND HANDOVER CONTROL METHOD - An LTE base station ( | 2012-05-17 |
20120122458 | Method, Apparatus And Computer Program Product For Priority Based Cell Reselection In A Multi-RAT Environment - A method, apparatus and computer program product are therefore provided that may enable a network sending broadcast and/or dedicated priorities to a mobile terminal to also include priorities with respect to a RAT that does not support the priority algorithm. As such, for example, priority parameters for a legacy network that does not support the priority algorithm may be supplied to a mobile terminal to enable the mobile terminal to make cell reselection decisions without running two different cell reselection algorithms in parallel (e.g., a ranking based algorithm and a priority based algorithm). The provided method includes the steps of receiving an indication of a plurality candidate cells with respect to said cell reselection of a mobile terminal; assigning, toward each of said plurality of candidate cells, a priority, wherein at least one candidate cell of the plurality of candidate cells does not support priority based cell reselection; and providing said priorities to said mobile terminal. | 2012-05-17 |
20120122459 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM FOR VOICE CALL FALLBACK TO CIRCUIT SWITCHED DOMAIN - A method for voice call fallback to a circuit switched (CS) domain disclosed in the present invention includes: receiving a Service Request message from a calling user equipment (UE), where the Service Request message includes called number information of a voice call in a CS domain, instructing an evolved NodeB (eNB) to initiate circuit switched fallback (CSFB) handover; receiving a Handover Request message from the eNB, where the Handover Request message includes information required for CS handover, selecting a mobile switching center (MSC) and sending a packet switched (PS) to CS Handover Request message to the MSC, where the PS to CS Handover Request message carries information required for the CS handover and a called number so that the MSC calls a called UE. The corresponding apparatuses and systems are also disclosed. The technical solution of the present invention can reduce the connection delay. | 2012-05-17 |
20120122460 | MOBILITY FOR USER EQUIPMENT IN CLOSED SUBSCRIBER GROUP ENVIRONMENT - In one exemplary embodiment, a method including: receiving an intra- frequency cell re-selection indicator in combination with physical cell identity split information from a closed subscriber group cell or a macro cell, where the intra-frequency cell re-selection indicator is indicative of whether or not a mobile station is allowed to camp on a cell that is not ranked as best; and making an intra-frequency cell selection/re-selection decision based on the received intra-frequency cell re-selection indicator and the physical cell identity split information. | 2012-05-17 |
20120122461 | TECHNIQUES FOR MANAGING COMMUNICATIONS RESOURCES FOR A MOBILE DEVICE - Techniques to manage communications resources for a mobile device are described. An apparatus may comprise a mobile computing device having a radio arranged to communicate information over a wireless link, a link classifier arranged to generate a class parameter for the wireless link based on signal quality measurements of the wireless link, and a data service manager arranged to receive a data service request from an application, determine whether the application may communicate information over the wireless link based on the class parameter for the wireless link, and generate a control directive for the application granting or denying the data service request. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 2012-05-17 |
20120122462 | DISTRIBUTED SCHEDULING COORDINATION FOR PLURAL SERVICE AREAS - An apparatus ( | 2012-05-17 |
20120122463 | Apparatus and Method Employing Scheduler Behavior Aware Predictive Resource Selection in a Communication System - An apparatus, method and system to predict interference employing scheduler behavior information in a communication system. In one embodiment, an apparatus includes a processor and memory including computer program code. The memory and the computer program code are configured, with the processor, to cause the apparatus to receive scheduler behavior information for an allocation of communication resources, and produce an interference history associated with at least one of a communication resource and a user equipment operable in a cellular communication mode. The memory and the computer program code are further configured, with the processor, to cause the apparatus to predict an interference level on the communication resource as a function of the interference history and the scheduler behavior information for a user equipment operable in a device-to-device communication mode. | 2012-05-17 |
20120122464 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR BEARER PROCESSING - A bearer processing method is disclosed. The method includes these steps: a system border node receives a Packet Data Protocol (PDP) Context Request initiated by a universal mobile telecommunication system (UMTS); the system border node adjusts a Request Bearer Resource Allocation message of a system architecture evolution (SAE) system or the PDP Context Request of the UMTS according to the received PDP Context Request to map the Bearer Resource Allocation procedure of the SAE system and the Bearer Resource Allocation procedure of the UMTS. The present invention can map the Bearer Resource Allocation procedure of the SAE system and the Bearer Resource Allocation procedure of the UMTS. | 2012-05-17 |
20120122465 | Methods and Arrangements for Allocating Scheduling Request Resources in a Wireless Communication System - Method and arrangement in a base station for allocating scheduling request resources to a user equipment. The method and arrangement comprises receiving a bearer setup message from the user equipment and sending a first instruction comprising a first scheduling request interval, to be used by the user equipment. Also, a scheduling request is received from the user equipment. The moment of time when data was generated at the user equipment and a periodicity of data generation at the user equipment are estimated. Further, a second scheduling request interval and scheduling request resources to be used by the user equipment is determined, based on the estimated periodicity and moment of data generation at the user equipment, and sent to the user equipment. In addition, a method and arrangement in a user equipment for assisting the base station for allocating scheduling request resources to the user equipment are described. | 2012-05-17 |
20120122466 | Method and Arrangement in a Communications Network - A method for enhancing Random Access Channel, RACH, performance is provided. First timing settings to be used by a first set of user equipments for a first Acquisition Indicator Channel, AICH, response timing is explicitly or implicitly signalled ( | 2012-05-17 |
20120122467 | METHOD FOR ASSIGNING FREQUENCY SUBBANDS TO A PLURALITY OF INTERFERING NODES IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORK, CONTROLLER FOR A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORK AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORK - A method assigns frequency subbands to a plurality of interfering nodes in a wireless communication network, wherein the number of subbands assigned to a node depends on the interference condition of the node, wherein as the node faces less interference it is assigned more subbands. | 2012-05-17 |
20120122468 | Method and Device for Coordinated Scheduling - Disclosed in the present invention is a coordinated scheduling method which includes that: a base station establishes the correspondences between sub-bands and spatial information, and communicates the correspondences between sub-bands and spatial information with the base station of a cooperative cell ( | 2012-05-17 |
20120122469 | RADIO BASE STATION AND COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD - A control unit ( | 2012-05-17 |
20120122470 | METHOD FOR LOCATING MULTIPLE RAYS OF A SOURCE WITH OR WITHOUT AOA BY MULTI-CHANNEL ESTIMATION OF THE TDOA AND FDOA - A method and system for locating an emitter E transmitting a signal toward a receiver A comprising N radio frequency channels (N≧1), the characteristics of said signal being unknown to the receiver and said signal being reflected off P reflectors B | 2012-05-17 |
20120122471 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MOBILE TERMINAL LOCATION VERIFICATION - Methods and systems for using W-code to extend anti-spoof capability to civilian GPS receivers for verifying locations of mobile terminals are disclosed. A system for verifying a reported location of a mobile terminal includes a receiver of the mobile terminal and a verification processor. The receiver processes the radio ranging signals to generate measured quantities related to the W-code to the verification processor. The receiver also provides the reported location of the mobile terminal to the verification processor. The verification processor generates expected quantities related to the W-code based on the reported location of the mobile terminal. The verification processor further compares the measured quantities related to the W-code to the expected quantities related to the W-code to verify the reported location of the mobile terminal. | 2012-05-17 |
20120122472 | Positioning Reference Signal Assistance Data Signaling for Enhanced Interference Coordination in a Wireless Communication Network - A method in a wireless terminal includes receiving a measurement subframe pattern indicating a first set of subframes on which a transmission from a first base station must be processed, receiving Positioning Reference Signal (PRS) subframe pattern information corresponding to a second base station, determining a subset of the first set of subframes that overlaps with subframes in the PRS subframe pattern information, and processing a transmission received in the subset of the first set of subframes from the first base station. | 2012-05-17 |
20120122473 | Method and Device for Locating Terminal by Using Base Station - The present invention provides a method for locating a terminal by using a base station, and the method includes steps as follows: constructing a locating message by expanding a location report message or via an independent message; sending the locating message to a locating judgment center; and locating the terminal by using the locating message. The present invention is helpful to reduce the power consumption of the User Equipment (UE). | 2012-05-17 |
20120122474 | POSITION REPORTING MICROPHONE - A position reporting microphone, adapted for use in an existing communication system is disclosed. The position reporting microphone communicatively networks with the existing communication system channels to send and receive information such as for example audio, position, and/or identification information regarding the position reporting microphone. | 2012-05-17 |
20120122475 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ESTIMATING POSITION OF ACCESS POINT IN WI-FI SYSTEM - A method and apparatus for estimating a position of an access point (AP) in a Wi-Fi system is provided. The method includes measuring a strength of a signal, transmitted by the AP, at three or more measurement points (MPs), selecting an imaginary attenuation factor, calculating a range between the AP and each of the MPs on the basis of the imaginary attenuation factor and a strength of a signal measured at the MP, calculating an intersecting point of ranging circles in each of which a position of the MP is a center and the range between the MP and the AP is a radius, calculating a best intersecting point from among a plurality of the intersecting points obtained by repeating the calculating the range and the calculating the intersecting point of ranging circles while changing the imaginary attenuation factor, and estimating the best intersecting point as the position of the AP. | 2012-05-17 |
20120122476 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING SPATIAL-BASED CONTEXT-AWARE SERVICE - A system for providing spatial-based context-aware service includes a database configured to store a geocontext including spatial information, one or more contexts, and sensor data; a sensor/context catalog server configured to manage meta data of the contexts and the sensor data; a context processing server configured to generate a list of contexts applicable to the mobile device based on the sensor data and the meta data upon a receipt of the sensor data from the mobile device; a geocontext search server configured to search the database for candidate geocontexts appropriate for the user of the mobile device by using the location information of the mobile device and the list of contexts; and a context-aware management server configured to generate a list of recommended services by executing the searched candidate geocontexts. | 2012-05-17 |
20120122477 | GEO-LOCATION AIDED SENSING - There lies a challenge to develop a technique of accurately and efficiently determining an available communication channel. In accordance with some embodiments disclosed herein, techniques for sensing a primary user of a particular communication channel are performed more efficiently. In some implementations, a geo-location of a communication device is combined with a sensing algorithm in order to more efficiently perform spectrum sensing. In some implementations, a geo-location and an accuracy determination may be used to determine all required sample regions in order to ensure that a primary user is not present in a particular location. | 2012-05-17 |
20120122478 | Signalling Measurements for Positioning in a Wireless Network - A method in a signalling device for assisting in positioning of user equipment based on time measurements is provided. The signalling device is associated with an s-cell, which is recognized by the first network node as having limited functionality and is, therefore, not considerable for the user equipment as a candidate cell for serving the user equipment (for data transmission. The signalling device associated s-cell is part of a positioning neighbour list of neighbour cells. The neighbour cells in the list are configured to have time measurements performed thereon by the user equipment for enabling positioning. The signalling device is configured to transmit predefined reference signals in predefined subframes and according to a predefined pattern relating to preselected subcarriers and preselected time slots within a subframe. The signalling device obtains synchronisation information and transmits reference signals according to the configuration and synchronized according to the obtained synchronisation information. This enables the user equipment to receive and perform time measurements on the transmitted reference signals for positioning when the signalling device associated s-cell is in the positioning neighbour list. | 2012-05-17 |
20120122479 | CULLED SATELLITE EPHEMERIS INFORMATION FOR QUICK, ACCURATE ASSISTED LOCATING SATELLITE LOCATION DETERMINATION FOR CELL SITE ANTENNAS - Locating satellites (e.g., GPS) are culled into a preferred group having a longest dwell time based on a time passing through an ellipsoid arc path through a cone of space, and communicated to mobile devices within a particular region (e.g., serviced by a particular base station). The culled locating satellites may select those visible, or more preferably those locating satellites currently within a cone of space above the relevant base station are selected for communication by a mobile device within the service area of the base station. The inverted cone of space may be defined for each antenna structure for any given base station, and each has 360 degrees of coverage, or less than 360 degrees of coverage, with relevant locating satellites. Thus, cell sites may be specifically used as reference points for culling the ephemeris information used to expedite Assisted GPS location determinations. | 2012-05-17 |
20120122480 | Apparatus and Method for Determining Location and Tracking Coordinates of a Tracking Device - A device and method to monitor location coordinates of an electronic tracking device are disclosed here. The device includes transceiver circuitry to receive at least one portion of a receive communication signal comprising location coordinates information; accelerometer circuitry to measure displacements of the portable electronic tracking device; a battery power monitor configured to activate and deactivate at least one portion of signaling circuitry; and processor circuitry configured to process the displacements. The method includes receiving at least one portion of a receive communication signal comprising location coordinates information; measuring displacements of a portable electronic tracking device; activating and deactivating at least one portion of signaling circuitry; and processing the at least one portion of the receive communication signal. | 2012-05-17 |
20120122481 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING LOCATIONS TO BE STORED IN A LOCATION DATABASE - A present location of a user is periodically determined. The present location of the user is compared to a previous location of the user. A determination is made as to whether the present location is within a specified distance of the previous location. If the present location is within the specified distance of the previous location, a determination is made as to whether the user has been at the present location for a specified time period. If the user has been at the present location for the specified time period, the present location is stored in a location database. | 2012-05-17 |
20120122482 | ACTIVATING LOCATION BASED SERVICE APPLICATIONS - The present invention relates to providing methods and apparatus for identifying a location area of a mobile device, determining whether an LBS application should be activated on the mobile device based on the location area and activating the LBS application on the mobile device. A Mobile Network Operator server may identify the location area of a mobile device and activate an application on the mobile device while a third party LBS application provider server may make the determination as to whether an LBS application should be activated on the mobile device. | 2012-05-17 |
20120122483 | LOCATION IDENTIFYING METHOD AND LOCATION IDENTIFYING DEVICE - In a location identifying method, the sight of users of mobile communication terminals is estimated by calculating directions of the users based on position information of the mobile communication terminals, and the location where the lines of sight of the users are concentrated is identified based on the estimated sight. By identifying a location where the lines of sight of the users of the mobile communication terminals are concentrated, it is possible to identify an installation location where high advertising effectiveness can be achieved. Moreover, since only acquisition of the position information of the mobile communication terminals is needed, it is possible to efficiently identify an installation location of an advertisement, etc. Therefore, it is possible to efficiently identify an installation location of an advertisement or a billboard where high advertising effectiveness can be achieved. | 2012-05-17 |
20120122484 | METHOD FOR CALIBRATING A PROPAGATION-TIME-BASED LOCALIZATION SYSTEM - In a method for calibrating a propagation-time-based localization system in a computer-assisted manner, the position of a mobile object in a predetermined environment can be determined by detecting propagation-time-based variables of multiple base stations, wherein the propagation-time-based variable of a base station represents the propagation time of a signal between an object radio unit and the base station. The object is moved and the variables of the base stations are detected in the process at multiple measuring times. The minimum value of the variables of a base station is associated with a predefined minimum distance between the object and base station and the maximum value with a predefined maximum distance. A predefined dependence of the distances between the object and base station is scaled to the association of the minimum and maximum value. The scaled dependence is then used when determining the position of the mobile object. | 2012-05-17 |
20120122485 | POSITIONING SYSTEMS - We describe a device that is able to compute its range and time offset relative to another similar device, and thereby also a three-dimensional position, speed and time relative to other similar devices provided that at least four are present and within range. It does so by transmitting at least two signals at different frequencies and by receiving similar signals transmitted by the other devices. The signals are constructed so that they are independent of the radio band used and so that they lead to cancellation of common-mode effects in the transmitter and receiver circuits. No fixed infrastructure of transmitters, receivers or local measurement units is required and the devices do not need to be synchronised. The system scales to very large networks of devices in which they work collectively each solving a part of the problem that describes the relative positions of all interconnected devices. | 2012-05-17 |
20120122486 | ESTIMATING POSITIONS OF A DEVICE AND AT LEAST ONE TARGET IN AN ENVIRONMENT - A method/system for estimating a state of a device and at least one target in an environment. The process involves computing a state vector using an error state form of the position of the device in a local coordinate reference frame. | 2012-05-17 |
20120122487 | METHOD FOR DISCOVERY OF INDOOR LCI BASED ON APPROXIMATE LOCATION - As part of a localized positioning solution, a mobile device may transmit a request message to a server to obtain information about location contexts near the mobile device. In response, the server may, in some implementations, transmit a response message back to the mobile device that identifies a list of nearby LCIs and an area that encompasses these LCIs. The mobile device may store the returned LCI information and the returned area information in corresponding databases for later use. In some implementations, time limits may be placed on the returned area information after which the information is deemed stale. | 2012-05-17 |
20120122488 | Method for the determination of a receiver for location information - The invention relates to a method for distinguishing between LOCATION_REPORT messages to avoid ambiguities. Therefore, a value of an information element of request type is returned by a radio network controller, depending on an intended receiver of the location information. A control node receiving the information element value analyses said value and determines the receiver depending on the result of said analysis. | 2012-05-17 |
20120122489 | LOCATION BASED CONTENT AGGREGATION AND DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS AND METHODS - An exemplary method includes a content hub subsystem receiving a content posting from an access device connected to a wireless network and associated with a first user. The content posting includes data representative of a content instance and a geographic location associated with the content instance. The exemplary method further includes the content hub subsystem storing the content posting and selectively distributing the content instance to at least one other access device connected to the wireless network based on the geographic location, the at least one other access device associated with a second user. A past or present physical location of the at least one other access device within a predefined proximity of the geographic location is requisite to the distribution of the content instance to the at least one other access device. Corresponding methods and systems are also disclosed. | 2012-05-17 |
20120122490 | LOCATION SPECIFIC EVENT BROADCASTING - Applications in a broadcast environment distribute events in real-time to a large number of receivers within specified geographic locations while efficiently sharing bandwidth resources with other applications using the same broadcast network. Applications need not be aware of the other applications sharing the resources, nor of the methods, protocols, and other mechanisms used to actually broadcast the data over the broadcast medium. Server-side applications that serve data, send notifications, or distribute events to specific locations within the network use a broadcast location manager. Client applications that receive such data, notifications, or events use a client location filter to obtain events that are relevant based on the location of the device. The broadcast location manager and client location filter work together to reliably and efficiently transmit data, notifications, and events to specific locations over the broadcast network for all applications involved. | 2012-05-17 |
20120122491 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING AUGMENTED REALITY, SERVER FOR SAME, AND PORTABLE TERMINAL - The present disclosure provides a method for providing an augmented reality, to server and portable terminal for same. Augmented reality providing server provides an augmented reality with information overlaid on captured video and includes server communication unit for inter-working with portable terminal; and server control unit for receiving selected menu information from portable terminal, generating first menu information data attained by extracting data that matches selected menu information by comparing the selected menu information with pre-stored location-associated information, and transmitting first menu information data to portable terminal, wherein the server control unit generates the first menu information data by selecting menus that match the selected menu information among a plurality of menus included in the location-associated information. In an embodiment, fast augmented reality operation can be obtained since portable terminal may receive and output information corresponding to menu selection immediately with a composition onto acquired image information. | 2012-05-17 |
20120122492 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR UPDATING FEMTOCELL PROXIMITY INFORMATION - Techniques are described herein for updating proximity information associated with a femtocell in a wireless communication system. An example of a method described herein includes identifying a location within a wireless communication network, associating the location with a femtocell for which proximity information relating to position of the femtocell is maintained, performing at least one search for the femtocell, and updating the proximity information maintained for the femtocell based on results of the at least one search. Another example of a method described herein includes obtaining a report of proximity information relating to a femtocell, identifying one or more network devices for which the proximity information is relevant, and communicating proximity information update signaling to the one or more network devices. | 2012-05-17 |
20120122493 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, POSITION RECORDING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information processing device includes a main function unit which realizes main functions of the information processing device and is operated by being switched between a normal operation mode and a power-saving mode in which less power is consumed than in the normal operation mode, a position acquisition unit which acquires positional information indicating the current position, and a logging controller which causes a first storage unit to record movement trace information obtained by making the positional information acquired by the position acquisition unit correspond to the time when the positional information is acquired in the state where the main function unit is switched to the power-saving mode. | 2012-05-17 |
20120122494 | METHOD FOR CO-LOCATION OF CALLER AND RECEIVER DURING A CALL ON A CELLULAR OR WIRELESS NETWORK - The present invention provides a method to enable a “caller,” while calling at least one call “receiver”, on a handheld device, or any communication device, to communicate the physical location of the caller and receiver, at a given moment. The method comprises: the caller calling at least one receiver; the caller sending each of the at least one receiver a request to authorize to see the other parties location on the map; receiving an approval; and showing the location of the at least one receiver as well as the caller on a digital map on the screens of the caller and said at least one receiver. | 2012-05-17 |
20120122495 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REDUCING ENERGY CONSUMPTION OF MOBILE DEVICES USING EARLY PAGING INDICATOR - A method for reducing energy consumption of mobile devices using a phase-continuous early paging indicator (EPI) is provided. For each of at least one paging occasion either A) an EPI indicative that a page is present in the paging occasion is transmitted during an EPI occasion in advance of the paging occasion, the EPI comprising at least one phase-continuous tone for the EPI occasion, and a page is transmitted during the paging occasion, or B) an EPI indicative that a page is not present in the paging occasion is transmitted during an EPI occasion in advance of the paging occasion, the EPI comprising at least one phase-continuous tone for the EPI occasion. A mobile device is configured to monitor for an EPI that comprises at least one phase-continuous tone for an EPI occasion in advance of its paging occasion in order to determine if a page is potentially present. | 2012-05-17 |
20120122496 | MULTIPLE PAGING CHANNELS FOR EFFICIENT REGION PAGING - Systems and methods are described that mitigating coverage gaps near region boundaries using a plurality of multi-sector broadcast (MSBC) paging channels in wireless networking environments. One or more MSBC paging channels can be assigned unique time slots, such that although the channels can be identical, they are disjointed in time. Accordingly, such channels and/or dynamically generated paging zones associated therewith can be overlapped in areas where wireless device density is high and requires substantial paging capacity. Additionally, a single paging channel can be employed in multiple instances in a paging region without overlap to mitigate inter-channel interference. | 2012-05-17 |
20120122497 | SMS AUTHENTICATION METHOD - The present invention provides a SMS authentication method. The SMS authentication method includes transferring the authentication message into different types of authentication codes and/or review codes, sending the authentication codes and/or review codes to the authentication request end and the user via different types, providing the authentication codes input by the user and the authentication codes from the authentication service supply end to the authentication service supply end by the authentication request end, and making the user determine according to the review codes whether the authentication procedure is correct. Hence, the SMS authentication method of the present invention prevents the authentication information from being illegally recorded or stole during the transmission of the authentication message and prevents the phone number from being stole or forged. | 2012-05-17 |
20120122498 | MOBILE PHONE MESSAGES PROCESSING METHOD AND MOBILE PHONE - A method for processing a mobile phone message and a corresponding mobile phone are provided in the present invention, and the method for processing the mobile phone messages includes: extracting values of public fields of mobile phone messages (S | 2012-05-17 |
20120122499 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SYNCHRONIZING MULTIPLE TRANSMITTERS - A method and apparatus for synchronizing multiple transmitters is disclosed. A global time reference is used to synchronize the arrival of data from a plurality of transmitters in a receiver station. In one embodiment, the global time reference is provided by a GPS satellite, and may also be used to synchronize the carriers of the signals received at the receiver station from each of the plurality of transmitters | 2012-05-17 |
20120122500 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SYNCHRONIZING MULTIPLE TRANSMITTERS - A method and apparatus for synchronizing multiple transmitters is disclosed. A global time reference is used to synchronize the arrival of data from a plurality of secondary transmitters in a receiver station. In one embodiment, the global time reference is provided by a GPS satellite, and may also be used to synchronize the carriers of the signals received at the receiver station from each of the plurality of transmitters. In one embodiment, a pilot signal used for ATSC applications is added by the secondary transmitters. | 2012-05-17 |
20120122501 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND DEVICE THEREOF - A wireless communication system and a wireless communication device thereof are proposed. The system is adapted for synchronizing wireless setting of at least a wireless communication device in the system. The at least a wireless communication device synchronizes a first wireless setting thereof or synchronizes a second wireless setting of another wireless communication device in the system by just wireless network signal. Moreover, the at least a wireless communication device determines whether the first wireless setting thereof is the latest by checking a sequence number in the wireless network signal. | 2012-05-17 |
20120122502 | METHOD AND APPARATUS OF CONTROLLING INTER CELL INTERFERENCE BASED ON COOPERATION OF INTRA CELL TERMINALS - Provided is a method and apparatus for controlling inter cell interference based on cooperation between intra cell terminals. The intra cell terminals may exchange interference channel information, and may determine a receive beamforming vector based on the exchanged interference channel information. At least one intra cell terminal may feed back, to a neighboring cell base station, information associated with an effective interference channel using the receive beamforming vector. A base station may determine a transmit beamforming vector based on information associated with an effective interference channel using receive beamforming vectors of neighboring cell terminals that are received from at least one neighboring cell terminal. | 2012-05-17 |
20120122503 | System and Method for Self-Optimized Inter-Cell Interference Coordination - An embodiment method for operating a controller of a communications system includes determining inter-cell interference coordination (ICIC) information for the communications system, automatically adjusting, by the controller without end-user input, ICIC parameters according to the ICIC information to improve an overall performance level of the communications system, and transmitting the ICIC operation parameters to network entities in the communications system. | 2012-05-17 |
20120122504 | ANTI-INTERFERENCE METHOD AND DEVICE IN COMMON-FREQUENCY NETWORKING MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The examples of the present invention disclose an anti-interference method and device in a common-frequency networking mobile communication system. The method includes: creating a candidate cell list according to probability that each adjacent cell of a current cell interferes with the current cell; selecting a selected cell list from the candidate cell list according to the probability; performing channel estimation for adjacent cells in the selected cell list, obtaining current signal power of each adjacent cell in the selected cell list according to a channel estimation result, and selecting a detected cell list from the selected cell list according to the signal power; and performing joint detection for adjacent cells in the detected cell list to eliminate interference of the adjacent cells in the detected cell list on the current cell. | 2012-05-17 |
20120122505 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ALLOCATING RESOURCES TO NODES IN A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM USING AN UPDATE OF ITERATION RESOURCE WEIGHTS - An apparatus for allocating resources to nodes in a communication system comprises an iteration controller ( | 2012-05-17 |
20120122506 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SERVICES - A method for providing wireless communication services via efficient management of frequency bands includes transmitting uplink communications to a first system on a first frequency. The method also includes receiving downlink communications from the first system on a second frequency. The method may also include transmitting uplink communications to a second system by re-using the second frequency. The method further includes receiving downlink communications from the second system by re-using the first frequency. | 2012-05-17 |