21st week of 2009 patent applcation highlights part 50 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20090130958 | Fixed Abrasive Pad Having Different Real Contact Areas and Fabrication Method Thereof - Disclosed is a method for fabricating a fixed abrasive pad in use of a chemical mechanical polishing process. The method includes: forming one or more etching molds providing a plurality of different real contact areas; attaching the etching mold(s) to a roller or press; and forming a fixed abrasive pad using the roller or press, The fixed abrasive pad has a plurality of polishing portions, each having a different real contact area. Especially, the fixed abrasive pad can comprise a low-density polishing portion having a real contact area less than 20% and a high-density polishing portion having a real contact area of 20%˜50%. | 2009-05-21 |
20090130959 | BLASTING METHOD AND BLASTING MACHINE - In blasting with an abrasive containing liquid to confer elasticity, the abrasive from which liquid evaporates in the course of continuance use is uniformly supplied with liquid. Liquid for swelling an elastic abrasive is sprayed in an air flow for transporting the abrasive in a blasting machine | 2009-05-21 |
20090130960 | Method For Producing A Semiconductor Wafer With A Polished Edge - The invention relates to a method for producing a semiconductor wafer with a polished edge, said method comprising the following steps:
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20090130961 | HAND-HELD POWER TOOL SYSTEM - The invention relates to a portable power tool system comprising a portable power tool ( | 2009-05-21 |
20090130962 | FILLING MACHINE AND A FILLING METHOD - A filling machine and a method of filling foodstuffs e.g. into sausage casings, with the filling machine having supplied thereto containers in which a foodstuff is stored, and a machine control unit. In order to guarantee a correct operation of the filling machine, a data reader receives container data stored in a storage means at the respective container, whereby the machine control unit is implemented such that the filling process is executed in dependence upon the container data read. | 2009-05-21 |
20090130963 | APPARATUS FOR THE AUTOMATIC STUFFING OF MEAT PRODUCTS INTO A DOUBLE CASING COMPRISING A SHEET AND A NET - A device for producing meat products by stuffing meat mass in a double casing made up of a film and a net, has a stuffing tube with a diameter, a mechanism for passing the meat mass through the stuffing tube and into the double casing and a mechanism for shaping the film into a cylinder that is adapted to the diameter of the stuffing tube, the shaping mechanism forming longitudinal folds for allowing radial expansion of the cylinder when the cylinder is fed with meat mass through the stuffing tube by unfolding the folds. | 2009-05-21 |
20090130964 | Carcass intervention tracking and methods - The present invention provides systems and methods for tracking carcass intervention data accumulated during carcass processing. An identification is assigned to the carcass. The carcass is subjected to at least one intervention, during which processing data is accumulated. The carcass identification and the processing data are then associated and compared to predetermined processing parameters. | 2009-05-21 |
20090130965 | Climate control system for parked automobiles - The components used in this invention has never been utilized in this special type of arrangement ever before. This “Climate Control for Parked Automobiles” does not exist and cannot be found anywhere. | 2009-05-21 |
20090130966 | VEHICLE CABIN VENTING ARRANGEMENT - An example vehicle cabin temperature control arrangement includes a sensor and a controller module operatively connected to the sensor. An actuator is operatively connected to the controller, which is configured to initiate the actuator to move a component to vent a vehicle cabin in response to a signal from the sensor. | 2009-05-21 |
20090130967 | Air Duct System for Vehicles, In Particular for Rail Vehicles for Passenger Traffic - An air duct system for vehicles, in particular for passenger rail vehicles, has at least one roof venting duct, which has a component venting duct for warm air and a component venting duct for cold-air. A separating means which is arranged inside the roof venting duct is designed so it can be deformed or is held in a movable fashion in such a way that the cross section of each of the two component venting ducts can be enlarged by making the respective other component venting duct smaller. These changes in cross section are brought about solely by the air pressure and volume flow conditions without external energy. | 2009-05-21 |
20090130968 | Device for Influencing an Airflow - The invention relates to a device for influencing or regulating an air flow for a motor vehicle, the device comprising a flexible film element ( | 2009-05-21 |
20090130969 | OFF-PEAK AIR INTAKE VENT - An off-peak intake vent includes spaced top and bottom walls defining a cavity therebetween and a pair of lateral side walls. The bottom wall has a generally planar bottom surface having at least one vent opening formed therethrough for communicating with an opening in a roof deck. The top wall has a curved portion that converges with the bottom wall at an uphill edge of the intake vent. The intake vent also includes air intake louvers defined between the top and bottom walls. | 2009-05-21 |
20090130970 | EXHAUST FAN AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SAME - The present invention provides an exhaust fan including a ventilation grille having a plurality of louvers extending across an exterior face of the grille. Two of the louvers can define an opening and can be oriented such that the interior of the fan is obscured from view of a person through the opening, when the person is positioned in the room such that the person's eyes are outside an area of the room defined by a first reference plane oriented at an angle of less than 25 degrees with respect to a second reference plane and intersecting the second reference plane along a horizontal reference line and a third reference plane oriented at an angle of less than 25 degrees with respect to the second reference plane and intersecting the second reference plane along the horizontal line. | 2009-05-21 |
20090130971 | Method & apparatus for distributing files in a communications network - A wired portion of a communications network includes a server for storing update files and a plurality of access points for communicating with a plurality of wireless communication devices. A wireless portion of a communications network includes the access points and the plurality of wireless communications devices. Periodically, updated software files are available that can be downloaded to all of the wireless communication devices, via the access points. A single master wireless communication device determines that it needs to download updated software files and initiates the transfer of all new updated files to it. Subsequent to the master wireless device receiving the new updated files, it establishes an ad-hoc connection to a peer wireless communication device and if the peer wireless communication device does not have the new update software file, the master wireless communication device transfers the new updated software file to it. | 2009-05-21 |
20090130972 | METHOD AND APPARATUS OF POWER CONTROL FOR A PUBLIC WARNING SYSTEM - A method for broadcasting messages in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes employing a paging channel to receive a broadcast event on a wireless device and utilizing the broadcast event to trigger a warning message on the device. For example, the broadcast event can be detected from a natural disaster such as a primary earthquake warning or tsunami. | 2009-05-21 |
20090130973 | Method and System For Cellular Network and Integrated Broadcast Television (TV) Downlink With Intelligent Service Control - A method for communication for communication is disclosed and may include, in a mobile terminal operable to receive a cellular frequency band service and a UHF broadcast frequency band service from a service provider providing the cellular frequency band service and the UHF broadcast frequency band service, requesting delivery of media associated with a specified information content service provided via one or both of the cellular frequency band service and/or the UHF broadcast frequency band service. The requested media may be received via one or both of the cellular frequency band service and/or the UHF broadcast frequency band service. The requested media may be received based on information transmitted from the mobile terminal. A particular quality of service (QoS) may be specified for the requested media, in the information transmitted from the mobile terminal. | 2009-05-21 |
20090130974 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information processing device that includes processing devices and a relay device. Each processing device has at least one processing function associated with a unique function information item, a function determination portion, and a device information item notification portion. The function determination portion determines whether the processing device includes a processing function that corresponds to a function information item received from the relay device. If the processing device has the processing function, the device information item notification portion transmits a device information item to the relay device. The relay device includes a storage portion that stores the device information items, a function information item transmission portion, and a device information item recording portion. | 2009-05-21 |
20090130975 | RADIO COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD - Provided is a mobile communication system capable of obtaining a diversity effect even when a signal received by a relay station has an error in a corporate relay to which time space encoding is applied. In this mobile communication system, when S | 2009-05-21 |
20090130976 | Display Device for Positioning a Tool Against a Workpiece - The invention relates to a display device for positioning a tool on a workpiece ( | 2009-05-21 |
20090130977 | BLOCKING OF COMMUNICATION CHANNELS - A system may include a scanning module that is arranged and configured to scan communication channels for channel interference, a channel assessor module that is arranged and configured to determine a type of channel interference present on one or more of the communication channels, and a blocking module that is arranged and configured to selectively block one or more of the communication channels based on the type of channel interference. | 2009-05-21 |
20090130978 | METHOD OF SELECTING AND BROADCASTING OVER A TRANSMISSION FREQUENCY AND DEVICE FOR THE SAME - In some embodiments, a method of identifying at least one transmission frequency in a set of carrier frequencies can include: (a) determining a first signal strength for each carrier frequency in the set of carrier frequencies; (b) choosing a first transmission frequency from the set of carrier frequencies at least partially based on the first signal strength of each of the carrier frequencies of the set of carrier frequencies; and (c) broadcasting electrical signals over the first transmission frequency. Other embodiments are disclosed herein. | 2009-05-21 |
20090130979 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION CHANNEL BLANKING - Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate blanking on portions of bandwidth utilized by communicating devices that are dominantly interfered by a disparate device in wireless communications networks. The portions of bandwidth can relate to critical data, such as control data, and one or more of the communicating devices can request that the dominantly interfering device blank on one or more of the portions. The communicating devices can subsequently transmit data over the blanked portions free of the dominant interference. Additionally, the dominantly interfering device can request reciprocal blanking from the one or more communicating devices. | 2009-05-21 |
20090130980 | PERSISTENT INTERFERENCE MITIGATION IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Techniques for transmitting data with persistent interference mitigation in a wireless communication system are described. A station (e.g., a base station or a terminal) may observe high interference and may send a request to reduce interference to interfering stations. The request may be valid for a time period covering multiple response periods. Each interfering station may grant or dismiss the request in each response period, may dismiss the request by transmitting at full power, and may grant the request by transmitting at lower than full power. The station may receive a response from each interfering station indicating grant or dismissal of the request by that interfering station in each response period. The station may estimate SINR based on the response received from each interfering station and may exchange data with another station based on the estimated SINR. Persistent interference mitigation may reduce signaling overhead and improve resource utilization and performance. | 2009-05-21 |
20090130981 | Radio-frequency communication device - There is provided a radio-frequency communication device that can sufficiently eliminate a leakage signal from a transmission side included in a received signal. The communication device includes a cancel amplitude controlling unit | 2009-05-21 |
20090130982 | METHOD FOR UPDATING AUDIO COMMUNICATION FREQUENCIES BETWEEN AIRCRAFT AND ATC STATIONS ON THE GROUND - The present invention relates to a method for automatically preparing an update of audio communication frequencies between aircraft and ATC stations on the ground, a method making it possible to reduce the communication time associated with the necessary frequency changes between control sectors, therefore limiting the frequency space requirement, and reducing the workload due to the manipulations and control of these frequency changes, both for the air traffic controllers and for the aircraft crews, and wherein the flight plan or the current trajectory followed by the aircraft is dynamically coupled with the geometry information of the control sectors overflown by the aircraft and that, thereby knowing the intersection points of the flight plan with the sector limits, the frequency changes and sector name are prepared before each change of sector, while warning the pilot of their imminence. | 2009-05-21 |
20090130983 | METHOD FOR ASSOCIATING A WIRELESS DETECTOR WITH AN IMAGING APPARATUS - A method for obtaining an x-ray image stores an association between a digital radiology receiver panel, a label that is applied to one or more surfaces of the digital radiology receiver panel, and an x-ray imaging room. A response to an operator instruction designates the digital radiology receiver panel having the stored association as an active digital radiology receiver panel in the x-ray imaging room. Instructions are transmitted wirelessly to the active digital radiology receiver panel. Image data is obtained from the active digital radiology receiver panel following exposure to x-ray radiation. | 2009-05-21 |
20090130984 | Apparatus and method for intercepting packet data in mobile communication system - An apparatus and method for intercepting packet data in a mobile communication system is provided. The method includes the steps of: storing intercepted target and interception related information when a target provision request message including the intercepted target and interception related information is received from a Service Provider ADministration Function (SPADF); establishing a data session of the intercepted target according to whether the data session of the intercepted target is established; and intercepting a packet of the intercepted target when the intercepted target starts packet data communication. Accordingly, solutions capable of properly performing Lawful Interception (LI) can be provided while achieving compliance with existing LI on packet data. | 2009-05-21 |
20090130985 | METHOD FOR TRANSITION BETWEEN DISTRIBUTED TRANSMISSION AND LOCALIZED TRANSMISSION - Provided is a method for transitioning between a distributed transmission mode and a localized transmission mode, including transmitting, by a Base Station (BS), a measurement control message to a User Element (UE), wherein the UE makes corresponding measurement and transmits a required measurement report message to the BS and the BS transmits a transition indicator message of new mode to the UE based on measurement report message sent from the UE; and commencing CQI reporting and a downlink transmission of a new mode between the UE and the BS. The BS can choose a more appropriate transmission mode for the downlink transmission based on changing characteristics of the channel in the time domain and the frequency domain. | 2009-05-21 |
20090130986 | METHOD OF TRANSMITTING CHANNEL QUALITY INFORMATION IN MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method of exchanging channel quality information between a base station and a user equipment in a mobile communication system is disclosed. A method of transmitting channel quality information in a mobile communication system which transmits channel quality information from a user equipment to a base station comprises transmitting channel quality information, which is measured based on a signal received from the base station, to the base station, receiving feedback information of the channel quality information from the base station, and transmitting difference information to the base station, the difference information for matching the channel quality information transmitted from the user equipment with channel quality information received by the base station based on the feedback information. | 2009-05-21 |
20090130987 | Probe signalling - A measurement probe | 2009-05-21 |
20090130988 | Simplified Radio Frequency Receiver - An oscillator is provided that is arranged to function as a simplified receiver. The oscillator has a resonator portion and a non-linear portion, which cooperate to generate an oscillating signal. The resonator portion is positioned to receive a modulated signal. In one configuration, the oscillator operates at a frequency offset from the frequency of the carrier for the modulated signal. In this simple arrangement, the oscillator functions as an active mixer, and generates a product output signal. The output signal is extracted from a high impedance point of the oscillator's non-linear device. The output signal is a demodulated or mixed signal, and may be further processed to detect a data signal. | 2009-05-21 |
20090130989 | Qualify method for shielding of transceiver RF block - A method is provided for inputting a signal that is modulated at a predetermined frequency to a receiver signal path of a radio subsystem and demodulating the signal at the predetermined frequency as it passes through the receiver signal path, measuring signal quality of the demodulated signal, and quantitatively assessing shielding of the radio subsystem with the measured signal. | 2009-05-21 |
20090130990 | MULTIMODE TRANSCEIVER FOR USE WITH MULTIPLE ANTENNAS AND METHOD FOR USE THEREWITH - A wireless transceiver includes a plurality of antennas. A plurality of signal recovery circuits generate a selected number of received signals from a first subset of the plurality of antennas, based on a control signal. A receiver section recovers an inbound data stream from the selected number of received signals. A transmitter module generates a transmit signal to a selected one of the plurality of antennas, based on the control signal. The intersection between the first subset of the plurality of antennas and the selected one of the plurality of antennas is the null set for each value of the control signal. The control signals can be generated in multiple different operational modes including, for instance, a cyclic modes and a fixed mode of operation. | 2009-05-21 |
20090130991 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR LNA ADJUSTMENT TO COMPENSATE FOR DYNAMIC IMPEDANCE MATCHING - Aspects of a method and system for LNA adjustment to compensate for dynamic impedance matching are provided. In this regard, an antenna matching network may be configured to maximize received signal strength for a determined frequency and an amplifier gain may be adjusted based on the maximized signal strength such that output levels of the amplifier are between specified limits. The antenna matching network may be programmatically controlled via one or more switching elements. The amplifier gain may be programmatically controlled via one or more bias points. The antenna matching network may be configured for a plurality of frequencies in a frequency band, such as an FM broadcast band, and a configuration for each frequency may be stored. Accordingly, when the receiver is tuned to a frequency, a corresponding configuration may be retrieved from memory. | 2009-05-21 |
20090130992 | Antenna co-location in portable devices for simultaneous receive and transmit - Systems and methods are disclosed for the co-location of radio frequency (RF) antennas in portable devices, portable devices and their docking stations and related systems, and devices with restrictive space constraints to allow for simultaneous receive (RX) and transmit (TX) operation without degradation. The systems and methods disclosed overcome RX channel degradation, receiver performance, and other problems seen in prior solutions. More particularly, transmit and receive antennas are oriented to provide for cross-polarization of their electro-magnetic fields, are oriented to allow one or both antenna to fall within null regions of the other antenna, and/or oriented with both cross-polarization and null region considerations in mind. Other variations and implementations are also described. | 2009-05-21 |
20090130993 | RF FRONT-END AND APPLICATIONS THEREOF - An RF front-end includes a receiver frequency band filter module, a low noise amplifier, a first power amplifier module, a second power amplifier module, and a transmit frequency band filter module. The receiver frequency band filter module filters a received RF signal and the low noise amplifier amplifies the signal in accordance with the first or the second RF front-end configuration signal. The first power amplifier module is enabled in accordance with the first RF front-end configuration signal to amplify the first outbound RF signal and the second power amplifier module is enabled in accordance with the second RF front-end configuration signal to amplify the second outbound RF signal. The transmitter frequency band filter module is enabled in accordance with the second RF front-end configuration signal to filter the second transmit RF signal. | 2009-05-21 |
20090130994 | ADJUSTABLE LOCAL OSCILLATOR PATH IN A COMMUNICATION DEVICE WITH A TRANSMITTER - A communication device includes a transmitter and a receiver. The receiver mixes a local oscillator (LO) signal with the received signal to downconvert the received signal to an intermediate frequency (IF). The LO path that feeds the LO signal to the downconverting mixer is controlled based on the transmit power of the transmitter. For high transmit power, the drive of the LO path is increased, thereby increasing the signal-to-noise ratio of the LO signal input into the mixer. For low transmit power levels, the drive to the LO path is decreased, reducing power consumption in the communication device. In this way, receiver path noise due to mixing of the LO phase noise with the self-generated transmitter signal is selectively controlled while incurring lower power consumption penalty. The communication device may be an access terminal configured for communication with a cellular radio network. | 2009-05-21 |
20090130995 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION DEVICE, HOUSING STRUCTURE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF HOUSING STRUCTURE - A mobile communication device includes a housing structure and an antenna. The housing structure has a carbon fiber housing portion and a non-conductive fiber housing portion. The antenna is disposed in the housing structure. The signal transceiving portion of the antenna is disposed corresponding to the non-conductive fiber housing portion. A housing structure and a manufacturing method thereof applied to the mobile communication device are also disclosed. | 2009-05-21 |
20090130996 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - The present invention aims to reduce an exclusively-possessed area of each of bonding wires mounted over a wiring board, for coupling a power amplifying unit of a semiconductor chip and an antenna switch of a second semiconductor chip in a semiconductor device that configures an RF module. In the RF module, the first semiconductor chip and the second semiconductor chip are mounted side by side in a central area of the wiring board. The first semiconductor chip is formed with amplifier circuits and a control circuit and comprises a silicon substrate or a compound semiconductor substrate. On the other hand, the second semiconductor chip is formed with an antenna switch and comprises the silicon substrate or compound semiconductor substrate. Pads of the first semiconductor chip and pads of the second semiconductor chip are respectively electrically coupled to one another. This coupling is carried out by the bonding wires formed in the surface of the wiring board and the bonding wires formed inside the wiring board. | 2009-05-21 |
20090130997 | TRANSMITTING DEVICE AND METHOD OF TUNING THE TRANSMITTING DEVICE - A transmitting device comprising a transmitter, an antenna and a tuning means comprising a matching network connectable between the transmitter and the antenna, the matching network comprising a plurality of capacitors; characterised in that the tuning means further comprises a means of selectively individually adjusting the capacitors to increase the output power of the transmitting device. | 2009-05-21 |
20090130998 | ARCHITECTURAL TECHNIQUES FOR ENVELOPE AND PHASE SIGNAL ALIGNMENT IN RF POLAR TRANSMITTERS USING POWER AMPLIFIER FEEDBACK - In an envelope comparison embodiment, a delay calibrator produces a delay signal based on a comparison of a feedback signal and an envelope component of the transmitted signal. A down-converter produces the feedback signal from an outgoing modulated RF signal based on at least one local oscillation. Envelope detectors in the delay calibrator and the envelope signal path are operably coupled to a summing node that produces a delay error signal based on a temporal difference between the two envelopes. One embodiment includes phase detectors to detect and adjust the zero crossings of the feedback signal and the envelope signal path. As the delay mismatch between the envelope signal path and the phase signal path increases, the power spectrum increases in adjacent communication channels. A mask margin measurement technique measures the power level in an adjacent channel and adjusts the envelope path delay accordingly. | 2009-05-21 |
20090130999 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION MODULES AND DEVICES - A wireless communication module is proposed, in which an LTCC substrate is employed. The LTCC substrate comprises at least a first layer and a second layer. At least first and second communication elements are deposited on the first layer, and a matching network is embedded in the second layer. The matching network couple the first and second communication elements to provide matched impedance, such that radio frequency signals are transmitted without distortion. Specifically, the first layer is the surface of the LTCC substrate, whereas the second layer is a depth inside the LTCC substrate. The matching network comprises at least one inductance or capacitance buried in the second layer. | 2009-05-21 |
20090131000 | RADIO RECEIVER SYSTEM - An oscillation circuit for a radio receiver system. The oscillator circuit includes a tank circuit, a first and second transistor, and a first and second low pass filter. The first transistor forms a first current loop when the first transistor is active. Similarly, the second transistor forms a second current loop when the second transistor is active. The first low pass filter is connected in an electrical series connection within the first current loop and the second low pass filter is connected in an electrical series connection within the second current loop. As such, the first and second low pass filter serve to reduce the gain of the oscillator circuit below a secondary resonant frequency of the tank circuit to prevent an oscillation condition, thereby preventing unwanted oscillations at a secondary resonant frequency. | 2009-05-21 |
20090131001 | SWITCH ARCHITECTURE - An apparatus may include a filtering network and a switch. From an amplified signal, the filtering network produces a filtered signal for wireless transmission in a frequency band. The switch includes a first terminal, a second terminal, and a switching element. The first terminal receives the filtered signal and the switching element selectively couples the first and second terminals. The filtering network also attenuates harmonics of the filtered signal that are generated by the switch. This attenuation establishes compliance with a harmonic emissions power limit associated with the frequency band. More particularly, this attenuation reduces at least one of the harmonics from a level exceeding the harmonic emissions power limit to a level within the harmonic emissions power limit. | 2009-05-21 |
20090131002 | RADIO DATA SYSTEM (RDS) DATA PROCESSING METHODS AND APPARATUS - A host system for processing radio data system (RDS) data includes a host processor. The host system further includes a data processor configured to receive the RDS data, configured to filter the RDS data to allow the host processor to receive a selected set of the RDS data, and configured to reduce the number of interrupts to the host processor. A method is also provided for processing RDS data within a host system. | 2009-05-21 |
20090131003 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TRANSMITTING RADIO DATA SYSTEM (RDS) DATA - A host system for transmitting radio data system (RDS) data includes a host processor and a data processor. The data processor is configured to receive RDS data from the host processor. The data processor is further configured to convert the RDS data into RDS group type data or to store the RDS data. The data processor is further configured to transmit the RDS data to one or more devices outside the host system. The data processor is configured to store the RDS data if the RDS data comprises a plurality of raw RDS group data. A method is also provided for transmitting RDS data from a host system. | 2009-05-21 |
20090131004 | RECEIVER WITH SIGMA-DELTA STRUCTURE - There is provided a receiver with a sigma-delta structure, the receiver including: a low noise amplifier amplifying a received signal according to a detection signal; a mixer converting an RF signal of the low noise amplifier into an IF signal; a sigma-delta A/D converter converting the IF signal from the mixer | 2009-05-21 |
20090131005 | Wireless terminal and level measurement method - A wireless terminal using switchable first and second reception antennas to perform diversity reception of data transmitted from a base station is proposed. The terminal includes an average value calculation unit that calculates an average value of a reception level measurement result of the first reception antenna and a reception level measurement result of the second reception antenna; and a correction unit that corrects the average value calculated on the basis of a predetermined thermal noise level, a received RSSI value measurement result of the first reception antenna, and a received RSSI value measurement result of the second reception antenna. | 2009-05-21 |
20090131006 | APPARATUS, INTEGRATED CIRCUIT, AND METHOD OF COMPENSATING IQ PHASE MISMATCH - An apparatus, an integrated circuit, and a method of compensating I/Q (inphase/quadrature) phase mismatch. The apparatus comprises a mixer, a phase detector, and a calibration controller. The mixer mixes an inphase calibration signal with an inphase component of a local oscillation signal to generate a first signal, mixes a quadrature calibration signal with a quadrature component of the local oscillation signal to generate a second signal, and mixes an incoming RF signal with the local oscillation signal to demodulate the incoming RF signal. The phase detector coupled to the mixer, determines a phase difference between the first and second signals. The calibration controller coupled to the phase detector, adjusts phases of the inphase and quadrature calibration signals such that the phase difference is substantially 90 degrees. | 2009-05-21 |
20090131007 | High Dynamic Range Time-Varying Integrated Receiver for Elimination of Off-Chip Filters - A receiver circuit comprising a quadrature passive mixer having an input and an output, and an input impedance of the quadrature passive mixer provides a band-pass response. One or more output impedances coupled to the output of the quadrature passive mixer. A low noise amplifier (LNA) having an input and an output coupled to the quadrature passive mixer, the LNA configured to provide substantially linear transconductance over a predetermined input range. | 2009-05-21 |
20090131008 | RECEIVER COMPRISING A RADIOFREQUENCY SPLITTER - A receiver comprises a radio frequency splitter (SPL) and respective tuning elements (D | 2009-05-21 |
20090131009 | RECEIVED COMMUNICATION SIGNAL PROCESSING METHODS AND COMPONENTS FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT - A wireless transmit receive unit (WTRU) and methods are used in a wireless communication system to process sampled received signals to establish and/or maintain wireless communications. A selectively controllable coherent accumulation unit produces power delay profiles (PDPs). A selectively controllable post processing unit passes threshold qualified magnitude approximation values and PDP positions to a device such as a rake receiver to determine receive signal paths. | 2009-05-21 |
20090131010 | ANALOG-DIGITAL CONVERTER CHIP AND RF-IC CHIP USING THE SAME - In a wireless receiving circuit of high data rate, a circuit area and current consumption occupied by an analog-digital converter increase. The present invention, in a wireless receiving circuit having an analog-digital converter of digital calibration type constituted by plural analog-digital converter units, shares portions about digital calibration, and applies the result of calibration of one analog-digital converter unit to other analog-digital converter units to appropriately perform each digital calibration of the plural analog-digital converter units. For example, in a wireless receiving circuit having an analog-digital converter of digital calibration type constituted of an analog-digital converter unit of I side and an analog-digital converter unit of Q side, portions about digital calibration are shared, and a calibration result of I side is applied to Q side. | 2009-05-21 |
20090131011 | METHOD FOR PLACEMENT OF FINGERS WITH G-RAKE ADVANCED RECEIVER - An electronic device includes a Rake receiver for receiving wireless signals, wherein the Rake receiver includes a predetermined number of fingers and a combiner. The Rake receiver also includes a channel detection circuit configured to identify at least one channel tap in a received signal, and a placement circuit configured to place a finger of the predetermined number of fingers at a location corresponding to the at least one identified channel tap. If all of the predetermined number of fingers are not associated with a corresponding channel tap, unplaced fingers of the predetermined number of fingers are placed at locations based on a signal-to-interference ratio estimate at an output of the combiner. | 2009-05-21 |
20090131012 | EMERGENCY CONTROL IN A MULTI-DIMENSIONAL SPACE - A geographical zone, which can be multi-dimensional, such as in three dimensions, can be utilized to regulate the location of a movable user within the geographical zone. A mobile device associated with a user located in a specific area of a geographical zone is in communication at least one node, which is, in turn, in communication with at least one control center. Detailed local information from the location nodes is downloaded. The nodes communicate with each other wirelessly via radio frequency (RF) using Bluetooth™ protocol. Mobile devices interact with location nodes that are in communication range. A messaging system is used to send emergency and security communications to users associated with mobile devices in particular locations. | 2009-05-21 |
20090131013 | COMMUNICATION TERMINAL DEVICE, MANAGEMENT SERVER, CHANGE ACKNOWLEDGMENT SYSTEM, AND CHANGE ACKNOWLEDGMENT METHOD - A communication terminal device for enabling the terminal holder to at least acknowledge that there is a possibility that user data may be changed without receiving a change notification from a user when the user data is changed is provided. A communication terminal device | 2009-05-21 |
20090131014 | Method and system for dynamic spectrum allocation and management - An arrangement for dynamic account allocation is achieved by pooling together spectrum and network availability, as well as congestion information, from different service providers in a central database and by the purchase of wholesale volume of network capacity or accounts with predetermined monthly usage. The purchased network capacity is dynamically allocated of devices of different origin and ownership. The central system operator administrates the rebilling and reconciliation of any fractional usage to each device. Unlike other proposed solutions that require the carriers to bet on proprietary technologies and involve changes to the network and high capital expenditures to build and operate the network, the present invention requires no changes to the carrier's network and no investment in a proprietary solution | 2009-05-21 |
20090131015 | Determining Authentication Challenge Timing and Type - An apparatus and methods are disclosed for authenticating users of wireless telecommunications terminals. In particular, the present invention enables the timing and type of authentication challenges to vary based on one or more of: the user's current geo-location, the current day and time, the presence or absence of other nearby users, and the identity of any nearby users. In accordance with the illustrative embodiment, the re-authentication time period (i.e., the length of time between authenticating and re authenticating a user) and the authentication challenge type (e.g., username/password, fingerprint recognition, etc.) can be determined based on these factors. The present invention is advantageous in that it enables the shortening of the re-authentication time and the selection of a more secure type of authentication challenge when it is more likely that a user's wireless telecommunications terminal might be accidentally left behind or stolen. | 2009-05-21 |
20090131016 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM FOR MOBILE-TO-MOBILE CALLS WITHIN FEMTOCELL NETWORK - A system, method, and computer readable medium for terminating calls in a network system is provided. The communication system features an IP-based femtocell system for provisioning communication services to a user equipment. The femtocell system is provisioned with a list of electronic serial numbers of user equipments that are authorized to access the femtocell system. When a call is received by the femtocell system, the femtocell system determines a directory number of a user equipment to which the call is directed. If the destination user equipment is authorized to access the femtocell system and is currently within the service area of the femtocell system, the call setup may be completed by the femtocell system without any call setup signaling being transmitted to a core telecommunication network. | 2009-05-21 |
20090131017 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM FOR ACCESS RESTRICTION OF USER EQUIPMENT DEVICES IN AN IP-FEMTOCELL SYSTEM - A system, method, and computer readable medium for screening services in a network system is provided. A list of electronic serial numbers of handsets in a user subscription may be compiled by a base station manager and transmitted to a femtocell system in a configuration download. The femtocell system may then screen electronic serial numbers of user equipments that attempt to register with the femtocell system. In an embodiment, the femtocell system may allow calls to be placed through the femtocell system on an emergency basis regardless of whether the user equipment has an electronic serial number that is authorized for access by the femtocell system. In non-emergency scenarios, only user equipments having an electronic serial number that matches an electronic serial number in the femtocell system's electronic serial number list are allowed to place calls or register with the femtocell system. | 2009-05-21 |
20090131018 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM FOR USER EQUIPMENT REGISTRATION AND AUTHENTICATION PROCESSING BY A FEMTOCELL SYSTEM - A system, method, and computer readable medium for processing registration and authentication procedures by an IP-based femtocell system are provided. The femtocell system includes a base transceiver station and a Session Initiation Protocol to Internet Operating System adapter. The femtocell system receives a registration message from a user equipment, issues a location update request on behalf of the user equipment, transmits a register message to a core network, receives an authentication request from the core network, and transmits an authentication challenge to the user equipment. | 2009-05-21 |
20090131019 | PORTABLE BASE STATION DEVICE - This invention provides a mobile base station device which allows tamper resistance to be adequately secured even when the housing is opened illicitly. In a mobile base station device | 2009-05-21 |
20090131020 | WIRELESS MANAGER AND METHOD FOR CONFIGURING AND SECURING WIRELESS ACCESS TO A NETWORK - The disclosure provides a wireless manager operable to receive a request from a mobile device to wirelessly communicate with an enterprise network, with the request including information operable to dynamically identify a location of the mobile device. The wireless manager is further operable to automatically associate an access zone with the mobile device with the access zone comprising at least one logical characteristic, compare the location information to the associated access zone, and, if the location information indicates that the mobile device does not violate the access zone, authorize wireless communications with the enterprise network. | 2009-05-21 |
20090131021 | DISTRIBUTION OF AN EMERGENCY WARNING USING PEER-TO-PEER COMMUNICATIONS | 2009-05-21 |
20090131022 | Apparatuses and Methods for Anonymous Messaging - Apparatuses and methods for facilitating anonymous messaging via a wireless network, directed to protection of information relating to a sender node. According to the disclosed apparatuses and methods, a node sending a message to one or more recipient nodes is provided with the option to conceal its identity, or at least a portion of its addressing information, from at least one recipient of the message. In order to provide compliance with applicable protocols, the sender may be assigned a temporary identifier for the purpose of transmitting the message to the recipient. | 2009-05-21 |
20090131023 | Intelligent queue for information teleservice messages with superceding updates - A message exchange network is disclosed in which at least two different methods of storing messages in memories of message storage entities, e.g., a mobile handset, an SMSC, an e-mail client, or an e-mail server, are utilized based on the type and the content of the information contained within the message. An information service message containing information that is supercedingly updateable, e.g., stock quote, weather or traffic information, is stored using a replacement method by which an older message previously stored is replaced by a newly received message. All other types of messages are stored using an append method by which the newly received message is stored in an unoccupied available memory location. In a disclosed embodiment, message identifier included in the message itself provides information necessary to distinguish between the aforementioned two types of messages. In a disclosed embodiment, a block of message identifiers is reserved for storage of information service messages. The architectures and methods for receipt, delivery and storage of messages disclosed herein replaceable and/or on demand update of information service messages while providing efficient use of memory in which the messages are stored, avoiding the annoyance and inconvenience to the subscriber in having to scroll through numerous stale and/or obsolete messages in order to view the most current up to date message and having to manually selecting and deleting obsolete and stale messages, and avoiding unnecessary deliveries of the obsolete and stale messages by message centers. | 2009-05-21 |
20090131024 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM FOR ABBREVIATED-CODE DIALING IN A NETWORK SYSTEM - A system, method, and computer readable medium for abbreviated dialing in a femtocell network is provided. A user having authorized access to the femtocell network may dial another authorized user using an abbreviated code. On receipt of the call request, a femtocell system may evaluate the destination number to determine if it is an abbreviated code. If the dialed number is not an abbreviated code, the femtocell system may direct the call request to the telecommunication core network for processing thereby. If the dialed number is evaluated by the femtocell system as an abbreviated code, the femtocell system may direct the call request to an on-site PBX for call handling. If the abbreviated code is a valid code and the dialed user equipment is currently in the femtocell network service area, the PBX may then complete the call setup within the femtocell network. | 2009-05-21 |
20090131025 | Targeted mobile content insertion and/or replacement - A method is provided for altering content of a webpage served from a content provider's server ( | 2009-05-21 |
20090131026 | Call transfer to proximate devices - A second communication device is detected in proximity to a first communication device engaged in a call, and a substantially uninterrupted transfer of the call is made to the second device. | 2009-05-21 |
20090131027 | METHOD FOR MULTICODE TRANSMISSION BY A SUBSCRIBER STATION - In a radio communications system, several codes for transmitting messages are assigned to a subscriber station. A transmission power differential is determined between the total maximum transmission power of the subscriber station for the codes and the total transmission power of the subscriber station for the codes at the beginning of a message transmission, (the differential being respected by the subscriber station), by a first one of the codes. | 2009-05-21 |
20090131028 | Method and Apparatus for Synchronizing Contacts Stored on Smart Card With Contacts Stored in an Internal Memory - A mobile handset includes a processor configured with software to automatically synchronize the phone book records stored on a smart card and internally in memory. The synchronization process determines if duplicate contact records exist in the target phone book, and whether the synchronization copies records from the smart card to internal memory, or vice versa, before copying contact records. If a duplicate contact record exists, then the copying process is cancelled. The synchronization process may be automatically initiated any time the contact records in the internal memory and the smart card differ. | 2009-05-21 |
20090131029 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM FOR CALL TERMINATION PROCESSING BY A FEMTOCELL SYSTEM - A system, method, and computer readable medium for terminating a call in a network system are provided. A femtocell system receives a notification to terminate a call that includes a user equipment serviced by the femtocell system. The femtocell system conveys a clear command to a base transceiver station of the femtocell system, transmits a release message to the user equipment, receives a clear completion message, and deletes a connection allocated for the call. | 2009-05-21 |
20090131030 | SCHEDULE MANAGING APPARATUS AND METHOD IN MOBILE TERMINAL - A mobile terminal including a broadcast receiver configured to receive broadcast program information related to available broadcast programs, a memory configured to store user-schedule information and the received broadcast program information, and a controller configured to update the stored user-schedule information to include a broadcast schedule corresponding to a broadcast program selected from the available broadcast programs included in the broadcast program information. | 2009-05-21 |
20090131031 | VIRTUAL TERMINAL SERVER, MOBILE COMMUNICATION TERMINAL, COMMUNICATION CONTROL SYSTEM, AND COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD - In order to provide a new service even to a conventional mobile communication terminal without installing a new function when starting a new mobile communication service, a mobile communication terminal includes a virtual terminal server that controls the communication on behalf of the mobile communication terminal according to a request from the mobile communication terminal to realize a service function that is a communication function not included in the mobile communication terminal. The virtual terminal server processes, in accordance with the model information of the mobile communication function, information to be informed to the mobile communication terminal to realize the service function to thereby enable the mobile communication terminal to acquire and transmit information obtained by realizing the service function. | 2009-05-21 |
20090131032 | TERMINAL AND METHOD OF SETTING SERVICE FOR DATA COMMUNICATION THEREIN - A terminal including a wireless communication unit configured to perform data communication with at least one other terminal, a display configured to display a screen for selecting a communication application for executing the data communication and a screen for selectively selecting a communication quality of service corresponding to the communication application, and a controller configured to apply the selected communication quality of service to the communication application for executing the data communication. | 2009-05-21 |
20090131033 | Method of protecting AT commands - A method of protecting AT commands during the interaction between the AT command module of a mobile terminal and the serial communication unit of an external device, comprising the steps of: receiving AT command from the serial communication unit to the AT command module at an initial state; putting the AT command module into an ID verification mode, wherein the AT command module receives a username and password from the serial communication unit in turn, and verifies said received username and password; and putting the AT command module into an AT command processing state, when the ID verification is successful. Therefore, it's impossible for an illegal user to take the control of the mobile terminal through AT command. | 2009-05-21 |
20090131034 | AUTOMATIC USER AVAILABILITY STATUS DETERMINATION FOR A HANDHELD COMMUNICATION DEVICE - To automatically determine the availability status of the user of a handheld communication device, various selected conditions of the device may be checked, which imply whether or not the user is likely Available, or Unavailable or the equivalent. Normally, the selected conditions are checked only if the user has not explicitly or semi-explicitly set his or her status to Unavailable. The conditions to be checked can vary widely, but generally include anything from which it might be inferred or implied that the user is likely either Available or Unavailable or the equivalent. Such conditions can include, for example, whether or not a specified timeout for use of a keypad, trackwheel or other mechanical feature of the device has elapsed yet; whether or not a real-time application is in use; and preferably any one or more of a variety of other conditions, one further example being whether or not there are any unattended-to notifications such as an unanswered phone call, or a missed e-mail, SMS or other message. | 2009-05-21 |
20090131035 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EXECUTING AN APPLICATION ON A MOBILE DEVICE - The invention provides a method and system to execute applications on a mobile device. The applications may be compiled on a remote server and sent to the mobile device before execution. The applications may be updated by the remote server without interaction, by the mobile device user. | 2009-05-21 |
20090131036 | Providing a High-Speed Connection Between a Memory Medium of a Mobile Device and an External Device - System and method for providing a high speed connection to a memory medium of a mobile device. The mobile device may be a mobile phone or other type of portable electronic device. The memory medium may be removable and/or may be flash memory, as desired. The mobile device may include a USB hub that provides a direct high speed connection between an external device and a memory medium of the mobile device. The USB hub may also provide a connection (possibly high speed) between the external device and the processor of the mobile device. The mobile device may also include a high speed connection between the processor of the mobile device and the memory medium. | 2009-05-21 |
20090131037 | 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. | 2009-05-21 |
20090131038 | Mobile Service Maintenance Management - Disclosed is a method and system for managing inconsistencies between a radio communications network and a network database. In one aspect, the system is informed of one or more inconsistencies and various decisions are made as to what actions to take. One possible action is to simply inform a network operator of the discrepancy. Another possible action is to determine which network elements are affected by the inconsistency and to update the network database in relation to those network elements to compensate for the inconsistency. | 2009-05-21 |
20090131039 | Method and System for Determining the Dependence Between Device Parameters of a Mobile Telephone and Signal Parameters - A method and a system for determining the dependence between several device-parameter values in each case of at least one device parameter of a mobile telephone ( | 2009-05-21 |
20090131040 | DEVICE DIAGNOSTICS AND MONITORING METHOD AND SYSTEM - A diagnostics and monitoring method and system is disclosed for generating diagnostics and monitoring information and transmitting the diagnostics and monitoring information to a remote terminal using an improved diagnostic and monitoring policy. The method includes selecting, at a remote terminal, one of available diagnostics and monitoring policies; transmitting a diagnostics and monitoring configuration information including at least one of a diagnostics and monitoring object, a memory allocation size, and a diagnostics and monitoring cycle from the remote terminal to a device management system; transmitting a diagnostics and monitoring message generated on the basis of the diagnostics and monitoring configuration information from the device management system to a mobile device; generating, at the mobile device, diagnostics and monitoring information with reference to the diagnostics and monitoring message; and transmitting the diagnostics and monitoring information. | 2009-05-21 |
20090131041 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, WAVE QUALITY MEASURING SYSTEM, WAVE QUALITY MEASURING METHOD AND PROGRAM - A communication apparatus measures wave quality, analyzes measured data, and automatically conducts a subsequent operation. There are provided a communication apparatus, a wave quality automatic measuring system for a cellular network, a wave quality automatic measuring method, and a program in which the amount of data delivered from a measuring terminal to a server is reduced and measurement is automatically carried out on the side of the measuring terminal to thereby suppress the manual job to conduct the resetting for a subsequent measurement. | 2009-05-21 |
20090131042 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING ACCESS TO NETWORK IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - In a wireless communication system, an apparatus and method for managing an uplink communication between a network and a plurality of terminals is achieved by transmitting a response condition parameter from the network to the plurality of terminals subscribing to a multicast service. The parameter is associated with controlling the uplink communication of the plurality of terminals. The terminal then applies the response control parameter to a predetermined test and responds to the network if the terminal determines that it is qualified to respond to the network in response to a result of the predetermined test. The network evaluates whether the parameter needs to be transmitted to the plurality of terminals and whether the parameter needs to be updated based on at least part of responses received by the network. | 2009-05-21 |
20090131043 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND TEST METHOD THEREOF, AND ACCESS TERMINAL FOR TESTING WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A wireless communication system and its test method capable of executing a test of the wireless communication apparatus from a remote place by using a terminal generally used in wireless communication systems are implemented with a low-cost configuration and a simple procedure. A terminal obtained by installing a test AP on a general terminal that is used in general wireless communication systems and that can execute APs via a communication network is placed in a coverage area of a wireless communication apparatus. A maintenance center for the wireless communication system activates the terminal. The terminal executes the test AP and conducts communication with the maintenance center by using control signals and test signals for testing wireless communication system. A test is executed by measuring an actual communication state of the wireless communication system. | 2009-05-21 |
20090131044 | MOBILE-TERMINAL SIMULATOR FOR A WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORK - A mobile-terminal simulator of a wireless telecommunications network includes a control module, a protocol simulator, and a baseband-modem module, coupled to the protocol simulator. The simulator is provided with a baseband interface for coupling in communication the baseband-modem module with a radio base station of a wireless telecommunications system with a low-frequency connection. | 2009-05-21 |
20090131045 | SINGLE NUMBER SERVICES FOR FIXED MOBILE TELEPHONY DEVICES - A special-purpose Service Control Point includes a customized application that provides Fixed Mobile Convergence services and interoperates with a Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP) network to achieve a single-number fixed mobile convergence overlay network. By determining if a dual-mode cellular/WiFi handset is reachable via a WiFi network, the Service Control Point may redirect incoming and outgoing calls off of the cellular network and onto the WiFi network, thereby reducing cost and providing greater coverage. | 2009-05-21 |
20090131046 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TRANSMITTING ELECTROMAGNETIC ENERGY OVER A WIRELESS CHANNEL HAVING SUFFICIENTLY WEAK MEASURED SIGNAL STRENGTH - A signal strength that is associated with a first wireless communications channel is detected. Electromagnetic energy is transmitted over the first wireless communications channel in response to the signal strength being sufficiently weak. A determination is made whether a handoff should be made to a second wireless communications channel having a signal that is weaker than a signal of the first wireless communications channel. Related systems and methods are described. | 2009-05-21 |
20090131047 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REDUCING FREQUENCY SPACE FROM FREQUENCY SEARCH - A method and apparatus for reducing frequency space from code space search is disclosed in a wireless network. The method and apparatus reduces the frequency space without compromising the probability of detection, so that user equipment can expedite system acquisition and reduce power consumption. To reduce the frequency space, the described aspects note that the power spectral density of the WCDMA signal is essentially flat within the channel bandwidth. By capturing in-phase quadrature samples and doing frequency domain analysis of the signal in bandwidth around the center frequency, to the described aspects can eliminate some channels from the WCDMA code space search during frequency scan. | 2009-05-21 |
20090131048 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, MOBILE TERMINAL DEVICE, METHOD OF DETECTING FREQUENCY USED IN THEM, AND PROGRAM FOR DOING THE SAME - A mobile communication system is comprised of a mobile phone device, a GSM network, and a W-CDMA network. A controller mounted in the mobile phone device updates GSM actually-used frequency data or W-CDMA actually-used frequency data both stored in a memory, in accordance with a DL frequency of a GSM cell or a W-CDMA cell detected by means of a GSM cell-searcher or a W-CDMA cell-searcher. The controller determines non-used frequencies not used in each of frequency bands, based on the actually-used frequency data, and causes the GSM cell-searcher or the W-CDMA cell-searcher to carry out cell-searching only with frequencies which may be used, except non-used frequencies. | 2009-05-21 |
20090131049 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM FOR USER EQUIPMENT HANDOFF WITHIN AN IP-FEMTOCELL NETWORK - A system, method, and computer readable medium for provisioning communication services by an IP-based femtocell network is provided. Service of a user equipment may be transferred from one femtocell to another femtocell via a femtocell handoff procedure. Femtocell systems of the femtocell network perform link quality measurements and may distribute the link quality measurements to neighbor femtocells. A femtocell system may periodically evaluate the link quality with the user equipment. If an evaluation is made that the user equipment needs to be transferred to another site, the servicing femtocell site may evaluate the most recent link quality measurements received from neighboring femtocell sites and select a femtocell site for handoff. In the event that the femtocell network is deployed in an area serviced by a macrocellular network, handoff routines may provide preference for transferring the user equipment to a target femtocell system rather than a macrocell site. | 2009-05-21 |
20090131050 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM FOR CONFIGURATION OF AN IP-FEMTOCELL SYSTEM - A system, method, and computer readable medium for configuration of a femtocell system is provided. A femtocell system is provisioned with a default base station manager IP address. The base station manager receives an account identifier of a user subscription and a femtocell system ID assigned to the femtocell system. The base station manager may allocate a SID/NID for the femtocell system. A list of electronic serial numbers of handsets in the user subscription may be compiled by the base station manager. The femtocell system may connect with the base station manager and request a configuration download once deployed in a SOHO. The compiled electronic serial numbers may then be transferred from the base station manager to the femtocell system in a configuration download. | 2009-05-21 |
20090131051 | APPARATUS, AND ASSOCIATED METHOD, FOR FACILITATING CONTROL OF CONTROL SIGNALING PERFORMED BY A MOBILE NODE OPERABLE IN A RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Apparatus ( | 2009-05-21 |
20090131052 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING CELL RE-SELECTION - An approach is provided for cell re-selection. A notification message is generated to indicate initiation of a coverage area re-selection procedure to operate in a new coverage area from a current coverage area. The re-selection procedure is performed if an acknowledgement message is received in response to the notification message. | 2009-05-21 |
20090131053 | Internetworking of Cellular Radio Networks and Wireless Data Networks - The invention provides a method, to be used by a RNC ( | 2009-05-21 |
20090131054 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ENABLING DUAL STANDBY STATE IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM - A system and method having a multimode wireless communication terminal with at least two SIM card slots for use with at least two phone numbers simultaneously online (dual standby). The system includes a main controller, a primary mode module, a secondary mode module, and an inter-system measurement module. The main controller operates the multimode wireless communication terminal in single standby or dual standby state. The primary mode module enables the primary mode of operation for the multimode wireless communication terminal. The primary mode of operation is a default mode of operation. The secondary mode module enables the secondary mode of operation for the multimode wireless communication terminal. Paging information for the primary mode of operation and the secondary mode of operation are monitored at their respective monitoring rates using a TDM method. Switching between the primary and secondary modes of operation is executed by an inter-system handover module. During the dual standby state, both the inter-system measurement and handover are initiated by the terminal itself. The multimode wireless communication terminal is used in a multimode wireless communication system. | 2009-05-21 |
20090131055 | METHOD AND APPARATUS OF SIGNALING AND PROCEDURE FOR SEQUENCE HOPPING PATTERN CHANGE DURING HANDOVER - A method and apparatus are provided for updating a sequence hopping (SH) pattern of an uplink channel during handover from a current cell having a current SH pattern. At least one downlink channel of each neighbor cell of the current cell is monitored. Information indicative of the monitored downlink channels of the neighbor cells is transmitted to the current cell. Prior to receiving a handover command from the current cell a target cell from among the neighbor cells is anticipated and a common downlink channel of the anticipated target cell is monitored to determine information representative of a target SH pattern of the target cell. | 2009-05-21 |
20090131056 | Computing an Action Time for Allocation of Resources to a Mobile Station That is Handing Over From a Source to a Target Base Station - To perform a handover of a mobile station from a source base station to a target base station, the source base station determines a delay of a connection between the source base station and the target base station. The source base station computes an action time taking into account the determined delay, the action time specifying a time when the target base station is able to allocate resources to the mobile station for the handover. | 2009-05-21 |
20090131057 | NEIGHBORING CELL INTERFERENCE MANAGEMENT IN SC-FDMA - The invention relates to a method for reconfiguring zones of a cell sector in a cellular mobile communication system employing a frequency division multiplex access scheme comprising the steps of separating a cell sector into zones of a predetermined size, allocating radio resources to users located in the zones, and altering the predetermined zone size upon a change of a radio resource management parameter. The invention also relates to a base station of a cellular mobile communication system. | 2009-05-21 |