25th week of 2012 patent applcation highlights part 55 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20120157055 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REALIZING UNLOCKING FOR TERMINAL DEVICE - The present invention discloses a method and apparatus for realizing unlocking a terminal device, and the method comprises: after the terminal device is powered on, querying and recording a network locking state of the terminal device through a UI; and if the UI checks that the terminal device is inserted with a SIM card and the network locking state of the terminal device is “network locked”, asking a user to unlock the terminal device through the UI. | 2012-06-21 |
20120157056 | System, Method and Terminal for Communication between WAPI Terminals - The present invention provides a system, method and terminal for communication between WAPI terminals, and the method includes: a calling terminal that has a WAPI function sending a WAPI link establishment request to a called terminal that has a WAPI function, and establishing a WAPI link with the called terminal, the calling terminal communicating with the called terminal directly through the established WAPI link. Using the technical scheme according to the present invention, the direct communication between the WAPI terminals can be realized, and the technical scheme is easy to implement and can reduce the communication costs, and would not be influenced by the coverage ratio of radio signal of a radio operator, a real-time communication will be realized as long as it is within the application scope of the WAPI. | 2012-06-21 |
20120157057 | WIRELESS DATA SERVICE APPARATUS AND METHOD IN BROADCAST MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A system for broadcasting wireless data service in a mobile communication system includes sending a request call for a wireless data service from a mobile terminal to a mobile switching center, identifying whether the terminal is registered in the mobile switching center, transmitting authentication code information indicating that the terminal is registered in the base transceiver station, and releasing the corresponding call in the terminal receiving the authentication code information and receiving the wireless service data. The authentication code information may include a Walsh code and a long code necessary for allowing the terminal to reconstitute the data. Through this case information, the system can broadcast wireless service data throughout an entire region and be assured that only mobile terminals storing compatible code information will be able to access the data. | 2012-06-21 |
20120157058 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REMOTELY ASSIGNING AND REVOKING ACCESS CREDENTIALS USING A NEAR FIELD COMMUNICATION EQUIPPED MOBILE PHONE - The present invention is generally directed toward a mobile device that can be used in a secure access system. More specifically, the mobile device can have credential data loaded thereon remotely updated, enabled, disabled, revoked, or otherwise altered with a message sent from, for example, a control panel and/or controller in the system. | 2012-06-21 |
20120157059 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR EXTENDING SERVICES TO CELLULAR DEVICES - A system and method is provided for extending services to cellular devices. The system includes a wireless gateway having a client side with an intelligent client agent and a server side with an intelligent server agent, a wireless device having a first mode operable in a cellular system and a second mode operable in a wireless local area network and including an intelligent client agent for determining operation mode and for communicating with the intelligent client agent of the wireless gateway and a communications protocol for communication between the wireless gateway intelligent client agent and the wireless device intelligent client agent to effect services. The services include one or more of voice, directory, presence, and media services. | 2012-06-21 |
20120157060 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF MAINTAINING COMMUNICATIONS POLICY SETTINGS IN A WIRELESS NETWORK - In a network having a plurality of subscriber devices, a plurality of base stations and a server, a system and method of modifying policy settings are provided. Each base station transmits wirelessly across a geographic region. A subscriber device, capable of roaming between regions, establishes a wireless link with the server via the base stations. The network contains a communication policy determining from which other communication devices a subscriber device can receive voice calls. The server updates the policy based on requests from subscriber devices. The determination of whether to update the policy can be based on a record of rejections respective to the caller requested to be blocked. Alternatively, the policy can be updated according to a trust policy maintained on the server respective to the subscriber device making the request; the trust policy represents the procedure to follow when a request is received from that subscriber device. | 2012-06-21 |
20120157061 | COMMUNICATIONS SERVICE BROKER FOR PREVENTING VOICEMAIL TROMBONING IN THE TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORK - A set of techniques are described for preventing the problem of voicemail tromboning. The techniques can be implemented with a service broker or other intermediate entity having a connection to a telecommunications network. The service broker can receive an incoming call from a switch in a home network of the subscriber. The service broker can then determine that a recipient device of the incoming call is roaming in a visited network. If it is determined that the subscriber is roaming, the service broker can contact a remote switch in the visited network and instruct the remote switch in the visited network to disable late call forwarding prior to relaying the incoming call message to the remote switch. The service broker can then be responsible for contacting the voicemail server in the home network of the subscriber so that the subscriber can still have access to voicemail. | 2012-06-21 |
20120157062 | Systems and Methods to Selectively Authenticate via Mobile Communications - Systems and methods to accelerate transactions made via mobile communications. In one aspect, a system includes: a data storage facility to store information associated with past payment transactions and an interchange coupled with the data storage facility. The interchange includes a common format processor and a plurality of converters to interface with a plurality of controllers. The converters are configured to communicate with the controllers in different formats, and to communicate with the common format processor in a common format. After a payment request identifying the phone number is received in the interchange, the common format processor is to determine whether to skip mobile communications with a mobile phone at the phone number to confirm/authenticate the request, based on real time information about the current transaction, the historical transaction data related to the phone number, and other data such as social graph data related to the user of the phone number. | 2012-06-21 |
20120157063 | Remote Activation of Video Share on Mobile Devices - A method for initiating a video share service of a mobile device based on commands from a remote source. The method includes receiving a request from the remote source to initiate the video share service, authenticating the sender of the request, receiving a command to start the video share service; and transmitting the output of the service. There is also a system configured for receiving a request from a first mobile device to initiate a service from a second mobile device, for authentication of the request, for commanding the second mobile device to start a service under control of the first mobile device, and for delivery of the output of the service. | 2012-06-21 |
20120157064 | METHOD OF PROCESSING INCOMING CALLS IN A COMMUNICATIONS TERMINAL - Method of processing incoming calls in a communications terminal. The method includes determining whether a caller ID of the calling communications terminal is an admissible caller ID, determining whether a time at which the call is received from the other communication subscriber meets a predetermined time criterion, and signaling the call on the communications terminal when both the caller ID is admissible and the time criterion is met. | 2012-06-21 |
20120157065 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - An electronic apparatus is configured to display screen information supplied from a portable information terminal, and includes a connection unit configured to confirm if the portable information terminal is connected to the electronic apparatus. Also included is a notification unit configured to notify the portable information terminal of setting information concerning setting of the screen information supplied from the portable information terminal. A receiving unit is configured to receive the screen information that is set on the basis of the setting information from the portable information terminal, and a display unit is configured to display the screen information received by the receiving unit. | 2012-06-21 |
20120157066 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR STORING SUBSCRIBER INFORMATION IN MOBILE TERMINAL - A method stores subscriber information in a mobile terminal. The method includes checking whether a received message includes a plurality of sets of subscriber information when a message is received, checking whether there is registered subscriber information if the message includes subscriber information, and updating the registered subscriber information to different subscriber information included in the message if there is registered subscriber information. | 2012-06-21 |
20120157067 | CALL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A method, performed by a user device, may include detecting an incoming call; determining whether the incoming call is associated with a very important person contact; directing the incoming call to a voicemail system, when the incoming call is not associated with a very important person contact; and providing, when the incoming call is associated with the very important person contact, an instant response message to a device associated with the incoming call without answering the incoming call. The method may further include providing reminder, including a ranked callback list of missed calls, to the user at particular intervals. | 2012-06-21 |
20120157068 | FIXED MOBILE CONVERGENCE AND VOICE CALL CONTINUITY USING A MOBILE DEVICE/DOCKING STATION - A network mobility device registers with a switch in a telephone network, and receives a first message from a docking station indicating that a mobile device has undocked from the docking station. The docking station includes a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) phone that has a wired connection to a data network, and the mobile device includes a portable digital computing device. The network mobility device receives a call, destined for the mobile device, routed from the switch, and sends an alert message, based on the undocking of the mobile device and the received call, to the mobile device to notify a client of the mobile device of the call. The network mobility device forwards the call, based on the undocking of the mobile device, from the network mobility device to the client at the mobile device via the data network. | 2012-06-21 |
20120157069 | Selective Alert Processing - A computer-implemented method includes receiving, at a vehicle computing system, a notification that an incoming communication is being sent to a wireless device in communication with the vehicle computing system. The method also includes determining that a do not disturb function is active in the vehicle computing system and blocking a notification to a driver regarding the incoming communication. Finally, this method includes sending a command from the vehicle computing system to the wireless device to silence any notification that the wireless device provides in conjunction with the incoming communication. | 2012-06-21 |
20120157070 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO EXECUTE INSTRUCTIONS ON MOBILE DEVICES - A method and system for executing instructions on a mobile device is provided. The method may involve the steps of dialing an alphanumeric code on the mobile device, transmitting the alphanumeric code to a server, requesting the server for an instruction corresponding to the alphanumeric code, receiving the instruction from the server, and executing the instruction on the mobile device. | 2012-06-21 |
20120157071 | Local circuit switched fallback cancellation mechanism - A Method of cancelling a Circuit Switched Fallback (CSFB) procedure from a source network, particularly E-UTRAN, to a target network, particularly GERAN or UTRAN, for a user equipment is described, wherein a first message for initiating a CSFB procedure is sent from the user equipment to the source network and wherein the cancellation of the CSFB procedure is performed after the first message for initiating the CSFB procedure has been sent, characterised in that after the cancellation of the CSFB procedure has been initiated, the user equipment sends a second message to the source network comprising a new cause value said cause value characterising the cancellation of the CSFB procedure. | 2012-06-21 |
20120157072 | COMMUNICATION METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MULTI-STANDBY MODE IN A COMMUNICATION TERMINAL - A method for communication in a communication terminal having a single communication module and at least two Subscriber Identification Module (SIM) cards is provided. The method includes performing a first call mode when a call is connected through a first base station in a standby mode by using the communication module and a first SIM card through a first time slot in each frame allocated by the first base station, and performing, when a second call is connected through a second base station while performing the first call mode, a second call mode using the communication module and a second SIM card through a second time slot in each frame allocated by the second base station, the second time slot being spaced apart from the first time slot. | 2012-06-21 |
20120157073 | MOBILE TERMINAL AND CONTROLLING METHOD THEREOF - A mobile terminal including a wireless communication unit configured to wirelessly communicate with at least one other terminal; a touchscreen configured to display information and receive touch inputs; a sensor unit configured to detect a gravity characteristic of the mobile terminal; and a controller configured to output a user-settable gravity sensitivity threshold option for setting a gravity detected sensitivity of the sensor unit, to receive a selection signal indicating a selection of a first gravity sensitivity threshold, to determine the mobile terminal is in a state of falling when the detected gravity characteristic of the mobile terminal is less than or equal to the selected first gravity sensitivity threshold, and to automatically execute a predetermined function mapped to the determined falling state. | 2012-06-21 |
20120157074 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMPROVING NETWORK RESOURCE PLANNING IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORK - Prior to being admitted into the network, a base station establishes a set of operating parameters. Next, a search is performed to determine the presence and configuration of neighboring base stations and current network conditions. Based on the search results, an improved operating configuration is determined for the base station and the base station's operating parameters are adjusted. Once the base station is admitted to and is operating in the network, the base station continues to monitor neighboring base stations and network conditions and adjusts its operating parameters accordingly. | 2012-06-21 |
20120157075 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USER PROFILING FROM GATHERING USER DATA THROUGH INTERACTION WITH A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE - A system, method, and wireless communication device that profiles a user thereof, or a user at a second wireless communication device in communication therewith. The wireless communication device gathers user data for a user thereof, or from a user at a second wireless communication device, and either directly generates, or has generated elsewhere, a user profile, such as a personality or psychological profile, or medical diagnosis of the user, and can display the user profile to the user and/or alter the wireless communication device functionality based upon the user profile. The gathered user data can be from physical user interaction with the wireless communication device, or from other equipment resident at the wireless communication device, such as a camera and medical diagnostic devices. | 2012-06-21 |
20120157076 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR REMOTELY CONTROLLING IN MOBILE COMMUNICATION TERMINAL - An apparatus and a method for remote control at a mobile communication terminal includes a display unit that outputs a remote control screen when a remote control event occur; a communication unit either transmits or receives a remote control signal to or from an object terminal as well as data for storage when a remote control event occurs; a remote control processor processes the remote control signal received from the communication unit, and controls either the transmitting or receiving of data for storage; and a controller controls the remote control processor according to the received remote control signal, so as to transmit a storage data transmission or reception request message to the object terminal in response a respective on of a transmission or a reception request for the data for storage. | 2012-06-21 |
20120157077 | METHOD FOR DYNAMIC CHANGE OF OPERATION MODE IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Disclosed is a method of operating a femto base station (BS) in a wireless communication system, the method comprising: receiving an access request comprising a closed subscriber group (CSG) identifier (ID) from user equipment (UE); determining a number N of UE accessing the femto BS; ascertaining an access type to determine whether the UE is a CSG UE or a non-CSG UE of the femto BS on the basis of the CSG ID of the UE; and determining whether to admit access of the UE on the basis of the access type, the N and access admittable information, the access admittable information comprising U | 2012-06-21 |
20120157078 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR EFFICIENT SUPPORT LOW DUTY MODE IN FEMTOCELLS - A method and system for handling working of a Low Duty Cycle (LDC) mode of one or more Base Stations (BS) in a wireless communication network. The method includes defining one or more LDC patterns based plurality of LDC parameters associated with one or more BS where the plurality of LDC parameters includes an active period, an inactive period and a start frame offset of the one or more BS in the wireless communication network. The method then sends the one or more LDC patterns notifying Available Interval and Unavailable Interval of each of the one or more patterns to a Mobile Station (MS) by broadcasting one or more LDC patterns, unicasting the one or more LDC pattern to the MS, multicasting the one or more LDC pattern to a group of MSs or send the one or more LDC patterns to one or more MS in a pre-provisioned way. | 2012-06-21 |
20120157079 | SECURE CONTROL SYSTEM FOR OPENING LOCKING DEVICES BY ENCRYPTED ACOUSTIC ACCREDITATIONS - The invention relates to a system implements a mobile phone ( | 2012-06-21 |
20120157080 | SECURE SYSTEM FOR PROGRAMMING ELECTRONICALLY CONTROLLED LOCKING DEVICES BY MEANS OF ENCRYPTED ACOUSTIC ACCREDITATIONS - The invention relates to a system implementing a mobile telephone ( | 2012-06-21 |
20120157081 | LEADERSHIP SUPPORT SYSTEM DETERMINING A DANGER OF ISOLATION OF A GROUP MEMBER EVEN UNDER TEMPORARILY WORSENED COMMUNICATION CONDITIONS - A leadership support system includes a leader terminal and plural member terminals. The member terminals, according to either the relay of communication information not addressed thereto or the reception of communication information addressed thereto, send back a response to the appropriate communication information. The leader terminal determines, based on the times of relaying the communication information, whether or not the member terminal that transmitted the communication information is in danger of isolation. When the leader terminal determines the member terminal in danger of isolation, it outputs a warning signal indicative of a ranger of isolation to that member terminal. | 2012-06-21 |
20120157082 | Signaling UE measurement restrictions for inter-cell interference - A network access node eNB sends to a user equipment UE a pattern of subframe measurement restrictions and an indication of how to utilize the pattern for measuring subframes. The indication may select from among: the UE's own-cell measurements; the UE's neighbor-cell measurements; both same and neighbor-cell measurements, and no measurement restrictions. The eNB may generate the pattern from an almost-blank subframe ABS pattern for the UE's own-cell and of its neighbor-cell. The pattern and indication may be sent in separate RRC messages, or if sent in one message there is a second indication sent in a second RRC message instructing the UE to terminate utilizing the pattern and indication for restricting its subframe measurements. Embodiments are particularly useful for inter-cell interference mitigation eICIC for the LTE-Advanced system. | 2012-06-21 |
20120157083 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING DISCHARGE AUTHORIZATION TO A BATTERY-POWERED VEHICLE VIA A TELEMATICS SYSTEM - The described method and system allows for the utilization of a telematics unit on a telematics-equipped vehicle to prevent the unauthorized discharge of a vehicle battery. A user may communicate an authorization request for allowing discharge of the vehicle battery through a telematics unit or telematics service provider (TSP) call center. If approved by the TSP call enter or telematics unit, an authorization, which may include an authorization code, is communicated to a charge controller which controls the discharge of the vehicle battery. Alternatively, the user may communicate an authorization code directly to the telematics unit which passes it on to the charge controller for approval. | 2012-06-21 |
20120157084 | APPARATUS FOR INTERFERENCE CANCELLING IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD USING THE SAME - An interference cancellation method include detecting macro terminals which experience interference between a first signal output from a macro base-station and a second signal delivered from a femto terminal that is greater than a reference value; determining the number of channels of the femto base-station by subtracting the number of the detected macro terminals from the number of antennas of the femto base-station; generating a transmission beamforming weight vector using channel information of a signal interfered by the first signal and the second signal and channel information of the first signal; and providing a service, using the transmission beamforming weight vector, to as many femto terminals as the number obtained by subtracting the number of the detected macro terminals, which experience the interference greater than the reference value, from the number of the antennas of the femto base-station. | 2012-06-21 |
20120157085 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION METHOD, MOBILE STATION, AND RADIO BASE STATION - A mobile communication method according to the present invention comprising a step in which a mobile station UE in communication with a first cell #A transmits a measurement report including the reception quality and the PCI of a second cell, the second cell being a neighbouring cell, to a radio base station eNB#A , which manages the first cell #A, a step in which, when it is determined that it is probable that PCI according to the received measurement report is used by a plurality of neighbouring cells, the radio base station managing the first cell notifies the mobile station of a predetermined gap and instructs the mobile station to notify the CGI of the second cell, and a step in which, when it is not possible to acquire the CGI of the second cell for the notified predetermined gap, the mobile station notifies that it is not possible to acquire the CGI. | 2012-06-21 |
20120157086 | Method, Device and Computer Program Product for Updating Location Numbers on an MSC - A method and apparatus of updating location numbers of cells associated with a mobile switching centre, MSC ( | 2012-06-21 |
20120157087 | APPARATUS AND METHOD PROVIDING PUSH TO TALK OVER CELLULAR (PoC) DYNAMIC SERVICE OPTIONS - A method and server for establishing a push to talk type service such as push to talk over cellular (PoC). The server receives a message from Client A indicating one or more media types that Client A will accept in defined circumstances in a push to talk type session. When the server receives a message from Client B inviting Client A to establish a push to talk type session for one or more proposed media types, the server determines whether the media type(s) proposed by Client B are acceptable to Client A. If at least one proposed media type is acceptable, the server forwards the invitation to Client A with a list of the acceptable media types. Thereafter the session is established. | 2012-06-21 |
20120157088 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CORRELATING END TO END MEASUREMENTS THROUGH CONTROL PLANE MONITORING OF WIRELESS TRAFFIC - A method, computer readable medium and apparatus for correlating measures of wireless traffic are disclosed. For example, the method obtains the wireless traffic, and processes the wireless traffic by a plurality of probe servers, where each of the plurality of probe servers generates a plurality of feeds, wherein the plurality of feeds comprises a data feed and a control feed. The method correlates the plurality of feeds from the plurality of probe servers by a plurality of aggregator servers, where the data feed and the control feed of each of the plurality of probe servers are correlated with at least one other probe server of the plurality of probe servers to provide a correlated control plane and a correlated data plane, and extracts at least partial path information of a flow from the correlated control plane. The method then correlates performance information from the correlated data plane for the flow. | 2012-06-21 |
20120157089 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING LONG TERM EVOLUTION SERVICE OUTAGE AND DEGRADATION MANAGEMENT - A method and apparatus for enabling a wireless communication service provider to remotely provide wireless network service outage and/or degradation detection, isolation, and restoration relating to a base station are disclosed. For example, the method detects a wireless service problem, and isolates the wireless service problem to a base station of a plurality of base stations of the wireless communication network, wherein the wireless service problem comprises a wireless service degradation. The method then performs a recovery task remotely on the base station to address the wireless service degradation. | 2012-06-21 |
20120157090 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR SENDING AND RECEIVING A BROADCAST CONTROL CHANNEL IN A MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The present invention relates to a method and device for automatically optimizing the send parameters in a mobile communication system wherein, in order to optimize the BCCH reception performance, a terminal stores information relating to BCCH reception failure reasons or the number of instances of packet combination for BCCH reception, and this information is reported to a base station. | 2012-06-21 |
20120157091 | NETWORK BACKHAUL SYSTEMS AND METHODS - An exemplary system includes a first mobile telephone switching office subsystem configured to receive and forward network traffic, a second mobile telephone switching office subsystem configured to receive and forward network traffic, and a hub router communicatively connected to the first and second mobile telephone switching office subsystems via at least one network backhaul connection. The hub router configured to establish at least one communication tunnel from the hub router to the first mobile telephone switching office subsystem and establish at least one backup communication tunnel from the hub router to the second mobile telephone switching office subsystem, wherein the at least one backup communication tunnel is pre-signaled as a backup to the at least one communication tunnel. Corresponding systems and methods are also disclosed. | 2012-06-21 |
20120157092 | Detection of Anti-Steering of Roaming Activity on Visited Networks - A system and method for automatically detecting Anti-Steering of Roaming activity is disclosed. This method can be used by a monitoring system on a home network that continuously monitors all international MAP signaling with a visited network. Anti-Steering of Roaming is detected by estimating a number of roaming subscribers of different types, including a number of unique active roamers, a number of unique steered roamers, and a number of unique anti-steered roamers. The numbers of subscribers of the different types, either alone or in combination, are compared to threshold values. If the numbers exceed the threshold value, then the monitoring system alerts the home network that a visited network may be using Anti-Steering of Roaming technology. | 2012-06-21 |
20120157093 | Method for realizing user accessibility and multi-mode terminal - The disclosure discloses a method for realizing user accessibility and a multi-mode terminal. A UE initiates, after a tracking area update (TAU) periodic timer of the UE expires, an update process to a mobile switching center/visitor location register (MSC/VLR) in the case that an idle mode signaling reduction (ISR) is activated and the | 2012-06-21 |
20120157094 | OPTIMAL MANAGEMENT OF CALLS BETWEEN NATIONAL CELLULAR MOBILE TELEPHONE NETWORKS. - A method of providing interconnection services, characterized in that it links an assembly of national cellular networks ( | 2012-06-21 |
20120157095 | CLOSED SUBSCRIBER GROUP (CSG) HANDLING FOR SUPPORTING NETWORK SHARING OF HOME BASE STATIONS - A system and method for enhanced support for handling of Closed Subscriber Groups (CSGs) and sharing of Radio Access Network (RAN) for home base stations and other small cells. An enhanced System Information (SI) structure indicates multiple CSG IDs and CSG Indications, thereby making it possible to support different CSG IDs and CSG Indications for every Public Land Mobile Network Identity (PLMN-ID) and also to support a PLMN-ID with multiple associated CSG IDs and CSG Indications. The enhanced SI makes it possible to have different CSG IDs for different operators, to have multiple CSG IDs for one operator (i.e., a single PLMN), and to selectively use the CSG concept for some PLMNs (as given by their respective CSG Indications), but not for all. A network of base stations (e.g., a RAN) thus can be effectively shared by multiple operators, leading to better cellular coverage, peak rates, and capacity. | 2012-06-21 |
20120157096 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SEARCHING FEMTOCELL ACCESS POINTS - A method of searching a femtocell access point includes: transmitting configuration/measurement information an operating frequency and a transmission power strength from multiple femtocell access points located within the macro cell to an OSM)/CPC server; and receiving, at the OSM/CPC server, the configuration/measurement information from the femtocell access points, and generating a femtocell access point list usable in a mobile terminal to provide the generated femtocell access point list to the mobile terminal. The method further includes selecting, at the mobile terminal, one femtocell access point from the femtocell access point list provided from the OSM/CPC server and accessing the selected femtocell access point. | 2012-06-21 |
20120157097 | MESSAGE RELAY HOST FOR DELIVERING MESSAGES TO OUT OF COVERAGE COMMUNICATIONS DEVICES - System and method for delivering messages to devices not in communication with a transmitting server. One or more wireless devices serve as host devices to relay a message from the server to the target device that is not in communication with the server. The server sends the message to host devices when they are in communication with the server. The host device or devices store the message to be relayed to the target device. When the host device is close to the target device, it establishes a short range wireless link with the target device and transmits the message to the target device. In an example, the messages sent to and stored by the host device are encrypted so they are not able to be read by a user of the host device. | 2012-06-21 |
20120157098 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR VOIP COMMUNICATION COMPLETION TO A MOBILE DEVICE - A system and method for establishing a voice over Internet protocol link to a called party's mobile telephony device utilizes push notifications to activate a communications application on the called party's mobile telephony communications device. When a request to establish a voice over Internet protocol link to a mobile device is received by an incoming proxy server of a voice over Internet protocol service provider, the service provider causes a push notification to be sent to the mobile device. The called party can respond to the push notification in a manner that causes a communications application on the mobile device to be activated. Once the push notification has caused the communications application to activate, the communications application sends a special registration request to an outbound proxy server. The special registration request causes the outbound proxy server to initiate messaging that is ultimately delivered to an inbound proxy server, the messaging identifying the outbound proxy server with which the communications application has registered. The inbound proxy server can then communicate with the outbound proxy server to obtain information that allows a voice over Internet protocol link to be established with the called party's mobile telephony device. | 2012-06-21 |
20120157099 | BASE STATION APPARATUS AND MANAGEMENT SERVER - A femtocell base station | 2012-06-21 |
20120157100 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION METHOD, MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, SUBSCRIBER MANAGEMENT SERVER DEVICE, AND MOBILE SWITCHING CENTER - A mobile communication method according to the present invention comprising the subscriber management server device HSS determines either the radio access network of the WCDMA scheme or the radio access network of the LTE scheme as the standby radio access network of the mobile station UE based on the CSFB capability presence/absence information included in the received “Update GPRS Location/Update Location Request” of received the mobile station UE, and a step in which the mobile station UE performs the standby operation in the standby radio access network of the mobile station UE determined by the subscriber management server device HSS. | 2012-06-21 |
20120157101 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, MOBILE STATION APPARATUS, AND BASE STATION APPARATUS - In a communication system in which a mobile station apparatus is connected to a base station apparatus simultaneously using a plurality of frequency bands, an event is efficiently determined concerning measurement of reception qualities of the frequency bands. The mobile station apparatus includes: a reception unit that receives from the base station apparatus an event condition for measuring a reception quality of at least one carrier component defined in the frequency bands different from each other and a parameter used for determining whether or not the event condition is satisfied; a measurement processing unit that measures the reception quality of the at least one carrier component; a cell determination unit that determines whether to adjust the received parameter; and an event determination unit that sets the event condition based on the received parameter or the adjusted parameter and that determines whether or not the set event condition is satisfied. | 2012-06-21 |
20120157102 | Handover Method and Handover Device - The present invention discloses a handover method and a handover device. An attachment point is handed over from a service station of a first access network to a handover server of the first access network before a UE hands over from the first access network to a second access network. The handover server of the first access network is interacted with through the tunnel to enter an idle mode of the first access network after completing network access in the second access network. Attachment to a destination station of the first access network is performed to quit the idle mode and re-access the first access network when the UE hands over back to the first access network. | 2012-06-21 |
20120157103 | Method and Arrangement In A Radio Communications System for Supporting DTX - A method in a first base station for supporting DTX is provided. The first base station serves a first cell being in an active mode. The first base station communicates with a user equipment within the first cell. The first base station is comprised in a radio communications system further comprising the user equipment and a second base station serving a second cell being in a non observable mode. The first base station sends ( | 2012-06-21 |
20120157104 | PROCESS FOR DETECTING TRANSMITTED SYMBOLS BASED ON A TERNARY ALPHABET AND CORRESPONDING RECEIVER - A detection process of a communication channel based on a ternary alphabet is provided wherein the channel transmitting a signal transports the same transmitted symbol for N sequential slots within one Time Transmission Interval (TTI). The detection process comprises a mechanism that eliminates unwanted signal contributions and isolates noise contributions. The detection process estimates a noise variance and sums consecutive received signals of a same Transmission Time Interval (TTI) in order to isolate a transmitted signal portion. The detection further obtains a chi squared distribution, which is used to determine a threshold that is proportional to the estimated noise variance. The threshold is then used to detect the communication channel. | 2012-06-21 |
20120157105 | DETECTING CELL SPOTS - A method of detecting a cell spot of a first base station ( | 2012-06-21 |
20120157106 | OPTIMIZATION OF CELLULAR NETWORK ARCHITECTURE BASED ON DEVICE TYPE-SPECIFIC TRAFFIC DYNAMICS - A method, a computer readable medium and an apparatus for optimizing a cellular network architecture are disclosed. For example, the method obtains network traffic data for a plurality of different endpoint device types, wherein the network traffic data comprises network traffic data for each of the plurality of different endpoint device types, and predicts a future traffic pattern for one of the plurality of different endpoint device types based on the network traffic data. The method then adjusts a parameter of the cellular network architecture in response to the future traffic pattern predicted for the one of the plurality of different endpoint device types. | 2012-06-21 |
20120157107 | RADIO RESOURCE GROUP SELECTION METHOD FOR A RADIO RESOURCE MANAGEMENT - Disclosed is the radio (wireless) communication system providing a radio communication service and the terminal, and more particularly, to a method of managing radio resource(s) using a group selection indicator so as to effectively utilize the radio resource(s) in an Evolved Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (E-UMTS) evolved from the Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) or a Long Term Evolution (LTE) system. | 2012-06-21 |
20120157108 | FRACTIONAL FREQUENCY REUSE IN HETEROGENEOUS NETWORKS - A base station node (BS) of a heterogeneous radio access network comprises a terminal locator ( | 2012-06-21 |
20120157109 | BANDWIDTH CONFIGURATION METHOD, DEVICE, AND SYSTEM - A bandwidth configuration method includes: A terminal acquires that a narrow bandwidth mode is used at a network side by a downlink transmission signal and/or an uplink transmission signal; and the terminal configures a receiving bandwidth and/or a transmitting bandwidth, where the receiving bandwidth and/or the transmitting bandwidth corresponds to the narrow bandwidth mode at the network side. The terminal side can acquire whether the network side uses the narrow bandwidth technology, and automatically adjust a bandwidth of a corresponding channel at the terminal side when the network side uses the narrow bandwidth technology, so that intra-system performance loss and inter-system interference that are caused by different bandwidth modes between the terminal side and the network side are avoided, thus improving performance of a communication system. | 2012-06-21 |
20120157110 | Methods and Apparatuses for Facilitating Reduction of Interference in a Wireless Telecommunications System - The exemplary embodiments of the present invention relate to methods and apparatuses ( | 2012-06-21 |
20120157111 | Dynamic Mimo Resource Allocation During a Single Communication - A system and method is provided for dynamic allocation of Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) communication resources during a single communication. Various aspects of the present invention may comprise communicating information using a first set of MIMO communication resources. While communicating the information, the system can determine, based on a monitored energy supply, to continue communicating the information using a second set of MIMO communication resources different from the first set. The communication continues using the second set of MIMO communication resources. Another aspect of the present invention may comprise determining to continue communicating the information using a second set of MIMO communication resources based on availability of communication resources of a second MIMO communication system receiving the communicated information. | 2012-06-21 |
20120157112 | Call localization systems and methods - Described are a system and method of managing a real-time communication initiated to a mobile communications device. A communication from an originating communications device is sensed as being directed to a first destination address corresponding to a mobile communications device. Location information of the mobile communications device is determined. The communication is directed to a second destination address based on the determined location of the mobile communications device. | 2012-06-21 |
20120157113 | LOCATION REPORTING RESPONSIVE TO TRANSITIONS IN MOTIONAL STATE OF WIRELESS EQUIPMENT - System(s), apparatus(es), and method(s) provide for reporting of location of wireless equipment based at least on transition amongst motional states of the wireless equipment. Measured data and metrics are employed for detection of at least one movement condition of wireless equipment to identify changes in a mobility profile thereof. Change in the mobility profile can convey change in motional state of the wireless equipment; analysis of the data and metrics enables determination of such change. While idle, the wireless equipment can monitor its mobility profile to identify changes in the motional state of the wireless equipment. Identification of certain changes in the motional state of the wireless equipment enable the wireless equipment to measure, report, and update location thereof at the network platform of a network operator that provides wireless service to the wireless equipment. Reported location of the wireless equipment can be exploited for several location-based services. | 2012-06-21 |
20120157114 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ADAPTING AN ATTRIBUTE MAGNIFICATION FOR A MOBILE COMMUNICATION DEVICE - Techniques and technologies are presented for adapting an attribute magnification for a mobile communication device. An output device for the attribute is connected to the mobile communication device. A sensor tracks distance of a user's head in relation to the mobile communication device; while a controller initiates a setting phase for magnification change and subsequently a tracking phase, opposite from the setting phase, for dynamically adjusting the attribute from the mobile communication device. | 2012-06-21 |
20120157115 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR UPDATING ACCESS POINT INFORMATION FOR LOCATION MEASUREMENT - A method and apparatus for updating information of an access point for a wireless local area network service in measuring a location of a communication terminal using the access point are provided. The method includes: storing information of access points in a storage unit; receiving information of nearby access points from a specific communication terminal to be measured for location; checking whether there exists an access point of which information is not stored in the storage unit among the nearby access points; performing a global positioning system (GPS) location measurement for the specific communication terminal when there exists the access point of which the information is not stored; and storing the GPS location measurement result and the information of the nearby access points in the storage unit. | 2012-06-21 |
20120157116 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING A LOCATION BEACON - A method and device for providing a location beacon is presented herein. The location beacon may assist a client device in estimating a current location by transmitting a plurality of signals at distinct power levels to the client device. The location beacon may also be configured to transition to a client device operational mode once the location beacon has an inaccurate estimation of its own location. | 2012-06-21 |
20120157117 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING A SIGNAL FOR A LOCATION BASED-SERVICE IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR LOCATING A TERMINAL THAT USES THE SIGNAL - The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. In particular, for the transmission of a locating zone configured across one or more superframes for transmitting a locating synchronizing signal for determining the location of a terminal in a wireless communication system, the wireless communication system of the present invention transmits, to a terminal, a superframe header including information indicating whether or not to transmit the locating zone. Thus, the terminal can discern a terminal belonging to the location zone form among superframes received by the terminal. | 2012-06-21 |
20120157118 | METHOD OF CREATING AN AUDIENCE MAP - A method of creating an audience map comprising the steps of; receiving a focus point comprising location data defining a geographical location; receiving trace data defining at least one geographical location of a potential viewer; determining a field of view which represents a region within which a potential viewer could see the focus point; projecting the field of view from either; (i) the focus point and determining whether the or each geographical location of the trace data falls within the field of view of the focus point and recording occurrences thereof; or (ii) the or each of the geographical locations of the potential viewer and determining whether the geographical location of the focus point falls within the field of view of the or each of the geographical locations of the potential viewer and recording occurrences thereof; and generating an audience map based on the recorded occurrences. | 2012-06-21 |
20120157119 | Processor, Apparatus and Associated Methods for Unlicensed Use of White Space - A processor for a device, the processor configured to determine a current geographical area for the current device location within which geo-specific spectrum usage data are known; determine a geographical margin for the current geographical area, the geographical margin defining an outer area of the geographical area; and obtain geo-specific spectrum usage data corresponding to an adjacent geographical area from a location remote to the device when the device location is within the geographical margin. | 2012-06-21 |
20120157120 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR 60 GHZ LOCATION DETERMINATION AND COORDINATION OF WLAN/WPAN/GPS MULTIMODE DEVICES - Within a local region, information may be communicated between two or more wireless multimode communication devices (WMCD) comprising 60 GHz band and lower frequency band wireless interfaces. Spatial relationships between devices may vary. The 60 GHz interface may handle location determination operations and data transfers. The lower frequency band may support WPAN, WLAN and may handle coordination of communications and data transfers. The WMCDs may be coupled with a network. Antennas may be directional. Moreover, the spatial orientation of the antennas may be dynamically modified or swept across a specified angle. Furthermore, intelligent and/or adaptive antenna systems may be utilized. The WMCDs may utilize a position and/or time reference system to aid in location determination operations. | 2012-06-21 |
20120157121 | PEER-TO-PEER LOCATION SERVICE - Techniques are described for obtaining high-resolution physical locations for a wireless device by leveraging the high-resolution physical location capabilities of wireless peers of the wireless device to provide a peer-to-peer location service and facilitate location targeting. Wireless devices provide location updates to a computing cloud, which stores records associating wireless device identifiers with received location information for the corresponding wireless devices. A wireless device issues a peer discovery request to dynamically identify nearby wireless peers in its network. The wireless device then sends wireless device identifiers for the nearby wireless peers in a location request to the computing cloud, which estimates a location for the wireless device using the previously recorded location information for the nearby wireless peers. The computing cloud returns the estimated location to the requesting wireless device. | 2012-06-21 |
20120157122 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION DEVICE FOR RETRIEVING GEOSPATIAL DATA - A method for receiving geospatial data using a communication device, the method comprising transmitting from the communication device to a server a request for geospatial data, the request including device display information, and receiving at the communication device from the server a subset of requested geospatial data, the subset being generated based on the device display information. The device display information may include a viewport size or a screen size. | 2012-06-21 |
20120157123 | PEER-TO-PEER LOCATION SERVICE - Techniques are described for obtaining high-resolution physical locations for a wireless device by leveraging the high-resolution physical location capabilities of wireless peers of the wireless device to provide a peer-to-peer location service and facilitate location targeting. Wireless devices provide location updates to a computing cloud, which stores records associating wireless device identifiers with received location information for the corresponding wireless devices. A wireless device issues a peer discovery request to dynamically identify nearby wireless peers in its network. The wireless device then sends wireless device identifiers for the nearby wireless peers in a location request to the computing cloud, which estimates a location for the wireless device using the previously recorded location information for the nearby wireless peers. The computing cloud returns the estimated location to the requesting wireless device. | 2012-06-21 |
20120157124 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING LOCATION OF UE BY USING AGPS INFORMATION - A method and apparatus are disclosed for providing location information of a User Equipment (UE) in a communication system including the UE, a Secure User Plane Location (SUPL) Location Center (SLC), and a SUPL Positioning Center (SPC). The method includes receiving, by the SLC, a request for the location information of the UE from a requester; notifying, by the SLC, the UE that the location information has been requested; transmitting, by the SLC to the SPC, a pseudo IDentifier (ID) for securing a connection between the SPC and the SLC; receiving, by the SLC from the SPC, the location information of the UE with the pseudo ID, the location information of the UE being calculated by the SPC, based on a positioning measurement measured by the UE; and transmitting, by the SLC, the location information to the requester. | 2012-06-21 |
20120157125 | iALERT ENHANCED ALERT MANAGER - iAlert_Enhanced_Alert_Manager enables a user to register an interest in their current location, as well as persons, places and/or things in which the user holds some regard. The iAlert_Enhanced_Alert_Manager provides notification and clarifying information to user's devices concerning events/happenstance that have occurred or are likely to occur within a proximity of registered persons, places, and/or things. The iAlert_Enhanced_Alert_Manager comprises data structures (e.g. an Affinity Table, a SPIN table, a SPIN-List Table, an Affinity-List Table, and a Keyword-List Table) to manage affinities, Spheres of Influence (SPINs), and relationships therebetween that may positively or negatively induce a person. Timely notification of events/happenstance to a user comprises the computation of iEvent-vectors and iAlert-vectors. An iEvent-vector contains fields pertaining to events/happenstance whereas an iAlert-vector comprises information pertaining to notifications. Transmission of a notification is determined as a function of the magnitude of an event/happenstance and the proximity of an event/happenstance to registered objects of interest. | 2012-06-21 |
20120157126 | POSITION ESTIMATION OF A WIRELESS TERMINAL IN A STRUCTURE USING BASE STATION SIGNAL INFORMATION - Wireless terminals are provided that comprise, for example, a wireless signal receiving portion that receives a wireless signal transmitted from a base station; a measurement portion that performs signal intensity measurement of the wireless signal; and an information transmitting portion that transmits pieces of measurement information acquired by the signal intensity measurement, and at least one piece of base station identification information that indicates a base station of a transmission source of the wireless signal and that is associated with each of the pieces of measurement information. The wireless terminals may also comprise, for example, an input portion for specifying information on a section of a building structure; an information acquisition portion for acquiring and transmitting measurement information to a position estimation server; a display screen generation portion; a display portion; and a registration request portion for transmitting registration request information to a position estimation server. | 2012-06-21 |
20120157127 | HANDHELD ELECTRONIC DEVICE USING STATUS AWARENESS - Through status awareness, a handheld communications device may determine the location, activity, and/or physical or emotional state of the user. This information may in turn be used for various purposes, such as 1) determining how to alert the user of an incoming communication, 2) determining what format to use for communicating with the user, and 3) determining how to present the user's status to another person's communication device. | 2012-06-21 |
20120157128 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION TERMINAL - A wireless communication terminal includes a communication status measurement element for measuring communication status data representing a communication status of the self terminal at the time of wireless communications; a reference data storage element for storing respective pieces of preset reference data representing communication statuses of a terminal which can be measured at respective locations at the time of wireless communications, in association with respective pieces of location data identifying the respective locations, and a location specifying element for comparing the communication status data measured by the communication status measurement element with the respective pieces of reference data stored in the reference data storage element, and based on the comparison result, specifying a location corresponding to the location data associated with a particular piece of reference data as a location of the self terminal. | 2012-06-21 |
20120157129 | Storage Medium Having Stored Therein Information Processing Program, Information Processing Apparatus, Information Processing Method and Information Processing System - Provided is an information processing system which facilitates data communication between an information processing apparatus and another apparatus. Position data indicative of a position, at which the information processing apparatus which makes up the information processing system automatically performs short-distance wireless communication, is transmitted to a server. The server accumulates and stores the position indicated by the position data transmitted from each information processing apparatus. The position data accumulated and stored at the server is transmitted to an information processing apparatus when the server receives the request therefrom. | 2012-06-21 |
20120157130 | Mobile Terminal Network and Method for Mobile Terminals to Receive Text Messages - The present invention relates to mobile terminal technologies and describes a mobile terminal network and a method for mobile terminals to receive text messages, the method comprising a network server pages a mobile terminal and determines whether text messages can be sent; if the mobile terminal is in the Packet Transfer state, it does not respond to the paging by the network server; if the network server does not receive a response from the mobile terminal, it terminates the paging until receiving position update information from the mobile terminal. After updating the position, the mobile terminal sends position update information to the network server; the network server continues to page the mobile terminal so as to take an action to send text messages. When a mobile terminal is switching in the Packet Transfer state, it can receive and send text messages promptly and rapidly, which ensures that users can receive text is messages promptly. | 2012-06-21 |
20120157131 | METHOD OF LOW-DUTY MODE OPERATION OF FEMTOCELL BASE STATION - A method of setting a cycle of a low-duty mode in a femto base station is provided. The cycle of the low-duty mode has a pattern in which an available interval and an unavailable interval repeatedly appear, and the available interval is set to include a paging listening interval of a paging cycle. A method of setting a cycle of a low-duty mode in a femto base station having a service area overlapping with that of a macrocell is provided. An unavailable interval is set by taking the overlapping degree of the service area of the femto base station with the macrocell into consideration. A method of setting a cycle of a low-duty mode in a plurality of femto base stations operated in the low-duty mode is provided. The same cycle can be set for a plurality of base stations. | 2012-06-21 |
20120157132 | Solution For Paging Differentiation in Communication Network - The present invention relates to a solution for paging of idle user equipment and in particular for changing mode status from idle to connected in an efficient manner. This is provided in a method, nodes, and a system arranged to determine a suitable paging message related to a framework table indicating selection criteria entries for access point name, quality of service class indicator, IMSI number, and IMEI number and determining from the framework table a paging granularity set to be used in the paging request from a granularity table comprising entries for paging areas, number of paging retries, and time between retransmissions. | 2012-06-21 |
20120157133 | MMS (Multimedia Messaging Service) Decoding Method, MMS Decoder And Mobile Terminal - The present disclosure discloses a multimedia messaging service (MMS) decoding method, an MMS decoder and a mobile terminal. The method comprises the steps of: parsing an original MMS data packet, acquiring all the non-SMIL (synchronized multimedia integration language) files in it, and counting the number of all the non-SMIL files as the first non-SMIL file number; determining whether an SMIL file exists in the parsing result, if yes, pre-parsing the SMIL file, obtaining the number of the non-SMIL files described by the SMIL file, and counting the number as the second non-SMIL file number, comparing the first non-SMIL file number with the second non-SMIL file number to obtain the formal SMIL file to be parsed; integrally parsing the formal SMIL file to be parsed, obtaining the data structure describing the playing layout of MMS, and taking the data structure and all the non-SMIL files obtained in step A as the MMS decoding result. The present disclosure improves the MMS decoding effect and the user experience. | 2012-06-21 |
20120157134 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DISPLAYING MESSAGE IN MOBILE COMMUNICATION TERMINAL - A method for displaying a message in a mobile communication terminal in which includes: when a message is received (or transmitted), a keyword is extracted from received (or transmitted) message contents; a determination is made whether a counterpart's (or one's own) sender information of the received (or transmitted) message exists, wherein when the counterpart's (or one's own) sender information exists, a determination is made whether a representative photo image exists in the counterpart's (or one's own) sender information, and when the representative photo image exists, a face detection feature is extracted from the representative photo image, and a keyword is extracted from the received message contents, and wherein a photo image that meets at least one of the extracted face detection feature and the keyword is searched for from an internal device or an external device. | 2012-06-21 |
20120157135 | CROSS-PLATFORM MESSAGING - Systems and methods are provided for displaying a short message service (SMS) message on user media equipment, in which the user media equipment includes a set-top box and a display. In some embodiments, the set-top box receives an SMS message, wherein the SMS message includes information identifying a triggering event for displaying the SMS message. The SMS message is stored until the occurrence and detection of the identified triggering event. In response to detecting the occurrence of the identified triggering event, the SMS message is displayed on at least a portion of the display of the user media equipment. | 2012-06-21 |
20120157136 | N-dimensional affinity confluencer - An N-dimensional affinity confluencer comprises an affinity table to maintain a plurality of affinities for each of a plurality of wireless devices. A sphere of influence (SPIN) table provides an influence for determination of a confluence between affinities maintained in the affinity table. An affinity confluence determination module determines an affinity confluence between the plurality of wireless devices and an influence parameter associated with the sphere of influence (SPIN) table. An affinity confluence is determined from among a plurality of wireless devices by determining a confluence of at least two predefined affinities from among a plurality of wireless devices. A sphere of influence parameter is applied to the confluence to determine those of the plurality of wireless devices defined by an affinity confluence. The plurality of wireless devices need not be within a common communication network. | 2012-06-21 |
20120157137 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ASSESSING MOBILE APPLICATION VALUE - A method and system for assessing a value of a first application with respect to a use of a mobile communication device in communication with a second communication device are presented. The method entails assigning a set of proximity values that relate the use of the application to the communication between the mobile communication device and the second communication device, and determining an impact and a value based on the proximity values. The proximity values may include a relationship proximity value, a time proximity value, a geographical proximity value, an action proximity value, and one or more user-defined proximity values. The determined value may be expressed as a monetary value. | 2012-06-21 |
20120157138 | RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, RADIO TERMINAL, RADIO BASE STATION, CONTROLLER DEVICE AND RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD - A controller device receives power information and location information from a first radio base station, the power information indicating, for each frequency, the power of the signal arriving at a radio terminal in the communication area of the first radio base station from a second radio base station, and the location information indicating the location of the radio terminal. The controller device is provided with an identifying unit which, based on the power information and location information received from the first radio base station, identifies an interference location and identifies an interference frequency, the interference location being the location where the power of the signal arriving at the communication area is greater than or equal to a predetermined value, and the interference frequency being the frequency of the signal arriving at the interference location. | 2012-06-21 |
20120157139 | COMMUNICATION METHOD OF NEIGHBORING TERMINAL AND TARGET TERMINAL - Provided is a communication method of a neighboring terminal and a target terminal in which a cooperative terminal that has a better SINR or a better channel condition provides help to a target terminal through cooperation between terminals based on a random access mode or a scheduling mode, so that an SINR of the target terminal is improved without help from a base station. | 2012-06-21 |
20120157140 | APPARATUS AND METHOD OF MULTI CELL COOPERATION IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - An apparatus and method of multi cell cooperation is provided. The user equipment receives transmission beam forming information from a first cooperative cell, generates serving cell feedback information and cooperative cell feedback information on the basis of the transmission beam forming information, transmits the serving cell feedback information to a serving cell, and transmits the cooperative cell feedback information to a second cooperative cell. | 2012-06-21 |
20120157141 | CONTENTION BASED UPLINK TRANSMISSION METHOD - Provided is a contention based uplink transmission method. A base station may assign a contention based radio network temporary identifier (CB-RNTI) to a plurality of terminals, and terminals assigned with the same CB-RNTI may perform contention uplink transmission using the same radio resource. | 2012-06-21 |
20120157142 | RADIO BASE STATION - A radio base station NodeB according to the present invention is configured, in EUL communication in “Time and Rate” system, to determine an SG to be notified to the mobile station scheduled in a next scheduling slot, based on maximum allowable reception power in the radio base station NodeB at a time of determining the SG to be notified to the mobile station scheduled in the next scheduling slot, and based on a DPCCH SIR target corresponding to respective SGs. | 2012-06-21 |
20120157143 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD - A wireless communication apparatus includes: a receiving unit that receives a signal indicating a frequency band having the highest priority of selection among a plurality of frequency bands; and a transmitting unit that transmits data in parallel, using the frequency band having the highest priority of selection and a frequency band having a priority of selection lower than that of the frequency band having the highest priority of selection. | 2012-06-21 |
20120157144 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING ACCESS TO SPECTRUM FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS - A method and system for controlling access to a spectrum resource by radio devices that are grouped into a first class and a second class, the first class having higher priority to the spectrum resource than the second class. The control techniques include setting a weight for each radio device in each class of radio devices; setting a threshold for each class of radio devices; aggregating the weights of radio devices that use the spectrum resource; and determining if the aggregate weight crosses the threshold for one of the classes of radio devices and, if so, denying access to the spectrum resource for additional radio devices belonging to the class of radio devices associated with the crossed threshold. | 2012-06-21 |
20120157145 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PAGING IN WIRELESS COMMUNCATION SYSTEM - A base station adds a paging message indicator representing a position of a frame to receive a paging advertisement message and a paging subgroup indicator representing a paging subgroup to which the paging advertisement message is to be transmitted to a PGID-INFO message and transmits the PGID-INFO message to a terminal, and the terminal determines whether a paging advertising message is to be transmitted using a paging message indicator and a paging subgroup indicator of the PGID-INFO message and a position of a frame to receive a paging advertisement message. | 2012-06-21 |
20120157146 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DYNAMICALLY ENABLING A DIRECT MODE OPERATION GATEWAY - A method and apparatus is disclosed for dynamically activating gateway functions on a communication device which is operating in trunked mode. The communication device calculates an estimated probability that at least one associated communication device is out of a network coverage area. The communication device determines that the associated communication device is inaccessible or is operating in an operating mode consisting of a trunked mode or a direct mode when the estimated probability is calculated to be at or below a predefined threshold. The communication device automatically activates its gateway functions and is configured to function as a direct mode gateway for at least one associated communication device when it determines that the associated communication device is operating in the direct mode. | 2012-06-21 |
20120157147 | Method and Arrangement in a Wireless Communication System - Method and arrangement in a mobile terminal for predicting future data communication performance of transmissions between a base station and the mobile terminal. The base station and the mobile terminal are comprised in a wireless communication system. The method comprises receiving information from the base station, concerning the relation between distribution characteristics and the performance of established data communications via the base station, comparing the own distribution characteristics of the mobile terminal with the received information, determining the own predicted data communication performance based on the made comparison between the own distribution characteristics and the received information, and displaying the determined own predicted data communication performance on a display of the mobile terminal. Also, a method and arrangement in a base station for assisting a mobile terminal in predicting future data communication performance of transmissions is comprised. | 2012-06-21 |
20120157148 | STATION COMPRISING AT LEAST TWO TRANSMIT ANTENNAS, AND A METHOD OF TRANSMITTING THEREFROM - A method is provided of transmitting a plurality of signals from a primary station to a respective plurality of secondary stations, said primary station comprising at least two transmit antennas, wherein each of said plurality of signals is transmitted from a respective subset of said at least two transmit antennas to a respective secondary station, in which each subset is selected at least according to a predetermined characteristic of the respective secondary station. | 2012-06-21 |
20120157149 | METHOD FOR MANAGING PRE-ESTABLISHED SESSION, POC SYSTEM AND POC USER EQUIPMENT FOR IMPLEMENTING THE SAME - Disclosed is a method for enabling a terminating-side Push-To-Talk (PTT) over Cellular (PoC) client to open a PoC session by using a pre-established session, and to maintain the pre-established session when the terminating-side PoC client terminates the open PoC session, and a PoC system and a PoC User Equipment (UE) for implementing the same. To this end, a REFER BYE message is used to terminate the PoC session while keeping the pre-established session maintained. The REFER BYE message must include information, such as pre-established session parameter information, a session IDentifier (ID), etc. Also, the REFER BYE message is transmitted from the PoC client to the PoC server, and the PoC server receives the REFER BYE message, checks the contents of a header in the received message, and terminates the PoC session while keeping the pre-established session maintained when a specified condition is satisfied. | 2012-06-21 |
20120157150 | DOWNLINK AND UPLINK PATHLOSS ESTIMATION GAP ADJUSTMENT SCHEME FOR WIRELESS SYSTEMS - Briefly, in accordance with one or more embodiments, a pathloss gap between a downlink pathloss from a base station to a mobile station and an uplink pathloss from the mobile station to the base station is estimated. An initial offset value for uplink power control of the estimated pathloss gap is calculated based at least in part on said estimating. An offset value for an uplink data channel or an uplink control channel, or combinations thereof, is set based at least in part on the initial offset value. The pathloss gap for uplink power control is compensated using the set offset value. | 2012-06-21 |
20120157151 | TRANSMIT POWER CONTROL IN 160 MHZ BSS - Three alternative methods of controlling transmit power in a basic service set (BSS) including a plurality of stations that have successfully synchronized with an access point include providing each BSS with one transmit power limit that is not more than the lowest one of the transmit power limits of all of its operating channels, providing each BSS with one transmit power limit that is fixed for physical layer convergence procedure (PLCP) protocol data units (PPDU) with each channel bandwidth, or providing each BSS with one transmit power limit that is fixed for each 80 MHz channel. | 2012-06-21 |
20120157152 | Uplink Power Control - A power control applied to a radio network controller ( | 2012-06-21 |
20120157153 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SAME FOR LOW POWER CONSUMPTION OF TERMINAL DEVICE - The wireless communication system is configured to adaptively change a status report (SR) cycle and a discontinuous reception (DRX) cycle on the basis of a quality of a radio link between a terminal device and a network device. When the quality of the radio link is good, the DRX cycle or the SR cycle is lengthened accordingly, and when the quality of the radio link is poor, the DRX cycle or the SR cycle is shortened accordingly. Furthermore, when the quality of the radio link is good for a long time, the power consumption can be significantly reduced by turning off the terminal device, and after a certain time, turning on the device. | 2012-06-21 |
20120157154 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING TRANSMISSION POWER IN FEMTO BASE STATION AND APPARATUS THEREOF - A method and an apparatus for controlling transmission power in a femto base station is provided. The method includes: predicting femto base station interference to be given from an adjacent femto base station to a terminal; predicting macro base station interference to be given from a macro base station to the terminal; determining transmission power for the terminal; and transmitting a downlink signal to the terminal on the basis of the transmission power, wherein the femto base station interference is predicted on the basis of a distance between serving femto base station and the adjacent femto base station and the transmission power of the adjacent femto base station, and the macro base station interference is predicted on the basis of a distance between serving femto base station and the macro base station and the transmission power of the macro base station. | 2012-06-21 |