25th week of 2010 patent applcation highlights part 39 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20100157894 | METHOD OF OPERATING TUNNEL POINT SUPPORTING ROUTING SCALABILITY AND MOBILITY - Provided is a method of operating a tunnel point that provides a tunnel between a router group including at least one router and a mobile node. The method includes: providing a tunnel between the mobile node and the router group by authenticating the mobile node; receiving a packet including an identifier (ID) of a target node from the mobile node; converting the ID of the target node in the packet into a locator corresponding to the ID of the target node; transmitting a packet including the converted locator to the router group; and maintaining the ID of the mobile node by authenticating the mobile node through the router group when the mobile node is connected to another external terminal node. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157895 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR HANDLING UPLINK TRANSMISSIONS USING MULTIPLE UPLINK CARRIERS - A method and an apparatus for uplink transmission using multiple uplink carriers are disclosed. A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) selects a dedicated channel medium access control (MAC-d) flow with highest priority data to be transmitted and performs uplink carrier selection and enhanced dedicated channel (E-DCH) transport format combination (E-TFC) restriction and selection to select a carrier among a plurality of carriers and select an E-TFC based on a maximum supported payload, a remaining scheduled grant payload of the selected carrier and a remaining non-scheduled grant payload. The WTRU then generates a medium access control (MAC) protocol data unit (PDU) for E-DCH transmission via the selected carrier based on the selected E-TFC. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157896 | METHOD FOR GENERATING FRAME AND TRANSMITTING FRAME INFORMATION - The present invention relates to a frame generation and transmission method of a wireless communication system. The frame generation method includes dividing a frame into a plurality of subframes, allocating the respective subframes as one of a plurality of predefined modes, and allocating mode allocation information of the respective subframes to the frame information. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157897 | MOBILE GATEWAY APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONNECTING IP BASED SERVICES USING THE SAME - Disclosed are a mobile gateway apparatus and a method of connecting IP based services using the same. The mobile gateway apparatus assigns identifiers to user terminals that have accessed the mobile gateway apparatus through multiple internal interfaces based on various network access standards, and selects an appropriate external interface from multiple external interfaces based on various network access standards, thereby providing IP based services Even if the user terminals and the external networks operate based on various network access standards, the mobile gateway apparatus allows IP based services to be effectively provided to the user terminals by supporting more various network access standards while ensuring higher bandwidth. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157898 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND GATEWAY APPARATUS - To control the communication quality on the terminal basis without making the base station more complicated, it is provided a communication system, comprising at least one computer and a gateway that is connected to the at least one computer through a first network. The gateway is connected to at least one terminal through a second network. The at least one terminal performs communications with the at least one computer via the gateway. The gateway estimates quality of the communications between the gateway and the at least one computer in the first network; and determines a priority for the communications between the gateway and the at least one terminal in the second network according to the estimated quality of the communications in the first network. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157899 | DISTRIBUTED GEOSPATIAL COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM - A method on a first mobile node for facilitating exchange of pertinent data between mobile nodes over a wireless communications network can be provided. The method can include establishing, by the first mobile node, a wireless network connection with at least one other mobile node inside a predefined geospatial area, wherein the wireless network connection is established over the wireless communications network. The method can further include determining that a future position of the first mobile node is outside the predefined geospatial area and transmitting pertinent data residing on the first mobile node over the wireless communications network exclusively to the at least one other mobile node inside the predefined geo spatial area, wherein the pertinent data is associated with the predefined geospatial area. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157900 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ESTABLISHING LOCAL ROUTING IN MOBILE COMMUNICATION NETWORK - A method and a system for establishing a local routing in a mobile communication network, and for allowing different mobile stations connected with the same Access Service Network GateWay (ASN GW) to transmit and receive traffic without delivering such traffic to a Home Agent (HA) are provided. In the method, a session server determines whether first and second mobile stations are connected with the same ASN GW by using their location information. In case of a connection with the same ASN GW, the session server establishes a local routing in the ASN GW so that traffic between the first and second mobile stations is directly routed to each other at the ASN GW. Then the ASN GW receiving the traffic from one of both mobile stations transmits the traffic to the other according to the local routing. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157901 | WIRELESS NETWORK ARCHITECTURE AND METHOD FOR BASE STATION UTILIZATION - Wireless network system including a plurality of base stations each configured to manage active links to mobile stations within a range; and a controller configured to control the base stations to provide at least two of the active links from two different base stations simultaneously to a given mobile station in integral manner for joint processing. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157902 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF PROVIDING MULTIMEDIA SERVICE IN IP NETWORK - Provided are a method and system of providing a multimedia service in an information provider (IP) network, wherein the method is performed by a system of providing an IP-based mobile service. The method includes: detecting whether a user, who is being provided with the multimedia service, changed from a first terminal to a second terminal; obtaining characteristic information of the second terminal; and providing the multimedia service after changing the multimedia service according to the obtained characteristic information. When only a terminal changes and an access network does not change, or when only an access network changes and a terminal does not change, a network automatically recognizes characteristics of the terminal and the access network and automatically changes media according to the recognized characteristics. Accordingly, a multimedia service without quality deterioration is received, and moreover, a service that can satisfy characteristics (capacity, size of display, etc.) of a terminal of a user and a corresponding service level agreement (SLA) of the user are provided in various terminal environments. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157903 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR EFFICIENT BANDWIDTH UTILIZATION FOR SUBSCRIBER UNIT INITIALIZATION AND SYNCHRONIZATION IN A TIME-SYNCHRONIZED COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A bandwidth efficient subscriber unit initialization and synchronization method and apparatus is described. The inventive subscriber unit initialization and synchronization method and apparatus uses a combination of an access burst format and a data transportation technique to efficiently use bandwidth when initializing and synchronizing subscriber units in a time-synchronized communication system. Advantageously, the present invention provides a mechanism for a base station to receive multiple access bursts from multiple subscriber units in a single contiguous time period. In the preferred embodiment of the present invention, bandwidth is efficiently utilized by searching for multiple initial access bursts from multiple mobile stations during a single time period known as a new access opportunity. The preferred embodiment of the present invention initializes and synchronizes subscriber units in a “contention-based” manner. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157904 | OPTIMIZED HEADER FOR EFFICIENT PROCESSING OF DATA PACKETS - Methods, apparatus, and computer program products for processing an RLC PDU having an RLC payload and an RLC header, wherein the RLC payload comprises a plurality of at least partially ciphered SDUs, each of the SDUs being either a partial or complete SDU, and wherein the RLC header comprises a separate count for each of the SDUs, each of the counts being configured to support deciphering of the corresponding SDU. Each SDU is a PDCP PDU having a PDCP payload and a PDCP header, wherein the PDCP payload comprises a plurality of IP packets, and wherein the PDCP header comprises a length indicator for at least one of the IP packets. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157905 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SEARCHING ROUTE OF MOBILE NODE IN SHORT-RANGE COMMUNICATION ENVIRONMENT - A method is provided for searching a route of a mobile node in a short-range communication environment. A first router to which a mobile node belongs acquires a unique address of the mobile node for communication with the mobile node. The first router determines whether the mobile node travels during communication. When the mobile node travels, the first router broadcasts the unique address of the mobile node to one or more neighboring routers and determines whether the one or more neighboring routers include the mobile node. If a second router, which is one of the one or more neighboring routers, includes the mobile node, the second router performs communication using the unique address without an additional address acquisition process. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157906 | Techniques for femto cell synchronization in wireless networks - Techniques are disclosed that provide for femto base stations to become synchronized with other base stations in a wireless network. For instance, a macro base station may instruct a mobile station to engage in a synchronization operation that synchronizes one or more timings (e.g., OFDM timings) of a femto base station with one or more corresponding timings of the macro base station. This may involve the mobile station having timing references of the macro base station. Further, this may involve the mobile station performing scanning operations and/or handover ranging operations with the femto base station. The mobile device may determine timing offsets between the femto BS and the macro BS. These offsets may be sent to the macro base station or to the femto base station. Also, the femto base station may adopt timings employed by the mobile station. The macro base station or a femto base station may direct a femto base station to achieve synchronization either directly with timing adjustment offset, or with a list of already synchronized femto base station as synchronization reference. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157907 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SIGNALING TRANSMISSION CHARACTERISTICS IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORK - A wireless network uses an improved frame structure to increase timing acquisition capabilities as well as reduction of spectral lines. In one aspect, the frame packet can be used to communicate the different modes of operation under which the packet was created. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157908 | MOBILE RADIO COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE AND RELATED METHOD AND SYSTEM - The present invention provides for a mobile radio communications device arranged to support at least one of a High Speed Downlink Packet Access channel and an Enhanced Uplink Dedicated channel, including means for signalling to a network controller the said support of at least one of the those channel and means for determining a circuit switched connection is required, the device being arranged to signal the said support of the at least one channel when a circuit switch connection is required, so that a radio network controller of a mobile radio communications device network can allocate the said at least one of the channels for circuit switched signalling exchanges. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157909 | Base Station Device, Method for Controlling Base Station Device, Receiving Device, Adaptation Algorithm Control Method, Radio Communication Device, and Radio Communication Method - A base station device according to the present invention includes: a first reception weight calculator | 2010-06-24 |
20100157910 | Radio resource sharing - An apparatus includes a controller configured to be coupled with a radio interface of a first wireless network node. The controller is further configured to respond to a spectrum emission mask that includes indications of both desirable emissions and undesirable emissions over a plurality of radio resource allocation units and to estimate a signal to noise ratio in individual ones of radio resource allocation units at at least one second node, to select an appropriate modulation-and-coding scheme per radio resource allocation unit and to schedule transmissions for the radio interface on the radio resource allocation units using the selected modulation-and-coding scheme. The controller is further configured to receive via the radio interface a beacon transmission from a second node, where the beacon transmission indicates a receiver sensitivity of the second node. The controller estimates a path loss to the second node that transmitted the beacon in accordance with knowledge of a transmission power with which the beacon was transmitted and considers distortion characteristics associated with the radio interface, the estimated path loss and the estimated signal to noise ratio so as to allocate transmit signal energy such that a sum of the desirable emissions and the undesirable emissions is less than limits imposed by the spectrum emission mask. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157911 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONFIGURING RADIO FREQUENCY RESOURCES FOR A CUSTOMER PREMISES BASE STATION - A method and apparatus are provided for manually or automatically configuring radio frequency (RF) resources for a customer premises base station (CPBS). In a manual embodiment, the CPBS prompts a user for RF resource configuration parameter values. In response to the prompt, the user inputs RF resource configuration parameter values, such as physical features of a customer's premises, to the CPBS. The CPBS then conveys RF resource configuration information to a wireless broadband communications system operator, wherein the RF resource configuration information is based on the RF resource configuration parameter values received from the user, and in response to conveying the received RF resource configuration information, the CPBS receives an RF resource allocation. Another embodiment provides for the CPBS to collect RF resource configuration parameter values associated with a customer's premises in an automated fashion that serve as a basis for an RF resource allocation adjustment by a system operator. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157912 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DL-MAP PROCESSING - Methods and apparatus for processing a downlink (DL) subframe of an orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) or an orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) frame are provided. By arranging the DL-MAP information elements (IEs) in a DL-MAP of the DL subframe to correspond chronologically to the arrangement of their associated data bursts in the OFDM or OFDMA frame at a base station (BS), a user terminal receiving that frame may be able to start decoding the data bursts in the DL subframe without having to wait until all of the DL-MAP IEs have been parsed and decoded. In this manner, the user terminal may decode the data bursts while simultaneously parsing a remaining portion of the DL-MAP, and the time for processing the entire frame may be reduced, thereby increasing the processing speed. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157913 | TRANSMISSION DEVICE - A transmission device is disclosed that includes a frequency scheduling unit configured to allocate resource blocks as a unit to each user, the resource blocks being blocks of consecutive frequency subcarriers divided from a system bandwidth, constitute a first group including consecutive plural resource blocks, constitute plural second groups, each including one or more resource blocks of the plural resource blocks constituting each first group, and allocate the resource blocks of either the first group or one or more the second groups; a mapping unit configured to allocate transmission data to the resource blocks in accordance with the allocation; and a control information generating unit configured to generate control information with respect to a mobile station to which either the first group or one or more the second groups are allocated. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157914 | Collision-Free Beacon Scheduling Method based on Distributed Address Assignment Scheme - Provided is a beacon scheduling method based on a distributed address assignment scheme that schedules a beacon and minimizes data delay using non-collision of addresses in a network, such as a ZigBee network, that provides a distributed address system. In the method, a time offset T | 2010-06-24 |
20100157915 | SCHEDULING APPARATUS, MOBILE STATION THEREWITH, AND METHOD THEREFOR - A method for real-time uplink traffic scheduling in a mobile station (MS) to communicate with a base station (BS) in a wireless mobile system. When the BS provides a bandwidth grant to the MS in reply to the uplink from the MS, the uplink service flow will be assigned to different connections with corresponding priorities according to contents of the service flow. The packets within the service flows will be scheduled according to, at least, the bandwidth grant byte size, priorities of the connections, decoding times for transmitting the packets, and/or real-time factors. Within the limitation of the bandwidth grant provided by the BS, types and an order of the packets for transmitting are scheduled accordingly, and the packets received by the BS can satisfy the requirements of the real-time factors for the BS or the decoders, and greatest amount of effective data can be decoded. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157916 | METHOD FOR RETRANSMITTING DATE IN THE MULTI-CARRIER SYSTEM - A method for modifying a synchronous non-adaptive retransmission scheme to solve the limitation of the synchronous non-adaptive retransmission scheme is disclosed. A method for indicating not only the new data transmission but also the retransmission using a data scheduling message is disclosed. A method for determining whether there is an error in the ACK signal transmitted from a data reception end using another message to-be received later is disclosed. The retransmission method for a multi-carrier system includes: receiving a grant message including scheduling information for transmitting uplink data wherein a retransmission scheme for the uplink data is predetermined by a first retransmission scheduling, transmitting the uplink data according to the scheduling information and retransmitting the uplink data according to second retransmission scheduling by receiving the second retransmission scheduling information associated with the uplink data with retransmission request. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157917 | RESOURCE ALLOCATION MAPPING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING CSRS, AND CSRS TRANSMITTING APPARATUS AND METHOD - Provided are a resource allocation mapping apparatus and method for transmitting CSRS, the resource allocation mapping method includes calculating subcarrier indexes to allocate same subcarrier index to base stations that have same remainder when a base-station index, which classifies the base stations, is divided by a constant; and mapping a resource allocation of the CSRS for the each base station using the calculated subcarrier indexes. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157918 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ALLOCATING DEMODULATION REFERENCE SIGNALS - Provided are a method and apparatus for allocating DeModulation Reference Signals (DMRSs). The method includes generating DMRSs, and allocating the DMRSs at consecutive subcarrier positions with respect to all the transmit (TX) antennas of each User Equipment (UE) and allocating the DMRSs at different subcarrier positions with respect to each TX antenna of the UE. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157919 | ENHANCED ALLOCATION AND SIGNALING OF RADIO FRAMES CONTAINING MULTIMEDIA BROADCAST SINGLE FREQUENCY NETWORK SUBFRAMES - The Exemplary embodiments of the invention provide at least a method, apparatus, and computer program for signaling parameters to at least one network node in a communications network. In accordance with the exemplary embodiments, the signaling is performed by operations that include, signaling a first parameter A, and jointly signaling, to the at least one network node in the communications network, a second parameter B and a third parameter C. In addition, the exemplary embodiments of the invention provide at least a method, apparatus, and computer program for receiving parameters from at least one network node in a communications network by operations that include receiving signaling comprising a first parameter A and joint signaling indicating a second parameter B and a third parameter C, and extracting the parameters from the received signaling. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157920 | APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CHANNEL BANDWIDTH ALLOCATION - Provided is an apparatus for a channel bandwidth allocation, the apparatus including: an information sorting unit to receive bandwidth allocation request information, to sort the received bandwidth allocation request information according to a priority, and to transfer any one of the sorted bandwidth allocation request information to a minislot allocation unit; and a calculation unit to apply a multiplier to a number of bytes, and to transfer, to the minislot allocation unit, the bandwidth allocation request information where a number of requested bytes is calculated, when the bandwidth allocation request information is byte-based bandwidth allocation request information, wherein the minislot allocation unit allocates a minislot based on the bandwidth allocation request information and predetermined setting information. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157921 | Codebook generation system and associated methods - A codebook generation system and associated methods are generally described herein. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157922 | PHYSICAL DOWNLINK CONTROL CHANNEL RESOURCE-BASED SCHEDULING METHOD AND APPARATUS USED BY BASE STATION - Provided are a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH)-based scheduling method and apparatus suitable for use by a base station in a long-term evolution (LTE) system. The scheduling method includes: determining an aggregation level of a common search space of a PDCCH by considering channel quality of a plurality of user equipments (UEs); identifying the number of PDCCH candidates and the number of messages, which require allocation of the common search space, based on the determined aggregation level and selecting messages by a smaller number of the number of messages and the number of PDCCH candidates; and allocating PDCCH resources and physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) resources for the selected messages. In a situation where the PDCCH resources are shared by downlink scheduling information and uplink scheduling information of different UEs, the PDCCH resource-based scheduling method can be used by the base station to efficiently utilize the PDCCH resources. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157923 | METHOD FOR EFFICIENTLY PERFORMING INITIAL ACCESS IN A MULTI-CARRIER BROADBAND WIRELESS ACCESS SYSTEM - A method for efficiently performing an initial access in an MS in a multi-carrier broadband wireless access system is disclosed. The method includes scanning a plurality of carriers supported by a BS, and selecting one of the scanned carriers as a first carrier and receiving an SFH of the first carrier. The SFH of the first carrier includes at least one of a field indicating load status of the first carrier and recommended network entry carrier information including information about a second carrier in good load status. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157924 | MU-MIMO-OFDMA SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SERVICING OVERLAPPING CO-SCHEDULED USERS - Methods and systems for conveying or transmitting to any given user in an OFDMA-MU-MIMO system scheduling information of other co-scheduled users to permit the user to perform error-correction on received data and/or interference reduction on its received signals. The scheduling information can include resource block assignment, modulation constellations employed, coding rates employed, power levels utilized and precoder matrix indices used. Further, the scheduling information can be conveyed in part through dedicated reference symbol layers or pilot streams. Moreover, a base station may transmit a preliminary estimate of the total number of users the base station expects to schedule, or an upper-bound on the total number of users, to the MU-MIMO users to permit the MU-MIMO users to determine preferred precoder matrix indices and indications of channel quality indices. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157925 | Mode selection for MIMO in wireless communication - A method for transmission mode selection in a MIMO radio system between a spatial diversity (A-matrix) mode and a spatial multiplexing (B-matrix) mode comprises: obtaining a channel condition number; if the channel condition number is above a selected threshold, and a signal to interference plus noise ratio exceeds a predetermined threshold then selecting spatial multiplexing; and otherwise selecting spatial diversity. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157926 | REDUCING KEEP-ALIVE MESSAGES IN CONNECTION WITH ELEMENT TRAVERSAL BY RELAY MECHANISM - A network element, method and computer program product enable to reduce the need to send keep-alive messages when elements have to be traversed. Specifically, a network element comprises a port allocation request unit configured to request from a server over the transmission control protocol the allocation of a user datagram protocol port having a destination determined to take care of traffic for the network element. The network element further comprises a registration unit configured to create a message for requesting internet protocol registration and to send the message over the transmission control protocol. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157927 | COMMUNICATIONS METHOD, BASE STATION, AND MOBILE TERMINAL - A mobile terminal monitors a candidate set (Candidate Set) of L1/L2 control information. However, when a base station carries out signaling of a candidate set to each of all mobile terminals, the load on the base station from the viewpoint of radio resources becomes large. Furthermore, the amount of processing in performing a blind detection of each mobile terminal also increases. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157928 | Method and System For Adaptively Obtaining Bandwidth Allocation Requests - A method and apparatus for adaptively obtaining bandwidth requests in a broadband wireless communication system. The method and apparatus includes dynamically varying technique combinations enabling a plurality of users to efficiently request bandwidth from a shared base station. A user may “piggyback” a new bandwidth request upon, or set a “poll-me bit” within, presently allocated bandwidth. A base station may poll users, individually or in groups, by allocating unrequested bandwidth for new requests. Polling may respond to a “poll-me bit,” and/or it may be adaptively periodic at a rate based on communication status parameters, such as recent communication activity and connection QoS levels. Group polling permits a possibility of collisions. Polling policies may be established for dynamically varying user groups, or may be determined for each user. Dynamic selection of appropriate polling techniques makes use of efficiency benefits associated with each technique. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157929 | CO-CHANNEL WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHODS AND SYSTEMS USING RELAYED WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS - Wireless communications are transmitted from at least two radioterminals to a base station co-channel over a return link using a return link alphabet. Wireless communications are also transmitted from the base station to the at least two radioterminals over a forward link using a forward link alphabet that has more symbols than the return link alphabet. The co-channel signals are deciphered at the receiver, while the radioterminals can use a smaller return link alphabet, which can reduce the power dissipation at the radioterminals. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157930 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD WITH PACKET SCHEDULING - To reduce power consumption of a mobile station, this invention provides a wireless communication method for communicating between a base station and a plurality of terminals using a plurality of channels, the channels being slots obtained by dividing frequency-divided carriers by time, in which the base station allocates a set of the channels which is composed of a plurality of neighboring carriers and/or a plurality of successive slots for the each terminal, and the base station allocates at least one of the channels included in the channel sets for packet transmission the terminals. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157931 | DYNAMIC LINK ASSIGNMENT IN A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - An architecture for the dynamic assignment of links in a multi-user communication system. A plurality of information channels are provided in a forward communication link of the communication system for carrying channel information of the plurality of information channels from a transmitter to a plurality of corresponding receiving devices. The channel information in corresponding select ones of the plurality of information channels is varied dynamically in response to link conditions of the associated receiving devices to more efficiently utilize the channel bandwidth. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157932 | COMMUNICATING CONTROL INFORMATION IN MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The present invention relates to communicating control information in a mobile communication system, by which new control information can be transmitted more quickly. The present invention comprises transmitting a first data block comprising control information for transmitting first data when no resources for the transmission of the first data are available, receiving second data from an upper layer to be transmitted, wherein the second data has a higher priority than the first data, and transmitting a second data block comprising updated control information for transmitting the first and second data when no resources for the transmission of the first and second data are available. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157933 | METHOD FOR PERFORMING RANGING PROCEDURE - A method for performing a ranging procedure includes transmitting a ranging request message through a randomly selected ranging slot to a base station, the ranging request message comprising a randomly selected ranging code, and receiving a ranging response message including collision information which informs that collision occurs when at least two user equipments transmit the same ranging code to the base station through the same ranging slot. Delay in the ranging can be reduced. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157934 | BASE STATION APPARATUS AND COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD - The object is achieved by providing a base station apparatus for performing time and frequency scheduling in uplink packet access with: an interference amount measurement part configured to measure an uplink interference amount for each interference amount measurement unit which comprises a predetermined period and a predetermined number of frequency blocks; an interference amount determination part configured to determine whether the uplink interference amount satisfies a predetermined condition; and an overload indicator reporting part configured to report an overload indicator to a neighboring cell when the predetermined condition is satisfied. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157935 | WIRELESS TRANSMISSION DEVICE AND WIRELESS TRANSMISSION METHOD - A wireless transmission device of the present invention includes n (where n is an integer of two or more) transmission antennas and a delay imparting section for delaying transmission signals supplied to the n transmission antennas by a maximum delay time (n−1)T or less based on a delay time T dependent upon a communication signal, which indicates whether to transmit the transmission signals by way of frequency diversity or multiuser diversity. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157936 | Uplink Reference Signal for Time and Frequency Scheduling of Transmissions - A method for multiplexing reference signal (RS) transmissions from user equipments (UEs), with the RS having a bandwidth larger than the data signal bandwidth (distributed RS) is provided. A transmission time interval (TTI) comprises of one or more sub-frames and each sub-frame comprises of at least two RS transmission periods and a plurality of data signal transmission periods. A distributed RS is transmitted during at least one of the at least two RS transmission periods in at least one of the sub-frames comprising the TTI. During the remaining RS transmission periods, for a UE having a data signal transmission, the RS bandwidth is substantially the same as the data signal bandwidth (localized RS). The total system bandwidth is divided into contiguous, non-overlapping sub-bandwidths, called reference signal multiplexing blocks (RSMBs). Transmission of distributed RS occurs within an RSMB and does not cross over different RSMBs. The size and number of RSMBs can be re-configurable in time and a re-configuration period is much larger than the TTI duration. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157937 | Uplink Reference Signal for Time and Frequency Scheduling of Transmissions - A method for multiplexing reference signal (RS) transmissions from user equipments (UEs), with the RS having a bandwidth larger than the data signal bandwidth (distributed RS) is provided. A transmission time interval (TTI) comprises of one or more sub-frames and each sub-frame comprises of at least two RS transmission periods and a plurality of data signal transmission periods. A distributed RS is transmitted during at least one of the at least two RS transmission periods in at least one of the sub-frames comprising the TTI. During the remaining RS transmission periods, for a UE having a data signal transmission, the RS bandwidth is substantially the same as the data signal bandwidth (localized RS). The total system bandwidth is divided into contiguous, non-overlapping sub-bandwidths, called reference signal multiplexing blocks (RSMBs). Transmission of distributed RS occurs within an RSMB and does not cross over different RSMBs. The size and number of RSMBs can be re-configurable in time and a re-configuration period is much larger than the TTI duration. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157938 | METHOD AND APPARATUS APPLIED TO IDENTIFICATION FOR HANDOVER BETWEEN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS - The invention provides a method and apparatus to be executed in a first UE (User Equipment), applied to identification for handover from a current serving network to a target network, the method comprising the steps of: acquiring handover status information for a second UE communicating with it; and sending identity confirmation information to the second UE according to the handover status information so that the second UE can validate its identity, wherein the handover status information and the identity confirmation information are transmitted via different networks. With the proposed method and apparatus, the handover procedure between two wireless networks can be facilitated even in the case of not providing identification information of the calling party of the handover call. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157939 | CROSSOVER NODE DETECTION PRE-PROCESSING METHOD, CROSSOVER NODE DETECTION PRE-PROCESSING PROGRAM FOR EXECUTING THIS METHOD BY COMPUTER, AND MOBILE TERMINAL USED IN THIS METHOD - A technology is disclosed providing a crossover node detection pre-processing method and the like in which, when a MN performs a handover and detects a CRN, a layer, among an aggregation overlapping such as to be nested (a plurality of network layers), up to which a process for detecting the CRN is performed is decided and a number of layers from the outermost layer of the aggregation to the decided layer is decided. As a result, the CRN detection is not time-consuming, double reservation can be kept to a minimum, and QoS failure can be avoided. The technology includes a step of deciding, by a mobile node | 2010-06-24 |
20100157940 | DATA GENERATION APPARATUS, DATA GENERATION METHOD, BASE STATION, MOBILE STATION, SYNCHRONICATION DETECTION METHOD, SECTOR IDENTIFICATION METHOD, INFORMATION DETECTION METHOD AND MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - [Problems] To reduce a cell search process including sector identification without increasing a load on a transmission/reception device. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157941 | ACCESS TERMINAL HAND-OFF METHODS IN WIRELESS NETWORKS - This description relates to access terminal hand-off methods in wireless networks. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157942 | Method for FMIPv6 Handover in UMTS Network and Apparatus for the Method - The present invention is related to FMIPv6 handover method and apparatus for the method in UMTS network. The present invention comprises obtaining lower layer information about a target RNS from a current RNS; obtaining upper layer information about a target core network from a current core network; establishing a tunnel between a current core network and a target core network by using the lower layer information and allocating a target RNS; and after allocation of a target RNS, transmitting a message notifying a target core network of connection to the target RNS and receiving packet data from the target core network. The present invention supports efficient handover in UMTS network by using MIH service and reduces handover delay | 2010-06-24 |
20100157943 | ACCESS POINT HANDOVER CONTROL BASED ON CLOSED SUBSCRIBER GROUP SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION - One or more nodes in a network provide access control for an in-bound handover of an access terminal to a closed subscriber group. For example, at least one of a source access point, a network node, or a target access point may determine whether handover is allowed based on whether a closed subscriber group identifier of the target access point is listed in closed subscriber group subscription information for the access terminal. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157944 | HANDOVER CONTROL BASED ON CLOSED SUBSCRIBER GROUP SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION - One or more nodes in a network provide access control for an in-bound handover of an access terminal to a closed subscriber group. For example, at least one of a source access point, a network node, or a target access point may determine whether handover is allowed based on whether a closed subscriber group identifier of the target access point is listed in closed subscriber group subscription information for the access terminal. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157945 | Apparatus and method for changing serving cell in a high speed wireless communication system - A Radio Network Controller (RNC) in a high speed wireless communication system includes an apparatus to perform method for changing a serving cell in the high speed wireless communication system. The RNC receives UpLink (UL) cell change determination information representing UL channel states from a serving Base Station (BS) and a target BS. The UL is received if a UL soft handover of a Mobile Station (MS) is initiated depending on a DownLink (DL) channel quality of the MS. The RNC can determine UL cell change timing of the MS using the UL cell change determination information. Thereafter, the RNC can send an instruction of a UL cell change of the MS to the serving BS and the target BS. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157946 | Methods and Apparatuses For CDMA2000/GPRS Roaming - IIF architectures and corresponding call flows are provided for CDMA2000/GPRS roaming scenarios such as GPRS foreign mode with Mobile IPv4, GPRS foreign mode with Simple IPv4 or IPv6, CDMA2000 packet data foreign mode with Mobile IPv4, and CDMA2000 packet data foreign mode with Simple IPv4 or IPv6. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157947 | System, Apparatus, and Methods for Proactive Allocation of Wireless Communication Resources - A system for communication between a mobile node and a communications network is provided for use with a communications network having one or more communications network nodes that define a foreign agents and that communicate with the mobile node in a predefined region. The system includes a ghost-foreign agent that advertises a foreign agent so that the mobile node is aware of the foreign agent when the mobile node is located outside the predefined region. The system further includes a ghost-mobile node that signals the foreign agent in response to the foreign agent advertising and based upon a predicted future state of the mobile node. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157948 | METHOD OF USING A: MOBILE UNIT TO DETERMINE WHETHER TO COMMENCE HANDOVER - A method of using a mobile unit in a multi-cell communication system to determine whether to commence handover of the mobile unit from a serving base station located in a first cell of the communication system to a target base station located in a second cell of the communication system. The mobile unit determines the serving base station received signal code power (RSCP | 2010-06-24 |
20100157949 | Wireless Base Station And Control Method Thereof - For processing an uplink signal from a mobile station without desiring a high AFC capability in any state, in a wireless base station including a plurality of antennas, reception signals from a mobile station are taken in to perform a signal transmission and reception with the mobile station by a first antenna providing a higher reception signal level, in which a switchover from a signal transmission to the mobile station by the first antenna to that by a second antenna is performed when a frequency variation characteristic measured for an allocated frequency of the reception signal from the first antenna indicates that the mobile station is moving away from the first antenna. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157950 | SYSTEM FOR USING RAPID ACQUISITION SPREADING CODES FOR SPREAD-SPECTRUM COMMUNICATIONS - A system for rapidly acquiring a spreading code, used in a code division multiple access (CDMA) system, comprises a generator for generating a first long code and a second long code, with each long code having a length of N chips. The first long code is different from the second long code. A transmitter transmits the first long code and the second long code at a first phase angle and at a second phase angle, respectively, on a carrier signal over a communications channel using radio waves. The first long code and the second long code may be transmitted at an in-phase (I) angle and at a quadrature-phase (Q) angle, respectively, on the carrier signal. From the communications channel, an I acquisition circuit and a Q acquisition circuit may acquire, in parallel, the first long code and the second long code from the I angle and the Q angle, respectively, of the carrier signal by searching, in parallel, N/2 chips of the first long code and the second long code. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157951 | Rake receiver architecture within a WCDMA terminal - A baseband processing module includes an RX interface, a rake receiver combiner module, and may include additional components. The RX interface receives the baseband signals from an RF front end and creates baseband RX signal samples there from. The rake receiver combiner module includes control logic, an input buffer, a rake despreader module, and an output buffer. The rake despreader module is operable to despread the baseband RX signal samples in a time divided fashion to produce channel symbols including pilot channel symbols and physical channel symbols. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157952 | Dynamic CTA adjustment across superframes in a wireless network - In a wireless communications network, various embodiments of the invention provide a technique for requesting an extension or truncation of the previously assigned channel time allocation (CTA), and extending that extension or truncation across multiple superframes without having to make further requests. The request may be made by transmitting an Information Element (IE) that indicates how many superframes the request applies to. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157953 | CONTINUOUS PACKET CONNECTIVITY (CPC) SCHEDULER - A base station establishes a data channel in an uplink between the base station and a user equipment, establishes a control channel in the uplink between the base station and the user equipment, and determines a gating configuration associated with the control channel. The base station also transmits the gating configuration to the user equipment, receives a gated control signal, via the control channel, based on the gating configuration, and synchronizes time slots for signal bursts associated with the gated control signal and time slots for data packets associated with the data channel. The base station further schedules transmissions of the data packets based on the synchronized time slots, generates an absolute grant based on the scheduled transmissions of the data packets, and transmits the absolute grant to the user equipment. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157954 | Multicarrier Wireless Communication Method and Wireless Communication Apparatus - In the wireless communication apparatus of the present invention, channels which are used by a plurality of radio units | 2010-06-24 |
20100157955 | Efficient Formats of Beacon, Announcement, and Beamforming Training Frames - A method includes generating a first data unit to be transmitted during a first time period to one or several stations assumed to be beamformed, including determining a time interval that separates the first time period from a second time period, such that a second data unit is transmitted during the second time period to one or several stations assumed to be beamformed, and generating a parameter indicative of the time interval, such that the first data unit includes the parameter. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157956 | RADIO NETWORK CONTROLLER AND TRANSMITTING POWER CONTROL METHOD - Radio network controller includes a propagation delay acquisition part for acquiring a measurement value of a round-trip time between the base station device and the radio terminal, an offset acquisition part for acquiring an offset value indicating a delay at which the base station device transmits the information of transmitting power control to the radio terminal, from a reference timing, a channelization format determination part for determining the channel identification spread code transmitted to the base station device based on the measurement value of the round-trip time and the offset value acquired by the offset acquisition part, and a slot format determination part for determining the time slot information transmitted to the base station device based on the measurement value of the round-trip time and the offset value. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157957 | Method and Apparatus for Achieving System Acquisition and Other Signaling Purposes Using the Preamble in an OFDM Based Communications System - In the system acquisition process system information is non-coherently detected using correlation of reconstructed and received preamble signals, such as the primary broadcast control channel (PBCCH) and the acquisition pilots (TDM | 2010-06-24 |
20100157958 | METHOD, DEVICE AND SYSTEM FOR TEMPORARILY SELECTING A TIME SLOT - Temporarily selecting a TDMA timeslot by a radio communication device to thereby allow the radio communication device to communicate, through at least one repeater station, with a talkgroup of other radio communication devices is disclosed. The radio communication device has an assigned default timeslot for communicating with the talkgroup. The radio communication device determines if the default timeslot is available for the radio communication device to communicate with the talkgroup and searches for an available timeslot, when the default timeslot is unavailable. The radio communication device temporarily selects the available timeslot as a temporary selected group timeslot for the talkgroup. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157959 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR ASSIGNING TRAFFIC CHANNELS IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A device uses a method for assigning a traffic channel in a wireless communication system. The method includes: receiving on a control channel a first message that includes a request for a traffic channel having a traffic channel structure; determining a delay in arrival of the first message; comparing the delay in arrival to a threshold value for the traffic channel structure; and when the delay in arrival exceeds the threshold value, assigning an available traffic channel in response to the request, wherein the traffic channel has a delay tolerance that exceeds the delay in arrival. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157960 | WIRELESS ACCESS POINT SUPPORTING CONTROL BY MULTIPLE APPLICATIONS - A computing device configurable as a wireless network access point that can be controlled from multiple applications. The computing device provides an interface through which applications may input commands to change the state of the access point. The interface responds to these commands and other events, such as association or disassociation of a wireless client, in a manner that does not disrupt the applications or devices using the access point. To determine an appropriate response to any event, the interface may maintain state information, including a count of the number of applications and/or wireless devices that have taken action indicating an operating state of the wireless access point. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157961 | Method and Apparatus for Scheduling Communication Traffic Flows - In one or more embodiments of the disclosed technology, an Access Point (AP) schedules communication traffic flows or service tasks between an Access Point (AP) and one or more member stations in a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN). The communication traffic flows or service tasks may include both control and management flows and data traffic flows. The communication traffic flows or service tasks may include traffic flows or streams of different types, each of which may have different service intervals. The order of service tasks can be changed from cycle to cycle, randomly, by rotation, or based on historical delay records. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157962 | METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING FRAME IN WIRELESS LAN - The transmission delay of a voice frame can be reduced by performing internal collision resolution and frame aggregation according to the presence or absence of a voice frame awaiting transmission in a MAC layer, thereby reducing an end-to-end voice transmission delay time for a VoIP service. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157963 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING MOBILITY TO MOBILE NODE IN PACKET TRANSPORT NETWORK, PACKET TRANSPORT NETWORK SYSTEM AND GATEWAY SWITCH - A method for providing mobility of a mobile node in a packet transport network, and a packet transport network system are provided. The packet transport network system includes a plurality of gateway switches configured in a plurality of packet transport access networks to connect a packet transport core network and transmit/receive a packet to/from a certain terminal via a certain access switch. When the certain terminal moves, each gateway switch updates a tunnel mapping and management table according to the movement of the certain terminal, allocates a pre-set tunnel by using information included in the tunnel mapping and management table, and transmits/receives a packet to/from a counterpart terminal via the allocated tunnel. Thus, a packet loss and delay due to the influence of handover occurring when the mobile node moves between networks can be minimized and the handover procedure can be simplified. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157964 | SERVER TO GUIDE RECONNECTION IN MOBILE INTERNET, METHOD FOR GUIDING SERVER RECONNECTION, AND SERVER RECONNECTION METHOD - If a terminal attempts a connection to an Internet site while a server in charge of the site is under maintenance, a connection request may be denied and an error message is sent to the terminal. After the server maintenance returns to a connection enabled state, a connection guide message is sent to notify the terminal. The server includes a communication unit, a message generator, a storage unit to store identification information of the terminal, and a controller. The server generates the error message if the connection attempt occurs while the server is in a connection disabled state, generates the connection guide message if the connection disabled state is released, and transmits the messages to the terminal. The server performing the connection management function may be a content server or a connection management server. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157965 | Dynamic preamble detection - A data packet, comprising a preamble and the preamble comprising a plurality of synchronization bits, is received where the preamble may be of either a first preamble type or a second preamble type. Channel estimation is performed using at least a first portion of the plurality of synchronization bits. It is determined whether the preamble is of the first preamble type or of the second preamble type, where the determination overlaps in least in part with the channel estimation. The performance of the channel estimation is controlled such that: in the event it is determined the preamble is of the first preamble type, the performance of the channel estimation continues for a second portion of the plurality of synchronization bits, adjacent to the first portion of the plurality of synchronization bits, after the processing of the first portion of the plurality of synchronization bits; in the event it is determined the preamble is of the second preamble type, the performance of the channel estimation ends after processing the first portion of the plurality of synchronization bits. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157966 | THROUGHPUT IN MULTI-RATE WIRELESS NETWORKS USING VARIABLE-LENGTH PACKETS AND OTHER TECHNIQUES - In a wireless communication network having a plurality of devices operating at different data rates that contend for access to the network, an apparatus is provided that assigns network access parameters so as to control throughput on the network. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157967 | COMMUNICATION METHOD AND COMMUNICATION DEVICE AS WELL AS COMPUTER PROGRAM - Communication performed within a network including a plurality of communication stations is provided, in which when an access control is performed so that communication timing of a packet can not collide with that of another station by detecting a signal which is transmitted from another station, “a header area processed not to become easily an error such as a physical layer header portion of a packet” which is transmitted from a communication station is made to have at least information which is required for extracting information in a payload of the packet and a field for controlling an access reservation of transmission of a packet which is generated as a result of transmission of another packet so that processing using the field can be performed. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157968 | HANDLING OF MULTIMEDIA CALL SESSIONS AND ATTACHMENTS USING MULTI-NETWORK SIMULCASTING - A method and apparatus supporting the handling of multimedia information using simulcasting using a broadband access gateway are disclosed. A broadband access gateway supporting both a personal area network and a broadband network may receive multimedia information during exchanges between access devices over a wireless wide area network. The wireless wide area network may intercept multimedia information, and may, for example, determine that the access device of the recipient is incompatible with the multimedia information. The wide area network may then redirect the multimedia information to a broadband access gateway that may cause the storage of the received multimedia information. In another representative embodiment of the present invention, the wide area network may adapt intercepted multimedia information to be compatible with the access device of the recipient, and may also redirect the original intercepted multimedia information to a broadband access gateway. The broadband access gateway may then cause the original intercepted multimedia information to be stored for later access. A recipient of the multimedia attachment or information may be notified of the redirection of the multimedia attachment or information, and may retrieve the stored multimedia information using a wired or wireless access device. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157969 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PAGING AND MEDIA SERVICES ON A SINGLE CARRIER FREQUENCY - Methods enable a paging service and a media service to be carried on a single carrier frequency. The methods includes: determining to send a paging record to a communication device for a first media service, wherein the first media service is provided on a first carrier frequency; inserting the paging record into a first message generated using a protocol that is also used to provide a second different media service to the communication device on a second different carrier frequency; providing a paging indication using the protocol; and sending the paging indication and the first message with the paging record over the second carrier frequency. The protocol can be a multimedia broadcast service (MBMS) protocol. The paging indication alerts the communication device to monitor the second carrier frequency for the paging record. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157970 | MULTIPLE ANTENNA WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION METHOD AND SYSTEM - A wireless telecommunication system and method including at least two transmit antennae and means for implementing a downlink switched sub-channels diversity scheme during transmission. The method includes splitting a total bandwidth allocated for transmission of a transmitted signal to individual sub-channels or groups of sub-channels; boosting each of the sub-channels or groups of sub-channels; and routing each of the sub-channels or groups of sub-channels to a different transmit antenna. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157971 | Power-efficient media access techniques for wireless networks - Techniques for media access in wireless networks are disclosed. For instance, embodiments may provide a time interval for accessing a wireless communications channel. In addition, embodiments may prevent channel access during the time interval by stations incapable of employing a first channel access technique. This access technique employs an access probability P. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157972 | Network synchronization method - At least some exemplary embodiments of the invention enable a node to transmit synchronization information to other near-by nodes in a cognitive radio network during a transmission period. In one exemplary embodiment, an internal clock is compared to received synchronization information, a length of a next transmission period is set as a function of the comparing, and synchronization information is transmitted only once during the next transmission period. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157973 | SYNCHRONIZATION OF A PLURALITY OF DATA STREAMS - A method of synchronizing a plurality of data streams. A land mobile radio (LMR) data stream can be generated by a LMR communication device. At least one LMR identifier can be communicated from the LMR communication device to a broadband communication device. A broadband data stream can be generated by the broadband communication device. The broadband data stream and the LMR identifier can be communicated from the broadband communication device via an access network. The LMR identifier can enable synchronization of the LMR data stream with the broadband data stream. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157974 | WIRELESS DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD - Embodiments of the present invention provide a communication system, comprising: a first wireless network including a coordinator and a plurality of network devices associated with the coordinator; a second wireless network; wherein the first coordinator is arranged to notify at least one network device of the availability of data; and the at least one network device notified of the availability of data is arranged to associate with the second wireless network and to receive the data. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157975 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PERFORMING TIME SYNCHRONIZATION BETWEEN NODES IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method is provided for synchronizing time between nodes in a wireless communication system. A reference node transmits a first packet to a correspondent node. Upon receiving the first packet, the correspondent node transmits a second packet with a reception time of the first packet recorded therein, to the reference node. Upon receiving the second packet, the reference node calculates a forward delay time using a transmission time and the reception time of the first packet. The correspondent node receives a third packet with the forward delay time from the reference node, and calculates a reverse delay time. The correspondent node calculates an offset value for the synchronization using the forward delay time and the reverse delay time. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157976 | NETWORK DEVICE - A first telephone, which is connected to a network device, can be prevented from becoming communicable with a second telephone, which is connected to the network device over a public network, when the second telephone and a third telephone, which is an Internet telephone, are communicable with each other and a device operating voltage for operating the network device is no longer supplied. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157977 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR PROVIDING INTRA-CARRIER IP-BASED CONNECTIONS USING A COMMON TELEPHONE NUMBER MAPPING ARCHITECTURE - Internet protocol (IP) based calls from a first terminal in an IP based communications system are routed to a second terminal in another communications system. In response to a call setup request at a common communications core that is common to both the IP based communications system and the other communications system, a query is transmitted to a private telephone number mapping database that contains routing information for terminals in both the IP based communications system and the other communications system requesting routing information for the second terminal. Routing information for the call setup request is received from the private telephone number mapping database for routing the call. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157978 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MANAGING A PRESENTATION OF MEDIA CONTENT - A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a communication device having a controller to detect a media device operating externally to the communication device actively engaged in presenting media content, detect an incoming communication session initiated by another communication device, present a notice identifying the media device and the media content being presented by the media device, detect a directive to modify an operation of the media device to mitigate interrupting a communication session with the other communication device, and instruct the media device to modify its operation according to the directive. Other embodiments are disclosed. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157979 | System and Methods for Improving Interaction Routing Performance - An interaction router includes a computerized server executing a routing engine stored on a machine-readable medium, an interface at the server receiving information from an interaction switching element, the information regarding an interaction received at the switching element to be routed, an interface at the server to a wide area network (WAN), a function of the routing engine judging if one or more business-logic determinations are to be made to select a routing destination for the interaction, and a function for controlling the switch to route the interaction. If if one or more business-logic determinations are to be made, the routing engine requests the business-logic determination from a remote server over the WAN, and upon receiving the determination from the remote server, uses the determination in controlling the switching element to route the interaction. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157980 | SIP PRESENCE BASED NOTIFICATIONS - An exemplary embodiment builds on the idea of presence and SIP messaging in conjunction with a profile comprising, for example, a lookup table and a rules module, to assist with one or more of reminders, actions, endpoint maintenance, availability, endpoint capabilities and session management. One exemplary embodiment provides a message-based notification system. SIP allows a user to associate themselves with a number of different User Agents (UAs). This means that a user may have a presence on more than one UA at any given time, e.g., soft phone, PDA, and workstation. One exemplary embodiment utilizes this fact in connection with monitoring and determining if a message is a trigger-type message to provide more timely and relevant notifications to users. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157981 | DIFFERENTIATED PRIORITY LEVEL COMMUNICATION - Provided are methods, apparatuses and systems for providing prioritized data distribution at a customer premise. A network access component may determine a particular hardware identifier associated with data received from a communication entity. The hardware identifier may uniquely identifying a piece of hardware originating data. The network access component may also determine a particular priority level associated with the data based on the particular hardware identifier. The network access component may also prioritize at least a portion of the data on a basis of the particular priority level. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157982 | TRANSMITTER AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING OF VOICE DATA FOR VOIP SERVICE - Provided are a transmitting apparatus and voice data transmitting and receiving methods for providing VoIP services. When a call is started and an analog signal including a voice signal is input, the transmitting apparatus divides the analog signal into a plurality of voice data packets for transmission. Here, the plurality of voice data packets are generated by sampling with different phases in the same frequency. In addition, the transmitting apparatus inserts a time indication bit that is changed every transmission period into each of the voice data packets and transmits the voice data packets, and distinguishes voice data corresponding to a current transmission period based on the time indication bit. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157983 | System and Method for Providing Alternate Routing in a Network - Methods and systems are described for performing alternate routing of communications in a network. The system initiates a communication from an origination endpoint in a packet-switched network, such as a VOIP network, to a destination endpoint, and determining, according to selection criteria, whether to route the communication to the destination endpoint using at least a second circuit-switched network, such as the PSTN. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157984 | WIDEBAND VOIP TERMINAL - A wideband Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) terminal is provided. The wideband VoIP terminal includes a synchronous serial interface which processes audio data input thereto or output therefrom in series in synchronization with a clock; and an audio accelerator which encodes or decodes the audio data, wherein the synchronous serial interface includes a buffer buffering the audio data and a buffer controller controlling the buffer and the audio accelerator includes a memory storing the audio data processed by the synchronous serial interface under the control of the buffer controller, a memory controller controlling the memory and an encoder/decoder encoding/decoding the audio data. The wideband VoIP terminal can facilitate the input and output of data. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157985 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INDICATING CIRCUIT SWITCHED ACCESS AT IMS REGISTRATION - In IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) IMS Control Channel Protocol (ICCP) is used between a user equipment (UE) and IMS Control Channel Function (ICCF) and Session Initiated Protocol (SIP) interface (between to ICCF, Call Session Control Function and Application Server) to support the indication of Circuit Switched (CS) access utilizing P-Access-Network-Information header. The indication can be used by an S-CSCF or AS for different purposes such as routing decision, charging, and presence info. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157986 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIA FOR LOCATION-SENSITIVE CALLED-PARTY NUMBER TRANSLATION IN A TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORK - Systems, methods, and computer readable media for location-sensitive identifier translation in a telecommunications network are disclosed. According to one aspect, the subject matter described herein includes a method for providing location-sensitive called-party identifier translation in a telecommunications network. The method includes, at a signaling node that includes at least one processor: receiving a first signaling message that includes a called party identifier; determining proximity information associated with the calling party; performing a location-sensitive called party identifier translation based on the proximity information associated with the calling party; and sending the first signaling message or a second signaling message, the sent message including the translated called party identifier. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157987 | TELEPHONE SWITCHING SYSTEMS - The invention relates to the generation of configuration data for use in the migration of telephone switching systems. Configuration data for use in the migration of subscribers from a first telephone switching system over to a second telephone switching system in a telecommunications network is generated by monitoring signaling information on telephone channels associated with subscribers for telephone calls conducted via the first telephone switching system. The monitored signaling information is then analyzed in relation to call data produced by the first telephone switching system for the calls to identify relationships between the monitored signaling information and call data for calls conducted by subscribers. Configuration data based on the identified relationships is then stored and used to configure the second telephone switching system with mappings between the associated telephone channels and the telephone dialing numbers for subscribers. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157988 | IP TELEPHONE DEVICE, IP TELEPHONE SYSTEM, AND SETTING CONFIRMATION METHOD - An IP telephone system comprises a main device that manages outgoing and incoming calls of an IP telephone device, an external storage device storing network configuration information and telephone device configuration information, and an IP telephone device comprising a first interface section that uses in connection to the external storage device and a second interface section that uses in connection to a network. When automatically carrying out internal setting by connecting the external storage device to the first interface section, the IP telephone device obtains the network configuration information and the telephone device configuration information from the external storage device and, based on the obtained network configuration information and telephone device configuration information, carries out network setting and telephone device setting. The IP telephone device accesses the main device through the second interface section based on the setting and performs confirmation of the set contents. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157989 | APPLICATION STORE AND INTELLIGENCE SYSTEM FOR NETWORKED TELEPHONY AND DIGITAL MEDIA SERVICES DEVICES - Telephony and digital media services may be provided to a plurality of locations, such as to a plurality of homes and offices, though the deployment of telephony and digital media services devices to the locations, wherein each device is configured to function as a voice, data and media information center. A system in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention includes an application store and an application intelligence subsystem implemented on one or more computers. Each of the application store and the application intelligence subsystem is communicatively connected via a network to a plurality of such telephony and digital media services devices. The application store is operable to provide applications via the network for installation and execution on each of the plurality of devices. The application intelligence subsystem is operable to obtain and report information about applications installed and executed on each of the plurality of devices. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157990 | SYSTEMS FOR PROVIDING TELEPHONY AND DIGITAL MEDIA SERVICES - A system, method and apparatus for providing telephony and digital media services to a location, such as a home or office, is described herein. In one embodiment, the system includes a telephony and digital media services device that is configured to function as an all-in-one voice, data and media information center. The device provides telephony functionality both directly and through associated handsets. The device pairs a user-friendly touch-screen interface with a high-performance hardware/software architecture capable of delivering advanced media applications and graphics combined with landline quality telephony service all in one integrated system. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157991 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR RECORDING CELLULAR CALL IN AN INTERNET TELEPHONE SYSTEM - Call recording in an Internet telephone system is provided. A dual-mode terminal includes a call server interworker for, when a cellular call commences, determining whether it is possible to access a call server which controls Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) calls; a recording interface processor for, when it is possible to access the call server, setting a connection to a recording server; a recorder for generating recording data packets comprising a cellular phone conversation; and a data communicator for transmitting the recording data packets to the recording server. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157992 | DATA SIN/DATA SOURCE, DATA TRANSMISSION DEVICE AND DATA TERMINAL DEVICE FOR A CIRCUIT-SWITCHED AND PACKET-SWITCHED NETWORK - The present invention is directed toward, a data sink/data source data transmission device and data terminal device for a circuit-switched and packet-switched network, the ability to eliminate the logical separation between applications, which are based on the circuit-switched network (e.g., PSTN, ISDN), and applications, which are based on the packet-switched network, (e.g., Internet). To this end, a data transmission device for transmitting and receiving data into/from the circuit-switched network includes controllable switchover parts. This data transmission device is or can be assigned to a universally useable unit for automatically processing data and for transmitting and receiving data to/from the packet-switched network and is assigned or can be assigned to the at least one data terminal device for transmitting and receiving data into/from the circuit-switched network. The switch-over parts can be controlled in such a manner that the data terminal device which, in a first operating mode is connected to the circuit-switched device, can be switched from the first operating mode into a second operating mode, during which the data terminal device is connected to the packet-switched network via the data transmission device and the data processing device, and from the second operating mode into the first operating mode. | 2010-06-24 |
20100157993 | ACCESS GATEWAY AND METHOD OF OPERATION BY THE SAME - An access gateway containing IP telephone service functions for subscribers under an integrated access device (IAD), forming a PSTN network side speech path or IP network side speech path selectively for each subscriber, and, further automatically switching, when trouble occurs at the IP network side, the IP network side speech path to the PSTN network side speech path. | 2010-06-24 |