| 27th week of 2011 patent applcation highlights part 25 |
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| 20110164521 | ARRANGEMENT FOR UTILIZATION RATE DISPLAY AND METHODS THEREOF - A network arrangement for automatically displaying statistical data is provided. The arrangement includes a port for receiving data traffic, a physical interface layer for copying data traffic, and a bus for directing a copy of the data traffic to monitoring devices. The arrangement also includes logic arrangement for analyzing the copy of data traffic, which includes at least a Receive Data Valid signal (including a rising edge and a falling edge) and a Receive Clock signal (including a rising edge and a falling edge). The arrangement further includes incrementing a first counter when the Receive Data Valid rising edge is received and incrementing a second counter when at least one of the Receive Clock rising edge and the Receive Clock falling edge is received. The arrangement moreover includes logic arrangement for displaying statistical data pertaining to the data traffic and a visual display arrangement for displaying statistical data. | 2011-07-07 |
| 20110164522 | Estimation of Position Using WLAN Access Point Radio Propagation Characteristics in a WLAN Positioning System - A method for estimating position using WLAN access point radio propagation characteristics in a WLAN location based service is provided. A location-based services system has a plurality of Wi-Fi access points in a target area. The Wi-Fi access points are positioned at geographic locations and have signal coverage areas. A method of characterizing at least one of the Wi-Fi access points comprises determining the geographic location of the Wi-Fi access point, dividing the signal coverage area of the Wi-Fi access point into at least one section, and determining radio propagation characteristics for each section. The radio propagation characteristics of each section characterize a radio channel of the Wi-Fi access point, and the characterization can be used in a location algorithm. | 2011-07-07 |
| 20110164523 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMPROVING NOISE POWER ESTIMATE IN A WCDMA NETWORK - A method for adjusting power in a mobile terminal is disclosed and may include determining a total transmit power control (TPC) command for a downlink channel based on a plurality of TPC commands. The plurality of TPC commands may be calculated based on a plurality of control channels. The transmit power may be adjusted based on the determined total TPC command. The plurality of control channels may include a dedicated physical channel and a common pilot channel. Noise power may be determined for each of the plurality of control channels. A TPC command may be determined based on the plurality of control channels. A reliability weight value may be determined for each of the plurality of TPC commands, based on the determined noise power for each of the plurality of control channels. | 2011-07-07 |
| 20110164524 | RADIO ACCESS POINT TESTING APPARATUS - In a case where reception power in a radio access point is high by external noise, the normalcy of the radio access point is tested. In order to judge the normalcy of the radio characteristic of the radio access point, a test is performed through the calling connection between a testing access terminal in the radio access point and a predetermined device. An RSSI is measured before and after the transmission of a test signal. When the RSSI exceeds a threshold value, the path loss of a reverse link connected from the radio access point to the testing access terminal is increased by an attenuator. Then, reception power in the testing access terminal decreases. Thus, initial transmission power in accordance with the reception power from the testing access terminal is raised and the calling connection of the testing access terminal can be performed even under the external noise. | 2011-07-07 |
| 20110164525 | ENHANCED FORMATION OF MESH-TYPE NETWORKS - The present invention relates to an enhanced formation of mesh type networks, wherein an initial mesh formation is supported by advertising additional information which specifies at least one of an association with other mesh stations or a channel environment at a concerned mesh station. | 2011-07-07 |
| 20110164526 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR UPLINK SIGNAL TRANSMISSION AND CHANNEL ESTIMATION IN WIRELESS ACCESS NETWORK - The present invention provides a new method and apparatus, in a network device of a multi-carrier based wireless access network, for transmitting uplink data to access device side, and the corresponding method and apparatus for channel estimation in its uplink counterpart device, wherein, a plurality of network device comprise one or more multi-antenna network devices, at least one of the multi-antenna network device transmits multipath subcarrier modulated symbols via a plurality of transmitting antennas configured for itself, wherein, at least two transmitting antennas use different subcarrier sets, but share one pilot pattern, wherein, pilot pattern used by each network device is different from the pilot pattern used by any other network device. The present invention not only can fully utilize the frequency diversity introduced by the plurality of transmitting antennas, but also can guarantee a relative high antenna power gain and save as much time-frequency resource cost caused by pilot signal as possible. | 2011-07-07 |
| 20110164527 | ENHANCED WIRELESS AD HOC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUES - Enhancements are disclosed for wireless ad hoc networking including optimized wireless routing, multicast routing, quick network entry, use of contention domains and node weighting for improved time slot scheduling, and the like. Quality of service may be supported at each node and within scheduling algorithms across a group of nodes in order to provide a number of service levels to network users according to traffic type or the like. These and other enhancements may be used individually or in combination to improve operation of a wireless ad hoc network and support scalability, routing, traffic management, quality of service delivery, and other features. | 2011-07-07 |
| 20110164528 | SELECTION OF TRANSMISSION MODE - A method and apparatus for a cellular system is provided. Communication is carried out between a controlling station of a cell and a number of users in said cell, and the controlling station is equipped with a plurality of antennas. The communication can alter between a first and a second mode, and the users in the cell provide the controlling station with feedback information regarding their reception quality. The controlling station alters between said first and second modes of communication as a result of the reliability of the feedback information from the users in the cell, so that if the reliability is above a first threshold, the first mode is used, and if the reliability is equal to or below said first threshold, the second mode is used. | 2011-07-07 |
| 20110164529 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DYNAMICALLY ADJUSTING BROADBAND ACCESS BANDWIDTH - A method and apparatus for providing a method to enable subscribers of broadband access services, such as Digital Subscriber Loop based or Cable based broadband access services, to dynamically reconfigure their access arrangements as a function of the bandwidth usage of subscribers are disclosed. The present invention provides a method for broadband service providers to dynamically adjust access bandwidth allocation for subscribers by monitoring access bandwidth usage by subscribers and dynamically adjust the needed access bandwidth for the subscribers accordingly. | 2011-07-07 |
| 20110164530 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING MUTUAL AND TRANSITIVE CORRELATION OVER A WIRELESS CHANNEL TO FORM LINKS AND DELIVER TARGETED CONTENT MESSAGES - A wireless node configured to store information, discover another wireless node by correlating the stored information with assist information from said another wireless node, and determine whether to establish a wireless link with said another wireless node based, at least in part, on the correlation. | 2011-07-07 |
| 20110164531 | Systems and Methods for Wireless Network Routing Using Radio Frequency Distance-Based Virtual Node Locations - Devices and methods used in a wireless network employing geographical routing using virtual node locations. Such virtual node locations can be computed by a central computer that gathers information from some or all of the nodes. Each node may, for example, identify itself and its neighbors and provide a value indicative of the radio frequency (RF) distance to such neighbors. Examples of RF distance indicators include, but are not limited to, received signal strength indication (RSSI) and packet success rate (PSR). Geographic coordinates for none or some of the nodes may also be used to determine the virtual coordinates. | 2011-07-07 |
| 20110164532 | USER APPARATUS, BASE STATION APPARATUS, AND COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD - A user apparatus to which radio access schemes of a single-carrier scheme and a multicarrier scheme are applied includes: a radio access scheme setting unit configured to set a radio access scheme; a discrete Fourier transform unit configured to perform discrete Fourier transform on a modulated symbol sequence when the radio access scheme is the single-carrier scheme; a serial parallel conversion unit configured to perform serial parallel conversion on the modulated symbol sequence when the radio access scheme is the multicarrier scheme; a frequency domain signal generation unit configured to assign radio resources to the modulated symbol sequence on which discrete Fourier transform has been performed or to the demodulated symbol sequence on which serial parallel conversion has been performed so as to generate a signal in the frequency domain; a waveform shaping filter configured to perform waveform shaping on the signal in the frequency domain; a transmission signal generation unit configured to perform inverse fast Fourier transform on the signal in the frequency domain on which waveform shaping has been performed so as to generate a transmission signal; and a transmission unit configured to transmit the transmission signal by radio. | 2011-07-07 |
| 20110164533 | Methods and systems using PLD-based network communication protocols - Methods and systems for a PLD-based network update transport (PNUT) protocol that utilizes UDP and other protocols for transmitting update or other commands or information over a packet-based or IP network. PNUT is a hardware-based network communication protocol that does not require the full TCP/IP stack and may be utilized for exchanging commands and information with such PLD-based and other devices. Protocols may include a set of core commands and a set of custom commands. Logic components within the PLD-based devices may consist of a command dispatcher, a transmitter/controller, a MAC receiver, a MAC transmitter, a packet parser, a packet generator, and core receiving and transmitting commands. The present invention may be implemented without requiring CPU cores, special controllers, stringent timings, or operating systems as compared with conventional network protocols. Various methods for exchanging and updating PNUT commands are disclosed. The methods and systems of the present invention may be utilized to provide other functions, such as filtering, logging, polling, testing, debugging, and monitoring, and may be implemented between a server and a PLD-based device or solely between PLD-based devices. | 2011-07-07 |
| 20110164534 | METHOD OF PROVIDING A MESSAGE WAIT SERVICE TO THE USERS OF AN INTERNET PROTOCOL BASED TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORK - A method is disclosed of providing a message wait service to the users of an IP based telecommunication network (IPBN). For the invocation of a message wait service by a calling user, when said VOIP user is busy or not answering a call, or has forwarded all the calls unconditionally to a voice mail server, the method comprises the steps of:
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| 20110164535 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING CUSTOM CALL WAITING - An approach for providing custom call waiting with media messaging is disclosed. A request is received from a first voice station to establish a voice communication session with a called party station. A detection is made that the called party station is currently in communication with a second voice station. A content designated from a call-waiting condition for presentation to a caller is retrieved. The content to either the first voice station or the second voice station is retrieved in response to a user input from the called party device. | 2011-07-07 |
| 20110164536 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DATA RELAY TRANSMISSION - A method for a base station to transmit data, the data to be relayed by a relay station to user equipment, the method including: encoding, based on an identification of the relay station or an identification of the user equipment, control information that indicates resource allocation for the relay station; and transmitting the control information to the relay station. | 2011-07-07 |
| 20110164537 | CALL RESPONSE SERVICES IN IMS NETWORKS FOR BUSINESSES - IMS networks and methods are disclosed for providing a call response service for businesses. Businesses that subscribe to the call response service may implement a call response system that is operable to provide multimedia responses. When the IMS network receives call signaling for a call to the business, the IMS network determines whether the calling party device supports multimedia responses. The IMS network then instructs or informs the call response system to provide the proper type of response (multimedia or voice) to the calling party device based on the determination of whether or not the calling party device supports multimedia responses. | 2011-07-07 |
| 20110164538 | Spectrum Allocation System and Method for Multi-Band Wireless RF Data Communications - A dual band spectrum allocation system and method for wireless data communications uses discrete bands for upstream and downstream data communications. A preferred embodiment uses unlicensed UNII bands for license-free data transmissions from a subscriber to a hub, and uses relatively interference free licensed bands for data transmissions from a hub to subscribers, thereby allowing use of greater bandwidth, simplifying system licensing and reducing filtering requirements for subscribers. | 2011-07-07 |
| 20110164539 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DELAY-CONSTRAINED END-TO-END ENERGY OPTIMIZATION FOR WIRELESS SERVICES - An apparatus including a processing system configured to determine an energy consumption on the mobile device during sleep and active modes of the mobile device; determine an energy consumption on the sensor during sleep and active modes of the sensor; determine energy levels of the mobile device and the sensor, and; set sleep durations of the mobile device based on the sleep duration of the sensor while meeting an end-to-end delay constraint for a service related to the sensor. A method is also disclosed. | 2011-07-07 |
| 20110164540 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RECONFIGURING A COMMON CHANNEL - The present invention for reconfiguring a common channel receives modified channel configuration information of a first common channel through a second common channel, and determines a starting time of reconfiguring the first common channel, according to a type of an information element including the modified channel configuration information. Also, the present invention reconfigures the first common channel from the determined starting time. According the present invention, the common channel, such as the MCCH, may be reconfigured more efficiently. | 2011-07-07 |
| 20110164541 | Intra-Donor Cell Coordinated Multi-Point Transmission with Type 1 Relay - A method is provided for communication in a wireless telecommunications system. The method comprises an access node performing a coordinated multi-point transmission with a relay node toward a user equipment, wherein the access node performs at least one master control function and does not perform at least one serving node function. | 2011-07-07 |
| 20110164542 | Intra-Donor Cell Coordinated Multi-Point Transmission with Type 1 Relay - A method is provided for communication in a wireless telecommunications system. The method comprises an access node acting as a master control but not acting as a serving node in a coordinated multi-point (CoMP) transmission with a relay node toward a user equipment. The method further comprises the access node retaining a copy of data packets that the access node sends to the relay node for the CoMP transmission. | 2011-07-07 |
| 20110164543 | UNICAST/MULTICAST ARCHITECTURE - A system and method for providing content to users including a multicast sub-system providing content to multiple users and a unicast sub-system providing content to individual users. The multicast sub-system being operative to push to each of a plurality of user communities, content relating to the community and the unicast sub-system being operative to provide on demand to a user, content which has not been previously pushed to the user. | 2011-07-07 |
| 20110164544 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SYNCHRONIZATION PROCESSING - The present invention discloses a method and an apparatus for synchronization processing, wherein the method for synchronization processing includes: a designated network element receiving multiple data bursts of a Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service transmitted by its upper layer network element, wherein data packets in the data bursts carry timestamp information; for multiple data bursts whose timestamp locates before a current available transmitting time interval, the designated network element starting to transmit the data packets belonging to the multiple data bursts in turn from the start time of the current available transmitting time interval. By means of the present invention, the synchronization between the lower layer network elements can be kept and the performance of a system can be stabilized. | 2011-07-07 |
| 20110164545 | MBMS FEEDBACK METHOD FOR E-MBS ADAPTATION - An MBS feedback method is disclosed. The MBS feedback method includes detecting one or more codes multiplexed in Code Division Multiplexing (CDM) from an MBS feedback channel, and adjusting a Modulation and Coding Scheme (MCS) based on the detected one or more codes. | 2011-07-07 |
| 20110164546 | VEHICULAR MOBILITY VECTOR BASED ROUTING - Enhancements are disclosed to improve communications within a wireless ad hoc network for mobile nodes. Mobile nodes may move at a speed where benefit may be seen from anticipating where the node will be in the future. Routing is described which estimates the location where the next communication will take place and packets are sent to one or more corresponding locations. Various other described techniques provide for enhanced wireless communications. | 2011-07-07 |
| 20110164547 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING MBS DATA IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM USING FRACTIONAL FREQUENCY REUSE - Provided are a method and an apparatus for transmitting multicast broadcast service (MBS) data in a wireless communication system using fractional frequency reuse (FFR). The method comprises: allocating, to a common network zone, part or whole of a frequency partition where FRF (frequency reuse factor) is 1, from among a plurality of frequency partitions; and transmitting MBS data in the common network zone. | 2011-07-07 |
| 20110164548 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING DATA IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A data transmission method and apparatus in a wireless communication system is provided. The data transmission method include dividing a multicast broadcast single frequency network (MBSFN) zone including a plurality of cells into at least one sub-zone including at least one cell, enabling a plurality of cells belonging to the MBSFN zone to transmit first multicast broadcast service (MBS) data, and enabling the cell belonging to the at least one sub-zone to transmit sub-zone data superposed with the first MBS data, wherein the sub-zone data is second MBS data. | 2011-07-07 |
| 20110164549 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - This invention provides a mobile communication system, including: a base station device; and a mobile station device, the mobile communication system having a predetermined total bandwidth made of a set of a plurality of downlink component carriers, the base station device and the mobile station device processing each downlink physical layer provided for a respective one of the plurality of downlink component carriers, and the set of the plurality of downlink component carriers including (i) a downlink component carrier employing a subframe structure according to which some symbols at the beginning of a subframe include control information and (ii) a downlink component carrier employing a subframe structure according to which some symbols at the beginning of a subframe do not include control information. | 2011-07-07 |
| 20110164550 | Downlink Control Channel for Relay Resource Allocation - Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide a method for wireless communications. The method generally includes allocating resources of a backhaul link between a donor base station and a relay base station to the relay station for communicating with the donor base station and transmitting a control channel indicating the allocated resources to the relay base station, wherein the control channel is transmitted on a subset of physical resource blocks (PRBs) of subframes assigned for downlink communications on the backhaul link. | 2011-07-07 |
| 20110164551 | CONTROL NETWORK MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A control network management system for relaying first and second wireless communications comprises a first repeater having a packet control means for writing priority information in a header of communication packet data of the first wireless communication, as received and transmitting the communication packet data with a hash value of the header, added thereto, a second repeater having a packet control means for zero-clearing priority information in a header of communication packet data of the second wireless communication, as received, or changing the priority information to a predetermined value before transmitting the communication packet data with a hash value of the header, added thereto, and a third repeater having a priority control means for applying priority control to the header of the communication packet data received from the first repeater or the second repeater, on the basis of priority information, thereby transmitting the communication packet data to a control system. | 2011-07-07 |
| 20110164552 | RADIO RELAY SYSTEM, AND USING METHOD AND SETTING METHOD OF RADIO FRAME - A radio relay system includes a control unit that changes, with a predetermined pattern depending on radio frames, the length of a time zone in which data transmission is allowed between a base station and a relay station or the length of a time zone in which data transmission is allowed between the relay station and a plurality of mobile stations. For example, the first time zone of the first radio frame is relatively longer than the first time zone of the second radio frame and the second time zone of the first radio frame is relatively shorter than the second time zone of the second radio frame. | 2011-07-07 |
| 20110164553 | Packing Data Over An Adaptive Rate Link - A system and method for packing data over User Packets and packing the User Packets over DVB-S2 Frames, using the DVB-S2-ACM satellite transmission standard. | 2011-07-07 |
| 20110164554 | RETAINING TRAFFIC CHANNEL ASSIGNMENTS FOR SATELLITE TERMINALS TO PROVIDE LOWER LATENCY COMMUNICATION SERVICES - A traffic channel is assigned for use by a terminal to transmit data traffic to a satellite for relay to a satellite base station. The traffic channel assignment is retained for use by the terminal while the terminal is idle between data traffic transmissions to the satellite in response to a type of service designation that is associated with the terminal. | 2011-07-07 |
| 20110164555 | Cooperative Relay Communication in Wireless OFDMA Star Networks - A wireless star network includes including a master node (master) and a set of N slave nodes (slaves), wherein the network uses orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA). The master partitions the set of slaves in a first subset A(i) and second subset B(j), wherein the first and second subsets are disjoint. Packets are transmitted by the first subset of slaves only while the master and second subset of slaves operate in receive mode, and | 2011-07-07 |
| 20110164556 | Wireless Star Networks with Dual Adaptive Central Nodes - A wireless network with a star topology has a first and second central node. The first central node starts up first and initiates the network. The second central node starts up second and synchronizes to the first central node, and wherein one node is in active mode and the other node is in standby mode, and a set of leaf nodes configured to communicate only with the active node. | 2011-07-07 |
| 20110164557 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ITERATIVE DISCRETE FOURIER TRANSFORM (DFT) BASED CHANNEL ESTIMATION USING MINIMUM MEAN SQUARE ERROR (MMSE) TECHNIQUES - A method and system for iterative discrete Fourier transform (DFT) based channel estimation using minimum mean square error (MMSE) techniques are presented. Aspects of the method and system include a procedure for computing channel estimates in both the time domain and frequency domain (or mixed domain) using an iterative DFT method based on MMSE techniques. One aspect of the method and system may achieve low computational complexity and produce more accurate channel estimate values in low signal to noise ratio (SNR) regimes in comparison to conventional DFT-based channel estimation methods, which utilize least squares (LS) techniques. The method and system disclosed herein may be practiced in connection with a wide range of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) based systems, for example wireless local area networks (WLAN, for example IEEE 802.11 WLAN systems), and LTE systems. | 2011-07-07 |
| 20110164558 | USING A PROXY TO IMPROVE A PACKET BASED WIRELESS NETWORK - This disclosure describes a system and method for optimizing the transport of payload data on a wireless telecommunications network. For downstream data flow to a mobile communication device client, an application proxy residing on a transmitting server terminates TCP data flows, extracts payload data and encapsulates the data into a UDP packet. A far host server residing on a receiving client device receives the UDP packet, extracts the payload and presents it to an application program on the client device as a TCP packet. For upstream data flow to a server, software running on the mobile communication device acts as the application proxy, extracting payload data from a TCP data flow and encapsulating the extracted data into a UDP packet. The server receiving the UDP packet will extract the payload and present it as a TCP packet. | 2011-07-07 |
| 20110164559 | CELLULAR AND LANDLINE INTERFACE TO CORDLESS CALL ROUTING SYSTEM - A method and system are provided for routing multiple communications sessions. One or more communication devices are paired to an access point having control circuitry for processing multiple concurrent communication sessions. Communications pertaining to a communication device are routed through the access point to a terminal. Additionally, communications pertaining to a terminal are routed through the access point to a communication device. | 2011-07-07 |
| 20110164560 | METHOD FOR PROCESSING MAC PROTOCOL DATA UNIT IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and apparatus for processing a MAC PDU in a wireless communication system are disclosed. The method includes segmenting a MAC PDU into a first MAC PDU segment and a second MAC PDU segment, transmitting the first MAC PDU segment to a receiver, and discarding the second MAC PDU segment not to be transmitted to the receiver, if the transmission of the first MAC PDU segment is failed. | 2011-07-07 |
| 20110164561 | DIGITAL BROADCASTING SYSTEM AND DATA PROCESSING METHOD - A digital broadcasting system and a method of processing data are disclosed, which are robust to error when mobile service data are transmitted. To this end, additional encoding is performed for the mobile service data, whereby it is possible to strongly cope with fast channel change while giving robustness to the mobile service data. | 2011-07-07 |
| 20110164562 | Vehicular Content Distribution - A system and method provides an electronic content to a vehicle from access point(s) within a network using a controller. The controller divides the electronic content into one or more files wherein each file contains at least one packet, and generates two or more random linear combinations of the packets within each file. For each file, each random linear combination of the packets is replicated to a different access point within the network. The electronic content is provided to the vehicle using at least one of the different access points. The controller can also determine a set of nearest trajectories for the vehicle in a location database that match a recent location history for the vehicle. For each determined nearest trajectory, one or more mobility trajectories are determined for the vehicle, and a set of access points are determined that correspond to the determined mobility trajectories for the vehicle. | 2011-07-07 |
| 20110164563 | Method of Avoiding or Minimizing Cost of Stateful Connections Between Application Servers and S-CSCF Nodes in an IMS Network with Multiple Domains - Methods of avoiding or minimizing cost of stateful connections between application servers (ASs) and S-CSCF nodes in an IMS network with multiple domains. S-CSCF service logic is provided and connected to a co-located AS. The IMS includes a network operator administration domain and an MVNO service domain, and the S-CSCF logic and AS are maintained in the same domain, e.g., the MVNO or network operator domain. | 2011-07-07 |
| 20110164564 | MOBILE SWITCHING CENTRE SERVER - MSC server enhanced for rSRVCC from UTRAN/GERAN to E-UTRAN/HSPA, comprising:
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| 20110164565 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ROUTING IN WIRELESS NETWORK - A method of routing a wireless network is provided. The method is performed by each of a group of nodes and includes: receiving a routing request signal; determining whether a node itself is a destination node, by referring to a traffic distribution table showing traffic throughput of the group of nodes and an intermediate-node weight table showing weights of intermediate nodes on all paths between the group of nodes and a source node, wherein a route path is selected by referring to the weights of intermediate nodes; and when it is determined that the node itself is the destination node transmitting a routing response signal to the source node that has transmitted the routing request signal, and receiving a packet from the source node, wherein the transmitting and receiving are performed by the determined destination node. By using the method, traffic in wireless network extreme communications can be distributed at intermediate nodes as well as at destination nodes. Therefore, all the networks can be effectively used in extreme circumstances. | 2011-07-07 |
| 20110164566 | Method, Apparatus and System for Enabling to Release PDN Connections - A method for releasing Packet Data Network (PDN) connections includes: when the subscription data of the user in Home Subscriber Server (HSS) changes, the HSS notifies Mobility Management Entity (MME) to trigger releasing of the PDN connections ( | 2011-07-07 |
| 20110164567 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING BLIND SIGNAL SEPARATION IN AN OFDM MIMO SYSTEM - A method and apparatus for performing blind signal separation in an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system are disclosed. A transmitter generates a plurality of spatial streams of data and transmits the spatial streams via a plurality of transmit antennas. A receiver receives the transmitted spatial data streams with a plurality of receive antennas and generates a plurality of receive data streams. The receiver performs a discrete Fourier transform (DFT) on each of the receive data streams to generate a plurality of frequency domain data streams. The receiver then performs a blind signal separation on the frequency domain data streams to recover spatial streams transmitted by the transmitter. The blind signal separation may be performed by using an independent component analysis (ICA) in the complex domain. The blind signal separation may be performed individually for each OFDM subcarrier. | 2011-07-07 |
| 20110164568 | FFT-SIZE DETECTOR AND FFT-SIZE DETECTION METHOD AND CELL SEARCH APPARATUS AND CELL SEARCH METHOD IN CELLULAR SYSTEM - An apparatus and method for cell acquisition and downlink synchronization acquisition in an OFDMA wireless communication system are provided. In an SS apparatus in a broadband wireless communication system, a preamble subcarrier acquirer extracts subcarrier values having a preamble code from an FFT signal. A multiplier code-demodulates the subcarrier values by multiplying the subcarrier values by a preamble code. A correlator calculates a plurality of differential correlations in the code-demodulated signal. An IFFT processor IFFT-processes the differential correlations by mapping the differential correlations to subcarriers. A maximum value detector detects a maximum value from the IFFT signal and calculates a timing offset using an IFFT output index having the maximum value. | 2011-07-07 |
| 20110164569 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR THE COMPUTER-AIDED CLASSIFICATION OF MEASUREMENTS FOR THE FEATURE-BASED POSITIONING OF A MOBILE OBJECT IN A PREDETERMINED REGION - In a method for the computer-aided classification of measurements for the featured-based positioning of a mobile object in a predetermined region, for which one or more starting regions are defined through which the mobile object can leave and enter the predetermined region, each measurement is specified by a time and features of several base stations. The measurements are classified based on the relative base stations positions and the base station features, wherein a respective first class measurement is categorized as a measurement in a mobile object position inside the predetermined region and a respective second class measurement is categorized as a potential measurement in a mobile object position outside of the predetermined region. Subsequently, for a respective second class measurement, the path of the mobile object is tracked to determine whether the respective measurement is located inside the predetermined region to be also assigned to the first class. | 2011-07-07 |
| 20110164570 | GATEWAY APPARATUS, METHOD, SYSTEM, AND PROGRAM - A gateway apparatus receives an image signal, including a moving image or a still image and transmitted from the first terminal to a first network, performs a conversion of the received image signal for enhancing resolution and image quality thereof, transmits the converted image signal to the second terminal connected to the second network, receives an image signal, including a moving image or a still image, and transmitted from a second terminal to the second network 170, and outputs the received image signal to the first network. The first terminal receives the image signal, output from the gateway apparatus to the first network, decodes the received image signal, and performs a conversion for enhancing resolution and image quality thereof, and displays the image signal. | 2011-07-07 |
| 20110164571 | METHOD FOR ESTABLISHING OF A POINT-TO-POINT CONNECTION BETWEEN A MOBILE NODE AND A NETWORK ENTITY, A CORRESPONDING MOBILE NODE AND A CORRESPONDING NETWORK ENTITY - The present invention refers to establishing of a point-to-point connection between a mobile node and a network entity by use of an access link of the network entity, wherein the network entity is configured to manage mobility related signalling for mobile nodes attached to the access link of the network entity. According to the present invention, the mobile node is attached to the access link of the network entity. Further, a router advertisement message is transmitted from the network entity to the mobile node, wherein the router advertisement message comprises a home network prefix and a mobile node identifier. Then, a home address of the mobile node is configured from the home network prefix by the mobile node, if the node identifier represents a node identifier of the mobile node. | 2011-07-07 |
| 20110164572 | Method of Transmitting Control Signal in Multi-Cell Cooperative Wireless Communication System - A method and apparatus of transmitting a control signal in a multi-cell cooperative wireless communication system is provided. The method comprises transmitting to a first user equipment a first control signal for first downlink data by a serving base station and transmitting to the first user equipment a second control signal for second downlink data received from a neighboring base station by the serving base station, wherein the first downlink data is data for the first user equipment, and the second downlink data is data for a second user equipment in a neighbor cell and is restorable by the first user equipment. | 2011-07-07 |
| 20110164573 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ASSIGNING CHANNEL IN AD-HOC NETWORK - The present invention provides a method and apparatus for assigning a channel in an ad-hoc network, which can minimize beacon collision in the ad-hoc network and prevent channel overlapping or collision, and thus a channel can be efficiently assigned. The method of assigning a channel including: obtaining join order information which is information on the order in which a first node has been joined to a second node, which is a parent node, and level information of the second node in an ad-hoc network; determining a reference value for setting a channel that is to be assigned to the first node based on an address value of the first node, which is determined based on the join order information and the level information, a level value of the first node, a channel value of the second node, which is determined based on the level information, and the join order information; and determining a channel value of the first node by dividing the reference value by the maximum number of usable channels in the ad-hoc network. | 2011-07-07 |
| 20110164574 | Method to improve voice over ip capacity for user equipment employing variable rate vocoders - In one embodiment, a message is sent from the wireless network to a user equipment having a variable rate vocoder. The message defines transport block sizes for the user equipment to select from in making uplink transmissions if the user equipment is permitted to vary a packet size for uplink transmission. A scheduling grant is sent to the user equipment, and the scheduling grant includes an indicator indicating that the user equipment is permitted to vary the packet size for uplink transmissions by selecting a transport block size from among the defined transport block sizes. | 2011-07-07 |
| 20110164575 | METHOD FOR ALLOCATING, BY A TELECOMMUNICATION DEVICE, AT LEAST A CHANNEL ELEMENT OF A GROUP OF CHANNEL ELEMENTS OF A CHANNEL RESOURCE TO A DESTINATION - The present invention concerns a method for allocating, by a telecommunication device, at least a channel element of a group of channel elements of a channel resource to a destination. Each channel element is a predefined subdivision of the channel resource. The telecommunication device: determines the number of channel elements to be allocated to the destination; selects at least one randomisation function according to the number of channel elements to be allocated to the destination; processes the data to be included in the or each channel element to be allocated to the destination by the at least one selected randomisation function; transfers the data processed by the at least one selected randomisation function by mapping the data processed by the at least one randomisation function on the at least one channel element. | 2011-07-07 |
| 20110164576 | HEURISTIC ALGORITHM FOR CALCULATING TARGET SINR FOR MMSE BEAMFORMING - Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide a heuristic algorithm for calculating accurate target SINR values for the minimum mean square error (MMSE) beamforming algorithm to decrease the complexity of the MMSE algorithm. The heuristic algorithm for calculating target SINR values considers practical system constraints, such as frequency selective channels, power amplifier distortion, imperfect channel state information as well as limited computing power at the access point. | 2011-07-07 |
| 20110164577 | Intra-Donor Cell Coordinated Multi-Point Transmission with Type 1 Relay - A method is provided for communication in a wireless telecommunications system. The method comprises an access node performing a coordinated multi-point (CoMP) transmission with a relay node toward a user equipment, wherein the access node provides CoMP control information via at least one of a relay physical downlink control channel and a relay physical downlink shared channel. | 2011-07-07 |
| 20110164578 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MULTIBAND USER SCHEDULING IN A MULTIPLE USER MULTIPLE INPUT MULTIPLE OUTPUT (MU-MIMO) COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and system for multiband user scheduling in a multiple user multiple input multiple output (MU-MIMO) communication system are presented. In one aspect of the method and system a plurality of users in a user group may be selectively assigned to individual frequency bands among a plurality of frequency bands (referred to as a multiband). In an exemplary aspect, a modified greedy user scheduling algorithm may be utilized for assigning users, selected from the user group, to each of the frequency bands. Assigned users for a given frequency band are determined based on channel norm values computed for each of the users in the user group and on chordal distances computed between users in the user group. Pairs of users, selected from the user group, are assigned to each frequency band in the multiband to maximize aggregate data rate capacity for the MIMO communication system. | 2011-07-07 |
| 20110164579 | RADIO RESOURCE SELECTING METHOD, MOBILE STATION AND RADIO BASE STATION - A mobile communication method according to the present invention includes the steps of; (A) notifying, from a radio base station (eNB) to a mobile station (UE), a first cycle and information on the uplink radio resource; and (B) determining, at the mobile station (UE), a first allocation starting time, receiving a downlink data via a downlink radio resource and transmitting an acknowledgement information via an uplink radio resource at and after the first allocation starting time, when receiving a fixed allocation signal from the radio base station (UE). In the step (B), the uplink radio resource is adjusted by an adjustment signal included in the fixed allocation signal and the acknowledgement information is transmitted via the adjusted uplink radio resource. | 2011-07-07 |
| 20110164580 | CHANNEL ALLOCATION SYSTEM FOR PROTECTED SERVICE AREAS - In described embodiments, a channel allocation system, such as a white space channel allocation system, employs a server processor and database to record communication characteristics of incumbent service providers licensed or otherwise registered to operate within certain frequency spectrum. The channel allocation system allows registration of licensed service providers, or access to existing licensed service provider databases, to obtain required information of communication characteristics to form protected service contours. Based on the protected service contours, the availability of channels in areas is pre-computed. In addition, unlicensed or unregistered users, such as TV band devices (TVBDs), register with the channel allocation system and request channel lists of channels to operate on with a query. The system performs an iterative search of areas with successively finer resolution and identifies channels that might be included in a channel list in response to the query. | 2011-07-07 |
| 20110164581 | CHANNEL ALLOCATION IN PROTECTED SERVICE AREAS - In described embodiments, a channel allocation system, such as a white space (WS) channel allocation system, employs a method to populate a WS database with channel availability information for areas with protected or otherwise registered service user information server. Communication characteristics of incumbent service providers licensed or otherwise registered to operate within certain frequency spectrum are plotted over a geographic area. The channel allocation system then divides the area into tiles, and determines whether each tile can be characterized for channel availability and, for those tiles that are uncharacterized, further divides the tiles into tiles of finer resolution. Based on information in the WS database, availability of channels in areas is pre-computed, and then an iterative search of areas with successively finer resolution identifies white space channels that might be included in the channel list in response to a query from a unlicensed or unregistered user. | 2011-07-07 |
| 20110164582 | METHOD FOR SIGNALING OF RESOURCE ALLOCATION TO ADJUST GRANULARITY IN CELLULAR MULTI-CARRIER SYSTEM - A method for adjusting a granularity of resource allocation in a wireless mobile communication system supporting a compact scheduling is discussed. A resource indication value (RIV) corresponds to a start index (S) of one set of consecutive virtual resource blocks (VRBs) and a length of the VRBs. The start index (S) is selected from among ‘s’ values (where s=P+mT| 2011-07-07 | |
| 20110164583 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DISCONTINUOUS RECEPTION IN MOBILE TERMINAL - A method and apparatus for discontinuous reception (DRX) in a mobile terminal are disclosed. The discontinuous reception method includes: receiving DRX information for DRX operation based on DRX cycles having an on-duration and an off-duration; determining, when semi-persistent resources are allocated, an offset of the DRX cycles so that the time of semi-persistent resource allocation belongs to the on-duration of one DRX cycle; checking whether a packet is successfully received through the allocated semi-persistent resources; and performing, when a packet is successfully received, DRX operation according to the received DRX information and determined offset. The discontinuous reception apparatus performs discontinuous reception using the method. | 2011-07-07 |
| 20110164584 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INDICATING DEACTIVATION OF SEMI-PERSISTENT SCHEDULING - A method and apparatus for performing semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) deactivation in a wireless mobile communication system are disclosed. A base station (BS) transmits a downlink control channel to a user equipment (UE), and deactivates the SPS when a binary field indicating resource allocation information contained in the downlink control channel is entirely filled with ‘1’. | 2011-07-07 |
| 20110164585 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ALLOCATING RESOURCE OF MULTIPLE CARRIERS IN OFDMA SYSTEM - A resource allocation method and apparatus for an OFDMA-based mobile communication system that allows allocating resources of multiple carriers is provided. A Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) transmission method for allocating resources in multiple frequency bands of a mobile communication system based on an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) according to the present invention includes generating and transmitting, at a base station, multiple PDCCHs for allocating resources in the multiple frequency bands using Control Channel Element (CCE) indices; and receiving and demodulating, at a user equipment, the multiple PDCCHs transmitted by the base station and locating the resources allocated in the multiple frequency bands using the CCE indices of respective PDCCHs. A Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) transmission apparatus for allocating resources in multiple frequency bands of a mobile communication system based on an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) according to the present invention includes a base station apparatus which generates and transmits multiple PDCCHs for allocating resources in the multiple frequency bands using Control Channel Element (CCE) indices; and a user equipment which receives and demodulates the multiple PDCCHs transmitted by the base station and locates the resources allocated in the multiple frequency bands using the CCE indices of respective PDCCHs. | 2011-07-07 |
| 20110164586 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMISSION AND RECEPTION OF DATA USING A COMPACT HEADER - The present invention relates to compact header structures of various forms used in wireless access systems as well as a method and apparatus for the transmission and reception of data using such headers. The method for receiving data wherein the mobile terminal uses the Persistent Allocation (PA) mode in one of the embodiments of the present invention comprises the step of receiving a Downlink Persistent Allocation MAP Information Element (DL PA MAP IE) from the base station, which contains information relating to the resource region allocated for persistent allocation in the downlink, and the step of receiving the downlink data containing a Compact Medium access control Header (CMH) via said resource region revealed by said information. At this stage, the CMH can contain an indicator that indicates whether the downlink data contains an extended header, and a length field indicating the length of the data payload. | 2011-07-07 |
| 20110164587 | METHOD OF REQUESTING RADIO RESOURCE IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method of requesting a radio resource in a wireless communication system is provided. The method comprises setting a timer's expiry time, transmitting a radio resource request message to a base station, starting the timer and retransmitting the radio resource request message to the base station if a radio resource allocation message is not received until the timer expires, wherein the expiry time may be set variably based on a communication state. | 2011-07-07 |
| 20110164588 | MOBILE TERMINAL AND METHOD OF PERFORMING HANDOVER - Enclosed are a mobile terminal and a method of performing handover. The mobile terminal is connected to a selected network among a plurality of networks sensed in accordance with the movement of the mobile terminal so that handover is performed between different networks and that a service used by the mobile terminal is continuously provided. Therefore, the convenience of a user is improved and network utility is improved. | 2011-07-07 |
| 20110164589 | CONTROLLING TRANSMISSION CONTROL PROTOCOL (TCP) TRANSMISSIONS IN HANDOVER - Methods and apparatuses are provided that pausing transmission control protocol (TCP) transmissions during or following handover to prevent unwarranted duplicated acknowledgement transmission, which can cause decrease in TCP window size. During handover, transmission on-hold commands can be sent to a TCP layer that indicate to prepare to pause TCP transmissions, immediately pause TCP transmissions, and/or the like. Transmission resume commands can be sent to the TCP layer following handover. In addition, TCP transmissions can be paused following handover to allow data forwarding data to be provisioned to a device from a target base station without duplicated acknowledgement transmission. | 2011-07-07 |
| 20110164590 | METHOD FOR UE HANDOVER BETWEEN HOME NODE BS - The present invention provides a method for User Equipment (UE) handover between home Node Bs, comprising steps of: sending, by a source home Node B that stores the ID of the connected gateway, a message to the gateway, the message including the gateway ID and a destination home Node B ID; sending by the gateway a message to the destination home Node B identified by the destination home Node B ID to establish a radio bear of the destination home Node B for the UE; sending by the destination home Node B the radio bearer allocated to the UE to the gateway; sending by the gateway the radio bearer to the source home Node B; sending by the source home Node B the radio bearer to the UE; and completing by the UE a handover to the destination home Node B. With the present invention, successful handover between home Node Bs under the same access control can be guaranteed in the case of the same gateway. Meanwhile, it is not necessary to make any modification to the current 3GPP protocol signaling, and the present invention is compliant with the protocol signaling for interfaces Uu and Iu. | 2011-07-07 |
| 20110164591 | METHOD FOR USER RELOCATION TRIGGERED BY HOME NODE B GATEWAY - A method for user relocation triggered by a Home NodeB Gateway (HGW) is provided, which comprises steps of: transmitting, by the HGW, a relocation request message to a Home NodeB (HNB) to which a User Equipment (UE) belongs; triggering, by the HNB, a relocation procedure to relocate the UE to another NodeB; and transmitting, by the HNB, a relocation response message corresponding to the relocation request message to the HGW. With the present invention, it is possible in a HNB system to implement a UE relocation triggered by a HGW for new scenarios. This scheme enhances the Iu-h interface and facilitates the improvement of service quality of users. Additionally, it is capable of providing users with continuous services in different scenarios. The present method is easy to implement and effective in improving the stability and performance of HNB system. | 2011-07-07 |
| 20110164592 | HANDOVER METHOD AND MOBILE STATION - A handover method and a mobile station are disclosed in the present invention, and the method includes: the mobile station handing over from a service station to a legacy zone of a target station, and sending a first ranging request message on the legacy zone; the mobile station receiving a first ranging request response message, and acquiring relevant information of the target zone carried in the first ranging request response message; the mobile station switching to the target zone according to the relevant information. The unnecessary procedures in the two handover processes can be reduced and the handover efficiency of the compatible telecommunication system can be enhanced through above technical scheme. | 2011-07-07 |
| 20110164593 | Method for selecting base sation for handover from plurality of target base stations and device thereof - The method for selecting a base station for handover from a plurality of target base stations includes receiving, at a network element, measurement reports and loads of the plurality of target base stations, where the plurality of target base stations are within a coverage area of a mobile station. The method further includes selecting, at the network element, the base station from the plurality of target base stations for handover of the mobile station of a source base station to the selected target base station based on the measurement reports and the loads of the plurality of target base stations. | 2011-07-07 |
| 20110164594 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING INFORMATION - An apparatus and a method for transmitting information in vehicle-to-vehicle communication based on IEEE802.11 standard WLAN, which involves both safety information based on the IEEE802.11p standard and non-safety-related information based on another IEEE802.11 standard being transmitted. The apparatus is equipped with a transmission and/or reception device which has a WLAN chipset. In order to achieve the vehicle-to-vehicle communication with a single piece of hardware, provision is made for the WLAN chipset to be able to be changed over by a control command between a first mode based on the IEEE802.11p standard and a second mode based on another IEEE802.11 standard and for the apparatus to have a control device which changes over the mode of the WLAN chipset using a control command. | 2011-07-07 |
| 20110164595 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR LOW POWER LOCAL AREA COMMUNICATION USING EVENT SIGNAL CONTROL - Disclosed herein is an apparatus and method for low power local area communication using event signal control. The low power local area communication apparatus includes at least one coordinator and a plurality of network device. The network coordinator transmits a periodic beacon signal based on the preset beacon period of a superframe and a continuous RF event signal, receives a first signal including a Service Set Identifier (SSID) and a second signal including the SSID and an event detection code, and performs the transmission or reception of data when authentication has been completed. Each of the network devices generates and transmits the first and second signals, performs the transmission and reception of data after authentication has been completed, and is thereafter switched to power saving mode or OFF mode. Accordingly, the construction of the system is simplified, and the cost of the system is reduced. | 2011-07-07 |
| 20110164596 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO REGISTER WITH EXTERNAL NETWORKS IN WIRELESS NETWORK ENVIRONMENTS - Example methods and apparatus to register with external networks in wireless network environments are disclosed. A disclosed example method involves sending a registration request from the device to a network entity and receiving a registration response at the device. The registration response indicates one or more registration plans. The example method also involves selecting a registration plan from the one or more registration plans and sending registration information associated with the device to the network entity. The registration information is selected based on the selected registration plan. | 2011-07-07 |
| 20110164597 | Multi-user uplink communications within multiple user, multiple access, and/or MIMO wireless communication systems - Within such communication systems, uplink communications from various receiving wireless communication devices (e.g., STAs) to a transmitting wireless communication device (e.g., AP) may occur in any of a number of various dimensions or combinations thereof including MU-MIMO dimension and frequency dimension (asynchronous FDM or synchronous FDM). In accordance with such uplink communications, various considerations such as time synchronization, frequency synchronization, and/or power control (including wireless communication device grouping). When performing uplink asynchronous FDM signaling, power control as grouping is used. When performing uplink synchronous FDM signaling, time synchronization, frequency synchronization, and power control (such as including wireless communication device grouping) is performed. | 2011-07-07 |
| 20110164598 | UNIVERSAL-SERIAL-BUS-COMPATIBLE APPARATUS - Provided is a USB-compatible apparatus. More particularly, the USB-compatible apparatus integrates a mobile communication module (such as 3G/3.5G/3.75G) and a WLAN module (such as WiFi) into a singular USB apparatus. Inside the body of the USB-compatible apparatus, a routing module is introduced to bridge the mobile communication module and the WLAN module so as to forward the transferred or received data packets therebetween. A plurality of terminal computers can connect to a network via this USB-compatible apparatus since the inside WLAN module provides multiple wireless ports for the terminal computers. The USB-compatible apparatus further has a power-management module for performing arrangement of electric power among the inside modules. The USB-compatible apparatus particularly uses a USB interface to take an external power. Preferably, the apparatus can take power directly from a computer system, or use alternating current or direct current via an adapter. | 2011-07-07 |
| 20110164599 | Proxy Mobile Internet Protocol Version Six Multihoming Support for Flow Mobility - An apparatus comprising: a local mobility anchor (LMA) configured to maintain a plurality of binding cache entries (BCEs) for two or more active interfaces between a mobile node (MN) and a plurality of mobile access gateways (MAGs) comprising a first MAG and a second MAG, wherein the BCEs comprise a first BCE that corresponds to a home interface between the MN and the first MAG and that comprises a first list of home network prefixes (HNPs), and wherein the BCEs further comprise a second BCE that is linked to the first BCE, that corresponds to a secondary interface between the MN and the second MAG, and that comprises a second list of HNPs. | 2011-07-07 |
| 20110164600 | WIRELESS SYSTEM FOR COMMUNICATION - A method of wirelessly communicating from a high speed data modem using a first radio transceiver at a first location and a second radio transceiver at a second location preferably includes: (i) attaching a housing (containing the data modem and the first radio transceiver, a radio processor, and a power supply) to an outdoor supporting structure that supports a coaxial cable carrying an RF signal and AC power; (ii) using a splitter to split the RF signal from the AC power; (iii) transmitting the RF signal to the data modem, and transmitting the AC power to the power supply; (iv) providing a digital signal from the data modem to the radio processor; (v) converting the AC power to DC; (vi) using the DC power to run the data modem, the first radio transceiver, and the radio processor; (vii) communicating the digital signal from the radio processor to the first radio transceiver and then to a first antenna; (viii) transmitting a wireless signal from the first antenna to a second antenna; and (ix) communicating the wireless signal from the second antenna to the second radio transceiver, then to a second radio processor contained in a user device. | 2011-07-07 |
| 20110164601 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND BASE FOR AN ADVANCED DISPLAY - The present invention relates to a portable communication device equipped with a screen and a random access memory comprising: | 2011-07-07 |
| 20110164602 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PRESENTING LISTS OF WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORK PROFILE INFORMATION - A method for selecting a wireless local area network (“WLAN”) for a wireless device, comprising: generating a first list of WLAN identifiers for a first group of one or more wireless local area networks (“WLANs”) accessible at a first geographic location and storing the first list in the wireless device; generating a second list of WLAN identifiers for a second group of one or more WLANs accessible at a second geographic location and storing the second list in the wireless device; selecting one of the first and second lists as an active list; and, scanning for WLANs identified by the active list to identify an available WLAN for the wireless device. | 2011-07-07 |
| 20110164603 | METHOD AND A DEVICE FOR GAINING AND MAINTAINING CONTROL OF THE TRAFFIC FROM A RADIO BASE STATION IN A CELLULAR TELEPHONY SYSTEM - A method for letting a temporary radio base station (RBS, | 2011-07-07 |
| 20110164604 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR CONTROLING SIGNAL TRANSMISSION - The method for controlling signal transmission comprises: determining the first reference variable according to the number of transition points from downlink to uplink in a wireless frame of the system and the system frame number (S | 2011-07-07 |
| 20110164605 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A wireless communication system includes a coordinator ( | 2011-07-07 |
| 20110164606 | FRAME GENERATING DEVICE, RECEIVING DEVICE, DATA TRANSMITTING/RECEIVING SYSTEM, FRAME GENERATING METHOD, AND RECEIVING METHOD - A group-basis distribution data presence/absence information generation section generates distribution data presence/absence information indicating whether or not data to be transmitted to a reception device included in a group that includes one or a plurality of reception devices is included in a frame. Further, a synchronization signal generation section generates synchronization information including the distribution data presence/absence information. | 2011-07-07 |
| 20110164607 | VIRTUAL REAL-TIME CLOCK BASED ON TIME INFORMATION FROM MULTIPLE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS - Method and apparatus to implement a “virtual” real-time clock at a terminal based on time information from multiple communication systems. At least one system (e.g., GPS) provides “absolute” time information for the virtual real-time clock, and at least one other system (e.g., a cellular system) provides “relative” time information. The virtual real-time clock is “time-stamped” with absolute time as it becomes available from the first system. Relative time (which may be received from multiple asynchronous transmitters) is mapped to the timeline of the virtual real-time clock as it is received from the second system. Absolute time at any arbitrary time instant on the timeline may then be estimated based on the absolute time from the first system and the relative time from the second system. Absolute times from the first system for two or more time instants may also be used to calibrate the relative time from the second system. | 2011-07-07 |
| 20110164608 | IP multimedia subsystem access method and apparatus - A method of and apparatus for facilitating access to IP Multimedia Subsystem, IMS, services by non-IMS enabled terminals. A non-IMS enabled terminal registers with a Home IMS gateway. In response to that registration, an IMS registration is performed on behalf of the terminal between the Home IMS gateway and the IMS using information obtained from an ISIM application present at the Home IMS gateway. | 2011-07-07 |
| 20110164609 | 1X MESSAGE PROCESSING - An apparatus for notifying of a circuit switched event over a packetized data network. The apparatus includes a packetized data modem and an internetworking interface. The packetized data modem is configured to transmit and receive packetized data over a packetized data radio link. The packetized data modem has a tunneling link access control processor that is configured to encapsulate/decapsulate data for a subset of sub-layers corresponding to a link access control layer of a circuit switched network model. The internetwork interface is operatively coupled to the packetized data modem via the packetized data network, and is configured to notify the packetized data modem of the circuit switched event. The internetworking interface has a link access control/tunneling link access control processor that is configured to encapsulate/decapsulate the data when performing notification of the circuit switched event. | 2011-07-07 |
| 20110164610 | METHODS TO ROUTE, TO ADDRESS AND TO RECEIVE A COMMUNICATION IN A CONTACT CENTER, CALLER ENDPOINT, COMMUNICATION SERVER, DOCUMENT SERVER FOR THESE METHODS - Click-to-dial function whereby the URL sent to the contact center is appended with additional information used within the contact center (ACD) for routing. Function is known under the terms such as: extended URL, URL Encoding, Percent-encoding and the query string (part of a URL that contains data to be passed to web applications such as CGI programs). The method to route a communication from a caller to a specific endpoint in a contact center comprises the routing ( | 2011-07-07 |
| 20110164611 | AUTOMATED ATTENDANT MULTIMEDIA SESSION - An automated attendant system is made multimedia capable by adding a combined user agent to the automated attendant. A search is done to verify that the caller to the automated attendant has combined user agent capabilities. If so, the caller receives multimedia content from the automated attendant's combined user agent so that the content may be presented on the caller's computer to assist the caller in navigating through the automated attendant's menus and options. Upon selection of a desired connection from the menus and options, the automated attendant's combined user agent helps the caller be connected by voice to the selected connection. | 2011-07-07 |
| 20110164612 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR BLOCKING A PAY-PER-USE FEATURE IN A COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK - A method and apparatus for blocking at least one pay-per-use feature in a communications network is described. In one embodiment, a request to initiate at least one pay-per-use feature from at least one endpoint device associated with a subscriber is received. A determination of whether a blocking function has been activated for the at least one pay-per-use feature is then made. Afterwards, the request to initiate the at least one pay-per-use feature is blocked if the blocking function is activated. | 2011-07-07 |
| 20110164613 | Media negotiation method for IP multimedia link - A media negotiation method for an IP multimedia link is used in the process of establishing an IP multimedia link between a first entity and a second entity via an application server (AS) of an IP multimedia subsystem (IMS). AS sends the second entity an invite message, which includes media resource information of the first entity; When AS receives a message with media resource information from the second entity before an answer message is received or after it receives a response message with media resource information from the second entity, AS sends an IMS re-invite message without media source information to the first entity; the AS, after receiving the IMS signaling message with media resource information from the first entity, sends the first entity the media resource information returned by the second entity. The present invention is applicable to an IMS centralized service and may effectively reduce the number of steps and the time required after response for media resource re-negotiation. | 2011-07-07 |
| 20110164614 | System and Method for Delivering Content in a Unicast/Multicast Manner - The present invention is a system and method for enabling multicast synchronization of initially uncasted content. Multiple unicast streams are synchronized in order to convert the unicast streams into a multicast stream. Each unicast stream may be accelerated or slowed down in relation to a reference stream to a common point within each stream upon which the unicast streams are replaced by a multicast stream of the same content. | 2011-07-07 |
| 20110164615 | DEVICE SEARCH APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND DEVICE SEARCH SERVER, DEVICE SEARCH SYSTEM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A device search apparatus able to easily search for and find a device on a different subnet in a network environment where a plurality of subnets are connected together by routers. A client PC as a device search apparatus transmits by multicast a Probe message in which a value representing a search server is set, and extracts from a message received from the search server a URL of a search server on another subnet other than a network to which the client PC is connected. The client PC transmits by unicast, based on the URL of the search server, to the search server on the other subnet a message in which a device type to be searched is set, and extracts from a message received from the search server a URL of a device on the other subnet. | 2011-07-07 |
| 20110164616 | Methods and apparatus for processing superframes - Methods and apparatus for transmitting a plurality of packets in a switch having a plurality of input ports and a plurality of output ports are disclosed. Two or more packets are received at one or more of the plurality of input ports. One of the plurality of output ports via which to send each of the two or more packets is identified. A request message is sent to an arbitrator. A grant message is then received from the arbitrator in response to the request message. A frame including the two or more received packets is generated. The frame is then sent to the one of the plurality of output ports when the grant message is received. | 2011-07-07 |
| 20110164617 | Enhanced Hierarchical Virtual Private Local Area Network Service (VPLS) System and Method for Ethernet-Tree (E-Tree) Services - A network apparatus comprising a trunk end point associated with an Ethernet-tree (E-Tree) service in a network domain and configured to forward a frame that comprises a tag according to the tag in the frame, wherein the tag in the frame is a root tag that indicates a root source of the frame or a leaf tag that indicates a leaf source of the frame, and wherein the trunk end point is coupled to a second end point associated with the E-tree service outside the network domain. | 2011-07-07 |
| 20110164618 | MEMORY ORGANIZATION IN A SWITCHING DEVICE - A router for switching data packets from a source to a destination in a network in which the router includes a distributed memory. The distributed memory includes two or more memory banks. Each memory bank is used for storing uniform portions of a data packet received from a source and linking information for each data packet to allow for the extraction of the uniform portions of a data packet from distributed locations in memory in proper order after a routing determination has been made by the router. | 2011-07-07 |
| 20110164619 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SUPPORTING EMERGENCY SERVICE AND PACKET CONTROL FUNCTION ENTITY - A method and system for supporting emergency service over a High Rate Packet Data (HRPD) Access Network (AN) and a Packet Control Function (PCF) entity. The method comprises the following steps: an AN function entity sends information indicating whether a user is using an emergent service to a PCF entity (S | 2011-07-07 |
| 20110164620 | BANDWIDTH VARIABLE COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND BANDWIDTH VARIABLE COMMUNICATION METHOD - A bandwidth variable communication apparatus includes: a route exchange unit including a route exchange function for switching an output port of a stream signal of one or more wavelengths input from an input port based on both or a part of wavelength and time, and including a bandwidth change function for changing passable frequency bandwidth in a section from the input port to the output port through which the stream signal passes; and a control unit including a control information transmit-receive function for transmitting and receiving control information for both or a part of the route exchange function and the bandwidth change function of the route exchange unit, and including a control function for controlling the route exchange unit based on the control information. All or a part of the input ports and the output ports are connected to other communication apparatuses via transmission routes. | 2011-07-07 |
