28th week of 2013 patent applcation highlights part 26 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20130176812 | Method of Mixing a Liquid in a Container - Presently, there exists a need for a method of mixing (stirring) the ingredients of a liquid preparation within a container without the introduction of any device or manual implement to agitate the contents mechanically. The purpose of the present invention is to provide a method a convenient, economical and effective method of mixing utilizing a chemical reaction to facilitate liquid motion in a container without the use of a stirring implement or external mechanical intervention. | 2013-07-11 |
20130176813 | DISPERSING DEVICE - A dispersing device ( | 2013-07-11 |
20130176814 | REACTIVE FLOW STATIC MIXER WITH CROSS FLOW OBSTRUCTIONS - Embodiments of the present invention relate to a mixing apparatus. Particularly, embodiments of the present invention provide a mixing apparatus for mixing fluid components such as phosgene and amine during a highly reactive chemical reaction. One embodiment provides a mixing conduit ( | 2013-07-11 |
20130176815 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DISPERSING TWO SOLUTIONS IN EACH OTHER IN SOLVENT EXTRACTION - The invention relates to a mixing device and method by means of which two solutions that are insoluble or poorly soluble in each other are mixed together into a dispersion. The device consists of at least three helical bars rotating upwards around a shaft and supported on it, so that the support structures between the shaft and the helical rods are set essentially in a horizontal position. The device and method are particularly suitable for mixing solvent extraction solutions used in the hydrometallurgical recovery of metals to form a dispersion. | 2013-07-11 |
20130176816 | ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCER, ULTRASONIC PROBE, DIAGNOSTIC INSTRUMENT, AND ELECTRONIC INSTRUMENT - An ultrasonic transducer includes a first flexible substrate, a plurality of ultrasonic elements and a substrate deforming part. The ultrasonic elements are disposed on the first flexible substrate, and configured and arranged to transmit and receive ultrasonic waves. The substrate deforming part is configured and arranged to flex the first flexible substrate in a first direction and in a second direction that intersects with the first direction. | 2013-07-11 |
20130176817 | DATA ACQUISITION SYSTEM WITH REMOVABLE BATTERY HAVING INTEGRATED DATA STORAGE - Data acquisition modules and systems including batteries with integrated data storage. The battery with integrated data storage can be selectively removed from the data acquisition module. This allows for reduced logistical effort associated with data retrieval and battery charging. For instance, the entire data acquisition module need not be transported to a central location for data recovery and charging, but rather the removable battery with integrated storage may be removed and transported. Also facilitated is extended surveys in that the battery or storage module may be replaced, such that survey design limitations such as storage capacity or battery life may be eliminated. | 2013-07-11 |
20130176818 | VARIABLE DEPTH STREAMER SRME - Methods and systems for variable wavelet correction are described. A variable depth dataset is deghosted before presentation to a multiples prediction step of multiples elimination model. In another aspect, the multiples prediction is reghosted before presentation to and adaptive subtraction step of the multiples elimination model. A source-side zero-phasing signature can be applied before deghosting and a predefined gain can be applied in the low and high frequency sides as part of deghosting and reghosting to compensate for the squaring effect produced by convolving wavelets. | 2013-07-11 |
20130176819 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DE-BLENDING SIMULTANEOUS SHOOTING DATA - A device, medium and method for de-blending seismic data associated with a subsurface of the earth. The method includes a step of receiving seismic data “d” recorded with one or more land receivers, wherein the seismic data includes shot recordings generated by plural sources that are simultaneously actuated; a step of forming either a continuous receiver trace or trace segments from the received seismic data; a step of selecting plural overlapping spatial blocks that cover the surface shot locations; a step of assigning the shot recordings to the plural overlapping spatial blocks; a step of applying a mathematical technique to the recordings to determine de-blended data; and a step of generating an image of the subsurface based on the de-blended data. | 2013-07-11 |
20130176820 | SURFACE-CONSISTENT AMPLITUDE AND DECONVOLUTION SIMULTANEOUS JOINED INVERSION - Methods and systems for a surface-consistent amplitude and deconvolution simultaneous joined inversion are described. A one-pass estimation using input trace data for generating gain and deconvolution operator based on a least squares iteration method. A series of iterations are performed simultaneously and independently estimating amplitude scalars and autocorrelation spectra with a common convergence criterion. The gain and deconvolution operator can further be used to correct the input trace data for pre-stack or stack imaging. | 2013-07-11 |
20130176821 | Geophysical Data Acquisition System - A geophysical data acquisition system includes at least one geophysical sensor. The at least one geophysical sensor has associated therewith a signal generator configured to generate a signal corresponding to a type of the at least one geophysical sensor. The system includes at least one signal acquisition unit having a plurality of input channels. The at least one geophysical sensor is in signal communication with one of the plurality of input channels. The plurality of input channels each includes a detector for receiving and identifying the signal generated by the signal generator. The at least one signal acquisition unit includes amplification, filtering and digitizing circuits automatically configurable in response to the type of sensor identified by the detected signal. | 2013-07-11 |
20130176822 | METHOD FOR ESTIMATING ELASTIC PARAMETERS BY INVERTING 4D SEISMIC MEASUREMENTS - According to the invention, elastic parameters, including density, pressure wave propagation speed, and/or shear in pervious layers located in a dense underground area along an array of horizontal positions, are estimated by inverting 4D seismic data. Firstly, an estimate of variations in the elastic parameters in one or more starting positions of the array, which can be located on bored wells within the area in question, is obtained. Then, a propagation algorithm is used in order to gradually carry out the 4D data inversion on the basis of the starting positions. The inversion takes into account the previously estimated parameter variations. A spatial variation in the depth and/or the thickness of the pervious lavers in question can also be taken into account. Propagation is based on positions that are consecutively selected as providing optimal values for a cost function assessed in order to invert the 4D data. | 2013-07-11 |
20130176823 | SIMULTANEOUS JOINT ESTIMATION OF THE P-P AND P-S RESIDUAL STATICS - Methods and systems for estimating the residual static terms for multi-component land datasets are described. A one-pass estimation simultaneously using P-P pre-stack data and P-S pre-stack data for generating common source residual statics for the P-P data and the P-S data and separate receiver residual statics for the P-P data and the P-S data. A series of iterations are performed using either a linear or a non-linear simulation to converge on acceptable residual statics. | 2013-07-11 |
20130176824 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR REALIZING SYNCHRONIZATION IMAGE - A method and apparatus for realizing a synchronization image. The method includes transmitting an ultrasonic signal to an object, obtaining vector components of at least two points included in the object based on an echo signal reflected from the object, and realizing a synchronization image of the object, which indicates whether motions of the at least two points have been synchronized, by using the obtained vector component. | 2013-07-11 |
20130176825 | SENSOR STRUCTURE AND YAW RATE SENSOR - A sensor structure includes a substrate having a main extension plane, a first seismic mass and a second seismic mass, the first and the second seismic masses being deflectable relative to the substrate along a direction of deflection essentially perpendicular to the main extension plane. The first and second seismic masses are coupled together via a rigid coupling rocker pivotable around a rocker axis parallel to the main extension plane. The first seismic mass is suspended from the substrate with the aid of a first suspension spring, and an essentially rigid first coupling bar is situated between the first suspension spring and the first seismic mass. | 2013-07-11 |
20130176826 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR COMMUNICATING WITH EXTERNAL DEVICES BY AUDIO - Disclosed is an electronic device for communicating with external devices by audio, comprising a security function module, an audio communication processing module and an audio signal connection component, the audio communication processing module being connected to the security function module and the audio signal connection component respectively, wherein the audio signal connection component is configured to receive a first audio signal from the external devices and to output the first audio signal to the audio communication processing module; the audio communication processing module is configured to convert the first audio signal outputted from the audio signal connection component into a first digital signal and to send the first digital signal to the security function module; and/or the audio communication processing module is configured to convert a second digital signal outputted from the security function module into a second audio signal and to send the second audio signal to the audio signal connection component, and the audio signal connection component is configured to output the second audio signal to the external devices. | 2013-07-11 |
20130176827 | QUICK CORRECTION DEVICE FOR A DISPLAY SYSTEM - The invention relates to a mechanism ( | 2013-07-11 |
20130176828 | 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. | 2013-07-11 |
20130176829 | OSCILLATING MECHANISM WITH AN ELASTIC PIVOT AND MOBILE ELEMENT FOR TRANSMITTING ENERGY - An oscillating mechanism for a timepiece movement, including a first rigid element and a second rigid element, each one fixed on a different element of the movement and at least one of which is mobile relative to the other and pivots about an axis. The mechanism is monobloc and flexible with a variable geometry, and includes a first elastic restoring mechanism producing an elastic connection between the first rigid element and an intermediate rigid element, and a second elastic restoring mechanism producing an elastic connection between the intermediate element and the second rigid element, which all are coplanar according to one plane and configured to be deformed according to the plane. | 2013-07-11 |
20130176830 | HIGH EFFICIENCY ESCAPEMENT - A mechanical device for horology, comprising angular reduction means apt to decrease the oscillation of the width of the lever pacing the motion of the gear. | 2013-07-11 |
20130176831 | QUARTZ CRYSTAL UNIT, QUARTZ CRYSTAL OSCILLATOR AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - In a quartz crystal unit, the unit comprising a quartz crystal tuning fork resonator having a quartz crystal tuning fork base, and first and second quartz crystal tuning fork arms, each of the first and second quartz crystal tuning fork arms having a length, and a first main surface and a second main surface opposite the first main surface, at least one groove being formed in a central linear portion of at least one of the first and second main surfaces of each of the first and second quartz crystal tuning fork arms and formed continuously in the central linear portion along the length of the corresponding one of the first and second quartz crystal tuning fork arms, an overall length of the quartz crystal tuning fork resonator being less than 2.1 mm. | 2013-07-11 |
20130176832 | QUARTZ CRYSTAL UNIT, QUARTZ CRYSTAL OSCILLATOR AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A quartz crystal unit comprising: a quartz crystal resonator having an overall length less than 2.1 mm and a base portion including a length L | 2013-07-11 |
20130176833 | QUARTZ CRYSTAL UNIT, QUARTZ CRYSTAL OSCILLATOR AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - In a quartz crystal unit, the unit comprising a quartz crystal resonator having a base portion, and first and second vibrational arms connected to the base portion, at least one groove being formed in at least one of opposite main surfaces of each of the first and second vibrational arms, a length of the base portion being less than 0.5 mm and an overall length of the quartz crystal resonator being less than 2.1 mm, at least one mounting arm protruding from the base portion and being formed between the first and second vibrational arms, the at least one mounting arm extending in a common direction with the first and second vibrational arms. | 2013-07-11 |
20130176834 | BALANCE SPRING WITH TWO HAIRSPRINGS AND IMPROVED ISOCHRONISM - The invention relates to a balance spring ( | 2013-07-11 |
20130176835 | MAGNETIC DISK DEVICE, MAGNETIC DISK EVALUATION APPARATUS, AND MAGNETIC HEAD - A magnetic disk device of an embodiment includes a magnetic disk, a magnetic head, a laser-beam-intensity control unit, a reproduced-signal detecting unit, and a magnetic-disk evaluating unit. The magnetic head reads a signal recorded in the magnetic disk, or performs magnetic recording while irradiating a laser beam onto the magnetic disk. The laser-beam-intensity control unit controls the intensity of the laser beam. The reproduced-signal detecting unit detects the signal read by the magnetic head. The magnetic-disk evaluating unit evaluates the signal read from the magnetic head, on the basis of a relation between a noise level detected from the signal read by the magnetic head, and the intensity of the laser beam. | 2013-07-11 |
20130176836 | MAGNETIC FIELD GENERATOR - A metallic ring is made of two metals, wherein one metal forms a major arcuate portion and the other a minor arcuate portion of the ring, thereby forming a thermocouple-type structure as a result of the two inter-metallic junctions. The metallic ring supports a surface plasmon whose energy is matched to the energy, i.e. wavelength, of an incident light beam so that the oscillating electromagnetic field of the light resonates with the plasmon. The resonating plasmon causes a temperature difference to arise between the two inter-metallic junctions in the ring. The different Seebeck coefficients of the two metals results in the temperature difference causing a net current to flow around the ring, which in turn generates a magnetic field. Such a thermoelectric metamaterial ring transforms high frequency optical energy into long duration magnetic radiation pulses in the terahertz range. Applications of these devices include high density magnetic recording, magnetic field spectroscopy, and efficient terahertz radiation sources. | 2013-07-11 |
20130176837 | MAGNETIC RECORDING HEAD AND MAGNETIC RECORDING AND REPRODUCING SAME - According to one embodiment, there is provided a magnetic recording head which records information on a magnetic recording medium, including an ABS surface, a near-field light generating unit, a heat conducting unit, and a heat absorbing unit. The ABS surface is opposed to the magnetic recording medium. The near-field light generating unit is disposed on the ABS surface. The heat conducting unit is formed by a heat conductor disposed in contact with the near-field light generating unit. The heat absorbing unit is disposed in contact with the heat conducting unit adjacently to the near-field light generating unit in a direction along the ABS surface. | 2013-07-11 |
20130176838 | PATTERNED MEDIA FOR HEAT ASSISTED MAGNETIC RECORDING - A patterned magnetic recording medium for use in heat assisted magnetic recording comprises an electrically conductive heat sink layer and a plurality of discrete magnetic recording elements positioned adjacent to a first surface of the heat sink layer. Disc drives that include the patterned medium and a method of magnetic recording using the patterned media are also included. | 2013-07-11 |
20130176839 | LIGHT DELIVERY GUIDE - A waveguide that includes a first cladding layer, the first cladding layer having an index of refraction, n | 2013-07-11 |
20130176840 | Optical Pickup - An optical pickup includes a light source, an objective lens, a diffraction grating that divides an optical beam reflected from a predetermined information layer, into a plurality of optical beams, and a detector having a plurality of photo-receivers to receive a plurality of optical beams. The diffraction grating has a predetermined region for dividing from a signal light beam a region including a central portion of a spot which the signal light beam will form on the diffraction grating. A distance from a central section of the detector to that of a spot center photo-receiver on the detector, the spot center photo-receiver being provided to receive the optical beams formed by division in a predetermined region of the diffraction grating, is equal to or greater than a spot radius of the unwanted light beams entering the predetermined region of the diffraction grating, on the detector. | 2013-07-11 |
20130176841 | Method and Apparatus for Receiving Physical Uplink Control Channel in LTE System - The present document discloses an apparatus for receiving Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH) in Long Term Evolution (LTE) system, comprising: blocks of system FFT performing system FFT on data from a plurality of antennas, blocks of PUCCH RB processing units receiving the allocated logic resource index table and the local base sequence and output of the blocks of system FFT, and generating DMRS despread outputs and data values; a block of SR detection for receiving the data values and the DMRS despread outputs, and for generating SR detection results; blocks of user data extraction receiving data values and DMRS despread outputs, and performing user data extraction; blocks of PUCCH user processing units receiving an orthogonal sequence index, the data values and an output from blocks of user data extraction, and generating a ACK/NAK/CQI signal for a concerned UE. | 2013-07-11 |
20130176842 | DYNAMIC ERROR DAMPENING IN A NETWORK SYSTEM - A method and computer system for dynamic error dampening in a node of a network system. Data traffic of the node is implemented in accordance with an Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) network management model that includes a Layer 1 physical link, a Layer 2 link including a data link in which primitive point-to-point data communication with neighboring nodes is enabled upon the Layer 1 physical link, and a Layer 3 link which is a network link operating on top of the Layer 2 link. Implementation of an error dampening process at the node includes deactivating the Layer 3 link of the node while monitoring data traffic over the Layer 2 link of the node. Deactivating the Layer 3 link of the node includes preventing the Layer 3 Link of the node from receiving incoming data traffic for routing to other nodes in the network system. | 2013-07-11 |
20130176843 | ROUTING PROTOCOLS FOR ACCOMMODATING NODES WITH REDUNDANT ROUTING FACILITIES - Graceful restart in routers having redundant routing facilities may be accomplished by replicating network (state/topology) information. | 2013-07-11 |
20130176844 | Mobile Internet Access Node, System and Method for Finding Partners - The present invention provides an MiAN, a system and a method for finding partners for use in an MiAN cluster system. The method comprises the step of performing, by the slave MiAN, search on working channels of the proximity interface in accordance with a preset search order, and trying to establish a communication connection with the proximity interface of a master MiAN with respect to the MiANs that have been searched during the search process. When selecting the working channels of the proximity interface, all the master MiANs in the clustering system perform search in accordance with the search order, and operate on the channel which has been searched first in accordance with the search order and the channel quality of which meets a predetermined requirement. According to the present invention, the processes of finding, selecting and binding partners in the MiAN cluster system will be accelerated. | 2013-07-11 |
20130176845 | Determining Backup Forwarding Paths Based on Route Distinguisher Correlation Values - In one embodiment, a packet switching device determines backup forwarding paths based on route distinguisher correlation values. A route distinguisher correlation value is some value associated with multiple routes, which allows a packet switching device to consider routes associated with a same route distinguisher correlation value, but having different route distinguishers and a same prefix to be considered as going to a same destination. Examples of route distinguisher correlation value used in one embodiment include, but are not limited to: scalar values, a route distinguisher of a different route, a virtual private network associated with a different route; a route target associated with the a different route; or a Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) Next-hop address associated with a different route. | 2013-07-11 |
20130176846 | Systems and Methods for Predictive Downloading in Congested Networks - An embodiment user equipment has a list of predictive data that a user may request, and programming to receive prefetched data based on the list of predictive data at a reduced cost, wherein the reduced cost is lower than a network cost of downloading the data, and to store the prefetched data within the UE for future consumption. An embodiment base station has a list of predictive data a UE may request, a high priority queue for data requested by the UE, and a low priority queue with predictive data corresponding to the list of predictive data. The base station further includes programing to send the requested data and to send the predictive data. | 2013-07-11 |
20130176847 | COMMUNICATION PROCESSING METHOD, APPARATUS AND GATEWAY DEVICE - The communication processing method is used in a network gateway device, wherein the network gateway device is coupled to a wireless terminal through a first wireless network and to a base station through a second wireless network different from the first wireless network. The method maintains a first TCP link between the network gateway device and the wireless terminal through the first wireless network; maintains a second TCP link between the network gateway device and a service providing server through the second wireless network; and performs a TCP transmission optimization on the first TCP link or the second TCP link to be optimized by a corresponding optimization method so as to improve a transmission performance between the wireless terminal and the service providing server. The optimization may be performed more specifically and a transmission performance between the wireless terminal and the service providing server may be improved. | 2013-07-11 |
20130176848 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - When a transmitting terminal | 2013-07-11 |
20130176849 | CONGESTION HANDLING IN A PACKET SWITCHED NETWORK DOMAIN - A system and a method are described herein which provide for congestion handling in a packet switched network domain. In case of congestion overload is measured by a core node, the data packets in proportion to the overload are marked and the signaled overload is stored. At least one egress node receives marked and not marked packets, decodes and counts the overload from the marked packets in a counting interval. Congestion report messages are sent to ingress nodes where flows are terminated. | 2013-07-11 |
20130176850 | EXPANDING NETWORK FUNCTIONALITIES FOR OPENFLOW BASED SPLIT-ARCHITECTURE NETWORKS - A method enables a switch in a split-architecture network to provide high speed packet processing and enhanced network functionalities that are not supported by the OpenFlow. The switch receives a packet from a network through an input port of the switch, and matches header fields in the packet against table entries in flow tables to identify an action to be taken. The flow tables are part of an OpenFlow pipeline. The identified action is to direct the packet to a designated processing unit in the switch. The OpenFlow pipeline forwards the packet to the designated processing unit via a communication channel in the switch. The designated processing unit processes the packet with the enhanced network functionalities, and injects the packet back to one of the flow tables before transmission of the packet to the network through an egress port of the switch. | 2013-07-11 |
20130176851 | DYNAMIC FLOW CONTROL IN MULTICAST SYSTEMS - Machines, systems and methods for enhancing performance in a multicasting system, the method comprising monitoring flow rates in a multicasting system as system characteristics change over time, wherein the multicasting system is operating based on a first mapping between a plurality of data flows and multicasting groups, wherein data is disseminated by way of the mapping to subscribers to one or more of the data flows; decreasing flow rate thresholds of satisfied flows so as to minimize the difference between the flow rate thresholds and respective target transmission rates of the satisfied flows, as the system's feasible data transmission workload is maintained with respect to subscriber reception rate capacities; and increasing flow rate thresholds of unsatisfied flows so as to minimize the difference between the flow rate threshold and respective target transmission rates for the unsatisfied flows. | 2013-07-11 |
20130176852 | Network Self-Protection - A device used in a network is disclosed. The device includes a network monitor to monitor a network state and to collect statistics for flows going through the network, a flow aggregation unit to aggregate flows into clusters and identify flows that can cause a network problem, and an adaptive control unit to adaptively regulate the identified flow according to network feedback. Other methods and systems also are disclosed. | 2013-07-11 |
20130176853 | Apparatus and Method for Communication - Apparatus and method for communication are provided. In the method, information on the amount of traffic of a mobile terminal is obtained. The value of a handover parameter for the mobile terminal is determined on the basis of the traffic level. | 2013-07-11 |
20130176854 | DYNAMIC TCP LAYER OPTIMIZATION FOR REAL-TIME FIELD PERFORMANCE - A method and system that mitigates data session degradation over a radio link connection with an end server by allocating resources at a wireless communication device based on real-time radio frequency (RF) channel conditions. A performance tracking and resource allocation (PTRA) logic monitors radio access bearer (RAB) configuration and radio link quality for communication links between the WCD and the end server. The PTRA logic sets a maximum transmission unit (MTU) size parameter to a pre-established size associated with the measured radio link quality. In response to detecting a change in the RAB configuration, the PTRA logic performs a real-time round trip time (RTT) measurement utilizing individual RTTs associated with packet segments transmitted at a lower protocol layer. In addition, the PTRA logic modifies at least one of a transmission control protocol (TCP) receive window (RWIN) and a TCP transmit window (TWIN) using the real-time RTT measurements and RAB configuration. | 2013-07-11 |
20130176855 | DYNAMIC MAPPING IN A MULTICASTING ENVIRONMENT - Enhancing performance in a multicasting system comprising monitoring filtering costs in a multicasting system as system characteristics change over time, wherein the multicasting system is operating based on a first mapping, between a plurality of data flows and multicasting groups, to disseminate data to users that subscribe to one or more of the data flows; computing a second mapping in response to determining that overhead associated with filtering of unwanted flows at the user level has exceeded a threshold; and transitioning the multicasting system from using the first mapping to using the second mapping, in response to determining that the second mapping is feasible as applicable to one or more constraints associated with the multicasting system. | 2013-07-11 |
20130176856 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR FACILITATING CHANNEL ACCESS IN A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A transmission initiation interval timing structure is used in combination with a lower layer timing structure, e.g., physical layer timing structure. A device selects a subset of packet transmission initiation intervals and then limits initiation of packet transmission to those intervals thereby reducing the potential for collisions. Packet transmission may occur outside the initiation interval in which the transmission is initiated. In some embodiments, packet transmission length is intentionally limited to sizes which can be transmitted in a fraction of the amount of time the physical layer allows a single device to continuously transmit, e.g., in an amount of time which is equal to or less than the duration of a packet transmission initiation interval. This increases the probability that multiple devices will be able to successfully transmit small packets at short intervals on a regular basis even when carrier sensing techniques are used. | 2013-07-11 |
20130176857 | TESTING OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT - A computer ( | 2013-07-11 |
20130176858 | Method for Determining a Severity of a Network Incident - The invention relates to a method for determining a severity of a network incident causing a network alarm in a communication network. The method comprises obtaining ( | 2013-07-11 |
20130176859 | WIRELESS CONTROL PLANE FAILURE HANDLING IN A SPLIT-PLANE DEPLOYMENT - A method, apparatus and computer program product for providing wireless control plane failover handling in a split-plane deployment is presented. A first AP in a split-plane deployment detects failure of a Wireless Control Plane (WCP) device. The first AP hides an SSID in beacons broadcast by the first AP. The first AP stores information for existing Mobile Units (MUs) that dissociate after the detection of the failure of the WCP device. The first AP will respond to probes from existing MUs; and also respond to probes from MUs that have their information stored in the AP, such that the first AP appears hidden from new MUs while being exposed to existing MUs. | 2013-07-11 |
20130176860 | Identification of a Fault - An apparatus, method, and system are provided for determining a location of an error source. Equalization coefficients may be retrieved and an average period of time between localized peak amplitudes may be determined. The average period of time may be multiplied by a velocity of propagation associated with a communication channel to determine an approximate location of the error source. The equalization coefficients may correspond to the inverse of the frequency response associated with the communication channel and may be updated over time using replacement or combination (e.g., convolution) techniques. | 2013-07-11 |
20130176861 | CONTROL APPARATUS, A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, A COMMUNICATION METHOD AND A RECORDING MEDIUM HAVING RECORDED THEREON A COMMUNICATION PROGRAM - A control apparatus for controlling a network includes a path control unit for selecting a communication apparatus having an identifier as a destination communication apparatus among a communication apparatus group, based on a connection relationship between the communication apparatus group, which is connected to the network and includes communication apparatuses each having a same identifier, and a source communication apparatus which performs communication using the identifier as a destination address, and setting a process corresponding to a path from the source communication apparatus to the selected destination communication apparatus to a transfer apparatus in the network. | 2013-07-11 |
20130176862 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETECTING RADIO LINK FAILURE IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and apparatus of detecting a radio link failure in a wireless communication system is provided. A mobile station initializes a radio link failure (RLF) counter for detecting the radio link failure and determines whether decoding of a message on a downlink channel is successful. The mobile station decrements a value of the RLF counter if the decoding fails, and increments the value of the RLF counter if the decoding is successful, and declaring the radio link failure if the value of the RLF counter is less than or equal to a specific value. A decrement size of the value of the RLF counter varies according to a received signal strength of the downlink channel. | 2013-07-11 |
20130176863 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING AUTOMATED PROCESSING OF A SWITCHED VOICE SERVICE ALARM - A method and apparatus for providing automated processing of a switched voice alarm on a switched and/or Internet Protocol (IP) network are disclosed. For example, the method receives an alarm associated with a switched voice service, and retrieves a Local Routing Number (LRN) or Primary Inter-exchange Carrier (PIC) information from a switch serving a call associated with a caller's telephone number. The method determines if the alarm is due to one or more service degradations, and notifies a work center responsible for one or more of the service degradations if the alarm is due to the one or more service degradations. | 2013-07-11 |
20130176864 | RATE AND POWER CONTROL SYSTEMS AND METHODS - A method includes transmitting a packet from a first wireless device to a second wireless device, where data within the packet is encoded and a signal representing the packet is modulated in accordance with a modulation and coding scheme (MCS). The method also includes, responsive to receiving an acknowledgement packet that includes a MCS change indicator from the second wireless device via a wireless local area network (WLAN) in response to transmitting the packet, maintaining the MCS when the MCS change indicator has a first value and incrementing the MCS when the MCS has a second value. | 2013-07-11 |
20130176865 | Counteracting Spam in Voice Over Internet Protocol Telephony Systems - An approach is provided to detect a spam message transmitted over a packetized, network-based telephony system. A request to initiate a first voice communication session is received from a requestor. A voice communications session is established with the requestor over the computer network. An audible ringing tone is sent to the requestor over the established voice communications session. While the audible ringing tone is being sent, audio data that is received from the requestor is analyzed. If the analysis detects an audible message in the audio data, then the requestor is identified as a possible spam source. On the other hand, if the analysis fails to detect the audible message in the audio data then the established voice communications session is handled as a non-spam event. | 2013-07-11 |
20130176866 | CALL RECOVERY IN TD-SCDMA HANDOVER FAILURE - A method of wireless communication includes measuring and recording a path loss of a first downlink signal from a source base station, prior to attempting handoff from the source base station to a target base station. The path loss of a second downlink signal from the source base station is measured after unsuccessful handoff from the source base station to the target base station. A UE communicates with the source base station, after unsuccessful handoff, using an uplink timing corresponding to an uplink timing recorded prior to attempting handoff when a difference between the path loss of the first downlink signal and the path loss of the second downlink signal fails to meet a threshold value. A new uplink timing is used when the difference meets the threshold value. | 2013-07-11 |
20130176867 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR OBJECT GROUPING AND STATE MODELING FOR APPLICATION INSTANCES - Various exemplary embodiments relate to an operational group in a network element of a communication network, where the operational group is associated with monitored objects and monitoring client objects such that the status of the operational group is a function of the operational status of the monitored objects or services. Monitoring client objects can monitor the status of the operational group such that the status of each of the monitoring client objects reflects the status of the operational group. | 2013-07-11 |
20130176868 | PHASE DIFFERENCE SIGNALING IN MIMO MODE UPLINK - An uplink signaling method is described where the UE transmits an indication of its ability to maintain relative transmit phase continuity with respect to a plurality of transmit chains thereof in place of being required to actually maintain the phase difference between its transmitters. The signaling method utilizes straightforward signaling with very little overhead, because the indication may be provided by setting the value of a bit in an uplink transmission. In response, a base station adopts an uplink transmission format for communications by the UE based, at least in part, upon the received indication. | 2013-07-11 |
20130176869 | REDUCING POWER CONSUMPTION IN A MOBILE COMMUNICATION DEVICE IN RESPONSE TO MOTION DETECTION - A method and apparatus to selectively enable and disable one or more modules in a mobile communication device based on a variation in received signal strength indicator (RSSI) values to reduce power consumption while the mobile device is relatively stationary. | 2013-07-11 |
20130176870 | ANTENNA ARRAY CONTROL METHOD AND ACCESS POINT USING THE SAME - The present disclosure provides an antenna array control method and an access point using the same. The antenna array control method may include the following steps. At least a packet is selected as at least a probing packet every probing period. One of the radiation patterns to be probed in an antenna array is used to transmit the probing packet. The packet error rates of the radiation patterns to be probed in the antenna array are calculated. The radiation pattern with a minimum packet error rate among all of the radiation patterns is selected as a best radiation pattern. | 2013-07-11 |
20130176871 | Network Bottleneck Management - The invention provides a method by which a network element in a telecommunications network can report factors that have limited the performance of a UE in an observation period. A bottleneck score is calculated for each factor, the bottleneck score providing a measurement of the extent to which that factor has limited the performance of that UE compared to other factors in the observation period A data record for the UE is populated with the bottleneck scores and sent in a report towards upper layer management functions. When these reports are received (e.g. by a MME) they may be complemented with global entities of the users and aggregated measures created. The bottleneck scores may be calculated by collecting per-UE performance counters from a radio scheduler and estimating an actual UE performance from the collected performance counters, replacing one or more of the measured performance counters with a hypothetical value reflecting a particular factor operating ideally, and estimating a theoretical user performance based on the hypothetical value and remaining performance counters, and assigning a bottleneck score for that factor by comparing the estimated actual user performance with the estimated theoretical user performance. | 2013-07-11 |
20130176872 | FUNCTION VARIABLE VALUE TRANSMITTER, FUNCTION RECEIVER AND SYSTEM - A transmitter-side estimation of the complex channel influence between function variable value transmitters and function receivers is limited to the estimation of the magnitude of the channel influence, so that a pre-distortion of the symbols of the symbol sequences depends on an inverse of the magnitude of the channel influence, but is independent of a phase of the channel influence. Easing the channel estimation does not change the central tendency of the calculated function results transmitted over the multiple channel. Alternatively, on the side of the function receiver, a statistical quantity describing the multiple-access channel is determined. For this purpose, it is sufficient when the function variable value transmitters transmit constant power signals over the multiple-access channel in a channel estimation phase. Thus, the channel estimation effort is transferred to the function receiver and hence occurs less frequently, which again reduces the overall energy expenditure. | 2013-07-11 |
20130176873 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR POWER CONSUMPTION MANAGEMENT DURING DISCONTINUOUS RECEPTION - Methods and apparatus for adaptively adjusting temporal parameters such as e.g., wake-up times of digital tracking algorithms (such as timing, frequency and power control). In one exemplary embodiment, wake-up times for tracking loops are based on success/error metrics (e.g., Block Error Rate (BLER), Bit Error Rate (BER), Packet Error Rate (PER), Cyclic Redundancy Checks (CRC), etc.) of one or more previous discontinuous reception (DRX) cycles. In a second embodiment, wake-up times for tracking loops are based on residual frequency and timing errors, etc. | 2013-07-11 |
20130176874 | UPLINK POWER/RATE SHAPING FOR ENHANCED INTERFERENCE COORDINATION AND CANCELLATION - According to an aspect of the present disclosure, a serving base station determines a path loss and/or a distance measurement between the serving base station and a neighbor base station. A cell-specific power control parameter and a UE transmission power may be determined based on the determined path loss and/or distance measurement. Finally, the serving base station assigns a UE transmission rate based at least on a region where a UE is located, the region being within a serving cell | 2013-07-11 |
20130176875 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS METHOD AND APPARATUS - A method of relaying a signal in a wireless communications network comprising a plurality of wireless devices, the method being performed by at least one of said wireless devices to relay a signal in a communication path between one of said plurality of wireless devices and another one of said wireless devices, wherein said at least one of said wireless devices comprises a power amplifier for amplifying said signal, the method comprising receiving a signal from said one of said plurality of wireless devices, determining a peak-to-average power ratio of said received signal under a plurality of predetermined relay modes, determining a back-off value associated with said power amplifier, selecting a mode of relaying said signal from said plurality of predetermined relay modes based on said determined peak-to-average power ratio and said determined back-off value, and transmitting said signal to said another one of said plurality of wireless devices using said selected mode. | 2013-07-11 |
20130176876 | RADIO COMMUNICATION TERMINAL DEVICE AND RADIO COMMUNICATION TERMINAL DEVICE CONTROL METHOD - Radio control units concurrently perform two or more communications using two or more different communication schemes. Transmission power detection units detect the values of transmission power used for the communications that the radio control units perform using the respective communication schemes. A transmission power management unit obtains the sum of specific absorption rates associated with the respective communications, based on the values of transmission power thus detected by the transmission power detection units. Then, when the thus obtained sum of specific absorption rates exceeds a predetermined reference value, the transmission power management unit instructs protocol control units to perform the communications in a time-division manner in order for the respective communications using the two or more communication schemes to be non-concurrently performed. | 2013-07-11 |
20130176877 | DETECTING BURSTY INTERFERENCE TO TRIGGER A COEXISTENCE INDICATION - A user equipment (UE) may reduce coexistence issues with one or more radio access technologies (RATs) caused by a bursty interference. The bursty interference may be detected by detecting a number of modes in a measured signal sample and determining when a signal contains a multi-modal distribution based at least in part on the detecting. A coexistence indication is created based at least in part on the determining. | 2013-07-11 |
20130176878 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION CIRCUIT SUPPORTING ANTENNA DIVERSITY - A wireless communication circuit for a wireless communication device having a plurality of antennas is disclosed. The wireless communication circuit includes: a transceiver for receiving and transmitting network packets; a control circuit for controlling the switching circuit to switch the transceiver among the antennas so that the transceiver receives the preamble of a first network packet; and a receiving signal strength detector for detecting the receiving signal strength value of respective antennas in respective receiving periods during the reception of the preamble conducted by the transceiver. If the receiving signal strength value of each antenna is less than a predetermined threshold, the control circuit selects an antenna with the maximum receiving strength value as a target antenna and controls the switching circuit to couple the transceiver to the selected target antenna so that the transceiver receives the rest of the first network packet through the target antenna. | 2013-07-11 |
20130176879 | PHASE AND AMPLITUDE TRACKING IN THE PRESENCE OF A WALKING PILOT SIGNAL - A method and apparatus for tracking amplitude and phase of a received low frequency signal comprising a walking pilot signal is disclosed, wherein the pilot signal changes in frequency a number of times according to a sequence that repeats. The design includes initializing a FIFO buffer and summing estimated channel power over the sequence to determine an initial total power. The design also includes, for a new received symbol, determining an updated power estimate for the new received symbol, placing the updated power estimate in the FIFO buffer, and removing a least current value from the FIFO buffer, and estimating amplitude of the signal using a sum of all updated power estimates in the FIFO buffer divided by the initial total power. The design may further include determining a delta phase value using maximum ratio combining scaled with a scaling factor. | 2013-07-11 |
20130176880 | PHY BANDWIDTH ESTIMATION FROM BACKPRESSURE PATTERNS - The present invention provides a system and method of determining available bandwidth at a physical layer (PHY) device at a server on a broadband network. A link layer controller of a master administrator adaptively polls a PHY device over a set of time intervals. During polling, the controller places a PHY device's address on a line of a bus and awaits a response from the PHY device. Based upon the response from the PHY device, the administrator can determine whether the PHY device has available bandwidth. The link layer controller uses this information to recalculate its polling scheme to better make use of the available bandwidth over the shared transmission medium to which each PHY device in the network is attached. | 2013-07-11 |
20130176881 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR BLIND INTERFERENCE DECREASE/CANCELLATION TECHNIQUES - A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for wireless communication are provided in which one or more semi-static parameters associated with at least one neighboring eNode B (eNB) and an interfering user equipment (UE) are detected, at an eNB, and a blind interference reduction scheme based on the one or more detected semi-static parameters to reduce a signal from the interfering UE is applied. | 2013-07-11 |
20130176882 | MOBILE STATION WITH ROAMING TIMER - A mobile station in a wireless network includes a roaming timer. The roaming timer is set based on various criteria, and when the roaming timer expires, an attempt to roam is performed. | 2013-07-11 |
20130176883 | Method and Device for Deciding Location of Terminal in a Wireless Communication System - The present invention relates to a method for deciding a location of a terminal in a wireless communication system, and provides the method for deciding the location comprising the following steps: receiving reference signals from a plurality of base stations; and transmitting reference signal time difference (RSTD) which is received from the plurality of base stations, wherein the reference signal is mapped according to a predetermined pattern inside a subframe. | 2013-07-11 |
20130176884 | CROSS-RAT CONFIGURATION FOR MINIMIZATION OF DRIVE TEST - Systems and methods for configuring cross radio access technology minimization of drive testing are presented. In one embodiment, the use of circuit switched fallback is used as a trigger for switching minimization of drive test configurations on a user equipment. After the user equipment returns from circuit switched fallback, the minimization of drive test parameters are reported to the base station. | 2013-07-11 |
20130176885 | METHOD FOR ADJUSTING CELL RESELECTION PRIORITY FOR AVOIDING IDC INTERFERENCE IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND DEVICE FOR SAME - The present invention discloses a method for a first communication module of a user equipment measuring for cell reselection in a wireless communication system. More particularly, the present invention comprises the following steps: receiving a first message including at least one frequency priority list from a base station; receiving a second message from at one or more second communication modules which coexist in the terminal; and measuring the frequency based on the at least one frequency priority list and the operating frequency information that is included in the second message, when the second message indicates the beginning of the operation of the one or more second communication modules. | 2013-07-11 |
20130176886 | AUTOMATIC DETECTION APPARATUS FOR UL/DL CONFIGURATION IN LTE-TDD SIGNAL AND THE METHOD THEREBY - This invention relates to an automatic detection apparatus for UL/DL configuration in LTE-TDD signal and the method thereby for automatically detecting the UL/DL configuration number of an LTE-TDD signal without a decoder by using a simple structure. An automatic detection apparatus for UL/DL configuration in LTE-TDD signal comprises: a signal receiving unit for receiving an LTE-TDD RF signal and converting the LTE-TDD RF signal into a LTE-TDD baseband signal; a signal extracting unit for extracting a cell-specific reference signal for each subframe length in one frame length of the LTE-TDD baseband signal received from the signal receiving unit; a signal power measurement unit for measuring the power of the corresponding subframe reference signal according to the cell-specific reference signal received from the signal extracting unit; and an UL/DL configuration determination unit for determining whether the corresponding subframe is a DL subframe or an UL subframe according to the comparison result of the power of the corresponding subframe reference signal measured in the signal power measurement unit with a predetermined reference value, and determining the UL/DL configuration number for the corresponding frame based on the subframe number determined as described above. In the above configuration, it is characterized in that the predetermined reference value is the noise power without any LTE-TDD signal. | 2013-07-11 |
20130176887 | METHOD OF REDUCING INTERCELL INTERFERENCE IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND APPARATUS THEREOF - A method for transmitting a downlink signal through coordinated beamforming with a neighboring cell at a serving cell includes transmitting first subframe information for designating one or more subframes to the neighboring cell, transmitting first Precoding Matrix Index (PMI) restriction related information including one or more PMIs to a User Equipment (UE) of the serving cell, the PMIs forming a beam so that interference affecting the neighboring cell in the one or more subframes has a constant characteristic, receiving first Channel State Information (CSI) reporting measured in the one or more subframes based on the first PMI restriction related information from the UE of the serving cell, and transmitting a downlink signal to the UE of the serving cell based on the first CSI reporting, the neighboring cell receiving CSI reporting corresponding to the neighboring cell, measured by the UE of the neighboring cell in the one or more subframes. | 2013-07-11 |
20130176888 | SWITCH SYSTEM, AND MONITORING CENTRALIZED CONTROL METHOD - A switch system allows free change of a grain degree of monitoring without being conscious of a routing control. For example, a control protocol of a transmitter is used based on the open flow (OpenFlow) technique to control the monitoring function of the switch system, and the centralized control of the monitoring can be realized as the whole network and the monitoring result is reflected on the routing control. Here, the switch has a flow table for packet transfer and a flow table for monitoring. Both of the tables are searched to one packet and a multi-hit operation is performed to execute the operation of each of the entries. That is, both the tables are searched and the packet is transferred according to corresponding flow entries. | 2013-07-11 |
20130176889 | CLOSED LOOP FORMATION PREVENTING SYSTEM AND CLOSED LOOP FORMATION PREVENTING METHOD - In an open flow network system in which there are a plurality of networks, in each of which one OFC (OpenFlow Controller) manages a plurality of OFSs (OpenFlow Switches), and a large network is formed by a combination of them, registration of a flow entry which forms a closed loop is prevented without a component and a procedure for cooperation of the plurality of OFCs. Specifically, after route calculation, the OFC temporarily registers an flow entry of a calculation result on a flow table of the OFS as the flow entry for a test. After that, the OFS flows the test packet according to the temporarily registered flow entry. When the test packet is routed without forming the closed loop, the OFS detects it and normally registers the flow entry for a first time. Detecting that the test packet forms a closed loop, the OFS deletes a temporarily registering flow entry and returns an error to the OFC. | 2013-07-11 |
20130176890 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A relay communication system is described in which a relay node communicates with a base station using a sequence of frames, each frame comprising a plurality of sub-frames. The relay node has an energy saving mode in which it monitors for communications from said base station in at least one pre-determined sub-frame of each frame and does not monitor for communication from said base station in at least one other sub-frame of that frame. | 2013-07-11 |
20130176891 | METHOD FOR MEASURING TO ELIMINATE IDC INTERFERENCE IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND DEVICE FOR SAME - The present invention discloses a method for a first communication module of a user equipment measuring for eliminating in-device coexistence (IDC) interference in a wireless communication system. More particularly, the present invention comprises the following steps: receiving a message from one or more second communication modules which coexists in the terminal; performing inter-frequency measurement based on the setting information related to measuring when the message indicates the beginning of the operation of the second communication module; and reporting to the base station the result of the inter-frequency measurement. | 2013-07-11 |
20130176892 | FRAGMENTATION OF LINK LAYER DISCOVERY PROTOCOL PACKETS - Systems for communicating network device information between network devices. A communication is established between a first network device and a second network device according to a link layer discovery protocol (LLDP). An LLDP advertisement message is output in the communication from the second network device to the first network device. The first network device determines whether the second network device processes fragmented packets by searching the LLDP advertisement message for a fragmentation time length value (TLV) field. The second network device outputs to the first network device a plurality of packet fragments in response to a determination that the LLDP advertisement message includes the fragmentation TLV field. | 2013-07-11 |
20130176893 | Loop Containment Enhancement - Systems, methods, and apparatus for providing a communication network free of bridge loops by providing a first message from one of two bridges and a second message in response to the first message from the other of the two bridges and establishing a communicative path if both the first and second messages were received. | 2013-07-11 |
20130176894 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD - A modem comprising: a wireless transceiver for connecting to a wireless cellular network; second interface apparatus for connecting to a terminal; and processing apparatus which performs operations of a wireless cellular modem to enable the terminal to access a further, packet-based network via access points of the wireless cellular network. The processing apparatus receives a modem command from the terminal, the modem command comprising a field for specifying the name of one of the access points in the form of a text string. The field comprises the names a plurality of the access points and one or more separator characters between them. The processing apparatus is configured to extract each of the names from the field based on the one or more separator characters, and to establish a different respective channel with each of the plurality of access points based on the extracted names. | 2013-07-11 |
20130176895 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIA FOR CREATING AND MANAGING AD-HOC GROUPS LINKED TO AN EVENT AND SPANNING MULTIPLE MODES OF COMMUNICATION - A method for creating and managing ad-hoc groups linked to an event and spanning multiple modes of communication includes creating an ad-hoc group associated with an event. Available modes of communication are determined for each participant in the group. For each mode of communication, first information for contacting each participant is determined. Second information that serves as an alias for each participant is determined. A consolidated view of the available modes of communication with each of the participants in the group is provided using the aliases. | 2013-07-11 |
20130176896 | FRAGMENTATION OF LINK LAYER DISCOVERY PROTOCOL PACKETS - Described are methods of communicating network device information between network devices. A communication is established between a first network device and a second network device according to a link layer discovery protocol (LLDP). The method further comprises an LLDP advertisement message is output in the communication from the second network device to the first network device. The first network device determines whether the second network device processes fragmented packets by searching the LLDP advertisement message for a fragmentation time length value (TLV) field. The second network device outputs to the first network device a plurality of packet fragments in response to a determination that the LLDP advertisement message includes the fragmentation TLV field. | 2013-07-11 |
20130176897 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ACCELERATED LINK SETUP - A methods and apparatus may be used for accelerated link setup. A method may include a station (STA) acquiring information about an access point of an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 802.11 network in advance through a previously connected IEEE 802.11 interface and/or an interface other than the IEEE 802.11 network. The STA may use the acquired information during a link setup procedure between the STA and the access point. The information may include a suggestion for a specific procedure to complete the link setup procedure between the STA and the access point. | 2013-07-11 |
20130176898 | ETHERNET LOCAL MANAGEMENT INTERFACE (E-LMI) - An Ethernet local management interface (E-LMI) protocol for use at a user-to-network interface (UNI) of a Metro Ethernet Network (MEN) is disclosed. The E-LMI protocol allows configuration and status information for the services at the UNI to be transferred from the MEN to a customer edge device coupled to the MEN at the UNI. Various embodiments involve sending or receiving a message via a User-to-Network Interface (UNI) of a Metro Ethernet Network (MEN). A customer edge device extracts configuration and status information for the services at the UNI from a received message. The configuration and status information can correspond to a multipoint Ethernet Virtual Connection (EVC). | 2013-07-11 |
20130176899 | METHOD FOR ACQUIRING STATION INFORMATION - A method for acquiring station information is disclosed. The method is for use in a system comprising an access controller (AC), a Fit Access Point (Fit AP), a station and a network management device. The method comprises: the network management device reading the station information under the AC when it is initialized, the network management device determining a new online duration of the station according to the recorded online duration of the station and the time interval since the last time the online duration was updated, and the network management device displaying and/or recording the new online duration of the station. | 2013-07-11 |
20130176900 | Discovery in MoCA Networks - Methods, apparatuses, systems, and computer program products that may be based on MoCA protocols for discovering MoCA devices in a MoCA network include causing a first MoCA device to periodically send the device specific information to a second MoCA device in the MoCA network. The information may be sent, for example in a link-layer discovery protocol (LLDP) message in which the information is encoded in a type-length value (TLV) message. The information may include a MAC address of the first MoCA device, an IP address of the first MoCA device, vendor identification information, hardware identification information, hardware version information, software identification information, a software version, a name of the first MoCA device, a location of the first MoCA device, a MoCA node assigned to the first MoCA device, or the like. | 2013-07-11 |
20130176901 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR COMMUNICATION OF MANAGEMENT INFORMATION IN AD-HOC WIRELESS NETWORKS - A method includes detecting, by a first device, a beacon sent from a second device. The beacon is associated with an ad-hoc wireless network. In response to detecting the beacon, the first device sends to the second device a request for management information associated with the ad-hoc wireless network. The request identifies at least a first information element associated with at least a first portion of the management information and a second information element associated with at least a second portion of the management information. The method further includes receiving from the second device a first wrapper information element that includes at least the first information element. | 2013-07-11 |
20130176902 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF COMMUNICATION USING DISTRIBUTED CHANNEL ACCESS PARAMETERS - A device includes a processor and a memory accessible by the processor. The memory includes access category data specifying one or more access categories. The one or more access categories include a sensor access category specifying distributed channel access parameters to be used by one or more station devices to wirelessly communicate sensor data via a network. The memory further includes instructions executable by the processor to send at least a portion of the access category data to a station device to enable the station device to communicate sensor data. | 2013-07-11 |
20130176903 | Methods and Apparatus for Establishing a Tunneled Direct Link Setup (TDLS) Session Between Devices in a Wireless Network - The present disclosure describes techniques for establishing and reestablishing tunneled direct link setup (TDLS) sessions. In some aspects a TDLS persistent capable bit is stored at a computing device to indicate whether the computing device is capable of storing persistent group[ information associated with TDLS sessions. Persistent group information is also stored at the computing device to assist the computing device in reestablishing TDLS sessions and directing reestablishment of TDLS sessions. | 2013-07-11 |
20130176904 | Providing Full Point-To-Point Communications Among Compute Nodes Of An Operational Group In A Global Combining Network Of A Parallel Computer - Methods, apparatus, and products are disclosed for providing full point-to-point communications among compute nodes of an operational group in a global combining network of a parallel computer, each compute node connected to each adjacent compute node in the global combining network through a link, that include: receiving a network packet in a compute node, the network packet specifying a destination compute node; selecting, in dependence upon the destination compute node, at least one of the links for the compute node along which to forward the network packet toward the destination compute node; and forwarding the network packet along the selected link to the adjacent compute node connected to the compute node through the selected link. | 2013-07-11 |
20130176905 | NODE ARBITRATED MEDIA ACCESS CONTROL PROTOCOL FOR AD HOC BROADCAST NETWORKS CARRYING EPHEMERAL INFORMATION - Techniques for organizing nodes of an ad hoc broadcast network into sets and employing the sets to arbitrate access by the nodes to a shared communications medium. Each node has a copy of a signal library and the node indicates its membership in the set by associating itself with a signal in the library. In one application, the signals are ranked, the set is a queue, and the node's position in the queue is indicated by the rank of the signal associated with the node. Each node has rules for selecting the next signal. The hidden terminal problem is solved by having each node broadcast its tone and all of the other tones it has heard. The techniques are particularly useful for the broadcast of ephemeral information by the nodes. | 2013-07-11 |
20130176906 | TRAFFIC ENGINEERING IN FRAME-BASED CARRIER NETWORKS - The invention relates to enabling traffic engineering in frame-based networks such as Ethernet networks. There is described a method of and connection controller for establishing connections ( | 2013-07-11 |
20130176907 | OFFLINE CHARGING OF M2M INTERACTIONS - An M2M CDF is used to allow the creation of charging records in an M2M domain that can be correlated to charging records in a transport domain. This correlation of data can be used to provide a network access provider with the ability to provide M2M based charging in a variety of scenarios using different network topologies. | 2013-07-11 |
20130176908 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIA FOR UTILIZING QUOTA USAGE POLICY CONTROL IN A DIAMETER-BASED COMMUNICATION NETWORK - The subject matter described herein includes systems, methods, and computer readable media for utilizing quota usage policy control in a Diameter-based communication network. An exemplary method includes, at a policy server, sending a request for quota usage information associated with a subscriber to an online charging system (OCS) node. The method further includes receiving the quota usage information from the OCS node, generating at least one policy and charging control (PCC) rule for modifying a quality of service (QoS) policy attribute associated with the subscriber based on the quota usage information, and communicating the at least one PCC rule to a Diameter network element. | 2013-07-11 |
20130176909 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO FACILITATE SEARCHES OF COMMUNICATION REFERENCES - Methods and apparatuses to facilitate searches of communication references for real time communication connections. One embodiment includes: one or more web servers to assign a communication reference to an advisor for distribution by the advisor in one or more documents, to associate at least one keyword with the communication reference, to receive from the advisor a bid price on the keyword associated with the communication reference, and to present the communication reference selected based at least in part on the bid price in response to a search related to the keyword; a session border controller to interface with a packet switched network; and one or more telecommunication servers to determine contact information of the advisor based on the communication reference used by a customer to request a communication connection to the advisor, and to connect the customer to the advisor for real time communications using the determined contact information. | 2013-07-11 |
20130176910 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO MANAGE CONFERENCE CALLS - Methods and apparatus to manage conference calls are described. An example method includes classifying participants of the conference call in a hierarchy according to respective priority values; detecting an attempt of a participants to speak at a same time; detecting which one of the participants has a lower priority ranking; blocking an audio signal of the one of the participants having the lower priority ranking; placing an identifier associated with the blocked one of the participants in a queue; organizing the queue according to a behavior-based policy by comparing an utterance of a current speaker to a keyword associated with the conference call to determine a relevancy of the utterance; and increasing a point total associated with the current speaker in response to determining that the utterance is substantially relevant, and decreasing the point total associated with the current speaker in response to determining that the utterance is substantially irrelevant. | 2013-07-11 |
20130176911 | COMMUNICATION APPLICATION FOR CONDUCTING CONVERSATIONS INCLUDING MULTIPLE MEDIA TYPES IN EITHER A REAL-TIME MODE OR A TIME-SHIFTED MODE - A communication application configured to support a conversation among participants over a communication network. The communication application is configured to (i) support one or more media types within the context of the conversation, (ii) interleave the one or more media types in a time-indexed order within the context of the conversation, (iii) enable the participants to render the conversation including the interleaved one or more media types in either a real-time rendering mode or time-shifted rendering mode, and (iv) seamlessly transition the conversation between the two modes so that the conversation may take place substantially live when in the real-time rendering mode or asynchronously when in the time-shifted rendering mode. | 2013-07-11 |