30th week of 2014 patent applcation highlights part 31 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20140204881 | Systems, Apparatus and Methods for Facilitating Frequency Reuse for Downlink Control Channels - Systems and methods for frequency reuse on downlink control channels (DLCCs) are provided. One method can include determining a first number of symbols to support transmission of control information on a DLCC, and configuring a second number of symbols for transmission of the control information on the DLCC, wherein the second number of symbols is greater than the first number of symbols. The method can also include assigning a number of DLCCs based on the second number of symbols, and transmitting control information over an assigned number of DLCCs to achieve an effective reuse factor less than one. Another method can include identifying fractions of bandwidth in a system having cells, and allocating at least one of the cells to at least one of the fractions of bandwidth in a system. Resource element groups allocated to the fractions of bandwidth can be coordinated across cells to provide frequency reuse. | 2014-07-24 |
20140204882 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ASSIGNING RADIO RESOURCES AND CONTROLLING TRANSMISSION PARAMETERS ON A RANDOM ACCESS CHANNEL - A method and apparatus for assigning radio resources and controlling parameters for transmission over a random access channel in wireless communications by enhancing a random access channel is disclosed. | 2014-07-24 |
20140204883 | METHOD AND APPARATUS OF ALLOCATING UPLINK FEEDBACK CHANNEL FOR FEEDING DATA CORRESPONDING TO AN ENHANCED-PHYSICAL DOWNLINK CONTROL CHANNEL (E-PDCCH) - Provided is an uplink feedback channel allocation method and apparatus used to feedback data to indicate whether data packets corresponding an enhanced physical downlink control channel (E-PDCCH) were successfully decoded. A terminal may use an additional resource area of an uplink feedback channel or may use an empty resource area of the uplink feedback channel to which feedback information of a data packet corresponding to a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) is not allocated, to perform feedback. | 2014-07-24 |
20140204884 | METHOD FOR COMMUNICATING IN A NETWORK AND RADIO STATIONS ASSOCIATED - The present invention relates to a method for communicating in a network comprising a primary station and at least one secondary station, said secondary station comprising a buffer containing data packets to be transmitted to the primary station, the method comprising the step of the secondary station transmitting an indication of the buffer status to the primary station, said indication comprising information about history of said buffer. | 2014-07-24 |
20140204885 | System and Method for Signaling and Transmitting Uplink Reference Signals - A system and method for signaling and transmitting uplink reference signals are provided. A method for communications controller operations includes signaling information about a set of sequence groups to a first communications device, where the first communications device uses a sequence in the set of sequence groups to modulate a reference signal. The method also includes selecting a sequence group from the set of sequence groups and signaling information about the selected sequence group to the first communications device | 2014-07-24 |
20140204886 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING RATE OF VOICE SERVICE IN A MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM SUPPORTING VOICE SERVICE VIA PACKET NETWORK - A method for controlling a rate of a voice service in a mobile communication system supporting the voice service via a packet network. The method includes the steps of receiving a control message at a terminal from a radio network controller (RNC); if the control message indicates control of a downlink rate, determining a downlink rate according to the control message; setting a Change Mode Request (CMR) field of an uplink Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) packet according to the downlink rate, and transmitting the uplink VoIP packet from the terminal to the RNC; if the received control message indicates control of an uplink rate, determining an uplink rate according to the control message; and generating an uplink VoIP packet including uplink voice data generated according to the determined uplink rate and frame type (FT) information indicating the determined uplink rate, and transmitting the uplink VoIP packet from the terminal to the RNC. | 2014-07-24 |
20140204887 | METHOD FOR DETECTING CONTROL INFORMATION IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method for detecting control information in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes checking a cyclic redundancy check (CRC) error by monitoring control channels, determining whether a value of an error check field is equal to a specific value, and, if the value of the error check field is equal to a specific value, detecting the control information on the control channel. | 2014-07-24 |
20140204888 | METHOD FOR DETECTING CONTROL INFORMATION IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method for detecting control information in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes checking a cyclic redundancy check (CRC) error by monitoring control channels, determining whether a value of an error check field is equal to a specific value, and, if the value of the error check field is equal to a specific value, detecting the control information on the control channel. | 2014-07-24 |
20140204889 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ENHANCING UPLINK COVERAGE IN INTERFERENCE SCENARIOS - A method and apparatus are for communication in a wireless network in which a User Equipment (UE) associated with a first evolved Node B (eNB) experiences interference from a second eNB. The method includes negotiating by the first eNB of the wireless network with a second eNB of the wireless network for a partitioning of subband resources on an uplink. A first subset of subband resources is assigned to the first eNB, and a second subset of subband resources is assigned to the second eNB. A method and apparatus are for communication in a wireless network. The method includes decoding a downlink control channel received during a protected downlink subframe to determine an uplink subframe n containing a protected subband for uplink transmission. The method also includes transmitting data during the uplink subframe n on the protected subband. | 2014-07-24 |
20140204890 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD AND ACCESS POINT APPARATUS - The number of training signals for channel estimation is reduced. A wireless communication method includes: a step of reading, by an access point apparatus, stored training weights for a station which performs channel estimation; a step of generating, by the access point apparatus, a weight training symbol by multiplying the training weights by a training symbol and transmitting the generated weight training symbol; a step of estimating, by a station apparatus, weight channel information from the received weight training symbol; a step of transmitting, by the station apparatus, the weight channel information to the access point apparatus; a step of calculating, by the access point apparatus, transmission weights using the received weight channel information and the stored training weights; a step of transmitting, by the access point apparatus, a data signal in accordance with the transmission weights; and a step of calculating and storing, by the access point apparatus, new training weights using the weight channel information and the stored training weights. | 2014-07-24 |
20140204891 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING FRAME ON THE BASIS OF FREQUENCY SELECTION TRANSMISSION - A method for communicating in a wireless local area network is provided. The method includes receiving allowed channel information from a second station, the allowed channel information indicating whether at least one channel is allowed for transmission, selecting, by the first station, at least one operating channel from the at least one allowed channel, and transmitting, by the first station, frames on the at least one selected operating channel. The allowed channel information comprises an allowed channel bitmap. Each bit of the allowed channel bitmap indicates each channel is allowed for the transmission. | 2014-07-24 |
20140204892 | TERMINAL DEVICE, AND BUFFER PARTITIONING METHOD - Disclosed is a terminal apparatus in which: a decoding section ( | 2014-07-24 |
20140204893 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE, AND RETRANSMISSION CONTROL METHOD - Provided is a wireless communication device. A PHICH reception unit ( | 2014-07-24 |
20140204894 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION METHOD, MOBILE TERMINAL, AND PROCESSOR - A mobile communication method is a method for distributing MBMS data to a mobile terminal in a mobile communication system including a general cell supporting a broadcasting of the MBMS data and a specific cell not supporting the broadcasting of the MBMS data. The mobile communication method comprises a step of controlling not to set a frequency used in the specific cell to a highest priority of cell selection, at the mobile terminal, when the mobile terminal receives the MBMS data broadcasted from the general cell in an idle state and a frequency used in the general cell is different from the frequency used in the specific cell. | 2014-07-24 |
20140204895 | Remote-Site Operation - The invention relates to an apparatus comprising at least one processor and at least one memory including a computer program code, the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus at least to: store information needed for executing at least one operation by a remote-site, and carry out the at least one operation by the remote-site by using the stored information, if mobile fronthaul is temporarily not available. | 2014-07-24 |
20140204896 | METHOD OF DOWNLINK SIGNAL TRANSPORT OVER BACKHAUL COMMUNICATIONS THROUGH DISTRIBUTED PROCESSING - The amount of multi-antenna signals to be transmitted over the backhaul in a Coordinated MultiPoint (CoMP) system from the central processor (CP) to each base station is reduced. Embodiments of the present invention exploit characteristics of the underlying signal structure, and distribute some baseband processing functionalities—such as channel coding and the application of the multi-user precoding—from the CP to the remote base stations. Additionally, in some embodiments the non-precoded parts of multi-antenna signals are broadcast from the CP to all base stations in the CoMP system, to further reduce the burden on backhaul communications. In one embodiment, the backhaul network is a Gigabit-capable Passive Optical Network (GPON). | 2014-07-24 |
20140204897 | BASE STATION DEVICE, TERMINAL DEVICE, RESOURCE ALLOCATION METHOD AND RESPONSE SIGNAL TRANSMISSION METHOD - A base station apparatus is disclosed in which control section ( | 2014-07-24 |
20140204898 | Fast Device Discovery for Device to Device Communication - A fast device discovery protocol with a high success rate for device-to-device (D2D) communication in LTE-A networks is proposed. With the proposed protocol, device discovery is done by monitoring a randomly transmitted beacon from other devices within a pre-defined period. In one embodiment, an eNB receives scheduling requests from D2D UEs and in response allocates a distributed uplink resource for random access of beacon transmission by the D2D UEs. The distributed resource is dynamically allocated based on the number of requesting D2D UEs, a discovery period, and a target discovery probability to minimize the required resource. | 2014-07-24 |
20140204899 | HYBRID ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS WTRU AND METHOD - A hybrid orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) and method are disclosed. A WTRU includes a transmitter and a receiver. The receiver processes received data to recover data mapped to the subcarriers using OFDMA. The receiver recovers first input data by separating user data from multi-user spread data and recovers second input data from non-spread data. | 2014-07-24 |
20140204900 | RADIO SIGNAL TRANSMISSION METHOD, RADIO SIGNAL TRANSMITTING DEVICE, RADIO SIGNAL RECEIVING DEVICE, RADIO BASE STATION DEVICE AND RADIO TERMINAL DEVICE - When a plurality of radio signals having different sub frame lengths are transmitted on the same radio carrier, a radio signal of a short sub frame length is arranged inside a carrier band, and a radio signal of a sub frame length longer than the sub frame length of the short sub frame length signal is arranged outside the carrier band. | 2014-07-24 |
20140204901 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR INDICATING VoLTE CAPABILITY | 2014-07-24 |
20140204902 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM AND METHOD OF HANDOVER OF A BEAMFORMED LINK - Some demonstrative embodiments include devices, systems and/or methods of handover of a wireless beamformed link. For example, an apparatus may include a wireless communication unit to communicate between a wireless communication node and a mobile device via a beamformed link between the wireless communication node and the mobile device, the wireless communication unit is to determine a handover candidate for handing over the mobile device, based on at least one beamforming parameter of the beamformed link. | 2014-07-24 |
20140204903 | Method and Terminal for Selecting AP - There is provided a method for selecting an access point (AP), the method performed by a user equipment. The method may comprise: receiving a prioritized list with respect to APs, the prioritized list includes at least one of roaming consortium information, a network address identifier (NAI), a public land mobile network (PLMN) identifier; scanning at least one or more APs in the vicinity thereby generating an available list which includes at least one or more service set identifiers (SSIDs) and roaming consortium information; acquiring at least one or more NAIs from the roaming consortium information in the available list using pre-stored mapping information; comparing the acquired NAI with the NAI in the prioritized list to select a proper AP. | 2014-07-24 |
20140204904 | Optimized Offloading to WLAN in 3GPP-RAT Mobility - System and method embodiments are provided for optimizing offloading wireless services to a WLAN in 3GPP-RAT mobility. The embodiments enable changing network priority based on changing network conditions. In an embodiment, a method in a user equipment (UE) for offloading wireless services to a wireless local area network (WLAN) in a Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) inter-radio access technology (RAT) handover includes receiving an access network discovery and selection function (ANDSF) policy from an ANDSF server, wherein the ANDSF policy comprises policy rules including a validity condition, wherein the receiving is performed during a procedure in which the UE conducts an inter-RAT handoff from a first 3GPP RAT to a second 3GPP RAT; comparing evaluation condition information for the second 3GPP RAT against the validity condition; and offloading a first wireless service to the WLAN in accordance with the ANDSF policy when the validity condition is satisfied. | 2014-07-24 |
20140204905 | HANDLING A TERMINATING CIRCUIT SWITCHED SIGNALING SERVICE TO A TERMINAL IN A MOBILE NETWORK - Methods, nodes, computer programs and a mobile network for handling a terminating circuit switched signaling service to a terminal in a mobile network are described. A method of handling a terminating circuit switched signaling service to a terminal in a mobile network is described. The signaling service is distinct from a call. The mobile network comprises a first control node and a second control node. The method is performed by the first control node. The method comprises receiving signaling information for terminating the circuit switched signaling service to the terminal, subsequent to the step of receiving, detecting that the terminal has requested a location update from a second control node of the mobile network, and, based on the step of detecting, forwarding the received signaling information to the second control node. | 2014-07-24 |
20140204906 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING COMMUNICATION SERVICES TO A MOVING PLATFORM - A method and apparatus are described for providing communication services to a mobile platform while moving, wherein the mobile platform communicates along two current communication links extending between the mobile platform and two network gateways. The method comprises: setting an H-VPLS service to enable provisioning of L2 services to the moving platform via at least one of the two current communication links; enabling the moving platform to exchange communications along one or both communication links; replacing one of the two current communication links while the mobile platform is moving, with another communication link extending towards a third network gateway, by using Pseudo Wire Redundancy (PWR) to re-route traffic from the communication link being replaced to the other communication link, thereby allowing the moving platform to continue provisioning the L2 services while communicating with two network gateways, being the third network gateway and one of the former two network gateways. | 2014-07-24 |
20140204907 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ESTABLISHING CELL RESELECTION LIST - The embodiments of the present invention disclose a method for establishing a cell reselection list is provided. A network and a terminal establish frequency indexes for the cell reselection list, so that when a network side delivers an RAT and frequency priority information, the priority information may be delivered according to frequency indexes in a frequency list, thus implementing cell reselection that is based on the priority for the terminal. | 2014-07-24 |
20140204908 | METHODS OF AND NODES FOR SELECTING A TARGET CORE NETWORK FOR HANDING OVER A VOICE SESSION OF A TERMINAL - A method of selecting a target core network of a communication network for handing over a voice session of a terminal from a packet switched source radio access network (RAN) to a target RAN. The voice session is anchored in an Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem, and the selected target core network includes a circuit switched domain which is associated with the target RAN and supports voice session continuity to hand over the voice session from the source RAN to the target RAN. The target RAN is associated with a network identification of the target core network. The method is executed by a node and includes receiving a network identification of at least one target core network associated with at least one target RAN. The target core network is selected based on an indicated support of voice session continuity by the network identification. | 2014-07-24 |
20140204909 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MOBILE TERMINAL CONNECTION CONTROL AND MANAGEMENT OF LOCAL ACCESSES - An offloading method comprising the steps of: when the mobile terminal starts offloading in a first network, transmitting, by the mobile terminal, a first message to a mobility management device performing mobility management of the mobile terminal in a second network, the first message including information indicating that the offloading is started; transmitting, by the mobility management device, a second message to the mobile terminal, the second message including selection information in the second network, the selection information being for selecting, on basis of the first message, as to in which network offloading is to be performed; and deciding, by the mobile terminal, whether the offloading is to be maintained in the first network or whether new offloading is to be performed in the second network on a basis of the selection information included in the second message and judgment information in the first network that the mobile terminal has. | 2014-07-24 |
20140204910 | Individual User Equipment Settings in Radio Access Network - A radio base station in a wireless communication network and a method in a radio base station for providing service to a user equipment is provided. The method comprises establishing a connection between the user equipment and the radio base station, and receiving, from a network node, usage statistics of the user equipment. The method further comprises determining at least one parameter relating to the provision of the service to the user equipment based on the received usage statistics of the user equipment. | 2014-07-24 |
20140204911 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SIGNALING CONTROL INFORMATION IN A MOBILE COMMUNICATION NETWORK - A method of wirelessly transmitting control information includes generating control information comprising a plurality of control bits and encoding the control bits using a block code that outputs an encoded bit sequence comprising encoded bits b(0), b(1), . . . , b(19). The control bits are encoded using the block code by generating a linear combination of a plurality of basis sequences. The method also includes dividing the encoded bits into a first group and a second group. The first group includes the encoded bits {b(0), b(1), b(5), b(6), b(8), b(11), b(12), b(14), b(17), b(19)} and the second group includes the encoded bits {b(2), b(3), b(4), b(7), b(9), b(10), b(13), b(15), b(16), b(18)}. Additionally, the method includes transmitting the first group of encoded bits on a first set of carriers and transmitting the second group of encoded bits on a second set of carriers. The second set of carriers have different frequencies from the first set of carriers. | 2014-07-24 |
20140204912 | TEST DEVICE AND TEST METHOD - To provide a test device and a test method which enable a tester to easily check the allocation of physical channels when testing a mobile communication terminal which performs communication using a time division duplex system and a code division multiple access system. | 2014-07-24 |
20140204913 | Methods and Arrangements for Transmitting and Decoding Reference Signals - In some embodiments, a method is provided in a radio network node for transmitting a reference signal over an antenna port, wherein the reference signal is transmitted in a code division multiplexing, CDM, group. The CDM group comprises at least two CDM subgroups, each CDM subgroup being transmitted on a different subcarrier. Each CDM subgroup comprises resource elements. In a first step, the radio network node transmits the reference signal over a first CDM subgroup using an orthogonal cover code. The first CDM subgroup comprises resource elements in a first time slot and a subsequent time slot. In a further step, the radio network node transmits the reference signal over a second CDM subgroup using a permutation of the orthogonal cover code. The second CDM subgroup comprises resource elements in the first time slot and the second time slot. The permutation of the orthogonal cover code is selected in such a way as to enable decoding of the reference signal in the frequency domain, by applying the orthogonal cover code only to resource elements in the CDM group which are comprised in the first time slot. | 2014-07-24 |
20140204914 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FAST DYNAMIC LINK ADAPTATION - A method and user equipment for selecting a transport format combination (TFC) is disclosed. Configuration of a plurality of TFCs to use for TFC selection is received, wherein the TFCs of the plurality of TFCs have an order. TFCs to block from TFC selection from the plurality of TFCs is determined, wherein the TFCs to block are based at least on a maximum allowed transmit power. A TFC for transmission of uplink data is selected, wherein the selected TFC is based on the TFC order and wherein the selected TFC is a TFC that is not blocked from TFC selection. | 2014-07-24 |
20140204915 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CLOSED LOOP TRANSMIT DIVERSITY TRANSMISSION INITIAL ACCESS - Uplink precoding in closed loop transmit diversity (CLTD). The methods and apparatus relate to precoder operations during an initial stage using default precoder tap weights, and a second stage wherein precoder weights obtained from a precoder control indicator channel information are used, provided the signal quality of the precoder control indicator channel is sufficiently reliable. The methods and apparatus also relate to procedures for responding to detection of an unreliable pre-coding control information (PCI) carried in a downlink feedback signal. | 2014-07-24 |
20140204916 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING COMMUNICATION LINKS - A system and method for managing a communication link between a consumer electronic device adapted for two-way, wireless communications with at least one peripheral. The communication link is managed using a controller that is associated with the consumer electronic device that functions to assign communication slots to the peripheral to facilitate communications between the peripheral and the consumer electronic device. | 2014-07-24 |
20140204917 | Method of Managing Packet Transmission for Wireless System - A method of managing packet transmission for a first wireless system wherein the first wireless system coexists with at least one second wireless system includes receiving a first type of packet of the first wireless system; determining whether the step of receiving the first type of packet is interfered by a second type of packet of one of the at least one second wireless system; and modifying a priority of the first type of packet when the first type of packet is interfered. | 2014-07-24 |
20140204918 | TCP RECOVERY METHOD AND APPARATUS - A method for Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) recovery in a transmitter for a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes detecting an event for releasing a Radio Resource Control (RRC) connection with a receiver, storing a TCP packet for the receiver when the RRC connection is released, reestablishing the RRC connection with the receiver, determining whether a session for the stored TCP packet exists, and transmitting the stored TCP packet to the receiver when determined that the session for the stored TCP packet exists. | 2014-07-24 |
20140204919 | MULTIPLE POWER CONTROL AND TIMING ADVANCE LOOPS DURING WIRELESS COMMUNICATION - A method of wireless communication includes receiving a signal from an base station. The method also includes determining a timing advance loop from a set of timing advance loops, and/or a power control loop from a set of power control loops. The determination is based on the received signal. | 2014-07-24 |
20140204920 | METHOD TO PREVENT HYPER FRAME NUMBER DE-SYNCHRONIZATION IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Methods and apparatus are provided for HFN synchronization in a wireless communication system. If re-establishment of an RLC entity occurs during a pending RLC reset procedure, the pending RLC reset procedure is aborted and the re-establishment of the RLC entity is performed. A first RC variable included in a RESET PDU is incremented. The pending RLC reset procedure is restarted. The RESET PDU including the incremented first RC variable is transmitted. A RESET ACKnowledgement (ACK) PDU for the RESET PDU including a second RC variable is received. The second RC variable included in the received RESET ACK PDU is checked and the received RESET ACK PDU is accepted based on the checking result. | 2014-07-24 |
20140204921 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, BASE STATION, AND MOBILE STATION - A wireless communication system includes a base station ( | 2014-07-24 |
20140204922 | METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING UPLINK SIGNALS FROM A USER EQUIPMENT TO A BASE STATION IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR THE SAME - A method for transmitting uplink signals from a user equipment to a base station in a time division multiplexing wireless communication system is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of transmitting a first uplink signal on an uplink subframe or a special subframe that precedes the uplink subframe, by preceding a first timing advance value at a reference time; and transmitting a second uplink signal on the uplink subframe by preceding a second timing advance value at the reference time, wherein the first timing advance value is greater than the second timing advance value, and the first uplink signal is transmitted for an uplink pilot time slot (UpPTS) period of the special subframe if a difference value between the first timing advance value and the second timing advance value is greater than a preset value. | 2014-07-24 |
20140204923 | Method and Arrangement in a Wireless Communication System - A radio network node for handling data streams from a user equipment is provided. The radio network node comprises a first receiving interface and a second receiving interface. The radio network node creates ( | 2014-07-24 |
20140204924 | METHOD AND APPARATUS OF PERFORMING A DISCOVERY PROCEDURE - The present invention is directed to a method and an apparatus for use in a wireless communication system. Specifically, the present invention is directed to a method of performing a discovery procedure for a ProSe and an apparatus therefore, in which the method comprises: scanning one or more Wireless Local Area Network Access Points (WLAN APs); transmitting a scan result for the one or more WLAN APs to a cellular network entity; and initiating the discovery procedure for the ProSe, if the discovery procedure for the ProSe is allowed by the cellular network entity as a response to the scan result. | 2014-07-24 |
20140204925 | INFORMATION PROVIDING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROVIDING APPARATUS, AND INFORMATION PROVIDING METHOD - An information providing system according to an embodiment includes a wireless LAN communication unit, a notification information storage unit, a terminal position acquisition unit, and a notification unit. The notification information storage unit stores notification information corresponding to the wireless LAN communication unit. The terminal position acquisition unit acquires position information indicating a position of a wireless terminal. The notification unit notifies a wireless terminal positioned in a communication area of the wireless LAN communication unit and not communicating with the wireless LAN communication unit of the notification information via a wireless WAN base station. | 2014-07-24 |
20140204926 | INFORMATION PROVIDING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROVIDING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROVIDING METHOD - The information providing system according to the embodiment includes a wireless LAN access point and an information providing apparatus. The wireless LAN access point detects a wireless terminal existing in a wireless LAN communication area to transmit the detection information to the information providing apparatus. The information providing apparatus determines either the wireless LAN access point or a wireless WAN base station, on the basis of information on a user of a wireless terminal specified according to the detection information and/or the information on an installation location of the wireless LAN access point, as a communication medium that notifies the notification information. | 2014-07-24 |
20140204927 | DETERMINING TO USE MULTI-RAN INTERWORKING BY CORRELATING DIFFERENT RAN IDENTIFIERS - Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide a method for confirming identity of a user equipment (UE) registered in both a wireless local area network (WLAN) and WWAN. A method is provided for wireless communications by a base station (BS). The method generally includes establishing communications with a first UE, wherein the UE is identified by a first set of one or more identifiers in a wide area wireless network (WWAN) and by a second set of one or more identifiers in a wide local area network (WLAN), and determining, based on the first and second set of identifiers, a UE connected to the WWAN and WLAN is the first UE | 2014-07-24 |
20140204928 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INITIAL SIGNAL ACQUISITION IN MULTIPATH FADING CHANNEL CONDITIONS - An apparatus and method for performing initial signal acquisition in a receiver of a millimeter wave wireless communication system. The apparatus comprises receiving a millimeter-wave signal including complementary sequences at the receiver; cross-correlating the received signal related to the received complementary sequences with respective predefined complementary sequences, wherein the received complementary sequences include a first type of complementary sequences and a second type of complementary sequences; performing a signal sequence detection by auto-correlating the cross-correlated first type of complementary sequences and comparing the auto-correlated results to an energy dependent threshold; and upon detection of the signal sequence, performing a timing synchronization to synchronize a start frame delimiter (SFD), wherein the timing synchronization includes in part a search for a peak in the cross-correlated first type of complementary sequences using a SFD search threshold. | 2014-07-24 |
20140204929 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING WIRELESS LAN ACCESS POINT SELECTION OF USER EQUIPMENT IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Methods and apparatus are provided for controlling Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) selection in a wireless communication system. Information on a limitation of managed objects, indicating whether to allow reception of a WLAN selection policy from a roaming network, is received. It is determined whether a User Equipment (UE) exists in the roaming network. It is determined whether to receive the WLAN selection policy from the roaming network based on the information on the limitation of the managed objects, when the UE exists in the roaming network. The WLAN selection policy is received from the roaming network, when it is determined that the WLAN selection policy is to be received from the roaming network. A WLAN is selected according to a policy set for the UE, when it is determined that the WLAN selection policy is not to be received from the roaming network. | 2014-07-24 |
20140204930 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TIME SYNCHRONISATION IN WIRELESS NETWORKS - A wireless media distribution system is provided comprising an access point ( | 2014-07-24 |
20140204931 | TECHNIQUES FOR UPDATE PROCEDURE SIGNALING IN A WIRELESS NETWORK - Techniques are described that can be used for efficient mobility management signaling. In some cases, a network can specify an extended timer used for a machine to machine (M2M) type device to communicate with a network. The extended timer can be transmitted in connection with an attachment acceptance message, Location Updating Accept message, Tracking Area Update Accept, or Routing Area Update Accept message. In some cases, a timer can be adjusted using a multiplier in order to increase a period at which communications with the network occur. The network can transmit an indication to change a timer by multiplying the timer with the multiplier. | 2014-07-24 |
20140204932 | SUPPORTING EMERGENCY CALLS ON A WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORK - Several methods are provided for communicating emergency call capability information between a station and an access point (AP) in a wireless local area network. The methods include advertising by the AP of its emergency call capabilities and announcing by the station of its emergency call capabilities. The AP can advertise its emergency call capabilities in a beacon frame, a probe response frame, a reassociation response frame, or a reauthentication response frame. The station can announce its emergency call capabilities in an association request frame, a reassociation request frame, an authentication request frame, or a reauthentication request frame. | 2014-07-24 |
20140204933 | NEIGHBOR SCANNING IN WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS - An access point includes a transmitter configured to transmit signals, a receiver configured to receive signals, and a timing information device. The timing information device is configured to receive a timing information request from a station associated to the access point, receive timing information for a beacon signal sent by a second access point, and report the timing information to the station. The timing information includes a time difference relative to a known reference time for transmission of the beacon signal and the time difference is an offset in timing units. | 2014-07-24 |
20140204934 | SYSTEM FOR CONNECTING TO WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS WHILE IN MOTION TO SEND AND RECEIVE GPS DATA AND OTHER INFORMATION TO A WEB PORTAL OR SOFTWARE APPLICATION - A process for detecting and connecting a GPS-enabled device to available in-range wireless local area networks (WLANs), particularly while the device is in motion. Once connected, the GPS enabled device sends and receives data and other information from a web service or software application. The process includes detecting relative movement speed of the GPS device and repeatedly attempts connections with new WLAN access points when in motion, particularly in excess of five miles per hour and/or twenty-five miles per hour. | 2014-07-24 |
20140204935 | System and Method for Instant VoIP Messaging - Methods, systems and programs for instant voice messaging over a packet-switched network are provided. A method for instant voice messaging may comprise receiving an instant voice message having one or more recipients, delivering the instant voice message to the one or more recipients over a packet-switched network, temporarily storing the instant voice message if a recipient is unavailable; and delivering the stored instant voice message to the recipient once the recipient becomes available. | 2014-07-24 |
20140204936 | TRANSMISSION DEVICE, RECEPTION DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM,CONTROL METHOD AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - A data division unit of a serial transmission device divides transfer data to generate a plurality of divided data, a plurality of parallel-to-serial conversion units converts the divided data into serial data according to timing control provided by a transmission control unit to transmit the serial data to a plurality of data signal lines connected to the plurality of parallel-to-serial conversion units, a plurality of serial-to-parallel conversion units of a serial reception device receives the serial data from the data signal lines connected thereto to convert the serial data into parallel data, and a data restoration unit combines the parallel data, which are converted by the plurality of serial-to-parallel conversion units, to restore the transfer data in an order of completion of the conversion. | 2014-07-24 |
20140204937 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR RELAYING COMMUNICATION BETWEEN NODES COUPLED THROUGH RELAY DEVICES - An apparatus is configured to relay communication between first and second nodes that area coupled through a plurality of relay devices. The apparatus generates control information indicating that communication from the second node to the first node is to be performed via the computer, in response to request for migration of relay processing from another apparatus to the apparatus, the relay processing including relaying communication between the first and second nodes, and sends the generated control information to the plurality of relay devices. | 2014-07-24 |
20140204938 | MULTICAST ROUTE ENTRY SYNCHRONIZATION - Embodiments of the invention relate to synchronizing multicast route entries in a system. One embodiment includes a system with a first module that synchronizes a group membership and sets a router processing flag based on an interface where a packet is received. A second module receives the router processing flag and information based on the synchronized group membership from the first module and creates multicast route entries based on processing the information and the router processing flag even on a non-designated router (DR) interface. | 2014-07-24 |
20140204939 | METHOD TO SETUP PROTOCOL INDEPENDENT MULTICAST TREES IN THE PRESENCE OF UNIDIRECTIONAL TUNNELS - Embodiments of the invention are directed to establishing a PIM tree to a source that is reachable over a unicast tunnel in a packet switched network. Advantageously, a Reverse Path Forwarding (RPF) Vector TLV to establish a PIM tree may be used in cases where there is an absence of source reachability in the core of a network. | 2014-07-24 |
20140204940 | SCALABLE TRANSPORT METHOD FOR MULTICAST REPLICATION - Embodiments disclosed herein provide advantageous methods and systems that use multicast communications via unreliable datagrams sent on a protected traffic class. These methods and systems provide effectively reliable multicast delivery while avoiding the overhead associated with point-to-point protocols. Rather than an exponential scaling of point-to-point connections (with expensive setup and teardown of the connections), the traffic from one server is bounded by linear scaling of multicast groups. In addition, the multicast rendezvous disclosed herein creates an edge-managed flow control that accounts for the dynamic state of the storage servers in the cluster, without needing centralized control, management or maintenance of state. This traffic shaping avoids the loss of data due to congestion during sustained oversubscription. Other embodiments, aspects and features are also disclosed. | 2014-07-24 |
20140204941 | SCALABLE TRANSPORT SYSTEM FOR MULTICAST REPLICATION - Embodiments disclosed herein provide advantageous methods and systems that use multicast communications via unreliable datagrams sent on a protected traffic class. These methods and systems provide effectively reliable multicast delivery while avoiding the overhead associated with point-to-point protocols. Rather than an exponential scaling of point-to-point connections (with expensive setup and teardown of the connections), the traffic from one server is bounded by linear scaling of multicast groups. In addition, the multicast rendezvous disclosed herein creates an edge-managed flow control that accounts for the dynamic state of the storage servers in the cluster, without needing centralized control, management or maintenance of state. This traffic shaping avoids the loss of data due to congestion during sustained oversubscription. Other embodiments, aspects and features are also disclosed. | 2014-07-24 |
20140204942 | METHODS OF ESTABLISHING VIRTUAL CIRCUITS AND OF PROVIDING A VIRTUAL PRIVATE NETWORK SERVICE THROUGH A SHARED NETWORK, AND PROVIDER EDGE DEVICE FOR SUCH NETWORK - A virtual private network (VPN) service is provided through a shared network infrastructure comprising interconnected provider edge (PE) devices having customer edge (CE) interfaces. Some of the CE interfaces are allocated to a VPN supporting virtual LANs. A correspondence between a CE interface and a virtual LAN is learnt on the basis of tagged frames received at this CE interface and including an identifier of this virtual LAN. The learning process permits the detection of pairs of CE interfaces which correspond to a common virtual LAN. Upon such detection, a virtual circuit is established in the shared network infrastructure between the PE devices having these CE interfaces, and subsequently used for forwarding frames including the identifier of the common virtual VLAN. | 2014-07-24 |
20140204943 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PACKET ROUTING - Systems and methods to route packets of information within an integrated circuit, across one or more boards, racks, blades, and/or chassis, and/or across a connected network of packet processing engines include various modes of operation. Packets are routed to their destination, for example an individual packet processing engine. The packets of information include address-mode indicators, one or more destination port indicators, and/or (long-distance) addresses. | 2014-07-24 |
20140204944 | METHOD FOR AVOIDING A LOOP IN A NETWORK - According to an example, a method for avoiding a loop in a network, which is performed by each ED in each VPN site, comprises: interacting with other EDs in a same VPN site to elect a DED; assigning an authorized forwarding instance to each ED in the same VPN site when the ED is elected as the DED; obtaining the authorized forwarding instance from the DED when the ED is not elected as the DED; allowing traffic of the authorized forwarding instance transmitted from or to a public network, and blocking traffic of unauthorized forwarding instance transmitted from or to the public network. | 2014-07-24 |
20140204945 | METHOD OF TRANSMITTING DATA PACKET FROM CONTENT PROVIDER IN CONTENT-CENTRIC NETWORK AND CONTENT PROVIDER - A method of transmitting a data packet from a content provider in a content-centric network CCN includes verifying whether a content request packet requesting a content identical to a content of a content request packet being received from a content requester is present in a pending interest table (PIT), increasing a value of a counter corresponding to the content request packet, comparing the value of the counter to a predetermined threshold value, and transmitting a data packet using a predefined broadcast media access control (MAC) address in response to the content request packet being received and the value of the counter being greater than or equal to the threshold value. | 2014-07-24 |
20140204946 | Method, Apparatus and System for Generating Label Forwarding Table on Ring Topology - Embodiments of the present invention provide a method for generating a label forwarding table for a non-destination router on a ring topology. Embodiments of the present invention further provide an apparatus for generating a label forwarding table for a non-destination router on a ring topology and a method and system for generating two label switching paths LSPs of different ring directions on a ring topology. Technical solutions provided by the embodiments of the present invention are based on a clockwise label forwarding table and a counterclockwise label forwarding table that are generated for each non-destination router on the ring topology. When it is found that traffic cannot be forwarded to a destination router by using one of the two label forwarding tables, the non-destination router performs traffic switching and uses the other label forwarding table to forward the traffic. | 2014-07-24 |
20140204947 | IDENTIFICATION OF A PRIVATE DEVICE IN A PUBLIC NETWORK - Methods, network address translation (NAT) devices, network nodes and system for allowing identification of a private device in a public network or treating traffic of a private device in a public network. The NAT may allocate a private IPv4 address to the private device, reserve a block of ports on the public IPv4 address for the private device and send an identification of the block of ports to a network node in the public network. The network node of the public network may receive an identification of a block of ports on the public IPv4 address indicating that the block of ports is reserved for the private device and activate a rule for treating traffic of the private device. | 2014-07-24 |
20140204948 | FLEXIBLE AND EXTENSIBLE FLOW PROCESSING IN SOFTWARE-DEFINED NETWORKS - A network device acting as a forwarding element within a software-defined network receives a representation of configurable flow table definitions and configurable logic for selecting between flow tables. The network device creates a flow table based on each of the configurable flow table definitions and installs the configurable logic for selecting between flow tables. The network device receives data to populate configurable key columns and action columns of the flow tables and populates the flow tables using that data. The network device then selects from forwarding decisions for packets according to the configurable logic for selecting between flow tables, the flow tables, and each packet's values in relevant header fields required by the configurable logic. | 2014-07-24 |
20140204949 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DIRECT FRAME SWITCHING USING FRAME CONTAINED DESTINATION INFORMATION - Frame contained destination information may be used by a switch to identify an appropriate output port for a given frame without performing a table access operation. This reduces the processing requirements of the switch to enable the switch to handle frames more efficiently. The frame contained destination information may be contained in the frame's local destination MAC addresses (DA) such that a portion of the DA directly indicates, for each switch that handles the frame, an output port for that switch. Different portions of the DA may be used by different switches, depending on where they are in the network hierarchy. Large switches may also use sub-fields within their allocated portion in the DA to identify internal switching components. A location resolution server may be provided to store and distribute IP and MAC addresses and respond to local ARP requests on the local domain. | 2014-07-24 |
20140204950 | DIFFERENTIATED HANDLING OF DATA TRAFFIC WITH USER-CLASS DEPENDENT ADAPTATION OF NETWORK ADDRESS LOOKUP - Data traffic between a user at a user equipment and a network resource is preceded by a lookup procedure for obtaining a network address of the network resource. A message of the lookup procedure is processed depending on a class of users to which the user belongs. If the user belongs to a first class of users, the message of the lookup procedure is processed for adapting the lookup procedure to return a first network address of a replacement network resource capable of handling the data traffic. If the user belongs to a second class of users, the message of the lookup procedure is processed for adapting the lookup procedure to return a second network address of a replacement network resource capable of handling the data traffic. | 2014-07-24 |
20140204951 | METHODS OF ESTABLISHING VIRTUAL CIRCUITS AND OF PROVIDING A VIRTUAL PRIVATE NETWORK SERVICE THROUGH A SHARED NETWORK, AND PROVIDER EDGE DEVICE FOR SUCH NETWORK - A virtual private network (VPN) service is provided through a shared network infrastructure comprising interconnected provider edge (PE) devices having customer edge (CE) interfaces. Some of the CE interfaces are allocated to a VPN supporting virtual LANs. A correspondence between a CE interface and a virtual LAN is learnt on the basis of tagged frames received at this CE interface and including an identifier of this virtual LAN. The learning process permits the detection of pairs of CE interfaces which correspond to a common virtual LAN. Upon such detection, a virtual circuit is established in the shared network infrastructure between the PE devices having these CE interfaces, and subsequently used for forwarding frames including the identifier of the common virtual VLAN. | 2014-07-24 |
20140204952 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR EXCHANGING DATA SIGNALS OVER A PLURALITY OF DOMAINS IN A HOME NETWORK - A method for receiving data signals transmitted over a plurality of domains in a network includes receiving a first data signal at a first physical interface connected to a first domain from among the plurality of domains; receiving a second data signal at a second physical interface connected to a second domain from among the plurality of domains; combining the first data signal and the second data signal to produce a combined signal; and extracting transmitted data from the combined signal. The first data signal and the second data signal are instances of a common original data signal, transmitted over the first domain and the second domain, respectively, and having undergone physical signal degradation associated with the first domain and the second domain, respectively. | 2014-07-24 |
20140204953 | Communication System and Network Relay Device - A first switch device operating in a master mode, a second switch device operating in a backup mode, and third switch devices operating in a member mode in an initial state are provided. The first switch device operating in the master mode transmits a first control signal at every predetermined period to the second switch device operating in the backup mode. The second switch device operating in the backup mode makes a transition to the master mode when it does not receive for a predetermined period the first control signal from the first switch device operating in the master mode, and transmits an initializing signal to the third switch devices operating in the member mode. When having received the initializing signal, each of the third switch devices operating in the member mode constructs a management communication channel with the second switch device operating in the master mode. | 2014-07-24 |
20140204954 | COMMUNICATIONS GATEWAY FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING INFORMATION ASSOCIATED WITH AT LEAST ONE SERVICE CLASS - An apparatus disclosed includes a memory and at least one processor in communication with the memory. The at least one processor configured to: i) identify a service class of a plurality of service classes associated with data received at an interface of the apparatus; and ii) map the data to at least one communication port based on the service class. | 2014-07-24 |
20140204955 | Inline Network Switch Having Serial Ports for Out-of-Band Serial Console Access - Systems, methods and apparatus regarding network configuration and network switches including an in-line Network Console Access (NETCONA) Device having a NETCONA Management Module, a NETCONA WAN-side Port, a NETCONA LAN-side Port, and at least one NETCONA Serial Console Access Port. The NETCONA Device may share a single IP address for “out-of-band” access to network appliances at a network edge point. The NETCONA Device uses packet forwarding to transparently transfer data between a WAN and a LAN. Data packets having console access information are forwarded to the NETCONA Management Module for processing. An exemplary network system includes an in-line NETCONA Device and at least one Network Appliance; wherein the Network Appliance includes a Network Appliance Serial Console Access Port; and wherein the NETCONA Serial Console Access Port is coupled with the Network Appliance Serial Console Access Port to enable Serial Console Access. Numerous other aspects are provided. | 2014-07-24 |
20140204956 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ROUTING IN A STATE MACHINE - A device includes a routing buffer. The routing buffer includes a first port configured to receive a signal relating to an analysis of at least a portion of a data stream. The routing buffer also includes a second port configured to selectively provide the signal to a first routing line of a block of a state machine at a first time. The routing buffer further includes a third port configured to selectively provide the signal to a second routing line of the block of the state machine at the first time. | 2014-07-24 |
20140204957 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR FACILITATING QUALITY OF SERVICE IN EDGE DEVICES IN A FIBRE CHANNEL NETWORK - One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that facilitates quality of service (QoS) in a Fibre Channel (FC) host bus adaptor (HBA). In this system the bandwidth on an FC link between the HBA and the FC switch can be allocated into a plurality of logical channels, and a respective logical channel can transport data frames of variable length. Furthermore, a respective logical channel is associated with a dedicated buffer. During operation, the HBA communicates to an FC switch the HBA's capability of receiving or sending a data flow over a logical channel that couples the HBA to the FC switch. The HBA further receives logical-channel allocation information from the FC switch. Furthermore, the HBA associates data frames with a logical channel and transmits data frames to the FC switch on the corresponding logical channel. | 2014-07-24 |
20140204958 | PREPROCESSING UNIT FOR NETWORK DATA - A preprocessing unit includes a data receiver to receive a data packet containing packet information, application data, and application data information, a relevance checker to determine relevance of the data packet in dependence on the packet information, an output module to output preprocessor output data, and a first controller to control output of preprocessor output data in dependence on the relevance of the data packet. In order to discard redundant data, thereby reducing the load of the memory, bus, and CPU of the computer system, the preprocessing unit further comprises a redundancy checker to determine redundancy of the application data preferably and a second controller to control output of preprocessor output data in dependence on the redundancy of the application data. | 2014-07-24 |
20140204959 | Method and Apparatus for LDPC Transmission Over a Channel Bonded Link - A particular overall architecture for transmission over a bonded channel system consisting of two interconnected MoCA (Multimedia over Coax Alliance) 2.0 SoCs (Systems on a Chip) and a method and apparatus for the case of a “bonded” channel network. With a bonded channel network, the data is divided into two segments, the first of which is transported over a primary channel and the second of which is transported over a secondary channel. | 2014-07-24 |
20140204960 | METHODS AND ARRANGEMENTS FOR TRAFFIC INDICATION MAPPING IN WIRELESS NETWORKS - Embodiments may implement a new hierarchical data structure for traffic indication mapping to facilitate transmissions for wireless communications devices. Many embodiments comprise MAC sublayer logic to generate and transmit management frames such as beacon frames with a partial virtual bitmap based upon the hierarchical data structure for traffic indication mapping. In some embodiments, the MAC sublayer logic may store the traffic indication map and/or the traffic indication map structure in memory, in logic, or in another manner that facilitates transmission of the frames. Some embodiments may receive, detect, and decode communications with frames comprising the partial virtual bitmap based upon the hierarchical data structure. In some embodiments, indications of buffered data for pages, super-blocks, blocks, sub-blocks, and/or stations may be inverted. In several embodiments, a new association identifier (AID) structure is defined for the new hierarchical data structure for traffic indication mapping. | 2014-07-24 |
20140204961 | Signaling - The invention relates to an apparatus including at least one processor and at least one memory including a computer program code, the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus at least to: choose more than one subframes from subframes targeted to at least two of the following: physical uplink control channel acknowledgement/no-acknowledgement signaling, physical hybrid automatic repeat request indicator channel acknowledgement/no-acknowledgement signaling, physical uplink shared channel resource allocation grant signaling, physical downlink shared channel resource allocation grant signaling, and form a periodic signaling pattern to obtain a flexible subframe configuration for uplink and downlink signaling by using the chosen more than one subframes. | 2014-07-24 |
20140204962 | TRANSMITTING DEVICE, RECEIVING DEVICE, AND TRANSCEIVING METHOD THEREOF - A transmitting device which transmits a plurality of streams is provided. The transmitting device comprises: a first multimedia data consisting of multimedia contents; a first synchronization information for synchronization of a second multimedia data consisting of multimedia contents; a first transmitting data including a first signaling data for the first multimedia data and a second signaling data for the second multimedia data, a data generating unit generating a second transmitting data including a second synchronization information for synchronization of the second multimedia data and the first multimedia data, a first transmitting unit transmitting the first transmitting data supplied from the data generating unit to a receiving device through a broadcasting network, and a second transmitting unit transmitting the second transmitting data supplied from the data generating unit to the receiving device through an IP network. | 2014-07-24 |
20140204963 | 193NM Laser And Inspection System - A laser for generating an output wavelength of approximately 193.4 nm includes a fundamental laser, an optical parametric generator, a fourth harmonic generator, and a frequency mixing module. The optical parametric generator, which is coupled to the fundamental laser, can generate a down-converted signal. The fourth harmonic generator, which may be coupled to the optical parametric generator or the fundamental laser, can generate a fourth harmonic. The frequency mixing module, which is coupled to the optical parametric generator and the fourth harmonic generator, can generate a laser output at a frequency equal to a sum of the fourth harmonic and twice a frequency of the down-converted signal. | 2014-07-24 |
20140204964 | SHORT-PULSE FIBER-LASER - A mode-locked fiber laser has a resonator including a gain-fiber, a mode-locking element, and a spectrally-selective dispersion compensating device. The resonator can be a standing-wave resonator or a traveling-wave resonator. The dispersion compensating device includes only one diffraction grating combined with a lens and a mirror to provide a spatial spectral spread. The numerical aperture of the gain-fiber selects which portion of the spectral spread can oscillate in the resonator. | 2014-07-24 |
20140204965 | LASER DEVICE AND METHOD - A laser beam combining and power scaling device and method. A first highly reflective mirror residing perpendicular to the first optical axis reflecting radiation emitted from the first laser head. A first Q-switch in alignment with the first optical axis interposed between the first highly reflective mirror and the first laser head. A second highly reflective mirror residing perpendicular to the second optical axis reflecting radiation emitted from the second laser head. The second Q-switch in alignment with the second optical axis is interposed between the second highly reflective mirror and the first laser head. A third optical axis is coincident with the first optical axis. A third highly reflective mirror residing perpendicular to the third optical axis in alignment therewith. The third optical axis may include a third diode pumped laser head and Q-switch. A beam splitter resides at the intersection of the axes. | 2014-07-24 |
20140204966 | LASER PROJECTION DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANIPULATING THE SAME - A method for manipulating a laser projection device is provided. A laser projection device comprising a laser source, a driving module and a scanning mirror module is provided. The laser source provides a laser beam. The scanning mirror module disposed at one side of the laser source reflects the laser beam, so that the laser beam performs a scanning motion to form a projection track on a projection region. According to a projection distance, the driving module provides a first drive signal to modulate the number of scanning times of the scanning mirror module and provides a second drive signal to control the on/off time of the laser source to adjust an initial image resolution to a corresponding image resolution lower than the initial image resolution to maintain the frame quality of laser projection. The projection distance is a distance between the laser source and the projection region. | 2014-07-24 |
20140204967 | Thermal Shunt - A thermal shunt is to transfer heat from a sidewall of a device to a silicon substrate. The device is associated with a Silicon-On-Insulator (SOI) including a buried oxide layer. The thermal shunt extends through the buried oxide layer to the silicon substrate. | 2014-07-24 |
20140204968 | Cooling module for laser, fabricating method thereof, and semiconductor laser fabricated from the module - A cooling module for fabricating a liquid-cooled semiconductor laser, a fabricating method, and a semiconductor laser fabricated from the module are provided, wherein the cooling module for a laser makes use of a liquid cooling plate provided with radiating fins to cool the semiconductor chip. After replacement of the traditional micro-channel structure with the radiating fin structure, the cooling module effectively reduces the resistance to flow of the cooling liquid, remarkably lowers the pressure decrease of the cooling liquid, makes it easier to seal the cooling liquid, provides stronger heat dissipating capability, effectively prolongs the lifetime of the semiconductor laser, and enhances the output power and reliability of the semiconductor laser, alongside the advantages of simple fabrication and low production cost. | 2014-07-24 |
20140204969 | SEMICONDUCTOR LASER DEVICE - The present invention is aimed to prevent occurrence of COD and rapid degradation of light output in semiconductor laser devices. The semiconductor laser device includes a semiconductor laser element | 2014-07-24 |
20140204970 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A semiconductor device has an active layer, a first semiconductor layer of first conductive type, an overflow prevention layer disposed between the active layer and the first semiconductor layer, which is doped with impurities of first conductive type and which prevents overflow of electrons or holes, a second semiconductor layer of first conductive type disposed at least one of between the active layer and the overflow prevention layer and between the overflow prevention layer and the first semiconductor layer, and an impurity diffusion prevention layer disposed between the first semiconductor layer and the active layer, which has a band gap smaller than those of the overflow prevention layer, the first semiconductor layer and the second semiconductor layer and which prevents diffusion of impurities of first conductive type. | 2014-07-24 |
20140204971 | Method for performing a differential thermal analysis - A method for conducting a differential thermal analysis, in which a sample disposed in a temperable sample space is tempered according to an essentially linear temperature program extending from a start temperature to an end temperature, such that, from the result of a measurement of the sample temperature conducted during tempering at a number of measurement time points, a DTA signal is calculated as the difference between a measured sample temperature and a reference temperature calculated according to a temperature curve model. According to the invention, for every measurement time point, the relevant reference temperature is calculated by the following steps: (a) establish a time interval containing the relevant measurement time point; (b) calculate a non-linear adjustment function for the measured sample temperature curve in the time interval; and (c) calculate the reference temperature as a value of the adjustment function for the measurement time point. | 2014-07-24 |
20140204972 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING CURRENT IN A POLYPHASE MACHINE - In a method for determining current in a polyphase machine connected to a DC voltage source, a DC link is provided with a DC-link capacitor and, per phase, a high-side switch and a low-side switch. A measurement of the voltage curve across the DC-link capacitor is undertaken. The current of the DC voltage source and/or one or a plurality of phase currents are/is determined from the measured voltage curve. | 2014-07-24 |
20140204973 | TEMPERATURE MEASURING SYSTEM OF ELECTRIC MOTOR HAVING HOLDING MEMBER HOLDING COIL END - A temperature measuring system of an electric motor, including an electroconductive holding member holding a coil end of an end of a stator coil comprised of a winding wire wound around a stator core, a resistance measuring part measuring a resistance of the holding member, and a temperature calculating part calculating a temperature of the winding wire based on a resistance value measured by the resistance measuring part. | 2014-07-24 |
20140204974 | TEMPERATURE SENSOR AND TEMPERATURE SENSING METHOD - Provided is a temperature sensing circuit and a temperature sensing method including a delay unit delaying an input clock signal to generate a feedback clock signal, and including logic gates of which delay times are variable according to temperature, a delay control unit comparing the feedback clock signal with a reference clock signal and controlling each of the logic gates of the delay unit according to the comparison result, and an input signal control unit selecting, as the input clock signal, any one of the feedback clock signal and the reference clock signal to input the input clock signal to the delay unit. | 2014-07-24 |
20140204975 | PLATE-SHAPED BODY FOR TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT AND TEMPERATURE MEASURING APPARATUS PROVIDED WITH THE SAME - There are provided a plate-shaped body for temperature measurement which, simply by being mounted on a mounting surface of an electrostatic chuck apparatus and without using a semiconductor wafer itself which is a product, is able to easily optimize the in-plane temperature distribution of the mounting surface of the electrostatic chuck apparatus, the temperature rising characteristics, and the cooling characteristics during decreases in temperature, and a temperature measuring apparatus provided with the same. In such a wafer for temperature measurement (plate-shaped body for temperature measurement) ( | 2014-07-24 |
20140204976 | Highly-Reliable Micro-Electromechanical System Temperature Sensor - A sensor arrangement for wirelessly measuring temperature and vibration is disclosed. The sensor arrangement includes a sensor element and a sensor coil affixed on the device. A readout coil is configured to be magnetically coupled to the sensor coil configured to energize the sensor coil with an energizing signal, configured to provide the natural frequency of the sensor element, the sensor coil, and the readout coil, and configured to provide amplitude modulations of the energizing signal, the amplitude modulations being induced by changes in the coupling factor of the readout coil and the sensor coil. An energizing circuit is configured to energize the readout coil with the energizing signal. A readout circuit is configured to store or display information regarding the natural frequency and the amplitude modulations. | 2014-07-24 |
20140204977 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING THE ARRIVAL TIME OF A UWB PULSE WITH A DOUBLE QUADRATURE RECEIVER - The invention relates to a method of estimating the time of arrival of a UWB pulse contained in an RF signal using a double quadrature receiver. The time of arrival is obtained from an estimate of the phase of the RF signal ((φ | 2014-07-24 |
20140204978 | TELEMETRY MULTIPLE ACCESS PROTOCOL OF A BEACON - Systems, methods and apparatus are provided through which in some implementations a here-i-am (HIA) transmission on a first RF channel, a registration (REG) transmission on a second RF channel and a short-and-instant telemetry messaging (SIM) transmission on a third RF channel is operable to exchange data between a network and beacons using a wireless communications channel that permits the beacons to access the network for identification of the beacons. | 2014-07-24 |
20140204979 | TELEMETRY MULTIPLE ACCESS PROTOCOL OF A BASE STATION - Systems, methods and apparatus are provided through which in some implementations a here-i-am (HIA) transmission on a first RF channel, a registration (REG) transmission on a second RF channel and a short-and-instant telemetry messaging (SIM) transmission on a third RF channel is operable to exchange data between a network and beacons using a wireless communications channel that permits the beacons to access the network for identification of the beacons. | 2014-07-24 |
20140204980 | LOCATION TRACKING MULTIPLE ACCESS PROTOCOL OF A BEACON - Systems, methods and apparatus are provided through which in some implementations a here-i-am (HIA) transmission on a first RF channel, a registration (REG) transmission on a second RF channel and a location tacking messaging (LOC) transmission on a third RF channel is operable to identify location between a network and beacons using a wireless communications channel that permits the beacons to be tracked by the network for location of the beacons. | 2014-07-24 |