31st week of 2013 patent applcation highlights part 30 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20130194856 | Reference and Read OTP Sensors - The present disclosure provides a reference one time programmable (OTP) cell, wherein the reference OTP cell can generate a reference bias current in at least a programmed-on configuration;a current mirror coupled to an output of the OTP cell, wherein the current mirror includes at least two gate-coupled field effect transistors (FETs); wherein a current gain of a second of the two FETS is a fraction less than one of a first of the at least two gate-coupled FETs; a programmable OTP memory bit element (OTPMBE) coupled to an input of the current mirror; and a comparator having an input coupled to a node between the OTPMBE and the current mirror. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194857 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE HAVING BIT LINES HIERARCHICALLY STRUCTURED - Disclosed herein is a device that includes: a sense amplifier circuit activated in response to a first control signal; a first global bit line coupled to the sense amplifier circuit; a first local bit line; a first transistor electrically coupled between the first global bit line and the first local bit line, the first transistor being rendered conductive in response to a second control signal; a first memory cell; a first cell transistor electrically coupled between the first local bit line and the first memory cell, the first cell transistor being rendered conductive in response to a third control signal; and a control circuit producing the first, second, and third control signals such that the second control signal is produced after producing the third control signal and the first control signal is produced after producing the second and third control signals. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194858 | SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF - A semiconductor device which stores data by using a transistor whose leakage current between source and drain in an off state is small as a writing transistor. In a matrix including a plurality of memory cells in which a drain of the writing transistor is connected to a gate of a reading transistor and the drain of the writing transistor is connected to one electrode of a capacitor, a gate of the writing transistor is connected to a writing word line; a source of the writing transistor is connected to a writing bit line; and a source and a drain of the reading transistor are connected to a reading bit line and a bias line. In order to reduce the number of wirings, the writing bit line or the bias line is substituted for the reading bit line in another column. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194859 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SWITCHING POWER IN A DUAL RAIL MEMORY - A memory apparatus includes an array of bit cells arranged in rows and columns, multiple pairs of complementary bit lines, multiple power lines, and multiple voltage control circuits. Each column of the array is selectable by a corresponding pair of complementary bit lines. Each power line is coupled to the bit cells in a corresponding column. The voltage control circuits are coupled to respective columns of the array. Each voltage control circuit is configured to set a voltage level of a respective one of the power lines responsive to logic levels of the pair of complementary bit lines corresponding to the respective column. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194860 | Tracking for Write Operations of Memory Devices - Some aspects of the present disclosure relate to write tracking techniques for memory devices. In some embodiments, a memory device includes an array of SRAM cells, wherein each SRAM cell includes a pair of cross-coupled inverters having complimentary storage nodes, and a pair of access transistors that allow selective access to the complimentary storage nodes, respectively. To help ensure that wordline and bitline pulses are of sufficient length and intensity, one or more write tracking cells track a wordline tracking signal, which is representative of a wordline pulse applied to a wordline. In response to the wordline tracking signal, the write tracking cell internally generates a signal that models bitline loading, and provides an output tracking signal based on the wordline tracking and bitline loading signals. Bitline and/or wordline pulses can then be set based on the output tracking signal. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194861 | SINGLE-ENDED SRAM WITH CROSS-POINT DATA-AWARE WRITE OPERATION - A single-ended SRAM including at least one memory cell and a third switch is provided. The memory cell includes a data-latching unit, a first switch, a second switch and a data-transferring unit. The data-latching unit is configured for latching the received input data and provides a storage data and the inverse data of the storage data. The first switch transfers a reference data to the data-latching unit according to a first word-line signal. The second switch transfers the reference data to the data-latching unit according to a second word-line signal. The data-transferring unit decides whether or not to transfer the reference data to the bit-line according to the storage data and a control signal. The third switch receives the reference data and the control signal and transfers the reference data to the first switch, the second switch and the data-transferring unit according to the control signal. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194862 | NON-VOLATILE FLIP-FLOP - A flip-flop has an output control node and an isolation switch selectively couples a retention sense node to the output control node. A sense circuit selectively couples an external sense current source to the retention sense node and to magnetic tunneling junction (MTJ) elements. Optionally a write circuit selectively injects a write current through one MTJ element and then another MTJ element. Optionally, a write circuit injects a write current through a first MTJ element concurrently with injecting a write current through a second MTJ element. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194863 | INITIALIZATION METHOD OF A PERPENDICULAR MAGNETIC RANDOM ACCESS MEMORY (MRAM) DEVICE - Methods using a sequence of externally generated magnetic fields to initialize the magnetization directions of each of the layers in perpendicular MTJ MRAM elements for data and reference bits when the required magnetization directions are anti-parallel are described. The coercivity of the fixed pinned and reference layers can be made unequal so that one of them can be switched by a magnetic field that will reliably leave the other one unswitched. Embodiments of the invention utilize the different effective coercivity fields of the pinned, reference and free layers to selectively switch the magnetization directions using a sequence of magnetic fields of decreasing strength. Optionally the chip or wafer can be heated to reduce the required field magnitude. It is possible that the first magnetic field in the sequence can be applied during an annealing step in the MRAM manufacture process. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194864 | IMPLEMENTING ENHANCED DATA WRITE FOR MULTI-LEVEL CELL (MLC) MEMORY USING THRESHOLD VOLTAGE-DRIFT OR RESISTANCE DRIFT TOLERANT MOVING BASELINE MEMORY DATA ENCODING - A method and apparatus are provided for implementing enhanced performance for multi-level cell (MLC) memory using threshold-voltage-drift or resistance-drift tolerant moving baseline memory data encoding. A voltage baseline of a prior write is identified, and a data write uses the threshold-voltage-drift or resistance-drift tolerant moving baseline memory data encoding for data being written to the MLC memory responsive to the identified voltage baseline. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194865 | IMPLEMENTING ENHANCED DATA READ FOR MULTI-LEVEL CELL (MLC) MEMORY USING THRESHOLD VOLTAGE-DRIFT OR RESISTANCE DRIFT TOLERANT MOVING BASELINE MEMORY DATA ENCODING - A method and apparatus are provided for implementing enhanced data read for multi-level cell (MLC) memory using threshold-voltage-drift or resistance-drift tolerant moving baseline memory data encoding. A data read back for data written to the MLC memory using threshold-voltage-drift or resistance-drift tolerant moving baseline memory data encoding is performed, higher voltage and lower voltage levels are compared, and respective data values are identified responsive to the compared higher voltage and lower voltage levels. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194866 | ACCESSING METHOD AND A MEMORY USING THEREOF - A memory comprises a memory cell, a sense amplifier, and a control unit. The memory cell stores a first bit and a second bit. The sense amplifier senses a first cell current and a second cell current corresponding to the first and the second bits respectively with a voltage applying on the memory cell. The control unit determines a digital state of the first bit by comparing a first reference current with the first cell current or by comparing a reference data with a first delta current between the first cell current and the second cell current. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194867 | SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE - A volatile memory area includes a plurality of second memory cells, a third select transistor, and a fourth select transistor. The plurality of second memory cells are electrically connected in series, and stacked above the substrate. The third select transistor is connected to one end of the plurality of second memory cells, and connected to a second bit line. The fourth select transistor is connected to the other end of the plurality of second memory cells, and unconnected to a second source line. A controller is configured to supply a first voltage to all gates of the second memory cells. The first voltage is capable of turning on the plurality of second memory cells. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194868 | NON-VOLATILE SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE - A limiter circuit compares a voltage of a control gate line and a set voltage, thereby switching the logic of a flag signal. A booster circuit starts or stops its operation according to the logic of the flag signal. A leak reference circuit has a function of leaking a leak reference current from the control gate line. A counter generates a first count value by counting the number of times the flag signal logic changes in a condition that a word-line transfer transistor is rendered non-conductive and a leak reference circuit is driven, while the counter generates a second count value by counting the number of times the flag signal logic changes in a condition that the word-line transfer transistor is rendered conductive and the leak reference circuit is undriven. A comparator compares the first count value and the second count value. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194869 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL NON-VOLATILE MEMORY DEVICE - A three-dimensional (3-D) non-volatile memory device according to embodiment of the present invention includes a plurality of bit lines, at least one string row extending in a first direction coupled to the bit lines and including 2N strings, wherein the N includes a natural number, a common source selection line configured to control source selection transistors of the 2N strings included in a memory block, a first common drain selection line configured to control drain selection transistors of a first string and a 2N-th string among the 2N strings included in a memory block, and N−1 second common drain selection lines configured to control drain selection transistors of adjacent strings in the first direction among remaining strings other than the first string and the 2N-th string. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194870 | SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SAME - A semiconductor memory device includes a memory block including memory strings coupled to and disposed between bit lines and a common source line, and a peripheral circuit configured to perform a read operation of memory cells included in selected memory strings of the memory strings and increase channel potential of unselected memory strings in the read operation. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194871 | NAND FLASH MEMORY UNIT, NAND FLASH MEMORY ARRAY, AND METHODS FOR OPERATING THEM - A NAND flash memory unit is described, including a string of memory cells connected in series, S/D regions coupled to two terminals of the string, at least one select transistor couple between a terminal of the string and an S/D region, and at least one erase transistor couple between the at least one select transistor and an S/D region. The select transistor is for selecting the string of memory cells. The erase transistor is for reducing Vt-shift of the select transistor. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194872 | NON-VOLATILE MEMORY DEVICE AND READ METHOD THEREOF - Disclosed is a nonvolatile memory device which includes a memory cell connected to a bit line and a word line; a page buffer electrically connected to the bit line and sensing data stored in the memory cell; and a control logic controlling the page buffer to vary a develop time of the bit line or a sensing node connected to the bit line according to a current temperature during a read operation. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194873 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTO-CALIBRATION OF A STORAGE MEMORY CONTROLLER - Systems and methods for auto-calibrating a storage memory controller are disclosed. In some embodiments, the systems and methods may be realized as a method for auto-calibrating a storage memory controller including instructing a controllable delay circuit to delay a read strobe signal at one of a plurality of delay settings, receiving data captured at a data latch using the delayed read strobe signal, selecting an adjustment factor from the plurality of delay settings using a multi-scale approach, based on an accuracy of the data captured at the data latch, and instructing the controllable delay circuit to delay the read strobe signal by the adjustment factor. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194874 | Dynamic Healing Of Non-Volatile Memory Cells - Methods and systems are disclosed for dynamic healing of non-volatile memory (NVM) cells within NVM systems. The dynamic healing embodiments described herein relax damage within tunnel dielectric layers for NVM cells that occurs over time from charges (e.g., holes and/or electrons) becoming trapped within these tunnel dielectric layers. NVM operations with respect to which dynamic healing processes can be applied include, for example, erase operations, program operations, and read operations. For example, dynamic healing can be applied where performance for the NVM system degrades beyond a selected performance level for an NVM operation, such as elevated erase/program pulse counts for erase/program operations and bit errors for read operations. A variety of healing techniques can be applied, such as drain stress processes, gate stress processes, and/or other desired healing techniques. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194875 | STRUCTURE AND METHOD FOR HEALING TUNNEL DIELECTRIC OF NON-VOLATILE MEMORY CELLS - A semiconductor device comprises an array of memory cells. Each of the memory cells includes a tunnel dielectric, a well region including a first current electrode and a second current electrode, and a control gate. The first and second current electrodes are adjacent one side of the tunnel dielectric and the control gate is adjacent another side of the tunnel dielectric. A controller is coupled to the memory cells. The controller includes logic to determine when to perform a healing process in the tunnel dielectric of the memory cells, and to apply a first voltage to the first current electrode of the memory cells during the healing process to remove trapped electrons and holes from the tunnel dielectric. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194876 | BUILT-IN SELF-TEST CIRCUIT APPLIED TO HIGH SPEED I/O PORT - A built-in self-test circuit (BIST) applied to a high speed I/O port is provided. The BIST circuit includes a detecting unit, a flag unit and a selecting unit. The detecting unit has a first input terminal for receiving a serial output signal, a second input terminal for receiving a serial enable signal, and an output terminal for generating a detection signal. The flag unit receives the detection signal and generates a flag signal. The selecting unit receives the serial output signal, the serial enable signal and the flag signal. When a reset signal is at a first level, the selecting unit transmits the serial output signal and the serial enable signal to the I/O port. When the reset signal is at a second level, the serial output signal and the serial enable signal possesses a predetermined relationship. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194877 | MEMORY AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SAME - A memory includes a plurality of memory blocks, a plurality of global bit lines, a common pre-charging circuit, and a selection circuit. Each memory block includes a pair of bit lines, and a plurality of memory cells coupled to the pair of bit lines. Each global bit line is coupled to at least one of the memory blocks. The pre-charging circuit is configured to pre-charge the global bit lines, one at a time, to a pre-charge voltage. The selection circuit is coupled between the pre-charging circuit and the global bit lines, and configured to couple the global bit lines, one at a time, to the pre-charging circuit. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194878 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE INCLUDING SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY CIRCUIT - The semiconductor device including a memory circuit is configured to include a mode switching circuit additionally provided with a data comparison circuit which detects that a serial signal supplied to an input terminal for communication and a serial signal supplied to an input terminal used for a purpose other than communication are reversed from each other, a decoder circuit which detects that a serial signal carries predetermined data and which outputs a detection signal, a control signal generating circuit which generates a control signal, and a circuit which outputs a signal for switching to a test mode on the basis of the signals. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194879 | Early Read After Write Operation Memory Device, System And Method - A memory device, system and method for allowing an early read operation after one or more write operations is provided according to an embodiment of the present invention. The memory device comprises an interface for providing a first write address, a first write data, and a read address. A memory core is coupled to the interface and includes a first memory section having a first data path and a first address path and a second memory section having a second data path and a second address path. In an embodiment of the present invention, the first data and first address path is independent of the second data and second address path. The first write data is provided on the first data path responsive to the first write address being provided on the first address path while a read data is provided on the second data path responsive to the read address being provided on the second address path. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194880 | READING MEMORY DATA - A circuit includes a memory array comprising K number of rows. The circuit further including a reference column. The reference column includes M cells of a first cell type configured to provide a first leakage current, K-M cells of a second cell type different from the first cell type, the K-M cells are configured to provide a second leakage current, and a reference data line connected to the cells of the first cell type and the cells of the second cell type. The circuit further includes a sensing circuit configured to determine a value stored in a memory cell of the memory array based on a voltage of the reference data line. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194881 | AREA-EFFICIENT MULTI-MODAL SIGNALING INTERFACE - One or more pins may be modally assigned to either the command/address (C/A) or data (DQ) blocks of a uniform-package, multi-modal PHY (physical signaling interface) of a memory controller, thus enabling those pins to be used as C/A pins when the PHY is connected to some memory types, and as DQ pins when the PHY is connected to other memory types. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194882 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE HAVING TIMING CONTROL FOR READ-WRITE MEMORY ACCESS OPERATIONS - A semiconductor device avoids the disturb problem and the collision between write and read operations in a DP-SRAM cell or a 2P-SRAM cell. The semiconductor device | 2013-08-01 |
20130194883 | OPERATING METHOD AND DATA READ METHOD IN NONVOLATILE MEMORY DEVICE - In a method of reading data in a nonvolatile memory device including data cells and monitoring cells. A first read operation applies a first read voltage to the data cells and monitoring cells. If a read fail occurs, a second read operation is performed using a red voltage level determined according to a number of ON-cells among the monitoring cells. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194884 | Synchronous Global Controller For Enhanced Pipelining - A system includes a memory block and a controller. The controller is adapted to skew a pre-charge signal for a bit line of the memory block. The controller can skew the pre-charge signal during a read operation or a write operation. The system can also include a sense amplifier in communication with a bit line of the memory block, and the sense amplifier can automatically shut off after indicating a sensed data state for the bit line. The controller may be a global controller or a local controller. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194885 | SPURIOUS INDUCED CHARGE CLEANUP FOR ONE TIME PROGRAMMABLE (OTP) MEMORY - A high density, low voltage, and low-power one time programmable (OTP) memory is based on core cells with a one transistor design. A CLEAN pulse is directed to a single shunt device at the output of the column decoder so spurious charges that may have been stored in the floating nodes can be cleaned up. Such arrangement also allows for the simultaneous initialization of bit lines, data lines, and sensing lines to zero. Core area layout size is substantially reduced, and operational power requirements are exceeding low making these particularly suitable in HF and UHF RFID applications. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194886 | PHYSICAL UNCLONABLE FUNCTION WITH IMPROVED START-UP BEHAVIOR - An electric physical unclonable function (PUF) ( | 2013-08-01 |
20130194887 | CEMENT MIXER AND BONE FILLER DEVICE - An apparatus and method for mixing and dispensing bone cement is provided. The apparatus includes a mixing vessel for mixing bone cement attached to a syringe body. The syringe body having a lumen that is connected to the mixing vessel by a passageway between the mixing vessel and the lumen of the syringe body. A separator is provided between the mixing vessel and the syringe body and includes an orifice therein so that when the opening in the separator is misaligned with the lumen the passageway is blocked and when aligned the passageway is continuous with the lumen so that bone cement can pass into the syringe body. A plunger is provided and is slideably movable along the longitudinal axis of the syringe body so as to advance the bone cement out of the distal end of the syringe. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194888 | SYSTEM AND A METHOD FOR DISPERSING BY CIRCULATION - A system and a method for dispersing by circulating a mixture that simplifies the structure of the part for sealing a shaft of a dispersing device and lengthens the life of the device are provided. The system for dispersing by circulating a slurry or liquid mixture to disperse substances in the mixture comprises a rotating and continuously dispersing device that disperses the mixture, a tank that is connected to an outlet of the dispersing device, a circulating pump that circulates the mixture, and a piping that in series connects the dispersing device, the tank, and the circulating pump. In the dispersing device the outflow of the mixture is greater than the inflow so that an amount of the mixture in the dispersing device is maintained at a level where a part for sealing a shaft that is provided inside the dispersing device is not immersed. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194889 | MIXING, STIRRING OR DISPERSING METHOD AND APPARATUS THEREFOR - Mixing, stirring or dispersing method using a corresponding apparatus ( | 2013-08-01 |
20130194890 | AUTOMATED SWEEP AND EXPTORT OF 2D ULTRASOUND IMAGES OF 3D VOLUMES - An ultrasound system ( | 2013-08-01 |
20130194891 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MONITORING A TRANSDUCER ARRAY IN AN ULTRASOUND SYSTEM - Methods and systems for monitoring a transducer array in an ultrasound probe are provided. One method includes acquiring ultrasound data using an ultrasound probe during an imaging mode of operation, wherein the ultrasound data includes echo information. The method further includes comparing the echo information from a plurality of transducer elements of a transducer array of the ultrasound probe during the imaging mode of operation, wherein the echo information is non-beamformed signal data. The method also includes determining non-uniformity information for the transducer array using the compared echo information during the imaging mode of operation. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194892 | Autonomous System for Hydrofracture Monitoring - A system includes a plurality of sensor assemblies that are adapted to be deployed in a wellbore and acquire sensor data indicative of microseismic activity due to a hydraulic fracturing operation in the wellbore. At least one of the sensor assemblies includes a command interface and at least one sensor and is adapted to use the command interface to identify a command stimulus that is communicated downhole and initiate an acquisition by the sensor in response to identifying the command stimulus. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194893 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING SEISMIC DATA - Methods and apparatuses for processing seismic data carrying information about a subsurface structure are provided. One method includes splitting the seismic data in groups, each group including subsets of seismic data for which a distance from a respective shot point to a receiver line in a patch of active detectors corresponding to the shot point is within a predetermined range for the group, and extracting signal data for each block Hankel matrix based on an SVD analysis thereof. Another method includes extracting signal data by subtracting from seismic data an estimated noise model obtained by rank reduction of a Hankel matrix followed by dip filtering, enhanced based on a least square matching filter with the seismic data. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194894 | TRANSMISSION/RECEPTION CIRCUIT, ULTRASONIC PROBE, AND ULTRASONIC IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS - A transmission/reception circuit for an ultrasonic probe having an ultrasonic transducer is provided. The transmission/reception circuit includes a first drive pulse generation unit configured to generate a first drive pulse for driving the ultrasonic transducer, a switch configured to turn on and off output of a second drive pulse for driving the ultrasonic transducer to the ultrasonic transducer, the second drive pulse supplied from an ultrasonic image display apparatus body connected to the ultrasonic probe, and a delay unit configured to add a delay time to an echo signal of an ultrasonic wave received by the ultrasonic transducer. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194895 | ULTRASOUND PROBING DEVICE, METHOD OF CONTROLLING TRANSDUCERS OF AN ULTRASOUND PROBE AND CORRESPONDING COMPUTER PROGRAM - An ultrasound probing device including: a box; a locating mechanism to provide a position of the box in relation to a reference frame associated with an object to be examined; a mechanism to determine a delay law based on focusing parameters, representing a desired position of a focal point in relation to a reference frame associated with the box; a controller to provide control signals based on the delay law; transducers attached to the box, to receive control signals and, in response, to transmit ultrasonic waves in the object respectively delayed according to the delay law to focus at the focal point defined by the focusing parameters; and a mechanism updating the focusing parameters based on predefined associations between positions on a desired path of the box in relation to the reference frame associated with the object and corresponding focusing parameter values and the position of the box. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194896 | ELECTRONIC TIMEPIECE - According to an electronic timepiece of the invention, when a secondary battery is in an uncharged state and an oscillation circuit, a display unit, and a CPU are restored from an inoperable state to a normally charged state which makes the respective members to be operable, the electronic timepiece activates and oscillates the oscillation circuit when a secondary battery voltage reaches a predetermined first voltage (for example, 0.9 V), and cancels a reset of the CPU when the secondary battery voltage reaches a predetermined second voltage (for example, 1.2 V), and starts a time-of-day display on the display unit when the secondary battery voltage reaches a predetermined third voltage (2.2 V). | 2013-08-01 |
20130194897 | ELECTRONIC TIMEPIECE - There is provided an electronic timepiece of the invention that includes a solar panel which receives light to generate electric power, is operated with the electric power supplied from a secondary battery charged with an electromotive voltage of the solar panel, and stops a display operation of a display unit with transition to a power saving mode under predetermined conditions, the electronic timepiece including a control unit (mode control unit) which avoids transition from the normal mode to the power saving mode, when a voltage of the secondary battery is equal to or more than a predetermined voltage value. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194898 | ELECTRONIC TIMEPIECE - There is provided an electronic timepiece that includes a solar panel which receives light to generate electric power, is operated with the electric power supplied from a secondary battery charged with output voltage of the solar panel, and includes a normal mode in which clock display is performed on a display unit and a power saving mode in which clock display on the display unit is stopped, based on illuminance detection of the solar panel, the electronic timepiece including: a mode control unit which switches cycles of the illuminance detection, by setting a cycle of the illuminance detection of the normal mode as a first cycle (for example, one minute), and a cycle of the illuminance detection of the power saving mode as a second cycle (for example, two seconds). | 2013-08-01 |
20130194899 | WATCH ASSEMBLY HAVING A PLURALITY OF TIME-COORDINATED BELTS - A watch for providing a digital time display comprises a movement mechanism disposed in a case that includes a number of continuous belts. The belts each have a numerical indicia consistent with hours, minutes and optionally second. The belts mounted over opposed drums, and the drums are rotated through gear engagement motors to move the belts. The arrangement of belts and drums are mounted on a frame separate from the case. The motors are operated to move the belts to cause the numerical indicia of the combined belts to register with one or more windows visible through a transparent cover to provide a time display. The belts may be oriented to overlap one another. The watch includes a microcontroller for controlling the operation of the motors, an optical sensor to determining the position of the belts, and a wirelessly rechargeable battery pack for powering the motors. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194900 | MECHANISM FOR ADVANCING A KARUSSEL CAGE OR TOURBILLON CAGE BY PERIODIC JUMPS - A mechanism for advancing, by periodic jumps, a pivoting cage for an escapement mechanism, including: a retaining mechanism authorizing or preventing the pivoting of the cage, depending on its movement; and a stopping mechanism authorizing or preventing the pivoting of the retaining mechanism, depending on its angular position. A constant force device causes periodic cooperation of the retaining mechanism, which includes a flirt arranged to perform complete revolutions and is connected to an input thereof, with the stopping mechanism, which includes a star wheel and is connected to an output thereof, whose trajectories interfere with each other, to pivot the cage when the stopping mechanism allows the pivoting of the retaining mechanism and to stop the cage when the stopping mechanism locks the retaining mechanism. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194901 | HEAT-ASSISTED MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM AND MAGNETIC RECORDING AND READING APPARATUS - The heat-assisted magnetic recording medium of the present invention has a substrate, an under layer formed on the substrate, and a magnetic layer formed on the under layer, in which the magnetic layer includes an alloy having a L1 | 2013-08-01 |
20130194902 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM - An information storage device has small compartments for storing information in a solid body and can be used as a memory medium. The solid body can have at least one pair of parallel planar portions on its surface. The information is divided into bits and stored in discrete minute areas that are distributed three-dimensionally inside the memory medium. The data can be converted into a digital format for storage to regulate the number of ‘1s’ recorded in a direction of the memory medium. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194903 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND AUDIO OUTPUT METHOD - According to one embodiment, electronic device including, turntable configured to rotate recording medium including recording layer along plane on which surface of recording layer extends, servo data providing mechanism configured to provide on surface of turntable facing recording layer of recording medium and provides servo data used for recording of data on recoding medium or reproduction of data from recording medium, and recording and reproduction module configured to irradiate recording layer of recording medium with light having first wavelength and light having second wavelength different from light having first wavelength from opposite side of recording medium with respect to turntable. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194904 | WRITING SYSTEM, WRITING DEVICE, AND WRITING METHOD - A writing-system comprises a first and a second writing-device, and is connected to an information-processor-apparatus that obtains unwritten-data from the first and the second writing-devices when a notification is received, the notification indicating that the unwritten-data is generated while writing data on a recording-medium used by either of the writing-devices, wherein the first writing-device comprises a first writing-unit, when the unwritten-data is generated while writing data on a recording-medium, transmits to the information-processor-apparatus, dummy information for inhibiting the unwritten-data to be obtained by the information-processor-apparatus, and writes the unwritten-data to a memory-unit, the recording-medium and the memory-unit are included in a cartridge accommodated in the first writing-device, and the second writing-device comprises a second writing-unit that writes, on the recording-medium, the unwritten-data stored in the memory-unit when the cartridge is moved from the first writing-device to the second writing-device. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194905 | OPTICAL PICKUP AND OPTICAL DISK DEVICE USING OPTICAL PICKUP - In an optical pickup for an optical disk device using BD, DVD and CD as recording media, simplification of constitutional elements is promoted. The optical pickup includes a dual wavelength type laser beam source generating laser beams for DVD and CD, a single wavelength type laser beam source generating a laser beam for BD, and a first wave plate converting the laser beam for BD generated from the laser beam source concerned into circular polarization. It further includes a second wave plate converting the laser beam for DVD generated from the dual wavelength type laser beam source into 45-degree linear polarization. Favorable recording and reproduction are performed by radiating the laser beam to the recording medium concerned as the circular polarization for BD and the 45-degree linear polarization for DVD. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194906 | OPTICAL PICKUP AND OPTICAL SYSTEM INCLUDING THE SAME - Provided are an optical pickup and an optical system employing the optical pickup. The optical pickup includes a twin light source. In various aspects, a length between the two light sources of a twin light source is reduced while the magnification of the optical pickup is increased, in comparison to a conventional optical pickup. Accordingly, a manufacturing cost of the optical pickup may be reduced. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194907 | ROTATING DEVICE - A rotating device includes: a hub that is rotatably supported by a base, on which a recording disk is to be mounted; a stator core fixed to the base, the core having a ring portion and multiple salient poles that radially extend from the ring portion; and a magnet fixed to the hub, the magnet having multiple magnetic poles arranged along its circumference on its side surface on the salient pole side. The magnet is arranged such that its side surface on the salient pole side faces a side surface of each salient pole and a side surface of a portion of the hub that faces the stator core along a rotational axis direction. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194908 | Method of Resource Allocation and Signaling for Aperiodic Channel Sounding - A method for resource allocation. The method includes signaling a set of SRS subframes in which an SRS can be transmitted, wherein a UE not capable of aperiodic SRS transmission can be instructed to transmit periodic SRS in any of the SRS subframes. The method further includes signaling which of the SRS subframes are to be used for periodic SRS transmissions and which are to be used for aperiodic SRS transmissions, wherein a periodic SRS transmission is an SRS transmission that is transmitted by a UE in a first subframe, the first subframe being determined at least by the subframe in which the UE transmitted a previous SRS and an SRS periodicity, and wherein an aperiodic SRS transmission is an SRS transmission that is transmitted by a UE in a second subframe, the second subframe being determined at least by a transmission on a physical control channel to the UE. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194909 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETECTING ERROR IN AN IP-BASED BEARER INDEPENDENT CALL CONTROL ENVIRONMENT - A call monitoring method for detecting an error in a Bearer-Independent Call Control (BICC) environment using an Internet Protocol (IP) as a bearer is provided, in which an MSC receives connection information about a called exchange from another MSC, requests IP resource allocation for configuring a termination to a Media GateWay (MGW) controlled by the MSC based on the received connection information about the called exchange, determines, upon receipt of a resource allocation failure message from the MGW, whether a cause of a resource allocation failure is an IP allocation error, and transmits the resource allocation failure message to a resource manager, if the cause of the resource allocation failure is an IP allocation error. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194910 | FAILURE RECOVERY IN AN IP MULTIMEDIA SUBSYSTEM NETWORK - A method is provided for facilitating recovery from the failure of a P-CSCF within an IP multimedia Subsystem network. A gateway, such as a GGSN, monitors signals arriving at the gateway from the P-CSCF and provides an indication if the monitored signals become unacceptable, for example because of an interruption in the signals. The gateway responds by signalling the unavailability of the P-CSCF to user equipment, which was associated with the P-CSCF during a previous registration with the IMS network. In response, for example, the user equipment affected by the failure may request re-registration with the IMS network using a different available P-CSCF. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194911 | REDUNDANT NETWORK CONNECTIONS - Various exemplary embodiments relate to a method and related network node including one or more of the following: performing an active gateway election to determine whether the provider edge device will be an active gateway for a connection; if the provider edge device will be the active gateway for the connection, indicating to a customer edge device that no fault is currently associated with a link between the customer edge device and the provider edge device; and if the provider edge device will not be the active gateway for the connection, indicating to the customer edge device that a fault is currently associated with the link between the customer edge device and the provider edge device. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194912 | SEA FAILOVER MECHANISM WITH MINIMIZED PACKET LOSSES - Provided are techniques for active SEA learning about a client LPAR MAC addresses via address resolution protocol (ARP) packets received on a virtual interface (of the active SEA). Any new client MAC addresses learned on the active SEA are sent to the inactive SEA via a control channel. When SEA failover happens, as the previously inactive SEA is about to become active, it will first send out RARP (reverse ARP) packets with the client MAC addresses as the source MAC addresses respectively. This effectively informs the switch connected to the previously inactive SEA that these client MAC addresses are to be routed through this switch port; the client MAC addresses saved on the switch connected to the previously active SEA are cleared as a result. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194913 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR INTERCONNECTED RING PROTECTION - A method, an apparatus and a system for interconnected ring protection, relates to the communication field, realizes the protection of the interconnected ring network using a narrow bandwidth, and improves the bandwidth utilization rate. The method comprises: a first intersection node in an intersection node group receiving an cross-ring service, the first intersection node determining an off-ring node of the cross-ring service on a second ring according to service information of the cross-ring service; and if the first intersection node does not communicate with the off-ring node of the cross-ring service on the second ring, and the first intersection node is not the last intersection node, the first intersection node forwarding the cross-ring service to a second intersection node. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194914 | LINK AGGREGATION IN SOFTWARE-DEFINED NETWORKS - One embodiment of the present invention provides a switch capable of processing software-defined data flows. The switch includes an identifier management module and a flow definition management module. During operation, the identifier management module allocates a logical identifier to a link aggregation port group which includes a plurality of ports associated with different links. The flow definition management module processes a flow definition corresponding to the logical identifier, applies the flow definition to ports in the link aggregation port group, and update lookup information for the link aggregation port group based on the flow definition. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194915 | Radio Access Parameter Tuning - There is provided a solution for performing radio access parameter tuning. The solution includes obtaining first predetermined characteristics related to users who experienced a radio link failure, obtaining second predetermined characteristics related to the users who are according to a predetermined rule prone to a radio link failure, and determining, based on the obtained second predetermined characteristics in addition to the obtained first predetermined characteristics, whether radio access parameter tuning is to be performed or not. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194916 | Method for Generating a Load Sharing Vector - The invention relates to a method for generating a load sharing vector indicating a plurality of communication targets for load sharing in a communication network. The method comprises providing ( | 2013-08-01 |
20130194917 | APPARATUSES AND METHODS FOR REGISTERING TRANSMISSION CAPACITIES IN A BROADBAND ACCESS NETWORK - An access node, resource database, network gateway node, methods, and computer program product for use in a broadband access network is described. According to an embodiment of the invention, an access node is configured to determine at least one characteristic in the access node pertaining to the uplink capacity of a logical link between the access node and an aggregation network node in the broadband access network, determine the uplink capacity of the logical link based on the at least one determined characteristic in the access node, and provide a network gateway node in the broadband access network with access to the determined uplink capacity of the logical link. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194918 | System and Method for Link Adaptation Overhead Reduction - Systems and methods of providing link adaptation information feedback are provided. A mobile device that receives packets generates link adaptation information based on incorrectly received packets. This can involve sending link adaptation information in association with NACKs (negative acknowledgements) generated by the mobile device. The network receives this link adaptation information and performs link adaptation accordingly. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194919 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR USER EQUIPMENT ASSISTED CONGESTION CONTROL - A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for wireless communication are provided in connection with improving QoE in RAN congestion. In one example, a communications device is equipped to indicate a quality control indicator (QCI) for each of a plurality of applications that communicate with a RAN over a bearer, receive information regarding modification of the bearer or additional bearers based on the QCIs, and modify the bearer or additional bearers according to the information to achieve a desired QoE for at least one of the plurality of applications. In another example, a RAN is equipped to receive a QCI for each of a plurality of applications related to a bearer from a UE, and modify the bearer or adding additional bearers for communicating with the UE based on the QCI for each of the plurality of applications to improve QoE at the UE. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194920 | VHT TDLS - TDLS support in VHT devices is enabled through the use of added VHT fields in the TDLS frames. A VHT TDLS direct link can be setup through a respective TDLS Setup Request/Response with added field announcing VHT Capabilities of the VHT device and the peer device. Added VHT Operation field in the TDLS Setup Confirm frame adds supports between VHT peer devices for non-VHT BSS and VHT BSS. Two VHT STAs can establish wider TDLS channel than BSS operating channel through TDLS establishment. VHT off channel support is enabled by adding Wide Bandwidth Channel Switch field in the TDLS Channel Switch Request frame and no changes to TDLS Channel Switch Response. A VHT Capabilities field is also added to TDLS Discovery Response frame to inform peer devices of device capabilities. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194921 | METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR NETWORK CONFIGURATION OF USER EQUIPMENT COMMUNICATION MODES IN MULTIFLOW SYSTEMS - The present disclosure provides methods and apparatuses for improved UE communication mode determination by a network entity, such as a radio network controller, where multi-cell and multi-carrier communication is available to the UE in a wireless network. For example, in an aspect, methods and apparatuses are provided for determining whether a user equipment (UE) is in a soft handover region and a softer handover region, and where the UE is in such a region, predicting a future multi-cell performance of the UE assuming the UE will be served by a plurality of cells on a single carrier, predicting a future multi-carrier performance of the UE assuming the UE will be served by a plurality of carriers of a single cell, comparing the future multi-cell performance to the future multi-carrier performance, and transmitting a mode command to the UE based at least on the comparing. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194922 | DYNAMIC RESHUFFLING OF TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT SCHEDULER HIERARCHY - There is provided a network device comprising a physical queue management processor configured to manage attributes of physical queues of data packets. The network device further comprises a scheduling processor which is configured to manage scheduling nodes that establish a scheduling hierarchy among the physical queues in a network, utilizing a bi-directional mapping of the physical queues to logical queues. The network device further comprises a traffic management processor which is configured to modify the bi-directional mapping mentioned above. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194923 | CONVERGED ENHANCED ETHERNET NETWORK - A system to improve a Converged Enhanced Ethernet network may include a controller having a computer processor connected to a layer 2 endpoint buffer. The system may also include a manager executing on the controller to monitor the layer 2 endpoint buffer by determining buffer data packet occupancy and/or rate of change in the buffer data packet occupancy. The system may further include a reporter to notify a congestion source of the layer 2 endpoint buffer based upon the buffer data packet occupancy and/or rate of change in the buffer data packet occupancy. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194924 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR FLOW CONGESTION CONTROL IN MULTIFLOW NETWORKS - The present disclosure provides methods and apparatuses for improved Iub link congestion management based on a dynamic scaling of flow control request message transmission in multiflow wireless environments. For example, in an aspect, methods and apparatuses are provided for receiving, at a NodeB, a data request from one or more user equipment (UE), wherein each data request corresponds to a flow and the one or more UE is served by a plurality of NodeBs, generating a flow control request corresponding to each flow in response to each data request, and sending each flow control request to a radio network controller (RNC). Thereafter, a Node B may receive data in response to each flow control request, determine a congestion state based on a downlink delay from the RNC detected in the received data, and scale a subsequent one or more flow control requests based on the determined congestion state. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194925 | RESERVATION SYSTEM FOR AN ETHERNET NETWORK - An improved computer system may include a server carrying a computer processor in a Fibre Channel over Convergence Enhanced Ethernet (FCoCEE) network. The system may also include a reservation system in communication with the server that utilizes enhanced transmission selection (ETS) to reserve bandwidth for a priority group by scheduling bandwidth for the priority group based upon a projected workload. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194926 | RESERVATION SYSTEM FOR AN ETHERNET NETWORK - An improved computer system may include a server carrying a computer processor in a Fibre Channel over Convergence Enhanced Ethernet (FCoCEE) network. The system may also include a reservation system in communication with the server that utilizes enhanced transmission selection (ETS) to reserve bandwidth for a priority group by scheduling bandwidth for the priority group based upon a projected workload. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194927 | ROUTER, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING ROUTER, AND PROGRAM - A router includes a buffer selection section for receiving a flit from an adjacent router and determining whether to store the flit on an input buffer or to store the flit on a bypass buffer. The buffer selection section executes at least one of a first control of, when a bypass process was performed, changing at least one of a transmission path and a transmission flow rate of data based on a transmission state of the router; and a second control of, when a bypass control section did not execute the bypass process, changing at least one of a transmission path and a transmission flow rate of data based on a transmission state of another first router at which data not subjected to the bypass process and data subjected to the bypass process by another second router are joined together. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194928 | SENSOR NETWORK - Method of using a sensor network for improving data flow of the sensor network comprises a step of identifying components of the sensor network, a step of estimating resource footprints of the components; and a step of modifying policies of the sensor network for governing data flow. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194929 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR DISTRIBUTED QUALITY OF SERVICE ENFORCEMENT - A grid router for routing data over a grid sessionwise, involves multiple devices forwarding data according to sessions over an unreliable network between the devices. The devices include a first group of mailbox units to handle the sessions and a second group of egress units to forward session data to devices external to the network. The mailbox units and egress units are connected in a CLOS network such that each mailbox unit is accessible by each egress unit. The router further includes a distributed entity, which assigning specific sessions to specific mailbox units and to specific egress units and further defomes quality of service (QoS) levels for each session in the presence of congestion in either the network or the devices. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194930 | Application Identification Through Data Traffic Analysis - There is provided a method of processing, analysing or profiling traffic in a packet switched telecommunications network. During a first phase (S | 2013-08-01 |
20130194931 | SYSTEMS AND/OR METHODS FOR PROVIDING EPDCCH IN A MULTIPLE CARRIER BASED AND/OR QUASI-COLLATED NETWORK - ePDCCH may be provided. For example, a WTRU may receive a configuration for monitoring an ePDCCH resource. Based on the configuration, the WTRU may be configured to monitor and may monitor the ePDCCH resource on a particular subframe. Additionally, a WTRU may derive an aggregation level for a subframe associated with an aggregation level number N | 2013-08-01 |
20130194932 | CARRIER ETHERNET SERVICE BANDWIDTH ALLOCATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS - Exemplary carrier Ethernet service bandwidth allocation systems and methods are disclosed herein. An exemplary method includes a carrier Ethernet service system 1) receiving an Ethernet layer operation, administration, and management (“OAM”) protocol based message provided by a customer premises device to a network interface device over a user network interface (“UNI”), the Ethernet layer OAM protocol based message including a request to adjust an amount of bandwidth allocated to a carrier Ethernet service provided by the Ethernet service system to the customer premises device, and 2) adjusting, in response to the request, the amount of bandwidth allocated to the carrier Ethernet service. Corresponding methods and systems are also disclosed. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194933 | SELECTING A DATA UNIT FOR RETRANSMISSION - An event is detected relating to failure to receive an acknowledgment of a particular data unit transmitted by the first wireless node. According to a predefined criterion, a data unit is selected from a plurality of unacknowledged data units for retransmission. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194934 | PACKET PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DETECTING DUPLICATE ACKNOWLEDGEMENT PACKET - Provided are a packet processing apparatus and method for detecting a duplicate acknowledgement (ACK) packet. The packet processing apparatus initiates a session and then detects a retransmission packet and a duplicate ACK packet from input/output packets using statistic information related to packet retransmission. Accordingly, unnecessary traffic generated regardless of a user's intension can be blocked. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194935 | CIRCUIT TESTING ARRANGEMENT FOR SERIALISER/DESERIALISER - The present invention relates to a test arrangement for a serdes ip block and in particular provides a serdes test chip comprising a serdes instance to be tested and further instances of said serdes, said further instances constitution a data transfer path for data with which said serdes is to be tested. The data may come from a programmable gate array and enables the testing of data transfer schemes yet to be embodied in an integrated circuit ip block. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194936 | MOCA QUALITY INDEX MEASUREMENT SYSTEM FOR QUALIFYING HOME NETWORKS - Systems and methods for quantifying the suitability of a coax network segment to support MoCA communications, comprising: transmitting a test signal associated with MoCA communications through the segment's first end; receiving the test signal through the segment's second end; determining a response function; determining a channel degradation reference based on the highest power level of the response function and a predetermined reference; calculating subcarrier degradation for each MoCA subcarrier, in accordance with the difference between the channel degradation reference and the subcarrier response function; and quantifying the suitability of the segment to support MoCA communications from the first end to the second end in accordance with the subcarrier degradation of all subcarriers in the response function. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194937 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING INTELLIGENT CODEC RATE ADAPTATION FOR WIRELESS USERS - The method includes receiving, at a network element, a media data packet sent from a first source user equipment (UE) towards a first destination UE; detecting, at the network element, congestion in at least one of a downlink channel between the network element and the first destination UE, and an uplink channel between the first source UE and the network element; identifying a second source UE that is transmitting first data to a second destination UE through the network element and has a subscriber priority level lower than the first source UE if the detecting detects congestion; sending a congestion indication that causes the second source UE to lower a rate at which the second source UE transmits the first data through the network element to the second destination UE if the detecting detects congestion; and sending the media data packet from the network element to the first destination UE. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194938 | Interference Control Mechanism in Multi-Band Communication - There is provided a mechanism for controlling communications conducted in multiple frequency bands so as to decrease an interference level between the communications. When an interference situation caused between a first set UL communications performed on at least two different frequency bands and a DL communication performed on another frequency band is determined, a frequency carrier deactivation processing is conducted so as to deactivate either one of carriers of the at least two frequency bands of the set of UL communications. The deactivation processing comprises for example an autonomous denial on the UE side or an interference reporting with deactivation on the eNB side. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194939 | TRANSCEIVER - Embodiments of the invention provide a method of configuring a transceiver to transmit and receive signals at a plurality of frequencies including at least a first transmitted signal modulated at a first transmission frequency, a first received signal modulated at a first reception frequency, and a second transmitted signal modulated at a second transmission frequency, the method comprising:
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20130194940 | Base Station, User Equipment, and Methods therein in a Communications System - A method in a first base station for obtaining channel state information from a user equipment is provided. The first base station is comprised in a wireless communication system. The wireless communication system further comprises the user equipment. The first base station estimates ( | 2013-08-01 |
20130194941 | METHOD AND ARRANGEMENT FOR RRC SWITCHING - In a method of controlling RRC (Radio Resource Control) state switching in a wireless communication system, adaptively controlling (S40) RRC state switching between an idle state and a connected state for a user equipment based on at least a detected mobility measure for said user equipment. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194942 | Method and Arrangement in a Wireless Communication System - Method and arrangement in a first base station for calculating a first location parameter a of a user equipment in order to improve beamforming accuracy. The first base station and the user equipment are comprised in a Coordinated Multiple Point “CoMP” communication system together with a second base station. The method comprises measuring a signal received from the user equipment, estimating a first parameter value α′ based on the measured signal, obtaining a second parameter value α″, based on an estimated second location parameter β of the user equipment, estimated at the second base station and calculating the first location parameter α, based on the first estimated parameter value α′ and the obtained second parameter value α″. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194943 | EVOLVED NODE B AND METHOD FOR COHERENT COORDINATED MULTIPOINT TRANSMISSION WITH PER CSI-RS FEEDBACK - An evolved Node B (eNB) and method for coherent coordinated multipoint transmission with per CSI-RS feedback are generally described herein. The eNB may configure a first cooperating point and a second cooperating point to jointly transmit a multi-node channel-state information (CSI) reference signal (RS) (CSI-RS) in predetermined resource elements of a resource block. The eNB may receive CSI reports as feedback from user equipment (UE). The CSI reports may include a precoding matrix indicator (PMI) indicating relative phase information between the cooperating points based on the multi-node CSI-RS. The CSI reports for the multi-node CSI-RS may be restricted to a PMI of rank-1. The eNB may configure the cooperating points for a coherent joint transmission to the UE based at least on the relative phase information. The coherent joint transmission may also be jointly beamformed based on single-node PMIs. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194944 | System and Method To Avoid Interference With Radar Systems - A gateway device includes an input port for receiving Internet signals, a single RF module, a memory and a processor. The memory has computer executable instructions stored therein, wherein execution of the computer executable instructions by the processor causes the processor to retrieve a channel monitoring time from the memory. The execution of the computer executable instructions further causes the processor to monitor selected channels and develop and store in the memory a value of a confidence level for each channel. Each channel is monitored for a predetermined period of time between transmissions of data and the confidence level associated with a channel indicates the probability that frequencies associated with such channel are used by a radar system. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194945 | METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR IMPLEMENTING A MULTI-RAB MINIMUM TFC DETERMINATION ALGORITHM BASED ON TRANSMIT POWER - In an aspect of the present disclosure, presented is a method for wireless communication that includes obtaining at least one transport format combination (TFC), determining a minimum TFC (MinTFC) mode based on at least one TFC state of at least one TFC inside or outside a MinTFC set, and controlling at least one TFC based on the MRAB MinTFC mode. Through this method, pack-switched transmission power can be managed in a manner that will cause a circuit-switched call to function properly in challenging power conditions. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194946 | CONVERGED ENHANCED ETHERNET NETWORK - A system to improve a Converged Enhanced Ethernet network may include a controller having a computer processor connected to a layer 2 endpoint buffer. The system may also include a manager executing on the controller to monitor the layer 2 endpoint buffer by determining buffer data packet occupancy and/or rate of change in the buffer data packet occupancy. The system may further include a reporter to notify a congestion source of the layer 2 endpoint buffer based upon the buffer data packet occupancy and/or rate of change in the buffer data packet occupancy. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194947 | UE-INITIATED DYNAMIC ACTIVATION AND DE-ACTIVATION OF SECONDARY CARRIERS - Managing of secondary carriers for a multicarrier user equipment (UE) is described in which the UE initiates or provides input for activation and deactivation of selected secondary cells in a carrier aggregation depending on allocation or provisioning of UE radio frequency resources. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194948 | METHODS FOR INDICATING BACKHAUL RELAY GEOMETRY - A backhaul quality is measured. One or more subsets of cell identifiers having a mapped backhaul quality that maps to the measured backhaul quality are identified. The one or more subsets have a set of cell identifiers associated therewith. A network is queried to indicate one or more cell identifiers in the identified subset of cell identifiers available for a user equipment (UE) relay. One of the one or more indicated cell identifiers is selected. If more than one subset of cell identifiers has a mapped backhaul quality that maps to the measured backhaul quality, first and second subsets having respective first and second mapped backhaul qualities are selected and the backhaul qualities are compared relative to a backhaul quality threshold. The mapped backhaul quality that most satisfies the backhaul quality threshold is identified for the network query. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194949 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EXTRACTING STRUCTURED APPLICATION DATA FROM A COMMUNICATIONS LINK - Systems and methods for generating a semantic description of operations between network agents. In an embodiment, packet-level traffic between two or more network agents is captured. The packet-level traffic is bundled into one or more messages, wherein each message comprises one or more elements. For each of the messages, the elements of the message are matched to one or more attributes, and the message is decoded into message data based on the matched attributes. The message data is then used to generate a semantic description of operations between the network agents. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194950 | SYSTEMS AND/OR METHODS FOR MANAGING OR IMPROVING INTERFERENCE BETWEEN CELLS - Systems and methods for managing and/or improving interference in cells may be provided. For example, in embodiments, a partial-band Almost Blank Subframe (PB-ABS) subframe and/or a spatial Almost Blank Subframe (SABS) may be provided and/or used for coordinating communication with in networks with smaller and larger cells (e.g. pico or macro cells). For example, a PB-ABS may provide a dimension (e.g. frequency) that may be used to define a region and/or particular resources (e.g. resource blocks) reserved for pico cell operations or transmissions and a region or other resources (e.g. not those reserved for pico cell operations) available for macro cell operations or transmissions. Additionally, based on beam parameters (e.g. associated with cell partitioning), SABS may offer an additional dimension (e.g. spatial) that may be used to prevent transmission in a particular spatial direction. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194951 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING DATA SERVICE USING BROADCASTING SIGNAL - A method and apparatus for providing a data service by using a broadcasting signal are provided. To transmit the broadcasting signal by an Access Point (AP) located within a coverage area of a base station (eNB), the AP transmits configuration information, used for transmission of the broadcasting signal on the same frequency band as that of the eNB, to the eNB, receives broadcasting signal transmission information, based on the configuration information, from the eNB, and transmits the broadcasting signal according to the broadcasting signal transmission information. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194952 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING TRANSMISSION CONTROL PROTOCOL (TCP) PACKET LOSS - Provided is a method of identifying a transmission control protocol (TCP) packet loss, including transmitting at least one TCP data packet to a TCP receiver, estimating wireless channel status information using the TCP receiver by interaction between a TCP layer and a physical layer, and receiving an acknowledgement (ACK) packet including the estimated wireless channel status information from the TCP receiver. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194953 | POWER CONTROL MANAGEMENT IN UPLINK (UL) COORDINATED MULTIPOINT (COMP) TRANSMISSION - Techniques for performing path loss (PL) compensation in coordinated multipoint (CoMP) systems are provided. A method for wireless communications by a user equipment (UE) is provided. The method generally includes selecting, from a plurality of transmission points involved in uplink (UL) coordinated multipoint (CoMP) operations with the UE, a transmission point to associate with for path loss (PL) compensation, and adjusting power of one or more transmissions based on path loss measured based on the selected transmission point | 2013-08-01 |
20130194954 | MOBILITY IMPROVEMENT USING INCREASED NUMBER OF MOBILITY MEASUREMENTS FOR A TIME PERIOD - A method includes performing, responsive to entry into a cell, with a selected interval a number of measurements during a time period. The method also includes ceasing, after expiration of the time period, to perform the measurements that were performed responsive to the entry into the cell. The selected interval may be a maximum interval during which a measurement should be performed. Another method includes determining information to be used by a user equipment to perform, responsive to entry by the user equipment into a cell, a number of measurements using a selected interval during a time period. This other method includes signaling the information to the user equipment. Apparatus, computer program products, and systems are also disclosed. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194955 | Method and System for UMTS HSDPA Shared Control Channel Processing - Aspects of a method and system for UMTS HSDPA Shared Control Channel processing may include calculating at a receiver, for each one of a plurality of control channels, a quality metric derived from at least one Viterbi Decoder state metric. A control channel may be selected on the basis of the quality metrics, where the quality metric is selected that provides maximum confidence. The selected control channel may be chosen if its corresponding 3GPP metric is greater than a specified threshold, where the threshold is a design parameter. A validity of a selected control channel may be determined based on consistency and a CRC, where the CRC may be derived from decoding a sub-frame. The calculating and selecting may be done for a first slot of a sub-frame for High-Speed Shared Control Channels. | 2013-08-01 |