31st week of 2012 patent applcation highlights part 30 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20120195232 | Method And An Apparatus For Providing Configuration Information To A Mobile Terminal - A method and a Mobile Access Gateway (MAG) node for use in an IP network. The MAG node comprises a server for providing configuration information. The server includes a memory for storing configuration information, and a processing unit configured to generate a request for configuration information associated with a mobile terminal that has attached to the network. The server caches the configuration information in the server memory, and includes one or more items of configuration information from the cached information in a message to be sent to the mobile terminal. | 2012-08-02 |
20120195233 | Topology Management Method of Ether Multi-Ring Network, and System Thereof - A method for managing a topology of a multi-ring Ethernet and a system thereof are disclosed, and the method includes: a node including a blocked port on the multi-ring Ethernet periodically sending a Topology Find Frame (TF) message along a transmission control channel through an own good port; a node receiving said TF message in the multi-ring Ethernet updating an own topology database according the NODE_LIST in said TF message, writing an own NODE_ID into the NODE_LIST of said TF message, and then forwarding said TF message along the transmission control channel. | 2012-08-02 |
20120195234 | METHOD FOR POLICY-BASED CONTROL OF ENTERPRISE MESSAGING - The present invention provides a method for routing calls within an organization. One embodiment of the method includes detecting, at a server, a message transmitted by a calling party to one or more called parties. The calling party and the called parties are members of the organization. The method also includes determining, at the server, one or more relationships between the calling party and the called parties using information stored in a database associated with the organization. The method further includes routing the message using one or more policies associated with the determined relationship. | 2012-08-02 |
20120195235 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SPECIFYING A USER'S PREFERRED SPOKEN LANGUAGE FOR NETWORK COMMUNICATION SERVICES - A new telecommunication service provides users with the ability to specify and receive spoken-language services in a preferred language that differs from a preferred written or text language. One or more user (e.g., a subscribing entity) preferences for spoken language as well as written language is specified and stored, e.g., in a subscriber database. An application server uses the configured spoken language preference(s) to select the language used for voice announcements, voice prompts, and other voice applications provided in one or more telecommunication services. For example, the server populates the existing SIP Accept-Language header and/or a new SIP P-Media-Language field with the spoken language preference(s) to allow the other servers, e.g., in a home and destination domain, to provide spoken/voice service as well as text-based service to the user according to the user's language preference(s). | 2012-08-02 |
20120195236 | System for Multilocation Calling Line Identification Provisioning - Utilizing the system for multilocation CLID provisioning, a VoIP carrier may hold two or more sets of CLID information for a given endpoint. A first set may be a Main CLID information set, containing the multilocation CLID information of a business's central telephone number and address. A second set may be an E911 CLID information set, containing the true telephone number and physical location. A third set of CLID information may likewise be stored for other purposes. Upon a VoIP endpoint dialing an emergency number, such as 911, the system for multilocation CLID provisioning allows a VoIP carrier to exchange the Main CLID information for the E911 CLID information prior to sending the information to the E911 gateway and connecting the endpoint with the PSAP. The PSAP is then able to view the E911 CLID information, thereby having a true physical location and telephone number associated with the calling endpoint. | 2012-08-02 |
20120195237 | DUPLEXER BYPASS - Disclosed are circuits, techniques and methods for implementing a process of selectively bypassing a duplexer in a transmission path. In a particular embodiment, a receiver and a transmitter are coupled to a shared antenna through a duplexer. The duplexer may be selectively bypassed under certain conditions while the receiver is disabled and/or powered off. | 2012-08-02 |
20120195238 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR OBTAINING INFORMATION FROM TARGET BASE STATION - A method and an apparatus for obtaining information from a target base station are disclosed. The method includes: when a source base station needs to obtain information from a target base station, receiving, through an air interface, a system message in a certain format broadcast by the target base station; and parsing the system message, and obtaining required information. Through the present invention, an LTE base station can communicate with another LTE base station or with a heterogeneous base station directly through an air interface, thereby increasing the efficiency of communication between base stations. | 2012-08-02 |
20120195239 | Signal Generator for a Transmitter or a Receiver, a Transmitter and a Receiver - A signal generator for a transmitter or a receiver for transmitting or receiving RF-signals according to a given communication protocol includes an oscillator and a mismatch compensator. The oscillator is configured to provide a signal generator output signal having a signal generator output frequency and comprises a fine tuning circuit for providing a fine adjustment of the signal generator output frequency based on a fine tuning signal and a coarse tuning circuit for providing a course adjustment of the signal generator output frequency based on a coarse tuning signal. The mismatch compensator is configured to receive the signal generator output signal and compensate a frequency mismatch between a desired signal generator output frequency and the signal generator output frequency generated by the oscillator by providing the fine tuning signal for changing the state of the fine tuning circuit of the oscillator and by providing the coarse tuning signal for changing a state of the coarse tuning circuit of the oscillator. The mismatch compensator provides the coarse tuning signal during a guard period defined in the given communication protocol, during which no RF-signals are transmitted by the transmitter or no RF-signals are to be received by the receiver, such that the state of the coarse tuning circuit is changed within the guard period. | 2012-08-02 |
20120195240 | Method and apparatus for discontinuously receiving packet in a mobile communication system - A method for receiving a packet by a terminal in a mobile communication system including a base station providing a packet, and a terminal that discontinuously receives a packet from the base station in Discontinuous Reception (DRX) cycles each having an active period and a sleep period. The packet reception method includes receiving, from the base station, configuration information for a DRX service, including a DRX cycle length; setting, as a starting point of the DRX cycle, a point at which a first packet is received from the base station; receiving a packet from the base station for an active period at the beginning of the starting point; and transitioning to a sleep period and waiting for a next active period. | 2012-08-02 |
20120195241 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR UPLINK POWER CONTROL - In various embodiments, a system and method for providing uplink (UL) power control for a wireless mobile station (MS) includes, after transmission of an unanswered bandwidth request by the MS, incrementally boosting an UL transmit power of one or more subsequent bandwidth requests by the MS to a boosted UL power level at which UL bandwidth is allocated to the MS by the BS; selectively reporting the boosted UL power level to the BS immediately after the UL transmit power has been boosted; and selectively controlling the boosted UL power level by the BS responsive to the boosted UL power level reported to the BS. A MS is configured to carry out the UL power control method and a BS is configured to generate MS UL power control commands based, at least in part, upon the UL power level reported to the BS. | 2012-08-02 |
20120195242 | METHOD/SYSTEM FOR CONSERVING RESOURCES DURING CONVERSATION OVER WIRELESS NETWORK TRANSPORT MEDIA - A method and system are provided for conserving network resources such as battery power of a battery-powered communication device used to support a conversation over a wireless network transport media. Periods of silence are detected during conversation taking place on a network having controllable resources such as battery power. Using the periods of silence so-detected, future silence periods occurring on the network are then predicted. Allocation of at least a portion of the controllable resources is controlled based on the future silence periods so-predicted. | 2012-08-02 |
20120195243 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR TRANSMISSION AND RECEPTION OF DATA IN MULTI-ANTENNA SYSTEMS - Methods and apparatus adapted to address asymmetric conditions in a multi-antenna system. In one embodiment, the multi-antenna system comprises a wireless (e.g., 3G cellular) multiple-input, multiple-output (MIMO) system, and the methods and apparatus efficiently utilize transmitter and receiver resources based at least in part on a detected asymmetric condition. If an asymmetric condition is detected by the transmitter on any given data stream, the transmitter can decide to utilize only a subset of the available resources for that stream. Accordingly, the signal processing resources for that data stream are adapted to mirror the reduction in resources that are necessary for transmission. The transmitter signals the receiver that it will only be using a subset of the resources available, and the receiver adapts its operation according to the signaling data it receives. The multi-antenna system can therefore reduce power consumption as well as increasing spectral efficiency on the network. | 2012-08-02 |
20120195244 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGEMENT OF WIRELESS CLIENTS - Systems and methods for band hopping and power conservation in a wireless network are described. At least one embodiment is directed a method of hopping channels by a device within a wireless network. The method comprises hopping from a first channel to a target channel, resetting a virtual carrier sense after hopping to the target channel to enable service on the target channel, waiting for a pre-determined period of time, and setting a virtual carrier sense on the target channel after expiration of the pre-determined period of time and prior to hopping to a next target channel. | 2012-08-02 |
20120195245 | METHOD AND ARRANGEMENT FOR REDUCING POWER CONSUMPTION IN A MOBILE COMMUNICATION NETWORK - The invention relates to a method and an arrangement for reducing power consumption of a receiver in a mobile communication network comprising a sender transmitting packet data on a downlink channel to one or more receivers over a radio interface. Inactive time instants and listening time instants are defined according to provided rules. The receiver is arranged to listen for information from the sender during the listening time instants and to sleep during the inactive time instants. Thus, less power will be consumed during the inactive time instants. | 2012-08-02 |
20120195246 | Method for Transmission of Unicast Control in Broadcast/Multicast Transmission Time Intervals - Embodiments of the invention provide methods for maximizing the bandwidth utilization in the uplink of a communication system supporting time division multiplexing between unicast and multicast/broadcast communication modes during transmission time intervals in the downlink of a communication system. This is accomplished by multiplexing at least unicast control signaling for UL scheduling assignments in TTIs supporting the multicast/broadcast communication mode. Moreover, multiplexing of unicast control signaling can also be accomplished by splitting a symbol of the multicast/broadcast TTI into two shorter symbols with the first of these two shorter symbols carrying at least unicast control signaling and the second of these shorter symbols carrying multicast/broadcast signaling. | 2012-08-02 |
20120195247 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR HANDLING UNSUCCESSFUL RECEPTION IN BROADCAST/MULTICAST SERVICE - The present disclosure discloses a method for handling unsuccessful reception in broadcast/multicast service. The method comprises: the user terminal which fails to receive broadcasted/multicasted service contents obtains the service contents actively or passively after a mobile data broadcast/multicast platform broadcasts/multicasts the service contents. The present disclosure also discloses a system for handling unsuccessful reception in broadcast/multicast service, in which an obtaining unit is configured to obtain the service contents actively or passively by the user terminal which fails to receive the broadcasted/multicasted service contents after the mobile data broadcast/multicast platform broadcasts/multicasts the service contents. By the method and system provided in the present disclosure, handling of the unsuccessful reception of broadcasted/multicasted service contents can be triggered and realized by the user terminal. | 2012-08-02 |
20120195248 | METHOD AND APPARATUS TO AVOID IN-DEVICE COEXISTENCE INTERFERENCE IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and apparatus are disclosed to avoid in-device coexistence interference in a wireless communication system. In one embodiment, the method includes receiving at a user equipment (UE) a MBMS service via a Point-To-Multipoint (PTM) transmission, and initiating a Time Division Multiplexing (TDM) solution in the UE for coexistence interference avoidance, wherein the TDM solution defines one or more scheduling periods and one or more unscheduled periods, and the UE stops receiving the MBMS service via the PTM transmission when the TDM solution is initiated in the UE. | 2012-08-02 |
20120195249 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SERVICE CAPABILITY MODIFICATION - A method includes determining, at a receiving station, a modified capability for maintaining reception of a service while supporting a broadcast service. The modified capability is a modification of a capability associated with the service. The method further includes communicating an indication of the modified capability to a transmitting station. | 2012-08-02 |
20120195250 | MULTIPLE WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS - A method for receiving acknowledgements from plural wireless communication devices is described. A first acknowledgement message addressed to the plural wireless communication devices is transmitted. The first acknowledgement message indicates for each wireless communication device a period within which that wireless communication device should transmit a device acknowledgement message. A device acknowledgement message is received from each of the plural wireless communication devices. The device acknowledgement message is transmitted within the period indicated for that wireless communication device to transmit its device acknowledgement message. Other aspects, embodiments, and features, are also claimed and discussed. | 2012-08-02 |
20120195251 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR CARRYING MBMS NOTIFICATION INFORMATION - A method for carrying MBMS notification information comprising: when the MBMS notification information is transmitted more than once in a modification period of MCCH information, carrying at least once the MBMS notification information in a sub-frame carrying the MCCH information at the time of arrival of the modification period of the MCCH information; and when the MBMS notification information is transmitted once in the modification period of the MCCH information, carrying the MBMS notification information in the sub-frame carrying the MCCH information at the time of arrival of the modification period of the MCCH information. Also disclosed is a device for carrying MBMS notification information. The method for carrying MBMS notification information allows a receiving terminal to save more power. | 2012-08-02 |
20120195252 | RELAY STATION, BASE STATION, AND RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD - In a radio communication system including a relay station and a base station, the relay station transfers data from each mobile station to the base station based on a correspondence selected according to a frame from among different correspondences between identification information for a mobile station and timing in a frame at which data from the mobile station is transmitted. The base station identifies the data from each mobile station included in the frame received from the relay station based on the correspondence selected according to the frame. This radio communication method can be applied to data transmission from the base station to the relay station. | 2012-08-02 |
20120195253 | Transfer of Synchronization in a Hybrid Global Satellite Packet Network System - Networks, network devices and methods of synchronization using transfer of synchronization packets are provided. Some network devices are configured to use either a timing reference extracted based on GPS signals or an imported timing reference, as an operative time reference. A network device from which to import the time reference is selected and may be updated to meet a selection rule related to the quality of receiving the transfer of synchronization packets. | 2012-08-02 |
20120195254 | COMMUNICATIONS DEVICES WITH ENVELOPE EXTRACTION AND RELATED METHODS - A communications device may include an encoder generating digital baseband In-phase (I) and Quadrature (Q) signals, a processor coupled to the encoder and extracting an envelope characteristic from the digital baseband I and Q signals based upon a bandwidth of the digital baseband I and Q signals. A power amplifier may be coupled downstream from the processor and may generate an amplified I and Q signal based upon the envelope characteristic. | 2012-08-02 |
20120195255 | MINIMIZING TRACKING AREA UPDATES IN HETEROGENEOUS RADIO ACCESS NETWORK - A communications network ( | 2012-08-02 |
20120195256 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TIMING AND/OR FREQUENCY OFFSET MONITORING AND HANDLING - Methods and apparatuses are provided for obtaining downlink or uplink signal characteristics of at least one access point in a network. The signal characteristics may be obtained through user equipment receiving the signal characteristics, through the at least one access point, or through another access point. Frequency or timing offset between two or more access points may be determined based on the obtained signal characteristics, where the frequency or timing offset may be handled through post processing. For example, a clock servo may be controlled or adjusted in response to the determined offset, the absolute frequency of a master network oscillator may be calibrated, traffic anomalies within the network may be detected and corrected, and/or respective clocks of the two or more access points may be synchronized. | 2012-08-02 |
20120195257 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING DATA IN CABLE NETWORK - Disclosed herein are a method and an apparatus for transmitting data in a cable network. The transmitter generates upper layer data including multiplexed data of a plurality of subscriber terminals, dividing the upper layer data into a plurality of segment data, performs channel coding on each segment data, extracts information on at least one subscriber terminal included in each segment data to generate subscriber identification signals, inserts the subscriber identification signals into each channel-coded segment data, and modulates and transmits each segment data into which the subscriber identification signals are inserted. | 2012-08-02 |
20120195258 | NETWORK REENTRY METHOD AND APPARATUS IN A MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Provided is a network re-entry method and apparatus in a mobile communication system. The network re-entry method includes sending, by a group delegate Mobile Station (MS) among MSs of a group, a ranging code based on a group Identifier (ID) to a Base Station (BS) and receiving, by the MSs, a Ranging-Response (RNG-RSP) message comprising a ranging status for the group from the BS. | 2012-08-02 |
20120195259 | Remote Transmission System - A transmission apparatus includes a plurality of modems, which are configured to communicate via respective wireless communication channels and includes at least first and second modems configured to communicate respectively over separate first and second wireless communication networks. The transmission apparatus also includes a stream processor, which is configured to receive and process an incoming media stream so as to provide multiple upload streams for transmission by different ones of the modems, including first and second upload streams for transmission by the first and second modems, respectively. | 2012-08-02 |
20120195260 | Packet switched eCall connection - The present invention relates to a server unit ( | 2012-08-02 |
20120195261 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - In a mobile communication system capable of switching between a first communication state and a second communication state, in a case of a first communication state, a VoIP media signal is exchanged between a mobile station. UE # | 2012-08-02 |
20120195262 | INTEGRATED INFORMATION COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A communication system, for functioning without the use of dedicated lines or the Internet so as to ensure communication speed, communication quality, and communication trouble countermeasures, including a communication network and domain name server. The domain name server includes a domain name tree with a country number of a telephone number as a level | 2012-08-02 |
20120195263 | PEER-TO-PEER WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and apparatus may be used for peer-to-peer communications. A first non-access point (non-AP) station (STA) may receive a message for establishing a direct communication link from a second non-AP STA. The message may include a service priority. The first non-AP STA may transmit another message in response to receiving the message from the second non-AP STA, and communicate directly with the second non-AP STA. The system may be an Ad hoc network comprising a plurality of STAs without an access point (AP) where each STA maintains a database of one-hop and two-hop STAs, and establishes a direct link to other STAs after informing neighboring STAs of an intention to establish a direct communication link. | 2012-08-02 |
20120195264 | BASE STATION APPARATUS, MOBILE STATION APPARATUS AND TRANSMISSION POWER CONTROL METHOD - To suppress deterioration of throughput characteristics in the entire system even when a plurality of transmission antennas is placed in an indoor environment, a base station apparatus (eNode B) is provided with a power control matrix generating section ( | 2012-08-02 |
20120195265 | ACK/NACK FEEDBACK METHOD AND COMMUNICATION APPARATUS USING SAME - Disclosed is a wireless communication system, and particularly, a technology of feedbacking an ACK/NACK or multiple ACK/NACKs through a single uplink component carrier in response to multi downlink information transmitted through multiple component carriers in a wireless communication system. | 2012-08-02 |
20120195266 | Mobile IP over VPN Communication Protocol - The present invention supports a communication protocol for transmission of information packets between a mobile node and a virtual private network. Information packets are encapsulated and decapsulated along the route as the information packet is forwarded among the various networks on its path to the destination address; either the mobile node on a foreign network or a correspondence node on a virtual private network. A home agent on the virtual private network supports transmitting the information packets, and the information packets are transmitted from the virtual private network from the home agent or a virtual private network gateway. | 2012-08-02 |
20120195267 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TRANSMITTING DOWNLINK CONTROL INFORMATION - The present disclosure discloses a method and system for transmitting downlink control information, for solving the problem of how to indicate a transmission scheme when a cyclic redundancy check code in the downlink control channel is scrambled with the semi-persistently scheduled cell radio network temporary identifier. In order to support the bi-flow beam forming technology in the LTE-A R9, the present disclosure provides a downlink control information Format 1A, which may, when the cyclic redundancy check code in the downlink control channel is scrambled with the semi-persistently scheduled cell radio network temporary identifier, indicates a method for transmitting downlink control information, for example, single-layer transmission, transmit diversity, or a transmission scheme simultaneously involving single-layer transmission and transmit diversity, which guarantees flexibility of system schedule. The present disclosure adds no signaling overhead and has good adaptability with the LTE R8. | 2012-08-02 |
20120195268 | NETWORK ACCESS METHOD AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND BASE STATION USING THE SAME - Network access methods and base stations and wireless communication devices using the same methods are proposed. The proposed method relies on random access parameters assignment through pre-configured information and non-uniform distribution of access timings corresponding to pre-assigned priority group. | 2012-08-02 |
20120195269 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING RESOURCE IN COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A system for managing resources in a communication system including systems, which do not have a permission for a first frequency band, includes coexistence managers configured to, when a frequency band available for the systems is searched from the first frequency band, manage the systems for coexistence and frequency sharing of the systems in the available frequency band; a coexistence enabler configured to transmit and receive information of the systems and information of the coexistence managers; and a coexistence discovery and information server configured to support control of the coexistence managers over the systems, wherein predetermined messages are transmitted and received among the coexistence discovery and information server, the coexistence managers and the coexistence enabler to perform a registration procedure, a coexistence information gathering procedure, a coexistence decision making procedure, a reconfiguration procedure, a management procedure and an event procedure, for the coexistence and frequency sharing of the systems. | 2012-08-02 |
20120195270 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING RESOURCE IN COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A system for managing resources in a communication system including systems, which do not have a permission for a first frequency band, includes coexistence managers configured to, when a frequency band available for the systems is searched from the first frequency band, manage the systems for coexistence and frequency sharing of the systems in the available frequency band; a coexistence enabler configured to transmit and receive information of the systems and information of the coexistence managers; and a coexistence discovery and information server configured to support control of the coexistence managers over the systems, wherein the coexistence managers transmit and receive predetermined messages to and from the coexistence discovery and information server and the coexistence enabler, perform channel classification for the first frequency band, and determine operating channels of the systems on the basis of the channel classification. | 2012-08-02 |
20120195271 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR GENERATING REFERENCE SIGNAL IN CELLULAR MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Methods and apparatus are provided for transmitting and receiving reference signals through distributed antennas deployed within a service area of a base station in a mobile communication system. First control information, including at least two scrambling factor combinations, is received at a terminal from the base station. Second control information, indicating one of the at least two scrambling factor combinations, is received at the terminal from the base station. The one of the at least two scrambling factor combinations is selected based on the second control information. An initial value of a demodulation reference signal sequence is calculated using the selected scrambling factor combination. The demodulation reference signal sequence is received using the initial value. | 2012-08-02 |
20120195272 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR AVOIDING DOWNLINK INTERFERENCE FROM INTERFERING BASE STATION IN MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method for avoiding interference of an interfering Base Station (BS) in an interfered BS of a mobile communication system includes determining an interference value of an interfering BS at a control region during a determination interval. When the interference value is greater than a threshold value, the method further includes operating in a modified Transmit/receive Transition Gap (TTG) mode. When the interference value is less than the threshold value, the method further includes operating in a general TTG mode. | 2012-08-02 |
20120195273 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION METHOD AND MOBILE STATION - A mobile communication system according to the present invention includes: a step A in which a radio base station eNB transmits an uplink scheduling grant including CB-RNTI; and a step B in which when the uplink scheduling grant has been received, according to a comparison result obtained by comparing a predetermined threshold value with the amount of uplink data remaining in the transmission buffer, the mobile station UE determines whether a protocol data unit formed by the uplink data can be transmitted using a shared uplink resource specified by the uplink scheduling grant. | 2012-08-02 |
20120195274 | INTEGRATED CIRCUIT FOR CONTROLLING A PROCESS - It is an object to provide a sequence allocating method that, while maintaining the number of Zadoff-Chu sequences to compose a sequence group, is configured to make it possible to reduce correlations between different sequential groups. This method comprises the steps of setting a standard sequence with a standard sequence length (Nb) and a standard sequence number (rb) in a step (ST | 2012-08-02 |
20120195275 | Methods and Systems for Improving Session Establishment with Wireless Communication Devices - Methods and systems for reducing the latency of instant communication session establishment are presented. According to various preferred embodiments, a RAN, may receive a setup request message via a packet-switched network. The RAN may determine, from a quality of service (QOS) indication contained in the setup request message, that the setup request message is requesting establishment of a instant communication session. The RAN may further determine an intended destination wireless communication device (WCD) for the setup request message. Based on the QOS indication and/or a profile indicating the destination WCD's capabilities, the RAN may pre-allocate resources for the instant communication session in parallel to paging the destination WCD. In this way, the latencies associated with these procedures are overlapped, thus reducing the overall latency of instant communication session establishment. | 2012-08-02 |
20120195276 | METHOD FOR QOS GUARANTEES IN A MULTILAYER STRUCTURE - A method in which a user equipment processes data in a wireless mobile communication system is provided. The method includes the steps of receiving a first data block from an upper layer, transferring a second data block including the first data block to a lower layer at a particular protocol layer, discarding the first and second data blocks present in the particular protocol layer if a certain period of time has passed, and transferring information associated with the discard of the second data block to the lower layer. | 2012-08-02 |
20120195277 | HYBRID SCHEME FOR DL LINK ADAPTATION - A system and method of a hybrid scheme of DL link adaptation in a network having mobile stations (MSs) in communication with a base station (BS). The system may include a mode decision module associated with the base station. The mode decision module may include one or more processors configured to select a first mode configuration for use during transmission of a first communication from the base station. The BS may receive first feedback information associated with the first communication, where the first feedback information includes a first mode recommendation and first channel information. Based on the first feedback information, the BS may generate a BS-derived mode configuration based on the first channel information and compare the first mode recommendation and the BS-derived mode configuration. Based on the comparison, the BS may determine a second mode configuration to use to configure a second communication. | 2012-08-02 |
20120195278 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SCHEDULING ASSIGNMENT OF UPLINK PACKET TRANSMISSION IN MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Methods and apparatus are provided for communication between a User Equipment (UE) and a Node B in a communication system. The UE generates a Media Access Control-Protocol Data Unit (MAC-PDU) including scheduling information having information representing an amount of packet data to be transmitted. The MAC-PDU including the scheduling information is transmitted to the Node B. The information representing the amount of packet data exists per priority queue. | 2012-08-02 |
20120195279 | CONTROL CHANNEL ASSIGNMENT IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORK - The disclosed embodiments provide for methods and systems for allocating a plurality of users on a control channel in a wireless communication network. In one aspect, a method for allocating a plurality of users on a control channel includes assigning a first number of modulation symbols to a hop region for a control channel, and allocating a second number of users to the first number of modulation symbols. | 2012-08-02 |
20120195280 | ADAPTIVE SCHEDULING OF VOICE TRAFFIC IN A MULTI-CARRIER COMMUNICATION ENVIRONMENT - The present invention provides a technique for scheduling data, and in particular, scheduling real-time or voice data for transmissions during a transmit time interval in a multi-carrier communication environment. For each transmit time interval, channel condition indicia for multiple users is determined, and an iterative scheduling process is then implemented based in part on the channel condition indicia. The iterative scheduling initially pre-assigns select tones for each of the remaining users that have not been permanently assigned tones for the given transmit time interval. Next, the remaining user having the least favorable channel conditions is selected as an active user. The newly selected active user is then permanently assigned the select tones that were initially pre-assigned to that particular user. The permanently assigned tones are removed from consideration, and the process is repeated until all the remaining users are permanently assigned unique tones for scheduling. | 2012-08-02 |
20120195281 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING SCHEDULING REQUEST SIGNAL IN MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and an apparatus are provided for transmitting a scheduling request signal of a terminal in a mobile communication system. If a Buffer Status Report (BSR) is triggered, it is checked whether the BSR is canceled. If the BSR is not cancelled, a Scheduling Request (SR) is triggered for requesting resources for transmitting the BSR. | 2012-08-02 |
20120195282 | METHOD AND BASE STATION FOR TRANSMITTING SA-PREAMBLE AND METHOD AND USER EQUIPMENT FOR RECEIVING SA-PREAMBLE - An SA-Preamble corresponding to an irregular system bandwidth different from a regular system bandwidth is configured to be as long as or larger than the irregular system bandwidth and transmitted. Thus, the performance of transmitting and receiving the SA-Preamble is increased. | 2012-08-02 |
20120195283 | METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING INFORMATION OVER A COMPONENT CARRIER IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The present specification relates to a method for transmitting information over a component carrier and to a wireless communication system for the method. The present invention relates to a method for transmitting information that indicates an allocated component carrier, and to a method for transmitting information on the number of usable CCs of a terminal via upper layer signaling, and transmitting information on CC allocation via physical layer signaling. | 2012-08-02 |
20120195284 | JOINT UPLINK DATA PROCESSING BY PLURAL BASE STATIONS - Joint uplink processing by plural base stations includes sending, by a serving base station, a request for uplink resources of a second base station for receiving uplink data of a mobile station. The serving base station receives first uplink data from the mobile station, and the serving base station further receives (from the second base station) second uplink data of the mobile station received by the second base station using the uplink resources specified by the request. | 2012-08-02 |
20120195285 | TRANSMISSION METHOD AND DEVICE FOR A DOWNLINK REFERENCE SIGNAL - The present invention relates a method in which a base station transmits a downlink signal by using a plurality of layers comprises the steps of: multiplexing and transmitting dedicated reference signals for the plurality of layers on the basis of a reference signal pattern, wherein 24 resource element positions comprised in the reference signal pattern are set as 6 groups, the 6 groups are set as 2 high-level groups, the reference signal for the plurality of layer is split and placed in the 2 high-level groups, and the reference signal for 2 or more layers placed in the same group is subjected to code-division multiplexing. | 2012-08-02 |
20120195286 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TRANSCEIVING SIGNALS IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The present specification relates to an apparatus and method for transceiving signals between a terminal and a base station in a wireless communication system. The present specification relates to a signal-transceiving method in which location reference signals discriminated by frequency units for each base station, such that base stations which transmit location reference signals with the same location reference signal pattern can be further discriminated. | 2012-08-02 |
20120195287 | COMMUNICATION METHOD USING DUPLICATED ACKNOWLEDGEMENT - Communication methods using duplicated acknowledgement (ACK) are provided. A communication method of a serving base station includes determining if a handover of a device attached to the serving base station is required, and, if the handover is required, transmitting two or more duplicated ACKs to a fixed host. The two or more duplicated ACKs have the same identifier as a final ACK transmitted from the device to the fixed host. This method can alleviate an unnecessary reduction in transmission rate caused by timeout that may occur during handover of the device. | 2012-08-02 |
20120195288 | METHOD, MEDIUM, AND APPARATUS CONTROLLING HANDOVER BETWEEN DIFFERENT NETWORKS - A method, medium, and apparatus controlling a handover between different network types, including the operations of transmitting a message requesting a transmission bandwidth change, so as to have a transmission bandwidth supported by a new network after movement of the mobile terminal, from the mobile terminal to the server after performing the handover, changing the transmission bandwidth of the server to be supported by the new network based on the transmitted message of requesting the bandwidth change, transmitting a message acknowledging the changed transmission bandwidth from the server to the router, and transceiving data through a new data transmission tunnel between the router and a new access point within the new based on the message acknowledging the changed transmission bandwidth. Accordingly, loss of data packets occurring when a handover is performed may be effectively prevented. | 2012-08-02 |
20120195289 | BASE STATION, MOBILE STATION, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND REORDERING METHOD THEREOF - A reordering method in a communication system where a base station sends to a mobile station, packets to which numbers indicating a sequence are attached, the mobile station rearranges the packets in order of the sequence numbers, and a hard handover is performed. The method includes deciding whether a handover source base station forwards packets which have not yet been sent to the mobile station, out of packets received from a host station, to a handover target base station; controlling forwarding of the packets at the handover based on the decision, and sending forwarding execution information from the handover source base station to the mobile station to notify whether the forwarding of the packets has been executed; and at the mobile station, receiving the forwarding execution information, and executing reordering of the packets received from the handover target base station based on the forwarding execution information at the handover. | 2012-08-02 |
20120195290 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING RADIO LINK PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENTS - According to one embodiment, a mobile communication device is provided comprising a determiner configured to determine at least one of a geographical position of the mobile communication device within a first mobile radio cell in which the mobile communication device is located and a movement direction of the mobile communication device; a selector configured to select, based on at least one of the determined geographical position and the determined movement direction, from a plurality of second mobile radio cells at least one second mobile radio cell for a radio link performance measurement (RLPM); and a measuring circuit configured to measure the performance of a radio link between the mobile communication device and a base station operating the at least one selected second mobile radio cell. | 2012-08-02 |
20120195291 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ADVOIDING IN-DEVICE COEXISTENCE INTERFERENCE IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and apparatus for coexistence interference avoidance in a user equipment (UE) having a first radio with an LTE/LTE-Advanced radio technology and a second radio based on another radio technology includes initiating a time division multiplexing (TDM) solution in the UE on a serving cell between the first and second radios, the TDM solution defining scheduling periods and unscheduled periods. In one embodiment the UE increments the PREAMBLE_TRANSMISSION_COUNTER by 1 for each random access preamble transmission reattempt during the random access procedure, and the UE considers an unscheduled period of the TDM solution when determining the next available Physical Random Access Channel (PRACH) subframe for preamble transmission. | 2012-08-02 |
20120195292 | CARRIER AGGREGATION IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Provided is a data transmission system using a carrier aggregation. The data transmission system may assign a radio resource based on a correspondence relationship between a downlink and an uplink, and may transmit data using the assigned radio resource. | 2012-08-02 |
20120195293 | METHOD, AND ASSOCIATED APPARATUS, FOR COMMUNICATING DATA AT REDUCED TRANSMISSION LATENCY IN RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM HAVING SLOTTED INTERFACE - A method, and associated apparatus, facilitates the communication of data of a radio block by a sending station to a receiving station, within a single time frame. Communication resources are allocated within a single time frame across a plurality of radio carriers. And, the data corresponding to a radio block is scheduled for communication, and is communicated, within the single time frame. Reduced levels of latency relative to conventional operations is provided. | 2012-08-02 |
20120195294 | MANAGING ACCESS GATEWAYS - Systems and methods for the management of communications related to telecommunications-based devices are provided. Gateway computing devices corresponding to a radio communication network can modify the static provisioning of communication network access gateway to telecommunications-based devices accessing the wireless communication network. The modification of the static provisioning of gateway devices is based on subscription information associated with the requesting telecommunications-based device or based on general network policies that can be dynamically updated. | 2012-08-02 |
20120195295 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFICATION OF MOBILE DEVICE USERS IN AN AREA OF A WIRELESS ACCESS POINT - A method and system for determining that a first mobile communication device that is part of a designated group is in a proximate location to a second mobile communication device that is part of such designated group, by comparing an identifier or a MAC address of an access point that is detected by the first device with an identifier or MAC address of an access point that is detected by the second device. If both devices detect a presence of a same access point, as is indicated by the MAC addresses of the access point, a signal is sent to at least one of the devices to indicate that the devices are in proximate locations. | 2012-08-02 |
20120195296 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPARATUS - According to embodiments, a wireless communication apparatus supports at least a second wireless communication scheme between a first, wireless communication scheme and the second wireless communication scheme. The first wireless communication scheme requires that a wireless medium is determined to be busy when a reception level is equal to or greater than a minimum reception sensitivity level of physical scheme. The apparatus includes a first processing unit and a second processing unit. The first processing unit is configured to set a value lower than a maximum transmission power of the first wireless communication scheme, for a maximum transmission power of the second wireless communication scheme and set a value greater than the minimum reception sensitivity level, of the physical scheme, for a carrier sense level, when the second wireless communication scheme is used. The second processing unit is configured to carry out carrier sense using the carrier sense level. | 2012-08-02 |
20120195297 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING ANTENNA OF INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, a wireless communication apparatus includes a plurality of connectors, a plurality of amplifiers and a plurality of amplifier controllers. The plurality of amplifiers amplify outputs from a plurality of antennas connected to the plurality of connectors, respectively. The plurality of amplifier controllers control gains of the plurality of amplifiers, respectively. Each of the plurality of amplifier controllers comprises a determination module, a notification module and a gain adjustment module. The determination module determines a reception status of a corresponding one of the plurality of antennas. The notification module notifies one or more other amplifier controllers of the reception status determined by the determination module. The gain adjustment module adjusts a gain of the corresponding one of the plurality of amplifiers based on the reception status notified from the one or more other amplifier controllers. | 2012-08-02 |
20120195298 | METHOD AND APPARATUS TO AVOID IN-DEVICE COEXISTENCE INTERFERENCE IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and apparatus are disclosed to avoid in-device coexistence interference in a user equipment (UE) that is equipped with a first radio based on LTE radio technology or LTE-Advance radio technology, and a second radio based on an alternate radio technology. In one embodiment, the method comprises including an assistant information in a UE Capability Information message sent to an evolved node B (eNB) for in-device coexistence interference avoidance. | 2012-08-02 |
20120195299 | METHODS FOR SUPPORTING USER EQUIPMENT ACCESSING LOCAL IP SERVICES AND APPARATUS THEREFOR - Methods and apparatus are provided for supporting Local IP Access (LIPA) services to a User Equipment (UE). A network node receives a request for accessing a PDN which is identified by an APN of a service access point, from the UE. The network node determines whether the UE is permitted to access LIPA services via a CSG base station based on LIPA accessibility information. The network node determines whether requirements for connecting the UE to the LIPA services are met based on the LIPA accessibility information and device capabilities of a serving base station of the UE, when the UE is permitted to access the LIPA services. The LIPA services are activated for the UE, when the requirements for connecting the UE to the LIPA services are met. | 2012-08-02 |
20120195300 | PROCEDURE FOR WIRELESS NETWORK MANAGEMENT AND STATION SUPPORTING THE PROCEDURE - There is provided a procedure for wireless network management and a station supporting the procedure. In the procedure, non-AP station which wants to us a traffic filter service (TFS) transmits a TFS request message including one or more TFS request elements for defining information about the requesting traffic filters to an access point (AP). And, the non-AP station receives, from the AP in response to the first TFS request message, a TFS response message including one or more TFS response elements for defining information about the status of the requesting traffic filters. | 2012-08-02 |
20120195301 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING, TRANSMITTING, AND RECEIVING A DATA FRAME IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The present invention relates to a technique relating to a method and apparatus for generating, transmitting, and receiving a data frame having a newly proposed format in a wireless communication system. According to the technique, the method for generating a data frame in a wireless communication system comprises the following steps: generating at least one first subframe; generating at least one second subframe; and generating a data frame including the first and second subframes, wherein the first and second subframes include length information of a MAC protocol data unit (MPDU) contained in the first and second subframes, and the length information of the MPDU contained in the second subframe is zero. | 2012-08-02 |
20120195302 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSCEIVING DATA IN A MIMO SYSTEM - The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for transceiving data. A method in which a transmitting terminal transmits data to a receiving terminal in a MIMO system according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises the following steps: generating a data field containing the data; generating a signal field containing information on the data field; generating a data frame containing the data field and the signal field; and transmitting the data frame to the receiving terminal. According to the present invention, an end of the frame being transmitted is accurately notified to the receiving terminal in a communication system in which the frame is transmitted using MIMO, thereby decoding the frame in a more efficient manner at the receiving terminal. | 2012-08-02 |
20120195303 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INTEGRATING CONVENTIONAL ENTERPRISE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS INTO AN IP MULTIMEDIA SUBSYSTEM-BASED SERVICES ENVIRONMENT - A system and method for integrating conventional enterprise communication systems into an IMS-based services environment are disclosed. In one embodiment, when a call request is received for a call between first and second local users of a PBX, the PBX determines whether a class of service for either the first or second local user is for Exposed Local Call (ELC) processing. If so, then call information is routed through a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) core network that is coupled to an Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) server to provide IMS services to the call. | 2012-08-02 |
20120195304 | VOIP CONTENT DELIVERY AND CONTROL MANAGER - A method and system of delivering and managing audio and video content, comprising: receiving, over at least one computer, at least one audio and/or video file to be played using at least one VOIP audio and video PBX telephone system; managing remotely, using at least one computer application, the at least one audio and/or video file; and distributing the at least one audio and/or video file to the at least one VOIP audio and/or video PBX telephone system. | 2012-08-02 |
20120195305 | AGGREGATING ENDPOINT CAPABILITIES FOR A USER - A method and system for aggregating capabilities from multiple endpoints associated with a user are provided. The system aggregates the capabilities of the endpoints associated with a user into an aggregate view of available modes of communication for reaching the user. Then, the system publishes the aggregate view so that other users who want to send communications to the user will know the modes of communication available for that user. In addition, the system may designate certain modes of communication as preferred or as capable of reaching the user. | 2012-08-02 |
20120195306 | Method and System for Providing to a Second Party, Computer-Network Related Information about a First Party - A method and system for providing computer-network related information about a second party. First, the second party receives a telephone number of a first party. The second party's customer premises equipment (CPE) or elements in a telephone network then use the telephone number to index a database, which contains combinations of telephone numbers and computer-network addresses. Once the first party's computer-network address is retrieved, first-party-customized information present at the computer-network location specified by the computer-network address can be sent to and displayed on the second party's CPE. Also, the first party's telephone number can be sent to an application in the computer network, causing the first-party-customized information to be automatically displayed on the second party's CPE. | 2012-08-02 |
20120195307 | Method and System for Providing to a Second Party, Computer-Network Related Information about a First Party - A method and system for providing computer-network related information about a second party. First, the second party receives a telephone number of a first party. The second party's customer premises equipment (CPE) or elements in a telephone network then use the telephone number to index a database, which contains combinations of telephone numbers and computer-network addresses. Once the first party's computer-network address is retrieved, computer network information present at the computer-network location specified by the computer-network address can be sent to and displayed on the second party's CPE. Also, the first party's telephone number can be sent to an application in the computer network, causing the first-party-customized information to be automatically displayed on the second party's CPE. | 2012-08-02 |
20120195308 | COMMUNICATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND ADDRESS LEARNING METHOD - A communication processing apparatus includes a first storage unit, a second storage unit, and a processor. The first storage unit stores, for each of a plurality of port identifiers, a port identifier and a network identifier in association with each other. The second storage unit stores address information and a set of port identifiers in association with each other. The processor extracts a first network identifier associated with a first port identifier for identifying a reception port from the first storage unit, extracts second port identifiers associated with the extracted first network identifier from the first storage unit, and stores source address information of the received data and a first set of port identifiers in association with each other in the second storage unit. The first set of port identifiers includes the first port identifier and the extracted second port identifiers. | 2012-08-02 |
20120195309 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, RECEIVING DEVICE, RELAY DEVICE, RECEPTION METHOD, AND RELAY METHOD - A receiving device includes a packet receiver that is coupled to a plurality of paths, and a packet transmitter that generates reception-acknowledgement information indicating that the packet receiver receives a packet when the packet receiver receives the packet over one of the paths, and that transmits the reception-acknowledgement information to a path that is among the plurality of paths and different from the path over which the packet receiver has received the packet. | 2012-08-02 |
20120195310 | FIBRE CHANNEL OVER ETHERNET - The present invention provides methods and devices for implementing a Low Latency Ethernet (“LLE”) solution, also referred to herein as a Data Center Ethernet (“DCE”) solution, which simplifies the connectivity of data centers and provides a high bandwidth, low latency network for carrying Ethernet and storage traffic. Some aspects of the invention involve transforming FC frames into a format suitable for transport on an Ethernet. Some preferred implementations of the invention implement multiple virtual lanes (“VLs”) in a single physical connection of a data center or similar network. Some VLs are “drop” VLs, with Ethernet-like behavior, and others are “no-drop” lanes with FC-like behavior. Some preferred implementations of the invention provide guaranteed bandwidth based on credits and VL. Active buffer management allows for both high reliability and low latency while using small frame buffers. Preferably, the rules for active buffer management are different for drop and no drop VLs. | 2012-08-02 |
20120195311 | MULTICAST DUAL JOIN FOR RING NETWORK TOPOLOGIES - A network node includes a primary incoming interface, a secondary incoming interface and a data flow control unit. The primary incoming interface is operable to receive traffic associated with a particular source and multicast group. The secondary incoming interface is operable to serve as a backup interface if the primary incoming interface or a transmission path coupled to the primary incoming interface is inoperative. The data flow control unit is operable to determine whether the network node is part of a ring topology and if so, forward traffic received on the primary incoming interface associated with the source and multicast group to both a host which joined the multicast group and the secondary incoming interface and forward traffic received on the secondary incoming interface associated with the source and multicast group to the primary incoming interface. | 2012-08-02 |
20120195312 | AUTOMATION FALLBACK TO P2P LSPS FOR MLDP BUILT MULTIPOINT-TREES - A method of using a point-to-point (P2P) label switched path (LSP) to transmit multicast data packets partially through a multiprotocol label switched (MPLS) network when one or more label switched routers (LSRs) of the MPLS are not multicast label distribution protocol (mLDP) enabled. The P2P LSP can be used to transmit multicast data packets to the head end of a point-to-multipoint (P2MP) LSP created with mLDP enabled LSRs. The P2MP LSP can be used to transmit the multicast data packets through the MPLS network to intended receivers that are external to the MPLS network. The P2MP LSP can be built from an egress edge LSR towards an ingress edge LSR, by mLDP enabled LSRs. The P2P LSP can be built from a core mLDP enabled LSR to the ingress edge LSR, across a non-mLDP enabled LSR between the core mLDP enabled LSR and the ingress edge LSR. | 2012-08-02 |
20120195313 | Systems, Methods and Computer-Readable Media for Configuring Receiver Latency - The present disclosure is related to transmitting and receiving media channels, such as audio and video channels. These channels may be transmitted as packets from one or more transmitting devices to one or more receiving devices for playout. Certain embodiments of the present disclosure include systems, methods, and computer-readable media for determining latency of a data network for synchronized playout of received signals. Additionally, certain embodiments of the present disclosure include a systems, methods, and computer-readable media for synchronizing playout among devices connected to a data network. | 2012-08-02 |
20120195314 | Destination-Based Virtual Channel Assignment in On-Chip Ring Networks - An apparatus comprising a plurality of nodes and a plurality of links connecting the nodes in a ring topology, wherein a first node from among the plurality of nodes is coupled to a first link from among the plurality of links, wherein the first link comprises a plurality of virtual channels, and wherein each of the plurality of virtual channels is assigned to provide service to a unique one of the plurality of nodes. | 2012-08-02 |
20120195315 | INFORMATION PACKET COMMUNICATION WITH VIRTUAL OBJECTS - Modules and methods that provide virtual device communication via information packets addressed to the virtual devices. Virtual devices aggregate capabilities of target devices and represent the aggregate as an operational device to remote systems. Physical device elements and virtual devices contained within modules are able to communicate and cooperate over extended distances in a peer-to-peer fashion via a virtual bus tunnel offering addressing and data transport functionality. Such modules and methods can be combined with disk drives to form RAID-like storage structures. | 2012-08-02 |
20120195316 | Method for identifying next hop - Datalink frames or networking packets contain protocol information in the header and optionally in the trailer of a frame or a packet. We are proposing a method in which part of or all of the protocol information corresponding to a frame or a packet is transmitted separately in another datalink frame. The “Separately Transmitted Protocol Information” is referred to as STPI. The STPI contains enough protocol information to identify the next hop node or port. STPI can be used avoid network congestion and improve link efficiency. Preferably, there will be one datalink frame or network packet corresponding to each STPI, containing the data and the rest of the protocol information and this frame/packet is referred to as DFoNP. The creation of STPI and DFoNP is done by the originator of the frame or packet such as an operating system. | 2012-08-02 |
20120195317 | PACKET DATA MODIFICATION PROCESSOR - A programmable processor configured to perform one or more packet modifications through execution of one or more commands. A pipelined processor core comprises a first stage configured to selectively shift and mask data in each of a plurality of categories in response to one or more decoded commands, and combine the selectively shifted and masked data in each of the categories. The pipelined processor core further comprises a second stage configured to selectively perform one or more operations on the combined data from the first stage and other data responsive to the one or more decoded commands. In one implementation, the processor is implemented as an application specific integrated circuit (ASIC). | 2012-08-02 |
20120195318 | INFORMATION SYSTEM, CONTROL SERVER, VIRTUAL NETWORK MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A control server is connected to a plurality of physical nodes that keep control information defining an operation to be taken in accordance with input/output packet characteristics and process the input/output packets according to the control information. The control server includes a first storage unit that stores configuration information about a virtual network configured to include virtual nodes that are virtualized versions of the physical nodes, and a second storage unit that stores virtual network identifying information identifying the virtual network from characteristics of an input packet, and the control server identifies a physical node that configures a virtual network that handles a packet having a characteristic in common with the packet received by the physical node based on a request from the physical node and updates control information for each physical node. | 2012-08-02 |
20120195319 | SEPARATE ETHERNET FORWARDING AND CONTROL PLANE SYSTEMS AND METHODS WITH INTERIOR GATEWAY ROUTE REFLECTOR FOR A LINK STATE ROUTING SYSTEM - The present disclosure provides a separate Ethernet forwarding and control plane system, method, network, and architecture with a Link State Interior Gateway route reflector for the control plan system and a layer two network architecture for the forwarding system. The present invention optionally utilizes a cloud implementation for the Designated Router (DR) or designated peering node reducing peering requirements and distributing the functionality. Through the architecture of the present invention, the Provider router is obviated by the application of layer two switches and servers. Such an architecture provides improved scaling, performance, and cost reduction. | 2012-08-02 |
20120195320 | DATA SHARING METHOD AND SYSTEM - A method is provided for sharing data between a plurality of nodes in a communication network. The communication network includes a first sharing router and a second sharing router. The first sharing router and second sharing router each have a memory, the memory including a record table for storing at least one record, wherein each record includes at least a reference describing the data to share and, at least one of the data to share or the address of at least a data node associated with the data to share, so that a collecting node may further collect the data. | 2012-08-02 |
20120195321 | Method and Apparatus for Low-Latency Interconnection Networks Using Hierarchical Rings - An apparatus comprising a chip comprising a global ring network comprising a plurality of global routers configured in a unidirectional ring network, and a plurality of local ring networks directly connected to the global ring network. A method comprising transmitting a first flit from a first router to a second router, wherein a first ring network comprises the first and second routers, and transmitting a second flit from the first router to a third router, wherein a second ring network comprises the first and third routers, wherein the first and second ring networks are in a hierarchical relationship with each other, and wherein a chip comprises the first and second ring networks. | 2012-08-02 |
20120195322 | Method and Apparatus for Achieving Fairness in Interconnect Using Age-Based Arbitration and Timestamping - An apparatus comprising a chip comprising a plurality of nodes, wherein a first node from among the plurality of nodes is configured to receive a first flit comprising a first timestamp, receive a second flit comprising a second timestamp, determine whether the first flit is older than the second flit based on the first timestamp and the second timestamp, transmit the first flit before the second flit if the first flit is older than the second flit, and transmit the second flit before the first flit if the first flit is not older than the second flit. | 2012-08-02 |
20120195323 | HIERARCHICAL RATE LIMITING OF CONTROL PACKETS - Line cards receive control packets and perform a hierarchical rate limiting on those control packets. A set of identifier keys are extracted from the control packets and the protocol of those control packets are determined. At a first level, the control packets are rate limited per unique set of identifier keys per protocol. Those packets which fail the first rate limiting level are dropped. Those packets which pass the first rate limiting level are rate limited at a second level per protocol type. Those packets which fail the second level rate limiting are dropped while those packets which pass the second level rate limiting are sent to the control card for further processing. | 2012-08-02 |
20120195324 | SHARING BANDWIDTH AMONG MULTIPLE USERS OF NETWORK APPLICATIONS - A system and method are provided that allocate bandwidth on a global large scale network. Bandwidth allocation is based on the predicted bandwidth demands of the network users. Each user may be assigned one of a plurality of different values that determines the amount of bandwidth allocated to that user. In instances where an application runs on behalf of a plurality of remote clients, a system and method is provided that allows for the allocation of bandwidth based each individual remote client. | 2012-08-02 |
20120195325 | ALERT MESSAGE PORTAL TO SECURELY NOTIFY SUBSCRIBERS OF EVENTS - The present invention provides a method of operating a communication portal. One embodiment of the method includes accessing, at the communication portal, an alert message addressed to a group registered to receive an alert service. The method also includes generating user identifiers corresponding to users that are registered to the group. The user identifiers are assigned to the users for use within the communication portal. The method further includes transmitting the alert message from the communication portal to the users indicated by the user identifiers. | 2012-08-02 |
20120195326 | USING DYNAMIC BURST SIZE METRIC TO MARK DATA - A device may receive first data at a channel over a network, the device having an interface for the channel and other channels. In addition, the device may measure over a particular time interval, a burst size and an information arrival rate at the channel based on received data. The device may also determine whether the burst size is greater than a first burst size metric, the first burst size metric initialized to a committed burst size of the channel. When the burst size is determined to be greater than the first burst size metric, the device may set a second burst size metric to a sum of the first burst size metric and an increment value. Furthermore, the device may determine whether the burst size is greater than the second burst size metric after the second burst size metric is set to the sum of the first burst size metric and the increment value. The device may also increase a first amount, of a resource allocated to the channel of the network device, by an increment corresponding to the second burst size metric after determining that the burst size is not greater than the second burst size metric. The device may decrease a second amount, of the resource allocated to the other channels, by the increment, when the first amount of the resource is increased by the increment. | 2012-08-02 |
20120195327 | FRAME FORMATION METHOD IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORK FOR MEDICAL PROSTHETIC DEVICE - Disclosed herein is a method of forming communication frames. The communication frames each include a PHY header, a MAC header and a payload. The method includes forming the PHY header so that the PHY header includes information configured to support synchronization with a reception unit and information indicative of the start and overall size of the frame; forming the MAC header so that the MAC header includes information indicative of the type of frame, information configured to be used to check for the sequence of the frame, flag information, information indicative of the size of the data block, source and destination information, and information configured to be used to check the header of the frame for an error and correct the error; and forming the payload so that each of a plurality of data blocks includes information configured to perform error check and correction. | 2012-08-02 |
20120195328 | TRANSMISSION APPARATUS, TRANSMISSION METHOD, RECEPTION APPARATUS, AND RECEPTION METHOD - A transmission apparatus for converting a transmission data series into frequency-domain, converting the frequency-domain converted signal into time-domain signal, and transmitting the time-domain converted signal, the apparatus including: a preamble pattern generation unit which outputs at least two preamble patterns among second and third preamble patterns, including bit series in which each of bits of a first preamble pattern is continued for n bits (where n is an integer equal to or greater than 2) and for k bits (where k is an integer equal to or greater than 2, and k≠n), and the first preamble pattern; and a transmission unit which transmits the transmission signal including at least two of the preamble patterns output from the preamble pattern generation unit. | 2012-08-02 |
20120195329 | HYBRID WIRELESS/WIRED RoF TRANSPONDER AND HYBRID RoF COMMUNICATION SYSTEM USING SAME - A radio-over-fiber (RoF) hybrid wired/wireless transponder is disclosed that is configured to provide both wireless and wired communication between a hybrid head-end and one or more client devices. The hybrid transponder includes optical-to-electrical (O/E) and electrical-to-optical (E/O) conversion capability and is configured to frequency multiplex/demultiplex electrical “wired” signals and electrical “wireless” signals. The electrical wireless signals are wirelessly communicated to the client device(s) via a multiple-input/multiple-output (MIMO) antenna system within a cellular coverage area. The electrical wired signals are communicated to the client device(s) via a wireline cable that plugs into a wireline cable port on the transponder. The hybrid RoF system includes a hybrid head-end capable of transmitting and receiving wired and wireless optical signals, and an optical fiber cable that is optically coupled to the hybrid head-end and to at least one hybrid transponder. Drop-down transponder configurations that allow for easy wired and wireless connectivity between the client device(s) to the transponder(s) are also disclosed. | 2012-08-02 |
20120195330 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR FIBER DELIVERY OF HIGH PEAK POWER OPTICAL PULSES - Methods and systems for delivery of high peak power optical pulses through optical fiber are disclosed. Raman soliton generation is utilized to maintain the properties of the pulses in the delivery fiber. The apparatus can comprise any high peak power pulse source and delivery fiber supporting Raman soliton generation. | 2012-08-02 |
20120195331 | LASER PROCESSING OF CONDUCTIVE LINKS - A laser system for processing conductive link structures includes a seed laser generating a seed laser beam. The seed laser is sliced by a modulator into a user configurable series of pulses and the pulses are optically amplified and applied to a conductive link structure. Preferably, the bandwidth of the seed laser is less than 1 nm with an IR center frequency, and the frequency of the laser light of the pulses is doubled or quadrupled prior to application to the conductive structure. Preferably, the pulses are about 1-18 nanosecond pulsewidth and are separated by 100-400 nanoseconds. | 2012-08-02 |