35th week of 2013 patent applcation highlights part 39 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20130223384 | SCHEDULING DATA TRANSMISSIONS IN A WIRELESS NETWORK - Scheduling data transmissions in a wireless network is disclosed. A first value related to a radio bearer is provided to a user equipment (UE) by a wireless network. The wireless network also sends an allocation message for an uplink transmission and receives data in response. The data is selected from a plurality of radio bearers of the UE in response to the received first value and based on a second value. | 2013-08-29 |
20130223385 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR SHARING NETWORK RESOURCES - A method for sharing network resources includes: setting a sharing group based on service types in the process of setting up a bearer and determining a maximum network resource for the sharing group; and allocating a resource for the bearer in the range of the maximum network resource. The present invention also provides a system and an apparatus for sharing network resources. The embodiments of the present invention implement the sharing of a maximum transmission rate among multiple bearers in an evolved network, solve the problem of low network resource utilization caused by the fact that each bearer occupies a fixed bandwidth resource, and implement maximum utilization of network resources. | 2013-08-29 |
20130223386 | RADIO COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND RESPONSE SIGNAL DIFFUSION METHOD - Provided is a radio communication device which can suppress inter-code interference between an ACK/NACK signal and a CQI signal which are code-multiplexed. A diffusion unit ( | 2013-08-29 |
20130223387 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING BROADCAST DATA, AND METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RECEIVING BROADCAST DATA - A broadcast data transmission method includes generating service composition information of a broadcasting service to be provided using a broadcast packet transmitted through a frequency channel; generating first signaling information indicating an ensemble in which the service composition information is to be transmitted; and transmitting the broadcast packet, the service composition information, and the first signaling information. The service composition information may include at least one of a service identifier for the broadcasting service, genre information representing a genre of the broadcasting service, and information about a provider of the broadcasting service. | 2013-08-29 |
20130223388 | ERROR CORRECTION FOR A PERSISTENT RESOURCE ALLOCATION - Methods and apparatus for communicating and utilizing persistent allocation of resources are described herein. A base station may allocate persistent resources to a client station, and may associate the client station or persistent resource allocation with a particular shared NACK channel. The base station may monitor the NACK channel for a NACK indicating a map error. The base station may monitor the resource allocation to implicitly determine a map error. The base station may resend one or more persistent resource allocation information elements in response to the NACK or implicit error determination. A client station having a persistent resource allocation may monitor persistent resource allocation information elements in map messages and/or may indicate failure to receive a persistent resource allocation information element in a NACK message on a shared NACK channel. | 2013-08-29 |
20130223389 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SEQUENCE HOPPING IN SINGLE CARRIER FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS (SC-FDMA) COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS - Methods and apparatus are provided for transmitting a reference-signal and a data signal by a user equipment in a communication system. The data signal is generated. A sequence is determined for the reference-signal. The reference-signal is transmitted based on the sequence and the data signal through at least one resource block. The sequence is determined based on sequence-hopping if the number of resource blocks is equal to or greater than the predetermined value. The sequence is determined without sequence-hopping if the number of resource blocks is less than a predetermined value. | 2013-08-29 |
20130223390 | SUPPORT FOR BROADCAST CONTROL HEADER FOR WIRELESS NETWORKS - Various example embodiments are disclosed herein related to broadcast control headers for wireless networks. According to an example embodiment, a method may include allocating resources for a broadcast channel for a wireless network may include determining a set of physical resource units (PRUs), each PRU including a plurality of contiguous subcarriers, selecting one or more subsets of the PRUs, each subset including a plurality of PRUs distributed across the set of PRUs, and determining a plurality of logical resource units (LRUs) from each subset of PRUs, including permutating the subcarriers independently within each subset of PRUs to obtain the plurality of LRUs for each subset of PRUs, each LRU including a plurality of distributed subcarriers. | 2013-08-29 |
20130223391 | Method and Apparatus for Avoiding In-Device Coexistence Interference - A method, system and device are provided for avoiding in-device coexistence interference between different radio technologies deployed in adjacent bands on the same device by controlling and separating the LTE signaling and the non-LTE signaling using dedicated time intervals to separate LTE signaling from non-LTE signaling. In addition, coexistence mode handover procedures are provided which use threshold-based triggering events to avoid coexistence interference and to prevent ping-pong effects by establishing a “keeping time” parameter so that a non-interfering network node does not switch back to an interfering network node after handoff. Coexistence interference is also avoided by providing a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) mechanism which accounts for coexistence interference by providing a fixed or variable on-interval parameter and an activity parameter indicating whether non-LTE activity is present to maximize a time interval for non-LTE devices without interference from LTE activity on the same device. | 2013-08-29 |
20130223392 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ADJUSTING SOUND REFERENCE SIGNAL TRANSMISSION POWER - Provided are a method and apparatus for adjusting sounding reference signal transmission power. A terminal a plurality of transmit powers used for transmitting a plurality of sounding reference signals (SRSs) in a sounding reference symbol. If a total transmission power for the plurality of SRSs exceeds a maximum transmission power, the terminal scales each transmission power by the same scale factor. | 2013-08-29 |
20130223393 | METHOD FOR COORDINATING INTER-CELL INTERFERENCE AND BASE STATION - Provided are a method for coordinating inter-cell interference and a base station using same. A first base station receives from the second base station a configuration request message for requesting a radio resource setting to coordinate inter-cell interference. The first base station transmits to the second base station a configuration response message as a response to the configuration request message. | 2013-08-29 |
20130223394 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND SRS TRANSMISSION CONTROL METHOD - Provided are a communication device and an SRS transmission method capable of reducing the possibility of a difference in recognition between the presence or absence of an SRS transmission between a base station and a terminal or of an SRS resource so as to prevent degradation of system throughput. At a terminal ( | 2013-08-29 |
20130223395 | Apparatus and Method for Communication - Apparatus and method for communication are provided. The method includes setting up at least one second radio bearer for at least one second user equipment of the multi-radio user equipment on a second carrier, the first and second carriers being different and associating the first and at least one second radio bearers with a bearer which is set up between the apparatus and a core network. Data to be transmitted is multiplexed to the multi-radio user equipment to the first and second bearers and data received from the multi-radio user equipment on the first and second bearers is demultiplexed to the bearer which is set up between the apparatus and a core network. | 2013-08-29 |
20130223396 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR TRANSMITTING CONTROL INFORMATION IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. More specifically, a method for transmitting control information including ACK/NACK and a scheduling request (SR) from a terminal in a wireless communication system comprises the steps of: receiving a plurality of physical downlink shared channels (PDSCHs); and transmitting a plurality of ACK/NACK and SR corresponding to the plurality of PDSCHs by using physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) format 3, wherein the plurality of ACK/NACK are divided into first and second segments, and the SR is added to at least one of the first and second segments and is then joint coded with the plurality of ACK/NACKs of the segment to which the SR is added. | 2013-08-29 |
20130223397 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING APERIODIC REFERENCE SIGNAL - Disclosed are a method and a device for transmitting and receiving an aperiodic reference signal. The method for receiving an aperiodic reference signal comprises: allowing a reference signal receiving device to determine a radio resource area that can be calculated by environmental information from a first reference signal transmission device, and to transmit an aperiodic reference signal to the first reference signal transmission device by including first instruction information which instructs the aperiodic reference signal to be transmitted in the radio resource area; transmitting the aperiodic reference signal by including second instruction information which instructs a second reference signal transmission device, to which a periodic reference signal is to be transmitted in said radio resource area; and receiving the aperiodic reference signal from the first reference signal transmission device in the radio resource area. | 2013-08-29 |
20130223398 | NETWORK ASSISTED SENSING ON A SHARED BAND FOR LOCAL COMMUNICATIONS - To find a D2D channel, by example a shared channel for offload traffic from an allocated D2D channel, a cellular network access node sends a configuration message with parameters (e.g., sensing time, frequency band, sensing mechanism, cyclic shift) for a D2D device to sense spectrum. From results of this spectrum sensing is decided whether to utilize a frequency band, sensed according to the parameters, for D2D communications. In an embodiment the network selects a subframe configuration to set the sensing time, in which different subframe configurations have different-length guard periods which is the sensing time. In embodiments a first sensing is within a guard period and represents coarse sensing results and if those are not sufficient the network configures a longer sensing time (e.g., spanning multiple subframes) for finer sensing results. The network or alternatively the D2D device decides whether to use the sensed frequency band for offload traffic. | 2013-08-29 |
20130223399 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DEVICE TO DEVICE COMMUNICATION - In accordance with an example embodiment of the present invention, an apparatus is configured to receive a first signaling message comprising a first identifier of a first node and a second identifier of a second node, and responsive to the receiving initiate at least one policy action relating to at least one of the first node and the second node; and transmit a second signaling message to the first node, the second signaling message being configured to cause bearer establishment between the first node and the second node. | 2013-08-29 |
20130223400 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING DOWNLINK CONTROL CHANNEL FOR CONTROLLING INTER-CELL INTERFERENCE IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The present invention relates to a wireless communication system, and more particularly, to a method and device for transmitting and receiving a downlink control channel for controlling inter-cell interference in a wireless communication system. An embodiment of the present invention provides a method for transmitting a downlink control channel from a base station to a terminal, and the method may comprise: a step of determining whether a downlink subframe is of a first type or a second type; and a step in which if the downlink subframe is of the first type, the number of OFDM symbols for transmitting the downlink control channel is set to a preset value (N), and the downlink control channel is transmitted using N OFDM symbols. | 2013-08-29 |
20130223401 | RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, RADIO BASE STATION, NETWORK DEVICE, AND COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD | 2013-08-29 |
20130223402 | MAPPING OF CONTROL INFORMATION TO CONTROL CHANNEL ELEMENTS - The invention relates to a new structure of a control channel region within a sub-frame of a 3GPP-based based communication system using OFDM in the downlink. This new structure of a control channel region is inter alia particularly suitable for conveying physical downlink control channel information from a donor eNodeB to a relay node. The control channel region is divided in CCEs that have equal size irrespective of the presence of further cell-specific and/or UE-specific reference signals within the control channel region. This is achieved by dividing the control channel region in plural sub-CCEs that are combined to CCEs all having equal size (in terms of resource elements that can be used for the signaling of control information). The control channel region is divided in the frequency domain and/or time domain in a FDM respectively TDM fashion in order to obtain the sub-CCEs | 2013-08-29 |
20130223403 | METHOD, DEVICE, AND SYSTEM FOR OPTIMIZING RADIO NETWORK - The present invention provides a method, a device, and a system for optimizing a radio network. The method provided in the present invention includes: recognizing a terminal that needs optimization processing; according to a degree of influencing a network handover performance indicator or network load performance indicator by each terminal that needs optimization processing, performing handover priority sorting on the terminal that needs optimization processing to obtain a sorted handover priority result; according to the sorted handover priority result, and based on a configuration rule that a smaller handover parameter value is configured for a terminal with a higher handover priority, configuring a handover parameter for the terminal that needs optimization processing; and sending the handover parameter to a corresponding terminal. | 2013-08-29 |
20130223404 | CARE-OF-ADDRESS HANDOVER - Representative implementations of devices and techniques provide care-of-address handover. In one implementation, a message is sent to a server in a point-to-point communication session. The message includes a care-of-address of a first network interface (e.g., wireless network interface) and a care-of-address of a second network interface (e.g., wireline network interface). The care-of-address of the first network interface is a current care-of-address being used in the communication session and the care-of-address of the second network interface is a new care-of-address that a device (e.g., a mobile node) is going to transition to (e.g., handover). The message may also include the server's IP address and TCP (Transfer Control Protocol) port. Furthermore, the message may include the mobile node's TCP port. | 2013-08-29 |
20130223405 | APPARATUS AND METHOD OF PROVIDING MEDICAL DATA BASED ON A HANDOVER OF A MEDICAL SENSOR - An apparatus and method are provided for providing medical data based on a handover of a medical sensor. The apparatus includes a medical data client that requests and receives the medical data from the medical sensor; a security module that manages access to the medical data; a data management unit that stores the received medical data; and an event handler that receives an abnormal condition notification from the medical sensor and sends a command to release access to the medical data, based on the abnormal condition notification. | 2013-08-29 |
20130223406 | POWER HEADROOM REPORTING - The disclosure relates to a method for a method for a user equipment configured in carrier aggregation mode to assist an e Node B in estimating the total available output power for each component carrier. The method comprises reporting from the user equipment to the e Node B at least one of RF architecture information of the user equipment, and at least one power parameter value. The disclosure also relates to the corresponding e Node B, user equipment, computer program and storage medium. | 2013-08-29 |
20130223407 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MOBILITY WITH A SPLIT HOME AGENT ARCHITECTURE USING MPTCP - A method is implemented in a network element functioning as a control node for a mobile node (MN) communicating with a corresponding node (CN). The method includes selecting a virtual agent in the network to provide mobility services to the MN. The virtual agent represents a set of mobile resources proximate to the MN. The virtual agent is selected such that the MN receives a better quality of service when communicating with the CN through the virtual agent. A provisioning message is sent to the selected virtual agent including parameters for a session between the MN and CN. The provisioning message initiates a flow redirection at the virtual agent. A provisioning acknowledgement message is received from the virtual agent indicating that the virtual agent is receiving data packets from the CN and forwarding the data packets to the MN at the care-of address. | 2013-08-29 |
20130223408 | ACTION TIMES FOR HANDOVER OF MOBILE STATIONS - A method may include determining whether each of a plurality of target base stations is capable of providing a fast ranging opportunity to a mobile station served by the serving base station, and, for each of the plurality of target base stations which is capable of providing the fast ranging opportunity to the mobile station, determining an action time after which the target base station can send an uplink map to the mobile station, the uplink map indicating when the mobile station should send a fast ranging request. The method may also include sending a handover message to the mobile station, the handover message indicating whether each of the plurality of target base stations is capable of providing the fast ranging opportunity to the mobile station and indicating the action time after which the target base station can send the uplink map to the mobile station. | 2013-08-29 |
20130223409 | Method for Performing Handover in Wireless Communication System - Provided is a method for a user equipment performing a handover in a wireless communication system. The method comprises a step of receiving from a source cell a handover command message, which indicates the handover to a target cell, and a step of performing the handover to the target cell, wherein the handover command message includes information on a low-interference wireless resource to be used by the user equipment inside the target cell. The low-interference wireless resource can be a wireless resource which is operated by the source cell in order to mitigate inter-cell interference, when the source cell is an interfering cell and the target cell is an interfered cell. | 2013-08-29 |
20130223410 | MULTI-CARRIER STEERING IN RRC STATE CELL_FACH - A method for a user equipment adapted for wireless communication with a base station, comprising, when the user equipment operates in a CELL_FACH state and performs user data transmission over a first carrier: receiving from the base station a message indicative of a second carrier to be used for the user data transmission; and transferring the user data transmission from the first carrier to the second carrier, in response to the message. A method for a base station, a user equipment and base station are also described. | 2013-08-29 |
20130223411 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR FACILITATING EFFECTIVE SCHEDULING GRANTS - A method and apparatus for effectively facilitating grant scheduling is provided. The method may comprise transmitting, by a user equipment (UE), a grant request, wherein the grant request includes a UE power headroom (UPH) value, and receiving, from a Node B, a scheduling grant, wherein the scheduling grant is derived from the transmitted UPH. | 2013-08-29 |
20130223412 | METHOD AND SYSTEM TO IMPROVE FRAME EARLY TERMINATION SUCCESS RATE - A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for wireless communication are provided. A transmitting apparatus receives a packet at a MAC layer object and generates a first MAC layer output and at least one duplicate MAC layer output based on the received packet. The MAC layer output and duplicate MAC layer output are fed to a PHY layer object. The PHY layer object can transmit first PHY layer information in a first TTI and begin transmitting a second, duplicate PHY layer information in a second, consecutive TTI following the first TTI. The receiving apparatus receives first information in a first TTI and receives duplicate information in a second, consecutive TTI following the first TTI. The receiving apparatus attempts to early decode the information in the first TTI, and when unsuccessful, attempts to decode the information in the second TTI. | 2013-08-29 |
20130223413 | MOBILE STATION, BASE STATION, UPLINK TRANSMISSION METHOD, AND DOWNLINK TRANSMISSION METHOD - A mobile station includes a channel quality estimation unit configured to estimate downlink channel quality based on a reference signal from a base station and to output the estimated downlink channel quality as channel estimation information; an acknowledgement information determining unit configured to determine whether a downlink data channel from the base station is correctly received and to output the determination result as acknowledgement information; and an acknowledgement information prioritizing unit configured to cause the acknowledgement information to be preferentially transmitted to the base station if transmission timings of the channel estimation information and the acknowledgement information coincide. | 2013-08-29 |
20130223414 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR SIGNAL TRANSMISSION AND RECEPTION IN A BROADBAND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - In a broadband wireless communication system, a spread spectrum signal is intentionally overlapped with an OFDM signal, in a time domain, a frequency domain, or both. The OFDM signal, which inherently has a high spectral efficiency, is used for carrying broadband data or control information. The spread spectrum signal, which is designed to have a high spread gain for overcoming severe interference, is used for facilitating system functions such as initial random access, channel probing, or short messaging. Methods and techniques are devised to ensure that the mutual interference between the overlapped signals is minimized to have insignificant impact on either signal and that both signals are detectable with expected performance by a receiver. | 2013-08-29 |
20130223415 | BASE STATION APPARATUS, USER APPARATUS AND COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD - A base station apparatus in a radio communication system where transmit diversity is applied in uplinks includes a reference signal measurement unit configured to measure a receive level of the reference signal, a switch pitch determination unit configured to determine the antenna switch pitch of transmitting the reference signal based on the receive level measured by the reference signal measurement unit, and a transmitting unit configured to transmit the antenna switch pitch determined by the switch pitch determination unit. | 2013-08-29 |
20130223416 | Muting Data Transmissions - A method includes determining at least one first station and at least one second station have a relative timing difference. The method then determines a muting schedule for the at least one first station for a plurality of sub-frames, wherein the muting schedule includes at least two adjacent muted sub-frames. The method further includes initiating sending an indication of the muting schedule to the at least one first station and the at least one second station wherein information on one or more channels is transmitted from the at least one second station during the at least two adjacent muted sub-frames. | 2013-08-29 |
20130223417 | COMMUNICATION NETWORK FOR DETECTING UNCOOPERATIVE COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE AND RELATED METHODS - A communication network may be uncooperative with an uncooperative communications device. The communication network includes mobile wireless communications devices including a collection device and forward devices. Each forward device is configured to detect a received signal characteristic associated with the uncooperative communications device, and transmit the received signal characteristic to the collection device. The collection device is configured to selectively schedule reception of the received signal characteristic based upon a timing of communications among the forward devices, and determine a parameter associated with the uncooperative communications device based upon the received signal characteristic. | 2013-08-29 |
20130223418 | RF Sniffer - Systems and methods wirelessly communicate data over a plurality of cellular channels by sniffing for available frequency channels; requesting an allocation of preferably adjacent cellular frequency channels from a mobile station to a base station; and allocating available frequency channels in response to the request from the mobile station. | 2013-08-29 |
20130223419 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR POWER SAVING ENHANCEMENTS IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION - Method, apparatus, and computer program product embodiments enable power saving in network environments. An example embodiment comprises: transmitting by a first wireless device to a second wireless device, a first message indicating an awake state with availability to receive wireless messages from the second wireless device, the first message including a threshold value for acceptance by the first device of buffered data in the second device; and receiving by the first wireless device, an immediate acknowledgement message from the second wireless device, if the buffered data in the second device satisfies the threshold value or receiving by the first wireless device, a delayed acknowledgement message from the second wireless device, if the buffered data in the second device does not satisfy the threshold value. | 2013-08-29 |
20130223420 | WAKE-UP BROADCAST INCLUDING NETWORK INFORMATION IN COMMON DESIGNATION AD HOC WIRELESS NETWORKING - A data communication device includes both a two-way communications component having a first receiver and transmitter, and a second receiver. The second receiver activates the two-way communications component from a dormant state upon receipt by the second receiver of a wake-up broadcast that includes a wake-up identifier of the data communication device. A method of providing information via the second receiver—which information is auxiliary to the wake-up of the two-way communications component—includes transmitting a wake-up broadcast capable of being received by the second receiver. The wake-up broadcast includes a data construct including a wake-up identifier and the auxiliary information. The wake-up identifier may or may not be a wake-up identifier of the data communication device. Nevertheless, the auxiliary information is received and recorded by the data communication device via the second receiver with the two-way communications component remaining in the dormant state. | 2013-08-29 |
20130223421 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SUPPORTING MULTIPLE ACCESS POINT NAMES FOR TRUSTED WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORK - Systems and methods are provided for supporting multiple access point names for trusted wireless local area network (LAN.) In one method, the method includes receiving a packet at a mobile access gateway from a UE operating in a trusted wireless LAN, determining at the mobile access gateway an access point name (APN) associated with the received packet, and analyzing a binding update list (BUL) table to identify an IP address of the UE used by the determined APN. The method further includes modifying a source IP address of the received packet to the IP address of the UE used by the determined APN, and transmitting the packet to a home network associated with the APN. | 2013-08-29 |
20130223422 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR OPTIMIZING WIRELESS TRANSMISSION DATA RATES - One aspect of the disclosure provides a method for wireless communication. The method includes sending a modulation and coding scheme request to an access point. The modulation and coding scheme request is sent using a first physical layer preamble frame. The modulation and coding scheme request includes an identifier associated with the access point. The method further includes receiving at a station a modulation and coding scheme feedback response from the access point in response to sending the modulation and coding scheme request. The modulation and coding scheme feedback response is received as a second physical layer preamble frame. In addition, the method includes determining a modulation and coding scheme based on the modulation and coding scheme feedback response. Moreover, the method includes transmitting data to the access point using the identified modulation and coding scheme. | 2013-08-29 |
20130223423 | TERMINAL AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING PRIORITY OF CONNECTION WITH A WIRELESS NETWORK ACCESS POINT - A terminal and method for performing wireless communication to determine priority of a wireless connection to an access point (AP), including scanning APs within a receivable range of the terminal to collect air log information; one or more of classifying the APs within the receivable range according to Received Signal Strength Indication (RSSI), determining a number of terminals connected to the APs in the receivable range, or determining a number of terminals connectable to a corresponding AP for the APs in the receivable range, and determining an order of priority to connect the terminal to at least one AP within the receivable range, based the connection status of the AP, the classification according to RSSI, the number of terminals connected to the APs, or a number of terminals connectable to the APs. | 2013-08-29 |
20130223424 | MANAGEMENT METHODS AND RELATED ELECTRONIC DEVICES AND MACHINE-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUMS USING THE SAME - Management methods for use in an electronic device are provided. The electronic device includes a network connection unit for connecting to a network through a first access point (AP). First, a preferred AP list is provided, wherein the preferred AP list records a plurality of APs and connection records corresponding thereto. Then, the first AP is sequentially selected from the plurality of APs of the preferred AP list to connect to the network, wherein each of the plurality of APs is sequentially selected as the first AP based on the corresponding connection record of the selected AP. | 2013-08-29 |
20130223425 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ACTIVELY DETERMINING COMMUNICATION LINK IN COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - An apparatus and a method for determining a communication link in a client node of a communication system are provided. In the method, access network information and channel state information for at least one host node are determined. Link state information for each host node is determined using the access network information and the channel state information for the corresponding host node. One of the at least one host node is determined with consideration of the link state information for each of the at least one host node. | 2013-08-29 |
20130223426 | WIRELESS PROTOCOL CONVERTER - Methods, apparatuses, and systems for interfacing between a broadband wireless communication system and a Local Area Network (LAN) system are disclosed herein. For instance, the method can include converting first data formatted according to a broadband communication protocol, from a transceiver, to a local area network (LAN) protocol to generate LAN formatted data. The method can also include converting second data formatted according to the LAN protocol, from a computing device, to the broadband communication protocol to generate broadband-formatted data. Further, the method can includes transmitting the LAN-formatted data to the computing device and the broadband-formatted data to the transceiver. | 2013-08-29 |
20130223427 | CHANNEL SOUNDING METHOD IN WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORK SYSTEM AND APPARATUS FOR SUPPORTING THE SAME - A method for a channel sounding in a wireless local area network is provided. The method includes transmitting a null data packet announcement (NDPA) frame, to a plurality of receivers, the NDPA frame requesting a channel statement information feedback and announcing that a null data packet (NDP) frame is to be transmitted; transmitting the NDP frame being a basis of channel estimation for the plurality of receivers; receiving a first feedback frame from a first receiver among the plurality of receivers, transmitting a feedback poll frame to a second receiver; and, receiving a second feedback frame from the second receiver, the second feedback frame including second channel state information estimated by the second receiver. If the first receiver fails to perform the channel estimation, the first feedback frame is a null feedback frame. The null feedback frame is a feedback frame not including channel state information. | 2013-08-29 |
20130223428 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IRAT MEASUREMENT WHEN IN TD-SCDMA CONNECTED MODE - When a user equipment (UE) is operating in connected mode in a Time Division-Synchronous Code Division Multiple Access (TD-SCDMA) network all time slots may be allocated to communications, leaving insufficient time for the UE to perform measurement of neighboring radio access technologies (RATs). The UE may select one out of every N number of transmit time intervals (TTIs) to halt regular communication and reserve that TTI for purposes of inter-RAT measurement. | 2013-08-29 |
20130223429 | VARIABLE RATE CODING FOR ENABLING HIGH PERFORMANCE COMMUNICATION - A protocol for optimizing the use of coded transmissions such as over wireless links. In this technique, interframes are split into segments selected to be an optimum size according to transmission characteristics of the radio channel. The inverse process is applied at the receiver. Using this scheme, segments containing erroneous data may be resent. | 2013-08-29 |
20130223430 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR REDUCING TDMA NOISE IN TERMINAL - An apparatus for reducing TDMA noise in a terminal transceiving a wireless signal in a TDMA scheme, includes an interface unit in which an output accessory is mounted, an audio processor including a virtual ground and transceiving an audio signal to and from an output accessory through the interface unit, a switch unit provided between the interface unit and the audio processor and switching such that a ground terminal of the interface unit is connected to one of a real ground or a virtual ground of the audio processor, and a controller controlling the switch unit to connect the ground terminal of the interface unit to the virtual ground when a call function using the output accessory is activated, in which the switch unit is configured by two or more switches which are connected to each other in a parallel connection. | 2013-08-29 |
20130223431 | Processing Requests - Measures for processing requests in a telecommunications network are provided. A blacklist for determining routeing attempts to be conducted during a default routeing attempt procedure is maintained. A request comprising an identifier for a given destination for the request is received and, in response to performing a destination address lookup for the identifier, a set of one or more destination addresses for routeing the request to is received. One or more destination addresses in the set are compared to the list of destinations on the blacklist. If the comparison indicates that at least one of the destination addresses in the set is not present on the blacklist, the request is processed according to a default routeing attempt procedure. If the comparison indicates that all of the destination addresses in the set are present on the blacklist, the request is processed according to an alternative routeing attempt procedure. | 2013-08-29 |
20130223432 | Communication System - A method of controlling a communication session is provided. The communication session is established in a telecommunications network between a first communication client of a plurality of communication clients on one or more communication devices associated with a first party and a communication device associated with a second party, the established communication session comprising at least a first communication session leg established between the first communication client and an intermediate node in the telecommunications network. The method includes detecting a loss in connectivity associated with the first communication session leg, and in response to detecting the loss in connectivity, initiating set up of a second communication session leg between an intermediate node in the telecommunications network and at least a second communication client of the plurality of communication clients on one or more communication devices associated with the first party. | 2013-08-29 |
20130223433 | Reducing Broadcast of SS7 Network Management Messages by SIGTRAN Relay Node - The application relates to the transport of SS7 signaling over an Internet Protocol based network and in particular to the routing of SS7 Signaling Network Management SSNM Messages such as Destination Unavailable DUNA and Signalling Congestion SCON by a SIGTRAN relay node. The SSNM messages are checked against a so-called “validation rule”, which either specifies a list of allowed affected point codes or a threshold rate of SSNM messages with the same affected point code. If the SSNM message is “valid” it is sent to a so-called “broadcast domain” which comprise nodes such as signaling endpoints or component of one or more application servers. | 2013-08-29 |
20130223434 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR COORDINATING DATA AND VOICE COMMUNICATIONS VIA CUSTOMER CONTACT CHANNEL CHANGING SYSTEM - This invention (The Customer Contact Channel Changer) enables the integration of different Customer Contact Channels such as live call centre ACD (Automatic Call Distribution) agents, ADSI (Analog Display Services Interface) enhanced IVR (Interactive Voice Response) systems and WWW (World Wide Web) servers. The world wide web servers are used to allow customers with computer equipment to access information from an organizations databases in a self service mode. Frequently these customers have questions best answered by human ACD agents. With this invention the connection between the customer with the question and the agent with the answer is done quickly and efficiently with both parties sharing screens of common information. Also control is retained by the customer to make the call happen when they want it. | 2013-08-29 |
20130223435 | System and Method of Routing Voice Communications Via Peering Networks - A method of routing voice communications is disclosed and includes receiving network event data at a telephone number mapping (ENUM) server of an originating network from a plurality of peering border elements associated with a plurality of peering communication networks. The network event data indicates a health status of each of the peering communication networks. The method also includes determining a network weight related to each of the peering communication networks based on the network event data, wherein each network weight indicates a proportion of calls that are to be routed from the originating network via the related peering communication network. The method further includes dynamically assigning a plurality of preference field values to session initiation protocol (SIP) addresses of the peering border elements within a plurality of naming authority pointer (NAPTR) records, based on the network weights. | 2013-08-29 |
20130223436 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF PROVIDING COMMUNICATIONS ON A SOFTWARE PLATFORM - A computer implemented method of delivering a message is disclosed. The method includes generating a call activation interface on a software platform. The call activation interface is associated with at least one discrete item from a plurality of discrete items on the software platform. The method further includes presenting a list of a plurality of contacts in response to a selection of the call activation interface, receiving at least one contact from the list, and generating a call setup request directed to the at least one contact. The call setup request includes an announcement message that includes information associated with the discrete item. | 2013-08-29 |
20130223437 | Connection Control with B2BUA Located Behind NAT Gateway - There is proposed a mechanism for a connection control conducted in a communication network (such as IMS) when a back to back user agent (B2BUA) and network address translation function are involved in the establishment of the connection. When a control network element, such as a P-CSCF, receives a signaling message related to the establishment of the communication connection, via a communication leg coming from a network address translation device, it is determined whether address information contained in an SDP element of the signaling message matches with preset address information allocated to a border gateway function or BGF. When no matching is determined, normal processing like an initiation of a latching procedure at an own BGF is conducted. Otherwise, if a matching address information is determined, i.e. a mirrored SDP is deemed to be present, a latching processing at an own BGF is inhibited and the received BGF's address information are used in the connection establishment procedure. This processing is conducted at all session ends coming from the B2BUA, so that a communication connection with media flow can be established through pinholes of the BGF(s). | 2013-08-29 |
20130223438 | Methods and Systems for Managing Distributed Media Access Control Address Tables - Methods, systems, and computer programs are presented for switching a network packet. One method includes operations for receiving a packet having a media access control (MAC) address, and for switching the packet by a first packet switching device (PSD) when the MAC address is present in a first memory. Further, the method includes operations for transferring the packet to a second PSD when the MAC address is absent from the first memory and present in a second memory associated with the second PSD, and for transferring the packet to a third PSD when the MAC address is absent from the first memory and the second memory. | 2013-08-29 |
20130223439 | ETHERNET COMMUNICATION CIRCUIT WITH AUTO MDI/MDIX FUNCTION - An Ethernet communication circuit includes: a current source; a first transistor coupled between a first node and a third node, and having a control terminal coupled with a first signal pin; a second transistor coupled between the first node and a fourth node, and having a control terminal coupled with a second signal pin; a third transistor coupled between a second node and the fourth node, and having a control terminal coupled with a third signal pin; a fourth transistor coupled between the second node and the third node, and having a control terminal coupled with a fourth signal pin; a first switch coupled between the third node and the current source; a second switch coupled between the fourth node and the current source; and a transconductance circuit for generating an output voltage according to the current passing through the first node and the current passing through the second node. | 2013-08-29 |
20130223440 | DISJOINT MULTI-PATHING FOR A DATA CENTER NETWORK - According to one embodiment, a data center fabric network system includes a controller, a plurality of switches connected to the controller via a plurality of communication links, a source device connected to at least a first switch of the plurality of switches, a destination device connected to at least a second switch of the plurality of switches, and wherein the controller is adapted for: creating a topology of the data center fabric network system, determining paths between the plurality of switches, calculating one or more disjoint multi-paths from the source device to the destination device based on the topology, and writing the one or more disjoint multi-paths into a forwarding table of at least one of: the source device, the first switch, and a nearest shared switch to the source device. | 2013-08-29 |
20130223441 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR NETWORK SUBNET DISCOVERY - A method and non-transitory computer readable medium for discovering network subnets are disclosed. For example, the method sets a host portion of a network address to a fixed value for a particular network, sends a discovery message to a subnet of a plurality of subnets having the fixed value of the host portion for the particular network, discovers the subnet if a response to the discovery message is received from a device and repeats the sending and the discovering until all of the plurality of subnets are checked, where the sending and the discovering are applied only to the fixed value of the host portion for each of the plurality of subnets. | 2013-08-29 |
20130223442 | System and Method for Managing Unknown Flows in a Flow-Based Switching Device - A network switching device includes a macroflow sub-plane that performs packet-based routing in the network switching device and a microflow routing module that performs flow-based routing in the network switching device. The microflow routing module is separable from the network switching device and operates to provide a data packet via a software defined network agent to an SDN controller. The data packet is associated with a first unknown flow on the network switching device. The microflow routing module further operates to receive via the SDN agent a flow-based routing rule from the SDN controller and route the data packet based upon the flow-based routing rule. | 2013-08-29 |
20130223443 | DISTRIBUTION TREES WITH STAGES - Techniques described herein provide for sending packets to nodes based on distribution trees with stages. A packet may be received at a node. The stage of the node may be determined. A distribution tree may be selected. Based on the stage and the selected distribution tree, subsequent stage nodes may be determined. The packet may be sent to the subsequent stage nodes. | 2013-08-29 |
20130223444 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR MANAGING NETWORK PACKET FORWARDING WITH A CONTROLLER - A network controlled by a controller may include end hosts that are coupled to the switches. The network may be coupled to gateways that interface between the network and an external network. The network may include subnetworks formed from respective portions of the end hosts of the network. The controller may create virtual gateways that interface between each of the subnetworks and the network by providing the end hosts of each subnetwork with virtual gateway Ethernet addresses. The controller may receive a network packet having a virtual gateway Ethernet address from an end host of a given subnetwork. The network packet may be destined for an end host of an external network or subnetwork. The controller may forward the network packet to the destination end host by redirecting the network packet through a selected gateway or by controlling the switches to perform gateway functions. | 2013-08-29 |
20130223445 | Stateful NAT64 Function in a Distributed Architecture - Various embodiments pertain to techniques for translation of network addresses including encapsulating state information into the data packet being transferred. A NAT device receives a data packet destined for an IPv4 server from an IPv6 client device and translates the destination address. The NAT device encapsulates the translation information into the data packet, and transmits the data packet to the IPv4 server. Upon receiving a response from the IPv4 server, the NAT device translates the source address on the data packet to reflect the original destination address for the packet received from the IPv6 client, such that the client device may be unaware that it was communicating with an IPv4 server. In various embodiments, the translation information is embedded in the IP options as part of the TCP header of the data packet. | 2013-08-29 |
20130223446 | Compound Masking and Entropy for Data Packet Classification using Tree-based Binary Pattern Matching - A method in a network element of a packet data network classifies a data packet for application of a packet data network policy. A root node compound bit mask is applied to bits of a received data packet. The data packet has data in a plurality of fields. The compound bit mask has a plurality of bit masks each having bits in a different data packet field. The masked bits of the compound bit mask are applied to root node bit tables, one for each bit mask of the compound bit mask. A branch node from the root node is selected based on a bit table look up. | 2013-08-29 |
20130223447 | NETWORK SYSTEM - A method for packet processing in a network including a plurality of terminals, includes generating, by a first terminal, a packet including a geographical address. The first terminal transmits the packet transmitted to a destination. The geographical address includes a location information field having location information of the first terminal and a range field indicating whether the destination is a single destination representing that the destination is a target terminal or an area destination representing the destination is a target area. The range field has range information of the target area in the case that the destination is the area destination. | 2013-08-29 |
20130223448 | DATA TRANSMITTING APPARATUS, DATA RECEIVING APPARATUS, DATA TRANSRECEIVING SYSTEM, DATA TRANSMITTING METHOD, DATA RECEIVING METHOD AND DATA TRANSRECEIVING METHOD - A data transmitting apparatus includes a packet generator which generates a plurality of packets regarding multi-channel audio sample data and transmitter which transmits the plurality of generated packets to a data receiving apparatus. Each of the plurality of packets includes an identifier field to distinguish a position or an order of the packets. | 2013-08-29 |
20130223449 | DYNAMIC SERVICE INSERTION IN A FABRIC SWITCH - One embodiment of the present invention provides a switch. The switch includes a service management module and a packet processor. During operation, the service management module identifies a service provided by an appliance coupled to the switch via a local port. The packet processor constructs a notification message for a remote switch. The notification message includes information about the service and the appliance. In this way, the switch allows the remote switch to request the service. | 2013-08-29 |
20130223450 | NETWORK SYSTEM AND FRAME COMMUNICATION METHOD - A network system has: a node performing transmission/reception of a frame based on FCoE; a network; a controller performing management of the node and the network; and a gateway provided with respect to the node. The frame is classified into a control frame and a data frame. The gateway determines whether a frame received from the node is the control frame or the data frame, forwards the control frame to the controller, and forwards the data frame to the network. The controller performs the management based on the control frame received from the gateway. The network transfers the data frame received from the gateway to a destination node without through the controller. The node has a retransmission control and reordering unit configured to perform retransmission control and reordering processing with respect to the data frame. | 2013-08-29 |
20130223451 | UNIFIED INFRASTRUCTURE OVER ETHERNET - Systems and methods that provide a unified infrastructure over layer-2 networks are provided. A first frame is generated by an end point. The first frame comprises a proxy payload, a proxy association header and a frame header relating to a control proxy element. The first frame is sent over a first network to the control proxy element. A second frame is generated by the control proxy element. The second frame comprises the proxy payload and a proxy header. The first and second frames correspond to different layer-2 protocols. The control proxy element sends the second frame over a second network employing the layer-2 protocol of the second frame. | 2013-08-29 |
20130223452 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, CONTROL APPARATUS, PATH CONTROLLING METHOD AND PROGRAM - A communication system includes a plurality of first nodes that, in accordance with processing rules (packet handling operations) prescribing processing contents for a packet belonging to a pre-set flow, processes a packet received, which matches to the processing rules, and a second node that forwards the received packet via its ports without referencing the processing rules. The communication system also includes a control apparatus that sets, for the first nodes situated on a forwarding path for the packet belonging to the pre-set flow, processing rules to forward the packet belonging to the pre-set flow to each next hop. The control apparatus also sets, for the first node not situated on the forwarding path, processing rules to instruct dropping the packet that is forwarded from the second node and that is deviated from the forwarding path. | 2013-08-29 |
20130223453 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MULTI-PAIR ATM OVER DSL - At a transmitter, an ATM cell stream is received from the ATM layer and is distributed on a cell-by-cell bases across multiple DSL PHY's. At the receiver, the cells from each DSL PHY are re-combined in the appropriate order to recreate the original ATM cell stream, which is then passed to the ATM layer. | 2013-08-29 |
20130223454 | Delegate Forwarding and Address Resolution in Fragmented Network - A method for forwarding data within a virtual network instance comprising a plurality of end nodes using a designated forwarding node, wherein the method comprises maintaining a plurality of complete forwarding information for all of the end nodes within the virtual network instance, receiving a data packet destined for any of the end nodes in the virtual network instance, and forwarding the data packet based on the forwarding information, wherein the virtual network instance comprises a plurality of end nodes, and wherein the designated forwarding node is directly connected to some of the end nodes within the virtual network instance. | 2013-08-29 |
20130223455 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE, COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - Provided is an electronic device capable of performing stable communications between a plurality of electronic devices connected in series. A communication device ( | 2013-08-29 |
20130223456 | DATA TRANSMITTING APPARATUS, DATA RECEIVING APPARATUS, DATA TRANSRECEIVING SYSTEM, DATA TRANSMITTING METHOD, DATA RECEIVING METHOD AND DATA TRANSRECEIVING METHOD - A data transmitting apparatus is provided. The data transmitting apparatus includes a packet generator configured to generate a packet including a plurality of sub packets and a transmitter configured to transmit the generated packet to a data receiving apparatus. Each of the plurality of sub packets includes audio data corresponding to content among a plurality of contents. | 2013-08-29 |
20130223457 | Multi-Length Cyclic Prefix for OFDM Transmission in PLC Channels - Embodiments of the invention provide multiple cyclic prefix lengths for either both the data-payload and frame control header or only the data payload. Frame control header (FCH) and data symbols have an associated cyclic prefix. A table is transmitted in the FCH symbols, which includes a cyclic prefix field to identify the cyclic prefix length used in the data payload. A receiver may know the cyclic prefix length used in the FCH symbols in one embodiment. In other embodiments, the receiver does not know the FCH cyclic prefix length and, therefore, attempts to decode the FCH symbols using different possible cyclic prefix lengths until the FCH symbols are successfully decoded. | 2013-08-29 |
20130223458 | METHOD FOR SYNCHRONIZING MASTER AND SLAVE CLOCKS OF A PACKET-SWITCHED NETWORK WITH AGGREGATED CONNECTIONS BETWEEN NODES, AND ASSOCIATED SYNCHRONIZATION DEVICES - A method is dedicated to synchronizing master (HM) and slave clocks (HE) of a packet-switched network comprising at least two equipments (E | 2013-08-29 |
20130223459 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR FAST TUNING OF OPTICAL SOURCES - A method and device are provided for fast, continuous tuning of an optical source. A first pump signal with a first pump frequency is input into a mixer along with a first seed signal having a first seed frequency. Within the mixer, the first pump signal and the first seed signal generate at least one idler having an idler frequency defined as two times the pump frequency minus the seed frequency. Shifting the pump signal across a frequency range at a sweep rate causes the idler frequency to be shifted by two times the frequency range at two times the sweep rate. The shifted at least one idler is mixed with the shifted pump signal to generate a first mix product that has two times the sweep rate and frequency range of the pump signal. | 2013-08-29 |
20130223460 | FREQUENCY-DRIFT AMPLIFICATION DEVICE FOR A PULSED LASER - A frequency-drift amplification device for a pulsed laser, including: a stretcher for time-stretching an incident laser pulse; at least one amplifying medium for amplifying the laser pulse; a main compressor for time-compressing the laser pulse to a desired duration for an output pulse of the amplification device; and at least one adjustment compressor between the stretcher and the main compressor, and in which the laser pulse undergoes four diffractions on diffraction gratings to time-compress the stretched laser pulse to a duration that is greater than the desired duration for the output pulse of the amplification device. | 2013-08-29 |
20130223461 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING AN OPTIMUM SIDE-MODE SUPPRESSION RATIO CONTINUOUS TUNING PATH FOR A SEMICONDUCTOR TUNABLE LASER - A system and method to determine data sets of front mirror current, back mirror current and phase current that change the wavelength output by a semiconductor laser in a prescribed trajectory versus time, while maintaining the maximum side-mode suppression ratio at each point during the sweep. | 2013-08-29 |
20130223462 | SEMICONDUCTOR LASER WITH CATHODE METAL LAYER DISPOSED IN TRENCH REGION - A laser diode includes a substrate and a junction layer disposed on the substrate. The junction layer forms a quantum well of the laser diode. The laser diode includes a junction surface having at least one channel that extends through the junction layer to the substrate. The at least one channel defines an anode region and a cathode region. A cathode electrical junction is disposed on the junction surface at the cathode region, and an anode electrical junction is disposed on the junction surface and coupled to the junction layer at the anode region. A cathode metal layer is disposed in at least a trench region of the channel. The cathode metal layer couples the substrate to the cathode electrical junction. | 2013-08-29 |
20130223463 | NITRIDE SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND PRODUCTION METHOD THEREOF - A nitride semiconductor device according to the present invention includes a p-type nitride semiconductor layer, an n-type nitride semiconductor layer, and an active layer interposed between the p-type nitride semiconductor layer and the n-type nitride semiconductor layer. The p-type nitride semiconductor layer includes: a first p-type nitride semiconductor layer containing Al and Mg; and a second p-type nitride semiconductor layer containing Mg. The first p-type nitride semiconductor layer is located between the active layer and the second p-type nitride semiconductor layer, and the second p-type nitride semiconductor layer has a greater band gap than a band gap of the first p-type nitride semiconductor layer. | 2013-08-29 |
20130223464 | LIGHT-EMITTING SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE AND OPTOELECTRONIC COMPONENT THEREFROM - A light emitting semiconductor device according the invention includes an SOI substrate, a collector and an injector. The SOI substrate includes a carrier layer, a buried oxide layer on the carrier layer, and a doped silicon layer structure with a conductivity type. The doped silicon layer structure with the conductivity type includes at least two silicon- or silicon germanium layers arranged adjacent to one another, wherein a dislocation network is configured in their interface portions at which dislocation network a radiative charge carrier combination with a light energy is provided, which light energy is smaller than a band gap energy of the silicon- or silicon germanium layers. The collector is formed as a pn-junction in a portion between the dislocation network and a surface of the silicon layer structure that is oriented away from the carrier layer, and wherein the injector is configured as a metal insulator semiconductor diode. | 2013-08-29 |
20130223465 | SURFACE-EMITTING LASER, SURFACE-EMITTING LASER ARRAY, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SURFACE-EMITTING LASER, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SURFACE-EMITTING LASER ARRAY AND OPTICAL APPARATUS EQUIPPED WITH SURFACE-EMITTING LASER ARRAY - A method of manufacturing a surface-emitting laser that allows precise alignment of the center position of a surface relief structure and that of a current confinement structure and formation of the relief structure by means of which a sufficient loss difference can be introduced between the fundamental transverse and higher order transverse mode. Removing the dielectric film on the semiconductor layers and the first-etch stop layer along the second pattern, using a second- and third-etch stop layer are conducted in single step after forming the confinement structure. The relief structure is formed by three layers including a lower, middle and upper layer, and total thickness of three layers is equal to the optical thickness of an odd multiple of ¼ wavelength (λ: oscillation wavelength, n: refractive index of the semiconductor layer). The layer right under the lower layer is the second-etch stop layer and the first-etch stop layer is laid right on this etch stop layer. | 2013-08-29 |
20130223466 | OPTICAL ELEMENT FOR VERTICAL EXTERNAL-CAVITY SURFACE-EMITTING LASER - The present invention relates to an optical element for VEC-SELs or VECSEL arrays. The optical element is formed of a substrate ( | 2013-08-29 |
20130223467 | SPHERICAL LIQUID-CRYSTAL LASER - The patent refers to one or more droplets of chiral liquid crystals used as point source(s) of laser light. The source is shaped as a droplet of chiral liquid crystals ( | 2013-08-29 |
20130223468 | EXCIMER LASER DEVICE - An excimer laser device capable of suppressing deterioration of optical elements provided in a laser chamber even if output energy per pulse is increased more than the conventional level, in which a width of a laser beam applied to the optical elements provided in the laser chamber is enlarged so as to reduce the energy density of the laser beam within such a range that a laser output of no less than a desired level is obtained. | 2013-08-29 |
20130223469 | Controlling the emissive properties of materials-improved lasers and upconversion materials - Systems and methods for producing crystalline materials by atomic layer deposition, allowing for high control of localized doping. Such materials may be fibers or films suitable for use in optoelectronics and lasers. | 2013-08-29 |
20130223470 | APPARATUS FOR FEMTOSECOND LASER OPTICALLY PUMPED BY LASER DIODE PUMPING MODULE - There is disclosed an apparatus for femtosecond laser optically pumped by a laser diode pumping module that is able to mechanically couple optical mounts for mounting optical mounts to each other by using a bar with a low thermal expansion coefficient and to form a light pumping module distant from a laser platform or a case, to provide a stable mode locking for an ultrashort laser and to enhance a power stability and a beam stability. | 2013-08-29 |
20130223471 | METAL SECTOR HAVING CURVED INNER SURFACE AND COLD CRUCIBLE INDUCTION MELTER HAVING THE SAME - The present invention provides a metal sector and a cold crucible induction melter having the same. The cold crucible induction melter includes a wall formed of a plurality of metal sectors insulated by an insulator. Each metal sector includes an inner curved portion which forms an inner surface of the wall and is convex inward relative to the wall, an outer planar portion which forms an outer surface of the wall, and a side planar portion which connects the inner curved portion to the outer planar portion. | 2013-08-29 |
20130223472 | INFRARED TEMPERATURE SENSOR CALIBRATION SYSTEM AND METHOD - Systems and methods that facilitate calibrated temperature measurements are discussed. Such a system can include a target object that changes temperature, a test infrared (IR) temperature sensor that can make a first set of measurements of the temperature of the target object over a period of time, and a standard IR temperature sensor that can make a second set of measurements of the temperature of the target object over the period of time. Additionally, the system can include a calibration unit that compares the first set of measurements with the second set of measurements and determines an accuracy of the test IR temperature sensor based on the comparison. | 2013-08-29 |
20130223473 | HEAT FLUX GAUGE WITH MICRO-SCALE TEMPERATURE SENSORS - An apparatus for measuring temperature parameters of a structure is provided. The apparatus comprises: a carrier including at least one receiving portion; and a plurality of temperature sensors disposed within the at least one receiving portion and secured to the receiving portion via a bonding medium, the sensors being distributed along at least one direction of the carrier and configured to measure and record temperature information through microstructural changes corresponding to temperatures experienced by the respective sensors. | 2013-08-29 |
20130223474 | ANALYSIS SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VISUALIZING HEAT CONDUCTION - Disclosed is an analysis system and method for visualizing heat conduction of a solid state sample. The analysis system includes a sealed jig chamber, a jig, an air tempering unit, and a thermal image camera. The sealed jig chamber includes a chamber door for opening/closing the jig chamber. The jig is removeably mounted in the jig chamber and comprises a heat source in surface contact with a solid state sample to induce the heat conduction of the solid state sample. The air tempering unit supplies hot air into the jig and supplies cool air into the jig chamber. The thermal image camera photographs the heat conduction of the solid state sample to acquire a thermal image or video. | 2013-08-29 |
20130223475 | METHODS OF MEASURING AND CONTROLLING INNER TEMPERATURE OF A CHAMBER INCLUDED IN A TEST HANDLER - To measure an inner temperature of a chamber included in a test handler, self-refresh currents of semiconductor memory devices under test are measured. The semiconductor memory devices are disposed in the chamber and have a function of linear temperature compensated self-refresh (Li-TCSR). Local temperature values are generated based on the self-refresh currents, where each local temperature value indicates a temperature near the corresponding semiconductor memory device of the semiconductor memory devices under test. | 2013-08-29 |
20130223476 | METHODS AND DEVICES FOR MEASURING THE TEMPERATURE OF A STRAND-LIKE MATERIAL - The disclosure relates to a method for measuring the temperature of a strand-like material to be heated to a target temperature, including the steps: the strand-like material is guided in heat conducting contact about at least one disk, mounted so as to rotate, that is heated to a predefined temperature, and a difference is measured between the temperature of the strand-like material or a value characterizing the temperature of the strand-like material, before conveyance about the disk and after conveyance about the disk. The disclosure also relates to a corresponding device. | 2013-08-29 |
20130223477 | CONTAINER FOR THERMAL ANALYSIS OF CAST IRON - Disclosed is a container for the thermal analysis of cast iron that enables a reduction in the amount of tellurium used in thermal analysis. By forming a plurality of fine spaces in the interior of a base plate ( | 2013-08-29 |
20130223478 | Exhaust Gas Temperature Sensor Including a Vibration Reducing and/or Modifying Sleeve - A temperature sensor system includes a temperature sensor, a cable having an end coupled to the temperature sensor, and a stop flange coupled to the cable. The temperature sensor system further includes a vibration reducing and/or modifying sleeve positioned against the stop flange. The sleeve includes a body portion defining a through passage configured to receive and retain at least a portion of the cable. The sleeve is configured to provide stability and reduce vibrational stress to the temperature sensor system. The sleeve is configured to be added to the temperature sensor system during assembly of the system and/or to be added after the temperature sensor system is fully assembled. | 2013-08-29 |
20130223479 | TEMPERATURE SENSOR INCLUDING THERMOSENSITIVE ELEMENT - A temperature sensor | 2013-08-29 |
20130223480 | MULTIPLE TEMPERATURE SENSOR SYSTEM - A multiple temperature sensor system ( | 2013-08-29 |
20130223481 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MULTI-CHANNEL FREQUENCY HOPPING SPREAD SPECTRUM COMMUNICATION - One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for transmitting data in a frequency hopping spread spectrum (FHSS) wireless communication system. A multi-channel receiver is configured to receive data from one or more channels simultaneously. The multi-channel receiver enables efficient implementation of a transmission protocol in which multiple candidate nodes within a wireless mesh network are polled for availability to receive a packet of data. The packet of data is transmitted to one or more available nodes based on prevailing link conditions, thereby increasing the likelihood of successful delivery. Data flooding may be selectively implemented to further increase the likelihood of successful delivery. | 2013-08-29 |
20130223482 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INCREASING MAXIMUM PAYLOAD SIZE - A method and apparatus for increasing, at a transmitter, a payload size of a communication channel having orthogonal groups, the method referencing a base orthogonal sequence set comprising orthogonal sequences that are mutually orthogonal, the orthogonal sequence set having subsets that are sub-block orthogonal with a length of four; and selecting a spreading sequence set from a plurality of spreading sequence sets, each of the plurality of spreading sequence sets comprising an orthogonal sequence set subset combined with an imaginary orthogonal sequence set subset, wherein the selecting increases payload size. | 2013-08-29 |
20130223483 | NARROWBAND INTERFERENCE REJECTION FOR ULTRA-WIDEBAND SYSTEMS - A technique for reducing interference between a direct-sequence ultra-wideband communications system and a narrowband communications system uses interference-rejecting spreading codes to reduce signal power in a frequency band associated with the narrowband communications system. A method of operating an ultra-wideband communications system includes applying an interference-rejecting spreading code to a signal for transmission. The interference-rejecting spreading code is configured to reduce power in a particular frequency band of a transmit or receive power spectral density associated with the ultra-wideband signal without substantially reducing power outside that particular frequency band of the transmit or receive power spectral density associated with the ultra-wideband signal. | 2013-08-29 |