40th week of 2013 patent applcation highlights part 40 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20130258864 | H-ARQ TIMING DETERMINATION UNDER CROSS-CARRIER SCHEDULING IN LTE - Techniques are provided for carrier aggregation and H-ARQ timing in LTE or the like. For example, there is provided a method, operable by a mobile device, that may involve identifying a first component carrier and a second component carrier among a plurality of component carriers to be aggregated, wherein a first number of subframes of a subframe type in the first component carrier is less than a second number of subframes of the same subframe type in the second component carrier. The method may further involve receiving a configuration to monitor a control channel for the second component carrier on the first component carrier. The method further may further involve determining a reference uplink-downlink subframe configuration for the second component carrier based at least in part on the subframe type and the received configuration for the control channel. | 2013-10-03 |
20130258865 | Distributed RAN Information Collection, Consolidation And RAN-Analytics - Control Plane and User plane packet data are collected within the Radio Access Network using a plurality of network devices. Consolidation and summarization of this information is then performed to present a unified picture of RAN through abstract APIs to management and analytics applications. The invention identifies methods of retaining the collected network data, such as control and application protocol headers at the collection points, and consolidation and exporting this network data to management/reporting/analytics application using application driven rules for consolidation and summarization. Real-time statistical analysis tools, which may be used to predict failure and degradation trends and proactively control the underlying causes, are also disclosed. | 2013-10-03 |
20130258866 | DYNAMIC SCROLLING-TICKER FOR INITIATING TELECOMMUNICATIONS SERVICES - A system and method for initiating communications between a first wireless device and a second wireless device. The method includes the steps of detecting the status of the first wireless device, notifying the second wireless device via a scrolling ticker message based on the detecting step and establishing a communication session between the first and second wireless devices. The detecting step includes generating an alert based on a predefined event. The system for establishing a communication path between a first mobile device and a second mobile device includes an IMS core, a presence server communicatively coupled to the IMS core and in communication with the first mobile device, a scrolling ticker server in communication with the presence server and with the second mobile device, wherein the presence server communicates availability of the first mobile device and the scrolling ticker notifies the second mobile device of the availability of the first mobile device. | 2013-10-03 |
20130258867 | Performance Monitoring in a Mobile Communication Network - Embodiments of the present invention relate to methods and network nodes in e.g. a LTE network for detecting congestion. In the method, a packet is received from a user equipment via a base station, the packet is analyzed to detect information of the packet and if the packet comprises a marker indicating congestion and if said marker is detected, ingress IP number of the tunnel used for said packet is extracted, and information of the marked packet and the extracted ingress IP number of the tunnel used for said packet are sent to a performance monitoring node such that identity information of the base station that has inserted the marker into the packet can be extracted at the performance monitoring node. | 2013-10-03 |
20130258868 | Method and Apparatus for Multicarrier Coverage Diversity - Methods and apparatus are described for overcoming interference in a multicarrier communication system by applying different antenna configurations to each carrier in a multi-carrier base station based on channel conditions specific to the carrier. Each carrier may be assigned to a different antenna element configuration, each configuration providing a different coverage area. Different portions of a data stream may be transmitted simultaneously via each carrier, the amount of data in each portion of the data stream being defined based on the channel conditions. | 2013-10-03 |
20130258869 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION INTERFERENCE MITIGATION - Described herein are implementations related to communication in a wireless communication system. In one implementation, serving signals from serving base stations and interfering signals from neighbor base stations are split into multiple substreams. A power allocation algorithm is used to calculate the power amplitude factor of the substreams communicated from the serving based stations coupled to corresponding wireless devices. A control signaling related to this implementation is described. | 2013-10-03 |
20130258870 | UTILIZING SCANNED RADIO ACCESS TECHNOLOGY INFORMATION - A method may include monitoring available radio access networks for information on one or more of types of radio access technologies, measurements of signal quality, measurements of signal strengths, or carrier identifiers of the available radio access networks; calculating network priorities for the available radio access networks based on the monitored information; detecting a border condition, the border condition based on a decrease in the measurements of signal quality or the measurements of signal strength; selecting, when a border condition is detected, a new radio access network from the available radio access networks based on the calculated network priorities of the available radio access networks; and connecting to a communication channel using the selected available radio access network. | 2013-10-03 |
20130258871 | PSUEDOWIRE EXTENDED GROUP MESSAGING IN A PACKET SWITCHED NETWORK - Embodiments of the invention are directed to extended psuedowire groups in a packet switched network. Embodiments associate a pseudowire to one or more groups at each provider edge device across which the pseudowire traverses. When a pseudowire set-up request message traverses across various provider edge devices, each provider edge device typically adds one or more local group membership information elements into the pseudowire set-up request message. In that way the grouping assigned by each provider edge device that the pseudowire traverses is made available to all other provider edge devices traversed by the pseudowire. Advantageously, this availability pseudowire grouping information allows any of these provider edge devices to initiate a wildcard message to notify other provider edge devices with respect to pseudowires in any of its local groups, as well as allowing a pseudowire to be bound to multiple groups based on various requirements. | 2013-10-03 |
20130258872 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CHANGING NETWORK TOPOLOGY BASED ON ENERGY CONSUMPTION - A system for managing energy consumption of a mesh network. The system includes a controller, a dynamic routing device configured to perform a functionality of either a routing device or a non-routing device, and at least one processor. The at least one processor is programmed to identify a number of routing devices in the mesh network, determine a signal strength of each of the identified routing devices with respect to at least one of the controller and the dynamic processor, and determine whether the dynamic routing device will perform the functionality of a routing device or a non-routing device upon joining the mesh network based on the number of identified routing devices and the signal strength of each of the identified routing devices. | 2013-10-03 |
20130258873 | Adaptive Transmit Beamforming for Frequency Division Duplexing Systems - Embodiments of a method and apparatus for performing an adaptive transmission scheme in a frequency division duplexing communication system based on channel state information estimated using an open-loop mode are described herein. In one example, the method includes estimating an impulse response of a channel using a signal received over a first frequency band of the channel from a device, transforming the impulse response into a frequency response of the channel, and subsequently performing the adaptive transmission scheme using the frequency response to transmit a signal to the device over a second frequency band of the channel that is different from the first frequency band. | 2013-10-03 |
20130258874 | COLLISION RESOLUTION AMONG TRANSMISSION SCHEDULES OF UPLINK CONTROL INFORMATION (UCI) - A method for reporting uplink control information (UCI) on a user equipment (UE) is described. Multiple channel state information (CSI) reports are generated for multiple channel state information reference signals (CSI-RS) received on a serving cell. The multiple CSI-RS reports are scheduled to be transmitted in a subframe. An overall highest priority CSI report is determined using a method of prioritization. The overall highest priority CSI report is selected. The overall highest priority CSI report is transmitted. | 2013-10-03 |
20130258875 | Method and Apparatus for Accounting of Cell Related Data - A method in a network node for performing network tasks based on a user equipment trajectory includes the network node receiving cell change information from a user equipment wherein the cell change information further includes user equipment trajectory data based on cell parameters of visited cells in a user equipment trajectory. The method in a user equipment for collecting cell change information associated with a cell change includes the user equipment storing the cell change information within the user equipment. The cell change information is sent to the network node for performing network tasks. | 2013-10-03 |
20130258876 | Method for Power Saving for Wireless Device in Discontinuous Reception Mode - A methodology for determining a periodicity of a neighbor cell search for a cellular mobile device is disclosed. The neighbor cell searches may be conducted during discontinuous reception (DRX) paging cycles. However, instead of performing a neighbor cell search during each DRX paging cycle, the period for performing a neighbor cell search may be adaptively determined. Various metrics may be used in determining the periodicity for neighbor cell searches. In various embodiments, two or more metrics may be utilized in combination to determine the neighbor cell search periodicity. | 2013-10-03 |
20130258877 | Adaptive Generation of Channel Quality Indicators (CQIs) Based on a Current Communication Scenario - Adaptive generation of channel quality indicators based on a current communication scenario. A plurality of sets of channel quality indicator information may be stored for each of a plurality of UE communication scenarios. The information may be usable in generating a channel quality indicator. During operation of the UE, a current communication scenario of the UE may be determined. A first set of channel quality indicator information may be selected based on the determined current communication scenario being experienced by the UE. At least one channel quality indicator may be determined based on the selected first set of channel quality indicator information. Finally, the channel quality indicator may be provided to a base station. | 2013-10-03 |
20130258878 | Dynamic Data Publication and Dissemination - A system for dynamic data publication and dissemination in a mobile node network is disclosed. The system comprises a collection module, a naming module and a publishing module. The collection module collects sensor data and detects a road event based at least in part on the sensor data. The collection module generates event data that describes the road event. The naming module converts the event data to a set of naming data that conforms to a naming structure. The naming structure includes an application identifier that identifies an application for the road event and a location that identifies a geographical scope for the road event. The naming module caches the set of naming data in a storage device. The publishing module publishes the set of naming data in the mobile node network. | 2013-10-03 |
20130258879 | NETWORK CONTROL APPARATUS, NETWORK CONTROL SYSTEM, AND NETWORK CONTROL METHOD - A network control apparatus includes: a power consumption collecting unit configured to collect power consumption information measured by at least one electrical node included in an electrical layer network and at least one optical node included in an optical layer network; a cut-through range identifying unit configured to calculate an optical cut-through path based on the collected power consumption information; and a cut-through path setting instructing unit configured to instruct the electrical node and the optical node to set the optical cut-through path based on the calculation result in the cut-through range identifying unit. | 2013-10-03 |
20130258880 | Method and system for data transmission - Embodiments as disclosed provided methods or systems for transmitting data over a network. Specifically, in certain embodiments, data for transmission is received and a datagram comprising at least a portion of the data can be created and sent to a terminal. Control data can be received from the terminal and the transmission of the data to the terminal adjusted based on the received control data. In certain embodiments both the datagram and the control data may be transmitted over an unreliable protocol. Thus, embodiments as disclosed may provide an increased level of reliability and adaptability to differing network conditions in conjunction with the use of an unreliable protocol. | 2013-10-03 |
20130258881 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR LOCATING WIFI DEVICES ADJACENT TO THE ELECTRONIC DEVICE - In a method for locating WIFI devices adjacent to an electronic device, one or more WIFI devices adjacent to the electronic device are searched for within a signal strength range of the electronic device. The method establishes an X-Y coordinate system based on a horizontal line and an initial position of the electronic device, and calculates coordinate values of each of the | 2013-10-03 |
20130258882 | Random Access Mechanism for a Wireless Device and Base Station - A wireless device receives at least one control message configuring a plurality of cell groups and a pathloss reference for each secondary cell in at least one secondary cell. The wireless device transmits uplink signals to a base station in a first secondary cell in a secondary cell group. Transmission power of the uplink signals is determined employing a received power of the pathloss reference assigned to the first secondary cell. Timing of the uplink signals in the secondary cell group employs a second synchronization signal on an active secondary cell in the secondary cell group as a secondary timing reference. | 2013-10-03 |
20130258883 | DYNAMIC MEASUREMENT RATES TO SPEED UP CELL RESELECTIONS - A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for wireless communication are provided in which a switch to a second network is facilitated by increasing a rate of measurement of certain quantities of the second network while in an idle state in a first network. The rate of measurement maybe increased to an integer multiple of a frequency associated with a discontinuous reception cycle configured for the first network. | 2013-10-03 |
20130258884 | FORMAT DEPENDENT POWER CONTROL FOR COORDINATED MULTIPOINT TRANSMISSION - An apparatus determines a transmission power of a signal transmitted by a user equipment (UE) in a cell that is identified by a virtual cell identifier. The apparatus generates a power control command based on the determined signal power, and transmits the power control command to a plurality of UEs. Subsequent to transmission of the power control command, the apparatus receives a plurality of transmissions from the plurality of UEs. Some of the transmissions have different transmission powers. The different transmission powers of the signals transmitted by the UEs are due to the power control command and a predefined power offset associated with each respective UE. | 2013-10-03 |
20130258885 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING BEAM INFORMATION IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and a mobile station of transmitting beam information by a mobile station in a wireless communication system are provided. The mobile station determines whether a particular a particular event according to communication with a base station has occurred, and transmits information on at least one DownLink (DL) transmission beam among N number of DL transmission beams to the base station using a contention-based feedback channel according to a result of the determination. | 2013-10-03 |
20130258886 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CHANNEL STATE INFORMATION FEEDBACK IN A COORDINATED MULTI-POINT COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method of operating a wireless communication system (FIG. | 2013-10-03 |
20130258887 | METHOD AND DEVICES FOR ALLOCATING PS TRAFFIC IN A MULTI-TECHNOLOGY WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORK - A method, base station and controller for allocating PS traffic in mobile networks which provide a plurality of RATs (multi-RAT networks) for supporting Packet Services, which comprises:
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20130258888 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SETTING UP CALL IN MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The time required to set up a voice call in an exemplary embodiment, in which Circuit Switched Fallback (CSFB) is used, is reduced to provide a voice call service to a User Equipment (UE) in a Long Term Evolution (LTE) system. If a voice call occurs in a UE while the UE accesses the LTE system, the UE using CSFB switches to a 2G/3G legacy system, recycles system information for a 2G/3G cell that the UE has accessed before, and immediately proceeds with voice call setup without receiving system information unnecessary for a CSFB process. | 2013-10-03 |
20130258889 | Determining Distances Between Wireless Devices - A method includes transmitting frames from a first device to a second device, where a first frame is transmitted at a first value for a particular transmission parameter, and where a second frame is transmitted at a second value for the particular transmission parameter that is different than the first value. For each of the transmitted frames, a determination is made if a corresponding Acknowledgement (ACK) frame, as defined by IEEE 802.11 standards, is received by the first device from the second device. Based on the IEEE 802.11 ACK frames received by the first device from the second device, a distance estimate is calculated from the first device to the second device. | 2013-10-03 |
20130258890 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD FOR MONITORING A COMMUNICATION INTERFACE BETWEEN ACCESS NODES - A wireless communication method and a wireless communication system includes a user equipment and a cooperating set of access nodes, each access node being operable to wirelessly exchange data and/or signalling information with the user equipment, the cooperating set participating directly or indirectly in the exchange with the user equipment in accordance with an exchange scheme, the cooperating set includes at least a first access node, the first access node being interconnected by an interface with a second access node. | 2013-10-03 |
20130258891 | VOICE OPTIMIZATION IN A NETWORK HAVING VOICE OVER INTERNET PROTOCOL COMMUNICATION DEVICES - An apparatus and a method of optimizing voice quality on a network having end-points that are voice over Internet Protocol (IP) devices. Default parameters of the end-points are initialized. Network performance parameters are measured and evaluated to determine whether they signify that connection to the network is below a desired level of operation. If so, the default parameters of the end-points are re-set based on the evaluation. The adjustment may entail re-negotiating the CODEC connection and re-setting parameters for packet size and resetting parameters for jitter buffer size. | 2013-10-03 |
20130258892 | Wireless Chip-to-Chip Switching - Embodiments of the invention provide a system and method for chip to chip communications in electronic circuits. A router or switch receives data packets at input port ASICs. A routing table on the input port ASIC or on a routing ASIC is used to identify a destination port ASIC based upon header information in the data packet. The data packet is transmitted from the input port ASIC to the destination port ASIC using millimeter wave signals that are transmitted across a waveguide or a wireless interface. | 2013-10-03 |
20130258893 | RADIO COMMUNICATION STATION AND RADIO COMMUNICATION DEVICE, AND METHODS OF OPERATING SAME - A radio communication station in a radio communication system having a plurality of radio communication devices, derives a quantisation parameter and transmits the quantisation parameter to the radio communication devices for use in subsequent quantisation of a channel state metric. The radio communication devices receive the quantisation parameter, determine a channel state metric, quantise the determined channel state metric by applying quantisation ranges indicated by the quantisation parameter, determine a data value indicative of the quantised channel state metric, and transmit a signal conveying the determined data value as a random access transmission. | 2013-10-03 |
20130258894 | TRANSMITTER, RECEIVER, TRANSMISSION METHOD, AND RECEPTION METHOD - Provided is a transmitter which improves the flexibility of SRS resource allocation without increasing the amount of signaling for notifying the cyclic shift amount. In the transmitter, with regard to each basic shift amount candidate group having a basic shift amount from 0 to N−1, a transmission control unit ( | 2013-10-03 |
20130258895 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING INTER-CELL INTERFERENCE IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM THAT SUPPORTS A PLURALITY OF COMPONENT CARRIERS, AND BASE STATION APPARATUS FOR SAME - Disclosed are a method for controlling inter-cell interference in a wireless communication system that supports a plurality of component carriers (CCs), and a base station apparatus for the same. In inter-cell interference control method according to the present invention comprises the following steps: receiving priority information on the interference protection for each of a plurality of component carriers from at least one neighboring base station; measuring an intensity of the signal received from said at least one neighboring base station; and generating priority information for interference protection for each of a plurality of component carriers constructed for the base station, based on the received priority information and the measured intensity of the signal received from said at least one neighboring base station. | 2013-10-03 |
20130258896 | METHOD OF PERFORMING MEASUREMENT AT UE IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND APPARATUS THEREOF - A method of performing measurement at a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system is disclosed. The method includes receiving channel status information-reference signals (CSI-RSs) for channel status information feedback from a plurality of transmission points (TPs), performing radio resource management (RRM) measurement based on the CSI-RSs, and selecting one or more TPs for receiving a signal from among the plurality of TPs based on the result of measurement. | 2013-10-03 |
20130258897 | METHOD FOR REPORTING CHANNEL STATE INFORMATION IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND APPARATUS FOR SAME - The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. More particularly, the present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for reporting channel state information, the method and the apparatus comprising the following steps: measuring downlink signals from a plurality of base stations; feeding back a first channel state information on a first base station in subband units, wherein the first channel state information includes identification information for indicating a corresponding subband; and feeding back a second channel state information on a second base station in subband units, wherein the subband which corresponds to the second channel state information is set to be identical to the subband which corresponds to the first channel state information, and wherein the second channel state information does not include identification information for indicating the corresponding subband. | 2013-10-03 |
20130258898 | COMPUTER SYSTEM, CONTROLLER, CONTROLLER MANAGER AND COMMUNICATION ROUTE ANALYSIS METHOD - A controller sets, for a first switch, a flow entry whose rule is header information of a delay measurement packet and whose action is forwarding to a second switch, and transmits the delay measurement packet to the first switch. The first switch forwards the delay measurement packet received from the controller to the second switch, in accordance with the flow entry set in the first switch. An analyzing module obtains the delay measurement packet from the second switch and calculates a delay time in a communication section between the first switch and the second switch by using a time stamped on the delay measurement packet. | 2013-10-03 |
20130258899 | LAYER 2 PACKET SWITCHING WITHOUT LOOK-UP TABLE FOR ETHERNET SWITCHES - In one embodiment, a system includes at least one processor which includes logic configured for receiving a request to assign a media access control (MAC) address to a device on a port, logic configured for determining the MAC address to assign to the device based at least partially on the port, and logic configured for sending a response to the request with the MAC address. In another embodiment, a computer program product for assigning a MAC address includes a computer readable storage medium having computer readable program code embodied therewith, the computer readable program code including computer readable program code configured for determining, without using a look-up table, a MAC address to assign to a device and computer readable program code configured for sending the MAC address to the device. Other systems, methods, and computer program products are presented according to more embodiments. | 2013-10-03 |
20130258900 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR COMMUNICATING VIA A GATEWAY - In accordance with an example embodiment of the present invention, a user equipment establishes a connection to a local area network, transmits information relating to the local area network to a gateway selection function, the gateway selection function determines whether a method to configure the local area network can be obtained, and the gateway selection function configures the local area network and local route parameters in the user equipment either via the local area network or via a cellular network. | 2013-10-03 |
20130258901 | COMMUNICATION INTERFACE APPARATUS, COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM FOR RECORDING COMMUNICATION INTERFACE PROGRAM, AND VIRTUAL NETWORK CONSTRUCTING METHOD - A communication interface apparatus provided at a first information processing apparatus includes: a setting information obtaining unit that obtains setting information from a second information processing apparatus that is different from the first information processing apparatus, the setting information including a piece of virtual network identification information corresponding to a virtual network to which the first information processing apparatus belongs from among pieces of virtual network identification information for identifying virtual networks; a setup unit that sets up virtual network identification information according to the obtained setting information; a receiving unit that receives data from a communication network; a filtering unit that applies a filtering process to the received data according to the virtual network identification information that has been set up; and a transferring unit that transfers to the first information processing apparatus the data to which the filtering process has been applied. | 2013-10-03 |
20130258902 | WIRELESS NETWORK AND METHODOLOGY FOR AUTOMOTIVE SERVICE SYSTEMS - A method and apparatus are provided for forming a wireless communications network using a standard communications link between a master controller and at least one slave device. In one example, a list of available slave devices for the network is generated, valid slave devices are determined from the list of available slave devices based on an identification protocol of the standard communications link, and the at least one slave device is selected from the valid slave devices. A network identification is established between the master controller and the at least one slave device, and the network identification is used to establish a network comprising only the master controller and the at least one slave device. | 2013-10-03 |
20130258903 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MODELING TELECOMMUNICATION SWITCH INVESTMENTS - In one of many possible embodiments, a system is provided for modeling telecommunication switch investments. The exemplary system includes a telecommunication switch modeling application configured to determine equipment quantities having capacity to satisfy switch design parameters descriptive of at least one model telecommunication switch, and calculate model investments associated with the equipment quantities. The exemplary system also includes a telecommunication switch investment modeling application configured to weight the model investments in accordance with at least one of a network parameter descriptive of an actual telecommunication switch and a “what-if” input descriptive of a hypothetical telecommunication switch configuration to form weighted investments that are specific to at least one of the actual telecommunication switch and the hypothetical telecommunication switch configuration. | 2013-10-03 |
20130258904 | CONFIGURABLE WIRELESS NETWORKS, SYSTEMS AND METHODS - According to an embodiment of the invention there is provided a wireless network that may include a wireless network leader and multiple wireless units; wherein each wireless unit has a single father wireless unit, wherein the father wireless unit is selected out of the wireless network leader and the multiple wireless units; wherein each wireless unit may be arranged to be configured according to a wireless unit configuration selected out of: (a) an unauthorized and empty wireless unit, (b) an authorized and full wireless unit, (c) an authorized and not full wireless unit, and (d) an unauthorized and not empty wireless unit; wherein each wireless unit may be arranged to transmit messages only to a father of the wireless unit or to a son of the wireless unit. | 2013-10-03 |
20130258905 | SELF-EVOLVABLE LOGIC FABRIC - Methods and systems for achieving self-organized growth of a logic pathway. A number of hardware modules that represents a core can be configured and communicated via a packet routing architecture. Each core includes a plurality of sub-modules that interact dynamically to a growth algorithm. A flow network can be created between a sensor input and a prediction of a desired sensor input and a link can be formed between a regularity within a core and another core via a link-flow-selection process. A digital data packet can be transmitted between the cores for communicating activation of the regularity and to exchange energy. Such physically-self organized circuit fabric system interacts dynamically to a growth algorithm that takes the input to produce a desired output and continuously self-repair and/or heal if damaged. | 2013-10-03 |
20130258906 | COMMUNICATION CONFIGURATION AND METHOD FOR DEBUGGING, RESPECTIVELY FOR PROGRAMMING ONE OR MORE PARTICIPANTS OF THE COMMUNICATION CONFIGURATION - A communication system configuration has an annular design and includes multiple participants which are serially interconnected, one participant being configured as a master and the remaining participants being configured as slaves. The master is configured for transmitting a data packet to one or a plurality of slaves, and each slave has a shift register. The communication system includes a participant which has an external interface and is adapted for receiving data via the external interface from outside of the communication system to implement a debugging or a programming of one or a plurality of participants of the communication system or for transmitting data to outside of the communication system. | 2013-10-03 |
20130258907 | METHOD, DEVICE, AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING QUALITY OF SERVICE - Embodiments of the present invention pertain to the communications field and disclose a method, device, and system for managing quality of service. The method includes: receiving a service request; determining, according to configuration information, devices participating in negotiation on quality of service; and determining, according to a negotiation result of the devices participating in negotiation on quality of service, quality of service corresponding to the service request. The device includes: a receiving module, a first determining module and a second determining module. In the embodiments of the present invention, devices participating in negotiation on quality of service are determined according to configuration information, and the corresponding quality of service is determined according to the negotiation result of the devices participating in negotiation on quality of service, thereby not being limited to the subscription result of the HLR, and implementing flexible management for quality of service. | 2013-10-03 |
20130258908 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ESTABLISHING A COMBINED LOCAL AREA NETWORK (CLAN) IN A CONFERENCE NETWORK (CN) - A method including: receiving, at a conference unit, a command to establish a conference call between the conference unit and another conference unit, the conference unit being connected to at least one access point and the access point being accessible by a terminal; utilizing, by the conference unit, an internet telephony protocol to setup at least one media line between the conference unit and the other conference unit; establishing at least one data channel that transmits LAN traffic between the conference unit and the other conference unit utilizing the internet telephony protocol; establishing, by the conference unit, a connection with the terminal, the terminal being part of a combined local area network; and receiving, at the conference unit, an input from the terminal via the connection to access the combined local area network. | 2013-10-03 |
20130258909 | ECHO MITIGATION IN THE PRESENCE OF VARIABLE DELAYS DUE TO ADAPTIVE JITTER BUFFERS - In an example embodiment, a control connection is introduced between an adaptive jitter buffer (AJB) and an adaptive bulk delay (ABD) buffer of an echo canceller (ECAN) in an Internet Protocol (IP) conference bridge. The control connection allows the AJB to control the amount of delay inserted by the ABD in the ECAN convolution processor (CP) signal path. The adjustment in ABD delay restores the time alignment of the ECAN internal echo estimate and offsets variations in echo tail delay introduced by network induced AJB delay changes. Time-invariance is preserved in the echo tail path. | 2013-10-03 |
20130258910 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE - In a wireless communication device, in a correction value calculating mode, a control unit flips switches to the “a” sides, a modulation processing unit generates a CW signal as an I channel signal, a DAC converts the digital CW signal into an analog CW signal, an LPF eliminates the high-frequency component from the CW signal, a mixer functions as an up-converter for up-converting the CW signal, a PA amplifies the RF power of the CW signal, a mixer functions as a down-converter for down-converting the CW signal, an ADC converts the analog CW signal into a digital CW signal, a level detecting unit detects the voltage level of the CW signal, a correction value calculating unit calculates a correction value based on the detected voltage level, and a correction value storing unit stores the calculated correction value. | 2013-10-03 |
20130258911 | HYBRID TRANSFORMER BASED INTEGRATED DUPLEXER FOR MULTI-BAND/MULTI-MODE RADIO FREQUENCY (RF) FRONT END - An integrated duplexer based on electrical balance is described. The duplexer module includes a hybrid transformer. The hybrid transformer includes a primary coil and a secondary coil. The primary coil is coupled between an output of a power amplifier and an antenna. The secondary coil is coupled between an input of a low noise amplifier and ground. The duplexer also includes a balancing impedance that is coupled between the primary coil and the secondary coil. | 2013-10-03 |
20130258912 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR BANDWIDTH REQUEST/GRANT PROTOCOLS IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and apparatus for allocating bandwidth in a broadband wireless communication system is disclosed. One embodiment uses a self-correcting bandwidth request/grant protocol. The self-correcting bandwidth request/grant protocol utilizes a combination of incremental and aggregate bandwidth requests. CPEs primarily transmit incremental bandwidth requests to their associated base stations, followed by periodic transmissions of aggregate bandwidth requests. The use of periodic aggregate bandwidth requests (that express the current state of their respective connection queues) allows the bandwidth allocation method and apparatus to be “self-correcting”. Another embodiment utilizes an abridged bandwidth request/grant protocol to allocate bandwidth. The abridged bandwidth request/grant protocol system utilizes padding packets to request a reduction in bandwidth allocation to a CPE. A base station modem alerts a base station CPU when the BS modem receives a padding packet from a CPE. After alerting the BS CPU the method can reduce the associated CPE's bandwidth allocation. | 2013-10-03 |
20130258913 | TDD PIPELINE PROCESSING - Pipeline automatic gain control (AGC) processing is conducted by a mobile device when preparing for reception of one or more synchronization signals in a cell, when the mobile device has no knowledge of a timing and/or configuration of the synchronization signals in the cell. The mobile device triggers selection of a particular set of pipeline AGC processing operations and sets an amplifier with an amplifier gain setting determined by the selected set of pipeline AGC processing operations. | 2013-10-03 |
20130258914 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING ACK/NACK IN TDD-BASED WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Provided are a method and apparatus for transmitting positive-acknowledgement (ACK)/negative-acknowledgement (NACK) in a time division duplex (TDD)-based wireless communication system. A user equipment receives an uplink grant which includes an uplink resource assignment and an uplink downlink assignment index (DAI), determines an ACK/NACK payload size on the basis of a value of the uplink DAI, and generates an ACK/NACK response for the at least one downlink transport block. The user equipment multiplexes the ACK/NACK response on an uplink transport block, and transmits the multiplexed ACK/NACK response. | 2013-10-03 |
20130258915 | WIRELESS DEVICE - A wireless device includes an input/output port that receives a first transmission signal subjected to transmission processing by another wireless device, the first transmission signal being output from the another wireless device, the another wireless device using a second frequency band adjacent to a first frequency band used by the wireless device, a synthesis circuit that synthesizes the first transmission signal received via the port and a second transmission signal subjected to transmission processing by the wireless device and that outputs the synthesized signal via an antenna, and a splitting circuit that splitbranches a first reception signal of the first frequency band and a second reception signal of the second frequency band, the first and the second reception signals being included in a reception signal received via the antenna, the splitting circuit outputting a split reception signal of the second frequency band via the port to the other wireless device. | 2013-10-03 |
20130258916 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE WITH EXTENDABLE ROD ANTENNA - A wireless communication device includes a body, an antenna, a first baseband microchip, a second baseband microchip, and a diplexer. The antenna is telescopically assembled to the body to receive a first wireless signal and a second wireless signal. The diplexer is electronically connected to the antenna, the first baseband microchip, and the second baseband microchip. When the antenna is in a retracted state, the antenna receives the first wireless signal, and the diplexer transmits the first wireless signal to the first baseband microchip. When the antenna is in an extended state, the antenna receives the second wireless signal, and the diplexer transmits the second wireless signal to the second baseband microchip. | 2013-10-03 |
20130258917 | MAC EXTENSIONS FOR SMART ANTENNA SUPPORT - Apparatus and methods implement aggregation frames and allocation frames. The aggregation frames include a plurality of MSDUs or fragments thereof aggregated or otherwise combined together. An aggregation frame makes more efficient use of the wireless communication resources. The allocation frame defines a plurality of time intervals. The allocation frame specifies a pair of stations that are permitted to communicate with each other during each time interval as well as the antenna configuration to be used for the communication. This permits stations to know ahead of time when they are to communicate, with which other stations and the antenna configuration that should be used. A buffered traffic field can also be added to the frames to specify how much data remains to be transmitted following the current frame. This enables network traffic to be scheduled more effectively. | 2013-10-03 |
20130258918 | METHOD OF COMMANDING WIRELESS DEVICES - A method of commanding a first wireless communicating device from a second wireless communicating device, comprising the following steps performed by a main portion of the second device: joining a wireless communication network to which the first communicating device is connected, using procedures of the protocol stack of the first device, thereby obtaining network information for constructing commands for the second device, and making the network information available for the remote control portion, and comprising the following steps performed by a remote control portion of the second device: retrieving the network information from the main portion of the second device, constructing a command message for the first device using a format of the command messages of the protocol stack of the first device and using the retrieved network information, and sending the command message to the first device, using the MAC and PHY layers. | 2013-10-03 |
20130258919 | FLEXIBLE DTX AND DRX IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A data traffic responsive battery-saving approach for a wireless user equipment (UE) device such as an data packet capable cellphone incorporates flexible discontinuous transmission and reception (DTX-DRX) when in Long Term Evolution (LTE) active mode as dictated by an evolved radio access network (RAN) such as an evolved base node (eNode B). A UE device requests are made on unsynchronized random access channel (RACH). Lengthening a duration of DRX and reducing requirements for synchronization uplink transmissions results in power savings of up to 75%, as well as creating opportunities for reducing interference and for allocating additional time slots for data. This power savings is compatible with other downlink scheduling proposals, with control channel-less Voice-over-IP (VoIP), and need not target those UE devices in had radio conditions. Legacy UE devices that can interact with the eNode B by being capable of radio resource control (RRC) signaling continue to be compatible. | 2013-10-03 |
20130258920 | METHOD OF REDUCING ENERGY CONSUMPTION OF A WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORK - A method of reducing energy consumption is to be performed by a network node, and includes configuring the network node to perform the consecutive steps of: b1) setting an initial value for each of first and second parameters; b2) skipping to step b5) if the second parameter is smaller than a random value; b3) estimating an amount of energy required for, and computing a probability of, data transmission therefrom; b4) selecting one of other network nodes corresponding to a greatest value of the first parameter for serving as a transmission route; b5) determining whether data transmitted thereby has reached a destination network node, and skipping to step b7) if affirmative; b6) updating the first parameters of the other network nodes, and returning to step b2); and b7) updating the first parameters of the network nodes belonging to an optimal route. | 2013-10-03 |
20130258921 | DEVICE, SYSTEM AND METHOD OF SCHEDULING COMMUNICATIONS BY MULTIPLE MEDIUM-ACCESS-CONTROL (MAC) MODULES - Some demonstrative embodiments relate to scheduling communications by multiple medium-access-control (MAC) modules. For example, a wireless communication unit may be configured to receive binding information from a host, the binding information defining a plurality of bindings between a plurality of MACs and a plurality of different Physical layer (PHY) communication channels sharing a common PHY module, wherein a binding of the bindings binds between a PHY channel of the PHY channels and one or more MACs of the plurality of MACs, and wherein, based on the binding information, the wireless communication unit is to schedule communication of the plurality of MACs over the plurality of PHY channels. | 2013-10-03 |
20130258922 | PORTABLE ROUTER WITH VARIABLE WI-FI TRANSMISSION POWER, AND METHOD OF REDUCING POWER CONSUMPTION THEREOF - There are provided a portable router with variable Wi-Fi transmission power and a method of reducing power consumption thereof. The portable router includes: a cellular modulation and demodulation unit converting cellular signals into cellular data packet signals; a gateway unit converting the cellular data packet signals into Wi-Fi data packet signals; a Wi-Fi modulation and demodulation unit converting the Wi-Fi data packet signals into Wi-Fi signals based on preset communication protocols; a power amplification unit amplifying transmission power of the Wi-Fi signals; and a transmission power control unit controlling a gain of the power amplification unit, depending on cellular throughput based on the cellular signals and Wi-Fi throughput based on the Wi-Fi signals. | 2013-10-03 |
20130258923 | TECHNIQUES FOR IMPROVED ENERGY-SAVINGS MANAGEMENT - Techniques for improved energy-savings management are described. In various embodiments, for example, a network management node includes a processor circuit, a communication component arranged for execution by the processor circuit to receive device tracking information from a device tracking node, and a determination component arranged for execution by the processor circuit to determine whether an eNodeB is to enter an energy-saving mode based on the device tracking information. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 2013-10-03 |
20130258924 | INTERMITTENT RECEPTION CONTROL APPARATUS, COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM, AND INTERMITTENT RECEPTION CONTROL METHOD - An intermittent reception control apparatus controls intermittent reception in communication between a base station apparatus and mobile station apparatuses. Further, in the intermittent reception control apparatus, a control unit generates DRX parameters, which are intermittent reception parameters, and transmits the generated DRX parameters to the mobile station apparatuses. Further, the DRX parameters include information on the timing at which to cause the mobile station apparatuses to enter an active state and are common to all of the mobile station apparatuses, where the active state is a state where reception of signals transmitted from the base station apparatus is enabled. Further, the scheduler transmits to the mobile station apparatuses a DRX command that operates to force these apparatuses to enter an inactive state. | 2013-10-03 |
20130258925 | HIGH-SPEED DATA CHANNEL AVAILABILITY - Apparatus and methods for optimizing data transmission include receiving an indicator indicating the availability of a first communication channel, the first communication channel having a higher data rate than a second communication channel. Aspects can include determining whether the first communication channel is available to transmit data based on the indicator, and transmitting the data via the first communication channel, upon determining that the first communication channel is available. Additionally, aspects include entering a sleep state, upon determining that the first communication channel is not available, and determining whether the first communication channel has become available during a subsequent awake period. Entering a sleep state and determining whether the first communication channel has become available during a subsequent awake period may occur until the first communication channel becomes available or until an expiration of a timer. Other aspects, embodiments, and features are also claimed and described. | 2013-10-03 |
20130258926 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ADJUSTING TRANSMISSION POWER OF A TERMINAL IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A base-station receives, from the terminal, a data-amount value of transmission-data held in the terminal, and obtains a predicted division-count indicating a predicted number of frames to be used for transmitting the transmission-data, based on the data-amount value and the amount of bandwidth allocatable to the terminal. The base-station obtains a difference between target and measured reception qualities of data from the terminal, calculates an adjustment-count value indicating a number of times the terminal is to be requested to adjust transmission-power until the difference falls to or below a threshold, reduces the amount of bandwidth to be actually allocated to the terminal when the predicted division-count is smaller than the adjustment-count value, so that the transmission-data is transmitted using as many frames as the adjustment-count value, and transmits, to the terminal, an adjustment request indicating the reduced amount of bandwidth, before the terminal transmits each frame. | 2013-10-03 |
20130258927 | Energy Saving in a Mobile Communications Network - In an apparatus of a mobile communications network, time domain fractions of a transmission time interval, which are to be used for transmission of information relating to network operation, are determined as first symbols and the rest of the time domain fractions of the transmission time interval are determined as second symbols, and specific symbols of the second symbols are determined for non-transmission of data. User data is transmitted to a user equipment using respective ones of the first symbols in sub-carriers of a physical resource block scheduled for the user equipment which sub-carriers do not transmit the information relating to network operation in the respective ones of the first symbols, and using the second symbols other than the specific symbols in each of the sub-carriers, and transmission on the specific symbols is inhibited in each of the sub-carriers. | 2013-10-03 |
20130258928 | Session recovery after network coordinator or AP restart for single user, multiple user, multiple access, and/or MIMO wireless communications - Session recovery after network coordinator or AP restart for single user, multiple user, multiple access, and/or MIMO wireless communications. Restart or reset of a network coordinator (e.g., an access point (AP) or other network coordinator type device) may occur for various reasons (e.g., a power cycle or power failure, inadequate failover protection, scheduled or planned power outages such as for including network maintenance, software upgrades, etc.). Upon determination of network coordinator restarted or reset, a singular bit within a communication from the network coordinator indicates synchronization or not of the its timing synchronization function (TSF) (e.g., with other devices in the communication system, such as wireless stations (STAs), smart meter stations (SMSTAs), etc.). A given device (e.g., STA, SMSTA, etc.) can provide its current TSF to the network coordinator so that it can resynchronize, re-establish its scheduled for wake times of those devices (e.g., target wake times (TWTs)), etc. | 2013-10-03 |
20130258929 | Rule-Based Application Controller for Signaling Reduction - An application controller of a telecommunication device to receive a packet from an application of the telecommunication device and determine a signaling reduction rule associated with the application is described herein. Based at least in part on the signaling reduction rule, the application controller performs a signaling reduction action associated with transmission of the packet. | 2013-10-03 |
20130258930 | SYSTEM WAKEUP ON WIRELESS NETWORK MESSAGES - While an information handling device is in a reduced power state, the information handling device transitions from the reduced power state to a higher power state in response to receiving a message over an established wireless network connection that maintains a presence on a wireless network. In turn, the information handling device processes the message accordingly in the higher power state. | 2013-10-03 |
20130258931 | COOPERATIVE TRANSCEIVING BETWEEN WIRELESS INTERFACE DEVICES OF A HOST DEVICE WITH SHARED MODULES - A circuit includes a first wireless interface circuit that transceives packetized data between a host module and a first external device in accordance with a first wireless communication protocol, wherein the first wireless protocol carries wireless telephony data for communication with a wireless telephony network. A second wireless interface circuit transceives packetized data between the host module and a second external device in accordance with a second wireless communication protocol. The second wireless interface circuit includes at least one module that is shared with first wireless interface circuit. The first wireless interface circuit and the second wireless interface circuit operate in accordance with a wireless interface schedule that includes a first time interval where the first wireless interface device and the second wireless interface device contemporaneously use the at least one module. | 2013-10-03 |
20130258932 | METHOD FOR POWER SAVE MODE OPERATION IN WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORK AND APPARATUS FOR THE SAME - A method for a power save mode operation in a wireless local area network (WLAN) system is provided. The method includes transmitting, by an access point (AP), a traffic indication map (TIM) element that announces existence of buffered traffic, wherein the TIM element includes an association ID (AID) assigned to a buffered STA having the buffered traffic when the buffered station (STA) is associated with the AP; receiving, by the AP, a poll frame for requesting data frame transmission from a candidate STA, wherein the poll frame contains an AID of the candidate STA and a medium access control (MAC) address which is a unique identifying information of the candidate STA; and determining, by the AP, whether the candidate STA is the buffered STA on the basis of the AID and the MAC address of the candidate STA. | 2013-10-03 |
20130258933 | SYNCHRONIZATION METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR BROADCAST MULTICAST SERVICE - There is provided a method for synchronization between one or more base stations to provide broadcast multicast service, including: receiving a session start request message, and extracting a service start setting time set to start broadcast service from the session start request message; comparing the service start setting time to a modification check time being a check time which is later than and closest to the service start setting time, among check times at which it is determined whether or not broadcast service has changed, the check times having a predetermined time interval; deciding, when the modification check time is later than the service start setting time by a predetermined internal slack time period or more, the modification check time as a service start time at which broadcast service starts; and transmitting information indicating the service start time to the base stations. | 2013-10-03 |
20130258934 | EMBMS SERVICE ACTIVATION AND MAINTENANCE PROCEDURE IN MULTI-FREQUENCY NETWORKS - A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for wireless communication are provided. The apparatus receives a user service description (USD) message. When a frequency indicated in the USD message is not a current frequency, the apparatus determines that a system information message is received, determines that the frequency indicated in the USD message is included in the system information message, determines that the frequency is a neighboring cell frequency, sets a priority of the frequency to a highest priority, and measures a signal strength of the frequency when the frequency is included in the system information message, performs a cell reselection determination procedure based on the signal strength of the frequency, performs cell reselection to the neighboring cell based on a result of the cell reselection determination procedure, and acquires the multicast service in the neighboring cell on the frequency. | 2013-10-03 |
20130258935 | EXTENDING CYCLIC PREFIX LENGTH IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORK HAVING MIXED CARRIER - A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product are provided for receiving unicast and multicast-broadcast single frequency network (MBSFN) signals from an eNB in a subframe. The apparatus receives at least one transmission in the subframe, the subframe divided into six partitions and for receiving at least one unicast symbol and a plurality of multicast-broadcast single frequency network (MBSFN) symbols, each of the at least one unicast symbol and the plurality of MBSFN symbols having an associated cyclic prefix (CP). The apparatus further receives at least one unicast signal including the at least one unicast symbol at a first partition of the subframe, and receives at least one MBSFN signal including the plurality of MBSFN symbols respectively at a second partition through sixth partition of the subframe, each MBSFN symbol having the associated CP with a length of at least 33.33 μs. | 2013-10-03 |
20130258936 | CELL DEPLOYMENT WITH DIFFERENT CHANNEL BANDWIDTH FOR CARRIER AGGREGATION - Systems, methods, apparatus, and techniques are provided for transmitting information to user equipment (UE) in a communications network. Data is generated in (i) a first frequency range associated with a first set of carriers and (ii) a second frequency range associated with a second set of carriers, where the first frequency range specifies a first communications cell and the second frequency range specifies a second communications cell. The first cell is assigned as a primary cell to a first set of UEs in the communications network. Control data is transmitted to both the first set of UEs and a second set of UEs using at least a portion of the first set of carriers. | 2013-10-03 |
20130258937 | PACKET TRANSMISSION/RECEPTION METHOD AND APPARATUS IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method for simultaneously transmitting packets to one or more users in a wireless communication system includes: generating the packets which include length information and are to be transmitted to the one or more users; and simultaneously transmitting the generated packets to the one or more users. The length information includes information representing a unit of the length information and information representing lengths of the packets according to the unit. | 2013-10-03 |
20130258938 | Methods and Nodes for Setting Values of System Parameters Used in a Wireless Communication System - Method in a user equipment ( | 2013-10-03 |
20130258939 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHODS AND APPARATUS - In an embodiment a wireless relay device comprises a receiver configured to receive signals from at least a first wireless device and a second wireless device, and to extract, from a signal received from the first wireless device, an indication of a path metric for a path from a source node to the first wireless device, and from a signal received from the second wireless device, an indication of a path metric for a path from the source node to the second wireless device; a processor configured to select, using the extracted indications, a path from the source node to the wireless relay device and to determine a path metric for the selected path; a memory configured to store the path metric for the selected path; and a transmitter configured to transmit an indication of the path metric for the selected path to a third wireless device. | 2013-10-03 |
20130258940 | IMPLICIT SIGNALLING METHOD FOR BEARER MANAGEMENT - Implicit signalling method for bearer management in a communication network with transporting bearer resource request message of both the UE and RN via Base station to managing entity of RN within EPC, as a signalling message over uplink channel referred to as ‘Union of Resource Request (UR Request)’ message. The bearer resource response message referred to as ‘Implicit Admission Response (IA Response)’ from one of the management entity of UE or management entities of UE and RN within EPC are transported as a signalling message to Evolved Packet Edge (EPE) via Base station over the downlink channel. This manages bearer setup signalling as a single loop, by transportation of ‘UR Request’ signalling message and receiving one “IA Response” signalling message over uplink and downlink channels respectively. EPE is a conglomeration of network nodes made of UEs, RNs and all other network nodes that communicate over EPC via Base station. | 2013-10-03 |
20130258941 | INTERSECTION SIGNALING METHOD FOR BEARER MANAGEMENT - Intersection signaling method for bearer management in a communication network with transporting bearer resource request message of both the UE and RN via Base station to managing entity of RN within EPC, as a signaling message over uplink channel referred to as ‘Union of Resource Request (UR Request)’ message. The bearer resource response message from one of the managing entity of UE or managing entities of UE and RN within EPC are transported as a signaling message to Evolved Packet Edge (EPE) via Base station over the downlink channel referred to as ‘Intersection of Admission Response (IA Response)’. This manages bearer setup signaling as a single loop, by transportation of ‘UR Request’ signaling message and receiving one “IA Response” signaling message over uplink and downlink channels respectively. EPE is a conglomeration of network nodes. | 2013-10-03 |
20130258942 | INDEPENDENT SIGNALLING METHOD FOR BEARER MANAGEMENT - Independent signalling method for bearer management in a communication network with transporting bearer resource request message of both the UE and RN via Base station to managing entity of RN within EPC, as a signalling message over uplink channel referred to as ‘Union of Resource Request (UR Request)’ message. The bearer resource response message referred to as ‘Independent Admission Response (IA Response)’ from one of the management entity of EPE or management entities of UE and RN within EPC are transported as a signalling message to Evolved Packet Edge (EPE) via Base station over the downlink channel. This manages bearer setup signalling as a single loop, by transportation of ‘UR Request’ signalling message and receiving one “Independent Admission Response” signalling message over uplink and downlink channels respectively. EPE is a conglomeration of network nodes comprising of UEs, RNs and all other network nodes that communicate over EPC via Base station. | 2013-10-03 |
20130258943 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING MOBILE MANAGEMENT ENTITY (MME) IN A TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORK - The present invention relates to a method and system for managing MME in a telecommunication network. In one embodiment this is accomplished by receiving the bearer resource request message at the MME_UE from the UE, wherein the bearer resource request message is corresponding to the UE's original bearer resource request, inspecting the received message by the MME_UE in order to identify presence of RN_ID, if any, requesting to receive by the MME_UE from the MME_RNs for RN's ‘management context information’ wherein management context includes all information that enables taking over the function of MME_RN by the MME_UE and consolidating the MME_UE and MME_RNs function within the MME as MME_UE_RNs, so that for all future response to the received request will be managed by MME_UE_RN. | 2013-10-03 |
20130258944 | Method for configuring a home node with a secure address for an operator network node - Disclosed is a method for configuring a home node with a secure address for an operator network node. In the method, the home node receives, from a removable smartcard, an initial address for an initial serving network node. The home node establishes communication with the initial serving network node using the initial address. The home node receives the secure address from the initial serving network node. The home node communicates with the operator network node using the secure address. | 2013-10-03 |
20130258945 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MANAGING A SESSION ESTABLISHED USING A WIRELESS CHANNEL BETWEEN A BASE STATION AND A MOBILE DEVICE - A first maintenance signal is exchanged between a server coupled to a base station and a processing unit inside a mobile device, via a wireless channel between the base station and the mobile device, to confirm establishment of a session between the server and the processing unit. The base station sends, to the server, one of control signals according to a connection state of the wireless channel, without sending the received first maintenance signal to the mobile device via the wireless channel, where the control signals includes a second maintenance signal, a session disconnected signal, and a session established signal. The mobile device sends, to the processing unit, one of the control signals according to a connection state of the wireless channel, without sending the received first maintenance signal to the server via the wireless channel. | 2013-10-03 |
20130258946 | CROSS-LAYER OPTIMIZATION METHOD IN A MULTIMEDIA TRANSMISSION SYSTEM, AND AN ABSTRACTION LAYER COMPONENT FOR THE SAME - Disclosed are cross-layer optimization method where information about lots of dynamic changes in wireless environment is shared and cross-layer optimization is implemented and abstraction layer component. Multimedia transmission layer operating method where optimization of first layer and second layer is implemented by using service information provided from first layer having transmission layer and network layer and second layer lower than datalink layer. The operating method includes upward abstraction step where service information provided to second layer is processed and processed service information is provided to multimedia transmission layer and downward abstraction step where indication information provided from multimedia transmission layer is processed and processed service information is provided to second layer. Consequently, there is advantage that all layers share diverse information about lots of dynamic changes in wireless environment, and the diverse information can be controlled to allow transmission where QoS is ensured more effectively. | 2013-10-03 |
20130258947 | DISCOVERING CAPABILITIES OF OFFLINE USERS - A system and method is provided for discovering capabilities of a first device communicating with a second device using a telecommunications network. The first and second devices are registered at a service platform. The first and second devices access the service platform through first and second core networks. At the first core network, a request is received from the second device for discovering capabilities of the first device. The first core network determines a first status indicator of the first device. The request is routed from the second device to an application server. The first status indicator of the first device is identified by the application server and a second status indicator of the first device is determined. A response is sent from the application server to the second device, the response containing feature tags describing a set of services supported by the first device. | 2013-10-03 |
20130258948 | WIRED CELLULAR TELEPHONE SYSTEM - Disclosed is a telephone system using a telephone network interface configured to couple a cellular telephone to a cable network. The interface coupled in this way enables transmission and reception of communication signals to and from a cellular telephone network over the cable network allowing communication of the cellular phone to a cellular network connected to the cable network, for instance. The telephone network interface is further configured to enable the interface to communicatively couple with the cellular telephone using packet-based communication, such as session interface protocol (SIP) packet based communication. | 2013-10-03 |
20130258949 | ROAMING SUPPORT FOR WIRELESS ACCESS SUBSCRIBER OVER FIXED IP ACCESS NETWORKS - Roaming support for wireless access subscribers over fixed IP access networks is provided herein. An authentication component can authenticate a subscription of a multi-mode device across different network architectures. A policy component can provide at least a portion of a service-level policy agreement to enable or disable services or policies associated with a multi-mode device at the fixed IP access network on a per session basis. | 2013-10-03 |
20130258950 | CHARACTERIZING TRANSMISSION OF ACCESS NODES WITHIN A WIRELESS NETWORK - Methods, apparatuses and systems for characterizing transmission of access nodes within a wireless mesh network are disclosed. One apparatus includes an access node, wherein the access node is operative to determine a neighbor function based on how many neighboring nodes are affected by signals transmitted from the access node at varying power levels, determine an airtime per link occupied by transmission packets on links to each of the identified neighbor nodes of the neighbor function, determine an airtime metric based on the neighboring nodes and the airtime per link occupied by the transmission packets, calculate combinations of transmission power levels and transmission data rates that jointly minimize an air-time metric, and set a transmission power level and transmission data rate for transmission to a target node based on a path loss between the access node and the target node, and the calculated transmission power levels and data rates. | 2013-10-03 |
20130258951 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - A system, method, and computer program product are provided for transmitting wireless signals to one or more portable devices. In use, a plurality or wireless signals is received utilizing a plurality of protocols. In addition, the plurality of protocols associated with the plurality of wireless signals are converted to a single different protocol. Further, the plurality of wireless signals is transmitted to at least one portable device utilizing the single different protocol. | 2013-10-03 |
20130258952 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO AVOID MOBILE STATION TRANSMISSION OF DUPLICATE EVENT-BASED AND POLLED ACKNOWLEDGMENTS - Methods and apparatus to avoid mobile station transmission of duplicate event-based and polled acknowledgments are disclosed. Example methods disclosed herein for a mobile station include determining whether an acknowledgment status of a first downlink data block classified as unreported is to be reported by a polled acknowledgment response to be sent in response to a poll received from a network, sending event-based acknowledgment information to report the acknowledgment status of the first downlink data block after determining that the acknowledgment status of the first downlink data block is not to be reported by the polled acknowledgment response, and refraining from sending the event-based acknowledgment information to report the acknowledgment status of the first downlink data block after determining that the acknowledgment status of the first downlink data block is to be reported by the polled acknowledgment response. | 2013-10-03 |
20130258953 | TECHNIQUES TO MANAGE GROUP CONTROLING SIGNALING FOR MACHINE-TO-MACHINE DEVICES - Techniques to manage group control signaling for machine-to-machine (M2M) devices are described. An apparatus may comprise a processor circuit, and a M2M control component arranged for execution by the processor circuit to manage M2M group control signaling in a wireless network for multiple M2M devices in a M2M group, the M2M control component to generate a resource allocation for multiple M2M devices of a M2M group, generate a M2M group control message with the resource allocation, and send the M2M group control message to the M2M devices in the M2M group. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 2013-10-03 |
20130258954 | DEVICES FOR SELECTING A CHANNEL STATE INFORMATION REPORT - A User Equipment (UE) for selecting a Channel State Information (CSI) report is described. The UE includes a processor and memory in electronic communication with the processor. Executable instructions are stored in the memory. The UE generates multiple CSI reports corresponding to at least one serving cell. A group of one or more CSI reports with a same association forms a CSI report set. The UE applies a first prioritization rule to select a single CSI report for each CSI report set and drops at least one first prioritization unselected CSI report if there is an intra-set transmission scheduling collision. The UE also applies a second prioritization rule to select at least one CSI report if there is an inter-set transmission scheduling collision. | 2013-10-03 |
20130258955 | MODULATION AND CODING SCHEMES IN SUB-1 GHZ NETWORKS - Systems and methods of controlling characteristics of messages in sub-1 GHz networks (e.g., IEEE 802.11ah networks) are disclosed. One or more data structures indicating available modulation and coding schemes (MCSs) may be stored at or accessible to transmitters and receivers. The data structures may be organized based on an MCS index, a frame format, a wireless network bandwidth, and/or the number of spatial streams in use at the wireless network. Information stored in the data structures may be used in generation and processing of messages communicated via the sub-1 GHz network. | 2013-10-03 |
20130258956 | Random Access Process in a Wireless Device - A wireless device initiates a first random access process on a first uplink carrier of a first cell in in response to receiving a first control command. The wireless device receives a second control command for transmission of a second random access preamble on a second uplink carrier of a second cell in the plurality of cells while the first random access process is on-going. The wireless device determines, employing a pre-defined rule, whether to continue with the first random access process and ignore the second control command; or to abort the first random access process and to transmit the second random access preamble. | 2013-10-03 |
20130258957 | Radio Access for a Wireless Device and Base Station - A wireless device receives control message(s) configuring a plurality of cell groups and a time alignment timer for each of the plurality of cell groups. The time alignment timer starts or restarts in response to the wireless device receiving a timing advance command to adjust uplink transmission timing of a commanded cell group. The wireless device receives a control command initiating a random access process for a secondary cell in the secondary cell group. The wireless device aborts the random access process on the secondary cell if a first time alignment timer of the primary cell group expires. | 2013-10-03 |
20130258958 | Timing Advance Timer Configuration in a Wireless Device and a Base Station - A base station transmits control message(s) comprising media access control dedicated parameters. The media access control dedicated parameters comprise a time alignment timer value for a primary cell group and a sequence of at least one element. Each element comprises a time alignment timer value and a cell group index. The time alignment timer value is associated with the cell group identified by the one cell group index. Each time alignment timer value is selected from a finite set of predetermined values. | 2013-10-03 |
20130258959 | Uplink Transmission Timing Advance in a Wireless Device and Base Station - A wireless device updates a first timing advance of a secondary cell group employing first timing advance command(s) for the secondary cell group. The wireless device stores the first timing advance upon expiry of an associated time alignment timer. The wireless device receives a second timing advance command for the secondary cell group with a timing advance value of zero. The second timing advance command starts the associated time alignment timer. The wireless device transmits uplink signals in radio resources identified in a received uplink grant employing the stored first timing advance. | 2013-10-03 |
20130258960 | CHANNEL STATE INFORMATION DEPENDENT ACK/NAK BUNDLING - A method of wireless communication includes determining a capacity of a control channel based on whether multiplexing of acknowledgement/negative acknowledgement (ACK/NAK) bits for multiple component carriers with periodic channel state information (CSI) is allowed. A threshold for a number of ACK/NAK bits is determined based at least in part on a payload size of the periodic CSI and the determined capacity. The method also includes bundling ACK/NAK bits when a number of the ACK/NAK bits is greater than the determined threshold. The ACK/NAK bits and the periodic CSI are transmitted via the control channel. | 2013-10-03 |
20130258961 | Method of Preventing Random Access Response Collision - A method of preventing random access response collision for a network in a wireless communication system is disclosed. The method comprises assigning a first preamble for a non contention random access procedure on a secondary cell configured to a first mobile device of the wireless communication system, to the first mobile device, and configuring a first preamble transmission time for indicating at least a subframe for the first mobile device to transmit the first preamble on the secondary cell to the network, to the first mobile device. | 2013-10-03 |
20130258962 | BASE STATION APPARATUS, MOBILE STATION APPARATUS, WIRELESS TRANSMISSION METHOD, AND WIRELESS RECEPTION METHOD - A base station apparatus operable to communicate by using any of a plurality of frequency bands, each of which includes a plurality of unit bands, the apparatus includes a determiner that determines a unit band to which to assign data, according to a priority of the data, to a maximum data transfer rate of the data, to a distance between the base station apparatus and a mobile station apparatus to which to send the data, or to a number or tried receptions of a preamble signal that has been sent from the mobile station apparatus through a random access channel, and a transmitter that sends the data by using the determined unit band. | 2013-10-03 |
20130258963 | Technique of Processing Network Traffic That Has Been Sent on a Tunnel - A technique of processing network traffic that is sent on a tunnel between a first tunnel and a second tunnel node in a communication network is provided. A device implementation of this technique comprises an enhanced network address translation, eNAT, component ( | 2013-10-03 |