Patent application number | Description | Published |
20130308511 | DISCONTINUOUS TRAFFIC IN A TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORK USING TERMINAL SUGGESTED DRX/DTX PATTERN - Mobile telecommunication device includes an application module to execute applications, radio module to communicate radio signals to and from a remote network node, and base band module to communicate data to and from the radio module, and to code and decode the data using a communication protocol. The base band module includes modem usage analysing submodule to receive modem requests from applications, and to analyze all modem requests received during predefined time period. The base band module includes pattern suggestion submodule to receive information on the modem requests from the modem usage analyzing submodule, and to select reception and transmission pattern using information on the modem requests. The base band module includes Radio Resource Control protocol handler configured to send one or more parameters defining the selected reception and transmission pattern to the network node. The utilized DRX/DTX parameters can be optimized to save battery in the device. | 11-21-2013 |
20130315076 | Electronic Devices, Methods, and Computer Program Products for Selecting an Antenna Element Based on a Wireless Communication Performance Criterion - A method of operating an electronic device includes providing a plurality of antenna elements, evaluating a wireless communication performance criterion to obtain a performance evaluation, and assigning a first one of the plurality of antenna elements to a main wireless signal reception and transmission path and a second one of the plurality of antenna elements to a diversity wireless signal reception path based on the performance evaluation. | 11-28-2013 |
20130337850 | POWER CONSUMPTION IN A CELLULAR DEVICE WITH ENHANCED IDLE MODE SIGNAL REDUCTION USING DUAL STANDBY - Enhanced idle mode signal reduction signaling within two network cells is performed by a terminal to determine whether to initiate a PLMN scan measurement. A terminal receives a network controlled signal threshold T | 12-19-2013 |
20140004802 | ANTENNA SWAPPING METHODS USING A TIME PERIOD THAT IS RECEIVED FROM A NETWORK, AND RELATED WIRELESS ELECTRONIC DEVICES | 01-02-2014 |
20140031051 | DYNAMIC ADAPTATION OF COMMUNICATION PARAMETERS FOR COMMUNICATION BETWEEN A BASE STATION AND A TERMINAL IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORK - A system for dynamic adaptation of communication parameters for communication between a base station and terminals in a wireless telecommunications network includes one or more transmitters configured for transmission of signals in the network using a broadcast channel between the base station and the terminals, a machine-readable storage medium having stored therein data associated with communication parameters of the wireless telecommunications network, and a base station controller operatively connected to the one or more transmitters and the machine-readable storage medium and configured to cause the one or more transmitters to transmit adaptation signals from the base station to the terminals using the broadcast channel between the base station and the terminals, wherein the data is configured to cause the terminals to adapt the communication parameters and to begin network search and attach procedures for communication with the base station utilizing the adapted communication parameters. | 01-30-2014 |
20140032757 | METHOD FOR ADAPTIVE APPLICATION BEHAVIOR BASED ON CELLULAR NETWORK STATISTICS - A method for controlling the access of at least one application, in an application entity, to at least one modem, in a modem entity, where the controlling is performed using a modem access information framework. The modem access information framework collects modem access information from the modem access interface based on activity of the at least one modem, and distributes the modem access information to any of the at least one application that is subscribing to the modem access information or requesting the modem access information from the modem access information framework. | 01-30-2014 |
20140036760 | RELAY NODE AGGREGATION OF DATA TRANSFERS IN A WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A relay node for aggregating data transfers in a wireless telecommunications network includes a receiver configured to receive uplink signals from multiple terminals, each uplink signal including respective uplink data, a decoder operatively connected to the receiver and configured to decode the uplink signals to obtain the uplink data, a machine-readable storage medium operatively connected to the decoder and configured to store the uplink data, an encoder operatively connected to the machine-readable medium and configured to encode an aggregate uplink signal including the uplink data obtained from the uplink signals, and a transmitter configured to transmit an uplink transmission of the aggregate uplink signal to the base station. | 02-06-2014 |
20140038588 | TERMINAL REQUESTED BASE STATION CONTROLLED TERMINAL TRANSMISSION THROTTLING - A method for terminal requested base station controlled terminal transmission throttling includes determining whether terminal power consumption is to be reduced, if the terminal power consumption is to be reduced, transmitting a throttling request signal to the base station, the throttling request signal including data indicating to the base station to issue a discontinuous uplink transmission grant to the terminal, and receiving from the base station a discontinuous uplink transmission grant. | 02-06-2014 |
20140092734 | NETWORK-CONTROLLED ADAPTIVE TERMINAL BEHAVIOR MANAGING HIGH-NETWORK-LOAD SCENARIOS - A network device may detect a high traffic load for a wireless access network associated with the network device, and broadcast, to mobile terminals in the wireless access network associated with the network device, a signaling message indicating the high traffic load. The signaling message causes a mobile terminal to selectively limit wireless network access requests to the network device. | 04-03-2014 |
20140113616 | NETWORK INITIATED TERMINAL BACKGROUND ACTIVITY CONTROL - A wireless terminal configured to communicate with a network entity other than the wireless terminal in a wireless telecommunications network for the network entity to control background activities of the wireless terminal includes a receiver configured to receive a background activity policy signal including data corresponding to instructions to the wireless terminal to curtail background activities, and a background activity policy controller configured to curtail background activities of the wireless terminal based on the background activity policy signal. | 04-24-2014 |
20140140241 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR ANONYMOUS PAIRED DEVICE DISCOVERY IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS - A wireless communications system transmits a first message including an anonymous discovery pilot identification code to a first terminal, receives a second message from a second terminal and determines whether the second message identifies the discovery pilot identification code. The system may transmit a third message identifying the first terminal to the second terminal responsive to the second message identifying the discovery pilot identification code. Transmission of the first message may be preceded by receiving a request message from the first terminal requesting permission to transmit a discovery pilot signal. | 05-22-2014 |
20140155070 | HYBRID ACCESS MODE DYNAMIC TRAFFIC OFFLOADING IN AN H(e)NB CELL ASSOCIATED WITH A CLOSED SUBSCRIBER GROUP - A method of hybrid access mode dynamic traffic offloading in a H(e)NB cell associated with a Closed Subscriber Group (CSG) includes determining that traffic load in the H(e)NB cell operating in hybrid access mode exceeds a threshold, and, based on this determination, transmitting a signal indicating to at least one non-CSG terminal that a second cell associated with the H(e)NB cell, other than a (e)NB cell, is available for connection to the at least one non-CSG terminal. | 06-05-2014 |
20140169329 | NETWORK-CONTROLLED TERMINAL-TO-TERMINAL DIRECT COMMUNICATION IN WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORK - A terminal configured to operate in a mobile telecommunication network includes a receiver configured to receive from a network entity other than another terminal a direct communication initiation signal including resource allocation information for establishing terminal-to-terminal direct communication between the terminal and a second terminal using a radio access technology (RAT) in which the terminal is configured to communicate when communicating with the second terminal through one or more base stations or (e)NB and a terminal-end terminal-to-terminal direct communication logic configured to establish terminal-to-terminal direct communication with the second terminal based on the resource allocation information provided by the network entity other than a terminal. | 06-19-2014 |
20140206373 | NETWORK CONTROLLED EXTENDED ACCESS BARRING FOR USER DEVICES - A method includes determining whether a network access class associated with a data use device is a mixed access class. The mixed access class includes a non-extended access barring (EAB) network access protocol for at least one service and an EAB network access protocol for at least one other service. The method also includes determining whether EAB access has been granted for the data use device to access a network. The method includes barring EAB network access for the data use device if EAB access has not been granted for the data use device to access the network. The method further includes allowing network access for all services for the data use device if EAB access has been granted for the data use device to access the network. | 07-24-2014 |
20150024767 | DYNAMIC ADAPTATION OF COMMUNICATION PARAMETERS FOR COMMUNICATION BETWEEN A BASE STATION AND A TERMINAL IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORK - A system for dynamic adaptation of communication parameters for communication between a base station and terminals in a wireless telecommunications network includes one or more transmitters configured for transmission of signals in the network using a broadcast channel between the base station and the terminals, a machine-readable storage medium having stored therein data associated with communication parameters of the wireless telecommunications network, and a base station controller operatively connected to the one or more transmitters and the machine-readable storage medium and configured to cause the one or more transmitters to transmit adaptation signals from the base station to the terminals using the broadcast channel between the base station and the terminals, wherein the data is configured to cause the terminals to adapt the communication parameters and to begin network search and attach procedures for communication with the base station utilizing the adapted communication parameters. | 01-22-2015 |
20150030098 | INTERFERENCE CANCELING FOR MOBILE DEVICES - A user-device implemented method includes encoding a first digital signal to generate a first digital baseband signal and modulate the first digital baseband signal to generate one or more RF signals corresponding to one or more frequency bands. The one or more RF signals are transmitted via one or more antennas. Substantially simultaneously with the transmission of the one or more RF signals, a second one or more RF signals is received via the one or more antennas. The second one or more RF signals are demodulated to generate a second digital baseband signal. The first digital baseband signal is subtracted from the second digital baseband signal to generate a modified second digital baseband signal. | 01-29-2015 |
20150148067 | POSITIONING DATA BASED CELL MANAGEMENT - A mobile communication network comprises a first cell ( | 05-28-2015 |
20150163712 | HANDOVER FOR RELAY TERMINATION - The invention is directed to systems, methods and computer program products for executing a handover operation associated with relay termination. An exemplary method comprises: receiving, at a first base station associated with a network, a network registration request from a first terminal, the first terminal being connected to the first base station via a relay terminal; establishing a direct connection between the first base station and the first terminal; and terminating the connection between the first terminal and the relay terminal. | 06-11-2015 |
20150189684 | NETWORK-CONTROLLED TERMINAL-TO-TERMINAL DIRECT COMMUNICATION IN WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORK - A terminal configured to operate in a mobile telecommunication network includes a receiver configured to receive from a network entity other than another terminal a direct communication initiation signal including resource allocation information for establishing terminal-to-terminal direct communication between the terminal and a second terminal using a radio access technology (RAT) in which the terminal is configured to communicate when communicating with the second terminal through one or more base stations or (e)NB and a terminal-end terminal-to-terminal direct communication logic configured to establish terminal-to-terminal direct communication with the second terminal based on the resource allocation information provided by the network entity other than a terminal. | 07-02-2015 |
20150215019 | MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS USING BASE STATION CONTROLLED OPTIMIZATION OF ADAPTIVE ANTENNA SELECTION PARAMETERS, TERMINALS WITH ADAPTIVE ANTENNA SYSTEM, AND METHOD - A mobile communications terminal with plural antennas for uplink communications with a network base station in a cell, uses an adaptive antenna selection algorithm to select antennas. A method of operating a mobile communications terminal. The cell operator or base station provides parameters and/or settings to the terminal to determine algorithm behavior in selecting antennas, for example, according to operative characteristics of signals in uplink communications in the network, operation of the terminal, and/or network conditions. A communications method includes sending from a base station one or more parameters and/or settings for a terminal to select which of plural antennas of the terminal to use transmitting signals to the base station. A base station transmits to terminals one or more such parameters and/or settings for use in the adaptive antenna selection algorithm to select antennas for transmitting signals to the base station. | 07-30-2015 |
20150215028 | TERMINAL DEVICE HAVING A RELAY FUNCTION AND METHOD OF PROVIDING INFORMATION RELATED TO A RELAY FUNCTION - A terminal device for wireless communication comprises a wireless interface configured for communication with a radio access network of a cellular communication network. The terminal device is configured to transmit, via the wireless interface, a message to at least one other terminal. The message includes configuration information related to a relay function of the terminal device. The terminal device is configured to activate the relay function to start relaying communication between a requesting terminal of the at least one other terminal and the radio access network after transmission of the message. | 07-30-2015 |
20150215471 | UNLICENSED BAND USAGE MEASUREMENT REPORTING - The invention is directed to allowing network base stations to receive information from mobile communication terminals about terminal-detected usage of unlicensed band utilization, e.g., due to uncoordinated Wi-Fi usage in combination with LTE deployments in unlicensed bands. The present invention introduces additional information into automatic neighbor relation (ANR) reporting. The additional information comprises information associated with the unlicensed band utilization. The additional information enables a base station scheduler (e.g., an LTE base station scheduler) associated with a base station to take radio access technology (RAT) utilization other than cellular utilization (e.g., 2G, 3G, LTE, etc.) into account in order to decrease in-device coexistence issues and increase unlicensed band system capacity. | 07-30-2015 |
20150223175 | POWER CONTROL METHOD AND MOBILE COMMUNICATION TERMINAL - A power control method performed by a mobile communication terminal comprises determining a received signal code power of common pilot channel signals received from a base station on a common pilot channel in at least one time interval. A block error rate determination is performed to determine a block error rate for transmissions received from the base station. A downlink outer loop power control is performed in dependence on the determined received signal code power of the common pilot channel signals until the block error rate determination fulfills a convergence criterion. | 08-06-2015 |
20150223285 | TERMINAL-INITIATED POWER MODE SWITCHING - A mobile terminal comprises a modem for communication with a wireless network. The mobile terminal comprises a logic. The logic is configured to select a power mode from a plurality of power modes. The logic is configured to control the modem to transmit a power mode change request ( | 08-06-2015 |
20150271782 | UE INITIATED STATIONARY INDICATOR FOR REDUCED PAGING - The invention is directed to reducing paging overhead in a network. An exemplary method comprises: determining whether a user equipment (UE) is substantially stationary, wherein the UE is located in a first network cell associated with a network; in response to determining the UE is substantially stationary, transmitting an indicator to the network; determining whether the UE moves from the first network cell to a second network cell; and in response to determining the UE moves from the first network cell to the second network cell, transmitting updated location information associated with the UE to the network. | 09-24-2015 |
20150327167 | POWER CONSUMPTION MANAGEMENT BASED ON INACTIVITY TIMER - A user equipment ( | 11-12-2015 |
20150334701 | TRANSMITTING A PACKET VIA A WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORK AFTER A DELAY - Methods of operating an electronic device are provided. A method of operating a first electronic device that is connected to a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) may include listening for a wireless transmission by a second electronic device on a wireless communications channel. The method may include beginning a randomized delay period in response to determining that the wireless communications channel is clear. Moreover, the method may include transmitting a packet to an access point of the WLAN via the wireless communications channel after the randomized delay period. Related electronic devices and computer program products are also provided. | 11-19-2015 |
20150341909 | Sharing Transmission Intentions in Wireless Networks for CSMA Optimization - A method by a device of communicating with a wireless access point is disclosed. The method includes receiving information that characterizes intended future transmissions of one or more other devices. The method includes controlling transmission of a packet to the wireless access point based on the information. Related access points, methods by devices, and devices are disclosed. | 11-26-2015 |
20150350276 | CONTEXT-BASED ADAPTIVE STREAMING ALGORITHM FOR A USER DEVICE - A method, a device, and a non-transitory storage medium having instructions to receive a request to begin an adaptive streaming session; receive, in response to receiving the request, context information, wherein the context information pertains to a link state between the device and another device that provides a streaming media; calculate, based on the context information, values for dynamic parameters pertaining to the adaptive streaming session, wherein the dynamic parameters pertain to buffer management and codec selection; and provide, based on the values for the dynamic parameters, the streaming media to a user. | 12-03-2015 |
20150351047 | POWER EFFICIENT CONTROL OF UPLINK CARRIER USAGE BY MOBILE TERMINAL - In data transmission between a mobile terminal and a cellular network, a network component, e.g., a base station, establishes a downlink connection from the cellular network to the mobile terminal. The downlink connection uses one or more downlink carriers. Further, the network component identifies multiple uplink carriers which are available for establishing an uplink connection from the mobile terminal to the cellular network. The network component estimates impact of usage of the uplink carriers on power consumption of the mobile terminal. Depending on the estimated impact, the network component selects at least one of the uplink carriers for establishing the uplink connection. | 12-03-2015 |
20150358867 | METHOD FOR OPERATING A MOBILE DEVICE - The present invention relates to a method for operating a mobile device ( | 12-10-2015 |
20150365884 | METHOD FOR OPERATING A MOBILE DEVICE - The present invention relates to a method for operating a mobile device comprising a first interface unit for selectively interfacing to at least one communication network of a group of communication networks depending on a network selection information, and a second interface unit for interfacing to a communication device providing network information relating to a communication network related to the communication device. According to the method, the network information related to the communication network related to the communication device is received from the communication device. The network selection information is modified based on the received network information and a communication network is selected from the group of communication networks depending on the modified network selection information. | 12-17-2015 |
20150372774 | OPERATING A USER EQUIPMENT IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORK - A method for operating a user equipment in a wireless communication network and a user equipment are described. | 12-24-2015 |
20150382277 | OPERATING A BASE STATION OF A RADIO ACCESS NETWORK - The present invention relates to a method for operating a base station ( | 12-31-2015 |
20160007207 | Methods and Devices for Securing Radio Resources for an LTE-U Data Transmission - A method for securing radio resources for a Long Term Evolution-unlicensed, LTE-U, data transmission is disclosed. The method includes transmitting a plurality of bits in an unlicensed frequency band which are inserted before the LTE-U data transmission. Related communication devices, methods by devices, and systems are disclosed. | 01-07-2016 |
20160007271 | METHODS AND DEVICES FOR PROVIDING SYSTEM INFORMATION OF A CELLULAR COMMUNICATION NETWORK - To provide system information of a cellular communication network, a cellular network node of the cellular communication network transmits the system information to a user equipment. The cellular network node causes the user equipment to relay the system information to the further user equipment. | 01-07-2016 |
20160007322 | Methods and Devices for Allocating a Radio Resource for an LTE-U Data Transmission - A method for allocating a radio resource for a Long Term Evolution-unlicensed, LTE-U, data transmission of a communication device in an unlicensed frequency band is disclosed. The method includes the communication device determining a time gap duration until a start time of a subframe. The communication device selects a resource allocation transmission from a plurality of resource allocation transmissions as a function of the determined time gap duration. Related communication devices, methods by devices, and systems are disclosed. | 01-07-2016 |