| Patent application number | Description | Published |
| 20100278142 | Systems and Methods for Mobile Stations to Identify Radio Access Technologies - A mobile station capable of being served via a first radio access technology (RAT) and a second RAT. The mobile station includes a component configured to receive a permission to identify a cell of the first RAT in absence of a first radio access type neighbour cell list for a serving cell of the second RAT. The mobile station also includes a component configured to identify a cell of the first RAT after receiving the permission. | 11-04-2010 |
| 20100279677 | Identifying Radio Access Technology Characteristics to Mobile Stations System and Method - A method for granting a mobile station permission to attempt to identify a cell of a first radio access technology (RAT) while being served by a cell of a second RAT. The mobile station receives a list of neighbour cells of the second RAT. The list contains at least one identifying characteristic associated with at least one cell of the first RAT. The mobile station identifies at least one cell of the first RAT associated with the at least one identifying characteristic. | 11-04-2010 |
| 20100279691 | Indicating Radio Access Technology Information to Mobile Stations System and Method - An access node. The access node includes a component configured to communicate with a mobile station operating on one of a first radio access technology (RAT) and a second RAT. The component is configured to communicate a permission to the mobile station to attempt to identify a cell of the first RAT in the absence of communicating to the mobile station a first radio access type neighbour cell list for a serving cell of the second RAT. | 11-04-2010 |
| 20110201279 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO PERFORM MEASUREMENTS - Methods and apparatus to perform measurements are disclosed. An example method disclosed herein for a user equipment (UE) to perform measurements in a mobile communication network comprises receiving configuration information comprising at least one of a validity state, a measurement activation criterion, a measurement deactivation criterion, a reporting criterion or a location request criterion to configure a measurement, and performing the measurement based on the configuration information. | 08-18-2011 |
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| 20090318128 | Preventing Random Access Based on Outdated System Information in a Wireless Communication System - A method for preventing random access by a mobile station with outdated system information including receiving system information earlier than a time at which the system information is effective, determining that a current time is within a new access blocking offset before the time at which the system information is effective, and delaying random access at least until the time at which the system information is effective. | 12-24-2009 |
| 20100080155 | UPLINK RESYNCHRONIZATION FOR USE IN COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS - A method and apparatus for reusing an uplink control channel configuration associated with an uplink control channel, the method comprising the steps of, at a user agent, receiving an uplink control channel resource configuration assigned by an access device, transmitting to the access device using the control channel resources associated with the received uplink control channel resource configuration and, after a time alignment timer expires, retaining the uplink control channel resource configuration. | 04-01-2010 |
| 20100226274 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INTERRUPTING A TRANSMISSION OF A MULTICAST SIGNAL - A method and apparatus for interrupting a transmission of a multicast signal includes a common channel selector ( | 09-09-2010 |
| 20110007716 | EVENT TRIGGER FOR SCHEDULING INFORMATION IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS - A mobile wireless communication terminal and a method therein including a message generation entity communicably coupled to a transmitter of a wireless transceiver, the message generation entity generating a scheduling information message for transmission by the transmitter in response to a serving cell change notification message received by a receiver, wherein the scheduling information message is indicative of resources required to schedule a transmission by the mobile wireless communication terminal. | 01-13-2011 |
| 20110009073 | ESTABLISHING RADIO LINK CONTROL IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS - A wireless communication terminal and a corresponding method therein includes initiating a first radio link control reset procedure, and receiving a message after initiating the first radio link control reset procedure and before the first radio link reset procedure is complete, wherein the message contains an instruction to set a protocol data unit size. A second radio link control reset procedure is initiated after setting the protocol data unit size. | 01-13-2011 |
| Patent application number | Description | Published |
| 20100075691 | Transport Block Size Signaling for Semi-Persistent Scheduling - A method is provided for improving reliability in semi-persistent scheduling activation/reactivation is provided. The method includes a user agent receiving a first data element from an access device specifying at least one first transport block size. The method further includes the user agent deriving a second transport block size based on a second data element received from the access device. The method further includes the user agent comparing the first transport block size with the second transport block size. The method further includes, when the first transport block size differs from the second transport block size, the user agent ignoring the received semi-persistent scheduling activation/reactivation data. | 03-25-2010 |
| 20100118752 | Method and Apparatus of Transition to a Battery Efficient State or Configuration by Indicating End of Data Transmission in Long Term Evolution - A method is provided for sending a Fast Dormancy (FD) indication from a User Equipment (UE) to an access device through a Media Access Control (MAC) layer. The method includes receiving an indication from an upper layer that there is no more data for a prolonged period of time and generating and sending a MAC control element to the access device. | 05-13-2010 |
| 20100202389 | Indication of Uplink Semi-Persistent Scheduling Explicit Release Using a Downlink Physical Downlink Control Channel - A method is provided for acknowledging a semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) uplink resource release. The method comprises receiving an SPS resource release signal over a physical downlink control channel in a Downlink Control Information (DCI) format 1A. The signal includes an indicator that indicates that the signal pertains to at least one of an uplink resource release and a downlink resource release. The method further comprises sending an acknowledgement to confirm the release of the resource. | 08-12-2010 |
| 20110041024 | Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access Acknowledged Mode Radio Link Control Status Report for Segmented Protocol Data Units - A method is provided for an acknowledged mode (AM) radio link control (RLC) receiving entity to promote a retransmission of at least a segment of a data protocol data unit (PDU). The method comprises the receiving entity constructing a STATUS PDU such that an AM RLC transmitting entity receiving the STATUS PDU retransmits the segment. | 02-17-2011 |
| 20110170410 | EXPLICIT CONGESTION NOTIFICATION BASED RATE ADAPTATION USING BINARY MARKING IN COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS - A method, apparatus, and computer program product for responding to congestion levels in a communication system by rate adaptation. A congestion condition is indicated by marking data packets. In response to receiving an indication of congestion, a data rate is reduced. A rate reduction inhibit timer is started, and further rate reduction is initiated if congestion is indicated after the rate reduction inhibit timer has expired. A rate increase timer is used to initiate a rate increase if no indication of congestion is received during a rate increase time. | 07-14-2011 |
| 20120269099 | System and Method for Determining Establishment Causes for Emergency Sessions - A method for initiating a Packet Switched emergency call using a user equipment (UE) is presented. The UE includes a plurality of protocol layers. The plurality of protocol layers including an IMS sublayer, a non-access stratum (NAS) layer and an access stratum (AS) layer. The method includes generating an ATTACH REQUEST using the UE. The ATTACH REQUEST has an attach type. The method includes retrieving the attach type of the ATTACH REQUEST using the NAS layer of the UE, and generating an RRC CONNECTION REQUEST. The RRC CONNECTION REQUEST includes an RRC establishment cause based upon the attach type of the attach request. | 10-25-2012 |
| 20120309404 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO PERFORM MEASUREMENTS - Methods and apparatus to perform measurements are disclosed. An example method disclosed herein for a user equipment (UE) to perform measurements comprises receiving configuration information from a network, the configuration information to configure the UE to perform logging of measurements in an idle mode, logging measurements in the idle mode, and sending an indication that logged measurements are available. | 12-06-2012 |