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20150223146 | IMPLEMENTATIONS OF APPLICATION SPECIFIC ACCESS CLASS BARRING SKIP FUNCTIONALITY IN A WIRELESS NETWORK - User Equipment (UE) may skip the Access Class Barring (ACB) procedure for specific services, such as MMTEL voice, MMTEL video, and SMS. In one implementation, NAS layer of a UE may: receive, from an upper layer relative to the NAS layer, a request for a particular service type that is being originated by the UE; receive an indication, from a Radio Resource Control (RRC) layer of the UE, that access to a cell, associated with the UE, is barred; and bypass the indication that access to the cell is barred, when the particular service type matches a predetermined set of service types. The bypassing may include: requesting that the RRC layer establish an RRC connection for the service request, and notifying the RRC layer that the request for the RRC connection corresponds to the particular service type. | 08-06-2015 |
20150271729 | SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND METHODS FOR INTERWORKING BETWEEN A UNIVERSAL MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM (UMTS) NETWORK AND A WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORK (WLAN) - Embodiments of the present disclosure describe systems, devices, and methods for interworking between a universal mobile telecommunications system (UMTS) network and a wireless local area network (WLAN). Various embodiments may include utilizing traffic steering rules based on radio access network assistance parameters to perform traffic steering between the UMTS network and the WLAN. Other embodiments may be described or claimed. | 09-24-2015 |
20150327139 | SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND METHODS FOR LONG TERM EVOLUTION AND WIRELESS LOCAL AREA INTERWORKING - Embodiments of the present disclosure describe systems, devices, and methods for long-term evolution and wireless local area interworking. Various embodiments may include utilizing access network selection and traffic steering rules based on radio access network assistance parameters. Other embodiments may be described or claimed. | 11-12-2015 |
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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 |
20150057003 | 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. | 02-26-2015 |
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20150271708 | USE OF AN OMA MANAGEMENT OBJECT TO SUPPORT APPLICATION-SPECIFIC CONGESTION CONTROL IN MOBILE NETWORKS - Technology for using an open mobile alliance (OMA) management object (MO) for congestion control in mobile networks is described. A novel type of OMA MO for application specific access control (ASAC) can include internet protocol (IP) flow descriptions that can be used to characterize applications with fine granularity. Priorities can be assigned to IP flows based on the IP flow descriptions. A user equipment (UE) can receive such an OMA MO and also receive application-barring information regarding a congestion level in a mobile network with which an application at the UE wishes to connect. The UE can have a connectivity manager (CM) that determines whether to allow the application to establish a connection with the mobile network based on the priority level of the application's associated IP flow and the application-barring information. | 09-24-2015 |
20150327142 | APPARATUS, COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM, AND METHOD TO SUPPORT LOW COMPLEXITY USER EQUIPMENT - Apparatus, computer-readable medium, and method to support low complexity user equipment are disclosed. A wireless communication device including circuitry is disclosed. The circuitry may be configured to determine support of a target evolved nodeB (eNB) for a low complexity user equipment (LC-UE), and handover the LC-UE to the target eNB if the support of the target eNB indicates the target eNB supports LC-UE. The wireless communication device may be a long term evolution (LTE) wireless communication device. The wireless communication device may be one of the following a source eNB, a core network entity, a LC-UE, a source radio network controller (RNC), a base station, a source base service set (BSS). The circuitry may be configured to determine support of the target eNB for the LC-UE based on a configuration or information from the target eNB. | 11-12-2015 |
20150327312 | DEVICE-TO-DEVICE (D2D) COMMUNICATIONS - Technology for performing device-to-device (D2D) communications is disclosed. A user equipment (UE) can identify D2D data to be transmitted from the UE. The D2D data can be identified when the UE is in a radio resource control (RRC) idle. The UE can be limited to using a defined resource allocation mode to transmit the D2D data from the UE. A service request procedure can be initiated at the UE. The service request procedure can trigger the UE to perform an RRC connection establishment procedure with an evolved node B (eNB) to switch the UE from the RRC idle mode to an RRC connected mode. The UE can receive an uplink (UL) grant from the eNB for communicating the D2D data from the UE. The UE can send the D2D data using the UL grant provided by the eNB. | 11-12-2015 |
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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 |
20130128871 | UPLINK RESYNCHRONIZATION FOR USE IN COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - 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. | 05-23-2013 |
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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 |
20120315890 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO PERFORM MEASUREMENTS - Methods and apparatus to perform measurements are disclosed. An example method disclosed herein for a user equipment (UE) comprises receiving configuration information from a network, the configuration information to configure the UE to perform logging of measurements in an idle mode, wherein the configuration information includes a duration, and storing the configuration information at the UE. | 12-13-2012 |
20130010964 | System and Method for Multi-Carrier Network Operation - A system and method for configuring a component carrier is presented. A component carrier assignment message is received. The component carrier assignment message may be configured to identify the component carrier and include at least one of, at least one of a downlink carrier frequency, a carrier frequency of a paired uplink carrier, a bandwidth of the component carrier, and a bandwidth of the paired uplink carrier, an indication of whether the component carrier is a control channel monitoring component carrier configured to signal data channel assignment information for the component carrier, and a logical index of the component carrier. The component carrier assignment message may then be used to configure the component carrier on a user equipment (UE). | 01-10-2013 |
20130039287 | SIMPLIFIED UE + ENB MESSAGING - A method, mobile device ( | 02-14-2013 |
20130039339 | Other Network Component Receiving RRC Configuration Information from eNB - In order to re-establish a suspended RRC connection, the mobile device ( | 02-14-2013 |
20140321371 | SUSPENDING A CONNECTION IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - There are disclosed methods, apparatuses and computer programs for use in wireless communications systems for suspending a connection in the wireless communication system. In particular there are disclosed methods, apparatuses and software for use in a wireless communications system to suspend and handle the reactivation of a Radio Resource Control (RRC) connection for carrying user-plane and control plane data between a user equipment (UE) and a Radio Access Network (RAN). Also disclosed herein are methods, apparatuses and software for handling mobility control and downlink data for a UE for which an RRC connection is suspended. There is disclosed a method, implemented in a user equipment (UE) for use with a Radio Access Network (RAN), comprising: the UE suspending an established RRC connection with the RAN; the UE monitoring, whilst the RRC connection is suspended, for at least one of: paging and notifications of downlink data for the UE; and the UE storing RRC connection data related to the suspended RRC connection, said RRC connection data being usable by the UE to reactivate the suspended RRC connection. Also disclosed a is user equipment for use with a Radio Access Network (RAN), the UE being configured to carry out the aforementioned method, and a computer program having instructions which when carried out by a processor of user equipment (UE) for use with a Radio Access Network (RAN) cause the UE to be configured to operate in accordance with the aforementioned method. | 10-30-2014 |
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20120175688 | Semiconductor Package with Reduced On-Resistance and Top Metal Spreading Resistance with Application to Power Transistor Packaging - Some exemplary embodiments of a semiconductor package including a semiconductor device having electrodes on opposite major surfaces connectable to a planar support surface without a bondwire and a control electrode disposed in a corner position for reducing top-metal spreading resistance and device on-resistance have been disclosed. One exemplary structure comprises a semiconductor device having a first major surface including a first electrode and a second major surface including a second electrode and a control electrode, wherein the control electrode is disposed in a corner of the second major surface, and wherein the first electrode, the second electrode, and the control electrode are electrically connectable to a planar support surface without a bondwire. The pads of the device may be arranged in a balanced grid to maintain device stability during integration. A minimum gap distance between die pads allows the placement of vias in the planar support surface. | 07-12-2012 |
20140103393 | Surface Mountable Power Components - According to an exemplary implementation, a power component includes a component substrate and a power semiconductor device electrically and mechanically coupled to the component substrate. The power component also includes at least one first peripheral contact and at least one second peripheral contact situated on the component substrate. A power semiconductor device is situated between the at least one first peripheral contact and the at least one second peripheral contact. The at least one first peripheral contact, the at least one second peripheral contact, and a surface electrode of the power semiconductor device are configured for surface mounting. The at least one first peripheral contact can be electrically coupled to the power semiconductor device. | 04-17-2014 |
20150221588 | Surface Mountable Power Components - According to an exemplary implementation, a power component includes a component substrate and a power semiconductor device electrically and mechanically coupled to the component substrate. The power component also includes at least one first peripheral contact and at least one second peripheral contact situated on the component substrate. A power semiconductor device is situated between the at least one first peripheral contact and the at least one second peripheral contact. The at least one first peripheral contact, the at least one second peripheral contact, and a surface electrode of the power semiconductor device are configured for surface mounting. The at least one first peripheral contact can be electrically coupled to the power semiconductor device. | 08-06-2015 |