Patent application number | Description | Published |
20140252016 | REINFORCED PLUG - A method includes providing a die having a cylindrical body terminating in a rounded end, wrapping a fibrous material around the die while the fibrous material is tensioned, wherein the fibrous material is placed to extend in a continuous manner across the width of the rounded end of the body and to opposite sides of the cylindrical body, applying a curable resin on the die, curing the resin, and removing a reinforced cured resin plug from the die. | 09-11-2014 |
20140252755 | MULTIPOSITIONAL FITTING - A fitting assembly for connecting a first tube to a second tube includes first and second end fittings fixedly coupled to the first and second tubes, respectively. The first end fitting has a first aperture and a first sealing surface. The second end fitting is sized to be at least partially received within the first aperture and includes a second aperture extending through the second end fitting. The second end fitting further includes a second sealing surface. A seal is disposed between the first sealing surface and the second sealing surface. A lock fitting is slidingly associated with the second tube, and is also rotatable about the second tube. The lock fitting selectively engages the second fitting to compress the seal between the first and second sealing surface. | 09-11-2014 |
20150076810 | SNAP-IN ORIENTED FITTING - A connector system includes a plug portion and a receiving portion. The plug portion includes a resilient retention portion at the forward end of the plug portion, a sealing member distal from the retention portion, an orientation plate rigidly connected to the plug portion, wherein the orientation plate has a frontal profile including one or more straight edges. The receiving portion includes, a hole through the receiving portion, wherein the hole has a diameter smaller than a largest diameter of the resilient retention portion, a shoulder on one side of the receiving portion that cooperates with the retention portion to fix the axial position of the plug portion in the receiving portion, a recess on the opposite side of the receiving portion, wherein the recess has a frontal shape similar to the frontal profile of the orientation plate, wherein the orientation plate fits within the recess to fix the rotational orientation of the plug portion with respect to the receiving portion. | 03-19-2015 |
Patent application number | Description | Published |
20100272066 | BASE STATION ASSISTANCE FOR RANDOM ACCESS PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT - A base station (BS) may be configured to assist in the detection of a random access (RA) request failure and in clued an antenna configured to receive a RA request; a processor configured to decode the RA request; and a transmitter configured to transmit an aggregate RA response message comprising one or more RA responses that respond to one or more received and decoded RA requests. | 10-28-2010 |
20100315312 | SELF-INSTALLABLE SWITCHABLE ANTENNA - A system, method, and apparatus for selecting a set of antennas, for use during operation of a radio system, from a plurality of antennas. The system, method and apparatus may include selecting one antenna that is part of an array of antennas. Then measuring characteristics of radio signals received at the antenna. The selection and measuring of characteristic is repeated for a desired number of antennas in the array. Then, the measurements are combined, and the combinations of antennas are ranked based upon the combined measurement. From the ranking combinations of antennas are selected for use during operation of a radio system. | 12-16-2010 |
20110103309 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONCURRENTLY PROCESSING MULTIPLE RADIO CARRIERS - A concurrent multi-carrier (MC) wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) capable of concurrently processing multiple radio carriers may simultaneously connect to multiple base stations for receiving multiple service flows via multiple air links. The concurrent-MC WTRU may be serviced by multiple base stations through multiple concurrent radio carriers simultaneously during normal operation for downlink and/or uplink communications. Each base station may provide special services optimized for each base station. The WTRU may use a lower quality air link for low priority services or low resolution data services while use a higher quality air link for high bandwidth or low latency services. A diversity gain may be achieved by combining signals from multiple base stations. The support and use of the multiple air links at the WTRU may be transparent to the base stations. Alternatively, base stations' support may be provided for setting up and operations of the multiple air links. | 05-05-2011 |
20110103323 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REPORTING FEEDBACK INFORMATION FOR MULTI-CARRIER OPERATION - Method and apparatus for reporting feedback information for multi-carrier operation are disclosed. For more effective support for the asymmetric traffic loads in the downlink, a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) is configured with multiple carriers with an unpaired downlink carrier(s). The unpaired downlink carrier is an active downlink carrier that does not have a corresponding active uplink carrier. The WTRU reports feedback information for multi-carrier operation including feedback for the unpaired downlink carrier. For transmission of the feedback information for the unpaired downlink carrier, a feedback channel may be allocated on a distinct non-overlapping resource region on the uplink carrier so that the network may determine which downlink carrier the received feedback information is for based on the resource region. Alternatively, a different feedback channel may be allocated for the unpaired downlink carrier. Alternatively, the feedback information may be transmitted via medium access control (MAC) encoded feedback. | 05-05-2011 |
20110211447 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING HYBRID PER STATION AND PER FLOW UPLINK ALLOCATIONS - Method and apparatus for performing hybrid per station and per flow/connection uplink allocations are described. The apparatus may implement a hybrid per flow/connection and per station uplink (UL) resource allocation to improve UL control efficiency and UL resource utilization. The apparatus may be configured to transmit or receive a resource allocation in a signal that contains an indicator that indicates intended flow information. | 09-01-2011 |
20120002621 | AIR LINK UP/DOWN PROTOCOL (ALUDP) - An air link up/down protocol (ALUDP) may be Synchronized ALUDP (S-ALUPD) or Non-Synchronized ALUDP (NS-ALUDP). A method for wireless communications includes monitoring and managing the air link status between a Subscriber Station (SS) and a Base Station (BS). | 01-05-2012 |
20120026954 | RESOURCE ALLOCATION SIGNALING OF WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS - A method and apparatus addresses resource allocation granularity issues for encoding efficiency of resource allocation signaling in assignment information elements (IEs). | 02-02-2012 |
20120202543 | METHOD FOR PERFORMING PAGING FOR DOWNLINK DATA - A method and apparatus for paging downlink (DL) data to one or more Machine-to-Machine (M | 08-09-2012 |
20120230178 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR HANDLING BURSTY NETWORK ENTRY AND RE-ENTRY IN MACHINE TO MACHINE NETWORKS - A method and apparatus may be used for handling bursty network entry and re-entry in M2M networks. For example, a base station (BS) may receive a trigger from at least one device associated with the BS. The at least one device may be a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU), or it may be a network device. The BS may determine whether a widespread exception is imminent based on the trigger. If a widespread exception is imminent, the BS may transmit an indication to the at least one device. The indication may indicate to the at least one device that the BS has received a widespread exception report. The WTRU may receive the indication, and terminate a network entry procedure in response to the indication. The WTRU may enter a power saving mode in response to the indication. | 09-13-2012 |
20120327871 | NON-LEGACY PREAMBLE FOR WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS - Method and apparatus for transmission and reception of a Greenfield preamble are provided. In the method and apparatus, the Greenfield preamble may be a single user (SU) preamble or a multi user (MU) preamble. As an MU preamble, the Greenfield preamble includes a short training field (STF), a first long training field (LTF), a first signal (SIG) field, at least one additional LTF, and a second SIG field. Additionally, the Greenfield preamble may be utilized for efficient transmission and reception of control information to wireless devices, whereby the control information may be indicated using the STF, the first LTF, or the first or second SIG fields. | 12-27-2012 |
20130017856 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RANGING POWER CONTROL FOR MACHINE-TO-MACHINE COMMUNICATIONS - A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) may select a ranging code and a ranging opportunity randomly for a ranging procedure. After sending the selected ranging code in the selected ranging opportunity, if a collision is detected, the base station may send a broadcast message including a ranging channel collision notification indicating occurrence of a collision. In that case, the WTRU may select another ranging code and another ranging opportunity, and send the ranging code without increasing a transmit power. The broadcast message may include a ranging region identification where the collision occurred. | 01-17-2013 |
20130229996 | MULTI-USER PARALLEL CHANNEL ACCESS IN WLAN SYSTEMS - A method and apparatus may provide multi-user parallel channel access (MU-PCA) and/or single-user parallel channel access (SU-PCA) using transmit and/or receive with symmetrical bandwidth, in the downlink (DL), uplink (UL), or combined DL and UL. SU-PCA and MU-PCA may support unequal modulation and coding schemes (MCS) and unequal transmit power. Medium access control (MAC) layer, Physical layer (PHY), and mixed and PHY layer methods and procedures may support UL, DL and combined UL and DL SU-PCA and MU-PCA using transmit and/or receive with symmetrical bandwidth. MU-PCA and/or SU-PCA may also be supported by MAC and PHY layer designs and procedures for downlink, uplink and combined uplink and downlink using transmit/receive with asymmetrical bandwidth. | 09-05-2013 |
20140010223 | FAST INITIAL LINK SETUP DISCOVERY FRAMES - A method for use in a wireless station includes receiving a fast initial link setup discovery (FD) frame from an access point (AP) between instances of a full beacon frame and determining whether to associate with the AP based on the received FD frame. The FD frame includes FD frame contents and a FD frame control field. The FD frame control field includes a service set identifier (SSID) length field, corresponding to a length of a variable length SSID field in the FD frame contents; and any one or more of: a capability presence indicator, an access network options presence indicator, a security presence indicator, an AP configuration change count presence indicator, or an AP next target beacon transmission time presence indicator. Each of the presence indicators is used to indicate whether a corresponding field is present in the FD frame contents. | 01-09-2014 |
20140029568 | MACHINE TO MACHINE (M2M) FRAME WITHIN A FRAME - A method for use in a wireless communications system includes transmitting M | 01-30-2014 |
20150078305 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING HYBRID PER STATION AND PER FLOW UPLINK ALLOCATIONS - Method and apparatus for performing hybrid per station and per flow/connection uplink allocations are described. The apparatus may implement a hybrid per flow/connection and per station uplink (UL) resource allocation to improve UL control efficiency and UL resource utilization. The apparatus may be configured to transmit or receive a resource allocation in a signal that contains an indicator that indicates intended flow information. | 03-19-2015 |
Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090261968 | WIRELESS DATA ACQUISITION NETWORK AND OPERATING METHODS - A wireless network is provided, that may comprise wireless sensor units organized in chains of wireless sensor units. Each wireless sensor unit may comprise plural sensors and at least a wireless transceiver connected to communicate by wires or wirelessly with the plural sensors. Each chain of wireless sensor units may include a terminal wireless sensor unit and intermediate wireless sensor units, each intermediate wireless sensor unit being configured to relay data along the chain of intermediate wireless sensor units towards the terminal wireless sensor unit. The terminal wireless sensor unit in each chain of wireless sensor units is adapted to communicate wirelessly with at least one backhaul unit of plural backhaul units; and the backhaul units are adapted to communicate with a central computer. | 10-22-2009 |
20090265140 | WIRELESS DATA ACQUISITION NETWORK AND OPERATING METHODS - A method of collecting data from wireless sensor units arranged in a network. The method may comprise the steps of initiating distribution of control signals to the wireless sensor units, acquiring data with the wireless sensor units by sensing one or more physical parameters, each of the wireless sensor units transmitting the acquired data in response to the control signals; and each of the wireless sensor units transmitting of at least a portion of the acquired data according to a prioritizing algorithm associated with each respective wireless sensor unit. | 10-22-2009 |
20110170443 | LINK SENSITIVE AODV FOR WIRELESS DATA TRANSFER - A method of improving signal quality in an ad hoc on-demand distance vector (AODV) mesh network, comprising detecting at a node the signal quality of a received AODV protocol message, comparing the signal quality of the received AODV protocol message to a threshold; and on detecting that the signal quality of the received AODV message is not above the threshold, dropping the received AODV message. Further, a method of improving AODV mesh operation by detecting at a node the signal quality of the RREQ messages received at that node; and dropping any RREQ messages for which the signal quality is not above a threshold. | 07-14-2011 |
20130016625 | WIRELESS MESH NETWORK AND METHOD FOR REMOTE SEISMIC RECORDING - A method of collecting data from wireless sensor units arranged in a mesh network is disclosed, each wireless sensor unit having one or more sensors arranged on or below the ground surface for remote seismic recording, the method comprising: clustering the wireless sensor units into two or more sub mesh clusters, each sub mesh cluster having an aggregator assigned to the sub mesh cluster; acquiring data with the wireless sensor units by sensing one or more physical parameters; within each sub mesh cluster, each of the wireless sensor units transmitting the acquired data directly or indirectly to the respective aggregator; each aggregator aggregating at least a portion of the acquired data received from the wireless sensor units within the respective sub mesh cluster into aggregated data; and each aggregator transmitting the aggregated data to a base node. A wireless mesh network for remote seismic recording is also disclosed, | 01-17-2013 |
20140192709 | METHODS OF WIRELESS DATA COLLECTION - A wireless mesh is used to collect data such as from a seismic survey. Data is collected at sensor nodes and transmitted in packets to aggregator nodes, where they are aggregated and transmitted to a central controller or a processing node for processing, in which the data is recorded on a storage device. Packets and aggregate packets may be compressed, encrypted and have wrappers applied, and these steps may be reversed in processing. The central controller distributes packets to multiple processing nodes for processing in parallel. | 07-10-2014 |