Patent application number | Description | Published |
20100178916 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR NOTIFYING AVAILABILITY OF FEMTOCELLS TO AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A method and system for notifying the availability of femtocells to an electronic device are provided. The method includes determining a fingerprint for each of the femtocells by a base station of a macrocell. The method also includes maintaining fingerprints of the femtocells by the base station. The method further includes notifying the availability of the femtocells to the electronic device based on corresponding fingerprints. The system includes a macrocell. The system also includes the femtocells in vicinity of the macrocell. The system further includes the electronic device that receives notification of the availability of the femtocells. Moreover, the system includes a base station in the macrocell to notify the availability of the femtocells to the electronic device. | 07-15-2010 |
20120317185 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING USER EXPERIENCE WITH AN APPLICATION ON A CLIENT DEVICE - A method of controlling user experience with an application on a client device including at least two resident client entities is provided. The method includes modifying behavior of the application on the client device through negotiation between the at least two resident entities according to pre-defined rules; and rendering the application on the client device based on the pre-defined rules using at least one of the resident client entities. | 12-13-2012 |
20130039317 | ACCESS CONTROL METHOD AND DEVICE FOR MACHINE TYPE COMMUNICATIONS IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORK ENVIRONMENT - A Machine Type Communication (MTC) device and method of the MTC device are provided for establishing a connection with a base station in a wireless communication network environment. The method includes receiving, by the MTC device, a broadcast message from a base station over a Machine-to-Machine (M2M) broadcast control channel, wherein the broadcast message includes header information and at least one M2M-Random Access CHannel (mRACH) parameter; determining whether an mRACH message can be sent to the base station, based on the header information in the received broadcast message; sending the mRACH message to the base station using the at least one mRACH parameter to establish an uplink connection with the base station, when the mRACH message can be sent to the base station; and receiving a resource assignment message indicating a successful connection establishment with the base station, in response to the mRACH message. | 02-14-2013 |
20130059584 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF MANAGING VOICE CALL AND IP MEDIA SESSIONS IN A WIRELESS NETWORK ENVIRONMENT - A method and system for managing voice call and IP media sessions in a wireless communication environment are provided. The method includes determining whether a User Equipment (UE) is simultaneously performing a voice call session and at least one Internet Protocol (IP) media session over a first network cell associated with a first Radio Access Technology (RAT); continuing, if the UE is simultaneously performing the voice call session and the at least one IP media session, the voice call session over the first network cell and routing data streams associated with the at least one IP media session to the UE over a second network cell associated with a second RAT; and detaching, if the UE is not simultaneously performing the voice call session and the at least one IP media session, the UE from the first network cell associated with the first RAT. | 03-07-2013 |
20130136064 | METHOD AND APPARATUS OF COMMUNICATING PACKET DATA UNITS IN A WIRELESS NETWORK ENVIRONMENT AND SYSTEM USING THEREOF - A method and system for communicating packet data units over a Gb interface in a wireless communication environment is provided. Packed Data Units (PDUs) are received from Machine Type Communication (MTC) device(s) by a base station coupled to the MTC device(s). Then, the PDUs are aggregated over a period of time by the base station. Further, the aggregated PDUs are packed in at least one Logical Link Control (LLC) data packet. The at least one LLC data packet including the aggregated PDUs is multiplexed over a Gb interface in a single session between the base station and a packet core network. | 05-30-2013 |
20130182631 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING MULTI-MEDIA BROADCAST MULTICAST SERVICES DATA TO USER EQUIPMENT OVER RELAY NODES - A method and apparatus for providing Multi-media Broadcast Multicast Services (MBMS) data to user equipment in a Multi-media Broadcast over a Single Frequency Network (MBSFN) environment over relay nodes are provided. The method includes periodically evaluating a synchronization delay associated with relay nodes in an MBSFN area by a DeNB, and assigning resources to the relay nodes for communicating MBMS data. The method also includes setting a time stamp in synchronization packets based on the synchronization delay. The time stamp information may indicate a start time for synchronized transmission of the MBMS data to user equipment in the MBSFN area over an air interface. The method may further include transmitting the synchronization packets including the MBMS data and time stamp information to the relay nodes using the allocated resources such that the MBMS data is synchronously transmitted to the user equipment by the relay nodes. | 07-18-2013 |
20130195016 | METHOD AND APPARATUS OF COMMUNICATING MACHINE TYPE COMMUNICATION DATA OVER AN IU INTERFACE IN A UNIVERSAL MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM - A method and an apparatus for communicating Machine Type Communication (MTC) data across an Iu interface in a Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) network environment are provided. The apparatus includes Packet Data Units (PDUs) associated with one or more MTC devices are aggregated by a radio network controller. The aggregated PDUs associated with the one or more MTC devices are concatenated into an Iu PDU based on a Radio Access Bearer (RAB) identifier associated with the one or more MTC devices. The Iu PDU including the aggregated PDUs is transmitted to a core network across an Iu-Packet Switched (PS) interface that connects the radio network controller and the core network. | 08-01-2013 |
20130195087 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MULTIPLEXING MACHINE TYPE COMMUNICATION DATA OF MULTIPLE MTC DEVICES IN A WIRELESS NETWORK ENVIRONMENT - A method and a system of multiplexing Machine Type Communication (MTC) data of MTC devices over a single radio block period are provided. The method includes providing, by a base station, resource information to a plurality of MTC devices, where the resource information includes a time slot allocated to the plurality of MTC devices in each frame of a radio block period, a temporary flow identifier, and the sub-block index information. The method further includes packing MTC data associated with each of the plurality of MTC devices in a data packet. Furthermore, the method includes multiplexing the data packet including the MTC data associated with the plurality of MTC devices in downlink over the time slot allocated in each frame of the radio block period. | 08-01-2013 |
20130226900 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR NON-EPHEMERAL SEARCH - A method and a system for providing a non-ephemeral search to a user are provided. When a user query is received, a content notification request is launched to web pages that are specific to the user query. Subsequently, search results are provided to the user when the content specific to the user query is available in these web pages. | 08-29-2013 |
20130231148 | METHOD AND APPARATUS OF HANDLING IN-DEVICE CO-EXISTENCE INTERFERENCE IN A MULTI-RADIO ENVIRONMENT - A method and apparatus of handling in-device co-existence interference in a multi-radio environment are provided. The method includes measuring an adjacent band interference value indicating an amount of adjacent band interference in a Long Term Evolution (LTE) band associated with an LTE radio entity prior to switching the LTE radio entity to an active state from an inactive state, comparing the adjacent band interference value with a predetermined threshold value, and reporting in-device co-existence interference in the LTE band to an evolved Node B (eNB) according to an outcome of the comparing of the adjacent band interference value with the predetermined threshold value. | 09-05-2013 |
20130271270 | RADIO FREQUENCY FOR CONSUMER ELECTRONICS BASED COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD - A Radio Frequency for Consumer Electronics (RF4CE) based communication system and method is provided. The method includes discovering one or more controller devices in an RF4CE based radio communication network. The RF4CE based radio communication network includes one or more Consumer Electronics (CE) devices and one or more controller devices. The method also includes selecting one of the one or more controller devices based on capabilities of each of the one or more controller devices, transmitting an RF4CE data packet including Machine to Machine (M2M) communication data to the selected one of the one or more controller devices over an RF4CE protocol, such that the M2M communication data is forwarded to an intended external entity by the controller device via a communication channel. | 10-17-2013 |
20130331100 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF PROVIDING SMALL CELL INFORMATION TO USER EQUIPMENTS IN A HETEROGENEOUS NETWORK ENVIRONMENT - A method and a system for providing small cell information to a user equipment in a heterogeneous network environment are provided. A user equipment sends a request to a network entity for providing availability of one or more small cells in its proximity. The network entity obtains location information associated with the user equipment and retrieves a small cell map displaying the one or more small cells from a map database. Then, the network entity determines whether the one or more small cells are in the proximity of the user equipment using the small cell map. Accordingly, the network entity provides a notification indicating availability of the one or more small cells to the user equipment. Moreover, the user equipment initiates a scan for the one or more small cells based on the received notification. | 12-12-2013 |
20140140218 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR COMPUTING LAYER 2 LOAD CONDITIONS IN A WIRELESS NETWORK ENVIRONMENT - A method and a system for measuring Layer 2 (L2) load conditions in a wireless network environment are provided. The method of an evolved Node B (eNB) for measuring L2 load conditions in a wireless network environment includes determining total number of Physical Resource Blocks (PRBs) allocated to the eNB in uplink and downlink and determining number of PRBs which are unavailable in uplink and downlink. The method further includes computing number of PRBs available for use during a time period by subtracting the number of unavailable PRBs from the number of allocated PRBs. Moreover, the method includes reporting the number of PRBs available for use during a time period to an Operation And Maintenance (OAM) entity in the wireless network environment. | 05-22-2014 |
20140233386 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR OFFLOADING HANDOVER OF WIRELESS CONNECTIONS FROM A LTE NETWORK TO A WI-FI NETWORK - The various embodiments herein provide a method and system for providing network offloading in a wireless communication. The method comprising includes obtaining an Access Technology Selection Policy (ATSP) from at least one of Access Network Discovery and Selection Function (ANDSF), pre-configuration and Mobile Management Entity (MME), wherein the ATSP comprises of a plurality of radio access network selection criteria assistance default threshold values; modifying the ANDSF ATSP threshold values based on at least one of the radio characteristics and load conditions of the Radio Access Network (RAN) node by the RAN node; sending the modified ATSP threshold values to the UE; updating the ANDSF policy with the modified ATSP threshold values by the UE and determining offloading of the UE from a first radio access network to a second radio access network by the UE. | 08-21-2014 |
20140241317 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING SIMULTANEOUS CONNECTIVITY BETWEEN MULTIPLE E-NODEBS AND USER EQUIPMENT - A method and a system for providing simultaneous transmission and reception across multiple evolved NodeBs (eNBs) from a User Equipment (UE) in a Long Term Evolution (LTE) network are provided. The method includes establishing a first connection between the UE and a core network through a Serving-eNB (S-eNB), considering at least one Target-eNB (T-eNB) for at least one connection between the UE and a Packet Data Network (PDN), determining availability of the T-eNB, wherein the determining of the availability of the at least one T-eNB is triggered based on available resource in the S-eNB and the T-eNB, and establishing at least one connection between the UE and the PDN through one or more T-eNBs, at least one Serving-GateWay (S-GW), and at least one PDN gateway. | 08-28-2014 |
20140254451 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR EMPLOYING DISCONTINUOUS RECEPTION CONFIGURATIONS IN A WIRELESS NETWORK ENVIRONMENT - The present invention provides a method of selecting and applying Discontinuous Reception (DRX) configurations in a wireless network environment. In one embodiment, a method includes obtaining location and time information associated with user equipment, and selecting at least one DRX configuration suitable for one or more applications miming on the user equipment from a plurality of DRX configurations based on location and time information. The method also includes transmitting information associated with the selected DRX configuration to a network entity so that the network entity applies the selected DRX configuration for the user equipment. | 09-11-2014 |
20140328303 | LOW BANDWIDTH MACHINE TYPE COMMUNICATION IN A LONG TERM EVOLUTION NETWORK - The present invention provides a method and system for enabling machine type communication in a long term evolution (LTE) network environment. In one embodiment, a Physical (PHY) layer of a LTE protocol stack maps data bits in resource elements of a logical channel to resource elements of a physical channel. The PHY layer identifies the data bits intended for legacy devices but mapped to a first set of resource elements of machine type communication (MTC) devices and the data bits intended for the MTC device but mapped to the second set of resource elements of the legacy devices. Accordingly, the PHY layer remaps the data bits intended for the legacy devices to the second set of resource elements and the data bits intended for the MTC devices to the first set of resource elements prior to transmission. | 11-06-2014 |
20140366012 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING FIRMWARE OVER THE AIR SERVICE TO USER EQUIPMENTS - A method and an apparatus for providing a firmware over the air service to user equipments in a wireless network environment are provided. In one embodiment, a device management server sends a notification to a base station indicating availability of a new firmware version for associated user equipments. The base station obtains a firmware update resource identifier from the device management server upon receiving the notification. Further, the base station fetches a firmware update associated with the new firmware version from a Firmware Over-The-Air (FOTA) server and caches the firmware update in a cache memory. Thereafter, the base station sends a paging message indicating availability of the cached firmware update to the user equipments currently attached to the base station. Upon receiving a paging response from the respective user equipments, the base station transmits the cached firmware update to the respective user equipments over a wireless air interface. | 12-11-2014 |
20150036489 | GRANULAR NETWORK ACCESS CONTROL AND METHODS THEREOF - A method and system that enhances the existing access barring mechanism as specified in the current 3GPP specification is disclosed. The method disclosed provides enhancing the access barring mechanism to accommodate application level barring between the User equipment (UE) and the network. The method disclosed individually restricts or permits access of network to every requesting application on the UE, based on granular category of the application and priority levels of the application within the granular category. The method disclosed also specifies handling of back-off timers; reject cause values and Access Point Name (APN) configuration by Access Stratum (AS) and Non Access Stratum (NAS) layer to support application level barring of UEs using the enhanced access barring mechanism. The enhanced access barring mechanism enables providing service to applications independent of other barred applications or priorities. The method disclosed provides a mechanism for access control for connected mode UEs. | 02-05-2015 |
20150055447 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SELECTIVE ACCESS CONTROL WITH ENSURED SERVICE CONTINUITY GUARANTEES - A method and system for providing a continued service to user equipment (UE) under overload conditions is disclosed. A primary network undertakes a protective measure under unable to serve conditions by commanding a change in the UE network access behavior so that the UE can move to the secondary PLMN. After receiving the indication from the primary network, the UE connects to the secondary network and continues to obtain the services from the secondary network. The secondary PLMN ID can be sent to the UE in system information. Further, the information like overload indication, secondary PLMN ID and the time for which the UE can obtain the services from the secondary PLMN ID can be sent to individual UEs over dedicated messages either on an Access Stratum (AS) message or over a Non Access Stratum (NAS) message. | 02-26-2015 |
20150055529 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DYNAMICALLY MANAGING A NON-DISCONTINUOUS RECEPTION MODE SPECIFIC TO USER EQUIPMENTS, AND SYSTEM THEREOF - The present invention provides a method, an apparatus, and a system for dynamically managing a non-discontinuous reception mode specific to user equipments. In one embodiment, a method includes obtaining statistical data associated with an ongoing data transfer session with a user equipment. Further, the method includes analysing the statistical data to determine a probability of establishing a new downlink TBF for a short time after the current TBF is released. The method also includes computing a non-DRX timer value for the ongoing data transfer session with the user equipment based on the analysis of the statistical data. Furthermore, the method includes transmitting a network message indicating the non-DRX timer value specific to the ongoing data transfer session to the respective user equipments. Moreover, the method includes operating in a non-DRX mode after the TBF is released and till the non-DRX timer value received in the network message is expired. | 02-26-2015 |