Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090003285 | ADAPTIVE PAGING AREA - Techniques for determining a paging area of a paging group in a wireless communications network based on a value of one or more dynamically changing communication characteristics. In various embodiments, a paging area may be determined to reduce resource use in a wireless communication network supporting an idle mode of a mobile station. In one embodiment, the paging area may be determined based on a speed of a mobile station. | 01-01-2009 |
20090092071 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENCODING SUBSCRIBER STATION IDENTIFICATIONS AND CONNECTIONS IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS - A method and apparatus for encoding an identification of a subscriber station and its connections in a data frame for transmission in a wireless communication network comprising at least one base station and at least one subscriber station is disclosed. The method comprises specifying a subscriber station identification in the data frame to identify the one or more subscriber stations for which contents of the data frame are destined and specifying a connection identification in the data frame to identify one or more connections of the one or more identified subscriber stations to which the contents of the data frame belong. The subscriber station identification and the connection identification can be specified in a single stage or in two stages. | 04-09-2009 |
20090161591 | TRANSMISSION OF SYSTEM CONFIGURATION INFORMATION IN MOBILE WIMAX SYSTEMS - The particular frame in a super-frame using orthogonal frequency division multiple access techniques will contain system configuration information in the super-frame header. This super-frame header may be located at a fixed offset from the initial preamble of the frame. In some embodiments, the system configuration information may be located in a broadcast channel section of the super-frame header. In some embodiments, the particular frame may overlap a legacy OFDMA frame in time and in OFDMA sub-channels, so that the two frames share some time and sub-channel resources. | 06-25-2009 |
20090168770 | TECHNIQUES FOR EFFICIENT TRANSFER OF MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL STRUCTURES IN A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Techniques for efficient transfer of media access control (MAC) structures in a wireless communication system are described. An apparatus may comprise a MAC controller comprising one or more components operative to establish a unidirectional logical link between a base station and a mobile station in either a downlink or uplink direction. The MAC controller may include a service data unit (SDU) scheduler operative to schedule SDUs from different connection queues for communication by a single MAC PDU for a single downlink burst or single uplink burst of a communication frame in the respective downlink or uplink directions. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 07-02-2009 |
20090168907 | OFDMA based communication system - In an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access communication system, the location of one- and two-dimensional bursts may be specified by specifying the starting location of the plurality of bursts. The length of a burst may then be determined by subtracting starting locations of successive bursts. In some embodiments, the number of bits needed to specifying the location of bursts may be reduced. | 07-02-2009 |
20090257389 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR EFFICIENT SCHEDULING IN BROADBAND WIRELESS ACCESS NETWORKS - The various inventive embodiments relate to arrangement of information elements (IEs) for persistent and/or dynamic allocations in a wireless broadband network and include optimization techniques to eliminate the repetitive information fields from the downlink (DL)-Persistent-IEs, uplink (UL)-Persistent-IEs, DL-IEs, and UL-IEs. Elimination of repetitive information fields reduces MAP overhead. In addition embodiments relate to methods to use the same hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) region to contain persistent as well as non-persistent allocations. The use of the same HARQ region for persistent as well as non-persistent allocations further reduces the MAP overhead as it requires a single header to define the HARQ region instead of the two headers that are required to define two different HARQ regions: one for persistent allocation and the second one for non-persistent allocations. | 10-15-2009 |
20100111047 | Techniques to support multiple radio-access technologies - Techniques to permit scheduling of mixed radio access technologies. In some cases, a first radio access technology mode of a base station is scheduled during a first time region and a second radio access technology mode of a base station is scheduled during a sleep mode of the first radio access technology mode. In some cases, a first radio access technology mode of a base station is scheduled during a first time region and a second radio access technology mode of a base station is scheduled during an unused portion of the first time region. In some cases, a femto-base station is scheduled to snoop for local mobile stations during a sleep mode. Inactive regions of mobile stations are scheduled during a portion of sleep modes of the radio access technology modes. | 05-06-2010 |
20100279717 | SHORT USER MESSAGES IN SYSTEM CONTROL SIGNALING - Short user messages can be conveyed in system management signaling for a data or telephony network. In one example, a first control message is sent from a first radio to a second radio, the control message including a data field, the data field containing a short message directed from a user of the first radio to a user of a third radio. In response, a second control message is received in reply to the first control message from the second radio, the second control message including a data field, the data field containing a response to the short message. | 11-04-2010 |
20110044307 | Deregistration with Context Retention for Inter-RAT Operations - A method to perform deregistration with context retention is presented. In one embodiment, the method includes storing a context associated with a mobile station in response to a deregistration request from the mobile station. The method includes determining whether or not to accept the deregistration request with context retention and sending a deregistration command message to the mobile station if the deregistration request with context retention is allowed. | 02-24-2011 |
20110045763 | DEVICE, SYSTEM AND METHOD OF POWER-SAVING FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATION - Some demonstrative embodiments include devices, systems and/or methods of managing power saving mechanisms of wireless communication devices. For example, a wireless communication unit may relay communications between a wireless communication device and a base station, wherein the wireless communication unit is to manage a power-saving mechanism of the wireless communication device by scheduling one or more power-save periods for the wireless communication device, and transmitting to the wireless communication device a power-save message indicating the one or more power-save periods. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 02-24-2011 |
20110096737 | COVERAGE LOSS RECOVERY IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORK - Embodiments of the present disclosure describe methods, apparatus, and system configurations for coverage loss recovery in a wireless communication network. A method includes receiving, by a base station of a wireless communication network, a message from a mobile station that includes an indication that the mobile station is in coverage loss recovery, and a mobile station identifier to identify the mobile station. The method further includes determining whether a static context and/or a dynamic context associated with the mobile station identifier is stored at a previous-serving base station of the mobile station and transmitting a message to the mobile station to indicate which re-entry actions are to be performed to facilitate re-entry of the mobile station to the wireless communication network. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed. | 04-28-2011 |
20110134896 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR UPGRADING AN AIRLINK IN A WIRELESS SYSTEM - Embodiments of systems and methods for upgrading an airlink in wireless system are described herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed. | 06-09-2011 |
20110141981 | TRANSMISSION OF SYSTEM CONFIGURATION INFORMATION IN MOBILE NETWORKS - An apparatus to communicate system configuration information of a wireless communication network is presented. In one embodiment, the apparatus uses orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) techniques. The apparatus processes a super-frame containing a plurality of frames for communication using. The first frame of the plurality of frames comprises a primary super-frame header and a secondary super-frame header. The primary super-frame header comprises data indicative of whether each one or more sub-packets exist in the secondary super-frame header. | 06-16-2011 |
20110199967 | TECHNIQUES TO ASSIGN MULTIPLE IDENTIFIERS IN A WIRELESS NETWORK - Techniques are described that can be used to assign identifiers to mobile stations in a Network Access Provider (NAP) domain and a paging identifier. In some cases, the NAP identifier and paging identifier can be unique in the NAP domain and the paging group domain. The paging identifier can be derived from a NAP identifier. | 08-18-2011 |
20110216735 | LEGACY AND ADVANCED ACCESS SERVICE NETWORK INTERNETWORKING - Embodiments of the present disclosure describe methods, apparatus, and system configurations for transferring wireless connections among legacy and advanced access service networks. | 09-08-2011 |
20110317602 | SLEEP MODE POWER SAVING IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE - Embodiments of methods for optimizing power savings in a wireless device by maintaining sleep in sub-frames of an extended Listen Window, in an I.E.E.E. 802.16 | 12-29-2011 |
20120011569 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROTECTING MAC CONTROL MESSAGES - A system to protect MAC control messages is presented. In one embodiment, the system comprises a processor, a memory coupled to the processor, and a communication device coupled to the processor to communicate wirelessly over multiple sub-channels in an orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) wireless network. The communication device is operable to determine that a MAC control message is protected if an indicator within the MAC control message is set. The communication device validates, if the indicator is set, integrity of the MAC control message in conjunction with a CMAC (cipher-message authentication code) tuple concatenated with the MAC control message. | 01-12-2012 |
20130064177 | PAYLOAD HEADER REDUCTION CLASSIFICATION FOR MULTIPROTOCOL CONVERGENCE SUBLAYER - Embodiments of the present disclosure describe methods, apparatuses, and systems for payload header reduction classification for multiprotocol convergence sublayer. | 03-14-2013 |
20130265932 | TECHNIQUES FOR MACHINE-TO-MACHINE DEVICE MANAGEMENT - Techniques for machine-to-machine device management are described. In some embodiments a method may comprise receiving information from a plurality of machine-to-machine (M2M) devices over one or more wireless channels, aggregating two or more of the M2M devices as an M2M group based on the received information, and multicasting data to the M2M devices in the M2M group over the one or more wireless channels. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 10-10-2013 |
20130265976 | Wireless Network Re-Entry Systems and Processes - Embodiments of the invention include a fast network re-entry system that optimizes the network re-entry and bandwidth request process for wireless communications between a base station and a mobile or fixed station. In one embodiment a mobile station, in idle mode, transmits a single communication, including both control information and bandwidth request information, to a base station. The communication may proceed via an uncontested communication slot. Other embodiments are described herein. | 10-10-2013 |
20130272186 | TECHNIQUES FOR TRAFFIC DELIVERY TO A GROUP OF DEVICES - Techniques for managing traffic delivery to a group of devices are described. In some embodiments, a method for communicating in a wireless network may comprise receiving, at a base station, information intended for a group of devices identified by a device group identifier (DGID), mapping, at the base station, the DGID to a common identifier known by each device in the group of devices, and multicasting the information from the base station to the group of devices over one or more channels of the wireless network using the common identifier. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 10-17-2013 |
20130336223 | REDUCING POWER CONSUMPTION FOR M2M COMMUNICATIONS IN WIRELESS NETWORKS - Systems and methods for establishing power saving data transmissions with machine-to-machine (M2M) communication capable devices and like user equipment in wireless networks are generally disclosed herein. One embodiment includes data transmission techniques to bundle small M2M data packet transmissions in an initial wireless network access process, performed before the device begins to negotiate the wireless network connection with a base station (BS). If the M2M data is successfully transmitted to the BS in the initial communication(s), then further connection does not need to occur, saving power and transmissions needed to negotiate and establish the wireless network connection. Configurations for a system, base station, and user equipment (user equipment including various M2M communication capable devices) are also described herein, including configurations for implementing the data transmission techniques. | 12-19-2013 |
20140003234 | BASE STATION AND COMMUNICATION METHOD FOR MACHINE TO MACHINE COMMUNICATIONS | 01-02-2014 |
20140010140 | GROUP MEDIA ACCESS CONTROL MESSAGE FOR MACHINE-TO-MACHINE DEVICES AND METHOD TO UPDATE A GROUP IDENTIFIER - Briefly, in accordance with one or more embodiments, if two or more deices belong to a multicast group, a media access control (MAC) message may be transmitted to the multicast group as a multicast message to provide parameters and/or instructions to the devices. If the devices are in an idle mode, the MAC message may be transmitted during a paging listening interval. A group message may be transmitted as a multicast message to one or more devices in one or more groups in order to assign, reassign, or update the group identifier or multiple devices. If an acknowledgment message was not received by one or more the devices, the group message may be transmitted as a unicast message to the one or devices from which no acknowledgment message was received. | 01-09-2014 |
20140025799 | CALENDAR-AWARE DEVICES - A client-server session is automatically initiated between a client-type device an a cloud-based server in a cloud-based computing environment based on user-defined parameters, thereby providing convenience and ease of use for a user for uploading, sharing and downloading media content to and from a content-sharing website. A user-preference database stores user-preference information, such as information relating to media-content-type information, media-content-source information, media-content-destination information, user-uploading-preference information, and/or uplink-network-preference and downlink-network-preference information. A rule is generated for uploading and/or downloading a designated media-content type to the content-sharing website based on the stored user preference information and at least one calendar event available from a calendar application. An event trigger signal is generated if the conditions of the rule are satisfied, and a communication controller then establishes a communication link to the content-sharing website and uploads and/or downloads the designated media content. | 01-23-2014 |
20140036843 | USER EQUIPMENT AND METHOD FOR SEMI-PERSISTENT SCHEDULING - The various inventive embodiments relate to arrangement of information elements (IEs) for persistent and/or dynamic allocations in a wireless broadband network and include optimization techniques to eliminate the repetitive information fields from the downlink (DL)-Persistent-IEs, uplink (UL)-Persistent-IEs, DL-IEs, and UL-IEs. Elimination of repetitive information fields reduces MAP overhead. In addition embodiments relate to methods to use the same hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) region to contain persistent as well as non-persistent allocations. The use of the same HARQ region for persistent as well as non-persistent allocations further reduces the MAP overhead as it requires a single header to define the HARQ region instead of the two headers that are required to define two different HARQ regions: one for persistent allocation and the second one for non-persistent allocations. | 02-06-2014 |
20140056221 | METHOD FOR PAGING-BASED DELGATE INDICATION FOR M2M GROUP - A machine-to-machine-type (M2M-type) device and technique comprising a transceiver at an M2M-type device that receives from a base station a paging message designating the M2M-type device to be a delegate for a group of M2M-type devices. In response, a processor of the M2M-type device generates an acknowledgement and/or an M2M-type group-based reentry communication for the transceiver to send to the base station. The base station is part of wireless network that can comprise one of a Bluetooth-based standard wireless network, an IEEE 802.11-based standard wireless network, an IEEE 802.16-based standard wireless network, an IEEE 802.18-based wireless network standard, a 3GPP LTE-based wireless network standard, a 3GPP-based protocol wireless network, a 3GPP2 Air Interface Evolution (3GPP2 AIE) based wireless network standard, a UMTS-based protocol wireless network, a CDMA2000-based protocol wireless network, a GSM-based protocol wireless network, a cellular-digital-packet-data-based (CDPD-based) protocol wireless network, or a Mobitex-based protocol wireless network. | 02-27-2014 |
20140056229 | NETWORK REENTRY OF MACHINE-TO-MACHINE DEVICES - Embodiments of the present disclosure describe device, methods, computer-readable media and system configurations for establishing a reentry procedure for a machine-to-machine (“M2M”) device to reenter a wireless communication network based on traffic pattern characteristics or mobility characteristics associated with the M2M device. In various embodiments, a wireless communication device may include a processor, a wireless communication interface, memory coupled to the processor, and a control module. The control module may be operated by the processor and configured to establish a reentry procedure for a machine-to-machine (“M2M”) device to reenter a wireless communication network based on traffic pattern characteristics or mobility characteristics associated with the M2M device. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed. | 02-27-2014 |
20140181200 | ONE GROUP PAGING SCHEME FOR MACHINE-TO-MACHINE COMMUNICATION - A group paging method is disclosed for efficient machine-to-machine communication in a wireless network. The group paging method enables M2M-capable base stations to group M2M-capable mobile stations according to their traffic properties, assign them a group paging ID, and thereafter page the M2M device, whether the mobile station is asleep or not, by way of a paging channel. The group paging method mitigates traffic congestion on the wireless network. | 06-26-2014 |
20140256324 | CHANGING THE MACHINE-TO-MACHINE (M2M) GROUP OF AN M2M DEVICE - Briefly, in accordance with one or more embodiments, communication is made by a machine-to-machine (M2M) device with a first base station using a first group identifier, and then a handover is performed to a second base station. The M2M device listens to a message broadcast by the second base station to determine if the first group identifier should be changed. The M2M device requests assignment of a second group identifier for communication with the second base station if it is determined that the group identifier should be changed for the M2M device. In some embodiments, the M2M device wake from an idle mode to listen to a message broadcast by the base station. If the message indicates that a group identifier should be changed, the M2M device requests assignment of an updated group identifier. | 09-11-2014 |
20140274082 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMPROVING NETWORK ACCESS IN MACHINE TO MACHINE COMMUNICATION - An apparatus may include a processor circuit and an adaptive access module operable on the processor circuit to schedule broadcast of random access resources to access a radio network and to adaptively adjust an initial backoff window size for access signaling to the radio network during an access period. Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed. | 09-18-2014 |
20140286133 | DEVICE-TO-DEVICE ANGLE DETECTION WITH ULTRASOUND AND WIRELESS SIGNAL - A method for determining orientation of an electronic device relative to another electronic device is described. The method includes synchronizing internal clock of a first electronic device with internal clock of a second electronic device using electromagnetic signals communicated between the first electronic device and the second electronic device, sending two or more sound waves from the second electronic device, receiving the two or more sound waves at the first electronic device, and calculating orientation of the first electronic device relative to the second electronic device based on a difference in time of arrival of the two or more sound waves at the first electronic device. The first electronic device and the second electronic device each have at least one transceiver configured to send and receive electromagnetic signals. The first electronic device has two or more acoustoelectric transducers and the second electronic device has one or more acoustoelectric transducer. | 09-25-2014 |
20150038179 | INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP PAGING IN A WIRELESS NETWORK - Methods and systems are described for individual and group paging of a wireless device via a wireless communications network. The method can include setting a paging cycle and a paging offset for the wireless device. A wireless device can be assigned to a device group using a device group identifier. The wireless device can wake up to check for paging events received via the wireless communication network during a portion of the paging cycle. A further operation can be receiving a group paging event for the device group at the wireless device during the portion of the paging cycle. | 02-05-2015 |