Patent application number | Description | Published |
20130272156 | CALIBRATION MODE - A communication device for communicating with a plurality of terminals via a series of frames, the communication device being configured to indicate to the terminals, at the commencement of a frame, that communication is to be suspended for the remainder of the frame in order for a calibration to be performed, and to perform said calibration during the remainder of the time allotted to that frame. | 10-17-2013 |
20130272204 | COMMUNICATION CONTROLLER - A controller, implemented as a virtual machine, for operating in a communication network, the controller being configured to format data to be transmitted over the network into a series of frames, transfer the formatted data to a radio for transmission over the network, and control the radio to communicate the series of frames at a frame rate that is sufficiently low for there to be a delay of at least one second between data being received over the network by the radio and the controller having to control the radio to transmit a response to that data. | 10-17-2013 |
20130281102 | UNSCHEDULED MESSAGES - A communication device for communicating with a plurality of terminals, the communication device being configured to determine that a network event will affect the plurality of terminals and could trigger each of those terminals to attempt to transmit information relating to the network event to the communication device and arrange so that only a subset of the plurality of terminals will attempt to transmit in response to the network event. | 10-24-2013 |
20140153553 | COMBINED FRAME OF TWO COMMUNICATION PROTOCOLS ON SAME CARRIER FOR MACHINE-TO-MACHINE AND FOR BROADBAND COMMUNICATION - A communication device configured to communicate with a plurality of terminals via a first communication protocol and a second communication protocol, wherein both protocols organise communications into a series of frames and the frames of the first protocol are shorter than those of the second protocol, the communication device being configured to impose one or more frames according to the first protocol onto at least part of a frame according to the second protocol to form a single frame for communicating via both protocols. | 06-05-2014 |
20140177678 | CHANNEL DIVISION - A communication device that forms part of a network comprising a plurality of cells, each comprising a communication device configured to communicate with at least one terminal via a frequency hopping sequence associated with its respective cell, the communication device being configured to, responsive to a determination that there are an insufficient number of frequencies available to provide frequency hopping sequences for it and the communication devices in its neighbouring cells that are sufficiently distinct from each other, share the insufficient number of frequencies with of those communication devices on a time division basis. | 06-26-2014 |
20140219092 | TERMINAL HANDOVER - A communication terminal for receiving a communication service from a network that is configured to provide communication services to terminals via a plurality of communication devices, the terminal being configured to receive a communication service from a communication device, receive, from that communication device, a request that it handover from that communication service to another provided by the network and decide, responsive to that request, whether or not to handover from that communication service to another provided by the network. | 08-07-2014 |
20140219187 | DATA CACHING IN A COMMUNICATION NETWORK - A communications network comprising: multiple base stations, each capable of communicating wirelessly with one or more wireless terminals; and a network core communicatively coupled to the base stations, the network core comprising: a data cache to which base stations can write data received from terminals, accessible from outside the network core in such a way that users external to the network core can write data to the data cache at times that are not scheduled by the network core; and a network controller capable of controlling the operation of the base stations, the network controller being configured to schedule the propagation to the terminals of data stored in the data cache by allocating base station transmission bandwidth for the transmission of the data to one or more of the terminals. | 08-07-2014 |
20140219245 | TERMINAL LOCATION USING FORCED HANDOVER OF M2M DEVICE IN WHITE SPACE - A method for determining the location of a communication terminal in a network comprising a plurality of communication devices, each configured to communicate with at least one terminal, the method comprising instructing the terminal whose location is to be determined to handover from a communication device to which it is currently attached to another communication device in the network. | 08-07-2014 |
20140241230 | ACKNOWLEDGEMENT MECHANISM - A communication device for communicating with a plurality of terminals via a wireless network, the communication device being configured to, when it has a message to transmit to that plurality of terminals: select, from a multiple of available acknowledgement mechanisms, an acknowledgement mechanism for the terminals to use in acknowledging receipt of the message and communicate the selected acknowledgement mechanism to the plurality of terminals. | 08-28-2014 |
20140269550 | ASSIGNING LICENSED AND UNLICENSED BANDWIDTH - A controller for assigning bandwidth to communications made over a communication network, the communication network having available to it a first type of bandwidth, which is not available to other users, and a second type of bandwidth, which is available to other users, the controller being configured to assign a communication the first type of bandwidth or the second type of bandwidth in dependence on an overall bandwidth available to the communication network. | 09-18-2014 |
20140302882 | REDUCING INTERFERENCE - A terminal is configured to operate in white space in a wireless communications network, the terminal including: a transmitter for transmitting a wireless signal on a channel lying in the frequency range 450 MHz to 800 MHz; a power controller for setting the transmit power of the wireless signal at a transmit level by adjusting the gain of a power amplifier, wherein the power controller is configured to detect a commencement time for a transmission burst and to adjust the gain over a ramping period from an initial level to the transmit level; and a data generator configured to generate ramping data for transmission during the ramping period and information data for transmission at the transmit level, wherein the ramping period is in the range 10 ms to 1 s. | 10-09-2014 |
20140308967 | STATIC TERMINALS - A method for allocating communication resources in a network comprising a plurality of terminals, some of the terminals being mobile and others of the terminals being static, the method comprising designating one or more of the terminals as static terminals and allocating communication resources of the network in dependence on those designations. | 10-16-2014 |
20140321509 | INTERFERENCE MITIGATION - A communication device for communicating with a plurality of terminals using a frequency hopping sequence, the communication device being configured to determine that one of the plurality of terminals is subject to interference on a frequency in the frequency hopping sequence and to, in response to that determination, schedule communication with that terminal to avoid that frequency. | 10-30-2014 |
20150080000 | INTER-DEVICE COMMUNICATION IN A MACHINE TO MACHINE COMMUNICATION NETWORK - A communication system comprising a base station and two or more terminals configured for communicating with the base station by means of a communications protocol, wherein: the communications protocol operates in a frequency band to which unlicensed access is permitted; and the terminals are configured for unattended operation with the base station. | 03-19-2015 |