Patent application number | Description | Published |
20110082734 | LOCATING BUNDLED ITEMS - In an example embodiment, a method is provided of locating a bundle of items. In this method, a query for a first item is received, and a search for the first item is conducted based on the query to locate an attribute of the first item. An identification is then made from the attribute that the first item is associated with the bundle of items. Another search for a second item that is associated with the bundle is conducted based on the attribute. A listing is then generated of the first item with the second item grouped as a bundle. | 04-07-2011 |
20120099561 | Handover Control Method and Device - A handover control method is applicable to handover between networks adopting different access technologies. A serving gateway of a source network buffers downlink data of a user terminal on the source network after the source network determines that the user terminal is ready to be handed over to a target network. The serving gateway of the source network sends the downlink data to a serving gateway of the target network after the user terminal is handed over from the source network to the target network. | 04-26-2012 |
20120115489 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR HANDOVER - The present invention discloses a method and an apparatus for handover applied to the communication field. The method includes: receiving indication information from an MME, where the indication information is used to indicate whether a network side and a terminal support enhanced CSFB to a 1x network; if the network side and the terminal support enhanced CSFB, determining to perform enhanced CSFB to the 1x network and determining to perform handover to an HRPD network; and sending a first message to the terminal to trigger the terminal to perform enhanced CSFB to the 1x network and perform handover to the HRPD network. By using the method, when 1xRTT CSFB occurs or when SRVCC is performed, the UE can continue to use PS data services with a shorter handover time, and therefore, a customer has a good customer experience. | 05-10-2012 |
20120122459 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM FOR VOICE CALL FALLBACK TO CIRCUIT SWITCHED DOMAIN - A method for voice call fallback to a circuit switched (CS) domain disclosed in the present invention includes: receiving a Service Request message from a calling user equipment (UE), where the Service Request message includes called number information of a voice call in a CS domain, instructing an evolved NodeB (eNB) to initiate circuit switched fallback (CSFB) handover; receiving a Handover Request message from the eNB, where the Handover Request message includes information required for CS handover, selecting a mobile switching center (MSC) and sending a packet switched (PS) to CS Handover Request message to the MSC, where the PS to CS Handover Request message carries information required for the CS handover and a called number so that the MSC calls a called UE. The corresponding apparatuses and systems are also disclosed. The technical solution of the present invention can reduce the connection delay. | 05-17-2012 |
20120246026 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF BUILDING STORE PRODUCT FINDERS - One embodiment provides a system for building store product finders. The system may include: a product search engine configured to find, from product storage, a plurality of product subcategories that match at least one store product category of the plurality of store product categories, and a dominant product subcategory determining device configured to determine a dominant product subcategory. The dominant product subcategory has the highest product coverage among the plurality of product subcategories. The system may also include: a filter selecting device configured to select at least one product search filter from a list of product search filters, and a filter installing device configured to install the at least one product search filter in the store product finder. | 09-27-2012 |
20120246028 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF BUILDING STORE PRODUCT FINDERS - One embodiment provides a system for building store product finders. The system may include: a product search engine to find products matching at least one product subcategory of product subcategories of a store product category for a store product finder, and a dominant product subcategory determining device to determine a dominant product subcategory. Each product subcategory has a product coverage. The dominant product subcategory has a highest product coverage among the product subcategories. The system may also include a filter installing device to install at least one product search filter into the store product finder. | 09-27-2012 |
20120307687 | Method, Apparatus and System for Processing Priority Services - The present invention relates to the communication field and discloses a method, an apparatus, and a system for processing priority services to overcome a problem in the prior art that priority services initiated from a network to a target user cannot be provided. The technical solutions provided in the embodiments of the present invention include: determining a service to be carried out with a target user equipment as a priority service; and creating a priority service bearer for the priority service, and carrying out the priority service by using the priority service bearer. The embodiments of the present invention are applicable in an IMS-based communication system. | 12-06-2012 |
20120309399 | Method for Falling Back to 2G/3G Network, Relevant Device and Communication System - Embodiments of the present invention provides a method for falling back to a 2G/3G network, a relevant device and a system. The embodiments of the present invention includes: receiving, by a mobility management entity, a first message from an access network device, where the first message carries location area information of a target 2G/3G cell to which a user equipment UE prepares to connect; sending a second message for requesting to perform a location update on the UE to a mobile switching center MSC corresponding to a location area of the target 2G/3G cell; receiving a third message from the MSC, where the third message carries a temporary mobile station identity TMSI allocated to the UE by the MSC; and sending, to the UE, a fourth message carrying the TMSI, so that the UE, after being connected to the target 2G/3G cell, communicates with the MSC by using the TMSI. | 12-06-2012 |
20130128865 | Method, Device and System for Processing Reverse Single Radio Voice Call Continuity - The present invention provides a method, device, and system for processing reverse single radio voice call continuity. The method includes, before handing over a voice service from a CS domain network to a PS domain network, preconfiguring, in the PS domain network by a UE, information about resources needed for the voice service handover; and in the process of handing over, by the UE, the voice service from the CS domain network to the PS domain network, establishing a forwarding channel between a first network element of the PS domain and a second network element of the CS domain by using the preconfigured information about resources, where the forwarding channel is configured to forward voice service data between the UE and a peer UE after the UE accesses the PS domain network. | 05-23-2013 |
20130287007 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM FOR VOICE CALL FALLBACK TO CIRCUIT SWITCHED DOMAIN - A method for voice call fallback to a circuit switched (CS) domain disclosed in the present invention includes: receiving a Service Request message from a calling user equipment (UE), where the Service Request message includes called number information of a voice call in a CS domain, instructing an evolved NodeB (eNB) to initiate circuit switched fallback (CSFB) handover; receiving a Handover Request message from the eNB, where the Handover Request message includes information required for CS handover, selecting a mobile switching center (MSC) and sending a packet switched (PS) to CS Handover Request message to the MSC, where the PS to CS Handover Request message carries information required for the CS handover and a called number so that the MSC calls a called UE. The corresponding apparatuses and systems are also disclosed. The technical solution of the present invention can reduce the connection delay. | 10-31-2013 |
20140071951 | METHOD AND TERMINAL FOR IMPLEMENTING A VOICE SERVICE - The present invention discloses a method for implementing a voice service in the embodiments of the present invention includes: a terminal attaches to a 2G/3G network and the 4G network through an MME on a 4G network; when a voice service does not need to be implemented, the CS transceiver of the terminal is in off state or static state; when a voice service needs to be implemented, for the terminal whose CS transceiver stays in off state, a CS fallback process needs to be triggered and turn on the CS transceiver to complete a voice service, for the terminal whose CS transceiver stays in static state, directly implementing a voice service through the 2G/3G network. The solution in embodiments of the present invention applies to a dual radio dual-mode terminal. | 03-13-2014 |
20140185586 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR HANDOVER TO SERVING NETWORK - The present invention discloses a method and a device for handover to a serving network. The method includes: receiving a first Handover Request sent by a BSC/RNC; sending a second Handover Request to a target MME according to the first Handover Request, where the second Handover Request includes an IMSI and first information for determining a source SGSN so that the MME sends a Context Request message including the IMSI to the source SGSN and receives context information of a UE that corresponds to the IMSI and is sent by the source SGSN. Thereby avoiding a handover failure which is caused because the MSC server and the SGSN select different MMEs, and further synchronizing PS and CS handover processes, improving handover accuracy and efficiency, and enhancing user experience. | 07-03-2014 |
20140204904 | Optimized Offloading to WLAN in 3GPP-RAT Mobility - System and method embodiments are provided for optimizing offloading wireless services to a WLAN in 3GPP-RAT mobility. The embodiments enable changing network priority based on changing network conditions. In an embodiment, a method in a user equipment (UE) for offloading wireless services to a wireless local area network (WLAN) in a Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) inter-radio access technology (RAT) handover includes receiving an access network discovery and selection function (ANDSF) policy from an ANDSF server, wherein the ANDSF policy comprises policy rules including a validity condition, wherein the receiving is performed during a procedure in which the UE conducts an inter-RAT handoff from a first 3GPP RAT to a second 3GPP RAT; comparing evaluation condition information for the second 3GPP RAT against the validity condition; and offloading a first wireless service to the WLAN in accordance with the ANDSF policy when the validity condition is satisfied. | 07-24-2014 |
20140237125 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM FOR ESTABLISHING DEVICE-TO-DEVICE CONNECTION - The present invention discloses a method, an apparatus, and a system for establishing a device-to-device connection, and relates to the field of communications technologies. The method includes: obtaining, by a device-to-device D2D server, registration information of a first device needing to perform D2D communication; performing pre-matching for the first device according to the registration information of the first device to find a second device; and triggering an evolved Node Base eNB to establish a D2D communication link between the first device and the second device. In the present invention, a D2D server triggers an eNB to establish a direct device-to-device connection between two devices. | 08-21-2014 |
20140349579 | Method, Device, and System for Establishing Device-To-Device Connection - The present invention discloses a method, a device, and a system for establishing a device-to-device connection and relates to the field of communications technologies. The method includes sending, by a first device in D2D communication, a D2D authentication request to an MME that serves the first device, so as to trigger the MME to authenticate the first device. The first device receives a D2D authentication response message transferred by the MME by using an eNB and enables, according to the D2D authentication response message, D2D monitoring and broadcasting functions. When the first device detects a second device in the D2D communication, the first device sends a connection establishment request message to the eNB, so as to trigger the eNB to establish a D2D communication link between the first device and the second device. | 11-27-2014 |
20140362827 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING SOURCE SGSN - Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and an apparatus for determining a source SGSN. The method for determining a source SGSN includes: obtaining addressing information of a source SGSN through a NAS message sent by a UE; and sending the addressing information of the source SGSN to a target MME or a target SGSN, so that the target MME or the target SGSN determines the source SGSN according to the addressing information of the source SGSN. The embodiments of the present invention may ensure that an MSC obtains latest addressing information of a source SGSN of a UE, so that a target MME or a target SGSN obtains prepare bearer information of the UE from a correct source SGSN. | 12-11-2014 |
20150017917 | PROXIMITY INFORMATION REGISTRATION METHOD, QUERY METHOD, AND USER EQUIPMENT - The present invention provides a proximity information registration method, a query method, and a user equipment. The proximity information registration method includes: sending, by a first user equipment, a proximity service request to a proximity service server, where the proximity service request sent by the first user equipment carries an equipment identifier of the first user equipment; monitoring and obtaining, by the first user equipment, broadcast information of a second user equipment which is broadcast by the second user equipment; and registering the broadcast information of the second user equipment with the proximity service server, so that the proximity service server converts the broadcast information of the second user equipment into an equipment identifier of the second user equipment according to a correspondence between the equipment identifier of the second user equipment and the broadcast information of the second user equipment stored by the proximity service server. | 01-15-2015 |
20150024745 | Device Discovery Method, Device, and System - A device discovery method includes: enabling, by a first device, a device-to-device monitoring and broadcasting function; after the first device detects broadcast information of a second device, reporting the broadcast information of the second device and a user identifier of a target user to a network side, requesting that the network side obtains, according to the broadcast information of the second device, an identifier of a user that logs in to the second device, and determines whether the identifier of the user that logs in to the second device is the user identifier of the target user; and receiving a result of the determining returned by the network side, and confirming, by the first device according to the result of the determining, whether a device to which the target user logs in falls within a preset distance from the first device. | 01-22-2015 |
20150024748 | SERVICE PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS IN COMMUNICATION NETWORK - The present invention relates to a service processing method and apparatus in a communication network. In the technical solutions provided in the embodiments of the present invention, the second mobility management network element can determine, according to the received indication information, whether to send a message to the HSS or HLR or whether to activate the ISR, so that in a communication system, it is ensured that a user equipment can carry out a corresponding service, and signaling transmission in the communication network can be further reduced, thereby improving network performance. | 01-22-2015 |