Patent application number | Description | Published |
20130003541 | Mobile Communications Device and Method - Methods and mobile communications devices to communicate data packets via a mobile communications network, the mobile communications network including a radio network part which includes base stations providing different radio access interfaces from which different radio access bearer types can be formed for communicating the data packets from the mobile communications devices, and a core network part which includes infrastructure equipment for communicating the data packets from the radio network part, the mobile communications device including a radio bearer controller configured to determine a traffic profile of the data packets to be communicated via the mobile communications network from one of a predetermined set of possible traffic profiles, and to select one of the different radio access types to provide a radio access bearer of a type most suitable for communicating the data packets from the mobile communications device in accordance with the determined traffic profile of the data packets. | 01-03-2013 |
20130003599 | Mobile Communications Network, Infrastructure Equipment and Method - Methods and mobile communications networks, the mobile communications networks including a radio network part including base stations for communicating data to or from mobile communications devices, and a core network part which includes infrastructure equipment being configured to communicate the data packets to and receive the data packets from the mobile communications devices via the radio network part, wherein one of the infrastructure equipment of the core network includes a bearer controller, which is configured to identify data packets which have been received by the infrastructure equipment for communication to one of the mobile communications devices, to determine a traffic profile of the received data packets from one of a predetermined set of possible traffic profiles, and to select one of a plurality of different bearer types to communicate the data packets to the mobile communications device in accordance with the determined traffic profile of the received data packets. | 01-03-2013 |
20130188598 | Local storage of content in a wireless network - Storing data locally or at an edge of a wireless network is disclosed. The wireless network receives from a communication terminal a request to get content data. The request may indicate the content data and an application server where the content data is accessible. The wireless network determines, based on predetermined conditions, that the content data will be cached or stored in a local data store associated with the wireless network. The content data may then be communicated on demand to a second communication terminal that is attached to the wireless network. | 07-25-2013 |
20130188599 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION TERMINAL TO RECEIVE CONTENT DATA FROM AN EDGE NODE - A wireless communication terminal receiving content data from a local data store is disclosed. A request, to a wireless network device, to get content data is sent by the wireless communication terminal. The request may indicate the content data and an application server where the content data is accessible. The content data is subsequently received from a local data store associated with an edge node of the wireless network. The wireless network device may have previously stored the content data in the local data store after predetermined conditions were satisfied to cache and store the content data in the local data store. | 07-25-2013 |
20130215850 | APPARATUS, METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING DATA TRANSMISSION - An apparatus for managing data transmission in a telecommunications system, including a buffer unit arranged to receive data from one or more sources of data and to forward the data to a transmitter for transmission. The buffer unit is configured to delay the transmission of the data by storing the data for a time before forwarding it to the transmitter. The buffer unit is also configured to forward the stored data to the transmitter for transmission when an amount of data stored in the buffer unit reaches a predefined threshold. | 08-22-2013 |
20130286827 | CONTROLLING DATA COMMUNICATION ACCORDING TO A TYPE OF THE DATA - A wireless network provides a communication bearer with mobile communications devices using an indication of a type of data packets communicated via the communication bearer. The data packets may have a relative priority indicated by the type of the data packets communicated via the communication bearer with respect to data packets communicated via other communication bearers. | 10-31-2013 |
20130286838 | INFRASTRUCTURE EQUIPMENT AND METHOD - A mobile communications network and infrastructure equipment are arranged to communicate data to mobile communications devices. The mobile communications network may establish a communications bearer between one of the mobile communications devices and one or more of the infrastructure equipment for communicating data packets for a communications session to the mobile communications device via the communications bearer. The infrastructure equipment is provided with an indication of a type of the data packets communicated via the communications bearer. Communication of the data packets is controlled via the communications bearer in accordance with a relative priority indicated by the type of the data packets communicated via the communications bearer with respect to data packets communicated via other communications bearers. | 10-31-2013 |
20130294241 | MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK, INFRASTRUCTURE EQUIPMENT, MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE AND METHOD - A mobile communications network communicating data to/from mobile communications devices includes a core network including plural infrastructure equipment, and a radio network including plural base stations with a wireless access interface communicating data to/from the mobile communications devices. The mobile communications network provides communications bearers on request to the mobile communications devices based on a relative type of data packets communicated via the communications bearers for supporting communications sessions, indications of the type of the data packets used to configure the communications bearers. The mobile communications network includes a control unit to determine the number of bearers of each of type of the communications bearers for plural predetermined types provided to the mobile communications devices within the mobile communications network, and to determine a state of the mobile communications network based on the number of each type of communications bearers for each of the plural predetermined types. | 11-07-2013 |
20130294365 | MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK DEVICE AND METHOD - A mobile communications device to communicate data to/from a mobile communications network, and to communicate an indication of a relative type of data packets for communication via a communications bearer for supporting a communications session of the mobile communications device, the indication used to configure the communications bearer, and to communicate the data packets via the communications bearer to the infrastructure equipment via the base stations in accordance with the indication, the communication of the data packets being controlled by the mobile communications network in accordance with the communicated indication. By providing the indication, such as an indication that the data packets are of low priority or are generated or being received by a machine type communication application, the mobile communications network can control the communication of the data packets from the communications bearer differently to data packets communicated via other communications bearer having a higher priority. | 11-07-2013 |
20130301558 | INFRASTRUCTURE EQUIPMENT AND METHOD - An infrastructure equipment forming part of a mobile communications network to communicate data to/from mobile communications devices. The infrastructure equipment receives an indication of a relative type of data packets for communication via a communications bearer supporting a communications session of a mobile communications device, the indication to configure the communications bearer, to provide the communications bearer from the mobile communications device based on the indication, and to control communication of the data packets via the communications bearer based on the indication. By providing the indication, such as an indication the data packets are of low priority or are generated or received by a machine type communication application, the mobile communications network can control communication of the data packets from the communications bearer differently to data packets communicated via other communications bearer having a higher priority. | 11-14-2013 |
20130301559 | MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK, INFRASTRUCTURE EQUIPMENT, MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE AND METHOD - A mobile communications network for communicating data to/from mobile communications devices, including a core network part including plural infrastructure equipment, and a radio network part including plural base stations communicating data to/from the mobile communications devices. The mobile communications device communicates an indication of a relative type of data packets for communication via a communications bearer for supporting a communications session of the mobile communications device, the indication used to configure the communications bearer, and provides the communications bearer from the mobile communications device to one or more of the infrastructure equipment via the base stations in accordance with the indication and to control the communication of the data packets via the communications bearer in accordance with the indication communicated via the communications bearer, to control the communication of the data packets from the communications bearer differently to data packets communicated via other communications bearer having a higher priority. | 11-14-2013 |
20130322274 | INFRASTRUCTURE EQUIPMENT AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING A CONGESTION STATE - An infrastructure equipment forming part of a mobile communications network. The mobile communications network communicates data to and/or from mobile communications devices. The infrastructure equipment receives an indication of one or more communications bearers provided by the mobile communications network on request to the mobile communications devices in accordance with a relative type of data packets communicated via the communications bearers for supporting communications sessions, the indications used to configure the communications bearers, to determine the number of bearers of each of the type of the communications bearers for plural pre-determined types provided to the mobile communications devices within the mobile communications network, and to determine a state of the mobile communications network in accordance with the number of each type of the communications bearers for each of the plurality of pre-determined types. | 12-05-2013 |
20130329654 | COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS AND METHOD - A communications system includes a mobile radio network including plural base stations to communicate data to/from mobile communications devices via a wireless access interface, and plural associated communications devices transmitting and receiving data with the base stations. Each associated communication device includes a same common identifier to establish communication sessions communicating data via the mobile radio network. The group of communications devices may communicate machine type communications for a particular application, for example in a vehicle, to report parameters that can be served by a separate communications device that reports periodically on the parameters detected by an associated sensor. With spatial proximity of the communications devices, each can receive control plane signalling data and accordingly communication of signalling data is as if broadcast to a local environment in which the group of communications devices are disposed, to save communications bandwidth proportional to a number of devices in the group. | 12-12-2013 |
20130343256 | INFRASTRUCTURE EQUIPMENT AND METHOD - An infrastructure equipment for forming part of a mobile radio network includes a transmit and receive unit, to transmit and receive data to and from mobile communications devices via a wireless access interface, and a controller processing requests for communications resources from the mobile communications devices. Plural associated communications devices are arranged to form a group, and each of the associated communications devices of the group includes a same common identifier, with respect to which communications sessions can be established to communicate data via the mobile radio network, and the controller is arranged in combination with the transmit and receive unit to respond to a request from one of the communications devices of the group to establish a communications bearer using the common identifier. | 12-26-2013 |
20140126489 | MANAGING OPERATING PARAMETERS FOR COMMUNICATION BEARERS IN A WIRELESS NETWORK - A wireless network having a network device to establish pre-configured shared communication bearers is disclosed. Each pre-configured shared communication bearer may communicate data to a mobile device, via a pre-configured shared radio bearer, using predetermined operating parameters. Each of the pre-configured shared communication bearers may also have a pre-defined quality of service. The predetermined operating parameters needed for the mobile device to communicate via the pre-configured shared radio bearer may be set before the mobile device has information to be communicated. | 05-08-2014 |
20140219179 | METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR COMMUNICATING CONTENT DATA TO A COMMUNICATIONS TERMINAL FROM A LOCAL DATA STORE - A mobile communications network includes a core network part including a plurality of infrastructure equipment, and a radio network part including a plurality of base stations for providing a wireless access interface for communicating data packets to or from communications terminals. The core network part or the radio network part includes a local data store having stored therein content data, which has been received from an applications server via the core network, and the mobile communications network is configured to receive a request to access the content from a communications terminal from the applications server, to identify that the content data is stored in the local data store, and to communicate the content data to the communications terminal from the local data store as if the content data had been communicated from the applications server. | 08-07-2014 |
20140302850 | Apparatus and Methods for Device to Device Communications - A terminal device for communicating in a cellular system is described. The terminal device comprises: at least one first transceiver arranged to communicate with a plurality of communication units; and at least one first signal processor, operably coupled to the at least one first transceiver and arranged to: communicate with a first communication unit in the cellular system in a first mode of operation when the terminal device is located within a coverage range of the at least one base station; and facilitate in a second mode of operation direct communications between at least one other terminal device and the first communication unit when the at least one other terminal device is located outside of the coverage range of the at least one base station. | 10-09-2014 |
20140321412 | PAGING OFF-LINE STATE TERMINALS - A mobile communications system includes a mobile communications network configured to transmit/receive data to/from communications terminals. The mobile communications network includes a virtual mobility manager configured to store at least part of context information of a communications terminal when the communications terminal enters an off-line state so that if a triggering event occurs when the communications terminal is in the off-line state, the virtual mobility manager can page the off-line communications terminal in the off-line state so that a communications bearer can be established with the communications terminal using the stored context information, for communicating the data after the communications terminal has moved to an attached state. | 10-30-2014 |
20150029967 | COMMUNICATIONS TERMINAL AND METHOD - A mobile communications network includes a core network including infrastructure equipment, and a radio network including plural base stations configured to provide a wireless access interface for communicating data to/from communications terminals. One base station can operate as a serving base station to one of the communications terminals, to establish one or more communications bearers for communicating user data to/from the communications terminal via the core network and the radio network, and co-operate with at least another of the base stations to communicate the user data to/from the communications terminal. The mobile communications network can monitor a state of a radio communications channel between the co-operating base station and the communications terminal, and upon predetermined conditions, establish a communications bearer from the core network to the co-operating base station for communicating the user data to the co-operating base station for transmitting the user data to the communications terminal. | 01-29-2015 |
20150031374 | MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK, INFRASTRUCTURE EQUIPMENT AND METHOD - A mobile communications network includes a core network including infrastructure equipment, and a radio network including plural base stations to provide a wireless access interface for communicating data to/from communications terminals. One base station operates as a serving base station to one of the communications terminals, to establish one or more communications bearers for communicating user data to/from the communications terminal via the core network and the radio network via the serving base station, and to co-operate with at least another base station to communicate the user data to/from the communications terminal. The mobile communications network can monitor a state of a radio communications channel between the co-operating base station and the communications terminal, and upon predetermined conditions, establish a communications bearer from the core network to the co-operating base station for communicating the user data to the co-operating base station transmitting the user data to the communications terminal. | 01-29-2015 |
20150146513 | Apparatus and Methods for Accessing a Data Network - A packet data network gateway, P-GW, is located in a second network for supporting control plane data in a wireless communications system that additionally comprises a first network having a first packet data network gateway, P-GW, operably couplable to the P-GW and a serving gateway, S-GW. The P-GW comprises a processor arranged to determine an operational status of at least one of: a backhaul link, first P-GW. In response to the processor determining that both of the backhaul link and the first P-GW are available, the processor is arranged to perform at least one of: trigger deferred signalling between the first network and at least one of a mobility management entity, MME, the S-GW; trigger user plane handling, monitor and build terminal device context information for a plurality of terminal devices being served with user plane data by the backhaul link of the second network. | 05-28-2015 |
20150146517 | Apparatus and Methods for Accessing a Data Network - A packet data network gateway, P-GW, is located in a second network for supporting control plane data in a wireless communications system that additionally comprises a first network having a first P-GW operably couplable to the P-GW, and a serving gateway, S-GW. The P-GW comprises a processor arranged to: monitor and build terminal device context information for a plurality of terminal devices being served with user plane data by the second network; and determine an operational status of at least one of: the backhaul link, first P-GW. In response to the processor determining that at least one of: the backhaul link, first P-GW, is unavailable, the processor is arranged to perform at least one of: terminate signalling between the first network and at least one of a mobility management entity, MME, the S-GW; defer signalling between the first network and at least one of the MME, the S-GW; perform at least some functionality of the first P-GW. | 05-28-2015 |
20150146519 | Apparatus and Methods for Supporting Control Plane Data - A wireless communications system supports control plane data and comprises: a first mobility management entity, MME; at least one second mobility management entity, MME; and a terminal device; wherein both the first MME and the at least one second MME are allocated to interoperate to support control plane data for the terminal device. | 05-28-2015 |
20150146520 | Wireless Communication System Comprising Apparatus and Methods for Accessing a Data Network - A wireless communications system supporting user plane data comprises: a first network having a first packet data network gateway (P-GW); a second network having a second P-GW operably coupled to the first network via a backhaul link; a serving gateway (S-GW) a base station; and a terminal device, wherein a single packet data network connection is created for the terminal device that traverses through the first P-GW, second P-GW, S-GW and base station. | 05-28-2015 |
20150146723 | Apparatus and Methods for Accessing a Data Network - A packet data network gateway, P-GW, is located in a second network for supporting user plane data to terminal devices in a wireless communications system that additionally comprises a first network having a first packet data network gateway, P-GW operably couplable to the P-GW. The P-GW comprises a processor arranged to: check a destination address of received packets from the first P-GW to determine whether the received packets are destined for any of the terminal devices, and in response thereto: extract one or more properties of said received packets if they are destined for any of the terminal devices served with user plane data; or discard said received packets if they are not destined for the terminal device(s). | 05-28-2015 |