03rd week of 2010 patent applcation highlights part 30 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20100014382 | MEASURING FAR FIELD SIGNATURE OF A SEISMIC SOURCE - To estimate a far-field signature of a seismic source having plural source elements, seismic receivers are provided to receive signals from the seismic source elements of the seismic source. Seismic receivers are dynamically associated with different seismic source elements over time, and the far-field signature of the seismic source is computed according to the measurement data taken by the seismic receivers. | 2010-01-21 |
20100014383 | Method and Apparatus for Attenuation Wind Noise in Seismic Data - A method and apparatus for use in seismic prospecting are disclosed. The method includes: attenuating coherent noise in a seismic data set generated from a sweep signal; and correlating the coherent noise-attenuated seismic data set to the sweep signal. The apparatus includes a program storage medium encoded with instructions that, when executed by a computing device perform the method and a computer programmed to perform the method. | 2010-01-21 |
20100014384 | Method for Building Velocity Models for Pre-Stack Depth Migration via the Simultaneous Joint Inversion of Seismic, Gravity and Magnetotelluric Data - A method for quantitatively evaluating and using multiple geophysical datasets and external constraints for performing velocity model building through simultaneous Joint Inversion and finalized at the improvement of seismic depth images in particularly difficult geology and hydrocarbon high-risk exploration areas is disclosed, which involved the development of techniques:
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20100014385 | SONAR WITH DEFORMABLE ANTENNA AND ASSOCIATED METHOD OF SIGNAL PROCESSING TO FORM A SYNTHETIC ANTENNA - A sonar system includes at least one transmitter and one flexible antenna including a plurality of sections articulated one after the other, each section being provided with at least one acoustic receiver. The system is equipped with positioning elements making it possible to determine the instantaneous position of each of the receivers, and calculation elements making it possible to reconstruct an image of the seabed by taking account of the instantaneous micromovements of each of the receivers. | 2010-01-21 |
20100014386 | SONAR SYSTEMS - A vessel-mountable integrated sonar system is provided. The vessel-mountable integrated sonar system comprises at least one imaging sonar data acquisition device and at least one processing system electronically and removably connected to the at least one imaging sonar data acquisition device, wherein the sonar data acquisition device preferably provides acoustic data to the processing system, producing sonar imageries utilizing the acoustic data, and wherein the system provides digital tilt and azimuth direction feedback for accurate geo-referencing of data to localize targets of interest. | 2010-01-21 |
20100014387 | System and Method for Automatic Detection of a Sonar Contact - Systems and methods are provided for automatically detecting sonar contacts. The system comprises a data analyzer that integrates the raw data from a plurality of sonar detectors over a predetermined period of time, thereby providing integrated data characterizing a sonar image on a sonar display. A Hough transform module is configured to employ a Hough transform algorithm that transforms at least a portion of the integrated data to detect a substantially straight line in the sonar image. | 2010-01-21 |
20100014388 | TIME INFORMATION OBTAINING DEVICE AND RADIO CLOCK - Disclosed is a time information obtaining device comprising: a reception section to receive a standard time radio wave; an input waveform data generation section to generate input waveform data, based on data having the unit of time length; an estimated waveform data generation section to generate estimated waveform data, wherein the estimated waveform data comprises the value in which each sample point is described by the plurality of bits, and has the same time length as the input waveform data, and comprises at least one code which configures the time code, and a waveform of the estimated waveform data is sequentially shifted by a predetermined sample; a correlation value calculation section to calculate a correlation value; a correlation value comparison section to compare the correlation value to calculate an optimal value; and a control section to specify a beginning position of a second in the time code. | 2010-01-21 |
20100014389 | Analogue electronic clock and motor control circuit - The present invention can rotationally drive a motor with main drive pulses corresponding to loads with the simple constitution without using a counter circuit. A control circuit, in driving a motor with a second main drive pulse, when a rotation detection signal which is indicative of the rotation of the motor is detected by a rotation detection circuit after a predetermined reference time elapses, continues rotational driving of the motor with the second main drive pulse, when the rotation detection signal is detected before the predetermined reference time elapses, changes the rotational driving of the motor with a first main drive pulse having a shorter pulse width than the second main drive pulse, and when the rotation detection signal is not detected, forcibly rotationally drives the motor with a correction drive pulse having a largest pulse width and, thereafter, rotationally drives the motor with the first main drive pulse. | 2010-01-21 |
20100014390 | Position sensitive rotatable DJ control device - The disclosure relates to a display for a device for manipulating audio in a disc jockey or similar application. A touch sensitive user rotatable member detects the position where the DJ touches the surface. Effects like needle dropping are possible for the first time without the use of a phonographic table or without a computer device which uses a phonographic turntable as a control input device. The display can show music as color coded concentric circles which represent tracks and/or record grooves. Color coded markers show current position of the music on the control surface and allows the user to set and use visual cue points. Functionality of the rotatable member can be dynamically mapped for unprecedented control. For example, the inner portion of the rotatable member can be used for needle dropping while the outer portion can be used for scratch effects. The device is capable of manipulating audio and video streams or a combination of the two. In addition, it can be used as a standard DJ control surface for scratching and the display can be used to create a beat synchronized light show or display custom messages. | 2010-01-21 |
20100014391 | Scalable Integrated High-Density Optical Data/Media Storage Delivery System - An apparatus and system for recording, playing, handling, and storing a plurality of media disks in a plurality of configurations and a device for moving any disk into and out of a media disk storage mechanism and into or out of a selected media player/recorder on demand, and a controller for directing operation of the device for moving the disks and controlling selection of operation of the media disk storage mechanism. | 2010-01-21 |
20100014392 | Disk changer device and disk holding method - A disk changer device including a disk changer mechanism having a drive that can reproduce a disk, a holding mechanism including at least two holding sections, where each of the holding sections can hold the disk, and a picker configured to transfer a disk inserted into the drive to any of the holding sections, a memory configured to store information about the reproduced disk and information about the date and time when the disk is reproduced as reproduction history information when the disk existing in the drive is reproduced, and a control unit configured to determine the position of each of the holding sections where a plurality of the disks held in the holding mechanism is held based on the reproduction history information, and let the disks be held at the determined holding positions is provided. | 2010-01-21 |
20100014393 | HIGH-DENSITY RECORDING MEDIUM AND RECORDING AND/OR REPRODUCING DEVICE THEREFOR - A high-density recording medium including a first surface and a second surface, the second surface being a light incident surface at a normal mounting condition, a clamping area, an information area including a recording layer provided adjacent to the second surface, a transition area extending between the clamping area and the information area, the transition area being defined from an end position of the clamping area to a beginning of the information area, and a slope being formed in the transition area on the first surface. Further, the slope is formed from the end position of the clamping area to a position placed at least a predetermined distance ahead of the start position of the information area, and a gap as a non-slanted area extends between the information area and a closer end of the slope thereto. | 2010-01-21 |
20100014394 | WRITE-ONCE-READ-MANY OPTICAL RECORDING MEDIUM AND RECORDING METHOD THEREFOR - A recording method including: recording on a write-once-read-many optical medium capable of recording and reproducing with a blue laser by CAV, ZCLV, or PCAV, wherein a laser emission pattern including a recording pulse comprises two or more different levels of recording power, and a laser emission time standardized by the laser emission pattern and reference clock is fixed regardless of a recording linear velocity. | 2010-01-21 |
20100014395 | Information recording medium, information recording apparatus and method, and computer program - An information recording medium such as DVD-R, DVD-RW or the like is provided with: an user information recording area in which user information can be recorded. The user information recording area has a pre-recorded area for preventing recording/reproduction of the user information, in an edge portion corresponding to a recording area portion in which reproduction control information for a read-only recording medium such as DVD-Video is recorded. | 2010-01-21 |
20100014396 | DRIVE APPARATUS, DRIVE METHOD, PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A drive apparatus includes n optical pickups, n control units, each controlling a corresponding one of the n optical pickups, and a communication unit that allows the n control units to communicate with one another. | 2010-01-21 |
20100014397 | OPTICAL DISC DRIVING DEVICE - An optical disc driving device includes a control circuit | 2010-01-21 |
20100014398 | Recording medium, method of recording identifcation information thereof, and recording/reproducing method thereof - The present invention provides a method of recording identification information in an optical disc, by which specified disc identification information can be uniformly applicable to efficiently cope with the recording/reproducing of the optical disc. The present invention includes the step of recording disc identification information in a management area of the optical disc wherein the disc identification information identifies a disc type identified according to a disc thickness. | 2010-01-21 |
20100014399 | INFORMATION REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - An information reproducer ( | 2010-01-21 |
20100014400 | Recording device and recording method, and computer program - A recording device ( | 2010-01-21 |
20100014401 | OPTICAL DISC RECORDING METHOD AND OPTICAL DISC - A recording method for an optical disc having at least three recording layers ( | 2010-01-21 |
20100014402 | Read-once record medium and a system with read protecting function - The present invention relates to a read-once record medium, comprising: a data substrate, having control data zone and a data zone, and said having pre-record data; a sensitive layer, disposed above said data substrate; a refractive layer, disposed above said sensitive layer; an adhesive layer, disposed above said refractive layer; and a transparent substrate, disposed above said adhesive layer; thereby, the structure of said sensitive layer or said data substrate will be changed when laser beams with specified power emitted from an optical storage device pass through the data substrate and focus on the sensitive layer, and the laser beams will be reflected by the sensitive layer and can not be recognized by the optical storage device. Furthermore, the present invention also provides a system with read protecting function. | 2010-01-21 |
20100014403 | METHOD AND APPARATUS OF DISCRIMINATING DIFFERENT TYPES OF OPTICAL DISCS - A method for discriminating different types of optical discs includes the steps of focusing a beam spot generated by a laser source on an optical disc, and rotating the optical disc; generating a radio frequency signal and a corresponding first signal of the radio frequency signal; comparing a peak-to-peak value of the corresponding first signal with a predetermined value; determining the optical disc as a high density optical disc when the peak-to-peak value of the first signal is smaller than the predetermined value; and, determining the optical disc as a low density optical disc when the peak-to-peak value of the first signal is greater than the predetermined value. | 2010-01-21 |
20100014404 | WRITING DEVICE, RECORD CARRIER AND METHOD OF WRITING INFORMATION BLOCKS, AND READING DEVICE FOR READING INFORMATION BLOCKS - Reading a partly written writable record carrier having a track structure for positioning the write head above unwritten areas of the track pattern by means of a reading device which positions the read head on the basis of written marks, yields problems when an isolated information block after an unwritten area must be read. A system is disclosed for writing and reading information blocks on a record carrier of a writable type such as a CD-RW or a DVD-RAM. The writing device is provided with status means for generating status information which is indicative of the fact that at least one area of the record carrier has been written, while the status information comprises initial-area information which is indicative of an uninterrupted written initial area which extends from the start of a track pattern area intended for writing information blocks. The status information can be fixed on the record carrier. A reading device is also described, in which the positioning is dependent on the status information. Reading instructions with addresses outside the initial area can be rejected or translated via an address translation table into addresses in the initial area. | 2010-01-21 |
20100014405 | Method for Evaluating Quality of Read Signal And Apparatus for Reading Information - A most probable path is selected from a number n (where n≧2) of paths of state transitions occurring from a first state S | 2010-01-21 |
20100014406 | RECORDING CONDITION ADJUSTING METHOD AND OPTICAL DISC APPARATUS - An optical disc apparatus according to the present invention includes a recording strategy adjusting section having an initial value setting section; an output level setting section; and a pulse width setting section. The initial value setting section sets initial values of pulse widths and output levels of a laser beam as a basic recording strategy. Also, the output level setting section adjusts output levels of the recording strategy with a plurality of first adjustment laser beams that are outputted by changing the output levels of the basic recording strategy. Also, the pulse width setting section adjusts the output levels of the recording strategy with a plurality of second adjustment laser beams that are outputted by fixing the output levels set by the initial value setting section, and changing the pulse widths of the basic recording strategy. | 2010-01-21 |
20100014407 | OPTICAL INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM, REPRODUCING DEVICE FOR OPTICAL INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM, AND REPRODUCING METHOD FOR OPTICAL INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM - In an optical information recording medium ( | 2010-01-21 |
20100014408 | TECHNIQUES FOR FORMING BURST CUTTING AREA MARK - A BCA mark is applied prior to molding of optical recording media. A stamper including a BCA code is formed. The stamper including the BCA code is used in the molding of optical recording discs. This technique can be used in manufacturing of read-only type discs, recordable discs, rewritable discs, hybrid discs, discs readable from both disc sides, discs having multiple information layers, high-density discs, etc. | 2010-01-21 |
20100014409 | HOLOGRAPHIC DATA STORING METHOD AND STORING DEVICE - A holographic data storing method includes the steps of: encoding original data to generate holographic data according to a codeword to symbol relation; and recording a hologram corresponding to the holographic data onto a holographic storage medium. In the codeword to symbol relation, a plurality of sample symbols corresponds to a plurality of codewords. Each of the sample symbols corresponds to a pattern having N*N pixels. There are M bright pixels in the N*N pixels, wherein N and M are positive integers and M is smaller than N*N. A hamming distance of the sample symbols is greater than or equal to 4, and a two-dimensional run-length of the sample symbols is greater than or equal to 2. | 2010-01-21 |
20100014410 | OPTICAL PICKUP AND OPTICAL DISK DEVICE - An optical pickup includes: a light source that emits a light beam; an object lens that condenses the light beam on a target recording layer of an optical disk; a lens moving unit; a condensing lens; a hologram element that diffracts, in diffracting a reflected light beam and separating it into reflected zeroth-order and first-order light beams, parts of the reflected first-order light beam in a first direction and sets them as first and second beams, diffracts parts of the reflected first-order light beam in a second direction and sets them as third and fourth beams; and a photodetector that receives the first and second beams and the third and fourth beams and generates light reception signals, and receives interlayer stray light of a part of the light beam reflected by the other recording layers other than the target recording layer and generates a stray light reception signal. | 2010-01-21 |
20100014411 | OPTICAL PICKUP DEVICE - A pickup device includes a diffraction grating | 2010-01-21 |
20100014412 | INFORMATION RECORDING/REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND METHOD - An information recording/reproducing device is provided with a recording medium with a recording surface, a plurality of probes that carry out at least either record processing or reproduction processing by scanning a plurality of information tracks on the recording surface, a position detecting means that detects a position of at least one information track by using the probe for every plural divided regions into which the recording medium is divided in a direction intersecting the plural information tracks and which contain at least one information track, and a track control means that controls tracking of the probe used for at least either record processing or reproduction processing for every plural divided regions. Thus, the device structure can be simplified. | 2010-01-21 |
20100014413 | METHOD OF MULTI-ANTENNA WIRELESS DATA EMISSION, EMITTER AND RECEIVER USING THE METHOD - A method and device in the domain of wireless communication, and more specifically coding and decoding schemes useful in the context of MIMO (Multiple Input Multiple Output) or MISO (Multiple Input Single Output) communications especially used in conjunction of OFDM-like transmission schemes. A space frequency block code applies some well chosen two by two space frequency block codes to each pair of frequencies κ and κ+N/2. The proposed SFBC keep the constant envelope property for each antenna while leading to a good performance by introducing some spatial diversity. | 2010-01-21 |
20100014414 | BRIDGE, SYSTEM, BRIDGE CONTROL METHOD AND PROGRAM RECORDING MEDIUM - A bridge according to an exemplary aspect of the invention comprises a BPDU-receiver which receives a BPDU packet of an STP (Spanning Tree Protocol) including failure information and an error-handler which performs error handling according to the failure information. | 2010-01-21 |
20100014415 | MOBILE ROUTER THAT MONITORS LINKS - A mobile router having a link monitor module is disclosed. The mobile router may be installed in a mobile vehicle and permit a local end-user to access wide area networks (e.g., the Internet) via the mobile router. The link monitor module may monitor the layer | 2010-01-21 |
20100014416 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ROUTING DATA IN A COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK - A network device includes a group of interfaces. Each interface is associated with at least one other interface of the group of interfaces and a group of network addresses. Each interface is configured to monitor at least one of the group of network addresses with which the each interface is associated or the at least one other interface with which the each interface is associated, and determine whether to logically shut down based on the monitoring. | 2010-01-21 |
20100014417 | METHOD AND APPARATUS OF RING NETWORK PROTECTION - A method of ring network protection is provided. A node in a ring network determines a section that suffers a fault and determines a timeslot of a service impacted by the fault on the node according to section ring formation information and service route information preconfigured on the node when trigger conditions of protection switching are fulfilled, and switches the service onto a protection channel that bypasses the section that suffers the fault, where: the section ring formation information lists the information about the sections included in a ring consecutively in a preset direction; and the information about the sections includes preassigned IDs of sections between adjacent nodes in the ring network; and the service route information lists the information about the trails that use the node as a source node and a sink node of the service in each specific timeslot. A network element device is also provided. The provided method and network element may shorten the service switching time, and improves the signal quality after switching. | 2010-01-21 |
20100014418 | Connection recovery device, method and computer-readable medium storing therein processing program - A connection information takeover unit in an active communication processing apparatus in the system sends connection information and a transmission sequence number of each data to be transmitted to a standby connection recovery device when a connection is established, and a connection information takeover unit in a standby communication processing apparatus retains the connection information and the latest transmission sequence number in a connection information storing unit. A dummy data sending unit of the communication processing apparatus which is switched to active because a failover occurred sends dummy data to a client, and if a transmission sequence number of a reply packet for the dummy data matches with the transmission sequence number in the connection information storing unit, a connection continuity determining unit notifies a communication processing unit that connection can be continued. | 2010-01-21 |
20100014419 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR IMPROVING TRANSPORT CONTROL PROTOCOL PERFORMANCE USING PATH RECOVERY NOTIFICATION OVER WIRELESS NETWORK - Provided are an apparatus and method for improving transmission control protocol (TCP) performance using path recovery notification over a wireless network. The apparatus includes: a path recovery manager which detects a mobile host recovered from a temporary disconnection state and then outputs a detection signal to notify the detection result; a path recovery notification manager which receives the detection signal and generates an ACK (acknowledgement) packet to inform a transmitting end that the mobile host is recovered; and a first packet transceiver which transmits/receives the generated ACK packet and a data packet. Accordingly, a temporary disconnection state of a wireless network is explicitly informed to a transmitting end so as to transmit only lost packets without performing unnecessary congestion control, thereby improving TCP performance. | 2010-01-21 |
20100014420 | Lightweight Application Classification for Network Management - Managing network traffic to improve availability of network services by classifying network traffic flows using flow-level statistical information and machine learning estimation, based on a measurement of at least one of relevance and goodness of network features. Also, determining a network traffic profile representing applications associated with the classified network traffic flows, and managing network traffic using the network traffic profile. The flow-level statistical information includes packet-trace information and is available from at least one of Cisco NetFlow, NetStream or cflowd records. The classification of network flows includes tagging packet-trace flow record data based on defined packet content information. The classifying of network flows can result in the identification of a plurality of clusters based on the measurement of the relevance of the network features. Also, the classification of network traffic can use a correlation-based measure to determine the goodness of the network features. | 2010-01-21 |
20100014421 | SPECULATIVE CREDIT DATA FLOW CONTROL - A method of speculative credit data flow control includes defining a low watermark value as a function of a number of open buffers in a receiving unit; receiving a data packet from a sending unit; determining whether the data packet includes a packet delay indicator; defining a first speculative credit value responsive to receiving the packet delay indicator; defining a second speculative credit value as a function of the first speculative credit value added to a regular credit value; generating a flow control packet including the second speculative credit value; and sending the flow control packet to the sending unit. | 2010-01-21 |
20100014422 | Priority-Based Admission Control in a Network with Variable Channel Data Rates - A method for priority-based admission control in a network, comprises receiving an admission request for transmitting an information flow to a network through a communication channel and determining an admissible region within a range of a channel data rate of a communication channel for an information flow in response to a priority of the information flow, where the priority of the information flow is one of a plurality of priorities of information flow. The admissible region is one of a plurality of admissible regions within the channel data rate range that correspond to different ones of the plurality of priorities of information flow, respectively, and each of the plurality of admissible regions within the channel data rate range is useable for transmitting information flow with a respective one of the plurality of priorities. Further included in the method is determining an available channel data rate of the communication channel for receiving the information flow by the network, and granting the admission request for the information flow after determining that the available channel data rate of the communication channel is within the admissible region of the channel data rate range. | 2010-01-21 |
20100014423 | Transmission in a Shared Medium Having Different Access Modes - A method of controlling access in a telecommunication network in which a communication medium, such as a set of frequencies, time slots, or codes, is shared among a plurality of mobile units. Transmissions from the mobile units utilize different access modes, such as a direct access mode and a scheduled access mode. Additionally, the transmissions are divided into different communication types, each having an associated priority. A mode access control unit determines for each priority, which access mode to utilize for the associated communication type. Mobile units having data to transmit access the shared communication medium utilizing the access mode determined for the priority of the communication type to which the data belongs. | 2010-01-21 |
20100014424 | DISCOVERING NETWORK TOPOLOGY FROM ROUTING INFORMATION - A method for inferring network link topology includes receiving an address of a seed node in a network, initializing a set of links and monitors of the network, refining, iteratively beginning at the seed node, the set of links and monitors of the network, wherein a local topology of links is inferred from routing information of a current node and a remote topology of links is inferred from routing information of the set of monitors, wherein the set of monitors is created from the local topology of links, and outputting the topology of links including the local and remote topology of links as a topology of the network. | 2010-01-21 |
20100014425 | METHOD FOR BALANCING OF MODEM LOAD - A method for achieving load balance of a modem ( | 2010-01-21 |
20100014426 | METHOD TO BALANCE TRAFFIC LOAD BETWEEN NEARBY LTE/WiMAX CELLS GROUPED INTO INNER AND BORDER CONSTELLATIONS - The embodiments disclose a method for balancing traffic load between nearby cells of a mobile radio communication network, e.g. WiMAX Forum stage 2, 3 specifications or 3GPP UMTS Long Term Evolution (LTE), where cells are configured as peer network nodes interconnected by a transport network, e.g. an IP backbone preferably with multicast capability. In a preliminary off line step a) nearby cells are grouped into inner and border constellations. The first ones include group of nearby cells, not necessarily hosted by the same base station site, and belonging to a well defined geographic area, which are characterized by a common target utilization and by a common guard threshold for traffic load measured value. The second ones include the set of cells which are at the border between two inner constellations; target utilization and guard threshold are not defined, instead and cells actually belong to more than one inner constellation and have visibility over their target utilization and guard threshold parameters. Successively, in each constellation are executed the following on line steps: b) among all cells are exchanged their actual and residual traffic load status; c) all cells calculate the average actual traffic load into the constellation and compare it to their actual traffic load; d) cells with actual traffic load over the average book unreserved adjacent cells with the lowest actual traffic load and the highest residual traffic load as targets for traffic offloading; e) each booking cell command a fraction of its mobile terminals to execute handovers towards respective target cells accepting to be reserved; f) the reserved cells are released. Border constellation cells are enabled to trigger traffic offloading only when the average actual traffic load of the neighbor constellation is lower than its target utilization parameter. | 2010-01-21 |
20100014427 | ARBITRATION SCHEME FOR AN OPTICAL BUS - A method of arbitrating data transmissions to prevent data collisions in an optical data interconnect system including a transmitting node, a plurality of receiving nodes, and one or more remaining nodes connected through an optical data channel. The method involves transmitting a transmission request signal from the transmitting node over an arbitration channel corresponding to the transmitting node, monitoring, at the transmitting node, a plurality of arbitration channels corresponding to each of the plurality of receiving nodes and the one or more remaining nodes at the transmitting node for a predetermined period of time, determining a start time for a data transmission from the transmitting node based on the monitored signals to prevent a data collision, and initiating a data transmission of a data signal from the transmitting node over the optical data channel at the determined start time. | 2010-01-21 |
20100014428 | SWITCHING DEVICE - A switching device comprising at least one ingress port and at least one egress port. The switching device is arranged to receive data packets through said at least one ingress port and to forward received data packets to respective ones of said at least one egress port. The switching device further comprises a primary buffer arranged to store data packets received via at least one of said at least one ingress ports and a secondary buffer associated with the primary buffer. The switching device is adapted to select a data packet from said primary buffer and if but only if said secondary buffer satisfies a least one first predetermined criterion, transfer said selected data packet to said secondary buffer. | 2010-01-21 |
20100014429 | METHOD OF REPORTING MEASUREMENT INFORMATION IN PACKET BASED ON CELLULAR SYSTEM - Disclosed is a method for efficiently reporting measurement information required for handover in active-state terminals executing a power-saving operation in a packet-based communication system. The method includes the steps of: (a) receiving a discontinuous reception (DRX) period, a discontinuous transmission (DTX) period, and a measurement information report parameter that are decided by a base station; and (b) measuring channel quality according to a measurement information report period included in the measurement information report parameter, and reporting measurement information formed based on the measurement information report parameter by using radio resources allocated by the base station. | 2010-01-21 |
20100014430 | RESOURCE ALLOCATION METHOD AND BASE STATION DEVICE - There are disclosed a resource allocation method and a base station device for realizing an effective resource allocation for reducing delay time and overhead. In this device, when a base station ( | 2010-01-21 |
20100014431 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING AUTOMATED PROCESSING OF A NETWORK SERVICE ALARM - A method and apparatus for providing automatic processing of a software defined network alarm or an integrated services digital network alarm are disclosed. For example, the method receives a trouble ticket for an SDN service or an ISDN service, and retrieves at least one of: a calling to number, a calling from number, one or more facility identifiers associated one or more facilities, or one or more channel identifiers related to the trouble ticket. The method then retrieves data for one or more network outages for the one or more facilities. | 2010-01-21 |
20100014432 | METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING UNDESIRABLE FEATURES AMONG COMPUTING NODES - One embodiment of the present invention provides a system for identifying undesirable features in a network of computers. During operation, the system detects an anomaly associated with a node in the network. Next, the system identifies one or more features which are associated with the anomaly. The system then updates the identified features. Next, the system communicates the information corresponding to updated features to at least one other node in the network. The system then receives information indicating a correlation between the updated features and the anomaly from at least one other node in the network. Next, the system correlates the updated features with the anomaly based on the received information. The system subsequently produces a result which indicates a correlation between the updated features and the anomaly. | 2010-01-21 |
20100014433 | METHOD FOR PROCESSING MULTIPLE ACTIVE DEVICES IN STACKING SYSTEM AND STACKING MEMBER DEVICE - The present invention discloses a method for processing multiple active devices in a stacking system. In the method, each active device in a stacking system exchanges unique identity information with any another active device through a preconfigured Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) session when a stacking link in the stacking system is in failure, determines an active priority of its own by comparing unique identity information of its own with the unique identity information received; and the active device stops providing services as an active device when determining that the active priority of its own is not the highest priority. The present invention also discloses a member device in the stacking system. The present invention can solve the collision of multiple Active devices, and is applicable to both a stacking system including two member devices and a stacking system including more than two member devices. | 2010-01-21 |
20100014434 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SENDING FEEDBACK FOR A DOWNLINK SHARED SERVICE AND ESTIMATING A NUMBER OF WIRELESS TRANSMIT/RECEIVE UNITS - A method and an apparatus for sending a signal on a contentious feedback channel for a downlink shared service and for estimating a number of wireless transmit/receive units (WTRUs) are disclosed. When a transmission criterion associated with a physical random access feedback channel (P-RAFCH) is satisfied, a physical resource is randomly selected among a plurality of physical resources assigned for the P-RAFCH and a pre-configured signal is sent using the selected physical resource. A Node-B receives the pre-configured signal from a plurality of WTRUs and calculates a number of the WTRUs based on a number of used physical resources. The transmission criterion is at least one of successful reception of a data packet on a downlink physical channel, successful reception of a data block on a data service, reception of a signaling command, occurrence of a measurement event, and failure to receive a transmission after a specified number of times. | 2010-01-21 |
20100014435 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRACKING ALARMS IN A PACKET NETWORK - A system and method for locating failures in a metro Ethernet network. Packets are communicated from a maintenance end point through a plurality of maintenance entities. An alarm is generated at a maintenance entity in response to determining the packets are not communicated through a next ME. The alarm indicates the location of the next ME. The alarm is sent back through the one or more of the plurality of maintenance entities to a sending MEP in response to detecting the alarm. | 2010-01-21 |
20100014436 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING UPDATES ON ACCESS NETWORK CAPABILITY IN AN IP MULTIMEDIA SYSTEM NETWORK - Updates on access network capability are provided to an IP Multimedia System (IMS) network. A User Equipment (UE) that is connected to the access network initiates a communication session with the IMS network by sending a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) registration request to the IMS network. The SIP registration request from the UE includes a P-Access-Network-Info (PANI) header or an Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) header, having a tag that includes current information regarding one or more capabilities of the access network to which the UE is currently connected. A triggering event, e.g., a change in Quality of Service, signals the IMS network to modulate service provisions in the IMS network according to the information concerning the access network capabilities that were provided in the PANI header. | 2010-01-21 |
20100014437 | METHODS FOR BUS DATA TRANSMISSION AND SYSTEMS UTILIZING THE SAME - A method for data transmission in a device coupled to a host via a bus is provided. A sequence of data packets are received from the host and the received data packets are stored into a buffering unit of the device. It is then determined whether a predetermined error has occurred. When the predetermined error has occurred, the buffering unit of the device is locked to stop receiving the data packets. Thereafter, the buffering unit of the device is unlocked according to an unlock request from the host to resume receiving subsequent data packets. | 2010-01-21 |
20100014438 | METHOD AND TERMINAL FOR TRANSMITTING UPLINK DATA - Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method for transmitting uplink Ethernet data in a coaxial network, a Coaxial Network Unit (CNU) and a Coaxial Line Terminal (CLT) applying the method. In the method, the CNU determines a transmission path loss between the CNU and the CLT, determines a transmission level for transmitting uplink data according to the transmission path loss, and transmits the uplink data by using the determined transmission level. The present invention ensures the security of data uplink transmission in an Ethernet Passive Coaxial Network (EPCN) system in essence and dramatically increases service quality. | 2010-01-21 |
20100014439 | NODE OF A DISTRIBUTED COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, NODE AND MONITORING DEVICE COUPLED TO SUCH COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The present invention relates to a node in distributed communication system operating under a time triggered protocol, further it relates to distributed communication system and to a monitoring device coupled to such node of a communication system. To provide a node in a distributed communication system, a distributed communication system and a monitoring device increasing the error detection and reducing complexity for providing a high availability for systems which require a non 100% fail safe solution a node is proposed comprising: a communication controller ( | 2010-01-21 |
20100014440 | BANDWIDTH MONITORING METHOD AND ITS DEVICE - A bandwidth monitoring device for use in a network for transferring priority packets in preference to non priority packets as far as the amount of the priority packets is within a contract bandwidth established between a network user and a network operator, comprising a bandwidth check result decision unit for detecting whether the bandwidth of the priority packets is less than the contract bandwidth, and a DSCP decision unit for determining that a non priority packet may be transferred as a priority packet when the bandwidth of the priority packets is less than the contract bandwidth thereby to sufficiently use the contract bandwidth. | 2010-01-21 |
20100014441 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR STRATEGIC NETWORK PLANNING - A system and method for strategic network planning includes a service forecast module that determines a forecasted service need for additional telecommunication network services. A network equipment module is in communication with the service forecast module. The network equipment module is operable to determine an equipment need for telecommunications network equipment in response to the determined forecasted service need. The equipment need includes a list of equipment that is desired to meet the forecasted service need. A task module is also in communication with the network equipment module. The task module is operable to determine task needs in response to the determined equipment need. The task needs include a list of tasks that need to be completed to meet the equipment need. A project module is also in communication with the task module. The project module is operable to calculate a project start date. The project start date is calculated in response to the determined task needs. The project module is further operable to automatically initiate at least one task by the project start date. | 2010-01-21 |
20100014442 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR LOOP PREVENTION IN COMMUNICATION NETWORKS - A method and apparatus route data packets in communication network. A current routing topology of the network is analyzed and a digest value representing the current routing topology is determined. The digest value is encapsulated within the data packet. The data packet is forwarded according to the current routing topology. | 2010-01-21 |
20100014443 | Methods and Systems for Location Estimation - A network operating center for a network comprising known-location and unknown-location nodes can be configured to receive from each unknown-location node estimates of the distances from that node to each of its neighbor nodes. The network controller can then choose an initial location estimate for each unknown-location node and compute distances from the initial location estimates to the corresponding neighbor nodes. The network operating center can then choose subsequent location estimates of the unknown-location nodes by minimizing an error criterion based on a comparison of the received neighbor node distance estimates with the computed neighbor node distances. | 2010-01-21 |
20100014444 | ADAPTIVE MESSAGE ROUTING FOR MOBILE AD HOC NETWORKS - Domains are formed in a mobile ad hoc network by exchanging topology update messages among neighboring nodes, each message including the node coverage of the originating node. The node having an optimum coverage of its neighbors becomes a domain lead (DL) node, and nodes within hearing distance or range of the DL node form a network domain. Each domain node, including the DL, selects a set of bridge nodes (BNs) that can link the domain node to nodes in corresponding neighboring domains. All domain lead nodes in the network exchange messages to inform one another of the nodes contained in their respective domains. A node in one domain seeking a route for a message destined to a node in another domain, may send a route discovery (RDisc) message to the DL node of the inquiring node's domain. A responsive route resolution (RRes) message is returned to the inquiring node. | 2010-01-21 |
20100014445 | ADDRESS UPDATING METHOD, CORRESPONDING MOBILE TERMINAL AND NODE - Disclosed is a technique providing an address updating method capable of transmitting a binding update message while suppressing bandwidth dissipation and a mobile node, a proxy node and a management node for use in this method. This technique comprises a step in which a mobile node generates a single message including needed information at the registration of a changed address in a management node in a state associated with a plurality of home addresses and transmits the generated message to the management node, and a step in which the management node updates an address of a destination of the mobile node on the basis of the received message. | 2010-01-21 |
20100014446 | METHOD OF GENERATING DATA BLOCK IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method of generating a data block in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes preparing a first upper data block, a second upper data block and a third upper data block and generating a lower data block comprising a header, the first upper data block, the second upper data block and the third upper data block, the header comprising a first length indicator and a second length indicator, wherein the first length indicator indicates the length of the first upper data block and the second length indicator indicates the length of the second upper data block. Data rate can be improved by reducing the size of a header of data blocks. | 2010-01-21 |
20100014447 | SYSTEM FOR OFFERING MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICE USING INTERNET NETWORK WITH UTP CABLE - Provided is a system for providing mobile telecommunication services using an Internet network built with a UTP cable. The system includes a main unit and a plurality of sub units. The main unit includes a plurality of input ports respectively connected to corresponding distributing ports of the switching hubs through UTP cables, is connected to an external mobile telecommunication base station through a wireless link, combines Internet signals transmitted from the distributing ports of the switching hubs with mobile telecommunication signals transmitted from the mobile telecommunication state through a wireless link. Each sub unit includes an input port connected to corresponding one of the output ports of the main unit through an UTP cable, separates the combined signal from the output port of the main unit into an Internet signal and a mobile telecommunication signal. | 2010-01-21 |
20100014448 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PARALLEL COMMUNICATION WITH LEGACY WLAN RECEIVERS - A method for parallel communication with wireless local area network (WLAN) receivers is described. A parallel transmission is started. A first MAC protocol data unit (MPDU) is sent to a first WLAN receiver. An acknowledgment (ACK) request is sent to the first WLAN receiver. An ACK is received from the first WLAN receiver. | 2010-01-21 |
20100014449 | Idle state management - Apparatus and systems, as well as methods and articles, may operate to enter an idle state of a wireless device for a selected amount of time responsive to a combined clear channel assessment indication. | 2010-01-21 |
20100014450 | METHOD OF TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING CONTROL INFORMATION FOR POINT-TO-MULTIPOINT MULTIMEDIA MULTICAST SERVICE - A method of receiving broadcast information from a network in a wireless communication system is disclosed. More specifically, a mobile terminal receives information of a specified number of groups and also receives a plurality of messages according to the information of the specified number of groups, wherein each message corresponds to each time interval. Furthermore, the mobile terminal acquires the broadcast information from the received plurality of messages. | 2010-01-21 |
20100014451 | PACKET DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM AND PACKET DISTRIBUTION METHOD - Provided is a technique for switching a session between a terminal and a network to a session using a plurality of peripheral terminals having respective functions, by considering the load on the distribution side system and distributing a packet to the plurality of peripheral terminals. This application for relaying a packet transmitted from a distribution node via a communication device in response to a request from a terminal to a relay destination peripheral terminal that becomes a relay destination, characterized in comprising: data acquiring means for decapsulating the packet encapsulated by the communication device, thereby to acquire a payload data; outputting means for outputting the acquired data by the data acquiring means to a predetermined reproduction function; and relay processing means for, based upon header information being contained in the decapsulated packet, relaying the decapsulated packet to the relay destination peripheral terminal. | 2010-01-21 |
20100014452 | COMMUNICATION CONTROL APPARATUS - A communication control apparatus controls radio communications with other communication device through a relay device. The communication control apparatus includes a transmission control unit that notifies a data transmission to the relay device, and performs the data transmission to the relay device when the transmission control unit receives a response to the notification from the relay device indicating that the data transmission is possible, and stops a data transmission when the transmission control unit receives a response to a notification made by another communication device from the relay device, a collision conjecture unit that conjectures a collision of frames at the data transmission in accordance with a predetermined condition, and a threshold value control unit that sets a threshold value to determine an assertion or a negation of the transmission control unit in accordance with a result of the conjecture of the collision. | 2010-01-21 |
20100014453 | COOPERATIVE MAC FOR RATE ADAPTIVE RANDOMIZED DISTRIBUTED SPACE-TIME CODING - Data is transmitted from a source wireless device to a destination wireless device by: (a) discovering node-to-node wireless channel conditions in a wireless network; (b) determining at least one of (A) wireless relay devices, (B) modulation schemes, and (C) transmission rates using the discovered node-to-node channel conditions; (c) signaling at least some of the determined information to the determined wireless relay devices; (d) receiving, with each of the wireless relay devices, a transmission of the data from the source wireless device; and (e) transmitting, with each of the wireless relay devices, a randomized, space-time encoded, part of the received data, to the destination device using the signaled at least some of the determined information | 2010-01-21 |
20100014454 | Method of Cell Reselection in a Wireless Telecommunications Device Operative With a Plurality of Radio Access Networks - Apparatus and a method of cell reselection in a wireless telecommunications device operative with a plurality of radio access networks are disclosed. The method comprises, when the device is camped on a first radio access network: ranking cells in a neighbouring list according to cell reselection criteria; considering for cell reselection a cell in the neighbouring list; when the cell in the list is a cell of a second radio access network different from the first radio access network, applying an algorithm for cell reselection from the second radio access network to the first radio access network; and when the algorithm as applied would result in reselection to the first radio access network, considering for cell reselection another cell in the list. | 2010-01-21 |
20100014455 | ACCESS NETWORK SELECTION - A network, computer readable medium, and method for ranking a plurality of available access networks by a provider, the provider serving a user equipment and the user equipment being configured to connect to at least one of the plurality of available access networks. The method includes receiving a selection request at a selection entity of the provider, where the selection request includes a vector parameter P that includes required characteristics of a data flow for the user equipment, sending from the selection entity a capability request, including the vector parameter P, to the plurality of available access networks, receiving at the selection entity a capability response from the plurality of available access networks, wherein each capability response includes a normalized value expressing a capability of a corresponding available access network to provide the required characteristics of the data flow, and generating a ranking list of the available access networks based on the received normalized values. | 2010-01-21 |
20100014456 | Method and Apparatus for Use in a Communications Network - A method and apparatus in a gateway node of a telecommunications network for receiving frames from a source node such as a Radio Network Controller (RNC) and forwarding the frames with correct sequencing and timing to a destination node in an IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) network. Upon determining that a potential or actual discontinuity in frame numbering has occurred, the apparatus sends a discontinuity indication toward the destination node. The indication may be included in the first frame subsequent to the discontinuity. The destination node is thus made aware that the frame numbering may not be reliable. | 2010-01-21 |
20100014457 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CARRIER SENSE MULTIPLE ACCESS WITH COLLSION AVOIDANCE (CSMA/CA) WITH DIRECTIONAL TRANSMISSION - Aspects of a method and system for carrier sense multiple access with collision avoidance (CSMA/CA) with directional transmission are presented. Aspects of the system may include a communicating device (DEV), which transmits a portion of a PDU utilizing omnidirectionally transmitted signals and a subsequent portion of the PDU utilizing directionally transmitted signals. In an exemplary system the communicating DEV may transmit a frame, which represents a physical layer PDU. The frame may comprise a physical layer convergence procedure (PLCP) preamble that is transmitting utilizing omnidirectionally transmitted signals (omni preamble), a PLCP header that is transmitted utilizing omnidirectionally transmitted signals (omni header), a PLCP preamble that is transmitted utilizing directionally transmitted signals (directional preamble) and a physical layer service data unit (PSDU) field, or data, field, which is transmitted utilizing directionally transmitted signals (directional data). In another exemplary system, the communicating DEV may transmit PDUs utilizing directional signal transmission. | 2010-01-21 |
20100014458 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ESTABLISHING A DIRECT LINK ON THE HIGH THROUGHPUT CHANNEL OF A MULTI-RATE CHANNEL WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK - A system and method for wireless communication over multi-rate channels are disclosed. One embodiment of the system includes a first wireless device; a second wireless device; and an access point that can communicate over high-rate and low-rate channels. One or more of the first and second wireless devices and the access point can include neighbor information on the wireless stations in the wireless network. One or more of the first and second wireless devices and the access point may be configured to transmit a frame in an attempt to establish a direct link over the first channel between the first and second stations. Before transmitting the frame, the one or more of the first and second wireless devices and the access point may determine whether a direct link can be established over the first channel between the first and second stations, based at least partly on the neighbor information. This scheme can significantly reduce time wasted for unsuccessful direct link setup attempts for the high-rate channel transmissions. | 2010-01-21 |
20100014459 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING DATA SERVICES IN A MULTI-PROCESSOR COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT - Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate enhanced data service functionality for data services operating in a multi-processor computing environment. As described herein, respective processors and/or other components can be utilized to form a Smart Peripheral Subsystem (SPS). As further described herein, the SPS can operate in association with a modem processor and an application processor at a mobile computing device in order to reduce loading at the application processor and improve memory usage efficiency. In the case of a mobile computing device sharing a network connection with a tethered computing device, the SPS can couple a modem interface associated with the mobile computing device and an interface through which the disparate computing device is tethered to the mobile computing device such that operations such as Layer 2 (L2) framing and/or de-framing, Network Address Translation (NAT), or the like can be offloaded to the SPS under various circumstances. | 2010-01-21 |
20100014460 | SENSOR NETWORK MAC SYSTEM FOR MULTIHOP COMMUNICATION - Provided is a method of synchronizing time for a multihop sensor network. According to the method, receiving nodes accurately synchronize time by adding a delay transmission time value to a beacon frame in a beacon mode, or by using a time synchronization frame and time synchronization acknowledgement frame containing time information and superframe structure information in a non-beacon mode. Accordingly, a mesh topology is supported, and a media access control (MAC) structure having high reliability and low delay time is provided. | 2010-01-21 |
20100014461 | System and Method for Creating Multiple Mobility Profiles per Subscriber in Wireless Communications Systems - A system and method for creating multiple mobility profiles per subscriber in wireless communications systems is provided. A method includes receiving a request for service from a terminal, sending a request for authorization of the terminal to a server, receiving, in response to the request for authorization, an indication that the terminal is authorized, and granting access to the terminal. The indication includes a mobility classification associated with the terminal. The mobility classification is based on the terminal's operating conditions. | 2010-01-21 |
20100014462 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RECOGNIZING MULTICAST AND BROADCAST SERVICE REGION IN BROADBAND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and an apparatus for recognizing a Multicast and Broadcast Service (MBS) region in a broadband wireless communication system are provided. In the method, whether a next MBS MAP message transmission point of a first frame and an MBS data burst transmission point indicated by MBS burst assignment information of a second frame match with each other in a third frame is determined. When matching with each other in the third frame, a control message including information for determining a starting point of an MBS region is generated. The generated control message is transmitted during one of the first and second frames. | 2010-01-21 |
20100014463 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, WIRELESS TERMINAL STATION, WIRELESS BASE STATION, AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD - A first wireless terminal station transmits beam transmission direction identification information in all directions. A second wireless terminal station receives the transmission direction identification information, combines reception direction identification information and the transmission direction identification information, and transmits directivity direction combination information to a wireless base station. The first and the second wireless terminal stations form directional beams in directions indicated by the directivity direction combination information to thereby perform a direct communication. | 2010-01-21 |
20100014464 | COMMUNICATION METHOD, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, HOME AGENT, AND MOBILE NODE - The present invention provides a technique to prevent the generation of a large number of binding update messages in an overlay network when a mobile node changes connection points. According to this technique, in a communication system where a home agent HA | 2010-01-21 |
20100014465 | MOBILITY MANAGEMENT METHOD AND NETWORK DEVICE - A mobility management method includes: notifying, at a mobile terminal, an edge node of a terminal function indicating that the mobile terminal has a Mobile IP client function; instructing, at the edge node, the mobile terminal to perform an operation for mobility management by using not an MIP function but an IP function when the edge node has a PMIP client function; performing, at the mobile terminal, the operation for mobility management by using the IP function in response to the instruction from the edge node; and performing, the edge node, the operation for mobility management by using the PMIP client function. | 2010-01-21 |
20100014466 | Method and a Device for Improved Status Reports - The invention discloses a method ( | 2010-01-21 |
20100014467 | OPERATING METHOD OF A USER TERMINAL SUPPORTING HIGH SPEED DOWNLINK PACKET ACCESS - An operating method of a user equipment supporting HSDPA, comprising: a user equipment sending a message carrying information indicating the user terminal's access capability; the user equipment receives data on carriers allocated by RAN. The present invention enables RAN to learn the user equipment's capability for receiving carriers and to allocate radio resource to the user equipment according to the learning, thereby realizing the user equipment operating smoothly with RAN. | 2010-01-21 |
20100014468 | METHOD OF TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING WIRELESS RESOURCE INFORMATION - A method of transmitting and receiving radio resource information is disclosed, by which a mobile terminal is able to quickly access a mobile communication system. The present invention includes transmitting a paging message to locate a specific mobile terminal by including information for a radio resource allocated to the mobile terminal in the paging message, receiving a response signal for the paging message transmitted according to the information for the radio resource, and performing a connection to the mobile terminal according to the response signal. | 2010-01-21 |
20100014469 | NodeB and Method for Transmitting Control and Scheduling Information - The present invention discloses a method for transmitting control and scheduling information. The method comprises an eNodeB transmitting control and scheduling information unable to be beamformed in a DwPTS. The control and scheduling information unable to be beamformed is switched from the downlink service slot to the DwPTS and then transmitted, so that the efficiency of time and frequency transmission is improved, the design complexity of the transmitter is reduced, the capacity of the radio access system may be improved and the design of the receiver may be simplified. The present invention also discloses a NodeB. | 2010-01-21 |
20100014470 | Method and Apparatus for Access Selection in a Multiaccess Communications System - The present invention relates to communications systems comprising multiple access technologies, and more especially it relates to access technology allocation of communications in such communications systems. Particularly, it relates to allocation of a plurality of communication flows to one or more of a plurality of access technologies avail able in the communications system. Access selection based upon stored one or more preference values is disclosed. | 2010-01-21 |
20100014471 | FREQUENCY REUSING METHOD IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND RADIO ACCESS STATION SYSTEM FOR THE SAME - A frequency reusing method in a wireless communication system including a coverage region, which has first, second and third regions, and a radio access station (RAS) transmitting a traffic to a portable subscriber station (PSS) in the coverage region, comprises (a) transmitting the traffics by assigning an identical frequency band to the first, second and third regions during a first interval; (b) transmitting the traffics by assigning the identical frequency band to the first region during a second interval; (c) transmitting the traffics by assigning the identical frequency band to the second region during a third interval; and (d) transmitting the traffics by assigning the identical frequency band to the third region during a fourth interval. | 2010-01-21 |
20100014472 | WIRELESS NETWORK WITH CONTENTION AND CONTENTION-FREE PERIODS - A wireless network ( | 2010-01-21 |
20100014473 | CQI REPORT METHOD, RADIO RESOURCE ALLOCATION METHOD, BASE STATION APPARATUS, AND USER EQUIPMENT - A CQI report method disclosed that includes a step in which the user equipment reports CQI information of top N resource block(s) having channel quality higher than the rest of the resource block(s) and a resource block number(s) of the top N resource block(s) to the base station at CQI report timings designated by the base station; and a step in which, when, for example, a resource block(s) whose CQI information has already been reported in any of the latest K report timings is included in the top N resource block(s), the user equipment excludes the resource block(s) and reports the CQI information of a resource block having the next highest channel quality indicator and the resource block number of the resource block to the base station. | 2010-01-21 |
20100014474 | APPARATUS FOR AND METHOD OF TRANSMITTING AN UPLINK CONTROL CHANNEL - A user apparatus which is used in a communications system in which a synchronous or non-synchronous ARQ is performed is disclosed. The user apparatus includes a unit which receives a downlink control channel; a unit which prepares an uplink data channel; a unit which prepares an uplink control channel accompanying the uplink data channel; and a unit which prepares a retransmit packet according to acknowledgement information included in the downlink control channel, wherein when the retransmit packet is transmitted as the uplink data channel, the uplink control channel includes retransmit format information indicating how the retransmit packet has been derived from a transmitted packet, and transmit format information including at least a data modulation scheme used for the uplink data channel, and wherein the downlink control channel includes the acknowledgment information which has been channel-encoded with resource allocation information for the uplink data channel. | 2010-01-21 |
20100014475 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The present invention has an object to provide a wireless communication apparatus and a wireless communication method, which are capable of performing overall optimum channel allocation without producing a control delay with respect to a variation of channel qualities between a mobile station and a relay station. | 2010-01-21 |
20100014476 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR IMPROVING HYBRID AUTOMATIC REPEAT REQUEST COMBINING GAIN IN A BROADBAND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - An apparatus and method for improving a HARQ combining gain in a broadband wireless communication system are provided. The apparatus includes a seed information generator and a subcarrier allocator. The seed information generator randomly generates a seed value for changing a channel of a subcarrier and an interference pattern in a frame unit when a HARQ combining gain is not generated because an interference pattern is the same during a retransmission period. The subcarrier allocator allocates a subcarrier using the generated seed value. | 2010-01-21 |
20100014477 | Method and Apparatus for Discriminating Between Control Messages and Speech Payload - A base station detects the transition of a mobile station from a DTX mode to a continuous transmission mode. The base station schedules an uplink transmission by the mobile station during an uplink transmission period while the mobile station is in DTX mode and receives an uplink LLC PDU from said mobile station during the scheduled uplink transmission periods. The base station determines the operating mode of the mobile station based on the size of the received uplink LLC PDU. | 2010-01-21 |
20100014478 | Radio Communication Terminal Device, Radio Communication Base Station Device, and Radio Resource Allocation Method - Disclosed are a radio communication terminal device, a radio communication base station device, and a radio resource allocation method which can reduce radio resource fragmentation while suppressing increase of the signaling quantity in data retransmission. In ST | 2010-01-21 |
20100014479 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING ENHANCED MESSAGES ON COMMON CONTROL CHANNEL IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and apparatus for providing new configurations for transmitting control information between a mobile terminal and a network using a common control channel (CCCH) logical channel/transport channel. The new configurations enable messages to be sent that are larger than currently allowed and the availability of the new configurations is indicated such that mobile terminals that do not support the new configurations are not impacted. | 2010-01-21 |
20100014480 | SCHEDULING DATA TRANSMISSION BY MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL (MAC) LAYER IN A MOBILE NETWORK - A method for determining padding compatibility is disclosed. A determination is made of a number of protocol data units (PDUs) for a logical channel mapped to a transport channel such that, for a logical channel allowing segmentation, calculate n wherein n=service data unit size/transport block size (SDU size/TB size), and on a condition that n is an integer, setting the number of PDUs=n. | 2010-01-21 |
20100014481 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING REFERENCE SIGNAL, SETTING REFERENCE SIGNAL TRANSMISSION PATTERN, AND SETTING AND ALLOCATING RESOURCE BLOCK - A method for transmitting a reference signal, a method for establishing a reference-signal transmission pattern, and a method for establishing a block are disclosed. The reference-signal density is adjusted according to the request degree of the channel estimation performance, and then the reference signal is transmitted to a destination. As a result, the apparatus prevents prevent resources from being unnecessarily wasted, and acquires a high channel estimation performance as necessary, resulting in an increased production yield of a system. | 2010-01-21 |