10th week of 2013 patent applcation highlights part 29 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20130058283 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITING AND RECEIVING SYSTEM INFORMATION IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - An apparatus for transmitting and receiving system information in a wireless communication system and method thereof are disclosed. In method of receiving system information at a mobile station (MS) in a wireless communication system, the present invention includes the steps of transmitting a version of a broadcast message stored in the mobile station to a base station when failing to receive a broadcast message at a transmission time of the broadcast message or in a transmission interval of the broadcast message, and receiving a response message including the system information contained in the broadcast message being transmitted by the base station from the base station when the version of the broadcast message stored in the mobile station is different from that of the broadcast message being transmitted by the base station. | 2013-03-07 |
20130058284 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING UPLINK RANGING IN A WIRELESS ACCESS SYSTEM - The present description relates to a method in which a terminal in an idle mode performs network reentry in a wireless access system, wherein the method comprises: a step of receiving, from a base station, control information containing a first parameter and a second parameter for determining a frame in which uplink ranging is to be performed; and a step of performing uplink ranging for network reentry with the base station on the basis of the control information, wherein the first parameter indicates the location of a superframe in which uplink ranging is to be performed, and the second parameter indicates the frame duration in the superframe which is indicated by the first parameter and in which uplink ranging is performed. | 2013-03-07 |
20130058285 | SPATIAL HASHING FOR ENHANCED CONTROL CHANNEL SEARCH SPACES - The present invention provides a method, apparatus and a computer program product for spatial hashing for enhanced control channel search spaces. The present invention includes defining a control channel search space for searching for control channel candidates, defining search space locations within the search space, grouping the search space locations into a plurality of subsets of search space locations, associating each subset of search space locations with an antenna port, for each of a plurality of subframes, changing the search space locations from a first subset of search space locations to a second subset of search space locations. | 2013-03-07 |
20130058286 | BASE STATION APPARATUS AND USER TERMINAL - A base station apparatus having a control information generation section that generates, per fundamental frequency block, a downlink control information piece for demodulating a data channel that is transmitted for each of a plurality of fundamental frequency blocks assigned to a user terminal, a determining section that determines, per fundamental frequency block, a search space which is a candidate area where the downlink control information piece is arranged, and a transmission section that transmits a downlink control channel in which the search space containing the downlink control information piece is arranged is disclosed. The control information generation section arranges respective downlink control information pieces corresponding to the fundamental frequency blocks in a downlink control channel of a specific fundamental frequency block among the fundamental frequency blocks, and the determining section distributes positions of search spaces such that the search spaces are separate between fundamental frequency blocks and between user terminals. | 2013-03-07 |
20130058287 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SIGNALING THE RELEASE OF A PERSISTENT RESOURCE - A method and apparatus for signaling the release of a persistent resource in long term evolution (LTE) are disclosed. An indication of the release of a downlink (DL) persistent resource is received by a wireless transmit receive unit (WTRU) from an evolved Node-B (eNB) via a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH). A positive acknowledgement (ACK) is transmitted by the WTRU which denotes that the indication has been received. The PDCCH or a medium access control (MAC) CE may be used by the eNB to signal the indication. At least one bit may be added to contents of the PDCCH to signal whether the PDCCH is for DL persistent or dynamic resource allocation. The DL persistent resource is then released and an indication that the DL persistent resource has been released is transmitted. | 2013-03-07 |
20130058288 | Apparatus and Method to Allocated Communication Resources in a Communication System - An apparatus, system and method for providing interference cancellation and communication resource reservation limits to allocate communication resources in a communication system. In one embodiment, the apparatus includes a processor ( | 2013-03-07 |
20130058289 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PERFORMING RANGING - A method and device for performing a dedicated ranging for Machine To Machine (M2M) communication is provided. A M2M device receives a paging message indicating a dedicated ranging channel allocation from a base station. The dedicated ranging channel allocation is valid within a dedicated channel allocation timer. | 2013-03-07 |
20130058290 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ADAPTIVE CHANNEL QUALITY FEEDBACK IN A MULTICARRIER WIRELESS NETWORK - A subscriber station for use in a wireless network capable of communicating according to a multicarrier protocol. The subscriber station determines a total average signal level across N subbands within a channel, where each of the subbands comprises a plurality of subcarriers. The subscriber station also determines a first average signal level within a first subband. The subscriber station then transmits a channel quality indicator (CQI) feedback message to the wireless network. The CQI feedback message comprises a first data indicating the total average signal level across the N subbands and a second data indicating the first average signal level within the one subband. The first data may indicate the total average signal level as an absolute value and the second data may indicate the first average signal level relative to the total average signal level using one of two or more unequal quantization levels. | 2013-03-07 |
20130058291 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING CROSS-CARRIER SCHEDULING FOR SPS - The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. More particularly, the present invention relates to a method and apparatus in which a base station transmits a signal to a relay in a wireless communication system. A method in which a terminal receives a downlink signal in a wireless communication system that supports carrier aggregation comprises: a step of receiving, on a first carrier, a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) having no carrier indication information; and a step of receiving a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) using the scheduling information carried on the PDCCH, wherein the PDSCH is received on the first carrier in the event the PDCCH is a non-semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) PDCCH, and the PDSCH is received on a second carrier different from the first carrier in the event the PDCCH is an SPS PDCCH. | 2013-03-07 |
20130058292 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND APPARATUS FOR SELECTING DATA PLANE TUNNEL ACCORDING TO THE STATUS OF USER EQUIPMENT - The present invention puts forward a method, a system and an apparatus for selecting a data plane tunnel according to the status of User Equipment (UE). The system comprises a Serving Gateway (SGW) and a Local Gateway (LGW), wherein, the SGW is used for determining the status of the UE and whether a connection is used for Local IP Access (LIPA)/Selected IP Traffic Offload (SIPTO), and instructs the LGW; the LGW is used for setting a tunnel identifier status of the LGW according to the instruction of the SGW, and selecting the data plane tunnel according to the tunnel identifier status. The present invention selects an appropriate data plane tunnel by setting a tunnel identifier in an LGW, and proposes a method for controlling the to setting/clearing of the tunnel identifier, therefore the present invention enjoys comprehensive functions and may make up the deficiency of LIPA/SIPTO architecture in the prior art. | 2013-03-07 |
20130058293 | RADIO BASE STATION APPARATUS AND TRANSMISSION POWER CONTROL METHOD - The present invention provides a radio base station apparatus and a transmission power control method that do not deteriorate the uplink reception quality of cell-edge users when uplink MU-MIMO transmission is applied. The transmission power control method of the present invention includes the steps of: in a radio base station apparatus that performs space division multiplexing between users by uplink MU-MIMO transmission: controlling transmission power according to a number of MU-MIMO multiplexed users; and transmitting transmission power information to match the number of MU-MIMO multiplexed users; and in a mobile terminal apparatus: setting transmission power using the transmission power information; and transmitting an uplink signal by the transmission power. | 2013-03-07 |
20130058294 | BASE STATION APPARATUS AND USER TERMINAL - The present invention provides a search space configuration that is suitable for a communication system in which a plurality of fundamental frequency blocks are grouped together into a wide band. A base station apparatus ( | 2013-03-07 |
20130058295 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR EFFICIENT FEEDBACK IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM THAT SUPPORTS MULTIPLE ANTENNAS - The present invention relates to a wireless communication system, and more particularly, to a method and apparatus for efficient feedback in a wireless communication system that supports multiple antennas. A method for transmitting, via an uplink, channel state information for downlink transmission in a wireless communication system according to one embodiment of the present invention, comprises the following steps: receiving a downlink signal via a downlink channel; generating an RI for the downlink channel, selecting a first PMI and a second PMI on the basis of the rank indicated by the generated RI, and calculating a CQI on the basis of pre-coding information determined by the combination of the selected first and second PMIs; and transmitting the RI, the first PMI, the second PMI, and/or the CQI via an uplink channel, wherein said first PMI and second PMI can be transmitted on different uplink subframes if the uplink channel is a PUCCH. | 2013-03-07 |
20130058296 | METHOD FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATION, WIRELESS STATION, MOBILE TERMINAL, AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - There is a provided a wireless communication system in which multiple base station transmit the same data (PDSCH signal) in a coordinated transmission scheme. Each base station controls allocation a wireless resource that one of the remaining base station transmits a signal different from the above same data, such as a control signal or reference signal to a mobile station that is applied the coordinated transmission scheme to a mobile terminal that is different from the mobile station that is applied the coordinated transmission scheme and that is to communicate with the base station. | 2013-03-07 |
20130058297 | BASE STATION APPARATUS AND COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD - A base station apparatus capable of communicating with a user equipment terminal using a downlink shared channel is disclosed. The base station apparatus includes a user selection unit selecting a user equipment terminal to which radio resources are to be allocated, the selection being based on whether there is a MAC-layer control signal to be transmitted to the user equipment terminal. | 2013-03-07 |
20130058298 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ACCESSING WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORK - A method and apparatus for accessing a wireless sensor network are provided in embodiments of this invention. The technical solution provided in embodiments of this invention includes: when receiving a first beacon frame, stopping channel scan temporarily, and establishing a new channel scan sequence according to operating channels of a current wireless sensor network recorded in the beacon frame. Non-operating channels are not included in the new channel scan sequence. Time for performing subsequence channel scan is reduced, so that the process of accessing the current wireless sensor network of a device node expecting for network can be accelerated. | 2013-03-07 |
20130058299 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND ACCESS GATEWAY HAVING PLURAL USER PLANE AGWS - In a mobile communication system including an access gateway (AGW) comprising a C-AGW for handling control messages and a plurality of U-AGWs for forwarding data packets, the C-AGW is provided with a management table indicating an address of U-AGW to be an endpoint of tunnel, in association with each of mobile station IDs. When a tunnel setup request message including a mobile station ID is received from one of base stations, the C-AGW searches the management table for the address of U-AGW corresponding to the mobile station ID and notifies the base station of the U-AGW address, and if the mobile station ID is not found in the management table, the C-AGW notifies the base station of an address of a particular U-AGW selected out of the U-AGWs, so that the base station establishes a tunnel for forwarding data packets toward the notified U-AGW. | 2013-03-07 |
20130058300 | Uplink Power Control in Aggregated Spectrum Systems - A method for communication includes modulating data in a wireless communication terminal to produce an aggregated-spectrum signal, which includes at least first and second signals in respective first and second spectral bands. The modulated data is transmitted in the first and second signals at respective first and second power levels. The second power level is adjusted separately from the first power level. In some embodiments, one or more instructions to set the first power level are received at the wireless communication terminal, and the first power level is set separately from setting the second power level based on the instructions. | 2013-03-07 |
20130058301 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING RANDOM ACCESS PROCEDURES IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - In the present description, a maximum transmission number for preamble and a maximum transmission number uplink message are configured to perform a random access procedure. The maximum transmission number for preamble (e.g., preambleTransMax) can be classified into a first type for general access and a second type for MTC and/or delay-tolerant accesses. Further, the maximum transmission number uplink message (e.g., maxHARQ-Msg3Tx) can be classified into a first type and a second type. | 2013-03-07 |
20130058302 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING A REFERENCE SIGNAL IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for transmitting a reference signal in a wireless communication system. A terminal generates a base sequence having a length of 12, for a reference signal, and determines a cyclic shift index from among a set of a cyclic shift indices {0, 3, 6, 8, 10}. The terminal cyclically shifts the base sequence on the basis of the determined cyclic shift index to generate a cyclically shifted sequence, and transmits the cyclically shifted sequence to a base station. | 2013-03-07 |
20130058303 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ALLOCATING RESOURCES IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The present invention relates to resource allocation in a wireless communication system. | 2013-03-07 |
20130058304 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR RECEIVING DOWNLINK SIGNALS - The present invention relates to a method and device for receiving downlink signals in a wireless communication system. In more detail, the method for receiving downlink signals includes: receiving first control information for downlink scheduling through a first slot in a pair of resource blocks (RBs), the first control information including allocation information on a plurality of continuous RBs; receiving data from a second slot in a pair of RBs if the pair of RBs includes the first control information in the plurality of continuous RBs; and, if the pair of RBs outside the plurality of continuous RBs includes the first control information, attempting to detect second control information on uplink scheduling through a second slot of a pair of RBs. | 2013-03-07 |
20130058305 | METHOD FOR PERFORMING CHANNEL INTERLEAVING IN A MULTI-ANTENNA WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND APPARATUS FOR SAME - The present application relates to a method in which a terminal performs channel interleaving in a multi-antenna wireless communication system. More particularly, the method comprises the following steps: constructing both channel quality indicator (CQI) information and coded data information into preset bit-wide vectors to generate a first interleaver input vector sequence; repeating both rank indicator (RI) information and acknowledgement/negative acknowledgement (ACK/NACK) information per the number (N | 2013-03-07 |
20130058306 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING APERIODIC SOUNDING REFERENCE SIGNAL IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and apparatus for transmitting an aperiodic sounding reference signal (SRS) in a wireless communication system is provided. The method include receiving a downlink control information (DCI) format including a triggering signal for triggering a transmission of an aperiodic SRS from a base station (BS) via a physical downlink control Channel (PDCCH), blind-decoding the PDCCH in a UE-specific search space, and transmitting the aperiodic SRS triggered based on the triggering signal to the BS. | 2013-03-07 |
20130058307 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR TRANSMITTING/RECEIVING CHANNEL STATE INFORMATION IN COORDINATED MULTIPOINT COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. More particularly, disclosed are a method and a device for transmitting channel state information in a coordinated multipoint communication system. The method for transmitting channel state information from a terminal to multiple base stations, according to one embodiment of the present invention, comprise the steps of: transmitting the CSI including long-term broadband PMI and short-term sub-band PMI to a first base station; transmitting the CSI including the long-term broadband PMI and not including the short-term sub-band PMI to a second base station; and transmitting the CSI including the short-term sub-band PMI to the second base station, when a request for the short-term sub-band PMI transmission to the second base station is received. | 2013-03-07 |
20130058308 | 3G LTE Intra-Eutran Handover Control Using Empty GRE Packets - Empty GRE packets are used to ensure in-order delivery of data packets for a session to a UE during intra-EUTRAN handover involving SGW relocation. In particular, a PGW sends an empty GRE packet per PDN session of the UE to a source SGW upon handover execution to indicate the end of pre-handover data packets delivered to the source SGW. Upon receipt of the empty GRE packet, the source SGW generates an end marker packet, and sends it to the source eNodeB. The source eNodeB forwards buffered, pre-handover data packets not delivered to the UE, followed by the end marker packet, to the target eNodeB, either directly (X2 interface) or indirectly (GTP-U tunnel between source and target SGWs). The target eNodeB then sends the pre-handover data packets, and post-handover data packets delivered to it by the PGW, to the UE in order, in reliance on the end marker packet. | 2013-03-07 |
20130058309 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING TIMING ADVANCE (TA) GROUP CHANGE IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and apparatus are disclosed to perform timing advance (TA) group change in a wireless communication system. The method includes configuring a Scell (Secondary Serving Cell) to a User Equipment (UE), wherein the Scell belongs to a first TA group. The method further includes sending a TA group change command from an eNB (evolved Node B) to the UE to change the Scell front the first TA group to a second TA group, wherein the eNB provides information together with the TA group change command so that the UE could derive an initial TA for the second TA group based on the information. | 2013-03-07 |
20130058310 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SETTING CHANNEL IN WIRELESS NETWORK - A method and apparatus are configured for setting up a channel in a wireless network. The method includes receiving a signal comprising channel information that at least one neighbor AP is using, from the at least one neighbor AP and, setting up the channel of the AP based on the channel information that the at least one neighbor AP is using. | 2013-03-07 |
20130058311 | M2M DEVICE WHICH PERFORMS COMMUNICATION DURING NETWORK ENTRY AND HANDOVER, AND CORRESPONDING METHOD FOR PERFORMING COMMUNICATION - Disclosed is a machine to machine (M2M) device which performs communication during both network entry and handover, and a corresponding method for performing communication. The M2M device which performs communication during handover according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises a receiver and a transmitter, wherein the receiver receives, from a serving base station, a first message containing information on M2M features or M2M requirements supported by at least one neighbor base station or neighbor cell, and the transmitter transmits, to the serving base station, a second message containing information for requesting the support of M2M features or M2M requirements necessary for the M2M device based on the first message. | 2013-03-07 |
20130058312 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR PROCESSING LOCAL ADDRESS IN SHUNT CONNECTION - The disclosure discloses a method, an apparatus and a system for processing local address in an offload connection. The method includes the following steps: a local gateway or a mobility management entity sends a local gateway identifier to a wireless side network element (S702); the wireless side network element obtains the local address of the local gateway by using the local gateway identifier (S704). The disclosure avoids potential safety hazard. | 2013-03-07 |
20130058313 | Inter-Base-Station Interface Enhancement for Multi-Operator Core Networks - In one aspect, the teachings herein provide an enhanced inter-base-station interface and associated processing in which a base station receives a message from a neighboring base station that zero served PLMNs are available in a neighboring cell. In response to receiving that message, the base station removes the neighboring cell from its neighbor list, or otherwise marks the neighboring cell as unavailable, but advantageously does not discard any network performance data accumulated or otherwise generated for that neighboring cell. Correspondingly, should the base station receive a subsequent message indicating that one or more served PLMNs have become available in the neighboring cell, it restores the neighboring cell to its neighbor list and reinstates links or associations, as needed, to the retained network performance data. | 2013-03-07 |
20130058314 | PACKET TYPE SPOOFING FOR COEXISTENCE AMONG MULTIPLE WIRELESS COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES - Methods having corresponding apparatus and computer-readable media comprise: transmitting and receiving wireless Long Term Evolution (LTE) signals according to an LTE schedule; transmitting and receiving wireless Bluetooth signals according to a Bluetooth schedule having a plurality of Bluetooth schedule slots, wherein the wireless Bluetooth signals represent Bluetooth Asynchronous Connection-oriented [logical transport] (ACL) packets; generating a Bluetooth ACL packet; selecting a spoofed number M of the Bluetooth schedule slots for the Bluetooth ACL packet based on information representing the LTE schedule, wherein M is a positive integer; selecting a Bluetooth ACL packet type based on the spoofed number M of the Bluetooth schedule slots; and indicating the selected Bluetooth ACL packet type in a type field of the Bluetooth ACL packet prior to transmitting the wireless Bluetooth signals representing the Bluetooth ACL packet. | 2013-03-07 |
20130058315 | TRANSMIT POWER CONTROL FOR PHYSICAL RANDOM ACCESS CHANNELS - The invention relates to methods for adjusting the transmit power utilized by a mobile terminal for uplink transmissions, and to methods for adjusting the transmit power used by a mobile terminal for one or more RACH procedures. The invention is also providing apparatus and system for performing these methods, and computer readable media the instructions of which cause the apparatus and system to perform the methods described herein. In order to allow for adjusting the transmit power of uplink transmissions on uplink component carriers, the invention suggests introducing a power scaling for uplink PRACH transmissions performing RACH procedures on an uplink component carrier. The power scaling is proposed on the basis of a prioritization among multiple uplink transmissions or on the basis of the uplink component carriers on which RACH procedures are performed. | 2013-03-07 |
20130058316 | COEXISTENCE TIMER MECHANISM FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS - A common coexistence timer can be implemented on collocated or proximate wireless radio devices so that timing information associated with scheduled communications of each of the wireless radio devices is communicated with a common time reference. The coexistence timer provides the common time reference for the wireless radio devices. A transmitting wireless radio device can calculate a difference time associated with the timing information of a scheduled communication and can provide the difference time to a receiving wireless radio device. The receiving wireless radio device can convert the difference time into a time format corresponding to the receiving wireless radio device's local time reference. This can minimize interference between the collocated or proximate wireless radio devices, thus minimizing performance degradation, packet collision, and interference. Moreover, this also can eliminate timing errors due to the wireless radio devices using different timers operating at different frequencies or being synchronized to different crystals. | 2013-03-07 |
20130058317 | METHOD IN WHICH A GROUP OF TERMINALS RECEIVES A DOWNLINK CONTROL CHANNEL, AND METHOD IN WHICH THE TERMINALS MAKE REQUESTS FOR BANDWIDTH IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM IN WHICH THE SAME STID OR C-RNTI IS ALLOCATED TO THE GROUP OF TERMINALS - The present invention relates to a method in which a group of terminals receives a downlink control channel, and to a method in which the terminals make requests for bandwidth in a wireless communication system in which the same station identifier (STID) or cell-radio network temporary identifier (C-RNTI) is allocated to the group of terminals. The method, in which a group of terminals to which the same STID or C-RNTI is allocated receive a downlink control channel, comprises the following steps: receiving, from a base station, information on the STID or C-RNTI allocated to the terminals; receiving information on a time domain in which the downlink control channel for the terminals is transmitted, information on a frequency domain, or information on a search space from the base station; and decoding the downlink control channel on the basis of the information on a time domain, the information on a frequency domain, or the information on a search space, and on the basis of the STID or C-RNTI. | 2013-03-07 |
20130058318 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DEVICE SYNCHRONIZATION AND POWER CONSERVATION IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The present invention provides a method and apparatus for device synchronization and power conservation in a wireless communication system. In one embodiment, a method of a communication device for device synchronization and conserving power includes determining one or more device parameters in a wireless communication system, where the one or more device parameters are indicative of one or more time slots and at least one additional guard slot required during data transaction. The method also includes forming a connection request including the one or more device parameters, and communicating the connection request to a controller in the wireless communication system. Moreover, the method includes receiving a connection assignment frame including a device allocation interval from the controller based on the one or more device parameters, wherein the device allocation interval includes the one or more time slots and the at least one additional guard slot allocated to the communication device for data transaction. | 2013-03-07 |
20130058319 | Network Processor - The present invention discloses a network processor for a broadband gateway. The network processor includes a host processor; a plurality of networking interfaces, corresponding to a plurality of networking technologies, respectively; and a network address translation (NAT) engine, for accelerating packet processing from a first networking interface to a second networking interface. | 2013-03-07 |
20130058320 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD - An input unit inputs input data. A priority determination unit determines priority of the data input by the input unit. A speed control unit sets the communication speed of the wireless communication of the data to be output from an output unit according to the priority of the data determined by the priority determination unit, and also, when input of the data is not detected, sets the communication speed of the wireless communication of the data to be output from the output unit to be lower than the communication speed when the input of the data is detected. The output unit outputs output data by the wireless communication at the set communication speed. | 2013-03-07 |
20130058321 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE, DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM, DISTRIBUTION DATA PROCESSING METHOD, AND DISTRIBUTION DATA PROCESSING PROGRAM - An electronic coupon is distributed from a management server to a mobile device via the Internet, communication setting data defining a communication condition and effectiveness of this electronic coupon is transmitted to a shop apparatus. When the mobile device enters a range in which near field communication with the shop apparatus is possible, communication between the mobile device and the shop apparatus is established based on the communication condition. Further, when it is determined that the electronic coupon held by the mobile device is effective for this shop apparatus, the mobile device is notified of a presence of a shop associated with the held electronic coupon in the vicinity. | 2013-03-07 |
20130058322 | POWER AMPLIFIER FOR TIME DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS - Disclosed herein is a power amplifier for time division multiple access. The power amplifier for time division multiple access includes: power amplifiers power-amplifying input transmission signals and outputting the amplified signals; a power control unit using a time division multiple access type to control amplification of the power amplifiers; a switching unit formed at output terminals of the power amplifiers and the power control unit and outputting the amplified signals to an antenna based on a switching pass determined by the power control unit; and a timing control unit formed at an input terminal of the power control unit and determining turn-on time of a second signal by a level of an output signal generated by comparing a first signal with reference voltage. | 2013-03-07 |
20130058323 | INFORMATION ELEMENT AND METHOD FOR ADVERTISING CHANNEL RESERVATIONS - According to the known IEEE 802.11s Draft Standard for WLAN Mesh Networking, version D5.0, the size of an information element is restricted to a length of 255 octets. Due to the definition of an MCCAOP advertisements element as a general information element this restriction is a major drawback leading to a maximum of 62 MCCA reservations to be advertised by an MCCAOP advertisements element. Although this number of reservations might be sufficient in the majority of situations, it is easily imaginable that there are situations which could require an advertisement exceeding this limit of 62 MCCA reservations. According to the disclosure, an MCCAOP advertisement—which is a set of MCCAOP reservations that needs to be advertised—is split over multiple MCCAOP advertisements elements. This may advantageously allow advertising more than 62 MCCAOP reservations to neighboring mesh nodes in a wireless mesh network which is configured to use MCCA. | 2013-03-07 |
20130058324 | METHOD FOR ESTABLISHING ASSOCIATED BIDIRECTIONAL LABEL SWITCHING PATH AND SYSTEM THEREOF - The disclosure discloses a method and a system for establishing an associated bidirectional Label-Switched Path (LSP). The method includes the following steps: a head node sends a PATH message for establishing or updating an LSP to an end node, wherein the message carries an object for identifying association; the end node sends to the head node a PATH message for establishing or updating an LSP as a reverse LSP corresponding to the above LSP, wherein the message carries an object for identifying association; in the case that the attributes of the objects for identifying association carried in the PATH messages sent by the head node and the end node are the same, the LSP and the reverse LSP are associated with each other by the head node and the end node and become an associated bidirectional LSP. The method for establishing an associated bidirectional LSP in the disclosure can be applied to transition from a Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) network to a MPLS-Transport Profile (MPLS-TP) network and binding a reverse LSP with a unidirectional LSP. | 2013-03-07 |
20130058325 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING RINGING TIMEOUT DISCONNECT SUPERVISION IN REMOTE TELEPHONE EXTENSIONS USING VOICE OVER PACKET-DATA-NETWORK SYSTEMS (VOPS) - A Multiservice Access Concentrator (MAC) provides a time limit for a first ringing voltage signal in response to an attempted call. The call is attempted via a voice over packet-data-network system (VOPS), wherein the VOPS comprises voice over Internet Protocol (IP), voice over Frame Relay, voice over Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM), and voice over High-level Data Link Control (HDLC) network systems. Generation of the first ringing voltage signal is terminated upon expiration of the time limit. A control message is transmitted to terminate the attempted call, wherein the control message is transmitted via the VOPS. | 2013-03-07 |
20130058326 | INTERNET TELEPHONY UNIT AND SOFTWARE FOR ENABLING INTERNET TELEPHONE ACCESS FROM TRADITIONAL TELEPHONE INTERFACE - Automatic selection and establishment of a communications connection between a telephone device to a receiver device, including entering an address of a receiver device into the telephone device for initiating the communications connection to the receiver device, and automatically selecting a communications network for establishing the communications connection to the receiver device, and selecting the communications network from an internet-based network, a hybrid telephone/internet network, and a telephone network. Automatically determine network access capabilities of the receiver device based on the address of the receiver device, and automatically evaluate the cost of establishing a communications connection for each of the communications networks which the receiver device is capable of accessing. The communications network with the lowest cost is selected. | 2013-03-07 |
20130058327 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING EARLY-MEDIA SERVICE BASED ON SESSION INITIATION PROTOCOL - Disclosed is a method of providing an early media service based on a session initiation protocol (SIP). More particularly, the present disclosure relates to a method of providing an early media service based on SIP, wherein an application server and a media server can provide early media of a multimedia form, such as images, moving images and the like, as well as audios, by using an early session or a regular session. | 2013-03-07 |
20130058328 | TELECOMMUNICATION AND MULTIMEDIA MANAGEMENT METHOD AND APPARATUS - A telecommunication and multimedia management apparatus and method that supports voice and other media communications and that enables users to: (i) participate in multiple conversation modes, including live phone calls, conference calls, instant voice messaging or tactical communications; (ii) review the messages of conversations in either a live mode or a time-shifted mode and to seamlessly transition back and forth between the two modes; (iii) participate in multiple conversations either concurrently or simultaneously; (iv) archive the messages of conversations for later review or processing; and (v) persistently store media either created or received on the communication devices of users. The latter feature enables users to generate or review media when either disconnected from the network or network conditions are poor and to optimize the delivery of media over the network based on network conditions and the intention of the users participating in conversations. | 2013-03-07 |
20130058329 | WIRELESS ROUTER SYSTEM - Conventional routers employ a wired backplane that employs “long reach” serializer/deserializer (SerDes) links, but this type of architecture is complicated, costly, and uses a considerable amount of power. To address some of these issues, a new wireless backplane architecture is provided here. This wireless backplane employs direct millimeter wave links between line cards that replaces the convention, wired switching fabric. | 2013-03-07 |
20130058330 | WIRELESS BRIDGE IC - Conventional routers employ a wired backplane that employs “long reach” serializer/deserializer (SerDes) links, but this type of architecture is complicated, costly, and uses a considerable amount of power. To address some of these issues, a new wireless backplane architecture is provided here. This wireless backplane employs direct millimeter wave links between line cards that replaces the convention, wired switching fabric. | 2013-03-07 |
20130058331 | DEPLOYMENT OF HIERARCHICAL MANAGED SWITCHING ELEMENTS - Some embodiments provide a method that identifies several higher level switching elements for facilitating lower level switching elements to forward packets among network hosts. The method establishes a set of tunnels among the lower level switching elements and the higher level switching elements. At least one tunnel is established between a lower level switching element and a higher level switching element. For each higher level switching element in the several higher level switching elements, the method identifies a first set of forwarding data that specifies forwarding of packets between the higher level switching element and the several lower level switching elements. For each lower level switching element in the several lower level switching elements, the method identifies a second set of forwarding data that specifies forwarding of packets between the lower level switching element, the several of network hosts, and the several higher level switching elements. | 2013-03-07 |
20130058332 | LOOKUP FRONT END PACKET INPUT PROCESSOR - A packet processor provides for rule matching of packets in a network architecture. The packet processor includes a lookup cluster complex having a number of lookup engines and respective on-chip memory units. The on-chip memory stores rules for matching against packet data. A lookup front-end receives lookup requests from a host, and processes these lookup requests to generate key requests for forwarding to the lookup engines. As a result of the rule matching, the lookup engine returns a response message indicating whether a match is found. The lookup front-end further processes the response message and provides a corresponding response to the host. | 2013-03-07 |
20130058333 | Method For Handling Requests In A Storage System And A Storage Node For A Storage System - According to an embodiment there is provided a method for handling requests in a storage system including a plurality of storage nodes connected to each other via a communications network. A first storage node of the plurality of storage nodes may store a reference to a set of at least one collection object stored in the storage system. Each collection object of the set may include at least one of a reference to another collection object stored in the storage system and a reference to at least one data file stored in the storage system. The method may include receiving a first request at the first storage node. The first storage node, for each collection object of the set, may send a second request to a storage node storing the collection object. According to a second aspect there is also provided a storage node. | 2013-03-07 |
20130058334 | PACKET PROCESSING IN A NETWORK WITH HIERARCHICAL MANAGED SWITCHING ELEMENTS - Some embodiments provide a managed network for implementing a logical switching element. The managed network includes several managed edge switching elements that are each for (1) receiving packets for forwarding through the logical switching element and (2) forwarding packets that are known to the managed edge switching element to other managed edge switching elements in the several managed edge switching elements. The managed network includes a set of managed non-edge switching elements for (1) receiving packets from the several managed edge switching elements that are unknown to a particular managed edge switching element in the several managed edge switching elements and (2) forwarding packets to the several managed edge switching elements that are unknown to the several managed edge switching elements. | 2013-03-07 |
20130058335 | PACKET PROCESSING FOR LOGICAL DATAPATH SETS - Some embodiments provide a method that processes network data through a network. The method receives a packet destined for a network host associated with a logical datapath set implemented by a set of managed edge switching elements and a set of managed non-edge switching elements in the network. The method determines whether the packet is a known packet. When the packet is a known packet, the method forwards the packet to a managed switching element in the set of managed edge switching elements for forwarding to the network host. When the packet is not a known packet, the method forwards the packet to a managed switching element in the set of managed non-edge switching elements for further processing. | 2013-03-07 |
20130058336 | MULTIPLE CONTROL CHANNELS FOR MULTICAST REPLICATION IN A NETWORK - Network devices, such as a router and a downstream multicast distribution device, may use multiple control channels when setting up a multicast stream for a multicast request. For example, first messages may be transmitted using a first protocol to an upstream device over a first channel, the first messages indicating when a first multicast media stream is being requested by at least one of a number of client devices. Second messages may be transmitted using a second protocol over a second channel, the second messages being transmitted on a per-client basis and each identifying a one of the client devices as requesting the first multicast media stream. By using two control channels to convey the multicast channel requests, the router may obtain visibility into the action of the subscriber and can consequently perform per-subscriber operations such as access-control, bandwidth based admission control, statistics, and QoS adjustment for multicast IPTV streams received by the subscriber. | 2013-03-07 |
20130058337 | INLINE PACKET REPLICATION IN NETWORK DEVICES - In general, techniques are described for inline packet replication in network devices. A network device referred to as an optical line terminal (OLT) may implement the techniques. The OLT comprises a customer interface that supports different logical interfaces to which couple a plurality of optical network terminals (ONTs) and a network interface that receives a data unit. The OLT further comprises a conversion unit, such as a media access control (MAC) module, located in a data path of the optical line terminal that determines whether the received data unit is a candidate for replication. The conversion unit includes an inline packet processing module that performs replication to generate at least one copy of the data unit based on the determination that the received packet is a candidate for packet replication. The customer interface outputs the at least one copy of the data unit to the ONTs. | 2013-03-07 |
20130058338 | MULTICAST TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT - A method of routing multicast traffic, suitable for use in a network comprising a router node connected to a first data network and to a second data network, the router node having a capability to route multicast traffic from the first and second data networks to a user equipment, is provided. The method comprises: receiving a first message from the user equipment at the router node, the first message requesting membership of a first multicast group having a first multicast address; and inhibiting receipt of multicast traffic having the first multicast address from at least the second data network by the user equipment, dependent upon a determination as to whether the first message may relate to a multicast address in the first network. | 2013-03-07 |
20130058339 | NETWORK CONTROL APPARATUS AND METHOD - Some embodiments provide a controller for managing several managed switching elements that forward data in a network. The controller includes an interface for receiving input logical control plane data. It also includes a converter for converting the input logical control plane data to output logical forwarding plane data. The logical forwarding plane data for subsequent translation into a set of physical forwarding behaviors that direct the forwarding of data by the managed switching elements. | 2013-03-07 |
20130058340 | NETWORK CONTROL APPARATUS AND METHOD WITH TABLE MAPPING ENGINE - Some embodiments provide a controller for managing a plurality of managed switching elements that forward data through a network. The controller comprising a first set of tables for storing input logical control plane data, and a second set of tables for storing output logical forwarding plane data. It also includes a table mapping engine for mapping the input logical control plane data in the first set of tables to output logical forwarding plane data in the second set of tables by performing a set of database join operations on the input logical control plane data in the first set of tables. The logical forwarding plane data is subsequently translated into physical forwarding behaviors that direct the forwarding of data by the managed switching elements. | 2013-03-07 |
20130058341 | NETWORK CONTROL APPARATUS AND METHOD WITH PORT SECURITY CONTROLS - Port security in some embodiments is a technique to apply to a particular port of a logical switching element such that the network data entering and existing the logical switching element through the particular logical port have certain addresses that the switching element has restricted the logical port to use. For instance, a logical switching element may restrict a particular logical port to one or more certain network addresses. To enable a logical port of a logical switch for port security, the control application of some embodiments receives user inputs that designate a particular logical port and a logical switch to which the particular logical port belongs. The control application in some embodiments formats the user inputs into logical control plane data specifying the designation. The control application in some embodiments then converts the logical control plane data into logical forwarding data that specify port security functions. | 2013-03-07 |
20130058342 | LOGICAL PACKET PROCESSING PIPELINE THAT RETAINS STATE INFORMATION TO EFFECTUATE EFFICIENT PROCESSING OF PACKETS - Some embodiments provide a method of processing a packet through a logical switching element implemented by several managed switching elements. The method receives a packet for processing through a logical processing pipeline of the logical switching element. The method processes the packet through the logical processing pipeline. The method stores state information in the packet for indicating that the packet has been processed through the logical processing pipeline in order to prevent other managed switching elements from processing the packet through the logical processing pipeline. The method forwards the processed packet to a managed switching element of the several managed switching elements. | 2013-03-07 |
20130058343 | USE OF RICH CONTEXT TAGS IN LOGICAL DATA PROCESSING - For a logical switching element implemented across several managed switching elements, some embodiments provide a method that receives a packet for processing through a logical processing pipeline of the logical switching element. The method processes the packet through a first set of stages of the logical processing pipeline of the logical switching element. The method generates a set of context tag values for indicating that the packet has been processed through the first set of stages of the logical processing pipeline. The method forwards the packet to a managed switching elements of the several managed switching elements for the managed switching element to further process the packet based on the context tag of the packet. | 2013-03-07 |
20130058344 | ONE-HOP PACKET PROCESSING IN A NETWORK WITH MANAGED SWITCHING ELEMENTS - For a logical switching element implemented across several managed switching elements, some embodiments provide a method that receives a packet for processing through the logical switching element. The method performs a set of logical forwarding operations for determining a particular destination at the logical switching element to forward the packet. Based on the particular destination at the logical switching element, the method performs a set of physical forwarding operations for determining a destination at a managed switching element of the several managed switching elements that corresponds to the particular destination at the logical switching element. The method forwards the packet to the destination at the managed switching element. | 2013-03-07 |
20130058345 | Apparatus and Method for Establishing Tunnels Between Nodes in a Communication Network - Tunnels are established between nodes along a packet transfer route in a communication network so that a packet is transferred from a first relay node to a second relay node via one or more intermediate relay nodes using the established tunnels. An intermediate relay node receives, from an adjacent downstream relay node, a reply message storing relay-node addresses identifying the downstream relay node and at least one intermediate relay node between the downstream relay node and the first relay node. The intermediate relay node establishes a tunnel to the downstream relay node in association with the relay-node address of the downstream relay node, updates the reply message by removing the relay-node address of the down stream relay node from the reply message, and transfers the updated reply message to an adjacent upstream relay node along the packet transfer route. | 2013-03-07 |
20130058346 | Distributed Routing Domains in Multi-Tenant Datacenter Virtual Networks - A distributed routing domain is disclosed wherein each user or tenant can deploy a multi-subnet routing topology in a network-virtualized datacenter. A virtualization module implements the distributed routing domain and enforces a multi-subnet routing topology in a distributed fashion without requiring a standalone physical router or VM router. The topology and the routing rules are distributed in a network virtualization module on each hypervisor host, and collectively realize the multi-subnet topology for a virtual network over any physical network topology. | 2013-03-07 |
20130058347 | DOWNLOAD METHOD AND SYSTEM BASED ON MANAGEMENT DATA INPUT/OUTPUT INTERFACE - The disclosure provides a download method and system based on a Management Data Input/Output (MDIO) interface, wherein the download method based on the MDIO interface comprises: a master device informing a slave device of using the MDIO interface to start downloading data packets in batches; the master device transmitting data packets in batches to the slave device by using an MDIO frame, wherein the MDIO frame comprises: a data packet address field and/or a data packet serial number field, wherein the data packet address field is used to indicate a relative address of one data packet in the slave device, and the data packet serial number field is used to indicate a location of said one data packet in multiple data packets; the slave device judging that a received data packet is a last data packet of a current batch transmission from the master device, and finishing a current batch download. The invention enables the master device and the slave device to perform the batch data download effectively, and solves the problem in the related art that large batch data transmission cannot be performed for download based on the MDIO interface. | 2013-03-07 |
20130058348 | DISTRIBUTED NETWORK CONTROL SYSTEM WITH ONE MASTER CONTROLLER PER MANAGED SWITCHING ELEMENT - A network control system for managing several switching elements. The network control system includes first and second controllers for generating data for managing first and second sets of switching elements. The first controller is further for serving as a master controller of the first set of switching elements. The second controller is further for serving as a master controller of the second set of switching elements. The master controller for a particular set of switching elements is the only controller that is allowed to propagate data to the particular set of switching elements data for managing the particular set of switching elements. | 2013-03-07 |
20130058349 | Systems and Methods for Routing Data in a Network - A method for routing data in a network including a plurality of nodes connected by links, the method includes collapsing first and second rings of the nodes together, for each of the nodes in the network, determining a shortest path tree to each of the other nodes in the network, and for data sourced from a particular one of the nodes in the network, blocking the link or links not included in the shortest path tree determined for the particular one of the nodes. Also, a system for routing data through a network having a plurality of nodes connected by links, includes a ring collapsing module for collapsing first and second rings of the nodes together, a shortest path tree calculation module for determining, for each of the nodes, a shortest path tree to each of the other nodes in the network, and a link blocking module for blocking the link or links not included in the shortest path tree determined for data sourced from a particular one of the nodes. | 2013-03-07 |
20130058350 | NETWORK CONTROL APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PORT ISOLATION - Some embodiments provide a method for managing a logical switching element that includes several logical ports. The logical switching element receives and sends data packets through the logical ports. The logical switching element is implemented in a set of managed switching elements that forward data packets in a network. The method provides a set of tables for specifying forwarding behaviors of the logical switching element. The method performs a set of database join operations on the tables to specify in the tables that the logical forwarding element drops a data packet received through a first logical port when the data packet is headed to a second logical port different than the first logical port. | 2013-03-07 |
20130058351 | USE OF TUNNELS TO HIDE NETWORK ADDRESSES - For a managed network including first and second managed switching elements that implement logical data path sets, some embodiments provide a method that establishes, from the first managed switching element, a network tunnel through a network to the second managed switching element. The network includes a set of unmanaged switching elements. Through the network tunnel, the network forwards logical network data to the set of unmanaged switching elements for the set of unmanaged switching elements to forward to the second managed switching element. The logical network is hidden from the set of unmanaged switching elements when the logical network data is forwarded through the tunnel. | 2013-03-07 |
20130058352 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR FORWARDING DATA PACKETS - The method for forwarding data packets in position based routing of data from a source node (S) to at least one destination node (D) of a mesh network ( | 2013-03-07 |
20130058353 | CONTROL SYSTEM THAT MANAGES EDGE ONLY SWITCHING ELEMENTS BUT NOT INTERIOR SWITCHES - Some embodiments provide a control system for managing a network that includes several switching elements managed by the control system and several switching elements not managed by the control system. The system includes a network information base (NIB) data structure that stores data for managing the several managed switching elements. The system includes an application interface for receiving data to store in the NIB from at least one application for controlling the managed switching elements. The system includes a switch interface for passing data from the NIB to at least one managed switching element. The managed switching elements include switching elements in an edge of the network. | 2013-03-07 |
20130058354 | MANAGED SWITCHING ELEMENTS USED AS EXTENDERS - Some embodiments provide a network system that includes a first network and a second network. The first network includes several unmanaged switching elements. The second network includes several managed switching elements. The network system includes a particular managed switching element for communicating network data between the first and second networks. | 2013-03-07 |
20130058355 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR ENSURING COMPATIBILITY ON A HIGH PERFORMANCE SERIAL BUS - A data communications system is disclosed having at least one Legacy cloud coupled to at least one Beta cloud. The system further having at least one BOSS node and at least one border node. A method for ensuring compatibility is disclosed comprising determining when the BOSS node is idle, determining whether the last packet transmitted by any border node was an Alpha format packet if the BOSS node is idle, and unlocking the Legacy cloud if the last packet transmitted by the border node was not an Alpha format packet. | 2013-03-07 |
20130058356 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR USING A NETWORK INFORMATION BASE TO CONTROL A PLURALITY OF SHARED NETWORK INFRASTRUCTURE SWITCHING ELEMENTS - Some embodiments provide a program for managing several switching elements. The program receives, at a network information base (NIB) data structure that stores data for managing the several switching elements, a request to modify data stored in at least one particular switching element. The program modifies at least a first set of data tuples stored in the NIB for managing the particular switching element. The program sends a request to the particular switching element to modify at least a second set of data tuples for managing the particular switching element's operation. | 2013-03-07 |
20130058357 | DISTRIBUTED NETWORK VIRTUALIZATION APPARATUS AND METHOD - Some embodiments provide a distributed control system for controlling managed switching elements of a network. The distributed control system comprises a first network virtualizer for converting a first set of input logical forwarding plane data to a first set of output physical control plane data. It also includes a second network virtualizer for converting a second set of input logical forwarding plane data to a second set of output physical control plane data. In some embodiments, the physical control plane data is translated into physical forwarding behaviors that direct the forwarding of data by the managed switching elements. | 2013-03-07 |
20130058358 | NETWORK CONTROL APPARATUS AND METHOD WITH QUALITY OF SERVICE CONTROLS - A control application of some embodiments allows a user to enable a logical switching element for Quality of Service (QoS). QoS in some embodiments is a technique to apply to a particular logical port of a logical switching element such that the switching element can guarantee a certain level of performance to network data that a machine sends through the particular logical port. The control application of some embodiments receives user inputs that specify a particular logical switch to enable for QoS. The control application may additionally receive performance constraints data. The control application in some embodiments formats the user inputs into logical control plane data. The control application in some embodiments then converts the logical control plane data into logical forwarding data that specify QoS functions. | 2013-03-07 |
20130058359 | DIGITAL BROADCAST TRANSMITTER, DIGITAL BROADCAST RECEIVER, AND METHOD FOR CONSTRUCTING AND PROCESSING STREAMS FOR SAME - Provided are a digital broadcast transmitter, a digital broadcast receiver, a method for processing a stream of the transmitter, and a method for processing a stream of the receiver. The method of processing the stream of the transmitter includes: generating a stream in which a plurality of slots of different formats is consecutively arranged; and encoding and interleaving the generated stream, and outputting the encoded and interleaved stream as a transport stream, wherein the generating the stream includes arranging at least one of second mobile data, training data, and dummy data in an orphan region generated according to a difference of the formats between consecutive slots of the plurality of slots. | 2013-03-07 |
20130058360 | METHOD OF GENERATING AND RECEIVING PACKETS IN LOW ENERGY CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE MONITORING SYSTEM - A method of generating a packet for low energy critical infrastructure monitoring (LECIM) wireless communication is provided. The method includes steps of generating a first bit string by multiplexing a physical layer header (PHR) bit and a physical layer service data unit (PSDU) bit; convolution encoding the first bit string; interleaving the convolution-encoded first bit string; generating a second bit string by multiplexing the interleaved first bit string with a synchronization header (SHR) bit; and modulating the second bit string with a frequency shift keying (FSK) method and a position-based FSK method. | 2013-03-07 |
20130058361 | SIGNAL FOR TRANSMISSION IN SINGLE-CARRIER COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - An apparatus and method for generating a signal for transmission in a single-carrier communication system are disclosed. The apparatus comprises a reference signal inserter, which multiplexes data symbols with reference signal symbols in time domain to form a plurality of symbol blocks as the signal for transmission, wherein the plurality of symbol blocks include symbol blocks of a first type and symbol blocks of a second type, wherein each of the symbol blocks of the first type includes only data symbols, and wherein each of the symbol blocks of the second type includes both data symbols and reference signal symbols. | 2013-03-07 |
20130058362 | Receiving Apparatus and Method for Multi-Frame Synchronization - The present invention discloses a multi-frame synchronization method, the method comprises: for each received sub-frame, a receiver determining a probability that the received sub-frame is each of sub-frames in a multi-frame, a sub-frame with maximum probability being a state of the currently received sub-frame after N sub-frames are received. The present invention further discloses a receiving apparatus for multi-frame synchronization comprising a calculation module; wherein the calculation module is configured to calculate a probability that a received sub-frame is each of sub-frames in a multi-frame, and determine a state of the currently received sub-frame based on a sub-frame with maximum probability after N sub-frames are received. The present invention effectively achieves a position for multi-frame synchronization and low calculation complexity. | 2013-03-07 |
20130058363 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SPEED NEGOTIATION FOR TWISTED PAIR LINKS USING INTELLIGENT E-FIFO IN FIBRE CHANNEL SYSTEMS - Systems, apparatuses and methods are disclosed for using elastic buffers in fibre channel systems over twisted pair links. One such system includes a fibre channel host device and another fibre channel host device communicatively coupled to the fibre channel device over a twisted pair link. The system also includes a slave physical layer (PHY) circuit residing in the fibre channel host device and a master PHY circuit residing in the another fibre channel host device. The master PHY circuit is operable to transmit, using a reference clock, data from a transmit elastic buffer. The slave PHY circuit is operable to receive the data transmitted by the master PHY circuit and to store the received data using a derived clock recovered from the received data. | 2013-03-07 |
20130058364 | FOURIER DOMAIN MODE LOCKING: METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROL AND IMPROVED PERFORMANCE - A control system for improving and stabilizing Fourier domain mode locking (FDML) operation. The control system may also provide regulation of FDML operational parameters such as filter tuning, laser gain, polarization, polarization chromaticity, elliptical polarization retardance, and/or dispersion. The control system may be located internal to or external from the FDML laser cavity. | 2013-03-07 |
20130058365 | TUNABLE LASER SYSTEM HAVING FINE AND COARSE WAVELENGTH DISCRIMINATION - A tunable laser system having fine and coarse wavelength discrimination is provided. The tunable laser system includes a first filter having a first free spectral range (FSR) and a second filter having a second FSR different from the first FSR. The first filter provides a first series of pulses from a first portion of a laser output, and a second filter provides a second series of pulses from a second portion of the laser output. A processing system compares the first series of pulses and the second series of pulses to identify a series of markers, in which the markers are separated by a beat period of the first series of pulses and the second series of pulses. Advantageously, the series of markers may be used for mode-hop detection and/or for wavelength referencing. | 2013-03-07 |
20130058366 | PULSED SUPERCONTINUUM SOURCE OF VARIABLE PULSE DURATION - A supercontinuum source capable of emitting waves between the infrared range and the ultraviolet range, includes a pulsed laser source ( | 2013-03-07 |
20130058367 | Mount for Semiconductor Devices Using Conformable Conductive Layers, and Method - Mount for semiconductor laser devices comprises thermally conductive anode and cathode blocks on either side of semiconductor laser device such as laser diode. Interposed between at least the anode block and the anode of the semiconductor laser device is a sheet of conformable electrically conductive material with high thermal conductivity such as pyrolytic highly-oriented graphite. In some embodiments, a second sheet of such electrically and thermally conductive conformable material is interposed between the cathode of the semiconductor laser device and the cathode block. The semiconductor laser device can be either a single laser diode or a diode bar having a plurality of emitters. A thermally conductive, but electrically insulating, spacer of essentially the same thickness as the laser diode or bar surrounds the diode or bar to prevent mechanical damage while still permitting the conformable material to be maintained in a compressed state and directing current through the laser device. | 2013-03-07 |
20130058368 | LASER DRIVER - An apparatus is provided. The apparatus includes a lasing element, a laser driver and logic. The laser driver is configured to drive the lasing element at multiple current levels, and the laser driver includes a switching network, multiple direct current (DC) loops, and an output circuit. The switching network receives a differential input signal, and each DC loop is coupled to the switching network. The output circuit is also coupled to the lasing element, and the logic is coupled to each of the DC current loops, where the logic selects one or more of the DC loops in each (of several) modes. Each mode generates one or more output lasing currents for the lasing element that corresponds to a one or more of the current levels in response to the differential input signal. | 2013-03-07 |
20130058369 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE HAVING AN InGaN LAYER - An InGaN-on-substrate structure that includes an InGaN layer and two mirror layers on opposing sides of and sandwiching the InGaN layer. The InGN layer includes an InGaN seed layer and an active InGaN layer grown on the InGaN seed layer. Such a structure is useful in a vertical optoelectronic device. | 2013-03-07 |
20130058370 | PLANAR, HIGH NA, LOW LOSS TRANSMITTING OR REFLECTING LENSES USING SUB-WAVELENGTH HIGH CONTRAST GRATING - Planar lenses and reflectors are described comprising subwavelength high-contrast gratings (HCG) having high index of refraction grating elements spaced apart from one another in straight and/or curved segments and surrounded by low index material. The high-contrast grating is configured to receive an incident wave which excites multiple modes within the high-contrast grating and is focused for reflection and/or transmission by said high contrast grating. The width of the high contrast grating bars vary along a distribution direction of the grating bars which is perpendicular to the length of the grating bars and/or varies along the length of one or more grating bars to focus said reflection and/or transmission. The HCG is configured to provide double focusing, whose use is exemplified within a vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL) structure using focusing HCG structures for both the top and bottom mirrors. | 2013-03-07 |
20130058371 | SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL INTEGRATED DEVICE - A semiconductor optical integrated device includes a substrate having a main surface with a first and second regions arranged along a waveguiding direction; a gain region including a first cladding layer, an active layer, and a second cladding layer arranged on the first region of the main surface; and a wavelength control region including a third cladding layer, an optical waveguide layer, and a fourth cladding layer arranged on the second region of the main surface and including a heater arranged along the optical waveguide layer. The substrate includes a through hole extending from a back surface of the substrate in the thickness direction and reaching the first region. A metal member is arranged in the through hole. The metal member extends from the back surface of the substrate in the thickness direction and is in contact with the first cladding layer. | 2013-03-07 |
20130058372 | MODULAR HEATER - A modular heater is disclosed, including multiple heater modules. The heater modules can include mating features, such as a tongue and groove seal, and/or soft seal, to prevent radiation, thermal convection and thermal conduction leakage. The heater module can also include heater elements, together with supports and expansion room for the heater elements. | 2013-03-07 |
20130058373 | FAULT DIAGNOSIS DEVICE FOR TEMPERATURE SENSOR - A fault diagnosis device conducts a fault diagnosis in a temperature sensor. At starting an internal combustion engine, a thermal equilibrium condition may be established and temperature deviations of temperatures detected by at least two reference temperature sensors from each other may be equal to or less than a predetermined value, with the temperatures detected by the reference temperature sensors being greatly deviated from one detected by a temperature sensor being diagnosed. In this case, if the temperatures detected by the reference temperature sensors do not drop by a predetermined temperature or more from starting the engine until a predetermined time elapses, the fault diagnosis device determines that the temperature sensor being diagnosed is faulty. | 2013-03-07 |
20130058374 | METHOD OF DETERMINING THE SOFTENING- OR DROPPING POINT - At least one of the softening point and the dropping point of a substance is determined with a measuring instrument that comprises a sample chamber ( | 2013-03-07 |
20130058375 | Device to Continuously Determine the Rate of Extraction of Water Steam Used for Drying Transformers - A moisture flow meter is provided in the air at negative pressures in the drying of transformers by means of a vacuum process for water extraction, causing a differential of pressure through a device of orifice plate and the continuous measurement of the dewpoint. The meter includes a pipeline, a continuous dewpoint meter able to support negative pressure, as well as the use of a orifice plate and two vacuum meters (vacuum meters) capable of measuring the pressure of condensable steam as well as a orifice which, allow a pressure drop. The signals on both sides of the orifice plate and the one from the dewpoint temperature are sent to a data acquisition card, which allows to measure, with the help of an algorithm, the amount of water in weight that flows per time unit. | 2013-03-07 |
20130058376 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR CHARACTERIZING SOLID MATERIALS, AND METHOD AND INSTALLATION FOR DETERMINING A THERMODYNAMIC CHARACTERISTIC OF PROBE MOLECULES - The invention proposes an improvement in the characterization of solid materials, by making it easier to be implemented while obtaining reliable and accurate results. According to the method in accordance with the invention;
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20130058377 | Method and Apparatus for Measuring and Monitoring a Power Source - A system and method for monitoring batteries is disclosed. There is provided a plurality of sensors each adapted to communicate with one of the batteries, and to provide information concerning a characteristic of the battery in response to application of a stimulus to the battery. A controller that communicates with the sensors is also provided. In one embodiment, the sensor includes the battery. | 2013-03-07 |
20130058378 | TEMPERATURE SENSING DEVICE AND METHOD OF GENERATING A SIGNAL REPRESENTING THE TEMPERATURE OF AN ENVIRONMENT - A sensing device includes a first current mirror configured to mirror a current flowing through a thermistor, a second current mirror configured to mirror a current flowing through a reference resistor a comparator configured to compare voltages on the thermistor and the resistor, and a counter configured to generate a control signal representative of a temperature difference based on the comparison. The control signal controls a mirroring ratio of the second current mirror. The sensing device may be employed to generate a droop current of a voltage regulator. | 2013-03-07 |
20130058379 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND COMMUNICATION METHOD IN WIRELESS POWER TRANSMISSION SYSTEM - An apparatus and method to perform communication in a wireless power transmission system are provided. When a communication channel is selected from channels excluding a channel used in wireless power transmission, a communication apparatus and method transmit, using a frequency of the communication channel, a channel seizure signal, an access standard instruction, and a state information signal indicating an operating mode of a source. When a response signal corresponding to the access standard instruction is received from a target, the communication apparatus and method determine a control identifier (ID) of the target. | 2013-03-07 |
20130058380 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND COMMUNICATION METHOD IN WIRELESS POWER TRANSMISSION SYSTEM - An apparatus and method for performing communication in a wireless power transmission system are provided. The apparatus includes a channel search unit configured to search for communication channels other than a channel used in wireless power transmission, and measure state information of the communication channels. The apparatus includes a channel determining unit configured to determine a communication channel available for communication with a target device based on the measured state information. The apparatus includes a communication unit configured to transmit an access instruction to the target device using the determined communication channel. The apparatus includes a controller configured to determine whether to communicate with the target device using the determined communication channel based on whether a response signal corresponding to the access instruction is received. | 2013-03-07 |
20130058381 | NONLINEAR SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PULSED-BASED ULTRA-WIDEBAND SYSTEM - A method and apparatus are provided for processing a received pulsed-based ultra-wideband (UWB) signal before the signal is demodulated by an energy detection based receiver. A nonlinear signal processing unit contains one or multiple subunits, and each subunit consists of a nonlinear device and a filter. The nonlinear devices can be any devices that can shift signal, noise, and interference spectra in a nonlinear fashion, and include but are not limited to square law devices and Teager-Kaiser operators. By applying the nonlinear signal processing unit on the received UWB signal, a major part of the energy of noise and narrowband interferences is shifted to specific frequency ranges and then removed by the appropriate filter(s) in the nonlinear signal processing unit. Thus, the signal-to-noise-plus-interference ratio (SNIR) of the received UWB signal can be improved. | 2013-03-07 |
20130058382 | MISMATCH SHAPING FOR DAC - The present invention provides a DAC (Digital to Analog Converter) capable of generating a transfer function having a notch for reducing an error signal level in a desired frequency band. | 2013-03-07 |