17th week of 2010 patent applcation highlights part 29 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20100103797 | PICKUP F0R ACCESSING MOVING STORAGE MEDIA AND DRIVE HAVING THE PICKUP - A pickup for accessing moving storage media, carrying substantially parallel information tracks, has a carrier, an actuator and suspension elements joining the carrier and the actuator. The actuator has a body and a lens and is movable in a tracking direction and in a focus direction. The suspension elements extend substantially in an information direction orthogonal to the tracking direction and the focus direction and are arranged at opposite sides of the body in the tracking direction, where they are stacked at each side in focus direction. Each suspension element has two parts, where a first part is connected to the carrier and a second part is connected to the body of the actuator. According to the invention, the suspension elements are constituted as suspension wires, where each suspension wire is folded, where the first part and the second part are constituted as a first side and a second side of the folded suspension wire and where the both sides form an acute angle with each other. | 2010-04-29 |
20100103798 | OPTICAL DATA RECORDING AND IMAGING ON MEDIA USING APOCHROMATIC LENSES AND A LIGHT SEPARATING MEANS - An apparatus includes a recording medium ( | 2010-04-29 |
20100103799 | Optical head device and optical recording and reading system - An optical head device (optical head) for a multi-layered optical recording medium has a focus control mechanism that makes use of astigmatism. The focus control mechanism has a sensor lens that includes a cylindrical lens. The focus control mechanism causes a light beam having passed through the sensor lens to have astigmatism, thereby being focused linearly in the Y direction on a front focal line located closer to the sensor lens and focused linearly in the X direction at a rear focal line located farther therefrom. The optical head also includes a photodetector which is disposed between the front focal line and the rear focal line to detect a focal position from the shape of a light beam. At the position of the front focal line, a shield plate with a window portion is disposed. The window portion has a size so as to allow the focal line to pass therethrough and shield stray light reflected from an unfocused recording layer. | 2010-04-29 |
20100103800 | Apparatus with a pickup for reading data from or writing data to an optical storage medium - The apparatus comprising a pickup for reading data from or writing data to an optical storage medium, wherein the pickup comprises a laser providing a laser beam, an objective lens for focusing the laser beam onto the optical storage medium, a first detector and a beam splitter arranged between the laser and the objective lens for guiding light reflected from the optical storage medium onto the first detector. A selecting means, arranged in front of the beam splitter, with regard to the reflected light from the optical storage medium, is provided for guiding reflected light passing through an outer section of the objective lens onto a second detector. The light guided onto the first detector is utilized for providing a tracking error signal and the light guided onto the second detector is utilized for providing a data signal. | 2010-04-29 |
20100103801 | OBJECTIVE LENS, OPTICAL PICKUP APPARATUS USING THE SAME, OPTICAL RECORDING/REPRODUCTION APPARATUS USING THE SAME, AND METHOD OF CORRECTING ABERRATION USING THE SAME - Provided is an objective lens for which expressions 0.83<(p | 2010-04-29 |
20100103802 | OPTICAL UNIT AND ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT USING THE SAME - An optical unit includes: a first light emitting device configured to emit a first beam; and a second light emitting device configured to emit a second beam in a direction the same as a direction of the first beam where the second beam is different in wavelength from the first beam. An emission surface of the second light emitting device is arranged at a distance from an emission surface of the first light emitting device in an opposite direction to the direction of the first beam. | 2010-04-29 |
20100103803 | OPTICAL HEAD, OPTICAL DISC DEVICE AND INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE - It is aimed to provide an optical head, an optical disc device and an information processing device capable of suppressing the amount of third-order astigmatism created upon recording or reproducing information on or from a multi-layer optical disc including at least three information recording surfaces. | 2010-04-29 |
20100103804 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING OF IMAGE DATA IN THE MEDICAL FIELD - An image processing system in the medical field is provided. The system for processing image data includes at lest two graphics processors, at least one renderer module for rendering image data and at least one reconstruction module for volume reconstruction. In a first operating mode of the system in which at least one reconstruction module is inactive, the instructions of at least one renderer module is able to be executed by at least two of the graphics processors. In a second operating mode of the system in which at least one reconstruction module is active, the instructions of at least one renderer module and the instructions of at least one reconstruction module is able to be executed separately on different graphics processors of the said graphics processors. During operation in one of the two operating modes, a switch can be made to the other operating mode in each case. | 2010-04-29 |
20100103805 | SEMICONDUCTOR LASER DRIVING DEVICE, OPTICAL HEAD DEVICE AND OPTICAL INFORMATION RECORDING/REPRODUCING DEVICE - A semiconductor laser driving device is provided with a high frequency superimposing circuit ( | 2010-04-29 |
20100103806 | SEEK AND SCAN PROBE (SSP) CANTILEVER STOP STRUCTURES - MEMS storage devices and associated systems and structures are generally described. In one example, a micro-electro-mechanical (MEMS) storage device includes a substrate, a lateral actuation structure coupled with the substrate, a micro-electro-mechanical (MEMS) probe coupled with the lateral actuation structure, the MEMS probe having a first end, a second end having a probe tip, and a longitudinal axis extending between the first end and the second end, wherein the second end can be actuated in a direction substantially normal to a surface of the substrate, and one or more stop beam structures coupled with the lateral actuation structure to restrict motion of the MEMS probe in the direction substantially normal to the surface of the substrate. | 2010-04-29 |
20100103807 | Optical data recording medium and method for reproducing recorded data - An optical data recording medium, in which irradiation of a light beam is used for recording and/or reproducing data includes (i) a substrate having an a rise and/or a recess which are a light-incident surface, (ii) a reflective layer, provided on the light-incident surface of the substrate, for reflecting the light beam, (iii) a light absorption layer for converting, to heat, a light of the light beam to heat on the surface of the reflective layer, (iv) a reproducing layer, provided on the surface of the heat-light converting layer, having a transmittance that changes in accordance with a light intensity distribution of the light beam. The optical data recording medium is excellent in super-resolution property, and enables reproduction of a shorter mark length. | 2010-04-29 |
20100103808 | Optical media manufactured with low-grade materials - This disclosure describes optical media that is compatible with conventional DVD drives. Unlike conventional DVDs, however, the described media uses a lower cost, lower quality material for one of the substrates. In particular, a so-called “dummy” substrate may comprise a non-optical grade polymeric material. In some cases, the dummy substrate may include post-consumer recycled materials, such as recycled polycarbonate. In other cases, dummy substrate may comprise a low cost non-optical grade polycarbonate, such as an industrial grade polycarbonate. In still other cases, the dummy substrate may comprise a polycarbonate blend, or other non-polycarbonate materials. | 2010-04-29 |
20100103809 | OPTICAL DISC AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - A method of manufacturing an optical disc comprises the steps of: (1) forming a substrate including an inner supporting section and an outer information recording section, the inner supporting section having a thickness larger than that of the outer information recording section; and (2) forming a vibration suppressing layer by printing UV curable paste three to five times over the surface of the non-recording side of the outer information recording section from an inner edge of the outer information recording section to a designated diameter, wherein the printed UV curable paste has a weight of 15% to 25% of the weight of the substrate, and at least 90% of the weight of the printed UV curable paste is distributed within a circular region with diameter 90 mm to 110 mm, each time the UV curable paste printed not exceeding 5% of the weight of the substrate. | 2010-04-29 |
20100103810 | MODULATION CODING SCHEME SELECTION IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A base station and method for selecting a modulation coding scheme (MCS) in an OFDM communication system, includes a first step | 2010-04-29 |
20100103811 | METHOD FOR GENERATING MUTUALLY ORTHOGONAL SIGNALS HAVING A CONTROLLED SPECTRUM - A method for generating mutually orthogonal signals having a controlled spectrum, includes the generation of a plurality of mututally orthogonal, controlled-power discrete spectra s(i) having dimension Q, i designating spectrum number. The aforementioned spectra represent time signals in the spectral range and have a modulus &mgr; that is constant in a spectral line designation set G and zero everywhere else. The method includes the following steps: determining ( | 2010-04-29 |
20100103812 | Transfer Of User Dial Plan To An Access Gateway - A system, method, and Soft Switch for maintaining a current user dial plan in an Access Gateway. When an H.248 control link is established between the Access Gateway and the Soft Switch, the Soft Switch downloads the current dial plan to the Access Gateway. The downloaded information includes termination IDs and Directory Numbers/Subscriber Numbers, DN/SNBs, for all of the users connected to the Access Gateway. Whenever the Soft Switch receives changes to the dial plan, the Soft Switch updates the user dial plan in the Access Gateway. | 2010-04-29 |
20100103813 | PROVISIONED PROVIDER LINK STATE BRIDGING (PLSB) WITH ROUTED BACK-UP - A method of managing traffic flow in a packet network. A working sub-network is provided, which comprises one or more provisioned static working paths between at least one source node and one or more destination nodes in the network, and the working sub-network with a service instance. A backup sub-network is provided, which comprises one or more dynamic protection paths between the at least one source node and the one or more destination nodes, and the backup sub-network associated with the service instance. During a normal operation of the network, forwarding subscriber traffic associated with the service instance through the network using the working sub-network. Following detection of a network failure affecting the service instance, the subscriber traffic associated with the service instance is switched for forwarding through the network using the backup sub-network. | 2010-04-29 |
20100103814 | METHOD OF TRANSMITTING DATA IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM SUPPORTING MULTIMEDIA BROADCAST/MULTICAST SERVICE - A method of transmitting data in a wireless communication system supporting a multimedia broadcast/multicast service (MBMS) includes transmitting a data block for the MBMS through a main channel, and transmitting the data block through a sub-channel if an error report for the data block is received. Waste of radio resources is minimized by the use of a main channel while improving quality of the MBMS by restoring data by the use of a sub-channel. | 2010-04-29 |
20100103815 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REFLECTING FORWARDING PLANE UTILIZATION IN CONTROL PLANE - A method is provided that includes setting a first oversubscription factor of a control plane for an interface, measuring forwarding plane utilization on the interface, and calculating a second oversubscription factor of the control plane for the interface using the measured forwarding plane utilization as compared with a target forwarding plane utilization on the interface. The method also includes determining whether to update the first oversubscription factor based upon the calculated second oversubscription factor. | 2010-04-29 |
20100103816 | TRANSMISSION APPARATUS, TRANSMISSION SYSTEM AND TRANSMISSION METHOD - A transmission apparatus that receives data from a first external apparatus via a first network, and transmits the received data to a second external apparatus via a second network, the transmission apparatus includes a receiving unit that receives data from the first external apparatus, a storage unit that stores the data received by the receiving unit, a transmission unit that reads out the data stored in the storage unit and transmits the data to the second external apparatus at a predetermined transmission speed, a transmission-pause-time calculation unit that calculates the time that is needed to reduce an amount of data stored in the storage unit from a first threshold value to a second threshold value as a transmission-pause-time, and a pause-request-frame transmission unit that adds the transmission-pause-time to the pause request frame and transmits the pause request frame to the first external apparatus. | 2010-04-29 |
20100103817 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND BASE STATION - Admission control wireless resources including abase station which obtains a down wireless resource available rate based on a down QoS requested bandwidth B | 2010-04-29 |
20100103818 | SIP SERVER OVERLOAD DETECTION AND CONTROL - The current invention is related to a system and a method for session overload protocol (SIP) server overload detection and control. The current invention proceeds by receiving SIP messages at the SIP server from a communications network; processing the received SIP messages; detecting an overload based on a trigger condition as a result of receiving and processing SIP messages; and transitioning the SIP server to an overload state and applying appropriate control actions to mitigate the detected overload. | 2010-04-29 |
20100103819 | FLOW CONTROL SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE - One or more flow control modules, implemented on various types of network topologies, provide a number of functionalities for controlling the flow of IP packets (such as TCP/IP packets) over a network connection. The flow control modules may be implemented within a sender and/or receiver or may be deployed into a network as a separate device without requiring significant additional resources. | 2010-04-29 |
20100103820 | FAIR USE MANAGEMENT METHOD AND SYSTEM - A method of managing a plurality of subscribers using a communication network involving: obtaining network usage data for a plurality of service flows associated with the plurality of subscribers using the network; from the network usage data, determining which of the plurality of subscribers has been using an excess amount of bandwidth; determining that at least some part of the network is currently in a congested state; and in response to determining that at least some part of the network is currently in the congested state, sending a policy decision to a gateway device that controls bandwidth resources currently being provided to the identified subscriber, said policy decision instructing the gateway device to reduce network bandwidth that is currently being provided to support existing service flows for the identified subscriber. | 2010-04-29 |
20100103821 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ANCHOR CELL DESIGNATION IN NETWORK MIMO - Systems and methods that designate a control attachment point(s) during transmission of data in a Coordinated Multipoint (CoMP) system. The control attachment point is represented by an anchor cell to address control signaling and represent a User Equipment's (UE) interaction with the wireless communication system from a perspective of control (e.g., supplying/sending grants to the UE, transmitting/receiving ACKS on the downlink/uplink to the UE, control information (CQI), and the like.) The cells can further engage in backhaul transfer of information therebetween, and dynamic switching/change of anchor point based on criteria such as control loading, channel quality, and the like can further be implemented. | 2010-04-29 |
20100103822 | Network Assessment and Fault Isolation - Fault isolation in a network includes embedding in-band traceroute packets in a media stream, passing the traceroute packets into a network connecting a proximal end point and a distal end point, monitoring the network for responses, expected from respective traceroute packets, from each of a plurality of network devices that are disposed between the proximal and distal end points; analyzing the respective responses; and based on the analyzing step, identifying one or more of the network devices as being responsible for a fault. In a preferred embodiment, fault isolation further includes correlating un-acknowledged, i.e., un-responded, traceroute packets with packet loss and or jitter computed at the distal end point. | 2010-04-29 |
20100103823 | Operating network entities in a communications system comprising a management network with agent and management levels - The present invention relates to operating of network entities in a communications system, wherein said communications system comprises a management network with agent and management levels, wherein a fault and/or performance management related data provided or occurring in an agent level is correlated and/or analyzed in said agent level with further fault and/or performance management related data provided or occurring in said agent level by use of configuration management relationships in said agent level, and wherein an information derived from the correlation is transmitted to at least one management level of said management network of said communications network being responsible for management of the corresponding agent level. | 2010-04-29 |
20100103824 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MONITORING A PLURALITY OF NETWORK DEVICES - A system for monitoring a plurality of network devices within a network comprises a network monitor embedded within one of the network devices for automatically discovering and requesting status information from other network devices. The network monitor, in the event that another network monitor is discovered, initiates cooperation with the other network monitor to share discovering and requesting. | 2010-04-29 |
20100103825 | MOBILE STATION LOCALIZATION APPARATUS, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS - Embodiments herein may use first and second path loss values L | 2010-04-29 |
20100103826 | REDUNDANT ACKNOWLEDGMENT IN LOOPBACK ENTRY - Redundant acknowledgment between agents performing a loopback test over bidirectional communications bus is described. In one example, in a processor including a communications agent coupled to a bidirectional communications bus, the communications agent initiates loopback communications to a second agent, sends a packet including a redundant acknowledgment sequence to the second agent, receives the packet including the redundant acknowledgement sequence looped back from the second agent, determines whether the received redundant acknowledgment sequence is valid, sends a test sequence to the second agent, receives the test sequence looped back, and if the received redundant acknowledgment sequence is determined to be valid, then checks the received test sequence. | 2010-04-29 |
20100103827 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ESTIMATING INTERNET-WIDE TRANSMISSION PATH AND TRANSMISSION DELAY - Disclosed herein is a system and method for estimating an Internet-wide transmission path and transmission delay. The system includes indexing construction means configured to function as storage for storing the results of actual measurement of transmission delay for all destinations on the Internet, and configured to, in order to search for necessary actual measurement results using Autonomous System (AS) numbers, translate IP addresses constituting the actual measurement results into AS numbers and index respective path segments with AS numbers, mapping means for mapping the IP addresses of queried two points to AS numbers, AS path estimation means for estimating an AS path between the two AS numbers, and path stitching means for searching for respective path segments constituting the estimated AS path, stitching the found path segments together and stitching IP paths corresponding to the AS path, thereby obtaining a plurality of stitched paths and corresponding transmission delay. | 2010-04-29 |
20100103828 | CELLULAR SYSTEM, COMMUNICATION PATH QUALITY MEASURING METHOD, BASE STATION, AND MOBILE STATION - A cellular system comprises a mobile station and a base station. The mobile station includes a means for transmitting a pilot signal synchronized with data transmission and a means for transmitting a pilot signal not synchronized with data transmission. The base station includes a means for measuring an interference power based on the received power of the field of the pilot signal synchronized with data transmission, a means for measuring a desired wave power based on the received power of the field of the pilot signal not synchronized with data transmission, and a means for estimating the channel quality of the mobile station based on the interference power and the desired wave power. | 2010-04-29 |
20100103829 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MOBILITY MANAGEMENT - A telecommunications system having a plurality of access networks, each of which can provide a facility for mobile terminals to communicate data in accordance with a communications service when in a coverage area provided by the access networks. The telecommunications system includes a mobility manager which receives network evaluation messages from a mobile terminal which provide an indication of a quality of communications available via a communications link with one or more of the plurality of access networks, which are currently available for communicating data. The mobility manager identifies one of the access networks with which the mobile terminal should be affiliated for communicating the data via a communications link provided with the access network based on an amount of power, which the mobile terminal may consume when communicating via the identified access network, and communicates an instruction to the mobile terminal to change affiliation to the identified access network. | 2010-04-29 |
20100103830 | Integrity of Low Bandwidth Communications - The invention relates to a method for checking the integrity of a set of data packets received by a receiving communication device from a sending communication device, the data packets of the set being received in unpredictable order. The invention also relates to a communication device implementing a method according to the invention, in particular to a smart card. | 2010-04-29 |
20100103831 | CONTROLLING ACCESS TO AN IP-BASED WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORK VIA ACCESS POINT MANAGEMENT - An access point management facility manages use of an access point configured for IP-based communications in a telecommunications system. The facility allows for the establishment of one or more static and/or dynamic parameters for limiting use of the access point for IP-based communications. The facility monitors traffic on the access point and determines whether any requests for use of the access point complies with the parameters for limiting use. The facility then denies or redirects a request for use of the access point if otherwise permitting the request would not comply with the parameters for limiting use of the access point. | 2010-04-29 |
20100103832 | Feedback Apparatus, Feedback Method, Scheduling Apparatus, And Scheduling Method - A scheduling apparatus in a MIMO control station for switching between SU-MIMO mode and MU-MIMO mode receives feedback information from each of a plurality of MIMO terminals. The scheduling apparatus comprises a SU-MIMO selecting unit that selects a terminal that has a SU-MIMO optimal performance metric among all the terminals; a MU-MIMO selecting unit that groups the terminals into at least one set, and selects a set of terminals that have a MU-MIMO optimal performance metric; and a switching unit that compares the SU-MIMO optimal performance metric and the MU-MIMO optimal performance metric to switch between the SU-MIMO mode and the MU-MIMO mode. | 2010-04-29 |
20100103833 | Radio Bearer Specific CQI Reporting - An improved mechanism for providing channel state feedback from a user equipment (UE) | 2010-04-29 |
20100103834 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR UPLINK NETWORK MIMO IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Systems and methodologies are described herein that facilitate generation and processing of control signaling to support uplink network multiple-in-multiple-out (N-MIMO) communication in a wireless communication system. As described herein, respective network nodes associated with an uplink N-MIMO framework can generate channel state information (CSI) corresponding to an uplink channel from a designated network user to the respective nodes. Generated CSI can subsequently be communicated to an uplink anchor node for the network user in order to facilitate rate assignment, scheduling, and/or other operations with respect to the network user. As described herein, CSI generated and reported by respective cells can include channel profiles, carrier/interference profiles, estimated supported uplink rates, or the like. As additionally described herein, supplemental information such as observed interference levels, demodulation indicators, or the like can be communicated to an anchor node and utilized in rate assignment and/or scheduling. | 2010-04-29 |
20100103835 | SCHEDULER AND SCHEDULING METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING DATA IN MIMO BASED WIRELESS LAN SYSTEM - A scheduler and scheduling method that may select a data transmission time interval and a data transmitting station are included in a multi-user Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) communication system. An access point may include a receiver to receive channel measurement signals from stations using a plurality of receive antennas; a channel estimation unit to generate channel state matrices with respect to wireless channels formed from the stations to the receive antennas using the channel measurement signals; and a scheduler to select at least one transmitting station from the stations by considering the channel state matrices and a number of the receive antennas. The receiver may receive a data stream from the selected transmitting stations. Stations receive identifiers corresponding to transmitting stations and/or transmitting antennas to identify stations or antennas for transmitting data streams to the access point. | 2010-04-29 |
20100103836 | Remote Optimizing Wireless Wan Modular Transmitter/Bridge - The invention is a modular, optimizing transmitter/bridge device for optimizing placement of a transmitter/bridge for WWAN communication for one or more WWAN service providers, comprising a transmitter/bridge for WWAN communication, including software for identifying signals from the one or more WWAN service providers, a WWAN interface for providing WWAN service from a preselected WWAN service provider in electronic communication with the transmitter/bridge, a connection to a power source in electronic communication with the transmitter/bridge; and a signal strength indicator in electronic communication with the transmitter/bridge for indicating signal strength of a preselected WWAN service. The device will also have a signal strength indicator to allow for optimal placement for maximum wireless connectivity. | 2010-04-29 |
20100103837 | TRANSPARENT PROVISIONING OF NETWORK ACCESS TO AN APPLICATION - An apparatus and method for enhancing the infrastructure of a network such as the Internet is disclosed. A packet interceptor/processor apparatus is coupled with the network so as to be able to intercept and process packets flowing over the network. Further, the apparatus provides external connectivity to other devices that wish to intercept packets as well. The apparatus applies one or more rules to the intercepted packets which execute one or more functions on a dynamically specified portion of the packet and take one or more actions with the packets. The apparatus is capable of analyzing any portion of the packet including the header and payload. Actions include releasing the packet unmodified, deleting the packet, modifying the packet, logging/storing information about the packet or forwarding the packet to an external device for subsequent processing. Further, the rules may be dynamically modified by the external devices. | 2010-04-29 |
20100103838 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR EVALUATING COMPONENT COSTS IN A COMMUNICATION NETWORK - A method and apparatus for calculating a cost index in a communication network. In one embodiment, a plurality of first cost factors associated with a first set of network elements is obtained. Subsequently, a plurality of second cost factors associated with a second set of network elements is obtained. A first cost index is then determined based on the plurality of first cost factors associated with the first set of network elements. Similarly, a second cost index is determined based on the plurality of second cost factors associated with the second set of network elements. Afterwards, the first cost index is compared to the second cost index to determine a point in time when a service provider should minimize new investment in the first set of network elements. | 2010-04-29 |
20100103839 | Testing of Transmitters for Communication Links by Software Simulation of Reference Channel and/or Reference Receiver - A transmitter for a communications link is tested by using a (software) simulation of a reference channel and/or a reference receiver to test the transmitter. In one embodiment for optical fiber communications links, a data test pattern is applied to the transmitter under test and the resulting optical output is captured, for example by a sampling oscilloscope. The captured waveform is subsequently processed by the software simulation, in order to simulate propagation of the optical signal through the reference channel and/or reference receiver. A performance metric for the transmitter is calculated based on the processed waveform. | 2010-04-29 |
20100103840 | Techniques for LDPC decoding - Briefly, in accordance with one embodiment of the invention, a device may dynamically select a frequency on which to communicate on a wireless local area network by determining which channels are available and which are unoccupied, for example using a received signal power level measurement. A linear folding algorithm may be used to select an available channel at a midpoint in a larger gap between occupied channels. In the event there are multiple larger gaps of the same size, the larger gap at the higher frequency may be selected. | 2010-04-29 |
20100103841 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR WIRELESSLY CONNECTING DIVERSE AD-HOC NETWORK GROUPS - A wireless connection system and method are provided to connect diverse Ad-hoc network groups. A first Ad-hoc network group has a first network node and a first edge node wirelessly connecting with each other. The second Ad-hoc network group has a second network node and a second edge node wirelessly connecting with each other without connecting the first Ad-hoc network group. The first and second edge nodes have multiple wireless modules respectively. One of the wireless modules is used to connect wireless with other network nodes in the same Ad-hoc network group. The rest extra wireless module(s) is used to connect wirelessly with another extra wireless module(s) of the edge node(s) in different Ad-hoc network group(s). Therefore, the independent first and second Ad-hoc network groups are now capable of wirelessly connecting with each other. | 2010-04-29 |
20100103842 | SELF-ASSIGNMENT OF DETECTORS AND WORKERS AMONG ACCESS DEVICES IN A WIRELESS NETWORK ENVIRONMENT - A self-assignment method for assigning detector and working devices among a plurality of access devices in a wireless network begins by performing wireless data collection with the access devices during an automated calibration period. During this time, each access device receives beacons from one or more other transmitting access devices. The method records radio frequency (RF) data associated with beacons received during the wireless data collection, and thereafter automatically designates at least one of the access devices as a detector device, based upon the recorded RF data. | 2010-04-29 |
20100103843 | METHOD, TERMINAL, AND ADDRESS SERVER FOR CONFIGURING A TERMINAL - The invention relates to a method for configuring a terminal (EG | 2010-04-29 |
20100103844 | Method for connecting to wireless LAN access point and apparatus using the same - A method and system for connecting to a wireless LAN Access Point (AP) using position information and an apparatus using the same. The method and system includes scanning APs in a preset period, determining a current position of an AP access apparatus based on the scanned APs, calculating distances between the current position of the AP access apparatus and each of positions of one or more user-designated APs, controlling a scan period in response to the calculated distances, and, when the user-designated APs are scanned, accessing the scanned user-designated APs. In scanning the nearby positioned wireless LAN AP and accessing the scanned AP, the power consumption can be reduced and the access time to AP can also be reduced. | 2010-04-29 |
20100103845 | CELL RELAY MOBILITY PROCEDURES - Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate performing intra-cluster and inter-cluster reselection for relay eNBs. In intra-cluster reselection, a relay eNB can reselect a disparate relay eNB and indicate its identifier in a bearer list update message. The disparate relay eNB and upstream eNBs (including the donor eNB) can update routing tables based at least in part on the identifier. In addition, the relay eNB can provide identifiers of downstream relay eNBs to facilitate updating routing tables for those identifiers as well. In an inter-cluster reselection, relay eNBs can release connection to downstream relay eNBs and re-attach to a wireless network to receive an identifier from a new donor eNB in the new cluster. Alternatively, the relay eNB can request an identifier from the donor eNB during reselection, notify downstream relay eNBs of the reselection, and/or request identifiers for one or more downstream relay eNBs. | 2010-04-29 |
20100103846 | PROVIDER LINK STATE BRIDGING (PLSB) COMPUTATION METHOD - A method of multicast route computation in a link state protocol controlled network. A spanning tree is computed from a first node to every other node in the network using a known spanning tree protocol. The network is then divided into two or more partitions, each partition encompassing an immediate neighbour node of the first node and any nodes of the network subtending the neighbour node on the spanning tree. Two or more of the partitions are merged when a predetermined criterion is satisfied. Nodes within all of the partitions except a largest one of the partitions are then identified, and each identified node examined to identify node pairs for which a respective shortest path traverses the first node. | 2010-04-29 |
20100103847 | METHOD AND ARRANGEMENT RELATING COMMUNICATION DEVICES - A method for use in controlling transmit power of a radio transceiver for communication with a receiving and/or transmitting node is provided. The method may include transmitting a signal from the radio transmitter, the signal including a Transmit Power Control portion, and altering the TPC re-transmission when the radio transmitter is in a fixed environmental condition. | 2010-04-29 |
20100103848 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DIVERSITY IDLE MODE IN A MOBILE STATION - Certain embodiments of the present disclosure may allow a mobile station (MS) to monitor the paging interval of a serving base station (BS) as well as one or more neighboring BSs with sufficient signal strength or signal quality. Monitoring the paging intervals of multiple BSs may help improve paging success rate. | 2010-04-29 |
20100103849 | POWER-SAVING CONTROL METHOD FOR WIRELESS LAN - A power-saving control method for wireless LAN is applied to a portable electronic device, such as laptop computer. When the portable electronic device is booted and drives the wireless LAN device, the scan function of the wireless LAN device is disabled. Therefore, automatically scanning the wireless access point is avoided to save power. Moreover, after the wireless LAN link is established by the user, the scan function of the wireless LAN device is also disabled. Thus, the periodical automatic scanning the wireless access point is avoided to save power. | 2010-04-29 |
20100103850 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CHANNEL SELECTION IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A node in a wireless communication system announces a channel switch operation to facilitate a smooth transition to other channel. The node detects a requirement to discontinue communications at a first channel and sends a message to a plurality of neighboring nodes in response to detecting the requirement. Generally, the message comprises at least a reason for discontinuation of communications at the first channel and a duration for the channel switch operation after which the node is available for communications at the first channel or an alternate channel. Each of the plurality of neighboring nodes can determine based on the message and the neighborhood conditions a requirement to scan alternate channels to initiate communications with other nodes. | 2010-04-29 |
20100103851 | SYSTEM FOR ENABLING COMMUNICATION OVER A WIRELESS INTERMITTENTLY CONNECTED NETWORK - Disclosed are methods, apparatus' and systems for enabling communication over wireless intermittently connected networks. A system includes at least one dispatch center for managing various communications of the intermittently connected network, a plurality of geographically separated nodes and a plurality of mobile terminals. The at least one mobile terminal is configured to provide a communication network to the plurality of geographically separated nodes for the transfer of information among the plurality of geographically separated nodes. The information is at least in part based upon the various communications managed and communicated to at least one mobile terminal by the at least one dispatch center, and comprises one or more of authentication parameters, security credentials, provisioning parameters, routing information, connection setup messages, services, messages, and diagnostics. Authentication between entities is completed, and in turn, provisioning is completed and capabilities and services are established prior to messaging commencing. | 2010-04-29 |
20100103852 | DEDICATED RADIO RESOURCE CONTROL - The present invention provides for a method of controlling switching between dedicated radio resources of the mobile radio communications network including sending an RRC massage to UE within the network requesting both RB release and RB set-up at the user equipment, such that only a single message is required for reconfiguration sufficient to allow switching between the RB resources which, in one example, can comprise different channels of a Mobile TV service. | 2010-04-29 |
20100103853 | Wireless Communication Apparatus - A wireless communication apparatus ( | 2010-04-29 |
20100103854 | METHOD FOR RECEIVING SYSTEM INFORMATION IN MULTIMEDIA BROADCAST/MULTICAST SERVICE - The present invention allows the terminal not to receive the same system information from corresponding cell when the terminal is moved to another cell within the global MBMS area, thereby preventing unnecessary reception and preventing network resources from being wasted. | 2010-04-29 |
20100103855 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND BASE STATION FOR TRANSMITTING MBMS IN SINGLE FREQUENCY NETWORK - A method, system and base station for transmitting MBMS in a single frequency network are provided. The method includes: sending, by an RNC, MBMS data to base stations of the target cells or sectors, distributing the same time and frequency resources, scrambling code and midamble to the cells or sectors to transmit the MBMS data, sending information of the distributed resources, scrambling code and midamble to the base stations and UEs of the target cells or sectors; and rotating, by each of the base stations, the MBMS burst signal to be sent by a random phase, sending the rotated signal to the UE using time and frequency resources distributed by RNC. The system includes an RNC, base stations and a UE, and each of the base stations includes a phase processing module and a signal sending module. | 2010-04-29 |
20100103856 | METHOD OF TRANSMITTING MULTICAST DATA BASED ON PROXY MOBILE IPv6 DURING HANDOFF - Provided is a method of transmitting multicast data based on proxy mobile Internet protocol version 6 (PMIPv6) during handoff. The method includes, when a first access router detects that a mobile node in the region of the first access router moves out of the region, transmitting, at the first access router, a context message informing a second access router adjacent to the first access router of handoff, when the second access router receives the context message, transmitting, at the second access router, a multicast membership report message about the mobile node to a multicast router, and receiving, at the second access router, multicast data from the multicast router and holding the received multicast data. | 2010-04-29 |
20100103857 | CELL RELAY NETWORK ATTACHMENT PROCEDURES - Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate attaching cell relays to a wireless network. During the attachment procedure, a relay eNB can request assignment of an identifier, or a portion thereof, from a donor eNB for subsequent packet routing to the relay eNB. This can occur through one or more intermediary relay eNBs, where present. Donor eNB can assign an identifier or portion thereof (or confirm/deny an explicit identifier request from the relay eNB) and can forward establishment information downstream to the relay eNB. Donor eNB and intermediary relay eNBs, where present, can store the identifier for subsequent use in routing packets to the relay eNB. The identifier can be a terminal endpoint identifier (TEID) utilized in a tunneling protocol, a relay identifier utilized in a relay protocol, and/or the like. | 2010-04-29 |
20100103858 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR COMMUNICATING IN A RELAY COMMUNICATION NETWORK - Techniques for transmitting data in a relay communication network are described. In an aspect, stations in the relay network may be grouped into multiple depths, and stations at each depth may send the same transmission in each time interval. Packets may be transmitted in a pipelined manner in the relay network. Transmissions of a packet may be sent by stations at progressively higher depth in successive time intervals. A station may perform auto-configuration, attempt to decode transmissions from stations at different depths, and determine its depth based on decoding results. In another aspect, stations at each depth may transmit the same synchronization signal, and stations at different depths may transmit different synchronization signals. In one design, the synchronization signals for different depths may be different pilots, which may be generated with different scrambling codes or different orthogonal codes or may be multiplexed in frequency and/or time. | 2010-04-29 |
20100103859 | RELAY CONNECTION UNIT FOR VEHICLE - A Relay connection unit ( | 2010-04-29 |
20100103860 | Method of operating relay station in wireless communication system - A method of operating a relay station in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes operating in a first mode comprising a first sub-mode and a second sub-mode, in the first sub-mode a first downlink and a first uplink between a base station and the relay station being simultaneously activated, in the second sub-mode a second downlink and a second uplink between the relay station and a mobile station being simultaneously activated, and operating in a second mode comprising a third sub-mode and a fourth sub-mode, in the third sub-mode the first downlink and the second uplink being simultaneously activated, in the fourth sub-mode the first uplink and the second downlink being simultaneously activated. | 2010-04-29 |
20100103861 | CELL RELAY PACKET ROUTING - Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate packet routing among relay eNBs in a wireless network. A donor eNB can create at least a portion of a tunnel endpoint identifier (TEID) for a relay eNB communicating with a UE or other device. In addition, the relay eNB communicating with the UE can create a portion of the TEID. Upon receiving packets with a TEID, the donor eNB can route the packets to downstream eNBs based on the portion of the TEID that it created. Other downstream eNBs can continue to route packets to next hop eNBs based on the portion of the TEID created by the donor eNB or the downstream eNBs themselves. The relay eNB communicating with the UE can route packets to the UE based on the portion of the TEID it created and/or the portion created by the donor eNB. | 2010-04-29 |
20100103862 | DEVICE ATTACHMENT AND BEARER ACTIVATION USING CELL RELAYS - Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate assigning TEIDs, or portions thereof, to UEs or other devices during network attachment and/or dedicated bearer activation using one or more cell relays. Relay eNBs can request bearer establishment from a UE, which can be based on receiving an attach accept from an upstream node during attachment for the UE, receiving a bearer setup request from the upstream node, and/or the like. Once a bearer establishment response is received from the UE, the relay eNBs can store a TEID relating to the bearer. This can be a TEID that is at least partially received in the attach accept or bearer setup message, generated for the UE upon receiving the bearer establishment response, and/or the like. The TEID, or portion thereof, can be utilized for subsequent packet routing to the UE through one or more cell relays. | 2010-04-29 |
20100103863 | BEARER QoS MAPPING FOR CELL RELAYS - Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate mapping multiple evolved packet system (EPS) bearers to a single relay eNB radio bearer. In particular, an upstream eNB can select a radio bearer of a downstream eNB for association to an EPS bearer; the selection can be based on a best effort match or substantially any logic. The upstream eNB can store an association between the radio bearer and EPS bearer for subsequent downstream packet routing. The upstream eNB can also provide an indication of the selected radio bearer to the downstream relay eNB to facilitate upstream packet routing therefrom. The upstream eNB can alternatively select the radio bearer of the downstream eNB for association to the EPS bearer based on a quality of service (QoS) class identifier (QCI) of the EPS bearer. | 2010-04-29 |
20100103864 | CELL RELAY PROTOCOL - Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate providing a relay protocol to facilitate communicating upper layer protocol data among relay and donor nodes. In particular, a donor node can create a relay protocol packet upon receiving data for a relay node from a core network. Donor node can indicate an assigned relay identifier in the relay protocol packet header to facilitate routing the packet among related downstream relay nodes to arrive at the appropriate relay node, which can process the upper layer protocol data. In addition, a relay node can formulate a relay protocol packet for communication to a donor node through zero or more intermediary upstream relay nodes. Similarly, the relay node can insert the assigned relay identifier in the header to allow the donor node to associate response or related packets from the core network with the relay node. | 2010-04-29 |
20100103865 | HEADER COMPRESSION FOR CELL RELAY COMMUNICATIONS - Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate compressing packet headers for cell relay communications. Since cell relays can support a number of evolved packet system (EPS) bearers over a given dedicated radio bearer (DRB), robust header compression (RoHC) can be multiplexed for communications to/from a given cell relay. Thus, an upstream node compressing one or more packet headers can indicate a RoHC context, which can be represented by a RoHC context identifier in a RoHC header. A receiving entity can decompress the headers based on determining the RoHC context. Alternatively, the RoHC context can be associated with an identifier of a related UE bearer such as a tunnel endpoint identifier (TEID), a relay identifier, and/or the like, that is received in a tunneling protocol header to facilitate packet routing. | 2010-04-29 |
20100103866 | RESOURCE MANAGEMENT IN MESH SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS - A method of allocating resources in a mesh-connected communication network comprising a plurality of terminals, and a limited quantity of communication resources for allocation between said terminals, comprises: a request phase in which a plurality of terminals calculate their requirements for resources and issue the same as requests; a distribution phase in which the requests are distributed to all other requesting terminals over the mesh; and a calculation phase in which each requesting terminal uses all available requests and calculates resource allocation over the mesh. Thus each requesting terminal determines the resource allocation. | 2010-04-29 |
20100103867 | BASE STATION APPARATUS, USER EQUIPMENT, AND METHOD USED IN MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A base station apparatus for a mobile communication system is disclosed that includes a unit to receive an uplink reference signal transmitted from user equipment, a unit to provide transmission power control data indicating whether a transmission power value of the uplink reference signal to be transmitted later is to be changed, a unit to derive a first offset power value so that the uplink control signal is transmitted at a power value determined by adding the first offset power value to the transmission power value of the uplink reference signal, a unit to derive a second offset power value so that the uplink control signal is transmitted at a power value determined by adding the second offset power value to the transmission power value of the uplink reference signal, and a unit to report the data and values to the user equipment. | 2010-04-29 |
20100103868 | METHOD FOR MODELING WIRELESS NETWORK COVERAGE UNDER LINE-OF-SIGHT CONDITIONS - A line-of-sight (LOS) wireless communications network uses an initial coverage map to indicate expected performance of at least a portion of the network. Man-made structures, terrain and vegetative barriers may degrade system performance. The initial coverage map is updated using techniques, such as the automatic searching of construction database information, satellite imaging, actual system performance measurements, and failed installation attempts to generate a revised coverage map. The measurement techniques may be used alone or in combination to generate the revised coverage map. Other information regarding additions to the LOS wireless network or the introduction of other wireless networks within the area may be used to generate the revised coverage map. | 2010-04-29 |
20100103869 | TRANSFERRING DATA IN A MOBILE TELEPHONY NETWORK - A mobile telephony network comprises base stations operating according to a predetermined standard. A transfer node allows the transfer of data from a first base station to a second base station in the mobile telephone network. Data is sent from the first base station to a data receiver of the data transfer node via a first wireless communications channel complying with the said standard. The received data is transferred via an interface within the transfer node to a data sender of the data transfer node. The data sender sends the transferred data to the second base station via a second wireless communications channel complying with the said standard. The interface within the transfer node does not comply with the operating standard because it transfers data only within the node. Data may be sent from the second base station to the first base station via the node in similar manner. Preferably, the receiver appears to the first base station to be a relay and the sender appears to the second base station to be a user terminal. | 2010-04-29 |
20100103870 | CONTEXT-AWARE PACKET SWITCHING - Embodiments of a communication system, a method, and a device for use with the communication system are described. Communication between the devices in the communication system may be enabled by the method. In particular, nodes or devices (henceforth referred to as devices) in a network (such as an ad-hoc network) in the communication system may exchange a dynamic network context via communication with neighboring devices. These devices may use the dynamic network context to determine how network resources are shared during the communication, including performing context-aware packet switching of packets (including data packets) in an information flow. | 2010-04-29 |
20100103871 | Methods and systems for providing user information in telecommunications networks - Example embodiments and methods are directed to providing and otherwise handling user information within telecommunications networks, including wireless telecommunications networks. Example embodiments may include wireless networks having a Correlation Data Records Store (CDRS) that may store and update all user data needed by applications and services operating in example networks. Example methods may provide for collection and handling in the CDRS of all user information relied upon by applications and services operating in wireless networks, so as to reduce resource consumption by such applications and services. | 2010-04-29 |
20100103872 | Method and system of managing QOS-guarenteed multimode fast mobility in wireless networks - Disclosed herein is a method and system for managing QoS-guaranteed multimode fast mobility in wireless networks. The method includes the steps of (a) in response to a request for call establishment, registering a user ID, the unique IP address of a user, a currently used temporary IP address and the current location of the mobile host; (b) completing the call establishment; (c) establishing a tunnel between the OMS and the mobile host; (d) in response to the provision of a new temporary IP address and the wireless network information of a newly activated wireless communication interface, establishing a new tunnel using the unique IP address of the OMS and the new temporary IP address of the mobile host, and then transmitting data packets in parallel; and (e) in response to a request for the removal of a tunnel, removing the corresponding tunnel. | 2010-04-29 |
20100103873 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ENABLING CONNECTION OF A MOBILE COMMUNICATION TERMINAL TO A RADIO COMMUNICATION NETWORK - A method for enabling connection of a mobile communication terminal ( | 2010-04-29 |
20100103874 | METHOD AND ARRANGEMENT, NODE AND ARTICLE FOR OPTIMIZED PS DOMAIN IN GAN - A method and arrangement for optimizing a packet-switched (PS) domain of a Generic Access Network (GAN) that communicates with a Serving GPRS Support Node (SGSN) in the PS domain. The SGSN detects that a GAN access is being attempted by a mobile station. In response, communications between the mobile station and the SGSN are conducted using a light-weight version of a communication protocol in which functionality that is unnecessary in the GAN mode of operation is decreased. | 2010-04-29 |
20100103875 | Establishing Parallel Tunnels for Higher Bit Rate - An object of the present invention is to provide a mechanism for an improved network capacity when using fixed wireless terminal. The object is achieved by a method in a radio access network node for establishing at least two packet data tunnels for packet transmission, from a fixed wireless terminal in a local area network through a set of cells in a radio access network. The set of cells comprises at least two cells. The fixed wireless terminal is a radio access network node comprised in the radio access network. The radio access network comprises a plurality of potential cells to which the packet data tunnels may be established, whereof said set of cells are part of the potential cells. The method comprising the steps of: Selecting the set of cells to use for a packet transmission, based on radio link quality between the fixed wireless terminal and each of the respective potential cells and establishing the at least two packet data tunnels, one individual packet data tunnel from the fixed wireless terminal through each of the respective cells in the selected set of cells. | 2010-04-29 |
20100103876 | MOBILE TERMINAL AND COMMUNICATION MANAGEMENT DEVICE - A technology is disclosed for actualizing flow filtering associated with a packet destined for a mobile terminal while minimizing processes performed by the mobile terminal in a network environment in which a network-based mobility protocol is operating. In the technology, a mobile node | 2010-04-29 |
20100103877 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS PROVIDING MOBILE TRANSMIT DIVERSITY - A method for use by a remote unit in an Evolution Data Optimized (EVDO) network includes sending transmissions to a base station, each of the transmissions corresponding to a respective one of multiple hypotheses of multiple antenna usage. The method also includes receiving feedback from the base station in response to the transmissions, the feedback being uninformed of multiple antenna usage and using the feedback to select at least one of the hypotheses. The method further includes transmitting data using a multiple-antenna scheme associated with the selected hypotheses. | 2010-04-29 |
20100103878 | WIRELESS SENSOR-NETWORK SYSTEM, SENSING TERMINAL NODE, AND BASE STATION - To correct a sensor data acquisition time with a simple hardware configuration, provided is a wireless sensor-network system including: a base station; and a plurality of sensing terminal nodes, the base station transmitting a beacon at predetermined intervals to the plurality of sensing terminal nodes, the plurality of sensing terminal nodes measuring data and transmitting, based on a reception of the beacon transmitted from the base station, the sensor data thus obtained to the base station, in which the plurality of sensing terminal nodes obtain, based on an internal clock, a time at which the beacon is received and transmit the time to the base station, and the base station corrects, based on the reception time transmitted from each of the plurality of sensing terminal nodes, the sensor data acquisition time. | 2010-04-29 |
20100103879 | Systems and Methods for Providing Wireless Communications for Data and Voice Communications - A wireless communications system that provides communication for a plurality of communication devices. The wireless communications system includes an interface including a local exchange carrier (LEC) connection port, a subscriber connection port and a wireless connection port. The wireless communications system includes a wireless terminal connected to the interface that provides wireless data and voice connectivity over a wireless network. | 2010-04-29 |
20100103880 | DATA TRANSMISSION CONTROL METHOD AND DATA TRANSMISSION DEVICE - The embodiments relate to the wireless communication field, and a data transmission control method and a data transmission device are provided. The method includes: receiving from a sender and buffering data in a buffer, and then forwarding the buffered data to a receiver; receiving an acknowledgement (ACK) returned by the receiver, where the ACK indicates that the data is received; adding or reducing the ACK returned by the receiver according to a volume of data unsent in the buffer; and sending the processed ACK to the sender. The data sending rate of the sender is controlled by the processed ACK. This makes the data transmission be reliable and highly efficient. | 2010-04-29 |
20100103881 | METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING CONTROL CHANNEL IN A MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - In a mobile communication system using both a discontinuous transmission scheme and a compressed mode transmission scheme, if a preamble and/or a postamble of a channel including control information for transmitting a specific channel overlaps a compressed mode (CM) gap, an overall transmission unit is not transmitted or remaining signals of the transmission unit excluding the preamble and/or the postamble overlapping the CM gap are transmitted. | 2010-04-29 |
20100103882 | EARLY TERMINATION OF LOW DATA RATE TRAFFIC IN A WIRELESS NETWORK - Systems and techniques are disclosed relating to wireless communications, and more specifically, to various systems and techniques for early termination of low rate traffic in a wireless network. A physical layer packet (PLP) grouping factor K configures the PLP into K groups and an ACK/NACK is received on each group. | 2010-04-29 |
20100103883 | DISTRIBUTED RESERVATION PROTOCOL ENHANCEMENT FOR BIDIRECTIONAL DATA TRANSFER - A method for reserving bandwidth in a wireless system is provided. The method includes reserving one or more communications slots between two or more wireless devices communicating in a wireless network and providing preferential access to at least one wireless device across the network according to a first subset of the communications slots. The method also includes providing preferential access to at least one other device across the network during a second subset of the communications slots. | 2010-04-29 |
20100103884 | BROADBAND DATA COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK WITH BACK-UP GATEWAYS, AND ASSOCIATED METHODS - A broadband data communications network includes mobile wireless communications devices, base stations, and a master access gateway for operating using a full data set for controlling broadband data communications between the base stations and the mobile wireless communications devices. A back-up gateway is coupled to a given one of the base stations for communicating with the master access gateway for generating a data subset from the full data set for the given base station and associated mobile wireless communications devices when communications between the given base station and the master access gateway is available. When communications is unavailable, then the back-up gateway operates using the data subset for controlling broadband data communications between the given base station and associated mobile wireless communications devices. | 2010-04-29 |
20100103885 | METHOD AND APPARATUS OF DAYNAMIC BANDWIDTH MANAGMENT - A wireless communication device, a wireless communication system and a method of transmitting by a piconet controller (PNC) a poll request frame using beamforming techniques to one or more devices, wherein the poll request frame includes a time offset for sending a poll response frame by the device. The PNC receives the poll response frame with a channel bandwidth allocation request and dynamically allocating a channel bandwidth to the one or more devices according to the channel bandwidth allocation request. | 2010-04-29 |
20100103886 | METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING CONTROL SIGNALS IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method of transmitting control signals includes configuring a multiplexing indicator indicating that a plurality of control signals are multiplexed on a control channel, generating a multiplexed control signal by multiplexing a first control signal and a second control signal according to the multiplexing indicator and transmitting the multiplexed control signal on the control channel. Overhead due to control signaling can be reduced by transmitting a multiplexed control signal on a control channel. | 2010-04-29 |
20100103887 | System and Method for Implementing Effective Channel Quality Indication - A method for implementing effective channel quality indication includes, at an endpoint of a wireless network, establishing a communication session with an access station via a wireless connection. The method also includes determining a highest modulation and coding scheme (“MCS”) value supported by the endpoint using the wireless connection. The method further includes determining whether an immediately preceding MCS level is supported by the endpoint using the wireless connection. The method additionally includes transmitting a message from the endpoint. The message comprises an effective channel quality indication (“ECQI”) provides an indication of the highest supported MCS level for the wireless connection and an indication of whether the endpoint supports the immediately preceding MCS value for the wireless connection. | 2010-04-29 |
20100103888 | CIRCUIT SWITCHING USER AGENT SYSTEM, COMMUNICATING DEVICE, AND SERVICE PROVIDING METHOD USED THEREFOR - A circuit switching user agent system includes a service processing device arranged in a home network of an IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem)/MMD (Multi-Media Domain). The circuit switching user agent system also includes a communication device arranged in a visited network where a mobile terminal has visited, the communication device having a function of interconversion between a UNI (User-Network Interface) signal in a circuit switching network to which the mobile terminal is connected and a signal used in the IMS/MMD. | 2010-04-29 |
20100103889 | PREAMBLE ALLOCATION METHOD AND RANDOM ACCESS METHOD IN MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The present invention relates to a preamble allocation method and a random access method in a mobile communication system. In the present invention, one among preamble resources is allocated to specific mobile stations in advance, before random access. The mobile stations request random access by transmitting a preamble based on the pre-allocated preamble resource to a base station. It is therefore possible to prevent collision caused by the fact that other mobile stations transmit the same preamble. | 2010-04-29 |
20100103890 | BASE STATION APPARATUS, USER APPARATUS, AND METHOD USED IN MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM - A base station apparatus in a mobile communications system which uses orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) for downlink is disclosed. The base station includes a unit which generates a first signal; a unit which generates a second signal; a unit which multiplexes the first signal and the second signal to map the multiplexed signals to a sub-carrier to generate a transmit symbol; and a mapping determining unit which determines a position of mapping the second signal to the sub-carrier, wherein the mapping determining unit determines the mapping position based on a cell ID or cell group ID, and a mapping pattern defined with a sequence having two-stage structure. | 2010-04-29 |
20100103891 | USER APPARATUS, BASE STATION APPARATUS, AND METHOD IN MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A user apparatus transmits an uplink control signal to a base station apparatus using a single carrier scheme. The user apparatus includes: a unit configured to prepare acknowledgement information indicating positive acknowledgement or negative acknowledgement for a downlink data signal based on a result of demodulation of the downlink data signal; a unit configured to prepare channel state information indicating reception quality of a downlink reference signal; a unit configured to channel-code multiplexed control information in which the acknowledgement information and the channel state information are multiplexed to prepare the uplink control signal; and a unit configured to transmit the uplink control signal using dedicated resources different from resources for an uplink data signal. | 2010-04-29 |
20100103892 | Method and Arrangements for Scheduling Transmission Resources with Variable Guard Intervals - Method and arrangements for scheduling transmission resources in a first node in a cell comprised within a wireless communication network. The first node is arranged to communicate over a communication channel with at least one user equipment within the cell. The communication is made by using a frame comprising uplink resources and downlink resources with a switching point between the downlink resources and the uplink resources. The method comprises the step of obtaining a parameter referring to the expected transmission quality of the communication and/or the expected coherence properties of the communication channel. The method also comprises scheduling a transmission on an uplink or downlink resource. The resource is located on a time distance from the switching point. The time distance is based on the obtained parameter. | 2010-04-29 |
20100103893 | SPATIAL DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and system for wireless communication in a network of wireless devices, is disclosed. The network includes multiple stations (STAs) and an access point (AP). Each wireless device includes plural antennas. In one embodiment, multiple stations accessing the access point at the same time using a spatial division multiple access (SDMA) protocol. The SDMA protocol involves performing an iterative antenna training process for obtaining principle singular vectors for beamforming communication over a wireless channel without explicit knowledge of the channel. | 2010-04-29 |
20100103894 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MAPPING RESOURCE UNIT IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and apparatus for mapping a resource unit in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes obtaining a frequency partition (FP) count (FPCT), an size of FPi (FPS) for i>0, and subband (SB) count of FPi (FPSC) for i>0 (where FPi is an i | 2010-04-29 |
20100103895 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MAPPING RESOURCE UNIT IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and an apparatus for mapping a resource unit in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes obtaining L | 2010-04-29 |
20100103896 | METHOD AND APPARATUS OF SUBCHANNELIZATION IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and an apparatus of subchannelization is provided. The method includes receiving information indicating the number of physical resource unit (PRU) sets allocated to a subband from a base station, and mapping PRUs of a physical region to a subband PRU or a miniband PRU in a granularity of the PRU set according to the received information, wherein the subband PRU is allocated with at least one subband comprising a first number of contiguous PRUs, the miniband PRU is allocated with at least one miniband comprising a second number of PRUs, and the PRU set comprises PRUs whose number is equal to the number of PRUs included in one subband. Subchannelization can be effectively achieved while maintaining a frequency selective scheduling gain and a frequency diversity gain to the maximum extent possible. | 2010-04-29 |