Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090092066 | TECHNIQUES FOR LINK UTILIZATION FOR HALF-DUPLEX AND FULL-DUPLEX STATIONS IN A WIRELESS NETWORK - Various example embodiments are disclosed herein. According to an example embodiment, an apparatus may include a controller, and a wireless transmitter coupled to the controller, the wireless transmitter configured to the wireless transmitter configured to transmit at least a portion of a frame via wireless link to one or more mobile stations in a wireless network, the at least a portion of a frame including: an all-group downlink region directed to group 1 half-duplex (HD) mobile stations, group 2 HD mobile stations, and full-duplex (FD) mobile stations, a group 1 downlink region directed to the group 1 HD mobile stations and the FD mobile stations, and a group 2 downlink region directed to the group 2 HD mobile stations and the FD mobile stations. | 04-09-2009 |
20090213766 | FRAME STRUCTURES WITH FLEXIBLE PARTITION BOUNDARY FOR WIRELESS NETWORKS - Various example embodiments are disclosed herein. According to an example embodiment, an apparatus may include a wireless interface, and a controller, the apparatus being configured to: transmit a downlink subframe of a frequency division duplex (FDD) frame to one or more mobile stations in a wireless network, each wireless station being assigned to one of a plurality of groups, such as, for example, one of group | 08-27-2009 |
20090268645 | TECHNIQUES FOR RESOURCE ALLOCATION FOR STATIONS IN A FDD WIRELESS NETWORK - Various example embodiments are disclosed herein. According to an example embodiment, an apparatus may include a controller, and a wireless transmitter coupled to the controller, the wireless transmitter configured to the wireless transmitter configured to transmit a Map message as part of a first group downlink (DL) region, the Map message allocating, to a full-duplex (FD) mobile station (MS), a first resource in a first group UL region and a second resource in a second group UL region. The transmitter may also be configured to transmit a dummy information element (IE), for example, as part of a second group DL region, the dummy information element (IE) reflecting at least the allocating to the FD MS of the second resource in the second group UL region. | 10-29-2009 |
20090325578 | SUPPORT FOR MULTI-GROUP FREQUENCY DIVISION DUPLEX WIRELESS NETWORK - Various example embodiments are disclosed herein. According to an example embodiment, a method may include receiving, at a serving base station (BS) in a wireless network from a mobile station (MS), group preference information for the MS for each of one or more candidate BSs; obtaining, by the serving BS based on the group preference information, a group assignment for the MS from each of the one or more candidate BSs; and sending by the serving BS to the MS the group assignment from each of the candidate BSs. | 12-31-2009 |
20100008326 | RECOVERY SCHEMES FOR GROUP SWITCHING PROCEDURES FOR MULTI-GROUP FREQUENCY DIVISION DUPLEX WIRELESS NETWORKS - Various example embodiments are disclosed herein. According to an example embodiment, a method may include receiving at a mobile station from a base station in a wireless network, a message including a group switch instruction instructing the mobile station to switch from a current group to a new group, attempting, by the mobile station, to switch to the new group in response to receiving the group switch instruction, and sending, from the mobile station, an acknowledgement message that acknowledges either the success or failure of the attempting to switch to the new group. | 01-14-2010 |
20110103253 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING POWER SAVING USING SUPERFRAMES - An approach is provided for providing sleep mode associated with a resource frame structure. A superframe that includes a plurality of frames that is partitioned into sub-frames is detected. A length of listening window ( | 05-05-2011 |
20110183632 | COEXISTENCE FOR COGNITIVE RADIO - A system for managing wireless communication in view of other potentially interfering wireless signal sources. Signal-related information may be collected from one or more apparatuses that are participating in a network. The information may then be evaluated in order to determine expected signal activity in the environment in which the apparatuses are operating. In some instances the signal activity may then be compared to a scan schedule utilized, for example, to identify legacy apparatuses operating in the environment. This scan schedule may be altered to avoid potential conflicts that may exist with the expected signal activity. The scan schedule may then be communicated to the networked apparatuses. | 07-28-2011 |
20110275316 | DEVICE TO DEVICE CONNECTION SETUP USING NEAR-FIELD COMMUNICATION - Example method, apparatus, and computer program product embodiments are disclosed to enable near-field communication to be used in out-of-band initialization methods for connection setup for device-to-device communication. Example embodiments of the invention include a method comprising the steps of initiating, by a first device, an out-of-band near-field communication connection with a second device by transmitting wireless communication signals including necessary power for providing the near-field communication connection; sending a first short-range communication connection parameters for role determination, to the second device via the out-of-band near-field communication connection; receiving second short-range communication connection parameters for role determination, from the second device via the out-of-band near-field communication connection; selecting a role for the short-range communication connection by adopting short-range communication connection parameters for role determination that correspond to the role; discarding short-range communication connection parameters for role determination that are not adopted; and initiating the short-range communication connection according to the selected role using the adopted short-range communication connection parameters for role determination. | 11-10-2011 |
20120099566 | WIRELESS DOCKING WITH OUT-OF-BAND INITIATION - Example method, apparatus, and computer program product embodiments are disclosed to enable out-of-band communications to be used in out-of-band initialization methods for simplified configuring of an in-band wireless docking environment for wireless devices. An example embodiment of the invention includes composing a wireless configuration for a plurality of devices in an in-band short-range wireless docking environment, by using out-of-band connections from a mobile device to the plurality of devices to send in-band short-range communication connection parameters including a timer value related to an expected completion time of a connection handover to in-band short-range communication. | 04-26-2012 |
20120100803 | DELAYED AND CONDITIONAL TRANSPORT SWITCH - Example method, apparatus, and computer program product embodiments are disclosed to enable out-of-band short-range communication carrier transport switching for connection setup in device-to-device communication. Example embodiments of the invention include a method comprising the steps of initiating, by a first device, an out-of-band short-range carrier transport switch with a second device by transmitting wireless communication signals for providing the out-of-band carrier communication connection, and sending, by the first device, in-band short-range carrier communication connection parameters including one or more parameters indicating a timer value of an interval related to an expected completion time of a transport switch procedure, to the second device via the out-of-band short-range carrier communication connection. | 04-26-2012 |
20130012210 | SUPPORT FOR MULTI-GROUP FREQUENCY DIVISION DUPLEX WIRELESS NETWORK - Various example embodiments are disclosed herein. According to an example embodiment, a method may include receiving, at a serving base station (BS) in a wireless network from a mobile station (MS), group preference information for the MS for each of one or more candidate BSs; obtaining, by the serving BS based on the group preference information, a group assignment for the MS from each of the one or more candidate BSs; and sending by the serving BS to the MS the group assignment from each of the candidate BSs. | 01-10-2013 |
20130102250 | CLOSE-PROXIMITY WIRELESS COMMUNICATION TRANSFER - A system for transferring active communication sessions between apparatuses. In at least one example implementation, a first apparatus may receive information including at least identity information corresponding to a second apparatus via close-proximity wireless communication. The receipt of the identity information may then trigger the first apparatus to determine whether it is already in a communication session. If it is determined that the first apparatus is in a communication session, it may be further determined, based on the identity information, whether automatic transfer of the communication session is permitted. If the first apparatus determines that the automatic transfer is permitted, the first apparatus may then initiate a transfer of the communication session to the second apparatus. | 04-25-2013 |
20130237270 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION LINK ESTABLISHMENT - In accordance with an example embodiment of the present invention, an apparatus, a computer program product and a method is provided for establishment of a wireless communication link through machine reading. The example embodiment comprises receiving at least information identifying a wireless communication device through machine reading a machine-readable object, and initiating a wireless communication link establishment with the wireless communication device using the received information, wherein the wireless communication link establishment is incorporated with an indication that a machine-readable object associated with the wireless communication device was read. | 09-12-2013 |
20130244578 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR SHORT-RANGE WIRELESS COMMUNICATION - Example method, apparatus, and computer program product embodiments are disclosed to enable remote wireless control of an electronic device while in standby mode. Example embodiments of the invention include a method comprising the steps of transmitting, by a device, short-range wireless polling signals via a short-range wireless interface according to a first poll interval; determining whether the device is active, or in a stand-by, low power, idle, or sleep mode state; and when the device is determined to be in a stand-by, low power, idle, or sleep mode state, causing the device to enter into a polling mode for transmitting short-range wireless polling signals via a short-range wireless interface according to a second poll interval that may be the same or different from the first poll interval and ignoring received short-range wireless response signals. | 09-19-2013 |