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20100113095 | Scalable Digital Base Band Processor For Cellular Base Stations - An array of base band processors cooperating for sharing processing power in managing and controlling user equipment traffic in a small cellular communication base station (Femtocell). The base band processors array comprises: a master base band processor; and a plurality of slave base band processors, wherein each base band processor comprise a processing unit, a first layer engine, and communication, control and interface modules providing scalability support functionality, and wherein the processing unit and the first layer engine are arranged in cooperation to manage and control user equipment traffic in the cellular communication base station, and wherein the scalability support functionality is arranged to enable coherent and aligned cooperation between the master base band processor and the plurality of slave base band processors connected thereto. Advantageously the array of base band processors may achieve tight control over base station power consumption, increased range and adjustable number of supported users. | 05-06-2010 |
20100273474 | FEMTOCELL HANDSET ASSISTED CLOCK CORRECTION - A method of improving frequency accuracy of a clock unit adapted to clock a femtocell local cellular communication home base station is provided. The method comprising: providing a local cellular communication home base station having an oscillator adapted to operate as a clock therein, wherein at least one cellular communication device is camped thereto, and wherein the at least one camped cellular communication device is further in communication with at least one neighboring cellular communication base station which is associated with an oscillator adapted to operate as a clock therein; periodically applying a derivative operator over periodically obtained local communication parameters and periodically obtained neighboring communication parameters thereby generating derivative communication parameters over time; and correcting the accuracy of the frequency of the clock in the femtocell local cellular communication home base station using the derivative communication parameters over time. | 10-28-2010 |
20110194534 | ESTABLISHING COLOCATED SECOND CELL USING A SECOND SCRAMBLING CODE BY A FEMTO BASE STATION - In a cellular communications network, it may be desirable for a large number of basestations to share one or a small number of scrambling codes. When a basestation identifies a desired scrambling code, which is also being used by another nearby basestation, steps are taken such that a location area update is triggered whenever a mobile communications device moves from a coverage area of the nearby basestation into a coverage area of said basestation. Further, the basestation establishes a first cell, using the desired scrambling code, and also establishes a second cell also served by the basestation, using a second scrambling code. By ensuring that mobile devices are preferentially served by the second cell, the possibility of interference with the nearby basestation is reduced. | 08-11-2011 |
20130053022 | FEMTOCELL HANDSET ASSISTED CLOCK CORRECTION - A method of improving frequency accuracy of a clock unit adapted to clock a femtocell local cellular communication home base station is provided. The method comprising: providing a local cellular communication home base station having an oscillator adapted to operate as a clock therein, wherein at least one cellular communication device is camped thereto, and wherein the at least one camped cellular communication device is further in communication with at least one neighboring cellular communication base station which is associated with an oscillator adapted to operate as a clock therein; periodically applying a derivative operator over periodically obtained local communication parameters and periodically obtained neighboring communication parameters thereby generating derivative communication parameters over time; and correcting the accuracy of the frequency of the clock in the femtocell local cellular communication home base station using the derivative communication parameters over time. | 02-28-2013 |
20140220972 | Handover in LTE using Parallel Sniffer - A base station can observe downlink communications of neighboring base stations of neighboring cells to determine operational parameters of these neighboring base stations in a process called sniffing. The base station ceases downlink transmission and/or uplink reception and initiates downlink reception for a duration in time and/or over frequency to form a sniffing window to observe the downlink communications of the one or more neighboring base stations. The sniffing window represents an area in time and/or frequency where downlink communications are not transmitted. The base station determines operational parameters based upon the downlink communications of the one or more neighboring base stations that are observed during the sniffing window. The base station and/or the one or more neighboring base stations can adjust their respective operational parameters such that, on average, each of the base stations within the cellular network should have a substantially similar deviation in their operational parameters. | 08-07-2014 |
20140269963 | Diversity Reception and Transmission in LTE Communication Systems - A communication system is disclosed that includes a communication transmitter that converts various information signals that collectively occupy a large signal bandwidth into various signals that individually occupy small signal bandwidths for transmission to a communication receiver. The communication receiver converts these various signals that individually occupy the small signal bandwidth to recovered information signals that collectively occupy the large signal bandwidth for processing. | 09-18-2014 |
20150105079 | Handover in LTE Using Parallel Sniffer - A base station can observe downlink communications of neighboring base stations of neighboring cells to determine operational parameters of these neighboring base stations in a process called sniffing. The base station ceases downlink transmission and/or uplink reception and initiates downlink reception for a duration in time and/or over frequency to form a sniffing window to observe the downlink communications of the one or more neighboring base stations. The sniffing window represents an area in time and/or frequency where downlink communications are not transmitted. The base station determines operational parameters based upon the downlink communications of the one or more neighboring base stations that are observed during the sniffing window. The base station and/or the one or more neighboring base stations can adjust their respective operational parameters such that, on average, each of the base stations within the cellular network should have a substantially similar deviation in their operational parameters. | 04-16-2015 |
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20140019199 | AUTOMATICALLY EVALUATING CUSTOMER SATISFACTION - A method for evaluating a satisfaction of a customer in a retail environment includes identifying an item for which the customer is searching in the retail environment, monitoring an activity of the customer with respect to the item in the retail environment, and automatically evaluating the satisfaction of the customer based on the activity of the customer with respect to the item. | 01-16-2014 |
20140019201 | AUTOMATICALLY EVALUATING CUSTOMER SATISFACTION - A system for evaluating a satisfaction of a customer in a retail environment includes a search system for identifying an item for which the customer is searching in the retail environment, a plurality of sensors for monitoring an activity of the customer with respect to the item in the retail environment, and an evaluation system for automatically evaluating the satisfaction of the customer based on the activity of the customer with respect to the item. | 01-16-2014 |
20140039950 | AUTOMATICALLY DETECTING LOST SALES - One embodiment of a method for detecting a lost sale due to an out-of-shelf condition in a retail environment includes automatically detecting when a customer fails to purchase an expected product, based at least in part on an observation of a current behavior of the customer in the retail environment and on a purchasing history of the customer, and inferring, based on the automatically detecting, that the expected product is out-of-shelf. | 02-06-2014 |
20140039951 | AUTOMATICALLY DETECTING LOST SALES DUE TO AN OUT-OF-SHELF CONDITION IN A RETAIL ENVIRONMENT - One embodiment of a system for detecting a lost sale due to an out-of-shelf condition in a retail environment includes a plurality of sensors distributed throughout the retail environment for monitoring a current behavior of a customer in the retail environment, a database for storing a purchasing history of the customer, and a matching system for automatically detecting when the customer fails to purchase an expected product, based at least in part on the current behavior and on the purchasing history, and for inferring, based on the automatically detecting, that the expected product is out-of-shelf. | 02-06-2014 |
20140350995 | Characterizing Statistical Time-Bounded Incident Management Systems - Techniques, systems, and articles of manufacture for characterizing statistical time-bounded incident management systems. A method includes generating an expected distribution of multiple work requests in an incident management system across multiple characterization classes based on a target service level agreement for each of the multiple work requests and one or more probability distribution values, analyzing the multiple work requests in the incident management system to determine an actual distribution of the multiple work requests across the multiple characterization classes, and comparing the expected distribution of the multiple work requests to the actual distribution of the multiple work requests for each of the multiple characterization classes to characterize performance of the incident management system. | 11-27-2014 |
20140351416 | Characterizing Statistical Time-Bounded Incident Management Systems - Systems and articles of manufacture for characterizing statistical time-bounded incident management systems include generating an expected distribution of multiple work requests in an incident management system across multiple characterization classes based on a target service level agreement for each of the multiple work requests and one or more probability distribution values, analyzing the multiple work requests in the incident management system to determine an actual distribution of the multiple work requests across the multiple characterization classes, and comparing the expected distribution of the multiple work requests to the actual distribution of the multiple work requests for each of the multiple characterization classes to characterize performance of the incident management system. | 11-27-2014 |
20150074122 | SOCIAL RECOMMENDATION ACROSS HETEROGENEOUS NETWORKS - At least one computer processor obtains access to a relationship network and a network of a different kind than the relationship network. The at least one computer processor also obtains a user query and carries out a multiple heterogeneous networks search on the relationship network and the network of the different kind than the relationship network, by executing on the at least one computer processor a multiple heterogeneous network search module, to obtain a ranked output list responsive to the user query. | 03-12-2015 |
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20120060503 | TRANSITIONAL REGION FOR A COMBUSTION CHAMBER OF A GAS TURBINE - A gas turbine including a combustion chamber and a first row of guide vanes, arranged essentially directly downstream thereof, of a turbine. The outer and/or inner limitation of the combustion chamber defined by at least one outer and/or inner heat shield, mounted on at least one combustion chamber structure arranged radially outside and/or inside. The hot gases flow path in the region of the guide vane row being restricted radially on the outside and/or inside by an outer and/or inner vane platform, mounted at least indirectly on at least one turbine carrier. A minimal gap size directly upstream of the first row of guide vanes is achieved by mounting at least indirectly on the turbine carrier at least one mini heat shield, arranged upstream of the first row of guide vanes and essentially adjacent the vane platform and in the flow direction between the heat shield and the vane platform. | 03-15-2012 |
20140116059 | HOT GAS SEGMENT ARRANGEMENT - A hot gas segment arrangement, especially for a combustion chamber of a gas turbine, that includes at least one hot gas segment, which is removably mounted on a carrier, and is subjected at its outside to hot gas and impingement-cooled at its inside, whereby an impingement plate with a plurality of distributed impingement holes is arranged in a distance at the inside of the impingement plate. A cooling air supply means is provided for loading the impingement plate with pressurized cooling air in order to generate through the impingement holes jets of cooling air, which impinge on the inside of the hot gas segment. The cooling efficiency and lifetime are increased by the impingement plate being part of a closed receptacle, which is supplied with the pressurized cooling air, and by the receptacle with the impingement plate being mounted on the carrier independently of the hot gas segment. | 05-01-2014 |
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20110241899 | Targeted Enforcement For Road User Charging - A method is disclosed that includes, for a set of passages of a vehicle, where each passage is associated with at least one confidence level, applying at least one heuristic to confidence levels corresponding to the set to determine at least one score. The method also includes performing the applying at least one heuristic for a number of sets of passages of a number of vehicles and selecting a number of the sets based on their associated at least one scores. The method additionally includes outputting identifications corresponding to each of the selected sets. Apparatus and computer readable media are also disclosed. | 10-06-2011 |
20110246058 | Anomaly Detection For Road User Charging System - A computer readable medium embodies a program of machine-readable instructions executable by a processing apparatus to perform operations including determining information corresponding to a number of differences in distances between ending points of journeys taken by a vehicle and starting points of consecutive journeys taken by the vehicle, and transmitting one or more representations of the information. Another computer readable medium tangibly includes instructions for, for each of a number of vehicles, receiving one or more scores corresponding to a vehicle, and determining a ranked list containing at least a portion of the scores, and outputting the ranked list. Another computer readable medium includes instructions for, for each of a number of vehicles, receiving information corresponding to a vehicle, using one or more metrics, calculating one or more values from the received information, and communicating one or more representations of the one or more value to one or more entities. | 10-06-2011 |
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20090175054 | Method for Operating a Switched Mode Power Supply With Return of Primary-Side Stray Energy - The invention relates to a method for operating a switched mode power supply as an isolating transformer. According to said method, magnetic energy is stored in the core of a transformer during a storage stage via a primary coil that is connected to an intermediate circuit current and the stored magnetic energy is delivered to a load in a subsequent discharge phase, for the most part by means of a secondary coil, a small part of said magnetic energy being discharged on the primary side. The energy that is discharged on the primary side charges a capacitor in such a way that the capacitor current is always held above the secondary current multiplied by the transmittance ratio of the transformer. | 07-09-2009 |
20090207566 | Method for operating switched-mode power supply units - In a process for operating an air-cooled mains supply unit for industrial application, temperatures influenced by outer heat sources and by heat sources arranged in the mains supply unit are measured by thermo-elements and reported to a control system. Temperatures measured by at least two thermo-elements arranged at different measurement points are reported to the control system, and the measured temperatures are compared with temperature patterns. The comparison with known temperature patterns makes it possible to sense the totality of the thermal conditions continuously and to derive therefrom ratings for the control system. | 08-20-2009 |
20100136807 | Electrical Connector Element - An electrical connector element for connection of a conductor to a circuit board, having a housing, at least one clamp connector for the conductor and at least two connector pins for preferably soldered connection to the circuit board, is disclosed. The housing has at least one separating element made from insulating material, projecting from the lower side, facing away from the circuit board in the assembled position, at least partly arranged between the connector pins and extending through the circuit board in the assembled position, in order to permit the connector pins of the electrical connector element to be arranged closer together. | 06-03-2010 |
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20090043802 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GRAPHICAL CREATION, EDITING AND PRESENTATION OF SCENARIOS - The present invention discloses a system and a method for creating, editing, reusing and presenting of scenarios. The scenario may comprise events, where each event nay comprise instance and/or class components. The system may comprise a processor and a GUI that is object oriented. The GUI may allow a user to graphically edit, create and define operations upon scenarios, events and events' components; and static and dynamic presentations of the scenario, the events that are associated with the scenario and the events' components. The processor may enable translating the graphical operations into programming code to be executed by a computer. The system may enable a multiplicity of users to reuse and customize template scenarios where upon downloading a template scenario the system may replace all the instance components with their associated class components. | 02-12-2009 |
20120036453 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GRAPHICAL CREATION, EDITING AND PRESENTATION OF SCENARIOS - The present invention discloses a system and a method for creating, editing, reusing and presenting of scenarios. The scenario may comprise events, where each event may comprise instance and/or class components. The system may comprise a processor and a GUI that is object oriented. The GUI may allow a user to graphically edit, create and define operations upon scenarios, events and events' components; and static and dynamic presentations of the scenario, the events that are associated with the scenario and the events' components. The processor may enable translating the graphical operations into programming code to be executed by a computer. | 02-09-2012 |