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20080318574 | METHODS FOR HANDING OVER CALLS BETWEEN COMMUNICATION NETWORKS USING DISSIMILAR AIR INTERFACES - A call in progress in a first communication network is handed over to a second communication network which uses a different air interface. To facilitate the handover, the present serving base station commands the mobile communication device to take measurements of surrounding cells of the second communication network. The measurements are sent along with a handover request from the serving base station to a radio network controller of the second network, which decides upon a cell to which the cal will be handed. A grant message including an identifier to be used by the mobile communication device and an identifier of the base station receiving the handover is transmitted back to the first network, and used by the mobile communication device in handing over the call. | 12-25-2008 |
20090005042 | METHOD OF BROADCASTING SYSTEM INFORMATION IN COMMUNICATION CELLS FOR HANDOFF - A method of operating a network infrastructure entity in which a mobile communication device is capable of handover from a first wireless communication network to a second wireless communication network is described. System information of the second wireless communication network is broadcast, over a control channel of the first wireless communication network, to a plurality of mobile stations communicating with the first wireless communication network. The system information includes a system time of the second wireless communication network measured at a predefined time point of a frame structure of the first wireless communication network and at a transmitter of the first wireless communication network. The system information may further include neighbor cell information and slot offset of control channel. | 01-01-2009 |
20100240366 | CONNECTION ATTEMPT MESSAGE PROCEDURE ENHANCEMENT FOR MANUAL SELECTION OF A HYBRID HOME NETWORK BASE STATION - A method, a mobile system, and a home network base station are disclosed. A processor | 09-23-2010 |
20100242089 | PRIVACY CONTROL BETWEEN MOBILE AND HOME NETWORK BASE STATION - A method, a mobile system, and a home network base station are disclosed. A network operator server | 09-23-2010 |
20100284299 | SUPPORT OF HOME NETWORK BASE STATION LOCAL INTERNET PROTOCOL ACCESS - A method, a mobile system, and a home network base station are disclosed. A mobility management entity | 11-11-2010 |
20100291927 | Method of Selecting a Private Cell for Providing Communication to a Communication Device and a Communication Device - A method of selecting a private cell for providing communication to a communication device ( | 11-18-2010 |
20100311419 | Mobility Management Entity Tracking for Group Mobility in Wireless Communication Network - A method and apparatus for updating a wireless mobile device with mobility management entity (MME) identification information when the mobile device camps on a mobile relay node (RN), that supports group mobility, connected to a first base station (BS) supported by a first MME. In one embodiment, the mobile device receives an identity associated with a second MME when the mobile RN connects to a second BS served by a second MME without first sending a registration message. In another embodiment, the mobile device receives mobile RN specific MME identification information. Upon decamping from the mobile RN and camping on a new BS, the mobile device transmits the identity associated with the second MME or the mobile RN specific MME identification information for establishing a connection with the network. | 12-09-2010 |
20100329205 | SERVICE CONTINUITY DURING OUTBOUND HANDOVER FROM A HOME NETWORK BASE STATION WITH LOCAL INTERNET PROTOCOL ACCESS - A method, a mobile system, and a home network base station are disclosed. A mobile management entity | 12-30-2010 |
20110055394 | NETWORK ASSISTED MOBILE CENTRIC PEER SELECTION METHOD - A method, a mobile system, and a mobile network operator are disclosed. A transceiver | 03-03-2011 |
20110116469 | LOCAL INTERNET PROTOCOL ACCESS/SELECTED INTERNET PROTOCOL TRAFFIC OFFLOAD PACKET ENCAPSULATION TO SUPPORT SEAMLESS MOBILITY - A method, a mobile system, and a mobility management entity are disclosed. A transceiver | 05-19-2011 |
20130028120 | System and Method for Measuring and Reporting Uplink Channel Condition - A method for reporting channel condition includes receiving an initial configuration identifying a group of assessment devices, and determining a channel condition for each communications channel between one of the assessment devices and the transmission point. The method also includes comparing each of the channel conditions with a first threshold, and transmitting a report to a network entity if at least one of the channel conditions meets the first threshold. | 01-31-2013 |
20130088960 | System and Method for Information Delivery with Multiple Point Transmission - A system and method for information delivery with multiple point transmission are provided. A method for detecting lost packets is provided. The method includes initiating a timer for a received packet at a receiving transmission point, where the timer is set according to a time value associated with the received packet. The method also includes determining that a delivery of the received packet has failed according to the timer elapsing, and transmitting a lost packet report to a primary transmission point that distributed the received packet to the receiving transmission point. | 04-11-2013 |
20130088979 | System and Method for Multiple Point Transmission in a Communications System - A system and method for multiple point transmission in a communications system are provided. A method for multiple point transmission operation comprises modifying a configuration of a radio bearer for use in a multiple point transmission to a user equipment according to operating condition information of the user equipment, reconfiguring the radio bearer according to the modified configuration, and initiating a multiple point transmission to the user equipment using the reconfigured radio bearer. | 04-11-2013 |
20130089035 | System and Method for Transmitting Uplink Data Associated with Downlink Multiple Point Transmission - A system and method for transmitting UL data associated with DL multiple point transmission are provided. A method for transmission point operations includes determining an identifier associated with each transmission point in a downlink serving set that includes a primary transmission point and at least one secondary transmission point, transmitting downlink information to a user equipment, and receiving, at a receiving transmission point, uplink data including a first identifier of an intended recipient from the user equipment, where the intended recipient is a first transmission point in the downlink serving set. The method also includes forwarding the uplink data to the intended recipient based on the first identifier. | 04-11-2013 |
20130155903 | System and Method of Radio Bearer Management for Multiple Point Transmission - A method for operating a multiple point transmission system is disclosed. The method includes reconfiguring the multiple point transmission system according to an updated configuration of an at least one radio bearer between an at least one transmission point and a terminal device, and communicating with the terminal device using the reconfigured multiple point transmission system. The configuration of the at least one radio bearer is updated according to operating condition information of the terminal device. | 06-20-2013 |
20130166644 | System and Method for Resource Management in Multiple Communications Point Operation - A method for operating a communications point includes receiving a first message from a candidate communications point in a communications points set associated with a user equipment (UE), where the first message includes a resource report advising of an available portion of an upper layer communications resource that can be committed by the candidate communications point in a collaboration with a first communications point to communicate with the UE. The method also includes sending a second message to the candidate communications point, the second message including a resource reservation request to reserve a subset of the available portion of the upper layer communications resource. The method further includes receiving a third message from the candidate communications point, the third message including a resource reservation response indicating whether the subset of the available portion of the upper layer communications resource has been reserved as requested. | 06-27-2013 |
20130170474 | System and Method for Primary Point Handovers - A method for operating a multiple point (MP) controller includes receiving, from a source primary point, a handover required message for a user equipment coupled to the source primary point, the handover required message including target primary point information and MP radio bearer information. The method also includes determining an MP configuration according to the handover required message, and sending, to a target primary point, a handover request message including the MP configuration and the MP radio bearer information. The method further includes sending, to the source primary point, a handover message including the MP configuration, the MP radio bearer information, and reconfiguration information for the user equipment, the handover message initiating a handover of a subset of the MP radio bearer from the source primary point to the target primary point, and receiving, from the target primary point, a handover complete message. | 07-04-2013 |
20130223344 | System and Method for HARQ Entity Configuration - A single hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) entity can be associated with multiple serving units to achieve lower complexity user-side signal processing during multi-point communication. Additionally, configuring a single HARQ entity to establish HARQ operations with multiple serving units may achieve lower latency communication when users are engaging in multi-point communications, such as coordinated multi-point transmission/reception (CoMP). HARQ entity associations and/or reconfigurations can be achieved through radio resource control (RRC) signaling. | 08-29-2013 |
20130242787 | System and Method for Measurement Report Triggering Configuration for Multiple Point Communication Measurement Set Management - A method embodiment includes configuring, by a network device, a multiple point communication measurement reporting scheme. The multiple point communication measurement reporting scheme includes a multiple point communication measurement set, a List A, a List B, and measurement report triggering events. The measurement report triggering events includes a first event wherein a measurement result of an element in List A becomes better than a threshold, a second event wherein a measurement result of an element in List A becomes better than a measurement result of an element in List B by at least an offset, a third event wherein a measurement result of an element in List B becomes worse than a threshold, and/or a fourth event wherein a measurement result of an element in List B becomes worse than a measurement result of an element in List A by at least an offset. | 09-19-2013 |
20140079218 | System and Method for Device-to-Device (D2D) Assisted Dynamic Traffic Control for Cellular Networks - Method and apparatus are provided for offloading data from a cellular network via a secondary network. The offloaded data may be transported over a connection existing independently from the cellular network, such as a direct device-to-device (D2D) or direct mobile communications (DMC) link. The connection may be established between a first peer mobile device and a benefactor peer mobile device, and the benefactor peer mobile device may relay the data to/from a backhaul network via the secondary network. The benefactor peer mobile device may receive compensation for offloading the traffic, and may compete with one or more candidate benefactor devices for the task of offloading the data. The offloaded data may be uplink data originating from the beneficiary peer mobile, or downlink data destined for the beneficiary peer mobile. | 03-20-2014 |
20140086084 | System and Method for Configuring Channel State Information in a Communications System - A method for communicating in a wireless communications system includes generating a channel state information (CSI) process information element (IE) including a CSI process identifier, a non-zero padded CSI-reference signal (CSI-RS) identifier, an interference measurement resource (IMR) identifier, and channel quality indicator (CQI) report configuration information. The method also includes transmitting the CSI process IE. | 03-27-2014 |
20140269352 | System and Method for Buffer Status Reporting for Multi-Stream Aggregation - Embodiments are provided herein for enabling buffer status reporting for Multi-stream aggregation (MSA) in wireless networks. In an embodiment, a user equipment (UE) receives from a network, a configuration regarding one of enabling and disabling cross-node buffer status reporting. The UE further receives a first uplink grant from a first network node, and obtains a buffer status intended for a second network node. Upon enabling cross-node buffer status reporting according to the configuration, the UE transmits, in the first uplink grant to the first network node, the buffer status intended for the second network node. The first network node receives, from the UE, the buffer status intended for the second network node, and determines whether to forward the buffer status to the second network node according to the configuration regarding buffer status forwarding previously received at the first network node. | 09-18-2014 |