Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080214189 | MOBILITY PROTOCOL SWITCHING FOR WIRELESS NETWORKS - Techniques for mobility protocol switching for wireless networks are described. An apparatus may comprise a convergence gateway having a protocol converter, the protocol converter to receive as input a first set of control plane protocol signals and a first set of user plane protocol signals from a first network, convert the first set of control plane protocol signals to a second set of control plane protocol signals and the first set of user plane protocol signals to a second set of user plane protocol signals, and to send as output the second set of control plane protocol signals and the second set of user plane protocol signals to a second network. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 09-04-2008 |
20080219216 | HIERARCHICAL CELL DEPLOYMENT - A hierarchical cell structure that may be applicable to any wireless communications network utilizing cells. One or more characteristics associated with a mobile device configured to communicate with the base stations via a wireless communications protocol are determined while the mobile device is communicating with a base station. The one or more characteristics are utilized to determine a subsequent base station to be the target of a handoff procedure. | 09-11-2008 |
20080232288 | Keep-alive handling in a wireless network - Briefly, in accordance with one or more embodiments, in wireless network, keep-alive type packets may be received from a remote application for a mobile station. A determination may be made whether the mobile station is in an idle mode. If the mobile station is in an idle mode, a determination may be made whether a port in a keep-alive type packet is recognized. If the port is recognized, an application server may respond to the keep-alive type packet on behalf of the mobile station so that the mobile station is not required to exit the idle mode to respond to the keep-alive type packets. | 09-25-2008 |
20080279127 | TECHNIQUES FOR TIMING OPTIMIZATION IN WIRELESS NETWORKS THAT UTILIZE A UNIVERSAL SERVICES INTERFACE - An embodiment of the present invention provides an apparatus, comprising a mobile station (MS) operable to communicate with an application service provider (ASP) in a wireless network, the wireless network including a Universal Services Interface (USI); and wherein the MS includes a USI client adapted to store some or all USI context as required by said ASP and wherein when a user accesses the ASP using something other than a web-browser, the USI client inserts relevant USI context as part of an ASP request message. | 11-13-2008 |
20080279136 | TECHNIQUES TO INCLUDE VIRTUAL PRIVATE NETWORKS IN A UNIVERSAL SERVICES INTERFACE - An embodiment of the present invention provides an apparatus, comprising a mobile station (MS) operable to communicate in a wireless network, the wireless network including a Universal Services Interface (USI) and wherein the MS includes a USI client adapted to monitor external IP addresses of the MS and if the MS enters a virtual private network (VPN) via a VPN tunnel, the external IP address of the VPN tunnel is cached. | 11-13-2008 |
20080310381 | GENERIC WIRELESS SERVICES DISCOVERY - Embodiments of the invention relate to wireless communications. More particularly, embodiments of the invention relate to generic discovery mechanisms that may be utilized in wireless communications. | 12-18-2008 |
20080311881 | EMERGENCY CALL SERVICES FOR WIRELESS NETWORK ROAMING - A method and apparatus for emergency call services for wireless network roaming. An embodiment of a method includes receiving a request for an emergency telephone call from a mobile device, the mobile device communication over the Internet, the mobile device roaming in a visited wireless network when the emergency call is made. The method further includes establishing a session for an emergency services call and connecting the mobile device to emergency services. | 12-18-2008 |
20080311891 | TECHNIQUES FOR LAWFUL INTERCEPTION IN WIRELESS NETWORKS - An embodiment of the present invention provides an apparatus, comprising a transceiver operable in a wireless network, wherein the transceiver is configured to enable wireless interception by a predetermined third party without the knowledge of a user of said transceiver. | 12-18-2008 |
20080311909 | HANDOFF OF A MOBILE STATION FROM A FIRST TO A SECOND TYPE OF WIRELESS NETWORK - Methods and apparatus for moving or transferring a mobile station from one type of wireless network to another type of wireless network are described herein. The methods may include employing a source radio access technology (RAT) device, a target RAT device, and a cross wireless network type inter-RAT server to collaboratively communicate with each other to move the mobile station between the different types of wireless networks. | 12-18-2008 |
20080311956 | FIELD PROGRAMING OF A MOBILE STATION WITH SUBSCRIBER IDENTIFICATION AND RELATED INFORMATION - Apparatuses and methods for field programming a private security key into a mobile station are described herein. The methods may include a server initially accepting in a wireless network a connection from a mobile station that is without a factory programmed subscriber identification module (SIM). The server may then collaborate with the mobile station to field program the mobile station with an international mobile subscriber identification (IMSI) and a private security key (K | 12-18-2008 |
20090019167 | GENERIC BOOTSTRAPPING PROTOCOL (GBP) - Embodiments of methods and apparatus for discovering a bootstrapping server by a mobile station, and bootstrapping the mobile station are disclosed. In some embodiments, a mobile station discovers a remotely disposed bootstrapping server; transmits wirelessly a bootstrap request to the bootstrapping server; and receive wirelessly a bootstrap response from the bootstrapping server in response to the transmitted bootstrap request. Additional variants and embodiments are also disclosed. | 01-15-2009 |
20090073971 | PER-PACKET QUALITY OF SERVICE SUPPORT FOR ENCRYPTED IPSEC TUNNELS - A method for performing an IPSec tunneling operation is disclosed, which enables the ToS parameter of the QoS parameter in an inner packet to be copied to an outer packet before transmission across an un-trusted network. The QoS parameter is part of an IP header of the inner packet being transmitted. The copy of the ToS parameter is stored in the IP header of the outer packet. The ToS parameter may be stored in the outer packet IP header before or after ICV calculation under the AH protocol is performed. | 03-19-2009 |
20090207812 | DUAL RADIO HANDOVERS BEWEEN WIMAX AND 3GPP - A method of switching a device from a source network to a target network, the source network being one of a WiMAX network and a 3GPP network and the target network being another of the WiMAX network and the 3GPP network, may include receiving information from the device about the source network and about the target network. The information received from the device may be monitored to determine whether parameters of the source network have crossed a handoff threshold. The information received from the device also may be monitored to determine whether parameters of the target network are suitable for handoff. The method may also include instructing the device to perform a handover of communications to a radio associated with the target network based on the parameters of the source network, the parameters of the target network, and a handoff policy. | 08-20-2009 |
20090290556 | WIRELESS NETWORK HANDOVER WITH SINGLE RADIO OPERATION - Briefly, in accordance with one or more embodiments, a handover of a wireless device from a first network to a second network may be implemented via operation of a single radio in the wireless device. A network architecture capable of implementing such a single radio handover operation may comprise a mobility management entity of a first network and an interworking function device capable of emulating an authenticator and/or protocol translation device of the first network or a second network. First switching logic is capable of exchanging information between the mobile station and the internetworking function device during a handover operation, and second switching logic is capable of exchanging information between the internetworking function device and an ASN, RNC, and/or SGSN of the target network. | 11-26-2009 |
20100054207 | L2 Tunneling-based Low Latency Single Radio Handoffs - An example of this invention provides low latency handovers between Mobile WiMAX and 2G/3G/LTE networks with only a single radio transmitting at any given point in time, by establishing L2 tunnel between 3GPP MME and WiMAX ASN for control plane signaling to perform pre-registration, pre-authentication and context transfer to the target network, while UE maintains its connection to the source network, and by setting up bearer path for packet forwarding between Servicing Gateway and WiMAX ASN. An example of this invention uses a virtual eNB to facilitate low latency L2 handoffs to legacy 2G/3G networks with minimum impact to SGSN and MME. | 03-04-2010 |
20100103825 | MOBILE STATION LOCALIZATION APPARATUS, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS - Embodiments herein may use first and second path loss values L | 04-29-2010 |
20100111047 | Techniques to support multiple radio-access technologies - Techniques to permit scheduling of mixed radio access technologies. In some cases, a first radio access technology mode of a base station is scheduled during a first time region and a second radio access technology mode of a base station is scheduled during a sleep mode of the first radio access technology mode. In some cases, a first radio access technology mode of a base station is scheduled during a first time region and a second radio access technology mode of a base station is scheduled during an unused portion of the first time region. In some cases, a femto-base station is scheduled to snoop for local mobile stations during a sleep mode. Inactive regions of mobile stations are scheduled during a portion of sleep modes of the radio access technology modes. | 05-06-2010 |
20100128704 | Mulitcasting, location services, payment methods and performance management in broadband wireless access networks - Methods, apparatuses and systems for location discovery, electronic payment and multicast broadcast in a wireless broadband network disclosed. | 05-27-2010 |
20110002297 | GATEWAY ASSOCIATION - Embodiments provide components of a communication network that may facilitate efficient optimization of the communication network. In various embodiments, network gateway selection for incoming subscriber stations may be allocated to one or more components that make intelligent allocation determinations. Additionally, in various embodiments, control of the communication network may also be allocated to various components. | 01-06-2011 |
20110002298 | Reducing Overhead in Wireless Communications - Stations in a wireless network may communicate directly using MAC management messages. As examples, servers may communicate using MAC management messages with mobile stations, base stations may communicate using MAC management messages, and relay cells may communicate using MAC management messages. | 01-06-2011 |
20110019592 | END-TO-END FEATURE SUPPORT SIGNALING - Techniques and mechanisms to communicate end-to-end feature compliance information. Network access requests may be accompanied by compliance/certification/compatibility information for the requesting device as well as intervening devices. A network authentication device may evaluate the request and associated compliance/certification/compatibility information to select one or more network features to allow the requesting device to utilize. | 01-27-2011 |
20110044307 | Deregistration with Context Retention for Inter-RAT Operations - A method to perform deregistration with context retention is presented. In one embodiment, the method includes storing a context associated with a mobile station in response to a deregistration request from the mobile station. The method includes determining whether or not to accept the deregistration request with context retention and sending a deregistration command message to the mobile station if the deregistration request with context retention is allowed. | 02-24-2011 |
20110045835 | SELF-CONFIGURATION OF FEMTOCELL ACCESS POINTS (FAP) - An approach to support self-configuring feature on femtocell access points (FAP) is disclosed. A FAP may scan the neighboring base-stations provisioned in the network environment to collect the base-station identifiers of the neighboring base-stations. The FAP may detect a self-organizing server, which in turn may cooperatively operate with an OAM&P server to provide configuration values to the FAP. The FAP may automatically perform self-configuration without any or minimal user intervention. Such an approach may avoid cumbersome tasks of manual configuration and deployment of FAPs or avoiding the truck-roll. | 02-24-2011 |
20110047289 | Methods and Apparatuses for IP Address Allocation - A method for IP address allocation is presented. In one embodiment, the method includes receiving DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) information by a driver module operable on a mobile station prior to the mobile station sending a DHCP discovery message. The method includes storing, by the driver module, the DHCP information and redirecting the DHCP discovery message from an operating system DHCP process to the driver module. The method also includes performing DHCP hand-shaking in response to the DHCP discovery message. | 02-24-2011 |
20110055411 | GENERIC BOOTSTRAPPING PROTOCOL (GBP) - Embodiments of methods and apparatus for discovering a bootstrapping server by a mobile station, and bootstrapping the mobile station are disclosed. In some embodiments, a mobile station discovers a remotely disposed bootstrapping server; transmits wirelessly a bootstrap request to the bootstrapping server; and receive wirelessly a bootstrap response from the bootstrapping server in response to the transmitted bootstrap request. Additional variants and embodiments are also disclosed. | 03-03-2011 |
20110058531 | SINGLE RADIO WIMAX INTERWORKING - In some embodiments a method comprises establishing a layer 2 tunnel between a mobile station coupled to a E-UTRAN and a WiMAX base station, implementing a first signaling interface through the layer 2 tunnel between a mobility management entity (MME) and the WiMAX base station, and preregistering the mobile station with the WiMAX access service network gateway at least in part via the layer 2 tunnel. Other embodiments may be described. | 03-10-2011 |
20110085518 | VERTICAL HANDOVER COMPOSITE QUALITY MEASURES - A composite quality measure helps determine a target for a vertical handover between different connection types. Various measurements are normalized, weighted and summed to produce composite quality measures. A composite quality measure may be compared to a target value and the corresponding connection may be added to a feasibility table if the composite quality measure is above the target. | 04-14-2011 |
20110113091 | TECHNIQUES FOR TIMING OPTIMIZATION IN WIRELESS NETWORKS THAT UTILIZE A UNIVERSAL SERVICES INTERFACE - An embodiment of the present invention provides an apparatus, comprising a mobile station (MS) operable to communicate with an application service provider (ASP) in a wireless network, the wireless network including a USI proxy in the line of a data path from the MS to the ASP and performs stateful content inspection of all packets passing through the US proxy; and wherein when the USI proxy intercepts an ASP request message, it appends the USI context to the ASP request message if not already present in the message and in order to fetch the USI context of the MS, a USI proxy sends the USI context request to a USI server and the USI server sends a USI context response back to the USI proxy which contains the USI context for the MS. | 05-12-2011 |
20110134896 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR UPGRADING AN AIRLINK IN A WIRELESS SYSTEM - Embodiments of systems and methods for upgrading an airlink in wireless system are described herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed. | 06-09-2011 |
20110149797 | MULTI-RADIO CONNECTION MANAGEMENT AND BUNDLING USING WEB BROWSERS - A method to enable browsers to manage connections across access networks is disclosed. The method manages network connections using a simple standard browser with the least amount of user interaction for all connections. The method uses standardized WiMAX activation and provisioning schemes for the management of connection profiles across the different access technologies. | 06-23-2011 |
20110191411 | TECHNIQUES FOR TIMING OPTIMIZATION IN WIRELESS NETWORKS THAT UTILIZE A UNIVERSAL SERVICES INTERFACE - An embodiment of the present invention provides a mobile station to communicate with an application service provider (ASP) in a wireless network using a Universal Services Interface (USI) comprising, memory, one or more processors and a transceiver, to store some or all USI context as required by the ASP and wherein when a user accesses the ASP, the USI client inserts relevant USI context as part of an ASP request message and in order to fetch the USI context of the MS, a USI proxy sends the USI context request to a USI server and the USI server sends a USI context response back to the USI proxy which contains the USI context for the MS. | 08-04-2011 |
20110216744 | INTERWORKING OF NETWORKS WITH SINGLE RADIO HANDOVER - Embodiments of systems and methods for interworking of networks using a single radio handover are generally described herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed. | 09-08-2011 |
20120044876 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR VIRTUALIZATION OF WIRELESS NETWORK - A method, apparatus and a system to share a wireless spectrum by mobile devices of different operators. The sharing of the wireless spectrum is done by providing a first virtual base station to communicate with mobile devices of a first operator and providing a second virtual base station to communicate with mobile devices of a second operator. | 02-23-2012 |
20120106506 | HANDOVER ARCHITECTURE FOR NON-INTEGRATED RADIO ACCESS TECHNOLOGIES - An apparatus to support handover for non-integrated radio devices is presented. In one embodiment, the apparatus includes a peer interface and radio resource control logic. The radio resource control logic includes a proxy commutatively coupled to a second proxy via the peer interface. The second proxy is a part of other radio resource control logic. The proxies are operable to support handover between different radio access technologies. | 05-03-2012 |
20130094651 | FIELD PROGRAMMING OF A MOBILE STATION WITH SUBSCRIBER IDENTIFICATION AND RELATED INFORMATION - Apparatuses and methods for field programming a private security key into a mobile station are described herein. The methods may include a server initially accepting in a wireless network a connection from a mobile station that is without a factory programmed subscriber identification module (SIM). The server may then collaborate with the mobile station to field program the mobile station with an international mobile subscriber identification (IMSI) and a private security key (K | 04-18-2013 |
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20140195684 | DEVICE-TO-DEVICE TAPPING SERVICE LAYER - Embodiments of the present disclosure describe device, methods, computer-readable media and system configurations for providing a device-to-device (“D2D”) tapping service (“DTS”) layer. In various embodiments, a DTS layer of a communication stack of a computing device may receive, from an application executing within an application layer of the communication stack, a request for a resource. In various embodiments, the DTS layer may determine whether the resource is available locally on the computing device. In various embodiments, the DTS layer may issue a domain name system (“DNS”) request through a network layer of the communication stack to facilitate transparent access by the application to the resource on a remote computing device, where it is determined that the resource is unavailable locally on the computing device. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed. | 07-10-2014 |
20140317290 | DEVICE-TO-DEVICE TAPPING SERVICE LAYER - Embodiments of the present disclosure describe device, methods, computer-readable media and system configurations for providing a device-to-device (“D2D”) tapping service (“DTS”) layer. In various embodiments, a DTS layer of a communication stack of a computing device may receive, from an application executing within an application layer of the communication stack, a request for a resource. In various embodiments, the DTS layer may determine whether the resource is available locally on the computing device. In various embodiments, the DTS layer may issue a domain name system (“DNS”) request through a network layer of the communication stack to facilitate transparent access by the application to the resource on a remote computing device, where it is determined that the resource is unavailable locally on the computing device. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed. | 10-23-2014 |
20150071251 | L2 TUNNELING BASED LOW LATENCY SINGLE RADIO HANDOFFS - An example of this invention provides low latency handovers between Mobile WiMAX and 2G/3G/LTE networks with only a single radio transmitting at any given point in time, by establishing L2 tunnel between 3GPP MME and WiMAX ASN for control plane signaling to perform pre-registration, pre-authentication and context transfer to the target network, while UE maintains its connection to the source network, and by setting up bearer path for packet forwarding between Servicing Gateway and WiMAX ASN. An example of this invention uses a virtual eNB to facilitate low latency L2 handoffs to legacy 2G/3G networks with minimum impact to SGSN and MME. | 03-12-2015 |