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| 20080198780 | Dynamic Bandwidth Sharing - A Dynamic Threshold Rule is provided for sharing of bandwidth of a shared medium between multiple devices. In one embodiment, a device determines a measure of available bandwidth of said medium; reserves bandwidth up to the available bandwidth; receives a request from a device for bandwidth of a specified amount; and honors the request when relinquishing the specified amount results in preserving an equal or greater percentage of bandwidth available at a time of reserving bandwidth. Different classes of devices may be distinguished, where the percentage for devices of a particular class is greater than for devices not of that particular class, or for which at least one class of device is exempt from the requirement to relinquish bandwidth. | 08-21-2008 |
| 20080198781 | System and method for a software-based TCP/IP offload engine for implementing efficient digital media streaming over Internet protocol networks - A method of sending data through a network from a first computing device to a second computing device is described, where the computing devices adhere to a packet-based network protocol. A connection between the first computing device and the second computing device is established for a session according to the network protocol. A packet header template is defined having a plurality of static fields filled with static values valid for all packets sent during the session and variable fields that can acquire packet-dependent values for different packets sent during a session. A packet header is created based on the header template by defining, in a central processing unit, at least one value of a variable field and by reusing the static values for the static fields. The packet header is pre-pended to payload data to form a packet, and the packet is sent to the second computing device. | 08-21-2008 |
| 20080205308 | Accurate Control of Transmission Information Ad Hoc Networks - In communication system (SYS) including a first network (IN) with at least a first terminal node (CN), and an ad hoc network (AHN) with at least a second terminal node (RN | 08-28-2008 |
| 20080205309 | VIRTUAL ADAPTATION LAYER FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATION - A system for improving communication efficiency in a communication medium. In at least one embodiment of the present invention, communication efficiency in a wireless communication medium may be improved by routing communication packets to destination layers in a wireless protocol stack using a minimal amount of information. Communication packets may be routed by maintaining a set of virtual packet identification indicators for identifying and routing information to an appropriate communication layer, receiving information including a virtual packet identification; and resolving an information type and a communication protocol layer to which the received data should be routed by mapping the virtual packet identification included in the received information with the virtual packet identification indicators. | 08-28-2008 |
| 20080205310 | COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM AND PROTOCOL FOR MEDICAL ENVIRONMENT - A communications system and protocol are described for wirelessly interconnecting a pair of bed and wall units that communicate the patient information, including bed exit alerts, from the patient supporting equipment to the hospital nurse call system. A linking procedure is provided for establishing a communications link to interconnect the pair of units, wherein the communications link fails upon detection of a third communications device simultaneously undergoing the link attempt mode. In one embodiment, the system provides for advanced collision detection by monitoring corruption of the end-of-packet byte within the periodic check-in message sequences between the linked units to prevent data corruption and future collisions. To ensure prompt interconnection of units, embodiments of the invention provide for a link reminder to alert the health care provider to initiate the steps for linking the bed and wall units whenever two or more unlinked units are in proximity. | 08-28-2008 |
| 20080205311 | COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM AND PROTOCOL FOR MEDICAL ENVIRONMENT - A communications system and protocol are described for wirelessly interconnecting a pair of bed and wall units that communicate the patient information, including bed exit alerts, from the patient supporting equipment to the hospital nurse call system. A linking procedure is provided for establishing a communications link to interconnect the pair of units, wherein the communications link fails upon detection of a third communications device simultaneously undergoing the link attempt mode. In one embodiment, the system provides for advanced collision detection by monitoring corruption of the end-of-packet byte within the periodic check-in message sequences between the linked units to prevent data corruption and future collisions. To ensure prompt interconnection of units, embodiments of the invention provide for a link reminder to alert the health care provider to initiate the steps for linking the bed and wall units whenever two or more unlinked units are in proximity. | 08-28-2008 |
| 20080205312 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR ESTABLISHING A SECURE ROUTE IN A WIRELESS NETWORK - A method for establishing a secure route in a wireless network as provided improves network efficiency. According to one aspect, the method includes receiving at a first node in the wireless network a route request message from a second node, where the second node and the first node have not been mutually authenticated. The route request message is then forwarded from the first node to a third node. A route reply message is then received at the first node from the third node. The first node is then mutually authenticated with the second node in response to receiving the route reply message at the first node. | 08-28-2008 |
| 20080205313 | Route optimization between a mobile router and a correspondent node using reverse routablility network prefix option - In one embodiment, a method includes generating by a mobile router a home test message that includes a prefix option field specifying at least one mobile network prefix claimed to be owned by the mobile router. The method also includes outputting the home test message by the mobile router to a correspondent node via a prescribed home agent assigned to the mobile router, for initiation of a reverse routability test between the mobile router and the correspondent node that verifies the mobile router owns the at least one mobile network prefix. In another embodiment, the home agent is configured for forwarding a route optimization message, for example the home test message, to the correspondent node if the home agent determines that the at least one mobile network prefix is owned by the mobile router. | 08-28-2008 |
| 20080205314 | Methods And Apparatus For Increasing Data Throughput By Grouping Data Packets Into Maximum Transmissible Units - A mobile communication device has a wireless transceiver and one or more processors for communicating data in a wireless communication system. The one or more processors are operative to receive a plurality of data packets of varying payload size in a queue; associate one or more of the data packets from the queue into a group, such that a total size of the group is at or near a maximum transmissible unit (MTU) size of a data frame; cause the one or more data packets associated into the group to be formatted into the data frame for data transmission via the wireless transceiver; and repeat, for a plurality of data frames, the associating and formatting, for communicating the data via the wireless transceiver in the wireless communication system. By associating the data packets into groups having the MTU size, data throughput of the data transmission is increased. Preferably, the one or more processors are further operative to rearrange an ordered sequence of the data packets from the queue to better achieve the MTU size for each data frame. | 08-28-2008 |
| 20080205315 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD FOR REPLACING WIRELESS DEVICE TO PERFORM WIRELESS COMMUNICATION AFTER RECEIVING CONFIRMATION FROM USER AND IMAGE DEVICE THEREOF - A wireless communication method and an image device thereof are provided. The wireless communication method includes determining whether a second, already connected, wireless device exists, if a need to establish a connection to a first wireless device exists; requesting whether to release the wireless connection to the second device, if the second wireless device, which is already connected, exists; and maintaining or releasing the wireless connection to the second wireless device according to the requesting. The image device includes a communication module which is wirelessly connected with a first wireless device; and a controller which requests whether to release the connection to a second wireless device, if there is a need to establish a connection to the first wireless device and a second wireless device is already connected, and maintains or releases the wireless connection to the second wireless device according to the request. | 08-28-2008 |
| 20080205316 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION METHOD AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A communication apparatus includes an image information acquisition unit configured to acquire new image information to be transmitted to a display terminal through a wireless access point, a storage unit configured to temporarily store the image information, a decision unit configured to decide to change a state of a wireless communication processing unit of the display terminal from a power save state to a normal state when an amount of the image information stored in the storage unit is not less than a predetermined threshold value, a message generation unit configured to generate a change instruction message in response to decision of the decision unit, and a transmission unit configured to transmit the change instruction message to the display terminal through the wireless access point to instruct the display terminal to change the state of the wireless communication processing unit from the power save state to the normal state. | 08-28-2008 |
| 20080212503 | Method and System for Tailoring WiMAX Device Provisioning Based on Device Capability Information Communicated to Network - Before a WiMAX-equipped device is distributed to an end-user, the manufacturer or distributor of the WiMAX-equipped device will record in the device a set of data that describes characteristics (e.g., type, features, capabilities, and limitations) of the device. When the end-user powers on the device or otherwise brings the device within the coverage of a service provider's WiMAX base station, the device will then acquire radio connectivity, typically with the service provider authenticating the device's WiMAX chipset. Thereafter, the device will engage in a first-time activation/service-provisioning session with a system operated by the service provider, and during that session, the device will provide the system with its device-characteristics data and the service provider will use that device-characteristics data as a basis to customize provisioning of service for the device based on the device's features and capabilities. | 09-04-2008 |
| 20080212504 | Dynamic stack-based networks for resource constrained devices - A wireless sensor network provides a communication link between a plurality of nodes. Communication among the plurality of nodes is based one or more protocol components that are associated with a selected quality of service (QoS). A preamble byte can have bit values assigned based on application preferences, and the preamble byte used to select one or more protocol components from a component library. The preamble byte is combined with a data payload and transmitted to additional nodes based on the selected QoS. | 09-04-2008 |
| 20080212505 | METHOD AND RECEIVING APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING ARQ BLOCK IN WIBRO SYSTEM - Disclosed is a receiving apparatus of a Wireless Broadband (WiBro) system and a method for processing an Automatic Repeat reQuest (ARQ) block for the same. In the receiving apparatus, ARQ blocks are grouped and are then processed by the group, thereby greatly reducing memory resources and overhead processing time, which is required in a case where the respective ARQ blocks are processed separately. Also, the generation of unnecessary purge timers in a receive (Rx) window of the receiving apparatus is reduced, thereby enabling the reduction of costs according to the operation of purge timers. | 09-04-2008 |
| 20080212506 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING CONTROL CHANNEL WITH PRE-ALLOCATED RESOURCES - The method for an eNodeB transmitting control channels with pre-allocated resources comprising steps of the eNodeB determining whether to transmit the control channels according to its needs; the eNodeB transmitting the control channels with pre-allocated resources according to properties of the signaling to be transmitted. With the method proposed in present invention, operations in a receiving end are simplified so that the time spent in receiving signaling is shortened and power consumption is well reduced. | 09-04-2008 |
| 20080212507 | APPARATUS AND METHOD TO COMBINE WIRED AND WIRELESS UWB APPLICATIONS - A system and method set up a beacon group for both wired and wireless UWB nodes along a single superframe with a single time frequency code and then transmits data between the wired and wireless nodes per the single superframe and time frequency code. | 09-04-2008 |
| 20080219192 | WIRELESS NETWORK SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATION METHOD IN A WIRELESS NETWORK - Disclosed is a wireless network system and a method for transmitting and receiving various information and data related to broadcast or multicast services in a wireless network. | 09-11-2008 |
| 20080219193 | WIRELESS NETWORK INTERFACE CARD AND MOBILE WIRELESS MONITORING SYSTEM - A wireless network interface card applied with a portable wireless terminal device includes a wireless communication module, a processing module and a connection interface module. The wireless communication module transmits or receives a wireless communication signal having sensing information according to a communication protocol of a personal wireless area network (PWAN). The processing module electrically connected with the wireless communication module receives the sensing information. The connection interface module is electrically connected with the processing module and the portable wireless terminal device. The sensing information is transmitted to the portable wireless terminal device through the processing module and the connection interface module. | 09-11-2008 |
| 20080219194 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SCHEDULING MULTIPLE USERS IN A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and apparatus for scheduling multiuser terminals in a communication system is provided. A receiver receives feedback information from a plurality of user terminals. A user grouping unit selects terminals having a maximum Signal to Interference plus Noise Ratio (SINR) among terminals having the same beam index and beam subset index, from among the plurality of user terminals, and generates terminal groups using the selected terminals, each terminal group including terminals having the same beam subset index. A group scheduling unit calculates a throughput of each of the terminal groups to determine which terminal group has the maximum throughput. A random precoding unit generates random beam vectors corresponding to terminals included in the terminal group determined to have the maximum throughput, and transmits data for user terminals, included in the terminal group determined to have the maximum throughput, over the generated random beam vectors. | 09-11-2008 |
| 20080219195 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING AND PROCESSING A MAC-ehs PROTOCOL DATA UNIT - A method and apparatus for generating and processing a high speed downlink shared channel (HS-DSCH) medium access control (MAC-ehs) protocol data unit (PDU) are disclosed. MAC-ehs service data units (SDUs) are multiplexed based on a logical channel identity. Reordering PDUs are generated from the multiplexed MAC-ehs SDUs. A reordering PDU includes at least one MAC-ehs SDU and/or at least one MAC-ehs SDU segment. A MAC-ehs SDU is segmented on a priority class basis if a MAC-ehs SDU does not fit into a reordering PDU. A MAC-ehs PDU is generated including at least one reordering PDU. The MAC-ehs SDUs may be stored in priority queues before generating the reordering PDUs. Alternatively, the reordering PDUs may be generated from the multiplexed MAC-ehs SDUs. Alternatively, the received MAC-ehs SDUs may be buffered in a corresponding buffer for each logical channel before multiplexed based on a logical channel identity, or reordering PDUs are generated. | 09-11-2008 |
| 20080225760 | System and Method for Intelligent Paging of an Idle Mobile Device - An access gateway comprises a processor. The processor is operable to determine a message type of a received packet. The processor is further operable to apply a paging rule. The paging rule is related at least in part to the message type of the received packet. The processor is further operable to determine whether to send a request to transition the mobile device to an active state based on the paging rule. The processor is further operable to send a request, when appropriate, to transition the mobile device to an active state. | 09-18-2008 |
| 20080225761 | Estimating Timing And Frequency Information For Multiple Channel Wireless Communication Systems - One method of estimating timing and frequency information of a payload transmitted through two or more frequency separated channels combines training fields from preambles from the two or more frequency separated channels to construct combined values that may be used to estimate the frequency and timing information. In one embodiment, the combined values may be determined by combining self-correlated training fields from the frequency separated channels. Another method of estimating the timing and frequency information selects the training fields from the preamble of one of the frequency separated channels based upon a signal quality metric. In another embodiment, the selection of the training fields based upon a signal quality metric may be biased to favor a particular channel. | 09-18-2008 |
| 20080225762 | MUNICIPAL SAFETY INTEGRATED INFRASTRUCTURE NETWORK FOR PROVIDING CONNECTIVITY TO PUBLIC AGENCIES, OFFICES AND FIXED/MOBILE INFRASTRUCTURE ELEMENTS - A communications network for making information available to a one or more government agencies. The network comprises antennas on publicly operated facilities, transceivers for sending messages to and receiving messages from one or more of the antennas, routers responsive to messages received at the antennas for routing the messages on a network path to a desired destination, the routers also responsive to messages from a source on the communications network for routing the messages to antennas and wherein the routers are controlled to route the messages to a desired destination, the desired destination determined by the existence of a situation involving users who can benefit from the information in the message. | 09-18-2008 |
| 20080225763 | Group MMSE-DFD with Rate (SINR) Feedback and Without Pre-Determined Decoding Order for Reception on a Cellular Downlink - In accordance with the invention, a method includes the steps of: i) initializing with channel matrix estimates and inner codes of all co-channel transmitter sources in a wireless network, modulation and coding schemes of all sources not of interest; ii) converting each channel matrix estimate into an effective channel matrix responsive to the inner code of the corresponding transmitter source; iii) selecting iteratively from a first set of transmitter sources transmitting at fixed rates, a transmitter source which maximizes a first metric; iv) computing iteratively a filter for the transmitter source which maximizes the first metric; v) selecting iteratively from a second set of transmitter sources of interest, a transmitter source which maximizes a second metric; vi) computing iteratively a rate and a filter for the transmitter source which maximizes the second metric; and vii) obtaining an ordered set of indices of all transmitter sources that will be decoded along with their corresponding filters, and feedback rates for all transmitter sources of interest. | 09-18-2008 |
| 20080225764 | Method and Apparatus for Improving Configurations of Serving Grants for a User Equipment in a Wireless Communications System - A method of improving configurations of serving grants for a user equipment in a wireless communications system includes providing a scheduling grant table for configuring a serving grant value according to a reference value when a relative grant message is received. The reference value is determined according to a previously received absolute grant message. The method then includes setting a maximum scheduled grant value of the scheduling grant table to be equal to or greater than a maximum absolute grant value capable of being indicated by the absolute grant message. | 09-18-2008 |
| 20080225765 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR REORDERING DATA IN AN EVOLVED HIGH SPEED PACKET ACCESS SYSTEM - Method and apparatus for receiving high speed downlink shared channel (HS-DSCH) transmissions are disclosed. An HS-DSCH medium access control (MAC-ehs) entity receives MAC-ehs protocol data units (PDUs) via a high speed downlink shared channel (HS-DSCH) while in one of Cell_FACH, Cell_PCH, and URA_PCH states. The reordering PDUs included in the MAC-ehs PDUs may be sent to a next processing entity without performing reordering of the PDUs. A certain reordering queue may enter a suspend state upon occurrence of a triggering event and MAC-ehs PDUs distributed to the reordering queue in the suspend state may be forwarded to the next processing entity without performing reordering. MAC-ehs reset procedure may be extended for a certain transmission such that the MAC-ehs reset is performed after receiving a MAC-ehs PDU in a target cell. | 09-18-2008 |
| 20080225766 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RECONFIGURING MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL COMPONENTS IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS - Methods and apparatus are disclosed to facilitate wireless communications between a wireless transmit receive unit (WTRU), legacy base stations and base stations using different operating parameters, such as evolved high speed packet access (HSPA) systems Third Generation Partnership Project ((3GPP) Release 7, Release 8 and beyond). Preferred WTRUs are configured with a medium access control (MAC) sub-layer component having a subcomponent with HARQ buffers, such as a subcomponent configured to provide MAC-es and MAC-e functionality and/or MAC-is and MACi functionality that include hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) processes, some of which are preferably operable with enhanced dedicated transport channels (E-DCH). The WTRUs are preferably configured such that they reconfigure their MAC subcomponents during soft handover while minimizing induced latency and data losses associated with HARQ processes. In some embodiments, the WTRUs are configured to prevent flushing of HARQ process buffers in soft handover scenarios with a Node B that does not support UL enhancements, e.g. higher order modulation (HOM). In other embodiments, flushing of HARQ processes is used but amelioration of adverse effects is addressed. | 09-18-2008 |
| 20080232280 | Registration method of multiple care-of address - The present invention relates to a binding update identifier sub-option field configuration method and a binding update information configuration method. In the method, a binding update identifier sub-option field including current used interface and data characteristics and corresponding to one interface of the plurality of interfaces is generated, the binding update identifier sub-option field is transmitted to a home agent and a correspondent node, a care-of address corresponding to a binding update identifier is stored, and binding update is performed. | 09-25-2008 |
| 20080232281 | Precise node localization in sensor ad-hoc networks - Methods and systems for configuring ad-hoc networks, especially a self-configuring wireless sensor networks, are described. The network has an initial number of anchors with known positions that broadcast a signal. The signals are received by distributed nodes whose position is not yet known. The nodes rank the received signal based on a Quality of Link (QoL; received signal strength) and compute a Quality of position Estimate (QoE) for the node. The node with the best QoE is elevated to anchor. This process gradually increases the number of available anchors in the network and hence the position accuracy for additional nodes. The system can be used for geolocation of soldiers in the indoor combat, tracking the location of firefighter and other emergency personnel in rescue missions, etc. | 09-25-2008 |
| 20080232282 | SMART ACCUMULATOR FOR FINITE-PRECISION ARITHMETIC - Systems, methods, and devices that facilitate finite-precision data accumulation by utilizing precision binning and queuing are provided. A precision range of a data element received into a queue can be determined. Further, a stored data element of like precision can be selected. The stored data element can be added with the data element received into the queue to generate a resultant data element. The resultant data element can be stored in a memory location or the queue as a function of like precision range. | 09-25-2008 |
| 20080232283 | Method and Apparatus for Handling Random Access Procedure in a Wireless Communications System - A method for handling a random access procedure in a network of a wireless communications system comprises transmitting a downlink message comprising a special preamble identifier and other information of fields via addressing of a specific identifier for all UEs in a cell. | 09-25-2008 |
| 20080232284 | Apparatus, method and computer program product providing semi-dynamic persistent allocation - A network element sets up a connection with an individual user equipment UE, provides an indicator that informs that a particular resource allocation to the individual user equipment is persistent, and sends resource allocations to a plurality of user equipments that includes the particular resource allocation to the individual user equipment. The indication can be implicit in the position of the particular resource allocation within the plurality of resource allocations as arranged during the connection setup, or it may be explicit with the resource allocation such as from a bit stolen from the CRC field. The persistent allocation can be terminated in multiple ways, including overwriting with a new persistent allocation, sending an end bit or no data, or sending an improper CRC field which is arranged by an absence of both a NACK from the UE and a re-transmission from the network as a terminating condition. | 09-25-2008 |
| 20080232285 | Method and apparatus for real time scheduling of traffic in wireless networks - A method for scheduling of traffic in wireless networks, whereas said network comprises real-time stations intending to send real-time traffic and best-effort stations sending best effort traffic, said method comprising: | 09-25-2008 |
| 20080240005 | PROCESSING WIRELESS AND BROADBAND SIGNALS USING RESOURCE SHARING - Methods and structures are described for processing signals formatted according to a plurality of different wireless and broadband standards. In some embodiments, network resources are shared to enable energy efficient, pseudo-simultaneous processing. In some embodiments, a timestamp is prepended to input data to remove jitter associated with time division multiplexed processing using shared resources. Systems according to embodiments of the invention are also disclosed. | 10-02-2008 |
| 20080240006 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND POWER CONSERVATION METHOD THEREOF - A mobile communication device and a power saving method thereof are provided. The method determines whether to enter a normal mode or a power saving mode according to the moving state of the mobile communication device to achieve the objective of saving power. The timing start function of the mobile communication device is started under the normal mode, and then the mobile communication device starts every a predetermined time to determine whether to switch to a cell according to the signal intensity of cells. The timing start function of the mobile communication device is closed under the power saving mode. If the device is not moved for a long predetermined time under the power saving mode, it returns to the normal mode from the power saving mode. | 10-02-2008 |
| 20080240007 | INTER-RING FAIRNESS CONTROL METHOD AND RPR NODE DEVICE - The fairness of communication traffic guaranteed within an RPR ring is guaranteed also at a ring interconnection. Transmit weight information used for fairness control is extracted from RPR control information in an arrival packet. In addition to this transmit weight information, a source address, a service class, a fairness bit, and a ring transmit direction are also extracted. If the packet has a fairness bit of “0,” the packet is temporarily stored in an output queue by service class. If the packet has a fairness bit of “1,” the packet is weighted by source and ring transmit direction, based on the transmit weight information, and is temporarily stored in an output queue by source and ring transmit direction. Reading of packets from the output queue by service class is performed prior to reading of packets from the output queue by source and ring transmit direction. | 10-02-2008 |
| 20080247342 | Connection Setup for the Exchange of Data of an Ip-Based Service - The invention relates to a method and a device for setting up a connection between a terminal (MS) in a communication network and a network element (AS, IPU) in an IP network for exchanging data of an IP-based service. The invention is characterized by setting up a connection between at least one network unit (OSUS-Proxy) of the communication network and the terminal (MS) of the communication network for exchanging data of an IP-based service comprising at least one signaling message. The at least one network unit (OSUS-Proxy) of the communication network, in accordance with the content of the at least one signaling message by the terminal (MS), sets up a connection for exchanging data of an IP-based service with the network element (AS, IPU) of the IP network with at least one recipient-specific signaling. Once both connections are set up, the at least one network unit (OSUS-Proxy) of the communication network forwards received data of an IP-based service from the network element (AS, IPU) to the terminal (MS) and from the terminal (MS) to the network element (AS, IPU). | 10-09-2008 |
| 20080247343 | Method for Requesting Information - A method for requesting information about at least one object via a network having multiple links, this at least one object is situated amidst multiple objects and each of these objects has at least one module for the exchange of data, one of the links being established in each case between two modules of two adjacent objects, thereby implementing the network. | 10-09-2008 |
| 20080247344 | Signaling Over Cellular Networks to Reduce the Wi-Fi Energy Consumption of Mobile Devices - Techniques for increasing the battery life on a mobile device by decreasing the energy consumption of the mobile device's wireless fidelity (Wi-Fi) interface are described. In one embodiment, the mobile device's Wi-Fi interface is automatically disabled when the device is not engaged in a voice over internet protocol (VoIP) call via the Wi-Fi interface. When a VoIP call is initiated on the device, or when the device receives a wake up call from a server via its Cellular interface, the Wi-Fi interface is automatically enabled. Using its Wi-Fi interface, the mobile device then connects to an IP-based network via a Wi-Fi access point. The server then initiates a direct call, wherein VoIP technology is used by the mobile device, between the mobile device and a VoIP calling device. | 10-09-2008 |
| 20080247345 | DEVICES, SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AD HOC WIRELESS COMMUNICATION - The current options for wireless communication have changed the way people work and the way in which networks can be deployed. However, there remains unresolved problems in the setup and configuration of wireless communication links. Both known cellular and ad hoc wireless networking protocols and systems are deficient in that the ability for users to communicate without a priori knowledge of MAC addresses (represented by phone numbers, IP addresses and the like) is limited or may be compromised in a hostile environment. In contrast, provided by aspects of the present invention are devices, systems and methods for establishing ad hoc wireless communication between users that do not necessarily have MAC addresses and the like for one another. In some embodiments, a first user visually selects a second user and points a coherent light beam at an electronic device employed by the second user. Data specific to the first user is modulated on the coherent light beam, which can then be demodulated when the coherent light beam is received by the electronic device of the second user. | 10-09-2008 |
| 20080247346 | COMMUNICATION NODE WITH MULTIPLE ACCESS SUPPORT - A node configured to communicate with a user equipment via at least two access network domains. The node is configured to generate access network domain selection information, and further configured to route data packets dependent on the network domain selection information | 10-09-2008 |
| 20080253308 | Wireless Broadband Licensed Networking System for Local and Wide Area Networking - A licensed microwave radio multi-functional broadband system with multiple numbers of installed edge smart wireless hubs. The system provides dynamic, automated selection of transmission types, including Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (QAM), Quadrature Phase Shift Keying (QPSK) and orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) for broadcast over point-to-point, point to multipoint and omni-directional antenna arranged in six equal 60° degree arrays. The system also includes an intelligent data IP packet measurement system that dynamically reads and controls the network Quality of Service [QoS] through software. The automated control may include throttling power up and power down to meet changing effects of transmission parameters in substantially real time. | 10-16-2008 |
| 20080253309 | WIRELESS NODE AND INSTALLATION METHOD FOR WIRELESS INFRASTRUCTURE - A node for a wireless communication infrastructure is provided. The node comprises a transceiver, a routing circuit, a power supply and switch. The transceiver is configured to transmit and receive wireless communication signals. The routing circuit is configured to route signals to and from other nodes and data sinks via the transceiver. The power supply is configured to supply power to the transceiver and the routing circuit. Finally, the switch is configured to toggle routing functions of the routing circuit on and off. | 10-16-2008 |
| 20080253310 | Mobile Communication Terminal, and Multipath Interference Eliminating Method - Properties of a mobile communication terminal car be improved by eliminating interference according to environments of various reception paths. The mobile communication terminal generates a delay profile by a common pilot chapel sent from a base station and measures received electric power and delay amount of the reception path. Next, based on the delay profile, the delay amount of a reception path P | 10-16-2008 |
| 20080259829 | Personal area network systems and devices and methods for use thereof - Systems and methods are provided for interfacing wireless communications between two devices such that a device devoid of a relatively long-range communications protocol can access that protocol. This may be accomplished by providing a host device having relatively short-range communications circuitry integrated therein, which circuitry may be operative to communicate with relatively short-range communications circuitry of a multi-protocol or long-range communications device that also includes relatively long-range communications circuitry. | 10-23-2008 |
| 20080259830 | Wireless communication system, information and communication terminal, portable telephone, reader/writer, communication method and computer program - There is provided a wireless communication system that includes two information communication terminals with built-in IC chips engaged in alternating wireless communication with each other through noncontact communication, wherein one of the information communication terminals includes a reception unit that receives a packet originating from the other information communication terminal, a transmission unit that wirelessly transmits a single packet or a plurality of packets to the other information communication terminal by transmitting all packets that can be transmitted to the other information communication terminal instead of engaging in alternating wireless communication if a specific condition is satisfied and an identifier appending unit that appends a last packet identifier to a packet to be transmitted last from the transmission unit among all the packets that can be transmitted to the other information communication terminal. | 10-23-2008 |
| 20080259831 | SYSTEM AND PROCESS FOR INTERNET PROTOCOL MULTIMEDIA SUBSYSTEM CENTRALIZED SERVICE WITH ENHANCED UNSTRUCTURED SUPPLEMENTARY SERVICE - A method of handling Service Data initiated by a wireless network for a mobile station, the mobile station configured to operate in a circuit-switched network and a packet-switched network, includes registering a Circuit Switched Access Adaptation Function in the mobile station for Supplementary Service, and sending a Service Data message initiated by the wireless network to applications registered in the mobile station. | 10-23-2008 |
| 20080259832 | Method and Apparatus for Improving Reordering Functionality in a Wireless Communications System - A method for improving a reordering functionality in a wireless communications system comprises configuring a reset timer, utilized for controlling the reset of a reordering functionality of a protocol entity, reassembling all received protocol data units in the protocol entity with previously stored protocol data unit segments, and discarding all protocol data unit segments that cannot be reassembled in the protocol entity. | 10-23-2008 |
| 20080259833 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING DATA TRANSMISSION IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Techniques for controlling data transmission are described. In an aspect, a user equipment (UE) determines whether to send a packet based on available transmit power. The UE determines a first packet size based on the available transmit power and sends a packet of the first packet size if it is equal to or larger than a minimum packet size. The UE sends a packet of a second packet size (e.g., the minimum packet size) if the first packet size is smaller than the minimum packet size and if at least one condition is met, e.g., the available transmit power is greater than a power threshold and the delay of a packet to send is larger than a delay threshold. In another aspect, the UE operates in a discontinuous transmission (DTX) mode and cancels the DTX mode if the delay of a packet to send exceeds a threshold. | 10-23-2008 |
| 20080259834 | CROSS-LAYER OPTIMIZATION METHOD FOR CONTROLLING BIT RATE OF VIDEO CODEC IN TRANSMISSION OF VIDEO DATA IN WIBRO SYSTEM - A cross-layer optimization method for controlling a bit rate of a video coder/decoder (codec) in video data transmission for wireless devices such as a wireless broadband (WiBro) system terminal that adapts to changing transmission/reception characteristics and usage. The method typically includes checking, by a sender, radio channel state information of a sender side and a receiver side; determining, by the sender, a transmission bit rate of a video codec by using the radio channel state information of the sender side; and adjusting, by the sender, the transmission bit rate of the video codec by using the radio channel state information of the receiver side when a communication network used by a receiver typically based on the type of a communication network being used by the sender. | 10-23-2008 |
| 20080267099 | SERVICE PROVISION AT A NETWORK ACCESS POINT - A system for providing one or more services at a network access point is described. The system comprises a controller, a wireless interface coupled with the controller, a network interface coupled with the controller, at least one of an internal interface coupled with the controller and an external interface coupled with the controller, and at least one of one or more internal modules coupled with the internal interface and one or more external modules coupled with the external interface. | 10-30-2008 |
| 20080267100 | Data block cluster processing in a wireless device - A wireless device includes a case, user interface, an antenna, first processing resources, and second processing resources. The first processing resources couple to the antenna and to the second processing resources and receive and operate upon a data signal transmitted by a transmitting wireless device. In its processing operations, the first processing resources produces decoded data blocks and writes the decoded data blocks to a data buffer. When a processing resource threshold is met with regard to the plurality of decoded data blocks, the first processing resources issue a service processing interrupt to the second processing resources. In response to the service processing interrupt, the second processing resources retrieve the plurality of decoded data blocks from the data buffer in response to the service processing interrupt and process the plurality of decoded data blocks. | 10-30-2008 |
| 20080267101 | Universal Browser - A method, a computer readable medium and a system for universal browsing that comprises, sending a request for a service by a mobile terminal to a service portal, determining a protocol needed to fulfill the request by the service portal, if the protocol needed is resident on the mobile terminal, determining a sensor that can fulfill the request, sending the request by the service portal to the sensor, establishing a connection between the mobile terminal and the sensor, and sending a response to the request to the mobile terminal via the connection. | 10-30-2008 |
| 20080267102 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMPROVING SYMMETRY IN DATA TRANSFER IN LLC LAYER OF PEER TO PEER NFC DEVICE - A data transmission/reception method in Near Field Communications (NFC) for improving data throughput is provided. Communications between a first NFC device and a second NFC device which perform NFC includes (a) transmitting, by the first NFC device, a data frame to the second NFC device, (b) setting, by the second NFC device, an indication of presence or absence of more-data in a bit of a Logical Link Control (LLC) information frame and transmitting the LLC information frame as a response frame responding to the data frame transmitted from the first NFC device, and (c) checking, by the first NFC device, the bit of the response frame and waiting for predetermined time or immediately transmitting a next transmission data bit without waiting for the predetermined time according to the check result. | 10-30-2008 |
| 20080267103 | ALWAYS-ON WIRELESS INTERNET PROTOCOL COMMUNICATION - In accordance with the teachings described herein, systems and methods are provided for always-on wireless IP communication. An access provider network (APN) that includes an always-on packet data serving node (PDSN) may be used to communicate over a wireless communication link with a mobile station. The PDSN may include an inactivity timer and may be used to set the inactivity timer to an inactivity timer starting value and send a starting value estimate to the mobile station over the wireless communication link, wherein the starting value estimate is a function of the inactivity timer starting value. The mobile station may include an inactivity timer estimate and may be used to receive the starting value estimate and set the inactivity timer estimate to the starting value estimate. The mobile station may also be used to reset the inactivity timer estimate to the starting value estimate when the mobile station communicates with the APN. | 10-30-2008 |
| 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 |
| 20080279128 | Simultaneous wireless support in software defined radio - A system and method for providing the ability to discover the capabilities of a user's computer to determine whether it is capable of supporting more than one wireless protocol simultaneously is provided. A computing device's capabilities (including, for example, hardware and/or software capabilities) is checked to determine if it supports at least two specific wireless protocols and checking a computing device's capabilities (including, for example, hardware and/or software capabilities) is checked to determine if it supports both wireless protocols simultaneously. The techniques for determining the computing device's compatibility may include comparing lists of protocol requirements to lists of system capabilities and/or generating test signals by the system according to the protocol. | 11-13-2008 |
| 20080285491 | Packet-Based Data Processing Technique - A technique is provided for processing data in a packet-based communications environment. A single data packet is encapsulated into a single link layer packet data unit. The link layer unit is encoded to form at least one code block. After the currently available radio resource capacity during a fixed duration transmission interval has been determined, bits within the code block are selected to fit into or otherwise match the radio resource capacity. Thereafter, the selected bits are transmitted via a physical layer. In some variations, unsolicited redundant sets of bits are transmitted thereafter to facilitate successful receipt. | 11-20-2008 |
| 20080285492 | System and Method for Providing Local IP Breakout Services Employing Access Point Names - A method, apparatus and system are provided for acquiring an access point name for an application employing a local Internet protocol breakout service. In one embodiment, the apparatus includes a user management subsystem ( | 11-20-2008 |
| 20080285493 | Method of Comparing State Variable or Packet Sequence Number for a Wireless Communications System and Related Apparatus - A method of comparing a state variable or a sequence number, hereinafter called SN, of a packet with modulus arithmetic for a receiving terminal of a wireless communications system includes determining an SN range of a receiving window and using a minimum SN of the receiving window as a modulus base for a duplicate avoidance and reordering, hereinafter called DAR, entity and a reception buffer when a DAR function is configured; determining an SN range of a storage window and using a minimum SN of the storage window as the modulus base when an out of sequence packet delivery function is configured; and using an SN of the latest packet received by the reception buffer plus a first predetermined value as the modulus base when neither the out of sequence packet delivery function nor the DAR function is configured. | 11-20-2008 |
| 20080291853 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PAUSING AN ONGOING TRANSMISSION IN A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A system and method for pausing communications from a transmitting radio for a certain period of time in order to allow transmission of other messages. When a first radio determines that a message needs to be transmitted either to a second radio or the transmitting radio, the first radio determines whether there are any available forward channels to transmit the call. If no forward channel is available, the first radio determines a period of time required to transmit the message and sends, on a reverse channel, a “request to pause” signal to the transmitting radio identifying that period of time. Upon receiving the “request to pause” signal, the transmitting radio ceases transmission on the forward channel for the specified period of time, during which time the first radio transmits the message. | 11-27-2008 |
| 20080291854 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING/RECEIVING DATA BY USING A MOBILE COMMUNICATION TERMINAL IN A ZIGBEE PAN - A mobile communication terminal equipped with a Zigbee communication module for transmitting/receiving contents data in a Zigbee Personal Area Network (PAN) and a method for transmitting/receiving data by a mobile communication terminal in a communication system of the Zigbee PAN are provided. The communication system of the Zigbee PAN includes a first terminal equipped with a Zigbee communication module capable of Zigbee communication, for generating contents data for extracting a tag from the generated contents data, generating profile information using the tag, and for broadcasting the profile information and the contents data in the Zigbee PAN, and a second terminal for comparing a tag of the contents data detected from the received profile information with a previously stored tag upon receiving the profile information broadcasted from the first terminal, and then for receiving the contents data if the detected tag of the contents data and the previously stored tag coincide with each other. | 11-27-2008 |
| 20080298282 | EFFICIENCY AND RESILIENCY ENHANCEMENTS FOR TRANSITION STATES IN AD HOC NETWORKS - A method includes establishing an ad hoc network between at least a borrower and at least one lender of bandwidth and downloading requested data from a data source via the ad hoc network. The method further includes leaving the ad hoc network while maintaining some of the downloaded requested data. The method further includes reestablishing a connection to the data source for completing the downloading of the requested data. | 12-04-2008 |
| 20080298283 | COALITION FORMATION AND SERVICE PROVISIONING OF BANDWIDTH SHARING AD HOC NETWORKS - Method, system, and computer program product for enabling dynamic creation of a coalition of multiplexed ad hoc networks to form larger ad hoc networks for service provisioning, in which multiplexers can be connected together in either a hierarchical structure or a parallel structure. Includes method, system, and computer program product for forming an ad hoc network composed of a multiplexer coupling a borrower to at least one lender and forming a coalition composed of the ad hoc network and at least one other multiplexer. | 12-04-2008 |
| 20080298284 | MARKET-DRIVEN VARIABLE PRICE OFFERINGS FOR BANDWIDTH-SHARING AD HOC NETWORKS - Systems and methods to establish and execute market-driven variable price offerings among the lenders and borrowers in a bandwidth-sharing ad hoc network for shared bandwidth usage. The method comprises establishing and executing market-driven variable price offerings among lenders and borrowers. A bandwidth-sharing ad hoc network for shared bandwidth usage is formed based on the established and executed market-driven variable price offering. | 12-04-2008 |
| 20080298285 | Efficient, Secure Digital Wireless Voice Telephony Via Selective Encryption - Secure, digital, packet-switched, voice telephony calls are wirelessly transmitted in an efficient manner that reduces air interface bandwidth consumption by encrypting only vocoder data frames containing encoded speech, and not encrypting vocoder data frames that do not contain speech, such as those containing silence parameters. The collective reduced bandwidth consumption across a large number of voice telephony calls may allow for the admission of one or more new calls during times of voice telephony congestion. Not encrypting the silence parameters does not compromise call privacy or security, since the silence data frames do not carry any speech. The classification of encoded data frames as containing speech or not may be performed in a variety of ways. | 12-04-2008 |
| 20080298286 | FRAMEWORK FOR MANAGING NETWORK DATA PROCESSING ELEMENTS - In one embodiment an apparatus comprises a transceiver in data communication with an associated network and control logic coupled to the transceiver. The control logic is operable to send data to the associated network and receive data from the associated network via the transceiver. The control logic is configured to determine a network element for processing a data stream. The control logic is configured to acquire the network element from the associated network responsive to determining the network element for processing the data stream. | 12-04-2008 |
| 20080304431 | Method And System For A Digital Diary System - A wireless communication device may generate an interactive digital diary for one or more users. The device may handle location information, multimedia data, transactions and/or secure communications via a plurality of technologies. Digital diary information may be stored internally or externally, it may be searchable and/or may comprise moving images, still images, audio, text, geographic location, entity information, time, date, transactions, financial information, consumer information, security information, user input, communications, user contacts, software applications, user profiles, scheduled events, prompts and/or reminders. The digital diary may comprise an interactive user interface which may have mapping capability and may provide link access to digital diary information and/or associated entities. User input methods may comprise screen touch, pressure sensor, key entry and/or voice. Information may be captured via a camera, microphone, geo-location data receiver, transaction write/reader, digital clock, digital calendar, key entry and/or tactile sensor. | 12-11-2008 |
| 20080310331 | APPARATUS, AND ASSOCIATED METHOD, FOR CONFIGURING AN IMS SERVICE FOR USE BY A CIRCUIT-SWITCHED DEVICE - Apparatus, and an associated method, to facilitate performance of an IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem) service to a circuit-switched-connected user equipment. The user equipment includes a USSD message generator that generates an initiation message that is sent to a network of a radio communication system. The message is routed through the network to an entity that decodes the USSD message to form an XCAP message. The XCAP message is routed to an associated service node that operates responsive to the XCAP message. | 12-18-2008 |
| 20080310332 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR UTILIZING A 60 GHZ PHY LAYER FOR HIGH SPEED DATA TRANSMISSION BETWEEN BLUETOOTH DEVICES - Wireless devices may utilize a Bluetooth stack to setup a data transmission session between the devices. The data transmission session may comprise a Bluetooth PHY and/or MAC/PHY layer that enables the wireless devices to perform discovery, pairing, and security setup operations. A secondary physical layer may be utilized to perform high speed data transmission. The secondary physical layer may comprise a 60 GHz PHY and/or MAC/PHY. The secondary physical layer may be integrated via the Bluetooth stack, and applications running on top of the Bluetooth stack may utilize the secondary physical layer transparently. A portion of the transmitted data may be multiplexed onto other secondary physical layers that may be available in the wireless devices. Alternatively, transmission of data may comprise switching among available secondary physical layers. The Bluetooth PHY and/or MAC/PHY layer may be utilized during data transmission to continually monitor and/or manage the data transmission. | 12-18-2008 |
| 20080310333 | SEMI-PERSISTENT RESOURCE ALLOCATION METHOD FOR UPLINK TRANSMISSION IN WIRELESS PACKET DATA SYSTEMS - A wireless telecommunications network supplies a semi-persistent resource that a wireless station can use for special purposes (such as a retransmission of packets for ARQ purposes or a control signal. The semi-persistent resource can be allocated by the system to other terminals if, e.g., a retransmission is not required. Since a retransmission is generally performed in response to a NACK received from a base station, the NACK may itself serve as a token that permits the wireless station to use the semi-persistent allocation. Thus, the technology includes, e.g., a method for resource allocation on a semi-persistent basis and efficient signaling for the usage of such allocation. | 12-18-2008 |
| 20080310334 | Communication system, server, control apparatus and communication apparatus - Disclosed herewith is a communication system, which can solve the following conventional problem that if packets exchanged between a terminal and an HA are encapsulated with use of the mobile IPv6 protocol, the PDSN cannot identify any IP flows in the mobile IPv6 tunnel. Consequently, there is no QoS usable appropriately to the services in the EV-D0 RAN. To solve such a problem, the PCRF notifies the HA of the filter information used to specify each IP flow and the flow label assigned to each IP flow. The HA then sets the flow label in the outer IPv6 header of the packet matching with the filter information and transfers the packet to the object unit. The PDSN then refers to the flow label set in the outer IPv6 header to identify the object IP flow in the mobile IPv6 tunnel. Consequently, a proper QoS can be usable for the services respectively in the EV-D0 RAN. | 12-18-2008 |
| 20080310335 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ACCOUNTING IN A MOBILE DATA PACKET NETWORK - In a converged communication network, IP data packet services are provided by a core network to access terminals via radio access nodes (RAN). By positioning accounting report triggering closer to the usage, accuracy and comprehensive of accounting is achieved, which can also reduce overhead burdens on the core network. Additional responsibility is given to an access gateway (AGW) between an enhanced base station (eBS) of the RAN and the core network that can reduce the volume and increase the accuracy of accounting message traffic to an authentication, authorization and accounting (AAA) server of the core network. The AGW informs the eBS of accounting rules to be used in making air link records that are merged and formatted in accordance with an accounting protocol for sending to the AAA server, to address duration and volume based accounting needs, postpaid and prepaid accounting types, and user, service and flow based accounting categories. | 12-18-2008 |
| 20080310336 | Dynamic receiver filter adjustment across preamble and information payload - A method and apparatus is disclosed to dynamically select among two or more receiver filter bandwidths to more closely approximate a bandwidth of a corresponding signal field included in a received communications signal. A communications transmitter may transmit a transmitted communication signal in at least one formatted blocks of data or packets. Each one of the at least one formatted blocks of data or packets include at least one single stream signal field such as, but not limited to, a single stream preamble, a single stream signal field, and/or a single stream single stream information payload in accordance with the known single stream communications standard and/or at least one multiple stream signal field such as, but not limited to, a multiple stream preamble, a multiple stream signal field, and/or a multiple stream multiple stream information payload in accordance with the known multiple stream communications standard. The communications receiver may include one or more receiver filters to select among one or more receiver filter bandwidths to filter the at least one single stream signal field and/or the at least one multiple stream signal field. | 12-18-2008 |
| 20090003250 | Wireless Communication Device, Wireless Communication System and Network Control Method - According to one embodiment, a wireless communication device executes, with use of a wireless signal of a millimeter-wave band, wireless communication with each of devices which are present in an ad-hoc network. The wireless communication device includes a scan request transmission unit, a selection unit, and a coordinator change request unit. The scan request unit requests a coordinator to transmit a scan instruction to each of the devices. Each device, which has received the scan instruction from the coordinator, executes a scan process for detecting all devices which belong to a communication range thereof. The selection unit selects, on the basis of a result of the scan process, a device having a communication range to which at least the wireless communication device belongs. The coordinator change request unit requests the coordinator to execute a process for transferring an authority of the coordinator to the selected device. | 01-01-2009 |
| 20090003251 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - A wireless communication device performs a wireless communication with a communication target device via an intermediate device. A route-information obtaining unit obtains communication route information indicating a communication route to the communication target device. A quality-information obtaining unit obtains quality information indicating quality of a signal received by a device included in the communication route indicated by the communication route information. A route selecting unit selects an optimum communication route to the communication target device based on the quality information. | 01-01-2009 |
| 20090010186 | METHODS AND APPARATUS RELATED TO INTERFERENCE MANAGEMENT WHEN SHARING DOWNLINK BANDWIDTH BETWEEN WIDE AREA NETWORK USAGE AND PEER TO PEER SIGNALING - Methods and apparatus related to the sharing of wide area network (WAN) downlink bandwidth with peer to peer communication signaling usage are described. A WAN, e.g., cellular, wireless communications device using a base station attachment point, transmits a signal to be used by a peer to peer wireless communications device for controlling its peer to peer transmit power level. The peer to peer wireless communications device receives and measures the strength of the power control signal from the WAN wireless communications device. The measurement information is used by the peer to peer wireless communications device in determining whether or not peer to peer signal transmission is permitted and/or in determining a peer to peer transmission power level. Thus the WAN device is able to manage interference from the peer to peer devices in its vicinity which impacts its recovery of WAN base station downlink signals. | 01-08-2009 |
| 20090010187 | System and Method for an Adaptive Access Point Mode - A system an adaptive access point node includes (a) a switch disposed within a network, the network comprising at least one virtual local area network; (b) an anchor access point disposed in the at least one virtual local area network, the anchor access point connected to the switch via a data path, the anchor access point configured to receive a broadcast data packet from the switch via the data path; and (c) at least one access point connected to the anchor access point via a local data path to receive the broadcast data packet from the anchor access point via the local data path. The anchor access point and the access points further forward the broadcast data packet to other devices connected thereto. | 01-08-2009 |
| 20090016245 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING DATA - Embodiments of the invention relate generally to communication devices and to a method for transmitting data. In an embodiment of the invention, a communication device is provided. The communication device may include a first access technology circuit providing signal transmission in accordance with a first access technology to transmit user data encoded in accordance with the first access technology, and a second access technology circuit providing signal transmission in accordance with a second access technology, wherein the second access technology is different from the first access technology, to transmit control data encoded in accordance with the first access technology and to transmit control data encoded in accordance with the second access technology. | 01-15-2009 |
| 20090016246 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DATA TRANSMISSION IN AN UNLICENSED MOBILE ACCESS NETWORK - A method and wireless device are provided for at least one of transmitting and receiving data over an unlicensed mobile access network. The method comprises establishing a connection with an unlicensed mobile access network ( | 01-15-2009 |
| 20090016247 | FAST TRANSITIONING RESOURCE NEGOTIATION - Embodiments of apparatuses, articles, methods, and systems for fast transitioning resource negotiation in wireless networks are generally described herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed. | 01-15-2009 |
| 20090022076 | NETWORK TYPE ASSISTED WLAN NETWORK SELECTION - A device to request and receive a packet of information that details WLAN network information prior to association with the WLAN. This network information about the WLAN allows the device to complete automated network selection and enrollment. | 01-22-2009 |
| 20090022077 | COMPUTING DEVICE, HARDWARE DATA TRANSFER UNIT, SOFTWARE CONTROL UNIT, AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING A DATA TRANSFER IN A COMPUTING DEVICE - A computing device includes a hardware data processing unit having at least one input buffer, a plurality of output buffers, a data transfer unit, and a software control unit, the data transfer unit configured to transfer data from the input buffer to the plurality of output buffers, and the software control unit configured to control the data transfer unit. | 01-22-2009 |
| 20090028077 | Method of determining the location of a node in a distributed wireless sensor and actuator network - Embodiments of the invention comprise a method of determining a position of a node, comprising receiving a communication from the node; determining a timing of the receiving; and calculating a position of the node from the timing. | 01-29-2009 |
| 20090028078 | Method and apparatus for providing security in a radio frequency identification system - A part can receive a communication that originates externally of the part, that conforms to a predetermined communications protocol, and that contains payload information consistent with the protocol but subject to a security provision supplemental to the protocol. The part extracts the payload information from the security provision. | 01-29-2009 |
| 20090028079 | DIGITAL BROADCAST SYSTEM FOR TRANSMITTING/RECEIVING DIGITAL BROADCAST DATA, AND DATA PROCESSING METHOD FOR USE IN THE SAME - The present invention is directed to a digital broadcast system and a data processing method. A broadcast signal in which mobile service data and main service data are multiplexed is transmitted and received. Then, in a broadcasting receiver, the program table information including information about a service or a program of an ensemble is parsed according to an identifier of the ensemble in which the mobile service data are multiplexed, in the received broadcast signal. And a mobile service is outputted by using the mobile service data and the parsed program table information. | 01-29-2009 |
| 20090028080 | DIGITAL BROADCAST SYSTEM FOR TRANSMITTING/RECEIVING DIGITAL BROADCAST DATA, AND DATA PROCESSING METHOD FOR USE IN THE SAME - The present invention is directed to a digital broadcast system and a data processing method. A broadcast signal in which mobile service data and main service data are multiplexed is transmitted and received. Then, in a broadcasting receiver, mobile service data identification information indicating whether the mobile service data of the broadcast signal provides an internet protocol (IP)-based service is parse from the broadcast signal. And the mobile service data is outputted by using the parsed mobile service data identification information. | 01-29-2009 |
| 20090028081 | DIGITAL BROADCASTING SYSTEM AND DATA PROCESSING METHOD - A digital broadcasting system and a method of processing data are disclosed. A receiving system of the digital broadcasting system may include a signal receiving unit, a demodulating unit, a demultiplexer, and an audio/video decoder. The signal receiving unit receives a broadcast signal including main service data and an RS frame including a plurality of MPH service data packets. The demodulating unit demodulates data of the RS frame. The demultiplexer identifies an MPH service data packet including an IP datagram of mobile service data with reference to an MPH header of each MPH service data packet in the RS frame, and when a stuffing data is inserted in the identified payload of MPH service data packet, removes the stuffing data from the payload and separates an audio and video data from IP datagram of the mobile service data of the payload, and outputs the separated audio and video data. | 01-29-2009 |
| 20090028082 | Systems and Methods for Wireless Network Selection Based on Attributes Stored in a Network Database - Systems and methods for wireless network selection based on attributes stored in a network database are disclosed. In some embodiments, a method comprises receiving a network identifier associated with a wireless network, determining if a network profile associated with the network identifier is stored within a network profile database comprising a plurality of network profiles, and if the network profile associated with the network identifier is stored within the network profile database, retrieving the network profile, or if the network profile associated with the network identifier is not stored within the network profile database, initiating the network profile, obtaining an attribute associated with the network device identifier, and storing the attribute within the network profile. | 01-29-2009 |
| 20090034440 | DISTRIBUTED NETWORK - Systems and methods for a distributed network are provided. In some embodiments, a method includes automatically transmitting a page message for a mobile station to access points in a paging group associated with a first access point, the page message having been received at the first access point, the first access point being associated with the most recent location update of the mobile station, and establishing a security agreement between the first access point and the other access points prior to receiving the page message. | 02-05-2009 |
| 20090034441 | Apparatus and method supporting a redundancy-managing interface between wireless and wired networks - A wireless network includes a leaf node, which generates a data message. The data message is routed through infrastructure nodes to a gateway infrastructure node, which is coupled to a wired network. A wireless interface module is also coupled to the wired network and communicates with the gateway infrastructure node. Multiple copies of the data message are created in the wireless network due to redundancy mechanisms supported in the wireless network, such as redundant connectivity and redundant message routing. The multiple copies of the data message are received at the gateway infrastructure node or the wireless interface module, which identifies the copies and communicates a single copy of the data message over the wired network to a destination. In this way, the redundancy mechanisms supported in the wireless network are concealed from wired components coupled to the wired network. | 02-05-2009 |
| 20090034442 | DIGITAL BROADCASTING SYSTEM AND DATA PROCESSING METHOD - A digital broadcasting system and a method of processing data are disclosed, which are robust to error when mobile service data are transmitted. To this end, additional encoding is performed for the mobile service data, whereby it is possible to strongly cope with fast channel change while giving robustness to the mobile service data. | 02-05-2009 |
| 20090040951 | Systems and Methods for Defining Multi-Domain Wireless Device Behavior for Two or More Calls - A multi-domain device is provided that has a memory component provisioned to store a policy for managing a second call on the multi-domain device when a first call is active on the multi-domain device. The multi-domain device also includes a processor configured to implement the policy. | 02-12-2009 |
| 20090040952 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MICROWAVE TOMOGRAPHY - Systems and methods for microwave tomography are described. According to various embodiments, signal strength values or other similar quality indications may be analyzed as they are received with packet data over a wireless network. The analysis may be used to determine the presence of a physical object substantially between communicating nodes in the wireless network. An output may be generated based analyzed data. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 02-12-2009 |
| 20090040953 | Radio Communication System Carrying Out Transmission and Reception of Multicarrier Signal, Transmission Terminal, and Reception Terminal - A radio communication system includes a transmission terminal and a reception terminal. The transmission terminal divides and outputs transmission data, modulates the output data to a plurality of subcarriers, converts the modulated data to a temporal waveform of a multicarrier signal, and copies divided transmission data a predetermined number of times such that the number of divided transmission data, subsequent to being copied the predetermined number of times, is equal to the number corresponding to the plurality of subcarriers. | 02-12-2009 |
| 20090046608 | Method and Apparatus for Setting Headers in a Wireless Communications System - A method for setting headers in a transmitter of a wireless communications system includes dividing a Radio Link Control Protocol Data Unit into a plurality of segments each including a header, and setting the header to include a field indicating a sequence number of the Radio Link Control Protocol Data Unit. | 02-19-2009 |
| 20090046609 | TRANSACTION CONTROL SYSTEM INCLUDING PORTABLE DATA TERMINAL AND MOBILE CUSTOMER SERVICE STATION - A mobile customer service station operating within a wireless multi-hop communication network includes a console on a wheeled chassis. The console carries and houses a number of components which are used in merchandising operations to conclude customer purchase transactions. The items supported externally on the console are a printer for printing purchase receipts, customer credit charge agreements and records of transactions, and a magnetic card reader for reading information from a magnetic stripe of a customer's credit card. In one embodiment, the operation of the printer, credit card reader and the cash drawer is controlled by a multi-function control unit located within an enclosure of the console. The control unit is electrically powered by a self-contained power source which is preferably a deep cycle rechargeable battery. The console also houses a transceiver unit which under the control of the control unit is capable of interactive communication with a premises network. In another embodiment, the mobile service station comprises an access device which participates with a variety of peripherals at the station in a lower power communication LAN, while providing higher power communication to other network devices via a premises network with routing via a wireless spanning tree configuration. | 02-19-2009 |
| 20090052359 | Mobile carrier capability - A network device and method are directed towards determining whether a carrier gateway is likely to be associated with a mobile carrier service. Content/service providers receive request for content along with a network address of a gateway device providing the request. If the network address is unknown, the content/service provider may be provided to a new gateway identifier that is configured to determine a likelihood that the gateway device is configured to provide services to mobile devices. Based, in part, on the determined likelihood, a gateway device's capability may also be determined, such that the content/service provider may then select to provide a response, degrade a response, or reject a request for the content, service, or the like. | 02-26-2009 |
| 20090052360 | INFORMATION TERMINAL DEVICE - An information terminal device includes a casing, a wireless board, and an antenna arranged to utilize a plurality of radio systems. The antenna includes a power feeding terminal and a plurality of resonant circuits. The plurality of resonant circuits are arranged to radiate radio waves. The plurality of resonant circuits further define a matching circuit that provides impedance matching between an impedance on a power feeding side as viewed from the power feeding terminal and a radiation impedance of a free space. | 02-26-2009 |
| 20090059822 | Universal femto cell - A universal femto cell, method, and computer usable program product for using the universal femto cell are provided such that the femto cell is configurable according to the user's choice of wireless carriers. A user configurable component of the universal femto cell enables a user to configure the universal femto cell to operate on at least one wireless communication network The universal femto cell further includes a storage unit for storing information used in configuring the universal femto cell, a network communication component used in communicating with a network, and a user interface component to receive a user input. The universal femto cell receives a second input from a data processing system, and uses the user input and the second input to configure the universal femto cell to operate on one or more wireless communication network | 03-05-2009 |
| 20090059823 | System and method of edge caching when communicating data - A communication system and method for communicating data is provided. The communication system includes at least one base station that transmits common data within a range of the at least one base station and a plurality of nodes. The plurality of nodes include at least a first node in communication with at least one of the at least one base station and at least a portion of other nodes of the plurality of nodes. At least one of the plurality of nodes are mobile, and the plurality of nodes at least one of advertise the common data available for transmission while within a predetermined area and receive the common data from one of a current node of a plurality of nodes that has current common data and the at least one base station. | 03-05-2009 |
| 20090059824 | NETWORK ALLOCATION - Included are embodiments for network allocation. More specifically, one embodiment of a method includes receiving, at a first communications device, without a prior RTS signal being sent, a first clear to send (CTS) signal from a second communications device, addressed to the first communications device, the CTS signal indicating a data exchange duration and sending a second CTS signal, from the first communications device, to the second communications device. | 03-05-2009 |
| 20090067354 | Apparatus and Method for Controlling Channel Switching in Wireless Networks - The invention provides apparatus methods for avoiding channel collisions in Wireless Regional Area Networks (WRAN), A medium access controller (MAC) for switching a base station (BS) of a WRAN from a first channel to a second channel at a time t is provided. The MAC includes a switch time delay circuit for delaying said switching with respect to time t by a random delay time. | 03-12-2009 |
| 20090073904 | Power for uplink acknowledgment transmission - The specification and drawings present a new method, system, apparatus and software product for defining/setting a power of a dual acknowledgement signal provided in an uplink by a user equipment to a network element (e.g., Node B) for acknowledging two transport blocks, e.g., comprised in one TTI, transmitted in a downlink by the network element, according to a predetermined criterion, wherein the user equipment and the network element can be configured to support a multiple input multiple output (MIMO) mode and/or a high speed downlink packet access. | 03-19-2009 |
| 20090073905 | HIGH LEVEL INSTRUCTION CONVERGENCE FUNCTION - A convergence engine may provide a high level message for a high level engine representative of multiple messages received by a network interface or other physical layer transmission device. The high level engine may access one or more high level messages via functions describing the state of a non-network-portal station. | 03-19-2009 |
| 20090073906 | Bi-directional packet data transmission system and method - A bidirectional packet data transmission system for a packet data transmission between a terminal and a radio access network includes an uplink resource and a downlink resource which are independently set. Memory resources can be effectively managed even in a packet data transmission service with the asymmetrical structure such that the packet amount for the downlink is much greater than the packet amount for the uplink, or the packet amount for the uplink is much greater than the packet amount for the downlink. | 03-19-2009 |
| 20090080347 | Wireless device and network system - It is to improve the robustness and the data transfer reliability of a network. | 03-26-2009 |
| 20090080348 | System for preventing unintended activation of a medical device by a portable remote control console - A network system prevents portable wireless remote control consoles from unintended activation of a medical device by determining if the console is located in a working space within a medical care room. Transceiver locator devices determine the position of the remote control consoles and send information to room control units indicating when a console is within the desired working space. The room control unit receives signals from the remote control console in the working space to control medical devices. The room control unit can also determine which of multiple remote control consoles within the working space is permitted to operate the medical devices. Each room control unit can send a presence output to the remote control console to enable use thereof. The remote control console can have an orientation sensor or a grip detector to prevent unintended operation thereof. | 03-26-2009 |
| 20090086656 | STATUS REPORT TRIGGERING IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method for status report triggering in a wireless communication entity is disclosed. The method comprises receiving a data unit segment wherein the data unit segment is a portion of an original data unit that has been re-segmented for transmission into a plurality of data unit segments. Then, determining that the data unit segment includes a last segment flag indicating that the data unit segment is a last segment of the plurality of data unit segments. Further, transmitting a status report containing a status report for the re-segmented data unit in response to determining that the data unit segment includes a last segment flag indicating that the data unit segment is a last segment. | 04-02-2009 |
| 20090086657 | HYBRID AUTOMATIC REPEAT REQUEST BUFFER FLUSHING MECHANISM - A novel and useful buffer flushing mechanism for use in a communications link. Using hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) protocol mechanisms, network elements in a radio access network initiate a HARQ buffer flushing operation. Network elements on both ends of a communication link can autonomously initiate coordinated or uncoordinated flushing of their respective HARQ process buffers based on internal algorithms and/or criteria previously negotiated between the two elements. The flushing operation may be performed on all or a part of the buffer (transmit and/or receive) or on certain complete or partial accumulated information. The criteria may comprise any suitable data including, for example, timeout data, thresholds based on one or more link quality parameters, data measurements exceeding a threshold, etc. which can be used to trigger a buffer flushing event. | 04-02-2009 |
| 20090086658 | BIDIRECTIONAL FREQUENCY MIXER, RADIOFREQUENCY TRANSCEIVER SYSTEM INCLUDING SUCH A MIXER - The present invention relates to a bidirectional frequency mixer, as well as a radiofrequency transceiver system including at least such a mixer. The mixer includes two ports separated in intermediate frequency FI, one for the reception, the other for the emission and a common port in frequency RF both for reception and for emission. It also includes at least fours mixing cells and three phase shifting means of signals used to remove the undesirable frequencies generated by the mixing cells. The mixer enables a rejection of the frequencies produced by a local oscillator in transmitting phase and a rejection of the image phase in receiving phase to be preformed. The invention is in particular applicable to designing microwave integrated circuits, in particular in millimetric frequency band. | 04-02-2009 |
| 20090086659 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR LAYER 2 PROCESSING AND CREATION OF PROTOCOL DATA UNITS FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS - Enhanced MAC-es PDUs are created by concatenating enhanced MAC-es service data units (SDUs) based on higher layer PDUs and segments thereof, where segmentation information is included in the enhanced MAC-es headers. An enhanced MAC-e header is generated for each enhanced MAC-es PDU to describe information about the enhanced MAC-es PDU. An enhanced MAC-e PDU is created by concatenating enhanced MAC-es PDUs and enhanced MAC-e headers. An enhanced MAC-es header may include a Transmit Sequence Number (TSN) field, a Segmentation Description (SD) field, length (L) fields to indicate the length of each enhanced MAC-es SDU and/or logical channel indicator (LCH-ID) fields. An enhanced MAC-e header may include one or more logical channel indicator (LCH-ID) fields for corresponding enhanced MAC-es PDUs or MAC-s SDUs and length (L) fields. Various techniques are disclosed for indicating the end of the enhanced MAC-e header. In another embodiment, methods for signaling over the Iub frame protocol are proposed to support MAC segmentation and flexible RLC PDU sizes. | 04-02-2009 |
| 20090097424 | RADIO-TRANSMISSION SYSTEM AND METHOD OF OPERATION - The invention relates to a radio transmission system comprising a plurality of processing layers for the transmission of data packets between various radio appliances in a radio channel. A first functional unit in a physical radio transmission layer analyses the radio channel and determines the quality (QoC) of the radio channel. A second functional unit in a back-up layer controls the access to the radio channel according to the actual quality (QoC) of the radio channel and the priority of the data packets to be transmitted according to the quality (QoS) of the service carried out by the data packets. A third functional unit in a switching layer controls the switching of the data packets. A control unit then releases the data packets for switching by means of the third functional unit only when the quality (QoS) of the service carried out by the data packets corresponds sufficiently with the quality (QoC) of the radio channel determined in the first functional unit. | 04-16-2009 |
| 20090097425 | RADIO LINK CONTROL OPERATIONS AND ENHANCED DUPLICATE DETECTION IN A WIRELESS RECEIVER - A radio link control (RLC) entity selectively stores part or parts of a received protocol data unit (PDU) or re-segmented PDU and selectively discards other parts of the received PDU, rather than simply either discarding the whole received PDU or storing the whole received PDU. The receiving RLC entity performs duplicate detection of received data as compared to data in an RLC buffer, selects the parts of the received PDU that will be discarded (if data is duplicated), discards the selected parts of the PDU, and stores the remaining parts of the PDU. Alternatively, data can be stored regardless of duplicate detection, and the buffer data is overwritten by the stored data. | 04-16-2009 |
| 20090103461 | HIERARCHICAL APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE FOR COMMUNICATION MIDDLEWARE IN PARTIALLY CONNECTED MOBILE AD HOC NETWORKS - An application programming interface and related system is presented for a middleware communication space that provides asynchronous message delivery service for partially connected mobile ad hoc networks. Embodiments of the present invention use mobile devices to bridge separated islands of networks and store and propagate messages. The system and software architecture supports methods for messaging caching, transferring and routing. More specifically, embodiments provide methods and systems that extend a communication space concept into a distributed environment and combine it with the standard Web Services technologies, i.e, SOAP, and WS series protocols. The communication space provides an extension of Web Services to mobile ad hoc networks and provides asynchronous message caching, transferring and routing. | 04-23-2009 |
| 20090103462 | DETERMINING PRESENCE OF RADIO FREQUENCY COMMUNICATION DEVICE - A RF data communication device operates in at least two states. In a first state, the device transmits a response to an RF transmission if specific data therein represents an inquiry as to the presence of one or more RF data communication devices and if specific data therein corresponds to a class maintained by the device. The device does not transmit a response if specific data in the RF transmission is not representative of an inquiry as to the presence of one or more RF data communication devices, or if specific data therein does not correspond to at least one maintained class. In a second state, the device does not transmit a response when specific data is included therein that is representative of an inquiry as to the presence of one or more RF data communication devices and specific data therein corresponds to at least one maintained class. | 04-23-2009 |
| 20090103463 | MULTINODE ARRANGEMENT - The present invention provides a multinode arrangement that utilizes a plurality of nodes that communicate with each other by RF transmissions and hardwire communications. The use of both hardwire and RF transmission provides the advantages obtained with both forms of transmission. | 04-23-2009 |
| 20090109883 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MONITORING AND ENCODING SIGNALS IN A LOCAL FACILITY AND COMMUNICATING THE SIGNALS BETWEEN A LOCAL COLLECTION FACILITY AND A REMOTE FACILITY USING AN IP NETWORK - A system and method for collecting signals includes an IP network, a remote facility and a local collection facility in communication with the local collection facility through the IP network. The local collection facility receives channel signals, encoding the channel signals into respective IP signals, communicating the respective IP signals through an IP network to the remote facility. The remote facility controls an antenna switch at the local collection facility to communicate a first channel signal of the channel signals to a monitoring receiver circuit module. The local collection facility generates a monitoring signal at the monitoring receiver circuit module and communicates the monitoring signal through to a remote facility through the IP network. | 04-30-2009 |
| 20090109884 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING ACKNOWLEDGEMENT FRAME - Provided are a method and an apparatus for generating an acknowledgement (ACK) frame. The method includes: receiving a data frame; first determining whether sub-frames included in the received data frame are coded in an unequal error protection (UEP) mode; and based on the determination of the first determining, generating the ACK frame including a first ACK field indicating reception of each of the sub-frames or second ACK field indicating reception of each first type bit and second type bit in the sub-frames. | 04-30-2009 |
| 20090116416 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPARATUS - A wireless communication apparatus includes a received frame analysis unit, a received frame bitmap information storage unit, a bitmap reset determination unit, a Block Ack frame generation unit, and a TID bitmap storage unit. The received frame analysis unit analyzes a received MAC frame. The received frame bitmap information storage unit stores delivery acknowledgement of the received MAC frame. The bitmap reset determination unit determines whether or not information stored in the received frame bitmap information storage unit should be reset or not. The Block Ack frame generation unit generates a Block Ack frame including a bitmap to be stored in the received frame bitmap information storage unit on the basis of the delivery acknowledgement request analyzed by the received frame analysis unit. The TID bitmap storage unit stores an identifier of a frame allowing the received frame bitmap information storage unit to store the delivery acknowledgement. | 05-07-2009 |
| 20090122733 | Coordinator in wireless sensor network and method of operating the coordinator - Provided are a coordinator in a wireless sensor network (WSN) which can improve transmission performance and prevent data loss, and a method of operating the coordinator. The method includes: scanning a transmitted beacon and storing information on a channel included in the beacon; when it is determined that a home channel communicating with a parent node is in an inactive mode on the basis of the information on the channel, in synchronization with the activation of another channel of the same hierarchical level as that of the home channel, activating a home channel communicating with a child node and communicating with the child node; and communicating with the child node through an auxiliary channel that has a frequency band different from those of the home channel communicating with the child node and home channels of other nodes and is always in an active mode. | 05-14-2009 |
| 20090122734 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MULTICAST AND BROADCAST SERVICE IN A BROADBAND WIRELESS ACCESS SYSTEM - An apparatus and method for providing a Multicast and Broadcast Service (MBS) in a Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) system are provided. The apparatus includes a fragmentation unit, a Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE) packet generator, and a communication unit. The fragmentation unit fragmentizes MBS traffic received from a network for synchronization. The GRE packet generator generates a GRE packet with each of segments from the fragmentation unit. The communication unit transmits the GRE packet from the GRE packet generator to a Base Station (BS) in consideration of a packet period. | 05-14-2009 |
| 20090129300 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DECIDING A TRAVELING DIRECTION IN A SPACE - A method and an apparatus for deciding a traveling direction in a space are provided. After receiving a starting signal from a mobile apparatus, a network node of a network apparatus generates a request signal and sends it to a processing apparatus. Then the processing apparatus decides the traveling direction and sends a direction signal comprising the traveling direction to the nearest network node to instruct a moving apparatus to move. The method, and apparatus are more convenient and more cost-effective system than those in the prior art. | 05-21-2009 |
| 20090129301 | Configuring a user device to remotely access a private network - Configuring a mobile device to remotely access a private network involves determining, via the private network, first network parameters that enable the mobile device utilize to a computing service of the private network. The device also determines, via a gateway coupled to the private network, second network parameters that allow the mobile to utilize the computing service via a public network. The first and second network parameters are stored on the mobile device. A request is received from a user of the mobile device to access the computing service. It is determined that the mobile device is not on the private network. In response to determining that the mobile device is not on the private network, the second network parameters are utilized to access the computing service via the gateway in response to the request. | 05-21-2009 |
| 20090135749 | Multiple network connections - The invention provides a method, an apparatus, and a computer program for supporting multiple connections to a network or a plurality of networks. Support for multiple connections is enabled by establishing a connection of a first type to a network, receiving a request for a connection of the first type, registering a virtual connection as a response to receiving said request, receiving a request for establishing a connection of a second type through the virtual connection, associating the virtual connection with the connection of the first type, and establishing the connection of the second type through the connection of the first type. | 05-28-2009 |
| 20090135750 | System and Method for Message Consolidation in a Mesh Network - A system and method for consolidating messages in a network comprising an access node coupled to a computer and a plurality of radio nodes coupled to sensing devices, such as a utility meter, is disclosed. Inbound message consolidation includes a radio node receiving two or more inbound messages that are consolidated. The radio node wirelessly transmits the consolidated message to a radio node logically closer to the access node or directly to the access node if the access node is within the transmission range of the radio node. The access node extracts the individual messages from the consolidated message upon receipt. For outbound messages, the access node consolidates original messages having common routes and transmits the consolidated message to a last node in the common route. The last node in the common route splits the consolidated message into the original messages and transmits each one to a destination radio node. | 05-28-2009 |
| 20090141660 | Policy enforcement for multi-radio transmission and reception - A process for controlling radio transmission and/or reception to enforce certain constraints with either single or multiple radio communication is disclosed. In one embodiment, the enforcement control may be by the corporate administrator (such as an Information Technology (IT) department) that is responsible for the company's wireless devices. In other embodiments, the enforcement control may be by a regulatory group having governmental control over wireless communication. In yet another embodiment, the enforcement control might be by a provider group, such as a provider of a local private or semi-private wireless network desiring certain controls over the users of the network. | 06-04-2009 |
| 20090147709 | RECEIVER CHANNEL FEEDBACK THROUGH BEACONS - According to various embodiments a receiver may include information elements in its beacon. The information elements can then be used to send feedback information about packets received during the previous superframe(s). This feedback information may contain some acknowledgement information. For example, the feedback information may include information elements that include acknowledgement information that acknowledge the reception of previously transmitted packets. According to an embodiment of the invention, systems and methods to provide feedback information comprising receiving a packet; determining feedback information based on the received packet; and transmitting a beacon. The beacon comprises a frame header, including routing information for the frame; a beacon parameter, including signaling information; and an information element comprising the feedback information for the received packets. | 06-11-2009 |
| 20090147710 | Gateway apparatus for providing multi-channel functionality in sensor network, and method and apparatus for interfacing using serial peripheral interface in the gateway apparatus - Provided are a gateway apparatus for providing multi-channel functionality in a sensor network, and a method and an apparatus for interfacing using serial peripheral interface (SPI) in the gateway apparatus. The SPI interfacing apparatus is connected to a plurality of wireless transmit/receive units, and receives a data frame via an SPI to output the data frame to a wireless transmit/receive unit, based on information regarding selection of the wireless transmit/receive unit, wherein the information is contained in the data frame. Then, the SPI interfacing unit receives data frames from the wireless transmit/receive units to output the data frames in a predetermined order via an SPI. Thus, the wireless transmit/receive units for providing multi-channel functionality can interface a signal processing unit by using an SPI method. | 06-11-2009 |
| 20090147711 | Dedicated device for automatically accessing wireless internet network and supplying wireless packet data-based indoor-capable GPS locations - A dedicated device and method for connecting between a packet-data-capable wireless modem and a high sensitivity indoor-capable Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver, and is able to access a commercially available cellular or PCS band wireless Internet network for supplying indoor and outdoor GPS locations to a designated remote Internet server, in an independent, periodic, and automatic manner. Implemented with TCP/IP UDP PPP protocol stacks, the device automatically accesses and retries for always connecting to the wireless Internet network in packet data mode. The device also automatically retrieves the aiding/assisted-GPS (A-GPS) information from either a wireless base station or a specified separate A-GPS server. The device periodically supplies the A-GPS information and receives the indoor-capable GPS locations, to and from the GPS receiver. The indoor-capable GPS locations are packed into Internet User Datagram Protocol (UDP) packet data format and periodically sent to a designated remote server through the wireless Internet network. | 06-11-2009 |
| 20090154382 | MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL DEVICE FOR PROCESSING DATA AT HIGH SPEED AND METHOD THEREOF - Provide are a medium access control MAC device for processing data at a high speed and a method thereof. The MAC device includes a packet receiving and processing unit for receiving packet data transmitted from a physical layer device and extracting data and data information from the received packet data by processing the received packet data; a data multiprocessing unit for sequentially multiplexing the extracted data and storing the extracted data in a first memory; and a data arranging unit for arranging the stored data in sequence number order using addresses of the first memory and the extracted data information, and transmitting the arranged data to an upper layer interface. | 06-18-2009 |
| 20090154383 | Wireless Transmission System and a Method Thereof - A wireless transmission system and a method thereof are disclosed. The wireless transmission system comprises a control unit, a first transmission unit, a second transmission unit, a plurality of switches, and a plurality of RF ends. The first transmission unit comprises a first transceiver module and a first MAC module. The second transmission unit comprises a second transceiver module and a second MAC module. The plurality of RF ends has a plurality of streams for transmitting a wireless signal. The control unit is provided for controlling the plurality of switches to connect the first transmission unit and the second transmission unit respectively with the plurality of RF ends to distribute the plurality of streams, and controlling the first transceiver module and the second transceiver module to manage the plurality of streams. | 06-18-2009 |
| 20090168674 | DETERMINING POSITION OF A NODE BASED ON AGED POSITION DATA - Techniques are provided for determining a position of a node. For example, the node receives first position data from a first reference node and second position data from a second reference node. The second position data includes second position measurement information and a precision indicator which indicates accuracy of the second position measurement information. The node generates a timestamp which indicates when the second position data was received by node, and storing the second position data and associated timestamp. Upon receiving updated first position data at the node from the first reference node, the node determines whether updated second position data has been received from the second reference node, and if not, generates aged second position data based on the stored second position data and the associated timestamp. The node can then determine its position based on the aged second position data and the updated first position data. | 07-02-2009 |
| 20090168675 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR REALIZING SERVICE REALLOCATION - A method and system for realizing service reallocation of core network are provided. The method includes the following steps. A load shunting flag and a shunting proportion corresponding to a core network node are configured in a radio network controller (RNC). When the RNC receives a message of a user and determines that the service requested by the user is a registration service, the core network node corresponding to the registration service is acquired. If the core network node has no load shunting flag, the core network node is selected. If the core network node has the load shunting flag, a load shunting is performed according to the configured shunting proportion of the core network. All the scenes that need the load reallocation can be realized simply and expediently by utilizing the method. | 07-02-2009 |
| 20090175206 | Enhanced RLC status PDU format for use in a wireless communication network - An enhanced RLC STATUS PDU format is used in a wireless communication network in which a sender transmits AMD PDUs to a receiver, and the receiver responds a STATUS PDU. In the STATUS PDU, an ACK_SN field is provided for indicating the SN of a next not received AMD PDU which is not reported as missing in the STATUS PDU, and an E | 07-09-2009 |
| 20090185513 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ENABLING WIRELESS REAL TIME APPLICATIONS OVER A WIDE AREA NETWORK IN HIGH SIGNAL INTERMITTENCE ENVIRONMENTS - A system and method for communicating real time information using a wide area network protocol and communications protocol that mitigates against potentially significant packet loss rates caused by events such as signal blockage occurring at the underlying wireless transmission (e.g., radio) links. In one implementation the method involves creating a first data packet having a first segment of information, and a first identification (ID) code. The first data packet is then transmitted. A second data packet is then created having information forming the first data packet and also a second segment of information identified by a second code. The second packet is then transmitted. Subsequently formed data packets may include all of the information from previously created data packets until a maximum packet depth is reached, and then each subsequently created new data packet drops off the oldest packet information from the previously created packet while including new information. | 07-23-2009 |
| 20090185514 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS ENVIRONMENT OVERLAY - A method is provided, wherein the method comprises identifying nearby wireless communication access points (APs) to which a client computing environment can cooperate with to communicate and receive data through a subscription to a neighborcast group from indentified nearby cooperating access points such that illustratively the neighborcast group comprises a communications overlay between cooperating client computing environments employing the identified nearby wireless communications access points. In an illustrative implementation, a wireless communications environment comprises at least two client computing environments comprising a communications overlay engine operable to process at least one instruction from an exemplary instruction set to perform one or more wireless communications operations over the exemplary communications overlay comprising scanning for cooperating client computing environments and/or wireless access points and/or RSS servers, subscribing to the communications overlay group, and publishing data for consumption by cooperating components of the wireless communications overlay. | 07-23-2009 |
| 20090185515 | Communication system - A method for removing an echo component in a first signal received at an audio input device, said method comprising the steps of outputting a second signal from an audio output device, receiving at the audio input device the first signal wherein the echo component in the first signal is the result of the second signal traversing an echo path having a frequency response which defines the relationship between the echo component and the second signal; determining an echo path model indicating an estimate of the frequency response of the echo path; removing an estimate of the echo component from the first signal using the echo path model; detecting if the first signal is overloaded; and wherein if it is detected that the first signal is overloaded the step of determining an echo path model comprises determining an overload echo path model such that the estimate of the frequency response indicated by the overload echo path model is only allowed to increase over time regardless of whether the frequency response of the echo path is decreasing over time. | 07-23-2009 |
| 20090185516 | WIRELESS MANUAL PULSE GENERATOR - The invention relates to a wireless manual pulse generator that includes a central processing unit, a magnification selector, a pulse generator, an axis selector, and a wireless transmission module. The magnification selector is electronically connected to the central processing unit. The pulse generator is electronically connected to the magnification selector. The axis selector is electronically connected to the central processing unit. The wireless transmission module is electronically connected to the central processing unit. The central processing unit is configured to process a signal generated from the magnification selector or the axis selector. The wireless transmission module is configured to deliver the signal processed by the central processing unit to a CNC machine via wireless communication. | 07-23-2009 |
| 20090185517 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROTECTING PAYLOAD INFORMATION IN RADIO TRANSMISSION - System and method for improving the protecting radio channels in transmission, according to which the payload information of the signal to be transmitted is divided into a plurality of data portions of smaller size which are then grouped into packets and the packets are labeled based on a criterion from among a plurality of criteria, said criterion being indicative of a level of priority associated to said packets. The packets are subsequently radio transmitted in accordance with their level of priority indicated by their associated label. | 07-23-2009 |
| 20090190511 | Method and apparatus for detecting wireless data subscribers using natted devices - A system and method for network based detection of wireless data subscribers using network address translation devices is provided. The method includes identifying a minimum number of devices showing the same internet protocol address. Packet identification sequences may include port numbers or internet protocol identification numbers. The method continues with grouping these applications by their packet identification sequences and applying detection logic where detection logic yields a conclusion that there are multiple host computers when a set of applications appears in a plurality of packet identification sequences. This method is particularly useful when internet protocol addresses are dynamic, as opposed to static. This method overcomes previous embodiments known in the art by being able to account for and work with live traffic, which enables real time detection. | 07-30-2009 |
| 20090190512 | PACKET PROCESSING METHOD FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS - A packet processing method used in a wireless communication is disclosed to have the packet data not to contain the identification code of the transmitter and to let the receiver read out the correct identification code of the transmitter and verify the effectiveness of the data, assuring excellent confidentiality of the data, reducing packet size, maintaining packet data integrity, extending wireless communication distance and saving power consumption. Under the fix bit error rate, the invention effectively reduces the chance of erroneous data and lowers the current loading to the battery of each of the transmitter and the receiver. | 07-30-2009 |
| 20090196206 | WIRELESS NETWORK SENSORS FOR DETECTING EVENTS OCCURRING PROXIMATE THE SENSORS - A detection sensor for detecting proximately occurring events such as traffic patterns. The detection sensor includes a housing having several apertures and a wireless network sensor located in the housing. The wireless network sensor has several sensors for detecting events occurring proximate them, a processor for receiving and processing data from the sensors, and a wireless transmitter for wirelessly transmitting data. Each of the sensors is contained within one of the apertures, and the apertures have shapes configured to provide for varying types of coverage areas for each of the sensors. | 08-06-2009 |
| 20090196207 | Display Generating Device, Display Generating Method, Program, and Wireless Communication System - A display generating device includes a display screen generator generating a display screen showing connection status between each wireless communication device in a wireless network in which a plurality of the wireless communication devices operate in an autonomous and distributed manner, and a detector detecting an operation of changing connection status performed by a user via the display screen generated by the display screen generator, wherein, when the operation of changing connection status is detected by the detector, the display generating device performs a change process of reflecting the content of the operation of changing connection status. | 08-06-2009 |
| 20090201839 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR REDUCING INTERFERENCE IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS - In accordance with a method for reducing interference in a wireless communication system, information about at least one disallowed beam corresponding to at least one served user may be determined. Scheduling decisions for served users may be made so as to avoid transmissions via the at least one disallowed beam. Data may be transmitted to users in accordance with the scheduling decisions. | 08-13-2009 |
| 20090201840 | WIRELESS NETWORKS USING A ROOTED, DIRECTED TOPOLOGY - Systems and methods for establishing a rooted, directed network that acquires and passes sensor data. In one embodiment, the network includes a controller, a logging device, one or more routers, and one or more end nodes. Each network device includes at most one parent node and a unique network message path. The network is established in an ad hoc manner without a need for routing tables. Other embodiments of the invention provide a rooted, directed network for monitoring industrial equipment such, as pumps, fans, rolls, gearboxes, motors, and bearings. | 08-13-2009 |
| 20090201841 | WIRELESS X-RAY FLUOROSCOPIC IMAGING SYSTEM, INTER-UNIT SYNCHRONIZATION METHOD OF THE SAME, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - A wireless X-ray fluoroscopic imaging system is provided. The system includes an X-ray generation unit configured to perform X-ray exposure for each frame of imaging; a sensor unit configured to output image data; and an image processing unit configured to designate the exposure, wherein the sensor unit includes a first counter configured to be reset and resume counting in response to a beacon signal, and a unit configured to save a readout trigger offset for readout, and starts the readout when a counter value of the first counter matches the readout trigger offset, and the image processing unit includes a second counter configured to be reset and resume counting in response to the beacon signal, and a unit configured to save an exposure trigger offset for the exposure, and starts the exposure when a counter value of the second counter matches the exposure trigger offset. | 08-13-2009 |
| 20090201842 | METHOD, DEVICE AND SYSTEM FOR PAGING TERMINAL DEVICE ACROSS HETEROGENEOUS NETWORKS - A method for paging a terminal device across heterogeneous networks, where networks using different wireless standards send paging messages and location management information, and thus the load terminal devices can be alleviated and wireless resources occupied can be reduced. The method includes: selecting, by a current network, another network to execute a paging procedure, when receiving user data and determining a corresponding communication interface of the terminal device in the current network to be in a Dormant Mode, where the another network uses wireless standards different from the current network; sending, by the another network, a paging message to the terminal device to enable the terminal device to reconnect to the current network. A terminal device and network system is also provided. | 08-13-2009 |
| 20090207765 | Wireless Communication System, Wireless Communication Apparatus, and Wireless Communication Method - A wireless communication system is disclosed. The wireless communication system performs data transmission using spatially multiplexed streams from a first terminal including N antennas to a second terminal including M antennas (N and M are integers larger than or equal to 2 and N>H). | 08-20-2009 |
| 20090207766 | WIRELESS NETWORK CONNECTION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD THEREOF - Provided are a wireless network management system and a method thereof based on a positioning system. By the positioning system, whether there are available wireless access points (WAPs, or APs) at the vicinity of a communication device is identified, so the communication device needn't hold the search for the APs and the power thereof is saved. Besides, by path programming, the possible path of the communication device is known and the next available AP for wireless communication is identified, so the communication to the current AP can be quickly switched to the next AP if necessary. Furthermore, by positioning system, in case of path unknown, the communication device identifies available APs nearby, and when the communication device is moving, the communication device can quickly judges whether to switch the communication to a next available AP or not, based on identification of available APs | 08-20-2009 |
| 20090213771 | FORWARDING IN DISTRIBUTED WIRELESS NETWORKS - A method, system, and computer program product are disclosed for providing a forwarding feature in the WiMedia MAC communication protocol or in other suitable communication protocols. The method enables a forwarder device to indicate its capability to operate as a forwarder device in its beacon transmissions and to enable an initiating device to utilize the forwarder device for communicating data and/or network control information to destination devices that can be accessed through the forwarder device over two or more hops. | 08-27-2009 |
| 20090213772 | METHOD FOR RECEIVING DATA AND COMMUNICATION DEVICE - A method for receiving data is provided. Multiple packages are received according to a sliding window W(N). If a starting package of the packages is received successfully, the W(N) is slid to a W(N+1). If a non-starting package of the packages is received successfully, the corresponding counter is activated for counting. If the starting package of the packages is not successfully received and part of multiple counters counts to an up-limited value, the W(N) slides to the W(N+1). Other packages are continuously received according to the W(N+1), and whether the block sequence numbers (BSNs) of the counters located in the overlap area between the W(N) and the W(N+1) are determined. When at least one BSN to which at least one counter corresponds is not located in the overlap area, the at least one counter corresponding to the at least one BSN not located in the overlap area is reset. | 08-27-2009 |
| 20090219843 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SIGNALLING INFORMATION RELATING TO NETWORK'S CAPABILITIES - A mobile communications method and system for signalling information between a mobile terminal and a network element of a mobile communications network. The mobile terminal transmits information relating to the desirability and/or possibility to support Voice Call Continuity (VCC), to the network element during a communication, and the network element receives the information from the mobile terminal to use the information as a basis for deciding whether or not to anchor a call of the mobile terminal. | 09-03-2009 |
| 20090232034 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS INCLUDING DIRECT PAGING IN COMBINATION WITH HOPPED DATA SIGNALING - Methods and apparatus for wireless communications in regional networks, e.g., ad hoc peer to peer networks, are described. Wireless communications devices transmit and monitor for presence indicator signals broadcast from other peer communications devices in its local vicinity. A wireless communications device maintains a list of discovered devices in its vicinity. A first wireless communications device transmits a paging signal directly over an airlink to a second communications device, which is on its list and to which it desires to send data units, e.g., user data in a peer to peer traffic segment. In response to a received paging response signal from the second device, the first device transmits data units, intended for the second device, to a third device, which acts as an intermediary node. The power level for the data unit signal is controlled to be lower than the power level used for the paging signal. | 09-17-2009 |
| 20090232035 | Beaconing and frame structure for directional antenna communications - In a wireless communications network containing network devices capable of both directional and omnidirectional communications, a network controller may arrange a series of superframes into groups of multiple consecutive superframes, in which only one superframe in each group contains an omnidirectional beacon, and the remainder of the superframes in the group contain only directional beacons. | 09-17-2009 |
| 20090238103 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE - A wireless communication device capable of restraining interference and thereby improving transmission quality. A wireless controller includes a wireless communication interface, and a baseband controller includes a baseband communication interface for controlling the transfer/reception of baseband signals, a logic circuit, and a memory. The wireless communication interface and the baseband communication interface are connected to each other by a communication line, and the memory stores, with respect to individual radio frequencies of a receive radio signal, bit rates for the communication line at which interference caused by noise produced around the communication line is minimized. When notified of a receive radio frequency, the logic circuit reads, from the memory, an optimum bit rate which corresponds to the receive radio frequency and at which the interference is minimized, and sets the optimum bit rate in the wireless communication interface and the baseband communication interface. | 09-24-2009 |
| 20090245148 | Techniques for Channel Sounding in a Wireless Communication System - A technique of operating a wireless communication device includes receiving an assigned starting point index and an assigned reference signal bandwidth for a reference signal. The reference signal is then transmitted multiple times, beginning at an initial resource block that is associated with the assigned starting point index and in accordance with the assigned reference signal bandwidth, across a shared channel. | 10-01-2009 |
| 20090245149 | Multi-Protocol Label Switching Support for Proxy Mobile Internet Protocol Version 6 - A mobility access gateway (MAG) comprising at least one processor configured to implement a method comprising establishing a multi-protocol label switched (MPLS) tunnel with a local mobility agent (LMA), and establishing communications with a plurality of mobile nodes (MNs) associated with a plurality of service providers, wherein a plurality of packets destined for the LMA comprise a label that distinguishes between the service providers. Also disclosed is a method comprising receiving a packet destined for a MN, adding an inner label to the packet, wherein the inner label is associated with the MN, and adding a tunnel label to the packet. | 10-01-2009 |
| 20090262673 | AUTOMATED MODE CHANGE FOR WIRELESS DEVICES DURING INACTIVITY - Embodiments enable using the inactive time when a mobile device is not moving to change its mode to a new state or condition of performing as if it were an access point. The embodiments can include determining if a wireless device is stationary, changing an operating mode of the wireless device from mobile mode to access point mode, and determining a current location for the wireless device with respect to a plurality of wireless access point devices. Thereafter, the embodiments can include providing stationary location services with the wireless device to other mobile wireless devices. Later, the embodiments can include detecting that the wireless device is no longer stationary; and changing the operating mode of the wireless device from access point mode to mobile mode. | 10-22-2009 |
| 20090262674 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, TERMINAL, COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND COMMUNICATION PROCESSING PROGRAM - When a terminal that is going to perform communication is newly connected, a host terminal in a communication system determines whether a connection sequence can be performed while a time slot assigned to a terminal group or not. When this determination is not mete avoiding use of the time slot enables preventing a communication period of information that should be basically transmitted by using the time slot from being hardly assured and avoiding degradation in communication quality. | 10-22-2009 |
| 20090268648 | BROADCASTING OF TEXTUAL AND MULTIMEDIA INFORMATION - A wireless communication system comprises a broadcast transmitter broadcasting textual and multimedia information to a remote receiver unit. The broadcast transmitter is operably coupled to a signal manipulation function and arranged to receive and process a broadcast signal that comprises both a textual portion and multimedia information. The signal manipulation function separates the textual and multimedia information into multiple bursts of data sub-blocks, wherein substantially each sub block comprises the textual data and a sub-block of multimedia information for transmitting to the remote receiver unit. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090268649 | MULTIRADIO-DATABASE SYSTEMS AND METHODS - In various embodiments, communication apparatuses and methods for providing robust communications are disclosed. For example, an exemplary apparatus for use in a communication system employing a plurality of different communication channels may include a first database of channel performance information embedded on a machine-readable and writable medium, wherein the first database includes a plurality of records with each record containing information relating to a wireless channel monitored by a Media Access Controller (MAC), input circuitry configured to receive information from a plurality of MACs monitoring their respective wireless channels such that each record of the first database contains channel performance information for a respective wireless channel, and output circuitry configured to provide the channel performance information to a plurality of applications-level executable programs running on one or more computers. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090268650 | Mobile wireless internet service provider system - The system includes a waterproof housing enclosing selected apparatus, which may include a modem for receiving a signal from an ISP and providing an output signal, and a wireless router for receiving the output signal from the modem and providing an output signal, a first antenna receiving a signal from an ISP and providing the signal to the modem, and a second antenna receiving the output signal from the wireless router and transmitting the output signal, and a rechargeable battery power supply that provides electrical power. Another antenna and another modem provide another output signal to the wireless router. A standard FCC wireless receiver mounted in the router provides a wired or wireless LAN access point. Two more modems and another wireless router may be provided in the housing, as well as POE input and a solar panel for battery charging. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090268651 | RADIO TRANSMISSION APPARATUS AND TRANSMISSION METHOD THEREOF - A base station apparatus that limits the influx of speech data into a packet channel and that enables the service quality of the packet channel to be prevented from degrading. In this apparatus, a protocol detecting section detects a protocol contained in an IP header of a packet. Based on the protocol, a packet type detecting section detects a type of packet. Based on the type of packet, a delay addition control section determines whether or not to add a delay. Specifically, when the packet is of VoIP, the delay addition control section instructs a switching section to output the packet to a delay adding section, and further instructs the delay adding section to add a delay. Meanwhile, when the packet is an IP packet, the delay addition control section instructs the switching section to output the packet to a scheduler. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090274079 | Radio Frequency (RF) Signal Multiplexing - In a radio frequency (RF) receiver, a receiver RF chain is tuned to a first (e.g., global positioning system (GPS)) channel to permit receipt of a first (e.g., GPS) signal over the first (e.g., GPS) channel on the receiver RF chain during a first time duration. The receiver RF chain is tuned to a second (e.g., cellular page) channel to permit receipt of a second (e.g., cellular page) signal over the second (e.g., cellular page) channel on the receiver RF chain during a second time duration, following the first time duration. The first (e.g., GPS) signal is processed during the first time duration and the second time duration, without any apparent interruption of the first (e.g., GPS) signal during the second time duration. The processing, for example, treats the actual interruption as a temporary, short term fade of the first (e.g., GPS) signal during the second time duration, or provides a bridge signal (e.g., an estimated GPS signal on the receiver RF chain or an actual GPS signal received on another receiver RF chain) during the second time duration. | 11-05-2009 |
| 20090279462 | STATEFUL SCHEDULING WITH NETWORK CODING FOR ROADSIDE-TO-VEHICLE COMMUNICATION - Described is a technology by which a roadside-to-vehicle communication system may be implemented, including via a stateful scheduling with network coding scheme that enhances network capacity. Moving vehicles request and receive data from a roadside access points. Each of the access points operate a stateful scheduling algorithm that serves multiple vehicles by integrating network coding within a timeslot. In one aspect, the state of each vehicle's previously received and retained data is obtained, and used to enhance network capacity by combining as many packets as possible for multiple recipients in network coding. | 11-12-2009 |
| 20090285136 | Virtual Grid - A method for constructing a virtual grid ( | 11-19-2009 |
| 20090285137 | WIRELESS TRANSMITTING APPARATUS, WIRELESS RECEIVING APPARATUS, WIRELESS TRANSMISSION METHOD, WIRELESS RECEPTION METHOD, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS, AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD - A wireless transmitting apparatus inserts a training signal into a transmission burst at fixed symbol intervals as a pilot signal, a wireless receiving apparatus performs AD conversion of a received burst signal, performs symbol timing recovery, performs frame position detection and pilot signal extraction from the received burst signal for which symbol timing was established, performs frame synchronization, and performs a carrier frequency estimation using pilot signal. A carrier frequency estimation is also performed with respect to a received burst signal for which frame synchronization was established, and channel distortion is estimated and output based on a frequency-corrected received burst signal. Channel distortion estimation is then performed with respect to a frequency-corrected received burst signal, and a data symbol sequence of the channel-compensated received burst signal is converted to a received data bit stream. | 11-19-2009 |
| 20090285138 | Maintaining wireless communication between Consumer Electronic Control devices - Methods and systems of wireless nodes maintaining communication between CEC capable devices are disclosed. One method includes assigning physical addresses to the two wireless nodes based on a physical location of the two wireless nodes relative to a base CEC capable device. Each of the two wireless nodes receives logical addresses from CEC capable devices that are wire attached to each of the two wireless nodes. Each of the two wireless nodes creating a proxy table that includes logical addresses of the CEC capable devices wire attached to the other of the two wireless nodes. Each of the two wireless nodes responds with a proxy acknowledgement when the wireless node receives a packet intended for at least one of the CEC capable devices that is wire connected to the other wireless node, wherein the wireless node has an establish wireless link with the other wireless node. | 11-19-2009 |
| 20090285139 | USING GUARD CARRIERS FOR EXTRA CHANNELS - To assist in minimizing interference, a bandwidth range can have guards on either side to reduce leakage into neighboring bandwidth ranges. However, in relatively low power situations the risk of leakage is reduced. Therefore, the guard bandwidths can be used to open new channels upon which information can be transmitted. Thus, there can be a larger amount of bandwidth used while still retaining protective aspects, such as low interference to neighboring bands. Using the guard bandwidth to transmit new channels facilitates backward compatibility since legacy devices do not commonly monitor the guard bandwidth. These techniques can also be used at high power base stations by advertising a larger guard than necessary to legacy devices and using the additionally created guard bandwidth to transmit new channels. | 11-19-2009 |
| 20090290518 | METHOD FOR FACILITATING SHARING OF CHANNEL INFORMATION IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORK - A method of operation of a node for obtaining channel information in a wireless communication network is disclosed. The method includes receiving periodically, information related to channel assessment capability of plurality of nodes of the wireless communication network, maintaining a metric characterizing the channel assessment capability for each of the plurality of nodes based on the received channel assessment capability, selecting at least one node from the plurality of nodes by comparing the metric of each of the plurality of nodes, sending a request for channel information to the selected node and receiving channel information from the selected node. | 11-26-2009 |
| 20090290519 | Receiver for Audio Player - An accessory for use with an existing portable electronic device has a housing that removably couples to a housing of the existing portable electronic device such that the accessory and portable electronic device function and can be portably carried as a single unit. A tunable FM radio receiver in the housing receives an FM broadcast signal and produces a broadcast audio output. A connector on the housing electrically connects the broadcast audio output to a corresponding connector on the device. Application software residing on the device utilizes an internet connection of the device to download digital content related to the broadcast audio output and display the digital content on a display of the device. | 11-26-2009 |
| 20090296612 | METHOD FOR AGGREGATING FRAMES IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORK - A dynamic and distributive aggregation method in which a node determines the frame size of an aggregated frame based on or according to a transmission time of one or more of the received frames. This scheme to aggregate frames is based on the average packet size and average transmission time in the neighborhood. The method enables the aggregated packet size to dynamically change based on the neighborhood conditions. Usage of link rates and fair transmission time assignment enables the high data rate nodes to send more traffic but not to an extent of over-utilizing the channel thus achieving higher throughput efficiencies while maintaining fairness within a high data rate multi-hop wireless communication network. | 12-03-2009 |
| 20090296613 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING QUALITY-OF-SERVICE IN RADIO ACCESS NETWORKS - The invention includes a method and apparatus adapted for providing quality-of-service to a packet flow within a Radio Access Network (RAN). In one embodiment, a method includes receiving packets of a packet flow at a first network element of the RAN, where the packet flow is associated with an application normally served in a best effort service class of the RAN and each packet of the packet flow comprises an indication of a quality-of-service policy to be applied to the packet flow within the RAN, and, applying the indicated quality-of-service policy to the packet flow within the RAN. The quality-of-service policy to be applied to the packet flow within the RAN is based on at least one characteristic of the packet flow, which may be determined in any manner, such as using information included in the packet headers, using deep packet inspection techniques, and the like. The indication of the quality-of-service policy to be applied to the packet flow within the RAN may be set either inside the RAN or outside the RAN. | 12-03-2009 |
| 20090296614 | SYSTEM FOR WIRELESS OFDM COMMUNICATIONS - Messages transmitted between a receiver and a transmitter are used to maximize a communication data rate. In particular, a multicarrier modulation system uses messages that are sent from the receiver to the transmitter to exchange one or more sets of optimized communication parameters. The transmitter then stores these communication parameters and when transmitting to that particular receiver, the transmitter utilizes the stored parameters in an effort to maximize the data rate to that receiver. Likewise, when the receiver receives packets from that particular transmitter, the receiver can utilize the stored communication parameters for reception. | 12-03-2009 |
| 20090303907 | PREAMBLE STRUCTURE FOR ENABLING MULTI-MODE WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS - A method for generating preamble structures to be used in multi-mode wireless communication systems. The method includes generating a basic element sequence in a predefined length, wherein the basic element sequence has a circularly orthogonal property; generating a type-A preamble by repeating the basic element sequence a number of predefined times; and generating a type-B preamble by adding respective values of real parts to values of imaginary parts of elements in the type-A preamble. The type-A preamble and type-B preamble are cross-correlated. | 12-10-2009 |
| 20090303908 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ADJUSTING MEDIA ACCESS CONTROL PARAMETERS IN A WIRELESS NETWORK - A system for setting WLAN node operating parameters includes at least one access point (AP) radio and a plurality of nodes in wireless communication with the AP radio according to media access control (MAC) parameters. Each of the plurality of nodes has a quality of service (QoS) threshold for wireless communication with the AP radio that is a function of the MAC parameters and includes a controller configured to provide individualized control of the MAC parameters. The controller is programmed to measure current settings for at least a portion of the MAC parameters for the node, input the current settings for those MAC parameters of the node into a WLAN system model to generate a system model output, and adapt a setting of at least one of the MAC parameters for the node to meet the QoS threshold for the node based on the system model output. | 12-10-2009 |
| 20090316613 | Method and Apparatus for Improving Continuous Packet Connectivity in a Wireless Communications System - A method of improving Continuous Packet Connectivity for a user equipment in a wireless communications system includes receiving a reconfiguration message and starting a discontinuous transmission and discontinuous reception, abbreviated to DTX-DRX, operation when the user equipment meets a plurality of conditions and confirms that a specific information element, abbreviated to IE, is included in the reconfiguration message, wherein the specific IE is used for storing timing information of the DTX-DRX operation. | 12-24-2009 |
| 20090323568 | MOBILE BROADBAND COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM, SUCH AS A DEPLOYABLE SELF-CONTAINED PORTABLE SYSTEM - Systems and methods for establishing IT services in edge environments are described. In some examples, the system comprises a transportable housing capable of being carried by personnel, a plurality of commercial off-the-shelf components contained in the housing and coupled together and configured to provide the broadband communications network, a management subsystem operatively coupled to the plurality of components, a network connection subsystem defined by at least a first portion of the plurality of components and configured to establish access to the broadband communications network, and a connection subsystem defined by at least a second portion of the plurality of components and that provides a user with a connection to the broadband communications network via the network connection subsystem | 12-31-2009 |
| 20100002609 | Method and device for transmitting complementary data in an analog radio transmission system - Method and device for transmitting complementary data in an analog radio transmission system, the complementary data including information with respect to alternative transmitting frequencies of the respective program, and the alternative transmitting frequencies relating to digital radio transmission systems. The alternative transmitting frequencies for digital radio transmission systems are transmitted in the AMDS (amplitude modulation data system) format, in that these SCD (service description channel) data are copied into the AMDS format, using mapping. | 01-07-2010 |
| 20100008269 | METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING CONTROL INFORMATION IN A MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method for transmitting and receiving control information between AM RLC entities in a mobile communication system is provided. Especially, when a receiving-side AM RLC entity is connected to one or more logical channels, the receiving-side AM RLC entity sends control information through a specific one of the logical channels according to the contents of the control information to allow the transmitting side to quickly perform retransmission, thereby increasing the data transmitting rate. | 01-14-2010 |
| 20100008270 | Method and System for Localization Using One-Way Ranging Technique - The present invention relates to a method and system for determining a position using a one-way ranging technique. The present invention provides a method for determining a position of a target node in a wireless network, including a basic node, a first fixed node, a reference node, a target node, including: (a) calculating a time needed to directly transmit an RF signal originated from the reference node to the basic node and a time needed to arrive at the basic node via the first fixed node; (b) calculating a time needed to directly transmit the RF signal originated from the target node to the basic node and a time needed to arrive at the basic node via the first fixed node; and (c) determining the position of the target node based on the time calculated from steps (a) and (b). | 01-14-2010 |
| 20100008271 | SERVICE CHARGING METHOD, SERVICE CHARGING SYSTEM, NETWORK ACCESS SERVER AND PROTOCOL RESOLVING DEVICE - A service charging method, including: receiving a service packet, performing a protocol resolution on the service packet and obtaining charging information when determining that the protocol resolution needs to be performed on the service packet; and performing a service charging according to the charging information and a preset charging policy. The invention further provides a service charging system, a network access server and a protocol resolving device. Thus, it is easier and more convenient for a user to use a service, and no complex traffic back-patching solution needs to be implemented. | 01-14-2010 |
| 20100014444 | ADAPTIVE MESSAGE ROUTING FOR MOBILE AD HOC NETWORKS - Domains are formed in a mobile ad hoc network by exchanging topology update messages among neighboring nodes, each message including the node coverage of the originating node. The node having an optimum coverage of its neighbors becomes a domain lead (DL) node, and nodes within hearing distance or range of the DL node form a network domain. Each domain node, including the DL, selects a set of bridge nodes (BNs) that can link the domain node to nodes in corresponding neighboring domains. All domain lead nodes in the network exchange messages to inform one another of the nodes contained in their respective domains. A node in one domain seeking a route for a message destined to a node in another domain, may send a route discovery (RDisc) message to the DL node of the inquiring node's domain. A responsive route resolution (RRes) message is returned to the inquiring node. | 01-21-2010 |
| 20100014445 | ADDRESS UPDATING METHOD, CORRESPONDING MOBILE TERMINAL AND NODE - Disclosed is a technique providing an address updating method capable of transmitting a binding update message while suppressing bandwidth dissipation and a mobile node, a proxy node and a management node for use in this method. This technique comprises a step in which a mobile node generates a single message including needed information at the registration of a changed address in a management node in a state associated with a plurality of home addresses and transmits the generated message to the management node, and a step in which the management node updates an address of a destination of the mobile node on the basis of the received message. | 01-21-2010 |
| 20100014446 | METHOD OF GENERATING DATA BLOCK IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method of generating a data block in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes preparing a first upper data block, a second upper data block and a third upper data block and generating a lower data block comprising a header, the first upper data block, the second upper data block and the third upper data block, the header comprising a first length indicator and a second length indicator, wherein the first length indicator indicates the length of the first upper data block and the second length indicator indicates the length of the second upper data block. Data rate can be improved by reducing the size of a header of data blocks. | 01-21-2010 |
| 20100014447 | SYSTEM FOR OFFERING MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICE USING INTERNET NETWORK WITH UTP CABLE - Provided is a system for providing mobile telecommunication services using an Internet network built with a UTP cable. The system includes a main unit and a plurality of sub units. The main unit includes a plurality of input ports respectively connected to corresponding distributing ports of the switching hubs through UTP cables, is connected to an external mobile telecommunication base station through a wireless link, combines Internet signals transmitted from the distributing ports of the switching hubs with mobile telecommunication signals transmitted from the mobile telecommunication state through a wireless link. Each sub unit includes an input port connected to corresponding one of the output ports of the main unit through an UTP cable, separates the combined signal from the output port of the main unit into an Internet signal and a mobile telecommunication signal. | 01-21-2010 |
| 20100020732 | PHYSICAL LAYER SUPERFRAME, FRAME, PREAMBLE AND CONTROL HEADER FOR IEEE 802.22 WRAN COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS - The present invention provides a system ( | 01-28-2010 |
| 20100027448 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SUPPORTING PACKET DATA NETWORK COMMUNICATIONS - Methods and systems for providing network connectivity in wireless networks are provided. This network connectivity can involve a mobile node being able to connect with more than one network at the same time and supporting multiple protocol sessions. Additionally, modifications can be made to allow a mobile node to have multiple IP addresses. These modifications include using a packet data network identifier along with a network control protocol to allow a network device to provide to user equipment (UE) multiple packet data network connections. The network device can be a access gateway or HPRD serving gateway (HSGW) that sets up the PDN connections for the UE. The packet data network identifier can be used to distinguish between multiple PDN connections for a UE. | 02-04-2010 |
| 20100034124 | TETHERED DATA CALL WITH CONTINUOUS APPLICATION - Commonly, when a mobile device tethers to a computer, one Internet Protocol address is provided. When an embedded application runs continuously, such as with a Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem application, tethered applications can be prohibited from operating. If the continuous application is not active, then the continuous application can be disconnected and thus the tethered application can function. | 02-11-2010 |
| 20100034125 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONFIGURING WIRELESS COMMUNICATION OF SURVEY SENSORS AND CONTROLLERS - A method and system for configuring wireless communication of survey sensors and controllers is recited. In one embodiment, a survey device controller is configured to receive a first wireless communication comprising a sequence indicating that a survey device is configured to participate in an automatic configuration process with the survey device controller. The system further comprises the survey device which is configured to generate a second wireless communication indicating the reception of a selection event to communicatively couple the survey device with the survey device controller. The survey device controller is further configured to automatically initiate a wireless communication connection comprising the survey device controller and the survey device in response to receiving the second wireless signal contemporaneous with receiving a signal which is generated by the survey device controller to communicatively couple the survey device controller with the survey device. | 02-11-2010 |
| 20100034126 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR HANDLING MEASUREMENT GAPS IN WIRELESS NETWORKS - In a wireless communication system, user equipment (UE) has autonomy provided by one or more set of rules to handle processing during a measurement gap. UE can ignore or use only a portion of the whole measurement gap if not needed. Thereby, an urgent need for remaining tuned to source carrier frequency can be supported, such as utilizing Random Access Channel (RACH) procedure. UE can also choose to tune to a target carrier frequency supporting timely handovers. Depending on the type of processing required (download shared channel (DL-SCH, UL-SCH, TTI bundling, RACH or SR), the UE may store requests and process the measurements during the gap or ignore the gap measurement as if there were no gaps. | 02-11-2010 |
| 20100039968 | Receiver - A receiver for a telecommunications system, the receiver comprising a processor ( | 02-18-2010 |
| 20100039969 | RADIO COMMUNICATION DEVICE, RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND RADIO COMMUNICATION PROGRAM - It is possible to prevent degradation of power consumption efficiency or lowering of a communication rate in a radio communication. Each node | 02-18-2010 |
| 20100039970 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SUPPORTING MULTIPLE REFERENCE SIGNALS IN OFDMA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS - Methods and apparatuses are described for a Node B to transmit Reference Signals (RS) from multiple antennas to enable User Equipments (UEs) to perform demodulation of received information signals and to estimate Channel Quality Indication (CQI) metrics. To minimize overhead and enable backward compatible operation with legacy systems, RS from a first set of Node B antennas are transmitted in every transmission time interval and substantially over the whole operating BandWidth (BW). RS from a second set of Node B antennas serving for CQI estimation are periodically transmitted, substantially over the whole operating BW, with transmission period informed to UEs through broadcast signaling by the Node B and starting transmission sub-frame determined from the identity of the cell served by the Node B. RS from the second set of antennas, and new RS from the first set of antennas, serving for demodulation of information signals have substantially the same BW as the information signals which can be smaller than the operating BW. | 02-18-2010 |
| 20100046405 | METHOD AND ARRANGEMENT FOR ALIGNMENT OF PROTOCOL DATA UNITS IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The present invention relates to a method and arrangement for communicating a Protocol Data Unit (PDU) between a transmitter unit and a receiver unit in a wireless communication network. Said PDU comprising protocol headers associated with at least a first and a second protocol layers involved in the communication and a payload to be communicated. The method comprises the step of interacting between the at least first and second protocol layers, such that the sum of the bits of the protocol headers is n-bit aligned such as octet aligned independently of non-alignment of at least one of the protocol headers comprised in the PDU. | 02-25-2010 |
| 20100046406 | MOBILE COMPUTING DEVICE GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION DETERMINATION - A wireless connection between a mobile device and an IP-based wireless telecommunications network is established when the mobile device registers with a network controller (NC) through an access point (AP). When a geographical position is needed for the mobile device (e.g., a 911 call), messages are exchanged between the NC and a serving mobile location center (SMLC), where the SMLC retrieves information from a database that is used to identify the geographic position of the mobile device. The database can store a variety of information related to mobile devices such as: last known position, IP address, MAC address, a mobile or subscriber identifier (such as an International Mobile Subscriber Identity (IMSI)), last CGI, etc. The geographical position is communicated back to the NC, which can then forward the position information to a switch for processing such as for 911 calls. | 02-25-2010 |
| 20100046407 | METHOD, SYSTEM, AND DEVICE FOR ESTABLISHING ASSOCIATION-CONTROL RELATIONS - A method for establishing association-control relations includes these steps: An access adapting unit acquires subscription information of the user through a mobile application part (MAP) message, an SH interface message, or a Cx interface message; and acquires information indicating that the user is an ICS user from the subscription information of the user. A system, an access adapting unit, and an IMS CS control function (ICCF) for establishing association-control relations are also provided. In embodiments of the present invention, an access adapting unit such as a local-CS access adaptation function-network (L-CAAF-n) may know whether a user is an IMS centralized service (ICS) user and acquire the ICCF address information so that association-control relations may be established between the L-CAAF-n and the ICCF. | 02-25-2010 |
| 20100061282 | AUDIENCE RESPONSE SYSTEM AND METHOD WITH FREQUENCY AGILE TRANSMISSION PROTOCOL - A frequency agile wireless response system and method of retrieving user response data from a plurality of users includes providing a base unit and a plurality of handheld response units, each communicating with the base unit over a wireless communication link using a frequency agile communication protocol. Base signals are sent with the base unit to the response units over the wireless communication link. Response signals are sent from the response units to the base unit over the wireless communication link. The base signals include a master transmission and at least occasionally include an extension transmission. The master transmission includes information establishing a time mark for the response units. The master transmission also includes information enabling the response units to receive any extension transmission associated with that base signal. | 03-11-2010 |
| 20100067413 | ROUTING AND QUALITY DECISION IN MOBILE IP NETWORKS - The invention relates to a method for routing streams of traffic in IP networks, particularly in mobile IP networks. The invention involves a plurality of streams of traffic to be transmitted being routed such that they are transmitted in a carrier/context ( | 03-18-2010 |
| 20100067414 | Communication Control Apparatus, Wireless Communication Apparatus, Communication Control Method, and Wireless Communication Method - In order to send a sender side a transmission band control Msg indicating that a band has become narrow consistently with the minimum arrival time when performing communication while compensating for insufficient band of one wireless communication path with another wireless communication path, a communication control apparatus | 03-18-2010 |
| 20100067415 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COMMUNICATING USING AN IN-VEHICLE SYSTEM - A method to be used with first and second devices where the first device communicates with the second device via numbered data packets where the second device needs to know the number of each received packet upon reception, the method comprising the acts of at the first device, forming a plurality of separate initial data packets, for each initial data packet, associating a unique number with the initial data packet, combining the initial data packet with its associated unique number to form a numbered packet, calculating a checksum for the numbered packet, combining the checksum with the initial data packet to form a transmission packet that fails to include the associated unique number and transmitting the transmission packet to the second device. | 03-18-2010 |
| 20100074154 | Accessing a Communications Network - A method and node in a communication network for facilitating access by a client terminal to an IMS service from a non-Session Initiation Protocol (non-SIP) compliant access network such as a circuit-switched network. The node receives a request from the client terminal and in response, allocates to the terminal, a Terminal Adapter from a plurality of Terminal Adapters. The node then sends a message to the client terminal reporting the address of the allocated Terminal Adapter. | 03-25-2010 |
| 20100074155 | Mobile terminal and communication mode switching method thereof - A mobile terminal and communication mode switching method is capable of efficiently managing a data connection to a network via a wireless link when the mobile terminal switches between a master operation mode and a slave operation mode. A communication mode switching method determines whether a request for a second mode communication session is detected while the mobile terminal is in a first mode communication session with a network via a first interface. The system and method initializes and activates a second interface when a request for a second mode communication session is detected. The system and method also synchronize the first interface and the second interface, re-register a Mobile Internet Protocol (MIP) with the network, acquire an IP address as a consequence of the re-registration of the MIP, and communicate data with the network using the acquired IP address. | 03-25-2010 |
| 20100074156 | Process Control System Using Wireless Communication Links - Field devices or other devices within a process control system are provided with both hardwired and wireless communication ports to enable communications to be performed within the process control system using one or both of hardwired and wireless communications. In particular, a field device for use in a process control system within a process control environment includes a microprocessor-based communication unit adapted to generate or receive communication signals, a first communication port adapted to be connected to a hardwired communication link for providing communications to or from the communication unit via the hardwired communication link and a second communication port adapted to be connected to a wireless transceiver to provide wireless communications to or from the communication unit via the wireless transceiver. | 03-25-2010 |
| 20100080153 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PRIORITIZING PACKETS FOR USE IN MANAGING PACKETS IN RADIO ACCESS NETWORKS - The invention includes a method and apparatus adapted for managing packets within a Radio Access Network (RAN). A method includes receiving a packet within the RAN, determining a packet priority assigned to the packet, and managing the packet within the RAN based on the packet priority of the packet and a condition of the RAN. The packet priority assigned to the packet is based on at least one characteristic of the packet, which is determined based on packet contents of the packet. The at least one characteristic associated with the packet comprises information available at or above the network layer. The packet priority may be assigned to the packet within the RAN and/or outside of the RAN. The management of the packet within the RAN may include managing assignment of RAN resources to the packet (e.g., processor resources, radio resources, and the like), directing an access device to use a proscribed resource allocation, managing scheduling of the packet for transmission over the air interface of the RAN, and the like, as well as various combinations thereof. | 04-01-2010 |
| 20100080154 | METHOD OF TRANSMITTING REFERENCE SIGNALS IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION HAVING MULTIPLE ANTENNAS - A method of transmitting signals by a transmitting end in a wireless communication system comprises sharing control information related to reference signal with a receiving end; generating one or more precoded reference signals considering a given rank; allocating the one or more precoded reference signals to have a specific pattern within a subframe, wherein the specific pattern is varied depending on the control information; and transmitting the subframe through multiple antennas to the receiving end. | 04-01-2010 |
| 20100080155 | UPLINK RESYNCHRONIZATION FOR USE IN COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS - A method and apparatus for reusing an uplink control channel configuration associated with an uplink control channel, the method comprising the steps of, at a user agent, receiving an uplink control channel resource configuration assigned by an access device, transmitting to the access device using the control channel resources associated with the received uplink control channel resource configuration and, after a time alignment timer expires, retaining the uplink control channel resource configuration. | 04-01-2010 |
| 20100097967 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING PACKET - Provided are an apparatus and method for transmitting a packet. The apparatus and method indicate a policy with respect to an acknowledgement packet and a retransmission packet, which correspond to the type of data to be transmitted, in a packet included in the data. The apparatus includes a Media Access Control (MAC) control unit which determines the type of packet to be transmitted, and sets the packet to indicate an acknowledgement policy and a retransmission policy with respect to the packet; and a communication unit which transmits the packet. | 04-22-2010 |
| 20100110945 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING CLOSED SUBSCRIBER GROUPS IN A PACKET-BASED WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Systems and methods for providing radio frequency transceiver user equipment in a packet based radio frequency signaling communication system are disclosed. User equipment is provided with closed subscriber group “CSG” capability including permanent storage for a CSG whitelist, the whitelist including identifiers of CSGs the user equipment is a member of. Base stations transmit signals including identifiers corresponding to CSGs the base station supports. The base station or cell selection process performed by the user equipment includes selecting cells that are part of the CSG whitelist. In additional embodiments, the user equipment includes user alterable storage for a user controlled CSG whitelist. The user alterable storage may further be partitioned into permanent and temporary portions. In an exemplary method, the user controls the cell selection process using the CSG whitelist information stored in the user equipment. Methods for managing the CSG whitelist are described. | 05-06-2010 |
| 20100110946 | Detecting the Presence of Coding Scheme CS-I RLC/MAC Control Message - A method of transmitting a downlink, coding scheme CS- | 05-06-2010 |
| 20100110947 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SENDING SYSTEM INFORMATION IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Techniques for transmitting system information (SI) in SI messages to enable efficient reception by user equipments (UEs) are described. In an aspect, SI messages may be scheduled using both a forward space after a reference time and a backward space prior to the reference time to allow more SI messages to be scheduled. In one design, a base station may assign at least one SI message with at least one SI window in the forward space and may assign at least one additional SI message with at least one additional SI window in the backward space. The base station may determine the position of each SI window based on an index of the SI message, a periodicity of the SI message, and an SI window length common for all SI messages. The base station may send each SI message within the periodically occurring SI window for that SI message. | 05-06-2010 |
| 20100118747 | User specific downlink power control channel Q-bit - Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate controlling transmission power of a wireless terminal. A downlink power control channel segment may include an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) tone-symbol that may comprise a first component and a second component. The first component may be an in-phase (I) component and the second component may be a quadrature (Q) component, for example. A power command may be transmitted in the first component. Further, information associated with a wireless terminal may be transmitted in the second component. The information associated with the wireless terminal may be, for instance, a portion of a scrambling mask associated with the wireless terminal. | 05-13-2010 |
| 20100118748 | Video Share Model-Based Video Fixing - Systems and methods for model-based video fixing are disclosed. A video can be retrieved and analyzed to determine if any portion of the video can be represented by a model. If a portion that can be modeled is identified, a model that approximates the portion can be specified, the portion can be removed from the video, and instructions for modeling the video can be formatted. The video and the instructions can be transmitted to a receiving device, which can synthesize the model and the received video to generate a model-based video. Systems for providing the model-based video fixing are also disclosed. | 05-13-2010 |
| 20100118749 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DIRECTIONAL CHANNEL ACCESS IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM - A method of wireless communications is provided. The method includes detecting at least a portion of a preamble of a packet transmitted by a first device by sweeping over a plurality of receive directions; receiving and decoding a header of the packet based on a first receive direction to identify that the first device had transmitted the packet; and completing reception of the packet based on a second receive direction. An apparatus for performing the method is also disclosed. | 05-13-2010 |
| 20100118750 | Wireless mesh network system and control method thereof, and wireless device - A wireless mesh network system includes a plurality of wireless devices and is adapted to forward a message packet. Each of the wireless devices includes a transmitter, a receiver, a communications controller, and a RAM. Further, the communications controller detects a reception completion time of a message packet received, and controls such that, if the wireless device had performed forwarding the message packet received right before, a carrier sense time, which is the time from the reception completion time to the forwarding start, is set to be longer than a previously set carrier sense time, and if the corresponding wireless device had not performed forwarding the message packet received right before, the carrier sense time is set to be shorter than the previously set carrier sense time. | 05-13-2010 |
| 20100118751 | RADIO COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD - A radio communication apparatus for performing radio communication, including: a first interface conversion unit which extracts a first signal and a second signal multiplexed and input, and corresponding to two different formats, and combines the extracted first and second signal; and a common amplifier which is shared by the first and second signal by amplifying the combined first and second signal, wherein a signal output from the common amplifier is transmitted. | 05-13-2010 |
| 20100142421 | MARKETS FOR A MOBILE, BROADBAND, ROUTABLE INTERNET - In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for a mobile, broadband, routable internet established for a specific market, in which a plurality of mobile devices interact as nodes in a mobile ad hoc network and in which packets are IP routable to the individual device independent of fixed infrastructure elements. Certain markets may be enabled on the mobile broadband routable internet by one or more enablers associated with the mobile broadband routable internet. | 06-10-2010 |
| 20100150037 | NOVEL PHYSICAL LAYER HEADER STRUCTURE FOR DECODING AND SYNCHRONIZATION - Systems, devices, processors, and methods are described which may be used for the reception of a wireless broadband signal at a user terminal from a gateway via a satellite. A wireless signal may include a series of physical layer frames, each frame including a physical layer header and payload. The received signal is digitized and processed using various novel physical layer headers and related techniques to synchronize the physical layer frames and recover data from physical layer headers for purposes of demodulation and decoding. | 06-17-2010 |
| 20100150038 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATION VIA AT LEAST ONE OF DIRECTIONAL AND OMNI-DIRECTION ANTENNAS - Techniques for using at least one of omni-directional and directional antennas for communication are described. A station may be equipped antenna elements selectable for use as an omni-directional antenna or one or more directional antennas. The station may select the omni-directional antenna or a directional antenna for use for communication based on various factors such as, e.g., whether the location or direction of a target station for communication is known, whether control frames or data frames are being exchanged, etc. | 06-17-2010 |
| 20100150039 | FORWARD LINK POWER CONTROL OF MULTIPLE DATA STREAMS TRANSMITTED TO A MOBILE STATION USING A COMMON POWER CONTROL CHANNEL - A method and apparatus for controlling transmit power levels of a plurality of different data streams transmitted from at least one base station to a mobile station in a mobile radio communication system. The first and second data streams are transmitted from the base station and received at the mobile station. A stream of power control commands is formed at the mobile station in accordance with either the first or second received data stream. A power control signal is formed at the mobile station from the first stream of power control commands and transmitted to the base station. A received stream of power control commands is formed from the received power control signal at the base station, and the transmit power levels of the first and second data streams from the base station are controlled in accordance with the received stream of power control commands. Additional streams of power control commands can also be generated at the mobile station where one or both of the first and second data streams are simultaneously transmitted to the mobile station from further base stations, and these additional streams of power control commands can be interleaved to form an interleaved power control signal that is sent to all the base stations transmitting the first and second data streams to the mobile station and used for controlling the transmit power of the first and second data streams from such base stations. | 06-17-2010 |
| 20100157860 | HIGH-FREQUENCY CIRCUIT DEVICE, AND COMMUNICATIONS APPARATUS COMPRISING SAME - A high-frequency circuit device comprising at least first and second antenna terminals, at least first and second transmitting terminals for a first communications system, at least first and second receiving terminals for a first communications system, two or more switch circuits, and two or more filter circuits, the first transmitting terminal for the first communications system being connectable to the first antenna terminal, the second transmitting terminal for the first communications system being connectable to the second antenna terminal, the first receiving terminal for the first communications system being connectable to the first antenna terminal, and the second receiving terminal for the first communications system being connectable to the second antenna terminal. | 06-24-2010 |
| 20100157861 | BEAMFORMING SPATIAL DE-MULTIPLEXING FOR COLLABORATIVE SPATIALLY MULTIPLEXED WIRELESS COMMUNICATION - Techniques are provided herein to enable collaborative spatial multiplexing in a wireless communication system. At M plurality of antennas of a first wireless communication device, N plurality of spatially multiplexed transmissions are received from corresponding ones of N plurality of second wireless communication devices. The first wireless communication device produces M receive signals from the transmissions received at the M plurality of antennas. The first wireless communication device applies beamforming weight vectors to the M receive signals and in so doing produces N signals or signal streams, where N is less than or equal to M. The first wireless communication device then recovers the modulated data for each of the transmissions from the N signals. | 06-24-2010 |
| 20100157862 | Receiving Data in a Sensor Network - A sensor network has a plurality of wireless sensors which transmit to an intermediate receiving device which relays data to a central server. A method is provided for receiving data packets at the intermediate receiving device from a plurality of the transmitting devices. Data packets are sensed on a communication medium at the receiving device and the total traffic intensity of data packets from the transmitting devices is estimated. A detection threshold for data packets is provided and adapted as a function of the total intensity. The receiving device receives data packets with a signal strength above the current detection threshold. | 06-24-2010 |
| 20100177671 | System and Method for Location Management and Emergency Support for a Voice Over Internet Protocol Device - In a particular embodiment a system and method for processing a call in a Voice over internet protocol (VoIP) network are disclosed. The method includes receiving the call associated with a private identifier (PRID) at a server, classifying a call location based on the PRID and sending the call from the server to a Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP) with a call back number associated with the PRID. The system includes a first server interface for receiving a message containing a PRID associated with the call, a second server interface to access the data base for searching for the PRID in the data structure; a third server interface to receive an output from the database indicating whether a PRID has been found in the data structure; and a fourth server interface to send the call to a PSAP. | 07-15-2010 |
| 20100189019 | Communication system for the centralized management, via a virtual operator, of calls of subscriber terminals connected to host communication networks - A communication system (SC) comprises i) a centralized piatform (PC) that can be used by at teast one virtual operator and that comprises at least equipment and services management means (EG | 07-29-2010 |
| 20100202330 | MANAGEMENT OF NETWORK LAYER PACKETS IN AN ACCESS NETWORK OF A TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORK - An access node such as a base station is adapted to communicate with a first transmission network and via a data radio channel with a user node. When a second transmission network is connected to the access node, to manage a network layer packet transmitted between the user node and a node of one of the first and second transmission networks, the access node inspects at least one part of the network layer packet, and switches the inspected network layer packet to a node of one of the first and second transmission network or to the user node. | 08-12-2010 |
| 20100202331 | CLOSED-LOOP POWER CONTROL IN MULTI-CARRIER HIGH-SPEED UPLINK PACKET ACCESS - A method for wireless communications is provided. The method includes applying independent power controls to two or more carriers from a set of high speed packet access signals. The method includes monitoring power across the two or more carriers to determine power levels for the set of high speed packet access signals. The method also includes automatically adjusting at least one of the independent power controls in view of the determined power levels for the set of high speed packet access signals. | 08-12-2010 |
| 20100208632 | PACKET BUNDLING AT THE PDCP LAYER - Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide a technique for bundling the received service data units (SDU) in a first communication layer to generate a protocol data unit (PDU) to pass to a second communication layer. For example, one or more packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) SDUs may be concatenated to generate a PDCP PDU and be sent to a radio link control (RLC) layer in the transmitter side. Similarly, one or more PDCP SDUs may be extracted from a PDCP PDU in the receiver side. | 08-19-2010 |
| 20100208633 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE, COMMUNICATION METHOD AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - There is provided a communication device including a first communicating unit, a second communicating unit that has a plurality of antennas, a first communication processing unit that processes a signal received by the first communicating unit, allows the first communicating unit to transmit a signal, and a second communication processing unit that processes a signal received by the second communicating unit, allows the second communicating unit to transmit a signal. The second communication processing unit includes an adjusting unit that adjusts a signal to be transmitted from each of the plurality of antennas based on an adjustment factor, a transmission beam pattern candidate setting unit that derives at least one transmission beam pattern based on a first transmission request and a second transmission request, and a beam pattern applying unit that applies any of the set at least one transmission beam pattern candidate based on first requested-beam-pattern identification information. | 08-19-2010 |
| 20100208634 | System and Method For Managing Multimedia Communications Across Convergent Networks - The present invention provides for bidirectional or duplex transmission of multimedia content such as live video and/or audio between access devices of a calling party and a called party in a convergent network. The quality of transmission is managed through a convergent communications platform, which periodically tests performance characteristics of network routes in operative communication with the platform, categorizes the network routes based on measured performance metrics, and selects network operators whose network characteristics meet the desired quality parameters of a particular multimedia content to be transmitted (e.g., real-time high definition video conference). The management of transmissions is transparent to the end users who will be able to communicate with others regardless of the type of devices or networks the called parties use or subscribe to. | 08-19-2010 |
| 20100208635 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TRANSPORT BLOCK SIZE SIGNALING BASED ON MODULATION TYPE FOR HSDPA - A device for communicating with a mobile device is provided. The devices includes a transmitter. The transmitter transmit a first modulation scheme, a first transport block size, and a first redundancy version to a mobile device. The first transport block size is represented by a first number of bits and the first redundancy version is represented by a second number of bits. The transmitter transmits a packet based on the first modulation scheme to a mobile device. transmitter transmits a second modulation scheme, a second transport block size, and a second redundancy version to the mobile device. The second transport block size is represented by a third number of bits and the second redundancy version is represented by a fourth number of bits, wherein the third number of bits is greater than the first number of bits, and the fourth number of bits is less than the second number of bits. The transmitter transmits the packet based on the second modulation scheme to the mobile device. | 08-19-2010 |
| 20100220638 | MAC-HS PROCESSING IN AN HSDPA-COMPATIBLE RECEIVER IN A 3G WIRELESS NETWORK - In one embodiment, a method for processing a series of MAC-hs protocol data units (PDUs) in an HSDPA-compatible (high-speed downlink packet access) receiver in a 3G wireless communication network, the method including: (a) receiving a MAC-hs PDU having: (i) a queue identification (QID), (ii) a transmission sequence number (TSN), and (iii) one or more MAC-d PDUs, (b) then disassembling the MAC-hs PDU (c) then distributing the one or more MAC-d PDU to a reordering queue indicated by the QID, and (d) then performing reordering processing for the corresponding reordering queue based on the TSN. Steps (a) and (b) are performed in a physical layer of the receiver. Steps (c) and (d) are performed in a data-link layer of the receiver. | 09-02-2010 |
| 20100220639 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, A METHOD OF WIRELESS COMMUNICATION, AND A PROGRAM FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATION - In wireless communication with another communication apparatus in a predetermined wireless network, overhead information defined in a media access control layer is divided into a header of information necessary for the common access control and a header of information necessary for each payload. Address information is added to the header of information necessary for the common access control to transmit the generated header attached to the transmission data. For example, in a case of forming a physical burst in which a plurality of data payloads are combined into one, a frame structure is provided without useless repetition of address information. | 09-02-2010 |
| 20100232326 | MOBILE AD-HOC NETWORK HAVING INTERFERENCE MITIGATION AND RELATED METHODS - A mobile ad-hoc network (MANET) may include mobile nodes establishing wireless communications links therebetween. The mobile nodes may communicate based upon an avalanche or relay communications protocol. Each mobile node may comprise a wireless transceiver, and a decorrelation filter cooperating therewith for reducing interference from other mobile nodes. For example, the decorrelation filter also reduces one or more of multi-path interference from other mobile nodes or narrow band interference from other sources. | 09-16-2010 |
| 20100238850 | AP TO LEGACY STATION SDMA PROTOCOL - Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide a protocol for SDMA communication between an access point and multiple wireless apparatuses, such as single antenna stations. | 09-23-2010 |
| 20100260083 | Method for Enhancing Accuracy of Rate Adaptation - The present invention provides a method for enhancing accuracy of rate adaptation in a transmitter of a wireless communication system, which comprises setting a plurality of scores indicating reliabilities of a plurality of MCSs of the wireless communication system during rate adaption procedures of the plurality of MCSs, and adjusting the plurality of scores according to a plurality of response messages indicating receiving statuses of a plurality of transmitted packets. | 10-14-2010 |
| 20100265858 | INTERCONNECTION OF SUBNETWORKS BY A UNIFORM NETWORK LAYER - A network system for motor vehicles, including at least two differently structured subnetworks which each have a data connection, the network layers of the at least two differently structured subnetworks having a similar structure. The protocol of the network layer is preferably the Internet Protocol. | 10-21-2010 |
| 20100265859 | MOBILE TERMINAL, CONTROL APPARATUS, HOME AGENT AND PACKET COMMUNICATIONS METHOD - In a packet communications system, a control apparatus implements routing control of a received packet directed for the mobile terminal. The mobile terminal includes a plurality of network interface cards; a communication manager configured to select at least one network interface card among from the plurality of network interface cards, in accordance with information regarding the network interface card; and an upper layer manager configured to receive the packet transmitted from the control apparatus, with using a selected network interface card. | 10-21-2010 |
| 20100265860 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DYNAMIC PACKET TRANSPORT IN CDMA2000 NETWORKS - A method and apparatus for saving network resources in a CDMA2000 network, the method comprising the steps of receiving a data packet for a wireless data device at a base station controller in the CDMA2000 network; determining a frame transport capability of a forward common channel; checking whether the data packet falls within the frame transport capability; and if the data packet falls within the frame transport capability, encapsulating the data packet as a data burst message; and sending the data burst message over the forward common channel, wherein the sending step over the forward common channel precludes a dedicated data traffic channel being established for the data packet thereby saving network resources on the CDMA2000 network. | 10-21-2010 |
| 20100271989 | WIRELESS CONTROLLER GRIDS FOR PROCESS CONTROL AND OTHER SYSTEMS AND RELATED APPARATUS AND METHOD - A system includes a plurality of wireless nodes including multiple controller nodes. Each controller node is configured to execute at least one of multiple control algorithms for controlling at least a portion of a process. Each control algorithm is associated with one or more sensor nodes and/or actuator nodes. At least one wireless node is configured to distribute the control algorithms amongst the controller nodes. At least one wireless node may be configured to redistribute the control algorithms amongst the controller nodes in response to one or more triggering events. A triggering event could include a new controller node being added to the system, and at least one wireless node could be configured to redistribute the control algorithms amongst the controller nodes including the new controller node. Redistribution of control algorithms can change a physical location where at least one control algorithm is executed without interrupting control of the process. | 10-28-2010 |
| 20100271990 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRIGGERING BUFFER STATUS REPORTS WITH PACKET DISCARDING - A method and apparatus are disclosed that includes a user equipment ( | 10-28-2010 |
| 20100271991 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD, COMPUTER PROGRAM, AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A wireless communication apparatus includes a packet-generating section and a transmission section. The generating section is provided for generating a packet and characteristically performing symbol repetition on a preamble of the packet. The transmission section is provided for transmitting the packet subjected to the symbol repetition as a wireless signal. | 10-28-2010 |
| 20100271992 | WIRELESS CHANNEL CALIBRATION - This document describes, among other things, a method that includes transmitting a calibration initiation frame from a first wireless communication device to a second wireless communication device that comprises a single space-time stream transmitter via a wireless communication medium. The method also includes receiving at the first wireless communication device an acknowledgement frame sent from the second wireless communication device after the second wireless communication device receives the calibration initiation frame. The method further includes transmitting a null data packet (NDP) frame from the first wireless communication device to the second wireless communication device after receiving the acknowledgement frame. In some implementations, the method also includes performing beamforming calibration of a wireless communication channel between the first wireless communication device and the second wireless communication device based on the acknowledgement frame. | 10-28-2010 |
| 20100278086 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ADAPTIVE TRANSMISSION OF SENSOR DATA WITH LATENCY CONTROLS - Disclosed is a method and apparatus to continuously transmit high bandwidth, real-time data, on a communications network (e.g., wired, wireless, and a combination of wired and wireless segments). A control computing device uses user or application requirements to dynamically adjust the throughput of the system to match the bandwidth of the communications network being used, so that data latency is minimized. An operator can visualize the instantaneous characteristic of the link and, if necessary, make a tradeoff between the latency and resolution of the data to help maintain the real-time nature of the system and better utilize the available network resources. Automated control strategies have also been implemented into the system to enable dynamic adjustments of the system throughput to minimize latency while maximizing data resolution. Several applications have been cited in which latency minimization techniques can be employed for enhanced dynamic performance. | 11-04-2010 |
| 20100284314 | Compressed Buffer Status Reports in LTE - Methods and apparatus for producing a compressed buffer status report ( | 11-11-2010 |
| 20100290377 | CLIENT DEVICE - A client device is provided, including: a WiMAX access module for accessing a WiMAX network, and receiving a WiMAX wireless data from the WiMAX network; a switching module for being connected between the WiMAX access module and a network processor, and realizing transparent data transmission between the WiMAX access module and the network processor; the network processor for processing the WiMAX wireless data received from the switching module. | 11-18-2010 |
| 20100296420 | METHOD AND NODES FOR REVOKING A BINDING IN A MOBILE IP NETWORK - A method for revoking a binding from a mobile node, having a least one binding, comprises providing a target binding with the binding revocation message, so that after the revocation, the mobile node can be reached through the target binding. | 11-25-2010 |
| 20100296421 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING NON-PACKET SWITCHED SERVICE IN A TARGET RADIO ACCESS TECHNOLOGY NETWORK - A method and apparatus are described for providing non-packet switched service to a target radio access technology (RAT) network. A circuit switched (CS) service notification message is received by a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU). If the WTRU has been allocated a valid temporary mobile subscriber identity (TMSI), a paging response message including the valid TMSI is transmitted after an inter-system change is performed from a source RAT network to a target RAT network. The CS service notification message is for terminating a CS call request. The source RAT network may be a long term evolution (LTE) network, and the target RAT network may be a third generation partnership project ( | 11-25-2010 |
| 20100296422 | Method and Arrangement for Separate Channel Power Control - Method and arrangement in a first node, for generating a first and a second correctness target value. The generated correctness target values are used by a power control of the radio signals sent from a second node to be received by the first node. The radio signals are sent over at least a first channel and a second channel. The method comprises establishing a difference between the obtained first quality value of the first channel with a first quality target value of the first channel and generating a first correctness target value. The method also comprises the step of establishing a second difference between the obtained second quality value of the second channel with a second quality target value of the second channel and generating a second correctness target value. | 11-25-2010 |
| 20100296423 | Multi-Medium Signal Transmission System and Method - A system and method are provided for transmitting and receiving a data stream through multiple paths in different mediums. A data stream can be demuxed into separate sub-streams and the separate sub-streams can be communicated to a device through different mediums, where the separate sub-streams can be muxed into a single substream at the receiving device. For example, one sub-stream can be conveyed wirelessly through an antenna, or through several antennas via MIMO transmission, and one sub-stream can be conveyed through a wire medium, such as a telephone line or a power line. Various pre-processing techniques, such as STBC encoding, FEC encoding, and MIMO matrix encoding as well as different methods of demuxing can be implemented to improve reliability and throughput of the system. | 11-25-2010 |
| 20100296424 | DIGITAL BROADCAST TRANSMITTER, DIGITAL BROADCAST RECEIVER, AND METHODS FOR CONFIGURING AND PROCESSING STREAMS THEREOF - A method for processing a stream of a digital broadcast receiver is provided. The method which processes a stream that is divided into a first area allocated to first mobile data and a second area allocated to normal data, includes: receiving a transport stream including second mobile data in at least a part of the second area separately from the first mobile data, demodulating the transport stream, equalizing the demodulated transport stream, and decoding at least one of the first mobile data and the second mobile data from the equalized transport stream. Accordingly, mobile data services may be provided in various ways. | 11-25-2010 |
| 20100296425 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ESTABLISHING A CONNECTION WITH A PACKET-BASED APPLICATION SERVER - A method that comprises receiving over a network connection a signal from a communication device indicative of an intention to initiate a telephony action, and causing a communication link between the communication device and a packet-based application server to be established. The communication link enabling the packet-based application server to receive from the communication device information related to an intended telephony action. | 11-25-2010 |
| 20100302978 | METHOD OF INDICATING NUMBER OF ANTENNAS IN NETWORK BROADCAST SYSTEM - A method for generating a broadcast signal includes forming an information block for transmission, the information block including a first field comprising a plurality of bits configured to impart information to a first group of user equipment (UEs) regarding a first evolved NodeB (eNodeB) transmit antenna configuration. The method further includes generating error detection bits based upon the information block and scrambling the error detection bits using a mask according to a second eNodeB transmit antenna configuration, such that the mask is configured to impart information to a second group of UEs regarding the second eNodeB transmit antenna configuration. The method also includes generating the broadcast signal having the information block and the scrambled error detection bits, and transmitting the generated broadcast signal via a packet broadcast control channel. | 12-02-2010 |
| 20100309830 | RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD HAVING A RADIO LINK CONTROL LAYER - Disclosed are a radio link control (RLC) entity and a data processing method for the RLC entity. The RLC entity includes a transmission data storing module that stores PDUs corresponding to SDUs transmitted from a first upper layer and outputs the stored PDUs by SDU units, a ciphering module that ciphers the PDUs stored in the transmission data storing module and transmitting the ciphered PDUs to a first RLC entity, a deciphering module that deciphers the ciphered PDUs transmitted from a second RLC entity, and a received data storing module that stores the deciphered PDUs and outputs the PDUs toward a second upper layer in the form of SDU units. | 12-09-2010 |
| 20100315979 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SCHEDULING IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORK - Techniques to efficiently schedule and serve stations in a wireless network are described. An access point may aggregate stations with flows carrying traffic having similar characteristics, e.g., VoIP flows. The access point may schedule these stations together in an overall service period. The access point may serve each station in a respective service period within the overall service period. The access point may send a multi poll frame at the start of the overall service period to indicate the start time and/or service period for each station. Each station may decide to power down until its start time. The service periods for the stations may overlap one another. The service period for each station may cover an initial transmission as well as additional transmission and/or retransmission. If additional transmission and/or retransmission are not needed for a given station, then the next station may be served right away. | 12-16-2010 |
| 20100315980 | UNIFIED CONTENTION BASED PERIOD - A unified contention based protocol is implemented in which a source station within a basic service set selects the protection methodology for data transmission on the communication medium. Utilizing EDCA as a medium access method and maintaining that each transmission opportunity has multiple slots, the source station is provided with the opportunity to select a protection methodology based on the protection environment, which enables transmission opportunity protection without direct PCP involvement. | 12-16-2010 |
| 20100322121 | CIRCUIT AND METHOD FOR OPERATING A NODE IN A RADIO NETWORK - A circuit and a method for operating a node in a radio network, whereby nodes of the same radio network have a common network ID and each node individually is assigned a node ID, wherein during the reception of a current packet by a receiving circuit of the node, an address contained in the packet is determined, wherein reception of the current packet is continued when the determined address agrees with the network ID of the node and the node ID of the node, and wherein during reception of the current packet, the reception of the current packet is terminated and the receiving circuit is controlled based on a case decision, when the determined address does not agree with the network ID of the node or the node ID of the node. | 12-23-2010 |
| 20100322122 | BUNDLING OF SPEECH FRAMES IN CS OVER HSPA NETWORKS - In a method and mobile station for transmitting speech data over a packet data connection a number of speech data frames are bundled into to a bundled frame, which is transmitted over a packet data connection. Hereby the time when the transmitter needs to transmit can be reduced which in turn will reduce the energy required for transmitting speech data. Hereby the battery life time can be increased. The bundling in accordance with the present invention can advantageously be used when transmitting speech data over a High Speed Packet Access. HSPA. connection. | 12-23-2010 |
| 20100329160 | Apparatus, systems and methods for switching MIMO transmission techniques in wireless communication systems - An embodiment of the present invention provides an apparatus that may include a transceiver operable to communicate with a receiver in a wireless network and adapted to select an optimal mode for transmissions, wherein the receiver estimates the optimal mode and feeds it back to the transceiver which changes a transmitted mode accordingly and wherein the optimal mode is based on a predetermined metric based on a performance equation that puts a threshold to separate between a high correlated signal to low correlation signal. | 12-30-2010 |
| 20100329161 | IP MTU Control Based on Multiradio Schedule - A system for managing the activity of one or more of concurrently active wireless communication mediums being supported by at least one radio module integrated within a wireless communication device. More specifically, the present invention, in at least one embodiment, may align communication controlled by Internet protocol (EP) with operational schedules formulated for supporting wireless communication mediums and/or radio modules. | 12-30-2010 |
| 20100329162 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RADIO FILTERING IN A MULTI-RADIO DEVICE - Systems and methodologies are described herein that facilitate filtering or clustering of radios and/or other transceivers associated with a communication environment. As described herein, potentially conflicting transceivers supported by a communications device can be managed in an expedited fashion by filtering the transceivers into respective groups or clusters of transceivers that exhibit potential collisions. For example, clusters can be generated such that respective transceivers are associated with a single cluster and respective transceivers associated with a given cluster do not exhibit potential collisions with transceivers not associated with the given cluster. Clustering can be performed graphically as further described herein by generating and analyzing a graph that includes nodes corresponding to respective transceivers and edges representing potential conflicts therebetween. Additionally, resolution tables can be generated using substantially all combinations of conflicting transceivers within a set of transceivers, as determined based on an initial clustering and/or in any other suitable manner. | 12-30-2010 |
| 20110002246 | Data Packet Communications in a multi-radio access environment - More than one radio-access technology is supported in an apparatus, and channel-coding functions in the apparatus are shared between at least two of said more than one radio-access technology. | 01-06-2011 |
| 20110002247 | SIGNAL MULTIPLEXING METHOD, SIGNAL DEMULTIPLEXING METHOD, DIGITAL SIGNAL REFERENCE FREQUENCY CORRECTION METHOD, MULTIPLEXING DEVICE, DEMULTIPLEXING DEVICE, RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND DIGITAL SIGNAL REFERENCE FREQUENCY CORRECTION DEVICE - A multiplexing/demultiplexing device has a phase difference detection part for detecting a phase difference from a reference frequency of a multiplexed signal and a reference frequency of each of input/output lines, an interpolation part for performing an interpolation on a digital transmitting/receiving signal of each of the input/output lines with a signal delayed by time corresponding to the phase difference for each of the input/output lines based on the phase difference detected by the phase difference detection part to obtain a digital transmitting/receiving signal sampled with the reference frequency of the multiplexed signal for each of the input/output lines, and a signal multiplexing/demultiplexing part for performing a multiplex/demultiplex of the digital transmitting/receiving signals of the input/output lines with use of the reference frequency of the multiplexed signal. | 01-06-2011 |
| 20110002248 | MOBILE TERMINAL AND NETWORK NODE - Disclosed is a technique to enable a mobile terminal to grasp an address handling method used for each service and hence to achieve more efficient communication. According to this technique, a mobile terminal (UE) | 01-06-2011 |
| 20110007676 | MULTIPLE PEER-TO-PEER SIGNALING - A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product operable in a wireless communication system are provided in which a first signal is generated for transmission to a wireless node to enable the wireless node to determine a first preferred beam pattern. A second preferred beam pattern is determined from a second signal received from the wireless node. The apparatus communicates with the wireless node through at least one of the first or second preferred beam pattern. | 01-13-2011 |
| 20110007677 | TRANSMITTING SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PROCESSING DIGITAL BROADCAST SIGNAL IN TRANSMITTING SYSTEM - A transmitting system, a receiving system, and a method of processing broadcast signals are disclosed. The method for transmitting a broadcast signal includes multiplexing a specified number of mobile data packets, a first scalable number of mobile data packets, and a second scalable number of main data packets, interleaving mobile data in the mobile data packets and main data in the main data packets, transmitting the interleaved mobile and main data during a slot, the slot during which the main data and a data group including the mobile data are transmitted, the data group including a plurality of regions, the plurality of regions including data blocks, each data block including a plurality of data segments, wherein a first and second regions include a primary ensemble of the mobile data, known data sequences and signaling bytes for signaling the mobile data, a third, fourth and fifth regions include a secondary ensemble of the mobile data, and the fifth region includes the first scalable number of mobile data packets. | 01-13-2011 |
| 20110013547 | METHOD OF GENERATING PREAMBLE SEQUENCE FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND DEVICE THEREOF - A method of generating preamble sequence for a wireless communication system includes generating a frequency-domain preamble sequence related to a packet, transforming the frequency-domain preamble sequence into a first time-domain preamble sequence, performing a cyclic shift delaying process on the first time-domain preamble sequence for generating a second time-domain preamble sequence, and normalizing power of the first time-domain preamble sequence and the second time-domain preamble sequence for generating the first field of a preamble of the packet. | 01-20-2011 |
| 20110019599 | METHOD OF GENERATING REPEATED DATA PACKAGE TRANSMISSION - Repeated data packets are generated from a first Bluetooth enabled device to a second Bluetooth enabled device to facilitate radio direction finding of the first device by the second device. A communication connection is established between the first and second devices in accordance with a Bluetooth protocol stack and in response to receiving at the second device a data packet transmitted by the first device the second device transmits an NACK data packet to the first device, whereby the first device is cause to retransmit said data packet, and causing the second device to process at least one of the transmitted data packet and the retransmitted data packet in accordance with a radio direction finding algorithm. The communication connection preferably comprises a remote name request. | 01-27-2011 |
| 20110026446 | Variable short interframe space - Apparatuses, systems, and methods for transmitting data frames over data networks with varying Interframe Space (IFS) times are disclosed. A system embodiment may comprise a mobile computing device with an integrated wireless networking card. The card may receive a transmission of several data frames. While receiving the several data frames, the networking card may determine that a response will need to be transmitted back to the sending station after the sending station sends the last frame of data. After a short period of delay following the end of the last transmitted frame the card may immediately begin transmitting a preamble of the response, while still demodulating and processing data of the transmitted frames. Upon finishing data processing of the remaining frames, the card may generate the content for the rest of the response, such as a block acknowledgment. | 02-03-2011 |
| 20110026447 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING CONTROL INFORMATION IN BROADCASTING COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Disclosed is a method and an apparatus for transmitting and receiving control information for receiving a service in a broadcast communication system. The method includes: inserting first control information for receiving at least one different service at a next frame in each of multiple service data pieces of a current frame; and transmitting a frame including the first control information through a wireless network. By the method, it is possible to efficiently transmit and receive a frame, which includes multiple services configured through a combination of one or more RFs, thereby enabling rapid receiving of a switched service in the case of service switching. | 02-03-2011 |
| 20110026448 | WIRELESS ADAPTOR AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING MESSAGE - A method for transmitting and receiving a message is provided. The method includes steps of providing a bridge device having a bridge hardware address and a first end, receiving a first message including a first hardware address, a first protocol address and a second protocol address from the first end, recording the first hardware address and the first protocol address on a table, replacing the first hardware address with the bridge hardware address, transmitting the first message to a second end having a second hardware address corresponding to the second protocol address; transmitting a second message including the first protocol address, the second protocol address, the bridge hardware address, and the second hardware address from the second end to the bridge device, replacing the bridge hardware address with the first hardware address according to the table; and transmitting the second message to the first end. | 02-03-2011 |
| 20110032856 | GATEWAY APPARATUS, METHOD AND PROGRAM - A gateway apparatus, connected to one or more of a content server, a television receiver, set top box, home server and mobile terminal from which the content may be transmitted, includes: a control and analysis unit that receives information including capability of the mobile terminal and acquires codec, bit rate, resolution and file format regarding the decoding of input content including one or more of video, speech, and audio and compares the information acquired with the capability of the mobile terminal to determine whether or not conversion of the content is necessary; and a transcoder that, in case it is determined that the conversion is necessary, converts one or more of codec, bit rate, resolution and file format of the content for adaptation to the capability of the mobile terminal and transmits the generated content to the mobile terminal over the radio network. | 02-10-2011 |
| 20110038287 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIA FOR CONTROLLING SOCIAL NETWORKING SERVICE ORIGINATED MESSAGE TRAFFIC - Methods, systems, and computer readable media for controlling the delivery of a social networking service originated message directed to a mobile device are disclosed. According to one example, the method performed at a routing node includes intercepting a mobility management message that includes location information associated with a mobile device, storing the location information associated with the mobile device in a location database, and receiving a social networking service originated message directed to the mobile device, wherein the message includes media content. The method further includes extracting the location information associated with the mobile device from the location database and delivering the media content to the mobile device using the extracted location information from the location database. | 02-17-2011 |
| 20110038288 | MOBILE AUTOMATIC METER READING SYSTEM AND METHOD - A system and method for collecting data generated by a plurality of metering devices located within a geographic area. The mobile automatic meter reading system provides two-way simplex communication capabilities between a mobile receiving device and a plurality of endpoint devices on a plurality of communication channels. The mobile collector device efficiently and accurately communicates with and receives data from the endpoint devices while moving throughout a localized geographical area. Aspects of the invention thereby improve the effectiveness of automatic meter reading systems. | 02-17-2011 |
| 20110038289 | DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM, CENTRAL MANAGEMENT UNIT THEREOF, COMPUTER PROGRAM THEREOF, AND DATA PROCESSING METHOD - A plurality of data communication terminals having a data display function is individually provided in each of a plurality of locations of use where general users individually check in. A user storage unit stores the user ID data and the location ID data with respect to each general user who has checked in, and a situation storage unit stores user situation data of the general user who has checked in, together with the user ID data. A group identification unit identifies the plurality of general users who have checked in as a group, and a listing display unit causes each of the data communication terminals in the plurality of locations of use where the general users of the group have checked in, to display a listing of at least the user ID data, the location ID data, and the user situation data of another member of the group. Thus, a data processing system is provided that allows the general users of the group, who have individually checked in for the plurality of locations of use, to confirm the situation of another member at a glance. | 02-17-2011 |
| 20110044218 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR A MULTI-RADIO ACCESS TECHNOLOGY LAYER FOR SPLITTING DOWNLINK-UPLINK OVER DIFFERENT RADIO ACCESS TECHNOLOGIES - A multi radio access technology layer (MRL) is a convergence layer solution, located between the protocol layers and the technology-dependent MAC layers. The MRL layer is technology independent and uses the information received from the underlying technologies to select the most appropriate uplink and downlink technologies to match the respective service requirements. | 02-24-2011 |
| 20110044219 | MECHANISMS TO EXTEND UMA OR GAN TO INTER-WORK WITH UMTS CORE NETWORK - Mechanisms to extend UMA (Unlicensed Mobile Access) or GAN (General Access Network) to inter-work with a UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunications System) core network. A UMA network controller (UNC) is provided to interface between a UMA network and a UMTS core network using the standard Iu-CS and Iu-PS interfaces. From the viewpoint of the UMTS core network, the UNC appears as another Radio Network Controller (RNC). Protocol layer schemes are disclosed for mobile stations, UNCs, SGSNs and MSCs to support signaling and data messaging in both the packet-switched and connection-switched domains. The mobile stations provide dual-mode operation, such that they are able to access the UMTS core network via unlicensed service when in a UMA access area, and to access the UMTS core network via licensed service when outside of a UMA access area and in a UTRAN service area. | 02-24-2011 |
| 20110051635 | COMMUNICATION METHODS EMPLOYED IN COMMUNICATION SYSTEM ASSOCIATED WITH PROGRAMMABLE COMMUNICATION PROTOCOLS, AND RELATED TRANSMITTING METHODS, RECEIVING METHODS AND COMMUNICATION DEVICE - A communication method employed in a wireless communication system including a first communication device and a second communication device is provided. The communication method includes: setting up a connection between the first and second communication devices; after the connection is set up, checking if both the first and second communication devices provide a symbol mapping function for converting a first modulation/demodulation to a second modulation/demodulation different from the first modulation/demodulation; and when both the first and second communication devices provide the symbol mapping function, using the second modulation/demodulation to replace the first modulation/demodulation so that each of the first and second communication devices communicates with each other by using the second modulation/demodulation. | 03-03-2011 |
| 20110051636 | FLEXIBLE SDMA AND INTERFERENCE SUPPRESSION - Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide a method for performing interference suppression in spatial division multiple access (SDMA) systems. When the number of receive antennas of a receiver is equal or larger than the number of spatial streams intended for the receiver, the receiver may perform interference suppression on the signals received on all of its antennas. In addition, certain aspects of the present disclosure present a flexible SDMA technique in which a plurality of channel estimates that may be received from an explicit feedback or estimated implicitly, are combined. The combined channel estimate may be used in calculating the SDMA weights. | 03-03-2011 |
| 20110051637 | Methods Apparatus For Dynamically Adjusting A Data Packet Window Size For Data Packet Transmission In A Wireless Communication Network - A router is operative to perform the following actions for each one of a plurality of wireless devices operating in a wireless network. The router initially transmits a number of data packets matched for a window size which corresponds to a default window size. The router then measures a round trip time (RTT) associated with communication of each of the transmitted packets. The router increases the window size if the RTT associated with the communication of each of the transmitted packets is within a first threshold. On the other hand, the router decreases the window size if the RTT associated with the communication of any of the transmitted packets is more than the first threshold but less than a second threshold. The router sets or updates at least one of the first or the second thresholds based on traffic communicated to the plurality of wireless devices via the router. | 03-03-2011 |
| 20110058508 | COMMUNICATION PLATFORM AND METHOD FOR PACKET COMMUNICATION BETWEEN A SERVICE PROVIDER AND A RADIO COMMUNICAITON DEVICE - The present invention relates to a communication platform for packet communication between at least one service provider in a first network and a radio communication device in a second network, the second network comprises a first network node provided to, at least partly, handle communication between the radio communication device and a gateway located in the second network. The gateway is provided to handle communication between the second network and the communication platform, and the communication platform comprises an application programming interface provided to handle two-way communication between the service provider and the radio communication device. | 03-10-2011 |
| 20110058509 | Method and device for updating plug-in of multimedia broadcast conditional access - A method and device for updating a multimedia broadcast conditional access plug-in, wherein the sending steps of the front end include: a CA plug-in file is divided into file blocks and file pieces in turn, and the file pieces are encapsulated into service data packets and data units in turn; a frame header is encapsulated in a multiplexing frame after the value of a “plug-in update identification” field configured in the multiplexing frame header is set to be valid, and the data unit is encapsulated in a data segment of the multiplexing sub-frame; and the encapsulated multiplexing frame is modulated to an electromagnetic wave of a physical channel sent to the air. The receiving steps of the terminal include: the multiplexing frame obtained by receiving and tuning is demultiplexed to obtain the “plug-in update identification” field in the frame header; when the value of the field is determined to be valid, the data unit in the data segment of the multiplexing sub-frame is obtained by demultiplexing; and the data units is unpacked into service data packets, file pieces and file blocks in turn, and the file blocks are assembled into a complete CA plug-in file which is downloaded to a CA database. | 03-10-2011 |
| 20110064010 | DIRECTIONAL COMMUNICATION ON MOBILE DEVICES - In general, the invention relates to a wireless network interface card (WNIC). The WNIC includes an integrated circuit and a computer readable medium including executable instructions, which when executed by the integrated circuit perform a method, the method including selecting a first directional antenna of a number of directional antennas on a mobile communications device, sending a first data packet using the first directional antenna, and determining whether the first antenna is valid using a transmission strength threshold. | 03-17-2011 |
| 20110064011 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SELECTING A GATEWAY GENERAL PACKET RADIO SERVICE (GPRS) SUPPORT NODE - In one aspect, the present invention provides a method for selecting a GGSN. The method may include obtaining a network address for a home agent; transmitting a request to a name server for a name associated with the network address; receiving from the name server in response to the request a name associated with the network address; initiating a GPRS attachment; and after initiating the GPRS attachment, initiating a PDP context activation, wherein the step of initiating the PDP context activation comprises transmitting the name to an SGSN, and the SGSN is configured to use the name to lookup an IP address of a GGSN. | 03-17-2011 |
| 20110069647 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATION OF AUDIO IN WIRELESS NETWORKS - A method and system for audio transmission in a wireless communication system which transmits digital video and digital audio in High-Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) format. Position information of audio packets within the HDMI frame is obtained. Digital audio information including the position information is transmitted from a data source device to a data sink device via a wireless communication medium. At the data sink device, an HDMI frame is reconstructed by inserting received audio packets into horizontal and vertical blanking periods of the HDMI frame. | 03-24-2011 |
| 20110069648 | DATA TRANSMISSION/RECEPTION APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Provided are apparatus and method for transmitting and receiving data for a wireless communication system. The method includes generating a first aggregation packet by controlling the number of preambles or by controlling a size of a packet according to a channel state of a channel formed to at least one reception terminal or according to a state of the reception terminal, and transmitting the first aggregation packet to the reception terminal. | 03-24-2011 |
| 20110075596 | Resource Overbooking - In a multi-radio device it is determined that a first radio application requests change to a first operational state during a time at which a second radio application is in or requests a second operational state. A local memory is accessed to determine a first and a second budget of resources for the respective first and second operational states of the respective first and second radio applications. There is at least one common resource among the first and second budgets. From resource allocation rules stored in the memory is determined that each of the common resources are mutually exclusive as between the first and second operational states of the respective first and second radio applications. As a result of the determining from the resource allocation rules, the request of the first radio application is granted by allocating resources according to the first budget for the first operational state while resources according to the second budget are allocated for the second operational state. | 03-31-2011 |
| 20110075597 | MICROWAVE RADIO COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE AND RELATED METHOD OF OPERATION AND NETWORK ARRANGEMENT - The present invention provides for a microwave radio communications user device arranged for communication with a base station and for receiving and decoding an MPDU for use in initial ranging signalling with said base station, the device being further arranged to retrieve data in a downlink-sub-frame from the base station serving to discriminate between MPDUs intended for different user devices. | 03-31-2011 |
| 20110080857 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR HIGH RATE OFDM COMMUNICATIONS - Messages transmitted between a receiver and a transmitter are used to maximize a communication data rate. In particular, a multicarrier modulation system uses messages that are sent from the receiver to the transmitter to exchange one or more sets of optimized communication parameters. The transmitter then stores these communication parameters and when transmitting to that particular receiver, the transmitter utilizes the stored parameters in an effort to maximize the data rate to that receiver. Likewise, when the receiver receives packets from that particular transmitter, the receiver can utilize the stored communication parameters for reception. | 04-07-2011 |
| 20110080858 | CUSTOMIZABILITY OF EVENT NOTIFICATION ON TELEPHONY-ENABLED DEVICES - A system and method of notifying a user of events in a customizable manner during and not during a voice call is provided. According to one aspect, the notifications are configurable to be dependant on whether or not there is an active voice call. Notifications may also be configured to be different depending on whether or not the wireless device is inside a device holster. Notifications can be configured to be different for different events so that the user may be able to associate certain notifications with certain events. The user can also configure the type of events that trigger notification. Notifications include any combination of audible cues, visual cues, and vibration cues. | 04-07-2011 |
| 20110090828 | SYSTEM, APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR BROADCASTING AND TRANSMITTING ETWS MESSAGE - The present invention relates to an earthquake and tsunami warning system (ETWS) technology, and in particular to a system, apparatus and methods for broadcasting and transmitting an ETWS message. The system for broadcasting and transmitting an ETWS message includes: an ETWS message publishing entity, adapted to publish an ETWS message; a cell broadcast center (CBC), adapted to: encapsulate the ETWS message published by the ETWS message publication entity into a cell broadcast service (CBS) message, and send the CBS message; a mobility management entity (MME), adapted to forward the CBS message sent by the CBC to a radio access network (RAN); and the RAN, adapted to: receive the CBS message forwarded by the MME, and send the received CBS message to a user equipment (UE). The preceding system provides a new technical solution for transmitting an ETWS message, which can guarantee the security of the ETWS message transmission by using the security mechanism of the CBS. | 04-21-2011 |
| 20110096706 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR PAGING RECEPTION IN MULTIMODE WIRELESS NETWORKS - Methods and apparatus enabling a mobile device to receive paging notifications from multiple networks. In one embodiment of the present invention, a first device connected to a first network momentarily ignores the first network, to monitor a second network instead. The first device identifies and prioritizes a list of applications of the first network; the prioritized listing allows the first device to preempt one of its lower priority tasks to monitor the second network for paging messages instead. The described methods and apparatus enable e.g., GSM paging for Class B cellular devices which are connected to GPRS NMO-2 type networks. The Class B cellular device can ignore certain GPRS data (which is tolerant to error), to decode GSM paging channels, which would otherwise be missed. | 04-28-2011 |
| 20110096707 | Channel Sounding Techniques for a Wireless Communication System - A technique of operating a wireless communication system includes determining respective geometries of multiple subscriber stations, which include a first subscriber station and a second subscriber station, with respect to a serving base station. Respective channel sounding bandwidths for sounding the channel between the multiple subscriber stations and the serving base station are then scheduled, based on the respective geometries. The respective channel sounding bandwidths include a first channel sounding bandwidth (associated with the first subscriber station) and a second channel sounding bandwidth (associated with the second subscriber station). The first channel sounding bandwidth is greater than or equal to the second channel sounding bandwidth and the first subscriber station has a lower geometry than the second subscriber station. | 04-28-2011 |
| 20110103276 | METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING UNIVERSAL SERIAL BUS DATA AND APPARATUS USING THE SAME - The present invention discloses a universal serial bus data transmission method. The universal serial bus data transmission method comprises the steps of: obtaining a time interval in accordance with a size of a buffer and a transfer rate of a wireless communication chip; sending data to the wireless communication chip; and, if the wireless communication chip responds with a negative acknowledge packet, re-sending the data to the wireless communication chip after the time interval. | 05-05-2011 |
| 20110103277 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR EFFICIENT SIGNALING AND USAGE OF RESOURCES FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS SUPPORTING CIRCUIT SWITCHED AND PACKET SWITCHED SESSIONS - Method and apparatus efficiently signal and use resources for wireless communications supporting circuit switched (CS) and packet switched sessions (PS). Signaling and interaction between the wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU), and various network entities, such as the Mobility Management Entity (MME), the Visitor Location Register (VLR), and Base Stations (BS), are used to implement circuit switched fall back (CSFB) in a PS system. | 05-05-2011 |
| 20110103278 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR GATEWAY AND PROGRAM - A gateway apparatus arranged between the mobile circuit switched network and the mobile IMS network, includes a call control unit which converts a control signal output from the mobile circuit switched network into at least one of SIP and SDP to output a signal converted to the mobile IMS network and a conversion unit which receives a line switching protocol for an audio signal output from the mobile circuit switched network. The conversion unit decides, using at least one of SIP and SDP, output from the mobile IMS network and received by the call control unit, on whether the partner terminal is to be connected via the mobile IMS network to the mobile circuit switched network, via the mobile IMS network to a fixed network or via the mobile IMS network to a mobile broadband network, then converts the line switching protocol to one of different protocol, depending on a result of the decision, and outputs the protocol converted signal to the mobile IMS network (FIG. | 05-05-2011 |
| 20110110281 | BROADCAST DATA TRANSMISSION AND DATA PACKET REPEATING TECHNIQUES FOR A WIRELESS MEDICAL DEVICE NETWORK - A fluid infusion system as described herein includes a number of local “body network” devices, such as an infusion pump, a handheld monitor or controller, a physiological sensor, and a bedside or hospital monitor. The body network devices can be configured to support communication of status data, physiological information, alerts, control signals, and other information between one another. In addition, the body network devices can be configured to support networked communication of status data, physiological information, alerts, control signals, and other information between the body network devices and “external” devices, systems, or communication networks. The networked medical devices are configured to support a variety of wireless data communication protocols for efficient communication of data within the medical device network. In addition, the wireless medical devices may be configured to support a number of dynamically adjustable wireless data communication modes to react to current operating conditions, application-specific data content, or other criteria. | 05-12-2011 |
| 20110116424 | NETWORK-AGNOSTIC ENCODED INFORMATION READING TERMINAL - An encoded information reading (EIR) terminal can comprise a microprocessor, a memory communicatively coupled to the microprocessor, an EIR device, a multi-band antenna, and a wireless communication interface. The EIR device can be provided by a bar code reading device, an RFID reading device, and/or a card reading device. The EIR device can be configured to perform outputting raw message data comprising an encoded message and/or outputting decoded message data corresponding to an encoded message. The wireless communication interface can further comprise a radio frequency front end electrically coupled to the multi-band antenna. The wireless communication interface can be configured to support at least two wireless communication protocols. The microprocessor can be configured to execute a wireless communication protocol selector software program, which in turn can be configured to dynamically select a wireless communication network and/or a wireless communication protocol. Selection of a wireless communication network and/or a wireless communication protocol can be performed by optimizing a location-based criterion and/or a least cost routing criterion. The microprocessor can be configured to execute a system software program and/or an application software program in parallel with the wireless communication protocol selector software program switching a wireless communication network and/or a wireless communication protocol. | 05-19-2011 |
| 20110116425 | RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, RADIO COMMUNICATION DEVICE, RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM - Provided is a radio communication system including a first radio communication device, and a second radio communication device that communicates with a radio communication device operating as a master unit and being connected, wherein the second radio communication device includes a communication unit that communicates with the radio communication device being connected, and a control unit that controls the communication unit to send a response packet to the first radio communication device when a response request packet broadcasted from the first radio communication device is received by the communication unit. | 05-19-2011 |
| 20110116426 | CABLELESS USB CONNECTIVITY OVER IEEE 802.11 NETWORKS - Providing cableless USB connectivity to 802.11-enabled computing devices via 802.11 networks, including transmitting and receiving data in accordance with an 802.11 wireless communications protocol, maintaining a USB-protocol stack including USB-protocol data and control messages, adapting USB-protocol data and control messages in the USB-protocol stack for wireless transmission in accordance with an 802.11 wireless communications protocol, and providing to the USB-protocol stack USB-protocol data and control messages found within received 802.11-protocol communications. | 05-19-2011 |
| 20110128897 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR SWITCHING AND/OR CONTROLLING A NUMBER OF FUNCTIONS - The invention relates to a device and method for switching and/or controlling a number of functions by switching electrical supply lines and/or by means of remote control signals, wherein input commands are addressed and received using network addresses, the received input commands are converted into corresponding output commands for switching and/or controlling and the generated output commands are used for switching and/or controlling the functions. | 06-02-2011 |
| 20110134815 | DATA-CAPABLE NETWORK PRIORITIZATION WITH REDUCED DELAYS IN DATA SERVICE - In one illustrative method, a method in a mobile station for use in reducing delays for data communications is described. The mobile station causes a request for packet data service to be sent to a wireless communication network. If the request for the packet data service is denied in response to the request, then the mobile station is set in a deregistered state. In addition, the mobile station initializes a timer with an initial value that is less than a periodic location update timer value which is broadcasted by the wireless communication network, and runs the timer. In response to an expiration of the timer, the mobile station causes another request for the packet data service to be sent to the wireless communication network. | 06-09-2011 |
| 20110134816 | Wireless Communication Signaling for Aggregate Data Units - Systems and techniques relating to wireless communications are described. A described technique includes obtaining data for a transmission to a wireless communication device. The wireless communication device can be configured to process incoming transmissions based on an aggregate data unit format that specifies signaling for aggregating multiple medium access control (MAC) data units. The technique includes, in a physical (PHY) frame, an aggregate data unit that is based on the data and the aggregate data unit format, the aggregate data unit including a single MAC data unit. The technique includes, in the PHY frame, an indication to signal that the MAC data unit in the aggregate data unit is singular and to cause the wireless communication device to accept the aggregate data unit without a corresponding block acknowledgement agreement. | 06-09-2011 |
| 20110141953 | Method for Managing Data Communication Between a Communication Device and Another Device and Communication Device - A method for managing data communication between a communication device ( | 06-16-2011 |
| 20110141954 | TRANSMITTING SYSTEM AND METHOD OF TRANSMITTING DIGITAL BROADCAST SIGNAL IN TRANSMITTING SYSTEM - A transmitting system and a method of transmitting digital broadcast signal are disclosed. The method of transmitting digital broadcasting signal in a transmitter includes multiplexing mobile data and main data, transmitting a transmission frame including the multiplexed mobile and main data, wherein a parade of data group is transmitted during slots, wherein each slot includes specified number of mobile data packets, a first scalable number of mobile data packets, and a second scalable number of main data packets, wherein the data group including a plurality of regions and the fifth region of the plurality of regions includes the first scalable number of mobile data packets, wherein the data group is assigned to one of the slots in such a manner that slots of consecutive slot number carry data groups of inconsecutive group number. | 06-16-2011 |
| 20110141955 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING PACKET IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Provided is a method and apparatus for transmitting a packet in a wireless communication system. A method for transmitting a packet by a packet transmission apparatus in a wireless communication system includes determining whether the packet is a response packet, and transmitting the packet with a higher channel access opportunity than another packet transmission apparatus of the wireless communication system, if the packet is a response packet. | 06-16-2011 |
| 20110141956 | TRANSMITTING SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PROCESSING DIGITAL BROADCAST SIGNAL IN TRANSMITTING SYSTEM, RECEIVING SYSTEM AND METHOD OF RECEIVING DIGITAL BROADCAST SIGNAL IN RECEIVING SYSTEM - A transmitting system and a method of transmitting digital broadcast signal are disclosed. The method of transmitting digital broadcasting signal in a transmitter includes forming a data group including mobile data, packet formatting mobile data packets including data in the data group, wherein the mobile data packets include a specific number of mobile data packets and a scalable number of mobile data packets, the scalable number being scalable up to 38, wherein the data group includes a plurality of regions and fifth region of the data group includes the scalable number of mobile data packets, by-passing data randomizing and RS encoding on data in the mobile data packets when the scalable number is 38, interleaving data in the mobile data packets and transmitting the interleaved data during a slot. | 06-16-2011 |
| 20110141957 | Method for Dropping Lower Priority Packets that are Slated for Wireless Transmission - A method for dropping lower priority packets for transmission over a wireless communication medium is provided. A central device receives one or more packets to be transferred to one or more data providers, each packet having a priority. Then, based on the priority, a media access controller stores each of the packets in one or more priority queues in a fixed shared memory space in such a way as to maintain the order in which the packets were received in each of the priority queues. The media access controller monitors the number of packets in each of the priority queues and signals an interrupt when a packet threshold is exceeded in one or more of the priority queues. The media access controller then drops lower priority packets in the fixed shared memory space based on the order received to guarantee that there is enough memory to store higher priority packets in the fixed shared memory space. | 06-16-2011 |
| 20110141958 | Supporting Both Packet and Circuit-Based Wireless Networks - Middleware may accommodate both packet data and circuit data services in the same cellular telephone. A cellular telephone may travel between networks that are packet and circuit data service based. A protocol middleware may determine whether packet data services are available, and, if so, may determine the mobility management state of the system. Depending on the mobility management state of the system, inappropriate applications may be closed or suspended. | 06-16-2011 |
| 20110149816 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD, PROGRAM, AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Provided is a wireless communication device including a communication unit that communicates with another wireless communication device, a role determination unit that determines a role of either acting as a group owner or a client based on information of said another wireless communication device received by the communication unit, and a communication control unit that controls communication for forming a wireless communication group with said another wireless communication device, as a device that plays the role determined by the role determination unit. | 06-23-2011 |
| 20110149817 | TRANSMITTING SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PROCESSING DIGITAL BROADCAST SIGNAL IN TRANSMITTING SYSTEM, RECEIVING SYSTEM AND METHOD OF RECEIVING DIGITAL BROADCAST SIGNAL IN RECEIVING SYSTEM - A transmitting system and a method of transmitting digital broadcast signal are disclosed. The method of transmitting digital broadcasting signal in a transmitter includes encoding mobile data for forward error correction to build RS frames, wherein the RS frames includes the mobile data belonging to ensembles, each ensemble being a collection of services providing same quality of service, encoding signaling data including binding information between the ensembles and the services, forming data groups, forming mobile data packets including data in the data groups, wherein each mobile data packet include an additional mobile data packets, interleaving data in the mobile data packets, wherein a fifth region of each data group includes the additional mobile data packets, transmitting the interleaved data, wherein the signaling data includes an identifier indicating a number of ensembles transmitted through a data group having the fifth region. | 06-23-2011 |
| 20110158138 | DATA TRANSFER METHOD AND APPARATUS - One example of the invention provides a data source apparatus that in use provides data of one or more types to a sink device via a data transport communications link, the data source apparatus selecting the types of data to be provided to the sink device in dependence on the type of data transport communications link over which the data is to be provided. In one example the data to be provided is user data derived from one or more user applications. For example, one type of user data may be user contact data. Another type of user data is user task list data. A further example of user data is calendar data. A further example of user data is media data, for example video data, or audio data. | 06-30-2011 |
| 20110158139 | Signal transmission method and apparatus in wireless communication system - A signal transmission method and apparatus in a wireless communication system using Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP). The signal transmission apparatus divides packet signals to be transmitted into a control signal and data, stores the control signal and the data in a protocol stack queue using a predetermined scheme such that the control signal is transmitted prior to the data, and transmits the control signal and the data in order of storage in the protocol stack queue. | 06-30-2011 |
| 20110158140 | Methods, Systems and Computer Program Products for Suspending Packet-Switched Sessions to a Wireless Terminal - Methods, systems and computer program products are provided through which a wireless terminal participating in a packet-switched communications session may temporarily suspend the session, for example, upon receipt of an incoming circuit-switched call. The wireless terminal may notify a server associated with the packet-switched session of receipt of the incoming circuit-switched call, and may also notify the server when the packet-switched session may be resumed. In embodiments of the present invention implemented in GSM networks, one or more of the notification messages may be transmitted to the server over the SMS data bearer. | 06-30-2011 |
| 20110158141 | REDUCING OVERHEADS OF A PROTOCOL DATA UNIT IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The present invention relates to transmitting data units of a radio protocol layer, wherein one logical channel identifier is added to one or more data units belonging to one logical channel. Because only one logical channel identifier is added to the data units belonging to one logical channel in constructing a MAC-e PDU, overheads of the MAC-e PDU are reduced. Such reduction of the PDU overheads increases data throughput, which is advantageous for a high-speed data communication system, such as the HSUPA. | 06-30-2011 |
| 20110182218 | Wireless Bus for Intra-Chip and Inter-Chip Communication, Including Adaptive Link and Route Embodiments - Embodiments of the present invention are directed to a wireless bus for intra-chip and inter-chip communication having adaptable links and routes among wireless-enabled components (WECs) of the wireless bus. Links and routes may be adapted according to one or more of, among other factors, the relative position of WECs, available capabilities (e.g., communication capabilities) at WECs, availability of resources at WECs, and the physical environment. | 07-28-2011 |
| 20110188415 | FORWARD PATH MULTI-MEDIA MANAGEMENT SYSTEM WITH END USER FEEDBACK TO CENTRAL CONTENT SOURCES - The Forward Path Multi-Media Management System architecture enables end user devices to share a common wireless forward path of a multicast communication architecture in which the forward path delivered content is dynamically changed or modified based on a real-time, near-real-time, or delay-time basis via aggregated reverse path feedback from at least one of a plurality of end user devices. The Forward Path Multi-Media Management System periodically or continuously aggregates the feedback input received via the reverse path (having wired and/or wireless connectivity), modifies the forward path multi-media content, and delivers this dynamically modified multi-media content to the then connected population of end user devices via a wireless forward path multicast in a repetitive closed loop fashion. | 08-04-2011 |
| 20110188416 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PACKETIZED EMERGENCY MESSAGES - A system and method allows for providing emergency service, whether the service is full or limited, to wireless devices using non-IMS packet traffic based methods or Access Stratum/Non-Access Stratum (AS/NAS) signalling based methods. To do so, a system and method for utilizing a Packetized Emergency Message (PEM) is provided. | 08-04-2011 |
| 20110188417 | System And Method For Wireless Communication In A Backplane Fabric Architecture - A wireless millimeter wave backplane network and method comprises a first circuit board that has a first module thereon, wherein the first circuit board is coupled to a high speed backplane. The network includes a first communication node that is coupled to the first module and which is disposed on the first circuit board. The network includes a second circuit board that has a second module thereon, wherein the second circuit board is coupled to the high speed backplane. The network includes a second communication node that is coupled to the second module and disposed on the second circuit board, wherein the first and second modules wirelessly communicate using millimeter wave electromagnetic radiation with one another via the first and second communication nodes. | 08-04-2011 |
| 20110188418 | ANTENNA BEAM - A fixed phase shift for each of a plurality of radio frequency signal components directed to or received from a plurality of antenna elements is formed in a phase shifter. A desired antenna beam pattern with at least one grating lobe is formed on the basis of the phase-shifted radio frequency signal components of the antenna elements in a predefined antenna structure. | 08-04-2011 |
| 20110194470 | EFFICIENT MEMORY ALLOCATION IN A WIRELESS TRANSMIT/RECEIVER UNIT - The present invention allows for effective sharing of the hardware memory of a wireless transmit receive unit (WTRU). The memory will be shared among various buffers of different entities. More particularly, memory will be shared among the MAC reordering buffers and the RLC reception buffers. | 08-11-2011 |
| 20110199946 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SUPPORTING ADAPTIVE CHANNEL STATE INFORMATION FEEDBACK RATE IN MULTI-USER COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS - Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to techniques for achieving adaptive channel state information (CSI) feedback rate in multi-user communication systems. A rate by which CSI feedback can be transmitted from each user station of a wireless system to a serving access point may be adjusted based on evolution of a channel between that user station and the access point. | 08-18-2011 |
| 20110199947 | Commissioning Incoming Packet Switched Connections | 08-18-2011 |
| 20110205943 | OPPORTUNISTIC DATA TRANSFER BETWEEN VEHICLES - A system and method for optimizing wireless vehicle to vehicle communications is configured to maximize the amount of data that can be transferred from one vehicle to another during a transient encounter by adaptively adjusting the message packet size and data modulation rate during an inter-vehicle communication session. | 08-25-2011 |
| 20110205944 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - A communication device has a first communication section that supports a first communication mode having a low communication rate and a second communication section that supports a second communication mode having a higher communication rate than the first communication mode. The communication device includes a packet generation section and a communication control section. The packet generation section generates a first portion containing authentication information used for connection authentication for the second communication mode and a second portion other than the first portion. The communication control section performs control to cause the first communication section to transmit the first portion and to cause the second communication section to transmit the second portion after the connection authentication succeeds using the authentication information contained in the first portion. | 08-25-2011 |
| 20110205945 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING A PACKET VIA HIGH SPEED DOWNLINK PACKET ACCESS - A method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving a packet via high speed downlink packet access (HSDPA) are disclosed. At least one HSDPA medium access control (MAC-hs) service data unit (SDU) is segmented into a plurality of segments. MAC-hs protocol data units (PDUs) are generated from the segments wherein each MAC-hs PDU includes at least one segment. Each MAC-hs PDU may include one segment from a single MAC-hs SDU. The size of the segments may match to the size of the MAC-hs PDUs minus the size of the header of the MAC-hs PDU. The sizes of the segments may be determined based on the number of segments to which the MAC-hs SDU is segmented. Alternatively, each MAC-hs PDU may include a combination of segments from a plurality of MAC-hs SDUs or a combination of at least one segment from one MAC-hs SDU and at least one entire MAC-hs SDU. | 08-25-2011 |
| 20110211504 | Signalling and Mapping of Measurement Reports - The present invention describes a method for configuring a measurement report type to be used by a receiver to report a measurement to a transmitter, wherein the measurement is reported to the transmitter in a report signal over a control channel, said method comprising selecting a first measurement report type and at least one second measurement report type to be used by the receiver to report the measurement, generating a measurement reporting pattern defining an occurrence of the first measurement report type and the at least one second measurement report type in the report signal transmitted by the receiver to the transmitter over control channel, and notifying the first measurement report type, the at least one second measurement report type, and the generated measurement reporting pattern to the receiver. | 09-01-2011 |
| 20110211505 | USER EQUIPMENT, TELECOMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM AND MESSAGE RECOVERY METHOD - A user equipment (UE) implementing a message recovery method is disclosed, supporting messages of both the circuit switched (CS) domain and the packet switched (PS) domain. The UE roams in a wireless telecommunications system and performs a call setup procedure. When the UE receives an NAS message comprising a domain identifier and a protocol discriminator, the UE determines whether the domain identifier and the protocol discriminator are of the same domain. If the domain identifier and the protocol discriminator are of the same domain, the UE proceeds with processes corresponding to the NAS message. If the domain identifier and the protocol discriminator are of different domains, the NAS message is determined to be an error message, and the UE modifies the domain identifier of the NAS message to generate a recovered NAS message, and determines whether the recovered NAS message is compatible to the call setup procedure. | 09-01-2011 |
| 20110211506 | Method and Arrangement in a Telecommunications System - Methods and arrangements are provided where signaling of the modulation type by means of rotation of the training sequence is provided. For each modulation type, a set of rotation angles is chosen. These sets have no element in common. New training sequences are generated by rotating one original training sequence. The rotation angle that minimizes the PAPR of the transmit signal can be chosen. At the receiver side, knowing the original training sequence, the receiver estimates blindly the rotation angle among the known possible rotation angles. The estimated rotation angle in the receiver maps to a unique modulation type. | 09-01-2011 |
| 20110211507 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COMMUNICATING DATA TO ELECTRONIC DISPLAYS POSITIONED IN A RETAIL ESTABLISHMENT - A system and method for communicating data in a retail establishment may include receiving data by a wireless transceiver configured to service multiple electronic display devices positioned on a gondola and in electrical communication with the wireless transceiver. The received data may be communicated to the electronic display devices via a wireline by the wireless transceiver. A power converter may be electrically connected to the wireline and be configured to convert power from a high level to a low level for powering the electronic display devices, and the wireless transceiver may be electrically connected between the power converter and the electronic display devices. | 09-01-2011 |
| 20110211508 | ITERATIVE MULTI-STAGE DETECTION TECHNIQUE FOR A DIVERSITY RECEIVER HAVING MULTIPLE ANTENNA ELEMENTS - A method for processing signals includes scrambling at a receiver, a plurality of composite signals to generate a first plurality of channel signals. The plurality of composite signals may include a corresponding plurality of orthogonal sequences. The method may further include combining at the receiver, the generated first plurality of channel signals to generate a second plurality of channel signals. The scrambling of the plurality of composite signals may be based on a corresponding plurality of scrambling sequences. The first plurality of channel signals may correspond to a plurality of receive antennas. Each of the first plurality of channel signals may be spread utilizing a corresponding one of the plurality of orthogonal sequences. At least one scrambling sequence may be overlayed onto the spread first plurality of channel signals to form the generated set of first plurality of channel signals. | 09-01-2011 |
| 20110211509 | METHOD, DEVICE, AND SYSTEM FOR IMPLEMENTING COMMUNICATION SERVICES - A method for implementing communication services includes: after receiving a call request, determining whether a user subscribes to an IP Centrex service and an intelligent network (IN) service according to the obtained subscription information of the user; if the user subscribes to the IP Centrex service and IN service, checking with an application server (AS) whether the call request is for an intra-group call; if the call request is for an intra-group call, performing corresponding service processing according to the checking result to implement discount charging on the intra-group call. By using the method of the present invention, if the user subscribes to the IP Centrex service and the IN service, no conflict occurs between the IP Centrex service and the IN service, and discount charging is implemented on the intra-group call. A network device and a mobile communication system are also provided. | 09-01-2011 |
| 20110216678 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR THE SIMULTANEOUS RECEPTION OF FLO AND FLO-EV DATA - A system for receiving data includes a receiver configured to receive a radio frequency communication signal comprising at least one superframe, the at least one superframe having at least a first data stream and a second data stream encoded therein, wherein the receiver decodes at least one of the first data stream and the second data stream. | 09-08-2011 |
| 20110216679 | SIGNAL INTERFACING TECHNIQUES TO SIMPLIFY INTEGRATED CIRCUIT RADIO DESIGNS - A signal interfacing technique for connecting signals between a signal processing device and a MIMO radio integrated circuit (IC) involving multiplexing two or more signals on a connection pin between the radio IC and a signal processing device. According to one technique, transmit and receive signals are multiplexed such that during a transmit mode a transmit signal is coupled on the connection pin from the signal processing device to the radio IC, and during a receive mode a receive signal is coupled from the radio IC on the connection pin to the signal processing device. According to another technique, in-phase (I) and quadrature (Q) signals are multiplexed on a connection pin during both transmit and receive modes. | 09-08-2011 |
| 20110216680 | Method And Apparatus For Use In A Communications Network - According to a first aspect of the present invention there is provided a method of routing traffic in a communications network employing Proxy Mobile IP, in which a traffic flow has been transferred from a first interface of a multi-homed mobile node, having a first IP address, to a second interface of the multi-homed mobile node, having a second IP address. The method comprises, at the mobile node and at a mobility anchor function, performing forward and reverse address translation between the first IP address and the second IP address. | 09-08-2011 |
| 20110222447 | METHOD FOR SENDING ACK - A method for sending an ACK from the receiver to the sender is disclosed. The receiver starts an ACK timer with the ACK timeout value being smaller than the RTX timeout value. The ACK timer is stopped or cancelled when an ACK is sent from the receiver to the sender. When the number of the delayed ACK for I-frames is close to the receive widow size of the receiver or the ACK timer is timeout, the receiver sends an ACK to the sender actively. When the receiver receives a Poll frame from the sender due to RTX retransmission timeout, the receiver sends an ACK to the sender passively. The receiver adjusts the ACK timeout value used next time based on the following: timeout value of a current ACK timer, RTX timeout value of the sender, the receive widow size of the receiver and the number of I-frames for which ACKs have not been sent, in order to reduce the S-frames and stops of data transmission, thus improving the data transmission speed and the bandwidth utilization. | 09-15-2011 |
| 20110222448 | Directional Antenna Sectoring System And Methodology - Methods and systems for packet-by-packet directional mobile wireless transmission utilizing plurality of directional antenna sectors, such that, the transmission of each packet is performed by at least one selected antenna sector. A plurality of directional antenna sectors, at least one receiving controller, and at least one transmitting controller, are all physically located at the same location. The direction of transmission is selected responsive to the direction in which the best electromagnetic signal reception was received. For each plurality of data packets, the transmission direction is selected again. Switching logic is coupling the out going transmission signal to selected ones from the plurality of the antennas responsive to the motion of the mobile user. The antenna design in this invention is aimed at increasing the gain and minimizing the interfering signals with respect large number of mobile users who are concurrently and continuously tracking and communicating with their access points, and consequently, increasing the bit rate of each transmission and the aggregate capacity of the wireless system. | 09-15-2011 |
| 20110228714 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR RETRANSMISSION IN ASM - Systems and methods for retransmitting a missing data packet. When at least two reports of the missing data packet are received, then the packet is retransmitted. When a subsequent request for the same data packet is received, then the time difference between the subsequent request and the retransmission is obtained and compared to a predefined retransmission timeout. If the time difference is greater, the packet is again retransmitted. | 09-22-2011 |
| 20110228715 | WIRELESS TRANSMISSION SYSTEM - Provided is a wireless transmission system which can transmit data accompanying video/audio by a different transmission method depending on the characteristic of the data in a wireless transmission environment where the transmission band is narrow and a transmission error is easily caused. The wireless transmission system includes: a wireless receiver ( | 09-22-2011 |
| 20110235558 | ACCESS CONTROL FOR MACHINE-TYPE COMMUNICATION DEVICES - A device type-dependent approach to access control is used to independently control network access by machine-type communication (MTC) and non-MTC devices. A plurality of access classes are defined for each device type. The base station selectively controls access to the network by each device type by sending an access control mask for each defined device type to the wireless terminals within the network. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110235559 | RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, RADIO COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - An autonomously dispersed type wireless network is suitably formed with communication stations avoiding collision of beacons transmitted one to another. In the event that the range of reach of airwaves change and a receivable state is created and beacons collide, a communication station changes the beacon transmission position of itself in response to receiving a beacon from another station at a timing immediately prior to transmission to its own beacon. Also, in the event that beacon collision is exposed due to emergence of a new communication which can perform reception from two systems out of airwave range of each other, the newly-participating station requests one of the communication stations of which the beacons are colliding to change the beacon transmission timing. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110243044 | MAGNETIC FIELD COMMUNICATION METHOD AND APPARATUS CAPABLE OF RECOGNIZING MULTIPLE NODES - Magnetic field communication methods and apparatuses are performed by the coordinator and node of a magnetic field area network, respectively. The method which is performed by the coordinator includes: (a) sending a request packet requesting association with a network, disassociation from a network, network association state checking, data transmission, or group address setting, (b) receiving response packets, (c) selecting one or more response packets from among the received response packets, (d) sending a response acknowledgement packet to nodes corresponding to the selected response packets, (e) receiving response packets resent by nodes which have not received the sent response acknowledgement packet, (f) selecting one or more response packets from among the response packets received at (e), and (g) sending a response acknowledgement packet to nodes corresponding to the response packets selected at (f). | 10-06-2011 |
| 20110243045 | LINEAR MULTIUSER PRECODING WITH MULTIPLE-RECEIVE ANTENNA RECEIVERS - According to one embodiment there is provided a method performed in a transmitter side of a multiuser minimum square error linear precoding MIMO system that comprises a transmitter with a plurality of transmit antennae and a plurality of receivers. Each receiver of the plurality of receivers comprises a plurality of receive antennae. The method is a method of scheduling receivers from among the plurality of receivers and comprises obtaining, for some or all of the receivers, receiver channel information that quantifies the properties of transmit channels between receiver antennae of the receiver and transmit antennae of the transmitter and establishing an order for determining the receiver combining vectors of the some or all of the receivers. The order is established by selecting as a next receiver in the order a so far unselected receiver from the some or all of the receivers that minimally increases the mean square data transmission error. The establishing of the order is based on the channel information of any receivers previously selected in the order and of unselected receivers. | 10-06-2011 |
| 20110249601 | METHOD OF TRANSMITTING CONTROL INFORMATION FOR PERFORMING HARQ PROCESS IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM SUPPORTING PLURALITY OF TRANSMISSION BANDS - A method of transmitting control information for performing a Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ) process in a wireless communication system supporting a plurality of transmission bands is disclosed. The method includes generating the control information including HARQ Process Set (HPS) information indicating a specific HPS of a plurality of HPSs corresponding to the plurality of transmission bands, and transmitting the generated control information to a user equipment. A predetermined number of independent HARQ processes is performed according to the plurality of transmission bands. | 10-13-2011 |
| 20110249602 | METHOD FOR SIGNALLING IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The present invention relates to a method in a wireless communication system for signalling number of antenna ports which a transmit node comprises. According to the method a communication signal is transmitted carrying information on number of at least one antenna port of said transmit node, wherein the information on said number of at least one antenna port is partitioned and provided distributed over at least two predefined parts of said communication signal. The invention also relates to a transmit node and a receive node, and methods thereof. | 10-13-2011 |
| 20110255453 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SCRAMBLING AND TIME-HOPPING - A system and method for scrambling and time-hopping in an ultra-wideband wireless network. In one embodiment, a wireless device includes a symbol mapper and a dynamic chip scrambler. The dynamic chip scrambler is configured to scramble each of a plurality of consecutive bursts of a time-hopped packet according to a pseudo-random scrambling sequence that varies from burst to burst. | 10-20-2011 |
| 20110261735 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR SWITCHING TRAFFIC STREAMS AMONG MULTIPLE BANDS - A multiband station, a system and a method of setting a traffic steam or a block acknowledgement with a second multiband station on a first frequency band and a first channel. The multiband station may send a request on a second channel and a second frequency by including a channel, a frequency band and medium access control (MAC) address information as part of the request and response exchange. | 10-27-2011 |
| 20110261736 | Method and Apparatus for Performing Mobility Measurements in a Communication Network - A method and apparatus for performing mobility measurement in a communication network ( | 10-27-2011 |
| 20110261737 | TRANSMIT AND RECEIVE METHOD FOR A DATA SERVICE - A method includes receiving, at a transmit site, a first stream of packets addressed to an end user device in a first address space. The first stream of packets is encapsulated to form a second stream of packets addressed in a second address space. A first packet of the second stream of packets is assigned to a first radio frequency channel of a plurality of radio frequency channels. A second packet of the second stream of packets is assigned to a second radio frequency channel of the plurality of radio frequency channels. The first packet is transmitted via the first radio frequency channel and, in parallel, the second packet is transmitted via the second radio frequency channel. | 10-27-2011 |
| 20110267999 | BUFFER CONTROLLER AND RADIO COMMUNICATION TERMINAL - Providing a buffer controller and a radio communication terminal capable of absorbing jitter. The buffer controller according to the present invention corresponds to a buffer controller provided in a communication terminal having a reception section which receives data through a network includes: a first data processing section which includes a first buffer that, in order to rearrange the data received by the receiver in a correct sequence, stays the data, and which performs a process of rearranging the data that are stayed in the first buffer, in the correct sequence; a second data processing section which includes a second buffer that buffers the data processed in the first data processing section, and which performs a process of outputting the data buffered in the second buffer, in accordance with a predetermined output rate; and a controller which, based on an amount of the data stayed in the first buffer, controls at least a capacity of the second buffer. | 11-03-2011 |
| 20110274019 | TRANSMISSION APPARATUS AND TRANSMISSION METHOD - A radio communication apparatus capable of alleviating a burden in setting a transmission format and suppressing increases in the scale of the apparatus. In this apparatus, space multiplexing adaptability detection section ( | 11-10-2011 |
| 20110280166 | Apparatuses and Methods for Coordinating Operations Between Circuit Switched (CS) and Packet Switched (PS) Services with Different Subscriber Identity Cards, and Machine-Readable Storage Medium - A wireless communications device is provided with a Baseband chip capable of coordinating operations between circuit switched (CS) and packet switched (PS) services with different subscriber identity cards. The Baseband chip is configured to receive a request for making a mobile originated (MO) call with a first subscriber identity card when performing a background PS data service with a second subscriber identity card. The Baseband chip suspends or terminates the background PS data service in response to the request, and further makes the MO call with the first subscriber identity card when the background PS data service is suspended or terminated. | 11-17-2011 |
| 20110286372 | EFFICIENT METHOD FOR DETERMINING A PREFERRED ANTENNA PATTERN - Aspects of the present disclosure propose a method for determining preferred transmit and receive antenna patterns of a wireless device with respect to another wireless device. The method generally includes determining the beamforming or calibrating coefficients corresponding to the preferred transmit and receive antenna patterns of a wireless device iteratively. | 11-24-2011 |
| 20110286373 | COST REDUCTION OF NAT CONNECTION STATE KEEP-ALIVE - Keep-alive processing for NAT devices and reducing power consumption in wireless clients. A server driven keep-alive mechanism facilitates keep-alive messages to a NAT device currently providing a connection to a mobile client to refresh the NAT state, thereby reducing or eliminating power consumption in a wireless device to respond to the connection with keep-alive packets. In one instance, keep-alive packets are sent to the NAT device to reset the NAT timeout timer, and then to the mobile client. The client responds only when expected keep-alive packets are not received at the client. In another instance, keep-alive packets reset the NAT timer to maintain the connection but are dropped or self-destruct before reaching the mobile client thereby providing the optimum power conservation in the mobile device. Thus, the client is not forced into extra client activity to send or receive wireless data, thereby draining the battery. | 11-24-2011 |
| 20110292849 | SMU Architecture For Turbo Decoder - Systems, methods, devices, and computer program products are described for Turbo decoding in a wireless communication system. Turbo encoded wireless signals may be received and demodulated, and forwarded to a branch metric calculator. The branch metric calculator may calculate a set of branch metrics for the demodulated signal. A state metric unit may receive the set of branch metrics and a previously calculated set of state metrics. The state metric unit may perform various comparisons of the set of state metrics before the received set of branch metrics is added to a portion of the state metrics identified through the comparisons. | 12-01-2011 |
| 20110292850 | Method of translating protocol at translator, method of providing protocol translation information at translation server, and address translation server - A translator is connected to a first network for transferring data in a first protocol, to a second network for transferring data in a second protocol, and to a translation server to which other translators are connected, for retaining translation information for a protocol translation between the first protocol and the second protocol. The translator generates a second address in the first protocol corresponding to a first address in the second protocol provided to a terminal accommodated in the second network. It retains a correspondence between the first address and the second address as the translation information and registers the correspondence at the translation server. | 12-01-2011 |
| 20110299441 | Method and Apparatus for Real Time Multiplexing with Transmitter and Antenna Array Elements - A method of signal processing, or corresponding apparatus, includes providing digital input signals representing beamforming data to be transmitted on respective antennas. One of the digital input signals is selected at a time among a plurality of times, to cycle through the digital input signals repeatedly and provide a multiplexed digital signal, which is converted to a multiplexed analog signal. The multiplexed analog signal is filtered to pass a predetermined frequency band and demultiplexed to provide analog output signals. One of the analog output signals is selected and provided to a corresponding antenna for transmission. Sharing a transmitter and DAC among multiple antennas results in reduced cost and power. Such cost and power reductions in turn enable larger antenna arrays than are available with prior art techniques, thereby promoting increased throughput and coverage. | 12-08-2011 |
| 20110299442 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING LOCATION FOR STARTING DECODING OF SUB-PACKETS OF A COMMUNICATION PACKET - A communication device includes a decoder that sequentially decodes sub-packets of a first packet that contain redundant traffic information. The decoder identifies a first sequence location where it successfully decoded one of the sub-packets of the first packet to output the traffic information. The decoder then sequentially decodes sub-packets of a second packet starting at a second sequence location that is determined in response to the first sequence location. Related methods, user equipment node, and radio access network nodes are also disclosed. | 12-08-2011 |
| 20110299443 | EFFICIENT MAC HEADER DESIGN AND COMMUNICATION USING SAME - A signal transmission method is provided, wherein, when a transmitter transmits a signal to a receiver, a transmitter processor multiplexes a plurality of data for a plurality of connections to be transmitted to one specific receiver, and constitutes a multiplexed medium access control (MAC) packet data unit (PDU) containing a MAC header part for receiving the multiplexed data, and a MAC PDU payload containing the multiplexed data, and the transmitter transmits the multiplexed MAC PDU to the specific receiver. The MAC header part includes a first header part containing a generic MAC header, and a second header part containing an extended header indicator serving as a 1-bit indicator for indicating the existence of an extended header (EH) for each flow ID for each of the plurality of connections. The MAC header part further includes a third header part which selectively contains the extended header for each flow ID in accordance with the extended header indicators for each flow ID. | 12-08-2011 |
| 20110299444 | VOICE DATA RF GPS INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - An integrated circuit (IC) includes a baseband processing module, a GPS receiver, and an RF section. The baseband processing module is coupled to process voice signals and data signals. The global positioning satellite (GPS) receiver module is coupled to process GPS signals. The radio frequency (RF) section id coupled to: transceive the voice signals as RF voice signals; transceive the data signals as RF data signals; and convert GPS RF signals into the GPS signals. | 12-08-2011 |
| 20110305175 | SELF-CONTAINED ANTENNA DEVICE WITH QUICK AIMING SWITCHING - The present invention includes an autonomous antennal device with fast pointing switching. The antennal device has an electron beam switching antenna, and the device is linkable by a cable to a radioelectric facility. The device includes a calculation unit to determine a direction of pointing of the beam of the antenna on the basis of measurement parameters for the radiofrequency signal processed by the facility, and the parameters are received on a communication interface of the device. The invention applies, for example, to intelligent antennas, sometimes designated by the acronym FESA, which stands for Fast Electronically Steerable Antenna. | 12-15-2011 |
| 20110305176 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SENDING VERY HIGH THROUGHPUT WLAN ACKNOWLEDGMENT FRAMES - One of a normal acknowledgement (ACK) and block ACK may be selectively enabled for wireless transmissions using a Very High Throughput Physical Layer Protocol Data Unit (PPDU). At least one designated bit may be set in a Physical Layer header of the PPDU for transmission from a transmitter to a receiver to indicate an ACK type selected from at least at least two of a normal ACK, a Block ACK, or no ACK. The PPDU may be transmitted in a Very High Throughput frame to the receiver where the designated bit can be used to provoke a normal ACK or Block ACK response to the PPDU, depending on the bit value. | 12-15-2011 |
| 20110310779 | NODE AND WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORK COMPRISING THE NODE | 12-22-2011 |
| 20110310780 | System and Method for Control Information Multiplexing for Uplink Multiple Input, Multiple Output - A system and method for control information multiplexing for uplink multiple input, multiple output are provided. A method for transmitting control information over L MIMO layers, where L is an integer value greater than one, includes generating a plurality of control modulation symbols from the control information, filling the L layers by mapping the plurality of control modulation symbols to L layers, and transmitting the L layers. | 12-22-2011 |
| 20110317598 | RADIO COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD - A radio base station ( | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110317599 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD - Provided is a wireless communication device and a wireless communication method which can maintain compatibility with a plurality of communication schemes and send a response signal back within the allowed time specified by each communication scheme. The wireless communication device includes a radio receiving unit ( | 12-29-2011 |
| 20120002579 | NETWORK ADAPTER WITH WIRELESS NETWORK ACCESS FUNCTION - A network adapter with a wireless network access function includes a wireless network access point router, a socket, a network plug, and a metallic cover. The wireless network access point router has at least one set of electrode terminals. The socket has at least one connecting port. The connecting port is provided with a plurality of insertion slots for allowing the electrode terminals to be assembled therein. The network plug is electrically connected to the wireless network access point router. The metallic cover is a hollow body. The rear side of the body has two foldable plates. The wireless network access point router, the socket and the network plug are assembled in the body of the metallic cover with the network plug being exposed to the outside of the body. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120008532 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND METHOD OF TRANSMITTING SUB-PACKETS - A wireless communication apparatus enabling improved system throughput while limiting the amount of signaling for feedback information. In this apparatus, a setting unit ( | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120008533 | Network for Confined Hazardous or Other Extreme Environments - A network for a mine or other hazardous environment is provided. The network can include a plurality of access points that can communicate with each other. The access points can be deployed along a plurality of pillars in a room-and-pillar mine. The access points can interconnect a mobile wireless client device within the mine with an operations centre. In the event of an explosion or other disaster, a UPS battery back-up and the redundancy of the access points can increase the likelihood that a link between the wireless client device and the operations center can be maintained. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120008534 | Method and System for Tailoring Wireless Device Service Provisioning Based on Device Capability Information Communicated to Network - Before a wireless-equipped device is distributed to an end-user, the manufacturer or distributor of the wireless-equipped device will record in the device a set of data that describes characteristics (e.g., type, features, capabilities, and limitations) of the device. When the end-user powers on the device or otherwise brings the device within the coverage of a service provider's wireless base station, the device will then acquire radio connectivity, typically with the service provider authenticating the device's wireless chipset. Thereafter, the device will engage in a first-time activation/service-provisioning session with a system operated by the service provider, and during that session, the device will provide the system with its device-characteristics data and the service provider will use that device-characteristics data as a basis to customize provisioning of service for the device based on one or more of the device's features or capabilities. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120014297 | Elastic Multiplexing for Shared Control Channels - A method and apparatus are disclosed for performing elastic multiplexing for shared control channels in a wireless device in a wireless communication system. The present work includes, but is not limited to, phase feedback for closed-loop transmit diversity (CL-TD) in mobile wireless communication systems. The method enhances system performance with control channel scheduling flexibility around resource conflicts such as blocking and preemption. The present work discloses an elastic multiplexing processor that is cable of carrying out the elastic multiplexing process. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120014298 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ALLOCATING PACKETS TO A PLURALITY OF CARRIER WAVES - Packets are transmitted from an apparatus to another apparatus via a plurality of carrier waves. The apparatus calculates, for each of the plurality of carrier waves, a tolerance parameter indicating a tolerable margin of the current line-quality value for causing a change of a modulation method to be used, based on a line-quality value received from the another apparatus, and allocates packets to the plurality of carrier waves based on a service-quality level assigned to each of the packets and the tolerance parameter calculated for each of the plurality of carrier waves, such that a first packet having the service-quality level equal to or higher than a second packet is allocated, on a priority basis, to a first carrier wave having the tolerance parameter equal to or larger than a second carrier wave to which the second packet is allocated. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120014299 | ACCESS POINT AND METHOD FOR CONNECTING WIRELESS COMMUNICATION - An access point and a method for connecting wireless communication thereof are provided. The method includes, if a connecting device is connected to the access point, registering information of the connecting device, if the connecting device transmits a first signal in response to a beacon message of the access point after having been disconnected from the access point and connected to a host device, determining whether the connecting device is already registered using the first signal, and, if it is determined that the connecting device is already registered, connecting to the host device via the wireless communication connection. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120014300 | DIGITAL BROADCASTING SYSTEM AND DATA PROCESSING METHOD IN THE DIGITAL BROADCASTING SYSTEM - A digital broadcasting system and a data processing method are disclosed. In an aspect of the present invention, the present invention provides a data processing method including receiving a broadcast signal in which main service data and mobile service data are multiplexed, demodulating the received broadcast signal, outputting demodulation time information of a specific position of a broadcast signal frame, and acquiring reference time information contained in the mobile service data frame, setting the reference time information to a system time clock at a specific time based on the demodulation time information and decoding the mobile service data according to the system time clock. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120020260 | DATA OFFLOADING WITH DISTRIBUTED IP MANAGEMENT AND ROUTING - A method performed by a wireless node includes receiving policies for data offloading; identifying a user associated with a data flow to which a user device is attached; determining whether data offloading is permitted for the user based on the policies; and performing data offloading when it is determined that data offloading is permitted for the user, wherein data offloading includes routing the data flow away from at least one of a higher layer traffic aggregation device relative to the wireless node or a higher hierarchical controlling device relative to the wireless node. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120020261 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ORDERING SUB-FIELDS OF VHT-SIG-A AND VIT-SIG-B FIELDS - Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to a technique of ordering sub-fields within Signal (SIG) fields of a preamble in Very High Throughput (VHT) wireless communications systems and to a technique of managing sizes of these sub-fields. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120020262 | Method and apparatus for sending and responding to non-3GPP2 system information in an HRPD system - The present invention discloses a method for sending non-3GPP2 system information in a high rate packet data system, which comprises: setting a non-3GPP2 SystemInfo Transfer message in an HRPD system; generating the non-3GPP2 SystemInfo Transfer message and sending it to a multimode mobile terminal supporting both the HRPD system and the non-3GPP2 system when a network side of the HRPD system determines that the multimode mobile terminal is located in an area covered by the HRPD system together with the non-3GPP2 system. The present invention also discloses a method for responding to the non-3GPP2 system information. The present invention further discloses apparatuses for realizing the above-mentioned methods. The present invention is simple and practical. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120026923 | CONNECTION OF A COMMUNICATIONS UNIT TO THE SOFTPHONE OF A PC - A PC containing a softphone is connected to a headset ( | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120026924 | MAC Packet Data Unit Construction for Wireless Systems - A method for wireless communication using MAC PDUs, comprising: a. determining one or more characteristics of a service flow; b. selecting on the basis of the one or more characteristics a MAC PDU header type among a plurality of MAC PDU header types; c. encapsulating service flow data in MAC PDUs with a header according to the selected MAC PDU header type; and d. transmitting wirelessly the MAC PDUs with the encapsulated service flow data. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120033590 | PACKET CLASSIFICATION AND PRIORITIZATION USING A UDP CHECKSUM IN A MOBILE WIRELESS DEVICE - A method and apparatus for packet classification and prioritization using a user datagram protocol (UDP) header in a mobile wireless device. The mobile wireless device includes an application processor and a transceiver. The application processor sets a value of a field embedded in a higher layer packet and transfers the higher layer packet to the transceiver. The transceiver receives the higher layer packet from the application processor and reads the set value of the embedded field. The transceiver clears the value in the embedded field and creates at least one lower layer protocol data unit from the higher layer packet. The transceiver maps the lower layer protocol data unit to a wireless access channel having a transmission property based on the read value of the embedded field. In representative embodiments, the embedded field is an optional checksum in a UDP header. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120033591 | Data Packet Generator With Isolation Link - A data packet generator device includes a processing device, a wireless communication device, and a network communication device. The processing device generates a token including alphanumeric characters. The wireless communication device receives the token from the processor and transmits the token as a network name. The network communication device also receives the token from the processing device and communicates the same token across a network communication cable. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120033592 | Explicit feedback format within single user, multiple user, multiple access, and/or MIMO wireless communications - Explicit feedback format within single user, multiple user, multiple access, and/or MIMO wireless communications. A beamformer provides a first communication to a beamformee, and based thereon, the beamformee may ascertain certain characteristics associated with the type and format of feedback to be provided to the beamformee via a second communication from the beamformee to the beamformer. For example, the first communication may include indication of a current operational mode, such as whether it is in accordance with single-user multiple input multiple output (SU-MIMO) or multi-user multiple-input-multiple-output (MU-MIMO). Also, the first communication may indicate a requested steering matrix's rank to be employed in accordance with subsequent beamforming by the beamformer. Also, additional information such as that pertaining to per-tone SNR values for each respective space-time stream, per-tone or per-sub-band eigen-values, the particular channel width being employed (e.g., 20, 40, 80, or 160 MHz), etc. may be included within the second communication. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120033593 | MOBILE STATION, BASE STATION, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - A scrambler performs IQ multiplexing of output signals from a spreader and a distributor in order to generate a complex signal (I signal and Q signal), amplitude coefficients βcc(I) and βcc(Q) are determined in accordance with signal powers on I axis and Q axis. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120039222 | CHARACTERIZATION OF TEMPORARY IDENTIFIERS IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORK - System(s), device(s), and method(s) are provided to characterize a temporary identifier for user equipment (UE) in telecommunication procedure(s) in a wireless communication network. Based on radio technology of at least one serving node that enables at least part of the telecommunication procedure(s), the UE generates a TI and a classifier that discloses the type of the TI. The classifier enables distinguishing a TI value in a first radio technology from a TI value in a second radio technology. In addition the classifier enables a serving node that receives the classifier to identify a logic address of a disparate serving node without restriction in backwards compatibility amongst radio protocols utilized by the wireless communication network. | 02-16-2012 |
| 20120039223 | Method of Handling Power Headroom Reporting and Communication Device Thereof - A method of handling power headroom report, hereafter called PHR, reporting for a communication device configured with a plurality of uplink component carriers in a wireless communication system is disclosed. The method comprises generating PHRs for at least one uplink component carrier of the plurality of uplink component carriers, determining a format of a MAC control element of a MAC PDU generated by the communication device according to a number of the at least one uplink component carrier, and reporting the PHRs with the predetermined or dynamic format of the MAC control element. | 02-16-2012 |
| 20120039224 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PRIORITIZATION OF RETRANSMISSION OF PROTOCOL DATA UNITS TO ASSIST RADIO-LINK-CONTROL RETRANSMISSION - A medium access control (MAC) architecture reduces transmission latency for data block retransmissions. A plurality of data blocks are received and temporarily stored in a first memory (e.g., queue, buffer). The plurality of data blocks are then transmitted. A determination is made as to whether each of the transmitted data blocks was received successfully or needs to be retransmitted because the data block was not received successfully. Each of the transmitted data blocks that needs to be retransmitted is marked and temporarily stored in a second memory having a higher priority than the first memory. The marked data blocks are retransmitted before data blocks stored in the first memory location. | 02-16-2012 |
| 20120044843 | Method of interconnecting multiple Electrical Vehicle Slave Charge Stations to a single Master Charge Station using a central hub or daisy chain connection means - A method and system is provided in which multiple Slave Charge Stations are connected to a Master Charge Station which contains the single point metering method or power utility “smart meter” required by power utilities to access the power grid. This method describes the use of a plurality of Slave Charge Stations attached to the Master Charge Station using a daisy chain or hub and spoke attachment means. | 02-23-2012 |
| 20120044844 | METHOD OF COLLISION RESOLUTION IN A WIDE CHANNEL - In various embodiments, a device may transmit a request-to-send (RTS) to another device to reserve a wide channel for subsequent communications with that other device. The RTS may contain information indicating the width of the wide channel, where the wide channel is composed of multiple narrow channels. In some embodiments, the device may transmit a CF-END frame if a clear-to-send (CTS) is not received in response to the RTS, so that other devices will not avoid using the narrow channels during the aborted reservation time. | 02-23-2012 |
| 20120057511 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPROVED WIRELESS INTERFACE AGGREGATION - The present invention describes systems and methods for improved wireless interface integration. An exemplary embodiment of the present invention provides a wireless interface aggregation system having a computing device including a processor, a memory, a first wireless interface with a first observed throughput rate in a first network environment and second wireless interface with a second observed throughput rate in the first network environment. The aggregation control module is configured to control the transmission and wireless interface and the second wireless interface to provide an overall throughput rate for the computing device in the first network environment greater than sum of the first observed throughput rate and the second observed throughput rate. | 03-08-2012 |
| 20120057512 | Methods And Apparatus For Increasing Data Throughput By Grouping Data Packets Into Maximum Transmissible Units - A technique for use in a communication device for communicating data involves receiving a plurality of transport data packets in an ordered sequence; rearranging at least some of the transport data packets in a group with a reordered sequence different from the ordered sequence, for increasing the total size of the group to be at or near a maximum transmissible unit size of a transport data frame; formatting the transport data packets of the group having the total size at or near the maximum transmissible unit size into the transport data frame, for data transmission from the communication device; and repeating, for a plurality of transport data frames, the acts of rearranging and formatting, for communicating the data. | 03-08-2012 |
| 20120063376 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF MAPPING DISPLAYPORT OVER A WIRELESS INTERFACE - A method and system to facilitate the mapping of the DisplayPort standard over a wireless interface. The wireless interface uses a communication protocol that operates in accordance with, but is not limited to, a wireless gigabit alliance (WGA) standard, a Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 802.11a/b/g, IEEE 802.11n, and other IEEE wireless standards, a Bluetooth standard, a Ultra-wideband (UWB) standard, and a 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) Long Term Evolution (LTE) standard. In one embodiment of the invention, it provides a definition for mapping the DisplayPort standard over a wireless interface to enable wireless display usage model with existing or new DisplayPort sink devices. The definition for mapping the DisplayPort standard over a wireless interface allows end-to-end interoperability of DisplayPort based wireless devices and facilitates the adoption of the definition as an industry standard in one embodiment of the invention. | 03-15-2012 |
| 20120076058 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ADAPTIVE AGGREGATION OF DATA IN A WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORK - A method and system for adaptive aggregation of data in a Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) is disclosed. The method receiving one or more packets produced from a plurality of sensor nodes at an aggregator sensor node. The method further includes categorizing and storing the received packets in the buffer queue of the aggregator node. Then initiating an aggregation process by selecting an aggregation mechanism. The aggregation mechanism is selected based on the feedback value and a special instruction. The aggregated packets are forwarded to the base station based on an aggregation function. | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120082073 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OFFLOADING DATA IN A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method is provided in one example embodiment and includes receiving a data packet transported on a backhaul link at a first network element; identifying whether the data packet is an upstream data packet; identifying whether the data packet matches an internet protocol (IP) access control list (ACL) or a tunnel endpoint identifier; performing a network address translation on the data packet; and offloading the data packet from the backhaul link. In certain implementations, the method can include identifying that the data packet does not match the IP ACL or the tunnel endpoint identifier; and communicating the data packet to a second network element. In other instances, the method can include identifying that the data packet is a downstream data packet; and restoring a tunnel header and tunnel identification based on an IP address of the data packet. | 04-05-2012 |
| 20120082074 | RADIO COMMUNICATION DEVICE - A radio communication device includes a mounting substrate and a shielding case to cover circuits mounted on the substrate. A first surface of the substrate includes an input/output area where a transmitting/receiving unit of an RF signal is mounted, an amplification area where an amplifying unit to amplify the RF signal from the transmitting/receiving unit is mounted, an RF area where an RF processing unit to process the. RF signal is mounted, and a baseband area where a baseband processing unit to process a baseband signal is mounted. A second surface of the substrate includes a crystal oscillator arranged to generate a reference clock signal which is supplied to the RF processing unit and the baseband processing unit. | 04-05-2012 |
| 20120082075 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PUCCH AND PUSCH ENCODING - Wireless uplink communication is disclosed which includes dividing information bits into first and second sets of information bits. The first set of information bits is encoded into a first set of coded bits, while the second set of information bits is encoded into a second set of coded bits. The first and second sets of coded bits are rate matched into a defined number of bits generating first and second sets of rate-matched coded bits. The first and second sets of rate-matched coded bits are interleaved using various interleaving methods to generate an interleaved set of coded bits. | 04-05-2012 |
| 20120082076 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING A PACKET IN A WIRELESS NETWORK - The present invention related to a method in which a transmitting device transmits a packet in a wireless network, wherein said method comprises: a step of receiving, from an upper layer, video data divided into a plurality of slices and compressed into one or more types of layers; a step of constructing a MAC packet such that information on the types of said one or more layers of the video data is included in a MAC header of the MAC packet; and a step of delivering the MAC packet to a lower layer to transmit the MAC packet to a receiving device. | 04-05-2012 |
| 20120087286 | METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING AN ACK/NACK SYMBOL AND APPARATUS - A method for transmitting an ACK/NACK symbol includes transmitting a same ACK/NACK symbol in both a first reference symbol and a second reference symbol in a slot. An apparatus to transmit an ACK/NACK symbol includes an ACK/NACK symbol generator, and a transmitter to transmit a modulated first reference symbol modulated by a first ACK/NACK symbol in a first reference symbol long block of a first slot, and to transmit a modulated second reference symbol modulated by the first ACK/NACK symbol in a second reference symbol long block of the first slot. Antenna diversity may be applied in successive slots or between the first and second reference symbols in a slot. A switching pattern to the modulation of the first and/or second reference symbol may be applied. | 04-12-2012 |
| 20120093047 | CORE ABSTRACTION LAYER FOR TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORK APPLICATIONS - A new sub-system, the core abstraction layer (CAL), is introduced to the middleware layer of the multi-core processor based modem board. This new module provides an abstraction for the multi-core FSL P4080 processor and its DPAA. For the deployment of this modem board, the CAL will provide various services such as zero copy lock free buffer management scheme to LTE L2 application, and the support for the new backplane Ethernet driver (BED) interface for the RLC SDU transmission and reception to and from the controller board for multi-cell configuration. | 04-19-2012 |
| 20120099494 | CONTENT TRANSMISSION ARCHITECTURE - An apparatus, method, and system are provided for combining and processing broadcast and narrowcast content on a common platform. The broadcast and narrowcast content may be processed, routed, encrypted, and transmitted. In some embodiments, a modulator may be used modulate the broadcast content and the output from that modulator may be coupled to an input of one or more interface cards. The inputs of the one or more interface cards may also be coupled to outputs from a plurality of modulators that may be configured to modulate the narrowcast content. In this manner, a reduction in resources may be obtained. | 04-26-2012 |
| 20120106411 | PORTABLE ROUTER - A portable router comprises a memory unit, a network sharing port, an operating/processing unit connecting with the two components. The memory unit has an original parameter configuration area and an updated parameter configuration area. An originally-configured network address and a prime DHCP server address range are built in the original parameter configuration area. The network sharing port has an external network connection port and an internal network connection port. The external network connection port implements connection with an external network having an external network address. The internal network connection port implements an internal network. The operating/processing unit retrieves the originally-configured network address and compares it with the external network address. When two addresses are identical, the operating/processing unit generates a new network address different from the external network address and a new DHCP server address range. When two addresses are different, the operating/processing unit directly adopts the originally-configured network address. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120106412 | WIRELESS NETWORK INTERFACE DEVICE - A wireless network interface device with concealable electrical interface includes a casing unit, a wireless receiver unit, an elastic assembly and an actuator. The casing unit has an outer body, an interface opening, and an actuator opening. The wireless receiver unit has a receiving module and an I-shaped groove. The I-shaped groove has a first recess and a second recess bridged by a connecting recess. The elastic assembly has at least one first elastic member. The actuator has a second elastic member, a releaser member, and a locking member. When the locking member is engaged to the first recess, at least one first elastic member is compressed with the electrical interface being concealed inside the casing unit. When the releaser member is pressed, the locking member disengages from the first recess, and at least one first elastic member pushes the receiving module to expose the electrically connected electrical interface. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120106413 | COMMUNICATION METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR HEADER COMPRESSION - A communication method and a related apparatus for header compression by using an automatic retransmission mechanism are disclosed. The method comprises determining with a receive end parameters required for performing header compression and an ARQ through negotiation, constructing a lower-layer PDU that comprises header compression information, and sending the PDU to a receive end. By using methods provided in the embodiments of the present invention, combination of a header compression mechanism and an ARQ mechanism may be implemented, thereby improving header compression efficiency and accuracy, and saving air interface resources. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120106414 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR ENCODING DATA IN A COMMUNICATION NETWORK - Methods and apparatus for encoding data in a communication network. In an aspect, a method is provided for coding data. The method includes generating one or more permutations of the data, determining weights associated with each permutation, calculating one or more code packets from each permutation based on the associated weights, and multiplexing the data and the one or more code packets into a code packet stream. In an aspect, an apparatus is provided for coding data. The apparatus includes permutation logic configured to generate one or more permutations of the data, and weight logic configured to determine weights associated with each permutation. The apparatus also includes processing logic configured to calculate one or more code packets from each permutation based on the associated weights, and a multiplexer configured to multiplex the data and the one or more code packets into a code packet stream. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120113877 | STRUCTURE OF EFFICIENT SIGNALING HEADER IN BROADBAND WIRELESS ACCESS SYSTEM - The present invention relates to a broadband wireless access system, and more specifically, to a structure of an efficient signaling header. A method for transmitting data from a transmission terminal to a receiving terminal, according to one embodiment of the present invention, comprises the steps of: creating a medium access control protocol data unit (MAC PDU) comprising a medium access control header (MAC header); and transmitting said MAC PDU to said receiving terminal, wherein said medium access control header comprises a first flow identifier field, an extended header field for indicating whether or not an extended header is included in said MAC PDU, and a length field for indicating the length of said MAC PDU. When said medium access control header is a signaling header, said first flow identifier field is set to a specific value indicating that said medium access control header is said signaling header, and signaling content information can be included in said extended header field and said length field. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120120856 | METHOD FOR CONFIGURING A TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The invention relates to a method for configuring a telecommunication system comprising at least one sending entity and one receiving entity between which the same link transmits several transport channels with different qualities of service. The sending entity matches the rate between the different coded transport channels with separate qualities of service, and the different coded transport channels are then multiplexed. The matching rate specific to each coded transport channel is determined from at least one first parameter representative of the expected Eb/I ratio and a second parameter representative of the capacity of the physical channel. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120127899 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING BEAMFORMING FEEDBACK IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS - Techniques to support beamforming for stations in a wireless network are described. A station may support beamforming with implicit or explicit feedback by having capabilities to transmit and receive sounding frames, responding to training request by sending a sounding frame, and responding to request for explicit feedback. In one explicit beamforming embodiment, the station may send a first frame with an explicit feedback request and may also send a Null Data Packet (NDP) having at least one training field but no data field. The station may receive a second frame with explicit feedback, which may be derived based on the NDP. The station may derive steering information based on explicit feedback and may then send a steered frame with beamforming based on the steering information. Other aspects, embodiments, and features are also claimed and described. | 05-24-2012 |
| 20120127900 | DIGITAL BROADCAST SYSTEM FOR TRANSMITTING/RECEIVING DIGITAL BROADCAST DATA, AND DATA PROCESSING METHOD FOR USE IN THE SAME - A method of processing broadcast data in a broadcast transmitter includes performing Reed-Solomon (RS) encoding and Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) encoding on mobile service data to build at least one RS frame including the mobile service data and dividing the at least one RS frame into a plurality of portions; dividing each of the plurality of portions into several Serial Concatenated Convolutional Code (SCCC) blocks according to SCCC block mode information, encoding data in the SCCC blocks, and mapping the SCCC blocks including the encoded data to data blocks according to the SCCC block mode information; encoding signaling data including fast information channel (FIC) data and transmission parameter channel (TPC) data; and modulating a broadcast signal including data in the data blocks and the encoded signaling data. | 05-24-2012 |
| 20120134307 | HIGH RATE RF LINK TECHNOLOGY - A high rate radio frequency (RF) link system and method for spatially multiplexing data transmission is presented. The system can comprise a common communications point characterized by a first collection of antennas having independent channels interconnected with a known latency connection to a central process location, such as with optical fiber; and a second similarly configured collective endpoint or set of endpoints wherein multi-path between the first collection and the second collection is negligible. Signal decorrelation between independent channels is achieved through a combination of spatial separation and signal processing. In one aspect, decorrelation is performed using near-maximum likelihood Multiple-Input Multiple-Output signal processing. | 05-31-2012 |
| 20120134308 | PORTABLE DEVICE AND METHOD, COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM FOR SETTING OPERATION MODE FOR PACKET TRANSFER - A portable device configured to be connected to a router via a wireless or wired connection. The portable device includes a first processing section that operates in each of a first operation mode to serve as a bridge functional part and a second operation mode to serve as a router functional part. The first processing section operates in the first operation mode when the portable device is connected to the router. | 05-31-2012 |
| 20120140686 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SENDING, RECEIVING, AND TRANSMISSION OF DATA PACKETS (AS AMENDED) - The present invention discloses a method and apparatus for sending, receiving, and transmitting data packets. In the above transmitting method, a GTP-U data packet is segmented into a plurality of data packet segments, and each data packet segment is added with attribute information of its own respectively and one or more data packet segments which have been added with the attribute information are sent each time; a plurality of data packet segments are received, the attribute information carried by each data packet segment is acquired respectively, and the received data packet segments which belong to the same GTP-U data packet are combined according to the attribute information of each data packet segment, to obtain a data packet. The technical solution provided according to the present invention can control the size of the GTP-U data packet flexibly and can extend the data packet (data payload) capacity of the sending operation which is supported by GTP-U. | 06-07-2012 |
| 20120140687 | RADIO COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD - Provided is a radio communication device which can make Acknowledgement (ACK) reception quality and Negative Acknowledgement (NACK) reception quality to be equal to each other. The device includes: a scrambling unit ( | 06-07-2012 |
| 20120147798 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INITIALIZING AN RFID TAG VIA AN OPTICAL DISPLAY - A method and apparatus for initializing a radio frequency identification tag are disclosed. For example, the method receives an optical signal having a unique identifier and an encryption key from a display by a radio frequency identification repeater associated with the radio frequency identification tag, wherein the radio frequency identification repeater comprises an optical reader. The method then transmits a communication comprising radio frequency identification information associated with the radio frequency identification tag and the unique identifier via the radio frequency identification repeater to a wireless access point, wherein the communication is encrypted using the encryption key. | 06-14-2012 |
| 20120147799 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE REPRODUCTION DEVICE, AND IMAGE REPRODUCTION SYSTEM - According to an illustrative embodiment, a data transmission device is provided. The device includes a communication unit for transmitting data to a receiver and transmitting data having a changed characteristic to the receiver, wherein when transmitting the data the device transmits timing information to the receiver indicating a time that the device will begin transmitting the data having a changed characteristic. | 06-14-2012 |
| 20120155343 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROHIBITING DIRECT LINK SETUP IN WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN) - An apparatus and method for prohibiting a direct link setup in a wireless local area network (WLAN), the method comprising receiving a request from a station (STA) for establishing a link with the station (STA); and transmitting a first frame with a Tunneled Direct Link Setup (TDLS) prohibited indication to the station (STA) in response to the request. Another aspect comprises transmitting an association request within a Basic Service Set (BSS) for establishing a link with the station (STA); and receiving a beacon frame with an information element to prohibit the direct link setup of the station (STA). And, another aspect comprises receiving an association request from a station (STA) within the vicinity of an access point for establishing an association between the station (STA) and the access point (AP), and transmitting a Tunneled Direct Link Setup (TDLS) prohibited indication to the station (STA). | 06-21-2012 |
| 20120155344 | OUT-OF-BAND COMMUNICATION ON HARMONICS OF THE PRIMARY CARRIER IN A WIRELESS POWER SYSTEM - Exemplary embodiments are directed to communication with a wireless power transmitter. A device may include an antenna for wirelessly transmitting a power carrier. The device may further include transmit circuitry coupled to the antenna and configured to transmit a data carrier at a frequency corresponding to at least one harmonic of the power carrier. | 06-21-2012 |
| 20120155345 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE - In one embodiment, there is provided a communication device configured to add a first perturbation signal corresponding to an integer multiple of a first basic signal, to a first information signal having first information, which is to be transmitted to a plurality of destination terminals, and transmit a wireless signal having the first information to the plurality of destination terminals by a spatial multiplexing method. The device includes: a determination unit configured to set a magnitude of the first basic signal to N times of one side of a basic lattice, wherein the basic lattice is determined according to a modulation method of the first information signal, and N is real number of one or more; an adder configured to add the first perturbation signal to the first information signal to output a second information signal; and a multiplier configured to multiply the second information signal by a weight. | 06-21-2012 |
| 20120155346 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD USING BLUETOOTH - A wireless communication apparatus which is capable of communicating with a first wireless terminal holding a first data packet by Bluetooth includes a search unit, a first transceiver transmitting, a first controller, and a scheduling unit. The search unit reserves a search, and executing the search. The first transceiver transmits the first and second control packets, and receives the first data packet and a second data packet. The first controller reserves a transmission of the second control packet to the first wireless terminal, the first controller giving instructions to transmit the second control packet to the first transceiver. The scheduling unit accepts the reservation from the first controller and the search unit, the scheduling unit preferentially allowing a transmission of the second control packet compared with the search, and allowing the search when no reservation of the transmission of the second control packet is made. | 06-21-2012 |
| 20120163255 | NETWORK TRAFFIC AGGREGATION METHOD AND DEVICE FOR IN-VEHICLE TELEMATICS SYSTEMS USING TETHERING AND PEER-TO-PEER NETWORKING OF MOBILE DEVICES - A method for enhancing a data communication throughput associated with an in-vehicle telematics system includes receiving a communication request from the in-vehicle telematics system to perform at least one of a data upload to the Internet and a data download from the Internet, and verifying availability of one or more mobile devices within the vehicle. The maximum capability of a mobile network interface for each of the one or more available mobile devices within the vehicle is determined. When the communication request is for uploading data to the Internet, the data is fragmented into data fragments and distributed to the available mobile devices, whereas when the communication request is for downloading data from the Internet, it is determined for each mobile device which fragment of data is to be downloaded and from which server, and the respective determined fragments are received from each mobile device. | 06-28-2012 |
| 20120163256 | NETWORK SYSTEM AND USER DEVICE, CALL-PROCESSING DEVICE, AND NETWORK BRIDGE FOR THE SYSTEM - Disclosed is a network system including: a transmitting terminal dividing and transmitting data into a plurality of data pieces; a plurality of bridges each receiving the plurality of data pieces and transmitting the divided data pieces to the receiving terminal; and a call manager managing communication among the transmitting terminal, the receiving terminal, and the plurality of bridges, wherein the bridge uses the same identifier system as the transmitting terminal and the receiving terminal. | 06-28-2012 |
| 20120163257 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING/RECEIVING IN MOBILE WIRELESS NETWORK - In a mobile wireless network system including a plurality of nodes communicating with each other, a node attempting to transmit data finds useable resources through performing carrier sensing on packet data unit (PDU) slots and transmits data through the found resources. A node attempting to receive data finds useable resource through performing carrier sensing on acknowledge (ACK) slots and receives data through the found resources. | 06-28-2012 |
| 20120163258 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING/RECEIVING DATA IN COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Disclosed is an apparatus for transmitting data in a communication system, including: a receiving unit configured to receive signals from multi-users by a multi-user-multi input multi output (MIMO) scheme and acquire channel information from the users; a calculation unit configured to calculate precoding vectors for the users using the channel information; a precoding unit configured to precode data of the users using the precoding vectors; and a transmitting unit configured to transmit the precoded data to users by the multi user-MIMO scheme. | 06-28-2012 |
| 20120170494 | System and Method of Enhanced Quality of Service of Wireless Communication Based on Redundant Signal Reception on Two or More Antenna Diversity Inputs - The present application includes a system and method that provisions at least two (2) receivers in a topology that allows each receiver to acquire wireless communication signals through different diverse antenna fields. Each receiver acquires the signal, and demodulates, decodes and sends data to the data terminal component. The data terminal component resolves packet alignment issues and selects the best data. This improves system reliability and reduces the system susceptibility to data corruption or loss of data due to signal fading that might occur on a single antenna field. Provisioning a wireless system in this manner reduces the likelihood that the same fading phenomena, resulting from either multipath and/or shadowing affects, impair signal reception causing data dropout or loss of data. | 07-05-2012 |
| 20120170495 | Method and apparatus for status transition - A method and apparatus for status transition are provided in the disclosure, which enable a wireless side network element to judge that a service request message is a paging response message after receiving the service request message, transmit an initial user equipment message to a mobility management entity, and indicate that the service request message is valid in the initial user equipment message. The method and apparatus of the disclosure solve the problem that the mobility management entity is unable to make a correct judgment and corresponding logical processing, and improve processing efficiency of the mobile communication system effectively. | 07-05-2012 |
| 20120201177 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION TERMINAL - According to one embodiment, a wireless communication terminal including a receiver, a first processor, a first storage, a second storage, a second processor, and a transmitter is provided. The receiver receives one physical packet that includes at least one frame body field, a first field including information on a length of the frame body field, a second field used to detect an error of the frame body field, and a sequence number field including a sequence number corresponding to the frame body field. The second storage retains a successively and successfully received maximum sequence number on the basis of a result of the first processor. The transmitter transmits a response frame indicating the successively and successfully received maximum sequence number when the first processor extracts at least one correct frame body. | 08-09-2012 |
| 20120201178 | Allocation of Signal-to-Noise Ratio Margin in Multi-Carrier Systems - Allocation of different signal-to-noise margins to different carriers in a multi-carrier system is described. A preferred embodiment comprises assigning signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) margins to carriers in a multi-carrier system, comprises assigning a first SNR margin to a first data service based upon a first service characteristic, assigning a second SNR margin to a second data service based upon a second service characteristic, transmitting data associated with the first data service using the first signal-to-noise margin, and transmitting data associated with the second data service using the second signal-to-noise margin. | 08-09-2012 |
| 20120207068 | FRAMING FOR AN IMPROVED RADIO LINK PROTOCOL INCLUDING FEC - Framing techniques for an improved radio link protocol used in a wireless communication system, such as EV-DO. In one embodiment scheduling of the generation of repair symbols encoded to be transmitted along with source data is described. In another embodiment acknowledgment messages from a receiver are used to control the trailing edge of the protection window offered by the repair symbols. In another embodiment, non-acknowledgment messages from a receiver are used to control the generation of extra repair symbols. In another embodiment, a length field is used to avoid transmission of padding bytes over the air. In yet another embodiment, a symbol auxiliary field is appended to source symbols to indicate the padding bytes needed for symbol aligning thus avoiding the transmission of padding bytes over the air. | 08-16-2012 |
| 20120213132 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SELECTING DOMAIN FOR VOICE CALL CONTINUITY IN MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and an apparatus select a domain of an application server in order to support a voice call continuity service in a mobile communication system including an IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) domain and a Circuit Switched (CS) domain. The method includes selecting either the IMS domain or the CS domain according to a dynamic domain selection priority which is predetermined corresponding to a terminal when a voice call for the terminal is received. The method also includes anchoring the received voice call corresponding to the terminal through the selected domain. A voice call establishment for a terminal using first the most recent domain which is used for a voice call in a mobile communication system is initiated. Thus, it is possible in a mobile communication system to increase the domain selecting completion rates for a voice call service corresponding to a terminal. | 08-23-2012 |
| 20120218924 | QUALITY OF SERVICE (QOS) OVER NETWORK-TO-NETWORK INTERFACES FOR IP INTERCONNECTION OF COMMUNICATION SERVICES - Techniques, apparatuses, and systems can include mechanisms to provide end-to-end quality-of-service. | 08-30-2012 |
| 20120218925 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD, WIRELESS TRANSMITTER AND WIRELESS RECEIVER - A wireless communication method by which unnecessary retransmission request is suppressed and feedback information is reduced at the same time in a MIMO communication system. The wireless communication method is provided for transmitting signals by using a plurality of antennas, and has a step of applicably selecting the group configuration of the antennas, and a step of adding data to be used for error detection to a signal to be transmitted by using the antennas, by following the results of the selection. | 08-30-2012 |
| 20120224516 | Mobile Terminated Communication Method and Related Devices - Method for allowing a mobile terminated communication to a destination device ( | 09-06-2012 |
| 20120224517 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR REDUCING PEAK TO AVERAGE POWER RATIO (PAPR) IN BROADCASTING COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - An apparatus and a method are provided for reducing a Peak to Average Power Ratio (PAPR) in a broadcasting communication system, which provides a broadcasting service by dividing a broadcasting band into at least two channel bands. At least one primary reservation tone is injected into broadcasting signals of each of the channel bands. An integrated broadcasting signal of the broadcasting band is generated by combining the broadcasting signals of the channel bands. At least one secondary reservation tone is injected into the integrated broadcasting signal of the broadcasting band and the integrated broadcasting signal is transmitted. | 09-06-2012 |
| 20120230234 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - A communication apparatus including a short-distance communication module, wherein the short-distance communication module selectively performs one-to-one communication or one-to-many communication in short-distance communication, and sets a sampling rate for sampling transmission data of the communication apparatus to be greater than the inverse of an arrival time difference of the transmission data determined according to a maximum communication distance between communication apparatuses. | 09-13-2012 |
| 20120230235 | GENERIC PACKET FILTERING - Embodiments contemplate one or more techniques for packet filtering. One or more embodiments may apply specific routing and/or forwarding rules on some or each packet when a device has one or more, or multiple, interfaces. Contemplated filtering techniques may be implemented in a module and/or without modifying an IP stack. The contemplated packet filtering techniques may apply to a terminal in uplink and/or downlink as well as to any network node. An incoming packet table may be created using 5-tuple, 6-tuple, and/or tags, among other mechanisms, to support incoming and/or outgoing packet filtering. | 09-13-2012 |
| 20120236768 | ADAPTER DEVICE FOR COUPLING AN INDUSTRIAL FIELD INSTRUMENT TO AN INDUSTRIAL WIRELESS NETWORK AND RELATED SYSTEM AND METHOD - A method includes coupling an adapter device to a field instrument in an industrial control system to provide a wireless communication capability to the field instrument. The method also includes converting, by the adapter device, information from a first protocol native to the field instrument into a second protocol native to a wireless network. The method further includes transmitting the information to at least one other device over the wireless network. | 09-20-2012 |
| 20120236769 | INTERFACE FOR LOCAL CONFIGURATION AND MONITORING OF AN INDUSTRIAL FIELD DEVICE WITH SUPPORT FOR PROVISIONING ONTO AN INDUSTRIAL WIRELESS NETWORK AND RELATED SYSTEM AND METHOD - A method includes communicatively coupling a user device to a field device in an industrial control system in order to configure and provision the field device. The method also includes selecting an operating mode of the user device. The method further includes, in response to selecting a first operating mode, providing configuration data from the user device to the field device in order to configure the field device. In addition, the method lo includes, in response to selecting a second operating mode, providing provisioning data from the user device to the field device in order to provision the field device onto a wireless network. Providing the configuration data and the provisioning data could include communicating the provisioning data and the configuration data to the field device through an out-of-band communication interface. The out-of-band communication interface may include a direct wired interface or infrared interface. | 09-20-2012 |
| 20120243451 | OVERLAY FOR SCRAMBLER BITS IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION - By using an exclusive OR operation between two values to create a third value, a wireless communications device may communicate all three values to another device while only transmitting two of the values. In a particular embodiment, a bandwidth-static/dynamic parameter may be conveyed in a Request-to-Send by transmitting a length field and a scrambler seed to be used in the subsequent communication, with the bandwidth-static/dynamic parameter encoded into the scrambler seed. The receiving device may then derive the bandwidth-static/dynamic parameter by performing another XOR on portions of the two received parameters. | 09-27-2012 |
| 20120243452 | MPDU STRUCTURE AND RELATED METHODS FOR USE IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS PROTOCOL - An MPDU structure for use in a wireless communications protocol includes a basic header ( | 09-27-2012 |
| 20120250593 | Ubiquitous user control for information communicated among end user communication devices - An exemplary method processes an electronic communication received by a first end-user communication device, where the electronic communication comprises a digital packet having a header segment and a user data segment. A determination is made whether the received user data segment contains a first label that identifies a corresponding enhanced services application program stored in memory of the first end-user communication device. On identifying a first label, a determination is made whether the received user data segment contains a first command that identifies a corresponding action to be taken by the first enhanced services application program. On determining the existence of a first command, the first enhanced services application program causes a first action corresponding to the first command to be executed on the first end-user communication device. | 10-04-2012 |
| 20120250594 | Management for information communicated among end user communication devices - An exemplary method processes an electronic communication received by a first end-user communication device where the digital electronic communication is packet having a header segment and a user data segment conveyed to the first end-user communication device using one of a plurality of possible transport layer communication protocols. A determination is made whether the received user data segment contains a first label that identifies a corresponding module of an enhanced services application program stored in memory of the first end-user communication device. On determining that a first label is contained in the user data segment, routing the received user data segment to the first module of the first enhanced services application program regardless of which one of the plurality of possible transport layer communication protocols carried the electronic communication to the first end-user communication device. The received user data segment is processed by the first module and clear text information extracted from the user data segment is stored in the memory. | 10-04-2012 |
| 20120257555 | FORWARDING A PACKET IN A SENSOR PERSONAL AREA NETWORK - A method to forward a packet according to predefined protocol steps in a sensor personal area network comprising data communication sensor devices and the respective sensor devices are described. The method comprises the steps of assigning a predefined compression value to a compression field in the packet for indicating that a source network identifier of the originator of the packet is assumed to be equal to a destination network identifier of an intended recipient of the packet. Furthermore, the method comprises assigning a predefined label switching value Isv to an addressing mode field DAM-F in the packet P for indicating that the above mentioned protocol steps further comprise a label switching principle that must be applied to forward the packet. Finally the method comprises using a source network identifier field SNI-F of the packet for storing and retrieving the label value lab1 for application of the label switching principle based thereon. | 10-11-2012 |
| 20120263080 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DETECTING SIGNAL IN SPATIAL MULTIPLEXING SYSTEM - Disclosed are an apparatus and a method for detecting signals in a spatial multiplexing system. An embodiment of the invention provides a signal detection apparatus for a single receiver unit equipped with a plurality of antennas in a system having at least one transmitter unit configured to transmit data streams by spatial multiplexing, where the signal detection apparatus includes: a partial linear coefficient generator unit configured to generate a linear weighting matrix by using a preset algorithm on a channel matrix formed between the transmitter unit and the single receiver unit; a partial symbol remover unit configured to generate a first symbol vector by removing all transmittable symbols for each transmitting antenna from all received data streams; and a partial symbol detector unit configured to generate a transmission symbol candidate vector by using the linear weighting matrix and the first symbol vector. | 10-18-2012 |
| 20120263081 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INDICATING MU-MIMO MODE - The present invention relates to the field of telecommunications, and discloses a method for indicating an MU-MIMO mode. In this method, first part information and second part information are constructed and sent, where formats of the first part information and the second part information indicate an MU-MIMO mode. The present invention further discloses an apparatus for indicating an MU-MIMO mode. With the method and apparatus for indicating an MU-MIMO mode, where the method and apparatus for indicating an MU-MIMO mode are disclosed in the present invention, a UE may be notified of being configured with an MU-MIMO mode when MU-MIMO is applied in a UMTS system. | 10-18-2012 |
| 20120263082 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DISTRIBUTED PROCESSING FOR WIRELESS SENSORS - Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to a method for compressed sensing (CS). The CS is a signal processing concept wherein significantly fewer sensor measurements than that suggested by Shannon/Nyquist sampling theorem can be used to recover signals with arbitrarily fine resolution. In this disclosure, the CS framework is applied for sensor signal processing in order to support low power robust sensors and reliable communication in Body Area Networks (BANs) for healthcare and fitness applications. | 10-18-2012 |
| 20120263083 | Bandwidth Control Method, Apparatus and System - Embodiments of the present invention provide a bandwidth control method, apparatus, and system. The method includes: receiving an access request message sent by a user equipment; obtaining, according to the access request message, a group identity of a group to which the user equipment belongs and group-aggregate maximum bit rate parameter information of the group to which the user equipment belongs, so that a bandwidth control device performs bandwidth control on a user equipment in the group according to the group identity and the group-aggregate maximum bit rate parameter information. | 10-18-2012 |
| 20120269105 | Resonant Communications Transceiver Method & Apparatus - A communications infrastructure, comprising an energy transfer medium transmitting a sine wave of a first frequency. A first coil is placed proximate the energy transfer medium and a power source coupled to the first coil selectively charges the first coil with a first voltage of a first polarity in a first instance and then selectively charges the first coil with a second voltage of opposite polarity in a second instance to generate a first three dimensional spatial fractalized voltage sample. The first sample is mapped to a symbol of a set of symbols and coded into the sine wave by virtue of the first coil being proximate the energy transfer medium. | 10-25-2012 |
| 20120275356 | Multi-Mode Wireless Communication Link - A communication system includes first and second transmitters, which are coupled to transmit respective first and second Radio Frequency (RF) signals carrying first and second data over a wireless communication channel. The transmitters are coupled to select an operational mode from a group of operational modes and to operate in the selected operational mode. The group of the operational modes includes at least two of a protection mode, wherein the second transmitter serves as backup to the first transmitter, a spatial multiplexing mode, in which the first data is different from the second data and the first and second transmitters transmit simultaneously, and a beam-forming mode, in which the first data is identical to the second data, the second RE signal includes a phase-shifted replica of the first RE signal, and the first and second transmitters transmit simultaneously. | 11-01-2012 |
| 20120275357 | Methods and Apparatus for Providing a Communication Scheme with Reduced Feed-Back Delay - An apparatus for providing reduced feedback delay may include at least one processor and at least one memory including computer program code. The at least one memory and the computer program code may be configured, with the processor, to cause the apparatus to perform at least selecting a frame format to be applied for configuring transmission and reception of data. The frame format may be selected from options including a downlink only format, an uplink only format and a downlink and uplink format. The apparatus may be further configured for communicating the frame format to a transceiver to enable configuration of the transceiver for transmission and reception of data according to the frame format selected. A corresponding method and computer program product are also provided. | 11-01-2012 |
| 20120275358 | SYSTEM, APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR UPDATING COMMUNICATION SERVICES - A system for updating communication services includes user equipment configured to communicate using a first communication service standard and a second communication service standard, a subscriber database, an application server, and a network device. The network device detects an update trigger corresponding to a user equipment, requests that the user equipment discontinue using the first communication service standard, and flags the user equipment as updated by communicating with the application server and the subscriber database, The network device also receives a communication from the user equipment and determines whether the communication corresponds to the first communication service standard or the second communication service standard. If the communication corresponds to the first communication service standard the network device communicates an error message to the user equipment. However, if the communication corresponds to a second communication service standard, the network device processes the communication. | 11-01-2012 |
| 20120281604 | TRANSMISSION OF SOUNDING REFERENCE SIGNALS FROM A USER EQUIPMENT IN RESPONSE TO MULTIPLE REQUESTS - Methods and apparatus are provided for a User Equipment (UE) to transmit a Sounding Reference Signal (SRS). A first Downlink Control Information (DCI) format with an aperiodic SRS request field indicating aperiodic SRS transmission with first values for aperiodic SRS transmission parameters, is received. A second DCI format with an aperiodic SRS request field indicating aperiodic SRS transmission with second values for the aperiodic SRS transmission parameters, is received. The first values for the aperiodic SRS transmission parameters are compared with the second values for the aperiodic SRS transmission parameters. An aperiodic SRS is transmitted when the first values are identical to the second values. Transmission of the aperiodic SRS is suspended when the first values are not identical to the second values. | 11-08-2012 |
| 20120281605 | System and Method for Matching Users in a Wireless Communication System - Systems and methods for matching a requesting unit with a target unit in a wireless communication system based on proximity of the units. The systems and methods calculate in real time during a communication an amount of time left in the communication based on the speed, the direction and the location of the target unit and the speed, the direction and the location of the requesting unit. | 11-08-2012 |
| 20120287830 | MEDIA TRANSFER AND CONTROL SYSTEM - A media transfer and control system that includes a handheld device and an audio/visual system. The media transfer and control system provides for: (i) the transfer of media files between the handheld device and the audio/visual system, (ii) the transmission of control commands from the handheld device to the audio/visual system for controlling the function and operation of the audio/visual system through a user interface provided on the handheld device, and (iii) the unsolicited transfer of media descriptive data between the handheld device and the audio/visual system to create a synchronized global view on the handheld electronic device and/or the audio/visual system of all of the media content currently stored on and/or available through both the handheld device and the audio/visual system. | 11-15-2012 |
| 20120294211 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR COMPRESSING NESTED PROTOCOL PACKET HEADER - Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method for compressing a nested protocol packet header, which relate to the field of wireless communication technologies and are used to improve efficiency in compressing a nested protocol packet header in a data packet. The method for compressing a nested protocol packet header provided in the embodiments of the present invention includes: receiving a data packet sent by at least one sending end, where the data packet includes a first compression protocol packet header; taking the received data packet as a whole and nesting a second protocol packet header in it; and processing the data packet nested with the second protocol packet header, where the processing includes: coordinating part of function fields in the first compression protocol packet header and the second protocol packet header to remove a duplicate field, and compressing the second protocol packet header; and sending the processed data packet. | 11-22-2012 |
| 20120300683 | COMBINED DEVICE AND SERVICE DISCOVERY TECHNIQUE IN STATIONS SUPPORTING TUNNELED DIRECT LINK SETUP (TDLS) - A tunneled direct link set-up (TDLS) capable wireless network may comprise a router such as an access point (AP) and a plurality of stations (STA) including service consumer and service provider station. A service consumer station may generate and send a layer-2 query frame to the plurality of stations. A service provider station may generate a layer-2 service frame in response to receiving the layer-2 query frame. The service consumer station may discover the service provider station and the services offered by the service provider station based on the layer-2 service frame. Also, the service consumer may discover the service provider station using layer-2 query frame and may discover the services offered by the service provider station using higher layer service discovery procedure. | 11-29-2012 |
| 20120307695 | SINGLE TRANSMISSION LINE FOR CONNECTING RADIO FREQUENCY MODULES IN AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A millimeter-wave radio frequency (RF) system, and method thereof for transferring multiple signals over a single transmission line connected between modules of a millimeter-wave RF system. The system comprises a single transmission line for connecting a first part of the RF system and a second part of the RF system, the single transmission line transfers a multiplexed signal between the first part and second part, wherein the multiplexed signal includes intermediate frequency (IF) signal, a local oscillator (LO) signal, a control signal, and a power signal; the first part includes a baseband module and a chip-to-line interface module for interfacing between the baseband module and the single transmission line; and the second part includes a RF module and a line-to-chip interface module for interfacing between the RF module and the single transmission line, wherein the first part and the second part are located away from each other. | 12-06-2012 |
| 20120307696 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD AND PROGRAM - A wireless communication device including: a transmitter unit configured to transmit an RTS (Request To Send) packet to a plurality of wireless communication devices; a receiver unit configured to receive a CTS (Clear To Send) packet responding to the RTS packet; and a data processing unit configured to transmit data packets from the transmitter unit to the plurality of wireless communication devices when the CTS packet is received by the receiver unit from at least some of the plurality of wireless communication devices. | 12-06-2012 |
| 20120314631 | METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING/RECEIVING DATA OF APPLICATION FOR ONE COMMUNICATION PROTOCOL BY ANOTHER COMMUNICATION PROTOCOL, AND RELATED NON-TRANSITORY MACHINE READABLE MEDIUM THEREOF - A data transmission method includes: receiving a first data of an application dedicated to a first communication protocol; converting the first data into a second data corresponding to a second communication protocol different from the first communication protocol; and directing the second data to a communication device which is configured to transmit the second data via the second communication protocol, wherein the first communication protocol does not control transmission of the second data. A data reception method includes: obtaining a first data from a communication device which is configured to receive the first data via a first communication protocol different from a second communication protocol, wherein the second communication protocol does not control reception of the first data; converting the first data into a second data corresponding to the second communication protocol; and transmitting the second data to an application dedicated to the second communication protocol. | 12-13-2012 |
| 20120314632 | FACILITATING A COMMUNICATION SESSION - According to the present invention there is provided a method of facilitating a communication session between a user terminal and an Application Function over an IP Connectivity Access Network in which a mobile IP-based mobility protocol is used. The method comprises, if it is determined that the Quality of Service rules for the communication session cannot be installed or enforced due to a limitation on the resources available in the Access Network, reporting this to the Application Function together with information on the available resources. | 12-13-2012 |
| 20120314633 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD - A wireless communication device including: a data processing unit configured to generate an RTS (Request To Send) packet including response timing information designating transmission timings of CTS (Clear To Send) packets from each of a plurality of wireless communication devices; and a transmitter unit configured to transmit the RTS packet generated by the data processing unit. | 12-13-2012 |
| 20120327824 | AUTONOMOUS DATA SHARING AMONG SMART DEVICES - An approach is provided in which a data collection system loads a user interface form on a display screen. The user interface form includes an entry field and an extraction formula with a corresponding element type that adheres to an industry-specific schema. The data collection system receives a data packet from a broadcast device, which includes an element value and an element type identifier adhering to the same industry-specific schema. In turn, the data collection system determines whether the element type identifier matches the element type and, if so, the data collection system populates the entry field on the display screen with the element value. | 12-27-2012 |
| 20120327825 | SIGNAL SPLITTING CARRIER AGGREGATION RECEIVER ARCHITECTURE - A wireless communication device configured for receiving a multiple carrier signal is described. The wireless communication device includes a primary signal splitting carrier aggregation architecture. The primary signal splitting carrier aggregation architecture includes a primary antenna and a transceiver chip. The primary signal splitting carrier aggregation architecture reuses a first diversity/simultaneous hybrid dual receiver path. The wireless communication device also includes a secondary signal splitting carrier aggregation architecture. The secondary signal splitting carrier aggregation architecture includes a secondary antenna and a receiver chip. The secondary signal splitting carrier aggregation architecture reuses a second diversity/simultaneous hybrid dual receiver path. | 12-27-2012 |
| 20120327826 | DIGITAL SIGNAGE SYSTEM - A digital signage system, includes: a gateway device, coupled to a network; at least one first hot spot, including: an adaptor box, coupled to the gateway device, downloading a content transmitted through the network via the gateway device; a first access point device, coupled to the gateway device, downloading a service on the network via the gateway device; and a display device, coupled to the adaptor box, displaying the content through the adaptor box, and at least one second hot spot, including: a second access point device, coupled to the gateway device, downloading the service via the gateway device, wherein the first access point device and the second access point device provide the service to at least one mobile terminal through wireless communication. | 12-27-2012 |
| 20120327827 | Media Gateway - The present invention relates to a media gateway for managing a transmission of data from a first communication entity towards a second communication entity. The media gateway comprises a receiver ( | 12-27-2012 |
| 20120327828 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE, COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD, AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A communication device includes a memory and a processor coupled to the memory. The processor executes a process comprising: receiving a plurality of pieces of data transmitted per sub-frame as an interval that is one of divided frames; generating notification signals associating specific information for respectively specifying the plurality of pieces of data with confirmation information indicating whether the plurality of pieces of data have been normally received; and transmitting the notification signals generated in the generating in the same sub-frame. | 12-27-2012 |
| 20130003620 | SYNCHRONIZED WIRELESS DATA CONCENTRATOR FOR AIRBORNE WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS - A system, method, and apparatus for a synchronized wireless data concentrator are provided for facilitating a precisely synchronized system of nodes in a wireless sensor network for airborne data systems. The wireless data concentrator contains a plurality of IEEE 802.15.4 radio/micro-processor subsystems, which are connected to a local host microprocessor, which is in turn connected to an aircraft data network. The airplane data network also contains a precision clock source and a plurality of specialized network switches, which have a low-jitter data-path routing capability. | 01-03-2013 |
| 20130003621 | USER INPUT BACK CHANNEL FOR WIRELESS DISPLAYS - As part of a communication session, a wireless source device can transmit audio and video data to a wireless sink device, and the wireless sink device can transmit user input data received at the wireless sink device back to the wireless source device. In this manner, a user of the wireless sink device can control the wireless source device and control the content that is being transmitted from the wireless source device to the wireless sink device. The user input data transmitted by the wireless sink device can be input data obtained at a third party device and forwarded to the wireless source device. | 01-03-2013 |
| 20130003622 | USER INPUT BACK CHANNEL FOR WIRELESS DISPLAYS - As part of a communication session, a wireless source device can transmit audio and video data to a wireless sink device, and the wireless sink device can transmit user inputs received at the wireless sink device back to the wireless source device. In this manner, a user of the wireless sink device can control the wireless source device and control the content that is being transmitted from the wireless source device to the wireless sink device. As part of transmitting user input to the source device, the sink device can generate a data packet that identifies a user input category for the user input, and the source device can process the data packet based on the user input category. | 01-03-2013 |
| 20130003623 | USER INPUT BACK CHANNEL FOR WIRELESS DISPLAYS - As part of a communication session, a wireless source device can transmit audio and video data to a wireless sink device, and the wireless sink device can transmit user inputs received at the wireless sink device back to the wireless source device. In this manner, a user of the wireless sink device can control the wireless source device and control the content that is being transmitted from the wireless source device to the wireless sink device. As part of transmitting user input to the source device, the sink device can generate a data packet with a data packet header that includes a timestamp flag indicating the presence of a timestamp field, and the source device can process the data packet based on a timestamp in the timestamp field. | 01-03-2013 |
| 20130003624 | USER INPUT BACK CHANNEL FOR WIRELESS DISPLAYS - As part of a communication session, a wireless source device can transmit audio and video data to a wireless sink device, and the wireless sink device can transmit user inputs received at the wireless sink device back to the wireless source device. In this manner, a user of the wireless sink device can control the wireless source device and control the content that is being transmitted from the wireless source device to the wireless sink device. As part of transmitting user input to the source device, the sink device can generate a data packet with a data packet header that includes a timestamp field, and the source device can process the data packet based on a timestamp in the timestamp field. | 01-03-2013 |
| 20130003625 | METHOD AND ARRANGEMENT FOR PROVIDING INFORMATION ON MULTIMEDIA OPTIONS - A method and arrangement for providing updated information on the availability of multimedia options to terminal users. A first terminal (A) is initially engaged in a voice call with a second terminal (B) by using a first access admitting simultaneous multimedia communication. At least one available multimedia option is indicated based on capabilities of the first and second terminals. A change of connection is then detected from the first access to a second access not admitting simultaneous multimedia communication. In response thereto, a multimedia disabling notification is sent to the second terminal, and said at least one multimedia option is indicated as being no longer available. Preferably, the multimedia disabling notification is sent as an SMS message. | 01-03-2013 |
| 20130010661 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR OFDM PEER DISCOVERY - A method of wireless communication includes splitting data into n data sets, where n is greater than or equal to two. In addition, the method includes selecting n different resources associated with a resource identifier based on a hopping pattern for sending each of the data sets within a set of resources of one full set of transmissions. The selected n resources have a hopping pattern such that there is at least one resource of the n resources that is non-overlapping in time with resources associated with resource identifiers other than said resource identifier. Furthermore, the method includes sending m data sets on m selected resources in m transmissions within the one full set of transmissions, where m is less than or equal to n. | 01-10-2013 |
| 20130016636 | SECURING, MONITORING AND TRACKING SHIPPING CONTAINERS - A method of securing a container includes inserting, into a seal device at a container, an electronic bolt; reading, by the seal device, a serial number stored in the electronic bolt; communicating, from the seal device, to a user application, insertion of the bolt; scanning, by the user via a handheld device, a barcode on the seal device representative of an identification of the seal device; communicating, from the handheld device to the user application, the identification of the seal device; inputting, by a user at the container via the handheld device, information associated with the container; communicating, from the handheld device to the user application, the information associated with the container; associating, in a database by the user application, the information associated with the container with the bolt serial number and the identification of the seal device; communicating, by the user application, a confirmation to the seal device. | 01-17-2013 |
| 20130028152 | WIRELESS ACCESS POINT WITH MODULAR NETWORK ELEMENTS - A wireless access point (AP) has a modular architecture, where each network element module provides one or more added capabilities to the wireless AP, such as devices and/or services. The modular and mechanically interlocking structure of the wireless AP enables a network user to easily expand or otherwise modify a home wireless network in a simplified manner by physically adding or removing specific network element modules. Each network element module includes the requisite power, high-speed digital signal, and module control connections in an integrated connection port, and is already loaded with suitable software for devices included in the network module element. Consequently, the network user can expand the smart network with a desired functionality by simply plugging the desired network element module into the wireless AP, and all connection and network association procedures are carried out automatically. | 01-31-2013 |
| 20130028153 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD OF PROBE FOR ULTRASOUND DIAGNOSIS AND APPARATUS THEREFOR - A probe apparatus for ultrasound diagnostic imaging associates with a mmWave-based Personal Basic Service Set (PBSS), performs pairing with an ultrasonic imaging apparatus, and transmits an echo signal received via a transducer portion of the probe, to the ultrasonic imaging apparatus using a signal channel in a 60 GHz frequency band, thereby obviating the need for a data transmission cable and greatly reducing operator inconvenience. | 01-31-2013 |
| 20130028154 | WIRELESS APPARATUS AND WIRELESS SYSTEM - One embodiment provides a wireless apparatus including: a reception unit which receives a data signal having a header field and a data field, the header field including a reply request which specifies either an acknowledgement or a negative acknowledgement; a decision unit which decides a reception result indicating whether the header field and the data field have been received successfully or unsuccessfully; and a transmission unit which transmits the acknowledgement or the negative acknowledgement in accordance with the reply request and the reception result of the data field when the header field has been received successfully, and transmits the negative acknowledgement when the header field has been received unsuccessfully. | 01-31-2013 |
| 20130028155 | MAC Packet Data Unit Construction for Wireless System - A method for wireless communication using MAC PDUs. The method includes determining one or more characteristics of a service flow and selecting on the basis of the one or more characteristics a MAC PDU header type among a plurality of MAC PDU header types. The service flow data is encapsulated in MAC PDUs with a header of the selected type. The MAC PDUs with the encapsulated service flow data are then wirelessly transmitted. Also, a method for communication between a Base Station (BS) and a Subscriber Station (SS). The method includes generating at the BS a plurality of MAC PDU packets with a payload component holding service flow data and a plurality of MAC PDU packets without payload component, carrying control information. The method also includes transmitting wirelessly the MAC PDU packets with the payload component and the MAC PDU packets with the control information to the SS. | 01-31-2013 |
| 20130034031 | AD HOC WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK WITH NODE ROLE INFORMATION ROUTING AND ASSOCIATED METHODS - An ad hoc wireless communications network includes wireless nodes arranged in a backbone net and stub nets coupled to the backbone net via respective wireless nodes defining gateway nodes. A method for the network includes transmitting node role information from each gateway node to respective wireless nodes within each stub net. The node role information includes node reactive routing directions for establishing a route outside of a given stub net. A route request is unicast transmitted from a first wireless node in a respective first stub net to a respective first gateway node based upon the node role information. The route request is a request to communicate to a second wireless node in a respective second stub net. The route request is transmitted from the first gateway node across the backbone net to the second gateway node of the second stub net. | 02-07-2013 |
| 20130034032 | Accessing Service Guide Information in a Broadcast System - Apparatuses may perform and methods may include receiving a broadcast signal that includes a physical layer pipe identified by a predetermined identifier indicating that the physical layer pipe includes service guide bootstrap information. The bootstrap information may identify one or more service guides available for download. The physical layer pipe may include a header that includes version values that identify changes in signaling data and changes in the service guides. Based on receiving the header only, an apparatus may determine whether the signaling data and/or service guides previously stored in the apparatus need to be updated. | 02-07-2013 |
| 20130039236 | HIERARCHICAL MODULATION FOR COMMUNICATION CHANNELS IN SINGLE-CARRIER FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS - System(s) and method(s) are provided to transmit simultaneously a first and a second communication channel in a single-carrier waveform format with disparate error rate requirements. First channel and second channel are coded individually to form an alphabet for a first and second constellation. Prior to transmission, bits of information of the first and second channels are modulated with a hierarchical modulation constellation is generated through a combination of a first a second constellation; each constellation is assigned a configurable weight (e.g., a “hierarchic weight”) that is expressed in terms of a configurable energy ratio. The energy ratio determines the resilience of bits associated with the first and second channel. Bit mapping within the first and second constellation provides redundancy to mitigate error rate within each quadrant of the hierarchical constellation. Hierarchical modulation of more than two channels can be accomplished through the same principal of individual coding and constellation composition. | 02-14-2013 |
| 20130044655 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE WITH MULTIPLE TRELLIS DECODERS AND RELATED METHODS - A wireless communications device includes a receiver, and a decoder coupled downstream from the receiver. The decoder is configured to alternatively decode a first signal using a first trellis state transition map including first valid transitions, the first signal having a first modulation order, and second signals using second trellis state transition maps including respective second valid transitions defined from the first valid transitions. The second signals have respective modulation orders less than the first modulation order. | 02-21-2013 |
| 20130044656 | Method of Handling a VoIP Connection of a Mobile Device and Related Communication Device - A method of handling a voice over internet protocol (VoIP) function of a mobile device in a wireless communication system is disclosed. The method comprises arranging a user interface in the mobile device, for a user of the mobile device to control the VoIP function via the user interface; and processing a requested data connection between the mobile device and a network of the wireless communication system according to the VoIP function, when the requested data connection is determined to be a VoIP connection. | 02-21-2013 |
| 20130044657 | RANDOM ACCESS METHOD AND APPARATUS IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Disclosed is a method of performing random access by a User Equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system. The method includes generating at least two random access signals with their own priorities, and transmitting the at least two random access signals with their own priorities. The random access method may include transmitting at least two random access signals to at least two target communication nodes. Further, the random access method may include transmitting at least one random access signal, and selecting at least one of at least two random access response signals received in response to the at least one random access signal and performing random access control by using the selected random access response signals. | 02-21-2013 |
| 20130051292 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND METHOD USING PSEUDO-RANDOM CODE - According to the present invention, a communication apparatus comprises: a preamble generator which generates a pseudo-random code; a band shaping code generator which generates a band shaping code having a higher frequency than the pseudo-random code; a calculator which performs a calculation of the pseudo-random code and the band shaping code and outputs a preamble obtained through the calculation; and a multiplexer which multiplexes the preamble for synchronization with a second communication apparatus, a header, and data, and outputs a data frame obtained through the multiplexing. | 02-28-2013 |
| 20130058266 | Method and system for realizing wireless USB flash disk - The disclosure discloses a realizing method and system for taking a mobile terminal as a wireless Universal Serial Bus (USB) flash disk. A client sends a Server Message Block (SMB) protocol data packet as an access request to a mobile terminal in a Bluetooth way after establishing a Logical Link Control and Adaptation Protocol (L2CAP) link with the mobile terminal; the mobile terminal executes the received SMB data packet and sends the SMB data packet as the access result to the client in a Bluetooth way; and the client displays the received access result. The method, device and system for realizing the wireless USB flash disk can take a mobile terminal as a wireless USB flash disk without any additional cable by combining the SMB protocol with the Bluetooth technology and using the mutual conversion between the SMB data packet and the L2CAP data packet, thereby being convenient to users. | 03-07-2013 |
| 20130064150 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, TRANSMITTER, TRANSMISSION CONTROL METHOD, TRANSMISSION CONTROL PROGRAM, AND PROCESSOR - A precoding deciding unit selects precoding for the spatial multiplexing of signals addressed to a plurality of receivers form a plurality of precodings. A filter multiplication unit multiplies the signals by filter coefficients to be used in the precoding selected by the precoding deciding unit. | 03-14-2013 |
| 20130070654 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORK SYSTEM - In a wireless communication network system and on a route of a network which is being used for communication, in case a fall of transmission rate occurs depending on AMR, there is an inconvenience that, even though there exists another route with faster transmission rate, switching to it cannot be made. | 03-21-2013 |
| 20130070655 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION METHOD AND MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A mobile communication method according to the present invention includes the steps of: sending “INVITE” from a UE# | 03-21-2013 |
| 20130083711 | Reuse of Training Sequence Between Frequency-Adjacent Radio Signals - Methods and apparatus for processing received signals in a multi-carrier system are disclosed. An exemplary method includes estimating one or more first propagation channel coefficients based on a training sequence in each of one or more first slots received over a first radio channel, equalizing signal samples from one or more second slots received over a second radio channel immediately frequency-adjacent to the first radio channel, using the first propagation channel coefficients, and demodulating user data bits from the equalized signal samples. In some embodiments, the training sequence is located at a fixed position in each of the one or more first slots and user data bits are demodulated from a directly corresponding position in each of the second slots. Improved data rates are thus achieved by constraining radio carriers in a multi-carrier system to frequency-adjacent channels and eliminating training symbols from one of the signals. | 04-04-2013 |
| 20130089012 | METHOD AND INTERFACE FOR INTERFACING A RADIO FREQUENCY TRANSCEIVER WITH A BASEBAND PROCESSOR - An interface includes three sub-interfaces. A first and second sub-interface receive first/second inbound IQ data streams, respectively, packetize the first/second inbound IQ data streams to obtain first/second inbound IQ data packets, respectively, and transmit the first/second inbound IQ data packets to the baseband processor via a first/second set of RX lanes, respectively. Each first/second inbound IQ data packet comprises a data packet identifier out of a common set of possible data packet identifiers. A third sub-interface receives outbound IQ data packets from the baseband processor via a TX lane, and depacketizes the outbound IQ data packets to obtain an outbound IQ data stream. The third sub-interface receives an RX not-acknowledge signal via the TX lane that identifies a defective first or second inbound IQ data packet within the first/second inbound IQ data packets. | 04-11-2013 |
| 20130089013 | BNG TO PCRF MEDIATION ENTITY FOR BBF AND 3GPP ACCESS INTERWORKING - A Mediation Entity (ME) provides a single policy server common to the BroadBand Forum (BBF) fixed domain and the Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) mobile domain. A Policy and Charging Rules Function (PCRF) in the mobile domain provides policy control for both fixed and mobile domains. The ME in the 3GPP domain enables such PCRF approach. The ME may be introduced as a 3GPP mobile domain-based network function or element between a fixed domain-based Border Network Gateway (BNG) and the PCRF. With regard to the BBF fixed domain, the ME acts before the BNG as a Broadband Policy Control Function (BPCF), and with regard to the 3GPP mobile domain, the ME acts before the PCRF as a gateway implementing a Bearer Binding and Event Reporting Function (BBERF) or as a Policy and Charging Enforcement Function (PCEF). | 04-11-2013 |
| 20130089014 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR NETWORK BASED FIXED MOBILE CONVERGENCE - A method and apparatus for providing a network based Fixed Mobile Convergence (FMC) service are disclosed. For example, the method receives a NB-FMC call request originating from a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) NB-FMC endpoint device or a non-SIP NB-FMC endpoint device, and processes the NB-FMC call request using a single hosted NB-FMC Application Server (AS). | 04-11-2013 |
| 20130094412 | TRANSMISSION CONTROL IN A TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORK - The invention relates to a transmission control method implemented by a station having at least one data frame to be transmitted via a wireless telecommunication network. In one aspect, the method comprises, at each selection round from a maximum number of selection rounds: a step of obtaining a value representative of either an authorization to transmit said frame, or of a prohibition to transmit said frame; and, when the value is representative of an authorization for transmission, transmitting an information signal in the network so as to indicate, to the other stations, that the station has obtained a value representative of an authorization for transmission. The transmission of the information signal is at least partially carried out during the transmission of a data frame in the network. | 04-18-2013 |
| 20130100867 | MULTIPLE PROTOCOL RECEIVER - The presently disclosed subject matter is directed to methods and apparatus for providing a multi-protocol receiver for use in a radio frequency (RF) network. The receiver is designed to listen for multiple different packet preambles in parallel and, upon detection of a particular preamble, shift to demodulating the data portion of the packet using the single modulation technique associated with the particular preamble. Transmission of packets may be performed using a single radio frequency for all network devices or by frequency hopping techniques but using the same hopping pattern for all network devices. The receiver may be used with general communications networks or more specific applications, such as Smart Grid and AMI networks, and meshed networks of metrology devices. | 04-25-2013 |
| 20130100868 | PHASE COHERENT RADIO - The embodiments described are directed to communications processes, apparatus and systems which include the capability of receiving, at a first station, from at least one second station at least one first RF signal; detecting, at the first station, a phase of a first packet of data encoded into and received on the first RF signal; extracting, at the first station, the first packet of data from the first RF signal; receiving, at the first station, at least one second RF signal; extracting, at the first station, a second packet of data from the at least one second RF signal; determining, at the first station, if additional RF signals containing additional packets of data are to be received; repeating a sub-set of the foregoing operations and combining each of the extracted data packets, whereupon being combined at least one master data packet with reduced or no errors is recovered. | 04-25-2013 |
| 20130100869 | WIRELESS NETWORK COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, METHODS, AND INTEGRATED ANTENNA STRUCTURES - Wireless mesh network communication apparatus and methods are disclosed. Directional antennas are respectively operatively coupled to dedicated communication devices to provide multiple independent wireless communication links. Exchange of communication traffic through the wireless communication links provided by the communication devices and the antennas is controlled by a switch. Any or all of the antennas may be adjustable so as to provide for flexibility in antenna beam alignment. Beam alignment may be physically or electronically adjustable. Radio units including the communication devices and the antennas, and possibly also the switch, may be enclosed in a single housing. The housing may be shared with other components such as wireless communication network base station antennas. | 04-25-2013 |
| 20130100870 | Terminal Access Method and Radio Communication Network - The disclosure discloses a terminal access method and a radio communication network. The method comprises: after a first terminal accesses the radio communication network, the radio communication network stores the first context information corresponding to a first identifier of the first terminal; the radio communication network receives an access request message from a second terminal, wherein the access request information carries a second identifier of the second terminal; the radio communication network establishes the second context information for the second terminal according to the first identifier, the first context information and the second identifier; and the radio communication network implements the access of the second terminal according to the second context information. In the disclosure, duplicate establishment of the same information in context information can be avoided, so that the non-data-service overhead of the radio communication network is reduced. | 04-25-2013 |
| 20130107768 | COMMUNICATION NETWORK SYSTEM, NODE APPARATUS, AND ROUTE SELECTION METHOD FOR COMMUNICATION NETWORK SYSTEM | 05-02-2013 |
| 20130107769 | AVERAGE FREQUENCY CONTROL OF SWITCHER FOR ENVELOPE TRACKING | 05-02-2013 |
| 20130107770 | WIRELESS MASTER-SLAVE DISTRIBUTED COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK | 05-02-2013 |
| 20130107771 | Radio Frequency Module Supporting Multiple Carriers, Base Station and Carrier Distribution Method | 05-02-2013 |
| 20130114481 | Coding Approach For A Robust And Flexible Communication Protocol - A coding approach for a robust and flexible network communication protocol is described. By using coding, it is possible to eliminate the need to track packet identities, and hence, it is possible to reduce coordination overhead associated with many conventional protocols. The method and system described herein takes advantage of multiple paths, interfaces, mediums, servers, and storage locations available in a network. The proposed protocol allows quick response to congestion by load balancing over different network resources. The method also enables soft vertical hand-overs across heterogeneous networks. In one embodiment, a media file is divided into chunks and transmitted using a transport protocol tailored to meet delay requirements of media streaming applications. Also described are different coding strategies for chunk delivery based upon an urgency level of each chunk. | 05-09-2013 |
| 20130114482 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING SESSION CONNECTION IN COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - User equipment (UE) in a communication system controls session connection of at least one of a transport layer, a network layer, and a physical layer. | 05-09-2013 |
| 20130121219 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING REMOTE L-BAND SMART ANTENNAS - Various avionics systems may benefit from providing remote L-band smart antennas. For example, smart antennas may be used in connection with transponders and other avionics equipment. The smart antenna may incorporate functionality that may obviate the need for coaxial RF cabling. According to certain embodiments, an avionics system may include an antenna having at least a radio frequency function included therewith. The avionics system may also include a data bus connecting the antenna to a digital receiver at avionics processing hardware. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130128784 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPARATUS - A wireless communication apparatus includes a wireless communication device for multiplexing communication channels according to a predetermined method for carrying out wireless communication with a terminal, and carrying out communication with the terminal; and a control device for providing a plurality of program executing environments corresponding to the respective communication channels to operate in parallel or a in multitask manner, wherein, in each of the program executing environment, a process for providing a virtual wireless communication device interface corresponding to a corresponding communication channel and for carrying out Media Access control for communication via the virtual wireless communication device interface is executed, and the control device causes only the program being executed in the program executing environment to carry out communication via a virtual wireless communication device interface provided by the program being executing in the program executing environment. | 05-23-2013 |
| 20130136042 | Apparatus and Method for Power Adjustment for Link Imbalances - Methods and devices for dynamically controlling a transmission power of an HS-DPCCH are disclosed. A wireless user equipment receives downlink transmissions on a data channel from a serving cell, and determines a rate of duplicate packets on the data channel. The UE interprets a high rate of duplicate transmissions as an indication that the HS-DPCCH is not being successfully decoded, and therefore increases the transmission power of the HS-DPCCH. Correspondingly, the UE interprets a low rate of duplicate transmissions as an indication that the HS-DPCCH may have too high a transmission power, and therefore decreases the transmission power of the HS-DPCCH. | 05-30-2013 |
| 20130136043 | METHOD FOR INTELLIGENT COMMUNICATING MANAGEMENT OF ELECTRONIC SHELF LABEL SYSTEM - Disclosed herein is a method for intelligent communicating management of an ESL system, in wireless communication performed between first communication terminal equipment and second communication terminal equipment included in the electronic shelf label system, in which when the wireless communication is performed to the second communication terminal equipment from the first communication terminal equipment, a transmission packet including a state field indicating state information of the first communication terminal equipment is transmitted to the second communication terminal equipment. | 05-30-2013 |
| 20130136044 | METHOD OF PERFORMING POLLING PROCEDURE IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method of generating a data block for performing a polling procedure in a wireless communication system, a method of transmitting data and a method of performing a polling procedure are disclosed. A protocol layer performs the polling procedure for requesting a receiving side to transmit status report if there are no data to be transmitted to the receiving side in both a transmission buffer and a retransmission buffer. When determining whether there are no data to be transmitted to the receiving side in the retransmission buffer, it is preferable that a data block for which retransmission request information is not received from the receiving side is excluded. | 05-30-2013 |
| 20130142092 | RADIO COMMUNICATION TERMINAL, RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD - A radio communication terminal includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire property information indicating a property that is used when a data communication route, on which data communication is performed with other radio communication terminals, is determined, a calculator configured to calculate variation of the property by using the acquired property information, and a controller configured to change a determination reference for whether to change the data communication route in response to the calculated variation of the property. | 06-06-2013 |
| 20130142093 | Mobile Layer 2 Virtual Private Network Over Internet Protocol Networks - The present disclosure relates to a technique for maintaining communication established between a mobile node ( | 06-06-2013 |
| 20130148553 | Wireless Communication Device Capable of Controlling Signal Polarization Based on Channel Conditions - Wireless communication devices are disclosed that are capable of selecting and changing signal polarities depending on channel conditions in order to improve or optimize communication therebetween. When a first polarization direction is deemed inadequate, the devices can switch to communicating via a second polarization. In addition, information relating to received signal qualities in the different polarizations can be stored in each device to allow for quick and efficient exchanges between configurations. Finally, when conditions warrant, the devices can enter a dynamic polarization configuration in which signal polarizations are switched rapidly so as to enjoy benefits of diversity. | 06-13-2013 |
| 20130148554 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR SHARING CONTENTS VIA BLUETOOTH NETWORK - An electronic device capable of sharing content includes a storage unit, an input unit, a wireless connection unit, and a control unit. The storage unit stores a variety of content. The control unit obtains one of the contents from the storage unit according to a selection signal from the input unit, combines the selected content with an ID packet of the electronic device to form a combined ID packet, and employs the combined ID as a new ID packet of the electronic device, thereby allowing other electronic devices to directly obtain the selected content through the new ID packet. | 06-13-2013 |
| 20130148555 | Wireless Emergency Services Protocols Translator Between ANSI-41 and VoIP Emergency Services Protocols - A protocol converter or translator between ANSI-41 ORREQs and VoIP V2 messaging. The protocol converter may alternatively (or also) provide conversion between GMS MAP and VoIP V2 messaging. Interaction of VSPs with a Mobile Positioning Center (MPC) or a Gateway Mobile Location Center (GMLC) is permitted, as is interaction of wireless carriers with a Voice Positioning Center (VPC). In this way existing GMLCs or MPCs may be used to service VoIP 9-1-1 calls. Moreover, operators of Voice Positioning Centers (VPCs) who implement wireless offerings can re-use their existing VPCs to service wireless 9-1-1 calls. | 06-13-2013 |
| 20130155918 | Techniques To Enhance Header Compression Efficiency And Enhance Mobile Node Security - A method includes, in response to a determination a received packet has information in a header of the packet that if modified with other information would allow a subsequent header compression to compress the header to a larger degree than if the information was not modified, modifying the information with the other information. The method also includes compressing at least the header and transmitting the packet including the compressed header. Another method includes, in response to a determination a received packet has a sequential identification in a header of the packet, modifying the sequential identification to a random identification; and transmitting the packet to a core network. Apparatus and program products are also disclosed. | 06-20-2013 |
| 20130155919 | METHOD OF POTENTIAL ROUTING, METHOD OF POTENTIAL SCHEDULING, AND MESH NODE - A method of potential routing, a method of potential scheduling, and a mesh node are provided. Here, the mesh node includes a potential routing unit that transmits a data packet to a preset routing path by calculating a multiple potential, wherein the multiple potential indicates each potential of all destination nodes including a plurality of mesh nodes; and a potential scheduler that schedules a packet transmission order using the multiple potential. | 06-20-2013 |
| 20130155920 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TRANSMITTING MESSAGE - A method and system for transmitting a message to a terminal is provided, and the method for transmitting a message in a message transmission system including an Inter-Working Function (IWF) identified by a Representative Mobile Subscriber Integrated Services Digital Network Number (R-MSISDN) according to an embodiment of the present invention includes transmitting, at transmission side, a message including the R-MSISDN and an address of a recipient terminal to the IWF; extracting, at the IWF, the address of the recipient terminal from the message; acquiring, at the IWF, routing information using the address of the recipient terminal; rebuilding, at the IWF, the message using the routing information; and transmitting, at the IWF, the rebuilt message to the recipient terminal based on the routing information. The method according to an embodiment of the present invention is advantageous to transmit a message in case where the recipient routing information is not provided. | 06-20-2013 |
| 20130155921 | ENHANCED DEMODULATION REFERENCE SIGNAL (DM-RS) DESIGN - A method in a mobile communication terminal includes receiving a Multi-User Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MU-MIMO) signal, which includes at least a precoded transmission that is addressed to the terminal and which includes one or more Demodulation Reference Signals (DM-RS). Control information, which indicates one or more scrambling sequences and one or more orthogonalization sequences used in producing the DM-RS, is received in the mobile communication terminal. The control information is provided in a format that does not permit signaling of every possible scrambling sequence and orthogonalization sequence selection. The control information is interpreted in the mobile communication terminal so as to identify the scrambling sequences and orthogonalization sequences used in producing the DM-RS, and the DM-RS are demodulated using the identified scrambling sequences and orthogonalization sequences. | 06-20-2013 |
| 20130155922 | FALSE LOCK DETECTION FOR PHYSICAL LAYER FRAME SYNCHRONIZATION - Systems, devices, processors, and methods are described which may be used for the reception of a wireless broadband signal at a user terminal from a gateway via a satellite. A wireless signal may include a series of physical layer frames, each frame including a physical layer header and payload. The received signal is digitized and processed using various novel physical layer headers and related techniques to synchronize the physical layer frames and recover data from physical layer headers for purposes of demodulation and decoding. | 06-20-2013 |
| 20130155923 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR OPERATING A TIMER FOR PROCESSING DATA BLOCKS - A timer for processing data blocks is proposed for a receiver of a mobile communications system. If the timer is not running, the timer is started based a data block. The data block has a sequence number higher than a sequence number of another data block that was first expected to be received. If the timer is stopped or expires, the timer is based on a highest sequence number of a data block among data blocks that cannot be delivered to a higher entity. The timer can be used to prevent a stall condition in mobile communications. | 06-20-2013 |
| 20130163489 | Method and System Providing Interoperability Between Wireless Gigabit Alliance I/O PAL and A/V PAL Devices - A method and system are provided for transmitting wireless signals from a source station having a WGA IO PAL device to one or more destination stations having WGA AV PAL device according to a protocol adaptation layer translation mechanism whereby received data and control packets formatted in accordance with a first protocol adaptation layer or translated into translated data and control packets formatted in accordance with a second different protocol adaptation layer prior to conveyance in accordance with the second different protocol adaptation layer. | 06-27-2013 |
| 20130163490 | VOIP ANALOG TELEPHONE SYSTEM WITH CONNECTION TO HOME MONITORING SYSTEM - A multi-port VoIP telecommunications system that allows the user to gain access to telephone connectivity through the Internet by connecting directly to the Internet or by connecting to the Internet through the existing Internet connection of a computer or cell phone device. The present system includes an Ethernet port, a Wi-Fi receiver to facilitate the transmission and receipt of Internet protocol signals wirelessly, a USB plug connectable to the ATA, connectivity to a home monitoring network and connectivity to Bluetooth devices. | 06-27-2013 |
| 20130170411 | SIGNAL UNIT INCLUDING A FIELD INDICATIVE OF A ZERO-LENGTH PAYLOAD - A method includes receiving, at a first wireless device from a second wireless device, a signal (SIG) unit including a first field. The method also includes determining whether the first field has a particular value that is indicative of a zero-length payload and decoding the SIG unit based at least in part on the determination. | 07-04-2013 |
| 20130170412 | APPARATUS, AND ASSOCIATED METHOD, FOR FACILITATING ROUTING OF DATA IN A RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM HAVING A MOBILE NODE CAPABLE OF ROAMING MOVEMENT - Apparatus, and an associated method, for providing routing information to a mobile node operable in a radio communication system. The routing information is used by the mobile node to address data messages that are to be communicated to a relay host, or other, device. The routing information that is provided to the mobile node includes a plurality of separate routing sequences. Different ones of the routing sequences are used by the mobile node, depending upon at what location that the mobile node is positioned when the data message is sent. A registration server is used by which to create the routing information, responsive to indications of a home network associated with the mobile node and a current location of the mobile node. | 07-04-2013 |
| 20130182620 | USPL-FSO LASERCOM POINT-TO-POINT AND POINT-TO-MULTIPOINT OPTICAL WIRELESS COMMUNICATION - Enhancements in optical beam propagation performance can be realized through the utilization of ultra-short pulse laser (USPL) sources for laser transmit platforms, which are can be used throughout the telecommunication network infrastructure fabric. One or more of the described and illustrated features of USPL free space-optical (USPL-FSO) laser communications can be used in improving optical propagation through the atmosphere, for example by mitigating optical attenuation and scintillation effects, thereby enhancing effective system availability as well as link budget considerations, as evidenced through experimental studies and theoretical calculations between USPL and fog related atmospheric events. | 07-18-2013 |
| 20130182621 | INFORMATION COLLECTION SYSTEM, TERMINAL AND SINK NODE USING WIRELESS MULTIHOP NETWORK, AND COMMUNICATION METHOD FOR THE SAME - In a wireless multihop network, collision between a routing control message and an information collection message is avoided, and information collection is completed within a predetermined time. A terminal includes: a transmission period control unit that calculates transmittable periods of a routing control message and an information collection message per hop, based on a hop count from the sink node and the number of terminals per hop, calculate a collision period during which the routing control message collides with the information collection message, based on both of the calculated transmittable periods, and recalculates the transmittable period of the routing control message so as to transmit the routing control message while avoiding the calculated collision period; a routing control unit that creates and transmits the routing control message within the transmittable period of the routing control message according to a hop count of the terminal; and an information transmission unit that creates and transmits the information collection message within the transmittable period of the information collection message according to a hop count of the terminal. | 07-18-2013 |
| 20130188538 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR SHORT-RANGE COMMUNICATION BASED DIRECTION FINDING - Method, apparatus, and computer program product example embodiments provide short-range communication based direction finding. According to an example embodiment of the invention, a method comprises transmitting by a target device, information in one or more advertising packets, including preferences of the target device for using data signing associated with direction finding; and receiving by the target device from a tracker device, one or more direction finding request packets including a request for data signing corresponding with the target device preferences. | 07-25-2013 |
| 20130188539 | BLOCKING COMMUNICATION BETWEEN ROGUE DEVICES - Techniques which prevent rogue devices from continued access to a wireless communication system. A control element directs access points as to which mobile stations to service. Each access point maintains a record of the mobile stations it is servicing. At the direction of the control element, one or more access points send ACK (acknowledgement) messages when hearing messages from a rogue device. When the rogue device sends a message, it expects an ACK message in response, but those additional ACK messages interfere with the responsive ACK message, causing the rogue device to never hear the responsive ACK message. The rogue device assumes its message was not received, so it retries sending of that message. When the rogue device retries sending of its message, the responsive ACK message is similarly interfered with, until the rogue device concludes that its connection has been lost. | 07-25-2013 |
| 20130201886 | RATE MATCHING FOR A WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM - Apparatuses and methods are provided for generating a plurality of redundancy versions using various rate matching algorithms. In some embodiments, a rate matcher is provided that allocates systematic and parity bits to the redundancy versions in a manner that allows all of these bits to be transmitted in at least one redundancy version. In some embodiments, the rate matcher uses a first puncturing algorithm to generate both a first redundancy version and a third redundancy version, but allocates a different proportion of the systematic bits to these redundancy versions. In these embodiments, the second redundancy version may include only bits that were not transmitted in the first redundancy version. | 08-08-2013 |
| 20130223302 | MULTI-PROTOCOL SWITCHING CONTROL SYSTEM SUITABLE FOR CONTROLLING DIFFERENT ELECTRONIC DEVICES OF DIFFERENT PROTOCOLS - A multi-protocol switching control system suitable for controlling different electronic devices of different protocols by using a router capable of receiving different kinds of protocol to instruct switch sets connected thereto. The system comprises: a wireless router for controlling at least one switch set; the switch set receiving control signals from the central controller for turning on or off electronic devices connected thereto. A protocol area is defined in the router and includes at least two control protocols. The switch control unit defines a protocol assign function to the protocol area. The function causes that one can define or input a protocol to the protocol area and assign the protocol as an operating protocol of the system so that the operation protocols in the wireless routers are matched to those used in switch sets; thereby, the system can receive external instructions and instruct the switch sets to perfume predetermined operations. | 08-29-2013 |
| 20130223303 | RADIO APPARATUS THAT RECEIVES PACKET SIGNAL CONTAINING PREDETERMINED INFORMATION - An RF unit, a modem unit and a processing unit receive packet signals sent from other radio apparatuses and broadcast packet signals. If no packet signals are received over a predetermined period of time, a timing control unit has the RF unit, the modem unit and the processing unit perform an intermittent receiving processing and has them stop broadcasting the packet signals. When the packet signals are received while no packet signals has been received over the predetermined period of time, the timing control unit has them perform continuous receiving processing and has them start broadcasting the packet signals. | 08-29-2013 |
| 20130223304 | CORE NETWORK AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A core network connected to a mobile communication network and establishing voice communication between communication apparatuses receives, from the mobile communication network, to which an originating mobile communication apparatus is connected, a connection request that includes an identifier identifying a terminating communication apparatus, and determines at least one codec that can be used in a terminating network to which the terminating communication apparatus is connected. When the at least one codec that can be used in the terminating network can be used in the core network, the core network signals, to the originating mobile communication apparatus, that codec as a codec candidate that should be used by the originating mobile communication apparatus. | 08-29-2013 |
| 20130250823 | System And Method For Stabilizing A Wireless Monitoring Network - Stabilization of a wireless information collection system for dispenser usage compliance in a facility is provided. This system and method enable network stabilization by providing a network “heartbeat.” The network stabilization operates independently from information collection. Therefore, the system and method are able to improve the reliability of wireless information collection systems where the frequency of data collection is not steady. | 09-26-2013 |
| 20130250824 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS - A location information notifier ( | 09-26-2013 |
| 20130258917 | MAC EXTENSIONS FOR SMART ANTENNA SUPPORT - Apparatus and methods implement aggregation frames and allocation frames. The aggregation frames include a plurality of MSDUs or fragments thereof aggregated or otherwise combined together. An aggregation frame makes more efficient use of the wireless communication resources. The allocation frame defines a plurality of time intervals. The allocation frame specifies a pair of stations that are permitted to communicate with each other during each time interval as well as the antenna configuration to be used for the communication. This permits stations to know ahead of time when they are to communicate, with which other stations and the antenna configuration that should be used. A buffered traffic field can also be added to the frames to specify how much data remains to be transmitted following the current frame. This enables network traffic to be scheduled more effectively. | 10-03-2013 |
| 20130258918 | METHOD OF COMMANDING WIRELESS DEVICES - A method of commanding a first wireless communicating device from a second wireless communicating device, comprising the following steps performed by a main portion of the second device: joining a wireless communication network to which the first communicating device is connected, using procedures of the protocol stack of the first device, thereby obtaining network information for constructing commands for the second device, and making the network information available for the remote control portion, and comprising the following steps performed by a remote control portion of the second device: retrieving the network information from the main portion of the second device, constructing a command message for the first device using a format of the command messages of the protocol stack of the first device and using the retrieved network information, and sending the command message to the first device, using the MAC and PHY layers. | 10-03-2013 |
| 20130265917 | COMMUNICATION METHOD AND SYSTEM, ACCESS NETWORK DEVICE, AND APPLICATION SERVER - Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a communication method and system, an access network device, and an application server. The communication method includes: receiving, by an access network device, a service packet; and sending, by the access network device, the received service packet to an application server according to a policy, where the application server is arranged at an access network side, and is independent from the access network device or in the access network device, and the application server supports operation of at least one service. It can be seen that, an application server that supports operation of third-party applications is introduced at an access network side, so that a UE can directly perform service interaction with the access network side, which significantly improves the response time of a user request, decreases service delay, and improves the QoS of a service, thereby improving user experience. | 10-10-2013 |
| 20130265918 | BROADCAST EQUIPMENT COMMUNICATION PROTOCOL - A data link manager includes a User Datagram Protocol (UDP) receiver for receiving HD Radio broadcast equipment communication protocol (HDP) data or non-HD Radio broadcast equipment communication protocol (non-HDP) data using a User Datagram Protocol/Internet Protocol (UDP/IP) protocol; a Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) receiver; and a router for receiving data from the UDP receiver and the TCP receiver, for searching for a destination route in a routing table, and for forwarding the data received from the from the UDP receiver and the TCP receiver to an identified destination route. | 10-10-2013 |
| 20130265919 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ADAPTIVE TRANSMISSION OF SENSOR DATA WITH LATENCY CONTROLS - Disclosed is a method and apparatus to continuously transmit high bandwidth, real-time data, on a communications network (e.g., wired, wireless, and a combination of wired and wireless segments). A control computing device uses user or application requirements to dynamically adjust the throughput of the system to match the bandwidth of the communications network being used, so that data latency is minimized. An operator can visualize the instantaneous characteristic of the link and, if necessary, make a tradeoff between the latency and resolution of the data to help maintain the real-time nature of the system and better utilize the available network resources. Automated control strategies have also been implemented into the system to enable dynamic adjustments of the system throughput to minimize latency while maximizing data resolution. Several applications have been cited in which latency minimization techniques can be employed for enhanced dynamic performance. | 10-10-2013 |
| 20130265920 | POWER BOOST IN COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Representative implementations of devices and techniques provide communication between networked nodes operating on a communication network medium. In an implementation, a node generates a broadcast frame that includes at least a preamble and a payload. The preamble of the broadcast frame may include auxiliary information. The auxiliary information may be associated with one or more symbols of the preamble. The auxiliary information may contain power boost information. | 10-10-2013 |
| 20130265921 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SIGNALING BY BIT MANIPULATION IN COMMUNICATION PROTOCOLS - In a communication environment configured to transfer data from a transmitting end to a receiving end according to a wireless device communication protocol, said wireless device communication protocol is configured with a field comprising a first content, a method for signaling, comprising: replacing the first content of the field with a second content, the second content is a result of a bit manipulation on said first content of the field; transmitting said second content of the field, by the transmitting end, of the second content of the field is requested and transmitting the first content of the field when signaling of the second content of the field is not required; receiving said second content of the field or first content of the field by the receiver end; and determining if a signaling was performed according to said first content of the field or said second content of the field. | 10-10-2013 |
| 20130272178 | METHOD FOR MANAGING CALLS AND MOBILE TERMINAL USING THE SAME - A call management method, an associated mobile terminal, and a mobile terminal control method using a call status, and a related apparatus. A first status change information is created when a call connection for a first call is requested through a first call application. A second status change information is created when a second call connection for a new call is requested through a second call application on the condition that the first call being pre-established through the first call application is connected. After guide information created using the first status change information and the second status change information is outputted, an input of selection information regarding the guide information is received. At least one of the first and second call applications is a call application that performs a service for a packet switched (PS) call. | 10-17-2013 |
| 20130272179 | Frame Padding For Wireless Communications - Systems and techniques relating to wireless communications are described. A described technique includes generating a physical frame and causing a transmission of the physical frame to the wireless communication device. The physical frame includes (i) one or more medium access control data units that encapsulate data for a wireless communication device, (ii) a medium access control layer pad that includes one or more padding delimiters, and (iii) a physical layer pad, wherein a length of the medium access control layer pad and a length of the physical layer pad are based on the physical frame. The one or more padding delimiters can include an end-of-frame flag to inform the wireless communication device to stop receiving a remaining portion of the physical frame. | 10-17-2013 |
| 20130279379 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATION OF LONG DATA UNITS - Systems and methods for communicating the length of a data unit and determining control data based thereon are described herein. In some aspects, a processor and a transmitter are provided. The processor may be configured to determine a measurement unit for representing the length of a data unit, the data unit including a midamble, the measurement unit being at least one of bytes or symbols. The processor may further generate a value indicating the length of the data unit based at least in part on the unit, an encoding scheme associated with the data unit, and a guard interval associated with the data unit. The generated value may be included in the data unit. The transmitter may be configured to transmit via wireless network the data unit to one or more devices. | 10-24-2013 |
| 20130279380 | BROADCAST SIGNAL TRANSMITTING APPARATUS, BROADCAST SIGNAL RECEIVING APPARATUS, AND BROADCAST SIGNAL TRANSCEIVING METHOD IN BROADCAST SIGNAL TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING APPARATUSES - Disclosed are a broadcast signal transmitting apparatus, a broadcast signal receiving apparatus, and a broadcast signal transceiving method in the broadcast signal transmitting and receiving apparatuses. The broadcast signal transmitting method comprises the steps of: compressing headers of data packets which are included in an Internet protocol (IP) stream identified by access information, wherein the compressed data packets include a first packet containing both static information and dynamic information in the header thereof, and a second packet containing dynamic information in the header thereof; splitting the static information from the header of the first packet and diverting the remaining part thereof into the second packet; outputting an IP stream, which includes the second packet, via a data physical layer pipe (PLP); outputting, via a common PLP, a common stream, which includes the static information of the header of the first packet split in the previous step, compression information and IP-PLP mapping information for linking the IP stream and the data PLP; generating a signal frame on the basis of the data from the data PLP and the data of the common PLP; and transmitting a broadcast signal which includes the signal frame. | 10-24-2013 |
| 20130286908 | RADIO COMMUNICATION APPARATUS - A radio receiving apparatus for receiving the variable-length RLC PDU data in an RLC layer includes the buffer memory sectioned into a plurality of areas having a predetermined maximum data length of the RLC PDU data. By referring to a sequence number SN included in each received RLC PDU data, the radio receiving apparatus stores the RLC PDU data having an identical sequence number SN into an identical area, and assembles an RLC SDU data on a basis of the RLC PDU data stored in each area. | 10-31-2013 |
| 20130301493 | METHOD OF TRANSMITTING DATA - Disclosed herein are a method of transmitting data and a method of receiving data. In the method of transmitting data, a management frame including data to be transmitted is configured, and the configured management frame is transmitted. In the method of receiving data, a management frame is received and then data is read from the received management frame. | 11-14-2013 |
| 20130301494 | METHOD AND APPARATUS OF PROCESSING DIGITAL BROADCASTING SIGNAL INCLUDING TRANSMISSION ENSEMBLE NUMBER FIELDS IN TRANSMITTER AND RECEIVER - According to one embodiment, a method of processing a digital broadcasting signal in a transmitter includes: performing RS (Reed-Solomon) encoding on signaling data containing cross layer information between a physical layer and a upper layer; interleaving the RS encoded signaling data, wherein interleaving the RS encoded signaling data includes writing the RS encoded signaling data row-by-row from left-to-right and top-to-bottom in a signaling data block, and outputting the signaling data in the signaling data block by reading column-by-column from top-to-bottom and left-to-right; and transmitting the digital broadcasting signal including the mobile service data and the interleaved signaling data during slots. | 11-14-2013 |
| 20130301495 | Daisy Chaining Device Servers Via Ethernet - A device server intended for attaching serial devices to a network includes Ethernet communications, an Ethernet switch, and serial communication capability so that multiple device servers are connected in a “daisy chain” or series pattern. Galvanic isolation of the power supply from the housing and communication ports, screw terminal and modular connections, DIN rail mounting, broad power supply voltage ranges or “Power-over-Ethernet” and operator visible indicator lamps with a pulse stretching feature greatly simplify installation and use. | 11-14-2013 |
| 20130308505 | APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING A BROADCAST SIGNAL, APPARATUS FOR RECEIVING A BROADCAST SIGNAL, AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING/RECEIVING A BROADCAST SIGNAL USING AN APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING/RECEIVING A BROADCAST SIGNAL - Disclosed is an apparatus for transmitting a broadcast signal, an apparatus for receiving a broadcast signal, and a method for transmitting/receiving a broadcast signal using an apparatus for transmitting/receiving broadcast signal. A method for transmitting a broadcast signal according to the present invention comprises the steps of: generating a first PLP which includes an IP stream having at least one service component; signaling IP-PLP mapping information for linking the IP stream and the PLP in binary form and generating a second PLP which includes the signaled binary information; performing FEC-encoding and bit-interleaving on the first and second PLPs; generating a transmission frame including the first and second bit-interleaved PLPs; and modulating the transmission frame and transmitting a broadcast signal including the modulated transmission frame, wherein the IP-PLP mapping information includes IP information for identifying the IP stream and PLP information for identifying the PLP. | 11-21-2013 |
| 20130308506 | AUTOMATIC DEVICE-TO-DEVICE CONNECTION CONTROL BY ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION - The various aspects are directed to automatic device-to-device connection control. An aspect extracts a first sound signature, wherein the extracting the first sound signature comprises extracting a sound signature from a sound signal emanating from a certain direction, receives a second sound signature from a peer device, compares the first sound signature to the second sound signature, and pairs with the peer device. An aspect extracts a first sound signature, wherein the extracting the first sound signature comprises extracting a sound signature from a sound signal emanating from a certain direction, sends the first sound signature to a peer device, and pairs with the peer device. An aspect detects a beacon sound signal, wherein the beacon sound signal is detected from a certain direction, extracts a code embedded in the beacon sound signal, and pairs with a peer device. | 11-21-2013 |
| 20130315118 | IMPLEMENTING AN INTER-PAL PASS-THROUGH - A system and method are provided that implement an inter-protocol adaptation layer (inter-PAL) pass-through processing scheme in wireless communicating devices operating with separate PALs to combine use of the individually-beneficial features of one PAL by allowing a first order capability for cross-talk between the PALs. A first PAL data packet is passed through the communicating system using a second PAL syntax. In so doing, a capacity to employ beneficial features of the second PAL advantageously in enhancement of the information in a data packet generated according to the first PAL is provided. | 11-28-2013 |
| 20130322310 | TELEMATICS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD - A communication system included in a telematics unit is provided. A GPIO communication port connects a plurality of communication modules included in the telematics unit, and thus enables each of the communication modules to transmit/receive data depending on the data transmission/reception state of the other communication module. Accordingly, provided are a telematics communication system and method that prevents a data transmission/reception speed from being reduced due to frequency interference between the plurality of communication modules. | 12-05-2013 |
| 20130322311 | HOME AGENT DISCOVERY UPON CHANGING THE MOBILITY MANAGEMENT SCHEME - The invention relates to a method for discovering a home agent serving a mobile node upon the mobile node changing its mobility management scheme in a packet-switched network and the implementation of such method in a mobile node or home agent. In order to propose a home agent discover scheme that maintains session continuity in a seamless manner upon a mobile node changing its mobility management scheme, a mobile node comprises information on its location prior to changing the mobility management scheme to one of the first signaling messages transmitted upon changing the mobility management scheme (home agent discovery message). The receiving node uses this information to identify the home agent serving the mobile node or to provide a hint to the home agent where the mobile node is registered in a response message to the mobile node. | 12-05-2013 |
| 20130322312 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IUT IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The present invention relates to a wireless communication system, and more particularly, to a method and apparatus for performing or supporting inter-UE transfer (IUT). The method for performing relevant IUT operations by first user equipment and second user equipment according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises: a step of receiving a message including an IUT request from the first UE; a step of transmitting information associated with the IUT request to a remote party; and a step of performing the IUT operation if the IUT request is granted by the remote party. | 12-05-2013 |
| 20130329613 | IDENTIFYING A RANDOM ADVERTISING DEVICE AS A CONNECTED DEVICE - An electronic device is described. When this electronic device receives a packet containing an address from another electronic device, the electronic device determines if a connection has already been established with the other electronic device using another address. If so, instead of establishing another connection with the other electronic device using the address, the electronic device modifies the packet by replacing the address with the other address so that it appears as if the packet was received via the connection with the other electronic device using the other address. In this way, the electronic device may avoid duplicate connections with the other electronic device, which can occur in communication protocols in which encoded information in advertising frames that specifies an address of the other electronic device is periodically changed. | 12-12-2013 |
| 20130336182 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IDENTIFYING ENHANCED FRAMES FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATION - Systems, methods, and devices for wireless communication. In one aspect, a method for communicating in a wireless network is provided. The method includes generating a media access control frame including a header. The header includes a type field having a type value and a retry field having a retry value. A type of the media access control frame is indicated by both the type value and the retry value. The method further includes transmitting the media access control frame. | 12-19-2013 |
| 20130343246 | Using VOIP call pickup for optimized incoming call treatment on mobile devices - A proposed method and system provide a way of receiving incoming VOIP call without maintaining of permanent SIP registration. To keep pinhole opened at firewall, VOIP client should always run in background and use additional mechanisms (keep alive, registration refreshes, persistent connection, etc) which shorten end point device battery life. | 12-26-2013 |
| 20140003309 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF TRANSMITTER PROTECTION FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS | 01-02-2014 |
| 20140016527 | PHYSICAL LAYER MANAGEMENT AT A WALL PLATE DEVICE - One embodiment is directed to a wall plate device including one or more jacks. Each jack includes a rear attachment point configured to couple to one or more communication paths in a semi-permanent manner. Each jack also includes a front attachment point configured to mate with a connector of a corresponding physical communication media, and to couple such physical communication media to the rear attachment point. Each jack also includes a media reading interface configured to interface with a PLM interface of a connector connected to the front attachment point. The wall plate device also includes a programmable processor coupled to each of the media reading interfaces and configured to access a storage device of a connector connected to the front attachment point through the media reading interface to obtain PLM information. The programmable processor is configured to communicate the PLM information to another device. | 01-16-2014 |
| 20140016528 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - A wireless communication device in a wireless network sets management information notification cycles at specified time intervals and transmits management information containing receive timing information showing its own position to start receiving information, receive window information, and receive cycle information. Another wireless communication device receiving that management information links it to a communication device number for the corresponding wireless communication device and stores the receive timing, the receive window information, and the receive cycle information. When sending information, the receive start position of the corresponding communication device is found from the receive timing information, the receive window information, and the receive cycle information of the other communication and information is then transmitted at that timing. An asynchronous ad-hoc communication wireless network can therefore be configured without a particular control station. | 01-16-2014 |
| 20140022968 | HOME NETWORK OF CONNECTED CONSUMER DEVICES - A consumer product device has a consumer product, a communication module capable of communicating in a mesh network, and a power connector electrically coupled to the communication module. | 01-23-2014 |
| 20140029493 | Wireless Communication Interworking Function - A method and apparatus facilitate data communication between a first device and a second device, such as an application server or Internet portal and a wireless terminal. A wireless link between devices supports communication via plural protocols, such as SMS and TCP/IP over GPRS. An interworking function (IWF) allows communication using native protocols, such as TCP/IP, but when appropriate (e.g. for small data transactions), translates messages to another protocol, such as SMS, for efficiency purposes. The IWF intercepts and responds to packets generated by the first device using the first protocol, as required. The IWF optionally selects a new protocol and generates and forwards packets, representative of the intercepted packets, to the second device. Protocol selection and/or turning the interworking function on/off can be performed dynamically based on efficiency criteria. The IWF may intercept packets before traversal of the wireless link, and may optionally reside in the wireless terminals. | 01-30-2014 |
| 20140044026 | APPARATUS HAVING AND METHOD FOR IMPLEMENTING A DISTRIBUTED ARCHITECTURE FOR RECEIVING AND/OR TRANSMITTING RADIO FREQUENCY SIGNALS - A distributed architecture system for receiving radio frequency (RF) signals includes a receiving unit receiving a plurality of RF signals. The receiving unit includes means for combining the plurality of RF signals into a multiplexed signal. A head unit receives and separates the multiplexed signal into a plurality of information signals. The head unit prepares the information signals for presentation to a user. The head unit is disposed remotely from the receiving unit. A multiplexed link carries the multiplexed signal from the receiving unit to the head unit. | 02-13-2014 |
| 20140050132 | Method For Revocable Deletion of PDN Connection - The invention relates to a method of operating a network node in a telecommunication network, such as an MME. The method comprising: initiating a PDN connection revocable deletion procedure for a device when at least one predetermined criterion is fulfilled; sending a PDN connection revocable deletion request to another network node; receiving a PDN connection revocable deletion response message from said other second network node; and storing data indicating that a PDN connection with said device is revocably deleted. | 02-20-2014 |
| 20140086120 | Heterogeneous Mesh Network and a Multi-RAT Node Used Therein - This invention discloses a heterogeneous mesh network comprised of multiple radio access technology nodes, wherein nodes can function dynamically, switching roles between client and server. Moreover, these nodes can operate in a heterogeneous fashion with respect to one another. In an alternate embodiment, the invention describes a mesh network comprised of nodes operating over TV white-space. This invention additionally discloses self-organizing network embodiments and embodiments that include novel methods of monitoring operational parameters within a mesh network, adjusting those operational parameters, and creating and implementing routing tables. | 03-27-2014 |
| 20140092796 | Method and System for Communicating with an Alarm System - An alarm system can provide security, fire, protection, or other alarm services for a premises, such as for a building or other property. A communication system can provide the alarm system with long-range connectivity, so the alarm system can communicate voice, data, or other information with a remote entity. In some embodiments, the communication system may utilize VoIP communications, for example flowing through an intermediary server to a central monitoring station. The alarm system can comprise an alarm panel into which the VoIP functionality is integrated, for example. In some embodiments, the alarm system can communicate with a remote entity utilizing an LTE communication data channel that may carry voice and data. The alarm system can comprise an alarm panel into which the LTE functionality is integrated, for example. | 04-03-2014 |
| 20140105080 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION PROGRAM - There is provided a wireless communication apparatus capable of using a first MAC protocol and a second MAC protocol including one wireless communication unit. The wireless communication unit includes: a MAC protocol control unit carrying out state transitions and processing in a present state according to the first MAC protocol and the second MAC protocol; and a frame communication unit carrying out communication of frames according to the first MAC protocol and communication of frames according to the second MAC protocol whose frame format is the same as the frames according to the first MAC protocol. | 04-17-2014 |
| 20140105081 | COMMUNICATION NETWORK SYSTEM - In a communication network system with a plurality of nodes connected to a common transmission line, each master candidate node includes an idle time measurement device for measuring an idle time of the transmission line. Once each master candidate node acquires the master privilege and becomes a master node, the master node retains a master privilege until the idle time of the transmission line exceeds a longest of the privilege acquisition idle time widths of the master candidate nodes, the root node transmits a start frame indicating start of a next communicant cycle and the idle time measurement device is cleared upon receipt of the start frame. | 04-17-2014 |
| 20140119251 | INFORMATION SERVICE SYSTEM USING DIRECT COMMUNICATION BETWEEN VEHICLES - Disclosed herein is an information service system using direct communication between vehicles for machine-to-machine (M2M)-based intelligent transport services (ITS). The information service system includes at least one vehicle ITS station and at least one roadside device. The vehicle station and the roadside device exchange information with a server. The vehicle ITS station includes an ITS-S host configured to perform overall control, an ITS-S router configured to connect with a short or long distance communication network, to form a communication network, and to perform transmission and reception of data, and a vehicle ITS-S gateway configured to provide data received from an outside of the vehicle ITS station, that is, data provided from an electronic control unit (ECU) or a variety of types of sensors on a vehicle. The ITS-S host, the ITS-S router and the vehicle ITS-S gateway are connected over an ITS station-internal network, thereby forming a vehicle-mounted device. | 05-01-2014 |
| 20140126437 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR COMMUNICATION MODE SELECTION BASED ON CONTENT TYPE - A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for wireless communication are provided in connection with selection of a communication mode based on traffic type information. In one example, a network entity (e.g., a WiFi router, Picocell, Fentocell, an eNB, etc.) is equipped to obtain traffic type information for content to be transmitted by a network entity, determine a communication mode to use for transmission of the content based on the traffic type information, and transmit the content using the determined communication mode. In an aspect, the traffic type information may indicate that the content is a best effort traffic type, a latency sensitive traffic type, or no traffic type is available. | 05-08-2014 |
| 20140146721 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING AN INTEGRATED MULTI-HOP ROUTING AND COOPERATIVE DIVERSITY SYSTEM - Embodiments of methods and apparatus for providing an integrated multi-hop routing and cooperative diversity system are generally described herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed. | 05-29-2014 |
| 20140153455 | SMART AUTOMATIC COMMUNICATION METHOD AND SYSTEM - A smart automatic communication method and system are introduced. The method applies to a first electronic device and a second electronic device. The first electronic device has a first near field communication chip and a first far field communication chip. The second electronic device has a second near field communication chip and a second far field communication chip. The first electronic device generates a communication packet having therein a communication setup file. The first electronic device moves toward the second electronic device until the first near field communication chip can trigger the second near field communication chip within a short distance. The communication packet is sent from the first electronic device to the second electronic device. The second electronic device analyzes the communication packet to obtain the communication setup file, thereby creating a first far field communication path between the first and second far field communication chips. | 06-05-2014 |
| 20140161006 | Geocast-Based File Transfer - Geocast-based file transfer may be implemented via use of a Geocast File Transfer (GFT) protocol. A sending device may parse a file into multiple chunks. Respective multiple geocast packets comprising the chunks may be geocast. The sending device may geocast all packets sequentially. Upon geocasting all packets, the sending device may wait a predetermined amount of time. During the period of time, any receiving device that did not receive a chunk of the file may geocast a request for the missing chunk. Receiving devices also may wait various respective amounts of time before geocasting requests. Other receiving devices that may have missed a chunk may hear that the chunk it missed is being requested. And that device need not make a request for the chunk. Rather, that device may wait for the sending device to retransmit a geocast packet that contains the missing chunk. | 06-12-2014 |
| 20140185499 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AD-HOC CONTENT SHARING - An approach is provided for discovering proximity-based and/or location-based services over an ad-hoc network. A request to share at least one content item from at least one device is determined. Further, one or more compressed representations of the at least one content item are generated, where the one or more compressed representations include at least one link for retrieving the at least one content item. Furthermore, the one or more compressed representations are broadcast in one or more broadcast messages over an ad-hoc network to one or more other devices. | 07-03-2014 |
| 20140185500 | SINGLE TRANSMISSION LINE FOR CONNECTING RADIO FREQUENCY MODULES IN AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A millimeter-wave radio frequency (RF) system, and method thereof for transferring multiple signals over a single transmission line connected between modules of a millimeter-wave RF system. The system comprises a single transmission line for connecting a first part of the RF system and a second part of the RF system, the single transmission line transfers a multiplexed signal between the first part and second part, wherein the multiplexed signal includes intermediate frequency (IF) signal, a local oscillator (LO) signal, a control signal, and a power signal; the first part includes a baseband module and a chip-to-line interface module for interfacing between the baseband module and the single transmission line; and the second part includes a RF module and a line-to-chip interface module for interfacing between the RF module and the single transmission line, wherein the first part and the second part are located away from each other. | 07-03-2014 |
| 20140192689 | NODE AND A WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORK COMPRISING THE NODE - A computer-implemented method to generate or receive, process and transmit information packets in a node that is in a network with embedded devices using at least one of heterogeneous data formats and protocols at different network layers. The method includes, for each packet, steps of dynamically determining and selecting by the node one or more of a plurality of protocols for processing the packet in the node based on protocol rules that specify when a protocol can be used; and activating by the node at runtime the one or more selected protocols for processing the packet. At least two different protocols of the plurality of protocols are selectable and activateable by the node for processing two different packets for the same network layer. A node configured to perform the method. | 07-10-2014 |
| 20140198692 | Securing Transmit Openings By The Requester - Techniques for securing transmit opening help enhance the operation of a station that employs the technique. The techniques may facilitate low latency response to a protocol data requester, for instance. The techniques provide ways for the protocol data requester to provide additional time for the protocol data responder to obtain the needed response data for the protocol data requester. One way in which this can be done is by intelligently lengthing the protocol request transmitted by the protocol requester. | 07-17-2014 |
| 20140219145 | METHOD AND CORRESPONDING DEVICE FOR IMPROVED BANDWIDTH UTILIZATION - Method and corresponding device for improved bandwidth utilization featuring optimized transmission of information packets on a backhaul connection, by concatenating a few VoIP packets into a big packet with optional internal header compression. The concatenated packets are transmitted efficiently through the backhaul channel and rearranged at the receiving side. In an embodiment of the present invention, compression is applied to the concatenated packets featuring the most waste. | 08-07-2014 |
| 20140348044 | Real-Time Rich Communications Client Architecture - A distributed services modular client architecture may be used to implement IP-based real time rich communication (“RTC”) services with any type of RTC-enabled digital device and a virtual RTC client on the cloud. The services may be distributed among the RTC-enabled digital device and the virtual RTC client. The architecture may distribute signaling and medial exchange plane functions among the RTC-enabled digital device and the virtual RTC client. The architecture may use a SIP/IMS framework, and may be modularized by placing certain services into their own framework so that a particular service may be plugged into the SIP/IMS framework or omitted. The frameworks may be installed in a virtual machine in the cloud, or divided between the device and the virtual machine, depending upon the device capabilities and to allow optimal media processing and transport. Some of the frameworks may be replicated on both the device and the virtual machine. | 11-27-2014 |
| 20140348045 | COMMUNICATION TERMINAL AND METHOD FOR USE IN A COMMUNICATION TERMINAL - The present invention describes a method for configuring a measurement report type to be used by a receiver to report a measurement to a transmitter, wherein the measurement is reported to the transmitter in a report signal over a control channel. The method includes selecting a first measurement report type and at least one second measurement report type to be used by the receiver to report the measurement, generating a measurement reporting pattern defining an occurrence of the first measurement report type and the at least one second measurement report type in the report signal transmitted by the receiver to the transmitter over control channel, and notifying the first measurement report type, the at least one second measurement report type, and the generated measurement reporting pattern to the receiver. | 11-27-2014 |
| 20140355498 | Filtering of Electronic Information to be Transferred to a Terminal - The object of the invention is a system, a device, a terminal and a method for filtering electronic information to be transferred to the terminal through a telecommunication connection. The invention comprises attaching a specific filtering parameter ( | 12-04-2014 |
| 20140362749 | WIRELESS DEVICES AND CONTROL METHOD - Using wireless communications, one or more action devices, or a host device and one or more action devices are wirelessly connected and define a networked system. The devices have the ability to discover other devices wirelessly as those other devices come online within the same network, automatically adjust for the additional devices, and initiate intelligent interaction between one or more connected devices, A host device and action device are capable to effectively manage data to ensure no data is lost. The host device controls the timing and distribution of data to one or more multiple devices simultaneously in an asynchronous or synchronous manner that results in a coordinated and choreographed implementation of the system, The networked system and method utilize existing equipment without the need to obtain specialized equipment or modify the current operational aspects of existing technology by simultaneous use of multiple layers of the TCP/IP network stack. | 12-11-2014 |
| 20150016320 | DYNAMIC ROBUST HEADER COMPRESSION | 01-15-2015 |
| 20150023233 | SUPPRESSION OF DISCOVERY OF MOBILE DEVICES IN A WIRELESS NETWORK - Technologies are generally described for suppressing discovery of mobile devices in a wireless ubiquitous computing (ubicomp) network, reducing the number of network transmissions by devices in the network and reducing network congestion and prolonging battery life. A mobile device may add supplementary information to introductory beacons transmitted by the device that indicate no response is necessary from other devices participating in the network except for a coordinator of the network. The mobile device may transmit a malformed introductory beacon that will be ignored by other devices in the network except for the coordinator. The coordinator of the wireless network may detect the mobile device moving through the network and transmit a suppression signal to other devices in the network causing the devices to ignore the introductory beacons transmitted by the mobile device. | 01-22-2015 |
| 20150023234 | Method For Revocable Deletion of PDN Connection - The invention relates to a method of operating a network node in a telecommunication network, such as an MME. The method comprising: initiating a PDN connection revocable deletion procedure for a device when at least one predetermined criterion is fulfilled; sending a PDN connection revocable deletion request to another network node; receiving a PDN connection revocable deletion response message from said other second network node; and storing data indicating that a PDN connection with said device is revocably deleted. | 01-22-2015 |
| 20150071138 | Data Packet Generator With Isolation Link - A data packet generator device includes a processing device, a wireless communication device, and a network communication device. The processing device generates a token including alphanumeric characters. The wireless communication device receives the token from the processor and transmits the token as a network name. The network communication device also receives the token from the processing device and communicates the same token across a network communication cable. | 03-12-2015 |
| 20150131499 | System and Method for Scalable Geographic Addressing Framework - A bridge device at a first tier receives a geographic addressing packet destined for a target region containing a plurality of devices. The bridge device applies a bridging function using the geographic address packet to determine whether to transmit the geographic addressing packet. The bridging function utilizes certain information based on the geographic addressing packet. The bridge device determines to transmit the geographic addressing packet to a second tier based on the bridging function indicating that the geographic addressing packet should be transmitted to the second tier. | 05-14-2015 |
| 20150146591 | INTER-NODE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD - Provided is a system for data transmission in a wireless network including a plurality of sets of directional antennas with each set of directional antennas rotatably mounted on a common axis and each antenna of each set of directional antennas focused in a different sector emanating from a respective common axis, and a memory includes routing information identifying aligned sectors of adjacent sets of directional antennas. Detection of rotation of a set of directional antennas beyond a threshold amount identifies a changed alignment of adjacent sectors. Upon identification of the changed alignment of the adjacent sectors, revised routing information is provided to the plurality of sets of directional antennas. Upon identification of the changed alignment of the adjacent sectors, a data packet is rebroadcast between adjacent sets of directional antennas utilizing directional antennas identified by the revised routing information. | 05-28-2015 |
| 20150304013 | TRANSMISSION DEVICE, TRANSMISSION METHOD, RECEIVING DEVICE AND RECEIVING METHOD - Provided is a frame configuration usable for both SISO transmission and MISO and/or MIMO transmission. A frame configurator of a transmission device configures a frame by gathering data for SISO and configures a frame by gathering data for MISO and/or MIMO data, thereby to improve the reception performance (detection performance) of a reception device. | 10-22-2015 |
| 20150318957 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION TERMINAL - According to one embodiment, a wireless communication terminal including a receiver, a first processor, a first storage, a second storage, a second processor, and a transmitter is provided. The receiver receives one physical packet that includes at least one frame body field, a first field including information on a length of the frame body field, a second field used to detect an error of the frame body field, and a sequence number field including a sequence number corresponding to the frame body field. The second storage retains a successively and successfully received maximum sequence number on the basis of a result of the first processor. The transmitter transmits a response frame indicating the successively and successfully received maximum sequence number when the first processor extracts at least one correct frame body. | 11-05-2015 |
| 20150319029 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR INTEGRATING BLUETOOTH DEVICES INTO NEIGHBOR AWARE NETWORKS - Methods and apparatus for integrating Bluetooth devices into neighbor aware networks are described herein. In some aspects, a method for wireless communication may comprise receiving at least one parameter indicating availability of a service associated with a first wireless protocol from a first wireless device configured to communicate according to the first wireless protocol. The method may further comprise encapsulating the at least one parameter into a service discovery frame associated with a second wireless protocol. The method may further comprise transmitting the service discovery frame to a second wireless device configured to communicate according to the second wireless protocol. The first wireless network comprises a Bluetooth protocol and the second wireless network comprises a WiFi protocol | 11-05-2015 |
| 20150326342 | Bandwidth Control for Differential Manchester Encoding Auto-negotiation Signaling - A network device includes a communication interface and a transmitter coupled to the communication interface. The transmitter is configured to determine to start an auto-negotiation page with a link partner, and transmit, through the communication interface, a start delimiter for the auto-negotiation page. The transmitter transmits the start delimiter by transmitting a first pulse comprising a first encoding violation, followed by a second pulse comprising a second encoding violation. The transmitter may shorten the first pulse and the second pulse relative to a different pre-defined start delimiter to define spectral content for the first pulse and the second pulse that passes different first and second receiver filters in the link partner for different first and second communication standards. | 11-12-2015 |
| 20150351983 | HOSPITAL BED HAVING COMMUNICATION MODULES - A system for use with a hospital bed having circuitry and a standard AC power outlet spaced from the hospital bed is provided. The system includes a cable assembly couplable to the circuitry of the hospital bed. The cable assembly has power conductors and at least one data conductor. The cable assembly also has a plug including a first power coupler coupled to the power conductors and a first data coupler coupled to the at least one data conductor. The system also includes a second data coupler mountable adjacent the standard AC power outlet. The second data coupler is configured to couple to the first data coupler when the first power coupler is coupled to the standard AC power outlet. | 12-10-2015 |
| 20150365208 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING AUDIO DATA IN BLUETOOTH LOW ENERGY-BASED WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method for transmitting audio data by a master device in a Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE)-based wireless communication system is provided. The method includes configuring a data packet to include identification information indicating whether the audio data is included in a payload of the data packet and transmitting the data packet to at least one slave device. | 12-17-2015 |
| 20150373553 | WIRELESS DEVICE, NETWORK SYSTEM AND CONTROL METHOD OF WIRELESS DEVICE - There is provided a wireless device that includes circuitry configured to receive information from one or more devices connected with the wireless device, select specific information out of the information received from the one or more devices, generate shared information using the specific information as selected by the circuitry, and send the shared information to the one or more other wireless devices by direct wireless communication. | 12-24-2015 |
| 20150381774 | Data Compression and Decompression Methodology and Apparatus - A data compression/decompression methodology and system stores in a compression-side dictionary the data that has been transmitted and additionally applies to such data in the compression-side dictionary a status of being “invalid” for purposes of use as a reference in data compression until an acknowledgement signal has been received from the decompression side indicating that such data has been received. Once the compression side has received the acknowledgement signal indicating that the data in the form of a compressed data packet has been received on the decompression side, the status is changed from being “invalid” into being “valid”, i.e., into being usable as reference data for use in compressing further data elements in the data stream. Each data packet includes a stream index which is representative of the memory location in the compression-side dictionary where the first data element of the uncompressed data set of the data packet is stored. | 12-31-2015 |
| 20160007398 | METHOD FOR TRANSMISSION OF IPv6 PACKETS OVER NEAR FIELD COMMUNICATION (NFC) AND DEVICE OPERATING THE SAME - Provided are a method of transmitting an Internet Packet version 6 (IPv6) packet over near field communication (NFC) and a device for performing the method. The method of transmitting an IPv6 packet over NFC includes receiving the IPv6 packet through a Logical Link Control Protocol (LLCP), and transmitting the IPv6 packet to an Information Field in Protocol Data Unit (I PDU) of the LLCP, and transmitting the IPv6 packet through an adaptation layer for IPv6 over NFC, wherein the maximum number of octets in the I PDU is determined based on a Maximum Transfer Unit (MTU). | 01-07-2016 |
| 20160021599 | Method And Apparatus To Enhance Routing Protocols In Wireless Mesh Networks - A protocol for use in wireless mesh networks (PlayNCool) uses helper nodes to improve data flow in the network. The protocol is compatible with traditional mesh network routing algorithms. Techniques, systems, devices, and circuits for implementing the protocol are described. | 01-21-2016 |
| 20160044720 | A METHOD AND DEVICE TO CONNECT TO A WIRELESS NETWORK - A method for connecting an electronic device to a wireless network provided by an access point is provided. In one embodiment, the electronic device and access point are associated respectively to a first and second identifier in a server hosting a social network. The social network may be defined by a graph structure defining relationships between a plurality of nodes, each node corresponding to an identifier in the social network. In one embodiment, the method includes receiving a connection request for connecting to the wireless network, the connection request including the first identifier, determining using the server hosting the social network if a portion of the graph structure defines a relationship between the nodes corresponding respectively to the first and second identifiers, and granting access to the wireless network based on the determination. | 02-11-2016 |
| 20160065638 | CONTROLLER AND VOICE TRANSMISSION SYSTEM USING THE SAME - A voice transmission system includes at least one electronic device and a controller. The at least one electronic device is connected to an internet. The controller is connected to the at least one electronic device over a wireless local area network channel for conducting a unidirectional voice transmission. The at least one electronic device includes a first communication module and a speaker unit. The first communication module receives a first voice signal from the internet, and the speaker unit plays the first voice signal. The controller includes a voice receiving unit and a second communication module. The voice receiving unit receives a second voice signal, and the second communication module transmits the second voice signal to the first communication module of the at least one electronic device over the wireless local area network. The first communication unit further transmits the second voice signal received to the internet. | 03-03-2016 |
| 20160088474 | Performing Pairing And Authentication Using Motion Information - In one embodiment, a security logic of first portable device is configured to receive first motion sample information from at least one motion sensor of the first portable device and second motion sample information from at least one motion sensor of a second portable device, the first and second motion sample information obtained responsive to training movement of the first and second portable devices by a first user. Based on the motion sample information, the security logic is configured to generate a device pairing value, generate a first confidence value based on the first motion sample information and first reference motion sample information stored in the first portable device corresponding to reference movement of the first portable device by the first user, generate a relationship key pair for a relationship, and communicate the first confidence value and a public key of the relationship key pair to the second portable device using the device pairing value. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 03-24-2016 |
| 20160088550 | COLLABORATIVE DEMAND-BASED DUAL-MODE WI-FI NETWORK CONTROL TO OPTIMIZE WIRELESS POWER AND PERFORMANCE - The disclosure relates to a collaborative demand-based dual-mode Wi-Fi network control framework that may optimize wireless power and performance on wireless devices that may support multiple Wi-Fi networking technologies. In particular, a high performance Wi-Fi link may be reserved to services or applications that have substantial quality of service (QoS) requirements and conventional Wi-Fi links may be utilized to transfer data for services or applications that have typical performance requirements. For example, bandwidth requirements associated with forward traffic may be measured according to sizes and latency requirements associated with the forward traffic and the appropriate Wi-Fi networking mode may be controlled according to the forward traffic bandwidth requirements in combination with the average bandwidth and average retransmission rate associated with the conventional Wi-Fi links, among other factors. Furthermore, when no forward traffic needs to be transmitted, all Wi-Fi subsystems may enter a low power state. | 03-24-2016 |
| 20160099728 | Software defined radio (SDR) system and tuner for commercial mobile devices - A system for providing software defined radio on a mobile device includes a hardware portion including an antenna and an interface configured to connect to the mobile device; a software portion configured for execution on the mobile device, the software portion configured to receive and process RF signals received at the antenna. | 04-07-2016 |
| 20160112901 | DATA COMMUNICATION VIA DATA PACKET HEADERS - This application discloses a data communication method implemented at an electronic device. The electronic device obtains a sequence of data packets. Each data packet complies with a first data format corresponding to a network access protocol and comprises a respective header that further includes a data length field for specifying a length of the respective data packet. Data are then assigned to the data length fields of the sequence of data packets according to a second data format. The electronic device encrypts the sequence of data packets including the assigned data. The encrypted data packets are then sent to a receiver device that is communicatively coupled to the electronic device via a wireless network. The receiver device is configured to retrieve the assigned data from the data length fields of the data packets according to the first and second data formats and perform operations in accordance with the retrieved data. | 04-21-2016 |
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