| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
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| 455443000 | Overlapping cells | 36 |
| 20090036135 | MULTI-CARRIER COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND MULTI-CARRIER COMMUNICATION METHOD - There is provided a multi-carrier communication method capable of preventing lowering of a throughput of another mobile device accompanying allocation of a sub-carrier for a new mobile station device. This multi-carrier communication method can acquire reception quality information for one of the sub-carriers already allocated in an MS ( | 02-05-2009 |
| 20090156220 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR HANDOVER IN MOBILE NETWORK, AND MOBILE TERMINAL THEREOF - A method and an apparatus for performing handover in a mobile communication network and a mobile communication terminal using the same are provided. The method of performing handover in a mobile communication network includes: receiving information about signal intensity of mobile networks to which a user terminal can be connected; selecting at least one of connectable mobile networks as a network for handover using user information including information about user requirement and information about the received signal intensity; requesting approval of handover of the user terminal to the selected network for handover and receiving result information about the approval request from the network for handover; and transmitting information about a network in which handover is approved among the networks for handover to the user terminal. Therefore, in consideration of user information such as service characteristics, a user service environment, and user requirement, by selecting a network for handover, a mobile communication network service having a performance and a cost suitable for user request can be provided. | 06-18-2009 |
| 20090156221 | Handover method and apparatus in mobile network - A method and an apparatus for performing handover in a mobile communication network are provided. The method of performing handover in a mobile communication network includes: obtaining a service providing time period and a utility function on a candidate network basis; obtaining a selection function of each of the candidate networks using the utility function and the service providing time period; and selecting a network for handover among the plurality of mobile networks using the selection function. Therefore, in consideration of user satisfaction and a network service quality, utility functions are defined and by selecting a network for handover using the utility functions, a network suitable for a user environment can be effectively selected and thus it is possible to perform handover that has a performance and a cost suitable for user request and that can maximize a quality of a mobile service. | 06-18-2009 |
| 20100099417 | METHOD FOR MULTI-ZONE MANAGEMENT AND METHOD FOR HANDING OFF A MOBILE TERMINAL USING MULTI-ZONE MANAGEMENT - In a multi-zone management method of a mobile terminal and a handoff method of the mobile terminal using multi-zone management, the mobile terminal records or deletes zone identification information in or from a base station table managed for a handoff, and the zone identification information is used as information for preventing a mobile terminal from frequently registering to a new base station due to frequent handoffs in an overlapping area of two base stations. | 04-22-2010 |
| 20100120436 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GEOGRAPHICALLY LOCATING A CELLULAR PHONE - According to an embodiment of the invention, there is disclosed a method for geographically locating a cellular phone. The method comprises: determining an effective cell-area for each of a first cell and a second cell in a cellular network; and determining a handover area within which the cellular phone is likely to be located when control of the cellular phone is transferred from the first cell to the second cell; wherein the determination of the handover area and the effective cell-area for each of the first cell and the second cell are made based on a topological relationship between the first cell and the second cell. Further related apparatus embodiments are also disclosed. | 05-13-2010 |
| 20100298002 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION METHOD, RADIO CONTROL STATION, AND RADIO BASE STATION - A mobile communication method according to the present invention includes a step A of causing a mobile station in a standby mode in a first cell to transmit a communication start request signal, a step B of judging whether or not to measure communication quality of a second cell on the basis of judgment as to whether or not the particular service is provided in each of the cells and judgment as to whether or not communication quality of the second cell is included in the communication start request signal, the second cell overlaid by the first cell in a different frequency band and a step C of starting communication of the mobile station in either one of the first cell and the second cell on the basis of the measured communication quality of the second cell. | 11-25-2010 |
| 20100304749 | System and Method for Communicating Radio Access Technology Information to Mobile Stations - A mobile station incapable of communicating via a first radio access technology (RAT) and capable of communicating via a second radio access technology (RAT). The mobile station comprising a component configured to receive a list of neighbour cells of the second RAT. The list containing at least one identifying characteristic associated with at least one cell of the first RAT. A component configured to determine that the at least one identifying characteristic is associated with at least one cell of the first RAT. | 12-02-2010 |
| 20100317351 | DETECTION OF COLLISIONS OF RADIO COVERAGE CELL IDENTIFIERS - Additional information is included in or used to generate a positioning reference signal to enable detection of a cell identifier “collision” between two different cells associated with two or more base stations. In one example embodiment, a user equipment terminal detects the collision using the additional information included in or used to generate positioning reference signals sent by two or more base stations and reports the collision to the network, and the network resolves the collision by assigning a different cell identifier to one of the colliding cells. | 12-16-2010 |
| 20110105129 | FEMTOCELL SEARCH METHOD FOR MACRO TO FEMTO HANDOVER - The present invention relates to a femtocell search method for a handover from a macrocell to a femtocell. The present invention relates to a method for a terminal that accesses a macrocell to search a femtocell in an environment where a plurality of femtocells are overlapped in one macrocell. The terminal searches a femtocell by using a dummy preamble in order to minimize the size of neighbor cell lists broadcasted from the macrocell to the terminal. Therefore, according to the present invention, an MAC overhead can be minimized by eliminating neighbor femtocell lists in a mobile neighbor advertisement (MOB_NBR_ADV) message broadcasted from the macrocell, and the terminal can search a femtocell with a minimum scanning load by checking only a femtocell dummy preamble in a dedicated symbol of the macrocell. | 05-05-2011 |
| 20110136490 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION METHOD, FEMTOCELL RADIO BASE STATION, AND NETWORK APPARATUS - The disclosed mobile communication method is a mobile communication method in a mobile communication system, wherein at least a part of a macro-cell (#A), with which first broadcast information is transmitted at a first frequency, and a femto cell (#a), in which second broadcast information is transmitted at a second frequency, overlap geographically. The method has step in which a wireless base station (#a) for a femto cell that manages the femto cell (#a) detects the first broadcast information, step in which the wireless base station (#a) for a femto cell transmits guiding broadcast information at a first frequency in response to detection of the first broadcast information, and step (C) in which a mobile station (UE # | 06-09-2011 |
| 20110189997 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MULTIMODE DEVICE HANDOVER - Systems and methods of operating multimode 3G/4G communications devices in an overlapping 3G/4G coverage area (e.g., WiMAX or LTE/CDMA-EvDO) include determining a loading condition of the 3G and 4G base stations. If the 3G and 4G base stations are lightly loaded, one or more 4G Channel Quality Indicators (CQI) are compared with one or more corresponding 3G Data Rate Control (DRC) indices to determine which of the 3G and 4G networks allows a higher data throughput. The dual mode communications device is handed off to a 4G base station associated with the 4G coverage if the 4G network allows the higher data throughput; otherwise, the dual mode communications device is handed off to a 3G base station. User priorities, application categories, and/or MIMO and diversity modes may be used to determine handoff if the base stations are more than lightly loaded. | 08-04-2011 |
| 20120071167 | Method and System for Controlling Cell Reselections on a Computing Device - A method and a system for controlling cell reselection on a computing device are disclosed. The method comprises detecting the mobile device operating under a potential over-shuttling reselection condition, and making a determination as to whether the mobile computing device operation is operating under the over-shuttling reselection condition based on pre-determined criteria. | 03-22-2012 |
| 20120108245 | Energy Reduction in Cooperating Radio Access Systems - The invention relates to cooperation between first and second wireless access networks that can be used to obtain energy reduction for or traffic routing within the overall telecommunications infrastructure while still enabling acceptable network coverage and satisfactory performance by the telecommunications infrastructure as a whole. The cooperation refers to the fact that the wireless access networks provide duplicate coverage in a particular area when both wireless access networks are active, and that traffic can be switched between the cooperating networks in order to temporarily adjust (e.g. switch off) resources of one or the wireless access networks. In this manner, energy reduction and/or traffic routing can be obtained under the constraint that sufficient service coverage and capacity remains at an acceptable quality. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120149380 | COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM AND METHOD TO FACILITATE HANDOVER - A computer readable medium has machine readable instructions that can include a fingerprint detector to evaluate input data relative to mobility fingerprint data that defines at least one predetermined zone that is a proper subset of overlap in coverage areas between first and second radio technologies to determine whether to trigger a handover between the first and second radio technologies for a mobile unit based on an evaluation of the mobility fingerprint data relative to the input data | 06-14-2012 |
| 20120172046 | IN A RADIO NETWORK ENVIRONMENT, REDUCING INTERFERENCE AMONG OVERLAPPING CELLS - Disclosed is a method for a femtocell to reduce interference with an overlapping macrocell. The femtocell determines soft-frequency-reuse (“SFR”) information of the macrocell. From that information, the femtocell determines which frequency sub-channels are assigned by the macrocell for its cell-center users and which frequency sub-channels are assigned for cell-edge users. (Cell-edge users are given a higher transmission power profile in order to overcome potential interference with neighboring macrocells.) Then, the femtocell selects from the cell-center user frequency sub-channels for transmission to the femtocell's users. By transmitting on the cell-center user frequency sub-channels, the femtocell reduces interference with the overlapping macrocell. The femtocell continues to update its knowledge of the macrocell's SFR information and re-assigns frequency sub-channels as the SFR changes. If the macrocell detects that one of its cell-center users is “close enough” to the femtocell, then the macrocell re-assigns the cell-center user as a cell-edge user to overcome interference. | 07-05-2012 |
| 20120252464 | Method Of Load-Aware Dynamic Handover In Cellular Networks - A handover method is provided, in which a measure of signal strength is obtained between a user terminal and each of one or more candidate cells, relative to signal strength between the user terminal and a source cell. For candidate cells, a threshold is set that depends on a measure of loading of the source cell and a measure of loading of the candidate cell. For the target cell, a particular candidate cell is identified for which the measure of signal strength exceeds the threshold set for that particular cell. The user terminal is connected to the target cell. In specific embodiments, the threshold for each candidate cell depends on a load differential between the source cell and the candidate cell. | 10-04-2012 |
| 20130005345 | FEMTOCELL RADIO BASE STATION, COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A femtocell radio base station, which radio-communicates with one or more communication terminal units, includes a plurality of terminals that receive power from a power supply unit when connected to the power supply unit respectively; a measurement unit that measures total power supplied from one or more connection terminals connected to the power supply unit from among the plurality of terminals; and a control unit that controls radio communication with the one or more communication terminal units based on a measurement result of the measurement unit. | 01-03-2013 |
| 20130045749 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING HANDOVER PARAMETERS IN WIRELESS OVERLAY NETWORKS - The present application describes embodiments of a method and apparatus for determining handover parameters in a wireless overlay network. One embodiment includes modifying a bias value used to determine when to handover user equipment between a macrocell and a femtocell that overlays the macrocell. The bias value is modified in response to a change in one or more handover frequencies associated with the user equipment. Handovers of user equipment are triggered when a sum of the bias value and a measured value of the femtocell signal strength exceed a measured value of the macrocell signal strength. | 02-21-2013 |
| 20130059591 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MULTIMODE DEVICE HANDOVER - Systems and methods of operating multimode 3G/4G communications devices in an overlapping 3G/4G coverage area (e.g., WiMAX or LTE/CDMA-EvDO) include determining a loading condition of the 3G and 4G base stations. If the 3G and 4G base stations are lightly loaded, one or more 4G Channel Quality Indicators (CQI) are compared with one or more corresponding 3G Data Rate Control (DRC) indices to determine which of the 3G and 4G networks allows a higher data throughput. The dual mode communications device is handed off to a 4G base station associated with the 4G coverage if the 4G network allows the higher data throughput; otherwise, the dual mode communications device is handed off to a 3G base station. User priorities, application categories, and/or MIMO and diversity modes may be used to determine handoff if the base stations are more than lightly loaded. | 03-07-2013 |
| 20130095838 | MOBILE STATION APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, BASE STATION APPARATUS, CELL RESELECTION METHOD, CONTROL PROGRAM OF MOBILE STATION APPARATUS, AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - Efficient cell reselection taking the continuity of MBMS service into consideration is enabled. A communication system includes a base station apparatus managing a cell capable of providing a multimedia broadcast multicast service, and a mobile station apparatus belonging to a group of access-restricted cells, and the mobile station apparatus selects the access-restricted cell from the serving cell capable of providing the multimedia broadcast multicast service. The base station apparatus periodically transmits multimedia broadcast multicast service information to the mobile station apparatus (S | 04-18-2013 |
| 20130130699 | IN A RADIO NETWORK ENVIRONMENT, REDUCING INTERFERENCE AMONG OVERLAPPING CELLS - Disclosed is a method for a femtocell to reduce interference with an overlapping macrocell. The femtocell determines soft-frequency-reuse (“SFR”) information of the macrocell. From that information, the femtocell determines which frequency sub-channels are assigned by the macrocell for its cell-center users and which frequency sub-channels are assigned for cell-edge users. (Cell-edge users are given a higher transmission power profile in order to overcome potential interference with neighboring macrocells.) Then, the femtocell selects from the cell-center user frequency sub-channels for transmission to the femtocell's users. By transmitting on the cell-center user frequency sub-channels, the femtocell reduces interference with the overlapping macrocell. The femtocell continues to update its knowledge of the macrocell's SFR information and re-assigns frequency sub-channels as the SFR changes. If the macrocell detects that one of its cell-center users is “close enough” to the femtocell, then the macrocell re-assigns the cell-center user as a cell-edge user to overcome interference. | 05-23-2013 |
| 20130150055 | Method of Creating and Utilizing Diversity in a Multiple Carrier Communication System - In many cellular systems, reusing spectrum bandwidth, creates problems in boundary regions between the cells and sectors where the signal strength received from adjacent base stations or adjacent sector transmissions of a single base station may be nearly equivalent. The invention creates a new type of diversity, referred to as multiple carrier diversity by utilizing multiple carriers, assigning different power levels to each carrier frequency at each base station, and/or offsetting sector antennas. The cell and/or sector coverage areas can be set so as to minimize or eliminate overlap between cell and/or sector boundary regions of different carrier frequencies. Mobile nodes traveling throughout the system can exploit multiple carrier diversity by detecting carriers and selecting to use a non-boundary carrier based on other system criteria in order to improve performance. Boundary carriers may, but need not be, identified and excluded from consideration for use by a wireless terminal. | 06-13-2013 |
| 20130244667 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION METHOD, FEMTOCELL RADIO BASE STATION, AND NETWORK APPARATUS - The disclosed mobile communication method is a mobile communication method in a mobile communication system, wherein at least a part of a macro-cell (#A), with which first broadcast information is transmitted at a first frequency, and a femto cell (#a), in which second broadcast information is transmitted at a second frequency, overlap geographically. The method has step in which a wireless base station (#a) for a femto cell that manages the femto cell (#a) detects the first broadcast information, step in which the wireless base station (#a) for a femto cell transmits guiding broadcast information at a first frequency in response to detection of the first broadcast information, and step (C) in which a mobile station (UE # | 09-19-2013 |
| 20130303175 | HANDOVER CONTROL METHOD, MOBILE STATION DEVICE, AND BASE STATION DEVICE - In a handover control method of a mobile station device, it is determined that whether or not the mobile station device is within the CSG cell. In addition, it is determined that whether or not the CSG cell is an HPLMN, in case that it is determined that the mobile station device is within the CSG cell. In addition, a neighboring cell measurement is executed and handover is performed, in case that it is determined that the CSG cell is the HPLMN, and in case that the mobile station device is set to measure the neighboring cell. In addition, the neighboring cell is not measured, in case that it is determined that the CSG cell is not the HPLMN, and even in case that the mobile station device is set to measure the neighboring cell. | 11-14-2013 |
| 20130310048 | CELL ACTIVATION AND DEACTIVATION IN HETEROGENEOUS NETWORKS - An algorithm which considers the individual power consumption profiles for different types of base stations in a heterogeneous cellular network, and determines which base stations can be switched OFF in line with the traffic demand. The algorithm predicts ( | 11-21-2013 |
| 20130331107 | RADIO COMMUNICATION DEVICES, INFORMATION PROVIDERS, METHODS FOR CONTROLLING A RADIO COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND METHODS FOR CONTROLLING AN INFORMATION PROVIDER - In an embodiment, a radio communication device may be provided. The radio communication device may include a first receiver configured to receive from a first cell first data representing a content encoded using a first codec; a second receiver configured to receive from a second cell second data representing the content encoded using a second codec; and a combiner configured to combine the first data and the second data. | 12-12-2013 |
| 20140004862 | Method and Node Supporting Cell Reselection in Load Balanced Network | 01-02-2014 |
| 20140187249 | System and Method for Coordinating Multiple Radio Transceivers within the Same Device Platform - A wireless device having a central control entity that coordinates multiple radio transceivers co-located within the same device platform to mitigate coexistence interference. The wireless device comprises an LTE transceiver, a WiFi transceiver, a BT transceiver, or a GNSS receiver. In one embodiment, the central control entity receives radio signal information from the transceivers and determines control information. The control information is used to trigger FDM solution such that the transceivers operate in designated frequency channels to mitigate co-existence interference. In another embodiment, the central control entity receives traffic and scheduling information from the transceivers and determines control information. The control information is used to trigger TDM solution such that the transceivers are scheduled for transmitting or receiving radio signals over specific time duration to mitigate co-existence interference. In yet another embodiment, power control solution is used to mitigate coexistence interference. | 07-03-2014 |
| 20140248886 | COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD, BASE STATION, AND USER TERMINAL - A communication control method in a mobile communication system, comprises: a step A of transmitting information from a base station having at least one cell to a neighboring base station, the information notifying that a particular cell of the base station is to be prevented from being selected as a measurement target for mobility control of a user terminal under control of the neighboring base station; and a step B of, when receiving the information from the base station at the step A, performing control by the neighboring base station based on the received information such that the user terminal under control of the neighboring base station avoids selecting the particular cell as the measurement target. | 09-04-2014 |
| 20140287764 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONNECTING RADIO LINK IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM HAVING PRIVATE NETWORK CELL - A method is provided connecting a radio link of a UE in a wireless communication system. The method includes selecting, when the UE fails in connecting the radio link to a first cell for a given time, at least one second cell by using radio link connection information for the first cell overlapping the least one second cell; performing, if a number of the selected second cell is one, cell selection or cell reselection on the selected second cell by using the radio link connection information without performing measurement for the selected second cell; and performing, if the number of the selected second cell is a plurality, measurement for the plurality of selected second cells by using the radio link connection information, and performing cell selection or cell reselection on a second cell decided from among the plurality of selected second cells based on the measured result. | 09-25-2014 |
| 20150304914 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION METHOD, RADIO BASE STATION, AND MOBILE STATION | 10-22-2015 |
| 20150373592 | RADIO COMMUNICATION DEVICES, INFORMATION PROVIDERS, METHODS FOR CONTROLLING A RADIO COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND METHODS FOR CONTROLLING AN INFORMATION PROVIDER - In an embodiment, a radio communication device may be provided. The radio communication device may include a first receiver configured to receive from a first cell first data representing a content encoded using a first codec; a second receiver configured to receive from a second cell second data representing the content encoded using a second codec; and a combiner configured to combine the first data and the second data. | 12-24-2015 |
| 20160066191 | Method for Limiting Inter-Cell Interference and Load Balancing and a Wireless Communication System and Base Station - A method for limiting inter-cell interference and balancing load in a wireless communication system, the method comprising: one larger cell and one or more smaller cells providing overlapping terminal coverage and capacity; the larger cell informing the one or more smaller cells of transmission resources in which the larger cell restricts its own transmission; the one or more smaller cells using the restricted transmission resources for their own transmission; one smaller cell communicating with another cell in the wireless communication system to provide use information about the smaller cell's use of the restricted transmission resources; and the smaller cell and/or the other cell carrying out load balancing in response to the use information. | 03-03-2016 |
| 20160080993 | MULTI-CELL WTRUS CONFIGURED TO PERFORM MOBILITY PROCEDURES AND METHODS - Dual-cell or multi-cell Wireless Transmit Receive Units (WTRUs) configured to implement mobility procedures are described. The WTRU configurations implement methods to optimize and allow mobility for the procedures of cell search and cell reselection, measurement reporting and inter-frequency handovers, compressed mode measurements, and soft handovers. | 03-17-2016 |
| 20160150441 | Load Sharing in Cellular Networks - There is provided load sharing performed by a first processing unit device and a second processing unit device. The load sharing is achieved by the first processing unit device determining a distinct subset of user equipment, UE, from a set of UEs, where the UEs of the distinct subset of UEs are candidates for load sharing. Information identifying the UEs in the distinct subset and information of load of a first cell in which the distinct subset of UEs are served and information of load of a second cell being a candidate cell for serving the distinct subset of UEs is transmitted to the second processing unit device. Based on evaluating the information received from the first processing unit device the second processing unit device determines a load sharing action for use by the first processing unit device. | 05-26-2016 |
| 20160174116 | METHODS AND DEVICES FOR SECTOR SELECTION | 06-16-2016 |
