| 05th week of 2012 patent applcation highlights part 34 |
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| 20120026938 | Applying Policies to a Sensor Network - In one embodiment, a method comprises accessing a statistic concerning a sensor node in a sensor network, the statistic being based on one or more of sensor data from a sensor at the sensor node, communication to the sensor node from one or more other sensor nodes in the sensor network, or communication from the sensor node; generating a message that includes a type-length-value (TLV) element based on the statistic, the TLV element including a first portion that indicates a class of the statistic, a second portion that indicates a numerical value for the statistic, and a third portion that indicates a length of the second portion; and communicating the message to a police node in the sensor network. | 2012-02-02 |
| 20120026939 | ENHANCED CHANNEL INTERLEAVING FOR OPTIMIZED DATA THROUGHPUT - In a transmission scheme wherein multi-slot packet transmissions to a remote station can be terminated by an acknowledgment signal from the remote station, code symbols can be efficiently packed over the multi-slot packet so that the remote station can easily decode the data payload of the multi-slot packet by decoding only a portion of the multi-slot packet. Hence, the remote station can signal for the early termination of the multi-slot packet transmission, which thereby increases the data throughput of the system. | 2012-02-02 |
| 20120026940 | RADIO REPORTING SET AND BACKHAUL REPORTING SET CONSTRUCTION FOR COORDINATED MULTI-POINT COMMUNICATION - Systems, methods, apparatus and articles of manufacture are disclosed for constructing radio reporting sets and backhaul reporting sets for coordinated multi-point transmission in a wireless communication network. | 2012-02-02 |
| 20120026941 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SENDING AN AGGREGATED BEACON - Techniques for sending an aggregated beacon in a cognitive wireless network are disclosed. A beacon device may segment beacon information and send beacon segments via a plurality of channels simultaneously. A certain information elements of the beacon information may be included in each beacon segment. Each beacon segment may include channel information for other beacon segments that are transmitted simultaneously. Alternatively, a discovery beacon may be transmitted in addition to a regular beacon. The discovery beacon may include information indicating an operating channel on which the regular beacon is transmitted. The discovery beacon may be transmitted using a predetermined channel bandwidth, with a smaller beacon interval than the regular beacon, or in a frequency hopping fashion. The discovery beacon may be sent on a channel selected based on a regulatory class and corresponding channel information. The discovery beacon may be transmitted on a side channel. | 2012-02-02 |
| 20120026942 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND COMMUNICATION METHOD | 2012-02-02 |
| 20120026943 | METHOD OF TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING PAGING MESSAGES IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method of transmitting and receiving paging messages in a wireless communication system is disclosed. The method of transmitting paging messages in a wireless communication system comprises transmitting paging messages to a plurality of user equipments from a network of the wireless communication system, wherein the network transmits the paging messages to different user equipments, which are in different connection states, through different channels. | 2012-02-02 |
| 20120026944 | BASE STATION DEVICE, MOBILE STATION DEVICE, CONTROL INFORMATION TRANSMISSION METHOD, CONTROL INFORMATION RECEPTION METHOD AND PROGRAM - In a radio system which allocates resources using as units resource blocks which are formed by frequency components and time components, control information for mobile station devices, and identification information which is used to identify a format for a control information transmission channel which transmits the control information is transmitted from the base station device to the mobile station devices by means of the control information transmission channel. | 2012-02-02 |
| 20120026945 | Method and a Device for Improved Status Reports - A method for use in a cellular communications system in which system traffic can be exchanged between transceivers comprises receiving traffic from a second transceiver at a first transceiver. The traffic includes data units that are each associated with an identifier. The data units are also divided into segments. The method additionally includes sending status information from the first transceiver to the second transceiver. The status information pertains to one or more data units transmitted by the second transceiver. Additionally, sending the status information includes, for non-received and partially received data units, sending information indicating the data units were non-received or partially received and, for partially received data units, sending information indicating which parts of the data units were not received. | 2012-02-02 |
| 20120026946 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING ACCESS MODE SELECTION TO MULTIMODE TERMINAL - A method, system and apparatus for providing access mode selection to multimode terminal are disclosed. After selecting an access mode according to a certain policy, a routing decision entity correspondingly instructs a routing execution entity to perform a call connection in the selected access mode. The method for providing access mode selection to multimode terminal includes the following steps: (1) when establishing a registration connection, a terminal notifies related information of a current access network type to a network side; and (2) when performing a call connection to a called party, a routing decision entity on the network side selects the access mode and correspondingly instructs a routing execution entity to perform the call connection according to the related information and the selected access mode. | 2012-02-02 |
| 20120026947 | LOCATION BASED POLICY FOR USER EQUIPMENT OPERATING IN DIFFERENT AREAS OF A SHARED HOME LONG TERM EVOLUTION SYSTEM - A method for location based policy for UE operating in different areas of a shared home LTE system includes: responsive to detecting a trigger, determining a first enterprise operating area (EOA) in which the UE is currently located, wherein the first EOA is one of a plurality of EOAs of the LTE system; determining whether the first EOA is a home EOA or a visited EOA; when the first EOA is the home EOA, selecting a first set of policy rules for the UE; when the first EOA is the visited EOA, selecting a second set of policy rules for the UE that provides a lower Quality of Service (QoS) than the first set of policy rules; if a trust relationship exists, selecting a third set of policy rules for the UE while in the visited EOA, which provides a higher QoS than the second set of policy rules. | 2012-02-02 |
| 20120026948 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION BASE STATION DEVICE AND DIVISION NUMBER DETERMINATION METHOD - Disclosed are a wireless communication base station device and a division number determination method that improves the frequency diversity effect while maintaining channel estimation accuracy regardless of the number of divisions in the frequency domain of a transmission signal from a wireless communication terminal device. A determination unit ( | 2012-02-02 |
| 20120026949 | Techniques for reducing communication errors in a wireless communication system - A technique for operating a wireless communication device includes transmitting a scheduling request from the wireless communication device and receiving, following the scheduling request, an uplink grant that assigns an uplink channel to the wireless communication device. A time period between the scheduling request and the uplink grant is determined. Only channel quality information is transmitted in the uplink channel when the uplink grant requests the channel quality information and the time period is less than a predetermined time period. | 2012-02-02 |
| 20120026950 | Techniques for reducing communication errors in a wireless communication system - A technique for operating a wireless communication device includes transmitting a scheduling request from the wireless communication device and receiving, following the scheduling request, an uplink grant that assigns an uplink channel to the wireless communication device. A time period between the scheduling request and the uplink grant is determined. Only channel quality information is transmitted in the uplink channel when the uplink grant requests the channel quality information and the time period is less than a predetermined time period. | 2012-02-02 |
| 20120026951 | TIME SYNCHRONIZED RESOURCE RESERVATION OVER PACKET SWITCHED NETWORKS - A method is intended for scheduling reservations of resources in a packet-switched communication network comprising end-nodes and core network switches. This method comprises the steps of:
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| 20120026952 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION METHOD AND RADIO BASE STATION - A mobile communication method according to the present invention, includes the steps of: (A) assigning a radio resource for a PRACH in each cell within a mobile communication system in which cells are synchronized; and (B) performing, at a mobile station (UE), a random access procedure by transmitting an RA preamble via the PRACH using the radio resource assigned in each cell, wherein in the step (A), as the radio resource for a PRACH, a resource block in a different sub-frame is assigned between adjacent cells. | 2012-02-02 |
| 20120026953 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - Disclosed are a wireless communication base station device, a wireless communication terminal device, and a wireless communication method with which the amount of signaling is reduced while maintaining a high scheduling gain. A judgment unit ( | 2012-02-02 |
| 20120026954 | RESOURCE ALLOCATION SIGNALING OF WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS - A method and apparatus addresses resource allocation granularity issues for encoding efficiency of resource allocation signaling in assignment information elements (IEs). | 2012-02-02 |
| 20120026955 | RADIO COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD - A radio communication apparatus and radio communication method are provided which coordinates a plurality of radio base station apparatuses in consideration of interference cancelling capability of mobile terminal apparatuses, and can thereby improve the throughput of the entire system even when the amount of information shared among a plurality of radio base station apparatuses is small. Ina system that performs multicell coordinated transmission in downlink, a radio communication method according to the present invention selects a set of mobile terminal apparatuses whose interference can be cancelled from a plurality of mobile terminal apparatus, when a plurality of radio base station apparatuses perform joint scheduling, using interference cancelling capability information fed back from each mobile terminal apparatus; then performs joint scheduling for the set of selected mobile terminal apparatuses. | 2012-02-02 |
| 20120026956 | RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, CENTRALIZED STATION, CONTROL STATION APPARATUS, RADIO BASE STATION AND COORDINATED TRANSMISSION METHOD - The radio communication system of the present invention is provided with a cluster pattern determining section | 2012-02-02 |
| 20120026957 | Uplink Scheduling and Resource Allocation With Fast Indication - Systems and methods for signalling transitions between talk-spurt state and silence state for wireless terminals having semi-persistently allocated uplink resources are employed. A layer 1/2 indication of the state transitions may be transmitted using a resource that is specifically allocated for that purpose. Alternatively, ACK/NACK signalling may be employed. Layer 1 indications may be employed for both state transition types. Alternatively, in-band MAC layer signalling may be used to signal state transition from talk-spurt state to silence, or the network may deduce this state transition on its own. A different uplink wireless transition resource is allocated for the talk-spurt state vs. the silence state. | 2012-02-02 |
| 20120026958 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MULTICARRIER UPLINK CONTROL - An uplink control method for use in a communication system based on multiple carriers. The method includes allocating different types of random access channels for different types of uplink operations. | 2012-02-02 |
| 20120026959 | INTER-SECTOR CONTROL CHANNEL TRANSMISSION - Provided is a more efficient manner of transmitting a control message to reach into a neighboring sector (e.g., inter-sector) of a wireless network environment. The control message can be utilized for purposes such as handoff, indicating an amount of interference, inter-sector power control for managing inter-sector interference, sector loading, or other control messages. The control message can be placed on a set of resources utilizing planned reuse and/or statistical reuse. Statistical reuse includes selecting a subcarrier set for carrying the control message. According to some aspects, the control message can be sent over a backhaul channel. | 2012-02-02 |
| 20120026960 | RADIO BASE STATION - A radio base station (eNB) is a radio base station that can simultaneously transmit a first downlink signal in which a transmission stream number is adaptively changed, and a second downlink signal in which a transmission stream number is fixed to 1, to a mobile station using an MIMO scheme, the radio base station including: a reception quality reception unit configured to receive information indicating reception quality of the first downlink signal transmitted by the mobile station; a reception quality adjustment unit configured to calculate an adjustment value of the information indicating the reception quality based on a stream number of the first downlink signal; and a processing unit configured to perform an adaptive modulation and demodulation process and a transmission power control process on the second downlink signal based on the calculated adjustment value. | 2012-02-02 |
| 20120026961 | NETWORK MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - An arrangement for enabling network operators (typically mobile network operators) to dynamically trade capacity on their systems is described, thereby enabling such operators to fill their network capacity with traffic from other providers and also enabling service providers that have either insufficient or no network infrastructure to lease capacity from network operators. Network capacity is allocated between operators on the basis of both desired capacity and predetermined resources allocation rules. | 2012-02-02 |
| 20120026962 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, BASE STATION, SERVER, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM - Provided is a wireless communication technique capable of supporting communication using a single component carrier, and communication using a plurality of component carriers. The communication using the plurality of carriers comprises a processing means for performing the signal processing in accordance with each of the carriers with respect to the common signal sequence used by the plurality of carriers. The present invention makes it possible to cope with the communication employing a single component carrier and the wireless communication employing a plurality of the component carriers. Further, PAPR of the reference signals can be made small because there is no possibility that the identical CAZAC sequence is used among the component carriers when a plurality of the component carriers are employed. | 2012-02-02 |
| 20120026963 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR EFFECTING UPLINK HARQ ON A WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM - The present invention provides a method and device for effecting uplink HARQ (hybrid automatic repeat request) on a wireless communications system. A terminal receives HARQ setting data from a base station. If the terminal receives a NAC signal for an initial transmission block, the transmission characteristics of a retransmission block for the initial transmission block are adjusted on the basis of the HARQ setting data. | 2012-02-02 |
| 20120026964 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SIGNALING OF INTERFERING SPATIAL LAYERS WITH DEDICATED REFERENCE SIGNAL - An apparatus, method and system for signaling of interfering spatial layers with dedicated reference signals in a communication system. In one embodiment, an apparatus includes a processor ( | 2012-02-02 |
| 20120026965 | METHOD FOR ALLOCATING RESOURCES IN A BROADBAND WIRELESS ACCESS SYSTEM - The present invention relates to a broadband wireless access system, and more specifically, to a method and apparatus for efficiently allocating resources to terminals in a random access system. The method for performing such a random access procedure of a terminal in a broadband wireless system according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises: transmitting a preamble sequence to a random access region in a base station; and receiving from the base station ACK information indicative of a received state of the preamble sequence. The ACK information receiving step is preferably a step of decoding a map information element that is masked as an identifier of the random access region. | 2012-02-02 |
| 20120026966 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING RESOURCE INDICES - The present invention relates to a method, apparatus and system for determining resource indices in a wireless communication system, which explores and implements for at least two control channel elements (CCEs) for a user equipment (UE), maps the CCEs to at least two resource indices for the UE according to a predetermined mapping rule. It can determine multiple resource indices to a UE implicitly according to some embodiments of the present invention. | 2012-02-02 |
| 20120026967 | SIGNALLING - A network element may provide a plurality of user equipments with a dedicated pilot sequence for uplink reference signal transmission. A user equipment may, after receipt of a dedicated pilot sequence, spread the pilot sequences using a block spreading method. | 2012-02-02 |
| 20120026968 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRIGGERING SCHEDULING INFORMATION REPORT IN MULTI-CARRIER SYSTEM - The present invention provides methods and apparatus for triggering a SI report in a multi-carrier system, and the method includes: in a multi-carrier system, configuring a timer in UE corresponding to each carrier assigned to the UE, when a state of one of the carriers meets a preconfigured condition, starting or restarting the timer corresponding to the carrier, if the timer expires, triggering a SI report; or configuring a timer in UE corresponding to all carriers, when a state of one of the carriers meets a preconfigured condition, starting or restarting the second timer, if the second timer expires, triggering a SI report. The present invention provides technical solutions for triggering the SI report according to states of the carriers when there are multiple different carrier states, and thus the SI report is triggered in the multi-carrier system. | 2012-02-02 |
| 20120026969 | INTEGRATED CIRCUIT FOR CONTROLLING A PROCESS - Provided is a radio communication base station device which can obtain a maximum frequency diversity effect of a downstream line control channel. The device includes: an RB allocation unit ( | 2012-02-02 |
| 20120026970 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SELECTING A TRANSMISSION CHANNEL IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM THAT INCLUDES AN ADAPTIVE ARRAY - A method for establishing wireless communication between a transmitter and a receiver in a wireless communication system is disclosed. The receiver includes an adaptive array that has at least two antennas. Each antenna receives a signal and produces a received signal. The transmitter includes at least two transmission channels for communicating the signal from the transmitter to the receiver. The wireless communication system suppresses interference at the receiver by applying an interference suppression technique when combining the received signals. The selection of a channel at the transmitter is based on the channel performance at the receiver for each transmission channel. The channel performance is based on a combining technique different from the interference suppression technique. | 2012-02-02 |
| 20120026971 | WIRELESS NETWORK SYSTEM, A MOBILE DEVICE, AN INFORMATION SERVER AND A METHOD OF PROVIDING INFORMATION IN A WIRELESS NETWORK SYSTEM - A wireless network system including a plurality of wireless networks is provided. The wireless network system includes a plurality of mobile devices coupled to the plurality of wireless networks, the plurality of mobile devices including at least a first mobile device and a second mobile device; and an information server coupled to each of the plurality of wireless networks, wherein the information server provides handover messages to the plurality of mobile devices to assist the mobile devices in performing a handover from one of the wireless networks to another one of the wireless networks, wherein the first mobile device negotiates information sharing rules with the information server, and wherein the first mobile device provides, to the second mobile device, shared information according to the information sharing rules. | 2012-02-02 |
| 20120026972 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SUPPORTING RANGE EXPANSION IN A WIRELESS NETWORK - A wireless network for communicating with a mobile station capable of operating in a range expansion mode. The wireless network comprises a macro-base station (BS) operable to communicate with the mobile station and a micro-base station (BS) in a coverage area associated with the macro-BS. The macro-BS transmits to the micro-BS a first control message indicating a range expansion (RE) capability of the mobile station. In response, the micro-BS transmits to the macro-BS PCFICH information associated with the micro-BS. The macro-BS transmits the PCFICH information to the mobile station and the mobile station uses the PCFICH information to perform a handover procedure to the micro-BS. | 2012-02-02 |
| 20120026973 | HANDOVER DATA INTEGRITY IN A WIRELESS DATA NETWORK - A method and apparatus for handover data integrity of a mobile station in a wireless data network with a plurality of wireless network service areas. The method and apparatus includes initiating handover by a mobile station, identifying a target access service network (ASN) for handover from a serving ASN. When the target ASN is identified, receive a data integrity capability from the target ASN, and determine whether a direct data delivery mode is available as a data integrity mode. When a direct data delivery mode is available, direct data delivery is performed with the data associated with the service flow from the serving ASN to the target ASN. | 2012-02-02 |
| 20120026974 | LOAD BALANCING FOR AN AIR INTERFACE PROTOCOL ARCHITECTURE WITH A PLURALITY OF HETEROGENEOUS PHYSICAL LAYER MODES - A system and method for dynamic traffic load balancing with a multiple physical layer modes of an air interface protocol architecture, the protocol architecture residing in a base station and/or an access network that includes a base station and access gateway that include distributed and centralized components of the air interface protocol architecture. The traffic load balancing supports various multiplexing scenarios for scheduling communication data under time division multiple access and frequency division multiple access techniques for use in the multi-carrier wireless network. | 2012-02-02 |
| 20120026975 | ACCESS CONTROL METHOD, ACCESS CONTROL APPARATUS AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - An access control method, an access control apparatus and a communication system are disclosed, and a mechanism for processing Emergency Call (EMC) services is disclosed, and such mechanism ensures continuity of the EMC service while implementing the access control under a Closed Subscriber Group (CSG) mechanism. The access control method includes: obtaining CSG area information of a target area; and controlling the access of a User Equipment (UE) to the target area according to the CSG area information of the target area and/or whether an EMC service exists on the UE. The present invention is applicable to the scenario in which the UE accesses a network. | 2012-02-02 |
| 20120026976 | RANDOM ACCESS METHOD, EVOLVED NODE B, AND TERMINAL EQUIPMENT - A random access method, an evolved Node B (eNB), and a terminal equipment are provided. The method includes: determining target component carriers to which a User Equipment (UE) is to be handed over, and notifying the UE of information about the target component carriers through a source eNB; and after receiving a dedicated random access preamble sent by the UE, sending a random access response message on at least one component carrier in the target component carriers. The terminal equipment includes: a handover command receiving unit, a sending unit, and a random response receiving unit. Therefore, in a random access procedure of cell handover, the eNB is capable of determining downlink component carriers that a UE monitors, thereby increasing utilization rate of downlink resources. | 2012-02-02 |
| 20120026977 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR HANDOVER IN A MULTI-CARRIER SYSTEM - A method and an apparatus for handover in a multi-carrier system are provided. A user equipment receives multi-carrier measurement information from a base station, and measures carriers based on the multi-carrier measurement information. The user equipment performs a handover with a target base station through an access reference carrier which is one of a plurality of component carriers of which the measurement result is reported. The present invention minimizes a delay caused by the handover, and reduces battery consumption of the user equipment. | 2012-02-02 |
| 20120026978 | METHOD OF ZONE SWITCH IN A BROADBAND WIRELESS ACCESS SYSTEM - A method for allowing a mobile station (MS) to perform zone switching within coverage of a base station (BS) in a broadband wireless access system is disclosed. A method for controlling an advanced mobile station (AMS) to perform zone switching in an MZone of a serving advanced base station (serving ABS) supporting a legacy mobile station (MS) includes receiving a handover command (AAI_HO-CMD) message indicating zone switching to a legacy zone (LZone) from the MZone, and receiving at least one of an uplink MAP (UL-MAP) and a downlink MAP (DL-MAP) from the LZone. | 2012-02-02 |
| 20120026979 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DEFERRED LEG LINKING IN PCRF IN RELATION TO HANDOVER - The present invention relates to a solution for handling deferred leg linking in policy and charging rules function in a telecommunications network in relation to handover between two different access technologies. The solution is provided as a nodes, system and a method for handling handover of a user equipment, i.e. UE, ( | 2012-02-02 |
| 20120026980 | Inter-node B handover method - The present invention discloses an inter-Node B handover method, wherein a target eNB sends a Handover Request Acknowledge message including handover reference frequency point information through a source eNB to a user equipment, wherein the handover reference frequency point information includes center frequency point information of an uplink component carrier designated for the user equipment to initiate a random access request. Further, the present invention discloses another inter-Node B handover method, wherein a target eNB orderly arrays center frequency point information of uplink component carriers of a target cell to obtain a first list, the target eNB sends a Handover Request Acknowledge message including the first list through a source eNB to a user equipment, and the user equipment requests a random access according to the center frequency point information of a first uplink component carrier. Through the solution of the present invention, the usage rate of the random access resources for the target eNB can be improved effectively and the conflict of random is accesses can be reduced. | 2012-02-02 |
| 20120026981 | MOBILE STATION MESSAGE HAVING A STATION CLASS MARK FIELD FOR INDICATING AN MEID CAPABLE MOBILE STATION - A mobile station for wireless communication includes a control processor configured to generate a message for transmission on a reverse signaling channel, the message including a Station Class Mark field having a plurality of bits, a portion of the Station Class Mark field indicating that the mobile station is uniquely identified by a Mobile Station Equipment Identifier. | 2012-02-02 |
| 20120026982 | METHOD FOR IMPROVING HIGH-SPEED DOWNLINK OPERATION IN CELL_FACH STATE FOR A WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM AND RELATED APPARATUS - A method of improving a high-speed downlink operation in CELL_FACH state for a network terminal of a wireless communications system includes using a first function but not using a second function when a user equipment, hereinafter called UE, initiates a cell update procedure. The network terminal wirelessly communicates with the UE, and the network terminal and the UE both support the high-speed downlink operation in CELL_FACH state. The first function is used for allocating a dedicated HS-DSCH radio network transaction identifier (H-RNTI) to the UE, so as to manage the UE to perform the high-speed downlink operation in CELL_FACH based on the dedicated H-RNTI. The second function is used for not allocating the dedicated H-RNTI to the UE. | 2012-02-02 |
| 20120026983 | MOBILE WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD OF CARRYING OUT HANDOVER IN THE SYSTEM - When a strength of an electric field for receiving wireless in downlink is equal to or smaller than a predetermined strength, the mobile communication terminal device | 2012-02-02 |
| 20120026984 | SYMBOL INTERLEAVE FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS - A receiver includes a plurality of de-spreading correlators that are programmed to only correlate a specific portion of the full spreading code according to an interleave factor. Each correlator may be associated with a different symbol. The received signal may be received at all correlators and is multiplied by a code generated by a code generator according to the symbol associated with the correlator. While each correlator may be despreading the received signal at all times, an enable signal is used to determine when information for an associated cell should be accumulated for each correlator. | 2012-02-02 |
| 20120026985 | Method and Apparatus for Grant Loss Detection and Related Processing in a Wireless Communication Network - The present invention provides a method and apparatus for improving wireless communication network performance and efficiency, based on detecting the occurrence of grant loss in relation to the transmission of scheduling grants to mobile terminals over a downlink control channel. Grant loss detection is based on detecting erasure events corresponding to the transmitted scheduling grants, and the incidence of grant loss with respect to a given mobile terminal can be tracked and used to compensate the control value(s) used for link adaptation of the downlink control channel, with respect to that terminal. Additionally, or alternatively, when a given grant is determined to be lost, a new grant is sent and the HARQ redundancy version is reset for the newly scheduled transmission. | 2012-02-02 |
| 20120026986 | Downlink frequency selective scheduling based on channel quality feedback - A method for downlink frequency selective scheduling in LTE MAC based on channel quality feedback is disclosed. Existing methods for resource allocation have no means for efficient utilization of the resources and allocation of the available downlink bandwidth to the UE with low computation overhead. These methods do not ensure that the UEs that possess channel quality feedbacks are allocated their best sub-bands for transmission in time and compute efficient manner. The proposed method employs CQI based feedback from the UEs for allocation of the downlink bandwidth. The method defines a threshold value for the CQI and UEs that have sub-bands with CQI lesser than the defined threshold value will not be allocated resources in the corresponding sub-band. | 2012-02-02 |
| 20120026987 | METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR TRANSMITTING AN ALLOCATION OF TIME IN A WIRELESS SYSTEM - Various methods and apparatuses for transmitting an allocation of time in a wireless communication system are disclosed. In one aspect, an allocation of time for receiving communications via a receive beam direction is transmitted. The allocation of time may be based on information regarding an apparatus known to be located in the receive beam direction. A unique time for receiving communications from each known apparatus may be allocated, or a duration of time for receiving communications from the known apparatuses may vary based on a number of apparatuses known to located in a receive beam direction. | 2012-02-02 |
| 20120026988 | Wireless Communication Sharing in a Common Communication Medium Based on Voice Traffic Prediction - Performing wireless communication using first and second wireless communication protocols. The first and second wireless communication protocols may operate in a common communication medium. The wireless communication may be performed using the protocols over the common communication medium, e.g., in a time sharing fashion. Properties of voice traffic on current frames of the second wireless communication protocol may be measured. The method may further include predicting whether one or more subsequent frames of the second wireless communication protocol will have voice traffic. If the prediction indicates that the one or more subsequent frames of the second wireless communication protocol will not have voice traffic data may be transmitted using the first wireless communication protocol on the common communication medium during a subsequent second wireless communication protocol time slot. | 2012-02-02 |
| 20120026989 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR THE USE OF MULTIPLE-INPUT, MUTLIPLE OUTPUT (MIMO) SYSTEMS FOR MULTI-PACKET RECEPTION (MPR) IN A DISTRIBUTED TIME SLOT ASSIGNMENT PROTOCOL - A method of multiple packet reception (MPR) using distributed time slot assignment (TDSA) in a multi-user network where receivers can detect two packets at the same time includes the steps of requesting information on slot assignment in a contention area, setting a frame length and acquiring a the slot assignment, selecting the assigned slot, and announcing and confirming information about the frame length and the assigned slot. The step of requesting information on slot assignment, setting a frame length and acquiring a slot assignment, and selecting the assigned slot are performed in a network where receivers can detect two packets at the same time, where time slots are assigned to nodes instead of links, where one-hop neighbors are assigned to different time slots since they may form a link together, while sharing one time slot with one of the two-hop neighbors in a non-interfering assignment. | 2012-02-02 |
| 20120026990 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR REALIZING NONLOSS TRANSMISSION OF MEDIA STREAM AFTER SWITCHING BETWEEN OPEN CALL AND SECRET CALL - A method for realizing non-loss transmission of media stream after switching between the open call and the secret call, the method includes the steps: after the base station receiving the message of switching from the open call to the secret call from the communication terminal, inserting a special media frame in the media stream and transmitting it to the media gateway; the media gateway judging whether checking the special media frame according to the form of the load-bearing of the media stream's incoming and outgoing or the form of the media's coding decoding, whether detect the special media frame or not, the media gateway transmitting the media stream from the incoming to the outgoing. When the special media frame is detected, deciding to transmit directly or run an PCM adaptation process in 64 kbps/56 kbps according to the form of the coding decoding. | 2012-02-02 |
| 20120026991 | FEEDBACK SCHEME FOR MU-MIMO - Embodiments of a system and method for managing feedback in a MU-MIMO system. An access point can announce one or more of mobile stations that are to receive downlink information in a first frame. The access point can also send a sounding package to the one or more mobile stations and receive feedback from the one or more mobile stations according to the feedback schedule. The feedback may be based on the reception of the sounding package. | 2012-02-02 |
| 20120026992 | Energy-Efficient On-The-Fly Wi-Fi Hotspot Using Mobile Devices - One or more mobile devices and a cloud server computing device are utilized to provide Internet access to one or more client computing devices. One of the clients is designated as a Wi-Fi access point. The Wi-Fi access point implements a reverse-infrastructure Wi-Fi mode which tethers available mobile devices and other clients to the access point. The cloud server periodically computes an optimal number of the mobile devices to be used for data striping, and transmits a webpage to a requesting client by striping data associated with the webpage across the optimal number of the mobile devices. | 2012-02-02 |
| 20120026993 | System-Assisted Wireless Local Area Network Detection - In one or more embodiments, one or more methods and/or systems described can perform determining a position of a mobile device coupled to a first network; determining that the position of the mobile device is within a communications range of at least one wireless access point coupled to a second network; and transmitting a first signal to the mobile device via the first network, where the first signal indicates to apply power or greater power to a transceiver configured to communicate with the at least one wireless access point. In one or more embodiments, the mobile device can include a first transceiver configured to communicate with the first network and a second transceiver configured to communicate with the second network via the at least one wireless access point and can perform receiving the first signal from the first network and applying power or greater power to the second transceiver. | 2012-02-02 |
| 20120026994 | Classification of Wireless LAN Signals - A system and method for classifying an input signal suspected of being a wireless LAN signal. Bursts are isolated based on an analysis of an average power signal that is derived from the input signal. A correlation-based test is performed to determine if the input signal contains a Barker code typical of DSSS transmissions. Another correlation-based test is performed to determine of the input signal contains a long training sequence typical of OFDM transmissions. The results of the two tests are used to classify the input signal as being DSSS, OFDM or neither. | 2012-02-02 |
| 20120026995 | Mobile router with lan internet connectivity - A method is provided for operating a mobile router, comprising a wireless local area network transceiver and a wireless wide area network transceiver. The method comprises selectively utilizing the mobile router to establish a wireless Internet connection for a mobile device via said local area network transceiver and a wireless local area network access point when the local area network access point is identified as available by the mobile router and selectively operating the mobile router to access the Internet via the wireless wide area network transceiver when no wireless local area network access point is identified. | 2012-02-02 |
| 20120026996 | COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE FOR PERFORMING WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS, WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM, WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A communications device for performing wireless communications includes: a data receiving section for receiving data by wireless communications; a data transmitting section for transmitting data by wireless communications; a mode switching section for switching an operation mode of the communications device between a first mode in which power is supplied to the data transmitting section, and a second mode in which power consumption in at least the data transmitting section is minimized over that in the first mode; and a determination section for determining whether the data receiving section has received designated data. The mode switching section switches the operation mode of the communications device from the second mode to the first mode if, in a state in which the communications device is in the second mode, the determination section has determined that the data receiving section has received the designated data. | 2012-02-02 |
| 20120026997 | METHOD AND APPARATUS OF ACCESSING CHANNEL IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and apparatus of accessing a channel in a wireless local area network is provided. The method includes receiving, by a device, an operation element for setting up or switching at least one channel from an access point (AP), the operation element including a channel type field indicating whether the at least one channel is either a single channel or multiple channels, and the operation element including two channel center frequency segment fields indicating channel center frequency of a primary channel and a secondary channel respectively if the channel type field indicates that the at least one channel is multiple channels, determining whether the primary channel is idle during a first interval, determining whether the secondary channel is idle during a second interval if the primary channel is idle, and transmitting data by using the primary channel and the secondary channel to the AP or at least one station in a basic service set (BSS) if the primary channel and the secondary channel are idle. | 2012-02-02 |
| 20120026998 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, NETWORK ELEMENT AND METHOD FOR ANTENNA ARRAY BEAM-FORMING - A network element for a wireless communication system is locatable to couple at least one base station to an antenna array. The network element comprises at least one receiver arranged to receive a radio frequency signal from the at least one base station or the antenna array and modem logic operably coupled to the at least one receiver. The modem logic comprises radio frequency conversion circuitry arranged to down-convert a received radio frequency signal to a baseband signal; analogue-to-digital conversion logic arranged to convert the baseband signal to digitized signals; and beam-form processing logic arranged to perform active beam-forming adjustment on the digitized signals. The modem logic further comprises digital-to-analogue conversion logic arranged to convert the beam-form adjusted digitized signals to analogue signals and radio frequency conversion circuitry arranged to up-convert the analogue signals to a radio frequency radio signal for forwarding to the antenna array or the at least one base station. | 2012-02-02 |
| 20120026999 | LOCAL AREA BROADCASTING SERVICE SYSTEM AND METHOD, AND WIRELESS TRANSMISSION DEVICE APPLIED THEREIN - Provided is a system and method for a local area broadcast service, and a wireless transmission apparatus applied to them. In the system, contents to be broadcasted in a predetermined local area are transmitted from a broadcast server to a wireless transmission apparatus through a wired network based on an Internet Protocol and the contents are then broadcasted from the wireless transmission apparatus to one or more user terminal devices. Therefore, according to the present invention, a server of a wired network can easily provide particular contents for each particular local area to one or more user terminal devices in the local area. Moreover, it is possible to reduce the load of the server, when the server provides multiple types of contents or provides contents to a plurality of user terminal devices. | 2012-02-02 |
| 20120027000 | SYMMETRIC TRANSMIT OPPORTUNITTY (TXOP) TRUNCATION - Various embodiments of symmetric transmit opportunity (TXOP) truncation (STT) systems and methods are disclosed. One method embodiment, among others, comprises receiving a frame that truncates a TXOP around a first station, and responsive to receiving the frame, sending a second frame that truncates the TXOP around a second station. Others system and method embodiments are disclosed. | 2012-02-02 |
| 20120027001 | AD HOC SERVICE PROVIDER'S ABILITY TO PROVIDE SERVICE FOR A WIRELESS NETWORK - Exemplary embodiments are directed to devices and methods for supporting a wireless access point for one or more mobile clients. A mobile device may include a first module for supporting access to a network via a first wireless access protocol. The device may further include a second module for supporting a wireless access point for the one or more mobile clients to the network using a second wireless access protocol. | 2012-02-02 |
| 20120027002 | Method and System for Selecting VPN Connections in Response to Wireless Network Identifiers - A method and system for providing connections from a wireless access point. The wireless access point has multiple VPN tunnels. The access point detects a wireless-network identifier (such as a service set identifier (SSID)) provided by a terminal via an air interface, and the access point uses the wireless-network identifier as a basis to select one of the VPN tunnels. The access point then sends communication from the terminal via the selected VPN tunnel. | 2012-02-02 |
| 20120027003 | Method and Apparatus for Power Efficient Idle Operation in a Dual SIM CDMA EVDO Mobile Station - Methods and apparatus for configuring and scheduling paging intervals for a mobile station (MS) having multiple subscriber identity modules (SIMs) to be aligned are provided. The MS having multiple SIMs may operate in a network via a particular radio access technology (RAT), such as Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) EVDO (Evolution-Data Optimized). By having aligned paging intervals, the MS may wake up only once during the paging cycles for the various SIMs rather than waking up multiple times, thereby reducing power consumption of the MS during idle mode compared to a conventional MS with multiple SIMs. | 2012-02-02 |
| 20120027004 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING DATA IN A MULTI-ANTENNA SYSTEM - An apparatus for transmitting data in a multi-antenna system is provided. The apparatus includes: a scrambling unit for performing scrambling on an input codeword; a modulator for arranging the scrambled codeword to a modulation symbol that expresses a position on a signal constellation; a transform precoder for performing discrete Fourier transform (DFT) on the modulation symbol to generate a DFT symbol of a frequency domain; a resource element mapper for mapping the DFT symbol to a physical resource element; and a single carrier-frequency division multiple access (SC-FDMA) signal generator for generating an SC-FDMA signal of a time domain from the DFT symbol mapped to the resource element, wherein the modulation symbol is selected in the time domain as a plurality of modulation symbol blocks, and the selected modulation symbol blocks are input to the transform precoder after being combined repetitively. | 2012-02-02 |
| 20120027005 | Spatial Pre-Coding for Transmitting Data Within a Mobile Telecommunication Network - It is described a method for transmitting data within a mobile telecommunication system from a user equipment having at least two transmit antennas to a base station having at least two receive antennas. The method includes (a) providing a number of data streams at the user equipment, wherein the number of data streams is smaller than or equal to the number of transmit antennas, (b) applying a spatial pre-coding to the data streams, and (c) transmitting the spatially pre-coded data streams to the base station via the transmit antennas, wherein the number of transmit antennas used for transmitting the spatially pre-coded data streams is larger than the number of data streams. It is further described a corresponding method for receiving data, a user equipment for carrying out the data transmitting method, a base station for carrying out the data receiving method and a computer program for controlling the described data transmitting and/or receiving method. | 2012-02-02 |
| 20120027006 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR JOINT VOICE AND DATA TRANSMISSION - A method for multiplexing voice and data communication using a communications network is presented. In the method, at least one voice bit from a voice bit stream is retrieved, and at least one data bit from at least one data bit stream is retrieved. When the voice bit stream is not in a discontinuous transmission (DTX) period, the at least one voice bit and the at least one data bit are used to generate a modulated symbol. The method includes transmitting the modulated symbol using the communications network. | 2012-02-02 |
| 20120027007 | CABLE MODEM AND NETWORK REGISTRATION METHOD - A network registration method of a cable modem boots the cable modem with a default packet cable (PC) protocol, detects the network server through a network when the cable modem is booted, and determines whether the network server has been detected. When the network server has been detected, the method registers the cable modem on the network server through the network. Additionally, the method reboots the cable modem with a backup PC protocol upon the condition that the network server has not been detected. | 2012-02-02 |
| 20120027008 | Addressing Techniques For Voice Over Internet Protocol Router - An apparatus and method for increasing available ports on a voice router is provided. A first gateway and a second gateway are assigned a single port number for a data stream, the direction of packet flow is identified to determine a destination gateway. The destination gateway is one of the first and second gateways, depending on the direction of the packet flow. The packets are then forwarded to the destination gateway. The voice router can further consolidate RTCP streams from a plurality of gateways into a single port on the voice router. | 2012-02-02 |
| 20120027009 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND METHOD THEREOF - A communication device electronically connects with a phone and includes a control unit, a relay, a public switched telephone network (PSTN) interface, a voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) network interface, and a ring signal detector. The relay is electronically connected with the control unit. The PSTN interface and the VoIP interface are electronically connected with the relay. The ring signal detector is electronically connected with the control unit and the PSTN interface. The control unit controls the relay to connect the phone with the PSTN interface when the ring signal detector detects a PSTN ring signal. In one embodiment, the control unit controls the relay to connect the phone with the VoIP interface. | 2012-02-02 |
| 20120027010 | ALARM SYSTEM IP NETWORK WITH PSTN OUTPUT - Alarm customers on VoIP may use an adapter for conversion to Internet Protocol (IP) signals or may have an alarm system that uses IP signals to transmit alarm signals over the Internet. IP signals from alarm customers may go to any monitoring center for alarm system monitoring. IP signals from alarm systems using IP conversion equipment can go only to monitoring centers with specialized receiving equipment specific to the type of transmitting equipment in use at the customer's premises. There is a pool of customers, whose dealers would convert to IP and stay with the current monitoring center if the center invested in receiving equipment. For the many small centers who will not or cannot invest in receiving equipment, the present invention will take IP signals from any or all brands of IP transmitting equipment, to a central server then retransmit to any center over POTS to the alarm monitoring center. Thus, an alarm monitoring center need not invest in a number of different IP monitoring systems in order to be IP monitoring compliant. | 2012-02-02 |
| 20120027011 | INTELLIGENT FORMATTING OF VOIP TELEPHONE NUMBERS - A system and method are disclosed for intelligent formatting of VoIP telephone numbers. The intelligent VoIP formatting system includes a presentation and user interface layer, an E.164 formatting engine, a location routine, and a database of telephone number data which are used to deconstruct input telephone numbers and reconstruct them as E.164 compliant telephone numbers. | 2012-02-02 |
| 20120027012 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - A communication device acquires a first condition in a case where a request packet requesting establishment of a communication path is received from a second communication device in a state in which a communication path with a first communication device is established. The first condition is a condition that is used to perform a session with the first communication device. Then the communication device transmits to the second communication device a response packet including the first condition acquired by the acquisition portion. In a case where a notification packet is received from the second communication device in response to the response packet, the communication device establishes a communication path with the second communication device to perform the session with the second communication device using the first condition. | 2012-02-02 |
| 20120027013 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO IMPLEMENT MULTIPOINT AND REPLICATED COMMUNICATION PATHS USING UPSTREAM AND RECURSIVE DOWNSTREAM LABEL MAPPINGS - Methods and apparatus to implement multipoint and replicated communication paths using upstream and recursive downstream label mappings are disclosed. An example method to aggregate multipoint communication paths disclosed herein comprises sending an upstream label assignment request to an upstream router in response to receiving a first downstream message for building a first inner multipoint communication path between a root node identified in the first downstream message and a leaf node originating the first downstream message, and receiving an upstream-assigned label from the upstream router in response to the upstream label assignment request, the upstream-assigned label to identify the first inner multipoint communication path among a plurality of inner multipoint communication paths conveyed via an outer multipoint communication path aggregating the plurality of inner multipoint communication paths. | 2012-02-02 |
| 20120027014 | Transport Multiplexer-Mechanisms to Force Ethernet Traffic From One Domain to Be Switched in a Different (External) Domain - A network comprising a switch configured to switch traffic between a plurality of external interfaces via a plurality of virtual interfaces associated with the external interfaces, and wherein the traffic comprises a plurality of external virtual local area network (VLAN) identifiers (VIDs) associated with the external interfaces to select the virtual interfaces. Also disclosed is a network component comprising at least one processor configured to implement a method comprising receiving a frame from a physical port, obtaining an external VID from a VLAN tag in the frame, removing the VLAN tag from the frame, selecting a virtual interface based on the external VID, and delivering the frame to the selected virtual interface. | 2012-02-02 |
| 20120027015 | Application of Services in a Packet Switching Device - A service is applied in a packet switching device to both directions of a flow of packets through the packet switching device, with the application of this Layer-4 to layer-7 service to one direction requiring state information shared from the application of the service to packets traversing in the other direction. The service (e.g. firewall, network address translation) can be applied by different processing complexes which do not share memory; thus, state information is communicated between the processing complexes. When the service is applied by a single processing complex, packets can be directed explicitly to the single processing complex. The inline application of services in a packet switching system typically eliminates the need to change a packet's path through the packet switching system to that through a dedicated application server, and may eliminate the need for a dedicated services card or blade server. | 2012-02-02 |
| 20120027016 | Service Request Packet Including an Exterior Network Protocol Attribute - Packets are encapsulated and sent from a service node to one or more application nodes for applying one or more Layer-4 to Layer-7 services to the packets. Before which for a packet, the service node performs a lookup operation based on a destination address of the packet in a routing data structure derived from a exterior network protocol, such as, but not limited to Border Gateway Protocol (BGP). This lookup operation results in the identification of a next hop packet switching device to which the packet would be sent from the service node. The service node includes this identification of the next hop address in the request packet sent to the application node(s). After the service(s) are applied to the packet, an application node will send the services-applied packet to this next hop address. In this manner, application nodes do not need to run an exterior network protocol. Although, they typically will run an Interior Gateway Protocol for identifying how to forward packets to the next hop address. | 2012-02-02 |
| 20120027017 | MULTI-DESTINATION FORWARDING IN NETWORK CLOUDS WHICH INCLUDE EMULATED SWITCHES - Techniques are described which facilitate multi-destination forwarding in a Layer 2 Multipath (L2MP) network which includes an emulated switch. The emulated switch may correspond to two or more underlying peer link switches in the L2MP network, in which each of the peer link switches is linked to a Classical Ethernet (CE) switch over a virtual port channel (vPC). Traffic received by one of the peer link switches over the vPC is automatically forwarded to the other peer link switch (or switches). Multi-destination frames originating from the L2MP network addressed to hosts within the CE network are sent over only one of the peer link switches. | 2012-02-02 |
| 20120027018 | Distributed Switch Domain of Heterogeneous Components - A method of integrating virtual and physical network switching components into a heterogeneous switching domain is provided. Such method including, attaching, by a switching device, a header to a packet received from a virtual machine, the header including domain information, and processing the packet by the switching device, the processing being controlled by the header. Finally, the packet is forwarded, the forwarding being controlled by the header. | 2012-02-02 |
| 20120027019 | MAINTAINING PACKET ORDER USING HASH-BASED LINKED-LIST QUEUES - Ordering logic ensures that data items being processed by a number of parallel processing units are unloaded from the processing units in the original per-flow order that the data items were loaded into the parallel processing units. The ordering logic includes a pointer memory, a tail vector, and a head vector. Through these three elements, the ordering logic keeps track of a number of “virtual queues” corresponding to the data flows. A round robin arbiter unloads data items from the processing units only when a data item is at the head of its virtual queue. | 2012-02-02 |
| 20120027020 | MULTIPLEXING TRANSMISSION SYSTEM, MULTIPLEXING APPARATUS, DEMULTIPLEXING APPARATUS AND A MULTIPLEXING TRANSMISSION SYSTEM - A multiplexing apparatus stores fixed length data into which information signals supplied from channels are divided; determines an output channel by selecting the each channel cyclically; and acquires the fixed length data from the output channel based on a channel multiplexing ratio number to store the fixed length data in a payload in turn. Also, the multiplexing apparatus adds assignment information, which includes a channel arrangement of each channel of the fixed length data stored in the payload, to the payload. Further, the multiplexing apparatus creates a multiplexing frame by using the payload to transmit to a transmission channel. A demultiplexing apparatus detects the assignment information from the payload of the multiplexing frame received to the transmission channel; and creates distribution information for distributing the fixed length data to each channel based on the assignment information. Also, the demultiplexing apparatus detects the fixed length data from the payload to distribute the fixed length data to each channel based on the distribution information. Further, the demultiplexing apparatus couples the fixed length data to reproduce the information signal. | 2012-02-02 |
| 20120027021 | NETWORK SIMULATION RACK AND SYSTEM - Various exemplary illustrations are provided of systems and methods for simulating a communication network. An exemplary system may include a communication router rack in communication with an external network. The rack may include a structure supporting a plurality of network router cards, each including a plurality of communication ports configured to allow selective communication between communication devices connected to the router cards and the external network. The router rack may further include a switching circuit enclosed by the rack structure that is in physical communication with the plurality of network router cards. The switching circuit may be configured to determine a unique network identifier for each of the plurality of network router cards to the external network. The rack may further include an external communication port configured to be selectively connected to the external network to allow communication between the plurality of network router cards and the external network. | 2012-02-02 |
| 20120027022 | MULTIPLE SOURCE VIRTUAL LINK REVERSION IN SAFETY CRITICAL SWITCHED NETWORKS - In a system that uses a switched network and virtual links (for example, an AFDX, TT-ETHERNET, or TT-Gigabit ETHERNET switched ETHERNET network), the system is configured so that, for at least one virtual link, the end system that sources frames for that virtual link can change (for example, when an end system that was previously sourcing frames for that virtual link fails). The switches used in such a system are configured to be able to accept frames if there is such a change. | 2012-02-02 |
| 20120027023 | TRANSMISSION DEVICE - When multiple SDH/SONET frame are accumulated and then lower-order path information removed from multiple frames is multiplexed into the same packet to achieve better transmission efficiency during packetization, the delay for accumulating increases. Disclosed is a transmission device that packetizes an SDH/SONET lower-order path with timing which is an integer factor of 1 cycle of the SDH frame. In this case, the destination loads the same multiple lower-order path in one packet. The result is that delay time accompanying lower-order path packetization is kept to less than the time of 1 cycle of the SDH frame, and the efficiency with which lower-order paths are accommodated in packets is further increased. The result is that improved transmission efficiency is realized. | 2012-02-02 |
| 20120027024 | Zero-Setting Network Quality Service System - A zero-setting QoS system, which is designed with priority session and bandwidth technologies in an undifferentiated network, such that the packets for universal or dedicated network can obtain priority transmission services. As a QoS system of priority levels, the network packets are received from the inlet, and 802.1q tag and 802.1p tag are loaded onto the packets, so that the packets can be transmitted by priority levels, then 802.1q tag and 802.1p tag are removed from the outlet of the system, enabling easy operation in an undifferentiated network environment; therefore, the system with rapid transmission capability can allocate and transmit the network packets within a shorter response time and by better priority levels. | 2012-02-02 |
| 20120027025 | METHODS FOR BEARER RESERVATION, MAINTENANCE, AND USE IN A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method for bearer reservation, maintenance, and use in a communication system is performed by an intermediary function (IF) in the enterprise network. The IF processes a user plane reservation request for a flow of user plane data from a sourcing device, and determines a set of bearers to transport the flow of user plane data. The IF requests from at least one access network the determined set of bearers, and receives from the at least one access network an allocated set of bearers, wherein the allocated set of bearers comprises one or more bearers. The IF receives the flow of user plane data from the sourcing device. The IF receives an indication that at least one of the bearers in the allocated set of bearers is unavailable, and prevents at least a portion of the flow of user plane data from being transmitted over the default bearer. | 2012-02-02 |
| 20120027026 | SCALABLE INTERCONNECT MODULES WITH FLEXIBLE CHANNEL BONDING - The present application discloses apparatus and methods for increasing channel utilization for a high-speed serial interface of an integrated circuit (IC). A new circuit architecture is disclosed which provides circuitry that may be programmed flexibly to support a multitude of different channel bonding schemes. In accordance with one aspect of the invention, the new architecture decouples the granularity of control-signal channel bonding from the granularity of data-aggregation channel bonding. This advantageously allows optimization of configurations for both types of channel bonding. In another aspect of the invention, the logical boundaries of bonded user channels are decoupled from the physical boundaries of the PCS modules. This decoupling advantageously eliminates a rigid constraint of previous architectures. | 2012-02-02 |
| 20120027027 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, METHOD, AND PROGRAM PRODUCT - According to one embodiment, a communication apparatus includes a reception protocol processing unit, a control information queue, and a transmission protocol processing unit. The reception protocol processing unit performs a protocol process using control information included in a received frame, acquires the control information from the received frame, and acquires data when the data is included in the frame. The control information queue stores control information including at least one of a reception window size of other communication apparatus, area information representing an area of data received by the other communication apparatus, the reception window size of the communication apparatus, and area information representing an area of data received by the communication apparatus. The transmission protocol processing unit performs a protocol process using the control information stored in the control information queue, generates a frame of a transmission target, and transmits the frame through the network interface unit. | 2012-02-02 |
| 20120027028 | ADAPTIVE, SCALABLE PACKET LOSS RECOVERY - A system for transmitting data packets representing a source signal across a packet data network is provided. Additionally provided are methods and an apparatus for encoding parameters representing the source signal and also decoding these parameters. The system allows adaptation to the loss scenario of data packets transmitted across the packet data network. A redundancy encoding is generated with a bit rate continuously scalable, the bit rate being provided by a bit rate controller that uses input from the network and packet-loss rate information. The specification can be changed for each coding block. At the decoder, recovery is performed by a parameter estimator based on a dynamically generated statistical model of the effect of the quantizers. The method may be added to existing lossy source coding systems or may be used to enhance the quality of the reconstructed source signal even in scenarios without packet loss. | 2012-02-02 |
| 20120027029 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OFFLOADING PACKET PROTOCOL ENCAPSULATION FROM SOFTWARE - A method is provided for offloading packet protocol encapsulation from software. In operation, pointer information is received. Furthermore, packet protocol encapsulation is offloaded from software by assembling packets in hardware, using the pointer information. | 2012-02-02 |
| 20120027030 | NETWORK TERMINAL, NETWORK SYSTEM, TIME SYNCHRONIZATION METHOD, AND TIME SYNCHRONIZATION PROGRAM - A network terminal has communication section that communicates with other network terminals connected via a network, time-series data creation section that, at timing set beforehand, creates time information including a correspondence between an identification number of the own network terminal and a current time measured by a timer of the own network terminal and creates time-series data registering the time information, and additional registration section that, when the communication section receives the time-series data transmitted from another network terminal, creates time information including a correspondence between the identification number of the own network terminal and a current time measured by the timer of the own network terminal and additionally registers the time information to the time-series data received this time. | 2012-02-02 |
| 20120027031 | Amplified Broadband Fiber Laser Source - Methods and systems for generating a supercontinuum light source, including generating electromagnetic radiation from a seed laser; coupling the seed laser electromagnetic radiation to a fiber amplifier comprising: a pump laser, a fiber coupler comprising an input and an output, and a nonlinear gain fiber comprising an input and an output, wherein the nonlinear gain fiber is configured to amplify and broaden the electromagnetic radiation from the seed laser; generating electromagnetic radiation from the pump laser; coupling the pump laser electromagnetic radiation and the seed laser electromagnetic radiation into the input of the fiber coupler; coupling the output of the fiber coupler into the input of the nonlinear gain fiber; and coupling out the amplified and broadened electromagnetic radiation from the nonlinear gain fiber. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 2012-02-02 |
| 20120027032 | DECOHERED LASER LIGHT PRODUCTION SYSTEM - A decohered laser light production system is provided. The decohered laser light system comprises a laser source. The system further comprises a multi-mode fiber having an input face, an output face and a body for propagating light from the input face to the output face, the input face arranged to accept laser light from the laser source, the body comprising a length such that laser light is generally decohered when exiting the output face. | 2012-02-02 |
| 20120027033 | MULTI-SEGMENT ALL-FIBER LASER - A multi-segment all-fiber laser is provided. The device includes a first active fiber laser segment, a first grating, a second grating, and a gain-phase coupling fiber segment arranged between the first and second gratings, said gain-phase coupling segment providing coupling of gain and phase between said first and second gratings. | 2012-02-02 |
| 20120027034 | Beam Quality of the Monoblock Laser Through Use of a 1.5 Micron External Cavity Partial Reflector - A monoblock laser cavity incorporates optical components for a short-pulse laser. These optical components are ‘locked’ into alignment forming an optical laser cavity for flash lamp or diode laser pumping. The optical laser cavity does not need optical alignment after it is fabricated, increasing the brightness of the monoblock laser. | 2012-02-02 |
| 20120027035 | HIGH-POWER, PHASE-LOCKED, LASER ARRAYS - High-power, phased-locked, laser arrays as disclosed herein utilize a system of optical elements that may be external to the laser oscillator array. Such an external optical system may achieve mutually coherent operation of all the emitters in a laser array, and coherent combination of the output of all the lasers in the array into a single beam. Such an “external gain harness” system may include: an optical lens/mirror system that mixes the output of all the emitters in the array; a holographic optical element that combines the output of all the lasers in the array, and an output coupler that selects a single path for the combined output and also selects a common operating frequency for all the coupled gain regions. | 2012-02-02 |
| 20120027036 | OPTICAL DEVICE AND METHOD FOR FABRICATING OPTICAL DEVICE - An optical device including: a carrier having a first area and a second area, both edges of the second area having a wall of a step, one edge of the second area being adjacent to the first area, the first area having a first thickness, the second area having a second thickness larger than the first thickness; and a first optical component mounted on the first area of the carrier, the second area of the carrier being an absence area of a component. | 2012-02-02 |
| 20120027037 | SEMICONDUCTOR LASER DRIVE DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCORPORATING SAME - A semiconductor laser drive device includes a semiconductor-laser drive element to generate a drive current according to an input control signal to supply the drive current to a semiconductor laser, a control circuit to control the drive current by controlling the semiconductor-laser drive element, and a drive current detection circuit to detect a current value of the drive current supplied to the semiconductor laser and generate a digital control signal representing the detected digital value of the drive current to output. | 2012-02-02 |
