| 05th week of 2016 patent applcation highlights part 79 |
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| 20160037357 | METHOD FOR PREDICTING THE RADIO FIELD LEVEL AND/OR THE DURATION OF PROPAGATION OF CELLULAR TELEPHONE NETWORKS USING HIGH-RESOLUTION TERRAIN DATABASES - A method of predicting the level of radio field and/or the duration of radio propagation of a mobile telephone network for the coverage of a cell using the ray tracing technique and utilizing geographical databases, wherein the database directly utilized is a matrix base composed of pixels, each pixel carrying at least an information item specific to the type of ground cover and an information item specific to the height of the ground cover, a vectorization processing is applied to the matrix base to linearize the contours of obstacles encountered while rays are fictitiously traced, the rays according to the obstacles encountered being either reflected or diffracted and scattered, whilst the global attenuation and/or propagation duration is calculated, the vectorization processing of the contours of obstacles being applied to matrix bases to linearize the contours of obstacles encountered by forming straight lines whose positions and various angles are known accurately. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160037358 | RELAY STATION, RELAY METHOD, RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND RADIO COMMUNICATION APPARATUS - A relay node in a mobile communication network for relaying communications between a base station and a mobile terminal. The relay node includes a first communication unit that communicates with the base station via a backhaul link using at least one of a first modulation method and a first multiplexing method, and a second communication unit that communicates with the mobile terminal via an access link using at least one of a second modulation method and a second multiplexing method. The relay node also includes a communication control unit that selects the at least one of the first modulation method and the first multiplexing method, or selects the at least one of the second modulation method and the second multiplexing method based on a characteristic of a link, a type of link or a type of data included in a communication signal. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160037359 | ANTENNA ARCHITECTURE AND OPERATIONAL METHOD FOR RF TEST CONNECTOR REDUCTION - A method and system configures a wireless communication device to support various radio frequency test modes. A controller determines whether an RF test cable is connected between test equipment and a test connector while a corresponding transceiver(s) is operating. In response to determining that the RF test cable is connected between test equipment and the test connector while the corresponding transceiver is operating, the controller provides an antenna tuner configuration(s) corresponding to the operating transceivers to support a test mode which, for example, can include any of a carrier aggregation (CA) test mode and a diversity transmission test mode. However, if the RF test cable is not connected between test equipment and the test connector while the corresponding transceiver(s) is operating, the controller determines an antenna tuner configuration corresponding to a normal/non-test device communication mode. The controller configures the antenna tuner(s) using the determined antenna tuner configuration(s). | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160037360 | WIRELESS SENSOR BASE STATION WITH COEXISTENCE OF MULTIPLE HOMOGENEOUS RADIOS - Techniques are disclosed for reducing interference, in a network device, among multiple radio circuits operating in a same or similar frequency band and in close physical proximity. In some embodiments, a network device includes a first and a second wireless network circuit. The network circuits operate in a same radio frequency band and are collocated. The second network circuit is assigned a higher priority than the first network circuit. The device further includes a coexistence controller coupled to the network circuits via a communication bus and configured to selectively suppress transmitting operations of the first network circuit during receiving operations of the second network circuit. Among other benefits, the embodiments can increase wireless network bandwidth and reduce mobile device power consumption by providing coordination among the radio circuits so that the transmitting and receiving operations are performed in a way that they do not interfere with their respective antennas. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160037361 | Sensing Proximity Utilizing A Wireless Radio Subsystem - In one embodiment, a method includes, by an RF transceiver of a wireless communications device associated with a first user of an online system, transmitting an RF reference signal to each antenna of multiple antennas coupled to the transceiver. The method also includes, by a processor of the wireless communications device, determining, for each antenna of the multiple antennas, at least one characteristic of the RF reference signal reflected back from the antenna. The method further includes, by the processor of the wireless communications device, characterizing, based on the at least one determined characteristic, at least one aspect of an environment around the device to determine that an object is approaching the device. The method also includes, by the processor of the wireless communications device, retrieving from the online system, based on determining that the object is approaching the device, information associated with the first user. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160037362 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MEASURING RADIO RESOURCE USE PER TRAFFIC CLASS IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and apparatus for measuring a use of radio resources in a wireless communication system are provided. The method includes allocating radio resources to a plurality of transport blocks, and, if at least one transport block among the plurality of transport blocks overlaps at least one other transport block in terms of the radio resources, a use of the radio resources is measured by calculating a sum of a value determined by dividing the number of radio resources allocated to each of the plurality of transport blocks by the number of radio resources which are used by the at least one other transport block in a duplicate manner. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160037363 | INTERFERENCE MANAGEMENT IN A BURSTY-INTERFERENCE ENVIRONMENT - A method of interference management for a wireless device in a wireless communication system may comprise, for example, receiving, at a first wireless device from a second wireless device of the wireless communication system, channel measurement statistics associated with a communication channel of the wireless communication system, comparing the channel measurement statistics to a corresponding bursty interference signature characteristic of bursty interference, identifying a bursty interference condition on the communication channel based on the comparison, and generating a bursty interference indicator based on the identification of the bursty interference condition. Other methods of interference management for a wireless device in a wireless communication system are also disclosed. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160037364 | BURSTY-INTERFERENCE-AWARE INTERFERENCE MANAGEMENT - A method of interference management for a wireless device in a wireless communication system may comprise monitoring a packet error metric associated with transmissions over a communication channel of the wireless communication system, modifying a packet size attribute associated with MPDUs processed at the wireless device, identifying a bursty interference condition on the communication channel based on a change in the packet error metric in response to the modified packet size attribute, and generating a bursty interference indicator based on the identification of the bursty interference condition. Another method may comprise receiving a bursty interference indicator identifying a bursty interference condition on a communication channel of the wireless communication system, adjusting a packet size attribute associated with MPDUs processed at the wireless device based on the bursty interference indicator, and transmitting one or more MPDUs over the communication channel according to the adjusted packet size attribute. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160037365 | ADAPTIVE PACKET PREAMBLE ADJUSTMENT - In some examples, an apparatus may be usable in a first network and configurable to operate within a proximity of a second network that communicates traffic that interferes with data communication in the first network. The apparatus may include a calculation module configured to calculate a packet loss rate. The apparatus may include a determination module coupled to the calculation module and configured to determine whether the packet loss rate exceeds a particular threshold level. The apparatus may include a preamble module coupled to the determination module and configured to dynamically adjust a number of protective bytes included in a packet preamble in response to a determination by the determination module that the packet loss rate exceeds the particular threshold level. The protective bytes may be effective to reduce packet corruption due to turnaround time collisions between packets communicated in the first network and traffic communicated in the second network. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160037366 | DETECTION AND REPORTING OF NETWORK IMPAIRMENTS - Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for providing terminal devices configured to collect network performance data, communicate the network performance data to one or more neighboring devices, and analyze the collected performance data and/or the received network performance data to identify anomalous data. The anomalous data may be communicated to a network management system which may, in turn, analyze the anomalous data to identify one or more network impairments. Additionally, or alternatively, a terminal device may be configured to identify a network impairment by correlating anomalous collected data to data received from neighboring terminal devices. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160037367 | Device And Method For Prompting Information About Wi-Fi Signal - Disclosed are a device and a method for prompting information about a Wi-Fi signal. The device includes: one or more non-transitory computer readable medium configured to store computer-executable instruction, at least one processor to execute a plurality of software modules configured to execute the computer-executable instruction to cause: receiving a notification message broadcast by an operating system of a terminal, determining whether the target Wi-Fi signal contains an unsafe factor by detecting attribute information of the target Wi-Fi signal when the notification message displays that an event relevant to a target Wi-Fi signal occurs in the current terminal, and displaying prompt information about the target Wi-Fi signal when the target Wi-Fi signal contains an unsafe factor, the prompt information being used for prompting about the unsafe factor contained in the Wi-Fi signal for overcoming the unsafe factor. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160037368 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND NETWORK CONTROLLER FOR ONLINE TROUBLESHOOTING FOR MBMS IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A communication device includes a communication interfacing unit and a processor. The processor operable to perform operations includes controlling the communication interfacing unit to transmit a first signal to a network controller according to a user-inputted command; logging first MBSFN measurement results in a first period; and controlling the communication interfacing unit to transmit the logged first MBSFN measurement results to the network controller, so that the network controller adjusts at least one parameter of a network corresponding to a MBSFN transmission of a MBMS signal according to the logged first MBSFN measurement results. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160037369 | Multi-Carrier CQI Feedback Method and Apparatus - A radio base station transmits data symbols to a mobile terminal on multiple frequency carriers, e.g., in accordance with the MC-WCDMA or cdma2000 3x air interface protocols. The radio base station instructs the mobile terminal to report channel quality measurements obtained by the terminal for the multiple carriers over the same uplink channel during successive reporting intervals. According to one embodiment, the mobile terminal reports channel quality by receiving data symbols transmitted on a plurality of frequency carriers in a multi-carrier CDMA environment and measuring channel quality for the different frequency carriers. The mobile terminal reports individual ones of the channel quality measurements over the same uplink channel during successive reporting intervals. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160037370 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING RADIO PARAMETER, NETWORK OPERATION MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, AND RADIO STATION - A method and a radio parameter control system, as well as a network operation management apparatus and a radio station, are provided that enable optimization control for problems varying with sites of occurrence. Using location information at the time of measurement included in a measurement report from a radio terminal ( | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160037371 | Technique for Aggregating Minimization of Drive Test, MDT, Measurements in a Component of an Operating and Maintenance, OAM, System - A technique for aggregating Minimization of Drive Test, MDT, measurements is disclosed. In a first method aspect, the method is performed by a component of an Operation And Maintenance, OAM, system and comprises the steps of receiving an activation request configuring MDT measurements for a plurality of User Equipments, UEs, and requesting a Performance Measurement, PM, activating the MDT measurements for the UEs, receiving the MDT measurements from the UEs, and aggregating the MDT measurements to obtain the requested PM measurement. In a second method aspect, the method is performed in another component of the OAM system and comprises the steps of generating the activation request configuring MDT measurements for the plurality of UEs, and requesting the PM, and transmitting the activation request towards the component of the OAM system. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160037372 | Method and a device for determining an estimated value for a noise power - A device for determining an estimated value for a mean power of the noise-signal sequence, which is superposed on an undisturbed periodic transmitted-signal sequence, determines a mean power of a received-signal sequence, which corresponds to the undisturbed periodic transmitted-signal sequence with the addition of the superposed noise-signal sequence. It then estimates an estimated-signal sequence for the undisturbed periodic transmitted-signal sequence from the received-signal sequence. Following this, a mean power of the estimated-signal sequence and the estimated value of the mean power of the noise-signal sequence is determined from a difference between the determined mean power of the received-signal sequence and the determined mean power of the estimated-signal sequence. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160037373 | METHOD OF ANONYMOUSLY REPORTING MINIMIZATION OF DRIVE TEST MEASUREMENTS - The present invention provides a method of anonymously reporting minimization of drive test (MDT) measurements. According to the method, a mobility management entity (MME) obtains MDT data anonymity configuration which indicates whether MDT measurements are to be reported anonymously at a type allocation code (TAC) level; sends a TAC of a UE to a trace collection entity (TCE) if the MDT data anonymity configuration indicates MDT measurements are to be reported anonymously at the TAC level; sends an international mobile subscriber identification (IMSI) or an international mobile equipment identity and software version (IMEISV) of the UE to the TCE if the MDT data anonymity configuration indicates other information, e.g. Trace, is adopted for anonymously reporting MDT measurements. The present invention enables an MME to send different identities of a UE to the TCE according to different requirements for anonymity to implement anonymous reporting of MDT measurements. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160037374 | METHOD OF ANONYMOUSLY REPORTING MINIMIZATION OF DRIVE TEST MEASUREMENTS - The present invention provides a method of anonymously reporting minimization of drive test (MDT) measurements. According to the method, a mobility management entity (MME) obtains MDT data anonymity configuration which indicates whether MDT measurements are to be reported anonymously at a type allocation code (TAC) level; sends a TAC of a UE to a trace collection entity (TCE) if the MDT data anonymity configuration indicates MDT measurements are to be reported anonymously at the TAC level; sends an international mobile subscriber identification (IMSI) or an international mobile equipment identity and software version (IMEISV) of the UE to the TCE if the MDT data anonymity configuration indicates other information, e.g. Trace, is adopted for anonymously reporting MDT measurements. The present invention enables an MME to send different identities of a UE to the TCE according to different requirements for anonymity to implement anonymous reporting of MDT measurements. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160037375 | METHOD OF ANONYMOUSLY REPORTING MINIMIZATION OF DRIVE TEST MEASUREMENTS - The present invention provides a method of anonymously reporting minimization of drive test (MDT) measurements. According to the method, a mobility management entity (MME) obtains MDT data anonymity configuration which indicates whether MDT measurements are to be reported anonymously at a type allocation code (TAC) level; sends a TAC of a UE to a trace collection entity (TCE) if the MDT data anonymity configuration indicates MDT measurements are to be reported anonymously at the TAC level; sends an international mobile subscriber identification (IMSI) or an international mobile equipment identity and software version (IMEISV) of the UE to the TCE if the MDT data anonymity configuration indicates other information, e.g. Trace, is adopted for anonymously reporting MDT measurements. The present invention enables an MME to send different identities of a UE to the TCE according to different requirements for anonymity to implement anonymous reporting of MDT measurements. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160037376 | METHOD OF ANONYMOUSLY REPORTING MINIMIZATION OF DRIVE TEST MEASUREMENTS - The present invention provides a method of anonymously reporting minimization of drive test (MDT) measurements. According to the method, a mobility management entity (MME) obtains MDT data anonymity configuration which indicates whether MDT measurements are to be reported anonymously at a type allocation code (TAC) level; sends a TAC of a UE to a trace collection entity (TCE) if the MDT data anonymity configuration indicates MDT measurements are to be reported anonymously at the TAC level; sends an international mobile subscriber identification (IMSI) or an international mobile equipment identity and software version (IMEISV) of the UE to the TCE if the MDT data anonymity configuration indicates other information, e.g. Trace, is adopted for anonymously reporting MDT measurements. The present invention enables an MME to send different identities of a UE to the TCE according to different requirements for anonymity to implement anonymous reporting of MDT measurements. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160037377 | METHOD OF ANONYMOUSLY REPORTING MINIMIZATION OF DRIVE TEST MEASUREMENTS - The present invention provides a method of anonymously reporting minimization of drive test (MDT) measurements. According to the method, a mobility management entity (MME) obtains MDT data anonymity configuration which indicates whether MDT measurements are to be reported anonymously at a type allocation code (TAC) level; sends a TAC of a UE to a trace collection entity (TCE) if the MDT data anonymity configuration indicates MDT measurements are to be reported anonymously at the TAC level; sends an international mobile subscriber identification (IMSI) or an international mobile equipment identity and software version (IMEISV) of the UE to the TCE if the MDT data anonymity configuration indicates other information, e.g. Trace, is adopted for anonymously reporting MDT measurements. The present invention enables an MME to send different identities of a UE to the TCE according to different requirements for anonymity to implement anonymous reporting of MDT measurements. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160037378 | CORE SERVICES PLATFORM FOR WIRELESS VOICE, DATA AND MESSAGING NETWORK SERVICES - A Core Service Platform (CSP) system is integrated with an operator network and IT system to provide services to subscribers and operators. Based on information collected from the operator network and IT system, the CSP system delivers alerts to a subscriber's device and provides offers to resolve the condition causing the alerts. The CSP system provides customized contextual offers to the subscriber's device based on contextual assessments of a subscriber's current context, such as time in contract, loyalty status, data and voice usage, value of customer, time, location and purchase history. The CSP system also provides an operator a suite of tools for the operator to manage its pricing, offers, campaigns and other subscriber-related issues. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160037379 | System and Method for a Location Prediction-Based Network Scheduler - Embodiments are provided for traffic scheduling based on user equipment (UE) in wireless networks. A location prediction-based network scheduler (NS) interfaces with a traffic engineering (TE) function to enable location-prediction-based routing for UE traffic. The NS obtains location prediction information for a UE for a next time window comprising a plurality of next time slots, and obtains available network resource prediction for the next time slots. The NS then determines, for each of the next time slots, a weight value as a priority parameter for forwarding data to the UE, in accordance with the location prediction information and the available network resource prediction. The result for the first time slot is then forwarded from the NS to the TE function, which optimizes, for the first time slot, the weight value with a route and data for forwarding the data to the UE. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160037380 | TECHNIQUES FOR SCHEDULING COMMUNICATIONS IN WIRELESS NETWORKS WITH TRAFFIC AGGREGATION - Certain aspects of the described aspects relate to scheduling communications in wireless networks using traffic aggregation. A UE communicates with a first access point using a first RAT over a first connection to access a first wireless network, and with a second access point using a second RAT over a second connection. The UE can receive, from the first access point, one or more parameters for scheduling communications with the second access point. The UE can also schedule communications with the second access point based at least in part on the one or more parameters. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160037381 | COMMUNICATION TERMINAL FOR A VEHICLE AND METHOD FOR SETTING A COMMUNICATION CONFIGURATION THEREOF - Disclosed herein is a communication terminal for a vehicle and a method for setting the communication configuration of the communication terminal for a vehicle, comprising: a first converting unit for receiving and decoding encoded detail traffic information from an on-board equipment for receiving traffic information from a road-side equipment (RSE) and extracting detail traffic information for the traffic information; a communication control unit for receiving the decoded detail traffic information from the first converting unit and setting a communication configuration to correspond to the detail traffic information referring to a data storing unit; and a first communication unit for communicating with the communication configuration set in the communication control unit. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160037382 | JUST IN TIME PACKET BODY PROVISION FOR WIRELESS TRANSMISSION - Wireless transmission is performed by storing, in a local memory, a header in association with reference(s) to memory locations in a separate, shared memory storing a payload for a given transmission. Each header can be associated with a QoS queue. When a selected payload is to be transmitted, a PHY preamble can begin, followed by a header from local memory, while a DMA transaction initiates to retrieve payload from the shared memory. Each retrieved portion of payload can include a link to a next location storing a next part of payload. A subsequent DMA is initiated for that part of the payload. A relatively fixed function circuit can initiate DMA and receive payload data; a programmable element can perform payload selection, for example. Multiple payloads can be aggregated (just before transmitting of a preamble) using header information stored in the fast local memory. Memory can be released after ACK of a corresponding payload. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160037383 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING/RECEIVING PACKET IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method for simultaneously transmitting packets having different lengths to two or more users in a wireless communication system includes: generating the packets to transmit to the respective users, the packets containing information on the maximum transmission length of the packets having different lengths; and simultaneously transmitting the generated packets to the respective users. The maximum transmission length is represented by the number of symbols, and each of the packets sequentially contains control information required for transmitting the packet, data, a tail field, and a PHY pad field, and is generated by inserting a MAC pad between the control information and the data such that the tail field and the PHY pad field are positioned at the last byte of the last symbol of the maximum transmission length. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160037384 | NON-BLOCKING UPLINK ARCHITECTURE FOR ACCESS POINTS - The present disclosure discloses a method and a non-blocking uplink architecture for access points augmented by client association based load balancing. Specifically, an access point (AP) can receive a first data set using a particular radio of a plurality of radios, and then transmit the first data set to a network device by: (a) transmitting, to the network device, a first subset of the first data set using a first wired connection between the access point and the network device, and (b) transmitting, to the network device, a second subset of the first data set using a second wired connection between the access point and the network device. Moreover, the AP can select a particular wired connection for transmitting a subset data received from a radio of the AP to the network device, where multiple wired connections exist between the access point and the network device. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160037385 | Interference Mitigation of D2D Communications in Different Coverage Scenarios - The embodiments herein relate to a method in a first D2D UE ( | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160037386 | CONTROLLING BANDWIDTH ON CLIENT BASIS IN WLAN - Techniques are described for controlling the data rate of individual or groups of client devices in a network such as a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN). In one aspect, a method may include grouping a plurality of client devices into at least one group, the grouping being unassociated with a traffic class of the plurality of client devices. The method may also include determining channel characteristic thresholds, such as one or more of a bandwidth threshold, message size threshold, throughput threshold, or an optional service requirement, for the at least one group of client devices, and controlling a data rate for the at least one group of client devices based at least in part on the determined channel characteristic thresholds. In some aspects, different channel characteristic thresholds may be applied to uplink and/or downlink communications with the client device. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160037387 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RESOURCE MANAGEMENT IN HETEROGENEOUS WIRELESS NETWORKS - A system and method for resource management in a heterogeneous wireless network wherein the resources of the mobile communications system are managed on a coarse time-scale and a fine time-scale. The coarse time-scale management comprises a first stage of determining the user association for each of the plurality of TPs followed by a second stage of determining activation fractions for all TPs. The determining of the user association is performed by utilizing a GLS procedure having a Greedy Stage and a Local Search Stage. In the Greedy Stage, new user, TP pairs are analyzed and the pair with the greatest improvement in system utility is selected. In the Local Search Stage, potential swaps are analyzed and a pair offering the greatest improvement that exceeds a threshold is selected. The determining of activation fractions for all TPs is performed by utilizing an auxiliary function method. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160037388 | ENHANCED INTER-RADIO ACCESS TECHNOLOGY (IRAT) CELL RESELECTION - A cell reselection technique establishes a data call on a different radio access technology (RAT) when a background application requests initiation of a data call while camped on a serving RAT. Rather than setting up the data call immediately on the serving RAT, a user equipment (UE) determines signal quality of the other RAT. When the signal quality is good, the UE delays call setup until after reselecting to the other RAT. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160037389 | System for Providing Mobile VoIP - A system for providing handoff for a mobile devices comprising a mobile phone programmed to automatically handover between differing data bearers and to optimally detect those bearers in a roaming environment keeping power consumption to a minimum. Repeating means for these mobile devices to extend the range of coverage and the protocol for that coverage. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160037390 | Telecommunications Network Emergency-Call Handover - Telecommunications network components configured to manage a handover of a communication session, e.g., an emergency communication session, of user equipment are described herein. A core network device may transmit respective handover queries to a plurality of anchoring network devices following a handover request from user equipment. Each anchoring network device can provide a respective indication of whether the emergency communication session is being proxied by that anchoring network device. The core network device may transmit an invitation message to an anchoring network device in response to a positive indication from that anchoring network device. An anchoring network device may store in a memory an address of the anchoring network device in association with an address of the user equipment. The core network device may retrieve from memory the address of the anchoring network device and transmit an invitation message to the anchoring network device using the retrieved address. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160037391 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING SECURITY IN MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method, an apparatus, and a system for solving and managing security problems, which may occur during a handover of a User Equipment (UE) between PLMNs in a mobile communication network, by using a Non-Access Stratum (NAS) protocol are provided. By the method, a UE can perform a security mode command and an authentication with a network. Further, the method can prevent interruption of communication due to authentication or security during a handover of a UE between Public Land Mobile Networks (PLMNs). | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160037392 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING SECURITY IN MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method, an apparatus, and a system for solving and managing security problems, which may occur during a handover of a User Equipment (UE) between PLMNs in a mobile communication network, by using a Non-Access Stratum (NAS) protocol are provided. By the method, a UE can perform a security mode command and an authentication with a network. Further, the method can prevent interruption of communication due to authentication or security during a handover of a UE between Public Land Mobile Networks (PLMNs). | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160037393 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING SECURITY IN MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method, an apparatus, and a system for solving and managing security problems, which may occur during a handover of a User Equipment (UE) between PLMNs in a mobile communication network, by using a Non-Access Stratum (NAS) protocol are provided. By the method, a UE can perform a security mode command and an authentication with a network. Further, the method can prevent interruption of communication due to authentication or security during a handover of a UE between Public Land Mobile Networks (PLMNs). | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160037394 | METHOD FOR PROCESSING RADIO LINK FAILURE REPORT AND METHOD FOR ADJUSTING MOBILE PARAMETER - A method and a system for processing a Radio Link Failure (RLF) report, where when a User Equipment (UE) encounters an RLF in a first cell controlled by a first evolved base station and selects a second cell controlled by a second evolved base station to re-establish an Radio Resource Connection (RRC), are provided. The method includes sending, by the second evolved base station, the RLF report to every corresponding evolved base station according to the PCI of the first cell having been received from the UE, where the PCI of the first cell, the PCI of a second cell, the CRNTI of the UE in the first cell, and UE authentication information are carried in the RLF report, and authenticating, by every evolved base station the UE according to the UE authentication information. Another method for processing an RLF report, and two methods for adjusting a mobile parameter, are also provided. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160037395 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CHANGE OF PRIMARY CELL DURING CARRIER AGGREGATION - Methods for performing change of primary cell during carrier aggregation operation are described. A mobile station (MS) receives a message to change a primary cell and to perform a random access communication with a new primary cell. Upon receiving a random access response message from the new primary cell, the MS starts transmitting a control channel to the new primary cell. In one embodiment, the MS releases the configuration of an uplink control channel and transmits uplink control information through an uplink shared channel. Upon completion of the primary cell change procedure, the MS starts transmission of an uplink control channel to the new primary cell. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160037396 | DYNAMIC CHANNEL SWITCHING FOR WIRELESS MESH NETWORKS - The present invention relates to a method of dynamic channel switching in a wireless mesh network that is in conformance with an IEEE 802.11s standard. The method comprises the steps of transmitting a request frame to a node for scanning a channel associated with the node; determining a link quality of the channel; receiving a response frame from the node; and switching to the channel if the switching metric is larger than a switching threshold, wherein if otherwise, remain unswitched. The switching metric integrates the interference, transmission frame size, latency of channel switching and data rate of the node on the channel | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160037397 | Identifying Mobile Station in a Cellular Wireless Communication System - Method and apparatus in a cellular wireless communication system are provided. A mobile station is handed over from a first network control node to a second network control node. A second network control node transmits a mobile identity indicator embedded in a handover report message to the first network control node after the successful handover. The transmitting is triggered by an occurrence of a handover failure or a radio link failure for the mobile station while the mobile station is connected to the second network control node. The first network control node receives the mobile identity indicator and identifies the mobile station using the mobile identity indicator. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160037398 | CELL HANDOVER METHOD AND DEVICE - Embodiments of the present invention provide a cell handover method and a device. so that the target eNB uses a current serving small node as a user plane serving node after UE is handed over and uses the target eNB as a control plane serving node after the UE is handed over; receiving a handover request acknowledgment sent by the target eNB; and sending offloading configuration information of the current serving small node to the current serving small node, and sending RRC reconfiguration information of the UE to the UE, so that offloading configuration is performed separately by the current serving small node and the UE. This avoids a problem that in a cell handover process, a transmission resource required for transmission increases and a delay is relatively great because the current serving small node forwards a large amount of data to the target eNB. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160037399 | ENHANCED REPORTING FOR HANDOVER IN DEVICE-TO-DEVICE COMMUNICATION - A method, user equipment and a base station for handover in device-to-device communication are disclosed. To maintain continuity of the ongoing device-to-device communication after the handover, an enhanced reporting mechanism is introduced such that the user equipment with the ongoing device-to-device communication would be handed over to a cell of a neighbor base station that supports the device-to-device communication. In this manner, the device-to-device communication continuity may be maintained. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160037400 | BASE STATION APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ACQUIRING LOAD INFORMATION IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A base station apparatus in a wireless communication system and a method for acquiring load information are provided that make it possible to acquire load information per operator, without changing the standardized interface specifications. In a wireless communication system including base stations ( | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160037401 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING INACTIVITY INDICATION IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and apparatus for transmitting an inactivity indication in a wireless communication system is provided. A user equipment (UE), which transmits/receives Internet protocol (IP) packets of a specific bearer/channel via a first connection with a first node, establishes a second connection with a second node while maintaining the first connection. When the specific bearer/channel is moved from the first node to the second node, the UE transmits an inactivity indication which indicates inactivation of the specific bearer/channel to the first node. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160037402 | Mechanism for a Fast Handover Using Resource Pools and Random Access Procedure - An apparatus at least one processor, and at least one memory for storing instructions to be executed by the processor, wherein the at least one memory and the instructions are configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus at least: to create at least one pool of communication resources for a fast handover procedure, wherein at least one set of communication resources is allocated to a pool of communication resources, and to cause a transmission of information indicating the content of the at least one pool of communication resources to a neighboring cell for allocating the pool of communication resources to the neighboring cell. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160037403 | BASE STATION DEVICE AND HANDOVER CONTROL METHOD - [Problem] To provide a base station device and a handover control method capable of avoiding a situation in which the base station device of a cell becomes overloaded when the cell transitions from an inactive state to an active state. [Solution] A base station device ( | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160037404 | Optimizing Parameter Setting for Handover of Mobile Terminals on a Transportation Platform - A system and method for optimizing handover parameters for a plurality of mobile terminals on a common transportation platform in a cellular network includes at least a first terminal and a second terminal and a controller. The controller is configured to determine that each of the first and second terminal are on the common transportation platform, monitor a status of a handover attempt of the first terminal, and if the handover attempt is successful, adopt handover parameter settings of the first terminal for the second terminal, and if the handover attempt is not successful, change handover parameter settings for the second terminal. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160037405 | METHOD FOR USER EQUIPMENT MANAGING CONNECTION WITH SMALL CELL IN HETEROGENEOUS CELL ENVIRONMENT - Disclosed are a macro cell base station and a method for managing a connection with a small cell by: receiving a first measurement report message of the small cell from user equipment and deciding an activation of the connection with the small cell based on same; transmitting to the small cell a message indicating the activation of a connection with the user equipment, when the small cell has a different cell ID from a cell ID of the macro cell; receiving from the small cell a message for indicating scheduling for the user equipment; and indicating to the user equipment the connection with the small cell. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160037406 | Handover Request Indicating Split of a Radio Bearer between Cells - A method in a first network node for splitting of a DL part and an UL part of a radio bearer between a first cell and a second cell in a wireless communications network. The radio bearer is associated to DL and UL transmissions between the first network node and a user equipment in the first cell. The first network node transmits ( | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160037407 | Radio Network Node, a Base Station and Methods Therein - A method in a radio network node ( | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160037408 | METHOD FOR PROCESSING RADIO LINK FAILURE REPORT AND METHOD FOR ADJUSTING MOBILE PARAMETER - A method and a system for processing a Radio Link Failure (RLF) report, where when a User Equipment (UE) encounters an RLF in a first cell controlled by a first evolved base station and selects a second cell controlled by a second evolved base station to re-establish an Radio Resource Connection (RRC), are provided. The method includes sending, by the second evolved base station, the RLF report to every corresponding evolved base station according to the PCI of the first cell having been received from the UE, where the PCI of the first cell, the PCI of a second cell, the CRNTI of the UE in the first cell, and UE authentication information are carried in the RLF report, and authenticating, by every evolved base station the UE according to the UE authentication information. Another method for processing an RLF report, and two methods for adjusting a mobile parameter, are also provided. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160037409 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SUPPORTING HANDOVER OF USER EQUIPMENT IN MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Defined is a handover procedure of a User Equipment (UE) for which multiple UpLink (UL) carriers requiring different UL Timing Advances (TAs) are aggregated in a mobile communication system. The handover procedure includes admitting execution of handover to a target cell of the UE at the request of a source cell, setting radio resource information to be used by the UE in the target cell and transmitting the set radio resource information to the source cell, determining whether a random access procedure, which is executed, among the multiple UL carriers, with a reference UL carrier or with an UL carrier to which the same UL TA as that of the reference UL carrier is applied, has been completed, and determining that a handover procedure of the UE has been successfully completed if the random access procedure has been completed, and determining that the handover procedure of the UE has failed if the random access procedure fails. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160037410 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SUPPORTING HANDOVER OF USER EQUIPMENT IN MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Defined is a handover procedure of a User Equipment (UE) for which multiple UpLink (UL) carriers requiring different UL Timing Advances (TAs) are aggregated in a mobile communication system. The handover procedure includes admitting execution of handover to a target cell of the UE at the request of a source cell, setting radio resource information to be used by the UE in the target cell and transmitting the set radio resource information to the source cell, determining whether a random access procedure, which is executed, among the multiple UL carriers, with a reference UL carrier or with an UL carrier to which the same UL TA as that of the reference UL carrier is applied, has been completed, and determining that a handover procedure of the UE has been successfully completed if the random access procedure has been completed, and determining that the handover procedure of the UE has failed if the random access procedure fails. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160037411 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR RELOCATING ANCHOR GATEWAY IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The present disclosure relates to a pre-5 | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160037412 | METHODS AND DEVICES FOR CONDITIONAL ATTACHMENT TO A NETWORK - A method implemented in a user equipment (UE) for establishing reattachment to a first network includes establishing a data connection to a second network. The method further includes detecting a detachment from the first network. The method further includes entering a conditional state after detecting the detachment from the first network. After entering the conditional state, the method further includes monitoring one or more broadcast transmissions from a network node, extracting broadcast data included in the broadcast transmissions of the first network, applying the extracted broadcast data in a predetermined rule, and if the predetermined rule is satisfied, establishing the reattachment to the first network. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160037413 | CONNECTION HANDOVER METHOD BASED ON NEAR FIELD COMMUNICATION, AND CORRESPONDING APPARATUS - The present invention discloses a connection handover method for near field communication, and further disclose a connection handover apparatus. The method includes: acquiring, by a zeroth terminal, idle connection resource information of the zeroth terminal; receiving a request message that is sent by a first terminal and is used for initiating a connection handover process or used for notifying the zeroth terminal that a connection handover process needs to be performed; and determining, according to the request message, that the following determining needs to be performed: determining, according to the idle connection resource information of the zeroth terminal, whether the zeroth terminal has an idle connection resource, if yes, sending a response message to the first terminal, so as to feed back connection configuration information of the zeroth terminal to the first terminal, and if not, skipping feeding back connection configuration information of the zeroth terminal to the first terminal. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160037414 | TRANSMISSION CONTROL FOR USER EQUIPMENT - A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for wireless communication are provided. The apparatus establishes a wireless connection to a first network, determines a start time of a tune away procedure, enters a transmission freeze state for a first predetermined interval prior to the start time of the tune away procedure, tunes away from the first network for a second predetermined interval, and tunes back to the first network after the second predetermined interval. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160037415 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ENHANCED NETWORK HANDOFF TO WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS - A method of managing a wireless device includes receiving location information via a wireless wide area network interface and identifying a set of access points within connection range of the wireless device via a wireless local area network interface using the location information. The method also includes transmitting information associated with the set of access points to the wireless device via the wireless wide area network interface and transmitting station information associated with the wireless device to an access point within connection range of the wireless device. The method further includes initiating a handoff of the wireless device from the wireless wide area network interface to the wireless local area network interface via the access point based on the information and the station information. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160037416 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR OPERATING A USER EQUIPMENT - Embodiments provide a method, apparatus and computer program for operating a user equipment (UE). The method beings by determining that a valid authentication for the UE, generated with a radio network operating with a first radio access technology (RAT), is not a mutual authentication between the UE and the network operating with the first RAT. In response, the UE unilaterally takes action to prevent the valid authentication that is not a mutual authentication from being used to authenticate with a radio network operating with a second RAT that utilizes mutual authentication. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160037417 | MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS METHOD, DEVICE, AND SYSTEM - The embodiments of present invention provide a mobile communications method, a device, and a system. The method is performed by an access network device, including: receiving, by using a terrestrial interface of a first network standard between an access network and a first core network, a first terrestrial interface message of the first network standard sent by the first core network; generating, according to an air interface protocol of an air interface of a second network standard between the access network and UE and the first terrestrial interface message, a first air interface message of the second network standard; and sending, by using the air interface of the second network standard, the first air interface message to the UE. The method implements direct communication between network devices of different standards in a mobile communications system, thereby decoupling an air interface from a terrestrial interface. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160037418 | METHOD FOR ACCESSING A SERVICE UNAVAILABLE THROUGH A NETWORK CELL - A method performed by user equipment (UE) includes receiving a request to access a service unavailable through a first network cell associated with the UE, and receiving a message from an access device associated with the first network cell, wherein the message identifies a plurality of second network cells providing the service. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160037419 | CONTROL METHOD FOR POWER CONFIGURATION ON HETEROGENEOUS NETWORK, AND USER EQUIPMENT - The present application provides a control method for power configuration on a heterogeneous network, and a user equipment. The control method for power configuration includes: determining whether the user equipment is in a soft handover area, in which a macro base station is used as a serving base station, between uplink and downlink balance points; when the user equipment is in the soft handover area, in which the macro base station is used as the serving base station, between the uplink and downlink balance points, increasing power of a dedicated physical control channel, so that the serving base station can normally receive a signal from the user equipment; and adjusting a power offset of an enhanced dedicated physical data channel to a first power offset, where the first power offset is any value in a flat area of an optimal power offset of the user equipment. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160037420 | SIGNALING VIRTUAL CELL ID SETS - An efficient signaling of virtual cell identifier (ID) sets by base stations is disclosed. A serving base station identifies a set of virtual cell IDs of transmission points from a coordinated multipoint (CoMP) cluster in which a served user equipment (UE) is located along with neighboring transmission points of neighboring CoMP clusters. The serving base station groups the virtual cell IDs available for use in transmission into subsets of virtual cell IDs either according to the primary cell IDs associated with each virtual cell ID or according to the channel state information (CSI) resources associated with each primary cell ID and then transmits each of the subsets of virtual cell IDs to the UE. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160037421 | HANDOVER OF MOBILITY MANAGEMENT ENTITY FOR LOAD BALANCING - There is provided a mechanism for executing a handover for a subscriber between mobility management entities for load balancing reasons. A current mobility management entity sends (S | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160037422 | RADIO ACCESS MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD - A radio access management system includes a radio access network including a number of base stations, a backhaul network to which the base stations are connected via backhaul links, and a backhaul resource controller configured to acquire information about both the load of the radio access network and of the backhaul network and to at least one of suggest or enforce handovers of user terminals connected to the base stations based on the acquired load information. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160037423 | System for Managing Services of WiMax Base Stations - A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a base station having a wireless transceiver operable in compliance with a Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access protocol, and a controller to manage the wireless transceiver. The controller can be operable to receive a request from a communication device to access the base station, and to direct the communication device to a second base station upon determining that granting wireless access to the communication device reduces an operating performance of the base station below an operating threshold of the base station. Additional embodiments are disclosed. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160037424 | ESTIMATING A RELATIVE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SIGNAL STRENGTHS OF WIRELESS SIGNALS RECEIVED BY A DEVICE - Methods and systems are described for determining an optimal access point for a client device based on the relative difference between signal strengths of wireless signals received by the client device from access points. In particular, the signal strengths of wireless signals received by a client device from access points are determined without receipt of signal strength and/or transmit power information from the client device. Instead, the signal strength difference value may be determined based on known characteristics of signals transmitted by the access points and known characteristics of signals received by the access points from the client device. This relative difference value may thereafter be used to determine an appropriate access point to provide network access to the client device. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160037425 | MOBILE TERMINAL HANDOVER IN AN LTE NETWORK - A method of handing over a mobile terminal from a source base station to a target base station in a Long Term Evolution, LTE, compliant mobile wireless communications network. The method comprises generating a measurement report including one or more channel state information reference signal, CSI-RS, measurement result at a mobile terminal. The mobile terminal sends the measurement report to a source base station. The source base station determines either in response to the measurement report or separately that the network should handover the mobile terminal to a target base station. The source base station sends a handover request to the target base station. The handover request sent from the source base station to the target base station includes at least one CSI-RS measurement result received from the mobile terminal such that the target base station can initiate coordinated multi-point transmission, CoMP, to the mobile terminal upon handover. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160037426 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ASSISTING TERMINAL IN MEASURING - The present invention discloses a method and an apparatus for assisting a terminal in measuring, which relate to the field of communications network technologies and may implement correct measurement on signal strength of a micro base station, thereby preventing UE from incorrectly determining the signal strength of the micro base station. In embodiments of the present invention, a first base station receives a measurement result for a second base station sent by UE, where the first base station provides a service for the UE; the first base station determines, according to the measurement result, whether a handover operation needs to be started; when the handover operation needs to be started, the first base station instructs the second base station to start up, and hands over the UE to the second base station for a service provided by the second base station. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160037427 | LOCATION DRIVEN ASSOCIATION OF CLIENT DEVICES TO ACCESS POINTS - A method may determine the location and/or motion of a client device. Based on these determinations, the method may 1) delay a potential move of the client device to a new access point until the client device reaches a non-transitional or less dense area or is stationary, 2) delay a potential move of the client device to a new access point while the client device is on the edge of the network environment, 3) compute a probable destination of the client device and wait until this destination is reached before triggering movement to a new access point, 4) reduce the effects caused by shadowing, 5) guide the client device to more proximate access points, and 6) guide the client device to dedicated proximate access points when client devices are relatively motionless. Accordingly, the method dynamically leverages client device location and motion to intelligently assign client devices to access points. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160037428 | METHODS AND DEVICES FOR PROVIDING APPLICATION SERVICES TO USERS IN COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK - In a method for providing application services to a user in a communications network, a first multi-path transport control protocol (MPTCP) flow is mapped to a first evolved packet system (EPS) bearer associated with a first serving base station for the user, and a second MPTCP flow is mapped to a second EPS bearer associated with a second serving base station for the user. The first MPTCP flow is output on the first EPS bearer for delivery to the user through the first serving base station, and the second MPTCP flow is output on the second EPS bearer for delivery to the user through the second serving base station. Each of the first and second MPTCP flows correspond to a same multipath transport control protocol MPTCP connection for an application. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160037429 | LOW COST MESH NETWORK CAPABILITY - A wireless device that utilizes a single network interface to simultaneously connect to an infrastructure network and a mesh network. The device has a driver layer with a media access control module for each network type. A multiplexing module and transceiver module within the driver can direct received information associated with one of the networks to an appropriate media access control and then to an appropriate network adapter. For transmitted data, the multiplexing module can receive data from the application layer through an appropriate network adapter and route it to an appropriate media access control module for processing. The processed data can be interleaved by the transceiver for transmission. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160037430 | WIRELESS NETWORK BROKERAGE - Propagation of a wireless signal is facilitated and brokered through a wireless network, and the signal is delivered by an appropriate method to an intended receiving wireless terminal. A single network element acts as a signal entry point and executes parallel processes to determine the location of an intended receiving wireless terminal and the registration thereof within the wireless network, the signal type, and the capabilities of the terminal. The network element then analyzes this information to determine the best method of signal propagation through the wireless network so as to ensure signal delivery to the wireless terminal or alternate delivery according to subscriber-set preferences. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160037431 | MILLIMETER WAVE NON-LINE-OF-SIGHT - A Next Generation Data Network is described. It leverages the “cloud” for data management, frequency data computation and analytics. The wireless network is a single frequency network that permits limited non-line-of-sight operation. The wireless network using packet switched beams, the beams are formed and switched electronically. It utilizes advanced signal processing to compensate for low transmit signal power and multipath reflections that can be frequency or flat fades. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160037432 | ENHANCED COMMON LOGICAL-A PROTOCOL FOR RECONFIGURABLE SYSTEMS - A network has a central entity connected to a plurality of capillary networks and external networks. Information regarding the capillary networks and the external networks may be fused in the central entity to provide assistance services and network control to one or more of the capillary networks. The information may be collected from the capillary networks using a logical interface with a common upper layer coupled to multiple Radio Access Technologies (RATs). The central entity configures an internal communications network including a plurality of disparate devices, and recognizes and communicates with each device within the internal communications network by discovering each new device as introduced into the internal communications network. A communication link can be set up with reconfigurable or capable devices to exchange information possibly in another format in another band. The same communication link can be torn down after completion of the service. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160037433 | Directional Transmission Techniques - Embodiments provide techniques for the transmission of broadcasts. For instance, an apparatus may include a sequence selection module, and multiple radiating elements. The sequence selection module selects sequences of directional transmission patterns, where each selected sequence corresponds to a time period. The multiple radiating elements wirelessly transmit a broadcast at the time periods in accordance with the selected sequences. The broadcast may include, for example, beacons, and/or a data broadcast, and/or a control broadcast and/or a management broadcast. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160037434 | CENTRALIZED GROUND-BASED ROUTE DETERMINATION AND TRAFFIC ENGINEERING FOR SOFTWARE DEFINED SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS - Approaches are provided for an SDSN that employs a satellite network nodes, where central L2 network nodes are controlled via a centralized Controller. Link status information is obtained regarding links of each L2 node. Global routing constraints, satellite ephemeris data, and resource allocation information are obtained. A constellation topology of the network nodes is determined based on the ephemeris data. Network routes between pairs of endpoints are determined. Each route includes links based on the link status information regarding the links, the global routing constraints, the bandwidth resources of the links and the current allocation of bandwidth resources, and/or the constellation topology. A forwarding table is generated for each network node, wherein each forwarding table includes route entries providing a next hop indicating a destination for data packets, wherein the destination is associated with a link of the respective network node that represents a link of a respective route. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160037435 | CONGESTION CONTROL METHOD AND APPARATUS - The present invention provides a congestion control method and apparatus. The method includes: sending, by a user equipment, a first network connection request to a network device of a first mobile network; receiving, by the user equipment, a first network connection rejection message from the network device, where the first network connection rejection message includes network switching indication information, where the network switching indication information is used for instructing the user equipment to switch to a second mobile network, and the network switching indication information is from a subscription manager SM; and accessing, by the user equipment, the second mobile network according to the network switching indication information. The present invention ensures normal execution of a service on an eUICC user equipment when network congestion occurs. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160037436 | DISTRIBUTED BULK ONBOARDING PROCESS - Methods and systems for the distributed bulk onboarding of devices onto a Wi-Fi network are provided. A method may comprise receiving, at an onboarding device, Wi-Fi configuration information. Then, it may comprise detecting, at the onboarding device, broadcast information from a plurality of devices that may be onboarded onto the Wi-Fi network, the broadcast information indicating that one or more of the plurality of devices is an onboarding node capable of onboarding another of the plurality of devices. The method may further comprise creating instructions indicating an order in which the plurality of devices may be onboarded, and by which of the one or more onboarding nodes each of the remaining devices of the plurality shall be onboarded, and providing the Wi-Fi configuration information and at least a portion of the instructions to at least one of the onboarding nodes. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160037437 | CONTROL OF SERVICES AT A CELL LEVEL OR A SECTOR LEVEL - A device may connect to a base station included in a service provider network. The base station may serve a geographic area where the device is located. The device may receive service information associated with the base station. The service information may correspond to the geographic area served by the base station, and may include an access state associated with a service. The access state may indicate a manner in which the device is permitted to access the service via the base station. The device may provide information associated with the access state to cause the device to access the service in accordance with the access state. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160037438 | Communication Management and Targeted Message Delivery - A network environment includes a wireless access point providing access to a corresponding network. A server resource initiates verification (such as authorization) of a mobile communication device attempting to establish a secured wireless link between the mobile communication device and a network access point. Based on an outcome of the verification, the server resource produces control information. The server resource forwards the control information to a gateway resource that controls a flow of communications between the network access point and a network. The gateway resource facilitates transmission of one or more messages to the mobile communication device in accordance with the control information. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160037439 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATICALLY DETECTING AND CONNECTING TO WI-FI NETWORKS - An apparatus and methods are provided for automatically detecting and connecting to a Wi-Fi network. In these methods, a wireless device listens for beacons that are sent using a low-power wireless protocol. Once the wireless device detects a first beacon at a first location, the wireless device extracts a first beacon region identifier from the beacon and correlates the first beacon region identifier with a first Wi-Fi network that is located at the first location. Next, the wireless device retrieves a first set of credentials for connecting to the first Wi-Fi network. Once the first set of credentials is retrieved, the wireless device uses the first set of credentials to connect to the first Wi-Fi network. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160037440 | CELL DISCOVERY - This disclosure generally relates to cell discovery. In one embodiment, an association between a cell and an indicator index corresponding to one of a set of scrambling sequence indicators may be predefined. A first base station may transmit the set of scrambling sequence indicators to a second base station. The second base station may select an indicator from the indicators according to the predefined association, for generating a reference signal to be transmitted to user equipment. The user equipment may determine identification information of the cell based on the received reference signal and the predefined association, and transmit the identification information to the first base station. In this way, the user equipment may determine the identification information of the cell based on the received reference signal, and then transmit the identification information to the base station, such that the load on the base station may be reduced in the procedure of cell discovery. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160037441 | APPARATUS, METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM FOR HIGH-EFFICIENCY WIRELESS LOCAL-AREA NETWORK (HEW) SIGNAL FIELD DETECTION - Apparatuses, methods, and computer readable media are disclosed. A STA to detect a HE SIG may be configured to detect the HE SIG based on at least one from the following group: a flipped reserved bit, a scrambled portion of the HE SIG, and a rotation of a signal constellation of the HE SIG different than legacy rotations of: a rotation of a first signal constellation and no rotation of a second signal constellation, and no rotation of the first signal constellation and a rotation of the second signal constellation. The STA may determine that a reserved bit is the flipped reserved bit based on a bit being reversed from a legacy standard. The STA may unscramble a received signal field, determine whether a CRC indicates the HE-SIG contains errors, and if the CRC indicates there are no errors, then determine that the signal field is the HE SIG. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160037442 | METHOD OF MANAGING POWER OF RF CIRCUITS AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE UTILIZING THE SAME - A method of locating a mobile device, and a mobile device utilizing the same are provided. The method, adopted by a wireless communication device, includes: searching for a plurality of signal-source types; in response to the searching, determining whether a first type of signal source is available; setting a search configuration based on availability of the first type of signal source; and searching again for the plurality of signal-source types according to the search configuration. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160037443 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATION - The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for a wireless communication. The communication method by a user equipment, according to an embodiment of the present invention, may include: receiving information on a second communication network base station from a first communication network base station through a first communication unit; and scanning the second communication network base station by using the information on the second communication network base station. According to an embodiment of the present invention, a user equipment can efficiently scan a wireless LAN base station and other heterogeneous network base stations. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160037444 | Method and Apparatus for Scanning Access Point in Wireless LAN System - The present disclosure relates to obtaining AP information or information on a channel where the AP is positioned from a neighboring mobile terminal that has recently performed AP scanning and re-attempting to scan based on the obtained information. According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, a method for scanning an access point (AP) in a wireless local area network (LAN) system comprises performing first WLAN scanning by a first mobile terminal, transmitting a request for WLAN AP information to a second mobile terminal that has previously performed WLAN AP scanning, receiving the WLAN AP information from the second mobile terminal, and performing second WLAN scanning based on the WLAN AP information. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160037445 | IDENTIFICATION-ASSISTED WIRELESS NETWORK CONNECTIONS - Systems and methods for transmitting location-specific information such as wireless network connectivity information are generally disclosed herein. One embodiment includes device configurations and techniques implemented to establish a secondary wireless network connection to exchange the location-specific information between a location-aware device and a location-unaware device. In other embodiments, the location-specific information exchanged via the secondary wireless network connection includes the transfer of the connectivity information, such as a Service Set Identifier (SSID) or network authentication information, from a primary network-aware device to establish a primary network connection at a primary network-unaware device. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160037446 | ACCESS CONTROL METHOD AND APPARATUS OF UE - A method for controlling delay tolerant access of a Machine-Type Communication (MTC) device based on a backoff mechanism is provided. The method includes receiving, at a terminal, a paging message including an access barring information update indicator from a base station, and receiving a System Information Block (SIB) including updated access barring information, the SIB being received regardless of modification periods. The terminal receives the SIB including the updated access barring information immediately without waiting for the arrival of next modification period, resulting in improvement of access barring efficiency. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160037447 | Radio Communication Terminal That Selects Among Radio Communication Networks - A radio communication terminal | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160037448 | Apparatus, System, and Method for Parallelizing UE Wakeup Process - An apparatus, system, and method for parallelizing user equipment (UE) wakeup process are described. In one embodiment, power may be provided to a crystal oscillator to exit a first sleep state. One or more clocking signals may be provided to RF circuitry based on output from the crystal oscillator. Calibration and state restoration of the RF circuitry may be performed independent of baseband circuitry. State restoration of the baseband circuitry may be performed. Data may be received from a wireless communication network using the RF circuitry. The data may be processed using the baseband circuitry. State retention for the RF circuitry and the baseband circuitry may be performed. Finally, the crystal oscillator may be powered down to enter a second sleep state. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160037449 | Slot Skipping Techniques for Reduced Power Consumption in Time Slotted Channel Hopping MAC Protocol - A device may be coupled to a time slot based communication system and receive a timing beacon packet that is broadcast in a time slot of the communication system at a periodic rate, in which the network uses a time slotted channel hopping protocol of sequential frames each having a plurality of time slots. The device may synchronize its time base to the timing beacon. The device may calculate a sleep time corresponding to a number of time slots until a next time slot that is scheduled for use by the device and then place the device in a sleep mode. The device may be awakened after the sleep time and operate during the next time slot. The device may repeat the process of calculating a sleep time, going into sleep mode, and waking for operation after the sleep time in order to reduce power consumption. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160037450 | INFRASTRUCTURE EQUIPMENT, MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK AND METHOD - A communications device establishes a communications context for communicating data packets using a packet communications bearer from the communications device via a mobile communications network. A controller of the communications device is configured to identify that the communications device can enter a stasis state because no data packets are available for transmission for a predetermined time via the packet communications bearer or there are no data packets to receive via the packet communications bearer, to transmit a stasis state message to the mobile communications network, and to store information relating to the communications context associated with the packet communications bearer in a data store. The stored information can be used by the controller to re-establish the packet communications bearer to transmit and/or receive data packets using the packet communications bearer, the communications device thereby entering the stasis state. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160037451 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR OPTIMIZING POWER CONSUMPTION OF A TERMINAL IN A MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The present invention relates to a method and to an apparatus for optimizing the power consumption of a terminal in a mobile communication system. The method for optimizing power consumption of a terminal in a mobile communication system comprises: a determination step of determining whether there is a need for changing a configuration for a discontinuous reception operation of the terminal; and a transmission step of transmitting, to a base station, a request message for a change in the discontinuous reception operation, if it is determined that the change is needed. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160037452 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR OPTIMIZING POWER CONSUMPTION OF A TERMINAL IN A MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The present invention relates to a method and to an apparatus for optimizing the power consumption of a terminal in a mobile communication system. The method for optimizing power consumption of a terminal in a mobile communication system comprises: a determination step of determining whether there is a need for changing a configuration for a discontinuous reception operation of the terminal; and a transmission step of transmitting, to a base station, a request message for a change in the discontinuous reception operation, if it is determined that the change is needed. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160037453 | POWER CONTROL PERFORMANCE FOR USER EQUIPMENT - A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for wireless communication are provided. The apparatus configured to establish a wireless connection to a first network, tune away from the first network for a first predetermined interval, tune back to the first network after the first predetermined interval, enter a power control freeze state for a second predetermined interval after tuning back to the first network, send a plurality of transmissions to the first network during the second predetermined interval, determine if a number of the plurality of transmissions that are not received by the first network exceeds a first threshold or if a number of the plurality of transmissions that are retransmitted to the first network exceeds a second threshold, and exit the power control freeze state when it is determined that the first threshold is exceeded or when it is determined that the second threshold is exceeded. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160037454 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONTROLLING ELECTRONICALLY OPERABLE ACCESS DEVICES USING WI-FI AND RADIO FREQUENCY TECHNOLOGY - Systems and methods are disclosed for controlling access devices including WI-FI and dual radio communications between an access control database and one or more access devices in a facility. The systems and methods allow real time communications between the database and the access devices utilizing existing communications WI-FI infrastructure in the facility while minimizing loss of battery life of the access devices by employing the radio network to target all or a portion of the access devices for communications when needed. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160037455 | Method and Apparatus for Reducing Power Consumption in a Mobile Electronic Device - Embodiments of the present invention provide methods and apparatuses for reducing power consumption for a mobile electronic device in order to extend battery life. In an embodiment, the mobile electronic device monitors a power level of the battery in the mobile electronic device, determines that the power level of the battery reaches a predetermined threshold, and based upon the determination, terminates a first launcher currently running on the mobile electronic device and activates a second launcher on the mobile electronic device. By activating the second launcher which has power saving features, the power consumption of the mobile electronic device is reduced and thus the battery life is extended while preserving the basic functions of the mobile device. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160037456 | CLEAR SKY DETERMINATION IN UPLINK POWER CONTROL USING DUAL TIME CONSTANTS - An uplink power control system and a machine-implemented method for determining clear sky and adjusting uplink power are provided. A receiving station, which may be a satellite terminal or a satellite gateway, receives a reference signal from a satellite. The reference signal may be sampled over a sampling time period in order to compute a filtered short-term average downlink SINR. A filtered long-term average downlink SINR may be adjusted toward the filtered short-term average downlink SINR using either a first time constant or second time constant, based on a relationship between the filtered long-term average downlink SINR and the filtered short-term average downlink SINR. In some implementations, the second time constant is less than the first time constant. | 2016-02-04 |
