06th week of 2010 patent applcation highlights part 42 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20100035510 | DOLL HAVING A FLEXIBLE, POSITIONABLE INTERNAL STRUCTURE - Improvements made to patent N° P200601904 relating to a doll having a flexible, positionable internal structure, comprising a plastic-covered copper cable ( | 2010-02-11 |
20100035511 | Model container car - The present invention is directed to improving the reality of a model container car that imitates the form of a real car. | 2010-02-11 |
20100035512 | Brassiere - The claimed invention is directed to brassieres that offer extra support for large women. The brassieres include an inner bra band and an outer bra band. | 2010-02-11 |
20100035513 | Brassiere - The claimed invention is directed to brassieres that offer extra support for large women. The brassieres include an inner bra band and an outer bra band. | 2010-02-11 |
20100035514 | SEAMLESS BRA - The present invention provides a bra that is preferably formed of seamless construction and that includes structural components that allow for accommodating changes and variations in bust size. In particular, the inventive bra can be used during times of maternity when breast volume is known to increase over a short time. The bra comprises expansible cups with interchangeable, formed support and shape elements that can be placed into pockets formed in the expansible cups. In certain embodiments, the invention also provides a bra for use when breast feeding, the bra comprising a drop-down panel. | 2010-02-11 |
20100035515 | CHEMICAL MECHANICAL POLISHER WITH HEATER AND METHOD - A chemical mechanical apparatus comprises a polishing platen, a roller pad assembly capable of advancing a polishing pad across the platen, a substrate carrier to press a substrate against the polishing pad, and a heater to heat the substrate to a temperature sufficiently high to provide a rate of removal of material from the substrate that compensates for the wear of the polishing pad. | 2010-02-11 |
20100035516 | POLISHING METHOD AND APPARATUS - The present invention relates to a polishing method and apparatus for polishing and planarizing an object to be polished (substrate) such as a semiconductor wafer. The substrate as an object to be polished is pressed against a polishing surface on a rotating polishing table in the polishing method. During polishing of the substrate, the polishing table is rotated, and the surface, being polished, of the substrate is scanned by an eddy current sensor provided in the polishing table. An output of the eddy current sensor obtained by scanning the surface, being polished, of the substrate is monitored, and damage of the substrate is detected from a change in the output of the eddy current sensor. Further, an output of an endpoint detecting sensor obtained by scanning the surface, being polished, of the substrate is monitored, and the polishing end point is detected from a change in the output of the end point detecting sensor. After detecting the polishing end point, an output of the endpoint detecting sensor or a different sensor is monitored, and monitoring of the remaining film for detecting a film left on a part of the substrate is performed. | 2010-02-11 |
20100035517 | O.D. Centerless Grinding Machine - In one aspect of the present invention, an outer diameter (O.D.) centerless grinding machine for use in grinding a diamond workpiece has a grinding wheel positioned parallel to a regulating wheel which is adapted to press a cylindrical workpiece into the grinding wheel as the regulating wheel rotates. Electronic equipment may be adapted to adjust a pressure of the regulating wheel against the grinding wheel. Also, a carrier may be adapted to house the workpiece, the carrier being attached to a translation mechanism adapted to move the carrier between the wheels such that the workpiece is in contact with both wheels. | 2010-02-11 |
20100035518 | CLOSED LOOP CONTROL OF PAD PROFILE BASED ON METROLOGY FEEDBACK - A chemical mechanical polishing apparatus includes a metrology system that detects the thickness of the polishing pad as semiconductor wafers are processed and the thickness of the polishing pad is reduced. The chemical mechanical polishing apparatus includes a controller that adjusts the rate of material removal of a conditioning disk when areas of the polishing surface are detected that are higher or lower than the adjacent areas of the polishing pad. | 2010-02-11 |
20100035519 | REMOVABLE OPTICAL MONITORING SYSTEM FOR CHEMICAL MECHANICAL POLISHING - A polishing system includes a platen having a top surface to receive a polishing pad, a recess in the top surface, and a cavity inside the platen spaced from the recess, a carrier head to hold a surface of a substrate against the polishing pad on the platen, a monitoring module located in the cavity, the monitoring module including a light source and a detector, an optical head removably mounted in the recess in the top surface platen, and an optical fiber having a proximate end coupled to the monitoring module and a distal end held by the optical head holding the distal end of the optical fiber in a position to direct light through a window in the polishing pad to the surface of the substrate and receive reflected light from the surface of the substrate. | 2010-02-11 |
20100035520 | Polishing Apparatus, Method of Manufacturing Semiconductor Device Employing this Polishing Apparatus, and Semiconductor Device Manufactured by this Method of Manufacturing Semiconductor Device - While data that indicate a relationship between a dressing position P defined by a distance between a rotating shaft | 2010-02-11 |
20100035521 | METAL FILM POLISHING PAD AND METHOD FOR POLISHING METAL FILM USING THE SAME - The invention provides a polishing pad to polish a metal layer. The polishing pad has a storage elastic modulus at 80° C. of 200 to 900 MPa and a storage elastic modulus at 110° C. of 40 MPa or less. The invention also provides a method of polishing a metal layer using the pad. | 2010-02-11 |
20100035522 | BLASTING METHOD AND APPARATUS HAVING ABRASIVE RECOVERY SYSTEM, PROCESSING METHOD OF THIN-FILM SOLAR CELL PANEL, AND THIN-FILM SOLAR CELL PANEL PROCESSED BY THE METHOD - Particularly, a thin-film solar cell panel or the like is processed without necessity of attaching and detaching of mask and washing steps with respect to a workpiece in a fine blasting employing a fine abrasive. | 2010-02-11 |
20100035523 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE FABRICATING METHOD, AND SEMICONDUCTOR FABRICATING DEVICE - A method for fabricating a semiconductor device includes: supporting a semiconductor substrate formed with a polishing target film by a polishing head; and polishing the polishing target film while restricting movement in a radial direction of the semiconductor substrate by a retainer formed on the polishing head with a tilted surface formed on an inner peripheral section of the retainer, wherein when the polishing target film is polished, an outer peripheral surface of the semiconductor substrate comes into contact with the tilted surface formed on the inner peripheral section of the retainer. | 2010-02-11 |
20100035524 | METHOD OF PRODUCING OPTICAL ELEMENT, AND OPTICAL ELEMENT - While having a milling cutter, equipped with a rotary shaft and a blade portion projecting in the direction intersecting with the axial line direction of the rotary shaft, rotated about the axial line of said rotary shaft, the milling cutter and the base material for forming an optical device are relatively moved in the cutting-in direction and the feed direction to form machining faces that constitute the device face. At the boundary part of the machining faces, the rotary shaft is directed in the direction orthogonal to the boundary part to cut the lower machining face of two adjacent machining faces. | 2010-02-11 |
20100035525 | IN-SITU PERFORMANCE PREDICTION OF PAD CONDITIONING DISK BY CLOSED LOOP TORQUE MONITORING - Polishing pads used in CMP machines are consumable components that are typically replaced after a specific number of wafers have been processed. The life of a polishing pad is optimized by controlling the rate of material removal from the polishing pad by the conditioning disk. The conditioning disk removes enough material so the polishing surface can properly process the wafers but does not remove any excess material. Preventing excess material removal extends the life of the polishing pad. During CMP processing, the controller receives data concerning the torque applied to the conditioning disk and the torque applied to the arm to sweep the conditioning disk across the polishing pad. Based upon the detected operating conditions, the system can predict the rate of material removal and adjust the forces applied to the conditioning disk so that the life of the polishing pad is optimized. | 2010-02-11 |
20100035526 | CHEMICAL MECHANICAL POLISHING SYSTEM HAVING MULTIPLE POLISHING STATIONS AND PROVIDING RELATIVE LINEAR POLISHING MOTION - A chemical-mechanical polishing apparatus including a table top, a transfer station mounted on the table top, a plurality of polishing stations mounted on the table top, a plurality of washing stations, and a plurality of carrier heads supported by a support member rotatable about an axis. Each washing station is located between a first polishing station and either a second polishing station or the transfer station, and the transfer station and the plurality of polishing stations are arranged at approximately equal angular intervals about the axis. | 2010-02-11 |
20100035527 | POLISHING WITH ENHANCED UNIFORMITY - A polishing head is presented. The polishing head includes a housing having top and bottom surfaces. The housing is formed from a single piece of material. The polishing head includes grooves disposed on the bottom surface and an inlet in communication with the grooves for coupling to a pressure medium supply to supply a pressure medium to the grooves. The pressure medium when supplied to the grooves exerts pressure on a template when attached to the bottom surface to provide back side pressure on a back surface of an article when temporally attached to the template. | 2010-02-11 |
20100035528 | Handheld sander - A handheld sander having an abrasive roller and a flexible drive shaft that is connected at the outer end thereof to the roller and is connected at the inner end thereof to an electric motor. A handle encloses the motor. An extension arm extends from the handle and encloses the drive shaft. | 2010-02-11 |
20100035529 | Chemical mechanical polishing pad - The polishing pad is for polishing patterned semiconductor substrates. The pad includes a polymeric matrix and hollow polymeric particles within the polymeric matrix. The polymeric matrix is a polyurethane reaction product of a curative agent and an isocyanate-terminated polytetramethylene ether glycol at an NH | 2010-02-11 |
20100035530 | ABRASIVE TOOLS HAVING A CONTINUOUS METAL PHASE FOR BONDING AN ABRASIVE COMPONENT TO A CARRIER - An abrasive article includes a carrier element, an abrasive component, and a bonding region between the abrasive component and the carrier element. The abrasive component includes abrasive particles bound in a metal matrix. The abrasive component further includes a network of interconnected pores substantially filled with an infiltrant. The infiltrant has an infiltrant composition containing at least one metal element. The bonding region includes a bonding metal having a bonding metal composition containing at least one metal element. The bonding region is a region distinct from the carrier element and is a separate phase from the carrier element. An elemental weight percent difference is the absolute value of the difference in weight content of each element contained in the bonding metal composition relative to the infiltrant composition. The elemental weight percent difference between the bonding metal composition and the infiltrant composition does not exceed 20 weight percent. | 2010-02-11 |
20100035531 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING FROZEN OYSTERS ON THE HALF SHELL - A method for producing frozen oysters on the half shell, which comprises the steps of freezing live oysters in their shells, so that the oysters hinges will break open; subjecting the frozen oysters to a water treatment to promote disengagement of the oysters' flesh from one thin shell; and percussing the water treated oysters, so that at least one shell will be knocked off. | 2010-02-11 |
20100035532 | TURKEY BREAST DEFATTER - An automated poultry defatting apparatus which includes a housing having a product feed inlet and discharge outlet and housing a conveyor aligned to engage the upper surface of a piece of poultry product entering the feed inlet. The apparatus is provided with upper and lower peeling members for engaging the upper and lower surfaces of the poultry product passing between the conveyor and the peeling members. The peeling members have a plurality of grooved rollers that rotate in a cooperative manner to pinch and pull fat off the product while leaving the underlying muscle intact. The conveyor is pivotably mounted to the housing to permit automatic adjustment to a range of sizes of poultry product while maintaining a controlled downward force against the product to maintain firm engagement with the peeling members. | 2010-02-11 |
20100035533 | AIR CONDITIONING DEVICE FOR A VEHICLE COMPRISING A NETWORK OF DE-ICING DUCTS - A distribution housing including an upstream portion and a widened downstream portion along the transverse axis relative to the upstream portion, in which an air inlet formed in the upstream portion is adapted to correspond to an outlet of an air conditioning apparatus, first and second outlets formed in the downstream portion are respectively adapted to correspond with a duct network for distributing blown air towards a de-icing board and side louvers, first pipes connect the inlet to the first outlets and extend between separation walls of the ducts and side walls of the housing, and a second pipe connects the inlet to the second outlet and extends at least partially between the duct separation walls. The second pipe opens, on the air inlet side, at the center of the air inlet, and the first pipes open on both sides of the first pipe. The housing has a different profile along the plane between the first and second pipes. | 2010-02-11 |
20100035534 | Air conditioner for vehicle - An air conditioner for a vehicle includes first and second fans driven and rotated by a driving source, and a case defining a first air introduction portion and a second air introduction portion from which at least one of inside air and outside air is introduced. The first fan and the second fan are arranged on a single common axis, and the first air introduction portion and the second air introduction portion are arranged at one side of the first and second fans. The case has therein a first air passage extending from the first air introduction portion to the first fan, and a second air passage extending from the second air introduction portion to the second fan, and the first air passage and the second air passage are provided to be partitioned from each other. | 2010-02-11 |
20100035535 | PLENUM PARTITION BAFFLE SYSTEM - A system for directing airflow within a plenum comprising sizeable, shapeable, and interconnectable baffles that can be nondestructively attached to plenum support structures. The system includes means for removably interconnecting the baffles and also for removably and non-destructively attaching the baffles to plenum support structure without tools. | 2010-02-11 |
20100035536 | Apparatus and method protecting against attack by particulate chemical or biological agents - Potentially harmful particulate materials introduced into an airflow drawn into a structure's HVAC system are sensed by sensors provided on an intake fan and protective measures are taken in response to such sensed presence. | 2010-02-11 |
20100035537 | AIR CLEANER - An air cleaner, which includes a casing having an enclosed air passage with a ventilation pipe for guiding in outdoor air, a windpipe affixed to one side of the casing for circulation of indoor air, a damper pivotally mounted in between the casing and the windpipe for controlling the passage the casing and the windpipe and flowing direction of air between the casing and the windpipe, and an air filter and a negative ion generator mounted in the windpipe for cleaning air passing through the windpipe. | 2010-02-11 |
20100035538 | OBJECT CATCHER FOR FLOOR MOUNTED AIR VENTS - An open basket of a resilient mesh material having first and second side edges of a frictional flexible material. The side edges are adapted to provide for positioning of the basket either immediately partially between a vent cover and the duct, or alternatively, fully within the duct at a location immediately below and spaced apart from, the vent cover. The mesh size of the basket is chosen to preclude the passage therethrough of commonly experienced objects, such as rounded objects such as marbles, elongated objects such as nail clippers, pens, coins, etc. any of which may pass through the slots defined in the vent cover. | 2010-02-11 |
20100035539 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION-IMPROVING SHEET MEMBER, WIRELESS IC TAG, ANTENNA, AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM USING THE SAME - In one embodiment of the present invention, an object of the invention is to provide a wireless communication-improving sheet member capable of increasing a possible communication distance of an IC tag for wireless communication, a wireless IC tag, an antenna, and a wireless communication system. A first spacer includes an arrangement face on which on which the wireless IC tag is disposed without a wired connection, and an auxiliary antenna is disposed on the first spacer on an opposite side to the arrangement face, the auxiliary antenna resonating with electromagnetic waves used in the wireless communication. The auxiliary antenna includes a first conductor layer as a resonant layer and a second spacer. The second spacer is disposed on an opposite side to the first spacer with the first conductor layer interposed therebetween. A discontinuous area is disposed in the first conductor layer of the auxiliary antenna. Thus, it is possible to not only eliminate influence of a communication-jamming member, but also increase received electrical power of a wireless IC tag (antenna), and ensure a long communication distance. | 2010-02-11 |
20100035540 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMPROVING BROADCASTING RECEPTION PERFORMANCE OF PORTABLE TERMINAL - The present invention relates to a portable terminal, and to a method and apparatus for improving broadcasting reception performance of the portable terminal by filtering a transmission frequency of a radio frequency unit introduced to a broadcasting reception path without experiencing broadcast signal loss. The filtering can be achieved using a filter that includes a variable capacitor in the broadcasting reception path. Accordingly, the transmission frequency of the radio frequency unit may be filtered without a broadcast signal loss. A capacitance of the variable capacitor may be controlled according to the broadcast channel. | 2010-02-11 |
20100035541 | Method of operating relay station in wireless communication system - A method of operating a relay station in a wireless communication system is provided. The method comprises the steps of determining a relay mode and transmitting a signal, received from a source station, to a destination station in the determined relay mode, wherein the relay mode is determined based on at least one of requirements for quality of service (QoS) of traffic, the number of times in which attempts are made to transmit a packet, and an amount of packets stored in a buffer of the relay station. | 2010-02-11 |
20100035542 | Radio Communication System, A Repeater Apparatus and a Control Method of the Repeater - Provided is a radio communication system including a plurality of base stations and a repeater apparatus, in which the repeater apparatus amplifies and transmits a radio signal received from at least one of the plurality of base stations, and controls a domain in which the radio signal is transmitted based on a traffic amount of each of the plurality of base stations. Accordingly, the number of installed base stations which are costly is reduced, and an operating rate of the respective base stations is gained along with the decrease in number of installed base stations. | 2010-02-11 |
20100035543 | URGENT MESSAGE APPARATUS AND SYSTEM - An urgent message apparatus mounted in a vehicle, for transmitting, in an emergency, an urgent message with a backup battery with the use of a low-earth orbit orbiting satellite, detects a current position of the vehicle; a obtaining part obtaining a communication not-possible time zone of the low-earth orbit orbiting satellite, for the current position of the vehicle detected by the position detecting part; calculates a power amount to be consumed when the backup battery is maintained in a transmission standby state during the communication not-possible time zone obtained by the obtaining part; measures remaining power of the backup battery; compares a sum of a power amount required for transmitting the urgent message and the power amount calculated by the calculating part, with the remaining power measured by the measuring part; and determines that charging or replacement of the backup battery is required when the sum is larger. | 2010-02-11 |
20100035544 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND FIXATION CONTROL METHOD - According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes an antenna for close proximity wireless transfer, a fixing module which is provided near the antenna and fixes an other apparatus to the own apparatus, a data communication module which executes data communication with the other apparatus by close proximity wireless transfer via the antenna, a communication state detection module which detects a communication state of communication with the other apparatus by the data communication module, and a fixation control module which controls fixation of the other apparatus by the fixing module in accordance with the communication state which is detected by the communication state detection module. | 2010-02-11 |
20100035545 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR BLUETOOTH HID ACTIVITY PREDICTION FOR WIRELESS COEXISTENCE THROUGHPUT OPTIMIZATION - A host device may be enabled to support a plurality of wireless interfaces, wherein some of these interfaces may be utilized to support human interface device (HID) based communication. The host device may be enabled to monitor activity of HID devices based on communications via HID capable wireless interfaces, may predict future use of the HID devices based on the monitoring, and may manage sniff communication that is utilized to track and/or detect activities in the HID devices. The management of the sniff communication may comprise adjusting characteristics of the sniff communication to enable improving throughput of other wireless interfaces available via the host device that may be affected by the sniff communication. The adjustment of the characteristics of sniff communication may comprise adjusting, statically and/or dynamically, length of sniff intervals and/or designating of sniff packets as high priority requests. | 2010-02-11 |
20100035546 | LOCATING REFERENCE NODES FOR POSITIONING DEVICES IN A WIRELESS NETWORK - A method for matching an actual device in a wireless network to a corresponding device indicated in a plan ( | 2010-02-11 |
20100035547 | Video transmission apparatus and switch control method of output destination by video transmission apparatus - The present invention provides a video transmission apparatus including an input terminal input with a video signal; an output terminal wire connected to a video device; a wireless communication unit for modulating the video signal through a predetermined wireless modulation method and wirelessly transmitting the modulated video signal; an output switch unit, connected with the input terminal, the output terminal, and the wireless transmission unit, for switching an output destination of the video signal input from the input terminal to the output terminal or the wireless transmission unit; and a switch controller for causing the output switch unit to switch the output destination of the video signal in response to a switch request when receiving the switch request of the output destination by the wireless communication unit. | 2010-02-11 |
20100035548 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A radio communication system includes a plurality of Bluetooth radio devices. Each device has a microphone, an audio output, such as a loudspeaker, and a short range radio transceiver capable of communicating digital data with a plurality of compatible neighbouring radio devices. Each radio device is configured to receive outgoing audio data from a first neighbouring radio device, to mix an input audio signal received at the microphone with the received outgoing audio data, and to transmit the combined audio data to a second neighbouring radio device. | 2010-02-11 |
20100035549 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION METHOD, PROGRAM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A wireless communication method in a wireless communication apparatus, which can exchange data with another wireless communication apparatus via a wireless communication, searches for another wireless communication apparatus, and determines a function of the other wireless communication apparatus. The method selects a communication route required to wirelessly communicate with the other wireless communication apparatus in accordance with the function of the other wireless communication apparatus, and communicates data to the other wireless communication apparatus in accordance with the selected communication route. | 2010-02-11 |
20100035550 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DETECTING FREE ATSE CHANNELS - A Wireless Regional Area Network (WRAN) receiver comprises a transceiver for communicating with a wireless network over one of a number of channels, and an Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) signal detector for use in forming a supported channel list comprising those ones of the number of channels upon which an ATSC signal was not detected. The ATSC signal detector comprises a matched filter that matches to at least a modulated version of an ATSC field sync signal for detecting the presence of an incumbent ATSC broadcast signal. | 2010-02-11 |
20100035551 | Detection of Unoccupied Frequency Band - An unoccupied frequency band (W) is detected in a telecommunications network by obtaining first values relating to a signal received (r(n)) for respective corresponding times, in this frequency band. Next, a compound signal is obtained in the form of vectors (Y | 2010-02-11 |
20100035552 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING SERVICE, AND METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ALLOCATING RESOURCE IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Provided is a method for providing a service, and a method and an apparatus for allocating a resource in a wireless communication system. Services to be provided to users are divided into one of primary and secondary services based on priority in terms of frequency utilization. A service is provided using frequency channel remaining after being used in the primary service in a time zone when frequency utilization rate of the primary service is a threshold value or less. Accordingly, when service data corresponding to the secondary service are received, a user terminal stores the service data in a storage unit. Then, when the user requests provision of the corresponding service, the user terminal provides the stored service data to the user. | 2010-02-11 |
20100035553 | MOBILE TERMINAL - A mobile terminal includes a reception unit to receive, from at least one of a plurality of communication systems, an initial beacon containing information for establishing communication according to each of the plurality of communication methods, a request unit to generate a request by use of the initial beacon to transmit the request to the at least one of the plurality of communication systems, and a determination unit to determine, based on information as a response to the request, the communication method and the frequency band, which are to be used in a time zone by the mobile terminal. | 2010-02-11 |
20100035554 | Adaptive Complex Gain Predistorter for a Transmitter - Symbols are transmitted in a Cartesian transmitter by pre-distorting an input signal X having in-phase and quadrature components using a first compensation lookup table operable to hold complex valued entries to carry out in-phase and quadrature compensation pre-distortion with respect to the input signal to form a pre-distorted signal Z. The pre-distorted signal Z is processed to form an output signal Y using a nonlinear element. A complex gain normalization parameter adaptively updated to reflect varying gain of a linear region of the nonlinear element. A normalized feed back signal {tilde over (Y)} is formed using the adaptively updated complex gain normalization parameter. The first compensation lookup table is updated based on the pre-distorted input signal Z and the adaptively normalized feedback signal {tilde over (Y)}. | 2010-02-11 |
20100035555 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMPLEMENTING MULTI-CELL COOPERATION TECHNIQUES - A method and apparatus are provided for multi-cell cooperation when multiple cells are cooperating to transmit data to a plurality of wireless transmit/receive units (WTRUs), and each cell is using a common precoding matrix. The level of information exchanged among the cells may depend on the particular cooperation architecture. The cells may share information such as channel state information (CSI), a channel quality indicator (CQI), or both. The cells may share rank indications reported by the WTRUs. The cells may also share the data that is being transmitted to the WTRUs. The method and apparatus may also determine precoding vectors for closed-loop precoding; a CQI, CSI and rank, and distributed space-time/frequency coding with multi-cell cooperation. The method and apparatus may also perform hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) with multi-cell cooperation, and downlink control signaling. | 2010-02-11 |
20100035556 | MANAGING INTERFERENCE FROM FEMTOCELLS - A system and method for minimizing interference for mobile devices in a communication network that includes a macrocell base station and a femtocell having a base station. The method receives initialization data on a backhaul connection between the femtocell base station and the macrocell base station, and uses that data to configure the femtocell base station transmitting power. The method receives a user equipment identifier from a macrocell user equipment in the communication network, and determines whether the macrocell user equipment is authorized. If authorized, the macrocell user equipment is granted access to the femtocell base station. If unauthorized, user equipment information for the macrocell user equipment received on the backhaul connection is used to adjust the femtocell base station transmitting power to minimize the interference for mobile devices. | 2010-02-11 |
20100035557 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR SENSING THE PRESENCE OF A TRANSMISSION SIGNAL IN A WIRELESS CHANNEL - Methods and apparatus for sensing the presence of a transmission signal type within a wireless channel in a wireless communication system, such as those including the use of wireless microphones, are described. Sensing the transmission signal type includes calculating a spectral density estimate of a signal on the wireless channel. A first test value, derived from the calculated spectral density estimate, is compared to a first threshold. A preliminary determination of the presence of the transmission signal type is made if the first test value exceeds the first threshold. Sensing the presence of the signal type after preliminary determination of the presence of the signal type is made by determining that an observed spectral density of a prescribed signal added to the signal on the wireless channel matches a model estimate of the spectral density of the prescribed signal to a sufficient degree. | 2010-02-11 |
20100035558 | METHODS AND ARRANGEMENTS FOR MEMORY-EFFICIENT ESTIMATION OF NOISE FLOOR - A method for noise rise estimation in a wireless communications system is presented, which comprises measuring of samples of at least received total wideband power. From the measured samples of at least received total wideband power, a probability distribution for a first power quantity is estimated. This first power quantity can be the received total wideband power itself. The probability distribution for the first power quantity is used for computing a conditional probability distribution of a noise floor measure. This computing is performed recursively. A value of a noise rise measure is finally calculated based on the conditional probability distribution for the noise floor measure. A node of a wireless communications system having the above functionality is also presented. Typically, the node is a RNC. | 2010-02-11 |
20100035559 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Remote control data is securely transmitted to a device under control. A remote control device transmits an acknowledge request for A ch to the device under control (S | 2010-02-11 |
20100035560 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TRANSFORMING AND TRANSMITTING SIGNAL - A signal transforming and transmitting apparatus and a signal transforming and transmitting method are provided. The signal transforming and transmitting apparatus includes a processing chip, and a signal dividing/integrating unit. The processing chip defines a signal-download period and a signal-upload period according to a clock signal. The signal dividing/integrating unit is coupled to the processing chip, and is adapted for dividing a wired downloading signal from a wireless downloading signal transmitted from the base station during the signal-download period, and transmitting the wired downloading signal and the wireless downloading signal to corresponding downstream devices. The signal dividing/integrating unit is adapted for integrating a wired uploading signal and a wireless uploading signal into an integrated wireless uploading signal and transmitting the integrated wireless uploading signal to the base station, during the signal-upload period. In such a way, the present invention avoids the interference caused by overlaps between uploading and downloading operations. | 2010-02-11 |
20100035561 | Consumer Electronic Device Having A Distributed Form Factor Millimeter Wave Receiver and Transmitter - A consumer electronic device having distributed form factor millimeter wave receiver and transmitter comprising a first motherboard part including a baseband module; a second motherboard part including a receive (RX) active antenna, wherein the RX active antenna is connected to the baseband module using a pair of cables; and a third motherboard part including a transmit (TX) active antenna, wherein the TX active antenna is connected to the baseband module using a pair of cables. | 2010-02-11 |
20100035562 | Method and System for Signal Processing and Transmission - A method, wireless communication device ( | 2010-02-11 |
20100035563 | RF TRANSCEIVER FRONT-END WITH RX/TX ISOLATION - A radio frequency (RF) transceiver front-end includes an antenna, an RF receiver section, an RF transmitter section, a balancing circuit, and a multiple node isolation and coupling circuit. The multiple node isolation and coupling circuit is coupled to the antenna, the RF receiver section, the RF transmitter section, and the balancing circuit. The multiple node isolation and coupling circuit provides an inbound RF signal from the antenna to the RF receiver section and provides an outbound RF signal from the RF transmitter section to the antenna, wherein, by providing an isolating signal to the balancing circuit, the multiple node isolation and coupling circuit substantially isolates the outbound RF signal from the inbound RF signal. | 2010-02-11 |
20100035564 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION TERMINAL CASE AND MOBILE COMMUNICATION TERMINAL - A mobile communication terminal case according to an aspect of the invention: a case body having a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface; a support portion provided on the first surface of the case body and having a connector insertion space; and a film type antenna having a carrier film and a conductive pattern provided on the carrier film, and provided on the first surface of the case body to expose a region of the conductive pattern to the connector insertion space. | 2010-02-11 |
20100035565 | EFFICIENT CQI SIGNALING MIMO SYSTEMS WITH VARIABLE NUMBERS OF BEAMS - The present invention relates to a multi-beam transmission apparatus and system, and to a method for operating a multi-beam transmission system, wherein a first transmission resource information and a second transmission resource information are determined for respective first and second transmission beam, and wherein a first transmission parameter information and a second transmission parameter information are determined for the respective first and second transmission beams. The first and second transmission resource information and the first and second transmission parameter information are jointly encoded into a joint signal; and the joint signal is transmitted via the first and second transmission beams from a first station to a second station. | 2010-02-11 |
20100035566 | Transmission Device, And Array Antenna Control Method And Device - For transmitting a common channel signal with characteristics with an approximated non-directivity, the common channel signal for all users is divided into sub-channel signals, corresponding to a number of antenna elements composing an array antenna, to be concurrently transmitted with non-directivity by using each antenna element. Individual channel signals, for each user, following the common channel signal with a desired directivity by using the antenna elements. Each sub-channel signal can be made a sub-channel signal obtained by dividing all sub-channel components composing the common channel signal for each sub-channel component by a predetermined number or dividing them depending on a receiving quality of each antenna element. | 2010-02-11 |
20100035567 | ANTENNA FOR MOBILE TERMINAL AND METHOD FOR CHANGING RADIATION PATTERN USING THE SAME - An antenna of a mobile terminal and a method for changing a radiation pattern of the mobile terminal are provided. The antenna includes an antenna radiator including at least two different feeding points, a Radio Frequency (RF) receiver selectively connected to one of the at least two different feeding points of the antenna radiator, a switching unit interposed between the RF receiver and the antenna radiator for electrically connecting one of the at least two different feeding points to the RF receiver, and a controller for controlling the switching unit using a Received Signal Strength Indicator (RSSI) value determined at a path connected to the feeding point of the antenna radiator. | 2010-02-11 |
20100035568 | ROBUST SENSING FOR DETECTING SIGNALS USING CORRELATION - To quickly and robustly detect the presence of an incumbent user and rapidly relinquish the spectrum to the incumbent user when necessary, carrier recovery is performed in a receiver of the secondary user's cognitive or software radio prior to performing correlation detection with an upsampled reference signal to correct for large frequency offsets and improve the performance of the correlation detector. To detect a received signal, a pilot value is added to a reference signal. The reference signal is upsampled to a sampling frequency of the received signal. The upsampled reference signal is correlated with a demodulated baseband signal to produce a correlation value. It is then determined whether the received signal is present if the correlation value is greater than a predetermined detection threshold value. | 2010-02-11 |
20100035569 | RECEIVED ELECTRIC FIELD INTENSITY ESTIMATING DEVICE AND RECEIVED ELECTRIC FIELD INTENSITY ESTIMATING PROGRAM - A received electric field intensity estimates device estimates a received electric field intensity when a signal is received, by using at least a gain in a transmitting direction indicating the direction of the receiver viewed from a transmitter's side from among gains in the individual directions of the antenna's directive pattern of a transmitter's antenna, and outputs the estimated intensity. The device includes an averaging unit for averaging gains in the individual directions of the antenna's directive pattern within an angular range of an arrival wave angle indicating the direction of the signal arriving at the receiver, taken as the relevant direction; and a received electric field intensity calculation unit using at least the gain in the transmitting direction from among gains in the individual directions of the antenna's averaged directive pattern, and for outputting the result of the calculation as the estimated received electric field intensity. | 2010-02-11 |
20100035570 | RECEIVER AND RECEIVING SYSTEM USING THE SAME - If receiving circuit is in a high-sensitivity mode, receiving circuit is switched to a low-sensitivity mode when the BER according to BER measurement circuit becomes more favorable than a release threshold. If receiving circuit is in the low-sensitivity mode, receiving circuit is switched to the high-sensitivity mode when the BER according to BER measurement circuit becomes more adverse than a start-up threshold. If switching between the high-sensitivity and low-sensitivity modes occurs, control is exercised so that switching from the high-sensitivity mode to the low is resistant to occurring, thereby suppressing the occurrence of a reception error caused by switching between the receiving modes. | 2010-02-11 |
20100035571 | Up-Conversion Mixer with Signal Processing - Systems and methods for implementing an up-conversion mixer with signal processing are disclosed. | 2010-02-11 |
20100035572 | Down-Conversion Mixer With Signal Processing - Systems and methods for implementing a down-conversion mixer with signal processing are disclosed. | 2010-02-11 |
20100035573 | RF RECEIVER WITH OSCILLATION BASED BLOCKER - A radio frequency (RF) receiver includes an amplifier stage, a blocking module, and a down conversion module. The amplifier stage amplifies an inbound RF signal (includes a desired component and a blocking component) to produce an amplified inbound RF signal. The blocking module generates an oscillation corresponding to a frequency of the blocking component and filters the amplified inbound RF signal based on the oscillation to substantially attenuate the blocking component and to pass, substantially unattenuated, the desired component. The down conversion module converts the desired RF signal component into a baseband or near baseband inbound signal. | 2010-02-11 |
20100035574 | Method for Transmission of Alarm Messages to /Subscriber Terminals in a Radio Communications System - Alarm messages are transmitted to subscriber terminals of a radio communication system by signalling the alarm presence through a control channel to the subscriber terminals by at least one base station of the radiocommunication system using at least one system information item. Upon reception of the system information item by the subscriber terminals, the subscriber terminals transmit at least one respective recorded alarm signal. | 2010-02-11 |
20100035575 | METHOD OF MANAGING RECEPTION OF NATURAL DISASTER WARNING NOTIFICATION MESSAGES FOR A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND RELATED COMMUNICATION DEVICE - A method of managing notification message reception of a user equipment corresponding to natural disaster warning for a wireless communication system includes managing the notification message reception according to a reception property of the notification message reception, configuration information broadcasted or paged by a network of the wireless communication system, or a connection state of the user equipment, where the connection state of the UE includes the connection state of the UE corresponding to radio resource control, to a radio access technology, and to cell selection or cell reselection. | 2010-02-11 |
20100035576 | Usage Measurement Collection and Analysis to Dynamically Regulate Customer Network Usage - In a network subscriber system, a method of determining how to monitor whether a subscriber's network usage exceeds a quota for the current billing period. The frequency at which the subscriber's usage data is collected and analyzed during the billing period is based upon the probability the subscriber's network usage exceeds the quota at a given point in time during the billing cycle. Usage data is collected more frequently as the probability increases. Usage analysis is performed if the probability exceeds a threshold. | 2010-02-11 |
20100035577 | USING NETWORK AUTHENTICATION TO COUNTER SUBSCRIBER IDENTITY MODULE CARD MAN-IN-THE-MIDDLE SUBSIDY LOCK ATTACK - A method, telecommunication apparatus, and electronic device for securely using a subscriber identity module are disclosed. A secure memory | 2010-02-11 |
20100035578 | Method and System for Interworking Between Two Different Networks - Systems and methods for interworking between two different networks are presented. In one embodiment, a method for wireless communication includes requesting a network access from an access point of a first network, and transmitting an EAP authentication request from the access point to a user end. An EAP authentication request response is sent from the user end to the access point. The EAP authentication request response includes an attach type indicator that indicates to a gateway associated with the access point whether the attach request is an initial attachment or a handover from a second network. | 2010-02-11 |
20100035579 | APPARATUS FOR SENSING SMART-CARD IN DUAL MODE PORTABLE TERMINAL AND METHOD THEREOF - An apparatus and method for sensing a smart card in a dual mode portable terminal are provided. The apparatus includes a plurality of smart card modules including identification information for receiving a specific wireless communications protocol, and at least two communications modules for performing wireless communications according to a connected smart card module among the plurality of smart card modules, wherein any one of the at least two communications modules connected to a smart card module having preset identification information is set as a master device. | 2010-02-11 |
20100035580 | Programmable Communicator - A programmable communicator device is disclosed having a wireless communications circuit, including an antenna, configured to receive a transmission, and an identity module having a unique identifier. The programmable communicator further includes a processing module including program code configured to determine if the transmission is from an authenticated caller by determining whether a received transmission contains the unique identifier, and memory configured to store telephone numbers or IP addresses received in transmissions from an authenticated caller. | 2010-02-11 |
20100035581 | DATA TRANSMISSION METHOD AND USER EQUIPMENT FOR THE SAME - A mobile communication technology, and, more particularly, a method for efficiently transmitting data stored in a message | 2010-02-11 |
20100035582 | User alerts - An apparatus, including: a light source; a controller configured, in response to the occurrence of a first event involving the apparatus, to control the light source to produce a first, time-varying, illuminative effect that varies between maxima and minima of illumination intensity over a period of time following the occurrence of the first event, wherein the variation in the first illuminative effect is indicative to a user that the first event has occurred; and the controller being further configured, in response to the occurrence of a second event involving the apparatus, to control the light source to produce a second, time-varying, illuminative effect that varies between maxima and minima of illumination intensity over a period of time following the occurrence of the second event, wherein the variation in the second illuminative effect is indicative to a user that the second event has occurred. | 2010-02-11 |
20100035583 | MANAGING WIRELESS TRANSMISSIONS UPON UNINTENTIONAL DISCONNECTION OF SERVICE - Disclosed are a method, system and computer program product for managing unintentional disconnection of a communication device. A system detects a first device to a transmission has been unintentionally disconnected from an ongoing communication with a second communication device. The connected second device is signaled regarding the disconnection. Recording of a disconnection voicemail message for the disconnected first communication device is enabled before disconnecting the second communication device. The second device may set an expiration time on the disconnection voicemail message. Upon resumption of service, the disconnected first device is informed of a new voicemail message left by the second device during the disconnection. A disconnection-specific voicemail greeting may be recorded by a user of the disconnected first device's system for use when a disconnection occurs. The disconnection-specific voicemail greeting is played to the connected second device when disconnection occurs. | 2010-02-11 |
20100035584 | Managing Voicemail Greeting Based On Location of Wireless Communication Device - Disclosed are a method, system and computer program product for managing voicemail greetings on a wireless communication device based on the device's location. A user records location-specific voicemail greetings on the user's wireless communication device, and associates the greetings with specific locations. When an authorized caller calls the user's wireless communication device, the location of the user's wireless communication device is detected, and location information of the user's device is sent to a call switching component. The call switching component presents the caller with the voicemail greeting associated with the location of the user's wireless communication device. The date and time the user's wireless communication device entered the location can be provided via a timestamp and presented to the caller along with the location-specific voicemail greeting, to enable the caller to determine when the user may be available to communicate, based on the combination of the information in the greeting and the timestamp information. | 2010-02-11 |
20100035585 | Managing Voicemail Messages Based On Location of Caller's Wireless Communication Device - Disclosed are a method, system and computer program product for processing voicemail messages to a user's wireless communication device based on a location of a caller's wireless communication device. Call answering protocols are assigned for implementation based on the location of the caller's wireless communication device at a time a call is received from the caller's device. Call answering protocol entries are received via a wireless communication device. When a call is received, a location of the caller's wireless communication device is detected. Location information regarding the caller's wireless communication device is received at a call switching component. The call is processed at the call switching component based on the call answering protocol for handling a caller's call received from the location of the caller's wireless communication device. | 2010-02-11 |
20100035586 | DYNAMIC CONFIGURATION OF SUBSCRIBER DATA, SUCH AS DATA FOR SUBSCRIBERS OF MOBILE DEVICE SERVICES - A system for registering a mobile device located in a network outside a device's home network is described. In some examples, the system receives a message including contents associated with a location of the mobile device, and extracts the contents of the received message. The system matches the extracted contents to one or more rules associated with an adjustment of subscriber data within a registration database for the home network, adjusts the data, and registers the mobile device having the adjusted data. | 2010-02-11 |
20100035587 | SUBSCRIBER IDENTITY MODULE WITH AN INCORPORATED RADIO - A communication system includes a phone and a Subscriber Identity Module (SIM). The phone includes a user input interface, a first wireless transceiver and a first application program interface. The SIM is plugged into the phone and includes storage, a second wireless transceiver, and a second application program interface. The phone uses a service-subscriber key stored in the storage of the SIM to access a plurality of services provided by a wireless network using the first transceiver according to a first communication protocol. The first application program interface, in response to a user selection via the user input interface, interacts with the second application program interface. The phone communicates with a node using the second wireless transceiver according to a second communication protocol by way of the interaction between the first application program interface and the second application program interface. | 2010-02-11 |
20100035588 | METHOD OF INHIBITING FUNCTIONS OF A MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE - A method of inhibiting a function of a multi-function portable personal communications device includes determining a first position of the personal communications device, after a predetermined time interval, determining a second position of the personal communications device, determining the distance between the first position and the second position, determining the time interval in which the personal communications device moved from the first position and the second position, calculating an average velocity of the personal communications device based on the first position, the second position and the time interval and, if the average velocity of the personal communication device exceeds a predetermined value, inhibiting a function of the personal communications device. | 2010-02-11 |
20100035589 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING AN INTERACTIVE CONTENT PORTAL ON A MOBILE DEVICE - A portal application is provided that can be used on a mobile device to display relevant advertising content to the user at convenient times. The portal application can utilize a portal browser that is launched when appropriate, which displays the advertising content in an interactive way and enables the user to follow up with tasks requiring a data connection that is currently unavailable, by keeping track of a user queue. The advertising content may be filtered from a base of advertising content provided by the advertising content providers in advanced and is pre-fetched and stored in an advertising content cache for convenient access when appropriate. The portal application can be used with a location estimator to narrow and categorize the advertising content at least in part based on location, either physical location or preferred location or both based on a hierarchy of relevant data. | 2010-02-11 |
20100035590 | METHOD OF OBTAINING DIRECTORY NUMBER - A method of obtaining the directory number (such as the MSISDN) of a mobile device registered with a mobile communication network. The method comprises: causing the mobile device to disconnect from the network and connect with a separately introduced transmitter which is not under the control of the network; sending a request to the mobile device from the separately introduced transmitter, the request including an identification of a convenient device, and causing the mobile device to transmit a response to the network, which in turn causes the network to retrieve the directory number of the mobile device from a database and transmit it to the convenient device; and receiving the directory number from the network at the convenient device. | 2010-02-11 |
20100035591 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING INFORMATION USING IDENTIFICATION NUMBER ALLOCATED TO COMMUNICATION NETWORK - A method and system for providing information for using an identification number, which is a user-by-user information DB, is provided to individual user when each user desires, thereby preventing inconvenience due to the indiscriminately provided information, and simultaneously providing and efficiently delivering the information to the providers. A system for providing information for using identification number comprising: a user terminal for calling an identification number corresponding to information of a user's interest; a user-by-user information DB constructed such that the user matches to information data of the user's interest; a server for setting and changing a correspondence relation between the user and information data of the user's interest in the user-by-user information DB according to an identification number call from the user terminal; and a message center for transmitting an interest information message corresponding to the information data of user's interest to the user terminal, responding to the request of server. | 2010-02-11 |
20100035592 | SERVICE PROCESSING METHOD, SERVICE PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND SERVICE CONTROL POINT - A service processing method, a service processing system, and a service control point (SCP) are provided. The service processing method includes the following steps. A processing request from a user is received. It is determined whether the user is a switched service user or not according to a user number of the user, if the user is not the switched service user, the processing request is processed locally, and if the user is not the switched service user, the processing request is forwarded to a home location of the user after switching the service for processing. In the present invention, it is determined whether a user who sends a service processing request has switched service or not, and if the user has switched the service, the request is forwarded to a home SCP and a processing device of the user after switching the service for processing. Thereby, the management process of the original service is maintained, and updates can be performed in real time with high efficiency and low operating cost. | 2010-02-11 |
20100035593 | METHOD FOR MANAGING A CONFERENCE CALL IN A TELEPHONE NETWORK - A method of managing, in a telephone network, a conference call among a first terminal and a plurality of terminals, includes: setting up at least one voice channel for activating the conference call among the first terminal and the plurality of terminals; and causing deactivation of a microphone of at least one terminal of the plurality of terminals. | 2010-02-11 |
20100035594 | Remote Call Control for Mobile Telecommunication Devices and Services - System and methods for providing telecommunication functions on a mobile device are disclosed. An inbound call request is received, a call control interface is presented for a user to choose among a plurality of communication modes by which an inbound call is to be established. Call control data selecting a mode of communication is received through the call control interface. Communication is established according to the selected mode of communication. An outbound call request identifying a callee device is send from a mobile device through a packet network to a telecommunication service provider, and a call connection from the mobile device to the telecommunication service provider is established through the telecom network. The telecommunication service provider places a call to the callee device and combines the call connection from the mobile device to the connection to the callee device to establish a single joint call connection. | 2010-02-11 |
20100035595 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR DYNAMIC SOURCE DETERMINATION OF PROVISIONING INFORMATION ON A PER-NETWORK SERVICE BASIS FOR OPEN MARKET WIRELESS DEVICES - Systems, apparatus and methods are described that provide for dynamic source determination of provisioning information on a per-network service basis for open market wireless devices. Specifically, systems, apparatus and methods provide for the open market wireless devices and/or the users of such devices to acquire provisioning information for network services in instances in which neither the removable module currently associated with the device or the non-removable memory of the open market wireless device store the provisioning information for the desired network service. In this regard, present aspects provide for a prompt, such as a user notification to presented on an output mechanism of the wireless device when the wireless determines first that the provisioning information is not stored on the removable module and, secondly, that the provisioning information is not stored on the non-removable data storage of the device. | 2010-02-11 |
20100035596 | HANDHELD NAVIGATION UNIT WITH TELEPHONE CALL - A system, apparatus, and method for techniques to retrieve and process information from communication networks on a mobile computing device are described. The apparatus may include a first interface module to receive a query and to display results of said query. The results include location information of at least one entity associated with the query. The apparatus may include a second interface module to transfer the query to a data source server, receive the results from the data source server, and transfer the results to said first interface. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 2010-02-11 |
20100035597 | Mobile device for access to argicultural services by non-literate and semi-literate users - A mobile device capable of supporting applications for semi-literate farmers and agricultural industry workers. Such applications are designed to be user-friendly, primarily employ audio form to provide data and information, and promote audio based interactions. In particular, the mobile device comprises a client application that avoids/minimizes the use of keyboard, supports audio-message based interactions and data communications, supports language selection, provides intuitive icons to aid comprehension and user selection, and keeps user interaction simple. The client application comprises a labor contract module that facilitates interaction by a user (who is typically a farmer or agricultural worker) using audio messages to find and hire contract labor. The client application also comprises a social group interaction module that facilitates interaction with mobile social networks, such as groups of farmers in a region of the world, or a group of farmers growing a specific type of crop. | 2010-02-11 |
20100035598 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION OUT OF RANGE INDICATION - With respect to a wireless network, an out of range warning provides an estimate of an amount of time remaining until a wireless device is out of range of the wireless network. In this way, the user is presented with an opportunity to take corrective measures, if desired. | 2010-02-11 |
20100035599 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONNECTION RE-ESTABLISHMENT IN MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM ENVIRONMENT - An apparatus and method for a radio resource control (RRC) protocol to re-establish connection in a mobile communication system environment are disclosed. A user equipment (UE), for performing connection re-establishment in a connected state with connection to a mobile communication system is provided. When a network problem occurs, the UE shall proceed with the RRC protocol connection re-establishment procedure if the security has been activated. However, if the security has not been activated and the Radio Link Control (RLC) protocol indicates the maximum number of re-transmission has been reached, the UE shall reset lower layers of the RRC protocol, release unnecessary radio resources, and indicate the release of the RRC protocol connection to upper layers of the RRC protocol. Then the UE enters the idle state and waits for the next trigger event. | 2010-02-11 |
20100035600 | COORDINATED TRANSMISSIONS BETWEEN CELLS OF A BASE STATION IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM - Systems and methods for providing coverage to a first cell through a first antenna system and coverage to a second cell through a second antenna system. Data is also processed for transmission to a mobile device in the first cell using the first and second antenna systems. | 2010-02-11 |
20100035601 | BATTERY EFFICIENT METHOD TO SEARCH FOR PREFERRED FEMTOCELL - Mobile user equipment (MUE) can be enabled to search for and camp on a preferred node, such as a home base node (HBN), in a battery-efficient manner even when currently camped on another node, such as a macro base node (MBN). When the MBN provides good channel quality, slow rate background intra- and inter-frequency searches can discover the preferred HBN that would otherwise not be discovered or would consume excessive power with continual searching. When channel quality is fair, slow rate background inter-frequency searches can result in timely switching to the preferred HBN. Location hints that indicate proximity of the preferred HBN can be used to trigger slow rate background searches. Neighboring cell searching of neighbor cell listing (NCL) when in channel quality is fair or poor are maintained to prepare for call reselections to available node. | 2010-02-11 |
20100035602 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MONITORING AND REPORTING TELEMATICS UNIT COMMUNICATION NETWORK SYSTEM ACQUISITION AND SCANNING PERFORMANCE - A system and method for monitoring and reporting telematics unit communication network system acquisition and scanning performance is disclosed herein. An example of the method includes monitoring a scan of all cellular networks that are available to a vehicle telematics unit, and during the monitoring, recognizing a predetermined trigger. In response to the predetermined trigger, a memory buffer in the telematics unit stores data associated with at least one of performance or outcome of the scan. At least some of the stored data is transmitted from the telematics unit to a server in selective communication with the telematics unit. | 2010-02-11 |
20100035603 | MULTI-INTERFACE USER TERMINAL - In a communication system at least one operational criterion is applied for a group of one or more users. On the basis of such operational criterion, one or more interface rules are generated. An interface rule includes information that identifies an application that is capable of utilizing two or more communication interfaces, and also a function for determining a communication interface to be applied by that application in communications of the group of one or more users. A profile that includes interface rules generated on the basis of operational criteria to be applied for a user is created and stored in a user terminal of the user. Use of applications can be matched with operational requirements posed on or by the user, without substantial need to change the applications and/or the configuration of the terminal due to the matching. | 2010-02-11 |
20100035604 | SYSTEMS, METHODS AND DEVICES FOR OVERLAID OPERATIONS OF SATELLITE AND TERRESTRIAL WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS - A communications system includes a space-based network (SBN) including a plurality of spotbeams using a first set of frequencies and an ancillary terrestrial network (ATN) including a plurality of base stations using a second set of radio frequencies. In a coverage zone of a given spot beam wherein the SBN and the ATN use at least one frequency from the first and second sets of frequencies in common, the SBN uses a narrower bandwidth than the ATN on both forward and return links, the ATN employs frequency spreading on at least its return link communications, the SBN employs spatial beam nulling directed toward at least one ancillary terrestrial component (ATC) of the ATN, the SBN employs forward link margin control, the ATN employs return link power control, the SBN employs return link power control and base stations of the ATN provide isolation in the direction of at least one satellite of the SBN. Using such a combination of measures, the ATN and the SBN may support completely or partially overlapping use of the first and second sets of radio frequencies. | 2010-02-11 |
20100035605 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONTROLLING A CELLULAR COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM RESPONSIVE TO A POWER LEVEL ASSOCIATED WITH A WIRELESS TRANSMITTER - A cellular communications system includes a wireless transmitter that is configured to transmit over a set of frequencies that is assigned to a given cell of the cellular communications system from a band of frequencies that is assigned to the cellular communications system. A controller is configured to identify a power level to be used by the wireless transmitter and to determine a subset of frequencies in the set of frequencies that is assigned to the given cell of the cellular communications system, the subset of frequencies to be assigned to the wireless transmitter responsive to the power level that was identified. Related methods are also described. | 2010-02-11 |
20100035606 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TERRESTRIAL REUSE OF CELLULAR SATELLITE FREQUENCY SPECTRUM IN A TIME-DIVISION DUPLEX MODE - A space-based component, such as a satellite, is configured to receive wireless communications from radiotelephones in a satellite footprint over an uplink satellite radiotelephone frequency, and to transmit wireless communications to the radiotelephones over a downlink radiotelephone frequency. An ancillary terrestrial network, that may include one or more ancillary terrestrial components, is configured to transmit wireless communications to, and receive wireless communications from, the radiotelephones over the downlink satellite radiotelephone frequency in a time-division duplex mode. By terrestrially transmitting and receiving wireless communications over the downlink satellite radiotelephone frequency in a time-division duplex mode, interference at the space-based component and/or at the gateway, by the ancillary terrestrial network and/or the radiotelephones due to terrestrial reuse of cellular satellite frequency spectrum, may be reduced or eliminated. | 2010-02-11 |
20100035607 | SEAMLESS TRANSITIONING OF AIR-TO-GROUND TRAFFIC - An apparatus and a method may be provided by which a user aboard an aircraft may use a processing device to communicate with another device, which is not located aboard the aircraft, via an air-to-ground network connection. A communication satellite may provide connectivity for the air-to-ground network connection. As the aircraft approaches an end of a satellite coverage area, the air-to-ground network connection may seamlessly transition to a second communication satellite or a second communication medium. Some communication satellites may communicate via a first frequency range and other communication satellites may communicate via a second frequency range. In one mode of operation, the air-to-ground network connection may be via a communication satellite communicating via a first frequency range. A transition to a communication medium communicating via a second frequency range may occur automatically only during the one mode of operation. | 2010-02-11 |
20100035608 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR GENERATING SUBSCRIBER INFORMATION - The embodiment of the present invention discloses a method and a device for generating subscriber information. The method for generating subscriber information includes: obtaining original subscriber information sent by a home location register (HLR) in a home network to a mobile switching center (MSC) in a visited network of the roaming subscriber; identifying the original subscriber information and generating new subscriber information according to an identification result and prerecorded subscriber subscription service information; and sending the new subscriber information to the MSC in the visited network of the roaming subscriber. The embodiment of the present invention obtains the original subscriber information through signaling monitoring or signaling interception, and then modifies the original subscriber information. Thus, a subscriber can use various services provided by the visited network of the roaming subscriber. | 2010-02-11 |
20100035609 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND CORE NETWORK NODE FOR IMPLEMENTING LOAD MIGRATION IN POOL AREA - A method for implementing load migration in a pool area is disclosed. The method includes that: the destination CN node receives an identifier of a subscriber ready for migration; and the destination CN node migrates the subscriber ready for migration to the destination CN node, and allocates a local office identifier to the migrated subscriber. In addition, a system for implementing load migration in a pool area and a CN node are disclosed. | 2010-02-11 |