09th week of 2013 patent applcation highlights part 20 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20130051121 | SWITCHABLE TWO-TERMINAL DEVICES WITH DIFFUSION/DRIFT SPECIES - Various embodiments of the present invention are directed to nanoscale electronic devices that provide nonvolatile memristive switching. In one aspect, a two-terminal device ( | 2013-02-28 |
20130051122 | VARIABLE-RESISTANCE MEMORY DEVICE AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF - A variable-resistance memory device includes a memory array section including a main memory cell employing a storage element having a resistance increasing and decreasing in a reversible manner in accordance with application of a signal set at one of different polarities to the opposite ends of the storage element, and a reference cell section including a reference cell provided with a storage element having a resistance increasing and decreasing in a reversible manner in accordance with application of a signal set at one of different polarities to the opposite ends of the storage element and generating a reference current used for recognizing data of the main memory cell. The direction of an applied current serving as the reference current is set in accordance with the resistance state of the reference cell. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051123 | RESISTANCE CHANGE MEMORY DEVICE AND CURRENT TRIMMING METHOD THEREOF - A resistance change memory device includes an array of resistance change memory cells, and a writing circuit configured to reset a selected memory cell to a high resistance state by supplying a RESET current to the selected memory cell in the array of resistance change memory cells in a program operation mode, wherein a level of the RESET current depends on a distribution of initial RESET currents for the array of resistance change memory cells. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051124 | Resistive Memory Device and Test Systems and Methods for Testing the Same - A resistive memory device and a system and method for testing the resistive memory device are provided. The resistive memory device includes a plurality of bit lines comprising at least one dummy bit line to which a plurality of resistive memory cells are connected, a conducting wire connected to the dummy bit line, a first switching element positioned between the dummy bit line and an external device outside the resistive memory device, and a second switching element positioned between the conducting wire and the external device. Accordingly, the operational reliability of the resistive memory device may be increased. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051125 | METHOD OF OPERATING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE INCLUDING VARIABLE RESISTANCE DEVICE - According to an example embodiment, a method of operating a semiconductor device having a variable resistance device includes: applying a first voltage to the variable resistance device to change a resistance value of the variable resistance device from a first resistance value to a second resistance value that is different from the first resistance value; sensing a first current flowing through the variable resistance device to which the first voltage is applied; determining a second voltage used for changing the variable resistance device from the second resistance value to the first resistance value, based on a dispersion of the sensed first current; and applying the determined second voltage to the variable resistance device. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051126 | CAPACITORS, APPARATUS INCLUDING A CAPACITOR AND METHODS FOR FORMING A CAPACITOR - Capacitors, apparatus including a capacitor, and methods for forming a capacitor are provided. One such capacitor may include a first conductor a second conductor above the first conductor, and a dielectric between the first conductor and the second conductor. The dielectric does not cover a portion of the first conductor; and the second conductor does not cover the portion of the first conductor not covered by the dielectric. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051129 | MEMORY DEVICE AND SYSTEMS INCLUDING THE SAME - The memory device includes a memory cell array, an access control circuit configured to access the memory cell array, a control signal generation circuit configured to generate a control signal for controlling an operation of the access control circuit, and a variable delay circuit configured to generate a delay signal by variably delaying a clock signal according to an external signal. The control signal generation circuit adjusts an activation timing of the control signal in response to the delay signal. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051130 | WEAK BIT COMPENSATION FOR STATIC RANDOM ACCESS MEMORY - A static random access memory (SRAM) is provided. The SRAM includes a data line, a data line bar, and a current path block. The current path block includes at least two transistors configured to provide a current path for the data line in transition from a first logic voltage to a second logic voltage, wherein the current path block is connected to the data line and the data line bar during an entire duration of operation of the SRAM. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051133 | ANTI-FUSE CIRCUIT USING MTJ BREAKDWON AND SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE INCLUDING SAME - An anti-fuse circuit includes an array of anti-fuses. Each anti-fuse has a tunneling magneto-resistance (TMR) element series connected with a transistor, such that breakdown of a magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) in response to an applied first voltage stores fuse information. A sensing circuit senses and amplifies respective output signals provided by the anti-fuses. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051134 | SEMICONDUCTOR RECORDING DEVICE - The disclosed semiconductor recording device achieves multi-valued reading and writing using a spin-injection magnetization-reversal tunneling magnetoresistive element (TMR element). A first current that has at least the same value as that of the element requiring the highest current to reverse the magnetization thereof among a plurality of TMR elements is, in the direction that causes reversal to either a parallel state or an anti-parallel state, applied to a memory cell having the plurality of TMR elements, and then a second current which is in the reverse direction from the first current and of which only the value needed to reverse the magnetoresistance state of at least one TMR element excluding the element requiring the maximum current among the plurality of TMR elements is applied to each, and multi-valued writing is performed. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051135 | COMPOUND CELL SPIN-TORQUE MAGNETIC RANDOM ACCESS MEMORY - A compound magnetic data storage cell, applicable to spin-torque random access memory (ST-RAM), is disclosed. A magnetic data storage cell includes a magnetic storage element and two terminals communicatively connected to the magnetic storage element. The magnetic storage element is configured to yield any of at least three distinct magnetoresistance output levels, corresponding to stable magnetic configurations, in response to spin-momentum transfer inputs via the terminals. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051136 | METHODS, APPARATUSES, AND CIRCUITS FOR PROGRAMMING A MEMORY DEVICE - Subject matter described pertains to methods, apparatuses, and circuits for programming a memory device. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051137 | TILE-LEVEL SNAPBACK DETECTION THROUGH COUPLING CAPACITOR IN A CROSS POINT ARRAY - Embodiments of the present disclosure describe methods, apparatus, and system configurations for tile-level snapback detection through a coupling capacitor in a phase-change memory array. Other embodiments may be described and claimed. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051138 | PHASE CHANGE MEMORY - A phase change memory device including a voltage generator that generates an operating voltage by generating at least one modified clock signal, a pulse width of which is maintained constant for at least one clock cycle in response to a pump enable signal being enabled, from at least one reference clock signal, and performing a pump operation on a power supply voltage according to the at least one modified clock signal; and a memory cell array that includes a plurality of phase change memory cells connected between word lines and bit lines. The operating voltage is applied to the memory cell array so as to perform a data access operation. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051141 | THRESHOLD VOLTAGE COMPENSATION IN A MULTILEVEL MEMORY - Threshold voltages in a charge storage memory are controlled by threshold voltage placement, such as to provide more reliable operation and to reduce the influence of factors such as neighboring charge storage elements and parasitic coupling. Pre-compensation or post-compensation of threshold voltage for neighboring programmed “aggressor” memory cells reduces the threshold voltage uncertainty in a flash memory system. Using a buffer having a data structure such as a lookup table provides for programmable threshold voltage distributions that enables the distribution of data states in a multi-level cell flash memory to be tailored, such as to provide more reliable operation. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051142 | MEMORY WITH THREE TRANSISTOR MEMORY CELL DEVICE - Memory, memory devices, and a method for a backup sequence are disclosed. In one such memory device, sense circuitry and page buffers are coupled between a three transistor memory cell device and a non-volatile memory device. Enable/disable gates enable selective access to the sense circuitry and page buffers by either the three transistor memory cell device or the non-volatile memory device. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051143 | MEMORY CELL COUPLING COMPENSATION - Methods for memory cell coupling compensation and apparatuses configured to perform the same are described. One or more methods for memory cell coupling compensation includes determining a state of a memory cell using a voltage that is changed in accordance with a first memory cell coupling compensation voltage, performing an error check on the state of the memory cell, and determining the state of the memory cell using a voltage that is changed in accordance with a second memory cell coupling compensation voltage in response to the error check failing. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051144 | SEMICONDUCTOR STORAGE DEVICE COMPRISING ELECTRICALLY REWRITABLE NONVOLATILE SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY - A semiconductor storage apparatus stores management information comprising, for each block of a nonvolatile semiconductor memory, information denoting at least one of a recent programming time, which is a time at which data is recently programmed to a block, and a recent erase time, which is a time at which an erase process is recently carried out with respect to a block. The semiconductor storage apparatus (b1) controls a timing at which data is programmed to a block based on at least one of the recent programming time and the recent erase time of this block, and/or (b2) controls a timing at which an erase process is carried out with respect to a block based on the recent programming time of this block. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051145 | SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SAME - A semiconductor memory device includes memory blocks that each include memory cells coupled to bit lines, a column masking circuit configured to output data change signals in response to an address signal indicating bit lines of selected columns among a plurality of columns, and an operation circuit configured to store data of the memory cells transferred through the bit lines and simultaneously change data transferred through the bit lines of the selected columns into operation pass data in response to the data change signals. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051146 | THREE DIMENSIONAL SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE - A three-dimensional (3D) semiconductor memory device comprises memory cell strings each comprising at least one selection transistor and at least one memory cell, a first pass transistor group sharing a first well region and comprising a first selection line pass transistor connected to the selection transistor and a first world line pass transistor connected to the memory cell, a second pass transistor group sharing a second well region and comprising a second selection line pass transistor connected to the selection transistor, and a controller that controls the first pass transistor group and the second pass transistor group. The controller applies selected voltages to the first and second well regions during read operation. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051149 | APPARATUSES AND METHODS OF REPROGRAMMING MEMORY CELLS - Apparatuses and methods for reprogramming memory cells are described. One or more methods for memory cell operation includes programming a number of memory cells such that each of the number of memory cells are at either a first program state or a second program state, the second program state having a first program verify voltage associated therewith; and reprogramming the number of memory cells such that at least one of the number of memory cells is reprogrammed to a third program state having a second program verify voltage associated therewith, wherein those of the number of memory cells having a threshold voltage less than the second program verify voltage represent a same data value. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051150 | Three-Dimensional NAND Memory With Stacked Mono-Crystalline Channels - A three-dimensional (3D) non-volatile memory (NVM) array including spaced-apart horizontally-disposed bitline structures arranged in vertical stacks, each bitline structures including a mono-crystalline silicon beam and a charge storage layer entirely surrounding the beam. Vertically-oriented wordline structures are disposed next to the stacks such that each wordline structure contacts corresponding portions of the charge storage layers. NVM memory cells are formed at each bitline/wordline intersection, with corresponding portions of each bitline structure forming each cell's channel region. The bitline structures are separated by air gaps, and each charge storage layer includes a high-quality thermal oxide layer that entirely covers (i.e., is formed on the upper, lower and opposing side surfaces of) each of the mono-crystalline silicon beams. The 3D NVM array effectively includes multiple NVM NAND string structures, where each NAND string structure is formed by multiple series-connected NVM memory cells disposed along an associated bitline structure. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051153 | FLOATING ADDRESSING OF AN EEPROM MEMORY PAGE - A method for electrically programming a non-volatile memory in which a programming cycle includes prior addressing of memory cells from an initial address corresponding to a first row and a column of a memory plane. The method may include addressing the memory cells in a second consecutive row when the end of the first row i is reached to store data on bits with consecutive and increasing addresses in two consecutive rows. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051154 | Method for and Flash Memory Device Having Improved Read Performance - A Flash memory device operable under a single-bit or multiple-bit serial protocol is provided with a capability to determine the address boundary condition of an application from the address field of an address boundary configurable (“ABC”) read command. Based on the identified address boundary condition, the Flash memory device may perform multiple sensing of the memory array as required by the ABC read command using optimal internal sense times for each sensing. The number of dummy bytes may be specified for the read command in advance by the user, based on the address boundary of the application and the desired frequency of operation of the Flash memory device. Therefore, Flash memory device read performance is improved both by minimizing the number of dummy bytes in the read command and by optimizing the internal sense times for the read operation. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051157 | SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE AND REFRESH METHOD THEREOF - A semiconductor memory device includes a memory core configured to sequentially activate first and second banks in response to first and second bank active signals which are sequentially enabled in response to first and second enable signals when a self-refresh operation is to be performed, select a word line by row addresses, and perform a refresh operation for memory cells which are connected with the word line; and an address counter configured to perform a counting operation for the row addresses in response to a counter signal, and interrupt the counting operation for the row addresses in a case where both the first and second banks are not activated when the self-refresh operation is ended. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051158 | INTEGRATED CIRCUIT, TESTING APPARATUS FOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT, AND METHOD OF TESTING INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - Provided are a redundant memory; a generator that generates a test pattern, and an expected value of data expected to be output from the redundant memory, in response to the test pattern being supplied to the redundant memory; a comparator that compares the expected value generated by the generator, against data output from the redundant memory in response to the test pattern being supplied to the redundant memory; a storage that stores a result of the comparison by the comparator; and a write controller that writes the comparison result to the storage while relating the comparison result to location information in the redundant memory where the comparison result is produced, if the comparison result by the comparator indicates a mismatch, while suppressing the comparison result from being written to the storage, if the comparison result by the comparator indicates a match. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051161 | APPARATUSES AND METHODS INCLUDING MEMORY WRITE OPERATION - Some embodiments include apparatuses and methods having memory cells and access lines coupled to the memory cells. In one such apparatus, the access lines include a first access line and a second access line. The first access line can be adjacent to the second access line. The memory cells include a memory cell associated with the second access line. A module can be configured to apply a voltage to the first access line during an operation of accessing the memory cell associated with the second access line, and to place the second access line in a floating state during at least a portion of a time interval within the operation. Other embodiments including additional apparatus and methods are described. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051162 | CODED DIFFERENTIAL INTERSYMBOL INTERFERENCE REDUCTION - Encoder and decoder circuits that encode and decode a series of data words to/from a series of code words. The data words include L symbols. The code words include M symbols, where M is larger than L. A set of tightly coupled M links to convey respective symbols in each of the series of code words. The code words are selected such that between every two consecutive code words in a series of code words, an equal number of transitions from low to high and high to low occur on a subset of the M-links. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051163 | DATA TRANSMISSION CIRCUIT AND SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME - The data transmission circuit includes: a plurality of local bit line pairs through which data is read simultaneously; a plurality of voltage change detection circuits provided for the plurality of local bit line pairs; a global bit line pair; a plurality of column selection circuits configured to select one of the local bit line pairs and connect the selected local bit line pair to the global bit line pair; and a sense amplifier connected to the global bit line pair. The sense amplifier is controlled by a sense amplifier activation signal to which the outputs of the plurality of voltage change detection circuits are connected, whereby the voltage of a selected read data line pair is amplified using discharge of a non-selected read data line pair, to achieve high-speed read. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051164 | NONVOLATILE MEMORY DEVICES AND METHODS OF DRIVING THE SAME - A method of driving a nonvolatile memory device including applying a reset voltage to a unit memory cell, reading a reset current of the unit memory cell, confirming whether the reset current is within a first current range, if the reset current is not within the first current range, changing the reset voltage and applying a changed reset voltage or applying again the reset voltage to the unit memory cell after applying a set voltage to the unit memory cell, if the reset current is within the first current range, confirming whether a difference between the present reset current and an immediately previous set current is within a second current range, and, if the difference is not within the second current range, applying the reset voltage or applying again the reset voltage to the unit memory cell after applying a set voltage to the unit memory cell. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051165 | SEMICONDUCTOR APPARATUS AND DATA TRANSMISSION METHOD THEREOF - A semiconductor apparatus includes a normal data line, an auxiliary data line and a data line selection unit. The normal data line is connected with a data selection unit. The auxiliary data line is connected with the data selection unit. The data line selection unit outputs data to one of the normal data line and the auxiliary data line in response to a command signal. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051166 | APPARATUSES AND METHODS FOR COMPENSATING FOR POWER SUPPLY SENSITIVITIES OF A CIRCUIT IN A CLOCK PATH - Apparatuses and methods for compensating for differing power supply sensitivities of a circuit in a clock path. One such method includes altering signal timing of at least one of reference and feedback clock signals differently according to variations in power supply voltage to compensate for differences in delay power supply sensitivities of delays of a forward clock path and of a feedback clock path. Another example method includes providing an output clock signal in phase with an input clock signal and compensating for delay error between delays used in providing at least some of the delay of the output clock signal relative to the input clock signal by providing delays having power supply sensitivities resulting in a combined power supply sensitivity that is inverse to the delay error. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051175 | Quality-Based Steering Methods and Systems for 4D Geophysical Surveys - A survey method includes towing one or more sources and one or more streamers behind a vessel to acquire geophysical survey data. Steering signals are determined for at least one of: the one or more sources, the one or more streamers, and the vessel. The steering signals minimize an error function having parameters that include a measure of a cross-line position error and a measure of data quality. The cross-line position error may be measured as an offset of the sources or the receivers from their desired paths, or in some embodiments as an offset between midpoints for base survey traces and subsequent survey traces. Some embodiments may employ a maximum spatial cross-correlation coefficient between a newly acquired trace and one or more base survey traces as a data quality measure, while others may employ a time shift, a phase rotation, or a normalized root mean square error. Data quality may indicate sensor noise levels. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051176 | SEISMIC ACQUISITION USING SOLID STREAMERS - Some embodiments of the disclosed invention include a method for acquiring marine seismic data using solid streamers in a curved pattern. Streamers can be towed in a curved pattern within a body of water. While being towed in the curved patter the source may be fired and response data can be collected by the streamers as they are towed through the water in the curved/circular pattern. These streamers can be solid streamers and can be filled with a gel like substance. Moreover, the streamers can be placed at various known depths within the body of water. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051177 | Full Flow Pulser for Measurement While Drilling (MWD) Device - An apparatus, method, and system described for generating pressure pulses in a drilling fluid utilizing a flow throttling device longitudinally and axially positioned within the center of a main valve actuator assembly is described. The main valve actuator assembly includes a main valve pressure chamber, a magnetic cup encompassing a rotary magnetic coupling, and a pilot actuator assembly. Passage of drilling fluid through a series of orifices, valves, shields, and screens where the fluid eventually combines with a pilot exit fluid that flows toward a main exit flow such that as the fluid becomes a pilot fluid that ultimately combines with the main flow such that the combined fluid causes one or more flow throttling devices to generate large, rapid controllable pulses that produce transmission of well developed signals easily distinguished from other noise resulting from other vibrations due to nearby equipment that is within or exterior to the borehole such that the signals also provide predetermined height, width and shape. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051178 | RESONANTLY AMPLIFIED SHEAR WAVES - Apparatus and methods for generating resonantly amplified ultrasound shear waves in biological tissue. The apparatus comprises a plurality of transducer elements and a controller for controlling the element excitation such as to cyclically generate the pattern of focal regions having associates shear waves and to create resonant amplification of the shear waves. Resonant amplification of the shear waves is obtained when shear waves generated at one focal region are superposed in phase on shear waves synchronously generated at an adjacent focal region. The generation may be done by burst or continuous wave excitation. In some embodiments, the shear waves are supersonic shear waves. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051179 | ELECTRO-ACOUSTIC TRANSDUCER AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - Electro-acoustic transducers and methods of manufacturing the electro-acoustic transducer are provided. An electro-acoustic transducer includes: a first wafer including a first substrate in which a plurality of electro-acoustic transducer cells are formed; and a second wafer disposed in a lower portion of the first wafer, and including a second substrate in which a plurality of through wafer vias are formed. A method of manufacturing an electro-acoustic transducer includes: forming a plurality of electro-acoustic transducer cells in a first substrate of a first wafer; forming a plurality of through wafer vias in a second substrate of a second wafer; and bonding the first and second wafers to each other. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051180 | MARINE VIBRATORY SOUND SOURCE FOR BENEATH WATER SEISMIC EXPLORATION - A marine vibratory sound source for producing swept or pulse coded signals in a body of water and within geological structures beneath a body of water, primarily for seismic exploration of the strata beneath the bottom of the water. More particularly, a high power, servo controlled hydraulic, sound source that can readily be towed in water, towed along the bottom surface under the water or be used in a stationary position on the bottom surface under the water. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051181 | Electronic Timepiece with Internal Antenna - A small electronic timepiece with an internal antenna can maintain high GPS reception performance and affords greater freedom developing different models. The timepiece has a cylindrical outside case | 2013-02-28 |
20130051182 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE, STORAGE MEDIUM AND METHOD FOR SETTING AN ALARM FUNCTION OF THE ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A method sets an alarm function of an electronic device. The method obtains dates and indicators corresponding to the dates from a database after the electronic device logs into the database of a server, and determines whether the alarm function needs to be set according to the indicators corresponding to the dates. If the set alarm function of the date is in accordance with a default rule, a date of the electronic device does not need to update the alarm function. If the set alarm function of the date is not in accordance with the default rule, a date of the electronic device needs to update the alarm function. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051187 | Electronic Timepiece - An electronic timepiece can improve the frequency of satellite signal reception and reduce power consumption. Such timepiece, e.g., a wristwatch has a GPS device that executes a reception process that locks onto a GPS satellite and receives satellite signals; a reception control unit that controls the reception process; and a solar panel that detects illuminance. The reception control unit includes an illuminance-based reception control unit that runs a reception process based on the detected illuminance, and a scheduled reception control unit that runs a reception process when a preset scheduled time is reached. The illuminance-based reception control unit stops reception when a satellite is not locked onto within a first locking time, and the scheduled reception control unit stops reception when a satellite is not locked onto in a second locking time that is shorter than the first locking time. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051188 | Electronic Timepiece - An electronic timepiece can determine the reception state in detail, and can display the reception state with high precision. A GPS wristwatch 1 has a reception unit that receives a satellite signal transmitted from a positioning information satellite; a reception level calculating unit 47 that calculates a reception level from the signal strength of the satellite signal; and a reception level display unit 48 that displays the reception level calculated by the reception level calculating unit 47. The reception level calculating unit 47 selects a specific number of satellite signals received from the positioning information satellites in order of greatest signal strength, and calculates the reception level from the signal strengths of the selected satellite signals. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051193 | WRISTWATCH PROVIDED WITH FUNCTION DISPLAY PORTION - A wristwatch is provided with hand(s) and a disk-shaped indicating member disposed between a first dial and a second dial. The disk-shaped indicating member is structured such that a part of the disk-shaped indicating member is exposed from an opening portion of the first dial and that the disk-shaped indicating member indicates, at a region corresponding to the opening portion, one of a plurality of function display portions SPL, STP and RUN provided on the second dial. The hand(s) and the disk-shaped indicating member rotate about a common driving shaft. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051194 | AUTONOMOUS CONTROL MECHANISM FOR A TIMEPIECE - Autonomous control mechanism ( | 2013-02-28 |
20130051195 | INTERACTIVE CLOCK WITH ANALOGUE TIME DISPLAY - The invention describes an interactive watch with analogue time display, comprising an analogue time display with a display element, a movement configured to drive a rotation of the display element about a rotational axis, which rotation is movement-driven and associated with a time unit, and a read-off element manually rotatably mounted about the rotational axis such that a manual rotation of the read-off element leads to a thereby manually forced rotation of the display element or vice versa, wherein, for the display element, the manually forced rotation overlaps with the movement-driven rotation of the display element, so that in a manually set read-off position for the read-off element and the display element, these, when viewed together, result in the display of a current analogue value for the time unit due to the read-off element and the display element being arranged in associated rotational positions relative to the rotational axis. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051196 | TIMEPIECE DIAL AND TIMEPIECE - To provide a timepiece dial that presents an appearance with a rich stereoscopic effect, and to provide a timepiece including the timepiece dial, a timepiece dial of the present invention includes a microlens layer formed with a plurality of microlenses which are arranged in an orderly fashion in a planar view; and a decorative layer formed with a design having a plurality of lines. The microlens layer and the decorative layer are superimposed as viewed in a planar view of the timepiece dial. A pitch of adjacent lines of the design changes along a longitudinal direction of a linear reference line. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051207 | MULTITRACK RECORDER AND MIXDOWN METHOD - An apparatus and a method for efficiently converting, by means of mixdown, audio signals recorded in multiple tracks into stereo signals. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051208 | OPTICAL PICK-UP DEVICE AND OPTICAL COMPONENT FOR THE SAME - An optical component for an optical pick-up for converging a laser beam having a particular wavelength onto a recording layer of an optical disc. The optical component comprises a base material formed of a resin composition, an undercoating which is formed of three layers of thin films having a same main constituent and is formed on a top surface of the base material, and a functional thin film formed on a top surface of the undercoating. In this configuration, each of a first layer and a third layer of the undercoating is a thin film formed without introducing oxygen, and a second layer is a thin film formed while introducing oxygen. A film thickness of the undercoating falls within a range of 160 nm to 270 nm, and film thicknesses of the thin films constituting the undercoating are substantially equal to each other. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051215 | RELAY DUALIZATION APPARATUS - Provided is a relay dualization apparatus, in a substation automation system including at least one or more upper units and at least one or more lower units, the apparatus including a plurality of first relays receiving a power data from the lower unit using a predetermined communication method, and transmitting the power data to the upper unit, and receiving a control command from the upper unit and transmitting the control command to the lower unit, and a second relay performing communications with the plurality of first relays using the communication method to replace a relay that has generated an error in the plurality of relays. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051216 | Techniques for Recovery of Wireless Services Following Power Failures - Techniques for managing a wireless network when disruptive events occur are provided. In one aspect, a method for managing a heterogeneous wireless network having at least two classes of nodes is provided. The method includes the following steps. One or more network signaling activities are observed. If the network signaling activities exhibit a behavior that is associated with a power failure affecting at least one of the classes of nodes, network resources for transmission and processing of network signaling associated with one or more other of the classes of nodes are adjusted to accommodate the behavior. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051217 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ENHANCING LOOP FREE ALTERNATIVE COVERAGE - An approach is provided for improving network restoration by enhancing loop free alternative coverage. A loop-free alternate (LFA) procedure is initiated for a failed link of a network including a plurality of nodes. A state of incomplete loop-free alternate coverage for the nodes is determined. A shortest path in the network exclusive of the nodes associated with the failed link is determined. Each node along the determined shortest path is set as an explicit route object to create a bypass label switched path for the network. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051218 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ASSURING THE OPERATION OF NETWORK DEVICES IN BRIDGED NETWORKS - In one embodiment, a spanning tree protocol (STP) is executed to assign a first port of an intermediate network device to a Root Port Role, a second port of the intermediate network device to an Alternate Port Role, a third port of the intermediate network device to a Designated Port Role, and a fourth port of the intermediate network device to a Backup Port Role. At least one bridge protocol data unit (BPDU) message is periodically sent from the first port assigned Root Port Role, the second port assigned Alternate Port Role and the fourth port assigned Backup Port Role, irrespective of receipt of any BPDU messages from neighboring intermediate network devices. In response to a failure to receive a BPDU message from a neighboring intermediate network device on the third port assigned Designated Port Role within a threshold amount of time, one or more actions are taken. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051221 | Methods, Systems, and Computer Program Products for Enabling an Operative Coupling to a Network - Methods and systems are described for enabling an operative coupling to a network. In an aspect, first data is detected for forwarding between a first node in a first network and another node by a network relay including a first network interface hardware component operatively coupled to a first network. A determination is made that a second operative coupling to a second network of a second network interface hardware component in the network relay is disabled. The second network interface hardware component is configured to enabled the second operative coupling, in response to the determination. Data received for forwarding between the first network and the second network is forwarded via the enabled second operative coupling. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051222 | IMPLEMENTING REDUNDANCY ON INFINIBAND (IB) NETWORKS - Methods, systems, and physical computer-readable storage medium are provided to improve efficiency of systems operating on internet protocol (IP) over Infiniband (IB) networks. In an embodiment, by way of example only, a method is provided for implementing redundancy for IB networks. The method includes detecting a failure at a first source port of a source node having a plurality of source ports, selecting a new source port, sending an address resolution protocol (ARP) message to one or more other nodes in communication with the source node including an IP address of the source node and IB address of the new source port of the source node, and re-balancing host traffic. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051225 | ALLEVIATING CONGESTION IN A CABLE MODEM - A method, system and computer program product for ingress level filtering of packets is provided. The system includes a Media Access Control (MAC) and a buffer pool that includes buffers configured to store packets. The MAC includes a memory configured to store an incoming packet and an inspection engine coupled to the memory. The inspection engine is configured to parse the incoming packet to determine a priority level of the incoming packet, determine whether there is a buffer available in the buffer pool to store the incoming packet, and allocate a buffer in the buffer pool to store the incoming packet based on the priority level of the incoming packet. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051226 | DEVICE, SYSTEM, AND METHOD OF MEDIA DELIVERY OPTIMIZATION - A method for alleviation of congestion in a mobile communications network includes detecting congested cells in the mobile communications network, identifying subscribers with active data sessions in the congested cells; and optimizing band-width usage for at least one of the identified subscribers. A bandwidth optimization system includes a network sampling interface to receive at least subscriber, cell and data session identifiers from a network data packet sampler, where the sampler identifies the identifiers from internal data traffic within a mobile communications network, and a network awareness engine (NAE) to at least cross reference the identifiers with external data traffic output by the mobile communications network to at least detect congested cells and associated subscriber data sessions emanating from the mobile communications network. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051229 | TRAFFIC ENGINEERING AND BANDWIDTH MANAGEMENT OF BUNDLED LINKS - Traffic engineering and bandwidth management of bundled links may, at times, require the selection of one of a plurality of component links in a bundled link to use in admitting a connection requiring admission. While performing the selection it may be determined that more than one of the component links has the resources required to admit the connection. An admission policy may then be selected from among a plurality of admission policies. Based on the selected admission policy, a particular component link may then be selected. Such bandwidth management, based on admission policies, may be seen to be well suited to balancing and component link recovery in traffic engineered, connection-oriented MPLS networks. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051230 | BROADBAND MULTI-DROP LOCAL NETWORK, INTERFACE AND METHOD FOR MULTIMEDIA ACCESS - A broadband multi-drop local network, interface and method for multimedia access. A local network architecture include a wired bus coupleable directly to an external data network terminal and configured for carrying broadband packetized data traffic over a frequency spectrum uninterrupted by other defined data channels or services; and one or a plurality of network transceivers operable individually for coupling an addressable network device processing a defined class of information to the bus wherein each network appliance is configured for and further operable for providing communication interfacing of the class of information of each addressable network appliance with the packetized IP data traffic on the wired bus. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051231 | Common Quality of Service Enforcement for a Group of Mobile Entities - The invention relates to a method for controlling the maximum bit rate for a bearer used for data transmission over a packet-switched network using a specified access point for a group of mobile entities. A PDN gateway enforces the maximum bit rate for the group, the APN group AMBR. This is possible as all mobile entities belonging to said group are connected to the same PDN gateway for a certain access point name APN. This is obtained by providing a PDN gateway information into an update location acknowledgement message sent from the HSS to the MME. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051232 | MANAGING DATA ON INFINIBAND (IB) NETWORKS - Methods, systems, and physical computer-readable storage medium are provided to improve efficiency of systems operating on internet protocol (IP) over Infiniband (IB) networks. A method includes multicasting a first ARP request from a source node, the first ARP request including an IP address of a source port of the source node, and performing load-balancing of host traffic across a plurality of ports of a plurality of nodes by sending a reply from a destination node corresponding to the IP address included in the first ARP request, the reply being sent over the source port to the source node. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051237 | METHOD OF ALLOCATING BANDWIDTH BETWEEN ZONES ACCORDING TO USER LOAD AND BANDWIDTH MANAGEMENT SYSTEM THEREOF - A bandwidth management system includes a plurality of queues respectively corresponding to a plurality of zones. An enqueuing module receives network traffic from one or more incoming network interfaces, determines a belonging zone to which the network traffic belongs, and enqueues the network traffic on a queue corresponding to the belonging zone. A dequeuing module selectively dequeues data from the queues and passes the data to one or more outgoing network interfaces. When dequeuing data from the queues the dequeuing module dequeues an amount of data from a selected queue, and the amount of data dequeued from the selected queue is determined according to user load of a zone to which the selected queue corresponds. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051238 | Communication Gateway for Facilitating Communications With a Supervisory Control and Data Aquisition System - Transfer of data between at least one supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) device and an advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) device via a wireless communication network is facilitated. The data is used for monitoring and/or controlling the AMI device. A protocol conversion of the data is performed to facilitate transfer of the data between the SCADA device and the AMI device as data packets via a packet data network gateway and a wireless communications network. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051241 | MANAGING AN ASSIGNMENT OF UNICAST TRAFFIC CHANNELS TO ACCESS TERMINALS PARTICIPATING IN A MULTICAST SESSION WITHIN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK - In an embodiment, an access terminal sends a multicast session registration request to an access network. The access network determines whether to assign a unicast traffic channel (e.g., media access control (MAC) identifier (ID)) to the access terminal, for the access terminal to provide feedback (e.g., channel quality indicators (CQIs) associated with the multicast session, based on a number of access terminals that have been assigned unicast traffic channels for the multicast session and/or for applications other than the multicast session. The access network configures a traffic channel assignment message to include an identifier for the multicast session, and to further include an assignment of the unicast traffic channel if the determining step determines to assign the unicast traffic channel to the access terminal. The access network sends the traffic channel assignment message to the access terminal including at least the multicast session identifier. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051242 | METHOD OF TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING A MULTI-CARRIER SIGNAL, AND A TRANSMITTER, A RECEIVER, A SIGNAL, AND A COMPUTER PROGRAM CORRESPONDING THERETO - A method of transmitting a multi-carrier signal by a transmitter using at least two transmit antennas to at least one receiver using at least one receive antenna, the method comprising an obtaining step of obtaining at least one estimate of at least one transmission downlink channel. According to the invention, such a method comprises a transmission stage performing at least one iteration of the following steps, for at least one downlink channel: transmitting payload data over said downlink channel, while taking account of said downlink channel estimate; and updating said downlink channel estimate, while taking account of acknowledgment information acknowledging reception of said payload data and transmitted by the receiver associated with said downlink channel. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051243 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPLEMENTING SERVICE OPERATION, ADMINISTRATION, AND MANAGEMENT FOR HAIRPINNED ETHERNET SERVICES - In accordance with embodiments of the present disclosure, a method may include designating one of at least one maintenance point associated with a physical port of a line card as a primary maintenance point, the primary maintenance point comprising either a UP-Maintenance Entity Group End Point (UP-MEP) or one Maintenance Entity Group Intermediate Point (MIP). The method may also include configuring the line card such that the line card stores source addresses of Service Operation, Administration, and Management (SOAM) frames communicated by the primary maintenance point. The method may further include configuring the line card such that the line card does not store source addresses of Service Operation, Administration, and Management frames communicated by maintenance points associated with the physical port other than the primary maintenance point. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051244 | NETWORK OPTIMISATION - A SON algorithm is described in which performance targets are defined and evaluated. The evaluation of a performance target includes using or setting an evaluation period defining a time period over which the performance target is evaluated and using or setting an evaluation frequency defining how often the performance target is evaluated. The performance targets are used for optimising a configuration of a mobile telecommunication system. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051245 | Interworking Between Ethernet and MPLS - A source node for addressing target nodes ( | 2013-02-28 |
20130051246 | STATE INFORMATION AND ROUTING TABLE UPDATES IN LARGE SCALE DATA NETWORKS - In a communication network comprising nodes and links between the nodes, a controller node disseminates link state information. A nodal routing table exists at each node comprising routes between pairs of nodes. The nodal routing table is either populated by the given node based on network information received from the controlling node or populated at the controlling node and received by the given node. Each node receives heartbeat signals from its neighbouring nodes. An unexpected delay between heartbeat signals may be perceived as a failure of a link. The perceived failure of that link is reported by the perceiving node to the controlling node. Upon receiving link failure information from a node, the controlling node may determine a subset of nodes in the network influenced by the link failure and indicate the link failure to the determined subset of influenced nodes. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051247 | Identifying Network Performance Alert Conditions - A computer-implemented method includes receiving diagnostic data from a plurality of network interface devices via a plurality of network connections corresponding to the network interface devices. Each of the plurality of network interface devices includes a diagnostic module to gather diagnostic data pertaining to the network interface device, to gather diagnostic data pertaining to the corresponding network connection, and to gather diagnostic data pertaining to a video device at a user location. The video device is coupled to the network interface device to receive video data via the corresponding network connection. The method also includes analyzing the diagnostic data at the computing device to identify one or more performance alert conditions associated with a service provider network. The method further includes generating an output identifying one or more potential causes of the one or more identified performance alert conditions. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051248 | HIERARCHICAL ANOMALY LOCALIZATION AND PRIORITIZATION - Methods, apparatus and articles of manufacture for hierarchical anomaly localization and prioritization are disclosed. An example method disclosed herein comprises obtaining reported status for a plurality of nodes of a hierarchical topology, the reported status for a particular node being at least one of normal, abnormal or indeterminate, and determining a subset of root cause abnormal nodes, a root cause abnormal node included in the subset of root cause abnormal nodes having a total number of abnormal direct descendent nodes and indeterminate direct descendent nodes that is greater than a number of normal direct descendent nodes of the root cause abnormal node. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051251 | Mobile Device Network Configuration Via Speed Determination - In one or more embodiments, a mobile device can determine its speed and can utilize a wireless network based on its determined speed. In one example, the mobile device can be within a communications range of a wireless access point that implements a wireless local area network and can utilize a mobile telephone network for data communications rather than the wireless local area network when the mobile device is traveling at or above a certain speed. In another example, the mobile device can receive a signal from the wireless access point and, based on the signal and the speed of the mobile device, the mobile device can utilize the wireless access point at or above the certain speed. For instance, the signal can include a beacon indicating that the wireless access point can be utilized for data communications when the mobile device is traveling at or above a certain speed. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051252 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR MONITORING NETWORK PERFORMANCE - Network performance management includes identifying a location of a test unit, providing a test protocol to the test unit over a network, and transmitting a stream of data packets to the test unit. The network performance management also includes identifying, via the location of the test unit, a transmission path of network elements through which the stream of packets flows. The network performance management further includes tracking measurements associated with the stream of data packets transmitted to the test unit and return data packets received from the test unit. The measurements are tracked for segments associated with each of the network elements in the transmission path. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051253 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMPROVING USER EXPERIENCE VIA PAYLOAD ADAPTATION - Apparatus and methods for payload adaptation for a mobile device based on a request from the mobile device include determining a communication connection characteristic of the request and obtaining one or more results to generate obtained results responsive to the request. The apparatus and methods further include customizing the obtained results to generate customized results based on the communication connection characteristic and transmitting the customized results to the mobile device. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051254 | Dynamic Scheduling of In-Band Relay Node Resources - A relay node is operated in a communication system wherein the relay node communicates with a communication system node via a first link and communicates with user equipment (UE) via a second link. The relay node detects whether a collision between its own uplink transmission on the first link and receipt of the user's transmission on the second link at a future time instant is expected to occur, wherein the collision will interfere with the relay node's ability to receive the UE's transmission. If so, then, the relay node selects and executes one of a plurality of interference averting measures, selection being based at least in part on what type of information is expected to be transmitted and received on the respective first and second links. First and second interference averting measures comprise refraining from or proceeding with transmission of some information to the communication system node. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051255 | DYNAMIC CHANNEL ESTIMATION APPARATUS, SYSTEMS AND METHODS - Apparatus, systems, and methods disclosed herein operate to calibrate path loss parameters corresponding to a communication channel between wireless stations, including a path loss exponent. A time-of-flight (TOF) associated with packet transmissions traversing a path between a first wireless station and a second wireless station is measured. A path length D | 2013-02-28 |
20130051256 | Channel Reservation Procedure - A method, an apparatus, and a computer program are presented for carrying out channel reservations in a wireless communication system. A communication apparatus initiates a preliminary channel reservation procedure initiating related to a spatial multiplexing group transmission. The communication apparatus is caused to transmit during the preliminary channel reservation procedure a reservation request message announcing a preliminary group reservation on the channel. Upon completed preliminary channel reservation procedure, the communication apparatus is caused to utilize the preliminary group reservation by causing transmission of a frame on the reserved channel according to the spatially multiplexed wireless communication. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051257 | Scheduling of Packets at Cellular Base Stations - A method for scheduling a sequential transmission of a plurality of packets includes estimating a time when each of the plurality of packets waiting to be transmitted will be used by a device targeted to receive the plurality of packets, and mapping the time of each of the plurality of packets to a prioritization among the plurality of packets. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051258 | Method of Controlling Receive Diversity for Battery Lifetime Improvement and Related Communication Device - A method of handling receive diversity of a mobile device in a wireless communication system for the mobile device is disclosed. The method comprises determining a plurality of corresponding conditions of a plurality of services supported by the mobile device; and controlling the receive diversity according to the plurality of corresponding conditions, for receiving data transmitted by a network of the wireless communication system. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051259 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING UPLINK POWER IN A WIRELESS ACCESS SYSTEM - According to one embodiment of the present invention, a method for reporting power headroom in a user equipment of a multi-carrier system, includes receiving a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) signal comprising uplink resource allocation information from a base station; transmitting at least one of a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) signal and a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) signal to the base station in a predetermined subframe based on the uplink resource allocation information in accordance with a transmission mode; calculating one or more power headroom values for the predetermined subframe in accordance with the transmission mode; and transmitting a report message comprising the one or more power headroom values to the base station, wherein the user equipment reports its first and second type power headroom values when operating in transmission mode A, or reports its first type power headroom value when operating in transmission mode B. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051260 | COEXISTENCE OF A NORMAL-RATE PHYSICAL LAYER AND A LOW-RATE PHYSICAL LAYER IN A WIRELESS NETWORK - A system including a physical layer module and a processing module. The physical layer module is configured to communicate at a first data rate via a channel, where the channel includes (i) a first sub-channel and (ii) a second sub-channel of the channel, to receive a first packet including a first preamble transmitted at the first data rate via (i) the first sub-channel and (ii) the second sub-channel, and to receive a second packet including a second preamble transmitted at a second data rate via (i) the first sub-channel or (ii) the second sub-channel, where the second data rate is less than the first data rate. The processing module is configured to process (i) the first preamble transmitted at the first data rate and (ii) at least a portion of the second preamble transmitted at the second data rate. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051263 | MOBILE TERMINAL, MOBILE COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD, AND MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A mobile terminal includes a first transceiver which communicates a first signal in a first frequency band, a second transceiver which communicates a second signal in a second frequency band, a measuring section which measures a reception quality of the first signal, and a reception quality of the second signal, a storage which stores one or more index values based on the reception quality of the first signal which is obtained when the reception quality of the second signal becomes less than or equal to a threshold value, and a controller which puts the second transceiver into a sleep mode when the reception quality of the second signal becomes less than or equal to a threshold value, and cancels the sleep mode when a subsequently measured reception quality of a first signal becomes equal to or greater than the one or more index values. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051264 | COMMUNICATION METHOD FOR AGGREGATION OF HETEROGENEOUS COMPONENT CARRIERS AND COMMUNICATION DEIVCE AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION STATION USING THE SAME - Communication methods for aggregation of heterogeneous component carriers and communication devices and wireless communication stations using the same methods are proposed. In one embodiment, the proposed communication method is adapted to a wireless communication station and includes aggregating physical channel resources respectively corresponding to heterogeneous access technologies in a Layer 2 or below the Layer 2 in a protocol stack; and communicating with at least one wireless terminal communication device through the physical channel resources respectively corresponding to the heterogeneous access technologies, wherein the physical channel resources respectively corresponding to heterogeneous access technologies are heterogeneous component carriers. The physical channel resources may be heterogeneous component carriers, such as radio component carrier(s), optical component carrier(s), and/or acoustic component carrier(s). | 2013-02-28 |
20130051275 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING CHANNEL STATUS INFORMATION IN MULTI-CARRIER WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The present invention relates to a wireless communication system, and more particularly, to a method and apparatus for transmitting channel status information (CSI) in a wireless communication system which supports multiple carriers. According to one embodiment of the present invention, a method for transmitting channel status information for multiple carriers comprises the steps of: measuring downlink channels for first and second carriers which are closely placed to each other on the frequency domain; determining channel status information for the first carrier on the basis of a result of the channel measurement for the first carrier; determining channel status information for the second carrier on the basis of a part of the channel status information for the first carrier and a result of the channel measurement for the second carrier; and transmitting channel status information for the first and second carriers. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051276 | DYNAMIC BANDWIDTH RE-ALLOCATION - A method and system for dynamic bandwidth re-allocation is provided. The method includes the steps of monitoring a video streams delivered by a server to a first client and a second client that have a same service level agreement and determining whether the first client is receiving a lower bitrate video stream compared to the second client. The method further includes the step of adjusting a parameter to allow the first client to receive a higher bitrate video stream. In an example, the monitoring, determining and adjusting steps are performed by a cable modem termination system (CMTS). In another example, the monitoring, determining and adjusting steps are performed by an optical line terminal (OLT). | 2013-02-28 |
20130051277 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ALLOCATING RESOURCES FOR DEVICE-TO-DEVICE DISCOVERY - A method and apparatus for providing allocating efficient resource allocation for device-to-device (D2D) communications. Various bandwidth allocations are provided which provide for D2D discovery information to be included on a time slot, such as an uplink pilot time slot (UpPTS). By accommodating D2D discovery information on un-used available bandwidth, the base station may efficiently configure and assign radio resources for D2D and cluster communication purposes in its coverage area. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051278 | CONFIGURING A DISTRIBUTED ANTENNA SYSTEM - Systems and methods for developing a configuration plan for communication transport links of a distributed antenna system are provided. The distributed antenna system includes a unit communicating with remote antenna units over the communication transport links. The unit receives signals from base stations. Characteristics of each of the signals are determined. The characteristics include, for each signal, a frequency occupancy, a digital bandwidth, and a coverage zone to which to provide the signal. The frequency occupancy includes the minimum frequency component and the maximum frequency component of the signal. The digital bandwidth is a bandwidth for communicating the signal via the communication transport links. A hardware capability of the distributed antenna system, such as a respective available bandwidth for each communication transport link, is also determined. The configuration plan for transporting the digital representations of the signals is determined based on the hardware capability and the characteristics of the signals. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051279 | MANAGEMENT DEVICE FOR SERVING NETWORK OR DEVICE AND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT METHOD THEREOF - Disclosed is a method of managing resources to allow networks or devices coexist. To this end, a neighbor discovering method of an apparatus including a coexistence manager (CM) includes: receiving, by the CM, a request from a television band device (TVBD) network or device served by the CM; obtaining, by the CM, neighbor information of the TVBD network or device in response to the request; and transmitting, by the CM, the obtained neighbor information to the TVBD network or device, wherein the neighbor information includes an identifier of a neighbor TVBD network or device interfering the TVBD network or device. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051280 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING INTER-DOMAIN SERVICE - There is provided a method, apparatus, system and corresponding computer program product for providing an inter-domain service. The method comprises: user equipment agent subscribing a service provided by at least one other domain from a domain it belongs to; the user equipment agent acquiring information for accessing the subscribed service from the domain it belongs to; the user equipment agent accessing the subscribed service through the at least one other domain directly based on the acquired information without going through the domain it belongs to. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051281 | CALL FORWARDING METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR MOBILE COMMUNICATION DEVICES WHICH OPERATE IN WWANS AND WLANS - A mobile device has a telephone number for calling the mobile device in a cellular network, and a SIP identity for calling the mobile device in the WLAN. The mobile device operates in the WLAN to receive voice call services, where voice calls directed to the telephone number are call forwarded to the SIP identity. Subsequently, the mobile device operates in the cellular network to receive the voice call services. The mobile device sends, via the cellular network, a message for cancelling the call forwarding of voice calls. The mobile device also sends, via a data communication service of the cellular network, a message for call forwarding voice calls directed to the SIP identity of the mobile device to the telephone number of the mobile device operating in the cellular network. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051282 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING SIGNALING MESSAGE IN SYSTEM THEREOF - A method is provided that creates signaling climate data records (CDR) via and a mobile communication system on a network, in order to charge signaling messages sent by user equipment (UE). The invention proposes two embodiments of the method for creating signaling CDR where an MME which has received signaling messages from UE notifies a PGW with a signaling CDR creation function of the message reception, and the PGW creates the signaling CDR. The MME can charge for the signaling message transmitted from the UE, without the additional components. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051283 | Full-Duplex Wireless Voice Broadcasting Apparatus with Channel-Changing and Interference-Resistance - The present disclosure is a full-duplex wireless voice broadcasting apparatus. The apparatus is capable of channel-changing. Full-duplex (two-way) voice communication is achieved by using at least one receiving device and an emitting device. The receiving device has good mobility to be used as an emergent caller to the emitting device. The present disclosure has advantages in interference resistance, energy saving, short-distance emergent calling, and calling for help. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051284 | CARRIER AGGREGATION RADIO SYSTEM - A carrier aggregation radio system is provided. The carrier aggregation radio system includes a transceiver having a main receiver, a diversity receiver and a carrier aggregation receiver. The carrier aggregation radio system further includes a control system adapted to command a radio front end to route diversity signals from a diversity antenna to the main and diversity receivers in a first mode and to command the radio front end to route carrier aggregation signals from the diversity antenna to the carrier aggregation receiver in a second mode. The control system may also command a third mode in which diversity signals are routed to the main and diversity receivers while carrier aggregation signals are routed to the carrier aggregation receiver. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051285 | PACKET-BASED INPUT/OUTPUT INTERFACE FOR A CORRELATION ENGINE - A navigation system includes a correlation engine configured to despread a received signal. The correlation engine includes a correlator configured to evaluate the received signal against a replica signal to produce a correlation result, and a packet encoder configured to produce a packet comprising a destination address, a source address, and the correlation result. An input/output interface is configured to provide the packet to another component in the navigation system. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051286 | ADAPTIVE SYNCHRONOUS PROTOCOL FOR MINIMIZING LATENCY IN TDD SYSTEMS - Systems and methods are presented that offer significant improvements in the performance of time division duplex (TDD) systems by utilizing an adaptive synchronous protocol. Conventional TDD systems are limited because data is transmitted during discreet and limited intervals of time, and because TDD transceivers may not simultaneously transmit and receive for reasons of insufficiently separated frequencies and limited receiver selectivity. Typically, TDD systems have significant latency due to the time to change from transmission to reception and the propagation delay time. By synchronizing the master nodes and the one or more remotes and by scheduling the traffic loads between these nodes, remote nodes may begin transmitting before the master node is finished with its transmission, and vice versa. This method reduces latency and improves the frame efficiency. Further, the frame efficiency may improve as the distance from the master node to the remote node increases. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051287 | RADIO-FREQUENCY FRONT-END MODULE - An RF front-end module includes power amplifiers, transmission-side filters, a reception-side filter, and a switch IC. A first transmission signal is output from a first transmission signal input terminal to a first common terminal via the power amplifier and the transmission-side filter. A second transmission signal is output from a second transmission signal input terminal to a second common terminal via the power amplifier and the transmission-side filter. A first reception signal input from the first common terminal and a second reception signal input from the second common terminal are input via the switch IC to the reception-side filter, common to the first and second reception signals, and are output from the reception-side filter to a reception signal output terminal. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051288 | USER EQUIPMENT CAPABILITY SIGNALING - A user equipment (UE) configured for signaling UE capability is described. The UE includes a processor and instructions stored in memory that is in electronic communication with the processor. The UE sends an indicator regarding whether the UE can support different time division duplex (TDD) configurations on different bands for a band combination. The UE also sends an indicator regarding whether the UE can support concurrent transmission and reception on different bands for the band combination. The UE additionally sends an indicator regarding whether the UE can support different uplink timing adjustments for the band combination. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051291 | METHOD FOR FREQUENCY DIVISION DUPLEX COMMUNICATIONS - The high quality PCS communications are enabled in environments where adjacent PCS service bands operate with out-of-band harmonics that would otherwise interfere with the system's operation. The highly bandwidth-efficient communications method combines a form of time division duplex (TDD), frequency division duplex (FDD), time division multiple access (TDMA), orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM), spatial diversity, and polarization diversity in various unique combinations. The method provides excellent fade resistance. The method enables changing a user's available bandwidth on demand by assigning additional TDMA slots during the user's session. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051292 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND METHOD USING PSEUDO-RANDOM CODE - According to the present invention, a communication apparatus comprises: a preamble generator which generates a pseudo-random code; a band shaping code generator which generates a band shaping code having a higher frequency than the pseudo-random code; a calculator which performs a calculation of the pseudo-random code and the band shaping code and outputs a preamble obtained through the calculation; and a multiplexer which multiplexes the preamble for synchronization with a second communication apparatus, a header, and data, and outputs a data frame obtained through the multiplexing. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051301 | Method, Apparatus and System for Transmitting Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service Notification Message - The present invention discloses a method, apparatus and system for transmitting a Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service notification message, relates to the wireless communication field, and solves the problem that there is not a MBMS notification message transmission mechanism. The technical scheme of the present invention is: receiving a Radio Resource Control signaling, reading subframe configuration information of the MBMS notification message included in said Radio Resource Control signaling; and using a subframe selection rule corresponding to said subframe configuration information to receive said MBMS notification message. The technical scheme provided by the present invention is suitable for the MBMS service. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051302 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SELECTING BEAM IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - An apparatus and a method for selecting a beam in a wireless communication system capable of forming a plurality of antenna beams are provided. The method for transmitting signals includes transmitting a training signal by using a plurality of first beams and a plurality of second beams, and transmitting at least one of user control information and data by using at least one fourth beam among a plurality of third beams. | 2013-02-28 |