| 10th week of 2012 patent applcation highlights part 27 |
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| 20120057538 | DOWNLINK PDSCH TRANSMISSION MODE SELECTION AND SWITCHING ALGORITHM FOR LTE - A method, system, and base station for deterministically selecting a downlink transmission mode and rank in a Long Term Evolution (LTE) configured wireless communication system. The Transmission Mode Selection (TMS) utility receives from a wireless device a request for downlink physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) service using a particular transmission mode and specific rank. The TMS utility determines an estimate of the throughput corresponding to the request. In addition, the TMS utility obtains throughput estimates of other distinct pairings of transmission mode and rank to compare with the throughput estimate corresponding to the request. The TMS utility utilizes device feedback information and HARQ error information that are already existing/available in order to determine the best transmission mode and rank pair, according to the best Error-Adjusted-Throughput. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057539 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR HYBRID AUTOMATIC REPEAT REQUEST IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and apparatus for handling Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest (HARQ) retransmission in a User Equipment (UE) includes being configured with at least one Secondary Cell (SCell), sending an UpLink (UL) transmission corresponding to an uplink grant, and setting a HARQ FEEDBACK variable corresponding to the UL transmission to Acknowledgement (ACK) if a HARQ feedback reception corresponding to the UL transmission is prohibited due to RF retuning. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057540 | OUT-OF-GROUP INTERFERENCE REDUCTION IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS - In a MIMO wireless communication system, a plurality of base stations (BSs) are provided each of which can transmit signals to, and receive signals transmitted from, one or more user equipments (UEs). The BSs are also organised into a plurality of groups. In a given group of BSs serving one or more UEs, those serving BSs coordinate with each other to simultaneously transmit signals to the one or more served UEs, and one or more of the served UEs feed back information to one or more of those serving BSs. The fed back information incorporates inter-group noise information related to interference between different BS groups. The method involves processing signals for simultaneous transmission by BSs of a group to one or more UEs served by that group and using the information fed back to the BSs of that group to improve system performance. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057541 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SCHEDULING IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM USING DUAL CELL - A scheduling method in a wireless communication system using a dual cell. The method includes determining a scheduling metric value of a user equipment (UE) with respect to each of at least two carriers. The method also includes determining a priority of the UE based on the scheduling metric value, per carrier. The method further includes selecting a UE according to the priority of the UE per carrier. The method also includes determining whether the selected UE has the same priority per carrier, and when the selected UE has the same priority, randomly selecting at least one carrier and allocating a resource to the UE based on the selected carrier. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057542 | DOWNLINK RESOURCE ALLOCATION AND MAPPING - Embodiments of the present invention provide for downlink resource allocation among a plurality of users. Other embodiments may be described and claimed. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057543 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, RECEPTION APPARATUS, TRANSMISSION APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION METHOD OF WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, CONTROL PROGRAM, AND AUTONOMOUS DISTRIBUTED NETWORK - Based on a data signal and a known reference signal, a frequency response of a channel is predicted, and the state of the channel over the entire transmission band is predicted such that frequency allocation is performed in a short period of time. A reception apparatus that receives a signal from a transmission apparatus which distributedly arranges signals in a frequency domain into a plurality of frequencies and which performs wireless transmission, the reception apparatus including: a channel property prediction unit ( | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057544 | METHOD, DEVICE, AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING UPLINK CARRIER FREQUENCIES - A method for managing uplink carrier frequencies is provided, which is applicable to the field of communication. The method includes the following steps: A state switching response message sent by a UE is received, where the state switching response message includes a result of state switching performed by on a secondary uplink carrier serving cell; The result of the state switching is notified to a secondary uplink carrier non-serving cell in a secondary carrier active set through an RNC. A device and a system for managing uplink carrier frequencies are further provided. Through the method, device, and system provided in embodiments of the present invention, the uplink carrier frequencies are managed, so as to facilitate transmission of uplink data during multi-cell collaboration. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057545 | RETRANSMISSION MODE SIGNALING IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The invention relates to a method for determining a retransmission mode of a retransmission protocol for data transmissions provided to a communication terminal. Furthermore, the invention relates to the operation of the communication terminal, e.g. a user equipment or relay node, to perform such method, as well as a Node B cooperating with the communication terminal. The invention is inter alia applicable to a 3GPP LTE-A system as standardized by the 3 | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057546 | Method and device for reestablishment at packet data convergence protocol layer - The present invention discloses a method and device for reestablishment at packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) layer. On the receiving side of the PDCP layer, the method comprises: clearing resident control messages ( | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057547 | LOGICAL CHANNEL PRIORITIZATION PROCEDURE FOR GENERATING MULTIPLE UPLINK TRANSPORT BLOCKS - The invention relates to methods for scheduling of uplink transmission and generating transport blocks according to multiple received uplink assignments Furthermore, the invention is also related to the implementation of these methods in hardware and software. To propose strategies for generating plural transport blocks within a given time constraint, the invention introduces prioritization of the uplink assignments, so that multiple uplink assignments can be ranked in the mobile terminal in a priority order. The prioritization of the uplink assignments is used to determine the order in which the individual transport blocks corresponding to the uplink assignments are filled, respectively how the data of different logical channels is multiplexed to the transport blocks for transmission in the uplink. Another aspect of the invention is to suggest joint logical channel procedures that operate on virtual transport blocks accumulated from the received uplink assignments. One or more such joint logical channel procedure can be performed in parallel. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057548 | RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, BASE STATION APPARATUS, MOBILE STATION APPARATUS, AND RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD IN A RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A radio communication system including: a mobile station apparatus; and a base station apparatus, wherein the mobile station apparatus and the base station apparatus perform radio communication, the base station apparatus includes: a first controller which couples each frequency band including a plurality of divided bandwidths allocated to the base station apparatus, and allocates one frequency band for transmitting a common channel in the coupled frequency band, and a first transmitter which transmits the common channel using by the allocated frequency band, and the mobile station includes a receiver which receives the common channel. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057549 | METHOD FOR USING A BASE STATION TO SELECTIVELY UTILIZE B AND D CHANNELS TO SUPPORT A PLURALITY OF COMMUNICATIONS - A method for using a wireless digital base station to receive, process and transmit a plurality of communications having independent data rates establishing a first communication channel having a first data communication rate to support a first communication; determining the data rate required to support the first communication; selecting one or more transmission channels, from a plurality of available transmission channels, required to support said required data rate; and transmitting the first communication using one or more selected transmission channels. The plurality of available transmission channels includes at least one B or D channel. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057550 | Method, Apparatus, and System for Transmitting Packet Service Data - The present disclosure relates to the communications field and discloses a method, an apparatus, and a system for transmitting packet service data Packet service data is sent by a User Equipment (UE). It is determined whether the packet service data is Internet service data according to a pre-obtained Internet service offloading policy. If the packet service data is Internet service data, the packet service data is transmitted to a Public Data Network (PDN) via a Metropolitan Area Network (MAN) and an IP backbone. Embodiments of the present disclosure may be applied to wireless communication systems such as a WCDMA system. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057551 | METHOD FOR MULTIPLEXING DATA AND CONTROL INFORMATION - A method for multiplexing a data information stream, including a systematic symbol and a non-systematic symbol, and a control information stream of at least three types in a wireless mobile communication system is disclosed. The method includes mapping the data information stream to a resource area so that the systematic symbol is not mapped to a specific resource area to which the control information stream is mapped, and mapping the control information stream to the specific resource area. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057552 | TECHNIQUES FOR MANAGEMENT OF SHARED RESOURCES IN WIRELESS MULTI-COMMUNICATION DEVICES - An embodiment of the present invention provides an apparatus, comprising a network adapter configured for wireless communication using more than one technology, and wherein the network adapter is configured to share a plurality of shared hardware components by limiting access to the air to one comm only at given time by designating one comm that owns the shared hardware components as a primary comm and all other comms are secondary comms, wherein the primary comm allows the secondary comms to use the shared hardware components when it is in an idle-state but when the primary comm returns from the idle state, it claims ownership of the shared resources and the secondary comms release the shared resources. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057553 | UL/DL SCHEDULING FOR FULL BANDWIDTH UTILIZATION - A method may include receiving, by a user equipment incapable of transmitting and receiving simultaneously, a schedule to transmit data on an uplink, detecting, by the user equipment, whether there is data to be transmitted on the uplink, and receiving, by the user equipment, during a time corresponding to the schedule, data associated with a downlink, when it is determined that there is no data to be transmitted. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057554 | METHOD, DEVICE, AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING UPLINK CARRIER FREQUENCIES - A method for managing uplink carrier frequencies is provided, which is applicable to the field of communication. The method includes the following steps: A state switching response message sent by a UE is received, where the state switching response message includes a result of state switching performed by on a secondary uplink carrier serving cell; The result of the state switching is notified to a secondary uplink carrier non-serving cell in a secondary carrier active set through an RNC. A device and a system for managing uplink carrier frequencies are further provided. Through the method, device, and system provided in embodiments of the present invention, the uplink carrier frequencies are managed, so as to facilitate transmission of uplink data during multi-cell collaboration. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057555 | METHOD, SYSTEM, BASE STATION AND MOBILE TERMINAL DEVICE FOR COLLABORATIVE COMMUNICATION - A method, a system, a Base Station (BS) and a mobile terminal device for collaborative communication are disclosed, so as to multiplex open-loop and closed-loop users and improve a utilization rate of system frequency spectrum. The method includes receiving CSI sent by a user, in which the CSI is CSI of an LOS signal of the user that is obtained by eliminating CSI of a multi-path signal. The method then obtains CSI of a closed-loop user having a channel that is orthogonal to a channel of the user, and performs pre-coding calculations by using the CSI of the LOS signal of the user and the CSI of the closed-loop user. Communication data is then sent to the user by using the result of the pre-coding calculation. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057556 | METHOD OF ALLOCATING RESOURCES IN A WIRELESS NETWORK - A device for allocating a channel resource in a wireless network includes a Media Access Control (MAC)/MAC Layer Management Entity (MLME) sublayer and the MAC/MLME sublayer receives a primitive requesting to transmit a message for requesting the channel resource from an upper layer; transmits the message for requesting the channel resource to a coordinator, wherein the message for requesting the channel resource includes information about a duration of the channel resource; and receives channel resource allocation information for allocating the channel resource from a MAC/MLME sublayer of the coordinator, the channel resource allocation information including information about a duration of the allocated channel resource, wherein the device transmits a first message to a second device during the channel resource allocated based upon the channel resource allocation information, and receives a second message from the second device in response to the first message during the allocated channel resource. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057557 | Method and Systems for Conveying Scheduling Information of Overlapping Co-Scheduled Users in an OFDMA-MU-MIMO System - Methods and systems for conveying or transmitting to any given user in an OFDMA-MU-MIMO system scheduling information of other co-scheduled users to permit the user to perform error-correction on received data and/or interference reduction on its received signals. The scheduling information can include resource block assignment, modulation constellations employed, coding rates employed, power levels utilized and precoder matrix indices used. Further, the scheduling information can be conveyed in part through dedicated reference symbol layers or pilot streams. Moreover, a base station may transmit a preliminary estimate of the total number of users the base station expects to schedule, or an upper-bound on the total number of users, to the MU-MIMO users to permit the MU-MIMO users to determine preferred precoder matrix indices and indications of channel quality indices. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057558 | Method and Systems for Conveying Scheduling Information of Overlapping Co-Scheduled Users in an OFDMA-MU-MIMO System - Methods and systems for conveying or transmitting to any given user in an OFDMA-MU-MIMO system scheduling information of other co-scheduled users to permit the user to perform error-correction on received data and/or interference reduction on its received signals. The scheduling information can include resource block assignment, modulation constellations employed, coding rates employed, power levels utilized and precoder matrix indices used. Further, the scheduling information can be conveyed in part through dedicated reference symbol layers or pilot streams. Moreover, a base station may transmit a preliminary estimate of the total number of users the base station expects to schedule, or an upper-bound on the total number of users, to the MU-MIMO users to permit the MU-MIMO users to determine preferred precoder matrix indices and indications of channel quality indices. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057559 | METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING A DOWNLINK SIGNAL IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND APPARATUS FOR SAME - The present invention discloses a method in which a base station transmits a downlink signal in a wireless communication system. In detail, the method comprises the following steps: allocating a transmitting resource to data symbols for transmitting downlink signals, in the direction of increasing a frequency index; and transmitting the downlink signal to a terminal, using the allocated resource. The frequency band of preset orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols, from among the transmitting resource, contains a control domain and a segment band. The step of allocating the transmitting resource comprises the step of puncturing the data symbol using a control channel, to which the control domain contained in the preset OFDM symbols is allocated. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057560 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING DUPLICATE DATA IN A MULTICARRIER WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The present invention relates to a wireless communication system, and more particularly, discloses a method and an apparatus for transmitting and receiving duplicate data in a multicarrier wireless communication system. According to one embodiment of the present invention, a method in which a transmitter, which supports carrier aggregation for performing communication using N (N≧2) component carriers, transmits duplicate data, comprises the steps of: generating, in a media access control (MAC) layer of the transmitter, N duplicate data using radio link control (RLC) protocol data units (PDUs) from an RLC layer, and simultaneously transmitting, to a receiver, the respective N duplicate data on the N component carriers through respective N hybrid automatic repeat and request (HARQ) entities. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057561 | BASE STATION APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, MAPPING CONTROL METHOD AND PROGRAM STORAGE MEDIUM - Downlink control information including uplink control information can be transmit efficiently. That is, a base station apparatus that configure a communication system includes changing means. The changing means changes a component carrier as a mapping target on which downlink control information including control information about uplink is mapped based on a predetermined processing procedure, among a plurality of component carriers having mutually different frequency bands within a frequency band used for downlink. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057562 | METHOD FOR RECEIVING DOWNLINK SIGNAL IN MULTI-ANTENNA WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND DEVICE THEREFOR - Disclosed in a method for a terminal to receive a downlink signal in a multi user MIMO (MU-MIMO) wireless communication system. More specifically, the method comprises the steps of: receiving downlink control information (DCI) from a base station; obtaining a parameter for a downlink demodulating-reference signal (DM-RS) included in the downlink control information; receiving the downlink DM-RS specified to the terminal on the basis of the parameter; and receiving a downlink data signal on the basis of the downlink DM-RS specified in the terminal, wherein the parameter includes information on a rank which is set in the terminal and a logical antenna port in which the downlink DM-RS is defined. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057563 | RADIO BASE STATION AND MOBILE COMMUNICATION METHOD - A radio base station including a resource assignment unit configured to determine a time direction resource, a frequency direction resource, and a code direction resource which are to be assigned as a reception quality notification resource that should be used for notifying each mobile station of a reception quality in a downlink, the resource assignment unit is configured to determine the time direction resources and the frequency direction resources, which are to be assigned as the reception quality notification resource, and then determine the code direction resources to be assigned as the reception quality notification resource the resource assignment unit is configured to assign, as the reception quality notification resource, in order from a frequency direction resource with a lower usage rate of the code direction resource, within each time direction resource. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057564 | METHOD AND APPARATUS TO SHORTEN THE DURATION OF INITIAL NETWORK SELECTION AND HANDOVER DECISIONS IN MULTICOMM PLATFORMS BY UTILIZING ALTERNATE FRAGMENTED SCANNING - An embodiment of the present invention provides an apparatus, comprising a network adapter capable of combining more than one wireless communication technology (comm) for wireless communication in a wireless network, wherein the apparatus includes a network detection phase implemented by doing a full scan of one comm followed by one or more additional comm scans; and wherein the network adapter breaks a scan into buckets, and alternates between different scanning buckets of different comms to provide faster scanning, connection time and handover from one wireless technology to another wireless technology. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057565 | DLS-ASSISTED WIRED TO WIRELESS HANDOVER - Solutions are proposed to enable a seamless handover/handback of a communication between a docked state and an undocked state. The transfer is effected by performing a transfer between a docked persona of a user and an undocked persona of that same user. By utilizing certain SIP transfer mechanisms or H.323 bridged-appearances, in-progress call sessions and media can be sustained during handover and/or handback. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057566 | ENHANCED BASE STATION AND METHOD FOR COMMUNICATING THROUGH AN ENHANCED DISTRIBUTED ANTENNA SYSTEM (eDAS) - Embodiments of an enhanced base station and method for communicating through an enhanced distributed antenna system (eDAS) are generally described herein. The eDAS includes geographically-separated antenna nodes and each of the antenna nodes has a plurality of antenna elements. The base station may perform physical-layer baseband processing for each of the antenna nodes at a centralized processing location, and may cause the antenna nodes to transmit reference signals in accordance with a multiplexing scheme to allow user equipment to perform channel estimation for the antenna elements of any one or more of the antenna nodes. The base station may also cause the antenna nodes to transmit signals having synchronization codes to allow the user equipment to synchronize with the antenna elements of any one or more of the antenna nodes. In some embodiments, the base station may communicate with the antenna nodes over a physical-layer interface. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057567 | Dynamic Internetwork Load Balancing - Examples are disclosed for executing vertical handovers of wireless devices configured to couple with heterogeneous wireless networks. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057568 | CELLULAR WIRELESS NETWORK AND METHOD OF OPERATION - A method of operating a cellular wireless network comprises broadcasting information about Internet Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) emergency call capability of the network on a broadcast channel in a cell of the network. This information may in one method concern the IMS emergency call capability of a base station included in the network and in another method it may include IMS emergency call capability of a base station and the core network. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057569 | Method for realizing single radio voice call continuity and single radio voice call continuity system - A method for realizing a single radio voice call continuity and a single radio voice call continuity system are disclosed. After a UE- | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057570 | USING A SINGLE LOGICAL BASE TRANSCEIVER TO SERVE MULTIPLE PHYSICAL LOCATIONS - Using a single logical base transceiver to serve multiple physical locations is disclosed. A call traffic associated with a call associated at a mobile network with an assigned timeslot of a logical base transceiver is received. A timeslot with which the call traffic is associated is remapped from the assigned timeslot to a serving timeslot being used at a serving physical base transceiver to facilitate the call, in the event the call traffic comprises inbound call traffic being sent into the mobile network from the serving physical base transceiver, or from the serving timeslot to the assigned timeslot in the event the call traffic comprises outbound call traffic being sent from the mobile network to the serving physical base transceiver. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057571 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR NORMALIZING CELLULAR COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK DATA - A method, computer readable medium and apparatus for normalizing cellular communications network data are disclosed. For example, the method collects a data packet from the cellular communications network, modifies a time stamp of the data packet in accordance with a promotion delay time from the time stamp of the data packet to create a normalized data packet and processes the normalized data packet to optimize state machine configurations. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057572 | Transmission Of Multiprotocol Data in a Distributed Antenna System - In a distributed antenna system (DAS) and a local area network (LAN), a common communication infrastructure distributes data from radio-based and Internet-based sources. A radio equipment (RE) of the DAS interfaces to a LAN segment. For the downlink, a gateway maps radio signal data from a radio equipment controller (REC) and data packets from a switch to mixed-data frames using a radio data interface protocol for transmission in the DAS. At the RE, the signal data and data packets are retrieved from the mixed-data frames and provided to the air interface and LAN segment, respectively. For the uplink from the RE, the radio signal data from the air interface and the data packets from the LAN segment are mapped to mixed-data frames and transmitted to the gateway. The gateway retrieves the signal samples and data packets from the mixed-data frames for transfer to the REC and switch, respectively. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057573 | SESSION INITIATION PROTOCOL (SIP) ROUTER - Systems and methods for a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) router are described. In one aspect, the SIP router receives a SIP INVITE for an incoming call to a target mobile subscriber. Responsive to receiving the SIP INVITE, the SIP router identifies, via a Send Routing Information for Short Message (SRI/SM) request to a Home Location Register, a first address of a serving switch in a circuit-switched mobile network; a mobile telephony device associated with the target mobile subscriber is currently location-updated on the serving switch. The SIP router maps the first address to a second address for the serving switch; the second address being a SIP address. Using the SIP address, the SIP router sends the received SIP INVITE to a SIP interface of the serving switch. The serving switch being configured to process the received SIP INVITE and the incoming call to the target mobile subscriber. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057574 | METHOD AND APPARATUS TO CONTROL LOCAL INTERNET PROTOCOL ACCESS FOR DEVICES - Methods and apparatuses are provided that facilitate controlling device local internet protocol (IP) access (LIPA) with one or more restricted groups of access points in a visited network. An indicator can be provided by a home network that specifies whether a device registering with a visited network is allowed utilize LIPA in the visited networks. If so, one or more components of the visited network can provide LIPA services to the device, which can include establishing IP flows for device access. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057575 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SIMULTANEOUS BEAM TRAINING - Certain aspects of the present disclosure support techniques for simultaneous beam training of multiple pairs of wireless nodes for reduction of training overhead. Each pair of wireless nodes can utilize a different training sequence in order to mitigate interference. In one aspect, different training sequences can be based on different Golay codes with appropriate correlation properties. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057576 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING ACCESS TO A PACKET DATA NETWORK - An access point supports communication in a femto cell of a cellular communication network. The access point comprises transceiver circuitry arranged to enable communication with at least one wireless communication unit located within the femto cell, and a signal processing logic module comprising an access point controller interface logic module arranged to enable communication between the access point and an access point controller. The signal processing logic module further comprises a gateway logic module arranged to provide an interface between the at least one wireless communication unit located within the femto cell and a packet data network. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057577 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF COMMUNICATION USING TUNNELED DIRECT LINK SETUP (TDLS) - Systems and methods for improved communications using tunneled direct link setup are described herein. The systems and methods relate to discovery, link setup, channel switching, multicasting, link selection, and quality of service implemented in conjunction with tunneled direct link setup. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057578 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING VALIDITY OF WIFI CONNECTION IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - An apparatus and method for determining validity of a Wireless Fidelity (WiFi) connection in a wireless apparatus is provided. In the method, a query is performed on a specific Domain Name Server (DNS) via a connected Access Point (AP). When a response to the query on the specific DNS is received, a connection to a specific node is attempted via the connected AP. When the connection to the specific node is successful, a valid WiFi connection is determined. The WiFi connection is maintained. Therefore, a WiFi apparatus is allowed to connect to only a valid AP, so that convenience is provided to a user and the WiFi apparatus is prevented from wasting power. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057579 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SHARING WIRELESS DATA SERVICE - A method of sharing a wireless data service, including receiving, by a first terminal, a wireless data service share request from a second terminal, checking, by the first terminal, available wireless data service remaining amount information, and transmitting, by the first terminal, a response to the wireless data service share request to the second terminal based on the checked wireless data service remaining amount information. Another such sharing method includes requesting, by a second terminal, wireless data service remaining amount information available by a first terminal from the first terminal, transmitting, by the second terminal, a wireless data service share request to the first terminal based on the wireless data service remaining amount information received from the first terminal, and receiving, by the second terminal, a response to the wireless data service share request from the first terminal. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057580 | Method And System For 60 GHZ Antenna Adaptation And User Coordination Based On Base Station Beacons - A first device wirelessly transmits and/or receives swept 60 GHz beacon signals to and/or from other devices. Beacon signals indicate angle of reception and/or relative direction with respect to other devices. Knowing reception angle and/or relative direction enables beamforming of adaptive and/or steered antennas for communication. 60 GHz beacons are swept over one or more angles. Identity information, configuration information, timing information and/or spatial information are communicated via 60 GHz beacons. Control and/or coordination information are transmitted and/or received. Reception angle, relative direction and/or distance between devices are determined based on 60 GHz beacons. Adaptive and/or steered antennas used for communication are initialized and/or undergo beamforming for 60 GHz, based on the angle, direction and/or distance between devices. Devices are mobile and/or stationary. Devices comprise mobile stations, base stations, wireless phones, access points, set-top-boxes, computers, game consoles, video servers, video recorders, video playback devices, residential gateways and internet browsing devices. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057581 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING SENOR NODE IN RFID/USN INFRASTRUCTURE AND GATEWAY SYSTEM USED THEREFOR - A sensor node management system in a Radio Frequency Identification/Ubiquitous Sensing Network (RFID/USN) infrastructure is provided, in which a sensor node has a local ID in a sensor network, a gateway receives, from the sensor node, node information including the local ID and an ID of a home gateway to which the sensor node initially belongs and registers the node information about the sensor node to a location information server, and the location information server registers and manages node information about sensor nodes within an area of the gateway. The location information server generates a global ID using the local ID and the ID of the home gateway, the global ID being recognized as an address of the sensor node by an Internet Protocol (IP) network. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057582 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REPORTING WLAN CAPABILITIES Of A DUAL MODE GPRS/WLAN OR UMTS/WLAN WTRU - Method and apparatus for enabling a wireless terminal to communicate the dual-mode capabilities and reporting the interworking capabilities of the two networks with which the wireless terminal have the added capability of obtaining services from either one of the interworking networks. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057583 | METHOD AND APPARATUS TO RESTORE ALWAYS-ON CONNECTIVITY DURING NETWORK HANDOVER - A method and apparatus to restore always on connectivity to user equipment, the method having the steps of: monitoring whether the user equipment has transitioned to a network that supports concurrent voice and data; performing, upon the monitoring step detecting the transition, a routing area update; checking whether the user equipment was in a voice call at the time of the transition, and if yes, sending a data packet to the network. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057584 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AVOIDING HANGING PDP CONTEXTS - A method and system for avoiding hanging Packet Data Protocol (PDP) contexts in a General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) network. A time-out period is included in a request message to create a PDP context. The request message is transmitted from a first GPRS Support Node (GSN) to a second GSN. The second GSN receives the request message and transmits a response message to the first GSN. If the second GSN is unable to create the PDP context within the time-out period, the response message informs the first GSN that creation of the PDP context has been aborted. A Network Service Access Point Identifier (NSAPI) may be included in the response message so that the first GSN may request the second GSN to delete the request for creating the PDP context after a N3-T3 timeout of the first GSN has expired. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057585 | Method and System for Link Adaptation Using Metric Feedback - A method for link adaptation at a base station using metric feedback is disclosed. The method can include the steps of communicating with a mobile station over a communication link having one or more sub-channels and during the communication, receiving from the mobile station a plurality of mutual information per coded bit metrics for a plurality of candidate modulation types per coding layer. The mutual information per coded bit metrics can be based on channel state knowledge of the sub-channels. Also, based on the received information, the operational performance of the mobile station can be predicted in view of one or more transmission parameters and performance factors and one or more of the transmission parameters, including a modulation type selected from one of the plurality of candidate modulation types per coding layer, can be selected based on a transmission condition of the communication link. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057586 | Short Message Service (SMS) Protocol Gateway - A system for communicating short message service messages from a SMS application to a wireless communication device. The system includes a protocol gateway for converting messages from a simple object access protocol (SOAP) to a short message peer-to-peer (SMPP) protocol. By using a SOAP protocol for a portion of communications between the SMS application and the wireless communication device, the system provides communications path in which SMS application is not required to maintain knowledge of the complex SMPP protocol. The system may also include a billing mechanism for charging subscribers for content received by the wireless communication device. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057587 | DATA TRANSMISSION METHOD IN A ZIGBEE NETWORK, TERMINAL PROCESSOR, AND TERMINAL DEVICE - A data transmission method in a Zigbee network, a terminal processor, and a terminal device are provided. The method includes: receiving, by a connection driving module, through a connection device, data from a Zigbee communication module (S | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057588 | MULTIPLE ANTENNA MULTIPLEXERS, DEMULTIPLEXERS AND ANTENNA ASSEMBLIES - Exemplary embodiments of apparatus and methods relating to antenna multiplexers and demultiplexers are disclosed. In exemplary embodiments, antenna multiplexers include two or more inputs for receiving a corresponding number of signals from multiple antennas. The antennas may include a cellular antenna (e.g., world cell antennas or cellular antenna operable within one or more of AMPS/GSM850, GSM900, GSM1800, PCS/GSM1900, UMTS/AWS, GSM850, GSM1900, AWS, LTE, AMPS, PCS, EBS, BRS, WCS, etc.). The antennas may also include AM/FM antennas, SDARS antennas, GPS antennas, and/or antennas combining the preceding. Exemplary antenna multiplexers also include an output for simultaneously outputting the combined signals received by the multiplexer. Demultiplexers for receiving such combined signals and outputting each signal via a separate output are also disclosed. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057589 | IP Telephone Set and IP Telephone System - This IP telephone set includes a CPU acquiring a MAC address of a personal computer when the same is capable of communicating with the personal computer, while a server previously registers an extension number corresponding to the IP telephone set. The CPU controls the server to register an extension number corresponding to the MAC address of the personal computer in association with the IP telephone set, thereby rendering the IP telephone set usable as a telephone set corresponding to the IP telephone set itself and a telephone set of the personal computer. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057590 | RELAY SYSTEM, RELAY APPARATUS, AND RELAY METHOD - A relay system includes a first relay apparatus connected to a node through a first line and a second relay apparatus connected to the node through a second line. The first line and the second line belong to the same link aggregation group. The first relay apparatus includes a first control unit. The first control unit notifies, before relaying a received frame, the second relay apparatus of a source address included in the received frame in the absence of first relation information related to the source address in the first storage unit upon receiving the received frame via a port connected to the first line. The second relay apparatus includes a second control unit. The second control unit stores, in the second storage unit, second relation information regarding a relationship between the source address notified by the first relay apparatus and an output port connected to the second line. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057591 | PREDICTIVE SYNCHRONIZATION FOR CLUSTERED DEVICES - A method and system is provided for a scalable clustered system. The method and system may handle asynchronous traffic as well as session backup. In the method and system, a home cluster member having ownership of a local session predicts designation of a an other cluster member to receive a packet associated with the local session and sends appropriate state information or forwarding instruction to the other network member. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057592 | Dynamic Data Routing In A Utility Communications Network - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for. In one aspect, a method includes detecting, by an end point, a first broadcast message specifying a first network identifier for a first PLC network and a first unique substation identifier for a first substation processing unit that belongs to the first PLC network. Data is encoded with the first network identifier and the first unique substation identifier and the encoded first data is transmitted to the first substation processing unit. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057593 | Computing Point-to-Multipoint Paths - An apparatus comprising a path computation element (PCE) configured to communicate with a path computation client (PCC) and compute a point-to-multipoint (P2MP) path across an autonomous system (AS) domain. Also included is a network component comprising at least one processor configured to implement a method comprising obtaining a computation request for a P2MP path across a plurality of AS domains, attempting to calculate the P2MP path across the AS domains, thereby generating a computed path or a failure reason, and transmitting a reply comprising the computed path or an indication of the failure reason. Included is a method comprising exchanging a request message and a reply message about a P2MP path across an AS domain between a PCC and a PCE. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057594 | Techniques for Reliable Switchover to a Date Multicast Distribution Tree (MDT) - Techniques reliably provide the switchover from a default MDT to the data MDT by using reliable signaling and reliable building of a data MDT. The message notifying of the pending switchover to the data MDT is reliably sent using signaling that is reliable. Also, the switchover from the default MDT to the data MDT does not happen until all egress routers have responded to the message. Egress routers join the data MDT if associated receivers are interested in receiving the multicast stream from a source. The router does not send another response upstream until all egress routers downstream from it respond to the message in the positive or the negative. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057595 | COMMUNICATION METHOD, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, ANONYMIZING DEVICE, AND SERVER - A communication system ( | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057596 | Outbound Transmission Of Packet Based On Routing Search Key Constructed From Packet Destination Address And Outbound Interface - A method is described that involves associating an outbound packet with a first network interface and constructing a search key from an identifier of the first network interface and the outbound packet's destination address. The method further entails submitting the search key to a routing function where the routing function identifies the outbound packet's next hop address. The method also involves transmitting the outbound packet to a node identified by the next hop address from the first network interface. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057597 | IN-LINE PACKET PROCESSING - A method and apparatus for in-line processing a data packet while routing the packet through a router in a system transmitting data packets between a source and a destination over a network including the router. The method includes receiving the data packet and pre-processing layer header data for the data packet as the data packet is received and prior to transferring any portion of the data packet to packet memory. The data packet is thereafter stored in the packet memory. A routing through the router is determined including a next hop index describing the next connection in the network. The data packet is retrieved from the packet memory and a new layer header for the data packet is constructed from the next hop index while the data packet is being retrieved from memory. The new layer header is coupled to the data packet prior to transfer from the router. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057598 | TRANSACTION AND CONNECTION INDEPENDENT PROTOCOL LOAD BALANCING - A system and method for load balancing session initiation protocol (SIP) traffic based on bridging and tracking transactions and connections between frontend and backend devices. The method includes receiving a SIP message and parsing a header of the SIP message. The parsing may include selecting a transaction identifier. The method further includes accessing a transaction table based on the transaction identifier and selecting a connection for forwarding the SIP message. The SIP message is then forwarded by the selected connection. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057599 | System and Method for Virtual Private Local Area Network Service to Use the Flow Aware Pseudowire - An apparatus comprising a provider edge (PE) coupled to a second PE and to a customer edge (CE) and configured to establish a Virtual Private Local Area Network (LAN) Service (VPLS) that is interconnected by either a flow aware pseudowire (PW) or a flow unaware PW and exchange a flow label indication with the second PE to enable using a flow label below a PW label on the label stack. Also disclosed is a network component comprising a processor configured to support a signaling protocol that indicates a capability to send, receive, or both a flow label over a PW configured for a Layer Two (Layer 2) Virtual Private Network (VPN), a transmitter configured to send a PW packet with a flow label to a peer network component, and a receiver configured to receive a PW packet either with a flow label or without a flow label. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057600 | COOPERATIVE REROUTING - IP Fast Reroute is used as an enabler for cooperative transmission. The combination of IP Fast Re-Route and cooperative transmission reduces the quantity of operations requiring change to another alternative path, particularly in mobile wireless networks characterized by high mobility. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057601 | ACCURATE MEASUREMENT OF PACKET SIZE IN CUT-THROUGH MODE - A network device operating in a cut-through mode receives a current packet of an unknown length and determines if there is a known length value of a previous packet in a processing cycle associated with the current packet. When there is no known length value of the previous packet, the network device applies, to the current packet, an estimated length value for the current packet. When there is a known length value of the previous packet, the network device applies, to the current packet, the known length value of the previous packet. The network device processes the current packet based on one of the estimated length value or the known length value of the previous packet. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057602 | RELAY COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND FIRST RELAY SERVER - A relay communication system includes a first client terminal which creates routing group information including network addresses of first and second LANs, and identification information of the first client terminal and a second client terminal which execute routing processing, and which shares the routing group information with the second client terminal. Based on the routing group information, a routing session is established between the first and second client terminals. A communication terminal connected to the first LAN sends out a communication packet in which an IP address of a communication terminal connected to the second LAN is designated. The communication packet is encapsulated by the first client terminal, and is routed by using the routing session. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057603 | Automated Traffic Engineering for 802.1AQ Based Upon the Use of Link Utilization as Feedback into the Tie Breaking Mechanism - A method in an Ethernet Bridge for improved load distribution in an Ethernet network that includes the Ethernet Bridge including determining a first set of one or more shortest paths between each Ethernet Bridge pair in the Ethernet network, selecting at least a first shortest path, calculating a link utilization value for each link of the Ethernet network, determining a second set of one or more shortest paths between each Ethernet Bridge pair in the Ethernet network, generating a path utilization value for each shortest path, selecting a second shortest path on the basis of said path utilization value, whereby the selection of the second shortest in light of path utilization minimizes the standard deviation of load distribution across the entire Ethernet network. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057604 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING MBMS SERVICES - A transmission method for Multicast Broadcast Single Frequency Network (MBSFN), which can realize the multiplexing of Multimedia Broadcast/Multicast Service (MBMS) services with different Modulation and Coding Scheme (MCS)/Service Data Unit (SDU) error rates. The method comprises the steps of: dividing a plurality of services to be transmitted into multiple service groups according to error rates, each service group including at least one service; transmitting the plurality of services according to the service groups, wherein the respective services in each service group are transmitted in turn according to a predetermined sequence. By applying the method and the apparatus, MBMS services having different MCS/SDU error rates can be multiplexed and transmitted to UEs in the MBSFN. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057605 | Bandwidth Control Method and Bandwidth Control Device - A communication device connected to a network includes an input interface that receives a frame; an output frame buffer that holds the frame received by the input interface; multiple bandwidth controllers that controls a read request notice timing of the frame received by the input interface for each flow; an output scheduler that determines a read timing of the frame on the basis of the frame read request of each flow notified by the bandwidth controllers; and an output interface that outputs the frame in the timing notified by the output scheduler, and each of the bandwidth controllers determines on the basis of a token value held by each flow, whether or not the read request of the flow is notified to the output scheduler, and determines the amount of adding or subtracting the token value on the basis of the accumulated number of frames in the output frame buffer. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057606 | MULTIPLEXER CIRCUIT - According to an example embodiment, a circuit may include a first pair of differential input transistors, each coupled between at least an associated first positive clock transistor and ground; the first positive clock transistors coupled between differential output nodes and the differential input transistors associated with the first positive clock transistors, the first positive clock transistors being configured to respond to a positive input from a clock; a first inductor coupled between the differential output nodes and a voltage source; a second pair of differential input transistors, each coupled between at least an associated first negative clock transistor and ground; the first negative clock transistors coupled between the differential output nodes and the differential input transistors associated with the first negative clock transistors, the first negative clock transistors being configured to respond to a negative input from the clock; and the differential output nodes coupled between the first inductor, the first positive clock transistors, and the first negative clock transistors. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057607 | BROAD AREA LASER PUMP COMBINER - Multiple broad area lasers are coupled to a planar lightwave circuit, where the waveguides come together to form a single wide emitting aperture. A tapered lens is used at the output of the planar lightwave circuit to transform the highly asymmetric mode into a conventional round mode. This configuration allows much higher “brightness”, allowing 10 or more 100 um wide broad area lasers to be coupled into a single 100 um core multimode fiber. This is considerably more efficient than the standard method of combining a single 100 um wide broad area laser to a 100 um core multimode fiber. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057608 | INTRA-CAVITY SUM-FREQUENCY MIXING USING SOLID-STATE AND SEMICONDUCTOR GAIN-MEDIA - A two-resonator laser arrangement for provides visible-wavelength radiation by sum-frequency mixing two different wavelengths of radiation circulating in the resonators in an optically nonlinear crystal located in the resonators. One of the resonators includes a solid-state gain-medium providing of one the two wavelengths and the other resonator includes a semiconductor gain-medium providing the other of the two wavelengths. A very short excited-state lifetime of the semiconductor gain-medium provides that noise and instability commonly encountered in the output of prior-art intra-resonator frequency-converted lasers is substantially reduced. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057609 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR HYBRID INTEGRATION OF A TUNABLE LASER AND A MACH ZEHNDER MODULATOR - A tunable pulsed laser includes a substrate comprising a silicon material and a gain medium coupled to the substrate. The gain medium includes a compound semiconductor material. The tunable pulsed laser also includes a waveguide disposed in the substrate and optically coupled to the gain medium, an optical modulator optically coupled to the gain medium, a first wavelength selective element characterized by a first reflectance spectrum and disposed in the substrate, and a second wavelength selective element characterized by a second reflectance spectrum and disposed in the substrate. The tunable pulsed laser further includes an optical coupler disposed in the substrate and joining the first wavelength selective element, the second wavelength selective element, and the waveguide and an output mirror. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057610 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR HYBRID INTEGRATION OF A TUNABLE LASER AND A PHASE MODULATOR - A tunable laser includes a substrate comprising a silicon material and a gain medium coupled to the substrate. The gain medium includes a compound semiconductor material. The tunable laser also includes an optical modulator optically coupled to the gain medium, a phase modulator optically coupled to the optical modulator, and a waveguide disposed in the substrate and optically coupled to the gain medium. The tunable laser further includes a first wavelength selective element characterized by a first reflectance spectrum and disposed in the substrate, a second wavelength selective element characterized by a second reflectance spectrum and disposed in the substrate, an optical coupler disposed in the substrate and joining the first wavelength selective element, the second wavelength selective element, and the waveguide, and an output mirror. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057611 | Temperature Feedback Control for Long-Term Carrier-Envelope Phase Locking - A feedback control module for stabilizing a carrier-envelope phase of an output of a laser oscillator system comprises a first photodetector, a second photodetector, a phase stabilizer, an optical modulator, and a thermal control element. The first photodetector may generate a first feedback signal corresponding to a first portion of a laser beam from an oscillator. The second photodetector may generate a second feedback signal corresponding to a second portion of the laser beam filtered by a low-pass filter. The phase stabilizer may divide the frequency of the first feedback signal by a factor and generate an error signal corresponding to the difference between the frequency-divided first feedback signal and the second feedback signal. The optical modulator may modulate the laser beam within the oscillator corresponding to the error signal. The thermal control unit may change the temperature of the oscillator corresponding to a signal operable to control the optical modulator. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057612 | NITRIDE SEMICONDUCTOR LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE - A nitride semiconductor device includes a multilayer semiconductor structure made of a group III nitride semiconductor and having a light-emitting facet, and a first coating film formed to cover the light-emitting facet of the multilayer semiconductor structure. The first coating film is a crystalline film made of a nitride containing aluminum. The crystalline film is composed of a group of single domains, and the single domain is comprised of a group of grains whose crystal orientation planes have a same inclination angle and a same rotation angle. A length of a boundary between the domains per unit area is 7 μm | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057613 | LASER ANNEALING METHOD AND LASER ANNEALING DEVICE - The energy distribution in the short-side direction of a rectangular laser beam applied to an amorphous semiconductor film (amorphous silicon film) is uniformized. It is possible to the energy distribution in the short-side direction of the rectangular laser beam by the use of a cylindrical lens array | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057614 | Geothermal temperature gradient measurement - A new method for measuring the temperature gradient of a well is claimed. This method uses multiple and parallel temperature sensors to calculate the well's temperature at each point in the well. This reduces noise found in electronic measurements in order to improve the well's temperature measurement and improve the calculation of the well's temperature gradient. The use of natural background gamma enhances the calculation of the well's temperature gradient and improves the detection of changing rock formations intersecting the well. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057615 | INFRARED CLINICAL THERMOMETER ABLE TO COMMUNICATE - An infrared clinical thermometer able to communicate is disclosed. The infrared clinical thermometer has a control module arranged inside a casing and electrically connected with an infrared body temperature sensation unit, a communication interface, a measurement key, a transmission key, and a power key. When intending to measure body temperature, the user presses the power key to start the infrared clinical thermometer. According to the signal of the measurement key, the control module controls the infrared body temperature sensation unit to detect body temperature. When intending to transmit measurement results, the user links the communication interface to the computer via a detachable communication cable and then presses the transmission key or common key. Then, the control module transmits measurement results to the computer. The infrared clinical thermometer is detachably linked to the computer and thus easy to measure temperature and transmit data. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057616 | Dynamical/Tunable Electromagnetic Materials and Devices - A composite material that is responsive to either electromagnetic or thermal radiation. The composite has a controllable structure that is either dynamically or tunably responsive to such radiation and comprises a metamaterial. Sensors, such as a bolometer, that incorporate the composite are also described. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057617 | SENSOR ARRANGEMENT AND METHOD FOR PRODUCTION - A sensor arrangement has at least one sensor element with electrical connections. At least one sensor element is arranged in a solid plastic-material body, at least a first insulating layer, which encloses the sensor element, being arranged between the sensor element and the plastic-material body. The sensor element senses at least one physical property of a medium to be measured. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057618 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING VICTIM SIGNAL IN MB-OFDM UWB COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - To detect a victim signal in an ultra wideband communication system, fast Fourier transform of a received signal including a plurality of time symbols is performed to generate a signal including a plurality of frequency symbols, it is determined whether a first signal is present in a first region of the signal, and if a first signal is present, the first signal is detected as a first victim signal. Next, an error signal is generated based on the signal including the plurality of frequency symbols, it is determined whether a second signal is present in a second region of the error signal, and if a second signal is present, the second signal is detected as a second victim signal. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057619 | RELAY APPARATUS AND RELAY METHOD - A relay apparatus is disclosed for relaying a signal from a transmitter to a receiver in a MIMO (Multiple Input Multiple Output) based communication system, comprising: a power difference determination unit configured to determine a difference of reception levels between a direct wave and a relayed wave based on positional relationship among the transmitter, the relay apparatus and the receiver, the direct wave traveling from the transmitter to the receiver without the relay apparatus, the relayed wave traveling from the transmitter to the receiver via the relay apparatus; a gain determination unit configured to determine an amplification gain of the relay apparatus to make the difference smaller; and a transmitting unit configured to amplify the signal from the transmitter at the determined amplification gain and transmit the amplified signal to the receiver. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057620 | RADIO COMMUNICATION DEVICE, RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM FOR EXECUTING RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD - A radio communication system of the present invention comprises a radio communication device which transmits or receives a first beacon signal and a second beacon signal. A beacon transmission radio communication device transmits the first beacon signal in a preset timing pattern P | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057621 | Diversity Receiver - A diversity receiver includes a first receiving channel and a second receiving channel. The receiver also includes a baseband processor that computes a difference between the received signal strengths of the signals received from the first and second channels, wherein the processor disables the signal received from the second channel if the difference is greater than a first threshold value and a BER associated with the second receiving channel is greater than a BER threshold value, and disables the signal received from the first channel if the difference is less than the negative first threshold value and the bit error rate (BER) associated with the first channel is greater than the BER threshold value. The receiver further includes a bypass circuit coupled to an input of an amplifier and a RSSI circuit that provides a conduction path between the input and a ground when the RSSI circuit detects a blocker signal. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057622 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION METHOD, COMPUTER PROGRAM, AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Appropriate communication operation is performed by employing space division multiple access in which wireless resources on a space axis are shared by a plurality of users. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057623 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR POWER CONTROL IN BROADBAND WIRELESS ACCESS SYSTEM - Uplink power control in a broadband wireless access system is provided. A Base Station (BS) includes a controller, a first generator, a second generator, and a modulator/demodulator (modem). The controller determines to apply one of a first power control which is slot-periodic and a second power control which is frame-periodic. The first generator generates a first power control command at a slot period using a channel quality premising a rake receiver according to the first power control. The second generator generates a second power control command at a frame period using a channel quality premising an equalizer according to the second power control, and generates a third power control command according to a predefined pattern at a slot not being able to use the channel quality. The modem transmits at least one of the first, second, and third power control commands. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057624 | Communication Apparatuses and Wireless Communications Modules - A communication apparatus having a first and second wireless communications modules is provided. The first wireless communications module includes a receiving unit receiving RF signals from an air interface, a signal processing module performing frequency down conversion on the RF signals to generate baseband signals according to a clock signal, and a processor processing the baseband signals. The processor further detects an ON/OFF status of the second wireless communications module to obtain a detection result and compensates for frequency drift of the clock signal according to the detection result. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057625 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING SIGNAL IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The present invention discloses a method and device for transmitting and receiving a signal in a wireless communication system. The method for transmitting a signal in a wireless communication system according to the present invention comprises: receiving an original data block to be transmitted, the length of the original data block being M, wherein M is an integer; disordering the original data block for one or more times, whereby M data symbols in the original data block are rearranged in each of the one or more times of the disordering, so as to obtain one or more disordered data blocks with length of M; cascading the original data block and the one or more disordered data blocks with a cyclic prefix, to form an equalized signal of frequency domain diversity with time-frequency interleaving; and transmitting the equalized signal of frequency domain diversity through a single carrier. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057626 | ADAPTATION OF CROSSING LATCH THRESHOLD - An apparatus including a bang-bang clock data recovery module and a decision feedback equalizer. The decision feedback equalizer is coupled with the bang-bang clock data recovery module. The apparatus is configured to reduce an effect on a settling point of the bang-bang clock and data recovery module due to coupling between the bang-bang clock and data recovery module and the decision feedback equalizer. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057627 | ADAPTATION CIRCUITRY AND METHODS FOR DECISION FEEDBACK EQUALIZERS - Decision feedback equalizer (“DFE”) circuitry bases determination of the coefficients that are used in its various taps on the algebraic sign of the current value of an error signal and prior serial data signal values output by the DFE circuitry. Use of such algebraic sign information (rather than full error signal values) greatly simplifies the circuitry needed to determine the tap coefficients. The DFE circuitry can be adaptive, i.e., such that it automatically adjusts the tap coefficients for changing serial data signal transmission conditions. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057628 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OFDM RECEPTION IN THE PRESENCE OF DOPPLER EFFECT BASED ON TIME DOMAIN WINDOWING - An OFDM receiver for processing an OFDM received signal to perform OFDM reception in presence of Doppler effects is provided. The receiver has at least two parallel processing chains, each processing chain has a time domain windowing for processing an OFDM block. The processing consisting of the multiplication, element by element of the OFDM block, by a set of predetermined coefficients. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057629 | Rho-domain Metrics - Video encoders, systems and methods are described that characterize video encoding processes using a ρ-domain deviation metric. The deviation metric represents a weighted difference between actual non-zero coefficients and the expected non-zero coefficients, the actual and expected coefficients corresponding to quantization of a macroblock in a video frame during video encoding of the frame. The deviation metric is used to adjust the video encoding process to obtain an optimized encoding bit rate for a desired video encoding quality by selecting a quantizing parameter based on a normalized value of the deviation metric. The quantizing parameter can be selected from a table indexed using the deviation metric. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057630 | LOW COMPLEXITY TRANSFORM CODING USING ADAPTIVE DCT/DST FOR INTRA-PREDICTION - A method and apparatus encode and decode video by determining whether to use discrete cosine transform (DCT) and DST for each of the horizontal and vertical transforms. During encoding, an intra-prediction is performed based on an intra-prediction mode determined for an M×N input image block to obtain an M×N intra-prediction residue matrix (E). Based on the intra-prediction mode, each of a horizontal transform and a vertical transform is performed using one of DCT and DST according to the intra-prediction mode. During decoding, the intra-prediction mode is determined from an incoming video bitstream. The M×N transformed coefficient matrix of the error residue is obtained from the video bitstream using an inverse quantizer. Based on the intra prediction mode, one of DCT and DST is performed for each of an inverse vertical transform and an inverse horizontal transform. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057631 | Method and device for motion estimation of video data coded according to a scalable coding structure - A technique for searching a reference picture including a plurality of reference blocks for a block that best matches a current block in a current picture. A subset of current blocks is designated in a current picture. A first search operation is applied to the subset of current blocks and a second search operation is applied to current blocks outside of the subset. A search area within a corresponding reference picture is of a variable size in the first operation, whereas the second operation is a basic four-step motion search. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057632 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD - The present invention relates to an image processing device and method which enable increase in compressed information to be suppressed, and also enable prediction precision to be improved. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057633 | Video Classification Systems and Methods - Video encoder systems and methods are described that employ table-based content classification. One or more tables relate quantization parameters and P-points for a frame of video that typically comprises macroblocks. A deviation representative of a difference between original and decoded versions of a macroblock is determined, the deviation being further representative of a distribution frequency of the value of a distortion for a P-point. The P-point corresponds to a distortion value that is associated with a minimum rate difference between encoding modes for a macroblock. A motion complexity index is updated using a quantization parameter and non-zero coefficients of the encoded frame. An encoding mode for the macroblock can be retrieved from the tables using the motion complexity index to reference mode information maintained in the tables. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057634 | Systems and Methods for Video Content Analysis - Video analytics systems and methods are described that typically comprise a video encoder operable to generate macroblock video analytics metadata (VAMD) from a video frame. Functional modules receive the VAMD and an encoded version of the video frame is configured to generate video analytics information related to the frame using the VAMD and the encoded video frame. The downstream decoder can use the VAMD to obtain a global motion vector related to the frame, detect and track motion of an object within the frame and monitor a line provided or found within the frame. Traversals of the line by a moving object can be detected and counted using information in the VAMD and the line may be part of a polygon that delineates an area to be monitored within the encoded frame. The VAMD can comprise macroblock level and video frame level information. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057635 | Technique for Bringing Encoded Data Items Into Conformity with a Scalable Coding Protocol - A technique for making media content in the form of encoded data items decodable by a decoder operating in accordance with a scalable coding protocol that defines two or more media layers is provided. A method implementation of this technique comprises the steps of generating one or more dummy data items that define a first media layer of the scalable coding protocol, and marking the encoded data items as belonging, to a second media layer of the scalable coding protocol. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057636 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SKIP CODING DURING VIDEO CONFERENCING IN A NETWORK ENVIRONMENT - A method is provided in one example and includes receiving an input video, and identifying values of pixels from noise associated with a current video image within the video input. The method also includes creating a skip-reference video image associated with the identified pixel values, and comparing a portion of the current video image to the skip-reference video image. The method also includes determining a macroblock associated with the current video image to be skipped before an encoding operation occurs. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120057637 | Arithmetic Decoding Acceleration - Mechanisms for performing decoding of context-adaptive binary arithmetic coding (CABAC) encoded data. The mechanisms receive, in a first single instruction multiple data (SIMD) vector register of the data processing system, CABAC encoded data of a bit stream. The CABAC encoded data comprises a value to be decoded and bit stream state information. The mechanisms receive, in a second SIMD vector register of the data processing system, CABAC decoder context information. The mechanisms process the value, the bit stream state information, and the CABAC decoder context information in a non-recursive manner to generate a decoded value, updated bit stream state information, and updated CABAC decoder context information. The mechanisms store, in a third SIMD vector register, a result vector that combines the decoded value, updated bit stream state information, and updated CABAC decoder context information. The mechanisms use the decoded value to generate a video output on the data processing system. | 2012-03-08 |
