16th week of 2018 patent applcation highlights part 64 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20180109903 | CLOUD-BASED DEVICE CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT OF HETEROGENEOUS DEVICES - The present disclosure provides for information handling systems and methods to configure and manage any number of heterogeneous devices. In various embodiments, a shared device configuration is simultaneously applied to a selected group of otherwise incompatible heterogeneous devices that may use different communication protocols and operating systems. Certain embodiments create and maintain a database of configuration and operational information that is accessible across platforms. A group device configuration may be automatically applied to all devices in the selected group via a batch command. Some embodiments allow independent heterogeneous devices that have similar functionality to have different device configuration settings. | 2018-04-19 |
20180109904 | DUAL NETWORK METHOD OF SENDING APPLICATION - The present invention relates to a method of transmitting transactional data using software (APP) installed on a device capable of wirelessly accessing both the INTERNET (Data Network) and Voice Network (a.k.a. SMARTPHONE) from a user/client device to a system/Service Provider continuously, without prompt-response for each transactional parameter. | 2018-04-19 |
20180109905 | User Equipment Categories for Machine-to-Machine Devices Operating in an Internet of Things Network - Concepts and technologies disclosed herein are directed to user equipment (“UE”) categories for machine-to-machine (“M2M”) devices operating in an Internet of things (“IoT”) network and future emerging devices. According to one aspect, a network node can receive, from an M2M device, an M2M device category for the M2M device. The network node can determine an action to perform based upon the M2M device category. The network node can cause the action to be performed. | 2018-04-19 |
20180109906 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INTEGRATED APPLICATIONS OF HVAC SYSTEMS - A control system for a heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system includes a service database including information associated with an HVAC unit. The service database includes data comprising a physical location of the HVAC unit and a service history for the HVAC unit. The control system also includes a user device communicatively coupled to the service database. The user device includes a controller having a memory and a processor. Additionally, the controller is configured to receive user input via the user device indicative of a service action performed on the HVAC unit, and update the service database such that the service history includes the service action. | 2018-04-19 |
20180109907 | WIRELESS SENSOR BASE STATION WITH COEXISTENCE OF MULTIPLE HOMOGENEOUS RADIOS - Techniques are disclosed for reducing interference, in a network device, among multiple radio circuits operating in a same or similar frequency band and in close physical proximity. In some embodiments, a network device includes a first and a second wireless network circuit. The network circuits operate in a same radio frequency band and are collocated. The second network circuit is assigned a higher priority than the first network circuit. The device further includes a coexistence controller coupled to the network circuits via a communication bus and configured to selectively suppress transmitting operations of the first network circuit during receiving operations of the second network circuit. Among other benefits, the embodiments can increase wireless network bandwidth and reduce mobile device power consumption by providing coordination among the radio circuits so that the transmitting and receiving operations are performed in a way that they do not interfere with their respective antennas. | 2018-04-19 |
20180109908 | DETERMINING SERVICE PROVIDER PERFORMANCE WITH RANGED TRANSMISSIONS - A network system receives an order request from a requesting device including a list of requested items and a delivery location. The network system may create an order entry by selecting a source location and a provider for the order. The network system sends order information from the order entry to a provider device of the selected provider and a source device corresponding to the source location, where the order information includes an order identifier, a source identifier, and a provider identifier. The provider device broadcasts a beacon including the source identifier and the order identifier. The provider device detects a short range beacon signal from the source device and determines whether the detected source identifier and order identifier match the received source identifier and order identifier from the order information. Responsive to a successful match the provider device verifies its proximity to the source device. | 2018-04-19 |
20180109909 | GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION MAPPING USING NETWORK SIGNAL STRENGTH - One embodiment provides a method that performs the steps of collecting network signal information from a sensor of a mobile device located in a designated vendor area. The network signal information is produced by a fixed transmitting device and has a corresponding network time stamp. The mobile device located in the designated vendor area receives a payment notification from a vendor; extracting from the payment notification, time stamp information and a name of the vendor sending the payment notification; and matching the time stamp information with the corresponding network time stamp and automatically updating a labeled localization database. The labeled localization database comprises previously mapped localization information corresponding to multiple spatial zones of the designated vendor area and the updating comprises linking the name of the vendor sending the payment notification with a physical location of the fixed transmitting device. Other aspects are described and claimed. | 2018-04-19 |
20180109910 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO DETERMINE A LOCATION OF A MOBILE DEVICE - Systems and methods to determine a location of a mobile device by combining a radio frequency navigation system and an inertial navigation system, where the radio frequency navigation system determines a location of the mobile device in reference to a map of radio frequency signals and the inertial navigation system based on dead reckoning the position of the mobile device based on measurements from motion sensors and/or magnetic field sensors. The mobile device combines the position determination results from the radio frequency navigation system and the inertial navigation system to determine two successive locations. A heading of the user of the mobile device is computed from the two successive locations without using the orientation of the mobile device. | 2018-04-19 |
20180109911 | NETWORK LOCATION REPORTING BROADCAST BEARER MANAGEMENT - Various communication systems may benefit from network location reporting. For example, such reporting may be beneficial in the establishment of a multimedia broadcast/multicast service bearer for media traffic delivery from a group communication service application server or other similar device or system. A method can include reporting at least a first set of user equipment location information and at least a second set of user equipment location information from the user equipment to at least one network node for broadcast bearer management. The first set of user Report First Set of Report Second Set equipment location information can include a serving cell identity UE Location of UE Location of the user equipment. The second set of user equipment location information can include at least one identity of at least one network service area for media broadcasting. | 2018-04-19 |
20180109912 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING SYSTEM INFORMATION - Disclosed are a method and an apparatus for configuring a system information transmission resource for an MTC terminal. The method may include configuring a system bandwidth including two or more physical resource blocks with one or more subbands defined by two or more physical resource blocks to enable at least one remaining physical resource block to be located in a center of the system bandwidth and transmitting the system information to a predetermined user equipment (UE) using the subband. | 2018-04-19 |
20180109913 | LOCAL DATA ACQUISITION FOR RETAIL DISPLAYS WITH WIRELESS BEACONS - Systems and methods for using wireless beacons in point of purchase (“POP”) displays to facilitate the delivery of consumer oriented content to mobile devices is disclosed. Wireless beacons may be used to broadcast wireless signals from POP displays, where the wireless signals include data packets with unique identifiers for the wireless beacons. The wireless signals may be received by mobile devices. A remote server may communicate with the mobile device and provide the mobile device with up-to-date content associated with the POP displays. A wireless data collection device may be used to receive and collect data from the wireless beacons. The collected data may be used to assess one or more properties of the POP displays. | 2018-04-19 |
20180109914 | MANAGING A USER'S GEOLOCATION HOME RANGE - A geolocation home range for a user is managed. The user's geolocation is tracked and recorded periodically, as the user travels to different geolocations. An initial collection of geolocations is established, which defines the user's home range. Each of the geolocations corresponds to a micro-range for the user, which is a geo-fenced geographic region. When the user's current geolocation changes in a prescribed manner, the user's home range is modified based upon this change, or else the user is considered to be outside their home range. | 2018-04-19 |
20180109915 | SYSTEMS, METHODS AND DEVICES FOR VIRTUAL FENCING - A method for virtual fencing including: obtaining first user status information pertaining to user location, user behavior, or both; generating a first notification upon detecting that the first user status information meets a triggering condition of a virtual fence, wherein the triggering condition comprises point of interest information, area of interest information, or both; and sending the first notification. | 2018-04-19 |
20180109916 | MERCHANT BIDDING AND REWARDS ON CONSUMER INTENT - A method of increasing transit ridership includes receiving a travel destination from a mobile device, identifying a plurality of entities positioned within a predefined radius of the travel destination, and alerting the entities that the mobile device has selected the travel destination. The method also includes receiving, in response to the alert, at least one transit ride option from at least some of the entities, providing the at least one transit ride option to the mobile device, and receiving a selection of one transit ride option of the transit ride option from the mobile device. The method further includes detecting that the mobile device is present on a transit vehicle associated with the transit ride option, determining that the mobile device is present within an entity associated with the selected transit ride option, and providing a transit product to the mobile device based on the determination. | 2018-04-19 |
20180109917 | MOBILE DEVICE PATH AND USER ASSOCIATION - Methods, computer program products, and systems are presented. The method computer program products, and systems can include, for instance: recording position data for a mobile device over time, the position data being associated to an identifier of the mobile device; outputting to a user an identification code associated to the identifier; receiving input data from a user, the input data including the identification code and user identifying information from a user; responsively to the receiving the input data from a user associating the identification code and the user identifying information; based on the associating processing the position data and user profile data associated to the user identifying information; sending a message to the user based on a result of the processing. | 2018-04-19 |
20180109918 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ESTIMATING A POSTERIORI A NUMBER OF PERSONS IN ONE OR MORE CROWDS BY MEANS OF AGGREGATED DATA OF A TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORK - A method of estimating a number of persons gathered at an Area of Interest during an observation time interval on a day, wherein the Area of Interest is covered by a mobile telecommunication network including plural communication stations each of which is configured to manage communications of User Equipment in one or more served areas in a covered geographic region over which the mobile telecommunication network provide services. | 2018-04-19 |
20180109919 | DYNAMIC GEOFENCE BASED ON MEMBERS WITHIN - In one embodiment, a method comprises receiving, via a mobile station, contextual information or geographic location data relating to a plurality of members of the population within the geographic region, identifying a common element in the received contextual information relating to at least two members of the population as a basis for defining a first boundary of the geofence to include the at least two members, wherein the common element is identified upon a comparison of the first and second contextual information, and defining the first boundary of the geofence. | 2018-04-19 |
20180109920 | Time-Delimited Action Suggestion System - Systems and methods for providing time-delimited action suggestions are provided. In one example embodiment, a method includes receiving, by one or more computing devices from a user device, data indicative of a user-requested time-bound activity. The time-bound activity is associated with a time period. The method includes identifying, by the one or more computing devices, one or more parameters associated with a user that requested the time-bound activity. The method includes determining, by the one or more computing devices, a suggested action based at least in part on the one or more parameters associated with the user and the time period associated with the time-bound activity. The method includes providing, by the one or more computing devices, an output indicative of the suggested action to the user device. | 2018-04-19 |
20180109921 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO DETERMINE A LOCATION OF A MOBILE DEVICE - Systems and methods to determine a location of a mobile device by combining a radio frequency navigation system and an inertial navigation system, where the radio frequency navigation system determines a location of the mobile device in reference to a map of radio frequency signals and the inertial navigation system based on dead reckoning the position of the mobile device based on measurements from motion sensors. When a set of successive locations determined by the radio frequency navigation system is found to have a predetermined pattern (e.g., within a minimum distance from each other, or separated by more than a maximum distance), the mobile device discards the location results from the radio frequency navigation system for the period of time, in favor of the location results from the inertial navigation system. | 2018-04-19 |
20180109922 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING DYNAMIC SUPPLY POSITIONING FOR ON-DEMAND SERVICES - A method for providing on-demand service information is provided. One or more processors determine, for a given geographic region, position information for each of a plurality of requesters for an on-demand service and position information for each of a plurality of service providers that can provide the on-demand service. A plurality of sub-regions is identified for the given geographic region. Based, at least in part, on the position information of the requesters and the service providers, one or more sub-regions are determined as being under-supplied by the plurality of service providers as compared to one or more other sub-regions. Information identifying the under-supplied sub-regions are provided to one or more service provider devices. | 2018-04-19 |
20180109923 | USER TERMINAL APPARATUS AND CONTROLLING METHOD THEREOF - A user terminal apparatus is provided. The user terminal apparatus includes a sensor configured to sense a movement of the user terminal apparatus, a storage configured to store a plurality of movement patterns and place information for each time period matching with each movement pattern, and a processor configured to, in response to the movement sensed by the sensor corresponding to one of the plurality of movement patterns, determine a place where the user terminal apparatus is located using a movement pattern corresponding to the sensed movement and place information matching with a present time. | 2018-04-19 |
20180109924 | Cognitive Based Optimal Grouping of Users and Trip Planning Based on Learned User Skills - Methods, systems, and computer program products for cognitive based optimal grouping of users and trip planning are provided herein. A computer-implemented method includes generating, for each of multiple users, a temporally-related driving skill model pertaining to each of multiple topographies, wherein the model is based on items of driving-related data associated with the users and topography-related information of trips driven by the users; selecting users to participate in a ride-sharing trip in a given vehicle based on the models and details of the ride-sharing trip; determining a route for the trip based on the models of the selected users and environmental factors; creating a schedule for the trip by assigning the selected users to drive during distinct portions of the route based on the models of the selected users and characteristics of the determined route; and outputting the schedule to at least the selected users. | 2018-04-19 |
20180109925 | 3D Sectorized Path-Loss Models for 3D Positioning of Mobile Terminals - A method performed by an apparatus is disclosed. The method comprises obtaining position information on a position and received signal strength information representative of a strength of a signal from a communication node receivable at the position. The method further comprises generating or updating a 3D sectorized path-loss model associated with the communication node at least based on the position information and the received signal strength information, wherein the position information and the received signal strength information are used to generate or update one or more path-loss parameters for a 3D sector of a set of one or more 3D sectors of the 3D sectorized path-loss model in which 3D sector the position is located. Furthermore, a method performed by an apparatus is disclosed, the method comprising, at least one of storing, providing or obtaining information on or derived from a 3D sectorized path-loss model associated with a communication node, the 3D sectorized path-loss model comprising one or more 3D sectors with one or more respective path-loss parameters, the information on or derived from the 3D sectorized path-loss model useable, together with received signal strength information representative of a strength of a signal received from the communication node by a device, in a process of determining an estimate of a position of the device. According apparatuses, computer programs and computer readable media storing such computer programs are disclosed. | 2018-04-19 |
20180109926 | NOTIFICATION METHOD, SYSTEM, AND DEVICE FOR VEHICLE - A notification method for a vehicle to remind a passenger of arriving at a target station is disclosed. The notification method includes: establishing a wireless communication connection between an electronic device and the vehicle, receiving a target station sent from the electronic device, obtaining navigation information of the vehicle, and sending an arrival notification to the electronic device when the vehicle is approaching the target station. A notification system and device are also provided. | 2018-04-19 |
20180109927 | Mesh Architecture for distributed Telecommunication Systems - A method includes, with a first bearer node of a telecommunication component, utilizing network connections between the first bearer node and a first plurality of control nodes of the telecommunication component, the bearer node configured to process media data being transmitted between endpoints over a network. The method further includes, with a second bearer node of the telecommunication component, utilizing network connections between the second bearer node and a second plurality of control nodes of the telecommunication component, the second plurality of control nodes having at least one control node in common with the first plurality of control nodes and at least one control node not common with the first plurality of control nodes. | 2018-04-19 |
20180109928 | ANALYZING MOVEMENT OF DATA COLLECTORS/GATEWAYS ASSOCIATED WITH RETAIL DISPLAYS - Systems and methods for using wireless beacons in point of purchase (“POP”) displays to facilitate the delivery of consumer oriented content to mobile devices is disclosed. Wireless beacons may be used to broadcast wireless signals from POP displays, where the wireless signals include data packets with unique identifiers for the wireless beacons. The wireless signals may be received by mobile devices. A remote server may communicate with the mobile device and provide the mobile device with up-to-date content associated with the POP displays. Wireless data collection devices (such as network gateways) may be used to receive data packets from the wireless beacons provide the data packets to the remote server. Accelerometers may be used on the wireless data collection devices to assess movement of the devices. Movement data for the devices may be used to determine reprogramming of the devices after the devices are moved. | 2018-04-19 |
20180109929 | Enabling Multicast For Service Layer Group Operation - Service layer multicast communications management may be achieved via indication by entities of multicast capabilities during service layer registration and self-subscription by the entities to the service layer. The service layer, or a managing application in communication with the service layer, may then maintain resources for multicast configurations, dynamically create multicast groups, and notify members via their self-subscription of the entities in the groups. The service layer may then further fan-out multicast messages, thereby allowing the originator of the multicast message to access recipients in multiple underlying networks without the need to configure communications directly. Fan-out may include unicasts to entities lacking multicast capabilities. Self-subscription may also be used, for example, in granting access control to a third party application. | 2018-04-19 |
20180109930 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING INDUSTRIAL COMMUNICATION DEVICE, AND INDUSTRIAL COMMUNICATION DEVICE THEREOF - An electronic device for controlling an industrial communication device may include: a near field communication module; a main communication module; and a control unit configured to confirm one or more contacts connected to a conversation group of a messenger application when a voice signal corresponding to a first voice is received from an industrial communication device paired through the near field communication module, and transmit a voice message corresponding to the first voice to the corresponding device or devices of the confirmed contact or contacts using the main communication module. | 2018-04-19 |
20180109931 | Pre-Determined Responses for Wireless Devices - In accordance with one or more aspects, criteria including both a type of communication and a user signal are received. Additionally, a response to be stored as a pre-determined response is received. Both the criteria and the response are stored. When a communication satisfying the criteria (both the type of communication and the user signal) is subsequently received, the pre-determined response is sent to the device from which the communication is received. | 2018-04-19 |
20180109932 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR INVOKING FUNCTIONS BASED ON WHETHER A PARTIAL PRINT OR AN ENTIRE PRINT IS DETECTED - Systems and methods are described herein for expanding the functionality of a print scanner. The scanner may be programmed to invoke a different function if only a portion of a print is detected rather than a full print. In this manner, it would be possible for a user to share a user equipment device such as a smartphone with a friend. The user may wish to share his or her smartphone, and may activate access to the browser that does not include any of the cookies, private passwords, or other login information during a session by using just the tip of the user's finger on a fingerprint scanner, as opposed to the user's full fingerprint. When the user wishes to again have his or her personal information accessible in the browser, the user may activate the browser using the user's full fingerprint. | 2018-04-19 |
20180109933 | EMERGENCY EVACUATION SERVICE - Various systems and methods for providing an emergency evacuation service are described herein. An apparatus to provide an emergency evacuation service comprises an emergency event detection module to detect the existence of an emergency event at a venue; a transceiver to request and receive evacuation instructions from an emergency evacuation system, in response to detecting the existence of the emergency event; and a controller to process the evacuation instructions and display, to a user of the apparatus, information related to the evacuation instructions. | 2018-04-19 |
20180109934 | PROVIDING STATUS OF A USER DEVICE DURING AN ADVERSE CONDITION - A method begins by an application server establishing information regarding a potentially adverse condition associated with a user device and determining group constraints for a group regarding the potentially adverse condition. The method continues with the application server selecting one or more other user devices of a plurality of user devices affiliated with the group to produce selected user devices. The method continues with the application server obtaining a status associated with the first user device and issuing a status response message to at least some of the user devices of the plurality of user devices affiliated with the group, where the status response message includes the status associated with the first user device. | 2018-04-19 |
20180109935 | TRIP ANOMALY DETECTION SYSTEM - An anomaly detection system is provided in connection with a transport service. The anomaly detection system can construct routine route profiles for individual users of the transport service using historical route data. The anomaly detection system can monitor a current route traveled by a user. The anomaly detection system can further identify a matching routine route profile of the respective user. The anomaly detection system can utilize the matching routine route profile to identify a probable anomaly in the current route. In response to detecting the probable anomaly, the anomaly detection system can enable a safety protocol to perform a number of actions. | 2018-04-19 |
20180109936 | LOCATION-BASED RESOURCE MANAGEMENT - In various embodiments, the predicted location of a user within an institutional space is associated with a node at or near that location, and a virtual desktop is prepared before a user has actually logged on and authenticated. Although users are not accorded access to applications and sensitive data until they have properly authenticated themselves, the virtual desktop and associated data are assembled and retrieved in the background in order to eliminate delay following log-on. | 2018-04-19 |
20180109937 | A METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GATHERING LOCATION INFORMATION OF VEHICLE USER EQUIPMENT IN A WIRELESS ACCESS SYSTEM SUPPORTING V2X SERVICES - The present invention provides methods and apparatus for gathering location information of a vehicular user equipment (VUE). In one aspect of the present invention, a method for gathering location information in a wireless access system supporting vehicle to everything (V2X) service, the method performed by a vehicular user equipment (VUE) and comprising steps of receiving a Tracking Service Request message including a V2X tracking service indication field indicating tracking service is triggered or not and an identifier of the VUE; and transmitting a Tracking Service Response message including location information of the VUE in response to the Tracking Service Request message, wherein the location information includes a location information field indicating a location coordinate of the VUE, a time field indicating current time and time zone information corresponding to the location information field, and a fuel level field indicating fuel level of the VUE. | 2018-04-19 |
20180109938 | DEMODULATION REFERENCE SIGNAL (DMRS) SEQUENCE DESIGN FOR DEVICE-TO-DEVICE (D2D) DISCOVERY - Technology for a user equipment (UE) operable to perform device-to-device (D2D) communication is disclosed. The UE can select a cyclic shift (n | 2018-04-19 |
20180109939 | COMMUNICATION MANAGEMENT FOR CORE NETWORK - Systems and methods for managing communications among a central entity and multiple local entities in a telecommunication core network are disclosed. Localized central entities may be established across the core network based on localization patterns of telecommunication devices. The localized central entities may duplicate a portion of central entity data and provide local entities more efficient access to the data. | 2018-04-19 |
20180109940 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OBTAINING AN IDENTIFIER OF A MOBILE COMMUNICATION TERMINAL AT A CONTROL CHECKPOINT - Methods for obtain identifiers, such as International Mobile Subscriber Identities (IMSIs) and International Mobile Station Equipment Identities (IMEIs), of mobile communication terminals, and associate these identifiers with other items of identifying information provided by users of the terminals. A local interrogation device may be installed that imitates a legitimate base station belonging to a cellular network, at a control checkpoint. Local interrogation devices are connected to a global interrogation device in a hierarchical network, whereby the local interrogation devices are assigned a priority that is higher than that of the global interrogation device. The global interrogation device provides cellular coverage to a larger area that contains the control checkpoints, while the local interrogation devices provide more localized cellular coverage to the control checkpoints. | 2018-04-19 |
20180109941 | CELLULAR IOT NETWORK ARCHITECTURE - This document discusses, among other things, a Cellular Internet-of-Things (CIoT) network architecture to enable communication between an apparatus of a CIoT User Equipment (UE) and a network through a CIoT enhanced Node B (eNB) according to a lightweight Non-Access Stratum (NAS) protocol. An apparatus of a CIoT eNB can process data for communication between the CIoT UE and the network. The lightweight NAS protocol supports a reduced set of NAS messages for communication between, for example, the CIoT UE and the CIoT eNB, such as using a modified NAS message, or one or more new messages. | 2018-04-19 |
20180109942 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SIM VIRTUALIZATION OF SIM AND SIM-LESS MOBILE TERMINALS - According to a first aspect of the present disclosed subject matter, a SIM virtualization system, having servers selected from a group comprising of: eSIM server; SIM server; SIMs bank; and any combination thereof, the system comprising: a SIM-Less mobile terminal having hardware configuration selected from a group comprising of: first configuration; second configuration; and a combination thereof, the SIM-Less mobile terminal comprising: a processor configured to execute SIM virtualization functionalities; a single cellular modem capable of communicating over CH- | 2018-04-19 |
20180109943 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING DIRCT ACCESS OF A COMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT TO A VIRTUAL STORE OF A NETWORK OPERATOR - A device is intended for controlling access of a communication equipment of a user to virtual stores of network operators accessible into servers. This device comprises a control means arranged, when this user provides the communication equipment of the user equipment with an access code associated to a virtual store of a network operator, for determining a communication identifier of a virtual store page corresponding to this access code and to data defining a context of the communication equipment into a table establishing correspondences between access codes and communication identifiers of pages of virtual stores providing offers corresponding to communication equipment contexts, then for triggering access by the communication equipment to the virtual store page associated to the determined communication identifier to allow the user to select an offer contained into this virtual store page. | 2018-04-19 |
20180109944 | COMMUNICATION TERMINAL IDENTIFICATION INFORMATION IDENTIFYING PROCESSING SYSTEM - Objective is to provide a communication terminal identification information identifying processing system for identifying communication terminal identification information of a portable communication terminal used by a user when the user uses communication through an access point. Provided is a communication terminal identification information identifying processing system includes a person recognition processing unit that performs person recognition processing based on image information obtained by capturing a wireless LAN communication spot by a capturing device, a communication terminal identification information acquisition processing unit that acquires communication terminal identification information, a communication terminal identification information storage unit that stores, for each person, candidate communication terminal identification information of the portable communication terminal used by the person, a communication terminal identification information comparison processing unit that compares the candidate communication terminal identification information of the portable communication terminal stored in the communication terminal identification information storage unit and the communication terminal identification information acquired in the communication terminal identification information acquisition processing unit, and generates new candidate communication terminal identification information, and an output processing unit that outputs a part or all of the candidate communication terminal identification information stored in the communication terminal identification information storage unit. | 2018-04-19 |
20180109945 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PROVIDING DATA SERVICE IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Disclosed is a 5G or pre-5G communication system for supporting a data transmission rate higher than that of a 4G communication system such as LTE. Disclosed is a method for providing a data service in a global virtual network provider of a wireless communication system, comprising the steps of: determining a wireless network for providing a data service on the basis of at least one of a service type, service quality, and price information required by a user; and transmitting, to a terminal, wireless network information including the determined wireless network, wherein the terminal and the determined wireless network are temporarily connected before the wireless network is determined. | 2018-04-19 |
20180109946 | SECURE OPTICAL COMMUNICATION CHANNEL FOR IMPLANTABLE MEDICAL DEVICES - An implantable medical device (IMD) configured to communicate with an external device (ED). The ED supports two way RF communications and has a light source. The IMD includes a processor coupled to an optical detector, the processor is configured to verify that light is being received from the ED light source and that the ED is a trusted device, establishing a unidirectional optical channel from the ED to the IMD. An RF transceiver is coupled to the processor, the processor being configured permit two way RF communications with the ED only under a condition that the ED is verified as a trusted device. The processor may be configure to wake up periodically or aperiodically to check for the presence of light from the ED light source. The processor may be configured to detect a multi-bit message from the ED via the unidirectional optical channel. The multi-bit message may include a key. | 2018-04-19 |
20180109947 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONNECTION BETWEEN ELECTRONIC DEVICES - Disclosed are a method and an apparatus for connecting electronic devices based on biometric information without a certification server. An electronic device includes a wireless communication unit configured to perform wireless communication with an external device; a biometric recognition module; a memory; and a processor connected to the wireless communication unit, the biometric recognition module, and the memory. The processor is configured to register, in the external device, authentication information for authenticating the external device through the electronic device, establish a communication connection with the external device through the wireless communication unit, receive a request for authenticating the electronic device from the external device in response to the communication connection, acquire biometric information corresponding to a user of the electronic device using the biometric recognition module in response to the authentication request, perform device authentication for the user based on at least the biometric information, encrypt authentication information when the authentication is successfully performed, and transmit the encrypted authentication information to the external device. | 2018-04-19 |
20180109948 | METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR CONDITIONAL WIFI ROAMING - The embodiments herein relate to a mobile terminal and a method for accessing a wireless network in a roaming environment, the mobile terminal being pre-provided with credentials to access the wireless network, the mobile terminal further being provided with an application, said application includes a service part and an application part. The mobile terminal is configured to: send a request to a EAP server, the request including the credentials of the mobile terminal; connect the service part of the application to an access control server which adds/creates an EAP account for the mobile terminal for a predetermined time period; and to access the wireless network when the EAP server validly authenticates the credentials of the mobile terminal. The embodiments also relate to a method in the access control server and to the server. | 2018-04-19 |
20180109949 | COMMUNICATION CONTROL APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHOD THEREFOR - In a communication control method for wireless communication between a first communication device and a second communication device through a wireless communication unit, identification information is notified from the second communication device to the first communication device by using a communication unit other than the wireless communication unit. Wireless communication between the first and second communication devices is performed by the wireless communication unit using the first communication parameter shared in advance, and authentication processing based on identification information is performed. When authentication is acquired by this authentication processing, the second communication parameter to be set with respect to a wireless communication unit is shared by the first and second communication devices through the above wireless communication. Parameters for wireless communication between the first and second communication devices are set in the wireless communication unit by using the second communication parameter shared in this manner. | 2018-04-19 |
20180109950 | SYSTEMS, APPARATUSES, AND METHODS FOR SECURE BEACON AUTHENTICATION VIA MOBILE DEVICES - Systems, apparatuses, and methods for secure beacon authentication via mobile devices are disclosed. In some example embodiments, a verification element comprises: a memory storing a plurality of non-repeated verification codes; a wireless broadcast element; and a processing circuit electronically coupled to the memory and the wireless broadcast element, the processing circuit being configured to retrieve one of the non-repeated verification codes from the memory and to transfer the non-repeated verification code to the wireless broadcast element, the wireless broadcast element being configured to wirelessly broadcast the non-repeated verification code to a plurality of mobile devices for individual verification of the plurality of mobile devices, the non-repeated verification code being different than any other non-repeated verification code previously retrieved from the memory and used for individual verification of the plurality of mobile devices. | 2018-04-19 |
20180109951 | SYSTEMS, APPARATUSES, AND METHODS FOR SECURE BEACON AUTHENTICATION VIA MOBILE DEVICES - Systems, apparatuses, and methods for secure beacon authentication via mobile devices are disclosed. In some example embodiments, a verification element comprises: a memory storing a plurality of non-repeated verification codes; a wireless broadcast element; and a processing circuit electronically coupled to the memory and the wireless broadcast element, the processing circuit being configured to retrieve one of the non-repeated verification codes from the memory and to transfer the non-repeated verification code to the wireless broadcast element, the wireless broadcast element being configured to wirelessly broadcast the non-repeated verification code to a plurality of mobile devices for individual verification of the plurality of mobile devices, the non-repeated verification code being different than any other non-repeated verification code previously retrieved from the memory and used for individual verification of the plurality of mobile devices. | 2018-04-19 |
20180109952 | SCHEDULE SELECTION AND CONNECTION SETUP BETWEEN DEVICES PARTICIPATING IN A NAN DATA LINK - A wireless device for wireless communication is configured to determine a schedule in association with one or more wake times. In addition, the wireless device is configured to determine a lifetime in association with the determined schedule. The lifetime indicates at least one of when the determined schedule associated with the one or more wake times will expire, a validity time associated with the determined schedule, or a boundary associated with the schedule. Further, the wireless device is configured to transmit to one or more wireless devices information indicating the determined schedule associated with the one or more wake times and information indicating the determined lifetime associated with the determined schedule. | 2018-04-19 |
20180109953 | Method, Apparatus, and System for Preventing Diameter Signaling Attack in Wireless Network - A method includes receiving a diameter request message sent by a home subscriber server HSS, where the diameter request message carries a source domain name and a user identity, and determining whether a binding relationship between the source domain name and the user identity is correct. If the binding relationship is incorrect, the method includes discarding the diameter request message or sending a diameter response message to the HSS, where the diameter response message carries a failure code. In the embodiments of the present application, when the binding relationship between the source domain name and the user identity that are carried in the diameter request message is incorrect, the diameter request message is discarded or the diameter response message carrying the failure code is sent. | 2018-04-19 |
20180109954 | LOCATION-SPECIFIC DATA SHARING - In one embodiment, a device in a network receives data associated with a particular location. The device determines when the device is at the particular location by monitoring a local position of the device relative to the particular location. The device identifies a node in the network as being co-located with the device at the particular location. The device shares the data with the identified node based on the device and the node being co-located at the particular location. | 2018-04-19 |
20180109955 | SYSTEMS AND APPARATUS FOR DISTRIBUTION OF PROCESS CONTROL DATA TO REMOTE DEVICES - A system for securely disseminating information relating to a process control plant includes a process control node and a controller that is coupled to a plurality of process control devices. The process control node includes a communicator module operable to transmit, via a first network, information of the process plant received from the controller. The system also includes a data services module operable to receive from the communicator module, via the first network, the information of the process plant and to transmit some or all of that information via a second network, and a mobile server, coupled to the second network and to a third network, and operable to receive data from the data services module. The mobile server is operable to communicate with a plurality of mobile computing devices via the third network. | 2018-04-19 |
20180109956 | Method and Apparatus for Securing Timing Packets Over Untrusted Packet Transport Network - Methods, devices, systems, techniques, and computer program products are provided to secure timing synchronization to network nodes connected over an inherently insecure best effort public network with mechanisms to improve accuracy of timing protocols such as a statistically estimated edge timestamp offset encoded into the timing message to account for network jitter and processing latency variances incurred due to the security packet processing and encryption; to ensure slave network nodes shall only accept timing messages from trusted timing sources; to establish a secure tunnel with a trusted timing source for exchange of timing packets; to provide authentication and security for timing packets over the insecure public network; and to enhance message anonymity with variable payload padding. | 2018-04-19 |
20180109957 | COORDINATED RESOURCE PARTITIONING - The described techniques provide for partitioning resources to coordinate wireless communications between one or more network operating entities within a shared spectrum. Partitioning resources may include assigning certain types of communication for each network operating entity to certain time intervals within a larger time frame. For example, a network operating entity may be assigned time intervals for exclusive communication, time intervals for prioritized communication with respect to other network operating entities, and time intervals for opportunistic communication. | 2018-04-19 |
20180109958 | TECHNIQUES FOR TRANSMITTING PATTERNS OF SIGNAL TRANSMISSIONS OR REFERENCE SIGNALS OVER AN UNLICENSED RADIO FREQUENCY SPECTRUM BAND - Techniques are described for wireless communication. A first method may include determining a pattern of signal transmissions for transmitting instances of a signal in a time period of an unlicensed radio frequency spectrum band; determining whether the unlicensed radio frequency spectrum band is unavailable to transmit at least one instance of the signal; and changing, in response to determining the unlicensed radio frequency spectrum band is unavailable to transmit an instance of the signal, the pattern of signal transmissions for the time period. A second method may include identifying at least one reference signal pattern from a plurality of reference signal patterns based at least in part on whether a plurality of transmission time intervals are bundled; and signaling the identified at least one reference signal pattern to a device. | 2018-04-19 |
20180109959 | TECHNIQUE FOR EXTENDING CAPACITIES OF A RADIO ACCESS NETWORK - An approach for extending capacities of a Radio Access Network (RAN) is presented. An exemplary method implementation of that approach comprises flying a drone to an RAN site. The drone is carrying cloud computing resources that will be registered at a cloud management entity associated with the RAN. The registered cloud computing resources of the drone are then provided to the RAN to dynamically extend its capacities. | 2018-04-19 |
20180109960 | LAYOUT METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR BASE STATION, AND COMPUTER STORAGE MEDIUM - Disclosed is a layout method for a base station, including that a Base Transceiver Station/Base Station (BTS/BS) locates coordinates of a hotspot area range of a User Equipment (UE) and current coordinates of a micro cell, the BTS/BS dynamically schedules the micro cell according to the coordinates of the hotspot area range of the UE and the current coordinates of the micro cell and the BTS/BS dynamically coordinates the micro cell. Also disclosed are a layout system for a base station and a computer storage medium. | 2018-04-19 |
20180109961 | Incomplete navigation data of indoor positioning systems - A method is disclosed comprising: determining, using a processor, whether a radio model of at least one radio node associated with a data set is incomplete based on a comparison between the coverage area of the radio model of the at least one radio node and a cumulative coverage area generated out of radio models of the at least one radio node associated with a plurality of data sets, wherein a data collection comprises the plurality of data sets and the data collection is indicative to at least one indoor radio map. Further disclosed are a corresponding apparatus, a corresponding system and a corresponding software program. | 2018-04-19 |
20180109962 | CONTROLLING AN ANTENNA BEAM OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHM - The present disclosure relates to a first wireless communication node ( | 2018-04-19 |
20180109963 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, TRANSMISSION TERMINAL AND RECEPTION TERMINAL - A communication system includes a transmission terminal and a reception terminal, and the transmission terminal transmits data to the reception terminal. The transmission terminal includes a storage unit that stores data and management information of the data, and a first communication unit that performs communication using a first radio method having non-directivity and a second radio method having directivity. The reception terminal includes a second communication unit that performs communication using the first radio method having non-directivity and the second radio method having directivity, and a selector that selects the data based on the management information. The first communication unit and the second communication unit communicate with each other using the first radio method having non-directivity when selecting the data to be transmitted, and communicates with each other using the second radio method having directivity when transmitting the selected data. | 2018-04-19 |
20180109964 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A communication system is provided that, if a large number of small cells are installed, is capable of configuring an operation suitable for small cells through simple operation and administration. If a small cell installed in Step ST | 2018-04-19 |
20180109965 | METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR ADVANCED RECEIVER DESIGN - Disclosed are embodiments of apparatuses and methods of use thereof for frequency domain (FD) chip level (CL) equalizers used in wireless receivers. The FD-CL-EQ may further selectively apply a higher order matrix inverse or a lower order matrix inverse in the calculation of a channel estimate based on whether interference is present or not. Further disclosed are embodiments of methods and apparatuses for estimating pilot signal-to-interference ratio (SIR) in the wireless receivers. Further disclosed are methods and apparatuses for compensating for phase errors in received demodulated data symbols to improve performance of the wireless receivers. | 2018-04-19 |
20180109966 | AUTONOMOUS, POWER-DICTATED MESSAGE ROUTING FOR MULTI-HOP MESH NETWORK OUTAGE COMMUNICATIONS - Methods and devices for facilitating communications in an ad-hoc multi-hop wireless network during outage conditions are described herein. In one exemplary embodiment, an initiating device attempts to send a communication to a target destination by first sending a synchronization request to an intermediate device using a unicast transmission. If the initiating device determines that the first synchronization request failed, a second synchronization request is sent to any potential candidate device neighbors using an anycast transmission protocol. The initiating device receives an acknowledgment message from at least one of those devices. The transmission of acknowledgment messages by potential candidate responders are prioritized in a self-organizing manner relating to priority indicator information conveyed in the anycast transmission. The acknowledgment message indicates that a device has accepted the anycast synchronization request and, after synchronizing with that device, the initiating device sends a communication to the destination via the responding device using a unicast transmission protocol. | 2018-04-19 |
20180109967 | WIRELESS CHANNEL SOUNDER WITH FAST MEASUREMENT SPEED AND WIDE DYNAMIC RANGE - An example device includes antennas to receive wireless signals from a wireless transmitter and to output radio frequency signals based upon the wireless signals that are received, low noise amplifiers coupled to the antennas to amplify the radio frequency signals, and a receiver stage to generate, based upon the radio frequency signals, digital representations of the wireless signals that are received via the antennas and to determine a measure a wireless channel parameter from the digital representations of the wireless signals. | 2018-04-19 |
20180109968 | TECHNIQUES FOR REPORTING CHANNEL STATE INFORMATION (CSI) FOR AN UNLICENSED RADIO FREQUENCY SPECTRUM BAND - Techniques are described for wireless communication. One technique includes receiving a service via a component carrier, wherein the component carrier may be in an unlicensed radio frequency spectrum band. One or more signals transmitted on the component carrier may be measured to estimate channel state information of the component carrier in the unlicensed radio frequency spectrum band. | 2018-04-19 |
20180109969 | INTEGRATED CIRCUIT FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATION MEASUREMENT RESOURCE DETERMINATION AND CSI REPORTING - There are provided a wireless communication method of configuring a measurement resource and a wireless communication device therefor. The method comprises determining a measurement resource to be disregarded when the number of measurement resources configured in one subframe exceeds the maximum number of measurement resources that a user equipment is able to measure in one subframe, wherein the measurement resource with lower priority is determined to be disregarded, and the measurement resource is not disregarded A times within the duration of N subframes, where A is an integer larger than 1, N corresponds to one plus B*periodicity of the measurement resource, and B is an integer equal to or larger than 1. | 2018-04-19 |
20180109970 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING A FINE TIMING MEASUREMENT IN A WIRELESS NETWORK - A first wireless communication device includes a timing module to provide a timing synchronization function (TSF) time. A fine timing measurement module is to transmit a first request to perform a fine timing measurement to determine a distance between the first wireless communication device and a second wireless communication device. The first request includes a first value of the TSF time at which to start a burst period of the fine timing measurement, and the first value is determined in accordance with the TSF time provided by the timing module. The fine timing measurement module is further to receive a first response as transmitted from the second wireless communication device in response to the first request and transmit a second request to start the burst period at a TSF time indicated by the first value. The first response includes the first value of the TSF time. | 2018-04-19 |
20180109971 | USER TERMINAL, RADIO BASE STATION AND RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD - The present invention is designed to optimize the uplink random access procedure even when coverage enhancement is applied to communication by user terminals, in which the bandwidth for use is limited to partial reduced bandwidths in a system bandwidth. A user terminal, in which the bandwidth to use is limited to a partial reduced bandwidth in a system bandwidth, has a receiving section that receives information related to repetitious transmission of a PRACH (Physical Random Access CHannel); and a transmission section that transmits the PRACH in repetitions in part or all of subframes based on the information related to repetitious transmission. | 2018-04-19 |
20180109972 | METHOD FOR FORMING BEARER FOR PUBLIC SAFETY IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND DEVICE THEREFOR - The present disclosure relates to a 5G or pre-5G communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate beyond a 4G communication system, such as LTE. A method for forming a bearer by a mobility management entity (MME) according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises the steps of: receiving a first message including information regarding public safety; and forming a bearer having a priority higher than that of a preset bearer on the basis of the received message. The above-described method makes it possible to form a bearer having a high priority for using a public safety service. | 2018-04-19 |
20180109973 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR HANDLING DATA FLOW IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS - A flow controller for controlling a data flow through a mobile communication network includes a processor configured to receive a request from a network entity, the request indicating interfaces of the network entity and a data flow destination, and determine at least one interface and a path from a data flow policy of the mobile communication network. The processor is also configured to send a reply to the network entity, the reply indicating at least one of the interfaces of the network entity to be used for the data flow and the path to be used for the data flow. | 2018-04-19 |
20180109974 | COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK - This disclosure relates to a method of controlling a Customer Premises Equipment (CPE), and a CPE, in a cellular communications network, the cellular communications network having an overlapping coverage area with a Wireless Local Access Network, WLAN, the method including: receiving data relating to the WLAN and cellular communications networks; analyzing the received data; and configuring a downlink capacity of the cellular communications network based on the analysis of the received data. | 2018-04-19 |
20180109975 | Detection and Mitigation of Signalling Anomalies in Wireless Network - This document discloses a solution for detecting and mitigating anomalies such as signalling storms in a radio access network of a wireless communication system. According to an aspect, there is disclosed a method including receiving, in a first local traffic analysis module, configuration parameters from a second local traffic analysis module or from a central traffic analysis module connected to a plurality of local traffic analysis modules; monitoring, by a first traffic analysis module by using the received configuration parameters, traffic in a radio access network of a wireless communication system; detecting, in the monitored traffic on the basis of the configuration parameters, an anomaly causing a control plane signalling load; and in response to said detecting, taking an action to mitigate the anomaly and reporting information on the anomaly to the central traffic analysis module. | 2018-04-19 |
20180109976 | RACH PROCEDURES USING MULTIPLE PRACH TRANSMISSIONS - Techniques are described herein to improve a link budget of physical random access channel (PRACH) transmissions used during a random access (RACH) procedure. The link budget of a PRACH transmission associated with the RACH procedure may be improved by transmitting multiple PRACH transmissions. The multiple PRACH transmissions may be combined to achieve some combining gain. Each retransmission of a PRACH transmission may be done at a higher power level than the previous PRACH transmission. If UE receives an indication that a target base station failed to successfully decode the PRACH transmission, the UE may retransmit the PRACH transmission but at a higher power level than the initial PRACH transmission. PRACH transmissions may be distributed across multiple slots. PRACH transmissions may be distributed across multiple frequency sub-bands in the same slot or across frequency sub-bands in the different slots. | 2018-04-19 |
20180109977 | LOAD BASED SIGNALING IN A COMMUNICATION NETWORK - A network node, a network control node and methods therein for achieving load based signaling. The method performed by the network node includes determining a load level out of a set of predefined load levels based on a current load of the network node, where each load level corresponds to an estimated capability of the network node to handle signaling from at least one network control node. The method further includes indicating the determined load level to at least one network control node, thus enabling the at least one network control node to apply a signaling handling scheme towards the network node based on the indicated load level. | 2018-04-19 |
20180109978 | Managing Packet Switched Services on a Mobile Device - Various methods for managing packet switched (PS) states on a mobile communication device may include performing, on a first subscription on the mobile communication device, a transition from a first radio access technology (RAT) to a second RAT, determining whether at least one application on the mobile communication device is utilizing on-demand PS services on the first subscription, and registering for circuit switched (CS) services but not PS services on the second RAT in response to determining that no applications on the mobile communication device is utilizing on-demand PS services on the first subscription. | 2018-04-19 |
20180109979 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING AN INDICATION REGARDING IP ADDRESS PRESERVATION FOLLOWING A TRANSFER INVOLVING A WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORK - A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided to facilitate the transition of user equipment between basic service sets within a WLAN or from a basic service set within a WLAN to a cellular data link of a cellular network. In the context of a method from the perspective of the user equipment, a message is received that identifies one or more basic service sets or cellular data links to which user equipment is potentially capable of transferring. For each basic set or cellular data link, the method includes determining from the message whether the respective basic service set or cellular data link is a candidate to permit an internet protocol (IP) address of the user equipment to be preserved following the transfer. The method includes an indication associated with each respective basic service set or cellular data link to identify whether the IP address of the user equipment is able to be preserved following the transfer thereto. | 2018-04-19 |
20180109980 | METHOD OF HANDOVER, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATION DEVICE - A method of handover includes executing a first communication between a first communication device and a terminal device using a first plurality of channels, acquiring connection information indicating the first communication and first channel information indicating a first plurality of channels, specifying, based on the first channel information and second channel information indicating a second plurality of channels to be used by a second communication device, a third plurality of channels included in both of the first plurality of channels and the second plurality of channels, switching the first communication with the terminal device from using the first plurality of channels to using the third plurality of channels based on the third channel information, and executing, based on the connection information, a handover process from the first communication to a second communication which is executed between the second communication device and the terminal device using the third plurality of channels. | 2018-04-19 |
20180109981 | ADAPTIVE RATE OF CONGESTION INDICATOR TO ENHANCE INTELLIGENT TRAFFIC STEERING - Traffic associated with user equipment that are served by a first radio access network is steered to a second radio access network based on a rate of congestion criterion. Network load is monitored by an access point to determine rate of congestion data associated with the access point. As an example, the rate of congestion represents a change in network load of the access point over a defined time period. The rate of congestion data is then transmitted to one or more neighboring access points that can utilize the rate of congestion data to facilitate traffic steering, load balancing, and/or neighbor relationship management. | 2018-04-19 |
20180109982 | USER EQUIPMENT AND NETWORK ACCESS METHOD - The present invention relates to the communications field, and discloses user equipment and a network access method, so as to resolve a problem of service transmission interruption caused by a relatively long time for UE to access a network again after the UE fails to access a network or detects an RLF or an HOF in a current cell. In a specific solution, an obtaining unit obtains access information for accessing a network in a first cell, and the first cell is a cell included in a list pre-stored on the UE. A storage unit stores the access information obtained by the obtaining unit. A determining unit determines that accessing a network in the first cell is required. An access unit accesses a network in the first cell according to the access information stored in the storage unit. | 2018-04-19 |
20180109983 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A REPORT ABOUT LINK STATUS MONITORING RESULT ACQUIRED BY MOBILE STATION AND TRANSMITTED TO A BASE STATION - A radio base station and method comprise transmitting a message including measurement parameters to a radio terminal being in a connected state, and receiving measurement results of radio environment, location information, and a time stamp from the radio terminal in response to the radio terminal transitioning from an idle state to a connected state, the measurement results being measured by the radio terminal during the idle state. A network including the radio base station uses the measurement results to detect coverage problems of the network. The measurement results include a first measurement result for a first frequency band measured by the radio terminal in accordance with the measurement parameters, and the measurement results further comprise a second measurement result for a second frequency band measured by the radio terminal during the idle state even when the measurement parameters do not include a measurement instruction for the second frequency band. | 2018-04-19 |
20180109984 | METHOD FOR STARTING INTER-FREQUENCY MEASUREMENT AND RELATED DEVICE - A method for starting inter-frequency measurement is provided. The method is applied to an inter-frequency network, the inter-frequency network includes a first base station and a second base station, there is an overlapping area between a signal coverage area of the first base station and a signal coverage area of the second base station, and an access priority of the second base station is higher than an access priority of the first base station; user equipment accesses the first base station; a distance between the second base station and an AP is less than a first distance threshold, and the AP is controlled by an AC. The method includes: receiving, by the AC, a user authentication request; obtaining an identifier of the user equipment from the user authentication request; and sending an inter-frequency measurement request to the user equipment according to the identifier of the user equipment. | 2018-04-19 |
20180109985 | INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, COMMUNICATION NODE AND COMPUTER STORAGE MEDIUM - An information processing method and a communication node are disclosed. The method configured in a first Device-to-Device (D2D) User Equipment (UE) includes: receiving bearer control information sent by a first evolved Node B (eNB); and changing to a second access node according to the bearer control information for communication data transmission, wherein the first eNB is a first access node or the second access node, and the second access node is the first eNB or a D2D relay node. Also disclosed is a computer storage medium. | 2018-04-19 |
20180109986 | COMMUNICATION BEAM SOFT HANDOVER - A method for communication beam transition in a communication system includes sending beam information on a first communication beam, receiving a beam switch command on the first communication beam, the beam switch command requesting a transition from the first communication beam to a second communication beam, simultaneously sending and receiving information on the first communication beam and the second communication beam, and ceasing sending and receiving information on the first communication beam when transition to the second communication beam is completed. | 2018-04-19 |
20180109987 | MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, MEASUREMENT APPARATUS, MANAGEMENT METHOD, MEASUREMENT METHOD AND DIGITAL DEVICE - A management apparatus, a measurement apparatus, a management method, a measurement method, and a digital device. The management apparatus at a user equipment side of a wireless communication system includes: a measurement unit, configured to perform wireless resource management measurement on reference signals of a target cell; an interference determination unit, configured to determine whether the interference of the measurement result meets a preset condition, and marking the measurement result with the interference meeting the preset condition as a high interference measurement result; a filtering unit, configured to perform layer-3 filtering on the measurement result; and a mobility management unit, configured to perform mobility management on the user equipment according to the high interference measurement result. Reliable and accurate measurement of reference signals in a small cell scenario is realized. | 2018-04-19 |
20180109988 | SMART PHONE PLATFORM FOR KIDS - A phone and system is disclosed which includes a programmed button(s) that initiates a telephone call from the phone to a second phone. In some embodiments, the phone may be a toy or instructional equipment configured to provide for example, children a device to learn how to converse over a telephone call with trusted parties. The phone may initiate a phone call request when a programmed button is pressed by connecting with a computing device that has a wireless local area network (LAN) transceiver and a connection to the telephone network (for example, a smartphone, a tablet, or a wearable device). The phone call request may then be re-routed through the telephone network to the second phone being called and communication may occur between the two phones through the intermediary device. Trusted and restricted communication may thus occur between parents/grandparents and children. | 2018-04-19 |
20180109989 | VOLTAGE COMPENSATION CIRCUIT, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE, AND VOLTAGE COMPENSATION METHOD - A voltage compensation circuit in a wireless communication device that performs wireless communication under a time division duplex (TDD) scheme includes a first path on which a diode is placed, a second path on which another diode is placed, and a timing controller. The first path is a path that supplies, to a transmitter-receiver, power output from a power supply and having a first voltage. The second path is a path that supplies power having a second voltage obtained by boosting the first voltage of the power output from the power supply. The timing controller switches between the first path and the second path based on information on timing of switch from signal reception to signal transmission. | 2018-04-19 |
20180109990 | TELECOMMUNICATIONS APPARATUS AND METHODS - A wireless telecommunications system includes a base station and a plurality of terminal devices. A first one of the terminal device is configured to communicate with the base station via a second one of the terminal devices, wherein the second one of the terminal device is selected from among a plurality of potential second terminal devices based on a measured characteristic of beacon signaling exchanged between the first terminal device and respective ones of the potential second terminal devices, wherein the beacon signaling is exchanged between the first terminal device and respective ones of the potential second terminal devices for a predetermined period of time. | 2018-04-19 |
20180109991 | Wireless Communications System and Method for Managing and Optimizing a WirelessCommunications Network - A method for managing a wireless communications system may include the steps of: (1) requesting wireless communication links between a plurality of user terminals and an airborne communications relay terminal, (2) designating one of the plurality of user terminals as a primary user terminal to make a direct communication with the relay terminal, (3) designating other ones of the plurality of user terminals as secondary user terminals to make direct communication with the primary user terminal, (4) connecting the primary user terminal directly to the relay terminal, and (5) connecting the secondary user terminals indirectly to the relay terminal through the primary user terminal. | 2018-04-19 |
20180109992 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING APPLICATION SPECIFIC ACCESS CONTROL IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and apparatus for performing application specific access control in a wireless communication system is provided. A user equipment (UE) receives access control related system information from a network, identifies initiation of a specific application, and determines whether or not access attempt for the specific application is allowed, based on the received access control related system information. Accordingly, the UE may determine whether or not to skip access control barring (ACB) check for the specific application, or whether or not to skip random access backoff for the specific application. | 2018-04-19 |
20180109993 | BULK PAIRING FOR MESH NETWORKS - A pairing scheme may add devices to a mesh network automatically. Assuming that at least one device is already part of the mesh network, this scheme may allow devices that have not been paired yet to be automatically added to the mesh, eliminating manual pairing processes. When a new device is powered on, it may broadcast a connectable advertisement packet. The payload of this packet may be secure and not understood by the recipient device. Rather, only a server may have a copy of the device key, and can thus decrypt the advertising packet. The server sends a packet back with a network key and information, and the device then becomes part of the network. | 2018-04-19 |
20180109994 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RECEIVING SYSTEM INFORMATION AND PAGING IN SHORT TTI IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and apparatus for receiving system information in a wireless communication system is provided. A user equipment (UE) receives an indication indicating whether a cell supports a short transmission time interval (TTI) from the cell, and receives at least one of normal TTI system information in a normal TTI or short TTI system information in the short TTI from the cell according to the received indication. That is, an eNodeB (eNB) may schedule separate system information block type 1 (SIB1) and/or SI messages broadcast in short TTI. | 2018-04-19 |
20180109995 | SYSTEM INFORMATION BLOCK TRANSMISSION - Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A network entity may identify a first frequency range of a system bandwidth that is used for transmission of synchronization information. The network may identify a second frequency range of the system bandwidth that is used for transmission of common control information. The second frequency range may be a function of the first frequency range. The first and second frequency ranges may be less than the system bandwidth. In some cases, the second frequency range and the first frequency range may be a same frequency range. The network entity may transmit the common control information on a frequency within the second frequency range of the system bandwidth. | 2018-04-19 |
20180109996 | NETWORK ACCESSING METHOD - A network accessing method includes selecting a group representative dynamically from each machine to machine (M2M) terminal group, wherein terminals in the M2M terminal group not selected as the group representative serve as group members. The method also includes requesting, by the group representative, network access from a base station, and serving, as a group member automatically after entering an idle state or entering another cell. This enables multiple M2M terminals to access a network at the same time while avoiding network access congestion. | 2018-04-19 |
20180109997 | UNIFIED IN-VEHICLE WI-FI SERVICE - A system and method of providing a plurality of services through a plurality of vehicle-generated Wi-Fi channels includes: generating at a first Wi-Fi module a first Wi-Fi channel that includes a master list of services provided by the first Wi-Fi module as well as one or more other Wi-Fi modules; receiving a request for a service included on the master list at the first Wi-Fi module from a wireless device communicating; determining that the service is not available through the first Wi-Fi module; identifying a second Wi-Fi module that provides the service; and transmitting a message to the wireless device identifying the second Wi-Fi module that provides the service identified in the request. | 2018-04-19 |
20180109998 | INTERFACE SELECTION - A wireless router having a WiFi wireless network and including a small cell for routing LTE cellular data to a mobile network core is configured to monitor connected mobile devices and determine whether each mobile device should be connect to the hub using WiFi or LTE in accordance with the current utilization of the WiFi network and the current utilization of the LTE small cell. Since the small cell data traffic transmitted in a data tunnel to the mobile network core is accessible to the monitor, the network identity information of the device's WiFi interface and the device's LTE interface can be determined by consulting an address mapping store in the cellular mobile network core. Furthermore presence information can be determined by detecting connection and disconnection messages between the mobile device and cellular network core. | 2018-04-19 |
20180109999 | POWER OPTIMIZED VIDEO FOR SMART HOME ECOSYSTEM - Conservation of power while providing for controlled high capacity data transmission on demand in camera units and peripheral devices for a smart home system. | 2018-04-19 |
20180110000 | WAKE-UP RECEIVER SCHEDULING - A station configured to operate in a wireless network includes low-power protocol circuitry configured to operate according to a low-power protocol coupled to primary protocol circuitry configured to operate according to a first protocol. The low-power protocol circuitry includes a wake-up receiver configured to transition into a receive mode according to a medium access schedule. The wake-up receiver is also configured to receive synchronization signals from a wake-up transmitter of an access point in the wireless network. Each synchronization signal is received according to a slot-skipping transmit schedule of the wake-up transmitter. The low-power protocol circuitry also includes a low-power processor configured to synchronize a clock of the wake-up receiver to a clock of the wake-up transmitter based on at least one of the synchronization signals. | 2018-04-19 |
20180110001 | USER TERMINAL AND RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD - According to the present invention, in the case where a relaying operation is applied using a user terminal that supports D2D, the power consumption of a user terminal that is used as a relay node can be suppressed. A user terminal is configured to connect with a radio base station and another user terminal, and configured to relay transmission between the radio base station and the other user terminal. The user terminal includes a transmitting section configured to transmit information related to relay capability to the other user terminal; a receiving section configured to receive the information related to relay searching that is transmitted from the other user terminal; and a control section configured to control a connection state with respect to the radio base station. The transmitting section controls a transmission of the information related to relay capability based on the connection state with respect to the radio base station. | 2018-04-19 |
20180110002 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR SAVING POWER CONSUMPTION OF ELECTRONIC DEVICE IN MACHINE TYPE COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY - Provided are a communication method and system that integrate 5G communication systems with IoT technologies to support higher data rates after 4G systems. The present disclosure is based on 5G communication technologies and IoT related technologies, and may be applied to intelligent services such as smart homes, smart buildings, smart cities, smart or connected cars, health care, digital education, retail, and security and safety. | 2018-04-19 |