18th week of 2015 patent applcation highlights part 36 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20150117195 | Systems And Methods For Managing A Network - Systems and methods for managing congestion in a network are disclosed. One method can comprise receiving a first congestion indicator at a network point and modifying a data transfer rate to an effective bandwidth in response to receiving the first congestion indicator. If a second congestion indicator is received within a predetermined time period, the data transfer rate can be reduced to a factor of a committed information rate. If a second congestion indicator is not received with the time period, the data transfer rate can be increased to a target transfer rate. | 2015-04-30 |
20150117196 | BASE STATION, AND A METHOD FOR ADAPTING LINK ADAPTATION IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK - A method in a base station for adapting link adaptation of a transmission between a user equipment and the base station is provided. The link adaptation relates to an initial value of a Block Error Rate, BLER, related to the transmission. The base station decides that the user equipment is in congestion responsive to a scheduling bit rate for the transmission in relation to a rate of data packets arriving to or being sent by the user equipment being below a first threshold. Responsive to the user equipment being in congestion, the base station adapts the link adaptation by increasing the value of the BLER of the link adaptation in relation to the initial value, until the user equipment is out of congestion or until the base station detects that any one of the user equipment and the base station tries to send high priority data. | 2015-04-30 |
20150117197 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CALIBRATING A SMALL CELL FOR BACKHAUL MANAGEMENT - The present disclosure presents a method and an apparatus for calibrating a small cell base station for backhaul management. For example, the method may include exchanging backhaul probing messages with a probing server by initiating a plurality of probing packets at the small cell base station, wherein the exchanging is performed over a backhaul after determining that a full queue condition associated with the backhaul is satisfied, computing calibration statistics for the backhaul based on characteristics associated with the backhaul probing messages, and adjusting one or more backhaul parameters of the small cell based on the calibration statistics. As such, calibration of a small cell base station for backhaul management may be achieved. | 2015-04-30 |
20150117198 | Service Policies for Communication Sessions - Techniques for service policies for communication sessions are described. According to various embodiments, a service policy specifies various rules and/or procedures for handling communication sessions. For instance, a service policy can specify service priority designations to be applied to communication sessions based on various attributes of the communication sessions. Techniques discussed herein provide for automated and dynamic management of service policies in a variety of communication scenarios, e.g., via per-session customization of service policies. In at least some embodiments, techniques may be employed to remedy problems that may occur during a communication session, such as via bandwidth reallocation, dynamic remapping of routing paths, and so forth. | 2015-04-30 |
20150117199 | Multi-Level iSCSI QoS for Target Differentiated Data in DCB Networks - In an embodiment, a method can include setting metadata of a first data packet to have a first priority level based on a first internal classifier of the first data packet and setting metadata of a second data packet to have a second priority level based on a second internal classifier of the second data packet. The first data packet and second data packet can be of the same traffic type (e.g., iSCSI). The method can further include sub-classifying (e.g., the same traffic type), based on the first and second priority levels, to direct the first data packet into a first data channel and second data packet into a second data channel for the same traffic type. | 2015-04-30 |
20150117200 | Bandwidth Optimization Using Coalesced DUP ACKs - After sending M consecutive DUP ACKs, M generally being three, the TCP receiver generates DUP ACKs every N packets, with N greater than one, with the eventually transmitted DUP ACK containing SACK information. After receiving the third DUP ACK the TCP transmitter uses the positive acknowledgements provided in the SACK information in the TCP header to inflate the congestion window. With the reduced DUP ACKs from the TCP receiver to the TCP transmitter, the impact of TCP DUP ACKs on the data rate from the TCP receiver to the TCP transmitter is substantially reduced. | 2015-04-30 |
20150117201 | DATA TRANSMISSION SYSTEM FOR NETWORKS WITH NON-FULL-DUPLEX OR ASYMMETRIC TRANSPORT - A data transfer method and system are provided for networks having gateway-mediated asymmetric transport. Separate data and feedback channels are established between sender and receiver units, along with a gateway feedback channel between a gateway and the sender. The sender transmits datagrams to the gateway in temporal chunks corresponding to the asymmetric transport's timing to keep the gateway's buffer at an optimum fill for maximal throughput without transmit-end packet drops. The receiver acknowledges those datagrams that have been successfully received and identifies any missing or corrupt datagrams. At least some messages include timing information indicative of network latency and congestion. The sender resends datagrams identified as missing or corrupt. The sender self-tunes its transmission rate in reaction to changing network conditions, based upon gateway buffer fill, network latency and datagram loss rate to keep datagram loss rate below a specified upper bound. | 2015-04-30 |
20150117202 | OPENFLOW DATA CHANNEL AND CONTROL CHANNEL SEPARATION - A control channel for routing management messages to or from an OpenFlow controller is separated from a reserved port within a data channel for routing unknown data packets to or from the OpenFlow controller. The port may be reserved by setting a reserved port flag. A packet routing table may include a table miss entry that indicates the unknown packets should be routed via the reserved port. By utilizing the reserved port to route unknown packets, the unknown packets do not traverse into the control channel, and the separation of the OpenFlow control channel from the OpenFlow data channel is enhanced. | 2015-04-30 |
20150117203 | SEGMENT ROUTING BASED WIDE AREA NETWORK ORCHESTRATION IN A NETWORK ENVIRONMENT - An example method for segment routing based wide area network (WAN) orchestration in a network environment is provided and includes monitoring a segment routing (SR) enabled WAN environment in at least near real-time by a path computation element (PCE) located outside the WAN, receiving an event notification at the PCE, and performing traffic engineering using SR to reroute traffic off shortest paths. In one embodiment, where a current state of the WAN is not pre-computed, performing traffic engineering comprises optimizing routes to remove violation of any utilization policies, deploying the optimized routes in the WAN, re-optimizing routes for other parameters, and further deploying the re-optimized routes in the WAN. In another embodiment, performing traffic engineering comprises optimizing routes to remove violation of any utilization policies and for other parameters, and deploying the optimized routes in the WAN. In another embodiment, performing traffic engineering comprises deploying optimized routes in the WAN. | 2015-04-30 |
20150117204 | METHOD AND NETWORK ELEMENT FOR TRAFFIC FLOW TREATMENT IN A CORE NETWORK OF A COMMUNICATION NETWORK - The present invention relates to a method for traffic flow treatment in a core network of a communication network. The method may comprise receiving cell information from an access network of the communication network, wherein the received cell information comprises an indication of a congested cell of the communication network. Furthermore, the method may comprise receiving subscriber specific information comprising real-time information of a subscriber in a cell of the communication network. The method may further comprise analyzing the received subscriber specific information and controlling the traffic flow in the core network according to the analysis of the subscriber specific information. | 2015-04-30 |
20150117205 | Method and Network Node for Controlling Sending Rates - A method performed by a network node for controlling sending rates in a communications network, and a related network node. The method controls the sending rate by dropping received data packets if the transport network experiences congestion. If the transport network experiences congestion the received data packets are dropped based on a packet drop precedence value comprised in a radio access network or IP header. | 2015-04-30 |
20150117206 | BACKHAUL MANAGEMENT OF A SMALL CELL USING PASSIVE ESTIMATION MECHANISM - The present disclosure presents a method and an apparatus for passive estimation mechanism for backhaul management at a small cell base station. For example, the method may include determining, at the small cell base station, whether a time slot utilization of a flow at a user equipment (UE) in communication with the small cell base station is above a first threshold, wherein a plurality of time slots are associated with the flow, determining whether an average throughput of the flow is below a second threshold in response to determining that the time slot utilization is above the first threshold, and identifying that the flow is not satisfied in response to determining that the average throughput of the flow is below the second threshold. As such, passive estimation mechanism for backhaul management at a small cell base station may be achieved. | 2015-04-30 |
20150117207 | BACKHAUL MANAGEMENT OF A SMALL CELL USING A LIGHT ACTIVE ESTIMATION MECHANISM - The present disclosure presents a method and an apparatus for a light active estimation mechanism for backhaul management at a small cell base station. For example, the method may include transmitting a first data packet from the small cell base station to a network entity, receiving a second data packet from the network entity in response to the transmission, calculating a time delay between the transmitting of the first data packet and the receiving of the second data packet, and determining whether or not a backhaul of the small cell base station is congested based on the calculated time delay. As such, light active estimation mechanism for backhaul management at a small cell base station may be achieved. | 2015-04-30 |
20150117208 | BACKHAUL MANAGEMENT OF A SMALL CELL USING HEAVY ACTIVE ESTIMATION MECHANISM - The present disclosure presents a method and an apparatus for heavy active estimation mechanism for backhaul management at a small cell base station. For example, the method may include identifying, at the small cell base station, that a throughput of a user equipment (UE) in communication with the small cell base station is potentially limited due to backhaul congestion at the small cell base station, establishing a proxy flow between the small cell base station and a transmission control protocol (TCP) proxy peer in response to the identifying, wherein the proxy flow data packets are transmitted from the small cell base station to the TCP proxy peer or from the TCP proxy peer to the small cell base station, calculating a throughput of the proxy flow for a pre-determined time period, and determining whether the throughput of the UE is limited by backhaul congestion at the small cell base station based on the calculated throughput of the proxy flow. As such, heavy active estimation mechanism for backhaul management at a small cell base station may be achieved. | 2015-04-30 |
20150117209 | TRAFFIC DISTRIBUTION IN HETEROGENOUS NETWORK ENVIRONMENT - The disclosure is related to a method for distributing data traffic of a wireless local area network (WLAN) in a WLAN access network while providing service continuity and internet protocol (IP) mobility in a heterogeneous network environment. The method may include receiving data traffic generated by user equipment and from a wireless local area network, selecting one of a first data path and a second data path for the received data traffic based on path decision information associated with the received data traffic, and transmitting the data traffic to Internet through the selected data path. The first data path may transmit the data traffic to Internet through a packet data network (PDN) gateway and the second data path may transmit the data traffic to Internet without passing through the PDN gateway. | 2015-04-30 |
20150117210 | METHOD FOR COORDINATING ACCESS POINTS FOR BACKHAUL AGGREGATION IN A TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORK AND DEVICE - In the method, a plurality of access points forming a cluster in a telecommunication network monitors network data traffic information from at least one user computing device connected thereto; obtains a status profile; reports an own identifier to a remote server; builds, by using a record including the corresponding identifier of each access point, a list of access points available for performing backhaul aggregation; and establishes connections between available access points forming sub-clusters of access points. Wherein, one of the access points acts as a cluster coordinator coordinating said formed sub-clusters of access points for a backhaul aggregation. | 2015-04-30 |
20150117211 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK BASE STATION EXTENSION - Apparatus and methods to permit the deployment of wireless base stations, where a deployed remote base station is backhauled to the core network over a wireless connection to an operatively attached donor base station using protocols that encapsulate backhaul communications within standard subscriber communication protocols. | 2015-04-30 |
20150117212 | Multilink-Based Data Transmission Method and Device - A multilink-based data transmission method includes establishing separately, by a first device, first tunnels in different types of links in which the first device and a second device have established a communication connection, establishing, by the first device, a second tunnel that crosses the first tunnels established in the multiple different types of links, analyzing, by the first device, a load state of each first tunnel crossed by the second tunnel, and selecting a first tunnel used to transmit a target packet, and encapsulating, by the first device, the target packet into the second tunnel, and sending, to the second device, through the first tunnel used to transmit the target packet, the packet encapsulated into the second tunnel. Correspondingly, a data transmission device is provided. A utilization rate of links supported by a network device can be improved with the method and device. | 2015-04-30 |
20150117213 | PROVISIONING OF APPLICATION CATEGORIES AT A USER EQUIPMENT DURING NETWORK CONGESTION - Technology for provisioning categories of applications on a mobile device is disclosed. A wireless network element can communicate Application Specific Congestion Control for Data Communications (ACDC)/Application and Service Access Control (ASAC) information to the mobile device. The ACDC/ASAC information can include a preconfigured list of application categories. Each application category can include a set of applications that are allowed to access a wireless network from the mobile device during at least one defined condition level. The wireless network element can activate ACDC/ASAC for one or more condition levels while a capacity threshold of the wireless network is exceeded. | 2015-04-30 |
20150117214 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MAINTAINING TOKEN - Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method and an apparatus for maintaining tokens, and relate to the field of communications technologies, so as to solve a problem of a burst excess of data to be transmitted and improve QoS. The method of the present invention includes: obtaining a peak information rate (PIR) of a network node; splitting the PIR into a first rate and a second rate; obtaining, according to the first rate, the first number of added tokens corresponding to a first period, and obtaining, according to the second rate, the second number of added tokens corresponding to a second period; adding tokens according to the first period and the first number of added tokens, and adding tokens according to the second period and the second number of added tokens. | 2015-04-30 |
20150117215 | DYNAMIC OPTIMIZATION OF ADVERTISEMENT PACKETS - In general, in one aspect, embodiments relate to a non-transitory computer readable medium comprising instructions that, when executed by a processor, perform a method. The method includes receiving, by a controller, a first plurality of multicast advertisement packets from a first networking device on an external network, wherein the plurality of multicast advertisement packets are received at a first frequency, storing, by the controller, one of the first plurality of multicast advertisement packets in an advertisement packet repository, and transmitting, by the controller, information in the one of the plurality of advertisement packets on an internal network at a second frequency, wherein the second frequency is less frequent than the first frequency. | 2015-04-30 |
20150117216 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR LOAD BALANCING AT A DATA NETWORK - A method of load balancing implemented at a data network is disclosed. The data network contains a number of data plane nodes and a number of clusters of a control node. The method starts with deriving a graph from a topology of the data plane nodes, where the graph contains vertices, each representing one of the data plane nodes, and edges, each representing a connection between a pair of data plane nodes. The method continues with partitioning the graph into a number of sub-graphs, where the partition aims at minimizing connectivity among the number of sub-graphs, and where the number of sub-graphs equal to the number of clusters. The control node then assigns each cluster to one of the data plane nodes, where each cluster is assigned to one or more data plane node partitioned into the same sub-graph. | 2015-04-30 |
20150117217 | Policy Tokens in Communication Networks - A network entity comprising a processing unit that is configured: to receive a policy token from user equipment (S | 2015-04-30 |
20150117218 | Feedback-based Profiling for Transport Networks - A method is provided of transporting data packets over a telecommunications transport network. The data packets are carried by a plurality of bearers, the bearers each carrying data packets that relate to different ones of a plurality of services. In the method, for each bearer independently of the other bearers, bandwidth profiling is applied to the data packets of the bearer to identify and mark the data packets of each of the bearers that are conformant with a determined maximum information rate for the bearer. The data packets are forwarded for transport through the transport network. If there is insufficient bandwidth available in the transport network to transport all data packets, data packets not identified by the profiling as being conformant are discarded, so as not to be transported through the transport network. The data packets of the bearer transported through the transport network are monitored to determine whether there has been any loss of data packets that should have been transported through the transport network, indicating congestion in the transport network. The maximum information rate of the bearer is adjusted based on the monitoring. | 2015-04-30 |
20150117219 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR SELECTING A COMMUNICATION NODE BY MONITORING SIGNALS - A system that incorporates the subject disclosure may include, for example, a circuit for receiving bandwidth utilization information associated with each of a plurality of communication nodes, and initiating communications with a communication node selected from the plurality of communication nodes according to a comparison of the bandwidth utilization information and a measure of quality of a communication link of each of the plurality of communication nodes. Other embodiments are disclosed. | 2015-04-30 |
20150117220 | Communication Node, A Receiving Node and Methods Therein - A method in a communication node for handling a packet to a destination node in a communications network, and associated nodes. The communication node associates the packet with a remaining value, with the remaining value being a packet value reduced by a threshold value of an outgoing link from the communication node towards the destination node. The threshold value corresponds to a congestion level of the outgoing link. The communication node further handles the packet based on the remaining value, the handling including determining whether to drop or to transmit the packet along the outgoing link based on the remaining value. | 2015-04-30 |
20150117221 | Topology Aware MANET For Mobile Networks - Systems and methods provide adaptability in a mobile ad hoc network (MANET), based on an existing protocol, such, as adaptive hybrid domain routing (AHDR). The systems and methods are especially suited for fast changing topologies that may change after a reactive route discovery has been completed.. | 2015-04-30 |
20150117222 | Standby Bandwidth Aware Path Computation - At a first network device, a plurality of paths through a network from a source network device to a destination network device are determined. A vacant bandwidth is calculated for each of the plurality of paths. A primary path is selected from the plurality of paths based on the vacant bandwidth, and a standby path is selected from the plurality of paths based on the vacant bandwidth. | 2015-04-30 |
20150117223 | Network Topology of Hierarchical Ring with Gray Coding Shortcuts - An interconnection network comprising a plurality of nodes arranged in a ring topology, wherein the nodes comprise a first node and a second node, and wherein the first node is not adjacent to the second node, a plurality of base links coupled to the nodes and configured to interconnect adjacent nodes to provide point-to-point communications between the adjacent nodes, and a first shortcut coupled to the first node and the second node, wherein the first shortcut is configured to provide a point-to-point communication between the first node and the second node, wherein the first node and the second node comprise gray code encoded addresses that are differed by 1-bit at a particular bit position, and wherein the gray code encoded addresses are node addresses of the first node and the second node encoded by a gray code algorithm that provides a 1-bit difference between successive integer values in a binary format. | 2015-04-30 |
20150117224 | Network Topology of Hierarchical Ring with Gray Code and Binary Code - A hierarchical ring network comprising a plurality of nodes coupled in a base ring configuration such that each node is coupled to two adjacent nodes via base links, wherein the nodes are further coupled via a first level binary shortcut ring such that alternating nodes along the base ring act as first level nodes, and wherein each first level node is coupled to two nearest adjacent first level nodes via the first level binary shortcut ring. | 2015-04-30 |
20150117225 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIA FOR TESTING LONG TERM EVOLUTION (LTE) AIR INTERFACE DEVICE USING PER-USER EQUIPMENT (PER-UE) CHANNEL NOISE - Methods, systems, and computer readable media for testing an air interface device using per user equipment (UE) channel noise are disclosed. One method includes, generating uplink signals at a network equipment test device to be transmitted from plural simulated UEs to an air interface device under test. The method further includes generating and applying per-UE channel noise to the signals, where applying per-UE channel noise includes applying different channel noise to at least some of the uplink signals. The method further includes transmitting the uplink signals with the per-UE channel noise to the air interface device under test. | 2015-04-30 |
20150117226 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SESSION BASED DATA MONITORING FOR WIRELESS EDGE CONTENT CACHING NETWORKS - Aspects of the disclosure pertain to methods and systems that are configured to monitor data usage at a network edge. In an implementation, a method includes monitoring data usage information associated with a mobile user session between a mobile device and a plurality of edges nodes of a communication network, where the plurality of edge nodes includes at least a beginning edge node and a final edge node. The method also includes storing data usage information from the monitored data usage information, the stored data usage information including data associated with the transfer of cached data stored at the plurality of edge nodes. The method further includes forwarding the stored data access information to a central database of the communication network. | 2015-04-30 |
20150117227 | RANGE EXTENSION MODE FOR WIFI - A method for generating a physical layer (PHY) data unit for transmission via a communication channel is described where the PHY data unit conforms to a first communication protocol. Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols for a data field of the PHY data unit are generated according to a range extension coding scheme that corresponds to a range extension mode of the first communication protocol. A preamble of the PHY data unit is generated, the preamble having i) a first portion that indicates a duration of the PHY data unit and ii) a second portion that indicates whether at least some OFDM symbols of the data field are generated according to the range extension coding scheme. The first portion of the preamble is formatted such that the first portion of the preamble is decodable by a receiver device that conforms to a second communication protocol, but does not conform to the first communication protocol, to determine the duration of the PHY data unit based on the first portion of the preamble. The PHY data unit is generated to include the preamble and the data field. | 2015-04-30 |
20150117228 | WIRELESS ACCESS POINT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD - Methods and apparatuses are provided for graphically displaying the noise level on each WLAN channel, along with the arrangement of other (neighboring) wireless host devices on each channel with their respective signal strengths as a distance indicator. As a result, collected information may be gathered and displayed intuitively to allow a user to quickly assess the environment and manually configure the wireless host device. in addition, methods and apparatuses are provided for suggesting to a user or automatically selecting a wireless host device configuration based on the noise level on each WLAN channel and the arrangement of other wireless host devices on each channel with consideration of their respective signal strengths. As a result, an optimal configuration for a deployed wireless host device may be determined and consistently suggested or automatically configured. | 2015-04-30 |
20150117229 | ESTIMATING TONE MAPS IN A COMMUNICATION NETWORK - A network device may be configured to iteratively modify an initial tone map for each communication region of a powerline cycle to minimize the time before application data can be transmitted. A first network device estimates an initial tone map for each communication region based, at least in part, on sounding messages received from a second network device. The first network device determines whether to estimate a modified tone map for the first communication region based on at least one performance measurement associated with a data packet generated using the initial tone map for the first communication region. If so, the second network device retransmits the sounding messages in the first communication region that will be used to modify the initial tone map for the first communication region, and the second network device continues to transmit the data packets using the initial tone maps in the remaining communication regions. | 2015-04-30 |
20150117230 | PROBE MECHANISM FOR DISCOVERING EXPLICIT CONGESTION NOTIFICATION DATA - Explicit congestion notification (ECN) data that is utilized in a core portion of a cellular communication network has known issues associated with a first use scenario and an infrequent use scenario. A probe comprising probe data and a data structure for storing certain ECN data can be transmitted in order to mitigate these issues. Transmitting the probe in response to a communication session being established with a device of a network can mitigate the first use issue. Transmitting the probe in response to expiration of a probe timer in connection with a network traffic idle period can mitigate the infrequent use scenario. | 2015-04-30 |
20150117231 | INTER FREQUENCY MEASUREMENT SCHEDULING IN DISCONTINUOUS RECEPTION (DRX) MODE - A user equipment (UE) avoids or reduces delay associated with measuring preferred neighbor cells by scheduling inter frequency measurements based on network indicated offset values provided by a network. In some instances, the UE performs measurements when the UE wakes up from a sleep mode. The UE schedules measurement of a neighbor cell with a lower offset value more frequently or earlier. The offset value can be a Qoffset value. | 2015-04-30 |
20150117232 | CODEC SELECTION AND USAGE FOR IMPROVED VOIP CALL QUALITY - Codec selection and usage for calls includes identifying a call scheduled for a time in the future from an electronic calendar associated with a user and prior to the call, ordering a plurality of codecs used by an Internet Protocol (IP) phone of the user for the scheduled call. During the call and using a processor, a mean opinion score for the call is calculated and stored as part of call data for the call within a data storage device including historical call data. | 2015-04-30 |
20150117233 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR IMPLEMENTING A REPETITION LEVEL FOR A CHANNEL - At least one example embodiment discloses a user equipment (UE) including a memory configured to store a selected physical random access channel (PRACH) repetition level and a processor configured to monitor a duration of a timer, the duration indicating a length of time to use the PRACH repetition level. | 2015-04-30 |
20150117234 | Monitoring Link Quality Between Network Devices - The present disclosure discloses a system and method for monitoring link quality between internetworking devices. The system includes a processor and a memory storing instructions that, when executed, cause the system to: generate, at a first internetworking device, a marker-request packet that includes a current marker ID; send, from the first internetworking device, the marker-request packet to a second internetworking device; receive, at the first internetworking device, a marker-reply packet that responds to the marker-request packet from the second internetworking device, the marker-reply packet including the current marker ID and a previous marker ID; and determine, at the first network device, a link quality between the first internetworking device and the second internetworking device based at least in part on the marker-reply packet. | 2015-04-30 |
20150117235 | Enhanced Dynamic Multicast Optimization - The present disclosure discloses a system and method for enhanced dynamic multicast optimization based on network condition measurement. The system includes a processor and a memory storing instructions that, when executed, cause the system to: measure a network condition for a multicast group using one or more metrics; determine whether to convert all stations in the multicast group to unicast based on the network condition; and responsive to determining not to convert the all stations in the multicast group to unicast, determine, based on the network condition, a sub set of the multicast group for converting the subset of the multicast group to unicast, wherein the subset includes less than all stations in the multicast group. | 2015-04-30 |
20150117236 | CODEC SELECTION AND USAGE FOR IMPROVED VOIP CALL QUALITY - A method of implementing calls includes identifying a call scheduled for a time in the future from an electronic calendar associated with a user and prior to the call, ordering a plurality of codecs used by an Internet Protocol (IP) phone of the user for the scheduled call. The method further includes, during the call and using a processor, calculating a mean opinion score for the call and storing the mean opinion score as part of call data for the call within a data storage device comprising historical call data. | 2015-04-30 |
20150117237 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR OBTAINING CHANNEL QUALITY INDICATION - Embodiments of the disclosure provide a method and apparatus for obtaining a CQI in a communication system, wherein the communication system comprises a UE, a CoMP measurement set including more than one BS/point, and one or more outside BSs/points which is outside the CoMP measurement set, and wherein the UE is served by a serving BS/point in the CoMP measurement set and interfered by at least one interfering BS/point in the CoMP measurement set and the one or more outside BSs/points. In the method according to embodiments of the present invention, a first interference from at least one outside BS/point which is outside the CoMP measurement set to the UE is estimated; a second interference from at least one interfering BS/point in the CoMP measurement set to the UE is estimated; and a target CQI based on the first interference and the second interference is obtained. | 2015-04-30 |
20150117238 | Wireless Communication Terminal and Server and Methods Thereof for Inter-RAT Cell Measurement Reporting - The present invention relates to a method of a wireless communication terminal ( | 2015-04-30 |
20150117239 | Scheduling Apparatus and Method Thereof for Setting Up Device-to-Device Communication - The present disclosure relates to a scheduling apparatus ( | 2015-04-30 |
20150117240 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A communication system is presented in which a communication device communicates, in at least one communication cell operated by communication apparatus, using a plurality of subframes, wherein each subframe comprises a plurality of communication resources. A respective measure of communication quality associated with each of the communication resources is obtained and a search space, comprising a set of the communication resources, is defined based on the measures of communication quality. The mobile device searches for control information in the defined search space. | 2015-04-30 |
20150117241 | BUFFER STATUS REPORTING IN A COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK - A technology that is operable to communicate buffer status report (BSR) information to an evolved node B (eNode B) is disclosed. In one embodiment, a user equipment is configured with circuitry configured to buffer data at the UE for communication to at least one of a master eNode B (MeNode B) or a secondary eNode B (SeNode B). BSR information is determined based on the buffered data at the UE. An uplink split configuration of the UE is determined for the MeNode B and the SeNode B. The MeNode B or the SeNode B is identified based on the uplink split configuration to send selected BSR information. The selected BSR information is communicated to the identified MeNode B or the selected SeNode B. | 2015-04-30 |
20150117242 | ANALYSIS METHOD AND ANALYSIS APPARATUS - In an analysis apparatus, when detecting each packet communicated via a network, an update unit updates statistical information that is stored in a continuous storage area of a storage unit and that indicates the communication state of the network for a first cycle. Then, a first processing unit reads the statistical information from the storage unit at every first cycle, and processes the statistical information and initializes the statistical information in the storage unit. A second processing unit reads partial statistical information that is part of the statistical information from the storage unit at every second cycle shorter than the first cycle, and processes the partial statistical information and initializes the partial statistical information in the storage unit. | 2015-04-30 |
20150117243 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING/RECEIVING MOVING PICTURE EXPERTS GROUP (MPEG) MEDIA TRANSPORT (MMT) SIGNALING MESSAGE FOR MEASUREMENT CONFIGURATION (MC) PROCESSING - A method of transmitting a Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) Media Transport (MMT) signaling message for Measurement Configuration (MC) processing in an MMT sending entity. The method includes generating an MC message with header information by setting a measurement mode (measurement_mode), which indicates information on a measurement start time (measurement_start_time) of a measurement item in an MMT receiving entity, to one of: an immediate measurement start, a measurement start at a predetermined time, a measurement start based on a predetermined condition, and an immediate measurement stop; and transmitting an MMT packet including the generated MC message to an MMT receiving entity. | 2015-04-30 |
20150117244 | METHODS TO VISUALIZE TIME-ALIGNED DATA FLOW BETWEEN NODES IN A COMMUNICATION NETWORK - Disclosed herein are techniques for improved network management, including improved visualization of network events. According to one embodiment, a network monitoring node receives performance data corresponding to at least one network parameter for a network path between a source node and a destination node, and receives a user-specified time period. The network monitoring node further determines a time associated with the performance data, and aligns the performance data according to the associated time and the at least one time index for each node in the network path. The network monitoring node simultaneously presents the performance data for each network node in the network path aligned according to the associated time and the at least one time index for the user-specified time period. | 2015-04-30 |
20150117245 | Sending Node and Buffer Status Reporting Method - A sending node and a buffer status reporting method are disclosed. The method includes: classifying at least two RLC entities included in a sending node as at least one first RLC entity and one second RLC entity, where all the RLC entities are associated with a PDCP entity included in the sending node; and in a case in which a buffer of the first RLC entity includes to-be-sent data, generating a first buffer status report BSR based on a size of the to-be-sent data in the buffer of the first RLC entity, and sending the generated first BSR to a receiving node corresponding to the first RLC entity. By classification of the first RLC entity and the second RLC entity, the second RLC entity is exclusively associated with buffer status reporting of the PDCP entity. | 2015-04-30 |
20150117246 | DATA UNIT COUNTER - A network device may include first logic configured to count data units passing through the network device and to produce a counter value. The network device may include second logic configured to receive the counter value when an indicator is present, and to store the counter value. The network device may include third logic configured to sample the second logic, to receive the counter value, and to operate on the counter value to produce a result. | 2015-04-30 |
20150117247 | Communication Control Method, User Equipment, Network Server, and System - A communication control method, including receiving, by a first user equipment, a first message sent by a second user equipment; acquiring receive power of the first message; acquiring power parameter information of the second user equipment; obtaining a path loss value according to the power parameter information of the second user equipment and the receive power of the first message; and determining, according to the path loss value, whether direct communication is allowed between the first user equipment and the second user equipment. The embodiments of the present invention further provide a corresponding user equipment and system. According to the method, user equipment, and system in the embodiments of the present invention, control on direct communication between user equipment can be implemented. | 2015-04-30 |
20150117248 | Systems, methods, and devices for electronic spectrum management - Systems, methods, and devices enable spectrum management by identifying, classifying, and cataloging signals of interest based on radio frequency measurements. In an embodiment, signals and the parameters of the signals may be identified and indications of available frequencies may be presented to a user. In another embodiment, the protocols of signals may also be identified. In a further embodiment, the modulation of signals, data types carried by the signals, and estimated signal origins may be identified. | 2015-04-30 |
20150117249 | METHOD FOR ACQUIRING CHANNEL QUALITY INDICATOR, USER EQUIPMENT, EVOLVED NODE B AND SYSTEM - This application relates to a method for acquiring a CQI, a user equipment, an eNB and a system. The method includes: calculating CQIs of at least two subbands, where there is an overlapped resource block between the subbands; and transmitting the subband CQIs to an eNB. In the method for acquiring a channel quality indicator, the user equipment, the evolved node B and the system of the present application, there is an overlapped resource block between adjacent subbands, and meanwhile the channel quality of the resource block of the subband is obtained by using different subbands, thus the feedback accuracy of the channel quality of the resource block of each subband, especially the channel quality of the resource block in the subband overlapping area, thereby improving the granularity of frequency-selective scheduling, and improving the frequency-selective scheduling and the link adaptation, and therefore, the system throughput is increased. | 2015-04-30 |
20150117250 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ESTIMATING QUEUING DELAY - Provided is a method of estimating a queuing delay. The method includes: obtaining a round trip time (RTT) reference value, a forward one-way transmit time (OTT) reference value and a backward OTT reference value; and in accordance with a determination of whether a first increment rate is larger or smaller than a second increment rate, updating one of the forward OTT reference value and the backward OTT reference value based on the RTT reference value, the first increment rate being a rate of increment in local time of the transmitter, the second increment rate being a rate of increment in local time of the receiver. | 2015-04-30 |
20150117251 | METHOD FOR MEASURING NETWORK THROUGHPUT - A method for measuring network throughput is provided. The method comprises the following steps: exchanging messages with a time synchronization protocol server in compliance with a time synchronization protocol, synchronizing a slave clock with a master clock of the time synchronization protocol server according to time information related to the messages, and calculating at least one network throughput according to the time information and size information related to the messages. | 2015-04-30 |
20150117252 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATED DCB CONFIGURATION OF ACCESS SWITCHES - A system and method of automated Data Center Bridging (DCB) configuration of an access switch includes a control unit, a memory, and a port configured to couple the access switch to a peer device. The control unit is configured to operate the port according to a state machine including a DCB disabled state, a DCB downstream state, and a DCB upstream state. When the port is in the DCB disabled state, the control unit exchanges network traffic on the port without any DCB extensions. When the port is in the DCB upstream state, the control unit exchanges network traffic on the port using DCB extensions based on the DCB configuration and receives the DCB configuration from the peer device. When the port is in the DCB downstream state, the control unit exchanges network traffic on the port using the DCB extensions and transmits the DCB configuration to the peer device. | 2015-04-30 |
20150117253 | INTEREST MESSAGES WITH A PAYLOAD FOR A NAMED DATA NETWORK - A network device can process a payload in an Interest packet. During operation, the network device can receive an Interest packet that includes a name or a name prefix associated with one or more target entities for the Interest. If the network device determines that the Interest packet includes a payload, the network node can analyze the Interest's name and/or payload to determine an operation to perform for processing the payload. The network device then proceeds to process the payload by performing the determined operation. | 2015-04-30 |
20150117254 | OBJECT STORE CREATION - A method of creating an object store is provided. Node table information reading and link table information are read. The node table information includes node information for a plurality of nodes. The link table information includes link information between pairs of nodes of the plurality of nodes. An anchored network record is created for each node of the plurality of nodes based on the node information and the link information and a defined maximum degree of separation. The anchored network record includes anchor node information associated with an anchor node of the anchored network record and a node record for each node of the plurality of nodes that is within the defined maximum degree of separation from the anchor node of the anchored network record. The created anchored network record is stored for each node of the plurality of nodes. | 2015-04-30 |
20150117255 | METHOD AND NETWORKING DEVICE FOR SETTING NETWORK CONNECTION PARAMETERS - The present disclosure discloses a method for automatically setting network connection parameters in a networking device, comprising: accessing a network; acquiring all network connection manners supported by the network; selecting a network connection manner to be used from the acquired network connection manners; and automatically setting network connection parameters for the selected network connection manner. Accordingly, the efficiency of setting network connection parameters may be improved. | 2015-04-30 |
20150117256 | EXTENDED ETHERNET FABRIC SWITCHES - One embodiment of the present invention provides a switch. The switch includes a fabric switch module and a learning module. The fabric switch module maintains a membership in a first fabric switch. A fabric switch includes a plurality of switches and operates as a single switch. The first fabric switch is in an extended fabric switch which further comprises a second fabric switch. The learning module identifies from a notification message from the second fabric switch a media access control (MAC) address learned at the second fabric switch. The learning module stores the MAC address in a local MAC table in association with an Internet Protocol (IP) address of the second fabric switch. | 2015-04-30 |
20150117257 | SLOT ASSIGNMENT METHOD AND APPARATUS BASED ON PARTITION - A partition based slot assignment method and apparatus, applying to other nodes than a sink node in a multi-hop sensor network including: transmitting a detection request packet including subtree information of a subtree of the sink node, using a node one-hop away as a root node; determining whether other nodes and the sink node are in the same subtree according to received detection request packets transmitted by other nodes including subtree information of subtrees of the other nodes; and storing the subtree information of the subtrees of other nodes in a local collision table if the other nodes and sink node are not in a same subtree, and transmitting the table to a parent node of the sink node. By changing a slot assignment in a larger network into independent slot assignments in smaller networks, a slot assignment problem resulting from a large number of nodes may be solved. | 2015-04-30 |
20150117258 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CHANGING STATUS OF CLUSTER NODES, AND RECORDING MEDIUM HAVING THE PROGRAM RECORDED THEREIN - Provided are an apparatus and a method for changing a status of cluster nodes, which determine whether to change statuses of respective cluster nodes themselves to an active status or a standby status without intervention by a manager through self-diagnosis and change the status of the nodes. | 2015-04-30 |
20150117259 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE CLOUD MANAGEMENT - An artificial intelligence engine is provided to analyze a network's bandwidth. The artificial intelligence engine then causes devices, such as links and traffic processing units to be dynamically allocated or de-allocated. The network may comprise a layered network or stacked cloud network whereby an overlaying network comprises a neural cluster of one or more of the artificial intelligence engines. The underlying network comprises the links connecting one or more devices, such as processing components and endpoints. | 2015-04-30 |
20150117260 | METHOD FOR COMMUNICATING WITH OTHER DEVICES, AND COMMUNICATION DEVICE - One embodiment relates to a method performed by a converged personal network service (CPNS) enabled entity. The communication method comprises a step in which the CPNS enabled entity transmits a request message for instructing performance of a discovery procedure to a first PNE which belongs to a first network if a second PNE which belongs to a second network is not found in the coverage of the first network at the state where the CPNS enabled entity is established as a gateway for managing the first network; a step in which the CPNS enabled entity receives, from the first PNE, a response message; and a step of transmitting, based on the response message, a bridge request message for requesting that the second PNE operates as a bridge for interconnecting the first network and the second network, to a second gateway which manages the second network. | 2015-04-30 |
20150117261 | USING MULTIPLE TRAFFIC PROFILES TO DESIGN A NETWORK ON CHIP - The present application is directed to designing an efficient Network on Chip (NoC) interconnect architecture that is adaptable to varied interface protocols of different SoC components/hosts and is compliant to handle different types and models of traffic profiles. Aspects of the present application include a method, which may involve utilizing multiple traffic profiles described in a specification to generate a NoC that satisfies all the traffic profiles. Such a NoC interconnect architecture can be formed from multiple traffic profiles by generating a single consolidated traffic profile from individual or subset based dependency graphs of the multiple traffic profiles. | 2015-04-30 |
20150117262 | LINK ADDITION TO A NETWORK OF LINKED NODES - A method of adding a link to a network of linked nodes is provided. Scoring information is received. The scoring information includes a first node identifier, a second node identifier, and a link value. The link value is determined using an analytic model. A first anchored network record for which a first node associated with the first node identifier is an anchor is identified. A first link record is added to the identified first anchored network record using the first node identifier, the second node identifier, and the link value. A first node record associated with the second node identifier is added to the identified first anchored network record. A node record is identified for the first node in the identified anchored network record. A network score value included in the identified node record is computed based on the link value. The identified node record is updated with the computed network score value. | 2015-04-30 |
20150117263 | TECHNIQUES FOR SIMPLIFYING STACKING TRUNK CREATION AND MANAGEMENT - Techniques for simplifying stacking trunk creation and management are provided. In one embodiment, a switch in a stacking system can receive first and second control packets from one or more other switches in the stacking system, where the first and second control packets are received on first and second stacking ports of the switch respectively. The switch can then determine, based on the first and second control packets, whether the first and second stacking ports can be configured as a single stacking trunk. | 2015-04-30 |
20150117264 | MEDIA STREAM PROVIDING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONNECTING THERETO, MEDIA STREAMING SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - Disclosed herein, among others, is a media streaming system, comprising a registrar server, a media stream providing device, and a media stream receiving device. The registrar server is configured to register a piece of connection information associated with the media stream providing device, the connection information comprising a local network location, a public network location, a broker location, and a proxy location. The media stream receiving device is configured to obtain the connection information from the registrar server, and to commence measuring simultaneously, based on the aforementioned locations, first, second, third, and fourth costs for connecting to the media stream providing device via a local path, a remote path, a peer-to-peer path, and a proxy-assisted path, respectively. The media stream receiving device then selects one of those paths based on the measured costs. | 2015-04-30 |
20150117265 | System and Method for Topology Transparent Zoning in Network Communications - An Autonomous System domain comprising a topology transparent zone comprising a plurality of topology transparent zone nodes at least some of which are topology transparent zone edge nodes, wherein the topology transparent zone nodes are interconnected with one another via a plurality of internal links, and a plurality of neighboring external nodes connected to the topology transparent zone edge nodes via a plurality of external links, wherein no link state advertisements (LSAs) describing the internal links are distributed to the neighboring external nodes. | 2015-04-30 |
20150117266 | SPANNING-TREE BASED LOOP DETECTION FOR AN ETHERNET FABRIC SWITCH - One embodiment of the present invention provides a switch. The switch includes a local database, a packet processor, a data management module, and a tree construction module. The packet processor extracts spanning tree information associated with a remote switch. The data management module stores the extracted spanning tree information in the local database. The tree construction module assigns an interface state associated with a spanning tree to a local interface based on the extracted spanning tree information. | 2015-04-30 |
20150117267 | Network Topology of Hierarchical Ring with Recursive Shortcuts - An interconnection system comprising a plurality of nodes, each comprising at least two ports, and a plurality of links configured to interconnect ports among the nodes to form a hierarchical multi-level ring topology, wherein the ring topology comprises a plurality of levels of rings including a base ring and at least two hierarchical shortcut rings, and wherein each node connected to a higher-level shortcut ring is also connected to all lower-level rings including the base ring. | 2015-04-30 |
20150117268 | SERVICE PROVIDER NODE, A METHOD THEREIN, AND A COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - A service provider node ( | 2015-04-30 |
20150117269 | Full Duplex Services Using RTS/CTS - Systems and methods are described for point-to-point and point-to-multipoint full duplex networking In some embodiments, physical, medium access control (MAC), and routing protocols are integrated. In some embodiments, cross-layer optimization by the use of a full duplex capability table in performing routing and messaging is used to increase the channel utilization of full duplex networks, thereby making it possible for multiple nodes to communicate simultaneously over the same channel. In some embodiments, such full duplex capability is provided using Wi-Fi or Wi-Fi-like wireless protocols in a mesh network. | 2015-04-30 |
20150117270 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING GUARD PERIOD ON TIME DIVISION DUPLEX SYSTEM - Disclosed are a method and an apparatus for determining a Guard Period (GP) in a Time Division Duplexing (TDD) system. A communication method based on Time Division Duplexing (TDD) includes: determining, by a base station, a guard period based on information on a distance between user equipment and the base station; and performing, by the base station, downlink transmission to the user equipment based on the determined guard period, wherein the guard period is determined based on one of a default guard period mode, a reduced guard period mode, and a zero guard period mode, and the reduced guard period mode is a mode for setting a reduced guard period, which is shorter than the default guard period set based on the default guard period mode, and the zero guard period mode is a mode for setting a length of the guard period to 0. | 2015-04-30 |
20150117271 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING HYBRID AUTOMATIC REPEAT REQUEST ACKNOWLEDGE INFORMATION - A method and apparatus for transmitting HARQ-ACK information are provided. The method includes: in a CA TDD system, when uplink-downlink configurations of aggregated serving cells are different, and a mode of PUCCH format 1b with channel selection is configured to be used to feed back the HARQ-ACK, determining, according to a timing relationship between the PDSCH and the HARQ-ACK information complied by a secondary serving cell, a set of downlink subframes of aggregated serving cells in a feedback window corresponding to an uplink subframe; and determining, according to the relationship between the sets of downlink subframes of the aggregated serving cells in a feedback window corresponding to uplink subframe, the transmission mode of the HARQ-ACK information of the serving cells and the used PUCCH resources when transmitting the HARQ-ACK information; and on the determined PUCCH resources, transmitting the HARQ-ACK information by using the determined transmission mode of the HARQ-ACK information. | 2015-04-30 |
20150117272 | CARRIER AGGREGATION FEEDBACK METHOD, DEVICE AND SYSTEM FOR DIFFERENT TDD UPLINK/DOWNLINK CONFIGURATIONS - Disclosed are a carrier aggregation feedback method, device and system relating to communication technologies. The number M of subframes requiring ACK/NACK feedback in a current uplink subframe is determined according to a TDD uplink/downlink configuration that corresponds to each carrier and is used for determining a timing relationship based on which a UE reports ACK/NACK feedback information of the carrier, and then ACK/NACK feedback information transmitted by a terminal device in the current uplink subframe and a candidate channel resource used for channel selection are determined according to the value of M, so as to transmit the ACK/NACK feedback information in the candidate channel resource by using PUCCH format 1b in combination with channel selection. | 2015-04-30 |
20150117273 | UPLINK/DOWNLINK CONFIGURATION METHOD AND DEVICE IN SYSTEM USING TIME DIVISION DUPLEX COMMUNICATION MODE - Disclosed are an uplink-downlink configuration method and device in a system using a time division duplex communication mode, which relate to the technical field of wireless communications and are used for optimizing a configuration solution of an uplink/downlink subframe allocation manner. In the present invention, the method comprises: a central node device receiving reference information which is used for configuring an uplink-downlink configuration and sent by a transmission node device managed by the central node device; the central node device configuring the uplink-downlink configuration according to the received reference information; and the central node device sending the information about the configured uplink-downlink configuration to the corresponding transmission node device or to the corresponding transmission node device and a terminal. The configuration solution of the uplink-downlink configuration in the present invention is more optimized. | 2015-04-30 |
20150117274 | Network Node and Method Therein for HARQ Processes in a D2D Communication - In accordance with an example embodiment of the present invention, disclosed is a method and an apparatus thereof for handling a conflict resolution between storage requirements of multiple applications sharing the same data. A conflict resolution function resolves the conflicts in several steps and the result is either a coordinated merge of the different applications' storage requirements in multiple groups according to their needs and/or a controlled reduction of the relevance of some of the storage requirements for some applications. | 2015-04-30 |
20150117275 | METHOD AND APPARATUS OF TRANSMITTING CONTROL INFORMATION CONSIDERING TDD-FDD CA - The present disclosure relates to an apparatus and method for configuring a DCI format for a TDD-FDD CA environment and an FDD-TDD CA environment. According to aspects, an HARQ process number field, a DAI filed in a downlink DCI format, and a DAI field in an uplink DCI format are differently configured for the TDD-FDD CA environment and the FDD-TDD CA environment. | 2015-04-30 |
20150117276 | RESOURCE SELECTION FOR TRANSMISSION OF MULTIPLE ACK/NACK ON PUCCH CHANNEL - In a method of operating a communication network ( | 2015-04-30 |
20150117277 | DATA TRANSMISSION METHOD AND SYSTEM - A data transmission method and system are provided. The data transmission method includes: transmitting, by a BBU, frequency domain data obtained by performing a multi-antenna MIMO coding, to a RRU via a CPRI; receiving, by the RRU, the frequency domain data transmitted by the BBU, via the CPRI; and performing, by the RRU, an OFDM symbol generation processing on the frequency domain data received via the CPRI, to convert the frequency domain data into time domain data. With this method, a rate of the CPRI can be significantly lowered, and a bandwidth of the CPRI can be dynamically adjusted in the communication system according to the load and the usage of frequency resources, thereby lowering the bandwidth of the CPRI. | 2015-04-30 |
20150117278 | LTE-based method, system, and device for ultra-distance coverage communication - An LTE-based method, system, and device for ultra-distance coverage communication. The method comprises: increasing an uplink feedback subframe interval at a terminal side and an uplink feedback subframe interval at a base station side; after receiving uplink scheduling information sent by the base station side, the terminal side sending data over a subframe whose subframe interface is the increased uplink feedback subframe interval at the terminal side; and the terminal side receiving data verification information that is delivered by the base station side over a subframe whose subframe interval is the increased uplink feedback subframe interval at the base station side. | 2015-04-30 |
20150117279 | DUAL BAND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPARATUS WITH ADVANCED HARMONIC REDUCTION CHARACTERISTICS - A dual band wireless communications apparatus may include a first front-end unit configured to receive a power voltage and performing wireless communications processing using a first frequency band, a second front-end unit configured to receive the power voltage and performing wireless communications processing using a second frequency band higher than the first frequency band, and a harmonic filter unit connected between a power voltage terminal and a power terminal of the first front-end unit receiving the power voltage to block harmonics within a central frequency of the first frequency band. | 2015-04-30 |
20150117280 | BROADBAND ISOLATION LOW-LOSS ISM/MB-HB TUNABLE DIPLEXER - Embodiments of a tunable radio frequency (RF) diplexer and methods of duplexing transmission and receive signals are disclosed. In one embodiment, the RF diplexer includes a first hybrid coupler, a second hybrid coupler, and an RF filter circuit, and a phase inversion component. Both the RF filter circuit and the phase inversion component are connected between the first hybrid coupler and the second hybrid coupler. In some embodiments, the phase inversion component is provided by the RF filter circuit, while in other embodiments, the phase inversion component is provided separately. The phase inversion component is configured to provide a differential phase shift. The benefit of introducing the differential phase shift is that it provides increased isolation and broadband isolation between the different frequency bands being diplexed by the RF diplexer. | 2015-04-30 |
20150117281 | RF DIPLEXER - Embodiments of a tunable radio frequency (RF) diplexer and methods of operating the same are disclosed. In one embodiment, the RF diplexer includes a first hybrid coupler, a second hybrid coupler, an RF filter circuit, and a phase inversion component. Both the RF filter circuit and the phase inversion component are connected between the first hybrid coupler and the second hybrid coupler. The phase inversion component is configured to provide approximately a differential phase. The RF filter circuit is configured to provide a passband and a notch. The RF filter circuit is tunable to provide the notch on both a high-frequency side of the passband and a low frequency side of the passband. Accordingly, the tunable RF diplexer provides lower insertion losses and higher isolation regardless of whether the one of the diplexed frequency bands is set at higher frequencies or lower frequencies than the other diplexed frequency band. | 2015-04-30 |
20150117282 | METHOD FOR ENHANCING DATA TRANSFER ACROSS A WIRELESS NETWORK ARRANGEMENT - A method of route prediction and device configuration for enhancing data transfer across a wireless network arrangement by using routing information to predict data transfer routes and configuring devices to switch between states to reduce data transference time and power consumption of a wireless network arrangement. | 2015-04-30 |
20150117283 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND METHOD THEREOF - A mobile communication device and a method thereof are provided. The method, adopted by a mobile communication device connected to a serving cell, including: receiving a measurement request for a first target cell; in response to the measurement request, acquiring first timing information of first system information for a first target cell; scheduling an autonomous gap substantially corresponding to occurrence of the first system information according to the first timing information; and initiating the autonomous gap to receive the first system information from the first target cell. | 2015-04-30 |
20150117284 | Reducing Periodic Reporting in Discontinuous Receive (DRX) Mode - Techniques for avoiding or reducing unnecessary CSI and/or SRS transmissions in a wireless communications system. In an example method, a user terminal periodically transmits ( | 2015-04-30 |
20150117285 | TERMINAL POWER-SAVING METHOD AND TERMINAL POWER-SAVING DEVICE, AND NETWORK-SIDE POWER-SAVING DEVICE - A terminal power-saving method, a terminal power-saving device, and a network-side power-saving device are disclosed. The terminal power-saving device includes a power-saving parameter receiving module and a power-saving execution module. The power-saving parameter receiving module is configured to receive an idle-mode power-saving parameter from a network side, and the power-saving execution module is configured to execute a power-saving operation according to the idle-mode power-saving parameter after the terminal enters an idle mode. When a terminal accessing a 3GPP network has a power-saving requirement, the terminal can perform more optimal power-saving control through a long DRX parameter in a connection mode, and in an idle mode the terminal can receive paging message in an active window time interval and close a wireless transceiver system in a dormant time interval, thereby greatly reducing the power consumption of the terminal, and achieving the purpose of power-saving. | 2015-04-30 |
20150117286 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING DISCONTINUOUS RECEPTION IN MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for controlling discontinuous reception (DRX) in a mobile communication system. The method for controlling the DRX of a terminal in a mobile communication system includes the steps of: receiving DRX-setting information from a base station; determining whether or not a first condition is satisfied, the first condition being that a current subframe exists between a first time point when receiving the DRX-setting information and a second time point when an event triggering the application of a short DRX cycle occurs; and applying a preset DRX cycle when the first condition is satisfied. | 2015-04-30 |
20150117287 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSCEIVING DATA USING PLURALITY OF CARRIERS IN MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for performing a discontinuous reception (DRX) operation while transceiving data using a plurality of carriers in a mobile communication system. The communication method for a terminal according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises receiving a control message, including setting information of a secondary serving cell (SCell) to be added and discontinuous reception setting information, from a primary serving cell (PCell) and applying, if the control message includes an indicator indicating that the first base station to which the SCell to be added belongs and the second base station to which the PCell belongs are different from each other, the DRX setting information to the serving cell of a first base station. According to one embodiment of the present invention, a discontinuous reception (DRX) operation is applied upon the occurrence of inter-base-station carrier aggregation, thus reducing battery consumption. | 2015-04-30 |
20150117288 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR TETHERING - A device for tethering is provided, which includes a storage unit configured to store commands for a tethering operation, and a control unit configured to perform the commands stored in the storage unit, to determines whether a preset condition is satisfied while providing tethering to at least one target terminal, and to adjust a transmission period of a beacon message transmitted at a certain period for the tethering if the preset condition is satisfied. | 2015-04-30 |
20150117289 | METHOD AND NETWORK NODE FOR SAVING POWER IN A USER EQUIPMENT - A method and network node of a radio network, for enabling a User Equipment (UE) to save power in radio communication with the network node. The network node sets a waiting threshold for the UE and communicates data with the UE over a radio link. The network node also obtains traffic characteristics pertaining to the radio communication, and predicts a waiting time until next data is to be communicated with the UE based on the traffic characteristics. The network node further triggers the UE to enter a Discontinuous Reception (DRX) sleep when the predicted waiting time is longer than the waiting threshold. Thereby, power can be saved in the UE by immediately going to sleep after the last data. | 2015-04-30 |
20150117290 | System and Method for Mobile Terminal Initiated Communications - A system and method for improving efficiency of satellite communications is described. In one embodiment, efficient satellite communications is enabled through event-driven reporting by a mobile terminal. | 2015-04-30 |
20150117291 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RESOURCE MAPPING FOR PHYSICAL CHANNEL IN MULTIPLE CELL SYSTEM - The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. More particularly, provided is a method for determining a resource allocation scheme, related reference signals, transmission timing, transmission power, scrambling and the like for a physical channel so that a terminal can receive in an accurate and efficient manner the physical channel transmitted in a multiple cell environment. | 2015-04-30 |
20150117292 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RECONFIGURING DEVICE-TO-DEVICE CONNECTION INFORMATION IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and apparatus for reconfiguring device-to-device (D2D) connection information in a wireless communication system is provided. A first device is connected to a second device through a D2D connection. The first device receives a connection reconfiguration request message including at least one of a new quality of service (QoS) parameter, a new security information parameter, and a new D2D identifier, transmits a connection reconfiguration response message, which indicates whether to accept the request of the connection reconfiguration, to the response of the connection reconfiguration request message, and receives a connection reconfiguration confirm message. | 2015-04-30 |
20150117293 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ESTABLISHING DEVICE-TO-DEVICE CONNECTION IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and apparatus for establishing a device-to-device (D2D) connection in a wireless communication system is provided. A network transmits a connection establishment request message to request of the D2D connection establishment to a first device and a second device, receives a connection establishment response message indicating whether to accept the request of the D2D connection establishment from the first device and the second device, and transmits a connection establishment confirm message to confirm the D2D connection establishment to a first device and a second device. The connection establishment request message includes at least one of a connection establishment type, a quality of (QoS) parameter for the D2D connection, and security information. | 2015-04-30 |
20150117294 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SUPPORTING FLEXIBLY CHANGING DUPLEX DIRECTIONS OF SUBFRAME IN TDD SYSTEM - Disclosed is a method for supporting flexibly changing a duplex direction of a subframe in a Time Division Duplexing system including adjusting, by a base station, uplink-downlink subframe distribution in a frame structure of the base station, and scheduling uplink-downlink channel resources for User Equipment. | 2015-04-30 |