| 18th week of 2011 patent applcation highlights part 37 |
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| 20110103277 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR EFFICIENT SIGNALING AND USAGE OF RESOURCES FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS SUPPORTING CIRCUIT SWITCHED AND PACKET SWITCHED SESSIONS - Method and apparatus efficiently signal and use resources for wireless communications supporting circuit switched (CS) and packet switched sessions (PS). Signaling and interaction between the wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU), and various network entities, such as the Mobility Management Entity (MME), the Visitor Location Register (VLR), and Base Stations (BS), are used to implement circuit switched fall back (CSFB) in a PS system. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110103278 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR GATEWAY AND PROGRAM - A gateway apparatus arranged between the mobile circuit switched network and the mobile IMS network, includes a call control unit which converts a control signal output from the mobile circuit switched network into at least one of SIP and SDP to output a signal converted to the mobile IMS network and a conversion unit which receives a line switching protocol for an audio signal output from the mobile circuit switched network. The conversion unit decides, using at least one of SIP and SDP, output from the mobile IMS network and received by the call control unit, on whether the partner terminal is to be connected via the mobile IMS network to the mobile circuit switched network, via the mobile IMS network to a fixed network or via the mobile IMS network to a mobile broadband network, then converts the line switching protocol to one of different protocol, depending on a result of the decision, and outputs the protocol converted signal to the mobile IMS network (FIG. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110103279 | SLEEP-MODE WIRELESS CELL RESELECTION APPARATUS, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS - Embodiments herein may receive a ranging request message with a sleep-mode indication from a mobile node at a destination base station in a wireless packet-switched network. System paging information may be accessed to determine a base station identifier associated with an originating base station that last served the mobile node. The originating base station may be contacted to retrieve a service context associated with the mobile node and any downlink packets buffered for the mobile node by the originating base station. Other embodiments may be described and claimed. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110103280 | Power Saving in a Communication Device - A method in a communication device for processing a received data unit includes determining whether the communication device is an intended receiver based on the received data unit, determining whether the received data unit includes an exclusive use indication, where the exclusive use indication indicates that a plurality of data units are transmitted only to the at least one intended receiver during a time period, where each of the plurality of data units has at least a respective physical layer (PHY) preamble, and determining a time interval during which the communication device need not listen for incoming data units using (i) a result of determining whether the received data unit includes an exclusive use indication and (ii) a result of determining whether the communication device is an intended receiver. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110103281 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR NEGOTIATING SLEEP CYCLE SETTING BETWEEN BASE STATION AND MOBILE STATION IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - An apparatus and method for negotiating sleep cycle setting between a base station and a mobile station in a wireless communication system are provided. A method for operating a transmitter to negotiate sleep cycle setting of a mobile station in a wireless communication system includes transmitting a DSx request message including sleep cycle setting information to a receiver, and receiving a DSx response message, which includes at least one of acceptance/refusal information about DSx and acceptance/refusal information about sleep cycle setting change, from the receiver. Herein, the DSx is one of a Dynamic Service Addition (DSA), a Dynamic Service Change (DSC), and a Dynamic Service Deletion (DSD). | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110103282 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR CONTROLLING HAND-OVER MESSAGE TRANSMISSION POWER IN A MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM - The present invention relates to a method and a device for controlling the hand-over message transmission power of a mobile station in a mobile communication system. The present invention comprises the processes of: acquiring uplink data relating to a hand-over target base station; using the uplink data to determine the maximum transmission power of a hand-over ranging message; and transmitting a hand-over ranging message having a power level below the determined maximum transmission power to the hand-over target base station. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110103283 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR WAN/WLAN UNICAST AND MULTICAST COMMUNICATION - IP unicast communication is provided between mobile devices in a wide area network and a wireless local area network coupled by a gateway component. Data communication is established between a mobile device and the wireless local area network, thereby receiving a first unicast IP address associated with the mobile device. A multicast group is joined within the wireless local area network and registering with that multicast group using a predetermined multicast IP address as a destination IP address and the first unicast IP address as a source address. The device disconnects from data communication within the wireless local area network, thereby releasing the first unicast IP address. Data communication is established between the mobile device and the wide area network, thereby receiving a second unicast IP address associated with the mobile device. The device then automatically communicates with the gateway component, via the wide area network, to specify the second unicast IP address as the source address for the mobile device within the multicast group. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110103284 | Managing Router Advertisement Messages to Support Roaming of Wireless Mobile Client Devices - Techniques are provided to manage how router advertisement messages are forwarded for ultimate wireless transmission in a wireless network. In one embodiment, a multicast router advertisement message intended for a virtual local area network is converted into individual unicast router advertisement messages directed to specific wireless mobile client devices that are part of that virtual local area network. In another embodiment, router advertisement messages are routed between controllers according to the current location of a wireless mobile client device. In still other embodiments, techniques are provided to minimize the volume of the router advertisement messages sent over a wireless network, and to proactively send a unicast router advertisement message to a mobile client device that has performed a handoff, without waiting for a router solicitation message. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110103285 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING HOME NETWORK DEVICES USING MULTICAST ENABLED REMOTE CONTROLS - A system, method, and article of manufacture for controlling home network devices using a multicast enabled remote control. The system includes a plurality of home network devices capable of receiving and/or transmitting multicast input and/or output signals and a home gateway to receive audio/video signals generated outside of the home and to transform the audio/video signals into multicast output signals. The system also includes a multicast enabled remote control to detect, aggregate, store and display all audio/video multicast output signals on the multicast enabled remote control, to enable a user to redirect an audio/video multicast output signal to one or more of the plurality of home network devices capable of receiving multicast input signals, and to control the plurality of home network devices capable of receiving and/or transmitting multicast input and/or output signals. Other embodiments may be described and claimed. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110103286 | MBSFN SUBFRAME GENERATION AND PROCESSING FOR UNICAST - Certain aspects of the present disclosure propose methods and apparatus for utilizing unused Multimedia Broadcast over a Single Frequency Network (MBSFN) subframes for unicast transmissions. The proposed methods include efficient cyclic prefix (CP) and MBSFN frame structure design, and an optimized subframe/carrier bundling window design for hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback in presence of the MBSFN subframes. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110103287 | System and Method for Unified Feedback in a Communication System - In an embodiment, a method of operating a communication device includes determining a first coordinated multipoint (CoMP) mode, electronically receiving feedback from a user device in the uniform feedback format, and determining transmission parameters of the first CoMP mode. The first CoMP mode includes one of a plurality of CoMP modes, and each of the plurality of CoMP modes is configured to operate using a uniform feedback format. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110103288 | METHOD OF TRANSMITTING SYSTEM INFORMATION RELATED TO POINT-TO MULTIPOINT SERVICE - A method of receiving system information performed by a user equipment (UE) is provided. The method includes receiving, from a network, an indicator indicating a change of system information related to a point-to-multipoint service on a physical control channel, and receiving changed system information related to the point-to-multipoint service in response to the indication. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110103289 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EFFICIENT ENHANCED MULTICAST BROADCAST SYSTEM (E-MBS) CONFIGURATION MESSAGE DECODING - A base station comprises a transmitter configured to transmit a downlink frame. The downlink frame comprising a first configuration message associated with the configuration of Enhanced-Multicast Broadcast Service (E-MBS). The first configuration message comprises a field with an indicator to indicate a next configuration message to be decoded by a subscriber station. The subscriber station, upon decoding the first configuration message, refrains from decoding subsequent configuration messages that precede the next configuration message to be decoded by the subscriber station in accordance with the indicator. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110103290 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, MOBILE STATION DEVICE, AND WIRELESS RECEPTION METHOD - A base station device includes: a control signal generator that generates a signal of control data including items corresponding to the type of sub-frames to be allocated; a scheduling information signal generator that generates a signal of scheduling information indicating a sub-frame to be a first sub-frame among sub-frames specified by first-type sub-frame candidate information; and a multiplexer that allocates the signal of the control data to the first-type and second-type sub-frames, and allocates the signal of the scheduling information to the first-type sub-frame. A mobile station device includes: a frame-type determining unit that determines the type of each of received sub-frames based on the first-type sub-frame candidate information and the scheduling information; and a control data detector that detects, for each sub-frame, the control data including the items corresponding to the type indicated by the result of the determination by the frame-type determining unit. Accordingly, the processing load on reception of control data is reduced. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110103291 | INTRA-SUBFRAME TIME MULTIPLEXING - A relay node ( | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110103292 | DL Backhaul Control Channel Design For Relays - Methods and apparatus are described for providing compatible mapping for backhaul control channels, frequency first mapping of control channel elements (CCEs) to avoid relay-physical control format indicator channel (R-PCFICH) and a tree based relay resource allocation to minimize the resource allocation map bits. Methods and apparatus (e.g., relay node (RN)/evolved Node-B (eNB)) formapping of the Un downlink (DL) control signals, Un DL positive acknowledgement (ACK)/negative acknowledgement (NACK) and/or relay-physical downlink control channel (R-PDCCH) (or similar) in the eNB to RN (Un interface) DL direction are described. This includes time/frequency mapping of above-mentioned control signals into resource blocks (RBs) of multimedia broadcast multicast services (MBMS) single frequency network (MBSFN)-reserved sub-frames in the RN cell and encoding procedures for these. Also described are methods and apparatus for optimizing signaling overheads by avoiding R-PCFICH and minimizing bits needs for resource allocation. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110103293 | INTERNET BASED PARTITIONING WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A portable and autonomous wireless communication system can be formed to provide streaming video from a data collection source to a plurality of subscribers in a location having little to no existing infrastructure. Using Internet Protocol (IP) based communication, live streaming video is provided over a wireless communication system to a control station allowing video and other data to be routed to multiple subscribers within a regional network. The control station can also act as an access point to the Internet or other wide area network that can then be used to transport the data to another remote location for distribution to other subscribers. As the event of interest moves, the control station and the network formed around that control station can be transported while network connectivity is maintained. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110103294 | DONOR EVOLVED NODEB, RELAY NODE AND COMMUNICATION METHOD THEREOF - A relay node, a donor evolved NodeB (DeNB) and a communication method thereof for use in a long term evolution (LTE) network are provided. The LTE network comprises the relay node and the DeNB. In the present LTE network of the present invention, at least two bearers can be set up between the relay node and the DeNB so that signaling messages can be transmitted between the relay node and the DeNB based on different priorities. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110103295 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING RELAY BACKHAUL COMMUNICATIONS IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - An apparatus and method for designing a relay backhaul channel in a wireless communication system are provided. At least one relay node utilized for communication with respective user devices and at least one relay backhaul channel for conducting in-band half-duplex communication with the at least one relay node are identified. The relay backhaul channel may be an FDM channel, a TDM/FDM channel, or a joint R-PDCCH/R-PDSCH channel. The relay channel is used for communicating with the at least one relay node. The supportable ranks of the R-PDSCH channel may depend on the number of resources reserved for demodulation reference signals in the R-PDCCH region. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110103296 | TDM-FDM RELAY BACKHAUL CHANNEL FOR LTE ADVANCED - Methods, apparatus and computer program products are provided for receiving a first group of resource blocks, frequency multiplexed in a transmission subframe, where the first group of resource blocks spans less than a full transmission bandwidth and includes a UE control channel in a first time interval, a relay control channel and a first quantity of dedicated reference symbols in a second time interval, and a shared data channel and a second quantity of dedicated reference symbols in a third time interval. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110103297 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPARATUS - A repeater capable of improving the data decoding performance at a base station while achieving sharing of processing for data exchange between repeaters and initial data transmission to the base station (eNB) is provided. A repeater | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110103298 | Systems and Methods for Wireless Transmission of Packet-Based Data to One or More Residential Gateways - Methods and systems are disclosed that include receiving packet-based data at residential gateway from a service provider unit. In one embodiment, a location of a residential gateway is determined and at least a portion of the packet-based data is transmitted wirelessly to the residential gateway when the residential gateway is at an approved location. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110103299 | PACKET ACKNOWLEDGMENT FOR POLLED MESH NETWORK COMMUNICATIONS - A method, wireless mesh network and processor-readable storage medium for promoting successful end-to-end communication in a polled mesh network while improving system throughput are disclosed herein. Successful communications are acknowledged at each hop level to reduce the need to duplicate packets for redundancy. In this way, if a first bidirectional node transmits a packet to a second bidirectional node, the second bidirectional node acknowledges the packet, and the first bidirectional node receives the acknowledgement, then the first bidirectional node does not need to send a duplicate packet. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110103300 | DATA ENCAPSULATION AND SERVICE DISCOVERY OVER A BROADCAST OR MULTICAST SYSTEM - Systems and methods may receive a baseband frame comprising a Layer 2 signaling section and an encapsulation protocol packet encapsulating: a service discovery real time transport protocol packet, and a real time transport protocol packet comprising at least one physical layer pipe transporting at least one service component for at least one service, wherein the Layer 2 signaling section includes a service list comprising one or more service names each associated with a respective physical layer pipe identifier of the at least one physical layer pipe; process the Layer 2 signaling section to obtain the service list; determining a desired service name of the one or more service names, the desired service name being associated with a first service component of the at least one service component; and identify a first physical layer pipe identifier associated with the desired service name to initiate decoding of the first service component. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110103301 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR RECEPTION OF DYNAMIC INFORMATION BY INACTIVE RECEIVERS - Methods and apparatus for the resource-efficient reception of selected segments of system information in receivers. In one embodiment, a wireless device can automatically receive and store segments of pilot channel information, which may be decoded at a later time. By time-shifting the decoding of pilot channel information (or selectively obviating portions thereof based on “intelligent” filtering), the wireless device can reduce the radio and processing burdens for monitoring radio channels. In one variant, the majority of the wireless device can power down for a “snoozing” mode, wherein the device wakes at a later point in order to decode the cached context information data. Various methods for selectively receiving and filtering context information for storage are also disclosed, as well as network apparatus and associated business methods. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110103302 | CAMPUS ALERTING VIA WIRELESS GEOCAST - A geocast alerting system employs wireless geocast transmissions to deliver customized alerting messages to particular geographic areas. Geocast alerting regions and sub-regions can be defined within the system. Upon notice of the occurrence of an emergent situation, one or more geographic areas that may potentially be affected by the emergent situation are determined. The potentially effected geographic regions are compared with geocast alerting regions and sub-regions corresponding to particular geographic areas. Target alerting regions that should receive alerting messages are identified based on the comparison. The content of alerting messages can be tailored for each target alerting region. The content of alerting messages can contain distinct portions of content, each portion tailored based upon one or more conditions related to communications devices within the target alerting region. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110103303 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND ROUTING METHOD FOR PACKET SWITCHING SERVICE, FEMTO AP USING THE ROUTING METHOD - A wireless communication system, a routing method for a packet switched service, and a Femto AP (FAP) using the routing method are provided. The wireless communication system may include a core network, a broadband IP network, a FAP and at least a user equipment (UE). The UE connects the core network through the FAP and the broadband IP network. The routing method is as follows. The FAP may evaluate a request of the packet switched service sent by the UE, and may reply an accept message to the UE. The accept message may include a FAP address. The UE may use the FAP address to send a packet switching data to the FAP in order to obtain the packet switched service. The FAP may directly conduct the packet switched service with a packet switched service supply end through the broadband IP network without routing through the core network. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110103304 | PACKET BUFFERING METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REDUCING PACKET LOSS IN PROXY MOBILE IPv6 - Disclosed are a packet buffering apparatus and method for reducing packet loss in a proxy mobile IPv6, which include a first Mobile Access Gateway (MAG) requesting a Local Mobility Anchor (LMA) for packet buffering when outgoing Mobile Node (MN) being served by the MAG is detected, and the LMA for buffering the packet transmitted to the corresponding MN when receiving a request for the packet buffering. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110103305 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO SUSPEND PACKET SWITCHED SERVICES - Methods and apparatus to suspend packet switched services in a mobile network are disclosed. An example method includes sending from a mobile equipment a session management status message comprising a first indication indicating suspend packet data protocol context. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110103306 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO USE WINDOW ALIGNMENT INFORMATION TO PROCESS ACKNOWLEDGMENT INFORMATION ASSOCIATED WITH TRANSMITTED DATA BLOCKS - Methods and apparatus to use window alignment information to process acknowledgment information associated with transmitted data blocks are disclosed. An example method disclosed herein comprises receiving acknowledgment information piggy-backed with data when a first previously transmitted block is associated with at least one of a tentative acknowledgment state or a pending acknowledgment state, and advancing a transmit window when the acknowledgment information indicates that all previously transmitted data blocks including the first previously transmitted block have been positively acknowledged. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110103307 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING/RECEIVING REFERENCE SIGNAL FOR POSITIONING IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and apparatus for transmitting/receiving a reference signal for positioning in a wireless communication system are provided. In the method, a BS locates a PA preamble in a second frame among frames constituting each of multiple superframes, locates a SA preamble in first symbols of first and third frames among the frames constituting each of the multiple superframes, determines multiple consecutive first superframes belonging to an LBS zone from among the multiple superframes, includes a reference signal for LBS in a first symbol of a first subframe of a last frame among frames constituting each of the first superframes, includes data in a first symbol of a first subframe of a last frame among frames constituting each of second superframes that correspond to the multiple superframes excluding the first superframes when the data is to be transmitted, and communicates with an MS by using the first and second superframes. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110103308 | METHOD OF TRANSMITTING WARNING MESSAGE IN MULTIPLE COMPONENT CARRIER SYSTEM - A method of transmitting a warning message in a multiple carrier system performed by a network is provided. The method includes transmitting configuration information on aggregated downlink carriers for a user equipment (UE), transmitting, to the UE, carrier information on a first downlink carrier which is used to transmit a warning message, transmitting, to the UE, a notification which informs the UE of the upcoming transmission of the warning message via a second downlink carrier, and transmitting, to the UE, the warning message via the first downlink carrier. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110103309 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONCURRENTLY PROCESSING MULTIPLE RADIO CARRIERS - A concurrent multi-carrier (MC) wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) capable of concurrently processing multiple radio carriers may simultaneously connect to multiple base stations for receiving multiple service flows via multiple air links. The concurrent-MC WTRU may be serviced by multiple base stations through multiple concurrent radio carriers simultaneously during normal operation for downlink and/or uplink communications. Each base station may provide special services optimized for each base station. The WTRU may use a lower quality air link for low priority services or low resolution data services while use a higher quality air link for high bandwidth or low latency services. A diversity gain may be achieved by combining signals from multiple base stations. The support and use of the multiple air links at the WTRU may be transparent to the base stations. Alternatively, base stations' support may be provided for setting up and operations of the multiple air links. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110103310 | CORRELATION ID FOR LOCAL IP ACCESS - The invention relates to a home cellular base station (HeNB), comprising a radio interface (RI), to communicate with a user equipment (UE), a local interface (LI), to communicate with a local gateway (L-GW) providing access to a local IP network, a user plane interface (S1-U), to communicate with a serving gateway (SGW), and a control plane interface (S1-MME), to communicate with a control node (MME). The home cellular base station (HeNB) further comprises a selection module (SelMod) set to obtain a first correlation ID for enabling a direct user plane path between the home cellular base station (HeNB) and the local gateway (L-GW), the first correlation ID being obtained via the control plane interface (S1-MME) upon each establishment of a bearer providing access to the local IP network. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110103311 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MULTIPLEXING DIFFERENT TRAFFIC TYPES OVER A COMMON COMMUNICATION SESSION - An approach is provided for providing a reliable transmission of data associated with different traffic types over a common communication session. A temporary block is established between an apparatus and another apparatus. The apparatus multiplexes Radio Link Control (RLC) acknowledged mode data and at least one of RLC unacknowledged mode data and RLC non-persistent mode data. The apparatus then determines to transmit the multiplexed data in the temporary block flow to the other apparatus. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110103312 | Methods and Apparatus for Switching A Transponder To an Active State, and Asset Management Systems Employing Same - A transponder that may be used as an RFID tag includes a passive circuit to eliminate the need for an “always on” active RF receiving element to anticipate a wake-up signal for the balance of the transponder electronics. This solution allows the entire active transponder to have all circuit elements in a sleep (standby) state, thus drastically extending battery life or other charge storage device life. Also, a wake-up solution that reduces total energy consumption of an active transponder system by allowing all non-addressed transponders to remain in a sleep (standby) state, thereby reducing total system or collection energy. Also, the transponder and wake-up solution are employed in an asset tracking system. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110103313 | METHOD FOR MANAGING A MOBILE NETWORK - Please add an abstract of the disclosure on a separate page. A method for managing a mobile network having local mobile nodes and a mobile router for routing packets amongst said local mobile nodes and to and from another packet routing network comprises the steps of, in response to a recognized indication condition indicating that a local mobile node left the mobile network, notifying one or more components in the mobile accordingly, and in one or more of the components of the mobile network, adapting one or more settings in accordance with said notification. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110103314 | Techniques to negotiate capabilities between networked devices - Techniques for signaling capabilities of a mobile station using a capabilities index as well as a fall back mechanism in case of system failure. The capabilities index can represent multiple capabilities of the mobile station. A mobile station can signal to the base station the mobile station's capabilities using a capability index. A base station can interpret the capability index from the mobile station to learn the capabilities of the mobile station. The base station can signal to the mobile station the base station's supported capabilities using a capabilities index. The capabilities utilized between the base station and mobile station are set according to the base station's signaled capabilities. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110103315 | Coordinated Signaling of Scheduling Information for Uplink and Downlink Communications - A coordinated signaling scheme for both uplink and downlink transmissions between a base station and a user terminal reduces the amount of time that the user terminal must turn on its receiver to listen for scheduling messages and ACK/NACK signaling. A scheduler at a base station aligns the transmission of downlink scheduling messages (e.g., downlink assignments) with uplink grants and ACK/NACK signaling for uplink transmissions. Aligning the downlink scheduling messages with uplink control signaling enables the user terminal to turn off its receiver for longer periods of time. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110103316 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SCHEDULING OF QUALITY OF SERVICE (QoS) TRANSMISSIONS IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Scheduling real-time Quality of Service (QoS) data flows in a large-scale wireless communications system uses credit allocation to active QoS flows based on quality-of-service weights, and the credits are measured in dimensionless units of air interface slot capacity. Scheduling addresses inactive QoS flows with no data pending for transmission that may accumulate up to a burst credits limit based upon a fair share of all credits that would be allocated in a 100% busy system. Intermittent flows such as echo requests or keyboard input can thereby get immediate service by using their burst credits. The flow with the highest credit accumulation is serviced first and may use up to a full time slot (or system quanta) of air interface time reducing header encapsulation overhead when payload sizes (and spectral efficiency) are low. Additive and multiplicative aspects age the negative credits back to zero whenever a flow overspends its credit allocation. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110103317 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SYNCHRONIZING RESOURCES FOR COORDINATED NETWORK DEPLOYMENT - In accordance with an example embodiment of the present invention, a method comprises mapping a first transmission channel to an existing channel of a network element; switching the network element to a secondary communication mode which is one of a secondary transmission mode and a secondary receiving mode; signaling at least one neighbor network element in the secondary communication mode to associate the network element with the at least one neighbor network element; and receiving a first signal on the mapped first transmission channel from the at least one associated network element. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110103318 | Methods And Apparatus For Use In Controlling Wireless Transceiver Operation In A Mobile Communication Device - A mobile device operates for communications via a WLAN with use of a WLAN transceiver portion. During such operation, the mobile device performs one or more scanning operations with use of a WWAN transceiver portion for identifying a set of cell site identifications corresponding to a plurality of base stations of one or more WWANs available in a coverage region of the WLAN. The set of cell site identifications is stored in association with a WLAN profile of the WLAN. Subsequently, while the mobile device operates for communications in a WWAN, the. WLAN transceiver portion may be maintained in a low power state. During the WWAN operation, the mobile device performs one or more scanning operations with use of the WWAN transceiver portion for identifying a current set of cell site identifications corresponding to the currently-serving base station of the WWAN and one or more neighboring base stations. The mobile device compares cell site identifications of the current set with those in the stored set, and identifies if the number or percentage of matching cell site identifications of the current and stored sets meets or exceeds a predetermined threshold. If the predetermined threshold is met or exceeded, the mobile device enables operation of the WLAN transceiver portion for communications via the WLAN; otherwise, the mobile device refrains from enabling operation of the WLAN transceiver portion for communications via the WLAN. This technique may be performed in association with each WLAN profile stored in the mobile device. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110103319 | ACCESS POINT SCHEDULED PEER-TO-PEER COMMUNICATION - Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to a technique for scheduling multiple peer-to-peer communications in a wireless network using an access point (AP). The existing power management framework for AP-based communications is utilized to achieve AP-based scheduling of peer-to-peer communications. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110103320 | CONTENTION-BASED DATA COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND METHOD - Provided is a contention-based data communication apparatus and method that may notify that a radio resource is to be used using a search signal prior to transmitting a communication frame, and may transmit data based on a priority when a search signal received from another communication apparatus is detected. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110103321 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION BASE STATION APPARATUS AND CONTROL CHANNEL ALLOCATION METHOD - A wireless communication base station apparatus that allows the number of times of blind decodings at a mobile station to be reduced without increasing the overhead caused by notifying information. In this apparatus, a CCE allocation part ( | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110103322 | WIRELESS MESH NETWORK SYSTEM, VIRTUAL NODE GENERATING METHOD, THEREOF, UNICAST PACKET ROUTING METHOD, AND SCHEDULING METHOD THEREOF - A wireless mesh network system generates at least one virtual node within a transmission area of a specific mesh node when no mesh nodes exist in two or three continuous quadrants within the transmission area with reference to the specific mesh node. Also, the system performs routing by combining uplink and downlink routing methods so as to support unicast between the mesh nodes in a domain. Further, a channel access order of the mesh nodes is determined based on the potential values allocated to the mesh nodes forming the wireless mesh network according to the field theory. In this instance, the channel access order can be established by a central control method by a central processor for controlling the wireless mesh network or a distributed control method using contention per mesh node. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110103323 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REPORTING FEEDBACK INFORMATION FOR MULTI-CARRIER OPERATION - Method and apparatus for reporting feedback information for multi-carrier operation are disclosed. For more effective support for the asymmetric traffic loads in the downlink, a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) is configured with multiple carriers with an unpaired downlink carrier(s). The unpaired downlink carrier is an active downlink carrier that does not have a corresponding active uplink carrier. The WTRU reports feedback information for multi-carrier operation including feedback for the unpaired downlink carrier. For transmission of the feedback information for the unpaired downlink carrier, a feedback channel may be allocated on a distinct non-overlapping resource region on the uplink carrier so that the network may determine which downlink carrier the received feedback information is for based on the resource region. Alternatively, a different feedback channel may be allocated for the unpaired downlink carrier. Alternatively, the feedback information may be transmitted via medium access control (MAC) encoded feedback. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110103324 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR MULTI-USER MIMO TRANSMISSIONS IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS - A wireless communication system includes a base station capable of communicating with a plurality of subscriber stations. The base station can transmit control information and data to a subscriber stations. The base station also can identify a set of RS patterns to be used to communicate with the subscriber station, assign a subset of antenna port numbers within the set of RS patterns to the subscriber stations. The base station can indicate the assigned states in a Downlink Control Information (DCI) format transmitted in a Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH). The base station transmits the data using a subset of antenna ports corresponding to the subset of antenna port numbers. The base station also can map reference signals corresponding to the subset of antenna ports according to at least one RS pattern within the set of RS patterns. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110103325 | METHOD FOR MAPPING RANGING CHANNELS AND OPPORTUNITIES IN A BROADBAND WIRELESS ACCESS SYSTEM - A method for efficiently updating system information of a base station at a relay station of a broadband wireless access system and an apparatus for performing the method are disclosed. The method for updating system information of an advanced base station (ABS) at an advanced relay station (ARS) of a broadband wireless access system comprises receiving a first message, which includes changed information of the system information of the base station, from the base station; transmitting a second message for acknowledgment of the first message to the base station; and performing application for the changed information. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110103326 | METHOD OF OPERATING USER EQUIPMENT IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM USING A PLURALITY OF UPLINK FREQUENCIES - A method of operating a user equipment in a wireless communication system using a plurality of uplink frequencies is disclosed. The method of operating the user equipment in the wireless communication system using the plurality of uplink frequencies includes identifying deactivation of a specific uplink frequency among the plurality of uplink frequencies, and flushing a Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest (HARQ) process associated with the specific uplink frequency. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110103327 | METHOD OF TRANSMITTING SEMI-PERSISTENT SCHEDULING DATA IN MULTIPLE COMPONENT CARRIER SYSTEM - A method of receiving semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) data performed by a user equipment (UE) in a multi-carrier system is provided. The method includes receiving, on a first carrier, information on a second carrier for second SPS data, the second carrier different from the first carrier, and receiving the second SPS data on the second carrier. The network can implicitly reconfigure the SPS from one CC to another CC without releasing the old SPS configuration in the one CC and setting up a new SPS configuration for the another CC, so that the complexity of SPS reconfiguration procedure is simplified and clarified. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110103328 | METHOD OF PERFORMING RANDOM ACCESS PROCEDURE IN MULTIPLE COMPONENT CARRIER SYSTEM - A method of performing a random access procedure by a user equipment (UE) in a multiple-carrier system is provided. The method includes transmitting, to a base station (BS), a first random access preamble on a first uplink carrier selected from a plurality of uplink carriers, and transmitting, to the BS, a second random access preamble on a second uplink carrier selected from the plurality of uplink carriers when a random access response corresponding to the first random access preamble is not successfully received from the BS. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110103329 | METHOD AND APPARATUS OF REQUIRING UPLINK RESOURCES FOR TRANSMITTING RANGING REQUEST MESSAGE IN COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and an apparatus of requiring uplink resources for transmitting a ranging request message in a communication system are provided. The method includes allocating an uplink bandwidth from a base station, and fragmentizing a Ranging Request (RNG-REQ) message into plural fragmented RNG-REQ messages, when the allocated bandwidth does not accommodate an entire RNG-REQ message, requesting an additional uplink bandwidth by transmitting one fragmented RNG-REQ message, and allocating an requested additional uplink bandwidth from the base station and transmitting a next one fragmented RNG-REQ message. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110103330 | SPECTRUM INTERPRETATION IN A HETEROGENOUS NETWORK - Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide for the application of extension carriers and carrier segments in the context of heterogeneous networks. As described herein, different parts of the spectrum may be interpreted differently by different type of nodes. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110103331 | METHOD AND APPARATUS TO ACTIVATE COMPONENT CARRIERS IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORK - A method and apparatus are disclosed to activate component carriers in a wireless communication system. The method includes sending a dedicated resource control (RRC) signal to configure a user equipment with a plurality of component carriers for carrier aggregation. The method further includes sending an activation signal to the UE to activate a component carrier. The method also includes using the activation signal to request the UE to initiate a random access procedure on the activated component carrier to update the timing advance for uplink transmissions. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110103332 | METHOD AND APPARATUS TO TRIGGER A RANDOM ACCESS PROCEDURE FOR CARRIER AGGREGRATION IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORK - A method and apparatus for a base station to trigger a random access procedure for carrier aggregation in a wireless communication system are disclosed. The method includes sending a dedicated radio resource control signal to configure a user equipment with a plurality of secondary component carriers (SCCs) that include uplink SCCs and/or downlink SCCs for carrier aggregation. The method further includes sending an activation signal to the user equipment to activate a configured downlink SCC. The method also includes transmitting a physical downlink control channel order only on the downlink primary CC to trigger a random access procedure. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110103333 | CARRIER AGGREGATION - Carrier aggregation in a radio communication system is disclosed, in which at least two Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) carriers are aggregated, each of the at least two OFDM carriers comprising subcarriers being spaced in accordance with a subcarrier spacing of the radio communication system, transmission on the at least two OFDM carriers being synchronized in time. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110103334 | METHOD FOR ALLOCATING PHYSICAL HYBRID AUTOMATIC REPEAT REQUEST INDICATOR CHANNEL - A method for allocating a physical hybrid ARQ indicator channel (PHICH) is discussed. The method includes allocating a CDM group according to a cyclic prefix type in consideration of a ratio of the numbers of necessary CDM groups according to spreading factors, and allocating a PHICH to the allocated CDM group. The PHICH includes an ACK/NACK signal multiplexed by code division multiplexing (CDM). Therefore, resources for PHICH transmission are efficiently allocated and a transmission structure can be maintained irrespective of a spreading factor. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110103335 | CONTROL CHANNEL SIGNALLING FOR TRIGGERING THE INDEPENDENT TRANSMISSION OF A CHANNEL QUALITY INDICATOR - The invention suggests a method for providing control signalling in a communication system of generating a control channel signal comprising a transport format and a channel quality indicator trigger signal for triggering a transmission of a channel quality indicator by at least one terminal to the base station, and transmitting the generated control channel signal to at least one terminal, wherein said transport format is a predetermined format for user data transmission by the at least one terminal to the base station and said control channel signal indicates a predetermined mode for reporting the channel quality indicator to the base station, wherein the channel quality indicator transmission is to be triggered by the at least one terminal based on the channel quality indicator trigger signal. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110103336 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION METHOD, MOBILE STATION, AND RADIO BASE STATION - In a mobile communication method according to the present invention, a mobile station (UE) receives downlink data transmitted from a radio base station by using a downlink radio resource assigned to the mobile station by predetermined scheduling information, in a predetermined cycle. The method includes the steps: (A) notifying, to the mobile station (UE), the predetermined cycle and information on the downlink radio resource; (B) notifying, to the mobile station (UE), the predetermined scheduling information; and (C) transmitting downlink data in the predetermined cycle by using the downlink radio resource assigned by the predetermined scheduling information, the transmission starting at a certain point determined on the basis of the received predetermined scheduling information. In the step (C), the predetermined scheduling information is discarded, when the information on the downlink radio resource and information notified by the predetermined scheduling information are inconsistent with each other. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110103337 | GPS-BASED MULTI-MODE SYNCHRONIZATION AND CLOCKING FEMTO-CELLS, PICO-CELLS AND MACRO BASE STATIONS - A method is disclosed for providing syntonisation, synchronization, position or some combination to a wireless base station, micro-cell, pico-cell, femto-cell or access point, by providing holdover backup in a GPS clock module via at least one interface between the GPS clock module and an external time or frequency reference. Switching between synchronization modes is designed to occur on the control side of the oscillator portion of the module rather than at the output of two oscillators. A corresponding GPS clock module apparatus is disclosed for providing holdover backup via at least one interface between the GPS clock module and external time or frequency references. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110103338 | Method and Devices for Providing Enhanced Signaling - Methods and devices for introducing enhanced signals into a wireless environment. The enhanced signals provide for functionality that is not specified in a communication standard corresponding to a standard of a legacy terminal. The enhanced signals can be utilized by a non-legacy terminal. The legacy terminal is incapable of processing the enhanced signals and is unable to detect the presence of the enhanced signals. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110103339 | Method for Allocating Resources for Edge-Users Cooperative Mimo - A method for allocating fractional frequency reuse (FER) resources to perform cooperative MIMO in a multi-cell environment is disclosed. A cell which requests FER resources decides a band for cooperative MIMO with its neighboring cell, and requests the neighboring cell to allocate the decided band for cooperative MIMO. A cell which receives FER resource request receives a request from a neighboring cell to allocate some or all of FER bands allocated to the neighboring cell as a band for cooperative MIMO, decides whether to grant the request, and allocates some or all of the requested FER bands as the band for cooperative MIMO with the neighboring cell if the request is granted. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110103340 | Method and System for Realizing Network Switching, and a Mobile Node - A method and system for realizing network switching, and a mobile node are provided. The method comprises: a Local Mobility Anchor receives a Proxy Binding Update message from a second mobile access gateway, wherein the Proxy Binding Update message carries identifier information of the mobile node, the IP address of a first interface, and the IP address of the second mobile access gateway (S | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110103341 | Apparatus and Method for Data Transmission Using Transmit Diversity in SC-FDMA - An apparatus for data transmission is provided. The apparatus includes a data processor encoding an information bit and generating a modulation symbol by performing constellation mapping on the encoded information bit, a discrete Fourier transform (DFT) unit performing DFT on the modulation symbol to generate a frequency-domain symbol, a space time block coding (STBC) processor performing STBC on the frequency-domain symbol to generate an STBC code consisting of 1st and 2nd STBC streams, a subcarrier mapper mapping the 1st STBC stream to a 1st subcarrier and mapping the 2nd STBC stream to a 2nd subcarrier, an inverse fast Fourier transform (IFFT) unit performing IFFT on the 1st subcarrier to generate a 1st single carrier-frequency division multiple access (SC-FDMA) symbol and performing IFFT on the 2nd subcarrier to generate a 2nd SC-FDMA symbol, and a plurality of transmit antennas transmitting the 1st and 2nd SC-FDMA symbols. STBC is effectively applied to a SC-FDMA system to decrease a peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) and to maintain a single-carrier property. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110103342 | METHOD FOR REQUESTING BANDWIDTH BY MESSAGE HAVING VARIABLE FORMAT - A method for requesting a bandwidth by a message having a variable format is disclosed. The method includes determining a bandwidth request type according to a size of an uplink bandwidth requested by a mobile station, generating a bandwidth request message having a header format according to the determined bandwidth request type, and transmitting the bandwidth request message to a base station. The determined bandwidth request type is one of a bandwidth request per connection, a bandwidth request per Quality of Service (QoS), and a bandwidth request per mobile station. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110103343 | METHOD OF ARRANGING REFERENCE SIGNALS AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION BASE STATION APPARATUS - Disclosed is a wireless communication base station apparatus whereby it is possible to prevent degradation of throughput of LTE terminals, even when LTE terminals and LTE+ terminals are present together. In this apparatus, a setting section ( | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110103344 | Neighbor Discovery Message Handling to Support Roaming of Wireless Mobile Client Devices - Techniques are provided herein to support roaming of wireless mobile client devices from one wireless local area network access point device to another wireless local area network access point device. Neighbor discovery messages are received from wireless mobile client devices. A neighbor discovery message specifies a target address for a neighbor discovery function. A response to a neighbor discovery message is sent to a wireless mobile client device such that the response message appears to have been sent by a wireless mobile client device that has an address that corresponds to the target address of the neighbor discovery message. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110103345 | Method of packet switched handover - A method of packet switched handover in a mobile communication system comprising a terminal, a source node and a destination node comprises negotiating protocol parameters for the destination node on behalf of a new network entity, by communicating with an old network entity whilst the terminal is still connected to the source node; and completing the packet switched handover, such that service interruption on handover is reduced. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110103346 | Encapsulating Upper Layers of CDMA Signaling Between a Multi-mode Device and a Signaling Gateway - Methods and systems are provided for encapsulating upper layers of CDMA signaling messages between a multi-mode device and a signaling gateway. In an exemplary embodiment, a multi-mode device has a CDMA mode and a Wi-Fi mode. In Wi-Fi mode, the device generates an upper-layer portion of a CDMA signaling message. The device then encapsulates the first upper-layer portion in at least one packet-switched-protocol, such as SIP. The device then transmits the encapsulated upper-layer portion of the CDMA signaling message via a Wi-Fi network and a packet-switched network to a signaling gateway, which then translates the upper-layer portion into an SS7 message, and transmits the SS7 message over an SS7 network. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110103347 | Adaptation of Handover Command Size In A Mobile Telecommunication Network - The present invention relates to a method and a base station for determining a handover command based on mobility related parameters such as a handover margin or a time value required to trigger the handover. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110103348 | HANDOVER PROCESSING METHOD, AND MOBILE TERMINAL AND COMMUNICATION MANAGEMENT DEVICE USED IN SAID METHOD - Provided is a technique to provide a handover processing method that allows a mobile terminal to be handed over seamlessly while preventing occurrence of double reservation. The method includes a step where a mobile terminal ( | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110103349 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROCESSING HANDOVER IN HETEROGENEOUS MOBILITY PROTOCOL MIXED NETWORKS AND MIP CLIENT DEVICE - Provided are a method for processing handover to provide IP mobility for mobile user equipment, a system thereof, and a Mobile IP (MIP) client device. The method processing handover at a home agent in a heterogeneous protocol mixed network includes: at a home agent, creating a Proxy Mobile IP (PMIP) tunnel when user equipment accesses a PMIP network; at the home agent, creating a Client Mobile IP (CMIP) tunnel when a CMIP network is accessed due to handover of the user equipment; and at the home agent, severing the PMIP tunnel when the user equipment completes performing handover. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110103350 | Handover Measurements in a Mobile Communication System - A cellular communication system has an air interface divided into frames, each consisting of sub-frames at least two of which are synchronization sub-frames. For each cell, different cell-related synchronization signals are transmitted to user equipments (UEs) in different synchronization signal sub-frames. The UE detects cell identities of first and second cells. Weights then control generation of weighted handover measurements made from the first cell's synchronization signals received during synchronization sub-frames, wherein each of the weights is a function of the cell identity of the first cell, the cell identity of the second cell, and which ones of the first and second cells' cell-related synchronization signals are transmitted in the respective one of the plurality of synchronization sub-frames during which the weight is applied. A filtered handover measurement, upon which a handover decision can be made, is generated from the weighted handover measurements. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110103351 | Method for transmitting short signaling in Mac-E PDU - A method for transmitting a short signaling in a Media Access Control-e Packet Data Unit (MAC-e PDU) includes sending control information bits incorporated with padding bits of the MAC-e PDU considering the padding bits from a User Equipment (UE) to a Node B, and sending a scheduling signaling from a service Node B to the UE according to the control information bits. Scheduling request information is transmitted with the existing padding bits. If every Transmission Time Interval (TTI) has padding bits, the UE may send the scheduling request signaling to Node B in every TTI. Therefore, the reference is provided for the Node B, and no extra load is caused to the system. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110103352 | DETERMINISTIC BACKOFF WITH DYNAMIC ADAPTATION - Certain aspects provide techniques for conveying transmit opportunity (TXOP) scheduling information that can be used by a plurality of wireless nodes to determine TXOPs for sending transmissions. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110103353 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SELECTING A RECEIVER - In accordance with an example embodiment of the present invention, a method comprises identifying at least one receiver, selecting said at least one receiver by moving an apparatus according to at least one predetermined movement and sending data to said selected at least one receiver. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110103354 | DECT Base and DECT Terminal - A digital enhanced cordless telecommunications (DECT) base and a DECT terminal are disclosed. The DECT base includes a housing, a central processing unit (CPU), and a DECT module. The DECT base further includes a high-speed packet access (HSPA) interface module, set inside the housing and connected to the CPU, where the CPU is connected to the DECT module and the HSPA interface module is configured to provide an HSPA card with interfaces to implement wireless communications between the base and the network over the HSPA protocol. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110103355 | PACKET GROUPING FOR A CO-EXISTING WIRELESS NETWORK ENVIRONMENT - In at least some embodiments, a communication device includes a host processor and a plurality of co-existing wireless technology transceivers coupled to the host processor. The plurality of co-existing wireless technology transceivers share a communication medium using time-multiplexing. A throughput for data transmissions by the plurality of co-existing wireless technology transceivers is based on an algorithm that determines a grouping option for data packets to be transmitted by one of the co-existing wireless technology transceivers, the grouping option providing a highest throughput for a predetermined baseband PHY rate without exceeding a predetermined maximum grouping delay. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110103356 | BACK-CHANNELED PACKETED DATA - Consistent with one aspect, location-based mobile-terminal data is processed within or involving the wireless portion of such communication networks, and methods and apparatuses process the location-based mobile-terminal data based on information provided from outside the relationship of the network operator and the user. The location-based mobile-terminal data is extracted and processed by a node in the wireless portion of the communication network based on a specified set of rules. Other sources of location-based information originate from within the communication network itself including, but not limited to, location information regarding the nodes themselves. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110103357 | BACK-CHANNELED PACKETED DATA - The disclosure is directed to mobile terminals, their circuits, components, CPU-programming instructions and methods of implementing the mobile terminals so that they behave in accordance with one or more of the above-characterized manners. For example, the mobile terminal used in such a wireless network includes a memory circuit that stores: on behalf of an operator for the communication network, user identity information relating to wireless network subscriber data useful for providing network access; and on behalf of a third party, an executable set of communication rules relevant to a geographic region of service provided by the communication network. The mobile terminal also includes a mobile-terminal processor node which is configured in response to a communication from the wireless-technology equipment, indicating that the current location data for the mobile terminal permits the mobile terminal to alter normal rights for communicating with the user over the network while the mobile terminal is in the geographic region. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110103358 | BACK-CHANNELED PACKETED DATA - The disclosure concerns a communication network having a wireless network that provides access of back channel data to third parties. A processor node in the wireless network uses and processes location-based mobile-terminal data as geographically-tagged information sources for processing and analysis by third parties. In some configurations, the processor node receives feedback from the third parties, and/or input from other resources and databases, for adaptively re-processing the data previously provided to the third parties. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110103359 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR VIDEO COMMUNICATION - Disclosed is a method for changing a communication network for video communication, the method including performing, by a User Equipment (UE), video communication through a mobile communication network; searching for whether there is a WLAN currently accessible by the UE at every predetermined interval; displaying the accessible WLAN if one is found; and when the displayed WLAN is selected by a user, changing a communication network for the video communication to perform the video communication through the selected WLAN. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110103360 | LOCATION TRACKING SYSTEM AND METHOD OF WIRELESS DEVICE USING WIRELESS LAN ACCESS POINT - Provided are real time location tracking system and method of a wireless device using a wireless LAN AP, the system and method include measuring intensities of APs that are currently detected by the wireless device of which location is to be estimated, collecting ADD, constructing RDLE including locations, a list of APs corresponding to the locations, signal intensities of the APs, and reliabilities of the APs, storing the RDLE, comparing the RDLE with the ADD, and estimating the location of the wireless device, which realizes seamless location tracking technology indoors and outdoors, thereby providing a variety of location tracking services. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110103361 | DYNAMIC NETWORKING MODES METHOD AND APPARATUS - A portable electronic device is disclosed. The portable electronic device includes a wireless transceiver, a processor coupled to the wireless transceiver, a memory coupled to the processor and a program stored in the memory and running on the processor. The program provides automatic transitioning between a wireless infrastructure communication mode to an ad-hoc communication mode. The infrastructure mode is used when a request from a mobile device is received to access a communications network. The ad-hoc mode is used when a request from the mobile device is received to access resources on the portable electronic device. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110103362 | TRANSMISSION FORMAT SELECTION FOR OPTIMIZING TRANSMISSION OF DELAY SENSITIVE TRAFFIC - A method, scheduler, and processor program product for scheduling transmission of packets from a base station to a mobile station. A data rate control index is received from a mobile station. A transmission format is selected using the received data rate control index. The selected transmission format uses a payload size that is smaller than a largest compatible payload size for another transmission format corresponding to the received data rate control index and that is smaller than a total size of packets waiting to be transmitted. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110103363 | ACCESS POINT MULTI-LEVEL TRANSMISSION POWER CONTROL BASED ON THE EXCHANGE OF CHARACTERISTICS - A first plurality of characteristics are received from a first client device relating to transmissions received by the first client device from both an access point and a second client device. A second plurality of characteristics are received from the second client device relating to transmissions received by the second client device from both the access point and the first client device. The first plurality of characteristics and the second plurality of characteristics are both assessed. Based on the assessment, a least one of a plurality of customized power levels is selected for transmissions by the access point to the first client device and the second client device. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110103364 | CODE DIVISION MULTIPLE ADDRESS CODING METHOD - The present invention provides a code division multiple address coding method which uses related random variables or some constants such as time, space and frequency as the coding element. The encoding procedure includes following steps: selecting the basic orthogonal perfect complementary dual code; selecting the basic time, space and frequency coding expansion matrix; constituting a perfect orthogonal complementary code pairs mate; expanding the length and the number of the code group in accordance with the law of spanning tree; completing the coding by transforming the spanning tree. The Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) system or other wireless communication systems using the present address coding can achieve not only high spectral efficiency, high capacity, but also a strong anti-fading ability, namely, the systems can obtain high hidden diversity numbers, high transmission reliability and low receiver threshold SNR (signal to noise ratio), which meet the project implementation requirements of high reliability and high transmission speed with only a very small portion of transmitting power. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110103365 | FRACTIONAL FREQUENCY REUSE IN A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - An apparatus and method for fractional frequency reuse in a communication system. The method includes a first step | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110103366 | BASE STATION, MOBILE STATION AND FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING COMMUNICATION METHOD - Provided is a base station comprising a multiplexer so constituted as to frequency-divide/multiplex a first channel for transmitting first data to be transmitted to a plurality of mobile stations, and a second channel for transmitting second data to be transmitted to one mobile station. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110103367 | USER APPARATUS, BASE STATION APPARATUS, AND TRANSMISSION CONTROL METHOD - The present invention is realized by a user apparatus in communication with a base station apparatus, the user apparatus is provided with a determining unit which determines a downlink synchronization status based on downlink quality information measured based on a downlink signal transmitted from the base station apparatus. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110103368 | METHODS FOR ENABLING E-COMMERCE VOICE COMMUNICATION - A method for operating a server includes receiving a page request for a web page from a client computer via the Internet, the web page including an icon, retrieving the web page from a storage of the server, sending the web page to the client computer via the Internet, receiving a request from the client computer to initiate a telephone call via the Internet in response to a selection of the icon on the web page, initiating a real-time communications channel between the client computer and the server via the Internet in response to the request, determining a telephone number in response to the request, using a voice modem, coupled to the server and to a telephone line, to dial the telephone number, receiving packets of voice data from the client computer from the Internet, reassembling the packets of voice data into a stream of digital voice data, converting the stream of digital voice data to a stream of analog voice data, outputting the stream of analog voice data to the voice modem, and outputting the stream of the analog voice data from the voice modem to the telephone line. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110103369 | Method and Device for Managing Personal Communications of at Least One User - A device for managing calls sent by a local terminal (T | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110103370 | CALL MONITORING AND HUNG CALL PREVENTION - A hung call system includes a memory storing samples of voice data from packets for a VoIP call. A voice activity detector detects whether the stored voice data includes a voice from one or more parties to the call. A processing circuit determines whether the voice activity detector detects the voice, and the processing circuit facilitates release of the call if the voice activity detector does not detect the voice for a predetermined period of time. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110103371 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING SIGNALING GATEWAY MANAGEMENT - An approach is provided for signaling gateway management. Data from a plurality of signaling gateways corresponding to a plurality of trunks of a telecommunications network is automatically retrieved, each signaling gateway being configured to convert circuit-switched signaling to packet-switched signaling. The data is stored. An operating state for each of the plurality of trunks is determined based on the data to perform trending analysis for the operation of one or more of the plurality of trunks. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110103372 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SESSION INITIATION PROTOCOL HEADER MODIFICATION - A method for modifying the contents of session initiation protocol (SIP) messages is presented. The method includes receiving a SIP message. The SIP message may include a set of message header fields. The method includes receiving an application policy. The application policy may specify how to modify the SIP message based on a characteristic of the SIP message. Alternatively, the application policy may be retrieved from a database such as one provided by a home subscriber server (HSS) or an application server. The method includes using the application policy to modify the SIP message resulting in a modified message, and sending the modified message. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110103373 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SESSION INITIATION PROTOCOL HEADER MODIFICATION - A user agent (UA) for communicating with a communications network implementing an internet protocol (IP) multimedia subsystem (IMS) is presented. The UA is configured to send and receive session initiation protocol (SIP) messages. The UA includes a processor configured to send a message to the network. The message identifies an application policy. The application policy defines at least one of a SIP message header field to include, a SIP message header field to remove, a SIP message header field to allow, and a SIP message header field to modify. The processor is configured to receive a SIP message from the network. The SIP message includes a set of SIP message header fields. The set of SIP message header fields are modified in accordance with the application policy. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110103374 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR PACKETIZED CONTENT DELIVERY OVER A CONTENT DELIVERY NETWORK - Methods and apparatus for delivery of packetized content (e.g., video, audio, data, etc.) over a content delivery network. In one embodiment, the content is packetized using an Internet Protocol (IP), and delivered by a service provider over both managed and unmanaged networks to subscribers of the provider, so as to provide delivery at any time, at any location, and via any designated user device. The delivered content may originate from the service provider, third-party content sources (e.g., networks or studios), the subscriber(s) themselves, or other sources including the Internet. Use of a common control and service functions within the network afford the ability to integrate or blend services together, thereby affording the service provider and subscriber new service and economic opportunities. Content delivery sessions may also be migrated from one device to another. A network-based user interface infrastructure, and gateway-based client-side architecture, are also disclosed. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110103375 | IP TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEM, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING COMMUNICATION IN IP NETWORK, CLIENT TERMINAL AND CLIENT SERVER - A communication system including: a main device comprising a call control section for setting-up a call connection and a remote control section. The remote control section of the main device receives a command including calling request for the target device and IP address of the terminal from the remote control section of the terminal. The call control section of the main device transmits a call control message including the IP address of the terminal to the target device via a telephony server and receives IP address of the target device in response to the call control message. The remote control section of the main device transmits the IP address of the target device to the terminal. The call control section of the terminal performs audio communication with the target device using the IP address of the terminal and the IP address of the target device. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110103376 | TELEPHONE SYSTEM AND EXCHANGE APPARATUS FOR USE IN THE SAME - According to one embodiment, a telephone system includes an exchange apparatus and a media server. The exchange apparatus include a detector and a controller. The detector detects an amount of resources remaining in the media server of the node including the exchange apparatus. The controller transmits a tone signal to a telephone terminal of a calling node from the resources available in the media server of the node including the exchange apparatus, which is a called node, in response to a call connection request made from the calling node to the exchange apparatus if the amount of resources remaining in the media server of the called node exceeds a prescribed threshold value. | 2011-05-05 |
