| 19th week of 2013 patent applcation highlights part 43 |
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| 20130115893 | Methods And Apparatus For Managing Network Signaling - Systems and apparatus for managing signaling between a network and machine type communication (MTC) devices. An MTC device receives an indication such as a locally detached state indication and, during the validity of the indication, remains locally detached and does not attempt communication with the network except under specified conditions, such as a need by the MTC device to initiate data transfer, or triggering of the MTC device. The MTC device may also receive a local detachment timer and remain attached during the validity of the local detachment timer, with the MTC device becoming locally detached and the indication becoming valid upon expiration of the local detachment timer. | 2013-05-09 |
| 20130115894 | Compensation Apparatus for Receiver Asymmetric Wide Passband Frequency Response with 25% Duty Cycle Passive Mixer - A receiver compensation method comprising receiving a radio frequency signal, amplifying the radio frequency signal, thereby producing an amplified signal, compensating the amplified signal, thereby producing a compensated signal, and mixing the compensated signal, thereby producing a mixed compensated signal, wherein the mixed compensated signal has a first gain difference between a positive differential from a center frequency and a negative differential from the center frequency and wherein the first gain differential is smaller than a second gain differential that would be obtained by mixing the amplified signal without compensating the amplified signal. | 2013-05-09 |
| 20130115895 | DEVICES AND METHODS RELATED TO FIELD-EFFECT TRANSISTOR STRUCTURES FOR RADIO-FREQUENCY APPLICATIONS - Disclosed are devices and methods related to field-effect transistor (FET) structures configured to provide reduced per-area values of resistance in the linear operating region (Rds-on). Typical FET devices such as silicon-on-insulator (SOI) device require larger device sizes to desirably lower the Rds-on values. However, such increases in size result in undesirably larger die sizes. Disclosed are various examples of shapes of source, drain, and corresponding gate that yield reduced Rds-on values without having to increase the device size. In some implementations, such FET devices can be utilized in high power radio-frequency (RF) switching applications. | 2013-05-09 |
| 20130115896 | System and Method for Radio Antenna Sharing in an Information Handling System - An information handling system includes a processing system with a radio output, another processing system with a radio output, and a radio selector operable to couple an antenna to a selected one of the radios. A radio selector board includes a radio, a selector switch with an input terminal coupled to the radio, another input terminal coupleable to another radio, a control input coupleable to a control module, and an output coupleable to an antenna. In response to a control signal from the control module, the selector switch connects the first radio to the antenna, and in response to another control signal, the selector switch connects the other radio to the antenna. | 2013-05-09 |
| 20130115897 | FILTER BLOCK AND A SIGNAL TRANSCEIVER COMPRISING SUCH A FILTER BLOCK - A filter block comprising
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| 20130115898 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION TERMINAL - This wireless communication terminal can reduce power consumption required for channel change, and a channel information output unit detects communication channel information included in information represented by a signal received through an antenna and outputs the communication channel information. A wireless communication unit has a first operation mode and a second operation mode having relatively higher operational power consumption than the first operation mode, and transmits communication data to an external terminal through the antenna using a communication channel represented by the communication channel information output by the channel information output unit when the wireless communication module operates in the second operation mode. | 2013-05-09 |
| 20130115899 | PEAK SUPPRESSION ON MULTICARRIER - A ceiling value can be established ( | 2013-05-09 |
| 20130115900 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING TERMINAL SIGNAL TRANSMISSION, AND TERMINAL - Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method for controlling terminal signal transmission, and a terminal. A method for controlling terminal signal transmission includes: monitoring a current working mode of a terminal; transmitting a signal according to first transmit power if it is found through monitoring that the terminal is currently in a first working mode, and transmitting the signal according to second transmit power if it is found through monitoring that the terminal is currently in a second working mode, where the first transmit power is greater than the second transmit power. The technical solution of the embodiments of the present invention helps to enable the terminal to obtain as good radio reception and transmission performance as possible at a same radiation absorption index. | 2013-05-09 |
| 20130115901 | Utility Meter Power Arrangements and Methods - An arrangement for providing power in a utility meter includes a power supply and at least one capacitor. The power supply is configured to convert input AC voltage to a DC bias voltage, and is further configured to provide the bias voltage to metering circuitry within the utility meter. The metering circuitry includes an analog to digital converter and at least one processor. The capacitor is operably coupled to provide power to the RF transmitter at least when power requirements of the RF transmitter exceed an amount of power available from the power supply. | 2013-05-09 |
| 20130115902 | METHOD FOR TUNING AN OSCILLATOR FREQUENCY AND DEVICE IMPLEMENTING THE METHOD - A method for tuning an oscillator frequency produced in a radio-receiver chain is based on a slope analysis of a residual difference between the oscillator frequency and a carrier frequency of a radio-received signal. Depending on the slope value calculated, a bandwidth of a low-pass time-filtering that is effective for the frequency difference is increased or set back to a default value. The method provides an improved trade-off between tuning precision and dynamic behavior when the frequency difference drifts rapidly. | 2013-05-09 |
| 20130115903 | MRC ANTENNA DIVERSITY FOR FM IBOC DIGITAL SIGNALS - A radio receiver includes a first signal path including a first tuner configured to receive a first signal from a first antenna, and a first demodulator configured to demodulate symbols from an output of the first tuner to produce first branch metrics derived from the demodulated symbols; a second signal path including a second tuner configured to receive a second signal from a second antenna, and a second demodulator configured to demodulate symbols from an output of the second tuner to produce second branch metrics derived from the demodulated symbols; a combiner for maximum ratio combining the first branch metrics and the second branch metrics; and processing circuitry to process the combined first and second branch metrics to produce an output signal. | 2013-05-09 |
| 20130115904 | Synchronizing and Detecting Interference in Wireless Receiver - Interference detection involves detecting the interference component in the received signal if there is such a component, controlling a band reject filter according to the detected interference component to filter the received signal to suppress the interference component, and synchronizing the receiver to the received signal, wherein the step of detecting the interference component is started before synchronization is achieved. By starting the interference detection without waiting for synchronization to be achieved, rather than following the synchronization, then the interference detection is no longer dependent on the synchronization being achieved. | 2013-05-09 |
| 20130115905 | Reference Oscillator Arbitration and Scheduling for Multiple Wireless Subsystems - Systems and methods are described for controlling a reference oscillator shared by multiple subsystems of a communications system and arbitrating usage of the reference oscillator among these subsystems. By changing the properties of the reference oscillator (e.g., by tuning the reference oscillator) according to the needs of particular subsystem(s), the communications system can configure the reference oscillator to meet the specification requirements of these particular subsystem(s) and can later reconfigure the reference oscillator to meet the needs of other subsystems. Further, the controller can configure the subsystems based on parameters that impact multiple subsystems (e.g., by implementing geographic awareness, spectrum occupation awareness, and availability of Assisted GPS (AGPS) functionality) to achieve further optimization of the communications system. | 2013-05-09 |
| 20130115906 | Down-Conversion of Multiple RF Channels - A method and system is disclosed for designing a radio for down-converting RF signals to IF signals by sampling the signals in a round-robin sampling circuit and multiplying the samples by coefficients that are changed at a fixed rate equal to the rate of operation of each of the sampling circuits. The circuit is able to down-convert multiple channels simultaneously to adjacent positions in the IF band, while rejecting unwanted image signals. The method and system avoids the difficulty and cost of directly digitizing the RF signal, allowing each component to operate at a greatly reduced speed. The coefficients are selected to provide the desired transfer function while keeping the output signal centered at a desired frequency. | 2013-05-09 |
| 20130115907 | VARIABLE DUTY-CYCLE MULTI-STANDARD MIXER - An adjustable mixer is disclosed that is capable of operating in different modes in order to satisfy the mixing requirement of multiple radio access technologies (RATs). The adjustable mixer includes a LO signal generating portion and a mixing portion. Depending on the mixing requirements of the RAT, the adjustable mixer can operate in any one of multiple modes, each mode having a specific configuration for the LO signal generating portion and the mixing portion. The LO signal generating portion generates a LO signal having a particular duty cycle, depending on the selected mode, for use by the mixing portion. The mixing portion has an adjustable circuit configuration that can be dynamically reconfigured based on the selected mode, and which allows the mixing portion to successfully mix received signals using the corresponding LO signals generated by the LO signal generating portion. | 2013-05-09 |
| 20130115908 | POWER MANAGEMENT OF RADIO TRANSCEIVER ELEMENTS - A radio receiver includes a power control module for selectively powering down and powering up radio receiver elements in between known communication periods according to one aspect of the present invention. According to a second aspect of the invention, the radio receiver operates in a low power mode of operation and periodically “sniffs” to determine whether an access point has messages or communication signals to transmit to it. | 2013-05-09 |
| 20130115909 | System and Method for Updating Location Information of Voice-Over-Internet Protocol Based Devices for E911 Services - A system and method for updating physical address location information of a wireless device for E911 services. The updating may include determining that the current geographical coordinate location of the wireless device has moved beyond a predetermined distance from a last recorded geographical coordinate location. A physical address location associated with the current geographical coordinate location may then be updated. The physical address location may be updated in the wireless device and/or a data repository operating on a data packet network. The physical address location may be communicated to a public safety answering point (PSAP) in response to an emergency 911 call being placed. | 2013-05-09 |
| 20130115910 | Systems and Methods of Intelligent Find Me Follow Me Services - An intelligent Find Me, Follow Me (FM/FM) service includes forming, processing, and ordering a list of end points which may be used for searching for a subscriber in a telecommunication system. A typical problem with previous FM/FM services is that the “follow me” portion does not track the usage of a device in order to make the decision on the order of endpoint contact. Example embodiments of the disclosed systems and methods of intelligent FM/FM services include a method of tracking endpoint usage to make an intelligent ordering of the devices in an FM/FM contact group. | 2013-05-09 |
| 20130115911 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FACILITATING INSTANT COMMERCE BY WAY OF A DATA PATH - An exemplary system includes at least one network device included in a network provider subsystem that provides an access device with access to a content processing subsystem by way of an access network. The network device is configured to receive a data flow from the content provider subsystem and directed to the access device by way of the access network, detect a code snippet embedded in the data flow, modify, based on the code snippet embedded in the data flow, content included in the data flow to activate at least one of an instant offer and an instant payment feature, and forward the modified data flow to the access device, the modified data flow configured to be processed by the access device to present the at least one of the instant offer and the instant payment feature to a user of the access device. | 2013-05-09 |
| 20130115912 | Telephone System and Method - A telephone system and method for reducing the costs for out of area calls made on a cell phone. The system includes a cell phone, a local telephone number, a land line and an access code and a timer. The system records the telephone number of the cell phone that dials into the system and immediately disconnects the call. The system recalls the cell phone with a message to enter a requested out of area phone number, completes the call over a land line and connects the requested number to the cell phone as an incoming or local call. The cell phone user is then billed for the use of the land line. | 2013-05-09 |
| 20130115913 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR NOTIFYING ACCESS CONTROL INFORMATION - A method and an apparatus for notifying activations of extended access barring (EAB) and updates of EAB information in the field of Long Term Evolution (LTE) wireless communication systems have been proposed. In accordance with the present disclosure, the eNB notifies MTC devices of EAB changes from a paging message through the paging channel (PCH). The network could use either a single bit EAB status indicator to notify whether the EAB has been enabled or disabled or use multiple bits EAB indicator to represent different EAB parameter changes in addition to whether the EAB has been enabled or disabled. Based on the present disclosure, the network could reduce the paging overhead by require the MTC device to acquire the EAB-SIB only when it needs the EAB information. | 2013-05-09 |
| 20130115914 | Control Method for Home Base Station Access and Home Base Station Gateway - A control method for H(e)NB access and a H(e)NB gateway are provided in the present invention. The method includes the following steps: a H(e)NB gateway interacting with a Broadband Policy Control Framework (BPCF) through a H(e)NB policy function, and requesting for the admission control of a fixed broadband access network; the BPCF returning the result of the admission control to the H(e)NB gateway through the H(e)NB policy function. The present invention performs policy control for the service access of the User Equipment (UE) accessing via the H(e)NB. | 2013-05-09 |
| 20130115915 | LOCATION BASED SHARING OF A NETWORK ACCESS CREDENTIAL - The disclosed subject matter provides for sharing a network access credential based on location information. Location information can include timed fingerprint location information. In an aspect, location information can be associated with a location of user equipment. This location information can be correlated with network access credentials. Location information can be used to access a relevant network access credential. The relevant network access credential can be shared with other devices. In an embodiment, sharing a network access credential can be between mobile devices. In another embodiment, sharing a network access credential can be between a remote computing device and a mobile device. Sharing a credential can allow for access to a network without having to generate or input new credentials. | 2013-05-09 |
| 20130115916 | Location Specific Content - Systems, methods, and computer program products communicate location information associated with a device, such as a mobile device, to a server. Content identified by the server is received at the device, from the server and/or from a content service. The content can include an application associated with the location information. The content received at the device is displayed on the device only while the device is at or near a particular location identified by the location information. | 2013-05-09 |
| 20130115917 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION METHOD, SWITCH, AND MOBILE STATION - A mobile communication method according to the present invention includes the steps of: causing an switch MME to perform CSFB-related processing for a mobile station UE when receiving “Extended Service Request” during call restriction and judging that the mobile station UE supports the barring scheme for CSFB on the basis of CSFB restriction capability information; and causing the switch MME to send the mobile station UE “Service Reject” when receiving “Extended Service Request” during the call restriction and judging that the mobile station UE does not support the barring scheme for CSFB on the basis of the CSFB restriction capability information. | 2013-05-09 |
| 20130115918 | Methods and Apparatus For Wireless Networking Connection - Systems and techniques for wireless client authentication are described. A wireless client seeking access to a network requiring authentication transmits a management frame following a signaling sequence that accomplishes scanning, network discovery, and authentication. An access point receiving the management frame forwards information contained in the management frame to a network and receives and forwards to a client an authentication response frame received from a network. | 2013-05-09 |
| 20130115919 | METHOD, ROUTING AGENT NETWORK ELEMENT, AND SYSTEM FOR IMPLEMETING ADDRESSING AMONG DIFFERENT NETWORKS - Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method, a routing agent network element, and a system relating to the communication technology field for implementing addressing among different networks, improving the security of an addressing process among different networks. The method for implementing addressing among different networks includes: receiving a Diameter request message carrying a local IP address of a terminal and/or a network identity of a second network from a policy control node of a first network; selecting a routing agent network element of the second network according to the local IP address of the terminal and/or the network identity of the second network; returning network element information about the routing agent network element of the second network to the policy control node of the first network; or obtaining node information about the policy control node of the second network from the routing agent network element of the second network. | 2013-05-09 |
| 20130115920 | Method and Apparatus for Mobile Internet Protocol Registrating or Deregistrating - A computer program product can be used to store instructions operable in a physical entity in which a destination MIP Foreign Agent (FA) resides. The program product includes code for: obtaining an identity of a mobile terminal (MT ID) and address information of an anchor proxy mobile node or an authenticator; sending a message carrying the MT ID to the anchor proxy mobile node or the authenticator; receiving a credential corresponding to the MT ID sent from the anchor proxy mobile node or the authenticator after the anchor proxy mobile node or the authenticator receives the message carrying the MT ID and searches for the credential corresponding to the MT ID; and implementing MIP registration or deregistration for the mobile terminal using the credential. | 2013-05-09 |
| 20130115921 | Enhanced Privacy Protection in a Telecommunication Network - The present invention relates to enhanced privacy protection in a telecommunication network in which unique virtual phone numbers are used that are called party specific, i.e., different virtual phone numbers are used for the relation of different communication between a subscriber ( | 2013-05-09 |
| 20130115922 | MOBILE PHONE, STORAGE MEDIUM AND METHOD FOR RESPONDING TO VOICE SYSTEM USING THE MOBILE PHONE - In a method for responding to a voice system using a mobile phone, a physical button of the mobile phone is predefined as a trigger button. When the mobile phone makes a phone call to a provider, voice messages of the provider are recorded and stored in a storage system of the mobile phone. Speech of a user of the mobile phone is recognized, a response message is acquired from the recognized speech of the user and the response message is input to the mobile phone while the trigger button keeps being pressed for a predetermined time. The voice messages stored in the storage system is recognized, a response message is acquired from the recognized voice messages, and the response message is input to the mobile phone when the trigger button is clicked. | 2013-05-09 |
| 20130115923 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DELIVERING DEVICE SPECIFIC SERVICE DOCUMENTATION TO A MOBILE PLATFORM - Disclosed is a method and system for delivering device specific service information to a mobile platform. According to an exemplary system, a mobile phone and a Device Assist Server are operatively connected to prompt a user to capture relevant device information using a camera associated with the mobile phone. A remote Device Assist Server processes this device information and provides service related information to the user via the mobile phone. | 2013-05-09 |
| 20130115924 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COMBINED PASSIVE AND ACTIVE INTERCEPTION OF MOBILE COMMUNICATION - A hybrid interception system that comprises both a passive interception subsystem and an active interception subsystem that operate jointly to intercept communication of a target wireless terminal. A passive interception system receives the communication without transmitting to the mobile communication terminal. An active interception system intercepts the communication by initiating temporary bidirectional communication with the terminal. The target terminal may be initially detected by the passive interception subsystem, while in other embodiments it is detected by the active interception subsystem. The subsystem that detects the target terminal triggers the other subsystem, so that the target terminal is effectively intercepted jointly by both subsystems. The outputs of both the passive and the active interception are analyzed jointly, stored in a joint data structure, and/or presented jointly to an operator. This joint analysis and presentation increases the quality and intelligence value of the intercepted information. | 2013-05-09 |
| 20130115925 | System And Method For Using Symbol Command Language Within A Communications Network Via SMS Or Internet Communications Protocols - In one embodiment, a method for conducting a transaction comprises receiving, from a mobile communication device, a short message service (SMS) message comprising a symbol command message, the symbol command message comprising a symbol, command. The method may also include comparing at least a portion of the symbol command message to a plurality of symbol commands in a symbol command directory, and initiating distribution of at least one of a good or service associated with the symbol command in the symbol command message. | 2013-05-09 |
| 20130115926 | METHOD OF RESPONDING TO AN INCOMING COMMUNICATION RECEIVED BY A HANDHELD DEVICE - A method for replying to an incoming communication received by a handheld electronic device comprises detecting: an incoming communication, detecting a selection of one of a number of predetermined responses to the incoming communication and, responsive to detecting a selection, providing the one of said number of predetermined responses. An improved handheld electronic device implementing the method is also provided. | 2013-05-09 |
| 20130115927 | Active Transport Based Notifications - Techniques for triggering an action associated with a task items are provided. A task item associated with a triggering criterion is provided. The triggering criterion requires an occurrence of any of a plurality of communication events. The plurality of communication events includes a telephone call. In some implementations, at least two of the plurality of communication events are of different communication types. In some implementations, the different types are telephone calls, emails, and text messages. The occurrence of a first communication event of the plurality of communication events is detected. It is determined the triggering criterion is satisfied. In response to the determining, a notification associated with the task item is caused to be presented to a user of the electronic device. | 2013-05-09 |
| 20130115928 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF RECORDING AND SHARING MOBILE APPLICATION ACTIVITIES - A method of recording activity at a wireless device is provided. The method includes receiving a record command, determining a user activity at the wireless device, and determining available memory at the wireless device. The method further includes recording the user activity to create a device recording at least partially based on the user activity and the available memory. | 2013-05-09 |
| 20130115929 | FILE TRANSFERS BASED ON TELEPHONE NUMBERS - Example embodiments disclosed herein relate to file transfers based on telephone numbers. In example embodiments, a request to transfer a file from a first user ( | 2013-05-09 |
| 20130115930 | MOBILE TERMINAL AND METHOD FOR RECOMMENDING CALL COUNTERPART - The present invention relates to a mobile terminal capable of providing a phone number of an anticipated call origination counterpart along with associated supplementary information according to a user's communication pattern, time information at which the mobile terminal is in use, or location information of the mobile terminal, thereby guaranteeing a rapid and convenient accessibility with respect to the call origination counterpart, and a method for recommending a call origination counterpart. | 2013-05-09 |
| 20130115931 | DETECTING SUBSCRIBER INPUT VIA A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE FOR INITIATING NETWORK PROVISIONING OF SUCH DEVICE - Methods, systems, and apparatus for detecting subscriber input via a wireless communication device for initiating network provisioning of the wireless communication device are presented herein. A method can include receiving, via an interface of a wireless communication device, a first input from a subscriber of a wireless service associated with the wireless communication device; sending, by the wireless communication device based on the first input from the subscriber, a request for provisioning the wireless communication device via a wireless network associated with the wireless service; and outputting, via the interface of the wireless communication device, a first message including a condition for the provisioning the wireless communication device via the wireless network based on the request. In an example, the method can further include receiving, based on the request, the condition from a component of the wireless network. | 2013-05-09 |
| 20130115932 | TRANSFERRING AN ACTIVE CALL TO ANOTHER DEVICE - In general, this disclosure describes techniques for transferring an active telephone call between devices using short-range wireless communication. In one example, a method includes, while the first device and a second device are connected to a telephone call, obtaining, by the first device and from a third device using short-range wireless communication, configuration information associated with the third device, sending, by the first device, a message to a call controller in order to connect the third device to the telephone call, wherein the message includes at least a portion of the configuration information associated with the third device, and disconnecting the first device from the telephone call after the third device is connected to the telephone call. | 2013-05-09 |
| 20130115933 | AFTERMARKET TELEMATICS UNIT AND METHOD FOR DETECTING A TARGET MOUNTING ANGLE THEREOF - An aftermarket telematics unit is disclosed herein. The aftermarket telematics unit includes, but is not limited to a housing that is configured to be mounted to an internal surface of a vehicle. The aftermarket telematics unit further includes an angle detection unit that is associated with the housing and that is configured to detect a mounting angle of the housing. The aftermarket telematics unit still further includes a processor that is associated with the housing. The processor is configured to perform an initial configuration procedure and is further configured to discontinue the initial configuration procedure when the mounting angle is out of a target range. | 2013-05-09 |
| 20130115934 | BASE STATION, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A COMMUNICATION TERMINAL, COMMUNICATION TERMINAL AND METHOD FOR OPERATING A COMMUNICATION TERMINAL - According to one embodiment, a base station of a mobile communication network is provided comprising a message generator configured to generate a message indicating that at least one mobile communication terminal should use a reception enhancement functionality and a transmitter configured to transmit the message to the at least one mobile communication terminal. | 2013-05-09 |
| 20130115935 | METHOD OF MANAGING INCOMING COMMANDS RELATED TO CONTACTLESS APPLICATIONS WITHIN A WIRELESS APPARATUS SUCH AS AN NFC ENABLED MOBILE PHONE - An NFC controller analyzes incoming commands, by name, and decides, according a predefined name table, to which secure element the actual command and following commands are sent for processing. | 2013-05-09 |
| 20130115936 | Method for State Transition and Network Device - A method for a state transition includes determining whether a user equipment (UE) is a UE frequently performing state transitions. When the state of the UE is required to be transitioned to the idle state, a state of the UE is transitioned to a paging channel (PCH) state if the UE is a UE frequently performing state transitions. If the UE is a UE infrequently performing state transitions, the state of the UE is transitioned to the idle state. | 2013-05-09 |
| 20130115937 | Control of Electronic Devices Based on Capability Descriptions - Methods, systems, apparatuses, and computer readable media for controlling one or more electronic devices are described. According to one described aspect, an embodiment of a method includes providing a plurality of schemes, each scheme defining features that are operable on an electronic device and which features each of the features in the scheme can use, and receiving data for identifying the type of the electronic device, and selecting, based on the type, one of the schemes, and controlling the electronic device based on the selected scheme. | 2013-05-09 |
| 20130115938 | Method and Apparatus for Deriving Pathloss Estimation Values - A method for deriving pathloss estimation values within a cellular communication network. The method comprises receiving pathloss data obtained from a plurality of wireless communication units located within the cellular communication network, receiving location information corresponding to the plurality of wireless communications units, associating received pathloss data with individual sectors within a coverage area of the cellular communication network based at least partly on the location information for the respective wireless communications unit, and deriving pathloss estimation values for individual sectors within the cellular communication network based at least partly on the received pathloss data. | 2013-05-09 |
| 20130115939 | Method and Apparatus for Diagnosing Feeder Misconnection - The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for diagnosing a feeder misconnection. The method includes: for each planned non-co-site strong neighboring cell of a sector to be analyzed, by using each sector of a base station where the sector to be analyzed is located as an interference source, determining a sector having the greatest interference with the non-co-site strong neighboring cell; and when in the planned non-co-site strong neighboring cells of the sector to be analyzed, the sector having the greatest interference with the non-co-site strong neighboring cell is in another sector except the sector to be analyzed, and a ratio of the number of non-co-site strong neighboring cells of the another sector to the total number of the non-co-site strong neighboring cells reaches a preset first threshold, determining that a feeder of the sector to be analyzed is misconnected. | 2013-05-09 |
| 20130115940 | Method and Apparatus for Downloading a File Based on WIFI - The present invention discloses a method and an apparatus of downloading files based on wireless fidelity WIFI. The method comprises: setting a download task, searching an access point for accessing the network; and judging whether the found access point is a WIFI access point; if it is a WIFI access point, then downloading a file indicated by the download task. With the present invention, when a user departs the coverage area of current WIFI access point or the current WIFI access point fails, the system can automatically store the unfinished download task and continuously search a WIFI access point and continue to download the file indicated by the stored download task according to a preset condition after accessing a WIFI access point, thus overcoming the problem that there is limit in using WIFI to download files in the related art, simplifying user operation, and improving user experience. | 2013-05-09 |
| 20130115941 | COEXISTENCE SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR WIRELESS NETWORK DEVICES - A network interface including a radio frequency (RF) system and a media access controller (MAC). The RF system wirelessly communicates with an access point (AP). The MAC includes client modules. A first client module transmits a first signal from a host to the AP via the RF system in accordance with a first wireless communication standard. A second client module transmits a second signal from the host to the AP via the RF system in accordance with a second wireless communication standard. The second client module determines a quality level of the second signal transmitted from the second client module to the AP, and based on the quality level of the second signal, hands off access to the RF system from the second client module to the first client module to allow the first client module to transmit the first signal to the AP via the RF system. | 2013-05-09 |
| 20130115942 | METHOD FOR LOADING A LIST OF PREFERRED NETWORKS INTO A SECURE ELEMENT CONTAINED IN A MOBILE TERMINAL - The invention relates to a method for loading a list of preferred networks into a secure element contained in a mobile terminal. The loading is accomplished when the secure element detects that it is in a roaming condition within a telecommunication network. The method consists of: i) asking ( | 2013-05-09 |
| 20130115943 | LOCATION-BASED MICROCELL SEARCH - A network device may store information identifying a coverage area associated with each of one or more cells that are associated with the network device. The network device may receive information identifying a geographic location of a user device. The network device may compare the geographic location of the user device to one or more of the stored coverage areas. The network device may also determine, based on the comparing, that the user device is within a particular coverage area of a particular cell, of the one or more cells. The network device may further send, to the user device, and based on determining that the user device is located within the particular coverage area of the particular cell, an instruction for the user device to connect to the particular cell, where the user device is to attempt to connect to the particular cell in response to the instruction. | 2013-05-09 |
| 20130115944 | EFFICIENT FEMTO DISCOVERY PROTOCOL USING MACRO SYNCHRONIZATION - A method, a computer program product, and an apparatus are provided in which the apparatus (e.g., a femto cell) receives timing information from a second apparatus (e.g., a macro cell). The apparatus receives a signal from a third apparatus (e.g., a UE) based on the received timing information. The apparatus transmits a broadcast signal based on the received signal. A method, a computer program product, and an apparatus are provided in which the apparatus (e.g., a UE) receives timing information from a second apparatus (e.g., macro cell). The apparatus transmits a signal to a third apparatus (e.g., a femto cell) based on the received timing information. The apparatus receives a broadcast signal from the third apparatus in response to the signal. | 2013-05-09 |
| 20130115945 | SERVICE-ASSISTED NETWORK ACCESS POINT SELECTION - Embodiments enable prioritization and selection of network access points (NAP) by a computing device using NAP attribute values. The computing device obtains the attribute values based on a location of the computing device and/or proximate NAPs detected by the computing device. The obtained attribute values are compared to a state of the computing device (e.g., sensor values), user preferences, or other criteria to select at least one of the NAPs for connection with the computing device. In some embodiments, a user of the computing device is presented with a list of Wi-Fi access points ranked according to relevance to the computing device and/or user. | 2013-05-09 |
| 20130115946 | TRANSMISSION OF CHANNEL QUALITY INDICATIONS - Indications of desired radio communications downlink characteristics are transmitted via a radio communications uplink from a user equipment to a node of a cellular wireless network, the indications each relating to one or more components of a radio communications link from the node to the user equipment. The indications are transmitted successively at different cycles, and at each different cycle a first parameter is determined, indicating a more preferred number of components and a second parameter is determined, indicating a less preferred number of components. First additional parameters are calculated and transmitted relating to the desired radio communications link quality corresponding to the first parameter and second additional parameters are calculated and transmitted relating to the desired radio communications link quality on the basis of the second parameter. The first and second parameters are each parameters which are variable between different cycles. | 2013-05-09 |
| 20130115947 | METHOD FOR INTEGRATING USER EQUIPMENT FUNCTIONS TO FEMTOCELL - A method for integrating UE functions to a femtocell is provided. The method comprises the following steps. The femtocell with a subscriber identity module (SIM) is activated. The femtocell reads the information of the SIM. Based on the information of the SIM, the femtocell registers to a core network via an Internet. The femtocell having successfully registered to the core network provides SMS service, MMS service or Call service. | 2013-05-09 |
| 20130115948 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR USING A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE WITH MULTIPLE SERVICE PROVIDERS - Configuring a mobile wireless communication device using a carrier service configuration profile selected from a set of stored carrier service configuration profiles. Carrier service configuration profiles are selected based on one or more combinations of identifier values stored in the mobile wireless communication device. Carrier service configuration profiles are priority ranked based on a specificity of the one or more combinations of identifier values. | 2013-05-09 |
| 20130115949 | Methods and Network Nodes for Detecting Short Stay Handover - Embodiments herein relate to a method in a second network node ( | 2013-05-09 |
| 20130115950 | AREA DETECTION APPARATUS, AREA DETECTION METHOD AND AREA DETECTION RECORDING MEDIUM - An area detection apparatus includes an acquirer configured to acquire received power values in a plurality of areas from neighboring base stations, an identifier configured to identify an area including a handover point for a mobile station on the basis of the received power values, a calculator configured to calculate communication qualities of the neighboring base stations in the area including the handover point, and a determiner configured to determine whether or not the area including the handover point is an area incapable of communication with the neighboring base stations with a predetermined communication quality on the basis of the communication qualities of the neighboring base stations. | 2013-05-09 |
| 20130115951 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING USER EQUIPMENT'S RESIDING IN A CELL - Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method and an apparatus for controlling user equipment's residing in a cell. With the embodiments, a base station of a virtual cell transmits a signal including common channel information, a frequency of the signal of the virtual cell is the same as a frequency of a signal transmitted by a base station of a source cell, the common channel information includes a pilot, a location area code and an inter-frequency reselection threshold, or includes a pilot and a location area code, and the content of the common channel information guides user equipment to reside in a target cell through reselection or through location update. Moreover, according to the embodiments, the co-channel interference caused by the signal onto the source cell is small, and the interference onto normal services of the source cell is reduced. Massive configuration in the source cell is also avoided. | 2013-05-09 |
| 20130115952 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR CELL HANDOVER IN COMMUNICATION SYSTEM SUPPORTING CARRIER AGGREGATION - A method, apparatus and system for cell handover in the communication system supporting Carrier Aggregation (CA). The method includes: after receiving a performance measurement report for one or more neighboring cells from the served terminal, according to the performance measurement report, and basing on the CA mode for one or more candidate BSs corresponding to the one or more neighboring cells, a source Base Station (BS) in a communications system selects an algorithm suitable for the CA mode to calculate the priority levels of the one or more candidate BSs; from the one or more candidate BSs, selecting the BS having the highest priority as a target BS; and selecting one more cells to access from all cells being subject to the target BS in the one or more neighboring cells. | 2013-05-09 |
| 20130115953 | RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, RADIO RELAY STATION, RADIO TERMINAL, AND COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD - A relay node (RN), which is configured to be able to move, comprises a handover controller ( | 2013-05-09 |
| 20130115954 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR HANDOVER USING PREDICTED VEHICULAR LOCATIONS - A method, apparatus and computer program product are therefore provided according to an example embodiment to distribute and utilize location information received from one or more networks to determine handover timing and target cell selection for a mobile terminal. A method also includes determining a predicted future mobile terminal location based on the location information for the mobile terminal. A method also includes determining at least one network entity with a serving area that encompasses the predicted future mobile terminal location. A method also includes causing the at least one network entity to receive handover instructions by causing the predicted future mobile terminal location and information regarding the at least one network entity to be transmitted to a network management node. | 2013-05-09 |
| 20130115955 | Method for Obtaining Neighbor Cell Information, and Network - The present invention discloses a method for obtaining information of a neighbor cell. The method includes: a donor base station carrying cell attribute information into an X2 interface signaling sent to a relay node; wherein, the cell attribute information includes: indication information about whether each cell is administered by the relay node which is administered by the donor base station, or information about whether the other base station to which the cell belongs has an X2 interface with the donor base station; and after the relay node receives the cell attribute information, updating corresponding cell attribute. The present invention also discloses a mobile communication network. The present invention can make the base station or the relay node select the handover target cell and select the handover type for the user equipment reasonably. | 2013-05-09 |
| 20130115956 | Location Based Radio Access System Selection - To improve use of available radio resources and to increase end user perception of delivered radio services according to the present invention there is provided a method of operating a radio access control station in a wireless communication environment supporting at least two radio access technologies (GSM, WCDMA, LTE, WLAN) for radio communication with a mobile station. Here, a preferred radio access system is determined on the basis of a radio coverage map ( | 2013-05-09 |
| 20130115957 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION METHOD, MOBILITY MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND RADIO BASE STATION - To enable a UE ( | 2013-05-09 |
| 20130115958 | METHOD, EQUIPMENT AND SYSTEM FOR HANDING OVER CELL IN COMMUNICATION SYSTEM SUPPORTING CARRIER AGGREGATION - A method, an equipment and a system for handing over a cell in a communication system supporting carrier aggregation. The method includes: when a terminal in the communication system moves to the edge of the currently serving cell, the terminal selects one or more neighbor cells from one or more neighbor cells as measurement objects according to the carrier aggregation manner of the one or more neighbor cells; the terminal measures the capabilities of the measurement objects, and obtains one or more measurement results; and the terminal sends a source base station which currently serving the terminal one or more measurement results as capability measurement reports of the one or more neighbor cells. Also provided are an equipment for handing over a cell in a communication system supporting carrier aggregation, a terminal including the said equipment and a communication system including the said terminal. | 2013-05-09 |
| 20130115959 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR EXCLUDING NON-MOBILITY DATA FROM MOBILITY KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS - Handover (HO) statistics and handover issue events which are due to non-mobility causes are not included in the statistics fed into mobility robustness optimization (MRO). The non-mobility causes may include, e.g., load balancing, retracting users to prepare for cell maintenance or restart/reconfiguration and cell outage including compensation means. Radio link failure (RLF), handover failure (HOF), and handover oscillations (HOosc) that are due to non-mobility cause are excluded from the statistics upon which mobility robustness optimization is based. Non-mobility causes are also differentiated from mobility causes when reporting key performance indicators to an operator. | 2013-05-09 |
| 20130115960 | COMBINED BASE TRANSCEIVER STATION AND BASE STATION CONTROLLER HANDOFF - A system, method, and computer readable medium for a softer handoff comprises receiving a Pilot Strength Measurement Message (PSMM) to request a handoff by a selector distribution unit (SDU), receiving a softer handoff request message by a channel element control (CEC), receiving a softer handoff request message by a radio call control (RCC), receiving a traffic channel assignment message by the CEC, and receiving an indication of an addition of a new sector for the softer handoff by the SDU. | 2013-05-09 |
| 20130115961 | COMMUNICATION CHARACTERISTIC ANALYZING SYSTEM, COMMUNICATION CHARACTERISTIC ANALYZING METHOD, AND COMMUNICATION CHARACTERISTIC ANALYZING PROGRAM - [Object] To improve analysis precision of communication characteristic, while minimizing the calculation amount, to determine a local dead area, thereby providing useful information for cell site design. | 2013-05-09 |
| 20130115962 | BASE STATION, RADIO COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM, BASE STATION CONTROL METHOD, RADIO COMMUNICATIONS METHOD AND BASE STATION CONTROL PROGRAM - [Problems] Because it is not possible to reduce sufficiently the number of base stations that starts uselessly in spite of being in low traffic state, it is not possible to lower interference between adjacent cells and power consumption sufficiently. | 2013-05-09 |
| 20130115963 | DECOUPLING RADIO RESOURCE MANAGEMENT FROM AN ACCESS GATEWAY - Particular embodiments provide an access gateway that facilitates communication between a plurality of access technologies. The access gateway facilitates data communication with an access terminal through a bearer path. A radio resource manager is configured to provide radio resource management functions for the communications. The radio resource manager is decoupled from the bearer path and provides control of radio transmission characteristics for the bearer path to the gateway. Because the radio resource manager is not in the bearer path, the access gateway may be access technology agnostic. Thus, the access gateway does not need to have access-specific modules based on the radio technology for each bearer path. | 2013-05-09 |
| 20130115964 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SECONDARY SHARING | 2013-05-09 |
| 20130115965 | Method, Device, and System for Performing Assignment for a Call - The invention discloses a method for performing assignment for a call. The method includes: if a user initiates a call, assigning a target bearer for the call and obtaining an identifier of the target bearer; determining at least one target base station according to the identifier of the target bearer and an identifier of a base station accessed by the user, wherein the coverage of the target bearer of the at least one target base station overlaps with the coverage of a bearer, on which the call is initiated, of the base station accessed by the user, and obtaining identifier of the at least one target base station; and sending the identifier of the target bearer and the identifier of the at least one target base station to the user. The invention is capable of improving the success rate of the assignment. | 2013-05-09 |
| 20130115966 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR TRANSMITTING A FEEDBACK SIGNAL IN A MULTI-NODE SYSTEM - The present invention relates to wireless communication, and particularly, to a method and device for transmitting a feedback signal of a terminal in a multi-node system. The method for a terminal to transmit feedback information in a multi-node system including a plurality of nodes and a base station for controlling same includes: transmitting first information upon the request of resource allocation so as to give notice that there is information to be transmitted to the base station; receiving information from the base station at the request for the transmission of second information necessary for the resource allocation; and transmitting the requested second information to the base station. The feedback information may be transmitted to the base station together with the first information or the second information. | 2013-05-09 |
| 20130115967 | ADAPTIVE FLEXIBLE BANDWIDTH WIRELESS SYSTEMS - Methods, systems, and devices are described for providing flexible bandwidth waveforms and channels for wireless communication. Embodiments may utilize portions of spectrum that may not be large enough to fit a standard or normal waveform. Chip rates may be adapted dynamically to generate and/or to receive flexible bandwidth waveforms to fit these portions of spectrum. Scaling factors and/or center frequencies may also be utilized to generate flexible waveforms. A mobile device may receive adjustment information from a base station so that the mobile device may dynamically adjust its chip rate to utilize a flexible bandwidth channel. A base station may simultaneously transmit on a normal bandwidth channel and a flexible bandwidth channel in some cases. Some flexible bandwidth waveforms may be utilized that are larger, or take more bandwidth, than a normal waveform. Flexible bandwidth may also be utilized to split and/or combine frequency channels. | 2013-05-09 |
| 20130115968 | Coordinating Radio Resource Partitioning in a Relay Enhanced Telecommunication Network - A method includes acquiring an information from a second base station by a first base station, wherein the information is indicative for a relative timing displacement between (a) a first time pattern of a first radio resource partitioning scheme and (b) a second time pattern of a second radio resource partitioning scheme. The method further includes adapting the first time pattern of the first radio resource partitioning scheme, used by the first relay node, to the second time pattern of the second radio resource partitioning scheme, used by the second relay node, in such a manner that Time Transmission Intervals (TTIs) of the first time pattern which one used for uplink radio transmissions coincide with TTIs of the second time pattern which one used for uplink radio transmissions. A corresponding first base station is adapted for controlling and/or for carrying out the above described method. | 2013-05-09 |
| 20130115969 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CELL PHONE TARGETING AND TRACKING - In one preferred embodiment the present invention will provide a system and method for tracking a plurality of user cell phones within a defined coverage area, including indoor areas of a buildings and/or within sub-surface structures. Such a system will include: at least one cell phone located within a predefined coverage area; a direction finding receiver, comprising a plurality of sensors, for receiving transmissions from the cell phone; and a location server for calculating the position and tracking movement of the cell phone. In another preferred embodiment, the inventive system will further comprise at least one local cell through which the tracked cell phone communicates with a cellular phone network. | 2013-05-09 |
| 20130115970 | MOBILE TERMINAL APPARATUS, BASE STATION APPARATUS, SWITCHING STATION APPARATUS AND MOBILE COMMUNICATION METHOD - A mobile terminal apparatus for acquiring positional information includes a determination unit configured to determine in acquisition of the positional information whether a measurement condition for measurement of radio quality measurement and investigation of a network is set to the mobile terminal apparatus, a measurement control unit configured to, if the determination unit determines that the measurement condition is set, control to perform the measurement of the radio quality measurement and investigation of the network, a report information generation unit configured to generate report information including a measurement result of the radio quality measurement and investigation of the network and the positional information, and a transmitting unit configured to transmit the report information generated by the report information generation unit to the network. | 2013-05-09 |
| 20130115971 | CORRELATING WIRELESS SIGNALS TO A LOCATION ON AN IMAGE USING MOBILE SENSOR TECHNOLOGIES - Using ground truth events and sensors available on a first mobile device, an algorithm executed at the first mobile device determines the mobile device's position; the first mobile device also obtains wireless signal information; the wireless signal information is associated with the position determined via the sensor data and ground truth events; the associated data is stored and may be sent to or used by a second device; the second device may then, for example, detect then-current wireless signal information and may locate the second device by looking up the then-current wireless signal information in the associated data. | 2013-05-09 |
| 20130115972 | Method for Managing a Geo-Targeted Campaign - An embodiment is directed to a method for managing a geo-targeted campaign. A user defines a campaign by specifying devices eligible to receive the material associated with the campaign, landmarks defining points of interest and areas associated with the campaign, and triggers that enable the material to be delivered to devices based on a set of conditions. In an embodiment, a console provides controls for defining devices, landmarks, and events. The console includes a wizard for creating events and a visualization layer that allows a user to visualize devices and landmarks on a map. | 2013-05-09 |
| 20130115973 | PRE-SCALING OF A-GPS POSITIONING ACCURACY DATA - A method in conjunction with positioning of a mobile terminal in a cellular telecommunication system is disclosed. According to the method, an end user's requested positioning accuracy for the positioning of the mobile terminal is determined ( | 2013-05-09 |
| 20130115974 | MOBILE TERMINAL AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME - A mobile terminal is allowed to automatically reproduce contents by a user-desired device based on its own position and orientation. A method for controlling contents reproduction in a mobile terminal includes acquiring at least one of position and orientation of the mobile terminal, selecting one of a plurality of external devices based on the acquired at least one of the position and the orientation, the plurality of external devices being capable of reproducing contents at different positions, respectively, and transmitting a signal to the selected one external device for controlling the selected one external device to reproduce the contents. | 2013-05-09 |
| 20130115975 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION TERMINAL AND LOCATION SYSTEM SELECTION METHOD - A mobile communication terminal ( | 2013-05-09 |
| 20130115976 | System and Method for Monitoring the Location of Individuals via the World Wide Web Using a Wireless Communications Network - A system is described for monitoring the geographical location of a subscriber's mobile cellular telephone, and for providing the location information to an authorized user through the world wide web. The geographical location of the subscriber's mobile cellular telephone is tracked using registration signals transmitted over the control channel by the cellular telephone. This information is supplied to a geographical location coordinator system, which determines the geographical coordinates for the cellular telephone. A database stores the geographical location information along with a subscriber's telephone number and account code. The database is updated to track the movement of the cellular telephone user across a geographical area. | 2013-05-09 |
| 20130115977 | Radio Impacts Due To Group Triggering And Paging And Solutions For Group Triggering And Paging - A method includes transmitting a paging indicator indicating to user equipment assigned to one or more groups that the user equipment are to attempt to receive paging messages including paging information targeted to at least one of the one or more groups; and transmitting in a channel the paging information in the paging messages. Another method includes receiving a paging indicator indicating a user equipment is to attempt to receive paging messages including paging information targeted to at least one of one or more groups; and receiving from a channel the paging information in the paging messages. A method includes sending a request message to user equipment assigned to one or more groups, the request message comprising an indication to cause the user equipment to read device trigger information in a system broadcast message; and sending the device trigger information in the system broadcast message. | 2013-05-09 |
| 20130115978 | Mobile Communication Method, Mobile Communication System and Access Entity - An embodiment of the invention provides a communication system. The communication system includes a user equipment which is moving within a coverage of a first network and a second network and is configured to send a location update request to a third access entity of the second network; and the third access entity which is configured to receive the location update request from the user equipment, acquire information of a first access entity of the first network from the location update request and determine whether a predetermined condition is satisfied If the predetermined condition is not satisfied, the user equipment is paged through the first access entity, and if the predetermined condition is satisfied, the user equipment is not paged through the first access entity. As such, the situation that the UE is paged in an area where it is unlikely to appear can be avoided. | 2013-05-09 |
| 20130115979 | SERVICE IMPLEMENTATION METHOD, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM - A service implementation method, apparatus, and system are disclosed. The service implementation method includes: receiving, by a serving gateway, a data packet of a terminal device sent by a packet data network gateway; if the data packet is a data packet with a serving priority and the serving gateway has sent a paging trigger message with a serving priority to a mobility management element, skipping, by the serving gateway, sending a paging trigger message to the mobility management element; or if the data packet is a data packet with a serving priority and the serving gateway has sent no paging trigger message with a serving priority to a mobility management element, sending, by the serving gateway, a paging trigger message to the mobility management element; wherein the paging trigger message is used to enable the mobility management element to page the terminal device. | 2013-05-09 |
| 20130115980 | Low Power High Frequency Social Updates for Mobile Devices - In one embodiment, a mobile device determines a notification mode based on the mobile device's user interface mode, and transmits a message comprising the notification mode to a server, causing the server to transmit one or more messages to the mobile device based on the notification mode. | 2013-05-09 |
| 20130115981 | Server-Side Rate-Limiting Algorithms for Piggybacking Social Updates for Mobile Devices - In one embodiment, a mobile device determines a notification mode based on the mobile device's user interface mode, and transmits a message comprising the notification mode to a server, causing the server to transmit one or more messages to the mobile device based on the notification mode. | 2013-05-09 |
| 20130115982 | METHOD OF EXCHANGING SMS DATA IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM - The system comprises wireless user equipment (UE) and a core network unit interfaced with the UE through a wireless access network. A first short message relay (SMR) entity and a first short message control entity (SMC) are provided in the core network unit or the UE, the other one having a second SMR entity and a second SMC entity. The method of exchanging SMS data comprises, in the first SMC entity:—transmitting to the second SMC entity first control protocol data (CP_DATA) conveying relay protocol data (RP_DATA) provided by the first SMR entity,—receiving from the second SMC entity second CP_DATA conveying relay protocol acknowledgement information (RP_ACK) from the second SMR entity; and—retransmitting the first CP_DATA unless an acknowledgement is received from the second SMC entity before a timer expires. The second CP_DATA is interpreted as an acknowledgement for deciding whether the first CP_DATA is to be retransmitted. | 2013-05-09 |
| 20130115983 | MESSAGE FORWARDING AMONG DISPARATE COMMUNICATION NETWORKS - A method and system for forwarding information to a device in a communication network are disclosed. According to one aspect, a method includes selecting a serving node to which to send a request. The selected serving node is one of plurality of serving nodes, each of the plurality of serving nodes supporting a different access technology. The request is to transmit one of a short messaging service, SMS, message and trigger information. The request includes a list of the plurality of nodes. The method further includes sending the request to the selected serving node via a translation interface associated with the selected serving node. The translation interface is adapted to use a protocol that corresponds to the access technology of the selected serving node. If the selected serving node cannot reach the device, the request is forwarded to another serving node in the list of serving nodes in the request. | 2013-05-09 |
| 20130115984 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING SPECTRUM RESOURCES - A central registration system provides channel maps of available spectrum channels to radio devices. The channel map indicates relative noise floor amounts among the available channels. For this purpose, an amount of predicted interference caused by high-power protected transmitters on each channel available to the requesting radio device for wireless communications is determined, where interference from primary channel and out-of-band emissions of the transmitters is considered. | 2013-05-09 |
| 20130115985 | BEAMFORMING COORDINATION IN HETEROGENEOUS NETWORKS - Technology for spatial domain beamforming coordination at a low power node (LPN) in a heterogeneous network (HetNet) is disclosed. One method can include the LPN collecting spatial feedback information of macro node interference from a plurality of wireless devices in a LPN cell. The LPN can compile the spatial feedback information into a spatial feedback report. The LPN can send the spatial feedback report from the LPN to a macro node for calculating a beamforming vector to reduce the macro node interference for the plurality of wireless devices in the LPN cell. | 2013-05-09 |
| 20130115986 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR PARTIAL INTERFERENCE REDUCTION WITHIN WIRELESS NETWORKS - Methods and apparatus that enable one or more wireless networks to minimize inter-cellular interference (ICI) at a receiver. In one embodiment, the network comprises an OFDM-based cellular network, and the method comprises utilizing a priori knowledge of non-data portions of signals from multiple base stations in order to schedule transmissions. In one variant, these non-data portions comprise pilot tones; the pilot tones can be scheduled onto various time-frequency resources of the network so as to minimize ICI. The mobility context of the receiver can also be used as a basis for dynamically adjusting the pilot tone density. In another variant, precoding (e.g., Tomlinson-Harashima precoding) can be applied to “shape” the non-data portions of the transmitted signals so as to mitigate ICI. In yet other variants, frame preambles and learning sequences are used as the basis for invoking selective transmission time shifts across the potentially interfering base stations so as to minimize ICI. | 2013-05-09 |
| 20130115987 | Hybrid Approach for Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH) Interference Cancellation - Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to a hybrid approach for Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH) Interference Cancellation (IC). In certain aspects, if the PDSCH information is known for a serving cell but not be known for interfering cell(s), a hybrid approach that involves using Codeword-level IC (CWIC) for the serving cell and using Symbol-level IC (SLIC) for the interfering cells may be used for better IC performance. The hybrid IC approach may start with a UE attempting to decode the serving cell PDSCH. If the decode is unsuccessful, the UE may perform CWIC for the serving cell followed by SLIC using the results of the CWIC stage. After the SLIC stage, the UE may attempt to decode the serving cell PDSCH again. The UE may perform multiple operations of this method until the serving cell PDSCH is successfully decoded or a maximum number of iterations is reached. | 2013-05-09 |
| 20130115988 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR MITIGATING KNOWN INTERFERENCE - Systems and methods for mitigating known interference at a receiving device are provided. A signal from a transmission source is received by a receiving device that is affected by an interference source. At least one of a first pilot signal associated with the transmission source and a second pilot signal associated with the interfering source is determined. The first pilot signal includes information broadcast from the transmission source and the second pilot signal includes information broadcast from the interference source. Interference caused by the interference source is mitigated from the received signal using at least one of the first pilot signal and the second pilot signal. | 2013-05-09 |
| 20130115989 | RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, RADIO BASE STATION, AND BASE STATION PARAMETER-ADJUSTMENT METHOD - A radio base station (eNB | 2013-05-09 |
| 20130115990 | SCHEDULING REQUESTS FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICES RUNNING BACKGROUND APPLICATIONS - In embodiments, a user equipment (UE) may transmit, to an evolved Node B (eNB), a background indicator that the UE is in a background mode running one or more background applications and no active applications. The eNB may receive background indicators from a plurality of UEs, and may bundle the background-mode UEs into one scheduling request (SR) allocation block. The individual UEs may be assigned different resource elements within the block on which to transmit an SR indicator (e.g., if the UE has data to send to the eNB). The eNB may lengthen the period between SR allocations for the background-mode UEs compared with active-mode UEs. In some embodiments, the UE may exclusively use the assigned SR allocation instead of a random access channel to notify the eNB that the UE has data to send. | 2013-05-09 |
| 20130115991 | BANDWIDTH INFORMATION DETERMINATION FOR FLEXIBLE BANDWIDTH CARRIERS - Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are provided for mobility management for wireless communications systems that utilize a flexible bandwidth carrier. Some embodiments include approaches for determining bandwidth information, such as one or more bandwidth scaling factors N and/or flexible bandwidths, at a user equipment (UE), where the bandwidth information may not be signaled to the UE. Embodiments for determining bandwidth information include: random ordered bandwidth scaling factor approaches, delay ordered bandwidth scaling factor approaches, storing bandwidth scaling factor value in UE Neighbor Record approaches, spectrum measurement approaches, spectrum calculation approaches, and/or a priori approaches. Flexible bandwidth carrier systems may utilize spectrum portions that may not be big enough to fit a normal waveform. Flexible bandwidth carrier systems may be generated through dilating, or scaling down, time, frame lengths, bandwidth, or the chip rate of the flexible bandwidth carrier systems with respect to a normal bandwidth carrier system. | 2013-05-09 |
| 20130115992 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING WIRELESS DEVICES - A wireless device operates in a first mode in which the device can send data to and receive data from an access point. The device receives control data from the access point comprising first data indicative of a time period and second data indicative of a control parameter. The device operates in a second mode for the time period specified by the first data and on the basis of the control parameter. In the second mode, at least some circuitry of the device used for sending data and at least some circuitry of the device used for receiving data is placed in a low power state, and data to be sent to the access point is stored in a buffer of the device. After expiry of the time period, the device operates in the first mode to send the data stored in the buffer to the access point. | 2013-05-09 |
