| 23rd week of 2016 patent applcation highlights part 82 |
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| 20160165527 | NEIGHBOR RELATION INFORMATION MANAGEMENT - Neighbor relation information management involves, for example: acquiring, reporting, and exchanging neighbor relation information. In some cases, neighbor relation information is acquired and/or reported in a manner that does not significantly impact other functionality of the access terminal. For example, an access terminal may be configured to acquire and/or report neighbor relation information only during one or more defined radio states. In some cases, the acquisition of neighbor relation information is based on a neighbor relation threshold. In some cases, an access terminal does not immediately report measured neighbor relation information and instead stores the information for reporting at a later time. In some cases, a transmitted indication is used to facilitate retrieval of neighbor relation information from an access terminal. In some cases, neighbor relation information acquired from an access terminal is exchanged over a direct interface between access points. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160165528 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO DISCOVER NETWORK CAPABILITIES AVAILABLE VIA WIRELESS NETWORKS - An example method for network selection involves discovering network capabilities by performing an Access Network Query Protocol (ANQP) query at a wireless terminal, and receiving a subsequent ANQP response from an access point of a wireless local area network. The network capabilities are indicated in the subsequent ANQP response. The example method also involves comparing the network capabilities with configured capabilities, finding a match between at least a portion of the network capabilities and at least a portion of the configured capabilities, and joining the wireless terminal with the access point based on the at least the portion of the network capabilities matching the at least the portion of the configured capabilities. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160165529 | METHOD, APPARATUS, DEVICE, AND SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING ACCESS TO WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORK - A method, apparatus, device, and system control access to a wireless local area network, and relate to the field of communications technologies. The method includes: determining, by a first cellular network access node, that a WLAN AP meets an access condition of UE; and sending instruction information to the UE to instruct the UE to access a WLAN network, where the instruction information includes an identifier of the WLAN AP or includes an identifier of the WLAN AP and an identifier of at least one other WLAN AP, and a service provided by the at least one other WLAN AP is the same as a service provided by the WLAN AP. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160165530 | WLAN NETWORK SELECTION - The invention relates to a method and devices for selecting a communication network for a mobile terminal accessing the communication network via an unlicensed wireless access network. Therein, the communication network is selected by a mobile terminal to fulfill carrier grade requirements, which can include lawful interception capabilities. An access node for an unlicensed wireless access network is configured to provide a list of communication networks that fulfill carrier grade requirements. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160165531 | METHOD FOR ENHANCED ACCESS SELECTION FOR A USER EQUIPMENT IN A CELLULAR TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORK, TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORK, AND SYSTEM FOR ENHANCED ACCESS SELECTION OF A USER EQUIPMENT - A method for enhanced access selection for a user equipment in a cellular telecommunications network includes: in a first step, a serving base station entity sending validation information to the user equipment, the validation information having either a positive value, indicating to apply a policy corresponding to a policy information data element, or a negative value, indicating not to apply the policy corresponding to the policy information data element; and in a second step, subsequent to the first step, the user equipment applying the policy corresponding to the policy information data element in case that the validation information has a positive value, and the user equipment terminating the data bearer or refraining from establishing the data hearer via the access point in case that the validation information has a negative value. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160165532 | USER TERMINAL AND COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD - A user terminal capable of using an Evolved-UMTS Terrestrial Radio Access Network (E-UTRAN) and a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN), includes: a storage configured to store a Radio Access Network (RAN) rule for selecting a network, among the E-UTRAN and the WLAN, to be used in a unit of an Access Point Name (APN); a receiver configured to receive an Access Network Discovery and Selection Function (ANDSF) rule for selecting a network, among the E-UTRAN and the WLAN, to be used; and a controller configured to select a selection rule, from among the ANDSF rule and the RAN rule, to be applied to change the network, wherein the controller selects the RAN rule in a case where the user terminal has both the ANDSF rule and the RAN rule and an Inter System Routing Policy (ISRP) is not configured. The ISRP is a function, in the ANDSF rule, for selecting a network, among the E-UTRAN and the WLAN, to be used in a unit of an Internet Protocol (IP) flow. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160165533 | COMMUNICATION METHOD, STATION AND SYSTEM - Embodiments of the present application disclose a communication method, including: a station performs association certification with access points, wherein the access points at least includes a first access point and a second access point; the station sends sequence numbers to the access points; the station broadcasts a communication message for enabling the access points to return reply messages to the station according to the sequence numbers in sequence, after receiving the communication message; the station receives a reply message returned by at least one access point, and performs data communication with the at least one access point which returns the reply message. The present application may be used for solving the problems that in an OBSS system, the probability of STA in an overlapped area for competing to obtain a channel is small and the throughput is low. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160165534 | METHOD FOR COMMUNICATION BASED ON IDENTIFYING INFORMATION ASSIGNMENT AND APPARATUS FOR THE SAME - A communication method based on identifying information assignment in a wireless local area network (WLAN) system, performed by a station (STA), is provided. The method includes receiving an identifier assignment message from an access point (AP), wherein the identifier assignment message comprises identifying information for the STA, and TIM offset information for a time point at which at least one traffic indication map (TIM) element for the STA starts to be transmitted; receiving a first TIM element from the AP at a time point indicated by the TIM offset information; determining whether the first TIM element comprises the identifying information; and receiving a first data frame from the AP if the first TIM element contains the identifying information. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160165535 | BASE STATION, RADIO COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM, BASE STATION CONTROL METHOD, RADIO COMMUNICATIONS METHOD AND BASE STATION CONTROL PROGRAM - Because it is not possible to sufficiently reduce the number base stations that start uselessly in spite of being in a low traffic state, it is not possible to lower interference between adjacent cells and power consumption sufficiently. A base station starts transmission of a control signal with predetermined power when communication between another base station and a mobile station is started and a first predetermined condition is satisfied. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160165536 | REDUCTION OF POWER CONSUMPTION IN A HALF-DUPLEX TRANSCEIVER - Circuits and methods for reducing power consumption in a half-duplex transceiver are disclosed. In an embodiment, a power management circuit of half-duplex transceiver includes direct current to direct current (DC-DC) converter and snooze mode controller. The DC-DC converter includes switching circuit and driver circuit to drive the switching circuit. The DC-DC converter provides power supply to at least one element of a transmitter sub-system of the half-duplex transceiver, and operates in snooze control modes. The snooze mode controller is coupled to the DC-DC converter and configured to generate a control signal based on at least one transceiver operating input, where the control signal causes the DC-DC converter to operate in one of the snooze control modes, the snooze control modes corresponding to snooze duty cycles and where in each snooze control mode, the switching circuit and the driver circuit remain in an OFF-state based on a respective snooze duty cycle. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160165537 | PORTABLE TERMINAL DEVICE - Provided is a portable terminal device capable of sustaining a battery remaining amount for an extended period of time, even in the event of an emergency such as a disaster. The present invention is provided with: a reception unit for receiving emergency disaster information; a positional-information acquisition unit for acquiring positional information; a storage unit in which preset positional information is stored; an electric power supply unit which supplies, to a plurality of parts configuring the portable terminal device, electric power supplied from a battery; and a control unit for controlling the electric power supply unit. When the emergency disaster information is received, the control unit controls the electric power supply unit on the basis of the positional information obtained by the positional-information acquisition unit and the positional information stored in the storage unit. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160165538 | POWER MANAGEMENT FOR EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE - Systems and methods of conserving power in a mobile emergency communication device. After placing a telephone call, the calling device communicates information to the call recipient, for example a response center, usable to estimate the remaining talk time of the calling device. The call recipient sends instructions to the calling device to turn off, disable, or suspend certain device capabilities to conserve battery power in the calling device. For example, if it is determined that the device is not moving, a geographical location capability of the device may be turned off to conserve power. Other capabilities may also be turned off, for example a secondary radio transceiver, a display screen or other visual indicator, certain software applications executing on the device, or other capabilities. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160165539 | METHOD FOR MONITORING A PHYSICAL DOWNLINK CONTROL CHANNEL DURING DRX OPERATION IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND A DEVICE THEREFOR (AS AMENDED) - The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. More specifically, the present invention relates to a method and a device for monitoring a PDCCH during a DRX (Discontinuous Reception) operation in a wireless communication system, the method comprising: receiving first DRX (Discontinuous Reception) information from the first BS; receiving second DRX information from the second BS; and monitoring a PDCCH (Physical Downlink Control Channel) for the first BS during an active time for the second BS, wherein the active time for the second BS includes one or more On Durations indicated by the second DRX information. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160165540 | THROUGHPUT-BASED ACTIVE MODE TRIGGER - A method and apparatus for reducing gaps in data transmission between a device and at least one wireless access point connecting the first device to a central monitoring system. The device includes a radio that enables bidirectional data communication between the device and the at least one wireless access point, the radio being able to operate in a power save mode and an active transmission mode. A control processor selectively monitors a type and amount of data being transmitted between the radio and the at least one wireless access point to predict an occurrence of a gap in data transmission between the device and the at least one access point. The control processor, in response to predicting a gap in data transmission, automatically switches an operational mode of the radio from the power save mode to the active transmission mode for a predetermined amount of time enabling full bidirectional communication between the device and the at least one wireless access point for the predetermined amount of time preventing the gap in data transmission. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160165541 | 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. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160165542 | VEHICLE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A vehicle communication system includes a mobile terminal having a display screen in which display ON and OFF of the display screen can be operated by a user and a vehicle that performs communication with the mobile terminal in a first interval period when a connection has been established. The vehicle has an in-vehicle control unit that, before the connection is established, sends an inquiry signal for establishing the connection to a vicinity of the vehicle in a second interval period. The mobile terminal has a control section that, before the connection is established, performs scanning operation that enables the inquiry signal to be received in a third interval period. The control section can set the third interval period so as to be operational in at least two periods and sets the third interval period to the high-speed mode when the display of the display screen is on. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160165543 | ENVELOPE TRACKING SYSTEM WITH ADJUSTMENT FOR NOISE - An envelope tracking transceiver dynamically adjusts envelope tracking parameters to achieve the desired tradeoff between noise performance and power efficiency. When higher levels of noise are acceptable, the envelope tracking transceiver dynamically adjusts transmitter parameters to achieve better power efficiency while sacrificing noise performance. When lower levels of noise are desired, the envelope tracking transceiver dynamically adjusts parameters to achieve better noise performance while sacrificing efficiency. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160165544 | METHOD OF MANAGEMENT OF A WIRELESS INTERFACE OF A DEVICE AND CORRESPONDING WIRELESS DEVICE - The present invention generally relates to a management of a wireless interface of a device. The management of the wireless interface includes monitoring of at least one component of the device, other than a wireless network element followed by switching a power state of the wireless interface to another power state according to the monitored activity. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160165545 | TERMINAL DEVICE, METHOD, AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - A terminal device configured to communicate with a base station device using one cell. The terminal device is configured to: set transmission power for transmission of a physical uplink shared channel on a subframe belonging to a first subframe set, based on a first parameter relating to power control adjustment; set transmission power for the physical uplink shared channel on a subframe belonging to a second subframe set, based on a second parameter relating to the power control adjustment; and calculate a value of the first parameter by accumulating a correction value indicated by a transmit power control command corresponding to the first subframe set, in a case that accumulation is enabled; calculate a value of the second parameter by accumulating the correction value indicated by the transmit power control command corresponding to the second subframe set, in a case that accumulation is enabled. Thus, the base station device and the terminal device can efficiently perform the transmit power control. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160165546 | METHOD, NETWORK NODES, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR LOAD BASED ADAPTIVE CRS POWER ADJUSTMENT - A method performed in a network node. The method includes the network node receiving a report regarding a traffic load of at least one network cell of a plurality of network cells. The method further includes the network node determining whether the traffic load of the at least one network cell is greater than an average traffic load of the plurality of network cells. The method further includes the network node adjusting a power of a reference signal based on said determining. The method also includes the network node transmitting the adjusted reference signal in the at least one network cell. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160165547 | TERMINAL DEVICE, METHOD, AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - Provided is a terminal device configured to communicate with a base station device, the terminal device being configured to: transmission power for transmission of a physical uplink shared channel in a subframe belonging to a first subframe set, based on a first parameter and a third parameter relating to power control adjustment; set transmission power for transmission of a physical uplink shared channel in a subframe belonging to a second subframe set, based on a second parameter and a fourth parameter relating to the power control adjustment; reset a value of the third parameter in a case that accumulation is enabled, and a random access response is received; and reset a value of the third parameter in a case that the accumulation is enabled, and a value of the first parameter is changed. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160165548 | APPARATUS, VEHICLE, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR SETTING A TRANSMISSION POWER - Embodiments provide an apparatus, a vehicle, a method, and a computer program for setting a transmission power. The apparatus ( | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160165549 | Data Frame Sending Method and Apparatus, and Data Frame Receiving Method and Apparatus - The present invention provides a data frame sending and receiving method and apparatus. The data frame sending method includes: receiving, by a first access point, first interference power parameters fed back by associated stations of the first access point, and receiving second interference power parameters sent by a second access point; if determining that a channel on which the first access point works is currently being occupied by the second access point, determining to-be-scheduled stations and transmission powers of the first access point for the to-be-scheduled stations, sending scheduling indication signaling at the determined transmission powers, and receiving scheduling indication response signaling sent by a schedulable station; and sending a data frame to the schedulable station at a transmission power corresponding to the schedulable station among the determined transmission powers. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160165550 | WALK-ASSISTED AUTOMATED AP COVERAGE ADJUSTMENT - Systems and methods for controlling the power of small cells in a coverage area includes obtaining signal strength measurements of wireless signals received from a plurality of small cells in a defined coverage area by identifying signal strength at a plurality of locations near the perimeter of the coverage area, and determining a revised transmit power of the small cells based on the determined signal strength (a) to maintain a minimum threshold of received signal while reducing the average power within the coverage area, or (b) to reduce leakage outside the perimeter of the coverage area relative to a desired threshold. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160165551 | Adjusting Transmitted Power Output of an Antenna of a Device - An antenna and a proximity sensor coupled to the antenna can determine proximity of an object to a device. The device can include a controller to adjust a transmitted power output of the antenna if the object is proximate to the device and measurements from the sensor collected over a period of time vary. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160165552 | Power Adaptation in an Electronic Device - In order to improve communication with another electronic device, during an advertising mode an electronic device (such as a smartphone) may transmit a packet with advertising information using a default transmit power level. Then, based on feedback about a performance metric associated with the communication from the other electronic device, the electronic device may selectively increase the transmit power level for a subsequent packet. Because this selective increase in the transmit power level may increase the overall power consumption, the change in the transmit power level also may depend on one or more factors, such as a battery power level of the electronic device. However, the selective increase in the transmit power level may, in some instances, decrease the overall power consumption by reducing or eliminating retries. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160165553 | Low Power Chaining - A group of low power transceiver devices may create a private wireless network. In a private communication network, each device may monitor neighboring devices and transmit a low power signal on a periodic basis. At any time, if a device breaks away from the private communication network, the device determines its location and then transmits its location to one or more devices in the group at a high transmit power level. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160165554 | RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION MODES IN PATIENT MONITORING - Techniques for wireless component monitoring are described herein. The techniques may include entering a low power mode to associate a radio frequency identification (RFID) component with a patient monitoring device within a first range. The techniques also include entering a high power mode wherein the patient monitoring device is to detect the RFID component within a second range of the patient monitoring device, wherein the second range is larger than the first range. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160165555 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING RADIO RESOURCE IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and an apparatus for performing transmission power selection of a wireless access device and channel allocation in a combination manner, for resource management optimized for a wireless network environment supporting multimedia traffic are provided. In a method for managing a radio resource of at least one Access Point (AP) in a wireless communication network, a transmission power select operation for the AP is performed on each of a plurality of channel settings, and a network performance value is predicted. Optimized channel setting is selected among the plurality of channel settings depending on the predicted network performance value. The optimized channel setting and optimized transmission power corresponding to the optimized channel setting are allocated to the AP. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160165556 | Reporting Power Headroom for Aggregated Carriers - A method for reporting power headroom-related information for a plurality of aggregated carriers. The method includes reporting in a bitmap the power headroom-related information for a number of the aggregated carriers that is less than or equal to the total number of aggregated carriers, wherein the power headroom-related information is one of a power headroom for at least one of the aggregated carriers and a path loss for at least one of the aggregated carriers. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160165557 | ADAPTIVE, PREDICTIVE SYNCHRONIZATION FOR REDUCING CONNECTION ESTABLISHMENT DELAYS IN AD-HOC FREQUENCY HOPPING SPREAD SPECTRUM NETWORKS - Systems and methods for performing predictive frequency searches in ad-hoc multi-hop wireless networks is described herein. In one exemplary embodiment, a predicted frequency is selected and a synchronization request is sent from an initiating node to a target node on the predicted frequency. If the transmitted synchronization request is the last synchronization request for the predictive frequency search mode sequence, then the initiating node enters into a receiving mode to receive a synchronization response message from the target node. If not, the initiating node selects a new predicted frequency, and sends a new synchronization request to the target node on that frequency. This repeats until the transmitted synchronization request is the last predictive synchronization request, and the initiating node enters into the receiving mode. The initiating node in the selection of synchronization request transmission frequencies can adaptively alternate between predictive and full spectrum frequency searches. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160165558 | TECHNIQUES FOR SYNCHRONIZING TIMING OF WIRELESS STREAMING TRANSMISSIONS TO MULTIPLE SINK DEVICES - Methods, systems, apparatuses, and devices are described for synchronizing timing of wireless streaming transmissions to multiple sink devices. A source device may identify timing information associated with a common timing source, e.g., a media timing source at Multimedia layer or a Wi-Fi timing source, and send the timing information to the sink devices. The sink devices may receive the timing information and determine a composite timing delay, e.g., a wireless transmission link delay, an internal interface link delay, or combinations thereof. The source device may stream the content to the sink devices which may use a locally adjusted timing signal to synchronize the presentation of the content. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160165559 | USER APPARATUS, BASE STATION, DISCOVERY SIGNAL RECEPTION METHOD AND DISCOVERY SIGNAL TRANSMISSION METHOD - A user apparatus, for use in a radio communication system including a base station forming a cell, configured to receive a discovery signal of device-to-device communication, including: an information reception unit configured to receive, from a base station of a residing cell, a resource range in which a discovery signal can be transmitted in a neighbor cell; and a discovery signal reception unit configured to receive a discovery signal at a time position that is synchronized with the neighbor cell in response to receiving a synchronization signal that is synchronized with the neighbor cell within the resource range received by the information reception unit. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160165560 | RADIO BASE STATION, USER TERMINAL AND RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD - A radio base station establishes radio synchronization by using a downlink signal transmitted from a radio base station of another cell, and has a synchronization information control section that, via an inter-base station interface, reports a synchronization information request to the radio base station of the other cell and also acquires synchronization information reported from the radio base station of the other cell, and an on/off control section that, based on the synchronization information acquired, determines the status of synchronization with a cell that belongs to a lower stratum than an own cell, and executes on/off control for the own cell, and the synchronization information which the synchronization information control section acquires from the radio base station of the other cell includes information representing the synchronization status and the synchronization stratum level of the radio base station of the other cell. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160165561 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ADJUSTING DEVICE-TO-DEVICE TIMING IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and apparatus for adjusting device-to-device (D2D) timing in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes detecting a signal on a second D2D group, and adjusting D2D timing of the first D2D group based on the detected signal on the second D2D group. The first D2D group includes a first device and a second device which perform D2D operation in the first D2D group, and the second D2D group includes a third device and a fourth device which perform D2D operation in the second D2D group. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160165562 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SELECTIVELY RECEIVING AND PROCESSING RF SIGNALS AT AN RF BEACON - Synchronizing the local time of beacons using two way time transfer methods and hardware enabling such methods. Certain systems incorporate receive hardware into beacon circuitry used for transmitting signals so that the beacon can transmit RF signals during transmission periods, and can also receive RF signals from other beacons during non-transmission periods. Receive hardware may be incorporated into beacon circuitry such that the beacon receives an incoming signal and passes that incoming signal to a digital pre-distortion linearization module, which can process that received signal. Methods for controlling whether a beacon transmits RF signals or receives RF signals are also discussed, as are methods for using RF signals received from other beacons for synchronization. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160165563 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TIME SYNCHRONIZATION IN DEVICE-TO-DEVICE COMMUNICATION - A method for matching time synchronization between UEs during Device-to-Device (hereinafter referred to as “D2D”) communication in a radio communication system without involving an Evolved Node B (ENB) is proposed. Using the proposed method, all the UEs can operate to match the time synchronization without malfunction in accordance with a synchronization signal of the ENB even if the UE inside an ENB area and the UE outside the ENB area coexist. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160165564 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF PROVIDING IP-BASED PACKET COMMUNICATIONS IN A UTILITY NETWORK - A wireless communication system and method include a plurality of nodes that are part of a wireless local area network (LAN), and a plurality of access points connected to the wireless LAN and at least one wide area network (WAN). At least one of the nodes registers with at least two of the access points, and, for each of the access points with which that node registers, obtain a unique network address corresponding to that access point, such that the node obtains a plurality of unique network addresses each respectively associated with a corresponding one of the access points with which the node registers. The node can receive a message from an external network device via multiple routes through the WAN and the wireless LAN. Each of the multiple routes respectively corresponds to one of the unique network addresses obtained by the node. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160165565 | DEDICATED GATEWAY FOR MOBILE BROADBAND DEVICES - A quite simple and effective way for simplifying the mobile system for the mobile broadband customers, thereby lowering the equipment costs and in the end allowing for more competitive flat rate fees, is to direct the traffic from mobile broadband devices ( | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160165566 | METHOD FOR BUILDING DATABASE FOR FINGERPRINTING POSITIONING AND FINGERPRINTING POSITIONING METHOD USING THE BUILT DATABASE - A method for building a database for fingerprinting positioning including: generating, by a database building device, raw data by collecting received signal strengths (RSSs) for access points (APs) at each sample point (SP); and generating a cluster table by clustering SPs for each of the APs according to the RSS for the AP, using the generated raw data. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160165567 | Method and Device for Determining Node Movement - Embodiments disclose a method and device for determining a node movement. The method includes: when a first node determines that the first node is currently in an abnormal state, broadcasting at least two RSSI request messages, and receiving signal strength measurement values that are returned by a second node and separately obtained by means of measurement for at least two RSSI request messages in the at least two RSSI request messages broadcast by the first node. The method also includes separately calculating at least two path loss values between the first node and the second node according to the at least two received signal strength measurement values; and determining that the first node moves when it is determined that a quantity of second nodes, of which at least two path loss values are all different, is greater than a set threshold. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160165568 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TRANSMITTING INFORMATION, ALERTS, AND/OR COMMENTS TO PARTICIPANTS BASED ON LOCATION INFORMATION - The present invention generally relates to systems and methods for sharing information related to a location also referred to herein as a “spot,” such as spot alerts and/or spot comments (e.g., shared information, advertisements, etc.) received, displayed, played, and/or actuated, for example, on recipient mobile electronic devices proximately located to such location (e.g., spot). Users of the system can create spot alerts in which designated recipients can receive messages, such as spot alerts and/or spot comments (e.g., shared information, advertisements, etc.) received, displayed, played, and/or actuated, for example, on respective recipient mobile electronic devices, when located within a proximity of a defined location (e.g., spot). | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160165569 | Method and System for Managing a Location Detector - A portable device, for example an offender monitor, can utilize a location detector, such as a GPS receiver, to provide locational information for the device. The portable device can communicate over a cellular network, for example transmitting location readings over the network. The device can maintain the location detector in a state of reduced energy consumption and activate the receiver when conditions of the cellular environment indicate a high probability of the device moving a noteworthy distance. In various examples, the decision can take into consideration change in signal strength and/or history of cell tower utilization. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160165570 | CROWD SOURCED LOCATION DETERMINATION - Techniques and systems for determining locations of devices using location data sources are provided. For example, a network device, method, and computer-program product may be provided. In one example, a method may include receiving, on a computing device, a request to locate a device, wherein the request includes an identifier of the device. The method may further include receiving a communication from the device, wherein the communication includes the identifier of the device, and obtaining a location of the device. The method may further include transmitting the location of the device and the identifier of the device to a server, wherein the server is configured to use the location of the device and the identifier of the device to send a response to the requestor of the request. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160165571 | System and Method for Sending and Receiving Messages by a User Having Multiple Personas Associated with Respective Telephone Numbers - A first message addressed to a telephone number associated with a user is received. It is determined that the telephone number is associated with a persona based messaging service. In response to determining that the telephone number is associated with a persona based messaging service, the first message is stored in a mailbox associated with the user. A notification is transmitted to a messaging server that the first message is stored in the mailbox. The first message is retrieved. A push notification is transmitted to a client associated with the telephone number via a wireless network. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160165572 | METHOD OF TRANSMISSION SCHEME SWITCH, UE AND BASE STATION - Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method of transmission scheme switch, a UE and a base station. The method of switch includes: a base station receives a paging message, the paging message containing identity of a UE; judges whether the UE uses a connectionless scheme for data transmission; and the base station transmits a radio resource control connection release message to the UE when the UE uses a connectionless scheme for data transmission. With the embodiments of the present disclosure, switch of the UE from a connectionless scheme to a conventional scheme may be realized, so as to perform data transmission. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160165573 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM FOR PAGING USER EQUIPMENT - A method, an apparatus, and a system for paging a User Equipment (UE) are provided. The method for paging a UE includes: sending a downlink data notification message inclusive of paging range indicator information to a core network control plane entity; receiving a paging message sent by the core network control plane entity and inclusive of a raging range; and initiating a paging to a UE corresponding to a user ID in the paging range. The apparatus for paging a UE includes: a first sending module, a first receiving module, and a paging initiating module. A system for paging a UE is further provided. With the method, apparatus, and system for paging a UE, the UE can be paged in only a set paging range. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160165574 | TRIGGER FRAME FORMAT FOR ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS (OFDMA) COMMUNICATION - Multiple trigger frames are generated at a first communication device to trigger an uplink orthogonal frequency multiple access (OFDMA) transmission by multiple second communication devices. The multiple trigger frames include a broadcast trigger frame that includes information to indicate transmission parameters for a first subset of the second communication devices, and one or more unicast trigger frames, each of the one or more unicast trigger frame including information to indicate transmission parameters for a particular second communication device in a second subset of the second communication devices. The broadcast trigger frame is transmitted, in a first frequency portion of a downlink OFDMA transmission, to the first subset of the second communication devices, and respective unicast trigger frames are transmitted, in respective second frequency portions of the downlink OFDMA transmission, to the second subset of the second communication devices. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160165575 | TRANSMIT ANTENNA DIVERSITY SCHEME - Methods, systems, and devices are described for mapping, by a UE, uplink transmissions to one or more antennas of the UE. In one aspect, a UE may receive an uplink resource allocation identifying a set of resource blocks (RBs) from a base station. The UE may map subsets of the set of RBs to one or more of a plurality of antennas of the UE and transmit one or more uplink transmissions, using the subsets of the set of resource blocks, on the one or more antennas based at least in part on the mapping. Additionally, in some aspects, the UE may determine channel characteristics or CSI associated with the downlink from the base station and base the mapping of subsets of RBs to one or more antennas of the UE on the determined channel characteristics/CSI. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160165576 | INTEROPERATION TECHNIQUES FOR WWAN AND WLAN RECEIVE CHAINS - A user equipment (UE) may receive a wireless wide area network (WWAN) signal on a first antenna. The UE may process the WWAN signal with a portion of a WWAN receive chain of a WWAN module of the UE. The WWAN signal may be routed from the WWAN receive chain to a wireless local area network (WLAN) receive chain of a WLAN module of the UE. The UE may then process the WWAN signal with a portion of the WLAN receive chain. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160165577 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND DEVICES FOR DOWNLINK SHARED CHANNEL TRANSMISSION FOR MTC USING CONVOLUTIONAL CODING - Systems and methods for transmitting and receiving downlink shared channel (DL-SCH) transmissions encoded with convolutional codes are disclosed herein. User equipment (UE) may be configured to communicatively couple to an Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access Network (E-UTRAN) Node B (eNB). The UE may be configured to transmit and receive machine-type communication (MTC). The eNB may determine that the UE is an MTC UE. The eNB may use a convolutional code typically used for encoding control channel transmission to encode the DL-SCH transmissions. The DL-SCH may be transmitted over a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) or may be transmitted over a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) or enhanced PDCCH (EPDCCH). Downlink control information (DCI) may be transmitted before the DL-SCH and may include information that can be used to decode the DL-SCH. Alternatively, the DL-SCH may be transmitted without first transmitting DCI. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160165578 | DYNAMIC INDICATION OF TIME DIVISION (TDD) DUPLEX UPLINK/DOWNLINK SUBFRAME CONFIGURATIONS - Aspects of the present disclosure relate to techniques for dynamic indication of Time Division Duplex (TDD) Uplink (UL)/Downlink (DL) subframe configuration to User Equipments. A base station may identify one or more anchor subframes and one or more non-anchor subframes in a frame. The base station may dynamically change a UL/DL configuration of the frame used for communicating with a plurality of User Equipments (UEs) and signal the changed configuration using a common downlink control channel capable of being interpreted by the plurality of UEs in at least one of the one or more anchor subframes of the frame. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160165579 | TRANSMISSION/RECEPTION METHOD FOR MTC APPARATUS - In one aspect, the present specification discloses a transmission/reception method in a machine type communication (MTC) apparatus. The transmission/reception method for the MTC apparatus may comprise the steps of: receiving information about the specific number of a bundle of downlink control channels which are receivable on a plurality of downlink subframes; and determining the location of the downlink subframe in which the specific-number bundle of downlink control channels can finish reception in accordance with time division duplex (TDD) uplink/downlink setting. Here, when the reception about the bundle of downlink control channels is not finished at the location of the determined downlink subframe, it can be assumed that the reception of the bundle of downlink control channels will continue up to the location of the fastest downlink subframe in which the specific-number bundle of downlink control channels can finish reception among the subframes according to the TDD method. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160165580 | METHOD OF PERFORMING MEASUREMENT AT UE IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND APPARATUS THEREOF - A method of performing measurement at a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system is disclosed. The method includes receiving channel status information-reference signals (CSI-RSs) for channel status information feedback from plurality of transmission points (TPs), performing radio resource management (RRM) measurement based on the CSI-RSs, and selecting one or more TPs for receiving a signal from among the plurality of TPs based on the result of measurement. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160165581 | Control Channel in a Wireless Device and Wireless Network - A wireless device at least demodulates, descrambles and decodes a first control signal to generate a first signal. The wireless device processes the first signal by at least encoding, scrambling, modulating and scaling the first signal. The wireless device subtracts the processed first signal from received signals to generate a second signal. The wireless device at least demodulates, descrambles and decodes the second signal to generate a physical broadcast message. The wireless device determines a plurality of system parameters of a base station employing the physical broadcast message. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160165582 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - A communication apparatus and a communication method capable of suppressing an increase of bits used for a request to send a reference signal and flexibly setting a resource used for sending a reference signal. In a base station, a transmission processing unit transmits, in one of a plurality of formats, control information containing a request to send a sounding reference signal (A-SRS), and a reception processing unit receives the transmitted A-SRS using the resource specified by the format of the transmitted control information. Then, the plurality of formats is associated with each different SRS resource by a setting unit. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160165583 | HIERARCHICAL BEAMFORMING METHOD AND BASE STATION AND USER EQUIPMENT USING THE SAME - The present disclosure proposes a hierarchical beamforming method and a base station and a user equipment using the same. The method includes following steps. A network entry procedure is performed via a plurality of coarse beams by using a superframe header of a superframe corresponding to each of the coarse beams. In response to a success message associated with the network entry procedure being received, a network entry done message is transmitted by using a preferred coarse beam among the coarse beams. A user equipment (UE) connection is performed via a plurality of fine beams within a direction range of the preferred coarse beam, so as to determine a preferred fine beam by using a frame header of a basic frame corresponding to each of the fine beams, and perform a data packet transmission by using a packet transmission block of the basic frame corresponding to the preferred fine beam. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160165584 | FACILITATION OF MOBILE DEVICE RESOURCE OPTIMIZATION - A more efficient mobile device can be achieved via an optimization process based on display screen dormancy. Application data transmissions can be throttled based on a screen-on or screen-off status of a mobile device. Furthermore, an application management platform can be used to prioritize application data transmissions based on data associated with each application's packet transmissions. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160165585 | NETWORK APPARATUS AND COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD - eNB 200 sets discovery resources that are radio resources used for transmission or reception of a discovery signal for performing the D2D communication. The eNB 200 controls a quantity (time length) of the discovery resources based on information on UE 100 existing in a target area that is a setting target area of the discovery resources. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160165586 | ACCESS POINT APPARATUS FOR CONFIGURING NEXT GENERATION WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORK AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE ACCESS POINT APPARATUS - Disclosed are an access point apparatus for configuring a next generation wireless communication and a method of operating the access point apparatus. The access point apparatus for configuring the next generation wireless communication may include a verification unit to verify a first available band associated with at least one of a first band and a second band; and a configuration unit to configure a backbone network with another access point apparatus positioned within a predetermined distance, through the verified first available band. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160165587 | UPLINK THROUGHPUT ENHANCEMENT VIA MINIMUM POWER CONSTRAINED USER DEVICES - Systems and methods are disclosed for enhancing uplink throughput at a small cell base station. The small cell base station may monitor a power level associated with one or more user device (UD) transmissions from a UD, determine that the UD is at a UD transmit power floor based on the monitored power level, and adjust a data rate assigned to the UD based on the determination that the UD is at the UD transmit power floor. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160165588 | APPARATUS, METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIA FOR UPLINK TRANSMISSION OPPORTUNITY IN A HIGH-EFFICIENCY WIRELESS LOCAL-AREA NETWORK - Methods, devices and a computer-readable medium are disclosed for an uplink transmission opportunity in a high-efficiency wireless local-area network (HEW) are disclosed. A HEW station is disclosed that may include circuitry configured to receive a trigger frame with a first duration from a HEW master station, determine a second duration based on the first duration, generate a packet with the second duration, and transmit the packet with the second duration in an uplink transmission opportunity to the master station in accordance with at least one from the following group: orthogonal frequency division multiple-access and multiple-user multiple-input multiple-output. The trigger frame may include a resource map and the HEW station may transmit the packet on a channel indicated in the resource map. The second duration may be indicated in a legacy portion of the packet. The second duration may extend to one short interframe space before an acknowledgement of the packet. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160165589 | TRIGGER FRAME FORMAT FOR ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS (OFDMA) COMMUNICATION - One or more trigger frames are generated at a first communication device to trigger an uplink orthogonal frequency multiple access (OFDMA) transmission by multiple second communication devices. Each of the one or more trigger frames (i) includes an indication of a trigger type and (ii) is formatted according to the indicated trigger type. The first communication device transmits the one or more trigger frames to the multiple second communication devices. The first device then receives the triggered uplink OFDMA transmission that includes respective transmissions from the multiple second communication devices. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160165590 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INFORMATION TRANSMISSION IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - According to one embodiment, a method for transmitting, by a user equipment (UE), information in a wireless communication system includes: determining a first information sequence based on a first cyclically shifted base sequence and a first orthogonal sequence by using a first physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resource for a first antenna, wherein the first PUCCH resource is obtained based on a channel control element (CCE) index related to a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) and a parameter configured by a higher layer; determining a second information sequence based on a second cyclically shifted base sequence and a second orthogonal sequence by using a second PUCCH resource for a second antenna, wherein the second PUCCH resource is obtained by adding an offset to the first PUCCH resource; transmitting the first information sequence via the first antenna; and transmitting the second information sequence via the second antenna. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160165591 | Resource Assignment Method and Device - Embodiments disclose a resource assignment method and a device. The method includes determining a first downlink subframe set, where the first downlink subframe set is associated with a first uplink subframe in both a first uplink-downlink configuration and a second uplink-downlink configuration; and determining, in the first uplink subframe, a first PUCCH resource region according to HARQ timing of the first uplink-downlink configuration, where the first PUCCH resource region is a resource region reserved for HARQ feedback information for the first downlink subframe set. A quantity and sequence numbers of elements under a first uplink-downlink configuration is used for all downlink subframes in a first downlink subframe set of later-released UE, so that a same first PUCCH resource region is assigned, so as to implement assignment of a PUCCH resource region to the later-released UE in a system compatible with two types of UEs. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160165592 | MULTIPLEXING OF CHANNEL STATE INFORMATION AND HYBRID AUTOMATIC REPEAT REQUEST - ACKNOWLEDGEMENT INFORMATION - Embodiments of the present disclosure describe devices, methods, computer-readable media and systems configurations for multiplexing channel state information and hybrid automatic repeat request-acknowledgement information. Other embodiments may be described and claimed. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160165593 | CONTROL CHANNEL SIGNALING USING A COMMON SIGNALING FIELD FOR TRANSPORT FORMAT, REDUNDANCY VERSION, AND NEW DATA INDICATOR - New control signaling is associated to a protocol data unit conveying user data in a mobile communication system and to the control channel signal. A mobile station and a base station and their respective operation are described in view of the newly defined control channel signals. To reduce the control channel overhead, a common field is defined for the transport format and redundancy version in the control channel information format. According to one approach, the common field is used to jointly encode transport format and redundancy version therein. According to another aspect, one shared field is provided on the control channel signal that indicates either a transport format or a redundancy version depending on whether the control channel signal relates to an initial transmission or a retransmission. In another embodiment, further enhancements to an HARQ protocol address certain error cases. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160165594 | TERMINAL DEVICE, BASE STATION DEVICE, TRANSMITTING METHOD AND RECEIVING METHOD - The present invention pertains to a terminal device, which, when ARQ is used for communication that uses an uplink unit band and a plurality of downlink unit bands associated with the uplink unit band, and when a transmission mode that supports up to 2 TB in a PCell is set in the terminal, is capable of reducing the amount of signaling from a base station while eliminating a lack of PUCCH resources when semi-permanent scheduling (SPS) is used in the PCell. A control unit in this device selects one value among values obtained by adding 1 to four PUCCH resource indexes, which have been preset for PUCCH resource 1 by the base station, on the basis of values for transmission power control information (TPC command for PUCCH) in a PDCCH, for which notification has been received at the start of SPS. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160165595 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REPORTING FEEDBACK INFORMATION FOR MULTI-CARRIER OPERATION - Method and apparatus for reporting feedback information for multi-carrier operation are disclosed. A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) is configured with multiple carriers. A base station may allocate an uplink (UL) control channel associated with a single UL carrier, for the WTRU. The base station may transmit, to the WTRU, a plurality of data signals via at least two downlink (DL) carriers using orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) and multiple input multiple output (MIMO), and may receive from the WTRU hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) acknowledgment/negative-acknowledgement (ACK/NACK) information, for the plurality of data signals transmitted via the at least two DL carriers, on the UL control channel. The HARQ ACK/NACK information may include at least two HARQ ACK/NACKs ANDed together. In addition, the base station may transmit, to the WTRU, information including a set of the DL carriers, each having an associated three bit indicator, for DL data transmission. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160165596 | LTE OPERATION IN SMALL CELLS USING DYNAMIC SHARED SPECTRUM - Systems, methods, and apparatus may be used to provide assistance for connection procedures in a hierarchical network where macro cells may be operating in licensed spectrum while small cells may be operating in dynamic and shared spectrums, such as TVWS. This may be done, for example, to allow an LTE system performing carrier aggregation (CA) to reconfigure itself to change from a supplementary cell (SuppCell) in one dynamic and shared spectrum channel to a SuppCell in another dynamic and shared spectrum channel. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160165597 | SIMULTANEOUS OPERATION OF MULTIPLE COMMUNICATIONS PROTOCOLS - A method, network communication device, and computer program product are disclosed to perform simultaneous operation of at least a first and second communications protocol. The method includes determining a first frame period for communicating with a first processing device using the first communications protocol, selecting, based on the first frame period, a second frame period for communicating with a second processing device using the second communications protocol, and allocating a portion of the second frame period for communicating with the first processing device using the first communications protocol. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160165598 | WIRELESS DEVICE, METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIA FOR ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS (OFDMA) ALLOCATIONS BASED ON A BASIC TONE RESOURCE UNIT OR ENTIRE SUB-CHANNEL - Wireless devices, methods, and computer readable media are disclosed. A high-efficiency wireless local-area network (HEW) master station is disclosed. The HEW master station may include circuitry. The circuitry may be configured to generate one or more resource allocations of a bandwidth for one or more HEW stations. Each resource allocation for a first portion of the bandwidth may be a multiple of a basic resource allocation or the entire first portion of the bandwidth. There may be only one resource allocation for a second portion of the bandwidth that is at least as large as the first portion of the bandwidth. In some embodiments, each resource allocation for the second portion of the bandwidth may be a multiple of the basic resource allocation or the entire second portion of the bandwidth. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160165599 | COMMUNICATION MODE SWITCHING METHOD AND DEVICE - A communication mode switching method and device. The method comprises: receiving a sending request; detecting whether the radio-frequency signal strength of a downlink channel meets a first threshold; when the radio-frequency signal strength is greater than or equal to the first threshold, determining that a relay station is in a working state, and keeping a relaying mode to finish the sending request; when the radio-frequency signal strength is less than the first threshold, determining that the relay station is in an abnormal state, and switching to an offline mode to finish the sending request, the offline mode specifically being to perform sending after regulating the sending frequency to be the receiving frequency of the downlink channel. It can be seen that, whether the relay station is in the abnormal state is determined by detecting whether the signal strength of the downlink channel meets the preset threshold, and sequentially, the working mode is switched between the relaying mode and the offline mode in a targeted manner, so that when the relay station is in the abnormal state, the receiving frequency of the downlink channel is used as the sending frequency for sending signals, so as to ensure that other mobile stations are capable of receiving the sent signals, and the rate of call loss is lowered. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160165600 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING MESSAGE - Disclosed herein is a method and an electronic device. The electronic device may include a display and a transmission/reception module, and at least one processor. The processor may implemented the method, including receiving a first message and a second message to be transmitted to an external electronic device, generating, by at least one processor, a combined message including both the first message and the second message, and transmitting, by a transmission/reception module, the combined message to the external electronic device. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160165601 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING DATA FRAME IN WLAN SYSTEM - A method of transmitting a data frame by a station in a wireless local area network (WLAN), A station obtains a transmission opportunity (TXOP) for a bandwidth. The TXOP indicates an interval of time during which the station has a right to initiate frame exchange sequences onto a wireless medium. The station selects a transmit bandwidth parameter of a non-initial data unit of a plurality of data units from available bandwidth parameters. The available bandwidth parameters include a first available bandwidth parameter which is same as a transmit bandwidth parameter of a preceding data unit of the plurality of data units and a second available bandwidth parameter which is narrower than a transmit bandwidth parameter of the preceding data unit. The station transmits, during the TXOP, the non-initial data unit according to the transmit bandwidth parameter of the non-initial data unit. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160165602 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, BASE STATION, WIRELESS EQUIPMENT, AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - A communication system includes a base station and a plurality of wireless equipments. The base station includes a segment notifying unit that notifies each of the wireless equipments of a segment designated value used for segmenting a data area into a plurality of segment areas, the data area corresponding to a transmission time interval of a shared Channel to be time-multiplexed on a transmission time interval basis between the base station and the wireless equipments, and a segment data setting unit that sets data addressed to the wireless equipment becoming a destination in the segment areas obtained by segmenting the data area based on the segment designated value. Each of the wireless equipments includes a self equipment data acquiring unit that searches for the segment area containing data addressed to a self wireless equipment from the received data area of the shared Channel corresponding to the interval. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160165603 | RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD, RADIO COMMUNICATION DEVICE, RECEPTION DEVICE, AND PROGRAM - A communication device comprising at least a receiver and a demodulator. The receiver receives first receiving signals and second receiving signals, wherein the first receiving signals are allocated to a first set of subcarriers composed of two or more continuous subcarriers, the second receiving signals are allocated to a second set of subcarriers composed of two or more continuous subcarriers, and at least a portion of the second set of subcarriers overlaps a portion of the first set of subcarriers in a time frame. The demodulator configured to detect the second receiving signals transmitted using one or more subcarriers from receiving signals including the first receiving signals and the second receiving signals, wherein the one or more subcarriers are subcarriers such that the first set of subcarriers overlap the second set of subcarriers, and the demodulator being demodulates the first receiving signals. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160165604 | SELECTIVE ACTIVATION AND DEACTIVATION OF CARRIERS IN UNLICENSED FREQUENCY BANDS - An apparatus, such as user equipment, includes a first radio for wireless communication over a first carrier in an unlicensed frequency band according to a first radio access technology and a second radio for wireless communication over a second carrier in the unlicensed frequency band according to a second radio access technology. The apparatus also includes a device connection manager to deactivate the first carrier in response to detecting an access point that operates according to the second radio access technology in the unlicensed frequency band. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160165605 | NETWORK ASSISTED MMWAVE BEAM SYNCHRONIZATION AND ALIGNMENT - Embodiments of the present disclosure describe apparatuses and methods for network assisted mmWave beam synchronization and alignment. Various embodiments may include an evolved Node B (eNB). The eNB may include processing circuitry to estimate directional information of an mmWave frequency beam from the eNB in reference to a user equipment (UE) based on positional information of the UE obtained based on a connection between the eNB and the UE in a microwave frequency band. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160165606 | TECHNIQUES AND CONFIGURATIONS ASSOCIATED WITH PARTITIONING OF A COMMUNICATION BAND - Embodiments of the present disclosure describe systems and methods for partitioning radio frequency spectrum for multiple categories of communication. Various embodiments may include partitioning of an available frequency band into a first partition for a first category of communication and a second partition for a second category of communication. In embodiments, the first category of communication may be designed for devices having a relatively lower cost of implementation than the second category of communication. In some embodiments, the first partition may be aggregated opportunistically with the second partition based on certain conditions such as, for example, underutilization of the first partition. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160165607 | EFFICIENT DL OFDMA FREQUENCY SELECTIVITY HARVESTING - A method for communication in a wireless local area network comprises receiving a frame at a first device, the frame being transmitted by a second device. The method further comprises determining, by the first device using the frame, a channel strength for each of a plurality of sub-bands associated with a bandwidth of the frame. A sub-band of the plurality of sub-bands is selected based on the channel strength determinations made using the frame. The first and second devices communicate using the selected sub-band. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160165608 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING DISCOVERY SIGNAL OF BASE STATION IN MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method by which a small base station (BS) transmits a discovery signal (DS) in a mobile communication system is provided. The method includes a macro BS to which a component carrier (CC) of a predetermined frequency band is allocated, and at least one small base station to which N number of CCs of a frequency band different from that of the CC allocated to the macro base station are allocated. The method comprises the steps of generating the DS corresponding to predetermined information and transmitting the generated DS through a discovery channel (DCH) configured as a transmission resource of the macro base station, wherein the predetermined information is one among information on at least one CC that the small base station uses, cell ID (CID) index information of the small base station, and a sleep base station index when the small base station is in a sleep mode. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160165609 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD - In a wireless communication system which can share the same frequency band with time division duplexing (TDD) and frequency division duplexing (FDD), a wireless terminal carries out an FDD downlink reception in a second frequency band overlapping a first frequency band allocated to TDD, thus carrying out reception at the TDD downlink reception timing. Alternatively, a wireless terminal carries out a TDD downlink reception in a second frequency band overlapping a first frequency band allocated to FDD, thus carrying out reception at the FDD downlink reception timing. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160165610 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING CONTROL SIGNAL FOR MERGING CARRIERS IN TRANSMISSION - Embodiments of the present invention are directed to a method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving a control signal (for example, PDCCH signal) in an asymmetric multicarrier environment. The method for transmitting a control signal for an asymmetric multicarrier in a wireless connection system according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises: determining the size of a carrier indicator field (CIF) indicating a downlink component carrier (DL CC) by which downlink data is transmitted, on the basis of a maximum value of the number of DL CCs and of the number of uplink component carriers (UL CCs) being managed in a base station; transmitting the CIF on a 1 | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160165611 | COMMUNICATION CONTROL APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD, AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - There is provided a communication control apparatus including a parameter acquisition unit that acquires parameters to calculate coverage of secondary systems from a secondary usage node operating the secondary systems on a frequency channel allocated to a primary system, a calculation unit that calculates the coverage of the secondary systems using the parameters acquired by the parameter acquisition unit, and an interference control unit that notifies a detection node that detects neighboring secondary systems of the secondary systems, of coverage information representing the coverage of the secondary systems calculated by the calculation unit. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160165612 | MULTICARRIER SELECTION METHOD AND DEVICE - Embodiments of the disclosure provide a carrier selection method and device for multicarrier, to implement that an optimal carrier combination is obtained by searching. The method includes: acquiring an absolute radio frequency channel number ARFCN that is of each carrier of N carriers allocated to a receiving end and in each frame of a radio block, where N is a positive integer, and N≧2; respectively selecting, from the N carriers, a different carrier as an anchor carrier, and searching within a search range of the anchor carrier according to the ARFCN of each carrier in each frame of the radio block and a maximum carrier frequency spacing supported by the receiving end, to determine a carrier set of the anchor carrier; and selecting, from the carrier sets of anchor carriers of the N carriers, at least one carrier set as a carrier selection result. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160165613 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DETECTING SECONDARY SYNCHRONIZATION SIGNAL IN LTE AND LTE ADVANCED COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The detection and validation of Secondary Synchronization Signal comprising generating a set of samples by performing DFT operation on a time domain LTE signal, wherein the signal comprising an LTE frame divided into an even half and odd half frame, First and second set of hypotheses from even samples in even and odd half frame are generated and third and fourth set of hypotheses from odd samples in even and odd half frame are generated using first and second hypotheses. Even half frame is selected as start of boundary of the frame when location of the peak of first hypotheses is smaller than that of second hypotheses or location of the peak of fourth hypotheses is smaller than that of third hypotheses. The physical layer cell identity is determined from the locations of the peak of the first, second, third and fourth set of hypotheses averaged over multiple frames. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160165614 | METHOD OF DETERMINING TRANSIT POWER FOR DATA TRANSMISSION BETWEEN A NETWORK AND A USER EQUIPMENT AND RELATED WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - In a wireless communication system, a network initiates a radio bearer reconfiguration procedure by sending an RADIO BEARER RECONFIGURATION message to a user equipment. Then, the network initiates an active set update procedure by sending an ACTIVE SET UPDATE message to the user equipment. When detecting an inconsistency in the E-DPDCH power interpolation information elements indicated in the RADIO BEARER RECONFIGURATION message and the ACTIVE SET UPDATE message, the user equipment computes a first gain factor using an extrapolation formula. When unable to transmit data based on the first gain factor, the user equipment computes a second gain factor using an interpolation formula. If the data cannot be transmitted based on the second gain factor, the user equipment notifies the network of an unsuccessful radio link. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160165615 | DATA ROUTING METHOD AND DEVICE - A data routing method includes: receiving a route distinguisher of an MME serving UE sent by the MME; determining an information transmission manner supported by the MME; receiving_a query message sent by an MTC-IWF, where the query message carries a user equipment UE identifier and an information transmission manner that needs to be used; determining according to the information transmission manner supported by the MME, the UE identifier, and the information transmission manner that needs to be used, that the MME serving the UE supports the information transmission manner that needs to be used; and sending a route distinguisher of the MME that corresponds to the information transmission manner that needs to be used to the MTC-IWF, so that the MTC-IWF performs routing according to the route distinguisher. Therefore, a most effective transmission path is selected for information transmission, thereby improving service experience of a user. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160165616 | BASE STATION, USER APPARATUS AND INTERFERENCE REDUCTION METHOD - A base station connected to a user apparatus in a radio communication system is provided. The base station includes a receiving unit configured to receive from an interference base station first control information which is used by the user apparatus for reducing an uplink interference signal from one or more cells formed by the interference base station or from another user apparatus, a generation unit configured to generate second control information based on one or more pieces of the first control information received from the interference base station, and a transmitting unit configured to transmit the second control information to the user apparatus by a downlink control signal. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160165617 | ACCESS POINT, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An access point includes: detection means detecting radar signal; detection notification means notifying other access point of radar signal detection; assessment means assessing whether to own authority to determine channel used among access points; determination means determining channel used among access points when detection means detects radar signal or when other access point notifies of radar signal detection, when owning authority; channel notification means notifying other access point of the channel determined by determination means; and change means changing the channel used between other access point to either the channel determined by determination means or to a channel notified from other access point. When a plurality of access points detect radar signal, entire system is operable through new channel. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160165618 | TECHNIQUES TO TRAIN A PERSONAL AREA NETWORK COMPONENT - Techniques to train a personal area network component may include obtaining a packet error rate from a personal area network component. It may be determined that the packet error rate is greater than a packet error rate threshold after a time period. A reservation may be requested from a wide area network component based a first transmit pattern from the personal area network component. A second or adjusted transmit pattern from the wide area network component may be received. Personal area network signals may be transmitted based on the second transmit pattern. The time period may be adjusted based on a personal area network packet error rate of the second transmit pattern. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160165619 | MULTI-FREQUENCY DIRECTIONAL ACCESS POINT COMMUNICATION - Technology is disclosed for segregating communications between a base station access point and a user device across the bands in accordance with various quality of service requirements. Universal broadcasts to client devices, low throughput communications (e.g., uplink communications), and initial user device detection may be accomplished using omnidirectional Television White Space (TVWS) broadcasts. Bandwidth intensive communications (e.g., downlink communications) may be handled with directional, beam-steered, WIFI channels. The base station may coordinate steering based upon user device information, such as location information. The technology includes improvements for beam forming, packet handling at the base station, and device association with the directional communications. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160165620 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INTEGRATED SECURITY ACCESS CONTROL FOR VIDEO AND AUDIO STREAMING - A security server in a communication network determines a number of available channels for a plurality of mobile devices and allocates one channel of the available channels to one of the mobile devices based on at least one priority parameter. The security server further receives data including at least one of audio data and video data from the one mobile device over the one channel and transmits the audio data and/or video data to at least one different device configured to display the audio data and/or video data. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160165621 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR A MULTI-RADIO ACCESS TECHNOLOGY LAYER FOR SPLITTING DOWNLINK-UPLINK OVER DIFFERENT RADIO ACCESS TECHNOLOGIES - A multi radio access technology layer (MRL) is a convergence layer solution, located between the protocol layers and the technology-dependent MAC layers. The MRL layer is technology independent and uses the information received from the underlying technologies to select the most appropriate uplink and downlink technologies to match the respective service requirements. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160165622 | NESTED SYSTEM OPERATION - Methods, systems, and devices are described for resource scheduling for different services in a wireless communications system. A base station or a user equipment (UE) operating within a wireless communication system may, for example, communicate using two or more different configurations of resource (e.g., symbol) duration, while maintaining a common tone spacing, bandwidth, transmission time interval (TTI) designation, or the like. For instance, an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbol may be subdivided or segmented, and each segment, which may include a cyclic prefix, may be utilized as a resource unit. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160165623 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ACCESSING AN UPLINK RANDOM ACCESS CHANNEL IN A SINGULAR CARRIER FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS SYSTEM - A method and apparatus for accessing a contention-based uplink random access channel (RACH) in a single carrier frequency division multiple access (SC-FDMA) system are disclosed. A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) randomly selects a RACH subchannel and a signature among a plurality of available RACH subchannels and signatures. The WTRU transmits a preamble using the selected signature via the selected RACH subchannel at a predetermined or computed transmission power. A base station monitors the RACH to detect the preamble and sends an acquisition indicator (AI) to the WTRU when a signature is detected on the RACH. When receiving a positive acknowledgement, the WTRU sends a message part to the base station. If receiving a negative acknowledgement or no response, the WTRU retransmits the preamble. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160165624 | TIERED CONTENTION MULTIPLE ACCESS (TCMA): A METHOD FOR PRIORITY-BASED SHARED CHANNEL ACCESS - Quality of Service (QoS) support is provided by means of a Tiered Contention Multiple Access (TCMA) distributed medium access protocol that schedules transmission of different types of traffic based on their service quality specifications. In one embodiment, a wireless station is supplied with data from a source having a lower QoS priority QoS(A), such as file transfer data. Another wireless station is supplied with data from a source having a higher QoS priority QoS(B), such as voice and video data. Each wireless station can determine the urgency class of its pending packets according to a scheduling algorithm. For example file transfer data is assigned lower urgency class and voice and video data is assigned higher urgency class. There are several urgency classes which indicate the desired ordering. Pending packets in a given urgency class are transmitted before transmitting packets of a lower urgency class. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160165625 | METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING PHYSICAL LAYER CONVERGENCE PROCEDURE PROTOCOL DATA UNIT IN WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORK SYSTEM SUPPORTING POWER SAVE MODE OPERATION AND APPARATUS FOR THE SAME - A method of transmitting a data frame in a wireless local area network (WLAN) is provided. The method includes transmitting, by an access point (AP), a scheduling information element including information on a time period for data frame transmission to a first station (STA) and a second STA, wherein the scheduling information element includes an offset field indicating a start time point of the time period and transmitting, by the AP, the data frame to the first STA and the second STA by using a multi user-multiple input multiple output (MU-MIMO) transmission scheme after the start time point indicated by the offset field. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160165626 | METHODS PROVIDING COORDINATION FOR UPLINK (UL) COORDINATED MULTIPOINT (CoMP) RECEPTION AND RELATED NETWORK NODES - Scheduling information for a wireless device may be transmitted from a first node of a network to the second node of the network wherein the scheduling information defines a plurality of time slots for UpLink transmission from the wireless device. After transmitting the scheduling information to the second node, a UL signaling grant may be transmitted to the wireless device for one of the time slots defined by the scheduling information. A UL transmission may be received from the wireless device at the first node over the time slot of the UL signaling grant. Information may be received from the second node relating to the UL transmission over the time slot of the UL signaling grant. The UL transmission may be processed at the first node using the information from the second node relating to the UL transmission from the wireless device. | 2016-06-09 |
