33rd week of 2011 patent applcation highlights part 26 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20110199831 | COARSE AND FINE PROGRAMMING IN A SOLID STATE MEMORY - Memory devices adapted to receive and transmit analog data signals representative of bit patterns of two or more bits facilitate increases in data transfer rates relative to devices communicating data signals indicative of individual bits. Programming of such memory devices includes initially programming a cell with a coarse programming pulse to move its threshold voltage in a large step close to the programmed state. The neighboring cells are then programmed using coarse programming. The algorithm then returns to the initially programmed cells that are then programmed with one or more fine pulses that slowly move the threshold voltage in smaller steps to the final programmed state threshold voltage. | 2011-08-18 |
20110199832 | MAGNETIC FLOATING GATE MEMORY - An apparatus includes at least one memory device including a floating gate element and a magnetic field generator that operably applies a magnetic field to the memory device. The magnetic field directs electrons in the memory device into the floating gate element. | 2011-08-18 |
20110199833 | NON-VOLATILE MEMORY DEVICES, OPERATING METHODS THEREOF AND MEMORY SYSTEMS INCLUDING THE SAME - Nonvolatile memory devices, operating methods thereof, and memory systems including the same. A nonvolatile memory device may include a memory cell array and a word line driver. The memory cell array may include a plurality of memory cells. The word line driver may be configured to apply word line voltages to a plurality of word lines connected to the plurality of memory cells, respectively. Magnitudes of the word line voltages may be determined according to locations of the plurality of word lines. | 2011-08-18 |
20110199834 | METHOD FOR DRIVING A NONVOLATILE SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE - A method for driving a nonvolatile semiconductor memory device is provided. The nonvolatile semiconductor memory device has source/drain diffusion layers spaced from each other in a surface portion of a semiconductor substrate, a laminated insulating film formed on a channel between the source/drain diffusion layers and including a charge storage layer, and a gate electrode formed on the laminated insulating film, the nonvolatile semiconductor memory device changing its data memory state by injection of charges into the charge storage layer. The method includes, before injecting charges to change the data memory state into the charge storage layer: injecting charges having a polarity identical to that of the charges to be injected; and further injecting charges having a polarity opposite to that of the injected charges. | 2011-08-18 |
20110199835 | No-Disturb Bit Line Write for Improving Speed of eDRAM - A method of operating a memory circuit includes providing the memory circuit. The memory circuit includes a memory cell; a word line connected to the memory cell; a first local bit line and a second local bit line connected to the memory cell; and a first global bit line and a second global bit line coupled to the first and the second local bit lines, respectively. The method further includes starting an equalization to equalize voltages on the first and the second local bit lines; stopping the equalization; and after the step of starting the equalization and before the step of stopping the equalization, writing values from the first and the second global bit lines to the first and the second local bit lines. | 2011-08-18 |
20110199836 | BIT-LINE SENSE AMPLIFIER, SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE HAVING THE SAME, AND METHOD OF TESTING BIT-LINE MICRO-BRIDGE DEFECT - The bit-line sense amplifier includes a driving-voltage control circuit and an amplifier. The driving-voltage control circuit generates a first test driving voltage having a voltage level of a pre-charge voltage, a second test driving voltage having a voltage level of a pre-charge voltage added by a voltage difference between a bit-line and a complementary bit-line, and a third test driving voltage having a voltage level of a pre-charge voltage subtracted by the voltage difference in a test mode. The amplifier senses and amplifies a voltage difference between the bit-line and the complementary bit-line. | 2011-08-18 |
20110199837 | High Voltage Word Line Driver - A word line driver circuit coupled to a memory circuit word line includes pull-up, pull-up clamp, pull-down and pull-down clamp transistors, each having a source, a drain and a gate. For the pull-up transistor, the source is coupled to a first power supply, and the gate to a pull-up control signal. For the pull-up clamp transistor, the source is coupled to the drain of the pull-up transistor, the drain to the word line, and the gate to a pull-up clamp gate signal. For the pull-down transistor, the source is coupled to a second power supply, and the gate to a pull-down control signal. For the pull-down clamp transistor, the source is coupled to the drain of the pull-down transistor, the drain to the word line, and the gate to a pull-down clamp gate signal. The word line is coupled to one or more DRAM cells. Source to drain voltage magnitudes of the pull-up and pull-down transistors are less than a voltage between the first and second power supplies. | 2011-08-18 |
20110199838 | SEMICONDUCTOR STORAGE DEVICE - According to one embodiment, a semiconductor storage device includes a three-dimensional memory cell array, write drivers, and a program voltage control circuit. In the three-dimensional memory cell array, memory cells are three-dimensionally arranged. The write drivers are arranged to be distributed under the three-dimensional memory cell array and apply a program voltage to the memory cells during writing in the memory cells. The program voltage control circuit is arranged around the three-dimensional memory cell array and performs control for making the write drivers to generate the program voltage. | 2011-08-18 |
20110199839 | WEAK BIT COMPENSATION FOR STATIC RANDOM ACCESS MEMORY - A static random access memory (SRAM) includes a data line, a data line bar, and a current path block. The current path block includes at least two transistors configured to provide a current path for the data line in transition from a first logic voltage to a second logic voltage, wherein the current path block is connected to the data line and the data line bar. | 2011-08-18 |
20110199840 | Semiconductor storage device - A device includes a memory cell array having a plurality of memory cells; sense amplifiers, which are arranged adjacent to the memory cell array, for amplifying signals that have been read out of corresponding ones of the memory cells; readout signal lines; a plurality of connection circuits for selectively connecting the sense amplifiers and the readout signal lines; a plurality of main amplifiers for amplifying and outputting signals that have been read out of the sense amplifiers via the readout signal lines by the connection circuits selected by selection signals; an enable signal line connected to the main amplifiers; and an enable signal generating circuit for outputting a main amplifier enable signal to the enable signal line. The enable signal generating circuit is placed in close proximity to the connection circuits. | 2011-08-18 |
20110199841 | SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE HAVING LOW POWER CONSUMPTION TYPE COLUMN DECODER AND READ OPERATION METHOD THEREOF - The present invention relates to a semiconductor memory device having a low power consumption type column decoder and read operation method thereof. In accordance with the semiconductor memory device and read operation method thereof according to the present invention, one of a plurality of decoding units of a column decoder is selectively operated according to a logic value(s) of one of some of bits of a column address signal. It is thus possible to reduce unnecessary switching current. | 2011-08-18 |
20110199842 | DRAM CELL UTILIZING FLOATING BODY EFFECT AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - The present invention discloses a DRAM cell utilizing floating body effect and a manufacturing method thereof. The DRAM cell includes a first N type semiconductor region provided on a buried oxide layer, a P type semiconductor region provided on the first N type semiconductor region, a gate region provided on the P type semiconductor region, and an electrical isolation region surrounding the P type semiconductor region and the N type semiconductor region. A diode is taken as a storage node. Via a tunneling effect between bands, holes gather in the floating body, which is defined as a first storage state; via forward bias of PN junction, holes are emitted out from the floating body or electrons are injected into the floating body, which is defined as a second storage state. The present invention provides a highly efficient DRAM cell utilizing floating body effect with high density, which has low power consumption, has simple manufacturing process, and is compatible to the conventional CMOS and conventional logic circuit manufacturing process. | 2011-08-18 |
20110199843 | Strobe Offset in Bidirectional Memory Strobe Configurations - A method and apparatus for determining correct timing for receiving, in a host in a memory system, of a normal toggle transmitted by an addressed memory chip on a bidirectional data strobe. An offset in the data strobe is established, either by commanding the addressed memory chip, in a training period, to drive the data strobe to a known state, except during transmission of a normal toggle, or by providing a voltage offset between a true and a complement phase in the data strobe, or by providing a circuit bias in a differential receiver on the host the receives the data strobe. A series of read commands are transmitted by the host to the addressed memory chip, which responds by transmitting the normal toggle. Timing of reception of the normal toggle as received by the host chip is adjusted until the normal toggle is correctly received. | 2011-08-18 |
20110199844 | Semiconductor Memory Device Suitable for Mounting on a Portable Terminal - A semiconductor memory device for operating in synchronization with a clock is disclosed. The semiconductor includes a memory array having a plurality of memory cells arranged in rows and columns; and a control circuit performing a control, operation to effect row access processing on a selected row and to effect column access processing on column(s). The control being performed in synchronization with a first clock defined by a time of production of the read signal or the write signal according to an externally applied control signal. the control is also performed in synchronization with a second or later clock defined by a latency, to effect the column access processing on a second number of the columns remaining in the burst mode access | 2011-08-18 |
20110199845 | REDUNDANCY CIRCUITS AND OPERATING METHODS THEREOF - A memory circuit includes a first group of memory arrays including a first memory array coupled with a first input/output (IO) interface and a second memory array coupled with a second IO interface. A second group of memory arrays include a third memory array coupled with a third input/output (IO) interface and a fourth memory array coupled with a fourth IO interface. A plurality of redundancy bit lines include at least one first redundancy bit line that is configured for selectively repairing the first group of memory arrays, and at least one second redundancy bit line that is configured for selectively repairing the second group of memory arrays. | 2011-08-18 |
20110199846 | Y-DECODE CONTROLLED DUAL RAIL MEMORY - An embodiment of the invention is related to a memory that includes a memory array having a plurality of memory banks, each of which includes a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns of memory cells. Each memory column includes a switch circuit providing a first voltage and a second voltage to memory cells in the column and to the pre-charge circuit associated with the column. In an application, at one particular point in time (e.g., an accessed cycle), only one column in a memory bank uses the operating voltage Ovoltage while the other N−1 columns in the same memory bank use the retention voltage Rvoltage. Other embodiments are also disclosed. | 2011-08-18 |
20110199847 | SENSE AMPLIFIER WITH LOW SENSING MARGIN AND HIGH DEVICE VARIATION TOLERANCE - In an embodiment related to a sense amplifier, the sense amplifier includes a pair of transistors (e.g., transistors P | 2011-08-18 |
20110199848 | TECHNIQUES FOR CONTROLLING A SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE - Techniques for controlling a semiconductor memory device are disclosed. In one particular exemplary embodiment, the techniques may be realized as a method for controlling a semiconductor memory device including applying a plurality of voltage potentials to a plurality of memory cells arranged in an array of rows and columns. Applying the plurality of voltage potentials to the plurality of memory cells may include applying a first voltage potential to a first memory cell in a row of the array via a first respective bit line and a first switch transistor, applying a second voltage potential to a second memory cell in the row of the array via a second respective bit line and a second switch transistor, and applying a third voltage potential to at least one third memory cell in the row of the array via at least one third respective bit line and at least one third switch transistor, wherein the at least one third memory cell may be located between the first memory cell and the second memory cell in the row of the array. | 2011-08-18 |
20110199849 | SENSE AMPLIFIER FOR CONTROLLING FLIP ERROR AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF - A sense amplifier and a driving method is described for resolving a flip failure occurrence where the voltage applied across the bit line is within an acceptable threshold range when the data is delivered to the data bus. The driving method includes disconnecting a bit line from a sense amplifying circuit according to a bit line select control signal after performing a read operation according to a read request. Then, connecting the sense amplifying circuit to a data bus according to a column select control signal after the bit line is disconnected from the sense amplifying circuit and deactivating an output terminal of the sense amplifier circuit that is disconnected from the bit line and connected to the data bus during a restore section synchronized to a command following the read command. Finally, delivering the data on the bit line to the output terminal of the sense amplifying circuit to update the output terminal of the sense amplifying circuit by connecting the sense amplifying circuit to the bit line according to the bit line select control signal. | 2011-08-18 |
20110199850 | MEMORY READOUT SCHEME USING SEPARATE SENSE AMPLIFIER VOLTAGE - A memory includes a memory cell coupled to a data line. A sense amplifier is coupled to the data line. A power supply node has a first voltage. The first voltage is provided to the sense amplifier. A charge pump circuit is coupled to the sense amplifier. The charge pump circuit is configured to provide a second voltage to the sense amplifier when a read operation is performed. | 2011-08-18 |
20110199851 | MEMORY CONTROLLER, SEMICONDUCTOR STORAGE DEVICE, AND MEMORY SYSTEM INCLUDING THE MEMORY CONTROLLER AND THE SEMICONDUCTOR STORAGE DEVICE - A memory system includes a clock generation circuit, a memory device, and a controller. The memory device includes output circuits and a temperature sensor, the output circuits configured to output data at an output timing obtained based on a clock signal supplied from the clock generation circuit. The controller includes input circuits that receive the data outputted from the memory device at an input timing obtained based on a clock signal supplied from the clock generation circuit and a correction value setting circuit that adjusts the input timing based on a temperature value from the temperature sensor. | 2011-08-18 |
20110199852 | METHODS, SYSTEMS AND APPARATUS FOR PROMOTING THE POURABILITY OF SEMI-FROZEN AND SEMI-FLUIDIC BEVERAGES FROM BEVERAGE CONTAINERS - A beverage container for a blender includes one or more vibrating mechanisms coupled to a bottom portion of the beverage container or integrated within one or more walls of the beverage container. After a beverage has been blended, the one or more vibrating mechanisms are activated as the beverage is being poured. Vibrations from the one or more vibrating mechanisms are mechanically transmitted to the beverage container, thereby promoting the pourability of the beverage from the beverage container, including dislodging ingredients in the beverage that became lodged or trapped in crevices of the beverage container during the prior blending process, and freeing up beverage ingredients that accumulated at the bottom of the beverage container during the prior blending process. | 2011-08-18 |
20110199853 | Combinatorial Processing Including Stirring - Combinatorial processing including stirring is described, including defining multiple regions of a substrate, processing the multiple regions of the substrate in a combinatorial manner, introducing a fluid into a first aperture at a first end of a body to dispense the fluid out of a second aperture at a second end of the body and into one of the multiple regions, and agitating the fluid using an impeller at a second end of the body to facilitate interaction of the fluid with a surface of the substrate. | 2011-08-18 |
20110199854 | FLASH TANKS - A method and an apparatus for supplying a slurry at high temperature and pressure, such as a process slurry from Bayer process digestion units, to a tank is disclosed. The process and the apparatus at least substantially eliminates bottom settling of solid particulate material and side wall scale by supplying the process slurry from Bayer process digestion units with a swirling motion into flash tanks. | 2011-08-18 |
20110199855 | SPIRAL TYPE FLUID MIXER AND APPARATUS USING SPIRAL TYPE FLUID MIXER - A spiral type fluid mixer which enables mixing by a distribution of concentration or distribution of temperature in a flow direction of the fluid made uniform without unevenness and which is compact and enables easy piping work is provided. This spiral type fluid mixer is provided with a fluid inlet, a first flow path which is connected to the fluid inlet, a first spiral flow path which is connected to the first flow path, a plurality of branch flow paths which are branched from the first spiral flow path, a second spiral flow path to which the plurality of branch flow paths are connected, a second flow path which is connected to the second spiral flow path, and a fluid outlet which is connected to the second flow path, the plurality of branch flow path being branched from different positions of the first spiral flow path and being connected with the second spiral flow path at different positions of the second spiral flow path. | 2011-08-18 |
20110199856 | AGITATING VESSEL USING BAFFLES AND AGITATOR HAVING IMPROVED AGITATING CAPABILITY AND INCLUDING THE SAME - Provided is an agitating vessel using baffles and an agitator having improved agitating capability and including the same, and more particularly, to an agitating vessel using baffles that has a simple structure in which a horizontal baffle is formed over a predetermine area and that is capable of significantly improving mixing performance of an agitator using a chaos fluid mixing theory, and an agitator having improved agitating capability and including the same. The agitating vessel | 2011-08-18 |
20110199857 | Wide Seismic Source Systems - A wide-azimuth marine seismic survey system according to one or more aspects of the present disclosure may include a streamer array; a first source towed from a first vessel; a second source towed from a second vessel; and a supplemental offset source towed from the first vessel and the second vessel. | 2011-08-18 |
20110199858 | ESTIMATING INTERNAL MULTIPLES IN SEISMIC DATA - A method for estimating internal multiples in seismic data. The method includes selecting a subset from a set of regularly sampled seismic data based on a low-discrepancy point set. The method may then include integrating one or more depth integrals of the inverse-scattering internal multiple prediction (ISIMP) algorithm over each data point in the subset. After integrating the depth integrals, the method may then include integrating a function of the integrated depth integrals using a quasi-Monte Carlo (QMC) integration over the subset, thereby generating an estimate of the internal multiples. | 2011-08-18 |
20110199859 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ACOUSTIC DATA TRANSMISSION IN A SUBTERRANEAN WELL - The disclosure describes a method and apparatus for effectively communicating data along an acoustic transmission path. The method comprises driving an acoustic transmitter to send a data signal along the acoustic transmission path, where the signal is distorted by ambient noise. The distorted signal is input to a spaced apart plurality of sensors so that consequent time-delayed signals provide reinforcement of the basic signal and attenuation of the ambient noise component when combined. | 2011-08-18 |
20110199860 | Method For Imaging of Targeted Reflectors - Techniques are disclosed for performing time-lapse seismic monitor surveys with sparsely sampled monitor data sets. A more accurate 3D representation (e.g., image) of a target area (e.g., a hydrocarbon bearing subsurface reservoir) is constructed using the sparsely sampled monitor data set ( | 2011-08-18 |
20110199861 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETECTING MOTORIZED OBJECTS - Sensor unit for detecting a motorized object producing a seismic or acoustic signal in the form of at least one spectral line, comprising at least one seismic sensor or at least one acoustic sensor for collecting a signal, an analog-to-digital converter for receiving said signal and generating a digital signal, a memory for storing portions of said digital signal, and a processing unit configured for performing the following operations: generating a first set of Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) values indicative of a portion of to said signal, associating said first set of FFT values with a second set of values being a partition, calculating an entropy value H of said partition, repeating the above operations, thereby constituting a sequence of entropy values H(t) corresponding to a plurality of portions of said signal, and determining a detection in case a predetermined criterion is met, said criterion is based at least on said sequence of entropy values, thereby enabling detecting of said seismic or acoustic signal. | 2011-08-18 |
20110199862 | INTERFERENCE TESTING WHILE DRILLING - A method and apparatus configured to perform an interference test while drilling, including the steps of computing a pressure history response at a monitoring well from a pulsing of a well remote to the monitoring well, determining a time interval and a location for conducting a pressure test along a monitoring well trajectory based on the computing of the pressure history response, initiating a pulsing of the well remote to the monitoring well, determining whether pressure data should be taken at the monitoring well, estimating a near wellbore pressure effect at the monitoring well if the pressure data is taken, adjusting a mud circulation flow rate in the monitoring well if the pressure data is taken, and measuring at least one pressure value at the monitoring well if the pressure data is taken. | 2011-08-18 |
20110199863 | Multi-Vessel Communication System - A method for communicating between marine vessels includes the steps of connecting a communication hub and a first marine vessel via a cable; transmitting an electronic signal via the cable between the communication hub and the first marine vessel; and transmitting the electronic signal wirelessly between the communication hub and a second marine vessel. The cable may be a seismic cable such as, and without limitation to, a streamer and an ocean bottom cable. The seismic cable may include one or more seismic sensors such as hydrophones and geophones. | 2011-08-18 |
20110199864 | DAY AND TIME CHRONOMETER MOVEMENT - A day clock has day, hour, and minute hands revolving continuously around a common center. It has a time adjustment knob and a day adjustment knob. When the day adjustment knob is pulled out, a set of gears are disengaged, allowing the day hand to be adjusted with that knob without affecting the other hands. Then, when the set of gears are reengaged, the time adjustment knob can be utilized to set the time of day. In order to set the day and time accurately, the user may first set the time to midnight with the time adjustment knob, pull out the day adjustment knob, set the day to a clock face line between days with that knob, push that knob back in, and then set the time to the correct time with the time adjustment knob. | 2011-08-18 |
20110199865 | Stepping motor control circuit and analogue electronic watch - The invention is aimed to be capable of detecting lowering of a power source without providing a circuit specific for voltage detection such as a comparator circuit. A stepping motor control circuit includes a battery configured to supply an electric power at least to a stepping motor, a rotation detection circuit configured to detect the state of rotation of the stepping motor, and a control unit configured to select an upgraded main drive pulse from a plurality of the main drive pulses having energy ranks different from each other and drive the stepping motor with the selected main drive pulse. The control unit is configured to determine that the voltage of the battery lowered to a level equal to or lower than the predetermined value when the main drive pulse reaches a maximum main drive pulse in a predetermined rank by upgrading it a number of times smaller than the predetermined number of times within a predetermined time. | 2011-08-18 |
20110199866 | BREGUET OVERCOIL BALANCE SPRING MADE OF MICRO-MACHINABLE MATERIAL - The invention relates to a Breguet overcoil balance spring ( | 2011-08-18 |
20110199867 | ALL-OPTICAL MAGNETIC RECORDING SYSTEM USING CIRCULARLY POLARIZED LIGHT AND BIT-PATTERNED MEDIA - A perpendicular magnetic recording system uses bit-patterned media (BPM) and circularly polarized light to switch the magnetization of the discrete magnetic bits by the inverse Faraday effect. Circularly polarized light generates an external rotating electric field in a plane orthogonal to the light propagation direction, which induces a magnetic field parallel to the light propagation direction in a magnetic material exposed to the electric field. The BPM is a generally planar substrate with discrete spaced-apart metal or metal alloy magnetic islands that are magnetizable in a perpendicular direction and are separated by nonmagnetic spaces of non-metallic material on the substrate. A near-field metal transducer is patterned into at least three tips, with the tips surrounding and defining a transducer active region. The circularly polarized light is incident on the tips, which produce a strong in-plane rotating electric field. A magnetic island exposed to the rotating electric field will experience an induced perpendicular magnetic field that switches the magnetization of the magnetic island. | 2011-08-18 |
20110199868 | INFORMATION RECORDING AND REPRODUCTION APPARATUS - The present invention relates to an information recording and reproduction apparatus | 2011-08-18 |
20110199869 | OPTICAL RECORDING MEDIUM, INFORMATION RECORDING METHOD, AND INFORMATION REPRODUCING METHOD - According to one embodiment, an optical recording medium is provided in which interlayer crosstalk is low and in which stable and high-quality recording characteristics can be obtained. To this end, an optical recording medium comprises a first recording part which includes a first recording layer and a first light reflecting layer and which is disposed on a side closer to a light receiving surface, and a second recording part which includes a second recording layer and a second light reflecting layer and which is disposed on a side farther from the light receiving surface, the first recording part and the second recording part being stacked, wherein the thickness of the second light reflecting layer is larger than the thickness of the first light reflecting layer. | 2011-08-18 |
20110199870 | OPTICAL RECORDING MEDIUM, INFORMATION RECORDING METHOD, AND INFORMATION REPRODUCING METHOD - According to one embodiment, an optical recording medium is provided in which interlayer crosstalk is low and in which stable and high-quality recording characteristics can be obtained. To this end, an optical recording medium comprises a first recording part which includes a first recording layer and a first light reflecting layer and which is disposed on a side closer to a light receiving surface, and a second recording part which includes a second recording layer and a second light reflecting layer and which is disposed on a side farther from the light receiving surface, the first recording part and the second recording part being stacked, wherein the thickness of the second light reflecting layer is larger than the thickness of the first light reflecting layer. | 2011-08-18 |
20110199871 | OPTICAL RECORDING MEDIUM, INFORMATION RECORDING METHOD, AND INFORMATION REPRODUCING METHOD - According to one embodiment, an optical recording medium is provided in which interlayer crosstalk is low and in which stable and high-quality recording characteristics can be obtained. To this end, an optical recording medium comprises a first recording part which includes a first recording layer and a first light reflecting layer and which is disposed on a side closer to a light receiving surface, and a second recording part which includes a second recording layer and a second light reflecting layer and which is disposed on a side farther from the light receiving surface, the first recording part and the second recording part being stacked, wherein the thickness of the second light reflecting layer is larger than the thickness of the first light reflecting layer. | 2011-08-18 |
20110199872 | OPTICAL RECORDING MEDIUM, INFORMATION RECORDING METHOD, AND INFORMATION REPRODUCING METHOD - According to one embodiment, an optical recording medium is provided in which interlayer crosstalk is low and in which stable and high-quality recording characteristics can be obtained. To this end, an optical recording medium comprises a first recording part which includes a first recording layer and a first light reflecting layer and which is disposed on a side closer to a light receiving surface, and a second recording part which includes a second recording layer and a second light reflecting layer and which is disposed on a side farther from the light receiving surface, the first recording part and the second recording part being stacked, wherein the thickness of the second light reflecting layer is larger than the thickness of the first light reflecting layer. | 2011-08-18 |
20110199873 | OPTICAL RECORDING MEDIUM, INFORMATION RECORDING METHOD, AND INFORMATION REPRODUCING METHOD - According to one embodiment, an optical recording medium is provided in which interlayer crosstalk is low and in which stable and high-quality recording characteristics can be obtained. To this end, an optical recording medium comprises a first recording part which includes a first recording layer and a first light reflecting layer and which is disposed on a side closer to a light receiving surface, and a second recording part which includes a second recording layer and a second light reflecting layer and which is disposed on a side farther from the light receiving surface, the first recording part and the second recording part being stacked, wherein the thickness of the second light reflecting layer is larger than the thickness of the first light reflecting layer. | 2011-08-18 |
20110199874 | OPTICAL RECORDING MEDIUM, INFORMATION RECORDING METHOD, AND INFORMATION REPRODUCING METHOD - According to one embodiment, an optical recording medium is provided in which interlayer crosstalk is low and in which stable and high-quality recording characteristics can be obtained. To this end, an optical recording medium comprises a first recording part which includes a first recording layer and a first light reflecting layer and which is disposed on a side closer to a light receiving surface, and a second recording part which includes a second recording layer and a second light reflecting layer and which is disposed on a side farther from the light receiving surface, the first recording part and the second recording part being stacked, wherein the thickness of the second light reflecting layer is larger than the thickness of the first light reflecting layer. | 2011-08-18 |
20110199875 | CD/DVD Mode Selection Control Using Laser Diode Voltage - Circuitry for controlling mode selection of a CD/DVD reader is described. In one embodiment, the CD/DVD reader has a first device having at least one analog output, a second device having at least one digital input and at least one analog input, and an interface circuit coupling the analog output of the first device to the digital input and the analog input in the second device. The interface circuit includes a circuitry to use a single control signal from the analog output of the first device to control the digital input and the analog input in the second device. Other embodiments are also described. | 2011-08-18 |
20110199876 | READ AND WRITE POWER CONTROL METHODS AND SYSTEM FOR OPTICAL RECORDING DEVICE - The present invention discloses read and write power control methods and system for an optical recording device that records information on an optical disk having read-only areas. The read and write power control methods respectively introduce the steps of determining a specific level of a former power control signal output based on a former power control, and then according to the specific level, setting a predetermined level of a power control signal to induce a present power control for rapidly outputting a proper power of the pick-up head. Accordingly, the level transition of the read/write power control signal can be shortened and even eliminated. An unstable read/write power output for the pick-up head can be avoided. | 2011-08-18 |
20110199877 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR OPTICAL RECORDING ONTO OPTICAL DISC MEDIUM - There is provided an optical recording method for directing a recording pulse train to an optical disc medium to form marks thereon and for recording information as information about the edge positions of said marks and the spaces between marks, the recording pulse train having been created by modulating laser light into plural power levels. The method includes: coding to-be-recorded data into coded data consisting of the combination of marks and spaces; classifying said marks within said coded data on the basis of the mark length and the preceding or succeeding space lengths of the marks; shifting the position of the second pulse edge counted from the end portion of the recording pulse train for forming said marks, depending on the result of said classification, to adjust said recording pulse train; and directing said recording pulse train to the optical disc medium to form said marks thereon. | 2011-08-18 |
20110199878 | OPTICAL RECORDING MEDIUM, INFORMATION RECORDING METHOD, AND INFORMATION REPRODUCING METHOD - According to one embodiment, an optical recording medium is provided in which interlayer crosstalk is low and in which stable and high-quality recording characteristics can be obtained. To this end, an optical recording medium comprises a first recording part which includes a first recording layer and a first light reflecting layer and which is disposed on a side closer to a light receiving surface, and a second recording part which includes a second recording layer and a second light reflecting layer and which is disposed on a side farther from the light receiving surface, the first recording part and the second recording part being stacked, wherein the thickness of the second light reflecting layer is larger than the thickness of the first light reflecting layer. | 2011-08-18 |
20110199879 | OPTICAL RECORDING MEDIUM, INFORMATION RECORDING METHOD, AND INFORMATION REPRODUCING METHOD - According to one embodiment, an optical recording medium is provided in which interlayer crosstalk is low and in which stable and high-quality recording characteristics can be obtained. To this end, an optical recording medium comprises a first recording part which includes a first recording layer and a first light reflecting layer and which is disposed on a side closer to a light receiving surface, and a second recording part which includes a second recording layer and a second light reflecting layer and which is disposed on a side farther from the light receiving surface, the first recording part and the second recording part being stacked, wherein the thickness of the second light reflecting layer is larger than the thickness of the first light reflecting layer. | 2011-08-18 |
20110199880 | OPTICAL DISC DEVICE AND OPTICAL DISC PLAYBACK METHOD - According to one embodiment, a device includes a filter which limits a frequency bandwidth of a reproduced signal from an optical disc, an AD conversion module which converts an output signal from the filter into a multilevel digital signal, an equalizing module for equalizing a waveform of the multilevel digital signal based on a predetermined partial response class and generating an equalizing playback signal, a detection module for generating binary data corresponding to data recorded on the optical disc based on the equalizing playback signal, a module for determining an amplitude value of each of an input signal to and an output signal from the equalizing module with respect to each binary data sequence output from the detection module, and a module for adjusting a high-frequency amplification amount of the filter such that an amplitude value before waveform equalization and an amplitude value after waveform equalization satisfy a predetermined relationship. | 2011-08-18 |
20110199881 | OPTICAL RECORDING MEDIUM, INFORMATION RECORDING METHOD, AND INFORMATION REPRODUCING METHOD - According to one embodiment, an optical recording medium is provided in which interlayer crosstalk is low and in which stable and high-quality recording characteristics can be obtained. To this end, an optical recording medium comprises a first recording part which includes a first recording layer and a first light reflecting layer and which is disposed on a side closer to a light receiving surface, and a second recording part which includes a second recording layer and a second light reflecting layer and which is disposed on a side farther from the light receiving surface, the first recording part and the second recording part being stacked, wherein the thickness of the second light reflecting layer is larger than the thickness of the first light reflecting layer. | 2011-08-18 |
20110199882 | Objective Lens and Optical Pickup Device - There are provided an optical pickup apparatus which can record/reproduce information properly at a time of temperature change or of using a multilayer disc, and an objective lens for use in the same. When temperature changes, spherical aberration resulting from a change in refractive index of objective lens OBJ increases. Therefore, collimation lens CL is moved by uniaxial actuator AC | 2011-08-18 |
20110199883 | OPTICAL DISC APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME - In recording or reproducing data on or from an optical disc with recording multi-layers, the focusing is likely to be out of control when an inter-layer jumping is carried out for changing a recording layer on or from which data is to be recorded or reproduced to another one. An optical disc apparatus is arranged to obtain an objective lens shift position that makes the focus signal S-character waveform better balanced in advance by learning and to carry out the inter-layer jumping at the shift position when jumping an optical pickup from one layer to another on a multilayered optical disc. The jumping at this shift position makes it possible to prevent out of focus and to stably make the recording or reproducing quality excellent. | 2011-08-18 |
20110199884 | ABERRATION CORRECTING DEVICE, OPTICAL DEVICE, AND OPTICAL HEAD DEVICE - The present invention relates to an aberration correcting device comprising: an aberration correcting element which modulates the phase of incident light; and a position adjusting section which can move the aberration correcting element in a direction perpendicular to an optical axis of the incident light, wherein the aberration correcting element includes first and second aberration correction plates, each of which is disposed such that the phase of transmitted light beam differs with transmission position of the incident light beam with the same phase, and the aberration correcting element has a reference arrangement which is an arrangement of the first and second aberration correction plates in which the light beams transmitted through the aberration correcting element have the same phase, and assuming that a point on the first aberration correction plate crossing the optical axis is a point O | 2011-08-18 |
20110199885 | Disk Unit - In this disk unit, a tray has an air intake opening formed to extend from an upstream side in a rotational direction of a disk rotated by a rotating portion toward an optical pickup and to extend inward from outside a receiving region from the upstream side toward a downstream side in the rotational direction for incorporating air into the side a receiving surface of the tray from the side of the back surface thereof. | 2011-08-18 |
20110199886 | Optical Pickup Apparatus - An optical pickup apparatus includes: a circuit board; a laser diode mounted on one face of the circuit board; and a high-frequency superimposition integrated circuit arranged on the other face of the circuit board, the high-frequency superimposition integrated circuit including a high-frequency signal generation circuit, the circuit board having an area greater than or equal to an area occupied by a lead pin of the laser diode and a region smaller than or equal to twice a region where the laser diode is mounted, a high-frequency signal generated from the high-frequency signal generation circuit being superimposed on a driving signal to be supplied to the laser diode, in order to take a measure against noise caused by return light of the laser diode. | 2011-08-18 |
20110199887 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR HIGH DENSITY DATA STORAGE - The present invention is directed to a method for producing a data storage medium on a surface of a substrate for storing data in the form of topographic features. The method comprises a first step wherein a crosslinking agent containing at least three alkyne groups is deposited on the surface of the substrate. In a second step the deposited cross linking agent is cured so as to obtain the data storage medium in the form of a crosslinked polymeric layer on the surface of the substrate. The invention is further directed to a data storage medium obtained by this method and a data storage device comprising this data storage medium | 2011-08-18 |
20110199888 | SIGNAL SEPARATION DEVICE AND SIGNAL SEPARATING METHOD - A signal separation device includes a column switching unit switching a column vector of a channel matrix obtained by estimating a propagation path characteristic so that a transmitted signal component of each transmit antenna is in a left end, a QR decomposition layering unit multiplying received signals by an output from the column switching unit, and outputting a received signal vector in which the received signal is layered so that a transmitted signal exists in a first row, an interference cancellation unit cancelling an interference component from a signal in the first row by using a signal other than the signal in the first row, a signal candidate point selecting unit selecting a prescribed number of signal candidate points from among signals output by the interference cancellation unit, and a signal separation unit separating the transmitted signal from the layered received signal vector using the selected signal candidate point. | 2011-08-18 |
20110199889 | SEQUENCE-GENERATING METHOD, AND APPARATUS FOR SAME - The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. More particularly, the present invention relates to a method for enabling a transmitter to transmit a sequence in a wireless communication system, and to an apparatus for the same. A sequence-transmitting method comprises the steps of: performing at least one of a complex conjugate operation and a reverse operation on a first sequence to generate a second sequence; mapping the second sequence to a plurality of subcarriers in an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) symbol; and transmitting the OFDMA symbol to a receiver. The invention also relates to an apparatus for the sequence-generating method. | 2011-08-18 |
20110199890 | BROADBAND DATA AND VOICE COMMUNICATIONS OVER WIRELESS AND POWERLINE HYBRID NETWORKS - The present invention provides hybrid access network architecture to provide broadband data, voice and video services over Internet Protocol. The hybrid access network comprises a wireless distribution system which has wireless mesh network nodes acting as wireless repeaters. Each of these wireless repeaters comprises of at least 3 wireless radios. The hybrid access network comprises of plurality of Broadband over Power Line (BPL) nodes, each node consisting of 2 modems and 4 wireless radios. Each of the BPL nodes acts as a repeater. The hybrid access network terminates the wireless traffic with fewer hops and has a very fast low latency BPL backbone of 1-3 milliseconds latency. | 2011-08-18 |
20110199891 | System and Method for Protecting Ingress and Egress of a Point-to-Multipoint Label Switched Path - A network comprising a first edge node, a second edge node, a third edge node that backs up either the first edge node or the second edge node, and an internal node coupled to the first edge node, the second edge node, and the third edge node, wherein a point-to-multipoint (P2MP) label switched path (LSP) extends across the network from the first edge node, through the internal node, and to the second edge node, and wherein a LSP sub-tree extends between the third edge node and the internal node, but does not extend across the network. | 2011-08-18 |
20110199892 | GMPLS FAST RE-ROUTE FOR OADM AND AUX 10MBPS SUPPORT - Embodiments of the present invention provide a GMPLS fast re-route of packets within a network using a multicast address and a table comprising a list of alias IP addresses. According to various embodiments of the invention an alternate data path from a source node to a destination node allows a packet to traverse to the destination node without IP forwarding techniques being applied. In other words, a tunneling effect from a source node to a destination node allows other nodes in the network to ignore the packet and only read the multicast address within the header and immediately forward the packet to the destination node. A predetermined set of IP addresses are determined from network topology including all potential paths, for a packet to traverse, to a destination address. | 2011-08-18 |
20110199893 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION METHOD, MOBILE SWITCHING CENTER, AND RADIO BASE STATION - A CSFB processing unit ( | 2011-08-18 |
20110199894 | MANAGING L2VPN CONNECTIVITY AFTER A FIBER NODE SPLIT - In one example, a routing protocol is used to propagate or flood information over a network of Cable Modem Termination Systems (CMTSs) in response to a fiber node split that changes which of the CMTSs a cable modem is coupled thereto. The network processes the information and dynamically changes a pseudowire placement to maintain the Layer 2 Virtual Private Network (L2VPN) connectivity among cable modems of different CMTSs after the fiber node split. | 2011-08-18 |
20110199895 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIA FOR DIAMETER NETWORK MANAGEMENT - According to one aspect, the subject matter described herein includes a method for providing Diameter network management information in a communications network. The method includes steps occurring at a Diameter signaling router (DSR). The method also includes determining whether successful Diameter communications are available with a first Diameter application. The method further includes in response to determining that successful Diameter communications are not available with the first Diameter application, generating a first Diameter network management message (DNMM) indicating that successful Diameter communications are not available with the first Diameter application. The method also includes sending the first DNMM to a second Diameter node. | 2011-08-18 |
20110199896 | Pseudowire Protection Using a Standby Pseudowire - Providing protection to network traffic includes sending a Pseudowire protection configuration parameter for configuring a standby Pseudowire between a source node and a destination node, receiving a Pseudowire configuration acknowledgement indicating whether the Pseudowire protection configuration parameter has been accepted by the destination node, and in the event that the Pseudowire protection configuration parameter has been accepted by the destination node, using the standby Pseudowire, wherein the standby Pseudowire's configured based at least in part on the Pseudowire protection configuration parameter. | 2011-08-18 |
20110199897 | OVERLOAD CONTROL APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR USE IN RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - An overload control apparatus and method for use in a radio communication system are provided. According to the overload control apparatus and method, it is possible to efficiently manage the capacity of a radio communication system by determining whether the radio communication system is overloaded based on the intensity of a service request signal transmitted by a terminal and controlling the service request signal according to the results of the determination. Therefore, it is possible to stably operate a radio communication system. | 2011-08-18 |
20110199898 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING NETWORK ACCESS OF UE IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and an apparatus for controlling network access of a User Equipment (UE) based on the network's load and time tolerance (delay tolerance) are provided. A network access method for a terminal in a wireless communication system includes sending an access request message containing a time-tolerant indicator at a predefined time, determining, when a reject message is received, a cause value and a hold time contained in the reject message, and re-sending the access request message after the hold time elapses. | 2011-08-18 |
20110199899 | Rate-Adaptive Bundling of Data in a Packetized Communication System - Methods and apparatus minimize message latency time by dynamically controlling an amount of message bundling that occurs in a computer network application. Unbundled messages are allowed while a bottleneck resource, such as a network link, is lightly utilized, but the amount of bundling is progressively increased as the message rate increases, thereby progressively increasing resource efficiency. | 2011-08-18 |
20110199900 | Partitioning Entity and Method for Partitioning Capacity - The present invention relates to a partitioning entity and a method for partitioning capacity in a communication network to avoid starvation of certain data traffic and to support services with different characteristics. The method of partitioning capacity comprises assigning communication links to a group associated with a time-varying group capacity to form a group of communication links. The group comprises a first sub-group and at least a second sub-group of communication links. Further, the method comprises allocating a non-zero fraction of the time-varying group capacity to the first sub-group of communication links of the group. | 2011-08-18 |
20110199901 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING COMMUNICATIONS IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The present technology provides a method and apparatus for managing communications in a wireless communication system. The method and apparatus evaluate one or more network traffic levels, each network traffic level associated with a respective network sector, and submit access-configuration messages in one or more network sectors when the evaluated network traffic level of a particular network sector has a predetermined relation to the traffic threshold for that particular network sector. The access-configuration messages are configured to shift one or more of wireless devices into one or more predetermined operational conditions. The present technology further provides corresponding wireless devices. | 2011-08-18 |
20110199902 | Automatic Adjusting of Reputation Thresholds in Order to Change the Processing of Certain Packets - A firewall, intrusion prevention or other device automatically and dynamically adjusts packets subjected to certain rate limiting based on the reputation level associated with their source. When measured traffic increases beyond a desired amount, the range of reputation scores causing their associated packets to be subjected to this rate limiting is adjusted to throttle the measured traffic to fall within desired limits. In this manner, packet traffic with a worse reputation can be singled out for this rate limiting during a period of increased traffic. When the measured traffic subsides, the range of reputation scores can be correspondingly changed to allow more measured traffic. | 2011-08-18 |
20110199903 | METHOD FOR PCRF TO AUTONOMOUSLY RESPOND TO CELL CAPACITY SHORTAGE - Various exemplary embodiments relate to a method and related network node and machine-readable storage medium including one or more of the following: determining network status; receiving an application request at the PCRN; generating a new PCC rule in response to the application request and network status; and providing the new PCC rule to a PCEN. Various exemplary embodiments further include receiving an event message, determining the network status from received event messages and isolating congestion using previously issued PCC rules and a network topology. | 2011-08-18 |
20110199904 | MESSAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND SYSTEM - The invention provides a message processing method, apparatus and communication system. The message processing method comprises: receiving by a base station a physical shared channel reconfiguration request transmitted from a control radio network controller, the physical shared channel reconfiguration request including priority queue specific deleting information; and deleting a priority queue corresponding to the priority queue specific deleting information. The communication apparatus comprises: a receiving unit configured to receive a physical shared channel reconfiguration request transmitted from a control radio network controller, the physical shared channel reconfiguration request including priority queue specific deleting information; and a processing unit configured to delete a priority queue corresponding to the priority queue specific deleting information. The claimed technical solution makes the base station more flexible in maintenance of the priority queue and more fully equipped with functions. | 2011-08-18 |
20110199905 | ACCESS CONTROL AND CONGESTION CONTROL IN MACHINE-TO-MACHINE COMMUNICATION - A method for performing load balancing by a wireless transmit/receive unit includes evaluating a current cell load value and on a condition that the current cell load value is greater than a predetermined threshold, performing load balancing by barring the current cell. | 2011-08-18 |
20110199906 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIA FOR PERFORMING DIAMETER ANSWER MESSAGE-BASED NETWORK MANAGEMENT AT A DIAMETER SIGNALING ROUTER (DSR) - Methods, systems, and computer readable media for performing Diameter answer message-based network management at a Diameter signaling router (DSR) are disclosed. According to one method, a Diameter answer message that includes error indicator information is received from a first Diameter node at a DSR. The error indicator information included in the Diameter answer message is examined, at the DSR, and information based on the error indicator information is used to update status information for routes maintained by the DSR to the first Diameter node. | 2011-08-18 |
20110199907 | METHOD, NETWORK NODE AND SYSTEM FOR SUPPRESSING LOST PACKET RETRANSMISSION - A method, a network node, and a system for suppressing lost packet retransmission are provided. The method includes: generating retransmission suppression information, in which the retransmission suppression information includes identification information of data packets requiring retransmission suppression; and transmitting the retransmission suppression information to a receiving node, in which the retransmission suppression information is used to enable the receiving node not to request retransmission when data packets corresponding to the identification information in the retransmission suppression information are lost after the receiving node receives the retransmission suppression information. The network node includes a generating module and a transmitting module. The system includes an intermediate node and a receiving node. | 2011-08-18 |
20110199908 | Methods and Apparatuses for Measurement Gap Pattern for Carrier Aggregation - In accordance with an example embodiment of the present invention, a method comprises retuning a receiver of a user equipment (UE) to a first bandwidth at a first mini gap of a gap pattern wherein the first bandwidth covers at least one active component carrier and at least one inactive component carrier; taking measurements of the at least one inactive component carrier; and retuning the receiver to a second bandwidth at a second mini gap of the gap pattern wherein the second bandwidth covers at least the one active component carrier, and wherein a length of the first mini gap and a second length of the second mini gap are short and independent of a duration for taking the measurements. | 2011-08-18 |
20110199909 | Systems and Methods for Reducing Audio Latency - Provided are systems and methods for providing reduced audio latency in wireless communications. One electronic system providing reduced audio latency includes a host unit for converting audio data, a digital interface coupling the host unit and a wireless transceiver, where the wireless transceiver has a controller including a rate adapter, and where the controller is configured to monitor a rate mismatch between the host unit and the wireless transceiver and to compensate for the rate mismatch using the rate adapter, thereby reducing the audio latency. One controller includes an audio codec for encoding and decoding the audio data, where the controller is further configured to align a frame of encoded audio data and a transmission packet of the wireless transceiver, thereby further reducing the audio latency. | 2011-08-18 |
20110199910 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING DISCONTINUOUS RECEPTION IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and apparatus for controlling Discontinuous Reception (DRX) by a User Equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system is provided. The UE receives a DRX configuration parameter from an evolved Node B (eNB), and determines whether to start an on-duration timer based on the DRX configuration parameter, after a change in DRX cycle is completed in a subframe, thereby preventing system performance degradation caused by transmission mismatch between the eNB and the UE. | 2011-08-18 |
20110199911 | Network fault detection system - A network fault detection system includes a parameter extractor and a fault classifier. The extractor extracts a parameter value of a parameter for use in a classification feature vector from a packet received from a network. The parameter value relates to at least one of a first value for a first parameter associated with loss of packets, a second value for a second parameter associated with jitter among packets, and a third value for a third parameter associated with a characteristic of the occurrence of the loss of packets. The classifier determines whether or not a fault has occurred in the network and classifies the fault by type, based on numerical conditions and the parameter value. | 2011-08-18 |
20110199912 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COMMUNICATING ALARMS BETWEEN DEVICES OF A PACKET NETWORK - A system and method for communicating failures in a metro Ethernet network (MEN). Packets are communicated through multiple maintenance entities. A determination is made that there is a failure between or at one of the multiple maintenance entities. An alarm is generated at a maintenance entity nearest the failure in response to determining there is a failure. The alarm indicates a location of the failure. The alarm is communicated back through one or more of the multiple maintenance entities to a maintenance end point. The alarm is routed at least two a communications service provider determined to be associated with the failure. | 2011-08-18 |
20110199913 | MULTICAST SCHEDULING SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR LEVERAGING COOPERATION GAINS IN RELAY NETWORKS - Methods and systems for transmitting multicast data in a wireless relay network are described. A tradeoff between the benefits of relay cooperation and session multiplexing can be addressed through careful association of relay stations for resource allocation purposes to maximize the total system throughput. In addition, various complex and greedy scheduling procedures that are based on the distributed pet mutation model and the contiguous permutation model are also described. | 2011-08-18 |
20110199914 | System and Method for Capacity Planning on a High Speed data Network - The present disclosure describes a method and system for monitoring the bandwidth utilization on a high speed data network port over time. According to the method described herein, measurements of the bandwidth utilization on the port may be taken over a predetermined time interval and analyzed to determine whether the utilization measurement equals or exceeds a predetermined upper threshold. If the port exhibits high bandwidth utilization within the time interval, an alert may be set for further monitoring of the port or for port augmentation. | 2011-08-18 |
20110199915 | MANAGING PAGES OF AN ACCESS TERMINAL WHEN THE ACCESS TERMINAL IS ENGAGED IN A COMMUNICATION SESSION WITHIN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM - At least one embodiment of the invention is directed to communicating in a wireless communications system, including monitoring a communication session on a first network, ignoring pages from a second network during the communication session, the first and second network configured for operation on different physical layers, and upon termination of the communication session over the first network, selectively sending a query to an application server to request information related to failed attempts by the application server to contact the access terminal on the second network during the communication session. | 2011-08-18 |
20110199916 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING THE LOCATION OF A WIRELESS ACCESS POINT USING SINGLE DEVICE BASED POWER MEASUREMENTS - A mobile device measures power from different locations for an encountered wireless access point, a WiFi or Bluetooth access point, and communicates the power measurements to a remote location. The remote location server collects power measurements for the encountered wireless access point from a plurality of communication devices. The remote location server determines the location of the encountered wireless access point utilizing corresponding power measurements from a single communication device. The power measurements are performed at different locations and over a period of time. The power measurements are time stamped and transmitted to the remote location server. The single communication device is selected based on quality and/or availability of corresponding power measurements for the encountered wireless access point. The determined location of the encountered wireless access point is stored into a reference database so as to be shared among the plurality of communication devices. | 2011-08-18 |
20110199917 | COLLABORATIVE SHARING OF LOCATION INFORMATION AMONG DEVICES IN A NETWORK - A wireless communication device determines its location and communicates the location to other local devices utilizing a nonstandard, standard and/or proprietary protocol in combination with another protocol such as a Bluetooth, RFID, IEEE 802.11 and/or a cellular phone protocol. The location may be determined utilizing a GNSS receiver and/or network device information. A new location may be determined based on the determined location, a relative distance and/or a relative direction to other local devices. Determined location information may be communicated to other devices via a network. The wireless communication device may receive locations and/or corresponding location uncertainties from devices located within a limited range. The received information is utilized to determine a more accurate location. The more accurate location is communicated back to the devices within the limited range and/or to other communication devices. | 2011-08-18 |
20110199918 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR ASSISTING IN NETWORK DISCOVERY - A method assist in discovery of a directional communications network using an omni-directional communications network is provided. The method may comprise obtaining connectivity information using a first protocol for one or more apparatuses, and establishing a session with one of the one or more apparatuses for directional communication using a second protocol, wherein the first protocol is different than the second protocol. | 2011-08-18 |
20110199919 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ASSOCIATING A RELAY IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS - Methods and apparatuses are provided that facilitate associating with relays in a wireless network. A device can select whether to utilize relay assistance where present based at least in part on measuring one or more determined or projected parameters related to the relay. Where utilizing a relay results in user-plane data channel conditions above a threshold level and control channel conditions below a threshold level, a serving base station can determine whether to employ another base station to serve the device, jointly serve a relay with an additional base station, and/or the like. | 2011-08-18 |
20110199920 | LOW/HIGH FREQUENCY SHARED LEAKAGE ANTENNA, BASE STATION APPARATUS AND CLOSE-RANGE DETECTION SYSTEM USING THE ANTENNA - The present invention provides a high/low frequency dual wireless location detection and information transmission system which is high in reliability and maintainability, and can be easily installed. | 2011-08-18 |
20110199921 | USER EQUIPMENT OPERATION MODE AND CHANNEL OR CARRIER PRIORITIZATION - A method for wireless communications is disclosed that includes determining a power operation control feature of a first mode of operation of a user equipment (UE). A channel prioritization is triggered based at least in part on the power operation control feature. A second configuration indicating UE operation in a second mode is received and is based on a UE generated report of a state resulting from the first mode of operation. The second mode of operation is then implemented. | 2011-08-18 |
20110199922 | HANDLING OF RECEIVED IMPLICIT NULL PACKETS - A router includes a network ingress processor and a network egress processor. The network ingress processor is configured for modifying a received MPLS packet such that an internal header thereof includes a pre-configured IP flow identifier therein in place of an as-received MPLS flow identifier. Such modifying is performed in response to the network ingress processor parsing a MPLS label stack of the received MPLS packet to determine if an existing MPLS label of the label stack needs to be replaced with an Implicit Null label and in response to determining that there is no other label in the MPLS label stack. The network egress processor includes a flow selector configured for directing packets dependent upon a type of flow identifier included in an internal header thereof, for receiving the modified MPLS packet, and for replacing the internal header with a port-specific header. | 2011-08-18 |
20110199923 | Enabling Reporting of Non-Real-Time MDT Measurements - Methods and apparatus for informing a network node of a wireless communication network of the presence of logged measurements are disclosed. A first mobile station performs measurements concerning one or more connectivity aspects for the first mobile station in relation to the wireless communication network and stores the measurements in an internal log, where the measurements are performed according to a reporting configuration for the first mobile station. The first mobile station then sends a notification to the first network node regarding the presence of logged measurements in order to enable the first network node to respond to the notification with a request for a logged measurement report. | 2011-08-18 |
20110199924 | SYSTEMS, APPARATUS, AND METHODS FOR MONITORING NETWORK CAPACITY - Methods, systems, and devices for monitoring network capacity and determining network utilization are herein disclosed. A traffic flow of captured data packets received at an ingress port of a network captured traffic distribution device may be sampled at a frequency corresponding to a first time period. The sample may be analyzed to determine whether, for example, the ingress port is active during the first time period. An increment may be added to a first counter based on a determination that the ingress port is active. The increments from a predefined plurality of first time periods may be aggregated and the predefined plurality of first time periods may correspond to a second time period. A second counter value may be generated for the second time period based on the aggregate and a percent utilization of the ingress port for the second time period may be determined based on the second counter value. | 2011-08-18 |
20110199925 | PACKET SWITCHING EQUIPMENT AND SWITCHING CONTROL METHOD - A packet switching equipment and a switch control system employing the same performs operation of the switch core portion independent of content of decision of an arbiter portion and overall equipment can be constructed with simple control structure. The packet switching equipment includes input buffer portions temporarily storing packets arriving to the input ports and outputting packets with adding labels indicative of destination port numbers, a switch core portion for switching the packets on the basis of labels added to the input buffer portions, and an arbiter portion adjusting input buffer portions to provide output permissions for outputting to the output ports. A sorting network autonomously sorting and concentrating the packets on the basis of the labels added to the packets is employed in the switch core portion. | 2011-08-18 |
20110199926 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AN IMPROVED USER GROUP SELECTION SCHEME WITH FINITE-RATE CHANNEL STATE INFORMATION FEEDBACK FOR FDD MULTIUSER MIMO DOWNLINK TRANSMISSION - A method for channel selection in a communication system includes receiving a broadcast signal comprising a beam vector, generating a first channel state information message based on the power of the broadcast signal, generating a second channel state information message based on the direction of the broadcast signal with respect to the beam vector, and transmitting a feedback signal comprising at least the first channel state information message and the second channel state information message. The communication system may include a frequency division duplex (FDD) multiuser communication system or a time division duplex (TDD) multiuser communication system. The first channel state information message may include a channel gain with respect to the broadcast signal. The second channel state information message may include a measure of orthogonality between the broadcast signal and the beam vector. | 2011-08-18 |
20110199927 | TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS - An SAE/LTE or 4G cellular telecommunications network is disclosed which comprises a plurality of eNodeBs | 2011-08-18 |
20110199928 | FEEDBACK CONTROL OF PROCESSOR USE IN VIRTUAL SYSTEMS - A device may receive packets for a system and obtain a packet drop rate of the system, a processor utilization rate of the system, and a target processor utilization rate of the system. In addition, the device may determine a target packet drop rate based on the packet drop rate, the processor utilization rate, and the target processor utilization rate. The device may drop a portion of the packets in accordance with the packet drop rate. | 2011-08-18 |
20110199929 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR MEASURING NETWORK PERFORMANCE PARAMETERS - A method and a device for measuring network performance parameters are disclosed. The method includes: receiving an extended bidirectional forwarding detection (BFD) packet that includes a packet loss monitoring Type-Length-Value (TLV) and/or a time delay monitoring TLV; and calculating network performance parameters according to the packet loss monitoring TLV and/or the time delay monitoring TLV in the received extended BFD packet. The device includes: an extended BFD packet receiving module and a network performance parameter calculating module. The method and the device enables the calculating of network performance parameters and the monitoring of network performance, and therefore the problem of monitoring network performance in technical solutions in the prior art is solved. | 2011-08-18 |
20110199930 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, CALIBRATION DATA TRANSMISSION METHOD, AND METHOD FOR UPDATING A CORRESPONDENCE RELATIONSHIP - A transmission apparatus and method updates a communication mode selection table that updates a communication mode selection table correctly and selects an optimal MCS according to an actual channel condition. A buffer temporarily stores calibration data to be transmitted for updating a table. A scheduler performs scheduling of data to be transmitted based on a CIR on a downlink reported from a plurality of communication terminal apparatuses. When there is no data to be transmitted, the scheduler sends calibration data from the buffer. When calibration data is transmitted as a result of the scheduling, the scheduler notifies an address information generation section of the communication terminal apparatus to which the calibration data is transmitted. In one mode, first data is transmitted from a first communication apparatus to another communication apparatus, the first communication apparatus receives from the other communication apparatus, information on an error rate when the other communication apparatus receives the first data; and | 2011-08-18 |