42nd week of 2013 patent applcation highlights part 31 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20130272078 | STORAGE CONTROLLING APPARATUS, MEMORY SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM AND STORAGE CONTROLLING METHOD - Disclosed herein is a storage controlling apparatus including: a decision portion configured to decide whether or not a bit number of a specific value from between binary values is greater than a reference value in at least part of input data to a memory cell, which executes rewriting to one of the binary values and rewriting to the other one of the binary values in order in a writing process, to generate decision data indicative of a result of the decision; and a write side outputting portion configured to output, when it is decided that the bit number is greater than the reference value, the input data at least part of which is inverted as write data to the memory cell together with the decision data. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272079 | COMMAND LATENCY SYSTEMS AND METHODS - Examples of command latency systems and methods are described. In some examples, phase information associated with a received command signal is stored, a received command signal is propagated through a reduced clock flip-flop pipeline and the delayed command signal is combined with the stored phase information. The reduced clock flip-flop pipeline may use a clock having a lower frequency than that used to issue the command signal. Accordingly, fewer flip-flops may be required. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272080 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR BIT CELL REPAIR - A method includes reading data from a subset of a plurality of memory bit cells of a non-volatile memory. The data identifies an address of at least one individual failed bit cell. The method further includes loading the data directly into a register, receiving an address of data to be accessed, determining if the received address is the address of any individual failed bit cell; and accessing the data of the register if the received address is the address of any individual failed bit cell. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272081 | METHOD OF OPERATING A SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE - A semiconductor memory device is operated by, inter alia, selecting an even bit line or an odd bit line in response to a read command, and precharging the selected bit line by applying a precharge voltage to the selected bit line; changing potential of the selected bit line in response to a threshold voltage of a selected memory cell coupled to the selected bit line; precharging a non-selected bit line by applying a precharge voltage to the non-selected bit line; and sensing read data in accordance with the potential of the selected bit line. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272082 | REFRESH CIRCUIT IN SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE - A refresh circuit in a semiconductor memory device performs a multi-enable skew refresh operation during each periodic refresh operation. The refresh circuit includes a signal generation unit configured to generate a plurality of refresh signals having different timings during a refresh operation period, a first refresh circuit configured to enable refresh target lines associated with a first memory group in a memory cell array through operation periods of at least two time periods by using some of the refresh signals, and a second refresh circuit configured to enable refresh target lines associated with a second memory group differing from the first memory group through operation periods of at least two time periods by using some or all of the rest of the refresh signals. Enable timings of the first and second refresh circuits do not coincide each other. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272083 | ADMIXTURE PIECE AND HOUSING ELEMENT FOR A MIXING DEVICE - A tubular admixture piece for receiving in a mixing device for controlled metering in of an adjuvant into a pumpable mixture has at least one sealing element for producing an at least partially fluid-tight connection between the admixture piece and the mixing device wherein the at least one sealing element is designed as an axial seal with respect to a longitudinal axis of the tubular admixture piece. A housing element of a mixing device has at least a sealing support for axial sealing of the admixture piece, and is also configured to exert a force that acts on the admixture piece in the axial direction and/or longitudinal direction of the through-flow opening, such that the axial seal of an admixture piece received at least partially in the through-flow opening can be pressed against the sealing support by the force. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272084 | MULTIVARIATE MANAGEMENT OF ENTRAINED AIR AND RHEOLOGY IN CEMENTITIOUS MIXES - The invention relates to a method and system for monitoring and adjusting both air content and rheology (e.g., slump, slump flow) properties of a hydratable concrete mix contained within a concrete mixer. The system simultaneously tracks dosage of both rheology-modifying admixture (e.g., polycarboxylate polymer cement dispersant) and air control agent or “ACA” (e.g., air entraining agent) by reference to at least four nominal dose response (“NDR”) curves or profiles, which at least four NDR profiles are based on the respective behaviors of each of the ACA and rheology-modifying agent on air content and rheology. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272085 | MIXER GUN SYSTEM AND METHOD - A mixer gun system includes a holder cap configured to separately store components in separate chambers. The components are selectively releasable through channels fluidly communicating with the separate chambers. The components are constituent materials for a bone cement mixture. A body forms a mixing chamber and is configured to receive the holder cap. The mixing chamber includes an opening corresponding with the channels for the separate chambers. A piston is disposed within the mixing chamber. A plunger is coupled to the piston and is configured to be biased toward the mixing chamber such that when the components are released into the mixing chamber a pressure developed by a biased motion of the plunger and piston infuses the components to form bone cement. Upon resetting the plunger and the piston, the bone cement is dispensed from the mixing chamber by the same biased motion. Methods of use are disclosed. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272086 | Beverage Container - A beverage container for mixing a beverage is disclosed. The beverage container includes a cup having a stirring flap integral to an internal side wall of the cup. The stifling flap has a sine wave shape and comprises a top fin protruding near the top of the internal wall and a bottom fin protruding near the bottom of the internal wall of the cup. The top fin and the bottom fin are separated by a central portion. The cup is swirled in a circular motion by a person's hand to mix the liquid contained within. The central portion allows liquid to pass freely through the middle of the cup to gain momentum when the cup is swirled. The bottom fin has the shape of a lower case letter ‘h’, to allow solid material gathered in the bottom of the cup to pass underneath the bottom fin and mix with liquid. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272087 | Fluidically Integrated Magnetic Bead Beater - A system for at least one of homogenization and lysis of a sample includes one or more walls forming an enclosed chamber, a permanent magnet within the enclosed chamber, a magnet guide, and one or more magnets located outside the chamber. The enclosed chamber has an inlet and one or more fluidic connections configured to introduce at least the sample into the chamber. The permanent magnet has a positive pole and a negative pole. The magnet guide is configured to laterally guide the permanent magnet between a first position and a second position and maintain a substantially constant orientation of the permanent magnet during the movement. Movement of the magnets outside the chamber changes a magnetic field between the one or more magnets and the permanent magnet. The permanent magnet moves between the first and second positions in response to the changing magnetic field. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272088 | Dynamic Mixer - A dynamic mixer for mixing flowable media, which has a mixing chamber in a multipart housing is described. A plurality of inlets and an outlet of the mixing chamber are arranged on the housing, and a mixing shaft having a mixer section projects into the mixing chamber. The mixing shaft is mounted in a sliding bearing in the housing by means of a bearing section and passes through the housing with a drive section for coupling to a drive. To avoid dead spaces within the housing, the housing has a sealing hole for accommodating the drive section of the mixing shaft and a bearing hole for mounting the bearing section of the mixing shaft, where the sealing hole has a greater diameter than the bearing hole in order to accommodate a sealing means. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272089 | ELECTROMAGNETICALLY DRIVEN MARINE VIBRATOR - A marine vibrator has a housing that comprises a displacement member, the displacement member having a first position and a second position, the housing and the displacement member together defining an internal volume. A linear electromagnetic motor interacts with the displacement member so as to move the displacement member between a first position and a second position and correspondingly strokes the displacement member to cover a volume. The linear electromagnetic motor comprises magnets and coils that when energized create an electromagnetic force there between, wherein the linear electromagnetic motor comprises a piston and a guide that substantially surrounds the piston. The piston has incorporated therein either the coils or the magnets, and the guide having incorporated therein the other of the coils or the magnets. The piston is in interaction with the displacement member. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272090 | Towing Methods and Systems for Geophysical Surveys - Disclosed are methods and systems for towing one or more electromagnetic sensor streamers from deflectors in an additional geophysical sensor streamer spread. An embodiment discloses a marine geophysical survey system, comprising: a survey vessel; an electromagnetic sensor streamer; and a geophysical sensor streamer spread configured to be towed by the survey vessel, wherein the geophysical sensor streamer spread comprises: sensor streamers configured to be laterally spaced apart from one another; and deflectors adapted to spread the sensor streamers substantially transversely in relation to a direction of motion of the survey vessel, wherein the electromagnetic sensor streamer is configured to be towed from at least one of the deflectors. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272091 | LAND SEISMIC SENSOR FOR MEASURING A PRESSURE WAVEFIELD - A seismic sensor unit includes a sensor housing including an inner chamber and a receiver extension for ground coupling, a suspension fluid disposed in the inner chamber, and a hydrophone suspended in the suspension fluid. The seismic sensor unit may include a sensor housing including a steel spike coupled to the ground, a fluid chamber in the sensor housing, a fluid in the fluid chamber, and a hydrophone disposed in the fluid chamber and contacting the fluid such as to detect a pressure wavefield in the fluid caused by ground motion acting on the steel spike. A method includes receiving ground motion at a seismic sensor unit coupled to the ground, transmitting the ground motion to a fluid chamber, creating a pressure wavefield in a fluid in the fluid chamber in response to the ground motion, and detecting the pressure wavefield in the fluid using a hydrophone. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272092 | IDENTIFICATION, DETECTION AND POSITIONING OF UNDERWATER ACOUSTIC REFLECTORS - A method of identifying and locating an acoustic reflector is described by interrogating underwater objects with a sonar and deploying one or more of the steps of a. identifying objects that apparently reflect the acoustic interrogation with a double echo, measuring the separation of the two echoes and comparing those measurements with anticipated measurements for underwater acoustic reflectors that may be present in the search area, and accepting or rejecting the reflected acoustic wave as potentially including the echo from the front of such an acoustic reflector and the echo from the shell at the rear of the reflector; b. measuring the target strength of the echoes in a double echo received from an object and rejecting the object as one of interest if the target strength in the first echo of a double echo exceeds that of the second echo; c. measuring the total target strength of an echo from an object, the object being rejected as being a potential underwater acoustic reflector of interest if the target strength is less than a predetermined minimum; d. measuring the acoustic width of an object and comparing that with the acoustic width of known acoustic reflectors, the object being rejected as being potentially an underwater acoustic reflector of interest if the acoustic width is not that of a known underwater acoustic reflector; e. measuring the frequency response of an object, the object being accepted or rejected as being potentially an acoustic reflector of interest if the frequency response corresponds to the known frequency response of such an underwater reflector; and f. measuring the phase response of an object, the object being accepted or rejected as potentially an underwater acoustic reflector of interest if the phase response corresponds to the known phase response of such an underwater acoustic reflector. The target is being rejected as being an acoustic reflector of interest if the measured characteristics do not match the known characteristics of a reflector of interest. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272093 | REAL-TIME PROCESSING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PHASED ARRAY THREE-DIMENSIONAL ACOUSTICS IMAGE PICKUP SONAR - This invention discloses a real-time phased array 3D acoustic imaging sonar processing system and method. The system comprises a 3D sonar dot data collection module, a 3D sonar dot data uploading module and a real-time 3D sonar dot data processing module of PC terminal; the method includes the following content: make use of two-stage FPGA signal processing to realize real-time formation of electronic focusing wave beam, and acquire 3D sonar dot data; further transmit 3D sonar dot data to PC terminal for setting and acquisition of directives; PC terminal aims to receive 3D sonar dot data for real-time processing: This includes real-time single-frame multilayer reconstruction, image registration and splice, 3D visualization and real-time saving of data. This invention features in compact structure, high real-time precision, clear image, easy alternation and high extendibility, which has effectively realized the real-time 3D processing of sonar targets. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272094 | ULTRASONIC MEASURING GAUGE - An ultrasonic measuring gauge includes a probe configured to be moved along a surface of a material to be measured, transmit ultrasonic waves to the material, and receive ultrasonic waves reflected from the material. The gauge also includes a processing unit and an input unit. The processing unit is configured to operate according to one of two different modes of operation based on an input received by the input unit. In a first mode of operation, the probe determines the thickness at portions between the first and second locations on the surface of the material at which the probe is coupled to the material regardless of whether the probe is continuously physically coupled between the two locations. In a second mode of operation, the processing unit determines a corresponding thickness of the material at each portion between two locations when the probe is continuously physically coupled between the two locations. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272095 | INTEGRATED AUDIO-VISUAL ACOUSTIC DETECTION - The present invention relates to a method and associated apparatus for the detection and identification of a sound event comprising collecting audio data from an acoustic sensor; processing the collected audio data to determine periodicity of the sound, processing the collected audio data to isolate transient and/or non-linear sounds and processing the collected audio data to identify frequency modulated pulses, in parallel to produce three output data sets; and combining and comparing the output data sets to categorise the sound event as being mechanical, biological or environmental. The method is particularly useful for detecting and analysing sound events in real time or near real-time and, in particular, for sonar applications as well as ground (including seismic) monitoring or for monitoring sound events in air (e.g. noise pollution). | 2013-10-17 |
20130272096 | AUDIO SYSTEM AND METHOD OF OPERATION THEREFOR - An audio system comprises an ultrasound sensor array ( | 2013-10-17 |
20130272097 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND APPARATUS FOR ESTIMATING DIRECTION OF ARRIVAL - Systems, methods, and apparatus for matching pair-wise differences (e.g., phase delay measurements) to an inventory of source direction candidates, and application of pair-wise source direction estimates, are described. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272098 | Underwater Acoustic Array, Communication and Location System - An underwater communication system comprises a plurality of location and messaging units for sending and receiving ultrasonic energy through water. In accordance with one aspect, each of the location and messaging units comprising an array of four ultrasonic transducers positioned such that they define a generally tetrahedral shape, a transceiver adapted to generate a code element, generate a data element, generate a modulation element, and combine the code element, the data element and the modulation element into an analog wave form. The system is further adapted to transmit the analog wave form through each of the four ultrasonic transducers and receive the analog wave-form generated by at least one of the location and messaging units. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272099 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE, TIME CALIBRATION SYSTEM AND METHOD - A time calibration method includes steps: establishing a connection between the electronic device and the communication device. A trigger signal is produced to the communication device in response to the operation of the user triggering the communication device to update the time of the communication device. The time provided by the electronic device is obtained and compared to the time provided by the communication device. The time of the electronic device is calibrated according to the updated time of the communication device if the difference between the time provided by the electronic device and the updated time provided by the communication device is greater than a predetermined value. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272100 | METHOD FOR ADJUSTING THE OSCILLATION FREQUENCY AND/OR ADJUSTING THE INERTIA AND/OR BALANCING OF A MOVABLE TIMEPIECE MOVEMENT COMPONENT OR OF A TIMEPIECE SPRING BALANCE ASSEMBLY - A method for adjusting oscillation frequency of a spring balance assembly. A removal and/or an addition and/or a displacement of material is/are conducted on a component of the assembly under effect of a pulse of a transformation mechanism to conduct a micromachining and/or microfusion operation on the material of the component or of an addition material to vaporize and/or displace and/or weld the material. The pulse is controlled by a controller configured to generate, sequence, interrupt any pulse and to control movements of a beam of the transformation mechanism, wherein the controller is connected to or automatically controlled by a measuring or comparing mechanism. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272101 | DEVICE FOR SECURING A CELL BATTERY WITH IMPROVED CONTACT - Structure ( | 2013-10-17 |
20130272102 | WATCH WITH MULTI-COLOURED COMPONENTS - Method for forming an assembly of elementary timepiece components, each available in different coloured variants, wherein at least some of said different elementary components are the same colour as each other, characterized in that a random selection of each said elementary component is made until said complete assembly is obtained, so that at least two elementary components are of different colours. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272103 | Watch With Replaceable Decorating Element - A watch comprises a body and a strap with a first through hole. A decorating substrate with a second through hole_is provided on an upper surface of the strap and a snap ring is provided below a lower surface of the strap, in which the decorating substrate and the snap ring are attached correspondingly with the first through hole. The body is installed into the first and second through holes. An upper surface of the body comprises an extending edge which is attached on an upper edge of the second through hole in the decorating substrate. The body further comprises a bottom end extending through the first through hole. The bottom end of the body is provided with an external thread. The snap ring forms a thread connection with the bottom end and is attached below a lower edge of the first through hole in the strap. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272104 | WRITER WITH INCREASED WRITE FIELD - A writer includes a magnetic write pole having a leading surface and a trailing surface and a near field transducer peg spaced from the leading surface of the write pole to provide energy assisted recording. A magnetic recording system for writing to and reading from a continuous magnetic medium includes a write element having a write element tip having a leading edge and a trailing edge, and wherein at least one surface of the write element that extends in a cross-track direction on the continuous magnetic medium has no line of symmetry. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272105 | Servo Processor Receiving Photodetector Signals - A servo processor for an optical disk drive is provided that includes: an analog-to-digital converter for converting versions of photodetector output signals into digital signals; and a digital signal processor configured to receive the digital signals, the digital signal processor being further configured to determine a focus error signal (FES) and a tracking error signal (TES) from the digital signals, the digital signal processor being further configured to process TES and FES through servo algorithms to produce tracking and focus control signals. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272106 | OPTICAL DISK DEVICE AND OPTICAL DISK DEVICE ADJUSTING METHOD - An optical disk device includes an optical pickup, and a controller. The optical pickup emits light on an optical disk, and detects return light from the optical disk. The controller performs a focus control based on a focus error signal corresponding to the return light detected by the optical pickup, and performs a tracking control based on a tracking error signal corresponding to the return light detected by the optical pickup. The controller finds a relation of an amount of deviation in a tracking balance of the tracking error signal relative to a change in a focus balance of the focus error signal while the tracking control is stopped prior to reproduction of the optical disk. The controller corrects the deviation in the tracking balance attributable to the change in the focus balance based on the relation while the focus balance is adjusted. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272107 | DEBRIS REDUCING DISK CLAMP FOR DISK DRIVES - A disk clamp for clamping a plurality of disks within a disk drive has a single fastening hole located at its symmetrical center sized to pass the shaft of a screw having a head diameter larger than the fastening hole. The screw fastens the disk clamp to a motor hub supporting the plurality of disks. The disk clamp has a moat around the fastening hole, at a maximum diameter that is smaller than the head diameter of the head on the fastening screw. The moat may be circular, have spike trenches angled toward the fastening hole, or be spiral. The diameter of the spiral moat decreases in a clockwise or counterclockwise direction toward the fastening hole. The midsection of the disk which the screw head covers is biased at a negative angle toward the fastening hole forcing particles generated during assembly toward the fastening hole of the disk clamp. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272108 | DISK CLAMP HAVING UNIFORM CLAMPING LOAD AND INDEX MARK - A disk clamp for clamping a number of magnetic hard disks within a disk drive has a plurality of balance weight holes and a coined index mark for use as a reference in balancing the hard disks after assembly. The disk clamp also has a coined profile located adjacent or around the balance weight holes in order to provide uniform circumferential clamp force by the disk clamp. The disk clamp has a profile that places the inner region of the disk clamp in the plastic deformation region at a certain specified clamping force at the center of the disk clamp. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272109 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING COMMUNICATION SERVICES FOR USER ENDPOINT DEVICES - A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, an edge device having a controller to receive a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) message from a user endpoint device (UE) requesting communication services, forward the SIP message to a network element of a Server Office, receive from the network element a first error message indicating communication services at the Server Office are unavailable, replace the first error message with a second error message, the second error message indicating a temporary unavailability of communication services, and transmit the second error message to the UE. Additional embodiments are disclosed. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272110 | Method for Handling Transmission Errors On a Telecommunications Transmission Line - When data retransmission is used to handle errors caused by impulse noise, buffer memory requirements may be reduced and/or data rate increased by detecting impulse noise at the transmitting equipment and initiating retransmission in response to such detection rather than waiting for a retransmission indication from the receiving end. The decision to retransmit may be made dependent on the strength or other properties of the detected noise burst. The decision criterion may be made adaptive by correlating noise burst properties with received retransmission indications or the absence thereof. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272111 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR LINK FAULT DETECTING AND RECOVERING BASED ON ARP INTERACTION - A method for link fault detection and recovery based on Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) interaction, including: configuring an IP address and a mask code, a strategy routing or static routing module and an ARP module for network devices of a home terminal and an opposite terminal; the strategy routing or static routing module regularly inquiring whether an ARP entry to which a next hop corresponds exists, if the ARP entry exists, a link being available, otherwise, notifying the ARP module to perform keepalive on the next hop; and the ARP module performing a process of keepalive on the next hop, and after performing keepalive on the next hop, notifying the strategy routing or static routing module to judge whether the link is available. Further, a device for link fault detection and recovery based on ARP interaction. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272112 | NETWORK SWITCH - A network switch is provided which can shorten a time required for switching-over to a backup route when a failure has occurred in a port for which an LAG is set. The network switch includes a failure detection unit for detecting a port failure, and a forced transfer processing unit for, when a failure is detected in a port at a transfer destination as a target in trying to transfer a received unicast frame and when an link aggregation group is set for a plurality of ports including the relevant port at the transfer destination, forcibly transferring the received unicast frame to another port for which the same link aggregation group as that set for the relevant port at the transfer destination is set. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272113 | CHASSIS TYPE SWITCH - A chassis type switch is provided which can shorten a time required for switching-over to a backup route when a failure has occurred in a line card. In a chassis type switch including a plurality of line cards within a chassis, the switch further includes a failure detection unit for detecting a failure in each of the plural line cards, and a forced flooding processing unit included in each of the plural line cards and operating such that when, in trying to transfer a received unicast frame to another line card, a failure is detected in the relevant line card at a transfer destination, the received unicast frame is forcibly transferred to all ports of the own line card other than a reception port thereof and to all other line cards. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272114 | PSEUDO WIRE SWITCHING METHOD AND DEVICE - A Pseudo Wire (PW) switching method applied to a MPLS L2VPN comprising U-PE devices and N-PE devices includes checking, by an N-PE device, connectivity of a main U-PW and a backup U-PW between the N-PE device and a U-PE device and connectivity of N-PWs between the N-PE device and other N-PE devices. When one of the main U-PW and the backup U-PW is detected to have failed, transmitting, by the N-PE device, a MAC address clear command through an N-PW in a VSI to which the failed U-PW belongs, and clearing, by an N-PE device receiving the MAC address clear command, MAC addresses associated with the N-PW for transmitting the MAC address clear command in the VSI; and when one of the N-PWs is detected to have failed, transmitting a traffic rerouting command through a U-PW in a VSI to which the failed N-PW belongs and performing U-PW switching. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272115 | METHOD AND PROCESSING DEVICE FOR OPTIMAL INTERFERENCE ESTIMATION AND SCHEDULING IN A MULTI-HOP WIRELESS NETWORK WITH CENTRALIZED CONTROL - A processing device equips a controller that is intended for providing data transmission schedules into multi-slot frames, based on a conflict graph representative of wireless links between nodes that interfere when transmitting simultaneously on a same radio channel, for nodes linked therebetween and belonging to a multi-hop wireless network using a MAC protocol supporting a slotted access. This processing device comprises a processing means arranged, during each frame, for updating the conflict graph from interference information provided by the nodes during this frame, and for refining this conflict graph from detection of hidden interferer nodes based on detected failures of data transmissions of the links between these nodes during at least the previous frame. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272116 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, COMMUNICATION METHOD AND NETWORK MANAGEMENT APPARATUS - In an example of the invention, network devices are classified into areas. Each of the areas includes edge nodes. A network management apparatus retains fault information including values each indicating whether or not a fault has occurred in each of the areas, retains detour path information including values indicating edge nodes, values indicating alternative areas to the areas and priorities assigned to the alternative areas, identifies, when determined that a fault has occurred in a first area based on the fault information, an alternative area to the first area based on the detour path information, determines, when determined that the fault has not occurred in the identified alternative area, the identified alternative area as a second area through which the active path passes, determines two edge nodes included in the second area, and detect network devices through which the active path passes between the two edge nodes. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272117 | DETERMINING MAXIMUM BANDWIDTH IN A MIXED VERSION MOCA DEPLOYMENT - A method, performed by a computer device, may include identifying Multimedia over Coaxial Alliance nodes associated with a customer's network; querying particular pairs of the identified Multimedia over Coaxial Alliance nodes for physical rates to obtain reported physical rates for the particular pairs of the identified Multimedia over Coaxial Alliance nodes; and querying particular ones of the identified Multimedia over Coaxial Alliance nodes for supported Multimedia over Coaxial Alliance versions. The method may further include determining a maximum bandwidth for the customer's network based on the reported physical rates and based on the supported Multimedia over Coaxial Alliance versions. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272118 | System and Method for Automatically Adapting Audio Packet Marking in a Packet Network - Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for managing a packet network to deal with a problem of dropped audio packets. A triggering event signal indicates that audio marked packet traffic in the packet network has exceeded a capacity limit. Upon receiving the triggering event signal, a transmitting device transmits audio packets marked as non-audio packets through the packet network. The transmitting device, for example, is a VoIP telephone. The triggering event signal, for example, is generated when the audio marked packet traffic exceeds a dropped packet threshold, or when monitoring of audio marked packet traffic indicates that audio marked packet traffic approaches a committed data rate (CDR) threshold. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272119 | METHOD AND COMMUNICATION DEVICE FOR CONTROLLING ACCESS TO A WIRELESS ACCESS NETWORK - A method for controlling access to a wireless Access Network (AN) by a wireless communication device. The device stores a Device Access Priority (DAP) level based on characteristics of the device. When the device has data to send, the device receives an overhead message from the AN containing a Network Access Priority (NAP) parameter defining a minimum priority level for initiating network access. The device determines whether its DAP level is equal to or greater than the NAP parameter. If not, the device periodically repeats the receiving and determining steps until the stored DAP level is determined to be equal to or greater than the NAP parameter received from the AN. When the stored DAP level is equal to or greater than the NAP parameter, the device initiates network access. The device may perform and pass a Persistence Test before transmitting the data on an access channel (ACH). | 2013-10-17 |
20130272120 | Method and Device for Handling Mobility Management Context - Embodiments of the present application relate to the technical field of wireless communications, relating specifically to a method and a device for handling a mobility management context, for use in solving the problem in the prior art of an increase in signaling consumption or network load due to the absence of a defined duration of storage for the mobility management context on a network side. The method comprises: upon a network congestion and rejecting a request from a terminal, a network side device activating a first context timer for the terminal; if the request of the terminal is received and accepted before the first context timer times out, the network side device retaining a mobility management context corresponding to the terminal; if the request of the terminal is not received, or is received but not accepted before the first context timer times out, the network side device deleting the mobility management context corresponding to the terminal. As the duration of storage is defined for the mobility management context on the network side, the signaling consumption and the network load are thereby reduced. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272121 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR APPLICATION-AWARE ADMISSION CONTROL IN A COMMUNICATION NETWORK - Systems and methods for optimizing system performance of capacity and spectrum constrained, multiple-access communication systems by using application-aware admission control are provided. The systems and methods provided herein can determine admission control response using information about applications and congestion information. The information about applications can be obtained from packet inspection. The admission control responses can include admitting a new service, denying the new service, modifying the new or an existing service, delaying the new service, and suspending an existing service. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272122 | INFORMATION DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM AND METHOD, TERMINAL APPARATUS, SERVER APPARATUS, DATA RECEPTION METHOD, AND DATA TRANSMISSION METHOD - An information distribution system and method capable of averaging a traffic load over time and effectively utilizing communication facilities, wherein a terminal station | 2013-10-17 |
20130272123 | Systems and Methods for Traffic Policing - Systems and methods for policing traffic in communications systems are described herein. According to systems and methods herein, tokens are generated for a packet data network based on a peak transmission rate associated with the packet data network. Packets are selected for transmission over the packet data network based on availability of tokens. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272124 | HANDLING WAIT TIME IN A CONGESTED WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORK - Embodiments of the present disclosure describe techniques and configurations for handling a wait time in a wireless communication network when the network is determined to be congested. An apparatus may include computer-readable media having instructions and one or more processors coupled with the computer-readable media and configured to execute the instructions to send a radio resource control request message to a wireless network controller, receive a response message including an extended wait time value, determine upon receipt of the response message whether a back-off timer associated with the apparatus is running, and determine whether to start the backoff timer with the received extended wait time value based at least in part on the determination of whether the back-off timer is running and the received wait time value is integrity protected. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272125 | COMPONENT, SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING COMMUNICATION OF DATA OF AT LEAST ONE APPLICATION OF A COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK - For improving application data traffic in a communications network, data traffic of at least one application of the communications network is divided into two types in view of the current situation of the network—a first type comprising data, which can be transmitted by delaying the transmission, and a second type comprising data, which should not be delayed but should be transmitted at the current time. When an analysis of the current (average) load of the network shows that transmitting both types of data could lead to a heavy data traffic, a temporal transmission suppression session can be performed with regard to at least one entity of the communications network. In the temporal transmission suppression session, transmitting of data of the first type is interrupted during transmitting data of the second type. After completion of transmitting data of the second type, transmitting data of the first type is resumed. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272126 | CONGESTION AWARE ROUTING USING RANDOM POINTS - In congestion aware point-to-point routing using a random point in an integrated circuit (IC) design, the random point is selected in a bounding area defined in a layout of the IC design. A set of pattern routes is constructed between a source pin and a sink pin in the bounding area, a pattern route in the set of pattern routes passing through the random point. A set of congestion cost corresponding to the set of pattern routes is computed. A congestion cost in the set of congestion costs corresponds to a pattern route in the set of pattern routes. A preferred pattern route is selected from the set of pattern routes, the preferred pattern route having the smallest congestion cost in the set of congestion costs. The preferred pattern route is output as a point-to-point route between the source pin and the sink pin. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272127 | Session-Aware GTPv2 Load Balancing - Systems and methods for session-aware GTPv2 load balancing are described. In some embodiments, a method may include receiving a first and a second transaction between an MME and an S-GW over an Sll interface of an LTE/SAE network using a control portion of a second version of a GTPv2-C protocol and storing an uplink UP TEId and IP address, a downlink CP TEId and IP address, and an uplink CP TEId and IP address obtained from the first transaction, and a downlink UP TEId and IP address obtained from the second transaction. The method may further include identifying messages between an eNodeB and the S-GW over a direct tunnel using a user portion of a GTPv1-U protocol as belonging to a session in response to the messages including at least one of: the first uplink UP TEId and IP address, or the first downlink UP TEId and IP address. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272128 | METHOD AND APPARATUS OF DETERMINING BLOCKING IN RING NETWORK - An apparatus of determining blocking in an Ethernet ring network sets blocking with respect to each of the plurality of links in an Ethernet ring network, and determines one of the plurality of links as a link to be blocked by using traffic request amounts of a plurality of service flows with respect to the respective links set to be blocked. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272129 | BACKGROUND TRAFFIC HANDLING IN LTE - A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for wireless communication are provided. The apparatus may be an eNB. In one configuration the eNB may establish a connection to a remote apparatus, receive a message from the remote apparatus indicating that the connection is supporting one of background traffic or active traffic, determine whether the connection is supporting the background traffic or the active traffic using the message, and set a time value for a state timer related to an operating state of the remote apparatus based on whether the connection is supporting the background traffic or the active traffic. In another configuration the eNB may establish a connection to a remote apparatus and disable one or more modes of communication based on whether the connection is supporting the background traffic or the active traffic. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272130 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING TRAFFIC OF MULTI-MODE BASE STATION - The present invention discloses a method and an apparatus for controlling traffic of a multi-mode base station to overcome the unfair or unreasonable traffic allocation between different systems of a multi-mode base station in the prior art. The technical solutions provided by embodiments of the present invention include: obtaining target traffic of any system in the multi-mode base station according to a preset traffic allocation ratio; decreasing an increment step size of the system if current traffic of the system is greater than the target traffic and bandwidth of the multi-mode base station is idle; or increasing a decrement step size of the system if current traffic of the system is greater than the target traffic and bandwidth of the multi-mode base station is congested; and controlling traffic of the system in the multi-mode base station according to the adjusted increment step size or decrement step size. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272131 | GATEWAY DEVICE, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - A gateway apparatus arranged between a base station and the backbone network monitors a communication signal transmitted from a terminal apparatus through the base station. In a case where specifying information is not included in the communication signal, the gateway apparatus outputs a user data signal from the terminal apparatus through the base station to the backbone network. In a case where the specifying information is included in the communication signal, the gateway apparatus forwards the user data signal from the terminal apparatus through the base station to an external network. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272132 | SUPPORTED, SELF-OPTIMIZING WIRELESS NETWORKS, OPTIMIZED WITH RESPECT TO ENERGY, MOBILITY, AND CAPACITY - Technology is discussed for self-optimization approaches within wireless networks to optimize networks for energy efficiency, load capacity, and/or mobility, together with new, supporting channel state measurements and handover techniques. New, Channel State Information-Reference Signals (CSI-RSs) for yet-to-be-configured Cell-IDentifications (Cell-IDs) can be used to determine whether adjacent transmission cells can provide coverage for transmission cells that can be switched off for energy efficiency during formation of a Single Frequency Network (SFN). New approaches are also discussed to facilitate mobility within such a network. The new CSI-RSs and mobility approaches can also be used to split up such a SFN when changing load demands so require. Additionally, such new approaches can be used to create a SFN with a common Cell-ID where high mobility is required, such as near a roadway, and to break it up where high capacity is required, such as during a period of traffic congestion. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272133 | ASSIGNING SELECTED GROUPS TO ROUTING STRUCTURES - Selected ones of multiple groups of network entities are assigned to corresponding routing structures, where each of the routing structures defines a set of paths through a network among network entities of a corresponding one of the groups. The assigning considers available multicast resources in communication nodes in the network, and a criterion relating to reducing overall cost in the assignment of the selected groups to the corresponding routing structures. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272134 | SECURE AD HOC COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS ACROSS HETEROGENEOUS SYSTEMS - A method for rapid peer-to-peer link establishment among a set of mobile devices includes operating a first second device, advertising system attributes in a wireless beacon by the second device, receiving the system attributes from the wireless beacon at the first device, comparing the system attributes to a service needed by the first device, and, if the second device is compatible based on the comparing, establishing a wireless link by the first device to the second device. A system and wireless device for rapid peer-to-peer link establishment among a set of mobile devices are also described. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272135 | TRAFFIC VISIBILITY IN AN OPEN NETWORKING ENVIRONMENT - A method of monitoring network traffic includes accessing a network that includes a controller and a switch device having a flow table, wherein the controller is communicatively coupled to the switch device, and is configured to program a behavior of the switch device through an openflow protocol, and obtaining information regarding the programmed behavior of the switch device, wherein the act of obtaining the information is performed by a network appliance that is communicatively coupled to the network. An apparatus communicatively coupled to a network, includes a processor configured for accessing the network that includes a controller and a switch device having a flow table, wherein the controller is communicatively coupled to the switch device, and is configured to program a behavior of the switch device through an openflow protocol, and obtaining information regarding the programmed behavior of the switch device. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272136 | Session-Aware GTPv1 Load Balancing - Systems and methods for session-aware GTPv1 load balancing are described. In some embodiments, a method may include receiving a first message transmitted from an SGSN to a GGSN using a GTP-C protocol and storing a downlink UP TEId and IP address and a downlink CP TEId and IP address. The method may also include receiving a second message transmitted from the GGSN to the SGSN using the GTP-C in response to the first message and storing an uplink UP TEId and IP address and an uplink CP TEId and IP address. The method may further include identifying one or more messages exchanged between the SGSN and the GGSN using a GTP-U protocol as belonging to a given session in response to the one or more messages including at least one of: (i) the downlink UP TEId and IP address, or (ii) the uplink UP TEId and IP address. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272137 | System and Method for Downlink Transmission in a Wireless Network - A method of communicating in a wireless network includes transmitting, by a station, a null data packet (NDP) power save (PS)-Poll frame including a short training field and a long training field. Also, the NDP PS-Poll frame includes a signaling field including a message type indicator, a transmitter address (TA), a receiver address (RA), and a cyclic redundancy check (CRC). Additionally, the method includes receiving, by the station, buffered data in accordance with the NDP PS-Poll frame. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272138 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MONITORING A PDCCH (PHYSICAL DOWNLINK CHANNEL) IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORK - A method and apparatus are disclosed for a monitoring PDCCH (Physical Downlink Control Channel). The method includes being configured with DRX (Discontinuous Reception) at a UE (User Equipment). The method also includes performing, at the UE, a measurement on a serving cell or PCell (Primary Cell). The method further includes monitoring, at the UE, the PDCCH more frequently after detecting that the quality of the serving cell or PCell is not good or is lower than a predetermined threshold. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272139 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR LOGGING INSTANCES OF A UE FAILING TO ESTABLISH CONNECTION IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORK - A method and apparatus are disclosed for logging instances of a UE (User Equipment) failing to establish connection in a wireless communication network. The method includes logging, in an error log, a failure of a first RRC (Radio Resource Control) connection establishment procedure caused by a first reason, and not logging a failure of a second RRC connection establishment procedure caused by a second reason. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272140 | Data Driven Connection Fault Management (DDCFM) In CFM Maintenance Points - A Connection Fault Management (CFM) maintenance point and method for providing Data Driven Connection Fault Management (DDCFM) in CFM maintenance points in a communication network. A Reflection Responder, an RFM Receiver, and a Decapsulator Responder are implemented in existing CFM maintenance points. The Reflection Responder selects frames to be reflected, mirrors the selected frames if a Continuation option is set, and encapsulates the selected frames with Return Frame Message (RFM) OpCode. The RFM Receiver sends received RFM frames to an analyzer if addressed to the maintenance point and otherwise to a passive multiplexer. The Decapsulator Responder decapsulates Send Frame Message (SFM) frames and sends decapsulated frames toward the destination specified in each frame. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272141 | TRANSPORT SYSTEM, CENTRAL CONTROL COMPUTER, AND TRANSPORT METHOD - A transport system comprises a plurality of transport devices to be and a central control computer. The transport devices are coupled to a first communication path which is established autonomous and decentralized manner by communication devices. The central control computer establishes a second communication path in a transport network including the plurality of transport devices, and sets a correspondence between the first communication path and the second communication path to one of the plurality of transport devices. One of the plurality of transport devices transmits a coupling check request for checking coupling from the communication device to a loopback point to the central control computer. The central control computer transmits, depending on a result of the check of the coupling executed by the one of the plurality of transport devices, a coupling check response to one of the plurality of transport devices which has transmitted a coupling check request. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272142 | Intelligent Loop Diagnostics for Digital Subscriber Line Services to Support a Service Assurance System - A method of diagnosing a transmission loop in an Internet protocol television (IPTV) network includes configuring the loop as an open loop and performing a single-ended loop test (SELT), configuring the loop as a terminated-loop and performing another SELT, subtracting a trace of the first SELT from a trace of the second SELT, and determining the length of the loop from the result. A service assurance system in an IPTV network includes a test module and a DSLAM coupled to a residential gateway by a transmission loop. The test module operates to determine that a fault condition on the IPTV network is caused by a fault in the loop, direct the DSLAM to perform an open loop SELT and a terminated-loop SELT on the loop, receive the results of the SELTs, and determine a location of a tap on the loop based upon the results. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272143 | Method For A Retransmission Roundtrip Correction - The present disclosure relates generally to communication systems and more particularly to Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) and wireless communication systems. One embodiment relates to a method of processing data in a communication system. In this method, a data stream is received by a transmitter and packaged into discrete data units prior to transmission. The size of a data unit depends upon the details of the embodiment, and is estimated by communication system prior to data transmission. Once a data unit is transmitted from the transmitter to the receiver, the receiver sends an acknowledgement that the data unit is received. Knowledge of the roundtrip time delay between transmission of the data unit and reception of the acknowledgement allows the communication system to determine an optimum data unit size to maximize throughput. Other methods and systems are also disclosed. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272144 | Adaptive Monitoring of Telecommunications Networks - Systems and methods for the adaptive monitoring of telecommunications networks are described. In some embodiments, a method may include monitoring traffic transmitted through a mobile telecommunications network (e.g., 3G, 4G, LTE, etc.) and identifying a monitoring rule. The monitoring rule may associate a selected portion of the traffic (e.g., based on content type, source, destination, transport protocol, session, etc.) with a monitoring sampling ratio, and the monitoring sampling ratio may determine a fraction of the selected portion of the traffic usable to provide one or more performance indicators (e.g., service indicators, network congestion, connection maintenance, service quality, and/or network availability). The method may further include modifying the monitoring sampling ratio in response to a change in network monitoring conditions (e.g., one or more probes operating at or near capacity, scheduled maintenance events, peak traffic times, etc.) | 2013-10-17 |
20130272145 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR OPPORTUNISTIC SCHEDULING OF PEER TO PEER LINKS IN WIDE AREA NETWORK - A method, a computer program product, and an apparatus are provided. The apparatus determines an availability of a wireless wide area network (WWAN) subframe, and utilizes the WWAN subframe for peer-to-peer communication when the WWAN subframe is available. Accordingly, peer mobile terminals or devices may establish direct peer-to-peer links for communicating small amounts of information without affecting the quality of existing WWAN communications. In the wireless wide area network (WWAN) scenario, communication between mobile terminals is facilitated through uplink/downlink channels between the mobile terminals and a base station (i.e., WWAN link). Therefore, for various types of applications, an efficient means of communicating a small amount of information frequently is provided that does not require large amounts of signaling overhead. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272146 | NETWORK TESTING USING A CONTROL SERVER - A system may receive a test signal from a first server; monitor network activity associated with the device; determine when the device is in an idle state based on the network activity associated with the device; generate a first packet based on receiving the test signal and based on determining when the device is in the idle state; provide the first packet to a second server; receive a second packet from the second server based on providing the first packet to the second server, the second packet authorizing the device to perform the network test; communicate with a third server, associated with the second packet, to perform the network test independently of the first and/or second server; generate test results based on performing the network test; and provide the test results to the second server, the second server being capable of generating performance data based on the test results. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272147 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF USING SPACE TIME BLOCK CODES - In a particular embodiment, a method includes applying a first stream to antenna mapping scheme to a preamble portion of a packet. The method further includes applying a second stream to antenna mapping scheme to a data portion of the packet. The second stream to antenna mapping scheme is applied to the data portion of the packet but not to the preamble portion of the packet. The second stream to antenna mapping scheme includes a circulation scheme or a cyclic delay diversity (CDD) scheme. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272148 | SMALL DATA COMMUNICATIONS IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORK - Technology for enabling small data transmissions in a user equipment (UE) configured for machine type communication (MTC) is disclosed. One method comprises receiving, by the UE from an evolved node (eNB), a system information block (SIB). The SIB can include system information relating to small data transmissions for MTC. The system information included in the SIB is read by the UE. The small data transmission is performed, from the UE to the eNB, based on the system information included in the SIB. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272149 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONFLICT DETECTION IN SELF ORGANIZATION NETWORK (SON) FUNCTIONS - A system and method for detecting cooperation or conflict between actors in a network made up of self-organizing sub-networks examines parameters such as performance indicators and configuration parameters to determine whether or not different actors are adjusting configuration parameters in a way that is cooperative or conflicting. When a performance indicator is observed to be outside of its expected range, an acceptable convergence range can be defined to give the actors time to adjust and return the performance indicator to its expected range of values. When a performance indicator is detected to be non-convergent, the monitor can alert an operator, or another node, so that appropriate actions can be taken. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272150 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ACQUIRING QUALITY OF EXPERIENCE AND METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENSURING QUALITY OF EXPERIENCE - A method for acquiring quality of experience QOE of a telecommunication service is provided. The method includes: acquiring multiple groups of original KQI vectors and a QOE value corresponding to each group of original KQI vectors in the multiple groups of original KQI vectors; analyzing a relationship between the multiple groups of original KQI vectors and QOE values corresponding to the multiple groups of original KQI vectors to establish a function relationship between KQI vectors and QOE values corresponding to the KQI vectors; acquiring a current KQI vector, and applying the function relationship between the KQI vectors and the QOE values corresponding to the KQI vectors to obtain a current QOE value corresponding to the current KQI vector. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272151 | Reference Signal Design And Signaling For Per-User Elevation MIMO - A method to use RSs for per-user elevation beamforming is described. An eNB sends, to a UE, an indication of which RSs in a plurality of RSs sound in the elevation dimension and which RSs in the plurality of RSs sound in the azimuthal dimension. Then, the eNB sends to the UE, the plurality of RSs using a plurality of antenna. The UE separates the plurality of RSs into the first portion and the second portion based at least in part on the indication and sends elevation and azimuthal feedback based on the received RSs to the eNB. The eNB determines beamforming weights for the plurality of antenna based at least in part on the elevation feedback and the azimuthal feedback. Apparatus and computer readable media are also described. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272152 | METHOD FOR TESTING AN AMPLIFICATION PATH FOR TELECOMMUNICATIONS SATELLITE REPEATER - A method for testing an amplification path of a repeater for a satellite for broadcasting the usable signals, the amplification path making it possible to frequency amplify usable signals from a plurality of communications channels, the channels being situated in a first frequency band, the amplification path being adapted to the first band, wherein the satellite includes a signal generator of a subsystem that enables generation of telemetry data to a second transmission antenna for reception thereof on Earth, the method including defining a test signal that includes the selection of a carrier frequency situated in the first frequency band; configuring the repeater to enable transmission of the signal generated by the signal generator to the amplification path; switching of the test signal amplified via the amplification path to the second transmitting antenna. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272153 | TELECOMMUNICATIONS METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR FACILITATING POSITIONING MEASUREMENTS - A wireless terminal ( | 2013-10-17 |
20130272154 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MONITORING A PACKET NETWORK - A method and system for enabling a network service provider to monitor a packet network by using call detail records (CDRs) are disclosed. The method first detects a termination of a call by at least one voice gateway router and generates a call detail record (CDR) at said termination of said call by said at least one voice gateway router. The method then forwards said call detail record by said at least one voice gateway router to at least one CDR collecting and analysis server. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272155 | Systems and Methods for Determining Packet Error Rate (PER) for Wireless Encapsulated Network Packet Data Communications Links - A method for generating a packet sequence for determining a Packet Error Rate (PER) using network packets, the method comprisinggenerating, using a Local Area Network (LAN) enabled computer, a series of network PER test packets and frames, each packet comprising a predetermined unique identifier and each frame comprising a predetermined sequence for the packets in the series of network packets, wherein the series of network packets and frames are each of a size that is compliant with a predetermined framing mode and encapsulation protocol for the transmission system for determining a PER from the series of network packets and frames, andtransmitting, using a transmitting device, the network packets and frames to a receiving device. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272156 | CALIBRATION MODE - A communication device for communicating with a plurality of terminals via a series of frames, the communication device being configured to indicate to the terminals, at the commencement of a frame, that communication is to be suspended for the remainder of the frame in order for a calibration to be performed, and to perform said calibration during the remainder of the time allotted to that frame. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272157 | POWER CONTROL METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PHYSICAL UPLINK CONTROL CHANNEL - This application discloses a power control method and device of a Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH) in a long term evolution (LTE) advanced system, relates to the technical field of wireless communications and is intended to reasonably determine the signal transmit power of a user equipment (UE) on the PUCCH to thereby improve the power utilization ratio of the user equipment. In this application, upon determining to bundle generated positive acknowledge (ACK)/negative acknowledge (NACK) information, the UE bundles the ACK/NACK information in a predefined bundling scheme, determines the power offset value corresponding to the number of bits carried on the PUCCH according to the bundling scheme and further determines the transmit power of the PUCCH. With the invention, the transmit power of the UE can be determined more reasonably. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272158 | METHOD OF CONTROLLING UPLINK TRANSMISSION POWER AT UE IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND APPARATUS THEREOF - A method of determining uplink transmission power at a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system is disclosed. The method includes receiving channel status information-reference signal (CSI-RS) settings and downlink transmission power values for a plurality of transmission points (TPs) from a higher layer, receiving CSI-RSs from the plurality of TPs, estimating path loss values corresponding to the plurality of TPs based on the received CSI-RSs, determining the uplink transmission power using the estimated path loss values, and transmitting an uplink signal to one or more of the plurality of TPs based upon the determined uplink transmission power. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272159 | System for Estimating Download Speed From Passive Measurements - A system for passive estimation of throughput in an electronic network is disclosed. The system may include an plurality of mobile devices configured to operate in the network and may further include an electronic data processor. The processor may be configured to access flow records for data flows associated with the mobile devices during a predetermined time interval. Additionally, the processor may be configured to annotate the flow records with an application field and a content provider field. The processor may also be configured to determine a flow type of each data flow based on the application field and the content provider field of the flow records. Furthermore, the processor may be configured to generate a throughput index that only includes non-rate-limited flow types. Moreover, the processor may be configured to estimate maximum throughput for each data flow having non-rate-limited flow types in the throughput index. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272160 | AUTOMATIC DETECTION OF AN END NODE BEHIND A PHONE ON A COMPUTER NETWORK - Provided is a method of automatically detecting an end node behind a phone on a computer network. Media access control (MAC) address of an end node is determined, wherein the end node is coupled to a phone and the phone is coupled to a switch on a computer network. It is also determined whether the MAC address of the end node is recognized on a port of a switch on the computer network. If the MAC address is recognized on a port of a switch, a list of MAC addresses recognized on the port is obtained. If the list has two MAC addresses, the MAC address of the end node from one of the two MAC addresses is determined. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272161 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INDICATING CLASSIFICATION OF A COMMUNICATIONS FLOW - System and method for providing a layer 2 switch in the access network that switches based upon one or more carrier tags identifying customer traffic. Customer traffic conforming to any variety of different layer 1 or layer 2 protocols may be encapsulated and identified according to carrier tag values. The layer 2 switch may determine how to handle the traffic by interpreting and manipulating the carrier tag values. The layer 2 switch may be capable of switching TDM input traffic to either TDM or packet output traffic, and switching packetized input traffic to either TDM or packet output traffic. Handling classification values may also be processed by the layer 2 switch to affect prioritization of handling of encapsulated traffic. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272162 | Virtualized Wireless Communication System and Establishing Method thereof - The present application discloses a virtualized wireless communication network and an establishing method thereof. The virtualized wireless communication network system includes a plurality of virtual nodes, the plurality of virtual nodes being divided into multiple virtual node cliques according to interference relations among the plurality of virtual nodes, wherein, each virtual node represents a wireless communication node; and a plurality of clique communication management modules that are one-to-one associated with the multiple virtual node cliques, wherein, each clique communication management module is configured to manage data exchange between an associated virtual node clique and other virtual node cliques, so as to emulate communication behavior of the wireless communication node. The present invention has many advantages such as high flexibility, good scalability, low cost and the like. Compared with a centralized virtualization solution, this solution can significantly reduce management data overhead and thus enhance the real-time behavior of the whole system. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272163 | NON-SEAMLESS OFFLOAD INDICATOR - A 3GPP AAA server is able to instruct user equipment that it has been authenticated and authorized for access to a non-3GPP access network, but that access to the Evolved Packet Core has not been approved through the use of a modified Extensible Authentication Protocol message or an enhanced IPMS response. Upon receipt of such notification, the user equipment is able to configure itself to obtain data services through the access network, but will try to create EPC tunnels. This prevents the UE from being unable to connect to a local access network when the 3GPP AAA determines that it is unable to connect to the EPC. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272164 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF WI-FI ENABLED DEVICE CONFIGURATION - Systems and methods of configuration of Configuration Target Wi-Fi enabled devices are disclosed. The present invention applies to Configuration Target Wi-Fi enabled client devices that implement a method that allows their fast configuration over the air. The configuration parameters include but are not limited to the name of a wireless network to connect after the completion of the configuration and the credentials they may need if an authentication mechanism is used for secure connection. The method uses standard 802.11 management frames that carry useful configuration information in a predefined format and the said management frames are broadcasted by a single source (Configurator) and are received by one or many wireless stations (Configuration Targets) that have the capability to parse the contents of the management frames and retrieve the configuration information. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272165 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVISIONING A NETWORK SWITCH PORT - A network switch is comprised of a control processor and one or more line cards. The control processor includes functionality to register interest with a hypervisor, operating in conjunction with a network host connected to the switch, in data object attributes maintained on the network host by the hypervisor. The hypervisor associated with the network host sends changes in the host attributes to the switch which the switch maintains in a listing of attributes. The switch traps and copies particular packets to the switch control processor where a provisioning function operates on the attribute information in the list with source information included in the packet header in order to configure a forwarding table on the line card. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272166 | MULTI-HOP WIRELESS NETWORKS - A path configuration message is sent to nodes in a multi-hop network along a path between a source node and destination nodes. The path configuration message includes path information and one or more special channel access parameters associated with the path information. The path configuration message temporarily changes the channel access priority for packets matching the path information in the special message. The nodes along the path therefore have higher channel access priority relative to other nearby nodes and other traffic flows. At the end of the a length of a time determined by a time to live parameter in the special message, the nodes resume using default channel access parameters in place of the special channel access parameters for packets matching the path information. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272167 | AUDIO SYSTEM WITH BONDED-PERIPHERAL-DRIVEN MIXING AND EFFECTS - In a system providing for delivery of audio signals from one or more source audio systems to two or more audio output sink systems, the sink systems establish duplex communication links (or bonds) to a bonding subsystem which is in duplex communication with the source audio systems. Data signals may be sent from sink systems, via the bonding subsystem, to request delivery of audio signals from selected audio source channels. The sink systems may request specific treatments of or modifications to audio signals to be sent to individual sinks in the sink systems. The bonding subsystem relays treatment requests from the sink system to a matrix manager which initiates and controls the processing of source audio channels as required to comply with requests from the sink system. The matrix manager then delivers the treated or modified audio output channels to the bonding subsystem for delivery to the requesting sink systems. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272168 | REDUCING TRANSIENT EFFECTS WHEN CHANGING TRANSMIT CHAIN POWER - A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for a wireless communication device are provided. The apparatus determines a receive timing for receiving through at least one receive chain element. The apparatus determines a time to turn on/off at least one transmit chain element based on the determined receive timing and based on receiver impact to the at least one receive chain element caused by turning on/off the at least one transmit chain element. The apparatus reduces receiver impact to the at least one receive chain element by turning on/off the at least one transmit chain element at the determined time. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272169 | HARQ FOR DYNAMIC CHANGE OF THE TDD UL/DL CONFIGURATION IN LTE TDD SYSTEMS - Systems, methods, and apparatuses are directed to reconfiguring a time division duplex (TDD) uplink/downlink (UL/DL) configuration. A first TDD UL/DL configuration can be identified for a first radio frame. A second TDD UL/DL configuration can be identified for a second radio frame adjacent the first radio frame. The second TDD UL/DL configuration can be identified based, at least in part, on one or more subframes of the second TDD UL/DL configuration that can communicate hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) acknowledgement/negative acknowledgement (ACK/NACK) indicators for corresponding subframes of the first TDD UL/DL configuration. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272170 | ADAPTIVE UL-DL TDD CONFIGURATIONS IN A HETEROGNEOUS NETWORK - Technology for adapting uplink-downlink (UL-DL) time-division duplexing (TDD) subframe configurations in a heterogeneous network (HetNet) is disclosed. One method can include a reference enhanced Node B (eNB) determining a preferred adaptive UL-DL configuration. The eNB can receive node configuration information for at least one neighboring node. The eNB can reconfigure an adaptive UL-DL configuration for at least one of the reference eNB and the at least one neighboring node based on the node configuration information and sounding reference signal (SRS) subframe scheduling of the reference eNB and the at least one neighboring eNB. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272171 | BASE STATION AND COMMUNICATION RESOURCE ALLOCATION METHOD THEREOF, AND USER EQUIPMENT AND COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A base station (BS) and communication resource allocation method thereof, and a user equipment (UE) and communication control method thereof are disclosed. BS communicates with UE in a time division duplex manner based on orthogonal frequency division multiplexing OFDM scheme. A period in which each subframe resides is determined, and the period is composed of at least one subframe sequence, the subframe sequence accords with the same subframe allocation mode. According to the allocation mode, each subframe in each period is determined to be signed as a first state subframe or as a second state subframe, wherein the second state is different from the first state. Each subframe of the period is signed as the first state subframe or the second state subframe according to the allocation mode. The subframes signed as the first subframes are continuous and include at least one uplink subframe and at least one downlink subframe. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272172 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING CONTROL INFORMATION - The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. More particularly, the present invention relates to a method and apparatus for transmitting uplink control information in the event that a plurality of cells is constructed, wherein the method comprises the following steps: receiving a PDCCH and/or a PDSCH; generating acknowledgement information on the PDCCH and/or PDSCH; and, if acknowledgement information transmission timing and channel state information transmission timing collide with each other, dropping the channel state information and transmitting only the acknowledgement information, or transmitting the acknowledgement information, or transmitting the acknowledgement information and the channel state information together in accordance with a predetermined condition. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272173 | TECHNIQUES FOR UPLINK POWER CONTROL - Examples are disclosed for determining, at a base station, separate open loop power control factors for one or more uplink interference patterns based on received time division duplex configuration information received from one or more neighboring base stations. In some examples, the separate open loop power control factors may be communicated to wireless devices coupled with the base station. For these examples, the wireless devices may adjust transmit power controls responsive to receiving the separate open loop power control factors. Other examples are described and claimed. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272174 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR CONFIGURING FRAMES FOR DEVICE COOPERATION IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Disclosed are a method and a device for transmitting uplink (UL) data in a wireless communication system. A cooperative device receives said UL data from a source device through a listening interval which is set within a TDD frame of said cooperative device, and transmits said UL data received from said source device to a base station through a UL subframe within the TDD frame of said cooperative device. At this time, said listening interval is overlapped with the UL subframe within the TDD frame of said source device. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272175 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR CALIBRATING A FREQUENCY-DIVISION DUPLEXING TRANSCEIVER - A frequency-division duplexing (FDD) transceiver includes a first mixer to up-convert a transmit signal and a first switch, coupled to the first mixer, to selectively provide a transmit local oscillator signal or a receive local oscillator signal to the first mixer. The transmit local oscillator signal has a first frequency and the receive local oscillator signal has a second frequency distinct from the first frequency. The FDD transceiver also includes a second mixer to down-convert a receive signal and a second switch, coupled to the second mixer, to selectively provide the transmit local oscillator signal or the receive local oscillator signal to the second mixer. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272176 | HIGH-FREQUENCY MODULE - In a high-frequency module, first, second and third duplexers are aligned and mounted on a top surface of a multilayer body. The second duplexer, the frequency band of which is spaced apart from those of the first duplexer and the third duplexer, is arranged between the first duplexer and the third duplexer, the frequency bands of which are close to each other. This causes the spacing between the first and third duplexers, the frequencies of signals transmitted and received through which are close to each other, to be increased to suppress or prevent unnecessary electromagnetic field coupling between the first and third duplexers. In addition, also with the second duplexer, the frequency band of which is spaced apart from those of the first and third duplexers and which exists between the first and third duplexers, the unnecessary electromagnetic field coupling is suppressed or prevented between the first and third duplexers. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272177 | Dynamic Frame Structure for Synchronous Time-Division Duplexing Digital Subscriber Lines - An access node for digital subscriber line (DSL) communication comprising a transceiver configured to couple to a subscriber line, and a control entity coupled to the transceiver, wherein the control entity is configured to receive a request to switch to a nominal asymmetry ratio between an upstream data rate and a downstream data rate after initialization of the subscriber line, determine a flexible time period value based on the nominal asymmetry ratio, wherein the flexible time period is used to define a time division duplexing (TDD) frame structure, and forward a message that comprises the flexible time period value to the transceiver, wherein the transceiver is configured to transmit an upstream transmission using the TDD frame structure over the subscriber line, and receive a downstream transmission using the TDD frame structure over the subscriber line. | 2013-10-17 |