51st week of 2010 patent applcation highlights part 46 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20100323599 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR BRINGING INTO POSITION AND ARRANGING A CARCASS OR CARCASS PART OF SLAUGHTERED POULTRY ON OR IN A PRODUCT CARRIER - The invention relates to a device for bringing into position and arranging a carcass or carcass part ( | 2010-12-23 |
20100323600 | CHAMBER FACILITY, ROBOT CELL INCLUDING CHAMBER FACILITY, AND CHAMBER VENTILATING METHOD - A chamber facility includes: an air supply unit which supplies clean air to the inside of a chamber; an air supply port section which has one end communicating with the air supply unit and the other end opened into the chamber; and an air exhaust unit which exhausts air within the chamber from an exhaust port formed at a lower position of the chamber, wherein the air supply port section has a plurality of air supply port units which generate rotational flow around a vertical axis within the chamber. | 2010-12-23 |
20100323601 | AIR CONDITIONING SYSTEM FOR AIRCRAFT CABINS - The present invention relates to an air conditioning system ( | 2010-12-23 |
20100323602 | AIR CONDITIONING APPARATUS FOR VEHICLE - An air conditioning apparatus for a vehicle is provided with an air conditioning unit including a heat exchanger, a fan for sending air to the air conditioning unit, a duct for introducing the air passed through the air conditioning unit into the vehicle, and an electrified fine particulate water generating device. The electrified fine particulate water generation device includes an electrified fine particulate water generation part for generating electrified fine particulate water. The electrified fine particle water generation part is disposed on the duct. | 2010-12-23 |
20100323603 | Ventilation air assembly - One embodiment of the present invention relates to a ventilation air assembly, including a filter holding unit the filter holding unit includes a housing having an inlet for ventilation air and an outlet for ventilation air, and a control member for controlling a ventilation air flow through the outlet. The filter holding unit is mounted at the wall surface. Furthermore, the ventilation air assembly includes a filter, which is arranged in the housing of the filter holding unit such that the ventilation air passes through the filter when flowing through the housing from the inlet to the outlet. Furthermore, the ventilation air assembly includes a wall portion having a wall surface, and a heater device, such as a radiator, which is mounted at the wall surface. The filter holding unit and the heater device are such positioned relative each other and the wall surface, and the control member is such adjustable, that the ventilation air flow exiting the outlet is directed towards a space between the wall surface and the heater device. The embodiment of the present invention does also relate to a filter holding unit for use in such a ventilation air assembly. | 2010-12-23 |
20100323604 | PORTABLE AIR DISTRIBUTION DEVICE - A device for controlling air having a thermal differential between a higher and a lower location, having a tube with two ends and a length that traverses the distance between the higher and lower locations, with one end of the tube at the higher location and one end of the tube at the lower location, for the transfer of air therebetween and having openings at each of the ends for the air to pass at both the higher and lower locations inwardly and outwardly, a bi-directional fan for moving the air through the tube inwardly and outwardly as necessary, a switch or thermostat for switching the bi-directional fan on and off for determining the inward and outward direction and velocity of the air flow; and power for powering the bi-directional fan. | 2010-12-23 |
20100323605 | TWO PART GRILLE WITH INTERLOCKING CONNECTIONS FOR ASSEMBLY IN DOORS OR THE LIKE - A two part grille with interlocking connections molded from opaque plastic allows one or more screens or filters supported inside the grille and provides a configuration which allows its parts to be fitted on opposite sides of an opening in a wall or a door locked together by a mortise and tenon joint so that no screws are necessary, and the two part grille further have intermediate spacers used to accommodate differing thickness of a wall or the like. | 2010-12-23 |
20100323606 | INDOOR UNIT OF AIR CONDITIOINER - The present invention intends to reduce the size of an indoor unit of an air conditioner installed on a ceiling, while saving space for holding dust removed from a filter. A rotating brush ( | 2010-12-23 |
20100323607 | ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF CONFIGURING ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL SYSTEMS - An environmental control system of a building utilizes lower vents which open into lower portions of rooms of a building, and upper vents which open into upper portions of rooms of the building. When the system is operating in a heating mode, heated air is delivered into the upper portions of the rooms through the upper vents and air is removed from the rooms through the lower vents. When the system is operating in a cooling mode, cool air is delivered into the rooms through the lower vents, and air is removed from the rooms through the upper vents. Operating the heating and cooling modes in this fashion provides the most efficient operation of the heating and cooling system. A switching unit is used to selectively couple the inlet and outlet of an environmental control system to the upper and lower vents. Alternatively, special duct units with both upper and lower openings can be attached to the inlet and outlet of an environmental control system, and the air can be selectively switched between the upper and lower openings. Also, a bypass valve and an associated bypass duct could be installed on the outlet duct of the environmental control system to vent the output air to atmosphere, which can help to clear smoke from rooms in the event of a fire. | 2010-12-23 |
20100323608 | System and method for preventing photography - A method for causing the localized malfunctioning of a digital camera in a specified area; ( | 2010-12-23 |
20100323609 | Terminal Device and Control Program Thereof - In a mobile phone | 2010-12-23 |
20100323610 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO SUPPORT PAGING WITH LESS INTERFERENCE IN MULTI-TIER COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS - A first base station and mobile station are capable of mitigating interference resulting from communications from a second base station. The base station can determine if at least a portion of a paging slot overlaps with an available interval (AI) of the second base station in which the second base station transmits. The first base station adjusts an occurrence of the paging slot such that the paging slot overlaps and/or occurs within an unavailable interval (UAI) of the second base station wherein the base station does not transmit or transmits with limited resources. | 2010-12-23 |
20100323611 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COHERENT PRECODING WITH ANTENNA SELECTION FOR COORDINATED MULTIPOINT TRANSMISSION - Downlink data may be transmitted from cooperating base stations to a user equipment (UE). Different numbers of transmit antennas may be selected for use at different cooperating base stations. Coherent weighting may be performed at each of the transmission points. The UE may estimate channels from individual cooperating base stations and combine the individual channels to form an improved combined channel by selecting the transmit antennas and weights to be used at each transmission point. | 2010-12-23 |
20100323612 | Transparent Relay Using Dual-Layer Beam Forming Association Procedures - A system and method for use in a communication system that includes at least one base station and at least one relay node (RN) for communicating with a user agent (UA), the system comprising a base station that includes a processor and an antenna assembly capable of simultaneously transmitting at least first and second layer base station beams to the UA and a relay node (RN) that includes a processor and an antenna assembly capable of simultaneously transmitting at least first and second layer RN beams to the UA, wherein the first base station beam and first RN beam superpose on each other during transmission and the second base station beam and second RN beam superpose on each other during transmission so that the RN is transparent to the UA. | 2010-12-23 |
20100323613 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND RELAYED COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A relayed communication system including a supervising station and a plurality of communication stations, transmits data from the supervising station to the communication stations by relay transmission. Each of the plurality of communication stations determines the quality of communication with the supervising station, and notifies the determined communication quality to the supervising station. If the communication quality is equal to or greater than a predetermined value, the supervising station allocates one or more communication stations as relay stations to respective time slots in descending order of the communication quality, and transmits the allocation result to the plurality of communication stations. As a result, each communication station can perform relayed communication using the time slot that is allocated thereto. | 2010-12-23 |
20100323614 | Mobile Station Association Procedures with Type II Relays - A relay node including one or more components configured to measure a signal strength of sounding reference signals (SRS) received from a mobile station, and in response to the signal strength being above a predetermined threshold, to transmit a first request to an access node. The first request is for the access node to associate the mobile station with the relay node. | 2010-12-23 |
20100323615 | Security, Safety, Augmentation Systems, And Associated Methods - A mobile device has a datalog module that captures multimedia data at the mobile device and transmits the multimedia data through cell networks to a control center. The mobile device may also include a GPS sensor wherein location information is included within the multimedia data. A mobile device has a motion module that, when activated at the mobile device or through a cell network, disables communications through the mobile device when in motion. A system disables operation of a mobile device by a vehicle operator and includes a transmitter within the vehicle that generates a disabling signal that, when received by a safety receiver within the mobile device, disables operation of the mobile device. A mobile device has a microphone, and a voice augmentation module which is selectively activated to augment voice data spoken into the mobile device, by removing background noise and/or replacing or changing voice data. | 2010-12-23 |
20100323616 | DEVICES FOR CONVEYING WIRELESS POWER AND METHODS OF OPERATION THEREOF - Exemplary embodiments are directed to wireless power. A method may comprise receiving wireless power with a receiver and charging an accumulator with energy from the received wireless power. The method may further include conveying energy from the accumulator to an energy storage device upon a charging level of the accumulator reaching a threshold level. | 2010-12-23 |
20100323617 | METHOD, CONNECTION AND DATA CARRIER TO PERFORM REPEATED OPERATIONS ON THE KEY-BOARD OF MOBILE COMMUNICATION DEVICE - When processing repeated operations on the keyboard of a mobile communication device, mainly at direct debits, used is a separate data carrier with a memory in which is stored at least one file with a sequence of keyboard orders of a macro type. Data carrier is energetically supplied contact-free by electromagnetic field of the mobile communication device while receiving the requiring order and, according to this order, chooses from the memory and encodes appropriate file with a sequence of keyboard orders. Data carrier sends the encoded file into the mobile communication device which decodes the received file and performs processes representing the keystrokes according to the sequence of keyboard orders. The invention also describes connection and data carrier to perform above described method where the data carrier consists of a processor, transmitting and receiving unit, block for transforming electromagnetic field and a memory to store a file of orders. | 2010-12-23 |
20100323618 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION DEVICE - Described herein are mobile communication devices that are insertable within a slot of a host system. The mobile communication device is sized to fit within the host system. When inserted within the slot of the host system, the mobile communication device may interface with the host system to exchange data. | 2010-12-23 |
20100323619 | Headset Adapter and Methods for Communicating Between a Hands-Free Headset and a Landline Telephone - A hands-free headset adapter comprises a first telephone connector configured to couple with the base unit of a landline telephone; a second telephone connector configured to couple with the handset of the landline telephone, the second telephone connector coupled to the first telephone connector via a communication channel; receive and transmit circuits coupled to the communication channel and configured to receive and transmit audio information with the base unit of the landline telephone; and a hands-free transceiver coupled to the receive and transmit circuits and configured to communicate over a desired standard, e.g., the Bluetooth® standard, with a hands-free headset. The second connector may be configured to reconnect the original telephone handset, thereby maintaining the original integrity of the desk/wall-mount telephone. The desired standard may include the same wireless standard as a user's cellular telephone. | 2010-12-23 |
20100323620 | System and Method for Streaming Identical Data Over Several Links - Method for streaming data over a plurality of data links formed between a master device and a plurality of slave devices includes constructing a vendor specific command packet, sending the vendor specific command packet to a host controller of the master device, and constructing at least one baseband packet addressed to each slave device of the plurality of slave devices. The vendor specific command packet includes a plurality of headers of a first type, a plurality of headers of a second type, and a payload. A device configured to stream data over a plurality of data links formed between a plurality of slave devices includes a host adapted to construct a vendor specific command packet, a transport layer and a host controller adapted to receive the vendor specific command packet over the transport layer. | 2010-12-23 |
20100323621 | COMMUNICATION OF AUDIO CONTROL SIGNALS FOR WIRELESS AUDIO OUTPUT DEVICES - A wireless audio headphone communication system has an audio input for receiving an audio signal from an audio source. A wireless transceiver receives and transmits radio frequency communications with a wireless audio headphone, the communications including an audio control signal that conforms to a wireless audio control protocol of a wireless communication protocol. A converter converts the audio control signal between the wireless audio control protocol transceived by the wireless transceiver and a local control protocol for controlling the audio source. | 2010-12-23 |
20100323622 | INTERFERENCE CANCELLATION FOR PREDICTIVE SIGNALS - A method, apparatus, system, and computer program product example embodiments of the invention are disclosed to reduce interference of predictive signal transmissions between wireless devices. In an example embodiment, a wireless receiver is configured to receive a composite signal, wherein the composite signal includes at least a beacon component comprising a regular beacon symbol. The wireless receiver is configured to determine from the beacon component, a predicted reception of a predicted future beacon symbol, using a known beacon transmission pattern. The wireless receiver is configured to cancel from the composite signal a future received beacon symbol, based at least partly on the predicted future beacon symbol. | 2010-12-23 |
20100323623 | Method for Adapting the Signal Transmission between Two Electronic Devices, as well as Arrangement with a Computer System and a Peripheral Device - A method for adapting the signal transmission between two electronic devices ( | 2010-12-23 |
20100323624 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SELECTIVELY APPLYING INTERFERENCE CANCELLATION IN SPREAD SPECTRUM SYSTEMS - The present invention is directed to the selective provision of interference canceled signal streams to demodulating fingers in a communication receiver. According to the present invention, potential interferer signal paths are identified. Signal streams having one or more potential interferer signals removed or canceled are created, and a correlation is performed to determine whether the strength of a desired signal path increased as a result. If the correlation indicates that the strength of a desired signal path was increased by the signal cancellation, the interference canceled signal stream is provided to the demodulation finger assigned to track the desired signal path. If the correlation determines that the strength of the desired signal path did not increase as a result of performing interference cancellation, the raw or a different interference canceled signal stream is provided to the demodulation finger. | 2010-12-23 |
20100323625 | BASE STATION DEVICE, TERMINAL DEVICE, AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A base station device ( | 2010-12-23 |
20100323626 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM MODELING - Techniques are generally described related to modeling a wireless communication system that includes multiple communication connections. Example systems, apparatuses, methods and processes may include one or more of identifying a first parameter and a first operational characteristic of interest of a first one of the communication connections, activating the first one of the communication connections based on the first parameter, collecting data associated with the first parameter and the first operational characteristic of interest when the first one of the communication connections is active; applying a statistical technique to the collected data to establish a model, and validating the model. | 2010-12-23 |
20100323627 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SIGNALING BETWEEN A USER EQUIPMENT AND A WIRELESS NETWORK - In accordance with an example embodiment of the present invention, a method is disclosed that comprises deciding at a user equipment (UE) an outage period during which the UE has limited communications with the serving base station; and sending to the serving base station a signaling message indicating the outage period. | 2010-12-23 |
20100323628 | BUILDING INFLUENCE ESTIMATION APPARATUS AND BUILDING INFLUENCE ESTIMATION METHOD - Appropriate and easy estimation is achieved for influence of a building on a mobile communication terminal. A building influence estimation apparatus | 2010-12-23 |
20100323629 | RESISTIVE EVALUATION OF THE COUPLING FACTOR OF AN ELECTROMAGNETIC TRANSPONDER - A method for evaluating the current coupling factor between an electromagnetic transponder and a terminal, wherein a ratio between data, representative of a voltage across an oscillating circuit of the transponder and obtained for two values of the resistive load, is compared with one or several thresholds. | 2010-12-23 |
20100323630 | RECEPTION APPARATUS, MOBILE EQUIPMENT, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - A reception apparatus includes a receiver having respective antennas for receiving signals of different respective polarized wave surfaces, an estimation unit configured to estimate a propagation characteristic between the reception apparatus and a mobile equipment, a calculation unit configured to calculate at least one of weights of respective beam formings at which the signals received by the receiver are the respective polarized wave surfaces based on an estimation result of the estimation unit, and a transmitter configured to transmit the weight calculated by the calculation unit to the mobile equipment. | 2010-12-23 |
20100323631 | REPORTING AND USE OF USER EQUIPMENT MEASUREMENT EVENT CONFIDENCE LEVEL - In one exemplary embodiment of the invention, a method includes: detecting a local network access node; generating a measurement report based on the detected local network access node, where the measurement report is for transmission to a serving network access node; and in response to successfully reading system information for the detected local network access node, including in the generated measurement report information that uniquely identifies the detected local network access node. | 2010-12-23 |
20100323632 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD - A channel estimation and prediction unit | 2010-12-23 |
20100323633 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETECTING AND MEASURING FOR HOME NODE-BS - Methods and apparatus are disclosed for a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) to detect and perform measurements with respect to Home Node-Bs (HNB) and Home evolved Node-Bs (H(e)NB) (collectively “HNB”). The methods may include generating and transmitting a request for a measurement configuration that may include gap allocations to detect and measure a primary scrambling code or a physical cell identity of a target HNB for at least one frequency or radio access technology (RAT). The request may be in response to the WTRU entering a HNB cell for which the WTRU has stored fingerprint information and whose closed subscriber group ID is in the WTRU's whitelist. The network may configure the WTRU to measure the requested frequency or RAT in response to the proximity report/request. Methods are described for releasing the measurement configuration. | 2010-12-23 |
20100323634 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD THEREOF - Disclosed is a semiconductor device for performing wireless communication, including a wireless transmitting and receiving unit that transmits and receives a wireless signal, and an external interface unit that transmits and receives a signal to and from an external apparatus connected to the semiconductor device at a signal voltage larger than that of the wireless signal transmitted and received by the wireless transmitting and receiving unit. The wireless transmitting and receiving unit and the external interface unit mutually operate in a time-exclusive way. | 2010-12-23 |
20100323635 | Apparatus and methods for minimizing phase interaction between multiple tuner solutions - Embodiments of systems and methods for implementing multi-channel tuners are generally described herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed. | 2010-12-23 |
20100323636 | Apparatus and methods for implementing multi-channel tuners - Embodiments of systems and methods for implementing multi-channel tuners are generally described herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed. | 2010-12-23 |
20100323637 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONVEYING ANTENNA CONFIGURATION INFORMATION VIA MASKING - A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided for conveying information regarding the antenna configuration and/or the transmission diversity scheme to a recipient, such as a mobile device. In particular, information regarding the antenna configuration and/or the transmission diversity scheme can be conveyed by masking, such as cyclic redundancy check masking, to provide information regarding the antenna configuration and/or the transmission diversity scheme. In this regard, a set of masks can be determined based upon hamming distances between the masks and bit diversities between the masks and where each of the masks within the set is associated with an antenna configuration and a transmission diversity scheme. | 2010-12-23 |
20100323638 | PHASE CORRECTOR AND PHASE CORRECTION METHOD - A phase corrector in a radio transmitter includes a quadrature modulator which modulates a first carrier signal by using an in-phase component and a quadrature component of a first signal, a quadrature demodulator which demodulates a feedback signal by using a second carrier signal to generate a second signal including an in-phase component and a quadrature component, a phase detector which detects a phase error between the first signal and the second signal based on the in-phase components and the quadrature components of the first signal and the second signal, and a phase shifter which performs phase shift of any one of the first signal, the second signal, the first carrier signal and the second carrier signal based on a sum value obtained by adding to the phase error a first phase amount varying on a time base in a given phase range. | 2010-12-23 |
20100323639 | PHASE CORRECTION APPARATUS AND PHASE CORRECTION METHOD - A phase correction apparatus in a wireless transmitter includes a modulator for modulating a first carrier signal by an in-phase component and a quadrature-phase component of a first signal, a demodulator for demodulating a returned signal by a second carrier signal and generating a second signal including an in-phase component and an quadrature-phase component, a phase detector for detecting a phase error between the first signal and the second signal based on the in-phase components and the quadrature-phase components of the first and second signals, and a phase shifter group for performing a phase shift based on the phase error, the phase shifter group including a first phase shifter for performing a phase shift on any of the first signal, the second signal, the first carrier signal, and the second carrier signal and a second phase shifter for shifting a phase of the first signal. | 2010-12-23 |
20100323640 | PHASE CORRECTION APPARATUS AND PHASE CORRECTION METHOD - A phase correction apparatus in a wireless transmitter includes a modulator configured to modulate an in-phase component and a quadrature component of a first signal by a first carrier wave signal, a demodulator configured to demodulate a returned signal by a second carrier wave signal and generate a second signal that includes an in-phase component and a quadrature component, a phase detector configured to binarize the in-phase components and the quadrature components of the first and second signals according to signal levels, and detect a phase error between the first signal and the second signal based on combinations of the binarized signal components in the first signal and the second signal, and a phase shifter configured to phase-shift the first signal, the second signal, the first carrier wave signal, or the second carrier wave signal, based on the phase error. | 2010-12-23 |
20100323641 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR USING PRE-DISTORTION AND FEEDBACK TO MITIGATE NONLINEARITY OF CIRCUITS - Techniques for mitigating nonlinearity of circuits with both pre-distortion and feedback are described. An apparatus may include at least one circuit (e.g., an upconverter, a power amplifier, etc.), a pre-distortion circuit, and a feedback circuit. The circuit(s) may generate an output signal having distortion components due to their nonlinearity. The pre-distortion circuit may receive an input signal and generate a pre-distorted signal based on at least one coefficient determined by the nonlinearity of the circuit(s). The pre-distortion circuit may adaptively determine the coefficient(s) based on the input signal and an error signal. The feedback circuit may generate the error signal based on the input signal and the output signal and may filter the error signal to obtain a filtered error signal. The circuit(s) may process the pre-distorted signal and the filtered error signal to generate the output signal, which may have attenuated distortion components due to pre-distortion and feedback. | 2010-12-23 |
20100323642 | Radio Communication Method and Radio Communication Terminal - The present invention is summarized as a radio communication method including the steps of: calculating a transmission power difference between transmission power values of the first carrier and the second carrier; determining whether the transmission power difference exceeds a threshold set on the basis of a maximum transmission power difference allowable between the first carrier and the second carrier; and stopping a transmission of reverse link data using one of the first carrier and the second carrier with a larger transmission power for a certain period in a case where the transmission power difference exceeds the threshold set on the basis of the maximum transmission power difference. | 2010-12-23 |
20100323643 | FREQUENCY SYNTHESIS - A frequency synthesiser ( | 2010-12-23 |
20100323644 | POWER GENERATION DEVICE WITH TWO MOBILE PARTS - A power generation device that includes an excitation coil with a central opening, and a magnetic circuit extending through the central opening of the coil and including at least one permanent magnet and a plurality of ferromagnetic members arranged in a fixed portion and two mobile portions. The two mobile portions are mounted on two parallel rotary axes and can each assume two positions. The device further includes a mechanism rotating the two mobile portions between the two positions thereof so as to create two states of the magnetic circuit, i.e. a first state in which a magnetic flow flows through the coil in one direction and a second state in which a magnetic flow flows through the coil in the opposite direction. | 2010-12-23 |
20100323645 | PHASE SHIFTER AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING SAME, AND RADIO COMMUNICATION DEVICE WITH ARRAY ANTENNA - Without influenced by a symbol rate of a baseband signal, a power consumption is kept low approximately to zero in a phase shifter. | 2010-12-23 |
20100323646 | POWER AMPLIFIER AND SIGNAL TRANSCEIVING SYSTEM - A power amplifier and a signal transmitting system using the power amplifier are disclosed. The power amplifier includes a circuit board, a power amplifier, and a structural component. The circuit board is fixed on the structural component. The power amplifier is fixed on the circuit board or the structural component. A grounding reference layer is set on the structural component. A pair of pins is set on the power amplifier. A pair of housing portions is set between the circuit board and the structural component. Overhead matching areas are set face to face with the housing portions on the circuit board respectively. Power amplification matching portions are set face to face with the reference layer on the matching areas respectively. The pins are electrically connected to the power amplification matching portions respectively. | 2010-12-23 |
20100323647 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING POWER SAVING MODE OF UE IN THE MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method for controlling, a power saving mode of a mobile station (MS) in a mobile communication system is disclosed. The method differently defines operations of power saving modes of individual cases in association with message traffic distinguished from user traffic of a service, so that it can effectively reduce power consumption of the mobile station (MS). Firstly, the listening window of the power saving mode is used. Secondly, a method for transmitting a request message for pending the sleep mode is used. If the sleep-mode pending is requested, the sleep-mode resume message may be used in the case of a reactivation, or the reactivation can be automatically performed if a current time reaches a predetermined time. | 2010-12-23 |
20100323648 | DEMODULATION DEVICE, RECEPTION DEVICE, AND DEMODULATION METHOD - A device mitigates reduction in reception performance caused by a harmonic component of a clock used for demodulation. The device includes a tuner performing frequency conversion by multiplying a received signal by a signal having a frequency corresponding to a frequency of a desired signal included in the received signal, and outputting the obtained frequency-converted signal; and a demodulation section generating a demodulated signal by demodulating the frequency-converted signal. The demodulation section operates in response to a master clock having a frequency corresponding to the frequency of the desired signal. | 2010-12-23 |
20100323649 | CIRCUIT ARRANGEMENT WITH RADIO-FREQUENCY MIXER, AND RECEIVER ARRANGEMENT WITH THE CIRCUIT ARRANGEMENT - A circuit arrangement is disclosed with a radio-frequency mixer in which a plurality of preamplifiers in a receiver have a common output node. This node is connected to a common, broadband radio-frequency mixer via common coupling capacitances. Switching means can be used to connect and disconnect the preamplifiers, which can be associated with various frequency bands, independently of one another. The present principle can be applied in multiband receivers in mobile radio and allows integration using little chip area with good radio-frequency characteristics. | 2010-12-23 |
20100323650 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPARATUS - A wireless communication apparatus includes: an antenna; a communication unit for receiving a radio signal via the antenna; a tuning unit for tuning an impedance of the antenna; an impedance controller for controlling the tuning unit to match the impedance of the antenna with an impedance of the communication unit; and a halting unit for halting controlling the impedance of the antenna in accordance with an intensity of the received radio signal. | 2010-12-23 |
20100323651 | TUNABLE ADAPTIVE FILTER WITH VARIABLE GAIN TRANS-CONDUCTANCE STAGE - In an exemplary embodiment, the communication device including an analog filter, where a digital signal processor sets the gain of the analog filter and the pole location of the filter simultaneously in order to maintain the filter pole location at a desired value or within a desired range. In further exemplary embodiments, the methodology to simultaneously set the gain and the pole location of the filters. | 2010-12-23 |
20100323652 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIA FOR PHASE-BASED PROCESSING OF MULTICHANNEL SIGNAL - Phase-based processing of a multichannel signal, and applications including proximity detection, are disclosed. | 2010-12-23 |
20100323653 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MATRIXED ADAPTIVE EQUALIZING FOR COMMUNICATION RECEIVERS CONFIGURED TO AN ANTENNA ARRAY - An apparatus and method for signal optimization is disclosed. This disclosure relates to improved device and method for improving performance and reducing cosite interference for an antenna array. More particularly, this description relates to a device and method for equalizing signals for communication receivers, and more particularly, to a device and method for matrixed adaptive equalizing configured to a plurality of antennas for receiving one or more signals each designated for one of a plurality of receivers. | 2010-12-23 |
20100323654 | HIGH DYNAMIC RANGE RECEIVER FRONT-END WITH Q-ENHANCEMENT - A preselect circuit maintains the dynamic range of a received RF input signal during bandpass filtering of the received RF input signal. The preselect circuit includes a Q-deficient passive bandpass filter for coupling to an antenna to receive a received RF input signal. The preselect circuit further includes a Q-enhancement circuit coupled to the Q-deficient passive bandpass filter, wherein the Q-enhancement circuit increases a Q-value of the Q-deficient passive bandpass filter by compensating for resistive inductive losses in the bandpass filter. | 2010-12-23 |
20100323655 | COMMON-GATE COMMON-SOURCE TRANSCONDUCTANCE STAGE FOR RF DOWNCONVERSION MIXER - In an embodiment, a method and apparatus for downconverting a received RF signal in a wireless device where differential signals from an off-chip matching network may be input to a CGCS input stage of a mixer, which downconverts the signals to baseband or some intermediate frequency. The input stage includes a pair of NMOS transistors in a common-gate configuration and a pair of PMOS transistors in a common-source configuration. A potential advantage of the CGCS input stage over the existing CGO transconductance stage configuration is that by adding a common-source stage through the PMOS differential-pair, the transconductance gain is decoupled from the high Q matching network. | 2010-12-23 |
20100323656 | METHODS OF OPERATING ELECTRONIC DEVICES, AND METHODS OF PROVIDING ELECTRONIC DEVICES - Some embodiments include a method disposing an integrated circuit die within a housing, the integrated circuit die having integrated circuitry formed thereon, the integrated circuitry including first transponder circuitry configured to transmit and receive radio frequency signals, wherein the integrated circuit die is void of external electrical connections for anything except power supply external connections; and disposing second transponder circuitry, discrete from the first transponder circuitry, within the housing, the second transponder circuitry being configured to transmit and receive radio frequency signals, wherein the first and second transponder circuitry are configured to establish wireless communication between one another within the housing, the second transponder circuitry being disposed within 24 inches of the first transponder circuitry within the housing. | 2010-12-23 |
20100323657 | COMMUNICATION DEVICES - A method, system, and media directed to managing a mobile communications device. In one embodiment, a communication event and spatial state for the mobile device is received. If the event is at least one of a plurality of preselected types and the spatial state of the device satisfies a preselected condition, the communication event is call-processed while initiating a notification of the event to a user of the mobile device. | 2010-12-23 |
20100323658 | PORTABLE EMERGENCY RESPONSE SYSTEM TO ALERT AUTHORITIES OF A MEDICAL ISSUE DURING OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES AND RELATED METHODS - An emergency response system to alert authorities of a medical issue during an outdoor activity which comprises (a) a portable unit attached to the outdoorsman including an alert button, computer, memory device and power source; (b) a display located on an exterior of the portable unit having one or more buttons to navigate information shown on the display; (c) one or more antennae to communicate with an outside source (which can be GPS) to verify location and (d) means to alert authorities (radio, cellular or satellite) of a medical issue. The invention is also directed to a method comprising the steps of (a) attaching the portable unit, (b) navigating a display, (c) selecting a path, (d) verifying geographic location on a path, and (e) alerting authorities of a medical issue. | 2010-12-23 |
20100323659 | Mobile Communication Units that Display Connectivity Loss Boundaries - A mobile communication unit is provided that employs a propagation algorithm to determine connectivity loss boundaries that define connectivity loss regions based on one or more forward projected position vector paths of the mobile communication unit and connectivity data. The mobile communication unit further comprises a map renderer configured to provide map display data that includes the map area data, situational awareness location data and the determined connectivity loss boundaries, and a display configured to display the map display data as a geographical map area with an icon of the mobile communication unit located in a geographic location of the geographical map area and drawn connectivity loss boundaries that define connectivity loss regions in a geographic location of the geographical map area. | 2010-12-23 |
20100323660 | Wireless Notification Method - A method for communicating location-based advertising, weather, payment and alert information to a mobile unit. | 2010-12-23 |
20100323661 | VehicleTalk - A system for communicating information to a mobile unit comprising a broadband RF transceiver with antenna, a GPS receiver, an audio-visual interface, an electro-mechanical interface and a microprocessor with associated memory incorporated into each a mobile unit. | 2010-12-23 |
20100323662 | Communicating Cell Restriction Status Information between Radio Access Network Nodes - A cellular radio communications network includes a core network coupled to a radio access network (RAN) that has multiple RAN nodes for communication with mobile radio terminals. Each of the multiple RAN nodes serves one or more cells. At least one cell associated with a first RAN node is in a restricted or reserved access state in which access to the one cell is restricted for at least some mobile radio terminals. The first RAN node sends a message to a second RAN node to inform the second RAN node of that restricted access cell. The fact that the restricted status of the one cell has changed is detected. A global message tha is not related to a specific mobile terminal is generated that includes information that the restricted status of the one cell has changed. The first RAN node sends the global message to the second RAN node to inform the second RAN node of the change in the restricted status of the one cell. | 2010-12-23 |
20100323663 | Method and User Equipment in a Communication Network - The invention relates to a user equipment ( | 2010-12-23 |
20100323664 | DEDICATED MEMORY PARTITIONS FOR USERS OF A SHARED MOBILE DEVICE - A system and method that allows a mobile device to be shared between multiple users by establishing dedicated memory partitions for each user of the mobile device is disclosed. In one embodiment, the mobile device establishes a memory partition for a user of the mobile device when the user first uses the mobile device. Users are permitted to read and/or write digital data in their respective memory partitions, and are prevented from accessing digital data in other memory partitions. In some instances, a current user of a mobile device can authorize other users to access digital data stored in the current user's memory partition. In one embodiment, a user of the mobile device can also backup and/or synchronize digital data stored in the user's memory partition using a network synchronization service. | 2010-12-23 |
20100323665 | Method of Seamless Roaming Between Wireless Local Area Networks and Cellular Carrier Networks - A scheme that enables seamless roaming between the WLAN and the cellular carrier network by enabling a user that originates a call in the WLAN and happens to go outside the range of the WLAN to automatically switch over to the cellular carrier network without losing connection with the other party. This solution assumes that the mobile device has the capability to operate in at least two modes that include the WLAN mode and one of the cellular carrier modes, such as the GSM, IS-95 CDMA, IS-136 TDMA, and iDEN. | 2010-12-23 |
20100323666 | SEQUENTIAL MESSAGE DELIVERY FOR FDA PROCESSING AND STORE-AND-FORWARD PROCESSING - Systems and methods are disclosed for delivering text messages using both First Delivery Attempt (FDA) processing and store-and-forward processing. A message system in one embodiment includes a message processor that receives a text message intended for a destination, and determines whether a prior text message is pending in a store-and-forward system for the destination. If a prior text message is not pending, then the message processor forwards the received text message to a FDA system for FDA processing. If a prior text message is pending, then the message processor forwards the received text message to the store-and-forward system for store-and-forward processing. The store-and-forward system will deliver the prior text message to the destination before the received text message so that the text messages are delivered in the proper sequence. | 2010-12-23 |
20100323667 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IN-APPLICATION NOTICE OF INDEPENDENT MESSAGE - An approach is provided for monitoring a messaging service for arrival of a message at an apparatus. It is determined whether the message indicates an installed application that is installed on the apparatus and is different from the messaging service. If the message indicates the installed application, then removal is initiated of the message from a queue of received messages for the external messaging service and selecting one or more actions for the application based on the message. | 2010-12-23 |
20100323668 | DEVICE STATUS NOTIFICATION METHOD, APPARATUS, AND NOTIFICATION SYSTEM - An apparatus includes a memory which stores notification information for notifying status of the apparatus in association with status information indicating a status of the apparatus. The apparatus also includes a request acquisition unit which acquires a status notification request from an external apparatus, and a detector which detects the status. The apparatus specifies a notification associated with the status detected by the detector on the basis of the notification information and the status information stored in the memory, and issues a notification according to the specified notification when a status notification request is acquired by the request acquisition unit. | 2010-12-23 |
20100323669 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PERMITTING RECORDATION OF VOICE TRANSMISSIONS AMONG GROUP MEMBERS OF A COMMUNICATION GROUP OF WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICES - A system, method, and computer readable product for allowing a member of a mobile communications group, such as a push-to-talk (PTT) group, to receive indications from at least one other mobile communication device that a current conversation or talk spurt may be recorded. The member may further record or receive the recorded conversation or talk spurt, and store the recorded conversation or spurt in a local memory for later retrieval or automatic playback. | 2010-12-23 |
20100323670 | TELEPHONE TERMINAL, CALL ISSUING METHOD AND PROGRAM - In a telephone terminal requiring an outside-line special number, usability for the user to use transmission history is improved. A telephone terminal includes a transmission instruction reception unit that receives a transmission instruction in which a predetermined dial number is specified, a transmission unit that executes transmission processing based on the dial number specified, and a transmission number storage processing unit that stores a transmission number in a storage unit, wherein the transmission number storage processing unit stores, by removing a predetermined outside-line special number which is to be added or has been added to the dial number specified in the transmission instruction reception unit, the dial number as the transmission number. | 2010-12-23 |
20100323671 | MOBILE TERMINAL AND METHOD OF PERFORMING FUNCTIONS USING THE SAME - A mobile terminal and a method of performing functions using the mobile terminal are provided. The mobile terminal performs various functions using color information acquired through a color sensor, and the method performs functions using the mobile terminal. | 2010-12-23 |
20100323672 | Mobile Communication Apparatus and Operating Method Thereof - A mobile communication apparatus includes a searching module, a retrieval module, and a display module. The searching module searches for an address corresponding to a phone number inputted into the mobile communication apparatus. The retrieval module retrieves a geographic map corresponding to the address. The display module displays the retrieved geographic map. | 2010-12-23 |
20100323673 | Method for connecting and blocking call in portable terminal - A method in a call system connects and blocks a call in a portable terminal. A call blocking time period is set. An elapsed time period is measured from a time point when the call blocking time period is set. A determination is made as to whether the measured time period exceeds the set call blocking time period if the portable terminal receives a call connection request from an external terminal. If the measured time period does not exceed the set call blocking time period, the call connection is blocked and information regarding time period, calculated by subtracting the measured time period from the set call blocking time period, is transmitted to the external terminal that requested the call connection. | 2010-12-23 |
20100323674 | Mobile based area event handling when currently visited network does not cover area - An area event handler informs when a target mobile enters or leaves a network covering a pre-defined target area, and re-aims an original area event request. When the event occurs, the mobile sends a location report to an initiator of the request. A PLMN list with estimated geographic coverage areas is stored in a Home GMLC, and sent to each relevant mobile. When a mobile enters new network coverage, it uses this list for network access selection. When the Home GMLC discovers that the currently visited PLMN does not serve the original target area, it modifies the area event to the that mobile, so that the Home GMLC will be notified when the target mobile once again enters a PLMN that serves the original target area. Then, after being so notified, the Home GMLC re-sends the original area event location service request to the target mobile. | 2010-12-23 |
20100323675 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INTER-PLATFORM COMMUNICATIONS BLOCKING - A system and method for preventing unwanted communications. A communication is received from a sending party. Input indicating the communication is to be filtered is received. Filtering information is extracted from the communication. The filtering information is distributed to multiple telecommunications platforms. The communication and future communications are blocked across the multiple telecommunications platforms utilizing the filtering information. | 2010-12-23 |
20100323676 | METHOD, SYSTEMS, AND DEVICE FOR IMPLEMENTING COLOR RING BACK TONE SERVICE - A method for acquiring color ring back tone (CRBT) service information of a contact is provided. The method includes the following steps. A request message is sent to an information publishing server of a contact, so as to request to acquire personal information of the contact. The personal information of the contact sent from the information publishing server is received, in which the personal information includes CRBT service information of the contact. Thus, the converged address book (CAB) service can converge CRBT information set by a CAB user, so as to show whether the CAB user has subscribed to the CRBT service and show subscribed CRBTs to contacts subscribing to the personal information of the CAB user, and other users calling the CAB user can select and play CRBTs set by the CAB user. | 2010-12-23 |
20100323677 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR VOTING IN A TELECONFERENCE USING A MOBILE DEVICE - Methods and systems for voting in a teleconference through the use of a telecommunication device are disclosed. The telecommunication device receives a digital vote request signal and transmits a digital vote signal from the user. A teleconference system is disclosed that enables a user to determine which participant is entitled to vote and solicits a vote from those participants through a digital signal communicated to a telecommunication device The teleconference system tallies the and reports the vote to all participants. | 2010-12-23 |
20100323678 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND METHOD FOR SWAPPING MIFARE APPLICATIONS - A mobile communication device ( | 2010-12-23 |
20100323679 | System and Method for Temporarily Reconfiguring a Communications System to Provide Selected Services - A system and method for temporarily reconfiguring a communications system to provide selected services are provided. A method for temporarily providing selected services by a cell of a communications system includes receiving a first command, changing an operating mode of the cell responsive to the first command, and indicating the operating mode to a first selected device and a first non-selected device. The cell operating in the operating mode serves the first selected device based on the first command, and the first non-selected device is a selected device prior to the change in the operating mode and is capable of accessing the cell before the cell changes the operating mode responsive to the first command and is not capable of accessing the cell after the cell changes the operating mode responsive to the first command. | 2010-12-23 |
20100323680 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SINGLE-STEP ENABLEMENT OF TELEPHONY FUNCTIONALITY FOR A PORTABLE COMPUTER SYSTEM - A method and apparatus for automatic delivery of a phone call on an electronic device regardless of whether other tasks are running on the operating system. A separate background task (“thread”), independent of the operating system, enables telephony functionality without regard to the mode of a graphical user interface. The background task is always active and functions to respond to an incoming call even if the user is in a graphical user interface window that requires some input from the user (e.g. the graphical user interface is blocked). | 2010-12-23 |
20100323681 | SHARING OR RESELLING NFC APPLICATIONS AMONG MOBILE COMMUNICATION DEVICES - A method for sharing applications (APPI, APP | 2010-12-23 |
20100323682 | COMMUNICATION METHOD AND, TERMINAL APPARATUS AND BASE STATION APPARATUS USING THE METHOD - A wide area network ( | 2010-12-23 |
20100323683 | TELECOMMUNICATIONS METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR FACILITATING POSITIONING MEASUREMENTS - A wireless terminal ( | 2010-12-23 |
20100323684 | Downlink Reference Signal for Type II Relay - A network comprising a relay node configured to transmit a first common reference signal (CRS) to a plurality of user agents (UAs) using a first plurality of physical antennas and/or virtual antennas, and an access node configured to transmit a second CRS to the UAs using a second plurality of physical antennas and/or virtual antennas, wherein the first CRS and the second CRS are combined for the same number of first and second physical antennas and/or virtual antennas. Also included is a network comprising a relay node configured to transmit a dedicated reference signal (DRS) to a UA using a first plurality of physical antennas and/or virtual antennas, and an access node configured to transmit a second DRS to the UA using a second plurality of physical antennas and/or virtual antennas, wherein the first DRS and the second DRS are transmitted at about the same time. | 2010-12-23 |
20100323685 | Receiver for MUROS Adapted to Estimate Symbol Constellation using Training Sequences from Two Sub-Channels - A receiver is provided that is configured to estimate the symbol constellation of a signal modulated using a quaternary symbol constellation where data is transmitted to two mobile stations multiplexed on a shared channel comprising two branches, where the branches correspond to the real and imaginary parts of one complex-valued baseband signal. The receiver is configured to demodulate the modulated signal using the training sequences from both sub-channels. | 2010-12-23 |
20100323686 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - A communication device includes: an obtaining unit that obtains use state information of the communication device during a call with another communication device; and a transmission unit that transmits an obtaining command for use state information of the other communication device to the other communication device and the use state information obtained to an external part. | 2010-12-23 |
20100323687 | DETECTION OF FAILURES IN A TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Determining a network transmitter that is more likely to cause handoff failures in a telecommunication service based on historical data records. The historical data records may be standard Call Data Records. A probability that a service provided by a first network transmitter will be handoffed to a second network transmitter is determined. An indication that a target network transmitter is overly busy is determined based on the number of failed services for each network transmitter that may handoff a service the target network transmitter and the probability that a service will be handoffed to the target network transmitter. Based on the indication, measures may be taken to increase quality level of the target network transmitter. | 2010-12-23 |
20100323688 | Network-Controlled E-UTRAN Neighbour Cell Measurements - The present invention relates to methods and arrangements in a telecommunication system for network-controlled bandwidth for neighbor cell measurements. An appropriate network unit in the serving cell signals measurement bandwidth values to the UE which uses the signal values to perform one or more downlink measurements on the serving as well as the neighbor cells. | 2010-12-23 |
20100323689 | System, Method and Device for Testing Mobile Telephone Call Performance - A system and method of testing call performance of a plurality of mobile telephones is provided. In one embodiment the method comprises storing in a memory of a test device, data for one or more test scenarios that each comprises associated test parameters for attempting a plurality of telephone calls, establishing a first Bluetooth connection between the test device and a first mobile telephone, and concurrently with said first Bluetooth connection, establishing a second Bluetooth connection between the test device and a second mobile telephone. The method further comprises transmitting commands to the first and second mobile telephones via the Bluetooth connections to cause the mobile telephones to attempt to establish a plurality of telephone calls of the test scenarios, and monitoring the plurality of telephone calls of the mobile telephones to determine test results data. The method further includes attempting and monitoring a plurality of telephone calls of the mobile telephones to determine test results data with one or more remote call servers and outputting the test results data to a remote computer system for processing to determine the number of dropped calls, call set up times, number of calls successfully initiated, number of calls having two way speech, and other data. | 2010-12-23 |
20100323690 | Application of Dynamic Profiles to the Allocation and Configuration of Network Resources - A service request is received and associated with a subscriber id. Profile information is accessed for the source of the service request. A copy of the profile information is stored in a network element employed by the source of the service request to access the network. | 2010-12-23 |
20100323691 | Wireless Communication System For Switching To A Preferred Carrier - A wireless communication system, including: a first wireless base station disposed on a first wireless network; a second wireless base station disposed on a second network; and a mobile station that includes a communication controller, which controls wireless communication; wherein in the case where the mobile station attempts to switch communication to the second wireless network while coupled to the first wireless base station and communicating on the first wireless network, the communication controller temporarily synchronizes with the second wireless base station, and obtains an address pointer for acquiring network configuration information from the second wireless base station, the network configuration information containing information regarding the network configuration of the second wireless network, and after obtaining the address pointer, the communication controller recouples with the first wireless base station, accesses the data acquisition location specified by the address pointer via the first wireless network, and acquires the network configuration information. | 2010-12-23 |
20100323692 | METHOD AND USER EQUIPMENT FOR MOBILE DEVICE REGISTRATION - A method and apparatus for a registration update of a mobile device (UE) in a communication network is described. The location of the mobile device (UE) is registered in a first registration area (A) and associated with a list of further registration areas (B). A registration area update is triggered when the mobile device (UE) is detecting a change of location to a second registration area. The registration area update is initiated with a random time delay after the mobile device (UE) detects the change to the second registration area if the second registration area is in the list of further registration areas (B). | 2010-12-23 |
20100323693 | Reselection in a Wireless Communication System - A wireless communication device including a transceiver coupled to a controller configured to cause the transceiver to receive a downlink transmission including a reference signal from a base station while camped on the base station in idle mode, to estimate a quality metric of a hypothetical paging channel reception based on the reference signal, and to determine perform reselection evaluation of a neighboring base stations based on the estimated quality metric. | 2010-12-23 |
20100323694 | MOBILE RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD - In a mobile radio communication system of the cognitive radio method, a database device has a use state table indicating a probability that each frequency band is used for each period of time and for each location. An on-vehicle terminal acquires a frequency band having the highest probability that the band is empty at the current time and the current location according to the use state table and performs a radio communication by using the frequency band. The use state table is preferably created by a statistical process using the database device which acquires the use states of frequency bands of various locations and times by using respective vehicles as probe cars. Thus, it is possible to detect the frequency of the empty state in a short time. | 2010-12-23 |
20100323695 | MOBILE MANAGEMENT ENTITY OPERATING IN COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK AND SELECTION METHOD THEREFOR - A selection method implemented as an algorithm in a mobile management entity (MME) operating in a communications network. The method includes receiving a unique identifier of a subscriber operating within the network and determining, based on the unique identifier, whether the subscriber has full circuit switching fallback (CSFB) capability or has only packet switching (PS) capability. When it is determined that the subscriber has full CSFB capability, a mobile switching center server (MSS) is selected based on original tracking area matrices and/or tracking area identity-location area identity mapping defined in the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP). When it is determined that the subscriber has only PS capability, an MSS is selected from a group of MSSs having CSFB support only for short message service (SMS) delivery. | 2010-12-23 |
20100323696 | System and Methods for Performing Multiple Registrations Across Different Radio Access Technologies - Disclosed are systems, methods and computer program products for performing multiple registrations across different radio access technologies (RATs). In one aspect, the registration procedure provisions a mobile device to register with a primary RAT and pre-register with at least one non-primary RAT using its air interface, which is different from the primary RAT. The pre-registration procedure includes setting up a radio session context and a packet data network (PDN) context with the non-primary RAT. The procedure further includes setting up a pseudo-binding with an external PDN gateway and obtaining binding state information for the mobile device from the PDN gateway without transferring binding state from the primary RAT to the non-primary RAT. The binding state information may be added to the PDN context. The mobile device may then perform handoff from the primary RAN to non-primary RAN using the preset contexts. | 2010-12-23 |
20100323697 | NODE ALLOCATION WITHIN A CORE NETWORK COMPRISING LOCAL POOL AREAS - A method of allocating users to core network nodes of a cellular telecommunications System, where users access the core network via a radio access network and where the nodes of the core network are grouped into a plurality of local pool areas and the local pool areas are further grouped into one or more pool areas, and each local pool area corresponds to a geographic area covered by the access network. The method comprises allocating a user to a core network node of a local pool area corresponding to the geographic area within which the user is located, maintaining the core network node while the user moves within the local pool area, and, in the event that the user moves out of the local pool area but remains in the same pool area, maintaining said allocation at least temporarily. | 2010-12-23 |
20100323698 | Systems and Methods For Selecting a Network Access System - A system according to some embodiments of the invention includes (1) a component (e.g. ANDSF) that provides a cell selection rule to a UE and (2) a component (e.g. an access node) that provides the UE with information about the load in the cell currently utilized by the UE. This enables the UE to determine whether to leave the cell, which may be a 3GPP cell, and use a different cell, which may be a non-3GPP cell, by applying the cell selection rule in conjunction with its knowledge about the load of the cell. | 2010-12-23 |