Patent application number | Description | Published |
20120185577 | MANAGEMENT OF NETWORK ACCESS REQUESTS - Methods, systems, and devices are described for intercepting requests from applications installed on a mobile device. The requests are system calls that establish communication channels for the mobile device. The requests are captured and held from reaching TCP/IP stack of an operating system executing on the mobile device. An intercepted request is aggregated with other intercepted requests. The aggregated requests are bundled together and released to the operating system upon the detection of a triggering event. The capture, holding, and aggregation of requests from applications occur when the mobile device is in a background mode. | 07-19-2012 |
20120214527 | CONTROLLING APPLICATION ACCESS TO A NETWORK - A method of wireless communication includes intercepting a request from an application desiring use of communication resources. The intercepted request is held and is then evaluated to determine whether the held request can be released. The held request is released based on the outcome of the evaluation. | 08-23-2012 |
20130102309 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CALIBRATING TRANSMIT POWER OF A FEMTO NODE - Methods and apparatuses are provided that include calibrating transmit power of a femto node based on measuring one or more parameters related to usage of the femto node. The femto node can temporarily increase transmit power and analyze received measurement reports to determine a transmit power calibration. The femto node can additionally measure uplink received signal strength indicators over multiple time periods following handover of a user equipment (UE) to determine whether to increase transmit power to cover the UE. | 04-25-2013 |
20130150035 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CLASSIFYING NEIGHBORING DEVICES - Methods and apparatuses are provided that include classifying nearby devices as neighboring or non-neighboring devices. Devices can be classified based on detected registration attempts to a femto node, where the femto node can switch paging area identifiers to cause the registration attempts or otherwise, analyzing measurement reports received from the devices in a registration request, and/or the like. The femto node can mitigate interference to the devices based on the classification. | 06-13-2013 |
20130279385 | EARLY INITIATION OF DORMANCY OF A RADIO CONNECTION - Methods, systems, and devices are described for managing a radio connection between a mobile device and a base station of a radio access network. A determination is made that the mobile device is in a standby state. The radio connection transitions to a high power state while the mobile device is in the standby state. A net number of transport layer connections for the mobile device are identified. The transport layer connections are Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) or User Datagram Protocol (UDP) sockets. A net count of transport layer connections opened and closed while the radio connection is in the high power state is calculated. Dormancy of the radio connection is initiated when the mobile device is in the standby state, based at least in part on the calculated net count of transport layer connections. | 10-24-2013 |
20130282911 | INVASIVE SOCKET MANAGER - A server initiating shut down of a transport control protocol (TCP) connection when a radio connection is terminated is problematic because a new radio connection must be established for the sole purpose of shutting down the TCP connection. Hence, network and terminal resources for establishing the radio connection are wasted. Accordingly, a method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for initiating a closing of a transport layer connection at a client are provided. The apparatus determines whether a functionality associated with the transport layer connection satisfies at least one criterion, and closes the transport layer connection when the functionality satisfies the at least one criterion while a radio layer connection is available. As a result, the TCP connection is shut down by the client before the server can activate a new radio connection for the sole purpose of terminating the TCP connection. | 10-24-2013 |
20150043554 | MANAGEMENT OF INTERFACES FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS - Methods, systems, and apparatuses are described for managing interfaces for wireless communications. In one method, at least one active interface of a user equipment (UE) may be used for the wireless communications. While using the at least one active interface, a need for increased bandwidth for the wireless communications may be detected. Based at least in part upon detecting the need for increased bandwidth, at least one additional interface of the UE may be activated for use in the wireless communications. More than one of the active interfaces of the UE may be simultaneously used for the wireless communications, and may be used independent of network coordination of the active interfaces. | 02-12-2015 |
20150103812 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR WiFi QUALITY ESTIMATION BASED ON BASIC SERVICE SET LOAD AND WIDE AREA NETWORK METRICS - Methods, systems, and devices are described for determining a quality estimation of a wireless network that may be used to determine whether a particular wireless network meets one or more criteria for association with a station. The quality estimation may be based on a load quality of a basic service set (BSS) of an available wireless network and/or one or more wide area network (WAN) metrics associated with the wireless network. A station may evaluate such load quality and WAN metrics prior to association, and/or after association with a wireless network. | 04-16-2015 |