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20120009874 | ALLOWED SPECTRUM INFORMATION DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM - A system for determining allowed channels for operating in unlicensed bandwidth. Initially, an apparatus may determine whether valid allowed channel information corresponding to the current position of the apparatus already exists in the apparatus. If the allowed channel information corresponding to the current position of the apparatus does not exist in the apparatus or is invalid, the apparatus may then determine if the allowed channel information can be provided by another apparatus. If the allowed channel information is available from another apparatus, this information may be requested from the other apparatus. Otherwise, the allowed channel information may be requested from a database. | 01-12-2012 |
20130142129 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR COEXISTENCE MANAGEMENT - Method, apparatus, and computer program product embodiments are disclosed to provide a wireless device with suitable operating parameters for wireless resource sharing with heterogeneous wireless networks to enable coexistence of secondary networks in a shared band environment. An example embodiment includes a method, comprising: receiving a request from a wireless network, requesting device management information for coexistence within an unassigned frequency band with zero or more neighboring wireless networks of the wireless network; and providing the requested device management information for the wireless network, based on at least location of the wireless network, the device management information including at least allowed frequency and transmission power. | 06-06-2013 |
20130226754 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR REORIENTATION DURING SENSED DROP - An apparatus including at least one vibrator motor for vibrating the apparatus; a controller connected to the at least one vibrator motor; and at least one sensor connected to the controller. The at least one sensor is configured to sense drop motion of the apparatus. The controller is configured to control the at least one vibrator motor to change orientation of the apparatus during a portion of the drop motion. | 08-29-2013 |
20130344883 | CONFIGURING CELLULAR CONNECTIVITY - A method, apparatus, and computer program for configuring a terminal device of a cellular system to propose aggregation of unlicensed frequencies for the use of the terminal device. A network element receiving the proposal processes the proposal and configures the aggregation of the unlicensed frequencies. | 12-26-2013 |
20140003297 | System And Method To Exploit Offload Capability In A Wireless Communications Network | 01-02-2014 |
20140038552 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SPECTRUM USE - In accordance with an example embodiment of the present invention, there is provided an apparatus for facilitating charging in cognitive radio systems. The apparatus is configured to receive a data structure comprising accounting information, to obtain price information relating to the accounting information and to derive charging information and to send the charging information to a network. In some embodiments the apparatus is further configured to derive a revenue distribution scheme. | 02-06-2014 |
20140086094 | TERMINAL MEASUREMENT CONFIGURATION IN CARRIER AGGREGATION - There are provided measures for terminal measurement configuration in carrier aggregation, said measures exemplarily comprising a configuration of one or more carriers for automatic terminal measurements relating to network performance on said one or more carriers, said one or more carriers being carriers in a carrier aggregation for one or more terminals, wherein said configuration may comprise at least one condition. According to such configuration, automatic terminal measurements may be performed simultaneously on the configured one or more carriers or on the configured one or more carriers based on a predetermined priority of each carrier. Said measures may exemplarily be applied for in an MDT context. | 03-27-2014 |
20140300532 | APPARATUS, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR CONTROLLING A NEAR-EYE DISPLAY - An apparatus, method and computer program where the apparatus comprises: at least one memory configured to store a computer program comprising computer program instructions; and at least one processor configured to execute the computer program instructions to cause the apparatus at least to perform: obtaining, from at least one detector, a detection of at least one bio-signal from at least one user where the user is using a user output device; determining from the at least one obtained bio-signal that movement of the user's head is about to occur; and in response to determining that movement of the user's head is about to occur, enabling the processor to control the output provided by the user output device to coordinate with the movement of the user's head. | 10-09-2014 |
20140323180 | Method and apparatus for multimode communication - In accordance with an example embodiment of the present invention, there is provided an apparatus comprising a transceiver configured to support operation of the apparatus in accordance with a first radio access technology, RAT, and a second radio access technology, RAT, the transceiver being configured to receive an indication conveyed over the second radio access technology, the indication indicating that data is incoming to the apparatus and that the data is to be conveyed over the first radio access technology, and at least one processing core configured to, responsive to the indication, cause the apparatus to receive the data by operating in accordance with the first radio access technology | 10-30-2014 |
20140362717 | Method and apparatus for handovers - In accordance with an example embodiment of the present invention, there is provided an apparatus comprising at least one processing core configured to determine a handover failure at the apparatus, the at least one processing core being further configured to compile information relating to the handover failure, the information comprising information on discontinuous reception, DRX, at the apparatus, the at least one processing core being further configured to cause a transmitter comprised in the apparatus to transmit the information relating to the handover failure toward a radio-access network. The information may be comprised in a handover failure report. | 12-11-2014 |
20150050943 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING A WIRELESS TRANSMITTER - In accordance with an example embodiment of the present invention, there is provided an apparatus, comprising a memory configured to store at least one first parameter, at least one processing core configured to control, using a cognitive radio principle, radio transmission using a first radio access technology, wherein the at least one first parameter is used in the cognitive radio principle, wherein the at least one processing core is configured to select the at least one first parameter in dependence of at least one second parameter, wherein the at least one second parameter at least one of relates to a second radio access technology and comprises a length of a last burst or silent period of the first radio access technology. | 02-19-2015 |
20150117310 | METHOD AND APPARATUS TO ROUTE PACKET FLOWS OVER TWO TRANSPORT RADIOS - In accordance with an example embodiment, a method is provided comprising receiving packets of at least one flow in a packet switching function, and based on at least one criterion, deciding in the packet switching function on switching the packets to one or both of a cellular transport radio and a wireless local area network transport radio. In some embodiments, the packet switching function is disposed in a protocol stack between a radio link control protocol layer and a medium access control protocol layer. | 04-30-2015 |
20150126207 | COEXISTENCE OF LTE OPERATED IN UNLICESNSED BAND - A cellular access node collects information about at least interference in a plurality of channels in unlicensed spectrum, and uses that collected information to update an allocation of the channels among at least two different access points APs. In one embodiment the information is collected from measurement reports received from each AP which indicates whether the various respective channels are available or reserved. Additional measurement reports may be collected from user equipments operating under the APs. In various embodiments the information can include channel recommendations, estimated capacity for the channels, and/or a traffic model for the channels. With this collected information the cellular access node can balance traffic among the APs by its channel allocation decisions. The non-limiting examples assume a radio environment where a LTE cellular access node operates a primary component carrier in licensed spectrum and the cooperating APs operate secondary component carriers in unlicensed spectrum. | 05-07-2015 |
20150281937 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR NETWORK-CONTROLLED PROXIMITY DEVICE TO DEVICE DISCOVERY AND COMMUNICATION - A method, apparatus and computer program in which an apparatus exchanges wirelessly information with a public land mobile network. The apparatus detects a wireless device to device discovery initiation instruction from the public land mobile network and responsively: sends one or more wireless discovery signal transmissions for a peer device or to monitor wireless discovery signal transmissions sent by a peer device; and directly communicates wirelessly with a peer device that indicates having received the wireless discovery signal transmission or from which the apparatus has detected a wireless discovery signal transmission in result of the monitoring of wireless discovery signal transmissions. | 10-01-2015 |
20150304913 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROACTIVE U-PLANE HANDOVERS - A user equipment UE has a c-plane connection to a macro cell and a u-plane connection to a source local cell. The u-plane connection is handed over to a target local cell while maintaining the c-plane connection so the macro cell can facilitate the u-plane handover. In one embodiment the UE uses coverage information about the source local cell and its own mobility to predict when the handover is needed, and the macro cell can identify which is the target local cell. The handover can occur across a coverage gap between the source and target local cells, where the UE gets synchronization information and a dedicated preamble for the target local cell prior to being in its range. In the examples also path switching and transfer of the UE context can occur prior to the UE being in range of the target local cell. | 10-22-2015 |
20150339259 | ACCESS CONTROL FOR WIRELESS MEMORY - The specification and drawings present a new apparatus and method for access control for wireless memory. A memory controller communicating with a plurality of interfaces (at least one interface comprising a radio component for wirelessly communicating with a plurality of UE) can dynamically manage an access control to the memory by the UE and/or other users through any of the interfaces based on the preconfigured rules taking into consideration the identity of the least one interface and/or the determined directionality of the UE relative to the radio component. | 11-26-2015 |
20150373204 | BILLING RELATED INFORMATION REPORTING - Radio communications is performed within a mobile telecommunication network. Billing related information is obtained by radio-physical detection. Within a trusted execution environment, a challenge known by the mobile telecommunication network is obtained; billing related information is received; billing related information is attested; and the attested billing related information is caused to be sent to the mobile telecommunication network. | 12-24-2015 |
20160088590 | Inter-Operator Radio Resource Sharing in Dense Deployments of Small Cell Networks - Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, are provided resource sharing. In some example embodiments, there may be provided a method, which may include receiving information including location information for at least one cell of a primary resource group, and further including a primary resource being used by the at least one cell; and determining at least one secondary resource group based on the received information. Related apparatus, systems, methods, and articles are also described. | 03-24-2016 |
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20100056274 | Visual cognition aware display and visual data transmission architecture - Methods, apparatus and computer program products reduce bandwidth requirements in mobile video and gaming applications by tracking a gaze fixation point of a user on a video image at a remote location; generating information identifying the gaze fixation point at the remote location; transmitting the gaze fixation point information to a source of video information over a network; determining a portion of a video image to transmit at a high resolution and a remaining portion to transmit at a low resolution using the transmitted gaze fixation point information; and transmitting the portion of the video image selected for transmission at a high resolution at the high resolution and the portion of the video image selected for transmission at a low resolution at the low resolution. Further methods, apparatus and computer program product also reduce bandwidth requirements by receiving gaze fixation point information from a remote location, wherein the gaze fixation point information indicates where in a video image a user is currently looking; selecting a portion of video images to transmit at a high resolution and a portion of video images to transmit at a low resolution using the transmitted gaze fixation point information; and transmitting the portions of the video images at the determined resolutions. | 03-04-2010 |
20100074445 | Encryption/identification using array of resonators at transmitter and receiver - A sender and a receiver includes first and second arrays of coupled oscillators, respectively, that are substantially identically constructed so as to exhibit substantially the same dynamical response to excitation. A chaotic waveform generated at the sender is transmitted to the receiver, which generates a second chaotic waveform, and compares the received waveform with the generated second waveform. If the first and second waveforms match the sender is an authorized sender. An integrated circuit includes an array of coupled oscillators that in combination generate a waveform in response to at least one excitation signal. The array of coupled oscillators represents, in response to application of the excitation signals, a multi-dimensional security key that is shared between the sender of the waveform and the receiver of the waveform. | 03-25-2010 |
20100331026 | Determination of coupling between radio devices - A method includes transmitting, from a radio device of a secondary communication system, a signal into a channel of a primary communication system; monitoring channel signal quality-related feedback of the primary system; determining, based on the monitored channel signal quality-related feedback, an amount of mutual coupling between the transmitted signal and the channel, if any, caused by the transmitted signal; and if the amount of determined mutual coupling is less than a threshold amount, using the channel for communication with another radio device of the secondary communication system. The signal that is transmitted may be a probing signal having at least a predetermined temporally varying transmission pattern, and where determining includes correlating at least the predetermined temporally varying transmission pattern with changes, if any, in the monitored channel signal quality-related feedback. The channel signal quality-related feedback that is monitored may include at least one of ACK/NACK feedback, power control feedback, rate control feedback and channel quality indicator feedback. | 12-30-2010 |
20110143761 | APPARATUS AND ASSOCIATED METHODS - This document describes an apparatus for providing an advance indication of channels available for use by a mobile device travelling along a geographic path. The path extends across two or more cells, with each cell defining a particular set of radio channels available for use by the mobile device in that cell. The apparatus is configured to receive predicted geographic path signalling associated with prediction of the geographic path to be taken by the mobile device. The apparatus is also configured to determine radio channels available for use by the mobile device along that path. The apparatus is also configured to provide, in advance, an indication of the radio channels available for use by the mobile device along the geographic path in each respective cell along the path. | 06-16-2011 |
20130216043 | Security Solution For Integrating a WiFi Radio Interface in LTE Access Network - A method for security for inter-RAT carrier aggregation is disclosed. The method includes encrypting a message using an encryption technique for a first RAT. The method also includes sending, to a UE, at least a portion of the encrypted message using a different, second RAT. Sending using the second RAT does not further encrypt the at least a portion of the encrypted message. The method further includes receiving the at least a portion of the message encrypted using the first RAT protocol. Receiving uses the second, different RAT. The method also includes decrypting the at least a portion of the message using the first RAT protocol. Apparatus and computer readable media are also described. | 08-22-2013 |
20140094156 | METHOD AND APPARATUS RELATING TO A MOOD STATE OF A USER - Apparatus configured to:
| 04-03-2014 |
20150050927 | SIGNALING SUPPORT FOR DEVICES WITH MULTIPLE AND/OR FLEXIBLE FORM FACTORS - Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for signaling support for devices with multiple and/or flexible form factors are provided. One method includes determining, by a device having multiple forms and associated with a network, a current form or a change in the form of the device, determining new parameters according to the determined current form of the device, and reporting the new parameters to the network. | 02-19-2015 |
20150208350 | POWER EFFICIENT SUPPORT OF SMALL PACKET TRANSMISSION - Various communication systems may benefit from power efficiency. For example, certain communication systems associated with the long term evolution (LTE) of the third generation partnership project (3GPP) may benefit from methods and devices for providing power efficient support of small packet transmission. A method can include determining whether a position of a device is static. The method can also include, when the position of the device is determined to be static, allocating at least one semi-persistent resource for a time when the device is in an idle state. | 07-23-2015 |
20160080958 | LOGGED MEASUREMENTS - Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, are provided for reporting WLAN-related information. In one aspect there is provided a method. The method may include receiving, at a user equipment, a request from a cellular radio access network to obtain information about a wireless local area network, wherein the request comprises at least one of a logged measurement configuration, a measurement configuration, or a trace procedure; and reporting, in response to the request, at least one of a measurement representative of a wireless local area network access point, a load experienced by the wireless local area network access point, or a capacity experienced by the wireless local area network access point. Related apparatus, systems, methods, and articles are also described. | 03-17-2016 |
20160088588 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AGGREGATING DATA FOR TRANSMISSION - A method and apparatus can be configured to receive a first data from a first transmitter. The first data comprises data to be forwarded by the apparatus. The method may also include triggering a polling of a group of transmitting nodes. The triggering may be based on the received first data. The group of transmitting nodes may comprise nodes from which data is to be aggregated. The method may also include waiting for a period of time to receive a second data from a second transmitter of the group of transmitting nodes. The second data may comprise data to be forwarded by the apparatus. The first transmitter and the second transmitter may share communication resources to communicate with the apparatus. The method may also include aggregating the first data and the second data. The method may also include forwarding the aggregated data. | 03-24-2016 |
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20090326833 | Apparatus - An apparatus includes a deformable structure in which a neural network comprising a plurality of deformation sensors, e.g. nanowire sensors, and distributed in-situ processing circuits. The circuits generate a signal characterising features of the local deformation of the structure and/or a command signal corresponding to the detected deformation. The structure may be a wearable sleeve that conforms to deformations of a user's skin, part of an electronic device, such as a touch sensitive screen, or an object in itself. The apparatus can provide a user interface, wherein a command corresponding to a current shape of the structure is generated and acted upon by a integrated or remote device, or a device for monitoring a user's position or movement e.g. for replication by a robotic device. The apparatus may have machine learning capability to improve the matching of commands with determined shapes of the deformable structure. | 12-31-2009 |
20100327956 | GRAPHENE DEVICE AND METHOD OF FABRICATING A GRAPHENE DEVICE - In accordance with an example embodiment of the present invention, a device comprising one or more porous graphene layers, the or each graphene porous layer comprising a multiplicity of pores. The device may form at least part of a flexible and/or stretchable, and or transparent electronic device. | 12-30-2010 |
20110238751 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AD-HOC PEER-TO-PEER AUGMENTED REALITY ENVIRONMENT - Methods and apparatuses are provided for providing augmented reality client application content to be enabled for one or more nodes. A method may include specifying a bounded area of a mesh network and associating content with the bounded area. The method may additionally include causing, at least in part, a peer-to-peer transmission of the content to one or more nodes within the bounded area over the mesh network. Corresponding apparatuses are also provided. | 09-29-2011 |
20120202538 | Forecasting of dynamic environmental parameters to optimize operation of a wireless communication system - An aspect of the exemplary embodiments of this invention is a method that includes receiving information from a plurality of spatially distributed user devices, where the information includes at least observations of a radio environment of each user device. Based on the received information, the method creates a model of time evolution of a spatio-temporal map for a plurality of spatial locations. The method further includes creating a policy based on the model of time evolution of the spatio-temporal map, and transmitting the policy to the plurality of user devices. A further aspect of exemplary embodiments of this invention is a method that includes generating a probabilistic model based at least on observations of a radio environment of a user device; transmitting the probabilistic model to a network access node of a wireless communication network; receiving information from the network access node; and operating the user device at least in part based on the received information. Also described are apparatus and computer program products that operate in accordance with the methods. | 08-09-2012 |
20120252508 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR COGNITIVE RADIO INFORMATION SHARING - An approach is provided for providing cognitive radio information sharing. A cognitive radio management platform determines one or more cognitive radio parameters associated with one or more locations. The cognitive radio management platform also causes, at least in part, storage of the one or more cognitive radio parameters in at least one distributed information space constituted by one or more namespaces, wherein the one or more namespaces within the at least one distributed information space are accessible to one or more cognitive radio devices. | 10-04-2012 |
20120282942 | METHODS, APPARATUSES AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR CONFIGURING FREQUENCY AGGREGATION - An apparatus for determining whether to deactivate a secondary cell includes a processor and memory storing executable computer program code that cause the apparatus to at least perform operations including determining that a secondary cell should be deactivated based on a measurement(s) of the secondary cell or received information associated with frequency spectrum of the secondary cell. The computer program code may cause the apparatus to generate a deactivation message responsive to the measurement(s) indicating secondary cell interference or the received information indicating that the apparatus should no longer use the frequency spectrum. The computer program code may cause the apparatus to provide the deactivation message to a network device. Corresponding methods and computer program products are also provided. | 11-08-2012 |
20120311657 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING PRIVACY IN COGNITIVE RADIO INFORMATION SHARING - An approach is provided for providing privacy in cognitive radio information sharing. A cognitive radio privacy platform receives a request, from a device, for performing one or more operations on cognitive radio information stored in at least one information space. The cognitive radio privacy platform also determines one or more privacy policies associated with the device, the one or more operations, the cognitive radio information, the at least one information space, or a combination thereof. The cognitive radio privacy platform further processes and/or facilitates a processing of the one or more privacy policies to determine an availability, a restriction, or a combination thereof of the cognitive radio information. The cognitive radio privacy platform also causes, at least in part, the performing of the one or more operations based, at least in part, on the availability, the restriction, or a combination thereof of the cognitive radio information. | 12-06-2012 |
20120329384 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING OPTIMIZED PRIVACY IN COGNITIVE RADIO INFORMATION SHARING - An approach is provided for providing optimized privacy in cognitive radio information sharing. A cognitive radio privacy optimization platform determines cognitive radio connectivity information provided by at least one device. The cognitive radio privacy optimization platform also processes and/or facilitates a processing of the cognitive radio connectivity information to determine a quality, an amount, or a combination thereof of the cognitive radio connectivity information. The cognitive radio privacy optimization platform further determines at least one service class for providing cognitive radio connectivity to the at least one device based, at least in part, on the quality, the amount, or a combination thereof of the cognitive radio information. | 12-27-2012 |
20130005374 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING SPECTRUM RESERVATION - An approach is provided for providing spectrum reservation in cognitive radio information sharing. A cognitive radio spectrum reservation platform determines information regarding at least one predicted location of at least one device. The cognitive radio spectrum reservation platform also processes and/or facilitates a processing of the information to generate a prediction of one or more cognitive radio resources that are to be used by the at least one device at the at least one predicted location. The cognitive radio spectrum reservation platform further causes, at least in part, a reservation of the one or more cognitive resources from one or more cognitive radio connectivity providers based, at least in part, on the prediction. | 01-03-2013 |
20130155105 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING SEAMLESS INTERACTION IN MIXED REALITY - An approach is provided for providing seamless interaction in mixed reality. A mixed reality platform processes and/or facilitates a processing of media information associated with at least one augmented reality application to determine one or more digital objects, wherein the one or more digital objects aggregate, at least in part, data for defining the one or more digital objects, one or more computation closures acting on the data, one or more results of the one or more computation closures, or a combination thereof. The mixed reality platform also causes, at least in part, a composition, a decomposition, or a combination thereof of the one or more digital objects to cause, at least in part, an enhancement, a modification, an initiation, or a combination thereof of one or more functions associated with the at least one augmented reality application. | 06-20-2013 |
20130166646 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING SOCIAL NETWORK SERVICES BASED ON CONNECTIVITY INFORMATION - An approach is provided for providing social network services based on connectivity information. A social network management platform provides processing and/or facilitating a processing of connectivity information associated with one or more devices to determine one or more social networks among the one or more devices. The social network management platform also determines to cause, to recommend, or a combination thereof a creation, a modification, an initiation, or a combination thereof of the one or more social networks | 06-27-2013 |
20130166726 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING INTENT-BASED MONITORING USING SENSORY INFORMATION - An approach is provided for providing intent-based monitoring using sensory information. The monitoring platform determines to detect, at a device, sensory information from an environment, the environment relating to a user of the device, one or more other users, or a combination thereof. Next, the monitoring platform processes and/or facilitates a processing of the sensory information to determine intent information associated with the user, the one or more other users, or a combination thereof. | 06-27-2013 |
20130176334 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ANALYZING CLUSTERING OF MIXED REALITY CONTENT AND COMPUTAIONS - An approach is provided for analyzing clustering of mixed reality content and computations. A mixed reality platform determines one or more clusters of one or more mixed reality digital objects, one or more computations associated with the one or more mixed reality digital objects, or a combination thereof based, at least in part, one or more densities of one or more requests for the one or more mixed reality digital objects. The mixed reality platform also processes and/or facilitates a processing of the one or more requests, the one or more densities, or a combination thereof to determine one or more gradients with respect to one or more locations associated with the mixed reality digital objects. The one or more gradients represent inflow/outflow information associated with the one or more locations. | 07-11-2013 |
20130179576 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING AN ARCHITECTURE FOR DELIVERING MIXED REALITY CONTENT - An approach is described for providing an architecture for delivering mixed reality content. A mixed reality platform determines one or more requests for one or more digital objects. The one or more digital objects aggregate location-based data, one or more computations, or a combination for supporting at least one mixed reality application. The mixed reality platform also determines one or more densities of the one or more requests with respect to one or more geographical boundaries defined by one or more clusters of the one or more digital objects. The mixed reality platform then processes and/or facilitates a processing of the one or more densities to cause, at least in part, a provisioning of one or more computational resources, one or more storage resources, one or more connectivity resources, or a combination thereof across one or more architectural layers of at least one cloud computing infrastructure for delivering the one or more digital objects, the at least one mixed reality application, or a combination thereof. | 07-11-2013 |
20130212713 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING BACKEND SUPPORT FOR DEVICE CONTROL IN RISK CONDITIONS - An approach is provided for providing backend support for device control in risk conditions. A device control support platform determines one or more computational chains consisting of one or more computation closures for managing one or more risk conditions associated with at least one device. The device control support platform further causes a projection, a distribution, or a combination thereof of the one or more computational chains, the one or more computation closures, or a combination thereof to one or more other devices. The device control support platform also causes an execution of at least a portion of the one or more computational chains, the one or more computational closures, or a combination thereof to cause an initiation of at least one computational broker at the at least one device for managing the one or more risk condition. | 08-15-2013 |
20130298248 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING LOCATION PRIVACY - An approach is provided for providing real-time controlled location privacy as the location evolves, and providing a user with alternate routes and applications depending on the level of desired location privacy. A location privacy platform determines at least one location associated with at least one device. The location privacy platform also processes and/or facilitates a processing of contextual information associated with the at least one location, the at least one device, one or more applications associated with the at least one device, or a combination thereof to determine one or more privacy metrics for the one or more applications with respect to the at least one location; wherein the one or more privacy metrics relate, at least in part, to an exposure of user data by the one or more applications at the at least one location. | 11-07-2013 |
20130308595 | REUSE OF LEGACY RADIO ACCESS TECHNOLOGY - The specification and drawings present a new method, apparatus and software related product (e.g., a computer readable memory) for using (or reusing) unused frequency resources/channels in a legacy radio access technology system (a first radio access technology system) such as GSM as additional/reused resources for a future/advanced radio access technology systems (a second radio access technology system) such as LTE wireless system. In one embodiment, the extension carrier may be used to simultaneously deploy/assign, e.g., LTE transmission in the same frequency band as the legacy radio access technology system such as GSM with LTE transmission occupying empty GSM time plus frequency slots. In a further embodiment, LTE system over-provisioning may be used so that individual GSM channel(s) can be deactivated and used by the LTE system. | 11-21-2013 |
20130315152 | Using Unique Preambles for D2D Communications in LTE - A method is disclosed that includes determining a preamble, at least a portion of which is unique to one or more user equipment for a device-to-device communication of one or more subframes on a band, and performing the device-to-device communication of the one or more subframes comprising the preamble on the band. The band could be, e.g., a lightly-licensed band, a licensed-exempt or unlicensed band, a secondary usage of a band of the licensed band, a band in TV white space, or a licensed band. Apparatus and computer program products are also disclosed. | 11-28-2013 |
20130339864 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING MIXED-REALITY CONNECTIVITY ASSISTANCE - An approach is provided for providing connectivity assistance and the seamless interaction with information sources through a mixed-reality environment. A connectivity platform determines one or more connectivity options within an environment of at least one device. The connectivity platform further causes, at least in part, a presentation, within a user interface of the at least one device, of a mixed-reality representation of the environment including one or more symbols representing the one or more connectivity options. | 12-19-2013 |
20130343288 | Power Control For LTE Deployment In Unlicensed Band - Methods of power control for LTE transmissions in unlicensed bands are described. One method includes determining, at a first device (such as a LTE UE or LTE eNB), a scheduled transmission window for a LTE transmission in an unlicensed band. The transmission window indicates a time for sending the transmission in the unlicensed band. Prior to the scheduled transmission window, the method also includes determining whether a WiFi transmitter is transmitting a signal in the unlicensed band. The method also includes, in response to determining that the transmitter is transmitting in the unlicensed band, determining an adjusted transmission power for the transmission and sending the transmission (such as from an LTE UE to an LTE eNB or from an LTE eNB to an LTE UE) in the transmission window at the adjusted transmission power. Apparatus and computer readable media are also described. | 12-26-2013 |
20140087680 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENHANCING EMERGENCY CALLING WITH MOBILE DEVICES - An approach is provided for leveraging mobile devices to enhance emergency calling. The connectivity processor determines a request to initiate at least one call from at least one device. Next, the connectivity processor determines one or more devices with connectivity to the at least one device. Then, the connectivity processor determines at least one main devices from among the at least one device and the one or more other devices to initiate the at least one call based, at least in part, on operational status information, device capability information, resource availability information, or a combination thereof. | 03-27-2014 |
20140106763 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMPROVED COGNITIVE CONNECTIVITY BASED ON GROUP DATASETS - An approach is provided for allocating radio resources based on social distance information for one or more social groups. The coexistence platform determines social distance information for at least one group of a plurality of one or more users, one or more devices associated with the one or more users, or a combination thereof. The coexistence platform causes, at least in part, at least one allocation of the one or more radio resources to the one or more devices based, at least in part, on the social distance information for the at least one group or a subset of the at least one group. The coexistence client causes an initiation of a request for at least one allocation of one or more radio resources. The coexistence client determines the one or more radio resources based, at least in part, on social distance information. | 04-17-2014 |
20140112282 | CARRIER AGGREGATION - Carrier aggregation configuration is disclosed. In a method, information acquisition relating to a radio environment of a terminal is caused ( | 04-24-2014 |
20140119224 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TERMINAL MEASUREMENT CONFIGURATION IN MULTI-RADIO ACCESS TECHNOLOGY ENVIRONMENT - In accordance with an example embodiment of the present invention, a method comprises: acquiring configuration information for terminal measurements of carriers relating to network performance on said carriers, said carriers being carriers in a carrier aggregation for a terminal, the configuration information comprising at least two measurement configurations with one measurement configuration for a radio access technology; and performing terminal measurements on said carriers according to the configuration information. Related apparatus and computer program product are also described. | 05-01-2014 |
20140173690 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SECURITY MECHANISM FOR PROXIMITY-BASED ACCESS REQUESTS - An approach is provided for providing security mechanism for proximity-based interactions among devices. At least one first device (e.g., a memory tag) may determine a request for interaction between the at least one first device and at least one second device (e.g., a mobile phone), wherein at least the at least one first device is associated with at least one first antenna and at least one second antenna. The at least one first device may determine a first signal received by the at least one first antenna and a second signal received by the at least one second antenna. Further, the at least one first device may determine one or more differences in one or more characteristics of the first signal and the second signal. Furthermore, the at least one first device may process and/or facilitate a processing of the one or more differences to determine whether to allow the interaction. | 06-19-2014 |
20140180972 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING BEHAVIORAL PATTERN GENERATION FOR MIXED REALITY OBJECTS - An approach is provided for behavioral pattern generation for mixed reality objects. A mixed reality platform determines one or more computation closures for describing one or more user behavioral patterns associated with one or more digital objects of at least one augmented reality information space. The mixed reality platform then processes and/or facilitates a processing of one or more interactions with the one or more digital objects, one or more augmented reality applications associated with the at least one augmented reality information space, or a combination thereof to cause, at least in part, a determination of (a) the one or more user behavioral patterns from the one or more interactions, (b) the data acted on by the one or more computation closures, or (c) a combination thereof. | 06-26-2014 |
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20140285519 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING LOCAL SYNCHRONIZATION OF INFORMATION FOR AUGMENTED REALITY OBJECTS - An approach is provided for local synchronization of information for augmented reality objects. A mixed reality platform determines at least one augmented reality object of at least one augmented reality information space associated with at least one device. The mixed reality platform determines local information associated with the at least one device, one or more other devices proximate to the at least one device, or a combination based, at least in part, on a relevancy of the local information to the at least one augmented reality object. The mixed reality platform then causes, at least in part, a presentation of the local information as one or more layers of an augmented reality user interface depicting the at least one augmented reality object. | 09-25-2014 |
20140293928 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING OPTIMIZED PRIVACY IN COGNITIVE RADIO INFORMATION SHARING - An approach is provided for providing optimized privacy in cognitive radio information sharing. A cognitive radio privacy optimization platform determines cognitive radio connectivity information provided by at least one device. The cognitive radio privacy optimization platform also processes and/or facilitates a processing of the cognitive radio connectivity information to determine a quality, an amount, or a combination thereof of the cognitive radio connectivity information. The cognitive radio privacy optimization platform further determines at least one service class for providing cognitive radio connectivity to the at least one device based, at least in part, on the quality, the amount, or a combination thereof of the cognitive radio information. | 10-02-2014 |
20140295811 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ADJUSTING DEVICE FUNCTIONALITIES BASED ON LOCATION, MOVEMENT, AND/OR NOISE - An approach is provided adjusting one or more device functionalities based on location, movement, noise, or a combination thereof. An adjustment platform determines at least one state of movement, at least one ongoing communication session, or a combination thereof associated with at least one device, wherein the at least one state of movement includes, at least in part, location information, orientation information, speed information, acceleration information, time information, or a combination thereof. The adjustment platform then causes, at least in part, an initiation of one or more adjustments to one or more functionalities of the at least one device based, at least in part, on the at least one state of movement, the at least one ongoing communication session, or a combination thereof. | 10-02-2014 |
20140376515 | METHODS, APPARATUSES AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR WLAN DISCOVERY AND HANDOVER IN COEXISTED LTE AND WLAN NETWORKS - Provided are methods, corresponding apparatuses, and computer program products for triggering WLAN discovery and handover procedures in coexisted LTE and WLAN networks. A method comprises receiving, from a first base station, information that has been exchanged 5 between the first evolve Node B and a second base station and that relates to at least one wireless local area network access point connected or co-located with the first base station or the second base station; and performing a wireless local area network discovery procedure with the at least one wireless local area network access point based upon the received information. With the claimed inventions, signaling cost and power consumption by those unnecessary WLAN 10 discovery procedures could be avoided, acquiring a longer battery life for a user equipment. | 12-25-2014 |
20150043471 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ACTIVATING FREQUENCIES IN WHITE SPACE - A method for acquiring spectrum beyond the licensed spectrum for wireless network communications comprising accessing a geolocation database to determine a configuration of white space frequencies that may be available and transmitting the carrier aggregation configuration to user equipment (UE). The carrier aggregation configuration may be at least partially encrypted with the key sequences for the encryption being optionally changed for improved security. The white spaces may be activated in a handshake sequence in which a network node transmits an enabling signal to UE, receives an enabling request from UE specifying which white spaces are requested, and transmits an enabling response. In an alternative to transmitting an enabling response, the node may activate the requested white spaces in an LTE signal. | 02-12-2015 |
20150139175 | Wireless Communication Scheduling on Shared Spectra - A method includes scheduling, by a base station configured to service a cell within a cellular communication network, multiple grants to an apparatus in a coverage area of the cell. Each of the scheduled multiple grants includes time-frequency resources in at least one shared spectrum that is to be used by the apparatus to attempt to communicate. Each of the scheduled multiple grants differs from others of the scheduled multiple grants in one or both of time or frequency. The method includes sending indications of the scheduled multiple grants. Another method includes receiving, at the apparatus in the cell, indications of the multiple grants and attempting by the apparatus to communicate using one or more of the multiple grants. Apparatus, computer programs, and program products are also disclosed. | 05-21-2015 |
20150163805 | OPERATIONS ON SHARED BANDS - A technique comprising: controlling a radio device to make on a first band a radio transmission including information for a plurality of other radio devices about operations at said plurality of other radio devices on a second band more widely shared than said first band. | 06-11-2015 |
20150236829 | METHOD, APPARATUS, SYSTEM AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR COORDINATION OF WIRELESS TRANSMISSION IN A FREQUENCY BAND - A method and apparatus can be configured to perform steps comprising receiving channel-state information of at least one channel in a frequency band from at least a subset of a plurality of transmission nodes. The method may further comprise coordinating reserving of the at least one channel for a set of transmission nodes within the plurality of transmission nodes. The coordinating may be based on the received channel-state information to allow simultaneous transmission on the at least one channel by the set of transmission nodes. The method may further comprise communicating reservation information for the at least one channel to the set of transmission nodes. | 08-20-2015 |
20150254465 | Method And Apparatus For Security Mechanism For Proximity-Based Access Requests - An approach is provided for providing security mechanism for proximity-based interactions among devices. A first device (e.g., a memory tag) may determine a request for interaction between the first device and a second device (e.g., a mobile phone), wherein at least the first device is associated with at least one first antenna and at least one second antenna. The first device may determine a first signal received by the at least one first antenna and a second signal received by the at least one second antenna. Further, the first device may determine one or more differences in one or more characteristics of the first signal and the second signal. Furthermore, the first device may process or facilitate a processing of the one or more differences to determine whether to allow the interaction. | 09-10-2015 |
20150287787 | Graphene Device And Method Of Fabricating A Graphene Device - In accordance with an example embodiment of the present invention, a device comprising one or more porous graphene layers, the or each graphene porous layer comprising a multiplicity of pores. The device may form at least part of a flexible and/or stretchable, and or transparent electronic device. | 10-08-2015 |
20150319621 | Method, Apparatus and Computer Program Product for Allocation of a Shared Resource - A method including receiving information at a first network node operating with a shared resource; wherein said first network node is enabled to receive said information from one or at least two network nodes; wherein said information includes information enabling said first network node to determine that use of at least a part of said shared resource is one of permitted at said first network node; to be continued at said first network node; to be discontinued at said first network node. | 11-05-2015 |
20160029424 | DIRECT DEVICE-TO-DEVICE COMMUNICATIONS RADIO TECHNOLOGY SELECTION - Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, are provided for providing, by a user equipment, information representative of one or more radio technologies available for use by a device-to-device radio interface at the user equipment; and receiving, by the user equipment, an indication representative of a selection of at least one of the one or more radio technologies for use by the device-to-device radio interface at the user equipment. Related apparatus, systems, methods, and articles are also described. | 01-28-2016 |