10th week of 2016 patent applcation highlights part 68 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20160073208 | Acoustic Characterization Based on Sensor Profiling - A system, method, and computer-readable medium for an audio processing system which compensates for environment parameters to enhance audio inputs and outputs of an information handling system. More specifically, in certain embodiments, the audio processing system accounts for environmental characteristics including some or all of shape, size, materials, occupant, quantity, location and occlusions. | 2016-03-10 |
20160073209 | MAINTAINING SPATIAL STABILITY UTILIZING COMMON GAIN COEFFICIENT - In a system and method for maintaining the spatial stability of a sound field a background noise estimate may be estimated for each of a first signal and a second signal. A first gain coefficient may be calculated responsive to the first audio signal and the background noise estimate of the first audio signal. A second gain coefficient may be calculated responsive to the second signal and the background noise estimate of the second signal. The gain coefficients may be calculated using one or more gain coefficient calculators. A common gain coefficient may be selected from one of the first gain coefficient and the second gain coefficient. The selected common gain coefficient may be one that results in a least amount of audio signal modification and may be applied to each of the first signal and the second signal. | 2016-03-10 |
20160073210 | Microphone Calibration - Examples described herein involve calibration of a microphone of a network device based on a first signal detected by the microphone of the network device and a second audio signal detected by a microphone of the playback device. While the network device is positioned within a predetermined physical range of a microphone of a playback device, a microphone of the network device may detect a first audio signal. The network device may also receive data indicating a second audio signal detected by the microphone of the playback device. Based on data indicating the first audio signal and the data indicating the second audio signal, the network device may identify a microphone calibration algorithm, and apply the microphone calibration algorithm when performing a calibration function associated with the playback device. Similar functions may also be performed by a computing device, such as a server to coordinate calibration of the microphone of the network device. | 2016-03-10 |
20160073211 | SMART PLUG AND PLAY AUTOMATIC OBD-II SYSTEM TESTER - An audio system testing arrangement includes a controller coupled to a communication. bus of a motor vehicle. The controller runs test scripts via the communication bus. The test scripts are for testing features of an audio system within the vehicle. A fault of the audio system is determined dependent upon results of the test scripts, a display and/or speaker annunciates the determined fault of the audio system. | 2016-03-10 |
20160073212 | HIGH-VOLTAGE RESET MEMS MICROPHONE NETWORK AND METHOD OF DETECTING DEFECTS THEREOF - A method of detecting defects in a high impedance network of a MEMs microphone sensor interface circuit. The method includes adding a high-voltage reset switch to a high-voltage high impedance network, closing the high-voltage reset switch during a start-up phase of the MEMs microphone sensor interface circuit, simultaneously closing a low-voltage reset switch of a low-voltage high impedance network during the start-up phase, simultaneously opening the high-voltage reset switch and the low-voltage reset switch at the end of the start-up phase, and detecting a defect in the high-voltage high impedance network or the low-voltage high impedance network immediately after opening the high-voltage reset switch and the low-voltage reset switch. | 2016-03-10 |
20160073213 | SOUND PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND PROGRAM - The present technology relates to a sound processing apparatus and method, and a program for enabling more stable localization of a sound image. | 2016-03-10 |
20160073214 | VEHICLE ACOUSTIC CONTROL DEVICE, AND VEHICLE ACOUSTIC CONTROL METHOD - A vehicle acoustic control device includes: a plurality of speakers disposed on a periphery of a passenger; and a controller that controls a sound field in a vehicle cabin by individually driving the plurality of speakers. The controller rotates and displaces the sound field in a direction opposite to a changing direction of a vehicle behavior. At this time, when a frequency at a time of change of the vehicle behavior is higher than a predetermined frequency, the controller changes the sound field in the vehicle cabin in the direction opposite to the changing direction of the vehicle behavior, and increases a variation of the sound field as a variation of the vehicle behavior is being larger. | 2016-03-10 |
20160073215 | AN AUDIO APPARATUS AND METHOD THEREFOR - An audio apparatus comprises a receiver ( | 2016-03-10 |
20160073216 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING A COMMUNICATION ENDPOINT INFORMATION SERVICE - A system and method for providing a telephony endpoint information service at a communication platform includes obtaining information of a first endpoint through a set of information collection processes; storing the obtained information in an endpoint repository; receiving an endpoint query request of a communication event, wherein the endpoint query request specifies at least a first endpoint; accessing endpoint information for the first endpoint; and augmenting the communication event according to the accessed endpoint information. | 2016-03-10 |
20160073217 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR SECURE ACTIVATION OF SOFTWARE LICENSES AND FEATURES - Methods and systems for a near field communication (NFC) token is provided. The NFC token includes an antenna, and a memory device configured to store a license key. The license key is used by an NFC enabled medical system to activate a software feature of the NFC enabled medical system. The NFC token also includes a transmitter electrically coupled to the antenna and the memory device. The transmitter is configured to transmit information to the NFC enabled medical system when the transmitter is within an NFC activation field of the medical system. The transmit information includes the license key. | 2016-03-10 |
20160073218 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ESTABLISHING A BLUETOOTH CONNECTION - A method and device for establishing a Bluetooth connection are provided. The method includes: generating, by a first electrical device, a first part of a Bluetooth identifier according to a user's name and a Bluetooth network-card address; generating a second part of the Bluetooth identifier according to the first part of the Bluetooth identifier, a private key, and a first algorithm; generating the Bluetooth identifier according to the first part of the Bluetooth identifier and the second part of the Bluetooth identifier; generating a password according to the Bluetooth identifier, the private key and a second algorithm; transmitting, by a second electrical device, a Bluetooth pairing request according to the Bluetooth identifier, the private key, the first algorithm, and the second algorithm; and responding, by the first electrical device, the Bluetooth pairing request to establish the Bluetooth connection with the second electrical device. | 2016-03-10 |
20160073219 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND BLUETOOTH COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A communication device comprises: a free band calculation means that calculates a free band for Bluetooth™ communication based on a condition of communication with a communicating party's device; a service selection means that selects a service which can be assigned to the free band, from among a service group by a Bluetooth profile for making communication with the communicating party's device wireless, based on predetermined service selection information; a service assigning means that assigns the selected service to the free band; and a service control means that controls communication with the communicating party's device for the service assigned to the free band. | 2016-03-10 |
20160073220 | Rate Indication and Link Adaptation for Long Range Wireless Networks - A method of fast link adaptation for Bluetooth long-range wireless networks is provided. A novel rate indication (RI) field is incorporated in a data packet to enable auto detection of rate adaptation at the receiver side. The data packet comprises a preamble, a first packet portion including the RI field, and a second packet portion including the PDU. The first packet portion is encoded with a first rate while the second packet portion is encoded with a second rate indicated by the RI field. The transmitting device raise/lower the encoding rate when the link quality is good/poor. The receiving device can provide recommended rate or link quality feedback information via an LMP message to help the transmitting device making rate adaptation decision. The transmitter can unilaterally decide the data rate for the second packet portion without receiver recommendation. | 2016-03-10 |
20160073221 | THIN CHASSIS NEAR FIELD COMMUNICATION (NFC) ANTENNA INTEGRATION - Described herein are techniques related one or more systems, apparatuses, methods, etc. for integrating a near field communications (NFC) coil antenna in a portable device. For example, the NFC antenna is integrated under a metal chassis of the portable device. The metal chassis and a conductive coating—that is integrated underneath the full metal chassis—are designed to include one or more slots to provide high impedance to Eddy current induced in the conductive coating. | 2016-03-10 |
20160073222 | MOBILE PHONE AND METHOD FOR NEAR FIELD COMMUNICATION - Disclosed herein is a mobile phone with the Near Field Communication (NFC) technology and method of operating the mobile phone. The mobile phone includes a display; a baseband chip; a near field communication (NFC) module comprising an RF antenna, an NFC tag circuit and an NFC main chip; and the RF antenna configured to receive incoming RF signals in 13.56 MHz. | 2016-03-10 |
20160073223 | REAL-TIME LOCATION SHARING TO FACILITATE A PHYSICAL MEET-UP - A location sharing component operating on a mobile computing device is configured to enable a local party and a remote party to share each other's locations during a phone call to facilitate a physical meet-up. The location sharing component exposes various options to set a length of time for the location sharing or the location can be shared up until the meet-up occurs. User interfaces (UIs) exposed by the location sharing component can provide directions and dynamically updated maps which show the locations of the parties. The location sharing experience can be persisted after the phone call ends by showing updates to the directions and maps and by surfacing notifications when the parties are close so that they can start looking for each other. The location sharing time interval can be extended if it is due to expire before the meet-up occurs. | 2016-03-10 |
20160073224 | SPATIO-TEMPORAL METHOD AND SYSTEM TO IMPLEMENT BOUNDARY REGULATION - A boundary regulation detection method and system that stores a list of events, stores one or more dates and times and predetermined areas corresponding to each event, stores one or more predetermined areas determined as a function of a particular event, determines a user current location and current date and time, generates an alert in response to determining that the current date and time corresponds with the date and time, analyzes whether the user current location is not within a predetermined area and instructs the user to enter the predetermined area if the user current location is not within the predetermined area. The method based on the current date, time and user location issues appropriate alerts. | 2016-03-10 |
20160073225 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IDENTIFYING AND COMMUNICATING LOCATIONS - A method of producing a location identifier comprising: obtaining the geographical coordinates of a location; converting the geographical coordinates into single unique value n; converting the single unique value n into a unique group of a plurality of values; converting the plurality of values into an equal plurality of respective words; and providing the plurality of words as a location identifier, and a method of identifying a location comprising: obtaining a location identifier for a location, the location identifier comprising a plurality of words; converting the plurality of words into a unique group of an equal plurality of respective values; converting the unique group of a plurality of values into a single unique value n; converting the single unique value n into geographical coordinates; and outputting the geographical coordinates. | 2016-03-10 |
20160073226 | LOW-POWER WIRELESS VEHICLE LOCATING UNIT - Methods of, systems for, and articles of manufacture for wireless communication between a vehicle locating unit and peripheral devices that are disposed on or in the same object, the method including the steps of adapting the peripheral devices to generate transmission signals to be received by the vehicle locating unit; generating transmission signals by at least one of the peripheral devices; adapting the vehicle locating unit to listen for the transmission signals for a first period of time during a second period of time that is longer than the first period of time; acknowledging detected transmission signals from any of the peripheral devices; upon acknowledgement, establishing a communication link between the vehicle locating unit and a corresponding source of the detected transmission signals; and communicating data between the vehicle locating unit and the corresponding source of the detected transmission signals in accordance with discrete timing information. | 2016-03-10 |
20160073227 | METHOD OF SETTING TIME ZONE BASED ON LOCATION INFORMATION AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR SUPPORTING SAME - A method of setting a time zone based on location information is provided. The method includes receiving, by an electronic device including a processor, an input of location information on a schedule setting screen of the electronic device, acquiring and displaying time zone information related to the input location information, and storing a schedule including the location information and the time zone information. | 2016-03-10 |
20160073228 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING EXPECTED GEOLOCATIONS OF MOBILE COMPUTING DEVICES - A computer-implemented method for generating a geographical information database associating users with one or more geolocations. The method includes the steps of receiving user identification data, geolocation data, and date and time data associated with the geolocation data from the personal computing devices of a plurality of users. The data is normalized into a predetermined format, and stored in the database. The method further includes periodically requesting updated geolocation data, and date and time data associated with the updated geolocation data from the personal computing devices of the plurality of users. | 2016-03-10 |
20160073229 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING POINT-OF-INTEREST DETECTION VIA FEATURE ANALYSIS AND MOBILE DEVICE POSITION INFORMATION - An approach is provided for determining new point(s)-of-interest based, at least in part, on mobile device positioning, three dimensional location data, or a combination thereof. The approach involves processing and/or facilitating a processing of location information associated with a plurality of devices to determine one or more location points at which there are one or more concentrations of the plurality of devices. The approach also involves causing, at least in part, an accessing of three-dimensional data representing the one or more location points. The approach further involves processing and/or facilitating a processing of the three-dimensional data to determine one or more features that are indicative of a presence of one or more points of interest. The approach also involves determining one or more candidate points of interest based, at least in part, on the one or more features. | 2016-03-10 |
20160073230 | SPATIO-TEMPORAL METHOD AND SYSTEM TO IMPLEMENT BOUNDARY REGULATION - A boundary regulation detection method and system that stores one or more dates and times and predetermined areas corresponding to an event, determines a user current location and current date and time, generates an alert in response to determining that the current date and time corresponds with the date and time, analyzes whether the user current location is not within a predetermined area and sends to authorized individuals the user location. The method based on the current date, time and user location issues appropriate alerts. | 2016-03-10 |
20160073231 | DISPATCH CONSOLE CLIENT FUNCTIONALITY - Systems and methods are disclosed for setting a control zone configuration for members of a communication group. A dispatcher device establishes a geofence associated with a geographic area including one or more members of the communication group, determines the control zone configuration for members of the communication group within the geofence, and sends the control zone configuration to the one or more members of the communication group. | 2016-03-10 |
20160073232 | METHODS OF CONDUCTING SOCIAL NETWORK OPERATIONS - In one embodiment, a method of sharing locations of users participating in a social networking service at a geographic location and communicating app related information of users participating in the social networking service, the method executed by a computer system and comprises: receiving location information and text descriptive information from a mobile device of a first user of the social networking service, the location information representing a geographic location of the first user, the text descriptive information manually provided by the first user on an input module of the mobile device; associating the location information with the text descriptive information of the first user in a database; sending the text descriptive information and the location information of the first user to a second user for display. | 2016-03-10 |
20160073233 | Systems and Methods for Communicating with Remote Users - A messaging system comprises memory for storing contact information and location information for a plurality of users, referred to hereafter as “participants,” who may be dispersed across a wide geographic area. When a user desires to solicit images from a particular geographic region of interest, the user provides inputs indicative of such region, and messaging logic then automatically determines which participants are within the region of interest based on the stored location information. Using the contact information, the messaging logic then initiates communication with the identified participants in order to solicit images of the region of interest. In response, willing participants may capture and return images as may be desired. Thus, the system facilitates the process of finding people at or close to an event of interest, communicating with such people to solicit images of the event or the effects of the event, and then collecting such images. | 2016-03-10 |
20160073234 | ANONYMOUS DELIVERY OF GEOGRAPHICALLY SPECIFIC RICH MEDIA INFORMATION - An alert system and method with a web based alert server configured with an alert creation portal allowing a customer to generate and store alert information specific to a location. An alert application for mobile devices is configured to upload to the alert server an anonymous token and mobile device location information. The alert server searches for anonymous tokens for mobile devices located within the alert location and serves stored alert information to the alert applications of the mobile devices located within the alert location. | 2016-03-10 |
20160073235 | Systems and Methods for Providing Real-Time Dynamic Display of Underground Facilities - A system and method for providing a dynamic display of buried facilities at a user device. The system receives the device's current location. The system compares the device's current location with a set of location points stored in a database and associated with one or more underground facilities. If the current location of the device is within a predetermined distance of one or more of the location points in the database, the system generates a dynamic display of the underground facility associated with the one or more location points. The dynamic display includes a graphical representation of the underground facility overlaid on a map-like interface on the user device showing the location of the underground facility relative to the current location of the user device. The graphical representation may include facility information, such as the name of the cable pair, the type of cable, the status, the transmission speed, splicing information, customer information, etc. | 2016-03-10 |
20160073236 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SEARCHING FOR PROXIMITY SERVICE SO AS TO PROVIDE PROXIMITY SERVICE - The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for supporting a proximity service (ProSe) of a first network entity in a wireless communication system. More particularly, the present invention comprises the steps of: a first network entity receiving a request for location information related to a first terminal; transmitting a paging message to the first terminal when the first terminal is in an idle state; receiving a first response message corresponding to the paging message; and transmitting a second response message corresponding to a service request on the basis of the first response message. | 2016-03-10 |
20160073237 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, COMMUNICATION METHOD, PROGRAM AND INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM - Methods and apparatus provide for a user to feel the presence of other users existing in the same daily living area without using short-distance wireless communication. The system includes a position coordinate receiving section for obtaining positions from a plurality of user terminals, and a nearby user distributing section for selecting, under the condition that the nearby user distributing section obtains a position of a specified user terminal, one or more of the plurality of user terminals corresponding to the position obtained from the specified user terminal and the positions obtained from the plurality of user terminals and providing the specified user terminal with information on the selected one or more of the plurality of user terminals. | 2016-03-10 |
20160073238 | PORTABLE TYPE INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - A portable type information processing apparatus includes a plurality of sensing units that acquire information convertible into place information indicating a current location and detect an event which occurs in relation to the place information obtained through conversion from the information, a storage unit that stores event transition information indicating a relation between order of transitions between events and transition time periods spent on the transitions, and a control unit that obtains, as a current event, a latest event and controls an operating state of a sensing unit to detect a transition destination event of an event corresponding to the current event in the event transition information based on a relation between a transition time period spent on a transition from the event to the transition destination event in the event transition information and an elapsed time period since detection of the current event. | 2016-03-10 |
20160073239 | Method and system for configuring, sending and receiving physical multicast channel - Disclosed are a method and system for configuring a Physical Multicast Channel (PMCH), a method and system for acquiring a PMCH configuration and a method and system for sending and receiving subframes based on the PMCH configuration. The configuration method includes the following step: a base station configuring information for the PMCH or a Multimedia Broadcast and Multicast Service (MBMS) through a high-layer signalling and/or a predefinition and/or a Multicast Control Channel (MCCH). The configured information is at least one of a transmission band, a frequency-domain location, an initial location of an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) symbol of the PMCH, a transmission subframe cluster of the PMCH, a number of transmission layers or used port indexes and a number of ports of the PMCH and MBMS reference signal pattern information. | 2016-03-10 |
20160073240 | MESSAGING FOR MOBILE DEVICES USING VEHICLE DCM - Disclosed are computing devices, systems, and methods for messaging for mobile devices using a vehicle data communications module (DCM). A computing device associated with a vehicle can receive an incoming message sent to a driver's mobile device using a Bluetooth connection with the mobile device. The message can be presented to the driver over the vehicle's audio system using text-to-speech processing. The driver can compose an outgoing message as a reply, such as using speech-to-text processing, which can be sent to a remote server to forward to the intended third-party recipient. If the third party replies to the outgoing message directly, the remote server can receive the reply and forward it to the vehicle computing device. All related messages can be presented to the driver as a single thread or conversation. | 2016-03-10 |
20160073241 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING A SUGGESTED MESSAGE TO BE SENT OVER A NETWORK - The present disclosure is a method and apparatus for generating a suggested message. In one embodiment, a method for generating a suggested message includes monitoring, by an application server, a first device operated by a first user, detecting, by the application server, a triggering event relevant to the first user, and automatically generating the suggested message in response to the triggering event, where the suggested message is addressed to a second user. | 2016-03-10 |
20160073242 | DIRECTIONAL MESSAGING AMONG MOBILE DEVICES - A system and method are provided for directional messaging among mobile devices. An input is received from a first mobile device, identifying a directional range for sending a message to a second mobile device within the directional range. The second mobile device located in the directional range identified in the input is identified. A location indicator showing the location of the second mobile device within the identified directional range is sent to the first mobile device. A message to be sent to the second mobile device is received from the first mobile device. In response to receiving the message, the message is sent to the second mobile device. | 2016-03-10 |
20160073243 | SOCIAL MESSAGING HUB SYSTEM - A social messaging hub provides communication services for a data enabled device having Internet network access capabilities such as a portable media player, personal digital assistant, a Wi-Fi mobile platform, a tablet computer, portable e-Reader, a personal computer, a laptop and a netbook computer. The social messaging hub communicates with the data enabled device over the Internet or cellular data networks, and interfaces with a message infrastructure including mobile carriers, message aggregators, message exchanges and various specialized social messaging services. Messages may originate in or be delivered to other users' mobile telephones or in similarly equipped and provisioned IP data enabled devices. The social messaging hub can provide a predetermined auto-reply response and retain messages for a timed duration in a message retention queue when requested by a user. Messages may be viewed with a data enabled device application at various zoom levels. | 2016-03-10 |
20160073244 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SHORT MESSAGE SERVICES TO AN INSTANT MESSAGING CONVERSION - Implementations of the present disclosure involve systems and methods for federating communications between a first network that transmits and receives messages formatted in a first format and a second network that transmits and receives messages formatted in a second format. The systems and methods are configured to receive a message from the first network formatted in the first format. The system then converts the message into a unified format that may be sent to the second network. After receiving the message in the unified format, the message may then be converted into the format of the second network and sent on the second network like any other message on the second network. | 2016-03-10 |
20160073245 | SYSTEM FOR TRANSMITTING HETEROGENEOUS NETWORK-LINKED DATA AND METHOD THEREFOR - Provided are a system for transmitting interworking data in heterogeneous networks and a method thereof. The system for transmitting interworking data in heterogeneous networks and a method thereof capable of greatly improving convenience and reducing counseling time, by downloading and installing data transmission applications to a customer terminal and an ARS counselor terminal, respectively, allowing the ARS counselor to simply select specific data from complex and hard information upon ARS counseling in a state in which he/she sorts and stores in advance information to be transmitted as data upon the ARS counseling and transmit the selected specific data to the customer terminal, and allowing the remote counselor to control a page for the data transmitted to the customer terminal to be output. | 2016-03-10 |
20160073246 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SETTING AND SWITCHING PARTIES FOR PAYMENT OF TELEPHONE CALLS - A method for setting and switching a party responsible for payment of a remainder of a telephone call made between a first mobile device and a second mobile device can include receiving and saving information of a first mobile device, determining whether a switching condition for switching the party responsible for payment of the remainder of the telephone call is met during the telephone call, and switching the party responsible for payment of the remainder of the telephone call from the first mobile device to the second mobile device when the switching condition is met. The second mobile device is one of a number of contact mobile devices of the first mobile device. Phone numbers of the contact mobile devices are included in the information of the first mobile device. | 2016-03-10 |
20160073247 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DYNAMIC CHARGING OVER MULTIPLE NETWORK NODES - A method, a corresponding apparatus, and a computer program product for dynamic charging over multiple network nodes. The method comprises collecting, at a first network node which has a first connection with a user equipment, charging information with respect to a second connection established between the user equipment and a second network node, wherein the second network node is connected with the first network node. The method also comprises combining charging information with respect to the first connection and the charging information with respect to the second connection. The method additionally comprises sending the combined charging information from the first network node to a core network entity for charging the user equipment. With the claimed inventions, the core network and wireless operators could be able to bill the services based on specific offloaded bearers considering associated QoS information, regarding to the case of multi-PLMN scenarios under network sharing. | 2016-03-10 |
20160073248 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM | 2016-03-10 |
20160073249 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISCOVERING A WIRELESS DEVICE - One or more discovery communications are received by a user device over a wireless communication medium. The one or more discovery communications can be communicated using a Layer 2 protocol. The one or more discovery communications can be processed to determine information included with the one or more discovery communications. The information can include an identifier of the wireless device and dynamic information about an active process of the wireless device. When the user device is not connected to the discovered wireless device, the user device displays a representation of the wireless device. The representation can include information determined from the one or more discovery communications, including the identifier of the wireless device and content that is based on the dynamic information. | 2016-03-10 |
20160073250 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING DISCOVERY OF A WIRELESS DEVICE - An active process is monitored on the wireless device to obtain state information relating to the active process. Static information about the wireless device is determined. One or more discovery communications (e.g., advertisement) are generated for the wireless device using a wireless communication medium. The one or more discovery communications can include (i) a set of data items that are based on the static information, and (ii) dynamic information that is based on the state information of the active process. | 2016-03-10 |
20160073251 | Device of Handling Open Direct Discovery - A communication device for handling an open direct discovery comprises a storage unit for storing instructions and a processing means coupled to the storage unit. The processing means is configured to execute the instructions stored in the storage unit. The instructions comprise detecting a proximity service (ProSe) Application Code in a discovery message transmitted by an announcing user equipment (UE); and transmitting a discovery notification message to a ProSe function in a home public land mobile network (HPLMN) of the communication device, wherein the discovery notification message comprises a discovery notification for a ProSe Application ID corresponding to the ProSe Application Code. | 2016-03-10 |
20160073252 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REMOTE DEVICE RECOGNITION AT PUBLIC HOTSPOTS - Described are various embodiments of a system and method in which device-identifying data can be used to uniquely recognize and optionally track and report on device activity at one or more hotspot locations by way of the creation and management of a device profile uniquely associated with such devices and stored in a network accessible knowledge base. | 2016-03-10 |
20160073253 | Method and System for inhibiting access to a device in a moving vehicle - A system and method for inhibiting certain functionality of a personal communications device within a moving vehicle is disclosed. The disabled functionality is limited to the personal communications device of the operator of the vehicle and will not disable functionality of personal communication devices of other passengers within the vehicle. | 2016-03-10 |
20160073254 | Method and apparatus for reducing mobile phone usage - Disclosed is a mobile phone operative to detect an RF communication transmitted by one or more RF transmitters. Based on the detection of the RF communication, one or more applications executable on a processor of the mobile phone may be configured to perform one or more actions. | 2016-03-10 |
20160073255 | Configuring A Wireless Communications Device in a Mobile Communications System - A wireless communications device ( | 2016-03-10 |
20160073256 | MASTER NODE AND OPERATION METHOD OF THE MASTER NODE - An operation method of a master node, the method including transmitting, to a slave node, a first resource reservation information including packet information about a packet to be transferred between the master node and the slave node; allocating a radio resource corresponding to the first resource reservation information, for exchanging security information; transferring the packet using the allocated radio resource; and determining whether the packet was successfully transferred based on the packet information. | 2016-03-10 |
20160073257 | Console Display Terminal - The present invention comprises a console display terminal, comprising: a display screen configured to display a data item entered by a user, a transceiver configured to send and receive the data item to a network device, a sensing unit configured to detect and analyze an entry of the data item by the user, and a controller configured to verify the data item. The controller, upon detection and analysis of the data item, verifies the detected entry by evaluating the detected entry and identifying a display form for the data item. The controller further authorizes the display screen to display the data item in the determined display form in a list and authorizes the transceiver to send the data item to the network device. A system and a non-transitory computer readable storage medium having computer executable instructions are also provided to operate in conjunction with the console display terminal. | 2016-03-10 |
20160073258 | MOBILE ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A mobile electronic device according to an embodiment has an identifier, a determiner, and a permitter. The identifier identifies the operating system of a mobile terminal to which its own device is connected and determines whether the identified operating system is a prescribed operating system. If the identifier determines that the identified operating system is the prescribed operating system, the determiner performs processing to determine whether or not authentication data held in its own device and authentication data held in an authentication data holding device that can communicate via a network match. If the determiner determines that there is a match, the permitter permits data processing using processing data held in a processing data holding device that can communicate via the network. | 2016-03-10 |
20160073259 | MOBILE TERMINAL, HOME APPLIANCE, AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SAME - Disclosed are mobile terminals, home appliances, and methods of operating the same. The mobile terminal may include a controller configured to control display of a screen including an application related to the home appliance in response to an input to execute the application related to the home appliance. The controller may control setting of information, related to any one access point device among a plurality of access point devices stored in the mobile terminal, for connecting to an access point device with respect to the home appliance when product registration of the home appliance is not completed when a login item is selected on the application screen. The controller may also control to transmit a media access control (MAC) address of the access point device to the home appliance based on the set information and perform product registration for the home appliance. | 2016-03-10 |
20160073260 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR HYBRID HARDWARE AUTHENTICATION - A method for hybrid hardware authentication includes at a first electronic system having a capacitive touch sensor, detecting a capacitive hardware interaction between the hybrid hardware tool and the capacitive touch sensor; generating capacitive identification data based on the detected capacitive hardware interaction; at a second electronic system communicatively coupled to the first electronic system, detecting a short-range wireless interaction between the hybrid hardware tool and the second electronic system; generating wireless identification data based on the detected short-range wireless interaction; and at a third electronic system communicatively coupled to the first and second electronic systems, performing a first action based on a combination of the wireless identification data and the capacitive identification data. | 2016-03-10 |
20160073261 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GEOLOCATION-BASED AUTHENTICATION AND AUTHORIZATION - Systems and methods are provided for controlling the authentication or authorization of a mobile device user for enabling access to the resources or functionality associated with an application or service executable at the user's mobile device. The user or user's mobile device may be automatically authenticated or authorized to access application or system resources at the device when the current geographic location of the user's mobile device is determined to be within a preauthorized zone, e.g., based on a predetermined geo-fence corresponding to the preauthorized zone. A security level or amount of authorization credentials required to authorize a user for data access may be varied according any of a plurality of security levels, when the current or last known geographic location of the user's mobile device is determined to be outside the preauthorized zone. | 2016-03-10 |
20160073262 | IDENTITY MANAGEMENT ON A WIRELESS DEVICE - A wireless device may perform a local authentication to reduce the traffic on a network. The local authentication may be performed using a local web server and/or a local OpenID provider (OP) associated with the wireless device. The local web server and/or local OP may be implemented on a security module, such as a smartcard or a trusted execution environment for example. The local OP and/or local web server may be used to implement a provisioning phase to derive a session key, associated with a service provider, from an authentication between the wireless device and the network. The session key may be reusable for subsequent local authentications to locally authenticate a user of the wireless device to the service provider. | 2016-03-10 |
20160073263 | CLIENT, COMPUTING PLATFORM, AND METHODS FOR CONDUCTING SECURE TRANSACTIONS - The present invention is generally related to client and computing platforms that may be used for conducting secure transactions. | 2016-03-10 |
20160073264 | DISTRIBUTED AND MOBILE VIRTUAL FENCES - A virtual fence server receives a request to access a service for remote control of a device from user equipment. The virtual fence server authorizes the user equipment to access the service in response to the user equipment being within a virtual fence defined by beacon signals generated by a plurality of beacons. The virtual fence encompasses a plurality of geographically distinct areas. | 2016-03-10 |
20160073265 | Method and Apparatus for Authenticating a Network Entity Using Unlicensed Wireless Spectrum - An unlicensed wireless spectrum access point control circuit receives a first identifier from a first network entity and also receives a second identifier from a second network entity and then compares the late the first identifier to the second identifier to thereby authenticate the second network entity. By one approach the first and second identifier are medium access control (MAC) addresses. By one approach the first network entity comprises an Evolved Node-B base station in a Long Term Evolution (LTE) Radio Access Network and the second network entity comprises a portable wireless device. Upon authenticating the second network entity, the control circuit can then allow user plane data traffic. | 2016-03-10 |
20160073266 | Resources in a Communication System - A shortage of at least one resource is determined in a first radio network control entity that has joined a pool of radio network control resources. The first radio network control entity signals to at least one second radio network control entity of the pool a request for at least one resource. The at least one second radio network control entity receives the request for at least one resource and offers for the first radio network control entity. | 2016-03-10 |
20160073267 | Intelligence for Encoded Communication Data - Techniques for intelligence for encoded communication data are described. According to various implementations, a compatibility service is leveraged to provide intelligence regarding wireless technologies. Such intelligence may include identifiers for wireless technologies, interpretation information that enables communication data encoded according a particular technology to be decoded, and so forth. Embodiments, for instance, provide ways for enlightening various entities involved in wireless communication regarding wireless technologies. | 2016-03-10 |
20160073268 | A METHOD FOR IMPROVING SPECTRUM SENSING AND EFFICIENCY IN COGNITIVE WIRELESS SYSTEMS - Systems and methods for adaptive method exploits self-interference suppression (SIS) and full-duplex (FD) capabilities in cognitive radio and dynamic spectrum access (DSA) systems to enable simultaneous transmission-and-sensing (TS) or transmission-and-reception (TR) over the same frequency channel in a single operation. The adaptive methods enable secondary users or units (SUs) to switch between different modes of operation, taking into account the primary units (PUs) state, the SUs' traffic, and standards' rules. These adaptive methods significantly enhance the SU throughput and reduce the probability of colliding with PU transmissions. | 2016-03-10 |
20160073269 | WHITE SPACE DATABASE DISCOVERY - Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, are provided for white space database discovery. In one aspect there is provided a method. The method may include sending, by a user equipment, a request to a server including a white space database, wherein the server is located at a first address; and receiving, at the user equipment, a response to the request, the response including at least one of an identity of the server or a second address for accessing at least one of the server or another server including another white space database. Related apparatus, systems, methods, and articles are also described. | 2016-03-10 |
20160073270 | DIGITAL CORDLESS TELEPHONE SYSTEM FOR BUSINESS USE, INTERFERENCE AVOIDANCE METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORING INTERFERENCE AVOIDANCE PROGRAM - A carrier sense unit ( | 2016-03-10 |
20160073271 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING EXTENSION OF NETWORK COVERAGE - An approach is provided for causing an extension of secure emergency network resources via one or more trusted point of presence. The approach involves determining a networking context, wherein the networking context initiates a request to join an extension mesh network to a currently trusted network. The approach also involves determining a target network trust level associated with the networking context, the currently trusted network, or a combination thereof. The approach further involves selecting the extension mesh network based on the target network trust level. The approach also involves initiating a joining of the extension mesh network to the currently trusted network. | 2016-03-10 |
20160073272 | Device and Method for Improved Closed Loop Diversity | 2016-03-10 |
20160073273 | Activation Mechanism for Small Cells - A method for activation of a wireless communications link between a terminal (UE) and a first base station (SCeNB) under control of a second base station (MeNB), the method includes: the second base station (MeNB) sending a first activation request signal to the terminal (UE); and the terminal (UE), in response to the first activation request signal, sending a second activation request signal to the first base station (SCeNB). The terminal therefore acts as proxy for communicating an activation request from the second base station to the first base station. This is useful in Small Cell scenarios where backhaul latency may delay an activation request over the X2 interface between the base stations. | 2016-03-10 |
20160073274 | OPERATION OF BASE STATION IN A CELLULAR COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK - In one embodiment, a method of forming a neighbor cell list in a base station of a cellular communications network comprises, at periodic intervals, and for specified durations: requesting the or each wireless device that is in connected mode with the base station to report a unique identifier for each other base station that it is able to detect; receiving reports from the or each wireless device that is in connected mode with the base station; and operating with a neighbor cell list compiled on the basis of the received reports. | 2016-03-10 |
20160073275 | WORK MACHINE AND COMMUNICATION MONITORING - Disclosed are a work machine and a communication monitoring method that allow recording of work information even in the event of interruption of communication in a communication path between the work machine, a mobile communication terminal and a server. There is provided a control section ( | 2016-03-10 |
20160073276 | Information Handling System Physical Component Maintenance Through Near Field Communication Device Interaction - Information handling system maintenance is aided by sending maintenance codes with a management processer of the information handling system to a mobile telephone with a NFC communication. The maintenance code and an identifier of the information handling system are provided to an administrative station to confirm that the proper maintenance is taking place at the proper system before the maintenance is authorized. | 2016-03-10 |
20160073277 | Method and Apparatus for Testing Mobile Terminals in an OFDM System - The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for testing mobile terminals in an OFDMA system, in which all or part of available downlink radio resources in a cell are transmitted. A processing unit in a test apparatus splits a set of contiguous resource blocks into separate contiguous portions. A first contiguous portion of the set of resource blocks is allocated to users of a first type, and a second contiguous portion of the set of resource blocks is allocated to users of a second type. A transmitter in the test apparatus transmits test signals to the users of the first type and the second type using the at least one contiguous set of resource blocks. | 2016-03-10 |
20160073278 | CONTROL SYSTEM, APPARATUS, METHODS, AND COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM STORING INSTRUCTIONS FOR A NETWORK NODE AND/OR A NETWORK CONTROLLER - The control system includes a monitoring device operable to determine information related to resource availability associated with the network entity and to communicate the information related to the resource availability to a network controller. The control system includes a data relay device, which is operable to relay data packets between a plurality of network nodes. The data relay device is operable to receive information related to data packet relaying to the network entity from the network controller. The network controller apparatus includes one or more communication interfaces, which are operable to receive information related to a resource availability from a monitoring device. The one or more communication interfaces are operable to communicate information related to data packet relaying to a data relay device. The network controller apparatus includes a routing module operable to determine the information related to data packet relaying based on the information related to the resource availability. | 2016-03-10 |
20160073279 | ADMISSION CONTROL FOR ALLOWING OR REJECTING A MEASUREMENT REQUEST BETWEEN A FIRST AND A SECOND DEVICE - An Admission Control Node and a method performed thereby for enabling a measurement between a first and a second device in a communication network, and a first device and a method performed thereby for performing the measurement between the first device and the second device in a communication network are provided. The method in the Admission Control Node comprises receiving, from the first device, a request for performing the measurement between the first and the second device and, determining segments comprised in a path between the first and the second device. The method also comprises determining a current measurement situation for the segments, and deciding to allow or reject the request for performing the measurement based on the current measurement situation for the segments. The method further comprises informing the first device about the decision of allowing or rejecting the request for performing the measurement. | 2016-03-10 |
20160073280 | Method and System for Analyzing Radio Performance During Over-the-Air Operation - An apparatus for identifying failed or suspect RF transmitting devices while the devices are in normal operation transmitting over-the-air RF signals, each of the RF transmitting devices including an identifier and being mobile, portable or stationary, includes an RF signal sensor receiving the RF signals and responsive thereto, an analyzer, and a GUI. The analyzer measuring signal parameters and determines operating characteristics of a device therefrom, determining the identifier, if each RF signal conforms to packet structure specifications, and bit-field information of each RF signal to discern therefrom a transmission type, measures RF frequency offset, correlates the bit-field information with the RF frequency offset utilizing the identifier; and repeats the last three steps to determine a range of RF frequency offset deviations over time. The GUI displays the range in a form used to identify an RF frequency offset range of the RF transmitting device. | 2016-03-10 |
20160073281 | CONGESTION/OVERLOAD CONTROL METHOD AND APPARATUS - Embodiments of the present invention provide a congestion/overload control method and apparatus. The method includes: learning, by a gateway device, information about network access time of a User Equipment (UE) or UE group; and rejecting or discarding, by the gateway device, session management request messages of the UE or UEs in the UE group beyond the network access time of the UE or UE group; or discarding, by the gateway device, data of the UE or the UEs in the UE group beyond the network access time of the UE or UE group. Embodiments of the present invention can perform congestion/overload control differentially on the UE or UEs in the group, implement congestion/overload control on the gateway device, avoid congestion/overload caused by a large number of UEs on the gateway device, and improve the efficiency of congestion/overload control. | 2016-03-10 |
20160073282 | REPORTING OF AGGREGATED RAN CONGESTION INFORMATION - The present disclosure is directed at systems, methods and media for relieving RAN congestion in a core network. In some embodiments, RAN congestion information is reported from user equipment to a packet data gateway (PGW) through an eNodeB and a software gateway. The PGW can aggregate the RAN congestion information and periodically notify other network nodes, for example, a PCRF, about the aggregate congestion in a network. By aggregating RAN congestion information, the PGW can substantially reduce the signaling required to report RAN congestion in the core network. | 2016-03-10 |
20160073283 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INTERNET PROTOCOL VERSION-BASED MULTIPLE ACCESS POINT NAME SUPPORT IN A NETWORK ENVIRONMENT - An example method is provided in one example embodiment and may include receiving an attach trigger for a user equipment (UE) within a trusted access network; configuring a first signaling path for the UE for a first Internet protocol (IP) connection; and configuring a second signaling path for the UE for a second IP connection, wherein the first and second IP connections are associated with different IP version types. The method can include switching traffic for the UE between the first signaling path for the first IP connection and the second signaling path for the second IP connection based on IP version type of the traffic. | 2016-03-10 |
20160073284 | Device Assisted Multi-Step Adaptive Discontinuous Reception (DRX) Operations Using Power Preference Indicator - Examples of power conservation management for user equipment based on the operating state of the user equipment are provided. A user equipment may implement a power managing application that monitors the activity of the user equipment, such as the number of applications open on the user equipment, the data usage requirements for each open application, data delay tolerances for each application and/or a level of user interaction with the device at a given moment. Based on the level of activity and the data requirements, the managing application on the user equipment is able to make a discontinuous reception profile setting recommendation selected from more than two discontinuous reception profiles to the mobile communications network entity. In response to the discontinuous reception profile setting recommendation, the network entity may modify the connection status with the user equipment. | 2016-03-10 |
20160073285 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SUPPORTING CELL UPDATES WITHIN A SMALL CELL CLUSTER FOR IDLE MOBILITY IN CELL PAGING CHANNEL MODE - An example method is provided in one example embodiment and may include assigning an identifier to each of a plurality of Home Node Bs (HNBs); receiving a cell update for a user equipment (UE) transitioning from a first HNB to a second HNB, wherein the cell update for the UE includes a first identifier associated with the first HNB and wherein the UE is in a cell paging channel (PCH) mode; determining based, at least in part, on the first identifier associated with the first HNB, whether the first HNB is operating within a cluster of HNBs including the second HNB; and withholding registration of the cell update for the UE with an HNB gateway (HNB-GW) if the first HNB is operating within the cluster of HNBs including the second HNB until packet switched (PS) traffic for the UE is received by the second HNB. | 2016-03-10 |
20160073286 | DYNAMIC BACKOFF IN WI-FI CALLING - In order to improve the quality of a telephone call communicated over a wireless local area network (WLAN), an electronic device (such as a cellular telephone) may obtain one or more performance metrics based on communication with another electronic device (such as an access point) via a connection in the WLAN. For example, the electronic device may receive the one or more performance metrics from the other electronic device and/or may determine the one or more performance metrics based on the performance of the communication. Then, the electronic device may compare the one or more performance metrics with an interference criterion. If the interference criterion is met, the electronic device may perform a remedial action, such as selectively discontinuing use of the WLAN to communicate the telephone call for a time interval. Otherwise, the electronic device may continue using the WLAN to communicate the telephone call. | 2016-03-10 |
20160073287 | NETWORK SELECTION IN A HETEROGENEOUS NETWORK - Technology for a user equipment (UE) to communicate in a multiple radio access technology (multi-RAT) heterogeneous network (HetNet) is described. A radio-link-selection hysteresis threshold can be determined at the UE for a radio link between the UE and a node in the multi-RAT HetNet. A reliability value of a throughput estimate can be measured for the radio link in the multi-RAT HetNet. The radio-link-selection hysteresis threshold can be adjusted at the UE based on the reliability value to increase network stability in the multi-RAT HetNet. | 2016-03-10 |
20160073288 | REDUCING CONTENTION IN A PEER-TO-PEER DATA LINK NETWORK - Methods, systems, and devices are described for improving system throughput by reducing contention in a peer-to-peer (P2P) data link network. Specifically, the present disclosure provides a method of ordering data transmissions in a data transmission window based on an order of traffic announcement messages in a corresponding paging window. Moreover, a wireless station of the P2P data link network may reserve portions of a shared wireless medium for transmissions of other wireless stations belonging to the same P2P data link network and preventing transmission of out-of-network wireless stations. | 2016-03-10 |
20160073289 | OVERLOAD CONTROL METHOD, AND DEVICE - The present invention discloses an overload control method, a gateway device, a mobility management entity, and a PGW. The method includes: determining, by a gateway device, first overload indication information, where the first overload indication information is used to indicate an overload control policy; and sending, by the gateway device, the first overload indication information to a mobility management entity, so that the mobility management entity executes the overload control policy according to the first overload indication information. According to the overload control method, the gateway device, the mobility management entity, and the PGW in embodiments of the present invention, adverse impact brought by device overload can be avoided; therefore, the device overload can be effectively controlled. | 2016-03-10 |
20160073290 | FAULT ANALYTICS FRAMEWORK FOR QOS BASED SERVICES - A device may be configured to determine a current state of each of multiple operator network devices that provide a service via an operator network. The device may determine an allowable event at an operator network device based on the current state of the operator network device and model information that models behavior of the operator network device for the service. The device may monitor events at the operator network devices during a session. The device may detect that an allowable event for the operator network device does not occur during the session. The device may determine that a fault occurred at the operator network device during the session based on the allowable event not being detected at the operator network device. The device may provide fault information that indicates the fault occurred at the operator network device. | 2016-03-10 |
20160073291 | METHOD FOR DEACTIVATING ISR CAPABILITY FOR PROXIMITY SERVICE - One disclosure of the present specification provides a method for user equipment deactivating an idle mode signaling reduction (ISR) capability for a proximity service. The method for deactivating the ISR capability comprises the steps of: the user equipment activating ISR as a result of performing a routing area update (RAU) process or a tracking area update (TAU) process; the user equipment determining whether to deactivate the ISR for the proximity service; and the user equipment locally deactivating the activated ISR depending on the determination result. | 2016-03-10 |
20160073292 | TRANSMISSION OF A RANDOM ACCESS RESPONSE MESSAGE - Disclosed are methods as well radio network nodes suitable for transmission | 2016-03-10 |
20160073293 | SEGMENTATION AND REASSEMBLY OF WARNING MESSAGES - The transmission of a warning message to a mobile terminal in a mobile communication network is triggered by an emergency event. The mobile terminal is first made aware of the need to receive a warning message by reception of an emergency event notification. The warning message is divided into a plurality of message segments. Each segment is transmitted in a separate paging message over a paging channel to mobile terminals in an idle mode. Information is added to each message segment to enable the mobile terminal to discriminate between segments belonging to different warning messages. | 2016-03-10 |
20160073294 | PROVIDING WIFI RADIO AVAILABILITY INFORMATION - Certain embodiments generally relate to WiFi radio availability information, such as, but not limited to methods, apparatuses, and systems for providing WiFi radio availability information for WLAN (Wireless Local Area Network)/ | 2016-03-10 |
20160073295 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD - A wireless communication apparatus, a wireless communication system and a wireless communication method that can suppress the occurrence of differences in transmission delays in a plurality of wireless lines are provided. The wireless communication apparatus ( | 2016-03-10 |
20160073296 | Data Session Handoff Using Bone Conduction - Concepts and technologies are disclosed herein for data session handoff using bone conduction. According to one aspect, a first user device can receive a handoff request from a second user device. The handoff request can instruct the first user device to handoff an active data session to the second user device. The handoff request can be received by the first user device via a bone conduction signal that propagated through a bone of a user that is in physical contact with the first user device and the second user device. The first user device also can initiate handoff of the active data session to the second user device in response to the handoff request. | 2016-03-10 |
20160073297 | Control of Offloading by the Network - It is provided a method, including checking if a first condition for an offloading a first radio access bearer of a first radio access network of a first radio access technology to a second radio access network of a second radio access technology different from the first radio access technology is fulfilled, wherein the first condition is received for the first radio access bearer, and wherein the first condition includes a grouping information; preventing the offloading of the first radio access bearer to the second radio access network if the first condition is fulfilled. | 2016-03-10 |
20160073298 | CELLULAR NETWORK CONTROL OF CHANNEL ALLOCATION FOR VEHICLE-TO-VEHICLE COMMUNICATION - A node of a cellular network detects entry of a vehicle-to-vehicle communication device into a cell of the cellular network. The node allocates resources to the vehicle-to-vehicle communication device, and sends channel information to the vehicle-to-vehicle communication device. The channel information can be included in a handover command to the vehicle-to-vehicle communication device. The channel information indicates the allocated resources. The vehicle-to-vehicle communication device uses the allocated resources for sending of vehicle-to-vehicle communication messages. | 2016-03-10 |
20160073299 | Radio Resource Management for Packet-Switched Voice Communication - Techniques are disclosed relating to informing a network that a UE desires packet-switched voice communication. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving first information from a UE device requesting voice communication over a packet-switched network. In this embodiment, the method further includes transmitting, in response to the first information, second information to a base station serving the UE device, wherein the second information indicates that the UE device is requesting voice communication over the packet-switched network. In this embodiment, the transmitting is performed prior to establishment of a dedicated bearer by the base station for the UE device. In this embodiment, the second information operates to configure communications between the base station and the UE device to provide a particular quality of service for the packet-switched voice communication using the dedicated bearer. | 2016-03-10 |
20160073300 | DEVICE STATE DERIVATION - Systems and methods for device state derivation are described. Some implementations include receiving, from a mobile station at a state derivation server, current connectivity characteristics of one or more radio access technologies (RATs) that are serviced by a modem of the mobile station, analyzing the one or more connectivity characteristics to determine one or more of: whether the mobile station is tuning away from a particular RAT to access another RAT or a duration for which the mobile station is tuning away from the particular RAT to access the other RAT, based on the analyzing, determining a current connectivity state of the mobile station, and displaying the current connectivity state at a user interface of a computing device associated with the state derivation server. | 2016-03-10 |
20160073301 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND HANDOVER CONTROL METHOD IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Communication apparatus in a wireless communication system and handover control method in the same are provided that enable handover information to be notified to the source side of a handover regardless of the types of UEs. When a communication apparatus ( | 2016-03-10 |
20160073302 | DERIVATION OF EMBMS NEIGHBOR SAI INFORMATION WITH CORRELATION BIT-MAP - A UE receives a list of neighboring cells of a serving cell serving the UE, and a list of SAIs. The list of neighboring cells may be included in a first system information message and the list of SAIs may be included in a second system information message. The first and second messages may be the same message, e.g., SIB | 2016-03-10 |
20160073303 | ACTIVATION PROCEDURE FOR DORMANT CELLS - In an aspect of the disclosure, a method, a computer-readable medium, and an apparatus are provided. The apparatus may be a second base station. The second base station receives a measurement report and a cell identifier, associated with a first base station, from a UE. The second base station determines, based on the cell identifier, that the first base station is in a dormant state. The second base station sends an activation request to the first base station, based on the measurement report, to prompt the first base station to transition from the dormant state to an active state. The second base station further includes handing off the UE to the first base station. | 2016-03-10 |
20160073304 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR FREQUENCY ACCESS RESTRICTION IN CELLULAR COMMUNICATIONS - A Network node provides information to a base station indicating a list of forbidden frequency from which the base station may or may not offer services. The base station checks the received list of forbidden frequencies when considering whether to provide service to user equipments from a new tracking area or a certain access technology. The base may also transmit a list of allowed frequencies or the list of forbidden frequencies to user equipments to be used thereof. By introducing the possibility to set an amount of frequencies as forbidden in the area and access restriction information of user equipments, operators would be able to offer services like home base station in a simple way to customers. | 2016-03-10 |
20160073305 | RADIO ACCESS TECHNOLOGY CELL RESELECTION - A user equipment (UE) quickly reselects from a first radio access technology (RAT) to a third RAT. The first RAT does not provide neighbor frequencies of the third RAT. Therefore, the user equipment first starts reselection to a second RAT. The user equipment then collects system information from the second RAT. The system information includes one or more frequencies of the third RAT. The user equipment searches for one or more frequencies of the third RAT and measures one or more detected cells corresponding to the one or more frequencies of the third RAT. The user equipment bypasses camping on the second RAT and directly camps on the third RAT when a signal quality of a detected cell corresponding to the one or more frequencies is above an absolute threshold. | 2016-03-10 |
20160073306 | WIRELESS NETWORK MEASUREMENT SCHEDULING - A user equipment (UE) camped on a first RAT and in a coverage area of a second RAT searches for one or more frequencies of the second RAT and measures one or more detected cells corresponding to the one or more frequencies of the second RAT. When the measurement indicates that cell reselection/handover trigger conditions are met the UE starts a cell reselection timer or time to trigger. The UE schedules a measurement of the neighbor cell during a time instance close to when the reselection timer or time to trigger expires. | 2016-03-10 |
20160073307 | Handover control method and apparatus for high speed mobility user equipment - A handover control method and apparatus for limiting handover of a User Equipment (UE) from a macrocell to an underlying small cell when the UE is operating in a High Speed Mobility (HSM) mode in a radio access network. The UE receives an HSM pilot strength threshold offset parameter from the network and initiates handover from a macrocell to an underlying small cell using a first pilot strength threshold value when the UE is operating in a standard mode. The UE initiates the handover using a second pilot strength threshold value when the UE is operating in HSM mode. The second pilot strength threshold value is equal to the first pilot strength threshold value modified by the HSM pilot strength threshold offset parameter. | 2016-03-10 |