16th week of 2014 patent applcation highlights part 33 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20140105012 | Dynamic Assignment of Traffic Classes to a Priority Queue in a Packet Forwarding Device - Responsive to detecting that bandwidth consumption of a packet flow has exceeded a threshold, packet forwarding treatment is changed in accordance with at least one class of packet flow from a first packet forwarding treatment to a second packet forwarding treatment. | 2014-04-17 |
20140105013 | USER EQUIPMENT, BASE STATION, COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD, AND RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A user equipment includes radio communication unit that performs radio communication with a base station over a communication channel formed by aggregating a plurality of component carriers. The user equipment has a measurement unit that measures a channel quality of the communication channel, and a controller that creates a measurement report using a result of the measurement and sends the measurement report to the base station. Each data signal transmitted over the communication channel is classified into any of two or more classes depending on a QoS requirement thereof. The radio communication unit receives control information related to a mapping between each of the plurality of component carriers and the class of each data signal from the base station, and the controller controls at least one of the measurement and the sending of the measurement report, according to a procedure which varies depending on the control information. A base station performs associated functions, according to a communication method involving allocation of data to component carriers based at least in part on channel quality criteria for different data classifications. | 2014-04-17 |
20140105014 | Method and System for Extended Reach Copper Transceiver - Aspects of a method and system for an extended range copper transceiver are provided. Reducing the communication rate provided by multi-rate physical (PHY) layer operations in an Ethernet transceiver may extend the range of the Ethernet transceiver over twisted-pair copper cabling from a standard connection length. The Ethernet transceiver may support up to 1 Gbps or up to 10 Gbps transmission rate over copper cabling. The multi-rate PHY layer architecture in the Ethernet transceiver may support signal-processing operations, such as echo cancellation and/or equalization, which may be applied to the reduced communication rate to enable range extension. The reduced communication rate may be achieved by reducing the symbol rate provided by the multi-rate PHY layer operations. Reducing the communication rate may also enable utilizing greater insertion loss cabling for a standard connection length. | 2014-04-17 |
20140105015 | NETWORK TRAFFIC SHAPING FOR LOW POWER AND LOSSY NETWORKS - In one embodiment, data packet messages are received in a Field Area Router (FAR) sent from one or more sources toward one or more destination devices in a Low-Power Lossy Network (LLN). An LLN routing topology for the data packet messages is interpolated in the FAR. An expected time for the data packet messages to reach a destination device in the LLN is determined based upon the routing topology interpolation. Traffic shaping is applied by thse FAR for the data packet messages based upon the determined expected time for the data packet messages to reach destination devices in the LLN. | 2014-04-17 |
20140105016 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - There is provided an information processing apparatus including an acquiring unit that acquires communication quality of wireless communication at a location where a wireless communication apparatus exists, and a control unit that controls ON/OFF of another data communication function other than a data communication function to which a high priority is set, among data communication functions included by the wireless communication apparatus, based on the acquired communication quality. | 2014-04-17 |
20140105017 | SERVICE DATA FLOW DETECTION IN A CONFORMING 3GPP ACCESS NETWORK HAVING A PACKET MODIFICATION FUNCTION - A system includes: a packet processing function and a packet modification function. The packet processing function receives a packet generated by a sending application function and destined for a receiving application function. The packet includes first identifier information, and the packet processing function adds second identifier information thereto. The packet modification function: receives the packet; alters it in a way that prevents use of the first identifier information by a 3GPP conforming service data flow detection process to map the packet to a first service data flow for the sending application function; and provides the packet to a packet routing function with the second identifier information positioned in the packet to enable the packet routing function to use the second identifier information in the 3GPP conforming service data flow detection process to map the packet to the first service data flow and to a bearer for transporting the packet. | 2014-04-17 |
20140105018 | Method And Apparatus Of Group Credit Control For Wireless Networks - Methods are provided for metering the usage, on a group of lines subject to a group user agreement, of the data processing capacity of a network. Implementations include steps of receiving usage reports from respective lines of the group at least when usage quotas granted to the lines are exhausted; maintaining a total, over the group, of usage that has been reported by the lines and of outstanding usage quotas that have been granted to the lines; and maintaining a comparison between the total outstanding group quota and a limit that depends on the total reported group usage, so as to detect violation events when said quota violates the limit. Upon occurrence of violation events, instructions for the processors serving respective lines to reallocate quota are sent selectively. | 2014-04-17 |
20140105019 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING SUSTAINABLE THROUGHPUT OVER WIRELESS NETWORKS - Sustainable average data throughput rates for data transfer between a sender and a receiver are determined for a network in a steady-state condition. Delivery performance for data transferred in non-steady-state conditions is disregarded in determining sustainable average data throughput rates. The rates may be used to adapt file delivery to network conditions. | 2014-04-17 |
20140105020 | FRAME TRANSFER APPARATUS AND FRAME TRANSFER METHOD - There is provided a frame transfer apparatus, which includes: a storage unit configured to store an address and a port in association with the address; a receiving unit configured to receive a frame; a switch unit configured to determine an output port based on a destination address of a received frame; and a transmitting unit configured to transmit the received frame, from the output port determined by the switch unit, wherein the switch unit includes a copying unit configured to copy the received frame when the destination address of the received frame has not been stored in the storage unit, and a rate control unit configured to control an output rate of a frame to be copied. | 2014-04-17 |
20140105021 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ESTIMATING NETWORK MAXIMUM DELAY, AND APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING NETWORK ADMISSION - Disclosed are an apparatus and method for estimating network maximum delay. The method of estimating network maximum delay may include: estimating first maximum delay using a first parameter caused from a flow and a second parameter caused from a network; estimating second maximum delay using a probability distribution based on packet delay information about the flow admitted to the network; and estimating a mixed maximum delay by mixing the first maximum delay and the second maximum delay. | 2014-04-17 |
20140105022 | PACKET PROCESSORS AND PACKET FILTER PROCESSES, CIRCUITS, DEVICES, AND SYSTEMS - A packet filter ( | 2014-04-17 |
20140105023 | System and Method for Assigning Paths for Data Flows Through a Wide-Area Network - A method includes, receiving a plurality of data flows. A respective data flow includes a respective source address and a respective destination address. The method further includes generating, without regard to priorities associated with the plurality of data flows, an ordering of the plurality of data flows; and iteratively modifying, without regard to the priorities, the ordering of the plurality of data flows by applying a randomization algorithm to the plurality of data flows, until a cost associated with path assignments for the ordering of the plurality of data flows satisfies a predetermined condition. A respective path assignment for a respective data flow specifies a respective path from a respective source address to a respective destination address. The method also includes executing the data flows based on the path assignments for the ordering of the plurality of data flows having the cost that satisfies the predetermined condition. | 2014-04-17 |
20140105024 | APPARATUS FOR ETHERNET TRAFFIC AGGREGATION OF RADIO LINKS - A multi-radio device system includes a set of sending radio devices and a set of receiving radio devices. Among the sending radio devices is a load-balancing radio device that receives data packets from an originating network. The load-balancing radio device labels data packets with sequence numbers and distributes the labeled data packets among the sending radio devices based on the relative capacities and statuses of those sending radio devices. The sending radio devices transmit the labeled data packets to the receiving radio devices. The receiving radio devices send the labeled data packets to an aggregating radio device within the set of receiving radio devices. The aggregating radio device uses the sequence numbers to ensure that the data packets are forwarded to a destination network in the correct order, extracting original data packets from the labeled data packets before forwarding the original data packets on toward the destination network. | 2014-04-17 |
20140105025 | Dynamic Assignment of Traffic Classes to a Priority Queue in a Packet Forwarding Device - Responsive to detecting a predetermined time of day, packet forwarding treatment is changed in accordance with at least one class of packet flow from a first packet forwarding treatment to a second packet forwarding treatment. | 2014-04-17 |
20140105026 | Adaptive Rate Control in a Communications System - The invention relates to a method for controlling a bit-rate of a session in a packet-switched communications system where multiple sessions are set-up via a shared resource. A current bit-rate of the session is compared to a bit-rate range valid for the session to determine a distance from the position of the current bit-rate to one of the end-points of the bit-rate range. The current bit-rate is then adapted differently depending on the distance to the selected end-point. By controlling the bit-rate of each session that is set-up via the shared resource for applications that provide delay-sensitive services to users in this way the method and corresponding system and sender-receiver arrangements have the effect that rate adaptations can be distributed among the applications so that users share responsibility for rate adaptations. | 2014-04-17 |
20140105027 | TRANSMISSION PRIORITY PATHS IN MESH NETWORKS - In one embodiment, a node may determine a trigger for establishing transmission priority on a path through a shared-media communication network for priority traffic to a particular node. As such, the node may generate a path clear message (PCM) that would instruct one or more receiving nodes along the path to suspend transmission for traffic other than the priority traffic for a specified duration, and also to transmit a local non-repeated distributed message to one or more neighbor nodes of each respective receiving node, the local non-repeated distributed message to instruct the neighbor nodes to suspend transmission for the specified duration. After transmitting the PCM along the path to the particular node to establish the transmission priority for the priority traffic along the path through the shared-media network, the priority traffic may be transmitted to the particular node along the path during the transmission priority. | 2014-04-17 |
20140105028 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REDUCING PAGING IN UTRAN/GERAN/E-UTRAN NETWORKS WHEN IDLE SIGNALING REDUCTION IS ACTIVE - Systems and methods are provided for avoiding excessive paging through messaging-based solutions on a mobile network that supports multiple radio access technologies (RATs), such as both Long Term Evolution (LTE) and Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM)/Enhanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution (EDGE)/Universal Mobile Communications System (UMTS) technology, even in situations where the present location of the UE is not known. Preventing paging in access networks where the UE is not present ensures efficient use of radio resources in the paging channel and reduces signaling load on other interfaces. In one embodiment, a user equipment (UE) is simultaneously connected to a Serving General Packet Radio System (GPRS) Support Node (SGSN) and a Mobility Management Entity (MME). By using signaling between the SGSN and MME, the location of the UE may be tracked without requiring unnecessary paging, even when the UE is in IDLE mode or is inactive. | 2014-04-17 |
20140105029 | DETECTION OF CABLING ERROR IN COMMUNICATION NETWORK - In one embodiment, a method at a network device includes receiving a link layer advertisement, comparing information in the link layer advertisement with connectivity information stored at the network device, and based on the comparison, determining if there is a cabling error between the network device and a link peer transmitting the link layer advertisement. An apparatus and logic are also disclosed herein. | 2014-04-17 |
20140105030 | MEASUREMENT OF FIELD RELIABILITY METRICS - A system that incorporates teachings of the subject disclosure may include an access segment of a mobility network in which routers receive network traffic data from base transceiver stations, forward the network traffic data by way of aggregation routers, originate probe packets directed to a targeted one of the base transceiver station and the aggregation router to determine, by way of an expected reply to each probe packet, reachability of the targeted one of the base transceiver station or the aggregation router. A change from reachability to unreachability of the targeted one of the base transceiver station or the aggregation router is determined to be an indication of service impacted outage. Determined service impacted outages are logged. Reliability metrics, such as average uptime, are computed from reachability status to quantify the impact of service level outages perceptible by the mobile communication devices. Other embodiments are disclosed. | 2014-04-17 |
20140105031 | FEATURE PEER NETWORK REPRESENTATIONS AND SCALABLE FEATURE PEER NETWORK MANAGEMENT - A device receives packets of an application flow, and inspects one or more of the packets of the application flow. The device determines, based on the inspection of the one or more packets, a service graph of feature peers for the packets of the application flow. The feature peers are associated with a network and the service graph includes an ordered set of the feature peers. The device creates a representation of the service graph. The representation includes an ordered set of feature elements that represent the feature peers of the service graph. The device provides the representation of the service graph to a controller device, and the controller device configures, based on the representation, the network with the service graph so that the packets of the application flow traverse the service graph. | 2014-04-17 |
20140105032 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ANALYZING SIGNALING TRAFFIC - A method and an apparatus for analyzing signaling traffic are disclosed by the embodiments of the present invention, which relate to the field of wireless communications, and are capable of analyzing signaling traffic and obtaining an analysis result. The method of the present invention includes: obtaining the number of signaling messages generated in the process that a terminal device transmits a packet according to user-plane data of the terminal device, where the user-plane data includes an interval between packets transmitted by a terminal device or the length of each packet transmitted by the terminal device; and analyzing the number of signaling messages generated in the process that the terminal device transmits a packet and obtaining an analysis result, where the analysis result includes address information about a terminal device that generates anomaly signaling traffic and/or characteristic information that affects signaling traffic. | 2014-04-17 |
20140105033 | DUPLICATING TRAFFIC ALONG LOCAL DETOURS BEFORE PATH REMERGE TO INCREASE PACKET DELIVERY - In one embodiment, a source node monitors a quality of a primary link, and forwards one or more duplicate copies of a packet in response to poor quality of the primary link. Specifically, forwarding generally comprises transmitting a first copy of the packet on the primary link with an indication of duplicate copies, and transmitting a second copy of the packet on a backup link with an indication of duplicate copies. In another embodiment, an intermediate node receives a first copy of a packet with an indication of duplicate copies, and stores an identifier of the first copy of the packet in response to the indication. Upon receiving a second copy of the packet with the indication of duplicate copies, the node determines whether the identifier of the second copy matches the stored identifier of the first copy, such that in response to a match, the second copy is dropped. | 2014-04-17 |
20140105034 | METHOD AND ETHERNET SWITCHING DEVICE FOR DETECTING LOOP POSITION IN ETHERNET - A method for detecting loop position in an Ethernet network, includes: the Ethernet switch device learns a MAC address; in a MAC table, a first MAC address corresponds to a first port before the leaning of MAC address, and the first MAC address corresponds to a second port after the learning of MAC address; if the second port and the first port do not belong to the same sub-network, an interval between a time of learning on the second port and a time of transmitting a last packet or receiving a last packet from the first port is calculated; and if the interval is smaller than a predetermined judgment threshold of host migration, it is determined that a loop exists in a sub-network connected to the second port. | 2014-04-17 |
20140105035 | DATA RATE DETERMINATION BASED ON RADIO FREQUENCY DEVICE FEEDBACK - A device may receive information that identifies a radio frequency condition of a user device, where the radio frequency condition indicates a quality of a radio access network connection of the user device. The device may determine a radio frequency parameter value based on the radio frequency condition, and may set a data rate for a transmission control protocol (“TCP”) communication with the user device based on the radio frequency parameter value. | 2014-04-17 |
20140105036 | System and Method of Implementing Quality of Service over a Packet-Based Network - A method includes, at a first network endpoint, determining whether a second network endpoint supports receipt of a stream of packets having a quality of service indicator. The method further includes, at the first network endpoint, in response to determining that the second network endpoint supports receipt of the stream of packets having the quality of service indicator, generating and sending the stream of packets having the quality of service indicator and including forward error correction data to the second network endpoint. | 2014-04-17 |
20140105037 | Determining Transmission Parameters for Transmitting Beacon Framers - A method includes dynamically determining transmission parameters for transmission of beacon frames corresponding to a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) supported by an access point. The transmission parameters being based on zero or more client devices connected to the WLAN or monitored data indicative of a load at the access point. | 2014-04-17 |
20140105038 | Media Flow Tracing in Third Party Devices - In one implementation, performance statistics for a provider network are compiled and delivered outside of the provider network. The provider network includes a media trace proxy server that receives a media trace query for a media stream of a customer edge network device. The media trace proxy server initiates a route discovery process on the provider network in response to the request or in response to at least one network device in the provider network being nonresponsive to similar types of media trace queries. The media trace proxy server collects performance statistics from the at least one network device and forwards the performance statistics of the at least one network device to the customer edge network device. The performance statistics may include only those statistics authorized by a subscription level or administrative region of the customer edge network device. | 2014-04-17 |
20140105039 | DYNAMIC FEATURE PEER NETWORK FOR APPLICATION FLOWS - A device receives packets of a traffic flow, and inspects one or more of the packets of the traffic flow. The device determines, based on the inspection of the one or more packets, a service graph of feature peers for the packets of the traffic flow. The feature peers are associated with a network, and the service graph includes an ordered set of the feature peers. The device configures network devices of the network with the service graph, and the network devices forward the packets of the traffic flow to the feature peers based on the service graph and without changing the traffic flow. | 2014-04-17 |
20140105040 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR UPLINK POWER CONTROL IN AN ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A communication system minimizes inter-cell interference and handover holes by providing for a user equipment (UE) to monitor downlink signals from a serving, boundary eNodeB and one or more neighbor eNodeBs, determine a signal quality metric (SQM) for each monitored signal to produce an SQM associated with each eNodeB, and determine a maximum uplink transmit power level (PMAX) for each eNodeB. Based on the determined SQMs and PMAXs, the UE determines a eNodeB of the one or more neighbor eNodeBs with a best SQM and, in response to determining that the neighbor eNodeB of the one or more neighbor eNodeBs with a best SQM is a high power eNodeB, determines a difference between the SQM associated with the high power ENodeB and the SQM associated with the boundary eNodeB. The UE then sets a PMAX for the UE based on the difference determination. | 2014-04-17 |
20140105041 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PACKET LOSS RATE-BASED CODEC ADAPTATION - A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for wireless communication are provided where, at a first wireless node, a weighted average of a frame loss rate is determined for a plurality of frames transmitted from a second wireless node using a first codec; feedback is transmitted to the second wireless node based at least in part on the frame loss rate; and one or more frames are received from the second wireless node using a second codec, responsive to transmitting the feedback. Also, transmitting from a first wireless node a plurality of frames to a second wireless node using a first codec; receiving frame loss rate information from the second wireless node responsive to the transmitting; selecting a second codec, based at least in part on the frame loss rate information, and transmitting a second plurality of frames to the second wireless node using the second codec. | 2014-04-17 |
20140105042 | Methods and Arrangements for Reference Signal Measurements - Embodiments are disclosed which improve the accuracy of measurement quantities obtained based on filtered measurements, by enabling filter memory reset events triggered by specific configuration and/or reconfiguration commands. According to some embodiments, a method for obtaining a measurement quantity is provided. The measurement quantity is based on a filtered reference signal (RS) measurement value. The method is executed in a wireless device, e.g. a user equipment (UE). According to the method, the wireless device receives ( | 2014-04-17 |
20140105043 | NETWORK ISOLATION SYSTEM - A network isolation system may include a network interface, a power level detector, and a processor. The network interface may be configured to receive signals over channels, where the signals include at least one local network signal, e.g. a signal originating on a local network, and at least one non-local network signal, e.g. a signal originating on a non-local network. The power level detector may be configured to determine attenuation values of the received signals. The signal processor may be configured to discard a first signal and reallocate the channel over which the first signal was received, without processing the first signal in a frequency domain, when the attenuation value of the first signal fails to satisfy a signal threshold. In one or more implementations, the signal threshold may differentiate the local network signal from the non-local network signal based at least in part on the determined attenuation values. | 2014-04-17 |
20140105044 | GENERAL PACKET RADIO SERVICE TUNNEL PERFORMANCE MONITORING - Arrangements include methods and systems for enabling collection of end to end performance information of individual tunnels in a GPRS. According to one aspect, a GTP-U sender node is configured to provide to a GTP-U receiver node a sequence number for a G-PDU to enable determination of a first set of one-way performance data of a GTP-U tunnel to be monitored. The GTP-U sender node may further be configured to provide an exit timestamp for a G-PDU to enable determination of a second set of one-way performance data of the GTP-U tunnel to be monitored. Either one or both of the sender node and the receiver node may send G-PDU performance monitor records to a GTP-U performance monitor collector. | 2014-04-17 |
20140105045 | TERMINAL, AND SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MONITORING WIRELESS NETWORK - Provided are a terminal and a system and method for monitoring a wireless network. The system for monitoring a wireless network includes: a first terminal including: a packet gap model (PGM) transmission unit for transmitting a plurality of measurement packets at a previously calculated transmission time interval; and a channel quality indicator (CQI) unit for acquiring information regarding channel quality of a wireless communication channel to measure an assured maximum increment of speed of the network; a second terminal including a PGM reception unit for receiving the measurement packets and measuring a non-assured maximum possible speed of the network from a reception time interval of the received measurement packets; and a wireless access point connected with the first terminal through the wireless communication channel. | 2014-04-17 |
20140105046 | USER EQUIPMENT LINK QUALITY ESTIMATION BASED ON POSITIONING - Systems, methods, and apparatuses for estimating a user equipment link quality based on a positioning of user equipment are provided. One method includes determining a plurality of link qualities (LQs) of the user equipment (UE) for a plurality of positionings of the UE, wherein at least one of the plurality of positionings includes at least a location or an orientation of the UE, storing information associated with the plurality of LQs for the plurality of positionings, estimating at least one future positioning of the UE, and estimating a future link quality (LQ) of the UE at the at least one future positioning of the UE based on the stored information associated with the plurality of LQs at the plurality of positionings of the UE. | 2014-04-17 |
20140105047 | INTERFERENCE CHARACTERIZATION BASED ON SCHEDULING A TRANSMISSION MODE - Systems, methods, and apparatuses for characterizing interference based on scheduling a transmission mode are provided. One method includes wirelessly communicating, by a base station (BS), with a plurality of user equipment (UE), selecting one or more other base stations (BSs) associated with the BS, scheduling the selected one or more other BSs associated with the BS to transmit according to at least one transmission mode during a scheduled transmission, and characterizing, by at least one of the plurality of UE, interference at the UE during the scheduled transmission. | 2014-04-17 |
20140105048 | SCHEDULING A USER EQUIPMENT TRANSMISSION MODE TO ASSIST UPLINK INTERFERENCE CHARACTERIZATION - Systems, methods, and apparatuses for scheduling a user equipment transmission mode to assist uplink interference characterization are provided. One method includes a first base station (BS) wirelessly communicating with a first plurality of user equipment (UE), selecting a second BS associated with the first BS, the second BS wirelessly communicating with a second plurality of UE, selecting a UE from the second plurality of UE, scheduling the selected UE to transmit according to a transmission mode during a scheduled transmission, and characterizing, by the first BS, interference of the selected UE at the first BS during the scheduled transmission. | 2014-04-17 |
20140105049 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING CHANNEL STATE INFORMATION OF DOWNLINK CHANNEL IN MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method for sending a Channel State Information (CSI) report for a Downlink (DL) channel by a User Equipment (UE) in a mobile communication system is provided. The method includes obtaining, from an evolved Node B (eNB), CSI report setting information including information about a transmission cycle and a transmission time for a CSI report, and Discontinuous Reception (DRX) setting information including information about an active time period in which signal transmission/reception is available in a DRX mode, determining whether the UE operates in the DRX mode, and if the UE is determined to operate in the DRX mode, adjusting the transmission time taking into account the CSI report setting information and the active time period, and sending the CSI report at the adjusted transmission time. | 2014-04-17 |
20140105050 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SEAMLESS HANDOVER OPERATION IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and apparatus for improving a mobile problem caused by a narrow handover region in a boundary region between virtual cells constructed by a plurality of small base stations are provided. A plurality of Virtual Cells (VCs) include a plurality of Distributed Base Stations (DBSs) whose VCs cooperatively communicate with each other. An Intermediate Distributed Base Station (I-DBS) is located in a region where adjacent at least two VCs among the plurality of VCs are superimposed, and belongs to a different VC according to a time division scheme. | 2014-04-17 |
20140105051 | Method and System for WLAN Connection Control - Embodiments of the invention proxy control the establishment or continued existence of a WLAN connection by using the back end authentication mechanism to authenticate/de-authenticate a WLAN session in dependence on the experienced quality of the connection during the set-up phase or session itself. This has the effect of preventing a bad quality connection from being established or from continuing, and hence should improve the user experience, and help a WLAN network operator maintain a service with high Quality of Service (QoS). | 2014-04-17 |
20140105052 | UPLINK RESOURCE ALLOCATION TO CONTROL INTERCELL INTERFERENCE IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Embodiments of the present invention exploit the reciprocity of radio channels in TDD, and longer-term correlation between average uplink and downlink path losses in FDD wireless communication systems to enable distributed schedulers in an enhanced uplink system to allocate uplink transmission resources while preemptively managing intercell interference levels. Each cell's base station transmits a downlink reference signal at a known transmission power level. A mobile station monitors the received signal strength of the downlink reference signals from multiple base stations. The transmitted and received signal strength levels can be used by the mobile station to estimate the amount of intercell interference that the mobile station's uplink transmissions cause, and the mobile station's uplink transmission parameters are adjusted accordingly. In further embodiments, the received reference signal power levels, or values derived therefrom, are transmitted by the mobile station to its serving base station, where a scheduling algorithm uses the information to adjust one or more transmission parameters relating to a grant of uplink transmission resources to the UE, thereby controlling the intercell interference generated by the mobile station's uplink transmissions. | 2014-04-17 |
20140105053 | ESTIMATION OF FREQUENCY OFFSET BETWEEN A BASE STATION AND MOBILE TERMINAL - A method and apparatus for frequency offset estimation exploits the differences in reference symbol timing for different channels to resolve ambiguities in the frequency offset estimation. Based on the initial frequency offset estimates, a hypothesis table is constructed providing hypothesized frequency offsets for each channel for a plurality of possible offset regions. An error metric for each offset region is calculated based on the difference of the hypothesized frequency offsets. The set of hypothesized frequency offsets that minimize the error metric is selected as the final frequency offset estimates. | 2014-04-17 |
20140105054 | Method and System for Long-Range Adaptive Mobile Beam-Forming Ad-Hoc Communication System with Integrated Positioning - Method and system for provided a long range, high capacity ad-hoc mobile communication network where a narrow antenna beam formed by a plurality of antenna elements, radio transceivers and digital spatial signal processing is used to provide a high accuracy positioning system integrated into the communication system. The relative positions and directive orientation of all the units in the network is done by mutual exchange of positioning data as an element in the communication protocol in the network. | 2014-04-17 |
20140105055 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING CHANNEL STATE INFORMATION IN MULTI-NODE SYSTEM - The present invention provides a method and apparatus in which user equipment sends channel state information. The method includes receiving mapping information informing an uplink (UL) channel mapped to a reference signal; determining a valid downlink (DL) subframe based on the mapping information; measuring the reference signal in the valid DL subframe; and transmitting Channel State Information (CSI), generated based on the measurement, in a configured UL subframe, wherein the UL channel is placed in the configured UL subframe, and the valid DL subframe is a DL subframe including the reference signal mapped to the UL channel. | 2014-04-17 |
20140105056 | ACTIVATION OF SUPPLEMENTARY TRANSMISSION UNIT - A telecommunications method in a wireless communication network comprising a base station, a supplementary transmission unit and one or more user equipments, the supplementary transmission unit being initially in a dormant state in which it does not transmit; wherein based on the configuration from the base station the supplementary transmission unit measures a parameter of uplink transmission from the user equipment towards the base station; and a decision is made as to whether to activate the supplementary transmission unit in dependence upon the measured parameter. | 2014-04-17 |
20140105057 | METHOD AND USER EQUIPMENT FOR DETERMINING CONTROL CHANNEL RESOURCE - The present invention discloses a method and a user equipment for determining a control channel resource. The method includes: detecting a downlink control channel that carries scheduling information of a downlink data channel and is sent by a base station, where the downlink control channel is formed by at least one control channel logical element, and the at least one control channel logical element is mapped to at least one antenna port; acquiring at least one of antenna port information of a first antenna port corresponding to a first control channel logical element of the successfully detected downlink control channel and an offset, and sequence number information of the first control channel logical element; and determining, according to at least one of the antenna port information and the offset, as well as the sequence number information. | 2014-04-17 |
20140105058 | Method and System for Measuring Wireless Link Quality - The present disclosure discloses a method and network device for measuring wireless link quality. The disclosed network device retrieves a plurality of packet transmission data corresponding to a plurality of transmission rates at which packets are transmitted over a wireless link between two wireless nodes in a wireless network. The network device also determines a wireless link quality metric value corresponding to the wireless link at least based on at least an average throughput associated with the plurality of transmission rates. The wireless link quality metric value can be further based on a maximum throughput corresponding to a hardware component in at least one of the two wireless nodes. The wireless link quality metric value can be used in monitoring or managing the wireless network. | 2014-04-17 |
20140105059 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SESSION ADMISSION CONTROL IN BROADBAND WIRELESS NETWORK - A method and system for providing session admission control for a new session in a broadband wireless network is provided. The method may include obtaining a guaranteed bit rate, a priority level, and a quality of service class indicator for the new session. The method may further include calculating an available capacity by utilizing the guaranteed bit rate. The method may further include searching through existing sessions for a first plurality of existing sessions having same quality of service class indicator as the new session and priority level lower than the priority level for the new session, if the available capacity is found to be a negative value. The method may further include filtering the first plurality of existing sessions to obtain a second existing session, preempting the second existing session, and admitting the new session in response to the preempting. | 2014-04-17 |
20140105060 | PERFORMANCE MONITORING OF CONTROL AND PROVISIONING OF WIRELESS ACCESS POINTS (CAPWAP) CONTROL CHANNELS - A method and system for enabling collection of end to end performance information for a control and provisioning of wireless access points, CAPWAP, bi-directional control channel established between first and second CAPWAP nodes are disclosed. According to one aspect, the system provides a first CAPWAP channel endpoint in the first CAPWAP node configured to provide a first plurality of sequence numbers in request messages on the CAPWAP bi-directional control channel. A second CAPWAP channel endpoint in the second CAPWAP node is configured to send a second plurality of sequence numbers in CAPWAP response messages on the CAPWAP bi-directional control channel, in response to the request messages. The first and second plurality of sequence numbers enable determination of a first set of one-way performance data for each direction of the CAPWAP bi-directional control channel. | 2014-04-17 |
20140105061 | Method and System to Configure Network Devices - A method includes determining, for a particular time period, a scheduled location for a device based on a schedule corresponding to a user of the device. The method further includes configuring a set of network devices, that have a signal coverage area which includes the scheduled location, such that a first subset of the network devices is configured for connecting with the first client device during the particular time period and a second subset of network devices is configured for not connecting with the first client device during the particular time period. | 2014-04-17 |
20140105062 | FEATURE PEER NETWORK WITH SCALABLE STATE INFORMATION - A device receives feature peer packets including feature peer state information. The feature peer packets are received from a first set of feature peers provided at a first location and associated with a service graph associated with a user device of a customer. The device receives customer packets including customer state information, and receives a request for the feature peer packets and the customer packets based on movement of the user device to a second location. The device provides, based on the request, the feature peer packets and the customer packets to a storage device at the second location. The storage device provides the feature peer packets and the customer packets to a second set of feature peers provided at the second location. The second set of feature peers establish a relocated service graph for the user device based on the feature peer packets and the customer packets. | 2014-04-17 |
20140105063 | DUTY CYCLE CONTROL METHOD AND APPARATUS TO MITIGATE LATENCY FOR DUTY CYCLE-BASED WIRELESS LOW-POWER MAC - Disclosed are a duty cycle control method and apparatus to mitigate latency for duty cycle wireless low-power MAC. The duty cycle control method according to an embodiment of the present invention can control a duty cycle depending on traffic conditions in the asynchronous duty cycle-based low-power MAC to mitigate the packet transmission latency between nodes without significant damage of unique low power characteristics. | 2014-04-17 |
20140105064 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PATH INDICATION - Aspects of the disclosure provide a method for generating a Layer 2 path indication by a processor. The method includes receiving, by the processor, a request for providing a Layer 2 path indication between a first host and a second host in a network. Nodes in the network are configured to form a plurality of sub-networks to enable data transfer from one host to another host within a sub-network via a Layer 2 path formed of a sequence of intermediate nodes in the same sub-network. The method further includes identifying, by the processor, a sub-network within the network to which the first host and the second host belong, and determining, by the processor, within the sub-network a sequence of intermediate nodes on a path for Layer 2 data transfer between the first host and the second host. | 2014-04-17 |
20140105065 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND COMMUNICATION PARAMETER CONFIGURATION METHOD THEREOF - A communication apparatus functioning as a master device denies participation by new communication apparatuses in a network in communication parameter configuration mode based on participation statuses of communication apparatuses functioning as slave devices in the network. The communication apparatus functioning as a master device establishes the network in communication parameter configuration mode between the communication apparatuses participating in the network, and configures communication parameters. | 2014-04-17 |
20140105066 | METHOD FOR CONFIGURING A NETWORK - The present invention relates to a method for configuring a network comprising a maintenance entity and a plurality of nodes, the method comprising at the maintenance entity, the steps of: (a) detecting a potential presence in the network of at least one limited node, said limited node being able to receive data only within time periods; (b) determining that an updated network configuration parameter value is required, said network configuration parameter being common to the at least one limited node and to the plurality nodes of the network; (c) postponing a transmission of a signal for updating the network configuration parameter value at the plurality of nodes, based on the detection of the potential presence of the at least one limited node in the network; (d) transmitting a triggering signal for triggering delivery of the updated network configuration parameter value to the limited device; (e) transmitting the signal for updating the updated network configuration parameter value at the plurality of nodes. | 2014-04-17 |
20140105067 | Method, Device and System for Starting Routing Function and Transmitting Data - A method, a device and a system for enabling a routing function and transmitting data, which relate to the field of communications, and are capable of sharing a single session task through a plurality of access points, thereby ensuring data transmission quality. When a station uses an external network identifiable address, and performs data transmission of a single session task through a first access point, an address of a club routing function (CR) router connected to the first access point is determined; at least one second access point connected to the same CR router with the first access point is determined. | 2014-04-17 |
20140105068 | Methods for Zero Loss and Nonstop Packet Processing During System Software Upgrades - A method implemented in a network component for an in-service software upgrade (ISSU), the method comprising selecting a forwarding core (FC) for upgrade from a plurality of FCs that run at a data plane on a printed circuit board of the network component to process and forward a plurality of packets, and resetting the selected FC with a software upgrade, wherein at least one of the other FCs continues processing and forwarding packets when the selected FC is upgraded. | 2014-04-17 |
20140105069 | Mobile Network Management Using Multiple Wireless Modems - Presented is a system and method for providing mobile network management using multiple wireless modems. The method includes receiving a plurality of parameters relating to a plurality of wireless networks using a plurality of wireless modems each operable for communication according to one of the plurality of wireless networks. The method further includes evaluating the plurality of parameters according to one or more connection rules. Based on the evaluating, a connection is established to a first wireless network of the plurality of wireless networks using a first wireless modem of the plurality of wireless modems operable for communication according to the first wireless network. | 2014-04-17 |
20140105070 | MANAGING MAPPING IN NETWORKS - A method for managing mapping in a network includes: programming mapping relationships between a VSAN and a VLAN of a fabric in advance, which include mapping relationships between VSANs and VLANs programmed in advance for each FCoE switch needed by the fabric; obtaining mapping relationships between the VSANs and the VLANs configured currently for all the FCoE switches of the fabric, when obtained mapping relationships are inconsistent with the programmed-in-advance mapping relationships, automatically updating mapping relationships between the VSANs and the VLANs configured in FCoE switches corresponding to the inconsistent mapping relationships, and/or mapping relationships between the VSANs and the VLANs programmed in advance for the FCoE switches corresponding to the inconsistent mapping relationships. | 2014-04-17 |
20140105071 | PROVIDER LINK STATE BRIDGING (PLSB) COMPUTATION METHOD - A method of multicast route computation in a link state protocol controlled network. A spanning tree is computed from a first node to every other node in the network using a known spanning tree protocol. The network is then divided into two or more partitions, each partition encompassing an immediate neighbour node of the first node and any nodes of the network subtending the neighbour node on the spanning tree. Two or more of the partitions are merged when a predetermined criterion is satisfied. Nodes within all of the partitions except a largest one of the partitions are then identified, and each identified node examined to identify node pairs for which a respective shortest path traverses the first node. | 2014-04-17 |
20140105072 | COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM AND INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - A computer-readable recording medium stores therein a patch determination program causing a computer to execute a process including acquiring, from each of nodes constituting a layer 2 network, node information indicating an adjacent node to be selected as a relay destination of data by each of the nodes among adjacent nodes adjacent to each of the nodes; and extracting each route on which the data is relayed in the layer 2 network based on the acquired node information of each of the nodes and connection information between the nodes. | 2014-04-17 |
20140105073 | MMTEL NETWORK CALL LOGGING - A data handling unit and a method therein for handling information regarding call events in a Multimedia Telephony Service, MMTel, network are provided for enabling call logging, wherein a SIP Message comprising call log information referring to a call event is generated for the call event and sent to a storage server. The method comprises receiving information on at least one call event, generating a SIP Message comprising call log information referring to the call event, and sending the generated SIP Message towards a storage server. | 2014-04-17 |
20140105074 | NODE IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, THE NODE HAVING DIFFERENT FUNCTIONAL MODES - The present invention relates to a node ( | 2014-04-17 |
20140105075 | BASE STATION AND METHOD FOR CONFIGURING SUB-FRAMES FOR RELAY-NODE OPERATIONS - A frame structure for support of large delay spread deployment scenarios (e.g., cellular system operation in large cell sizes or low frequency bands) is generally presented. In this regard a method is introduced comprising partitioning a radio frame into a plurality of equal-sized (or non-equal-sized) sub-frames to simplify system implementation. Other embodiments are also disclosed and claimed. | 2014-04-17 |
20140105076 | METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING CONTROL INFORMATION AND APPARATUS THEREFOR - The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. In more detail, the present invention relates to a method and device for transmitting uplink control information in a wireless communication system that supports carrier merging and operates in TDD, and the method comprises the following steps: receiving at least one or more than one PDCCH and more than one PDSCH from a plurality of downlink sub frames according to a UL-DL configuration: determining a bit number of reception response information on the at least one of more than one PDCCH and more than one PDSCH by using a value indicated by a predetermined 2-bit field in a DCI format for UL scheduling; and transmitting the reception response information through PUSCH corresponding to the DIC format. | 2014-04-17 |
20140105077 | TIME DIVISION DUPLEX TDD COMMUNICATION METHOD, BASE STATION, AND USER EQUIPMENT - The present invention discloses a time division duplex TDD communication method, including: reserving, by a base station, in a second subframe, acknowledgment channel resources for each subframe in a first subframe set, where acknowledgement channel resources reserved for at least two subframes in the first subframe set completely or partly overlap; and transmitting, by the base station, in the first subframe set, data with a first user equipment. By using the method of the present invention, because acknowledgement channel resources reserved for at least two subframes in the first subframe set completely or partly overlap, overheads of acknowledgment channel resources reserved for the first subframe set are small when there are a large quantity of subframes in the first subframe set. | 2014-04-17 |
20140105078 | Method for Switching Working Mode on Relay Network, Base Station, Relay Node, and Communications System - The present invention provides a method for switching a working mode on a relay network, a base station, a relay node, and a communications system. A donor eNB (DeNB) sends an RN reconfiguration message to a relay node RN in frequency division duplex FDD mode, so that the RN switches from the FDD mode to a half-duplex frequency division duplex H-FDD mode. The DeNB receives an acknowledgment message sent by the RN in FDD mode. When the DeNB verifies, according to the RN reconfiguration message and the acknowledgement message, that the RN has already started to switch from the FDD mode to the H-FDD mode, the DeNB switches from the FDD mode to the H-FDD mode. | 2014-04-17 |
20140105079 | DUAL SWAPPING SWITCHES TO MEET LINEARITY DEMANDS OF CARRIER AGGREGATION - Antenna switch structures having dual switches for swapping high band main and diversity signals and low band main and diversity signals on multiple antennas, including dual-band antennas. Related systems and devices are also described. | 2014-04-17 |
20140105080 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION PROGRAM - There is provided a wireless communication apparatus capable of using a first MAC protocol and a second MAC protocol including one wireless communication unit. The wireless communication unit includes: a MAC protocol control unit carrying out state transitions and processing in a present state according to the first MAC protocol and the second MAC protocol; and a frame communication unit carrying out communication of frames according to the first MAC protocol and communication of frames according to the second MAC protocol whose frame format is the same as the frames according to the first MAC protocol. | 2014-04-17 |
20140105081 | COMMUNICATION NETWORK SYSTEM - In a communication network system with a plurality of nodes connected to a common transmission line, each master candidate node includes an idle time measurement device for measuring an idle time of the transmission line. Once each master candidate node acquires the master privilege and becomes a master node, the master node retains a master privilege until the idle time of the transmission line exceeds a longest of the privilege acquisition idle time widths of the master candidate nodes, the root node transmits a start frame indicating start of a next communicant cycle and the idle time measurement device is cleared upon receipt of the start frame. | 2014-04-17 |
20140105082 | Power Management for Data Transfers in Network Devices - Disclosed is a method of wireless communication for use by a device and the associated device. The method includes receiving a data transfer schedule and determining that the data transfer schedule includes an isochronous traffic stream for the device. After the determining, the method includes extracting an allocation period of the isochronous traffic stream from the data transfer schedule, determining a wakeup schedule for the device having a sleep interval based on the allocation period, and entering a power save mode using the wakeup schedule. The method may further include determining that the data transfer schedule does not include an isochronous traffic stream for the device. After this determining, the method may include requesting a wakeup schedule of a source device, and determining the wakeup schedule for the device having the sleep interval based on the wakeup schedule for the source device entering a power save mode using the wakeup schedule for the device. | 2014-04-17 |
20140105083 | COOPERATIVE DATA MULES - A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for wireless communication are provided. The apparatus provides or enables dynamic cooperative wireless data delivery service based on dynamic proximate locations of mobile nodes in wireless networks. A source wireless terminal may offload data for delayed transmission by a neighboring wireless terminal. The source may attempt delayed data transmission via any cooperating neighboring node (mule), whether mobile or stationary. A utility function may be used to compare costs of communicating via direct links or through opportunistically available links provided by mules. The mule may advertise availability of indirect data delivery service including probable latency time associated with the indirect delivery service. | 2014-04-17 |
20140105084 | APPLICATION-AWARE RADIO POWER SAVING - In order to facilitate reduced power consumption of an electronic device (such as a smartphone) when communicating with another electronic device (such as an access point) in a wireless network, the electronic device may change a wake policy based on the applications executing on the electronic device. In particular, the electronic device may monitor a subset of the applications currently executed by a processor in the electronic device, where the subset can include zero or more of the applications. Based on the subset, the wake policy of an interface circuit in the electronic device may be changed. This wake policy may specify a frequency of wake ups to receive information from the other electronic device and/or monitoring of unicast or multicast bits in a Traffic Indication Map element. In this way, the time that the electronic device is in the active mode can be reduced, thereby reducing power consumption. | 2014-04-17 |
20140105085 | DEVICES AND METHODS FOR FACILITATING DISCONTINUOUS TRANSMISSION ON ACCESS TERMINALS - Access terminals are adapted to facilitate discontinuous transmission (DTX). According to one example, an access terminal can employ a short timescale DTX mode and a long timescale DTX mode independent of one another. The access terminal can determine whether a first set of predetermined factors are present. When the first set of factors are determined to be present, the access terminal may enable a short timescale DTX mode, independent of whether a long timescale DTX mode is enabled or not. A determination may also be made whether a second set of predetermined factors are present. When the second set of predetermined factors are determined to be present, the access terminal may enable a long timescale DTX mode, independent of whether the short timescale DTX mode is enabled or not. Other aspects, embodiments, and features are also included. | 2014-04-17 |
20140105086 | MOTION-BASED ADAPTIVE SCANNING - In order to facilitate reduced power consumption of an electronic device (such as a smartphone) when communicating with another electronic device (such as an access point) in a wireless network, the electronic device may change a frequency of network scans performed by an interface circuit in the electronic device based on a motion profile of the electronic device. In particular, the electronic device may determine the motion profile based on spatial information, such as: acceleration data, orientation data, Global Positioning System data and/or data from the wireless network. Then, the electronic device may change the frequency of the network scans performed by the interface circuit based on the motion profile. In this way, the frequency of the network scans can be reduced when the electronic device is stationary or moving rapidly (such as when a user of the electronic device is driving in a car). | 2014-04-17 |
20140105087 | USER EQUIPMENT AND METHOD FOR APPLICATION AGNOSTIC DISCONTINUOUS RECEPTION (DRX) TRIGGERING - Embodiments of user equipment (UE) and methods for application-agnostic discontinuous reception (DRX) triggering are generally described herein. In some embodiments, a UE is configured to monitor buffer status history and traffic activity history, and trigger DRX mode activation based on the buffer status and the traffic activity history. In some embodiments, the UE may determine a probability, based on the buffer status history and the traffic activity history, that a level of traffic activity that cannot be handled during DRX mode would occur. In these embodiments, the UE may trigger DRX mode activation when the probability is below a threshold. | 2014-04-17 |
20140105088 | System and Method for Transmitting and Receiving Acknowledgement Information - A system and method for transmitting and receiving acknowledgement information are provided. A method for communications device operations includes determining a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) response for each component carrier (CC) in a set of CCs configured by higher layer signaling, thereby producing a set of HARQ responses; generating an information vector from the set of HARQ responses, encoding the information vector; and transmitting the encoded information vector. The information vector comprises one or more bits respectively corresponding to a CC in the set of CCs. A bit is assigned a fixed value if HARQ response of a corresponding CC is set to DTX in response to no transmission detected over the CC. | 2014-04-17 |
20140105089 | POWER MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VEHICLE LOCATING UNIT - Improved power management for a vehicle locating unit is achieved by receiving a transmission from a communication source, each transmission including at least one message frame having a data field and at least one auxiliary field; entering a wake mode upon indexing the assigned message frame of the receiver in the transmission; matching the pattern of bits of at least one auxiliary field of the indexed frame with one or more stored patterns of bits expected for that auxiliary field; and returning to the sleep mode as soon as a mismatch is determined or processing the message if no mismatch occurs. | 2014-04-17 |
20140105090 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR COMMUNICATING WITH AN ACCESS POINT VIA A COMPONENT SHARED BY MULTIPLE CLIENT MODULES - A network interface including a radio frequency system with a component configured for communication with an access point. First, second and third client modules communicate with the access point according to respective wireless communication standards. The first, second and third client modules share the component, such that during respective periods the first, second and third client modules communicate with the access point via the component. The first client module transmits a request signal to the second client module while the second client module is in an idle state and the third client module is in an active state. The request signal requests access to the component. The third client module, in response to the request signal, aborts transmitting of first data to the access point and transmits an acknowledgement signal. The first client module transmits to or receives from the access point second data based on the acknowledgement signal. | 2014-04-17 |
20140105091 | METHOD FOR POWER SAVING IN WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORK AND APPARATUS FOR THE SAME - A method of power saving in a wireless local area network is provided. The method is performed by a wireless device that acquires TXOP (transmission opportunity) from an access point (AP), and the TXOP indicates an interval of time when the AP has the right to transmit at least one data block for multi user-multiple input multiple output (MU-MIMO) transmission. The method includes receiving a power saving indicator from the AP, the power saving indicator indicating whether the AP is allowed to enter doze state during the TXOP; and entering the wireless device into the doze state until the end of the TXOP if the power saving indicator indicates an allowance of entering the doze state. | 2014-04-17 |
20140105092 | REDUCING POWER CONSUMPTION ON MULTI-TRANSMITTER DEVICES - In an example embodiment, there is disclosed an apparatus comprising a first transmitter, a second transmitter, and logic coupled to the first transmitter and the second transmitter. The logic is operable to limit a time period the second transmitter is able to transmit while the first transmitter is transmitting. | 2014-04-17 |
20140105093 | Data Sending Method, Device and System - The present invention discloses a data sending method, device and system. After establishing a connection between a wireless terminal and a wireless network side, it is detected whether the wireless terminal has data to be sent to the wireless network side. The data to be sent includes signaling data or user data. If a result of the detecting is that the wireless terminal does not have data to be sent, a power amplifier of the wireless terminal is confirmed to be in a non-working state. If a result of the detecting is that the wireless terminal has data to be sent, a power amplifier of the wireless terminal is confirmed to be in a working state. | 2014-04-17 |
20140105094 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SECURE ADVERTISEMENTS AND WIRELESS DISCOVERY OF VIRTUAL CONTROLLER BASED ACCESS POINT CLUSTERS - A method for discovering the presence of virtual controller based access point groups using wireless signals. The wireless signals include advertisements which may be secure. Information related to discovered access point groups can be used for merging, over wired or wireless networks, multiple virtual controllers. | 2014-04-17 |
20140105095 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING SERVICE INTEREST INDICATION MESSAGE IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Provided are a method and an apparatus for transmitting a multimedia broadcast/multicast service (MBMS) interest indication message in a wireless communication system. A user equipment (UE) receives from a first base station system information for an MBMS which is broadcasted, and transmits the MBMS interest indication message to the first base station when the user equipment performs a handover from a second base station, which does not broadcast the system information for the MBMS, to the first base station. | 2014-04-17 |
20140105096 | Method and Apparatus for Facilitating Multicast Service - A method is provided for facilitating multicast service. The method may include receiving data multicast to members of a multicast group. The method may further include determining, based at least in part on an indication received during multicast of the data, that a late joining device has joined the multicast group subsequent to initiation of the multicast. The method may additionally include marking, based at least in part on the received indication, a point at which the late joining device began to participate in the multicast. A corresponding apparatus and computer program product are also provided. | 2014-04-17 |
20140105097 | Service Information Pushing and Receiving Method, and Related Apparatus and System - Embodiments of the present invention disclose a service information pushing and receiving method, and a related apparatus and system. The service information pushing method includes: obtaining, by a radio access point (AP), service information provided by a service provider, adding the service information to a beacon frame, and broadcasting the beacon frame. A method for receiving pushed service information includes: obtaining, by a terminal, a beacon frame that carries service information, and extracting and outputting the service information in the beacon frame. The technical solution provided by the present invention enables a terminal to receive service information in a Wi-Fi network without accessing the network. | 2014-04-17 |
20140105098 | FRAME SPECIFICATION FOR A WIRELESS NETWORK COMMUNICATION - A compressed header format is used for messages transmitted in a wireless network. The compressed header includes a first address field and a frame control field including at least one bit specifying whether the first address is for an access point of the wireless communications network. The frame control field may further include at least one additional bit identifying whether the frame is being relayed by a relay node positioned between the access point and a wireless station. The frame control field may further include at least one further bit identifying whether AID is used for the first address field. | 2014-04-17 |
20140105099 | SYSTEM FOR SYNCHRONIZING A SATELLITE POINTING DEVICE - A system for synchronizing a satellite pointing device using the transmission of a satellite synchronization signal in a set of contiguous time intervals, comprises first means of selection of at least two time intervals belonging to the set. The system also comprises second means of selection of at least two distinct transmission frequencies, each transmission frequency being associated with one of the said selected time intervals. Finally the system comprises means for modulating the synchronization signal in the selected time intervals by using the transmission frequency respectively associated with the time interval and means for demodulating the synchronization signal received. | 2014-04-17 |
20140105100 | SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, LEO SATELLITE RELAYING COMMUNICATIONS BETWEEN A GEO SATELLITE AND TERRESTRIAL STATIONS, THE UPLINKS AND DOWNLINKS USING THE SAME FREQUENCY BAND AND TIME-DIVISION MULTIPLEXING - A payload for a repeater satellite of a communication system. The repeater satellite being placed into drift orbit above the surface of a celestial body. The payload being configured to repeat data received from a stationary satellite above the surface of the celestial body towards a terminal substantially at the surface of the celestial body, and to repeat data received from the terminal towards the stationary satellite. The payload is further configured to use a single frequency band for repeating data towards the stationary satellite, referred to as uplink transmission, and for repeating data towards the terminal, referred to as downlink transmission, as well as to time-division | 2014-04-17 |
20140105101 | Method and System for Low Power Transmission and Data Alignment - A method and apparatus automatically maintains a JESD204 serial data link ( | 2014-04-17 |
20140105102 | Method for Determining Feedback Information and Circuit to Perform such Method - A method includes receiving a first signal at a circuit from a first base station and receiving a second signal at the circuit from a second base station different from the first base station. The method further includes determining a first channel estimate based on the first signal, determining a second channel estimate based on the second signal and determining a feedback information based on the first channel estimate and based on the second channel estimate. | 2014-04-17 |
20140105103 | Offloaded Security as a Service - In one implementation, traffic in a mobile network is offloaded to a security as a service server or a cloud server. A mobile access gateway (MAG) in the mobile network identifies one or more mobile nodes that are configured for communication on the mobile network. The MAG receives a message that includes an address of a mobile node and sends a request based on the message to the security as a service server. The MAG forwards traffic flows to the security as a service server according to the message, which is configured to detect an indication of malicious software in the traffic flows and/or filter content of the traffic flows according to a user profile. | 2014-04-17 |
20140105104 | Cost Optimization of Wireless-Enabled Metering Infrastructures - Embodiments of the present disclosure include a system for managing cost in a wireless enabled advanced metering infrastructure (AMI). The system includes a remote server, a wide area network, and an access point device. The system further includes wireless enabled meters coupled to each other and to the access point through a neighborhood area network (NAN). The system includes datasinks. Each datasink is a wireless enabled meter capable of being a data coordinator and capable of receiving metering information from the sensors, processing metering information, and transmitting metering information to the access point. Moreover, each wireless enabled meter is capable of being a routing node and an endpoint node. Also, a first set of wireless enabled meters are configured to be routing nodes and a second set of wireless enabled meters are configured to be endpoint nodes based on a graph theoretic algorithm to reduce the cost of the AMI. | 2014-04-17 |
20140105105 | COMMUNICATION METHOD, BASE STATION, AND MANAGEMENT APPARATUS - A communication method performed in a communication system including a base station and a plurality of terminals, the communication method including: transmitting, by the base station, a first signal specifying a representative terminal of an aggregation group to which member terminals of the plurality of terminals belongs, each of the member terminals on which common application is installed in common, and relaying, by the representative terminal, communications associated with the common application between a server apparatus and one or more non-representative terminals other than the representative terminal of the member terminals, the server apparatus providing service for the common application. | 2014-04-17 |
20140105106 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, BASE STATION APPARATUS AND MOBILE STATION APPARATUS - A base station apparatus adapted to inform a mobile station apparatus of a signature not reserved as a dedicated signature in case of causing the mobile station apparatus to perform a random access by using a randomly selected signature. | 2014-04-17 |
20140105107 | INSTANT VIDEO AND VOICEMAIL MESSAGING METHOD AND MEANS - The invention relates to the field of instant messaging. More specifically the invention relates to a server centric method and unit for instant voice and video mail messaging. Even more particularly the invention relates to voicemail messaging with mobile terminals. The inventive methods and units under study allow faster voice messaging and enable similar, but not identical audio/video message “ping ball”. The sending of voicemail in accordance with the invention is instantaneous and involves no different telephone numbers for the sender to remember. The reception of messages is always instantaneous, provided the recipient is available, and only if not available, may the delivery of the messages be delayed. | 2014-04-17 |
20140105108 | COMMUNICATING A MESSAGE REQUEST TRANSACTION TO A LOGICAL DEVICE - A general input/output communication port implements a communication stack that includes a physical layer, a data link layer and a transaction layer. The transaction layer includes assembling a packet header for a message request transaction to one or more logical devices. The packet header includes a format field to indicate the length of the packet header and to further specify whether the packet header includes a data payload, a subset of a type field to indicate the packet header relates to the message request transaction and a message field. The message field includes a message to implement the message request transaction. The message includes at least one message that is selected from a group of messages. The group of messages to include a message to unlock a logical device, a message to reset a logical device, a message to indicate a correctable error condition, a message to indicate an uncorrectable error condition, a message to indicate a fatal error condition, a message to report a bad request packet, a message to indicate power management and a message to emulate an interrupt signal. | 2014-04-17 |
20140105109 | Joint Transmission in a Wireless Network - A system for receiving joint transmission wireless signals may include a transceiver to receive a plurality of colliding wireless signals. One of the wireless signals may include reference signal data while another of the wireless signals may include user data. The reference signal data may be combined with the user data into a superimposed signal. The reference signal data may be filtered out from the superimposed data, and the user data may be decoded. | 2014-04-17 |
20140105110 | TERMINAL DEVICE, BASE STATION DEVICE, TRANSMISSION METHOD AND TRANSMIT POWER SETTING METHOD - The objective of the present invention is to provide a terminal device capable of suppressing delay in switching between transmit/receive points, and of reliably switching between the transmit/receive points. In the device, a reception processing unit ( | 2014-04-17 |
20140105111 | Over The Air Programming Via A Broadband Access Gateway - A system and method supporting over-the-air programming of access device such as, for example, a mobile multimedia handset and a wireless personal digital assistant (PDA) via a broadband access gateway, is disclosed. The broadband access gateway may receive identifying information from the access device via a personal area network and/or a wireless local area network, and may transfer the identifying information to a wide area network or a third party content provider, via a broadband network. The broadband access gateway may enable the registration of the access device with the wide area network, and may receive firmware/software updates and/or provisioning parameters via the broadband network. The gateway may then transfer the firmware/software update and/or provisioning parameters to the access device via the personal area network and/or wireless local area network. | 2014-04-17 |