16th week of 2011 patent applcation highlights part 30 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20110092151 | FEMTO JAMMING OF MACRO PILOT - A system and methodology that facilitates triggering device scanning and efficient femtocell detection in areas dominated by macro cells is provided. In particular, the system can includes a jamming component that generates a small and measured amount of interference to user equipment or user equipments (UEs) camping on nearby macro carriers. Moreover, the power utilized to introduce the interference can be enough to cause macro signal quality around the femtocell access point (AP) to fall below a scan trigger level. The UE(s) can detect the macro signal quality decline below the scan trigger level and scan other frequency bands, including the femtocell, on which to camp. Additionally, the system can perform femto pilot gating, such that the jamming component can scan the radio environment surrounding the femto AP during an off state, to determine information that facilitates jamming of a macro pilot. | 2011-04-21 |
20110092152 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING COMMUNICATION AREA BY JAMMING - A wireless communication system for geographically controlling a communication area includes an access point for communicating with a terminal in a first area, and a jammer for generating noise for intercepting communication between the access point and a terminal in a second area. A jamming boundary for dividing an area in which the terminal can communicate with the access point and an area in which the terminal cannot communicate with the access point in an area in which the first area and the second area are overlapped is formed, and the jamming boundary is formed by a ratio between power of a signal transmitted to the terminal by the access point and power of a signal of the noise. | 2011-04-21 |
20110092153 | System for the Centralized Storage of Wireless Customer Information - A system for storing subscriber information in a centralized location includes a processor, memory coupled to the processor, and a data storage device coupled to the processor. The data storage device includes a subscriber profile portion for storing personal information about a subscriber. The subscriber profile portion includes a subscriber identification portion for storing an identification string. The subscriber profile portion is associated with an account type portion for storing account information, a portal portion for storing portal information, and an account status portion for storing account status information. The data storage device further includes a subscription portion for storing subscription information. The subscription portion is associated with a device portion for storing device information, a services portion for storing services information, and a mobile subscription portion for storing mobile subscription information. | 2011-04-21 |
20110092154 | RADIO COMMUNICATION DEVICE - Disclosed is a radio communication device capable of using a resource in which the signal cannot be received by all relay stations participating in cooperative relay for a cooperative relay. A signal-receivable frequency resource determination unit | 2011-04-21 |
20110092155 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRIGGERING NETWORK DEVICE DISCOVERY - A compass output in a first portable electronic device is monitored as the first device and a second electronic device come closer to each other. It is determined, by a process running in the first device, whether a magnetic field signature that is based on the monitored compass output is associated with a previously defined type of electronic device with which a network device discovery process is to be conducted. Other embodiments are also described and claimed. | 2011-04-21 |
20110092156 | Short Range FM Modulator/Transmitter and System Incorporating Same - A short range radio transmitter device includes a radio signal modulator and transmitter, a receiver and a controller coupled to the receiver. The controller and receiver operate to examine a frequency spectrum to select a transmission frequency for the radio signal modulator and transmitter. A receiver system for use with the transmitter includes a data channel service enabled receiver and a controller. The controller of the receiver system automatically tunes the data channel service enabled receiver to a frequency identified in a data channel service component of a received signal. | 2011-04-21 |
20110092157 | Device Wearing Status Determination Using RSSI - Methods and apparatuses for determining the wearing status of body worn devices are disclosed. In one example, RSSI values are processed to identify the wearing status of a body worn device. | 2011-04-21 |
20110092158 | PORTABLE SATELLITE DATA COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND RELATED METHOD - A portable satellite data communication device that provides data communication capabilities to cellular only smartphone and similar device globally. The portable satellite data communication device is equipped with a short range wireless transceiver such as Bluetooth for communication with the smartphone and a satellite data transceiver for communication with the satellite. The device acts as network bridge between the smartphone and the satellite network. Using that device allows smartphone users to keep sending and receiving data messages like emails anywhere in the world even if there is no cellular coverage. The portable satellite data communication device also has built-in functionalities for monitoring the satellite signal and the arrival of new messages at the satellite gateway. | 2011-04-21 |
20110092159 | DISABLING OF SERVICES ON A COMMUNICATION DEVICE - A method, a system, and a computer program product for operating a communication device. A location information of a communication device is received. Based on the location information of the communication device, it is determined whether the communication device and another communication device are co-located. Based on the determination, operation of the communication device is controlled. | 2011-04-21 |
20110092160 | Mobile Device Using Low-Power Radio Link to Headset - A mobile communication device comprises a base unit and a headset in the form of a small, inconspicuous earpiece. The base unit includes a fully functional cellular transceiver and can transmit audio signals over a low power, unidirectional radio link to the headset. The headset unit comprises a unidirectional receiver for receiving audio signals from the base unit and an earphone for converting the audio signals into audible sounds that can be heard by the user. | 2011-04-21 |
20110092161 | Wireless communication apparatus for monitoring proximity of a subject - A wireless communication apparatus for monitoring proximity of an object comprising a wireless communication USB dongle, such as a Bluetooth USB dongle, specifically configured and utilized as a remote tag | 2011-04-21 |
20110092162 | Interferer Reduction - The invention is directed to a method for reducing the influence of an interfering signal S | 2011-04-21 |
20110092163 | Duty cycle estimation system and method - A method of operating a vehicle locating unit wherein an activation signal is received when the vehicle is stolen and in response to the activation signal, a signal indicating the vehicle has been stolen is transmitted. The receiver is energized for an actual duration N | 2011-04-21 |
20110092164 | WIRELESS SENSORS AND APPLICATIONS - Techniques, apparatuses, and systems can include operating a sensor to respond to one or more target environmental inputs to produce sensor data, sampling the sensor data to produce sample values, performing a sample comparison among two or more of the sample values, monitoring a power supply to ascertain a power level; and selectively transmitting measurement data to a server via one or more wireless communication channels based on the power level and the sample comparison, where the measurement data includes one or more of the sample values. | 2011-04-21 |
20110092165 | Method, Communication System and Communication Unit for Synchronisation for Multi-Rate Communication - A method, communication system and communication unit for synchronisation for multi-rate communication by transmitting a signal (FIG. | 2011-04-21 |
20110092166 | Radio Channel Control Method And Receiving Apparatus - A radio channel control method for controlling, in a radio communication system having a transmitter and a receiver, a radio channel from the transmitter toward the receiver. The method includes receiving a signal transmitted from the transmitter by the receiver, measuring reception quality of the signal, generating information which indicates increment or decrement of the reception quality, and controlling a modulation or coding for the radio channel based on the information. | 2011-04-21 |
20110092167 | Methods, Apparatuses, System, and Related Computer Program Product for Reference Signaling - It is disclosed a method including creating inquiry information related to an evaluation of at least one network terminal, and transmitting the created inquiry information in a long-range reference signal; a method including receiving the inquiry information in the long-range signal, establishing, based on the received inquiry information, report information related to a quality of the long-range reference signal, and transmitting the established report information; and a method including receiving the report information, and evaluating, based on the received report information, at least one network terminal. | 2011-04-21 |
20110092168 | Calibration of a communications transmitter to optimize DC offset rejection and image rejection - A method and apparatus is disclosed to optimize one or more operational parameters of a communications transmitter to reduce undesirable noise and/or interference embedded within a transmitted communications signal resulting from one or more imperfections. A baseband processor selects one or more calibration signals to allow for optimization of one or more statistical parameters. A calibration module determines the one or more statistical parameters of the transmitted communications signal in response to the one or more calibration signals. The calibration module provides one or more compensation parameters indicative of the one or more statistical parameters to the baseband processor module. The baseband processor adjusts the one or more operational parameters of the communications transmitter in response to the one or more compensation parameters. The calibration module and the baseband processor continue to determine the one or more statistical parameters and to adjust the one or more operational parameters in a similar manner until the one or more statistical parameters are optimized. | 2011-04-21 |
20110092169 | LR POLYPHASE FILTER - An LR polyphase filter implemented with inductors and resistors and capable of operating at high frequencies is described. In one design, the LR polyphase filter includes first and second paths, with each path including an inductor coupled to a resistor. The first and second paths receive a first input signal and provide first and second output signals, respectively, which may be in quadrature. For a differential design, the polyphase filter further includes third and fourth paths, which receive a second input signal and provide third and fourth output signals, respectively. The four output signals may be 90° out of phase. The first and second input signals are for a differential input signal. The first and third output signals are for a first differential output signal, and the second and fourth output signals are for a second differential output signal. Each inductor may be implemented with a transmission line. | 2011-04-21 |
20110092170 | PORTABLE ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS APPARATUS, COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM, METHOD OF PURGING ERROR DATA THEREFOR AND METHOD OF REDUCING RE-TUNING DELAY THEREFOR - A portable electronic communications apparatus includes a processing resource operably coupled to a Radio Data System communications unit. In at least one embodiment, the processing resource is also arranged to identify, when in use, a number of available frequencies capable of serving as a number of Alternative Frequencies, respectively. The processing resource communicates on a tuned frequency first Radio Data System data identifying the number of Alternative Frequencies. A data store is also operably coupled to the processing resource. The Radio Data System communications unit is arranged to re-tune, when in use, from the tuned frequency to another frequency of the number of available frequencies and to communicate on the another frequency second Radio Data System data, the re-tuning being supplemental to any re-tuning initiated as a result of inadequate signal strength associated with the tuned frequency. The number of Alternative Frequencies is kept below a certain maximum. The apparatus can be a navigation system. | 2011-04-21 |
20110092171 | SIGNAL COMBINER - At present a number of frequency bands in the region of 450, 950, 900, 1700, 1800, 1900 and 2100 MHz are utilised for cellular and mobile communications, additional bands are under consideration for future expansion of such wireless communication systems. Recently, placing UMTS signals into existing GSM spectrum has received increasing levels of interest. The present invention is directed to systems and methods of combining GSM and UTMS signals in a shared methodology that offers good isolation. A number of different combiner structures are disclosed, the various combiner types each utilise differing transmitter ports topologies to effect the placement of UTMS signals within the existing GSM spectrum and vice versa. | 2011-04-21 |
20110092172 | Private Communication in a Push to Talk Over Cellular Network - A method of sending a communication to a Participant in a PoC Group Session. A PoC client sends a SIP REFER message to a PoC participating Server, which forwards it to a PoC Controlling Server. The SIP REFER message comprises an identity of a target Participant in the Group Session and a message content. The PoC Controlling Server creates a SIP MESSAGE method, the MESSAGE addressed to the target Participant and including the message content. The SIP MESSAGE is then sent to a target Participating Server that serves the target Participant. In this way, the PoC client can send private message content via the PoC Controlling Server to another Participant in a PoC Group Session without sending it to all Participants. | 2011-04-21 |
20110092173 | TRANSMITTING UNIT THAT REDUCES PAPR USING OUT-OF-BAND DISTORTION AND METHOD THEREFOR - A transmitting unit ( | 2011-04-21 |
20110092174 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING/RECEIVING SIGNAL - A signal transmitting apparatus includes a signal distributor, a frequency converter, and a frequency synthesizer. The signal distributor is configured to baseband signals corresponding respectively to a plurality of frequency band. The frequency converter is configured to convert each of the distributed baseband signals into one of a positive frequency signal and a negative frequency signal according to the frequency band. The frequency synthesizer is configured to synthesize the positive frequency signal and the negative frequency signal to generate a transmission signal. Herein, the positive frequency signal and the negative frequency signal are signals included in one predetermined intermediate frequency band. | 2011-04-21 |
20110092175 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION APPARATUS - A transceiver suitable for larger scale of integration employs direct conversion reception for reducing the number of filters. Also, the number of VCOs is reduced by utilizing dividers to supply a receiver and a transmitter with locally oscillated signals at an RF band. Dividers each having a fixed division ratio are used for generating locally oscillated signals for the receiver, while a divider having a switchable division ratio are used for generating the locally oscillated signal for the transmitter. In addition, a variable gain amplifier for baseband signal is provided with a DC offset voltage detector and a DC offset canceling circuit for supporting high speed data communications to accomplish fast cancellation of a DC offset by eliminating intervention of a filter within a feedback loop for offset cancellation. | 2011-04-21 |
20110092176 | High Dynamic Range Time-Varying Integrated Receiver for Elimination of Off-Chip Filters - A receiver circuit includes an amplifier, an output impedance, and a mixer. The amplifier is arranged to generate an amplifier output. The mixer has an input and an output respectively coupled to the amplifier and the output impedance. The output impedance sets frequency selectivity provided at the input of the mixer, and the mixer is arranged to down-convert a signal derived from the amplifier output and accordingly generate a down-converted signal at the output of the mixer for further signal processing. | 2011-04-21 |
20110092177 | Down-Conversion of an Electromagnetic Signal with Feedback Control - Methods, systems, and apparatuses for down-converting an electromagnetic (EM) signal by aliasing the EM signal, and applications thereof are described herein. Reducing or eliminating DC offset voltages and re-radiation generated when down-converting an electromagnetic (EM) signal is also described herein. Down-converting a signal and improving receiver dynamic range is also described herein. | 2011-04-21 |
20110092178 | DOUBLED BALANCED MIXER WITH IMPROVED COMPONENT MATCHING - An improved passive double balanced mixer with reduced capacitor voltage mismatch is described. A passive double balanced mixer includes two sets of mixer circuits, each comprised of switches. Each switch is separately divided into a first portion and a second portion of unequal number of fingers. A first and second LO AC coupling capacitors associated with a given switch are coupled at one end to an LO signal. The outputs of the first LO AC coupling capacitors are coupled to the first portion of the first switch and the second portion of the second switch, respectively, while the outputs of the second LO AC coupling capacitors are coupled to the second portion of the first switch and the first portion of the second switch, respectively. In one embodiment, the unequal number of fingers is defined by an n−1 and an n+1 number of fingers, respectively. In an alternate embodiment, the mixer is an ADB mixer with a transconductance amplifier and two sets of mixer circuits as above. | 2011-04-21 |
20110092179 | Switch Circuit and Method of Switching Radio Frequency Signals - An RF switch circuit and method for switching RF signals that may be fabricated using common integrated circuit materials such as silicon, particularly using insulating substrate technologies. The RF switch includes switching and shunting transistor groupings to alternatively couple RF input signals to a common RF node, each controlled by a switching control voltage (SW) or its inverse (SW_), which are approximately symmetrical about ground. The transistor groupings each comprise one or more insulating gate FET transistors connected together in a “stacked” series channel configuration, which increases the breakdown voltage across the series connected transistors and improves RF switch compression. A fully integrated RF switch is described including control logic and a negative voltage generator with the RF switch elements. In one embodiment, the fully integrated RF switch includes an oscillator, a charge pump, CMOS logic circuitry, level-shifting and voltage divider circuits, and an RF buffer circuit. | 2011-04-21 |
20110092180 | Transconductance Enhanced RF Front-End - Embodiments of an RF receiver front-end are presented herein. In an embodiment, the RF receiver front-end comprises a transconductance LNA, a passive mixer, and a g | 2011-04-21 |
20110092181 | Electromagnetic Field Detection Systems and Methods - Detectors and other apparatus for determining the presence of electromagnetic events are disclosed. One such system includes an electromagnetically shielded enclosure and a detector configured to detect an electromagnetic field event occurring in the proximity of the enclosure. The detector includes an antenna and a circuit electrically connected to the antenna. The circuit includes electronics communicatively connected to the antenna via a direct current isolation circuit, and an equalizer compensating for the differentiating frequency response of the antenna. The circuit also includes a logarithmic amplifier electrically connected to the equalizer and configured to generate a range of signals based on signals received at the antenna, and a peak detector receiving signals from the logarithmic amplifier and configured to capture a peak value of the signals. An electromagnetic field event is detected at least in part based on the peak signal value. | 2011-04-21 |
20110092182 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MAINTAINING RESPONSE CENTER INFORMATION - A system for and method of maintaining response center information is presented. In one exemplary embodiment, the system for and method of maintaining response center information may comprise receiving, via an electronic interface, electronic data associated with emergency communications handling, processing, using a processor, the electronic data to associate a portion of the electronic data with a geographical boundary, identifying a modification to geographical boundary, and determining a communication address associated with the modification to the geographical boundary. | 2011-04-21 |
20110092183 | Telecommunications system, a method of charging some or all of the cost of a call to a callee, a method of debiting a prepay account of a telecommunications subscriber and telecommunications apparatus - A telecommunications system in which subscribers are provided with accounts against which services are billed, the system being of the type in which calls are normally billed to calling parties, wherein the system has a mode in which, before a usable voice channel is established between a caller and a callee, the callee is presented with a charging option whereby the callee may unilaterally opt to pay some or all of the cost of a particular incoming call from their subscriber account, a charging instruction being sent to a billing system associated with the subscriber account of the callee if the callee accepts the charging option and otherwise to a billing system associated with the caller. | 2011-04-21 |
20110092184 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATIC GENERATION, REGISTRATION AND MOBILE PHONE BILLING OF A POD USING THIRD PARTY WEB PAGE CONTENT - The systems and methods described herein generally relate to a method and system for automatically generating an application pod for a third party through which the third party's content is offered for access, purchase and use by mobile phone users within a community network. More specifically, the systems and methods described herein are directed to an application pod that can be automatically generated based on content and information retrieved from one or more web pages of the third party. | 2011-04-21 |
20110092185 | Systems and Methods for Providing Location-Based Application Authentication Using a Location Token Service - Systems and methods for implementing a location token service (LTS) to enhance the security of mobile device identity tokens by using the location of the mobile device to augment the tokens. The LTS enforces re-authentication (login) of the mobile device to one or more applications if the mobile device moves beyond a threshold distance from the location of the last use of the token within a time period defined in a temporal threshold. The LTS increases authentication strength and drastically reduces the potential for spoofing or otherwise permitting unauthorized access to one or more applications on the mobile device. | 2011-04-21 |
20110092186 | Method for Distribution of Information of Networks or Entities using UE as Gateway - The present invention relates to a method for distribution of information in a primary cellular network. At least one second network or at least one second entity is using a User Equipment (UE) for forwarding information between the second network or entity and a service provider, wherein the second network or entity provides the UE with information about its properties. The method comprises the steps of: (1) the UE sending a first message to a third entity in a third network to inform about the location and properties of the UE, (2) the first message being such that it triggers the third entity to send system information to the UE. What particularly characterizes the method is that the UE sends | 2011-04-21 |
20110092187 | CONFIGURABLE PHONE WITH INTERACTIVE VOICE RESPONSE ENGINE - A land-based or mobile phone and methods are provided for receiving inbound communications as either voice or text, and then based on the user's configuration settings, the inbound communication is provided to the user as it was received or is automatically converted into a format that is desired by the user. The phone also takes voice or text that is input by the user of the phone and converts the user's input to either voice or text based on the configuration settings stored in the user's contact list or otherwise. The outbound communication is configured according to how the intended recipient wants to receive a communication based on the configuration settings stored in the user's contact list or otherwise. The phone includes a controller that determines how the phone will handle and process inbound and outbound communications. The controller includes a speech recognition engine. | 2011-04-21 |
20110092188 | Enhanced Voice Mail System for Accessing RSS (Really Simple Syndication) Feeds - A method and an enhanced voice mail system for subscribing to RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feeds on behalf of a user are provided. The enhanced voice mail system subscribes with RSS server(s) to obtain one or more RSS feeds for a user and further obtains the RSS feeds media content referred to within the RSS feeds. The received media content may be transcoded if needed, for example to adapt to the media format supported by the voice mail system, and then stored in the enhanced voice mail system. The later further notifies the user of the availability of the RSS feeds media content, possibly using e.g. SMS notifications. The voice mail system therefore enhances the user experience by extending its functionality beyond the simple handling of user-to-user voice mail messages. The user can then connect to their mailbox of the enhanced voice mail system and get access not only to voice mail messages left by other users, but also to RSS feeds media content. | 2011-04-21 |
20110092189 | WIRELESS MESSAGING SYSTEMS AND METHODS - A messaging system for selectively performing an action on information, for remote retrieval of messages, for performing action on information at different times, for selective paging, for providing a user interface for message access and having integrated audio visual messaging. | 2011-04-21 |
20110092190 | Methods And Apparatus For Reliable Voicemail Message Deletion Alerts At Mobile Communication Devices - A voicemail system apparatus produces a voicemail notification message corresponding to a voicemail message received and saved at a voicemail system, and causes the voicemail notification message to be sent to a mobile device. Subsequently, the apparatus causes a voicemail deletion notification message to be sent to the mobile device, where the voicemail deletion notification message indicates that the voicemail message will be deleted by the voicemail system. In response to expiration of a voicemail message time expiration period associated with the voicemail message, the apparatus deletes the voicemail message at the voicemail system. On the other hand, prior to expiration of the voicemail message time expiration period, and in response to receiving a save command from the mobile device for resaving the voicemail message, the apparatus saves the voicemail message at the voicemail system and updates the voicemail message time expiration period. | 2011-04-21 |
20110092191 | ENABLING A USER TO PURCHASE A RING BACK TONE - The instant application describes a method for enabling a user of a mobile device to purchase a Ring Back Tone (“RBT”). The method includes steps of receiving an identifier associated with the mobile device that has received the RBT as a result of a call to another device and a mapping identification code associated with a RBT content identification code; generating a long code for the mapping identification code; and generating a message with the long code as a reply-to-number. The method also includes steps of sending the message to the mobile device, the message offering the user of the mobile device an option to purchase the RBT; receiving a response from the mobile device, reflecting the mobile device's user desire to either purchase the RBT or not to purchase the RBT; and identifying the mapping identification code from the reply-to-number in the response. Upon determining that the user desires to purchase the RBT from the response, allowing the purchase of the RBT by determining the RBT content identification code based on the mapping identification code. | 2011-04-21 |
20110092192 | Method and System for Dual-Network Telephone Calling - Methods and systems are provided to connect telephone calls, such as international phone calls, using both the data network and telephone network of a mobile communication device such as a cellular phone. These systems initially route a call to the destination phone number through a non-international temporary phone number, thereby saving the cost of an international phone call on the mobile phone's service plan. An application on the mobile phone uses the data network to automatically request and receive the substitute termination number, and automatically sets up a call on the telephone network to the substitute termination number, which routes the call to the desired international telephone number. These systems reduce the cost of an international call, permit mobile phone users without international calling plans to make international calls, and automatically connect to an international number through a temporary non-international number using dual networks. | 2011-04-21 |
20110092193 | Method, System and Computer Readable Medium for Addressing Handling from an Operating System - A method, system and computer readable medium for information handling within an operating system, including providing a record retrieval program; providing an input device within a window or screen of the operating system and configured to enter an execute command which initiates a record retrieval from local and remote information sources using the record retrieval program; using the record retrieval program to enter first information into search fields provided in the record retrieval program; entering the execute command using the input device after the step of entering the first information; searching, using the record retrieval program, the local and remote information sources for second information associated with the first information; and displaying the second information in the record retrieval program, when one of the local and remote information sources includes second information associated with the first information. | 2011-04-21 |
20110092194 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROCESSING ROAD SIGN CONTENT - A method and system for processing road sign content by a mobile computing device in a vehicle. A wireless communication network is monitored for signals continuously broadcasted over the network from road sign transmitters, the signals including road sign messages containing road sign content information from road signs. A signal of said continuously broadcasted signals is captured as a result of the monitoring, the captured signal including a message of the road sign messages, the message including road sign content information from a road sign of including road signs, the captured signal being in range of the mobile computing device. The message is interpreted to ascertain the road sign content information from the road sign. Based on display parameters previously defined by a user, the road sign content information in the captured message is displayed onto a display device in the vehicle operationally coupled to the mobile computing device. | 2011-04-21 |
20110092195 | SELF-OPTIMIZING WIRELESS NETWORK - Optimizing a plurality cell sites or sectors in a wireless network includes calculating modifications to a plurality of network parameters for optimizing wireless network performance; evaluating the modification groups to determine conflicts between modifications for a same network parameter; and eliminating the conflicts between modifications for the same network parameter within the modification groups. The modification groups are used to alter at least one network parameter of the critical cell sites or sectors, or of a best neighbor cells sites or sectors for achieving a desired improvement in communications within the wireless network. Optimization is further enhanced by determining the best previous modifications to the wireless network when performance continues to be degraded. Altering wireless network parameters of the critical cell sites or sectors, or the best neighbor cell sites or sectors is performed continuously using the stored modification groups until the desired improvement in communications in the wireless network is achieved. | 2011-04-21 |
20110092196 | PROVISIONING OF VOICE AND OTHER CS-DOMAIN SERVICES - Disclosed are devices and methods for provisioning of voice and other CS-domain services. A first server ( | 2011-04-21 |
20110092197 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND APPARATUS TO ENABLE BACKUP WIRELESS DEVICES - Systems, methods, and apparatus are disclosed to enable backup wireless devices. An example method disclosed herein includes receiving an activation code associated with a backup wireless device to activate the backup wireless device, and in response to receiving the activation code, transmitting a deactivation instruction to a primary wireless device along with a deactivation message for presentation on a visual display of the primary wireless device. | 2011-04-21 |
20110092198 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION TERMINAL, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND RECORDING MEDIUM RECORDING COMPUTER PROGRAM - A wireless communication terminal has a first wireless communication unit which performs data communication via a first wireless communication system and a second wireless communication unit which performs voice communication via a second wireless communication system. When an instruction of starting a voice communication is given, a temporal withdrawal process is started to the first wireless communication system, and an acquiring process of the second wireless communication system is started. After the voice communication ends, until a predetermined time elapses, an acquiring state of the second wireless communication system by the second wireless communication unit is continued. After the predetermined time has elapsed, the acquiring state of the second wireless communication system is cancelled, and a temporal withdrawal cancelling process is started to the first wireless communication system. | 2011-04-21 |
20110092199 | METHOD, NETWORK DEVICE, AND NETWORK SYSTEM FOR IMPLEMENTING VOICE CALL CONTINUITY SERVICE - A method, network device, and network system for implementing the Voice Call Continuity (VCC) service are provided. The method includes: receiving an Initial Detection Point (IDP) message from a Mobile Switching Center (MSC); querying whether an address of a Service Control Point (SCP) of a user is null; if the address of the SCP is not null, sending the IDP message to the SCP and interacting with the SCP; and detecting whether a subsequent message from the SCP is a Connect or Continue message; if the subsequent message from the SCP is the Connect or Continue message, copying the Connect or Continue message to a new Connect message and sending the new Connect message to the MSC for implementing the VCC service. According to the present invention, a new SCPvcc is used to support the VCC service, thus implementing the VCC service for all mobile users. | 2011-04-21 |
20110092200 | INTERFERENCE AVOIDANCE ON COMMON CHANNELS IN UNCOORDINATED NETWORK DEPLOYMENTS WITH FLEXIBLE SPECTRUM USE - A network access node selects one chunk of spectrum from a plurality of chunks of spectrum to be a primary chunk for a particular cell; transmits in the primary chunk from a broadcast channel BCH that contains information needed by a terminal to at least perform initial cell access; and uses a synchronization channel SCH to indicate which chunk of the plurality of chunks is the primary chunk. A user equipment receives a SCH in a particular chunk of spectrum; determines from it that one chunk is a primary chunk for a particular cell; tunes its receiver to a BCH in the primary chunk and uses information received on the BCH to obtain initial access to the particular cell. In various embodiments the SCH is only in the primary chunk or the SCH has some indication (e.g., cell ID or relative position of primary chunk) telling which chunk is primary. | 2011-04-21 |
20110092201 | Method and Arrangement in a Telecommunication System - The present invention comprises a method and an arrangement for priority handling between a measurement gap procedure and an uplink data transmission procedure in an evolved UTRAN. The user equipment (UE) detects an active measurement gap. When the UE receives data into the transmission buffer the received data triggers an uplink data transmission procedure such as a scheduling request procedure or a random access procedure. An evaluation on characteristics information associated with the received data is performed and based on the performed evaluation the UE proceeds with the uplink data transmission procedure or the measurement gap procedure. In case the characteristics information associated with the received data is of high priority, the UE proceeds with the uplink data transmission procedure and cancels the measurement gap procedure. However, if the characteristics information associated with the received data is of low priority, it proceeds with the measurement gap procedure and postpones the uplink data transmission procedure to a later occasion. | 2011-04-21 |
20110092202 | Methods, Test Systems and Arrangements for Verifying Compliance with Requirement Specifications - A method for verifying compliance of a communication device with one or more requirement specifications is disclosed. The method comprises establishing a link between a test system and the communication device, wherein the establishing comprises configuring one or more bearers and one or more control channels; closing a test loop comprising the test system and the communication device, wherein the closing comprises activating a test loop function of the communication device; sending data in a downlink of the test loop from the test system to the communication device; receiving the data at the communication device; transferring at least some of the data to an uplink transmission arrangement of the communication device after a specific event has occurred; and verifying, at the test system, transmission in an uplink of the test loop from the communication device to the test system. Corresponding test system and test loop function arrangement are also disclosed. | 2011-04-21 |
20110092203 | HANDHELD ELECTRONIC DEVICE INCLUDING PREFERRED NETWORK SELECTION, AND ASSOCIATED METHOD - A handheld electronic device adapted to display a listing of known networks, scan for available networks, display a listing of the available networks and enable the entry of information relating to manually entered networks. In addition, the device is adapted to (1) enable the addition of preferred networks to a preferred network list wherein the preferred networks are one or more of: (i) certain of the known networks selected from the listing of known networks, (ii) certain of the available networks selected from the listing of available networks, and (iii) the manually entered networks; (2) enable the assignment of a priority value to each of the preferred networks; and (3) utilize the preferred networks for performing wireless communications when the device is in a roaming situation, wherein the preferred networks are utilized in a priority order that is based on the priority value assigned to each of the preferred networks. | 2011-04-21 |
20110092204 | CELL SELECTION METHOD AND MOBILE STATION - A cell selection method includes steps of: (A) determining, at a mobile station (UE), whether or not a first CSG cell satisfies a predetermined condition, when using a first macro cell as a camped cell; and (B) changing, at the mobile station (UE), the camped cell from the first macro cell to a first CSG cell, when determined that the first CSG cell satisfies the predetermined condition. | 2011-04-21 |
20110092205 | POSITION REGISTERING METHOD, RADIO CONTROL STATION, AND EXCHANGE - In a position registering method, a radio control station (RNC) transmits report information including a first position number, which has been extracted by using a cell identifier as key information, to the cell identified by the cell identifier. A mobile station (UE) transmits a position registration request when the first position number included in the report information is different from a position number stored in the mobile station: The radio control station (RNC) notifies the first position number and the second position number, which have been extracted by using as the key information the cell identifier for identifying the requester of the position registration request, and a user identifier for identifying the mobile station. An exchange (MSC/SGSN) stores the notified user identifier, first position number, and second position number in association with one another. | 2011-04-21 |
20110092206 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMS USER SESSIONS WITH DYNAMIC SERVICE SELECTION - Under one aspect, a system generates dynamic call models within an IMS network, allowing different user entities (UEs) to have different service experiences. The IMS network includes application servers (ASs) and a serving call state control function (S-CSCF) that receives and then forwards UE service requests. The system includes storage media storing a service tree, which defines potential call models that map potential UE service requests onto ASs. At least two potential call models map a specified potential UE service request onto different ASs that can provide different service experiences. The system includes control logic for providing session control, which receives UE service requests from the S-CSCF, receives the service tree from the storage media, generates a call model for each UE based on potential call models defined by the service tree and on the requested service, and invokes a specified AS based on the generated call model. | 2011-04-21 |
20110092207 | RADIO NETWORK CONTROL DEVICE AND RADIO NETWORK CONTROL METHOD - In a radio network control device, if TMSI included in a connection request is not stored in a subscriber-information storage unit, IMSI corresponding to the TMSI is acquired from a higher-level device and access control is performed for radio communications between a mobile terminal and a base station. | 2011-04-21 |
20110092208 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR UNIFYING DIFFERENT MULTI-MODE SYSTEM SELECTION FRAMEWORKS - A unified approach multi-mode system selection is provided for a mobile device implementing multiple multi-mode system selection (MMSS). Different system operators may provide their own MMSS databases and rules in different frameworks. To allow a mobile device to perform MMSS without modifying its software, the different databases may be mapped into a common database. In one example, an MMSS solution is implemented that uses a Preferred Roaming List (PRL) database according to a 3GPP2 system selection to specify the prioritization of 3GPP and 3GPP2 systems the mobile device. When the mobile device is powered up, the information in the different MMSS databases is mapped into a common database (“PRL with PLMN records”). The wireless communication device then acts on this information in the common database to perform system selection. | 2011-04-21 |
20110092209 | SYSTEMS, METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR FACILITATING HANDOVER CONTROL USING RESOURCE RESERVATION WITH FREQUENCY REUSE - Systems, methods and apparatus for facilitating handover control using resource reservation with frequency reuse are provided. In one embodiment, the method can include: transmitting scheduling information for the transmission of information on frequencies corresponding to an unreserved portion of a frequency band. The method can also include transmitting scheduling information for the transmission of information on frequencies corresponding to a reserved portion of the frequency band. A frequency reuse scheme can be employed over the frequencies corresponding to the reserved portion of the frequency band, and the information transmitted on the frequencies corresponding to the reserved portion of the frequency band can be handover signalling information. | 2011-04-21 |
20110092210 | METHOD OF DETERMINING WIRELESS HAND OFF PARAMETERS - The present invention provides a method of determining handoff parameters. One embodiment of the method includes determining values of a hysteresis for a handoff from a serving cell, one or more pairwise offset values for hand off between the serving cell and one or more neighbor cells, and one or more times-to-trigger (TTTs) for hand off between the serving cell and the neighbor cell(s). The values may be determined So that hand off is triggered beyond a first distance from the serving cell selected to avoid ping-ponging and within a second distance from the serving cell selected so that a mobile unit moving at a selected velocity does not travel beyond a third distance within the TTT. | 2011-04-21 |
20110092211 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING EXTENDING FEMTOCELL COVERAGE - Femtocell coverage can be extended across a coverage area by providing a cluster of femtocell access points (FAPs). Each FAP is independently registered with a core network and provisioned with a location area code common to each FAP. At hand-in from the macrocell network, an association is made between the mobile station and the hand-in FAP, which becomes an anchor FAP for the duration of the mobile station's presence within the cluster. Calls between the mobile station and the core network are routed via a servicing FAP of the cluster and the anchor FAP. | 2011-04-21 |
20110092212 | BASE STATION CONTROL MODULE, WIRELESS BASE STATION, BASE STATION CONTROL DEVICE, AND BASE STATION CONTROL METHOD - A wireless base station that solves a problem in which both the suppression of a power consumption of a wireless base station and the reduction of the period that a mobile terminal takes to identify a cell cannot be satisfied at a time is provided. Determination section | 2011-04-21 |
20110092213 | METHODS, APPARATUSES, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR PROVIDING FRESH SECURITY CONTEXT DURING INTERSYSTEM MOBILITY - A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided to provide fresh security context during intersystem mobility. A method is provided which includes receiving an indication of handover of a remote device from a source system to a target system. The target system may implement a communications standard different from that of the source system. The method also includes determining a current sequence number value of a security context maintained in the source system. The method additionally includes deriving a fresh mapped security context for the target system based at least in part upon the determined sequence number value. The method further includes providing the derived fresh mapped security context to the target system. | 2011-04-21 |
20110092214 | MOBILE STATION AND RADIO BASE STATION - A mobile station UE is provided with an access right management unit for managing a CSG-ID corresponding to a CSG cell which permits the mobile station UE to access thereto, a measurement unit for measuring the radio quality of a CSG cell defined as an object to be measured, and a measurement report transmission unit for, only when the radio quality of a CSG cell corresponding to the CSG-ID managed by the access right management unit out of the radio qualities of CSG cells measured by the measurement unit satisfies a report condition, transmitting a measurement report including at least the radio quality of the CSG cell corresponding to the CSG-ID. | 2011-04-21 |
20110092215 | NETWORK CONTROLLER AND SMALL BASE STATION - A small base station may report to a network controller about whether a radio frequency (RF) signal transmitted from a macro base station is sensed. The network controller may control an operational mode of the small base station depending on whether the RF signal is sensed. Accordingly, the small base station may not transmit the RF signal at all times, and thus, it is possible to reduce an interference between a small cell and a macro cell or interference between the small cell and another small cell. | 2011-04-21 |
20110092216 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING TELECOMMUNICATION SUBSCRIBER SERVICES WITHOUT PROVISIONING OR MAINTENANCE - An intelligent router takes the place of a conventional SCCP relay in a wireless network. The intelligent router automatically provisions and updates subscriber information in a network file. | 2011-04-21 |
20110092217 | POWER HEADROOM REPORTING METHOD AND DEVICE FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Methods and apparatus are provided for reporting a Power Headroom (PH) of a User Equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system having a plurality of aggregated uplink carriers. The PH is calculated for a Power Headroom Report (PHR)-triggered uplink carrier. A PHR having the PH and an identifier of the PHR-triggered uplink carrier is generated, and the PHR is transmitted to a network. Also, a PHR having the PH is generated, and the PHR is transmitted to a network over one of a plurality of PHR-transmitting uplink carriers configured to correspond to the PHR-triggered uplink carrier. | 2011-04-21 |
20110092218 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF LOCATION OF A MOBILE STATON WITHIN A RADIO COVERAGE ZONE OF A CELL AND TO A RADIO CELLULAR NETWORK IMPLEMENTING THIS SYSTEM - The method of location of a mobile station within a radio coverage zone of a cell of a iadlo cellular network, comprises: building ( | 2011-04-21 |
20110092219 | UPLINK MULTI-POWER AMPLIFIER/ANTENNA OPERATION AND CHANNEL PRIORITIZATION - Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to techniques for controlling transmission power and prioritizing transmission carriers. A method of power distribution for different physical layer channels over one or more carriers in case of power limited user equipment (UE) is proposed. Operation modes of the UE with single and multiple power amplifiers/antennas can be supported. | 2011-04-21 |
20110092220 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DYNAMICALLY CONFIGURING A TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORK - A method for configuring a wireless telecommunications network adapted to operate according to at least one radio system, includes a plurality of re-configurable base radio stations, wherein each base radio station is adapted to manage one or more cells of the telecommunications network, and wherein each cell has corresponding radio resources available. The method includes: obtaining measurements of the cells load status; dynamically configuring at least one of the cells by assigning thereto determined available radio resources depending on the measurements of the cell load status. Dynamically configuring includes: based on the measurements of the cell load status, determining at least one candidate radio resource to be assigned to the cell; prior to assigning the candidate radio resource to the cell, forecasting an impact on the network performance at the radio level potentially caused by the assignment of the candidate radio resource to the cell; and in case the forecasted impact complies with predetermined requirements, assigning the candidate radio resource to the cell. | 2011-04-21 |
20110092221 | Devices and Methods for Selectively Filtering Message Content - Methods for selectively filtering message content received at a mobile device based upon a current location of the mobile device and/or a user's presence status and devices configured to selectively filter message content based upon a location of the mobile device and/or a user's presence status. | 2011-04-21 |
20110092222 | VECTORING SERVICE INITIATION SYSTEM AND METHOD BASED ON SENSOR ASSISTED POSITIONING - A system and a method for vectoring service initiation, such service initiation can be data transfer, game initiation, media download, media streaming initiation, house application and the like, based on sensor assisted positioning are provided, which employ location sensors built in hand-held devices with positioning technology to provide an instinctive 2-D or 3-D user-machine interface, by that the user is able to transfer a file from a source device to a target device. | 2011-04-21 |
20110092223 | Reciever, frequency deviation measuring unit and positioning and ranging system - In a system for measuring a time difference of arrival of signals for positioning, an accurate time difference is measured by a receiver which is reduced in power consumption, size, and cost. The system comprises a node (under measurement) for transmitting a positioning signal, a reference station for transmitting a reference signal, and a plurality of access points for receiving the positioning signal and reference signal, and a server connected to the plurality of access points through a network. Each of the plurality of access points measures a time difference between the reception of the positioning signal and the reception of the reference signal, and a frequency deviation from the reference station, using a clock signal and a signal for shifting the clock signal, and the server calculates the position of the node based on the measured time difference and frequency deviation. | 2011-04-21 |
20110092224 | METHOD AND TERMINAL DEVICES - A method and terminal device are provided which effect the steps of receiving a message indicating that a user of another terminal device has pressed a talk button, the message including a geographical location of the other terminal device, or any information derived therefrom; and indicating the geographical location of the other terminal device to a user of the terminal device. A further method and terminal device are provided which effect the steps of: in response to a user of a terminal device pressing a talk button, writing information describing the geographical location of the terminal device, or any information derived therefrom, into a message; and sending the message to another terminal device or to a communications network. | 2011-04-21 |
20110092225 | METHOD AND NETWORK ELEMENT FOR TRACKING BASED ON USER EQUIPMENT CAPABILITIES - A method and a Network Element (NE) for tracking based on User Equipment (UE) capabilities are disclosed. The method includes: the NE receives a capability support message from the UE, where the capability support message carries information on the UE capabilities; and the NE judges whether the UE capabilities meet a tracking condition according to the information carried in the capability support message, and initiates tracking of the UE if the UE capabilities meet the tracking condition. The NE for tracking based on UE capabilities includes: a first receiving module, configured to receive a capability support message sent by the UE, where the capability support message carries information on the UE capabilities; and a tracking module, configured to track the UE if the capabilities carried in the capability support message received by the first receiving module meet a tracking condition. Through the method and NE under the present invention, even if the UE capabilities are unknown, the UE with specific capabilities can be tracked according to the information reported by the UE. | 2011-04-21 |
20110092226 | Method and Apparatus to Select an Optimum Site and/or Sector to Provide Geo-Location Data - A system and method selects secondary base stations to task that provide geo-location information used to geo-locate a mobile station. A network overlay location system may be co-located at base station sites of a wireless communications network. The location measurement units of the network overlay system provide location information of the mobile station, which may be determined via one or more geo-location techniques, for example: time of arrival (TOA), time difference of arrival (TDOA), uplink time difference of arrival (UTDOA), angle of arrival (AOA), signal power, radio fingerprinting etc. Selecting secondary base stations to task using various selection criteria may provide optimum results when geo-locating a mobile station. | 2011-04-21 |
20110092227 | MODIFICATION OF DYNAMIC CONTACT LISTS - In general, the subject matter described in this specification can be embodied in methods, systems and program products for dynamically generating contact list. A computer system identifies a geographic location of a mobile computing device that is associated with a user. A local contact list is generated by selecting, for inclusion in the local contact list, one or more contacts that are from a contact list that is stored for the user and are within a first predetermined geographic location. The local contact list is generated by selecting, for inclusion in the local contact list, one or more contacts that are not in the contact list that is stored for the user and are within a second predetermined geographic location. The local contact list is provided for display on the mobile computing device. | 2011-04-21 |
20110092228 | METHOD FOR DISPLAYING LOCATION OF CELLULAR PHONE CALLER - The present invention relates to a method for displaying the location of a cellular phone caller. In the present method, a caller's cellular phone transmits a short message preset by a cellular base station to the base station through an Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD) function by using a cellular phone and selects to start or stop a function for informing the location of a caller to a phone answerer. When a phone call is made and the location informing function is stopped, the base station transmits no caller location information to an answerer's cellular phone. If the location informing function is activated, the base station uses a positioning technology to calculate position coordinates of the caller. And then, the base station compares the position coordinates with a location data stored in a position coordinate data base of the base station and transforms the location to a closest address so as to display the caller's address in the answerer's phone by a Class 0 SMS (short message system). | 2011-04-21 |
20110092229 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ENHANCED CELL-FACH/PCH DOWNLINK RECEIVER - A UE in an URA_PCH state or a Cell_PCH state receives a HS-PDSCH without an associated HS-SCCH. No dedicated H-RNTI is assigned to the UE. The received HS-PDSCH is separately processed using one or more different predetermined transport format. The different predetermined transport formats are identified from associated HS-DSCH paging system information block. The UE starts blindly processing the received HS-PDSCH by determining a set of configuration parameters according to a first transport format of the identified predetermined transport formats. One or more associated device components such as hardware components of the UE are configured using the determined set of configuration parameters. The configured device components are used to perform HARQ processing, IR combining and/or Turbo decoding on the received HS_PDSCH without associated HS_SCCH. The UE continuously processes the received HS-PDSCH using the next available predetermined transport format when a CRC test completes with an error. | 2011-04-21 |
20110092230 | PROACTIVE APPLICATION COMMUNICATIONS - A device may include a contact information database and a processor. The processor may interact with a participant in a session with an application, obtain information that is associated with the session, generate a message based on the obtained information after the session terminates, obtain a list of contacts that includes at least one of the participant and members in the contact information database, and send the message to a first one of the contacts, the message providing information to motivate one of the contacts to join a future session with the application. | 2011-04-21 |
20110092231 | TIME AND FREQUENCY ACQUISITION AND TRACKING FOR OFDMA WIRELESS SYSTEMS - Obtaining a timing reference in wireless communication is facilitated when desiring to communicate with a weak serving base station (such as an evolved NodeB) in the presence of a stronger interfering base station. The user equipment (UE) may track a stronger interfering base station's timing, or the UE may track a timing that is derived by a composite power delay profile (PDP) from multiple base stations. The composite PDP may be constructed by adjusting individual base station PDPs according to a weighting scheme. The timing obtained in such a manner may be used for estimation of the channel of the interfering base station and cancelling interfering signals from the base station. It may also be used to estimate the channel of the serving base station after adding a backoff. The UE may track a stronger interfering base station's frequency, or the UE may track a composite frequency. | 2011-04-21 |
20110092232 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ELIMINATING INTER CELL INTERFERENCE IN MULTIPLE INPUT MULTIPLE OUTPUT WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Provided is a device and a method for eliminating inter-cell interference in Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) wireless communication system. The method for operating a user equipment for eliminating the inter-cell interference includes determining one or more optimum bands among bands not requested to be restricted from a neighboring cell, determining at least one of band and Precoding Matrix Index (PMI) to be requested to be restricted to the neighboring cell among the determined one or more optimum bands, and feeding back at least one of the band and PMI to be requested to be restricted to the neighboring cell to a serving base station. | 2011-04-21 |
20110092233 | Interference management for concurrent transmission in downlink wireless communications - A wireless base station having K antennas communicates with M mobile devices using multiuser diversity scheme with opportunistic interference management. The base station transmits K distinct pilot signals from K corresponding antennas and receives feedback from mobile devices. The feedback from each device indicates a strong pilot signal and a weak pilot signal received from the K distinct pilot signals. Using these indications, the base station assigns each of the K antennas to a mobile device. The base station then transmits distinct data streams to the mobile devices using the corresponding antennas assigned to the corresponding mobile devices. The transmission may include multiplying the transmitted distinct data streams by a vector V orthogonal to a vector U, thereby allowing mobile devices not assigned to an antenna to cancel the transmitted distinct data streams. | 2011-04-21 |
20110092234 | SMALL BASE STATION AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING OPERATION THEREOF - A small base station and a method for controlling an operation of the small base station provides that a first control unit of the small base station may control the small base station to be switched to an idle mode if a terminal is not located in a coverage of the small cell. If the small base station is switched to the idle mode, a communication unit of the small base station may transmit a signal about a base station cognitive channel so that the terminal may recognize the small cell. | 2011-04-21 |
20110092235 | APPARATUS FOR MEASURING RADIO ENVIRONMENT OF BASE STATION AND METHOD FOR MEASURING THE SAME - A method and apparatus for measuring a radio environment of a base station is provided. The method includes respectively selecting one or more frames for measuring a radio environment in a first mode in which an Over-The-Air Receiver (OTAR) of the base station is initialized and a second mode in which the OTAR is active, continuously measuring the radio environment based on the selected one or more frames in the first mode and intermittently measuring the radio environment based on the selected one or more frames in the second mode. | 2011-04-21 |
20110092236 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION METHOD, MOBILE STATION AND RADIO BASE STATION - The mobile communication method has a step wherein a mobile station (UE) generates first verification information using a fast key, a first parameter, and an algorithm for ‘Integrity Protection,’ a step wherein the mobile station (UE) generates second verification information by excising a specific bit in the first verification information, and a step wherein, when a wireless link obstruction is detected in an RRC connection, the mobile station (UE) performs cell selection processing and transmits an RRC-PDU for an RRC reconnection request, wherein the second verification information is set, over a shared control channel to the wireless base state that manages the selected cell. | 2011-04-21 |
20110092237 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, MANAGEMENT SERVER, MOBILE BASE STATION APPARATUS AND MOBILE BASE STATION CONTROL METHOD - A wireless communication system includes a mobile base station apparatus connecting to a terminal apparatus and being movable, and a management server performing centralized control of the mobile base station apparatus. The mobile base station apparatus measures its position and notifies the management server of position information indicating the position. The management server transmits control information according to the position information notified from the mobile base station apparatus, to the mobile base station apparatus. The mobile base station apparatus operates using the control information received from the management server. | 2011-04-21 |
20110092238 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND BASE STATION - In a wireless communication system having a plurality of base stations and a control station controlling the plurality of base stations, the control station allocates, to the plurality of base stations, antenna patterns associated with directivity patterns for each of a plurality of frequency bands that can be utilized by the respective base stations and if it transmits, to respective ones of the plurality of base stations, parameters for associating the allocated antenna patterns with directivity patterns for each of the plurality of frequency bands; and the plurality of base stations associate the directivity patterns with the plurality of frequency bands on the basis of the parameters received from the control station and, in accordance with the associated directivity patterns, transmit signals to the antenna and receive signals from the antenna. | 2011-04-21 |
20110092239 | APPARATUS FOR MANAGING RADIO RESOURCES OF BASE STATION AND METHOD FOR MANAGING THE SAME - A method for managing radio resources of a base station is provided. The method includes evaluating a radio environment between a base station and at least one neighboring base station or a radio environment between the base station and terminals connected to the base station, if the evaluated radio environment does not meet predetermined criteria, selecting a new radio resource, deactivating the existing radio resource, and reactivating the new radio resource. Accordingly, the radio resources can be efficiently managed. | 2011-04-21 |
20110092240 | MOBILE STATION APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - To provide a mobile station apparatus and a communication system that realize an efficient transmission control for a base station apparatus to allocate resources of the PUSCH with appropriate AMC mode in accordance with the channel feedback report and the scheduling request from the mobile station apparatus, and also enable rapid transmission of the uplink data (enable rapid transmission of the UL-SCH) when the mobile station apparatus transmits only the channel feedback report. A mobile station apparatus | 2011-04-21 |
20110092241 | BASE STATION APPARATUS, USER EQUIPMENT TERMINAL, AND COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD - A base station apparatus includes a transmit diversity setting unit configured to set a transmit diversity mode to be applied to a user equipment terminal; a reception quality calculating unit configured to determine reception quality corresponding to the transmit diversity mode based on the transmit diversity mode set by the transmit diversity setting unit; a scheduling unit configured to determine a user equipment terminal to which a radio resource is to be allocated based on the reception quality determined by the reception quality calculating unit; and a notifying unit configured to notify the user equipment terminal to which the radio resource is allocated as determined by the scheduling unit of the transmit diversity mode to be applied. | 2011-04-21 |
20110092242 | Signalling Resource Allocation in a Telecommunications Newtork - The present invention provides a method, a radio base station ( | 2011-04-21 |
20110092243 | CONTROLLING ALLOCATION OF A PORTION OF A SHARED CHANNEL TO USE FOR CONTROL INFORMATION - To control allocation of a portion of a shared channel to use for control information, a base station determines an amount of resource elements of the shared channel to use for the control information in place of traffic data. The base station sends, to a mobile station, an indication relating to an offset parameter, where the indication is provided to allow the mobile station to compute a value for the offset parameter such that the mobile station can determine the amount of the resource elements of the shared channel to allocate for the control information. | 2011-04-21 |
20110092244 | AD-HOC WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD USING SECTOR ANTENNA, RECOVERY METHOD IN AD-HOC WIRELESS COMMUNICATION AND AD-HOC WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Provided are an ad-hoc wireless communication method using a sector antenna, a recovery method in ad-hoc wireless communication, and an ad-hoc wireless communication system. The ad-hoc wireless communication method using a sector antenna according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, includes: transmitting a requesting message for setting a communication link while changing transmission power to each sector of the sector antenna; receiving a response message corresponding to the requesting message from a receiving node of each sector; configuring a routing table for the transmission power for each sector based on the received response message; and transmitting data at the transmission power for each sector by referring to the routing table. | 2011-04-21 |
20110092245 | System and Method for Detecting and Controlling Transmission Devices - A method of detecting, controlling and managing transmission of a transmitting device within a facility is disclosed. The method involves transmitting information to the transmission device, detecting a response transmission from the transmission device by a least one transmission detection facility, extracting identification information associated with the transmission device in response to the transmitted information; and determining a location of the transmission device based on the response transmission received by the at least one received transmission detection facility, wherein the response transmissions are sorted by the identification information, determining an allowability of the located transmission device with the set area and interacting and manipulating transmission of the detected transmitting device. | 2011-04-21 |
20110092246 | Asymmetric ESD Protection for FM Transmitter - Various apparatuses and methods for protecting a transmitter from electrostatic discharge are disclosed herein. For example, some embodiments provide an apparatus including a first ESD clamp connected to an antenna input, a first reactive component connected to the first ESD clamp, a second ESD clamp connected to the first reactive component, and a second reactive component connected between the second ESD clamp and the transmitter. | 2011-04-21 |
20110092247 | Apparatus and Methods for Signal Processing - Apparatus including a matrix; a plurality of magnetic particles distributed in at least a portion of the matrix; the matrix being configured to enable the plurality of magnetic particles to move position relative to one another, and at least a portion of the plurality of magnetic particles being configured to magnetically repel one or more adjacent magnetic particles. | 2011-04-21 |
20110092248 | PORTABLE SECURITY SYSTEM BUILT INTO CELL PHONES - A portable security system includes an image capturing module for capturing one or more images and an image analysis module in operable communication with the image capturing module, the image analysis module configured to (i) recognize, from the one or more images captured, one or more events related to detection of moving objects, (ii) selectively identify a finite number of spatial relationships of the moving objects, and (iii) analyze the one or more images within the portable security device to classify the finite number of spatial relationships of the moving objects corresponding to predefined moving object data stored on a data storage unit located within the portable security device. Also, an image transmission module for transmitting the one or more images recognized, selectively identified, and analyzed by the image analysis module to one or more external sources is provided. | 2011-04-21 |
20110092249 | PORTABLE BLIND AID DEVICE - A blind aid device including enabling a blind person to activate the blind aid device; capturing one or more images related to a blind person's surrounding environment; detecting moving objects from the one or more images captured; identifying a finite number of spatial relationships related to the moving objects; analyzing the one or more images within the blind aid device to classify the finite number of spatial relationships related to the moving objects corresponding to predefined moving object data; converting select spatial relationship information related to the one or more analyzed images into audible information; relaying select audible information to the blind person; and notifying the blind person of one or more occurrences predetermined by the blind person as actionable occurrences. | 2011-04-21 |
20110092250 | MOBILE DEVICE WITH DUAL OPTICAL SENSING PATHWAYS - A mobile device mobile device having an internal printer is disclosed. A media path is provided for receiving a print medium and a media drive mechanism transport the print medium along the media path past a printhead of the printer. An optical sensor and two separate optical pathways are also provided. The first optical pathway allows the optical sensor to image a surface of the print medium in the media path. The second optical pathway allows the optical sensor to image an area external to the mobile device. | 2011-04-21 |