37th week of 2012 patent applcation highlights part 31 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20120230152 | Method and Device for Measuring a Contour of the Ground - A method for measuring a contour of the ground by means of a transmitting arrangement for the directed emission of sound signals and by means of a receiving arrangement including at least two transducers for receiving the sound signals reflected from the contour of the ground. Sound signals are emitted consecutively using a plurality of N soundings from predetermined positions P | 2012-09-13 |
20120230153 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DISTRIBUTED SENSOR CLUSTERS - Systems and methods for processing signals received from at least two sources are described. The two sources may each include an array of sensors. The sensor arrays may be spaced apart on the surface of a body, such as an aircraft, a ground vehicle, or a building. The sensors are configured for receiving signals from the at least two sources indicative of timing information. The timing information may be associated with a shockwave of a projectile and a location processor configured for determining shooter location based on signals output by each of the at least two arrays of sensors is coupled to each of the at least two arrays of sensors. The location processor is configured to compute global time metrics and local reference times associated with each of the sensors and determine shooter location based on a relationship between computed global time metrics and local reference times. | 2012-09-13 |
20120230154 | Shot Clock Device - A shot clock system wherein an indication of the shot clock signal is provided wirelessly to a basketball player to a personally mounted device. the personally mounted device is mechanically connected to the player and is located in her body, on her body and/or near her body. The sensory indication of the shot clock signal may be through any of the senses, such as sense of touch, sense of sight and/or sense of hearing. | 2012-09-13 |
20120230155 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING PIEZOELECTRIC VIBRATING REED, APPARATUS OF MANUFACTURING PIEZOELECTRIC VIBRATING REED, PIEZOELECTRIC VIBRATING REED, PIEZOELECTRIC VIBRATOR, OSCILLATOR, ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, AND RADIO-CONTROLLED TIMEPIECE - A photoresist film forming process through a spin coating method is included, the photoresist film forming process is performed by rotating a square wafer, a spin chuck is provided with a column portion, a penetration hole through which the column portion penetrates is formed in a flow regulating plate, a plurality of blowing holes blowing gas toward a second surface of a square wafer are provided in the upper surface of the flow regulating plate at the inner side in relation to the outer edge of the square wafer in the radial direction of the wafer maintaining portion and at the outer side in relation to the inner circumferential surface of the penetration hole in a radial direction of the wafer maintaining portion. | 2012-09-13 |
20120230156 | MECHANISM FOR ISOLATING TIMEPIECE MECHANISMS WHICH RELEASE VARIOUS ACOUSTIC SIGNALS - Isolating mechanism ( | 2012-09-13 |
20120230157 | CLOCK DISPLAY DEVICE - There is provided a clock display device including: a central processing unit; a liquid crystal display section; a clock information generating section; a converting section that converts the clock information into character data for display at the liquid crystal display section; a direct memory access section that fetches the character data for display without going through the central processing unit, and transfers the fetched character data for display without going through the central processing unit; a display register that stores the character data for display; a programmable display allocating section that allocates correspondences between respective bits of the character data for display that is within the display register, and respective display segments of the liquid crystal display section; and a display control section that, on the basis of results of the allocation, visibly displays the clock information at the liquid crystal display section. | 2012-09-13 |
20120230158 | Timing Skew Characterization Apparatus and Method - A timing skew characterization apparatus comprises a coarse timing skew characterization circuit, a fine timing skew characterization circuit and a coarse delay cell calibration circuit. The coarse timing skew characterization circuit comprises a plurality of coarse delay cells whose delays can be calibrated through the coarse delay cell calibration circuit. The calibration of fine delay cells can be implemented through a trail and error process. Both coarse delay step and fine delay step can be characterized through a single measurement setup. As a result, the timing skew characterization apparatus provides a high resolution setup and hold time measurement. | 2012-09-13 |
20120230159 | AT LEAST FIRST AND SECOND ORDER TEMPERATURE-COMPENSATED RESONATOR - A temperature compensated resonator including a body used in deformation, the core of the body including a first material. The body includes at least a first and second coating allowing the resonator to have substantially zero first and second order temperature coefficients. The temperature compensated regulator can be used in the field of time and frequency bases. | 2012-09-13 |
20120230160 | HAND-WOUND TIMEPIECE RETURN SPRING STRUCTURE, AND HAND-WOUND MECHANISM AND HAND-WOUND TIMEPIECE HAVING THE SAME - A return spring structure of a hand-wound timepiece has a plate-like placement portion that is placed on a surface of a support member. A forced insertion hooking spring portion is forcibly inserted into an opening of a locking plate-like portion of the support member, and has a forced insertion hooking end portion locked in a back surface of a wall defining the opening and a hooking spring arm portion extending from one edge portion of the plate-like placement portion. A return spring portion extends from the other edge portion of the plate-like placement portion. The return spring structure also has a positioning spring portion that includes a positioning spring arm portion extending parallel to the hooking spring arm portion from the one edge portion of the plate-like placement portion and a forced insertion engagement end portion engaged with the opening of the support member at the forward end portion. | 2012-09-13 |
20120230161 | DURATION LIMITING MECHANISM FOR A TIMEPIECE MECHANISM - Timing wheel set ( | 2012-09-13 |
20120230162 | ALARM STRIKE USING THE GRAND STRIKE - Timepiece ( | 2012-09-13 |
20120230163 | STRIKING MECHANISM WITH DISTINCT STRIKES - Striking mechanism unit ( | 2012-09-13 |
20120230164 | STRIKING MECHANISM UNIT AND DRIVE MECHANISM FOR AN ALARM STRIKING MECHANISM FOR A STRIKING TIMEPIECE - Striking mechanism unit ( | 2012-09-13 |
20120230165 | SAFETY MECHANISM PROTECTING AGAINST INADVERTENT ACTUATIONS OF THE MINUTE REPEATER - Safety mechanism against inadvertent actuation for a timepiece ( | 2012-09-13 |
20120230166 | TIMEPIECE FACE AND TIMEPIECE - To provide a timepiece face created by bonding a plurality of substrates configured primarily from polycarbonate, excellent bonding strength being achieved between substrates and air bubbles being effectively prevented from forming in the bond layer, and a timepiece including the timepiece face, a timepiece face according to the invention includes a first substrate configured primarily from polycarbonate; a second substrate configured primarily from polycarbonate; and a bond layer for bonding the first substrate and the second substrate. | 2012-09-13 |
20120230167 | MICROWAVE ASSISTED MAGNETIC HEAD AND MAGNETIC DISK DEVICE - A microwave assisted magnetic head of the present invention includes: at least two or more auxiliary coils that are arranged in a periphery of a writing main pole; and microwave current supply means that applies microwave currents to the at least two or more auxiliary coils. The at least two or more auxiliary coils respectively include linear body parts linearly arranged on an ABS side, two of the linear body parts of the at least two or more auxiliary coils are arranged in a substantially orthogonal positional relationship, and the microwave current supply means is configured such that the microwave current supply means changes phase differences of the microwave currents applied respectively to the at least two or more auxiliary coils. Therefore, the microwave current can be easily controlled, and thus, a circularly polarized magnetic field with high magnetization inversion efficiency can be generated as an assistance magnetic field. | 2012-09-13 |
20120230168 | HEAT-ASSISTED MAGNETIC WRITE HEAD, HEAD GIMBALS ASSEMBLY, HEAD ARM ASSEMBLY, AND MAGNETIC DISK DEVICE - A heat-assisted magnetic write head includes a magnetic pole having an end surface exposed at an air bearing surface, a waveguide extending toward the air bearing surface to propagate light, a first pair of clads made of a first dielectric material having a refractive index lower than that of the waveguide, and sandwiching the waveguide in a track width direction, and a second pair of clads made of a second dielectric material having a refractive index lower than that of the first dielectric material, and sandwiching the waveguide in a thickness direction orthogonal to the track width direction. Further, the heat-assisted magnetic write head may include, between the magnetic pole and the waveguide, a plasmon generator generating near-field light from the air bearing surface, based on light propagating through the waveguide. | 2012-09-13 |
20120230169 | THERMALLY-ASSISTED MAGNETIC RECORDING METHOD FOR WRITING DATA ON A HARD DISK MEDIUM - A thermally-assisted magnetic recording method includes first and second steps. The first step applies heat to part of a hard disk medium and forms a moving high-temperature region in a magnetic recording layer of the hard disk medium. The high-temperature region is higher in temperature than a region therearound and has a temperature equal to or higher than the maximum coercivity vanishing temperature of a plurality of magnetic grains contained in the magnetic recording layer. At least one magnetic grain that is adjacent to the rear end of the high-temperature region in the direction of movement of the high-temperature region has a coercivity of a value other than 0. The second step applies a write magnetic field to the hard disk medium such that the write magnetic field applied to the at least one magnetic grain adjacent to the rear end of the high-temperature region is 3 kOe or smaller in magnitude. | 2012-09-13 |
20120230170 | NEAR-FIELD LIGHT GENERATING ELEMENT, NEAR-FIELD LIGHT HEAD, AND INFORMATION RECORDING AND REPRODUCING DEVICE - A metal film is included which is placed between a core and a cladding, propagates a laser beam along an interface between the core and the cladding, and generates a near-field light from the laser beam. The metal film has a base portion placed on one side surface of the core along a propagation direction of the laser beam facing from one end side toward the other end side, and an extending portion extended from the other end side of the base portion to the other end side in the propagation direction rather than the core. The other end side of the extending portion is exposed to the outside, and is formed with a top portion projected toward the core side when viewed from the propagation direction. | 2012-09-13 |
20120230171 | OPTICAL DISC DEVICE - The operability of an optical disc device for reading or writing data from/to a disc having a data layer and a servo layer is improved by increasing the resistance to control disturbances. An optical disc device in accordance with the present invention includes an objective lens, a relay lens, a blue-violet laser detector, a red laser detector, an objective lens focus actuator, an objective lens tracking actuator, a relay lens actuator, a pair of focus error signal generating units, a pair of focus control signal generating units, a switching unit for selecting a focus control signal, a pair of tracking error signal generating units, a pair of tracking control signal generating units, a switching unit for selecting a tracking control signal, a focus error conversion unit and a tracking error conversion unit. | 2012-09-13 |
20120230172 | OPTICAL INFORMATION MEDIUM, OPTICAL INFORMATION RECORDING/REPRODUCING APPARATUS, AND OPTICAL INFORMATION RECORDING/REPRODUCING METHOD - In the related art, writing of BCA data has been performed by a BCA cutter or the like after a user data area was formed. However, according to such a method, individual steps cannot help being provided for a disc manufacturing step in order to form the BCA. A burden on the disc manufacturer is large from a viewpoint of the number of disc producing steps and, further, manufacturing costs. By using a bit forming method similar to a user data area, the BCA manufacturing steps can be reduced. Specifically speaking, by devising a pit depth, a pit width, and a pit pattern, a modulation degree of a BCA portion can be further increased. A detecting method similar to that for the BCA in the related art can be applied. | 2012-09-13 |
20120230173 | OPTICAL DISK REPRODUCING APPARATUS - An optical disk reproducing apparatus is provided which is capable of supporting even a situation in which a reproduction signal characteristic is changed due to a factor other than recording density of an optical disk by using PRML of different constrained length and capable of improving reading accuracy. The optical disk reproducing apparatus includes a PRML circuit of a first constrained length (for example, 4) and a PRML circuit of a second constrained length (for example, 5). Equalization error values obtained during calculation of equalization learning in respective circuits are compared with each other in a determination circuit. Switching control of a switch is performed so that an output of one of the PRML circuits having a smaller equalization error value is selected. | 2012-09-13 |
20120230174 | OPTICAL RECORDING AND READING DEVICE AND OPTICAL RECORDING AND READING METHOD - In an optical recording medium, even when a plurality of recording and reading layers are stacked, deterioration in the recording and reading signal quality thereof is suppressed. Furthermore, the transfer rate thereof can be increased. When recording or reading information by means of light irradiation on or from an optical recording medium having a plurality of recording and reading layers which are stacked in advance or formed eventually, an optical recording and reading device includes: a first optical system for irradiating a first beam to recording and reading layers to be a first target to perform recording or reading of information; and a second optical system for irradiating a second beam to recording and reading layers to be a second target to perform recording or reading of information. | 2012-09-13 |
20120230175 | Visual Enhancement for Turntable Playback - An apparatus for enhancing media playback on a turntable, such as an audio record turntable, includes an illumination apparatus. The illumination apparatus is generally placed on the turntable's platter, beneath a record to be played. The record may be transparent or semi-transparent. The illumination apparatus includes a light source that projects light up through the record for producing a visual effect. | 2012-09-13 |
20120230176 | RECEIVE BAND NOISE CANCELLATION METHOD AND APPARATUS - A method and apparatus for eliminating receive band noise in a communication system is provided. The method comprises sensing a transmit signal at a receive frequency, wherein the signal sensed is a bleed over signal from a transmit signal. The sensed bleed over signal is then digitized using a secondary receiver. This secondary receiver utilizes a separate path from the primary receive path. The next step in the method is to estimate the linear distortion, delay, attenuation in the sensed bleed over signal. Next, compensation for the linear distortion, delay, and attenuation are performed on the sensed bleed over signal. The sensed, digitized, and compensated bleed over signal is then cancelled from the primary receive path. | 2012-09-13 |
20120230177 | CONGESTION ABATEMENT IN A NETWORK INTERCONNECT - A method and system for detecting congestion in a network of nodes, abating the network congestion, and identifying the cause of the network congestion is provided. A congestion detection system may comprise a detection system, an abatement system, and a causation system. The detection system monitors the performance of network components such as the network interface controllers and tiles of routers to determine whether the network is congested such that a delay in delivering packets becomes unacceptable. Upon detecting that the network is congested, an abatement system abates the congestion by limiting the rate at which packets are injected into the network from the nodes. Upon detecting that the network is congested, a causation system may identify the job that is executing on a node that is the cause of the network congestion. | 2012-09-13 |
20120230178 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR HANDLING BURSTY NETWORK ENTRY AND RE-ENTRY IN MACHINE TO MACHINE NETWORKS - A method and apparatus may be used for handling bursty network entry and re-entry in M2M networks. For example, a base station (BS) may receive a trigger from at least one device associated with the BS. The at least one device may be a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU), or it may be a network device. The BS may determine whether a widespread exception is imminent based on the trigger. If a widespread exception is imminent, the BS may transmit an indication to the at least one device. The indication may indicate to the at least one device that the BS has received a widespread exception report. The WTRU may receive the indication, and terminate a network entry procedure in response to the indication. The WTRU may enter a power saving mode in response to the indication. | 2012-09-13 |
20120230179 | System, Device and Method for Distributing Link State Information in a Communication Network - A system, device, and method for distributing link state information in a communication network combines a link state routing protocol with a sliding window mechanism in order to efficiently distribute link state information. The sliding window mechanism permits a predetermined number of unacknowledged link state advertisement protocol messages to be outstanding at any given time. Unacknowledged link state advertisement protocol messages are retransmitted after a predetermined timeout period. | 2012-09-13 |
20120230180 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR HANDLING VALID PROTOCOL DATA UNITS - An example apparatus is provided that receives a plurality of protocol data units (PDUs) formatted according to a standard that prescribes segmenting service data units (SDUs) into sequential PDUs. Each SDU is segmented into PDU(s), and each PDU includes data field element(s). The apparatus detects a current received PDU including data field element(s) that do not belong to a SDU, and handles the detected PDU. This handling includes one or more of (a) accepting the detected PDU but discarding the data field element(s) of the respective PDU; (b) discarding the detected PDU including the data field element(s) of the respective PDU; (c) processing the detected PDU and forming a SDU from the data field element(s) of the respective PDU; or (d) handling the error as a radio link failure. The apparatus then operates according to the standard with respect to the received PDUs after handling the detected PDU. | 2012-09-13 |
20120230181 | Aircraft Communication Bus Fault Isolator Apparatus and Method - A structure and a first panel are operably disposed with respect to the structure. A first plurality of nodes is disposed within the first panel, including a first plurality of power distribution network nodes in a first power distribution network, and wherein the first plurality of nodes further comprises a first group of nodes. A second panel is operably disposed with respect to the structure. A second plurality of nodes is disposed within the second panel, including a second plurality of power distribution network nodes in a second power distribution network isolated from the first power distribution network. The second plurality of nodes further comprises a second group of nodes. A bus guardian, separate from the two panels, electrically connects the first panel and the second panel. The bus guardian is configured to network the first group of nodes and the second group of nodes in a network. | 2012-09-13 |
20120230182 | GLOBAL PORTS IN MULTI-SWITCH SYSTEMS - Global ports are supported in multi-switch systems having arbitrary topologies. In some implementations, global ports are implemented in a manner which makes the switch system robust in the face of link failure. In specific Ethernet implementations, global ports enable flooding, learning, forwarding, and link aggregation across the switch system. | 2012-09-13 |
20120230183 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMPLEMENTING CONTROL OF MULTIPLE PHYSICALLY DUAL HOMED DEVICES - A ring control protocol is used to establish a separate control plane for a plurality of physically dual homed devices to enable collections of dual homed devices to be represented by a single pair of addresses into the attached routed Ethernet network. The gateway devices analyze the passing ring control packets to create direct mappings for data packets to the routed Ethernet network. Thus, although the dual homed devices are treated as a ring from a control perspective, the data path is implemented to be direct so that data packets continue to flow directly from the dual homed devices to each of the attached gateway devices. In one embodiment, each of the gateway devices implements a virtual switch and advertises the MAC address of the virtual switch into the routed Ethernet network rather than the MAC addresses of each of the attached Ethernet Switch Units. | 2012-09-13 |
20120230184 | Signaling Extension for a Label Switched Path Over a Composite Link - An apparatus comprising an end point coupled to a peer end point via a composite link comprising a plurality of component links and configured to signal the peer end point to indicate an aggregated label switched path (LSP) established on the composite link and one of a plurality of data flow identifiers for the aggregated LSP, wherein the aggregated LSP and a data flow identifier field are signaled from the end point using a signaling protocol. Also disclosed is a method implemented by a network component comprising receiving using a receiver a message comprising a Type-Length-Value (TLV) that indicates that a LSP established on a composite link with a peer end point is an aggregated LSP, and receiving in the TLV a plurality of inner labels that correspond to a plurality of data flows of the aggregated LSP. | 2012-09-13 |
20120230185 | System and Method for Advertising a Composite Link in Interior Gateway Protocol and/or Interior Gateway Protocol-Traffic Engineering - An apparatus comprising a composite link comprising a plurality of component links including non-homogeneous links and positioned between two nodes that may be adjacent physically or logically, wherein the composite link is advertised as an Internal Gateway Protocol (IGP) link, an IGP-Traffic Engineering (IGP-TE) link, or both. Also included is a network component comprising an advertising module coupled to a composite link that comprises a plurality of component links including non-homogeneous links and configured to advertise the composite link as an Internal Gateway Protocol (IGP) link, IGP-Traffic Engineering (IGP-TE) link, or both, using a plurality of TE parameters associated with the component links. | 2012-09-13 |
20120230186 | Network Congestion Analysis - A network monitoring and network congestion analysis can be performed based on a comparison of data packets at multiple different network nodes installed at different locations on a communication path. A downstream network node may be installed at a user location while an upstream network may be installed at an access router further up the network. A network congestion analyzer may receive data packet information including timestamps from both network nodes, and may compare the data packet information to group the data packets into application flows and match the corresponding packets from the different network nodes. Based on the data packet matching, the network congestion analyzer may calculate packet loss, packet delay, packet delay variation, and perform other network congestion analysis techniques for the application flows corresponding to a user's various devices and the applications executing on those devices. | 2012-09-13 |
20120230187 | LOAD BALANCING SCTP ASSOCIATIONS USING VTAG MEDIATION - Presented is a system and methods for routing Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) between a client and a back-end server by a front-end server operating transparently between the client and the back-end server. The front-end server uses a distribution key created by the front-end server to route the SCTP packets to the proper destination. The distribution key is comprised of a client SCTP port number, a back-end server SCTP port number and a back-end server Initiate-Tag. The front-end server arbitrates clashes between distribution keys of different back-end servers by replacing the back-end server generated SCTP Initiate-Tag with a front-end server generated SCTP Initiate-Tag. | 2012-09-13 |
20120230188 | CONGESTION CAUSATION IN A NETWORK INTERCONNECT - A method and system for detecting congestion in a network of nodes, abating the network congestion, and identifying the cause of the network congestion is provided. A congestion detection system may comprise a detection system, an abatement system, and a causation system. The detection system monitors the performance of network components such as the network interface controllers and tiles of routers to determine whether the network is congested such that a delay in delivering packets becomes unacceptable. Upon detecting that the network is congested, an abatement system abates the congestion by limiting the rate at which packets are injected into the network from the nodes. Upon detecting that the network is congested, a causation system may identify the job that is executing on a node that is the cause of the network congestion. | 2012-09-13 |
20120230189 | System and method of transferring Wi-Fi clients between SSIDs - A computer networking system for load balancing, which comprises: a network, computing devices, access points each with a service set identifier, and a network management device. The network management device can receive a request from a computing device to access the network via a signal associated with a first service set identifier. In response to the request, the network management device receives loading information, which includes information associated with the access points. From the loading information, the network management device determines a least loaded access point, that is, the access point0 associated with a smallest quantity of computing devices. The network management device will send a service set identifier associated with the least loaded access point to the computing device which sent the access request. This computing device may then connect to the network via the least loaded access point and via the service set identifier associated with the least loaded access point. | 2012-09-13 |
20120230190 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD - Device for controlling a transmission rate of information includes a reception element receiving an input signal, and outputting received data; a transmission element accepting a transmission frame, transmitting a transmission signal at a first transmission rate set based on transmission control information, and outputting a transmission timing signal indicating completion timing of transmission of the transmission signal; an information extracting element extracting the transmission control information from the received data, and designating a second transmission rate when transmitting the next transmission frame to the transmission element; and a service quality control element changing, upon detecting a second transmission rate smaller than the first transmission rate, an upper limit transmission rate to the second transmission rate or less, changing, upon detecting a second transmission rate larger than the first transmission rate, the upper limit transmission rate to the second transmission rate or less after the completion timing, and generating the transmission frame from transmitted data based on the upper limit transmission rate. | 2012-09-13 |
20120230191 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DATA OFFLOADING IN MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS - A mobile communications infrastructure with coordinated data session offloading of mobile subscriber devices from a primary communication medium to a secondary communication medium. The infrastructure comprises a primary communications infrastructure which provides a primary communications medium for mobile subscriber devices and a secondary communications infrastructure which provides a secondary communication medium that is accessible by authorized mobile subscriber devices. An offload management system is configured to control offload of mobile subscriber devices from the primary communication medium to the secondary communication medium during a data session with a data network based on an offload profile associated with the mobile subscriber device and resource status information relating to the available capacity of the secondary communication medium. | 2012-09-13 |
20120230192 | LINK LAYER RESERVATION OF SWITCH QUEUE CAPACITY - A network switch, in response to receipt from a source station of a Layer 2 reservation request, establishes a reservation for capacity of an ingress queue of the network switch for a data flow of the source station. In response to a queue overrun condition on the ingress queue of the network switch while the reservation is active, the network switch preserves data frames in the data flow of the source station transmitted pursuant to the reservation and discards other data frames. | 2012-09-13 |
20120230193 | Method and system of intelligently load balancing of Wi-Fi access point apparatus in a wlan - A computer networking infrastructure for load balancing, which comprises a network, access points each with a first service set identifier, computing devices and a computing system. The computing system can receive requests from computing devices to access the network via a second service set identifier of an access point. In response to a request to access the network from a computing device, the computing system generates a list of access points which are able to support a connection with the computing device. The computing device may connect to the network via an access point on the list and via the first service set identifier. | 2012-09-13 |
20120230194 | Hash-Based Load Balancing in Large Multi-Hop Networks with Randomized Seed Selection - Methods and apparatus for improving hash-based load balancing with randomized seed selection are disclosed. The methods and apparatus described herein increase the number of unique fields in a hash key before the hash key is presented to a hash function. The methods include selecting one or more seed values based the output of a first arbitrary function having a first set of packet fields as input. The one or more seed values are combined with a second set of packet fields. A second arbitrary function generates a hash value based on the one or more seed values and the second set of packet fields. The hash value is applied as input to a hash function in a member selection module. The method enables per flow randomization attributes based on per packet attributes to perform aggregate member selection while remaining deterministic from a root-node or network perspective. | 2012-09-13 |
20120230195 | RELIABLE EVENT BROADCASTER WITH MULTIPLEXING AND BANDWIDTH CONTROL FUNCTIONS - Data may be transmitted in a broadcast mode to multiple devices operating in a network. Efficient utilization of bandwidth while providing a desired level of quality of service is enabled for the applications executing on the devices that utilize the broadcasted data. A set of bandwidth constraints may be utilized in combination with a set of heuristics and rules for the allocation and re-allocation of bandwidth among multiple applications in a manner that minimizes the impact on the quality of service metrics of importance to the affected applications when contention exists for the network resources. Quality of service provided to each application may be degraded smoothly, with certain priorities and guarantees being maintained. Event segmentation and reassembly functions for applications may be provided, as well as reliability mechanisms to increase the ability to provide data to client devices that have not been actively receiving for significant periods of time. | 2012-09-13 |
20120230196 | LINK LAYER RESERVATION OF SWITCH QUEUE CAPACITY - A network switch, in response to receipt from a source station of a Layer | 2012-09-13 |
20120230197 | SYSTEM FOR PERMITTING CONTROL OF THE PURGING OF A NODE B BY THE SERVING RADIO NETWORK CONTROLLER - A system and method which permit the RNC to control purging of data buffered in the Node B. The RNC monitors for a triggering event, which initiates the purging process. The RNC then informs the Node B of the need to purge data by transmitting a purge command, which prompts the Node B to delete at least a portion of buffered data. The purge command can include instructions for the Node B to purge all data for a particular UE, data in one or several user priority transmission queues or in one or more logical channels in the Node B, depending upon the particular data purge triggering event realized in the RNC. | 2012-09-13 |
20120230198 | PROGRAMMABLE ADAPTIVE NETWORK GRID - A device receives a first message from a first network element of a network grid. The device determines, based on the first message, whether a threshold is reached for the first network element of the network grid. The device further reprograms, when the threshold is reached, a second network element of the network grid to function in same first role as the first network element. Prior to the reprogramming of the second network element, the second network element functions in a second role that is different from the first role. The device also shifts processing from the first network element to the second network element. | 2012-09-13 |
20120230199 | TIE-BREAKING IN SHORTEST PATH DETERMINATION - A consistent tie-breaking decision between equal-cost shortest (lowest cost) paths is achieved by comparing an ordered set of node identifiers for each of a plurality of end-to-end paths. Alternatively, the same results can be achieved, on-the-fly, as a shortest path tree is constructed, by making a selection of an equal-cost path using the node identifiers of the diverging branches of the tree. Both variants allow a consistent selection to be made of equal-cost paths, regardless of where in the network the shortest paths are calculated. This ensures that traffic flow between any two nodes, in both the forward and reverse directions, will always follow the same path through the network. | 2012-09-13 |
20120230200 | PROVIDING MULTIPLE RETRANSMISSION POLICIES FOR A SINGLE DATA STREAM BY MAPPING DIFFERENTIATED SERVICES CODE POINT (DSCP) BIT FIELDS TO MEDIA ACCESS CONTROL PROTOCOL DATA UNIT (MPDU) BIT FIELDS - One feature provides for a method operational at an access point in communication with a destination station where the access point receives a stream of data including at least one media access control protocol data unit (MPDU) having a Differentiated Services Code Point (DSCP) field value, provides a retransmission policy to the MPDU based on the DSCP field value, and transmits the MPDU to the destination station via a wireless local area network. The stream of data may include a stream of video data having a layered modulation scheme, where the DSCP field value identifies at least one layer of the layered modulation scheme. The access point may use deep packet inspection to retrieve the DSCP value from the MPDU. In this fashion, multiple retransmission policies may be provided for a single data stream by mapping DSCP field values to MPDU bit fields, such as the Traffic Identifier field. | 2012-09-13 |
20120230201 | LOAD-BALANCING GATEWAYS - A gateway system determines whether load conditions are heavy or light according to a predetermined criterion. If load conditions are light, the gateway operates in reactive mode. If load conditions are heavy, the gateway operates in proactive mode. | 2012-09-13 |
20120230202 | VIRTUAL NETWORK INTERFACE WITH PACKET FILTERING HOOKS - Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with using packet filter hooks to selectively re-direct network packets to a virtual network interface are described. In one embodiment, a method includes re-directing a network packet at a filter hook point in an Internet Protocol processing stack. The example method may also include re-directing the network packet to a virtual network interface. | 2012-09-13 |
20120230203 | Network User Usage Profiling - Methods, systems, devices, and software are disclosed for generating a network usage profile. Certain embodiments of the network usage profile include a devices-by-node profile, indicating the set of customer devices available for use in communicating with a customer-side network node located at a customer side of an access network over a period of time, where some of the customer devices are not in operative communication with the customer-side network node during a portion of that time. Other embodiments associate the network usage profile with customer information to generate device-by-customer profiles. Still other embodiments associate the network usage profile with network traffic information to generate traffic-by-device profiles. Even other embodiments associate the multiple sources and types of information to generate traffic-by-customer profiles and/or traffic-by-device-by-customer profiles. Any of the profiles may then be accessed by one or more parties for use in affecting various network services, including targeting content delivery. | 2012-09-13 |
20120230204 | Remote Stitched Directed Acyclic Graphs - In one embodiment, in response to a trigger condition being detected at a particular location in a primary directed acyclic graph (DAG) in a computer network, a particular node in the primary DAG at the particular location may be determined to act as a remote stitched (RS)-DAG root for an RS-DAG at the particular location. The determined RS-DAG root may then be instructed to initiate the RS-DAG, the instructing indicating one or more properties for the RS-DAG that are based on the trigger condition and that are different from properties of the primary DAG. In another embodiment, a particular node receives instructions to initiate an RS-DAG as its RS-DAG root, initiates the RS-DAG, and relays messages of the RS-DAG with a primary root of the primary DAG. | 2012-09-13 |
20120230205 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR COLLISION AVOIDANCE IN SENSOR NETWORK - Disclosed is a method and apparatus for collision avoidance in a sensor network. The method includes transmitting data by a transmitter; comparing, by the transmitter, a remaining time between the data transmission and a backoff period with a turnaround time taken for the transmitter to switch from a transmit (Tx) mode to a receive (Rx) mode; selectively transmitting, by the transmitter, a busy signal indicating that a channel is in use, according to the comparison result; and receiving, by the transmitter, an acknowledgement (ACK) signal from a receiver after the turnaround time has elapsed. | 2012-09-13 |
20120230206 | PLACEMENT OF WIRELESS REPEATERS IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORK - The position of wireless repeaters within a wireless communication network can affect the throughput and performance of the wireless communication network. A wireless repeater and/or an access point associated with the wireless communication network can be configured to determine the optimal position of the wireless repeater based on throughput achieved on communication links between the access point, the repeater, and/or the client stations. The throughput achieved on communication links between the access point, the repeater, and/or the client stations can be determined by exchanging training packets, receiving acknowledgement messages in response to the training packets, and subsequently analyzing the received acknowledgement messages. Furthermore, the throughput achieved on communication links between the access point, the repeater, and/or the client stations can also be analyzed to determine whether each of the client stations should associate with the access point or the wireless repeater. | 2012-09-13 |
20120230207 | EARLY DETECTION OF LOSS OF CONTINUITY IN A MAINTENANCE ASSOCIATION - Systems and methods for early detection of loss of continuity in a maintenance association are provided. A method according to the invention preferably includes periodically transmitting a continuity check message (“CCM”) between two maintenance endpoints on the network. When the receiving maintenance endpoint detects a failure to receive a CCM from the transmitting maintenance endpoint for less than a standards-determined length of time, but greater than a predetermined length of time, the method may include using the receiving maintenance endpoint to implement a protection switching application in order to identify and utilize an alternate pathway for communication between the transmitting maintenance endpoint and the receiving maintenance endpoint. | 2012-09-13 |
20120230208 | Metadata Capture for Testing TCP Connections - Methods, port units, and computer readable storage media for testing network connections are disclosed. A plurality of Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) connections with one or remote devices may be established via a network. Metadata may be extracted from TCP packets transmitted via the plurality of TCP connections and TCP packets received via the plurality of TCP connections. The extracted metadata may be stored in a memory. | 2012-09-13 |
20120230209 | System and Method for Exchanging Channel, Physical Layer and Data Layer Information and Capabilities - A system and method for exchanging channel, physical layer and data layer information and capabilities. The exchange of channel, physical layer and data layer capabilities enables optimal solutions for the provision of network services. In one embodiment, channel, physical layer and data layer capabilities are exchanged during an auto-negotiation process or LLDP messaging. | 2012-09-13 |
20120230210 | PACKET SNIFFING WITH PACKET FILTERING HOOKS - Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with packet sniffing using packet filter hooks are described. In one embodiment, a method includes re-directing a network packet at a filter hook point in an Internet Protocol processing stack. The example method may also include re-directing the network packet to a packet sniffer. | 2012-09-13 |
20120230211 | METHODS AND NETWORK NODES FOR ALLOCATING CONTROL CHANNEL ELEMENTS FOR PHYSICAL DOWNLINK CONTROL CHANNEL - Methods and nodes of a telecommunications system are disclosed. How many Control Channel Elements of a Frequency Division Multiplexing radio interface are used to transmit a Physical Downlink Control Channel message from a node of the telecommunications system to a User Equipment unit are controlled based on whether the node received from the User Equipment unit a response to a prior Physical Downlink Control Channel message transmitted to the User Equipment unit. | 2012-09-13 |
20120230212 | CONGESTION DETECTION IN A NETWORK INTERCONNECT - A method and system for detecting congestion in a network of nodes, abating the network congestion, and identifying the cause of the network congestion is provided. A congestion detection system may comprise a detection system, an abatement system, and a causation system. The detection system monitors the performance of network components such as the network interface controllers and tiles of routers to determine whether the network is congested such that a delay in delivering packets becomes unacceptable. Upon detecting that the network is congested, an abatement system abates the congestion by limiting the rate at which packets are injected into the network from the nodes. Upon detecting that the network is congested, a causation system may identify the job that is executing on a node that is the cause of the network congestion. | 2012-09-13 |
20120230213 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR RECEIVING MULTIPLE FREQUENCY ALLOCATIONS (FAS) IN A MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - An apparatus and a method for receiving a multiple frequency band are provided. In the method for receiving a multiple frequency band of a terminal is a mobile communication system, respective received signal strengths or respective gains are measured with respect to a signal received via at least one Radio Frequency (RF) chain. Whether multiple frequency band reception that uses a single RF chain is possible is determined using the respective received signal strengths or the respective gains. When the multiple frequency band reception that uses the single RF chain is possible, the multiple frequency band is received using the single RF chain. | 2012-09-13 |
20120230214 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MONITORING AND OPTIMIZING NETWORK PERFORMANCE TO A WIRELESS DEVICE - The disclosed embodiments include a method for monitoring and optimizing network performance to a wireless device that includes determining network performance information of a wireless router and communicating data packets containing the network performance information to a network management device. The network management device is configured to transmit instructional data packets to the wireless router that include instructions for optimizing network performance to said wireless device in response to identify a network performance problem associated with the wireless router. | 2012-09-13 |
20120230215 | MOBILE USER TERMINAL, MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, BASE STATION, AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - A method for using a mobile user terminal includes a receiving a signal and a measuring downlink channel quality based on the signal; wherein downlink channel quality information and an uplink pilot signal simultaneously is not transmitted at a period which the mobile user terminal is a state of transmission off in an intermittent fashion. | 2012-09-13 |
20120230216 | COMMUNICATION METHOD - A mobile station and a base station communicate with each other using a frame including one or more downlink subframes and one or more uplink subframes. The base station begins the transmission of a data burst in a subframe corresponding to a downlink subframe index. The mobile station transmits feedback for the data burst to the base station in a subframe corresponding to an uplink subframe index. If the frame uses a time division duplex scheme, the uplink subframe index is determined by at least using the downlink subframe index and the parameter value. | 2012-09-13 |
20120230217 | 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. | 2012-09-13 |
20120230218 | Method and Base Station for Detecting a HARQ-ACK Codeword - A method in a base station for detecting a HARQ-ACK codeword comprised in a signal received from a UE is provided. The base station knows HARQ-ACK codewords being possible to detect. The base station receives ( | 2012-09-13 |
20120230219 | Method and Arrangements for Reducing the Number of Failed Handover Procedures - The invention relates to a method in a source radio base station ( | 2012-09-13 |
20120230220 | Bit Soft Value Normalization - An LTE uplink soft demapper includes an SC-FDMA symbol noise power meter (22) configured to individually determine a noise power measure for each SC-FDMA symbol in a slot by exploiting information contained in modulated data symbols of the corresponding SC-FDMA symbol. A bit soft value normalizer (24) connected to the SC-FDMA symbol noise power meter (22) is configured to normalize bit soft values, representing reliability of received bits obtained from the SC-FDMA symbols in the slot, based on the determined noise power measures. | 2012-09-13 |
20120230221 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPLEMENTING AD HOC WIRELESS NETWORKING - This disclosure involves methods and systems for implementing IBSS networks between peer client devices. Devices function as registrar or enrollee in the network depending upon whether they are in configured or unconfigured mode. The WPS-PBC configuration routine allows the unconfigured enrollee device to obtain the necessary network configuration profile from the configured registrar device upon a successful WPS handshake process. Once a device has received the network configuration protocol, its status is switched to configured, allowing it to function as a registrar for the network for the subsequent addition of new devices. When both devices are initially in an unconfigured state, one is chosen to act as registrar so that it can automatically generate the necessary network configuration profile and pass it along to the other device. Following this process, both devices are set to configured mode. | 2012-09-13 |
20120230222 | Gravitational Parent Selection in Directed Acyclic Graphs - In one embodiment, a particular node in a computer network receives an indication of a number of child nodes of one or more potential parent nodes to the particular node in a primary directed acyclic graph (DAG). From this, the particular node selects a particular potential parent node with the highest number of child nodes as a secondary DAG parent for the particular node, and joins the secondary DAG at the selected secondary DAG parent (e.g., for multicast and/or broadcast message distribution). This may recursively continue, such that nodes gravitate toward parents with more children, potentially allowing parents with fewer children to relinquish their parental responsibilities. | 2012-09-13 |
20120230223 | THIN CLIENT ENVIRONMENT PROVIDING SYSTEM, SERVER, THIN CLIENT ENVIRONMENT MANAGEMENT METHOD AND THIN CLIENT ENVIRONMENT MANAGEMENT PROGRAM - A thin client environment providing system includes a data center including at least one hypervisor and at least one layer 2 switch, a server, and at least one terminal computer. The server includes a VLAN group reservation unit which when receiving, from the terminal computer, a virtual machine addition request, obtains, from a data center DB, information of a hypervisor group and information of the layer 2 switch corresponding to the generation destination hypervisor, extracts, from a tenant DB, the VLAN group corresponding to the information of the hypervisor group, and the information of the tenant and information of the OS, and registers the indexed VLAN group with the tenant DB to reserve the VLAN group. A VLAN structure instructing unit which, when none of the VLAN group is registered with a switch DB, registers the information of the layer 2 switch and the information of the VLAN group. | 2012-09-13 |
20120230224 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, RELAY STATION, AND BASE STATION - A mobile communication system includes a base station and a relay station. The base station transmits carrier information to the relay station during connection of a first radio link using a first carrier. The carrier information indicates at least one candidate carrier available for performing multi-carrier communication on the first radio link. The relay station transmits, to the base station, request information about a configuration of the first radio link for the at least one candidate carrier indicated by the carrier information. The base station further determines, in response to receiving the request information from the relay station, a second carrier used with the first carrier for the multi-carrier communication. | 2012-09-13 |
20120230225 | Hash-Based Load Balancing with Per-Hop Seeding - Methods and apparatus for improving hash-based load balancing with per-hop seeding are disclosed. The methods and apparatus described herein provide a set of techniques that enable nodes to perform differing mathematical transformations when selecting a destination link. The techniques include manipulation of seeds, hash configuration mode randomization at a per node basis, per node/microflow basis or per microflow basis, seed index generation, and member selection. A node can utilize any, or all, of the techniques presented in this disclosure simultaneously to improve traffic distribution and avoid path starvation with a degree of determinism. | 2012-09-13 |
20120230226 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING VOICE CONTROL FOR ACCESSING TELECONFERENCE SERVICES - A method and apparatus for providing access to teleconference services using voice recognition technology to receive information on packet networks such as Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and Service over Internet Protocol (SoIP) networks are disclosed. In one embodiment, the service provider enables a caller to enter access information for accessing a conference service using at least one natural language response. | 2012-09-13 |
20120230227 | FILTER ARRANGEMENT - A filter arrangement for filtering a radio transmit signal and radio receive signal, comprising a first duplex filter and a second duplex filter, a signal divider for splitting a transmit input signal into a first transmitter signal portion and a second transmitter signal portion, the first transmitter signal portion being passed to the a transmit port of the first duplex-filter, and a second signal portion being passed to the second transmitter port of the second duplex filter. The filter arrangement further comprising a signal combiner/divider for combining a first filtered transmit portion signal and a second filtered transmit portion signal into a single filtered transmit signal. The filter arrangement further comprising a signal combiner for combining a first filtered receive signal portion and a second filtered receive signal portion into a single filtered receive signal, which is provided at a third output of the signal combiner. With such a filter arrangement the suppression of noise from the transmit signal in the receive signal is improved. | 2012-09-13 |
20120230228 | RADIO COMMUNICATION TERMINAL - A mobile communication terminal ( | 2012-09-13 |
20120230229 | Radio access data terminal and system and method for implementing data communication thereof - The disclosure discloses a radio access data terminal and a system and a method for implementing data communications by the radio access data terminal, wherein the system comprises: the radio access data terminal, which is configured to process a downlink radio signal received by the radio access data terminal to obtain a downlink digital In-phase/Quadrature-phase (I/Q) signal, transmit the downlink digital I/Q signal to a general-purpose computer, and perform a bus protocol conversion on uplink digital information output by the general-purpose computer, modulate the converted signal and then transmit the modulated signal; and the general-purpose computer, which is configured to perform data service processing on the downlink digital I/Q signal received by a system bus and output uplink digital information which needs to be transmitted. Therefore, the disclosure can solve the problems of high power consumption and large heat dissipating capacity of an existing radio access data terminal and the resulting low utilization rate of a Central Processing Unit (CPU) of the general-purpose computer. | 2012-09-13 |
20120230230 | RESOURCE ALLOCATION FOR OFDMA SYSTEMS WITH HALF-DUPLEX RELAY(S) AND CORRESPONDING TRANSMISSION PROTOCOL - A transmission protocol is provided for wireless communications in an OFDMA system that uses a rateless code and techniques are provided for dynamically adjusting the subcarrier resources allocated to an OFDMA relay node so that the relay is used at the right time according to the instantaneous channel state information (CSI). As a result, a higher throughput is achieved between source and destination nodes based on a low complexity algorithm for determining when relay assistance is helpful for completing a transmission between the source and destination nodes. | 2012-09-13 |
20120230231 | METHOD IN WHICH A MOBILE TERMINAL TRANSMITS/RECEIVES A SIGNAL USING A PREDETERMINED TDD FRAME STRUCTURE IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The mobile station for transceiving signals using a predetermined time division duplex (TDD) frame structure in a wireless communication system includes a receiver for receiving a midamble from a base station (BS), and a relay station (RS). The receiver receives, from the BS, a first midamble through a second subframe of a downlink access zone of the BS and/or through a first subframe of a downlink relay zone that follows the downlink access zone. Alternatively, the receiver receives, from the RS, a second midamble through a second subframe of a downlink access zone of the RS. A transition gap in a downlink region is located in the last subframe of the downlink access zone of the RS, which follows the downlink access zone of the RS, and a transition gap in an uplink region is located in a first subframe of an uplink relay zone of the RS. | 2012-09-13 |
20120230232 | FLEXIBLE TIME DIVISION DUPLEX METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A flexible Time Division Duplex (TDD) method and apparatus is provided for improving efficiency of communication system. A communication method of a base station supporting TDD includes transmitting, to a terminal, first information including at least one of a flag indicating whether flexible subframes are used and an indicator indicating a candidate flexible subframe set to an uplink subframe; transmitting, to the terminal, second information including a switch flag indicating whether to use the candidate flexible subframe as a downlink subframe; and transmitting, to the terminal, when the candidate flexible subframe is indicated to be used as the downlink subframe, the candidate flexible subframe as the downlink subframe. | 2012-09-13 |
20120230233 | CLOSED-LOOP MIMO SYSTEMS AND METHODS - Methods, devices and systems are provided for transmitting and receiving MIMO signals. In one embodiment, transmitting_of the MIMO signals involves pre-coding each of at least two data symbols using a respective pre-coding codeword to preclude a corresponding plurality of pre-coded data symbols. A respective signal is transmitted from each of a plurality of antennas, the respective signal including one of the pre-coded signals and at least one pilot for use in channel estimation. The signals collectively further include at least one beacon pilot vector consisting of a respective beacon pilot per antenna, the beacon pilot vector containing contents known to a receiver for use by the receiver in determining the codeword used to pre-code the at least one data signal. | 2012-09-13 |
20120230234 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - A communication apparatus including a short-distance communication module, wherein the short-distance communication module selectively performs one-to-one communication or one-to-many communication in short-distance communication, and sets a sampling rate for sampling transmission data of the communication apparatus to be greater than the inverse of an arrival time difference of the transmission data determined according to a maximum communication distance between communication apparatuses. | 2012-09-13 |
20120230235 | GENERIC PACKET FILTERING - Embodiments contemplate one or more techniques for packet filtering. One or more embodiments may apply specific routing and/or forwarding rules on some or each packet when a device has one or more, or multiple, interfaces. Contemplated filtering techniques may be implemented in a module and/or without modifying an IP stack. The contemplated packet filtering techniques may apply to a terminal in uplink and/or downlink as well as to any network node. An incoming packet table may be created using 5-tuple, 6-tuple, and/or tags, among other mechanisms, to support incoming and/or outgoing packet filtering. | 2012-09-13 |
20120230236 | Saving Power In A Wireless Communication Device - A terminal comprises a plurality of hardware I/O units, including a wireless transceiver having a powered-up state in which at least one of a transmit path and a receive path is enabled at the expense of higher power consumption and a powered-down state in which the at least one path is disabled in favour of lower power consumption; a processing apparatus; and a storage medium coupled to the processing apparatus and storing at least a first and a second application, an operating system, a communication protocol layer and a driver layer arranged to be executed on the processing apparatus. The operating system is arranged to arbitrate access by the plurality of applications to the hardware I/O units via the driver layer, including access to the wireless transceiver via the communication protocol layer and driver layer. The second application comprises a wireless traffic scheduler configured to coordinate traffic associated with the second application to be communicated via the wireless transceiver during a same continuous phase of the powered-up state as traffic associated with the first application. | 2012-09-13 |
20120230237 | Power Management for Wireless Networks - Embodiments provide techniques for device power management in wireless networks. For instance, an apparatus may include a power management module, and a transceiver module. The power management module determines a beacon interval and a wakeup interval. The transceiver module to send a transmission to one or more remote devices that includes the beacon interval and the wakeup interval. The beacon interval indicates a time interval between consecutive beacon transmissions of the apparatus, and the wakeup interval indicates a time interval between when the apparatus receives two consecutive beacons from a peer device. | 2012-09-13 |
20120230238 | Resource Setting Control for Transmission Using Contention Based Resources - There is proposed a mechanism for controlling a transmission of a connection quality information, like CQI, from a UE to a base transceiver station via an uplink connection. Resources of an uplink control channel for the trans-mission of the connection quality information are set for a plurality of UEs. A collision between transmissions of the connection quality information by at least two user equipments of the plurality of UEs on a same resource element is detected or predicted on the basis of input information, and a collision prevention processing is executed when such collision is detected or predicted. | 2012-09-13 |
20120230239 | TERMINAL DEVICE FOR RECEIVING SIGNAL IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM FOR SUPPORTING A PLURALITY OF COMPONENT CARRIERS AND METHOD THEREOF - Disclosed are a terminal device for receiving a signal in a wireless communication system for supporting a plurality of component carriers and a method thereof. In the terminal device for receiving the signal in the system for supporting the component carriers, a receiver receives a Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) including control information of a first type component carrier from a base station or a relay. A processor performs a decoding operation or controls an operation in a slip mode on the basis of control information included in a PDCCH in a second type component carrier after a time corresponding to a particular time offset value passes from a transmission time point of the PDCCH. | 2012-09-13 |
20120230240 | MULTICAST BROADCAST SERVICE CONTROLLER - A multicast broadcast service controller is disclosed. The MBSC processes multicast broadcast data streams for transmission to access service network gateways or base stations. The MBSC includes a MBSC core processor for establishing time synchronization information used the by the access service network gateways or base stations to synchronously transmit data streams. The MBSC core processor selects streams for transmission in a time diversity interval (TDI) and builds multicast broadcast (MBS) region content based on the selected streams and configuration information. The MBS region content includes timing synchronization information, resource information and MBS region content location information. A MBS region distribution module (MRD) transmits the MBS region content to the access service network gateways or base stations. | 2012-09-13 |
20120230241 | METHOD OF TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING CONTROL INFORMATION IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method of transmitting and receiving control information for a specific service in a wireless communication system is discussed. The method of transmitting control information for a specific service in a wireless communication system which uses multiple carriers includes transmitting notification indication information to at least one user equipment, the notification indication information including information related to a channel resource region through which control information for the specific service is transmitted, and transmitting a notification message to the at least one user equipment through the channel resource region indicated by the information related to the channel resource region, the notification including control information. | 2012-09-13 |
20120230242 | METHODS FOR TRANSMITTING A FRAME IN A MULTI-USER BASED WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The present invention relates to methods for transmitting a frame by grouping a plurality of wireless terminals in a multiuser based wireless communication system. The present invention includes a method for transmitting a frame by including information about multiple receiver terminals in a MAC frame, another method for transmitting a frame by allocating group addresses and then using a corresponding group address for frame transmission, and yet another method for transmitting a frame by using a unique group sequence number that is allocated to each group and group control information that contains bitmap information. The group control information is included in a destination address field of a MAC layer, or in a signal field of a physical layer, or in both the MAC layer and the physical layer. | 2012-09-13 |
20120230243 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR EFFICIENTLY RECEIVING BROADCAST CONTROL MESSAGE USING MAC PDU HEADER IN WIRELESS ACCESS SYSTEM - Disclosed is a method of driving a terminal for receiving a broadcast control message formed of a MAC PDU from a wireless access system. The method includes receiving at least one broadcast control message from a base station in a resource region where a broadcast control message is transmitted, extracting broadcast control message type information that represents the kind of a broadcast control message included in the header of the received broadcast control message, and checking the extracted broadcast control message type information and determining whether payload of the received broadcast message is decoded. | 2012-09-13 |
20120230244 | COMMUNICATION DEVICES AND METHODS FOR NETWORK SIGNALING - A communication device is described comprising a detector configured to detect, based on the reception of radio signals from another communication device, whether the other communication device is operating as a relay communication device in a radio cell associated with the communication device and a signaling circuit configured to signal to a communication terminal that the other communication device is operating as a relay communication device if it has been detected that the other communication device is operating as a relay communication device. | 2012-09-13 |
20120230245 | HARQ HANDLING AT RELAY NODE RECONFIGURATION - A radio access network comprises a donor base station node ( | 2012-09-13 |
20120230246 | REPEATER DEVICE - A repeater device that achieves remote activation without fail by increasing the probability of an activation instruction frame reaching a to-be-activated communication device. The repeater device includes an activation signal generation unit that generates an activation signal, which activates a first communication device, when a frame, which is to be transmitted to the first communication device that is one of communication devices connected to a network managed by the repeater device, is received and when the first communication device is not in operation; and an annunciation signal generation unit that generates an annunciation signal, which sets up a non-communication section in which no communication takes place for a certain period of time with a communication device connected to the network. The repeater device sets up a non-communication section using an annunciation signal, and transmits, with the non-communication section set up, an activation signal. | 2012-09-13 |
20120230247 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SETTING UP A RELAY LINK IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and apparatus for setting up a relay link to transfer a data frame using a relay in a wireless communication system are provided. The relay link setup method of a source STA in a wireless communication system may include receiving capability information of at least one relay supporting station included in the wireless communication system from an access point (AP) or a personal basic service set (PBSS) central point (PCP), selecting one of the at least one relay supporting station as a relay station, using beam forming information among the source station, a destination station, and the at least one relay supporting station and the capability information, transferring a relay link setup request frame to the destination station, and receiving a relay link setup response frame that includes information on a relay link setup result from the destination station. The relay link setup request frame and the relay link setup response frame may pass through the relay station. | 2012-09-13 |
20120230248 | METHOD FOR DATA TRANSMISSION BASED ON RELAY MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND EQUIPMENT THEREOF SPECIFICATION IDENTIFICATION - A method for data transmission based on a relay mobile communication system and an equipment thereof are provided by the present invention. The method includes: at least two transport planes are configured on the Un interface protocol stack of the relay equipment and the base station eNode B; the relay equipment and the eNode B transmit the data via at least two transport planes configured on the Un interface protocol stack. With the present invention, the throughput rate of the Un interface between the relay equipment and the eNode B in the relay mobile communication system is improved, and the time delay of the Un interface is reduced. | 2012-09-13 |
20120230249 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, BASE STATION DEVICE, MOBILE STATION DEVICE, AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD - A wireless communication system ( | 2012-09-13 |
20120230250 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR CONTROLLING COEXISTENCE BETWEEN WIRELESS NETWORKS - Method, apparatus, and computer program product embodiments are disclosed for independent wireless resource sharing on a fair basis to enable selecting the most suitable coexistence between wireless networks. Example embodiments of the invention include a method comprising receiving, at a network controller, a coexistence management service request allowing one or more network controllers to make decisions concerning operational parameters of a wireless network originating the request; determining whether control of the wireless network is to be shared with one or more network controllers serving one or more wireless networks neighboring the wireless network originating the request; and in response to determining that control of the wireless network is not to be shared with the one or more network controllers serving the one or more wireless networks neighboring the wireless network originating the request, notifying the one or more network controllers serving the one or more wireless networks neighboring the wireless network originating the request that the wireless network has requested a coexistence information service. | 2012-09-13 |
20120230251 | Method for controlling devices through electric power transmission line based network - A control method for an electric power transmission line based network including network sections each having a monitor and at least one device group, each device group having at least one input device and at least one output device, each input or output device having a set switch comprising transmitting a packet from one device to another device of the same device group over the network section containing the device group wherein the set switch of the device may set itself to belong to one device group, all devices have a right of controlling the network with different priorities, the packet transmission is performed after the device transmitting the packet having controlled the network if the priority thereof is the highest among the activated devices, and the remaining devices in the same network section may read the packet. | 2012-09-13 |