Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080273498 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TRANSMITTING CONTENT IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORK - The present invention provides methods and systems for transmitting content in a wireless communication network. The method includes caching a content in each base station of a set of base stations in the wireless communication network. The content includes a plurality of packets. In response to caching the content, a first base station belonging to the set of base stations transmits a first group of packets of the content to a mobile station. The method further includes handing over the mobile station to a second base station. The second base station belongs to the set of the base stations. The second base station resumes transmission of a second group of packets of the content to the mobile station. | 11-06-2008 |
20080310365 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CACHING CONTENT ON-DEMAND IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORK - The present invention provides methods and systems for caching content in a wireless communication network. The method includes receiving a request for a content at a first base station from a mobile station. In response to receiving the request for the content, the first base station caches a first fragment of the content. The first fragment includes a plurality of packets. Further, the first base station transmits one or more packets of the plurality of packets corresponding to the first fragment to the mobile station. The method further includes initiating a handover of the mobile station to at least one second base station. The at least one base station caches a remaining plurality of packets corresponding to the first fragment of the content in response to the handover. | 12-18-2008 |
20090010344 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING COMMUNICATION IN AN OFDMA SYSTEM - The present invention provides methods and system for managing communication in an orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) system. The method comprises setting at least a first segment as a high power segment for a plurality of base station in the OFDMA system. Further, communication is established between at least one base station and at least one communication device in the OFDMA system, in response to setting the at least first segment as a high power segment. The method further comprises assigning a region of the first segment to a set of base stations in the OFDMA system. The assigned region can be used by the set of base stations at high power level to communicate with communication devices located in overlapping areas. A method for coordinating uplink transmission in the OFDMA system for reducing uplink interference is also provided. | 01-08-2009 |
20090029707 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR COMMUNICATION IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORK USING GLOBAL RADIO RESOURCE CONTROLLER - A method, system, and apparatus for communication in a wireless communication network by using a global Radio Resource Controller is provided. The method includes receiving one or more reports from one or more local RRCs by the global RRC. The method further includes sending one or more responses to each of the one or more local RRCs by the global RRC. The one or more responses correspond to the one or more reports received from the one or more local RRCs. | 01-29-2009 |
20090061922 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING CONNECTION IDENTIFIERS (CIDs) IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORK - A method and apparatus for managing communication in a wireless communication network is provided. The method includes generating a plurality of sets of Connection Identifiers (CIDs) from the plurality of CIDs. Each CID in each of the plurality of sets of CIDs is absent in at least one of the plurality of sets of CIDs. Each CID of the plurality of CIDs identifies a connection between a Base Station (BS) of a plurality of BSs and a Mobile Station (MS) communicating with the BS. The method further includes assigning the plurality of sets of CIDs to the plurality of Base stations (BSs) in the wireless communication network based on a predefined condition. | 03-05-2009 |
20090067333 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING TRAFFIC FLOW IN BACKHAUL LINK IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORK - A method, system, and apparatus for controlling traffic flow in one or more backhaul links in a wireless communication network is provided. Each backhaul link of the one or more backhaul link includes a backhaul uplink and a backhaul downlink. The method includes analyzing one or more backhaul uplinks and one or more backhaul downlinks between a controller and one or more Base Transceiver Stations (BTSs). The method further includes communicating one or more messages between the controller and the one or more BTSs. The one or more messages include analysis of the one or more analysis of one of the one or more backhaul uplinks and the one or more backhaul downlinks. The method further includes controlling the traffic flow in at least one of the one or more backhaul uplinks and the one or more backhaul downlinks based on the one or more messages. | 03-12-2009 |
20090069004 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR LOAD BALANCING IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORK - A method, system, and apparatus for communication in wireless communication network having an Access Service Network-controller (ASN-controller) communicating with plurality of Base Stations (BSs). The method includes reading one or more reports of plurality of reports received from the plurality of BSs. The plurality of reports comprise spare capacity information of one or more BSs of the plurality of BSs. The method further includes generating one or more directions based on the one or more reports to perform load balancing. | 03-12-2009 |
20090073885 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND APPARATUS FOR TRACKING USER BEHAVIOR IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORK - A method, system, and apparatus for tracking user behavior in a wireless communication network are provided. The method includes monitoring one or more data packets communicated between one or more devices and one or more data servers at an anchor datapath gateway in the wireless communication network. The method further includes creating one or more profiles for one or more users in response to monitoring the one or more data packets. The one or more devices are used by the one or more users. | 03-19-2009 |
20090080375 | Method and apparatus for network wide adaptive resource allocation for OFDMA/TDMA networks - In this invention, adaptive resource allocation is proposed. A resource is divided into Blocks and each base station is assigned a Block for its terminals that are in the interference region, and another Block for its terminals that are not in the interference region. Blocks other than these two are not used by the base station. Bordering base stations does not use the same Block if they have any terminal in the shared interference region. | 03-26-2009 |
20090088167 | Method and apparatus to estimate relative base station and subscriber terminal locations and using it to increase frequency reuse - Method for estimating position information of base stations as well as terminals for three dimensional centralized real-time spectrum management to achieve high spectral efficiency. In one aspect of the invention, the method comprises i) understanding the position information of plurality of base stations, wherein the plurality of terminals and the base stations form a wireless network, ii) determining, at the central controller, position of a terminal via plurality of communication wirelessly between the base stations and a terminal and between the base station and the central controller, iii) applying network wide real time knowledge at the central controller to electronically steerable antennas to use a resource in a different direction then where it is used by other base stations to achieve frequency reuse of one. | 04-02-2009 |
20090097461 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING CONTENT IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORK - A method and apparatus for providing one or more contents to one or more devices in a wireless communication network. The method includes associating the one or more contents with one or more headers corresponding to one or more data packets transmitted for the one or more devices at an anchor datapath gateway in the wireless communication network The method further includes rendering the one or more contents with data represented by the one or more data packets to the one or more devices in response to associating the one or more contents with the one or more headers. | 04-16-2009 |
20090303922 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR COMMUNICATING A PLURALITY OF PACKETS IN A COMMUNICATION NETWORK - A method and apparatus for communicating a plurality of packets in a communication network is provided. The method includes suppressing one or more portions of the plurality of packets based on a suppression rule in a central controller. Thereafter, each packet is transmitted from the central controller to one or more Mobile Stations (MSs) through one or more Base Stations (BSs). | 12-10-2009 |
20090316660 | METHOD, SYSTEM, AND APPARATUS FOR HANDOVER AMONGST PLURALITY OF COMMUNICATION NETWORKS - A method, system, and apparatus for enabling handover of a Mobile Station (MS) amongst a plurality of communication networks is provided. The MS operates in one or more communication networks of the plurality of communication networks using an Internet Protocol (IP) session. The method includes communicating one or more network parameters amongst the plurality of communication networks. The method further includes creating one or more datapath parameters based on one or more of the one or more network parameters. The method further includes altering one or more protocol stack parameters in the MS. Altering the one or more protocol stack parameters maintains the IP session operating the MS in the one or more communication networks. | 12-24-2009 |
20100124200 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PREDICTING HANDOVER IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORK - A method and apparatus for predicting a handover of a Mobile Station (MS) of a plurality of MSs to one or more target Base Stations (BSs) of a plurality of BSs in a wireless communication network. The method includes predicting a need for a handover of a MS to one or more target BSs selected from the plurality of BSs based on a handover threshold. The handover threshold is associated with a quality of a signal received by the MS. The method further includes transferring datapath associated with the MS to one or more of the one or more target BSs and one or more gateways prior to the handover of the MS. The one or more gateways are associated with one or more of a serving BS associated with the MS and the one or more target BSs. The plurality of BSs includes the serving BS. | 05-20-2010 |
20100124928 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR HANDOVER IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORK - A method and apparatus for handover of a MS of a plurality of MSs to a BS of a plurality of BSs in a wireless communication network. The method includes identifying a target BS from the plurality of BSs for handover of the MS served by a serving BS. A difference between a quality of a signal received by the MS from the target BS and the quality of the signal received by the MS from the serving BS is greater than or equal to a first predefined threshold. The method further includes performing a handover for the MS from the serving BS to the target BS when the quality of the signal received by the MS from the serving BS is greater than or equal to a second predefined threshold. | 05-20-2010 |
20100216463 | METHOD AND APPARATUS TO ESTIMATE RELATIVE BASE STATION AND SUBSCRIBER TERMINAL LOCATIONS AND USING IT TO INCREASE FREQUENCY REUSE - Method for estimating position information of base stations as well as terminals for three dimensional centralized real-time spectrum management to achieve high spectral efficiency. In one aspect of the invention, the method comprises i) understanding the position information of plurality of base stations, wherein the plurality of terminals and the base stations form a wireless network, ii) determining, at the central controller, position of a terminal via plurality of communication wirelessly between the base stations and a terminal and between the base station and the central controller, iii) applying network wide real time knowledge at the central controller to electronically steerable antennas to use a resource in a different direction then where it is used by other base stations to achieve frequency reuse of one. | 08-26-2010 |
20100220696 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING COMMUNICATION IN AN OFDMA SYSTEM - The present invention provides method and system for managing communication in an orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) system using segments in an OFDMA frame. The method includes setting at least a first segment in the OFDMA frame as a high power segment for a plurality of base station in the OFDMA system. Further, communication is established between at least one base station and at least one communication device in the OFDMA system, in response to setting the at least first segment as a high power segment. The method further includes assigning a region of the first segment to a set of base stations in the OFDMA system. The assigned region can be used by the set of base stations at high power level to communicate with communication devices located in overlapping areas. A method for coordinating uplink transmission in the OFDMA system for reducing uplink interference is also provided. | 09-02-2010 |
20100317380 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SMS BASED TICKET NUMBER SERVICE OVER FEMTOCELL ACCESS POINT - A Femtocell Access Point (FAP) is used to provision a ticket number service. Customers approach the FAP and are given a ticket number indicating their place in the queue through an SMS message. Follow up SMS messages are sent updating the customer of their current position in line, as well as when it is their turn. Statistics may be generated from information gathered at the FAP and sent to an external client module. | 12-16-2010 |
20120220304 | Method and Apparatus To Estimate Relative Base Station and Subscriber Terminal Locations and Using It To Increase Frequency Reuse - Method for estimating position information of base stations as well as terminals for three dimensional centralized real-time spectrum management to achieve high spectral efficiency. In one aspect of the invention, the method comprises i) understanding the position information of plurality of base stations, wherein the plurality of terminals and the base stations form a wireless network, ii) determining, at the central controller, position of a terminal via plurality of communication wirelessly between the base stations and a terminal and between the base station and the central controller, iii) applying network wide real time knowledge at the central controller to electronically steerable antennas to use a resource in a different direction then where it is used by other base stations to achieve frequency reuse of one. | 08-30-2012 |
20120329492 | System for SMS Based Ticket Number Service Over Femtocell Access Point - A Femtocell Access Point (FAP) is used to provision a ticket number service. Customers approach the FAP and are given a ticket number indicating their place in the queue through an SMS message. Follow up SMS messages are sent updating the customer of their current position in line, as well as when it is their turn. Statistics may be generated from information gathered at the FAP and sent to an external client module. | 12-27-2012 |
20130016660 | METHOD AND APPARATUS TO ESTIMATE RELATIVE BASE STATION AND SUBSCRIBER TERMINAL LOCATIONS AND USING IT TO INCREASE FREQUENCY REUSE - Method for estimating position information of base stations as well as terminals for three dimensional centralized real-time spectrum management to achieve high spectral efficiency. In one aspect of the invention, the method comprises i) understanding the position information of plurality of base stations, wherein the plurality of terminals and the base stations form a wireless network, ii) determining, at the central controller, position of a terminal via plurality of communication wirelessly between the base stations and a terminal and between the base station and the central controller, iii) applying network wide real time knowledge at the central controller to electronically steerable antennas to use a resource in a different direction then where it is used by other base stations to achieve frequency reuse of one. | 01-17-2013 |
20140153397 | Apparatus And Method For Controlling Traffic Flow In Backhaul Link In Wireless Communication Network - A method, system, and apparatus for controlling traffic flow in one or more backhaul links in a wireless communication network is provided. Each backhaul link of the one or more backhaul links includes a backhaul uplink and a backhaul downlink. The method includes analyzing one or more backhaul uplinks and one or more backhaul downlinks between a controller and one or more Base Transceiver Stations (BTSs). The method further includes communicating one or more messages between the controller and the one or more BTSs. The one or more messages include analysis of one or more analyses of one of the one or more backhaul uplinks and the one or more backhaul downlinks. The method further includes controlling the traffic flow in at least one of the one or more backhaul uplinks and the one or more backhaul downlinks based on the one or more messages. | 06-05-2014 |