17th week of 2011 patent applcation highlights part 28 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20110096702 | METHOD FOR SENDING THE PHYSICAL BROADCAST CHANNEL IN A TIME DIVISION DUPLEX SYSTEM - A method for sending a physical broadcast channel in the TDD system is disclosed, which is: a signal of a physical broadcast channel is not sent in a pilot position, and the signal of the physical broadcast channel is sent on 4 OFDM symbols of the first subframe of one radio frame. Through the present invention, the extension requirement of the physical broadcast channel capacity in the TDD can be met, and the system complexity is reduced due to the normal cyclic prefix and extended prefix using the same sending method. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096703 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR FLEXIBLE SPECTRUM USAGE IN COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS - Methods and apparatuses are disclosed that provide flexible use of a shared radio resource. An apparatus determines from monitoring signal energy on a shared radio resource whether other transmitters are present. A predetermined set of time division duplex (TDD) signaling patterns are identified. A correlation is performed between signal energy received on the shared radio resource and the predetermined TDD signaling patterns. The apparatus may then determine a TDD signaling pattern that may reduce or avoid interference with any other transmitters using the shared resource. The shared radio resource may be, for example, a shared frequency spectrum. Efficient allocation of radio resources among apparatuses such as radio transceivers, without fixed time references or predetermined patterns, may be obtained. The radio transceivers may be base stations or mobile user equipment in a wireless communications system. The apparatus may be an integrated circuit, a portion thereof, or chipset. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096704 | SIGNALING OF DEDICATED REFERENCE SIGNAL (DRS) PRECODING GRANULARITY - A method for communication includes receiving in a receiver signals, which include one or more dedicated reference signals, that are transmitted from a transmitter over a communication channel in multiple blocks. The signals in each block, including the dedicated reference signals, are transmitted on a respective group of subcarriers over a respective time interval and are precoded using a respective precoding scheme that maps the signals onto multiple antenna ports of the transmitter. Based on the received signals, feedback is computed in the receiver with respect to the communication channel in each of multiple spectral sub-bands, and the feedback for the multiple spectral sub-bands is reported to the transmitter. One or more parameters of the communication channel are estimated jointly over the dedicated reference signals included in each of the spectral sub-bands for which the feedback is reported. The signals are decoded based on the estimated parameters. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096705 | MULTIBAND HIGH-FREQUENCY CIRCUIT, MULTIBAND HIGH-FREQUENCY CIRCUIT DEVICE AND MULTIBAND COMMUNICATIONS APPARATUS COMPRISING SAME - A multiband high-frequency circuit comprising a first switch SPDT | 2011-04-28 |
20110096706 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR PAGING RECEPTION IN MULTIMODE WIRELESS NETWORKS - Methods and apparatus enabling a mobile device to receive paging notifications from multiple networks. In one embodiment of the present invention, a first device connected to a first network momentarily ignores the first network, to monitor a second network instead. The first device identifies and prioritizes a list of applications of the first network; the prioritized listing allows the first device to preempt one of its lower priority tasks to monitor the second network for paging messages instead. The described methods and apparatus enable e.g., GSM paging for Class B cellular devices which are connected to GPRS NMO-2 type networks. The Class B cellular device can ignore certain GPRS data (which is tolerant to error), to decode GSM paging channels, which would otherwise be missed. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096707 | Channel Sounding Techniques for a Wireless Communication System - A technique of operating a wireless communication system includes determining respective geometries of multiple subscriber stations, which include a first subscriber station and a second subscriber station, with respect to a serving base station. Respective channel sounding bandwidths for sounding the channel between the multiple subscriber stations and the serving base station are then scheduled, based on the respective geometries. The respective channel sounding bandwidths include a first channel sounding bandwidth (associated with the first subscriber station) and a second channel sounding bandwidth (associated with the second subscriber station). The first channel sounding bandwidth is greater than or equal to the second channel sounding bandwidth and the first subscriber station has a lower geometry than the second subscriber station. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096708 | WIRELESS SCHEDULING SYSTEMS AND METHODS - Methods and devices are described herein for prioritizing a plurality of packets for potential transmission and in an iterative fashion: i) determining power requirements for control channel signalling associated with a highest priority packet not yet analyzed for resource assignment; and ii) assigning resources for said highest priority packet if sufficient power for control channel signalling is available and sufficient resources for said highest priority packet are available. A further method includes assigning a plurality of users to one of a plurality of signalling groups, wherein said plurality of users within said one of a plurality of groups use a first of a plurality of HARQ interlace offsets for their first respective HARQ transmissions. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096709 | POWER MANAGEMENT FOR WIRELESS DEVICES - In some embodiments, a method to manage power in a wireless communication device, comprises in a wireless networking adaptor, changing an operational status of a wireless networking adaptor to a sleep mode and transmitting a sleep message from the wireless networking adaptor to a host driver in an electronic device coupled to the networking adaptor, in the electronic device, determining whether a sleep duration specified in the sleep message exceeds a threshold, in response to a determination that the sleep duration specified in the sleep message exceeds a threshold implementing a selective suspend operation on the electronic device, and monitoring for a wake event, and in response to a determination that the sleep duration specified in the sleep message does not exceed a threshold, flushing one or more bulk IN buffers, and monitoring for a wake event. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096710 | APPARATUS FOR REQUESTING ACKNOWLEDGEMENT AND TRANSMITTING ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF MULTICAST DATA IN WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS - A signal and apparatus for receiving the signal are described wherein the signal includes a duration field, a multi-cast receiver address field, a transmitter address field, a block acknowledgment request control field, a block acknowledgment request information field and an information field. Also described are a signal and apparatus for transmitting the signal wherein the signal includes a duration field, a multicast receiver address field, a transmitter address field, a block acknowledgment control field and a block acknowledgment information field. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096711 | APPARATUS FOR COLLISION MITIGATION OF MULTICAST TRANSMISSIONS IN WIRELESS NETWORKS - Message formats and apparatus are described that reserve access to a communication medium in a multicast system. A first message, a multicast request-to-send message, includes a duration field having information representing the reserved time for a communication medium, multicast receiver and transmitter address fields, and bits that specifies a destination that is expected to reply to the multicast digital message. The bits that specify a destination can be extended to a plurality of fields that each contain different destination identifiers. Example destination identifiers include association identifiers or media access control addresses. Alternately, the bits that specify a destination can have a first field containing an offset and a second field indicating destinations with respect to the offset. A second message includes a duration field and multicast receiver and transmitter address fields. The second message is used to cancel a data transmission resulting from a multicast request-to-send message. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096712 | Unicast to Multicast Conversion - A method for unicast packet conversion whereby a unicast packet is received at a receiving node followed by a determination as to whether the destination address is identified in the packet. If the address is identified, then the unicast packets are converted to a multicast packet and forwarded to a connected station. If a destination network address is not identified, then the packet is forwarded to the connected station. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096713 | Fast Channel Switching in TV Broadcast Systems - The invention relates to a technique for supporting a fast channel switching in broadcast systems or similar systems for the distribution of media data, for example mobile TV data, in a point-to-multipoint (‘PTM’) fashion. A method embodiment of the technique for supporting a fast channel switching in a system ( | 2011-04-28 |
20110096714 | PROPAGATION OF CHANGES IN A NETWORK - A network of nodes and connections is provided, each connection connecting two nodes. A method of operating a first node in the network includes detecting a change in a node connected to the first node, identifying that the number of nodes connected to the first node with the detected change is above a predetermined threshold, and executing the detected change at the first node and/or propagating the detected change to one or more nodes connected to the first node that do not have the detected change. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096715 | METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING A SIGNAL USING A RELAY STATION IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method of transmitting a signal using a relay station is disclosed. In a wireless communication system, the present invention includes the steps of enabling the relay station to receive the signal via a relay interval in a downlink interval using a first wireless communication scheme and a second wireless communication scheme in common from a base station and enabling the relay station to transmit the received signal to a first terminal using the first wireless communications scheme via a first downlink interval in the downlink interval or to a second terminal using the second wireless communication scheme via a second downlink interval. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096716 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, DEPENDENT STATION THEREOF AND DEPENDENT-STATION RELAY TRANSMISSION METHOD - In a communication system comprising a control station ( | 2011-04-28 |
20110096717 | METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING RELAY NODE-SPECIFIC CONTROL CHANNEL - A method for transmitting a downlink signal in a Frequency Division (FD) type base station is disclosed. The method includes transmitting a second downlink control channel specific to a second base station, when a first downlink control channel specific to a first base station is completely transmitted on a entire frequency band in a subframe, in a remaining region except a predetermined transmission region of a first downlink shared channel specific to the first base station in the subframe; and transmitting a second downlink shared channel including data of the RN in the remaining region, when the second downlink control channel is completely transmitted. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096718 | EFFICIENT FRAME STRUCTURE FOR DIGITAL SATELLITE COMMUNICATION - A digital communications system and method to transmit and receive a digital communications signal wherein the digital signal has a plurality of frames, wherein at least two modulations are supported, and wherein each of the plurality of frames has the same number of symbols. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096719 | METHOD AND DEVICE OF ACQUIRING SATELLITE SIGNALS, CORRESPONDING COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - A correlator may correlate a satellite signal modulated with a pseudo-random binary sequence with a local binary sequence including a given number of samples. The correlation may be performed on a given input sequence of length 2N−1 with respect to versions of the local binary sequence of length N having different phases and defining a search space for the correlation results of the table, organized in a table, wherein the lines of the table may represent the versions of the local binary sequence with different phases. The correlator may be structured to perform the correlation operating on a number N of samples equal to a sub-multiple of the number of samples included in the local binary sequence, by exploring the table according to rhomboidal subsets by operating on subsequent lines with sliding windows having widths equal to N and according to a lexicographical order with a periodic return to a new line. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096720 | Method and System for Managing Information Within a Network - A method and system for managing information using a gateway ( | 2011-04-28 |
20110096721 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SELECTING TRACKING AREAS AND REDUCING PAGING - Some embodiments provide methods for selecting tracking areas in a network, including: generating and storing a plurality of tracking area groups based on which tracking areas of a plurality of tracking areas are served by which base transceiver stations of a plurality of base transceiver stations, each tracking area group including at least one tracking area; receiving a request for a tracking area list from user equipment connected to the network from a first tracking area belonging to a first tracking area group of the stored plurality of tracking area groups; based on the stored plurality of tracking area groups and the first tracking area group, generating a list comprising at least one tracking area; and sending the list comprising at least one tracking area to the user equipment. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096722 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE - A communication device includes an RF receiver that receives a combined signal including a first signal transmitted from a first node and a second signal transmitted from a second node, a channel estimator that estimates first channel information of the first signal and second channel information of the second signal, respectively, a multiuser detector that detects original signal values of the combined signal using the estimated first and second channel information and an RF transmitter that transmits a signal generated based on the values detected by the multiuser detector to the first node and the second node during a predetermined period. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096723 | RADIO COMMUNICATION BASE STATION DEVICE, CORE NETWORK DEVICE, RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, RADIO COMMUNICATION TERMINAL, AND RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD - A radio communication base station device, core network device, radio communication system, radio communication terminal, and radio communication method all enabling reduction of the delay caused when a call connection is carried out simultaneously even when security setting and data channel setting are both carried out when the first call connection is carried out. In attaching stored setting information by an index imparting method different with each terminal, a base station sets security for a terminal and transmits it to the terminal. In call connection, the base station checks the status of the stored setting information transmitted from the terminal and the stored setting information list and transmits the index to the terminal under the condition that the CN, the base station, and the terminal hold common stored setting information. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096724 | Mobile Core Network Node Redundancy - Apparatus configured to operate within a communication network as a pool proxy, routing signalling traffic between a node of a first network and one of a set of pooled nodes within a second network. The apparatus is further configured to operate in one of an active state and a passive state towards the first network node and, when in said active state to send a heartbeat signal to at least one of said pooled nodes for relaying to a peer pool proxy and, when in said passive state, to receive a heartbeat signal from a peer pool proxy relayed via at least one of said pooled nodes. In the event that no heartbeat signal is received when in the passive state, the apparatus is configured to activate itself as pool proxy towards the first network node. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096725 | Method and Apparatus for Processing Padding Buffer Status Reports - A method and system for processing buffer status reports (BSRs) such that when BSR triggering is performed, the size(s) of the necessary sub-header(s) are also to be considered together in addition to the BSR size. The steps of checking whether any padding region is available in a MAC PDU that was constructed, comparing the number of padding bits with the size of the BSR plus its sub-header, and if the number of padding bits is larger than the size of the BSR plus its sub-header, triggering BSR are performed. Doing so allows the sub-header(s) to be inserted or included into the MAC PDU or transport block (TB) or other type of data unit. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096726 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR A PORTABLE TRANSCEIVER DEVICE THAT OPERATES AS A GATEWAY TO A PROPRIETARY NETWORK SERVICE - A portable gateway device facilitating shared access to a proprietary wireless network. The portable gateway device acts as an external modem for one or more auxiliary personal computing devices, and the device includes: a local power supply, one or more processors, one or more memories, an identification module associated with a proprietary wireless network, a first wireless communications component, and a second wireless communications component having longer range communications capability than the first wireless communications component. The portable gateway device is configured to facilitate one or more external computing device accessing the proprietary wireless network by: establishing communications with a first external computing device using the first wireless communications component, authenticating access with the proprietary wireless network using the second wireless communications component, and subsequently relaying communications between the first external computing device and the proprietary wireless network using both the first and the second wireless communications components. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096727 | Methods and Devices for Multiple Modulated Data Streams Signaling - Embodiments relate to a base station ( | 2011-04-28 |
20110096728 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR ASSOCIATION BETWEEN EQUIPMENT AND GATEWAY - A method and a device for association between an equipment and a gateway are provided. The method includes: acquiring information of a user equipment (UE); establishing a virtual equipment according to the information of the UE; and configuring an identification of the gateway into the virtual equipment. A gateway is further provided, including: an acquiring module, adapted to acquire information of a UE; an establishing module, adapted to establish a virtual equipment according to the information of the UE acquired by the acquiring module; and a configuration module, adapted to configure an identification of the gateway into the virtual equipment established by the establishing module. Through the method, a configuration management system is enabled to acquire the association relation between the virtual equipment and the gateway. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096729 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - Disclosed is radar wave detection and DFS (dynamic frequency selection) with high efficiency while considering, for instance, the power consumption of each communication station within an autonomous distributed network. At least one communication station runs in an interference avoidance operation mode, operates a radar wave detection section, and fulfills the obligation to issue instructions for radar wave detection and DFS for an approximately predetermined period of time. After the lapse of the approximately predetermined period of time, another communication station switches to the interference avoidance operation mode and assumes the obligation to issue instructions for radar wave detection and DFS. In other words, two or more communication stations sequentially run in the interference avoidance operation mode in a time sharing manner. Therefore, the average power consumption of the communication stations decreases. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096730 | Routing VoIP calls to an external network - A system and method for routing calls from a communication system in a VoIP network to an external network. The communication system comprises a plurality of communicating nodes. The communication system is configured to request routing information from a register associated with the external network for routing a communication to a subscriber of the external network, receive routing information from the register, and establish an external connection from the VoIP network for routing the communication to the external network based on the routing information. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096731 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SELECTING TRACKING AREAS AND REDUCING TRACKING AREA UPDATES - Some embodiments provide methods for selecting tracking areas in a network, comprising: receiving messages from a plurality of base transceiver stations, the messages identifying a previous tracking area identity and a current tracking area identity; storing probabilities based on a count of transitions between the received previous tracking area identities and current tracking area identities; receiving a message from a user equipment device indicating the user equipment device is located in a first tracking area identified by a first tracking area identity; and selecting at least a second tracking area identity based on the stored probabilities and the first tracking area identity; and sending a tracking area identity list to the user equipment device based on the selected second tracking area. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096732 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MEASURING AND REDUCING LATENCY OF RADIO LINK FLOWS - Disclosed are systems, methods and computer program products for measuring and reducing latency of radio link flows having different quality of service (QoS) reservations. An example method comprises establishing one or more radio link flows with an access gateway, wherein each radio link flow has a different QoS reservation, transmitting at least one transport layer protocol message having a predetermined size on each radio link flow to the echo service of the access gateway, receiving at least one response message on each radio link flow from the access gateway, computing the round trip time (RTT) for the transmitted and received messages on each radio link flow, and modifying QoS reservations of the one or more radio link flows based on the computed RTT for the one or more radio link flows. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096733 | METHOD FOR SCHEDULING RESOURCE, NETWORK ELEMENT AND USER EQUIPMENT - The present invention proposes a method for scheduling resource in a packet network, a network element for exchanging signaling with user equipments and a user equipment, wherein user equipments communicate therebetween using the resource allocated by network elements, said communication comprises talk-spurt periods during which data packets are transmitted and silent periods during which silence descriptor packets are transmitted, said method for scheduling resource comprising: said network element allocates resource for said user equipment for communication; both said user equipment and said network element detect the presence of said silence descriptor packet; said user equipment stops using the allocated resource and said network element releases the allocated resource, when said silence descriptor packet is detected; said network element determines the end of the interval for transmitting said silence descriptor packet; said network element allocates new resource to said user equipment when said interval ends or when a request for allocating resource is received from said user equipment before the end of said interval. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096734 | PCFICH DESIGN FOR MULTICARRIER OPERATION - Systems and methodologies are described that facilitates communicating Physical Control Format Indicator Channel (PCFICH) information to a user equipment (UE) in which the PCFICH information is specific to a particular component carrier. The PCFICH information for each component carrier can be communicated via an anchor component carrier in order to reduce decoding each PCFICH information for each component carrier. In particular, the PCFICH information can be decoded for an anchor component carrier and PCFICH information for additional carriers can be included in a Multi-Carrier (MC) grant of the Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH). | 2011-04-28 |
20110096735 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MULTICARRIER CONTROL IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The described apparatus and methods may include a controller configured to generate a grant for at least one carrier for transmission on one of a plurality of carriers, and generate feedback for transmission on the one of the plurality of carriers. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096736 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM HAVING NETWORK ACCESS STRUCTURE - A communication system with an improved network access structure for inter-cell cooperation is provided. The communication system includes a central unit and at least one radio access unit. The at least one radio access unit may form at least one virtual cell by merging or separating cells of radio access units according to a distribution of terminals, statuses of channels, an amount of traffic, and the like. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096737 | COVERAGE LOSS RECOVERY IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORK - Embodiments of the present disclosure describe methods, apparatus, and system configurations for coverage loss recovery in a wireless communication network. A method includes receiving, by a base station of a wireless communication network, a message from a mobile station that includes an indication that the mobile station is in coverage loss recovery, and a mobile station identifier to identify the mobile station. The method further includes determining whether a static context and/or a dynamic context associated with the mobile station identifier is stored at a previous-serving base station of the mobile station and transmitting a message to the mobile station to indicate which re-entry actions are to be performed to facilitate re-entry of the mobile station to the wireless communication network. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096738 | MU-MIMO METHOD IN WLAN SYSTEM, AND ACCESS POINT AND STATION FOR MU-MIMO - A MU-MIMO method of an access point in a WLAN using multi-channels and having at least one station includes: receiving index information indicating a precoding vector for a beam selected by the station and channel quality information thereof for each one of the multi-channels; generating first channel capacity information of channel combination groups using the channel quality information wherein the channel combination groups are grouped according to a predetermined channel bandwidth of the multi-channels; and allocating resources to the station from a channel combination selected from the channel combination groups according to the first channel capacity information using the index information and the channel quality information, wherein the access point and the station previously store precoding vector information for a plurality of beams for the MU-MIMO. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096739 | CHANNEL SCANNING AND CHANNEL SELECTION IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORK - A method and apparatus to select the best channel of a wireless network for data communication at any given time, during normal operation of the network, is described. The network may be an IEEE standard 802.11 compliant network. Channel scanning may be performed in any station on the wireless network, such as an access point (AP) or a mobile station, or both. Channel scanning may be performed during data communication idle time, or simultaneously with data communication on the network. The technique can be implemented in a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communication system, where the antenna or antennas used for channel scanning can be selected dynamically during operation, to optimize one or more performance characteristics. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096740 | METHOD FOR ALLOCATING RESOURCES TO UPLINK CONTROL CHANNEL - A method for adaptively allocating resources of an uplink control channel according to a system situation is disclosed. If a base station (BS) recognizes the system situation, establishes control information for resource allocation, and transmits the control information to a mobile station (MS), the mobile station (MS) allocates resources for transmitting uplink control information using a specific block or a specific resource distribution method according to the corresponding control information. The system situation may be changed according to the number of users contained in the BS's coverage or the usage of a multi-antenna. The variation of the system situation is actively reflected so that the uplink channel resources can be effectively used. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096741 | Network communication - Mobile devices are networked to servers using connections. The connections are monitored to select one or more connections as the active connection. Information from applications is aggregated and transmitted across the active connection in order to network the mobile devices to the servers. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096742 | MOBILE STATION APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR RECEIVING DATA - It is an object to provide a wireless communication base station device that can prevent the decline of a system throughput due to the degradation of a utilization efficiency of a communication resource of a channel for carrying out a frequency diversity transmission when a frequency scheduling transmission and a frequency diversity transmission are concurrently carried out in multiple carrier communication. In the wireless communication base station device, a modulation unit ( | 2011-04-28 |
20110096743 | METHOD OF CONFIGURING AND UPDATING CONNECTION IDENTIFIER IN A BROADBAND WIRELESS ACCESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - In a method of configuring connection identifier (CID) update information in a broadband wireless access (BWA) communication system where each service between an mobile station (MS) and a base station (BS) has a unique CID, a registration request message is received from the MS, requesting updating of at least one old CID used for the MS. The CID update information is configured to include a bitmap area indicating whether a service corresponding to the at least one old CID is available, and a new CID area including at least one new CID in correspondence with a predetermined bit value in the bitmap area. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096744 | System and Method for Managing Information Handling System Wireless Network Provisioning - Information handling systems are built to order with provisioned wireless wide area network (WWAN) service coordinated through a WWAN network provider as part of the manufacture of the information handling system. A WWAN component is built into the information handling system and then queried to retrieve a WWAN identifier, such as ESM or SIM information. The identifier is associated with end user information of the information handling system and formatted as a request for WWAN provisioning sent to a network service provider. The network service provider applies the WWAN identifier and end user information to contact the end user for setting up a WWAN account or, alternatively, to automatically set up a WWAN account for the end user. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096745 | METHOD OF TRANSMITTING SIGNAL IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND APPARATUS THEREOF - A method of, at a base station, transmitting spread signals in a wireless communication system includes spreading a plurality of signals using a spreading code with a predetermined spreading factor, multiplexing a plurality of spread signals to construct one or more spread signal groups, mapping the one or more spread signal groups to one or more specific Control Channel Elements (CCEs) set within one or more Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) symbols, and transmitting the spread signals to User Equipments (UEs) through the one or more CCEs. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096746 | Method, Apparatus, System and Related Computer Program Product for Handover Management - It is disclosed a method including accepting, after storage of a registration message including first address information received from a first serving entity capable of access technology-independent service control, a de-registration request message including second address information identical to the first address information from a second serving entity capable of access technology-independent service control. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096747 | METHOD AND APPARATUS OF ACCESSING CHANNEL IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and apparatus of accessing a channel in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes receiving a first frame including configuration information on a channel allocated from a bandwidth including a primary channel, a secondary channel and an extension channel from an access point (AP), and transmitting a second frame to the AP by using the allocated channel. The configuration information includes an extension channel off-set element field that sets the extension channel as the offset of the primary channel. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096748 | Methods and Apparatuses for Performing Preamble Assignment for Random Access in a Telecommunications System - The present invention relates to methods and apparatuses (radio base station ( | 2011-04-28 |
20110096749 | Method For Simple Retrieval Of Network Access Selection Information - The invention relates to a method and system for network access selection comprising an Access Selection Server (ASS) ( | 2011-04-28 |
20110096750 | DYNAMIC GATEWAY SELECTION PROCESS - A selection mechanism and a selection process are disclosed that provide the selection of a network device based on defined criteria to allow efficient use of the network and load balancing. In one embodiment, a method is disclosed that includes receiving an initial attachment at a gateway including an identifier of a radio attachment point, obtaining a name for the radio attachment point based on the identifier, accessing a list of names of packet data network gateways (PGWs) that can serve the initial attachment to provide a network connection, comparing the name for the radio attachment point with the list of names of the PGWs to determine at least one PGW that provides a closest match to the name for the radio attachment point, and selecting at least one PGW that provides the closest match to establish the network connection. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096751 | SOFT HANDOFF FOR OFDM - The present invention relates to soft handoffs in an OFDM system. Each mobile terminal measures pilot signal strengths of transmissions from adjacent base stations. If the pilot signal strength for a base station exceeds the defined threshold, that base station is added to an active set list. Each mobile terminal notifies the base stations of their active set lists. By providing the set list to the base station controller and the servicing base station, the mobile terminal identifies the sole servicing base station or triggers a soft handoff mode when multiple base stations appear on the active set list. The soft handoff mode uses a combination of scheduling and space-time coding to affect efficient and reliable handoffs. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096752 | HANDOVER SUPPORT METHOD USING DEDICATED RANGING CODE - The present invention discloses a variety of methods of supporting handover in a wireless access system. A handover support method according to an embodiment of the present invention includes the steps of: transmitting a handover request message to a first base station (serving base station); receiving a handover response message (UL grant or UL-MAP message) containing authentication information (M) from a second base station (target base station); deriving a dedicated code index (DCI) for instructing a dedicated ranging code by using the authentication information (M); transmitting the dedicated ranging code to the second base station on a non-contention basis; and receiving a ranging response message as a response for the dedicated ranging code. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096753 | Methods And Apparatus For Signal Monitoring In A Wireless Communication Network - Techniques in a mobile communication device for signal monitoring in a wireless communication network are described. The mobile device operates for communications over a communication channel of the wireless network. During operation, the mobile device periodically obtains measurements of signal quality of the communication channel at a rate R. In addition, the mobile device obtains a measurement of velocity or acceleration of the mobile device. In response to an increase in the measure of velocity or acceleration, the mobile device increases the rate R. Conversely, in response to a decrease in the measurement of velocity or acceleration, the mobile device decreases the rate R. The measurements of the signal quality may be used to determine whether to initiate a handover to a different wireless network. In one illustrative environment, the initial wireless network is a wireless local area network (WLAN), the other wireless network is a wireless wide area network (WWAN), the signal quality is a received signal strength indication (RSSI) of the communication channel, and the monitoring involves obtaining samples of the RSSI. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096754 | MULTI-FREQUENCY REAL-TIME DATA STREAM HANDOFF - A method of operating a communication system is disclosed. A time sensitive data stream is sent to a wireless device via a first wireless station. A handoff criteria is determined to have been satisfied. Based on the handoff criteria being satisfied, at least one control message is sent that instructs the wireless device to increase a buffer size associated with the time sensitive data stream. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096755 | CODEBOOK FOR MULTIPLE INPUT MULTIPLE OUTPUT COMMUNICATION AND COMMUNICATION DEVICE USING THE CODEBOOK - In a multi-user multiple input multiple output (MIMO) communication, each of receivers may use a different channel codebook and a transmitter may determine beamforming vectors using a beamforming codebook corresponding to each of the receivers. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096756 | METHOD FOR RADIO COMMUNICATION IN A WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORK WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORK AND TRANSCEIVING DEVICE - The invention refers to wireless local area networks (WLAN) consisting of a multitude of transceivers capable of establishing communication with one another (i.e. operating in a peer-to-peer mode) under the control of network coordinator (the so-called “ad hoc” networks). Implies the assignment of the role of the temporary coordinator to a transceiver from among the plurality of transceivers, switching-over other transceivers into the mode of a network client, orientation of antenna beam of a transceiver (switched-over into the client mode) equipped with a direction-agile antenna in the direction of the temporary coordinator of the network and transmission of information to an addressee by a client-transceiver of this network that has got the permission to transmit from the temporary coordinator. A WLAN comprises a multitude of transceivers, one of which serves as a temporary coordinator for said network and at least two of which have a direction-agile antenna and means for the operation of said antenna in the omnidirectional mode, in the directional scanning mode or in the stationary directional mode, an identification means responsive to transmission of a signal, including the transmission of a synchronization signal or identification signal intended for orienting said antenna in the direction of said signal being transmitted. The invention improves the quality and reliability of communication for WLAN users (including mobile users) thus increasing the data transfer rate. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096757 | Method for radio communication in a wireless local area network and transceiving device - Method for radio communication in a wireless local area network and transceiving device refers to wireless local area networks (WLAN) consisting of a multitude of transceiving devices of users ( | 2011-04-28 |
20110096758 | METHOD FOR ENHANCING THROUGHPUT OF A WLAN MODULE COLLOCATED WITH A BT SLAVE MODULE, AND ASSOCIATED WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION MODULE - A method for enhancing throughput of a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) module collocated with a Bluetooth (BT) slave module includes: detecting whether timing critical data of the BT slave module exists; and allowing the WLAN module to perform wireless communication when it is detected that no timing critical data of the BT slave module exists. An associated wireless communication apparatus includes: a BT slave module; a WLAN module collocated with the BT slave module; and a controller arranged to control operations of the BT slave module and the WLAN module, wherein the controller detects whether timing critical data of the BT slave module exists, and allows the WLAN module to perform wireless communication when it is detected that no timing critical data of the BT slave module exists. An associated wireless communication module such as the BT slave module is further provided. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096759 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMPLEMENTING PERSONALIZED INTERACTION - A system and method for implementing an interactive session between a display equipment and a handheld electronic device is provided. The system comprises a display screen operable to display data/information, a telecommunication network coupled with local area network and world wide web, a smart-IB box capable of sending and receiving data/information, a system server capable of interpreting received messages from Smart-IB and user's handheld communication device, a handheld communication device. The method comprises the steps of detecting a request by a handheld communication device, initiating a user preferred schedule for pushing data/information in response to the request, determining the installation of enabling means to access various options available through enhanced enabling means, receiving and processing the request so made, sorting the request for scheduled data/information, relaying and displaying the scheduled data/information in accordance with preferred schedule. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096760 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING TRANSMISSION POWER IN WLAN SYSTEM - A transmit power control method of a first station in a wireless LAN (WLAN) system includes: receiving path loss information from an (access point) AP, the path loss information containing a maximum value among path losses between the AP and at least one or more stations included in the WLAN system; controlling a transmit power by using the path loss information; and transmitting a frame according to the controlled transmit power. In said controlling the transmit power by using the path loss information, the transmit power is controlled by using a path loss obtained by adding the maximum value and a path loss between the first station and the AP or by using the path loss between the first station and the AP. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096761 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE, BASE STATION, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - There are provided a communication device, a base station, a communication system, and a communication method that make it possible to yield a diversity effect by cooperative relay without involvement of disproportionateness in data received by an eNB even when one of parties has unsuccessfully exchanged data. After received an ACK signal from a repeater | 2011-04-28 |
20110096762 | CLOUD VOIP SYSTEM WITH BYPASS FOR IP MEDIA - The cloud computing VoIP system includes a software as a service (SaaS) site and one or more additional sites. The SaaS site includes a gateway and a call manager and is coupled for communication across an IP network and the PSTN. The call manager includes a media monitoring module, a bypass module, a PSTN control module and a GUI module. The SaaS site handles and controls voice and video calls over the IP network and the PSTN for endpoints at the one or more additional sites. In another embodiment, the cloud computing VoIP system is also coupled to a cellular network and the endpoints include an associated cellular phone. The cloud computing VoIP system also includes a method for falling back to a secondary network, namely the cellular network, when there is insufficient quality on a primary network. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096763 | MOBILE WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE PROVIDING PATTERN/FREQUENCY CONTROL FEATURES AND RELATED METHODS - A mobile wireless communications device may include a portable housing, a wireless transceiver carried by the portable housing, and a plurality of antennas also carried by the portable housing. Each antenna may have a different gain pattern at a different respective operating frequency, and the antennas may have different shapes to define different gain patterns at a given operating frequency. The mobile wireless communications device may further include a frequency/pattern diversity controller for controlling the wireless transceiver to preferentially operate with the plurality of antennas. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096764 | PORTABLE TERMINAL FOR ACQUIRING PRODUCT DATA - A portable terminal for the acquisition of product data, for example in a point of sale or in a collection, distribution and/or storage point, includes a coded information reader, a user interface, and an interface for the logical connection with an external control station. Advantageously, the terminal also includes an interface for the wireless connection with cellular devices and/or telephones and/or PDAs and at least one internal management unit for the activation of the interface. The interface allows establishing a wireless connection with a single pre-identified cellular device and/or telephone and/or PDA, i.e., recognized following a recognition procedure. The terminal is then configured as a peripheral device of the pre-identified cellular device. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096765 | BRUTE FORCE CHANNEL DECODING - An embodiment of the present invention provides that pre-calculated code words corresponding to possible input bit sequences are stored in a UE, and then a similarity matching operation performed between a received coded bit sequence and the stored code words can be performed to identify that code word which most closely matches to the received sequence. Because the stored code words are associated with the original input bit sequences which produced those code words, by identifying the most closely correlating code word to a received coded sequence, then the input sequence which generated the matching code word can also be identified, and output as the decoder output. In this way, a more efficient decoding operation is obtained as decoding is no longer dependent upon a Viterbi decoding operation and moreover it is no longer necessary to implement a Viterbi decoder, instead merely requiring storage for the pre-calculated code words. In the specific case of the HS-SCCH Part | 2011-04-28 |
20110096766 | CURRENT CONSUMPTION REDUCTION WITH LOW POWER AMPLIFIER - A transceiver circuit and a method in a wireless communication network are provided, where a signal power level for a signal received at the transceiver circuit is measured and compared to a predefined threshold power level. At least two groups of power amplifiers may be used, where one group is optimized for high efficiency above the predefined threshold power level, and one group is optimized for high efficiency below the predefined threshold power level. The amplifiers may be used to amplify the received signal depending on the signal power level in relation to the predefined power threshold level. The signal may then be filtered by duplex filters and forwarded to a diversity antenna or a main antenna where it is transmitted over an air interface. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096767 | Systems and Methods for Parallel Signal Cancellation - A multi-mode receiver includes a channel decomposition module (e.g., a Rake receiver) for separating a received signal into multipath components, an interference selector for selecting interfering paths and subchannels, a synthesizer for synthesizing interference signals from selected sub channel symbol estimates, and an interference canceller for cancelling selected interference in the received signal. At least one of the channel decomposition module, the synthesizer, and the interference canceller are configurable for processing multi-mode signals. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096768 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RETRANSMISSION - Provided is a method for retransmission in a terminal and a base station, the method including: receiving a data burst transmitted by occupying at least one subframe from the other one of the terminal and the base station; determining a transmission timing for transmitting a feedback signal based on a value, determined by transmission information of the data burst including the number of subframes occupied by the data burst, and a frame offset; transmitting the feedback signal to the other one of the terminal and the base station at the transmission timing; and if an NACK message is included in the feedback signal, receiving the data burst retransmitted from the other one of the terminal and the base station. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096769 | Method and System for Providing an Emergency Location Service - Provided are a method and a system for providing an emergency location service using an IMS core. In the method, when the IMS core receives an emergency call initiating request message from a user equipment, the IMS core transmits a location service request message requesting for retrieving a location of the user equipment to a location retrieval subsystem in response to the emergency call initiating request message. Then, when the IMS core receives current location information of the user equipment, which is acquired through an access to the user equipment by the location retrieval subsystem having received the location service request message, from the location retrieval subsystem, the IMS core selects an emergency center on the basis of the current location information and transmits the emergency call initiating request message including the current location information to the selected emergency center. Then, an emergency call is established between the user equipment and the emergency center. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096770 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING CHANNEL SHARING AMONG WHITE SPACE NETWORKS - A method and an apparatus for providing channel sharing are disclosed. For example, the method receives a request for a white space channel assignment, and identifies one or more white space channels in accordance with the request. The method sends a response to the request comprising a white space channel assignment, wherein the white space channel assignment assigns one of the identified one or more white space channels. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096771 | VOICE OVER INTERNET PROTOCOL (VOIP) SYSTEMS, METHODS, NETWORK ELEMENTS AND APPLICATIONS - In accordance with at least one embodiment of the invention, methodologies and mechanisms are provided that enable methods, systems and software for supporting or implementing functionality to intercept a phone call and/or data transmission in a cellular network and direct it to at least one receivers' VoIP account if the account is active and provides VoIP connectivity. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096772 | CALLING PARTY NAME PROVISIONING - A system may receive a telephone call request for a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) user. The telephone call request omits a name of a calling party. The system may further determine if the VoIP user has a calling party name feature enabled and obtaining, when the VoIP user has a calling party name feature enabled, the name of the calling party from a Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) based repository of calling party names. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096773 | DIRECTORY NUMBER MOBILITY UTILIZING DYNAMIC NETWORK DISTRIBUTED DIAL-PEER UPDATES - Methods, logic, apparatus, and systems are provided to support cross cluster directory number (DN) extension mobility (EM) using dynamic network distributed dial-peer updates in a communication networks, which includes a plurality of clusters or systems and each of the plurality of clusters including a call control agent (CCA). Identification data corresponding to an identity of an associated user is received into a first cluster of a multiple cluster telecommunication network. A directory number and associated first telecommunication device corresponding to the user are registered with a first call control agent of the first cluster in accordance with received identification data. Registration data corresponding to the registered directory number is communicated to at least a second cluster of the telecommunications network. An incoming connection request associated with the registered directory number is routed directly to the first CCA without redirection to any other CCAs within the multiple cluster telecommunication network. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096774 | METHOD AND DEVICE TO PERFORM DIRECT MEMORY ACCESS - A method for transmitting data from a first device to a second device is provided. The method comprises steps of adding at least one NULL packet to the data in the first device to meet the alignment requirement of the second device and packing the data and the at least one NULL packet into a new packet; and transferring the new packet from the first device to the second device. And an apparatus for using the method is provided too. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096775 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MULTIPLEXING AND STREAMING CONTENTS - Provided is a system and method for effectively multiplexing and streaming contents. The system may include a plurality of video packetized elementary stream (PES) packetizers to transform, to a video PES packet, elementary stream (ES) data encoded in a video encoder, a plurality of audio PES packetizers to transform, to an audio PES packet, ES data encoded in an audio encoder, a sync information generator to generate sync information for synchronizing each of decoded streams in a process of decoding a transport stream (TS) signal, and the TS packetizer to generate a plurality of program streams using the audio PES packet, the video PES packet, and the sync information, to generate program specific information (PSI) for a configuration of the plurality of program streams, and to insert the PSI between the plurality of program streams in a predetermined period to generate the TS signal. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096776 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LOST PACKET RECOVERY WITH CONGESTION AVOIDANCE - Devices and techniques for overcoming lost packets and avoiding congestion when conducting media conferences over packet switched networks are described herein. To avoid the problem of lost packets, redundant information is inserted into the media stream that permits the receiver to reconstruct any lost packets from the redundant information. Congestion avoidance techniques include adjusting the bitrate of the media stream to find the highest bitrate that can be supported without packet loss due to congestion. When increasing the bitrate to a higher rate, the additional bits can come from the redundant information used for lost packet recovery so that any lost packets caused by network congestion will not adversely affect the bitstream. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096777 | Determining Packet Forwarding Information For Packets Sent From A Protocol Offload Engine In A Packet Switching Device - Disclosed are, inter alia, methods, apparatus, computer-readable media, mechanisms used in one embodiment configured for, and means for, determining packet forwarding information for packets sent from a protocol offload engine in a packet switching device. The protocol offload engine performs the protocol processing for a protocol application (e.g., BGP) running on a separate control plane processing system, and generates packets to be sent to external devices. The protocol offload engine sends these packets to one of the line cards without using the routing information lookup facility of the control plane processing system, thereby, freeing the control plane processing system to use those processing cycles to perform other tasks. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096778 | OUTLET WITH ANALOG SIGNAL ADAPTER, A METHOD FOR USE THEREOF AND A NETWORK USING SAID OUTLET - An outlet ( | 2011-04-28 |
20110096779 | Digital Broadcasting System and Method of Processing Data in Digital Broadcasting System - A method is provided for controlling a management server that is connected to a DTV through an IP connection, wherein the DTV is located in one independent space among a plurality of independent spaces physically separated from one another. The method including generating a message file including an Application Programming Interfaces (API) command and a parameter related to a display condition, accessing an IP address of a DTV serving as a destination of the generated message file, transmitting, if the accessing is successfully achieved, the generated message file to the DTV having the accessed IP address, and receiving information for identifying whether the message file is successfully processed from the DTV. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096780 | LABEL DISTRIBUTION PROTOCOL SYNCHRONIZATION IN MULTI-PROTOCOL LABEL SWITCHING ENVIRONMENTS - A method may include determining that a label distribution protocol (LDP) session is not associated with an interface of a network device, wherein the interface of the network device is included in a targeted LDP session. Interior gateway protocol (IGP) metric information for both a physical interface associated with the network device and a forwarding adjacency label switched path (FA-LSP) associated with the targeted LDP (tLDP) session may be configured to each indicate a high cost. The configured metric information may be transmitted to other network devices in a network that includes the LSP and the targeted LDP session to inhibit selection of the targeted LDP session by the other network devices when routing data through the network. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096781 | METHODS AND APPARATUS RELATED TO A DISTRIBUTED SWITCH FABRIC - A method of sending data to a switch fabric includes assigning a destination port of an output module to a data packet based on at least one field in a first header of the data packet. A module associated with a first stage of the switch fabric is selected based on at least one field in the first header. A second header is appended to the data packet. The second header includes an identifier associated with the destination port of the output module. The data packet is sent to the module associated with the first stage. The module associated with the first stage is configured to send the data packet to a module associated with a second stage of the switch fabric based on the second header. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096782 | METHOD FOR CONVERTING NETWORK ADDRESS - In a network environment in which an endpoint identifier and a routing locator are separated from each other, a first router receives a data packet including an endpoint identifier of a first host and an endpoint identifier of a second host that is a communication target of the first host from the first host managed by the first router in order to convert a network address. A message requesting external address prefix information of the second host is transmitted to a second router managing the second host. In addition, the external address prefix information is received from the second router and a routing locator of the second host is generated by converting internal address prefix information of an endpoint identifier of the second host into the external address prefix information of the second host in the data packet. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096783 | FLEXIBLE OFDM/OFDMA FRAME STRUCTURE FOR COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS - A flexible OFDM/OFDMA frame structure technology for communication systems is disclosed. The OFDM frame structure technology comprises a configurable-length frame which contains a variable length subframe structure to effectively utilize OFDM bandwidth. Furthermore, the frame structure facilitates spectrum sharing between multiple communication systems. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096784 | Controlled Propagation of VLAN Declarations - The propagation of virtual local area network (VLAN) declarations is controlled, to minimize or eliminate their propagation to packet switching devices which do not carry traffic for a corresponding VLAN. Initially and in response to a first time receipt of a VLAN declaration for a particular VLAN on a particular interface of a packet switching device, VLAN declarations for the particular VLAN is propagated out every interface of the packet switching device. After a predetermined time frame, if a VLAN declaration has not been received on a particular interface for an active VLAN, propagation of the VLAN declarations for the active VLAN will be suppressed for the particular interface. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096785 | VIRTUALIZATION-SUPPORTING PROGRAMMABLE PLATFORM DEVICE AND METHOD OF TRANSFERRING PACKET - Provided are a virtualization-supporting programmable platform device and a method of transferring a packet. The method includes, when a switch receives a packet including a destination sliver identifier (ID) and a virtual interface (VIF) ID, transferring, at the switch, the received packet to a sliver selected on the basis of the destination sliver ID, and transferring, at the sliver receiving the packet, the received packet to one of VIFs of the sliver on the basis of the VIF ID. Accordingly, a programmable platform or router supporting network virtualization can identify IDs of slivers, which are resources allocated to users in the future Internet, and VIFs connected to the respective slivers. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096786 | PAIRED NODE CONTROLLERS - In at least some embodiments, an apparatus comprises a pair of node controllers, each of the node controllers having a different processor assigned thereto. Each node controller is operable to selectively switch processor requests received from its assigned processor to the other node controller and to selectively switch responses to the processor requests to the other node controller. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096787 | RELAY METHOD, RELAY DEVICE, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - The present invention enables accurate simulation of the state of communication over a communication network in which a communication channel of different communication characteristic is set for each protocol and session, such as a VoIP network built in a multi-vendor environment, and evaluation of communication quality of communications between IP phones, etc. over a supposed communication network. A relay device for relaying packet communications between a plurality of communication devices is used, and the relay device sets a virtual processing unit as an initial process so that it corresponds to the packet transmission direction and/or attribute, based on the contents of a received packet specified by a control protocol, and relays communications of packets after the initial process, based on the packet loss rate and delay time distribution indicated by communication state information associated with the processing unit. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096788 | SESSION BORDER CONTROL MIGRATION - One or more devices in a provider network receive provisioning information to migrate customer devices within a customer network from an original session border controller (SBC) device of the provider network to a new SBC device, where the provisioning information includes one or more fully-qualified domain names (FQDNs) associated with the original SBC device. The one or more devices update DNS server entries for the one or more FQDNs with an Internet Protocol (IP) address associated with the new SBC device and provide, to the customer devices within the customer network, DNS entry updates for the one or more FQDNs. The new SBC device then receives SIP session signal from the customer devices, and the configuration information associated with the customer may be deleted from the original SBC. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096789 | Isolating network traffic in multi-tenant virtualization enviroments - Managing data in a server system includes providing a plurality of servers, each having an internal gateway/switch that is accessible from outside the server, providing a plurality of virtual servers on at least some of the servers, where each of the virtual servers is accessible by the internal gateway/switch of the corresponding server, and accessing the data using the internal gateway/switch, where the internal gateway/switch determines which particular one of the virtual servers contain the data and then accesses the particular virtual server to provide the data. Managing data in a server system may also include associating portions of the data to tenants of the server system. Each of the servers may maintain a table that correlates tenants with the virtual servers maintained thereby and the internal gateway/switch may use the table to determine which particular one of the virtual servers contains data for a particular tenant. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096790 | SIGNAL PROCESSING CIRCUIT, INTERFACE UNIT, FRAME TRANSMISSION APPARATUS, AND SEGMENT DATA READING METHOD - A signal processing circuit for controlling reading of segment data from a buffer in which a plurality of segment data generated by dividing a frame and received via a plurality of switches which direct each of the segment data to a designated destination are stored, comprises: a start detecting unit which detects a starting segment representing the first transmitted segment data to the switch among the segment data received after the buffer has emptied; a transmission time acquiring unit which acquires a transmission time at which the starting segment was transmitted to the switch; and a read timing control unit which determines, based on the transmission time, a read timing for reading the segment data from the buffer. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096791 | DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND DATA COMMUNICATION METHOD - A data communication system includes a data transmitting device and a data receiving device connected with the data transmitting device through a packet-switched network. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096792 | Multiple Upstream Channel Descriptor Messages Pointing to Single Upstream Channel ID for More Efficient Operation of a DOCSIS System - In a DOCSIS-based communications system, different upstream channel descriptors (UCDs) all identify a single logical upsteam channel identifier (UCID) regardless of the type of cable modem (CM) to which the UCDs are sent. Different CMs having different capabilities (e.g., CMs configured according to the different DOCSIS standards 1.x, 2.0, and 3.0) receive their respective UCDs from an upstream headend. All the UCDs, however, refer to the same logical upstream channel. The different CMs therefore share this single logical upstream channel. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096793 | FAST ETHERNET AND HDMI ETHERNET CHANNEL PHYSICAL LAYER CIRCUIT - A Fast Ethernet and HDMI Ethernet channel (HEC) physical layer circuit. The physical layer circuit comprises a Fast Ethernet physical layer module implementing a physical layer specification of a Fast Ethernet communication standard; a hybrid circuit connected to the fast Ethernet physical layer module using a first twisted-pair wire and a second twisted-pair wire and capable of processing transmit and receive HDMI Ethernet channel (HEC) signals concurrently transported over a third twisted-pair wire; a switch for bypassing the hybrid circuit; and a controller for controlling the operation the hybrid circuit and the switch according to the operating mode of the physical layer circuit, wherein the operation mode of the physical layer circuit is any of a fast Ethernet and a HEC. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096794 | Packet transfer apparatus - A packet transfer apparatus connects two networks of different protocols. The packet transfer apparatus, connected to a first communication network and a second communication network, performs the steps of: storing first destination correspondence information; receiving a packet of the first communication protocol; based on the first destination correspondence information, determining destination information of a packet of the second communication protocol corresponding to destination information of the received packet of the first communication protocol; generating the header of the packet of the second communication protocol, based on the determined destination information of the packet of the second communication protocol; converting the received one or more packets of the first communication protocol into one or more packets of the third communication protocol; and adding the generated header of the packet of the second communication protocol to the packets of the third communication protocol. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096795 | METHOD FOR CONTENTION RESOLUTION IN TIME-HOPPING OR FREQUENCY-HOPPING - The invention is related to a method of transmitting data, whereby a transmission channel towards an access point is shared among a plurality of users. The data is transmitted by using a multiple access frame divided in logical slots. According to the invention each data packet is divided into k units which are decoded by an (n,k) decoder, producing n−k redundant units. The n units are transmitted within a multiple access frame in n different slots according to a time-hopping pattern, a frequency-hopping pattern or a combination of both. Thereby, the positions of the n units composing a data packet are written in a header appended to each unit. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096796 | NUMBER OF STREAMS INDICATION FOR WLAN - In a method for generating a preamble of a data unit for transmission via a communication channel, an indication of a first number of spatial or space-time streams is included in a first field of the preamble. The first number of spatial or space-time streams corresponds to transmission of the data unit to a first receiver. One or more training sequences are included in a second field of the preamble. The preamble is formatted such that the first field of the preamble will be transmitted prior to the second field of the preamble being transmitted. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096797 | TRAINING SEQUENCE INDICATION FOR WLAN - In a method for generating a preamble of a data unit for transmission via a multiple input, multiple output (MIMO) communication channel, a first field of the preamble is generated. The first field provides a plurality of indicators to a plurality of receivers. Each one of the plurality of indicators indicates a set of a plurality of training sequences that corresponds to transmission of the data unit to a corresponding one of the plurality of receivers. The plurality of training sequences is included in a second field of the preamble. The preamble is formatted such that the first field of the preamble will be transmitted prior to the second field of the preamble being transmitted. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096798 | METHOD OF PROCESSING TRAFFIC INFORMATION AND DIGITAL BROADCAST SYSTEM - A digital broadcast transmitting/receiving system and a method for processing data are disclosed. The method for processing data may enhance the receiving performance of the receiving system by performing additional coding and multiplexing processes on the traffic information data and transmitting the processed data. Thus, robustness is provided to the traffic information data, thereby enabling the data to respond strongly against the channel environment which is always under constant and vast change. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096799 | SEMICONDUCTOR LIGHT EMITTING ELEMENT AND TUNABLE WAVELENGTH LASER LIGHT SOURCE - The present invention provides a semiconductor light emitting element that can obtain oscillation at desired wavelengths. The semiconductor light emitting element comprises a semiconductor substrate | 2011-04-28 |
20110096800 | LASER SOURCE THAT GENERATES A PLURALITY OF ALTERNATIVE WAVELENGTH OUTPUT BEAMS - A laser source ( | 2011-04-28 |
20110096801 | METHOD FOR REDUCING CAPACITANCE AND IMPROVING HIGH FREQUENCY PERFORMANCE IN VERTICAL CAVITY SURFACE EMITTING LASERS (VCSELS) - A VCSEL structure is provided. The VCSEL structure comprises a substrate. The structure may also include one or more conducting layers positioned on the substrate. There may be void spaces positioned between portions of the conducting layers to electrically isolate the portions. A method for fabricating the VCSEL structure is also provided. | 2011-04-28 |