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Multiplex communications December patent applications/inventions, industry category 12/11

20110317541 - Block interleaving method and block interleaver using the same: P

20110317542 - Method and apparatus for diversity transmission scheme in single-carrier fdma systems: The disclosure relates to transmission of user data over multiple transmission layers in a wireless communication system with single-carrier orthogonal frequency division multiple access. A wireless terminal performs transform precoding on a vector of digital modulation symbols and the resulting complex-valued symbols are mapped to frequency/time/space resources. The digital modulation... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20110317545 - Apparatuses and methods for packet data protocol context handling for emergency bearer services: A Packet Data Protocol (PDP) context handling method for a Mobile Station (MS) with a PDP context for an emergency bearer service is provided, wherein a radio access bearer (RAB) associated with the PDP context is released by a network. The method comprises the steps of: downgrading the maximum uplink... Agent: Htc Corporation

20110317544 - Femto backhaul fault detection and recovery: Embodiments of methods and apparatus for monitoring a backhaul channel associated with a femto access point (FAP) are disclosed. There is disclosed a method comprising: transmitting, by an FAP over a backhaul channel to a gateway associated with a first network, a plurality of requests, wherein individual requests of the... Agent:

20110317546 - Method and apparatus for forwarding non-consecutive data blocks in enhanced uplink transmissions: A method and apparatus for forwarding non-consecutive data blocks in enhanced uplink (EU) transmissions. A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) and one or more Node-Bs include one or more automatic repeat request (ARQ)/hybrid-ARQ (H-ARQ) processes for supporting an enhanced dedicated channel (E-DCH). Data blocks transmitted by the WTRU are re-ordered in... Agent: Interdigital Technology Corporation

20110317547 - Method and device for the reliable transmission of data packet flows with compressed headers without increasing the flow rate: A method for robustly transmitting a data flow in the form of packets Pi including at least one header Hi, said header being compressed via a first header compression step, said packets being fragmented into a succession of cells, said cells having an identical fixed size, said fragmentation resulting in... Agent: Thales

20110317543 - Scaling content communicated over a network: The disclosed subject matter relates to an architecture that can scale content resolution in order to mitigate errors in a provisioned service of a communication network, such as a wireless service or a femtocell service that integrates with DSL or other broadband carriers. The architecture can identify fault conditions relating... Agent: At&t Intellectual Property I, L.p.

20110317548 - Method of and device for recovering from a root bridge failure: An active loop-free topology established by a Rapid Spanning Tree Algorithm and Protocol (RSTP) emanates from an original root bridge. Upon a bridge directly connected to the root bridge suspecting a failure in the root bridge, the bridge directly connected to the root bridge generates a Root Failure Suspicion Notification... Agent: Ruggedcom Inc.

20110317549 - Method to be run in and device of a network as well as communication system comprising such device: A method and a device are provided to be run in a network (or in particular on a network component of such network). The network has several network elements that are connected via a ring. One network element is a ring master with a primary port and a secondary port.... Agent: Nokia Siemens Networks Oy

20110317550 - Radio base station, radio equipment control and radio equipment: A radio base station wherein, when a radio equipment control detects an uplink communication failure on a physical circuit, a downlink communication processing unit is configured to transmit a downlink IQ data for all combinations of antennae and carriers to a radio equipment with all values of the downlink IQ... Agent: Ntt Docomo, Inc.

20110317551 - Communication device and method: A communication device includes a processor that is operative to perform actions, including, determining whether a failure occurs in a regular communication channel to transmit a packet to another communication device, selecting, upon determining that the failure occurs in the regular communication channel, a backup communication channel for transmitting the... Agent: Fujitsu Limited

20110317552 - Method of configuring radio connection in multi-carrier system: A method of configuring a radio connection by a mobile station (MS) in a multi-carrier system includes receiving carrier aggregation information on a plurality of aggregated carriers from a base station (BS), performing a radio connection to the BS by using at least one first carrier among the plurality of... Agent:

20110317553 - Apparatus and method of dynamic downlink permutation assignment for use in a wireless communication system: A method of assigning parameter values to transceivers in a wireless communication network. Each of the parameter values assigned determines at least in part how a plurality of subcarriers are organized into a plurality of sub-channels. In particular embodiments, the method assigns the parameter values to the transceivers based on... Agent: Clear Wireless LLC

20110317554 - Distributed and scalable network address translation: A method of enabling an electronic privately addressable source to be publicly addressable starts at a receiver where an electronic message is received. It is communicated from a sender with a private address outside a subnet of the receiver through a translator. The translator retrieves a lease to at least... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20110317555 - Parallel operation of rstp (rapid spanning tree protocol) and mrp (media redundancy protocol) and segmentation/coupling: The invention relates to a method for running a network, in particular an Ethernet network with redundancy properties, wherein the network has a ring network topology, in which network devices are connected to each other with the data ports thereof via data lines and exchange control data and user data... Agent:

20110317556 - Traffic control method and apparatus for wireless communication: A throughput detector 101 detects a throughput R0. A threshold value Rref of the throughput R0 at which a network side can be presumed to be congested is stored in a threshold value storage unit 102. A comparator 103 compares the current throughput R0 with the threshold value Rref. A... Agent: Kddi Corporation

20110317557 - System and method for generating and updating pcc rules based on service requests: Various exemplary embodiments relate to method of generating PCC rules for managing packet traffic across a network. The method may include: receiving a request message for PCC rules from a requesting network component, authorizing the first requested bandwidth for a first traffic mapping; authorizing a third bandwidth for at least... Agent: Alcatel-lucent Canada, Inc.

20110317558 - Method and system for generating pcc rules based on service requests: Various exemplary embodiments relate to a method of generating a Policy and Control Charging (PCC) rule for managing packet traffic across a network. The method may include: receiving a request message for PCC rules from a requesting network component; authorizing a set of QoS information based on the requested set... Agent: Alcatel-lucent Canada, Inc.

20110317561 - Method, apparatus and system for improving packet throughput based on classification of packet loss in data transmissions: A method, apparatus and system for managing loss of packets in data transmissions is provided. In a method embodiment, selective acknowledgements are received at a sending computer from a receiving computer. The sending computer is configured to analyze patterns in the selective acknowledgements and infer a type of packet loss.... Agent: Research In Motion Limited

20110317560 - Mobile communication system, qos control station and mobile station: A first access network in which a bearer transfer path that guarantees a predetermined QoS has been established and a second access network in which a transfer path which is different from that in the first access network has been established are provided, and PCRF 60 transmits to a mobile... Agent: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha

20110317559 - Notifying a controller of a change to a packet forwarding configuration of a network element over a communication channel: A method performed by a network element, for notifying a controller of a change to a packet forwarding configuration of the network element. The network element is separated from the controller by a communication channel. The method includes determining the change to the packet forwarding configuration of the network element.... Agent:

20110317563 - Communication device and resource reallocation method in radio communications system: A resource reallocation method that can suppress variations in reception delay time in reservation-type scheduling and a communication device using the method are provided. In a radio communications system in which a radio resource is reserved to periodically perform a communication between communication devices, the number of retransmissions of a... Agent: Nec Corporation

20110317562 - Method and system for simplifying protocol analysis: A system and method in accordance with exemplary embodiments may include receiving, from a user system, one or more protocol analysis request messages via a network, transmitting, to one or more multipurpose interface devices, one or more control signals based on the one or more protocol analysis request messages, receiving,... Agent: Verizon Services Corp.

20110317564 - High-speed ethernet transceiver calibration with echo canceller reuse: A method of operating a transceiver integrated circuit is disclosed. The method comprises generating test signals directed to testing one or more transceiver parameters. The test signals are transmitted from a digital domain to an analog domain along a transmit path, and looped-back from the transmit path to a receive... Agent:

20110317565 - Method and apparatus for testing traffic and auxiliary channels in a wireless data communication system: Techniques to test performance of terminals and access points in CDMA data (e.g., cdma2000) systems. A framework of protocols and messages is provided to support systematic performance testing of terminals and to ensure interface compatibility. The framework comprises a Forward Test Application Protocol (FTAP) for testing forward channels and a... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20110317577 - Communication system and mobile station apparatus: Provided are a communication system, a base station apparatus, a mobile station apparatus, and a communication method which can effectively manage measurement information held by a base station apparatus and a mobile station apparatus in a system comprising a plurality of component carriers. The mobile station apparatus is used in... Agent: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha

20110317566 - Device for analyzing and diagnosing network traffic, a system for analyzing and diagnosing network traffic, and a system for tracing network traffic: A system detects the presence of illegal access attacks. The device for analyzing and diagnosing network traffic divides packets into k (k>0) types based on protocol type and port number, etc., a component observing the number of distinct values of one or more pre-specified fields in packet header for each... Agent:

20110317570 - Iterative localization techniques: The present invention refers to iterative localization techniques with wireless communication systems for rural environment with limited number of base stations in the range of the mobile station and urban environment with multipath propagation channel and several base stations in the range of mobile station.... Agent: 4g Neuron, D.o.o.

20110317568 - Measuring network performance with reference packet probing: A method of measuring network performance is disclosed. A payload packet is transmitted from a sending node to a receiving node via a communication network. A reference packet is transmitted to the receiving node in connection with sending of the payload packet. Receive information related to the payload packet and... Agent:

20110317571 - Method and apparatus for data offloading: In accordance with an example embodiment of the present invention, a method comprises receiving data dependent offloading parameters at a mobile device, measuring data amount usage of the mobile device, comparing the measured data amount usage to the received data dependent offloading parameters, and determining whether to attempt offloading of... Agent: Nokia Corporation

20110317567 - Method and apparatus for determining a route metric: Machine-readable media, methods, apparatus and system for determining a route metric are described. In some embodiments, a characteristic of a packet to be sent from a node to another node is analyzed. The characteristic of the packet may indicate at least one of a group consisting whether the packet is... Agent:

20110317569 - Method and apparatus for device-to-device network coordination: In accordance with an example embodiment of the present invention, a method comprises broadcasting from a user equipment (UE) having means for device to device (D2D) communication a beacon comprising an OFDM beacon frame comprising a plurality of beacon fields; receiving at least one random access request from at least... Agent: Nokia Corporation

20110317575 - Method and apparatus for multi-user multi-input multi-output transmission: Embodiments of the present invention relate to methods and systems of transmitting data signals from at least one transmitting terminal with a spatial diversity capability to at least two receiving user terminals, each provided with spatial diversity receiving device. The methods and systems are useful, for example, in communication between... Agent: Imec

20110317574 - Method and system of setting transmitter power levels: The invention relates to a method and system of setting transmitter power levels, particularly in a Local Network Node transmitter, providing a pico cell for private use. A User Equipment (UE) is used to make measurements of the transmission link properties, such as downlink power and round trip time. Based... Agent:

20110317576 - Method for automatically configuring a neighbor cell list for a base station in a cellular wireless network: A method for automatically configuring a neighbor cell list, NCL, for a base station in a cellular wireless network, comprises receiving measurement reports for neighbor cells from a plurality of mobile stations. The reports are grouped by the neighbor cell with which each is associated. Neighbor cells are selected for... Agent:

20110317582 - Multi-cell transmission diversity method and apparatus: A multi-cell transmission diversity method and apparatus that is capable of forming two virtual antennas of each cell and producing orthogonality of the virtual antennas using an improved precoding technique in an OFDM-based cellular mobile communication system is provided for improving transmission diversity gain with coherent combination of the orthogonal... Agent:

20110317572 - Network throttle method and system: A method for controlling a number of user equipments in a cellular network, the network comprises at least one user equipment (4), a first interface (1) comprising a probability algorithm capable of connecting the user equipment to a second interface (2). The second interface (2) comprises the probability algorithm and... Agent: Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (publ)

20110317581 - Radio reception apparatus, radio transmission apparatus, and radio communication method: In a case where a second reference signal for a second communication system is transmitted in addition to a first reference signal for a first communication system, resources that affect a reception apparatus compatible only with the first communication system can be minimized, and the throughput can be prevented from... Agent: Panasonic Corporation

20110317579 - Server for updating location beacon database: A location beacon database and server, method of building location beacon database, and location based service using same. Wi-Fi access points are located in a target geographical area to build a reference database of locations of Wi-Fi access points. At least one vehicle is deployed including at least one scanning... Agent: Skyhook Wireless, Inc.

20110317573 - Station device and method of checking communication performance thereof: A station device includes an output unit that outputs a massage, a communication unit that communicates with a wireless access point which is movable from one place to another place, a determination unit that determines current communication performance with the wireless access point, a storage unit that stores the determined... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

20110317580 - System and method for monitoring and optimizing network performance to a wireless device: In one embodiment, 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 between said wireless router and a packet network switch. The data packets are communicated from said... Agent: Embarq Holdings Company, LLC

20110317578 - System and method for transmitting service data from a server to a terminal via a base station: A base station transmits service data to a terminal at a first transmission rate. A server transmits the service data to the base station at a second transmission rate required for transmitting the service data. When the second transmission rate exceeds the first transmission rate, the server determines a part... Agent: Fujitsu Limited

20110317583 - Wireless communication device, program, wireless communication method, and wireless communication system: There is provided a wireless communication device including a receiving unit that receives a radio signal transmitted from a base station providing a wireless communication service, a congestion calculation unit that calculates a degree of congestion of the wireless communication service based on a received result of the radio signal... Agent:

20110317585 - Apparatus and method for traffic offload in a broadband wireless access system: A method and apparatus for reducing backhaul traffic in a broadband wireless access system are provided. The method includes receiving an uplink packet including a contents request from a Mobile Station (MS), determining whether the requested contents have been cached, if it is determined that the contents have not been... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.

20110317588 - Autodiscovery for virtual networks: The present invention facilitates automatic discovery of VPN-related information, which relates to the existence or association of VPNs as supported by provider edge devices in a core network. In particular, the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is used to facilitate the automatic discovery, and the provider edge devices are capable of... Agent: Rockstar Bidco Lp

20110317586 - Event-triggered peer discovery: Techniques for supporting peer-to-peer (P2P) communication are disclosed. In an aspect, a device performs peer discovery based on trigger events. In one design, the device detects an event triggering peer discovery, which may be an application becoming active on the device, a change in the position of the device, the... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20110317587 - Methods and systems for time sensitive networks: A packet based switched multimedia network which consolidates networking of high throughput, time sensitive data, and control streams, with Ethernet data networking over home span. The multimedia network may support in parallel, over the same home span cabling infrastructure, high quality networking including time sensitive data streams, such as HDMI,... Agent: Valens Semiconductor Ltd.

20110317584 - Node-based quality-of-service management: Systems and methods for scheduling network communications in a managed network can include a Network Controller discovering a plurality of network nodes; the Network Controller classifying the discovered network nodes into two or more classifications of node for node-level prioritization of network communications; the Network Controller receiving reservation requests from... Agent: Entropic Communications, Inc.

20110317589 - Method and apparatus for distribution of topology information in communication networks: A computer implemented method, computer readable medium and computing apparatus for distribution of network topology information in telecommunication networks comprising of a distribution of an information to a neighboring gateway node (ASN-GW2) wherein the said information comprising an access node identifier (RS-BSID), and a time validity indication of a network... Agent: Nokia Siemens Networks Oy

20110317590 - System and method for dynamic maintenance of fabric subsets in a network: A networking device includes a hardware port coupled to a first device and a management module. The management module identifies fabric subsets such that devices included in a fabric subset are permitted to communicate with each other, identifies configurations that include subsets that are active when the configuration is active,... Agent: Dell Products, Lp

20110317591 - Presence based dtmf signaling enablement of voice communication controller and method: A voice communication controller (e.g., private branch exchange (PBX)) is described herein which can automatically enable an outbound dual tone multi-frequency (DTMF) feature for one of it's extensions that is attached to a phone which belongs to a user while that user is or is likely to be participating in... Agent:

20110317592 - Apparatus and methods for managing operator information: Apparatus and methods for managing operation information include determining a home network for a wireless device and receiving a call with a number identifying a calling party and a network identification identifying the network for the calling party. The apparatus and methods also include determining whether the received network identification... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20110317593 - Conferencing that bridges virtual world and real-world meeting places: Mechanisms are provided for conference call communication in a virtual world environment. The mechanisms establish a hybrid conference call by establishing a hybrid conference call communication connection between a data based communication conference call server, that handles data based communications with client computing devices, and a telephone conference call server,... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110317594 - Hybrid architecture for radio frequency identification and packet radio communication: A radio frequency identification (“RFID”) hybrid packet radio is provided having full duplex operability. The RFID packet radio includes an antenna and a radio that receives and transmits a packet radio signal and a RFID signal. A processor is provided in communication with the radio to perform signal detection and... Agent: Sensormatic Electronics, LLC

20110317595 - Wireless communication apparatus, controlling method thereof, and program: A wireless communication apparatus that conducts full-duplex wireless communication with a communication partner using a transmitting antenna and a receiving antenna is provided. The apparatus includes a transmitting unit configured to transmit a signal via the transmitting antenna using a first frequency channel, a receiving unit configured to receive a... Agent: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

20110317596 - Optimized signaling of demodulation reference signal patterns: Orthogonality in cyclic shift (CS) and orthogonal cover code (OCC) selection for DMRS in MIMO is improved by new nDMRS to nDMRS(2) mapping patterns. Values in the mapping tables are arranged in sets, with minimum CS separation between the values in each set. Additionally, the semi-static nDMRS is independently configurable... Agent:

20110317597 - Method, apparatus, and system for identifying different frame structures: Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method, an apparatus, and a system for identifying different frame structures to ensure backward compatibility of an LTE-advanced (LTE-A) network. The method for identifying different frame structures includes: receiving a radio frame on a frequency division duplex (FDD) downlink carrier, where the radio... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.

20110317598 - Radio communication device and radio communication method: A radio base station (100) executes a hybrid automatic repeat request including an automatic repeat request to request a source of a signal sequence (B1) transmitted via E-DPDCH to retransmit the signal sequence (B1) and combining process of the signal sequence (B1) received a plurality of times as a consequence... Agent: Ntt Docomo, Inc.

20110317599 - Wireless communication device and wireless communication method: Provided is a wireless communication device and a wireless communication method which can maintain compatibility with a plurality of communication schemes and send a response signal back within the allowed time specified by each communication scheme. The wireless communication device includes a radio receiving unit (120) that receives a packet... Agent: Sony Corporation

20110317600 - Automating radio enablement to facilitate power saving: In an example embodiment, there is disclosed herein an apparatus comprising a wireless transceiver and a controller coupled to the wireless transceiver and configured to receive data via the wireless transceiver. The controller operates the wireless transceiver at a first power save state where the wireless transceiver can receive a... Agent:

20110317606 - Base station and method for scheduler controlled setting of the output power of a base station power amplifier: The invention discloses a base station (110, 300) for a cell (105) in a cellular communications system (100). The base station comprises a scheduler (310) for scheduling transmissions to users (115, 120) in the cell (105) and a transmitter with a power amplifier (325). The scheduler (310) is also arranged... Agent: Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (publ)

20110317601 - Digital signage with on-demand power wake up: A technique for on-demand power wake up for digital signage includes providing 400 a detector operable to detect an envelope of a digital signal, receiving 402 an extended length packet by the detector, wherein the packet consists of a same, repeated data symbol, detecting 404 the extended length packet in... Agent: Symbol Technologies, Inc.

20110317604 - Network apparatus: A network apparatus having a plurality of call control cards, comprising: a selection unit configured to select at least one call control card from among the plurality of call control cards, when the number of connected calls controlled by the whole of the plurality of call control cards is less... Agent: Ntt Docomo, Inc.

20110317605 - Signal encoding method and device, method for encoding joint feedback signal: A signal encoding method and device and a method for encoding a joint feedback signal are provided. The signal encoding method includes the following steps. When two carriers are configured with multiple-input and multiple-output (MIMO), Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest-ACKnowledgement (HARQ-ACK) signals of the two carriers are combined into a joint... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.

20110317602 - Sleep mode power saving in a wireless communication device: Embodiments of methods for optimizing power savings in a wireless device by maintaining sleep in sub-frames of an extended Listen Window, in an I.E.E.E. 802.16m communication system. In one embodiment, the Listen Window is extended into the Sleep Window, wherein at least one sub-frame remains designated for sleep. The power... Agent:

20110317603 - Wireless network devices configurable via powerline communications networks: A communications device includes a wireless communications interface, a power line carrier (PLC) communications interface, and processing circuitry coupled to the wireless communications interface and to the PLC communications interface. The processing circuitry, in combination with at least one of the wireless communications interface and the PLC communications interface is... Agent: Broadcom Corporation

20110317610 - Data-receiving method and apparatus for relay station in wireless communication system: A method for receiving data by a relay station (RS) in a wireless communication system includes: receiving radio resource allocation information via an R-PDCCH (R-Physical Downlink Control Channel); and receiving data from a base station (BS) via an R-PDSCH (R-Physical Downlink Shared Channel) indicated by the radio resource allocation information,... Agent:

20110317607 - Method and apparatus for sub-channel and power allocation among multicast sessions of a multicast system using an orthogonal frequency division multiple access scheme: A method and apparatus are described including assigning sub-channels to different multicast sessions under the assumption that in each session all sub-channels are allocated to all users of that session and power is equally allocated to each sub-channel, then for each session assigning the sub-channels to the users of that... Agent: Thomson Licensing

20110317613 - Method and arrangement for dl-otdoa (downlink observed time difference of arrival) positioning in a lte (long term evolution) wireless communications system: The present invention relates generally to methods and arrangements for positioning in a wireless communications system, such as LTE. In particular, the present invention relates to improving positioning accuracy. The invention provides methods and arrangements for scheduling positioning subframes, i.e. low interference subframes, for allowing aligning of positioning subframes across... Agent:

20110317608 - Methods and apparatus for subframe configuration and generation in a multi-carrier communication system: Methods and apparatus for subframe configuration and generation in a multi-cell multi-carrier system. A frame for radio transmission in the system consists of multiple subframes, and each subframe consists of multiple Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) symbols. Training symbols, frequency-domain data scrambling, size of Fast-Fourier Transform (FFT), or length of... Agent:

20110317609 - Methods and systems for providing reliable multicast service in a wlan system: A method for acknowledged multicast operation in a wireless network having a base station and at least one wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) includes the base station transmitting a first multicast signal during a first scheduled interval, the at least one WTRU receiving the first multicast signal during the first scheduled... Agent: Interdigital Technology Corporation

20110317612 - Multicast and broadcast service system and method: The present invention relates to a multicast and broadcast service (MCBCS) system and method. According to the present invention, the MCBCS system comprises: an MBS distribution DPF (Data Patch Function) for receiving MBS data from an MCBCS server/controller and distributing the data; an MBS synchronization controller for acquiring GRE (Generic... Agent: Seah Networks Co., Ltd.

20110317611 - Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for coordinating communications between network nodes: A system method, apparatus, and computer program product are provided for coordinating communications between network nodes. A method may include transmitting an information message related to a first network node implementing broadcasting-and-extracting mode to a neighboring network node implementing collecting-and-broadcasting mode during a first time interval. The method may further... Agent:

20110317618 - Apparatus, and associated method, for facilitating routing of data in a radio communication system having a mobile node capable of roaming movement: Apparatus, and an associated method, for providing routing information to a mobile node operable in a radio communication system. The routing information is used by the mobile node to address data messages that are to be communicated to a relay host, or other, device. The routing information that is provided... Agent: Research In Motion Limited

20110317619 - Method and apparatus for relaying data in wireless communication system: A method and apparatus of relaying data in a wireless communication system is provided. A relay station (RS) receives relay zone allocation information. A plurality of relay zones is allocated in a resource region by the relay zone allocation information. The relay station receives data transmitted from a super-ordinate station,... Agent:

20110317616 - Method and apparatus for transmitting/receiving data in a relay communication system: The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for data transmission, which properly use the time slot between a downlink transmission period and an uplink transmission period for a backhaul communication between a base station and a relay node in a time division multiplexing communication system. The method for... Agent:

20110317617 - Method and system for a relay node to access a network: A method and a system for a relay node to access a network are provided, and are related to the field of communications technology. The invention is disclosed in order to solve the problem that the RN cannot access the network directly in the prior art. The method for the... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.

20110317614 - Method for transmitting an uplink signal and feedback information, and relay apparatus using the method: The invention relates to a method for transmitting an uplink signal and feedback information of a relay, and to a relay apparatus using the method. The relay can receive information, constituting a downlink backhaul subframe and an uplink backhaul subframe from a base station. The relay can transmit an uplink... Agent:

20110317615 - System and method for adapting code rate: A system and method for adapting code rate are provided. A method for a first communication device to transmit a resource assignment to at least one communication device includes assigning at least one transmission resource to transmit the resource assignment, adapting a code rate of an encoded payload based on... Agent: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.

20110317620 - Multi-spot transmission and reception system on board a satellite and satellite comprising such a system: A multi-spot transmission and reception system includes at least one outbound section implementing the reception of a hub frequency band and its transposition into user transmission sub-bands, at least one return section implementing the reception of user frequency sub-bands, and their transposition into a hub transmission band and a mesh... Agent: Thales

20110317625 - Antenna diversity: The invention is directed to a method of communicating between a first node including a plurality of antennas and a second node, the method comprising the steps of: transmitting a signal from the first node to said second node using each of the plurality of antennas of the first node;... Agent: Nortel Networks Limited

20110317626 - Bandwidth request preamble sequence selection method and random access method: The present invention relates to a bandwidth request preamble sequence selecting method for bandwidth requests on a wireless access system, and to a random access procedure using the same. Also, the present invention relates to devices supporting the random access procedure. In one example of the present invention, the method... Agent:

20110317627 - Communication system and intermittent reception method: An efficient discontinuous reception operation is provided for a mobile station device in Advanced-EUTRA. In a mobile station device connected to a base station device using a plurality of component carriers, during discontinuous reception, one discontinuous reception parameter is applied to all the component carriers used by the mobile station... Agent: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha

20110317623 - Method and apparatus for enabling access to a packet data network: A network element for a cellular communication network comprises gateway router logic. The gateway router logic is arranged to receive a request to create a packet data context for enabling a mobile communication device to access a packet data network; obtain an address for a gateway logic module for the... Agent:

20110317628 - Method of performing wireless communication in multi-carrier system: A method of performing wireless communication in a multi-carrier system by a User Equipment (UE) comprises receiving minimum aggregation information on at least one carrier which is determined as a default irrespective of carriers supportable by the UE, configuring the at least one carrier on a basis of the minimum... Agent: Lg Electronics Inc.

20110317622 - Methods and systems for notifying a party at an end-user premise when a particular event occurs at another end-user premise: Methods and systems to notify a party at a given premise when a particular event, such as a fire, an intrusion, an emergency or another event, occurs at another premise. One method comprises: obtaining an indication of a particular event at a first end-user premise, the first end-user premise including... Agent:

20110317624 - Methods of control/data partition scheme in heterogeneous networks for lte-a: When there are different power classes of base stations (BSs), there may be a need to coordinate transmission from the different BSs to reduce interference to a user equipment (UE) on both control channels and data channels. There are different ways of coordination. For some embodiments, time division multiplex (TDM)... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20110317629 - Transmission scheme: In a transmission scheme for transmitting data over a connection connecting a transmitting Main Unit and a receiving Radio Unit of a cellular radio system, where the transmitted data corresponds to user-plane data in the form of digital baseband data for different antenna-carriers, the digital signal is transmitted over the... Agent: Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (publ)

20110317621 - Wireless communication apparatus and communication control method: A destination terminal UA200 in accordance with the present invention, which is a wireless communication apparatus capable of using a plurality of different wireless communication systems, is provided with a control unit 320 for determining, in a case where the destination terminal UA200 receives a call enable notification request from... Agent: Kyocera Corporation

20110317651 - method and a device for transmission with time-frequency mapping of symbols in sub-channels: A method is provided for mapping data symbols at the input of a multi-carrier modulator, which data symbols are interleaved in blocks of K symbols, into sub-channels of size equal to NSDC consecutive carriers scattered to one or more multi-carrier symbols, NSDC being a sub-multiple of K. The size NSDC... Agent: France Telecom

20110317639 - Apparatus and method for control in wireless communication system: The present invention relates to a method and system for controlling an uplink (UL) in a wireless communication system, wherein packet scheduling is performed on the data packet of a mobile station to allocate multiple bursts, the parameters of the mobile station and the multiple bursts are verified, and the... Agent: Seah Networks Co., Ltd.

20110317635 - Apparatus and method for receiving cell system information during autonomous gaps: Methods and apparatuses are provided that facilitate receiving signals from one or more base stations while communicating with a serving base station. Devices can receive the signals in autonomous gaps, during which the device can tune away to receive the signals. A device can report a low channel quality indicator... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20110317636 - Channel requests for machine-type devices: To access a network, an MTC device sends a channel request message to the network over a random access channel. The channel request message includes a device type indication and a resource type indication. The device type indication may for example, indicate to the network that the requesting device is... Agent:

20110317643 - Control information signaling for mimo transmissions: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for conveying downlink control information (DCI). According to certain aspects, the DCI comprises at least a first field that indicates both a rank indication (RI) and a number of enabled transport blocks (TBs) and at least a second field that indicates either... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20110317646 - Demodulation reference signals for retransmission in wireless communication: Provided is a method for wireless communication which includes transmitting codewords according to an initial transmission rank, receiving downlink transmissions indicating at least one of the codewords to be retransmitted, constructing a demodulation reference signal (DM-RS) to be sent with the at least one codeword to be retransmitted, and retransmitting... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20110317633 - Fine-grained channel access in wireless networks: A fine-grained channel access system and method to facilitate fine-grained channel access in a high-data rate wide-band wireless local-area network (WLAN). Embodiments of the system and method divide an entire wireless channel into proper size subchannels commensurate with the physical layer data rate and typical frame size. Once the subchannels... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20110317632 - Integrating white space support into a network stack: Described is incorporating white space networking components into a network stack. A user mode spectrum access control component determines which white space channels are currently allowed for use based upon policy, current operating status and availability information obtained from one or more sources. A white space service (e.g., in the... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20110317652 - Method and apparatus for reporting channel state in multi-carrier system: A method and an apparatus for reporting a channel state in a multi-carrier system are provided. User equipment receives an uplink grant including an uplink resource allocation and a channel quality indicator (CQI) request via one downlink carrier from among a plurality of downlink carriers. The user equipment reports CQIs... Agent:

20110317647 - Method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving downlink signal for which guard band is configured in cellular radio communication system supporting band scalability: Disclosed is a configuration of a guard band for a radio communication system formed of consecutive sub-bands. Particularly disclosed are designs of a middle guard band for preventing interference between adjacent sub-bands and regulating a difference in frequency between signals transmitted in each sub-band in a radio communication system such... Agent:

20110317644 - Method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving resource allocation scheme information in a wireless communication system: A method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving a Service Specific Scheduling Control Header (SSSCH) in a wireless communication system are provided, in which the SSSCH includes SSSCH type information and a Quality of Service (QoS) parameter change indicator. The SSSCH type information indicates at least one of a QoS... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.

20110317641 - Method and apparatus for transmitting reference signal in wireless communication system: A method and apparatus of transmitting a reference signal in a wireless communication system is provided. A transmitter generates the reference signal, maps the reference signal to a resource region, and transmits the reference signal, mapped to the resource region, to a user equipment (UE). The resource region to which... Agent:

20110317630 - Method and system for contention avoidance in multi-user multiple-input-multiple-output wireless networks: Wireless medium reservation for simultaneous transmission of multiple downlink spatial streams to multiple receiver wireless stations during a multi-user transmit opportunity over a wireless medium, is provided. Such a reservation includes reserving a transmission period for simultaneously transmitting data from a transmitting station to multiple intended receiving stations on multiple... Agent:

20110317653 - Method for allocating resource to uplink control signal in wireless communication system and apparatus therefor: A method for allocating resource to ACK (Acknowledgment)/NACK (Negative-ACK) transmission in a wireless communication system is disclosed. The method includes receiving scheduling information included in a plurality of downlink control channels and data included in a plurality of downlink data channels, over multiple downlink component carriers from a base station,... Agent:

20110317637 - Method for processing and transmitting data packet: A method for processing and transmitting data packet is disclosed. The method includes receiving a data packet with a first Redundancy Version (RV) from a serving cell, receiving a data packet with a second RV different from the first RV from a collaborative cell, and combining and decoding the data... Agent:

20110317638 - Method for requesting and allocating uplink resource in wireless communication system: The present invention relates to a method for requesting an uplink resource in a wireless communication system. In the method according to one aspect of the invention, a terminal transmits a quick access message to a base station and receives a resource from the base station. The quick access message... Agent:

20110317645 - Method of handling downlink control information indication and related communication device: A method of acquiring control format indicator information on a physical control format indicator channel transmitted by a network of a wireless communication system for a mobile device in the wireless communication system is disclosed. The method comprises locating the PCFICH of a downlink component carrier of a cell in... Agent:

20110317648 - Method of transmitting and receiving wireless resource information: A method of transmitting and receiving radio resource information is disclosed, by which a mobile terminal is able to quickly access a mobile communication system. The present invention includes transmitting a paging message to locate a specific mobile terminal by including information for a radio resource allocated to the mobile... Agent:

20110317649 - Partitioning of frequency resources for transmission of control signals and data signals in sc-fdma communication systems: A method for the partitioning frequency resources used in the transmission of control signals and data signals by user equipments in a communication system. The control signals and data signals are for periodic transmission and dynamic transmission. Also provided is an apparatus and method for user equipments to determine the... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

20110317640 - Radio base station apparatus and radio communication method: A radio base station apparatus and radio communication method are provided whereby reception characteristics do not deteriorate even when the number of multiplexed users of an uplink control channel signal is increased. The radio communication method of the present invention includes a transmission step of a mobile terminal apparatus transmitting... Agent: Ntt Docomo, Inc.

20110317655 - Radio terminal, radio base station, channel signal forming method, and channel signal receiving method: Provided are a radio terminal, a radio base station, a channel signal forming method, and a channel signal receiving method, by which the number of blinds in the processing for receiving allocation control information is reduced without causing disadvantage regarding the reception of a broadcast channel signal. In a base... Agent: Panasonic Corporation

20110317631 - Scheduling communications in a mobile device: A method scheduling outgoing communication in a mobile device is provided. The method includes receiving a signal quality profile for an area in which the device is located. The method further includes receiving a signal from a user application stored on the device that requests the mobile device to make... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20110317642 - System and process for transmission sequence number management in an intra-node b unsynchronized serving cell change: Various aspects of the disclosure provide an intra-Node B unsynchronized serving cell change enabling the typical loss of packets resulting from such a procedure to be reduced or eliminated. In one example, when a UE ceases listening to a downlink channel from a first cell provided by a Node B... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20110317634 - Systems and methods for identifying and communicating with media devices in a connected platform environment using multiple communication channels: Systems and methods are presented for utilizing multiple communication channels to determine whether a media device is nearby and whether the nearby media device is a media device associated with a user request. In some embodiments, user input devices may be equipped with IR and RF transceivers. IR signals may... Agent: Rovi Technologies Corporation

20110317650 - Techniques to couple harq-arq in wireless networks: An embodiment of the present invention provides an apparatus, comprising a transceiver adapted to reduce ARQ overhead by coupling HARQ and ARQ feedback signaling and defining different HARQ burst regions that enable different regions to use different HARQ feedback configurations based on channel quality or QoS requirements.... Agent:

20110317654 - Wireless transceiver, wireless base station, wireless terminal, and wireless communication system: A wireless communication system comprises: a wireless base station that uses dedicated frequencies to communicate with only connected LTE-A terminals and uses shared frequencies to communicate with LTE terminals and LTE-A terminals; and an LTE-A terminal. The wireless base station comprises: a priority information creating section for setting a priority... Agent: Panasonic Corporation

20110317656 - Cluster-specific reference signals for communication systems with multiple transmission points: Aspects of the present disclosure provide methods and apparatuses for transmitting—from all cells belonging to a cluster (e.g., for Joint Processing/Transmission (JP/T) Coordinated Multipoint (CoMP), also referred to as network MIMO (Multiple Input/Multiple Output))—reference signals (RSs) for channel state information (CSI) feedback to user equipment (UE) at the same time... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20110317657 - Change of rate matching modes in presence of channel state information reference signal transmission: In one aspect thereof the exemplary embodiments of this invention provide a method that includes, prior to confirmation that a network access node has correctly acquired capabilities of a user equipment, operating a user equipment with the network access node in accordance with a first rate matching mode and, only... Agent: Nokia Corporation

20110317668 - Method and system for implementing inter-access networks handoff in active state in hrpd network: A method and system for implementing an inter-Access Network (AN) handoff in an active state in a High Rate Packet Data (HRPD) Network are disclosed. The method includes determining that an inter-AN handoff operation is necessary and initiating a handoff procedure to perform the inter-AN handoff, sending data to be... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.

20110317666 - Method and system for managing address prefix information associated with handover in networks: Method and system for managing address prefix information associated with handover in network. A fast handover process is achieved for point-to-point communication model. A mobile node send a provisional new care-of-address with an aggregate prefix part to its previous access router, which forwards the address to a new access router.... Agent: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.

20110317660 - Method for selectively performing handoff according to service type and system thereof: Provided are a method for selectively performing a handoff according to a service type, and a system thereof. A home agent provides a target service to a user equipment through a mobile network channel of a mobile network. The user equipment detects entering a wireless access zone of a wireless... Agent:

20110317665 - Method for updating system information during hand-over in broadband wireless access system: The present invention relates to a broadband wireless access system, and more particularly, to a method for efficiently acquiring system information on a target base station during a hand-over, and to an apparatus for carrying out the method. One method for enabling a mobile station to update system information on... Agent: Lg Electronics Inc.

20110317664 - Method of performing an intra-segment handover: The invention concerns a method of performing an intra-segment handover (HO) of a mobile station (MS) from a source access point (AP1) of a tree-structured segment (S1) of an Ethernet-compliant telecommunication network to a target access point (AP2) of said segment (S1), as well as a switch (SW-123) to support... Agent: Alcatel Lucent

20110317658 - Mobile communication system, network device, and mobile communication method: A mobile communication system having a first communication system and a second communication system forwards forwarding data from the first communication system to the second communication system when switching from the first communication system to the second communication system is determined, the forwarding data being a data that the first... Agent: Ntt Docomo, Inc.

20110317667 - Soft handoff across different networks assisted by an end-to-end application protocol: A method of handoff across different networks is disclosed. A first communication link through a first network is used for communicating between a first user agent and a second user agent. The user agents negotiate to use a second communication link for the same call. The second communication link is... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20110317663 - System and method for performing handoff between different types of networks by using a short message service: A system and method for handing off from a first network to a second network. A determination may be made as to whether an accessible base station of the second network is located in the vicinity of a user equipment based on information on a current location of the user... Agent:

20110317662 - System and method for performing handoff between different types of networks by using a voice service: A system and method for handing off from a first network to a second network. A determination may be made as to whether an accessible base station of the second network is located in the vicinity of a user equipment based on information on a current location of the user... Agent:

20110317659 - System, apparatus, and method for circuit switched fallback reliability in wireless communication systems: In accordance with aspects of the disclosure, a method, apparatus, and computer program product are provided for wireless communication. The method, apparatus, and computer program product may be configured to determine that a device is switching from a first cell and a first location to a second cell and a... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20110317661 - System, apparatus, and method for utilizing network access parameters in wireless communication systems: In accordance with aspects of the disclosure, a method, apparatus, and computer program product are provided for wireless communication. The method, apparatus, and computer program product may be configured to provide a message from a first network to a device, wherein the message comprises one or more parameters for access... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20110317669 - Semiconductor device, wireless terminal device, and wireless communication system: According to an embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a wireless station selection unit configured to select a connection destination wireless station from among a plurality of wireless stations. The wireless station selection unit includes a power calculation processing unit, a storage unit, a table update processing unit, and a power... Agent: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

20110317671 - Multiple-access hybrid ofdm-cdma system: In one aspect of a multiple-access OFDM-CDMA system, data spreading is performed in the frequency domain by spreading each data stream with a respective spreading code selected from a set of available spreading codes. To support multiple access, system resources may be allocated and de-allocated to users (e.g., spreading codes... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20110317670 - Td-lte hetnet partition: Downlink (DL) subframes and DL hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) messages may be protected by time division multiplexing (TDM) partitioning. However, TDM partitioning may not be required for uplink (UL) subframes in general. For example, information carried over a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH), may be protected by frequency division... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20110317672 - Wireless base station apparatus, wireless terminal apparatus, and base station authentication method: A base station authentication method which allows base station authentication to be performed by more wireless terminal apparatuses within a fixed period of time. This method is a base station authentication method for TDMA wireless communication and comprises: a step in which wireless terminal apparatuses (300) select timeslots (S2200) and... Agent: Panasonic Corporation

20110317679 - Access point for wireless local area network: Embodiments of an access point for an expanded wireless local area network are described and depicted.... Agent: Lantiq Beteiligungs-gmbh & Co. Kg

20110317676 - Block interleaving method and block interleaver using the same: b

20110317680 - Communication device, control method therefor, and program: When a plurality of communication parameter providing devices exist, one of the communication parameter providing devices is determined. For example, all the communication parameter providing devices are caused to stop the providing process. Alternatively, a user is allowed to select a communication parameter providing device. Alternatively, a communication parameter providing... Agent: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

20110317675 - Electronic device and method of controlling the same: The embodiments of the present invention relate to an electronic device and a method of controlling the electronic device. When a mobile terminal enters into or comes out of a network environment including a plurality of electronic devices that may communicate with each other, the electronic device and the method... Agent: Lg Electronics Inc.

20110317678 - Extended private lan: A virtual private network is provided across a Provider Link State Bridging (PLSB) network between a first node connected to a private LAN and a second node connected to a roaming device. The roaming device is authenticated. A successful authentication results in a Service Identifier for the VPN being sent... Agent: Nortel Networks Limited

20110317673 - Method and apparatus for providing ipv6 link-layer adaptation over a wireless channel: A method and apparatus for providing IPv6 link-layer adaptation over a wireless channel are provided. The apparatus is configured to transmit and receive 6LoWPAN frames over a signaling channel of a wireless telecommunication system to provide IPv6 link-layer adaptation over the channel.... Agent: Sensinode Oy

20110317677 - Method for managing mobility of a mobile device within a network using a proxy mipv6 protocol: Method for managing mobility of a mobile device (MS) within a network using a proxy MIPv6 protocol comprising MAG and LMA logical functions, wherein MAG issues a PBU to bind the mobile device (MS) with the LMA, a LMA-time being initialized and maintained within the LMA and the method comprising... Agent:

20110317674 - Multi-channel communication station for communicating a multi-channel ppdu and methods of reducing collisions on secondary channels in multi-channel wireless networks: Embodiments of a very-high throughput communication station and method for communicating on a primary channel and up to three or more secondary channels are generally described herein. Short-preamble detection may be performed during a contention window to detect packet transmissions on any one of the secondary channels starting within the... Agent:

20110317681 - Network communication system, communication device, network linkage method and program thereof: A communication network system including a connectionless type communication network and a connection type communication network, wherein a communication device forming the communication network comprises a unit which transfers in-band control information to be exchanged on an in-band of the connectionless type communication network to other communication device through a... Agent:

20110317682 - Ofdm transmitter device, ofdm transmission method, ofdm receiver device, and ofdm reception method: An OFDM transmitter and an OFDM receiver respectively transmit and receive N (N≧2, N is an integer) control symbols. For each control symbol, a guard interval time-domain signal is, for example, identical to a signal obtained by frequency-shifting at least a portion of a useful symbol time-domain signal by an... Agent:

20110317683 - Aas direct signaling framing methodologies to support high capacity wireless links: A new frame structure applicable to the IEEE 802.16 OFDMA wireless waveform is described, for the purposes of increasing base station capacity, increasing subscriber link rates and extending base station range. The frame structure provides the necessary constructs so that advance signal processing technologies such as Stacked Carrier Spread Spectrum... Agent: The Directv Group, Inc.

20110317685 - Consolidated voicemail platform: A voicemail system for providing voicemail services to a secure facility. An embodiment of the voicemail system includes an internet router provided at a facility for communicating with a call processing center that is located outside the facility. A database at the call processing center stores voicemail messages, a call... Agent:

20110317688 - Dynamic federations: Systems and methods of establishing IP telephony sessions between enterprises are disclosed. A first enterprise requests an association with a second enterprise. Both enterprises and the second enterprise belong to the same federation. The association request is accepted, to establish an association between the first and second enterprises. In response... Agent: Acme Packet, Inc.

20110317689 - Service path routing between session border controllers: Systems and methods of establishing IP telephony sessions between enterprises are disclosed. A first enterprise requests an association with a second enterprise. Both enterprises and the second enterprise belong to the same federation. The association request is accepted, to establish an association between the first and second enterprises. In response... Agent: Acme Packet, Inc.

20110317690 - System and method for voice-activated dialing over implicit and explicit nfa trunks: A system and method for voice-activated dialing using implicit and explicit trunks including receiving a call from the user telephone and establishing a first connection. In response to establishing the first connection, a second connection may be established over the implicit trunk. In response to establishing the second connection, a... Agent: Embarq Holdings Company, LLC

20110317684 - Systems and methods for terminating communication requests: A IP telephony service allows customers to form user groups. Each user group can include multiple telephony devices that are associated with one or more users. One or more group identifiers would be associated with each user group. When an incoming communication is directed to a user group, a group... Agent:

20110317686 - Systems and methods of establishing user groups in an internet protocol environment: A IP telephony service allows customers to form user groups. A user group is established by collecting a plurality of identifiers that are associated with members of a group, and associating the member identifiers with a group identifier. The member identifiers could be telephone numbers of telephony devices for each... Agent:

20110317687 - Systems and methods of forwarding communication requests based on handling instructions in an internet protocol environment: A IP telephony service allows customers to form user groups. Each user group can include multiple members, each of whom have their own telephony device. When a member of a user group sends an outgoing communication from one of the telephony devices associated with the user group, the service obtains... Agent:

20110317691 - Interprocessor communication system and communication method, network switch, and parallel calculation system: A network switch transfers data, which are to be transferred between nodes, in a time-division multiplex manner after allocating the data to slots, which are created by dividing a unit of time into a plurality of sections. An input unit includes a selection unit that selects a buffer unit according... Agent: Nec Corporation

20110317692 - Acknowledgement of communications using shared messages: In a communication system with receipt acknowledgements, a method for a receiving communication node to acknowledge receipt of a message from a sending communication node, including the receiving node embedding the acknowledgement in a message which the receiving node produces for a purpose which is more than just acknowledgement of... Agent: Essence Security International Ltd.

20110317694 - Automatic filter overlap processing and related systems and methods: Systems and methods are disclosed that allow for improved management and control of packet forwarding in network systems. Network devices and tool optimizers and a related systems and methods are disclosed for improved packet forwarding between input ports and output ports. The input ports and output ports are configured to... Agent: Anue Systems, Inc.

20110317693 - System and method for establishing network connection: Systems and methods of enabling a user host device to communicate on a network. In an embodiment, a system receives a request packet from a user host device. The request packet, such as an ARP request packet, may include a target IP address that corresponds to a static IP address... Agent: Nomadix, Inc.

20110317697 - Broadcast messaging in peer to peer overlay network: Broadcast messages are efficiently directed to nodes of an overlay network. Broadcast messages include an End ID parameter specifying the range of key values for nodes that should receive the broadcast message. Each node of an overlay network maintains a list of finger nodes and their respective key values. Upon... Agent: Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.

20110317696 - In-band multicast trace in ip and mpls networks: In one embodiment, which may be implemented in either IP networks or MPLS networks, a tree of the network may be constructed at a source network device by sending only a single packet. The remaining network devices in the network replicate the packet so that a copy will reach each... Agent: Cisco Technology

20110317698 - Multicast-enabled address resolution protocol (me-arp): A Multicast-Enabled Address Resolution Protocol (ME-ARP) is disclosed. This ME-ARP allows the building of independent IP based Virtual Private LAN segments (VPLS) over a multicast enabled IP backbone using stateless tunnels and optimal VPLS traffic forwarding. Each VPLS has an associated IP subnet which is completely independent from other VPLS... Agent: Nortel Networks Limited

20110317695 - System and method for providing a path avoidance feature in a network environment: A method is provided in one example and includes evaluating multiple paths in a network in order to execute a reverse path forwarding decision for multicast traffic associated with a source. The method may also include selecting a second network path based on a first network path previously been designated... Agent: Cisco Technology, Inc.

20110317703 - Asymmetric network address encapsulation: A network component comprising a receiver configured to receive an outgoing frame from a local host, a logic circuit configured to map a destination address (DA) for a target host in the outgoing frame to a DA for a target location of the target host and encapsulate the outgoing frame... Agent: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.

20110317701 - Communication system, control device, processing rule setting method, packet transmission method, and program: A communication system comprises control devices, and forwarding nodes each includes packet processing unit that performs processing of a received packet based on a processing rule set in advance or received from control device associated with the node. First control device among the control devices, in response to a predetermined... Agent: Nec Corporation

20110317704 - Dense mode coding scheme: A lookup table for searching for a longest prefix match for a key is disclosed. The lookup table provides a match for a key in a single search cycle. The number of matches stored in the lookup table is maximized by storing each match in only one location in the... Agent:

20110317706 - Frame relay switched data service: A new type of data transport service which uses a frame relay layer 2 data link connection identifier (DLCI) to select among various service types, feature sets, and/or closed user groups (CUGs). A layer 3 address may be extracted from a layer 2 frame, and the layer 3 address information... Agent:

20110317699 - Method for media access control address learning and learning rate suppression: A method, apparatus and computer program product for Media Access Control (MAC) address learning and learning rate suppression are presented. A Forwarding Data Unit (FDU) maintains two cache tables, each of the cache tables used for harvesting MAC addresses. The FDU uses the cache tables in an alternating manner, wherein... Agent: Avaya Inc.

20110317700 - Method for real-time synchronization of arp record in rsmlt cluster: Embodiments herein include systems and methods for providing a mechanism for efficient data synchronization of ARP records between two peer nodes of an SMLT system. Such techniques include modifying control information of ARP packets transmitted between peer nodes of the SMLT system to indicate originating SMLT ports. Techniques also include... Agent: Avaya Inc.

20110317707 - Switch with virtual network identifier re-write capability: A switch includes a processor, an ingress port having ingress port logic, and an egress port. It may also include a virtual network identifier rewrite component for rewriting a virtual network identifier in a data frame received the ingress port with a new virtual network identifier. Also included is a... Agent: Cisco Technology, Inc.

20110317705 - Traversal of symmetric network address translator for multiple simultaneous connections: Handling of multiple connections during NAT traversal for a node behind a symmetric NAT is disclosed. The likelihood of connection failure during symmetric NAT traversal may be reduced by serializing critical time windows after port prediction. Once a connection request has been sent for a first connection, port prediction for... Agent: Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.

20110317702 - Two-hop star network topology extension: Relayed nodes communicate with a target hub using a relaying node in a two-hop star network. The relayed nodes transmit a first encapsulating frame having a payload that comprises an encapsulated frame. The first encapsulating frame is formatted as a one-hop communication between the relayed node and the relaying node.... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20110317708 - Quality of service control for mpls user access: A method of associating a Quality of Service priority with a Service Access Point (SAP) is disclosed. The method provides for provision of Quality of Service priorities on incoming data packets as per the configuration specified in the SAP associated with the data packet. The method allows for a configuration... Agent: Alcatel-lucent Usa, Inc.

20110317710 - Enhanced reliability routing protocol: In a method of enhanced reliability routing within a system including one or more networks having several nodes connected together by communication means, the system using a link-state routing protocol constructing the topology of the nodes within a system of nodes, the routing method determines the logical topology of network... Agent: Thales

20110317711 - Extensions to ipv6 neighbor discovery protocol for automated prefix delegation: In one embodiment, a method comprises detecting, by a router, a first router advertisement message from an attachment router that provides an attachment link used by the router, the first router advertisement message specifying a first IPv6 address prefix owned by the attachment router and usable for address autoconfiguration on... Agent: Cisco Technology, Inc.

20110317709 - Management of serving gateways for enhanced performance: Various embodiments relate to a system and related method for managing a connection of a user device to a communications network. Various embodiments relate to a Policy and Charging Rules Node (PCRN) receiving a user requests through multiple serving gateways. The PCRN may assign one of the serving gateways as... Agent: Alcatel-lucent Canada Inc.

20110317713 - Control plane packet processing and latency control: A switch resource receives control plane packets and data packets. The control plane packets indicate how to configure the network in which the switch resource resides. The switch resource includes a classifier. The classifier classifies the control plane packets based on priority and stores the control plane packets into different... Agent: Avaya Inc.

20110317712 - Recovering data from a plurality of packets: A method includes receiving a plurality of packets at an integrated processor block of a network on a chip device. The plurality of packets includes a first packet that includes an indication of a start of data associated with a pixel shader application. The method includes recovering the data from... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110317714 - Compact and adjustable power divider and filter device: A power divider and filter device includes one input port and several output ports, and is configured to make several cavities in which resonating posts are located, one post per cavity. The cavities communicate some with the others by means of openings. Cavities are arranged in such a way that... Agent: Thales

20110317716 - Method, system, and program for managing a speed at which data is transmitted between network adaptors: Provided are a method, system, and program for managing data transmissions at a local network device communicating with a linked network device over,a network, wherein each network device is capable of transmitting data at different speeds. An operation is initiated to change a current transmission speed at which data is... Agent:

20110317715 - Multiplexed sensor array: A sensor array, comprising: a plurality of sensors electrically connected in series or in parallel, each of the plurality of sensors operable to generate an individual electrical signal; a multiplexing scheme generator operable to generate a multiplexing scheme; a modulation system connected to the multiplexing scheme generator and operable to... Agent: Perkinelmer Canada, Inc.

20110317718 - Authorizing qos per qci: The invention is directed to 3GPP-compliant networks wherein a Policy and Charging Rules Function (PCRF) node provides a subscriber's maximum allowed Authorized Quality-of-Service (QoS) per QoS Class Identifier (QCI) to a Policy and Charging Enforcement Function (PCEF) as the authorized QoS per QCI, such that the PCEF node can then... Agent: Alcatel-lucent Canada, Inc.

20110317717 - Dynamic adjustment of bandwidth for providing increased bandwidth during business hours: Providing increased bandwidth to business subscribers during business hours. A determination is made whether a subscriber is eligible for application of a business boost. Business boost to the subscriber is activated when the subscriber is eligible for business boost. An increased bandwidth is provided to the activated subscriber during business... Agent: Cox Communications, Inc.

20110317719 - Data link layer headers: A system for communicating protocol layer processing information is disclosed herein. A transmitter includes a protocol layer header generator that generators a header for a first protocol data unit. The header generator provides a first header comprising a first sequence number field that determines the order in which a receiving... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20110317721 - Differential delay compensation: In one embodiment, a method comprises receiving a plurality of data frames representing at least one virtually concatenated data stream, storing the plurality of data frames in a memory; and recording, for each of a plurality of data frames, a physical write address that indicates a position in the memory... Agent:

20110317720 - System and method for parsing frames: A system for parsing frames including a first cell extraction circuit (CEC) configured to identify a first cell from a first frame, a first parser engine operatively connected to the first CEC, where the first parser engine is configured to generate a result based on the first cell, and a... Agent: Agate Logic, Inc.

20110317722 - Techniques for encoding plcp headers: A method (400) and apparatus for encoding a block-based communication system header. A physical (PHY) layer header and a medium access control (MAC) header of the block-based communication system header are encoded to generate parity bits, wherein the PHY layer header includes at least cyclic prefix (CP) mode bits (S410).... Agent: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.v.

20110317723 - Power line communications device transmitting at differing power levels in same communication: A power-line communications (PLC) device communicates with a second PLC device via a PLC medium and includes a transmitter and a receiver. The transmitter transmits a Request to Send (RTS) communication to the second PLC device at a first power level. The receiver receives a Clear to Send (CTS) communication... Agent: Broadcom Corporation

20110317724 - Communication device, packet synchronization method: A communication device is provided, with which packet synchronization is achieved based on input data transmitted by an external device, without using a special protocol between the communication device and the external device. An external TE attaches a CRC code to each packet before transferring data to a mobile terminal... Agent: Fujitsu Limited

20110310725 - Soft handoff in ofdma system: Soft handoff in an OFDMA system is disclosed. If the pilot signal strength for a base station exceeds the defined threshold, the base station is added to an active set list. Subcarriers in a plurality of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols are divided and allocated into subchannels. The OFDM... Agent: Rockstar Bidco Lp

20110310726 - Method for processing channel switching failure case, terminal device, and channel switching server: A method for processing a channel switching failure case is disclosed. The method for processing a channel switching failure case is used to provide media services for receiver in unicast and multicast modes and includes: detecting whether a data stream is of failure case after sending a channel switching request;... Agent:

20110310727 - Troubleshooting method and apparatus: A troubleshooting method and a troubleshooting apparatus are disclosed. The troubleshooting method includes: sending a forward detection message to at least one node on a path to be detected, where the forward detection message carries information about a forward path to be detected and information about a backward path to... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.

20110310728 - Recovery of media gateway resources for terminations: The invention relates to a method for controlling a media gateway by a switching center having a cluster structure with a plurality of blades using a partial wildcarding mechanism by including a blade identifier in the wildcard field.... Agent: Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (publ)

20110310730 - Hvpls hub connectivity failure recovery with dynamic spoke pseudowires: Techniques for recovering from hierarchical virtual private LAN service (HVPLS) hub connectivity failure with a dynamic spoke pseudowire. According to one embodiment of the invention, a provider edge (PE) network element in the HVPLS hub monitors for a failure of HVPLS hub connectivity failure and reuses an HVPLS spoke connectivity... Agent:

20110310729 - Maintaining balance of active links across network devices in a double-sided virtual port-channel environment: In one embodiment, a method includes configuring a first network device for operation in a first logical group with a second network device, receiving information from other network devices configured for operation in a second logical group, the information uniquely identifying each of the other network devices within the second... Agent: Cisco Technology, Inc.

20110310732 - Admission control for q0s-driven wireless lans: A method and system for a quality of service (QoS) point coordinator (PC) for a basic service set (BSS) in a wireless local area network (WLAN) is disclosed. The PC includes a QoS management entity (QME) and an admission control entity (ACE). The QME receives at least one reservation request... Agent:

20110310731 - Controlling network resource usage of machine type communication (mtc) devices: A method for controlling network resource usage of a machine type communication (MTC) device is described. A request for network resources is received from an MTC application. A notification of a status of the MTC application is sent to a core network (CN). A set of commands is received from... Agent: Sharp Laboratories Of America, Inc.

20110310733 - Enhanced mobile communication device, and transportation application thereof: An enhanced mobile communication device communicates directly with other enhanced mobile communication devices in an ad-hoc mode over a wireless medium. The device transmits and receives packets of digital data. The packets of digital data are such that when transmitted, the probability that they will be received by the other... Agent:

20110310734 - Communication system, flow control device, flow table updating method, and program: A communication system, wherein a switch node to which a terminal is connected can be recognized, and a flow table can be updated promptly in accordance with the status of the switch node. The communication system includes: a switch node that operates in accordance with a flow table in which... Agent: Nec Corporation

20110310735 - Resource allocation framework for wireless/wired networks: A resource allocation framework for wireless/wired networks is described. In an embodiment, methods of end host based traffic management are described which operate separately from the underlying access control protocol within the network (e.g. wireless MAC protocol or TCP). The rate limits for each flow are set based on per-flow... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20110310741 - Apparatuses and methods for coordination between plurality of co-located wireless communication modules via one wire: The invention provides a mobile communication device having a Packet Traffic Arbitrator (PTA) module and a first wireless communication module, coupled to the PTA module via only one wire and configured to perform a first wireless transceiving. The first wireless communication module sends a first request indicating a remaining period... Agent: Mediatek Inc.

20110310738 - Congestion buffer control in wireless networks: A network device may handle packet congestion in a network. In one implementation, the network device may receive a packet associated with a quality of service priority class and with a connection to a user device. The network device may include an output queue associated with the priority class of... Agent: Verizon Patent And Licensing, Inc.

20110310737 - Method and apparatus for qos context transfer during inter radio access technology handover in a wireless communication system: Systems and methodologies are described herein that facilitate efficient transfer of quality of service (QoS) context during inter-radio access technology (RAT) handovers. In particular, techniques are described herein for establishing rules for whether a user equipment unit (UE) or an associated network should establish QoS for a mixed-mode application, identifying... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20110310740 - Method and system and policy server for guaranteeing data not to be interrupted: The present invention discloses a method for guaranteeing data not to be interrupted in multi-network connection environment, which applies between a user equipment (UE) connected with multiple networks and the multiple networks, and comprises that, when one or more network connections of the UE have congestion, an IP flow of... Agent: Zte Corporation

20110310736 - Method and system for handling traffic in a data communication network: A method and system for offloading data traffic routing from one NI (network interface) to another in a multi-NI platform. When an NI determines that offloading of data traffic should occur, it disables routing at the incoming port or ports on which L3 traffic may be received, and reconfigures an... Agent: Alcatel-lucent Usa Inc.

20110310739 - Methods and apparatus for virtual channel flow control associated with a switch fabric: A system includes a module associated with a first stage of a switch fabric directly coupled to a module associated with a second stage of the switch fabric via a single physical hop having multiple virtual channels. The module associated with the first stage is configured to assign a virtual... Agent:

20110310742 - Guaranteed bandwidth sharing in a traffic shaping system: In one aspect the invention provides a method for allocating bandwidth in a network appliance where the network appliance includes a plurality of guaranteed bandwidth buckets used to evaluate when to pass traffic through the network appliance. The method includes providing a shared bandwidth bucket associated with a plurality of... Agent: Juniper Networks, Inc.

20110310745 - Method and system for simulating the physical level of a radio network: A method of simulating transmission of data from a transmitter to a receiver in a radio communications network, the method including calculating an average amount of data to be transmitted to the receiver in a considered transmission time interval based on a relationship between an interferential condition assumed to be... Agent: Telecom Italia S.p.a.

20110310743 - Method and system using wireless packet data networks architecture for remote process control and process monitoring applications: A system for error avoidance and automatic recovery is combined with the accurate and reliable transmission system. The present invention provides a multi-variable control system using remote control with a wireless communication system. A plurality of closed loop control systems are connected through the wireless communication system. A master controller... Agent:

20110310744 - Methods, systems and computer readable media for mobile-communication-device-initiated network monitoring services: Methods, systems, and computer readable media for mobile communication device-initiated network monitoring services are disclosed. According to one aspect, a method for monitoring communications in a mobile networking environment by a core network probe-based monitoring system includes detecting, by an agent residing on a mobile communication device, a quality of... Agent:

20110310746 - Communication network management system and method and management computer: A management computer has: a storage unit in which a route information indicating a transfer route of frames in the communication network is stored; and a monitoring unit. The monitoring unit refers to the route information to transmit a frame to the transfer route and performs identification processing that identifies... Agent: Nec Corporation

20110310747 - Method for avoiding interference: The present invention provides a method for avoiding interference resulting from data transmission between an adjacent second base station and a second relay station placed within the coverage of the adjacent second base station. The method for avoiding interference comprises: receiving the radio resource scheduling information from the adjacent second... Agent:

20110310748 - Coordinator, wireless node and wireless communication system: A wireless communication system provides high reliability wireless communications even when large scale interference affecting the entire system has occurred in ad hoc wireless communication systems. The node, access point, and intermediate nodes are each equipped with multiple wireless standards, and notify a wireless communication control device called a coordinator... Agent: Hitachi, Ltd.

20110310761 - Apparatus and method for transmitting broadcast channel in broadband wireless access system: To transmit and receive system information of a base station in a broadband wireless access system, operations of the base station include determining transmission periodicities of a plurality of system information subpackets periodically transmitted in a periodicity of two or more superframes, determining transmission offsets of the subpackets based on... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

20110310766 - Apparatus and method of compensating for clock frequency and phase variations by processing packet delay values: An apparatus and method are described for compensating for frequency and phase variations of electronic components by processing packet delay values. In one embodiment, a packet delay determination module determines packet delay values based on time values associated with a first and a second electronic component. A packet delay selection... Agent: Juniper Networks, Inc.

20110310760 - Carrier aggregation with power headroom report: Methods, apparatuses, and software can be used for providing power headroom reporting in a telecommunication system. A method can include configuring a user equipment to send a power headroom report control element in uplink, wherein the power headroom report control element includes a bitmap indicating which power headroom reports are... Agent: Nokia Siemens Networks Oy

20110310754 - Cell for self-configuring wireless communication network: A cell, preferably a stand-alone device, arranged for wireless communication with a plurality of other cells in a communication network, e.g. a TDMA network such as a DECT based network. The cell includes a processor performing a selection algorithm which selects a reference cell among other cells. The selection algorithm... Agent: Rtx Telecom A/s

20110310750 - Jitter buffer management for power savings in a wireless communication device: A technique for jitter buffer management for improved power savings in a wireless communication device (100) includes defining (202) a jitter buffer threshold for the wireless communication device, determining (204) that an amount of packets in the jitter buffer falls below the threshold, sending a trigger (206) to obtain queued... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20110310753 - Measurement configuration in multi-carrier ofdma wireless communication systems: Various measurement configurations and s-Measure mechanism in multi-carrier OFDMA systems are provided. In one embodiment, a user equipment (UE) measures a first reference signal received power (RSRP) level in a primary serving cell (Pcell) over a primary component carrier (PCC). The UE also measures a second RSRP level in a... Agent: Mediatek Inc.

20110310763 - Method and device for generating and reporting overload indicator report: A method and a device for generating and reporting an Overload Indicator (OI) report. A controller jointly carries out conversion of a number system on a binary number used by an OI value in each Physical Resource Block (PRB) group indicated by a set grouping tag value. The controller converts... Agent: Zte Corporation

20110310762 - Method and system for managing communi-cation in wireless communication network: A method and system for managing communication in a wireless communication network is provided. The method includes receiving a request from a first communication device to establish a first communication channel. A first time slot is assigned to the first communication device to establish the first communication channel. The method... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

20110310755 - Method for link quality estimation in a wireless network: A method for link quality estimation in a wireless network, is characterized in that nodes of the wireless network perform the steps of sending packets to other nodes, monitoring all packets received from other nodes being located within their communication range, and calculating sent-received ratios with respect to other nodes... Agent: Nec Europe Ltd.

20110310765 - Method for low power radio operation in a wireless packet network: A system and method allows devices to send and receive packets while using power to do so to the extent needed, thereby conserving power.... Agent: Cisco Technology, Inc.

20110310758 - Method of resource assignment for radio communication system and base station apparatus: A method for assigning resources of a radio communication system that is aimed at relaxing interference between cells and that is applicable even in the case where femtocell base stations are installed within a macrocell base station area, and a radio base station apparatus. A transmit power limitation that limits... Agent: Hitachi, Ltd.

20110310757 - Method of selecting a destination node, node and recording medium: A monitoring node periodically transmits an active/inactive monitoring signal to selection target nodes. Upon receipt of the active/inactive monitoring signal, each selection target node calculates a current subscriber accommodated ratio, which is load information, creates an active/inactive monitoring response signal based on the load information, and transmits the active/inactive monitoring... Agent:

20110310767 - Methods of rf sensing control and dynamic frequency selection control for cognitive radio based dynamic spectrum access network systems-cognitive dynamic frequency hopping: This invention relates to cognitive radio based wireless communications of dynamic spectrum access networks, and more particularly to a method of addressing radio frequency sensing control and dynamic frequency selection control. A method called Cognitive Dynamic Frequency Hopping that is based on the selective Simultaneous Sensing and Data Transmissions is... Agent: Stmicroelectronics, Inc.

20110310751 - Mobile apparatus supporting context monitoring, method of monitoring context using the same and context monitoring system having the same: A mobile apparatus includes a processing planner and a plan processor. The processing planner generates a plurality of resource use plans in response to a context monitoring query (CMQ) of an application, and selects a final plan satisfying a request of the CMQ among the resource use plans. The plan... Agent: Korea Advanced Institute Of Science And Technology

20110310752 - Multi-user mimo communication system and method using feedback information: The effective performance metric and achieving method of a multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) communication system are provided. A number of feedback bits of channel information may be determined based on an effective spectral efficiency (ESE). The ESE may correspond to a metric of the throughput performance with respect to a... Agent:

20110310756 - Network element and a method of operating a network element in a telecommunications network: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method for determining throughput and data loss between a first network element of a telecommunications network and a second network element of that network. The first and second network elements may include, but are not limited to, a radio base station, a SAE-GW,... Agent: Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson

20110310764 - System and method for facilitating network performance analysis: A system for facilitating network performance analysis. In an illustrative embodiment, the system includes a first module capable of quantifying network performance associated with a first portion of the network and providing a signal in response thereto. A second module is capable of ascertaining performance degradations in a communications link... Agent: Cisco Technology, Inc.

20110310749 - System and method for reliable communications over multiple packet rf networks: The invention is a method and system for mobile communications. A mobile communicator communicates with a network routing center. The communicator monitors each of two or more wireless carriers for a service characteristic. The communicator selects, based on the monitored service characteristic, one of the two or more wireless carriers.... Agent:

20110310759 - Uplink control information (uci) mapping indicator for long term evolution (lte) carrier aggregation: A system and method to instruct a User Equipment (UE) how Uplink Control Information (UCI) on a Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH) should be transmitted with carrier aggregation. A semi-static signaling of a UCI mapping bit (via a Radio Resource Control (RRC) parameter) is used by a base station such... Agent:

20110310768 - Method and apparatus for modeling network traffic: A method for modeling network traffic includes: collecting traffic of data transmitted from a network; extracting a traffic density value based on any one of the data size, the packet size, and the IDT of the collected traffic and obtaining the probability density distribution on the raw domain; separating the... Agent: Electronics And Telecommunications Research Institute

20110310770 - Communication method for mesh and star topology structure wireless sensor network: A method of achieving wireless sensor network (WSN) communication in a mesh and star topology network (MSTN), including: a) connecting a plurality of nodes in a WSN to form a mesh and star hybrid topology structure; b) based on the topology structure, defining a superframe structure based on IEEE 802.15.4-2006;... Agent: Shenyang Institute Of Automation Of The Chinese Academy Of Sciences

20110310769 - Methods and apparatuses for machine type communication: A Machine Type Communication (MTC) method for an MTC device to configure a plurality of MTC logical channels associated with an MTC application is provided The method comprises the steps of: configuring, in a Medium Access Control (MAC) layer, the MTC logical channels independently from a Common Control Channel (CCCH),... Agent: Via Telecom, Inc.

20110310772 - Concurrency method for forecasting impact of speed tiers on consumption: A forecast model processes performance data from a site, e.g., a cable modem termination system (CMTS), to obtain a set of concurrency equations for existing speed tiers that is based on an observed subscriber bandwidth for the site. A new set of concurrency equations is obtained for new speed tiers... Agent: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC

20110310771 - Method for realizing convergent wapi network architecture with split mac mode: A method for realizing a convergent Wireless Local Area Networks (WLAN) Authentication and Privacy Infrastructure (WAPI) network architecture with a split Medium Access Control (MAC) mode involves the steps: a split MAC mode for realizing WLAN Privacy Infrastructure (WPI) by a wireless terminal point is constructed through separating the MAC... Agent: China Iwncomm Co., Ltd.

20110310774 - Method and system for establishing emergency call: A method for establishing an emergency call includes: if an emergency call request message sent by a User Equipment (UE) contains an Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem Public User Identity (IMPU) in a TEL URI format, a Proxy-Call Session Control Function entity (P-CSCF) generates an IMPU in a Session Initiation Protocol... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.

20110310773 - Method and system for fail-safe call survival: The present invention provides a system and method for fail-safe call survival by detecting failure of an active call serving component and switching the service over to a standby component. The system and method will prevent an existing call, whether established or to be established, from being dropped due to... Agent:

20110310775 - De-multiplexing a radio frequency input signal using output transformer circuitry: The present disclosure relates to de-multiplexing at least one RF input signal feeding RF power amplifier circuitry to create multiple de-multiplexed RF output signals, which may be used to provide RF transmit signals in an RF communications system. Output transformer circuitry is coupled to outputs from the RF power amplifier... Agent: Rf Micro Devices, Inc.

20110310776 - Telecommunications network: The present invention relates generally to a cellular telecommunications network. Each cell has at least one base station for sending messages on a downlink of a Frequency Division Duplex (FDD) to end user equipments within the cell and for receiving messages on an uplink from end user equipments within the... Agent: Nortel Networks Limited

20110310778 - Method and apparatus for relaying data in wireless communication system: A method of relaying data in a wireless communication system is provided. The method comprises: receiving data, transmitted over a first subframe from a base station, over a second subframe; and relaying the data to a user equipment over a third subframe which is placed after one or more subframes... Agent:

20110310777 - Method and equipment for user's uplink data scheduling: A user uplink data scheduling method and user equipment, which are applied to multiple-periodicity mode semi-persistent scheduling supporting Transmission Timing Interval (TTI) bundling in the second Downlink/Uplink (DL/UL) timing interval proportion configuration mode (Time Division Duplex (TDD) DL/UL subframe configuration 1) in a Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) Long Term... Agent: China Mobile Communications Corporation

20110310779 - Node and wireless sensor network comprising the node: A node (100) according to the invention is able to generate or receive, process and transmit information (161). At runtime, the node (100) dynamically determines and activates the protocols for processing the generated or received information (161).... Agent:

20110310780 - System and method for control information multiplexing for uplink multiple input, multiple output: A system and method for control information multiplexing for uplink multiple input, multiple output are provided. A method for transmitting control information over L MIMO layers, where L is an integer value greater than one, includes generating a plurality of control modulation symbols from the control information, filling the L... Agent: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.

20110310782 - Method and apparatus for discontinuous transmission-reception operation for reducing power consumption in cellular system: Provided is a method and apparatus for discontinuously transmitting/receiving packets for low-power consumption of a terminal in a cellular system for packet transmission. The present research provides a method and apparatus that can perform a low-power consuming operation when a terminal is in active state in a cellular system. The... Agent: Sk Telecom Co., Ltd.

20110310781 - Method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving uplink data in mobile communication system: A method for transmitting uplink data using multiple carriers by a User Equipment (UE) in a mobile communication system is provided. The method includes determining a first maximum transmission power indicating a maximum transmission power for each carrier and a second maximum transmission power indicating a maximum transmission power for... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.

20110310783 - Method and apparatus for fair scheduling of broadcast services: In accordance with an example embodiment of the present invention, a method comprises a) receiving at a base station from a core network entity a plurality of data packets scheduled for transmission during a scheduling period and synchronization information for a plurality of service bearers; b) determining whether there is... Agent: Nokia Corporation

20110310786 - Method and system for coordinated transmission and a mobile terminal and network side device: A method and a system for coordinated transmission, and a mobile terminal and network side device are provided. The method for coordinated transmission includes: reporting by the terminal of a signal measurement result; determining the coordinated transmission state of the terminal according to the signal measurement result; and providing transmission... Agent: China Academy Of Telecommunications Technology

20110310785 - Method for allocating multimedia broadcast multicast service (mbms) resources and receiving non mbms data: The present invention discloses a method for allocating MBMS resources and a method for receiving non MBMS data, wherein said method for allocating MBMS resources comprises: way 1: a transmitter using parts on the MBMS resources allocated for the MBMS to send a non MBMS, and informing a receiver of... Agent: Zte Corporation

20110310784 - Method for performing harq operation in wireless communication system: A method of transmitting acknowledgment/non-acknowledgment (ACK/NACK) of a receiver in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes: sharing information on an ACK/NACK transmission time with a transmitter through aperiodic signaling; receiving a data packet from the transmitter; and transmitting ACK/NACK for the data packet to the transmitter at... Agent:

20110310791 - Automatic neighbor relation (anr) functions for relay nodes, home base stations, and related entities: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide methods and apparatus for implementing Automatic Neighbor Relation (ANR) functions for relay nodes (RNs), home base stations (e.g., home evolved Node Bs (HeNBs), and related entities (e.g., donor evolved Node Bs (DeNBs) and HeNB gateways). X2 is designed to be an end-to-end protocol... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20110310787 - Maintaining network connectivity: A network device may select between two or more network connections based on a determination of whether the network device can access general Internet resources via an available, higher-preference network without providing additional (e.g., OSI Model Layer Seven) login credentials. In one example, a network device includes a first network... Agent: Google Inc.

20110310789 - Method of uplink control channel allocation for a relay backhaul link: The present invention provides a method for uplink control channel allocation for a relay backhaul link. Embodiments of the method include allocating resource blocks in a subframe for a backhaul downlink control channel between an access node and a relay station. The resource blocks are allocated from a first portion... Agent:

20110310792 - Relay system based on resource allocation: A communication system which transmits data using a relay is disclosed. The communication system efficiently divides and allocates wireless resources allocated to a data transmission system to reception and transmission links between a base station and a relay, reception and transmission links between the base station and a terminal, and... Agent: Electronics And Telecommunications Research Institute

20110310788 - Wireless communication apparatus, wireless communication network and method of controlling routing selection: A wireless communication apparatus, includes: a collision locating section for detecting a collision and determining a collision area in which the collision occurs, according to route requests received through an ad-hoc network based on an on-demand driving routing protocol, a relay node selecting section for selecting a relay node which... Agent: Fujitsu Limited

20110310790 - Wireless communications system, wireless terminal device, and channel switching method: A throughput measurement section measures network throughput of communications between a wireless device and an access point. A determination section determines whether the measured throughput satisfies a predetermined value. A channel switching section switches channels used for wireless communications between the wireless device and the access point if the determination... Agent: Buffalo Inc.

20110310802 - Adaptive resource partitioning information (arpi) transition behavior in heterogeneous networks: One aspect discloses transition behavior of dynamically changing subframe interlaces and the corresponding behavior of the bases stations during the changing. A method of wireless communication includes receiving a request to dynamically change a subframe interlace. The subframe interlace is transitioned and during the transition either new data transmission is... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20110310801 - Apparatus and method for performing local routing in a mobile communication system: An apparatus and method for performing local routing in a mobile communication system. In accordance with the method, if a flow between a first Mobile Station (MS) and a second MS is a local routing candidate, an Access Serving Network GateWay (ASN-GW) receives an AAA request message including information indicating... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

20110310805 - Base station apparatus and method of setting cell id: A base station apparatus installed by a general user, wherein a cell ID can be easily set in cases when setting of a cell ID is necessary. In this apparatus, a DHCP message reception unit (105) receives a DHCPACK message from a DHCP server. An IP address extraction unit (107)... Agent: Panasonic Corporation

20110310796 - Display apparatus and method for connecting to video call thereof: Embodiments relates to a display apparatus that can perform a video call and a method of connecting to a video call thereof, in which the method includes: receiving a control signal from an external device where an identification information for a video call is registered when a video call is... Agent:

20110310799 - Method and apparatus for managing packet data network connectivity: Methods and apparatuses are provided for managing packet data network (PDN) connectivity for a device. PDN connectivity to a local gateway can be managed at an access point with which the device is communicating based at least in part on received PDN connectivity parameters. The PDN connectivity parameters can include... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20110310795 - Method and apparatus for reducing interference in a mobile communications network: The invention relates to a method for reducing interference between users in a mobile communications network (1) in which uplink transmissions from user equipment, UE (3), to a radio base station, RBS (5A, 5B), can be performed on at least two different carriers (C1, C2). The UE (3) support dynamic... Agent: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)

20110310804 - Method and arrangement for paging in a wireless communications system: A method in an eNodeB, a radio network controller, or a base station controller for handling paging of a first user equipment being in idle mode is provided. The base station is comprised in a communication system. The base station obtains (301) an indication from a mobility management entity or... Agent: Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (publ)

20110310800 - Method of handling buffer status report and communication device thereof: A method of handling buffer status report for a mobile device capable of UL MIMO and/or capable of receiving and/or transmitting on a plurality of component carriers in a wireless communication system is disclosed. The method comprises generating at least a buffer size table each including a plurality of indexes... Agent: Acer Incorporated

20110310807 - Methods and systems for providing efficient operation of multiple modes in a wlan system: A method and apparatus that applies medium access control (MAC) transmission opportunity (TXOP) protection for multiple mode operation in a WLAN system. In particular, MAC mechanisms are defined to support multiple mode CTS frames, and multiple mode CF-End frames sent by the AP, each in a format appropriate for the... Agent: Interdigital Technology Corporation

20110310794 - Methods of providing pages including calling party number using a tunneling protocol: A page including a calling party number from a circuit-switched network may be provided to a wireless terminal in wireless communication with a packet-data network. More particularly, a call origination message may be received at the circuit-switched network for the wireless terminal with the call origination message including a calling... Agent:

20110310793 - On-demand information retrieval using wireless communication devices: A method, information processing system, and computer program product provide on-demand information captured from wireless devices. An information request is received from an electronic device. At least one wireless communication device is identified from a set of wireless communication devices that is available to satisfy the information request. The information... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110310797 - Packet retransmission control apparatus and packet retransmission controlling method: The present invention provides a packet retransmission control technique in which the communication performance can be improved in a state that the load of a network is high. The packet retransmission control apparatus includes a priority determining section configured to set a packet kind to each of transmission packets to... Agent: Nec Corporation

20110310806 - Providing access dependent services via a broadband access gateway: A system supporting controlled access to multimedia information and media-related services, the system including a gateway communicatively coupled to a broadband network and at least one wireless interface, the gateway capable of selectively communicating multimedia information among the at least one wireless interface and the broadband network, and of communicating... Agent:

20110310808 - Robust data transmission: In a method and system control signaling, such as ROHC control signaling is separated from the user plane in the RLC layer. An indication is further being provided to the RLC layer of the Base Station Controller (BSC) and the Mobile station (MS) for enabling recognition of the separated control... Agent: Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (publ)

20110310803 - Transporting gsm packets over a discontinuous ip based network: A system for transferring data includes an interface configured to receive data that is sent via a first link, and a processor coupled to the interface. The processor is configured to: receive data that is sent via a first link; determine whether there is discontinuity in the received data, the... Agent: Broadcom Corporation

20110310798 - Wireless communication device and connection destination search method: A wireless communication device which can quickly switch connection to an optimal AP. In this device: a profile storage unit (102) stores profiles which include information necessary for establishing connections with access points and which are set with priorities between different access points; a profile update unit (103) outputs a... Agent: Panasonic Corporation

20110310822 - Allocating network identifiers to access terminals: The disclosed subject provides embodiments of a method of allocating network identifiers to access terminals. One embodiment of the method includes allocating a fixed length identifier to an access terminal on initial entry of the access terminal to a network. The access terminal is identified by one of a plurality... Agent:

20110310827 - Alternate feedback types for downlink multiple user mimo configurations: A method in a communication network includes obtaining descriptions of a plurality of communication channels each communication channel associated with a different one of a plurality of receivers; and generating a plurality of steering vectors, one for each of the plurality of receivers, using the descriptions of the plurality of... Agent:

20110310833 - Blind scheduling apparatus and method in a mobile communication system: A system and a method minimize power consumption, signalling overhead, and processing load in blind scheduling in a mobile communication system. A User Equipment (UE) detects a type of an uplink (UL) grant while it is periodically allocated the UL grant. If there is no data to transmit using the... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

20110310811 - Controlling power for contention based uplink transmissions: A wireless communication device configured for controlling power for contention based uplink transmissions is described. The wireless communication device includes a processor and instructions stored in memory. The wireless communication device receives one or more power control parameters and performs contention based power control for uplink transmissions. The contention based... Agent: Sharp Laboratories Of America, Inc.

20110310813 - Information dissemination in a wireless communication system: Methods, devices, and systems for information dissemination in a wireless communication system are provided. In one embodiment, a method of information dissemination in a wireless communication system comprises generating an information advertisement signal by a wireless device acting as a distributor node, wherein said information advertisement signal identifies information available... Agent:

20110310812 - Information selection in a wireless communication system: Methods, devices, and systems for information selection in a wireless communication system is provided. In one embodiment, a method of information selection in a wireless communication system comprises receiving a selection request signal by a propagator node, wherein said selection request signal identifies information requested by a selector node; determining... Agent:

20110310826 - Intentional idle gaps in coexisting wireless networks: A wireless combination device includes a first wireless transceiver configured for communication via a first wireless network over a first band, and a second wireless transceiver configured for communication via a second wireless network over a second band that overlaps the second band. The combination device includes a medium allocation... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20110310815 - Method and apparatus for dynamic station enablement procedure: A method and an apparatus for Dynamic Station Enablement (DSE) procedure in a wireless local area network system are disclosed. For a method of enabling a dependent station to operate within a white space as an unlicensed device by an enabling station, the method comprises: transmitting, from the enabling station... Agent:

20110310829 - Method and apparatus for grouping control channel resource in mobile communication system: A method for grouping a control channel resource in an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing based mobile communication system for adjusting inter-cell interference and an apparatus performing the same are disclosed. Inter-cell inference used between cells or base stations is controlled or distributed to secure reception of a control channel in... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

20110310824 - Method and apparatus for inter-user device transfer (iut) in a network based mobility domain: A method and apparatus for performing Inter-User Equipment Transfer (IUT) across any internet protocol (IP) based network. This framework allows for preparation, execution and completion of data transfer at a target device through registration with a Local Mobility Anchor (LMA) and receipt of an IUT request. The target device receives... Agent: Interdigital Patent Holdings, Inc.

20110310837 - Method and apparatus for reducing round trip latency and overhead within a communication system: During operation radio frames are divided into a plurality of subframes. Data is transmitted over the radio frames within a plurality of subframes, and having a frame duration selected from two or more possible frame durations.... Agent: Motorola Mobility, Inc.

20110310821 - Method and apparatus for transmitting uplink control information: A method of transmitting uplink control information of a user equipment in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes: receiving reserved resource information that indicates a radio resource capable of transmitting the uplink control information; receiving a block subframe indicator that indicates a radio resource for transmitting a... Agent: Lg Electronics Inc.

20110310816 - Method and apparatus of operating channel request and responding to the operating channel request in a wireless local area network system: A method for operating channel request and responding to the operating channel request in a wireless local area network (WLAN) is disclosed. A method of operating channel request by a first station in a regulatory domain where an unlicensed device is permitted to operate at a given time in a... Agent:

20110310836 - Method and device for transferring signals representative of a pilot symbol pattern: The present invention concerns a method, a device and a system for transferring signals representative of a pilot symbol pattern to a first telecommunication device by a second telecommunication device. The method is executed by the second telecommunication. It obtains information associated with data to be transferred to the first... Agent: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation

20110310823 - Method and system for mapping harq-ack bits: A subscriber station is provided. The subscriber station includes a transmit path circuitry to transmit uplink control information (UCI) in a subframe comprising one or more resource blocks, each resource block comprising S SC-FDM symbols. Each of the S symbols comprises N virtual subcarriers, and each subcarrier of each symbol... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

20110310830 - Method for coordinating transmissions between different communications apparatuses and communication sapparatuses utilizing the same: A communication apparatus is provided. A controller module generates a suggested sub-frame pattern describing suggested arrangement of one or more almost blank sub-frame(s) in one or more frame(s) and schedules control signal and/or data transmissions according to the suggested sub-frame pattern. A radio frequency module transmits at least a first... Agent: Mediatek Inc.

20110310834 - Method for granting a transmission opportunity in a wireless lan system that uses a combined channel constituted by a plurality of subchannels, and station supporting the method: A method for granting a contention-free transmission opportunity in a wireless LAN system using a combined channel comprised of a plurality of subchannels, and a station supporting the method are provided. The method for granting transmission opportunity includes: transmitting a transmission opportunity granting frame granting a transmission opportunity of a... Agent:

20110310835 - Method for mapping a subband/miniband in a wireless communication system, and apparatus for the same: The present application discloses a method for mapping a subband/miniband in a wireless communication system. Particularly, the method comprises the steps of: dividing a system frequency band into a plurality of physical resource units (PRU); mapping the plurality of physical resource units to physical resource units of a subband (PRUSB)... Agent:

20110310825 - Methods and arrangements for transmitting and decoding reference signals: In some embodiments, a method is provided in a radio network node for transmitting a reference signal over an antenna port, wherein the reference signal is transmitted in a code division multiplexing, CDM, group. The CDM group comprises at least two CDM subgroups, each CDM subgroup being transmitted on a... Agent: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)

20110310810 - Mobile communications network with distributed processing resources: A mobile communications network is disclosed which comprises a plurality of radio heads, a cloud processing architecture, and a plurality of radio head links. The plurality of radio heads are for transceiving radio signals and for converting the radio signals between baseband representations of the radio signals and radio frequency... Agent:

20110310831 - Physical resource block (prb) bundling for open loop beamforming: Provided is a method for wireless communication which includes determining a data allocation size available for data to be transmitted, determining a bundling size based at least in part on the data allocation size, and precoding at least one reference signal in bundled contiguous resource blocks of the determined bundling... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20110310817 - Radio base station: A radio base station (eNB) according to the present invention includes an aggregation level determination unit configured to determine an aggregation level based on CQI notified from a mobile station (UE), a control channel element assignment unit configured to assign a plurality of continuous CCE to a PDCCH addressed to... Agent: Ntt Docomo, Inc.

20110310819 - Resource allocation of uplink harq feedback channel for carrier aggregation in ofdma systems: An efficient uplink HARQ feedback channel resource allocation scheme is adopted for carrier aggregation in a multi-carrier LTE/LTE-A system. Two resource allocation schemes (e.g., explicit and hybrid) for HARQ ACK/NACK (A/N) are applied. Part of the resources is allocated based on explicit method via RRC configuration. Another part of the... Agent: Mediatek Inc.

20110310818 - Sounding mechanism under carrier aggregation: Sounding mechanism for LTE-A systems under carrier aggregation is provided. A UE receives an uplink or downlink grant transmitted from an eNB over a primary carrier in a multi-carrier LTE-A system. The UE determines indicated carrier(s) and detects a triggering condition for aperiodic sounding transmission in the grant. The UE... Agent: Mediatek Inc.

20110310832 - System and method for allocating transmission resources: A method for wirelessly transmitting data and control information using a plurality of transmission layers includes determining a number of bits in one or more user data codewords to be transmitted during a subframe and calculating, for each of M control signals to be transmitted during the subframe, a value... Agent:

20110310814 - System and method for scheduling in a multi-hop environment: In accordance with an embodiment, a method of operating a base station configured to communicate with a relay station includes allocating resources to the relay station. Allocating resources includes receiving feedback data from the relay station and scheduling resources to the relay station based on feedback data. Feedback data includes... Agent: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.

20110310820 - Uplink harq feedback channel design for carrier aggregation in ofdma systems: HARQ feedback channel design for carrier aggregation (CA) is proposed in a multi-carrier LTE/LTE-A system. In one novel aspect, a predefined rule for HARQ feedback channel format switching is adopted by the system. Different HARQ formats are supported: single component carrier (non-CA) mode, carrier aggregation with small payload size (CA-S)... Agent: Mediatek Inc.

20110310828 - Wireless apparatus, base station and uplink contention method thereof: A wireless apparatus, a base station and uplink contention methods thereof are provided. The wireless apparatus selects a preamble sequence and at least one resource block on an uplink shared channel (UL-SCH) according to a mapping rule. The wireless apparatus transmits an uplink signal with a preamble sequence on a... Agent: Institute For Information Industry

20110310809 - Wireless communication base station apparatus and channel allocation method: A wireless communication base station apparatus by which data transmission efficiency can be improved. In the apparatus, a PDCCH allocation unit (101) allocates inputted uplink allocation information (#1 to #K) to PDCCHs from PDCCH #1 to PDCCH #K, an ACK/NACK channel allocation unit (105) allocates a response signal to be... Agent: Panasonic Corporation

20110310838 - Method for reference signal pattern allocation and related communication device: A method for reference signal pattern allocation for a eNodeB in a wireless communication system is disclosed. The method comprises allocating a plurality of physical resource blocks (PRBs) to at least one mobile device; and mapping a plurality of reference signal patterns to the PRBs according to a mapping rule.... Agent: Acer Incorporated

20110310841 - Effective method of handover in wideband radio access system: The present invention relates t a wideband radio access system, and more particularly, to a method for enabling adjustment of timing to transmit a handover instruction message and to a mobile terminal capable of performing the method. A method for a terminal handover in a wideband radio access system according... Agent:

20110310839 - Handover in mobile communications networks: A shared digital processing resource is connectable to a plurality of remotely located transceivers and comprises a packet processor, a transceiver selector, a packet formation unit, and a packet-switched network interface. The packet processor is adapted to process user data to form antenna-carrier data, or vice versa. The transceiver selector... Agent:

20110310843 - Link layer switching for local breakout: The present invention relates to a method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for providing access via a cellular access network to a packet-switched network, wherein a terminal-specific connection-oriented point-to-point link is set up between a terminal device and a cellular base station device, and the terminal-specific connection-oriented point-to-point... Agent:

20110310849 - Method and apparatus for updating a key in an active state: A method for updating a key in an active state is disclosed according to the embodiments of the present invention. The method includes steps of: initiating a key update by a user equipment in the active state or a network side when a pre-defined condition is met; updating the key... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.

20110310842 - Method and device for data processing in a mobile communication network: A method and a device for data processing in a mobile communication network are provided, wherein a control information is conveyed between a mobile terminal and an anchor node within said mobile communication network, and wherein based on said control information, a handover synchronization between a source network and a... Agent: Nokia Siemens Networks Oy

20110310845 - Method of handling an uplink synchronization timer during a handover in wireless communication system: Disclosed is the radio (wireless) communication system providing a radio communication service and the terminal, and more particularly, to a method of handling an uplink synchronization timer during a handover procedure in an Evolved Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (E-UMTS) evolved from the Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) or a Long... Agent:

20110310844 - Method, apparatus and computer program product for transfer of cabability support information in a multi-rat environment: An apparatus for enabling transfer of mobile terminal inter-RAT capabilities in a multi-RAT environment from the perspective of the capability provider may include at least one processor and at least one memory including computer program code. The at least one memory and the computer program code may be configured, with... Agent: Nokia Corporation

20110310840 - Methods and apparatus to reduce network configuration changes: Example methods and apparatus to reduce network configuration changes are disclosed. A disclosed example method involves receiving network connectivity information sets for future locations of a wireless terminal. The example method also involves selecting a network connection configuration for each future location based on a quantity of connection configuration changes... Agent:

20110310846 - Soft handoff in ofdma system: Soft handoff in an OFDMA system is disclosed. If the pilot signal strength for a base station exceeds the defined threshold, the base station is added to an active set list. Subcarriers in a plurality of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols are divided and allocated into subchannels. The OFDM... Agent: Rockstar Bidco Lp

20110310847 - Soft handoff in ofdma system: Soft handoff in an OFDMA system is disclosed. If the pilot signal strength for a base station exceeds the defined threshold, the base station is added to an active set list. Subcarriers in a plurality of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols are divided and allocated into subchannels. The OFDM... Agent: Rockstar Bidco Lp

20110310848 - Soft handoff in ofdma system: Soft handoff in an OFDMA system is disclosed. If the pilot signal strength for a base station exceeds the defined threshold, the base station is added to an active set list. Subcarriers in a plurality of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols are divided and allocated into subchannels. The OFDM... Agent: Rockstar Bidco Lp

20110310850 - Method and apparatus for qos context transfer during inter radio access technology handover in a wireless communication system: Systems and methodologies are described herein that facilitate efficient transfer of quality of service (QoS) context during inter-radio access technology (RAT) handovers. In particular, techniques are described herein for establishing rules for whether a user equipment unit (UE) or an associated network should establish QoS for a mixed-mode application, identifying... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20110310851 - Method and apparatus for qos context transfer during inter radio access technology handover in a wireless communication system: Systems and methodologies are described herein that facilitate efficient transfer of quality of service (QoS) context during inter-radio access technology (RAT) handovers. In particular, techniques are described herein for establishing rules for whether a user equipment unit (UE) or an associated network should establish QoS for a mixed-mode application, identifying... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20110310852 - Methods and arrangements for handover: Methods and arrangements for autonomous handover are provided. In a step, a mobile terminal sends a measurement report to a first network node. In another step, the mobile terminal starts a timer for measuring a wait period. In a further step, the mobile terminal waits until the wait period has... Agent: Telefonakliebolaget Lm Ericsson (publp

20110310853 - Selecting a codeword and determining a symbol length for uplink control information: A wireless communication device configured for selecting a codeword and determining a symbol length for uplink control information is described. The wireless communication device includes a processor and instructions stored in memory. The wireless communication device establishes communication with a base station, receives downlink control information from the base station... Agent: Sharp Laboratories Of America, Inc.

20110310859 - Basic service set scheduling based on media access controller states: Apparatus and methods for controlling a wireless device concurrently operating in more than one basic service set (BSS). In one embodiment, a wireless device includes a first medium access controller (MAC), a second MAC, and a BSS scheduler. The first MAC is configured to communicate in a first BSS via... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20110310858 - Beacon signaling method and apparatus: Systems and methods are described herein for managing beacon signaling in a wireless communication system. A method described herein includes identifying a neighboring macrocell and a time division multiplexing (TDM) channel offset of the neighboring macrocell, the channel offset corresponding to at least one of a signaling channel or an... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20110310856 - Harq ack/nack for dynamic pdsch: The aim of the present invention is to provide an efficient and reliable transmission/reception mechanisms for a communication system with multiple component carriers, each of which further includes physical resources such as transmission slot/symbol, subcarrier/frequency subband, code, or radiation pattern. Accordingly, the control signal of a component carrier comprises a... Agent: Panasonic Corporation

20110310860 - Method for controlling medium access n a mesh network using allocation vectors and station carryng out such method: The present invention relates to Method for controlling medium access in a mesh network comprising the following steps: a station of the network receiving a Network Allocation Vector (NAV) setting frame indicating a period of time during which the station cannot access the medium,—the station setting a Network Allocation Vector... Agent: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.v.

20110310854 - Method of determining access times for wireless communication devices: The present invention provides a method of determining access times for a wireless committee case in device. One embodiment of the method includes selecting one of a plurality of time intervals in a periodically repeating access cycle for transmission of an access request. The selection is performed based on information... Agent:

20110310857 - Random access procedure: The invention relates to a method of random access, comprising: a higher layer instructs the lower layer to transmit a random access preamble, wherein the timing transmission of the random access preamble is adjusted by the lower layer according the triggered resources.... Agent:

20110310861 - System and method for timing synchronization: The present disclosure relates generally to systems and methods for timing synchronization. Uplink synchronization is a necessary component of a UE operating in a mobile, wireless network. Reliable uplink synchronization generally requires regular uplink transmission containing reference signals. A method is provided that defines a burst period for sending the... Agent: Research In Motion Limited

20110310855 - Uplink control information (uci) multiplexing on the physical uplink shared channel (pusch): A method for multiplexing uplink control information (UCI) on a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) is described. Control data is coded with user data repetition. The coded control data is mapped to a PUSCH resource. A data block base for the coded control data is also mapped in the PUSCH... Agent: Sharp Laboratories Of America, Inc.

20110310863 - Arrangement for controlling access to data network: A soft AP module that is installed in the subscriber device is adapted to assign preselected ports numbers as part of its network address translation process. Those port numbers are registered to be used solely for this purpose, port numbers that are registered to applications that are seldomly used, or... Agent:

20110310869 - Enhancing packet aggregation performance in coexisting wireless networks: A method of communications for a coexisting wireless network including a wireless combination (combo) device communicating via a first wireless network and second wireless network, and a first wireless device on the first network. During an activity interval for the second network (i) a transmit (Tx) time interval is longer... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20110310870 - Hybrid time and frequency domain csi feedback scheme: In a downlink multi-user multiple input multiple output (DL MU-MIMO) system, channel state information (CSI) feedback duration may strongly affect media access control (MAC) efficiency. While a time domain compression may give a significant reduction in feedback duration, the time domain compression may have complexity issues at the station (STA).... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20110310864 - Information distribution in a wireless communication system: Methods, devices, and systems for information distribution in a wireless communication system is provided. In one embodiment, a method of information distribution in a wireless communication system comprises receiving an information advertisement signal by a propagator node, wherein said information advertisement signal identifies information available from a distributor node; storing... Agent:

20110310875 - Method and system for presenting lists of wireless local area network profile information: A method for selecting a wireless local area network (“WLAN”) for a wireless device, comprising: generating a first list of WLAN identifiers for a first group of one or more wireless local area networks (“WLANs”) accessible at a first geographic location and storing the first list in the wireless device;... Agent:

20110310874 - Methods and apparatus for overlapping mimo physical sectors: A system for communicating with wireless devices. The systems includes radio groups whose MIMO physical sectors overlap. The MIMO physical sectors communicate using different channels. The MIMO physical sectors overlap to form an area of overlap. Each radio group includes a phased array and radios. Radios are selectively coupled to... Agent: Rotani, Inc.

20110310866 - Methods and apparatus to access network connectivity information associated with predicted times: Example methods and apparatus to access network connectivity information associated with predicted times are disclosed. A disclosed example method involves receiving network connectivity information and an associated start time indicative of a predetermined time commencing a requirement to use the network connectivity information for connecting a wireless terminal to an... Agent:

20110310865 - Methods and apparatus to access network connectivity information using predicted locations: Example methods and apparatus to access network connectivity information based on predicted future locations of wireless terminals are disclosed. A disclosed example method involves predicting at least one future location of a wireless terminal. The example method also involves requesting at least first and second network connectivity information sets for... Agent:

20110310867 - Methods and apparatus to predict routing to maintain connectivity over a geographic area: Example methods and apparatus to predict routing to maintain connectivity over a geographic area are disclosed. A disclosed example method involves selecting network connection configurations for subsequent connections of a wireless terminal to access networks and generating a listing of network connection locations based on the selected network connection configurations.... Agent:

20110310871 - Network time reservation cancellation: Methods and systems that support, for example, canceling or trimming reservations of a shared communication medium are described. In one embodiment, a method that adapts a network time reservation in a communication network may include, for example, one or more of the following: transmitting a preamble field; transmitting a legacy... Agent: Broadcom Corporation

20110310868 - P-gw/ggsn issued paging requests: Example embodiments presented herein provide a system and method enabling optimized communication in a wireless network, thereby reducing network resource utilization. Example embodiments provide a Packet Data Network Gateway (P-GW) network node or a Gateway General Packet Radio Service Support Node (GGSN) network node to initiate a paging procedure.... Agent: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson(publ)

20110310872 - Public access point: The invention instantiates a Personal VLAN bridge, using IEEE Std. 802.11 elements. The result is a bridge, referred to as a public access point, that is better suited for implementing public wireless data networks than the IEEE Std. 802.11 architecture. The invention also provides a location-update protocol for updating the... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20110310876 - System for application server autonomous access across different types of access technology networks: An Application Server Autonomous Access (ASAA) system for providing autonomous access to a wireless infrastructure by devices employing different types of access technology. The system includes a server, having an associated data storage device, for storing at least one policy, and a plurality of subnetworks, coupled to server, for providing... Agent: Interdigital Technology Corporation

20110310873 - System for transmitting high throughput data between multiple devices: A system for transmitting data directly between a plurality of client network devices in a network having an Access Point (“AP”) device separate from the plurality of client network devices is disclosed. The system may include a first client network device having a first client (“STA”) module and a second... Agent: Broadcom Corporation

20110310862 - Method and apparatus for affiliating a wireless device with a wireless local area network: The present invention provides a system and method for affiliating a wireless device with a wireless local area network (WLAN). An embodiment of the method of this invention comprises establishing, at a control node of the WLAN, access frequency(s) for affiliation with the WLAN. The control node periodically provides a... Agent:

20110310877 - Coverage extension using carrier diversity in multi-carrier communication systems: Embodiments are described to address coverage difference problems in communication systems (300) that operate in multiple frequency bands. Embodiments are described that utilize both Carrier Multiplexing and Carrier Diversity for a plurality of frequency carriers that exhibit a difference in coverage due to differences in path loss. Carrier Diversity is... Agent:

20110310878 - Synchronization in heterogeneous networks: In a mobile communication network comprising a pico base station and macro base station with overlapping coverage areas, the pico base station transmits a supplemental synchronization signal to enable synchronization when the mobile terminal is operating within a link imbalance zone. The supplemental synchronization signal is transmitted using different time,... Agent: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)

20110310879 - Opportunistic uplink scheduling: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate scheduling uplink transmissions. For instance, a time sharing scheme can be utilized such that differing mobile devices can be scheduled to transmit during differing time slots; however, it is also contemplated that a static scheme can be employed. Pursuant to an illustration, an... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20110310883 - Communication apparatus and automatic gain control: Provided is a communication apparatus including a first communication unit for performing communication using a carrier having a first frequency, a second communication unit having a plurality of antennas, for performing communication using a carrier having a second frequency, a first communication processing unit for processing a signal received by... Agent:

20110310882 - Ofdm control signaling in the presence of timing asynchronization in a peer-to-peer network: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitates mitigating the affects of asynchronous behavior when transmitting a data signal. According to various aspects, the system and methods are employed for selectively appending an appropriate time-shifting mechanism to a data signal in order to rectify the negative affects of asynchronous time behavior... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20110310881 - Remote radio head: A remote radio head is disclosed that comprises an interface for connecting the remote radio head to a base station via an asynchronous packet network, an absolute time reference source for (time-)synchronising a signal transceived by the remote radio head. A corresponding method for transmitting a transmit signal at a... Agent:

20110310880 - Wireless communication system with selective preamble synchronization portion and related methods: A wireless communications device may include a transceiver, a memory configured to store a predetermined set of preamble synchronization portions, each preamble synchronization portion having a different length, and a controller cooperating with the transceiver and the memory. The controller may be configured to receive forward transmission blocks, each forward... Agent: Harris Corporation, Corporaton Of The State Of Delaware

20110310887 - Cable modem and method of supporting various packet cable protocols: A cable modem in communication with a trivial file transfer protocol (TFTP) server includes a default system and a backup system employing various packet cable protocols. The cable modem boots with the default system, obtains a vendor specific information (VSIF) from the TFTP server, and determines if the VSIF matches... Agent: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.

20110310890 - Communication device: A communication device configured to be connected with both a public switched telephone network and an IP network. The communication device may comprise an input allowing unit configured to allow a user to input specific identification information for the public switched telephone network, a judging unit configured to judge whether... Agent: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

20110310891 - Merchant powered click-to-call method: A method is disclosed for enhancing the predictability, scalability and cost effectiveness of online advertising with voice over IP connectivity and event tracking technologies. A service provider maintains a list of merchants who have offered to pay for customer VoIP calls to their establishment. The service provider maintains a real... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20110310888 - Methods and apparatuses for handling public identities in an internet protocol multimedia subsystem network: The present invention concern methods and apparatuses for handling public identities in an Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem, IMS, network. A Serving Call Session Control Function, S-CSCF, node receives a message including a public identity. If the message does include a profile key with a wildcarded identity, the S-CSCF uses the... Agent: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)

20110310889 - Methods and apparatuses for handling public identities in an internet protocol multimedia subsystem network: The present invention concern methods and apparatuses for handling public identities in an Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem, IMS, network. A CSCF node receives information indicating a set of distinct public identities, within a range of a wildcarded public identity, which set of distinct public identities are not in the same... Agent: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)

20110310885 - Quality of service (qos)-enabled voice-over-internet protocol (voip) and video telephony applications in open networks: A device defines a first bucket for general Internet protocol (IP) traffic provided to and from a user device associated with an open network, and defines a second bucket for quality of service (QoS)-based traffic provided to and from the user device. The device also assigns a first billing rate... Agent: Verizon Patent And Licensing Inc.

20110310886 - System and method for transferring a call between endpoints in a hybrid peer-to-peer network: An improved system and method are disclosed for peer-to-peer communications. In one example, the method enables an endpoint to move (e.g., transfer or forward) a call to another endpoint in a peer-to-peer environment.... Agent: Damaka, Inc.

20110310884 - Telephony endpoint routing in an ip multimedia subsystem: The present invention provides a mechanism whereby a session established at a particular MGCF between a subscriber of a legacy network and a first user of a referral service can be replaced by another session to be established between the subscriber of the legacy network and a second user of... Agent:

20110310892 - Accelerating data routing: Systems, devices and methods for improving network performance are disclosed. In particular, in one embodiment, a method of processing data packets in an electronic network is provided. The method includes receiving data packets at a receive stack of an electronic network device and creating a first packet from at least... Agent: Apple Inc.

20110310894 - Network system, network control device and control method: A module train determination block determines a module block being composed of at least one of a plurality of control application modules having different network control functions respectively. A plurality of attached data prepared for the plurality of control application modules are used. Each of the plurality of attached data... Agent: Nec Corporation

20110310895 - System for fast recovery from losses for reliable data communication protocols: Fast recovery from losses is an important problem for reliable data communication protocols. The Internet standard TCP protocol (Transmission Control Protocol) implements two algorithms for that: an original one based on a special timer, and a later addition to TCP that is triggered when there are three packets received by... Agent:

20110310893 - Systems and methods for data packet transmission: The present disclosure relates to the transmission of data packets, and to systems and methods for improving the utilization of available bandwidth. In various embodiments, a transmitting device may calculate a first data integrity value based on the payload of a network packet and a static datum (e.g., sender identification... Agent:

20110310896 - Method for transmitting policy information between network equipment: A method for transmitting policy information between network equipment, extending protocol types of messages in layer-2, layer-3 or a higher application layer between an IP-uplink broadband user access equipment and a BRAS so as to construct a PITP to bear policy information; a PITP message includes a policy information transmission... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.

20110310897 - System and method for autonomous combining: A user agent capable of autonomous combining. The user agent can be implemented as a processor configured to promote receiving a first signal from an access node and a second signal from a relay node. The processor may be further configured to combine the first and second signals.... Agent: Research In Motion Limited

20110310898 - 4to6 network stack for ipv4 applications: Systems, methods and computer storage media for utilizing IPv6 addressing for globally unique identification of network endpoints when communications from or to an IPv4 compatible application. An IPv4 packet of data that is from and/or directed to an IPv4 endpoint is encapsulated in an IPv6 packet of data. An IPv6... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20110310900 - Communication relay apparatus, communication relay system and communication relay method: A communication relay apparatus includes a frame transfer unit. The frame transfer unit has a function to change destination information included in a frame, which is a unit of data transfer, from information indicating the own apparatus into information indicating a predetermined external communication apparatus without changing source information included... Agent:

20110310899 - Distributed virtual network gateways: Computerized methods, systems, and computer-readable media are provided for distributing virtualized gateway functionality to multiple nodes within a physical network. Initially, drivers that carry out the gateway functionality are provisioned to cooperate with endpoints instantiated on the network nodes, while a directory service is implemented to maintain a mapping between... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20110310903 - Method, apparatus, and system for migrating vpn routing and forwarding instances: A method, an apparatus and a system for migrating VPN Routing and Forwarding (VRF) instances are disclosed. The system includes: a first BGP process, configured to: send a VRF instance and configuration information of BGP peers in the VRF instance to a second Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) process; instruct a... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.

20110310902 - Method, system and apparatus for service routing: A routing method, apparatus and system are disclosed. The method includes: receiving from a service provider a service registration request which carries a service logical address, a service physical address, and a message rule; registering routing information according to the service registration request; and routing a request message of a... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.

20110310901 - Packet forwarding apparatus, communication system, process rule update method, and program: Provided are a packet forwarding apparatus, a communication system, a process rule update method that can accurately delete process rules used for packet forwarding and the like. The packet forwarding apparatus comprises: a process rule storage unit storing a process rule defining a process content for each flow; a packet... Agent: Nec Corporation

20110310906 - multiple access system: A Packet Data Network Gateway, a PDN-GW (105), arranged to receive and forward packet data of at least a first and a second service flow in both an uplink and a downlink direction, with a first access network (125) of a first kind being used for the first service flow... Agent: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)

20110310908 - Apparatus and method for configuring personal network using pn routing table: A method and an apparatus are provided for configuring a Personal Network (PN). A connection request message is received from a Personal Network Entity (PNE) at the PN gateway. A registration request message for a PN, to which the PNE belongs, is transmitted from the PN gateway to a server... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

20110310904 - L2 method for partial vlan service migration: An upgraded edge node (e.g., enhanced PBB edge node, enhanced IP/MPLS edge node) and a method are described herein for providing a VLAN service for a customer in a metro network. In addition, a metro network is described herein which includes the upgraded edge nodes, traditional PB edge nodes, and... Agent:

20110310905 - Method for data communication and device for ethernet: A method for data communication and a device for Ethernet MAC chip communicates with a plurality of PHY chips by a multi-address bus, wherein, the different ports of PHY for different PHY chips is distinguished by using the different addresses on the address bus of the multi-address bus. It causes... Agent:

20110310907 - Systems and methods for implementing a control plane in a distributed network: Systems and methods for emulating the bridging of control packets of a first network through a second network. Control packets may be Ethernet control packets instantiating a stream through the emulated bridge. One such protocol is the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 802.1Q protocol. One second network may... Agent: Broadcom Corporation

20110310909 - Packet switching: In an embodiment, an apparatus is provided that may include an integrated circuit including switch circuitry to determine, at least in part, an action to be executed involving a packet. This determination may be based, at least in part, upon flow information determined, at least in part, from the packet,... Agent: Intel Corporation

20110310910 - Sub-channel and power allocation method and apparatus for multicast transmission using an orthogonal frequency division multiple access scheme: A method and apparatus are described including allocating one of a plurality of sub-channels to one of a plurality of multicast group clients for a multicast session and performing bit-loading for the allocated sub-channel, wherein said performing act further includes finding one of the plurality of multicast group clients having... Agent:

20110310911 - Method and device for data processing and communication system comprising such device: A method and a device for data processing in a network having a first network element and a second network element performs the following steps: (a) the second network element provides a control information to the first network element; (b) a portion of data sent from the first network element... Agent: Nokia Siemens Networks Oy

20110310912 - System and method for autonomous combining: A user agent capable of autonomous combining. The user agent can be implemented as a processor configured to promote receiving a first signal from an access node and a second signal from a relay node. The processor may be further configured to combine the first and second signals.... Agent: Research In Motion Limited

20110305133 - Ofdm transmission method, which is intended both for sporadic and for continuous data communication, for a wlan: In an OFDM-based transmission method it can be stated for the preamble (4, 7) of a data packet that its N preamble segments (B, B) are obtained from the segment-by-segment multiplication of an initial segment, which is fixed for all N preamble segments, by a multiplication sequence with a length... Agent: Lantiq Deutschland Gmbh

20110305134 - Method and apparatus for performing a harq operation in a multi-carrier system: A method of performing hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) of a user equipment (UE) in a multiple-carrier system is provided. The UE transmits uplink data on an uplink carrier. The UE receives acknowledgement (ACK)/not-acknowledgement (NACK) for the uplink data on a downlink carrier associated with the uplink carrier. Accordingly, HARQ... Agent: Lg Electronics Inc.

20110305135 - Method, a base station and a relay station for performing arq process in a relay based system: A method, in a relay-based wireless communication system, for performing downlink ARQ process, is proposed according to the invention. The method comprises: the BS sends first data to the RS, the first data multiplexing second data for one or more terminal equipments; if the transmission of the first data fails,... Agent: Alcetel-lucent

20110305136 - Activation signaling in transport networks: A method comprising the steps of receiving a signal indicative of a failure of a working connection in a mesh network having a headend node, a tailend node and an intermediate node, and having a protecting connection, and transmitting an activation message via the protecting connection from at least one... Agent:

20110305137 - Admission control for shared lte network: Embodiments of the present invention are directed to providing a method and system for call admission control for a Long Term Evolution (LTE) network shared between a plurality of user classes, such as, for example, a public safety user class and a consumer user class. An admission control module oversees... Agent: Alcatel-lucent Usa, Inc.

20110305139 - Method and apparatus for determining and managing congestion in a wireless communications system: A method and apparatus may be used for network management via MAC measurements. The measurements may include WTRU uplink traffic loading measurement, and an AP service loading measurement. The measurements may be applicable to at least to layers 1 and 2 as applied to, for example, 802.11k in the context... Agent: Interdigital Technology Corporation

20110305138 - Method and device for classifying traffic flows in a packet-based wireless communication system: The invention relates to a method for classifying traffic flows in a packet-based wireless communication system, said packet-based wireless communication system comprising at least one radio access network and a packet-domain core network, said method including the step of analyzing at least one data packet of at least one traffic... Agent: Nokia Siemens Networks Oy

20110305140 - Wireless communication resource assigning apparatus, base station apparatus and wireless resource assigning method: A wireless resource assignment method includes: a step of, from terminals that issue requests for assigning wireless resources, selecting a predetermined number of said terminals that are candidates to which the wireless resources are assigned in accordance with evaluation indices of at lease one of an application layer and a... Agent:

20110305142 - Method for joining a network, and method and apparatus for transmitting frames: A beacon-based network, a method for joining a network, and a method and an apparatus for transmitting frames are disclosed. The beacon-based network includes: a device node, configured to carry superframe time sequence indication information in a data frame and/or command frame and send the frame during the process of... Agent:

20110305141 - Systems and methods for extracting media from network traffic having unknown protocols: Methods and systems for analyzing network traffic. An analysis system receives network traffic, which complies with a certain protocol. The received network traffic carries a data item, which may be of value to an analyst. In order to access the data item in question, the analysis system automatically identifies the... Agent:

20110305143 - Maximum transmission unit (mtu) size discovery mechanism and method for data-link layers: An L2 Ethernet end-station and MTU size discovery method are described herein that are capable of discovering a Maximum Transmission Unit (MTU) size for each Data Link Layer (DLL) connection to other similarly capable L2 Ethernet end-stations.... Agent:

20110305144 - Wireless transmission of layered signals in a relay network: The wireless transmission of layered signals, in a described embodiment, uses multiple relay nodes (304) to implement cooperative diversity. The method includes: (i) receiving layered signals from a source node (300), (ii) receiving, from a destination node (302), a relay allocation parameter to implement a cooperative relay strategy with one... Agent:

20110305164 - cooperative beam forming method, apparatus and base station: The present invention proposes a method, device and base station for cooperative beam forming based on MBMS fixed grid of beams GoB. The cooperative beam forming method comprises following steps: grouping users into cell central user group and cell edge user group (S701); performing cell central user group multiplexing based... Agent:

20110305151 - Apparatus for transmitting packet: A packet transmitting apparatus including a receiving unit for receiving a packet; a determining unit for determining whether an elapsed time t is longer than a first threshold time X·T1; and a transmitting unit for transmitting the unsent packet without delaying the transmission of the unsent packet when the determining... Agent: Fujitsu Limited

20110305146 - Carrier signals for synchronization: Disclosed herein are methods and systems that may help a WiMAX base station function without a GPS signal by providing a high-stability reference signal via a subcarrier of a broadcast signal, such as an FM radio signal. An exemplary broadcast station may therefore be configured to phase-lock a subcarrier signal... Agent: Clear Wireless LLC

20110305162 - Communication apparatus, communication method, computer program, and communication system (as amended): Beamforming of a transmission beam is performed not only on a data frame, but also on a CTS frame. In a case where the transmission/reception beam of a hidden terminal (STA_C) is in a direction different from that of a data transmission side (STA_A) with respect to a data receiving... Agent:

20110305163 - Communication system, communication apparatus, and communication method: A radio base station (1) determines, based on the condition of an uplink communication channel, an element of the feedback of a code block communication quality, which is the quality of a downlink communication channel, by a radio terminal (2). Further, the radio base station (1) transmits feedback control information... Agent: Kyocera Corporation

20110305161 - Csi reporting on pusch for carrier aggregation: Carrier aggregation allows concurrent transmission on multiple component carriers (CC) to increase the data rate. A user equipment (UE) device in a cellular network provides periodic or aperiodic channel state information of the DL channel to a base station (eNB) for each of the aggregated CCs. The UE receives two... Agent:

20110305156 - Method and apparatus for determining channel bandwidth: In a method implemented in a first communication device, a control frame having a bandwidth is generated. The control frame is transmitted via a first composite communication channel, wherein the first composite communication channel comprises a plurality of communication channels. A bandwidth of a response frame, received from a second... Agent:

20110305157 - Method and apparatus for preamble reduction: A method of reducing resource overhead attributed to preambles in a communication system includes transmitting, at a transmitter, one or more signals including a first packet. The first packet is transmitted in a first time-frequency grant including a first set of one or more subcarriers. The first packet includes a... Agent: Entropic Communications, Inc.

20110305158 - Method and apparatus for transmitting/receiving multicast resource allocation information in communication system: A method and an apparatus for transmitting and receiving multicast resource allocation information in a communication system are provided. In the communication system, a base station transmits the multicast resource allocation information to a mobile station, wherein the multicast resource allocation information includes a Group IDentifier (ID) of a group... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.

20110305159 - Method for controlling measurements in a wireless telecommunications terminal: A method is provided for controlling measurements in a wireless telecommunications terminal. In a Long Term Evolution (LTE) wireless communication system, the network instructs a UE to measure the received power and quality of the reference signals of the serving cell as well as of neighbor cells. The object of... Agent: Intel Mobile Communications Technology Dresden Gmbh

20110305153 - Method for designating a dual region: A method for designating a dual region according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises the steps of: enabling a terminal which is in communication with a first network to calculate a channel state threshold value corresponding to data; comparing the channel state value of the first network and... Agent: Lg Electronics Inc.

20110305145 - Method for scheduling transmissions in communication systems: A communication system comprises a communication node for scheduling uplink and downlink transmissions in a communication system. The communication node determines based on a first set of parameters of a data associated with the communication node and a second set of parameters of a data associated with one other communication... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20110305149 - Method for time aware inline remote mirroring: A method of monitoring packet traffic is provided. The method includes: at a first access point, capturing portions of traffic packets passing therethrough separated by time intervals; encapsulating the portions of traffic packets thereby forming encapsulated packets and adding timestamps to the encapsulated packets so as to preserve the portions... Agent: Jds Uniphase Corporation

20110305150 - Method of remote active testing of a device or network: A test device includes a packet input receiver for receiving encapsulated packets from a network; a packet reader for extracting timing information from the encapsulated packets, and for decapsulating encapsulated packets so as to obtain test packets; a FIFO queue for storing the test packets; a packet controller for reading... Agent: Canning Hsueh

20110305147 - Method, network, and computer product for flow based quality of service: A method, network, and computer program product are provided for traffic flow quality of service. A quality of service priority table is received for services defined by a user at the network, and the quality of service priority table includes quality of service levels for the services. Traffic flows are... Agent: At&t Intellectual Property, I., L.p.

20110305148 - Opportunistic concurrent transmission method of wireless network and wireless network system using the same: Provided is an opportunistic concurrent transmission method for achieving efficient transmission with limited wireless resources in a WLAN environment. According to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, when a packet to be transmitted is provided in an access point in a wireless network system, information on a link which... Agent: Snu R&db Foundation

20110305155 - Radio apparatus, radio communication system and radio communication method: Each of a plurality of frequencies defines a combination of at least one uplink from among a plurality of types of uplink radio access, and at least one downlink from among a plurality of types of downlink radio access. A base station (100a) includes an evaluation point calculation unit (150)... Agent: Ntt Docomo, Inc.

20110305152 - Radio base station and communication control method: A radio base station (eNB) includes: a calculation unit (12) configured to calculate an adjusted value of reception quality information, based on an average value of the reception quality information in the at least one first resource block assigned to a mobile station (UE) in a PDSCH, and the number... Agent: Ntt Docomo, Inc.

20110305160 - System, device, and terminal for resolving an obfuscated network address of a network device within a network: A system for identifying a network device includes a local area network (“LAN”), an external network, one or more network devices, a packet-modifying device, a monitoring device, a data store, and an analysis terminal. Each network device is configured for having a network address and to communicate with the LAN.... Agent: G2, Inc.

20110305154 - Transmitting a first and a second channel quality information between two network elements: It is described a method for transmitting channel quality information between a second network element and a first network element. The method includes (a) dividing a range of possible radio channel qualities between the two network elements into a fixed number of quality classes, (b) measuring the quality of a... Agent:

20110305166 - Communication system, communication control device, radio base station, and communication control method: For each radio base stations (2A to 2C), a communication control device (1) collects information on the number of unused EPS bearers passing through the radio base station, and transmits the numbers to the radio base stations (2A to 2C). Further, based on the received number of unused EPS bearers,... Agent: Kyocera Corporation

20110305165 - Method and system for physical-layer handshaking for timing role transition: Aspects of a method and system for physical-layer handshaking for timing role transition are provided. Prior to changing the timing role of a first Ethernet device, the first Ethernet device may communicate over an Ethernet link to a second Ethernet PHY utilizing a first set of one or more PCS... Agent:

20110305167 - Communication system, and method of collecting port information: The control unit specifies an undetected connection destination port and sends a reply request to a connection destination of the undetected connection destination port. The packet transfer unit determines whether the received reply request is to be transferred to any other packet transfer unit. The packet transfer unit, upon determining... Agent: Nec Corporation

20110305168 - Communication system, and method of creating topology information: Provided is a communication system that includes a plurality of packet transfer units and a control unit which controls each packet transfer unit, in the communication system of which, a communications network used for each packet transfer unit to transfer packets, and a communications network used for the control unit... Agent: Nec Corporation

20110305169 - Terminal devices and packet transmitting method: After a delivery tree is reorganized by a local processing, all terminal devices can recognize, in a short time, a delivery route as changed. In a local one of the terminal devices, if the local terminal device is a source node and further if the load of the CPU in... Agent: Panasonic Corporation

20110305170 - Switchable conference multicast streaming with dynamic asymmetry: Techniques are provided herein to add multicast media streams to teleconferencing sessions without the unwanted side effects that occur when a speaker's own media is echoed back to the speaker. Multicast and unicast media streams are generated by a network device, e.g., a conference bridge, and distributed to any number... Agent: Cisco Technology, Inc.

20110305171 - Transmission circuit and transmission method: A transmission circuit that performs modulation based on a phase difference signal and an amplitude signal includes an asymmetrical phase rotation device. The asymmetrical phase rotation device performs an operation of subtracting 2π from a value of the phase difference signal when the value of the phase difference signal is... Agent:

20110305172 - Reverse link power-controlled repeater: The invention provides a mechanism for automatically setting reverse link gain or power for a repeater (120) used in a communication system (100) through the use of the reverse link power control of a built-in wireless communications device. By embedding a wireless communication device (430, 630, 700) inside the repeater... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20110305173 - Phase and frequency re-lock in synchronous ethernet devices: A first PHY may be coupled to a second PHY via a network link. The first PHY may transition from a role of timing master for the network link to a role of timing slave for the network link. During a first time interval subsequent to the transition, the PHYs... Agent:

20110305174 - Broad propagation pattern antenna: An antenna includes a diplexer having a high pass filter coupled to first and second radiating elements and a low pass filter coupled to third and fourth radiating elements, the first and second radiating elements oriented in a different direction relative to the third and fourth radiating elements. Signals are... Agent: Raytheon Company

20110305176 - Method and apparatus for sending very high throughput wlan acknowledgment frames: One of a normal acknowledgement (ACK) and block ACK may be selectively enabled for wireless transmissions using a Very High Throughput Physical Layer Protocol Data Unit (PPDU). At least one designated bit may be set in a Physical Layer header of the PPDU for transmission from a transmitter to a... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20110305175 - Self-contained antenna device with quick aiming switching: The present invention includes an autonomous antennal device with fast pointing switching. The antennal device has an electron beam switching antenna, and the device is linkable by a cable to a radioelectric facility. The device includes a calculation unit to determine a direction of pointing of the beam of the... Agent: Thales

20110305180 - Controlling cell activation in a radio communication network: A radio communication network (1) comprises at least a radio base station (10) serving an active cell (15) and a radio base station (20, 30, 40) having a passive cell (25, 35, 45) and does not transmit any cell-defining information for the passive cell (25, 35, 45). User equipment (100)... Agent:

20110305178 - Cyclic shift delay (csd) short training field (stf) for orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (ofdm) signaling within multiple user, multiple access, and/or mimo wireless communications: Cyclic shift delay (CSD) short training field (STF) for use within multiple user, multiple access, and/or MIMO wireless communications. Appropriately designed CSD STF is applied to communications in wireless communication systems thereby ensuring a minimized power error difference between respective portions of a packet transmitted therein. A first portion of... Agent: Broadcom Corporation

20110305177 - Fixed mobile convergence apparatus and method for searching access point: Disclosed herein are a fixed mobile convergence (FMC) apparatus and a method for searching an access point. The FMC apparatus and method effectively search an access point using a frequency searching method of a radio access technology (RAT) service in which a discontinuous reception (DRX) operation is used to increase... Agent: Pantech Co., Ltd.

20110305182 - Method and system for robust mac signaling: A method for indicating and interpreting robust MAC signaling, the indicating method having the steps of: checking whether a MAC-PDU contains control information; and if yes, providing an indication to use a robust configuration for a HARQ feedback transmission, and the interpreting method having the steps of: receiving a MAC-PDU;... Agent: Research In Motion Limited

20110305179 - Peer-to-peer communication with symmetric waveform for downlink and uplink: Techniques for supporting peer-to-peer (P2P) communication are disclosed. In an aspect, P2P communication may be supported with a symmetric waveform for a P2P downlink and a P2P uplink. In one design, a first UE generates a first signal based on a particular waveform (e.g., a downlink waveform or an uplink... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20110305181 - Transmit power control for base stations using multiple carrier power amplifiers: In a method and a device for controlling the output power in a Base Transceiver Station adapted to transmit signals over an air interface using a power amplifier for multiple earners, the power of signals to be transmitted in an upcoming transmission time slot are added and compared to at... Agent: Telefonaktieboalget Lm Ericsson (publ)

20110305187 - Automatic retransmission and error recovery for packet oriented point-to-multipoint communication: Point to multipoint wireless communication, including automatic retransmission and error recovery for packet oriented point to multipoint communication, which integrates adaptive and dynamic responsiveness for parameters for automatic retransmission using wireless communication. A wireless communication link is divided into a downstream portion and an upstream portion. Parameters are selected for... Agent: Wi-lan, Inc.

20110305186 - Method and system for transmitting a multimedia broadcast multicast service control signaling: The present invention discloses a method for transmitting a Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service (MBMS) control signaling, comprising: a network side sends the indication information of a radio frame and/or a sub-frame carrying an MBMS control channel to a terminal via a high-level signaling and sends an MBMS control signaling to... Agent: Zte Corporation

20110305185 - Method of transmitting and receiving data in a wireless system: A method of transmitting data in a wireless communication is disclosed, by which timing error can be solved in a multi-cell environment. The present invention, in which data is transmitted by a serving cell to a mobile station communicating with a plurality of cells in a wireless communication system, includes... Agent:

20110305184 - Methods to support continuous mbms reception without network assistance: In an LTE/LTE-A system, a UE subscribes to an MBMS service in a source cell. In one embodiment, the UE with ongoing MBMS service handovers to a target cell. The UE obtains MBMS information of the target cell before or after the handover. The UE then determines MBMS service continuity... Agent: Mediatek Inc.

20110305183 - Methods to support mbms service continuity and counting and localized mbms service: Network-assisted solutions are provided to maintain MBMS service continuity, to provide efficient localized MBMS service, and to achieve intelligent MBMS service management. In a first embodiment, a source eNB acquires MBMS information of neighbor cells and acquires MBMS reception/interest status information of a UE. Based on the acquired information, the... Agent: Mediatek Inc.

20110305189 - Exploiting buffers in cognitive multi-relay systems for delay-sensitive applications: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for exploiting buffers in cognitive multi-relay systems for communicating delay sensitive application are presented herein. A secondary receiver device can select a first proximate relay station based on an assessment of communication links that extend from the first proximate relay station to the secondary receiver,... Agent: The Hong Kong University Of Science And Technology

20110305188 - Fast inter system push to talk operation: A method for establishing a press-to-talk (PTT) session between a first terminal serviced by a first communication system and a second terminal serviced by a second communication system, in which the first communication system and the second communication system are interconnected by a transmission link. The method includes receiving a... Agent: Rohill Technologies B.v.

20110305191 - Multiple-input multiple-output (mimo) with relay nodes: A method for providing multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) feedback information and configuration information. The method includes transporting the MIMO feedback information, configuration information, or both over an uplink relay link using higher layer signaling. Also included is a method for providing uplink data transmission over an access link. The method includes... Agent: Research In Motion Limited

20110305190 - Relay node, relay method, base station, communication method, and communications system: A relay node relays wireless communication between a base station and mobile stations, and includes an acquiring unit that acquires communication qualities between the relay node and the mobile stations; a calculating unit that calculates a representative value for each of the acquired communication qualities; a transmitting unit that transmits... Agent: Fujitsu Limited

20110305196 - Communication system, femto-cell base station, authentication device, communication method, and memory medium: A communication system that includes at least UE and an HLR that are used in an IMS network further includes: a Femto-cell base station that makes up a predetermined communication area, and a control unit for controlling at least communication between the UE and the HLR. The Femto-cell base station... Agent:

20110305204 - Information transmission method and apparatus: Embodiments of the present invention provide an information transmission method and apparatus. The method includes: encoding an information bit sequence corresponding to data stream control information and Precoding Control Indication (PCI) information to obtain a code sequence; and sending the code sequence to a NodeB by carrying the code sequence... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.

20110305194 - Legacy cyclic shift delay (csd) for orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (ofdm) signaling within multiple user, multiple access, and/or mimo wireless communications: Legacy cyclic shift delay (CSD) for use within multiple user, multiple access, and/or MIMO wireless communications. Appropriately designed CSD is applied to communications in wireless communication systems thereby ensuring a minimized power error difference between respective portions of a packet transmitted therein. Such respective portions of the packet may be... Agent: Broadcom Corporation

20110305198 - Lte baseband receiver and method for operating same: An LTE baseband receiver and a method for operating the receiver are provided. The receiver comprises a frequency selective interference estimator, an interference level averager and an interference assessor operative to control which output of the frequency selective interference estimator or the interference level averager is to be supplied to... Agent: Intel Mobile Communications Technology Dresden Gmbh

20110305201 - Method and system for processing bearer under isr mechanism: A method and a system for processing a bearer under an idle mode signaling reduction (ISR) mechanism are provided. The method for processing a bearer under an ISR mechanism includes the following steps. A mobility management network element acquires an access mode of a current network. The mobility management network... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.

20110305195 - Method for network co-ordination in a mobile communications system and apparatus thereof: Method and Apparatus thereof for coordinating a joint transmission between a plurality of cooperative access nodes serving a plurality of user terminals in a mobile communications system, including the steps of: receiving channel information by said access nodes from user terminals that are being served by said access nodes; exchanging... Agent:

20110305200 - Method of controlling a lighting system: t

20110305202 - Method, apparatus and system for establishing connection: A method for establishing a connection is provided. The method includes the following steps. A mobility management entity generates a create bearer context request message and sends the message to a selected serving gateway. The create bearer context request message at least includes address information of at least one packet... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.

20110305192 - Methods and apparatus for voice domain operation: Methods and apparatus for voice domain operation are described herein. One example method includes determining that an LTE network is not preferred for voice service provision; storing an identification of the LTE network that is not preferred for voice service provision; and accessing the stored identification of the LTE network... Agent:

20110305197 - Random access method using ndi and user equipment for the same: A random access method for preventing unnecessary uplink (UL) signal transmission using a New Data Indicator (NDI) and a user equipment for the same are disclosed. In the random access procedure, in order to prevent unnecessary transmission when a user equipment erroneously recognizes a UL grant signal transmitted using a... Agent:

20110305193 - Signaling mechanism for inter-rat carrier aggregation: A signaling mechanism informs a Radio Network Controller of the radio access technology associated with data packets forwarded to the Radio Network Controller from base stations supporting multiple radio access technologies. With this information, the Radio Network Controller can associate received data with the corresponding radio access technologies, and thus... Agent:

20110305199 - Wireless router systems and methods: A communication routing arrangement includes two or more wireless routers coupled to a communication network, and a user device adapted to couple with the communication network through a communication path including at least one of the two or more wireless routers. The communication path between the user device and the... Agent: Novatel Wireless, Inc.

20110305203 - Wireless transfer apparatus and wireless transfer method: According to one embodiment, a wireless transfer apparatus generates physical addresses by adding values, which are different between the source-side wireless transfer apparatuses, to a physical address received from a sink device, and transmits the generated physical addresses to the source-side wireless transfer apparatuses. The wireless transfer apparatus switches the... Agent: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

20110305211 - Advanced resource allocation signaling: Disclosed is a method, apparatus and a computer readable memory medium that stores a program of computer instructions for enabling a resource allocation to be made for user equipment. The method includes forming a resource allocation for a particular system bandwidth, where the resource allocation has a larger number of... Agent: Nokia Corporation

20110305214 - Apparatus and method for capability negotiation for hybrid automatic repeat request parameter in broadband wireless communication system: A technique for supporting newly defined Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest (HARQ) categories without an occurrence of an interpretation error when using a legacy Mobile Station (MS) and a legacy Base Station (BS) in a broadband wireless communication system is provided. A method of transmitting a capability negotiation message includes determining... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.

20110305212 - Base station, method for arranging sub burst region in base station, method for determining terminal to be communicated with, and method for allocating downlink burst region: A base station according to the present invention is a base station in WiMAX. The base station according to the present invention includes: a first arrangement section for arranging a predetermined region for sub-burst, in a downlink sub-frame to be transmitted from a transmission section to a communication terminal; and... Agent: Kyocera Corporation

20110305213 - Harq operation for macro-diversity transmissions in the downlink: The invention relates to a downlink transmission scheme that supports downlink HARQ operation and macro-diversity that is capable of overcoming the problem of HARQ protocol de-synchronization when using HARQ in the downlink with multiple data transmitting network nodes. In this scheme, a distributed HARQ protocol operation for downlink data transmissions... Agent: Panasonic Corporation

20110305215 - Method for controlling operation activity modes of a wireless telecommunications terminal: A method is provided for controlling Discontinuous Reception (DRX) mode in telecommunication user equipment (UE), with the object to improve system power consumption of a UE of a wireless communication system that is running the DRX mode in RRC_CONNECTED state. In an LTE communication system, DRX functionality is applied to... Agent: Intel Mobile Communications Technology Dresden Gmbh

20110305218 - Method for requesting and reporting channel quality information in wireless portable internet system: A method for requesting and reporting channel quality information (CQI) in a wireless portable Internet system is disclosed. Timing of a channel quality information request by a base station is determined, existence of an automatic repeat request acknowledgment (ARQ_ACK) message of downlink data is determined on requesting the channel quality... Agent: Kt Corporation

20110305219 - Method for transmitting downlink control signal: A method of transmitting a downlink control signal is disclosed, by which localized allocation and distributed allocation are efficiently used in transmitting a downlink control signal. The present invention includes multiplexing the downlink control signal in a manner of if there exists downlink data transmission to a prescribed UE, applying... Agent:

20110305216 - Method of controlling channel access: An embodiment of the present invention provides a method of controlling channel access in a WLAN system, comprising receiving, from an access point, a first channel access control message sent to stations located in some area through a directional antenna of the access point, and attempting to access a channel... Agent: Lg Electronics Inc.

20110305210 - Method of handling semi-persistent scheduling transmission and related communication device: A method of handling Semi-Persistent Scheduling (SPS) transmission for a mobile device in a wireless communication system is disclosed. The mobile device has a dynamic grant and a configured grant for transmission in a subframe. The method comprises a step of transmitting a data in the subframe according to a... Agent:

20110305217 - Method of limiting transmission rate: A method for limiting a transmission rate is provided. The method includes receiving a pause management message comprising pause scheduling information including a pause time at which an uplink transmission of a data frame is to be paused and a paused duration indicating a duration during which transmission of the... Agent:

20110305206 - Method to request resources in tv white spaces type environment: 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 hierarchical resource request process that enables reallocation of radio resources in a coexistence band. When... Agent: Nokia Corporation

20110305208 - Methods and apparatus related to controlling access to communications resources: Various methods and apparatus relate to controlling access to communications resources in a wireless communications system. Various described methods and apparatus are well suited for use in a peer to peer network in which resource access control is implemented in a distributed manner and wireless terminals compete for communications resources,... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20110305209 - Rate adaptation for sdma: A transmission parameter for a link in a wireless network is adapted for a current simultaneous transmission based on a loss parameter. The loss parameter is useable to determine an allocation for a wireless node of a plurality of wireless nodes participating in the simultaneous transmission. In some examples, the... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20110305205 - Response mechanisms for wireless networks using wide bandwidth: In some embodiments, multiple wireless communication devices that are each transmitting an acknowledgement to the same wide-channel transmission will transmit their acknowledgements simultaneously over different ones of the narrow channels that make up the wide channel, thereby permitting older devices that can't decode the wide channels to determine when the... Agent:

20110305207 - System and method for information handling system wireless audio driven antenna: Audio information coexists with best efforts data on a wireless network, such as a wireless local area network, by defining a backoff dedicated to communicate of audio information and using undedicated resources to communicate best efforts data. The backoff has a periodic interval that corresponds to the sample rate of... Agent:

20110305222 - Low latency handover between wireless communication networks using different radio access technologies: A communications system for providing a user's mobile station (MS) with an Internet Protocol (IP) connectivity, has an IP network gateway for allocating an IP address to the MS to enable it to access an IP network. First and second base stations are respectively configured to support communications of the... Agent: Cellco Partnership D/b/a Verizon Wireless

20110305221 - Method and apparatus for user handing over to home nodeb: A Method and apparatus for a user handing over to a home NodeB are provided. The method comprises the following steps: when the user initiates a handover procedure from a source NodeB to a target home NodeB, a target home NodeB gateway receiving a relocation request message from a mobility... Agent:

20110305220 - Methods and devices for managing radio access in a communication system: A method for managing radio access comprises sending of a radio access technology (RAT) resource aggregation request from a first radio access network (RAN) to a second RAN concerning communication with a user equipment connected to a source RAN, and returning a response to the first RAN. The source RAN... Agent:

20110305223 - Method and apparatus for data communication through a coordinated multi-point transmission: The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for data communication through a Coordinated Multi-Point Transmission in a multiple cell environment. According to the present invention, the data communication method through a coordinated multi-point transmission in a multiple cell environment including a serving base station and a cooperative... Agent: Lg Electronics Inc.

20110305224 - Method and system for adaptive downlink signaling detection using dynamic downlink signaling power distribution profiles: A UE receives a downlink signaling signal in a current TTI over E-AGCH, E-RGCH or E-HICH. A downlink signaling power profile is established for the current TTI utilizing noise variance estimates and downlink signaling power estimates for the current TTI and prior TTIs. Commands such as UP or HOLD in... Agent:

20110305226 - Resource remapping and regrouping in a wireless communication system: Methods and apparatus for remapping and regrouping transmission resources in a wireless communication system. First, a set of new permutation algorithms based on Galois field operation is proposed. Then the proposed algorithms and the known Pruned Bit Reversal Ordering (PBRO) algorithm are applied to several of various resource mapping schemes,... Agent:

20110305225 - Wireless communication device and wireless communication system: There is provided a wireless communication device which transmits data to destination nodes by time division multiplexing. The device includes: a storage section including a transmission queue region that stores unsent data therein; a communication controller including: a communication situation evaluating section configured to evaluate a communication situation of each... Agent: Yokogawa Electric Corporation

20110305227 - Access point systems: Wireless local area networks may be established between devices. Each device may include wireless interfaces. A first device may include an infrastructure interface that supports an interface link with access point equipment on a given channel. The first device may listen for probe requests from a second device on the... Agent:

20110305228 - Beacon transmission techniques in directional wireless networks: Techniques for the generation of beacons are disclosed. For instance, embodiments may establish a delay time that is based at least on a directional beacon transmission characteristic of a wireless communications device. In turn, embodiments may determine whether a beacon transmission is received from a remote device during a time... Agent:

20110305233 - Coexistent channel access method: According to an embodiment of present invention, a method for transmitting a coexistent data stream, the method including: transmitting coexistent data stream transmission information including transmission power information of a first data stream targeted for a first station and transmission power information of a second data stream targeted for a... Agent: Lg Electronics Inc.

20110305231 - Communication system for short range reliable information transfer: The invention is concerned with providing a wireless transmitting and receiving system such that an information stream may be exchanged in both directions over a relatively short range and with a high level of robustness and tolerance to propagation conditions. Several applications are envisaged, such as a hand-off internet radio... Agent:

20110305235 - Flexible mobile ip foreign agent architecture for enabling converged services: A method and apparatus for flexible Mobile IP foreign agent architecture for enabling converged services are described herein. According to one embodiment of the invention, a packet is received over a circuit bound with a converged services domain of a network element. The converged services domain enables forwarding of wired... Agent:

20110305234 - Network positioning system and terminal positioning device: A terminal positioning device (150) receives, from each terminal (501-506), network path information listing intermediary device identifiers that identify each intermediary device in the network on the path from the terminal to a path search target device (100). The terminal positioning device (150) creates, in accordance with the network path... Agent:

20110305230 - Wimax integrated network server: A Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMAX) integrated network server is disclosed. The WiMAX integrated network server is integrally includes an Access Service Network Gateway (ASN-GW), an Authentication Authorization Accounting (AAA) connected to the ASN-GW, and a Home Agent (HA). The ASN-GW follows the WiMAX standard, manages a mobile station... Agent: Sk Telesys., Co. Ltd

20110305229 - Wireless network system and association control method thereof: Provided is an association control method for maximizing a message in message (MIM) function in a WLAN environment. According to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, when all SINR values of transmission links to two or more first clients associated with the first access point are equal to or... Agent: Snu R&db Foundation

20110305232 - Wireless system protocols for power-efficient implementation of star and mesh wireless networks with local and wide-area coverage: A communication system that allows communication devices to synchronize the transfer of data to allow the devices to wirelessly and efficiently communicate in a star or mesh network. The communication system operates in the presence of other communication systems noise sources using a spread spectrum frequency hopping transmission scheme to... Agent: Silverplus, Inc.

20110305236 - Communication apparatus, communication method, computer program, and communication system: A communication apparatus stores, as a stop setting person direction, a beam direction in which received electrical power when an RTS or a CTS destined for another station is received becomes a maximum and then sets a transmission stop period. Within the transmission stop period, only when the direction of... Agent:

20110305237 - Secondary synchronization codebook for e-utran: Providing for secondary synchronization encoding utilizing a primary synchronization channel (P-SCH)-related scrambling code is described herein. Scrambled secondary synchronization codes (SSCs) can be assigned to multiple base stations of a radio access network (RAN). By way of example, PSC-based scrambling codes can be created from a plurality of M-sequences generated... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20110305238 - Communication apparatus for hosted-pbx service: A communication apparatus is provided for relaying an IP telephony service provided by a PBX server to extension telephones. The communication apparatus includes: a memory unit which stores a user-ID/Subscriber definition table in which a user-ID preassigned to each of the extension telephones is associated with a user password and... Agent: Panasonic Corporation

20110305239 - Selection of multicast router interfaces in an l2 switch connecting end hosts and routers, which is running igmp and pim snooping: Multicast traffic received by a subnet that uses IGMP/PIM snooping may be efficiently processed so that only required multicast router interfaces are used. A router may, for example, receive a source-specific PIM join/prune message indicating that a multicast receiver of the multicast traffic is to join/leave a multicast group to... Agent: Juniper Networks, Inc.

20110305240 - Call admission and preemption for multiple bit-rate applications: Embodiments of the present invention are directed to providing a method and system for call admission control and preemption of multiple bit-rate applications in a digital communication system. Multiple bit-rate applications such as streaming video can specify a Quality of Service (QoS) profile having multiple levels. When there are insufficient... Agent: Alcatel-lucent Usa, Inc.

20110305242 - Label switching type of packet forwarding apparatus: A label switching type packet forwarding apparatus having a routing information table in which a forwarding type of a reception packet, output port identification information, and output routing information of a specific layer in the OSI reference model determined by the forwarding type are defined in correspondence with routing information... Agent: Hitachi, Ltd.

20110305243 - Method and device for implementing virtual-switch: The present invention provides a method and a device for implementing a V-Switch. Through setting up a V-Switch correlation with respect to at least two VLAN tags, a DRE performs a V-Switch transmission on an Ethernet frame received according to the V-Switch correlation with respect to at least two VLAN... Agent:

20110305241 - Method of implementing traversal of multimedia protocols through network address translation device: The present invention discloses a method of implementing traversal of multimedia protocols through Network Address Translation device, wherein the Network Address Translation (NAT) device establishes a mapping relationship between address of a terminal in a private network and address of a terminal in a public network, and enables the terminal... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.

20110305244 - Gateway configuration updating: The configuration of a gateway in a communications network may be updated. Provisioning data may be extracted from a gateway management server. The extracted provisioning data may be filtered against a list of target gateways. Upon determining an equipping status of endpoints associated with the target gateways in the list,... Agent: Cox Communications, Inc.

20110305245 - Network switch: A network switch including a plurality of switches are mutually connected operable as one switch stack with maintenance operation to be logically performed, and wherein the switch stack can be constructed by connecting a plurality of switches having different enclosing conditions. A stackable switch operable under one of the following... Agent: Alaxala Networks Corporation

20110305246 - System and method for enhanced physical layer device interface capability for backward support of fast retrain: A system and method for enhanced physical layer device interface capability for backward support of fast retrain. The enhanced physical layer device is configurable in its leveraging of an identified legacy signaling mechanism. The identified legacy signaling mechanism can be used by the enhanced physical layer device to suspend transmission... Agent: Broadcom Corporation

20110305248 - Clock selection for synchronous ethernet: An Ethernet PHY may receive an indication from a local timing source that a local clock is suitable for propagation to a link partner. In response, a timer in the Ethernet PHY may be started. In instances that the Ethernet PHY receives, during a time period subsequent to starting the... Agent:

20110305247 - Method for synchronizing clocks by separated transmissions of first and second data via at least one timing distribution protocol, and associated system and module: A method is intended for synchronizing a client clock of a client communication node with a master clock in a data packet network. This method comprises the steps of: i) transmitting first data representative of timing information of the master clock from a source communication node to the client communication... Agent: Alcatel Lucent

20110299379 - Process for beamforming data to be transmitted by a base station in a mu-mimo system and apparatus for performing the same: A process for beamforming data to be transmitted in a MU-MIMO communication system comprising a base station and a selected set of User Equipments (UE) communicating with said base station; said data being precoded by said base station in accordance with a beamforming matrix complying with a precoding matrix under... Agent:

20110299380 - Pilot signal in an fdma communication system: Methods (500, 800) and corresponding systems (100, 200, 300, 400, 900) for generating a pilot symbol (330) include providing an M-point parallel transform sequence that is a discrete Fourier transform of a CAZAC sequence (312, 504-508). The M-point s parallel transform sequence (312) is distributed (316, 510) to a set... Agent:

20110299382 - Communication devices for generating and using a matrix-mapped sequence: A communication device for generating a matrix-mapped sequence is described. The communication device includes sequence generation circuitry. The communication device also includes mapping circuitry coupled to the sequence generation circuitry. The mapping circuitry applies a first matrix with at least one column multiplied by −1 to a sequence. The communication... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20110299383 - Method for transmitting data in multiple antenna system: An apparatus for data transmission in a multi-antenna system is provided. The apparatus includes: a modulation mapper for modulating codewords into modulation symbols that express a position on a signal constellation; a layer permutator for mapping the modulation symbols to different layers; a transform precoder for generating a discrete Fourier... Agent:

20110299381 - Mobile multimedia broadcast transmission system: A mobile multimedia broadcast transmission system is provided, which comprises: a Reed-Solomon (RS) coding and byte interleaving unit, a Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) coder, a bit interleaver, a constellation mapping unit, a frequency domain symbol generator, a scrambler, an Inverse Fast Fourier Transform (IFFT) unit, a time domain framing... Agent: Timi Technologies Co., Ltd.,

20110299384 - Pilot signal in an fdma communication system: Methods (500, 800) and corresponding systems (100, 200, 300, 400, 900) for generating a pilot symbol (330) include providing an M-point parallel transform sequence that is a discrete Fourier transform of a CAZAC sequence (312, 504-508). The M-point parallel transform sequence (312) is distributed (316, 510) to a set of... Agent:

20110299385 - No split virtual chassis based on pass through mode: A method includes operating in a normal mode to receive and transmit packets, where the network device is one of multiple network devices that operate as a virtual chassis, where the virtual chassis corresponds to a single logical network device, and detecting when the network device crashes. The method further... Agent: Juniper Networks, Inc.

20110299386 - Apparatus and method for switching between redundant communication devices: A packet is transmitted from a transmitting device to an active communication device which transmits a reception history identifying the received packets to the transmitting device. The transmitting device transmits an active-mode request message to a standby communication device when having failed to receive the reception history from the active... Agent: Fujitsu Limited

20110299387 - Survivable and resilient real time communication architecture: Enhanced communication systems with various resiliency and survivability aspects are provided. Data center, cluster, network, and load balancer survivability are provided for seamless communication experience in case of data center, cluster, discovery infrastructure, or hardware load balancer failures. Call, data, and authentication survivability are provided through dynamic re-routing over alternative... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20110299388 - Implementation method for protocol channel in ethernet protection: An implementation method for a protocol channel in Ethernet protection, and the method comprises: setting a block point of the protocol channel in Ethernet protection domain; in the protection domain, the protocol channel maintaining unblocked or maintaining unblocked or blocked synchronously with protected data channel in the protection domain depending... Agent:

20110299389 - Real time monitoring, onset detection and control of congestive phase-transitions in communication networks: Systems and methods for managing network congestion through detecting the closeness to network congestion. The network includes a plurality of network nodes, where each node has at least one neighboring node and each node has a buffer for a queue of packets from other nodes. The system measures queue length... Agent: Telcordia Technologies, Inc.

20110299390 - Resource and admission control subsystem and method thereof in ngn: A Resource and Admission Control Subsystem (RACS) in an NGN includes: a Resource Control Function in access network (A-RCF), an Access Admission Control Function (A-ACF), a Resource Control Function in core network (C-RCF), an Interconnection Admission Control Function (I-ACF), and corresponding interfaces. As a logically independent subsystem, RACS can support... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.

20110299391 - Traffic management for virtual cluster switching: One embodiment of the present invention provides a switch system. The switch includes one or more ports on the switch configured to transmit packets encapsulated based on a first protocol. The switch further includes a traffic management mechanism and a control mechanism. During operation, the control mechanism forms a logical... Agent: Brocade Communications Systems, Inc.

20110299393 - Adaptive cqi-based hsdpa flow control method: The adaptive CQI-based HSDPA flow control method selectively eliminates flow control to greatly improve scheduler performance and increase the overall system throughput at low traffic load in a 3G High Speed Downlink Packet Access system. The method utilizes channel quality information (CQI) to predict potential handover conditions and adjusts the... Agent:

20110299396 - Method, apparatus, and network system for multi-port load sharing: The present invention relates to network communications technologies, and discloses a method, an apparatus, and a network system for multi-port load sharing. The method includes: receiving packets destined for a destination; searching an address port mapping table for corresponding logical egress port information according to destination address information carried in... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.

20110299392 - Quality of service aware rate throttling of delay tolerant traffic for energy efficient routing: The invention is directed to energy-efficient network processing of delay tolerant data packet traffic. Embodiments of the invention determine if an aggregate of time critical traffic flow rates and minimum rates for meeting QoS requirements of delay tolerant traffic flows exceeds a combined optimal rate of packet processing engines of... Agent: Alcatel-lucent Usa, Inc.

20110299395 - Traffic control for roaming subscribers: A method of controlling load within a cellular telecommunications network due to packet data traffic, where packet data traffic associated with subscribers roaming in said network is broken out to respective access gateways in the subscribers home networks. The method comprises, within said cellular telecommunications network, identifying peer networks whose... Agent: Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (publ)

20110299394 - Translating between an ethernet protocol and a converged enhanced ethernet protocol: Translating between an Ethernet protocol used by a first network component and a Converged Enhanced Ethernet (CEE) protocol used by a second network component, the first and second components coupled through a CEE Converter that translates by: for data flow from the first network component to the second network component:... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110299397 - Communication control apparatus and shaping apparatus having token bucket: Various exemplary shaping apparatuses for shaping packets stored in queues are provided. The shaping apparatus includes a token bucket that accumulates tokens with a predetermined rate. When a number of tokens accumulated in the token bucket is equal to or larger than a reference number corresponding to a maximum packet... Agent: Kawasaki Microelectronics Inc.

20110299398 - Transmission control apparatus and transmission control method: A transmission control apparatus includes: a communication unit communicating with each of communication apparatuses, which are included in a communication system in which communication is executed via one relay apparatus, via the relay apparatus; a determination unit determining, as a transmission apparatus transmitting content data indicating a content to be... Agent: Sony Corporation

20110299399 - Method and apparatus for congestion control: Aspects of the disclosure provide a method of congestion control. The method includes transmitting by a first apparatus to a second apparatus a packet stream corresponding to stream data generated by a variable data rate application, determining a round-trip-time of a packet in the packet stream, updating a congestion measure... Agent: Lockheed Martin Corporation

20110299401 - Routing under heavy loading: According to the invention, a delivery network for assisting delivery of content objects over an Internet is disclosed. The delivery network includes a network outlet, an interface and a routing function. The network outlet is coupled to a plurality of full-route networks, where each of the plurality of full-route networks... Agent: Limelight Networks, Inc.

20110299400 - System for congestion control in packet networks: Variable Rate Congestion Controllers and methods for implementing Variable Rate Congestion Control are presented. An efficient and systematic method for performing variable rate network congestion control is presented. A selection mechanism is selected such that the end result for the network congestion control is that each variable rate network flow... Agent: Leanics Corporation

20110299402 - Advanced link tracking for virtual cluster switching: One embodiment of the present invention provides a switch system. The switch includes a port that couples to a server hosting a number of virtual machines. The switch also includes a link tracking module. During operation, the link tracking module determines that reachability to at least one end host coupled... Agent: Brocade Communications Systems, Inc.

20110299403 - Method and apparatus for efficient and deterministic group alerting: A system and method are provided for reliable, wireless group alerting in a system having a database, switch, wireless network, and a plurality of intelligent mobile receivers, and preferably employing a modified two-way paging based on ReFLEX™ protocol information service (IS) messages and a novel ALOHA command for multicast acknowledgement... Agent:

20110299404 - System and method for providing channel configurations in a communications environment: A method is provided in one example embodiment and includes monitoring a plurality of channels provisioned for an endpoint. The method also includes reacting to an alert message by adjusting one of the channels for the endpoint. The adjustment is a selected one of increasing a volume associated with the... Agent: Mcafee, Inc., A Delaware Corporation

20110299405 - Label switched path oam wrapper: Methods and devices for logically segmenting an LSP so that OAM DTUs may be used to determine the performance and/or the status of LSP segments. To segment a previously determined LSP, a dedicated subpath (a logical LSP) within that predetermined LSP is defined between two LSRs that are capable of... Agent: Nortel Networks Limited

20110299407 - Base station apparatus, terminal device, and rank setting method: A base station apparatus, in a wireless communication system supporting band aggregation, able to limit drops in throughput while lowering the amount of control information for the rank of an added band; and a terminal device and rank setting method of the same. An added band rank setting unit (108)... Agent: Panasonic Corporation

20110299406 - Path detection in trill networks: One embodiment of the present invention provides a system for detecting a path between two nodes. During operation, the system transmits a network-testing request frame, which includes a time-to-live (TTL) field within a Transparent Interconnection of Lots of Links (TRILL) header, from a source node to a destination node. In... Agent: Brocade Communications Systems, Inc.

20110299408 - Dynamic channel and transmission rate selection: Dynamic channel and transmission rate selection is described. In an example, a communication resource for transmitting data to a receiver is selected from several channels, each having several associated rates. The selection comprises storing a weighting factor for each channel/rate combination, monitoring transmission performance on a selected channel and rate,... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20110299416 - Method and apparatus optimizing a radio link: Optimizing a radio link is done by acquiring at least OSI layer one and two performance measurements, determining an optimum setting collection for at least OSI layer three to a top layer, then configuring at least the OSI layer three to the top layer based upon the optimum setting collection.... Agent: Broadcom Corporation

20110299411 - Method and system for content aggregation via a broadband gateway: A broadband gateway, which enables communication with a plurality of devices, handles at least one physical layer connection to at least one corresponding network access service provider. The broadband gateway determines network channel conditions for a requested service and identifies a user profile for a requesting device. The broadband gateway... Agent:

20110299410 - Method and system for managing quality of service via a broadband gateway: Aspects of a method and system for managing quality of service via a broadband gateway are provided. In this regard, a broadband gateway that supports one or more first QoS protocols may determine, based on communications with a plurality of communication devices, whether each of the plurality of communication devices... Agent:

20110299412 - Method and system for utilizing a broadband gateway to provide energy efficient management in a home network: A broadband gateway may provide energy management service within a home network. The energy management service may enable reducing and/or enhancing energy consumption within the home network. The energy management service may comprise managing one or more devices in the home network by the broadband gateway. The energy management service... Agent:

20110299415 - Method and user equipment for acquiring random access information: The present invention discloses a method and User Equipment (UE) for acquiring random access information. The method comprises: during a random access procedure, the UE measures and acquires parameter information in the random access procedure; and after the success of the random access, the UE reports partial or all of... Agent: Zte Corporation

20110299421 - Method for reporting and accumulating data in a wireless communication network: A method and apparatus for coordinating communication in a wireless sensor network may include a plurality of nodes, such as routers, edge nodes, data accumulators and/or gateways. Time management functions, such as determining an elapsed time, may be controlled based on a detected temperature, e.g., a temperature detected at a... Agent: Sensicast Systems

20110299417 - Multiple frequency band operation in wireless networks: Embodiments for bandwidth allocation methods, detecting interference with other systems, and/or redeploying in alternate bandwidth are described. Higher bandwidth channels may be deployed at channel boundaries (410), which are a subset of those for lower bandwidth channels (310), and may be restricted from overlapping. Interference may be detected (930) on... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20110299418 - On-line web accessed energy meter: An electrical metering system capable of performing multiple metering functions, collecting data, and wirelessly provides the collected metering data to a utility operator. In the electrical metering system, at least one computing device for initiating a request for data. A first modem connects the computing device to an infrastructure. A... Agent: Electro Industries/gaugetech

20110299419 - Open platform architecture for integrating multiple heterogeneous network functions: A platform for seamlessly hosts a plurality of disparate types of packet processing applications. One or more applications are loaded onto a service card on the platform. A programmable path structure is included that maps a logical path for processing of the packets through one or more of the plurality... Agent: Alcatel-lucent

20110299413 - Port profile management for virtual cluster switching: One embodiment of the present invention provides a switch system. The switch includes a port profile which specifies a set of port configuration information. During operation, a control mechanism within the switch detects a source MAC address of an incoming frame and determines that the MAC address is associated with... Agent: Brocade Communications Systems, Inc.

20110299414 - Preserving quality of service across trill networks: Systems and techniques for processing and/or forwarding packets are described. An ingress switch can use a QoS mapping mechanism to map a first set of Quality of Service (QoS) bits in a packet received from a customer to a second set of QoS bits for use in a Transparent Interconnection... Agent: Brocade Communications Systems, Inc.

20110299409 - Reachability detection in trill networks: One embodiment of the present invention provides a system for testing reachability between two nodes within a network. During operation, the system transmits a network-testing request frame from a source node to a destination node, and in response to receiving a network-testing response frame corresponding to the request frame, the... Agent: Brocade Communications Systems, Inc.

20110299420 - System, method and computer-readable storage medium for calculating addressing and bandwidth requirements of a network: Apparatuses, methods and computer-readable storage mediums are provided for calculating estimated addressing and bandwidth requirements of a customer domain, such as to facilitate designing the respective domain. A method includes selecting customer premises equipment (CPE) of a domain including a plurality of CPEs, where each CPE includes one or more... Agent: Verizon Patent And Licensing Inc.

20110299422 - Method, apparatus, and system for connecting a mobile client to wireless networks: A method for connecting a mobile client to a wireless network includes periodically triggering an access point scanning process so as to monitor an access point density of a wireless network. A frequency of the triggering is adjusted in response to a change in the access point density.... Agent: Deutsche Telekom Ag

20110299424 - Switching apparatus and method for setting up virtual lan: A switching apparatus having a plurality of ports, includes: switch information storage to store an output port identifier for a combination of an input port identifier, an input virtual path identifier, and a destination address; a detector to detect a first input virtual path identifier and a first destination address... Agent: Fujitsu Limited

20110299423 - System and method for qos support in ubiquitous sensor: The present invention relates to a system and to a method for QoS (Quality of Service) support in a ubiquitous sensor network. The system for QoS support in a ubiquitous sensor network includes a mesh coordinator and nodes. The mesh coordinator organizes a super frame containing a dedicated QoS data... Agent: Sk Telecom Co. Ltd

20110299425 - Addressing and routing scheme for distributed systems: The embodiments herein relate to distributed systems and more particularly, to logical address allocation and data routing in a distributed systems. A plurality of methods for logical address allocation are disclosed, which the network adapts based on the configurable parameters and the network working environment. Since the nodes are allocated... Agent:

20110299427 - Method and apparatus for distributed media conferencing: A capability for determining a media distribution tree for use in distributing content to a plurality of user devices is provided. Using the distributed content distribution capability, one or more of the user devices to which the content is to be distributed functions as a relay point that performs content... Agent:

20110299426 - Starting a wireless communications network using wireless signal: Embodiments herein provide a method and system for switching a wireless device from low power consumption dormant mode to active mode in a wireless communication network (WCN) using a switch command frame (SCF). The SCF is transmitted repeatedly for continuous configurable period of time, long enough to provide multiple opportunities... Agent:

20110299428 - Dynamic multiple access protocol for use in an audience response system: A dynamic multiple access protocol for use in an audience response system. The audience response system includes a wireless aggregation point (e.g., a base station) and multiple handsets communicatively coupled to the wireless aggregation point. In order for the handsets to communicate effectively with the wireless aggregation point, the wireless... Agent: Sanford, L.p.

20110299429 - Methods for handling ps and cs communication service: Methods for handling PS and CS voice services between a mobile communication device and a service network are provided. The method comprises providing, by the service network, a first type of communication service to the mobile communication device and concurrently receiving, by the service network, a service request message to... Agent:

20110299430 - Active antenna array and method for relaying radio signals with synchronous digital data interface: The present disclosure relates to an active antenna array for a mobile communications network. The active antenna comprises a base band unit coupled to a base station, a plurality of transceiver units and at least one link. The plurality of transceiver units is terminated by at least one antenna element.... Agent:

20110299431 - Front end module with a tunable balancing network: A radio front module includes a power amplifier, a duplexer, and a tunable balancing network. The power amplifier is operably coupled to amplify an up-converted signal into an outbound wireless signal. The duplexer is operably coupled to an antenna and operable to provide electrical isolation between the outbound wireless signal... Agent: Broadcom Corporation

20110299433 - Rf front-end module: A front-end module (FEM) includes first and second frequency band power amplifiers (PA), first and second frequency band receiver-transmitter (RX-TX) isolation modules, and an antenna interface unit. The PAs are operable to amplify first and second frequency band outbound RF signals, respectively. The RX-TX isolation modules are operable to isolate... Agent: Broadcom Corporation

20110299432 - Sub-band duplexer with active frequency tuning: Embodiments disclosed herein relate to programmable duplexers. The frequency pass band of the programmable duplexer is changed according to a selection of a channel-pair selection to control or maximize the transition band between the receiver path and the transmitter path. The programmable duplexer permits selections of desired pass bands without... Agent: Rf Micro Devices, Inc.

20110299435 - Front end module with active tuning of a balancing network: A radio front end includes a duplexer, a tunable balancing network, a detector module, and a processing module. The duplexer is operably coupled to an antenna and is operable to provide electrical isolation between an outbound wireless signal and an inbound wireless signal. The tunable balancing network is operably coupled... Agent: Broadcom Corporation

20110299437 - Front end module with compensating duplexer: A front end module includes a duplexer and a balancing network. The duplexer includes a compensation circuit and a transformer three windings having five nodes. The first node for operably coupling an antenna to the first winding; the second node operable to receive an outbound wireless signal and operably couples... Agent: Broadcom Corporation

20110299436 - Front end module with scalable impedance balancing: A radio front end includes a power amplifier, a duplexer, a detection module, a processing module, and a tunable balancing network. The duplexer is operable to provide electrical isolation between the outbound wireless signal and an inbound wireless signal. The detection module is operable to detect non-linear function of the... Agent: Broadcom Corporation

20110299434 - Reducing power consumption by taking advantage of superior in-circuit duplexer performance: Although the duplexer in a full-duplex transceiver circuit may only be guaranteed by the duplexer manufacturer to have a transmit band rejection from its TX port to its RX port of a certain amount, and may only be guaranteed to have a receive band rejection of another amount, the actual... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20110299439 - Efficient location updates, paging and short bursts: A mobile terminal in a wireless communication network may be one of several modes of operation. When in an idle mode, the mobile terminal may avoid a lengthy random access procedure normally associated with responding to a page from a base station, if the base station includes in the page... Agent: Nortel Networks Limited

20110299438 - Front end module with an antenna tuning unit: A radio front end includes an antenna tuning unit, a duplexer, a balancing network, and a processing module. The antenna tuning unit is operably coupled to an antenna and operable to tune an operational characteristic of the antenna based on an antenna tuning signal. The duplexer is operably coupled to... Agent: Broadcom Corporation

20110299440 - Method for transmitting and receiving resource allocation information and mobile station apparatus using the same: A method for receiving control information and a control information signaling receiving method are disclosed. If A-MAP information is allocated and transmitted, signaling overhead is greatly reduced, resulting in improved system performance. In addition, the method increases the number of data transmission areas in inverse proportion to control signaling overhead.... Agent:

20110299443 - Efficient mac header design and communication using same: A signal transmission method is provided, wherein, when a transmitter transmits a signal to a receiver, a transmitter processor multiplexes a plurality of data for a plurality of connections to be transmitted to one specific receiver, and constitutes a multiplexed medium access control (MAC) packet data unit (PDU) containing a... Agent:

20110299441 - Method and apparatus for real time multiplexing with transmitter and antenna array elements: A method of signal processing, or corresponding apparatus, includes providing digital input signals representing beamforming data to be transmitted on respective antennas. One of the digital input signals is selected at a time among a plurality of times, to cycle through the digital input signals repeatedly and provide a multiplexed... Agent: Entropic Communications, Inc.

20110299442 - Methods and apparatus for controlling location for starting decoding of sub-packets of a communication packet: A communication device includes a decoder that sequentially decodes sub-packets of a first packet that contain redundant traffic information. The decoder identifies a first sequence location where it successfully decoded one of the sub-packets of the first packet to output the traffic information. The decoder then sequentially decodes sub-packets of... Agent:

20110299444 - Voice data rf gps integrated circuit: An integrated circuit (IC) includes a baseband processing module, a GPS receiver, and an RF section. The baseband processing module is coupled to process voice signals and data signals. The global positioning satellite (GPS) receiver module is coupled to process GPS signals. The radio frequency (RF) section id coupled to:... Agent: Broadcom Corporation

20110299446 - Apparatus and method for performing a handover in a wireless communication system: A method of performing a handover in a wireless communication system employing a macro base station and a femto base station is provided. The method comprising: monitoring an uplink signal transmitted from a user equipment to the macro base station; transmitting a handover initiation message to the macro base station... Agent:

20110299447 - Reliability detection of channel quality indicator (cqi) and application to outer loop power control: A method for determining a channel quality in wireless communications includes receiving a high speed shared control channel (HS-SICH) transmission. An expected number of HS-SICH transmissions and a number of unsuccessful HS-SICH transmissions are counted. The number of unsuccessful HS-SICH transmissions includes a number of failed HS-SICH transmissions and a... Agent: Interdigital Technology Corporation

20110299445 - Scheduling method with power savings: The present invention relates to a scheduling method in a multi-user communication system. Said method categorises packets from different users as urgent packets and non-urgent packets, assigns to urgent packets the transmission resources for obtaining the best link qualities by giving preference to the most urgent packets, assigns to non-urgent... Agent: Comm. A L' Ener. Atom. Et Aux Energies Alter.

20110299448 - Distributed gateway for reliable multicast wireless video: Techniques are provided to reduce or restrict the bandwidth consumed by multicast video streams on wireless links, such as wireless IEEE 802.11 links. At a central multicast video transcoder apparatus configured to communicate with one or more access point devices operating in a wireless local area network, one or more... Agent: Cisco Technology, Inc.

20110299450 - Method and apparatus for multicasting with feedback information: A method for multicasting a packet begins by providing a buffer for each of two user equipments (UEs) in communication with a base station. A determination is made whether there is a previously unsent packet at the base station. A second determination is made whether both UE buffers are non-empty.... Agent: Interdigital Technology Corporation

20110299449 - Method and apparatus of transmitting data in mbsfn subframe in wireless communication system: A method and apparatus of transmitting data in a Multimedia Broadcast multicast service Single Frequency Network (MBSFN) subframe in a wireless communication system is provided. A base station (BS) transmits a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) to a user equipment in a first orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbol, transmits... Agent:

20110299453 - Method and device for acquiring contribution value of relay node: A method and an apparatus for acquiring a contribution value of a transfer node are disclosed. The method includes: acquiring charging information of a trust node which is in a trust network circumstance and joining in a session, and acquiring charging information of the transfer node which is in a... Agent: China Mobile Communications Corporation

20110299451 - Method for communicating in a network comprising a batteryless zigbee device, network and device therefor: The present invention relates to a method for wireless communication in a network comprising a resource-restricted end device (ZBLD), and at least one router device (R5), wherein the method comprises the following steps: the end device (ZBLD) transmitting a data frame to be forwarded to a destination device in the... Agent: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.v.

20110299452 - Method for transmitting/receiving data between a relay and a base station: The present invention provides a method for transmitting/receiving data to/from a relay. The data transmitting/receiving method comprises the steps of: enabling the relay to receive data on an nth subframe of a downlink from a base station; determining the position of the subframe of an uplink to which data is... Agent:

20110299456 - Active antenna array and method for relaying radio signals: The present disclosure teaches an active antenna array for a mobile communications network. The active antenna array comprises a base band unit, a plurality of transceiver units terminated by at least one antenna element; and at least one link. The link couples the individual ones of the plurality of transceiver... Agent:

20110299472 - Adaptive synchronization scheme for wireless communication systems: A method and system for synchronization in a wireless communication network using a plurality of synchronization frames (SF) and ciao frames (CF) distributed across a configurable period, termed as synchronization activity period (SAP) is disclosed. The periodicity of the SAP could be configured, to align with the data exchange periodicity.... Agent:

20110299473 - Apparatus, and associated method, for identifying radio network service availability: Apparatus, and an associated method, for identifying availability of services in a radio network of a radio communication system. A system information message is generated at the radio access network that identifies the service availability of the radio network, such as by indicating the communication services supported by the network.... Agent: Research In Motion Limited

20110299454 - Application-proxy support over a wireless link: Application proxy support over a wireless link between a mobile device and a wireless node is disclosed. Application proxy support is configured to conserve energy and resources and is configured to mitigate delays in a communication environment. Application proxy support can be associated with a wireless node, such as a... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20110299460 - Complementary beamforming methods and apparatuses: Improved methods and apparatuses are provided to address a potential “hidden beam problem” in wireless communication systems employing smart antennas. The improved methods and apparatuses utilize complementary beamforming (CBF) techniques, such as, for example, Subspace Complementary Beamforming (SCBF), Complementary Superposition Beamforming (CSBF) and/or Single Beam Complementary Beamforming (SBCBF) techniques.... Agent:

20110299455 - Compressing data in a wireless multi-hop network: A first node receives aggregated compressed data and unaggregated data from a second node in a wireless multi-hop network. The first node compresses its own collected data based on the received unaggregated data. The first node aggregates its own compressed data with the aggregated compressed data received from the second... Agent:

20110299457 - Distributed reception wireless microphone system: An apparatus is provided that includes a plurality of portable wireless transmitter units, a plurality of digital receiver modules that alternate transmitting wireless synchronization pulses and that receive information from the plurality of transmitter units synchronized to the synchronization pulses, a receiver control unit in communication with each of the... Agent: Audio Technica U.s., Inc

20110299468 - Format of vht-sig-b and service fields in ieee 802.11ac: Methods and apparatus for transmitting and receiving frames with various Very High Throughput Signal B (VHT-SIG-B) and Service field formats are provided. Some of these formats may be in accordance with the IEEE 802.11ac amendment to the wireless local area network (WLAN) standard.... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20110299469 - Method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving paging message using band information in wireless communication system: A method and an apparatus for transmitting and receiving a paging message in a wireless communication system are provided. A Base Station (BS) transmits, to a Mobile Station (MS) in an idle mode, a Paging Group IDentification Information (PGID_Info) message including paging group information for a paging group to which... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.

20110299474 - Method and apparatus using cell-specific and common pilot subcarriers in multi-carrier, multi-cell wireless communication networks: A multi-carrier cellular wireless network (400) employs base stations (404) that transmit two different groups of pilot subcarriers: (1) cell-specific pilot subcarriers, which are used by a receiver to extract information unique to each individual cell (402), and (2) common pilots subcarriers, which are designed to possess a set of... Agent: Neocific, Inc.

20110299467 - Method of transmitting channel quality information of downlink multi carriers in a wireless communication system: A method of transmitting channel quality information in a wireless communication system is disclosed. The method of transmitting channel quality information from a mobile station in a wireless communication system includes generating channel quality information of a downlink multi carrier including N number of downlink component carriers; and transmitting the... Agent:

20110299465 - Mobile communication method and radio base station: A mobile communication method according to the present invention includes performing, at a mobile station UE which establishes a first connection in a first cell, a cell selection process at the time of detecting a failure in the first connection and transmitting, from the mobile station UE to a second... Agent: Ntt Docomo, Inc.

20110299462 - Mobile radio access information validation: A validation method for validating IP information header in data packets from user equipment connected to a mobile telecommunications network (1) and accessing an IP network (5) through a proxy. In the method trusted location information of the user equipment (2) from a trusted source of the telecommunications network is... Agent:

20110299463 - Optimized home link detection: The invention relates to a method for establishing by a mobile node an additional session via a connection to a packet data network in a mobile communication network and a mobile node and a packet data network gateway adapted to perform this method. In order to suggest optimized home link... Agent:

20110299466 - Radio base station: A radio base station (eNB) according to the present invention includes: an RI acquisition unit (11) configured to acquire, from a mobile station (UE), an “RI” indicating number of streams determined by the mobile station (UE); an adjustment unit (12) configured to adjust the “RI” acquired by the RI acquisition... Agent: Ntt Docomo, Inc.

20110299464 - Radio communication method and radio base transmission station: An antenna pattern assigning method capable of avoiding interference between a plurality of base transmission stations constituting a radio system in a cellular type broad band communication. In the radio system, when assigning a fixed beam pattern different for each frequency, each of the radio base transmission station devices transmits... Agent: Hitachi, Ltd.

20110299459 - Saw-less receiver with offset rf frequency translated bpf: A SAW-less receiver includes a front end module (FEM) interface module, an RF to IF section, and an IF to baseband section. The RF to IF section includes a frequency translated bandpass filter (FTBPF), an LNA, and a mixing section. The FTBPF includes a switching network and a complex baseband... Agent: Broadcom Corporation

20110299470 - Sensor and sensor network for an aircraft: The invention relates to a sensor network in an aircraft, which comprises several sensor nodes that communicate with a central data collection and evaluation unit via a radio transmission path. Data transmission can take place in various ways. For example, different frequency ranges are provided, from which the respective frequency... Agent: Airbus Operations Gmbh

20110299471 - System and method for supporting voip and cs telephone: The present invention discloses a system for supporting Voice over Internet Protocol (VOIP) and Circuit Switch (CS) telephone. The system includes a terminal gateway device, a wireless broadband module, a Subscriber Line Interface Circuit (SLIC), a SWITCH and a telephone. The present invention also discloses a method for supporting VOIP... Agent: Zte Corporation

20110299458 - Voip call over wireless systems using any preferred dialing number: A method of establishing a communication connection, by a communication unit. A telephone number of a destination is received through a human interface of the communication unit and transmitted over a data connection to a number translation server. Responsive thereto an identifier of the destination for VoIP communications is used... Agent: Runcom Technologies Ltd.

20110299461 - Wireless communication device, program, and wireless communication method: There is provided a wireless communication device including a determination unit that determines a location region of the wireless communication device, a communication unit that wirelessly communicates with another wireless communication device, and a setting unit that sets a frequency in accordance with the location region of the wireless communication... Agent: Sony Corporation

20110299476 - Wireless device and method of transmitting uplink data and buffer status reports in a wireless communications system: The method provides buffer status reporting for the transmission of uplink data from a wireless device to a base station. Uncompressed data is stored in a first buffer of the wireless device. A buffer status report is transmitted from the wireless device to the base station, where the buffer status... Agent:

20110299475 - Wireless messaging using notification messages in a wireless communication network: A method of operating a router for enabling communication between a plurality of host services and a mobile device is described. The method includes receiving notification messages from a host service of the plurality of host services, where the plurality of host services support a plurality of message types. Each... Agent: Research In Motion Limited

20110299485 - Apparatus and method for controlling user equipment state changes: The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for triggering change of a Radio Resource Control (RRC) state for a user equipment operating in a cellular network. According to the method a Radio Link Control (RLC) buffer threshold associated with a Radio Link Control buffer is set to an... Agent:

20110299478 - Apparatus and method for optimizing the networking experience for users by enabling priority profile matching: A method for initiating communication between at least two users of two or more users operating communications devices, at least one of which is a cellular telephone device, on a local area network (LAN) connected to a cellular telephone network having gateway access to the Internet network, the communication advanced... Agent:

20110299487 - Broadcasting method and radio apparatus: A processing unit sets the time interval before packet signals are broadcast, using a carrier sense multiple access (CSMA) scheme. A modem unit and an RF unit broadcasts the packet signals at the time intervals set by the processing unit. The RF unit and the modem unit receive a control... Agent: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.

20110299499 - Communication control apparatus, identifier allocation method for the communication control apparatus, and mobile communication system: A first base station forms a cell group including a first cell and a second cell partly overlapping with the first cell. A second base station forms a cell group including a third cell and a fourth cell partly overlapping with the third cell. An allocator of a communication control... Agent: Fujitsu Limited

20110299477 - Ip mobility within a communication system: A method of routing IP traffic to and from a mobile terminal able to connect to the Internet via two or more gateway nodes. The method comprises implementing a multi-addressing multi-homing protocol at each gateway node on behalf of the mobile terminal, and sharing protocol state information between gateway nodes... Agent:

20110299479 - Method and access point for allocating whitespace spectrum: Disclosed is a method and apparatus for allocating a whitespace spectrum associated with a plurality of access points. The method includes reporting a signal strength associated with each of a plurality of other access points to a central controller. The method includes aggregating a plurality of demands to produce an... Agent: Alcatel-lucent India Limited

20110299481 - Method and apparatus for a station to operate within wlan system: Methods and apparatuses for a specific station, operating as a non-AP (Access Point) station permitted to operate within available channels not used by a licensed device, to operate as an AP station in a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) are disclosed. A specific protocol related to a registration of a... Agent:

20110299491 - Method and apparatus for allowing a subscriber to view the calling party number for a circuit switched voice call page while attached to a packet data network: A single radio multimode mobile (SRMMM) of a circuit-switched radio access technology (RAT) network and a packet data radio access technology (RAT) network including a network interface unit attached to the packet data RAT network through which an active packet data session is maintained. The SRMMM includes a processing unit... Agent:

20110299480 - Method and apparatus for supporting adaptive channel state information feedback rate in multi-user communication systems: Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to techniques for achieving adaptive channel state information (CSI) feedback rate in multi-user communication systems. A rate by which CSI feedback can be transmitted from each user station of a wireless system to a serving access point may be adjusted based on evolution... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20110299493 - Method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving data including a plurality of data streams in a broadcasting/communication system: A method of transmitting data comprising a plurality of data streams in a broadcasting system is provided. The method includes dividing a frame into a plurality of physical layer zones, allocating the plurality of data streams to the plurality of physical layer zones, allocating signaling information associated with the plurality... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

20110299484 - Method and system for transmitting channel state information in wireless communication systems: A base station includes a transmit path circuitry to transmit an uplink grant in a DCI format to a subscriber station. The base station also includes a receive path circuitry to receive only UCI on a PUSCH from a subscriber station when the uplink grant includes a MCS of an... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

20110299489 - Method for control channel detection in a multicarrier system: The present invention relates to a method and device for reducing the level of blind decoding complexity when detecting a control channel in a broadband wireless access system supporting multicarrier operation. Examples of the present invention disclose methods for the effective blind decoding of a control channel using an explicit... Agent:

20110299495 - Method for transmitting and receiving resource allocation information and mobile station apparatus using the same: A method for allocating the resources of a remaining region other than a region carrying a SuperFrame Header (SFH) and signaling the resource allocation is disclosed. A Mobile Station (MS) receives resource allocation information about a remaining region other than a region carrying an SFH in a predetermined channel bandwidth... Agent:

20110299483 - Method of handling semi-persistent scheduling cell radio network temporary identifier and related communication device: A method of handling Semi-Persistent Scheduling (SPS) Cell Radio Network Temporary Identifier (C-RNTI) for a mobile device configured with a primary component carrier, at least one secondary component carrier and an SPS C-RNTI in a wireless communication system is disclosed. The method comprises steps of performing a Physical Downlink Control... Agent:

20110299486 - Method of performing uplink transmission and related communication device: A method of performing uplink transmission for a mobile device configured with a primary component carrier and at least one secondary component carrier in a wireless communication system is disclosed. The method comprises steps of receiving a first uplink grant for transmission in a subframe; receiving a second uplink grant... Agent:

20110299488 - Method of radio resource allocation and method of neighbor information transmission in wireless communication system: A method for radio resource allocation in a wireless communication system comprises the steps of: receiving a channel indicator for indicating the frequency band used by a neighboring base station from a gateway that controls at least one base station that accesses the core network of a wireless communication system... Agent:

20110299482 - Method of transmitting downlink channel rank information through physical uplink shared channel: Provided is a method of transmitting channel rank information (RI) when the number of bits for transmitting the channel RI to be transmitted through a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) is three or more. The method includes mapping channel RI to be transmitted to a channel RI bit string of... Agent: Electronics And Telecommunications Research Institute

20110299490 - Methods and apparatus for physical uplink control channel (pucch) load control by physical downlink control channel (pdcch) restrictions: Methods for scheduling downlink (DL) data on a downlink subframe from a base station directed to at least one wireless terminal in a wireless network are provided. The methods include selecting a control channel element (CCE) region for a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) carried in a control region of... Agent: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson

20110299494 - Mobile caching and data relay vectoring systems and methods: The present invention provides systems and methods for providing mobile users with requested resources. In one such method, first and second location indicators for the mobile user are received, with each of the location indicators having a time associated therewith. The method includes calculating a mobile vector of the mobile... Agent: Qwest Communications International Inc.

20110299492 - Mobile communications devices and transmission methods for transmitting machine type communication data thereof: A mobile communications device with a wireless module and a controller module for performing an enhanced access procedure is provided. The wireless module performs wireless transmissions and receptions to and from a cellular station of a service network. The controller module transmits a random access preamble to the cellular station... Agent: Via Telecom, Inc.

20110299496 - Scheduling apparatus and scheduling method: A scheduling apparatus and a scheduling method, wherein the amount of signaling for frequency resource allocation information can be reduced while maintaining system throughput performance. In a base station apparatus (100), a scheduling section (113) allocates frequency resources to frequency allocation target terminals based on set frequency allocation units, and... Agent: Panasonic Corporation

20110299498 - Systems and methods for configuring subscriber systems in wireless mesh networks: A wireless network may be managed by identifying one or more wireless subscriber systems included in a lobe pool of a wireless network, identifying at least one candidate subscriber system outside of the lobe pool with which to enable communications, and reconfiguring the antenna such that the lobe pool includes... Agent: Aol Inc.

20110299497 - Wireless communication method of selecting an enhanced uplink transport format combination: where SG is a serving grant, Le,ref is the number of EU dedicated physical data channels (E-DPDCHs) used for a selected reference E-TFC, Ke,ref is the number of data bits of the reference E-TFC, Δharq is a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) offset for a specific data flow to be... Agent: Interdigital Technology Corporation

20110299500 - Multiplexing control and data information from a user equipment in mimo transmission mode: A method and apparatus for multiplexing Uplink Control Information (UCI) with data information in a Physical Uplink Shared CHannel (PUSCH) transmitted over multiple spatial layers where aspects of the UCI multiplexing include the determination of the number of coded UCI symbols in each spatial layer when the data information is... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

20110299505 - Base station device, mobile terminal, communication system, and method of controlling said communication system: There is provided a base station device that performs communication with a mobile terminal, the base station device including: a handover operation part configured to perform a handover of the mobile terminal, based on an instruction from a base station control device; and a control part configured to issue a... Agent: Fujitsu Limited

20110299502 - Method for performing handover in a mobile communication system: Disclosed is a method for enabling a mobile terminal to perform a handover in a mobile communication system. A serving base station which supports both a first communication scheme and a second communication scheme can transmit, to the mobile terminal, a neighbor base station list broadcast message containing time offset... Agent:

20110299501 - Mobility in ims based home node b: The invention relates to a method for handing over an IP multimedia Subsystem, IMS, anchored session of a mobile device (100) from a Home Node B (200) of a mobile telecommunications network to another session control node (300) of said mobile telecommunications network. The mobile device (100) is circuit switched... Agent:

20110299504 - Packet transferring/transmitting method and mobile communication system: A packet transferring/transmitting method is provided for use in a mobile communication system 50. In this packet transferring/transmitting method, an upper node 1 determines the implementation of handover (determination step), and a handover addressing node 2 transfers, of a plurality of packets, a non-transmitted residual packet to a handover addressed... Agent: Fujitsu Limited

20110299503 - Wireless terminal device and method of controlling the same: To provide a wireless terminal device that can control so that the size of RWIN of an electronic device on a receiving side changes to an optimum value when hand-down (hand-off) from high speed communication to low speed communication occurs, and a method for controlling the same. A wireless terminal... Agent: Kyocera Corporation

20110299506 - Maintenance of channel usage in a wireless communication system: Data is accessed from a network via a wireless communication link. A determination is made as to whether payload data has been received from a subscriber's terminal. If so, then a request is sent for a first set of traffic channels, and the payload data is transmitted over the first... Agent: Ipr Licensing, Inc.

20110299507 - Support of plural bandwidths in a telecommunications system: In a CDMA system (100), two chip rates in a TDD cell are supported by: transmitting signals in the system in a frame (400) having a plurality of timeslots; operating at least a first one (0-8) of the plurality of timeslots in the frame at a lower chip rate; and... Agent: Wireless Technology Solutions LLC

20110299509 - Scheduling and protection of quiet periods in a quiet zone for incumbent signal detection: A method and system for scheduling and protecting quiet periods (QP) in a quiet zone (105) for incumbent signal (121) detection in a wireless communications system. The communication system includes a plurality of wireless networks (103, 104), each of the plurality of wireless networks contains at least a master device... Agent: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.v.

20110299508 - Wireless communication system, wireless transmitting apparatus, wireless receiving apparatus, wireless transmission method, and wireless reception method: The channels of A-EUTRA component carriers on which the mobile station devices of EUTRA do not stand by are configured without almost changing the conventional EUTRA channel configurations. A wireless transmitting apparatus, which performs radio transmission to a plurality of wireless receiving apparatuses by assigning one or more component carriers... Agent: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha

20110299510 - Antenna sharing for radio frequency signals in same frequency bands: A wireless device for receiving composite signals is disclosed. The wireless device includes an antenna. The wireless device also includes a first amplifier coupled to the antenna. The wireless device further includes a second amplifier coupled to the antenna. The wireless device also includes a first receiver. The wireless device... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20110299512 - Communication device, communication system, mode switching method, and program: Provided is a communication device including a first communication unit for performing communication by a communication scheme, the communication scheme being for applying voltage from a signal electrode that is in contact with or that is brought into proximity of a human body, generating an electric near field on a... Agent: Sony Corporation

20110299514 - Method and apparatus for transmitting data frame using channel bonding in wireless lan: A method and apparatus are provided for transmitting a data frame using channel bonding in a wireless local area network in which high throughput (HT) stations and legacy systems coexist. The method includes adding a legacy format physical layer header including information, which indicates that a medium is being used... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

20110299516 - Method and apparatus preventing plurality of stations in wlan from colliding with each other when attempting to access medium: A method and apparatus for preventing a plurality of stations in a wireless local area network (WLAN) from colliding with each other when accessing a medium are provided. In the method, an access point (AP) determines the transmission capabilities of a plurality of stations in a basic service set (BSS)... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

20110299511 - Method and system of implementing a radio network in unlicensed spectrum: Methods, systems, and devices are disclosed for wireless communication over unlicensed spectrum using a femto cell. In an implementation of the system, a dualmode mobile device adapted to communicate over a licensed frequency spectrum and over an unlicensed frequency spectrum is provided. The dual-mode mobile device detects the presence of... Agent: Qwest Communications International Inc.

20110299515 - Methods and apparatus for establishing wlan communications using an essid created based on a predetermined algorithm and a domain name: One method in a mobile communication device for use in establishing communications between the mobile communication device and a wireless local communication network (WLAN) involves identifying a domain name of the WLAN; performing, in the mobile communication device, a predetermined algorithm with use of the domain name, for creating an... Agent: Research In Motion Limited

20110299513 - Radio communication system, base station apparatus, mobile station apparatus, radio communication method, and program: A mobile station apparatus 2 is assigned multiple component carriers in an uplink and a downlink by a base station apparatus and communicates with the base station apparatus by using the component carriers. The mobile station apparatus 2 includes a downlink control channel detector 67 and a carrier component identifying... Agent:

20110299517 - Systems and methods facilitating high throughput control in wireless communications: Embodiments include systems and methods for frame tunneling in a wireless communications system comprising digital beam forming. Embodiments comprise a first and second frame control field with the second frame control field comprising a High Throughput Control (HTC) enabling field. If the HTC enabling field is enabled, then an HTC... Agent:

20110299518 - Method, system and apparatus for accessing network: A method, a system and an apparatus for accessing a network are provided. The method includes: identifying, through the network interface, the type of a network module connected with a network interface, where each type of the network module corresponds to one type of 3G network; according to the type... Agent: Huawei Device Co.,ltd.

20110299519 - Cooperative communication methods and devices: Cooperative communication methods for a wireless communication network (100) and devices configured to perform such methods are disclosed herein. In a described embodiment, the network (100) includes a first communication device (102) and a second communication device (104), each of the communication devices (102,104) being associated with respective users and... Agent: Agency For Science, Technology And Research

20110299521 - Method and system for accurate clock synchronization for communication networks: A high accuracy clock synchronization mechanism between a sender and a receiver in a communication network achieves time synchronization using broadcast beacons, directly at the PHY/MAC layer of the sender and the receiver, to minimize synchronization delay jitter. This provides a more efficient synchronization method than either NTP or SNTP,... Agent:

20110299520 - Synchronization for extending battery life: The present invention discloses a method and system for efficiently supporting data calls to WTRUs in systems that also support telephony. Various types of data is transmitted on a known schedule which is tightly synchronized to a predetermined time frame. The WTRUs synchronize their wake-up periods to search for data... Agent: Interdigital Technology Corporation

20110299522 - Apparatus, method and system for providing new communication services over existing wiring: The invention provides apparatus for providing a next-generation communication system over existing wiring. In one form the apparatus includes an input to receive broadband signals carrying next-generation communication data, a processor to extract the next-generation communication data from the broadband signals and a converter to convert the next-generation communication data... Agent:

20110299523 - Correlating information between internet and call center environments: Coordination of information at the network-based level between call centers connectable over a telecommunications network, such as a telephone network, and a packet network, creates improved integration of and bonding between a customer's interaction with a Web site and with a call center. Information about the customer and the customer's... Agent: At&t Intellectual Property Ii, L.p.

20110299524 - Integrated information communication system: A communication system, for functioning without the use of dedicated lines or the Internet so as to ensure communication speed, communication quality, and communication trouble countermeasures, including a communication network and domain name server. The domain name server includes a domain name tree with a country number of a telephone... Agent:

20110299525 - Inter-fabric routing: A method and apparatus is shown for communicating Fibre Channel frames between distinct fabrics. A proxy zone is established in each fabric with a physically present local device and a remote fabric device. A router creates a proxy device in each fabric for every device not physically connected to the... Agent: Brocade Communications Systems, Inc.

20110299529 - Multicast interworking systems and methods: Systems and methods according to these exemplary embodiments provide for methods and systems for interworking between an Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) and a MAC address Multiple Registration Protocol (MMRP). For example, an IGMP join or leave message which is received at node (700) is translated (702) into an equivalent... Agent: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)

20110299526 - Multiparty real time content delivery: Described is a distributed peer-assisted multicast content delivery system (e.g., a multiparty conferencing application) that uses an adaptive link rate control protocol to discover and adapt to an arbitrary topology quickly and converge to efficient link rate allocations allowed by an underlying network. Link rates are regularly obtained and used... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20110299528 - Network layer multicasting in trill networks: Systems and techniques for performing network layer multicasting in a TRILL network are described. Some embodiments provide a system that receives multicast packet that includes a network-layer multicast-address. The multicast packet can be received on a first multicast tree associated with a first virtual network. Next, the system can determine,... Agent: Brocade Communications Systems, Inc.

20110299527 - Supporting multiple multicast trees in trill networks: Systems and techniques for supporting multiple multicast trees are described. Some embodiments provide a system that determines an internal multicast group identifier based on a source address, a multicast address, and a multicast tree identifier field associated with a multicast packet. The system can then forward the multicast packet based... Agent: Brocade Communications Systems, Inc.

20110299538 - Apparatus for providing connection between networks: When an internal terminal (TM1 to TMn) replaced with another terminal due to the breakdown or the model upgrading and the DHCP function allocates a new private address for the MAC address of the terminal after replacement, the newly allocated private address is managed in association with physical ports (PP1... Agent: Hitachi Kokusai Electric Inc.

20110299531 - Flooding packets on a per-virtual-network basis: Methods and techniques for flooding packets on a per-virtual-network basis are described. Some embodiments provide a method (e.g., a switch) which determines an internal virtual network identifier based on one or more fields in a packet's header. Next, the method performs a forwarding lookup operation based on the internal virtual... Agent: Brocade Communications Systems, Inc.

20110299533 - Internal virtual network identifier and internal policy identifier: Systems and techniques for processing and forwarding packets are described. Some embodiments provide a system (e.g., a switch) which determines an internal virtual network identifier and/or an internal policy identifier for a packet based on a port on which the packet was received and/or one or more fields in the... Agent: Brocade Communications Systems, Inc.

20110299536 - Method and system for link aggregation across multiple switches: One embodiment of the present invention provides a switch. The switch includes a forwarding mechanism and a control mechanism. During operation, the forwarding mechanism forwards frames based on their Ethernet headers. The control mechanism operates the switch in conjunction with a separate physical switch as a single logical switch and... Agent: Brocade Communications Systems, Inc.

20110299537 - Method and system of scaling a cloud computing network: Disclosed are a system, method, and article of manufacture of scaling a cloud computing network are disclosed. A virtual switch receives a data packet from a virtual machine. The virtual machine and the virtual switch can be implemented on the same host device. The virtual switch can remove the virtual... Agent:

20110299535 - Name services for virtual cluster switching: One embodiment of the present invention provides a switch that facilitates name services in a virtual cluster switch. The switch includes a name service database indicating at least one media access control (MAC) address learned at a second switch. The switch also includes a control mechanism. During operation, the control... Agent: Brocade Communications Systems, Inc.

20110299530 - Network monitor and control method thereof: A network monitor is provided that permits a user to work using only the network monitor without a computer to display an image on the network monitor so that the user's convenience is improved.... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

20110299532 - Remote port mirroring: A switch that facilitates remote port mirroring is described. The switch can include an encapsulation mechanism and a forwarding mechanism. The encapsulation mechanism can be configured to encapsulate a copy of a first packet in a second packet, thereby preserving header information (e.g., a VLAN identifier and/or a TRILL header)... Agent: Brocade Communications Systems, Inc.

20110299534 - Virtual port grouping for virtual cluster switching: One embodiment of the present invention provides a switch. The switch includes a port that couples to a server hosting a number of virtual machines. The switch also includes a set of virtual port grouping information and a virtual port grouping mechanism. During operation, the virtual port grouping mechanism determines... Agent: Brocade Communications Systems, Inc.

20110299539 - Virtual fabric membership assignments for fiber channel over ethernet network devices: Techniques are provided herein for receiving at a first network device, a virtual local area network (VLAN) discovery frame from a second network device. The second network device is configured to encapsulate Fiber Channel over Ethernet. The hardware media access control (MAC) address or Port World Wide Name (PWWN) of... Agent: Cisco Technology, Inc.

20110299545 - Customized acquisition of content by a broadband gateway: Aspects of a method and system for customized acquisition of content by a broadband gateway are provided. A broadband gateway may be operable to determine options for acquiring particular content. The broadband gateway may be operable to rank the determined options. The ranking may be based on one or more... Agent:

20110299551 - Method and apparatus for transferring data packets between a first network and a second network: There is provided method and apparatus for transferring data packets between a first network and a second network using a node arrangement. The node arrangement has at least two primary nodes connected to the second network. Each primary node is connected to the first network using a respective first port... Agent:

20110299549 - Method and system for energy efficient based service optimization by a broadband gateway: A broadband gateway may provide energy efficient management of services delivered to a home network. The energy efficient service management may enable reducing and/or enhancing energy consumption within access networks utilized during the managed services. The energy management service may comprise determining energy-related costs associated with providing services, based on... Agent:

20110299544 - Method and system for managing bandwidth by a broadband gateway: Aspects of a method and system for managing bandwidth by a broadband gateway are provided. In this regard, broadband gateway may, upon receiving a request for content from a user of the communication device, present, via a graphical user interface, a message that offers a benefit to the user in... Agent:

20110299547 - Method and system for managing energy costs utilizing a broadband gateway: Aspects of a method and system for managing energy costs utilizing a broadband gateway are provided. In this regard, a broadband gateway may determine usage patterns for one or more electronic devices communicatively coupled to the broadband gateway. The broadband gateway may control tasks performed and/or to be performed based... Agent:

20110299540 - Method and system for multi-transport and multi-protocol processing in a broadband gateway: A broadband gateway, which enables communication with a plurality of devices, handles at least one physical layer connection to at least one corresponding network access service provider. The broadband gateway may receive a packet from a network access service provider over a physical layer connection. The broadband gateway may determine... Agent:

20110299546 - Method and system for optimizing communication in a home network via a gateway: A method and system are provided in which a content request may be received by a broadband gateway from a device connected to the broadband gateway through a home network. The broadband gateway may select content that corresponds to the request from content that is available through a network access... Agent:

20110299548 - Method and system for porting gateway functionality associated with a user from a first gateway to one or more other gateways: A broadband gateway, which enables communication with a plurality of devices, handles at least one physical layer connection to at least one corresponding network access service provider. The broadband gateway may operate as a home gateway to negotiate with one or more visited gateways, a common authorized service area or... Agent:

20110299542 - Method and system for providing directory services by a gateway for peer-to-peer communications: A broadband gateway, which enables communication with a plurality of devices and handles at least one physical layer connection to at least one corresponding network access service provider, may be operable to identify one or more individuals with whom a user desires to engage in peer-to-peer communications. The user is... Agent:

20110299543 - Method and system for providing virtual gateway services: A broadband gateway configured to operate as a virtual broadband gateway may comprise a network portion and a local portion. The network portion is communicatively coupled to the local portion via a plurality of physical layer connections to one or more network access service providers. The virtual broadband gateway may... Agent:

20110299541 - Method and system for recognizing energy efficient certified devices through a gateway: A broadband gateway, which enables communication with a plurality of devices, may be operable to identify an energy efficient certified device from the plurality of devices. The broadband gateway may handle at least one physical layer connection to at least one corresponding network access service provider. Information related to the... Agent:

20110299550 - Utilizing a gateway for brokering and/or arbitrating service consumption options: A broadband gateway may provision services requested in a home network managed and/or serviced by the broadband gateway by a user associated with the broadband gateway, based on determination of criteria related to the requested service. The requested service may comprise obtaining and/or delivering content for consumption by one or... Agent:

20110299552 - System and method for identifying multiple paths between network nodes: Aspects of the invention pertain to transmitting packet data across a computer network. The packets may be sent via one or more distinct routes from a source to a destination. Each route may employ multiple routers disposed along the network. Non-colliding routes are determined by transmitting pairs of probe packets... Agent: Google Inc.

20110299553 - Technique for reducing resources allocated to an existing reservation in a data network: A technique that allows existing reservations to be partially preempted by higher-priority reservations. An intermediate node receives a request to reserve resources for the higher-priority reservation. The higher priority entitles the reservation to acquire resources allocated to existing lower priority reservations, if necessary. If sufficient unallocated resources are not available... Agent: Cisco Technology, Inc.

20110299554 - Solutions for dynamic nat and firewall traversal: Solution methods for ensuring control and data packets to traverse network address translators (NATs) and firewalls, when a mobile terminal acquires a new (Internet Protocol) address and may move behind a new NAT/firewall are provided. These solutions form an integral part of seamless mobility and multipath packet delivery in IP... Agent:

20110299555 - Error control coding for orthogonal differential vector signaling: Using a transformation based, at least in part, on a non-simple orthogonal matrix, data may be transmitted over a data bus in a manner that is resilient to one or more types of signal noise, that does not require a common reference at the transmission and acquisition points, and/or that... Agent: Ecole Polytechnique Federale De Lausanne

20110299556 - Multi-carrier signal transmitter and multi-carrier signal receiver: A multi-carrier signal transmission apparatus transmits a transmission stream including at least preamble information necessary for synchronizing a transmission signal and data information as a multi-carrier signal. A modulator generates a transmission symbol stream by modulating an arrangement of the preamble information and the data information. A symbol expanding portion... Agent: Sony Corporation

20110292783 - Method and device for data processing: A method and a device for data processing. The data processing method utilizes at least two probing coefficients in a canceller and/or precompensator in combination with SNR feedback to process data in the canceller and/or in the precompensator.... Agent: Nokia Siemens Networks Oy

20110292784 - Data exchange device using orthogonal vectors: An integrated circuit and a method for transmitting messages from initiator units of an integrated circuit to at least one target unit of the integrated circuit. The initiator units transform first digital messages into second digital messages, the second messages being added, then transmitted to the target unit. The transformation... Agent: St-ericsson (grenoble) Sas

20110292785 - Digital domain content processing and distribution apparatus and methods: Methods and apparatus for distributing content using a spectrum generation device. In one embodiment, digital content is received via a time-multiplexed network transport (such as Gigabit Ethernet), and converted to frequency channels suitable for transmission over a content distribution (e.g., Hybrid Fiber Coaxial (HFC)) network. In one variant, the conversion... Agent:

20110292787 - Disabled state and state signaling for link aggregation: A device enables a disabled timer state for a link aggregation group (LAG) link if a disabled timer condition is determined for the LAG link, and enables a disabled state for the LAG link if a disabled condition is determined for the LAG link in the disabled timer state.... Agent: Verizon Patent And Licensing Inc.

20110292786 - Method for synchronizing a terminal with a frequency of a radio-communications network, corresponding computer software product, storage means and terminal: A method and apparatus are provided for synchronizing a terminal with a frequency from an ordered initial sequence of frequencies of a radio-communications network. An available power spectrum associates to each frequency of the initial sequence a power value representing the power with which the frequency is received by the... Agent: Sierra Wireless

20110292788 - Frame data communication: A switch node stores reception connection information for identifying the connection of frame data that are received in association with transmission connection information for identifying the connection to which the frame data are to be transmitted, and upon receiving frame data, searches for the transmission connection information that was placed... Agent:

20110292789 - Method, apparatus and system for ring protection: A method, apparatus and system for Ethernet Ring Protection (ERP) are disclosed. The method includes: detecting, by a node, a link fault on a ring; blocking, by the node, a port connected with the faulty link after detecting the link fault, and sending a fault alarm message to other nodes... Agent:

20110292790 - Mobile communication method and radio base station: A mobile communication method involving performing, at a mobile station UE which establishes a first connection in a first cell, a cell selection process at the time of detecting a failure in the first connection, transmitting, from the mobile station UE to a second cell selected in the cell selection... Agent: Ntt Docomo, Inc.

20110292791 - Communication network system, data transmission method, and node apparatus: A communication network system includes a processor, and a plurality of node apparatuses using a protocol to establish paths therebetween, wherein the processor determines each of the node apparatuses to be a packet source or a packet destination, and operates to detect an occurrence of failure in two paths being... Agent: Fujitsu Limited

20110292792 - Applying policies to schedule network bandwidth among virtual machines: Computerized methods, systems, and computer-storage media for allowing virtual machines (VMs) residing on a common physical node to fairly share network bandwidth are provided. Restrictions on resource consumption are implemented to ameliorate stressing the network bandwidth or adversely affecting the quality of service (QoS) guaranteed to tenants of the physical... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20110292793 - Communication apparatus, communication method, and computer program: A communication apparatus includes: a higher-layer processing unit that starts up a retransmission process of a corresponding packet in accordance with reception of a Duplicate ACK packet; and a lower-layer processing unit that collects a plurality of the Duplicate ACKs received through a network as one ACK and sends the... Agent:

20110292794 - Mobile node entry at radio access arrangement restart: The invention relates to communication between mobile nodes and/or node arrangements in wireless communication networks. In particular, the invention relates to a method in a radio access arrangement for improving the balance between the capacity allocated to initial access for network entry and the capacity allocated to pay-loads in the... Agent:

20110292795 - System and method for fair shared de-queue and drop arbitration in a buffer: Systems and methods consistent with the present invention provide a mechanism that can efficiently manage multiple queues and maintain fairness among ports while not placing additional performance demands on the memory used to store the queue data structures. Within a port, high priority traffic is dropped only if it is... Agent: Juniper Networks, Inc.

20110292796 - Systems and methods for intelligent discard in a communication network: Systems and methods for optimizing system performance of capacity and spectrum constrained, multiple-access communication systems by selectively discarding packets are provided. The systems and methods provided herein can drive changes in the communication system using control responses. One such control responses includes the optimal discard (also referred to herein as... Agent: Cygnus Broadband, Inc.

20110292797 - Dynamic delay budget allocation using single-point estimation of end-to-end delay: A computer-readable medium has tangibly embodied thereon and accessible therefrom a set of instructions interpretable by at least one data processing device. The set of instructions is configured for causing the at least one data processing device to carry out operations for estimating a delay for each one of a... Agent: Alcatel-lucent Usa Inc.

20110292798 - Selectively provisioning call setup quality of service (qos) resource reservations during a communication session within a wireless communications system: A dormant AT receives a request to initiate a communication session with at least one target AT. At this point, the AT does not have an active TCH associated or a QoS reservation at least for an IP flow associated with call setup for the communication session to be initiated.... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20110292801 - Controlling bandwidth share: There is proposed a modification to the ECN protocol to remove the one-to-one relationship between the network signalling congestion and the sender response to that congestion. The result is to allow a receiver terminal to exhibit some control of bandwidth share relative to other receiver terminals. The idea is to... Agent:

20110292799 - Handling of overloads and handovers in a communications network: The present invention refers to handling of an overload in a communications network and to handling of handovers occurring after the handling of handovers in the communications net work, wherein said communications network is based upon a tree topology providing several levels of nodes in said communications network. According to... Agent:

20110292802 - System and method for automatic throttling of resources in an information handling system chassis: Systems and methods for automatic throttling of resources in an information handling system are disclosed. A method may include determining whether a first throttling condition exists, the first throttling condition existing when a chassis management controller fails to communicate a clock or synchronization signal to one or more devices in... Agent: Dell Products L.p.

20110292800 - Systems and methods for controlling data transmission rates: The present application discloses systems and methods for adapting the rate at which the packets are transmitted. In one embodiment, the method includes: (a) receiving a packet; (b) determining whether the packet is high priority packet or a low priority packet; and (c) determining whether a transmission rate value, which... Agent: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)

20110292804 - Event delivery system, rendezvous node, broker node, load distribution method for event delivery system, load distribution method for rendezvous node, delivery route construction method for broker node, storage medium storing load distribution program, an: Provided is an event delivery system where a bottleneck on the system can be eliminated by reducing load on a rendezvous node. The event delivery system includes publisher nodes, subscriber nodes, the rendezvous node, and broker nodes. The rendezvous node includes a traffic monitoring means that monitors the traffic volume... Agent:

20110292803 - Path control system, path control device, communication device, path control method, and program: A path control system according to the present invention includes: a network including a communication device that communicates via a wireless link using adaptive modulation; and a path control device (201) that obtains bandwidth probability that corresponds to a bandwidth and that indicates a stability of the bandwidth with respect... Agent:

20110292805 - Communication processing device and method: A communication processing device includes: a judging section, a distributing section, a congestion rate calculating section, and a reading section. The judging section judges whether each of received packets is a diagnosing packet and that classifies the received packets into at least first packets belonging to a first class for... Agent: Fujitsu Limited

20110292808 - Method and apparatus for sms termination overload protection: In order to ameliorate the overload at an overloaded network node that is discarding some of the SMSs it is receiving, when a node is overloaded with received SMSs, it sends a message to the nodes from which it is receiving SMSs of that fact and includes a parameter indicating... Agent:

20110292807 - Method and system for sideband communication architecture for supporting manageability over wireless lan (wlan): A management controller in a network device may support performing management operations based on management traffic communicated wirelessly via a wireless network controller of the network devices. The management controller may perform the management operations and/or to support wireless communication of the management traffic independent of operations of the network... Agent:

20110292806 - Switching device and switching method: Each of a first switching processor and a second switching processor included in a switching device switches plural pieces of data to determined destinations. A controller bypass-transmits a determined number of pieces of data received by the first switching processor to the second switching processor according to a congestion state... Agent: Fujitsu Limited

20110292810 - Apparatus and method for transmitting/receiving data in a communication system: A data transmission apparatus of a communication system includes a main data generator configured to generate main data corresponding to a main broadcasting service of broadcasting services; a main signal generator configured to generate a main signal of the main data; an additional data generator configured to generate a plurality... Agent: Electronics And Telecommunications Research Institute

20110292811 - H-arq acknowledgment detection validation by re-decoding: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate reliably receiving a sequence of data packets in a wireless communications environment. In particular, mechanisms are provided that enhance hybrid automatic repeat request protocols through validation of acknowledgment message detection by re-decoding. A transmitter sends a data packet from a sequence of packets... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20110292809 - System and method for using multiple network addresses to establish synchronization of a device under test and test equipment controlling the test: A system and method for testing a data packet signal transceiver in which multiple network addresses (e.g., media access control, or MAC, addresses) are used to establish synchronization of the device under test and the test equipment controlling the test. In accordance with an exemplary embodiment, synchronization is established using... Agent: Litepoint Corporation

20110292812 - Method and apparatus for radio link control in cellular radio communication system supporting carrier aggregation: The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for determining radio link failure between the UE and the eNB in a wireless communication system. Particularly, the present invention provides a method and apparatus for determining radio link failure efficiently in such a way that the UE measures the radio... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

20110292813 - Faults propagation and protection for connection oriented data paths in packet networks: A communications network comprising components configured to implement a method comprising analyzing a path between a first end point and a second end point, and identifying a partial fault along the path is disclosed. Also disclosed is a method for communicating information within a network, the method comprising: defining a... Agent: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.

20110292814 - Communication path monitoring method and transmission apparatus: A first transmission apparatus and a second transmission apparatus recognize the working path and the back-up path group from communication paths between the two apparatuses. The first transmission apparatus selects a measurement path from the back-up path group and transmits a test signal via the measurement path to the second... Agent:

20110292816 - configurable random access channel structure for range extension in a wireless communication system: The present invention provides a method involving a configurable random access channel structure. One embodiment of the method includes generating a random access channel burst that includes a cyclic prefix and a selected number of repetitions of a preamble. The number of repetitions is selected based on at least one... Agent: Lucent Tecnologies Inc.

20110292829 - Adaptive modulation for fixed wireless link in cable transmission system: In one embodiment of a communications network, the predetermined encoding scheme and symbol constellation configurations are chosen so that the range in channel qualities that the encoding scheme and symbol constellation configurations are designed to be utilized within overlap with each other. This overlapping provides hysteresis, which reduces the frequency... Agent: Broadcom Corporation

20110292822 - Gathering data on cellular data communication characteristics: A method for collecting data that can be used to characterize the performance of a wireless communications system is disclosed. The method comprises determining data characterizing a wireless data communication that occurs between an internet service provider and a data collection system. The data collection system comprises a data exchanger... Agent:

20110292826 - Method and apparatus of controlling transmission power: A method of transmitting signals from a transmitter of a wireless communication system comprises determining each transmission power of a first signal and a second signal; if the difference Y in transmission power between the first signal and the second signal exceeds a predetermined value X, adjusting at least one... Agent:

20110292815 - Method and termination node for bundling multiple messages into a packet: The invention relates to a method and a termination node for bundling multiple messages into a packet having a predetermined maximum size. The total size of messages received from an upper layer is checked if it is large enough to fill the maximum-sized packet. If not, the receipt of further... Agent:

20110292827 - Method for demodulating data and demodulating apparatus based on a downlink transmit diversity mode in a lte system: A demodulating method and a demodulating apparatus at a receiver based on a downlink transmit diversity mode in a LTE system are provided by the present invention. The method includes: dividing received data from sub-carriers of each receiving antenna based on a transmit diversity mode into multiple groups of received... Agent:

20110292825 - Method for transmitting common reference signal in downlink mimo system: The present invention relates to a method for transmitting a-reference signals for measuring a channel in a downlink MIMO (Multi Input Multi Output) system The method comprises the steps of: configuring, by a base station at which Nt transmit antennas are configured, Nt reference signals for channel measurement where Nt≧1... Agent:

20110292817 - Methods and apparatus for preemptive backoff for medium access in wireless peer-to-peer networks: A method of operating a wireless device is provided in which a number of neighboring nodes is estimated, a medium access priority to access a communication resource in a current timeslot is determined, and whether to transmit a scheduling control signal in the current timeslot is determined based on the... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20110292824 - Mobile station apparatus, base station apparatus, and radio link synchronization determining method: While a mobile station apparatus is receiving a plurality of frequency bands, effective determinations of wireless link synchronization can be achieved. The mobile station apparatus measures the reception qualities of a plurality of different downlink frequency band signals (DL_CC1, DL_CC2) transmitted by one or more base station apparatuses and by... Agent: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha

20110292828 - Network system and electronic apparatus: This network system includes a plurality of electronic apparatuses having a communication function capable of establishing a network selectively employing a channel available on coaxial wiring and is formed to reestablish the network if a management apparatus managing the network determines that communication quality of the channel is deteriorated.... Agent: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.

20110292821 - Service-based inter-radio access technology (inter-rat) handover: In geographical areas with incomplete Time Division Synchronous Code Division Multiple Access (TD-SCDMA) coverage, it may be beneficial for a multimode User Equipment (UE) to handover to a GSM network, a WCDMA network, a CDMA 1x RTT network, or an LTE network. When multiple networks are available to the UE... Agent:

20110292818 - Smart traffic optimization: Embodiments of the invention include an apparatus, method, and computer program for collecting and analyzing network traffic flow records. The method includes, in one example, receiving a plurality of flow records which include data about traffic in a network. The method may further include caching the plurality of flow records... Agent: Solarwinds Worldwide, LLC

20110292823 - Sounding reference signal (srs) in heterogeneous network (hetnet) with time division multiplexing (tdm) partitioning: Methods and apparatus for uplink (UL) radio link monitoring (RLM) in a Long Term Evolution (LTE) heterogeneous network (HetNet) with enhanced inter-cell interference coordination (eICIC) are described. Various options are presented in an effort to transmit a sounding reference signal (SRS) of a user equipment device (UE) served by a... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20110292819 - Two-way ranging messaging scheme: In a two-way ranging scheme where a first apparatus (e.g., device) determines a distance to a second apparatus (e.g., device), specified packets are sent between these apparatuses at specified times to facilitate the determination of the distance. In some aspects, these packets may be defined and/or sent in a manner... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20110292820 - Two-way ranging messaging scheme: In a two-way ranging scheme where a first apparatus (e.g., device) determines a distance to a second apparatus (e.g., device), specified packets are sent between these apparatuses at specified times to facilitate the determination of the distance. In some aspects, these packets may be defined and/or sent in a manner... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20110292830 - Method for enhancing table lookups with exact and wildcards matching for parallel environments: Presented are methods for performing a constant time flow lookup utilizing parallel processing technology. The methods are suitable for multiprocessor and/or multi-core processor computing environments. The method generates hash table driven tables of exact flow matching patterns and then provides the generated tables to parallel processing based flow selection procedure... Agent: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)

20110292831 - Expandable network system and redundant method for the same: Disclosed are an expandable network system and a redundant method applied to the system. According to one embodiment, the network system may be a ring-type or linear-type network system. A plurality of network nodes form one or more sub-networks. Many interconnected sub-networks form another network. While the network system is... Agent:

20110292832 - Generating network topology parameters and monitoring a communications network domain: A method of generating network topology parameters of a communications network domain comprising a plurality of network nodes and a plurality of interconnecting links. The method comprises: identifying network nodes configured to interface with one or more other network domains as summarized nodes; and generating network topology parameters for one... Agent: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)

20110292833 - Port table flushing in ethernet networks: A method and apparatus for flushing port tables in an Ethernet network that includes a Root Bridge node (1) and a plurality of bridge nodes (2-7). A ring of bridge nodes affected by a change in the topology of the Ethernet network is identified from the plurality of, bridge nodes.... Agent:

20110292836 - Evolution of ethernet networks: An Ethernet network comprises nodes which support a plurality of different forwarding modes. A range of VLAN Identifiers (VIDs) are allocated to each of the forwarding modes. Connections are configured between a source node and a destination node of the network using different forwarding modes. Packets carrying data traffic are... Agent:

20110292834 - Maintaining time series models for information technology system parameters: A network-centric modeling mechanism is provided for updating network models in order to mitigate network issues. The network-centric modeling mechanism determines for each component in a plurality of components whether a system parameter in a set of parameters particular to the component has deviated from a predicted system parameter value... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110292835 - Method, and device for configuring wifi parameters: A computer-implemented method for configuring Wireless Fidelity (WiFi) parameters is provided in an embodiment of the present disclosure, including: obtaining the WiFi parameters sent by a mobile access point (AP) that supports a WiFi function; by using a universal serial bus (USB) connection when the USB connection is established between... Agent: Huawei Device Co.,ltd.

20110292837 - Communication management apparatus, communication node, and communication system, and data communication method: The communication management apparatus includes a network-presence-check processing unit that performs network presence check processing for generating network presence information, a token-circulation-order determining unit that determines token circulation order using the network presence information, a setup processing unit that notifies each of communication nodes in the network of token circulation... Agent: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation

20110292838 - Provider link state bridging (plsb) computation method: A method of multicast route computation in a link state protocol controlled network. A spanning tree is computed from a first node to every other node in the network using a known spanning tree protocol. The network is then divided into two or more partitions, each partition encompassing an immediate... Agent: Nortel Networks Limited

20110292839 - Method and system for selective call forwarding based on media attributes in telecommunication network: A method of forwarding a call based on media attributes of the call in a telecommunications network is disclosed. The call forwarding services includes call forwarding based on SDP attributes, media-based partial call forwarding and partial call forwarding to multiple destinations. The method comprises comparing parameters of SDP with call... Agent:

20110292840 - System, method, and computer-readable medium for implementing intelligent network service functionality in a network: A system, method and computer-readable medium for simulating intelligent network triggers in a network system are provided. A mobile terminal is configured with an intelligent network Simulator adapted to detect call events and originate simulated intelligent network triggers in response to the call events. Call progressions implemented according to the... Agent:

20110292841 - Preserving mid-call state in ims centralized services sessions: Techniques for managing multiple ICS sessions in an IMS network are described. In one method, a MSC server detects that a user terminal has been transferred from a first access network to a second access network and, in response, sends a message to an SCC AS, the message indicating transfer... Agent:

20110292842 - Method and device for synchronization and time-stamping for equipment in a communication network of afdx type: The invention has in particular as an object the synchronization of a local clock of an equipment item in a communication network according to synchronization frames emitted by a reference equipment item and transmitted via a switch. After it has received (700) a synchronization frame emitted by the reference equipment... Agent: Airbus Operations (s.a.s)

20110292843 - Method and arrangement in a wireless communication network: e

20110292844 - User equipment for simultaneously transmitting signals to which different wireless communication systems are applied through a plurality of frequency bands: A user equipment (UE) including first and second antennas; a first wireless communication chip configured to output first and second signals corresponding to first and second frequency bands, respectively; a second wireless communication chip configured to output thirds signals corresponding to a third frequency band; and a radio frequency (RF)... Agent:

20110292847 - Apparatus and method for allocating channel state information-reference signal in wireless communication system: Embodiments of the present invention provides an apparatus and method for allocating CSI-RSs to resource areas, in which, under the condition of a subframe in which the CP is an extended CP, and the duplex scheme is TDD, if CSI-RSs for maximum 8 antenna ports are allocated, the CSI-RSs are... Agent: Pantech Co., Ltd.

20110292846 - Method and apparatus for determining the configuration mode of special subframe and the usage mode of time-domain resource: A method and an apparatus for determining the configuration mode of special subframe of a cell are provided, and the method includes: receiving notification messages sent from adjacent cells, and the notification messages containing the information indicating the configuration modes of special subframes of the adjacent cells; determining the configuration... Agent: China Academy Of Telecommunications Technology

20110292845 - Method and equipment for user's uplink data scheduling: A method for user uplink data scheduling and an user equipment are applied in multi-period mode semi-persistent scheduling under 3GPP Long Term Evolution TDD configuration 2, the method includes setting the different offsets delta of periods for multi-period mode semi-persistent scheduling started by each uplink sub-frame in 10 ms radio... Agent: China Mobile Communications Corporation

20110292848 - Method and system wherein timeslots allocated for common control channels may be reused for user traffic: A network apparatus for use in a wireless time division duplex (TDD) code division multiple access communication system includes a processor configured to allocate a time slot in a frame for a plurality of cells for transmission of data over a forward access channel (FACH). Each of the plurality of... Agent: Interdigital Technology Corporation

20110292849 - Smu architecture for turbo decoder: Systems, methods, devices, and computer program products are described for Turbo decoding in a wireless communication system. Turbo encoded wireless signals may be received and demodulated, and forwarded to a branch metric calculator. The branch metric calculator may calculate a set of branch metrics for the demodulated signal. A state... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20110292850 - Smu architecture for turbo decoder: A translator is connected to a first network for transferring data in a first protocol, to a second network for transferring data in a second protocol, and to a translation server to which other translators are connected, for retaining translation information for a protocol translation between the first protocol and... Agent: Hitachi, Ltd.

20110292855 - Dynamic clock buffer power optimization based on modes of operation: Circuitry configured for dynamically adjusting clock signal quality based on an operating mode for power savings is described. The circuitry includes clock generation circuitry. The circuitry also includes mode control circuitry. The mode control circuitry provides a drive signal based on an operating mode. The circuitry also includes clock buffer... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20110292853 - Method and device for reducing power drain while camped on a wireless local area network: A device (200) and method (300) of saving energy in a wireless communication device (200) capable of running on a wide area network and a local area network, are disclosed. The method (300) can include: operating (310) on a wide area network and a local area network, defining an active... Agent: Motorola Mobility, Inc.

20110292851 - Method and system for discontinuous reception operation for long term evolution advanced carrier aggregation: A method for discontinuous reception operation for carrier aggregation comprising: receiving a first set of discontinuous reception parameters for a first carrier and a different set of discontinuous reception parameters for a second carrier; and configuring discontinuous reception parameters on the first carrier and second carrier.... Agent:

20110292856 - Method of allocating paging carrier and mobile station: A method of allocating a paging carrier in a multi-carrier environment is disclosed. The method of allocating the paging carrier includes receiving a first message including first allocation information of the paging carrier, transmitting a second message for requesting entry into an idle mode to a base station; and receiving... Agent:

20110292852 - Method of optimizing power saving and related communication device: A method for optimizing power saving for a mobile device in a wireless communication system is disclosed. The method includes maintaining a battery power status of the mobile device; and sending the battery power status of the mobile device to a network when the battery power status is less than... Agent:

20110292854 - Retuning gaps and scheduling gaps in discontinuous reception: A method for scheduling a time when a retuning gap occurs by a wireless transmit/receive unit includes detecting a retuning triggering event; determining a period of time when a retuning gap occurs, on a condition that the triggering event is detected; and performing radio frequency front end retuning during the... Agent: Interdigital Patent Holdings, Inc.

20110292858 - Broadcasting communication in a wireless communication system: A method for supporting broadcast transmissions and unicast communications in a wireless communication system is described. The method comprises supporting unicast communication in a first mode of operation wherein at least one unicast data transmission unit is encoded and communicated within a time-continuous sub-frame of a first length and a... Agent:

20110292861 - Method and base station for transmitting broadcast multicast service control signaling: The present invention provides a method and base station for transmitting broadcast multicast service control signaling, and the method includes: a serving base station of a cell located in overlapped coverage of more than one Multimedia Broadcast multicast service Single Frequency Network (MBSFN) area respectively determining multi-cell mode broadcast multicast... Agent: Zte Corporation

20110292860 - Method, system and apparatus for notifying network standard time information: A method, system and apparatus for notifying the Network Standard Time Information are provided by the present invention. The present invention is used to notify the Network Standard Time Information to a User Equipment (UE) in the Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service (MBMS) mechanism, thus ensuring that the local time of... Agent: China Academy Of Telecommunications Technology

20110292859 - Mobility management method and system for multicast and broadcast services: A system is disclosed for performing a mobile station handover while continuing a multicast and broadcast service (MCBCS). The system includes a transceiver module transmitting from the mobile station multicast and broadcast service (MBS) zone criteria, including a list of one or more potential target base stations, to a serving... Agent: Zte (usa) Inc.

20110292857 - Network address translator 64 for dual stack mobile internet protocol version six: An apparatus comprising a home agent (HA) configured to couple to a mobile node (MN), a network address translation (NAT) server, and an Internet Protocol (IP) version four (IPv4) only host and to associate an IP version six (IPv6) address for an interface with the MN with an IPv4 address... Agent: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.

20110292866 - Method and device for adjusting sleep mode of mobile station: The present invention provides a method and a device for adjusting the sleep mode of a mobile station in order to solve the problem in current multi-hop relay systems of long time delays in data transmission caused when data packets have to wait for the next listening window to reach... Agent: Alcatel Lucent

20110292865 - Method for allocating backhaul link resources in relay communication system, and method & apparatus for transmitting & receiving data using same: The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for transmitting and receiving data in a relay communication system. The method and the apparatus allocate resources by dividing backhaul link resources into plural partitions, and then transmit and receive data. The data transmission method of the invention comprises the... Agent:

20110292864 - Mobile terminal and mobile terminal data relay method: A mobile terminal includes: a first manner of wireless communicator for conducting wireless communication with a client terminal; a second communicator for conducting wireless communication with a network (NW1); storage for storing data; and communication control for causing data to be transmitted between communicators. The communication control causing data received... Agent: Ntt Docomo, Inc.

20110292867 - Relay station operated according to qos level of service packet and method of operating relay station: A relay station, including a delay information storage unit to store remaining delay information generated in a path from a target relay node to a destination node; an order determination unit to determine an order of processing service packets with a plurality of quality of service (QoS) levels using the... Agent:

20110292862 - Relay station, relay method and wireless communication system: A relay station, that relays wireless communication between a wireless base station and a mobile terminal, includes a processor that detects a connection state of a first link between the wireless base station and the relay station in a wireless communication area, and controls a transmission of a signal using... Agent: Fujitsu Limited

20110292863 - Single input single output repeater for relaying a multiple input multiple output signal: A multiple input multiple output (MIMO) signal is retransmitted using a single input single output (SISO) repeater, which includes Rayleigh channel simulators associated with each separate MIMO channel. Before being combined and transmitted over a single channel, the transmission undergoes simulated Rayleigh fading. The signal is then retransmitted to be... Agent:

20110292880 - Apparatus and method for gating transmission of a data rate control channel in an hdr mobile communication system: A method for communicating with a network by a terminal in a wireless communication system, wherein the terminal receives, from the network, signaling information representing a transmission period and a time offset for uplink transmission of a feedback information, and determines a time to transmit the feedback information based on... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

20110292875 - Apparatus and method for physical broadcast channel (pbch) decoding for multiple cells: A method of wireless communication includes generating a list of cells for physical broadcast channel (PBCH) decoding. The method also includes allocating memory for decoding and cancelling a subset of cells from the generated cell list. The method further includes storing information related to subsets of cells from the generated... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20110292876 - Dynamic mesh networks: In an embodiment, a wireless data exchange network includes a wireless device (WD) operating under a wireless network communications protocol, a wireless access point (AP), operatively linked to the WD and a wired network, and operating under the wireless network communications protocol, and a wireless mobile device (WMD) capable of... Agent: Wavelink Corporation

20110292878 - Gateway apparatus, system and method: A gateway apparatus receives a call control signal and/or a packet that has voice data stored therein in a predetermined protocol or payload format from an access point, converts a protocol of the call control signal and/or a protocol or payload format of the packet into a circuit switched protocol... Agent:

20110292882 - Method and apparatus for distributing data to a mobile device using plural access points: A system and method for providing connectivity between mobile devices and access points of a network without redundant solicitation of communication by the mobile device at each access point is described. The method involves receiving a data packet at a first access point in a control group; transmitting the data... Agent: Broadcom Corporation

20110292873 - Method and apparatus for handling buffer status reporting in a wireless communication system: A method and apparatus for handling buffer status reporting in a wireless communication system includes providing a first buffer size level table having a first maximum buffer size value, and providing a second buffer size level table having a second maximum buffer size value greater than the first maximum buffer... Agent:

20110292868 - Method and apparatus for increasing the capacity and coverage of a multi-sector, omni site: A base station unit of a multi-sector omni-radio base station sends different transmit signals to first and second splitters, via first and second feeders, respectively, according to transmit diversity, spatial multiplexing, or both. The first splitter splits the transmit signal sent thereto amongst sector antennas in a first set of... Agent:

20110292877 - Method for changing gan controller with which a terminal is registered based on location of the terminal which is moving: The present invention relates to a mobile communication network, and more particularly to a method for the allocation and registration of a suitable generic access network (GAN) controller for the location of a terminal when the terminal moves in the mobile communication network. The mobile communication network comprises: a terminal,... Agent:

20110292872 - Method for operating a mobile wireless network: A method of operating a mobile wireless network is described to ensure proper function of protocol entities during the transmission of data units between two wireless stations of the mobile wireless network. In this case, user data is assembled by a first convergence protocol layer of the first wireless station... Agent: Ipcom Gmbh & Co. Kg

20110292881 - Methods and apparatus for random access in multi-carrier communication systems: Methods and apparatus in a multi-carrier cellular wireless network with random access improve receiving reliability and reduce interference of uplink signals of a random access, while improving the detection performance of a base station receiver by employing specifically configured ranging signals.... Agent:

20110292874 - Power headroom reporting for multicarrier lte systems: A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for wireless communication are provided. The apparatus maintains at least one PHR trigger for triggering communication of a PHR for a plurality of component carriers. In addition, the apparatus communicates the PHR for at least one of the component carriers upon... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20110292879 - Prefix allocation method, network system, and local mobility anchor: The present disclosure relates to the mobile communication field and discloses a prefix allocation method, a network system, and a Local Mobility Anchor (LMA). With the prefix allocation method, the network system and the LMA provided in the present disclosure, the problem that a shared prefix cannot be allocated to... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.

20110292869 - System and method for monitoring and control power: An improved system for power monitoring and control is an aftermarket method for improving power monitoring and control in end-user environments such as offices and homes. The disclosed is a wirelessly connected panel that monitors and/or controls power passed through a power interface and is intrinsically paired with that interface.... Agent:

20110292870 - Utilizing emergency procedures to determine location information of a voice over internet protocol device: Described are methods and apparatuses, including computer program products for utilizing emergency procedures to determine location information for a Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP) device. A wireless access gateway (WAG) determines location information of the VOIP device and stores the location information. A request for a location of the VOIP... Agent:

20110292871 - Wireless attachment to multiple radio access networks at the same time: Wireless communication within an area covered by multiple radio access networks may be accomplished where a user equipment (UE) is configured for first and second radio access networks. The UE attaches to the first radio access network, and, while maintaining the attachment to the first radio access network, also attaches... Agent:

20110292892 - Apparatus and method for ranging for uplink resource allocation in broadband wireless communication system: An apparatus and method for ranging for uplink resource allocation in a broadband wireless communication system are provided. The method includes detecting, from an Uplink Channel Descriptor (UCD), first ranging codes corresponding to a first region and second ranging codes corresponding to a second region, selecting one of the second... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.

20110292898 - Centralized channel selection method and apparatus for wireless networks in a dense deployment environment: A method and apparatus are described including scanning a channel, generating a report for the scanned channel, transmitting the channel report to an associated access point and receiving a channel assignment responsive to said channel report. Also described are a method and apparatus including scanning a channel, generating a first... Agent: Thomson Licensing A Corporation

20110292886 - Channel assignment for a wireless network: Channel assignment for access points (APs) in a wireless network includes determining at least one of a MaxSum and a MaxMin, and determining a channel assignment for the APs based on at least one of the MaxSum and the MaxMin. The MaxSum is a maximization of a system throughput and... Agent:

20110292897 - Channel selection method for wireless networks: A method and apparatus are described including categorizing each channel into one of four categories, selecting a channel from a first category of channels, if there are any channels in the first category of channels, selecting a channel from a second category of channels, if there are any channels in... Agent: Thomson Licensing

20110292891 - Control channel allocation method, control channel searching method and communication apparatus using the same: UE-specific search spaces (UE-SS) for a carrier-aggregated communication system are introduced to decrease the number of blind decoding attempts, decrease downlink control information (DCI) blocking probability, and maintain good blind decoding performance. In the proposed control channel allocation method, the control channel searching method and the communication apparatus thereof, the... Agent: Industrial Technology Research Institute

20110292896 - Local breakout session establishment method and apparatus in wireless communication system: A local breakout session establishment method and apparatus in an Evolved Packet System (EPS) is provided for an HeNB to efficiently route local IP packets. A local breakout service method for a wireless communication system including a macro evolved Node B (eNB) and a Home eNB (HeNB) having a Packet... Agent:

20110292903 - Mapping user data onto a time-frequency resource grid in a coordinated multi-point wireless communication sytem: Methods and apparatus are disclosed for receiving user data in a wireless communication system (300) that employs coordinated multi-point transmission of the user data from a first cell serving a wireless terminal (635) and a second cell site neighboring the first cell site. In an exemplary system, the first cell... Agent:

20110292888 - Method and apparatus for customizing a focus inactivity timer based on network watermark conditions: A method and apparatus for customizing foreground application inactivity timer values based on network maximum tunnel count conditions, the method determining a maximum tunnel count value at a mobile device; and configuring at least one tunnel inactivity timer value based on the maximum tunnel count value.... Agent: Research In Motion Limited

20110292889 - Method and apparatus for maximum tunnel reset: A method and apparatus for resetting a maximum tunnel watermark, the method starting a reset timer for a maximum tunnel count at a mobile device; on expiration of the reset timer, checking whether a current value for the maximum tunnel count is less than a maximum value for the maximum... Agent: Research In Motion Limited

20110292905 - Method and apparatus for selecting network access provider: Example embodiments of the present invention provide systems, method, and apparatuses for selecting a network access provider (NAP). In one embodiment, a worldwide interoperability for microwave access (WiMAX) femtocell access point (WFAP) sends an NAP request message to a network service provider (NSP). The WFAP receives an NAP response message... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.

20110292902 - Method and apparatus for transmitting ack/nack: The present invention is directed to a wireless communication system. Particularly, the present invention is directed to a method and an apparatus of transmitting ACK/NACK (acknowledgement/negative-ACK) signal at a user equipment in a wireless communication system, the method comprising: receiving a plurality of data blocks from a transmitting end; reserving... Agent:

20110292900 - Method and apparatus of transmitting ack/nack: The present invention is directed to a wireless communication system is disclosed. More specifically, the present invention is directed to a method of transmitting an ACK/NACK (Acknowledgement/Negative-ACK) signal a user equipment in the wireless communication system, the method includes receiving a first downlink control channel from a base station; receiving... Agent:

20110292901 - Method and arrangement in a wireless communication system: Method and arrangement in base station (110) for estimating the amount of data to be received from a terminal (120). The base station (110) and the terminal (120) are comprised within a wireless communication system (110). The terminal (120) comprises a buffer arranged to buffer frames comprising data. The method... Agent:

20110292887 - Method and arrangements in a communication system: Methods and arrangements in a network node and mobile terminal, respectively, in a wireless communication system supporting aggregation of component carriers. The method in a network node involves, when resources on at least two downlink component carriers are being assigned to a mobile terminal at the same time, allocating (908)... Agent: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)

20110292894 - Method of hybrid automatic repeat request entity handling and communication device thereof: A method of hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) entity handling for a communication device capable of receiving and transmitting on a plurality of component carriers in a wireless communication system is disclosed. The method comprises resetting a HARQ entity associated to a component carrier of the plurality of component carriers... Agent:

20110292906 - Method, apparatus, and system for coordinated multi-point transmission: A method, an apparatus, and a system for Coordinated Multi-Point (CoMP) transmission are provided, which can effectively improve the transmission reliability over the control channel and flexibility of the application. The method includes: allocating different resources to a control channel carrying coordination information and a data channel, and performing CoMP... Agent:

20110292884 - Methods and apparatus supporting load balancing in a wireless communications system: Methods and apparatus supporting load balancing in a wireless communications system implementing decentralized control are described. Different channels, e.g., unused TV channels, are available in different locations for use for communications. Various communications technologies, e.g., WiFi, 3G Blue-Tooth, etc., may be supported by a communications device and may be allowed... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20110292904 - Methods and systems for transmission of multiple modulated signals over wireless networks: A method and apparatus for requesting and allocating bandwidth in a broadband wireless communication system. The inventive method and apparatus includes a combination of techniques that allow a plurality of CPEs to communicate their bandwidth request messages to respective base stations. One technique includes a “polling” method whereby a base... Agent: Wi-lan, Inc.

20110292893 - Nas-based signaling protocol for overload protection of random access in massive machine type communication: A scheme of minimizing the random access load on the network to support MTC or M2M devices is provided. In particular, the concept of grouping (e.g., collecting, combining, aggregating, etc.) MTC or M2M devices based on non-access stratus (NAS) signaling is performed. Doing so results in reduced the random access... Agent: Lg Electronics Inc.

20110292885 - Primary serving gateway resolution: Various embodiments relate to a system and related method for handling requests from a user device in a wireless communications network. Various embodiments relate to a Policy and Charging Rules Node (PCRN) attempting to bind an IP-CAN session established in a Packet Data Network gateway (PGW) with a gateway control... Agent: Alcatel-lucent Canada Inc.

20110292890 - Radio resource management in femtocells: Certain embodiments provide a system comprising a plurality of Femtocell base stations in communicative contact with each other, in use, via a control channel. The Femtocell base stations arranged to exchange information suitable for controlling a said Femtocell base station via said control channel.... Agent: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

20110292899 - Reverse power control methods based on multi carrier: A reverse power control method based on multi-carrier includes: an access network determining a forward carrier for a service, establishing a corresponding relationship between a reverse carrier corresponding to the forward carrier and the forward carrier, and transmitting the forward carrier and the corresponding relationship to the terminal (S102); the... Agent: Zte Corporation

20110292895 - Transmission method and devices in a communication system with contention-based data transmission: A method is described for data transmission by user equipments adapted to transmit data using resource blocks allocated by a radio network. The radio network is adapted to allocate resource blocks to a dedicated one of the user equipments or to a plurality of the user equipments. The method comprises... Agent:

20110292883 - Transmission of wide bandwidth signals in a network having legacy devices: A method for generating a preamble of a frame for a wide-bandwidth channel wireless communication begins by generating a legacy carrier detect field. The method continues by generating a channel sounding field, wherein the channel sounding field includes a plurality of tones within the wide-bandwidth channel, wherein a first set... Agent: Broadcom Corporation, A California Corporation

20110292908 - Additional service type setup in mobile terminals having multiple radio access network accessiblity: In an area covered by multiple different radio access networks, a user equipment (UE) capable of accessing each of the multiple networks at the same time may provide additional service type setup for different call types. The UE registers each of the available call types with a first radio access... Agent:

20110292909 - Alternate transmission scheme for high speed packet access (hspa): Post-hard handover processing in a Time Division-Synchronous Code Division Multiple Access (TD-SCDMA) network may be improved to allow operation of High Speed Packet Access (HSPA) in hard handover. For example, uplink synchronization may be completed concurrent with HSPA to quickly resume HSPA operation in hard handovers. User Equipment (UE) may... Agent:

20110292912 - Communication system and communication controlling method: A communication method in LIPA/SIPTO architecture is provided which, when a user equipment (UE) is to connect from a serving area to an external network, allows re-selection of an optimal gateway. The communication method allows selecting a gateway apparatus physically or topologically close to a site, where the user equipment... Agent: Nec Corporation

20110292907 - Method and system for ground station signal handover for aircraft: A method and system for ground station signal handoff for an aircraft. The method comprises receiving signal quality data and position data from each of a plurality of ground stations as a signal from each of the ground stations becomes detectable onboard the aircraft, while the aircraft is in communication... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20110292910 - Method of generating signal for supporting vehicle communication handover: When supporting the handover from first road side equipment of a plurality of sets of road side equipment and second road side equipment that is adjacent to the first road side equipment to a vehicle, the first road side equipment generates a first channel seizing signal that is longer than... Agent: Electronics And Telecommunications Research Institute

20110292913 - Method, system, and apparatus for registration processing: A registration processing method and an apparatus are disclosed herein to enable the network to distinguish between different registration processing types. The method includes: identifying, by a user equipment, UE, a registration type when registering into a network; reporting, by the UE, a registration processing type information corresponding to the... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.

20110292911 - Mobile station apparatus, base station apparatus, handover method and mobile communication system: A handover procedure is easily performed in a carrier aggregation state of receiving a plurality of frequency bands. There are provided a plurality of reception branches for performing a reception process for each frequency band, and a reception-signal processing control section 10 that performs control of switching a reception branch... Agent: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha

20110292914 - Internetworking of cellular radio networks and wireless data networks: h

20110292918 - Broadcasting method, access control apparatus and radio apparatus: A processing unit generates the timing information on the timing with which each of radio apparatuses is to synchronize in communications between the radio apparatuses when each of radio apparatuses broadcasts a signal. A modem unit, an RF unit and an antenna broadcast the thus generated timing information. The processing... Agent:

20110292915 - Multiple carrier activation/deactivation in wireless communications: Systems, methods and apparatuses are provided that facilitate selecting resources, such as time slots, subframes, etc., for performing bandwidth switching related to activating and/or deactivating one or more carriers. A data portion of one or more subframes can be selected for performing bandwidth switching. In addition, a device can determine... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20110292916 - Radio base station and radio resource allocation method: Provided are a radio packet type determining section that determines at least whether a radio packet is a first transmission packet that is allocated persistently at predetermined time intervals or a retransmission packet among radio packets transmitted to a radio communication terminal, a first transmission interval control section that controls... Agent: Ntt Docomo, Inc.

20110292917 - System and method for timing adjustment to protect cqi: Certain aspects of the present disclosure propose methods for protecting channel quality indicator (CQI) modulation symbols in a subframe (e.g., a localized frequency division multiplexing (LFDM) subframe). For some aspects, a timing adjustment method may be utilized to adjust time of a UE with respect to an eNodeB. The timing... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20110292919 - Device, system and method of wireless communication over non-contiguous channels: Some demonstrative embodiments include devices, systems and/or methods of wireless communication over non-contiguous channels. For example, a device may include a wireless communication unit capable of transmitting symbols of a wireless communication packet to a wireless communication device over a plurality of non-contiguous wireless communication channels, wherein the wireless communication... Agent:

20110292923 - Method and system for addressing a mobile terminal: Means and methodology for a telecommunication network are pro-vided that allow using an IMEI of mobile terminal as destination or identification instead of the regular IMSI or MSISDN. This capability of the telecommunication network is provided by maintaining a set of coupled pairs of IMEI and IMSI/MSISDN. Operational messages in... Agent:

20110292921 - Multi-communications-media network device: A network device may include a processor executing higher layer processes including layers of a protocol stack higher than a media access layer, a first physical interface (PHY) coupled to a first communications medium, a second PHY coupled to a second communications medium, and a media access controller (MAC) to... Agent: Wirefi Networks

20110292925 - Network device for implementing access points and multiple client stations: A wireless network device includes N access point (AP) modules having N BSSID's, where N is an integer greater than 1. The wireless network device includes a control module that communicates with the N AP modules. The control module stores the N BSSID's, a BSSID of an (N+1)th external AP... Agent:

20110292924 - Network processing node and method for manipulating packets: A network processing node (e.g., MGW, MRFP) and method are described herein that can: (1) receive packets on a first heterogeneous link (e.g., wireless link); (2) manipulate the received packets based on known characteristics about a second heterogeneous link (e.g., “Internet” link); and (3) send the manipulated packets on the... Agent:

20110292920 - System and method for providing wi-fi access to electronic devices in a personal area network (pan): A system and method for providing Wi-Fi access to electronic devices is disclosed. A plurality of electronic devices in a PAN is provided. A Wi-FI compatible server is associated with each electronic device in the PAN. The Wi-Fi compatible server associated with each electronic device is capable of configuring a... Agent:

20110292922 - Wireless router, wireless routing method, and wireless routing system: A wireless router is provided, which includes: a wireless Access Point (AP) module, connected to a terminal equipment through a wireless link, and configured to implement wireless access of the terminal equipment; a station (STA) module, connected to a wireless AP in a fixed network through a wireless link, and... Agent:

20110292926 - Multiple input multiple output communication system and communication method of configuring codebook: A multiple input multiple output (MIMO) communication system and communication method of configuring a codebook are provided. A channel may be formed between a transmitter and a receiver, and a cross-polarization discrimination value (XPD) may be detected. The XPD may vary based on a location of the transmitter and the... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

20110292927 - Uplink receiving apparatus of ofdma system based on lte and frequency synchronization method thereof: Provided are an uplink receiving device of a long term evolution (LTE)-based orthogonal frequency division multiplexing access (OFDMA) system, and a method of synchronizing a frequency thereof. The uplink receiving device includes a fast Fourier transform (FFT) processing unit eliminating a cyclic prefix (CP) from an OFDM uplink signal to... Agent: Electronics And Telecommunications Research Institute

20110292930 - Method and system for communicating across telephone and data networks: A method and system for communicating across telephone and data networks are disclosed. According to one embodiment, a computer-implemented method, comprises receiving a first call from a first user phone that converts the first call from a format of a first local phone network to a first digital call. The... Agent:

20110292928 - Method, modem and server for bridging telephone calls into internet calls: The present invention relates to a method for bridging traffic in analogue channel into digital channel using Asymmetrical Digital Subscriber Line, said method comprises: step of PSTN network connecting, in which caller and callee ADSLs establish PSTN network connection using PSTN signaling in the analogue channel; step of discovering Internet... Agent:

20110292929 - Signalling messages in a communications network node to communicate a called address string: Communications network node (5) configured to receive a called address string of a call destination and to output the called address string. The node comprises a processor (10) and a memory (12). The memory arranged to store at least one address string, and the processor configured to compare the called... Agent: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)

20110292931 - Network system and network apparatus: In a virtual network apparatus, even when a fault occurs on a private line connecting plural physical network apparatuses to communicate a control signal, the redundancy is maintained, and the lower forwarding capability is prevented. In this network system, a control signal for virtualization to be transmitted and received between... Agent: Alaxala Networks Corporation

20110292932 - Extensible time space switch systems and methods: The present disclosure provides a structured, pipelined large time-space switch and method of operation resolving interconnect complexity. The time-space switch results in an interconnect complexity that does not grow as the spatial dimension is increased and results in a reduction of long high fan-out nets, a quicker layout, and improved... Agent:

20110292934 - Data filtering apparatus and data filtering method: Disclosed herein is a data filtering apparatus, including: a plurality of pre-filters configured to extract a designated type of data from input data carrying a plurality of types of data; a plurality of post-filters configured to extract, from the data extracted by the pre-filter designated to be connected, the data... Agent: Sony Corporation

20110292933 - Dynamic route cost adjustment of vrrp enabled subnets for routing protocols: The invention is directed to routing data packets in networks having routers configured as a virtual router using virtual router redundancy protocol (VRRP). Embodiments of the invention adjust route metrics to aid in providing predictable selection of routes into VRRP subnets. Advantageously, providing predictable selection of routes into VRRP subnets... Agent: Alcatel-lucent Usa, Inc.

20110292936 - Method and system for transmitting multichannel data packets: A method and a system for transmitting multichannel data packets are disclosed in the present invention to implement the transmission of the multichannel data packets with the same network socket, and to improve the work efficiency of the multichannel data packet transmission. The method for transmitting multichannel data packets provided... Agent:

20110292935 - Relay device, control information generating method, control and information generation program: A relay device includes: a relay to relay a frame transmitted and received between transmission devices as a termination of a transferring path of a piece of data; an information generator to obtain a piece of path identification information for identifying the transferring path and a piece of device identification... Agent: Fujitsu Limited

20110292937 - Point-to-multipoint service in a layer two ethernet network: Techniques are described for providing point-to-multipoint (P2MP) Ethernet service in a L2 network. Routers providing the Ethernet service allow an administrator to classify local attachment circuits as either “leaf” attachment circuits or “root” attachment circuits to define a tree-like architecture for forwarding Ethernet frames within a VPLS domain. Based on... Agent: Juniper Networks, Inc.

20110292939 - Method & apparatus for forwarding table reduction: A LAN includes a router that is connected to two or more racks of servers and each of the servers can support a plurality of virtual machines. The router is configured to forward data packets based on IP destination addresses or based on destination MAC addresses and builds and maintains... Agent:

20110292943 - Method and apparatus for forwarding packets: The present invention relates to the field of communication technologies, and discloses a method and an apparatus for forwarding packets to solve the problems in the prior art, namely, if a long Internet Protocol (IP) address needs to be searched for at the time of forwarding a packet, the number... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.

20110292942 - Router, information processing device and program: A router has a sending module that sends information to a data center connected with a wide-area-network when the router has been connected with the wide-area-network, the information being registered in the router beforehand and including information relating to an information-management-device that starts up a virtual machine and a virtual... Agent: Fujitsu Limited

20110292940 - System and method for establishing a communication path using labels: A communication path is established by a sequence of nodes so that a data packet is transferred using labels each being assigned to a data link connecting each pair of adjacent nodes along the communication path. The sequence of nodes includes an origination node, one or more relay node, and... Agent: Fujitsu Limited

20110292938 - System and method of redirecting internet protocol traffic for network based parental controls: A method of redirecting traffic on a network includes receiving a subscriber request to use a parental control service, assigning to the subscriber's access device an Internet protocol (IP) address from a block of addresses reserved for the service, receiving a transaction, determining that the transaction is from an address... Agent: At&t Intellectual Property I, L.p.

20110292941 - Transmitter and control information configuration method: A transmitter includes: a receiving unit to receive apparatus identification information that identifies transmitter and path identification information that identifies a data transfer path from another transmitter coupled to a local apparatus; a comparing unit to compare a value indicating an address assigned to the another transmitter to a value... Agent: Fujitsu Limited

20110292944 - Fly-by and ack-accelerated arbitration for broadcast packets: A method for administering transmission of a first type of packets and a second type of packets over a serial bus is disclosed. The method comprises: if there is a packet of a second type to be sent, then concatenating the packet of the second type to a plurality of... Agent:

20110292945 - Packet receiving device, packet communication system, and packet reordering method: Under an environment where a packet retransmission is performed, a packet receiving device includes a reordering section, configured to perform a reordering of a receiving packet in a lower layer than a network protocol stack, and a buffer section. Out-of-Order packet among receiving packets is associated with a flow and... Agent: Nec Corporation

20110292946 - Virtualization platform: The invention relates to a visualization platform (9) arranged to provide at least one virtual operating system instance (9A, . . . , 9N) to at least one remote network (3) over a packet-based communication network (5). The visualization platform is characterized in that it comprises at least one first... Agent: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)

20110292947 - Distributed configuration management for virtual cluster switching: One embodiment of the present invention provides a switch. The switch includes a port to couple to a second switch. The switch also includes a control mechanism configured to maintain a set of configuration information for a virtual cluster switch which includes a number of member switches. The set of... Agent: Brocade Communications Systems, Inc.

20110292948 - Apparatus and method for providing a network termination point: Apparatus and method for providing a termination point for service emulation instances in an access network is provided. In an embodiment, the service emulation instances are implemented utilizing, for example, pseudowires. Communications to and from the access network are aggregated and transmitted via one or more pseudowires to a service... Agent: Verizon Business Global LLC

20110292949 - Path management control method, path management control program, path management control device and path management control system: The path management controller 1 refers to resource information 131 including reservation statuses of working paths and advance reserved paths that are set in every link, so as to calculate a route for setting a new path and set this path in this calculated route. If the route for setting... Agent: Nippon Telegraph And Telephone Corporation

20110292950 - Input/output interface for periodic signals: A first periodic signal generation circuit generates first periodic output signals. A second periodic signal generation circuit generates second periodic output signals. A first multiplexer circuit receives the first and the second periodic output signals. An interface circuit coupled to external pins generates a third periodic output signal based on... Agent: Altera Corporation