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Multiplex communications January recently filed with US Patent Office 01/13

20130028068 - Channel state information feedback device, method thereof, and base station: An embodiment of the present invention relates to a wireless communication system, wherein said wireless communication system uses multiple input and multiple output antenna (MIMO) on both transmission and receiving ends.... Agent: Pantech Co., Ltd.

20130028069 - Method and apparatus for radio resources management in multi-radio access technology wireless systems: Methods and apparatus for performing wireless communication in a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) configured for multi-radio access technology (RAT) operation are disclosed. A method includes the WTRU wirelessly communicating information on a first operating frequency according to a first RAT. The WTRU also wirelessly communicates information on a second operating... Agent: Interdigital Patent Holdings, Inc.

20130028071 - In-band signaling for point-multipoint packet protection switching: A method and system provide in-band protection switch signaling in a communication system arranged as a point-to-multipoint tree. The point-to-multipoint tree includes a root node communicatively coupled to a plurality of leaf nodes through both a working link and a protection link. Data is transferred through a current link of... Agent: Ciena Corporation

20130028070 - Method and apparatus for resilient routing of control traffic in a split-architecture system: The invention is a routing algorithm characteristic that minimizes the weight, meaning that the probability that a node is disconnected from the controller in case of a failure in the network is minimized. The first algorithm used in the invention is an approximation algorithm for finding the controller routing tree... Agent:

20130028073 - Controller placement for fast failover in the split architecture: A method implemented by a network topology design system, the network topology design system including a processing device. The method to determine placement of a controller within a network with a split architecture where control plane components of the split architecture network are executed by a controller and the control... Agent: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)

20130028074 - Method and apparatus for protecting a communication network against failure: A method for protecting a communication network against failure, comprising the steps of: a) obtaining a primary network, represented by a graph of nodes and links, wherein each link has an associated capacity; b) computing a backup network, that includes nodes of the primary network and links that are not... Agent: Technion- Research And Development Foundation Ltd.

20130028072 - Method and system for management of flood traffic over multiple 0:n link aggregation groups: In accordance with embodiments of the present disclosure, a method and system may include receiving a plurality of packets comprising flood traffic of a bridged VLAN domain at an ingress line card port. The system and method may further include splitting the packets into multiple internal streams and forwarding the... Agent: Fujitsu Network Communications, Inc.

20130028075 - Detecting abnormal bearer termination and dynamically restoring flows utilizing an alternative bearer: An abnormal termination of a dedicated bearer (e.g., a lost bearer) (134) or a change in bearer characteristics that renders the dedicated bearer unusable of a mobile device (114) can be detected. The lost bearer (128) is a bearer that is not a default bearer (132) within a communication network... Agent: Motorola Solutions, Inc.

20130028076 - Method and device for preventing repeated refreshing of address table of ethernet ring network node: A method and a device for preventing repeated refreshing of an address table of an Ethernet ring network node are provided. After a state of a port of the Ethernet ring network node is changed to a blocked state, it is determined that whether the Ethernet ring network node is... Agent: Zte Corporation

20130028077 - Transmission apparatus and method: A transmission apparatus includes an acquisition device that acquires a switch request for plural types of transmission sections overlapping with one another at least at apart of the sections, a selection device that selects one of the switch requests for plural types of transmission sections according to priority level information... Agent: Fujitsu Limited

20130028078 - Transmission terminal and transmission method: The present technology can be applied to a multiple point distribution system that transmits a video stream to a plurality of transmission destinations by using a transport protocol having a congestion control mechanism, such as TCP. A transmission terminal transmits the video stream in the same thread (first thread) with... Agent: Sony Corporation

20130028081 - Method and apparatus for balancing load and reducing call blocking in a td-scdma system: A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for wireless communication are provided in connection with providing a process for balancing loads and reducing call blocking in a TD-SCDMA network. In one example, a user equipment (UE) is equipped to obtain a received signal code power (RSCP) value and... Agent:

20130028084 - Mobile communication system, controller and method: A controller in a mobile communication system includes a management unit (151) configured to manage a resource usage condition in the mobile communication system and a determination unit (152) configured to determine a timer value for determining a frequency of transmitting a state transition request signal for causing a user... Agent: Ntt Docomo, Inc.

20130028082 - Packet transmission device, memory control circuit, and packet transmission method: A packet transmission device includes a buffer stores packet data in any of queues, a queue manager outputs queue-status signals indicating whether or not transmittable packet data exists in the corresponding one of the queues, a bandwidth controller outputs token-status signals indicating whether or not an amount of the tokens... Agent: Fujitsu Limited

20130028083 - Router, method for controlling router, and program: An router includes: a plurality of data storage sections configured to store input data; and an arbiter configured to compare the availability of at least one of the plurality of data storage sections with respect to data that is stored in that data storage section and that shares at least... Agent: Panasonic Corporation

20130028080 - System and method for configuration and management of queue sets: A network device includes port interfaces and a traffic buffer configured with queue sets for buffering packets transmitted or received on the port interfaces. The network device also includes a management module that stores one or more queue set profiles. The queue set profiles specify configuration parameters for buffering and... Agent: Alcatel-lucent Usa, Inc.

20130028079 - Systems and methods for resource booking for admission control and scheduling: Systems and methods provide for performing admission control in a communications network. The method includes: receiving a request for an entity or service for admission to the communications network; calculating resources, wherein the step of calculating resources includes: estimating a first future resource use for current entities and services in... Agent: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)

20130028088 - Data flow control method and apparatus: There is provided a method of controlling a transmission rate of a data stream by a server transmitting the data stream to a client device over a network, the method comprising receiving a feedback message from the client, the feedback message containing information indicating a positive or negative acknowledgement of... Agent:

20130028085 - Flow control in packet processing systems: Flow control in a packet processing system includes obtaining metric data measuring utilization of at least one resource in the packet processing system over intervals of a time period. A value of a flow control load parameter is adjusted during each of the intervals based on comparing the metric data... Agent:

20130028090 - Router and chip circuit: Routers in a data transfer system relay data between the first node and each of the second nodes. A router includes a load value processing section and an aggregation decision section. The load value processing section obtains information about a load value of another router connected to a communications bus.... Agent: Panasonic Corporation

20130028089 - System and method for improving transport protocol performance in communication networks having lossy links: Providing transport protocol within a communication network having a lossy link. The receiver distinguishes between packets received with non-congestion bit errors and packets having been not at all received due to congestion. When packets are received with non-congestion bit errors, the receiver sends selective acknowledgments indicating that the packets were... Agent: At&t Intellectual Property Ii, L.p.

20130028086 - System and method for selecting routing and cancelling overloading in multihop cellular systems: A method for selecting routing and cancelling overloading in multihop cellular systems is provided herein. The method includes finding a user group having several routing selections in an overloading relay station, finding a user having maximum routing selections in the user group, disconnecting the routing link between the overloading relay... Agent: Chung Yuan Christian University

20130028087 - Systems and methods for dynamic quality of service: Systems, methods, and apparatus for routing are provided in which a connection track comprising a plurality of network or transport layer packets, received by a router, is identified by examining header fields of one or more packets in the plurality of packets. One or more quality of service (QoS) parameters... Agent:

20130028092 - Data flow control: A communication device capable of receiving data from a transmitting device via a communications link, the communication device comprising a buffer and being capable of generating, in dependence on the capacity of the buffer to accommodate data received over the communications link, information for inducing the transmitting device to change... Agent: Cambridge Silicon Radio Limited

20130028093 - Method and apparatus for load balancing in cellular communication system: A method and an apparatus for load balancing a serving subcell providing a data service to one or more user equipments in a cellular communication system are provided. The method includes calculating a load metric by using a radio resource occupation rate of data traffic in one or more scheduling... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.

20130028091 - System for controlling switch devices, and device and method for controlling system configuration: A control device which controls configuration of a control system including a plurality of control nodes, wherein at least one control node controls a plurality of switch devices by sending packet handling rules, includes: a monitor which monitors workloads of control nodes in use, each control node in use controlling... Agent: Nec Corporation

20130028094 - Fiber chanel device: A fiber channel device comprising a processor to distribute and receive link constraint information on available links when there is a need to transmit data packets to a destination, and to establish a constraint-based routed label switch path (CRLSP) to transmit data packets to the destination.... Agent:

20130028097 - Communications terminal and method: A communications terminal is provided for communicating data packets with a mobile communications network. The mobile communications network includes base stations for communicating data packets with the communications terminals via a radio access interface, and a core network part which communicates the data packets with the base stations of the... Agent: Intellectual Ventures Holding 81 LLC

20130028095 - Dynamic allocation of context identifiers for header compression: In one embodiment, routable traffic through one or more border routers between a local computer network and a global computer network is monitored in order to characterize use of one or more global prefixes of the traffic. A particular set of the global prefixes, up to a maximum number, that... Agent: Cisco Technology, Inc.

20130028096 - Method for performing radio link control with round trip time awareness, and associated apparatus: A method for performing radio link control (RLC) with round trip time (RTT) awareness is provided, where the method is applied to an electronic device. The method includes: dynamically estimating an index according to one or more factors; and based upon the index, dynamically adjusting a status prohibit timer value... Agent:

20130028098 - Wireless communication apparatus and wireless communication method: Provided are a wireless communication apparatus and a wireless communication method capable of reducing power consumption without delay of data transmission and reception. The wireless communication apparatus according to the invention includes a reception unit which receives a DRX instruction information destined for the wireless communication apparatus and a monitor... Agent: Panasonic Corporation

20130028099 - Bootstrapping fault detection sessions over a p2mp tunnel: A method for detecting faults associated with a tunnel delivering multicast traffic from a source provider edge router (PE) to each of a plurality of destination PEs, the method using a routing protocol such as BGP to communicate route information to destination PEs, and a fault detection protocol such as... Agent:

20130028101 - Method and apparatus for providing signature based predictive maintenance in communication networks: A method and apparatus for collecting and processing line performance data transmitted over cables, e.g., Y-cables, is disclosed. The present invention applies a method based on specific performance measurements, specific measurement time intervals, and compare results from different measurement time intervals to produce a “signature” that indicates deteriorating performance of... Agent: At&t Corp.

20130028100 - System and method for deterministic testing of packet error rate in electronic devices: A method and system for testing packet error rate in electronic devices by transmitting a series of data packets from a testing device to a device under test (DUT) and setting a predefined number of received error-free data packets; evaluating whether a number of data packets from the series of... Agent: Litepoint Corporation

20130028102 - Adjusting a single-input and multiple-output (simo) channel quality indicator (cqi): A method for adjusting a received channel quality indicator is described. A channel quality indicator is received from a wireless communication device. A first transmission time interval for which the channel quality indicator was generated is determined. The received channel quality indicator is adjusted using an outer loop margin. The... Agent:

20130028115 - Combining p2p and server-based conferencing: A system and a method for teleconferencing including a plurality of terminals, a plurality of peer servers and at least one conferencing servers, where the terminals measure their channel quality, create at least one group of terminals according to their channel quality measurements, and using a coding scheme adaptive to... Agent:

20130028114 - Conversion of inputs to determine quality of service (qos) score and qos rating along selectable dimensions: A multi-dimensional analysis method for operation of a data server to isolate Quality of Service issues to constituents within major or minor Key Performance Indicators.... Agent: Carrier Iq, Inc.

20130028104 - Estimated transmission overhead (eto) metrics for variable data rate communication links: In one embodiment, an expected transmission count (ETX) link metric is computed for a link between a transmitter and a receiver in a communication network, the ETX representative of an expected number of transmissions necessary for a message to be successfully received by the receiver over the link, and a... Agent: Cisco Technology, Inc.

20130028112 - Information distribution system and information management device: For a user signal (signal requesting for provision of services) input to a signal transport network, header information for transmission in the signal transport network is given at a portal edge of the signal transport network on the user side. The information given at this time includes a time stamp... Agent: Hitachi, Ltd

20130028103 - Link reliability metrics in communication networks: In one embodiment, a transmitter in a communication network receives an indication of active transmission times of a receiver to which the transmitter attempts to reach with first transmissions, the active transmission times indicating respective times of second transmissions initiated by the receiver. Based on determining when the first transmissions... Agent: Cisco Technology, Inc.

20130028107 - Macro network optimization with assistance from femto cells: The disclosed subject matter relates to employing a received signal strength indicator returned from a femto cell to optimize a multiple access wireless communication network. In particular, a method operable in a wireless communications network is disclosed. The method comprises receiving a received signal strength indicator from a femto cell... Agent: At&t Mobility Ii LLC

20130028118 - Managing handoff triggering between unicast and multicast services: A wireless communication network may provide services, e.g., multimedia services, in unicast and broadcast modes, and the mode of providing a service may depend on a level of demand. In response to changing demand for a service the network may determine that service should transition from one mode to the... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20130028117 - Method and apparatus for aggregating carriers of multiple radio access technologies: The described aspects include methods and apparatus for communicating control information in a carrier aggregation configuration that uses multiple radio access technologies (RAT). A first resource assignment related to a first carrier corresponding to a first RAT can be received, as well as, a second resource assignment related to a... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20130028108 - Method and apparatus for detecting downlink control information: The present invention discloses a method for detecting downlink control information, including: when scheduling across carriers is enabled, determining by user equipment (UE) user-specific search space monitoring a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) according to component carrier indexes, wherein the component carrier indexes include component carrier indexes corresponding to various... Agent: Zte Corporation

20130028113 - Method and apparatus for locally managed allocation of bandwidth in a wireless network: A method for fabricating read-only copy protected optical medium comprising: a substrate (54) having information pits (18) and lands (16) thereon and a light sensitive material (56) placed at a position capable of altering the data reading during copying of the optical medium but permitting read of the underlying data... Agent: Fujitsu Limited

20130028129 - Method and apparatus for transmitting feedback information of a terminal in a multi-node system: Provided are a method and apparatus for transmitting feedback information of a terminal in a multi-node system in which a plurality of antennas are distributed and disposed in a cell. The method comprises the steps of: transmitting first feedback information, indicating a state between a channel and at least one... Agent: Lg Electronics Inc.

20130028123 - Method and apparatus for utilizing multiple carriers in high speed packet access communications technical field: A method and an apparatus for utilizing multiple carriers are disclosed. A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) capable of receiving on a single downlink carrier at a time may tune the receiver to one downlink carrier and switch the downlink carrier in accordance with a configured pattern. The WTRU may switch... Agent: Interdigital Patent Holdings, Inc.

20130028126 - Method and arrangement in a wireless communication system: According to some embodiments of the invention, a method is provided in a radio network node for scheduling data transmission and/or reception. According to the method, the radio network node predicts (530) at least one autonomous gap occurrence in which user equipments served by the radio network node will use... Agent: Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (publ)

20130028130 - Method and system of monitoring the receipt of multicast traffic: A method and system for monitoring data packet traffic in a multicast network comprising determining a first packet count received at a receiver router, representing a quantity of data packets associated with a multicast group and source at a first time, determining a second packet count received at that receiver... Agent: At&t Intellectual Property Ii, L.p.

20130028122 - Methods and systems for wireless networks with relays: Methods and systems are provided for use with wireless networks having one or more cell in which each cell includes a base station (BS), at least one relay station (RS) and at least one mobile station (MS). The at least one relay station can be used as an intermediate station... Agent: Apple Inc.

20130028127 - Methods, apparatuses and nodes for determining and adjusting target packet delay of a link segment: In embodiments of the present invention, there is disclosed a method, apparatus, and network node for determining target packet delays of respective segments of a link. The method may comprise: collecting parameters affecting packet delays; and determining target packet delays of respective segments based on the collected parameters and an... Agent: Alcatel Lucent

20130028121 - Packet loss anticipation and pre emptive retransmission for low latency media applications: In many low latency media applications it is important to transmit media data packets from a media source to one or more media destinations as promptly as possible, while also ensuring that all media data packets that may be lost due to transmission errors are retransmitted and received correctly at... Agent:

20130028109 - Point-dependent resource symbol configuration in a wireless cell: A high-power point and one or more low-power points transmit signals associated with the same cell-identifier in a heterogeneous cell deployment. Coverage areas corresponding to the low-power points fall at least partly within the coverage area for the high-power point, so that mobile stations within range of a low-power point... Agent: Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (publ)

20130028125 - Radio base station and communication control method: A radio base station 1 used in a radio communication system in which an SC-FDMA scheme is adopted for an uplink and an OFDMA scheme is adopted for a downlink, comprises: a receiver 140 configured to perform reception processing on a radio signal in the SC-FDMA scheme or the OFDMA... Agent: Kyocera Corporation

20130028131 - Real-time network node location system and method: A system for determining a position of location of a tag includes, in an embodiment: a plurality of routers each including at least one antenna; and a location engine to: (a) determine for at least one router, from signals sent by the one router and at least part of which... Agent: Buzby Networks, LLC

20130028119 - Reducing plmn search time: A method includes storing in a mobile communication terminal a definition of a set of frequency bands in which the terminal is capable of communicating, including at least first and second frequency bands. One or more combinations of at least portions of the frequency bands in the set, which cannot... Agent:

20130028106 - Resource aware parallel process distribution on multi-node network devices: Techniques are provided for monitoring a plurality of independently operating processing nodes in a core data packet routing system, wherein each processing node is running its own operating system instance. A placement decision is made for respective processes on selected ones of the independently operating processing nodes based on a... Agent: Cisco Technology, Inc.

20130028128 - System and method for dynamic band scheduling: A method and apparatus that allows a communication system to operate across multiple bands and access technologies and to dynamically assign bands to user equipment (UE) devices based on properties of the bands, traffic conditions, services being delivered and other considerations.... Agent: Research In Motion Limited

20130028120 - System and method for measuring and reporting uplink channel condition: A method for reporting channel condition includes receiving an initial configuration identifying a group of assessment devices, and determining a channel condition for each communications channel between one of the assessment devices and the transmission point. The method also includes comparing each of the channel conditions with a first threshold,... Agent: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.

20130028111 - Systems and methods for a cognitive radio having adaptable characteristics: Systems and methods for configuring a network of radios for dynamic spectrum access are described. A network radio can include hardware and/or software modules for detecting a radio environment and negotiating common communications channels with a plurality of other radios in the network. Network radio behavior can be defined by... Agent: Shared Spectrum Company

20130028110 - Transmitting device and transmitting method: According to one embodiment, a transmitting device includes a transmitter configured to transmit a frame; a first carrier sensor configured to perform carrier sense in a wider bandwidth than a signal bandwidth to be used for a transmission of the frame by the transmitter; and an idle detector configured to... Agent: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

20130028105 - Wide field indexing for packet tracking: Methods, apparatus, and computer readable storage media for accumulating traffic statistics. A traffic receiver may receive a packet and determine a flow identifier associated with the received packet. A hash function may be applied to the flow identifier to generate a memory pointer. One or more records may be retrieved... Agent:

20130028124 - Wireless communication device and wireless communication method: A wireless communication device according to the invention includes a reception section that receives a downlink signal in a first subframe from another wireless communication device; an ACK/NACK generation section that generates ACK/NACK which indicates an error determination result of the received downlink signal; a determination section that determines, when... Agent: Panasonic Corporation

20130028116 - Wlan having load balancing based on access point loading: A network having distribution of access point loading includes access points to which mobile stations can associate themselves based upon access point beacon signal levels and loading levels for the various access points. A mobile station receives beacon signals from various access points and determines a signal strength for the... Agent: At&t Intellectual Property Ii, L.p.

20130028138 - Configuration method and system for sounding reference signal in long term evolution-advanced system: A configuration method for a sounding reference signal in a Long Term Evolution Advanced (LTE-A) system is disclosed in the present invention. The method includes: an eNB triggering one or multiple User Equipment (UE) to transmit an aperiodic Sounding Reference Signal (SRS) on one or multiple uplink subframes through a... Agent: Zte Corporation

20130028139 - Establishing connectivity between a relay node and a configuration entity: A method of establishing connectivity between a relay node and an OAM entity in a communications network, the method comprising the steps of: establishing a connection between the relay node and a user plane of the communications network; addressing communications to the OAM entity defined as residing in an OAM... Agent: Nokia Siemens Networks Oy

20130028133 - Managing multiple virtual network memberships: To facilitate management and configuration of VLAN memberships associated with applications or network protocols, a network device receives a packet from a wireless station which is a member of a virtual local area network (VLAN). The network device determines whether the packet is associated with a predefined application or network... Agent:

20130028132 - Method and electronic device for communication traffic management: An electronic device and method, including: a communication module, a display, and a controller configured to: obtain information about data communication carried out in a network through the communication module from the network providing multimedia services; and display a plurality of multimedia devices connected to the network and connectivity relationship... Agent:

20130028137 - Method and system for location based configuration of a wireless access point (wap) and an access device in a hybrid wired/wireless network: Aspects of the invention provide a method and system for location based configuration of a wireless access point and an access device in a hybrid wired/wireless network. A method for providing location based configuration in a hybrid wired/wireless network may include identifying a location of a network device within the... Agent: Broadcom Corporation

20130028135 - Methods, systems and apparatus for the control of interconnection of fibre channel over ethernet devices: Systems, apparatus and methods are provided for interconnection of one or more Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) devices. The system preferably comprises a virtualized or virtual server which in turn comprises a virtual machine having an FCoE device interconnection apparatus controller, a virtual switch, the virtual switch being coupled to... Agent:

20130028136 - Network edge switch configuration based on connection profile: Connection profiles are created and stored. The connection profiles are for connections for sources to connect to a network. The connection profiles identify network attributes for the connections and each connection profile includes a status of available or subscribed. A connection profile is assigned to a requested connection for a... Agent:

20130028134 - System and method for signaling configuration of sounding reference signals: The present invention discloses a method for a signaling configuration of a sounding reference signal. The method includes: a base station notifying a user equipment to aperiodically send the sounding reference signal, and sending configuration information of aperiodically sending the sounding reference signal (SRS) down to the user equipment. The... Agent: Zte Corporation

20130028141 - Method and apparatus for allocating backbone vlan identifiers: Methods and apparatuses for allocating backbone virtual local area network identifiers (BVIDs) to connection requests in a provider backbone bridging-traffic engineering (PBB-TE) network are described. During operation, a system (e.g., a network management system) can receive a set of connection requests for a set of connections that are desired to... Agent: Indian Institute Of Technology Bombay

20130028142 - Resiliency-aware hybrid design of controller-switch connectivity in a split-architecture system: A method and apparatus for optimizing the resilience of a network using a combination of in-band and out-of-band signaling is disclosed. The metric used in the embodiment's algorithm to determine resilience is the maximum number of protected neighbors. Nodes closer to the controller are assigned a higher weight than those... Agent:

20130028140 - Using service discovery to build routing topologies: In one embodiment, a particular route optimizing device of a computer network (e.g., an NMS or a device in the network) discovers one or more registered services for the computer network, the registered services indicating one or more corresponding routing characteristics associated with the respective registered service. By comparing the... Agent: Cisco Technology, Inc.

20130028143 - Reduced topology routing in shared media communication networks: In one embodiment, a particular node in a shared communication network determines a current path cost in a routing topology from itself to a root node via a current parent node. The particular node also determines a respective path cost from each reachable potential parent node of the particular node... Agent: Cisco Technology, Inc.

20130028144 - Electronic hook switch capability for a mobile device connected docking station: A Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) docking station includes a docking port configured to physically dock with a mobile device, and a Universal Serial Bus (USB) port coupled to a hands free device. The VoIP docking station further includes a processing unit configured to receive signaling via the USB port,... Agent: Verizon Patent And Licensing Inc.

20130028145 - Ip based emergency services solution in wimax: The present invention relates to a method and system for providing access to the emergency services over a network, particularly a WiMAX network. The method comprises the steps of identifying when a user device (51) sends a signal to the WiMAX network (52, 53, 54) requesting access to an emergency... Agent: Nec Corporation

20130028146 - Message mapping for forced hold call handling in a vop environment: If a communication client disconnects from a call, an interworking service node may receive from the communication client a disconnect message indicative of an attempt to disconnect the call and send a forced hold message to place the call on forced hold in response to receiving the disconnect message. A... Agent:

20130028147 - Front end employing pin diode switch with high linearity and low loss for simultaneous transmission: A method, transceiver integrated circuit (IC), and communications device that employs a PIN Diode switch in connection with a transceiver integrated circuit in order to provide a highly linear path for simultaneously transmitted signals in a multi-band wireless communications device. A high linearity switch (HLS) utility/controller configures the PIN diode... Agent: Motorola Mobility, Inc.

20130028148 - Mobile terminal: A mobile terminal includes a main body and a wireless communication module mounted in the main body. The wireless communication module includes a first transceiver including transmit and receive terminals of a first signal, a second transceiver including transmit and receive terminals of a second signal, a first duplexer connected... Agent: Lg Electronics Inc.

20130028149 - Method and apparatus for signaling control data of aggregated carriers: Techniques are provided for communicating control information for aggregated carriers. For example, a method includes receiving one or more assignments for a plurality of aggregated carriers. For example, the at least one of the plurality of aggregated carriers is a time division duplexing (TDD) carrier having a different subframe configuration... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20130028151 - Method and system for physical resources configuration and signal transmission when communication systems coexist: A method and system for configuring physical resource and signal transmission when communication systems coexist are provided. The method includes: configuring physical resources of the Wimax 16e frame according to LTE frame configuration information by following modes: configuring the number of downlink symbols in the Wimax 16e frame and shift... Agent: Zte Corporation

20130028150 - Method and system for wireless communication in multiple operating environments: A wireless communication method and system are provided. A first wireless communication numerology, e.g., OFDM operating parameters, corresponding to a first operational mode is established. A second wireless communication numerology corresponding to a second operational mode is also established. The first wireless communication numerology is different than the second wireless... Agent: Research In Motion Limited

20130028155 - Mac packet data unit construction for wireless system: A method for wireless communication using MAC PDUs. The method includes determining one or more characteristics of a service flow and selecting on the basis of the one or more characteristics a MAC PDU header type among a plurality of MAC PDU header types. The service flow data is encapsulated... Agent: Apple Inc.

20130028152 - Wireless access point with modular network elements: A wireless access point (AP) has a modular architecture, where each network element module provides one or more added capabilities to the wireless AP, such as devices and/or services. The modular and mechanically interlocking structure of the wireless AP enables a network user to easily expand or otherwise modify a... Agent:

20130028154 - Wireless apparatus and wireless system: One embodiment provides a wireless apparatus including: a reception unit which receives a data signal having a header field and a data field, the header field including a reply request which specifies either an acknowledgement or a negative acknowledgement; a decision unit which decides a reception result indicating whether the... Agent:

20130028153 - Wireless communication method of probe for ultrasound diagnosis and apparatus therefor: A probe apparatus for ultrasound diagnostic imaging associates with a mmWave-based Personal Basic Service Set (PBSS), performs pairing with an ultrasonic imaging apparatus, and transmits an echo signal received via a transducer portion of the probe, to the ultrasonic imaging apparatus using a signal channel in a 60 GHz frequency... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

20130028156 - Access category-based power-save for wi-fi direct group owner: A wireless device includes a peer-to-peer group owner processor that handles peer-to-peer transactions, a memory coupled to the peer-to-peer group owner processor, and a power state controller. The power state controller determines an access category of a communication received from a peer-to-peer client and determines a quality of service constraint... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20130028157 - Access point device with wakeup mode: Method and apparatus for communicating over a wireless network. In accordance with some embodiments, an access point (AP) device is provided that is capable of transitioning from a low power standby mode to an operational mode responsive to receipt of a wireless communication signal from a client device coupled to... Agent: Seagate Technology LLC

20130028160 - Communication method and device for enhancing energy efficiency: Provided is a method and device for increasing energy efficiency by adaptively performing clipping with respect to an input signal. The method may adaptively determine a clipping ratio (CR) based on a modulation method of the communication device and perform clipping based on the determined CR.... Agent:

20130028162 - Method and apparatus for adaptive bluetooth low power discovery and wake up: o

20130028161 - Mobile communication system: A mobile communication system includes a plurality of eNBs that perform radio communication with an UE and an MCE that controls the eNBs. The MCE indicates an MBSFN subframe (MCE) serving as radio resources that transmit a reference signal for power measurement to the UE less frequently than normal to... Agent: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation

20130028159 - Silent power-save mode for a wireless communication device: In at least some embodiments, a wireless communication device includes a transceiver having control logic with a traffic learning mode and a silent power-save mode. During the traffic learning mode, the control logic is configured to determine a minimum periodicity value and a maximum periodicity value for all traffic flows... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20130028158 - Transmit power control maximizing coverage at a minimum interference: Techniques are provided to generate a transmit power plan comprising transmit powers to be used by wireless access point devices in a wireless network. A wireless network controller receives, from each of a plurality of wireless access point devices configured to provide wireless service in corresponding coverage areas to client... Agent: Cisco Technology, Inc.

20130028163 - Forwarding internet protocol version 6 link-local multicast to support roaming of wireless mobile client devices: Techniques are provided for a foreign controller to receive a handoff message including information for a multicast group that is used to forward network control information originating from an Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) network router by a home wireless controller to one or more foreign wireless controllers for mobile... Agent: Cisco Technology, Inc.

20130028165 - Method and apparatus for updating multicast and broadcast service system information in a wireless access system: The present description relates to a method for updating E-MBS-related system information in an idle mode state, comprising the following steps: receiving, from a base station, a first system configuration descriptor (SCD) message containing an E-MBS-related parameter; receiving, from the base station, a first message containing an indicator for indicating... Agent: Lg Electronics Inc.

20130028166 - Mobile wireless communication system, access gateway, wireless base station, and mobile wireless communication control method: The present invention discloses a wireless mobile communication system for transferring MBMS data from an access gateway to plural wireless base stations and transmitting the MBMS data from the plural wireless base stations to a wireless mobile station at the same time. The system includes a transferring part included in... Agent: Fujitsu Limited

20130028164 - Multicast control method and apparatus: In a multicast control method, when an SSID or a BSSID of a specified VAP that will be delivered to an access point AP enables a multicast control function, an AC sends to the AP a CAPWAP multicast control message that includes multicast control enabling information, so that the AP... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.

20130028173 - Core network interface for packet domain for uma unc applications: An UMA network controller (SGW, CM) is dedicated for an UMA mobile network comprising a CS core network (CN2) and a PS core network (CN1) with a SGSN. This UMA network controller comprises a security gateway (SGW) and a control means (CM) coupled one to the other. The security gateway... Agent: Alcatel Lucent

20130028168 - Mobile telephone, transmission power control method, and recording medium: A mobile telephone having a relaying function, the relaying function being a function of wirelessly connecting to an external device and a base station and of relaying data between the external device and the base station, the mobile telephone comprising: a first wireless communication unit configured to perform wireless communication... Agent: Kyocera Corporation

20130028167 - Multiple-hop multi-input multi-output amplify-and-forward relay wireless communication system and method applicable thereto: A multiple-hop multi-input multi-output (MIMO) amplify-and-forward relay wireless communication system includes a signal source node, a signal destination node and a plurality of relay nodes, wirelessly coupled between the signal source node and the signal destination node. The relay nodes feed back a plurality of signal to noise ratio information... Agent: Industrial Technology Research Institute

20130028172 - Path switching system, path switching method, and mobile terminal: A path switching system is provided, in which when UE has been offloaded from a first PDN-GW to a second PDN-GW, if there is an additional connection of the UE to the first PDN-GW, processing related to the additional connection can be performed on the UE side. The system includes:... Agent: Panasonic Corporation

20130028170 - Relaying system and method with partner relays and selective transmission: Partner relay systems and methods are provided in which relaying is performed by a pair of partner relays. Signals received from a base station are translated by a first of the pair of partner relays to a different transmission resource for communication between the pair of partner relays, and then... Agent: Apple Inc.

20130028171 - Resource allocation method and device for amplify-and-forward relay network: The present invention provides a resource allocation method and device for an amplify-and-forward relay network. The method includes: obtaining channel information, where the channel information includes channel information between a base station BS and a relay station RS and channel information between the RS and each user equipment UE; calculating,... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.

20130028169 - Smart relay network: A wireless relay node network includes a plurality of relay devices wherein each relay device is configured to receive a first wireless signal in a first frequency band, and transmit a second wireless signal derived from the first wireless signal using a first set of network use parameters. The plurality... Agent: Research In Motion Limited

20130028174 - Use of a meta language for processing of aviation related messages: A method for transmitting an encoded aircraft related message comprises receiving an aircraft related text message for encoding, retrieving, based on the aircraft related text message, identity related data being related to the identity of a sender of the message or to the identity of a receiver of the message.... Agent: Flight Focus Pte. Ltd.

20130028175 - Method and system of providing efficient packetized voice communcations and data bearers in mobile satellite systems: A broadband satellite communications system comprises forward error correction (FEC) encoder/decoder, interleaver/deinterleaver, puncturing/de-puncturing, scrambler/descrambler, bit to symbol mapping/de-mapping devices, modulator/demodulator, transmit and receive filter; operating in a time-division multiple access (TDMA) system where information is sent in a burst-by-burst fashion during the assigned time slot; supporting diverse traffic types such... Agent: Hughes Network Systems, LLC

20130028193 - Access feedback by a multimode terminal: The method is particularly characterized in a step where the UE rejects said first access as present access and sends a reject message to the GW, wherein the GW or the PCRF as a result of the reject message initiates a new QoS resource reservation selecting a second access as... Agent: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)

20130028186 - Apparatus and method for beamforming in wireless communication system: An apparatus and a method for generating a frame for communication using beamforming in a wireless communication system are provided. A method for transmitting a signal in a transmitting stage includes determining a beam change time of a region for transmitting information in a frame, and transmitting the information to... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.

20130028182 - Implicitly linking aperiodic channel state information (a-csi) reports to csi-reference signal (csi-rs) resources: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for implicitly linking aperiodic channel state information (A-CSI) reports to CSI-reference signal (CSI-RS) resources. In an aspect, the UE may be instructed to report on specific CSI-RS resource(s) via explicit signaling in the UE grant. Other aspects disclose techniques for implicit CSI-RS... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20130028184 - Machine type communication system: Provided is a machine type communication system. The machine type communication system comprises a machine type communication terminal and a machine type communication server. The machine type communication terminal may be applied to a navigation of a vehicle, a sensor network of a bridge, and the like, to transmit data... Agent: Electronics And Telecommunications Research Institute

20130028190 - Managing service provider messaging: A system and method for management of service plan modification information between various service providers and telecommunications-based devices are provided. A service management component manages subscriber and service plan information for processing service plan modification requests from a service provider and a mobile device of a subscriber. The service management... Agent: T-mobile Usa, Inc.

20130028183 - Method and apparatus for routing circuit switched fallback messaging in a wireless communication system: A multi-technology wireless communication system is provided that comprises a packet data network and a circuit switched network and that routes circuit switched fallback (CSFB) messages associated with a user equipment operating in the packet data network based on a circuit switched network access network identifier that identifies an Interworking... Agent: Motorola Mobility, Inc.

20130028189 - Method and apparatus for using physical layer error control to direct media access layer error control: In a system in which both the media access layer and the physical layer use error control, information from the physical layer error control process is used to provide surrogate media access layer error control messaging. In one aspect, the physical layer error control state machine in the transmitting station... Agent: Wi-lan Inc.

20130028191 - Method and apparatus of communication: An improved aperiodic downlink channel quality reporting in a radio communication system utilizing carrier aggregation is disclosed. In the radio communication system, a number of downlink component carriers can be aggregated for communication between, a network node and a User Equipment (UE). The invention is characterized in that a set... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.

20130028180 - Method and system for access and uplink power control for a wireless system having multiple transmit points: A method and system for access and uplink power control for a wireless system having multiple transmit points. In one aspect a method operating in a wireless network having a plurality of transmission points (TP) including a macro evolved Node B (eNB) and at least one low power node (LPN)... Agent: Research In Motion Limited

20130028195 - Method and system for keeping single radio voice call continuity session alive: A method and system are provided for keeping a single radio voice call continuity session alive. The method comprises, during switching of a terminal from a packet switch domain to a circuit switch domain, an application layer gateway establishing a new signaling connection with an enhanced mobile switch center after... Agent: Zte Corporation

20130028196 - Method and system for obtaining user equipment ability by user equipment, home subscriber data server and core network element: The present invention discloses user equipment, a home subscriber data server (HSS) and a method and system for obtaining user equipment ability by a core network element. Wherein, the method for obtaining user equipment ability by the core network element includes: in and/or after the IP multimedia network subsystem (IMS)... Agent: Zte Corporation

20130028197 - Method for updating and managing synchronization identifier by using release messages or status request and response: A method for communicating additional network information using a synchronization identifier is presented. A synchronization identifier is defined. The synchronization identifier is used for the purpose of synchronizing communication between a Mobile Station (MS) and a network. In addition, the synchronization identifier is used to define additional functionality in the... Agent: Apple Inc.

20130028185 - Method of handling uplink timing and related communication device: A method of handling an uplink (UL) timing of a timing advance (TA) group for a mobile device in a wireless communication system is disclosed. The method comprises maintaining the UL timing of the TA group, if a time alignment timer of the TA group does not expire; and stopping... Agent:

20130028194 - Method of transmitting and receiving signal in a distributed antenna system: A method of transmitting a signal from a base station to a user equipment in a distributed antenna system (DAS) comprises equally broadcasting DA common broadcast information, which includes information required for initial access, into a cell through a plurality of DA groups of the base station; and independently broadcasting... Agent: Lg Electronics

20130028192 - Method, user equipment and base station for transmitting uplink control information: The disclosure discloses a method for transmitting uplink control information. The method includes: receiving, by a user equipment, a carrier activation command or a carrier deactivation command in a downlink subframe n; updating a first downlink activated carrier set according to the received carrier activation command or the carrier deactivation... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.

20130028179 - Methods and apparatus for supporting the implementation of ims service continuity: According to a first embodiment of the present invention there is provided a method of operating a node of a communications network that is configured to provide an IP Multimedia Subsystem Access Transfer Control Function. The method comprises storing information regarding IMS Service Continuity features that are supported by Mobile... Agent: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)

20130028187 - Mobile communication system, network device, and mobile communication method: During a transition procedure from a first communication system to a second communication system, when the priority of a second communication call, whose setup is requested, is the first priority, the second communication system does not set up the bearer of a first communication call between the second communication system... Agent: Ntt Docomo, Inc.

20130028177 - Network controlled filtering over wireless device communications: There is stored in a memory an association between each nth one of N content types with a respective nth group of N groups of identifiers (N is an integer greater than one, n indexes from 1 to N, and at least one of the groups has more than one... Agent: Renesas Mobile Corporation

20130028188 - Packet transferring method, mobile communication system and mobile station: In a mobile Communication system which includes a base station controller, a plurality of radio base stations connected to the base station controller, and a mobile station simultaneously communicable with the plurality of radio base stations, the base station controller transfers a packet through the plurality of radio base stations... Agent: Nec Corporation

20130028181 - System and method for managing parallel processing of network packets in a wireless access device: A system for managing parallel processing of network packets is also provided. A wireless access device that includes multiple transceivers and multiple processing units receives network packets. A media access controller determines which transceiver a received network packet is associated with. A tagging module determines whether the transceiver associated with... Agent: Xirrus, Inc.

20130028178 - Wireless long term evolution radio architecture system and method: A method for providing a radio architecture for a long term evolution (LTE) communication system is disclosed. According to one aspect, a radio provides power pooling and direct up-conversion of signals to be transmitted. Power pooling is provided by adjusting the gain and phase of each of a plurality of... Agent: Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson

20130028176 - Wireless transmission of data packets based on client associations: Techniques are provided for wireless transmission of data packets based on client associations. A data packet may be received at a wireless access point. It may be determined if at least one client associated with the wireless access point should receive the data packet. The data packet may be wirelessly... Agent:

20130028230 - Adaptive association and joint association and resource partitioning in a wireless communication network: Techniques for supporting communication in a wireless network are described. In an aspect, association and resource partitioning may be performed jointly to select serving base stations for user equipments (UEs) and to allocate available resources to base stations. In another aspect, adaptive association may be performed to select serving base... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20130028207 - Base station apparatus and method in mobile communication system: A base station apparatus includes: decoding units for an uplink control signal and an uplink shared data signal; and a reliability determination unit configured to determine a degree of reliability that predetermined information is included in the uplink control signal that is received periodically. In the case where timing of... Agent: Ntt Docomo, Inc.

20130028222 - Communication terminal, communication system, and method for operating communication terminal: A communication terminal (30) includes a wireless communication unit (31) for transmitting and receiving radio signals, and a determination unit (transmission/reception timing adjustment unit 132) for determining a transmission period and a reception period in which the wireless communication unit (31) transmits and receives radio signals. In a case where... Agent: Kyocera Corporation

20130028198 - Devices for multi-cell communications: A User Equipment (UE) configured for multi-cell communications is disclosed. The UE includes a processor and instructions stored in memory that is in electronic communication with the processor. The UE determines a primary cell (PCell) with a corresponding PCell time alignment timer. The UE also determines a secondary cell (SCell)... Agent: Sharp Laboratories Of America, Inc.

20130028213 - Effective method and device for transmitting control information for supporting uplink multi-antenna transmission: Disclosed is a method for transmitting control information on uplink multi-antenna transmission from a base station and the method includes: transmitting DCI that schedules uplink transmission of a first data block and a second data block through a PDCCH; receiving the first and second data blocks scheduled by the DCI;... Agent: Lg Electronics Inc.

20130028201 - Enhancement of in-device coexistence interference avoidance: A method, system and device are provided for avoiding in-device coexistence interference between different radio technologies deployed in adjacent bands on the same device by reporting uplink buffer status information to the radio network and configuring LTE and non-LTE components to provide an in-device coexistence operation mode where non-LTE components... Agent: Research In Motion Limited

20130028200 - Interference mitigation in an accessory for a wireless communication device: A method in a wireless communication terminal includes receiving configuration signaling for transmitting on a first set of radio resources wherein transmitting only on the first set of radio resources leads to a time-domain periodic repetitive pattern of transmissions from the terminal in a transmission interval that causes interference to... Agent: Motorola Mobility, Inc.

20130028227 - Method and apparatus for persistent resource allocation in a wireless access system: The present description relates to a method for persistent resource allocation in a wireless access system, comprising the following steps: receiving a first MAP message containing persistent resource allocation information from a base station; transceiving data bursts to/from the base station via the persistent resource domain contained in the persistent... Agent: Lg Electronics Inc.

20130028223 - Method and apparatus for processing scheduling information in mobile communication system: A method and an apparatus for processing scheduling information in a terminal into which a plurality of forward carriers and reverse carriers are aggregated are provided. The method includes receiving a control message from a base station, the control message including information on a reverse carrier added by the carrier... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.

20130028224 - Method and apparatus for providing machine initial access procedure for machine to machine communication: A method and apparatus are therefore provided that may enable the provision of M2M communication in a wireless network environment. In this regard, for example, relatively low power devices (specifically referencing low transmission power) such as sensors or other machines in an M2M system may be enabled to initiate communication... Agent: Nokia Corporation

20130028221 - Method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving scheduling request using shared resource based filtering in radio communication system: Disclosed herein is a method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving a scheduling request using a shared resource based filtering method in a radio communication system. The method for supporting scheduling request using shared resources at a base station including assigning each of one or more users to each of... Agent: Lg Electronics Inc.

20130028206 - Method and apparatus for updating system information in broadband wireless communication system: A method for updating system information in a broadband wireless communication system includes: receiving information by means of superframes including a primary superframe header (P-SFH) and a secondary superframe header (S-SFH), wherein the information including control information transmitted via an information element of the P-SFH (P-SFH IE) and system information... Agent: Lg Electronics Inc.

20130028218 - Method and apparatus of transmitting and receiving signal in a distributed antenna system: A method of transmitting a signal from a base station to a user equipment in a multi-node system is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of allocating a resource of a certain zone to each of nodes in accordance with a radio resource multiplexing scheme; and transmitting the signal to... Agent: Lg Electronics Inc.

20130028202 - Method and device for data processing in a network: A method and a device for data processing in a network are provided, wherein a DTX state is used for conveying control information within a data unit that is also at least partially used for conveying a DTX information. Furthermore, a communication system is suggested including said device.... Agent:

20130028225 - Method and device for efficient feedback in wireless communication system supporting multiple antennas: The present invention relates to a method for transmitting channel status information comprising: transmitting a rank indicator (RI) and a precoding type indicator (PTI) based on a first reporting period, transmitting during the first reporting period a broadband first precoding matrix indicator (PMI) based on a second reporting period, and... Agent: Lg Electronics Inc.

20130028199 - Method and system for control format detection in heterogeneous cellular networks: A user equipment having a first mechanism to obtain a control region size of a sub-frame of a cell, the user equipment having a processor; and a communications subsystem, wherein the processor and communications subsystem are configured to cooperate to: determine having a first mechanism to obtain a control region... Agent: Research In Motion Limited

20130028220 - Method and system for handling queues in communication networks, corresponding computer program product: In a communication network, a node receives from user equipment information on the length of a queue of information units to be transmitted to the node from the user equipment. The information, for possible use by the node in scheduling transmission of these information units from the user equipment, is... Agent:

20130028229 - Method for controlling the aperiodic transmission of a control signal, and method and apparatus for transceiving the control signal using the same: A method for controlling the aperiodic transmission of a control signal, comprises the following steps: determining a period during which a base station is to transmit an aperiodic control signal; and generating indication information for indicating the determined period, and transmitting the indication information to user equipment.... Agent: Pantech Co., Ltd.

20130028215 - Method for scheduling users in a mobile or wireless communication system, corresponding mobile terminal and base station: The present invention relates to a method for scheduling users in a mobile or wireless radio communication system comprising a base station with a multiple antenna system and at least two users, said base station communicating with users using precoding weights at said multiple antenna system, an indication on precoding... Agent: Alcatel Lucent

20130028211 - Method for triggering terminal to send sounding reference signal, terminal, and base station: A method for triggering a terminal to send a sounding reference signal includes: obtaining requirement information of measurement, where the requirement information includes a position and a bandwidth of a frequency hand to be measured; selecting a resource for a terminal from at least two preset resource patterns according to... Agent:

20130028209 - Mobile terminal apparatus and method of transmitting an uplink control information signal: To suppress and minimize changes from the method of transmitting an uplink control information in the LTE system, while supporting increases in the system band and increases in the transmission layer when there is a PUSCH signal transmitted in the same subframe, provided is a configuration for generating a UCI... Agent: Ntt Docomo, Inc.

20130028228 - Radio communication system, high-power base station, low-power base station, and communication control method: A radio communication system (1) includes a pico-cell base station (PeNB) which is located in the communication area of a macro-cell base station (MeNB) and the transmission power of which is lower than that of the macro-cell base station (MeNB). For radio resources that can be used as PDSCH, a... Agent: Kyocera Corporation

20130028216 - Resource organization in an apparatus and method for carrier aggregation: Methods and apparatus for organizing reception on a channel by a user equipment are disclosed. A method includes detemnining a channel group based on a first physical resource block index of a physical uplink shared channel and a cyclic shift of uplink demodulation reference signals, without an offset value; determining... Agent: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)

20130028212 - Semi-persistent scheduled resource release procedure in a mobile communication network: The invention relates to a method for deactivating a semi-persistent resource allocation of a user equipment in an LTE-based mobile communication system. Furthermore, the invention also related to a user equipment and an eNode B implementing this method. To provide a mechanism for deactivating a semi-persistent resource allocation in a... Agent: Panasonic Corporation

20130028208 - Signal sequence allocating device and signal sequence allocating method: To efficiently and appropriately allocate signal sequences, a signal sequence allocation device includes a cell radius calculation module that calculates an area radius of an area in communication areas to which a signal sequence is to be allocated, a signal number calculation module that calculates the number of signals in... Agent: Ntt Docomo, Inc.

20130028210 - System and method for mimo split-physical layer scheme for a wireless network: A system employing split-PHY functionality across multiple access heads to establish multiple paths between a client device (CD) and an access network. Space-time coding includes transmitting one or multiple spatial streams through each access head. Macro transmit diversity includes transmitting a same signal, consisting of one or more spatial streams,... Agent: Research In Motion Limited

20130028232 - Systems and methods of providing communications services: An IP telephony system allows users of the IP telephony system to register extension telephony devices with the IP telephony system. An extension telephony device is one that is provided with service by a separate telephony service provider. Once an extension telephony device is registered, a user can obtain communications... Agent: Vonage Network, LLC

20130028204 - Time alignment in multicarrier systems: Transmission timing of a random access preamble in an uplink carrier of a carrier group being determined employing a synchronization signal transmitted on a downlink carrier of the carrier group. The wireless device receives a time alignment command from the base station. The time alignment command comprises a time adjustment... Agent:

20130028214 - Transmission device, transmission power control method and transmission determination method: Provided is a transmission device, wherein even when the transmission device performs noncontiguous band allocation transmission, the same level of coverage and gain as when the contiguous band allocation transmission is assumed can be maintained. A transmission power control unit (110), in a second mode, calculates first power on the... Agent: Panasonic Corporation

20130028205 - Transmission of control information in a wireless network with carrier aggregation: Techniques for sending control information to support operation on multiple component carriers (CCs) are disclosed. A user equipment (UE) may be configured with multiple CCs for carrier aggregation. The multiple CCs may be associated with different uplink-downlink configurations and may have different downlink subframes and uplink subframes. In one aspect,... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20130028203 - Uplink control information transmission: The invention is related to an apparatus including at least one processor and at least one memory including a computer program code, the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus at least to: reserve at least substantially... Agent:

20130028231 - Uplink power headroom reporting for carrier aggregation: A method for reporting power headroom is disclosed. Power headroom may be reported across all carriers (wideband), for a specific carrier, or for a carrier group. The formula used to calculate the power headroom depends on whether the carrier (or a carrier in the carrier group) has a valid uplink... Agent: Interdigital Patent Holdings, Inc.

20130028219 - Uplink signal transmission method via a competition-based uplink channel: Embodiments of the present invention provide methods for providing competition uplink channels while minimizing the frequency of blind decoding operations of a terminal, and devices of supporting the methods. An uplink signal transmission method via a competition-based uplink (CB UL) channel according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises:... Agent: Lg Electronics Inc.

20130028217 - Wireless communication apparatus and wireless communication method: Provided are a wireless communication apparatus and a wireless communication method capable of reducing distortion of a CSI-RS and interference with other CSI-RSs. The wireless communication apparatus according to the invention includes: a CSI-RS generation section that generates CSI-RSs, an arrangement section that arranges the CSI-RSs in a single or... Agent: Panasonic Corporation

20130028226 - Wireless communication system, wireless communication apparatus, program and transmission method: A wireless communication system includes a first wireless communication apparatus, which includes a plurality of transmission antennas and transmits signals in an MIMO scheme, and a second wireless communication apparatus, which receives the signals. The first wireless communication apparatus performs the same frequency allocation for transmission antennas from which the... Agent: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha

20130028233 - Allocating resources in a frequency-time space to mobile station data: To allocate resources in an orthogonal frequency domain multiple access (OFDMA) system, two-dimensional rectangular regions are assigned in a frequency-time space to data bursts associated with mobile stations. At least one data burst does not fit in an available space in the frequency-time space is determined. In response to the... Agent: Apple Inc.

20130028236 - Handover device of wireless communication system using multi-component carrier and method thereof: A source base station (SeNB) composes a handover request message including information of which at least one or more CC formed for a user terminal (UE) and information about the performance of the UE associated with at least one or more CC and transmits the handover message to a target... Agent: Pantech Co., Ltd.

20130028237 - Handover method, handover system, and apparatus for a ue attaching to a local ip network: With the deployment of home NodeB or home eNodeB, a user can access both operator's core network and Local IP Access (LIPA), e.g. to home based network or general Internet, on the same device at the same time. However, existing mechanisms does not allow an efficient way of LIPA mobility... Agent: Panasonic Corporation

20130028234 - Method and apparatus for cell update while in an enhanced cell_fach state: A method and apparatus for cell update while in a Cell_FACH state are disclosed. After selecting a target cell, system information is read from the target cell including high speed downlink shared channel (HS-DSCH) common system information. A radio network temporary identity (RNTI) received in a source cell is cleared... Agent: Interdigital Technology Corporation

20130028235 - Mobile communications network, infrastructure equipment and method: A mobile communications network, which may include base stations, is configured to communicate data packets with communications terminals. A core network, which may include a mobility manager, communicates data packets with base stations. A first base station may be configured to receive a short message data packet from a communications... Agent: Intellectual Ventures Holding 81 LLC

20130028242 - Arq system with status and packet acknowledgement: A communication system comprises a downlink indicator channel (DL1) for the transmission of a indicator signal (302) indicating that a data packet (202) is scheduled to be transmitted on a downlink data channel (DLz) from a primary station to a secondary station. In operation, on detection of the indicator signal,... Agent: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.v.

20130028241 - Method for sending uplink sounding reference signal, method for estimating channel, mobile terminal, base station and wireless communication system: A method for sending an uplink sounding reference signal (SRS), a method for estimating a channel, a mobile terminal and a base station are provided. The method for sending the uplink SRS includes: processing the uplink SRS with masks to obtain a plurality of uplink SRSs processed by the masks;... Agent: Fujitsu Limited

20130028238 - Method for transmitting downlink control channel in a mobile communication system and a method for mapping the control channel to physical resource using block interleaver in a mobile communication system: A method for transmitting a downlink control channel in a mobile communication system and a method for mapping the control channel to physical resources using a block interleaver are provided. In order to transmit a downlink control channel in a mobile communication system, information bits are modulated to generate one... Agent:

20130028240 - Mobile user terminal, mobile communication system, base station, and communication method: A mobile user terminal, which communicates with a base station in an intermittent fashion, the mobile user terminal includes a radio transmitter which transmits downlink channel quality information indicating downlink channel quality and an uplink pilot signal to a base station in an intermittent fashion; and a transmit time controller... Agent: Fujitsu Limited

20130028239 - Time alignment in multicarrier ofdm network: A base station receives uplink signals from a wireless device and transmits at least one time alignment command computed based, at least in part, on timing of the received uplink signals. The time alignment command comprises a time adjustment value and an index identifying a carrier group.... Agent:

20130028249 - Adaptive scheduling: A communication device arranged to communicate data with another device at a given time instant according to either a first communication protocol or a second communication protocol, the communication device being constrained to transmit data according to the first communication protocol during a transmission window of predetermined duration that commences... Agent:

20130028248 - Database update method and apparatus for locating a pcell: Embodiments of the present invention relate to a database update method and apparatus for locating a pCell. An embodiment of the present invention provides a database update apparatus for locating a pCell, comprising: a database storing grid cells that are sorted by pCell ID; a DB collection unit collecting log... Agent: Sk Planet Co., Ltd.

20130028243 - Facilitating channel sounding for multiple input and multiple output (mimo) transmissions: Methods and apparatuses are provided for facilitating channel sounding for multiple-input and multiple-output (MIMO) transmissions between an access terminal and an access point. According to one feature, the access point may transmit a data frame to an access terminal using a plurality of spatial streams and a plurality of antennas.... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20130028244 - Method and apparatus for adaptive mitigation of noise interference: A method and system for adaptive mitigation of noise interference in a receiver. In one embodiment of the invention, the receiver determines the type of the dominant noise interference among one or more noise interferences. The receiver determines or optimizes the estimation and averaging process of the noise covariance matrix... Agent:

20130028247 - Method for transmitting a packet via heterogeneous networks: A method of transmitting a packet via heterogeneous networks, for a transmitter and a receiver using the heterogeneous networks comprising a first network and a second network is disclosed. The method comprises the transmitter transmitting the packet to the receiver via the first network and the second network, to improve... Agent:

20130028245 - System and method for determining a location for a device in a communication network: The disclosure recites a system and method of identifying location data for a server device managing communications for a wireless network. The method comprises: obtaining location data for the server device; identifying a location for the server device by analyzing at least the location data; updating data in the server... Agent:

20130028246 - Wlan-based positioning system: A technique to provide a WLAN-based positioning system to determine a location of a mobile wireless receiving device. A single access point is used to generate a plurality of beacons, in which each beacon of the plurality of beacons has a unique identifier. Each beacon is then transmitted in a... Agent: Broadcom Corporation

20130028252 - Computer telephony: Computer-telephony events are initiated by a user operating a computer terminal to control, through a computer-telephony controller, operation of a communications terminal. The computer-telephony controller receives from a first computer terminal a request for a first computer-telephony event; in which the request for the first computer-telephony event comprises a label... Agent: British Telecommunications Public Limited Company

20130028251 - System and method for processing telephony sessions: In one embodiment, the method of processing telephony sessions includes: communicating with an application server using an application layer protocol; processing telephony instructions with a call router; and creating call router resources accessible through a call router Application Programming Interface (API). In another embodiment, the system for processing telephony sessions... Agent: Twilio, Inc.

20130028250 - Systems and methods of providing communications services: An IP telephony system allows users of the IP telephony system to register extension telephony devices with the IP telephony system. An extension telephony device is one that is provided with service by a separate telephony service provider. Once an extension telephony device is registered, a user can obtain communications... Agent:

20130028253 - Transmission of multi-channel mpeg: A system, and related methodology, are provided that are configured to receive, at a first network element such as a Universal Edge Quadrature Amplitude Modulator (UEQAM), multiple channels of data delivered as respective streams of packets, form a packet switched communication frame including a sub-layer header, encapsulate packets from the... Agent: Cisco Technology, Inc.

20130028254 - Method of managing broadcasts and multicasts by a network device: A method of managing broadcasts and multicasts in a network. A packet having a packet number is received and compared to a last received packet number stored in memory. If the packet number is smaller than or equal to the last received packet number, then the packet is dropped. If... Agent:

20130028255 - Method, switching device and system for enabling multicast forwarding: Embodiments of the present invention relates to the field of IP communication technologies, and disclose a method, a switching device and a system for enabling multicast forwarding to implement flexibly networking and enable the multicast proxy function correctly. The method includes: receiving a multicast protocol message; determining a sender of... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.

20130028258 - Cached routing service: A device may receive a packet, determine whether the received packet is encapsulated with a first header associated with a cached routing service, and determine whether the received packet is to be provided with the cached routing service when the received packet is not encapsulated with the first header associated... Agent: Verizon Patent And Licensing Inc.

20130028260 - Data processing apparatus, data processing system, and data processing method: A data-processing apparatus includes a plurality of processing units having frequency bands different from one another set thereto, the plurality of processing units to process packets each including data and processing information added to the data, the processing information including instruction information indicating one or more processing instructions to the... Agent: Mush-a Co., Ltd.

20130028257 - Message gateway and methods for using the same: A computer-implemented method for transporting a message includes receiving the message from a first application via a first communication protocol, the first message including data indicating a destination for the message, generating a gateway address from the data indicating the destination, a gateway associated with the gateway address being accessible... Agent: Raytheon Company

20130028262 - Method and arrangement for message analysis: The method is for preparing data read from data communication network for testing purposes. The method has steps for reading data from a communication network, adding at least one header data field to the received data to create a packet interpretable by a network protocol dissector, and forwarding the created... Agent:

20130028256 - Network element with shared buffers: A method for communication, in a network element that includes multiple ports, includes buffering data packets entering the network element via the ports in input buffers that are respectively associated with the ports. Storage of the data packets is shared among the input buffers by evaluating a condition related to... Agent: Mellanox Technologies Ltd.

20130028259 - System for finding potential origins of spoofed internet protocol attack traffic: The invention computes approximate origins of data packets transmitted over the Internet. Law enforcement agencies and network operators can use it to assign responsibility for observed Internet activities. The invention uses a small number of cooperative locations (incoming links on routers or switches) to provide link identification data: whether a... Agent:

20130028261 - System-on-chip-based network protocol in consideration of network efficiency: An SoC-based system network protocol in consideration of network efficiency is disclosed. An MSB of a command signal containing an instruction defining information that is contained in a transfer signal transferred from an initiator to a destination via a channel or in a response signal transferred from the destination via... Agent: Foundation Of Soongsil University-industry Cooperation

20130028263 - Two tier multiple sliding window mechanism for multidestination media applications: Some media applications use media that contains multiple types of media components in it and media sources with access to this media must send each type of media component to one or more media rendering destination devices. Furthermore there may be multiple destinations that can receive a particular type of... Agent:

20130028264 - Packet reassembly processing: Described embodiments provide for a reassembly system for processing an asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) cell of data into an ATM adaptation layer (AAL) packet. A preprocessor module identifies a first conversation identification of one or more minipackets in the ATM cell, and reassembles the one or more minipackets having the... Agent: Lsi Corporation

20130028265 - Update of a cumulative residence time of a packet in a packet-switched communication network: It is disclosed a method for updating a cumulative residence time of a synchronization packet received at a node of a packet-switched communication network. The cumulative residence time is equal to a cumulative sum of residence times of the packet at nodes interposed between a further node which has generated... Agent:

20130028266 - Response messages based on pending requests: Techniques are provided for sending response messages based on pending requests. A request message identifying a data packet may be received. A pending request structure may be used to determine output queues that are in need of the data packet identified in the request message. A response message may be... Agent:

20130028267 - Sharing a transmission control protocol port by a plurality of applications: Methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for sharing a transmission control protocol (TCP) port by a plurality of applications are provided. Embodiments include receiving, by a transmission controller from a client, a first TCP packet that includes an indication of a new TCP connection for a TCP port; determining, by... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20130028268 - End-to-end service quality for latency-intensive internet protocol (ip) applications in a heterogeneous, multi-vendor environment: Apparatus and methods are provided for delivering end-to-end Quality of Service (QoS) over Internet Protocol (IP) networks. According to one embodiment, a portion of available bandwidth between a first and second network device is reserved as a Quality of Service (QoS) resource pool for real-time communication sessions among users of... Agent: Prom Ks Mgmt Limited Liability Company

20130028270 - Aggregating network packets for transmission to a destination node: A node for transmitting digital data over a network receives a plurality of packet data units and identifies at least two of the packet data units that have the same aggregation identifier. The node then forms an aggregate packet from the packet data units that have the same aggregation identifier... Agent: Entropic Communications, Inc.

20130028269 - Dtv systems employing parallel concatenated coding in cofdm transmissions for iterative diversity reception: A digital television (DTV) system uses parallel concatenated coding (PCC), together with QAM constellations for modulating OFDM carriers. A first encoder responds to bits of randomized data to generate a first component of parallel concatenated coding. A second encoder responds to delayed bits of the randomized data to generate a... Agent:

20130028271 - Cofdm digital television receivers for iterative-diversity reception: Receivers with capability for iterative-diversity reception of COFDM digital television transmissions of repeated similarly coded data are described. Also described are receivers with capabilities for receiving COFDM digital television transmissions in which earlier transmissions of coded data are later followed by subsequent transmissions of the same data differently coded. The... Agent:

20130028272 - Communication apparatus, packetization period change method, and program: To provide a communication apparatus and a packetization period change method that allow a packetization period/TDM period to change during a service of a TDM-PW system without affecting the service traffic, there is provided a communication apparatus that receives packetized data converted from TDM data, including a period information detection... Agent: Nec Corporation

20130021898 - Method and apparatus for uplink multiple input multiple output (mimo) transmission: The present description relates to a wireless communication system, and more particularly, to a method and apparatus for uplink multiple input multiple output (MIMO) transmission. A method for performing an uplink MIMO transmission according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises the following steps: transmitting, from a first subframe,... Agent: Lg Electronics Inc.

20130021896 - Method, system, and device for protecting multicast in communication network: The present invention discloses a method, a system, and a device for protecting multicast in a communication network. The technical solution of the present invention is: In a communication multicast network, a main node and a backup node serve as root nodes to generate two multicast trees simultaneously; the multicast... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.

20130021897 - Retransmission method and apparatus and communication system: The present invention relates to the field of communications technologies, and discloses a retransmission method and apparatus, and a communication system. The method includes: after sending two channel-coded codewords in initial transmission, receiving a retransmission indication, where the retransmission indication includes an identifier of one channel-coded codeword to be retransmitted;... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.

20130021899 - M-pair mode protection switching: A communication comprises a plurality of digital subscriber line (DSL) links, a first node having at least one application port configured for an elastic service and a plurality of DSL ports, and a second node having at least one application port configured for an elastic service and a plurality of... Agent: Adc Dsl Systems, Inc.

20130021901 - Method for protecting an ethernet ring from a superloop going through the ethernet ring: The present invention relates to a method in an Ethernet ring for protecting the Ethernet ring from a superloop going through the Ethernet ring, wherein the Ethernet ring comprises at least one ring node and two interface nodes between the Ethernet ring and a VPLS-domain, the Ethernet ring further comprises... Agent: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)

20130021900 - Satellite-based messaging system: In a satellite-based messaging system messages are exchanged between a ground station and mobile terminals over a wide geographic area covered by multiple satellite beams. Each beam contains one or more carrier frequencies. A message processing center is configured to provision a frame comprising a plurality of subframes to carry... Agent: 2201028 Ontario Inc.

20130021902 - Method for determining downlink time reference: Disclosed is a method for determining downlink time reference, including: a terminal taking a downlink primary component carrier as a time reference and determining an absolute time to send uplink data according to a time advance based on the time reference. Also disclosed is a method for determining downlink time... Agent: Zte Corporation

20130021903 - Method, apparatus and system for dual-homing protection switching: The invention discloses a method for dual-homing protection switching. The method includes: when the bidirectional forwarding detection (BFD) state of a Pseudo Wire (PW) is DOWN, the Provider Edge (PE) disenabling the Ethernet Operation, Administration and Maintenance (OAM) function of a port connected with a Customer Edge (CE); and the... Agent: Zte Corporation

20130021904 - System and method for congestion control in a core network: Embodiments provide a system and method for congestion control. The system includes a radio access network (RAN) including a network element, and a core network including a plurality of gateways. The network element is configured to receive a connection request from an accessing device, where the connection request requests connection... Agent: Alcatel-lucent Usa Inc.

20130021905 - Controlling traffic flow template generation: It is indicated which filters are to be used for a traffic flow template generation, in rules informing a communications network about resources authorized for a user of the communications network. A gateway combines the rules to a bearer providing access to the communications network, and generates a traffic flow... Agent: Nokia Siemens Networks Oy

20130021906 - Dynamic management of network flows: A plurality of flow network elements monitors network flows at the subscriber level for a plurality of subscribers. The flow network elements export flow records to a collector, which organizes the flow records. A policy client correlates the flow records and determines whether any network flows are violating a flow... Agent: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)

20130021907 - Method and system for communication sessions: A method and computer program product includes calculating a score for one or more communication sessions on a communication device, associating the score with the one or more communication sessions, and measuring a performance metric on the communication device. The performance metric may be indicative of a load on the... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20130021908 - Method of and apparatus for configuring quality of service: The invention provides a method of configuring quality of service for a return path of a bi-directional label switched path within a network, the bi-directional label switched path having a forward path and a return path. A label information context for a quality of service configuration of the return path... Agent:

20130021909 - Method for reserving capacity on a communication network link: A method for reserving capacity on a communication network link for guaranteed hit rate (GBR) and best effort (BE) traffic includes determining (s10) a dimensioned capacity DGBR for GBR traffic based on an expected GBR traffic load and one grade of service (GoS); determining (s20) a dimensioned capacity DTOT for... Agent: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)

20130021910 - Network data congestion management method: A method to manage data congestion in a computer network may include network devices to route data packets throughout the network. The method may also include a source node that sends data packets to any of the network devices. The method may further include a routing table at each network... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20130021913 - Feedback information in a multi-carrier wireless telecommunications network: Apparatus and method for encoding and transmitting feedback information from a first network node to a second network node in a multi-carrier wireless telecommunications network. The first network node is operable to receive signals from the second network node on two or more reception carriers and transmit data to the... Agent:

20130021914 - Measurement coordination for dynamic spectrum access measurements in a time division duplex system: The invention disclosed in this application describes methods to coordinate spectrum measurement periods in access points or base stations in a time division duplex (TDD) system where the super frame is divided into uplink and downlink portions for use in cognitive radio systems.... Agent: Xg Technology, Inc.

20130021917 - Method and device for controlling timer on buffer status report: A method for controlling a timer on buffer status report (BSR) is provided in the present invention, and the method is applied to implement the control of the timer on BSR the system to which Carrier Aggregation technology is applied. Said method includes: starting a retransmission BSR timer (retxBSR-Timer) and... Agent:

20130021916 - Method and system for obtaining network loads: The disclosure provides a method and system for obtaining network loads, comprising: a Load Detection Function (LDF) detects the user plane data of User Equipment (UE) and reports the load condition of a network which the UE currently accesses to a policy server according to the detected congestion indication. With... Agent: Zte Corporation

20130021912 - System and method for testing wireless position locating: The present application describes a system and method for testing the position locating and navigation technology of a wireless client. To simulate the locations of the wireless access points in the array that are visible to the wireless client from the simulated location, the round-trip time between the wireless client... Agent:

20130021915 - Systems, methods and apparatus for radio uplink power control: In some implementations of the present invention, improvement of connection quality and reduction of dropped connection rate are achieved by suspending the transmission of High Speed Dedicated Physical Control Channel (HS-DPCCH) data when a wireless terminal detects a power limiting mode during multi-radio access bearer (MRAB) connections and voice RAB... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20130021911 - Wireless synchronization testing: A testing sequence is disclosed for testing a wireless media synchronization connection between a computing device and a mobile device. A first test message comprising a first test. ID may be sent from a computing device to a mobile device over a test communication channel. The computing device may then... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20130021918 - Fault monitoring in connection-oriented networks: The invention relates to a method of fault monitoring in a fault monitoring entity of a network node of a network having at least a first connection-oriented network layer, having first protection measures associated therewith, and a second connection-oriented network layer, having second protection measures associated therewith. In a first... Agent:

20130021921 - Method and apparatus for transmitting uplink control information: A method for transmitting uplink control information includes: determining, by a User Equipment (UE), configuration information of its Component Carrier (CC); receiving, by UE, a downlink data packet of each CC, and generating acknowledgement/negative acknowledgement ACK/NACK information of the CC to be fed back for each CC independently; and determining... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

20130021919 - Method and system for a signaling connection release indication: A method and system for processing a signaling connection release indication between user equipment and a wireless network, the method comprising the steps of: monitoring, at the user equipment, whether a signaling connection release indication should be sent to the wireless network; appending, at the user equipment, a cause for... Agent: Research In Motion Limited

20130021920 - Terminal apparatus and response signal transmitting method: Disclosed are a terminal apparatus and a response signal transmitting method that can reduce the signaling overheads related to a bundling group in a communication system to which a partial bundling is applied. In a terminal (200), a bundling control unit (212), which serves as a generating means for generating... Agent: Panasonic Corporation

20130021922 - Network managing device and network managing method: An initial address allocating unit 11 allocates a predetermined address to each of the nodes 21 connected to respective first stage switches 22. A connecting state acquiring unit 12 acquires a connecting state from each of the first stage switches 22, each of second stage switches 23 and each of... Agent: Fujitsu Limited

20130021923 - Communication drop avoidance via selective measurement report data reduction: Mitigating a risk of a communication session being dropped while the communication session is in progress. Conventional measurement report (MR) messages can be generated and communicated from a mobile communication device to a communication network. Responsive to the mobile communication device detecting an out-of-sync (OOS) condition, an OOS counter can... Agent: Motorola Mobility, Inc.

20130021925 - Coordinated multipoint (comp) transmission method selection and feedback requirements: A method for configuring coordinated multipoint (CoMP) transmission by an eNode B is described. Feedback information is received from a user equipment (UE). A CoMP transmission measurement set is determined. The CoMP transmission measurement set is sent to the UE. A channel state information (CSI) report of the CoMP measurement... Agent: Sharp Laboratories Of America, Inc.

20130021928 - Evaluating a capacity of a cell of a radio access network: A method, a computer readable media and a device, the method is for evaluating a capacity of a cell of a radio access network (RAN), and may include monitoring, by a monitor, (a) downstream traffic that is directed towards the cell and (b) responses from the cell to the downstream... Agent: Vasona Networks

20130021926 - Feedback reporting based on channel state information reference signal (csi-rs) groups: In macro/RRH setups, channel state information reference signals (CSI-RS) and demodulation reference signals (DM-RS) may be used to decouple control and data transmission. Data transmission (e.g. for LTE Rel 10 and beyond) may be based on CSI-RS and DM-RS, while control may be received from a different set of cells... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20130021939 - Locating sensors of a network of wireless sensors: A method and apparatus are provided for locating the positions of sensors of a network of sensors suitable for communicating with one another by radio connection. The method is suitable for receiving, from sensors of the network of sensors, measurements of relative distances between sensors of the network; for calculating... Agent: France Telecom

20130021936 - Method and apparatus for diagnosing faults in a hybrid internet protocol network: An Ethernet switch can receive an internet protocol query packet generated by a receiver for collecting telemetry data between a source and the receiver in a multicast network, translate the internet protocol query packet to an Ethernet query packet, collect in the Ethernet query packet telemetry data from the Ethernet... Agent: At&t Intellectual Property I, L.p.

20130021937 - Method and apparatus for monitoring quality of service of network: When capturing packets at the application level for the purpose of QoS monitoring, a QoS monitor needs to be bound to the same IP address and port as those of a media player. However, due to the unicast duplicate binding problem, a unicast packet captured by the QoS monitor will... Agent:

20130021940 - Method and apparatus for providing management of measurement reporting after cell change: A method for providing management of measurement reports after a cell handover may include receiving, at a source cell, an indication that a handover of a mobile terminal is to be conducted from the source cell to a target cell, causing provision of information indicative of a measurement configuration employed... Agent: Nokia Corporation

20130021931 - Method for and apparatus for feeding back channel information in wireless communication system: A method and an apparatus for feeding back channel information in a wireless communication system are provided. The method includes calculating an average Signal to Interference and Noise Ratio (SINR), determining a Modulation and Coding Scheme (MCS) level corresponding to the average SINR, determining an MCS level meeting a predefined... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.

20130021929 - Method of mobility management for mobile terminal in a heterogeneous network environment: A method for managing mobility of a terminal in a heterogeneous network environment is provided. According to an aspect, there is provided an operation method of a terminal receiving parameters for Coordinated Multi-point transmission/reception (CoMP) operation in a heterogeneous network environment, the operation method including, at the terminal, receiving at... Agent: Electronics And Telecommunications Research Institute

20130021935 - Method of monitoring control channel in wireless communication system: A method of monitoring a control channel in a wireless communication system includes receiving, by a user equipment (UE) from a network, information associated with a discontinuous reception (DRX) period via a radio resource control (RRC) signaling, wherein the DRX period includes a monitored duration and an unmonitored duration; monitoring,... Agent: Lg Electronics Inc.

20130021941 - Method, apparatus and node for determining quality of service of respective segments of a link: Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method and apparatus for determining QoS of respective segments of a link. The method may comprise: determining QoS target values of the respective segments at least based on an overall requirement on the QoS of the link according to a relationship between QoS... Agent: Alcatel Lucent

20130021934 - Multi-frequency band receiver based on path superposition with regulation possibilities: A multi-frequency band receiver includes first and second receive paths, a combiner, a code multiplex baseband stage and an amplifier controller. The first and second receive paths receive and process first and second code multiplex signals, respectively. The first or the second receive path includes an amplifier having a variable... Agent:

20130021930 - Network system: A network system has lower switches and upper switches connected to the lower switches. Each of the upper switches includes a connection information notifying means for notifying connected lower switch list informations each of which includes an identification information on each of the lower switches connected to each of the... Agent: Hitachi Cable, Ltd.

20130021938 - Radio base station and communication control method: A radio base station 1 used in an FDD radio communication system in which an uplink frequency band is different from a downlink frequency band, comprises: an antenna 110; a duplexer 130 configured to extract a signal component of the uplink frequency band from a radio signal received by the... Agent: Kyocera Corporation

20130021933 - Ran analytics, control and tuning via multi-protocol, multi-domain, and multi-rat analysis: The present invention identifies methods and procedures for correlating control plane and user plane data, consolidating and abstracting the learned and correlated data in a form convenient for minimizing and exporting to other network devices, such as those in the Core Network and the Access Network, or the origin server,... Agent: Movik Networks

20130021932 - Sleep mode for user equipment relays: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide methods and apparatus for subframe muting and/or discontinuous reception (DRX) mode related to sleep mode for user equipment (UE) relays. One method generally includes measuring, at a UE functioning as a relay (i.e., a UE relay), signals of one or more other UEs... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20130021924 - Systems and methods for time division multiple access communication with automatic repeat request error control: Systems (100, 200) and methods for providing TDMA communication. The methods involve determining a channel quality of an uplink channel. A communication delay is set equal to an integer value “K”. “K” is selected based on the channel quality. “K”≦“N”. “N” is a total number of frames of a time... Agent: Harris Corporation

20130021927 - Wireless communication system, slave station device, master station device, and wireless communication system control method: A wireless communication system that includes a hub and multiple nodes is provided. The nodes include a wireless communication control unit that acquires, during a predetermined communication time period, a signal transmitted to the hub by a node; an RSSI calculating unit that calculates propagation information from the signal acquired... Agent: Fujitsu Limited

20130021942 - Granular control of multicast delivery services for layer-2 interconnect solutions: In order to achieve optimized delivery of multicast traffic between L2 OTV sites across an L3 multicast service provider core infrastructure, embodiments of the present disclosure describe building different provider multicast data trees rooted at a source site for individual per-vlan (*,G)/(S,G) streams. Building such provider trees may require individual... Agent: Cisco Technology, Inc.

20130021948 - Method for communicating in a mobile network during a transitional configuration mode: The present invention relates to a method for communicating between a primary station and at least one secondary station, comprising (a) the secondary station being configured to search a first configuration of search spaces, said search spaces comprising a number of resource sets, where at least one resource set might... Agent: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.v.

20130021944 - Method to pass virtual local area network information in virtual station interface discovery and configuration protocol: An apparatus comprising an edge virtual bridging (EVB) bridge, and an EVB station coupled to the EVB bridge, wherein the EVB station is configured to send to the EVB bridge a virtual station interface (VSI) discovery and configuration protocol (VDP) request comprising a filter information (info) field without specifying a... Agent: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.

20130021946 - Method, network element device, and network system for associating a terminal device with a network: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, network element device, and network system for associating a terminal device with a network. The method for associating a terminal device with a network includes: receiving an Association Request message sent by a terminal device, where the Association Request message includes information... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.

20130021943 - Methods and network elements operable to specify and determine complete sets of link state messages for link state routing protocols: A method, performed by a transmitter network element utilizing a link state routing protocol which has a maximum link state message size. The method is for providing information to avoid a disruption in data forwarding that would result from a receiver network element performing preferred route computations based on an... Agent:

20130021945 - Node apparatus and alternative path search method: Anode apparatus includes: a receiver configured to receive data from a first node apparatus adjacent to the node apparatus, a transmission source of the data being a second node apparatus; a data generator configured to generate transmission data in which the second node apparatus is specified as a final destination;... Agent: Fujitsu Limited

20130021947 - Specifying priority on a virtual station interface discovery and configuration protocol response: An apparatus comprising an Edge Virtual Bridging (EVB) bridge coupled with an EVB station wherein the EVB bridge is configured to communicate to the EVB station a Filter Information (Info) field of a virtual station interface (VSI) discovery and configuration protocol (VDP) Associate Response message, and wherein the Filter Info... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.

20130021949 - Distributing information: Information related to a set of networks from a first node to a second node of a communication system can be distributed. A set of identifiers which belong to the set of networks can be stored at the first node. Hash values are generated at the first node for the... Agent:

20130021950 - Selective teleconference interruption: A system and method for controlling a peer-to-peer, unmoderated conference call, which allows a non-talking conferee to send an in-band interrupt request signal which is detected by the conference bridge, which automatically determines which conferee is currently talking, and continuously sends an alert signal to the talking conferee, but prevents... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20130021951 - Systems and methods to connect members of a social network for real time communication: Methods and apparatuses to provide telephonic connections to members of a social network. One embodiment includes: identifying a first member connected to a second member in a social network; determining whether profile data of the first member of the social network includes a telephonic reference of the first member; presenting... Agent: Utbk, Inc.

20130021952 - Method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving information for random access in wireless communication system: A method and a Base Station (BS) of transmitting information for Random Access (RA) by a base station in a wireless communication system are provided. The BS generates RA information for beam alignment between the base station and each of a plurality of mobile terminals based on a number of... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.

20130021953 - Full-duplex single-ended serial link communication system: A system for full duplex communication using a single-ended communications link is described. The system includes a first link interface configured to generate a signal for transmission via the single-ended communications link. The signal includes data encoded in a forward channel. The system also includes a second link interface configured... Agent: Maxim Integrated Products, Inc.

20130021954 - Enabling half-duplex operation: Half-duplex (HD) operations enable low cost implementations of LTE terminals. Traditionally, HD operations may be linked to a particular frequency band which may not allow a mix of full-duplex (FD) and HD terminals in the same frequency band. Therefore, certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for enabling coexistence,... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20130021955 - Circulator tuning for reduced intermodulation distortion in a wireless communication device: A mobile wireless communication device includes a circulators coupled between a respective communications arrangement and their antennas. Each circulator includes a coupled tuning network, wherein the tuning networks are operable to tune their circulators for maximum isolation from cross coupling between the power amplifiers within an operating frequency band of... Agent: Symbol Technologies, Inc.

20130021959 - Access point multi-level transmission power control based on the exchange of characteristics: A first plurality of characteristics are received from a first client device relating to transmissions received by the first client device from both an access point and a second client device. A second plurality of characteristics are received from the second client device relating to transmissions received by the second... Agent: Broadcom Corporation

20130021960 - Method and device for performing communication in a wireless communication system: One suggested specific embodiment of the present invention relates to a communication method and device for improved performance. For example, a method for requesting information related to energy (or power) consumption of a terminal and receiving a report of related information from the terminal, and a mobile terminal may be... Agent: Lg Electronics Inc.

20130021958 - Method and system for minimizing power consumption in a communication system: Certain embodiments of the invention may be found in a method and system for minimizing power consumption in a communication system. Exemplary aspects of the invention may comprise configuring a supply voltage of an amplifier to enable communication of data using a first communication protocol during a first timeslot in... Agent: Broadcom Corporation

20130021957 - Methods and apparatus for group paging in wireless networks: Methods, apparatus and systems for group paging of wireless devices are described. A wireless device is associated with a member identifier (MID) that is a unique identifier for the wireless device. The wireless device is associated with a group identifier (GID) that is a unique identifier for a group of... Agent: Zte Corporation

20130021956 - Synchronized comunication for mesh connected transceiver: A wireless mesh network, method, and processor-readable storage medium for operating a network that has a control node that communicates with a plurality of communication nodes, at least one of which comprises a battery-powered communication node, are disclosed. The battery-powered communication node is associated with an electric meter and is... Agent: Elster Solutions, LLC

20130021961 - Method and apparatus for dynamically configuring multicast and broadcast service (mbs) zone in wireless communication system: Provided are a method and apparatus for configuring a Multicast and Broadcast Service (MBS) zone dynamically in a mobile communication environment. According to an example, there is provided a method of seamlessly changing base stations configuring a MBS zone whenever one or more mobile terminals configuring the MBS zone move... Agent: Electronics And Telecommunications Research Institute

20130021964 - Method, system and device for wireless communication: A method, system and device for wireless communication are provided by the present invention. The method includes that: from the ending of the Transmit-Receive Guard interval (TRG) to the beginning of the Receive-Transmit Guard interval (RTG), an evolved Node B (eNB) carries Common Reference Signals (CRSs) or Demodulated Reference Signals... Agent: China Mobile Communications Corporation

20130021963 - Mobile communication system, relay station, and control method and program for relay station: In order to properly operate a fixed relay station and a mobile relay station even under the circumstance where the fixed relay station and the mobile relay station are connected to the same base station, each of relay stations (20—1 and 20—2) forming a mobile communication system (1) notifies a... Agent: Nec Corporation

20130021962 - System and method for mobile access control and load balancing in a relay network: A method, network node and UE device (115) for wireless access control and load balancing among various access nodes (105, 110) in a radio access network that contains both base stations (105) and relay notes (110). A wireless UE device (115) receives a message containing at least one of the... Agent: Research In Motion Limited

20130021971 - Allowing a rejected wireless communication device access to a communication channel: Devices, systems, articles of manufacture, and methods for allowing a rejected wireless communication device access to a communication channel are described. According to some embodiments, a message that includes a wait state override indicator is generated. The message is transmitted to the wireless communication device. A communication channel is established... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20130021979 - Apparatus and method for performing random access in a wireless communication system: The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for performing random access in a wireless communication system. According to one embodiment of the present invention, the method comprises acquiring a time adjustment value for acquiring uplink timing via the representative CC in an uplink timing group which is set... Agent: Pantech Co., Ltd.

20130021981 - Base station, mobile station, coordinated mobile station, transmission method and reception method: A base station (BS) which communicates with a plurality of mobile stations (MSs) is configured so as to comprise a control signal generation unit which generates control signals showing information on the allocation of resources for each of the plurality of mobile stations (MSs), and a transmission unit which transmits... Agent: Panasonic Corporation

20130021973 - Cell identifier encoding and decoding methods and apparatus: In an embodiment, a wireless communication system (100, FIG. 1) includes one or more nodes (102-108) and one or more user equipments (UE) (110). A node may apply (502, FIG. 5) a cell-specific spreading code to a cell identifier, which indicates an identity of a cell (113, FIG. 1) serviced... Agent:

20130021965 - Enhanced capabilities and efficient bandwidth utilization for issi-based push-to-talk over lte: For voice traffic over-the-air in LTE, persistent schedule (PS) or semi-persistent (SPS) scheduling would be the preferred method as they minimize signaling messages. In PS or SPS, resources are pre-allocated to the UE 402 at regular intervals (e.g., every 20 milliseconds). At each time slot, the UE will generally transmit... Agent: Alcatel-lucent Usa Inc.

20130021978 - Gateway device, base station, mobile management server, and communication method: A gateway device connects a base station to a core network. The gateway device has a communication unit that receives, from a mobile management server in the core network, a key that cancels ciphering that was set in an NAS message that was received from a terminal that is subordinate... Agent: Nec Corporation

20130021970 - Group based mobility optimization method and device in machine-type communication: The present invention relates to a method and device of performing Tracking Area Update TAU for a group of Machine-Type Communication MTC devices in a communication network. According to an embodiment of the present invention, the group comprises a first MTC device and at least one second MTC device that... Agent:

20130021967 - Low power radio device and radio resource sharing method for low power radio device: A low power radio device and a radio resource sharing method for the low power radio device are provided. In the low power radio device, a channel state (CS) is detected by carrier sensing before transmission of each frame to reduce interference and a need of retransmission of each frame,... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

20130021976 - Method and apparatus for accurate time synchronization in wireless communication system: A method and apparatus for time synchronization and an OFDMA receiver thereof are provided. A preamble timing is obtained by a two-stage correlation in a time domain between a sequence of a received symbol and a reference preamble. The two-stage correlation is further simplified to perform a conjugate multiplication between... Agent: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.

20130021968 - Method and apparatus for bandwidth aggregation for ip flow: A method and apparatus for bandwidth aggregation for an Internet protocol (IP) flow are disclosed. A sender may split IP packets on a single IP flow, and transmit the IP packets to a receiver via at least two interfaces. The sender splitting the IP packets over multiple interfaces may not... Agent: Interdigital Patent Holdings, Inc.

20130021966 - Method and apparatus for estimating frequency deviation: The invention provides a method and an apparatus for estimating frequency deviation, the method comprising: after receiving a sub-frame, transforming a downlink synchronized code of the sub-frame to a frequency domain, and performing a correlation operation between the transformed downlink synchronized code and a local frequency domain synchronized code to... Agent: Zte Corporation

20130021977 - Method and apparatus for integer frequency offset estimation in wireless communication system: A method and apparatus for performing time synchronization and an OFDMA receiver thereof are provided. The method preferably includes performing a differential phase correlation in a frequency domain based on one received sequence and one reference preamble and detecting an integer frequency offset based on a result of the differential... Agent: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.

20130021982 - Method and apparatus for packet retransmission in a mobile communication system: The present invention relates to a packet retransmission method of a terminal accessing a base station in contention-based access mode, and the method includes transmitting an uplink packet to the base station; receiving, when the base station fails decoding the uplink packet, a retransmission request message transmitted by the base... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.

20130021972 - Method and system for optimized handling of context using hierarchical grouping (for machine type communications): A hierarchical data structure for signaling and data handling at a packet core network is defined. A hierarchical data structure is applied to both persistent and dynamic information to support a type of devices that share the same characteristics. Subscription database, context information, and policy rule information is comprised of... Agent: Connectem Inc.

20130021980 - Method for transmitting channel state information in wireless access system: The present invention provides various methods for transmitting channel state information relative to one or more serving cells in a carrier-coupled environment, and devices for supporting the same. As one embodiment of the present invention, a method for reporting channel state information (CSI) in a wireless access system that supports... Agent: Lg Electronics Inc.

20130021969 - Method of performing retransmissions via different transmission points and related communication device: A method of performing a retransmission of a packet from a plurality of transmission points in a wireless communication system to a mobile device of the wireless communication system is disclosed. The method comprises transmitting the packet from a first transmission point of the plurality transmission points to the mobile... Agent: Industrial Technology Research Institute

20130021974 - Reverse link feedback for interference control in a wireless communication system: Systems and methodologies are described that provide techniques for generating and utilizing reverse link feedback for interference management in a wireless communication system. Channel quality and/or interference data can be obtained by a terminal from a serving sector and one or more neighboring sectors, from which an interference-based headroom value... Agent:

20130021975 - Wireless communication station and methods for communicating station-capability information: Embodiments of a wireless communication station and methods for communication station-capability information are generally described herein. In some embodiments, a first wireless communications station is configured to wirelessly communicate a station-capability information element (IE). The station-capability IE included in at least one item selected from a list of items consisting... Agent:

20130021990 - Apparatus and method for scheduling in carrier aggregated communication systems based on a transmit-receive-frequency gap band: An apparatus, method, system and computer program product is configured for avoiding base station self-interference due to transmit intermodulation in carrier aggregated communication systems. Physical downlink communication channels are allocated to respective component carriers per time interval according to a communication service in which communication is performed on an aggregation... Agent:

20130022000 - Communication network and method: A method, apparatus and computer program for allocating resources in a communication system. An access node sends a request for shared resources to one or more neighbouring access nodes which have a strong interference bond with the access node. The neighbouring access nodes send a response identifying the nature of... Agent:

20130021983 - Facilitating user equipment feedback to manage rate loop at a base station: A method of wireless communication includes denying time or frequency resources of a first radio access technology (RAT) to allow communications of a second RAT. Information is reported about the denied resources of the first RAT to facilitate a connection setup on one of the first RAT and the second... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20130022014 - Method and apparatus for determining search spaces and search positions in a communication system which operates a plurality of component carriers, and method and apparatus for decoding control information using same: Aspects of the invention include a method and apparatus for allocating a control information resource in a wireless communication system, which operates a plurality of component carriers, and for decoding control information. Control information on the plurality of component carriers is realigned in accordance with the order of decoding and... Agent: Pantech Co., Ltd.

20130022010 - Method and apparatus for managing inter-cell interference for device-to-device communications: A method, apparatus, and computer program can provide inter-cell interference management. The method, for example, may generate an inter-cell assistance information to facilitate a selection of one or more physical resource blocks for device-to-device communications based at least in part on a scheduling or interference information exchanged between a plurality... Agent: Nokia Corporation

20130021997 - Method and apparatus for managing random access preamble set in a wireless communication system with multiple random-access priority classes: A method for determining a proper preamble allocation mode is provided. The method is applicable to a base station communication with a number of human to human UEs and machine to machine UEs. The base station collects information from different types of UEs to figure out arrival rates for human... Agent:

20130021991 - Method and apparatus for providing downlink control information in an mimo wireless communication system: The present invention relates to a method in which a user equipment receives a downlink signal from a base station in a wireless communication system that supports downlink MIMO transmission according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises: receiving downlink control information that includes information indicative of the number... Agent:

20130022018 - Method and apparatus for transmitting a broadcasting service in a system that supports machine to machine communications: The present invention relates to a method for transmitting a broadcasting service in a system that supports machine to machine communications, the method comprising: transmitting an event registration message to a base station for the registration of an event at the time of occurrence; receiving from the base station an... Agent: Lg Electronics Inc.

20130022017 - Method and apparatus for transmitting control information in wireless communication system: The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. More specifically, the present invention relates to a method for transmitting control information through a PUCCH in a wireless communication system and an apparatus for same comprising the steps of: obtaining a plurality of second modulation symbol streams corresponding to a... Agent: L G Electronics Inc.

20130022019 - Method and apparatus for transmitting control information in wireless communication system: The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. More specifically, the present invention relates to a method for transmitting control information through a PUCCH in a wireless communication system and an apparatus thereof, comprising the steps of: spreading modulation symbol sets to first slot, by using a first code;... Agent: Lg Electronics Inc.

20130021994 - Method and apparatus for transmitting harq acknowledgement in ofdm radio communication system: A Physical Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest (ARQ) Indicator CHannel (PHICH) transmission method performed by a base station is provided. The method includes determining whether any PHICH resources are allocated to a current subframe; allocating, upon a determination that the current subframe does not have any PHICH resources allocated, a new... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

20130022008 - Method and apparatus of communication: In a radio communication system, a number of downlink component carriers can be aggregated for communication between a network node and a User Equipment (UE). A set of downlink component carriers is determined from the number of downlink component carriers. A downlink control channel for the UE is arranged to... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd

20130022001 - Method and system for a range reduction scheme for user selection in a multiuser mimo downlink transmission: Various aspects of a method and a system for a range reduction scheme for user selection in a multiuser MIMO downlink transmission are presented. Aspects of a system for range reduction may comprise a range reduction processor that determines a plurality of channel measurements corresponding to a plurality of signals.... Agent: Broadcom Corporation

20130022009 - Method and system for transmitting uplink control signaling on physical uplink shared channel: A method for transmitting an uplink control signaling on a physical uplink shared channel is provided in the present invention, and the method includes: respectively encoding the uplink control signaling and data information corresponding to a transmission block needed to be transmitted, and truncating the corresponding encoded information according to... Agent: Zte Corporation

20130021992 - Method for facilitating synchronisation between a communications network and a wireless communications device operating in a cpc dtx mode and a wireless communications device: A method for facilitating synchronization between a communications network (102) and a wireless communications device (104, 106, 200) operating in a Continuous Packet Connectivity, CPC, discontinuous transmission, DTX, mode, comprises monitoring (304) at the wireless communications device (104, 106, 200) the radio conditions of downlink communications using control bits received... Agent: Motorola Mobility LLC

20130022013 - Method for providing information such that different types of access points can coexist: Disclosed is a method for providing information for enabling different types of access points to coexist. The information providing method includes: receiving frequency information for broadcasting from a broadcast database server; obtaining information regarding different types of access points located in a certain area; generating information regarding one or more... Agent: Lg Electronics Inc.

20130021996 - Method for reducing interference under multi-carrier configuration: A number of methods reduce inter-cell interference under multi-carrier configuration. One of the methods includes a first NodeB transmitting, to a second NodeB, Primary Component Carrier (PCC) information or Primary cell (PCell) information configured by the first NodeB for a UE served by the first NodeB. The method also includes... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

20130022012 - Method for transceiving contention-based uplink channel signal: The present invention relates to methods for transceiving a contention-based uplink channel signal, and apparatuses for supporting the same. According to one embodiment of the present invention, a method for transmitting first uplink data through a contention-based uplink channel comprises the steps of: receiving, by a terminal, an uplink grant... Agent:

20130021984 - Method for wireless communication between a user device and a base station in a wireless communication system supporting uplink and downlink multi carriers, and a device for implementing the method: A method for wireless communication supporting uplink and downlink multi carriers Includes performing initial access through one of at least two downlink component carriers among multiple downlink component carriers including the at least two downlink component carriers through which the user equipment is allowed to perform the initial access; and... Agent: Lg Electronics Inc.

20130022015 - Method in which a terminal establishes component carriers in a wireless communication system, and apparatus for same: The present invention relates to a method in which a terminal establishes component carriers in a wireless communication system. More particularly, the method comprising the following steps: determining whether or not a second component carrier, which is associated with a first component carrier by means of system information, exists; if... Agent: Lg Electronics Inc.

20130021993 - Method of handling random access response: A method of handling random access response for a network in a wireless communication system is disclosed. The method comprises receiving a first random access preamble from a first mobile device of the wireless communication system at a first component carrier of a plurality of component carriers, receiving a second... Agent: Industrial Technology Research Institute

20130021987 - Method of performing retransmissions by using different resources and related communication device: A method of performing a retransmission of a packet from at least one transmission point of a wireless communication system to a mobile device in the wireless communication system is disclosed. The method comprises transmitting the packet from the at least one transmission point to the mobile device by using... Agent: Industrial Technology Research Institute

20130022006 - Method, apparatus and system for implementing multi-user virtual multiple-input multiple-output: A method and system for implementing multi-user virtual multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) techniques for wireless transmit/receive units (WTRUs) having one or more antennas are disclosed. The system includes a base station and at least one WTRU having at least two antennas. The number of antennas of the base station is not... Agent: Interdigital Technology Corporation

20130022003 - Method, apparatus and system for signaling resource partition: Signaling resource partition of a component carrier in a wireless communication system is disclosed. The number of primary resource blocks and the number of extension resource blocks of the component carrier is encoded and signaled to a UE, so the UE can obtain the resource partition of the component carrier.... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.

20130022016 - Method, base station, terminal and communication system for selecting a component carrier: A method, base station, terminal and communication system for selecting a component carrier. The method includes: determining the coverage range of each available carrier which can be used by the terminal; determining whether the distribution of the coverage ranges of all available carriers accords with a preset distribution mode; and... Agent: Sony Corporation

20130022005 - Method, system, and apparatus for radio communications: A first radio communication apparatus transmits first and second control signals to a second communication apparatus. The first control signal carries information to be used in communication performed with a first frequency band. The second control signal carries information to be used in communication performed with a second frequency band.... Agent: Fujitsu Limited

20130021989 - Methods, apparatuses and related computer program product for control information signaling: Methods, apparatuses and related computer program product for control information signaling. It is disclosed a method/apparatus comprising predetermining, specifically for each of a plurality of terminals, a transmission mode in correspondence with a predetermined second control information format, transmitting, in a first predetermined portion of a set of control channel... Agent: Nokia Corporation

20130022011 - Mobile communication system, base station apparatus, mobile station apparatus, mobile communication method, and integrated circuit: Provided are a mobile communication system and a mobile communication method in which a base station apparatus and a mobile station apparatus can efficiently transmit control information in case of communication is conducted by using a wide frequency band constructed by a plurality of component carriers. The mobile communication system... Agent: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha

20130021999 - Networking method and device for frequency reuse: The present invention provides a networking method and device for frequency reuse. The method comprises dividing a total available frequency band of a system into a plurality of sub-bands, and allocating the divided sub-bands to each cell while ensuring that the sub-bands allocated to at least two cells are overlapped... Agent: China Mobile Communications Corporation

20130021995 - Power optimization using scheduling request delay: Certain aspects of the disclosure relate generally to techniques for managing scheduling requests (SRs) for resources for uplink transmission. For example, certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to a method for wireless communication including determining a transmit opportunity for transmitting SR for uplink resources based, at least in part,... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20130021985 - Radio communication apparatus and radio communication method: A radio communication apparatus includes a mapper having a first generator that generates third data by inverting code of first data to be mapped to a frequency domain that corresponds to frequency allocated resources, and a selector that selects the first data, second data to be mapped to the frequency... Agent: Fujitsu Limited

20130022002 - Radio communication system: A radio communication system wherein one or a consecutive plurality of sub-carriers at certain frequency intervals form sub-carrier groups each of which is assigned to a different user, the radio communication system including a radio communication apparatus; and a terminal configured to receive a notification for identifying control signal positions... Agent: Fujitsu Limited

20130022004 - Scheduled and autonomous transmission and acknowledgement: Techniques for efficient signaling to and from a plurality of mobile stations are disclosed. In one embodiment, a subset of mobile stations may be allocated a portion of the shared resource with one or more individual access grants, another subset may be allocated a portion of the shared resource with... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20130021988 - Scheduling method and system: A scheduling method is disclosed by the present invention, and the method includes: a network element 1 transmitting downlink message to a network element 2, and scheduling the network element 2 to transmit or receive data over a plurality of subframes; according to the downlink message, the network element 2... Agent: Zte Corporation

20130021986 - Systems and methods for configuring remote radio heads: In a method of wireless communication, a UE receives a configuration parameter for scrambling or descrambling a signal for which a larger number of scrambling sequences are defined for a particular cell ID for UEs of a newer release. The UE communicates in a network having a base station and... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20130022007 - Uplink control information transmission: Uplink control information transmission method, and a network node and a UE implementing the method are disclosed. According to an embodiment of the invention, uplink control information is transmitted from a UE to a network node by defining a set including at least one of the of uplink component carriers... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.

20130021998 - Using non-ims connections in ims sessions: Systems and methods can be implemented for IP multimedia subsystem (IMS) resource reservation. A first electronic device can transmit, through an IP network, a non-Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) message to an application server in an IMS network, where the non-IMS SIP message includes a request to initiate an IMS communication... Agent:

20130022021 - Feedback for multi-user mimo systems: A base station (BS) for a SDMA-capable cell (C) of a radio communications system (1), adapted for: receiving precoding vector information (PMI) indicating a primary precoding vector (wPMI) in an ordered set of precoding vectors (w), receiving channel quality information (CQI) indicating a channel quality when using the primary precoding... Agent: Alcatel Lucent

20130022020 - Multiplexing schemes for ofdma: Methods and systems are provided for allocating resources including VoIP (voice over Internet Protocol) and Non-VoIP resources. In some embodiments, multiplexing schemes are provided for use with OFDMA (orthogonal frequency division multiplexing access) systems, for example for use in transmitting VoIP traffic. In some embodiments, various HARQ (Hybrid Automatic request)... Agent:

20130022022 - Method for fast link layer handoff in heterogeneous networks: When handing off a multi-mode patient monitoring device (PMD) (28) between radio access technology (RAT) networks, a serving access point (AP) (12, 16, 72) with which a communication link is established by the PMD (28) over a first RAT network (RAT-1) to permit the PMD to communicate with a hospital... Agent: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.v.

20130022023 - Optimized carrier aggregation for handover: The invention relates to a method of performing a handover of a user equipment (128) from a source cell (100) to a target cell (102), wherein the user equipment (128) is adapted for receiving and/or transmitting data simultaneously on two or more aggregated component carriers, the method comprising receiving an... Agent: Alcatel Lucent

20130022025 - Base station, communication method and wireless communication system: A base station, to which a cell belongs and which communicates with a relay node to which a relay node cell belongs, including a control unit configured, at a time of handing over the relay node from another cell belonging to a first base station to the cell belonging to... Agent: Fujitsu Limited

20130022026 - Radio base station and communication control method: A radio base station according to the present invention includes a measurement instruction unit configured to transmit a control signal for instructing the measurement of the radio quality of a cell during communication or a neighboring cell to a mobile station UE; a reception unit configured to receive a measurement... Agent: Ntt Docomo, Inc.

20130022024 - Roaming system using wireless access controller to select access point and method thereof: A roaming system using a wireless access controller to select an access point and the method thereof are provided. By sending a signal strength between a station and access points (AP's) detecting the station from each AP to a wireless access controller (WAC), and notifying the station to select one... Agent: Moxa Inc.

20130022027 - Discontinuous transmission in a frame: An apparatus having a database and a circuit is disclosed. The database may be configured to store a plurality of entries. The circuit may be configured to (i) insert a plurality of indicators into a frame, (ii) generate the entries in the database and (iii) transmit the frame in response... Agent:

20130022028 - Transmission control method, mobile station, and communication system: Conventionally, there is a problem that a state transition of E-TFC changes according to QoS for descriptions of data to be transmitted, and therefore a mobile station's operation is not decided uniquely. To solve this problem, a transmission control method in accordance with the present invention includes a step of... Agent: Research In Motion Limited

20130022029 - Data transmission method and apparatus of machine-type communication device in wireless communication system: Provided are a data transmission method and apparatus of a machine-type communication (MTC) device in a wireless communication system. The MTC device receives common control channel (CCCH) configuration information for CCCH configuration of a normal terminal and the MTC CCCH configuration information for CCCH configuration of the MTC device from... Agent: Lg Electronics Inc.

20130022034 - Enhanced 2-wire and 3-wire wlan bluetooth coexistence solution: Methods and systems for enhanced 2-wire and 3-wire WLAN Bluetooth coexistence solution may include determining whether adaptive frequency hopping is active in a Bluetooth communication device. If the adaptive frequency hopping is active, handshaking with a collocated non-Bluetooth communication device may be disabled. The collocated non-Bluetooth communication device may be... Agent: Broadcom Corporation

20130022033 - Method and terminal for access control of network service: The present invention relates to a method and terminal for access control of a network service. The method is implemented by a terminal with capabilities of accessing a wireless local area network and mobile network. The method includes: a route establishing step, in which the terminal obtains a local Internet... Agent: Zte Corporation

20130022031 - Relayed content distribution and data collection using vehicles: Technologies for relaying digital content and collecting data using vehicles, and an access point associated with a vehicle or structure are provided. A stationary AP is associated with a stationary vehicle structure. A content distribution portal receives a content package including metadata and content segments from a content provider via... Agent:

20130022032 - Systems and methods for communicating in a network: Systems, methods, and devices to enable compressed media access control headers and frame check sequences for wireless local area network (WLAN) systems are described herein. In one aspect, the header information in data packets sent between devices is compressed so as to reduce the amount of overhead required to transmit... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20130022030 - Systems and methods for determining a network relationship between mobile devices: Described are a system and method for determining a network relationship between a mobile device and a contact stored in the mobile device. A mobile device is associated with a network. A request is transmitted from the mobile device for a set of contact devices in a contact list of... Agent: Mitel Networks Corporation

20130022035 - Distributed medium access control for wireless data networks: In one embodiment, conflicts are identified by sending and announcement message from the first node to neighboring nodes from among the plurality of second nodes indicating that the first node intends to participate in a first communication with a first terminal during the current frame, and receiving a report message... Agent: Alcatel-lucent Usa Inc.

20130022039 - Circuit-switched and multimedia subsystem voice continuity with bearer path interruption: The present invention maintains calls during transfers between different types of subsystems, even when there is a bearer path interruption at the user element due to the original connection from the transferring-out subsystem being dropped before the new connection in the transferring-in subsystem is established. The call signaling leg toward... Agent: Research In Motion Limited

20130022038 - Enhanced telephony computer user interface allowing user interaction and control of a telephone using a personal computer: Enhanced telephony computer user interfaces seamlessly integrate and leverage the features of personal computers and telephones. The manner in which media is presented at a computing system can also be modified automatically in response to detected telephone operations. These modifications can include pausing media in response to a detected telephone... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20130022037 - Method, terminal device, and system for establishing a communication between a first party and a second party: A method for establishing a communication between a first party and a second party includes: receiving, by the second party, a communication request (CR) and identification information of the first party from the first party using a first signalization standard and using public identification information of the second party; and... Agent: Deutsche Telekom Ag

20130022036 - System and method of providing a high-quality voice network architecture: Providing high quality voice/sound communications over a local loop of a telephone network is disclosed. The method includes receiving a voice signal, digitizing the voice signal into a high quality voice signal, utilizing sampling rates and/or sizes above the threshold, negotiating voice processing characteristics between a customer premises equipment and... Agent: At&t Intellectual Property Ii, L.p.

20130022040 - System and method for high-performance, low-power data center interconnect fabric with broadcast or multicast addressing: A system and method are provided that support a routing using a tree-like or graph topology that supports multiple links per node, where each link is designated as an Up, Down, or Lateral link, or both, within the topology. The system may use a segmented MAC architecture which may have... Agent: Calxeda, Inc.

20130022042 - Delay budget based forwarding in communication networks: In one embodiment, certain nodes in a computer network maintain a plurality of routing topologies, each associated with a different corresponding delay (e.g., dynamically adjusted). Upon receiving a packet with an indicated delay budget at a particular node, the node updates the delay budget based on an incurred delay up... Agent: Cisco Technology, Inc.

20130022044 - Network system: A network system includes lower switches and upper switches connected to the lower switches. Each of the upper switches transmits a first notification frame containing a connected lower switch number information indicative of the number of the lower switches connected to each of the upper switches, to the lower switches... Agent: Hitachi Cable, Ltd.

20130022041 - Signaling a label switched path (lsp) tunneling model: Signaling a Label Switched Path (LSP) tunneling model is described. In one embodiment, a network element that is acting as an egress network element in a Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) network signals multiple LSPs for multiple disparate applications provided in the MPLS network that each require a different type of... Agent:

20130022043 - Transmitting device, receiving device, and operation method thereof: In a transmitting device, a receiving device, and an operation method thereof according to the present invention, in relation to a simultaneous link transmission of divided data through a plurality of heterogeneous networks for one session, particular partial data to be transmitted or received through a network vulnerable to a... Agent: Sk Telecom Co., Ltd.

20130022046 - Diverse path forwarding through trial and error: In one embodiment, a node determines an intention to transmit a diversely forwarded packet through a computer network, and as such, transmits a first version of the packet having a packet identifier (ID) and a first distinguisher value to a first next-hop node, and transmits a second version of the... Agent: Cisco Technology, Inc.

20130022048 - Method and network node for use in link level communication in a data communications network: In accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, a network node is presented which is configured to associate each of a plurality of MAC addresses with an IP address on a network level. The network node is configured to, upon reception of a link level message comprising a target... Agent: Telefonakiebolaget Lm Ericsson (publ)

20130022047 - Network apparatus and network managing apparatus: First-stage switches (B1 to B9), second-stage switches (M1 to M9), and third-stage switches (T1 to T9) include a bottom connection path that configure to interchange a connection point of one or more second signal transmitting units and a connection point of another one or more second signal transmitting units, in... Agent: Fujitsu Limited

20130022045 - Scalable forwarding table with overflow address learning: A node is configured to receive a packet from a host device, where the packet includes a source address associated with the host device; determine that the source address is not stored by the node; generate one or more logical distances, associated with one or more nodes, based on the... Agent: Juniper Networks, Inc.

20130022050 - Distributed fabric protocol (dfp) switching network architecture: A switching network includes an upper tier including a master switch and a lower tier including a plurality of lower tier entities. The master switch includes a plurality of ports each coupled to a respective one of the plurality of lower tier entities. Each port includes a plurality of virtual... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20130022049 - Identifying nodes in a ring network: Methods, systems and data structures for determining a token master on a ring network are provided. According to one embodiment, determining a token master on a ring network includes receiving a packet containing a network token at a first node on the network. If the network token does not arrive... Agent: Fortinet, Inc.

20130022051 - Systems and methods for handling a multi-connection protocol between a client and server traversing a multi-core system: The present application is directed towards systems and methods for handling a multi-connection protocol communication between a client and a server traversing a multi-core system. The multi-connection protocol comprises a first connection and a second connection, which may be used respectively for control communications and data communications. Because different cores... Agent:

20130022052 - Data transport system and control method of data transport system: An example of a data transport system includes transport nodes of a transport network, communication devices which communicate via the transport network, and a transport network logical path management server for setting logical paths between the transport nodes within the transport network, and a logical path control server. In a... Agent: Hitachi, Ltd.

20130022053 - Packet trains to improve packet success rate in carrier sense multiple access networks: In one embodiment, a communication device operates according to a particular frequency hopping sequence in a communication network, and receives a first packet with an indication that the first packet is part of a particular packet train, the packet train comprising a plurality of packets to be transmitted in succession.... Agent: Cisco Technology, Inc.

20130022054 - Communication system and method for a rail vehicle: A method of communicating data signals includes receiving data from one or more data sources disposed on board a rail vehicle and allocating different portions of a data communication bandwidth to data signals that include the data based on categories of the data. The categories represent at least one of... Agent:

20130022055 - Method and system for converting session initiation messages: A network entity comprising an input for receiving from a given IP device, a session initiation message for initiating a communication session over a packet based network via a session initiation message generated according to a particular session initiation protocol and a processing entity. The processing entity is operative for... Agent: Bce Inc.

20130022056 - Apparatus, system, and method ordering and provisioning variable bandwidth capacity on a network: Systems and methods for automatic purchasing, reserving and/or provisioning of a wavelength bandwidth block are disclosed. A user may access a web page, such as an interactive web-portal, to provide bandwidth data and corresponding ordering information for reserving a particular amount of bandwidth capacity on a telecommunications network. Subsequently, the... Agent: Level 3 Communications, LLC

20130022057 - Communicating tone information in a network: A method and apparatus to communicate tones is described.... Agent: Intel Corporation

20130022058 - Transmitter and transmission method: In the transmitter which transmits the signal by the DSTBC scheme, a frame in which a sync word is disposed in a predetermined position subsequent to the head is used. Initial value control means 31 to 35 set initial values of differential encoding (differential encoding unit 15) when a DSTBC... Agent:

20130022059 - Dual mode communication systems and methods: Embodiments of dual mode communication systems and methods are disclosed. On system embodiment, among others, comprises logic configured to perform spatial multiplexing and expanded bandwidth signaling to data.... Agent: Intellectual Ventures I LLC

20130016601 - Apparatus and method for maintaining a circuit-switched voice call in a multi-rab wireless communication system in an area of weak coverage: An apparatus and a method are provided for improving user experience in a multi-radio access bearer (multi-RAB) wireless communication system. After a user equipment establishes a circuit-switched communication link and a packet-switched communication link with a core network, it may receive an indication of an error associated with the packet-switched... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20130016604 - Method and apparatus for efficiently transmitting control information to support uplink multiple antenna transmission: The present invention relates to a method for transmitting control information regarding uplink multiple antenna transmission may comprise the steps of: transmitting DCI for scheduling the uplink transmission of a plurality of data blocks through a PDCCH; receiving the plurality of data blocks scheduled by the DCI; transmitting information which... Agent: Lg Electronics Inc.

20130016603 - Multiplexing schemes for ofdma: Methods and systems are provided for allocating resources including VoIP (voice over Internet Protocol) and Non-VoIP resources. In some embodiments, multiplexing schemes are provided for use with OFDMA (orthogonal frequency division multiplexing access) systems, for example for use in transmitting VoIP traffic. In some embodiments, various HARQ (Hybrid Automatic request)... Agent:

20130016600 - Network apparatus and method of retransmitting frame using the same: There is provided a network apparatus capable of effectively retransmitting a frame in a frame aggregation environment, and a method of retransmitting a frame using the same. The network apparatus includes: a transmitting node broadcasting a plurality of data frames in a frame aggregation environment; a receiving node receiving the... Agent: Samsung Electro-mechanics Co., Ltd./ Korea University Research & Business Foundation

20130016602 - Simplified signaling for small data transmissions: A signaling procedure for establishing and terminating connections for small data transmissions (SDTs) by wireless devices. A wireless device sends an access request message to a serving wireless access node on a random access channel (RACH). The access request message includes an indication that the access is for a SDT.... Agent:

20130016605 - Procedures for finding a backup ingress of a point-to-multipoint label switched path: A method comprising receiving a request from a network component to find a backup ingress node for an ingress node of a point-to-multipoint (P2MP) label switched path (LSP), determining a plurality of candidate backup ingress nodes that satisfy a plurality of constraints, including being an edge node in the ingress... Agent: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.

20130016606 - Methods and apparatus for improving network communication using ethernet switching protection: A network layout between network elements and routers using network redundancy to improve reliability of network communication is disclosed. Upon detecting a link failure associated with a primary link between an access switch and a primary router by the access switch via a connectivity verification protocol, the access switch sends... Agent: Tellabs San Jose, Inc.

20130016611 - Method and apparatus for prioritizing voice over internet protocol signaling messages: A method and apparatus for enabling prioritization of signaling messages in a communication network are disclosed. For example, the method receives at least one signaling message, and classifies each of the at least one signaling message. The method schedules each of the at least one signaling message for processing, and... Agent: At&t Intellectual Property I, L.p.

20130016610 - Method for operating a wireless network and a wireless network: For allowing a best possible usage of network resources even under congestion conditions a method for operating a wireless network, especially an IP (Internet Protocol) network, is described, wherein a queue management function based on an average queue length in a network element is used. The method is characterized in... Agent: Nec Europe Ltd.

20130016607 - Method of handling emergency bearer service in wireless communication system: A method of handling an emergency bearer service for a mobile station in a wireless communication system is disclosed. The method comprises receiving an attach rejection message with a back-off timer when a network node is applying a non-access stratum (NAS) level congestion control, wherein the attach rejection message is... Agent:

20130016608 - Method of reducing signaling in congested network and related communication device: A method of reducing signaling in a congested core network for a mobile device is disclosed. The method comprises initiating a procedure when a back-off timer is running on the mobile device; receiving a message during the procedure; and treating a cell as Network Mode of Operation (NMO) II and... Agent:

20130016609 - Network equipment and frame transmission control method: Network equipment has multiple ports each performing transmission/reception of a frame, and a control unit that when the frame received through the port is an command of temporal suspension, temporarily suspends transmission of the frame from the port until a predetermined time elapses and after the predetermined time elapsed, alters... Agent: Hitachi, Ltd.

20130016612 - Selective topology routing for distributed data collection: In one embodiment, a device, such as a network management server, determines a traffic matrix of a mesh network, where the traffic matrix indicates an amount of traffic per type of traffic transitioning between the mesh network and a global computer network via one or more current root devices. One... Agent: Cisco Technology, Inc.

20130016614 - Discontinuous reception start offset coordinated with semi-persistent scheduling system and method: An apparatus and method are provided for configuring a user agent to receive semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) transmissions independent of the user agent monitoring a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH). Also provided are an apparatus and method for configuring a user agent to monitor a PDCCH in a subframe to which... Agent: Research In Motion Limited

20130016615 - Method and system for reporting buffer size index: The disclosure claims a method and system for reporting a buffer size index; the method includes: presetting a first table which is a buffer size index table used by a Long Term Evolution (LTE) system, and presetting a second table which is a buffer size index table by increasing a... Agent: Zte Corporation

20130016613 - Method and system of reporting measurement results in a multi-carrier system and user equipment thereof: The present invention discloses method and system of reporting the measurement results in a multi-carrier system to a network side equipment and the user equipment thereof, wherein the method includes: dividing the measurement tasks into measurement task groups; the UE determining whether the measurement results of the measurement tasks in... Agent: Zte Corporation

20130016616 - Method for backhaul link protection in a mimo wireless link: A wireless communication link arrangement and a method performed in the communication link, which link comprises a first node with a plurality of transmitting antenna arrangements and a second node with a plurality of receiving antenna arrangements that forms a number of radio chains RC, each arranged to operatively communicate... Agent: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)

20130016617 - Network relay device and control method thereof: The network relay device is provided. The network relay device includes: a plurality of ports, each being configured to be connectable with one physical line; a virtual line controller configured to treat a plurality of physical lines, which are respectively connected with the plurality of ports, to constitute a virtual... Agent: Alaxala Networks Corporation

20130016618 - Self-testing of services in an access point of a communication network: A technique for self-testing of services in an access point of a communication network includes providing a table that has a mapping between a service test, packets to be sent for testing, and packets that should be received in response to the testing, emulating and marking the test packets to... Agent: Motorola Solutions, Inc.

20130016622 - Apparatus and method for providing packet service in a portable terminal: An apparatus and method for providing a packet service in a portable terminal in which a first communication network unit provides the packet service through a first communication network, a second communication network unit provides a circuit service set as a default service and the packet service through a second... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

20130016621 - Device and method for restricting transmission output in a portable terminal: A transmission output restricting method and apparatus of a portable terminal includes a radio frequency (RF) unit to detect a transmission power reflected based on a degree of mismatching of an antenna when a transmission power is emitted via the antenna, and to measure a transmission power increased due to... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

20130016623 - Method and a device for power reduction in an lte system: A method for use in a wireless communications system in which there is at least a first mode which controls the traffic to and from user terminals in a cell within the system, so that there is downlink traffic in the system. The first node transmits downlink traffic in radio... Agent: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)

20130016620 - Network transmission capacity measurement: Transmission capacity from a first node to a second node through a communication network is measured. First and second probe message from the first node to the second node, a first and second amount of data in the first and second probe message respectively being mutually different, at least one... Agent: Nederlandse Organisatie Voor Toegepastnatuurweten- Schappelijk Onderzoek Tno

20130016624 - Qos throttling for mobile devices: Communication networks and methods are disclosed for performing Quality of Service (QoS) throttling for mobile devices. One embodiment comprises a network element that serves a mobile device for data services. The network element includes a control system that monitors usage of the mobile device that is accessing the data services.... Agent: Alcatel Lucent

20130016619 - System and method for controlling current to certain components of a wireless communication device: A method may include: determining a signal strength of a signal in a receive path of a wireless communication element, the receive path configured to receive a wireless communication signal and convert the wireless communication signal into a digital signal based at least on an oscillator signal; selecting a current... Agent: Fujitsu Semiconductor Limited

20130016626 - Method and apparatus for growing next generation network using modular design: A method and system for growing a next generation network (NGN) using a modular design are disclosed. For example, the method defines a growth core module to support a specific number of subscribers, wherein the growth core module is assigned a module identifier (ID). The method upgrades existing network entities... Agent: At&t Intellectual Property I, L.p.

20130016627 - Network relay node device, network relay method, and recording medium: A network relay node device for relaying communication between a first network and a second network having a protocol different from a protocol of the first network through a switch, the network relay node device includes an identical segment information generation control unit that generates identical segment information for identification... Agent: Fujitsu Limited

20130016625 - Wireless mesh network and method for remote seismic recording: A method of collecting data from wireless sensor units arranged in a mesh network is disclosed, each wireless sensor unit having one or more sensors arranged on or below the ground surface for remote seismic recording, the method comprising: clustering the wireless sensor units into two or more sub mesh... Agent: Srd Innovations Inc.

20130016630 - Beacons for user equipment relays: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide methods and apparatus for detecting user equipment (UE) relays using beacons (whether in-band or out-of-band) or other mechanisms. One method generally includes determining an identifier indicative of a UE functioning as a relay and transmitting a broadcast signal including the identifier. Another method... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20130016628 - Method and system for managing network devices of generic vendors and manufactures: r

20130016629 - Network-assisted peer discovery with network coding: Techniques for performing network-assisted peer discovery with network coding are disclosed. For peer discovery with network coding, a device may generate a network-coded message based on a message assigned to the device and one or more messages received by the device from other devices. The device may transmit a proximity... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20130016631 - Processing messages with a device server operating in a telephone: A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a computer-readable storage medium in a telephone having computer instructions to execute a web server application in the telephone. The web server application can be operable to detect an incoming plain old telephone service call, identify a... Agent: At&t Intellectual Property I, Lp

20130016632 - Methods for coordinated signal reception across integrated circuit boundaries: A wireless electronic device having first and second baseband processors is provided. In one suitable arrangement, radio-frequency power splitters and adjustable low noise amplifiers may be form in the receive paths. The use of power splitters allow signals associated with the first and second baseband processors to be received in... Agent:

20130016633 - Wireless circuitry for simultaneously receiving radio-frequency transmissions in different frequency bands: An electronic device has wireless communications circuitry that includes transmitters and receivers. Antenna structures may be coupled to the transmitters and receivers to support radio-frequency signal transmission and radio-frequency signal reception operations. Switching circuitry such may be used to support multiple communications bands of interest. One or more low band... Agent:

20130016634 - Electronic duplexer: The present disclosure relates to an electronic duplexer for at least one transmit path and at least one receive path in a radio system where the transmit and receive paths share the use of at least one antenna. A first feedforward correction loop is used to correct broadband noise emissions... Agent: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)

20130016635 - Bluetooth packet scheduling rules for lte coexistence: To mitigate potential interference between radio access technologies (RATs) on a multi-RAT device, traffic scheduling rules may be implemented so that communications of the individual RATs are timed in a manner that reduces interference. For example, communications of a Bluetooth/WLAN RAT may be scheduled such that initial and responsive communications... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20130016636 - Securing, monitoring and tracking shipping containers: A method of securing a container includes inserting, into a seal device at a container, an electronic bolt; reading, by the seal device, a serial number stored in the electronic bolt; communicating, from the seal device, to a user application, insertion of the bolt; scanning, by the user via a... Agent:

20130016642 - Coexistence of a normal-rate physical layer and a low-rate physical layer in a wireless network: A system including a midamble detection module and a processing module. The midamble detection module is configured to detect a midamble of a packet transmitted via a channel, where the packet includes (i) a preamble, (ii) the midamble, and (iii) a plurality of data fields, where the preamble includes (i)... Agent:

20130016640 - Enhancement of slotted mode operation for wireless communication: Methods, apparatus and systems for enhanced slotted mode operation for wireless communication are disclosed. A first control message indicative of a first sleep cycle duration is received. When the first control message includes a first message field, a second control message that includes a second field indicative of a second... Agent: Zte Corporation

20130016641 - Mesh network control using common designation wake-up: Each of a plurality of network nodes in an ad hoc mesh network utilizes a data communication device that includes a two-way communications component, comprising a first receiver and transmitter, and a second receiver. The second receiver activates the communications component from a dormant state when it receives a broadcast... Agent:

20130016639 - Method and apparatus for performing carrier management in carrier aggregation system: A method and device for carrier management in a carrier aggregation system, includes signaling which carries an additional carrier measurement indication sent to a User Equipment (UE); a measurement report received from the UE; when the downlink traffic of the UE increases, if the recorded carriers in the current downlink... Agent: Fujitsu Limited

20130016643 - Method and device for controlling multi-carrier frequency power amplifier resources: A control method and device for multi-carrier frequency power amplifier resources includes service data which is first distributed to a primary carrier frequency board; if it is determined that channel resource blocks of the primary carrier frequency board are all distributed with the service data, the rest service data is... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.

20130016638 - Method for controlling discontinuous reception in mobile communication device: A method for controlling a discontinuous reception (DRX) in a mobile communication device is provided. According to the method, when a specific application is selected, the device activates a DRX setting timer having a long DRX period for a direct long DRX mode, and enters into the DRX mode. When... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.

20130016637 - Vehicle battery power save timer: The described method and system provide for processing telematics service-related calls on a telematics-equipped vehicle when the vehicle ignition is off. By utilizing one or more call timers, the described invention is able to prevent excessive drain to the vehicle battery while still providing broad access to telematics services when... Agent: General Motors LLC

20130016644 - Wireless intelligent switch engine: A wireless intelligent switch engine (WISE) is described. The wireless intelligent switch engine provides for automatic switching between different physical wireless interfaces in mobile devices while roaming to maintain a wireless network connection. WISE functions as a bridge between a mobile device and multiple wireless network interfaces to provide automatic... Agent:

20130016647 - Data networking through inherent rf connections in a communication system: An RF distribution system distributes a radio frequency (RF) signal to a plurality of receivers. Ports provide RF connectivity from the antennas to the receivers while also providing data connectivity between the receivers. Sensors detect which receivers are connected to the distribution system so that the distribution system can route... Agent: Shure Acquisition Holdings, Inc.

20130016645 - Mobility management apparatus, multicast service delivering apparatus, mobile communication system, mobile station apparatus and mobile communication method: In a mobile communication system, in which a service area is constituted of a plurality of cells each disposing a base station, and which offers a multicast service to a mobile station apparatus existing in the service area, by transmitting multicast data from a multicast service delivering apparatus to the... Agent: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha

20130016646 - Terminal of supporting direct communication using infra communication and direct communication method of the same: A method in which a first terminal supports direct communication using infracommunication includes setting at least one direct communication link with at least one second terminal, setting at least one traffic connection with a base station, and forwarding data that is transmitted through the at least one direct communication link... Agent: Electronics And Telecommunications Research Institute

20130016648 - Connectivity setup for dynamic wireless mesh networks: A wireless backhaul link is established by sending from a mobile first access node to a second access node a priority request message requesting high priority for a link between them. The established wireless backhaul link is utilized as part of a wireless multihop connection between the second access node... Agent: Renesas Mobile Corporation

20130016651 - Media access control protocol for multi-hop network systems and method therefor: A method and system for wireless communication in which a plurality of media access control (“MAC”) packet data units (“PDUs”) corresponding to a plurality of wireless communication connections are received. The plurality of MAC PDUs is grouped into a relay packet and the relay packet is transmitted. Such grouping and... Agent:

20130016652 - Method and device for relay node selection and power allocation in wireless relay network: The method includes: acquiring an energy price of each node in a wireless relay network, and link information about links between each node and its neighboring nodes, wherein the energy price is determined according to the following rule: the fewer residual energy of a node is, the higher the energy... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.

20130016653 - Method for setting a search space for a relay node in a wireless communication system and apparatus for same: A method of receiving a control signal in a relay node from a base station in a wireless communication system comprises receiving a downlink signal from the base station; and acquiring control information for the relay node from a search space included in the downlink signal, wherein the search space... Agent:

20130016650 - Methods and systems for wireless networks with relays: Methods and systems are provided for use with wireless networks having one or more cell in which each cell includes a base station (BS), at least one relay station (RS) and at least one mobile station (MS). The at least one relay station can be used as an intermediate station... Agent: Apple Inc.

20130016649 - System design for user equipment relays: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide methods and apparatus related to various considerations for using systems comprising user equipment (UE) relays. One method generally includes receiving, at a UE functioning as a relay, data from a first apparatus; and relaying the received data to a second apparatus, wherein the... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20130016663 - Base station supporting turbo decoding and packet splitting: A baseband processing module of a base station includes a Turbo decoding module. The Turbo decoding module decodes a Turbo code word to produce one or more Media Access Control (MAC) packet(s) carried by the turbo decode word. Each MAC packet includes a MAC packet header and the MAC packet... Agent: Broadcom Corporation

20130016657 - Dynamic enablement of m2m services over 3gpp access networks: A Machine-to-Machine (M2M) Services Enablement Solution offering M2M services enablement to an M2M entity that supports a 3GPP or a non-3GPP access for connection and service by a 3GPP Evolved Packet Core (EPC). The solution enables an Access Network (AN) to offer a transport connection for the M2M entity over... Agent:

20130016654 - Mesh network management system: Aspects of the invention provide for a mesh network management system. In one embodiment, a system is disclosed having: at least one computing device adapted to manage a wireless mesh network by performing the actions comprising: sending data including a plurality of fragments over a network to a plurality of... Agent: General Electric Company

20130016665 - Method and apparatus for employing an indication of stored temporary information during redirection: A method for employing an indication of stored temporary information during redirection may include receiving a temporary stored information indicator from a mobile terminal indicating that the mobile terminal stores a system information container comprising temporary information, and determining whether to replace the temporary information with non-temporary information based on... Agent: Nokia Corporation

20130016660 - Method and apparatus to estimate relative base station and subscriber terminal locations and using it to increase frequency reuse: Method for estimating position information of base stations as well as terminals for three dimensional centralized real-time spectrum management to achieve high spectral efficiency. In one aspect of the invention, the method comprises i) understanding the position information of plurality of base stations, wherein the plurality of terminals and the... Agent: Wichorus, Inc.

20130016661 - Method for processing data in a network system, enodeb and network system: The embodiments of the present invention provide a method for processing data in a network system, eNodeB and network system, relate to the field of communication technology, and is made in view of the problem of increasing of processing burden of a core network and interference aggravation due to decrease... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co.,ltd.

20130016659 - Method of handling random access procedure with deactivation timer: A method of handling random access procedure on secondary cell in a wireless communication system is disclosed. The method comprises starting a deactivation timer for a secondary cell, performing a random access procedure for the secondary cell, and when the deactivation timer expires during the random access procedure, aborting the... Agent:

20130016664 - Method, system, mapping forward server and access router for mobile communication controlling: A method, system, mapping forwarding server and access router for mobile communication control are provided in the present invention. The method includes a flow of sending a data message from a source mobile terminal to a destination mobile terminal, including the following steps: A, a source access router receiving a... Agent: Zte Corporation

20130016656 - Mobile station and transmission control method: A mobile station includes: a determining unit configured to make a determination as to whether uplink synchronization is established with a base station; a controller configured to determine a timing for providing notification of a start of data transmission to the base station based on a result of a determination;... Agent: Fujitsu Limited

20130016662 - Multi-site mimo cooperation in cellular network: In a cellular communications network comprising a plurality of transmitting sites wherein each transmitting site comprises at least one antenna, a method of serving a given data stream to a target-mobile terminal, comprising: designating at least two of the plurality of transmitting sites as cooperating sites; assigning tones to each... Agent:

20130016658 - Reactivation of dedicated bearers: The present invention relates to re-establishment of dedicated bearers and more particularly, the invention relates to the re-establishment of dedicated bearers when connection is lost temporarily. This is provided in a device, method and system, in a packet based telecommunications network, for receiving on the communication interface an indication that... Agent: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)

20130016655 - Reducing blind decodings for communications using carrier aggregation: A method and apparatus for transmitting downlink control information when carrier aggregation is being used, by determining at least one downlink control information (DCI) format for a first carrier and at least once DCI format for a second carrier; and including padding in at least one DCI format corresponding to... Agent: Research In Motion Limited

20130016682 - Advanced multi-network client device that utilizes multiple digital radio processors for implementing frequency channel aggregation within different spectrum bands: According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method for connecting a device to a plurality of wireless networks, including: simultaneously establishing a plurality of data transmission paths on a plurality of frequency channels, using a device including multiple digital radio processors, to access a plurality... Agent:

20130016673 - Apparatus and method for assigning multicarrier in wireless access system: Disclosed is a method for operating a terminal for assigning multicarrier in a wireless access system, the method including receiving a multicarrier advertisement message from a base station, the multicarrier advertisement message including multicarrier configuration information supported by the base station, determining simultaneously available carriers based upon the multicarrier configuration... Agent: Lg Electronics Inc.

20130016672 - Apparatus and method of avoiding control channel blocking: The present invention is directed to a wireless communication system. In particular, the present invention is directed to a method of processing a control channel at a user equipment in a wireless communication system using multiple carriers, the method comprising: receiving a plurality of search spaces, wherein each search space... Agent: Lg Electronics Inc.

20130016681 - Automated parameter adjustment to compensate self adjusting transmit power and sensitivity level at the node b: A small base node such as a Home Base Node (HNB), or femto cell, may reduce its transmit power in order to prevent co-channel or adjacent channel interference, or to limit its coverage area. Once the power is set, the HNB signal to a served Home User Equipment (HUE) its... Agent:

20130016676 - Component carrier activation and deactivation using resource assignments: This invention relates to a proposal of an uplink resource assignment format and a downlink resource assignment format. Furthermore, the invention relates to the use of the new uplink/downlink resource assignments in methods for (de) activation of downlink component carrier (s) configured for a base station and a mobile terminal.... Agent: Panasonic Corporation

20130016666 - Method and apparatus for facilitating packet scheduling for a hybrid communication network: Methods, apparatus and computer program products facilitate scheduling in a hybrid communication network with mobile devices of the first type such as device-to-device (D2D) mobile terminals and second type of mobile terminals such as cellular terminals. A scheduling activity factor is calculated based at least in part on a total... Agent: Renesas Mobile Corporation

20130016688 - Method and apparatus for transmitting ack/nack signals: The present invention relates to a method and apparatus in which a base station transmits a physical ARQ channel (PHICH) in a wireless communication system. More particularly, the present invention relates to a method and apparatus for transmitting a PHICH, wherein the method comprises the following steps: generating a plurality... Agent: Lg Electronics Inc.

20130016689 - Method and device for reverse transmission in a mobile communication system: The present invention defines an efficient contention-based access procedure in a mobile communication system. The present invention is directed to a 3GPP LTE/LTE-A mobile communication system under discussion in the 3GPP as one of the representative next generation mobile communication system.... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.

20130016687 - Method and device for transmitting control information: The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. In particular, the present invention relates to a method and a device for transmitting ACK/NACK through PUSCH, and comprises the following steps: receiving one or more data; generating ACK/NACK information on the one or more data; and writing the ACK/NACK information... Agent:

20130016674 - Method and device for transmitting downlink pilot: Disclosed is a method for transmitting a downlink pilot, which serves to solve the problem that the power of Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) symbols is different due to Walsh codes. The method includes: transmitting a dedicated pilot in the Code Division Multiplexing (CDM) approach or in the combination approach... Agent: China Academy Of Telecommunications Technology

20130016677 - Method for operating a network and a network: For allowing a reliable communication between the wireless part and the core network part via the fixed line network a method for operating a network, especially for policy control within the network, is provided, wherein the network includes a mobile network and a fixed line network, wherein the mobile network... Agent: Nec Europe Ltd.

20130016675 - Method for reporting emergency and terminal in mobile communication system: Disclosed is a method for a terminal to report an emergency in a mobile communication system, the method including detecting an emergency and transmitting an emergency report header to a base station to notify the base station of the emergency, the emergency report header including a field indicating a signaling... Agent: Electronics And Telecommunications Research Institute

20130016671 - Method of handling coordinated scheduling for base stations and mobile devices and related communication device: A method of associating a plurality of mobile devices with a plurality of transmission points in a wireless communication system for a set of the plurality of transmission points is disclosed. The method comprises dividing the plurality of mobile devices into a plurality of mobile device groups according to a... Agent:

20130016686 - Method, system and apparatus of multi-subframe scheduling: The present invention discloses a method, system and apparatus of multi-subframe scheduling. The method of multi-subframe scheduling comprises: sending a terminal a continuous scheduling indication, a first Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ) process number corresponding to a first scheduled subframe, and a scheduling configuration parameter of multi-subframe scheduling; acquiring a... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.

20130016670 - Methods and apparatuses for communicating in television white space (tvws) based on tvws enablement signal: Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to techniques for supporting television white space (TVWS) communication. In an aspect of the present disclosure, a low-rate TVWS enabler (Mode II wireless communication device) may provide initial enablement for all Mode I devices (e.g., access points and user terminals), as well as... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20130016690 - Mobile communication system, and carrier measurement method in the mobile communication system: The present invention defines a method for a terminal capable of aggregating multiple carriers to perform measurement to the carriers efficiently in a mobile communication system. The present invention is directed to the 3GPP LTE (Long Term Evolution or 3GPP LTE-A (LTE-Advanced) system that is currently discussed in the 3GPP... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.

20130016685 - Mobile equipment and packet filtering method: Mobile equipment includes a second control unit connected to a plurality of first control units performing control of an application function. The second control unit includes a storage unit, a setting unit, a transmitting unit, and a selecting unit. The storage unit stores selection information and connecting-destination specifying information associating... Agent: Fujitsu Limited

20130016683 - Mobile user terminal, mobile communication system, base station, and communication method: A mobile user terminal, which transmits downlink channel quality information indicating downlink channel quality and an uplink pilot signal to a base station, whereby a carrier frequency used for transmitting the downlink quality information and a carrier frequency used for transmitting the uplink pilot signal are selectable respectively from among... Agent: Fujitsu Limited

20130016669 - Periodic access control: Methods, apparatus, and program products are presented that perform the following: accessing a periodic finite state controller embodying a set of policies for at least access to one or more wireless resources used for transmission by the apparatus; and using the accessed periodic finite state controller to transmit information using... Agent: Nokia Corporation

20130016684 - Power control in a wireless communication system: In a wireless communications system, a serving base station performs outer and closed power control for an overhead channel and a traffic channel for data, either of which can carry an acknowledgement (Ack) channel and Channel Quality Indicator (CQI) channel on an uplink from User Equipment (UE). In an exemplary... Agent:

20130016691 - Radio base station and communication control method: An LTE base station 1 determines whether or not a timing for setting a logical area arrives. When the timing for setting a logical area arrives, the LTE base station 1 acquires an uplink traffic volume and a downlink traffic volume in radio communication with a radio terminal 2. On... Agent: Kyocera Corporation

20130016678 - Signaling method in an ofdm multiple access system: A method for reducing the peak-to-average ratio in an OFDM communication signal is provided. The method includes defining a constellation having a plurality of symbols, defining a symbol duration for the OFDM communication signal, and defining a plurality of time instants in the symbol duration. A plurality of tones are... Agent:

20130016668 - Simultaneous packet data network (pdn) access: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for wireless communications, wherein distinct port partitions are assigned to processing entities on a user equipment device. Doing so provides the processing entities with concurrent access to the single PDN connection.... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20130016667 - System imposed throttled transmission: A transmission controller (40) comprises a transmission request processor (44); a transmission reservation grantor (46); and, a transmission monitor (48). The transmission request processor (44) is configured to receive a request for a transmission reservation emanating from a client application executed at a wireless terminal (30). The transmission reservation grantor... Agent: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)

20130016680 - Systems and methods for multi-user mimo: Methods and apparatus are described for implementing multiple user, multiple input, multiple output (MU-MIMO) communications involving the use of beamforming where signals transmitted from a transmitter are received at multiple receivers. The method includes schemes for the calculation of interference implemented at the transmitting end, and in some embodiments receiving... Agent: Research In Motion Limited

20130016679 - Uplink control signal design for wireless system: A method for an SS to perform network entry in a multi-carrier wireless environment that has a primary carrier and at least one secondary carrier associated with a BS, the method comprising: a. sensing a carrier in an area serviced by the BS; b. determining if the carrier is a... Agent: Research In Motion Limited

20130016692 - Downlink control with control-less subframes: In a wireless communications system wherein control-less subframes share a common carrier with subframes that include control signaling, a method performed by a base station may include receiving a first indication from a network entity to maintain a designated set of subframes on a common carrier devoid of designated downlink... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20130016694 - Method and apparatus for transport block signaling in a wireless communication system: A method and apparatus for generating a single statically defined downlink reference MCS table consisting of transport block sizes (TBSs) computed for 29 MCSs for each of j PRBs where j=1, . . . , NRBDL. Three entries of the MCS table are reserved for implicit modulation order signaling (e.g.... Agent: Motorola Mobility LLC

20130016693 - Scattered pilot pattern and channel estimation method for mimo-ofdm systems: Methods and apparatus are provided for inserting data symbols and pilot symbols in an OFDM (orthogonal frequency division multiplexing) transmission resource utilizing frequency hopping patterns for the data symbols and/or the pilot symbols. Data symbols and pilot symbols are allocated for down link (base station to mobile station) and up... Agent:

20130016698 - Handover from circuit switched to packet switched: The invention relates to a method for handing over a call of a mobile entity that is circuit switched attached via a NMobile Switching Center MSC (120) to an IP Multimedia Subsystem IMS, wherein the mobile entity (100) is registered at the IMS. According to the invention, either the MSC... Agent: Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (publ)

20130016697 - Method and apparatus for improving a mobile station cell change operation in the general packet radio system (gprs): A mobile station executed method, wherein upon changing from a current cell to a new cell in a wireless packet data network the mobile station enters the new cell; generates a cell change packet data unit (PDU) message for informing the network of the location of the mobile station in... Agent:

20130016696 - Method and apparatus for multi-rat access mode operation: A method and apparatus for multiple radio access technology (multi-RAT) access mode operation for a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) are disclosed. A WTRU and a network may enable a multi-RAT access mode of operation based on at least one of WTRU subscription, a service agreement of the WTRU, a roaming... Agent: Interdigital Patent Holdings, Inc.

20130016701 - Method and apparatus for random access in an orthogonal multiple-access communication system: Techniques for accessing a wireless communication system are described. A user equipment (UE) sends a random access preamble for system access. The random access preamble may include a random identifier (ID), a channel quality indicator (CQI), etc. The UE may randomly select the random ID or may be assigned this... Agent:

20130016695 - Method and apparatus for seamless mobility techniques in content-centric network: A networking system for a content-centric-network (CCN)/named-data networking (NDN) comprising a first point of attachment (PoA) configured to communicate with a mobile node (MN) and maintain a forwarding state for the MN to support seamless mobility for the MN, and a second PoA configured to communicate with the MN and... Agent: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.

20130016700 - Method and device for detaching user equipment: A method and device for detaching a user equipment (UE) are disclosed in the present invention. The UE is registered with a mobility management entity (MME) in a packet switched (PS) network and a mobile switching center (MSC) in a circuit switched (CS) network. When the UE needs to detach... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.

20130016702 - Method, apparatus and system for reporting mdt log result: A method, a device and a system for reporting a Minimization Drive Test (MDT) log result are disclosed by the present invention for ensuring that the MDT log result can be reported in time. The method includes: after a User Equipment (UE) is re-accessed to a target cell from a... Agent: China Academy Of Telecommunications Technology

20130016699 - Mobile communication system, network device, and mobile communication method: In a handover procedure though which a bearer for the first communication call established between the first communication system and a mobile communication terminal is switched to a bearer for the first communication call established between the second communication system and the mobile communication terminal, the second communication system determines... Agent: Ntt Docomo, Inc.

20130016707 - Apparatus and method for transmitting uplink scheduling request in mobile communication system: A method and apparatus for transmitting an uplink Scheduling Request (SR) are provided. The method includes, obtaining a SR subframe configuration by receiving signaling, and transmitting SR information to a Base Station (BS) by using physical resources of another non-SR channel for transmitting other uplink control information. By applying the... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.

20130016705 - Enhancing sounding reference signals (srs): A method for enhancing a sounding reference signal (SRS) in a non-root wireless communication device is disclosed. The method determines that all SRS transmissions for the wireless communication device are to occur in an uplink pilot time slot (UpPTS) portion of a transition subframe. The method also determines whether available... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20130016706 - Ul/dl scheduling for full bandwidth utilization: A method may include receiving, by a user equipment incapable of transmitting and receiving simultaneously, a schedule to transmit data on an uplink, detecting, by the user equipment, whether there is data to be transmitted on the uplink, and receiving, by the user equipment, during a time corresponding to the... Agent: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)

20130016703 - User identifier multiplexing by time division: A network assigns to a first user equipment UE and to a second UE a same temporary identifier for use at least while the first and the second UEs are simultaneously in a connected state in a same cell. Individual control channel transmissions utilizing the temporary identifier are selectively associated... Agent: Renesas Mobile Corporation

20130016704 - Wireless transmission method: A wireless transmission method is provided for allowing data transmission between plural wireless devices. In the wireless transmission method, each time cycle is divided into a flag time segment and a transmission time segment. The flag time segment includes plural flag time slots corresponding to respective wireless devices, and the... Agent: Primax Electronics Ltd.

20130016710 - Communication system, communication terminal, communication device, communication control method, and communication control program: A communication system includes: a communication device having information provision means for providing information on a communication state; and a communication terminal including information acquisition means for acquiring the information on the communication state, and wireless LAN communication means for operating either in a station (STA) mode for connecting with... Agent: Nec Corporation

20130016709 - Initiation of a mimo communication: The present invention provides a method and apparatus for initiating a multiple input multiple output (MIMO) communication. The method and apparatus includes processing that begins by transmitting a frame formatted in accordance with a default MIMO active transmitter-receiver antenna configuration to a target receiver. The processing continues by receiving at... Agent: Broadcom Corporation

20130016708 - Wireless network system, method of controlling the system, and wireless network relay device: A wireless network system includes first and second network relay devices, with the first relay device having first wireless communication setup information pre-set thereto and including a first communication I/F part and a first wireless communication setup information transmission part for sending first wireless communication setup information to the second... Agent: Buffalo Inc.

20130016711 - Rf bus access protocol and transceiver and methods for use therewith: A method includes determining whether information is to be transmitted via a radio frequency (RF) bus that supports direct intra-device communication between at least three circuits in a millimeter wave frequency band. When the information is to be transmitted via the RF bus, the method determines whether the RF bus... Agent: Broadcom Corporation

20130016712 - Radio communication system and receiving apparatus: A radio communication system includes a multiple number of transmitting apparatus and a receiving apparatus including a multiple number of receive antennas, in which the transmitting apparatus generates a reference signal that is obtained by adding a different time shift to a known signal between the transmitting apparatus and the... Agent: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha

20130016713 - Precise interval timer for software defined radio: A precise digital fractional interval timer for software defined radios which vary their waveform on a packet-by-packet basis. The timer allows for variable length in the preamble of the RF packet and allows to adjust boundaries of the TDMA (Time Division Multiple Access) Slots of the receiver of an SDR... Agent:

20130016714 - Network connection method and apparatus of a mobile station: A network connection method and apparatus for improving network connection performance of a mobile station in a Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) system is provided. The method includes determining whether a cell change from a first cell to a second cell is detected while waiting for a network connection request message,... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.

20130016716 - Apparatus for remotely rebooting voip communication devices and an associated method and computer program product: An apparatus is provided for remotely rebooting Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) communication devices. In general, the apparatus remotely selects VoIP communication devices connected to a network, reboots the selected devices, and evaluates the status of each device. A processor allows a user to select VoIP communication devices connected to... Agent: Verizon Patent And Licensing Inc.

20130016715 - Network telephony appliance and system for inter/intranet telephony: A network appliance (100) is provided having a network controller subsystem (110) for coupling the appliance (100) to a data network for providing and receiving data packets to and from a packet data network. A digital signal processing subsystem (120) is coupled to the network controller subsystem (110). A signal... Agent:

20130016717 - Fibre channel switching fabric port control: The Fibre Channel standard was created by the American National Standard for Information Systems (ANSI) X3T11 task group to define a serial I/O channel for interconnecting a number of heterogeneous peripheral devices to computer systems as well as interconnecting the computer systems themselves through optical fiber and copper media at... Agent:

20130016722 - Broadcast interactive television system: A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a system having a controller to deliver broadcast channels by way of interactive TV (iTV) edge routers using multicast virtual private networks, share a same multicast state for the broadcast channels and share a same multicast delivery... Agent: At&t Intellectual Property I, Lp

20130016721 - Generating multiple data steams from a single data source: A switch having a first communications interface to receive a stream of data units, a buffer to store the payload portion of the data unit, a replicator to duplicate at least the payload portion of the data unit, and a second communications interface to enable access to the stream of... Agent:

20130016720 - Multicast support on a switch for pcie endpoint devices: Devices and method with hardware configured to support phantom register programming. Where phantom register programming allows a device driver for an endpoint device to program multicast registers in the device without support of the operating system.... Agent:

20130016719 - System and method for supporting a scalable flooding mechanism in a middleware machine environment: A system and method can support a scalable packet forwarding mechanism in a middleware machine environment. The middleware machine environment can comprise one or more network switch instances, wherein each network switch instance is associated with one or more external ports that are adapted to receive data packets from an... Agent: Oracle International Corporation

20130016718 - System and method for using a multicast group to support a flooding mechanism in a middleware machine environment: A system and method can support a flooding mechanism using a multicast group in a middleware machine environment. The middleware machine environment can comprise a gateway instance that includes an external port for receiving one or more data packets from an external network. The middleware machine environment also comprises one... Agent: Oracle International Corporation

20130016723 - Scaling of virtual machine addresses in datacenters: A device in a server having a processor and a storage. The device has a downstream communication unit configured to receive a data packet. The device also has a protocol blind network path indication unit configured to obtain an indicator corresponding to a predetermined path to a data communication unit... Agent:

20130016724 - Link layer preemption: Disclosed are various embodiments for frame preemption and fragmentation at the media access control (MAC) sublayer of the link layer or the MAC merge sublayer of the link layer. Traffic classes may be organized into preemptive traffic classes and non-preemptive traffic classes. Preemptable frames may be fragmented when a preemptive... Agent: Broadcom Corporation

20130016726 - Memory control apparatus, information processing apparatus, and memory control method: A memory control apparatus that controls writing and reading of data to/from a memory. The memory control apparatus includes: a sequence control unit that receives a packet sequence including a write packet including a write request of data and a read packet including a read request of the data, and... Agent:

20130016725 - Method and system for intra-node header compression: One aspect of the invention is directed to a network element (e.g., node/router/switch, etc) which performs internal packet header compression. In particular, an aspect provides a network element comprising a plurality of ingress elements (e.g. line cards), a plurality of egress elements, and system internal network (e.g. a backplane) for... Agent: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)

20130016727 - Method for transmission of information between nodes of a network and network using said method: A method for communication between nodes (UR1; UR2; UC1-UC16) of a network, interconnected by a transmission channel and each identified by a node identification number in which at least one transmitter node emits at least one message to at least one message recipient node. The message comprises a description of... Agent:

20130016728 - Optimising communications: A method, system and program for routing a data stream amongst a plurality of network nodes including at least a plurality of end-user nodes. The method comprises: establishing a plurality of routes for the stream to a plurality of consuming end-user nodes, including at least one route via one or... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20130016732 - Policy decision function addressing method, network element and network system: A policy decision function (PDF) addressing method includes: receiving a PDF allocation request that contains a user equipment (UE) identifier (ID) from a second network element (NE); obtaining ID information of a PDF associated with the UE ID according to pre-registered addressing information of the PDF, where the addressing information... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.

20130016731 - System and method for supporting direct packet forwarding in a middleware machine environment: A system and method can support packet direct forwarding in a middleware machine environment. The middleware machine environment comprises one or more external ports on at least one network switch instance, wherein each external port can receive one or more data packets from an external network. Furthermore, the middleware machine... Agent: Oracle International Corporation

20130016730 - System and method for using a packet process proxy to support a flooding mechanism in a middleware machine environment: A system and method can support flooding mechanism using a packet process proxy in a middleware machine environment. The middleware machine environment can comprise a gateway instance that includes an external port for receiving data packets from an external network. The middleware machine environment also comprises one or more host... Agent: Oracle International Corporation

20130016729 - Systems and methods for efficient handling of data traffic and processing within a processing device: The present invention provides an improved platform hub that aims to, in some embodiments, optimize system resources to improve system performance and/or reduce consumption of power.... Agent: Commex Technologies, Ltd.

20130016733 - Methods and apparatus for fibre channel interconnection of private loop devices: Methods and apparatus for communicating Fibre Channel frames between a private loop device and an Ethernet link through a Fibre Channel private loop device interconnect system. In the preferred embodiments, the Fibre Channel private loop device interconnect system is a fabric or an intelligent bridging hub. In one aspect of... Agent:

20130016734 - Fibre channel switching system: The Fibre Channel standard was created by the American National Standard for Information Systems (ANSI) X3T11 task group to define a serial I/O channel for interconnecting a number of heterogeneous peripheral devices to computer systems as well as interconnecting the computer systems themselves through optical fiber and copper media at... Agent:

20130016735 - Method and apparatus for the deterministic capture of a communication channel shared among contention based technologies: Communications with timeliness guarantees, also known as real-time communications are established in a shared medium with different contention based technologies. A real-time station is able to transmit a noise sequence before the intended data packet transmission. The noise sequence being is to occupy the communication medium during a period of... Agent: Universidade De Aveiro

20130016736 - Method of synchronization for low power idle: A method comprises receiving data, modulated according to a first modulation scheme, from a transmitter via an Ethernet link while the receiver is in a first mode. The first mode corresponds to a first power consumption level of the receiver. The method also includes receiving a sleep signal, and, in... Agent:

20130016737 - Coexistence of a normal-rate physical layer and a low-rate physical layer in a wireless network: A system including a first preamble generation module, a second preamble generation module, and a packet generation module. The first preamble generation module is configured to generate a first preamble. The first preamble includes a first training field to train receivers operating at a first data rate. The second preamble... Agent:

20130016738 - Method and apparatus for implementing frame header alignment and multi-frame zeroing: The present invention discloses a method for implementing frame header alignment and multi-frame zeroing. By using one indication signal, the period of which is 256 times of that of a single frame, the frame header alignment for frame data is completed, and the multi-frame zeroing for frame data is implemented.... Agent: Zte Coration

20130016739 - Multi-channel sniffer system and method for multi-channel sniffer synchronization: A multi-channel sniffer system is provided that includes a reference sniffer comprising a reference clock, secondary sniffers, each having a secondary clock and operable to receive data units from a communication channel, and a synchronization unit connected to the reference sniffer and the secondary sniffers and adapted to switch the... Agent:

20130010585 - Systems and methods for communicating among network distribution points: A communication system has a trunk extending from a network facility, such as a central office, with a plurality of distribution points positioned along the trunk. Each leg of the trunk defines a shared channel that permits peak data rates much greater than what would be achievable without channel sharing.... Agent:

20130010586 - Method and apparatus for resource mapping and code division multiplexing: The present disclosure discloses a method and an apparatus for resource mapping and code division multiplexing. In the present disclosure, each cell selects a mapping scheme among at least two mapping schemes to implement resource mapping, which effectively reduces interference imposed on reference signal symbols of users at the edge... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.

20130010587 - Methods and arrangements in a telecommunication system: e

20130010588 - High availability device level ring backplane: A modular, high-availability network for an industrial control system employs a plurality of base modules having backplane and using network ring topology. Base modules may include I/O base modules for communicating with industrial processes or machines, an adapter base module for communicating with a programmable logic controller (PLC) and/or a... Agent:

20130010589 - Mpls fast re-route using ldp (ldp-frr): MPLS (Multiprotocol Label Switching) fast re-routing using LDP (Label Distribution Protocol) is described. A first network element in an MPLS network receives a first label advertised from a second network element in the MPLS network. The first network element computes a shortest path tree (SPT) to reach a destination network... Agent:

20130010590 - Dynamic enabling of routing devices in shared-media communication networks: In one embodiment, a non-repeated reachability probe is transmitted from a particular node into a shared-media network, where nodes that receive the probe are configured to reply to the particular node. Based on determining a set of one or more nodes in the shared-media network that received the probe, one... Agent: Cisco Technology, Inc.

20130010591 - Transmission apparatus, failure recovery method, and network system: An object is to simplify a process performed due to a failure recovery. To realize this object, the transmission apparatus includes a determining unit that determines, when a transmission apparatus receives a frame from each ring in a network including multiple rings in which a part of each ring is... Agent: Fujitsu Limited

20130010592 - Method for controlling a control station, a method for controlling terminal station, a control station, a terminal station, and a computer readable storage medium: A method for controlling a control station (H1) includes the steps of performing wireless connection processing (204) with a terminal station (D1) and when a wireless connection is established, sending, to the wirelessly-connected terminal station (D1), a capture request signal (205) for causing the terminal station to capture a control... Agent: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

20130010594 - Adaptive edge-implemented traffic policy in a data processing network: In one aspect, a disclosed method of processing a network packet received by an edge device from a client in a data processing network includes determining a priority category of the network packet when the priority category is indicative of a priority associated with the packet. The method further includes... Agent: At&t Intellectual Property I, L.p.

20130010593 - Method for managing load, method for system access, base station and terminal in mobile communication system: A system access method of a terminal in a mobile communication system according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes receiving a control channel or a control message including resource allocation information, an access restriction indicator, and information about a random access region from a base station, and... Agent: Electronics And Telecommunications Research Institute

20130010596 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for providing traffic control services: Traffic control services include detecting an occurrence of an activity via a computer processor. The activity subject to the detecting includes a presence of a device. The services also include obtaining traffic management support information associated with a source and destination of the activity. The traffic management support information includes... Agent: Bellsouth Intellectual Property Corporation

20130010595 - Mutual broadcast period and contention access period operating system and method for load control: A method and a system for operating a Mutual Broadcast Period (MBP) and Contention Access Period (CAP) for load control are provided. The proposed system and method is suitable for a short-range communication environment such as communication environment in or around the human body, and is for a mesh network... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.

20130010597 - Coexistence of multiple wireless networks: Described herein are a method and apparatus including calculating an aggregate peak total traffic demand for all overlapping access points in an interference range, comparing the aggregate peak total traffic demand to a threshold, rejecting a requested new quality of service traffic stream responsive to results of the comparison, calculating... Agent: Thomson Licensing LLC

20130010598 - Congestion handling in a communication network: Data packets of a flow associated with a first bearer and data packets of a flow associated with a second bearer are received in an intermediate node (140). The data packets are then transmitted from the intermediate node (140). in response to a congestion being detected on the first bearer,... Agent: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)

20130010599 - Network-aware adapter for applications: Streams of data traffic from various applications may be handled by a network-aware adapter module as part of a greater platform for filtering communicating the streams to intelligent network components. A distinguishing factor associated with a given data stream may be determined and used as a basis for selecting a... Agent: Research In Motion Limited

20130010600 - Controller driven oam for openflow: A method performed by a network element implementing an OpenFlow controller, the OpenFlow controller including an OAM module. The OAM module services an OAM function request in a network implementing OpenFlow. The method requests that a subset of OpenFlow switches in the network report metrics for an OpenFlow data flow... Agent: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)

20130010601 - Path selection for a wireless system with relays: A method selects a path for forwarding a data packet in a wireless communication system. A system capacity versus delay impact curve is calculated for a direct path to mobile station. The direct path has a capacity cost based on communication quality of a direct link between a base station... Agent:

20130010603 - Methods and apparatus for supporting multicast communications: Methods and apparatus for supporting multicast groups in networks, e.g., wireless peer to peer networks, are described. A member of a multicast group, that does not intend to transmit in a traffic interval, generates and transmits a signal on a traffic transmission request resource indicating that the device transmitting the... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20130010604 - Multi-hop network topology system and method: A wireless communication system and method for a network having a tree topology. An initial path from a base station to an end relay node is selected. The path selection includes an active communication path and a redundant communication path. The path selection is based on at least one policy... Agent:

20130010602 - Synchronized commands for network testing: Methods and test systems for testing a network. A test system may emulate a plurality of users, each emulated user executing a user activity. Each emulated user activity may include one or more commands. At least some emulated user activities may include a first command associated with a first protocol... Agent:

20130010605 - Generic monitoring packet handling mechanism for openflow 1.1: A method implemented by a network element monitor OpenFlow data flows and enable operations, administration and management (OAM) functionality in OpenFlow. The method inserts OpenFlow OAM packets into an OpenFlow data flow to monitor the OpenFlow data flow, wherein inserted OpenFlow OAM packets have fate sharing with data packets in... Agent: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)

20130010606 - Method and apparatus for remote monitoring of femto radio base stations: A method for operation and maintenance of Access Points in a wireless communications network, and a network node and an access point for use in such a network. Access points are used for connecting wireless networks to core networks. The method comprises the step of first receiving, at a network... Agent: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)

20130010607 - Scalable connectivity fault management in a bridged/virtual private lan service environment: A first network element that is to be coupled with a second network element over a first network in the same domain is described. The first network element includes a connectivity check detection module and a connectivity check fault state change module. The connectivity check detection module detects, according to... Agent:

20130010608 - Method, device, and computer program product for detecting and encoding states for accurate measurement: A method, device, and program for determining states in a flow of packets are provided. A flow of transmitted packets is received. When the difference between the sequence number of the arriving packet and the next expected sequence number is equal to zero and when the TTL number of the... Agent: At&t Intellectual Property I, L.p.

20130010611 - Methods and devices for controlling the deactivation of transmission carriers: In a communication system, activity of a transmitter (10), e.g., a UE, is controlled in response to a deactivation command (401). The transmitter (10) receives data on at least one transmission carrier and, if a received transmission of data is found to be defective, may send a repeat request to... Agent: Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (publ)

20130010610 - Network routing adaptation based on failure prediction: Embodiments of the invention provide a system that predicts network events and triggers a pre-emptive response. An example implementation predicts network link failures and creates a change in the network before the failure actually happens by instigating policy-based adjustment of routing parameters. In particular, an embodiment of the invention operates... Agent: British Telecommunications

20130010609 - Node with an improved back up protocol: A node (115, 210) for a mobile network (100), arranged to forward control plane signaling to and from an end user (140, 216) in the system (100) to other nodes in the system (100) and also being arranged to keep track of a state of the end user (140, 216).... Agent: Telefonaktiebolaget L.m. Ericsson (publ)

20130010612 - Impairment aware path computation element method and system: The disclosure includes an apparatus comprising: a path computation element (PCE) comprising a processor configured to: receive a path computation element protocol (PCEP) path computation request from a path computation client (PCC), wherein the path computation request comprises an impairment validation request that directs the PCE to perform an impairment... Agent: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.

20130010614 - Method and apparatus for processing packets in ipv6 network: Disclosed is a method and apparatus for processing packets in an IPv6 network. A CPE (Customer-Premises Equipment) replaces source address information in an IP packet with external address information after receiving the IP packet from a user terminal, stores a mapping relation between the source address information and the external... Agent:

20130010613 - Network switch with traffic generation capability: A packet switch system includes a packet switch appliance having a first network port configured to receive packets, and a first instrument port configured to communicate with a network monitoring tool, a storage system for storing the packets, and an integrated circuit configured to retrieve the packets from the storage... Agent: Gigamon LLC

20130010623 - Communication scheme for channel quality information: The invention relates to a method for transmitting and a method for reconstructing channel quality information in a communication system. Further, the invention also provides a transmitter and receiver performing these methods, respectively. The invention suggests a scheme for communicating channel quality measures that on the one hand allows for... Agent: Panasonic Corporation

20130010620 - Connection reconfiguration in a multicarrier ofdm network: A base station transmits a control message to a wireless device to configure a first connection comprising at least one data radio bearer and to configure measurement parameters of the wireless device. The base station receives a measurement report from the wireless device comprising signal quality information of a second... Agent:

20130010621 - Control apparatus and control method: The control apparatus is provided with a channel quality test module for collecting power consumption between adjacent gateways of the data transmission routes, a communication interface for collecting data delay of the respective gateways of the data transmission routes by performing data communication with the gateways, a memory for storing... Agent: Hitachi, Ltd.

20130010627 - Method and apparatus for an adaptive filter architecture: A system that incorporates teachings of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method for selecting a spectral region in a radio frequency spectrum for initiating a communication session having an uplink and a downlink, correlating a signal strength of portions of the spectral region to generate a correlation... Agent: Isco International, LLC

20130010629 - Method and apparatus for an adaptive filter architecture: A system that incorporates teachings of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method for identifying a spectral region in a radio frequency spectrum for initiating a communication session having a transmission link and a reception link, determining a correlation factor from signals measured in the spectral region, detecting... Agent: Isco International, LLC

20130010631 - Method and apparatus for performing logged measurement in a wireless communication system: Provided are a method and apparatus for performing logged measurement in a wireless communication system. A terminal receives measurement setup and a terminal selection parameter from a base station. The terminal determines whether to apply the measurement setup on the basis of the terminal selection parameter. If it is determined... Agent: Lg Electronics Inc.

20130010630 - Method and apparatus for reporting inter-frequency measurement using rach message in a mobile communication system: A user equipment (UE) is provided which reduces uplink signaling overhead in the process of reporting inter-frequency measurement results over a RACH. For measurement reporting, the UE receives an SIB including a cell information list for non-used frequency cells and a threshold from an RNC, compares signal strengths of signals... Agent:

20130010634 - Method and device for applying adaptive link in communication system: Provided are a method and an apparatus of transceiving a signal using a link adaptation in a communication system, particularly, a method of dividing a resource region into a plurality of resource regions, and applying different line adaptations to the resource regions. A method of controlling a link of a... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.

20130010624 - Method and system for reporting multimedia broadcast multicast service measurement: The present invention discloses a method and system for measuring and reporting a multimedia broadcast multicast service, for solving the technical problem of how to measure and report a measurement result reflecting MBMS performance by the UE. In the present invention, the UE measures the MBMS according to a measurement... Agent: Zte Corporation

20130010635 - Method for controlling downlink transmission power and apparatus for same: The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. Particularly, the present invention relates to a method in which a home base station performs power control and an apparatus for the same, the method comprising the steps of: acquiring information on downlink signal strength of a macrocell; and determining an... Agent: Lg Electronics Inc.

20130010618 - Methods and apparatus for providing flexibility in peer discovery range and frequency of updates: A method, a computer program product, and an apparatus for wireless communication are provided. The apparatus transmits a first peer discovery signal with a first periodicity/temporal frequency in a first set of peer discovery resources. The apparatus determines an energy on an allocated peer discovery resource of a second set... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20130010622 - Multiple bearer radio systems: Multiple bearers such as LTE and P25 in a radio system are used to provide diversity and therefore more reliable signal transmissions. The bearers are ranked according to one or more quality characteristics and uplink or downlink messages are transmitted using the best available path at that time. Emergency messages... Agent: Tait Limited

20130010615 - Rapid network formation for low-power and lossy networks: In one embodiment, a node joins a communication network, and in response to joining the network, operates in a rapid startup mode, wherein the node in rapid startup mode establishes network configurations rapidly by deemphasizing quality (optimality) of the network configurations. Subsequent to operating in the rapid startup mode (e.g.,... Agent: Cisco Technology, Inc.

20130010633 - Reducing load in a communications network: Apparatus and method for reducing an air interface load in a communication network. A base station is provided with a receiver adapted to receive signals from a terminal via a Dedicated Physical Control Channel (DPCCH) and a second control channel. A measuring unit measures a signal to interference ratio (SIR)... Agent: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)

20130010617 - Relative position determination of wireless network devices: The position of a target wireless device in a wireless communication network can be calculated relative to a predetermined number of reference wireless devices in the wireless communication network to preclude the need for fixed/absolute reference points. The reference wireless devices can be selected based, at least in part, on... Agent: Qualcomm Atherons, Inc.

20130010632 - Simultaneous feedback signaling for dynamic bandwidth selection: A method of simultaneously providing channel quality feedback information in all valid sub-channels is provided to facilitate and improve the performance of dynamic transmission bandwidth adjustment and fast link adaptation. A receiving device receives a sounding signal over a wide channel in a wireless system. The sounding signal is transmitted... Agent:

20130010628 - System and method for cooperative data transfer: A method for cooperative data transfer includes establishing a primary wireless connection with a primary access station. The primary wireless connection uses a primary synchronization channel that is transmitted during a first frame of a super frame. The super frame comprises a plurality of frames. The method also includes detecting... Agent: Fujitsu Limited

20130010619 - System and method for multi-carrier network operation: Methods, devices, and systems for multi-carrier network operation are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of pairing and linking carriers in a multi-carrier network, wherein the multi-carrier network includes a downlink carrier, a first uplink carrier, and a second uplink carrier between a base station and a user equipment (“UE”),... Agent: Research In Motion Limited

20130010626 - Terminal setting change notification: There is disclosed a method, and a corresponding apparatus, for maintaining the settings of a user equipment, comprising: monitoring at least one stored setting in the terminal; responsive to a change in said at least one stored setting notifying a controller; and responsive to said notification selectively resetting said at... Agent: Core Wireless Licensing S.a.r.l.

20130010616 - Wireless device for selecting connection target based on signal quality, system and method thereof: A wireless device for selecting a connection target based on signal quality, a system and a method thereof are provided. The invention selects a candidate device having the best signal quality and duration of the signal quality is not less than a threshold reaching a certain time. If the selected... Agent: Moxa Inc.

20130010625 - Wireless subscriber uplink (ul) grant size selection: A method and apparatus of a wireless subscriber requesting an uplink (UL) grant size from a base station (BS) are disclosed. One method includes the subscriber analyzing traffic patterns of uplink data, the subscriber selecting a new grant size based on the analyzed traffic patterns, and the subscriber requesting the... Agent: Broadcom Corporation

20130010641 - Carrier activation employing rrc messages: A base station transmits an RRC reconfiguration message to an RRC-connected wireless device to configure secondary carrier(s). The RRC reconfiguration message is configured to cause the RRC-connected wireless device to control the activation of at least one secondary carrier. The base station transmits data packets to the RRC-connected wireless device... Agent:

20130010638 - Merging a stand-alone switch to a fibre channel network: A Fibre Channel (FC) switch and related methods are provided for merging the FC switch with an existing FC network. During a merge process of a stand-alone switch with an FC network, a first Exchange Fabric Parameters (EFP) frame is sent from the stand-alone switch to an FC switch in... Agent: Cisco Technology, Inc.

20130010640 - Network management system and management computer: Provided is a network management system for managing a plurality of packet relay devices, the network management system comprising: the plurality of packet relay devices constituting networks; and a display device for displaying configurations of the networks, in a case where it is determined that a virtual packet relay device... Agent: Alaxala Networks Corporation

20130010637 - Network modeling, service provisioning, and service management: Methods and devices for network modeling, service provisioning, and service management are disclosed. A network modeling method includes accessing information describing a set of nodes of a communications network, physical links physically connecting the nodes, and logical links logically connecting the nodes using the physical links. The method further includes,... Agent:

20130010639 - Switch fabric management: Techniques are disclosed for managing a switch fabric. In one embodiment, a server system is provided that includes a midplane, one or more server cards, switch modules and a management controller. The midplane may include a fabric interconnect for a switch fabric. The one or more server cards and the... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20130010642 - System and method for automated discovery of customer-edge devices and interface connections in a virtual-private-networking environment: One embodiment of the present invention is directed to a customer-edge-discovery subsystem, within a VPN-provider system interconnected with a public communications network, that automatically generates a data representation of a VPN-provider view of the network by: initializing the data representation; accessing tools and protocols available within the VPN-provider system to... Agent:

20130010636 - Three dimensional fat tree networks: In a first embodiment of the present invention, a non-blocking switch fabric is provided comprising: a first set of intra-domain switches; a second set of intra-domain switches; a set of inter-domain switches located centrally between the first set of intra-domain switches and the second set of intra-domain switches, wherein each... Agent: Plx Technology, Inc.

20130010647 - Audio network system and display method: In a top row on an audio network view screen, device images corresponding to devices composing a basic network are displayed in such a manner as to be arranged in a horizontal direction according to a connection order along with connection cable images indicative of connections between the device images... Agent: Yamaha Corporation

20130010644 - Auto-discovery and management of base station neighbors in wireless networks: Systems and methods are disclosed that include determining a local node configuration for a local network node. The local network node configuration can include a local range and a local location. In addition, these systems and methods can include receiving a remote network node configuration for a remote network node... Agent:

20130010643 - Method and apparatus for loop path search in mesh network: The present invention discloses a method and apparatus for loop path search in a mesh network, comprising: a network side searching for all nodes adjacent to node v1 in the mesh network, and deleting all edges formed by node v1 and nodes directly connected to node v1 in the mesh... Agent:

20130010646 - Method and device for managing network topology structure of machine to machine network: The disclosure discloses a method for managing network topology structure of a Machine to Machine (M2M) network. The method mainly includes: a control station of the M2M network obtains wireless link information of the M2M network; the control station completes establishment and/or adjustment of the network topology structure of the... Agent: Zte Corporation

20130010645 - Method for acquiring information, user equipment, and network equipment: A method for acquiring information includes: receiving an Internet Protocol (IP) address acquisition request or Packet Data Network (PDN) address allocation information sent by User Equipment (UE); determining a PDN address capability according to the IP address acquisition request or the PDN address allocation information; and sending the determined PDN... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.

20130010648 - Apparatus, system and method for reliable, fast and scalable multicast message delivery in service overlay networks: A method to organize nodes into an overlay network and to disseminate multicast messages within this overlay both through an efficient tree embedded in the overlay and through gossips exchanged between overlay neighbors. Regardless of the size of the system, this invention incurs a constant low overhead on each node.... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20130010649 - Method and apparatus for scalable virtual private network multicasting: In one embodiment, the present invention is a method and apparatus for scalable virtual private network multicasting. In one embodiment a service network builds a new data multicast distribution tree for each high-bandwidth multicast data flow (e.g., multicast data flows that require an amount bandwidth meeting or exceeding a predefined... Agent: At&t Corp.

20130010652 - Method for providing local and toll services with lnp, and toll-free services to a calling party which originates the call from an ip location connected to a sip-enabled ip network: A method for providing combined local, toll, toll-free services, and number portability, to a calling party originating calls from an IP-based communication devices which are coupled to an IP-based multi-media service provider. The method includes receiving a SIP INVITE message, which includes a multi-media service identifier, at the multi-media provider.... Agent: At&t Corp.

20130010650 - System and method for improving service subscription or unsubscription speed for wireless application protocol (wap) roaming users: The present invention discloses a system and a method for improving service subscription or unsubscription speed for Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) roaming users, wherein the system comprises a national WAP portal protocol conversion module and provincial WAP portal protocol conversion modules. The national WAP portal protocol conversion module and each... Agent: Zte Corporation

20130010651 - Third party charging for sip sessions: Communication networks and associated methods are disclosed that provide third party charging for SIP sessions. A communication network of the invention comprises a session control function (e.g., an IMS CSCF), a network node (e.g., an IMS application server), and a charging system. The session control function serves a SIP session... Agent:

20130010653 - Method and system for configuring more than one hearing devices: m

20130010654 - Multiple connection options for a transceiver: Apparatus, including a communication device which has two or more radio frequency (RF) ports for communicating in respective frequency bands. The apparatus also includes a substrate which has two or more interconnection ports, and which are respectively connected to the two or more RF ports of the communication device and... Agent: Provigent Ltd

20130010655 - Voice data integrated multiaccess by self-reservation and contention algorithm: Certain exemplary embodiments provide a method for providing multiple access to a communication channel, the method comprising: sending a reservation request of a first type into a first selected minislot of a selected frame of an uplink channel when information of a first type is to be sent, the uplink... Agent: At&t Corp.

20130010656 - Cell reselection for simultaneous -lte and td-scdma communications: In a wireless communication system, a user equipment (UE) may be capable of communication on multiple radio access networks. A UE may be in simultaneous communication with one radio access network, such as TD-SCDMA for circuit-switched voice calls and with another radio access network, such as TDD-LTE for packet-switched data... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20130010658 - Method and system for implementing synchronization among micro base stations: The present disclosure provides a method and system for implementing synchronization among micro-base stations, including: a micro-base station intercepts a wireless reference signal of an air interface, and selects a synchronization reference object according to an intercepted wireless reference signal; and the micro-base station implements synchronization processing through detecting the... Agent: Zte Corporation

20130010660 - Method for implicit conveying of uplink feedback information: Method and apparatus for conveying feedback reports from a data receiving party (300) for data received from a data sending party (302) in a wireless connection. A plurality of feedback resources (304) assigned to different feedback information codes are allocated to the data receiving party for transmitting feedback reports. After... Agent: Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (publ)

20130010659 - Sounding reference signals in asymmetric carrier aggregation: Sounding reference signal (SRS) transmission is disclosed for asymmetric carrier aggregation, where the carrier aggregation occurs using multiple component carriers that include both paired and at least one non-paired component carrier. A user equipment (UE) determines whether to transmit SRS over at least one of the non-paired component carriers. The... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20130010657 - Vehicle crew communications system: The vehicle crew communication system provides up to sixty wireless headsets that can be used with one base station, a range of 1600 feet from the base station for operation of the headsets, full duplex operation communication over digitally encrypted DECT protocol links from one base station to a plurality... Agent: Sonetics Corporation

20130010661 - Methods and apparatus for ofdm peer discovery: A method of wireless communication includes splitting data into n data sets, where n is greater than or equal to two. In addition, the method includes selecting n different resources associated with a resource identifier based on a hopping pattern for sending each of the data sets within a set... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20130010665 - Ad-hoc network power save system and method: Symmetrical and asymmetrical ad-hoc, wireless networks and a method for saving power in the same may include causing a first station to determine whether a second station has a master capability to buffer data traffic for the first station. A first station requests the second station to buffer the data... Agent:

20130010662 - Filtering group-addressed frames in wi-fi devices: A method according to one embodiment includes the operations of buffering group-addressed frames; generating a first signal field comprising a first rate code selected from a plurality of invalid rate codes; receiving a trigger frame from a wireless station; and transmitting the first signal field in combination with the buffered... Agent:

20130010663 - Handover for a multi-mode mobile terminal to operate in cdma 1x and wimax overlaid networks: Aspects of the present disclosure allow a mobile station (MS) to maintain data activity while performing handover operations within the WiMAX network and listening to a CDMA 1x paging cycle. According to aspects, the MS maintains timing of a base station (BS) in a first radio access technology (RAT) and... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20130010664 - Method for power saving in wireless local area network and apparatus for the same: A method of power saving in a wireless local area network is provided. The method, performed by a wireless device, includes acquiring TXOP (transmission opportunity) from access point (AP), the TXOP indicating an interval of time when the AP has the right to transmit at least one data block for... Agent:

20130010666 - Mobile device with independent battery and radiofrequency communication interface: The invention is aimed at optimising the life of the power supply of mobile equipment with a radiofrequency communication interface by switching off the power to it when it reaches a given state. A mobile device (102) has a battery (206), a radiofrequency circuit (201) allowing the mobile device (102)... Agent: Gemalto Sa

20130010669 - A method for multicast load balancing in wireless lans: A method for multicast load balancing in a wireless network having a plurality of access points. The method includes setting a maximum Internet protocol multicast bandwidth for the access points, receiving an admissions control request from a client at one of the access points, and determining whether the admissions control... Agent:

20130010667 - Apparatus and method for providing multicast/ broadcast service in mobile communication system: An apparatus and method for providing a multicast/broadcast service in a mobile communication system. Upon detecting an occurrence of a multicast data packet, an Internet Protocol (IP) terminal converts the multicast data packet into an alternative multicast data packet, and transmits the alternative multicast data packet to a femto Node... Agent:

20130010671 - Method and apparatus for managing multicast and broadcast service resource: When zone allocation information of sub-bands is changed, a terminal receives a new MBS configuration message after a lifetime of an MBS configuration message at a time when the changed zone allocation information is received is expired. The terminal applies the changed zone allocation information at the beginning of the... Agent: Electronics And Telecommunications Research Institute

20130010672 - Method and apparatus for reusing mbsfn subframes: A method and apparatus for reusing a multicast broadcast single frequency network (MBSFN) subframe are disclosed. The method comprises configuring a policy of using unicast on a reused MBSFN subframe; and implementing the configured policy to reuse the MBSFN subframe. By using the above technical solution, it is enabled to... Agent: Alcatel Lucent

20130010670 - Mobile communication system, multicast data distribution method, core network apparatus, and access network apparatus: A core network apparatus notifies a piece of identification information on each service for receiving multicast data in a down link to an access network apparatus. The access network apparatus receives the piece of the identification information notified from the core network apparatus to capture a radio channel for the... Agent: Nec Corporation

20130010668 - Synchronisation in a communication system: Synchronisation in a communication system A method and apparatus for a communication system is disclosed. In the system communications occur via a multiple of nodes each providing a stratum for synchronisation. It is determined that the stratum of a node is not included in a predefined set of stratums. In... Agent:

20130010684 - Apparatus and method for transmitting/receiving control inforamtion in a wireless communication system that supports carrier aggregation: Disclosed are an apparatus and method for transmitting/receiving control information in a wireless communication system that supports carrier aggregation. According to the present invention, a processor of a base station device that transmits control information configures a component carrier type for each of a plurality of downlink component carriers (DL... Agent: Lg Electronics Inc.

20130010675 - Communications network: A communications network comprises: a plurality of nodes, wherein the nodes are interconnected via links; and a gateway node that transmits a signal to one or more of the nodes, wherein certain ones of the nodes receives a transmission of the signal and selected ones of the nodes repeats the... Agent: Plexus Light Networks, Inc.

20130010685 - Method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving r-pdcch: A method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving a Relay Physical Downlink Control Channel (R-PDCCH) being a control channel for a relay node (RN) in a wireless communication system are disclosed. To transmit an R-PDCCH to a RN, a BS includes a processor for interleaving a predetermined number of Control... Agent:

20130010682 - Method and device for receiving downlink signal: The present invention relates to A METHOD AND A DEVICE FOR RECEIVING A DOWNLINK SIGNAL IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM. More specifically, the method of the present invention comprises the following steps: receiving first control information for downlink scheduling in the first slot of a resource block pair, wherein the... Agent:

20130010677 - Method of controlling relay communication: A method for reporting a channel status in a mobile communication system including a relay station (RS) is provided. When a mobile terminal in the coverage of a base station (BS) receives a service through an RS, the RS reports a channel status between the RS and the terminal to... Agent: Lg Electronics Inc.

20130010676 - Method of transceiving signal at relay node in wireless communication system and apparatus thereof: A method for allowing a relay node (RN) to transmit and receive in a wireless communication system is disclosed. A method for transmitting and receiving a signal at a relay node in a wireless communication system includes transmitting and receiving a relay-User Equipment (UE) link signal through an access subframe,... Agent:

20130010679 - Methods and systems for wireless networks with relays: Methods and systems are provided for use with wireless networks having one or more cell in which each cell includes a base station (BS), at least one relay station (RS) and at least one mobile station (MS). The at least one relay station can be used as an intermediate station... Agent: Apple Inc.

20130010674 - Mobile communication system and radio base station: A mobile communication system according to the present invention is configured such that a relay node RN is configured to time-share a subframe for transmission and reception in a Un interface and a subframe for transmission and reception in a Uu interface, and a radio base station DeNB is configured... Agent: Ntt Docomo, Inc.

20130010681 - Network-relay signaling for downlink transparent relay: In a method of providing downlink retransmissions to a mobile station in a wireless communication network, the wireless communication network comprising a base station communicatively linked to a transparent relay station, the base station receives a request for a retransmission from the mobile station; schedules resources for the retransmission; signals... Agent:

20130010680 - Power control at a relay station in a wireless network: A wireless network includes a base station and a relay station for extending wireless coverage of the base station. Downlink data is sent by the base station and relayed through the relay station to a mobile station, where the downlink data is associated with a preamble that is sent directly... Agent:

20130010683 - Relay apparatus, relay method and computer program: A relay apparatus includes a first control section which connects to a first network, a second control section which connects to a second network, the type of which is different from that of the first network, and a relay section which selects a path to be operated as an active... Agent: Nec Corporation

20130010673 - Relay method for increasing frequency selective characteristic of wireless channel and relay device using same: A relay method of a wireless communication system according to one embodiment of the present invention relates to a relay method of a wireless communication system in which at least one relay device communicates with a base station. The relay method comprises the steps of: each relay device setting information... Agent: Electronics And Telecommunications Research Institute

20130010678 - Wireless protocol converter: Methods, apparatuses, and systems for interfacing between a broadband wireless communication system and a Local Area Network (LAN) system are disclosed herein. For instance, the method can include converting first wireless data formatted according to a broadband communication protocol to a LAN protocol to generate LAN-formatted data. The method can... Agent: Parkervision, Inc.

20130010701 - Base station and method in mobile communication system: Abase station includes a radio communication unit (82, 85) configured to wirelessly communicate with a mobile apparatus capable of communicating in both a first mobile communication system and a second mobile communication system and a network communication unit (83, 84) configured to communicate with a switching station in the first... Agent: Ntt Docomo, Inc.

20130010700 - Communications and systems utilizing common designation networking: A method of forming ad hoc RSI hierarchical communication networks among pluralities of wireless transceivers includes assigning to each of the transceivers one or more common designations. A network organization routine of the transceivers operates to establish hierarchical networks based on the transceivers' common designations, resulting in a logical network... Agent:

20130010696 - Method and an arrangement for legacy fallback between communication network systems: A method for handling Circuit Switched Fallback from a Packet Switched domain includes receiving an indication that Circuit Switched Fallback is supported from an eNodeB located within the Packet Switched domain. The method also includes registering to a Circuit Switched domain associated with Circuit Switched Fallback by tunneling Circuit Switched... Agent:

20130010691 - Method for updating carrier information in a broadband wireless access system: The present invention relates to a broadband wireless access system, and more particularly, to a method in which a terminal acquires and updates global carrier configuration information of base stations in a network, and to an apparatus for performing the method. According to one embodiment of the present invention, a... Agent: Lg Electronics Inc.

20130010688 - Method of delivering a pdcp data unit to an upper layer: Disclosed is a radio (wireless) communication system providing a radio communication service and a terminal, and more particularly, to a method of delivering a continuously and/or consecutively received Packet Data Convergence Protocol (PDCP) Service Data units (SDUs) to an upper layer immediately if a PDCP entity receives the PDCP SDUs... Agent:

20130010699 - Method of random access in a wireless system: A random access method in a wireless communication system is disclosed. The present invention includes transmitting a bandwidth request indicator and a quick access message from a mobile station to a base station and starting a timer having a timer value determined according to an acknowledgement from the base station.... Agent: Lg Electronics Inc.

20130010689 - Mobile communication method, switch, and subscriber information server: A mobile communication method according to the present invention includes a step A in which, in location registration processing of a mobile station, an switch of a first communication scheme and an switch of a second communication scheme send a subscriber information server first information used to determine whether or... Agent: Ntt Docomo, Inc.

20130010693 - Mobile network background traffic data management with optimized polling intervals: Systems and methods for aligning data transfer to optimize connections established for transmission over a wireless network are disclosed. In one aspect, embodiments of the present disclosure include a method, which may be implemented on a system, for aligning data transfer to a mobile device to optimize connections made by... Agent:

20130010694 - Multi-carrier operation for wireless systems: A method for a subscriber station to perform network entry in a multi-carrier wireless environment that has a primary carrier and at least one secondary carrier associated with a base station. The method includes sensing a carrier in an area serviced by the base station and determining if the carrier... Agent: Research In Motion Limited

20130010692 - Other protocol message routing over a wireless network of metering devices: Methods and apparatus are provided for routing DNP (or other) protocol messages over a network of an advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) system that employs a different communications protocol.... Agent: Elster Solutions, LLC

20130010702 - Radio communication system, communication apparatus, method for controlling simultaneous transmission from multiple base stations, and non-transitory computer readable medium: A first GW function block (6) transmits packet data to a first base station (1). A second GW function block (7) is able to communicate with the first base station (1), a second base station (2), and the first GW function block (6). A control function block (5) signals information... Agent: Nec Corporation

20130010687 - Synchronized uplink-downlink hop for measurements: A method of wireless communication is provided which includes communicating with a base station on a first channel and tuning to a second channel concurrently with the base station tuning to a second or third channel. The method also includes measuring interference on the second channel and re-tuning to the... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20130010695 - System and method for adaptive frame size management in a wireless multihop network: A system and method for adaptively managing frame size in a wireless multihop network is disclosed. In one embodiment, a packet is transmitted from a source to a destination. A acknowledgement packet is received and a successful acknowledgement packet counter is incremented if the acknowledgement packet arrives prior to a... Agent:

20130010686 - System and method for subscriber mobility in a cable network environment: A method is provided in one example embodiment and includes creating a service flow with an endpoint over a wireless link coupled to a backhaul; notifying a mobility anchor of a location associated with the endpoint; relaying control packets between the endpoint and an access gateway; and relaying bearer packets... Agent: Cisco Technology, Inc.

20130010697 - System and method for wireless multi-hop network synchronization and monitoring: A wireless communication system and method for wireless communication in a multi-hop network. A first preamble is transmitted using a first repetition cycle. Monitoring for a second preamble is done in a second repetition cycle. The first repetition cycle is different than the second repetition cycle.... Agent:

20130010698 - Systems and methods for distributing content in wireless networks: The present invention allows content to be delivered to a mobile terminal over different types of networks in order to efficiently use network resources. Content can be delivered using a select delivery method over a cellular network, a local wireless network, or a broadcast network. Within any of the networks,... Agent:

20130010690 - Technique of encoding harq feedback information with two separate codewords with unequal error protection for dtx and ack/nack: A technique for encoding downlink Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request, HARQ, feedback information in a mobile station supporting aggregated component carriers is provided. A method implementation of this technique comprises the steps of obtaining (302) first HARQ feed-back indicators providing information regarding receipt of Physical Downlink Control Channels, PDCCH, for activated... Agent: Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (publ)

20130010717 - Apparatus and method for distributed scheduling in wireless communication system: An apparatus and a method for transmitting data according to distributed scheduling by guaranteeing fairness and considering system throughput at same time in a wireless communication system are provided. The method for operations of a terminal for transmitting the data include determining a Proportional Fairness (PF) value, determining a link... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.

20130010712 - Apparatus and method for performing contention based access in mobile communication system: Disclosed is a method of performing a contention based access in a UE of a mobile communication system. The method includes: triggering a BSR to an ENB if data to be transmitted to the ENB occurs; and triggering the contention based access if the BSR has been triggered. The method... Agent:

20130010716 - Carrier configuration in multicarrier systems: A base station transmits data packets to a wireless device using carrier aggregation. A first downlink carrier carries the broadcast control information for the wireless device. The base station receives a physical uplink control channel on a first uplink carrier. The base station transmits at least one control message to... Agent:

20130010739 - Communication apparatus and communication method: A base station apparatus in a mobile communication system in which a mobile station apparatus transmits, to the base station apparatus, uplink data using a physical uplink shared channel assigned by an uplink data transmission permission signal. The base station apparatus includes a transmitting unit which is configured to transmit,... Agent:

20130010721 - Communication method, mobile station apparatus, base station apparatus and mobile communication system: In case that a base station apparatus and a mobile station apparatus use a plurality of component carriers to communicate with each other, they effectively transmit and receive HARQ control information. At least one physical downlink control channel on at least a first downlink component carrier attempts to be decoded,... Agent: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha

20130010704 - Controlling uplink and downlink transmission power during asynchronous switching of control states by user equipment: A network node is disclosed that communicates with a user equipment node in a communications system. The network node repetitively transmits first uplink transmission power control, TPC, commands on a first physical channel with a first channel configuration while repetitively transmitting second uplink TPC commands on a second physical channel... Agent: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)

20130010709 - Downlink control information set switching when using carrier aggregation: A method and apparatus for reconfiguring a user equipment configured for multi-carrier operation from a first downlink control information set to a second downlink control information set while carrier aggregation is being used, including receiving a physical downlink control channel with downlink control information formats containing a carrier indicator field.... Agent: Research In Motion Limited

20130010731 - Dynamically dedicated wireless local area network service for high definition video teleconferencing: In an example embodiment described herein is an apparatus comprising a wireless transceiver and channel selection logic coupled to the wireless transceiver and operable to select an operating frequency for the wireless transceiver. The channel selection logic is configured to reserve a dedicated channel having a special identifier. The channel... Agent:

20130010708 - Group id allocation for direct link service (dls): Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques and apparatus for managing group identifiers (IDs) in multiuser multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) schemes to ensure that the group ID maps to the same assigned spatial stream position for a particular station (STA), for either Direct Link Service (DLS) or downlink (DL) MU-MIMO... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20130010703 - Hybrid subcarrier mapping method and system: A method and system of accommodating different mapping schemes in a transmission using an orthogonal direct sequence spread spectrum technique in which input data to a transmitter is spread by conversion into a sequence of complex numbers modulated for N-point discrete Fourier transform (N-point DFT), subcarrier mapping, M-point inverse discrete... Agent:

20130010745 - Method and apparatus for efficiently transmitting control information to support uplink multiple antenna transmission: The present invention relates to a method for transmitting control information regarding uplink multiple antenna transmission in a base station according to one embodiment of the present invention may comprise the steps of: transmitting DCI for scheduling uplink transmission of a plurality of data blocks through a PDCCH; receiving the... Agent: Lg Electronics Inc.

20130010724 - Method and apparatus for resolving the confusion in cces: The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. In particular, the present invention relates to a method for handling physical downlink control channels (PDCCHs) in a user equipment, the method comprising: receiving a plurality of control channel elements (CCEs) from a base station; performing blind decoding of the plurality... Agent:

20130010707 - Method and apparatus for signaling paging configurations and channel state information reference signal (csi-rs) configurations: A UE or eNnodeB receives a paging configuration or channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) configuration of a neighbor cell. The configuration enables calculating when the CSI-RS or muting of the neighbor cell will occur.... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20130010714 - Method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving pdcch using dci having adjusted size: The present invention relates to a method for adjusting a size of an information bit used in a control channel and an apparatus for performing the same. In addition, the present invention relates to a method for searching for a control channel including an information bit having an adjusted size.... Agent:

20130010742 - Method and apparatus for transmitting control information in a wireless communication system: The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. More particularly, the present invention relates to a method and apparatus for transmitting a plurality of PUCCHs in a wireless communication system, wherein the method comprises the following steps: checking a resource for a first PUCCH among the plurality of PUCCHs;... Agent:

20130010744 - Method and apparatus in which user equipment transmits feedback information in a distributed antenna system: Provided is a method for transmitting feedback information of a UE in a distributed antenna system in which a plurality of antennas are distributedly disposed within a cell is provided. The method includes transmitting first feedback information used for a base station (BS) to allocate at least one of a... Agent: Lg Electronics Inc.

20130010741 - Method and device for transmitting control format indicator value: A method for transmitting control format indicator values includes RRC configuring CFI values and transmitting signalings related thereto with one of multiple modes. The modes include configuring one RRC signaling for each component carrier which can be cross-carrier scheduled for user equipment, to indicate a CFI value of each subframe... Agent: Zte Corporation

20130010743 - Method and user equipment for transmitting uplink control information: In the event ACK/NACK information on downlink data transmitted on one or more carriers must be transmitted on a PUCCH together with SR, user equipment of the present invention always modulates the ACK/NACK information to a first complex modulation symbol regardless of the number of the carriers when a specific... Agent: Lg Electronics Inc.

20130010735 - Method for detecting a downlink control structure for carrier aggregation: This invention relates with a method for detecting a downlink control structure for carrier aggregation in communication network in which data transmission is scheduled by a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH). An UE receives higher layer signaling enabling carrier aggregation for the UE. The UE reads the PDCCHs of component... Agent: Nec Corporation

20130010736 - Method for detecting a downlink control structure for carrier aggregation: This invention relates with a method for detecting a downlink control structure for carrier aggregation in communication network in which data transmission is scheduled by a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH). An UE receives higher layer signaling enabling carrier aggregation for the UE. The UE reads the PDCCHs of component... Agent: Nec Corporation

20130010737 - Method for detecting a downlink control structure for carrier aggregation: This invention relates with a method for detecting a downlink control structure for carrier aggregation in communication network in which data transmission is scheduled by a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH). An UE receives higher layer signaling enabling carrier aggregation for the UE. The UE reads the PDCCHs of component... Agent: Nec Corporation

20130010719 - Method for managing the spectrum of a multi-band wireless communication system: System and method for managing the spectrum of a multi-channel wireless communication system. Information related to other channels and bands is exchanged between a client associated to a first channel of the multi-channel wireless communication system and a multi-channel access point. The information includes, inter alia, capabilities of the access... Agent:

20130010738 - Method for optimizing the triggering of the transmission of buffer status reporting (bsr) information: A method, performed by a user equipment (UE), for transmitting Buffer Status Reporting (BSR) information from the UE to a base station (BS) in a wireless telecommunication network, includes storing data to be transmitted, via a logical channel, in a transmission buffer, the logical channel being provided with a priority... Agent:

20130010733 - Method of configuring a telecommunication system: The invention relates to a method for configuring a telecommunication system comprising at least one sending entity and one receiving entity between which the same link transmits several transport channels with different qualities of service. The sending entity matches the rate between the different coded transport channels with separate qualities... Agent: Research In Motion Limited

20130010740 - Method of transmitting at least one sub-packet based on feedback information in a wireless communication system: A method of transmitting subsequent sub-packets in a wireless communication system using a hybrid automatic request (HARQ) technique is disclosed. The method includes receiving feedback information from at least one receiving end, transmitting a transmit packet via at least one overhead channel, wherein the transmit packet includes information on carrier... Agent: Lg Electronics Inc.

20130010713 - Methods and arrangements for handling a downlink transmission in a cellular network: A method in a first base station (105) for handling a downlink transmission is provided. The first base station (105) serves a first user equipment (120). The first base station (105) defines a subframe in which the first base station (105) is to avoid interfering a downlink radio channel between... Agent: Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (publ)

20130010710 - Methods, user equipments and radio network controllers in a wireless network for controlling downlink communication: The present disclosure relates to a method in a user equipment (100), configured for operation using a non-contiguous downlink carrier configuration within a first frequency band. Said non-contiguous downlink carrier configuration comprises at least two blocks wherein each block comprises one downlink carrier or several adjacent downlink carriers within the... Agent: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)

20130010722 - Mobile station device, radio communication method and circuit device: A mobile station device communicates with a base station device. The mobile station device—includes a reception unit receiving downlink data and a downlink control channel including information indicating a radio resource for contention based signal transmission, and a transmission unit-transmitting at least one of ACK/NACK for the downlink data and... Agent: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha

20130010729 - Multiplexing schemes for ofdma: Methods and systems are provided for allocating resources including VoIP (voice over Internet Protocol) and Non-VoIP resources. In some embodiments, multiplexing schemes are provided for use with OFDMA (orthogonal frequency division multiplexing access) systems, for example for use in transmitting VoIP traffic. In some embodiments, various HARQ (Hybrid Automatic request)... Agent:

20130010718 - Overlay of bearers in a radio communication system: A radio system having multiple bearers overlays a relatively narrowband bearer such as P25 on a relatively wideband bearer such as LTE, for transmission of both uplink and downlink signals. The wideband bearer uses a spectrum of subcarriers which form a set of radio frequency blocks. One or more blocks... Agent: Tait Limited

20130010720 - Power headroom reporting for non-scheduled uplink component carriers: This invention relates to a proposal for power headroom reporting for uplink component carriers for which no uplink resource allocation is scheduled by the eNodeB. The user equipment (UE) calculates a virtual power headroom for the non-scheduled uplink component carrier, based on a virtual uplink resource assignment pre-configured by the... Agent: Panasonic Corporation

20130010723 - Radio communication system, mobile station apparatus, radio communication method and integrated circuit: For efficient transmission of a first reference signal and a second reference signal for channel estimation without deteriorating a channel estimation accuracy, and without deteriorating a communication quality, a mobile station apparatus, in the case where a transmission of the first reference signal and a transmission of the second reference... Agent: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha

20130010732 - Radio communication system, radio communication apparatus, and radio communication method: A radio communication apparatus specifies a radio resource area in which a radio communication apparatus searches for a control signal, on the basis of information about the use of a plurality of frequency bands. Then, the radio communication apparatus transmits a control signal addressed to the radio communication apparatus in... Agent: Fujitsu Limited

20130010711 - Random access with primary and secondary component carrier communications: The invention relates to random access procedures in an LTE-system applying carrier aggregation, in particular to support network-initiated random access on secondary cells. A UE transmits a preamble on a random access channel to a radio base station on a secondary cell and receives or detects a random access response... Agent:

20130010705 - Rlc data transmission control based on ue memory capacity: Data transmission with a wireless communication device which communicates over an air interface with a radio network is controlled by setting a radio link control (RLC) window size for a first logical connection established with the wireless communication device over the air interface, the RLC window size indicating a number... Agent: Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (publ)

20130010734 - Selecting a transmission mode between a subscriber and a base station: Embodiments for a method and apparatus of selecting a transmission mode between the subscriber and a base station are disclosed. One method includes determining a predictive window. Instantaneous channel quality measurements are averaged, wherein the averaging is dependent upon a size of the predictive window. A first estimate of the... Agent: Broadcom Corporation

20130010726 - Sequence allocating method and sequence allocating apparatus: A sequence allocating method and apparatus wherein in a system where a plurality of different Zadoff-Chu sequences or GCL sequences are allocated to a single cell, the arithmetic amount and circuit scale of a correlating circuit at a receiving end can be reduced. In ST201, a counter (a) and a... Agent: Panasonic Corporation

20130010727 - Sequence allocating method and sequence allocating apparatus: A sequence allocating method and apparatus wherein in a system where a plurality of different Zadoff-Chu sequences or GCL sequences are allocated to a single cell, the arithmetic amount and circuit scale of a correlating circuit at a receiving end can be reduced. In ST201, a counter (a) and a... Agent: Panasonic Corporation

20130010730 - System and method for resource scheduling: A component in a telecommunications system is provided. The component includes one or more processors configured to promote semi-persistent scheduling of a resource and to send a release message. The release message informing the user equipment to cease attempting to process data from the downlink portion. Also provided is user... Agent:

20130010715 - System frame number in multicarrier systems: A base station is configured to communicate employing a plurality of carriers comprising at least one prime carrier and at least one non-prime carrier. The base station may transmit a system frame number in a physical broadcast channel in a frame on a prime carrier. The base station may transmit... Agent:

20130010725 - Transmitting and/or receiving data in a side channel: Systems, methods, and apparatus are described that employ specially designed interference patterns to build an in-band side channel without degrading the effective throughput of the main channel. A first device (100) includes a control component (130) that generates control information and an interference component (140) that transmits the control information... Agent: The Hong Kong University Of Science And Technology

20130010706 - Uplink power control adjustment state in discontinuos data transfer: The present invention provides a method, apparatus and a computer program product for uplink transmission power control in discontinuous data transfer. The present invention includes calculating, on a processor at a user equipment, a transmission power based on currently used bandwidth, and checking, on the processor at the user equipment,... Agent: Renesas Mobile Corporation

20130010728 - Wireless terminal apparatus, communication apparatus, and wireless communication system: A wireless terminal apparatus is capable of switching between a first mode in which connection to a wireless access network is established and a second mode in which the connection to the wireless access network is temporarily released. The wireless terminal apparatus has a data processing unit and a transmitting... Agent: Fujitsu Limited

20130010746 - Dynamic allocation of communication resources in a wireless system: A method of receiving information by a wireless communication device is provided. The method includes receiving a plurality of wireless subframes at a periodic interval, wherein an interval duration of the periodic interval is greater than a duration of each of the plurality of wireless subframes. The method further includes... Agent:

20130010747 - Method and system for coexistence between wireless communication networks: One wireless communication network 3 determines an interference degree with the corresponding other wireless communication network 3 for each channel by accessing a CMDB 2 storing positional information, channel information, and respective coexistence methods of other wireless communication networks 3, selects other wireless communication network 3 to coexist, a coexisting... Agent:

20130010749 - Sub-channelization with power boost: A method and system are provided for boosting power for a communications link between a base station and a user device, or user equipment, in a cellular communications network. In one embodiment, the communications link is a downlink between the base station and the user device established via a downlink... Agent:

20130010748 - Systems and methods for uplink signalling: Methods, base stations and access terminals for uplink signalling are provided. Resource request channel characteristics such as location in time-frequency, sequence, time slot, are assigned to each access terminal to distinguish their resource requests from the resource requests of other access terminals. Access terminals make requests using a resource request... Agent:

20130010750 - Wireless reception device, wireless transmission device, and wireless communication method: A wireless reception device includes a resource information acquisition section that is configured to acquire silent resource setting information showing that a silent resource which indicates that no signals are allocated in a predetermined resource among distributed resources in which a resource unit defined in a frequency-time domain is divided... Agent: Panasonic Corporation

20130010760 - Handover schemes for wireless systems: One method of wireless communication involves acknowledging that an anchor base station received a handover indication signal. Another method involves: receiving, from base stations of an active set, offset signals identifying a respective differences in time between a reference time and respective times when the base station received a ranging... Agent: Research In Motion Limited

20130010755 - Method and apparatus for managing assignment during handoff in wireless communication systems: A method and apparatus for managing assignment during a handoff in a wireless communication system is described. The method includes determining a desired forward link serving sector and receiving a valid assignment from the desired forward link serving sector. The method includes initiating a message indicating a change from a... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20130010756 - Method and apparatus for supporting mobility of user equipment: A method and an apparatus for supporting mobility of a User Equipment (UE) are provided. When a UE moves into a Local Internet Protocol Access (LIPA)-enabled network or exits an LIPA-enabled network, the method is able to select an optimal user-plane node for the UE, provide optimal network routings and... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.

20130010751 - Method and device for handling handover of a communications service: The embodiments herein relate to a method in a network node for enabling handover of a communications service from a circuit switched, referred to as CS, network to a packet switched, referred to as PS, network, wherein a user equipment is located in the CS network and having the communications... Agent: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)

20130010752 - Method and device for handling handover of a communications service: The embodiments herein relate to method in a mobile management entity, referred to as MME, for enabling handover of a communication service between a circuit switched (CS) network and a packet switched (PS) network. The user equipment is located in the CS network and having a communications service in the... Agent: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)

20130010763 - Method and system for processing measurement task in carrier aggregation system: The present disclosure discloses a method for processing a measurement task in a carrier aggregation system, which includes: deleting all measurement tasks related to a source Secondary Cell (Scell); or deleting a measurement task related to an Scell in a deleted source Scell; or doing not delete a measurement task... Agent: Zte Corporation

20130010757 - Method and system for reduced system-time overhead parameter length representation for inter-radio access technology communication: A wireless access terminal, system and method for the wireless access terminal to synchronize to system times in a wireless communication system. A first timing hierarchy in a first wireless communication network is used to operate the wireless access terminal The lint wireless communication network has a first radio access... Agent: Research In Motion Limited

20130010754 - Method for avoiding handover failure: Methods for avoiding handover failure are provided. The method includes determining, by a source Base Station (BS), to perform a handover of a User Equipment (UE); determining, by the source BS, whether a target BS connects with a user plane node serving the UE at the source BS; and releasing... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

20130010759 - Method for performing packet switched handover in a mobile communication system: The invention relates to a method and system for performing packet switched handover in a mobile communication network. The system comprises a mobile node, a first and a second packet switching node. The method enables the parallel sending of logical link layer frames from the first and the second packet... Agent: Vringo Infrastructure, Inc.

20130010761 - Methods and apparatus for wireless communication: One method of wireless communication involves acknowledging that an anchor base station received a handover indication signal. Another method involves: receiving, from base stations of an active set, offset signals identifying a respective differences in time between a reference time and respective times when the base station received a ranging... Agent: Research In Motion Limited

20130010758 - System and method for determining that a maximum number of ip sessions have been established: Systems and methods for determining that a maximum number of IP sessions have been established are provided. There are instances when the mobile device transmits a request to the wireless network. According to an aspect, in the event that the maximum number of IP sessions is already established for the... Agent: Research In Motion Limited

20130010753 - System and method for indicating local ip access support via nas signaling: A method of providing Local IP Access (LIPA) indication is proposed. In one novel aspect, an enhanced cell selection method is proposed using LIPA capability information. Based on LIPA capability related information, a UE is able to prioritize LIPA-capable cells and establish a corresponding packet data network (PDN) connection accordingly.... Agent: Mediatek, Inc.

20130010762 - Zone switching method in a broadband wireless access system having regard to security association and device for same: The present invention relates to a wireless access system, and more particularly, to a method for supporting security during a handover performance through a zone switch and to a device performing same. According to one embodiment of the present invention, switching a zone by a terminal in a broadband wireless... Agent: Lg Electronics Inc.

20130010765 - Communication mode controlling method, mobile communication system, radio network controller, base station, and mobile communication terminal: A communication mode which should be set to a mobile communication terminal having a function of switching between an autonomous mode and a scheduling mode is determined based on an amount of interference in each of the communication modes in the cell of a base station, and/or communication characteristics of... Agent: Research In Motion Limited

20130010764 - Mobile device configured to operate on multiple different networks: An apparatus includes a code division multiple access (CDMA) antenna that is configured to transmit and receive communication signals. The apparatus includes a memory that is configured to store multiple mobile equipment identifiers (MEIDs), multiple activation protocols and instructions, where each MEID includes an identifier that is uniquely recognizable on... Agent: Google Inc.

20130010770 - Cell search method, forward link frame transmission method, apparatus using the same and forward link frame structure: A method of and an apparatus therefor searching a cell in a mobile station of a communication system in which a plurality of cells are grouped into a plurality of cell groups, and each cell group includes at least two cells. The method includes detecting a primary synchronization signal and... Agent: Electronics And Telecommunications Research Institute

20130010767 - Coexistence of priority broadcast and unicast in peer-to-peer networks: A method, a computer program product, and an apparatus are provided. In one configuration, the apparatus transmits a first broadcast signal including information indicating an intention to use a unicast resource for a broadcast. In addition, the apparatus transmits a second broadcast signal in the unicast resource. In another configuration,... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20130010768 - Communication method in a mobile communication system using mtc equipment, and device for same: The present invention relates to a method for enabling the efficient communication of machine-type communication (MTC) equipment by selecting a connection with a base station during a first allowed time period in a mobile communication system using the MTC equipment, and to a device for same. With regard to an... Agent:

20130010772 - Method and apparatus for enabling registration of endpoint devices through provisioning: A method and apparatus for enabling registration of an endpoint device that is incapable of supporting a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) based Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) registration are disclosed. For example, the method performs a static registration of the endpoint device in a plurality network elements associated with an... Agent: At&t Intellectual Property I, L.p.

20130010769 - Method and apparatus for reserving data channel in a wireless access system: Methods for reserving a data channel and apparatuses supporting the same are disclosed. A method for reserving a data channel in a wireless access system includes transmitting a request frame for reserving the data channel by a sending node, and receiving a notify frame in response to the request frame... Agent: Seoul National University R&db Foundation

20130010766 - Support for multi-radio coexistence during connection setup: In a user equipment (UE) with multiple radio access technologies (RATs), communications of one RAT engaged in connection setup may be protected from communications of other RATs. Techniques for protecting such connection setups include performing power backoff on a potentially interfering RAT or implementing a time division multiplexing (TDM) solution... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20130010771 - Transmission format selection for optimizing transmission of delay sensitive traffic: A method, scheduler, and processor program product for scheduling transmission of packets from a base station to a mobile station. A data rate control index is received from a mobile station. A transmission format is selected using the received data rate control index. The selected transmission format uses a payload... Agent:

20130010773 - Dual wifi apparatus for wireless internet and wireless internet system using the same: A dual wireless fidelity (WiFi) apparatus for wireless Internet that may perform installation, maintenance, management, or the like of a WiFi access point (AP) by using a mobile communication relay system more efficiently, and a wireless Internet system using the dual WiFi apparatus for wireless Internet. The dual WiFi apparatus... Agent: Lg Uplus Corp.

20130010779 - Method and system for bridging and routing offload in a multiport wireless system: Aspects of a method and system for bridging and routing offload in a multiport wireless system are presented. Various aspects of the system may include a wireless network interface subsystem that enables transcoding of at least a portion of a data packet received by the wireless network interface subsystem. The... Agent: Broadcom Corporation

20130010778 - Method and system for predicting service drop in a wireless network: A mobile wireless device for use in a wireless network, wherein the wireless network includes regular access points and border access points. The border access points are those access points situated at the edge of the campus or other physical facility associated with the wireless network and they define the... Agent: Research In Motion Limited

20130010776 - Methods and apparatus to implement voice over internet protocol (voip) phones: Methods and apparatus to implement voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) phones are disclosed. A disclosed example method includes detecting removal of a first user-replaceable network interface from a first port of a phone, the first network interface to communicate with a gateway using a first VOIP; detecting insertion of a... Agent:

20130010777 - Multi-hop wireless backhaul network and method: Some embodiments of the invention provide an implementation for a multi-hop wireless backhaul network. These embodiments can advantageously be deployed in dense urban areas and/or co-located with wireless access nodes, such as base-stations of a cellular wireless communication system. Preferably wireless links between constituent network nodes are set-up hierarchically. A... Agent:

20130010774 - Synchronous transmission methods and apparatus: Methods and apparatus for use in a wireless system are described where initiation of packet transmission is constrained in accordance to control actual packet transmission in a manner that reduces contention and possible collisions beyond that provided by lower layer resource contention mechanisms, e.g., 802.11 carrier sensing and/or transmission back-off... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20130010775 - Throughput enhancement by acknowledgment suppression: Systems and methods for improving data transmission rates in communication networks are disclosed. In an 802.11 wireless communication network, where a source node of the wireless network transmits TCP data to a destination node of the wireless network, the destination node does not transmit TCP acknowledgments (ACKs) for the TCP... Agent:

20130010780 - Fast timing acquisition in cell search: Timing acquisition may be performed without typical correlation computations by determining a power of a received signal at certain points in time and using the determined power to identify gaps in the received signal. By determining gaps in the received signal, frame timing may be estimated, particularly in time-division networks... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20130010781 - Methods and devices for performing synchronization and compensating clock drift among communication devices: In order to perform synchronization and compensate clock drift among a plurality of communication devices interconnected to form a mesh communications network, all communication devices, except one given communication device, perform a first distributed consensus-based synchronization. The given communication device performs: obtaining a first correction information derived at least from... Agent: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation

20130010785 - Bearer path optimization: Call control for originating and terminating calls in a visited circuit-switched subsystem (CS) or home multimedia subsystem (MS) as well as transferring calls between the visited CS and the home MS may be anchored at a continuity control function (CCF) in the home MS. Call signaling for the call may... Agent: Research In Motion Limited

20130010782 - Method and apparatus for persistent anchoring of internet protocol devices: In one embodiment, a method includes detecting a presence of a first endpoint on a port, and determining when the first endpoint is of a first type after detecting the presence of the first endpoint on the port. The port is associated with a switch that is part of a... Agent: Cisco Technology, Inc.

20130010783 - Method and apparatus for providing access and egress uniform resource identifiers for routing: A method and apparatus for providing routing of calls in a packet network, using one or more criteria extracted from signaling information to determine the routing for the calls are disclosed. The routing criteria extracted from signaling messages comprises at least one of: an access Uniform Resource Identifier, a destination... Agent: At&t Corp.

20130010784 - Method and apparatus for re-originating calls: A method and apparatus for enabling a subscriber who is originating a call to a called party endpoint to specify call handling treatments when a busy or a no answer network condition is encountered when calling the called party endpoint with no subscribed network based voice mail service are disclosed.... Agent: At&t Corp.

20130010786 - System and method for high connectivity platform: A system comprises a plurality of port cards arranged along a first orientation, the port cards operable to receive data from one or more nodes on a network. The system also comprises a plurality of switch-fabric cards arranged along a second orientation orthogonal to the first orientation, the switch-fabric cards... Agent: Cisco Technology, Inc.

20130010788 - Distributed routing architecture: A hierarchical distributed routing architecture including at least two levels, or layers, for receiving, processing and forwarding data packets between network components is provided. The core level router components receive an incoming packet from a network component and identify a distribution level router component based on processing a subset of... Agent:

20130010787 - Rack server system: A rack server system controlled by a remote controller includes a number of server units and a middle plane board. Each of the server units includes a baseboard management controller (BMC), a server-end connector, and a server-end switch, coupled to the BMC and the server-end connector for regulating communication operation... Agent: Quanta Computer Inc.

20130010789 - Route-map processing method and provider edge device: The invention provides a route-map processing method and a Provider Edge (PE) device. A first interface of a PE device is connected to a first Virtual Private Network (VPN), and a second interface of the PE device is connected to a second VPN. The method comprising: configuring a forward route-map... Agent: Zte Corporation

20130010790 - Dynamic updating of a label switched path: A request to add or remove a leaf node to a multicast group in a Point-to-Multipoint Label Switched Path is detected, and the leaf node can select a pre-configured tunnel in accordance with the requested multicast group. The leaf node encapsulates the received request and transmits it through the selected... Agent: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)

20130010794 - Generating multiple data steams from a single data source: A switch having a first communications interface to receive a stream of data units, a buffer to store the payload portion of the data unit, a replicator to duplicate at least the payload portion of the data unit, and a second communications interface to enable access to the stream of... Agent:

20130010793 - Methods and systems for data transmission: Methods and systems for transmitting data are presented. Data received from at least one data source is retained in at least one buffer. In one example, initial hierarchical data may be provided from the at least one buffer to a device, followed by additional hierarchical data. In one example, the... Agent: Opentv, Inc.

20130010791 - System and method for assigning information categories to multicast groups: A system and method for determining an efficient assignment of information categories to multicast addresses is described. In one embodiment, the assignment takes into account the overlapping information needs of the subscriber nodes and the network bandwidth that will be consumed in the dissemination of each information category based on... Agent: Telcordia Technologies, Inc.

20130010792 - System, method and computer program product for residential gateway monitoring and control: A system, method and computer program product is provided that allows an end user to monitor and/or control various data streams appearing on one or more customer premises equipment (CPE) interfaces of a residential gateway, even where the data streams are of different types such as voice, video or computer... Agent: Broadcom Corporation

20130010797 - Custom routing decisions: With the advent of virtualization technologies, networks and routing for those networks can now be simulated using commodity hardware rather than actual routers. For example, virtualization technologies such as those provided by VMWare, XEN, or User-Mode Linux can be adapted to allow a single physical computing machine to be shared... Agent:

20130010796 - Distributed routing architecture: A hierarchical distributed routing architecture including at least three levels, or layers, for receiving, processing and forwarding data packets between network components is provided. The core level router components receive an incoming packet from a network component and identify a distribution level router component based on processing a subset of... Agent:

20130010795 - High speed ethernet mac and phy apparatus with a filter based ethernet packet router with priority queuing and single or multiple transport stream interfaces: An audio-visual content delivery system includes an interface to communicate with a local area network (LAN). A packet processing circuit in the system may filter and route Ethernet packet data received from the LAN, to specific ports and/or queues without host processor intervention. The packet processing circuit may utilize a... Agent:

20130010798 - Transmission priority paths in mesh networks: In one embodiment, a node may determine a trigger for establishing transmission priority on a path through a shared-media communication network for priority traffic to a particular node. As such, the node may generate a path clear message (PCM) that would instruct one or more receiving nodes along the path... Agent: Cisco Technology, Inc.

20130010799 - Efficient software-based private vlan solution for distributed virtual switches: Packet processing logic of a host system's virtualization manager detects packets on the ingress or the egress path to/from a virtual port having three bitmap arrays for processing packets within a virtual local area network (VLAN). The logic checks the VLAN identifier (VID) of the packet to determine, based on... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20130010800 - Method and apparatus for reducing delays in a packets switched network: A method and device for reducing delays of communication packets that comprise: providing a plurality of data frames belonging to different communication sessions conveyed along respective communication channels; providing protection data for protecting at least one of these data packets; and multiplexing one or more of the data frames into... Agent:

20130010802 - Demarcation between service provider and user in multi-services gateway device at user premises: An application gateway including application service programming logically positioned on a user premises side of a network demarcation forming an edge of the wide area network at a user premises can provide managed services to a user and one or more endpoint devices associated with the application gateway. The application... Agent:

20130010801 - System and method for congregating disparate broadband infrastructure: The present invention is a system and method of configured to congregate the services and content provided by a plurality of providers onto a single broadband network controlled by a CONVERGED BROADBAND INFRASTRUCTURE™ software module. The CONVERGED BROADBAND INFRASTRUCTURE™ software module enables the connecting of a plurality of provider legacy... Agent:

20130010803 - Packet forwarding system, control device, forwarding device and method and program for preparing processing rules: In a method and a configuration for forming a processing rule, number of entries for packet processing, maintained by a forwarding node, may be decreased. The processing rule includes processing contents and information to become a matching key to identify a packet to be applied with the processing contents. An... Agent:

20130010804 - Method and apparatus for an ims restoration procedure: The present invention faces the issue of carrying out an IP Multimedia Subsystem Restoration procedure with help of Policing and Charging Control “PCC” architecture with new functions recently standardized and which conventional PCC nodes do not support. Thus, the present invention provides for making use of an enhanced Deep Packet... Agent: Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (publ)

20130010805 - High-capacity packet-switched ring network: A packet-switched WDMA ring network has an architecture utilizing packet stacking and unstacking for enabling nodes to access the entire link capacity by transmitting and receiving packets on available wavelengths. Packets are added and dropped from the ring by optical switches. A flexible credit-based MAC protocol along with an admission... Agent: At&t Corp.

20130010806 - Transmission/reception system and transmission / reception method: A data signal and a control signal to be transmitted to a receiving device of the operation system unit are multiplexed by a parallel/serial conversion using a multiplexer. The signals are transmitted to the operation system unit as a serial received signal. The signal is demultiplexed by a serial/parallel conversion... Agent: Nec Infrontia Corporation

20130010807 - Shared bandwidth reservation in pl, atm, fr and ip/mpls networks: Disclosed example operations involve provisioning a pool of communication capacity in a network link, the pool of communication capacity including spare capacity; allocating from the spare capacity a reserve service communication capacity requested in a connection setup message associated with a first user, the reserve service communication capacity being available... Agent:

20130010809 - Apparatus and method for notifying packet information using start frame delimiter: An apparatus for notifying packet information using a start frame delimiter (SFD) comprises: a SFD transmission unit which generates an SFD code and transmits a packet by positioning the generated SFD code in a position corresponding to specific additional information to notify the specific additional information; and a SFD reception... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

20130010808 - Scattered pilot pattern and channel estimation method for mimo-ofdm systems: Methods and apparatus are provided for inserting data symbols and pilot symbols in an OFDM (orthogonal frequency division multiplexing) transmission resource utilizing frequency hopping patterns for the data symbols and/or the pilot symbols. Data symbols and pilot symbols are allocated for down link (base station to mobile station) and up... Agent:

20130010810 - Ingress suppression for communication systems: A method used in the receiver of a communication system is provided to suppress narrow band interferences, known as ingress, that are present in the communication channel, which is shared by a plurality of transmitters each having a channel pre-equalizer, by means of a Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) scheme... Agent:

20130010811 - Transmitting device and transmitting method: A transmitting device is provided which includes a plurality of input interfaces, each of which receives a signal from another device, a plurality of output interfaces, each of which transmits a signal to another device, a multiplexing unit which multiplexes the signals received by the plurality of input interfaces, a... Agent: Nec Corporation

20130010813 - Method and apparatus for optimizing packet timing transport: There is provided a method of optimizing timing packet transport in a network node, the method comprising using a locally available stable frequency reference at the network node to provide a pre-determined network node transit time for timing packets in at least one direction into or out of the network... Agent:

20130010814 - Node device, communication system and time synchronization method: A node device that conducts time synchronization processing, the node device including: a processor configured to measure a reception time of a time synchronization message transmitted addressed to another node device from a master node device, the time synchronization message including information of a transmission time from the master node... Agent: Fujitsu Limited

20130010812 - Systems and methods for synchronizing various types of data on a single packet: Data recording systems (100) and methods (400) for synchronizing data of a plurality of different data types on a single packet (300). The methods involve: receiving the data and an audio frame containing voice data and timing data communicated over a plurality of channels; generating, in response to the reception... Agent: L-3 Communications Corporation

20130010815 - 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.

20130010816 - Method, system, communications network and computer program product for transmitting information in a communications network: A method for transmitting first data to a first decentralized unit in a communications network from a central unit via a distribution point and via a first subscriber line serving the first decentralized unit and at least one other subscriber lines serving at least one other decentralized unit includes: splitting... Agent: Deutsche Telekom Ag

20130003525 - Communication node and communication system: Communication node including a transmission equipment which communicates user data with transmission equipment of an adjacent node, and a controller which communicates a message with a controller of the adjacent node and which manages the transmission equipment of its own node, wherein: a controller of the node detects existence or... Agent:

20130003523 - Method and apparatus for radio resource control procedures: A system and method for addressing RLC unrecoverable errors experienced by User Equipment (UE) in a wireless network help the network to resolve the errors without shifting the UE into an Idle mode and dropping voice calls. A measurement event provides the buffer occupancy and identifies the affected radio bearer... Agent: Research In Motion Limited

20130003526 - Multiplexing schemes for ofdma: Methods and systems are provided for allocating resources including VoIP (voice over Internet Protocol) and Non-VoIP resources. In some embodiments, multiplexing schemes are provided for use with OFDMA (orthogonal frequency division multiplexing access) systems, for example for use in transmitting VoIP traffic. In some embodiments, various HARQ (Hybrid Automatic request)... Agent:

20130003524 - Selective caching in a packet network and packet loss repair using selective caching: The invention relates to selective caching in a packet network and to packet loss repair in a packet network using selective caching of packets. The invention provides a method of selective caching at an intermediate node in a packet network during a packet transfer session between a sending node and... Agent:

20130003527 - Method, access layer device, and system for implementing multicast in ring network architecture: The present invention provides a method for implementing multicast in a ring network architecture. The ring network architecture includes a first aggregation layer device, a second aggregation layer device, a first access layer device connected to the first aggregation layer device, and a second access layer device connected to the... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.

20130003528 - Joint near-end and far-end state machine for service protection networks: In one embodiment, a method for telecommunications includes determining the operational state of a first network switch, determining the operational state of a second network switch, determining the existence of an actionable condition, accessing information on the first switch, and changing the operational state of the first switch. The second... Agent: Fujitsu Network Communications, Inc.

20130003529 - High-available policy and charging-control in geographical redundancy pcrf configurations: The present invention is related to handling redundancy of a Policy and Charging Rules Function (PCRF) in a wireless communication network having an active PCRF, a standby PCRF and a Policy and Charging Enforcement Function (PCEF) by replicating accumulative quota usage of the active PCRF in a memory of the... Agent:

20130003530 - Ethernet ring protection without mac table flushing: A network device located in an Ethernet ring may be operable to determine binding between a MAC address and a peer device in the Ethernet ring. The binding may indicate that the MAC address is behind the peer device. When an Ethernet ring failure occurs, the network device may be... Agent:

20130003533 - Pre-agreed radio link failure recovery channel sequence: A method of wireless communication is provided. The method includes transmitting a message to notify a base station of a radio link failure on a current channel, retuning to a pre-agreed channel, and setting a time period to synchronize with the base station on the pre-agreed channel.... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20130003532 - Protection switching method and system: A network topology including at least one protection infrastructure segment for each work infrastructure segment, such that the work infrastructure segment and the corresponding protection infrastructure segment terminate on the same nodes, wherein the two protection infrastructure segments pass through at least one bridge node, monitoring for failure in the... Agent:

20130003531 - Virtual machine dynamic routing: Dynamic network routing in a virtual machine environment. The dynamic network routing includes receiving an indication that a network outage has occurred and receiving a network communication to a guest or from the guest executing on a hypervisor. It is then determined if the guest that is the source or... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20130003534 - Emergency backhaul links for wireless telecommunications networks: An emergency backhaul link is created between a first radio base station and a second radio base station over an air interface in response to an interruption or failure of a primary backhaul link of the first radio base station. In some embodiments, the first radio base station and the... Agent:

20130003536 - Networks having multiple paths between nodes and nodes for such a network: A method of operating a network that contains a plurality of nodes is disclosed. The plurality of nodes include a first node and a second node with the first and second nodes being connected via a first path and a second path that are different. The method includes operating the... Agent:

20130003535 - Systems and methods for distributed service protection across plug-in units: A method may include provisioning: a first flow from a client-side port to a network-side port of the plug-in unit; a second flow from the network-side port to the client-side port; a third flow from the network-side port to a mate link configured to interface with a fourth flow from... Agent: Fujitsu Network Communications, Inc.

20130003537 - Method and system for implementing integrated voice over internet protocol in a cloud-based network: A system for implementing VoIP over a cloud-based network includes a first edge proxy server operatively connected to a plurality of target proxy servers to receive resource information from one or more of the target proxy servers. Each target proxy server is associated with the cloud-based network. A first endpoint... Agent: Zte Corporation

20130003544 - Method for scheduling of packets in tdma channels: A method for servicing a multiplicity of different queues in a node of a network, in which packets are sent over a time slotted communications channel, while keeping the quality of service (QoS) for each different queue. Incoming packets are classified first to different QoS. Then at least some of... Agent:

20130003542 - Methods and apparatus for enhanced ul rlc flow control for mrab calls: Systems, devices, and methods for wireless enhanced uplink (UL) radio link control (RLC) flow control for multi-radio access bearer (MRAB) calls. In one aspect, a device configured to manage a wireless connection in a voice and data communication is provided. The device includes a receiver configured to receive radio link... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20130003541 - Mobile communications device and method: Methods and mobile communications devices to communicate data packets via a mobile communications network, the mobile communications network including a radio network part which includes base stations providing different radio access interfaces from which different radio access bearer types can be formed for communicating the data packets from the mobile... Agent: Intellectual Ventures Holding 81 LLC

20130003543 - Next-generation bandwidth management control systems for multiple-service calls, sessions, packet-level processes, and qos parameters - part 1: structural and functional architectures: System and method for addressing immense, long-standing problem of bandwidth management, for example, in enterprise networks, VPNs, real-time and stored video services, mobile applications, wireless networks, and cloud computing applications. Described features include an automatic closed-loop control system infrastructure encompassing multiple time-scales and performing control actions optimized to the extent... Agent: Avistar Communications Corporation

20130003538 - Performance isolation for clouds: Traffic in a cloud is controlled by the nodes participating in the cloud. Tenants of the cloud each have a ratio. On any given node, a current transmission rate of the node is allocated among the tenants of the node, or more specifically, their execution units (e.g., virtual machines) on... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20130003540 - Power mangement techniques for an input/output (i/o) subsystem: A method and system to improve the power management for an I/O subsystem. In one embodiment of the invention, the power management of an upstream port of the I/O subsystem is improved by increasing the upstream link utilization when the upstream port is an active power state and by increasing... Agent:

20130003539 - System and method for configuration admission control of service instances: A method for configuring admission control of service instances in a network element may include: (i) reading a pre-determined maximum service-idle utilization of a processor approximately equal to maximum utilization of the processor in the absence of services executing on the processor; (ii) reading, for each particular service instance of... Agent: Fujitsu Network Communications, Inc.

20130003545 - Providing quality of service for sub-flows in a multiple grants per interval service flow: A method and system to provide Quality of Service (QoS) for packet transmission in a grant of a multiple grants per interval (MGI) service flow is provided herein. The method includes the steps of receiving a packet of an application session, determining characteristics associated with the packet and mapping the... Agent: Broadcom Corporation

20130003546 - System and method for achieving lossless packet delivery in packet rate oversubscribed systems: A system and method for achieving lossless packet delivery in packet rate oversubscribed systems. Link-level packet rate control can be effected through the transmission of packet rate control messages to link partners of an oversubscribed system. The transmission of packet rate control messages can be triggered upon a determination that... Agent: Broadcom Corporation

20130003553 - Automatic detection and window virtualization for flow control: One or more flow control modules, implemented on various types of network topologies, provide a number of functionalities for controlling the flow of IP packets (such as TCP/IP packets) over a network connection. The flow control modules may be implemented within a sender and/or receiver or may be deployed into... Agent:

20130003547 - Detecting and mitigating overload on switches by wireless mobile client devices: Techniques are provided to load balance point of presence traffic for a group of network devices, such as switches, that are configured to support network connectivity in a wired network for client devices that roam between wireless access points served by the respective switches. The point of presence traffic may... Agent: Cisco Technology, Inc.

20130003552 - Enhanced flow control: A method of wireless communication includes periodically adjusting a target queue length based on an estimated throughput of a network link and based on a measured underflow on the network link. The target queue length represents an amount of data being buffered at a network element. The method also includes... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20130003554 - Flow-based rate limiting: A device may include logic configured to receive a packet, identify a flow associated with the packet in a flow table, and identify a rate limit associated with the flow in the flow table. A current rate associated with the flow may be calculated based on the packet. It may... Agent: Juniper Networks, Inc.

20130003548 - Method for improved load balancing in communication systems: Various methods are provided to address the need for improved load balancing. In a one method, a packet loss is determined (101) for traffic sent between a first network node and a second network node. The determined packet loss is then used to determine (103) whether to perform load balancing.... Agent:

20130003551 - Network rotameter station and service: Methods and systems for controlling network traffic in a network are disclosed herein and may include monitoring network traffic characteristics for a plurality of communication channels in a home network, by at least one processor within the home network. The at least one processor may re-route network traffic for at... Agent:

20130003549 - Resilient hashing for load balancing of traffic flows: Methods, systems, and computer program product embodiments for managing traffic flows member of a plurality of available member resources in a communications device are disclosed. Embodiments include configuring a flow table containing a plurality of mappings, where each of the mappings specifies a relationship between one of a range of... Agent: Broadcom Corporation

20130003550 - System and method for priority based flow control between nodes: A system and method for priority-based flow control between nodes. In one example, pause deadlocks in a physical loop can be averted by priority-based selection of egress ports to which a packet is forwarded. In one embodiment, if the packet priority matches a configured lossless priority, then the set of... Agent: Broadcom Corporation

20130003555 - Token bucket management apparatus and method of managing a token bucket: A token bucket management apparatus comprises a processing resource having an input for receiving profile data associated with a classified data stream. The processing resource also comprises an arithmetic unit arranged to maintain a bucket status value for a token bucket associated with the classified data stream. The arithmetic unit... Agent: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc

20130003557 - Reducing overhead on voice traffic: The present invention provides a method, apparatus, gateway and a computer program product for reducing overhead on voice traffic within a packet based communication system. The present invention discloses collecting a plurality of packets to be multiplexed in an aggregated frame, measuring a number of received packets within a predetermined... Agent: Nokia Siemens Networks Oy

20130003556 - Scheduling packets in a packet-processing pipeline: The disclosed embodiments relate to a packet-processing system. This system includes an input which is configured to receive packets, wherein the packets include control-message (CM) packets and traffic packets. It also includes a pipeline to process the packets, wherein the pipeline includes access points for accessing an engine which services... Agent: Xelerated Ab

20130003559 - Adaptive power savings for aggregated resources: Embodiments of the present invention are directed to adaptive power savings in aggregated resources in communications devices. According to an embodiment, managing an aggregated resource in a communications device includes monitoring at least one current operational condition of the communications device, identifying based upon a policy configuration and the monitored... Agent: Broadcom Corporation

20130003560 - Fast channel probing: A method and arrangement for estimating the current channel quality for a data transfer in a mobile network. In a sending system entity, a channel quality estimate (CQE) associated with a data transfer to a receiving system entity in a mobile communication network is adjusted. One or more probing packets... Agent: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)

20130003558 - Method of determining immediate topology of a network connection: A network test tool can determine if it is linked to directly to an indicated managed device or an intermediate unmanaged device. Discovery protocols and spanning tree are designed to map network topology and eliminate closed loops in networks. As such these management packets are among the first emerging from... Agent: Fluke Corporation

20130003561 - System and method for remote asset management: A remote asset management system comprising a network of programmable wireless modules, each having an antenna and an identification module and configured to communicate via a radio communication protocol. The system further includes a plurality of assets each linked to one of the wireless modules and configured to be managed... Agent: M2m Solutions LLC

20130003564 - Link adaptation for retransmission schemes: Link adaptive retransmission techniques are provided for use in connection with wireless communications between a first wireless communication device and a second wireless communication device. The first wireless communication device generates M packet error information values for the transmit session of a packet based on whether an acknowledgment message or... Agent: Cisco Technology, Inc.

20130003562 - Link fault detection method and apparatus: An embodiment of the present invention provides a link fault detection method, including: sending, by a detection initiating apparatus, a first detection packet to a first detection object; sending, by the detection initiating apparatus, a second detection packet to a second detection object, if a first response packet is not... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.

20130003563 - Method and apparatus for detecting service disruptions in a packet network: A method and system for detecting service disruptions in a packet network is described. In one example, a plurality of data reports is received. A determination is then made as to whether a number of the plurality of data reports that pertain to a particular class has exceeded a predetermined... Agent: At&t Corp.

20130003565 - Testing an upstream path of a cable network: An apparatus and method for testing an upstream path of a cable network are disclosed. The upstream path is tested by capturing and analyzing upstream data packets generated by a specific terminal device. A test instrument is connected at a node of the cable network. The test instrument establishes a... Agent: Acterna LLC

20130003590 - Access point for mobile station-assisted interference mitigation: Devices and methods are provided for using a mobile station to mitigate interference between wireless access points. A mobile station communicates interference mitigation data corresponding to a first and second set of radio resources between a first and second wireless access point (AP). The interference mitigation data is processed by... Agent: Research In Motion Limited

20130003597 - Base station device, mobile station device, and communication control method: A base station device communicates with a mobile station device, either directly or via a relay station device. The base station device includes: a reference signal transmission instruction unit configured to instruct the mobile station device to transmit a reference signal; and a reference signal measurement instruction unit configured to... Agent: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha

20130003594 - Communication apparatus, method for implementing communication, and non-transitory computer-readable medium: A communication apparatus may comprise a processor and a memory. The memory is configured to store computer-readable instructions that, when executed, instruct the communication apparatus to execute steps comprising acquiring a type of transmission data referring to information about the transmission data, and limiting a search range of a network... Agent: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

20130003577 - Communication state transitioning control: Embodiments of the present disclosure describe devices, methods, computer-readable media and systems configurations for managing state transitions of communication circuitries in wireless networks. Embodiments manage radio resource control (RRC) state transitions and/or discontinuous reception (DRX) state transitions. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.... Agent:

20130003574 - Communication system, network management method and switching device: A communication system has: a monitoring unit 201 monitoring power consumption in a switching unit 20 forwarding a communication message; a power consumption data transmission unit 202 transmitting a data indicating the power consumption monitored by the monitoring unit 201; a control signal receiving unit 203 receiving a control signal;... Agent:

20130003569 - Control channel decoding of neighboring cells: A method of determining a radio network temporary identifier (RNTI) includes descrambling a control channel, decoding control messages included in the control channel wherein the decoded control messages include control bits and received cyclic redundancy check (CRC) bits, generating a CRC from the decoded control bits, determining the RNTI from... Agent: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (pub)

20130003568 - Frequency offset estimation scheme in scheduled based wireless system: A technique to provide frequency offset estimation for packets transmitted during a service period allocated strictly for designated source and destination devices. The destination device obtains coarse and fine frequency offset estimation from the short and long preambles. A residual frequency offset is tracked for the data blocks and combined... Agent: Broadcom Corporation

20130003572 - Indoor position determination method and system based on wlan signal strength: An indoor position determination method and system based on WLAN signal strength using remote monitoring and cell space environmental attenuation is provided. The indoor position determination method includes a remote monitoring step of collecting information about signal strength from a neighboring AP and generating an AP signal strength table, a... Agent: Kt Corporation

20130003595 - Link assessment before terminating alternate connection during heterogeneous network handovers: When providing wireless communication capability for patient monitoring devices (PMDs) (12) in a hospital environment, the quality of a newly established wireless link is evaluated to ascertain that it is meeting quality thresholds before dropping a previous wireless link. A plurality of new links iteratively can be established and their... Agent: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.v.

20130003580 - Mechanism for aggregating uplink interference information for use in multi-carrier systems: There is proposed a mechanism by means of which information can be generated and used for estimating and identifying at each base transceiver station of a communication network the set of other base transceiver stations generating interference on certain monitored component carriers used by the base transceiver station, i.e. information... Agent:

20130003573 - Method and apparatus for enabling secondary usage of licensed cellular spectrum: A method and apparatus for a secondary wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) to use of secondary cellular spectrum are provided. The secondary WTRU monitors transmissions of a primary WTRU; determines whether to provide assistance to the primary WTRU; and in response to a determination to provide assistance, performs cooperative communications with... Agent: Interdigital Patent Holdings, Inc.

20130003579 - Method and apparatus for parsing a network abstraction-layer for reliable data communication: A method and apparatus are described including parsing an abstraction-layer header, assigning a priority to a packet to be transmitted, buffering the data to be transmitted, transmitting data retrieved from a buffer via a datagram protocol, receiving a request for retransmission of data, determining if the requested data is in... Agent: Thomson Licensing LLC

20130003593 - Method and apparatus for providing end to end virtual private network performance management: A method and apparatus for managing a virtual private network are disclosed. For example, the method collects performance data for at least one parameter from a plurality of customer edge routers and a plurality of provider edge routers associated with the virtual private network. The method correlates the performance data... Agent: At&t Intellectual Property I, L.p.

20130003596 - Method and device for relocating address space: The invention relates to a method for relocating address space in a peer-to-peer network with hierarchical addressing is performed in a network (1) that has a tree structure with routers (3) at different network depths (D). Each router (3) has an assigned address space (10), including an identifying address (11)... Agent: Koninklijke Philips Electronics, N.v.

20130003566 - Method and node for controlling bearer related resources as well as a corresponding system and computer program: The present invention relates to a method for controlling bearer related resources by a policy and charging system in a communication network and a node for controlling bearer related resources, as well as to a system comprising the node, and to a computer program configured to make effective use of... Agent: Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (publ)

20130003585 - Methods and apparatus in a wireless communication system: The present invention relates to methods and apparatus in a RBS and a UE for reference signal (RS) measurements in an OFDM system, that enable having a configurable RS transmission bandwidth which is smaller than the system bandwidth. This allows for better interference coordination of RS, which in turn improves... Agent: Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (publ)

20130003583 - Methods and arrangements for redistributing resources for use in a radio communication system: A method and an arrangement (500) in a radio network node (130) for redistributing resources between at least a first and second communication device (110, 120) are provided. The radio network node (130) obtains a first estimate of a first signal quality for the first communication device (110) and a... Agent:

20130003586 - Mobile communication system, relay control method, relay station apparatus, and base station apparatus: A mobile communication system includes a base station, a mobile station, and a relay station. The mobile station includes a transmitter transmitting a random access request to the base station. The relay station includes a transmission information acquisition unit receiving a random access response from the base station and acquiring... Agent: Fujitsu Limited

20130003589 - Mobile station-assisted interference mitigation: Devices and methods are provided for using a mobile station to mitigate interference between wireless access points. A mobile station communicates interference mitigation data corresponding to a first and second set of radio resources between a first and second wireless access point (AP). The interference mitigation data is processed by... Agent: Research In Motion Limited

20130003582 - Network splitting device, system and method using virtual environments: A network separation apparatus allows a user terminal, connected to an internal network, to connect an external network. The network separation apparatus includes a packet transmission/reception unit to receive a packet generated in a virtual environment on the user terminal and transmit the packet either to the external network or... Agent: Ahnlab, Inc.

20130003576 - Node and method for communications handling: Example embodiments disclosed herein may be directed towards a system, and corresponding method, for sending machine-to-machine (M2M) application specific parameters. These parameters may allow a network operator to guide M2M application behaviour in accordance with potentially limited recourses in the network. These parameters may also be used to provide IPv6... Agent: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)

20130003575 - Node, communication system, recording medium, and communication method: Transmission of transmission packets from communication terminals (20) is executed with a probability based on the total number of communication terminals (20) present within a communication area (NA). It is thus possible to determine when to transmit with simple computation, and promptly transmit information. Since when to transmit can be... Agent: Keio University

20130003592 - Optimizing communications: A method of transmitting a data stream to end-user nodes of a network, and a corresponding communication system, program, and distribution system for distributing the program. The method comprises: for each of a plurality of possible combinations of routes of the stream to a plurality of consuming end-user nodes, evaluating... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20130003567 - Parallel processing for multiple instance real-time monitoring: Systems and methods are disclosed for analyzing network traffic data to generate complex statistics associated with the network traffic in real-time through parallel processing and data pipelining. In one implementation, a system includes a processor and a memory. The memory stores instructions that cause the processor to generate a plurality... Agent: Verisign, Inc.

20130003571 - Quality control apparatus, moving image transmission system, quality control method, and recording medium: The moving image transmission system estimates a correlation between a transmission bit rate and a packet loss rate based on both of information which indicates the packet loss rate and bit rate information, and determines the packet loss rate, which makes an encode bit rate of moving image data maximum,... Agent: Nec Corporation

20130003581 - Radio resource allocation method in a radio communication system: Radio blocs (BRjp) shared in a predetermined frequency band during a periodic radio frame (TRi) between base stations (BS) are allocated to applications in base stations and mobile stations. Each radio block spreading on frequencies (Cj) of said band during a time slot (Mδt) of the radio frame and can... Agent: Cassidian Sas

20130003591 - System and method for dynamic coordination of radio resources usage in a wireless network environment: An architecture, system and associated method for dynamic coordination of radio resource usage in a network environment. In one aspect, a method of processing sensory reports of one or more sensing elements in a radio network comprises receiving a sensory report from a sensing element operating in multiple radio access... Agent: Research In Motion Limited

20130003588 - System and method for mobile station-assisted interference mitigation: Devices and methods are provided for using a mobile station to mitigate interference between wireless access points. A mobile station communicates interference mitigation data corresponding to a first and second set of radio resources between a first and second wireless access point (AP). The interference mitigation data is processed by... Agent: Research In Motion Limited

20130003587 - Systems and methods for high rate ofdm communications: Messages transmitted between a receiver and a transmitter are used to maximize a communication data rate. In particular, a multicarrier modulation system uses messages that are sent from the receiver to the transmitter to exchange one or more sets of optimized communication parameters. The transmitter then stores these communication parameters... Agent:

20130003584 - Technique for automatic gain control in a multi-carrier communication system: A technique for performing Automatic Gain Control (AGC) in a multi-carrier communication system in which transmission gaps are scheduled on a serving carrier to enable temporary tuning to another carrier by a served device is described. A method embodiment of this technique comprises: performing a first AGC procedure in relation... Agent: Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (publ)

20130003570 - Transmitter circuit and method: A transmitter circuit includes a first unit configured to determine a transmission power of the transmitter circuit, and a second unit configured to determine whether a transmission of data for a signaling radio bearer is scheduled by the transmitter circuit. The transmitter circuit further includes a third unit configured to... Agent: Intel Mobile Communications Gmbh

20130003578 - User equipment restricted measurements for multimedia broadcast single frequency network networks: An example apparatus includes a processor and an associated memory, in which the processor is configured to receive an indicator that indicates whether Multimedia Broadcast Single Frequency Network (MBSFN) subframes are configured for measurement restriction and perform measurements based on the indicator.... Agent:

20130003598 - Mobile communication terminal test device and mobile communication terminal test method: To provide a mobile communication terminal test device and a mobile communication terminal test method capable of displaying the theoretical value of a packet transmission rate. A mobile communication terminal test device 1 includes a pseudo base station device 10 that is connected between a mobile communication terminal 5, which... Agent: Anritsu Corporation

20130003599 - Mobile communications network, infrastructure equipment and method: Methods and mobile communications networks, the mobile communications networks including a radio network part including base stations for communicating data to or from mobile communications devices, and a core network part which includes infrastructure equipment being configured to communicate the data packets to and receive the data packets from the... Agent: Intellectual Ventures Holding 81 LLC

20130003600 - Configuration of interfaces communicatively coupled to link-local zones in a network: Some example embodiments include a method for configuring of a node on a network. The method includes configuring an interface of the node on the network. The configuring includes performing duplicate address detection for an address to be assigned to the interface as part of the configuring. The duplicate address... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20130003601 - External loop detection for an ethernet fabric switch: One embodiment of the present invention provides a switch. The switch includes a local identifier associated with the switch, a receiving interface, a loop detection mechanism, and an interface control mechanism. The receiving interface identifies a loop-detection frame which includes an identifier associated with originating switch of the frame. The... Agent: Brocade Communications Systems, Inc.

20130003602 - Method and system for implementing self-discovery of network element: A method and a system for implementing self-discovery of network element. The method includes that: layout data (containing identifier information and basic information) of a newly-established network element is imported into a network manager of the newly-established network element; after being powered on, the newly-established network element sends its identifier... Agent: Zte Corporation

20130003606 - Formation and rearrangement of ad hoc networks: Systems and methods for the formation and rearrangement of ad hoc networks and more particularly to systems and methods for sharing bandwidth in ad hoc networks. The method comprises broadcasting a table to at least one potential lender requesting pertinent lender information and receiving the table from the at least... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20130003604 - Method and apparatus for enhancing downlink control information transmission: A method is provided for transmitting an extended physical downlink control channel (E-PDCCH). The method comprises transmitting control information in at least one time-frequency resource unit that would otherwise be used to carry a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH). The E-PDCCH and at least one PDSCH are multiplexed in a... Agent: Research In Motion Limited

20130003605 - Network optimization: Aspects of the present disclosure involve a method for optimizing an extension of an optical network to provide service to one or more new customers. The method considers the location of existing network nodes as well as a metropolitan environment where the new customer is located (e.g., the geographical location... Agent: Level 3 Communications, LLC

20130003603 - Scale-free routing topology for a power network: A scale free communication network in a power network is provided. The scale free communication network comprises a plurality of distribution devices communicatively coupled to each other in a power network that include a protection device and a controller coupled to each of the plurality of distribution devices in the... Agent: General Electric Company

20130003607 - E-tree using two pseudowires between edge routers with enhanced forwarding methods and systems: An e-tree service that includes establishing two pseudowires (PW) between edge network elements with enhanced packet forwarding is described. In one embodiment, a root PW is used for carrying packets that are sent from a root node network element, and a leaf PW is used for carrying packets that are... Agent:

20130003608 - Spanning-tree based loop detection for an ethernet fabric switch: One embodiment of the present invention provides a switch. The switch includes a local database, a packet processor, a data management module, and a tree construction module. The packet processor extracts spanning tree information associated with a remote switch. The data management module stores the extracted spanning tree information in... Agent: Brocade Communications Systems, Inc.

20130003611 - Apparatus and methods for transmission of emergency call data over wireless networks: Methods and apparatus for providing useful data in association with a high-priority call such as an emergency call. In one embodiment, the data comprises a data (e.g., an MSD or FSD) embedded within one or more real-time protocol packets such as RTP Control Protocol (RTCP) packets, that are interspersed within... Agent:

20130003609 - Handling of m2m services in a communication system: t

20130003614 - Method and apparatus for enabling communications assistance for law enforcement act services: The present invention enables packet-switched network providers, e.g., VoIP network providers, to use commonly deployed components and capabilities to support surveillance services, e.g., CALEA services. Specifically, signaling and media streams that flow through Border Elements can be forked and simultaneously redirected to a surveillance server, a CALEA Server in addition... Agent: At&t Corp.

20130003615 - Method and apparatus for retrieving all voicemail messages at the same time: A method and apparatus for retrieving all voicemail messages at the same time on packet networks such as Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and Service over Internet Protocol (SoIP) networks are disclosed. For example, the customer subscribes to a voicemail service where a plurality of voicemails can be retrieved and... Agent: At&t Corp.

20130003612 - Systems and methods for providing telephony services: A system and method for enabling a user to purchase an instant mobile telephony services plan makes use of an application on a mobile telephony device. The user can purchase an instant mobile plan via a third party merchant. Once purchased, the user can also make use of the application... Agent:

20130003613 - Verifiable device assisted service usage billing with integrated accounting, mediation accounting, and multi-account: Various embodiments are disclosed for a services policy communication system and method. In some embodiments, a communications device implements a service policy for assisting billing for the communications device use of a service on a network; and monitors use of the service based on the service policy, in which a... Agent: Headwater Partners I LLC

20130003610 - Wireless communications during a wireless communications device reboot: A wireless communication device has first processing circuitry and second processing circuitry that are separate from one another. The wireless communication device transfers first wireless communications to a wireless network using the first processing circuitry. The wireless communication device identifies a reboot condition for the first processing circuitry and responsively... Agent: Sprint Communications Company L.p.

20130003616 - Adaptive electronic transmission signal cancellation apparatus for full duplex communication: An adaptive electronic transmission signal cancellation circuit for separating transmit data from receive data in a bidirectional communication system operating in full duplex mode is disclosed. The output of a main transmitter responsive to a first bias current is connected to the output of a receiver through an internal resistor.... Agent: Broadcom Corporation

20130003617 - Receiver with bypass mode for improved sensitivity: A receiver with bypass mode for improved sensitivity is disclosed. An apparatus is provided that includes a non-bypass signal path coupled to a receiver, the non-bypass signal path comprising a filter, a bypass signal path coupled to the receiver, the bypass signal path configure to bypass the filter, and a... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20130003619 - Method and system for a double search user group selection scheme with range reduction in tdd multiuser mimo downlink transmission: Certain aspects of a method and system for processing signals in a communication system may include maximizing system capacity for a time division duplex (TDD) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system, based on reducing a search range within which to find a group of signals having maximum channel gain. At least one... Agent: Broadcom Corporation

20130003618 - Resource allocation in a radio communication system: A method of using resource blocks in a communication system with a plurality of Base Stations (BSs), including assigning resource blocks to a first BS, the first BS communicating to a second BS a message comprising information about at least one resource block assigned to the first BS and not... Agent: Alvarion Ltd.

20130003625 - Method and arrangement for providing information on multimedia options: A method and arrangement for providing updated information on the availability of multimedia options to terminal users. A first terminal (A) is initially engaged in a voice call with a second terminal (B) by using a first access admitting simultaneous multimedia communication. At least one available multimedia option is indicated... Agent:

20130003620 - Synchronized wireless data concentrator for airborne wireless sensor networks: A system, method, and apparatus for a synchronized wireless data concentrator are provided for facilitating a precisely synchronized system of nodes in a wireless sensor network for airborne data systems. The wireless data concentrator contains a plurality of IEEE 802.15.4 radio/micro-processor subsystems, which are connected to a local host microprocessor,... Agent: The Boeing Company

20130003621 - User input back channel for wireless displays: As part of a communication session, a wireless source device can transmit audio and video data to a wireless sink device, and the wireless sink device can transmit user input data received at the wireless sink device back to the wireless source device. In this manner, a user of the... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20130003622 - User input back channel for wireless displays: As part of a communication session, a wireless source device can transmit audio and video data to a wireless sink device, and the wireless sink device can transmit user inputs received at the wireless sink device back to the wireless source device. In this manner, a user of the wireless... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20130003623 - User input back channel for wireless displays: As part of a communication session, a wireless source device can transmit audio and video data to a wireless sink device, and the wireless sink device can transmit user inputs received at the wireless sink device back to the wireless source device. In this manner, a user of the wireless... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20130003624 - User input back channel for wireless displays: As part of a communication session, a wireless source device can transmit audio and video data to a wireless sink device, and the wireless sink device can transmit user inputs received at the wireless sink device back to the wireless source device. In this manner, a user of the wireless... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20130003630 - Connection setup for low energy wireless networks based on scan window and scan interval estimation: Various techniques for connection setup for Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) devices are disclosed. The various embodiments save power. In one example, an apparatus (such as a BLE slave) includes a controller configured to transmit advertising packets and, based on responses to the packets, and lack thereof, the controller estimates the... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20130003634 - Maintaining an ip connection in a mobile network: A method for IP [=Internet Protocol] communication between a mobile terminal and its correspondent node in a mobile radio network. The method comprises establishing (202) an IP connection between the mobile terminal and its correspondent node. After detecting a period of inactivity in the IP connection, (204) keep-alive messages are... Agent: Seven Networks International Oy

20130003633 - 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.

20130003628 - Method for deactivating at least one component of an entity of a communications network, corresponding device and computer program: A method and apparatus are provided for deactivating at least one component of an entity of a wireless communication network including a plurality of entities. The communication network is organized into a plurality of communication layers, including a physical layer. The method includes, in the physical layer: a step of... Agent: France Telecom

20130003635 - Method of managing multimedia broadcast multicast service reception and related communication device: A method of managing MBMS reception for a communication device in a wireless communication system includes the step of performing discontinuous reception with off durations and receiving data of a MBMS subframe when the communication device has subscribed a MBMS service and the MBMS subframe is in one of the... Agent:

20130003632 - Methods and apparatus for reducing power consumption for mobile devices using broadcast-to-unicast message conversion: A mobile device sends to a message a wireless network. The message indicates a plurality of different protocol types of broadcast messages to be processed as broadcast-to-unicast messages during a low power mode of operation of the mobile device. The protocol type of a given broadcast message is identifiable in... Agent: Research In Motion Limited

20130003626 - Oscillator settling time allowance: Techniques are disclosed relating to oscillator settling time allowance. In one embodiment, an apparatus may include an oscillator and oscillation detection and control circuitry. The oscillation detection and control circuitry may be configured to awaken an oscillator at a predetermined time and detect an edge transition of oscillations. The oscillation... Agent:

20130003629 - Paging method and apparatus for communication of m2m/mtc device operating in high power saving reception mode in a mobile communication system, and system thereof: method is provided for communicating with a User Equipment (UE) supporting a High Power Saving Reception Mode (HPSRM) mode by an evolved Node B (eNB) in a wireless communication system. The method includes receiving Discontinuous Reception (DRX) cycle information from a network entity performing mobility management for the UE by... Agent:

20130003636 - System and method for coordination of wireless maintenance channel power control: In a wireless communication system, there are several wireless channels used for communication between users and a base station. Channel characteristics may be defined by whether a channel is carrying traffic data and the timing of the channel transmissions with respect to channels not carrying traffic data. Different power levels... Agent: Ipr Licensing, Inc.

20130003627 - System and method of improving power efficiency in wireless communication system: An apparatus may comprise a signal mapper to map a pre-emphasized signal to sub-carriers symmetrically about DC, and a peak-to-average-power reduction (PAPR) module arranged to receive a pre-emphasized signal and treat the pre-emphasized signal so as to reduce PAPR in a transmit signal sent from the transmitter. Other embodiments are... Agent:

20130003631 - Systems, methods and apparatus for managing multiple radio access bearer communications: Systems, devices, and methods for managing multiple radio access bearer communications are provided. In one aspect, a device configured to communicate a voice and data communication via a wireless communication link is provided. The device includes a receiver configured to receive information selection criteria associated with a power limited condition.... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20130003641 - Communication system, transmitter and receiver: Disclosed is a transmission device including a plurality of antennas for transmitting signals in the same channel at the same time point to a plurality of reception devices, characterized by including: a DRS generator configured to generate DRSs (dedicated reference signals) for the respective reception devices; a nonlinear spatial multiplexer... Agent:

20130003637 - Dynamic time alignment of audio signals in simulcast radio receivers: A method and apparatus for performing dynamic time alignment of program content extracted from analog and digital radio signals of a simulcast is disclosed. A delay estimation unit of a radio receiver is configured to dynamically determine an amount of received delay between analog-transmitted and digital portions of a radio... Agent:

20130003638 - Method and apparatus for cooperative scheduling using intereference between multiple points: A method and an apparatus are described for a cooperative scheduling using interference between multiple points. For each link, a cooperation set is set including cooperation links for a cooperative scheduling. A cooperation session map is generated that defines a cooperation link selected from the cooperation set for each link... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

20130003640 - Method for supporting enhanced multimedia broadcast multicast service (embms), method and device for sending mbms control channel (mcch) modification notice: A method, system and device for supporting enhanced Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service (eMBMS) in a relay network are disclosed. The method includes that: a network side sends a message to a relay node used to indicate a position of a Multicast Broadcast over Single Frequency Network (MBSFN) subframe relates to... Agent: China Mobile Communicaitons Corporation

20130003639 - Methods for transmitting and receiving of control channel in wireless communication systems: A method of transmitting and receiving a control channel in a wireless communication system is provided. A base station allocates a data channel to a radio resource, adds start position information of the data channel into a payload of a control channel, and performs signaling for indication information on the... Agent: Electronics And Telecommunications Research Institute

20130003642 - Scheduling and transmitting uplink packets within uplink sub-frames ofa wireless system: A method and apparatus of scheduling and transmitting uplink packets within uplink sub-frames of a wireless system is disclosed. The method includes determining a size of a standard data unit, and determining if the standard data unit can be transmitted within a single sub-channel of an uplink frame by comparing... Agent: Broadcom Corporation

20130003643 - Wireless base station, wireless communication terminal, and wireless communication system: A wireless communication system transmits information requested by a wireless communication terminal to the wireless communication terminal moving through a spot wireless area. In a wireless base station, an external information communication control section controls communication with a server. A contents memory stores at least a part of contents received... Agent:

20130003648 - Method and apparatus for performing handover procedure in wireless communication system: A method and apparatus of performing a handover procedure in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes receiving a handover request message from a relay node (RN), and determining whether a first X2 interface between the donor BS and a target BS is available or not.... Agent:

20130003646 - Method and device for data processing in a wireless network: A method and a device for data processing in a wireless network are provided, wherein at least one relay node is served by a base station, wherein load partitioning for the at least one relay node is conducted based on at least one load information message, and wherein the at... Agent:

20130003647 - Method and device for transmitting pilot configuration information: A method and device for transmitting pilot configuration information are provided for transmitting the pilot configuration information to relay nodes, and enabling the relay nodes to receive pilots according to the pilot configuration information and implement channel demodulation. Said method includes the following steps: a Node B generates a high-level... Agent: China Academy Of Telecommunications Technology

20130003650 - Method, base station and relay node for uplink transmission: A method for uplink transmission is proposed in the present invention. The method comprises steps of: selecting, based on statistical parameters for uplink traffic of a relay node, an uplink transmission method from a set of candidate uplink transmission methods; informing the relay node of the selected uplink transmission method;... Agent:

20130003649 - Methods and systems for wireless networks with relays: Methods and systems are provided for use with wireless networks having one or more cell in which each cell includes a base station (BS), at least one relay station (RS) and at least one mobile station (MS). The at least one relay station can be used as an intermediate station... Agent: Apple Inc.

20130003644 - Mobile communication method, mobile station, and relay node: A mobile communication method according to the present invention comprises: a step A of acquiring, by a mobile station UE, individual transmission timing adjustment information TAd from a relay node RN; a step B of acquiring, by the mobile station UE, shared transmission timing adjustment information TAc broadcast from the... Agent: Ntt Docomo, Inc.

20130003645 - Repeater for enhancing performance of a wireless lan network: System and method for enhancing performance of a wireless communication system, including communicating between an access point and at least one close client over a first RF channel, and communicating between an access point and at least one remote client via a repeater. The communication between the access point and... Agent:

20130003651 - Telecommunication system comprising a central ip router composed of a satellite and of a ground router: The subject of the invention is a satellite comprising at least one central router, a source terminal and a destination terminal. The source terminal comprises means for transmitting, via the central router, IP packets fragmented into at least one level-2 fragment to the destination terminal to which a destination IP... Agent: Thales

20130003658 - Evolved distributed antenna system: One embodiment is directed to a distributed antenna system (DAS) including a host unit and a plurality of remote units. The host unit includes a plurality of base transceiver stations and a switch. Each of the base transceiver stations is configured to provide a downstream baseband digital signal to the... Agent: Lgc Wireless, LLC

20130003654 - Mesh node role discovery and automatic recovery: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide for configuring and managing mesh nodes during occasional failure of mesh nodes or addition of new mesh nodes. The disclosed system first determines whether a mesh node is a mesh portal or a mesh point. If it is a mesh portal, the mesh node... Agent:

20130003653 - Method and apparatus for facilitating home network access: A manner of extending a home network to a mobile device. An SG (signaling gateway) is provided to receive register an HA (home agent) and an FA (foreign agent) and form a secure tunnel to each to form a communication channel. A heartbeat may be exchanged with the HA to... Agent: Alcatel-lucent Usa Inc.

20130003656 - Method and apparatus for generating allowed list based on regions for wireless terminal in communication system: A method and system for generating an allowed list based on regions for a wireless terminal are disclosed. The method generates an allowed list based on regions to control network access of a stationary wireless terminal, and includes: sending, by the wireless terminal, an attach request to a network; creating,... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.

20130003655 - Method and system of controlling a gateway: Method of controlling a gateway regarding the communication flow being or to be processed through the gateway. The gateway is assigned to a first communication network that includes a media plane with at least one communication channel to which the gateway is linked, and a control plane, with at least... Agent: Vodafone Holding Gmbh

20130003660 - Method, apparatus and system for information transmission: A method, an apparatus and a system for information transmission are provided. The method includes the following steps. A second user equipment receives update information issued by a wireless access point (AP). The second user equipment is located within a coverage area of the wireless AP. After detecting that the... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.

20130003657 - Mobile communication method, radio base station, and mobile station: The present invention relates to a mobile communication method, in which a mobile station UE transmits uplink signals to a radio base station eNB using a plurality of “Component Carriers” having different carrier frequencies, includes a step A of transmitting, by the radio base station eNB, TA to be applied... Agent: Ntt Docomo, Inc.

20130003659 - Radio communication base station device and correlation setting method: Provided is a radio communication base station device which can suppress a use amount of an SRS communication resource. In this device, a correlation rule setting unit (102) sets a rule for correlating a preamble with an SRS transmission time interval so that the preamble transmission time band and the... Agent: Panasonic Corporation

20130003652 - Split usage of radio access networks with ims: Different access networks may perform signaling and data delivery (bearer connection) for communication services. A device may determine, in response to a request for a service from a user of the device, whether the device is connected to a non-cellular access network. The device may transmit, when it is determined... Agent: Verizon Patent And Licensing Inc.

20130003690 - Apparatus and method for transmitting and receiving control information in a wireless communication system: Disclosed are an apparatus and method for transceiving control information. A base station device which transmits control information according to the present invention has a transmitting antenna which transmits second control information containing information on the resource size of the first control information for uplink power control, to user equipment.... Agent: Lg Electronics Inc.

20130003692 - Base station and transmission method: Provided are a base station and a transmission method whereby, even in a case where a cross carrier scheduling is employed, the increase in the number of blind decodings on a PDCCH receiving side can be suppressed without need of signaling of an upper layer at the time of changing... Agent: Panasonic Corporation

20130003680 - Base station device and terminal device: A base station device is provided with a MAC unit 30 which performs processing on a MAC layer for wireless communication, a scheduler 10 which performs scheduling for determining allocation of radio resources, and a radio resource management unit 70 which manages the radio resources. The scheduler 10 is connected... Agent: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.

20130003672 - Control channels in multicarrier ofdm transmission: A base station transmits control information on a subframe of a first carrier starting from the first OFDM symbol of the subframe. The control information provides transmission format and scheduling information for data packets transmitted on a first data channel of the first carrier. The base station transmits a control... Agent:

20130003681 - Control information feedback over the long-term evolution physical uplink shared channel: A network component comprising a plurality of encoders, a plurality of rate-matching modules coupled to the encoders, and a channel interleaver coupled to the rate-matching modules, wherein the rate-matching modules calculate the number of bits for rate matching a plurality of feedback control information based on a total number of... Agent: Research In Motion Limited

20130003691 - Downlink resource scheduling method and transmission end for multiple-input multiple-output beam-forming system: The present invention provides a downlink resource scheduling method and a transmission end for a multiple-input multiple-output beam-forming (MIMO+BF) system. The transmission end performs the following steps of: dividing subordinate users into user groups according to respective MIMO+BF weights of the subordinate users; generating a scheduling priority coefficient for each... Agent: Zte Corporation

20130003685 - Hybrid automatic repeat request associations for downlink semi-persistent scheduling: Disclosed is a user equipment in a wireless communication system, configured to receive a first initial transmission associated with a first Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ) process; receive a second initial transmission associated with a second HARQ process; and receive at least one retransmission associated with the first HARQ process,... Agent: Research In Motion Limited

20130003673 - Hybrid automatic repeat request in multicarrier systems: A base station receives first uplink data packets on a first uplink data channel of a first uplink carrier. A first portion of bandwidth of the first uplink carrier is employed for the first uplink data channel and a second portion is employed for a first uplink control channel. The... Agent:

20130003684 - Integrated circuit for controlling sequence assigning method and reference signal generating method: Provided is a sequence allocation method capable of reducing inter-cell interference of a reference signal when a ZC sequence is used as the reference signal in a mobile communication system. In the sequence allocation method divides R×M sequences specified by a ZC sequence number r(r=1 to R) and a cyclic... Agent: Panasonic Corporation

20130003689 - Method and apparatus for allocating reservation resource for relay in wireless communication system using media access control based on reservation: Provided is a communication method of a coordinator in a wireless networks system that uses a reservation-based media access control (MAC). The communication method includes receiving, from a source device, a frame that requests a reservation resource for a relay device, to enable a frame that the source device transmits... Agent: Electronic And Telecommunications Research Institute

20130003679 - Method and apparatus for multi-channel operation in wireless local area network system: Disclosed are a method and apparatus for multi-channel operation, performed by an access point (AP), in a WLAN system, the method includes: transmitting channel assignment information to a plurality of stations (STAs), in which the channel assignment information is for assigning at least one of a first channel and a... Agent:

20130003665 - Method and apparatus for selecting enhanced dedicated channel transport format combination in cell_fach state and idle mode: A method and apparatus for selecting an enhanced dedicated channel (E-DCH) transport format combination (E-TFC) in Cell_FACH state and idle mode are disclosed. A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) transmits a random access channel (RACH) preamble and receives an index to an E-DCH resource in response to the RACH preamble. The... Agent: Interdigital Patent Holdings, Inc.

20130003676 - Method and system for identifying subscriber stations in machine to machine communication: A method and apparatus identify a subscriber station during a bandwidth request procedure. In one embodiment, a method of identifying a subscriber station from a quick access message includes receiving the quick access message from the subscriber station connected to a base station, where the quick access message includes a... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

20130003670 - Method and system for releasing resources and evolved node base: A method and a system for releasing resources and an evolved Node Base (eNB) are provided in the present invention, wherein the method comprises: an Evolved Packet Core (EPC) receiving a detach request from a User Equipment (UE), wherein the detach request carries a Detach Type of the UE; the... Agent: Zte Corporation

20130003662 - Method and system for reliable service period allocation in 60 ghz mac: A technique to send service period allocation from a network control point to a plurality of stations using an Announce frame of a 60 GHz DBand specification. The use of the Announce frame ensures that the control point receives confirmation of the service period allocation assigned to the stations before... Agent: Broadcom Corporation

20130003668 - Method and system for transmission and reception of signals and related method of signaling: A base station (e.g., an evolved Node B) determines whether the physical broadcast channel (PBCH), reference signals (SCH) and common reference signals (CRS) are transmitted (or awaiting transmission) on a secondary component carrier (Scell) with the cell. The determination information is transmitted to a user equipment (UE) to inform the... Agent: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.

20130003688 - Method for handling radio bearer messages during reset and reestablishment in a wireless system: A method of transmitting downlink data after re-establishment of a universal terrestrial radio access network (UTRAN) acknowledged mode (AM) radio link control (RLC) entity includes receiving a plurality of RLC service data units (SDUs) from a packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) layer of the UTRAN; dividing the received RLC SDUs... Agent:

20130003682 - Method, user equipment, base station, and system for detecting sharing of timing advance value: Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method, user equipment, base station, and system for detecting sharing of a timing advance value, relate to the field of communications technologies, and solve a problem in the prior art that a normal service cannot be provided because a TA value cannot be... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd

20130003671 - Multi-radio coexistence: In a mobile device, interference between different radio access technologies (RATs) may be pronounced in the presence of effects of non-linearity. To decrease interference and improve performance, a device may operate a RAT in an improved linearity mode based upon operating conditions of one or more RATs operating in the... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20130003667 - Personal area network with automatic attachment and detachment: A network (100) includes a hub device (110) and at least one unattached peripheral device (120). The unattached peripheral device (120) transmits an attach request to the hub device (110) with a selected address, receives a new address from the hub device to identify the unattached peripheral device (120), and... Agent: Tri-county Excelsior Foundation

20130003677 - Radio base station and method for transmitting common public radio interface data in radio base station: A method for transmitting Common Public Radio Interface (CPRI) data in a radio base station is provided, which is applicable to the radio base station having at least two CPRI links between a Radio Equipment Control (REC) and a Radio Equipment (RE). The method includes: dividing by the REC, in-phase/quadrature... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.

20130003661 - Radio system, radio base station and radio terminal: One of a plurality of radio terminals that transmit radio signals to a radio base station under a space multiplexing scheme, including a receiving unit 42 that receives an access right request signal with respect to the radio base station from an other radio terminal, a prevention unit 43 that... Agent: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

20130003666 - Resource allocation method and apparatus of heterogeneous cellular communication system: A resource allocation method and an apparatus for mitigating inter-cell interference in the heterogeneous cellular communication system are provided. The method for a first type base station to allocate resource in a wireless communication system including the first and second types base stations according to the present invention includes estimating... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.

20130003664 - Scheduling of a user equipment in a radio communication system: A radio base station (110) and a method in a radio base station (110) for scheduling a transmission to be transmitted between a user equipment (120) and the radio base station (110) are provided. Moreover, a user equipment (120) and a method in a user equipment (120) for obtaining information... Agent: Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (publ)

20130003678 - Scheduling request method, apparatus and system: A scheduling request method, network side device, terminal device and system, belong to the field of communications technologies. The method includes: configuring a first shared resource used for a scheduling request (SR), and sending first information to multiple terminal devices to notify of the first shared resource (101); receiving the... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.

20130003686 - Sequence allocating method and sequence allocating apparatus: A sequence allocating method and apparatus wherein in a system where a plurality of different Zadoff-Chu sequences or GCL sequences are allocated to a single cell, the arithmetic amount and circuit scale of a correlating circuit at a receiving end can be reduced. In ST201, a counter (a) and a... Agent: Panasonic Corporation

20130003675 - Sequence generation and transmission method based on time and frequency domain transmission unit: A method for generating/transmitting a transmission-unit symbol sequence is disclosed. In the case of transmission information, the information is modulated in time and frequency domains on the basis of a predetermined transmission unit (e.g., a transmission time interval TTI or slot), simultaneous transmission of the information is made, and then... Agent:

20130003674 - Sharing frequencies in an ofdm-based wireless communication system: A method and apparatus for sharing frequencies in an orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing OFDM-based wireless communication system, wherein the OFDM-based wireless communication system comprises a base station and a mobile device that work within a radio frequency band, the method comprising: detecting an interference signal in the radio frequency band; setting... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20130003683 - Sounding and steering protocols for wireless communications: Systems, apparatuses, and techniques relating to wireless local area network devices are described. A described technique includes transmitting a sounding packet to a wireless communication device(s) to determine characteristics of spatial wireless channels, the sounding packet being based on a spatial mapping matrix; receiving a feedback packet(s) from the device(s),... Agent:

20130003687 - Test loading in ofdma wireless networks: A radio frequency radio (RF) transceiver that defines scheduling logic for generating transmission schedules for orthogonal frequency-division multiple access (OFDMA) RF transmissions from the RF transceiver, wherein the scheduling logic specifies at least one of a modulation type, a code rate, a sub-channel, and a sub-carrier for a plurality of... Agent: Research In Motion

20130003669 - Transmission power adjustment method in wireless communication system and base station: Necessary transmission power of terminals is secured while suppressing total transmission power in base station, so that FFR technology is realized with high frequency utilization efficiency to thereby realize both of compactness of base station and increase of communication capacity. Frequency resource is divided into frequency for boundary area of... Agent: Hitachi, Ltd.

20130003663 - Transmit downlink control information with higher order modulation: A method is provided for applying HOM to a PDCCH to transmit control information from an access node to a UE. The method comprises: selecting a DCI format for a HOM PDCCH; determining a DCI block of the HOM PDCCH according to the selected DCI format; generating a sequence of... Agent: Research In Motion Limited

20130003693 - Method for operating a cellular radio system and a cellular radio system: For allowing a very high performance level without adding significant complexity to known methods a method for operating a cellular radio system within which at least two different Fractional Frequency Reuse (FFR) zones are defined in a downlink frame, the method including the following steps: providing a metric for assigning... Agent: Nec Europe Ltd.

20130003694 - Method for transmitting pilot signal for machine to machine communication in wireless communication system and apparatus thereof: A method for transmitting a pilot signal for machine to machine (M2M) communication in a wireless communication system and an apparatus thereof are disclosed. The method comprises the steps of configuring a basic unit including a plurality of pilot resource elements (REs) and data resource elements; allocating pilot signal to... Agent: Lg Electronics Inc.

20130003704 - Apparatus, and an associated method, for preserving communication service quality levels during hand-off of communications in a radio communication system: A mobile station is configured to transmit a sequence of data packets over a wireless network. The station includes a data sequence expander. The expander receives an indication of a pending hand-off for the mobile station from a first network access point to a second network access point and estimates... Agent: Research In Motion Limited

20130003702 - Data burst communication techniques for mobile communication devices operating in packet data sessions: A mobile device experiences a condition where a time overlap exists between a packet data burst being communicated over a packet data channel of a serving cell and broadcast data burst being communicated over a broadcast control channel of a neighbor cell. The mobile device sets its RF receiver to... Agent: Research In Motion Limited

20130003696 - Device handing over communication session from wireless communication to powerline communication: A mobile communication device includes a wired interface operable to support Power Line Communications (PLC), a wireless interface, a processing module, and memory. The device establishes a wireless communication link to service a communication session, detects availability of PLC communication path, and at least partially hands over the communication session... Agent: Broadcom Corporation

20130003695 - Handover in relation to cell identity ambiguity: The invention relates to handover of a mobile station (12) from a source cell to a target cell when the identity of the target cell in a wireless communication network (10, 11) is ambiguous, a source base station (14) defining the source cell receives an event from the mobile station... Agent: Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (publ)

20130003698 - Method and apparatus for managing service continuity: Methods and apparatus are disclosed that determine whether service continuity is allowed in a target cell for a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) connected to a source local gateway (LGW) via a local internet protocol access (LIPA) Packet Data Network (PDN) connection. The existence of a connection between the source LGW... Agent: Interdigital Patent Holdings, Inc.

20130003699 - Method and apparatus for selected internet protocol (ip) traffic offload (sipto) and local ip access (lipa) mobility: Methods and apparatus are described for supporting wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) mobility between Home (evolved) Node Bs (H(e)NBs) that are configured to communicate with a Local Gateway (L-GW). The H(e)NBs and/or L-GW may belong to one or more Local H(e)NB Networks (LHNs). A WTRU may receive services including Selected Internet... Agent: Interdigital Patent Holdings, Inc.

20130003697 - Method and apparatus for supporting local ip access and selected ip traffic offload: A method and apparatus for home Node-B (HNB) mobility with a local IP access (LIPA) packet data network (PDN) connection are described. A target home node-B (HNB) may receive a handover request message from a source HNB to handover a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU). A path switch request may be... Agent: Interdigital Patent Holdings, Inc.

20130003700 - Method and device for triggering radio resource control connection re-establishment: The disclosure discloses a method for triggering Radio Resource Control (RRC) connection re-establishment, comprising: setting a random access policy for a UE, and further comprising: when the random access procedure initiated by the UE according to the set random access policy is failed, the RRC connection re-establishment procedure is triggered.... Agent: Zte Corporation

20130003701 - Method for handover between different radio access schemes and wireless communication system: In a wireless communication system including a plurality of base stations each supporting at least one of two or more radio access schemes and at least one mobile station capable of performing communication by using the two or more radio access schemes, before the mobile station moves from a source... Agent: Nec Corporation

20130003705 - Method, device, system and software product for providing system information to enable packet switched handover: A method, mobile device, network device, system, and software product are presented for providing an indication whether a source radio network controller requests to receive system information from a handover target, and for receiving the system information in a target to source transparent container, if the indication requests to receive... Agent: Vringo Infrastructure, Inc.

20130003706 - Voice synchronization during call handoff: A method, mobile electronic device and system for synchronizing hand-off of a voice media session between a WAN/cellular network and a WLAN network. When a hand-off occurs, the connection with both networks is temporarily maintained and the voice data on both connections compared to determine differences in the delays experienced... Agent: Research In Motion Limited

20130003703 - Wlan-to-wwan handover methods and apparatus using a wlan support node having a wwan interface: A mobile device establishes and maintains a voice call via a wireless local area network (WLAN). During voice call handover, the mobile device receives, from the cellular network, voice data of the voice call which is routed via a network support node. The network support node is connected to the... Agent: Mcmaster University

20130003707 - Apparatus, method and computer program product providing extended measurement control signal for handoff measurement under interference coordination: In one non-limiting, exemplary embodiment, a method includes: receiving radio resource control signaling with a user equipment, wherein the radio resource control signaling is indicative of at least one frequency sub-band to be measured by the user equipment for a particular cell in a manner transparent to at least one... Agent: Nokia Corporation

20130003708 - Continuous cache service in cellular networks: A technique for transmitting an object to a mobile device is provided. In response to the mobile device moving from a first area serviced by a first cache to a second area serviced by a second cache, the first cache transmits the object stored in the first cache to the... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20130003710 - Method and system of transport mode notification on a multi-mode handheld communication device: A communications device includes multiple data transceivers, each configured for communication via a respective communication transport mode. The communication device has one or more data packets which are associated with one of the communication transport modes. The handheld communication device transmits or receives the data packet(s) via the data transceiver... Agent: Research In Motion Limited

20130003709 - Mobile wireless communication device with multiple transceivers: A mobile wireless communication device has multiple 802.11 transceivers. A first transceiver maintains a first 802.11 communication link in accordance with the 802.11 communication specification. A second transceiver maintains, simultaneously to the first transceiver maintaining the first 802.11 communication link, a second 802.11 communication link in accordance with the 802.11... Agent:

20130003711 - Communication system, communication apparatus, communication control method, and communication control program: A CC-ID information storing unit stores CC-ID information, for every frequency band of a monitoring CC, in which frequency band information and CC-ID are associated. A resource information acquiring unit converts CC-ID extracted from control information into frequency band information.... Agent:

20130003713 - Communication method and communication system: A first communication device generates a control header containing mapping information indicating channels to which data of time division multiplex is mapped, maps the data of time division multiplex and data of another format to respective channels according to the mapping information, and transmits a signal in which the data... Agent: Nec Corporation

20130003712 - Method and circuit intended for high-frequency communication between an interrogator and a smart tag: When communicating with a traditional interrogator of passive smart tags, an actively transmitting smart tag of the invention, even within a data frame being transmitted, observes a first phase (Φi) being a phase of a voltage induced in a tag's antenna by an interrogator's high-frequency carrier signal and transmits wave... Agent: Ids D.o.o.

20130003714 - Systems and methods for improved digital rf transport in distributed antenna systems: Systems and methods for improved digital RF transport in a DAS are provided. In one embodiment, a transceiver comprises: a receive path circuit including an RF reception interface coupled to an ADC, the ADC receiving a down-converted analog RF spectrum from the RF reception interface and producing a digitized RF... Agent: Adc Telecommunications, Inc.

20130003715 - Connection setup for low energy wireless networks based on master device packet that includes timing information: An apparatus includes a controller configured to cause a wireless transceiver to send and receive wireless packets. The controller is configured to receive a packet from another wireless device. The packet specifies a scan window length, a scan interval, and a start time. Based on the start time, scan interval,... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20130003716 - Compact base station apparatus and frame timing difference information acquiring method: Provided is a compact base station apparatus (HeNB) whereby frame timing can precisely be synchronized between HeNB and MeNB, thereby suppressing the interference in an upstream channel. In HeNB (100), which forms a cell smaller than a cell formed by MeNB, frame timing detecting unit (111) detects, based on a... Agent: Panasonic Corporation Corporation

20130003717 - Energy based communication path selection: A system and method for determining an information communication path based on energy requirements. Various aspects of the present invention provide a method that comprises identifying a plurality of information communication paths that may be utilized to communicate information (e.g., one or more units of information). A communication path identification... Agent: Broadcom Corporation

20130003719 - Enhanced emergency services for fixed wireless customer premises equipment: A gateway device, provided in a customer premises, receives a call from a user device, and detects dialed information associated with the call. The gateway device identifies the call as an emergency call based on the dialed information, and terminates all other calls communicated by the gateway device except for... Agent: Verizon Patent And Licensing Inc.

20130003724 - Method and apparatus for providing shared services: The present invention enables an overlay capability to be invoked on network systems and elements that are designed to support multiple customer bases. Depending on the registered identification of the user, screens and other user interfaces that provide access to functions can be overlaid on the network component and segmented... Agent: At&t Corp.

20130003718 - Self-forming voip network: A self-forming VoIP connection capability is described that may be superimposed over wired networks, wireless networks, or combinations thereof. As described herein, a local network cluster forms while isolated from a conventional SIP server, or alternately may exist as a cluster of network nodes and clients that later becomes isolated... Agent: Mesh Dynamics, Inc.

20130003720 - System for ad-hoc communication sessions: In one implementation, a guest device on an ad hoc network is permitted to initiate a communication session through a packet switched network depending on the destination endpoint of the communication session. A network device maintains a list of approved destination endpoints, which may be identified by telephone numbers, addresses,... Agent: Cisco Technology, Inc.

20130003723 - Virtual pbx based on feature server modules: A virtual private branch exchange is formed by a plurality of interconnected feature server modules, each having an integral feature server that is configured and operates independently of the other feature server modules. Within a virtual private branch exchange, the feature server modules may be logically arranged in a hierarchy... Agent: Resource Consortium Limited

20130003722 - Voice communication of digits: The present invention relates to SIP networks and, more particularly, to digit collection in SIP networks. The SIP user communicates the digits to a Media Server through voice/speech. The Media Server collects the digits and checks to determine if the digits satisfy required Dual Tone Multi Frequency rules. The Media... Agent: Alcatel Lucent

20130003721 - Voip server and method for managing geographical information: A method for managing geographical information of a plurality of Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) terminal devices using a VoIP server receives location information of the VoIP terminal devices from the VoIP terminal devices, stores geographical information of the VoIP terminal devices into a data sheet stored in a storage... Agent: Gds Software (shenzhen) Co.,ltd

20130003725 - Universal network interface controller: A universal network interface controller (UNIC) is provided for interfacing a host computer to a switch fabric, a packet network, or both. The UNIC includes ingress transmit logic designed to transmit switch fabric data in memory associated with the host computer to a switch fabric. The UNIC further includes egress... Agent: Broadcom Corporation

20130003726 - Methods and apparatus related to a flexible data center security architecture: In one embodiment, edge devices can be configured to be coupled to a multi-stage switch fabric and peripheral processing devices. The edge devices and the multi-stage switch fabric can collectively define a single logical entity. A first edge device from the edge devices can be configured to be coupled to... Agent: Juniper Networks, Inc.

20130003729 - Clearing forwarding entries dynamically and ensuring consistency of tables across ethernet fabric switch: One embodiment of the present invention provides a switch. The switch includes an ownership management mechanism and a notification mechanism. The ownership management mechanism maintains a local ownership association between the switch, and a medium access control (MAC) address learned at the switch and terminates the local ownership association for... Agent: Brocade Communications Systems, Inc.

20130003727 - Hybrid port range encoding: In general, techniques are described for encoding port ranges. In one example, a method includes generating an encoded value that represents a specified port range including a first element storing an identifier that identifies a frequently occurring port range stored in an associative data structure of most frequently occurring port... Agent: Juniper Networks, Inc.

20130003731 - Link state identifier collision handling: Methods and apparatus for a network element to handle LSID collisions to prevent different LSAs associated with different routes from sharing the same LSID. According to one embodiment, responsive to determining that a tentative LSID that is generated for a first route that is being added collides with an LSID... Agent:

20130003730 - Path search program, path search apparatus and path search method: A computer-readable recording medium having stored therein a program for causing a computer to execute a process includes accepting a start node and finish node that are both terminuses for a circuit that is to be accommodated in a transmission network that includes a plurality of transmission lines, selecting, from... Agent: Fujitsu Limited

20130003728 - Providing extended administrative groups in computer networks: In general, techniques are described for providing extended administrative groups in networks. A network device comprising an interface and a control unit may implement the techniques. The interface receives a routing protocol message that advertises a link. This message includes a field for storing first data associated with the link... Agent: Juniper Networks, Inc.

20130003732 - Abstracting accepting interface to optimize parent and child entry lookup for bidirectional pim: During operation the system identifying a multicast address in a packet. The system then determines a first entry in a first table, wherein the first entry maps a multicast group prefix and an accepting interface to a first logical reference. The system then determines a second entry in a second... Agent: Brocade Communications Systems, Inc.

20130003734 - Message routing mechanism for communication networks: A message routing method includes receiving a plurality of messages at a routing node. The routing node is configured to receive instructions indicating an offset, criteria associated with the offset, and a group of interested nodes. The routing node examines a portion of a data payload of a received message... Agent: Qualcomm Atheros, Inc.

20130003733 - Multicast in a trill network: One embodiment of the present invention provides a switch. A switch includes a storage and a multicast management mechanism. The storage is configured to store an entry indicating a multicast group membership learned at a remote switch. The multicast management mechanism is coupled to the storage and is configured to... Agent: Brocade Communications Systems, Inc.

20130003735 - Dynamically provisioning middleboxes: Hybrid security architecture (HSA) provides a platform for middlebox traversal in the network. The HSA decouples the middlebox control from network forwarding. More specifically, such embodiments may receive a data packet having a packet header including an Ethernet header identifying source and destination addresses in the network. A traffic type... Agent:

20130003737 - E-tree using two pseudowires between edge routers with enhanced learning methods and systems: An e-tree service that includes establishing two pseudowires (PW) between edge network elements with enhanced address learning is described. In one embodiment, a root PW and a leaf PW are used for carrying packets from a root node and from a leaf node, respectively. When a network element receives a... Agent:

20130003740 - Method, apparatus, and system for distributing label in seamless multi-protocol label switching network: The present invention discloses a method, apparatus, and system for allocating a label in a seamless multi-protocol label switching network, which greatly reduces the complexity of the access node device, effectively cuts down the operation costs for the operator, and enhances the scalability of the system. The method includes: obtaining... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.

20130003739 - Scalable mac address distribution in an ethernet fabric switch: One embodiment of the present invention provides a switch. The switch includes a notification mechanism. The notification mechanism constructs a single message that contains a locally learned MAC address associated with a local device, a TRILL RBridge identifier associated with the switch, and an identifier of an interface associated with... Agent: Brocade Communications Systems, Inc.

20130003738 - Trill based router redundancy: One embodiment of the present invention provides a switching system. The switching system includes a Transparent Interconnection of Lots of Links (TRILL) header processor and an Internet Protocol (IP) header processor. The TRILL header processor is configured to identify a virtual routing bridge (RBridge) identifier in a packet, and the... Agent: Brocade Communications Systems, Inc.

20130003736 - Variable-based forwarding path construction for packet processing within a network device: In general, this disclosure describes techniques for applying, with a network device, subscriber-specific packet processing using an internal processing path that includes service objects that are commonly applied to multiple packet flows associated with multiple subscribers. In one example, a network device control plane creates subscriber records that include, for... Agent: Juniper Networks, Inc.

20130003741 - Dynamic, condition-based packet redirection: In one embodiment, at a packet-forwarding engine for receiving packet flows and conditionally routing packets in the packet flows to one or more applications, a method includes receiving from a particular one of the applications a request that requests the packet-forwarding engine not to route the particular one of the... Agent: Cisco Technology, Inc.

20130003744 - Communication node apparatus, communication system, and method for selecting destination reception interface used therefor: Provided is a communication node apparatus that can attempt optimal utilization of a communication resource of a communication interface mounted on each node apparatus. A communication node apparatus (transmission node apparatus 101) includes a plurality communication interfaces (transmission interfaces 201-1 and 201-2 and reception interfaces 202-1 and 202-2), enables communication... Agent: Nec Corporation

20130003745 - Information system, control device, method of managing virtual network, and program: An information system includes a plurality of forwarding nodes having a packet processing unit that performs processing of a received packet using a processing rule conforming to the received packet; and a control device causing plurality of forwarding nodes to operate as a virtual network by setting a processing rule... Agent:

20130003742 - Routing information generating apparatus, routing information generating method and routing information generating program: Network connecting sections of an own station deliver routing information notified from a relay section on the same base to network connecting sections of other stations of own networks. If new routing information is present in routing information received from the network connecting sections of the other stations, the network... Agent: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation

20130003743 - Selective routing to geographically distributed network centers for purposes of power control and environmental impact: In general, this disclosure describes techniques of selecting routes for network packets through a computer network based, at least in part, on electrical power procurement arrangements of devices in the computer network. A computing system includes a hardware processor and a database storing power procurement profiles. Each of the power... Agent: Juniper Networks, Inc.

20130003750 - Analyzing a network with a cache advance proxy: In an example embodiment described herein, there is disclosed an implementation for analyzing a network having cache advance (CA) segments, such as a session control protocol (SCTP) pipe. The path between endpoints, e.g. a client on a first local area network (LAN) and a server on a second LAN, wherein... Agent:

20130003749 - Controlling a device of a remote network from a local network: A method and apparatus are provided for controlling at least one UPnP device of a remote network from a local network by a local relay module of the local network, which is able to communicate with at least one remote relay module of a remote network. The relay module obtains,... Agent: France Telecom

20130003747 - Efficient trill forwarding: One embodiment of the present invention provides a switch. The switch includes a storage and a lookup mechanism. The storage stores a first table that contains an entry corresponding to a media access control (MAC) address of a device and an identifier of a remote switch associated with the device.... Agent: Brocade Communications Systems, Inc.

20130003746 - Power management in hybrid networks: Disclosed are various embodiments for power management in hybrid networks. In one embodiment, a network power manager is configured to manage power consumption in a hybrid network by controlling an operational state of a plurality of ports in a plurality of nodes of the hybrid network. The hybrid network comprises... Agent: Broadcom Corporation

20130003748 - Relay apparatus and relay control method: A relay apparatus includes: a receiver to receive a control message including a communication traffic amount of data sent from a first node on a first side; a total communication traffic amount notifying unit to calculate a total of communication traffic amounts included in a control message for each the... Agent: Fujitsu Limited

20130003751 - Method and system for exponential back-off on retransmission: A method for exponential back-off on retransmission includes queuing a packet of a message in a completion module with an initial transport timeout, transmitting the packet of the message to a responder node, and applying an exponential timeout formula to the initial transport timeout to obtain an exponentially increased transport... Agent: Oracle International Corporation

20130003752 - Method, network device, computer program and computer program product for communication queue state: Aspects of the disclosure provide a method for communicating queue information. The method includes determining a queue state for each one of a plurality of queues at least partially based on respective queue length, selecting a queue with a greatest difference between the queue state of the queue and a... Agent:

20130003753 - Distributing control plane processing: A network device includes shelf controllers and interface unit controllers. An interface unit controller, of the interface unit controllers, is configured to receive a message from a different network device; determine whether a session exists for the message; identify a shelf controller, of the shelf controllers, based on the session... Agent: Infinera Corporation

20130003754 - Automation system: The invention relates to a method for transmitting data in an automation system with cyclic data transmission, wherein data are divided into fragments and the fragments are transmitted together with a fragment information item to the opposite side. In this case, a fragment is transmitted until the opposite side sends... Agent:

20130003755 - Priority-aware hierarchical communication traffic scheduling: Priority-aware hierarchical communication traffic scheduling methods and apparatus are disclosed. Communication traffic is scheduled by schedulers. Each scheduler supports a multiple priority scheduling function to schedule communication traffic having any of multiple priorities. The communication traffic scheduled by the schedulers is further scheduled based on the priorities of the communication... Agent: Cortina Systems, Inc.

20130003756 - Methods and system for increasing data transmission rates across a three-phase power system: A method for providing information by optimizing the data rate to a vehicle over a three-phase power line utilized to provide power to the vehicle is described. The method includes generating carrier signals in three separate frequency bands, modulating various data onto the three carrier signals to generate three transmission... Agent:

20130003758 - Data processing apparatus and method for use in a 0.5k mode interleaver in a digital video broadcasting standard including dvb-terrestrial2: A data processing apparatus maps input symbols to be communicated onto a predetermined number of sub-carrier signals of an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexed (OFDM) symbol. The data processor includes an interleaver memory which reads-in the predetermined number of data symbols for mapping onto the OFDM sub-carrier signals. The interleaver memory... Agent: Sony Corporation

20130003757 - Syntonized communication system: A computing device may include a processor, an internal bus, and a network interface controller configured to communicate over a network. The processor and the network interface controller may communicate over the internal bus. The computing device may operate in a system that generates one or more media streams from... Agent: Harman International Industries, Incorporated

20130003759 - Technique for bandwidth effective traffic protection in communication networks: Technology for reducing bandwidth consumption in an Ethernet network, by dynamic selection of one copy of traffic services (per protection group) for transmitting to a remote Ethernet node from a multi-homing node. The dynamic selection is performed during a normal (full) working condition of the multi-homing node. In case the... Agent:

20130003760 - Division of bit streams to produce spatial paths for multicarrier transmission: A device for bit-demultiplexing in a multicarrier MIMO communication system (e.g. precoded spatial multiplexing MIMO communication systems using adaptive OFDM), including a multicarrier MIMO transmitter and a multicarrier MIMO receiver. The multicarrier MIMO transmitter includes a demultiplexer and symbol mapper unit receiving an input bit stream and generating a plurality... Agent: Sony Corporation