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20120122390 - Waveguide-based wireless distribution system and method of operation: The design and use of a simplified, highly efficient, waveguide-based wireless distribution system are provided. A low-loss waveguide is used to transport wireless signals from a signal source or sources to one or more receiver locations. One or more adjustable signal coupling devices partially insert into the waveguide at predetermined... Agent:

20120122391 - Communication devices, mobile terminal, and communication system: A communication device that is capable of communicating with a mobile terminal in cooperation with another communication device, and is capable of communicating with the mobile terminal via the other communication device. This communication device characteristically includes: a mode selecting unit configured to select one of a cooperative communication mode... Agent: Fujitsu Limited

20120122392 - Communication apparatus and communication method, computer program, and communication system: In the case where the order of transmit beam patterns corresponding to individual time slots in a beam training signal, and the names representing the respective transmit beam patterns have already been shared through pre-setting or pre-negotiation between the transmission and reception, the receiving end can estimate received power for... Agent:

20120122393 - Communication device: A communication device includes a transmission signal processing unit, a driver amplifier coupled to the transmission signal processing unit, a selector coupled to the driver amplifier, a first attenuator coupled to the selector and an output portion of the communication device, a second attenuator coupled to the selector and the... Agent: Renesas Electronics Corporation

20120122394 - Sensor nodes with free-space signaling: Apparatus and systems are provided for data signaling between a centralized transceiver and a plurality of sensor nodes. Each sensor node independently generates electrical power from one or more renewable sources. Each sensor node transmits data corresponding to sensed physical variables to the transceiver by free-space signaling. Large areas can... Agent:

20120122398 - Electronic apparatus and communication state notification method: According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes a communication module, a content information acquisition module, and a communication state notification module. The communication module executes close proximity wireless transfer. The content information acquisition module acquires content information about at least one content item to be transmitted between the communication... Agent: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

20120122396 - Method for fast device search based on short range communication module and mobile device for supporting the method: A method and mobile device for a fast device search based on a short range communication module. In the method, the mobile device checks a setting value of a fast device search mode for a restriction on a communication range of the short range communication module. Then the mobile device... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

20120122397 - Semantic note taking system: A semantic note taking system and method for collecting information, enriching the information, and/or binding the information to services is provided. User-created notes are enriched with labels, context traits, and relevant data to minimize friction in the note-taking process. In other words, the present invention is directed to collecting unscripted... Agent:

20120122395 - Through chip coupling for signal transport: Through-chip coupling is utilized for signal transport, where an interface is formed between a first coil on a first integrated circuit (IC) chip and a second coil on a second IC chip. The first coil is coupled to an antenna. The second coil is coupled to an amplifier circuit. The... Agent: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.

20120122400 - Proximity wireless communication apparatus including fixed housing and movable housing rotated endlessly: One array antenna including three induction coils is formed on an application integrated circuit of a fixed housing. Eight array antennas, each of which is arranged in a manner similar to that of the array antennas of the application integrated circuit, are formed at intervals of 45 degrees around a... Agent:

20120122399 - Wireless signal processing apparatus and method: An apparatus and method are provided for receiving and processing a control signal and/or a data signal through a short-range wireless communication. The wireless signal processing apparatus preferably includes a connection detection unit that detects a connection of a peripheral device, and a communication unit that receives the control signal... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

20120122401 - Method for allocating transmission signals to transmission channels: A method for allocating a transmission signal to a transmission channel which has a transmission bandwidth (14) and a rated center frequency and which is established between a radio transmitter (1) and a radio receiver (2) has the steps: emitting the transmission signal on the radio transmitter (1) end with... Agent:

20120122402 - Systems and methods for detection of transmission facilities: In embodiments, a method of detecting a transmitting device within an obstruction rich environment is disclosed. The method may involve detecting the transmitting device with a wireless transmission detection facility; communicating signal information relating to the detected transmitting device from the wireless transmission detection facility to a central unit; determining... Agent:

20120122404 - Radio communication device, radio communication method, and program: A direction deciding unit calculates a plane the perpendicular of which is a directional vector from the wireless communication apparatus toward a radio station. A group deciding unit decides, as groups, antenna combinations each consisting of some ones but not all of a plurality of antennas. A distance calculating unit... Agent: Nec Corporation

20120122403 - System and method for highly directional electronic identification and communication and combat identification system employing the same: An antenna for directional electronic communication and a directional communication system are provided. In one embodiment, the antenna includes: (1) a conductive shield having an opening at an end thereof, (2) a Luneberg lens located within said conductive shield and (3) a radio frequency signal conveyor located proximate a portion... Agent:

20120122407 - Adaptive transmission feedback: A method, program and apparatus for transmitting from a transmitter to a receiver over a channel using a transmit diversity scheme. The method comprises: receiving power-related information fed back from the receiver to the transmitter; and at the transmitter, using the power-related information to generate channel state information. The method... Agent: Icera Inc.

20120122405 - Method and apparatus for providing a dynamic inactivity timer in a wireless communications network: A method, a computer readable medium and an apparatus for providing a dynamic inactivity timer are disclosed. For example, the method monitors a timer for a time threshold associated with a burst of a plurality of bursts of packets, and determines if the timer for the time threshold associated with... Agent:

20120122406 - Simultaneous downlink testing for multiple devices in radio-frequency test systems: A test station may include a test host, a signal generator, and a test chamber. Multiple devices under test (DUTs) may be placed in the test chamber during production testing. Radio-frequency signals may be conveyed from the signal generator to the multiple DUTs using a conducted arrangement through a radio-frequency... Agent:

20120122408 - Method and apparatus for mapping of absolute power grant values in wireless communications: A method and apparatus for adjusting power grants in wireless communications. Multiple power grant tables are stored and one or more tables are designated during communication.... Agent: Interdigital Technology Corporation

20120122409 - Wireless communication system and wireless terminal device: A wireless communication system corresponding to a wireless terminal device in which at least one of a first frequency bandwidth for use in an up link and a second frequency bandwidth for use in a down link is variable, including a capability information reception unit capable of receiving and extracting... Agent: Fujitsu Limited

20120122410 - Multiband coupling architecture: A multiband coupling circuit including: a number of paths equal to the number of frequency bands, each path having a first terminal and a second terminal; a third terminal and a fourth terminal; a number of distributed couplers equal to the number of paths, all couplers being identical and sized... Agent: Stmicroelectronics (tours) Sas

20120122411 - Improved control of switcher regulated power amplifier modules: Various embodiments described herein relate to a power management block and an amplification block used in the transmitter of a communication subsystem. The power management block provides improved control for the gain control signal provided to a pre-amplifier and the supply voltage provided to a power amplifier which are both... Agent: Research In Motion Limited

20120122412 - Method for controlling the power for broadcasting a cognitive pilot channel: r

20120122413 - Radio receiver: A radio receiver receives a broadcast signal and generates an RF signal, generates an IF signal from the RF signal, detects the electric field intensity and the frequency of the IF signal, detects the IF signal and generates a detected signal, detects the intensity of a noise signal that is... Agent: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation

20120122414 - Wireless communication apparatus changing radiation patterns of antenna apparatuses: When controlling antenna apparatuses to select a predetermined combination from among a plurality of combinations of antenna elements, a controller measures RSSIs of wireless signals received by the antenna apparatuses, and sets a detection packet interval and a changeover threshold based on measured RSSIs with reference to a detection packet... Agent:

20120122415 - Wireless communication device and signal detecting method: Disclosed is a wireless communication device capable of improving the properties of an interference canceller and improving reception performance without increase in circuit scale and without increase in power consumption. In the device, a channel estimation unit (301) obtains the channel estimation value of each path and the dispersion value... Agent: Panasonic Corporation

20120122416 - Signal receiving apparatus, signal receiving method and electronic apparatus: Disclosed herein is a signal receiving apparatus including a frequency conversion section configured to carry out frequency conversion on a modulated signal transmitted to the signal receiving apparatus by adoption of a radio transmission technique, wherein the frequency conversion section carries out the frequency conversion by adoption of a frequency... Agent: Sony Corporation

20120122417 - Electronic device having functional blocks individually controlled to selectively enter power-saving mode and related power control method thereof: An electronic device includes a first functional block, a second functional block, and a control circuit. The first functional block has a first wake-up guard time requirement. The second functional block has a second wake-up guard time requirement which is different from the first wake-up guard time requirement. The control... Agent:

20120122418 - Methods, systems, and products for security systems: Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for notification of alarms in security systems. A packetized alarm message is received from a security system associated with a network address. The network address is associated to a notification address. A communication to the notification address is initiated to alert of an alarm... Agent:

20120122420 - Automated alert generation in response to a predetermined communication on a telecommunication device: A cell phone software application that automatically informs a person's ICE contacts when their cell phone has made an emergency 911 call. Also included are systems for sending the GPS location of the cell phone to both the emergency service responders and to the ICE contacts. Personal medical information can... Agent: Quid Fit LLC

20120122419 - Emergency message transmission method and electronic device implementing the method: In a method for transmitting an emergency message by an electronic device, a start signal is generated at the time of a trigger operation by a detection unit, location information of the electronic device is periodically acquired and transmitted to a memory by a location acquisition unit; location at the... Agent: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.

20120122422 - Access network discovery and selection function, andsf, node distributing closed subscriber group, csg, information: The invention relates to a method in an Access Network Discovery and Selection Function, ANDSF, node for distributing Closed Subscriber Group information. The CSG information comprises an Allowed CSG List of a first UE and cell information indicating position of a cell with controlled access associated to the Allowed CSG... Agent: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)

20120122421 - System and method for reducing latency in a wireless location system: A system and method for providing a location of a mobile device in a network. The method includes: receiving a location request; determining the location of the mobile device responsive to the location request; holding the determined location of the mobile device until a permission to send the determined location... Agent: Technocom Corporation

20120122423 - Subscriber identifier and method for subscriber authentication: The subject innovation relates to a subscriber identifier for subscriber authentication in a mobile telecommunications network. The subscriber identifier comprises a memory device that contains a first subscription data record for subscriber authentication in a first mobile telecommunications network. The memory device further contains a second subscription data record for... Agent: Vodafone Holding Gmbh

20120122424 - System and method for providing wireless networks as a service: A wireless network system is provided. The system comprises a wireless network controller and a plurality of access points and/or femtocells. The wireless network controller is in communication with each of the plurality of access points and/or femtocells via an access data network, and is configured to perform one or... Agent: Belair Networks

20120122425 - Display of secure messages on a mobile communication device: A mobile communications device for the display of an incrementally received message includes a message viewer application for scanning the received portions of the message. On determination that the received portion of the message includes a first displayable portion of the message content, the system signals to a message server... Agent:

20120122426 - Separating attachments received from a mobile device: A computer-implemented method includes receiving a message from a mobile device over a wireless network, the message including several attachments, wherein the several attachments include one or more mobile device attachments corresponding to content captured using the mobile device, identifying the one or more mobile device attachments; and separating the... Agent: Apple Inc.

20120122428 - Automatic annunciator allocation: Technologies described herein generally relate to allocating annunciators to provide annunciations in response to annunciation requests in a computing device. The computing device may include a platform application, which may be configured to receive annunciation requests from applications for providing annunciations. The platform application may discover annunciators capable of providing... Agent:

20120122427 - Personal media storage and retrieval for visual voice mail: A personal media storage system within a visual voicemail system may be implemented A visual voicemail server may receive and store multimedia content on a personal media storage system and associate such content with a voicemail. A visual voicemail server may obtain such content if provided with location data for... Agent: At&t Intellectual Property I, Lp

20120122431 - Call relay function support system and method: A system and method of supporting a call relay function is provided. The system includes a second modem terminal for performing a call connection with a first modem terminal through a network, the first modem terminal for relaying a call by forming a near distance communication channel with at least... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.

20120122436 - Hands free notification: The present invention provides a mechanism that enables a called party mobile device 108 to provide a notification in the backward direction via a terminating switch 106 and an originating switch 104 to a calling party communication device 102. The notification will indicate to a calling party 101 whether or... Agent: Nokia Siemens Networks Oy

20120122434 - Interactive media management server: An interactive media management server that facilitates management of interactive media and delivery of such interactive media. It comprises a first interface to an interactive media distribution server communicatively coupled to a plurality of mobile devices, and a second interface to a service provider system or a content provider system.... Agent:

20120122429 - Method for digital watermark use by a mobile station: Disclosed is a method for digital watermark use by a mobile station. In the method, a mobile station receives a plurality of digital watermarks. The mobile station detects at least two digital watermarks in the received plurality of watermarks. Based on the at least two detected digital watermarks, a user-specific... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20120122433 - Method, apparatus, and terminal for setting schedule of communication terminal: The present invention relates to a method, an apparatus, and a terminal for setting a schedule on a communication terminal. The method includes: obtaining schedule-affecting parameter information that affects implementation of a schedule; determining, according to the schedule-affecting parameter information and preset schedule-affecting parameter information that is necessary for the... Agent: Huawei Device Co., Ltd.

20120122435 - Mobile telephony presence: Systems and methods for reporting of presence information associated with use of a mobile telephone are presented. In one example, a headset that is paired with a cellular mobile phone relays presence information to a presence application running on a computer.... Agent: Plantronics, Inc.

20120122432 - System, method and computer program for determining the probability of a medical event occurring: A method for determining the likelihood of a medical event occurring, comprising the steps of applying a data mining technique to a dataset containing temporal patient data, wherein the data mining technique provides information regarding the likelihood of a medical event occurring.... Agent: Smart Internet Technology Crc Pty Ltd

20120122430 - Weighing device and method: The invention relates to a method for weighing a use located on an electronic scale in communication with a mobile telecommunication terminal having a display screen, the scale and the mobile terminal both wirelessly communicating with a telecommunication network adapted to put at least the mobile terminal in communication with... Agent:

20120122437 - System and method for activating services on a wireless device: A system and method for activating services on a wireless device are provided that improve a user's experience and ease of activation/provisioning of services for the wireless device by providing a new provisioning channel for service activations. A user is simply required to input a short activation code(s) into the... Agent: Tracfone Wireless, Inc.

20120122438 - Mobile phone including a streaming server with means for controlling the processing of a file before its release: s

20120122439 - Call correcting relay system for optimizing call relaying between different telecommunication networks: The invention relates to a device for call correcting relaying of telecommunication connections between at least two telecommunication terminal devices, wherein the telecommunication terminal devices each are registered in different telecommunication networks, comprising at least two telecommunication terminal devices, wherein each telecommunication terminal device has a software component set up... Agent: Trinity Holding Ag

20120122441 - Data communication setting control method based on subscriber identification module and portable device for supporting the same: A method and a portable device that support the control of a data communication setting are provided. The portable terminal includes a Subscriber Identification Module (SIM) card interface into which the SIM is inserted. The device further includes a control unit, a memory unit, and a radio frequency unit. The... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.

20120122442 - Establishment of a transcoder-free operation connection: When a request is sent by a switching unit, relating to the use of at least one subset of a codec mode configuration for the establishment of a transcoder-free operation connection by a radio network controller, it is checked whether the at least one requested subset is supported by the... Agent: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft

20120122440 - Positioning reference signal assistance data signaling for enhanced interference coordination in a wireless communication network: A method in a wireless communication terminal is disclosed. The method includes receiving a first signal including a desired second signal and an interference component, wherein the interference component includes at least a third signal transmitted in an Almost Blank Subframe (ABS) by a neighbor cell, and configuring the wireless... Agent: Motorola Mobility, Inc.

20120122443 - Software output destination handling terminal, system, method, and program for the same: A software output destination handling terminal that handles a display terminal as a software output destination. Data indicating a type of the display terminal is received from the display terminal with which communication connection has been established, and data indicating a usage status of the user is obtained. Data indicating... Agent: Nec Corporation

20120122446 - Fast cell search: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate searches for a cell in a wireless communication environment. A mobile device can employ a searcher that can detect timing information respectively associated with PSCs and cells to determine the cell with the highest correlation. The searcher can detect SSCs, which can include... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20120122444 - Femto bs for reducing inter-cell interference and method for transmitting signal using the same: A signal transmission method includes determining whether there is a User Equipment (UE) within an area of the femto BS, determining whether the UE is in an active mode, operating in a first mode of alternating a first Available Interval (AI) with a first UnAvailable Interval (UAI) in time, if... Agent: Foundation Of Soongsil University-industry Cooperation

20120122445 - Method and apparatus for reducing mutual interference of multi-carrier: The disclosure discloses a method for reducing mutual interference of multi-carrier, comprising: adjusting the delay of at least one modulation signal; respectively modulating each adjusted modulation signal onto each modulated signal; and comparing the performance indices of modulated signals with set performance indices, wherein the delay of at least one... Agent: Zte Corporation

20120122447 - System and method for on-demand diagnostics of a device utilizing secure data to interact wirelessly with one or more third party systems: A system and method for remotely providing an end user with a solution to a failure in a mobile transaction is disclosed. The system includes a portable communication device having a diagnostics agent configured to transmit the communication device's unique identification number and present status over a mobile network. The... Agent:

20120122448 - Method and device for configuration of a mobile communication system: A method for configuration of a mobile communication system with a mobile communication network and a mobile terminal, which comprises determining a communication service quality required by a software application running on the mobile terminal for the transmission of data to be transmitted via a communication connection between the mobile... Agent: Infineon Technologies Ag

20120122449 - Resource allocation to terrestrial and satellite services: There is provided a method for improving an allocation of resources, i.e., frequency and power, to terrestrial services and satellite services that use a same frequency band. The method includes determining a demand (DS) for a resource by users of a satellite system, determining a demand (DT) for the resource... Agent: Globalstar, Inc.

20120122450 - Handling of services for a called subscriber: A method and control node and computer program are disclosed for handling Intelligent Network services associated with a call to a subscriber of a mobile telecommunications network, the network comprising said control node, a HLR and one or more SCPs. Said control node a) sends to said HLR one or... Agent: Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (publ)

20120122451 - Method and system for providing roaming services to inbound roamers using visited network gateway location register: The present invention provides a method for providing roaming services to one or more subscribers, correspondingly associated with the one or more HPMNs, while the one or more subscribers are registered with the VPMN. The method includes allocating a pool of GTs to a Gateway Location Register (GLR) that is... Agent: Roamware, Inc.

20120122453 - Cell searcher of mobile terminal and neighbor cell searching method thereof: Provided are a cell searcher for handover of a mobile terminal and a neighbor cell searching method thereof. The neighbor cell searching method includes: after searching a home cell, determining whether a Primary Synchronization Signal (PSS) code of the home cell is identical to that of a neighbor cell; when... Agent: Electronics And Telecommunications Research Institute

20120122452 - Motion-based kinetic fingerprint radio selection: Systems and techniques for motion adaptive wireless user equipment (UE) in a wireless network are disclosed. These techniques can leverage kinetic information to select a preferred radio (or radio technology) or adapt a reselection scanning interval. This can serve to improve the performance of a UE by reducing the amount... Agent: At&t Mobility Ii LLC

20120122454 - Method and system for registration of owner's terminal in small network of base stations: Provided is a system for registering a terminal, including: a verification unit to verify whether the terminal is a closed subscriber group (CSG) member in response to a registration request to a small base station that is received from the terminal; a search unit to search for an owner terminal... Agent: Pantech Co., Ltd.

20120122455 - Method and arrangement in a radio communications system for dynamic carrier mode switching: A method in a radio network node for dynamic carrier mode switching is provided. The radio network node is comprised in a radio communications system. The radio network node is configured to operate in a legacy mode and is further configured to operate in a non legacy mode. At least... Agent: Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (publ)

20120122456 - Method and system for a transmitting mobility state: A method for transmitting a mobility state is provided in the present invention, the method includes: when an source evolved NodeB (eNB) performs a handover of a user equipment (UE) in a connectivity state, it sends the UE historical information to a target eNB; the target eNB decides a mobility... Agent: Zte Corporation

20120122457 - Radio base station and handover control method: An LTE base station (100) conducts radio communication with a radio terminal which can execute a handover between a plurality of radio communication systems having different attainable communication rates. The LTE base station (100) is provided with a service detection unit (121A), which detects the classification of a communication service... Agent: Kyocera Corporation

20120122458 - Method, apparatus and computer program product for priority based cell reselection in a multi-rat environment: A method, apparatus and computer program product are therefore provided that may enable a network sending broadcast and/or dedicated priorities to a mobile terminal to also include priorities with respect to a RAT that does not support the priority algorithm. As such, for example, priority parameters for a legacy network... Agent:

20120122459 - Method, apparatus, and system for voice call fallback to circuit switched domain: A method for voice call fallback to a circuit switched (CS) domain disclosed in the present invention includes: receiving a Service Request message from a calling user equipment (UE), where the Service Request message includes called number information of a voice call in a CS domain, instructing an evolved NodeB... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.

20120122460 - Mobility for user equipment in closed subscriber group environment: In one exemplary embodiment, a method including: receiving an intra- frequency cell re-selection indicator in combination with physical cell identity split information from a closed subscriber group cell or a macro cell, where the intra-frequency cell re-selection indicator is indicative of whether or not a mobile station is allowed to... Agent: Nokia Corporation

20120122463 - Apparatus and method employing scheduler behavior aware predictive resource selection in a communication system: An apparatus, method and system to predict interference employing scheduler behavior information in a communication system. In one embodiment, an apparatus includes a processor and memory including computer program code. The memory and the computer program code are configured, with the processor, to cause the apparatus to receive scheduler behavior... Agent:

20120122462 - Distributed scheduling coordination for plural service areas: An apparatus (20) is associated with a telecommunications node (N) which serves a service area (S) which belongs to one set of plural sets of service areas comprising a network. The apparatus (20) divides a time resource for the node into plural phases in coordinated manner with other service areas.... Agent: Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (publ)

20120122464 - Method and apparatus for bearer processing: A bearer processing method is disclosed. The method includes these steps: a system border node receives a Packet Data Protocol (PDP) Context Request initiated by a universal mobile telecommunication system (UMTS); the system border node adjusts a Request Bearer Resource Allocation message of a system architecture evolution (SAE) system or... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.

20120122465 - Methods and arrangements for allocating scheduling request resources in a wireless communication system: Method and arrangement in a base station for allocating scheduling request resources to a user equipment. The method and arrangement comprises receiving a bearer setup message from the user equipment and sending a first instruction comprising a first scheduling request interval, to be used by the user equipment. Also, a... Agent:

20120122461 - Techniques for managing communications resources for a mobile device: Techniques to manage communications resources for a mobile device are described. An apparatus may comprise a mobile computing device having a radio arranged to communicate information over a wireless link, a link classifier arranged to generate a class parameter for the wireless link based on signal quality measurements of the... Agent: Palm, Inc.

20120122466 - Method and arrangement in a communications network: c

20120122468 - Method and device for coordinated scheduling: Disclosed in the present invention is a coordinated scheduling method which includes that: a base station establishes the correspondences between sub-bands and spatial information, and communicates the correspondences between sub-bands and spatial information with the base station of a cooperative cell (301); said base station implements coordinated scheduling with the... Agent: China Academy Of Telecommunications Technology

20120122467 - Method for assigning frequency subbands to a plurality of interfering nodes in a wireless communication network, controller for a wireless communication network and wireless communication network: A method assigns frequency subbands to a plurality of interfering nodes in a wireless communication network, wherein the number of subbands assigned to a node depends on the interference condition of the node, wherein as the node faces less interference it is assigned more subbands.... Agent:

20120122469 - Radio base station and communication control method: A control unit (102) in a radio base station (1A) receives from a radio terminal (2A) a measured W-CQI corresponding to a local sector, and also acquires the utilization ratio of a PDCCH corresponding to said sector. Also, in addition to receiving a measured W-CQI corresponding to the local sector,... Agent: Kyocera Corporation

20120122482 - Activating location based service applications: The present invention relates to providing methods and apparatus for identifying a location area of a mobile device, determining whether an LBS application should be activated on the mobile device based on the location area and activating the LBS application on the mobile device. A Mobile Network Operator server may... Agent: Nokia Siemens Networks Oy

20120122480 - Apparatus and method for determining location and tracking coordinates of a tracking device: A device and method to monitor location coordinates of an electronic tracking device are disclosed here. The device includes transceiver circuitry to receive at least one portion of a receive communication signal comprising location coordinates information; accelerometer circuitry to measure displacements of the portable electronic tracking device; a battery power... Agent: Location Based Technologies Inc.

20120122479 - Culled satellite ephemeris information for quick, accurate assisted locating satellite location determination for cell site antennas: Locating satellites (e.g., GPS) are culled into a preferred group having a longest dwell time based on a time passing through an ellipsoid arc path through a cone of space, and communicated to mobile devices within a particular region (e.g., serviced by a particular base station). The culled locating satellites... Agent:

20120122486 - Estimating positions of a device and at least one target in an environment: A method/system for estimating a state of a device and at least one target in an environment. The process involves computing a state vector using an error state form of the position of the device in a local coordinate reference frame.... Agent: Bae Systems PLC

20120122477 - Geo-location aided sensing: There lies a challenge to develop a technique of accurately and efficiently determining an available communication channel. In accordance with some embodiments disclosed herein, techniques for sensing a primary user of a particular communication channel are performed more efficiently. In some implementations, a geo-location of a communication device is combined... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20120122483 - Location identifying method and location identifying device: In a location identifying method, the sight of users of mobile communication terminals is estimated by calculating directions of the users based on position information of the mobile communication terminals, and the location where the lines of sight of the users are concentrated is identified based on the estimated sight.... Agent: Ntt Docomo, Inc.

20120122475 - Method and apparatus for estimating position of access point in wi-fi system: A method and apparatus for estimating a position of an access point (AP) in a Wi-Fi system is provided. The method includes measuring a strength of a signal, transmitted by the AP, at three or more measurement points (MPs), selecting an imaginary attenuation factor, calculating a range between the AP... Agent: Electronics And Telecommunications Research Institute

20120122473 - Method and device for locating terminal by using base station: The present invention provides a method for locating a terminal by using a base station, and the method includes steps as follows: constructing a locating message by expanding a location report message or via an independent message; sending the locating message to a locating judgment center; and locating the terminal... Agent: Zte Corporation

20120122476 - Method and system for providing spatial-based context-aware service: A system for providing spatial-based context-aware service includes a database configured to store a geocontext including spatial information, one or more contexts, and sensor data; a sensor/context catalog server configured to manage meta data of the contexts and the sensor data; a context processing server configured to generate a list... Agent: Electronics And Telecommunications Research Institute

20120122484 - Method for calibrating a propagation-time-based localization system: In a method for calibrating a propagation-time-based localization system in a computer-assisted manner, the position of a mobile object in a predetermined environment can be determined by detecting propagation-time-based variables of multiple base stations, wherein the propagation-time-based variable of a base station represents the propagation time of a signal between... Agent:

20120122470 - Method for locating multiple rays of a source with or without aoa by multi-channel estimation of the tdoa and fdoa: A method and system for locating an emitter E transmitting a signal toward a receiver A comprising N radio frequency channels (N≧1), the characteristics of said signal being unknown to the receiver and said signal being reflected off P reflectors Bi (P≧1) of known positions, includes a step of multi-channel... Agent: Thales

20120122474 - Position reporting microphone: A position reporting microphone, adapted for use in an existing communication system is disclosed. The position reporting microphone communicatively networks with the existing communication system channels to send and receive information such as for example audio, position, and/or identification information regarding the position reporting microphone.... Agent:

20120122472 - Positioning reference signal assistance data signaling for enhanced interference coordination in a wireless communication network: A method in a wireless terminal includes receiving a measurement subframe pattern indicating a first set of subframes on which a transmission from a first base station must be processed, receiving Positioning Reference Signal (PRS) subframe pattern information corresponding to a second base station, determining a subset of the first... Agent: Motorola Mobility, Inc.

20120122485 - Positioning systems: We describe a device that is able to compute its range and time offset relative to another similar device, and thereby also a three-dimensional position, speed and time relative to other similar devices provided that at least four are present and within range. It does so by transmitting at least... Agent:

20120122478 - Signalling measurements for positioning in a wireless network: A method in a signalling device for assisting in positioning of user equipment based on time measurements is provided. The signalling device is associated with an s-cell, which is recognized by the first network node as having limited functionality and is, therefore, not considerable for the user equipment as a... Agent: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)

20120122481 - System and method for determining locations to be stored in a location database: A present location of a user is periodically determined. The present location of the user is compared to a previous location of the user. A determination is made as to whether the present location is within a specified distance of the previous location. If the present location is within the... Agent:

20120122471 - Systems and methods for mobile terminal location verification: Methods and systems for using W-code to extend anti-spoof capability to civilian GPS receivers for verifying locations of mobile terminals are disclosed. A system for verifying a reported location of a mobile terminal includes a receiver of the mobile terminal and a verification processor. The receiver processes the radio ranging... Agent:

20120122487 - Method for discovery of indoor lci based on approximate location: As part of a localized positioning solution, a mobile device may transmit a request message to a server to obtain information about location contexts near the mobile device. In response, the server may, in some implementations, transmit a response message back to the mobile device that identifies a list of... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20120122488 - Method for the determination of a receiver for location information: The invention relates to a method for distinguishing between LOCATION_REPORT messages to avoid ambiguities. Therefore, a value of an information element of request type is returned by a radio network controller, depending on an intended receiver of the location information. A control node receiving the information element value analyses said... Agent: Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (publ)

20120122489 - Location based content aggregation and distribution systems and methods: An exemplary method includes a content hub subsystem receiving a content posting from an access device connected to a wireless network and associated with a first user. The content posting includes data representative of a content instance and a geographic location associated with the content instance. The exemplary method further... Agent: Verizon Data Services LLC

20120122490 - Location specific event broadcasting: Applications in a broadcast environment distribute events in real-time to a large number of receivers within specified geographic locations while efficiently sharing bandwidth resources with other applications using the same broadcast network. Applications need not be aware of the other applications sharing the resources, nor of the methods, protocols, and... Agent: Roundbox, Inc.

20120122491 - Method for providing augmented reality, server for same, and portable terminal: The present disclosure provides a method for providing an augmented reality, to server and portable terminal for same. Augmented reality providing server provides an augmented reality with information overlaid on captured video and includes server communication unit for inter-working with portable terminal; and server control unit for receiving selected menu... Agent: Sk Planet Co., Ltd.

20120122493 - Information processing device, position recording method, and program: An information processing device includes a main function unit which realizes main functions of the information processing device and is operated by being switched between a normal operation mode and a power-saving mode in which less power is consumed than in the normal operation mode, a position acquisition unit which... Agent: Sony Corporation

20120122492 - Method and apparatus for updating femtocell proximity information: Techniques are described herein for updating proximity information associated with a femtocell in a wireless communication system. An example of a method described herein includes identifying a location within a wireless communication network, associating the location with a femtocell for which proximity information relating to position of the femtocell is... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20120122494 - Method for co-location of caller and receiver during a call on a cellular or wireless network: The present invention provides a method to enable a “caller,” while calling at least one call “receiver”, on a handheld device, or any communication device, to communicate the physical location of the caller and receiver, at a given moment. The method comprises: the caller calling at least one receiver; the... Agent:

20120122496 - Multiple paging channels for efficient region paging: Systems and methods are described that mitigating coverage gaps near region boundaries using a plurality of multi-sector broadcast (MSBC) paging channels in wireless networking environments. One or more MSBC paging channels can be assigned unique time slots, such that although the channels can be identical, they are disjointed in time.... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20120122495 - System and method for reducing energy consumption of mobile devices using early paging indicator: A method for reducing energy consumption of mobile devices using a phase-continuous early paging indicator (EPI) is provided. For each of at least one paging occasion either A) an EPI indicative that a page is present in the paging occasion is transmitted during an EPI occasion in advance of the... Agent: Research In Motion Limited

20120122498 - Mobile phone messages processing method and mobile phone: A method for processing a mobile phone message and a corresponding mobile phone are provided in the present invention, and the method for processing the mobile phone messages includes: extracting values of public fields of mobile phone messages (S11); and storing said values of public fields of the mobile phone... Agent: Zte Corporation

20120122497 - Sms authentication method: The present invention provides a SMS authentication method. The SMS authentication method includes transferring the authentication message into different types of authentication codes and/or review codes, sending the authentication codes and/or review codes to the authentication request end and the user via different types, providing the authentication codes input by... Agent: Chunghwa Telecom Co., Ltd.

20120122499 - Method and apparatus for synchronizing multiple transmitters: A method and apparatus for synchronizing multiple transmitters is disclosed. A global time reference is used to synchronize the arrival of data from a plurality of transmitters in a receiver station. In one embodiment, the global time reference is provided by a GPS satellite, and may also be used to... Agent: Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation

20120122500 - Method and apparatus for synchronizing multiple transmitters: A method and apparatus for synchronizing multiple transmitters is disclosed. A global time reference is used to synchronize the arrival of data from a plurality of secondary transmitters in a receiver station. In one embodiment, the global time reference is provided by a GPS satellite, and may also be used... Agent: Fox Digital Enterprises, Inc.

20120122501 - Wireless communication system and device thereof: A wireless communication system and a wireless communication device thereof are proposed. The system is adapted for synchronizing wireless setting of at least a wireless communication device in the system. The at least a wireless communication device synchronizes a first wireless setting thereof or synchronizes a second wireless setting of... Agent: Gemtek Technology Co., Ltd.

20120122504 - Anti-interference method and device in common-frequency networking mobile communication system: The examples of the present invention disclose an anti-interference method and device in a common-frequency networking mobile communication system. The method includes: creating a candidate cell list according to probability that each adjacent cell of a current cell interferes with the current cell; selecting a selected cell list from the... Agent: China Academy Of Telecommunications Technology

20120122502 - Method and apparatus of controlling inter cell interference based on cooperation of intra cell terminals: Provided is a method and apparatus for controlling inter cell interference based on cooperation between intra cell terminals. The intra cell terminals may exchange interference channel information, and may determine a receive beamforming vector based on the exchanged interference channel information. At least one intra cell terminal may feed back,... Agent:

20120122503 - System and method for self-optimized inter-cell interference coordination: An embodiment method for operating a controller of a communications system includes determining inter-cell interference coordination (ICIC) information for the communications system, automatically adjusting, by the controller without end-user input, ICIC parameters according to the ICIC information to improve an overall performance level of the communications system, and transmitting the... Agent: Futuwei Technologies, Inc.

20120122505 - Apparatus and method for allocating resources to nodes in a communication system using an update of iteration resource weights: An apparatus for allocating resources to nodes in a communication system comprises an iteration controller (10) for performing an iterative processing, the iteration controller being configured for using (11) iteration resource weights to obtain a resources allocation result for an iteration step, and for updating (12) the iteration resource weights... Agent:

20120122507 - Method and device for performing space coordination among cells: A method and a device for performing space coordination among cells are disclosed in the present invention, and the method includes that a base station in a serving cell acquires the channel information of a terminal; the base station in said serving cell performs pre-scheduling to said terminal, according to... Agent: China Academy Of Telecommunications Technology

20120122506 - Method and system for providing wireless communication services: A method for providing wireless communication services via efficient management of frequency bands includes transmitting uplink communications to a first system on a first frequency. The method also includes receiving downlink communications from the first system on a second frequency. The method may also include transmitting uplink communications to a... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20120122508 - Radio base station and communication control method: A control unit (102) in a radio base station (1A) receives from a radio terminal (2A) a measured W-CQI corresponding to a local sector, and also acquires the utilization ratio of a PDCCH corresponding to said sector. Also, in addition to receiving a measured W-CQI corresponding to the local sector,... Agent: Kyocera Corporation

20120122509 - Radio base station and communication control method: When estimating the quality (SINR) of a PDCCH corresponding to a local sector formed by a radio base station (1A), a control unit (102) in the radio base station (1A) confirms the status of a response from a radio terminal (2A) in reply to control information sent using the PDCCH... Agent: Kyocera Corporation

20120122510 - Method and system for automatically dekeying a talk group speaker to join a multi-group communication: A radio communication system supports talk group communication and multi-group communication. Upon initiating a multi-group communication, the system causes any active talk group speakers in the talk groups included in the multi-group to dekey by changing the identifier in a monitored control channel of the talk group from the identifier... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20120122512 - Cellular network, base station and method for self-optimizing transmit power to user equipments: A base station and a method are described herein for self-optimizing the transmit power to user equipments (UEs) within a cell of a cellular network. In addition, a cellular network is described herein that includes multiple base stations (e.g., base transmitter stations, eNodeBs) each of which is configured to self-optimize... Agent:

20120122513 - Method for cooperative control of power among base stations and base station device using same: A method for cooperative control of power among base stations and a base station device which performs the same are discussed. A first receiving unit is configured such that a specific base station in a cooperative unit receives, from a specific terminal located on a cell edge of the specific... Agent:

20120122511 - Power conservation in wireless access terminals using integrated proxy function: A power conservation scheme is provided for conserving power in an access terminal that includes a dedicated proxy circuit, a receiver/transmitter chain, and/or a baseband processor. The baseband processor is adapted to determine when a wireless communication link with an access network has been inactive for at least a threshold... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20120122514 - Selecting network service providers for multi-mode mobile devices: A method for facilitating dynamic service-based network selection and determination may be implemented by a communications device. A device may choose a network and/or network access provider (NAP) based on a type of service desired by a user. For the service, the system may determine which NAP provides the most... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20120122515 - Method and apparatus for communicating with base station based on speed of user equipment in mobile communication system: Provided is a method for performing communication with a network by a User Equipment (UE) based on its speed information in the network in which at least one portion includes at least one micro cell overlapping at least one macro cell. The method includes measuring, by the UE, its moving... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

20120122516 - Mobile wireless communications device having buffered clock distribution network for microprocessor and rf circuits: A mobile wireless communications device includes a circuit board carried by a housing. A microprocessor, RF transceiver and circuitry are carried by the circuit board and operative with each other. Clock buffer circuitry is carried by the circuit board and connected to the RF transceiver and circuitry and microprocessor for... Agent: Research In Motion Limited

20120122517 - Access stratum manager: A multi-mode mobile communication device includes a processing device, a memory sub-system, a communication sub-system operable to communicate with wireless access networks, and a protocol stack stored in the memory sub-system and executed by the processing device. The protocol stack includes a first access stratum, a second access stratum, a... Agent: Research In Motion Limited

20120122518 - Multimode communication device with shared signal path programmable filter: A multimode communication device with a shared signal path programmable filter and a method for utilizing a shared signal path programmable filter in a multimode communication device. Various aspects of the present invention comprise a first module adapted to receive a first communication signal (e.g., corresponding to a first communication... Agent: Broadcom Corporation

20120122519 - Wrist phone with improved voice quality: A wrist phone with a single button includes a molded-plastic wristband and a wristband cap. A wireless transceiver module is mounted on a printed circuit board and is contained in a component cavity between the wristband and the wristband cap. A foil antenna is attached directly to the printed circuit... Agent: Venyard Gmbh

20120122521 - Mobile terminal: An embodiment of a mobile terminal according to the present invention is a mobile terminal in which an upper housing is slidable relative to a lower housing. Two rotating plates are provided side by side along a lower surface of the upper housing, and rotation center points of the two... Agent:

20120122520 - Payment-enabled mobile telephone assembly: A payment-enabled mobile device assembly includes a carrying case configured for attachment to a portable electronic device and that includes an aperture for accepting an integrated circuit (IC) identification card. The IC identification card has a card body and includes electronic components, and in some embodiments a shield layer is... Agent:

20120122522 - Mobile terminal device for receiving dual band signal using multiple resonance antenna: A mobile terminal device for receiving a dual band signal using a multiple resonance antenna in a mobile terminal is provided. The mobile terminal device includes a multiple resonance antenna, a first band filter connecting with the multiple resonance antenna, for filtering a first band signal of a low band... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.

20120122524 - Device and method for controlling alarm according to unintended function in mobile terminal: A method and device for controlling generation an alarm in a mobile terminal is provided. The method comprises: checking whether a request to operate a microphone has been made by an application intended by a user that initiates an audio processing function when a request to operate the microphone is... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

20120122523 - Rotating mechanism and electronic device using same: A rotating mechanism includes a lower plate defining a first guiding groove and a second guiding groove, the first guiding groove including a sliding groove section and a rotating groove section, the sliding groove section mirror-image symmetrical with the second guiding groove, the rotating groove section extending from an end... Agent: Shenzhen Futaihong Precision Industry Co., Ltd.

20120122525 - System and method for controlling privacy mode operation in a vehicle: In at least one embodiment an apparatus that includes a communication module is provided. the communication module is configured to enable a driver to control the operation of a portable occupant communication device (OCD) in a hands free mode and to transmit a first command to the portable OCD to... Agent: Ford Global Technologies, LLC

20120122526 - Selective battery power management: A method, programmed medium and system are disclosed which provide for user-controlled management of power requirements for mobile devices. The system enables the user to determine and adjust power settings according to time-related goals set by the end user. The end user, in one example, may specify a goal in... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20120122527 - System and method for selectively activating a communication device: The disclosure provides a system and method for managing power and activation of a communication device. The system comprises: a microprocessor controlling the electronic device; an accelerometer; and a power application operating on the microprocessor. The application provides instructions to the microprocessor to place the electronic device in a low... Agent: Research In Motion Limited

20120115412 - Iq imbalance compensation in interference cancellation repeater using a zero-if radio architecture: An interference cancellation repeater employing zero-IF or direct conversion radio architecture implements IQ imbalance compensation using a metric and an adaptive algorithm. The metric is based on the image rejection ratio of the repeater and is indicative of the level of spectral image caused by the repeater's receiver or transmitter... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20120115413 - Method for suspending transmission and reception of text messages and phone calls while drivin: The present invention relates to the field of wireless communication and specifically the use of a cell-phone to monitor safe driving by suspending all communication to/from mobile terminal when the user of such terminal is an active driver, unless the vehicle is not a train and it is equipped with... Agent: Ipcomm LLC

20120115414 - Wireless tramsmission of media from a media player: Wireless transmission of media from a media player is provided. A handheld media player includes a storage medium for storing a plurality of media items, a user interface for selecting one or more of the media items, a playback device for playing a selected media item for a user of... Agent: Apple Inc.

20120115415 - System and apparatus for control of published content: A system is provided that allows a user using her/his own mobile communication device to control content on a content publishing device. The mobile communication device uses information received from a data tag on the content publishing device to communicate with a content server providing the content to be published... Agent:

20120115418 - vehicle audio application management system using logic circuitry: A method is described for operating a vehicle audio system having a wired audio source, a display, multiple speakers and logic circuitry. The system is configured to sense the availability of a wireless audio device that is located near the vehicle, and identify a wireless audio device record stored in... Agent: Eagle Harbor Holdings

20120115420 - Channel width switching in multiple obss systems: Briefly, in accordance with one or more embodiments, a device is capable of operating at a first bandwidth or a second bandwidth, and further capable of operating using a communication method intolerant to operation at the first bandwidth. If operation using a communication method intolerant to operation at the first... Agent:

20120115417 - System and method for selecting services in a wireless communication network: A system and method for selecting a preferred connection point from a choice of one or more available connection points in a wireless communication network. The system and method include: determining a link quality for the one or more available connection points; establishing a connection to a first connection point... Agent: Kapsch Trafficcom Ag

20120115419 - Techniques for mmwave wpan communications with high-directional steerable antennas combining omni-directional transmissions with beamforming training: An embodiment of the present invention provides a method for communicating in a millimeter wave (MMWAVE) wireless personal area network (WPAN) system using a reliable low-rate omni-directional communications mode implemented as TX-RX space scanning using directional antennas; and using a high-rate directional communications mode with beamformed directional antennas.... Agent:

20120115416 - Wireless device limiting gain of a shared gain element between different wireless protocols: Limiting gain for simultaneously receiving first wireless signals according to a first wireless protocol and second wireless signals according to a second wireless protocol. The first signals may be received using a shared gain element. The shared gain element may be used by the first wireless protocol and the second... Agent:

20120115421 - Apparatus and method for automatic replacement of wireless link: An apparatus and a method for automatically establishing a new wireless link when the original wireless link between the apparatus and a commercially available FM radio receiver is interfered by other signal sources and reception conditions become poor, thereby eliminating the need to manually configure both the target FM radio... Agent:

20120115422 - Image magnification based on display flexing: Systems and methods control resizing a presentation of an image on a flexible display. A user flexes a flexible display in a particular manner to control magnification or size reduction of the image presented on the display. The amount of magnification or size reduction of the image presented on a... Agent: Research In Motion Limited

20120115423 - Method and device for frequency deviation pre-correction: A method and device for frequency deviation pre-correction are provided. The method includes: estimating an uplink frequency deviation value of a terminal, and obtaining a historic value of the uplink frequency deviation pre-correction that has been used for the frequency deviation pre-correction of the terminal; according to the historic value... Agent: China Academy Of Telecommunications Technology

20120115424 - Installation tool for wireless networks: The invention helps to make the installation of a wireless network, particularly of controlling settings of devices of a wireless network more simple and intuitive for a user by applying the inventive tool than using PDA or computer for installation.... Agent: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.v.

20120115425 - Channel searching method and apparatus: A method of identifying an available channel of a plurality of frequency channels defined in a radio frequency spectrum for use by a transmitting station, wherein scanning for an available channel in a frequency spectrum is performed by a scanning method in which a bidirectional search is performed away from... Agent: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

20120115426 - Power amplifier saturation detection: In a portable radio transceiver, a power amplifier system includes a saturation detector that detects power amplifier saturation in response to duty cycle of the amplifier transistor collector voltage waveform. The saturation detection output signal can be used by a power control circuit to back off or reduce the amplification... Agent: Skyworks Solutions, Inc.

20120115427 - Receiver and method for reducing an amount of channel state information feedback to a transmitter: A receiver and a method are described herein for reducing an amount of channel state information related to a transmit channel correlation matrix φTX that is feedback to a transmitter. In addition, to a transmitter and a method are described herein for reconstructing the transmit channel correlation matrix φTX using... Agent:

20120115428 - Antenna diversity method with fallback and weighting: In a radio communication station having antennas an antenna diversity system and a gain controllable amplifier the gain of the gain controllable amplifier is set by using a first antenna, the signal levels of signals received at the antennas is measured, a group of antennas is determined having a signal... Agent:

20120115429 - Method and wideband antenna system to minimise the influence of interference sources: A method to minimize influence of interference sources by control of a signal to noise/interference ratio of a wideband antenna system connected to an electronic system. The wideband antenna system includes at least one array of at least two antenna elements/sub arrays. The signal to noise/interference ratio control includes establishing... Agent: Saab Ab

20120115431 - Apparatus and method for detecting emergency status in wireless communication system: A method and an apparatus handle an emergency in a wireless communication system. A method of a serving Base Station (BS) for detecting an emergency in a wireless communication system includes receiving an emergency call signal from Mobile Stations (MSs) in a cell; determining whether the number of the received... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

20120115430 - Mobile device having an emergency mode: Disclosed is an apparatus and method to locate a mobile device in an emergency situation. The mobile device includes a display device, a user interface to receive an emergency mode request from a user, and a processor. The processor may be configured to execute instructions to implement an emergency mode... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20120115432 - Support in hss for emergency telecommunication services: A home subscriber server (HSS) and method are described herein for supporting an emergency telecommunication service (e.g., Government Emergency Telecommunications Service (GETS)). In one embodiment, the HSS and the method are adapted to selectively provide telecommunication access to subscribers of an IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) by associating different user priority... Agent: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson

20120115433 - Method of providing rate tiers in wireless communication systems: The present invention provides a method of providing rate tiers in a wireless communication system. Embodiments of the method include forming, at a network element in the wireless communication system, a statistical representation of resource usage for a user in the wireless communication system as a function of location and/or... Agent: Alcatel-lucent Technologies, Inc.

20120115434 - System and method for service activation in mobile network billing: Embodiments described herein provide a user with the ability to select from a list of available services that can be used on a mobile device. The services include device-based services and device-network based services. The activation, usage tracking and deactivation of a selected service can be conducted at a central... Agent: Research In Motion Limited

20120115436 - Method and apparatus for terminal access: The present invention discloses a method for terminal access, and this method includes: receiving an access request sent by a terminal; analyzing the access request to obtain a service type of the terminal; determining a number of residual equivalent users according to a difference between an access equivalent user number... Agent: Zte Corporation

20120115435 - Privacy in mobile device communications: The subject disclosure is directed towards mobile device privacy and anonymity. When a contact is marked as private, or when a device operates in a private mode, one or more privacy-related actions with respect to an incoming or outgoing communication are performed. Privacy-related actions include logging private telephone call information... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20120115437 - System and method for security on a mobile device using multiple communication domains: A mobile device and a method for providing security to a mobile device having two or more communication domains is provided. The mobile device receives a communication service request. The communication domain of the communication service request is determined, the request domain being one of the two or more communication... Agent:

20120115443 - Method for calculating a first identifier of a secure element of a mobile terminal according to a second identifier of said secure element: The invention relates to a method for calculating a first identifier of a secure element of a mobile terminal according to a second identifier of said secure element. The first identifier is a temporary identifier and the second identifier is a final identifier of the secure element in a telecommunications... Agent: Gemalto Sa

20120115441 - Methods and apparatus for access data recovery from a malfunctioning device: Methods and apparatus for recovering access data from a malfunctioning device. In one embodiment, trained service personnel are provided a specialized apparatus for retrieving access data from a malfunctioning device. For example, in the instance the device comprises a cellular device having an unrecoverable hardware failure, trained service personnel can... Agent:

20120115439 - Radio terminal apparatus, communication system, and method of controlling radio terminal apparatus: A radio terminal apparatus includes a transmission control unit transmitting an acquisition request for acquiring contract authentication information via a radio channel when a predetermined operation of acquiring the contract authentication information associated with a radio service provider providing a radio connection service is received; a reception unit receiving the... Agent: Sony Corporation

20120115442 - Secure subscriber identity module service: A method, apparatus, system, and computer program product for a secure subscriber identity module service. Communication via a mobile network is activated in response to receiving a request to activate communication service for the system by a secure partition of the system. In response to receiving the request, a key... Agent:

20120115438 - Use of mobile phone lock screen to display vital information: Superimposition of information on image files is not by itself novel. The originality of this invention lies on superimposing information on an image file by using any of the methods described in Section 8 (Detailed Description of the Invention) and then using the resulting image in the manner described in... Agent:

20120115440 - Wireless terminal device, communication system, and control method of wireless terminal device: A wireless terminal device includes: a transmission control unit which transmits a transfer request which is for requesting a use right of contract authentication information relating to a wireless business operator providing wireless connection services, which is information held by a second wireless terminal device as another wireless terminal device,... Agent: Sony Corporation

20120115444 - Hybrid communications mailbox: Hybrid communications voicemail systems and methods are disclosed. A wireline telephone number may be operatively associated with a wireless telephone voicemail box such that calls placed to the wireline telephone number and subsequently routed to voicemail may be routed to the wireless telephone voicemail box. Thus, the user of both... Agent: Cox Communications, Inc.

20120115445 - Dynamic tapping force feedback for mobile devices: Dynamic force feedback is provided in a device to alert a user about a message received on the device from a remote user and to convey content, context, or a type of the message. Producing dynamic force feedback may include activating a motion induction device, which accelerates and decelerates a... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20120115446 - Remote application of vehicle component settings: Remote application of vehicle control settings includes detecting a vehicle in proximity of the mobile communication device, authenticating the vehicle via a secured pairing between an identifier of the vehicle and an identifier of the mobile communication device, retrieving driver preference settings assigned to the identifier of the vehicle and... Agent: Gm Global Technology Operations LLC

20120115447 - System and method for providing safety content service: The present invention discloses a system and method for providing a safety content service. The system for providing the safety content service includes a first mobile terminal which extracts meta information of new content when the new content is generated, a server which receives the meta information of the new... Agent: Electronics And Telecommunications Research Institute

20120115448 - Telecommunications initiated internet link system: A system for providing a wide range of telecommunications initiated data fulfillment services in which a multi-function code, such as “#” (star, pound), input into an originating telecommunications device, such as a wireless telephone, triggers the treatment of the input sequence as a multi-function code service request rather than a... Agent:

20120115449 - Mobile device caller id extension: An extended display is provided for information based on caller ID during call notification for an incoming phone call on a mobile device. A system enables accessing scheduling information based on caller ID information for the incoming phone call. A contact is identified based on the caller ID information, and... Agent:

20120115450 - Presence server based name information: The present invention relates to a CNAP service in which a name of the calling party is presented to the called party. For retrieving the name, a presence network agent in the mobile switching center accesses the presence server and fetches the name from the presence server before it is... Agent:

20120115452 - Communication apparatuses for handling apparatus terminated or originated communication requests with increased communication capability and methods thereof: A communication apparatus has at least one radio transceiver module, a first subscriber identity card with a first address and a second subscriber identity card with a second address. The first subscriber identity card camps on a first cell belonging to a first wireless network via the radio transceiver module,... Agent: Mediatek Inc.

20120115451 - Systems and methods for dynamically forwarding wireless communications on mobile communications devices: Embodiments of the invention provide systems and methods for dynamically forwarding incoming calls and/or messages to different mobile communications devices (“MCDs”). In one embodiment, a method may include: storing associations between multiple MCDs and a user and identifying that at least one of the MCDs is inactive and that at... Agent: Cox Communications, Inc.

20120115456 - Low power dual processor architecture for multi mode devices: A mobile computing device with multiple modes, for example, wireless communication and personal computing, has an application processor and a communication processor. In the computing mode, the application processor is the master processor. In the communication mode, the application processor is deenergized to conserve battery power, with the communication processor... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20120115457 - Method and apparatus for associating a subscriber directory identifier to a subscriber identifier: According to one embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a method, in a communication network, of associating a subscriber directory identifier to a first subscriber identifier. The method comprises receiving a request to connect a communication device to the network, the request including a subscriber identifier derived from... Agent:

20120115455 - Secure bootstrap provisioning of electronic devices in carrier networks: Disclosed herein is a secure initial provisioning system for communicating data between an electronic device and a management server in a carrier network. The management server may be adapted to facilitate secure initialization provisioning or bootstrap provisioning. An initialization-provisioning table may be made available in the electronic device during manufacturing,... Agent:

20120115453 - Self-aware profile switching on a mobile computing device: In one implementation, a computer-implemented method includes detecting, by a mobile computing device, a current context associated with the mobile computing device, the current context being external to the mobile computing device and indicating a current state of the mobile computing device in its surrounding environment. The method can also... Agent: Google Inc.

20120115454 - Timer configuration method and related communication device: A timer configuration method for a core network in a wireless communication system is disclosed. The timer configuration method comprises receiving a mobility management request from a mobile device; and setting a mobile reachable timer to a value no less than a back-off timer value when the core network rejects... Agent:

20120115458 - Information providing device, method therefor, program, and storage medium: User group DB (70) stores a serial number of the mobile phone of the user. Action DB (69) stores an individual identification number for identifying RFID which is set up by a service provider and an action associated with the individual identification number. A web server function (61) controls reception... Agent: Rakuten, Inc.

20120115459 - Measurement reporting method for closed subscriber group cell and corresponding user equipment: A measurement reporting method for a Closed Subscriber Group (CSG) cell and a corresponding User Equipment (UE) are provided in the present invention. The method comprises the following steps that: after detecting a neighboring accessible CSG cell which is not on a frequency in a measurement configuration, a UE in... Agent: Zte Corporation

20120115460 - Base station, femtocell and handover monitoring method thereof: A base station, a femtocell, and a handover monitoring method thereof are provided. A wireless network system comprises a server, a mobile device, the base station, and the femtocell. The base station transmits a monitoring signal to the femtocell after it obtains a piece of information corresponding to the mobile... Agent: Institute For Information Industry

20120115461 - Communication service handover processing system for femtocells and method thereof: A method for processing handover of a mobile communication device between femtocell base stations, includes: setting communication alert value and signal capture time period; detecting the signal strength of the femtocell base station currently serving the mobile communication device, and when the detected signal strength is less than the communication... Agent: Askey Computer Corporation

20120115462 - Radio access technology configuration in femto-cell base stations: A method and apparatus for operating a femto-cell base station are disclosed. The femto-cell base station is configured to provide coverage to a User Equipment by connecting it to a core telecommunications network using a first frequency belonging to a first radio access technology. The method includes detecting that a... Agent: Vodafone Group PLC

20120115463 - Method and device for improved user equipment measurements and reporting: A method and electronic device for improved filtering of mobile communications device physical layer measurement ratios to reduce the variance of reported measurements. First and second signal powers of a cell in a mobile communications network are measured and a filter having a network determined filter coefficient is applied to... Agent: Research In Motion Limited

20120115464 - Apparatus and method for connecting with bluetooth devices in portable terminal: An apparatus and method for connecting with a plurality of Bluetooth devices is provided in a portable terminal. The apparatus includes a position determining unit and a Bluetooth connecting unit. The position determining unit searches for a second Bluetooth device by using a movement direction of the terminal, when performing... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

20120115465 - Mobile terminal and network connecting method and apparatus thereof: A mobile terminal as well as a network connecting method and a network connecting apparatus thereof are disclosed in the present disclosure. The network connecting method comprises the following steps of: determining whether the network connecting mode is a dual-mode mode when the mobile terminal is connecting to a network;... Agent: Huizhou Tcl Mobile Communication Co.,ltd

20120115466 - Controlling access to communication services: A method and corresponding apparatus and system of controlling access to communication services by a roaming wireless device are described. The method includes receiving a request for roaming wireless device service information related to a roaming user and determining which services the user has access to for the requesting system,... Agent:

20120115467 - method for managing the operation of a radio access point of an access network infrastructure of a radio communication network: In a radio communication network access network infrastructure, comprising first and second access points into the access network infrastructure which are both capable of communicating over a radio interface with a user equipment, wherein the radio coverage of the first access point is at least partially included in the radio... Agent: Alcatel Lucent

20120115469 - Method for ue pattern indication and measurement for interference coordination: A method of inter-cell interference coordination is provided for UE measurements and network access procedure. In a first embodiment, a UE in idle mode performs measurements on received radio signals applying a simplified radio resource restriction for interference coordination. The UE determines the restricted radio resource without receiving explicit measurement... Agent: Mediatek Singapore Pte Ltd.

20120115470 - Selecting from among plural channel estimation techniques: A wireless receiver receives reference signals over a wireless link. The wireless receiver calculates a selection indication based on the received reference signals, and the wireless receiver selects from among plural channel estimation techniques based on the selection indication, where the selected channel estimation technique is usable to perform channel... Agent: Nortel Networks Limited

20120115468 - Technique for anchor carrier selection in a telecommunication system: The present disclosure relates to a technique for avoiding, forestalling, or reducing re-establishment procedures in a telecommunications system having multiple carriers. A method aspect of this technique includes monitoring a signal quality of an anchor component carrier associated with a serving cell of a mobile terminal and used by the... Agent: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)

20120115477 - Card application toolkit support for ip multimedia subsystem: To consolidate session initiation protocol (SIP) messages a user equipment (UE) is made aware of all Internet Protocol (IP) multimedia subsystem (IMS) applications installed in its memory and on a universal integrated circuit card (UICC) and supported communication services. By obtaining this information before the initial IMS Registration, the UE... Agent: Research In Motion Limited

20120115471 - Discontinuous transmission in femtocells: Systems, methods, devices, and computer program products are described for discontinuous transmissions in a wireless communications system. In one example, a femtocell uses out-of-band (OOB) signals to detect the presence of user equipment (UEs) in a femtocell coverage area. In response to the detection, the femtocell may transmit in-band signals... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20120115473 - Method and apparatus for supporting location information in machine to machine communication system: A method for synchronizing location information between devices in a Machine to Machine (M2M) communication system includes, when receiving a location information synchronization request for a plurality of devices, determining whether location information of a corresponding device among the plurality of devices is present; when the location information of the... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

20120115474 - Method for deciding unregistered macrocell user equipment adjacent to femtocell base station: In a method for deciding an unregistered macrocell user equipment (MUE) adjacent to a femtocell base station (home evolved node B; HeNB), a macrocell base station (macro evolved node B; MeNB) decides occurrence of an unregistered MUE influenced by interference from a HeNB among MUEs. The MeNB requests an adjacent... Agent: Electronics And Telecommunications Research Institute

20120115472 - Method for selecting a cell of a network when a wireless communications device is turned on and corresponding wireless communications device: Method for selecting a cell from a network when a wireless communications device is turned on, following a previous power down, comprising a process for obtaining (12) the current country code (CC) corresponding to the current location where the device is situated when it is switched on and, if the... Agent: St-ericsson (france) Sas

20120115475 - System and method for population tracking, counting, and movement estimation using mobile operational data and/or geographic information in mobile network: Methods and apparatuses are disclosed herein for population tracking, counting and/or movement estimation. In one embodiment, the method comprises receiving mobile phone operational data indicative of user equipment location, where the event data includes location area update messages and periodic registration messages; and performing travel estimation based on the mobile... Agent:

20120115476 - System and method for population tracking, counting, and movement estimation using mobile operational data and/or geographic information in mobile network: Methods and apparatuses are disclosed herein for population tracking, counting and/or movement estimation. In one embodiment, the method comprises receiving mobile phone operational data indicative of user equipment location, where the event data includes location area update messages and periodic registration messages; and performing travel estimation based on the mobile... Agent:

20120115478 - Data-capable network prioritization with reduced delays in data service: A mobile device sends to a wireless network a request for establishing a service. In response to a rejection of the request, the device reattempts the request so long as the total number of requests is less than a predetermined value. When the total number of rejected requests is greater... Agent: Research In Motion Limited

20120115484 - Communication control system and communication control method: A system that selects an optimum codec flexibly adapting to a change in the communication environment and to switch to the optimum codec during communication. A communication control system includes a handover detection unit detecting a handover in which a communication terminal present in a communication area formed by a... Agent: Ntt Docomo, Inc.

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20120115481 - Method for providing and receiving reliable service in wireless communication system: A method for receiving reliable service using user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes receiving information about out-of-service, which notifies that service cannot be provided to the UE, from a femto base station (BS), the information about the out-of-service including an identifier about at... Agent: Electronics And Telecommunications Research Instit

20120115483 - Method for transferring a communication session in a telecommunications network from a first connection to a second connection: The invention relates to an application server in a telecommunications network for transferring a communication session from a first connection between a first client and a remote client to a second connection between a second client and the remote client. The communication session comprises a media path and a signalling... Agent: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)

20120115482 - Method in which a mobile station receives information on a peripheral legacy base station in a legacy support mode: The present invention relates to a broadband wireless access system, and more particularly, to a method and an apparatus for acquiring system information in a mobile communication system in which a legacy system and an advanced system coexist. A method of receiving system information on a peripheral base station in... Agent: Lg Electronics Inc.

20120115480 - Mobile communication system: A radio base station includes a mobile communication system, a relay node and a radio base station connected via a radio bearer. A mobile station is configured to perform a handover process between a state in which a radio bearer is set with the relay node so as to communicate... Agent: Ntt Docomo, Inc.

20120115485 - Idle state interference mitigation in wireless communication network: A method in a mobile station for ranking cells in order to perform reselection from a serving cell to a second cell is disclosed. The method includes detecting a second cell that the mobile station is not allowed to access, determining resources used for transmission of a signal of the... Agent: Motorola Mobility, Inc.

20120115486 - Methods for integrating cell measurement procedures of a communication apparatus and communication apparatuses utilizing the same: A communication apparatus has at least one radio transceiver module, a first subscriber identity card and a second subscriber identity card, where the first subscriber identity card corresponds to a first public land mobile network (PLMN), and the second subscriber identity card corresponds to a second PLMN. The communication apparatus... Agent: Mediatek Inc.

20120115487 - Quality control for inter-cell handover: A method and apparatus for deciding whether the handover has to be done or not, where the decision is taken by the mobile unit. The mobile unit can reject the command from the base station if the quality of the communication might not be maintained in the second network. This... Agent:

20120115489 - Method and apparatus for handover: The present invention discloses a method and an apparatus for handover applied to the communication field. The method includes: receiving indication information from an MME, where the indication information is used to indicate whether a network side and a terminal support enhanced CSFB to a 1x network; if the network... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.

20120115488 - Signal transmission pattern: An access point transmits signals (e.g., a cell reselection beacon) on a carrier frequency according to a multi-power level transmission pattern. Signals are transmitted at a high power level for a first defined period of time (e.g., between 4-7 milliseconds) and at a low power level for a second defined... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20120115492 - Method of handling quarries caused overload in wireless communication system: A method of handling quarries caused overload in a core network of a wireless communication is disclosed. The core network comprises a data base and a network control node which stores a mobility management (MM) context of a mobile device. The method comprises the network node sending information in a... Agent:

20120115490 - Re-routing calls from mobile stations: Systems, methods, apparatus, and computer program products are provided for re-routing calls from mobile stations. For example, in one embodiment, a call from a mobile station to a non-local number can be re-routed to a local number. The local number can then be used to communicate with a call server... Agent:

20120115491 - Re-routing calls from mobile stations: Systems, methods, apparatus, and computer program products are provided for re-routing calls from mobile stations. For example, in one embodiment, a call from a mobile station to a non-local number can be re-routed to a local number. The local number can then be used to communicate with a call server... Agent:

20120115494 - Method and system for forming an actionable communication resource: An actionable communication resource forming function performs a method for forming an actionable communication resource in a communication system. The method includes receiving, from a resource management system, a plurality of resource identifiers that identify a plurality of resources, wherein each resource is associated with a communication device addressable by... Agent: Motorola Solutions, Inc.

20120115495 - Resource management for a mobile telephone terminal: A resource management unit for a mobile telephone terminal, with the terminal comprising radio transmission/reception means for transmitting and receiving radio frequency signals corresponding to bursts of symbols during allocated time slots, and a device able to operate in a first mode and in a second mode, said device interfering... Agent:

20120115493 - System, method and computer program product for supporting multiple subscriber identities in a portable device using a single transceiver: According to one aspect of the present disclosure, a method and technique for enabling wireless communications for multiple numbers or subscriber identities using a single transceiver is disclosed. The method includes, for a terminal device including a transceiver for wireless communications, determining whether the terminal device supports a plurality of... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20120115496 - System and method for synchronizing femtocells using intercell uplink signals: A system and method provides accurate and timely updates to timing and/or frequency information for a femtocell utilizing information gathered from user equipment camped on a neighboring macrocell. In one example, user equipment camped on the neighboring macrocell actively gathers aiding information such as timing and frequency information related to... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20120115498 - Apparatus and method for cluster based opportunistic power control in wireless communication system: An apparatus and a method for a cluster-based power control at a macro base station in a wireless communication system are provided. The method includes broadcasting an interference allowance value determined based on a predefined aggregate interference to a femto cell, updating the interference allowance value with consideration of a... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.

20120115499 - Cooperative apparatus and resource block allocation method thereof for use in wireless network: A cooperative apparatus and a resource block allocation method thereof for use in a wireless network are provided. The wireless network comprises a plurality of femtocells. The cooperative apparatus groups the femtocells based on signal interferences between the femtocells. The femtocells with higher signal interferences are joined to the same... Agent: Institute For Information Industry

20120115497 - Interference avoidance in mobile communication network employing distributed antenna system: There is provided a solution for improving the efficiency of a mobile communication network applying a distributed antenna system. The solution comprises avoiding inter-cell interference with only a limited amount of backhaul information exchange between the base stations of the distributed antenna system, and applying beamforming techniques according to determined... Agent:

20120115500 - Method and system of managing wireless resources: The invention provides for the management of wireless resources, which can reduce call blocking by allowing high priority services, under suitable conditions, to use resources allocated to low priority services. Thus high priority services can pre-empt the usage of wireless resources by low priority services. This has the advantage of... Agent: Rockstar Bidco Lp

20120115503 - Addressing wireless nodes: A user may point a control device at a controllable device for which control is desired, and the control device may detect the targeted controllable device. Additionally, the control device may detect a plurality of wireless nodes and list the available wireless nodes. For example, the control device may identify... Agent: Interdigital Patent Holdings, Inc.

20120115510 - Geolocation of a mobile station of a wireless telephony network: The disclosure relates to a method for locating a mobile station inside an area covered by a wireless telephony cellular network in which the mobile station operates. The method includes using the mobile station to measure the received power on at least seven different communication channels of the network (step... Agent: Universite Pierre Et Marie Curie (paris 6)

20120115504 - Location information management system, location information management apparatus, and location information management method: There is provided a location information management system at a relatively low cost, whereby information including the location information of a vehicle can be managed without affecting the driving. In the location management system including abase transceiver station for transmitting a signal including base transceiver station identifying information, a ubiquitous... Agent: Ntt Docomo, Inc.

20120115509 - Method and apparatus for improving radio location accuracy with measurements: A method and apparatus to utilize a set of measurements (either partial or compete) to improve the accuracy of an initial position estimate for a wireless terminal. The initial position estimate for the terminal is first obtained (e.g., based on a cell-ID or an enhanced cell-ID solution). Measurements are obtained... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20120115511 - Method and apparatus for location registration update on failure to insert subscriber data in mobile communication system: A method for location registration update on failure to insert subscriber data caused by a location registration error in a mobile communication system, comprising (a) in the case of a change in subscriber data, a home location register transmitting the subscriber data to a first switching center in which location... Agent: Kt Corporation

20120115502 - Method for positioning femto base station through supl platform and system thereof: A method for positioning a femtocell base station through a SUPL platform includes the steps of: initiating a SUPL program in the femtocell base station to establish communication between the femtocell base station and the SUPL platform so as to obtain assistant positioning information and approximate location information of the... Agent: Askey Computer Corporation

20120115501 - Self-aware profile switching on a mobile computing device: In one implementation, a computer-implemented method includes detecting, by a mobile computing device, a current context associated with the mobile computing device, the current context being external to the mobile computing device and indicating a current state of the mobile computing device in its surrounding environment. The method can also... Agent: Google Inc.

20120115505 - System and method for population tracking, counting, and movement estimation using mobile operational data and/or geographic information in mobile network: Methods and apparatuses are disclosed herein for population tracking, counting and/or movement estimation. In one embodiment, the method comprises receiving mobile phone operational data indicative of user equipment location, where the event data includes location area update messages and periodic registration messages; and performing travel estimation based on the mobile... Agent:

20120115507 - Systems and methods for the detection of transmission facilities: A method of detecting a transmitting device within an obstruction rich environment is disclosed. The method may involve detecting the transmitting device with a wireless transmission detection facility; communicating signal information relating to the detected transmitting device from the wireless transmission detection facility to a central unit; determining the location... Agent:

20120115506 - Tracking and communications device: A portable tracking and communications device (10) comprises a Global Positioning System (GPS) module and a mobile telephony module, the device including at least a first passive, electronic ground plane simulator comprising a pair of essentially grounded antennae (16, 17) that are selectively connectable one to the other via a... Agent:

20120115508 - Wireless network hybrid positioning: Methods and apparatuses for position determination and other operations. In one embodiment of the present invention, a mobile station uses wireless signals from a plurality of wireless networks (e.g., with different air interfaces and/or operated by different service providers) for position determination (e.g., for data communication, for obtaining time and/or... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20120115512 - Beacon-based geofencing: A mobile device can monitor a current location using a multi-tier approach. A baseband subsystem can monitor a coarse location of the mobile device using various course location parameters, such as a mobile country code (MCC), a location area code (LAC), or a cell identifier (cell ID), as the mobile... Agent: Apple Inc.

20120115513 - Method for displaying augmented reality information and mobile terminal using the method: A method for displaying information and a mobile terminal using the same are disclosed. A method for displaying AR information of a mobile terminal, including: capturing an image of a subject; transmitting information designating the captured image of the subject to a server; receiving augmented reality (AR) information relevant to... Agent: Lg Electronics Inc.

20120115514 - Portable terminal for displaying local service based on context awareness technology, and operation method of the portable terminal: Provided are a portable terminal for displaying a local service based on context awareness technology, and an operation method of the portable terminal. The portable terminal may discover a plurality of local services available at a current position, verify a current context of a user, apply a predetermined weight to... Agent:

20120115515 - Lte smart paging list: A device receives, at a particular time, instructions to send a page to user equipment. The device determines, based on a paging list, if the user equipment is associated with a particular serving base station for the particular time. When the user equipment is associated with the particular serving base... Agent: Verizon Patent And Licensing Inc.

20120115516 - System and method for processing multimedia messaging service: The disclosure disclosed a system and method for processing a Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS). The system comprises: a first and second storage units for storing MMS data, a first control unit for controlling the storage of received MMS data outside the system into the first storage unit and data acquisition... Agent: Zte Corporation

20120115517 - Ad hoc mobile devices and ad hoc networks: An embodiment of the invention relates to an ad hoc mobile device capable of transmitting and receiving data in an ad-hoc network, comprising a receiver capable of receiving and decoding an encoded signal which is transmitted over a physical transmission channel, wherein said receiver is able to handle at least... Agent: Technische Universit&#xe4 T Berlin

20120115518 - Method and apparatus for establishing peer-to-peer communication: A method and apparatus for establishing peer-to-peer communication and performing forwarding under the control of a cellular network are described. A seeking wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) may receive a timing signal from at least one discoverable WTRU controlled by a base station. The seeking WTRU may estimate the quality of... Agent: Interdigital Patent Holdings, Inc.

20120115519 - Wireless transmission apparatus for generating installation support information representing installation method of each wireless transmission apparatus: An acquiring state detecting part detects acquiring states of other wireless transmission apparatuses. The acquiring state represents whether or not a second wireless transmission apparatus acquired device information of the other wireless transmission apparatuses in a wireless transmission system. The transmission quality measuring part acquires measurement results of a transmission... Agent:

20120115521 - Method and system for setting reference signal in wireless communication system: A method and a system of setting up a reference signal in a radio communication system. The radio communication system includes a serving cell and a neighboring cell, and a mobile terminal of the serving cell uses the same temporal frequency resource so as to receive a serving resource block... Agent: Panasonic Corporation

20120115522 - Resource control in a communication system: Methods, devices, and computer program products facilitate resource allocation to entities within a wireless communication network. Interference values are determined in the presence of entities that may or may not be controlled by the wireless communication network. Based on the determined interference values and associated statistics, throughputs associated with the... Agent: Spidercloud Wireless, Inc.

20120115520 - Selective interference rejection combining: It is provided a method, including deciding, based on a previously estimated interference value, whether a user equipment or a sounding reference signal or a channel of a received uplink signal is affected by a colored interference more than a first predefined threshold, wherein colored interference is an interference having... Agent:

20120115524 - Inquiring of a protected communications services database to address concerns over blind base station operation in conflict with protected communications services: A database stores updated information concerning protected communications services. A base station for a coexisting, and potentially co-channel, non-protected communications service makes an inquiry of the database requesting an identification of geographically relevant protected services along with the database stored information pertinent to each of those identified protected services. The... Agent: Stmicroelectronics (beijing) R&d Co., Ltd.

20120115523 - Mimo search over multiple access points: A method for communication includes arranging multiple access points in a wireless local area network (WLAN) to communicate over the air with a station in a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) configuration. Transmission quality is measured, in alternation, between two or more of the access points and the station in a plurality... Agent: Extricom Ltd.

20120115526 - Radio base station and radio communication method: Disclosed is a base station capable of minimizing in Type 0 assignment the number of resource block groups occupied by a terminal that performs frequency hopping, and thereby flexibly assigning resources in the Type 0 assignment. The base station (100) is used in a radio communication system in which a... Agent: Panasonic Corporation

20120115525 - System and method for managing resource in communication system: Provided is a resource management system in a communication system including a plurality of systems having no right to use a first frequency band. The resource management system includes: a coexistence manager (CM) configured to manage the plurality of systems for the purpose of coexistence and frequency sharing of the... Agent: Electronics And Telecommunications Research Institute

20120115527 - Configuring unscheduled periods to enable interference reduction in heterogeneous networks: A mobile station in a wireless communication network is disclosed. The mobile station includes a transceiver coupled to a processor configured to rank a plurality of detected cells according to a signal level metric of the plurality of cells, to determine a first pattern of time periods during which a... Agent: Motorola Mobility, Inc.

20120115528 - Dynamic bandwidth and access management: In one or more embodiments, one or more methods and/or systems described can perform determining that a first demand by a group of mobile devices for a first bandwidth of a first data communication path exceeds the first bandwidth; wirelessly coupling to a second data communication path; receiving, via the... Agent: At&t Intellectual Property I Lp

20120115529 - Method and apparatus for radio resource measurement in heterogeneous network: A radio resource measurement method in a heterogeneous network includes a user equipment (UE) that performs radio resource measurement; when a measurement result meets a predefined condition, the UE performs radio resource measurement on restricted resources according to configuration information of the restricted resources, wherein the restricted resources are a... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

20120115530 - Apparatus and method for signaling for group communication in broadband wireless access system: An apparatus and a method for setting a group communication session using a wireless access system are provided. The method includes transmitting, at a transmission side client, a message requesting start/end of group communication to a control Push To Talk (PTT) server, transmitting, at the control PTT server, a session... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.

20120115537 - Carrier grouping for power headroom report: Methods, systems, devices, and computer program products are disclosed which facilitate the transmission and reception of power headroom reports for component carriers in a multi carrier wireless communication system. A mobile device may determine available power headroom in a multicarrier configuration through a calculation of a maximum transmit power associated... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20120115534 - Dynamic uplink power control: Power adjustment in the user equipment (UE) includes adjusting the transmission power level for each of multiple transport blocks based on the spectral efficiency associated with the transport block. The UE receives a scheduled transport format parameter for each of multiple transport blocks to be transmitted. Based on those scheduled... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20120115535 - Method and apparatus for uplink power control using ranging signal in wireless communication system: A method and an apparatus for uplink power control using a ranging signal in a wireless communication system are provided. The method includes transmitting ranging channel information to a pico Base Station (BS), receiving power control information on a macro terminal from the pico BS, controlling a transmit power strength... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.

20120115532 - Method and base station for determining an initial transmission power: A method for determining an initial transmission power and a base station is provided. The method comprises: a base station acquiring a measurement result of a second cell reported by said user equipment, wherein a first cell in which a user equipment (UE) is located belongs to the base station,... Agent:

20120115533 - Method of cutting off a transmission signal of a main transmitter relayed by a cell of a base station and associated system: Method of cutting off a transmission signal of a main transmitter relayed by a cell of a base station and associated system. According to this method, the transmission signal is cut off:—if the power of the transmission signal emitted by the main transmitter is greater than the power of each... Agent: St-ericsson Sa

20120115536 - Power control for tv white space devices: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques and apparatus for using power control in a television white space (TVWS) network. One example method generally includes generating, at a first apparatus, a message for controlling a transmit power of a second apparatus—the message including a first indication of a first... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20120115531 - Transmission power dependent imbalance compensation for multi-antenna systems: Methods and apparatuses for wireless communication are provided. In an aspect, Transmissions are received from multiple antennas of a user equipment and a differential power control message that is based on an imbalance of transmitted power from the multiple antennas is transmitted. In another aspect, a differential power control message... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20120115538 - Transmit power amplification control for wireless device: A system and method are disclosed for controlling transmit power amplification in a wireless transmitting device. A processor receives data to determine whether a communication channel from a transmitting device to a receiving device is strong enough to support a target data transmit rate of the devices with a power... Agent: Marvell Semiconductor, Inc.

20120115539 - Method and device for adjusting timing advance in uplink multiple points reception: A method and device for adjusting a timing advance in a communication system composed of a mobile terminal and multiple base stations is provided. The method includes steps: the multiple base stations measures channel latencies and powers of channel responses between the mobile terminal and the multiple base stations separately;... Agent: Panasonic Corporation

20120115541 - Method of distributing load and base stations: A method including: setting a first index value and a second index value representing levels of received power or received quality of reference signals from a first base station and a second base station; handing over a mobile station assigned to the first base station to the second base station... Agent: Fujitsu Limited

20120115540 - Mobile wireless terminal apparatus and base station search method: According to one embodiment, a mobile wireless terminal apparatus includes a first communication module, a second communication module, and a controller. The first communication module is configured to detect a beacon signal from a wireless signal transmitted from the base station to a service area, and to determine movement into... Agent: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

20120115542 - Mobile communication device with subscriber identity module: In one embodiment, a method of directing calls on a mobile communication device comprises receiving a call signal at the mobile communication device from a short-range enabled communication device operably connected with the mobile communication device, accessing subscriber identity module data of the short-range enabled communication device, preparing an outgoing... Agent: Research In Motion Limited

20120115543 - Head mounted display apparatus with phone function: The present disclosure provides a head mounted display apparatus with phone function. The display apparatus includes a framework, at least one micro display mounted on the framework, a phone unit, a projecting unit, an image capturing unit, and a processing unit. The phone unit can communicate with external land phones... Agent: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.

20120115544 - Interactive control of communication terminals: An electronic circuit is proposed for a wireless telephone terminal, configured to allow the use of devices present in another remote terminal with which it can communicate.... Agent: St-ericsson Sa

20120115546 - Methods for initiating operating voltages for subscriber identity cards and systems utilizing the same: A system for operating at least two subscriber identity cards has a subscriber identity module (SIM) controller generating a first voltage variable signal with a first voltage level to a first subscriber identity card during a first time period, generating the first voltage variable signal at a second voltage level... Agent: Mediatek Inc.

20120115545 - Multi-sim cellular telephone: Disclosed is a multi-SIM cellular telephone capable of accessing information on multiple SIM cards for multiple cellular service subscriptions while simultaneously accessing full functionality of all other features on the handset. It allows users to insert multiple SIM cards, each with a unique IMSI number associated with a unique cellular... Agent:

20120115547 - Carrier processing method, communication device and communication system: A carrier processing method, a communication device and a communication system are provided according to the embodiments of the present invention. The method includes: acquiring control information of each multi-carrier module associated with carriers; according to the acquired control information, determining a carrier used by each multi-carrier module; and performing... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.

20120115548 - Mobile communication base station antenna and mobile communication base station antenna system: A mobile communication base station antenna has two array antennas juxtaposed in a horizontal direction. Each of the array antennas includes a plurality of antenna element pairs arranged in a vertical direction. Each of the antenna element pairs includes two antenna elements having polarization characteristics perpendicular to each other. A... Agent: Hitachi Cable, Ltd.

20120115551 - Mobile terminal: Disclosed is a mobile terminal. The mobile terminal of the present invention comprises: a front case having a keypad-accommodating portion; a rear case attachably/detachably coupled to a rear surface of the front case such that a component-accommodating space, in which a main PCB is arranged, is interposed between the front... Agent: Bluebird Soft Co., Ltd

20120115549 - Mobile terminal and method for controlling the same: A mobile terminal and a method for controlling the same are disclosed, which can connect communication with a preset external device when a battery of the mobile terminal is charged via a wireless charging pad, transmit information of the mobile terminal to the preset external device and output the information... Agent: Lg Electronics Inc.

20120115550 - Portable communicator: This communicator makes it possible for the user to do telephone, facsimile, and data communication at any location. On a pen input device, a space eye, a telephone control system, a facsimile control system, and a data transmission system are mounted. All of them are operated by an input pen... Agent: Adc Technology Inc.

20120115552 - Method and apparatus for power conservation for a mobile device in idle mode: In accordance with an example embodiment of the present invention, a method comprises determining a sleep cycle comprising a number of discontinuous reception (DRX) cycles at a user equipment (UE) based at least on one of a current available power level, a call setup delay interval, and a quality of... Agent: Nokia Corporation

20120115553 - Adaptive antenna diversity system: Electronic devices may be provided that contain wireless communications circuitry. The wireless communications circuitry may include radio-frequency transceiver circuitry with first and second ports that are coupled by switching circuitry to first and second antennas. A first receiver in the transceiver circuitry may be associated with the first port and... Agent: