http://www.freshpatents.com/Multiplex-communications-dtnewntc370.php USPTO Class 370 - Multiplex communications en-us Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 1000 Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday 141 31 http://www.freshpatents.com/index.php?rss=true http://www.freshpatents.com/images/freshpatentsnav_rss.gif http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121129.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 A base station is provided for receiving an acknowledgement or negative acknowledgement (ACK/NACK) signal, including a transmitting unit configured to transmit a control signal using one or a plurality of CCE(s). The base station also includes a receiving unit configured to receive an ACK/NACK signal, the ACK/NACK signal being multiplied... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121130.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 Provided is a data transmission system using a carrier aggregation. The data transmission system may assign a radio resource based on a correspondence relationship between a downlink and an uplink, and may transmit data using the assigned radio resource.... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121131.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 Systems and methods for orthogonal frequency division multiplexing are provided. In one embodiment, a multi-carrier modem comprises: a receiver configured to de-modulate symbols from at least one of a plurality of spectrally overlapping carrier signals to produce a receiver output; a transmitter configured to modulate symbols onto at least one... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121135.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 Mobile network services are performed in an appliance in a mobile data network in a way that is transparent to most of the existing equipment in the mobile data network. The mobile data network includes a radio access network and a core network. The appliance in the radio access network... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121134.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 A fail-to-wire (FTW) module that preserves a primary data path connection from an upstream computer to a downstream computer if there is any kind of failure in a breakout data path to a breakout system. The FTW module provides switches between the incoming data network data and the breakout system... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121133.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 The disclosure is directed to group communications in a mixed casting services wireless communication system. An embodiment detects a loss of multicast coverage at a user equipment (UE), notifies a server of the loss of multicast coverage, wherein the server is configured to provide a desired multicast communication, and requests... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121132.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 A method and system for detecting radio link (RL) failures between a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) and a Node-B are disclosed. When signaling radio bearers (SRBs) are supported by high speed uplink packet access (HSUPA), an RL failure is recognized based on detection of improper operation of at least one... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121136.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 A mobile terminal and failure recovery method thereof, wherein the method comprises: a wireless MODEM receives failure recovery triggering information, in the case that an AP cannot work normally; the MODEM acquires control to peripherals of the mobile terminal; the MODEM sends failure information to the network side; the MODEM... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121137.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 Systems and methods for providing service virtualization endpoint (SVE) redundancy in a two-node, active-standby form. An active-standby pair of SVEs register with a cloud-centric-network control point (CCN-CP) as a single service node (SN) using a virtual IP address for both a control-plane and a data-plane. At any given time, only... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121138.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 A system and method for routing data, the system having a processor, an interface in communication with the processor and capable of being in communication with a second system for routing data, a memory unit in communication with the processor, the memory unit having a network routing table having a... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121139.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 A fail-to-wire (FTW) module that preserves a primary data path connection from an upstream computer to a downstream computer if there is any kind of failure in a breakout data path to a breakout system. The FTW module provides switches between the incoming data network data and the breakout system... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121142.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and an apparatus for forwarding multicast traffic. The method includes: receiving a third multicast join message; in response to the third multicast join message, sending a first multicast join message to a first upstream router, and establishing an active path; in response... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121140.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 A method of performing shared mesh protection switching in a sharing node is provided. The method includes: receiving a request message from a first terminal node, having detected a signal failure of a working path; copying the request message and forwarding a request message to an adjacent node on a... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121141.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 A method for link aggregation failure protection includes: receiving failure information including a failure location and an identity of more than one corresponding logical link, a failed physical link and more than one physical link form an LAG, each physical link in the LAG corresponds to logical links with a... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121143.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 A system, method, and computer readable medium for determining a data call rate comprises determining if a supplemental channel (SCH) should be allocated, if the SCH should be allocated, potentially altering the data rate, requesting an SCH allocation at a current data rate or the altered data rate, and receiving... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121144.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 An ATM multiplexing apparatus of the present invention is the apparatus for selectively performing cell discard processing in the case of congestion on the basis of a use state of the same connection formed by cells from the side of an ATM switching unit and subscribers without installing UPC units,... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121147.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 A computing device, which is associated with a telecommunication access network, is configured to detect (i) congestion in uplink traffic from a plurality of user equipments (UEs) to a base station (BS), and (ii) a level of the congestion in the uplink traffic from the plurality of UEs to the... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121146.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 Systems and methods are provided for allocating resources of a network among a plurality of traffic demands to optimize fairness and network utilization. Methods based on flow-increase dynamics converge toward an upward max-min fair (UMMF) allocation, in which the value of each traffic demand cannot be increased, along any of... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121145.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 A device may receive a network access request and perform at least one of signal strength measurements of a first wireless network and a second wireless network, a determination of a level of congestion of the first wireless network and a level of congestion of the second wireless network, or... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121148.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 An extension to TCP is generally provided that allows TCP to handle heterogeneous applications, especially those with delay and smoothness-sensitive contents, and wireless transmission media having noisy, fading radio channels. The TCP extension decouples reliability control from rate control, sacrificing reliability for delay control (transmission rate and retransmission decision) that... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121149.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 A system and method can alleviate congestion in a middleware machine environment with a plurality of switches in a fat-tree topology. The middleware machine environment can support a plurality of end nodes and allows for generating a virtual lane assignment for every pair of source end node and destination end... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121152.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 Methods and systems for performing load balancing within an Ethernet network are provided. According to one embodiment, a set of virtual networks, into which a network has been logically divided that can be used by a first component is maintained. Each of the virtual networks is a loop-free switching path,... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121153.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 Methods and apparatus for load balancing data traffic are disclosed. An example method includes determining a respective quality metric for each of a plurality of members of an aggregation group of the network device, each respective quality metric representing respective data traffic loading for each member of the plurality of... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121150.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 In one embodiment, backbone service instance identifiers (I-SIDs) of backbone frames are modified based on flow identification of frames encapsulated therein to induce entropy into the headers of the backbone frames. Backbone packet switching devices use the modified service instance identifier to load balance the corresponding frame through the backbone... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121151.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 A node may assist in the management of upstream network traffic in part by managing a contention window used by the node. The node may maintain a list of size(s) of contention window(s) of parent node(s) of the node. The node may set its own contention window to be longer... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121155.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 A controller for use in a wireless telecommunications system, the telecommunications system including one or more base stations, the one or more base stations being operable to wirelessly transmit data to user equipments in a first transmission state having a first capacity and in a second transmission state having a... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121154.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 A system and method can prevent traffic congestion in a middleware machine environment with a plurality of switches in a fat-tree topology. A subnet manager can sweep a subnet in the middleware machine environment to discover changes and maintain the subnet fully connected. A performance manager can retrieve performance and... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121156.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 A method for efficient propagation of link state advertisements in densely interconnected OSPF networks is disclosed for reducing the number of duplicate LSAs propagated during a flooding event. The efficient propagation method includes calculating an LSA propagation subgraph which is used by a node which receives an LSA to determine... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121157.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 In accordance with an embodiment, a network device includes a network controller and at least one network interface coupled to the network controller that includes at least one media access control (MAC) device configured to be coupled to at least one physical layer interface (PHY). The network controller may be... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121161.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 An entity in a telecommunications network, for example a user equipment, determines a threshold value relating to a channel switching parameter that is being used by the telecommunications network to trigger a channel switching operation, and uses this threshold value and monitored traffic information to prevent a channel change from... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121162.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 Measurement apparatuses have the function of communicating with other measurement apparatuses within a predetermined range by radio. A simulated communication management part of a relay apparatus manages simulated communication of the measurement apparatuses and collects communication results to be managed. A statistical processing part of a communication route setting apparatus... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121159.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 Mobile network services are performed in a mobile data network in a way that is transparent to most of the existing equipment in the mobile data network. The mobile data network includes a radio access network and a core network. A first service mechanism in the radio access network breaks... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121163.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 The invention relates to a method for evaluating the usability of a sub-carrier of a BPL (broadband power-line) signal, in particular in order to avoid mutual influencing of the BPL signal and a further signal, wherein the BPL signal has a plurality of sub-carriers and one symbol can be transmitted... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121160.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 A wireless device in a first piconet using a first time-frequency code senses interference from a second piconet using a second time-frequency code that is different from the first time-frequency code. The wireless device detects a beacon period of the second piconet. The wireless device reserves at least one medium... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121158.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 Multiple gateway devices communicating between a device level ring (DLR) network and a spanning tree (ST) network may be provided a gateway protocol that cooperatively ensures that only a single gateway is active at a given time. This cooperation may be effected by the transmission of advertise messages by gateways,... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121165.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 A communication device includes a receiving unit configured to receive a frame via a connected packet network, a transmitting unit configured to transmit the received frame and a self-originating frame to the packet network, a monitoring unit configured to monitor a flow rate of the transmitted frames, a transmission cycle... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121164.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 A novel and useful one-to-many OAM/protection inter-work function (IWF). The mechanism stitches a single OAM session (e.g., a CCM session) on a multi-traffic class (TC) M-domain to multiple OAM-sessions (which monitor different transport entities or connections) on a single-TC S-domain using duplication and filtering of OAM messages at the ENNI.... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121168.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to a technique for blindly decoding interfering cell Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) to acquire interfering cell Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH) transmission information. A UE may determine, for one or more aggregation levels, sets of CCEs that potentially include the PDCCH, based... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121167.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 A method of controlling communication between a first network node and a second network node in a multi-carrier wireless communications system, network nodes and a computer program product are disclosed. The method of controlling communication between a first network node and a second network node in a multicarrier wireless communications... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121166.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 Mobile network services are performed in an appliance in a mobile data network in a way that is transparent to most of the existing equipment in the mobile data network. The mobile data network includes a radio access network and a core network. The appliance in the radio access network... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121169.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 In one aspect, the disclosure includes an apparatus comprising a processor configured to function as a merge point (MP) in a point to multi-point (P2MP) backup label switching path (LSP) for a primary LSP, receive P2MP backup LSP information originating from a protected node, wherein the P2MP backup LSP information... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121170.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 For use in a communication system where communication is carried out by setting a packet handling operation (flow entry) in the nodes by a control device, the present invention provides a configuration in which statistical information may be collected at a desired information granularity level without increasing the control load... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121177.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 Techniques are described for alert-triggered recording spectrum data. In one embodiment, a method comprises determining whether network performance for one or more communications channels of a wireless network is below a threshold. In response to determining that the network performance for the one or more communications channels of the wireless... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121185.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 A base station and mobile station are configured to perform control beam association. A method at the base station includes transmitting at least one first control beam including reference signals on which the mobile station can perform a measurement. The method also includes receiving a first measurement report from the... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121203.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 A method and apparatus of reporting a power headroom in a wireless communication system is provided. A user equipment determines a power headroom based on a configured transmit power and transmits a power headroom report to a base station. The power headroom report includes a power headroom level indicating the... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121182.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 A base station including: a first antenna for a first wireless communication, a second antenna for a second wireless communication, and a processor to receive a request from a registered mobile terminal that is registered with the base station, to communicate with the registered mobile terminal by using the first... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121176.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 In one embodiment, an energy-harvesting communication device of a communication network accumulates energy, e.g., electromagnetic energy. Upon detecting that the accumulated energy surpasses a sufficient threshold, the communication device may transmit a message into the communication network using the accumulated energy as an unreliable and unsynchronized broadcast transmission to any... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121187.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 Methods and apparatus for computing measurement metrics in a wireless communications network are provided. One example method generally includes obtaining a channel impulse response (CIR) from one or more reference signals (RSs) transmitted from one or more antennas of a base station (BS); calculating an absolute square per element of... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121183.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 A method is disclosed for bridging between a first data link carrying data units of a first data protocol and a second data link for carrying data units of a second protocol by means of a bridging device. This method may comprise receiving by means of a first interface entity... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121193.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 Techniques to self-optimize a network are disclosed. The link quality of a communications link is assessed to determine if a predetermined link quality level is satisfied. If the link quality level is not satisfied, a link adaptation routine is employed to optimize the communications link. In the event the link... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121179.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 In time division-synchronous code division multiple access high speed uplink packet access (TD-SCDMA HSUPA) communications, a user equipment may select a enhanced physical uplink channel (E-PUCH) modulation scheme based on allocated radio resources. Selection of the modulation scheme is configured to avoid ambiguity at the base station as to which... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121201.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 Feedback indicates low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) conditions for a wireless communications link between a transmitter device and a receiver device. After attempting to achieve a target packet error rate (PER) by increasing transmission power for the wireless communications link, the transmitter device receives feedback that indicates a current PER, for... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121196.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 A method, computer program product, and system are provided for computing link supportability in a WCDMA communications system. For example, the method can be used to calculate link supportability of a transponder in satellite communications system (e.g. MUOS) in a user-to-base direction. This method can include expressing a carrier signal... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121192.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 Service message streams are sent to create sent service messages from a source across networks to a destination and receive responses to the sent service messages to create an estimate of the jitter in the travel time and a packet loss measurement at each device traversed between the source and... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121184.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 A method, including making one or more measurements at a mobile device of path loss for a transmission between said mobile device and a base station in a first frequency band of a plurality of frequency bands in which the mobile device is configured to make transmissions to said base... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121173.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 A method and apparatus for improving the accuracy of a round trip time (RTT) estimate between a first device and a second device are disclosed. The method involves calculating an acknowledgement correction factor and a unicast correction factor. These correction factors are used to compensate for symbol boundary time errors... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121188.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to a technique for estimating a frequency offset of a local oscillator using primary synchronization signal (PSS) and secondary synchronization signal (SSS) while initially acquiring a long term evolution (LTE) signal. In certain aspects, a frequency offset estimation procedure may include PSS-based frequency... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121194.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 Location profile is used as a way of optimizing power consumption of communication devices such as mobile handsets and smart phones which tend to have facilities for multiple wireless methods for communication. This is done by correlating the availability of the wireless signals to the specific zones in the user... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121180.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 A method and apparatus of selecting at least one access point (AP) enable a user terminal to wirelessly communicate efficiently. The method includes sensing a plurality of APs connectible to the user terminal, measuring a network access speed indicating a speed of transmitting and receiving data between the user terminal... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121171.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 The invention provides a method and a system for determining an end time of uplink back propagation in a mobile communication system to solve a problem of accurately judging the end time of uplink back propagation, wherein the method includes the following steps: sending data with consecutive sequence numbers in... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121204.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 The present invention provides a method for a terminal to report the measurement result of a minimization of drive test (MDT) in a wireless communication system. More specifically, the method comprises the steps of: receiving MDT setup information from said base station; performing cell measurement on the basis of said... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121198.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 A method, relevant equipment and system for determining a User Equipment (UE) or UEs affecting a neighboring cell are disclosed. The method for determining UE or UEs affecting a neighboring cell includes: receiving load information sent by a neighboring cell, where the load information indicates an interfered Physical Resource Block... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121174.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 Systems and apparatus for managing signaling of channel state information. A user equipment performs channel state information measurements in measurement subframes. The user equipment receives an uplink triggering grant from a base station, with the uplink triggering grant specifying a measurement subframe for which channel state information is to be... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121191.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 Certain aspects relate to methods and apparatus for reducing interference in a heterogeneous network. Certain aspects relate to methods and apparatus for delinking downlink and uplink resource partitioning in a heterogeneous network. In aspects, the delinking is accomplished by reliably delivering uplink grant to a UE, e.g., pico UE in... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121195.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 Methods and systems for simultaneous determination of channel resource allocations and beam vectors for uplink frames are disclosed. One method includes receiving batch information from client devices indicating amounts of data to be transmitted on the uplink by the client devices. Further, signal quality can be measured on channel resources... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121175.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 Basestation equipment in a mobile data network is subject to harsh environmental conditions at many remote locations. International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) has introduced a Mobile Internet Optimization Platform (MIOP) appliance, referred herein as the MIOP@NodeB. This appliance is placed at the edge or basestation of a mobile data network... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121197.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 This disclosure provides a technique for operating a mobile station as a wireless local-area network (WLAN) gateway. The mobile station is provided with a gateway application to control the following operations: activating a WLAN circuitry of the mobile station as a WLAN base station capable of communicating with at least... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121199.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 A method and apparatus for allocating subcarriers in an orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) system is described. In one embodiment, the method comprises allocating at least one diversity cluster of subcarriers to a first subscriber and allocating at least one coherence cluster to a second subscriber.... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121200.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 A method and apparatus for allocating subcarriers in an orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) system is described. In one embodiment, the method comprises allocating at least one diversity cluster of subcarriers to a first subscriber and allocating at least one coherence cluster to a second subscriber.... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121172.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 Aspects of the present disclosure provide methods for power saving at a mobile station by a software module. A software module, residing between an application subsystem and a modem of a mobile station, may buffer uplink data to create power savings in an efficient and dynamic manner. During power saving,... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121202.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 A CIR measuring section measures CIRs of all blocks received and a block selection section makes a threshold decision based on the CIR measurement result and threshold information according to an amount of traffic in the own cell and neighboring cells. As a result of the threshold decision, blocks whose... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121178.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 A node may determine a link quality between the node and multiple neighbor nodes. For each of the multiple neighbor nodes, the node compares the determined link quality between the node and each respective neighbor node to a predetermined threshold quality. If the link quality meets the predetermined threshold quality,... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121189.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 When communications of a single radio access technology (RAT), or different radio access technologies in a proximate communication spectrum are operating at the same time, potential interference between devices may occur. To reduce the interference, the time division duplex (TDD) configuration of one or more conflicting device may be altered.... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121181.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 A transmission control method performed in a communication apparatus, the transmission control method including: receiving a packet from a counterparty apparatus, measuring a quality of communication with the counterparty apparatus and the fluctuation amount of the quality, controlling a transmission so as to transmit a packet to the counterparty apparatus... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121186.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 Systems and methods providing uplink coordinated multi-point (CoMP) communication are shown. A second cell may identify at least one first UE communicating with a first cell and capable of causing high uplink interference to the second cell. The second cell may estimate uplink interference from the at least one first... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121190.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 A wireless network device and an automatic parameter setting method thereof are provided. The device includes a wireless communication module and an operation module. The wireless communication module is used for transmitting a test signal to a wireless device according to a wireless communication protocol, and receiving an ACK frame... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121205.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 The performance and ease of management of wireless communications environments is improved by a mechanism that enables access points (APs) to perform automatic channel selection. A wireless network can therefore include multiple APs, each of which will automatically choose a channel such that channel usage is optimized. Furthermore, APs can... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121207.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 A device receives network infrastructure requirements from a user, and selects, based on the network infrastructure requirements, at least one of a virtual core network, a virtual network resource, and a virtual system from resources provided in a cloud computing environment. The device also enables use of the selected at... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121208.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 A route determination device includes a memory to store a piece of route information of the route which is already calculated; and a processor to execute a process including: receiving a calculation request which requests route calculation; determining the route which conforms to the calculation request by performing the route... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121206.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 A telecommunications network adapted to process data packets according to the client mobile internet protocol domain is extended to provide bearer capability, such that subsessions can be used to distinguish one portion of traffic from another. A different Quality of Service (QoS) can be assigned to each bearer. The bearers... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121211.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 An enhanced, flooding-based link state routing protocol is described that provides pruning of link state data and, when needed, rate-controlled refresh of the pruned link state data from other routers of the flooding domain. A routing device comprises a network interface to send and receive packets over a layer-two (L2)... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121210.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 A method for reprogramming a node of an electronic communication system includes transmitting a signal from a first node to a second node. The signal requests that the second node be reprogrammed. The signal includes an identification of the first node. The second node is used to broadcast the identification... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121209.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 Some embodiments provide a non-transitory machine readable medium of a controller of a network control system for configuring a wide area network (WAN) optimizer instance to implement a WAN optimizer for a logical network. The controller receives a configuration for the WAN optimizer to optimize network data from the logical... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121213.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 A method and a terminal for acquiring information on the media supported by an emergency center to provide the terminal with the emergency call service using non-voice media as well voice media are provided. A method includes receiving information on media supported by an Internet Protocol (IP) Multimedia Subsystem (IMS)... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121215.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 Methods and apparatuses for billing a user associated with a mobile service for a VoIP call made by the user using a wireless local area network are disclosed The VOIP call can be received by a local area network. At least a portion of the VoIP call is decoded to... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121212.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 A method, non-transitory computer readable medium and apparatus for processing a call setup message in a communications network. For example, the method receives the call setup message that includes called endpoint information, wherein the called endpoint information was previously inserted into the call setup message by a location server, processes... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121214.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 An IP telephony system allows a user to register a telephony device that receives its native telephony service from a different telephony service provider as an extension telephone. The user can then place calls through the IP telephony system using the extension telephone. Such calls may or may not be... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121216.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 Certain aspects of the present disclosure propose a method and an apparatus for calculating maximum number of hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) processes per component carrier and/or number of soft buffer bits for HARQ operation by taking into account the subframes which are available for a physical downlink shared channel... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121217.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 The present disclosure relates to a split-band duplexer architecture that takes advantage of a relationship between a frequency division duplex (FDD) transmit band, an FDD receive band, and a time division duplex (TDD) band, which has frequencies located between FDD transmit band frequencies and FDD receive band frequencies. As such,... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121218.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 A communications apparatus includes at least a first processor logic unit obtaining a support band list, a second processor logic unit generating a frequency search list for a first operating band and a frequency search list for a second operating band listed in the support band list, and a third... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121219.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 Various avionics systems may benefit from providing remote L-band smart antennas. For example, smart antennas may be used in connection with transponders and other avionics equipment. The smart antenna may incorporate functionality that may obviate the need for coaxial RF cabling. According to certain embodiments, an avionics system may include... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121227.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to a technique for scheduling multiple peer-to-peer communications in a wireless network using an access point (AP). The existing power management framework for AP-based communications is utilized to achieve AP-based scheduling of peer-to-peer communications.... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121226.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 The disclosure is directed to group communications over evolved multimedia broadcast/multicast services (E-MBMS). An embodiment identifies a schedule for an indicator on a broadcast/multicast medium of a first multicast media on a multicast flow, wherein the indicator is configured to identify a location of data on the broadcast/multicast medium and... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121225.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 A method and apparatus for extended access barring (EAB) in a wireless communication system. In detail, the present description proposes EAB indication information, which is included in the paging message. The EAB indication information is included in the paging message only when as least one access class (AC) is barred... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121228.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 A method for managing energy consumption in a wireless network, in particular a mobile radio network, wherein the wireless network includes radio access points that provide uplink and downlink connections to the wireless network for mobile stations, and wherein the uplink and the downlink connection of at least one mobile... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121222.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide methods, apparatus, and computer-program products for improving network loading (e.g., by enabling inter-frequency handover and/or traffic offloading between neighboring base stations). In aspects, the proposed methods may include transmitting a beacon signal on a frequency (e.g., carrier frequency) other than the frequency currently... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121221.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 A method of saving power in a wireless network can include determining a plurality of stations associated with an AP. The AP can create station groups using group selection logic. Notably, the group selection logic is transparent to the plurality of stations. A plurality of TIMs can then be sent,... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121220.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 Radio access networks and particularly enhancements for diverse data applications may benefit from a self-adjusting discontinuous reception (DRX) pattern. According to certain embodiments, for example, a method may include configuring a discontinuous reception pattern of a user equipment and adjusting the discontinuous reception pattern at the user equipment autonomously with... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121223.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 A wireless communication apparatus operates in tributary to a control station that performs a time division multiplex communication. The wireless communication apparatus includes a switch unit that switches on/off a power supplied from a battery; a power supply control unit that controls the switch unit; a RAM to which a... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121224.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 A wireless communication apparatus operates as a tributary. station in a wireless communication system including a control station and the tributary station that perform a time division multiplex communication. The wireless communication apparatus includes a wireless unit that performs a wireless communication with the control station; an event processing unit... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121231.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 An MBS data transmission synchronization apparatus of a radio access station is provided. The MBS data transmission synchronization apparatus includes an information reception unit that receives transmission synchronization information from an ACR, an information reception loss check unit that determines whether the received transmission synchronization information is lost, a content... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121233.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 A mobile communications terminal divides a plurality of multipath signals associated with radio signals transmitted from a plurality of base stations using an S-CCPCH into groups by base station, i.e., by transmit source, maximum-ratio-combines a plurality of multipath signals associated with each same base station which is a transmit source... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121234.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 Group resource allocation techniques for IEEE 802.16m are generally presented. In this regard a method is introduced comprising generating a plurality of bitmaps to identify resource allocations and multiple input multiple output (MIMO) modes for a group of broadband wireless mobile stations, wherein each mobile station in the group is... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121229.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 A hybrid satellite/terrestrial wireless network having a plurality of terrestrial cells and satellite coverage areas is disclosed. A multiplex transmitted in a terrestrial cell may include signaling information for neighboring terrestrial cells and neighboring satellite coverage areas. The signaling information may include indicators identifying different profiles for the hybrid satellite/terrestrial... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121232.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 A method and apparatus for content multicasting and broadcasting and data unicasting in a broadband multicarrier wireless communication system. A base station is configured to transmit, and a mobile station is configured to receive, a sequence of consecutive frames. The frames comprise two types: frames containing time-frequency resources for content... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121236.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 A multicast management method of a base station is provided. The base station generates a CRC for a message including resource allocation information of a multicast group including a plurality of terminals, and masks the CRC by a CRC mask. The base station adds the masked CRC to the message,... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121235.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 A system, method, and computer device that allow a wireless communication device to selectively bundle messages in an access channel communication packet being sent to another computer device on the wireless communication network, such as a base station are disclosed. The bundled messages are typically sent in response to a... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121230.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 A synchronization control method for MBS in an access network gateway is provided. The synchronization control method generates content unit data for multicast broadcasting when external data is input, generates a sync rule to be used in one or more base stations, and transmits the content unit data for multicast... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121237.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 The present invention provides a base station whereby efficient resource allocation for data signals is realized. In a base station (100) where a downlink control signal directed to a relay station is mapped onto an allocation area (R-PDCCH allocation area candidate) comprising M (where M is a natural number of... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121238.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 A multistage relay communication system 100 includes a trunk network 1 and branch networks 2 (2a, 2b), each of which includes one or more communication apparatuses 4. The communication apparatus 4 can switch between a trunk mode to operate in the trunk network 1 and a branch mode to operate... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121253.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 A method for communicating network status information includes receiving, via a first link, a request for status information from a client device, the first link being a link between a router device and a client device. In response to the request, a data exchanger is polled for status information via... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121250.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 Mobile network services are performed in a mobile data network in a way that is transparent to most of the existing equipment in the mobile data network. The mobile data network includes a radio access network and a core network. A first service mechanism in the radio access network breaks... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121240.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 A method of controlling radio link delay in a multi-standard wireless system having a first Radio Equipment Controller (REC) operating with a first radio standard interface and a second REC operating with a second radio standard interface is disclosed. A time delay between the first REC and a Radio Equipment... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121255.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 A method and system for updating or handling the update of a media path between a first user terminal and a second user terminal in a telecommunications network is provided. According to an embodiment of the present invention, the media path includes one or more gateway nodes. Each gateway node... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121241.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 A network broadcasts a list of multiple core networks. A mobile station MS selects one and sends an uplink message (e.g., ATTACH or ROUTING AREA UPDATE Request) with a new format detailed by these teachings. The body of the message has a data section and an identity section, and the... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121252.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 The present invention provides a new Push method, apparatus, and system. The Push method includes: receiving a Push message delivered by an application server; obtaining a private IP address of a UE according to a user identifier, where the user identifier is obtained from the Push message; and obtaining, according... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121242.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 Enhanced MAC-es PDUs are created by concatenating enhanced MAC-es service data units (SDUs) based on higher layer PDUs and segments thereof, where segmentation information is included in the enhanced MAC-es headers. An enhanced MAC-e header is generated for each enhanced MAC-es PDU to describe information about the enhanced MAC-es PDU.... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121249.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 A method and apparatus are provided for transmitting system information in a mobile communication system. The method includes configuring system information including first antenna configuration information and second antenna configuration information, and broadcasting the system information. The first antenna configuration information includes information about a number of antennas of a... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121251.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 A wireless transmit-receive unit includes an antenna, detection circuitry configured to detect a pseudorandom (PN) offset of a pilot signal received by the antenna while the antenna is adapted to an omnidirectional receive pattern, and monitoring circuitry configured to monitor a received signal strength of the pilot signal as a... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121247.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 A method is provided for transmitting channel quality information (CQI) in a MIMO system. A method for allowing a receiver to feed back a CQI value to a transmitter in a Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) system includes receiving a transmission (Tx) pilot signal for each Tx antenna from a... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121239.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for notification of alarms in security systems. An alarm is detected by an alarm controller, and an alarm message is sent to notify of the alarm. The alarm message identifies a unique network address assigned to the alarm controller. The alarm controller then receives... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121246.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 According to exemplary embodiments of the invention, timing and frequency offset estimation is divided into two or more stages. In each stage, a different subset of the available reference symbols is selected to perform timing synchronization, frequency synchronization, or joint timing and frequency synchronization. In each non-final stage, a respective... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121243.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 Systems and methods for communicating packets having a plurality of formats are described herein. In some aspects, a signal (SIG) field in the preamble of a packet may indicate whether an extension field, such as an extension SIG field or SIG-B field, is included in the packet. In another aspect,... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121244.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 Systems and methods for communicating packets having a plurality of formats are described herein. In some aspects, a signal (SIG) field in the preamble of a packet may indicate whether an extension field, such as an extension SIG field or SIG-B field, is included in the packet. In another aspect,... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121245.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 Systems and methods for communicating packets having a plurality of formats are described herein. In some aspects, a signal (SIG) field in the preamble of a packet may indicate whether an extension field, such as an extension SIG field or SIG-B field, is included in the packet. In another aspect,... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121254.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 A mobile communication system having a user equipment that performs transmission process having transmission timing adjustment information and a base station that receives a signal sent from the user equipment, the mobile communication system includes, if a timer controlling a term of application of first transmission timing adjustment information expires... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121248.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 A clustering wireless base station includes a group digital processor including a plurality of digital units (DU) and a plurality of remote radio frequency units (RRU) that are connected to the group digital processor through a transport network and that are installed in each service target area. In this case,... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121261.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 A system is described with one or more server devices to: receive an instruction to provide particular content; determine that a new channel is requested to provide the particular content; determine a first portion of bandwidth assigned to existing channels; allocate a second portion of the bandwidth for the new... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121277.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 When signals received by receiving antennas included in each terminal are subjected to MMSE combining, it is configured that each terminal is able to grasp position of desired signal in signal vector obtained after combining. A base station 100 receives by a receiving antenna 23 from the terminal apparatus channel... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121295.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 A base station device causing no decrease in system throughput and guaranteeing the reception quality at a terminal when a DCI directed toward the terminal is mapped to a PDCCH region and an R-PDCCH region. A search space setting unit (103) sets a search space having a plurality of allocation... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121287.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 A persistent or a semi-persistent uplink resource allocation also comprises an indication for a user equipment UE to send channel quality reports. The format for the channel quality report is determined (based on a transmission mode for which the UE receives a downlink shared channel). In at least first transmissions... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121284.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 There is provided a communication system comprising: a first communication device that senses a communication environment surrounding the first communication device; a second communication device that acquires sensed data sensed by the first communication device; and a third communication device that determines availability of usage of a second communication service... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121285.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 A radio communication system that includes an encoder configured to perform error correction coding for control channel information by a given error correction coding rate and a modulator configured to perform modulation of the error correction coded control channel information for transmission according to a given modulation scheme, code decimation... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121274.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to techniques for reducing the decoding complexity for low cost devices (e.g., low cost UEs). One technique may include simplifying the PDCCH format. This may include generating a compact DCI format for transmitting DCI to a low cost device. The compact DCI format... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121283.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 A method performed by a node of a communications system includes storing allocation data defining persistently allocated resources for use in communicating data between the node and another node of the communications system within predetermined transmission time intervals, receiving control data relating to a dynamic allocation of resources to be... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121265.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 Methods, systems, and devices are provided for dynamically adapting the bandwidth of flexible bandwidth carriers. Adapting the bandwidth of a flexible bandwidth carrier may be achieved through changing the scale factor of the flexible bandwidth signal. Information such as traffic patterns, interference measurements, etc., may be utilized to determine the... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121291.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 A facility for maintaining a subscriber history pertaining to the use of a mobile device with an IP-based telecommunications service offered by a service provider. When a connection request is made by a mobile device to access an IP-based telecommunications service, one or more identifiers associated with the requesting mobile... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121257.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 Embodiments include processes, systems, and devices for reshaping virtual baseband signals for transmission on non-contiguous and variable portions of a physical baseband, such as a white space frequency band. In the transmission path, a spectrum virtualization layer maps a plurality of frequency components derived from a transmission symbol produced by... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121275.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 A method and apparatus for allocating a random access identifier (RAID) for a fixed machine-to-machine (M2M) device in a wireless communication system is provided. A base station transmits a paging message to the fixed M2M device, the paging message including an M2M group ID (MGID) for the fixed M2M device... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121278.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 The present invention provides a method and apparatus for allocating uplink resources in a wireless communication system. A base station transmits uplink resource allocation information to a terminal in order to allocate a plurality of clusters that are dispersed in a frequency domain to uplink resources, and receives data on... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121272.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 Techniques are provided for dynamic frequency selection (DFS). For example, there is provided a distributed DFS method that may involve receiving a measurement report from each associated mobile entity, the measurement report comprising channel quality metrics for each mobile entity on corresponding frequency channels, the frequency channels comprising at least... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121288.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 A method and apparatus are disclosed for efficient hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) process utilization for semi-persistent and dynamic data transmissions, wherein a reserved HARQ process identification (ID) can be reused. A subset of a plurality of HARQ process IDs is reserved to use for a semi-persistent allocation, and data... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121266.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 The present invention provides a method and apparatus for generating a reference signal sequence by user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system. The UE receives a UE-specific sequence group hopping (SGH) parameter that is specific to itself, and generates a reference signal sequence based on a base sequence in... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121264.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 A method and apparatus for configuring a power sharing carrier set on a user equipment having multiple component carriers, the method receiving an indication from a network that carrier configuration information is supported in a cell of the network; providing at least one of capability information regarding carriers and bands... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121270.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 Techniques for reporting channel state information (CSI) for multiple cells (e.g., carriers) using multiple control channel formats are disclosed. A user equipment (UE) may be configured for operation on a plurality of cells. The UE may be configured to periodically report CSI for the plurality of cells and may also... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121296.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 The present description relates to a method in which a first terminal communicates with a base station via a second terminal in a wireless access system supporting machine-type communication (MTC). The method comprises the following steps: transmitting, to the second terminal, uplink data to be transmitted to the base station;... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121299.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 Provided is a method for operating a terminal for feedback on channel state information (CSI) in a carrier aggregation system according to the present disclosure. The method may comprise the steps of: receiving CSI feedback configuration information for each of a plurality of downlink component carriers from a base station;... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121279.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 A method and apparatus for transmitting an aperiodic sounding reference signal (SRS) in a wireless communication system is provided. The method include receiving a power offset parameter for an aperiodic SRS set by a base station (BS) through an higher layer, setting transmission power of the aperiodic SRS based transmission... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121276.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 A method for transmitting control information by a base station in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes determining a precoder to be applied to a resource and a Demodulation Reference Signal (DMRS) port, the resource being used to transmit the control information, and the DMRS port corresponding... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121290.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 A method and an apparatus of transmitting scheduling request (SR) in a wireless communication system are provided. The method includes configuring a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) for a SR in a subframe, the subframe comprising a plurality of single carrier-frequency division multiple access (SC-FDMA) symbols, wherein one SC-FDMA symbol... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121268.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 The present invention discloses a method for adaptively adjusting uplink and downlink bandwidth, which includes: a base station counting a usage status of the uplink and downlink bandwidth in a preset time, and obtaining a bandwidth amount ΔBWDL required to be coordinated of downlink bandwidth and a bandwidth amount ΔBWUL... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121302.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. More specifically, the present invention relates to a method and device for transmitting uplink control information when a plurality of cells are configured in a wireless communication system, the method comprising the steps of: generating a UCI; and determining a PUCCH... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121294.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 A method for processing a transmission gap pattern sequence is disclosed. A terminal or a Node B controls an initiation of a transmission gap pattern sequence. The terminal or the Node B performs an operation of initiating a new transmission gap pattern sequence by way of superimposing on currently initiated... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121258.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 A method and a signaling entity, for sending a signal to a signaled entity, the method determining, at the signaling entity, at least a first code of a sequence of codes comprising the signal and an assignation of resources for transmission of at least the first code of the sequence... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121259.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 A method, at a signaling entity, for sending a signal to a signaled entity, the method determining, at the signaling entity, at least a first code of a sequence of codes comprising the signal; receiving, at the signaling entity, an assignation of resources from the signaled entity for transmission of... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121260.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 A method for sending a signal to a signaled entity, the method determining at least a first code of a sequence of codes comprising the signal, wherein at least one code of the sequence of codes is derived from at least one bit string that is encoded by an encoder... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121289.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 A method and apparatus may be used for supporting multiple hybrid automatic repeat request (H-ARQ) processes per transmission time interval (TTI). A transmitter and a receiver may include a plurality of H-ARQ processes. Each H-ARQ process may transmit and receive one TB per TTI. The transmitter may generate a plurality... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121301.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 The present invention relates to a wireless access system supporting multi-carrier aggregation (CA) and discloses various methods and devices for aperiodic feedback of channel state information (CSI). The method for aperiodic feedback of the channel state information (CSI) in the wireless access system supporting the multi-carrier aggregation (CA), according to... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121303.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 Disclosed are a method for distributing a random access and a method for distributing and performing the random access. According to the present invention, a method for performing a random access of a terminal comprises the step of receiving a paging message indicative of a network reentry from a base... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121300.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 Disclosed are a method for reentering the network of a no-mobility idle state mobile station and a method for supporting same. A device for supporting the reentry into the network of a no-mobility idle state mobile station in a wireless communication system of the present invention comprises a transmitter for... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121273.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 In legacy systems such as 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) releases 8 to 10, the control channel is transmitted using the first few Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) symbols in a subframe. The limited control channel capacity will impact the system performance in future releases as more and more User... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121282.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 A method, system, and device for radio network aggregation are applied in communication technologies. The method for radio network aggregation transmission includes: obtaining location information of a user equipment on at least two radio networks; obtaining, according to the location information, network load information of each radio network where the... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121269.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 A method of operating a user equipment communicating with a base station of a radio access network may include selecting a multiple-input-multiple-output, MIMO, rank and a MIMO precoding entity from a codebook of MIMO precoding entities for a downlink communication from the base station to the user equipment. A modulation/coding... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121263.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 Techniques for communicating via a control channel, determining a particular data channel based on the communicating, and transferring data via the particular data channel are described. One or more messages are communicated via the control channel between first and second nodes. The one or more messages may indicate a particular... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121267.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 A network node, a method in user equipment and a user equipment are also provided. A method in a network node for transmitting control information to a user equipment in a telecommunications system is provided. The control information is scheduled in time intervals of a downlink shared data channel, wherein the... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121298.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 A method of allocating user plane nodes to a connection being established across a packet core network. The method comprises maintaining at a Domain Name System, DNS, server, one or more DNS resource records for each available user plane node or group of neighbouring user plane nodes, a DNS resource... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121281.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate dynamically allocating demodulation resources of a wideband receiver to provide improved demodulation of simultaneously received signals. Signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and/or packet error rate (PER) can be measured for the plurality of carriers to determine which demodulators related to the carriers require more resources... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121262.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 A set of different communication flows (270-272) can be established between a set of end-user devices (210) and remote devices (265) through an intermediary node (225). For each communication flow (270-272), a flow-specific bearer (250) can be generated between the intermediary node (225) and a corresponding one of the remote... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121293.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 Certain embodiments of the present disclosure provide techniques and apparatus for establishing direct link setup (DLS) connections between stations in a wireless local area network (WLAN). The DLS connections may be established in a manner that helps avoid collisions with transmissions from hidden stations. Other aspects, embodiments, and features are... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121292.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 An address management method is provided, for use when a mobile terminal accesses a service from a WLAN access network, wherein the service is provided in a 3GPP network or in a service provider network via the 3GPP network. First, the mobile terminal connects to the WLAN access network. Second,... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121271.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 Systems and methods for managing the transmission of multiple signals on one or more uplink (UL) channels using carrier aggregation in LTE-A systems. A UE simultaneously transmits signals such as ACK/NACK and periodic CSI using one or more uplink channels, such as a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) and/or a... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121297.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 The present invention relates to a terminal device and method for transmitting a power headroom report (PHR) in a wireless communication system supporting multiple component carriers. The terminal device of the present invention comprises a transmitter for transmitting, to a base station, PHR information on at least one component carrier... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121280.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 It is possible to perform effective communication based on an A-SRS transmitted from a mobile station apparatus. A base station apparatus: notifies the mobile station apparatus of control information for setting, to the mobile station apparatus, whether to transmit a first sounding reference signal assigned in a physical uplink shared... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121256.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 A wireless mesh network architecture includes a plurality of wireless nodes, with each wireless node in the network is connected to every other wireless node in the network. Each pair of wireless nodes is coupled by a link dedicated to exchange of data by the pair of nodes. The link... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121286.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 A dynamic A-MSDU enabling method is disclosed. The method enables the recipient of an aggregate MAC service data unit (A-MSDU) under a block ACK agreement to reject the A-MSDU. The method thus distinguishes between A-MSDU outside of the block ACK agreement, which is mandatory, from A-MSDU under the block ACK... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121304.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 A wireless communication device is disclosed. The device includes a transceiver coupled to a processor configured to determine an antenna port associated with a received control message scheduling a transport block, to determine an acknowledgement resource based on the antenna port, and to cause the transceiver to transmit an acknowledgement... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121307.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 A transmission method simultaneously transmitting a first modulated signal and a second modulated signal at a common frequency performs precoding on both signals using a fixed precoding matrix and regularly changes the phase of at least one of the signals, thereby improving received data signal quality for a reception device.... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121305.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 A reference signal of a user equipment to which a resource (LB#1) is allocated for a L1/L2 control signal, is allocateda resource (SB#1) that is closer on the time axis to the resource (LB#1), which the L1/L2 control signal is allocated, within the same frequency band as the L1/L2 control... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121306.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 A transmission method simultaneously transmitting a first modulated signal and a second modulated signal at a common frequency performs precoding on both signals using a fixed precoding matrix and regularly changes the phase of at least one of the signals, thereby improving received data signal quality for a reception device.... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121308.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 A base station method of communications configuration, a user equipment method of communications configuration, a base station, user equipment and computer program products are disclosed. The base station method of configuring communication between a target serving cell associated with a target base station and user equipment having preconfigured radio link... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121311.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method and an apparatus for automatic switching between networks, a wireless access device, and an intermediate device. The method includes: receiving, by the wireless access device, after a connection between the wireless access device and the intermediate device is established, an instruction message... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121309.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 A method and apparatus are disclosed for improving low-cost MTC (Machine-Type Communication) devices in a wireless communication system. The method includes broadcasting, in a system information, a first information used for cell re-selection. The method further includes providing a second information, for a neighboring cell or a frequency, that is... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121310.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 A method, apparatus and system for establishing S1 signaling connections in an evolved network are disclosed. A source evolved NodeB (eNodeB) sends a handover request message to a target eNodeB to initiate a handover procedure during that a user equipment (UE) is handed over from the source eNodeB to the... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121313.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 In an embodiment, a user equipment (UE) determines to originate a communication session, and the UE further determines whether an access network serving the UE supports header compression. Based on the header compression determination, the UE establishes on a given bundling factor (BF). The UE transmits a first set of... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121314.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 A downlink orthogonal variable spreading factor (OVSF) code assignment method is provided. It is determined whether a spreading factor required by a service request is greater than a remaining capacity of assignable spreading factors of a code tree. If not, the code tree is searched from a root until a... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121312.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 Signalling information relating to Multiple Input Multiple Output MIMO channel state information characteristics that a user equipment UE determines to be highest priority for a downlink is transmitted uplink from a the UE to a node of a cellular wireless network. The UE receives an indicator from the node indicating... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121316.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 A method of configuring a component carrier includes determining how timings of receiving and/or sending data for at least two aggregated component carriers in at least one time period are related; and setting the timing of receiving and/or sending data for the at least two aggregated component carriers based on... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121317.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 Provided are a machine type communication (MTC) support method and apparatus capable of providing efficient MTC service. First, when a base station transmits a subframe to which an MTC-physical control format indicator channel (PCFICH) is allocated using an MTC-PCFICH code that is cyclic-shifted on the basis of a control format... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121318.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 A method for Channel State Information (CSI) feedback in a wireless communication system includes: determining parameters required for the CSI feedback in a first wireless communication system, so that a feedback structure of the first wireless communication system in Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH) is based on a feedback structure... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121319.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 A timing adjustment method in a mobile communication system that performs an adjustment of uplink transmission timing by random access between a user equipment and a base station, the timing adjustment method that includes performing transmission having transmission timing adjustment information in the user equipment; allocating a plurality of parameters... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121315.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 Uplink synchronization of user equipment, UE, (30, 40, 50) served by a radio base station, RBS, (20) is enabled by triggering (re)start of timing alignment, TA, timer (180) in response to a first TA command. Uplink timing of data received from the UE (30, 40, 50) during a measuring time... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121320.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 Methods, apparatus and articles of manufacture for single antenna interference cancellation in a mobile communication system are disclosed. An example method disclosed herein for a wireless device comprises determining a number of bursts to be received in a time division multiple access frame comprising a plurality of timeslots, and when... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121326.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 A software-based application dynamically updates user lists and enables communication between various network communication devices within a wireless network. The software-based application automatically builds and maintains a list of available users associated with the network communication devices in real-time, without reliance on a centralized server for authentication. Various types of... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121325.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 Network information may be discoverable without requiring a connection to that network. For example, Access Network Query Protocol (“ANQP”) may allow a device to discover information about a network prior to the device associating with that network. The network discovery information may be stored in a cache memory for future... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121324.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 Mobile network services are performed in a mobile data network in a way that is transparent to most of the existing equipment in the mobile data network. The mobile data network includes a radio access network and a core network. An edge caching mechanism is provided within a basestation to... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121329.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 Disclosed are various embodiments for providing wireless communication. A Bluetooth (BT) communication protocol and a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) communication protocol are enabled in a station. A WLAN fragmentation threshold utilized by the WLAN communication protocol is modified based on a WLAN modulation rate and an HV3 frame duration... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121322.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 A method and wireless communication device are provided that establish data connectivity between the wireless communication device and a core network over an IP access network. The wireless communication device receives a request to establish data connectivity over an IP access network and provides required connectivity parameters for establishing the... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121323.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 First and second frames are received by a wireless receiver. Modulation symbols in the first frame are determined and stored. If a cyclic redundancy check failure is determined for the first frame, the frame is not passed to medium access control. Modulation symbols in the second frame are determined and... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121321.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 A wireless access point is operable to tag packets received from mobile clients. For example, a VLAN tag or Layer-3 tunnel tag for a packet is determined based at least in-part on a mapping between a mobile client and tag maintained by the access point. In one embodiment the access... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121328.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 A system of at least one wireless access device in a local area network (LAN) having a plurality of transceivers. Each transceiver has a directional antenna positioned in a substantially circular array to communicate signals with a plurality of stations in a corresponding sector. Each sector defines a portion of... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121327.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 A wireless access device in a local area network (LAN) having a plurality of transceivers. Each transceiver has a directional antenna positioned in a substantially circular array to communicate signals with a plurality of stations in a corresponding sector. Each sector defines a portion of a coverage area surrounding the... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121330.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 An apparatus for transmitting information in a wireless communication system includes a first interface for receiving a plurality of input data streams. Signal processing circuitry transmits and receives the plurality of input data streams on at least one frequency. Each of the plurality of input data streams on the at... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121331.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 In one embodiment, the network stability of a communication network is determined based on one or more network metrics related to stability, and then based on the network stability, a particular frequency at which to perform route reoptimization is determined, where the frequency inversely corresponds to the network stability. As... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121334.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 A method, terminal and server for controlling a domain transfer operation, are discussed. According to an embodiment, the method includes determining, by a terminal, whether a session is transferred from a first domain to a second domain, wherein the determining is based on an operator policy and radio conditions, wherein... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121333.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 Methods and apparatus to control a flash crowd event in a voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) network are disclosed. An example method comprises receiving at a VoIP border element a VoIP registration response message having a field representing a priority assigned to a VoIP endpoint, receiving a message from the... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121332.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 A method for facilitating VoIP communication between VoIP providers. First and second VoIP service providers are registered with a VoIP communication system, which generates a table of registered VoIP subscribers from the first and second VoIP service providers. The information from the table is applied to a call generated from... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121336.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 Avoiding duplicative forwarding of multicast traffic is disclosed. A join message received at a first router is directed to a peer router of the first router from a first downstream node of the first router and the peer router without passing through the peer router. The join message indicates that... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121335.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 In one embodiment, a network device selectively operates according to a sparse multicast mode where the network device stores individual devices interested in one or more multicast groups and distributes corresponding multicast group traffic based on the individual devices. Alternatively, the network device selectively operates according to a dense multicast... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121337.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 A node receives information that is to be transmitted to a destination. Upon receipt of the information, the node may query a busy device list to determine an availability of one or more neighbor nodes. The node may then identify a neighbor node that, according to the busy device list,... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121338.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 In an MPLS or GMPLS network, links for hops of a communication path and adaptation to be implemented on the border of management domains or layers are automatically appropriately selected based on a service type or a requirement for maintenance without the necessity of complicating a control sequence. First, a... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121339.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 Routers split and share routing information among several routers within a group of routers acting as a single border router in an Internet protocol (IP) network, each router comprising a routing table. A router of the group selects routes in the routing table of the router; requests other routers of... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121340.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 Method for use in updating a routing information base of a node of a network, said routing information base comprising for each destination node of a number of destination nodes in said network a number of paths; wherein an update message with routing information is sent in said network from... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121341.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 A network device includes a main storage memory and a queue handling component. The main storage memory includes multiple memory banks which store a plurality of packets for multiple output queues. The queue handling component controls write operations to the multiple memory banks and controls read operations from the multiple... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121342.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 A method for transmitting a signal in a multi-antenna system is provided. The method includes designating an analog beam to a plurality of generated modulation symbol sequences corresponding to a plurality of antenna ports, for each antenna port of the plurality, multiplexing signals, to which a beam is designated by... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121344.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 The present invention provides a method and a device for determining timeslot configuration in TDM transmission. The method includes: receiving consecutively transmitted TDM frames, wherein at least one TDM frame among the consecutively transmitted TDM frames includes a characteristic word; and according to a case of a timeslot collection occupied... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121343.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 In one embodiment, a method can include receiving at an egress schedule module a request to schedule transmission of a group of cells from an ingress queue through a switch fabric of a multi-stage switch. The ingress queue can be associated with an ingress stage of the multi-stage switch. The... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121345.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 The present invention discloses a method and apparatus for a mode transformation in a robust header compression, compression and decompression. The method for mode transformation includes: setting a mode parameter field in an IR compression package/IRDYN compression package of which a package formats is Profile2 and Profile3; after receiving a... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121346.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 Systems and methods of supporting communications over a common network connection in a master-slave field bus network with a first type of packet formatted with a time-sensitive protocol and a second type of packet formatted with a non-time-sensitive protocol are provided. The slave devices are configured with filters to prevent... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121347.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 When time synchronization between communication apparatuses is performed with PTP, a PTP packet storing a time stamp is transmitted/received. At that time, an RTC is provided in a PTP packet generation unit within the communication apparatus. An RTC is also provided in a PTP packet transmission unit. These RTCs are... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121348.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 In generating a physical layer (PHY) frequency duplication mode data unit for transmission via a communication channel, a preamble of the PHY frequency duplication mode data unit is generated. The preamble includes a signal field, and the preamble is configured so that a receiver can determine that the data unit... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121349.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 An apparatus and method for adaptively bundling media frames in a data packet for transmission in a wireless data network. When a wireless device is ready to transmit an audio communication, a message is sent from the wireless device to a communication server that checks for network usage conditions and... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121350.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 Systems and methods are presented for transmitting additional data over preexisting differential COFDM signals by modulating existing data carriers with a phase and an amplitude offset. In exemplary embodiments of the present invention, additional data capacity can be achieved for an COFDM signal which is completely backwards compatible with existing... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121351.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 A frame transmission device includes: a clock section; a path control section to switch a plurality of transmission paths for exchanging a time synchronization frame with a node device that measures a reference time; a fluctuation estimation section to set a fluctuation estimate of a transmission delay of the time... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130121352.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:52 -0700 A method and a device for time synchronization are disclosed according to the embodiments of the present invention. The method includes: selecting, by a slave device, a port of a single-fiber bi-directional line as a synchronization port of a 1588 clock protocol; specifying a work mode of the synchronization port;...