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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20110047285 | CONTROL OF CONTENT DELIVERY IN BROADCAST/MULTICAST NETWORKS The invention relates to techniques for controlling a delivery of streaming content in a point-to-multipoint (‘PTM’) enabled network (100). A method aspect of such a technique comprises the steps of sending one or more adjustment instructions for achieving a ... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110045853 | Telecommunication system and method for transferring SMS messages between terminals and intelligent network services A telecommunication system for transferring SMS messages between a first terminal and at least one second terminal or intelligent network service. The system comprises a mobile telecommunication system (5) and one or more mobile network switching nodes (2)... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110045838 | MULTI-CELLULAR LOAD DEPENDENT SCHEDULING The present invention relates to a scheduler selector and a method for improving network quality by controlling intercellular interference of a multi-cellular mobile radio communication network. The radio communication traffic is controlled by a user traffic scheduler p... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110045824 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PAGING ADMISSION RATE CONTROL The present invention relates to a method of controlling a paging admission rate in a signaling control node of a wireless communication network. After execution of paging message transactions into the wireless communication network, a success rate is determined as rati... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110044683 | FAST PROTECTION SCHEME FOR PASSIVE OPTICAL NETWORK The present invention relates to a method and devices for fast protection of an optical network system, in particular for a Passive Optical Network (PON), such as a Gigabit-capable Passive Optical Network (GPON). In the method, it is detected that the communication from... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110044279 | Self-Backhauling in LTE A method implemented in an anchor base station configured performing a proxy operation at an anchor base station in which the anchor base station acts as a proxy between a second S-GW or an MME node and a self-backhauled base station. The method includes receiving a dat... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110044278 | Method and Arrangement in a Telecommunication System with Signalling of Assigned Data Packets in a Bundling Window A method for sending a data packet from a base station to a mobile terminal includes signalling to the mobile terminal in a first subframe of a radio channel a first downlink assignment of a first data packet of a bundling window. The bundling window represents a number... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110044222 | METHODS AND ARRANGEMENTS FOR DOWNLINK MULTI-CARRIER POWER CONTROL IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM The present invention relates to methods and arrangements in a radio base station and in a user equipment for controlling the downlink transmit power of the F-DPCH in a multi-carrier HSPA system, by using the concept of TPC commands (used in single-carrier systems), ada... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110044199 | Method for Determining the Round Trip Time A method in a first node for determining a round trip time of a signal sent between the first node and a second node includes sending a first signal to the second node and receiving a second signal, corresponding to the sent first signal. The second signal is sent from ... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110044171 | CONGESTION HANDLING IN MULTICAST NETWORKS The invention relates to techniques for traffic handling in congestion situations in a point-to-multipoint (‘PTM’) enabled network. A method embodiment of the inventive technique is performed in an egress node of the network and comprises the steps of detecting mark... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110041182 | INTRUSION DETECTION AND NOTIFICATION A device for use in a cellular communications system, the device being provided with means for inspecting traffic packets to and from users in the system and for a first classification of said packets according to predetermined rules. The device also comprises means for... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110040855 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF REDUCING SIGNALING IN A NETWORK HAVING A DATABASE SERVER In one aspect of the invention, a system and method reduce central database signalling. The system and method select a gateway in response to an event; determine whether to transmit a gateway identifier identifying the selected gateway to a central database; and indicat... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110039580 | RADIO FINGERPRINT METHOD IN A POSITIONING NODE FOR PROVIDING GEOGRAPHIC REGION DATA A method for providing geographic region data includes receiving geographic position data associated with a location point of a first user equipment and receiving a first radio fingerprint. The method also includes associating the received first radio fingerprint with t... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110039544 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INDICATING ANTICIPATED AVAILABLE DATA RATES IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORK Contemporary wireless communication devices provide high data rate services, but the actual data rate achievable by a given device at a given time may be substantially less than a relevant maximum data rate that is theoretically achievable. Accordingly, among its severa... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110038629 | IMMEDIATE PROTECTION SCHEME FOR PASSIVE OPTICAL NETWORK The present invention relates to a method, device and system for fast protection of an optical network system, in particular for a Passive Optical Network (PON), such as a Gigabit-capable Passive Optical Network (GPON). In the method, communication failure between a fir... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110038402 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AN IMPROVED WIRELESS COMMUNICATION RECEIVER As disclosed herein, a “super receiver” structure enriches the information provided for decoding modem bits included in a received sequence of symbols. In particular, an equalizer circuit provides joint metrics to a decoder circuit, where the joint metrics advantage... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110038376 | Data Unit Sender and Data Unit Relay Device New methods and devices for implementing an ARQ mechanism over a multi-hop connection (sender-relay-receiver) are proposed. A communication protocol is described in accordance with which data units are arranged in a sequence and each sent data unit is identifiable by a ... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110038342 | DISTRIBUTION OF DOWNLINK E-DCH POWER USAGE The present invention relates to a method, a communication system and a Node-B (NB) in a communication system for distribution of downlink E-DCH power usage in a communication system. The system comprises at least one Node-B (NB) for enabling wireless communication with... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110037531 | WAVEGUIDE TRANSITION ARRANGEMENT The present invention relates to a transition arrangement comprising two surface-mountable waveguide parts and a dielectric carrier material with a metallization and a ground plane provided on a respective first main side and second main side Surface-mountable waveguide... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110035495 | METHOD AND DEVICES FOR FILTERING DATA PACKETS IN A TRANSMISSION A method for associating a data packet (DP) with a packet bearer (PB) in a user equipment (UE1) of a communication network is proposed. The packet bearer (PB) transmits the data packet to a communication entity in the communication network. The communication netw... | 02/10/2011 |
| 20110034203 | PUSH TO TALK OVER CELLULAR (POC) SERVER CAPABLE OF CHANGING SESSION PRIORITY SETTINGS WHEN RECEIVING AUTHORIZED OVERRIDE MESSAGE The present invention related to a Push to talk Over Cellular (PoC) Server for providing PoC communication services in communications system, the PoC Server being arranged to simultaneously perform a first PoC Session between a first PoC Client and at least a second PoC... | 02/10/2011 |
| 20110034202 | POC SERVER AND A MOBILE TERMINAL COMPRISING A POC CLIENT FOR PROVIDING POC COMMUNICATION SERVICES The present invention relates to a Push to talk Over Cellular [PoC] Server for providing PoC communication services in mobile radio communications system, the PoC Server being arranged to perform at least one Controlling PoC Function for a PoC Session between PoC Client... | 02/10/2011 |
| 20110034157 | Method and apparatus for controlling communications A method and an apparatus for controlling a communication established between terminals through COMM EST 310 a telecommunications system. When a malfunction event related to a communication (310) established between terminals is detected (320), a de... | 02/10/2011 |
| 20110032898 | OPTIMIZING THE USAGE OF RADIO RESOURCES BY CROSS-LAYER READING OF INFORMATION FROM HIGHER LEVEL CONTROL PLANE PROTOCOL LAYER Methods and apparatuses relating to optimization of radio network resources between user equipments operating in a cell and nodes in a cellular radio communication network are provided. Cross-layer information is read from higher level control plane protocol layer packe... | 02/10/2011 |
| 20110032885 | MANAGEMENT OF UPLINK RESOURCES IN MULTI-CARRIER CDMA SYSTEM The method an apparatus described herein manages uplink resources to increase spectral efficiency and system capacity. According to one embodiment of the present invention, a base station may be assigned two or more downlink carriers for downlink transmission and two or... | 02/10/2011 |
| 20110032858 | Technique for controlling content distributions in point-to-multipoint enabled network environments The invention relates to a technique for controlling a content distribution in a point-to-multipoint (“PTM”)-enabled network environment (100), wherein, over a PTM control channel “CCH” (120, 122), control information related to the content distrib... | 02/10/2011 |
| 20110032843 | SETTING UP A VIRTUAL PRIVATE NETWORK USING VIRTUAL LAN IDENTIFIERS A method for setting up a VPN is described. The VPN is set up in a backbone network having a plurality of PE routers for controlling the transfer of IP traffic to and from CE routers in satellite networks. In a PE router, a VRF is configured for the VPN and populated wi... | 02/10/2011 |
| 20110032840 | ONE ACTIVITY REPORT FOR INTERCEPTION PURPOSES The present invention relates to methods and arrangements for optimizing monitoring capacity in a telecommunication system comprising at least one information element receiving unit. One activity report request along with identities of a target to be monitored are recei... | 02/10/2011 |
| 20110032816 | Connection Failure Notification Method And Apparatus An access point according to the present invention generates and broadcasts a notification message to the mobile devices serviced by an access point upon detection of a connection failure between the serving access point and a network node. The notification message cont... | 02/10/2011 |
| 20110030388 | HUMIDITY CONTROL OF AN ELECTRICAL DEVICE The invention relates to a device and a method for dehumidifying and control of humidity inside an enclosure comprising electrical equipment. The device comprises a heating element located to be in contact with the ambient air of the exterior of the enclosure and a cool... | 02/10/2011 |
| 20110028151 | ACTIVATION TIME FOR TARGET BASED HIGH SPEED SERVING CELL CHANGE A method for setting up an activation time of a cell change of user equipment includes receiving a timing offset from a network controller through an active set update procedure and calculating a high speed downlink shared channel cell change activation time based on th... | 02/03/2011 |
| 20110026702 | MANAGING COMMUNICATIONS A method of handling a request to set up a call between a calling party and a called party in a communication network. A switching node that serves the called party receives a request to set up a call from the calling party, and the request includes information identify... | 02/03/2011 |
| 20110026686 | USE OF UNIQUE REFERENCES TO FACILITATE CORRELATION OF DATA RETENTION OR LAWFUL INTERCEPTION RECORDS The invention relates to a method of providing call- or service-related information to a Lawful Interception (LI) system or to a Data Retention (DR) system in a telecommunications network. In the method, a node is provided, which is in communication with an interception... | 02/03/2011 |
| 20110026649 | Technique for determining a frequency offset A technique for determining a frequency offset between components of a communication network based on a Constant Amplitude Zero Auto-Correlation (CAZAC) sequence is described. A method implementation of this technique comprises a provision of a set of correlation signal... | 02/03/2011 |
| 20110026647 | SOFT BIT VALUE GENERATION IN A SEQUENCE ESTIMATOR Teachings presented herein offer reduced computational complexity for symbol sequence estimation, and also provide for the generation of soft bit values representing the reliability of that estimation. A demodulator is configured to generate these soft bit values by ide... | 02/03/2011 |
| 20110026626 | METHOD OF AND A RADIO TRANSMISSION SYSTEM AND RADIO ACCESS EQUIPMENT FOR CELLULAR WIRELESS RADIO TRANSMISSION Radio transmission in an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex, OFDM, based cellular wireless radio transmission system, wherein radio access equipment of the system connects to multiple geographically spread radio antennas of a Distributed Antenna System, DAS, for tr... | 02/03/2011 |
| 20110026566 | PILOT-BASED SINR ESTIMATION FOR MIMO SYSTEMS A combination of parametric and non-parametric approaches are disclosed for enabling pilot-based SINR estimation for MIMO systems. The pilot-based SINR estimation embodiments account for precoding applied during either single-stream or multi-stream data transmission. Th... | 02/03/2011 |
| 20110026460 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR USE IN A COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK A method of enabling redundancy for a Home Subscriber Service (HSS) of an IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) is provided. Redundancy is provided by a plurality of HSS instances. Where a client node of the IMS requires details of an HSS, the client node is provided with detai... | 02/03/2011 |
| 20110026438 | METHOD OF GENERATING SPANNING TREES A method for generating spanning trees (ST1,ST2,ST3) in a network (NW2). The network has nodes (A-K) interconnected by links (L2) and the trees are used for handling link and node failures. For handling link failures there is for each ... | 02/03/2011 |
| 20110026397 | CONNECTIVITY FAULT MANAGEMENT TRAFFIC INDICATION EXTENSION A method in a Maintenance Association Endpoint, MEP, for controlling traffic between a first network element and a second network element connected by a working Traffic Engineering Service Instance, TESI, and a protection TESI. The first network element sets a Traffic f... | 02/03/2011 |
