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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120127880 | Supplemental Node Transmission Assistance in a Wireless Communication Network Supplemental node transmission assistance in a wireless network provides for transmissions between a wireless network and wireless user equipment in a first direction using a serving node of the wireless network while providing for transmissions between the wireless net... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127875 | Method and device for calculating k-shortest paths The disclosure discloses a method and a device for calculating K-shortest paths, belonging to the field of a path calculation technology. The method comprises: calculating a shortest path tree of a whole network topological graph of Traffic Engineering (TE) links in cur... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127886 | ADAPTIVE TRANSMISSION AND RECEIVING METHOD AND DEVICE IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM WITH MULTIPLE ANTENNAS Disclosed is an adaptive transmit and receive method and device in a multiple-antenna wireless communication system. A transmit mode comprises different main transmit modes each of which includes one or both of a sub-transmit mode based on STBC and a sub-transmit mode b... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127882 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ENABLING RECIPROCAL BILLING FOR DIFFERENT TYPES OF COMMUNICATIONS OVER A PACKET NETWORK A system and method for determining inter-carrier network usage may be used. The method may include determining network usage of a first packet network managed by a first communications carrier by subscribers of a second communications carrier that manages a second pack... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127866 | REAL-TIME NETWORK MEASUREMENT A method of operation within a device coupled to a network. A first set of data is received from a first data path of the network. A first set of measurement information is identified from the first set of data, and a quality of the first data path is determined based o... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127873 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATICALLY SWITCHING SERVICES A method, an apparatus, and a system for automatically switching services are provided. The method includes: determining whether a switching condition is satisfied; migrating a user equipment (UE) using a first service operated on a switchable frequency point to a frequ... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127878 | ANTENNA ALLOCATION APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CELLULAR MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM A method and apparatus for selecting and allocating antennas efficiently are provided. The method includes transmitting, to a User Equipment (UE), information indicating a configuration of a plurality of Channel Status Information Reference Signals (CSI-RSs) through UE ... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127885 | Multiple Independent Pathway Communications A system and method for utilizing multiple independent communication pathways for communication. Various aspects of the present invention may comprise receiving a first signal directly from a first communication network, where the first signal communicates a first repre... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127889 | MIMO RECEIVING APPARATUS AND RECEIVING METHOD A MIMO receiving apparatus that can demodulate a spatially multiplexed signal without using any division operation requiring a large quantity of operation resources. In the MIMO receiving apparatus, stream separation section (105) separates a spatially multiplexe... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127883 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING AND MAINTAINING QUALITY OF SERVICE PARAMETERS ON A MULTI-HOP NETWORK Disclosure of the present embodiments relate to a method, an apparatus, and a system for determining and maintaining quality of service parameters on a multi-hop network. The method for determining QoS parameters on a multi-hop network includes: in a data transmission p... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127876 | Cell Edge Coverage Hole Detection in Cellular Wireless Networks A cell edge coverage hole detection method for a cellular wireless communication system such as an LTE system. A coverage hole in a cell edge region will cause radio link failures, RLF, which are difficult to distinguish from those caused by handover issues. The method ... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127872 | SCALABLE VIDEO MULTICAST METHOD IN WiMAX NETWORKS A scalable video multicast method in WiMAX networks is provided in the embodiments of the present invention. The method arranges data transmitting mechanisms and data transmitting rates for a base station and at least a relay station according to network productivity of... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127870 | Method and Apparatus for Enabling an Enhanced Frequency Domain Equalizer A method and apparatus for enabling an enhanced FDE in a TD-SCDMA system is provided. The method may comprise receiving one or more signals from one or more cells over one or more channels where each channel is described using a channel vector and a spreading vector, an... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127869 | MULTIPLE CHANNEL STATE INFORMATION (CSI) REPORTING ON THE PHYSICAL UPLINK SHARED CHANNEL (PUSCH) WITH CARRIER AGGREGATION A method for reporting uplink control information (UCI) by a user equipment (UE) is described. It is determined that multiple channel state information (CSI) reports are scheduled on a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH). An aggregated CSI report is generated using t... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127874 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING FRAME IN VEHICLE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM BASED ON WIRELESS ACCESS FOR VEHICULAR ENVIRONMENT In a vehicle communication system, a frame transmitting apparatus gives a transmission opportunity to an emergency frame received from an upper layer without EDCA (Enhanced Distributed Channel Access), and gives a transmission opportunity to a generic frame received fro... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127877 | PACKET TRANSFER DEVICE AND PACKET TRANSFER METHOD Packet transfer device and method have both a processing procedure for uninterruptible-switching desiring packets and a processing procedure for low-delay desiring packets, and process each user packet according to a desired one of the processing procedures. The uninter... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127881 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USING CENTRALIZED NETWORK PERFORMANCE TABLES TO MANAGE NETWORK COMMUNICATIONS A system for centrally controlling packet network communications may include an input/output (I/O) unit configured to communicate data packets over a packet network with multiple network communications devices, a processing unit in communication with the I/O unit and co... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127884 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ESTIMATING A SIGNAL-TO-INTERFERENCE RATIO A method and apparatus for estimating a signal-to-interference ratio (SIR) are disclosed. A received signal includes signal energy on multiple basis functions. Desired signal energy in the received signal is transformed onto a first basis function with constant polarity... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127887 | Method for Implementing Virtual Network Port and Embedded Device for Implementing Virtual Network Port A method for implementing a virtual network interface, which is applicable for the embedded device without a physical network interface equipped, including that: the embedded device encapsulates the to-be-transmitted IP data packet as the data frame which is able to be ... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127888 | BASE STATION, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, WIRELESS RESOURCE ALLOCATING METHOD, AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATING METHOD In a wireless communication system, when data communication is performed between a relay device and a terminal (in a second path), the same amount of data is required to be transferred between a base station and the relay device (in a third path). An amount of wireless ... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127890 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR HYBRID LOCATION IN A CDMA 2000 NETWORK A system and method for estimating a location of a wireless device receiving signals from plural nodes of a Code Division Multiple Access 2000 communications system. One or more ranges of a wireless device from one or more of the plural nodes may be determined as a func... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127891 | METHOD AND ARRANGEMENT IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM Method and arrangement in a base station for scheduling radio resources to a user equipment. The method and arrangement comprises receiving a scheduling request from the user equipment, and also a time offset value which value is associated with the moment of time when ... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127871 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR FORECASTING BUSY HOUR TRAFFIC FOR A WIRELESS NETWORK A method and apparatus for forecasting busy hour traffic for a network are disclosed. For example, the method obtains actual traffic data for a seed time frame for each of one or more sectors in a given market and marketing projections for one or more forecast time fram... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127879 | Service Interface for QOS-Driven HPNA Networks An in-band signaling model media control (MC) terminal for an HPNA network includes a frame classification entity (FCE) and a frame scheduling entity (FSE) and provides end-to-end Quality of Service (QoS) by passing the QoS requirements from higher layers to lower layer... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120106372 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR COMMUNICATION WITH SHORTENED SIGNAL FORMATS Techniques for addressing high interference observed by a receiver in a wireless communication system are disclosed. The receiver may observe different interference power levels across a transmission symbol. In an aspect, the receiver applies different weights to differ... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106373 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SOUNDING ANTENNAS IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION Methods and apparatuses are provided that facilitate sounding antennas in wireless communication. In an aspect, a method for wireless communication includes determining at least one resource reserved for transmitting a demodulation reference signal and transmitting a so... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106390 | Method, System and Device for Reporting Uplink Pilot Interference A method, a system and a device for reporting uplink pilot interference are provided, which are applied to time division duplex (TDD) system, and include: a base station measures uplink pilot time slot (UpPTS) interference based on a cell portion; the base station trans... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106389 | METHOD FOR COMMUNICATING IN A NETWORK The present invention relates to a method for operating a network comprising a primary station communicating with a plurality of secondary stations, the method comprising the primary station communicating with a secondary station in a discontinuous mode; the secondary s... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106370 | NEIGHBOR RELATION INFORMATION MANAGEMENT Neighbor relation information management involves, for example: acquiring, reporting, and exchanging neighbor relation information. In some cases, neighbor relation information is acquired and/or reported in a manner that does not significantly impact other functionalit... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106371 | COLLISION DETECTION AND BACKOFF WINDOW ADAPTATION FOR MULTIUSER MIMO TRANSMISSION Certain aspects of the present disclosure generally apply to a wireless local area network (WLAN) where an access point (AP) has data to send to multiple stations (STAs). By using the Downlink Spatial Division Multiple Access (DL-SDMA) technique, the AP may send data at... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106391 | INFORMATION TRANSMISSION IN A MACHINE-TO-MACHINE TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORK The invention relates to a method for information transmission in a machine-to-machine telecommunications network and a machine-to-machine telecommunications network. The telecommunications network supports information transmission between a server and a plurality of co... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106387 | COMMUNICATION MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION NODE, AND DATA COMMUNICATION METHOD A communication management apparatus that manages transmission of data in a network in which plural communication nodes are connected via a transmission line in a ring shape, the apparatus including: a network-presence checking unit that transmits a network-presence-che... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106374 | METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR USING CHANNEL STATE INFORMATION REFERENCE SIGNALS In a wireless communication system, a wireless device is identified as being a relay device. A channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) configuration is selected such that at least one CSI-RS can be transmitted to the wireless device in a subset of subframes ... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106388 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND COMMUNICATION METHOD In a communication system in which cooperative communication is performed, adaptive control is performed efficiently relating mainly to precoding processing. There are included, in an anchor base station 1201, steps of: generating a first channel state measuremen... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110152 | REAL TIME PROTOCOL PACKET TUNNELING In one embodiment a method and apparatus are provided that automatically establish an real time protocol (RTP) tunnel between an originator node or router and a terminator node or router, wherein the terminator node is close to a remote RTP peer. A method includes detec... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106366 | DATA LOSS MONITORING OF PARTIAL DATA STREAMS A method for detecting loss of sensitive information in partial data streams may include identifying partial data streams containing segments lost while capturing network traffic at a network computing device, determining characteristics of content of the partial data s... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106365 | NETWORK PACKET LATENCY MEASUREMENT A solution for network packet latency measurement includes, at a network device having a memory, storing a first time value indicating when an ingress port of the network device received a packet. The solution also includes storing a second time value indicating when an... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106367 | DETERMINING A SIMILARITY BETWEEN TREE RELATED STRUCTURES According to an order, a plurality of restricted top down model (RTDM) distances between a plurality of nodes residing on at least one tree related structure is determined. The determining includes determining a first RTDM distance between nodes of a first node pair of ... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106363 | Auto-Aware Dynamic Control Policy for Energy Efficiency An auto-aware dynamic control policy for energy efficiency. A discovery node in a network can be designed to transmit periodically discovery traffic to a plurality of other network nodes in the network. Responses to the discovery traffic can be used by the discovery nod... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106362 | DISTRIBUTED LEARNING METHOD FOR WIRELESS MESH NETWORKS In a wireless mesh network, an algorithm is used by mesh points in the network to predict the success of and interference created by a new transmission opportunity. In particular, it is provided a method for mesh points, in a mesh network, to determine whether to transm... | 05/03/2012 |