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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120127955 | METHOD FOR ENERGY-EFFICIENT SCANNING TO ENABLE SEAMLESS LAYER-2 VERTICAL HANDOFFFS BETWEEN WIRELESS BROADBAND NETWORKS A mechanism that minimizes the frequency and interval of mobile device scans while not impacting the ability of the devices to seamlessly move across disparate wireless networks is disclosed. More specifically the method involves creating a map of tower/network identifi... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127960 | METHOD FOR HANDING OVER A TERMINAL DURING A NON STEADY VOIP CALL, NETWORK ELEMENT, DEVICE AND SYSTEM The present invention provides a method for handing over a terminal from a packet switching domain to a circuit switching domain during a non steady state of a call, a network element managing service centralization and continuity, an access device, a network element ma... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127958 | HANDLING CELL RESELECTIONS AND STATE TRANSITIONS FOR HIGH-SPEED DOWNLINK PACKET ACCESS A wireless transmit receive unit (WTRU) is configured to operate in an high speed data packet access (HSDPA) mode in a cell and/or state and to clear HSDPA resources when moving out of the cell and/or state. The WTRU is configured to clear HSDPA resources when condition... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120128084 | NETWORK OPTIMIZATION BASED ON USER EQUIPMENT TYPE A network device may include a first set of components and a second set of components. The first set of components may manage, using a first set of parameters, at least one of uplink radio resources or downlink radio resources for a group of mobile user equipment. The s... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127959 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR HANDLING CELL RESELECTIONS AND TRANSITIONS TO AND FROM AN ENHANCED CELL_FACH STATE A method and apparatus for handling cell reselections and transitions includes executing a cell reselection. A medium access control (MAC)-ehs reset is performed.... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127957 | Systems, Methods, and Apparatuses for Facilitating a Circuit Switched Connection Systems, methods, and apparatuses are provided for facilitating a circuit switched connection. A method may include receiving redirection information broadcast by a network node on a packet switched network. The redirection information may include information about a ci... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127956 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ENHANCED NON OPTIMIZED HANDOVER This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus for non-optimized handoffs for wireless communication. For example, the disclosure may be applied to enhance non-optimized handoff from a long-term evolution (LTE) network to an evolved high rate packet data (eHRPD... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120106516 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING NEIGHBOR BASE STATION INFORMATION PERFORMED BY MACRO BASE STATION IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM Provided is a method for requesting neighbor base station information by user equipment in a wireless communication system. The method includes: searching neighbor base stations targeted for a handover; transmitting a list request message including preamble information ... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106509 | DATA REPROCESSING IN RADIO PROTOCOL LAYERS A method for reprocessing data in a radio protocol layer is described. The method includes communicating using a first radio access technology. Data in a processed data buffer of a first radio access technology protocol layer is reprocessed. The reprocessed data is forw... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106511 | Method of Handling Primary Serving Cell Change A method of handling primary serving cell change for a network in a wireless communication system is disclosed. The method comprises configuring a first cell as a primary serving cell and at least a second cell as a secondary serving cell to a mobile device of the wirel... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106513 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR SIGNAL TRANSMISSION AND RECEPTION IN A BROADBAND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM In a broadband wireless communication system, a spread spectrum signal is intentionally overlapped with an OFDM signal, in a time domain, a frequency domain, or both. The OFDM signal, which inherently has a high spectral efficiency, is used for carrying broadband data o... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106506 | HANDOVER ARCHITECTURE FOR NON-INTEGRATED RADIO ACCESS TECHNOLOGIES An apparatus to support handover for non-integrated radio devices is presented. In one embodiment, the apparatus includes a peer interface and radio resource control logic. The radio resource control logic includes a proxy commutatively coupled to a second proxy via the... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106505 | Method For Enhancing Handoff Between Media Gateways And Media Gateway Controller Handoff of a media gateway (MG) from a primary media gateway controller (MGC) to a secondary MGC includes the primary MGC identifying a secondary MGC for performing MG handoff; and the primary MGC identifying a group of MGs, including at least one MG, to be handed off t... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106512 | COEXISTENCE SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR WIRELESS NETWORK DEVICES A network interface includes a radio frequency system and a media access controller. The media access controller includes first and second client modules and a control module. Each of the client modules wirelessly communicates with a network via the radio frequency syst... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106507 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING FLOWS IN A MOBILE NETWORK ENVIRONMENT An example method is provided and includes establishing a session for a mobile node, and evaluating a plurality of label switched paths (LSPs) in response to the mobile node experiencing a handoff between a source packet data serving node (SPDSN) and a target PDSN (TPDS... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106514 | A ROAMING METHOD FOR A MOBILE TERMINAL IN WLAN, RELATED ACCESS CONTROLLER AND ACCESS POINT DEVICE A roaming method for a mobile terminal in a wireless local area network is disclosed. In the method, a target access point (AP) device receives an access request for roaming from the mobile terminal, and a target access controller (AC) obtains mobility information of th... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106515 | RANGING OF TERMINAL IN LEGACY SUPPORT MODE The present invention relates to a broadband wireless access system, and more particularly, a ranging technique of a terminal using a legacy support frame in a mobile communication system including a legacy system and an advanced system. According to one form of an embo... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106510 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SECONDARY CELL RELEASE DURING HANDOVER IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM Methods and an apparatus for Secondary Cell (SCell) release during User Equipment (UE) handover comprises including information by a source eNB in a HandoverPreparationInformation message for a target eNB to control SCell release in the UE during handover, or including ... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106508 | Method and System for Deleting Redundant Information of Home Policy and Charging Rules Function The present invention discloses a method and a system for deleting redundant information of a home Policy and Charging Rule Function (PCRF). The Bearer Binding and Event Report Function (BBERF) in a visited network indicates gateway control session termination to the ho... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120082136 | P-CSCF FAST HANDOFF FOR IMS/MMS ARCHITECTURE A mechanism by which handoff delay can be minimized while not compromising the IMS/MMD security and also protecting the media if required by certain applications is presented. One proactive method includes proactive authentication. Another proactive method includes proa... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120082084 | METHOD AND APPARATUS TO FACILITATE MOBILE RELAY AND GROUP MOBILITY A method and system to facilitate mobile relay and group mobility in a wireless network. In one embodiment of the invention, the wireless network facilitates a mobile relay station that has logic to switch communication with a first base station to a second base station... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120082135 | Mobile Assisted Handover in Mobile Communications Networks The invention relates to a technique for mobile assisted handover in mobile communications networks, e.g. Long Term Evolution (LTE) networks, in a situation of an ongoing data reception or data transmission of a mobile terminal which hinders reception of system informat... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120082131 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF HANDOVER IN WIRELESS NETWORK A method of handover in a wireless network includes in response to a request for data from a user equipment connected to a first access point in the plurality of access points, determining whether the first access point is storing the requested data and if the first acc... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120082132 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OFFLOADING DATA IN A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM A method is provided in one example embodiment and includes receiving a data packet over a first link at a first network element; establishing an out-of-band channel over a second link between the first network element and a second network element; and receiving instruc... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120082133 | Method of Sending Network Configuration and Related Communication Device A method of sending a network configuration of a network in a wireless communication system is disclosed. The method comprises sending the network configuration in a dedicated message to a mobile station (MS), wherein the network configuration is specific for a machine ... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120082137 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND TERMINAL APPARATUS A communication apparatus includes a receiver that can receive data that has been divided among multiple communication carriers and transmitted, and that has multiple communication modes, each using a different number of communication carriers for reception; an acquirer... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120082134 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING HANDOVER BETWEEN HETEROGENEOUS RADIO NETWORKS A method and system for performing a handover of a mobile device from a first wireless network to a second wireless network is provided, the mobile device being operably connected, via a tunnel, to a server of a Mobile Internet Protocol (IP) system, and to an informatio... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120069821 | RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD, RADIO MOBILE DEVICE AND RADIO BASE STATION ACCOMODATION APPARATUS A radio communication method in which, when hand-off of the down direction is performed while a radio mobile device subjects one application packet of the up direction to fragmentation to divide the one application packet into a plurality of radio packets and transmits ... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120069822 | VOIP SERVICE THRESHOLD DETERMINATION BY WIRELESS ROUTER A wireless router establishes a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) that supports wireless communications within a WLAN service area. The wireless router establishes broadband communications via a broadband connection with a Voice over IP (VoIP) service accumulator. The ... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120069818 | Method and Device for Handing Off Between Base Stations The present invention discloses a method and apparatus for handoff between base stations. A target base station bears its PILOT_INC information into a handoff request acknowledge message to inform a source base station when sending a handoff request acknowledge message ... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120069817 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO PROVIDE PACKET SWITCHED SERVICE CONTINUITY DURING CIRCUIT SWITCHED FALLBACK OPERATION Methods and apparatus to provide packet switched service continuity during circuit switched fallback operation are described. One example method includes determining that a target system does not support packet switched handover; determining if non-3GPP access for packe... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120069819 | METHOD FOR PERFORMING RRC CONNECTION OR REESTABLISHMENT IN A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM USING CARRIER AGGREGATION The invention relates to a method for performing a radio resource control (RRC) connection or reestablishment in a communication system using carrier aggregation (CA), and to a terminal device for same. The present invention involves acquiring information on an addition... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120069820 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS HANDOFF METHOD AND SYSTEM EMPLOYING SUCH A method for reducing a delay in a wireless communications system resulting from a handoff while mitigating a risk of premature termination of wireless communications, the method includes comparing data indicative of actual use of the wireless communications systems to ... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120069765 | VIRTUAL GATEWAY NODE FOR DUAL-MODE WIRELESS PHONES In one embodiment, a virtual gateway mediates between a dual-mode subscriber device and an IP-based PBX. In particular, the virtual gateway includes a WLAN interface for communicating with the dual-mode subscriber device and a network interface (wired or wireless) for c... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120069759 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR IDENTIFYING SUBSCRIBER STATION MOBILITY Methods and apparatus for identifying a subscriber station which is in motion, determining a mobility metric indicative of a level of mobility of the subscriber station and varying or updating one or more operating parameters based on the mobility metric. An apparatus c... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120069816 | Method and Apparatus for Controlling Cellular Reselection Attempts on a Computing Device A method and apparatus for controlling cellular reselection attempts on a computing device is disclosed. A computing device performs an automated process to repeatedly check the adequacy of the serving cell that it is currently assigned to. The computing device performs... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120069751 | MOBILE TERMINAL AND HANDOVER METHOD OF THE MOBILE TERMINAL A mobile terminal and a handover method for the mobile terminal are disclosed. A mobile terminal according to an embodiment of the invention may include: a communication unit configured to receive from a base station multiple frames, each belonging to one of two or more... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120051275 | REDUCING LATENCY AND PACKET LOSS RELATED TO HANDOFFS OF MOBILE VIDEO TRAFFIC In one embodiment, a system including a memory capable of storing data and a processor is disclosed. The processor is configured for using the data such that the system can request from a source gateway subscription information related to a plurality of multicast video ... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120051320 | PROVIDING SIGNALING INFORMATION AND PERFORMING A HANDOVER USING THE SIGNALING INFORMATION Apparatuses may perform and methods may include: receiving a digital broadcast signal that includes layer 2 (L2) signaling information; locating a physical layer pipe (PLP) carrying local multiplex information of the L2 signaling information and a PLP carrying other mul... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120051327 | Handover in a Radio Communication Network The present invention relates to providing a method and a network node that prevents radio bearers from being dropped if a mismatch in RLC Mode exists between source Node and target Node.... | 03/01/2012 |
