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Class 370/331 - Hand-off control


Subclass of Class 370 - Multiplex communications
Definition: Subject matter including means to switch the control of
No. of applications: 2423
Last issue date: 05/24/2012


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Application No.Application TitleIssue Date
20110149904HANDOVER SCHEMES FOR WIRELESS SYSTEMS
One method of wireless communication involves acknowledging that an anchor base station received a handover indication signal. Another method involves: receiving, from base stations of an active set, offset signals identifying a respective differences in time between a ...
06/23/2011
20110149902APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR RECEIVING SIGNALS IN MULTI-CARRIER MULTIPLE ACCESS SYSTEMS
A method for receiving signals in a multi-carrier multiple access system is provided. The method includes receiving signals from at least one base station wherein each signal has a base station identifier, processing the signals to identify each base station by using th...
06/23/2011
20110149907CALL SETUP FOR ACCESS DIVISION MULTIPLEXING
A wireless terminal (30) is capable of communicating with a first network (22-1) and a second network (22-1, 22-3), the first network (22-1) being an LTE network. A wireless terminal method comprises (prior to maki...
06/23/2011
20110149750SUBSCRIBER FALLBACK/MIGRATION MECHANISMS IN IMS GEOGRAPHIC REDUNDANT NETWORKS
A system and method for maintaining service availability for an Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) network is provided. A primary network receives a request from one or more subscribers of the primary network to place a call. The primary network registers the ...
06/23/2011
20110149732Method of improving quality of service for voice calls handled by a network element
In one embodiment, the method includes throttling, at the network element, a data rate of data traffic sent by the network element based on a quality of service for at least one voice call handled by the network element....
06/23/2011
20110149771MOBILE STATION AND RADIO BASE STATION
A mobile station (UE) according to the present invention includes: a CP length determiner unit (15) configured to determine a length of a CP to be inserted in an uplink signal; and a CP adder unit (14) configured to generate the uplink signal by adding a C...
06/23/2011
20110149908GSM AND LTE MULTIPLEXING
In a method of operating a wireless terminal, the wireless terminal (30) sends a request to participate in a circuit switched call with a circuit switched network. Prior to establishment of the circuit switched call the wireless terminal (30) releases or p...
06/23/2011
20110142004SMALL BASE STATION APPARATUS AND CELL SEARCH METHOD
A small base station apparatus includes: a communication unit for collecting system information of a neighboring cell through mobile communication terminals being connected to a cell of the small base station apparatus; a memory unit for storing the system information o...
06/16/2011
20110142006Techniques for Optimizing Efficiency in a Situation for a Possible Handover of a Mobile Terminal
A technique is proposed for optimizing efficiency in a situation for a possible handover of a mobile terminal (106) from a first mobile access network (102) according to a first mobile access technology to a second mobile access network (104) accord...
06/16/2011
20110142005METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR FAST LAYER 3 HAND-OVER
The present invention relates to a method of seamlessly providing a satellite multimedia Internet service to a fixed subscriber belonging to a lower user network even in a satellite shadow environment and shortening a hand-over processing time between heterogeneous netw...
06/16/2011
20110141939Method and Apparatus for Power and Handover Management in a Multiple Wireless Technology Communication Device
Method and apparatuses for power and handoff management in a multiple wireless technology communication device are disclosed. One method includes a wireless device communicating using a first technology, and detecting availability of a second technology. Logic control o...
06/16/2011
20110142007COMMUNICATION SYSTEM USING MULTIPLE WIRELESS RESOURCES DURING A SOFT HANDOFF
In a wireless communications system operating according to CDMA or the like, when one terminal simultaneously performs communication using multiple wireless resources (e.g., multiple carriers), there was a problem that when it was attempted to guarantee network mobility...
06/16/2011
20110144858VEHICLE GATEWAY, AND APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR VEHICLE NETWORK INTERFACE
Provide are a vehicle gateway, and an apparatus and a method for vehicle network interface. The vehicle gateway includes a first interface connected to each unit of a vehicle network, a second interface connected to one or more access devices acquiring vehicle informati...
06/16/2011
20110134774COMPONENT CARRIER ACTIVATION/DEACTIVATION IN MULTI-CARRIER SYSTEMS
Methods and apparatus for addressing wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) behavior in response to configuration, configuration parameters and access issues related to the activation/deactivation process when the WTRU may be configured with multiple serving cells or car...
06/09/2011
20110134880LONG TERM EVOLUTION (LTE) MOBILE ANCHORING
A device receives roaming information associated with a user equipment (UE), a current eNodeB conducting a current Internet protocol (IP) session with the UE, and a plurality of eNodeBs that are neighboring the current eNodeB. The device also selects, based on the roami...
06/09/2011
20110134886METHOD OF EXECUTING HANDOVER IN BROADBAND WIRELESS ACCESS SYSTEM
The primitives between an upper management layer and the MAC layer within a mobile station and a base station are defined in order to specify and clarify the operations within the protocol stack layers in a broadband wireless access system to allow a mobile station to e...
06/09/2011
20110134887APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR HANDOVER IN BROADBAND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM FOR SUPPORTING MOBILE RELAY STATION
An apparatus and a method for handover in a broadband wireless communication system supporting a Mobile Relay Station (MRS) are provided. The method includes transmitting a Connection ID (CID) of Mobile Stations (MSs), the CIDs pre-allocated by a target BS, to the MSs; ...
06/09/2011
20110134885ROUTE OPTIMIZATION METHOD AND SYSTEM
In the field of communication technologies, a route optimization method and system are provided, so as to improve the data transfer efficiency between a Mobile Node (MN) and a Corresponding Node (CN). The method includes: acquiring location information of a current acce...
06/09/2011
20110134884METHOD FOR CONTROLLING COMMUNICATION, WIRELESS DEVICE, AND BASE STATION
A wireless device transmits first information, representing whether the wireless device expects to receive data from a base station, to the base station before receipt of an inquiry from the base station about whether the wireless device expects to receive the data, and...
06/09/2011
20110134881Method for handling hand off of a mobile device using reverse link quality measurements as trigger
In one embodiment a first comparison result is determined based on a link quality metric and a first threshold value. Based on the first comparison result, a second base station is selected, and the mobile device is instructed to switch from communicating wirelessly wit...
06/09/2011
20110134883NETWORK BASED MOBILITY SYSTEM AND HANDOVER METHOD THEREOF
A network-based mobility system and a handover method in the system are provided. If a mobile terminal having interfaces of different service providers establishes a connection between domains of the different service providers, a new domain to which the mobile terminal...
06/09/2011
20110134882COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, TERMINAL DEVICE, BASE STATION, COMMUNICATION QUALITY MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND PROGRAM
In a communication system (1), a handover of a terminal device (2) is performed between a base station (eNB (3)) of a 3GPP network and a base station (AR (5)) of a non-3GPP network, a QoS measurement result of the handover target network (non...
06/09/2011
20110130894SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING DRIVING GUIDANCE SERVICE TO VEHICLES
A system for remotely controlling a vehicle in a service area divided into plural service sectors includes: an infra sensor module installed in each service sector for periodically sensing obstacles and vehicles within the service sector; a vehicle controller mounted in...
06/02/2011
20110128935APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR HANDOVER OF MS IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM
An apparatus and method for handover of a Mobile Station (MS) in a wireless communication system are provided. The method includes, if a ranging request signal is received from the MS attempting access through a handover, determining if the BS and a serving BS of the MS...
06/02/2011
20110128938HANDOVER PROCESSING IN MULTIPLE ACCESS POINT DEPLOYMENT SYSTEM
This disclosure relates to method, device and system for performing handover processing. A roaming list is configured at a receiver which includes multiple entries. Each entry of the roaming list includes receive parameters. A measurement operation is performed on an en...
06/02/2011
20110128936METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SUPPORTING IDLE MODE HANDOVER IN HETEROGENEOUS WIRELESS COMMUNICATION
A method for supporting an idle mode handover of an Single Radio Mobile Station (SR MS) by a target Access Service Network GateWay (ASN_GW) in a heterogeneous wireless communication system is disclosed. The method includes, upon detecting that an operation mode of the S...
06/02/2011
20110128934METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SUPPORTING CO-LOCATED COEXISTENCE MODE
A method and apparatus for reducing interference between systems when a plurality of wireless access systems are co-located are disclosed. To support CLC mode, an MS in the CRC mode transmits a handover request message to a first Base Station (BS) to initiate a handover...
06/02/2011
20110128937MOBILE COMMUNICATION METHOD, RADIO BASE STATION, AND MOBILE STATION
A mobile communication method according to the present invention includes steps of: generating, at a HO-source radio base station, an intermediate key (KeNB*), by inputting, into a first function KDF (*), a base station key (KeNB), identification i...
06/02/2011
20110122842METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CHANGING SERVING BASE STATION IN MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM
A method of changing a serving Base Station (BS) in a mobile communication system, and a mobile communication system for implementing the method, are provided. The method includes setting a minimum UpLink (UL) quality value, receiving DownLink (DL) quality values for a ...
05/26/2011
20110122843MOBILE COMMUNICATION METHOD
In a mobile communication method according to the present invention includes the steps of: transmitting, from a handover source radio base station to a switching center, a handover request including an NCC, a PCI and a KeNB*; changing, at the switching center...
05/26/2011
20110122844SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRAFFIC LOCALIZATION
Systems and methods for bridging packet flows to bypass call legs and/or tunnels are provided. A tunnel initiator, which can be an access gateway, a foreign agent, and a mobility anchor point, for example, provides a bypass for certain packets that have a destination se...
05/26/2011
20110122840METHOD FOR CONTROLLING INTER-FREQUENCY HAND-OFF IN COGNITIVE RADIO BASED CELLULAR RELAY COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK
There is provided a method for controlling inter-frequency hand-off in a cognitive radio based cellular relay communications network, the method including: receiving the inter-frequency hand-off request from mobile stations and receiving information on RS-signal strengt...
05/26/2011
20110122841MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND NETWORK DEVICE
A mobile communication system in which a home cell limits access from a first mobile station, and when the first mobile station communicating via a macro cell using the same frequency as the home cell enters a predetermined area near the home cell, the first mobile stat...
05/26/2011
20110122839Inter-bss packet-switched handover
A mobile communication system of packet switched handover in GERAN A/Gb mode, the handover comprising: means for transmitting an exchange identification command to a mobile station for any created packet flow context prior to connection of the mobile station in a target...
05/26/2011
20110116472HANDOVER PROCESSING IN MULTIPLE ACCESS POINT DEPLOYMENT SYSTEM
This disclosure relates to method, device and system for performing handover processing. A roaming list is configured at a receiver which includes multiple entries. Each entry of the roaming list includes receive parameters. A measurement operation is performed on an en...
05/19/2011
20110116471METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TEMPORARILY SUSPENDING A NETWORK CONNECTION
Method for temporarily suspending a network connection is provided, which connection uses a Media Independent Handover Function (300). The method comprises receiving a suspend command in the Media Independent Handover Function (300), detecting the suspend ...
05/19/2011
20110116470OPTIMIZED RESOURCE ALLOCATION FOR WIRELESS DEVICE IN PACKET TRANSFER MODE
A system and method allows a network, in response to a cell reselection notice, to serve a wireless, wireless device sufficient data to complete a pending data transfer instead of performing the immediate cell change. Appropriate allocation of radio resources to the wir...
05/19/2011
20110116473METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INTER-DEVICE HANDOVER (HO) BETWEEN INTERNET PROTOCOL (IP) MULTIMEDIA SUBSYSTEM (IMS) AND CIRCUIT SWITCHED (CS) WIRELESS TRANSMIT/RECEIVE UNITS (WTRUs)
A method and apparatus for Inter-User Equipment Transfer (IUT) of an IP Multimedia (IM) Subsystem (IMS) session between a circuit switched (CS) wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) and an IMS-capable WTRU....
05/19/2011
20110116469LOCAL INTERNET PROTOCOL ACCESS/SELECTED INTERNET PROTOCOL TRAFFIC OFFLOAD PACKET ENCAPSULATION TO SUPPORT SEAMLESS MOBILITY
A method, a mobile system, and a mobility management entity are disclosed. A transceiver 302 may receive a mobility message element 750 from a mobility management entity 502. A processor 304 may use the mobility message element 750 and...
05/19/2011
20110116474OPTIMIZED RESOURCE ALLOCATION FOR WIRELESS DEVICE IN PACKET TRANSFER MODE
A method and system for a wireless device configured to communicate with a network is presented. The network is communicated with at a radio link control layer. An indication is communicated to the network that a higher layer protocol is operating in an acknowledged mod...
05/19/2011
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