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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120129524 | Mobile Location Recovery for MSC Pooling An entity of a wireless telecommunications network having a pool of Mobile Switching Centers (MSCs) and a Home Location Register (HLR). The entity includes a network interface which sends pages to mobiles associated with a failed MSC of the pool of MSC's and experiencin... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120108238 | METHOD FOR OPERATION OF FEMTO BASE STATION BASED ON RADIO ACCESS SYSTEM A method for opearation of femto base station (BS) is provided. The method includes: transmitting the first low duty operation (LDO) pattern information, which includes length information of an available interval (AI) where the femto BS is activated and length informati... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120108237 | DISTRIBUTED NETWORK REGISTER The invention relates to a method for operating a telecommunications network and a telecommunications network for mobile telecommunication, having a network register in which identifier of mobile terminals and network-related user data of the terminals are stored. The n... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120083271 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE A wireless communication device includes: a storing unit configured to store recording medium identification information that identifies a recording medium that is detachable; a network communication unit that is connectable to a communication network; a reading unit co... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120083270 | FEMTOCELL APPROVED USER LIST MANAGEMENT VIA SHORT MESSAGE SERVICE (SMS) A system and methodology that facilitates user friendly and/or dynamic femtocell access provisioning based on Short Message Service (SMS) communication is provided. In particular, the system can enable users to update and/or view a femto access control list associated w... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120046033 | COOPERATIVE COMMUNICATION METHOD IN CELLULAR WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND TERMINAL FOR PERFORMING THE METHOD Provided is a coordinated communication method in which a plurality of cells cooperate to perform multi-antenna transmission and reception in a cellular wireless communication system. A terminal wirelessly transmits channel state information (CSI) feedback to a serving ... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120040671 | Method and Device for Processing Information Given Idle-Mode Signaling Reduction A method for processing information given idle-mode signaling reduction (ISR) is disclosed. A serving gateway receives an information update request containing information of related to a current access network where a user equipment is located if the user equipment mov... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120040670 | Hardware Activation of Dual USIM Multimode Mobile Terminal Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to a method for hardware activation of dual USIM TD-SCDMA multimode mobile terminals. The technique effectively provides for efficient power consumption. In one aspect, a mobile terminal may register dual mobile identifie... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120040669 | Method and Apparatus for Handling URA Information A method and apparatus for handling URA information for a wireless communication device are disclosed. A method for handling URA information for a wireless communication device, the device configured to be operable in a mobile telecommunications system, the method compr... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120034899 | COMMUNICATION METHOD AND MOBILE STATION A communication method in a mobile station includes the steps of placing the mobile station in a self mode; and allowing the mobile station to receive a radio wave during the self mode. The communication method may further includes the steps of receiving broadcast infor... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120034918 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING IDLE-MODE OPERATION USING MOBILITY INFORMATION A method and apparatus for performing a location update based on mobility information indicating a velocity of a Mobile Station (MS), and a method and apparatus for using a timer for a location update in a wireless access system are disclosed. The MS transmits a deregis... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120028640 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IDENTIFYING USER EQUIPMENT, AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING AND ALLOCATING A TEMPORARY IDENTIFIER A method and an apparatus for identifying a UE in an SAE network, and an MME are provided herein. The method includes: receiving an SAE-TMSI which is allocated to a UE that accesses an SAE network and includes at least: a pool-ID, an MME-ID, and a UE temporary identifie... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120028611 | Method of Handling Minimization of Drive Tests measurement and Related Communication Device A method of handling minimization of drive tests, hereafter called MDT, measurement for a mobile device in a wireless communication system is disclosed. The method includes registering to a first public land mobile network, and maintaining MDT measurement configuration ... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120021743 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM A communication system is described in which a home base station operating in a hybrid access mode is able to provide preferential connectivity to mobile communication devices that are members of a closed subscriber group associated with the home base station compared t... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120015654 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR POSITIONING OF DEVICES IN A WIRELESS NETWORK Methods and apparatuses are provided that facilitate allowing position determination of devices in wireless networks with home evolved Node Bs (HeNB). An HeNB can determine its location based at least in part on positioning measurements from one or more devices. The HeN... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120015655 | CELLULAR MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM A method of routing call signalling to a destination address from a first cellular mobile communications network comprising a plurality of cells to one of a plurality of smaller cells collectively identified in said first mobile communications network by a single virtua... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120015653 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MITIGATION OF UNLISTED CELL IMPACTS IN IDLE MODE OF CELLULAR SYSTEMS A UE, in an idle mode, receives pilot signals and synchronization signals from a serving cell and neighbor cells comprising neighbor cells listed and/or unlisted in a neighboring cell list. The UE validates each of the serving cell, the listed neighbor cells and the unl... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120009925 | Paging Success Rate Mechanism A method for handling registration requests in a cellular wireless communication system. The method includes determining that a transmission-success rate of messages sent via the forward-link of an air interface is less than a threshold success rate. The method further ... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20110319078 | MOBILE SWITCHBOARD, MOBILE UNIT, MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND POSITION- REGISTRATION EXTENDING METHOD A mobile unit transmits a request for position registration to a network when moving from a first area to a second area. When the number of incoming calls does not exceed a threshold and the number of movements between the first area and the second area exceeds a thresh... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110312324 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING SERVICE OF FEMTOCELL, AND TRANSMITTER AND RECEIVER FOR THE SAME A service method of a femtocell for simultaneously providing a plurality of femto services to a plurality of mobile stations, and a transmitter and receiver for the same. When a femto advanced base station supports a plurality of femtocell subscription types, and it sim... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110306343 | Method for Registering Communication Terminals with Base Station Devices by Using Virtual Appliances A method for the registration of a communication terminal is provided. In some embodiments of the present invention, a communication terminal is registered with a base station by searching and executing a virtual appliance that contains base station software with which ... | 12/15/2011 |
| 20110300864 | MOBILE RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM A mobile radio communication system having a mobile radio communication network and a mobile radio subscriber appliance, wherein a unit in the network layer of the core network of the mobile radio communication network is configured to transmit to the mobile radio subsc... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110300863 | BASE STATION AND CONTROL METHOD OF BASE STATION Provided is a base station which uses a pilot beacon to prompt a terminal to perform handoff from a macrocell and is capable of avoiding interference with the macrocell. A base station (FAP) of a mobile communication system has a transmission unit (122) for trans... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110294507 | REGISTRATION DEVICE FOR MOBILE STATION IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS, REGISTRATION METHOD, PROGRAM AND BASE STATION A registration device, registering a mobile station in a small cell, comprises a determination unit that determine if the mobile station is to be registered based on distance to the mobile station and length of stay of the mobile station.... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110294505 | SIMPLIFYING SUBSCRIPTION AND LOCATION REGISTRATION OF A MOBILE TERMINAL Methods, systems, and products for terminal registration with a base station. Aspects of the invention include a method for dynamically performing subscription registration. A method includes pre-storing complete subscription data into a base station; predefining genera... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110292913 | METHOD, SYSTEM, AND APPARATUS FOR REGISTRATION PROCESSING A registration processing method and an apparatus are disclosed herein to enable the network to distinguish between different registration processing types. The method includes: identifying, by a user equipment, UE, a registration type when registering into a network; r... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110294506 | PROVIDING LOCATION INFORMATION A method of providing location information to a network application, a location server, a method of providing a trigger notification, a femto base station and a computer program product are disclosed. The method comprises the steps of: receiving details of a triggering ... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110287743 | Method, system and user equipment for establishing association between a service network element and an MME The present invention provides a method, system and UE for establishing association between a service network element and an MME, in order to solve the technical problem of establishing association between the service network element and the MME. The technical solution ... | 11/24/2011 |
| 20110287765 | OPERATION OF MACHINE-TYPE COMMUNICATION DEVICES The invention relates to operating a Machine-Type Communication (MTC) device for communication with a cellular radio network. A transmission is made from the MTC device to the cellular radio network to register the MTC device with the cellular radio network. The transmi... | 11/24/2011 |
| 20110286389 | NETWORK REGISTRATION PROCEDURES A method of communication involves sending a request from a first network entity (e.g., a femto convergence server) to a second network entity (e.g., a home subscriber server) for user data relating to an access point, receiving a response to the request, wherein the re... | 11/24/2011 |
| 20110275371 | METHOD FOR OPTIMIZING THE REDUCTION OF MOBILITY SIGNALLING AT INTER-RAT CHANGE Method for optimizing the reduction of mobility signalling after an Inter-RAT change for a UE roaming between a source area covered by a source telecommunication core network and a target area covered by a target core telecommunication network, wherein a signalling redu... | 11/10/2011 |
| 20110275372 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR PROCESSING REGISTRATION BACKUP DATA A method, an apparatus, and a system for processing registration backup data are disclosed. A Serving Call Session Control Function (S-CSCF) receives a request from a User Equipment (UE) and judges whether the request carries multi-registration information so as to deci... | 11/10/2011 |
| 20110269460 | Closed Subscriber Group Cell Identification for Active Mode Mobility While camped on a first cell with a first access node, it is determined that a second cell of a second access node is a private cell. From information received from a network it is determined that a criteria is satisfied, and conditional on the criteria being satisfied,... | 11/03/2011 |
| 20110256868 | BASE STATION DEVICE, MOBILE STATION DEVICE, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND COMMUNICATION METHOD A communication system which performs communication between a base station device configuring at least one cell and a mobile station device, wherein: the base station device includes: a synchronization signal generation unit which generates a synchronization signal corr... | 10/20/2011 |
| 20110250885 | METHOD FOR OPERATING A CLOSED SUBSCRIBER GROUP (CSG) CELL FOR OPEN NETWORK ACCESS Method for operating one or more cells (10) of a cellular mobile network, each cell (10) being identifiable by an emitted cell identifier (CSG_ID) use being limited/limitable to closed subscriber groups by the cell (10) having a corresponding identi... | 10/13/2011 |
| 20110244823 | Method To Inform User Equipment To Perform Register Procedure In Wireless Communication System and Related Communication Device Method for a network requesting a UE to initiate a register procedure includes the network sending a paging message to the UE to request the UE to initiate the register procedure; wherein the UE is in a RRC connected mode, and register state of the UE is invalid due to ... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110244857 | METHOD FOR AUTHORIZING MOBILE COMMUNICATION APPARATUS BY FEMTOCELL BASE STATION, FEMTOCELL BASE STATION AND PROCESSOR READABLE MEDIUM A method for parking a mobile communication apparatus of a femtocell base station and applicable to a communication network including a core of an apparatus network, the femtocell base station, and the mobile communication apparatus. The femtocell base station obtains a... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110237253 | LIMITING REDIRECTIONS IN AN UNLICENSED MOBILE ACCESS NETWORK A method and system for limiting redirections of a mobile station (MS) in an unlicensed radio access network having a plurality of unlicensed network controllers (UNCs). The MS includes a redirection counter set to zero within a registration request sent to one of the U... | 09/29/2011 |
| 20110230189 | Communication Network System and Mobile Terminal An identification-information extracting unit extracts first identification information of a location registration area of a wireless communication system. A storage unit stores correspondence information concerning a relationship between the first identification inform... | 09/22/2011 |
| 20110230188 | Methods and Network Nodes in a Mobile Communication Network In accordance with embodiments of the present invention, a list of preferred Public Land Mobile Networks (PLMNs) is used by a radio access network (RAN) node for distributing subscriber registrations to respective core network (CN) nodes and, notably, is expanded to als... | 09/22/2011 |